Philippine dances are hard to describe. Americans can (proudly?) say they invented the “Electric Slide” and the “Soulja Boy,” but what is truly a Philippine dance? For one evening in Tampa, its Philippine Performing Arts Company answered that. For one evening, I shared in that country’s celebrations and expressions through movement. It’s no mistake the…
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WHEN PIRATES TOOK OVER JOHN’S PASS
One of Tampa’s many, lots of, frequent, obsessive compulsive behavior involving pirates. I thought John’s Pass found its place on Madeira Beach because of its long, soft sandy beaches, a good sweet shops per child ratio, and enough Northerners shopping in khaki shorts and straw hats. Not according to legend which has pirates discovering the…
TAMPA CELEBRATES ASIAN CULTURE
I want to like Asia Fest… I really do… but after spending a few hours braving the chaos, the elbow-to-nose crowds compacted within an area the size of my apartment, and cooking myself alive in the scalding heat, I’m tempted to skip Tampa’s next attempt at being Asian and cross I-4 to the Orlando version….
MY FIRST TIME
…kayaking I mean! Duhhhhh what else could I be talking about? Even though traveling to Weeki Wachee Springs from St. Petersburg, FL is parallel to hiking in a rainstorm through a desert (is there a town-wide ban on Taco Bells and Sweetbay Supermarkets?) the sudden increase of greenery and decrease of struggles to breathe were…
