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Yann Weymouth at Café con Tampa

I should’ve known that Yann Weymouth, head of design for I.M. Pei’s projects at the Louvre and the National Gallery of Art in Washington and designer of the Salvador Dali Museum and the upcoming James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, Florida, lives in the Tampa Bay area. Oxford Exchange. Photo by Yours […]

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Flan Factory: A Tampa Bay small business worth supporting

Here’s a local (if you’re in Tampa) business worth supporting: Flan Factory. There’s no lie on their mural — their flans are flantastic. We first tried their flan at the North Tampa Market, which used to take place in Carrollwood back before the plague. We made a habit of taking home several of their individual-sized […]

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Kudos to Cass Street Deli, who are feeding hundreds of Tampa service industry workers every day!

Kudos to Cass Street Deli for participating in The Restaurant Workers Relief Program, which converts restaurants across the country into relief kitchens. If you’re a service industry worker who’s lost their job or have their hours cut, you can pick up a dinner from Cass Street Deli from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. each day until […]

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Get to know Noel Cruz, the Filipino-American who’s redefining the Tampa Bay food scene

Noel Cruz majored in microbiology and minored in chemistry at University of Florida, but when it was time to break into the job market, he went into hospitality, and hospitality hasn’t been the same since. Noel Cruz sharpened his skills at the Culinary Institute of America in New York’s Hyde Park (with honors), is certified […]

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Florida of the Day #2: The world’s tallest hat, according to Guinness, is in Tampa

Click the photo to see it at full size. The world’s tallest hat, as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records, belongs to a Tampa man with a decidedly Star Wars name: Odilon Ozare. He lives in one of my favorite parts of town — Seminole Heights (Toronto friends: think late 1990s Parkdale) — with […]

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, March 5, 2018)

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are! Monday, March 5, 2018 Tampa Bay SQL Business Intelligence and Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ Microsoft Corporation, 6:00 PM […]

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Scenes from the Blind Tiger Café Soho / Ella Bing Haberdashery ribbon-cutting ceremony

Click the photo to see it at full size. On Monday morning, I had the pleasure of attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newest branch of the Blind Tiger Café and Ella Bing Haberdashery, two establishments that share a space in Tampa’s SoHo neighborhood. Roberto Torres, outside the Blind Tiger Café in Ybor City. This […]