Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, Sunday, 2 p.m.
Why go: The Straz Center presents this "high-style, knee-slapping romp through the age of glamorous, jet-setting air travel" as an architect and bachelor juggles relationships with three flight attendants -- until their airline schedules change just as a friend of his decides to pay a visit.
Cost: $31.50 and up
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Where/when: , 5137 N Florida Ave, today, 4 p.m.
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Why go: This event is part of a series from March 3 to March 10 supported by local brewers, distributors, and vendors to celebrate both local and imported craft beers available in the Bay area.
Here, enjoy five Sierra Nevada’s for $15, including Sierra Pale Ale, Sierra Keller Weiss, and Sierra Seasonal. Sierra Nevada drafts also featured. Study up on Sierra Nevada Trivia to win prizes.
Cost: FREE
Where/when: , 4101 N Florida Ave, today, 5 p.m.
Why go: Celebrate Cold Storage Craft Brewery's one-year anniversary with the release of two new beers, Copperhead Ale and Reserve #2.
This event is part of a series from March 3 to March 10 supported by local brewers, distributors, and vendors to celebrate both local and imported craft beers available in the Bay area.
Cost: $10 for glass with three complimentary fills
Where/when: 1327 E 7th Ave, Ybor City, today, 5 p.m.
Why go: This event is part of a series from March 3 to March 10 supported by local brewers, distributors, and vendors to celebrate both local and imported craft beers available in the Bay area.
Here, enjoy Happy Hour with specials from Cigar City Brewing Co. and some giveaways.
Cost: FREE
Where/when: 401 Channelside Dr, today, 6:30 p.m.
Why go: Expect Phineas, Ferb, and the whole Tri-State Area gang -- including Perry the platypus, aka Agent P -- in this live-action adventure.
Cost: $15 and up
Where/when: , 4500 N Nebraska Ave, today, 7 p.m.
Why go: Come sample beers from the Best Florida Beer Championships and mingle with other clubs and beer lovers from across the Bay Area. Bring your friends that aren’t members of a home brewing club and get them interested in the hobby.
Learn about how the BFBC works and how to judge beers from certified judges.
The brewers from Green Room Brewing and Seventh Sun Brewing will be in for the event, and we'll have some of their delicious beers for sale!
For a small donation to a local charity you can compete in beer-friendly games for fabulous prizes including:
o 15 Gal Blichmann Boilermaker Kettle
o Complete Kegging System
o Free Beer!
Wicked Witches Food Truck will be on site serving delicious food all night long!
Proceeds from admission benefit BFBC, which supports home brewing across the Tampa Bay area.
Cost: $10
Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, today, 7:30 p.m.
Why go: The Straz Center presents this "high-style, knee-slapping romp through the age of glamorous, jet-setting air travel" as an architect and bachelor juggles relationships with three flight attendants -- until their airline schedules change just as a friend of his decides to pay a visit.
Cost: $31.50 and up
Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, today, 8 p.m.
Why go: The Florida Orchestra presents music from the best rock musicals of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, including "Rent," "Hair," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Tommy," "Godspell," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and more.
Cost: $17.50 and up
Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, today, 8 p.m.
Why go: Jobsite Theater presents the highbrow and lowbrow comedy "Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka," about "the chaos that ensues when Aphrodite, goddess of love, and Pan, goat-legged god of shagging everything, descend on the island of Ithaka to seek revenge for the fall of Troy."
Cost: $24.50 and up
Where/when: , 1101 W Sligh Ave, Saturday, 6;30 a.m.
Why go: Lowry Park Zoo presents its seventh annual ZOOZoom, a 5K run that winds through the zoo and along the scenic Hillsborough River.
Registration fee includes admission to the zoo for the day for the entrant only, T-shirt and post-race refreshments. Early Bird registrants also receive an extra zoo ticket for a friend or another time.
Cost: $30
Where/when: 401 W Kennedy Blvd, Saturday, 9 a.m.
Why go: The Chiselers 49th Annual One Day Market is prepared to once again stage Tampa's Favorite Sale. Chiselers, Inc., a non-profit organization since 1959, has been collecting donations from the community since last summer. The warehouse is buzzing and packed with treasures that will be moved to the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, now home to the University of Tampa, for the sale on March 10th. The sale held during the University’s Spring break, takes over the main floor of the old Hotel which is a very large area.
Don't miss this fantastic SHOPPING OPPORTUNITY in a historical setting. There will be items galore for the whole family at bargain basement prices including furniture, plants, art, kitchenware, tools, toys, china, crystal, and jewelry. The famous Bargain Center will again be featured as part of the sale. Delicious food and drink will be available for purchase, so please make a day of it! All proceeds will be used for the historic restoration of the much loved Tampa Bay Hotel.
Cost: FREE
Where/when: 400 N Ashley Dr, Saturday, 11 a.m.
Why go: This inaugural music festival features 20 bands on three stages and food from a dozen of the area's finest restaurants and food trucks.
Kiley Gardens (next to Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park) has two stages of acts, the Amscot Financial Stage and the Amphitheater. Here's the lineup for each, subject to change:
Amscot Financial Stage:
11am to 1pm Children's Programming: Kids Sound Sculpture Garden, Kuumba Drums, Abstract Wire Sculptures and more
6:30pm Tortured Soul
8:15pm Rebirth Brass Band
Amphitheater:
Daniel Feinman
Pickford Sundries
Amber Lynn Nicol
Rebekah Pulley Duo
Geri X
Rich Whiteley
Purchase tickets online via the link below, or at sites such as The Hub Bar (719 N. Franklin St.) and Microgroove Records (4906 N. Florida Ave.).
Cost: $20
Where/when: , 600 N Ashley Dr, Saturday, 11:45 a.m.
Why go: This inaugural music festival features 20 bands on three stages and food from a dozen of the area's finest restaurants and food trucks.
Here, Mayor Bob Buckhorn opens the festival at 12:15pm, followed by this schedule of acts (subject to change):
12:30pm The Groves
2pm The Lee Boys
3:45pm Alvin "Youngblood" Hart
5:15pm Deer Tick
7:15pm Lee Fields & the Expressions
9:15pm Ra Ra Riot
Purchase tickets online via the link below, or at sites such as The Hub Bar (719 N. Franklin St.) and Microgroove Records (4906 N. Florida Ave.).
Cost: $20
Where/when: 401 Channelside Dr, Saturday, 7 p.m.
Cost: $25 and up
Where/when: 910 Skipper Rd, Saturday, 8 p.m.
Why go: Skipper’s Smokehouse presents a "swamp roots jubilee" featuring the "Nawlins" rhythm and blues of the Beth McKee band joined by the blues/jamband The Standback Band.
Cost: $7 in advance; $10 at the door
Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, Saturday, 8 p.m.
Why go: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra -- comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today -- performs a repertoire including historic compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and others.
With music director and trumpet player Wynton Marsalis.
Cost: $33.50 and up
Where/when: 400 N Ashley Dr, Saturday, 8 p.m.
Why go: The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts celebrates its new home with this gala featuring cocktails and hors d'oeuvres by Malio's, a live auction of art by local photographers, a silent auction, music, a pop-art photo booth, and dessert. Please wear black, white or "brilliant" attire (black tie optional).
Cost: $75 per person (includes annual FMoPA membership) or $125 per couple (includes a family museum membership)
Where/when: , 5800 N Central Ave, Saturday, 8:30 a.m.
Why go: On the second Saturday of each month our ride leaves promptly at 8:30 a.m. from the Seminole Heights Garden Center, 5800 N. Central Ave. We alternate routes from month to month. The pace is moderate (10-16 mph), the routes average 10 miles roundtrip and usually include a stop at a coffee shop along the way. Please come with your helmet on your head, air in your tires, and brakes that work, ready to experience the beauty of Central Tampa on two wheels.
Cost: FREE
Where/when: 1800 E 8th Ave, Ybor City, Saturday, 9 a.m.
Why go: The Ybor City Market takes place every Saturday in Centennial Park. This event features a wide range of vendors offering fresh produce, prepared foods, plants, pet items and crafts. Dogs are welcome.
Cost: FREE
Where/when: 11315 N 46th St, Saturday, 10 a.m.
Why go:
Step back in time and enjoy the magic, juggling, storytelling, music, food, drinks, crafts, games, and performances of another age in this replica of a 16th-century village.
Regular entertainment includes live armored jousting, acrobatics, dance from Demzarah Gypsies, comedy such as Christophe the Insultor, the New Minstrel Revue, and "live mermaids and monsters" at the Mythical Monster Museum.
Theme weekends (listed below) add additional entertainment and competitions. Most include either a free beer or wine tasting and a renewal of vows at 11am (check in at the gate if you're interested).
Each theme weekend also has a related pub crawl for an additional fee.
Pets are permitted at the festival with a $10 admission fee and registration form. Discount tickets ($3 off regular admission price) are available at MOSI and participating Walgreens and Circle K stores.
NOTE: March 23 is "Festival Friday," an educational day for students and chaperones to visit the festival. The festival is open to the public that day, however.
Here are the theme weekends:
March 10 and 11: "Wine, Chocolate and Romance" (includes a grape stomp, a "fudge fling," a couples pie-eating contest, and a wine and chocolate festival)
March 17 and 18: "Shamrocks and Shenanigans" (includes Irish dancers, a kilt competition, a Celtic village, and Highland games)
March 24 and 25: "High Seas Adventure" (includes walk the plank, swab the deck, a grape stomp, a tattoo competition, a High Seas market, royal fencing competition, and a Jack Sparrow look-a-like competition)
March 31 and April 1: "German Invasion: Halfway to Oktoberfest" (includes a royal archery tournament, a German market, a best-beard competition, a bratwurst-eating competition, an alpine-yodeling competition, and a battle-cry competition)
Cost: $18.95 at the gate for adults; $14.95 at the gate for seniors; $10.95 at the gate for children ages 5 to 12
Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Why go: The Straz Center presents this "high-style, knee-slapping romp through the age of glamorous, jet-setting air travel" as an architect and bachelor juggles relationships with three flight attendants -- until their airline schedules change just as a friend of his decides to pay a visit.
Cost: $31.50 and up
Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, Saturday, 8 p.m.
Why go: Jobsite Theater presents the highbrow and lowbrow comedy "Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka," about "the chaos that ensues when Aphrodite, goddess of love, and Pan, goat-legged god of shagging everything, descend on the island of Ithaka to seek revenge for the fall of Troy."
Cost: $24.50 and up
Where/when: , 4711 N Central Ave, Sunday, 8 a.m.
Why go: Come ride with us as we explore Tampa by bicycle. We will ride leisurely along shady streets, and city bike paths as we tour Seminole Heights, Ybor City, Channelside, Harbor Island and downtown Tampa. Our return will follow the Hillsborough River through Riverside Heights, Tampa Heights and South Seminole Heights. We'll sample breakfast downtown at the new Taco Bus before returning to enjoy the Sunday Market at Hillsborough High School. Secured bicycle parking is provided at the Market, courtesy of the Seminole Heights Bicycle Club. This is a great ride for novice riders or those new to Tampa. 16 miles at 10-14 mph. Helmets are required.
Cost: FREE
Where/when: , 5000 N Central Ave, Sunday, 9 a.m.
Why go: The Seminole Heights Sunday Morning Market -- “Fresh, Local & Lively” -- started in 2010, is held on the second Sunday of each month from 9am-2pm on the front lawn of Hillsborough High School, 5000 N. Central Ave.
This market opens the second Sunday in October and runs until the second Sunday in May. It supports 100 to 130 vendors and caters to all four neighborhoods in Seminole Heights and its neighbors.
Expecty to find a vast variety of Organic, Hydroponic & Conventional Produce, Plants, Herbs, Fresh Flowers, Gourmet Takehome Foods & Ready to Eat Foods.
Live Music starts at 10am and runs till 2pm. Also featuring two massage therapists on site, and kids activities provided by www.fitkidsplayground.com.
Visit: http://www.tampabaymarkets.com/ for more information or the market's Facebook page.
Cost: FREE
Where/when: 11315 N 46th St, Saturday, 10 a.m.
Why go:
Step back in time and enjoy the magic, juggling, storytelling, music, food, drinks, crafts, games, and performances of another age in this replica of a 16th-century village.
Regular entertainment includes live armored jousting, acrobatics, dance from Demzarah Gypsies, comedy such as Christophe the Insultor, the New Minstrel Revue, and "live mermaids and monsters" at the Mythical Monster Museum.
Theme weekends (listed below) add additional entertainment and competitions. Most include either a free beer or wine tasting and a renewal of vows at 11am (check in at the gate if you're interested).
Each theme weekend also has a related pub crawl for an additional fee.
Pets are permitted at the festival with a $10 admission fee and registration form. Discount tickets ($3 off regular admission price) are available at MOSI and participating Walgreens and Circle K stores.
NOTE: March 23 is "Festival Friday," an educational day for students and chaperones to visit the festival. The festival is open to the public that day, however.
Here are the theme weekends:
March 10 and 11: "Wine, Chocolate and Romance" (includes a grape stomp, a "fudge fling," a couples pie-eating contest, and a wine and chocolate festival)
March 17 and 18: "Shamrocks and Shenanigans" (includes Irish dancers, a kilt competition, a Celtic village, and Highland games)
March 24 and 25: "High Seas Adventure" (includes walk the plank, swab the deck, a grape stomp, a tattoo competition, a High Seas market, royal fencing competition, and a Jack Sparrow look-a-like competition)
March 31 and April 1: "German Invasion: Halfway to Oktoberfest" (includes a royal archery tournament, a German market, a best-beard competition, a bratwurst-eating competition, an alpine-yodeling competition, and a battle-cry competition)
Cost: $18.95 at the gate for adults; $14.95 at the gate for seniors; $10.95 at the gate for children ages 5 to 12
Where/when: 1313 E 8th Ave, Ybor City, Sunday, 11 a.m.
Why go: This event is part of a series from March 3 to March 10 supported by local brewers, distributors, and vendors to celebrate both local and imported craft beers available in the Bay area.
Here, recover from Tampa Bay Beer Week with this special breakfast that includes the beers Rodenbach Gran Cru, Boon Gueze, and Boon Kriek.
Here’s the menu: Smoked cheeses and fruit, assorted quiche, hash browns, bacon, smoked sausage, scrambled eggs, grits, and Guava Fruit Pizza for dessert.
Cost: $30
Where/when: , 5020 N Florida Ave, Sunday, 1 p.m.
Why go: This event is part of a series from March 3 to March 10 supported by local brewers, distributors, and vendors to celebrate both local and imported craft beers available in the Bay area.
Here, enjoy some Rodenbach Flanders Red Ales and other delicious sours.
Cost: FREE admission, food and drinks individually priced
Where/when: 910 Skipper Rd, Sunday, 4 p.m.
Why go: Skipper’s Smokehouse and WMNF (88.5 FM) present a showcase of Caribbean music, with a tribute to African reggae legend Lucky Dube. Performances by the Impulse Band, Tassa Drums, The Haitian Boys, the Jafari Band, and more, plus African dancers and a Tampa Carnival 2012 costume display.
Cost: $12 in advance; $15 at the door
Where/when: 1010 N W C Macinnes Pl, Sunday, 4 p.m.
Why go: Jobsite Theater presents the highbrow and lowbrow comedy "Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka," about "the chaos that ensues when Aphrodite, goddess of love, and Pan, goat-legged god of shagging everything, descend on the island of Ithaka to seek revenge for the fall of Troy."
Cost: $24.50 and up