Let's relive yesterday with the same joyful recollection and enthusiasm for life we'd exhibit trying to get back to our car from the police station after a night of drinking Fireball with someone we hated in high school who just happened to be passing through town...
Floridaset a new record for numbers of tourists in the first half of 2015, luring 54.1 million visitors, most of whom didn't even get even by wingless dragons or fall into sinkholes in order to make room for even more visitors. C'mon — it's called turnover, people. That's a business term I overheard once.
Um, when the phrases "upscale cinema and bistro" and "85 live and dead roaches" collide, nobody wins. Tut, tut, Villagio.
The world's largest Davidoff of Geneva upscale cigar storeis coming to Tampa's MetWest, across from International Plaza. If you're asking yourself, "who needs a 5,000-square-foot cigar store with its own bar and "indoor and outdoor private cigar lockers," don't bother, because the answer is NOBODY. Who wants one? Well, that's a whole different douche, I mean story.
And finally, Tampa Tribune website TBO.comwas named Florida's best news website by the Society of Professional Journalists, according to a story on TBO.com that reads more like a press release. All ball-busting aside, congratulations to TBO — the Trib is often considered to be the Bay area's second-banana daily, but its site puts more stories in my online newsfeed than any other Bay area outlet.