Capture that sweet feeling of Chocolate Affair on February 2, 2012 as Heath Care for the Homeless celebrates what you make possible through your support.
Come be inspired by stories of personal transformation that couldn’t have happened without you. Meet the staff and hear about the incredible work they do to change our community for the better.
Baltimore’s best restaurants, caterers, and chocolatiers will share their gifts with you during an incredible hors d’oeuvre reception and dessert buffet. Savor a chocolate-inspired dinner prepared for you by Executive Chef Carlos Gomez of the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott (location information).
Adams Avenue Unplugged – San Diego Saturday & Sunday, April 21st – 22nd, 2012
Adams Avenue’s long-running Roots Festival of Music has been renamed by the Adams Avenue Business Association to Adams Avenue Unplugged. This will be a weekend event for the whole family.
The April 2012 event will include 100 bands playing on 12 stages throughout the area and the local parks. Trolley service will help move people up and down Adams Avenue to the various venues.
Dozens of local bands will participate as well as nationally recognized talent.
Hundreds of food, beer and craft vendors fill out the things to see and do this weekend.
This is an event for everyone, with many types of music, food, drink, and fun!
Go to AdamsAvenueOnline.com for more information as the music lineup and schedules are released.
Featuring: Discount Days& Free Daily Shows Blues Brothers Dennis Lee Kachunga & The Alligator Welde Bear Show Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show Racing Pigs Circus Hollywood
New This Year! Ride the Zip Line Returning Favorite! Ride the Batcopter
Don’t Forget! Arts and Crafts Showcase in the Special Events Center Lots to Do and See in the Expo Hall Free Special Attractions!
Opening Day Deal – February 9 After 5:00 PM – Admission for $5.00 – Ride Armbands for $20.00 College Night – February 9 – College Students with I.D. After 3:00 PM – Purchase a $20.00 Midway Ride Armband and Receive FREE Fair Admission 5 After 5 – February 9, 13, 14, 15, & 16 After 5:00 PM – $5.00 Adult Admission Student Days February 10 – Hillsborough County Students Provided a Free Ticket February 20 – Pasco, Polk, Manatee County Students Provided a Free Ticket All Other Students – For Discount Purchase Your Tickets at the Gate $6.00 Admission for Ages 12 through 12th Grade $5.00 Admission for Ages 6 to 11 Midway Power Hour – February 11 & 18 – 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Most Midway Rides – One Ticket 4-H & FFA Days – February 11 & 18 FREE Admission with Member I.D. or Jacket Senior Days – February 14, 15, & 16 Gate Admission $8.00 – Advance Tickets $6.00 for 55+ Country Gold Tour – February 15 – $10.00 Admission Does not Include Fair Admission Featuring: LeRoy Van Dyke, Lynn Anderson, Gene Watson, Janie Frickie, T.G. Sheppard National Salute to Veterans Day – February 20 FREE Admission For Everyone After 4:00 PM Pepsi Armband Days – February 10 & 20 Bring an Empty Diet Mtn Dew Can – Pay $25.00 for Ride Armbands (Save $5) 1 Discount Per Diet Mtn Dew Can – Offer Valid Only on Diet Mtn Dew Spanish Lyric Theater International Stage Horse Shows at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center Bluegrass Music in Cracker Country Livestock Shows in the Agribusiness Area The Florida Armed Forces Museum Exotic Petting Zoo Elvis Extravaganza February 11 & 12 Elvis LIVE February 17, 18, 19, & 20 Xtreme Sports Show Daily in the Sweetbay Entertainment Hall No Show on February 15 Lawnmower Races February 18 & 19 In the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center Yesterdaze Show 70’s Music February 10, 11, & 12 Cheer & Dance Competitions February 11 & 12 Chris MacArthur & Florida Cracker Boys February 17 & 18
SWEETBAY ENTERTAINMENT HALL
Xtreme Sports Show – February 9 – 20 at 12pm, 3pm, and 6pm
The Xtreme Sports Show will not be performing on February 15th
Elvis Extravaganza Impersonator National Finals – February 11 & 12 – 3pm and 6pm
Chris MacArthur & The Florida Crackers – February 17 and 18 at 8pm
Friday and Saturday 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm, and 7:30pm
WALK AROUNDS
Oscar the Robot - February 9 – 20 from 11am to 5pm
Runa Pacha - February 9 – 20 from 11am to 5pm
Willy’s Washboard Jamboree - February 9 – 20 from 11am to 5pm
Dwayne Hill - February 9 – 20 from 11am to 5pm
Hi Pockets - February 9 – 20 from 11am to 5pm
Steve the Pretty Good - February 9 – 20 from 11am to 5pm
INTERNATIONAL STAGE
Spanish Lyric Theatre - February 9 – 20
Monday through Friday at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm
Saturday and Sunday at 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm
Distinguished Men of Brass - February 17, 18, and 19 at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm
FAMILY THEATER
Dennis Lee February 9 – 20
Daily at 11am, 1pm, and 5pm
Saturday, February 11, at 11am, 1pm, 5pm, and 8pm
Friday, February 17, at 11am, 1pm, 5pm, and 8pm
Yesterdaze – 70′s Music Friday, February 10, Saturday, February 11, and Sunday, February 12, at 2pm, 4pm, 6pm
Peter Alden (Elvis) Friday, February 17, Saturday, February 18, Sunday, February 19, and Monday, February 20 at 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm
Blues Brothers February 9 – 20
Daily at 12pm, 3pm, and 7pm
Friday, February 10, at 12pm, 3pm, 7pm and 8pm
Saturday, February 18, at 12pm, 3pm and 7pm and 8pm
FLORIDA CENTER
Lloyd Mabrey February 13 – 20 at 10am, 12pm, and 2pm
Sandtastic February 9 – 20 All Day, Everyday
WATERFRONT CAFÉ
Johnny Lowry Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm
CHILDREN’S STAGE
Doggies of the West
Daily at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm
OUTSIDE ATTRACTIONS
Welde Bears February 9 – 20
Daily at 2pm, 4pm, and 7pm 12:00 Noon – Play in the Pool Time
Racing Pigs February 9 – 20
Daily at 12:30pm, 2:30pm, and 4:30pm
Exotic Petting Zoo February 9 – 20 All Day, Everyday
The Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show February 9 – 20
Daily at 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm, and 7:30pm
Kachunga The Alligator Show February 9 – 20
Daily at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm
Friday and Saturday at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm
Lawn Mower Races
February 18 and 19 located in The Bob Thomas Equestrian Center
Florida Ranch Rodeo
February 15 – 16 at 2pm, and 7pm located in the Charlie Lykes Arena
High School Jazz Festival February 10 – All Day at the Special Events Center West
CHARLES M. DAVIS SPECIAL EVENTS CENTER
Big Band
Sunday, February 12 at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm
Friday, February 17 at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm
AG AREA
Melody Farm Follies Revue February 9 – 20 All Day, Everyday
ALL DATES, TIMES AND ACTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUR ADVANCE NOTICE.*
For more information, call 813-621-7821 or toll-free 1-800-345-3247
Gate admission is not included with purchase of armbands, ride tickets, or concert tickets. There are no refunds, exchanges or rainchecks. All acts, concerts, scheduled times, exhibitors, prices and other advertised events are subject to change and/or cancel without notice. All acts are included with a fair gate admission ticket, except for the Country Gold Tour concert, rides and games are extra. NO RE-ENTRY; once visitors exit the gates another admission ticket will be required to re-enter the Fair. The Florida State Fair Authority is not responsible for any third party advertisement.
The next time you are in the Tampa Bay area of West Central Florida looking for things to do, consider a visit to the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in downtown Tampa. At any time, there are one or two important exhibits of famous photographer’s work on display. Right now through February 11, 2012 is a display of photographic works “Bud Lee’s America”.
Feel the excitement the 9th Annual Members Show captured on video by Gary Reimer.
Past exhibits have included: Life and Death by Duane Michals; Classic Images: Photography by Ansel Adams; Eye in the Sky – The Works of Robert Hartman; Natural Fashion: Art & the Body, Photographs by Hans Silvester; Cuba: Selected Works of Clyde Butcher and Maria Martinez-Cañas; Naked City: Photographs from the Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center; Cuba Particular: (Private Cuba) The Photography of David Audet; Bhupendra Karia and Derry Moore: Stillness and Shadows / Vintage Photographs of India; Infected Landscape: Works by Shai Kremer; Face to Face: Judy Dater’s Portraits from Italy and California; Tom Abercrombie: National Geographic Photographer; August Sander, The Twentieth-Century Man and Jules Aarons, Views from the Street; Aaron Siskind A Harlem Document (1932-1940); Andrea Modica: Flights of the Soul; No Mans Land The Photography of Lynne Cohen; Suzanne Camp Crosby: Kid City; One Shot Harris The Photographs of Charles Teenie Harris; Burk Uzzle’s Woodstock and Other Americana; Caterpillar’s Conundrum The Photographic Investigations of Todd Watts; Cut, Edit and Embellish A Life in Collage: Photographs by Hugh Shurley; The Disappeared: Native American Images from The Drapkin Collection; Abstractions and the Neo-Cubist Order Photographs of Barbara Kasten; Hard Won Dreams the American Southwest Photographs of Bruce Dale; Stopping Time Photographs of Doc Edgerton; My Florida Home: Recent Work by Benjamin Dimmitt; NFL® History from Getty Images; Berenice Abbott, American Photographer A Fantastic Passion; Clyde Butcher Retrospective Graciela Iturbide: The Spirits of the Earth ~ Los Espíritus de la Tierra; “Just Suppose”: Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor; The Photography of Peter B. Kaplan; Faces and Places One Man Show by Herb Snitzer; The Magic Box of Abelardo Morell
Barcelona’s Museum of Funeral Carriages is so far off the beaten track that once we found it (in the building housing the very-much-active municipal morgue) even the two people behind the information desk were slow to recognize that we were trying to view this free exhibit.
It took pointing to the photo in our tour book to get one of them to dig out the key and take us into the basement down a creaky elevator. She even had to turn on the lights for us, as very few people visit the collection and we were the only ones there in the middle of the day.
She did however let us wander around for as long as we wanted. Upstairs there were several family funerals going on, but no one ventured below.
The highlight of the museum are the dozen or so carefully preserved horse-drawn funeral carriage hearses dating back to the mid-1800′s; some for the poor, others for the rich.
Special white carriages were reserved for dead children and virgins. Other carriages with darkened windows were meant to discretely carry the mistress of the dearly departed.
The museum is full of symbolism; all the coaches you can see represent in many ways, the transition from life to death, symbolized in some cases with the inscription the Greek letters alpha and omega (beginning and end).
Address: Carrer de Sancho d’Àvila 2
Hours: 10am-1pm & 4-6pm Mon-Fri, 10am-1pm Sat, Sun & holidays
The Festival of Chocolate brings an incomparable tour through a unique chocolate themed museum on-site at MOSI. The event will be a fun-filled, educational experience for everyone, especially those with a sweet tooth.
There will be treats and events for guests of all ages. MOSI will exhibit the science and history of chocolate along with the journey of the cacao bean.
There will be tasty treats for everyone and a complementary chocolate raffle.
Comic books, magazines, toys, artwork, anime, cosplay at the Tampa Bay Comic Con! Attend dressed as your favorite superhero, Star Wars character, or anything nerdy! Meet the convention’s celebrity guests such as Bob Camp (co-creator of Ren and Stimpy), Alex Saviuk (Marvel Comics artist) and cast members Larry Mainland and Sonya Thompson from AMC’s TV series “The Walking Dead“. Admission is $5.00, kids (12 and under) get in FREE and parking is FREE.
Delbert McClinton • Los Lonely Boys • Tower of Power • Roomful of Blues • The Mannish Boys • James Cotton Band with Special Guest Darrell Nulisch • Charles Bradley • Delta Groove Harp Blast featuring Al Blake, Big Pete, and Mitch Kashmar • Albert Castiglia • Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges • Jimmy Thackery • Trampled Under Foot • The Alexis P. Suter Band • Johnny Rawls
Throughout the festival grounds, enjoy tasty food, including seafood, barbeque, Cuban cuisine, and other culinary treats. Festival vendors also include arts & crafts. Premium beer and wine are also available. Concert Tickets
OK, so every tourist in the world who comes to New York City eventually goes to Times Square. That doesn’t mean YOU shouldn’t go there. It has to be one of the safest places to be in NYC, late at night, on the streets. Especially if you can walk home. The best deal going has to be the Best Western Plus “President Hotel at Times Square”. Check out a map to the hotel. You can walk from the hotel to not only Times Square, but also Radio City Music Hall and “The Rock” (Rockefeller Center).
If you ever wanted to go to a Broadway (or off-Broadway) show, this is the theater district where you will wind up any way. Lots of restaurants of every price and description.
One of the newest New York things to experience is “The Ride“. Imagine a tour bus with all the seats facing the sidewalk, making all of Manhattan a stage. Along with the usual landmarks, you will see the people on the streets, coming and going, and some doing street performances. You never know what to expect on this 75-minute ride. Just be sure to get your tickets in advance online, especially if you want to take the tour at a specific time or day.
Going to the Florida State Fair or any other event at the Florida State Fairgrounds?
Adams Avenue’s long-running Roots Festival of Music has been renamed by the Adams Avenue Business Association to Adams Avenue Unplugged. This will be a weekend event for the whole family.
The April 2012 event will include 100 bands playing on 12 stages throughout the area and the local parks. Trolley service will help move people up and down Adams Avenue to the various venues. 
The highlight of the museum are the dozen or so carefully preserved horse-drawn funeral carriage hearses dating back to the mid-1800′s; some for the poor, others for the rich. 
OK, so every tourist in the world who comes to New York City eventually goes to Times Square. That doesn’t mean YOU shouldn’t go there. It has to be one of the safest places to be in NYC, late at night, on the streets. Especially if you can walk home. The best deal going has to be the Best Western Plus “President Hotel at Times Square”. 
