Melissa Fair
Melissa Fair is the author of a chapbook, "Tornadoes, Love and Other Natural Disasters". Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, GulfStream Review, Apalachee Quarterly, Bitter Oleander and other journals.
Two poetry of her collections, "Abandon" and "In the Country of Night", are under consideration by several publishers. Melissa is a core member of the Irritable Tribe of Poets.
Taste of Sandwiche Cubano Food Fest
When: 11:00am - 4:00pm, Saturday August 18, 2012
Where: Hillsborough Community College-Ybor Campus, 2204 N. 15th Street Tampa, FL 33605
(moved from Cuban Club)
Ticket: free admission, $ for food
Food fest featuring traditional Tampa cuisine, including an attempt to create the world's longest Cuban Sandwich, besting Miami's 30-foot long record set in December 2011, winners of the Cuban Sandwich Festival held in Ybor in May, and Cuban sandwiches from numerous local restaurants; plus roast pork, deviled crabs, empanadas, flan.
Rooster Promenade and BBQ!
When: 6:00pm Sunday August 19, 2012
Where:
Big Al's Finger Licking Good BBQ, 1609 18th Street,
Gaspar's Grotto, 1805 E. 7th Avenue,
Dirty Shame, 1929 E. 7th Avenue,
all in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida
Ticket: Free admission; $ for food
Lots of BBQ and drinks, live music, and a costumed Rooster Promenade parade open to everybody: children, dogs, pirates, hipsters, and, of course, fowl of all feathers.