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During the Florida Brewers Guild Conference a few weeks ago I had the chance to meet a lot of dedicated professionals and folks working to bring deeper meaning to beer.  One such person is Ami Parrino the Laboratory Manager at Florida Avenue Brewing Company. At the brewery she combines her expertise as a microbiologist and Advanced Cicerone to ensure the production of top-quality beers and elevate the overall beer experience for consumers.  She is a beer judge and is Siebel Institute sensory trained. Ami offers classes on beer and food pairing and works with local breweries to curate their menu pairing options.  And she is in the process of writing a book on beer and food pairing culture around the world.This Episode is Sponsored By:Denver Rare Beer TastingIf you plan to be in Colorado in a few weeks for the Great American Beer Festival you need to check out the Denver Rare Beer Tasting. It happens on September 22nd and brings together 64 of America's best craft breweries all for a great cause -- the Pints for Prostates campaign. The beer list is incredible, packed with rare, exotic and vintage beers you won't find anywhere else. These are legendary beers the breweries hold back just for the Denver Rare Beer Tasting. This is a bucket list event for both beer fans and brewers. You can get a look at the beer list and find more information at pintsforprostates.org. All-inclusive tickets are $200 and include unlimited beer samples, a great buffet lunch, t-shirt, tasting glass and program. Money raised goes to the fight against prostate cancer including a free health screening before the event, a simple blood test that checks for common health issues that might just save your life. That's the Denver Rare Beer Tasting -- Drinking Beer and Saving Lives. Host: John Holl Guest: Ami Parrino Sponsors: All About Beer, Pints for Prostates Tags: Beer, Florida, Sensory, Pairings, Food, Beer Weeks, Pink Boots

Angela Yue is the brains behind Grand Cathedral Cigars. The establishment was created out of an old cathedral in Tampa! Grand Cathedral Cigars is located in Tampa Heights. It has amazing drinks and a full bar! The cigars include brands like J.C Newman Cigar Company, Arturo Fuente, Acid Cigars, Padron Cigars, Daniel Marshall, BrickHouse, Ashton, Angel's Share, and many more! From Cigar Aficionado: "In 1906, the First Congregational Church of Tampa was constructed and consecrated on the corner of Florida Avenue and East Frances. The brick building still stands 115 years later, but the religious denomination has been converted. Here, at what has since been rechristened the Grand Cathedral of Cigars, the religion is tobacco. And its minister is Angela Yue, proprietor and partner in this massive monument to the art of smoking—and to all things Fuente. The humidor holds many brands, but the focus is clearly on Fuente products. While “Arturo Fuente” isn't in the name, the Grand Cathedral of Cigars is one of the most comprehensive Fuente-centric establishments in existence, up there with Casa Fuente in Las Vegas and the Arturo Fuente Cigar Club in the Dominican Republic. Carlos Fuente Jr. is a partner in the operation, and his image, along with branded Fuente iconography and archival photos of his family's legacy, can be found in nearly every corner of this stunning architectural restoration." Visit their website at www.grandcathedralcigars.com

It was a fortunate coincidence that I had my recorder handy during August's Florida Brewers Guild Conference, as both men were in attendance and had some time to sit down and talk about their journeys as brewers and record some of the names of brewers who have come and gone from Florida breweries. Ron and Madison talk about what it was like sharing information between breweries before email and the internet and other differences between their start in brewing and their current state of affairs.Ron Raike is the brewmaster at Playalinda Brewing Company and Madison Roane is the Vice President of Production at Florida Avenue Brewing Company. The two brewers have each been brewing beer professionally in the Sunshine State since the 1990s and have traveled worked with and worked for many other brewers and breweries in Florida History. Ron began his career brewing in the Orlando area, including a stint at what may have been the first airport brewery that brewed beer onsite at an airport - the Shipyard Brewpub in Orlando International Airport - and has transitioned between several breweries to his present position at Playalinda Brewing. Madison began brewing at McGuire's Brewpub in Destin and "followed a girl down to Tampa" and worked at Cigar City Brewing for years until transitioning to his current position at Florida Avenue Brewing in Wesley Chapel.The initial interview was Ron's idea - except this was before COVID, and it took several years to get both of these guys in the same room.  The interview is worth a listen if only for the banter about hard seltzer and milkshake IPAs.You can listen to the podcast online here, or on your favorite podcast platform. Remember to subscribe or follow so you don't miss an episode!Thanks for joining us in the journey of the BeerWise Podcast, hosted by Mark DeNote – editor of Florida Beer News.If you like the podcast, please tell someone. If you have constructive feedback or a guest you'd like to hear on the show, please email mark at floridabeernews dot com or follow the “Contact Us” link on the Florida Beer News website.For more episodes, follow Florida Beer News on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and your favorite podcast platform!

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Momma Jacquie Paid For Food Prep   She had a lot of names: Her birth name was Jacqueline Thompson, but she wanted a middle name and gave herself one; Jean.  Her married name was Norris.  Her daughters called her Mother.  Most of you knew her as Jackie, unless you were kin and then it was Aunt Jack, Momma Jack or, as I called her, Momma Jacquie.  NO ONE called her Grandma, even though she had 8 grandchildren and I don't even know how many great grandchildren.   She insisted that I never call her Grandma and explained that it was because she was too young to be my grandmother.  Being a child, I took that literally and wondered who my grandmother was, in this huge family of ours, if it wasn't possible for her to be old enough.  There was the suspicious issue of my cousin Scott being born the same day as me.  In my young, conspiracy theory laden head, I thought maybe we were twins,  separated at birth and that Scott's mom, Mary, who was Momma Jacquie's sister, was my real mom and THAT's why Momma Jacquie wasn't old enough to be my grandmother.   I'd stare long and hard at Scott and his parents, but didn't see me in them.  I looked like my Dad and sounded like my Mom, so I grew up unsure of how the family tree really was rooted.  That uncertainty was compounded by the fact that I grew up with two sets of parents.  My own, Barbara and Vernon Stairs, and the people, who weren't old enough to be my grandparents, who had me call them BigDaddy and Momma Jacquie.   I'd heard stories about Momma Jacquie growing up in Arkansas,picking cotton, and how she'd married at the age of 16 to escape the hard life of being the eldest girl of 8 children who were all raised during the great depression.  But by the time she was 18 she had two daughters of her own, Carole (my aunt) and Bar-Jean (my mother.)   My mother was born first, in 1941, and named after most of her aunts.  Knowing the way this family loves to name their daughters after all their sisters, it was a good thing thatMomma Jacquie's youngest sister wasn't even born until after the birth of my mother, or else she would have ended up with a name like:  Mary Barbara Jean Trena Norris Stairs.   My Aunt Carole was born in 1942, just days before the death of a film star comedienne that must have captivated Momma Jacquie's imagination, because she was named after Carole Lombard, complete with the E at the end of her name, to be sure that she was not just any Carol, but rather named for the famous actress.  For those who aren't old enough to remember, Carole Lombard was married to Clark Gable and they were the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of their era.   Momma Jacquie's favorite actress was the comedienne, Lucille Ball, who rose to stardom in 1951 in the show with her husband, Desi Arnaz, in I Love Lucy.  What some of you may not remember, but I'm sure Momma Jacquie  did, was that Lucille Ball was the first woman to run a major television studio.  It was known for producing StarTrek and Mission Impossible.  Thankfully that didn't happen until a year after my birth or she may have insisted that my parents name me Lucy.   My mother tells me that despite the financial difficulties that must have been inherent in her family they had one of the first television sets.  As I think back about the timing, Momma Jacquie went straight from the depression era to being married with 2 children during World War II.  Big Daddy had been building orange crates for just pennies in California, and then a soldier and then a police officer while Momma Jacquie was doing her part for the war effort by working at Delco Remy which switched from manufacturing General Motors automobiles to military vehicles during the war.  She had done some modeling and even had a nose job done because she wanted to look like the perfect, all American girl, and thought her Indian nose might stereotype her.   I can imagine that during such hard and trying times she must have turned on that TV and felt the sort of escape that only Hollywood could provide;  a world where female comediennes were beautiful, happy and able to find the funny side of all of life's trials.  It was a world of make believe and I think it inspired Momma Jacquie to a lot of the behaviors that we observed in her.   I'm sure she fantasized about how different her life could have been if she had been rich, famous or of royal lineage.  What she never knew, because I didn't know it until last week thanks to Ancestry.com, was that she had married royalty.  Big Daddy, who you knew as Floyd Norris, had roots that went back to William I theLion, King of Scotland in the 1200's. Although she loved Big Daddy, I think she would have appreciated him more if his family had passed down that information, but they were a humble lot.   Momma Jacquie loved female comediennes, but was never funny.  Maybe she tried her hand at it early on, but by the time I came along, she had figured out that she was no comic.  She only finished the 6th grade, she had no secretarial skills and her handwriting was illegible.  In the 1960's my parents lived in Thonotosassa and Big Daddy and Momma Jacquie lived in Tampa.  Both of my parents worked, so they would drive into Tampa before work, drop me off for the day to be with Momma Jacquie, and then pick me up at night and drive back to Thonotosassa.   I thought Momma Jacquie and Big Daddy were rich!  Momma Jacquie didn't have to work so I thought that being a car salesman must be a very lucrative business.  He had trophies for his efforts and they were living the lifestyle of the rich and famous to my mind.  They always had a new car, the furniture was white, with satin pillows, gold gilded mirrors and everything was off limits, due to it all being a collection of untouchable treasures.  There was always a maid, but I thought that maybe she was just part of the décor because Momma Jacquie was always cleaning something and insisting that it would be great fun for me to clean stuff too.   They had a pool.  It was just one of those little plastic kiddie pools, but I can remember lounging in that pool, the sunlight warm on my face, a blue jay hopping around in the branches above and watching Momma Jacquie doing jumping jacks in front of theTV with Jack LaLanne.   I was glad that I was already wet and she wouldn't want me slinging water all over the house to join her in his TV exercise workout.   Momma Jacquie used to take care of my cousin Matt too, while Aunt Carole worked.  She always treated me like I was her favorite grandchild, but I figured it was because I was the only girl, and the only one she could model into the life that she thought she had missed…or maybe because when Matt was just a toddler he managed to drive her car into the side of the house.  He not only wrecked the car, but wrecked any chance of boys being allowed to play in the house.   I lived two simultaneous lives.  During the week I lived with Momma Jacquie and was groomed to fulfill her ambition of being a famous movie star.  I was taught to read, and sing but dancing was forbidden, and was reminded constantly not to slouch, to stand up straight and to address adults as if I were one. I was coached in how to hold my pinkie out when sipping from a cup, keep direct eye contact when speaking, to shake a person's hand firmly and spent much of my time walking with books balanced on my head.  Shoes were not allowed in the house, so I became quite stealthy, as well as seeming to float across the room.  Most importantly though, I was instructed not to talk to people and animals “who weren't there” because people would think I was crazy.   On the weekends I lived with my parents in Thonotosassa, which in the 60's may as well have been the wild, wild west.  My cousin Scott and I climbed trees, hiked for miles, rode bikes, roller skated in the streets, chased lizards and snakes and would come home so filthy that his mom, Mary, who also kept an immaculate house, with baby blue shag carpet, wouldn't even let us come inside.  My house was made for living though, so we could go there.  I had a dog, a cat and a bird and that bird would just spit seeds everywhere.   Living that double standard was confusing.  I remember my mother just being mortified one day to see me cleaning out the birdcage with a hose.  Not wanting to make a mess of my clothes, which would have been a sin at Momma Jacquie's I had decided to wash the cage out, naked, in the front yard.  Thinking back on this, half a century later, I wonder how confusing it must have been for my mother, wondering what on earth would possess me to be concerned about a little dirt.   When I started school Momma Jacquie no longer had me to groom every day, for that film career she was determined that I have, and had to find a way to fill her days.  She discovered Amway and quickly rose through the ranks because she was a natural born sales person.  There are two kinds of successful sales people; those that are so nice you just want to buy from them and those that won't take no for an answer.  Big Daddy was the first kind.  Momma Jacquie was the second type.  She showed me a gaudy, gold gilded glass coffee table that she didn't want any more one day and said, “Do you like it?”  I didn't want to be rude, so I said “yes.”  She responded by saying,“Good. That will be $150.”  I would never have paid $150 for a coffee table, but I paid her, because I wouldn't dare tell her, “no.”  I didn't even have a couch because I worked all the time and didn't have time to be sitting around.   Momma Jacquie and Big Daddy built their Amway business to Ruby level and purchased a building on N. Florida Avenue to stock their supplies and hold their meetings to recruit and train.  By the time I was 7 my family had moved to Panama City and then to West Virginia, so Momma Jacquie threw herself entirely into building an empire via Amway.   She visited us in West Virginia when I was about 8 and chided me for being fat.  I remember the day and the photo that was taken that day, of my brother on a trike and me posing, as the loving sister, for the photo, behind him.  I wasn't fat, but it was the 60's and women were now all supposed to look like the supermodel, Twiggy who was 5 foot 6 and weighed only 112 lbs.  Momma Jacquie was doing her part to try and meet that ridiculous standard and was insistent that I do so too.   Momma Jacquie also got it in her head that my grey cat was not a fitting pet for someone who would someday be a star and that I should get a poodle. I was never a “dog” person and didn't want a poodle.  I got a cat breed book out and tried to convince her that Smokey was surely either a purebred Korat or a Russian Blue, due to her solid grey coat, but she wasn't buying it.  Smokey didn't have a pedigree and that just wouldn't do.  We finally compromised with a purebred Siamese cat.   The part of this compromise that I did not fully comprehend was that my beloved Smokey would be dumped at the county shelter.  Momma Jacquie assured me that someone else would adopt Smokey and she would be fine. This was a low point in our relationship, but a turning point as well.  I believe that every choice we make happens for a reason, and ultimately was meant to be.   It was a while before I would learn about what happens to cats who are abandoned.  When I could do something about it I did, largely because of the guilt I felt for Smokey.   Despite never being an animal person, when it came time for my daughter to go to college, Momma Jacquie offered to pay her tuition. Jamie had been working with me, taking care of the big cats since she was 12, and she said that she'd rather the money go to a Food Prep building.  I'm sure it was hard for Momma Jacquie to give up on the thought of Jamie getting a college education, like she had provided for others in her latter life, but she put Jamie's desires ahead of her own and funded the building that feeds our 100 lions, tigers and other wild cats.  A plaque on that building commemorates her gift.   My family moved back to Tampa when I was 11 in 1972  and my dual family role resumed.  After school my father would pick Chuck and I up and drive us to Momma Jacquie and Big Daddy's storefront business on N. Florida Av.  I liked to paint, write poetry, make jewelry and read.  While other kids were reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, Momma Jacquie kept me stocked with books like, Psycho Cybernetics, Think and Grow Rich, and How to Win Friends and Influence People.  I thought everybody read that stuff.   The storefront had 3 little stores in front and then the huge warehouse area for the Amway.  I couldn't make enough jewelry to stock one of the little stores, so Big Daddy gave me catalogs for glassware and I shopped for carnival glass, crystal and other fine glassware to stock the shop. After school, I manned the store. There wasn't a lot of traffic, so I got a lot of reading done, and all of it would help shape my future.   During her Amway meetings, Momma Jacquie would trot me up onstage to show them how lovely my hair was thanks to Amway's LOC, dish detergent.  She'd ask me to talk about how great the products were and sometimes to sing.  I don't think she needed my help selling.  Who would tell her “no?”  I think she was always hoping that I'd be“discovered” by someone in the crowd.   I'm sure I was a disappointment to her when I got married at 17, had a baby at 19 and got too fat to model. Like her, I obsessed over my weight, only ate dietetic sweets and colas and exercised a ridiculous amount of hours in a day, but I didn't look likeTwiggy.  I was hungry all the time, so I chain smoked, secretly, as I knew my family would worry if they knew.   By the time I was 30, in 1991, I had built up a real estate business that still supports me today.  I owe that success to Momma Jacquie‘s inspiration to dream big and my mother's constant encouragement that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.  Despite having plenty of money, I shopped at yard sales and just love getting a deal.   One of those turning points came right about that time.  I'd taken to using those long cigarette holders, like you'd see in the 1950's movies, because the nicotine was turning my knuckles orange, and I didn't want anyone to know I smoked.  I'd gone to a yard sale and bought a brand new, white, fuzzy bath robe, that still had the tags on it for fifty cents.  I'd bleached my hair that night, but the old house that I'd recently bought out of foreclosure had a bad well, and was sputtering rusty water all over my hair as I tried to wash out the bleach.  Exhausted, I went to bed with wet hair and figured I'd assess the damage the next day.   The next morning I slipped on the new, floor length, white faux fur robe and stumbled to the bathroom. I was aghast to see that my hair was bright red from the rusty water that had colored the bleached out shafts. Needing my morning dose of nicotine, I lit a cigarette, fastened it into the long holder and walked out on the balcony that overlooked my back yard.  I was standing there, watching the birds and squirrels, wondering how I was going to fix this mess I'd made of my hair when the phone rang.   I could count on one hand the number of times Momma Jacquie ever called me.  Everyone always said I was her favorite, but we just weren't demonstrative that way.  No hugging, kissing or calling for no good reason.  When I answered the phone it was Momma Jacquie and she said, “I just woke up from the most realistic dream and I just had to tell you…”   “You were a movie star, with flaming red hair, and you were wearing a long, white fur coat, and smoking one of those long cigarettes, like they did on the silver screen, and you were holding court with all your fans from a balcony above them.  It seemed so real.  Isn't that just the oddest thing?”   This was before portable phones, so I spun around to see how she could possibly be watching me to make this prank call.  I quickly realized that she hadn't seen me in a physical sense, but in her dream had seen me in stunning detail.   This was a turning point because it reminded me of First Corinthians 13: 12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known.”   This was one of those rips in the fabric of what we think we know, that illuminates who and what we really are.  The woman who had tried to convince me that the invisible people and animals that I could see and talk with weren't really there had just revealed that you don't have to believe something is possible to experience it.   I fessed up to every part of her vision (except the cigarette) but I don't know if she believed me. I hadn't begun learning about remote vision, lucid dreaming or other paranormal activities yet, so I couldn't explain how she could have seen me in such amazing detail from miles away.  I gave up smoking that year.  That moment did open up my mind to learning more about how the universe works.  The more I learn, the more amazed I am at our capacity and our Creator.   Those who have gone on before us may be obscured from our vision, like “in a mirror darkly,” but I think that is largely due to our self-limiting beliefs.  If there is anything I am sure of, it is that we are eternal; we are all connected, because we are all ONE.

En este episodio hablamos de la amistad y de la bendición de tener amigos. No olvides que este episodio ha sido traído a ustedes gracias a la auspicio de Yantra Psychiatric Services localizado en el 1014 S. Florida Avenue en Lakeland Florida con el número de teléfono 863-450-3067 . --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bregaconesopodcast/support

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today’s show: • Jonathan Bardzik is a storyteller, cook and author. Starting with his first live cooking demonstration at Washington, D.C.’s historic Eastern Market in 2011, he has appeared in front of more than 750 audiences, including the TedX stage, written three books of recipes and stories, worked with clients from USDA and National Geographic and many more.; • Return guest Chef Eric Adjepong, a finalist on season 16 of Bravo's “Top Chef” and a contestant on season 17 of “Top Chef: All-Stars,” recently announced his first cookbook and children's book, both telling stories of the African Diaspora – the transatlantic slave trade, that is – through food and history; • Many a Valentine wants to make over his or her culinary kingdom, inside or outdoors. So we invited Jessica Petrino to join us. She has an unusual career, specializing in appliance industry education initiatives for the AJ Madison Learning Center. She’s going to help us learn about the hottest appliances for post-Valentine’s Day gift giving; • Andre McCain, founder and CEO of the black-owned restaurant HalfSmoke. at 651 Florida Avenue, NW. It is known for gourmet house-made sausages and signature wood-grilled entrées. Chef Andre’s also known for some pop-up fun and lots more.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: • Jonathan Bardzik is a storyteller, cook and author. Starting with his first live cooking demonstration at Washington, D.C.'s historic Eastern Market in 2011, he has appeared in front of more than 750 audiences, including the TedX stage, written three books of recipes and stories, worked with clients from USDA and National Geographic and many more.; • Return guest Chef Eric Adjepong, a finalist on season 16 of Bravo's “Top Chef” and a contestant on season 17 of “Top Chef: All-Stars,” recently announced his first cookbook and children's book, both telling stories of the African Diaspora – the transatlantic slave trade, that is – through food and history; • Many a Valentine wants to make over his or her culinary kingdom, inside or outdoors. So we invited Jessica Petrino to join us. She has an unusual career, specializing in appliance industry education initiatives for the AJ Madison Learning Center. She's going to help us learn about the hottest appliances for post-Valentine's Day gift giving; • Andre McCain, founder and CEO of the black-owned restaurant HalfSmoke. at 651 Florida Avenue, NW. It is known for gourmet house-made sausages and signature wood-grilled entrées. Chef Andre's also known for some pop-up fun and lots more.

On this week's episode we sample Champion Brewing's Shower Beer, Florida Avenue's Luminescence, and Blue Point's Imperial Sunshine while discussing schadenfreude, dad jokes, and why we're drawn to tragedies.  Help Support the podcast and Buy Us a Pint: www.buymeacoffee.com/drepandstone We'd love to hear from you! Email us your comments and questions: DrepandStone@gmail.com and connect with us via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or DrepandStone.com Don't forget to subscribe! Music by @joakimkarudmusic

En este episodio hablamos de esas cosas qué puedes hacer mientras te encuentras en cuarentena. Que el no saber qué hacer no sea una excusa para tirarte a la calle y romper tu cuarentena aquí te hablamos de los tips y las cosas qué puedes hacer para mantenerte ocupado y disfrutar de este tiempo a solas en casa. Recuerda que este episodio ha sido traído a ustedes gracias al auspicio de Yantra Psychiatric Services ubicado en el 1014 S. Florida Avenue, Lakeland Florida con el número de teléfono 863-450-3067. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bregaconesopodcast/support

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald's Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn't exist. Story #1 - A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up.  The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 - A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn't Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 - A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night.  The other person in the room swore they didn't do it.

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald’s Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn’t exist. Story #1 – A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up. The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 – A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn’t Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 – A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night. The other person in the room swore they didn’t do it.

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald's Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn't exist. Story #1 - A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up.  The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 - A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn't Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 - A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night.  The other person in the room swore they didn't do it.

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald's Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn't exist. Story #1 - A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up.  The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 - A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn't Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 - A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night.  The other person in the room swore they didn't do it.

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald’s Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn’t exist. Story #1 – A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up. The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 – A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn’t Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 – A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night. The other person in the room swore they didn’t do it.

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald’s Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn’t exist. Story #1 – A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up. The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 – A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn’t Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 – A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night. The other person in the room swore they didn’t do it.

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald’s Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn’t exist. Story #1 – A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up. The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 – A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn’t Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 – A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night. The other person in the room swore they didn’t do it.

With all the talks of Monopoly and McDonald’s Monopoly being fake, I tHiiiiiiiink we figured out why Florida Avenue doesn’t exist. Story #1 – A guy called the cops and asked to go to jail to be with his girlfriend who was locked up. The cops went to his place and found he was drunk and had drug paraphernalia on him, so he got his wish. Story #2 – A Woman Tells the Cops She Has a Medical Marijuana Card . . . But It Didn’t Cover Her Crack Cocaine Story #3 – A man drunkenly called the cops to report someone had stolen the cheeseburger off his nightstand at a motel during the night. The other person in the room swore they didn’t do it.

On the cover of this week’s paper, staff photographer Darrow Montgomery and podcast host Will Warren looked at the rapidly changing Florida Avenue Market—the longtime home to wholesalers and produce vendors that surrounds the newer Union Market. The pair documented its sights and sounds, and you can hear conversations with people whose lives touch the market in this installment of Washington City Podcast. Stories in this episode: Market Value Music for this episode was by Lee Rosevere used under the Creative Commons license.

Today, we take you to meet the creative hive that's transforming the cultural landscape of Tampa, Florida. While the coastal city may still be best known for its cigar-making history and vulnerability to rising sea levels, we discover an animated art scene. This is where new and established studios, public art projects, dynamic DIY galleries, avant-garde festivals, and networked community hubs are inventing fresh opportunities for public engagement with contemporary art. Voices (alpha order): Janina Awai, Wendy Babcox, Neal Bender, Carrie Boucher, Devon Brady, Warren Cockerham, Liz Dimmit, Bridget and Henry Elmer, Rebecca Flanders, Mitzi Gordon, Sarah Howard, Noelle Mason, Tracy Midulla, Margaret Miller, Libbi Ponce, Jenn Ryan Miller, Gary Schmitt, Bosco Sodi, Jake Troyli, Christian Viveros-Fauné Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio Courtesy of Wendy Babcox, Meghan Lock and Noisy Womxn; Kalup Linzy and FMoPA; JaTovia Gary, Kristin Reeves and FLEX FEST; Devon Brady and The Echo Quilt Tempus Projects supported, in part, this episode. Related Episodes: Live from the Everglades, Part One and Part Two, Art and the Rising Sea, Modern Portrait of Black Florida Related Links: Tempus Projects, The Echo Quilt, University of South Florida Institute for Research in Art, Bosco Sodi, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Parallelogram Gallery, Quaid Gallery, Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, St. Pete Women's Collective, SPACEcraft About Tempus Projects: Tempus Projects is an alternative space situated in a storefront on Florida Avenue in the South Seminole Heights district of Tampa, Florida. A nonprofit organization operates the space as a way to nurture established and emerging local, national and international artists working in all media. Tempus originates, organizes and hosts exhibitions, events and special projects, to engage the Tampa Bay community through the visual arts. This home-grown cultural initiative has energized the district’s emergence as a unique and creative destination.

Brandan “Bmike” Odums is a highly sought after visual artist and filmmaker who uses these chosen mediums to tell stories and make statements that transform the minds of viewers as well as the spaces in which his work appears. In 2016 Brandan debuted his first solo show in New Orleans in a 35,000 sq ft warehouse named #StudioBe. Welcoming hundreds of visitors a week as well as school tours from around the region. In 2013, Brandan completed a series of graffiti murals depicting iconic African American civil rights leaders at the Hurricane Katrina damaged Florida Avenue public housing complex in New Orleans’ 9th Ward. Given the name #ProjectBe, the space unexpectedly received national attention bringing spectators from all over to see the art before the deserted complex’s set demolition date. As a Filmmaker his directed music videos has appeared on MTV, VH1 and BET, Brandan has been honored as one of “20 Artist You Should Know” by Complex.com, Presidential volunteer award from the white house, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship recipient. To find out more about Laura and her work please visit her website at: www.laurapowers.net. You can also find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers and on instagram at laurapowers44.

Brandan “Bmike” Odums is a highly sought after visual artist and filmmaker who uses these chosen mediums to tell stories and make statements that transform the minds of viewers as well as the spaces in which his work appears. In 2016 Brandan debuted his first solo show in New Orleans in a 35,000 sq ft warehouse named #StudioBe. Welcoming hundreds of visitors a week as well as school tours from around the region. In 2013, Brandan completed a series of graffiti murals depicting iconic African American civil rights leaders at the Hurricane Katrina damaged Florida Avenue public housing complex in New Orleans’ 9th Ward. Given the name #ProjectBe, the space unexpectedly received national attention bringing spectators from all over to see the art before the deserted complex’s set demolition date. As a Filmmaker his directed music videos has appeared on MTV, VH1 and BET, Brandan has been honored as one of “20 Artist You Should Know” by Complex.com, Presidential volunteer award from the white house, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship recipient. To find out more about Laura and her work please visit her website at: www.laurapowers.net. You can also find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers and on instagram at laurapowers44.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a.k.a Jazz Fest, is a 10-day cultural feast in which thousands of musicians, cooks and craftspeople welcome 400,000 visitors each year. The Louisiana Heritage Fair showcases unforgettable music on multiple stages, delicious Louisiana cuisine in two large food areas, and crafts artisans from the region and around the world demonstrating and selling their work. The Louisiana Heritage Fair is held at the Fair Grounds Race Course over the course of 2 weekends. http://lineup.nojazzfest.com/Brandan “Bmike” Odums is a highly sought after visual artist and filmmaker who uses these chosen mediums to tell stories and make statements that transform the minds of viewers as well as the spaces in which his work appears. In 2016 Brandan debuted his first solo show in New Orleans in a 35,000 sq ft warehouse named #StudioBe. Welcoming hundreds of visitors a week as well as school tours from around the region. In 2013, Brandan completed a series of graffiti murals depicting iconic African American civil rights leaders at the Hurricane Katrina damaged Florida Avenue public housing complex in New Orleans’ 9th Ward. Given the name #ProjectBe, the space unexpectedly received national attention bringing spectators from all over to see the art before the deserted complex’s set demolition date. As a Filmmaker his directed music videos has appeared on MTV, VH1 and BET, Brandan has been honored as one of “20 Artist You Should Know” by Complex.com, Presidential volunteer award from the white house, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship recipient. To find out more about Laura and her work please visit her website at: www.laurapowers.net. You can also find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers and on instagram at laurapowers44.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.* Cava co-founder Dimitri Moshovitis is in to talk about Cava's growing empire of restaurants, wholesale food products (sold at Whole Foods nationally) and their move to the West Coast.* Who doesn't love BBQ? Especially when it's from DCity Smokehouse, the Florida Avenue stop in that is treating SRO diners daily. Grillmaster Shawn McWhirter is in with tastes and talk of DCity's delicious menu of ribs, wings, brisket and more.* Future Harvest CASA (Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture) is an incubator helping to launch America's next generation of family farmers. Sarah Sohn, a former attorney who now farms several acres in Montgomery County, is in to explain how Future Harvest trains and equips new farmers for success.* Bloomingdale is one of DC's most vibrant communities, filled with new shops, restaurants and bars. Boundary Stone, a great littler neighborhood restaurant and pub, is one of Bloomingdale's most popular stop-ins. Cofounder Gareth Croke joins us to talk about the his biz, expansion plans and more,.* Liquid and Garnish is one of the area's top events consultants for creating and serving signature cocktails and other liquid refreshments. They're serving up tasty treats throughout the show.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis.* Cava co-founder Dimitri Moshovitis is in to talk about Cava's growing empire of restaurants, wholesale food products (sold at Whole Foods nationally) and their move to the West Coast.* Who doesn't love BBQ? Especially when it's from DCity Smokehouse, the Florida Avenue stop in that is treating SRO diners daily. Grillmaster Shawn McWhirter is in with tastes and talk of DCity's delicious menu of ribs, wings, brisket and more.* Future Harvest CASA (Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture) is an incubator helping to launch America's next generation of family farmers. Sarah Sohn, a former attorney who now farms several acres in Montgomery County, is in to explain how Future Harvest trains and equips new farmers for success.* Bloomingdale is one of DC's most vibrant communities, filled with new shops, restaurants and bars. Boundary Stone, a great littler neighborhood restaurant and pub, is one of Bloomingdale's most popular stop-ins. Cofounder Gareth Croke joins us to talk about the his biz, expansion plans and more,.* Liquid and Garnish is one of the area's top events consultants for creating and serving signature cocktails and other liquid refreshments. They're serving up tasty treats throughout the show.

Florida Avenue students competed in the St. Tammany Parish Fitness Meet at Lakeshore High School on March 9th. Students achieved individual honors as well as bringing home the first place overall trophy!

Florida Avenue celebrated meeting their Accelerated Reader goals for the nine weeks!

Florida Avenue Elementary is proud to present our 2012 Christmas Program!

Florida Avenue 6th Graders present math concepts in a novel way!

Florida Avenue 6th Graders present math concepts in a novel way!

In honor of Louisiana’s Bicentennial Celebration, Florida Avenue third graders celebrate the 200th birthday of Louisiana!