Across the Tampa blogosphere

I should be happy it’s Friday, but instead I’m miserable about the cold weather. I’m too cranky to get any work done, so I’m taking a spin around the Tampa blogosphere.

Urban Corridor Tampa Magazine
gives us a behind-the-scenes look at pizza making at Pizzaiolo Bavaro. (And also let’s us know that Hamburger Mary’s is now open in Ybor.)

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St. Petersblog 2.0 is keeping us updated about the firing of USF football coach Jim Leavitt. Leavitt “committed serious violations of our [USF's] standards of conduct.”

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Is your new year’s resolution to garden more? Jill at Sticks of Fire offers up some Florida-friendly gardening tips.

“Say No to Cypress Mulch. Although cypress mulch is cheap and readily available at any garden center, it’s a bad choice for a gardener with a conscience. Cypress mulch is manufactured by harvesting cypress trees from already depleted Gulf Coast wetlands, destroying wildlife habitat and wreaking other environmental havoc. There are a host of better alternatives, including FloriMulch, a product made from the removal of the invasive melaleuca tree. Click here to read about cypress mulch and then here to learn about better options.”

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Laura Reiley alerts us to another showing of the movie Fresh, and another Farm to Forks event January 24 at Ella’s. This one is open to the public. The last one was January 3 at Cafe Hey, and was by all accounts a tremendous success.

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Chris at GNATV has started a regular feature “Liquor Store Diary” about life clerking in a liquor store.

Any idea when the warm weather will return?

(And, don’t forget, TampaBLAB is dialed into the Tampa blogosphere 24/7.)

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