Dishing with Mark & Carrie

9-15-06

Photo's, Photo's & More Photo's

Best Body of the Bay Contest

Over the past Summer, every Sunday at the Suncoast Resort, there was a winner of the "Best Body of the Bay Contest." This past Sunday all the winners came back to compete for the very Best of the Bay and $1000.00 in cash! The stage was full of Hot & Sexy Guys & Girls and everywhere in between. The competition was hot and fun, full of customers, great dancing music & just a little attitude! Alicia Markstone & Esme Russell entertained the crowd while the judges totaled the results. The people in the audience were just as hot as the contestants and was it just me or did Glenn's, the Suncoast Resort G.M., shirt looked like it matched the bedspreads!

Congratulations to this years Winner, Michael!

SALE, SALE, SALE

This weekend there will be a huge Store Fixture SALE at the MC Film, located at 1628 Central Ave in St. Pete. 1-6pm Friday & Saturday Only. Glass displays, shelves, card racks, poster racks, music CD racks, signs and much more call 727-894-6233 for more details. At The New MC Film Super Store, located at 3000 34th St. S. St. Pete., there is also a huge SALE going on. Pre-viewed videos from $.99, books .50 and many items up to 70% OFF!

AIDS Walk Applauded

This year over 1,200 people walked in the AIDS Walk St. Pete. Over $90,000 was raised WOW!!! Special Thanks to walk coordinator, Brian Sprague for all your hard work in this years Annual AIDS Benefit. Miles of people walking along the shoreline of St. Petersburg doing their part to help people with HIV/AIDS. Photos below from Rex Maniscalco

Southern Decadence

A tradition for many years is the 5 day New Orleans Party, on Labor Day Weekend, Gay Mardi Gras called Southern Decadence. A lot of photos still show the devastation catastrophe of last years Hurricane Katrina. This year our good friend and photo historian for Tampa Bay, Rex Maniscalco sent us these photos. It you have any historic gay photos please send them to Rex at rexm1956@mindspring.com Your photo's might make it into the Tampa Bay's "Lavender Legacy."

Suncoast Resort

What a FUN week at the Suncoast Resort. Besides all the regulator stars: Judy B Goode, Paul Thomas, Tea Cup, DJ's, show Cast, Celebrity Bartenders, Dancing Porn Stars & friends, this week performing were guitar singing Judy B. Goode & Pianoman Paul, Chic, Sax artist Alan Darcy & DJ Jeffery Ray! There are even more Stars performing this week! Coming Sunday, Sept 24 spinning at the T-dance will be DJ CK!!!! The wonderful staff at the Suncoast Resort are all a buzz! First, this past week everybody have new uniforms! Truly red, white and blue, Red T-shirt, blue jeans and big white smiles! The rehearsals for Turn-A-Bout Charity Event have reach a new higher level of frenzy! There are wigs, shoes, feathers to leather everywhere! The staffs goal is to pass last years record of $21,353.25 in one night! Good Luck, we will all be there!!!!!

Flamingo Auto Group Car Show

What a fun car show! There were new cars, old cars and cars somewhere in between restorations! The talk of the show was Don's Fenwicks 1951 Yellow Coach Bus. This bus ran commercially from NYC to up state NY. When the bus had 3 MILLION Miles, yes that's right 3 MILLION Miles it was retired! It was then re built and converted. Over the years it has had only 4 different owners. Congratulations to Don on all his hard work! Anyone can join the car group. It is a club of people who really appreciate cars!!! www.flamingoautogroup.com

Psycho Beach Party

Gypsy Productions, Inc., located at the Suncoast Theater, inside the Suncoast Resort, have done it again. Charles Busch's play "Psycho Beach Party" is a hit! This is one of the funniest plays in a long time. Gypsy Prod. Director, Trevor Keller, has just announced the 2007 season line up and we are sure your going to love it! Live Plays for Our Community!!!

Visit their web site at http://gypsyproductions.org/gypsy.htm

for more info or better yet become a sponsor today!

Reports from Leigh Shannon

Hello to all,

WOW, it was a busy couple of weeks for me personally, and I was getting a bit stressed out with the extra work. But Headdress Ball 2006 was a big success! They raised over $250,00.00 plus for the Hope & Help Center Of Orlando. This organization's goal it to help eliminate the spread of HIV/AIDS and help assist in the education of the disease and to also help support people who are living with it They do great work and this huge elite event is held every year.

All local celebrities in the television & radio field always are on hand. And of course the local celebrities in the gay Community help make it a huge event. Darcel Stevens, Miss Sammy and myself were the impersonator emcees. Joellen Taylor was the super auctioneer, Jackie London was my favorite real girl celebrity co host. I personally think she is more beautiful in person. Richard Summers and staff put on a great show event and the hard work should not go unnoticed. It is amazing to me how many people work on this. The hard work from back to the front was very much noticed!

I have inserted some PICS here from the event, BUT I have also, ATTACHED some extra PICS of the event. You will want to down load these! They are really good and will show a lot of the talent there that night. Do not miss it next year!

I was also at Southern Nights in Orlando last week and the club is on its way back full time. The crowds are mixed and fun. I will be there again the 23rd of this month! Cold Keg this Friday will present DIVAS LIVE, sorta! LOL Crystal Chambers and I will be showcasing Bette and Cher this Friday there. It will be a really fun show.

Well, gotta run for now. Remember one thing. If you never had to encounter the bees, you may never get to the honey!

Love ya

Leigh Shannon
http://www.leighshannon.com
http://www.ritzyrags.com

I LOVE BRAD PITT

We have all, always loved Brad Pitt but now even more than ever! This past week Brad announced that "I'll marry when everyone else can!!! "To read more visit http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060908/ap_en_mo/people_brad_pitt

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/060908/482/705fb50aed374c629ed70d0e912cdba1&g=events/en/111901pitt

Congratulations!

Local Poet Pete has just received a Bronze Medal for 2006 AMBASSADOR OF POETRY!

Congratulations! To congratulate him yourself write to poodles9@tampabay.rr.com

Fun WEB Site

We spotted DJ HotRod at T-dance last Sunday. He has a GREAT NEW WEB site. Check out his new mix Cruz Kontrol! http://www.cruzkontrolrecords.com

Film Festival Tickets

"ON SALE NOW" at MC Film Suncoast Resort

FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 17 YEARS OF GAY CINEMA

THREE BAY AREA VENUES HOST SCREENINGS

Schedule for Annual 10-Day Event Includes

Special Events, Panel Discussions

TAMPA, FL, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 � 132 films from over 20 countries are included in this years line-up of the 17^th Annual Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, scheduled to take place from Thurs., Oct. 5 to Sun., Oct. 15, 2006. As evidence of the event�s growing maturity and popularity, screenings will take place at three Bay area venues this year: the historic Tampa Theatre in downtown Tampa, Channelside Cinemas in Tampa�s Channelside District, and Muvico Baywalk 20 in downtown St. Petersburg.

The festival kicks off with a jam-packed opening weekend including a street party on Thurs., Oct. 5, a Gala party on Friday night, and ends with closing day festivities that also celebrate the Tampa Theatre�s 80^th anniversary on Sun., Oct. 15. In between, several other special events including filmmaker panel discussions and forums, brunches, happy hours and parties � not to mention the best in queer cinema � will draw up to 12,000 film lovers to one of the country�s largest and longest-running independent gay film festivals.

Joseph Cook, the festival�s program director, says he was determined to focus on two goals as he assembled a �diverse� program committee, visited six film festivals throughout the country and viewed countless film submissions.

�I take the �international� part of our festival's title seriously, so it was important to bring audiences a selection of solid and sophisticated world cinema that inspires and entertains. At the same time,� Cook continued, �I wanted to bring films to Tampa Bay that would activate our minds, remind us of important issues and introduce new voices.�

To that end, according to Cook, many of this year's films have an �experimental edge� to them, and several potentially controversial themes emerged in films that attempt to address such issues as defining the �gay� or �queer� identity, including transgenderism and transsexualism; the unique experiences of �queer youth�; re-defining traditional concepts of �family� and familial relationships; and political and historical social change.

E Mail from our readers

From Chuck in St. Pete

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