Contest judges visit Gulfport to sample fare for the "Best of the Road" rally, and participating restaurants continue to offer sample platters to celebrate the town's nomination as a finalist.
Chef Joe Voller has taken over Peg's kitchen to create rotating weekly 'farm-to-table' menus that consist of local, seasonal, sustainable fare -- with proteins and vegetables being sourced "as much as possible within 100-miles of the restaurant," says Voller.
There's a bevy of wonderful gallery crawls and fresh-air art walks tonight and tomorrow night -- in Dunedin, Ybor and Downtown St. Pete. Here's a handy list to help you make you plans.
See USF's The Waiting Room, attend the Education Channel's Animation Celebration and visit a museum for free. Or, check out Tampa Theatre's Midnight in the Vineyard of Good and Evil, Florida Poets Happy Hour and Prime Time Show and the Tangerine Blues Fest.
Plus the Summer Safari Night at Lowry Park, held-over local plays, Wendy Fit's Wellness Fair, Geckos in Wonderland Ball, Pin-ups and Pooches/Pit Bull Pin-Up Party, Sacred Sounds Saturdays Team Takeover Poetry Slam, Vitale's Two Artist Show: Josh Pearson and Tim Jaeger and Fritz Lang's Metropolis at Tampa Theatre.
Hours before the premiere, Gulfport's annual Theatre Walk was booted out of its scheduled venue and into a nearby alley when a local shop owner found the play's content offensive.
See the free screening of The Age of Stupid, a powerful environmental docu-drama about climate change and our possible future, in Downtown Gulfport on Wednesday (2/24).