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• Dear Friends of the Arts

  Please remember that every telephone call is counted - worth 10 future votes - emails are counted as 30 future votes, a letter to the Mayor as 50 future votes… and a letter printed in the newspaper* as 300 votes …

  thanks from

  The SOMOANs
  Save Our Museum Of Art Now
  813-784-4669

  * pam.iorio@tampagov.net

  Begin forwarded message:

  Dear Friends of the ARTS & DESIGN

  When in a life time in the arts does one get the opportunity to save a 27 year old on the water art museum, a Kiley designed amphitheater?, a downtown revenue rich parking garage? and park and much more?…. the answer is ONCE!

  Please be Good SOMOANs and help us save the TMA, the Amphitheater, the garage* … thanks neil

  Just call the mayor’s office 813- 274-8251 and leave a message…thanks from the SOMANs

  Comment by bauhaus — August 27, 2007 @ 1:46 am

• Letters to the SP TIMES editor:

  Re: Today’s SP Times MLK Day Jan 21, 2008

  A recession touches many hands… Helen Huntley 727-893-8230

  The Mayor Has No Clothes On!

  Re: MLK Day Day - We Have a Dream - Save the Museum! and the parking garage and the $10 million.

  Wrong Way to Go Iorio!

  We Have a Dream - Save the Museum, but no one will tell her - not the media. Not even the executive director of Hillsborough County Art Council who said that the demolition of the museum, the garage and the waste of millions [$100 million] was the WRONG WAY TO GO for a City to be - a City of the Arts, but he has remained silent, why?
  The article goes on to say that jobs are disappearing, sales are shrinking, customers are staying away, the phones are not ringing, we know the unemployment rate is rising, the police chief had to reduced his force by 47 employees and the mayor by 100 positions.
  And the mayor still wants to spend $10 million to destroy a perfectly good downtown water front museum and a money making parking garage. We say to the mayor STOP - think again about what you doing, if this a good time? could the money be better used to stimulate the local economy? If the museum is recycled to a museum of modern art and design or an African American Museum of the Arts, or a Multicultural Arts Center - then the same space will not have to be duplicated in the new fine arts museum at over $600 per square foot.
  The retail, classrooms, library, administration, storage would remain in the saved building, freeing up that space in the new museum which will have only 25% of gallery space. Saving the museum would allow up to 85% gallery space at less cost.
  The garage will earn up to one million dollars a year when the Riverwalk opens, the new fine art museum opens, with the recycled museum and the open area under the garage a perfect place for a money making - job creating on the water Riverwalk cafe, restaurant and after hours cabaret.
  Most people we talk to do not know what she intends to do and she, nor have staff have been open about their plan.
  We ask the mayor to stop, she leaves office in three years - we do not want her legacy stained by this one project. People are already agreeing that it is a vanity project and her park will be one that will attract only more homeless downtown. The citizens of Tampa are not in front of city hall with pitchforks and torches yelling for her to spend the $10 million to demolish the museum and the parking garage.
  But they would if they knew.

  neil cosentino
  Camelot Florida
  Your Florida Public Interest CommUNITY based Think Tank
  PM for We Have a Dream - Save The Museum and the garage and the $10 million.
  camelotflorida@verizon.net
  813-784-4669

  Comment by Robert Bose — January 22, 2008 @ 12:09 pm

• Can you please help me find this article? I’m having trouble locating it.

  KPMG: Tampa Bay area one of cheapest to run a business

  Comment by Lorrin Shepard — April 14, 2008 @ 11:40 am

• I know this is highly unorthodox, but we have a very unique event and we need everyone’s help in getting the word out. Please read the email we send out below and visit our very unique website and if you think this is something of value, can you help us get the word out anyway you can? We are not advertising this event and are depending on a grass roots email effort to get it done. Please help if you can

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  727-644-8228

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  Comment by Mark Moretti — April 22, 2008 @ 3:21 pm

• I thought I was sending a message to the person in chagre of this site, I am sorry my message was posted, I did not mean to make an advertisement out of a mistaken post

  Comment by Mark Moretti — April 23, 2008 @ 4:32 pm

• Wanted you to know that through your newsletter, I heard about Pangea Day on May 10th. I shared the information with some friends here in Bitola, Macedonia where I am serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer and now a number of organizations have come together and are planning an outdoor public event. Bitola is the home of The International Cinematographers Film Festival, Manaki Brothers.

  Wanted to say thanks and it’s a small world!

  Comment by Patrice Koerper — May 8, 2008 @ 5:05 am

• Ooops:
  Steve Du Mouchel not in PRIVATE LIVES.
  John Chaplin plays role of Victor.
  If you run the PR again.
  Thanks for the mention!
  Hopefully the name recognition gets us a few of our Creatives in our seats.
  Have a great summer!
  Best,
  Anna B/stageworks

  Comment by anna — July 7, 2008 @ 4:59 am

• Thanks for listing our show, “8/08/80″ at Art du Monde in St Petersburg. For your next listings, the show has been extended and will be open through Sept. 6.

  Comment by Rose Marie Prins — August 11, 2008 @ 4:33 am

• We’ve started a Tampa Bay Commercial/Professional Inter-company Chess League - teams from our league play one another in a series of home-and-away matches annually; we’re interested in accepting new companies; inquirtes can be referred to me - Lou Buccino @ 813-390-5770.

  Comment by Lou Buccino — September 29, 2008 @ 11:00 am

• Hi. I am creating multiple arts-centric social community sites to create an outlet for artists and a portal for arts lovers to the local arts scenes of America’s best Arts Towns. Check us out and enjoy at www.AnythingArts.com

  Comment by Rick Hughes — October 2, 2008 @ 4:34 am