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Hello Tampa Bay Metromixers! Thanks for sticking with us. We're retooling our blogs and will soon be updating more often, with more stuff for you to check out on Metromix and around Tampa Bay.

Let's do a quick recap of the weekend. Weekends usually start off on Thursdays around here. We got some pics of Rusted Root's latest show at Jannus Landing. They're a great band to do the jangly dance to and just a nice bunch of folks. See the pics we got in our Rusted Root photo gallery. BTW- for those of you who don't know, Jannus Landing's owner John "Jack" Bodziak is in deep with some tax troubles. We'll keep you updated when we hear what's to become of this beloved music venue. We checked with the Landing and most of the shows will go on as planned, others have been moved to the Ritz Ybor in Tampa. All of the concerts have been updated on Metromix. Head there if you're wondering where to go with your Jannus Landing tickets.




We followed that up with two days at the Tampa Bay Caribbean Carnival.
The first day was full of latin sounds with Arturo Sandoval and Gilberto Santa Rosa. Sunday, Vinoy Park was even more packed with Sean Paul fans staking out their piece of grass to hear the Reggaeton super star. See all the pics we got in this roundup of photo galleries of both days. Here's our friend, 10 Connects reporter and ultimate Metromixer Hetal Gandhi giving Sean Paul a kiss back stage.

Finally, the Tampa Bay Derby Darlins were back on the track at the Skatepark in Temple Terrace. We have tons of photos from both bouts and the halftime show. Check them out in our Roller Derby Photo Gallery.

Looking ahead- there's a ton of stuff on Metromix to help you stay updated on things this summer.

• Our Father's Day Guide includes a bunch of "what to do with Dad" ideas, steakhouses, and gifts.
• Metrocon is back this weekend. It was crazy last year because it coincided with Flugtag. But I think this year's will be even more fun- we can concentrate on the fantastic costuming.
• St. Pete's Gay Pride Parade is coming up. For a complete guide of what to do, where to go and a look back at last year's parade, check our St. Pete Pride Guide before coming out.
• Finally.... Our 4th of July guide is up and running. We've done our best to get as many of the big celebrations going on around Tampa Bay. If we missed one... let us know here.

Drunkgiving, eatsgiving, and shopsgiving

Whew!!! The weekend of partying, gorging, and shopping is over. Metromix got busy this weekend covering nearly everything awesome. We got a ton of pics from parties all over the Bay Area. Here's just a taste: For more pics from The Kennedy, Cheap, MacDinton's, Czar, Jackson's, Push, The Retreat and more hot spots, check out our Drunksgiving retrospective on Metromix.com.

Also of note:
My friend and music ally, Dave Leonard managed to score a ticket into the Ray Davies concert at the Tampa Theatre. Here's one of Ray looking straight into the lens.

For more pics, check out the gallery here.






Now we're looking ahead to the Holiday of Holidays... New Years Eve. Stay tuned.
BTW- I'm also starting up a Supah Dupah Bowl Guide. Let us know of any upcoming events on our GET LISTED page.

Yes we did!!!

...make it through another election. While our friends at 10 connects news were busily entering numbers into computers, we were partying with fellow politicos at PUSH in St. Pete. It was an amazing experience watching such an historic election, and having the chance to share it with some awesome Meteromixers made it even better. We met several new and old friends. Hi Thai and Sasha!


We were about to close up shop when Obama showed up. It's good that he won, otherwise it would have been really uncomfortable for all of us.
For more pics of the party go to our metromix election guide.











Now we get to relax, or do we? Click on Metromix for this week's best bets.