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The Probound Sportswear Florida Bowl at the Raymond James Stadium on March 24th is a collegiate all-star game featuring draft eligible players from the state of Florida vs. players from across the nation.  The game will provide players visibility and access to professional GM’s, Scouts and personnel in a professional setting. Each player is selected on their athletic ability as well as their character and community involvement. It is their mission to provide athletes with the knowledge and opportunity to interview and showcase their athletic skills through a national amateur competition, along with the voice and the stage to scream to the world, “I”M ON MY WAY”!

Experience the thrills and excitement of the 84th Academy Awards at Tampa Theatre on Sunday, February 26th, at 6:30pm!  Officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Oscar Night America-Tampa Bay is Tampa’s only benefit supported by the Academy and one of 50 such events nationwide.

Join us for a fun-filled evening featuring red carpet festivities, delicious food samples, and exciting silent auction. Plus, free popcorn, soda and coffee throughout the show! All proceeds benefit Tampa Theatre’s artistic and educational programs.

Bands, Brew & BBQ at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay offers four weekends of smokin’ hot fun-now on Saturdays AND Sundays, February 11th through March 4th!

New this year, you have two days to sample dozens of craft and international beers and fire up your taste buds with food from your favorite local restaurants as well as our own famous, blazing barbecue. Every Sunday, enjoy sizzling live performances from award-winning country and classic rock artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bret Michaels, 38 Special and REO Speedwagon.

The Nuclear Cowboyz SM Tour, featuring the world’s top freestyle motocross riders, added an additional show to its record-breaking theatrical freestyle motocross production at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Friday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m., plus a second show on Saturday, February 25th at 7:30 p.m.

School’s out for summer and anything is possible as Phineas and Ferb create their biggest invention yet — Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever!  Phineas, Ferb, and the whole Tri-State Area gang embark on a bold escape jumping out from behind your TV and onto the stage in a live action adventure at the Tampa Bay Times Forum March 8th & 9th at 6:30 p.m.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced the first US leg of the 2012 ‘Wrecking Ball’ World Tour, including the only Florida stop at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Friday, March 23rd. Bruce Springsteen’s 17th studio album ‘Wrecking Ball’ will be released on Columbia Records on March 6th.

The Tampa Bay Times Forum is about to get RED HOT. After 5 years, Frank Productions and C3 Presents bring Red Hot Chili Peppers back to the Tampa Bay Times Forum to kick off their new live tour on Thursday, March 29th. Plus special guest, Santigold.

Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including the award for BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL, this hilarious new production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, starring George Hamilton and Christopher Sieber, is appearing at The Straz Center for the Performing Arts February 21st through February 26th.

What seems to be the ultimate fantasy bachelor life, with intricately scheduled gorgeous flight attendants, turns out to be a dizzingly hilarious ride for one man, who finds out that one woman is all he can handle. Boeing Boeing is a high-style, knee-slapping romp through the age of glamorous, jet-setting air travel appearing at The Straz Center for the Performing Arts February 24th through May 6th.

Direct from Broadway, John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown comes to Tampa Bay’s Straz Center on March 8th! Ghetto Klown is the next chapter in John Leguizamo’s popular personal and professional story. It is his fifth one-man play, his third on Broadway, and follows in the uninhibited tradition of his Mambo Mouth, Spic-O-Rama, Freak, and Sexaholix…a Love Story. In Leguizamo’s trademark style, the piece explodes with energy, heating up the stage with vivid accounts of the colorful characters who have populated his life. He takes audiences from his adolescent memories in Queens to the early days of his acting career and on to the sets of major motion pictures and his roles opposite some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Pure, unadulterated and empowering-that has been Mary J. Blige’s calling card ever since her 1992 multi-platinum debut album, What’s the 411? And in the ensuing years, the singer/songwriter’s musical strong suit has attracted an intensely loyal fan base-responsible for propelling worldwide sales of more than 50 million albums. Join us at The Straz Center for the Performing Arts on March 19th for an amazing performance by Mary J. Blige.

While kayaking at Weeden Island this past weekend, Tampa To Do had the pleasure of meeting the men and women of Heroes on the Water, a national organization dedicated to restoring warrior’s hearts through kayak fishing. On January 7th the Suncoast Chapter hosted a Free Kayak Fishing Event for our military wounded service people. Special thanks to Joe Molinard (veteran), Greg Hutchins (veteran), Will Clark (veteran), Paul Fugate (veteran), Bruce Judd (volunteer), and Sammie & Tammy (volunteers).

The Real Music Concert Series, including Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s longest running Big Bands concert series, returns to the Stanleyville Theater Wednesdays through Saturdays with incredible swing, blues, pop, jazz, rock ‘n roll and disco from some of music’s most memorable eras. This year we have The Terry Myers Orchestra with The Swing Sisters, The Glenn Miller Orchestra with the Diamonds, Tony Orlando, and Frankie Avalon. The Real Music Concert Series kicks off on January 18 and runs through March 24, 2012.

Congratulations to our long-time sponsor on Tampa To Do, Cajun Deep Fried Turkey for inclusion in the prestigious “Epi-Log” by Kendra Vizcaino on Conde’ Nast’s www.epicurious.com. Her article on this awesome product can be reviewed by clicking here. We are certainly proud of Cajun Deep Fried for this accomplishment!  This is truly an outstanding product!

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