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Mason Dixon on the Loose! (RadioRadio 1991)
Mason Dixon, disc jockey, WRBQ, Q105, TampaBy Bob Andelman (Originally published in Players Magazine, 1991)Mason “Lee Roy Pee Wee Bodine Moonpie, et al.” Dixon is once again a restricted free agent.The...
View ArticleTampa Bay’s radio waves and air surfers! MADDUX REPORT 2004
Bob Andelman August 6, 2004The hardest working word on radio these days is “The.”Have you caught “The Buzz”? How about “The Beat”? Do you get “The Point”? Or fly with “The Eagle?” Will the boss let you...
View ArticleGot trouble? Barry Cohen is the lawyer to call! 1991 PROFILE
(NOTE — Even when I knew he was ailing these last few years, I somehow expected my friend Barry Cohen to live forever. So when word came on Saturday, September 22, that he had succumbed to leukemia at...
View ArticleUSF President Judy Genshaft on collecting … bulls! 2008 INTERVIEW
By Bob Andelman Published June 2008 Hold that thought a moment. Judy Genshaft is collecting hers – well, not her thoughts, but her bulls. Dozens of variations on the University of South Florida mascot...
View ArticleRIP Tampa Tribune editorial cartoonist Wayne Stayskal, 1931-2018
By Bob Andelman I swear I only worked at the old Tampa Tribune for six months but I met so many great and talented people there whose influences on me continued for decades that it’s hard to believe it...
View ArticleCat Summers profile, a.k.a.. T.J. Bryant, a.k.a., Dennis D.J. Prior! 1991...
By Bob Andelman (I used to write a bi-weekly column, RadioRadio, for Players magazine in the Tampa Bay area. The following story appeared in 1991.) D.J. Prior is one of those jocks who gets around....
View ArticleSt. Petersburg Market Now A Hotbed For Comedy Clubs! 1985 STORY
By Bob Andelman May 1985 “Up until tonight, my career was going beautifully… I remember my mother said to me, ‘Michael, don’t go to law school! Go down to St. Petersburg and entertain in a bar!’”...
View ArticleTampa’s Expo Hall Seeking More Rock! 1985 STORY
By Bob Andelman May 3, 1985 Frank Zaccaro, new events coordinator for the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa, says promoters and patrons can look for the facility to actively pursue major...
View ArticleDigging Tampa’s Culture Roots reggae band! 1986 INTERVIEW
By Bob Andelman August 29, 1986 Culture Roots is emblemalic of where reggae music is in America today: Standing still at any speed. Culture Roots is the most popular act of its kind around this area...
View ArticleDowntown Clearwater’s Bad Habit haunts the Orange Peel! 1982 INTERVIEW
By Bob Andelman December 16, 1982 CLEARWATER — After 6 p.m., downtown Clearwater pulls in its sidewalks and goes to sleep. It is a time when it would be easier to find a Scientologist than a policeman....
View ArticleAl Downing: Pinellas’ Father of jazz still touts his first love!
By Bob Andelman October 17, 1984 By a combination of popular acclaim and default, pianist Al Downing is Pinellas County’s father of Jazz. “You live by your reputation,” he joked. It’s getting so people...
View ArticleCh. 27: The Devil (Rays) and Mr. Naimoli (A Stadium For Rent excerpt)
(In 1993, I wrote my first book, Stadium For Rent: Tampa Bay’s Quest for Major League Baseball. In 2015, I updated the backstory of the original Tampa Bay Devil Rays, adding interviews with founder...
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