Boston Calling, Tampa Bay should answer

I apologize, dear Tampa Bay, for not staying local my first Memorial Day weekend as a Tampa resident. I didn’t enter your stores. I didn’t dine in your restaurants. My money went to Boston.

Granted, this weekend you did not have the Boston Calling music festival. Beck, St. Vincent and Run the Jewels played. Could you blame me?

I did think of you during seamless (albeit screechy) public transit rides, spending money in different neighborhoods. The sidewalks cracked with age, but enough of them… …read more