Dubbed “America’s true sports car”, the Corvette has a long history of smooth lines, fast rides and adrenaline. And what better place or time of year to have a Corvette show than Pier Park in late spring.
Last year’s show had a great turn out with tons of shiny cars and fat tires. This year promises to be better with Vettes of “every color and vintage imaginable.”
The event is free and will take place on Saturday April 23rd from 9 am to 2 pm in the parking lot behind Buffalo Wild Wings.
This year’s Business Expo is coming up fast! Put on every year by the Panama City Beach’s Chamber of Commerce, this year is the 18th year and the theme is “Around the World.”
The thing that’s cool about a business expo is it gives us an excuse to get out there, meet others in our business community and network with potential customers. Of course, since we are business to business it’s especially fun.
“Tell me whatcha gonna do tonight and tomorrow…” If last Thursday was any indication, a lot of folks will be rockin’ out at the flyover at Thomas Drive and Front Beach Road ( a.k.a the old Wayne’s World Plaza ) for the second week of the Concrete Concert Series. Over a hundred folks attended the last concert complete with coolers and beach chairs, but the musical entertainment had them on their feet for much of the event.
Coordinated by Thunder Ciolkosz, Thursday night’s line up will feature homegrown bluesman, Tony Vegas and the Hard Time Blues Band. Bring a chair for a family friendly, fun, and free Thursday night of ripping blues licks. Show starts at 7:00 p.m. For more info call 850-234-1919.
Break out your formal wear and red-carpet shoes because this Friday is the American Heart Association’s annual heart ball. This year they decided to shake things up A LOT and move the ball to a private hangar in the General Aviation facility in the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport.
Check after the break for the deets.
The Seabreeze Jazz Festival is right around the corner and we’ve got the full lineup and schedule right here. This is the third year that it’ll be held at Aaron Bessant Park in Pier Park and is set up to be the biggest year ever.
We’re also giving away 4 FOUR day general admission tickets, stay tuned for the link where you can sign up.
Check after the break for the full lineup.
On Saturday, March 26 the Geography and Environmental Science Student Association will be hosting a UBB cleanup at Panama City Beach.
Come out for a UBB cleanup with an active group of Florida State University students. The event starts at 10am and runs till 1pm.
This Saturday and Sunday, Tyndall AFB is hosting the Gulf Coast Salute.
The event will feature military and civilian aerial performances. A dazzling array of civilian flying performers, including Tora, Tora, Tora and Greg Poe, will do their aerial magic.
Schedule Below
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There’s so much happening around here lately, that this one tiny old weekend is beginning to burst at its seams.
In an effort to help out the coming weekend with it’s ever expanding proverbial waistline of things-to-do, we ventured out a bit and found an extra event here and there for you.
March 22, March 23 and March 25-27
Continue reading “Weekend Events March 25-27 (and bonus dates!)”
Panama City POPS Orchestra is bringing their classical talents to Panama City Beach on Saturday, March 26.
POPS Orchestra is playing their third concert of the season and in addition to their popular symphonic sounds, POPS Orchestra is mixing up the program a bit with a special talent joining them for this event.
Curious?
According to Tripsmarter.com, over 2 million kids were turned loose for Spring Break during this past week, making these past 5 days the official juiced-up, mega-week of Spring Break.
In fact, it’s so big, it needs it’s own intro-music. *ques theme to Rocky*
(wakka wakka)
This last week brought hordes of college kids to town, who promptly set about shimmying and raising toasts with cold beers or those fruity, umbrella drinks.
Immediately following up all that shimmying, toasting and the mandatory high-fiving, they torpedoed onto the beach. Which is where they remained, fully focused on turning various shades of cocoa brown and repeating aforementioned actions.
I’ve been holding off on posting this article due to some irrational fear that as soon as we stated “all is well” here, it would cause some cosmic shift and break the spell of decent behavior. Maybe I’m just paranoid, or more likely I’ve seen one to many cheesy horror flicks. You know the kind, somewhere some young cheerleader states “it’s OK guys, there’s nothing bad going to happen” and whoosh, crazed leprechauns shoot out of the woods.
In an effort to get over my superstitions (and to keep the bosses happy) we’ll finally just go for it but if it starts raining frogs afterward, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The reality is that during these last few weeks of Spring Breakers swarming in to town, the news has remained relatively positive. The revenue influx is encouraging and the positive turn-out for the first big run of the tourist season, is offering a ray of hope for business owners affected from last year’s oil-spill sucker punch.
Granted, there’s been a few nitwits who’ve managed to make the nightly news but thankfully, it was more from stupidity then anything else. In all, considering the increase in traffic and our beaches being held hostage by a ton of college kids, it’s been relatively smooth sailing. The Panama City Beach Police Department has reported an increase in citations, mostly issued for under-age drinking or public intoxication. Which should come as no surprise to anyone when you realize some of these folks were already planning on breaking the law before they left campus.
As this mega-week dies down, and we start to gear up for another round of visitors, let’s take a moment to check out the live cams perched above Schooners.
Ahhh, look at that sand! The emerald water! Jealous yet?
Numbers Break Down from tripsmarter.com
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