Wade Tatangelo lands Barfly column at *tbt
January 7, 2009 at 2:37 pm by Wayne Garcia
Our former music writer and Bar Tab columnist Wade Tatangelo, laid off in December in a round of budget cuts here, has landed a new bar-writing gig, with the St. Petersburg Times’ daily free tabloid *tbt. Here’s the announcement:
Good news for all you intoxication connoisseurs in Tampa Bay. Tbt* has found a new Barfly who will be hitting the streets in search of the best places for booze hounds to go. Wade Tatangelo is the new man who will steer you to beer and he’s off to a good start with his new review of the Beef O’ Brady’s on the USF campus that will be published in Friday’s tbt*. Formerly, Wade was the music critic at Creative Loafing but his skills will put to good use at tbt* as you can see below.
“Nestled in the Marshall Student Center on the USF Tampa campus, this Beef ’0’ Brady’s is the place to enjoy hot wings and other pub grub goodies alongside undergrads in a room decked out in Bulls green and gold. There’s a 10-stool bar, cafeteria-style seating, a dozen LCD screens and billiards tables. And yes, there is beer and wine. But if you wish to enjoy an adult beverage, don’t arrive before 5 p.m. Apparently school officials are afraid students might tie one on before suffering through that College Algebra course. Guess they’re not worried about night class inebriation,” — Wade Tatangelo
That’s just a teaser, but I’ll link up the full review when it’s available or you can check it out in Friday’s tbt*.
Tatangelo joins a number of journalists who departed their papers recently and have found new work at the Times, including former Tampa Tribune columnist Dan Ruth, who writes a Friday op-ed column, and former Tribune classical music and science writer Kurt Loft, whose first arts piece for the Times ran on Sunday.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Tatangelo joins a number of journalists who departed their papers recently and have found new work at the Times, including former Tampa Tribune columnist Dan Ruth, who writes a Friday op-ed column, and former Tribune classical music and science writer Kurt Loft, whose first arts piece for the Times ran on Sunday.
What, you the Trib and CL isn’t the Times minor league system?
January 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
No.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
If it were, it’s a shame to think that a twerpy hack like Wade could “graduate” from it. The most depressing part of this news blurp is the spolight on the understanding of tbt editors that Tampa is a dumbed down, unsophisticated market where mediocre, mostly dull tales of a pretentious middle class suburban white kid having a drink at a bar is somehow readable without vomiting in a sack afterward. Real Shame.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
From what I recall, out of the mess of local-focus glossies for rich people, B2B rags, misguided niche mags, and the actual papers located in Tampa Bay, you guys and SPT were the only ones that actually paid on time.
Congrats, WT.