FREE surf movie!!

As part of the Women of the Waves series, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will present Ten: 10 Years of Women's Longboarding. This epic adventure features over 20 of the top female longboarders in the world with incredible footage from California, Costa Rica, Australia and Hawaii. Free, all-natural, organic popcorn and sodas will be provided. 

Date: Friday Sept 28
Time: Doors open 6:30, movie starts 7 p.m.
Where: Cocoa Beach Public Library
Admission: Free, but donations welcome!!

Grant's BBQ Fest

This weekend, Grant - the tiny town with the big heart - will hold it's 11th annual BBQ Fest at the same location as the Seafood Fest and the Frog's Leg Fest. The BBQ Fest will offer:
* Live Entertainment
• Car Show
• Market Place/Crafts
• People's Choice Contest
• Free Admission - Free Parking
* Kid's Zone

 Times:
Friday 3 - 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Program your GPS to 4580 1st Street, Grant, FL or get directions from this link.

Meet Florida beer-makers

Join World of Beer   Saturday September 29 from 4-7 p.m. for a chance to meet brewers from several of Florida's great craft brewery's. They will be offering samples so you can taste your way around the state. A Brewer from each of the following breweries will be here to talk about their products and answer questions.

• Cigar City Brewery, Tampa
• Due South Brewing Co., Boyton Beach
• Florida Beer Co., Melbourne
• Green Room Brewing, Jacksonville Beach
• Swamp Head Brewery, Gainesville

World of Beer is in Avenues of Viera!! Cheers !!

Last week-end...

 Life is Good Music Festival in Canton (Boston), MA....Sept 23....Music all week-end but the best was Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds. 2 and 1/2 hours of acoustic guitar. Gotta start a petition and beg them to come here. Anyone interested???? Hint- they usually do fundraisers for charity and green events!

Doctors Lawyers Weekend Warriors Surf Fest

This weekend is the 20th - and LAST surf fest/fund-raiser for the Doctors Lawyers Weekend Warriors. The group has raised over a quarter of a million dollars for charity, and this year, their earnings go to the Mama G scholarship and Satellite Beach High's Surf Team. Unless you have a kid in school, you don't know that schools pay for nothing when it comes to extra-curricular (whoops, this is Brevard, so football is excluded in that statement) activities. Even if you didn't enter, go support them at Sebastian Inlet! Details HERE!

Beach Clean-ups

This weekend's beach clean-ups are both Sunday - Sept 23. They are:
1) Seagull Park in Satellite Beach from 8-noon
2) Hightower Beach in Satellite Beach from 9-noon
Please come help! The hatching baby turtles appreciate you!

Cocoa Beach Air Show

This weekend the action will be at Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach.  It's the "Year of Extreme Flight" at the 2012 Cocoa Beach Air Show!  This year's event will feature full the most extreme and diverse line up of military and civilian aircraft in the nation headlined by the F-22 Raptor and V-22 Osprey Demos! Most of the action will take place from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. There are Happy Hours and other adult activities and the place to find out about them is HERE!

Farewell Endeavour

 6:45 a.m. - barely dawn...the parking lot is full and A1A is a nightmare. Sure am glad I got here early....most people are a) nodding off, b) checking email on their phones, c) slapping no-see-ums....waiting.

 Clouds and people begin rolling in around 7 a.m. Many, like I, are dressed for work...lucky ones that don't have to leave in a flash once Endeavour goes by...

Finally, dropping out from the clouds...so-long Endeavour...so-long era...

Here's hoping!!

All bolted up and ready to go - Endeavour still scheduled for sunrise tomorrow morning! And the path is set to be the same as the one Discovery took - yippee!!!!!!!! Last time we'll see a shuttle in the air, people!! So see you on the dunes, folks!!!!!!!

Learn to speak Twitterese and more!

Want to learn more about social media and how it can work for or against you? Thursday night at King Center, Get Social Brevard, a group of individuals who qualify as experts - via Experience University - will be on hand to show you the ropes! Read more here:

Endeavour fly-out path a mystery

NASA is keeping very mum on the path Endeavour will take when it leaves the Space Center tomorrow at sunrise. Perhaps all the tickets to the Rocket Garden aren't sold yet, or perhaps the weather is iffy enough that if it gets much closer to the Friday starting date for the Titusville Air Show (who has begged for a flyover because it will draw more people to the show AND they need the $$ with all the layoffs) - maybe the 747 will go to the north instead of the usual loop south to Pineda. Either way, unless a specific northerly flight path is announced, you can bet there will be a real traffic snafu on A1A in the morning. Heck - after how many decades of watching shuttles and piggybacks, who is gonna miss the very last one????? Not I !!!!!!!!!

Tis the season...

If it seems as though Oktoberfest begins a little earlier each year, it isn't your imagination. This coming weekend there are at least two with the larger being in Suntree. The huge grassy area on Spyglass will be converted into a 3-ring circus on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 3-10pm. There will be a biergarten with German beer and food for sale, German music, and carnival rides. Gen admission $5 or $15 which includes unlimited rides. If you just can't wait, come Friday and get the unlimited rides for $15 and snacks will be available. The preview is from 5 - 10 pm Friday night. For More Info: www.SuntreeFlorida.com  or 321-242-8960.      

Go Vicky Hurst!!

Vicky Hurst - of Suntree - is at the British Open and is only one shot behind 2 others who are tied for first - so she is third but THAT close!!!!!!!!! ONE stroke. Melbourne has it's first chance for a major and it couldn't happen to a nicer gal. GO GO Vicky Hurst!!!!!!

Paws at the Pier!

Clean-up events!!

Saturday is Coastal Clean-up Day!!! 8-noon. Check-in at any of the following beaches:
Haulover Canal- Merritt Island
Canaveral Nat'l Beach 1
Marina Park - Titusville (Island clean-up)
Lee Wewnner Park- Cocoa (Island clean-up)
Kelly Park - East Merritt Island (Island)
Cherie Down Park - Merritt Island
Shephard Park - Cocoa Beach
Lori Wilson - Cocoa Beach
Ramp Road Park - Cocoa Beach (Island)
Cocoa Beach Pier
Pelican Beach - Satellite Beach
Paradise Beach - Indialantic
Ocean Ave - Melbourne Beach
Coconut Park - Melbourne Beach
Sebastian Inlet

ALSO Sat at Canova Beach Park - The beach that allows dogs! 9:30 - ?

Sunday: Pelican Beach in Indian Harbor Beach 8-12
Sunday: Hightower Beach, Satellite Beach 9-12

Coastal Cleanup Sat Sept 15

Sponsored by Keep Brevard Beautiful & the Ocean Conservancy. Trash bags, gloves, data cards, pencils and sunscreen will be provided. Volunteers should bring drinking water. Free T-shirts while supplies last. Pelican Beach Park, 1525 SR A1A, Satellite Beach. Sat morning 8 - noon.

Mystery plane at Melbourne Airport

This plane has been seen pretty regularly at Melbourne pretend Airport - the name is tpahcadpo - Russian for Transaero. Research shows it doesn't fly passengers in/out of here - Miami being the only FL airport they use. So one has to ask - what is a Russian 737/747 doing parked at Melbourne pretend Airport?

U2 @ King Center Friday night

Classic Albums Live: U2's "Joshua Tree"

8 p.m. The King Center for the Performing Arts will be hosting this live classic albums concert, which takes albums from the past, and recreates them on stage. $24.50-$29.50. (321) 242-2219 click here for more information and tickets 

September 11

How will you reflect on the 11th Anniversary of September 11, 2001?

1) If you have a flag at your home or office, make sure to lower it to half mast.

2)Thank a Service Member

3)Take a Moment of Silence

4)Visit the Website  - 911memorial.org is the official website for the new 9-11 Memorial and Museum built in place of the Twin Towers. Check out the interactive timeline, commemorative learning center and donation area to reflect on the tragic events from September 11th.

Go Robbie!

Robbie Carrico - Space Coast's own link to American Idol - and a nice person in spite of it! Robbie is still active in the music world - hear him for free and introduce yourself; he'd love it!

Coastal Clean-up

Saturday, Sept 15 - 8a.m. - noon! Come help us de-trash the beaches and waterways!
Join Surfrider, Keep Brevard Beautiful - and more caring individuals who want to keep our coast clean and healthy! Bags and gloves will be provided but you need to bring your own sunscreen and water. FREE t-shirts while they last, too!!

Blue Moon

Hope everyone took advantage of the BLUE MOON last night - it will still be bright tonight but last night was the fullest and won't happen again until 2015. Check it out tonight!