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83 Degree’s Dyllan Furness Features Tampa News Force’s John Jacobs
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John Jacobs, a local comic and “correspondent” for the satirical Tampa News Force, who’s been doing stand up for over a decade, lives near Ybor and recognizes the district’s appeal in its cast of characters. “Ybor is exciting,” he says. “It’s a good melting pot of personalities and there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on at all times.
“7th Avenue is the closest thing we have to a Hollywood Boulevard,” he adds. “It’s a good tourist spot and a never-ending, rotating door of new people coming in and out. I’ve run many different open mic [nights] at different venues in Ybor and it’s always been easy to bark people in from off the street.”
