{"id":107968,"date":"2026-01-06T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:02:09","slug":"creative-loafing-editor-to-kick-2026-season-of-salud-and-happy-days-improv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107968\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Loafing editor to kick 2026 season of ‘Salud and Happy Days’ improv show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ARay Roa at Centro Asturiano de Tampa in Ybor City, Florida on July 19, 2025. Credit: Photo by Keir Magoulas \/ c\/o Tampa Bay History Center<\/p>\n

Since its inception in December 2023, The Commodore<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSalud and Happy Days\u201d series has worked to celebrate Tampa by getting locals to tell stories onstage before improv comedians act out scenes based on what comes out in the interview.<\/p>\n

The series has welcomed the likes of \u201cThe Tampa Natives\u201d host Mario N\u00fa\u00f1ez, journalists Paul Guzzo<\/a> and Maggie Duffy, lawyer Ron Weaver, Tampa City Councilman Guido Maniscalco, plus the Cuban sandwich triumvirate of Jeff Houck, Dr. Barbara C. Cruz and the late Andy Huse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay\u2019s Editor-In-Chief Ray Roa kicks Salud off in 2026 and will do his best not to bomb this Friday as he navigates an unscripted evening build around his 15 years covering the Bay area.<\/p>\n

Tickets for Salud and Happy Days happening Friday, Jan. 9 at The Commodore are still available for $18.11 including fees.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n

This article appears in Dec. 25 \u2013 31, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ray Roa at Centro Asturiano de Tampa in Ybor City, Florida on July 19, 2025. Credit: Photo by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55317,55318,135,24982,137,136,25652],"class_list":["post-107968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-comedy-events-in-tampa","tag-ray-roa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-comedy","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-commodore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}