Sorry Calgary… a Margaritaville Cafe is no longer planned for the Calgary Stampede development in Calgary, AB Canada. First announced in 2009, the deal was revealed to be in jeopardy a year ago.

Connell confirmed the Jimmy Buffett-inspired Margaritaville restaurant/entertainment centre is no longer planned as an anchor tenant in the mainstreet development. A separate venture, to be announced at a later date, has taken over that role and location.

The website is still live but has never contained any content: www.margaritavillecalgary.ca

The Niagara Falls location remains the only Margaritaville in Canada.

San Diego parrotheads will have a place to tailgate on Saturday after all.

After initially declining to allow Jimmy Buffett fans to use the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot for a tailgate party prior to Saturday night’s Buffett concert at SDSU’s Viejas Arena, stadium officials have done an about face.

“We’ve kind of reversed course. We’ve decided to open it up for tailgaters,” Mike McSweeney, the manager of Qualcomm Stadium, said Thursday afternoon. “We’ve had such an overwhelming number of requests from people wanting to tailgate (Saturday).”

Why the initial reluctance?

McSweeney said stadium officials were concerned about costs Qualcomm would have had to absorb to pay for cleaning up the parking lot after the tailgate party and for providing Porta-Potties and security.

“Because we’re charging for parking, well use those revenues to pay for the Porta-Potties and the dumpsters,” he said. “We have a lot of space and we’ll open it up as needed.”

Tailgating at Qualcomm won’t be cheap. Officials will open the gates at noon and charge $20 per car and $60 per RV.

Get the full run-down here.

The ticket broker site Razorgator is showing a date for Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia:

Saturday, September 1st

This happens from time to time where a ticket broker site will list a show before it appears anywhere else. More often than not it turns out to be correct, but sometimes they’re not. So keep in mind that this is not confirmed. Bristow is usually played on Labor Day weekend though, so it would keep with tradition.

(H/T Covington Fire)

Jimmy Buffett was in Las Vegas Wednesday morning to appear before the Nevada Gaming Control Board. At stake was licensing to share revenue with Caesars Entertainment for his newly opened Margaritaville Casino at the Flamingo.

It was an interesting event as Buffett told stories of his Margaritaville brand and answered questions about two drug-related incidents in his past: the Jamaica Mistaica incident and the time French authorities detained him, mistakenly believing he had ecstasy.

Buffett’s business partners and managers also answered questions. Long-time Coral Reefer Michael Utley was questioned as well.

The Las Vegas Review Journal and Vegasinc.com both have good articles on the hearing.

The state Gaming Control Board questioned Buffett for about 15 minutes and approved its recommendation in less than an hour. The matter will be considered for final approval by the Nevada Gaming Commission on March 22.

During the hearing, at which Buffett and his associates told several stories about his successes with the Margaritaville brand. He said he became interested in the restaurant business when his friend, superstar chef Emeril Lagasse, told him that his best nights at his MGM Grand restaurant occurred when Buffett was performing at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Buffett said he approached MGM about opening a restaurant, but the company went with an Irish pub concept instead. That led Buffett to inquire with Harrah‚s Entertainment, now Caesars Entertainment, and the Margaritaville restaurant was born.

“I occasionally wonder about the guy (at MGM) who made that decision and where he‚s working now,” Buffett said.

The Margaritaville restaurant opened at the Flamingo in 2003 and the casino was added in 2011.

Vegasinc also has a photo gallery with several photos from the hearing.

If you follow us on Twitter then you probably saw a fun game catch fire on Monday night. Twitter user @RickyS4538 tweeted at us “I have rope burn from the strings that held my coconut bra on at Buffett” and included the hashtag #ParrotheadProblems. If you don’t know what a hashtag is, it’s a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic. For example, if you did a Twitter search for #Yankees you’ll see a bunch of tweets about the New York Yankees.

We thought the hashtag would make a great game, so we encouraged everyone to send in their own #ParrotheadProblems. Below you’ll find a few of our favorites (including a couple of our own):

Do a search on Twitter for the #ParrotheadProblems hashtag to see them all.

Are you on Twitter? Be sure to follow us: @BuffettWorld.

@BuffettWorld trying to explain to the sales clerk that the pump up bug sprayer is for margaritas at the Buffett show. #parrotheadproblems

— Shawn(@Eagleplanner) March 6, 2012

My beach house on the moon was foreclosed on #parrotheadproblems

— Jimmy Buffett World (@BuffettWorld) March 6, 2012

I’m the woman to blame #parrotheadproblems

— Lauren (@Jabber_Moose) March 6, 2012

My chicken died in vain.#parrotheadproblems

— Jackie Christie (@jchristie60) March 6, 2012

I cut my lip drinking good red wine from a tin cup chalice. #parrotheadproblems

— Erik Long (@Erik_Long) March 6, 2012

Got fired for playing Margaritaville Online at work all day long. #parrotheadproblems

— Ken Carriker (@coolbreeze2444) March 6, 2012

I said “Why don’t we get lunch in school! I swear! #parrotheadproblems

— Bryan Snider (@BryanCSnider) March 6, 2012

I drove under a bridge and the giant shark fin on top of my car broke off #parrotheadproblems

— Jimmy Buffett World (@BuffettWorld) March 6, 2012

Tip jar can’t pay the bail this time #parrotheadproblems

— VANESSA(@1GlimmeringGirl) March 6, 2012

I don’t want a 12lb Nestle Crunch for $25! I want Junior Mints! #parrotheadproblems

— Kerry Hannon (@KerryHannonFBU) March 6, 2012

Look to the left and your mom is doing whippets in the parking lot #parrotheadproblems

— Chris Slog (@scubaslog) March 6, 2012

Can’t keep it between the navigational beacons #parrotheadproblems

— Tyler Deaton (@jmdeat2) March 6, 2012