In 1979, Pete Merrigan was King of the Beaches. As the people-pleasing main man in the immensely popular Mad Beach Band, he worked the nightclubs and...
For theater at its most organic, look no further than Williams Park in downtown St. Pete, where the St. Petersburg Shakespeare Festival and thestudio@620 are in...
In its four years of existence, the nonprofit Creative Pinellas agency has awarded monetary grants to something like 60 area artists – in both the visual...
Strictly speaking, andamento is an Italian musical term, but its essential definition – a long and continuous fugue – also applies to the art of creating...
Just as the one-man comedy Buyer and Cellar was coming to a close last spring at freeFall Theater, actor Chris Crawford got an offer he couldn’t...
In a Straz Center dressing room, Eric Whitacre is talking about his choral work Lux Aurumque, commissioned by the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay in 2000,...
It might be beyond the imagination of today’s hipster pop music acolytes to think of Elvis Costello as anything other than a rather eccentric, grand old...
His critics call it “mansplaining,” but you know what? There aren’t too many of them, and British pop/folk artist Frank Turner is justifiably proud of his...
Growing up in a sleepy Pasco County cattle town, Andra Douglas wanted little more than to play football alongside the neighborhood boys, who huddled and battled...
He says he hasn’t written a word in two years, but he’s not done, not by a long shot. Last spring, St. Petersburg’s most beloved author,...
