On Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans – a Black man from the town of Dunnellon – was taken from the St. Petersburg jail by an angry...
Today on the Arts Alive! podcast we welcome bay area playwright and novelist Natalie Symons. Her most recent work, the farcical Nightsweat, is onstage through Nov....
It’s an unprecedented artistic confluence! The 9th annual SHINE Mural Festival begins Friday, with 14 new big-wall canvases going up in real time, downtown, in the...
A 15-member band, a 36 song, three-hour concert and a trio of boyband heartthrobs. It can only be the Jonas Brothers’ 2023 touring extravaganza, visiting Amalie...
The details are still being worked out, but First Night St. Pete – the 30th edition of the city’s long-running New Year’s Eve celebration for families...
St. Petersburg Opera Company begins Season 18 this weekend with a production of Alcina, a 1735 Italian opera by baroque composer George Frideric Handel. Typical of...
Local history books tend to document those who “built the city,” laid the roads, brought in the railroads, platted the parks and bravely launched a small-town...
Touring hologram shows, in which a dead musician is “resurrected” on the concert stage, tend to malfunction or, in most cases, get canceled before they leave...
St. Petersburg’s well-oiled mural machine is purring like a kitten. The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance’s 9th annual SHINE Mural Festival doesn’t officially begin until the end...
History did not record exactly why 61-year-old shoe manufacturer Andrew Hardee Baker relocated to St. Petersburg, from Brockton, Massachusetts – a big shoe-making town at the...