St. Pete’s arts scene is a cornerstone of its unique profile, with great visual art, world-class museums and performing arts of every kind, at every level. The section is not only a source for current arts news and updates, it profiles those artists and influencers who CREATE and make the St Petersburg arts community so vibrant. Keep abreast of local arts & culture events and news in the Create section.
Late night talk show TV never saw Craig Ferguson coming. America might’ve though it had been primed for wacky shenanigans, tart sarcasm, out-there monologues and shameless...
Nearly a century after it opened to the public, Sunken Gardens – the longest-lived tourist destination in St. Petersburg – is officially recognizing and celebrating its...
Brothers Johnny and Paul Vitale hung out their shingle as professional artists in 1992, and 30 years later, the Vitale Bros. moniker is synonymous with creative...
The new executive director of Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts (TBBCA) has a Ph.D. in pedagogy – that’s a fancy word for teaching...
Mayor Ken Welch and the St. Petersburg City Council honored poet and educator Gloria Muñoz during Thursday’s meeting, naming her the city’s newest Poet Laureate. Muñoz,...
Among contemporary jazz drummers, they don’t come more legendary than Billy Cobham, who plays Largo’s Central Park Performing Arts Center with his Crosswinds Project tonight. How...
Along with its intense, dramatic score and soaring arias, Puccini’s Tosca is one of opera’s most well-known thrillers, with a multi-layered plot containing as much lust,...
More than 20 new canvases of concrete, stucco and brick are about to be painted in St. Petersburg, each by an artist with an individual vision...
The Alabama soul/funk band St. Paul & the Broken Bones, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is one of the most interesting acts booked for the...
Tony Armer, the St. Petersburg/Clearwater film commissioner since 2014, is leaving for a new job in Texas. Under Armer’s watch, St. Petersburg Clearwater was named one...
