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.
St. Petersburg’s Ephraim Sykes, the singer/dancer/actor who received a Tony Award nomination for his performance as David Ruffin in Broadway’s Ain’t Too Proud: The Temptations Musical, has...
How many artists and musicians would stay in St. Pete if their bills were paid? That’s the question fueling St. Pete Supports Arts, a coalition of...
Robby Steinhardt, the Tampa musician who topped the charts in the 1970s as a founding member of the band Kansas, died Saturday of complications from acute...
The information superhighway is a busy thoroughfare, and in this age of intense social media engagement, there are more on-ramps than anyone can begin to count....
President Ronald Reagan apparently didn’t have a whole lot to do on July 9, 1984 – that pesky Iran-Contra scandal wouldn’t come to light for another...
It was a Sunday, just after noon, and a film crew from MTV had set up light reflectors and a semi-circular dolly track on the expansive...
Squinting into the late-afternoon sun, New York artist Ilan Averbuch stood before his 30-foot sculpture “The Sun on the EDGE” and paid tribute to the selection...
To borrow a phrase from Neil Young, tonight’s the night. Skipper’s Smokehouse, the iconic North Tampa restaurant and live music venue, re-opens for business today (at...
There’s a plethora of tribute bands out there (and, more than likely, a band called “Plethora”) and they’re all certainly staffed with solid musicians. But is...
Landscapers were busy Wednesday morning laying sod in the traffic roundabout at Central Avenue and 11th Street where “The Sun on the EDGE,” a massive sculpture...