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.
Not only is the last weekend of the month, it’s the weekend before a major holiday. The majority of St. Pete’s arts organizations are in re-set...
Every decade or so, it seems, something amazing happens to Derek Trucks. He was just about 10 years old when he first played guitar onstage with...
The most tragic of operatic tragedies, Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the tale of a 15-year-old geisha in 1904 Nagasaki, Japan. Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) catches the...
Tonight’s concert performance from the area musicians known collectively as Classical Revolution will be slightly less low-key than usual. The group’s monthly appearances in SubCentral, the...
When Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s $91 million legislative budget last week, he also exercised his right to veto certain line-items he deemed superfluous. Among the...
There among the 12×19 portraits of gay icons hanging in the MIZE Gallery is a colorful rendering of Keith Haring, the innovative pop artist of the...
Tonight at the Mahaffey, music legend Todd Rundgren returns for his fourth area appearance in as many years. The Philadelphia singer/songwriter has re-invented himself time after...
St. Pete’s first Pride Festival was a strictly grassroots affair, dreamed up by a group of Grand Central business owners in 2003. “There had been one...
It’s been 25 years, almost to the week, since Lisa Loeb’s yearning “Stay (I Missed You)” became the Number One record in the United States, turning...
Bay area singer/songwriter Rebekah Pulley joined us recently in the Catalyst studio for a relaxed conversation about her life, her art and her just-released sixth album,...