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.
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,...
Click the arrow above to play the full conversation between George Fleming and St. Pete Catalyst Publisher Joe Hamilton. St. Petersburg Press published author George Fleming’s...
In the so-real-you-can-almost-taste-it New York City conjured up by playwright Adam Gwon in Ordinary Days, the slightest connection – brushing up against a stranger, or reading...
This weekend’s Downtown St. Petersburg Songwriters Festival has well over a dozen corporate sponsors, with one of them in the official title itself. It’s a heavily-promoted...
Theirs is a mutual admiration society that pointedly ignores any and all man-made borders, including a three-decade age difference. They’re friends and collaborators because they want...
It was peer pressure that made a jazz singer out of Gloria West, who’ll be onstage at the Palladium Side Door Friday night. The bay area’s...
