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.
Right about the time Tom Petty and his Heartbreaker bandmates were leaving Florida to try for record business success in Big Bad California, the Sunshine State’s...
Settling into a hard chair in the center of the Mahaffey Theater’s barren stage, Todd Beatty peers into the auditorium, past the mute, uniform rows of...
It’s the end of the first half-week of the first month of the first decade … well, since the last decade. Right. Now that everyone’s got...
St. Petersburg got its first look at the $1.5 million sculpture “Bending Arc” from artist Janet Echelman Thursday, as a pair of cranes began raising the...
Jazz vocalists Whitney James and Synia Carroll perform together Saturday (Jan. 4) at American Stage. This marks the third consecutive year the two have collaborated on...
There’s no question about it, St. Petersburg is a City of the Arts. Whether you’re here for the beaches or the business community, for the grassroots...
Fifty years after Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady played their first show as a duo, during a hiatus from their regular-paycheck band, the old friends are...
The majority of our local performing arts venues traditionally extend their Christmas etc. breaks through the first days of the new year. Still, for those of...
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance has announced the recipients of its MUSE Awards – for the sixth consecutive year, the organization is bestowing honors on those...
There was always something different about the Outlaws. In the 1970s battle for Southern Rock supremacy, the Outlaws were always a bit more melodic, their songs...
