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.
Long ago, in a concert hall far, far away … Well, not really that far – Tampa (the Straz Center), St. Petersburg (the Mahaffey Theater) and...
The classical-singing quartet Il Divo returns to the Mahaffey Theater Friday. This is the multi-national group’s first tour without baritone Carlos Martin, who died of complications...
Alan Cravick’s 86-year-old mother, Fran, broke her foot, and upon her discharge from the hospital she was instructed to stay off of it. This requires an...
Celebrating its 10th year, the Gasparilla Music Festival takes over Tampa’s eight-acre Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park this weekend, with a three-day lineup of national, regional and...
After taking 2021 off for a pandemic-necessitated siesta, the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival returns this weekend with an inspired lineup of music and musicians. The event,...
Gulfport’s stately Stetson University College of Law was a product of the 1920s Florida Land Boom. Developer I.M. “Handsome Jack” Taylor put up the Mediterranean Revival-style...
The Florida Wildlife Corridor is an 18-million-acre, more or less contiguous network of public wilderness preserves and private working lands, including forests, swamps, timberlands and cattle...
Dave Chappelle was once Phyllis Yvonne Stickney’s opening act at Caroline’s, the legendary standup comedy venue in New York’s Times Square. Chappelle reminded her – Stickney...
Pianist Conrad Tao is guest soloist for The Florida Orchestra’s weekend concerts. He will perform Tchaikovsky’s well-known Piano Concerto No. 1, on a program that also...
The cultural bridge between Tampa and St. Petersburg will grow considerably shorter when a new University of South Florida art concept debuts at The Factory St....