Simulation shows that life after prison can be tricky

As part of the panel discussion on recidivism Dec. 12 at the Center for Health Equity, headed by City Council member John Muhammed, attendees were asked to participate in a "re-entry simulation." They were handed packets of information to spotlight the day-to-day challenges faced post-incarceration.

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Chef Ted Dorsey makes Sonata sing

Everything in Ted Dorsey’s life, it seems, has been leading up to this moment. One of the most successful high-end chefs in the bay area – he’s opened 10 popular restaurants – Dorsey is now the executive chef at Sonata, the new destination dining experience inside St. Petersburg’s ornate Mahaffey Theater.

Brainstormed and bankrolled by businessman Bill Edwards, whose company operates the city-owned performing arts center, Sonata takes advantage of the stunning views of Tampa Bay afforded by the glass-walled, two-level atrium on the eastern side of the theater’s massive lobby.

Arts Alive! podcast: Paul Wilborn

Paul Wilborn has been the executive director of St. Petersburg’s Palladium Theater since 2007. He is also a novelist, a musician, an actor and an emcee. Most people, if they haven’t met him, they’ve seen him on a stage somewhere.