There will be no First Night this year. The family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration, held in around North and South Straub Park for 30 years, has...
To First Night or not to First Night? That is the question. Organizers of St. Petersburg’s longest-running New Year’s Eve celebration are seeking input from the...
Looking back at the changing people, places and landscape of the past year A Staff Conductor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor with the Louisiana...
It wasn’t just one thing that led to the cancellation of this year’s First Night St. Pete celebration. According to Hal Freedman, chairman of the board...
For the first time in three decades, St. Petersburg will not have a First Night celebration this New Year’s Eve. A lull in sponsorships, coupled with...
With New Year’s Eve just two sunsets away, thoughts naturally will turn to celebrating. Of course, the 2020/21 transition is more than a shade different from...
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...