This story appears in the book Vintage St. Pete: The Golden Age of Tourism and More (St. Petersburg Press). No one in all Florida rejoices...
A cross-section of popular actors and sundry bay area theater-makers you probably haven’t seen in a while are coming together Sunday to put on a show....
Wednesday’s edition of The Catalyst Sessions got technical – if only briefly – as Gulfport ceramic artist Brenda McMahon talked us through the process she uses...
St. Pete wasn’t exactly a one-horse town in 1939, when its aging City Hall (at the current site of the First Central Tower, on 4th Street...
VINTAGE ST. PETE is a series focused on our city’s illustrious (and occasionally notorious) past. Many of these features have appeared in the Catalyst over the...
Jenee Priebe, who coordinates and directs the annual SHINE Mural Festival for the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, has issued a “Call for Walls” in conjunction with...
Because of its popularity as a retirement destination, and the subsequent preponderance of an elderly population, sleepy St. Petersburg had a nickname: God’s Waiting Room. Although...
As executive director of the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, John Collins is on the front lines during the all-genre arts-stifling pandemic. He is one of the...
As St. Petersburg’s prolific arts community struggles with an economy that’s all but relegated it to the back burner, the Pinellas Arts Community Relief Fund –...
St. Petersburg might be a very different place today if Titan Marketing Group had purchased Sunken Gardens back in 1999, as the Homosassa-based real estate company...