Paul Wilborn

Music in the stream: Introducing ‘Palladium Presents’

The Palladium Theater may be down, but it’s not out, and by the middle of September many of the 5th Avenue venue’s favorite performers will be...

Ep 21 – Karishma Chapalamadugu & Paul Wilborn

It’s gold! Wilborn, St. Petersburg Press score big their first time out

The news from Tallahassee was good this week – St. Petersburg’s Paul Wilborn was awarded a gold medal in General Fiction by the Florida Book Awards,...

Remembering Hazel Hough, who helped create the Palladium Theater

One of the joys of being part of the Palladium was getting to spend lots of time with two of our founders, Bill and Hazel Hough....

Introducing St. Petersburg Press – a locals-only publisher

Paul Wilborn had a wish list for someone to publish his first book, Cigar City: Tales From a 1980s Creative Ghetto. Although a longtime journalist, blogger...

With ‘Cigar City,’ Paul Wilborn recalls, recreates a ‘magical era’ in local history

They were amazing days, Ybor City in the 1980s, when cheap rents, artistic appetites and youthful hedonism collided to create a bohemian subculture that thrived, then...

SunLit, dark art and ’80s Ybor: Your weekend arts forecast

The 5th annual SunLit Festival, with 24 – count ‘em – 24 literary and book-related events across St. Petersburg opens tonight (7 p.m.) with a kickoff...

The gifts of gab: Radio Theatre Project celebrates 10 years

The power of storytelling transcends age, gender and predilection; since the dawn of humankind, from cave fires to camp fires, from the wireless box to the...