Shana Smith has two hometowns – St. Petersburg, where she lived, worked and performed as a singer/songwriter for many years, and Gainesville, where she spent her...
With Florida Hustle, Paul Wilborn has written, as the British say, a ripping good yarn. The novel is populated with people who are both dysfunctional and...
After a full career as a concert pianist, followed by 45 years as a piano teacher on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Chaim Freiberg discovered St. Petersburg....
The last time we heard from Reed O’Hara, the brilliant, beautiful Tampa attorney, private eye and upscale nightclub proprietor, she’d just vanquished a human trafficking dirtbag...
At the Feb. 23 Vinoy Business Luncheon, Tom Gribbin, author of the novel The Last Florida Boy, entertained the audience with stories from his colorful life....
The sixth annual SunLit Literary Festival, a celebration of the literary arts in St. Petersburg, will begin April 1 with the Roy Peter Clark Award, honoring...
They say you don’t really appreciate your hometown until you move away. I left St. Petersburg when I was 21, off to college and a career...
Creating impeccably accurate pen-and-ink drawings of complex architecture – so precise that the result has an almost photographic quality – takes infinite patience. “You have to...
For 11 months in 2018 and 2019 Becca McCoy was on the road. A professional actress and singer, the St. Pete native (and former resident) was...
There are 44 poems in Jeannie Carlson’s new book Landmarks in the Sand, each one accompanied by a corresponding color photograph. Each combo refers, in one...
