It was state-of-the-art in 1954, when it was built. But in 2022, the Williams Park Bandshell is strictly old school. The green, Chevron-shaped high ceiling is...
Gulfport’s stately Stetson University College of Law was a product of the 1920s Florida Land Boom. Developer I.M. “Handsome Jack” Taylor put up the Mediterranean Revival-style...
Ray Liotta took the red-eye from Los Angeles to Tampa on March 7, 1999, and when he stumbled off the plane, around 4 a.m., the actor...
When visitors stepped through the door that would lead them aboard HMS Bounty, moored on the north side of the St. Pete Pier approach for decades,...
As a City of the Arts, St. Petersburg’s road from “provincial” to “powerhouse” was long and bumpy. The reception to public art, in particular, was chilly...
The last movie to flicker on the screen of the Beach Theatre was a by-the-numbers cop drama with the ironic title End of Watch. It was...
After the turn of the 20th century, small theater companies began to sprout in communities across America, dedicated to putting plays on the stage that defied...
In another time, Winter the dolphin would have been forced to toss beachballs, play a toy piano with her snout and leap over limbo poles suspended...
Outgoing St. Petersburg mayor Rick Kriseman wrote the foreword to the upcoming second volume in the Vintage St. Pete book series. “St. Pete’s early reputation as...
More than two decades after Dr. Paul Bearer left us for that great tenement castle in the sky, his legend lives on. He still holds the...
