It was a Sunday, just after noon, and a film crew from MTV had set up light reflectors and a semi-circular dolly track on the expansive...
The wrecking ball has a date with the crumbling concrete, brick and stucco building at 1850 Central Avenue, next to the I-275 overpass, and it’s going...
In the wee hours of Feb. 1, 1964, thieves cut a hole in the roof of 401-405 Corey Avenue in St. Petersburg Beach, squeezed into an...
In the lengthy filmography of the late Canadian actor John Candy, 1985’s Summer Rental isn’t generally mentioned in the same breath as such classics as Splash,...
The Vinoy Park Hotel was 52 years old when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In its heyday, the salmon-colored...
This series was first published in the Catalyst in 2020. The latest advisory from the National Weather Service was several hours old when the freighter MV...
In the 1960 film Elmer Gantry, Burt Lancaster plays a charismatic, silver-tongued salesman who uses evangelism as a way to fleece religious suckers of their money....
In the end, it was all just a pack of lies. Self-proclaimed evangelist John 3:16 Cook arrived in St. Petersburg in 1971, and exploited the weak...
Jonah the whale never had a chance. A 2,000 pound pilot whale, Jonah was the “star attraction” at the Aquatarium, the $3.5 million marine park that...
Just as Professor Harold Hill rode into River City, Iowa and hoodwinked the locals into bankrolling his nonexistent “boys’ band,” so Pinellas County fell under the...