St. Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts is doing a bang-up job celebrating the life and legacy of late Bay area artist and Ybor City guardian Theo Wujick, and the celebration continues next Thursday when Paul Wilborn (executive director of the Palladium Theater and who spent the 80s covering Ybor as a journalist) reads excerpts from his new book, Cigar City: Tales From a Creative Ghetto.
The collection of short stories is technically fiction, but knowing that Wilborn lived that magical era makes the whole of it that much more interesting. The reading is free with museum admission.
Paul Wilborn. Thurs. May 23, 6:30-7 p.m. Free with admission. mfastpete.org.
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This article appears in May 16-23, 2019.