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St. Pete artist Joe Frontel opens ‘Pile Drive’ show this weekend
Screen prints on wood panels, free flowing doodles and graffiti will hang at The Bends this month.
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Tampa Bay Arts Passport builds community through Better Together yard signs and in-person events
Proceeds from yard sale signs support the recently defunded Creative Pinellas.
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The Tampa Bay theatergoers guide to fall 2025
Crazy, scary spooky, hilarious
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Year after year, Tampa Bay comedian Johnny B keeps leveling up
He’s Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s best comedian of 2025.
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Hannah Hockman is the driving force behind 2025’s Beach Theatre revival
Her story is among the critics picks in Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay 2025.
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From photographer and arts educator to park ranger, Beth Reynolds’ career pivot has been a good decision
Her post at Honeymoon Island draws on all of her skills as teacher, photographer and nature enthusiast. And as it happens, it’s a job she’d always dreamed of.
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Tampa Bay’s best corpse reviver is Trent Alyse of Kitty Bomb Curios
The FSU grad is surprised that she’s able to do this work full-time.
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This rising star of the Tampa Bay theater scene isn’t even out of college yet
Now entering his senior year as a musical theater BFA candidate at the University of Tampa, Ben Sutherland, 21, is hard to miss on stage.
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New documents suggest VSPC might work with Creative Pinellas on new competitive arts tourism grants
The arts nonprofit just laid off four staffers after a September vote to defund its efforts.
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A former Bucs cheerleader just won Mr. Continental, one of the world’s biggest queer pageant titles
Lorenzo Gilbert opened up about post-NFL life and a possible return.
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In St. Pete, 81 artists will be on stage at once for ‘The Good Peaches’
The American Stage production with The Florida Orchestra and projectALCHEMY will be performed twice this weekend.
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Photographer Selina Román reimagines the body in a new Sarasota Art Museum exhibit [Photos]
It’s larger than life.
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‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ had some ideas for Tampa Bay’s Sapphic Sun
Big news for St. Pete queers and zinesters.
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New Tampa Performing Arts Center kicks off new season with weekend of free shows
Tampa City Ballet, St. Pete Opera, and others will take the stage.
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‘Tempo, Tampa’ a new Theo Wujcik show, opens this month
A panel will discuss the work of the prolific, late, artist on Thursday, Sept. 18.
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Writers of Swiftie-coded romance, Black girl magic, and more come to Tampa for Local Author Day
Steamy Lit hosts a full-day of book signings as part of the best literary events happening in Tampa Bay Sept. 11-26.
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‘Tourism follows culture. Culture does not follow tourism’: Co-founder of St. Pete’s SHINE festival responds to funding cuts with art and a plea
Leon Bedore, aka Tes One, wants to know if he’s doing the ‘art for tourism’ thing right.
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Column: Despite 5-2 vote to defund Creative Pinellas, there might still be time to save the county’s arts nonprofit
244 emails and more than 50 well-researched in-person pleas weren’t enough to save the nonprofit—but the fight might not be not over.
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Local drag artists compete for ‘Come Out As You Are’ pageant titles in St. Pete this weekend
At a St. Pete drag pageant, contestants must not show—not tell—their coming out stories.
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Dunedin Fine Arts Center hosts its first-ever pop culture convention this weekend
Kids six and younger get in free.
