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Jack Kerouac’s St. Pete house hosts an underground book fair this weekend
Whither goest thou, Scholastic book fair?
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St. Pete-Clearwater Airport’s ‘Sightline’ art gallery is now open
Pinellas County artists gain a global audience with new exhibition space.
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Tampa farmer-florist Kali Rabaut on what flowers teach us about life, diversity and compatibility
Rabaut, founder of Blue House Florals, also discussed the concept of enoughness.
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Sixx Black is breaking the mold in the Tampa Bay drag scene
I will still look pretty, but I will, like, bite the head off a bat. Or staple dollar bills to me.’
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Meet Tampa drag king Apollo Infiniti, known for pulling rainbows out of DeSantis’ ass
He found drag as a way to come out as trans, but post-transition his passion for performing has only grown.
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Tampa drag queen Jelitza Fearce is a pageant competitor true to her name
‘Support your local drag queen because they were here before any mainstream drag went out, and we’re going to be here after.’
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St. Pete’s bearded drag queen Adriana Sparkle is a hair away from ‘Drag Race’ fame
‘No matter what style you’re doing, you can elevate it to the highest degree…’
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Pedro el Poeta Jarquin recovers Tampa’s Latino foundations
‘Cornerstones of a City’ from Creekshed 2025.
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At St. Pete’s Maximo Park, Amanda Hagood reflects on hidden landscapes and aging
‘Maximo Park Picnic’ from Creekshed 2025.
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In this micro-history with music, Julie Buckner Armstrong crosses Tampa Bay with a civil rights legend
‘Father John Crossing the Gandy’ from Creekshed 2025.
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St. Pete professor and author Thomas Hallock mourns an untimely death on Treasure Island
‘Beach elegy’ from Creekshed 2025.
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St. Pete poet Tyler Gillespie opened Ellis Hughes’ diary and came out with this ‘note’
‘research note, Or, all the colors vary according to the point of vision’ from Creekshed 2025.
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St. Petersburg poet Tyler Gillespie road trips with a swamp monster
‘Creek freak’ from Creekshed 2025.
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St. Pete’s poet laureate Gloria Muñoz reminds us that water and flowers are what we hold onto
‘Water Hyacinth’ from Creekshed 2025.
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Interview: ‘The Lion King’ was supposed to be a homecoming for Clearwater’s Marquis Floyd
The Gibbs High School graduate died unexpectedly on March 23.
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Tampa artist Nneka Jones among top award winners at Gasparilla Festival of the Arts
The festival gives out a total of $92,000 in prize money, making it one of the highest paying juried art festivals in the Southeast.
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Comedians have figured out how to sell-out giant venues, and Tampa’s Amalie Arena is on the forefront of the trend
Shane Gillis plays a sold-out show this weekend, with gigs from Nate Bargatze, and others coming down the pipeline.
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The Story Garden, St. Pete’s first children’s bookstore, opens next month
It pops up at this weekend’s Localtopia, too.
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‘It looks like birthday cake frosting!’ Rollins Museum of Art exhibit honors children’s responses to art
Symbolic Languages: Children’s Understandings of the Collection
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Interview: St. Petersburg artist Raheem Fitzgerald is inevitable
Fitzgerald was born in St. Pete, but spent some of his adolescence in Atlanta before returning to the Bay area after high school.