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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.
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Rachel Coderre brought her art conservator business back to Tampa, and she needs help to win another crucial grant
She thinks having more conservators in the area gives the city credibility.
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Proceeds from St. Pete artist’s ‘Stronger Than the Storm’ t-shirt will go to hurricane relief
Proceeds go to the We Are St. Pete Fund and Feeding Tampa Bay.
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Tampa Bay’s Sen. Darryl Rouson prepares to fight for the arts in Tallahassee
Rouson called a Pinellas County Legislative Delegation Meeting to hear from the local arts community.
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Tapping into Tampa artist David Sibbitt’s long, redemptive journey back to painting
Don’t expect cuddly language about it from him.
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Tampa Bay’s top three OnlyFans creators, according to our readers
Best OnlyFans is a new category in a constantly-evolving Best of the Bay contest.
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In St. Pete, artists and the new owner of The Factory agree that communication could be better
A pickleball club is supposed to open in early 2025.
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‘Beige gay’ comedian Jeff Klein will record his special at Ybor City’s Commodore theater
‘Fatty Gay’ goes on tape over two Sundays in September.
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‘White trash’ Clearwater comedian John J. Murray releases ‘Rhinoceros’ on Amazon Prime
He plays Mickey Quinn’s in Seminole on Aug. 17.
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After going nonprofit, St. Pete’s Green Light Cinema raises $8,000 in a week
Talking with co-founder Mike Hazlett about the theater’s new nonproft initiative.
