Bill Deyoung

So many of St. Petersburg's iconic hotels went up in the mid 1920s, when the Florida land boom was in full stride, and the city was positioning itself as a winter playground for northerners eager to leave the snow and ice back home for a few months.

Eric Davis and Matthew McGee took some time away from playing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson at freeFall Theatre to sit down and chat for the

When you say it out loud, How the Grinch Stole Thanksgiving just doesn't have the right ring, does it?

With the 2024 SHINE Mural Festival in her rearview mirror, director Jenee Priebe exhaled, put her feet up and reflected on the event that almost wasn't. SHINE's 10

Phil Gernhard was one of the most important people in Florida popular music. Most people don’t know his name, because he was a behind-the-scenes guy – a record producer – but in the 1960s and ‘70s, he logged more national Top Ten songs that anyone else from the Sunshine State. And he did most of [...]

Do you know how to catch a killer? Joe Kennedy does. For 28 years, Kennedy was a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative

Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo, who fuses bossa nova, samba, jazz and more, is among the headlining artists at the 34 annual Suncoast Jazz Festival, Friday through Sunday at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort on Clearwater Beach.

Theater actor, director and educator Kevin Renken had a busy year in shows and behind the scenes. So he went in search of a play that features just two men, a play that he and his husband Bill Myerholtz could perform together. Renken landed on Neil Simon’s 1972 comedy The Sunshine Boys. He and Myerholtz [...]

Two of St. Pete’s finest songwriters and rock ‘n’ roll bandleaders are joining forces tonight at the Palladium Theater’s Side Door Cabaret. Ed Woltil is a local native who played in a number of the bay area’s key “new wave” bands of the 1980s and into the ’90; as a solo artist, he’s made a [...]

Tampa native Mike Pinera, who wrote and sang the Top Ten single “Ride Captain Ride” as a member of Blues Image, died Nov. 20 after a long illness. He was 76. “Ride Captain Ride,” which is still in rotation on Classic Rock radio, reached No. 4 on the Billboard chart in 1970. It was the [...]