Bill Deyoung

Matthew Abernathy, artistic director of the 150-voice Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, is our guest today on the Arts Alive! podcast.

In the 2023 USA Today Readers' Poll of the best end-of-year light shows at botanical gardens around the country, the Florida Botanical Gardens came in at 9 place.

Before the almighty internet held sway over practically everything, newspapers connected people to their communities. And a key component of the local newspaper staff was the photography department, a team of skilled professionals who produced images complimentary to the news, sports and features the writers and editors turned out seven days a week. Nobody on [...]

Exactly 50 years have passed since the funky, French-infused Bourbon Street raveup “Lady Marmalade,” by the R&B trio Labelle, topped the Billboard pop charts. Although the group had scored a number of minor hits in an earlier incarnation, the BlueBelles, it wasn’t until “Lady Marmalade” and its oh-so-suggestive hook line - “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, [...]

We’re asking thought leaders, business people and creatives to talk about the upcoming new year and give us catalyzing ideas for making St. Pete a better place to live. What should our city look like? What are their hopes, their plans, their problem-solving ideas? This is Catalyze 2025. In its fiscal budget for the year [...]

In the ever-shifting universe of St. Petersburg small businesses, Tombolo Books, a 1,500-square-foot storefront on 1st Avenue S., is a 21st century success story. The independent book retailer celebrated its fifth anniversary last week, and as co-owner Alsace Walentine mingled with the party crowd she marveled at the number of familiar faces. “We have kids [...]

Broadway on the Bay is a company formed by husband-and-wife singer/actor/dancers Scott Difford and Heather Tepe, who relocated here from New York in 2021.

One of only a handful of million-selling saxophone players who happen to be women, Mindi Abair is known for her bone-shaking, roots-rattling approach to jazz, giving it a tough, visceral edge – where few sax artists have dared to tread. She is truly one of a kind. Abair is our guest on today’s edition of [...]

A weekly roundup of notable local real estate news. A three-bedroom, three-bath mixed-use property in downtown Safety Harbor, built in 1936 and referred to as the “Gingerbread House,” sold Dec. 18 for $1.165 million, $35,000 below the list price. Located at 136 and 138 4th Avenue N., the two-building property, fully restored in 2018, offers [...]

As with millions of other American households, no Christmas holiday was complete for Gavin Hawk's family without the annual viewing of Frank Capra's film It's a Wonderful Life, in which a small-town man named George Bailey finds out just how much he really means to those around him.