Bill Deyoung

Still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, administrators at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) have begun dramatic cost-saving measures, including the “temporary furloughs” of 22 full time and 28 part time employees, out of a combined staff of 175. Facility leadership, including CEO Joe Handy, are taking salary reductions. “I think this will [...]

The pirate Jose Gaspar didn’t exist, but that’s never stopped the City of Tampa from honoring his “memory” with a real pirate ship, dressed-up revelers and a noisy, colorful, celebratory parade through town. The public party known as the Gasparilla Pirate Fest began more than 100 years ago, dreamed up by the local chamber of [...]

Facility leadership, including CEO Joe Handy, are taking salary reductions.

When actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won the Academy Award for their Good Will Hunting screenplay in 1998, they went from relative unknowns to the toast of Hollywood. Suddenly, they were everywhere. It seemed as if they had simply dropped out of the sky. Playwrights Mandy Kaling and Brenda Withers ran with that notion [...]

With such a robust concert calendar, the bay area is rarely quiet. Every weekend, every month, there are popular concerts – music and comedy – at venues in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater.

It’s a big weekend for guitar-wielding storytellers. Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards is back in her home away from home Saturday, performing on the Bayboro Brewing stage. Edwards, whose most recent album, Covers, collects songs written by Jason Isbell, Tom Petty and others, purchased a house in St. Petersburg four years ago. “I came to St. [...]

Joining us today on the Arts Alive! podcast is Klaudio Rodriguez, the executive director and CEO of the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, the oldest gallery of art in the city. Nicaragua-born and Miami-raised, Rodriguez arrived at the MFA in October, after seven years at the Bronx Museum of Art in New York. He’d [...]

The only thing we have to fear, Franklin D. Roosevelt once famously advised his countrymen, is fear itself.

After nearly 13 years shuttered and silent, the Beach Theatre is inching closer, frame by sprocket, to welcoming the public again.

American Stage's pledge to make theater outside the four walls of an auditorium continues with this week's Don't Feed the Animals, on the hiking trails of Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, near Lake Maggiore in south St. Petersburg.