Bill Deyoung

Rachael Cerrotti is coming to the Florida Holocaust Museum Sept. 30, to talk about her exhibit We Share the Same Sky. She will also give a talk at a reception that evening. While We Share the Same Sky will remain on view through May 2024, Cerrotti herself is dropping in for this one-time visit, to [...]

Rachael Cerrotti is coming to the Florida Holocaust Museum Sept. 30, to talk about her exhibit We Share the Same Sky. She will also give a talk at a reception that evening. While We Share the Same Sky will remain on view through May 2024, Cerrotti herself is dropping in for this one-time visit, to [...]

In its opening weekend at Jobsite, the resident theater company of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, is Tom Stoppard’s absurdist “tragicomedy” Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead. These two relatively minor characters from Hamlet get their own storyline, improbably set in the wings of Shakespeare’s play. Indeed, characters from Hamlet come and go, played [...]

Keep St. Pete Lit recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. That’s a big milestone for a popular but perpetually under-funded nonprofit dedicated to residents’ pursuit of literary outlets and offerings – along with learning opportunities vis a vis reading, writing and the spoken word. Founder and executive director Maureen McDole explains the 2013 origins of her [...]

From a very young age, Nicholas Anthony Beshensky loved dolphins. Although he was born and mostly raised in Wisconsin, without an ocean for hundreds of miles in any direction, his childhood bond with the gentle, intelligent bottlenose dolphin was deep and abiding to the end of his days. His mother, Patti Bringe, says dolphins were [...]

Mural artist Derek Donnelly is bringing together more than 50 graffiti artists from around the county this weekend to demonstrate their skills and techniques at his Saint Paint headquarters in Pinellas Park. The freestanding facility, at 5705 Park Blvd., is part of the multi-artist Pinellas Art Village. “What’s really neat about this show,” Donnelly enthuses, [...]

Save a bundle on admission to four of St. Petersburg’s world-class museums? Yes, please. This Saturday, Sept. 23, is Free Museum Day, a national movement spearheaded several years ago by Smithsonian magazine. Although Smithsonian administrators are “pausing” their involvement this year, Pinellas County, and St. Pete, opted to carry on. This doesn’t include every museum [...]

A former curator of the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg is at the center of a controversy over an exhibition of Greek antiquities and their provenance, or documented history of ownership. Michael Bennett, PhD, was the museum’s senior curator of Early Western Art from 2018 until June of this year, when he was fired. [...]

Film composer John Williams has 53 Academy Awards nominations, a good amount of them for his scores to Steven Spielberg blockbusters (for the record, he also did the Star Wars franchise, the Indiana Jones movies, the 1979 Superman and several in the Harry Potter series). Curiously, Williams was not Oscar-nominated for one of his most [...]

What does it all mean? Jobsite Theater audiences may well be pondering this as they watch the current show, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead. In true “theater of the absurd” fashion, it doesn’t actually mean a whole lot. That doesn’t stop the titular characters – played by Katherine Yacko and Nicole Jeannine Smith, [...]