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by Emily McLaughlin The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has lately taken up a new, taxpayer-funded hobby: artistic censorship. Across the state, murals celebrating racial justice and LGBTQ+ identities are being scrubbed, buffed, and "grayed out" from the very pavement they once humanized. For St. Petersburg artist John
When a playwright sits down to write, the journey from a blank page to a standing ovation is long, vulnerable, and often solitary. But at Powerstories Theatre, that process is becoming a community event. We recently sat down with Clareann Despain and Ashley Laster to discuss the upcoming Voices of
Discover how Ray Roa and a two-person team keep Creative Loafing alive. A deep dive into the future of Tampa Bay journalism and the new $750k Journalism Project.
by Avery Anderson Every great festival eventually crowns someone. Mardi Gras has its king cake. Gasparilla has pirates. And in South St. Pete, the Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival has a six-foot-tall, vegetable-based monarch with a fur-trimmed cape. But before the Collard Green King found it's king—before
There’s a version of Alexa Perez that almost didn’t exist. The one who directs. The one who produces. The one who walks into a rehearsal room and calmly juggles casting, marketing, and a cabaret load-in before lunch. On this episode of the Tampa Bay Arts Passport podcast, Alexa
