By Helen French. This year’s BEACON dance performance features four world premieres, 20 dance artists, two local dance companies, two live musicians, one spoken word artist and one dance film…. Read More
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Meat Your Maker at Eckerd College
By Tom Winchester. Jahcinda Law’s exhibition titled “Meat Your Maker,” recently on view at Eckerd College, brought together family heirlooms, ceramic trompe-l’oeils and cyanotypes that represent what it’s like to be a woman…. Read More
Terza Rima Anyone?
No, it’s not a fancy new cocktail or even a rich, continental dessert. Terza rima is a verse form. We associate its development with Dante writing the Divine Comedy in… Read More
Florida Man: Poems in the Courtyard
On Tuesday, March 12th, I launched Florida Man: Poems, Revisited (Burrow Press) with Chad Mize and Gloria Muñoz at Tombolo Books. The bookstore set up its glorious courtyard for the… Read More
From Poetry Prints to Greeting Cards
At the book launch Q&A for Florida Man: Poems, Revisited, Gloria Muñoz asked Chad Mize and me about our multiple artistic pursuits. Chad creates work from murals to merch, and,… Read More
Old Box #7: Fleeced by Repetition, The Love Song of Photo Op Prude Frock
You are my candy kitchen not my sweet and low religion, not my cold cut keeper. I kid you not. I’m here for the sundae, homemade in dairy heaven, not… Read More
Overcoming Challenges
There are a gazillion platitudes out there about how to stay positive, rise above the noise and push on to ultimate victory. It’s at your fingertips, they say. It’s all… Read More
The Naked Truth About Art
By Margo Hammond. This past year two remarkable shows in St. Pete added to the long, illustrious history of arts and nudity. Both creatively confronted the naked truth about art – it’s supposed to be provocative…. Read More
Chamber Players pay tribute to often-ignored instrument
By Kurt Loft. If Rodney Dangerfield played the viola, he’d still use the same comic line – “I don’t get no respect.’’ Well, we say to hell with all that. And so did two famous composers, Mozart and Dvořák… Read More
Dalí & The Impressionists
By Tony Wong Palms. “Dali & The Impressionists” fills another gap in the ever-expanding library of exhibitions the Dalí Museum has developed, telling Dalí stories – from those who influenced him, to his own practice… Read More
