By Margie Manning via St. Pete Catalyst Entrepreneurs participating in 1Pier (Photo credit: Facebook post by Deborah Figgs-Sanders) Nine Black businesswomen were honored Saturday for their participation in 1Pier. The nine entrepreneurs have made history as the first African-American business collective to operate a kiosk at the St. Pete Pier Marketplace. 1Pier is a social […]
Wendy Wesley, health education manager for the St. Petersburg Free Clinic, went into the kitchen to prepare a recipe from the recently released St. Pete Eats: A Cookbook. The cookbook is the result of a partnership between St. Pete deputy mayor and city administrator Kanika Tomalin and more than 30 beloved local restaurants. Related content: ‘St. […]
Amazon has picked up the pilot episode of Good Morning St. Pete!, the web series written and directed by St. Petersburg acting teacher Andi Matheny. The 30-minute comedy, shot locally, is available free to Amazon Prime subscribers. Matheny stars as Los Angeles’ Stacy McAndrew, the former host of Who’s Your Boyfriend?, washed up in the Big Leagues […]
VINTAGE ST. PETE is a series focused on our city’s illustrious (and occasionally notorious) past. Many of these features have appeared in the Catalyst over the past 2 1/2 years, and new stories (like this one) will be added as time goes on. On a narrow stretch of sand in the town of Indian Shores, the […]
For lots of teenagers, summer vacation means sleeping late, bingeing Netflix shows and going to the beach. But this isn’t your average summer. And Ella Holland and Jaeden Geffon aren’t your average teenagers. The siblings recently launched MaskUP St. Pete, a nonprofit that makes and sells masks to help stop the spread of Covid-19. For each […]
VINTAGE ST. PETE is a series focused on our city’s illustrious (and occasionally notorious) past. Many of these features have appeared in the Catalyst over the past two years, and new stories will be added as time goes on. This one was originally published in February 2019. When filmmaker Robert Altman and a cast of A-list […]
Ya La’Ford is one of St. Petersburg’s most respected public artists. All photos in this story provided by the artist. In Ya La’Ford’s mind, everyone and everything are inter-connected. As an artist, she creates bold paintings and murals from geometric designs, patterns and lines, image tapestries that she feels represent the not always linear spaces […]
Not quite comfortable venturing out to your favorite local restaurant? The City of St. Pete has a solution to satisfy your cravings. On Friday, the city will release St. Pete Eats: A Cookbook. It’s the result of a partnership between deputy mayor and city administrator Kanika Tomalin and more than 30 beloved local restaurants. The book sells […]
VINTAGE ST. PETE is a series focused on our city’s illustrious (and occasionally notorious) past. Many of these features have appeared in the Catalyst over the past two years, and new stories will be added as time goes on. This one was originally published in October 2018. The Duke Energy Center for the Arts Mahaffey […]
At 9 a.m. Friday, the St. Pete Pier Marketplace was already bustling with activity. The 17 vendors who are the inaugural tenants in the Marketplace were busy setting out merchandise on the shelves and tables of the stalls and tents they occupy at the entrance to the Pier, and crowds already were stopping to look […]
