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 […]
By Jaymi Butler The Central Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project has a brand new name and a fresh new logo. Behold the SunRunner. Local officials unveiled the new name and brightly colored logo at a press conference in the Grand Central District Wednesday morning, just steps from one of the 16 future stops along the […]
By: Margie Manning Seventeen local small businesses will be spotlighted in The Marketplace, one of the first areas visitors will see at the new St. Pete Pier. The small businesses will occupy seven kiosks and 10 tents under a solar roof structure that provides shade just a few feet away from the Pier entrance. Each […]
Local gallery general manager, Matthew Shapiro of Shapiro’s Gallery as well as owner 1771 Designs has jumped into the mask design game, bringing a little bit of local love to a tough time. “It’s Florida, it’s humid, it’s 95 degrees outside,” he said. “But if we have to wear them, let’s try to have some […]
The new, 26-acre Pier District was designed, to the tune of $92 million, as a gathering place for St. Petersburg residents and visitors. It’s got restaurants, bars, a beach, green space, commissioned public art, and of course the reimagined St. Pete Pier at its zenith, 3,000 feet into Tampa Bay. The City will open the […]
