St. Petersburg

Beach Drive: The Weekender 2/7-2/10

Welcome to your weekend in St. Pete’s wonderful downtown! If you’re looking for things to do, look no further: we’ve got a list of all the best right here. Thursday starts the fun with the weekly Royal Palm Market, a shuffleboard boot camp, and a showing of Kiss Me, Kate by the St. Petersburg Opera […]

Beach Drive: The Weekender 1/24-1/27

Happy weekend, all! It’s time to relax in your favorite ways again. Thursday is the perfect opportunity to spend time in some of the city’s best museums and shop your heart out at the Royal Palm Market. Friday brings us Brazilian Night at the Iberian Rooster’s Subcentral for a night of dancing and drinks. Saturday […]

Beach Drive: The Weekender January 17-20

You’ve made it to another weekend (hopefully a long one for you)! We’ve picked out the highlights for you here. Thursday has reduced museum admission (of course), Royal Palm Market, and a scavenger hunt opportunity! Friday includes the start of the weekend’s Gem, Jewelry, and Bead show and Yoga for Lunch at the Station House. […]

A Guide to Downtown St. Pete’s Parks

St. Petersburg has many points of pride, including its numerous and beautiful parks. These parks line the waterfront of Downtown, maintaining the city’s natural beauty alongside its infrastructure. They include something for everyone — sometimes as spaces for hosting events, sometimes providing the perfect spot for a quiet day on the waterfront. Whatever your goal […]

Oak & Stone expands from Sarasota to St. Pete

St. Pete Catalyst By Bill DeYoung Two years ago, Sarasota buddies Joe Seidensticker and Brett Decklever – a restauranteur and a real estate developer – came up with a unique business concept. They created Oak & Stone, an upscale restaurant-slash-tavern serving artisanal pizza, gourmet burgers and other such fare, and – here’s the envelope-pushing  part […]

Photographer Clyde Butcher interprets ‘Dali’s Spain’

St. Pete Catalyst By Bill DeYoung Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter whose bright, colorful, sometimes alarming works defy perspective, time, space, common sense and even gravity. Clyde Butcher’s black and white art photography interprets landscapes: Trees and seas and clouds, rocks and swamps and forests, still and silent and moody and majestic. Rooted in […]

New exhibitions – and a visit from Monet – at the Museum of Fine Arts

St. Pete Catalyst By Bill DeYoung Two new exhibitions, both opening May 5 at St. Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts, couldn’t be more different. While one consists of abstract art in a colorful myriad of media, the other offers up a tight focus on stark black and white photography. Yet there’s a powerful thread running […]