Tampa Bay’s vibrant cultural landscape is expanding with the arrival of Coastal Ballet of Florida. Co-founded by renowned dancer and educator Heather Ossola, the new company offers a homegrown ...

Tampa’s iconic Alessi Bakery is expanding to a larger location on Cypress Street. (Rendering: Summit Design + Build) After 53 years at their West Tampa location, the fourth-generation Alessi family ...

The Bluffs project coming to Clearwater’s downtown waterfront is a prime example of redevelopment on former surplus city property. (Gotham Organization/City of Clearwater) The City of Clearwater has a ...

Artist Dylan Perry’s signal box artwork celebrates the place cigars and domino culture have in West Tampa’s history. (Tampa CRA) In West Tampa, eight traffic signal boxes once overlooked as dull city ...

Steve Weinberger was just a young lawyer when he was invited to join the board of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation (CJHF) in 2001. What started as an opportunity to meet new people and network ...

As executive director of Preserve the ‘Burg, Manny Leto works to keep St. Petersburg history alive by helping save historic buildings and neighborhoods. He says a great economic benefit comes to ...

On a warm May afternoon in 2024, somewhere between bustling European plazas and winding cobblestone streets, a simple accessory sparked an idea that would soon become Tampa Bay’s newest lifestyle ...

For more than 30 years, The Shop was a daytime drop-in center offering hope to people experiencing homelessness. It came in the form of a hot shower, a steaming mug of strong coffee, or a parcel of ...

Entrepreneurs Raphael and Sarah Perrier expand Kahwa Coffee from downtown St. Petersburg into downtown Tampa in an effort to tap into the growing urban scene that attracts young and youthful ...

Black box theater, dance, music, costume design, lighting and stage building, web graphics, filmmaking. Those are just a few of the artsy inspirations being absorbed by students of all ages pursuing ...

Dr. S. "Aaron'' Laden, a retired pathologist in the Tampa Bay Area, looks for humor in the everyday vicissitudes of life.

From a backstage pass to public art to international photography to acrobatics to antiquities to storytelling, August arts events in Tampa and Hillsborough County offer up a wide spectrum of choices.