Bill DeYoung

Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life has got, as they say in the motion picture business, legs. Although the warm ‘n’ fuzzy Christmas season movie was not a critical or commercial success upon first release in 1947, repeated showings on television over subsequent decades caused it to grow, and grow, and grow on American audiences, [...]

Longtime Pinellas Part artist Boo Ehrsam, well-known for her elaborately-staged Halloween haunted houses, has devised an exhibition and installation that includes similar creative elements. The Attic, taking place Friday and Saturday at Derek Donnelly’s Saint Paint space, 5705 Park Blvd., consists of paintings, sketches, graffiti-style art, fabric art and more from Ehrsam and several of [...]

A weekly roundup of notable local real estate news. A four-bedroom, seven-bath estate in Coachman Hill Preserve, an exclusive 10-home gated subdivision in Clearwater, sold Nov. 25 for $2.95 million, $445,000 below the original list price. Located at 2283 Mackenzie Ct., the two-story home, built in 2007, provides 9,588 gross square feet and is situated [...]

Kacey Musgraves, who performs Friday at Amalie Arena, is almost the antithesis of the contemporary country singer, female edition: Her smart songs are often quiet and introspective and they’re put across, on record and onstage, with eclectic disregard for style or what radio station programmers might think. Musgraves music channels ‘60s folk/rock, with elements of [...]

Eric Davis and Matthew McGee took some time away from playing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson at freeFall Theatre to sit down and chat for the Arts Alive! podcast. The show is Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure, and it’s onstage through Dec. 15. Moriarty – let’s use the shorthand – is the [...]

In his snappy suit of bright green with purple and pink highlights, and his python-skin boots, David Raymond is the most colorful thing in the room. The slate-grey gallery walls are lined with framed black-and-white photographs, many of them a hundred years old. Or more. But there’s vibrant life in this exhibit, The Subversive Eye, [...]

The 2024 hurricane season was not kind to Jenee Priebe. The director of the SHINE St. Petersburg Mural Festival (that’s its full name) had meticulously crafted a schedule of artists and events for the 10th annual celebration of public art, which has become one of the city’s biggest draws. Yes, they come for far and [...]

The Palladium Theatre’s intimate Side Door Cabaret is back in business, after the twin you-know-whats let some water in. Everything’s good now, and the Side Door re-opens Friday with an 8 p.m. performance from British blues guitarist Matt Schofield. Saturday brings the Palladium debut of Alaska-born vocalist Halie Loren, who’s notched several top-selling albums in [...]

St. Petersburg’s world-renowned mural festival, SHINE, kicks off Friday. This 2024 edition, which coincides with the event’s 10th anniversary, was supposed to happen Oct. 11-20. After the water and wind of Helene in late September, SHINE director Jenee Priebe remained hopeful that things might still go off on schedule. Then came Milton, two weeks later. [...]

Hip hop mogul Rick Ross saw something in Nino Breeze, heard something in his music, and this summer he added the St. Petersburg rapper to the expanding roster of artists on his MMG Records. Ross praised the Pinellas writer/performer’s dedication, adding that he could tell from the start that Nino Breeze was more than just [...]