Something new is rolling out from the Dalí Museum: a 40-foot classroom art space and mobile museum. Christened the The Key to Dalí Art Mobile, this travelling surrealistic exhibition is designed to bring art to the people in classrooms around the county. 

Now, instead of students going to the museum, the museum can come to them, all during school hours. While the Dalí Museum still offers free field trips for local students, “there remained a need to bridge the gap for students or schools that cannot visit the museum in person to experience Dalí’s masterpieces and worldview,” said Sumaya Ayad, school programs & education manager at the museum. … Read More

Enhanced Mobile Mapping with Emerging Technologies – EMMET for short – has an outsized mission to survey the shallowest reaches of Tampa Bay. Photo courtesy of USF-SP

Have you noticed a curious new watercraft of elfin proportions plying the shallows of Tampa Bay? If so, don’t worry – that’s just EMMET!

Enhanced Mobile Mapping with Emerging Technologies – as it is more formally known to its creators at USF’s Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative Technologies (COMIT) and the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation – is a pint-sized pontoon boat, just six feet long and three feet at the beam.… Read More

FitLot is a free, one-hour circuit training class coached by a fitness instructor. Courtesy of Healthy St. Pete.

New year’s resolutions are all about self-improvement – and many of us promise ourselves we’ll focus on our health come January 1. If this sounds like you, then read on: We’ve rounded up some ways for you to get moving a little or a lot, and all of these suggestions are low-cost or free!

Fit St. Pete

Healthy St. Pete operates Fit St. Pete as part of the City of St. Petersburg’s Parks and Recreation Department, with local fitness pros instructing free workouts in parks throughout the city.… Read More

City Councilmember Corey Givens, Local Mural artist Laura Spencer, and PTB Executive Director Manny Leto in the new PTB space.

When Preserve the ‘Burg cut the ribbon on its new headquarters on November 8 in the Warehouse Arts District, the moment marked far more than an office upgrade. For the nearly 50-year-old organization, founded in 1977, and long operating without a walk-in space for the public, the opening represents a new era of presence, accessibility, and community engagement in St. Petersburg. 

“We’ve never had a public-facing office, a place where people could come and interact with us,” says Executive Director Manny Leto.… Read More

Featured image: Florida Native Landscape and Design won the Home of the Year Award for a project on an historic home in the Historic Old Northeast.

City leaders, community members, and local visionaries joined the City Beautiful Commission for their 58th annual City Beautification Awards ceremony on October 23. Held at Sunken Gardens, the ceremony honored the projects that make St. Petersburg shine, including unique and remarkable work to improve our community and make our city greener. 

Projects included an initiative to develop a community pollinator corridor; an urban farming initiative that transforms empty lots into garden spaces; a volunteer community garden that focuses on sustainable regenerative farming practices to produce free fruits and vegetables for the community; as well as a local business’s preservation of the beautiful and established large oak trees on its property. … Read More

In the heart of Tampa Bay, Florida’s largest open-water estuary, an initiative is unfolding that aims to bridge the persistent gender gap in STEM careers. For 34 years, the Oceanography Camp Especially for Girls (OCG), hosted by the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, has helped to guide young women in Pinellas County towards too often uncharted waters of scientific exploration. This year, the ANGARI Foundation, in its eighth consecutive year of support for this pivotal research cruise, once again collaborated with USF to take a group of female Pinellas County 9th graders aboard their research vessel, R/V ANGARI.… Read More

Whether you’re new to the area or have had an historic bungalow in your family for generations, everyone falls in love with our little corner of St. Petersburg sooner or later. In honor of 20 years delivering stories about our community to our community, we asked readers to share their very favorite things about the greater Old Northeast neighborhoods.  

Year-round gardening. With an ever-growing tree canopy and beautiful weather (most of the year), there’s never a bad time to play in the yard. Unless you don’t enjoy that sort of thing, and then you can always admire the work of others.… Read More

Amber Bennett could be the poster child for living the “St. Pete dream” of living, working, and making the most of our Sunshine City. In her “day job” she’s a real estate rock star, but early each the morning, she’s an elite athlete. Volleyball is her game.

For the past nine years, Amber has trained in the heart of downtown. If you have ever passed by the beach volleyball courts at North Shore, you may have been watching volleyball players from around the world training in our slice of paradise.

I caught up with Amber to chat a few days before she was heading off to compete in yet another tournament.… Read More

WTE holds events every month, as well as online webinars and tech mentoring, always free of charge. Photo courtesy of WTE.

It’s no secret that St. Petersburg, particularly downtown, is a growing hot spot for new-to-the-heat Floridians. Many of these transplants are young professionals, particularly tech professionals, including growing numbers of women in tech. 

Traditionally, the technology industry isn’t known to be the most inclusive for women, and that’s the reason for the Tampa-born Women in Tech & Entrepreneurship (WTE) organization. 

“I founded WTE in 2022 after witnessing the glaring gender disparities in tech and entrepreneurship,” says Raechel Canipe, CEO of WTE.… Read More

While the term “snowbird” now often refers to our part-time human neighbors, it originally applied to real birds who winter in warmer climes. The general parameters of the snowbird season, both human and avian, are roughly from October through March, and there’s one that’s hard to miss: the American white pelican.

Perhaps you thought our local, brown pelicans turned white in the winter? In fact, the brown pelican, our beloved city mascot, is a smaller, year-round cousin of the white pelican. 

Known for their dramatic hunting methods, brown pelicans are uniquely outfitted for catching their favorite meal, fish.… Read More