By Caron Schwartz
If you like tribute bands, you’ll love the nostalgia the Palladium is serving up. Traveling Wilburys 3/8! Steely Dan by The Expanding Man 3/11! Nicole Henry channels Whitney Houston 3/28! Chris MacDonald’s Memories of Elvis 3/29! Road to Nowhere aka Talking Heads 4/17! Go Now! (Moody Blues-icians including drummer Gordy Marshall) 4/18! www.mypalladium.org
Prefer the real deal? Peter Asher invites you to join him for an intimate live concert at the Palladium. We first came to know him through the global smash World Without Love as one half of the British Invasion duo Peter & Gordon, whose 10 Top 40 hits included Lady Godiva, I Go To Pieces, andI Don’t Want to See You Again. 3/24 www.mypalladium.org
Donations wanted Gulf Coast Artists’ Alliance Inc. asks folks to please donate your gently used arts and crafts supplies, artwork, equipment and more for their annual Artsy Rummage Sale. Donations accepted at 5546 1st Ave. N in St. Petethru 3/19, sale held 3/21. www.gcaa-artworks.com
Applications wanted for GCAA’s spring exhibition GROWTH. The theme can relate to physical growth, or personal growth – a continuous journey of self-discovery and improvement. It can involve developing your capabilities, gaining new skills, learning how you fit into the world, and enhancing your understanding of yourself. Deadline: 4/3. The show will run 4/30-5/30. https://bit.ly/gcaa-artists
One heck of a color-by-number set New York Metropolitan Museum of Art teamed up with Danish toy company Lego on the company’s latest Lego Art set: Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies by French Impressionist Claude Monet. The kit has an intimidating 3,179 pieces, and costs $249.99 – the most expensive entry in the series, which includes a Lego version of the Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe silkscreen and Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers. https://bit.ly/lego-artwork
Art of travel Rise, the third exhibition from the Creative Pinellas and St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) partnership, showcases photography, woodworking, ceramics, and poetry. Located at Sightline Gallery at Gates 7-11 at PIE, the exhibition celebrates the power of renewal, nature, and sense of place with works that invoke both the literal and spiritual meaning of the word “rise.” On view thru 6/15. www.creativepinellas.org/sightline-gallery
Phoebe’s first pedicure After three years of wear and tear, Tampa International Airport’s Phoebe the Flamingo got a good cleaning and minor repairs. Artist Max Muraski spent a 15-hour spa day repairing small divots in Phoebe’s fiberglass feet, then touched up her toes, carefully working to restore TPA’s iconic art installation.
No time like the present to enter the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts’ 2026 International Photography Competition. Photographers from around the world are invited to submit their work to be reviewed by an international jury. Winners will be featured in a group exhibition at the FMoPA Ybor City location from 6/16-8/2. Submission deadline 4/21. https://bit.ly/fmopa-contest
Musicians wanted Play alongside The Florida Orchestra with Play Out Tampa Bay. Whether you’re a student, a lifelong player, or returning to your instrument, this program invites you to take the stage and experience what it’s like to perform in a professional orchestra. Rehearsal: 5/20, 7:30-10pm. Concert: 5/21, 7:30pm. Both at the Straz. Registration deadline 3/20. https://bit.ly/tfo-play-out
Where’s Lake Wobegon? The February Capitol Theatre performance by longtime Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor has been postponed until 10/24. The 83-year-old humorist fell and broke his shoulder in January and is now recovering from shoulder replacement surgery. Get well soon, Guy Noir.
Recognize anyone? A man near Salisbury, England, paid around $10 for a 1930s Zeiss camera and discovered an undeveloped roll of film inside from 1956. The camera specialist he took it to was able to develop and print the photos, mostly of skiers in the Swiss Alps. Maybe AI can do its face recognition magic to reveal their identities. https://bit.ly/popsci-70
Senior singers The Gulfport Community Players present Quartet by Ronald Harwood. Set in a retirement home for musicians, the play centers on four opera singers, once a celebrated quartet, who reunite to perform a concert celebrating Verdi’s birthday. The play explores themes of aging, forgiveness, love, and friendship, culminating in a bittersweet performance where the quartet lip-syncs to their past recording. 3/12-22 at the Catherine Hickman Theater. www.gulfportcommunityplayers.org
There’s a new laureate in town Denzel Johnson-Green is St. Pete’s new poet laureate. Johnson-Green, the creator and editor of 17 poetry journals and a Roy Peter Clark Literary Prize recipient, is the city’s first Black poet laureate. He will present his works at city events and youth activities to inspire emerging generations of literary artists and poets.
Urban/Arts The artists in the Warehouse Arts District will soon have Urban Office as a neighbor. Lapin Development plans to transform the building at 2301 3rd Ave. S in St. Pete into a coworking location that will include shared conference rooms, a podcast studio, a kitchen, lounge areas, phone booths, an outdoor workspace and, naturally, retail and dining. www.urbanofficetx.com
Never forget And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank opens at freeFall 4/10 and runs through 5/17. James Still’s multimedia play combines videotaped interviews of Holocaust survivors Ed Silverberg and Eva Schloss and live actors recreating scenes from their lives during World War II. Talk Back with the actors will follow the 4/12 matinee. www.freefalltheatre.com
Let’s get nostalgic Marisa Scheinfeld’s images and storytelling bring the Dirty Dancing days of the Catskills to life in The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland. Scheinfeld reveals the beauty and history of abandoned Borscht Belt resorts, which once pulsed with Jewish culture, laughter, and summer escape. Florida Holocaust Museum thru 5/21. https://bit.ly/borscht-belt
Arts & craftsman The film Pursuing Beauty: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck celebrates the long and fruitful life of one of America’s greatest architects. Discover Maybeck’s long, distinguished career, his most important projects, and his reverence for nature, community, and beauty. Museum of the American Arts & Craft Movement Sunday Film Series, 4/12. www.museumaacm.org
March wisdom Brenda McMahon Gallery Presents: Women’s History ~ Leading the Change during March, Women’s History Month. The exhibit comprises 30 female artists illustrating what positive change looks like with women at the forefront. During the month the gallery will also feature Tampa poet Gemini Fox on 3/12 from 6-8pm and an artist meet & greet 3/21, 6-9pm. www.brendamcmahongallery.com
Tastier than Gasparilla The Tampa History Museum invites you to sail aboard Craft’s History Brunch Cruise to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the first cigar rolled in Ybor City. Historian Rodney Kite-Powell brings Tampa’s cigar story to life. Special guest: Drew Newman of the J.C. Newman Cigar Company. And there’s a chef-crafted brunch! 4/13, @ 11:15am-2pm. https://bit.ly/history-lunch