Each year, the Florida Orchestra, working with local designers and developers, hosts a Designer Show House as a fundraiser for the orchestra. Typically, the venue is a house, but this year, it’s at the gorgeous new Ovation condominiums in downtown St. Petersburg. There are two condos featured, each decorated by several different local companies and [...]
Fresh Market Coming to Cocoanut Grove Site (click on photo for larger image)
For a good many years, the corner of Fourth Street North and 30th Avenue was the home of the Cocoanut Grove Motel, a grouping of cottages that hummed with activity every winter, as the tourists flocked back down to St. Petersburg to [...]
All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg has been an outstanding, state of the art children’s health care facility for many years. Originally founded at the American Legion Hospital for Crippled Children in 1927, the hospital began a transformation to a full-service health care facility for kids in the early 1960’s. In 1967, the All Children’s [...]
I love public art! I can be out in the world, just moving along through life, and I might be anywhere at all, and suddenly I come upon something that was placed there, just for me to look at, to study, to question, to enjoy, or maybe to laugh at. Okay, maybe it wasn’t placed there [...]
If you’ve never paid a visit to the Dali Museum, you really should! It’s a fantastic land of the surreal, and walking through the museum and really taking time to absorb what you see there can create entirely new neural pathways in your brain! Dali’s works are amazing, over the top explosions of color and [...]
Celotex-Pridgen Site – Click for Larger Photo
If you’re anything at all like me (and, for your sake, I really hope you’re not, but that’s another story altogether), it drives you crazy to see something big going on and not know what it’s all about! That’s been the story with me for months as I drive [...]