From The St Petersburg Downtown Newsletter:
The St. Petersburg Yacht Club marks its 100th anniversary this year, with a number of gala events and activities planned to celebrate the occasion.
Organized in 1909 with the purpose “to promote, encourage and protect interests of boating and boatsmen in and about the city of St. Petersburg,” the yacht [...]

Local (St Petersburg, Florida)  boys make good…  Music.  Videos.  And,   of  course,  music-blog fodder.
On a recent Friday in St. Petersburg, Kyle Wyss and Sheridan Willard were sipping health drinks at Central Cafe and Organics when in through the door walked Orhan Chettri and Ben Goodman.
Greetings were issued. Introductions were made. [...]

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All Things Travel lists Grayl’s Hotel among its “Elegant Hotels of St Petersburg, Florida.” Wise choice!

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The Best Way to Spend your St Pete Pride Day!
From tampabay.metromix:
Each year in June, St. Pete’s Central Ave. (Grand Center Business District) closes down to traffic and turns into the main drag for the St. Pete Pride Parade.  It has historically been St. Pete’s biggest festival and celebration, and is Florida’s [...]

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(Via Artsqueeze)
Despite the heat, there is lots of stuff going on in the St Pete art scene. Like what? Well…
Opening reception for View Point, photography by members of North Tampa Arts League, at The Great Frame Up Gallery, Emerge art party Eight Is Enough, presented by Kick Start My Art [...]

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Everything you could possibly want to know about using downtown St Petersburg’s major league baseball stadium, Tropicana Field, the home of the Rays, is in these links.
Special links about Tropicana Field snacking are here.

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IT was late on a Friday night and in deference to the full moon R.E.M.’s ”Man on the Moon” played through speakers attached to an iPod. A group of tattooed and goateed men and women was beginning to form, punching messages into their cellphones, lugging coolers and stubbing out cigarettes.
It [...]

The Pub crawl is back this week and has a fun twist to it. It is themed after Caddyshack and the goal is to dress like the goofiest golfer you can.

Craziest golf outfit wins $100 and the Pub Crawl Winner gets $500!

So… make your way down the The Tamiami to register at 8pm and hit all the stops along the way until we wrap up at Bishop and announce the winners! Also, Brighthouse will be shooting a very cool segment on the pub crawl so make sure you show up and get on camera.

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INTERIOR MOTIVES GALLERY PRESENTS:
“THE ART OF GIVING”
Saturday, May 23rd
6:00 – 9:00 pm
1110 Central Avenue
St. Petersburg
After a full month of painting on locations throughout St. Petersburg, local artist
will exhibit their “Plein Air” paintings of the scenes of St. Petersburg
that we all have grown to know and love!
These paintings will be available for [...]