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Brush to canvas: News from the art community
Friday brings The Art of Banksy to Tampa. This is one of the most-anticipated exhibitions of the year. Featuring 160 works by the anonymous British street artist (both originals and authorized prints, as well as sculpture and other pieces), The Art of Banksy is installed as a…

Behind the Scenes: How the Osprey Observer Comes to Life Every Month
Ever wondered how thousands of physical newspapers end up in your mailbox every month? Join us for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look inside the Venice Print Center to see how the Osprey Observer goes from digital files on a computer screen to fresh, ink-on-paper news delivered…

SOTD 7/28/26: Apartment Swimming Pool by Pet Lizards
The WMNF Song of the Day for July 28, 2026 is “Apartment Swimming Pool” by Pet Lizard. Tampa’s indie emo punk scene is exploding right now with raw bands like Pet Lizard. This fiercely creative group has been WMNF SOTD and has played a WMNF Save our Soundwaves show as well as…

Talking shop with freeFall Theatre’s Eric Davis
"Bash of the Titans" closes this weekend, after 34 performances.

Clearwater’s Felce eyes a bigger stage — starting in Belleair

SOTD 7/27/26: 4 Morant (Better Luck Next Time) by Com Truise
The WMNF Song of the Day for Monday, July 27, 2026 is “4 Morant” (Better Luck Next Time) by Com Truise. Here at WMNF SOTD HQ, we are a sucker bands named with clever wordplay. Take for example Walt Disco. Ringo Deathstarr. Gnarls Barkley, and Mord Fustang. But there is one that…

American Stage announces a next-season shakeup
Removed from the announced lineup are "Unhinged" and "MacBeth, MacBeth, MacBeth."

Conservation and creativity collide in vibrant new Soul Tides exhibit on the St. Pete Pier
If you’ve walked the St. Pete Pier lately, there’s a new reason to visit the Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center (700 2nd Ave NE). Soul Tides, a mixed-media exhibition by […]

Arts Alive! podcast: Imagine Museum’s ‘Graphic Worlds’
Today’s guests on the Arts Alive! podcast are Stephanie Agudelo, events coordinator for St. Petersburg’s Imagine Museum, and Ora Fraze, owner and operator of the art gallery Ultra Mundane. Both are artists whose work is featured in the third annual Graphic Worlds exhibit, today…

Tampa Theatre organist will soundtrack a special screening of silent film ‘The Black Pirate’
Land ho, and listen up. The Tampa Theatre’s summer renovation is almost complete, but the venue is still showing movies. Not just in its own Taylor Screening Room, but on screens around the Bay area. One special showing happens next month just down the street. The no-cover…

The Gallery: “Tampa Theatre” by Alexandre Arrechea
In homage to The Tampa Theatre, Alexandre Arrechea created a sculpture for the recently revitalized Herman Massey Park.
