Creative Loafing Tampa

Tampa Bay at Art Basel: Locals make a splash

C. Emerson, Mindy Solomon, Selina Roman and more.

• by Megan Voeller
C. Emerson, Mindy Solomon, Selina Roman and more.
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, C. Emerson Fine Arts, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Selina Roman, Rocky Grimes, Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE Miami, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ana Mendieta, De La Cruz Collection, Thomas Houseago, Mark Bradford, Sunkoo Yuh, Gregory Green, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Bart Johnson, James Kennedy, Wookjae Mang, Kristen Bellomo, Ringling College of Art and Design

Clay around the bay: A sampling of NCECA shows

• by Megan Voeller
NCECA offers the chance to see a wide range of ceramics at galleries and museums all over the area.
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts, Arts & Entertainment, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, Florida Holocaust Museum, Craftsman House, Bleu Acier, mindy solomon gallery, Visual Arts, tempus projects, NCECA, National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts

Do It This Weekend: contain it!, St. Pat's parade in Ybor, Downtown St. Pete Art Walk, St. Puppy's Day, Bob Saget and more

• by Julie Garisto
Another busy weekend! Think outside the boxes for a show that makes artistic use of PODS. Plus: The Rough Riders St. Pat's parade, a bevy of art shows in St. Pete and Bob Saget's potty mouth -- and more!
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, contain-it!, Dunedin-Fine-Art-Center, St. Pete, Dunedin, citrus park, stuff to do in tampa, dubliner, mindy solomon gallery, trashy treasures, st. puppy's day, Downtown St. Petersburg Art Walk, Stuff to Do in Tampa Tampa, Pet-A-Palooza

Do It Today: Oy Vey! My Son is Gay, Florida State Fair and kickball kickoff

• by Julie Garisto
See Oy Vey! My Son is Gay! at Baywalk, zip up and down at the air and join a kickball league.
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Movies, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Tampa, Movies, mindy solomon gallery, kickball, Lainie Kazan, Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival, Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!, Evgeny Afineevsky, Carmen Elektra

Do It This Weekend: Sunshine City Antiques and Collectible Show, cool art shows and Pauses w/Sleepy Vikings and Rec Center

• by Julie Garisto
Super-cool events in St. Pete and Tampa highlight great music, art and fun stuff Friday through Sunday.
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Studio@620, The Pauses, mindy solomon gallery, Sleepy Vikings, rec center, tap dancing, Sunshine City Antiques and Collectibles Show, Personal Icons, Central Avenue Project, Downtown St. Petersburg Art Walk

Do it this weekend: Black, White and Blues premiere, FolkFest, Dunedin OktoBEERfest and more

• by Julie Garisto
It's an action-packed fest-, art- and music-filled weekend. Hope you've got some energy -- you're going to need it.
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Studio@620, Blue-Lucy, dj-mega, dunedin-brewery, Nova-535, Theo-Wujcik, Luke Perry, Pale Horse Gallery, Swing Time, Tes One, Black, Brandon Dunlap, Andrew Spear, Heavy Pets, michael clarke duncan, alter ego, oktobeerfest, folkfest, creative clay, mindy solomon gallery, bird street players, Sarah Gail Hutcherson, indigo girls, gulfport casino, curtis hixon waterfront park, got jokes, gwiggy, chuck glass, donalee curtis, Dar Williams, white and blues, Charlie Poe, Tom Skerritt, Morgan Simpson, Midtown, Transformative Influences - Part II, Wanxin Zhang, Dian Ding, Beth Lo, David Furman, David "Lebo" Batard, Fear and Loathing in Ybor City, Bones, United Family of Soul, Mary Giesser, Glenn Barr, Friday Downtown Market, Veg Fest, Tampa Heights tour of homes

Do It This Weekend: CL's guide to Fourth of July fireworks, Flick-N-Float movies, Save Our Shores benefit concert, Dreams in Motion at The Studio, Monkey Soup in Carrollwood and more

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, free food, the Studio@620, The Basiqs, Chick-fil-a, Florida Aquarium, fireworks, Tampa Bay History Center, carrollwood players, Dragon Boat Races, the roosevelt, free admission, fourth of july, morean arts center, pool party, mindy solomon gallery, dempsey arts center, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, matter of trust, fourth of july tampa, independence day, cracker country, channelside fireworks, gulfport centennial celebration, monkey soup, marx brothers, undressing the feminine, save our shores, seabird sanctuary, fourth of july events, where to see fireworks in tampa, the pier st. petersburg, misty gamble, flick n float movies, glass studio and hot shop, the complete works of william shakespeare abridges, fins for limbs, glow in the dark golf, dreams in motion, carises horn, a subconscious mythology, Uncategorized

On the Radar: Undressing the Feminine at the Mindy Solomon Gallery

• by Anthony Salveggi
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, mindy solomon gallery, art opening, undressing the feminine, mistygamble, becky flanders, anne drew potter, connie imboden, sean fader, bonnie seeman, j. aiden simon, Uncategorized

Do It Today: Earth Day 2010 brings the Trashy Fashion show and Green Expo, Conservation Conversations, sustainable gardening tips and more

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Inkwood Books, Eckerd College, University of Tampa, Largo Cultural Center, war on terror, Trashy Fashion Show, tampa bay hotel, green events, mindy solomon gallery, henry b. plant museum, earth day events, earth day 2010, earth day tampa, earth day st. petersburg, sustainable gardeninig in florida, conservation conversations, recycled designs, nike sweatshops, social justic, jim keady, world affairs, reckoning with torture, bright and white, Uncategorized

Do It Today: On the Way to O'Neill's: JFK in Ireland at Jobsite, The World According to Bart at Mindy Solomon Gallery and Simplified onstage at Skipper's

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Skippers-Smokehouse, Jobsite Theater, Shimberg Playhouse, north carolina, painting, JFK, mindy solomon gallery, John F. Kennedy, straz center for the performing arts, dallas, on the way to o'neill's: jfk in ireland, shot, ann g. bauer, david beckett, artist bart johnson, clay, simplified, charlotte, Uncategorized

Do It This Weekend: Love for Haiti, Stogies and Stouts, Nuclear Cowboyz motocross, TFO's tribute to Ray Charles and more

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, dunedin-brewery, Ruth-Eckerd-Hall, St. Pete Times Forum, MOSI, a chorus line, Museum of Science and Industry, the roosevelt, tank's tap room, jimmy stewart, francis wilson playhouse, mindy solomon gallery, tears in the sahara, einstein on food and wine, love for haiti benefit, martinez brothers, stogies and stouts, nuclear cowboyz, motocross, guerilla gallery, carlos pns paz, florida orchestra tribute to ray charles, harvey, gregmilton, the world according to bart, bart johnson, Uncategorized

Openings, groundbreakings and other reasons to be optimistic about Tampa Bay's cultural scene

• by David Warner
“Hope” and “Change” may no longer be in vogue, but for Tampa Bay's cultural landscape there are suddenly all kinds of reasons to feel optimistic.
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Arts & Entertainment, barack obama, Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art, Todd Smith, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, Megan Voeller, Bluelucy, Central Avenue, bridget bean, downtown st. petersburg, South Pacific, rose ferlita, Linda Saul-Sena, Orlando, Mayor Pam Iorio, high speed rail, John Dingfelder, Karla Hartley, Eric Davis, Mark Leib, Stageworks Theatre, freefall theatre, mindy solomon gallery, Metropolitan Planning Organization, roundhouse gallery, straz center, gorilla theater, Anna Brennen, Curtis Hixon Park, groundbreaking, Stanley Saitowitz, Nellie Forbush, Cockeyed Optimist, Carmen Cusack, Yann Weymouth, Crislip Arcade, Historic Ybor Neighborhood Civic Association, Michele Ogilvie, greenway, Crosstown Expressway, Uncategorized

Do It This Weekend: Doug Stanhope, Cigar Heritage Festival, Plant City Pig Jam, CraftArt, Chillounge and more

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Events, Events, crowbar, WMNF, Ybor City, Doug Stanhope, America Unchained, jackson's bistro, lance armstrong, things to do in tampa bay, creative clay, mindy solomon gallery, chillounge night, plant city pig jam, barbecue competition, The Ritz, comedy show, form and function, ceramic art, lucia de lammermoor, ravenswood castle, opera tampa, sanding ovation, florida beach music jam, pete gallagher, cattle drive, seminole tribe, florida cattlemen, tampa bay history, florida cowboys ward jr., bebe fashion show, straub park, hottest heroes, firemen, livestrong, cigar heritage festival, wallace and margarita reyes, guiness book of world records, tampa bay business alliance, craftart, Uncategorized

Do It Today: Music Reborn II: Forbidden and Forgotten, Three from Korea, celebrate history at the Columbia and more

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Events, Events, jackson's bistro, Tampa Bay History Center, local art, Carrollwood Cultural Center, three from korea, mindy solomon gallery, ceramics, sunkoo yuh, sung jae choi, kang hyo lee, andrew hude, richard gonzmart, gonzmart family columbia restaurant, sustainable design assessment team, urban charette, downtown planning, hadassah, jewish composers, music reborn, forbidden and forgotten, holocaust tribute, Uncategorized

Do It This Weekend: Art from Tes One, [5]art and Korea, Oktoberfest, Cruising for Critters, Women Taking Care of the World and more

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Events, Events, Cuban-Club, Ybor City, Mahaffey Theater, Tes One, Humane Society, Magic Hat, [5]Art, local beer, local art, earth charter, local theater, things to do in tampa bay, oktobeerfest, lisa lavie, temple hayes, the doctor is in, oktoberfest, brews by the bay, lederhosen, leon bedore, redletter1 gallery, sleep of reason cinema series, goodbye victoria, cruising for critters, quaker's steak and lube, eve's family restaurant, women taking macre of the world conference, moxy women, fawn germer, lynda lyday, CASA, haunted heart sale, coralette damme, crafty hag, boogiebead, michelle crash, ginger dead, melissa hates you, natty moss bond, the occasional bat, halloween sale, three from korea, mindy solomon gallery, theatreusf, student theater, cumbas, echeverry, torres, affordable art, 5by5, stella artois, boddington's, Uncategorized