Rather than head off to New York to pursue careers, dancers with Moving Current and other local troupes are increasingly producing and performing their own work at inviting venues like the Ritz Theater and the Hillsborough Community College theater in Ybor City. Another sign of the Tampa Bay region's growing national reputation for dance is Moving Current's ability to attract guest artists from around the country. In recent months, Detroit's Paula Kramer, Miami's Bill Doolin and Nathan Dryden, an internationally renowned aerial choreographer based in Seattle, have presented works in Tampa, often featuring Moving Current dancers.read on…

Clothesline, a hip T-shirt shop in Sarasota, provides artists a unique outlet for their work as prints literally roam the streets on the fronts and backs of teens and other casual dressers looking to make a statement. The shop on South Pineapple in the downtown central business district will soon also begin selling some of the best art supplies on the market.read on…

And, I didn't even get wet! Corny humor, genuinely weird characters, Florida's colorful history, numerous hard lives and extended drama mix with imagination, creativity and nose-to-the-grindstone research to make plenty of fodder for the Tampa Bay region's plethora of writers and would-be authors.read on…

Familiar to Floridians who keep up on fashion and design, Tampa Bay fashion designer Ben Chmura will attract a worldwide audience with his international debut January 14 on Project Runway. Chmura says that doing the Project Runway show was a great learning experience and validated what he had thought all along: that he can handle just about anything.read on…

At the end of the day, when the commercial 9-to-5 businesses that have been the anchor of downtown Sarasota for so long are turning out the lights and locking their doors, The Box Social springs to life as a symbolic representation of the "everything more" aspects that the city has to offer.read on…