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RSS FeedShakespeare enthusiasts and literature lovers in the USF St. Petersburg community fused their passions and talents to collaborate with the brand-new St. Petersburg Shakespeare Festival. USFSP’s Dr. Lisa Starks-Estes, the textual director, and USFSP alumna Veronica Matthews, the creative director, developed the idea of an annual outdoor production along with the university’s student-led Shakespeare Society.
The memories of spring break are fading fast behind us, and summer is still a distant thought. Our desks are cluttered with stacks of papers that keep growing around us, threatening to suffocate us. And we don’t get another break until this semester ends. It’s a depressing thought, but take heart — your friendly Crow’s
In 1980, Gary Mormino spent a year in Rome as a Fulbright scholar. In Rome, Mormino read the news from Florida. There were the race riots in Miami, a campaign to make English the only language in U.S. government documents, a mass emigration of people from Cuba and Haiti to Florida. Mormino thought: “The greatest
The USF men’s basketball team wrapped up their 2014-2015 regular season in disappointing fashion by losing 67-63 to a superior Tulane squad Saturday night. Guard Troy Holston Jr led the team in scoring with a career-high 21 points in the loss, followed closely by Nehemias Morillo’s 16 points. After being down 11 points at halftime,
It’s no easy feat adjusting to a new city, let alone a new country. But that is exactly what Laura Ferreira had to do in order to play for USF’s women’s basketball team. Ferreira, 19, came to the United States from Portugal in 2014 after being named the best player in her country for two
It took a trip to Disney World for me to realize I’m becoming more and more like my mother. I haven’t been to Disney World in a few years, due to the increasing costs (that’s another story entirely) and the fact that life has just gotten busy. But on Thursday, I went back to visit
Sometimes the reality of changing seasons hits people over spring break. Sometimes they realize their bodies aren’t “beach ready” and panic because the semester is more than halfway over, and summer is approaching. You look fine! You live in Florida — you are always prepared for the beach. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to
As the crisp, cold air of winter gives way to the warmth of spring, St. Petersburg is undergoing a massive transformation yet again. Roads will soon be closed, miles of fencing and cement barricades will be constructed and the sweet smell of ethanol will fill the air. The screaming engines and squealing tires — welcome
When Julie Armstrong isn’t busy exploring a wide range of literature as an English professor at USF St. Petersburg, she devotes herself to writing books on civil rights. At the beginning of March, she released her fourth title, The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature, an introduction to the key themes, aspects and genres
In the runoff election on Feb. 25, Jozef Gherman and Juan Salazar were elected student body president and vice president. Gherman’s ticket received 386 votes, accounting for 58.48 percent of the total votes, while Ziya Kardas and Kyle Uber received 274 votes at 41.52 percent. A total of 660 students voted. In order to win,
