The white-hot Tampa Bay Rays continued their onslaught on the unfortunate teams on their schedule and the MLB record books, crushing the visiting Oakland Athletics 11–0 on Easter Sunday in St. Petersburg, Fla., for their ninth straight win to open the season. The Rays’ 9-0 start matched that of the 2003 Kansas City Royals for…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Rock and Claire Wagner attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Duke Energy Center for the Arts in the Mahaffey Theater on April 2. It was the second time the Wagners saw Shen Yun. “It was really good. This was different than the last time, ” said Mrs. Wagner. The Wagners had a very…

PETERSBURG, Fla.—Neel and Vishakha Bhandari, owners of an international finance and technology training company, greatly enjoyed Shen Yun’s seventh show at Duke Energy Center for the Arts on the evening of April 1. It was the couple’s first-time seeing Shen Yun, and they thought it was wonderful and majestic. “It was colorful. It was everything…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—After waiting over a decade to see Shen Yun Performing Arts, company founder and CEO Adam Arase and his family finally saw Shen Yun’s performance at the Duke Energy Center for the Arts–Mahaffey Theater on April 1. “The show was amazing,” said Mr. Arase. “[The] athleticism and great storytelling with the music was…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Hoon Park, a martial arts school owner in Tampa and Clearwater, saw Shen Yun Performing Arts for the first time with his wife Liliane Lan at the Mahaffey Theater–Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts on March 31. “It was amazing … very beautiful performances all the way through,” said Mr. Park….

PETERSBURG, Fla.—One of the many unique things about Shen Yun Performing Arts is its all-new program every year. On March 30, returning audience members Erica Lesak, a youth minister, and Priscilla Restaino, a retired business owner, watched Shen Yun once again at the Duke Energy Center for the Arts Mahaffey Theater and were delighted by…

PETERSBURG—Eight-time Grammy award-winning record executive Amir Windom attended Shen Yun’s performance for the first time at the Duke Energy Center for the Arts on March 29. Mr. Windom said he felt “so connected to the purpose of this production, which shed light on so many things that are not talked about for the sake of…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—While striving to stand out, it is easy to forget that everyone has more in common than we think. Shen Yun Performing Arts is showing us that humanity can be beautiful when we try to be our best. Chris Douthitt, a contractor and business owner, wanted to pass on a message to Shen…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—“It felt like you were in heaven,” said Suela Bulku about Shen Yun Performing Arts. “If I had to describe it in one word … it would be transcendent.” Mrs. Bulku, a financial controller for InsureTech, attended Shen Yun with her husband, Elion Bulku, technician, and their two boys at the Duke Energy…

One of the largest art museums in the world and the former residence of the Romanov czars, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, is in the historical center of the city. Composed of five buildings, the Hermitage hosts about 3 million items dating from the Stone Age to the present, including old masters’…