S2 Ep2254: ARTS ALIVE! St. Pete Catalysts's Bill DeYoung w/Paul Wilborn

Radio St. Pete Podcast Archive · Jul 31, 2026 · 23m

And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain ....With apologies to Paul Anka, who wrote “My Way,” it’s not really a final curtain. Nothing so dramatic.In the case of Paul Wilborn, who’s been the executive director of St. Petersburg’s Palladium Theater since 2007, it’s more of a metaphorical curtain, anyway. And it’s coming down at the conclusion of Act One. Following tonight’s sold-out jazz concert in the Side Door Cabaret, the Palladium’s small-ish downstairs room, the entire facility will be shutting down. For a year.Wilborn, who did it his way, and will continue to do so…