Adel Wilson wrote a letter expressing dismay that a liquor store was opening next to Lake Placid Middle School in "the Bible Belt town of Lake Placid." ...more

September 22, 2009

Am I the only one who feels that opening a liquor store next to the Lake Placid Middle School is incorrect? How could the Bible belt town of Lake Placid allow this? ...more

September 20, 2009

"Flannery," by Brad Gooch (Little, Brown and Co., $30) ...more

March 8, 2009

On the British version of "The World's Strictest Parents," slovenly disrespectful slacker kids from the United Kingdom are packed off to spend some quality time with surrogate parents in other countries who practice tough love. ...more

February 27, 2009

For nearly 30 years, they've entertained audiences from Sun City Center and around the Tampa Bay area. ...more

November 12, 2008

Visitors to Florida might have a tough time telling whether it's an anything-goes playground or the tip of the Bible Belt. ...more

November 8, 2008

Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. ...more

September 9, 2008

The windowless building that once housed the town's only strip club sits empty in the middle of a sprawling gravel parking lot, made all the uglier by the scars from its final party. ...more

September 6, 2008

When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children. ...more

August 24, 2008

In New Orleans, cocktails are serious business. What better town for a temple to the tasty history of the American libation? ...more

August 3, 2008