The Florida Academy of Performing Arts will present the musical "Annie" at 7 p.m. Dec. 4-5, and 3 p.m. Dec. 6 at Riverview High School, 11311 Boyette Road. ...more

November 25, 2009

Dylan Waddle is not the average eighth-grader at Charles S. Rushe Middle School. Instead of spending the summer playing, he fixed a marxophone with his grandfather, Charles Taylor. ...more

February 25, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Two years ago, Dylan Waddle was a beginning band student at Rushe Middle School with a casual interest in music. ...more

January 25, 2009

The city's meetings and conventions business will get a boost in August with a commitment from the Women of Faith group to bring its Grand New Day Conference Tour to the St. Pete Times Forum. The conference will draw about 15,000 attendees, according to a release by Tampa Bay & Co., which markets the visitors industry for Hillsborough County. ...more

January 2, 2009

As a child, Arturo Sandoval lived in a house with dirt floors in Cuba. ...more

October 17, 2008

the Florida Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. ...more

February 24, 2008

In silk ties and blue formal gowns, the teenagers smiled at the crowd and news cameras, and belted out what could be Florida's new state song - a composition inspired by the Everglades and written by an elementary school music teacher who lives in Pompano Beach. ...more

January 12, 2008

First of all, This Space wants to hear no fussing about the Legislature having better things to do than wrangle over naming a new state song. ...more

January 10, 2008

One teacher espouses the benefits of sports and exercise. The other has instilled in her students an appreciation for music and art. Both have received statewide recognition for their commitment to education. ...more

December 26, 2007

Regarding "Which Song Strikes State's Chord?" (Nation/World, Dec. 12): OK, so I went to the Web site to listen to and vote for the song destined to replace that little work of genius, "Old Folks at Home" as our official state song. ...more

December 22, 2007