Coldplay, which won Best Rock Album at the Grammys on Sunday night, will be coming to the Ford Amphitheatre on Aug. 9. ...more

February 14, 2009

A picture perfect, Norman Rockwell Christmas. This is how organizer Steve Smith describes Church Street Christmas, an annual tradition celebrating its third decade in Dade City. ...more

December 20, 2008

Jazz musician Valerie Gillespie and the Valerie Gillespie Quartet have released their fifth CD titled "A Little Rough Around the Edges." ...more

December 3, 2008

Dade City jazz musician Valerie Gillespie and the Valerie Gillespie Quartet have released their fifth CD, "A Little Rough Around the Edges," and according to the veteran vocalist and music maker, her newest recording is what her fans made it. ...more

November 29, 2008

Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of "No Country for Old Men" for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the 2007 hit crime thriller. ...more

September 7, 2008

"Sopranos" star James Gandolfini married former model Deborah Lin on Saturday in her hometown of Honolulu, People magazine reports. ...more

September 1, 2008

Jazz with Jim, an informal jazz concert, will be offered from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Carrollwood Cultural Center. ...more

August 6, 2008

Jazz with Jim, an informal jazz concert, will be offered from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Carrollwood Cultural Center. ...more

August 6, 2008

Card-carrying member of PETA, she ain't. Pop singer Lily Allen turned heads when she wore a dress emblazoned with decapitated Bambis (complete with hot pink blood) to the U.K.'s Glamour Women of the Year Awards on Tuesday night. The "Smile" singer, who sported a matching pink hairdo, took home the Editor's Special Award - and a hangover that wasn't caused by her dress. ...more

June 5, 2008

AVON PARK — Xavier McLeod liked the sound of the trumpet, which inspired him to take up the instrument five years ago. Now the 16-year-old high school junior plays the horn as a member of the Avon Park High School Grenadier Band. Early in the fall he was accepted in the West Coast Symphony Orchestra. He travels to Sarasota every Monday evening to practice with the symphony. McLeod also takes private lessons. "I'm looking at making music as a career right now, but it might change in the future," he said. His present plans are to go to college as a music major, but hasn't yet decided on the college he will attend. ...more

February 9, 2008