The singer of the 1980s love song "Hungry Eyes" has pleaded no contest to drunken driving and failing to control his car and has been sentenced to a month in an Ohio jail. ...more

April 16, 2009

Attitude, the alligator, gets amorous whenever her friend, the garbage truck, rumbles by. Or she gets angry, thinking an intrusive reptile is lurking in her territory. ...more

February 18, 2009

Attitude, the alligator, gets amorous whenever her friend, the garbage truck, rumbles by. Or she gets angry, thinking an intrusive reptile is lurking in her territory. Either way, the 25-year-old American alligator - the queen mum at Sarasota Jungle Gardens - acts weird. Twice a week, a city garbage truck growls nearby and hoists garbage bins into its cavernous maw, Attitude, who's been at the park for about 10 years, jerks her head up, hoists her tail and lets out a bellow for the ages. ...more

February 17, 2009

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker is getting ready to rock. ...more

January 6, 2009

"Waiting to Surface," by Emily Listfield (Atria Books, $25) ...more

November 25, 2007

Although he sang lead on the five-minute ballad, Doug Gray never thought 'Heard It in a Love Song' would be popular. ...more

October 13, 2007

ANGELS OF LIGHT: WE ARE HIM (YOUNG GOD) *** If Angels of Light has done nothing else over the course of its last four albums, it's proven that ex-Swans leader Michael Gira doesn't need the industrial-goth barrage of his old band to make frighteningly intense music. ...more

October 12, 2007