When these party goers were born, there weren't any video cassette recorders or digital cameras recording the event. As a matter of fact, those marvels of modern recording didn't even exist until these folks were well into adulthood. ...more

April 1, 2009

Bitter cold wind whipped around the soon-to-open Hula Bay Club Friday night but it didn't stop singer Nick Lachey, NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson and more than 600 of their friends and fans from partying. ...more

January 31, 2009

English journalist John Evelyn, after seeing his first opera in 1735, called it "the most extravagant entertainment conceived by the mind of man." A French journalist writing in the same period deemed opera "a fight between composer and librettist which neither wins." Some 273 years later the controversy still lingers: Some people like opera; some do not. Some can take it or leave it. ...more

November 12, 2008

Party-goers heavily damaged the men's restroom at the Avon Park Community Center Saturday evening, multiple city officials alleged. ...more

August 2, 2008

LAKE PLACID – The Lake Placid Board of Realtors recently sponsored an old-fashioned dance-a-thon at the Lake Placid American Legion Post 25 to benefit two local not-for-profit organizations – the Humane Society of Highlands County and the Lake Placid Miracle League. The dance was held to benefit the Humane Society of Highlands County, whose mission is to provide shelter, medical care and adoption services to lost, homeless and unwanted companion animals, and the Lake Placid Miracle League, a newly organized youth baseball league for physically and mentally hindered youths who are paired with "Buddies" who help the athletes take the field and cope with the challenges of playing the game. Themed in the 60's and 70's, the 261 party-goers entered a long-ago past complete with fiber-optic lamps, peace beads, 45 rpm record decorations, disco ball, and hula hoops. Many guests reached into the back of their closets, or their parents' closet, and looked as if they could have just stepped off the Partridge Family bus. ...more

February 3, 2008