Four years after a stroke, Dick Clark is relishing the prospect of another New Year's Eve celebration, determined to appear for his 36th year in Times Square. And he's hardly surprised by the current state of the music industry he helped build — he predicted this, after all. ...more

December 30, 2008

There ain't no rock 'n' roll no more / Just the music of the young ...more

November 27, 2008

Friday morning, the crowd started trickling into the food pantry at Dayspring Presbyterian Church in Spring Hill. ...more

August 24, 2008

Days after news that Britney Spears will star as a lesbian killer in Quentin Tarantino's remake of Russ Meyer's classic "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," it's been revealed that Brad Pitt will star in Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards," a loose remake of Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 WWII film, which was billed as a "dirtier version of 'The Dirty Dozen.' " Simon Pegg ("Hot Fuzz") and Nastassja Kinski are in talks for the cast. ...more

August 11, 2008

Lou Teicher, a famed piano partner with Art Ferrante in a duo that produced and performed enormously popular theatrical recordings of big Hollywood movie themes, has died. He was 83. ...more

August 5, 2008

So unbeknownst to most, the Twist was the creation of some young African-Americans dancing in the street on Central Avenue in Tampa. Apparently they shall forever remain anonymous, and the fame associated with creating arguably the most powerful dance tune of all time will forever belong entirely to Chubby Checker and Hank Ballard. ...more

July 8, 2008

Here's a word association test. When I say "Chubby Checker", you say... "The Twist." At least most folks make that connection, because it was that tune that rocketed him to stardom. Chubby, who's real name is Ernest Evans, appeared at Busch Gardens last week as part of a Fourth of July celebration. But few people know that the Twist had its genesis in Tampa. ...more

July 8, 2008

The names of entertainment greats roll off the tongue of 83-year-old Bobbie Lewis as easily as the notes of the songs he sings. ...more

May 20, 2008

Larry Bene started his half-century in show business singing on vaudeville amateur night in New York City's Harlem when he was 10. ...more

January 17, 2008

Frank Sinatra, Vaughn Monroe, Bobby Darin. Figures from the past and the songs they sang come to life again in a conversation with Larry Bené. In his half-century career in show business, singer Bené has opened for famed old-timers including Red Buttons, Billy Eckstine, Nipsey Russell and Sarah Vaughan. The 75-year-old Bené began his entertainment career as a 10-year-old singing during vaudeville amateur night in a Harlem theater. ...more

January 16, 2008