Anchor Kathy Fountain says she is leaving WTVT, Channel 13, at the end of the year. ...more

November 4, 2009

Lacoochee native and two-time All-Star pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant was inducted into the Sports Club of Tampa Bay's Hall of Fame ...more

February 14, 2009

Jonathan Richman once sang about growing "Dignified and Old." Dex Romweber is only in his early 40s but he projects a dignity on "Ruins of Berlin" that's rare in rock 'n' roll. ...more

February 12, 2009

The Richey Community Orchestra is set to join forces with an area jazz vocalist to pay tribute to some of the great female jazz singers of our time. ...more

January 14, 2009

You may not remember her name, but you've probably heard Maureen McGovern's expressive voice on songs from the 1970s blockbuster movies: "The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno" and "Superman." ...more

December 9, 2008

I got an e-mail announcing the reissue of two albums by Volcano Suns, the band formed by Peter Prescott following the breakup of Mission of Burma. ...more

October 10, 2008

The table is set for the Junior and Teen Heartland Idol finals. Ten singers are probably already singing into their hairbrushes in anticipation of the final rounds for the younger set. ...more

September 27, 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

Oscar Peterson, 82, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world's best-known jazz pianists, died Sunday of kidney failure at home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. ...more

December 25, 2007