The annual Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test is meant to measure the academic performance and progress of individual students and entire schools. But when March rolls around, the one thing the FCAT tests most profoundly are teachers' and students' nerves. At many schools, administrators like to loosen things up with pre- and post-FCAT events, pep rallies and parties. This year, Fox Hollow Elementary School raised that idea to the next level with a group activity that raised their spirits sky high, somewhat literally. ...more

March 14, 2009

Early in 2008, shortly after the Florida Gators' annual spring game, junior linebacker Brandon Spikes and Coach Urban Meyer sat down together inside Florida Field, just the two of them and 90,000 empty seats. ...more

January 5, 2009

If you've been to the bookstore lately, or clicked around online, you know the shelves are crammed with cookbooks and food-related texts. The holiday buying season is prime time for publishing new titles. ...more

November 30, 2008

New Pretenders' albums are few and mostly far between; this is the ninth one in almost 30 years. Sadly, that scarcity of product hasn't translated to quality. ...more

November 20, 2008

If Elvis were here today, he might say, "Thank you, thank you very much" for the 17 years that an odd Missouri outpost has been making the case that the King never died. ...more

November 4, 2007