SEBRING — About 50 senior citizens got their blood pumping Tuesday morning with a total body workout at the Highlands County Family YMCA. Fitness Instructor Jane Goodlett led the SilverSneakers class. "Smile through your pain," she told the class as they extended their weights into a lateral raise. "Yes, you can do it!" Joe Hood groaned as the class started another rotation of arm exercises with dumbbells. Hood, the "class clown," likes making comments throughout the class to make people laugh and take their minds off the exercise. Although he grumbles, he said he loves the class, which he attends at least two times per week. ...more

February 19, 2008

BOBBY VINTON ONSTAGE: 3:30 p.m. Thursday RESERVED SEATING: $10 and $15 ...more

February 19, 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

Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more than a half-century, has died. He was 84. ...more

January 13, 2008

THE HIVES: THE BLACK AND WHITE ALBUM (A&M/OCTONE) **½ Any garage-rock purists left in The Hives' audience will run scared and shrieking from "The Black and White Album," lashed by dance rhythms, drum loops, sequencers and all manner of concepts invented after 1966. ...more

December 27, 2007

Hernando Beach Yacht Club will present its 30{+t}{+h} annual Christmas Boat Parade at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. The parade will begin at the Yacht Club located at 4163 Shoal Line Blvd. and will proceed to the main canals and back. Chili, hot dogs, ice cream and beverages will be available for purchase. ...more

December 12, 2007

Two shows hardly constitute a tour, so call Nanci Griffith's Sunshine State jaunt a working vacation. ...more

November 29, 2007

Iavarone's is a Tampa classic. Open since 1992, the Carrollwood restaurant is one of three locally owned by the Iavarone family (the other two are Carmine's in Ybor City and Malio's in downtown Tampa). ...more

November 23, 2007

Eleanor Brecht can remember when a covered wagon was considered modern transportation. ...more

November 22, 2007