Michael Jackson has a chance to win artist of the year posthumously at the American Music Awards. ...more

October 13, 2009

Mummies and pharaoh masks rested in columns to dry while 12-year-old Samantha Mitchell tried to corral a dozen elementary and middle school students into a pyramid formation to rap about King Tut. ...more

July 20, 2009

PLANT CITY The Plant City Community Choir is gearing up for a performance during the April 17 at the Relay for Life at Plant City High School. Choir director Joe Mendolia is looking for three or four new singers to join the group. ...more

April 6, 2009

The Heart of Highland Sweet Adeline Chorus will compete in the Region 9 Sweet Adeline Competition on Saturday, April 4 at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach. ...more

April 1, 2009

Melinda Roy, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, held a free master class attended by 40 students at the Patel Conservatory at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center on March 7. Roy is one of several guest artists whom the conservatory brings to conduct free master classes and workshops. Roy was in town to schedule rehearsals for the Balanchine ballet "Valse-Fantaisie," to be presented in "An American Dream" at the performing arts center May 17, and to stage the ballet with students from the Orlando Ballet School at the Patel Conservatory. ...more

March 25, 2009

Pop star Jewel and TV host Nancy O'Dell have dropped out of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." ...more

March 5, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit. ...more

February 23, 2009

Open auditions will be held at 5:30 p.m. today and the same time Friday, for the stage version of Disney's "High School Musical" at the Thakkar Pavilion, behind the Highlands Little Theatre. ...more

February 11, 2009

Twelve year old Amanda Poyot has been singing since she could talk. ...more

February 3, 2009

It brought a new meaning to the lyrics "Born to Run." When one gets swept up between high school cheerleaders and middle-age mothers whose teenage daughters are embarrassed that their moms are on national TV, there's only one thing to do. Run. ...more

February 2, 2009