TAMPA BAY DOWNS SUNDAY'S RESULTS 1st - Purse $8,100, Maiden Claiming $8,000-$7,000, 4yo & up, 7 furlongs. ...more

March 30, 2009

Bette Killeen carried two scrapbooks to her kitchen table to show what singing with different chapters of Sweet Adelines International has meant. ...more

March 23, 2009

I listened to Carole King's "Tapestry" for the first time in a long while this past weekend. The album seemed incredibly deep and grown-up and mysterious when I had the 8-track at age 11. Now that most of its mysteries have been revealed, "Tapestry" seems sometimes spot-on ("It's Too Late"), sometimes naïve ("Where You Lead") and sometimes like bad prog rock minus the gory synthesizers (the title track). (And gory synthesizers are the best part of bad prog rock.) ...more

March 19, 2009

Val Perry loves writing, and she loves a good book. Most of all, though, she is motivated to help other people discover their own stories and to learn how to write them. ...more

March 18, 2009

In reference to Edgar R. Cronin, Mr. Hoyt and Melody Griffins' letters and others with like opinions, I'm sorry not to have responded in a timely manner, but here is my response. I'd like to give you statistics concerning the possible 45 million more human beings who might have been born and are a burden to today's society in the United States, with the economic, medical, social and life situations that cannot even properly take care of those who live here today within our world. ...more

March 17, 2009

TAMPA BAY DOWNS WHEN: Racing through May 3. March dates: Today, Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Simulcasting daily. Post time is 12:15 p.m. Gates open at 11 a.m. ...more

March 14, 2009

Won't kiss on the first date? How about waiting until marriage? ...more

November 29, 2008

The new Cure album is here, finally, after originally being slated as a double-disc, not to mention causing the band to postpone a tour. That it arrives as a 13-track single CD suggests Robert Smith and Co. reined in their ambitions in order to produce a concise album that can stand with The Cure's best. ...more

November 6, 2008

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A championship 44 years in the waiting is worth a special celebration. ...more

June 29, 2008

Each year, the Sand Pine Elementary student council sells Valentine's candy-grams to benefit school-related projects. ...more

February 17, 2008