Alexandra Haley, a junior at Palm Harbor University High School, said being named Best Actress for 2009 at the District IV Thespian Conference is "mind blowing." ...more

February 7, 2009

Local singers, dancers, actors and musicians who star in Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center productions are rallying to keep the center alive and kicking. This year the city's Cultural Services Department found its state grant support for public events cut by $5,000, to slightly less than $9,000, said Gen Haley, city cultural and civic services marketing assistant. Next year looks even bleaker, she said. ...more

January 31, 2009

February isn't harvest time for too many things, but there is a bumper crop of local talent ripe for the picking scheduled for the public's perusal this month at the Pasco Schools Center for the Arts, 11646 Town Center Road, on the River Ridge Middle-High School campus. ...more

February 2, 2008

Rick Nare credits his participation in the Pointe Alexis Singers with far more than honing his musical skills. "It's given me my life back," he said. Nare, who has heart and kidney problems, had come to Tarpon Springs to die. ...more

January 19, 2008

TAMPA - Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, pop icon Madonna and rock instrumentalists The Ventures are among the 2008 nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the hall announced Friday. ...more

September 28, 2007