The Florida State Fair offers everything from Batcopter rides to an Xtreme Sports Show.

A different kind of premiere has come to the Powel Crosley Estate.

Attendees are invited to bring their dancing shoes or just relax by the beach today at the seventh annual Jazz Fest.

BRADENTON -- When Manatee High School’s orchestra strikes up “Eleanor Rigby” on Friday night at Jake’s Automotive there will be a distinguished set piece on the premises.

Jill Sobule, the original “I Kissed a Girl” singer/songwriter and composer of Asolo Rep’s “Yentl,” returns to Sarasota for a performance Monday.

SARASOTA -- The Sarasota Film Festival says it wants to make its biggest splash ever this year in Manatee County.

Deborah McKeever’s Still Life in G Gallery in the Village of the Arts is presenting noted Florida artist and educator Linda Hall’s solo show “Occupied by Empty.” Hall’s current body of sculptural work uses fabrics quilted together that are dyed, embellished and sewn to create animal forms.

A chance to kiss the buff, shirtless Richard Gere of the early '80s? Sold, for $20,000!

Paintings, jewelry and fashions belonging to the late Elizabeth Taylor have sold for more than $183 million, with all of the more than 1,800 items on offer snapped up, Christie's auction house said Thursday.

“Three Tall Women” was written shortly after Edward Albee’s adoptive mother died. The play earned the author best known for his 1962 masterpiece “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1994. Kim Crow directs The Players Backstage Theatre’s production of “Three Tall Women” with assistance from stage manager Joe Kerata. The cast features Donna Gerdes, Linda MacCluggage and Es Swihart as The Women and Justin Irwin as The Boy. It contains mature language and content and is not recommended for children.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra officials insist it's not "American Idol" meets Mozart.

Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects of hunger in Somalia and Kenya.

A reality televison producer arrived in Mexico escorted by nearly a dozen agents on Thursday after being extradited from the United States so he can face trial in his wife's killing.

Ranchera music giant Vicente Fernandez says he will retire after tours of Latin America, Spain and the U.S., ending a four-decade career.

The eclectic mix of The Black Keys, Skrillex and Mac Miller lead nominees for the 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says six additional groups will be inducted this year after a committee determined they should be recognized with previously enshrined original lead singers.

Oscar had his own boarding pass - and a major entourage - as he boarded a commercial flight named in his honor from Chicago to Los Angeles on Thursday.

A Muslim convert from Brooklyn who ran a website that posted threats against the creators of the television show 'South Park' has entered a guilty plea.

New Jersey's second largest city is rolling out the welcome mat for the women of the "Jersey Shore."

A black skillet, a heat gun, pigments and beeswax take up a corner of LeRone Wilson's art studio in Harlem.