The shrill din of teenage shrieks filling the Florida Strawberry Festival stadium Sunday night didn't sound much different from the one that might greet the Jonas Brothers. But the cheers were for Taylor Swift, and they were less adulation and more identification. ...more

March 2, 2009

It seemed like an improbable gamble. The Christian Television Network in Largo, with a decidedly white, older audience, added "The Gospel Voice" to its lineup in December 2007. The half-hour taped show would be led by Riverview gospel singer-songwriter Derrick Williams and air nationally on Saturdays at midnight. ...more

February 7, 2009

The stale buddy road-trip movie "Soul Men" will be remembered mainly as the untimely swan song of Bernie Mac, the comic great who died in August at just 50. ...more

November 6, 2008

DUFFY: ROCKFERRY (Mercury) ***½ If Dusty Springfield ("Son of a Preacher Man") had a songstress for a daughter, she would be Duffy. ...more

July 3, 2008