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Some holiday traditions endure and others, well, they just don't have what it takes. In the latter category, this is the year that I finally abandon my dream of a joyous Florida ice-skating excursion — of gliding across the glassy surface of...

Running off at the typewriter. … Johnny Van Zant, lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, was in town Friday night playing a concert at the UCF Arena. When I asked him why his hometown Jaguars haven't acquired another Jacksonville legend — Tim...

It's time to rate the Cirques, now that I've seen "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour," which played at the O-rena last week. What? We have to call it by that mundane name? Oh, all right, I'm gritting my teeth … Amway Center. Of the Cirque du...

I have a friend in Melbourne who already has her outdoor holiday lights up. As she likes to say: "Yes, I'm that kind of neighbor." While that seems a little premature — let's wait for Thanksgiving, at least — it is starting to feel like fall...

At the end of last year, things were looking up for the business that feeds off UCF sports. The football team was fresh off a Conference USA title. The basketball team was on a 14-game winning streak. All of those victory vibes had university financial...

It's the holidays, the time of the year I search fruitlessly for someone — anyone — willing to accompany me on an ice-skating expedition. This wasn't always such a problem. When I was in high school, in a suburb of Miami, the gang always...

Members of the Harlem Globetrotters will drop by the Fun Spot location near International Drive for a meet-and-greet session on Friday. The famed basketball team is in Central Florida for appearances at UCF Arena and Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee....

Fans of Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo will need to wait a few more months for new episodes, as Long Island Medium Season 4 returns on TLC in May 2013. Although it seems – FOREVER – since the hit medium and her lovable family have graced...

Saturday Night Live" spoofed her, and James Bond star Daniel Craig played her husband. "It was amazing. The only thing that upset me, they didn't get my hair high enough," Caputo says. Her husband is now called "the Long Island Bond."...

More than 4,700 University of Central Florida students are expected to graduate on Friday and Saturday during commencement ceremonies featuring speakers such as former Speaker of the House Dean Cannon and Valencia College President Sandy Shugart. All...

Seminole State College plans to graduate a record number of students this semester — more than 3,000 will receive bachelor’s degrees, associate degrees and program certificates, Seminole State announced today. On Sunday, many of them will...