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IV Horn
Dec 1
Robert, Rudolph & Rankin/Bass
There is a capacity within the best-told stories on screen to become timeless in a way that connects people across generations, despite...
IV Horn
Oct 28
The Temporal Screen: Noirvember
Named by French critics to describe films based on mid-20th-century crime fiction, noir features a style and language unique to itself....
IV Horn
Sep 30
The Chainsaw Man
I belong to the last generation with limited internet access, so I figure that I found “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974) because of...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 1
2024 Lakeland Book Crawl
Get your reading glasses and bookmarks ready – it’s time for the 2024 Lakeland Book Crawl! The annual bookish bash will take place April...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 1
Harlow Manning: Cute Creatures and Broadway Dreams
Fourteen-year-old Harlow Manning is a freshman at Harrison School for the Arts. The young Winter Haven native was bound to be creative,...
Daryl Ward
Feb 1
A New Year, A New Festival
Polk County is fortunate to have so many wonderful arts festivals. From the Swan City Jazz Festival to the Lake Wales Arts Festival, to...
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 25, 2023
Bartow Ford Presents Lee Brice
Bartow Ford has been giving away a truck during the fall for as long as Bartow Ford President Benny Robles Jr. can remember. He noticed...
Momma Ashley & Rose Jason DeShazo
May 30, 2023
Momma Knows Best: Drag is an Art
The art of drag has a long history. It is nothing new to society, dating back centuries when men often dressed as women for entertainment...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 29, 2023
Mayfaire by-the-Lake
The Polk Museum of Art is thrilled to announce its 51st annual Citizens Bank & Trust Mayfaire by-the-Lake festival, to be held along the...
Provided
Feb 1, 2023
Honoring Local Black Heroes During Black History Month
Black History Month began as a way of remembering important people and events in African communities across the world. The United States...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1, 2023
Tiger Flowers Cemetery Tour
In honor of Black History Month, the Lakeland Public Library is hosting a Special Edition Stories and Stones Tour of Tiger Flowers...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1, 2023
Malcolm X: The Musical
“Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore, we need enlightenment. We need more light about each...
Tara Crutchfield
Jan 1, 2023
Rubber Soul & Revolver
On the heels of their full-house summer “Abbey Road” show, Classic Rock Legacy Presents is back at the Ritz with a cut-by-cut live...
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 30, 2022
Polk Forever
“The Earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry Have you ever wandered the boardwalk at Alligator Alley in Circle B Bar...
Tara Crutchfield
Jul 31, 2022
Florescence: A Collaboration in Bloom
Alongside the azaleas and calla lilies, an artistic partnership blossomed this spring. Like a beach sunflower, the creative collaboration...
Haven Magazine
Jul 31, 2022
Spirit and the Cosmic Heart
Winter Haven’s historic Ritz Theatre will get an otherworldly dose of dream pop from Spirit and the Cosmic Heart later this month. The...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 30, 2022
Polk County Bully Project
Since starting the Polk County Bully Project (PCBP), Co-directors Shannon Medina and Angie Lorio and their now 30 active volunteers have...
Adam Strang Bass
Apr 30, 2022
Blood Oranges
My family grew oranges in a grove next to a little wild lake in Polk County for four generations. The grove yielded its sweet crop and...
Ella Sexson
Oct 31, 2021
Blackberry Smoke
“Some of the best modern Southern rock around today.” - RIFF Magazine “After 20 years, they still make songs that make you want to boogie...
Tara Crutchfield
Oct 31, 2021
Vakti Gallery
Even with your head in the books, it would be hard not to appreciate the art on the walls of Downtown Lakeland’s independent bookstore,...
Kelly Sanford
Sep 30, 2021
Cocktails and Sweets
It’s that time of year again and what better way to celebrate the delicious decadence of spooky season than by combining two of our...
Tara Crutchfield
Jul 31, 2021
Pressed
Independent bookstore and coffee shop, Pressed had their grand opening on July 29. The page-turning proprietors, Christina and Paul...
Tara Crutchfield
Jun 30, 2021
‘One Search for All’
In May of this year, St. Louis, Missouri native and twenty-year Lakeland resident Derrick McBride released his debut selfpublished novel,...
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