FAIRS & FESTS Saturday Gulfport Gecko Fest: Family festival and walking parade celebrates the end of summer with live music, street performers, sidewalk chalk art, face painting, drum circle, food vendors and street dance; noon to 10 p.m. (parade at 6 p.m., street dance at 8 p.m.); free; Beach Boulevard, Gulfport; (727) 322-5217 ...more

August 29, 2008

THEATER Today-Saturday "Once Upon a Mattress"; New Tampa Players perform the musical comedy based on the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"; 8 p.m. today and Saturday (runs through Aug. 9); $14 adults, $12 seniors and children; University Area Community Complex, 14013 N. 22nd St., Tampa; (813) 386-6687 ...more

August 1, 2008

Ask Bettye LaVette if her first-ever Grammy nomination this year felt like vindication and she agrees heartily. ...more

February 21, 2008

Tickets are on sale for a benefit concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9, at Calvary Lutheran Church, 5309 U.S. 41 N. ...more

October 15, 2007