Spiderfest weekend and a garden bulb expert

Tickets are now available for the long anticipated celebration – THE Event 2008 – a benefit to raise money for local cancer patients and their families. THE Event 2008 will take place Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008. The previous sell-out event, held in 2006, was a huge success and helped The Stephen A. Comunale, Jr. Family Cancer Foundation raise money to benefit their extensive outreach program.

After struggling for a couple of weeks, Akron finished strong in the final week, going 5-2 in their last seven games to finish the year 80-62, their fourth season in a row with 80 wins or more. Kevin Dixon pitched well to pick up his ninth win of the year, as the Aeros have Tuesday off before they begin their best-of-five series for the Southern Division Championship with Bowie Wednesday night.

In their final season on F/X, which starts Tuesday, Detective Vic Mackey and his squad of corrupt LAPD cops will put the lid on what may be the greatest and most entertaining cop show on TV (and I love "Law & Order").

Joseph Nagyvary says he’s found a way to make contemporary violins sound like a Stradivarius.

For more information about multiple sclerosis or the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, visit www.MSohiobuckeye.org or call 1-800-667-7131.

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A conversation with the man behind "A Prarie Home Companion." Keillor’s "A Prairie Home Companion: The Rhubarb Tour'' – a live variety show adapted from his broadcast program – pulls into the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis on Sunday and South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset on Monday.a

Outkast and the Goodie MOb got me into Southern rap music in the mid-‘90s. I’ll even admit that there are a few guilty pleasures on Master P’s gloriously-awful "Ghetto Dope." But I just can’t get into the whole Southern-bounce thing, and its biggest star, Young Jeezy, embodies everything that makes the genre forgettable and indistinct on "The Recession."

Leave it to Kid Rock to sum up the summer of 2008. His massive hit, “All Summer Long,” about summertime in Michigan has listeners singing along, including folks around the world. The song recently topped the U.K. charts for one week.

Everyone has a friend he can’t reach until it’s too late — one in a relationship built on false promises, at whom you shake your head over countless wasted hours of emotional investment. That’s right. There is no crueler mistress than network TV.

Another September, another month that’s increasingly hard to disregard at the multiplex. This year, there are new titles from filmmakers like the Coen Brothers, Spike Lee and Fernando Meirelles, as well as stars such as George Clooney, Kate Hudson, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.