We Should All Love Our Healthy Roots

We Should All Love Our Healthy Roots

Yelitsa Jean-Charles is on a mission to help children embrace their hair — and redefine society’s beauty standards along the way. One Christmas, when Yelitsa Jean-Charles was 6 or 7, her parents bought her a doll whose brown skin was similar to her own, and she...
The Art of the Highwaymen

The Art of the Highwaymen

“The Art of the Highwaymen”, a new exhibit at the Polk Museum of Art. This spring, the Polk Museum of Art will present nearly 70 works of the prodigious and widely popular group of artists known as the Florida Highwaymen is an original exhibition entitled “The...
Oh Goody!

Oh Goody!

She’s the star of one of the world’s most popular animated shows. Now, she’s getting her own theme park right here in Polk County. Everyone’s favorite animated pig is getting her own theme park, right here in Polk County. The Peppa Pig Theme Park, based on the wildly...

What to Do After Work | Jan. 18-21

Tuesday, 1/18 Tasty Tuesday | Downtown Lakeland | 4:30 Wednesday, 1/19 Country Music with JW Griffin | Union Hall | 8 p.m. Noan Partly (Grateful Dead Tribute) Live | The Yard On Mass | 7 p.m. Thursday, 1/20 48 States Away | Hillcrest Coffee| 7pm Friday, 1/21 Madeline...