Sheldon Zoldan

Part musical, part revue, “Forever Plaid” revives the music of the '50s and '60s BY SHELDON ZOLDAN Florida Weekly Correspondent

Toll Brothers' new plans for a townhouse community along Corkscrew Road is one of the six projects

Comic seen on ‘America's Got Talent' and late-night TV shows coming to Southwest Florida BY SHELDON ZOLDAN Florida Weekly Correspondent

Some might argue George Harrison was the most successful Beatle after the Beatles’ broke up. He released 12 solo studio albums and two live albums before he died November 29, 2001 of lung cancer. The Song of the Day was written while he was a Beatle but after he discovered Hindu and Hare Krishnaism. Both religions focus on reincarnation.

Southwest Florida Proton will begin seeing patients using the more conventional photon treatment in mid-December.

The business of comedy in Southwest Florida is nothing to laugh about. It's an industry that draws thousands of people to large comedy clubs and pop-up one-nighters in restaurants, bars and even an American Legion Post, to eat, drink and laugh.

On Dec. 6, 1969, a Hell’s Angel member killed a concertgoer during a rock concert at Altamont Speedway in northern California. Rock historians like to call it the end of the 1960s, and the antithesis of Woodstock, four months earlier.

Comedian Brian Bates has performed in a prison, living rooms and even a dog park, but he has never performed in a culinary theater. That's all about to change.

The new outpatient center is the first at Lee Health to offer the 3T MRI magnet, which produces high-resolution images with a magnetic field that’s twice as strong as a standard MRI.

Florenz Ziegfield had chutzpah, if he didn’t, he never would have made the Broadway musical “Showboat.” The musical premiered December 27, 1928, in Ziegfield’s new theater. “Showboat” had a great score with such songs as “Ol Man River,” “Make Believe” and “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” but it was more serious than the musicals of the day that made it different.