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Did you stop by the Fancy Flea Vintage Home & Garden show this past weekend in Downtown Lakeland?  This semi-annual flea market is one of the Top 10 in the country and was the biggest show to date. Vendors from all over set up shop at this event, and shoppers strolled the streets of Lakeland browsing through [...]

As if Saturdays weren’t busy enough, the Fancy Flea Vintage Home and Garden Market will be having their semi-annual flea market on Saturday April 28, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in downtown Lakeland. It will offer some of the best vintage home and garden finds in the area. The spring event will feature [...]

This Week: April 2-8 Detroit Tigers Spring Training Date: April 2 Venue: Joker Marchant Stadium – Lakeland -The Tigers take on the Toronto Blue Jays at 1:05 p.m. in their last home game of 2012 Spring Training. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Date: Monday, April 2 Venue: The Lakeland Center -A musical based on the 2008 [...]

This week: March 19-25 Detroit Tigers Spring Training Dates: Now-April 3 Games start at 1:05 p.m. Venue: Joker Marchant Stadium- Lakeland -Spring Training for the Detroit Tigers has begun!  Check the schedule for daily home games at Joker Marchant Stadium. This week’s home games: Tuesday, March 20- Atlanta Braves Wednesday, March 21- Minnesota Twins  Saturday, [...]

For 41 years now the Bloomin’ Arts Festival has been gracing Central Florida with beautiful art, live music and delicious food. Located in downtown Bartow along Main Street and Central Avenue, the tradition will continue this Saturday and Sunday, March 3rd and 4th, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Various artists will be [...]

Visitors to Polk County can save big on area attractions and activities, restaurants, shops, accommodations, golf courses and more with the new 2012 “Passport to Adventure and Savings” discount card, produced by the Central Florida Visitors and Convention Bureau . The free card is part of a brochure including more than 140 special offers from Polk [...]

If a quaint, picnic-style lunch is what you’re in the mood for, then plan a visit to The Back Porch Restaurant at The Barn in Lake Alfred. The Back Porch makes a great place to hold a luncheon, celebrate a special occasion or spend a day with family and friends. When walking into the restaurant, [...]

Saturday 15th October dawned clear and sunny.  I had marked the date as special for a long time.  I was going to visit Bok Tower Gardens for their Boktoberfest celebration.  Having been a fan of Bok Tower gardens for many years, and having visited at different times and in different seasons, this was the first [...]

Downtown Lakeland, FL is launching a new App, allowing tourists and residents to discover useful information about Downtown events, parking, shopping, dining, art and entertainment. The new Downtown Lakeland App is FREE, and available for both Apple and Android mobile devices. More than half of all cell phone users will have smart phones this year, and [...]

The City of Winter Haven hosts the Central Park Stroll in Downtown Winter Haven each year to proudly highlight their new art sculptures for the year.  The sculptures displayed in Downtown Winter Haven represent the winning pieces from the  Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition and are displayed until the following year’s winners are selected. The Central [...]