Don't say Hartford is boring!

Spent Saturday morning at "Florida's Largest Home Show" (they made me say that under threat of firing squad), which sprawled out for a quarter-mile at the Tampa Convention Center. The three vids here don't exactly contain the same white hot sex-kapow of, say, me on a trampoline or me chowing buttery crustaceans. But there are a few laffs sprinkled about. The Home Show goes until Monday. For more ...

In his second year being involved with the Tredyffrin Student Film Festival, Dan Leung, a recent Conestoga High School graduate, has taken home awards in four categories. The 2010 Film Festival first-place winner for his film “The End,” Leung also took home the award for People’s Choice, and in 2009 he won in both the Best Directing and Best Screenplay categories.

More than one million users joined Apple's new music-focused social network Ping in the 48 hours following its launch, the company said.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of downtown Matthews for a parade on Saturday morning starting day two of the annual Matthews alive festival. It is known as the Southeast's largest labor day parade.

Now that school has started in the Twin Towns, Leach Public Library is gearing up for its fall programs. First, the library's story time program, which runs Mondays at 2 p.m. and Tuesdays at 10 a.m. from Sept. 13-Dec. 13-14, is usually a 45-minute program for children ages 3-5.