2024 Lakeland Book Crawl
Get your reading glasses and bookmarks ready – it’s time for the 2024 Lakeland Book Crawl! The annual bookish bash will take place April...
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Tara Crutchfield
Apr 1
Florida Mission of Mercy FREE DENTAL CARE!
For the first time since 2014, the Florida Mission of Mercy (FLA-MOM) will take place in Polk County. The free, two-day dental clinic...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1
Mike & Mike’s Desserts
As a child, Mike & Mike’s Desserts Co-owner and CGO Mike Mitchell spent his time measuring and mixing with his mother in the kitchen –...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1
Fancy Farms Market
“I think between December and January, that’s when the berries taste the best,” according to Fancy Farms Market co-owner Kristi...
Tara Crutchfield
Jan 2
Biscuits and Benedicts
Looking for homestyle cooking in charming downhome digs? You gotta risk it for the biscuit! Biscuits and Benedicts is one of Lakeland’s...
Tara Crutchfield
Nov 28, 2023
Who’s a Good Boy?
In 1972, two women interested in helping stray animals were introduced to each other by a veterinarian. This kismet meeting would mean...
Tara Crutchfield
Oct 31, 2023
Uncle Nick’s Italian Deli & Bagels
If you’ve enjoyed a fresh bagel at your local coffee shop, there’s a good chance it’s from this Lakeland deli. Off Old Road 37 is a...
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 25, 2023
The Cultivated Pig
Kevin Aydelott and Jimmy Fox, from different West Texas towns, met at church in 1998. They’ve been best friends ever since. Twenty-five...
Tara Crutchfield
Jul 31, 2023
WACO Kitchen
Diners at WACO Kitchen overlook the Lakeland Linder International Airport runway as planes taxi in and take off. A comfortable space to...
Gabriella Favilli-Vigoreaux
May 30, 2023
Big Love Bake Sale
When pondering the grassroots potential of the bake sale, it’s hard not to think of Georgia Gilmore, the woman who fed and funded the...
Tara Crutchfield
May 30, 2023
Rose Dynasty Foundation
Eight years ago, Jason DeShazo sat in the crowd of a Dixie Longate drag show. “I don’t think I laughed and cried so much in one sitting...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 30, 2023
Florida Dance Theatre
The Florida Dance Theatre, founded in 1993 by Carol Krajacic Erkes, is a “home and a community rather than a program,” according to...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 30, 2023
Lakeland Ice Cream Company
If there’s anything that transcends age and occasion, it’s ice cream. Nine to 99, birthdays to ‘just because’ there’s nothing like...
Tara Crutchfield
Apr 29, 2023
Mayfaire by-the-Lake
The Polk Museum of Art is thrilled to announce its 51st annual Citizens Bank & Trust Mayfaire by-the-Lake festival, to be held along the...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 29, 2023
Unfiltered Lakeland
When Geanie Folder walked into 801 E. Main, inspiration struck her like lightning. “I knew I could do something with the building,” she...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 1, 2023
Bandidas
The couple behind Bandidas pop-up café, Gio and Gabriella Favilli-Vigoreaux, could teach a masterclass in self-expression. Everything...
Austin Tharp
Mar 1, 2023
Aerospace Center for Excellence
The man, the myth, the Eric Crump. Who is he? What is going on at the Aerospace Center for Excellence in Lakeland? Are there aliens...
Tara Crutchfield
Mar 1, 2023
Pace Center for Girls
Pace Center for Girls’ mission is to provide girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling,...
Tara Crutchfield
Feb 1, 2023
Tiger Flowers Cemetery Tour
In honor of Black History Month, the Lakeland Public Library is hosting a Special Edition Stories and Stones Tour of Tiger Flowers...
Tara Crutchfield
Jan 2, 2023
Street Cafe
Over six thousand miles, an ocean, and the Sahara Desert separate Lakeland, Florida, from Egypt. Thanks to twenty-year Swan City resident...
Tara Crutchfield
Sep 30, 2022
One Hundred Feet or Bust
Champion Skier Barbara Cooper Clack Heddon “Don’t be too hard on yourself. You practice hard, you work hard, you give it all you’ve got.”...
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