Year in Review: Lake City area’s top stories of 2008 (Lake City News & Post)

Customers purchase items from local farmers in June during the South Carolina Farmer’s Festival at the National Bean Market Museum of South Carolina.

That’s saying a lot (Mountain Xpress)

What can you say about 2008? Plenty. The past year provided no shortage of notable quotes, fueled by the struggles and successes that made headlines week by week in Mountain Xpress and every day at mountainx.com. Consider just a smattering of the hot topics that filled our Web and print pages: the 30th annual Bele Chere festival, the 20th Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, the economic crisis, local ...

And the winners are ...2008 Stevies (The Augusta Chronicle)

The best way to celebrate the new year is to examine the old. Below are my picks for the semiregular, sort-of annual Stevie Awards, named for and picked by yours truly. Though that sounds conceited, it should be noted that, as should be the case, no actual award is ever won. Recipients walk away with only my admiration. Here are last year's winners.

A&E Events (Creative Loafing Tampa)

DECEMBERWednesday, Dec. 31 Nervous Turkey (Yeoman's Road Pub, Tampa)Wednesday, Dec. 31 Rewind: The WMNF Tribute to the Music and Songs of 1968 w/ Boon/Christie Lenee/Crabgrass Cowboys/Ted Lukas/Johnny Zoom/Lush Progress/Midnight Bowler’s League/Rancid Polecats/Roppongi’s Ace/Talk to Mark WMNF’s Flee strays from his typical tribute show tradition of having a diverse lineup of local acts honor a ...

It was a year of unexpected news (Albert Lea Tribune)

The year 2007 had the kind of news that seems to be the standard stuff that happens in a community.

Old is new again in 2008 (The Index-Journal)

A lot of old things were new again in the world of arts and entertainment in the Greenwood area for 2008. And for those yearning for something new, there were plenty of new things to try in 2008.