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• Floridian American Idol finalist wows fans at home

  Syesha Mercado -- the first South Floridian to reach American Idol's Top 3 -- made the trip back home Friday for a series of appearances that were taped for Tuesday's show.

• Top 5 Hits | Mariah still tops

  Despite a 61 percent decline in sales, Mariah Carey's E=MC2 remains atop The Billboard 200 for a second straight week, moving 182,000 copies in the U.S. to top Leona Lewis' Spirit, which sold 96,000.

• CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW

  Piano fest opens with flair

  In the 20th-century the Eurocentric keyboard literature of Chopin, Beethoven, and Brahms was enriched by an unexpected profusion of works created by Spanish and South American composers.

• CONCERT REVIEW

  Kanye pokes fun at rap brat rep

  Although Kanye West was clearly the headliner Tuesday night in his Glow in the Dark Tour at downtown Miami's AmericanAirlines Arena, the three other acts on the bill got plenty of love from the enthusiastic sold-out crowd.

• Booted from 'American Idol'

  American Idol viewers finally gave Jason Castro the boot Wednesday night after 51 million votes came in. Host Ryan Seacrest asked Jason why he had such a hard time with the songs Tuesday night. ''Inexperienced,'' Jason said, grinning goofily like Barbarino, the endearing but dim-bulb character John Travolta played in the '70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.

• CLASSICAL MUSIC

  Seraphic Fire to unveil chamber orchestra this fall

  Seraphic Fire's 2008-2009 season will feature the debut of its chamber orchestra, an expansion to nine programs, and a return to performances in Palm Beach County.

• CONCERT REVIEW

  Radiohead show journeys beyond greatest hits

  British experimental rock band Radiohead kicked off their U.S. tour Monday night at West Palm Beach's Cruzan Amphitheatre -- and despite front man Thom Yorke declaring at one point, ''Sorry about that. We obviously did not practice that enough,'' the group put together a tight two-hour set that drew from all of the band's seven albums, except for 1993's Pablo Honey, which had the hit Creep.

• CONCERT REVIEW

  With blues-rock set, Clapton regains his grip on greatness

  Long ago, Eric Clapton's skills on the electric guitar so impressed legions of followers in mid-'60s England, that ''Clapton is God'' line appeared as graffiti on walls around Britain in appreciation.

• Young audience abandoning 'Idol'

  The fevered response to the latest loopy Paula Abdul episode, where she judged a phantom performance, just goes to show how American Idol continues to dominate television in its seventh season. Yet while Idol is still a hit, it's no longer necessarily hip.

• Radiohead rocks West Palm Beach

  British experimental rock band Radiohead kicked off its U.S. tour Monday night at West Palm Beach's Cruzan Amphitheatre -- and despite front man Thom Yorke declaring at one point, ''Sorry about that. We obviously did not practice that enough,'' the group put together a tight two-hour set that drew from all of the band's seven albums, except for 1993's Pablo Honey, which gave us the hit Creep.

• The blues rule Eric Clapton concert -- and that's cause for joy

  ''Eric Clapton is God'' again. Long ago, Clapton's skills on the electric guitar so impressed legions of followers in mid-'60s England, that ''Clapton is God'' line appeared as graffiti on walls around Britain in appreciation.

• Reaching to Darfur: High school students enlist Kanye West to raise funds for Sudan

  Gabriel Schillinger was 17 and a child of privilege -- son of a doctor, a junior at the private Episcopal St. Andrew's High School in Boca Raton -- when he decided he needed to do something to give back to the world. He got together with some other students, and they asked each other, ``How can we help?''

• Where's the man on the moon?

  Q: When the first man landed on the moon, Time Life released a record called Man on the Moon. Inside was a record and books. Are there any I can buy?