The Zac Brown Band, the country-jam band that won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, is coming to town.

For 36 years, IMAGES: A Festival of the Arts has brought hundreds of local, national and international artists to New Smyrna Beach for the juried art show and competition. Hosted by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the festival runs Saturday and Sunday at Riverside Park, with vendors extending to Canal Street along the Intracoastal Waterway.

Photographer Joni Sternbach is used to seeing her images of surfers instantly, once she has taken them on shorelines around the country. No thanks to modern digital technology, however.

Liam Neeson pumps up the volume on his reputation as a middle-aged neck-snapper with "The Grey," in which he doesn't take on a pack of bad guys but a pack of really bad wolves.

For Daytona Beach poet David Axelrod, the beauty of nature -- a common haiku theme -- wasn't the inspiration for his latest collection of poems. Axelrod found his latest poetic muse amid the roaring pistons and exhaust fumes of NASCAR, auto racing and fast cars.

That's no illusion when magic fans see roseate cockatoos, Camelot macaws, parakeets and doves flying around magician David DaVinci.

Images of "rolling sculptures" will be on display at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens.

Even in his post-"Avatar," post-"Clash of the Titans" stardom, Sam Worthington remembers what it was like to put it all down on one throw of the dice, to gamble everything on that main chance. He remembers what it was like to unload his possessions, sell everything, buy a car and live in it until he landed a big break.

If you need a break from watching the racing action at the Rolex 24 this weekend at Daytona International Speedway, you'll have plenty of activities and entertainment to choose from at the track

Three local teens will put their horses' best hooves forward as they represent Flagler County at the Florida High School Rodeo Association's event this weekend.