An opportunity to learn how to landscape in a way that is sustainable, cost-effective and helps enhance our quality of life. The goal of the conference is to showcase the need to reverse course on how communities, developments and individual private homes develop their outdoor landscapes. While the decline of the Indian River Lagoon has been attributed mainly to Lake Okeechobee discharges and septic-system pollutants, use of non-native plantings that require fertilizing and pesticides have also contributed.

Winners of the 2019 American Prize in Chamber Music, Seraph Brass is a dynamic ensemble drawing from a roster of America's top female brass players. Seraph Brass released its debut album, Asteria, on Summit Records, winning a Silver Medal Global Music Award. Seraph Brass is in residency at the Walton Art Center’s Artosphere Festival, alongside the Dover Quartet, in the festival orchestra. More information at: music@fit.edu, floridatech.edu/music or 321-674-8082.

The critics continued to pan his technique, but the audiences came to love Tchaikovsky's melodies, and by 1888, he was among the most famous composers in Europe, decorated by the Czar, and soon to embark on a tour to New York for the opening of Carnegie Hall.

It was time for another symphony -- his fifth --  and we'll hear it this week on Mozart's Attic. The critics didn't like it, but the years have been kinder to Tchaikovsky than to them.

UPDATE: CREW DRAGON LAUNCH ESCAPE TEST

SpaceX is standing down from Saturday's in-flight Crew Dragon launch escape test attempt due to sustained winds and rough seas in the recovery area. They are now targeting Sunday, January 19 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. This test, which does not have NASA astronauts onboard the spacecraft, is intended to demonstrate Crew Dragon’s ability to reliably carry crew to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency on ascent.