Theresa Davis and Travis Nichols from Theatre Tallahassee will be discussing their upcoming production of Edward Albee’s famous play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The show runs January 15th though February 1st. Tickets and information can be found at theatretallahassee.org.

CEO of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Mandy Stringer, and guest conductor Robert Moody discuss the TSO's upcoming concert featuring award-winning soprano Renée Fleming called Voice of Nature. The performance is January 17th at 7:30PM in Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Tickets and information can be found at tallahasseesymphony.org.

Cultural Note for the week of January 5th.

On tonight’s program: Florida lawmakers hadn’t originally planned for 2026 to be a congressional redistricting year. But then President Donald Trump called; A priority of Florida’s senate president to funnel more state resources into rural counties didn’t make it in 2025.But it’s make a return appearance in 2026; A move to allow younger Floridians to own long guns is attracting some pushback ahead of the lawmaking session; Florida law requires rental property owners to take reasonable steps to protect their tenants from things like gun violence. Although that law was watered down a few years back; If you’re whipsawed by inflation at the grocery store, you might want to consider growing more of that food yourself; And we go back in time a quarter-of-a-century to a political meltdown that was very unlike today when all politics is taken very personally by everybody.

This week 411 Teen discusses teen driving safety with Kathy Holland, CEO of Mindr, advocates for substance free driving and the makers of Keeper, a personal breathalyzer.

On tonight’s program: We remember the tragic shooting on FSU’s campus and the resilience of the university’s students; As Florida starts dumping public health mandates in favor of personal choice, it seems viruses don’t really respond all that well to political arguments; Florida brings back its controversial black bear hunt, although state officials insist everything will be done “humanely” and “by the book.”; During the year nearly passed, it seemed a growing number of people joined the campaign to persuade more bio-dads to become actual loving, supportive and present fathers; And this year has been one of citizens making their voices heard. We visit one of the No Kings Protests that took place on the Florida Capitol lawn.

This week, 411 Teen talks with Candace DeMatteis, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at the Partnership to Fight Infection Disease on the importance of childhood vaccination.

On tonight's program: In Florida, the battle lines are being drawn In the upcoming fight over who will pay for all the infrastructure the AI industry needs; We get a look ahead to how Florida property taxes may change, now that Governor DeSantis has weighed in on the matter; The present wave of anti-Semitic violence has Jewish congregations on high alert; An investigative report by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times suggests theDeSantis administration diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer money to fight two ballot initiatives. Money that should have gone somewhere else; It’s the old city vs country debate, but with untold millions of dollars-worth of development hanging in the balance, politics is playing an even bigger role; Florida’s official public health policy is moving away from required vaccinations. But that hasn’t stopped many in the medical community from citing worrisome data; Florida signs on to a multi-state lawsuit against the popular weed killer Roundup; and the old saying about “music having charms to soothe the savage beast” is being amended to say: “music has charms to soothe the saddened soul.”

Cultural Notes for the week of December 29th.

Politics RAPP, a regular feature of 411 TEEN, explores local, state and national political happenings with a team of dedicated students from Rickards High School's International Baccalaureate program, sharing their perspectives and discussing the significance and impact of current politics.