Port St. Lucie's VersaEmerge -- Devin Ingelido, Sierra Kusterbeck and Blake Harnage -- play the Warped Tour on Saturday at Cruzan Amphitheatre.

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The trio of musicians in VersaEmerge has seen a lot already – national tours, band members leaving, time in the recording studio.

But is this band from Port St. Lucie, which just released its first full-length LP and is playing on this weekend’s Warped Tour, becoming hard-edged veterans of the music business?

Sierra Kusterbeck would have you thinking otherwise really quickly.

VersaEmerge’s lead singer talks about the band’s first trip to producer Dave Bassett’s recording studio in Malibu, Calif., with the enthusiasm of a wide-eyed innocent. Considering she’s just 20, it’s not all that surprising.

"He calls the place Chateau Relaxeau," Kusterbeck said. "It’s on this private road, and we’re winding up the mountain, one wrong turn and goodbye, right? It’s awesome, though. At the end of this five-minute ride, we get out of the car and we’re like, ‘Are we in heaven? I think we are!’ It had this gorgeous view, lots of fresh air."

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By AMANDA FARINOS

A friend of mine recently took a trip to Ireland. Enamored with the food, upon her return she began trying out Irish recipes and ended up making beef and Guinness stew for a dinner party in June.

We shared a laugh over this, but when I planned to visit the Town Crier Pub, I had a feeling I, too, was about to eat some unseasonably hearty food. Not so. Most old pub standards like shepherd’s pie weren’t even on the menu.

Town Crier can be classified as a gastropub, a term more recently used to describe not just a pub that includes a restaurant — but one that serves up dishes a foodie really can get excited about. Even the waitstaff was enthusiastic about the menu and beers on tap.

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“I was not, ever, for a second, popular.”

That’s what superhottie Megan Fox has said of her middle and high school years in Port St. Lucie, where she has said she was picked on and made few friends.

Well, what a difference a few years make.

Here is Megan strutting her stuff — and plenty of skin — at the Tokyo premiere Monday of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, in which she co-stars with Shia Labeouf.

Fox, 22, is not shy about discussing her sexuality, either.
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