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Dance review: Black Label Movement's 'Wreck' is riveting, harrowing (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - REVIEW: The dark subject -- a crew trapped in a sunken ore carrier -- is transcended in scenes of gorgeous intensity.

Bridal Expo helps couples connect with vision of their big day (Herald & Review) - DECATUR - Jessica Pressley knows as well as anybody about the cost of a wedding. The bride-to-be is busy planning her October wedding but got a bit of unexpected help Saturday at the Decatur Bridal Expo, sponsored by the Herald & Review.

For Young Libyans, Old-Style Marriage Is a Dream Too Far (Washington Post) - TRIPOLI, Libya -- Thirty-one-year-old Abdel Baset al-Assady dreams of getting married in the mountains, where Arabian horses would paw the air and prance in rhythm with his wedding drums.

Pros and cons of a tented wedding (The Globe Gazette) - Q: We’re torn between a tent wedding on his parents’ lawn or a celebration in a standard hotel ballroom. I know that tented weddings are usually more expensive, but what are the other pros and cons?

Bomb in Baghdad Kills at Least 7 In Crowd of Mostly Shiite Shoppers (Washington Post) - BAGHDAD, Dec. 28 -- Twice on the road to the bombing scene Friday, carloads of young Iraqi men sped by in the opposite direction. The jubilant wedding revelers leaned out of their windows gesturing wildly as they drove through the streets.

Book Review: Everlasting by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (Blogcritics.org) - The posthumous work by the inventor of the modern historical romance novel. Abrielle of Harrington is the only child of Berwin and Elspeth. She is renown for her beauty and grace. After her father dies in service to King Henry during the Crusades, her mother marries Vachel de Gerard. The tale begins as Abrielle, her mother, and her stepfather attend a banquet where it is theorized that King ...

Modern Party, Polygamist Tradition Clash in S. Africa (Washington Post) - JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 4 -- Within the Zulu culture of Jacob Zuma, the newly elected president of the African National Congress, few moments in a man's life are more celebrated than taking a wife -- even if he already has others.

Review: 'Margot at the Wedding' crashes without wit, depth of director's 'Squid' (Albuquerque Tribune) - With 2005's "The Squid and the Whale," writer-director Noah Baumbach created characters who were smart, witty, sad, vulnerable and, above all else, laceratingly verbal.

A Digital Mom and Pop (Washington Post) - Jennifer Canty, chief executive of online retailer Dyscern, keeps her friends close and her co-workers closer.

UPDATE: Picking Up Pieces After Mommy's Gone (Washington Post) - When they left the hospital with their newborn twins that spring day nearly two years ago, Maggie and Kevin Beirne felt they could at last begin their life together as a family.