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Maui markets wedding romance (Honolulu Advertiser) - Beautiful women draped in lovely bridal gowns carried striking bouquets that entwined island flowers, roses and orchids. They strolled through a tropical garden as a chef plated amazing food during a glimpse of the Maui Visitors Bureau marketing campaign: "Romance Me, Maui."

Movie Review: 'The Lookout' (The Epoch Times) - An actor of astonishing ability, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's charismatic presence instantly makes any film he's starring in 10 times better. A character actor with leading man looks, Gordon-Levi...

Anne Enright Review - Short Story (BellaOnline) - Booker Prizewinner Anne Enright wrote Short Stories too. A review to help you decide whether they are shockingly brilliant or brilliantly shocking. Review includes Book Buying Decision Tips and Gift Book Recommendations for Friends or Family Christmas,Birthday,Wedding,Mother's Day or Showers.

Working the Frequent-Flier System (Washington Post) - I remember sitting in my grandmother's living room, licking S&H Green Stamps and pasting them in prize booklets in hopes of getting something for free.

Death Casts a Pall Over Trials (Washington Post) - Distance runner Ryan Shay, 28, collapses nearly 5 1/2 miles into the U.S. men's Olympic marathon trials Saturday in New York and is pronounced dead later at a hospital.

Review: Hazel by Julie Hearn (Guardian Unlimited) - Linda Newbery votes for Julie Hearn's evocative novel set in the suffragette era, Hazel.

DVD Review: Babel (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) (Blogcritics.org) - The new special edition is worth buying for Disc Two alone. Written by El Conquistadorko One of the best movies to hit screens in the past several years, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 2006 film weaves together three stories—a pair of Moroccan brothers who fatefully make contact with an American tourist and later become hunted as terrorists, a deaf Japanese girl whose distant father is ...

REVIEW: "American Gangster" is no 'Godfather' (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - "American Gangster" is a pretty good gangster movie that shrinks in the shadow of better ones, particularly "The Godfather" and "The French Connection."

Movie Review | Gypsy Caravan: Documentary dispels myths about Romani (The Columbus Dispatch) - The term gypsy , often used pejoratively, conjures images of wastrels, vagabonds, fortunetellers and thieves, not to mention a distant memory of Cher belting out: "I was born in the wagon of a traveling show . . . "

Watch 'Em and Weep (Washington Post) - Why do we cry at the movies? Maybe it is the movie or the psychological baggage we schlepped in with us. Or is it empathy, or you-are-so-busted guilt? Maybe genetics or cultural conditioning. Or were we simply bursting to spill that night because the boss refused to give us a week off for Christm...