TheBridesReview.com Web News Archive

Weddings for the week of Oct. 30, 2005 (Herald & Review) - Basic wedding information submitted within six weeks after the event, and engagement information submitted at least two months before the wedding is published free of charge.

Movie review: 'Paradise Now' (Metromix.com) - In "Paradise Now," director Hany Abu-Assad takes on a subject that's as risky as they come, both dramatically and morally.

MYSTERY OF A LOST ARTIST (San Francisco Chronicle) - Six years ago on a warm, fall Saturday afternoon, my wife, Judy, and I were heading back to our bookstore in the San Fernando Valley. We had just wasted half the day at a disappointing book sale in West Los Angeles. The prices had been high, the merchandise...

Crystal and Gray (Boston Globe) - It was very interesting to read Ed Siegel's article comparing and contrasting Billy Crystal and Spalding Gray (''With Crystal in town, Gray comes to mind," Living/Arts, Oct. 29). As a professional storyteller, I wondered what I would think of Crystal's first serious one-man show. I loved a great deal of it, but I had the same problems with it that ...

Theater (San Jose Mercury News) - To testosterone or not to testosterone? Director Edward Hall (son of fabled British director Sir Peter) brings it on with an all-male take on the Bard's ``The Winter's Tale.'' Hall's muscular attitude toward the classics has made him a hot property in theater circles. Banish all thought of quaint hey-nonny hijinks. This is not Shakespeare as museum piece. This is Shakespeare as iambic shock-jock.

Couple who met during jury duty wed (Herald & Review) - DECATUR - When Sam Orozco and Josie Dickson showed up for a one-week stint of jury duty earlier this year, they had no idea they'd be returning to court almost nine months later to enter into a lifelong commitment.

Blunkett: The inside story (Independent) - Tony Blair said he left office 'with no stain of impropriety'. The record suggests otherwise. Francis Elliott, our Whitehall Editor, whose exclusive story last Sunday led to Blunkett's resignation, reveals the letters that cast doubt on the ex-minister's version of events

POLICE INVESTIGATION: Report: 'Criminal' acts cost city (Las Vegas Review-Journal) - A former Las Vegas public works director likely cost the city "millions of dollars" by making decisions in the late 1990s that benefited developer Bill Walters, according to a Metropolitan Police Department investigation report obtained by the Review-Journal on Thursday.

In theaters (Bradenton Herald) - REVIEW ON 4E. A stunning character study of Truman Capote, author and personality, during the Kansas years he reported "In Cold Blood," befriending and betraying the killers of a farming family. In the title role, Philip Seymour Hoffman is uncanny. (98 min.)

Movie review: Shopgirl ***** (Toledo Blade) - The opening shots of Steve Martin's wistful, romantic, jewellike, and at times uncomfortably creepy Shopgirl prowl the aisles of Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.