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Beach House - Devotion (Rolling Stone) - Artist: Beach House Review: "Your wish is my command," purrs singer-keyboardist Victoria Legrand on "Wedding Bell," conjuring an image of I Dream of Jeannie's Barbara Eden bottled up in a bong. The lead track to the group's second full-length is true to the spirit of its name: This is music as secret hideaway, all come-hither vocals, fuzzy organ riffs, liquid slide guitar and muffled drum beats ...

DVD Review: Margot at the Wedding (Blogcritics.org) - A feel bad family comedy. Noah Baumbach's characters have always been slightly maladjusted, but they never felt unreal. Margot at the Wedding changes that. In his latest film, he transplants characters from a Todd Solondz film into a movie that is too dramatic, tonally, when compared to its characters. One of those characters is Margot (Nicole Kidman), a writer from...

DVD Review: Margot At The Wedding (Blogcritics.org) - An adult character study of family dynamics and relationships. Writer/director Noah Baumbach seems to enjoy exploring the dark underbelly of family dynamics and relationships. Baumbach wrote the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale, in which the father (Jeff Daniels) of an intellectual, if slightly eccentric, Brooklyn family claims to have been a great novelist but has settled into a teaching job. ...

DVD Review (Princeton Town Topics) - AT HOME WITH BILL AND TRINA: This still from Frank Borzage’s “Man’s Castle” shows the artfully deranged habitat shared by the lovers. The $5-down stove can be seen next to Spencer Tracy (as Bill), who has just attempted to rob a toy factory to help pay for the baby Trina’s expecting.

CAROLYN HAX (Washington Post) - Adapted from a recent online discussion: Dear Carolyn: I was married a month ago. Before we got married, we had some serious issues with his mother. She made it very clear she didn't like me and refused to support our wedding. He was convinced she would come around, and she made an attempt as the...

'Chaperone' takes modern look at old-time musical (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - If "The Drowsy Chaperone" sounds like a musical your great-grandmother might have enjoyed in her youth, you would be both right and wrong.

Stocks: The Knot will recover (Crain's New York Business) - The wedding business is relatively recession-proof, and this company's revenues are rising steeply.

CAROLYN HAX (Washington Post) - Dear Carolyn: Last night I had a very serious discussion with my girlfriend. We haven't seen each other in two months because she's been so overwhelmed with work (she got a major promotion in September, and she's essentially on the job 24/7). She admits with great regret and guilt that she doesn'...

Judge Hears Ownership Case Over Proposed Quarry Land (The Morning News) - FAYETTEVILLE - The fate of a proposed Washington County quarry near Elkins is expected to be decided today.

Fundraising Deason of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoop.co.nz) - Theatrewhack, in association with Stage2 Productions and AUSA are proud to present William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Auckland University Drama Studio, from March 12 to 29, 2008. This production is a fundraiser for the Auckland University Summer Shakespeare.