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In Thriving India, Wedding Sleuths Find Their Niche (Washington Post) - NEW DELHI -- Like a lot of young Indian couples, they met on a matrimonial Web site and within a matter of weeks were picking out the wedding invitations, reserving the horse-drawn carriages and having the bride fitted for a pearl- and gold-encrusted sari.

Man arrested in wedding party slaying (The Daily Review) - Fremont police Wednesday arrested a man in Palo Alto accused of fatally shooting another man at a wedding reception in Niles last weekend.

Review: The Meaning of Sunglasses by Hadley Freeman (Guardian Unlimited) - Saffron Burrows finds out what not to wear in Hadley Freeman's The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable

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 ...

Book Review: New Ideas for Today's Knitting by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss (Blogcritics.org) - This isn't your grandmother's knitting... but it isn't yours, either. New Ideas for Today’s Knitting is a large hardbound volume that promises “glamorous, sexy, and cutting edge” designs. I suppose those terms could be used to describe the projects contained within… but not in a positive manner.Over 20 apparel projects are contained herein, ranging from dresses, camisoles, halter tops,...

Tax rebate tempts Americans to indulge bad habits (Fort Worth Business Press) - With a tax rebate on the forefront, it is critical that individuals and families take this opportunity to review their financial status, and ignore what many American leaders are urging, Buy something – anything – and buy it now!

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...

Israeli, Palestinian Comics Take Show on the Road to the Heartland (Washington Post) - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's not every day that an Arab comedian marries a Jewish woman.

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. ...

Grim from start to finish, or finish to start (Denver Post) - Review: There's nothing remotely subpar about Denver Center Attractions' "The Last Five Years" in presentation or performance. Now, about that story ... Rating: **1.2