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REVIEW: ‘The Wedding Singer' at the Music Hall (The Kansas City Star) - Even by the ever-dwindling standards for modern stage musicals, “The Wedding Singer” is a heck of a dud — an artless, cynical cash-in on an established name brand.

TV review: Shameless antics from the oblivious (Stuff) - TV One's Good Morning show hosts were beaming when self-promoters Yulia Townsend and her manager/husband Glyn MacLean presented them with slices of wedding cake saved from their much-publicised nuptials.

Your wedding budget: setting and sticking to it (The Virginia Gazette) - Want to make sure your marriage doesn't end up on the rocks before you get to the chapel? Then set a realistic wedding budget -- and stick to it.

Semi-Pro (Rolling Stone) - Starring: Andre Benjamin, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson Review: Whether he gets naked and shows his flabby parts or not, Will Ferrell makes me laugh. And he does it in hit movies (Elf, Old School, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory), horrible movies (The Producers, Bewitched, Kicking and Screaming) and movies where directors edge him into something deeper (Woody Allen's Melinda and ...

MUSIC REVIEW: A refocused k.d. lang is playing it straight (The Kansas City Star) - It may come as a surprise to her fans, but k.d. lang is playing it straight, both on her new album, "Watershed," which she produced, and her latest tour.

MUSIC REVIEW: A refocused k.d. lang is playing it straight (Lexington Herald-Leader) - It may come as a surprise to her fans, but k.d. lang is playing it straight, both on her new album, "Watershed," which she produced, and her latest tour. "Watershed," the four-time Grammy winner's first album of original material since 2000's "Invincible Summer," is lean, low-key, introspective and very often compelling - superior contemporary singer-songwriter fare dabbed with oblique touches ...

N.Y. Police on Trial in Wedding-Day Killing (Washington Post) - NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- Police who fired 50 shots at an unarmed man, killing him on his wedding day, showed "carelessness verging on incompetence," a prosecutor asserted Monday in opening statements as the racially charged trial of three undercover detectives began.

Color of Money Book Club (Washington Post) - Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary hosted an online discussion with Jeff Yeager, author of "The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches."(Free Press, $21), on Thursday, Feb. 28 at Noon ET.

A marriage made in intercollegiate heaven? (Naples Daily News) - The wedding date for Ave Maria University and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is drawing nearer with the new Collier County school joining the competitive athletic organization as soon as next year.

Review: Catapulted cows, show tunes and a good time (Naples Daily News) - If audience approval counts as the Holy Grail of theater, then King Arthur and his merry band of knights certainly succeeded in their quest to find applause during Tuesday night’s roadshow production of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers.