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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.

Review Bridal Show to be held Sunday (The Daily & Sunday Review) - For those needing something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, a visit to The Daily Review Bridal Show may fill all those needs.

Review: About My Life And The Kept Woman (International Herald Tribune) - "About My Life and the Kept Woman," John Rechy's audacious, occasionally charming, more often maddening memoir, tells the story of how he became the icon his Web site celebrates.

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 ...

At the Movies (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) - City of Men Growing up in a Brazilian ghetto culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, two teenage boys who have become close as brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war. Review in Friday's Today section.

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.

NAMES & FACES (Washington Post) - Artistic Director Judith Jamison says she will relinquish her Alvin Ailey post in 2011. (By Pablo Martinez Monsivais -- Associated Press) Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.

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 ...