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A de la Renta Gown for Jenna's Texas Wedding (Washington Post) - Jenna Bush will wear a "simple and elegant" wedding gown designed by Oscar de la Renta at her May 10 wedding: organza with embroidery, matte beading and a small train -- and yet "still casual." But don't expect any pictures beforehand: Fiance and "major traditionalist" Henry Hager doesn't want to see the dress until she walks down the aisle.

What's On: Stage (Toronto Star) - Review ratings, awarded on a four-star basis, are provided by Star critics. T.O. Tix offers tickets, some discounted, for a variety of shows and productions.

EUR FILM REVIEW: Sex and Death 101 (Eurweb) - *Roderick Blank (Simon Baker) never expected to settle down. The confirmed bachelor had been content to parlay his good looks into a neverending string of sexual conquests.

To wed May 17 (Ely Daily Times) - Sandi and Chuck Clum of McGill and Patrick and Lorretta Pendergest of Wheatland, Wyo., are excited to announce the engagement and forthcoming wedding of their daughter Meagan Louise Pendergest to Robert William Craig.

The Yellowed Pages: News from 50 years ago in The Guide (The Baltimore Guide) - by Jacqueline Watts editor@baltimoreguide.com April 17, 1958 First Lieuts. Richard A. Lejk, “of a well-known Eastside family,” and Rose Marie Csordas honeymooned in Europe following their wedding ceremony at Ben Guerir Air Base in Morocco, North Africa. The new Mrs. Lejk, an Air Force nurse, was a native of Windber, Pa. The Guide put out a warning about young [...]

Judge Denies New Trial In Murder Plot Case (Hartford Courant) - Judge Patrick J. Clifford's remarks about his real estate agent wife and basketball star Ray Allen's interest in a pricey shoreline house she once listed shouldn't affect the conviction of Ernest Garlington for an attempted hit against Allen's stepfather, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Ear evidence gets a day in court (BBC News) - Experts are challenged over the validity of ear print evidence, reports the BBC's Ben Ando.

Project Prom makes donated dresses available (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - One of the biggest challenges on television's "Project Runway" this season had designers working with teenagers from New Jersey to make prom dresses. ...

Planning a wedding entirely online (Texarkana Gazette) - LAS VEGAS—My wedding felt like a blind date. Not with my groom, of course—that part looked familiar.

'Blood Wedding': Moonstruck, Star-Crossed (Washington Post) - You wouldn't dare associate such soppy rhymes as "croon" or "June" with the moon in Hugo Medrano's elegantly spare "Bodas de Sangre" ("Blood Wedding"). With her gauzy blue-white drapery and ethereal prancing, this feminine lunar presence might look as if she's escaped from a modern-dance troupe, ...