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Review: 'A Catered Affair' is musical-theater minimalism (AP via Yahoo! News) - Funny thing about silences on stage. They can enhance what follows. And there are plenty of quiet, affecting moments in "A Catered Affair," a most unusual little musical that has the courage of its low-key, yet heartfelt convictions.

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.

Fun facts about your favorite writers (USA Today) - Fact: Kurt Vonnegut once managed a SAAB dealership. Fact: The Bronte sisters lived in a house surrounded on three sides by graveyards. Fact: Ernest Hemingway once wrestled a critic to the floor after he gave him a bad review. If...

Weekend Notes (The Morning News) - April 18-24 On Stage Today-Saturday SPRINGDALE - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley brings "Impossible Marriage," a modern comedy set in the lush garden of a Savannah mansion, to the Arts Center of the Ozarks for the final weekend. Pandora Kingsley has planned the perfect wedding, but everyone is against it. And when the wedding guests have been sprung from the pen of Henley, the ...

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.

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.

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 [...]

Izuna Rehired by Atlus for DS Sequel (1up.com) - Unemployed Ninja to make second appearance in July.

ARTS + FEATURES (St. Petersburg Times) - No composer of classical music was ever more attuned to the power of publicity, or courted it more ardently, than Igor Stravinsky. A celebrity by the age of 30, he learned the art of reclame from his early mentor Sergei Diaghilev, the master press manipulator of his day.