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Planning Your Wedding while Planning for the Future (Freeport Journal) - (ARA) - Your wedding day should be special, with family and friends gathered to help you celebrate, the ceremony reflecting your love and the reception providing a perfect finale.

"Sweeney Todd," Stephen Schwartz and the Mailbag (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Here's an odd conjunction. Tuesday I published my very admiring review of John Doyle's spare and electric Broadway revival of Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," where the cast of 10 is also its own orchestra.

The Party's Over (New York Times) - While authors are still feted with cheese cubes and merlot, publishing people agree book parties aren't what they used to be.

Brad Pitt speaks out on Katrina, calls for green rebuilding in New Orleans (Manila Bulletin) - NEW YORK (AP) – The whole world wants to know about the rumors of a ``Brangelina’’ wedding in Namibia, not to mention the chances that the first biological child of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie might be born in Africa next month.

That's 'Amore,' Lucchesi-style (Half Moon Bay Review) - It could only be called serendipity. Over coffee, Caffe Lucca owner Julie Lucchesi and regular customer, Montara resident and scriptwriter Molly Rathbun, discussed their respective dilemmas.

VIRGINIA BRIEFING (Washington Post) - The second of two men convicted of murder in the death of a 19-year-old single mother in Fairfax County in 1993 was sentenced yesterday to life in prison in federal court in Alexandria.

More deficits ahead at Veterans (The Columbus Dispatch) - Franklin County Veterans Memorial will continue to be a drain on taxpayers through 2008, managers of the auditorium and exhibition hall acknowledge. New subsidies will add to the $1.4 million in bailouts county commissioners have approved over the past four years.

Vets Memorial no longer the main venue in town (The Columbus Dispatch) - By the time the first football flies in September, a parade of country, rock and R &B stars will have made their way through Columbus. As R &B singer R. Kelly took the stage Friday night at the Palace Theatre, country music’s Tim McGraw and Faith Hill opened at Nationwide Arena.

REVIEW / A dancer makes his mark with memorable 'Strange Fruit' (San Francisco Chronicle) - In a cogently conceived program that begins and ends with ensemble showpieces and holds a picturesque world premiere and an intense solo in between, Ballet San Jose polishes off its 2005-'06 season with an ample spring repertory. The final performances are...

For New York literary set, parties are now passé (International Herald Tribune) - Unless you've written a surefire best seller, publishers are hesitant to spring for more than a few bottles of wine and some snacks.