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Look Here! Summer Means Great American Wedding (The Morning News) - Most summers, visitors to the Hawkins House at the Rogers Historical Museum get to experience a great American ritual -- the wedding. This year will be no different.

Movie Review: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Blogcritics.org) - Two years ago, the movie audience was introduced to the adventures of the Fantastic Four. That film was moderately entertaining, though it had serious flaws which prevented it from coming anywhere near the quality of the X-Men or Spider-Man franchises. However, while it made story, character, and casting missteps, it was not nearly as bad as the critics would have had you believe. In any ...

Douglas Pils: Week in review/preview - Technology can't reduce NCAA's level of stupidity (San Antonio Express-News) - Long known for treating the athletes it represents like indentured servants, the NCAA now thinks it can control information.

Books: Hazards of the wedding night laid bare (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - Say what one will about the sexual revolution, one thing it's probably improved is the wedding night. Writing in "The Second Sex," published in 1953, Simone de Beauvoir described how the sanctity of a woman's virginity meant that a woman "was supposed to accomplish in a few hours -- or minutes -- her entire sexual initiation." In Ian McEwan's elegant, unflinching new novella, "On Chesil Beach," ...

Theater Review: Dark of the Moon in New York (Blogcritics.org) - Mystery and love, two of the great themes and pleasures of the theater (and life), are also essential foodstuffs for writing about theater. You can smell the love in every molecule of air in a small off- or off-off-Broadway theater, particularly in a staging by a young company of a play with a large cast. These kids aren't doing it for the money, though the production and the acting may be ...

After the Wedding (***) | How life can take change of direction (Miami Herald) - This review ran previously as part of coverage of the Miami International Film Festival.

'Silver Surfer' is dead flat (Orange County Register) - Review: Turns out the villain is the most human character here – and he's an alien.

Here -- read this! (Contra Costa Times) - WHERE DO YOU get your book recommendations? Some of us peruse newspaper review sections; others like to thumb through whatever strikes our fancy at the library or bookstore.

For Older Newlyweds, Financial Stakes Higher (Hartford Courant) - June is wedding season, a time when couples often hear advice about starting their financial lives together.

Review: Ben Stiller in The Heartbreak Kid (The Record) - Marriage is boring. At least, it is according to every movie ever made about the period just before you say "I do." Which is to say, pretty much every movie, ever.