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Review: `Cheerful Money' delights with WASP angst (AP via Yahoo! News) - "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor" (Little, Brown & Co., 336 pages, $24.99), by Tad Friend. In today's dire economic times, a tale about the WASP culture of privilege seems like an unlikely pleasure.

Review: 'Cheerful Money' delights with WASP angst (Newsday) - "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor" (Little, Brown & Co., 336 pages, $24.99), by Tad Friend. In today's dire economic times, a tale about the WASP culture of privilege seems like an unlikely pleasure. But in "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor," author Tad Friend is able to paint a picture of the now-faded cultural elite of America ...

Review: 'Accidentally on Purpose' on CBS (Calendarlive.com) - Jenna Elfman's career won't likely advance in this slight comedy about a career woman who's unexpectedly pregnant. But the door is open to interesting plot directions.

WeddingWire’s iPhone App Lets You Plan Your Wedding On The Go (TechCrunch) - Planning a wedding can be an incredibly stressful process (I know from experience-I just got married a few weeks ago). WeddingWire, an online wedding planning platform and vendor directory, is launching an new version of its app to let brides (and grooms) plan their weddings with the help of their iPhone. The previous version of WeddingWire's app just let you see lists of vendors in your area ...

Review: Russo's 'Cape Magic' casts a somewhat muffled spell (Brentwood News) - Richard Russo's new novel, "That Old Cape Magic," begins with one wedding and ends with another. In between, the hero's marriage falls apart for the most subtle of reasons.

Le's body returned to CA for funeral (WTNH-TV New Haven) - The body of a Yale student found dead behind a wall on what should have been her wedding day has been returned to Northern California for her funeral.  

Review: Music@Menlo octet captures magic of Mendelssohn (Denver Post) - Hearing the Octet performed Friday at the Music@Menlo was exhausting, but in an exhilarating way. The eight players on stage at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church unleashed a virtuoso storm.

Pink days to be revisited (Brisbane Times) - The disgraced medical entrepreneur and former Sydney Swans owner, Geoffrey Edelsten, 66, has been busy preparing for his wedding to 25-year-old Brynne Gordon in November. But Edelsten is also keeping a close an eye on his first wife, Leanne.

All My Children Week in Review: Week of September 14, 2009 (SOAPnet) - This week on All My Children was completely surreal. Seriously, it was like a Dali painting. The entire cast DANCED. And at one point they did a group number. It was like being at your cousin's wedding, except it was filled with people from Pine Valley. Anyway, here are our highlights.

BOOK REVIEW: 'Pomegranates': How life's events affect a family (The MetroWest Daily News) - A daughter graduates from college and plunges into depression as she searches for her true calling. A mother struggles to accept her own mortality, and wonders how to help her daughter with problems that she can no longer kiss and make better.