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It’s Wedding Time

“It’s Our Day: America’s Love affair with the White Wedding” By Katherine Jellison ç 2008, University Press of Kansas $29.95 = 312 pages
June 30, 2008




It happens every summer. You know it’s coming, but the swarm surprises you nonetheless.


They show up on your doorstep. On your company bulletin board. Dropping on your kitchen table, begging for attention. They hide as bookmarks in your latest novel; breeding, it seems, like two wire hangers in an otherwise empty closet.


And so how many wedding invitations have you gotten this year?


A bunch, I’ll bet, but why watch yet another white-clad woman walk to her wedding? In the new book “It’s Our Day” by Katherine Jellison, you’ll say “I do” to reading about America’s love for all things bridal.


In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, amid all the pleas for help, shelter and homes for displaced pets, someone organized a pipeline for brides. All those future-Mrs. lost their dresses in the flood, and while basic necessities were obviously the most impor

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Killer Bosses, Books

June 20, 2008



Think your job is going to kill you with stress? For the employees of Murphy, Knox & Associates, the stress isn’t just out to get them — their boss and fellow employees are — in Duane Swierczynski’s adrenaline

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AIDS is Still Relevent

June 3, 2008



Today’s 25-year-olds never knew a world without Internet or cell phone.

They say they’ll “dial your number,” but they don’t know why. For them, David Letterman has always been on late-night TV an

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History, Entertaining

May 20, 2008

Did you ever hold an arrowhead in your hand?

If you did, you understand the awe that an ancient artifact brings when it’s touched today, centuries later.

Many years ago, someone sat in the dirt and chipped that rock unti

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‘Good Luck Exploring the Infinite Abyss!’

May 12, 2008



That line from “Garden State,” bellowed from Andrew Largeman to an excavator, is as close as it comes to exploring post-graduation life. Even though Zach Braff delivers that line with an introspective look and a swagger, ther

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Bring out the Claws

May 6, 2008

I knew I was emotionally invested in Rachel Vincent’s “Rogue” when I was getting angry and upset with how the other characters were treating Faythe. I found myself wanting to defend her actions and her mistakes to a group of fictio

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