| A wedding for all seasons
The wedding day is one of the most treasured in a couple's life together. Tales of their meeting, their engagement and their wedding day are told to their children and passed down through generations.
"Couples do not need to plan a theme or destination wedding to make their special day memorable and different," says Denise Dinyon, Lenox gift-giving and etiquette expert. "The easiest way to differentiate the ceremony from others is by personalizing it." Dinyon offers the following tips for making a couple's wedding a unique statement of their love and life together, as well as suggestions for personalizing the perfect wedding gift.
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Ratchet and Clank - Tools of Destruction Review
In an era where games are increasingly complex, sometimes it's important get back to your roots. For the Wii and the PlayStation 3, just closing out their first year of launch life, this holiday season is a time to set down standards and 'classic' titles for the system. This week sees the release of Mario Galaxy for the Wii, and a few weeks back Sony's own platforming mascot made his next-gen debut in Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction. For better or worse, the PS3 launched without a Ratchet and Clank title last year. It was well worth the wait. Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction is pure, uncomplicated fun. It's easily the best game I've played yet on the PlayStation 3 and is essentially a new classic for anyone with Sony's next-gen console. Read on for my impressions of a back-to-basics title that looks better than every other platformer you've ever played.
FRHS teen wins crown
Danielle Scimeca experienced her first appearance as Miss Teen Colorado USA 2008 on Friday at Castleview High School in Castle Rock where she escorted contestants down the aisle in the school's Mr. Sabercat competition. "It went really good and it was really fun," Scimeca said. "It was kind of exciting because it was my first real thing I did as Miss Teen Colorado." .
Novemberfest's Bounty Of Fun And Food Awaits Visitors
This is the day Brandon area kids have been waiting for - Novemberfest begins at 4 p.m. today on the grounds of Nativity Catholic Church and School, 705 E. Brandon Blvd. The Rev. Arthur Proulx, church pastor, and Novemberfest co-chairmen Ernie Garateix and R.J. Brauneker, a Nativity alumnus, will open the festival at 7:05 p.m. under the big tent. The hallmark of the annual event is the midway, with carnival rides, funhouses and games of skill. Booths offering ethnic food, including churros and quesadillas, will join offerings of Philly cheesesteak sandwiches, corn dogs, barbecue, cotton candy and temptations for every palate. Entertainment will include music, dance, karate and twirling by students of area teachers such as Joy Rodgers, Kim Hall, Judy Comiskey, Earl Harris and June Bryan.
When the bikini line turned to a battleline
Christopher Hitchens, hammer of Islamism, rationalist supernova, has just had a "back, sack and crack wax". Here he is in December's Vanity Fair, pudgy hands clasped in unlikely prayer pose, while a cadre of beauticians yank swatches of what seems to be shag-pile from the nethermost Pelt of the Hitch. Antiwar types might relish his agonised depilation diary — "like being tortured for information that you do not possess, with intervals for a (incidentally very costly) sandpaper handjob" — and wonder if it might afford him some deeper insight into activities inside Guantanamo. Yet, strangely, in submitting to this ritual for a feature on self-improvement to celebrate his recently acquired US citizenship (he also traded fag-stained British hat-pegs for twinkly Hollywood gnashers) Hitchens has stepped into a rare place where Islam and Western consumerism concurs.
Flyers apparently learned their new lines quickly
PITTSBURGH - Chemistry is a funny thing. At least that's the way Daniel Briere sees it. Sometimes it takes a few months to get a feel for the right linemates, and other times, "It just clicks," he said. "You never know who is going to mesh well together, who's going to complement each other," Briere said. Briere will withhold judgment on the newly configured Flyers' lines. But there is no question that the complete makeover of the lines and defensive pairings John Stevens did after the loss in New York at least changed the way the Flyers started last night. And that led to an early lead and a 3-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins at Mellon Arena. The win was a little more than just a win since it was over the Penguins and Sidney Crosby, who tortured the Flyers last season - winning all eight games in sometimes embarrassing ways.
Premiership News
Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn has urged his players not to pass up the chance to write themselves into Wearside folklore on Saturday. Memories will come flooding back for the Irishman when derby rivals Newcastle head for the Stadium of Light this weekend. Quinn went down in Sunderland legend when he scored at St James' Park in November 2000 to secure a second successive victory in enemy territory, and knows the current crop of Black Cats have a chance to do the same. He told The Journal: "Without putting pressure on the team, this is what it's all about. "This is the game the Sunderland people want, this means more to them than any other on the calendar, and the fact that we are back here and in with a shout is great. The game will show the players how good it gets.
Kicked Back Classics sounds right to everyone
Kicked Back Classics is for grown-ups. It features music by Ravel, Beethoven and Boccherini -- in a nightclub. Kicked Back Classics is for kids. It features selections such as "Beauty and the Beast" and "Mother Goose Suite" in a child-friendly museum. Both assertions are correct. The Richmond Symphony's next Kicked Back Classics offering, "To Grandmother's House," will be performed tonight at Toad's Place and Freemanrepeated Sunday at the Science Museum of Virginia. The program is a mix of fairy tales and things that go bump in the night. Basically, it's the same pieces, different interpretations. Erin Freeman, associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony, leads its KBC series. "My philosophy is that music is music," she said in a recent telephone interview between rehearsals.
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