| Recovery volunteers return to Mississippi Coast for wedding
For one thing, the wedding party spent time last week volunteering to help with Katrina recovery. The two first came to the coast from different areas of Michigan, a state where Lutherans of the Missouri Synod have adopted Biloxi's Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, which hosts Camp Biloxi. They came as recovery volunteers on spring break from college in 2006, stayed in touch when they returned home and fell in love. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. .
Montank, McKinney marry at Valhalla
Lacey McKinney and Trevor Montank exchanged wedding vows Sept. 9 in the Valhalla Grand Hall. The 4 p.m. double-ring ceremony was performed by J.B. McIntyre and witnessed by 130 family members and friends.
The bride is the daughter of James McKinney and Janis McKinney, both of South Lake Tahoe, and the bridegroom's parents are Neal Montank of Fallon, Nev., and Gail Ann Van Kirk of Boise, Idaho.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attired in a Romona Keveza gown and handmade French lace veil. She wore her grandmother's pearl necklace and a tiara borrowed from her maid of honor and carried a bouquet of pale pink and ivory roses with ivory ribbon.
Maid of honor was the bride's cousin, Kilty Devine of Long Beach, Calif., and bridesmaids were the bridegroom's sister, Ja'nien Montank of Chicago, Ill., Renee Bottger of South Lake Tahoe, Jessica Brown of Portland, Ore., and the bride's sister-in-law, Traci McKinney of Reno, Nev.
Scare films use 'Blair Witch' playbook
People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread." "Cloverfield" -- that was always the film's title, by the way -- has generated considerable media heat since Paramount Pictures launched its virulent online campaign with an untitled trailer -- the first ever encountered by the MPAA -- attached to "Transformers." Shooting that trailer (in which a Manhattan party is interrupted by a monster attack that severs the head of the Statue of Liberty) with small digital cameras before they started production was part of producer J.J. Abrams and Reeves' learning curve on this most unusual studio movie. Israeli emigre Oren Peli faced an even steeper learning curve in mounting his first film, "Paranormal Activity." He arrived in the U.S. at age 19 and pursued a career as a videogame programmer.
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America’s Riveting Democracy
When I inquired what brought her to Dixie, Frassoni, a Green, responded: "We've learned that a good or bad U.S. president can make the difference between war and peace. A good or bad Italian prime minister makes no difference at all." Italians are not the only people feeling they deserve a vote on Nov. 4. Nor is Frassoni isolated in her interest. German and French TV crews scurried about. A Brazilian journalist behind me was screaming into a microphone as Barack Obama gave his victory speech after last Saturday's primary. There are several reasons for this passionate international focus on things American, which comes paradoxically just as the most fashionable global intellectual pursuit is the prediction of inevitable American decline. Why, it's fair to ask, should a fading imperium or so the conventional wisdom has it from Davos conclaves to Pew opinion surveys so rivet the world? One reason, of course, is that the convening of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party or the selection of a European Commission president, big events in ascendant China and coalescing Europe, are hardly ready for prime time.
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