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The marriage industrial complex (Salon.com) - Rebecca Mead, author of a new book on the out-of-control American wedding, discusses Disney brides, formalwear for pets, and whether hiring a wedding planner is ever a feminist act.

Tips for Making Your Skin Radiant on Your Wedding Day (Hornell Evening Tribune) - (ARA) - Every bride wants her wedding to be picture perfect - from the dress to the flowers to the food at the reception. And of course, brides want to be beautiful, both for the ceremony and for the wedding pictures.

Review: How weddings get bought and sold (USA Today) - Imagine, if you can, a group of tequila-fueled wedding consultants whacking a piata that resembles a "bride-from-hell."

'Shrek' films crack mirror of fairy-tales (The Beacon News) - Ogres as romantic heroes and princess brides. Cinderella as a neurotic clean freak. Snow White as a bossy know-it-all. Puss in Boots hacking up hairballs. Pinocchio with a leaf still growing off his wooden lie-detector nose. These are not animation godfather Walt Disney's fairy tales.

Deconstructing happily ever after (The News Journal) - Ogres as romantic heroes and princess brides. Cinderella as a neurotic clean freak. Snow White as a bossy know-it-all. Puss in Boots hacking up hairballs. Pinocchio with a leaf still growing off his wooden lie-detector nose.

Swarms of cicadas emerging in Midwest (AP via Yahoo! News) - Coming soon: Brood XIII. It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it's actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected to emerge this month in parts of the Midwest after spending 17 years underground.

Swarms of cicadas emerging in Midwest (USA Today) - Coming soon: Brood XIII. It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it's actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected to emerge this month in parts of the Midwest after spending 17 years underground. Brood XIII is expected across northern Illinois, and in parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.

Frivolous spin to dowry resistance (The Telegraph) - Patna, May 19: Grooms in this country have been turning down otherwise eligible brides, who are deemed “too dark”. But in the otherwise dark district of Gopalganj in Bihar, it was a bride’s turn to object to the groom’s complexion.

Midwest braces for cicada swarms (AP via Yahoo! News) - Coming soon: Brood XIII.

Palladium Poised to Revive on Buying by Funds, Ford, Fortunoff (Bloomberg.com) - May 21 (Bloomberg) -- From Ford Motor Co. to Fortunoff to Schroders Plc, the demand for palladium is increasing fast enough to outstrip the supply and make it this year's best investment among precious metals.