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Investigating the murder of a reverend from a local wedding chapel, zookeeper Teddy Bentley discovers that the victim was actually an escaped convict and that every wedding he has performed is invalid, a case the implicates Teddy's mother and Teddy herself.

\"Self-publishing, or print-on-demand, as it's been called, is the perfect solution for first-time novelists, World War II veterans wanting to tell their untold stories, children's books to be used for school fund-raisers, ministers wanting to print their sermons, moms writing their family trees. . . . I could just go on and on,\" said Mary K. Dougherty, a self-publishing specialist Sir Speedy recently hired to enlarge its already existing program. While most printers are perfectly capable of printing any kind of book with any kind of binding, Scottsdale's Sir Speedy -- the oldest Sir Speedy in the world -- specializes in writer-friendly small print runs of 50 to 2000. If sales are good, the writer can order more at a reduced cost, because the initial print set-up has already been done. These print-on-demand books can be full color, as with children's books, or the usual black and white. Writers can use their own illustrations for the full-color cover, or Sir Speedy will design and illustrate a cover for them. Prices vary according to the writer's needs, but 100 soft cover books of about 100 pages will run anywhere from $799 to $1,200, which includes cover design and binding. As part of their package, Sir Speedy also furnishes the company's promotion package of posters, postcards, bookmarks and sell sheets.

[Tom LaPenna] would not confirm the purchase had been completed, but said, \"Whatever happens, NIPP is motivated to keeping Arizona as an entertainment mecca. This kind of purchase would certainly do that.\" The hall, which is known for its excellent acoustics, has been home to an annual jazz series that regularly has brought such popular performers such as Spyro Gyra and Dave Koz to Tempe. \"We'd look forward to any situation which would attract good jazz acts to town,\" said Joel Robin Goldenthal, president of Jazz in AZ. \"So far, Red River has specialized in smooth jazz, but with new owners, that could change.

For generations, it has been common knowledge that African-American students did not perform as well (relatively speaking) as White students. The typical response in attributing causality for such disparity has been to engage in a \"victim analysis.\" On January 8, 1991, the Board of Education of the Minneapolis Public Schools initiated an experimental half-day Afrocentric Educational Program for Middle School students from two schools. This program was one of the district's programmatic initiatives designed to address the culturally specific educational needs of Black students. Although there have been several externally sponsored alternative programs, such programs have a tendency to reach small numbers of students, do nothing to change or impact the system and typically do not provide an evaluation. The Minneapolis Public School's Afrocentric program was designed to: (1) Increase the self-esteem and respect for knowledge and for traditional African-American beliefs and values; (2) Develop a demonstration model demonstration model which could be implemented at all locations within the Minneapolis Public Schools and; (3) Chronicle approaches and techniques evaluated as being effective with African-American students for Minneapolis Public School educators. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the half-day educational experience on: (1) The self-concept of selected African-American middle school students and; (2) The academic achievement and social behaviors of selected African-American students. The sample for the study includes 160 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students from two schools. There were three groups involved in the study; an experimental group Afrocentric students; control group one--selected Black students not enrolled in the Academy; and control group two--selected White students not enrolled in the Academy. Data were collected through pre and post tests given to students attending the experimental Afrocentric Program and two matched control groups who did not have the experimental educational experience. In addition, attendance, unexcused absences and suspensions were measured using \"change\" scores between 1990-91 and 1991-92. A one-way analysis of variance as well as pairwise t-tests comparisons were conducted to determine if differences were statistically significant at the.05 level. Given the design limitations, lack of statistically significant results, and often small differences, the results reported were considered consistent enough to demonstrate that the involvement of African-American middle school students in the Afrocentric Educational Program on a half-day basis did not negatively impact their academic achievement or self-concepts. The outcomes provided indications that educationally, the experimental group benefitted more, when compared with two control groups (Black and White) of their peers who did not have the Afrocentric educational experience.

The Navy League Cadet Corps -- Newman (Northern Ontario Band Champions by the way), Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps -- Royal Sovereign (their band is also Northern Ontario champions), Army Cadets, Air Cadets, Legion Band and Legionnaires, 49th Pipe Band, surviving veterans from all wars, veterans of foreign wars from Sault Michigan, representatives of the American Coast Guard and hundreds of ordinary people from all over the city turned out for the ceremony.

I would like to comment on the NLCC Newman Navy League Cadet Corp. As grandmother of one of those cadets, I am not only proud of her but of the whole group. All the cadets of NLCC Newman, even the ones who weren't in any part of the competition. Thank you, NLCC Newman.

My friends and I have been trying to pen a reply to all the bleeding hearts who have written to protest the mistreatment of Barbara Carlson. We have said all the things Mr. [Doug Millroy] did, but just couldn't word it as well.

Violinist Jean-Luc Ponty didn't plan on being a musical pioneer but that's what he ended up being -- twice. ``When I began playing jazz, I had to hide it from my teachers because it was totally taboo,'' says Ponty, who trained at the classical Paris Conservatory and began his professional music career as a member of the prestigious Concert Lamoureux Symphony Orchestra. ``Fortunately, my friends who loved jazz were very supportive.'' ``Jazz was a new language I had to learn, it was that foreign to me,'' Ponty says. ``You have to remember that classical music was my mother tongue. Both my parents were classical musicians and I had been trained that way ever since I first picked up the instrument. But I became passionate on the subject of jazz and applied every part of myself to it.''

At last we have a recording of Gershwin songs sung by a Gershwin--Alexis Gershwin, niece of composers George and Ira.