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introduces catchphrases like “social assassin,” “the chatand-cut,” and “being Bucknered.” As Larry would say, “Pretty, pretty, pretty good.”
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Gerritsen’s odd-couple crime fighters are back, with detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon, above right) healing from a gunshot wound, and forensic pathologist Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander) due for a visit from her adoptive mother (Jacqueline Bisset).
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Crazy for Quidditch his friday, the legendary wizard returns to the big screen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, the final installment of the College students turn a wizardly egf megahit series. While many fans dream of castgame from the Harry Potter ing spells and donning invisibility cloaks, some broomseries into a real-life sport. toting athletes have gone a step further and now compete in a form of Harry’s favorite sport, Quidditch. Adapted from J.K. Rowling’s fierce flying matches, ground Quidditch—a cross between rugby, basketball, dodgeball, and tag—began at Middlebury College in 2005. Freshman Alex Benepe and his friends were bored of playing boccie and devised rules for the wizardly game. Soon 10 coed teams formed across campus. “It was a hit right from the start,” Benepe says. “Harry Potter is like the Star Wars of my generation.” Today, more than 150 teams play on the intercollegiate level, the players charging and tackling while clutching their brooms. And the college craze is about to spread to younger Potter fans. The International Quidditch Association is launching Kids’ Quidditch this fall. Benepe, who runs the IQA, said the group’s mission is to inspire kids to read and to play team sports. “I had a great time playTest your Hogwarts IQ ing, but now the enjoyment comes from sharing at Parade.com/potter the game with new people.” —Tracy Begland
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PMusic RED RIVER BLUE from Blake Shelton ($19)
Blake Shelton is having quite a year: He has a new TV show (The Voice), a new wife (Miranda Lambert), and now a new album. Red River Blue is the perfect summertime soundtrack, a mix of rollicking honky-tonk stomps and breezy mid-tempo tunes, all steeped in Shelton’s considerable twangy charm.
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The eighth season of this hilariously cranky series takes Larry David to New York and
GET STARRY-EYED Have you spent too many summer evenings gazing skyward and pretending you know the Big Dipper from Cassiopeia? Before heading out for your next after-dinner stroll, view a free map of the night sky in your area and bring a printout along to wow the kids. Go to astroviewer.com.
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GENERATION FREEDOM by Bruce Feiler, nonfiction ($12) Feiler (Walking the Bible) went to Egypt after the winter uprising to see if freedom would indeed take root. Finding the country’s Muslims to be tolerant and peace-seeking, he reaches a hopeful if controversial conclusion in this timely book: Conditions are ripe for democracy to spread from Egypt through the entire region.
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