Oh, forget about the funny name -- the cooking tastes fine at Cooking Taste Right in Provo.

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Every girl loves a good, heart-warming story of sisterhood and struggle -- especially if it will make her bawl her eyes out.

Attention all "High School Musical" lovers: Actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens, who stars as "Gabrielle" in the successful Disney movie franchise, will be a headline performer at this year's Utah State Fair.

Jenn Alva, bassist for the San Antonio-based band Girl in a Coma, had good news when she called for a recent interview.

Sweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is "Nancy Drew" with training wheels. It's a moist-eyed children's comedy-drama that dares to questions whether today's children should know more about the Great Depression, or a Golden Age when all a plucky, smart girl could ever want out of life is "to be a reporter."

PLUNDER QUEEQUEG THE DOG'S LOOT

The Orem library has been selected to receive a grant to host The Big Read -- an opportunity to discuss, read and celebrate Harper Lee's classic novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird."

COUNTERCLOCKWISE -- Features Laurin Burton and Miss Payson, Utah Idol winner, 7-9 p.m. Friday. Battlecreek Park, 70 S. 100 East, Pleasant Grove.

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Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers of NPR's "Car Talk" fame, are just two low-ego lugs. That's why -- familiar self-deprecating shtick aside -- the boys' ambivalence about their new public television series rings seriously true.