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Christa Fletcher

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‘Filthy Book’ Attack Spotlights Date-Rape Novel

By Christa Fletcher ● Arts & Culture ● December 13, 2010

A book-banning effort against “Speak,” a young-adult novel about date rape, is creating an uproar. A campus group is making a documentary, a Twitter feed is discussing censorship and a library group expects the controversy to attract teen readers.

Bollywood-Style Weddings Face First Recession Test

By Christa Fletcher ● Arts & Culture ● February 11, 2009

Bollywood-style Indian weddings have been at the forefront of the increasingly lavish U.S. wedding trend. One high-profile ethnic wedding consultant expects lavish weddings to continue, but this is also the first year her business has faced a recession.