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The 2007 Health, Wellness & Beauty Expo takes place today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Manatee Civic Center, One Haben Blvd., Palmetto.

Can a program offer two requiems and still be highly pleasurable? James Rightmyer thinks so, and he`s confident that listeners will agree when they hear him conduct the Choral Arts Society next Sunday at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church.

Despite Hollywood`s obsession with youth - which, let`s face it, never grows old - there`s a power surge happening among more seasoned female performers. And while guys have long been able to maintain leading-man status as their birthday candles hit the three-score mark, today the women come off just as commanding, sexy and in tune. No wonder some of their latest work has movie titles like ...

Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who died this week at the age of 95. "I am a neo-Platonist, I suppose," he said. "I believe there is a Platonic ideal of beauty, and artists are given a fleeting vision of that beauty. The rest is a process of remembering."

For many, the words Russia and nuclear conjure up fear and loathing. But Russia`s state nuclear company Rosatom sees only beauty.

Young girls, old girls, smiling girls, wise girls. Twenty-two young photographers from the Gallatin Valley picked up cameras to capture the beauty of the many forms and faces of beauty in their worlds.

While dancers rehearse for Ballet West`s upcoming performances of "The Sleeping Beauty," potential artistic directors are doing some rehearsing of their own. Five of the six top candidates to succeed Jonas Kge as artistic director have already visited Salt Lake City to meet with a search committee, attend dinners and parties, teach classes and sit in on rehearsals.

With hundreds of new beauty products introduced each year, one has to wonder if there`s a woman left out there who still has any room left in her cosmetics case. Yet women of all ages and all skin tones still feel they are missing products that are right for them.

The tale as old as time gets a fresh retelling this week with a new adaptation by Lamplighter`s Theatre. Beauty and the Beast, the story of a beautiful girl and a beastly prince held captive by a spell, pairs some of the young actors from the Salt Shaker Drama Troupe with the more seasoned members of Lamplighter`s. It`s part of the Smyrna-based theater company`s "Passport to a World of ...