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In honor of Valentine's Day, we are revisiting a conversation with our very own romance expert, Linda Holmes. Her novel Evvie Drake Starts Over is about a woman who is getting ready to leave her husband when she gets a surprising call – he is dead. She finds herself alone until former major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who can't throw a baseball anymore, hides from the media stress in her guest bedroom.

Jrue Holiday is on his way to play at the upcoming NBA Championship Finals along with the rest of his Milwaukee Bucks teammates. The Bucks were crowned Eastern Conference champions after beating Atlanta Falcons last week. What made that achievement even more impressive was that they did so in the absence of superstar hooper, Giannis Antetokounmpo. They are scheduled to play Devin Booker-led Phoenix Suns in what promises to be an enticing affair.

FictionReviewThere is hope to be taken from an author's cri de coeurSuicide is packaged as directly as pornography. Its title leaves no room for ambiguity. Its marketing holds out the promise of voyeurism. The text on the back cover dictates how the novel will be consumed: "Edouard Levé delivered the manuscript for his final book . . . just a few days before he took his own life. Suicide is not, then, simply another novel – it is, in a sense, the author's own oblique, public suicide note .

And so what is likely the last video off Katy Perry’s indomitable Teenage Dream arrives — mouth gear, continuity issues, Rebecca Black, and all. As has been teased pretty hard for the past few weeks, in the video for Song of Summer contender “Last Friday Night (TGIF),” Perry playsKathy Beth Terry, a nerd in the Sixteen Candles mold who has huge glasses, a brace face, and just threw a rager. Perry continues to prove herself to be an ace nostalgist, making the whole thing an extended homage to an eighties teen movie, with dozens of anachronistic flourishes (in this eighties movie, all the morning-after pictures end up on the Internet) and celebrity cameos.

Redeem now At the start of the Rio Olympics, US male gymnast Sam Mikulak told The Wall Street Journal his theory to help men's gymnastics become as popular as women's. "Maybe compete with our shirts off," Mikulak said. "People make fun of us for wearing tights. But if they saw how yoked we are maybe that would make a difference." His teammate, silver-medal-winning Danell Leyva, appeared to put his theory to the test at the Rio gala on Wednesday.

They have names that sound feminine and mysterious — like Goddess and FemTouch — and just hint at the kinds of results some doctors say they may deliver: vaginal tightening, better lubrication, and toe-curling orgasms for the rest of your life. All you have to do is get your vagina prodded with a laser or radio-frequency probe and pay as much as $3,000 for the privilege. Everyone says it doesn’t hurt as much as you’d think, that when you walk out, you’d never even know you’d birthed two children or had your first hot flash five years ago.

Gridiron Football achieved two firsts in Arizona during the past weekend: first, a coaches conference and showcase only for females flag football; and second, a youth football competition for flag and 7v7 teams. Among the noteworthy figures that joined them were Trey McBride, starting tight end for the Arizona Cardinals, Lyndsey Fry, who won a… ncG1vNJzZmidkae5urnEpqaroZGhwG%2BvzqZmm6eeo7amedKtpq%2BdomK8o7XTrpirsV2nsrS1w56lrWWfm3qkscOaqWaqkaW2pb%2BMophmoJGoeqW1xJ1m

Gallery Launch Gallery Hitting The Open Ocean Launch Gallery Gallery Backgrid Canelo Alvarez's Italian vacation continues ... the boxing superstar and his wife ditched their clothes for a couple of tiny swimsuits, hopping aboard a luxury yacht for a day of fun in the sun near Portofino! Backgrid 32-year-old Alvarez and his 26-year-old wife, Fernanda Gómez, are vacationing in Northern Italy ... and after some luxury retail therapy earlier in the week, the couple decided to take things to the water.

Play video content HAVIN' THE TIME OF MY LIFE UPDATE 11:58 AM PT -- Nikola Jokic provided some quality entertainment following the parade ... getting behind the mic at the rally and proclaiming Thursday was "the best day of my f***ing life." UPDATE The Finals MVP dropped a few f-bombs while addressing the crowd ... doing a complete 180 on his previous feelings over having to stay in America for the festivities before going back to Serbia.