Aria

Previously on "Pretty Little Liars," Toby died, Detective Wilden got hit by a car (driven by Hanna's mom) we found out Toby didn't die, the girls got trapped in a lodge fire, Alison saved the girls from the fire in the lodge, Officer Wilden's body disappeared, and we were left wondering “WHAT THE HECK IS IN THAT TRUNK?” We spent months agonizing, taking bets and wondering, what could possibly be inside of the trunk? Spoiler Alert: if you guessed pig, you were right! With Detective Wilden's body nowhere in sight and the video of the incident between Wilden and Hanna's mom playing in a continuous loop inside of Wilden's cop car (that was last seen inside of a lake thanks to Hanna and Aria)

Previously on "Pretty Little Liars," Toby died, Detective Wilden got hit by a car (driven by Hanna's mom) we found out Toby didn't die, the girls got trapped in a lodge fire, Alison saved the girls from the fire in the lodge, Officer Wilden's body disappeared, and we were left wondering “WHAT THE HECK IS IN THAT TRUNK?” We spent months agonizing, taking bets and wondering, what could possibly be inside of the trunk? Spoiler Alert: if you guessed pig, you were right! With Detective Wilden's body nowhere in sight and the video of the incident between Wilden and Hanna's mom playing in a continuous loop inside of Wilden's cop car (that was last seen inside of a lake thanks to Hanna and Aria)

On May 15, 2005, ARIA A. KENNEDY, loving daughter of Georgia Stuckey, dear sister of 2 brothers and 1 sister, loving granddaughter of Lucy Barber. Also survived by a host of other nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Arrangements are being handled by the Russell Funeral Home, Inc., 822 Carl Russell Avenue, Winston Salem, NC 27101.

Last week was a great one for cable news watching. Not because any one channel did such outstanding work, but rather because several stories clamored simultaneously for the camera's attention. The choices that a channel makes in such situations are usually one of the best barometers of where it really lives. After two days and nights of watching CNN ping-pong back and forth on location from the Cleveland captivity story to the Jodi Arias trial in Arizona, I can say for the first time since Jeff Zucker took over as president in January that I have a pretty good idea of where his CNN is headed day-to-day.

Aida, the operatic equivalent of a widescreen, adventure-romance film, owes a large part of its lasting popularity to big scenery and volume. The second act Triumphal March, staged with or without battalions of supernumeraries and assorted zoological specimens to engage the eye, is the most obvious blockbuster element in a piece punctuated by rousing trumpets and choral outbursts. Not to mention opportunities for anything-you-can-sing-I-can-sing-louder competitions among the principals.

Always a sellout, Annapolis Opera's "Mozart by Candlelight" concert was moved to a new site this year that nearly doubled its audience space. Still, many had to be turned away at both performances Sunday. The concerts were previously held at historic Charles Carroll House in Annapolis. This year's was staged at another historic colonial location, Great Hall at St. John's College in Annapolis. A lovely room reminiscent of European concert halls in Prague, Czech Republic, and Vienna, Austria, the 18th-century Great Hall at St. John's also existed during Mozart's lifetime.

It seems like the most natural thing in the world, this back-to-nature movement in the home that is shaping up to be 1993's hottest design trend.Furniture makers slap the Lodge Look label on it and call it au courant. But author Barbara Aria says it is much deeper, more widespread than a rustic wicker chair or a cowboy bunk bed. And it is no passing fad."We are moving on from the kind of postmodern aesthetic, which very formal. We are moving into an informal style," says Ms. Aria, who has written "Outside Inside: Decorating In the Natural Style" (Thames and Hudson, $35)

True to its mission of introducing rising young opera singers to its audience, Annapolis Opera opened its 36th season with its first concert at Maryland Hall on Sunday. Noting before the concert that "more expensive fundraisers began and ended our past seasons," president Gregory A. Stiverson said, "This season will open and close with these new, less-expensive opera concerts to bring more great music in more operatic arias sung by rising young singers." The audience heard many favorite arias performed well by six young singers accompanied by the Annapolis Opera Chamber Orchestra, which was conducted by musical director and conductor Ronald J. Gretz.

Mozart wrote very little that was utterly worthless, but Pinchas Zukerman, artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Summer MusicFest, managed to find a good number of not-quites in the festival's all-Mozart concert Saturday.The string trio in E-flat (K. 563) is not quite the best divertimento, the concert aria "Ch'io mi scordi di te/Non temer" is not quite the top of his vocal music and the Piano Concerto No. 12 is the lesser of the two written in the key of A major. Despite pleasing performances, they're not quite the works to send the audience home whistling.

Annapolis Opera's 13th annual vocal competition Sunday at Maryland Hall should have won a few converts to opera and the art of great singing. The contest offered a group of excellent young singers who delivered a rich variety of music. All nine finalists were already winners, having emerged from more than 60 singers from Maryland and neighboring states during preliminary judging the weekend before. In both competitions, each participant was required to sing two arias from a selection of four chosen in advance.

Sad to hear about Deanna Durbin's death this week at the age of 91. The Winnipeg-born Hollywood actress and singer was a terrific talent whose 1930s and '40s movies earned her enormous popularity (my late father was one of her biggest fans). Deanna Durbin became nearly as famous for her extraordinary retirement from show business in 1949 -- giving up everything to move to France with her third husband. She remained basically secluded for the rest of her long life. At the risk of seeming inappropriate, I thought you wouldn't mind if I devoted this installment of my Midweek Madness featurette to this endearing artist, especially since this clip manages to capture her operatic ability, charm and comedic flair all in one. This is a scene from her last film, "The Love of Mary" (1948)

A 17-year-old girl has been found after being missing through the Christmas holidays, and her 23-year-old boyfriend has been charged with lying to Baltimore County police during their search for her, police said Thursday. David C. Givens, of the 3700 block of Timahoe Circle in Nottingham, was charged with one count of a false statement to police officers in their search for Aria White, police said. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children had listed White as having gone missing Dec. 22, after last being seen at the White Marsh Mall.

Orioles batting practice pitcher Rudy Arias will leave the team Thursday to travel to Miami and be sworn in as a United States citizen Friday. Arias, 55, moved to the U.S. from Cuba when he was just a few years old and his father was playing baseball in the states. He grew up in Miami and maintained his Cuban citizenship. “I never felt living in Miami, I needed it,” Arias joked. But when Arias worked for an independent club in Winnipeg a couple years ago he always slowed up the process going across the border - and he was chided by his old manager for that.

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: MEPHITIC Before we understood what the Anopheles mosquito was doing to people it was thought that malaria (from mala aria , "bad air) was caused by exhalations from marshes. The word to describe that air, those exhalations, is mephitic (pronounced meh-FIT-ick)

Fans of artful singing had a choice of two programs Sunday afternoon in Annapolis: the Arundel Vocal Arts Society's "Mass Appeal" holiday concert at Eastport United Methodist Church and the Annapolis Opera's "Bel Canto by Candlelight" an hour later at First Presbyterian Church. I enjoyed the best of both by hearing the major work on the AVAS program, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, before catching Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini arias sung by five gifted young soloists making their debut in Annapolis.

True to its mission of introducing rising young opera singers to its audience, Annapolis Opera opened its 36th season with its first concert at Maryland Hall on Sunday. Noting before the concert that "more expensive fundraisers began and ended our past seasons," president Gregory A. Stiverson said, "This season will open and close with these new, less-expensive opera concerts to bring more great music in more operatic arias sung by rising young singers." The audience heard many favorite arias performed well by six young singers accompanied by the Annapolis Opera Chamber Orchestra, which was conducted by musical director and conductor Ronald J. Gretz.

Cecilia Bartoli, "A Portrait," arias and art songs by Mozart, Rossini, Parisotti, Caccini and others (London 448 300-2); Jennifer Larmore, "Where Shall I Fly," arias by Handel and Mozart, performed with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting (Teldec 4509-96800-2)It used to be the case that the great rivalries in divadom were between sopranos, but these two mezzos seem to be changing that. The beauty of their voices, their dramatic abilities and their capacity for breathtaking coloratura have made Bartoli and Larmore perhaps the most exciting female singers in the world, and we can expect them to compete for roles for decades to come.

Annapolis Opera celebrated its 35th anniversary last week with a program of arias from many of the productions it has presented over the years. In 1972, Martha Wright, the company's first president, decided with a small group that Annapolis should have its own opera company. She returned for "Bravo 35" on Oct. 27 to accept the good wishes and proclamations of the city of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. Congratulations, wine-sipping and hors d'oeuvres-sampling preceded the main event at the Unitarian Universalist Church, a concert featuring four fine singers who are audience favorites and rising young stars, all under the direction of Annapolis Opera artistic director Ronald J. Gretz.

Aida, the operatic equivalent of a widescreen, adventure-romance film, owes a large part of its lasting popularity to big scenery and volume. The second act Triumphal March, staged with or without battalions of supernumeraries and assorted zoological specimens to engage the eye, is the most obvious blockbuster element in a piece punctuated by rousing trumpets and choral outbursts. Not to mention opportunities for anything-you-can-sing-I-can-sing-louder competitions among the principals.

The American Opera Theater, founded in 2002 by Peabody alumnus Timothy Nelson, has spiced up recent seasons with such novelties as a circus-themed version of Handel's Acis and Galatea, complete with a soprano singing an aria while slowly spinning upside down. So it ought to be very interesting to see what this group does in what is billed as a "fully staged production" of Handel's oratorio Messiah. Nelson promises "an ecumenical portrait of human struggle and redemption in an abstract, dramatic style that is at once ritual and theater."