Oprah Winfrey's favorite style gurus, Jesse Garza and Joe Lupo, have just released "Nothing to Wear? A Five-Step Cure for the Common Closet" (Hudson Street Press, $16) to help women edit their wardrobes to project their most confident selves. According to the authors, every garment should be subjected to three questions: Do I love it? Is it flattering? Does it project the image I want to portray? The book walks the reader through defining a style type (from classic to avant-garde), then suggests five steps for editing and organizing a wardrobe. Available at most bookstores, including Borders and Barnes & Noble.


— Paula Rath

LECTURE

BLACK-HOLE FUN

In the stormy days of the early universe, a few giant galaxies containing colossal black holes and huge bursts of star formation dominated the cosmos. More recently such goings-on have been noted in smaller galaxies. Cosmologist Amy Barger takes us back to the wild times, when she gives a lecture on "The Cosmic History of Supermassive Black Holes" at 7 p.m. Monday at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Institute for Astronomy auditorium. Barger, who works at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UH-Manoa, won the prestigious Newton Lacy Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society for her discovery of distant, dusty galaxies and supermassive black holes.



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FINAL WORD

"I want to know what those people have had to endure ... "

Liv Tyler | the actress, on her new movie, "Reign Over Me," about a man who lost his family in one of the planes that crash-ed into the World Trade Center, in Glamour magazine