By PUNCH SHAW If you take in a performance of The Good Negro , a play set in the explosive early days of the civil rights movement that begins its world-premiere run Wednesday at Dallas Theater Center, some of the most interesting parts of your visit might come after the final curtain falls. That s because there will be an audience-cast discussion after each performance. Advance word suggests …

Credit crunch holding up funerals in Britain (TODAYonline)
British undertakers hit by the financial crisis are refusing to carry out funerals unless they get paid in advance, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.

Credit crunch holding up funerals in Britain (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Undertakers hit by the financial crisis are refusing to carry out funerals unless they get paid in advance, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.

UCA trustees work to boost reserves Board approves $3.6 million advance and $6 million credit line (The Log Cabin Democrat)
Although Tom Courtway, interim president of the University of Central Arkansas, said the school’s fiscal state is not the best, he said it is not yet at its worst, either.

Local briefs: Cash Express theft; TennCare Fraud; ‘Runway’ winners; Road closed; Bredesen (The Jackson Sun)
An employee of a Jackson cash-advance business is charged with theft and filing a false police report.

Cash-strapped Staten Islanders finding it hard to pay utilities (Staten Island Advance)
It was a group of regular Joes, by all accounts, who stood in line the other day at the National Grid service center, Mariners Harbor, holding their bills, waiting to speak with an agent to see about joining a…