Marriage

George Takei: He Boldly Goes

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. At 76, George Takei is in the prime of his life: The Star Trek actor and L.A. native is now a social media maven, a theatrical producer and, with his husband, the former Brad Al ... More >>

The Gift

Plastic Wives of Beverly Hills on TLC: Like Real Housewives, But, You Know, With Labiaplasty

If you haven't done your kegel exercise lately, don't bother. "They don't work," says Veronica Matlock, one of the stars of TLC's Plastic Wives, a special (not yet a series) airing Sunday January 27 at 10 p.m. As you may have already guessed, Plastic Wives is not a new Tupperware club. Veronica alo ... More >>

Wedding Doubts For Women Often Predict Divorce

Those nagging doubts you have about your fiance? They're probably right. So says a new UCLA study, which concludes that such "pre-wedding uncertainty," more for women than men, predicts unhappy marriages and even divorce. Justin Lavner, the lead author of the study and a UCLA doctoral candidate ... More >>

Marriage Means More Drinking for Women, Less for Men

A study presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Assn. last weekend found that married women drink more than divorced women, but married men drink less than divorced men, ABC News reports. In fact, several women in the study said they did not drink alcohol at all until they met ... More >>

Get Your Valentine's Marriage on for Only $25 (License Extra)

Want to get married on Valentine's Day? And you're a cheap bastard? Boy, have we got a deal for you: L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan announced over the weekend that people can line up for marriage licenses ($85 to $90) and civil ceremonies ($25) on Tuesday and get them both c ... More >>

Women Would Rather Facebook Than Have Sex With Husbands, Says Valentine's Week Survey

patriziaasoliani​Aw, how romantic. A new survey by the women's lifestyle site iVillage indicates that two-thirds of married women would almost rather do anything than have sex with their men. (Way to serve your ladies, guys). In fact, according to an iVillage statement, a vast majority of ... More >>

Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Call It Quits: The Year's Five Biggest Music Couples to Hit Splitsville

See also: Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012 It was a sad day in indieville yesterday as actress/singer Zooey Deschanel officially filed for divorce from Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Though the two had been rumored to be on the rocks for some time, fans held out hope that the du ... More >>

Bronson Bared

Kinyarwanda Review

In Rwanda period piece, life goes on despite genocide

Rob Delaney, L.A. Comedian, Wants to Sue Kim Kardashian Over 'Sham' Wedding; Kim, Lawyers Call BS

Kiss, dammit. You promised!​Kim Kardashian has finally responded, albeit indirectly, to Los Angeles comedian Rob Delaney's threat to sue her in a viral column for Vice Magazine. His grounds? Delaney tells the Weekly that L.A.'s Armenian princess defrauded the public, and perhaps E! advertiser ... More >>

To The New Girl From the Former Mrs._____: Sound Advice for My Husband's Wife or Mistress

Amanda Palmer talks David Lynch and Neil Gaiman

Teen Girls' Early Sex Correlates With Divorce And More Parnters in Life

KINGjeorge​Experience doesn't always pay off in the game of love. According to a recent study women who had their first sexual experiences as underage teens were more likely to also experience ... divorce. (So, ah, that marriage between a 51-year-old actor and a 16-year-old girl we told you a ... More >>

This blue Monday, enjoy the world's saddest self-help book

​ Yes, it's How to Save Your Marriage Alone, which we swear is a real book and not some Onion mock-up of one. Has any title ever offered so much -- and then snatched it all away right there with the last word? This evangelical travesty is the subject of this week's Studies in Crap post on our ... More >>

Trick or Hide Your Kids Hide Your Wife?: Here's Your Antoine Dodson-Approved Antoine Dodson Halloween Costume

They're trick or treatin' everybody out here: Antoine Dodson cashes in for Halloween (good for him)​First came the viral video, then the hipster remix, then the covers and the ringtones and the BET awards appearance, and now "Bed Intruder Song" accidental chanteur Antoine Dodson has licensed a ... More >>

Extended Hours For Same-Sex Marriages Announced In Anticipation Of Prop. 8's Possible Demise Wednesday

​The Los Angeles County Clerk on Monday detailed its expanded hours for Wednesday, the first day same-sex marriages would be allowed there under a federal court ruling overturning California's Prop. 8, the initiative that outlawed such unions. The hours at the Clerk's Norwalk office will star ... More >>

Prop. 8: L.A. County Clerk Prepared For Onslought Of Same-Sex Marriage Requests

​Los Angeles County clerk Dean Logan said this week he was prepared to issue same-sex marriage licenses on Wednesday, when a stay on the decision overturning Prop. 8, California's ban same-sex marriage, was scheduled to be lifted. In fact the clerk's office will have special hours Aug. 18, op ... More >>

Same-Sex Marriages To Resume In California Next Week: Federal Judge Lifts Stay On Decision Overturning Prop. 8

Via TwitpicCelebration earlier this month at San Francisco City Hall.​ By Dennis Romero and Patrick Range McDonald, with reporting by Steve La from Norwalk Updated with reporting from the county clerk's office. First posted at 12:40 p.m. U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker on Thursday mo ... More >>

Make a Run for the Altar

With immigration reform stalled, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants are entering sham marriages with a little help from their friends

VOWS ON PARADE

PICKY PICKY

BLOWJOBS FOR DUMMIES

BREAKFAST WITH CAROL

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal to Wed

"Till death do us part."Those words will weigh heavily during the planned vows that will be exchanged between troubled actor Ryan O'Neal and longtime companion Farrah Fawcett, whose health is deteriorating from terminal cancer. In a segment of ABC TV's 20/20 program to air Friday, O'Neal, who has ha ... More >>

COLCOA Begins with "Love"

Actress Zabou Breitman, whose directorial debut Try to Remember (Se souvenir des belles choses) screened at the 2002 City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival, opens this year's festival tonight with the international premiere of her third feature, Someone I Loved (Je l'aimais), an immense ... More >>

Love and Marriage

It's Just Sex

Sex Trade: Three Views of Erotica

L.A. County suspends same sex marriages

According to a Los Angeles County press release issued moments ago, County Registrar Dean Logan is suspending his department's issuing of marriage licenses or civil marriages for same-sex couples, after reviewing California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's canvass results of Proposition 8. Logan' ... More >>

A Night With Eric

Baker Tarpaga Dance Project and Catch Me Bird

Daring moves from two dance duos

Doubling Up

Daring moves from two dance duo

Protecting Obama from Gay Marriage Politics

Activists argue that now isn't the time for more gay lawsuits

Queer Town: The Gay Wedding in Beverly Hills

On the front steps of the Beverly Hills Courthouse, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson became the first gay couple to marry in Los Angeles County, and possibly all of California. Tyler and Olson were the leading plaintiffs in the 2004 same sex marriage lawsuit that went before the California Supreme Court, ... More >>

Queer Town: June Weddings For Gays

This morning, the California Supreme Court denied a request to rehear its May 15 ruling that legalized same sex marriage. Gay and lesbian couples can now wed, starting on June 17--the date set by the state. Now it's only a question if county clerks throughout California can quickly change the fine ... More >>

Hot & Ready

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

Married Life: Far From Heaven

Clearly inspired by Todd Haynes, Ira Sachs' film doesn't quite compare

California Supreme Court Set to Consider Gay Marriage

Meet the L.A. four who started all the trouble

Marrying for Money

Poverty-wage young soldiers wed strangers and friends to get cash and housing

The Rise of the House of Bunny

Best rabbit paraphernalia

Rolling Back Gay Rights

Initiatives attack same-sex marriage and domestic partnerships.

Chefs Under Fire

Is Hell’s Kitchen’s Gordon Ramsay merely the Simon Cowell of haute cuisine?

So Goes the Gay Nation

Same-sex-marriage activists set their sights on California

No Wedding Bells in WeHo

West Hollywood struggles to keep up with San Francisco

Wedding Day

Six Blind Women and the Elephant

Who knows for sure what Islam has to say about women?

Julie London

1926–2000

Make a New Plan, Stan

Divorce sites offer 50 ways to leave your lover