Weddings

Why Drive to Vegas? Mayra's Wedding Chapel is Right Here in East Hollywood

Here comes the bride, all dressed in cream satin, with a sparkly brooch on her hip. "They've been together for a very, very long time. Like, two years?" says Yesenia Villanueva, 22, the bride's classmate in nursing school.Driving north on Normandie Avenue, just before the road crests and the Gri ... 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 >>

Kris Humphries Accuses Kim Kardashian of 'Fraud' Marriage: Was L.A. Comedian Rob Delaney Right All Along?

Updated at the bottom: Delaney says he's proud of Humphries for being "shaken awake from his torpor" -- and giving some "steam" to the comedian's own class-action suit, to boot. NBA meathead Kris Humphries is trying to annul his unfortunate 72-day marriage with Calabassas princess Kim Kardashian, a ... More >>

The Worst Song Of The '90s? A Line-By-Line Dissection Of Alanis Morissette's "Ironic"

Don't you think?​When it comes to musical decades, the '60s remains the gold standard. Though the '70s were initially mocked for prog rock and disco, it's now clear that prog rock and disco are awesome. And around this time ten years ago, folks began to venerate the '80s in earnest. But as o ... More >>

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 >>

Michael Alan Rubin Says 'Hangover Part II' Really Happened -- to Him: He's Suing Studio For Allegedly Taking His Story

The Hangover Part II / Warner Bros.This shit is real.​If your experiences were the basis of one of the chapters of The Hangover franchise, wouldn't you just let it stay in Vegas (or, in this case, Thailand)? A man who claims that really happened -- to him no less -- is suing the makers of the ... More >>

Off Her Chest

Erykah Badu Speaks On Her Private Life With D.O.C.

​Erykah Badu is known foremost for her mesmerizing, cutting-edge R&B. I put her recent album New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) in my top ten for last year, and it's just one of her many groundbreaking works. But beyond her music she's probably best known as baby mama to the rap stars ... More >>

Food News Roundup: The Royal Wedding Edition

-- Royal wedding sparks fruitcake boom in U.S. [Fox News] -- Dunkin' Donuts rolls out the Royal Wedding doughnut. No pun intended. [Orlando Sentinel] -- Where to Watch the Royal Wedding in Los Angeles. [The Feast LA] -- Coronation prawn vol-au-vents (a recipe). [BBC] -- Watch The Royal Wed ... More >>

L.A. Same-Sex Marriage Protest on Valentine's Day: Needless 'Theater' or Good Way to Make a Point About Prop. 8?

equallove.info​A debate erupted following our preview of a Valentine's Day love-in of sorts in which same-sex couples lined up at the East L.A. county registrar's office to get married. Of course, they didn't. And that was the point of the Marriage Equality U.S.A. and Get Equal action: To bri ... More >>

Gay Marriage Advocates Organize Nationwide Counter Actions on Valentine's Day

​Gay folks still can't get hitched in California and many other states, but that's not stopping same-sex couples from requesting marriage licenses at city and county clerk's offices today -- Valentine's Day -- in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities. Marriage Equality U.S.A. and Get ... More >>

The Museum of Fat Love: Obese Romance

Browsing the gallery of photos that is The Museum of Fat Love, these folks don't seem that unusual. Mostly they seem like, well...the vast majority of America. No pun intended (okay, fine, yes, pun intended). So, on the one hand, it's strange that such a "museum" exists, because museum connotes an ... More >>

Chere Osmanhodzic Murder Case Inspires LAPD Union To Say We Told You So: Suspect Saw An Early Release Despite Record

Loera.​The union that represents Los Angeles police is fuming over the case of 34-year-old Omar Armando Loera, the man recently named as a suspect in what authorities described as a brutal murder of a bride-to-be in Valley Village. The union is mad because, it states, Loera has a long criminal ... 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 Stay May Be Lifted Today, West Hollywood Ready to Marry Gay Couples

Ted SoquiGay marriage supporter in West Hollywood last week.​U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker will issue a ruling today on whether or not he will continue a stay on his Proposition 8 decision, which found the anti-gay marriage ballot measure to be unconstitutional. If Walker lifts the ... More >>

Top 10 Star Wars Cakes: Let The Force (of Frosting & Fondant) Be With You

WasabimonStorm Troopers Like Cake, Too​ Cake is one confection that will never, ever go out of style. Witness shows like Duff Goldman's Ace of Cakes, Cake Boss, Amazing Wedding Cakes and now, Cupcake Wars, which not only engineer cakes, but make them, as Goldman says, "Bigger, badder, awesome! ... More >>

Prevent Bagel Related Injuries: Make Your Own Kitchen Guillotine

www.guillotine.dk/a real guillotine​Who knew bagels were so dangerous? The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Bagel Related Injuries (that's BRI to you) are extremely common, so common that inventors are busy, as we speak, trying to invent a new bagel slicer. Last year, according t ... More >>

BEWARE OF GLITTER

Cheap Mexican Labor? Marry a Teenage Mexicana

The Succulent Cat: Holly Vesecky's Foliage-Covered Feline Makes Brides Happy and Chia Pets Jealous

Holly Vesecky is a floral stylist and sculptor based here in Los Angeles. In the time that I've known her, she's done volcanos covered in flowers, a geodesic dome covered in flowers, and a re-creation of a Sam Francis painting in LACMA in flowers. Quite by accident, I saw this cat covered in succu ... More >>

Behind the Talents of Stormy Weather and Bridezilla Strikes Back!

Touched by Oprah: The divine ascents of Cynthia Silver and Linda Twine

The Ex-Mormon Factor

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway Plays the Other Sister

Actress makes compelling bad girl in pedestrian family drama

Queer Town: Gay Marriage and the Religion Card

By the end of last week, the gays got married...even in San Diego County. But things turned a little weird for San Diego County Clerk Greg Smith, who was confronted with at least 14 employees who said same sex weddings and their religious beliefs did not mix. It was the first time gay marriage oppon ... More >>

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: Villaraigosa's Disappearing Act

On June 17, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be missing in action. Instead of standing on the steps of City Hall, reading vows to Chuck and Mike or Deb and Julie, he will be visiting with airport security experts in Israel...far, far away from the TV camera crews that will be filming ever ... More >>

Queer Town: The Fat is in the Fire

The court has not only ignored the will of the people and imposed a redefinition of marriage on Californians, it has inflicted years of legal chaos, quite possibly on the entire country. Glen Lavy, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, in the New York Times These are not happy days for s ... More >>

California Supreme Court Set to Consider Gay Marriage

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

Margot at the Wedding: Born Identities

Family matters in Baumbach’s latest

Jon Spencer, Jail Weddings at the Echo, 11/10

Heavy Trash, Jail Weddings The Echo, Nov. 10 Photos and review by Rena Kosnett I’m just trying to understand why Jon Spencer is doing this. This egomaniacal vanity study called Heavy Trash, which I could take for ironic stagecraft if I wasn’t under the impression that his inflated id is all t ... More >>

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Three’s a crowd in You, Me and Dupree

Ironclad Rules

Gay Marriage Squabble

Why California’s Supreme Court ruling was a lost battle, not a lost war

So Goes the Gay Nation

Same-sex-marriage activists set their sights on California

The Wordsmith

Lu Haas, 1917–2004

Raw Prejudice

The politics of gay marriage

Expert Advice: Put it in Park

Note Worthy

The thank-you made easy

Husband and Husband

As real as any doggie or kitty wedding

King of the Hill

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Pacific Dining Car