May 2009
Letters to the Editor—May 2009
Your responses to our April 2009 issue.
Categories: Letters to the Editor
Vow Factors
Dale Atkins, PhD, psychologist, commentator on NBC's Today Show and author of Sanity Savers: Tips for Women to Live a Balanced Life, shares tips on how to really prepare for your wedding.
Categories: Manners Matter / Relationships / Weddings
50: Personals
We scoured Los Angeles personal ads to bring you the 50 most amusing, bizarre and flat-out hilarious we could find. Discover what people are desperately seeking...
Categories: 50
Jason Schwartzman
Nic Harcourt talks to Jason Schwartzman about becoming a multi-hyphenate, from his beginnings in Phantom Planet to scoring the Judd Apatow flick Funny People.
Categories: Interviews / Music / Turn It Up
The Wedding Style List—May 2009
The best presents go beyond the wedding registry. It's the truly unique and smile-evoking gifts—ones that come from the heart—that are most memorable.
Categories: Interior / Interiors+Interior Design / The Style List / Weddings
Eli Broad & David Bohnett Cause/Effect
Giants of philanthropy Eli Broad and David Bohnett discuss their motivations, how they've decided to give back and what they consider a success.
Categories: Business / Culture / Feature Story / Giving Back
Wedding Album The Ex-Bachelor
Senior Editor Jod Kaftan tells why he gave up bachelorhood after years of swearing by it—and how the right woman changed his mind.
Categories: Feature Story / Relationships / Weddings
Wedding Album The Arrangement
Howard Rosenman recalls how his Jewish Orthodox nephew in Israel met the woman of his dreams after she was presented to him as an "arranged" spouse.
Categories: Culture / Feature Story / Relationships / Weddings
Wedding Album The Same-Sex Couple
Raymond and Byron Moya carry on as a hospital admissions clerk and a labor organizer, even as they evolve into marriage-equality activists. “From neighbors to grocery-store clerks,” they say, “our community has embraced us as a gay married couple.”
Categories: Feature Story / Relationships / Weddings
Wedding Album The Officiant
After being asked to perform her neighbors' wedding, Sue Smalley talks about the steps she took formally officiate the wedding and memories that flooded her when thinking about her own big day 34 years earlier.
Categories: Feature Story / Relationships / Weddings
Wedding Album My Jewish Catholic Shinto Greek Wedding
An insider account of how four cultures blend together to make one diverse wedding in Greece, including a three-religion ceremony and as many as nine languages in play.
Categories: Culture / Feature Story / Relationships / Weddings
Wedding Album The Renewal
After 20 years of marriage and an inadequate proposal, Jim Moret surprised his wife by getting down on one knee and taking his beloved as his bride all over again...in front of their kids, friends and family.
Categories: Feature Story / Relationships / Weddings
Wedding Album The Assimilated
Gustavo Arellano explains how traditional Mexican-American weddings, including his own sister's, are becoming a thing of the past...and why that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Categories: Culture / Feature Story / Weddings
Wedding Album Chemical Connections
Mary Murphy profiles the various ways matchmakers help you to find your dream guy or girl, from online Websites to high-end personal shoppers.
Categories: Feature Story / Relationships / Weddings
Wedded Bliss: Details
Details on our Wedded Bliss fashion story.
Break the Wedding-Cake Mold
An array of wedding cakes—Hummingbird, Green Tea, Old-Fashion, Croque en Bouche, Coffee Crunch, Imagawa-yaki—from some of L.A.'s best bakeries, such as Patticakes in Altadena and Jin Patisserie in Venice.
Categories: Feature Story / Food / Photos / Pictorials / Weddings
Happily Ever Laughter
For the very first time, longtime marrieds Jay and Mavis Leno open up on strong women, real men and why theirs is a love for the ages.
Categories: Feature Story / Humor / Relationships
Vowing to Be Vert
Linda Daly shares her experience of planning a green wedding in L.A., from invitations and venues to wedding dresses and flowers.
Categories: Shades of Green / Weddings
Chardonnay Lives!
The history of chardonnay in California may hold the key to its future—white wine's biggest fashion victim is finally getting a makeover.
Categories: By the Glass / Drinks
Jerry Buss All in the Family
Sorry, Jerry Buss won't sell the Lakers no matter how much you offer. But now meet Buss' six children, who stand to inherit the franchise from their father.
Categories: Good Sport / Sports
Citizen Chad
Chad Hurley, the founder of YouTube, talks with Jod Kaftan about the competition, eReaders and the future of online video.
Categories: Digital / Technology / The Gadfly
palate—May 2009
Lora Zarubin's latest favorites include downtown's Bottega Louie, Hangar One's spicy spirits, Unami Burger and online epicurean destination TastingTable.com
A Vegan in Paradise
Luau executive chef Mako Tanaka proves up to the vegan challenge and wows Kathy Freston and friends with tropical treats like pineapple-glazed tempeh balls.
Categories: A New Leaf / Food
A Certain Grace
Josh Radnor takes you to Ben Lee and Ione Skye's otherworldly Indian nuptials, where Amma, a divine manifestation in human form, officiates.
Categories: My Best Story / Relationships / Weddings
