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S.F. boosts weddings in face of Prop. 8 fears (San Francisco Chronicle) - Starting this week, San Francisco City Hall will be expanding its wedding hours to accommodate the rush of gay and lesbian couples nervous about the outcome of the Nov. 4 election. "We've been together for 13 years," said Ana Solomon of San Leandro, who came...

Four weddings in China, no funeral reported (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Two Chinese wedding banquets held on successive nights at the same restaurant put at least 60 guests into hospital with food poisoning, the latest in a series of village dinner upsets.

William Shatner On Takei Wedding Snub: 'He's A Psychotic, Gay Bridezilla' [Gay Weddings] (Defamer) - newVideoPlayer("/shatner_takei.flv", 506, 423,""); Nothing on the fall TV schedule has captured our imaginations more than a tiny, as-yet-untitled program to recently premiere on YouTube, which we...

Weddings, Engagements & Anniversaries (Lodi News-Sentinel) - Anthony Brown and Natalie Pfaff, both of Burson, were married in April. Brown graduated from Calaveras High School in 1993. He is employed by Diede Construction. He is the son of Dennis Brown, of Mountain Ranch.

Czech dumpling wraps whole fruit, pit and all (Macon Telegraph) - QUESTION: I wonder if you can find a recipe for a wonderful Czech apricot dumpling. The apricots are wrapped in a fluffy, sweet dough and are steamed or boiled and covered with melted butter and powdered sugar. Weddings, funerals, family get-togethers — these bring some happiness into this world, for sure. At 85, I’d sure like to taste my childhood at least one more time.

Kristin Scott Thomas Shines as a Child Killer in I've Loved You So Long (The Village Voice) - Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember the actress got her big break as a wistfully amused friend in Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral , or that she played Plum Berkeley on Absolutely Fabulous . Thomas ha...

A whirlwind of gay weddings (Los Angeles Times) - Before California lifted the ban on same-sex marriage, a rabbi at Beth Chayim Chadashim in L.A.'s Fairfax district had only one ceremony scheduled for the year. Now, she's presided over dozens. Just minutes before donning her prayer shawl, Rabbi Lisa Edwards beckoned the couple she was about to marry and sat them down to run through her checklist. As usual, Edwards had meticulously compiled ...

Alum inspires confidence in community during Peace Corps post (Jambar) - After serving for two years in Thailand for the Peace Corps, Rebecca Neuman's landlords there became a second set of parents to her. She attended funerals and weddings in her community, and cried for a day and half when she left.

Taiwan banks missed the merger window (International Herald Tribune) - The wave of big financial mergers sparked by the global credit crisis is leaving Taiwan behind, as key players there wait for markets to calm rather than force lenders into shotgun weddings

Greektown develops Latin flavor (Baltimore Sun) - E. Baltimore enclave is somewhat awkwardly absorbing new immigrant group For 50 years, Greeks have made their way to Kentrikon, a shop on Eastern Avenue where they come to buy Greek music and trinkets, wreaths for weddings and christening ribbons after babies are born.