Through distinctive performance, artful direction and graceful staging, Expecting to Fly merges regret, longing, affection, memory, appreciation, warmth and absolution into a single gem of a play. more ›

Gay or straight, when a marriage isn't working, divorce is one of a couple's options. Now, in the wake of yesterday's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that a ban on same-sex marriage in California is unconstitutional, the first couple wed when such marriages were made legal in 2008 are getting divorced. more ›

Folks, do us a favor this holiday season and keep your marital problems off the airplanes. One woman from Lynwood got her husband's plane grounded after calling the airline and telling them that he was planning to blow up the aircraft he was on. more ›

America's favorite ginger Conan O'Brien will personally perform a same-sex wedding during tonight's show on TBS. Airing from NYC, the event marks the first same-sex wedding on late night television. Please note: The wedding is not a comedy bit. It's a "real, legally binding, same-sex marriage between our show's costume designer, Scott Cronick, and his partner, David Gorshein," explains Conan during last night's mention of the upcoming nuptials. more ›

After getting involved in phony marriages, three marines have been discharged with bad conduct. L.A. Now reports that the individuals, Vice Cpl. Jeremiah Griffin, Cpl. Joseph Garner and Cpl. Ashley Vice participated in the marriages so that Vice and her female partner, Jaime Murphy, would be able to collect housing allowances that the military provides to married couples. more ›

Which of the lovebirds in the May-December romance of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher has been given marching orders out of the relationship? If we're to believe what the great media gossip machine says, it's Kutcher who is in the doghouse, having brought down the six-year marriage with a dalliance with a young woman he met in a San Diego nightclub. Say it isn't so, Ashton! more ›

IT'S THE MOMENT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR: Kim Kardashian married her Prince Charming, Kris Humphries, at a private estate in Montecito last night. As we all recall, Humphries, a professional basketball player who played last season for the Nets, gifted Kardashian with a 20-carat, $2 million ring in May. The two had been dating only six months, but Kim, of course, has been dying to get married for years now. more ›

Most of us grew up watching Bert and Ernie bicker on "Sesame Street," and urban legend has suggested that the perennial roomies were actually educational television's puppet version of same-sex love. Now a group is calling for the show to air an episode featuring Bert and Ernie uniting themselves in legal matrimony. more ›

After 25 years of marriage, California's former governor and first lady are putting their marriage on hold, according to the L.A. Times. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced their separation tonight, revealing that Shriver will move out of the couple's Brentwood family home. The two high-profile personalities say they plan to live apart while they "work on the future of [their] relationship." more ›

The OC couple that married on the 100th birthday of the groom is the oldest couple to ever wed, reports the OC Register. The current holders of the title in the Guiness Book of World Records are French couple Francois Frenandez and Madeleine Francineau, who had a combined age of 190 years and 126 days on their wedding day. more ›

During the year or so that many couples take to plan their nuptials, low on the to-do list tends to be figuring out a back-up plan in case the bride or groom comes down with a debilitating illness that requires them to be quarantined. Well, that might be the next niche in the wedding industry, after the experiences of one Orange County pair. more ›

If you've been paying attention to overhead signs recently, you've no doubt seen (and questioned) the huge billboards in which Ken proclaims his love for Barbie. more ›

Celebrity gossip site TMZ calls Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa "Mayor Suave," thanks to his affinity for photo opps and cameo appearances. This morning TMZ reports that Villaraigosa is now also officially single, as his divorce from his now ex-wife, Corina, was just granted. A factoid for your water-cooler gathering: "The former couple originally filed for divorce back in 2007 -- but according to documents obtained by TMZ, the judge didn't sign the divorce order until yesterday." more ›

Just hours before the deadline on Friday, proponents of California's gay marriage ban filed written arguments detailing why a federal appeals court should overturn a lower court's decision that found the law unconstitutional. more ›

A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel of judges ruled today that enforcement of Prop 8, which banned gay marriage in California, will continue until at least December. Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker set Prop 8 to expire on Wednesday, meaning same sex marriages could be performed beginning at 5 p.m. if the higher court did not block them. And indeed, they did step in, but agreeing to quickly push the case through the next step, which is a technical one. more ›

American Family Radio host David Barton doesn't want to see proponents of Prop 8, which banned gay marriage in California, appeal the recent ruling that found it unconstitutional. He fears it will ultimately be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court meaning the 31 states that have also banned gay marriage "will go down in flames," according to Mother Jones. more ›

If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit doesn't stop gay marriages from beginning on Wednesday afternoon, county officials are ready to marry gay couples. Dean Logan, L.A. County's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC), announced today that office hours at the Norwalk headquarters would be extended on Wednesday. more ›

And let round two begin. Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dedicated a section of their website to the case challenging Prop 8, which banned gay marriage in California. more ›

[Decision Update: The judge has overturned Prop 8, ruling it to be unconstitutional. Read the full story here.] more ›

In 2008, Prop 8 banned gay marriage in California when voters narrowly -- 52% to 48% -- approved it at the ballot box. Today, the Field Poll finds (.pdf) that Californians are trending towards more acceptance of gay marriage. more ›

Watch out fans of divorce, it's back! After failing to qualify for the November 2nd ballot, the California Protection of Marriage Act went into circulation on Tuesday. If 694,354 registered voters sign the petition within 150 days -- that's December 9th -- California voters may end up voting on it in 2011. more ›

Closing arguments in the federal case challenging Prop 8, which banned gay marriage in California, will be heard sometime in June. Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker threw out June 16th as a possible date, but an exact date and time will be determined once attorneys and the court hash out their schedules. As for when a decision will be announced, it's up to Walker discretion. He could announce his decision five minutes or five weeks after closing arguments are over. more ›

No surprise for the low-key ballot initiative to repeal Prop 8, which did not qualify for November's ballot today (not enough signatures were collected). Here's why some believe it's no big deal: "Gay-rights activists are divided over the wisdom of returning to the ballot so soon after voters approved Proposition 8 and believe that the 2012 presidential election would generate a larger and more sympathetic voter turnout," the San Diego Union-Tribune reported explained morning. "Some activists say they believe the federal court challenge to Proposition 8’s constitutionality offers the best hope of overturning the ban." And if that doesn't work, the 2012 Presidential election will draw out more voters than this year's mid-term one. more ›

The California Family Council this week went on the offense about a bill making its way through the legislature that would redefine marriage, literally. As they explain, Senator Mark Leno's SB 906 would make "several unnecessary changes to the state Family Code related to the definition of marriage by replacing the term 'marriage' with the phrase 'civil marriage,' attempting to create a new class of marriage." more ›

Looks like the tradition of divorce is safe for now. The initiative to place a proposition on the ballot to eliminate the law allowing married couples to divorce failed to qualify, the Secretary of State's office announced yesterday. The 2010 California Marriage Protection Act was "the brain-child of concerned Christian and political activist John Marcotte, who felt strongly that Prop 8 did not go far enough in protecting traditional marriage." Touché! According to the state's Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance, banning divorce would have saved the state "up to hundreds of millions of dollars annually for support of the court system due to the elimination of divorce proceedings." more ›

As part of Los Angeles magazine's contest soliciting three-minute videos capturing Los Angeles, Screenwriter Glenn Camhi decided to give it a try. "I thought of a couple getting married as the theme," he told Culture Monster. "They need to recite one line from the ceremony at each site along the way and they have to make it to the Griffith Park Observatory to kiss at sunset or everything is off." more ›

The L.A. City Council today unanimously backed a resolution to support social security benefits for same-sex couples. Currently, no benefits are offered in four main categories, including retirement benefits, disability insurance, survivor benefits and burial expenses. more ›

Get ready to see some dirty laundry aired. On Monday Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ordered gay marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Proposition 8, "a move that could prolong the legal challenge to California's ban on gay nuptials." more ›