Designer Dian Malouf branches out into wedding rings for gay couples ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Dian Malouf came up with the idea for her line of men’s wedding rings, as she does most things, in the middle of the night. Malouf has been a jewelry designer for 20 years — a career she [...]
Wedding gown designer Xay Vongphachanh can help same-sex couples establish their dress code FARAH FLEURIMA | Special Contributor farah@thedallasdiva.com Xay Vongphachanh knows wedding wear trends well before they hit the street. She should — as head designer at the bridal label Watters, Vongphachanh helps set the trends. And from Watters Bridal (an upscale line) to WToo [...]
New book by Dallas native guides photographers and couples through strange territory: Shooting gay weddings JONANNA WIDNER | Contributing Writer jonanna.widner@gmail.com The complexities and nuances of same-sex wedding photography probably aren’t the first things that come to mind for a wedding photographer. After all, the art of capturing images of nuptials has been around since the [...]
Friday 05.03 Alvin Ailey returns to Dallas after 30 years In the world of modern American dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has stood for more than 50 years as something special, with a freedom and evergy to the movement of its dancers that set the tone for many companies since. It’s been 30 years, [...]
Tall, talented Aaron Bryan communicates through music MARK STOKES | Illustrator mark@markdrawsfunny.com Name and age: Aaron Bryan, 22 Occupation: Retail Spotted at: Kroger Cityplace Born in Edinburg, Texas, to a Japanese/Cherokee mother and an Apache father, this tall, handsome Aquarian — with his thick black hair, olive skin and smoldering eyes — could never get [...]
The third annual Hawaii Food & Wine Festival returns to Oahu Sept. 1–9, and the lineup is pretty gay. Out chefs and former Top Chef Masters contestants Art Smith (Chicago’s Table 52 and Oprah’s fave cook, pictured) and Anita Lo (New York’s Annisa) are among the new celebrity kitchen maters slated to appear. They’ll join returning [...]
Eden Riegel, who played lesbian icon Bianca on ‘All My Children’ for a decade, chats about the resurrection of the citizens of Pine Valley … online STEVEN LINDSEY | Contributing Writer stevencraiglindsey@me.com It’s common knowledge that nobody on a soap opera is ever truly dead — even if the actor portraying a role dies, the [...]
Naysayers of the ’12 Civic will sing a different tune about the ’13 model CASEY WILLIAMS | Auto Reviewer crwauto@aol.com Between Consumer Reports failing to bestow its somewhat over-hyped “Recommended” rating upon the re-designed 2012 Honda Civic, and the boo-hooing from the rest of the journalistic flock, you’d think a person would have had to [...]
