The most powerful suggestions in this week's NY Times Weddings & Celebrations? If you write about dating or a hapless love life, all is not lost! Actually, we got that idea from Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City, too, but not everyone can end up with Mr. Big or marry a hunky principal dancer at the NY City Ballet. Anyway... The most intriguing meet-cute is that of Kristina Grish and Scott Mebus, who were......

Twenty-nine-year-old playwright and actress Courtney McLean has done her share of day jobs: as a former wedding and party DJ, she DJed an afterparty for N'Sync at the San Diego Sports Arena, and her brushes with celebrity include discussing bikini waxes with Jessica Biel. After studying theater at UC San Diego, the California native headed to New York five years ago, and currently waitresses at Penelope, among other gigs. But her true love is theater,......

Fashion writer Adena Halpern made a name for herself with her "Haute Life" column in Marie Claire and decided to turn her love for clothing into a memoir, Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown. She takes readers through her various wardrobes choices, from the unfortunate to the invaluable, weaving her jobs and relationships into the fabric of her tales, including the title garments, which each play a major role. In chapters such as......

Meghan Cleary, shoe expert, author, The Perfect Fit...

Apparently lad magazines are being shipped to the soldiers in the Middle East. So our boys will get their fill of Maxim and Stuff and the crap it holds. Sports Illustrated is also sending magazines. Ladies already got facial products and magazines from Marie Claire, fret not.......