There have been a few ads in the NY Times weddings section that spoof the real wedding announcements. For instance, we believe we recall a few for divorce services, but less ironically, there have been ads for marriage-related movies, like The Starter Wife. And this week, there's an ad for an upcoming wedding on the ABC comedy Ugly Betty. Of course, the ad is a lot wordier than the usual NY Times wedding announcement,......

Sen. Clinton proposed awarding every newborn American with a $5,000 bond that could be invested and allowed to grow to a sum that could be redeemed for educational or home buying needs when they reached adulthood. It became a point of widespread criticism for the Senator for New York, even among those who are politically sympathetic. The Daily News quotes a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University saying "Oh, what a......

The wedding season is in full swing: Second week in a row where there are over 30 weddings in the NY Times Weddings & Celebrations section. Here we go: Total Number of Weddings: 32 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 2 Youngest Bride: 24 Oldest Bride: 47 Youngest Groom: 24 Oldest Groom: 62 Biggest Age Difference: 17 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 2 (24, 38) Number......

It's officially spring, and that means lots of NY Times wedding announcements. Twenty-six, to be exact. Total Number of Weddings: 26 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 23 Oldest Bride: 65 Youngest Groom: 25 Oldest Groom: 73 Biggest Age Difference: 21 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 4 (30 31, and two couples at 27) Number of Harvard Graduates Married: 3 Number of Yale......

It's birdseed throwing or bubble blowing time with this weekend's NY Times wedding announcements. Total Number of Weddings: 12 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 24 Oldest Bride: 48 Youngest Groom: 26 Oldest Groom: 56 Biggest Age Difference: 8 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 3 (ages 27, 36, and 37) Number of Cornell Graduates Married: 2 Number of Penn State Graduates Married: 2......

It's still officially the winter, so there just ten weddings announced this weekend in the NY Times. Let's get to the good stuff: Total Number of Weddings: 10 Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 27 Oldest Bride: 40 Youngest Groom: 28 Oldest Groom: 49 Number of Cornell Graduates: 2 Number of NYU Graduates: 1 Number of Vanderbilt Graduates: 1 Number of University of Pennsylvania Graduates: 3 Number of Kenyon College Graduates: 1 Number......

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not......

Another really short Weddings and Celebrations this week, so enough with the pleasantries and let's just jump in: Total Number of Weddings: 9 Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 0 Average Age of Brides: 30.3 Average Age of Grooms: 31 Youngest Bride: 26 Oldest Bride: 35 Youngest Groom: 26 Oldest Groom: 35 Average Age Difference: 1.3 years Largest Age Difference: 4 years Number of Older Brides: 2 Number of Older Grooms: 4 Number of Same-Age Couples:......

Here are this weeks Weddings and Celebrations, by the numbers: Total Number of Weddings: 31 Total Number of Weddings Between Two Heterosexuals: 30 Total Number of Weddings Between Two Homosexuals: 1 Average Age of Brides: 33.5 Average Age of Grooms: 35 Oldest Bride: 59 Oldest Groom: 62 Youngest Bride: 24 Youngest Groom: 26 Average Age Difference: 3.4 years Biggest Age Difference: 24 years Number of Older Brides: 2 Number of Older Grooms: 23 Number of......

Here are this weeks Weddings and Celebrations, by the numbers: Total Number of Weddings: 33 Number of Heterosexual Weddings: 33 Average Age of Brides: 34 Average Age of Grooms: 36 Oldest Bride: 71 Oldest Groom: 74 Youngest Bride: 25 Youngest Groom: 25 Average Age Difference: 2.8 years Biggest Age Difference: 13 years Number of Older Brides: 5 Number of Older Grooms: 20 Number of Same-Age Couples: 8 Number of Native New Yorkers (State): 20 Number......

Maybe because Gothamist has seen Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy, we feel the disappearance of Spalding Gray is sad. Gray's wife reported him missing, and people are worried since he has a history of depression and attempting suicide. Sometimes called the WASP Woody Allen, Gray is a writer, actor, and monologuist. His brother, Rockwell Gray, a professor at Washington University, tells the Times, "I wouldn't say he was in a......

A doctor claims that reading Harry Potter has made a few of his patients sick. George Washington University Medical Center's Dr. Howard Bennett wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine that three children, ages 8 to 10, had "a dull headache for two or three days." A commonality among the three? Reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for hours. Dr. Bennett wrote, "The obvious cure for this malady -- that is,......