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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Star Trek Weddings On Thanksgiving Weekend? Live Long and Prenup!
Don't mistake a tryptophan coma for Phyllis Nefler's mellow; Thanksgiving weekend involves sitting in Mama Nefler's basement and packing a round of the NYT Weddings & Celebrations. This week: Trekkies, West Wing fans, and Scopes Monkey celebrities. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
Awww yeeeah. Did you know people are rapping at weddings? You KNOW what this means. Phyllis Nefler's gonna throw down on some sick rhymes over Robert Woletz-produced beat of the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations. Let the beat build, Phyllis: More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings and Their First Wedding
If love is a battlefield, and weddings are your infantry missions, Phyllis Nefler is Sherman, burning up the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations. Well, she just earned her Downfall meme: we've found our first weddings trend. OOH-RAH, Matrimony Marines. More »ConspiracyTrend -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Of Muppets, Monkeys, and Mexican Wrestling
ChiChi! Joo got the yayo, mane? No boss, we got something better. The addictive shit that is the uncut NYT Weddings & Celebrations section. Our pusherman? Phyllis Nefler, moving mad weight weekly, who dips into the product just for you. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: When Your Wedding Makes the 'Off' Weekend
You'll have to excuse Weddings Expert Phyllis Nefler for feeling a little ghoulish today. Like war, the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations breaks for no holiday, including the Tet Offensive of hangovers, but The Vows must go on. They always do. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Ultimate Altarcations Gets Under Jared and Ivanka's Chuppah
You knew this was coming. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are getting married today. They got covered in the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations pages. This is what happens when you pitch Weddings Expert Phyllis Nefler a fastball down the middle: More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Feminism's Fallen to Talking Points, But Not White Dresses
Every week, Phyllis Nefler scores the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations pages for the various Times-reading women and gay men who need their own special version of sabermetrics, and the straight men like me who deny reading them. These are Altarcations. More » -
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Moon's Last Mass Wedding a Success, Moonie Times Says
If you didn't get married to someone you don't know in a sea of 20,000 cult members yesterday, you may have missed your chance. It looks like the Reverend Sun Myung Moon has performed his final mass wedding. More » -
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Todd English's Cold Feet Wedding Scandal: Prenups, Press Plays, and Domestic Abuse
Last week, we reported on celebrity chef Todd English ditching his bride at the altar, and the bridal party spinning their story to the Post. Forget the "maybe." It was total spin, to prepare for battle: pre-nups and abuse allegations. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: The Kerry/Dubya Rivalry, Extended
Do you remember the bloody battle between Dubya and Kerry? Phyllis Nefler does. So do the NYT's bitchy Weddings & Celebrations editors, who love a juicy broadsheet when they can make one. The battle royale continues. Also, look: meerkats! More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Of Mustache Rides and Moneyed Marriage
Altarcations are birthing friendships from our loins. Wonder if Phyllis Nefler will help this week's NYT Weddings & Celebrations elite fraternize over love of pervy facial hair and difficulties paying for pricey gay marriages. Bonds: we make them happen. More » -
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Bridal Party Spin on Celeb Chef Todd English's Bride-Stiffing, Cold-Footed "No-Show" at the Altar
Last night, we hear that celebrity chef Todd English stood up his bride-to-be at the altar, has been in Florida the last three days, and was never going to show. This morning, the New York Post runs the story. How? More » -
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Saturday Night Special
Well, that was an interesting day. Jews! They're having identity issues, they're having sex scandals, they're having stomach aches, they're having a holiday with something called an "etrog" and a DIY beer cave. It's called Sukkot, and it starts today. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Consider the Doorman
Lots of people who thought they were marrying into money: screwed. People like Phyllis Nefler, who will marry into awesomeness: better off. In this week's NYT's Weddings & Celebrations, a few people actually do that. But remember: Harvard. Always. Wins. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Let Them Eat Brooklyn Hipster Cake Toppers
Phyllis Nefler eats lots of cake, emotionally and otherwise. She's yet to meet her dream cake—which probably comes from B.C. and rhymes with "shmooberry sush"—but it's out there. NYT's Weddings & Celebrations, help us find it. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Old People Like To Do It, Too
Gawker Weekend's Wedding Maven, Phyllis Nefler, please, tell us: will we have to wait until we're old and wrinkly to find matrimonial bliss? The NYT'sNilla SectionWeddings & Celebrations seems to think so. Depends, off, biological clocks, on. More » -
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Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Creative Types' Weddings War Over Ivy-Strewn Battlegrounds
The NYT Weddings & Celebrations are a place for the hoi polloi to GTFO, not for artsy-fartsies "making" things other than Exeter-bound offspring and family mergers. Phyllis Nefler investigates the recent rash of ridiculousness: let those fuckers eat wedding cake! More » -
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New York Times Needs to Stop Messing with Psychotic Wedding Fetishists, Now
WTF? The New York Times made a huge "teachable moment" in this weekend's weddings, and we got tipped off to it! Phyllis Nefler, who polices the mean streets of the Weddings & Celebrations, is on the case. Sick 'em, Phyllis. More » -
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Phish Phan's Weekapaug Wedding A Sign Of Things To Come
In August, it ain't where you're from, it's what wedding you're at. Not getting married/watching other people get married? Then you're probably single, friendless, or me. Enter Phyllis Nefler and the NYT Weddings & Celebrations to help ease/exacerbate our pain. More » -
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Cult-Officiated Weddings Are Sweaty, Pickled Affairs
If marriage is an institution, Phyllis Nefler is the McMurphy to the Nurse Ratchet of the Sunday NYT Weddings & Celebrations, editor Robert Woletz. Contained herein: deodorant, Seinfeld, cults, MENSA, and wonderful/bad vagina jokes. On bended knee, Altarcations is back. More »
