When the Art Guys, Houston’s zany performance art duo, staged a faux wedding to a live oak in 2009, they thought they were raising questions about man and nature. But before long, The Art Guys Marry a Plant had become a flashpoint for the fight over gay marriage.

Texas Monthly || March 2012

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There are May-December marriages, and then there is Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner, twenty-four and eighty-four, respectively, whose engagement, when it was announced by Hefner on Christmas Eve, via Twitter, attracted particular interest.

The New Yorker || February 28, 2011