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Bernadette Coveney Smith is expanding her wedding planning business from Mass. to N.Y., where gay marriage has recently been legalized. She finds dresses for a ceremony with two brides or a florist who can provide all boutonnieres. Guest host Tony Cox speaks with Smith about the intricacies of planning gay weddings.

We have our judge, we have our writing prompt and now we have our date. Round 7 of our exclusive Three-Minute-Fiction contest starts Saturday, September 10.

When high school reunions roll around, people come up with all kinds of excuses not to attend. But Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page says that regardless of how difficult your high school experience was, reunions can actually be therapeutic.

Drive is what Driver does, and driven is how audiences will feel after a screening of Nicholas Winding Refn's brutally moving thriller, which stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston and Albert Brooks. (Recommended)

Kevin Carroll and Debi Waeber were high school sweethearts who became separated by the Vietnam War and an unplanned pregnancy. Decades later, neither had an inkling that their paths would cross again. Host Michel Martin speaks with them about their story, which is featured in this week's Washington Post Magazine.

We received 3,400 original stories in this round of Three-Minute Fiction. Until the winner is announced next month, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Robert Smith introduces the stories "The Weatherby" by Nicholas Googins of Waltham, Massachusetts, and "Turnover" by Margaret Friedman of Seattle, Washington.

A driving force behind City Museum in St. Louis, the sculptor created spaces that invite adults and children to interact with his creations. He died in late September, working on a massive project he called Cementland.

Pedro Almodovar's film The Skin I Live In reunites him with actor Antonio Banderas, who first came to international attention as an obsessive lover in the director's 1987 film Law of Desire. This time, Banderas plays a scientist driven to replace his dead wife with a carbon-based copy.

Coaches regularly pace the sidelines of football fields and push vocalists to do their best. But surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande says that professionals in all fields — not just sports and music — could benefit from regular coaching.

The news and lifestyle website MamiVerse launched this summer. It features Latina journalists, writers, entrepreneurs and everyday moms who are just trying to keep it all together. The site is also for the moms' daughters and their families.