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Bride's magazine features gay weddings

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In its September-October issue, Bride's published an article on gay weddings. The article has been on newsstands for a month now and, amazingly, Western civilization has not collapsed.

The Bride's article was such a groundbreaking event that its appearance was covered in the New York Times. "This is the first time that any of the five top-selling bridal magazines has published such a feature," the Times reported.

Welcome to the new millennium.

There's a lot woven into these cloth works

A little bit of Seoul is on display starting today through Dec. 7 in the Asian Temporary Exhibition Gallery at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. It's called pojagi — a tradition by women of Korea of weaving and stitching together wrapping cloths. These cloths, fashioned from silk, ramie, leftover textile scraps or paper, were used by both royalty and everyday people to store clothes and bedding, wrap luggage, cover food and present beautifully wrapped gifts.

The Academy of Arts is displaying 60 of the finest pojagi, works of art from the largest private collection in the world, housed in the Museum of Korean Embroidery in Seoul.

Sept. 11 explored on stage and screen

With the second anniversary of 9-11 around the corner, here are two artsy events for revisiting and reflection:

"September 11, (11'09'01)," a film that revisits the World Trade Center attacks, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, and 4 p.m. Sunday at the Doris Duke Theatre at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

The controversial film taps 11 stellar international directors who respond to the catastrophe in accordance with their views, in a mixed bag that restricts each vision to 11 minutes, 9 seconds and one frame. Among the filmmakers: Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Youssef Chahine; $5 general, $3 academy members. 532-8768.