These local religious leaders were serious Thursday for most of their news conference on marriage equality, but I happened to catch this candid moment afterward as they gathered together for a portrait. I couldn’t resist using it. It was a lighter moment during what’s been a hotly contested and often bitter debate over marriage since Proposition 8 was first proposed and finally upheld by the state’s Supreme Court this week.

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So tonight after work I dashed over to A Restaurant in Newport Beach to catch Mona and Greer Wylder, our Best Buys columnist, tend bar there as local celebrities. Hey, they may not have as much star power as Dan Aykroyd (who tended bar for a few minutes there last week) — yet — but you just wait.

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I had to see the Barstow Boyz Friday at La Cave in Costa Mesa.

I mean, when dynamic, red-leather-pants-wearing frontman Rim Morrisson requests your presence you can’t just say no.

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