Here. :) Enjoy some light wedding fare:
AS the sun started to set over Miami Beach on March 19, Rita Nakouzi, a consultant on fashion and lifestyle trends, and Touré, a writer and pop culture commentator, were married on the sand behind the Raleigh Hotel in the South Beach area.
"O.K., who's got the bling?" asked the Rev. Joseph Simmons, a Pentecostal minister, who was looking for the couple's wedding bands. Also called Reverend Run, he is best known as a member of the pioneering rap group Run-DMC. The crowd of 120 included his brother, the hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons; the CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien; and members of Miss Nakouzi's family, who had flown in from Beirut, Lebanon, where the bride was born.
..."We fit very well together," said Touré, a correspondent for CNN and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. "She's somebody who can go with me from a 50 Cent concert to a Toni Morrison reading and be equally comfortable in both places."
Wait, wait...don't tell me. I know what you're thinking-- why should you care? Aside from the fact that Reverend Run is cool, that's a fair question. Heck, why does the Mutiny care?
The answer lies within the story of how they met, during one magical night at a Lenny Kravitz video shoot at Limelight NYC:
"I don't even like Lenny Kravitz," said Touré, 34, who uses only one name. "I don't know what I was doing there." But soon he spotted Miss Nakouzi, whom he assumed was Indian.
He introduced himself and told her, "It's funny I'm meeting you now because I'm reading 'Midnight's Children,' " the Salman Rushdie book.
"That's great," she replied. "But I'm not Indian."
Miss Nakouzi, now 29, said she was not turned off. "Here was a guy who was trying to tell me he was intelligent," she said. "Most men aren't trying to prove to you they're smart in their first comment." Touré was embarrassed but undaunted. He circled around for another attempt.
See? If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
Upon reflection, and with sincere concern for the impressionable youngsters who might be reading this, "try" up until a point. When she threatens you with her Malayalee Hit Squad-connected cousins, that is a good sign to STOP.
Anyway, doesn't that NYT article make you all swoon-y? NO ONE ever comes on to me by telling me what they're READING. That's so hot.
/end nerdery.
