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City Life, Feature Apr 10, 2020
Dating at a distance

What it’s like to virtually flirt at the hot new first-date spot: Google Hangouts
- By Rachel Hawley
- Tags: Feature, Bumble, coronavirus, COVID-19, dating, Google Hangouts, Hinge, Tinder

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 3, 2019
For a good time, come all over the dating satire Grindr the Opera

Pride Films and Plays' new musical gleefully skewers the modern gay-dating scene.
- By Josh Flanders
- Tags: Theater Review, Grindr the Opera, Pride Films and Plays, Bruno Rivera, Justin Cavazos, Ben Broughton, Evan Wilhelm, John Cardone, dating, gay dating

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Apr 11, 2018
How to get laid without freaking out

Advice for a victim of sexual abuse and rape. Plus: Help, I snooped and discovered what I most feared!
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, rape, sexual abuse, one-night stand, casual sex, dating, getting laid, single, sex with friends, friends with benefits, trust, demisexual, trauma, bigotry, racism, snooping, cheating, open relationship, boundaries, the Stranger, Hump! Film Festival, amateur porn festival, Hump! fest

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2018
'Spinning Singles' search for love atop a Ferris wheel—in 12 minutes or less

At the Navy Pier's speed dating event, 90 participants tried to make a love connection while trapped in a tiny gondola 150 feet in the air.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Apropos of Nothing, Narcissism, Seriously?, News, Navy Pier, Ferris wheel, Spinning Singles, speed dating, romance, dating

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 11, 2016
Dating during chemotherapy isn’t easy

Hair loss, libido-killing meds, the unsexy specter of death, and Tinder
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Feature, chemotherapy, dating, Tinder, chemo, cancer, Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 11, 2016
That moment the relationship got complicated

Shotgunning weed smoke into my girlfriend's mother's mouth and more brief stories of dating difficulties.
- By Brad Einstein
- Tags: Feature, 69, Brad Einstein, cannabis, complications, dating, difficulty, Fleshlight, marijuana, OCD, weed

Arts & Culture, Book Review Oct 14, 2015
In Fear of Dying, Erica Jong explores sex and death in the age of Internet dating

And renounces the zipless fuck for good.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Book Review, Fear of Dying, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, dating

Blogs, Bleader Jul 13, 2015
Aziz Ansari is the dating guru we didn't realize we needed

The comedian blends zaniness with sharp observations about love in the Internet age in his book Modern Romance.
- By Tyler Daswick
- Tags: Arts, Books, Dim the Lights, Comedy, Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg, dating, Tinder, love crisis, texting, online dating

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Teamster seeks a more perfect union—with you, girl

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for his close-up.
- Tags: Feature, dating, singles, Tony Pacenta

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Smart, sexy femme seeks smart, sexy butch

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for her close-up.
- Tags: Feature, dating, singles, Elaine Rodey

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Model-beautiful CEO loves #MCM—and cuddling

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for her close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Angelica Ross, singles, dating

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Reader designer has designs on a mate—is it you?

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for her close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day 2015, Singles Issue, Sue Kwong, singles, dating, graphic designers, Chicago Reader

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Globe-trotting Iowa grad wants to learn the language of love

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for her close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Katie Aune, singles, dating

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Streeterville lawyer wouldn't object to meeting the right guy

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for his close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day 2015, Singles Issue, Mario Treto Jr., singles, dating, Lawyer, Streeterville

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Lakeview lawyer has looks and brains—the left and the right ones

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for his close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day 2015, Singles Issue, Anthony Nguyen, singles, dating, Lawyer, Lakeview

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Arts administrator blends southern charm and nice arms

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for his close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day 2015, Singles Issue, Christopher Audain, singles, dating, arts administrator, Humboldt Park

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Dating this Reader music editor won't be an error

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for his close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day 2015, Singles Issue, Philip Montoro, dating, singles, editors, Chicago Reader, Edgewater

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
She's Pretty in the Windy City and looking for someone tall, dark, and handsome

One of our readers' awesome single friends is ready for her close-up.
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day 2015, Singles Issue, Nicole L. Townsend, dating, singles, Pretty in the Windy City, Lincoln Square

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2015
Ten Chicagoans you won't believe are single

Meet ten locals, nominated by their friends, who are looking for love this Valentine's Day.
- Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day 2015, Singles Issue, Anti-Valentine's Day, dating, singles

Arts & Culture, Valentine's Day Feb 10, 2015
Our top 12 picks for celebrating (or ignoring) Valentine's Day in Chicago

From dinners to parties to a horror convention, we've got you covered.
- Tags: Chicago Reader's Guide to Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day, Thalia Hall, Anti-Valentine's Day Party, Casablanca, Music Box, My Bloody Valentine, Logan Auditorium, I'll Do Anything to See Boobs Tonight, Gorilla Tango, Love Is Sweet, Blokes and Birds, Naked Girls Reading, Everleigh Social Club, Valentine's events 2015, Valentines Day, events, dating, couples

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2014
Turn yourself over to Love Prison

A new A&E dating series makes incarceration scarier than ever.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, love prison, reality tv, dating, the bachelor, the bachelorette, bachelor in paradise, ABC, A&E

News & Politics, Feature May 6, 2014
The trials of a neighborhood high school

Wells Community Academy in West Town has disadvantaged students, many unhelpful parents, a bad reputation, charters nibbling at its enrollment—and some rare successes. Can it survive?
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, poverty and segregation in Chicago schools, Wells Community Academy, neighborhood schools, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Rituparna Raichoudhuri, Conchita Castro, Brighton Park, public transportation, Kelly High School, Juarez High School, Chavez Elemetary High School, desegregation, prejudices, race, teachers, ACTs, East Village, West Town, minorities, poverty, Cabrini-Green, Carmen Martinez, Austin High School, school closings, standardized tests, principals, school buildings, California, gangs, Hispanics, African-Americans, Irving Zucker, suspension, violence, teen pregnancy, anger-mangement, conflict resolution, Samantha Kyme, Edwin Caraballo, social workers, Humboldt Park, Clemente High School, Latia Lane, interns, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC, Facebook, Darius Calhoun, dating, Smyth Elementary School, Back of the Yards, Vashti Taylor, Kenwood, Liberia, ESL, English as a Second Language, college admissions, expulsion rates, graduation rates, sports, athletics

Arts & Culture, Valentine's Day Feb 12, 2014
Things to do on Valentine's Day that aren't awful

If you insist on being romantic . . .
- Tags: Chicago Reader's Guide to Valentine's Day, A10, Atwood Cafe, Big Jones, Blind Faith Cafe, Cicchetti, vegetarian options, Cyrano's Farm Kitchen, Embeya, Endgrain, Geja's Cafe, Homestead on the Roof, Kabocha, Parson's Chicken & Fish, Taxim, Telegraph Wine Bar, Tesori, Trencherman, Uncommon Ground on Devon, Chicago Reader, parties, comedy, improv, underwear, date night, dating, singles, The Queers, dances, dance nights, wine, couples

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2014
V-Day Issue: Young love later in life

Eleanor Spiess-Ferris and Umberto Tosi are "male and female versions of the same creative spirit."
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Feature, couples, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Umberto Tosi, painters, writers, OKCupid, dating, artists, cats, computer chess, Jeopardy, trivia, Loyola Beach

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jul 4, 2013
Adult entertainment

How to date porn stars, current and former. Plus: Postbreakup libidos and newlywed threesomes.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, long term relationshiop, break up, dating, sexuality, libido, Daniel Bergner, porn, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon, Viagra, Pacific Northwest, clam digging, necrophiliacs, bicurious, Pandora's box, threeways, San Francisco, gay adult film, bi, feminine, masculine, homophobia, online dating site

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