Category: First Dates
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What To Do After You Find Someone You Like
You sign up. You take 1 minute to build your profile. Then you look at your matches. This is normally where people get stuck. Match after match after match, people scroll, swipe, filter, re-filter, swipe, then turn off their phone altogether and walk away. Yet, after each match viewing session, there’s that one person that […]
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Bars We Love: Battle & Brew
While the arcade bar has certainly skyrocketed in popularity around the country – two we love are Emporium up in Chicago along with Stella’s Lounge just around the Lake Michigan corner in Grand Rapids, MI – I guarantee you haven’t seen anything quite like Battle & Brew on the north side of Atlanta in Sandy […]
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How to Succeed on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is the ephemeral conundrum for anyone single. Should I have a date this year? Should I work to find a date? Do I have to work to find a date? Is there any way that I can force myself not to care? Now if you read those in any kind of voice that […]
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Chicago’s Emporium Arcade Bar = Apex of Awesomeness
Chicago’s Emporium Arcade Bar is everything you want it to be (and probably even more too). 12-year-old me spent his time playing NBA Jam, Contra and Mortal Kombat, Now at 32 years old, I spent last night playing NBA Jam, Contra and Mortal Kombat, but this time, I had a really good craft beer in my hand. What’s the difference […]
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Just Some Fun Valentine’s Day Date Ideas
This one is brought to you by USA Today. Today’s edition features some quick places to go and enjoy the company of your Valentine’s Day date. From Starbucks to Qdoba (we don’t recommend you go to McDonald’s for your date, and second thought, Qdoba may only work if you’ve been together for awhile), each restaurant […]
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Katrina Bowden Is Such a Nerd
Katrina Bowden – yes, that same Katrina Bowden who has gone from 30 Rock to Maxim and just about everything in between – is such a nerd. Oh, you don’t believe me? Then watch this hilarious original first date video from CollegeHumor – trust me, you don’t want to pass this one up. I think […]
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Houston First Date Ideas for Gamers
It’s Friday night down here in Houston, and the weather is just about perfect; although, for Houstonians, we’ll just about take any day that isn’t filled with 800% humidity and 95-plus degree temperatures. No humidity makes this time of year idea for outside first dates in Houston, so let’s drum up some creative ones, shall […]
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New Study Shows Doing Good Makes Your Body Feel Better Than Feeling Good
Definitely not lacking in irony, this new study out by United Health Group shows that while we all want (and work) to feel good, nothing makes us feel better than actually doing good. And what better way to do good then volunteer on your next big date!
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Drink your Drink: Knowledge is greater than submission
We live in a time where lack of knowledge is tantamount to laziness. We may no longer fly under the radar uninformed on major aspects of our lives. It’s ok to not know that Gaspar Noé’s film Irreversible contains a french nightclub’s underbelly fight scene that directly influenced Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, in […]
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Stella’s: Video Games and Burgers
Where’s all my Michigander’s at? I can tell you’re from Michigan because when you held your hand up, you pointed at the spot on your dirty palm denoting where you grew up; for those of you not from Michigan, if you hold your palm up the shape technically looks like the lower half of the fine, […]