Tuesday’s Topic: Double Dating Dynamics
Double Dating Dynamics By Kari DePhillips You’ve heard or experienced blind date horror stories. You know, the time when you walked into the restaurant and the girl you were meeting had a thicker mustache than you. Or, the time when the new guy you had plans with decided to invite his mother. There was also [...]
Thursday’s Thoughts From a Bartender: He’s Asking Me Out – But Invading My Personal Space
By Jack Elliot It’s your safe little bubble against the outside world. It’s your haven from strangers around you. It’s your zone. It’s your sanctuary. It’s personal space. But all too often, I’ll witness as these fragile personal space bubbles, and most often those belonging to women, are popped and trampled on by eager, overbearing [...]
Tuesday’s Topic: What Happened to Wooing?
By Kari DePhillips What happened to wooing? Two words: “Jersey Shore.” On a recent episode, the Situation was all a flutter (as “a flutter” as he can be) over a girl he just met in a Miami nightclub. As a way of sharing personal information the girl said, “I’m from Canada.” To which the Situation [...]
Sasha Speaks — Answering Your Most Private Dating Questions
Sasha Speaks 10.18.10 “Dear Sasha I’ve been dating this girl for the past few months. Things are pretty serious, we’ve slept together and say ‘I love you,’ and it’s all great, except that I used to go out with her friend and that makes things a little tense and weird from time to time. How [...]
Thursday’s Thoughts From a Bartender: Guys – What Your Button Style Says About Your Dating Style
By Jack Elliot It’s the weekend! Finally, after the long sludge and trudge of the busy workweek, it’s time to go out- time to paint the town red. And now you’re getting dressed- your perfect jeans are on, your dress shirt has been picked out, and everything is ready for the night ahead…right? Unfortunately, no. [...]
Respect, Personal Space & Gayle King
By Jennifer Kelton My close encounter with Gayle King is an in-flight tale. Four years ago, I wrote a book on dating and mating titled: Don’t Use My Sweater Like a Towel. Despite the blunt title, the book is ultimately a non-fiction story about: life, love, human nature and, most important, respect. The man who [...]
Thursday’s Thoughts From a Bartender: The Drunk Guy Response – Drunk Dialing and Too Much Cologne
By Jack Elliot They are everywhere. They come in hordes reeking of too much cologne. They plague the air with bad breath and conversation. Their egos barely fit through wide and spacious doorways. They repeatedly offer to buy you drinks after you say no. They try to dance with you after you say no. They [...]
Thursday’s Thoughts From a Bartender – Cleavage Calling?
Does a skimpy dress attract more men? By Jack Elliot “What should I wear?” she thinks hours before the big night out as she desperately rifles through her dresser, her roommates dresser, her closet, even the dryer in search for that elusive, perfect, classically sexy outfit- not too conservative, not too trashy, not too flashy, [...]
Two Women, Two Cities, One Question — Question #2 Hair! Hair! Long Flowing Hair?
By Jennifer Kelton and By Jessica Downey In walks Jennifer Kelton and Jessica Downey two modern day Lois Lane’s who are unabashedly hitting the pavement in their bustling hometowns of Los Angeles and Chicago. Armed with sharpened pencils and crisp white lined note pads, asking a total of 50 unsuspecting strangers of all ages, genders [...]
Friday’s Fashion Dating Do or Don’t? — Wearing Sweatpants on a Date?
nymag.com Manhattan Dude Who Refuses to Date Sweatpants-Wearers Inspires Potential Girlfriend to Write to Advice Columnist The Washington Post’s Carolyn Hax received this letter from a troubled Manhattanite: So I’ve been casually dating this guy from work. There’s so much chemistry between us, he’s funny and smart, and I think I’m starting to fall for [...]
I did not wake up one morning and say “hey I think I’d like a man use my sweater like a towel, write a candid dating book, become a dating expert, the CEO and founder of a social dating site and have three blogs.”






