Dating

Burning Love Co-Creator Erica Oyama Gives Us Dating Advice

Erica Oyama is the great comedic mind behind the scripted comedy web series Burning Love on Yahoo. The show parodies reality dating shows like The Bachelor, and recently released its third season while winning a Webby Award for Special Achievement of the Year. The first season made the jump from ti ... More >>

Tinder Is Like Pandora for Hooking Up

Twenty-seven-year-old Justin Mateen knows a whole lot about your dating life. He knows how old you are, how many Facebook friends you have and what physical characteristics you're most attracted to in a potential mate -- that is, if you're a member of the nationwide, L.A.-made dating app, Tinder, wh ... More >>

L.A. Daters Are Massively Superficial, Poll Says

Prepare for shocking news from a dating site that looked at different American cities' online courtship rituals: Los Angeles is superficial. So says WhatsYourPrice.com, which checked Google Analytics and surveyed 3,401 of its L.A.-based members to measure its users' habits. What's really surprising ... More >>

Worst Idea Ever: Travel Dating Site Calls Coachella a Great First Date

Ladies travel site Misstravel.com recently named named Coachella the number one music festival at which to go on a first date. For so many reasons, this is a terrible idea. Issue number one is that unless you have some day pass scenario worked out, a first date at Coachella means that you're autom ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain is Giving Sex and Dating Advice in Cosmo

Last week during Anthony Bourdain's Reddit Q&A, when someone asked him why he decided to do The Taste, he responded "I liked the idea that it was the most unlikely thing I could do." At the time I thought, "hmmm ... not really the most unlikely thing you could do." And now that point has been proven ... More >>

Lessons From Last Night's Convention of L.A. Dating Startups

"I want to start a dating app for people over fifty. I know a lot of hot guys over fifty," one woman pitched to a small group last night. She was in the right place to get feedback, at the Dating and Social Networks Startup Showcase and Digital Dating Etiquette Panel, hosted by Kevin Winston, Found ... More >>

Tawkify, a Matchmaking Service That Includes Treasure Hunts, Robot Compliments and, Well, Talking

Recently, on a blind date arranged by the matchmaking service Tawkify, I blurted out the last thing any sane man in his twenties wants to hear, gesturing to the bald ball of joy in a high chair a yard away as we approached our table: "I'm going to sit on this side, so I can stare at that baby!" T ... More >>

The Snake Can

Sameplate.com: A New Site Matches Your Date With Your Food

Foodists, dieters and food allergy sufferers can now find dates through a medium that they care about -- dining. Sameplate.com, a new dating website, helps single people find romance through food, the one thing we all have in common. The first and only dating site in the U.S. that matches couples ba ... More >>

Grouper, the Blind Online Dating Service You Do With Your Friends: A Story in GIFs

I've written a few things about about online dating and encouraged numerous friends to try it, but, having been in a series of relationships since college, I had never done so myself until I tried Grouper a few weeks ago. I had also never been on a blind date, and certainly not on a blind group da ... More >>

My Brother Got Married. The Theme of the Wedding Was Widespread Panic

This weekend my little brother got married. Now, in and of itself, nothing about this is newsworthy to anyone outside my family. People get married all the time. But in those weddings, was the bride's hair knotted into dreadlocks and did she walk down the aisle to Jerry Garcia's "Shining Star"? ... More >>

Santa Monica Rates as L.A.'s Best Date Spot

What's the most-romantic neighborhood in Los Angeles? Los Feliz? Hollywood? Larchmont Village? No: Angelenos prefer a beach with bustle. Santa Monica ranked as the top spot across the board in the latest Match.com "L.A. Dating" survey:

A Kind of Love Story

Dating Survey: Rich Guys More Likely to Take a Bullet for You at Dark Knight Screening

A new survey was released today by the same whorish online-dating empire that recently let us know which U.S. city has the most sugar daddies (not L.A., weirdly). The new numbers again involve income/generosity. (And that's really the point behind all Brandon Wade's dating sites: accepting that du ... More >>

Producers Casting for (Sure-to-Fail) Chef Romance Show: Chef Wants a Wife

You know what would be awful great? A show that's like a cross between Top Chef and the Millionaire Matchmaker! Well, fret not, such a thing is about to exist. Barf Yay!

30 Other Ways to Succeed on YouTube

After you've read our YouTube issue on the secrets to online video stardom, check out 30 other ways to succeed on YouTube:

Ashton Kutcher's Popchips Ad Pulled

A popchips ad featuring Ashton Kutcher in "brownface" was launched, skewered, and pulled in less than 24 hours. The new $1.5 million ad campaign showed Kutcher as four characters -- among which was a fictional 39-year-old Bollywood actor named Raj -- in a parody of an online dating service. Except K ... More >>

UCLA Professors Say eHarmony Is Unscientific and its Customers Are 'Duped.' Here's Why.

"If you're gonna make scientific claims, act like a scientist. Or don't make scientific claims," UCLA social psychology professor Benjamin Karney says, leaning forward in his chair in his office at UCLA's Franz Hall, his voice rising an octave. "Don't pretend!" "It just so happens that they tread o ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver: Do You Have a Boyfriend?

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. See also: *Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs *DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep ... More >>

Sex-Crazed Cities: Venice, Santa Monica, West Hollywood on Top

If you have ever lived in Venice, then you know the stinky couple upstairs likes to get it on. And those two lovers aren't shy about their patchouli oil or their volume, either. It's like living next to a porn studio. Yeah. Turns out the folks at dating site Chemistry.com noticed the noise too. ... More >>

Sherlock, Jr.

Sex Offenders No Longer Welcome at eHarmony, Match.com

Has your dating site served you up a heaping plate of loser or, worse, a straight-up perv? California Attorney General Kamala Harris is coming to the rescue. Today she announced a deal with three big dating websites, eHarmony, Match.com and Spark Networks (home of JDate and ChristianMingle) that wi ... More >>

Laurent Quenioux and Starry Kitchen's Weed Chinese Herb Dinner: or, Fun with Myers-Briggs

Is it a good idea to have a cannabis-infused dinner with a guy who often shows up at food festivals as a banana? If your answer is absolutely, then Nguyen Tran of Starry Kitchen -- who also has arrived in full lederhosen garb or, more recently, a tauntaun -- has quite a prospect for you: on April 1 ... More >>

First Date Sex: Check The Type of Phone Your Valentine Has

hotgirlswithiphones.com​Okay, guys. We know you're sizing up potential mates for that overpriced Valentine's Day meal. And we know you all want your investment to pay off. (Yeah, boys think this way. Really). Well, here's a little intel for you:

Match.com Releases Singleton Sex Survey, Reports 'Smart, Funny & Hot' As Most Wanted (Duh)

Online dating factory Match.com has gone Kinsey with today's partial release of the results of their second annual Singles In America study. This comprehensive survey of single men and women, (who, according to Match, make up a third of the adult population in the United States, so don't feel so b ... More >>

Ivan Lopez, 23, Courts 8th Grader Online and Takes Her to Vegas Motel for Sex

luisvilla via flickr​It's a parent's worst nightmare: You wake up in the middle of the night and find out that your 13-year-old daughter is missing. Then you realize that the man who has been courting your daughter sexually on the Internet is probably the one who took her away --- to Las Vegas, n ... More >>

Beau Jest

Completeness

USC Students Have More Sex Than UCLA Rivals, According to OkCupid

John Martinez PavligaWoot-woot: USC slaps UCLA, again.​USC Trojans. With a name like that, it figures that the young men and woman of Troy are claiming yet another victory over crosstown rival UCLA. Yep, Trojans have more sex than Bruins. Duh. Trojans were practically made for sex. That USC ... More >>

Is Match.com to Blame for Sexual Assault on L.A. Film Executive?

Love at the Urth Caffe goes terribly awry​Match.com hasn't been getting much love and appreciation for its romantical services in the digital age. A pack of subscribers just sued in February because, they claimed, hundreds of thousands of the site's users were either inactive or downright fak ... More >>

The Fix-Up Show

Where There's Smoke, There's Fuego

Looking for love — and a good restaurant — along the Belmont Shore

Petros: Stuck in the Middle With You

And I'm wondering what it is we should do

Ask Mr Gold: Stuck in the Middle With You

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I should probably be sent to therapy for attempting this in the first place, but I'm going on a first date with someone from Orange County. Since I pack a passport when I have to go east of the 405, obviously there is no way ... More >>

MR. SHRED

Sued Into Submission, eHarmony Now Swings Both Ways

​Hard to believe, but eHarmony, the dating site founded by a conservative Christian who said that he believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman, will soon serve bisexuals looking for relationships. Of course, it took a lawsuit, but still, who would have thought a site with such ... More >>

Cue "Spanish Flea"

Now Open: Gold Star Cinema, Your First Date Expedited. Pillows & Blankets, Duck Tacos & Beignets

Dinner and a movie, the quintessential first date. You get to talk, then not talk. It's perfect. But combine both under the same roof, with pillows and blankets available upon request, and it's an entirely new (perhaps perfecter, depending on the person) ball game. At the new Gold Class Cinema at On ... More >>

This Weekend: Black Lips break out the toilet paper at Detour Fest

Okay, so I'm lame, and I admit it. It took a school-boy stunt -- flying rolls of toilet paper -- to get me to actually stop and pay attention to the Black Lips long enough to realize that I actually like them. They've always been one of those bands that I dug on a theoretical level -- like, yes, t ... More >>

Patti Stanger

Match game

Family Affairs

“...these guys are on their computers all day. And the only way they’re going to date is on these sites. I mean, otherwise, they would just be hobbits for the rest of their lives.”

15 More Minutes

Fashion week is officially over, but that doesn't mean the strutting has stopped completely. Thanks to a power outage in my area, I missed the David Yurman menswear show at the Paramour mansion last night (cant get dressed in the dark!) but I hear it was, as Kimora Lee Simmons would say, pure fabu ... More >>

How to Not Cheat on Your Boyfriend

Pound of Flesh

New theater reviews

Connecting the Dots

Coco Conn

Ask Mr. Gold

Alix Lambert, Inkterpreter

When in Rome . . .

Pretense & Sensibility

Carolyn See on the memoir, the Age of Anxiety and our sentient universe — and her fear of sounding highfalutin.

Heart Attack

Love to the death