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Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 25, 2020
Finding love on Instagram Live

Media broadcasting network COVIDtv takes on dating.
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Feature, COVIDtv, COVIDtv CONNEX, matchmaking, love, romance, Tinder, Instagram, Julia Arredondo, the Honeycomb Network, Edra Soto, Dan Sullivan, Rebecca Soto, David Alvarado, Maaike van Heijningen, Lindsay van Clief

Film, Movie Review Feb 14, 2020
A tale of two love stories

The Photograph explores the ways we learn to love.
- By Janaya Greene
- Tags: Movie Review, The Photograph, Stella Meghie, Issa Rae, LaKeith Stanfield, Rob Morgan, romance

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 11, 2020
I pegged my boyfriend and now he wants to be ‘the girl’

Kinky sex can be wonderful, but it won’t fix your relationship.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Pegging, kink, romance

Music, Concert Preview Jul 20, 2018
Recommended
Oneida return with drummer Kid Millions, now recovered from a March car crash
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Concert Preview, Oneida, Romance, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Mar 30, 2018
In My Lady’s Choosing, two writers create an interactive bodice ripper that’s both a send-up and a valentine

Choose your own adventure and succumb to your passions again and again and again.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, My Lady’s Choosing, Kitty Curran, Larissa Zageris, romance, romance novel, choose your own adventure, Taylor Swift Girl Detective, How Ill Is Your Repute, Bleeding Cool

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 Mar 1, 2018
Video
How an Evanston writer’s boyhood idea inspired ‘Shape of Water’

Guillermo del Toro tapped Daniel Kraus to help write the story behind the Oscar-nominated blockbuster.
- By Janet Potter
- Tags: Feature, Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Rotters, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Evanston, Booklist, American Library Association, Tales of Hoffmann, zombies, romance, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 22, 2016
Sonali Dev’s Bollywood happily ever afters

An Indian-American writer has become a star in an unfairly maligned literary genre.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, Sonali Dev, Bollywood, India, romance novels, romance, Manoj Thatte, Rosehaven, Catherine Coulter, Mumbai, Rupali Mehta, Romance Writers of America, Kensington Publishing, A Bollywood Affair, RITA, The Bollywood Bride, A Change of Heart, Martin Biro, Chicago Spring Fling, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Sarah Wendell, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Sherry Thomas, Romance Book Buyer Report, Kristan Higgins, Alisha Rai, Suleikha Snyder

Blogs, Bleader Dec 11, 2014
Video
Members of The-Drum and Romance launch Cold Tech, a monthly psychedelic-dance night

Jeremiah Meece of The-Drum and Ethan Jared of Romance organized the new event.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, Cold Tech, the Exit, Jeremiah Meece, Ethan Jared, The-Drum, Romance, Jody, Heavee, Teklife, Yung Pharaoh, Pet Bamboo, dance, electronic, party, video, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 7, 2013
Win a date with the Reader's Leor Galil to see The Book of Mormon on Valentine's Day

A Reader staff writer has an extra ticket to see The Book of Mormon on Valentine's Day. Want to go with him?
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Theater, Whoa, Arts, The Internet, Book of Mormon, Valentine's Day, Leor Galil, win a date, free, Music Box, romance, South Park, tickets

Arts & Culture, Valentine's Day Feb 7, 2013
Romance is for suckers

An (almost) romance-free ode to Valentine’s Day
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day, romance, outdated holidays

Arts & Culture, Valentine's Day Feb 7, 2013
Advice on being romantic this V-Day

Dumbed down and put in flowchart form (you're welcome)
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Chicago Reader's Guide to Valentine's Day, romance, how to, single, dating

Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2012
World keeps turning, B-minus-list celebrities stay tacky

Let Deadmau5 and Kat Von D envelop you in blissful ignorance
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Seriously?, The Internet, Music, Deadmau5, Kat Von D, EDM, Twitter, the Internet, romance

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jun 27, 2012
Your brother's keeper

Plus: the third shift giving the shaft to a marriage, and getting another kind of shaft in bed
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, gay and single, gay dating, gay bars, online dating, coming out, romance, moving in together, cohabitation, farting, performance anxiety, premature ejaculation, sex toys, masturbation

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Dec 8, 2011
My husband has given me permission to do my first love. Should I?

Plus: a reactionary slave, please don't call us LGBT-friendly straight guys "queer"
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, first love, old flame, romance, GGG, marriage, BDSM, kinks, eroticization of power structures, sex slavery, fantasies, LGBT community

Film, Movie Sidebar Sep 29, 2011
Video
Your place, my place, or the whole wide world?

Full-bodied pillow talk in Andrew Haigh's Weekend
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Weekend, Andrew Haigh, homosexuals, pillow talk, romance, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jun 17, 2004
Alain de Botton
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Literature, Philosophy, History, Romance, Society, Writer, London, Psychology, Self-Help

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice May 7, 1998
Alan Klasky Never Loved Me
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Nena St. Louis, Love, Romance, Storytelling

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