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18 results
Arts & Culture
,
Feature
Jun 25, 2020
Finding love on Instagram Live
Media broadcasting network COVIDtv takes on dating.
By S. Nicole Lane
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Feature
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COVIDtv
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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
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Savage Love
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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
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Apropos of Nothing
,
Narcissism
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Seriously?
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News
,
Navy Pier
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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
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Sonali Dev
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Bollywood
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India
,
romance novels
,
romance
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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
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Do This
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Music
,
Cold Tech
,
the Exit
,
Jeremiah Meece
,
Ethan Jared
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The-Drum
,
Romance
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Jody
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Heavee
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Teklife
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Yung Pharaoh
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Pet Bamboo
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,
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,
party
,
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,
Video
Blogs
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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
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Whoa
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Book of Mormon
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,
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:
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,
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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