Last year's Blue Valentine followed one couple on an endlessly dark journey through a relationship; Like Crazy looks, on the surface, to be a lighter approach to similar material, but don't let that fool you into thinking this is the hope-filled antidote to Valentine's pessimistic darkness. more ›

Is this why I see so many man-boobs around the D.C. region? In the latest ruminations on dating in the city, D.C.'s male population has ranked 10th among best cities to find a romantic suitor. But according to Chemistry.com's resident mad scientist, "most romantic" could correlate to "highest estrogen" in our bloodstreams. Great, I guess that means we should stop popping our mothers' hot flash medication. Fortunately, the ranking, which comes from the dating websit data pool of American singles, placed San Francisco, Portland, New York and Austin among our romantic superiors. more ›

For some reason, the Washington Post is lending a ton of space today to a celebration of the fifth anniversary of its Date Lab feature -- a constant source of entertainment for us DCist editors in which the paper fixes people up with one another and documents their dates. (Journalism!) But based on the results, if Date Lab was a real dating service, they'd probably be have to declare bankruptcy. more ›

Good Morning, Washington. Did you get your fill of shopping and stuffing your face? I'm actually writing you from up north in Boston, and I imagine many of you are reading from various relative's houses across the country, not your homes in the DC area. That said, this is what is happening during this lazy holiday weekend. more ›

Via USA Today's Pop Candy blog, Amazon.com has put out a list of what they're calling the country's "Most Romantic Cities" (just in time for Valentine's Day promotional product tie-ins!) -- except by "most romantic" they actually appear to mean "most in need of more romance". The list corresponds to the web site's top locations for sales of romance novels, relationship and sex books. Two Northern Virginia cities in the metro area made the top ten, with Alexandria coming out tops in the nation for potentially embarrassing reading habits. more ›