“The fall has never been the busiest season as a matchmaker in terms of people hiring me. But right now it is,” says a local matchmaker.

With any major news event, there’s one question that trumps all others: how will this affect my sex life?

The place you pick will give your date some clues about what to expect from you, so this list breaks it down.

Now all you’ve got to do is find someone to date.

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.

Photo by chip py 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…

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.

Photo by mouhace_dc. 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. >> Aww, if you’re looking to meet a special someone: ride the Orange line….

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…