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PLAYBILL–Ford’s Theatre opens its 2004-2005 season Sept. 24 with a new Mark Lamos production Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, starring Tony Award-winner Andrea Martin as Dolly and Tony nominee Jonathan Hadary as Horace.

ABCNEWS–…After being hounded and hounded, I reluctantly joined a few of these services and watched my personal network of associates grow. Pretty soon I was in enough circles to get invites from very obscure people….When you log on you get a listing of your network and the network of each person in your network. The first thing that happens is that you begin to notice that many, if not most, of these people have bigger networks than you have. You look like a total loser if your network is smaller. So you start to invite people….What makes matters worse is that because the networks are growing for no good reason except ego, most of the people on them never check in.

ADVOCATE–DowneLink.com, a gay takeoff of Friendster.com, will host its first official beta launch party this Friday. After having been up and running for only five months, DowneLink already has over 23,000 current users and is attracting about 100 new users a day.

JSONLINE–350 turn out at downtown club for the latest social gimmick: Hooking up with the lights off. Waitresses at Eve make their way through the party wearing military-style night vision goggles. Participants at Eve’s dark party are seated across from each other in the pitch-black “Nibble Room” Wednesday night. After 20 minutes, the lights came up, allowing everyone to see who they had been getting to know….Not everyone who paid the $5 cover charge participated in the dark dining experience. The not-so-brave giggled as they watched the dark diners on plasma screens set up around the club.

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STAR TELEGRAM–Sep 23rd–Ibrahim, a 50-year-old Egyptian immigrant cab driver, pulled out a small digital recorder and pointed it at Danka through the bulletproof partition. "Say hello to the girls," Ibrahim said, before recording a brief interview with Danka about his age (26), occupation (technology consultant) and whether he is "a player" ("no")…His system is simple. He records brief interviews with passengers who interest him and collects their cellphone numbers. When he thinks he has found a good match, he calls both passengers for permission and then passes along their numbers…."He's better than Match.com," says Danka, who got sick of online dating because women so rarely responded to his e-mails. "With Ahmed, the women actually call you back."

The full article was originally published at Star Telegram, but is no longer available.

DAILEY BULLETIN–In the crazy, fast-paced world Southern Californians thrive in, just about everything from groceries to books is a mouse click away. But what about a soulmate? eHarmony, Match, Yahoo, True testimonials.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) Sep 22, 2004 — DenverSingles.com, a Premier Singles Community, has announced that they will be partnering with the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News to become the exclusive online personals provider for Denver’s two largest newspapers. It combines a powerful online engine with dynamic offline events engine. PRWEB

NEW YORK–Sep 20–eTwine.com announces the launch of its newest feature for singles: Date Now! …Use the scheduling box to let singles know what day you are available to go on a date. Your Date Now! listing will appear in the Date Now! search results and on your profile, and singles can then email you to let you know that they're interested in dating you that night. You can add a message with your listing or specify if you'd like to include friends to make it a double date!

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 — Midlife is typically a time when men are perfecting their golf game. But some are finding that patty-cake is more their speed. Fatherhood is on the minds of more men in their 40s and 50s these days, impacting the dating world….Between 1980 and 2002, the rate of births among men age 40 to 44 went up 32 percent, and up 21 percent for those age 45 to 49. For men 50 to 54, the growth was 9 percent. “They’re waiting until they’re ready,” suggests Armin Brott, author of Father for Life. Older fathers are often calmer and form strong emotional bonds with their kids.

POLLSTAR–Sept 16th–Singles Night @ Pollstar.com is THE place to be for the discerning, concert-loving single. And I believe that a man should never scrimp on the concessions. When I take a woman to a concert, say, Gretchen Wilson & Big & Rich, I always spring for the extra large Cokes, burgers and fries. 6,000 artists, 49,000 events!