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  Most dating ‘quick fixes’ are baloney, but not all of them. If a dating coach claims his magical pick-up line will hook any woman’s attention, he’s a scammer. If a marketer claims the latest cologne or wristwatch will make you more attractive, you’re a sucker for believing them. Yet, there are some ‘quick fixes’ that can help to attract a woman into your bed TONIGHT. … 1. This ‘Quick Fix’ Can 10X Your Online Dating Matches Online dating doesn’t work for most guys. Data suggests that it’s only the top 20% of attractive men getting anything from dating apps....

Driving up and down the Jersey Shore shortly after the end of World War II, hauling laundry along New Jersey Route 35 from Point Pleasant Beach to Seaside Heights, Fred Pearl and Ed Patnaude dreamed big. With the war over, here was their chance to turn sparsely developed ocean-view land into communities of vacation homes like the suburban tracts with modest, single-family homes springing up across the country. If they could get a bit of money together, they could build little cottages for the average working person—cop, baker, butcher and returning GI. One by one, the banks all turned them...

I’ve often, in my mind, likened the perfect reading experience to sitting in a bar and finding myself drawn—at first reluctantly, then less so all the time—into a stranger’s story. There’s something unique and compelling in that narrative space, and it’s an effect Jon Michaud conjures up masterfully in his new book, Last Call at Coogan’s: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar. For a span of about thirty-five years, until its 2020 closure, Coogan’s was an uptown institution: an Irish bar in a Dominican stronghold, marrying the saloon ideals of a bygone New York with the practical, workaday...

Photographs by Tony LuongWhere in the name of human rain delays is Juan Soto?The stud outfielder is late. Everyone keeps checking their phones—the antsy Major League Baseball officials, the San Diego Padres PR guy, the handful of reporters, and the assorted hangers-on you encounter around baseball clubhouses. Everyone is wondering when the Padres superstar will show up. He was supposed to be here half an hour ago, just after this baseball players’ sanctum opened and we were allowed to join them in their most elemental of baseball activities: waiting around.Soto, who is 24, works at his own pace. He is...

  I travel around the United States and to other countries giving presentations and workshops on university and high school campuses and at professional conventions on social justice issues. A few years ago, I spoke about the topic of heterosexism at an east coast university. A student asked me what my undergraduate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) student group was like. “Was there much resistance from the administration and from other students?” she inquired. More questions followed: “Did the women and men work well together?” “Were bisexuals and trans people welcomed?” “Was the group’s focus political or mainly...