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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On Wednesday evening, I walked into an Asian fusion restaurant in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood, unsure of who’d be joining me at the dinner table.

A sticker on a wall caught Katya Gratcheva’s attention last fall: “No dating or networking. Just breakfast.” It led the married 52-year-old, tired of the transactional networking she encountered at ...

Despite the fact that I moved to NYC under the impression New Yorkers were blunt, rude, and would not only reject my neighborly sidewalk wave but push me into a pile of garbage and rats for even ...

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Dinner with strangers sounds like the setup to a social experiment or the start of a true crime podcast. However, in more than 200 cities around the world, it is a weekly ritual for connection-seeking ...

A 2023 survey found that 61% of Americans expected to feel lonely or sad during the holidays. Timeleft is an app that matches users with strangers for dinner via a personality algorithm. When David ...

When David Brown moved from Chicago to Los Angeles this summer, one of the first things he did was download an app that aims to "fight big-city loneliness." The 35-year-old sales director had seen an ...