LA Times Investigates Hot New Speed-Dating Trend

I’d like to be a fly on the wall during the week the Valentine’s Day edition of the LA Times Thursday Calendar section goes to press. (Subscription required for access.) It’s a once-yearly perfect marriage of publication and subject matter. I imagine editorial meetings punctuated by exclamations like “Hey! Why don’t we do an article about how meeting people in LA is hard?” and “How about a quirky first-person essay about how hard it is to meet people in LA?”