A dating-auction website claims that more than 2,500 men in the DC area already have done so.
Valentine's Day can be challenging for people with sweethearts. Trying to figure out the perfect gift can really be stressful. For singles, the day can be even more difficult, but a dating website with a twist aims to boil it all down to something just about everyone can understand—a straight monetary exchange. Apparently, it's a pretty attractive proposition in the DC area. WhatsYourPrice.com recently released the results of a study of singles that found that 369,282 men nationally made offers for first dates in the month leading up to Valentine's Day, with nearly 2,700 of them in the DC region. WhatsYourPrice.com starts out like most other dating sites—a participant uploads a photo and a personal profile. Where it differs is in the "…
When you need a break this week, grab a water bottle and some sunscreen and hop aboard the bus south to the rose garden at Dumbarton Oaks.
If you can brave the heat, the rose bushes of Dumbarton Oaks are more than worth it. One whole garden (of about 20 different gardens at Dumbarton Oaks) is dedicated solely to roses (about 900 of them), and each variety has a unique smell and color. It's a little like a wine tasting, only you're using your nose and eyes and there's no one right way to "taste" the roses—just smell away to your heart's delight. Dumbarton Oaks is largely a garden museum. Although there is a nice little museum of early art from the Middle Ages and the Pre-Colombian era in the Americas, it's the gardens that draws most visitors at this time of year. The gardens at Dumbarton Oaks were designed in the 1920s, '30s and '40s by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, …
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Eric S.
11:48 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
I'm pretty sure that a different website will be very popular today, with people people at least $200 an hour for guaranteed dates. You know, Backpage. more ›