The dating apps are failing. Here’s what LA singles are trying instead

On a Thursday evening, I walked into a bookstore in Culver City to participate in an old-school dating activity — the singles mixer.

Dating apps have been on the receiving end of a lot of justified criticism lately. The complaints are all the same—failure to connect, disappointment, the general soul-erosion of human attraction. People are logging off, and they’re going somewhere. More specifically, they’re going to play mahjong. According to a July