August 7th As we wrap our Summer Season and take a station vacation, we’re reflecting on two years (!) of Love Bites Radio and the conversations that have stuck with us. We’ve played with taglines — shifting from Where Dining and Dating Collide to Exploring Why and How We Love — and format, and theme….
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To Date Or Not To Date (Other Actors): Me & You with Ben and Deanna!
July 24th “I don’t date other actors.” That’s the hard-and-fast rule of many thespians, who find their careers, artistic, and personal lives so difficult to manage that the idea of merging with someone else with the same struggles sounds like a terrible nightmare. Today, co-host Ben Rosenblatt invites his girlfriend, actress Deanna McGovern, onto the…
Single Lady Writers in Trump’s America: Me & You with Jax and Jen Doll!
We ask each other questions to see how we’re dealing in some Me & You single lady writer love.
Me and You: Ben and Jax!
June 19th Love Bites Radio explores “why and how we love.” So why do we love the way we love right now? In what ways does that love physically manifest? How are those manifestations different than what they’ve been in the past, and what do we hope to get from love in the future? In the first…
“A Leader Defines Reality”: Katrina Blank Shares Her Chronic Illness Breakup Story
On our most recent double-episode, we covered breakups because of chronic illness. Here, writer Katrina Blank shares a bit more of the story she tells us in Part II about living with Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease. This has been slightly edited for length and clarity. Why did you like Joey to begin with? The day…
Endings #4: Breakups About Chronic Illness (…and sex and babies)
March 20th On today’s show — the first of a two-part episode during our series on Endings — Jacqueline speaks with two women who recently underwent breakups they attribute to their chronic illnesses: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Interstitial Cystitis. They both reached out to J after reading her Cosmopolitan essay, How I Learned…
The Art of Breaking Up
March 13th On today’s show, we discussed the fine art of breaking up with writer and fellow Heritage host Sari Kamin. And as is our new break-the-tension tactic, we split the midde of the show with a game: Breakup Mad Libs. Combing the internet for a source so that I didn’t have to expend precious creativity…
Endings #3: Breaking Up is Hard To Do, with Sari Kamin
March 13th “When at the age of 31-yrs old my boyfriend of five years broke up with me I was deeply heartbroken but also stunned that I was no longer on the path of getting engaged, getting married, and having children by the age of 35. That was the course that I had seen so…
Power Couples! Stacy Adimando and Steve Graf
January 23rd Stacy Adimando and Steve Graf are a testament to risking big for love whenever and wherever you find it. She was living in Brooklyn, he in Northern California. But when they met working at a food festival in Portland, Oregon, they both felt something strong enough to give a long-distance relationship a chance….
Single and Fabulous! (or, the best ladies who lunch roundtable show ever!)
Six ladies come together to discuss the challenges and triumphs of living the single lady life… for now.
Love, Loss, and What We’re (Not) Eating! with Lindsay Benner
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN When a job, a relationship, or a tradition ends… how do you know how to properly mourn it? When do you lean into the grief, and when do you pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start all over again? Today, we welcome performer Lindsay Benner to the show to discuss…
Pistons and Pasties with Velvetina Taylor
October 31st! “Timing isn’t everything, but it sure as hell is a lot.” We’ve debated variations of that sentence often over the last year, questioning its weight as a dating cliche and the effect it’s had on our relationships woes. Today, we discuss how it’s woven its way into Jax’s current dating mire: basically, how when you’re dating three…
We Turn To Tarot! With Sasha Graham
October 24th We are all about using every tool out there to build our strongest selves and most loving relationships. So in this magical time of year, when the air and atmosphere are changing once again and we get ready to nestle a bit closer to the earth for the winter, how can we use…
Ground Control to Major Love!
October 10th Enough of dating apps that show you images of potential heartthrobs. What if there were a program that could help you calculate where, when, and how you’re most likely to find love? There is. Almost. Sort of. It’s getting close, that is. On today’s show, Ben and Jacqueline grapple with their current dating…
Paging Dr. Love! With Tribeca Therapy Founder Matt Lundquist
October 3rd Technology really burns our bacon sometimes… Ben: “I hate how technology dehumanizes people. Whether it be by swiping, taking a long time to respond to a text, ghosting, or saying brash things we wouldn’t ordinarily say, we don’t treat people with the same courtesy through technology as we would in person. We also don’t…
I Just Texted To Say I Love You! With Melissa Stanger and Shana Lebowitz
September 26th When it comes to romantic communication, texting and online messaging can be gentle introductions into IRL conversation, or mediums in which you can royally screw another person. Some of us daters of a certain age – ahem – started this whole dating thing before cell phones were glued into our hands. Others grew…
Here’s What Happened When I Asked an Algorithm to Help Me Find Love
We’re excited to kick off our four-part series on technology and dating on September 19th with the ladies of the No Text Weekend. Until then, here’s a piece that Jacqueline wrote for the Huffington Post and Heritage Radio. Stay tuned for when we welcome Nanaya founder Rashied Amini to the show in October, and check…
Textual Healing! with Jen Jamula and Allison Goldberg of the No Text Weekend
September 19th Where’s the romance in a Snapchat? The thrill in an email? When the conversation moves from online dating to texting, how much do flirty digital conversations represent how we’re gonna interact in the flesh? And when we’re on a dinner date and our potential lover’s fingers are talking to someone else, how hot and…
The Bro Show! with Andrew McLeod, Nick Guitart, and Dan Raposo
September 12th Holy testosterone! Jacqueline’s out of the country and Ben has invited some fellas into the studio to get REAL about… um… dude stuff. Ladies: Ever wonder how men talk about you when you’re not around? Guys: Ever wonder if/when it’s cool to let your sensitive side show around your bros? On today’s show,…
Nanaya Helps You Find Love… With An Algorithm
With Nanaya, finding love can work by the numbers.
Dating Cliches – Screw Em! (Part 2)
August 15th No matter the stage of your relationship (or lack thereof), well-meaning jerks often throw old, tired cliches at you in the guise of friendship: “Go with your gut!” “There are plenty of fish in the sea!” “Never go to sleep angry!” “Tis better to have loved and lost…” “You have to love yourself…
Love Bites – San Antonio Edition!
June 13th Yeehaw for Texas! Today is our first Love Bites on the Road show! Jacqueline recently traveled to San Antonio for the Culinaria festival, asking folks in food and drink at restaurants, bars, wineries, boutique hotels, and the barbecue and Grand Tasting events at Culinaria how they love and eat well in Texas. She…
Feed Your Bod What It Wants! with Chef Ariane Resnick
June 6th Last season, private chef and nutritionist Ariane Resnick came on our Ladies Who Lyme show to talk about how Lyme disease and chemical poisoning affected more than just her health. On that episode, she started to get into intuitive eating — how she guides clients to listening to what their bodies want them…
10 Reasons Why Being Single is Awesome!
BLOG POST! Ben and Jax share why being single is AWESOME in celebration of the end of our 2nd season!
Food and Books and Ladies, Oh My!
MARCH 28TH Food is sexy. Books are sexy. So a fair about food and books? Super sexy. Food is sexy. Books are sexy. So a fair about food and books? Super sexy. On this week’s show, Jacqueline and Ben go old-school Love Bites, reconnecting on their past month of insanity with Jacqueline’s dating conundrums (break-offs and…
Breaking Our Silences and Building Relationships
BLOG POST! What advice do Allie Cashel and Eric Lupinacci of SUFFERING THE SILENCE have to share?
Ladies Who Lyme: Illness and Relationships
MARCH 21 Dating is hard enough, and we all bring baggage into new relationships. For some, baggage comes in the form of an illness that leaves you with little power over how your body moves in the world. On today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben are joined by Allie Cashel and Erica Lupinacci, the co-founders…
The Handsome Actors Show!
MARCH 7TH On today’s show, Jacqueline grills Ben and their guests, Jonathan Wiener and Joel Reuben Ganz, about the challenges of being a professional actor in your thirties, and the strain it puts on all sorts of relationships. How do you commit when you’ll cross the country for months for a good gig? How do the…
Baggage and Young Love with Chef Thiago Silva
February 29th What is baggage, and how responsible are we for losing it before we start a new relationship? On today’s show, we explore the experiences that stay with us from one dating relationship to another, and how we can move on from it. Should we wait until we’re fully ready to immerse ourselves in…
Romance in the Public Sphere with Leiti Hsu
Nowadays, working in the food world does not equal a private life. Chefs are no longer chained to their stoves, critics have lost their anonymity, and writers can’t hide behind their computer screens. Instead, we all charge our Instagram posts and Twitter feeds with salacious words and images, paired with hashtags that will get us even more exposure. But how does this affect dating and finding love?
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