My art fair date for the day was Sucklord, from the reality shows Work of Art and Gallery Girls and maybe some others.
To be fair, dating anywhere is miserable, but, there's something about living in Los Angeles that makes all of it so much more dreadful.
Renaissance fairs date back to... well, the Renaissance.
Frankfurt's famous trade fairs date back to 1240.
Over the last seven years, balloons have become a main feature of a New Jersey county fair that dates to 1859.
It is probably fair to date the start of this period to the late 1980s, when the stock market took off and the Soviet empire began to unravel.
The ag-fair tradition dates to 1784, when Elkanah Watson, a banker in Pittsfield, Mass., procured a couple of merino sheep and tied them under an elm tree on the public square to entice neighbors to breed them, versus other breeds, said Julie A. Avery, a curator at the Michigan State University Museum and the editor of "Agricultural Fairs in America: Tradition, Education, Celebration".
As a single, 20-something gal, I've been on my fair share of dates.
Some women consider it fair game to date as many men as they want, as long as they're all first dates, but when they decide they like a guy enough to go on a second date, they stop seeing other people so they can focus on that one guy.
It has been more than a year since Vanity Fair bemoaned the dating apocalypse, blaming it on apps and triggering a Tinder tweet-storm that sarcastically claimed: "Sex was invented in 2012 when Tinder was launched".
