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Article: Love seekers find each other at Party Mix.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 11, 1999
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By the end of the night, the Party Mix was in full swing: Gandhi was treating Mother Teresa to a backrub, while a timid Martin Luther King Jr. sent an emissary to ask for a phone number.
It was another routine role-playing session at the Mix, held four times a year by Open U, the singles-oriented "learning program" that offers courses in everything from Web-site design to bagel-making. For $19, the Party Mix promises to provide an "innovative system of planned, relaxed activities" to meet others unabashedly looking for love.
Strip away the paper-thin academic veneer, and you have a fresh twist on the old-fashioned macking session for Twin Cities' lonely ...