Looking For Strangers To Interview

Want a free meal and to share your life story? Get in touch. I keep threatening this, but in 2025 Dining With Strangers will finally resume. I paused the site during the pandemic and then life intervened in the years since. Now I’m trying to sort out the first few…

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Charles Cecil Reforges Broken Sword

Revolution Studios, the software company co-founded by 127th dinner interviewee Charles Cecil, is getting plaudits for the recently released Broken Sword: Reforged — an update to a landmark adventure game first released in 1996. The new version features remastered graphics, improved audio, reworked scenes and more to provide a fresh…

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Rest In Peace Matt Yee

Far too late in posting this sad news but I still wanted to pay tribute to the memory of singer and performer Matt Yee. Matt, the 96th stranger featured on this site, was diagnosed with liver cancer at the start of last year and unfortunately passed in December in his…

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Quiz The Tired Old Queen At The Movies

Steve Hayes, also known as the “Tired Old Queen At The Movies,” has a one-man show next month in New York. He’ll be performing “Quiz The Queen” which promises to be “an evening of hilarity, surprises and unexpected anecdotes as we try and stump [Steve] by showing him various clips…

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Meet Ben Claasen III At Artomatic

Ben Claassen III, the artist behind the comic DIRTFARM and the 43rd stranger featured on this site, is taking part in the ongoing Artomatic in Washington, D.C. It’s a multimedia arts festival now in its 25th year, with dozens of local artists exhbiting their work, along with a marketplace where…

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Rest In Peace Burt Young

Actor Burt Young, perhaps best known for his recurring role as Paulie in the Rocky movie series, has died at 83. I had the incredible honor of meeting Burt for a very enjoyable afternoon in October 2011 for the 39th dinner interview. We met at his apartment in Port Washington,…

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Medium Rare Expands To New Orleans

Medium Rare, which has three restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area, is expanding to New Orleans. As WTOP reports, Medium Rare recently opened a venue in the Crescent City featuring its unique, and very brief, menu of bread and butter, house salad and steak frites, with a secret sauce that…

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Help Matt Yee Fight Liver Cancer

Matt Yee needs your help. The exuberant entertainer, for decades a fixture on cruises around the world, is currently battling liver cancer. Matt was the 96th stranger interviewed for this site, and we met at a restaurant on a cruise ship somewhere in the Caribbean Sea back in January 2017….

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Find Fred Melamed At The Movies

Until the day when I resume dinner interviews with people across the United States and even overseas, I’ll provide some updates on news of interest about some of the 131 people I’ve already met. Today’s post is about actor Fred Melamed, the 76th interviewee on Dining With Strangers and easily…

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