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It’s like a singles bar with the males singing to attract mates, with each species having its own mating call.

In the 1950s, he opened what was considered Manhattan’s original singles bar: Malachy’s, on the Upper East Side.

Mr. Newman had run a few other businesses, including a singles bar and a steakhouse, before he decided to try a comedy club.

When they emerge, it gets noisy — 105 decibels noisy, like “a singles bar gone horribly, horribly wrong,” Cooley says.

One day, early last year, I found myself driving to a singles bar in winter snow.