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Jamie xx / The Shrine / Jan. 23 You’re not going to have a better night on a dance floor than whenever Jamie xx is on deck.

“All hands should be on deck, working to persuade Republican senators to oppose this threat to health and science,” says former NIH Director Harold Varmus.

“I felt the ground literally shaking,” added Wells, who was standing on deck.

Not your typical singles mixer, All Hands on Deck is a high-energy matchmaking event where participants pitch their single friends to an audience of mostly singles with a slide deck presentation, the kind one might give to their team at work in a data report meeting.

Co-founders Andrea Ramirez and David Greenberg — who have been hosting speed dating events in L.A. through their company, the Next Fun Thing — launched All Hands on Deck in April after seeing a similar event take place in Seattle.