All Things UNCHARTED Redesign - Feature/Touts

Working on a redesign for AllThingsUNCHARTED.com - This time I'm making a WordPress theme from scratch instead of one from WooThemes. Special thanks to @rogieking for helping me with the article hierarchy you see at the bottom!

Question for all: The goal is to make it look less like a blog and more of an online magazine/news site. Do I nix the dates on the articles (and from the homepage) entirely and just keep them on the article pages?