12:01 AM
Ahhhh yes: The 'Lo. I apologize in advance for all the puns sure to come involving lake-effect snow; I mean them in the most loving way. The giving page is, once again, right here. …

4 PM
Done! That's awesome. Thank you so much, everybody. We polished off the whole high-need list for Brownsville/Harlingen. 
The Red Ops page will probably flip back to unfinished Albuquerque projects for the rest of the day. …

The minute I decided to do the Out With The Crowd series, I wanted to try to get Old Gator to talk to me about the Miami Marlins — or, as he calls them, "the …

11:45 PM
Just a short while left in Albuquerque, friends! And as of this writing, just $44 to go on that iPad project. Let's finish that off before the page flips over to Brownsville, TX in …

From my recap of last night's Girls at Press Play:
When Eric jokes that he knows the florist has a job opening, Hannah retreats to the safety of Gotham-centric condescension, saying she'd get "a real job, like …

Your questions about the Tomato Nation/DonorsChoose.org Spring 2012 Contest, answered. (I hope.) Updated May 20, 9 PM.
WHATCHA DOIN'?
Welcome to the Tomato Nation/Donors Choose Spring Contest 2012: Red Ops. Want to donate right now? Click right …

Over the years I've seen the Vine readers come through for many people on hard-to-find or discontinued items, so I'm hoping they can help me. Basically, I need new underwear!
For years I was a bikini-underwear …

My husband and I have a casual friend who is a musician in Eastern Europe. We are not very close and don't keep in touch regularly; we met several years ago at a folk-dancing event …

From my recap of last night's kind-of-off episode of Girls, "Hard Being Easy," over at Press Play:
The Marnie/Charlie storyline picks up shortly after the end of the last episode, and it's well done—but it has …

This is Red Leader speaking. We have confirmed our fund-raising targets for the Red Ops contest. The cities/regions appear below, in alphabetical order:

Albuquerque, NM
Brownsville, TX
Buffalo, NY
Camden, NJ
Columbia, SC
The Dakotas
Detroit, MI
Joplin, MO
Northridge/Dayton, OH
West Virginia's northern panhandle

This …