You never know when you might find yourself in Cape Cod, struggling to christen a new restaurant, antique store, street, or cluster of swayback-roofed pale blue motel cottages. It’s a lot of pressure, but help …

Minneapolis reader, COPS-book lender, and all-around fine fellow MG sent me some links to good online resources for the latest on the bridge collapse; I’ve listed them below.MG himself is fine, but as of when …

Dear Sars,
 
My friend recently asked me to be one of her bridesmaids, and since I live in the city — and she’s in Ohio — she wants my help in finding dresses for the …

Hi Sars,
My younger sister recently got in a knock-down, drag-out argument with a TV journalist friend of hers regarding a phrase he used in a Facebook message. Because I am widely considered the language geek …

…If you missed the last Guyz Nite show, I’m bummed for you; it was rad.Thankgodfully, you can attend the next one, this Friday August 3 at Don Hill’s (511 Greenwich at Spring in the 212).Even …

Dear Tomato Nation:
 
I am a single parent living in Brooklyn with two young children (aged 9 and 3) and two cats (aged 15 and 14). About five years ago, after a long period of …

Hi Sars,
 
I read your column nearly every day and could use some advice myself.
 
I’ve been in a lot (6) of long-term relationships and seem to always get myself into the same position. I’ve been in …

I would have updated more extensively yesterday, but Wing and I finally got a TV in our office and the time I’d planned to spend on an entry was devoted instead to staring at a …

Thanks at least in part to your votes, Donors Choose has made it into the final round of the American Express Members Project — one of five finalists.
 
One of the other five finalists, though, isn’t …

I’ll be on vacation for the next week; in the meantime, take a spin through the archives — or, since Bonds’s record-breaker seems imminent, read Tommy Craggs’s take on Bonds and Aaron.
And if you’re neither …