AB Chao, Expert of All Things Bang-Related,
I always find myself wanting new hairstyles before vacations. In a few weeks, I’m hopping over the Pacific to go to Hawaii (for a wedding! on the beach! with …

Dear Sars and AB Chao,
I am hoping you can shed some light on the mystery of making mojitos
at home. We are having a large party and desperately want to serve them.
But…all that muddling. Is there …

Dear AB,
I’ve been told that rinsing my hair with cold water will make it shiny.
It sounds like BS, but it does seem to work. So, does it really work
or have I fallen prey to some …

Question for the expert on ‘do’s! Help!
I am still on the fresh side of 30 — just barely — and about five years ago
decided to grow my bobbed hair long. I had visions of Venus-like …

Hiya, Sars and AB,
Sars — love the site! AB, love your site also, and I think Mad-Mad is the
second-cutest kid ever. (The cutest being, of course, my own kid.)
I have a
hair question. My daughter …

Hiya, Sars and AB,
Sars — love the site! AB, love your site also, and I think Mad-Mad is the
second-cutest kid ever. (The cutest being, of course, my own kid.)
I have a
hair question. My daughter is …

AB Chao,
My husband and I don’t really drink much (just a good bottle of merlot every
so often), but we do like to entertain friends who enjoy mixed drinks. So,
what are the basic things that we …

Hey hey!
My shoe question comes from England, and it’s mainly about…size. It matters, I kid you not. It’s in three parts, and they all cover the fact that I will be in America soon and …

Dear Sars,
Long-time listener, first-time caller.I’m trying to figure out where “suck it up and be a friend” ends and “be true to myself” begins.(I always swore that “if I ever wrote The Vine, I’d be …

Hi Sars,
I just wanted to query you and the Etiquette Anthropologist
on how far the rudeness goes.
You see, I don’t drink coffee, because I don’t like it.
There is also a list of fairly innocuous (to the …