Baseball

“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

Culture and Criticism

From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.

Donors Choose and Contests

Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.

Stories, True and Otherwise

Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.

The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

The Vine: July 2, 2007
July 3, 2007 · 43 Comments

A fashion question! I really enjoyed the recent “layering” discussion, and thought you and your very fashionable readers might be able to help me.
I’m looking for some kind of fashion sneaker or comfy knock-around shoe, …

The Scout
July 2, 2007 · 8 Comments

I’d read a number of reviews prior to seeing this movie which suggested that it suffers from a split personality — the first half is a genial, Albert-Brooks-flavored baseball movie, while the second half is …

The Vine: June 28, 2007
June 28, 2007 · No Comment

Dear Sarah,
I’d love to know your thoughts about this situation.
After many years together, Sam and Laura were divorced a little over a year ago. They have remained friends, continued to live in the same city, …

“He’s a bully, is what he is.”
June 28, 2007 · 10 Comments

“Jack McGee Without Pity.”

McGee says that Leary, who declined requests to be interviewed for this piece, cultivates a public image as a bold, blunt, hands-on actor-writer-producer who loves collaboration, but is actually an insecure, controlling …

The Vine: June 27, 2007
June 27, 2007 · No Comment

Hi Sars!
 
Longtime reader, first-time writer.I’m hoping you can offer some suggestions for handling this rather awkward situation.
 
I met my friend, Janet, just over three years ago when I started working with her.We started out as …

The Vine: June 26, 2007
June 26, 2007 · No Comment

Sars,
Long story short. I’m a 28-year-old only child of a single mother. My mom’s health has been, for about the last decade, what could casually be called a clusterfuck. The latest problem to develop is …

GBC: The Reality Show
June 26, 2007 · 6 Comments

Thanks to reader Julie C. for tipping me off to this. I wouldn’t have thought to put Kristofferson in the GBC, but on the other hand…A Star Is Born.

Creamsicles Of The Crop
June 25, 2007 · 114 Comments
Creamsicles Of The Crop

 
I can’t quite pinpoint when it began, my search for the food or drink that best replicates the Creamsicle.

Guyz Nite in the Timez
June 25, 2007 · 8 Comments

Mr. S, Gen, Skyrockets, and I have been trying to get together for dinner for like a month and a half, and it fell through again on Friday…because Mr. S had to go to the …

The Vine: June 22, 2007
June 22, 2007 · 14 Comments

Dear Sars,
I have a book question. I’m trying to track down a copy of a knitting book that my mom had when I was a kid. I believe it was from the late ’50s or …