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

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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!

Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: Diner
April 27, 2014 · 4 Comments
Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: <em>Diner</em>

I struggled with which movie to plop onto the Couch Of Fame with an afghan and a sleeve of Thin Mints first. A classic universally acknowledged, like The Godfather? A flawed but appealing baseball flick …

The Vine: April 25, 2014
April 25, 2014 · 9 Comments
The Vine: April 25, 2014

About 15 years ago I picked up a book of seven or so short stories in my local bookstore. The stories were written by a young woman — I think this was her first published …

The Vine: April 23, 2014
April 23, 2014 · 14 Comments
The Vine: April 23, 2014

I come from a large and (I thought) close family of six girls and one boy.

The Vine: April 18, 2014
April 18, 2014 · 24 Comments
The Vine: April 18, 2014

I’ve just finished losing a considerable amount of weight, and for the first time in my adult life I want to own a bikini.

The Vine: April 16, 2014
April 16, 2014 · 15 Comments
The Vine: April 16, 2014

I have a new roommate who brought a cat with him and she is now the apple of my eye, the stars, the moon, the assumed owner of our apartment.

A Word From Our Sponsors: Skechers
April 15, 2014 · 2 Comments
A Word From Our Sponsors: Skechers

One of these days, sandals weather will come back to stay (“…she says, angrily stuffing her fleece-lined boots back on with a predicted low of 35”). Check out all the wedges, t-straps, and sneakery sandals …

The Vine: April 11, 2014
April 11, 2014 · 8 Comments
The Vine: April 11, 2014

Cat-owning home office folk, help!

The Vine: April 9, 2014
April 9, 2014 · 16 Comments
The Vine: April 9, 2014

I’m trying to find the name of a movie I saw as a kid and Vine readers are usually able to figure out anything. This has stumped my Facebook friends and my Google skills, including …

Bang The Drum Slowly (…not THAT slowly)
April 6, 2014 · 14 Comments
<em>Bang The Drum Slowly</em> (…not THAT slowly)

Bruce Pearson (Robert De Niro), C-plus catcher for the New York Mammoths, finds out before the season begins that he has terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The only other person he entrusts with the information is his …