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.

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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: August 16, 2013
August 16, 2013 · 12 Comments
The Vine: August 16, 2013

 
I’m on a quest to track down a book that my mom read as a teen, but can’t remember the title of and thus has never been able to find again.

The Vine: August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013 · 13 Comments
The Vine: August 14, 2013

I have a problem. A kitty-related problem. I have two adult male cats, neutered, 6 years old.

The Shoes, Part II
August 10, 2013 · 22 Comments
The Shoes, Part II

He put this to Kat, that the pranks of teenagers tended to reveal themselves. She came back with, Occam’s razor. The simplest explanation is the right one!

The Vine: August 9, 2013
August 9, 2013 · 8 Comments
The Vine: August 9, 2013

I’m looking for a specific episode of a syndicated TV show (of the low-budget Canadian-produced variety) in the supernatural detective genre.

The Shoes, Part I
August 8, 2013 · 16 Comments
The Shoes, Part I

Mike knew, swore that the house wasn’t that cheap for no reason — come on, in Wellfleet? Kat said, of course it’s cheaper if you take it for the whole summer. You can’t get a …

The Vine: August 7, 2013
August 7, 2013 · 27 Comments
The Vine: August 7, 2013

So, here’s the deal. I’m by nature a rather impatient over-thinker, prone to imagining worst-case scenarios, which often turn out to be right.

The Vine: August 2, 2013
August 2, 2013 · 6 Comments
The Vine: August 2, 2013

So I read this book at least four times as a kid, but I can’t remember the title or even the characters’ names; it’s a middle-reader book that takes place in America, sometime during World …

The Vine: July 31, 2013
July 31, 2013 · 24 Comments
The Vine: July 31, 2013

I need the TN readership to tell me if I’m justified or acting like one of those mothers I swore I’d never be.

The Vine: July 26, 2013
July 26, 2013 · 7 Comments
The Vine: July 26, 2013

Okay, so someone out there has to know this book. Back in the ’70s (I would say mid-to-late ’70s) a photographer decided to “embed” himself in a high school class for a year and document …

The Vine: July 24, 2013
July 24, 2013 · 25 Comments
The Vine: July 24, 2013

A friend of mine recently died of lung cancer, way too young (late 30s).