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: December 28, 2000
December 28, 2000 · No Comment

Hey Sars –
This is a question I pretty much know the answer to.I’m planning my wedding, and I pretty much have the guest list in place.There is only one question – should I invite my …

The Vine: December 21, 2000
December 21, 2000 · No Comment

Sarah,
Considering that I’m non-religious and if I were to be religious, I’d be Jewish, Christmas isn’t usually an issue. However, this year, I’m having a problem. I asked my boyfriend if we were going to …

The Vine: December 20, 2000
December 20, 2000 · No Comment

Dear Sars,
I just read George Bailey’s letter, and I remember when I was in high school and was overwhelmed I went to a school counselor.I don’t know about her school’s teachers/counselors, but mine were pretty …

The Vine: December 19, 2000
December 19, 2000 · No Comment

Dear Sars,
You’ve helped me before. I’m a big fan. Your DC recaps slay me.
I am, right now, at age seventeen, going through a very stressful time.The problem is not necessarily the stress, but what the …

And So It Begins
December 19, 2000 · No Comment

I went shopping last Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I know, I know. But Wing Chun needed Christmas cards, and so did I, and we figured that that whole embrace-that-which-you-most-fear principle had to work for …

Yes, You Can
December 19, 2000 · No Comment

My dad is kind of a forbidding guy. He’s tall, he has a basso profundo voice (in high school, my friends would call my line, get the answering machine, call downstairs, hear Dad say “hello,” …

Death Is Not An Option
December 19, 2000 · No Comment

So the two of you get in the car at 8:47 in the morning for the ten-hour land-speed dash to Toronto. You’ve got coffee. You’ve got snacks. You’ve got maps. It’s snowing to beat the …

The Vine: December 15, 2000
December 15, 2000 · No Comment

Sarah,
I don’t know that there’s an answer to this one, other than quit feeling guilty.But I’m looking for suggestions.
I once had a business partner who rapidly became a very close friend.Too close.Smothering close.I have a …

The Vine: December 14, 2000
December 14, 2000 · No Comment

Sarah-
I’ve actually been in a similar situation before, so I have a different take on it. I was about as pure as Snowgirl was when I met an older guy who’d had a hell of …

The Vine: December 7, 2000
December 7, 2000 · No Comment

Hi, Sarah –
I started college this fall admittedly lacking experience with guys. I had guy friends and a quasi-relationship with a guy who called me last week to fill me in on his new boyfriend, …