I’m looking for book suggestions for my just-turned-thirteen niece. It’s a very in-betweeny age, where her Christmas list is mostly clothes, but she still doesn’t want me to cancel her American Girl magazine subscription. Though …

A Vine question from my brother…who is single. And lives in Seattle. And needs a girlfriend. But anyway, he had a movie question, and as my normally encyclopediac movie brain has failed me, I’d like …

I have a heel spur and plantar fasciitis (damn turning 40!) in my right foot. I am going to a podiatrist and getting medical attention. For a variety of reasons, I can’t get a steroid …

A book (of course): young-adult, I was probably 12 or 13 when I read it (late ’80s, early ’90s), though the book may have been older than that.  It was a ghost story; a young …

I remember a young-adult book where a girl (I think she was something of an outcast…aren’t they all in YA lit) painted theater sets in a way where they looked really crazy up close, but …

I need to know what the protocol is for holiday gift-giving in the workplace.
I love my current boss and love to give Christmas gifts but after last year I am not sure if I am …

About 15-20 years ago I read a young-adult book about a high-school romance that I’ve been trying to remember the title of ever since.
It was about a boy who became interested in a girl because he …

I have been looking for black riding boots for a while now. You might be thinking, “That shouldn’t be hard!”  but in fact, it is, because of two distinct reasons:
1. I’m on a budget — …

I’ve been heavily involved in community theater for the last several years. My passion is acting, but I’ve worked in various technical capacities just to help out friends. I’ve never especially enjoyed the tech stuff, …

I’ve been desperately trying to come up with the name of this animated short I saw a while back. I was convinced — CONVINCED — it was Pixar, but after browsing the Pixar shorts wikipedia …