Hi Sars,
The colour choice is important, but you’re right in that it isn’t so much the “light colours vs. dark” issue.
What Shoe needs to do is look for cold colours as opposed to warm. …

Hi Sars,
A couple quick makeup recs —
Wet ‘n’ Wild eyeshadow in the little squeeze tube, in cafe au lait,
makes a great eyeshadow base.
Revlon 12-hour Colorstay Eyeshadow quads.
Stila Convertible Color (really pretty on your cheeks, but …

The best replacements for Umbros that I have come across are the Adidas soccer shorts.
I have actually been able to find Umbros every now and then at soccer shops. Actually any the shorts designed …

Dear Sars,
I think you have touched on this subject before but I couldn’t find it through Google.If you can’t help me, I know your wonderful readers can.
I am getting married in a year and through …

Hi Sars —
In the same situation myself. BCBG (online) has some awesome dresses in
the brown, deep purple, and sage areas. Lots have empire-type
sillouettes which can be ultra-flattering on thicker-waisted ladies.
They’re going to run about $280, …

Sars,
My boyfriend and I stayed at The Cosmopolitan Hotel (http://www.cosmohotel.com/)last September and it was fine — the rooms were perfectly clean, if a bit on the small side, the hotel was quiet, and there was …

Sars,
I have had similar trouble with this book.I read it as a kid too, but I had a vague idea of the name.Recently I tracked it down, only to find that it is out of …

Hi Sars —
Perhaps someone
could help me find this book?
I read it in high-school, grade 10 or so, and
I can’t recall the title or author but have thought about it often enough
that some 20 years later …

I don’t know what Irn means by non-preachy, but a dear athiest friend of mine recently joined a group called SOS. In his words, it is “an organization for those who don’t want to put …

I would recommend checking out the works of Mikhail Bakhtin,
particularly Speech Genres and Other Late Essays and The Dialogic Imagination.
He’s a Russian literary critic/theorist/linguist who may well have
pioneered a lot of the understanding of …