
The Law of the Instrument
More than 200 letters to the editor, op-eds, and editorials from newspapers across the US reveal a country divided on who should be allowed to vote.
More than 200 letters to the editor, op-eds, and editorials from newspapers across the US reveal a country divided on who should be allowed to vote.
Two dozen people—a banker, a sex worker, a pastor, “the World’s First Publicly Traded Person”—tell us the best way to invest a single dollar.
Highlights from a reading of 200-plus letters to the editor, from newspapers in all 50 states, to determine what Crazy America thinks about raising—or lowering—the minimum wage.
A man and a supreme being walk into a bar. It’s a hokey joke until one day it’s true and the big man starts offering tax advice.
An unexpected pregnancy, tuna sandwiches consumed in darkness, and woman after woman of a certain age living by the ocean—eventually, all connections make sense when it comes to prescient grandparents.
You witness an incident occur directly in front of you. You see every detail. There's time to help—but should you get involved? A handy guide for photographers.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, advice for a lovelorn atheist who wants to know if a Christian could love him back.
A plea for safety from cyclists to motorists.
When you’re feeling perky as a teenager but the doctor says your prostate is basically a Chinchorro mummy, a little erectile dysfunction can be suffered on the path to wellness. Oh, but the sex drive...
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we show you how a well-chosen nickname can bend your mate’s will.
Fortunetelling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, what’s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person with the cards.
Five years in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Several violent attacks—in other cities. A daily attempt to be the best, which is never a good idea. Nine lessons from a mini-lifetime in the Big Apple.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we crack open one of the mysteries of the universe: How do fortune cookies work?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we offer dream analysis with multiple charts to a reader whose rice turned to rocks.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, a woman seeking men from Blighty meets the Connecticut Britons.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we partner with the Association for the Betterment of Sex to help three readers with their love quandaries.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, a reader wonders about TMN's vision of the future of publishing.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. A reader wants to know if it's OK to date a distant relative. We answer by way of flowchart.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. When a reader disagrees with his wife over the cleanliness of their home, we propose a tidy solution.
As we carve out weekends for summer vacations and welcome loved ones home from across the volcanic ash-strewn pond, our staff and readers share their hard-earned trip advice.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. When a reader asks about housewarming gifts, we see Armageddon in the neighborhood.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. To help a reader determine which Dylan album is best, we arrive at every possible solution. Introducing "Your Best Bob Dylan Album Calculator."
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. We help a reader ferret out the truth about which foods are good to eat, and which ward off bullets.
As the weather warms and we retreat to our patios, roofdecks, and lanais, our thirst increases. Our staff and readers share their favorite outdoor drinks.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we do absolutely nothing to assist a reader while coining a new phrase.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show you the 50 questions on this year's census you didn't see coming.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we reach out to the masses on Chatroulette for advice on sexiness, with horrifying consequences.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we advise a reader on what he should buy his girlfriend for their anniversary.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we use some recent knowledge of severance packages to help one of the newly unemployed.
As we spelunk into the depths of winter, we felt the time was ripe to rearm our medicine cabinets. Our staff and readers share their remedies for colds, flus, and related maladies.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we assist a college student who's swimming in dirty laundry and drowning in cough syrup.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer that eternal question: What happens after we die?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader in need of creative, recession-friendly Halloween costume ideas.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we attempt to help a young thespian realize his misinformed dreams.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we defend Britain against a cursing student of Anglo-Saxons.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we channel our inner Governor Sanford to explain the ways of windbags nationwide.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we receive a letter from a student in distress and do absolutely nothing to assist her.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we guide a reader who peppers her friends with questions, but finds they won't reciprocate her curiosity.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal the secrets of the mighty triumvirate that rules the universe. But you didn't hear about it here.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we demonstrate to a wary customer how best to maneuver the purchase of a new car, while keeping accidental singes to a minimum.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we counsels a reader on the beauty of frames.
Ingesting a wily particle is no laughing matter. Ten steps of concrete advice to consider before your hands grow to the size of large cities.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we contribute copywriting ideas to help a reader sell Super Viagra Soft-Tabs.
Times are tight--but must they necessarily be bad? We asked our readers and writers to find the upside to the downturn.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help an airline passenger determine the best day and time to book a flight.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. Our mailbag is stuffed with questions about love, often oddly phrased. We address one of the more curious examples.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. In honor of Friday the 13th, we coach a reader on effective use of superstition.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. Following our popular guide regarding girls, how to know if the ideal man digs you or not.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we counsel a young man who can't read the road signs in a doomed relationship.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. We offer tried-and-true excuses for calling in sick to work, including examples of the maladies we can claim to hide the malady we have.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. We step in with some last-minute advice for a reader confused by a Christmas party conundrum: Do friends and family mix?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. When a reader runs into a dilemma involving bitches, we take the high road, at least for a few paragraphs.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. In this week's installment, we help an Obama supporter navigate the murky waters of political expression at the workplace.
Every form of communication deserves an etiquette manual, if only so we can treat our fellows better, even in 140-character bites.
When vacating isn't an option, you could always consider a holiday in your own vicinity. The TMN readers and writers offer travel tales from lands closer to home.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. In this week's installment we explain why the objects in passenger-side mirrors are closer than they appear: It could be something you ate.
As the price of everything hikes higher and higher, thrift is fast becoming an essential life skill. The TMN readers and writers tell us how they're beating the high cost of living.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. In this week's installment we uncover why Americans can so easily sniff out Canadians in their midst.
With Memorial Day just around the corner, our thoughts are turning to getting the heck out of town. Where to? Well, the TMN readers and writers have some recommendations.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we solve the origins of "Mrs.," and present a new nomenclature to fill the gender gap, once and for all.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. In this week's installment we break down all that pre-heating nonsense, with a heating guide for 21st-century cookery.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we (or someone claiming to be us) detail many popular methods for stealing identities.
From movies to music to graphic novels and Spanish lessons, here are some of our recent digital world discoveries, as downloaded by our writers and readers.
It's winter, and chances are you're sick or you're about to be. Even though you may feel like you'd rather curl up and die, we recommend curling up with a good movie instead--and the writers' answer to most ailments is Jimmy Stewart.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain the phrase nobody understands in terms everyone can understand. For the most part.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we solve another parenting mystery: Exactly how many of your child's classmates must you invite to the birthday party?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how to build a roller coaster in terms a young engineering student may not expect.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader choose between political candidates by applying modern poetry to the process.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we conjure a New Year's vow for a quitter who needs something new to quit.
Robert Benchley once quipped, "The only cure for a real hangover is death." Though ultimately true, right now there are holiday parties to attend. The writers offer solutions for the morning after.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we advise a mother who's walked in on her son during a private moment.
'Tis the season of Amazon and Zappos, but what about those web merchants with more rare offerings, or services you didn't know were available online? The writers offer a few of their current favorites.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we instruct a future MBA in the art of networking. That sound? The last gasp of your ethics.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we pull out all the stops to help a reader say "I love you," in precisely 100 different ways.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we rush to the aid of a distressed reader who believes her house is haunted.
You've stocked up on bookmarks, ordered the bookplates, and now you're ready to fill the shelves. Next time you're shopping, pass over the fiction and pick up something with an index. The writers offer a selection.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader assess the accuracy of the fortune cookie he just opened.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we solve the greatest mystery known to rock-and-rollers of every generation: how to find a decent drummer.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we point out the differences between non-organic and organic cows--in words only an organic cow would comprehend.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader who wants to know: What's a superhero worth these days, anyway?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we assist a mother with her daughter's homework: imagining a world where emails required stamps.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we instruct a starry-eyed reader in the ways of bagging young Hollywood tail.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we apply cold logic to a hot topic: How can pre-adolescent hockey players become sexually active?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader determine if her one true love is letting adverbs get in the way of romance.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader decide whether she should send her antisocial, over-meowing feline to the big litter box in the sky.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we address a reader's concern about her plant's feelings with stories about menacing shrubs.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a family travel safely to Chicago, and urge them to protect their daughter from the boyfriend from hell.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a poor man figure out how to make the system work—by any means necessary.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we fashion a taxonomy of American athletes to help a reader get in touch with his jock-dom.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a confused young woman make the best of a beast with three backs.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we celebrate National Gardening Month with some horticultural advice garnered from a Tri-Delt newsletter.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we share some tips for a young reader who wants to take her strut for a walk down the runway.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we offer moral guidance to a reader who just realized their Second Life avatar bears a striking resemblance to their best friend's wife.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal the top contenders and the winner of the Non-Expert's Contest for Total Idioms, with a way for you to save the world.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a young man, struggling with maturity, accept the garbage that's otherwise known as most of contemporary art.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a frustrated mother cope: how to deal with--nevermind survive--those overly nice mothers at play dates.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we get sick of our colloquial phrases and thus a contest is born: Invent a bon mot for everlasting fame.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we address a question thousands of young men and women grapple with each year: To law school or not to law school?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we come up with a handy guide—tips, lists, and charts—to choosing wines and playing the connoisseur.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal how George W. Bush will nickname every one of his new, non-Republican buddies in Congress.
We have something important to discuss. Are you listening? Oh, seriously, will you take out your earphones? Yes, both of them.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a young woman work through a desperate situation: What to wear this year on Halloween?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we test whether therapy is conductable over portable email devices.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show a reader concerned about television's wasteland how advertisers could create more socially aware campaigns.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader combine travel and eating--with knowledge cribbed from the Food Network star.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we introduce a paranoid reader to our personal physician, Dr. Google, who has induced paranoia in more patients than anyone.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a forlorn scientist understand why his friend and co-worker chose to quit her job and leave the state.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show a tenant how to beat the heat that's still pouring out of the radiator.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we have your answer for the next time somebody asks you how, when your number is finally up, you want to go.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we offer ways to avoid being kissless on New Year's Eve.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we address the great American class divider: Are your tree lights white or colored, or even (gasp) blinking?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a forlorn reader determine if her new guy actually looks as good as he talks.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer a question that has plagued us all since the day after we invented plumbing.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how you can tell if what you're experiencing is déjà vu or not, and how best to proceed when it is.
What a tangled web we weave.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything, even the oldest questions. Such as, how can you tell if a girl loves you or not?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader preparing for a trip to New York get over anxieties about terrorism, including tips on how to keep his Labor Day jihad-free.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a reader overcome his party paranoia with tips and tricks for getting his courses out on time.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week: An overstuffed mailbag means a lot of questions are begging to be answered, and we know the only way to satisfy those hungry for knowledge--goats.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. From 2005, rather than Yankee-Doodling every Fourth of July, here are some patriotic melodies that are more fun to sing and easier to remember.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week: Sudden weight loss and sudden engagements abound. We take to the streets to find out which Hollywood celebrity's out-of-control behavior is causing people the most anxiety.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we pick up where Paul Simon left off and offers a multitude of ways--45, actually--to leave your lover in the dust.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a nervous tourist understand that mystery of New York City transportation: the unlicensed car that will drive you either to your destination, or to your death!
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show how you can fight New York's soaring real-estate costs when you invade an unfamiliar neighborhood. Making friends will never be so hard.
Corporate wilderness retreats and fat camps have a few things in common: mediocre food, sleeping in tents, and lustful bloodthirsty competition. Todd Levin and Bob Powers report from their summer destinations.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we dive into the great button fly vs. zipper fly debate, and give advice to a man whose wife is addicted to children.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help analyze your dreams, or maybe just his own, and offer a handy chart that tells you what to wear depending on the temperature. Yes: "handy."
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain why it's best to avoid serial threesomers, where the West Village begins and ends, how to build your résumé, and why you shouldn't drive. All using goats.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain the well-traveled secrets and tricks that really can make your life a little bit easier, even while they fail to improve you in any way.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal the unspoken rules that govern the work, relationships, and processes that take place every day amongst the city's many subway musicians, ventriloquists, acrobats, and the like.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we field a tough question about why Americans are so obsessed with smell, and demonstrate how Americans' odor concerns know no borders.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help two readers with vital questions of national security: Can cars backtrack mileage if driven in reverse, and who is responsible for forcing celebrities down our throats?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer an age-old question about green and black olives, and more importantly, and why New Yorkers can't get green olives on their pizza.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a college student out of her end-of-school doldrums by suggesting a hobby both interesting and adventurous, but that sometimes skirts the wrong side of the law.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer reader concerns, including the business with mattress tags and why, when in Greece, you might not want to signal to your waiter that you're ready for the check.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show how saying grace before a holiday meal doesn't have to be a chore, and how if you know what to say, your thoughtful words may make the holidays more special. And then sometimes not.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, to help a young woman prepare her Thanksgiving, we assemble a day-by-day plan for cooking turkey for nine people and managing sibling relations, plus all the fixings.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show a reader how to get even the most troublesome of roommates to move out.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we describe many of today's most enduring and popular dance steps, and include helpful illustrations that show you how to dance them.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we tell you how to recover after taking a really nasty spill in public. And yes, they're all laughing at you.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how being a hipster is not necessarily a bad thing, and show how to determine if you are, in fact, really one of them.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain what's inside a computer and how it works, how you can determine if you need a laptop model or a desktop, and the true difference between PCs and Macs.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer a reader's question about how to find the right diet.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we look to this month's Olympic Games and give an overview of the athletic events involved and pick the sports you simply don't want to miss.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer questions about how to avoid getting sick of and at the office, being sunburned while traveling at the speed of light, and the origins of the Spanish-American War.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we cover the many different kinds of canine companions you could choose to collar as "your best friend." Except for schnauzers.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show the proper way to dispose of a trashcan, then explain how to remove food smells that repel your significant other. Also: the problem with toaster ovens.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we enter the astrological realm to reveal the meanings behind your birth sign, and explain why everyone finds Scorpios annoying.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we instruct you on the basics of swimming, with many of the most popular strokes explained in detail. Except for the double-trudgen--because come on.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show you how to mend common household wounds with a handful of band-aids, a bottle of ipecac, and a healthy dose of resolve.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show how to turn online friendship into internet love, and expose the truth behind Andy Kaufman's return.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain why it's not a good idea to name your baby after a month, what the opposite of brown is, and exactly who that is wandering the bike path.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we illustrate, exhibit, and display how proper editing makes English all that more the understandable.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we catalog many popular houseplants, from bulbs to succulents, explaining which would be the best choices for your particular interior décor and style.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we counsel a young man beleaguered by visions of marked-down tuna fish and cases of Two Buck Chuck.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we dive into that testy political swamp where culinary and maternal matters mix juices: When is breastfeeding (in)appropriate in restaurants?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we come to the aid of a confused, heartbroken Romeo with a story of her someone else's troubles in dating.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help couples understand how cute lover-names can become butt-quaking insults.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we lead you on a safe shopping excursion through all that discarded furniture on the sidewalks of New York.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week a reader sends in a cryptic plea for help in the ways of "IT" and we decipher "IT"s true meaning.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show you how to survive the five treacherous worlds of IKEA. Don't forget your REKYL!
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we look into the recent hoopla over Mars, with an explanation for Dub-Dub's motives in space.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer a late, incoherent letter to Santa Claus that was mistakenly delivered to our offices.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we welcome the beginning of winter with helpful advice for those who want their snowmen to survive into spring.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we give you the skinny on some of the best tress-work we've sported in the past, all relevant details included.
Will custom-printed cocktail napkins take this celebration to the next level? No one cares.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we teach you everything you'll need to know when you finally build that rollercoaster in your backyard.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we enumerate many new ways you can prepare your favorite breakfast meat. Look out, because we're makin' bacon.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we go back through our priest's record collection to find out when the music died.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we ruffle some whiskers when we investigate the truth behind feline insanity. We may also get scratched pretty bad.
With budget crises, unemployment, and wild animals on the loose, New York can be a difficult place to navigate. Luckily, we have some tips on how to make contemporary Gotham life more bearable.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how to get the raise you deserve using the only appropriate method for today's terror-ific world.
"Sincerely, Help?" Having trouble finding the right words to thank cousin Sal for that mango slicer? How to write the perfect, honest thank-you note every time.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show how to live in the past, bedecked in ancient garb, profound in dead languages. Yes, how to become a historical re-enactor.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain the many steps of recovery after your heart's been ripped out, stepped on, and sold for scrap.
The bride and groom just spent hours arguing over Dad’s new wife and whether she gets to sit at the head table. Now is not the time to piss them off. How the wedding party can stay in good graces.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how to impress any HR department with a top-notch résumé.
You've got one chance here, don't flub it. The warning label for your proposal.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we dig into some heavy research to tell you what your school mascot really says about you.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we tell you what to do when hundreds of people RSVP for your wedding and then don't show up.
If you're the couple that never fights, now's your chance. Vent now, or forever hold your peace.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we play the eloquent Cyrano to an anonymous Christian, and script poesy for the tongue-tied.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we cover the basics on choosing a cologne while everyone else covers their noses.
Hail spring! May flowers are just around the corner, bringing new occasions to look dashing. Advice on lightweight suits (nice), scuba gear (when underwater), and seersucker (not yet).
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we provide the 12-step program for a satisfying threesome.
If you look like you just got some, it's sexy. If you're dressed like you're out to get some, it's slutty. Ignore the distinction.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain why people are perpetually fascinated with inspirational quotes. Like that "Vince Lombardi shit."
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, following the largest snowstorm ever, we explain how to travel to work without ruining your shoes.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we offer some jokes for awkward moments at your next party, safe for children, drunks, and pets.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we give you some tips on how to beat the $#@*ing cold weather. Get ready to greet some heat.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how different hairs on the body grow at different speeds, i.e., get ahead of one another, all puns intended.
Forget about your butt; consider your jewelry. (You can change it a hell of a lot faster.) A look at the history of accessories.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we determine once and for all the existence of Santa Claus.
Why have hats fallen out of favor? After all, if you choose your headgear well, no one will notice what else you're wearing.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we settle the question of why men's and women's buttons are on different sides of the split. And history takes a back seat.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer four questions about Thanksgiving, which is apparently a holiday, or something.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we look into the immortal question--what do I do with my life?--and find the obvious answer.
Black is slimming, but orange is fun. To hell with neutrals, we want to see more cha-cha in your wardrobe.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, having already had the issue of girls settled for us, we tackle boys and their puppy-dog tails.
Forget about trends for a moment and focus on good taste. Here’s what you need: the A-line skirt, the peacoat, the little black dress.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we travel to Italy to settle the age-old question of doing or not-doing as Romans.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we give you a few pointers on how to embark on a three-day juice fast. Bottoms up.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we work over the inner workings of the movie industry, where art always prevails over profit.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we lead a primer on how to get promoted. With a rocket-cycle and everything.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we tackle and violate that most fearsome of wedding-day responsibilities: the Best Man's speech.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we take a look at some people's pretty-darned-weird behavior. And why they keep pressing the elevator "call" button.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we discuss online dating: the hubbub, the hoopla, and the sexy stuff too.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we get into paying your ConEd bill, war-focused philosophy, and stabbing asses.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explore the history of the Electric Slide and the mysteries behind Hypertrichosis.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we give advice on nutrition and exercise, topics we know everything about.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we negotiate why girls are the way they are. And we've got proof.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explore the history of Johosafat, and how to go through life when you share the same name as your lover.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we kick off the first installment of our new feature, The Non-Expert's Desk, with questions about wedding fashion and canines.
Life in New York is easier with money: someone's ready to do your bidding, for the right price. But finding the right someone is difficult. The currency required in hiring a good mover, painter, or manicurist.
A few tips of advice to how to wear a tie, hold an umbrella, and arrange your wallet to win when your lover goes a-spyin'.
They decorate your legs. They accentuate your form. They define your character. And the correct choice between wearing them or not can keep you out of jail.
They can match any outfit, be worn in planes and malls alike, dress Miles Davis and Bill Gates in the same colors, and still say different things.
It's the one thing every man should own: a suit. We salute the suit's ability to withstand expiration, bask in its enduring appeal, and offer advice on what to look for when you're off to buy your own. If only we could be there to say, "Suits you, sir!"