Manolo, I love your shoe recommendations, but, unfortunately, I’m just a poor working girl who struggles each month to get by. Can you recommend a pair of sandals for me tha...

I knew Rosebud was the sled, I knew Ilsa would get on the plane, and I knew Norman Bates liked to wear his mom’s clothes. I even knew Bruce Willis was dead the whole time. W...

It won’t be hard to find a bicycle in Washington on Friday, when more than 13,000 folks are expected to participate in Bike to Work Day. But probably only one of those bikes...

I’ve spent seven years and 184 episodes waiting for the moment “How I Met Your Mother” has been building to. Every year, there are episodes that end with a montage of he...

We’d always talked about my mother-in-law moving to the area when she retires. I would welcome that. But now my wife says she wants her to live with us for the rest of her l...

There’s a little old lady partial to cardigans who has earned a place in rock history. Her stuff goes for hundreds of dollars on eBay. She retired two weeks ago, and Los Lob...

For the past month, my husband has been in Silicon Valley working on a  business project. Next week, I’ll be joining him for a weeklong vacation in San Francisco and Napa V...

When I teach film, I often use clips from Baz Luhrmann movies as examples of formal techniques — montage, say, or framing. His use of the structure of filmmaking to communic...

Metro isn’t known for its consistency. Riders can never be sure whether an escalator will be working, or how long they’ll have to wait for a train, or what the temperature...

In a TV world where everyone wants to push the envelope, HBO is amping it down. “Family Tree” (Sun., 10:30 p.m.) is a gentle and effortlessly charming mockumentary from Ch...

Kyle Kinane is the voice of Comedy Central — he tells you what’s on the network during its promos — so you’d think he’d have no trouble landing his own show on the c...

“How Soon is Now?” The Smiths cryptically wondered on their self-titled 1984 debut. I can name that tune in one shimmering, echo-pedaled guitar note. So when ex-Smiths gui...

Ms. X and I were good work friends — ate lunch together and once in a while had coffee or went to a museum. She shared a lot about her life with me, but I never did. There�...

Our long national nightmare is over! And by “long” I mean four months, and by “national” I mean “personal,” and by “nightmare” I mean “not having anything go...

Ryan Lochte, the haters mock you and your new reality show, “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” (10 p.m. Sundays on E!). Google the show’s title and the word “stupid,” and ...