I don’t disagree with the conclusion of the advice (“Leave it alone”) but I do disagree with the tut-tutting than accompanied it. Taboo words cause real emotional reactions. The N-word is a major taboo (for good reasons). Whether its use has artistic merit in music by African-American performers is something I don’t…

Makes sense. Wish they’d mentioned it. Beyond “coffee” I don’t really know what’s in any of the Starbucks drinks.

Am I missing something, or is the math in the third paragraph just wrong? 16 oz vaguely coffeeish beverage - 10 oz syrup = 6 oz coffee, not 2 oz. Right?

Non-sequitur: Is Kevin still with the site? I haven’t seen his byline in a while.

I’m all for living wages and benefits for servers and doing away with tipping. But restaurants need to stop with these “service charge” and “administrative fee” line items. Just make a budget based on paying your people right and set prices based on that budget. Don’t tell me about it. I can go to Target and buy a…

How do they measure and quantify something like that? It sounds like when they say x kajillion dollars is lost to software “piracy” and they base that number on the assumption that every single download represents a lost sale at full retail price.

While I prefer the all at once model, I get why this make sense for Disney and don’t mind it that much. I hope at some point streaming services will realize that “all at once” and “weekly” are not only options and start experimenting with a variety of models.

If a person is seated at a table or booth, possibly referring to the menu to recall the details of what they planned to order, talking to a server who is standing, it can be somewhat awkward to maintain eye contact during the order. It is not necessarily a calculated attempt to avoid human contact.

Eh, it was cute. Most of the good jokes are in the trailer and while the observation that kids that age are a patchwork of innocence and and aspiring experience is correct, it doesn’t do a particularly good job of representing where the patches are in actual middle schoolers. Jacob Tremblay, in particular, felt…

People who want 10 nuggets for $1.49. People like me.

Episode 1 is the best of the prequels by a long shot.

I didn’t notice the sweetness as much at Kate apparently did. Don’t get me wrong - it’s sweet - but for me the sweetness didn’t really stand out from the overall mocha Yoo Hoo flavor.

I love Magnolia. It’s probably time for a rewatch. And while I can understand the Writing 101 or Film School 101 argument for cutting it down, I’m glad PTA was allowed and allowed himself to indulge. You can feel his enthusiasm in every frame of them film. How many movies can you say that about?

Maybe the Huangs could meet an Irish Catholic family who find an mysterious vessel and accidentally navigate the time stream from the 70s to the 90s. They could call it The Kids Fresh Off The Time Boat Are Alright.

Thank God for this technology. Now Elijah Wood can finally make North 2.

I would be perfectly happy to read an advice column written by any of the three regulars here, but I wish they’d do so under their own byline. I know as lies go it’s a fairly harmless one, but if Salty isn’t an actual currently working server with all the experience “she” implies in the column, they ought to be up…

This is the correct take.

Bravo.

I think there is a version of this question that isn’t so bad. Some places have unofficial or semi-official “secret menus”. And I occasionally see on screen, and even more occasionally see in real life, someone ask their server something like “What I really want is like a pasta dish with chicken and bacon” (or…

I agree that CFA makes a tasty chicken sandwich and is very thoughtful and deliberate about the customer service side of their business. But while that thoughtfulness definitely imposes a floor on how bad service can be, in my experience the average level of service (in terms of getting me my food quickly with a…