If you ask Emily Russell what one of her favorite colors is, she will say it's a shade of bright boiling red with specs of black sprinkled here and there. She'll add that if it has some grey and green in spots, the affect is even better.

It's the food that makes a dinner party work. Good food means a successful evening; bad food means a social flop. The food you serve sets the attitude and ambiance for the party, too. For example, pizza poppers are great for a football game but not as antipasto for your dinner guests.

It's just a "redneck" thing. From huntin' and campin' to NASCAR, the newest breed of online dating Web sites targets "rednecks" around the country. Kevin McIntosh, a marketer from Winston-Salem, N.C., discovered through personal experience that online sites don't seem to cater to "country folk."