The Snowman (Channel 4, 1.35pm) Twenty-seven yeafterfter it first wedged its slipper in the door of Christmas TV tradition, Raymond Briggs's stunning tale of a young boy's friendship with a snowman remains one of the few repeats not to elicit a howl of exasperation.
He draws the washing-up in the sink, his own bare foot with its slipper by its side, his cloth cap, just as they happen to catch his eye.
But for Del Toro, the Miami-based footwear brand best known for its velvet slippers, it means toying with the idea of reflection.
In the week that Jhumpa Lahiri has won Italy's most prestigious foreign fiction prize, the Premio Vallombrosa, for her story collection Unaccustomed Earth, and in a publishing season when several of the most warmly received releases have been story collections, it seems the form might finally have cast off its Cinderella slippers.
I hung it in the front hall, across from the closet and next to the boot tray with its old slippers and gardening shoes, and stepped back.
Karen Yasinsky's video "No Place Like Home"(1998), which begins with a clay animation doll clicking its ruby slippers in a nod to Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," elevates the power of suggestion to a new level.
Formerly known as San Francisco's ugly step-sibling, Oakland has slipped on its glass slippers and emerged as one of the Bay Area's hottest restaurant, music, and culture spots.
Although more work remains to be done, America, in these past 10 days, has donned its ruby slippers and taken giant steps toward making America home for LGBT people.
Unless you leave your phone at home inside its phone slipper — then you're pretty much screwed.
