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Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Youngest children suffer from sliding scale of enthusiasm

Instead of comparing milestones, use the drop-off in familial attention to cook up your own brand of celebration.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Hax Philes: Open Post (Jan. 31)

What’s on your mind today?

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Setting the record straight may achieve little

Reader wants ex-friend to know she didn’t spill beans about pregnancy. But she wonders if this is a good idea.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Spring Preview: Classical Music

Highlights of the upcoming season, led by a celebration of composer Louis Andriessen’s 75th birthday.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Fresh off Grammy, Eschenbach commands a worthy night

Christoph Eschenbach’s big week continues with a big performance at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Classical music, dead or alive?

Debates about the supposed death or supposed good health of classical music obscure the real issues in a cloud of emotion.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘That Awkward Moment’ squanders star Zac Efron

Even the charms of Zac Efron can’t save ‘That Awkward Moment,’ a coarse, clunky romantic comedy.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Labor Day,’ a sensual but ultimately contrived confection

‘Labor Day’ features Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin and a sexy pie-making scene. But even all that can’t save it.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Tomorrow Night,’ Louis C.K.’s 1998 film, emerges online

Louis C.K. assembled a gifted cast of then-unknowns in his occasionally funny 1998 film “Tomorrow Night.”

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Spring Preview: Dance

The Russian company, beset by its own battles in the past year, will bring the betrayal-themed “Giselle” to D.C.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Mariinsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ is magical

REVIEW | The production is a triumph for what is still proudly tender and harmonious in Russian ballet.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Dance review: ‘Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty’

The familiar fairy tale is subtitled ‘A Gothic Romance’ and is more dance theater than ballet.

  

Ask Amy: Family trips financed for some, not others

Successful sister understands but chafes at the unfairness of paying for trips when her brothers do not.

Ask Amy: Marriage push won’t end with happy-ever-after

She’s 22 and wants to be married before they have kids. He wants kids first. Amy points out the danger here.

Ask Amy: Sorority sisters not real friends

She’s in her late 20s, and finds her sorority sisters have grown distant. Not one even attended her wedding.

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Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

HBO’s ‘Herblock’: The finest line from the surest hand

TV REVIEW | Documentary about the legendary Post editorial cartoonist has reverence, but lacks ebullience.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

Lifetime’s ‘Lizzie Borden’: A whack and a miss

TV REVIEW | Christina Ricci gives a so-so performance as the infamous (alleged!) ax-murderer.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

‘Mitt’: Exquisitely suffering with the Romney Bunch

TV REVIEW | Greg Whiteley’s documentary, now on Netflix, is a fly on the wall that needs to buzz more.

Lisa De Moraes

Lisa De Moraes

The TV Column: Alec Baldwin’s puzzling Nat Geo Channel gig

The actor and animal rights supporter will narrate documentaries about, among other things, bear-hunting.

Lisa de Moraes

Lisa de Moraes

Emmy and Tony can’t seem to get enough of Neil Patrick Harris

Actor will host the Emmy Awards for the second time this year after hosting the Tonys for the fourth time

Lisa de Moraes

Lisa de Moraes

Animal Planet nets biggest audience with ‘Mermaids’

TV COLUMN | “New Evidence” “documentary” follows last year’s “Mermaids: The Body Found.”

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Spring Preview: Museums

A National Gallery exhibition opening May 11 will show how the two artists influenced each other’s work.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Interviewing Judy Chicago

Chicago and the need for women artists to known the history of women artists.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Detroit Institute of Arts won’t be forced to do full appraisal

A judge said it was beyond his authority to let creditors create a board to value museum holdings.

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

Gene’s poetry goes to the dogs

Our columnist makes a mess. Again.

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

Gene’s true calling ... is calling

Gene presents another installment in his coverage of the plight of the customer-service representative.

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten: In the name of God

Can’t you people get anything right?