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Carolyn Hax: A wife who loves to orchestrate her big news
A man whose wife loves a creative way of sharing big news thinks her pregnancy isn’t the vehicle for it.
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.
Fleming puts opera under the bright lights at Super Bowl
America’s most famous opera singer sang the national anthem beautifully, but did non-opera fans like it?
Program could use beat of a different drummer
Third Coast Percussion offers a riveting program but so-so performance at the Atlas.
Fleming sings National Anthem: a critic’s view
The scorecard on Renee Fleming’s National Anthem: she got through all the words, hit some high As, and looked like a wedding cake topper. In short: she delivered more than America expects from its opera singers.
Philip Seymour Hoffman: An electrifying actor
The actor could be relied on to sacrifice vanity and adoration in the service of total immersion in a role.
‘That Awkward Moment’ squanders star Zac Efron
Even the charms of Zac Efron can’t save ‘That Awkward Moment,’ a coarse, clunky romantic comedy.
‘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.
Spring Preview: Dance
The Russian company, beset by its own battles in the past year, will bring the betrayal-themed “Giselle” to D.C.
Mariinsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ is magical
REVIEW | The production is a triumph for what is still proudly tender and harmonious in Russian ballet.
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: Boyfriend seems cozy with his so-called ex
His boyfriend’s ex, with whom he has a beloved child, is telling people they’re a couple.
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.
HBO’s ‘Herblock’: The finest line from the surest hand
TV REVIEW | Documentary about the legendary Post editorial cartoonist has reverence, but lacks ebullience.
Lifetime’s ‘Lizzie Borden’: A whack and a miss
TV REVIEW | Christina Ricci gives a so-so performance as the infamous (alleged!) ax-murderer.
‘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.
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.
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
Animal Planet nets biggest audience with ‘Mermaids’
TV COLUMN | “New Evidence” “documentary” follows last year’s “Mermaids: The Body Found.”
Spring Preview: Museums
A National Gallery exhibition opening May 11 will show how the two artists influenced each other’s work.
Interviewing Judy Chicago
Chicago and the need for women artists to known the history of women artists.
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’s true calling ... is calling
Gene presents another installment in his coverage of the plight of the customer-service representative.
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