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Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Nagging guilt after breaking it off with a good person

She’s confident of her decision to end the engagement, but she wonders whether she should reach out.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

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

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.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

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?

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Pianist explores art of variation at the Kennedy Center

Benjamin Hochman pulls off 3 sets of variations — on Brahms, Rzewski and Knussen — in WPAS program.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

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.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

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.

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.

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: Husband won’t listen because he can’t hear

He blames everyone for mumbling and blasts the TV. How can she get him to get his hearing checked?

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.

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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?

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