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Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Boor’s words really speak volumes about her

Reader fumes over “classless coward” who made derogatory comment about relative.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Lessons in dealing with ‘bullying’

Parent seeks help for harried second-grade son.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Taking the wrong step over in-law’s request

Reader oversteps boundaries with sister-in-law.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Eschenbach, NSO play Brahms and Tchaikovsky

Director’s intensity at the podium was on display in the next-to-last subscription concert of the season.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Spanish maestro lays down his baton.

The 80-year-old conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos announces that he is suffering from cancer and retiring from the podium.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Putting the ICE in Icelandic

International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) plays music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir at the Atlas.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Ping Pong Summer,’ a sweet, uneven coming-of-age tale

The film takes a fond glance back at kids coming of age in Ocean City, Md., in the 1980s.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Edge of Tomorrow,’ an entertaining sci-fi ad­ven­ture

Tom Cruise makes crafty, self-aware use of his own persona in the hugely entertaining film.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘The Fault In Our Stars,’ a warm, wise doomed romance

Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort make an enormously appealing doomed couple in ‘The Fault In Our Stars.’

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Boston Ballet performs ‘Bella Figura’ at Kennedy Center

In his use of the body, Jiri Kylian mostly toyed with extremes and unease.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

‘By the Inch’ at the American Dance Institute

The directness of Christopher K. Morgan’s work hooks you from the first move.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Step Afrika’s ‘Green is the New Black’ lights up the stage

The stepping group uses its percussive power and technology to create electricity.

  

Ask Amy: Man has trouble coming out to mom

He’s afraid to lose their closeness, but he fears that her religion will make it impossible for her to accept him.

Ask Amy: Peer pressure to marry confounds young adult

A woman in her mid-20s in a happy relationship wonders why all her peers are rushing to the altar.

Ask Amy: Trying times call for trial separation

Her son has ADHD, and her husband deals with his anxieties by creating extreme chaos. She’s at wits’ end.

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Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns, wickedly unrestrained

TV REVIEW | In season 2, Piper takes a miserable trip while the rest of the prison endures a power struggle.

The Style Blog

Hank Stuever

Ann B. Davis: As Alice, always there for the Bradys — and for a lot of other kids, too

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ suffers from some faulty code

TV REVIEW | A drama about building a computer in 1983 is just as exciting as it sounds.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns, wickedly unrestrained

TV REVIEW | In season 2, Piper takes a miserable trip while the rest of the prison endures a power struggle.

The Style Blog

Hank Stuever

Ann B. Davis: As Alice, always there for the Bradys — and for a lot of other kids, too

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

The guilty pleasures of DIY’s ‘Renovation Realities’

TELEVISION | What could be sicker than enjoying the miseries of the self-inflicted kitchen makeover?

The Style Blog

Philip Kennicott

Is the Hirshhorn’s new leader up to the job?

The announcement last night that the Australian-born Melissa Chiu will be the museum’s new director may help accomplish new energy and drive.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

A change in visual language signals a bigger cultural shift

James McNeill Whistler’s art becomes modern at the moment he turns his back on modernity.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Reconstructed Williamsburg, unreconstructed boy

Philip Kennicott’s guilty “pleasure”: Finding his uncritical inner child.

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

The ouch potato

Gene is unnerved by some medical tests but reacts with his customary stoicism.

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

Gene is shaken to the normcore

Our columnist discovers that his form of bland dressing is chic.

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

Gene’s true calling ... is calling

Yet another installment of our columnist’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism.

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