Lifestyle Columns

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: It’s your life, so you’re responsible for it

Maybe your partner should be nicer to you. But if that doesn’t happen, get a new partner.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Father’s wishes baffle engaged couple

What to do when Dad offers to pay to keep the couple from cohabitating until Mr. and Mrs.?

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Grandma focuses on tradition, not family ties

She feels so slighted that her grandson calls her by her first name that she is distancing herself.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Voigt drops out as Washington Opera’s Isolde with ‘relief’

Soprano was set to sing the female lead in season opener, but wasn’t happy with her voice in rehearsals.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

‘Tristan und Isolde’: Striking a chord of longing

Opinions on Wagner’s opera, which kicks off the Washington National Opera’s season, are divided.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

The unexpected star of ‘Tristan und Isolde’: The orchestra

REVIEW | Outstanding music drowns out any uneven voices on opera’s opening day at the Kennedy Center.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Prisoners,’ a well-made, pulpy crime thriller

The crime thriller ‘Prisoners’ looks great and features A-plus acting, but is still little more than grim pulp.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Wadjda,’ a winning portrait of a nervy young Saudi girl

‘Wadjda’ is the first feature made in Saudi Arabia, but it also exemplifies the classic coming-of-age tale.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ a breath of fresh Texas air

This doomed-love story breathes new life into the careworn cliches of Texas-noir thrillers.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Dance review: ‘Times Bones’ is a creative reworking of past

Margaret Jenkins culled her earlier productions to produce a new and rewarding work.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

At Fall Festival of Indian Arts, a trove of dance experience

Veteran dancers Astad Deboo and Shanta and V.P. Dhananjayan will put the power of gray on display.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

‘Mirror and Music’ makes for a hard night at theater

The dance program at Kennedy Center has plenty to leave an audience uncomfortable

  

Ask Amy: Wife’s weight gain creates problem for couple

He loves her and wants to help her, but she feels so disgusted with herself that he can’t get through.

Ask Amy: Sometimes, it’s only a sweater

He’s thinking of sending a gift back to an old ex, but he needs to spell out why or risk being misconstrued.

Ask Amy: Stepfather should rise above wedding hurt

He’s hurt that his stepdaughter has chosen her deadbeat biological dad to walk her down the aisle.

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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

The real risk of ending Height Act

The perennial debate is now urgent as downtown runs out of space. But is D.C. mature enough to gamble?

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Why Syria’s images haven’t moved us

We haven’t really seen them.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

The African Americans who aided the Union

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art will take a look at the black soldiers of a Union regiment.