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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: 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: 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.
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.
‘Tristan und Isolde’: Striking a chord of longing
Opinions on Wagner’s opera, which kicks off the Washington National Opera’s season, are divided.
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.
‘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.
‘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.
‘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.
Dance review: ‘Times Bones’ is a creative reworking of past
Margaret Jenkins culled her earlier productions to produce a new and rewarding work.
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.
‘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.
‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham,’ Hallmark-style
TV REVIEW | A Michigan family takes a summer trip to Birmingham in 1963 in this warm but uneven adaptation.
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.”
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?
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.
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