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Carolyn Hax: Is there harm in playing favorites with kids?
No childhood is pain-free, but parents can help minimize exposure and damage from hurt feelings.
Carolyn Hax: Can an ultimatum save a relationship?
Half of this couple is tired of feeling they’re not sharing equal effort in planning.
Carolyn Hax: Alcoholic parents vs. adult child, Part II
A reader wonders what responsibility she has to an abusive mother who is seeking treatment for mental illness.
Developing new operas is an art in itself
After seven years, the Met’s commissioning program is bringing first work to the stage.
Gergiev, Mariinsky are urbane in all-Stravinsky program
Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra offered a mini-marathon of three Stravinsky ballet scores.
WNO’s ‘Forza’ founders on bad singing
Verdi’s opera gets a deliberately provocative production and a lousy cast in WNO outing.
Benedict Cumberbatch and his ‘amazing’ year, er, years
Benedict Cumberbatch talks about ‘The Fifth Estate,’ in which he channels WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.
Hanks brings his A-game to the superb ‘Captain Phillips’
‘Captain Phillips’ is a taut, superbly crafted maritime thriller, anchored by a superb performance by Tom Hanks.
From real life to the big screen, faster than ever
Films like ‘Captain Phillips’ represent Hollywood’s — and audiences’ — embrace of fact-based dramas.
Stepping right out of their frames
The National Portrait Gallery’s “Dancing the Dream” explores generations of American dance.
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.
Ask Amy: Mom should back off, let stepdad step up
She needs to stop playing go-between with her adult children and their stepfather.
Ask Amy: Deadbeat dad should not pop in on child
Their divorce decree stipulated no contact with their toddler, but her ex sent the child a birthday card.
Ask Amy: Dad on the prowl should seek help
This 21-year husband has had 20-plus affairs with 20-somethings. Amy says: Get help.
‘Burton and Taylor’: When a hurled bottle meant true love
TV REVIEW | BBC America movie looks at Liz and Dick’s last attempt to work together on the stage in 1983.
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 4: Shuffling toward nowhere
TV REVIEW | What are we supposed to hope for on a show that promises only death and despair?
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.”
Van Gogh, echoing in the halls of the Phillips Collection
“Van Gogh Repetitions” puts similar works side by side and challenges our ideas about the troubled artist.
Motown, stop! in the name of art.
Art lovers and museum leaders nationwide fear a fire sale at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
MoMa’s Magritte retrospective
Viewing the Belgian surrealist’s works side by side is sort of like reading a book of quotations. Clever, but . . .
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