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Carolyn Hax: When you can and can’t offer diet advice
If an overweight co-worker complains about hard it is to lose weight, is it fair to weigh on the obvious reasons?
Carolyn Hax: When to tell a friend she’s dating a dud
After a breakup, a pal told the writer she wished she’d gotten a heads-up about relationship doubts.
Carolyn Hax: Take that job in the ex’s home town
A man offered a good job in his girlfriend’s home town wonders what to do now that she’s his ex-girlfriend.
An opera singer tests the recital stage
The opera tenor Michael Fabiano made the walls ring at his Kennedy Center recital debut.
Renée Fleming embraces the age of versatility
The classically trained soprano brings her vocal knowledge to the American Voice festival at the Kennedy Center.
WNO program tells the short story of the future of opera
The program gives young writers 20 minutes to tell a story on stage.
‘Best Man Holiday,’ both a romp and shameless tearjerker
The long-awaited sequel ‘Best Man Holiday' brings the old gang back together, with laughs and lots of tears.
McConaughey transformed in ‘Buyers Club’
Matthew McConaughey punctuates a long line of terrific performances with his best so far in ‘Dallas Buyers Club.’
Saoirse Ronan centers an otherwise drab ‘How I Live Now’
Saoirse Ronan shines in an otherwise drab teen wartime romance ‘How I Live Now,’ adapted from the novel.
Dance review: ‘Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty’
The familiar fairy tale is subtitled ‘A Gothic Romance’ and is more dance theater than ballet.
A ballet program that’s annual frustration
REVIEW | The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, as always, is so close, but ultimately frustrating.
‘Play/Pause’: Lovely dance, but ultimately disappointing
Susan Marshall’s interesting new work, at the Terrace Theater, ends up seeming self-important, overworked.
Ask Amy: Dating rules for the newly single
A newly single 27-year-old wonders if “girls” have started giving out numbers without being asked.
Ask Amy: College student might have to ‘school’ friend
A friend who visits this collegian’s apartment makes demands that suggest severe social deficits.
Ask Amy: Adult kids won’t forgive adultery
Her grown stepchildren want nothing to do with her after her husband left their mother after 25 years.
‘The Challenger Disaster’: A chilling reminder
TV REVIEW | Science Channel movie stars William Hurt as the physicist who confronted a tragedy.
Doctor Who at 50: Charming but always alien
TV REVIEW | BBC America will spend a week celebrating the resilient success of a time-traveling hero.
JFK anniversary on TV: A nation stuck in a freeze frame
REVIEW | Why do we keep reliving Nov. 22, 1963, in an onslaught of stale 50th-anniversary shows?
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.”
An artist finds inspiration in the city, for better or worse
Fernand Léger’s paintings, on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, often feel like a pleasant respite.
A culture where cars do the driving
An exhibit at the National Building Museum explores the extraordinary modern history of Los Angeles.
Works seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate’ electrify art world
Trove of missing and looted art, hoarded for decades in a Munich apartment, is a collector’s dream.
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