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Carolyn Hax: Dealing with a troubled mom
Family members are forced to tiptoe around sensitive and emotional loved one.
Carolyn Hax: Failing a test of friendship
Four women who were close friends have to find a decent way to deal with one friend trying to trash another.
Carolyn Hax: Changing a name shouldn’t be a battle
A woman wonders whether she has to sacrifice her professional identity for the sake of her future husband.
Fleming to bring opera to the Super Bowl
The announcement that Renee Fleming will be the first opera singer ever to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl occasions excitement in classical music circles, and elsewhere.
For Opera Lafayette, sequel doesn’t live up to the original
Stylized dialogue, dull music stifle Philidor’s ‘Les femmes vengées,’ part of a double bill with Mozart’s ‘Cosi.’
Minnesota Orchestra ends lockout, returns to work
After 15 months, the orchestra and its players agree on a contract that includes a pay cut.
‘Llewyn Davis,’ Redford deserved better from Academy
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK | Snubs were expected in a strong year, but these shutouts especially hurt.
‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ re-ups a beloved franchise
Chris Pine resuscitates a reluctant CIA spy in the modestly entertaining “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.”
‘The Square,’ an exhilarating portrait of Egyptian politics
Stunning doc puts viewers in the middle of the fight for democracy in Egypt, in 2011 and beyond.
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: Unrequited love inspires and confuses
He’s in love with a lesbian, and wants desperately to tell her.
Ask Amy: Granny oversteps by a mile
Whatever her politics, this mother-in-law has no right to give her grandchild a vibrator with a warning ‘not to tell.’
Ask Amy: Sisters’ estrangement is no one else’s business
Her sister did a number on her — including marrying her ex — but people want her to make amends.
‘Klondike’: Then as now, misery at the bottom of the pan
TV REVIEW | Richard Madden (“Game of Thrones”) stars in this energetic tale of the Yukon gold rush.
‘Flowers in the Attic’: Cruel punishment, indeed
TV REVIEWS | Also: A new season of PBS’s highly stylized “Sherlock.” (Spoiler: He’s alive!)
HBO’s ‘Looking’: Things change, but the heartache remains
TV REVIEW | In this new half-hour series, three gay men try to figure out life and love in today’s San Francisco.
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.”
Detroit Institute of Arts won’t be forced to do full appraisal
A judge said it was beyond his authority to let creditors create a board to value museum holdings.
Judy Chicago, sister city
The artist, whose “Dinner Party” once caused uptight Washington to send its regrets, returns to D.C.
When Paris was the city of blight
Charles Marville photo exhibit shows the transformation of 19th-century Paris. It wasn’t always pretty.
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2Abstracting classics, one click at a time: Classic works of art like you've never seen them before
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3Quentin Tarantino dumps new project and spills the details; NBC quietly abandons 'Murder, She Wrote' reboot
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4Carolyn Hax: In a once close-knit foursome, two people are failing a test of friendship
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5Guccifer, the hacker who leaked G.W. Bush paintings, reportedly arrested in Romania