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Keep your lips zipped about a friend’s kiss
A pal learns about a wife’s drunken smooch and thinks that honesty is the best policy for the unwitting husband.
Carolyn Hax: Fears of being controlling keep girlfriend silent
You are entitled to have needs and desires. You are entitled to express needs and desires.
Hax Philes: One for the guys
She thought it was going well and then he broke off contact. Can any guys give her a clue what may have happened?
Composer sets his own beat
David T. Little is not interesting because he’s a rock drummer. He’s interesting because his music’s good.
Sam Sweet to step down as Atlas head
The executive director who sought to make the Atlas a contemporary arts center departs after 3 years.
Noseda shows his stuff with Israeli orchestra
On the second leg of its U.S. tour, the Israel Philharmonic goes French - and comes out strong
Sex, movies and the desperate attempt to shock audiences
ESSAY | As filmmakers keep upping the ante to shock viewers, what’s actually shocking anymore?
‘A Broken Hallelujah,’ by Liel Leibovitz
‘Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen,’ by Liel Leibovitz
‘Nymphomaniac: Volume II,’ a trip to sex’s darkest depths
The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jamie Bell and Stellan Skarsgard.
New York City Ballet reminds us why we watch dance
What a crazy night. What a wonderful night. Surely we were hallucinating.
Ballet ‘Jewels’ still a gem if not flawless diamond of yore
The shimmer has faded a bit, but the work overall delivered, choreography aside, at Kennedy Center.
New York City Ballet’s newest choreographic phenomenon
26-year-old Justin Peck’s acclaimed “Year of the Rabbit” will be performed at the Kennedy Center this week.
Ask Amy: Red wine spill uncorks teasing
His wife spilled red wine on a light sofa and was angry he didn’t defend her when she was teased by the host.
Ask Amy: News of a death traveled too slowly
Posting on Facebook, rather than old-fashioned calling, resulted in missed connections and hurt feelings.
Ask Amy: Hair war hits this family hard
Her husband is on their all-around great son, 15, to cut his hair. How can she get him to let up?
‘Game of Thrones,’ where the company loves misery
TV REVIEW | In Season 4 of HBO’s glorious fantasy drama, things get worse, which means they get better.
HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’: A fine opportunity to invest
TV REVIEW | Mike Judge’s sendup of high-tech culture is a cutting satire with a meaningful payoff.
Letterman’s replacement: Can it please be a grown-up?
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK | What CBS and viewers need most is a late-night host who can carry on a conversation.
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.”
What do you see? It all depends on how you see the world.
A controversial photograph angered some as a racist statement but amused others as mere impishness.
In Weems’s photographs, revelation and resistance
A Guggenheim retrospective lays out the strength and weaknesses of the artist’s sometimes disturbing work.
History’s Renaissance men, in a new light
Mellon Lecturer Anthony Grafton will focus on a ‘republic of letters’ that shaped modern thought
When in the coarse ...
Our columnist proposes some rights that the Declaration of Independence might not include.
Gene’s puzzling column from the future
A communique offers an analysis of our planet and its inhabitants.
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