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Carolyn Hax

Fiance’s distrust is a bad omen

Woman needs to face the ugliness her jealous fiance has spewed, learn from it and leave.

Carolyn Hax

Love triangle looms over this circle of friends

She would like to date James, but her engaged girlfriend harbors feelings for him, too.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Six-month breather seems best for both

A bride-to-be has been there for her best friend through tough stuff. Now that friend plans to take an overseas job and miss the wedding planning.

Anne Midgette

Going full bore with a brilliant voice

Gidon Saks, the South African bass-baritone, goes for broke in a theatrical song recital for Vocal Arts DC.

Anne Midgette

Neale Perl to step down as WPAS head

After 10 years, Neale Perl will leave the Washington Performing Arts Society.

Anne Midgette

Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau dies

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, a master singer of German art songs, died May 18.

“Moonrise Kingdom” is already shaping up to be this summer’s art house sleeper hit, and no wonder: It traffics in the very kind of escapist spectacle – in this case of a thoughtfully composed world brimming with whimsy, enchantment and visual brio – that the season was made for.

Ann Hornaday

Cannes Film Festival 2012: Stalled in the past, with few surprises

Whether it’s the weather, the traffic or the movies, perhaps the best word to describe the Cannes Film Festival this year is “stuck.”

Ann Hornaday

Digital blues: The curtain falls on celluloid

ESSAY | A combination of technological advances and financial pressures has ushered in a new style of movie making, which, to many viewers raised on the grain and texture of film, looks like a bug that is well on its way to becoming a feature.

Sarah Kaufman

‘Coppelia’ is the freshest ballet around

REVIEW | The Bolshoi Ballet’s performance crackles with personality, activity and delicate moments of stillness.

Sarah Kaufman

The Dance of Life: Courses of Action

Restaurant kitchens are physical places, where grace is a key ingredient to successful service. Here’s a look at the cooks’ moves at CityZen, where chef Eric Ziebold puts agility on the menu.

Sarah Kaufman

Cliches burden Washington Ballet’s ‘Noche’

There were many cliches in the uneven “Noche Latina” from the Washington Ballet. But Luis R. Torres danced remarkably.

Ask Amy: Rocky wedding attitude needs adjusting

The letter writer was invited to a 3 p.m. wedding but, with a 6.5-hour drive, won’t promise to be there for anything but the reception.

Ask Amy: Mom can’t get over bad marriage

It’s been 15 years since her parents divorced, but her mother has not moved on.

Ask Amy: Sex buddy has trouble reading kissing cues

Suddenly her nothing-but-sex buddy has been showing actual warmth and tenderness. Uh-oh.

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Hank Stuever

‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ on HBO: Swept away

Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman star in HBO’s stylish but silly movie about the tumultuous marriage of two great writers.

Hank Stuever

“Hatfields & McCoys:” Brawlers in the holler

History’s three-night miniseries — starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton — fails to find meaning in the tragic tale of the legendary family feud.

Hank Stuever

TBS’s ‘Men at Work’: A weak sitcom about modern manhood

REVIEW | Danny Masterson stars in a limp sitcom about four bros discovering every cliche about the office and the opposite sex.

Lisa De Moraes

The Eye grabs the most American peepers for 2011-12 TV season

CBS won the 2011-12 TV season by averaging nearly 12 million viewers each week. That’s about 3 million more viewers than closest competitor Fox — the largest margin of victory of any network in more than two decades.

Lisa De Moraes

Bristol Palin show finally ready to run

After being retooled again, the reality show focusing on her life as a single mother will debut in June.

Lisa De Moraes

Will ‘Idol’s’ Phil Phillips break the mold?

Jimmy Iovine of ‘Idol’ says Phil Phillips is not just another Safely Scruffy White Guy With Guitar.

Philip Kennicott

Eisenhower family remains opposed to core design of Gehry memorial

While Dwight Eisenhower’s family welcomed changes to the memorial unveiled this month, it remains opposed to the fundamental architectural idea of metal tapestries depicting the heartland, on worries of cost and sustainability.

Philip Kennicott

Variations on Jasper Johns’s art

A new exhibition of Jasper Johns’s print work, “Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme,” features about 101 prints made over the course of Johns’s career, from 1960 to a year ago.