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Carolyn Hax
Partners without the passion
She married a man she didn’t find intimately satisfying. Should she cut and run, or think about how to rebuild the relationship?
Carolyn Hax
Regrets? Early marrier has a few.
The image of the lifelong, passionate romance is largely unrealistic.
Carolyn Hax
Protecting his online reputation
His ex’s negative postings about him are at the top of search results. Should he fight back?
Anne Midgette
Kennedy Center gets a new sound
A long-awaited symphonic organ brings to the venue “a sound that’s never been heard in this city before.”
Anne Midgette
Overlooked and under-heard
More and more, musicians are recording works by composers you’ve never heard of. But is it actually making a dent in the listening habits of the concert-going public?
Anne Midgette
At U-Md., piano rivalry has joys and limits
While they appeal to the popular imagination, competitions can turn music into something resembling an athletic event.
Ann Hornaday
‘Sparkle’ shines
The re-make of “Sparkle,” starring Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston in her last screen role, provides a lingering sense of loss mixed with celebration and grim irony.
Ann Hornaday
‘Dark Horse’
Todd Solondz applies his signature bleak wit and observational detail to this alternately cruel and compassionate comedy-spiked drama. [Read more]
Ann Hornaday
‘Oslo, August 31st’
Danish director Joachim Trier exhibits a flawless sense of technical and expressive control as he follows a recovering drug addict. [Read more]
Sarah Kaufman
The Dance of Life: The Concert
High in the rafters and below onstage, stagehands, carpenters and riggers work rhythmically to build thousands of pounds of equipment into a show worth watching.
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.
Sarah Kaufman
‘Story/Time’: Bill T. Jones, in his own words
The Bill T. Jones/Arne Zane Dance Company performed Jones’s new work, “Story/Time,” an homage to John Cage.
Ask Amy: Musician needs couch time to be creative
They’re a couple, and in the same band, but she works full time at a restaurant while he lives rent-free with his parents. True, he’s working on his music, but she wonders if she’s going to end up being a substitute for his parents.
Ask Amy: Mother worries about daughter’s pot habit
She doesn’t allow pot-smoking in her home, but her 24-year-old sneaks upstairs to smoke pot with an in-law.
Amy Dickinson: Dad doggone tired of being put on the spot
Responsibility for their family dog of two years has devolved to the dad, even though he was promised that other family members would do most of the work.
Hank Stuever
‘Copper’: There’s better stuff to DVR on Sunday
BBC America enters the Sunday-night cable fray with this series about a cop who works in the filthy and corrupt New York of 1864.
Hank Stuever
Fame finds foxhole on ‘Stars Earn Stripes’
NBC’s new show challenges C-list celebs to see if they have what it takes to fight a war. On Sundance’s “Get to Work,” the chronically unemployed endure another kind of boot camp.
Hank Stuever
On ‘Animal Practice,’ only the monkey shines
NBC tries to get a jump start on fall with this weak comedy about snarky veterinarians.
Lisa de Moraes
The TV Column: Romney vs. PBS
This week, Mitt Romney joined the ranks of other Republicans who are unimpressed by PBS’s 58 Primetime Emmy Award nominations — and have vowed to slash its federal funding.
Lisa de Moraes
‘Major Crimes’ racks up stellar numbers in debut
TNT’s “Major Crimes” — the spinoff of TNT’s “The Closer” that puts Mary McDonnell in charge of “television’s favorite squad of detectives” — clocked 7.2 million viewers in its debut.
Lisa De Moraes
Viewership gold for NBC
The London Games was the most watched television event in U.S. history, the network proclaimed.
Philip Kennicott
A gun exhibit that’s not about guns
At the Corcoran, guns are a prism for looking at how communities form in a complex world.
Philip Kennicott
AIDS at a nexus
As the threat of extinction passes and a new chapter begins for understanding AIDS, the gay community gains perspective on the past and its future.
Philip Kennicott
Phillips Collection to open wax room
German artist Wolfgang Laib’s installation is scheduled to be unveiled early next year.
Gene Weingarten
Gene Weingarten: Chapter and verse
In this reprinted column from 2002, Gene visits the Men’s Book Club of Charlottesville.
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