Station Break: Paul Farhi on recent TV snow coverage, Super Bowl ads, Michael Jackson doctor and more.
Her cross to bear
American Red Cross chief executive Gail J. McGovern is working to turn around an organization in turmoil. But the earthquake in Haiti will be her first real test as chief of the renowned relief organization.
  The Classical Beat Anne Midgette takes the measure of the classical music scene.  Reliable Source Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts serve up the latest gossip from Washington.  Comic Riffs Comic Riffs is a blog devoted to the comics fan. Sit down and put your feet up as we celebrate cartoons.  Click Track The Washington Post pop music blog.  The TV Column
Columnist Lisa de Moraes blogs on the television industry and more.   Say it ain't snow Andre Aciman pens a novel about a very New York love affair in "Eight White Nights."
  Cultural Rewind A different take on today's ideas and events with Post's Phillip Kennicott.  The Style Conversational
An online gathering place to jaw about The Style Invitational with "The Empress."    The Grammys PHOTOS | See show highlights, performances and red carpet fashion.
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Blizzard of 2010
Despite the gargantuan snow measurements from the region -- Frederick got 33.8 inches, Crofton got hit with 34, Chantilly checked in with 28 and Gaithersburg reached 30 -- Washington registered a mere 17.8. Is this some kind of diabolical anti-District conspiracy?
Arts
Many of Washington's museums and theaters went dark over the weekend, with the Smithsonian Institution closing Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The Kennedy Center closed at 3 p.m. on Friday and reopened Sunday at noon. And to the surprise of patrons, the Newseum stayed open for the weekend.
Entertainment news
Conrad Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter, capping an exhaustive investigation into the pop star's stunning death last summer and setting up the prospect of another sensational celebrity courtroom drama.
Quick Spins
Gil Scott-Heron, the hip-hop progenitor known for his raw '70s agitprop, has always made music requiring undivided attention.
Book World
André Aciman's psychologically charged, deeply Dostoyevskian new novel, "Eight White Nights," is so quintessentially a Manhattan story that it is hard to imagine it unfolding in St. Petersburg or anywhere else.
Theater
When a play's romantic triangle features a father and daughter lusting after the same hot young man, how much aesthetic distance is required to keep the show intellectually plausible?
Advice
Dear Carolyn: After six weeks with our newborn, my wife informed me that she could not follow through with our one-year maternity-leave plan and had to go back to work.
KidsPost
Most of the energy we use in this country comes from sources far beneath the Earth's surface called fossil fuels. Petroleum (which is used to make oil and gasoline), natural gas and coal formed deep underground over hundreds of millions of years.
Media Notes
It would be hard to argue that Obama hasn't been accessible to the media, not with his constant television interviews. The man has even done color commentary at a Georgetown basketball game. But the decision to bypass the White House press corps is no accident.
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