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Online grief over dead celebrities is about us

In the boomer icon death flood of recent weeks, new rules for grieving have emerged: Sorrow is public. And the more you grieve, the more special you are.

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VIENNA, VA - JULY 22,  Crowds on the Lawn at Wolf Trap's Filene Center on July 22, 2011.  Tonight's performance is Sweeney Todd with the Wolf Trap Opera Company and The National Symphony Orchestra. (Photo by Tracy A Woodward/The Washington Post)

Wolf Trap kicks off summer season tonight

There’s plenty of great music coming to the Trap in the approaching weeks.

Charles Lindbergh’s daughter publishes Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s final collection of letters

Reeve Lindbergh visited Washington to celebrate the publication of a new collection of letters and diary entries by her late mother.

The winners of the First Semi-Final of the Eurovision 2012 song contest celebrate their results in the Azerbaijan's capital Baku, late on May 22, 2012.  AFP PHOTO / VYACHESLAV OSELEDKOVYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/GettyImages

Eurovision: The funniest videos, and a D.C. watch party

What makes a good Eurovision entry? High camp.

Member of the jury, German actress Diane Kruger arrives for the screening of 'Killing them Softly' presented in competition at the 65th Cannes film festival on May 22, 2012 in Cannes.        AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHEVALERY HACHE/AFP/GettyImages

High fashion at Cannes

Diane Kruger, Freida Pinto and Jessica Chastain are among standouts at annual film festival.

Screenshot from the Smithsonian American History Museum's citizenship page.

‘Preparing for the Oath’ citizenship tutorial website unveiled at naturalization ceremony

The site provides a more textured sense of American history and an accessible study guide.

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Spring Arts Preview 2012

The Post Arts staff offers you its most-anticipated events of the coming season and more.

Your 'Mad Men' style icon

Do you exude the dapper air of Don Draper? The seductive aura of Joan Holloway? Take our quiz.

‘Hunger Games’ fashion

Clothing and style play a large role in Suzanne Collins’s young adult trilogy.

Gaultier on ‘Snow White’

Haute-couture designer creates costumes for ballet show at the Kennedy Center.

Oscar best picture picks: Remixed

We’ve partnered with Polyvore.com to bring you a design challenge around the Academy Awards.

TV’s midseason makeover

Television’s 2012 midseason features missing persons, supernatural twists and ‘Glee’ for adults.

The Fillmore arrives in Silver Spring

What happens to Washington’s greater nightlife ecosystem when the largest music hall of its kind opens shop in a rebounding suburb outside the city?

New York Fashion Week: Faux pas or fashion forward?

The line between creative genious and aesthetically displeasing can be a precarious one in fashion.

The right fit for ‘Fela!’

From its workshop beginnings in 2006, “Fela!” has really belonged to Sahr Ngaujah.

Savoring their opportunities

The Washington region’s musical amateurs are finding more times and places to perform.

Desk stuff becomes the stuff of art

We’re the city of desk jobs, news desks, “what desk are you on at State?” Desk portraiture seems an eerily accurate depiction of Washington living. But E. Brady Robinson excludes the usual bureaucrats. For her, the buck stops at the arts desk.

Summer movie hits and misses

“Bridesmaids” and “The Help” hit. “Green Lantern” and “Cowboys & Aliens” missed. We look at some of this summer’s movie surprises and what they might predict going forward.

Baltimore leads in integrity

Baltimore’s not a Very Important Place — which is just what its residents like about it.

Literary novelists take a page from kid-lit fantasies

Adult fiction that invents, and muses about, wildly popular children’s fantasy series is becoming its own genre.

Martin Luther King Jr., the columnist

Between 1957 and 1958, Ebony magazine published a King-penned series called “Advice for Living.”

Music: Tri Angle Records

The hot indie label’s founder, Robin Carolan, has discovered all of his roster — including oOoOO and Balam Acab — online.

Advice

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

She wants a baby; Mom disapproves

Carolyn Hax’s advice: This parent wants another child, but she dreads her mother’s disapproval. Mom’s joy over a pregnancy might be a frill she’ll have to live without.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

A baby by any other name . . .

The reader wonders whether it’s worth being protective of a name she wanted for her own child.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

A shoulder not to cry on

Her own divorce was painful enough; now she’s being asked for emotional support from friends going through the process and feels unable to provide it.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Dealing with a parent’s prejudice

How can a mother push back against her father’s sexist remarks to her children?

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Graduating together, celebrating separately

She wants their families to celebrate together; he wants to please his mother and keep his family’s celebration separate from his girlfriend’s party.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Dad’s mistress not welcome at wedding

Carolyn Hax’s advice: A 25-year-old woman wonders what she should do if her still-married father brings his mistress — also 25 — to her wedding.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax’s debut

The advice maven’s very first column, from 1997.

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Soldiering on

ORLANDO, FL-JANUARY 21: Jan Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, is reflected among the names of fallen soldiers on the traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Orlando, Fla. 2012.(Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack/For The Washington Post)

First Jan Scruggs fought in the Vietnam War. Then he fought for the names in stone. Now he’s fighting again.

The ambassador of contrasts

WASHINGTON, DC - August 25, 2011:   The Kingdom of Bahrain Ambassador to the United States, Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, greets  guests during an iftar dinner at the Bahrain Embassy on Thursday August 25, 2011 in Washington, DC.   (Matt McClain for the Washington Post)

As the first Jewish envoy appointed by an Arab nation, Houda Nonoo was supposed to represent Bahrain’s tolerance. Then came the Arab Spring.

The war over Gehry

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 10:  Famed architect, Frank Gehry poses for a portrait outside Gehry Partners, LLP on Tuesday April 10, 2012 in Los Angeles, CA.  Gehry has created a design for a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower.  The Eisenhower family have spoken out against his design.  (Photo by Matt McClain for The Washington Post)

When architect Frank Gehry unveiled his vision of Dwight D. Eisenhower
as a “barefoot boy,” the battles over the president’s memorial broke out.

My mother’s ashes

A mother’s dying request was that her ashes be scattered by her favorite rock in the mountains. But for her daughter, finding that rock proved harder than she ever imagined.

Convention takes fans to another universe

ROANOKE, VA - FEBRUARY 25: Jestin Jeffries, 38, of Staunton, VA is transformed into the character he calls, Calvin Luther, who is a Malkavian Vampire as he poses for a portrait during MystiCon 2012 convention at the Holiday Inn Roanoke-Tanglewood hotel on Saturday February 25, 2012 in Roanoke, VA. Jeffries is former military and is currently a student. (Photo by Matt McClain for The Washington Post)

THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE | Despite emanating from rather humdrum digs at a Holiday Inn in Roanoke, Virginia, MystiCon is an (almost) out-of-this-world experience in which dragon enthusiasts, zombie experts,Trekkies, superheroes and the undead converge to enjoy life as it never was.

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KidsPost

About Duke Ellington

Fun facts about the legendary musician and composer.

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All that jazz . . . for kids

Welcome to the story of jazz, a special brand of American music.

The D.C. Jazz Festival lets kids make some noise while learning how instruments sound.

Fun Days and jazz for families

Check out free performances at the D.C. Jazz Festival’s Jazz ’n Families Fun Days next weekend.

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