Editor Pick: Culture and Society

Floyd's music mixes modernist dissonance with classic lyricism, a recipe that the composer-librettist has mastered and fine-tuned perhaps better than anyone else.

The variety of orchids is stellar; one appreciates so many intricate shapes and flamboyant hues of the hybrids landscaped with ferns, bromeliads, palms, ficus, bamboo, mat dai and more. It is a festival for the eyes.

The automatic intentional walk is a brilliant idea – right up there with national holidays on Mondays and the Common Core Curriculum.

Mark McCarver's production, takes full advantage of the play's comic aspects, and it's the right choice. The house was packed on opening night and there were lots of laughs.

The direction, choreography, and dancing in this version seemed lacklustre and short on energy and charisma.

In some regards, young adults are ahead of where their parents were at a similar age when it comes to frugality and building wealth.

Rape culture strikes every two minutes, when someone is sexually assaulted; then disappears in the twinkling of an eye as if nothing important has happened. The brilliance of 'Blurred Lines' is that it nets this slippery monster and pins it down with irony, satire and ridicule, all the while examining how it parades itself publicly, cloaked in the righteousness of normalcy.

The outgoing president and the new president will hold a brief joint news conference to publicly acknowledge a document that details the condition of the country at the time of the transfer of leadership – no more bullshit.

Should a mother tell her son the truth of his father's identity?

Prison education and rehabilitation programs can provide practical skills, career and vocational skills, and critical thinking skills. They can help with mental and behavioral issues, and provide access to higher education courses; some achieve diplomas and degrees while incarcerated. These programs are vital to improving lives, especially since many prisoners come from poverty, do not have high school diplomas, and lack outside support networks.