Culture and Society

Adobe's just-released update to Adobe XD includes some changes we have been eagerly awaiting.

AnachroCon is an immersive adventure in and exploration of time, the best kind of escapism. This year the theme was the '60s – any '60. Hippies mingled with belles from the Civil War era and cowboys from the Wild West.

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 idea that a corporation should ever profit from warehousing humans still remains beyond offensive and should not be tolerated in a civil and just society.

Like crushed train cars telescoping into one another, these seven tracks fuse song and soundtrack-style music, contemporary newspaper accounts and musique concrète, into a gumbo of "you are there" tone poems about real-life train crashes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Since the original release, several new brushes have been released for ParticleShop to give you even more options when creating your artwork. Each of these packs contains 15 brushes. They can be used with Corel Painter and with Adobe software.

A grimly funny, magic-realist portrait of a group of new high school graduates at that scary moment of first flight, assessed and conveyed with the wisdom of hindsight and painted with the brush of an artist.

William Kunstler was a towering figure in the 1960s and 1970s; wherever he went controversy followed him.

The Court will rule on whether convictions must be overturned if prosecutors withheld potentially exculpatory evidence from the defense.