Culture and Society

'Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism' by Nadya Tolokonnikova is a wonderful and intelligent book full of joyful ideas about the possibilities for a better world.

This is a professional, Broadway-quality production in every respect.

The Gallery Players' sterling new production reminds us that 'A Chorus Line' is not only loaded with some of the greatest show music ever, but one of the best pieces of meta-theater ever devised.

Through his stilted, abrupt, truth-blurting observations, it's the character with Asperger's who reveals the deepest truths about human relationships in this tour-de-force play by 'Dietland' writer Catya McMullen.

The newest music software from Impact Soundworks offers a wide range of unearthly sounds from the cosmos for film, TV, game production, sound design, or your own musical compositions.

In part my visit to the cemetery was for Dad, but I also realized how much it was for me.

This year as every year, Dragon Con proved it is for everyone!

Anne Nelson's 'The Guys' at Southern Connecticut State University commemorates the September 11 attacks and stars alumnus Dan Lauria and Wendie Malick.

Like most myths, endless summer has some basis in truth – we yearn for it and it comes; we hope it never ends, yet we know it always will.

'The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Students, and the Most Inventive Classroom' in America by Heather Won Tesoriero exists as more than a story of Andy Bramante and his students. It's also a roadmap to improving our educational systems and the unimaginable bounties waiting if we do.