Editor Pick: Culture and Society

We had trouble locating back to school supllies because pumpkins, witches, and ghosts ruled the shelves. It’s enough to drive a customer batty.

The latest 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' movie, currently in theaters, is awful, while a fan-made comic captures the true spirit. When the studio strikes out, is it right that someone releases an unofficial, better product?

On this day in history the long and still unfinished journey to a nuclear test ban treaty got its start.

There is a long, long history of white cops receiving immunity after shooting and killing black people needlessly.

Learning to live in the moment is more than just filling the mind with something useful. The process of going from frustration and confusion to harmony and satisfaction is life changing.

So while the Ice Bucket Challenge is a great idea, we need more people doing what Charlie Sheen has done (that is without question one sentence I never thought I would ever write).

See how simply exercising with the Charity Miles app helps feed children a world away in the Philippines.

The third in Libby Skala's trilogy of solo shows dramatizing her own family history engages our emotions while respecting our intelligence and leaving us feeling uplifted.

Battered wife Helen Broker has been convicted of murdering her husband though she claims she was defending herself. Her story along with the testimony of other abused women who killed their spouses is the subject of this stunning play which uncovers the answer why women stay with such men and how they eventually search for freedom and a new identity.

Ken Ludwig's enduring farce receives a sparkling and laugh-filled production at the Grove Theatre Center in Burbank.