Editor Pick: Culture and Society

We have Thailand to thank for its prodigious contributions to the orchid universe. And its cultural mystique is unforgettable.

New York has been on a weather roller coaster and I want to get off.

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 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.