Editor Pick: Culture and Society

What a holiday gift to the world's children it would be to give them school meals for the year.

The Sacramento Convention Center hosts SacAnime Winter 2016 this New Year's Day weekend (January 1-3, 2016) for anime and cosplay fans.

Whilst this production does have very stylized dance moves and music, they don't make up for the old and tired themes, meandering plot, and off-putting Nadsat lingo.

A completely subjective list of favorite toys left by Santa this year.

Feeling sorrow about the long lost practice of sending and receiving Christmas cards that, no matter what the distance, seemed to bring people closer together.

Take a photo and mix it with text and color to quickly and easily generate eye-catching visuals that you can send to email, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, or Instagram.

The change in ownership of a locally influential but definitely local paper is big news, even in the age of the decline of newspapers, because of the vast sums of money its new owner spends in the political arena.

Depending on the number of house guests you are expecting this holiday season, making sure that everyone has breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a few days can be really overwhelming.

This is a tremendous victory for the parents and teachers of the state who became “the force” for good against the dark side of standardized testing and Common Core.

Lovingly reconstructed, this aspirational-fantasy story of Russian shtetl Jews emigrating to America is a fascinating period piece of great historical and cultural interest, as well as a robustly acted and brilliantly sung spectacle of theatrical joy.