Editor Pick: Culture and Society

The Stratton family meets at their favorite restaurant to celebrate mom Laura's birthday party. Little do they expect that after the celebration their lives will be very different.

The blind students and the inmate students have a symbiotic relationship of success and hope,

This explosive and heartfelt play concerns a mother and her alienated 14-year-old son whose lives are shattered by the London riots of August 2011.

Copland Dust Bowl "folk opera" still feels fresh and interesting on its 60th anniversary in this impressive production from Chelsea Opera.

If we can have a World Cup for soccer/football, there is no reason why we cannot have a “real” World Series for baseball.

Held in solitary confinement for months for publishing an educational newsletter for inmates, I eventually had the guilty findings overturned, but not before much suffering.

Our societal barometer is broken.

In the damaged mind, to gain such “fame” is worth going out and killing people; it’s even to die for.

Broadway razzle-dazzle is alive and kicking, but would these production numbers, in and of themselves, have made me want to see the shows? Mostly not.

We lavish gifts on our children and pay for all these activities, but have lost sight of the one thing we can give our kids that they need most: free time!