On July 20, 2012, members of a suburban community outside of Denver, Colorado went to the movies. They went to a midnight movie in fact, intending to catch the first screening of the latest anticipated Batman film, in which a caped crusader fights crime and saves innocent people.

But on...

Time is less easily marked in a desert climate. Leaves don't cover the ground in the fall, and snow rarely buries it in the winter. The year is divided into only two main seasons -- most notably summer, when a brutal dry heat sends residents indoors.

But on Jan. 8,...

"Maybe we just want too much," one of the characters says in Zach Braff's riveting real‐time comedy/drama All New People. " We want the million dollars and the kid robot. But isn't the million dollars enough? I mean, we have our lives, isn't that enough?" Apparently not, especially in light...

"The number comes from the Center for Disease Control because it's considered a public health issue," says Lance Orchid, the campaign manager for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns 'Fix Gun Checks' Tour. It is more like an epidemic. When a large, red billboard truck pulls up outside City Hall in...