Self-checkout machines are themselves designed to negotiate several trade-offs. Employers want lower costs. But they also ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...

Sunday, Sept. 11, is the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-32 or Luke 15:1-10. The Parable of the Prodigal ...

With the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight and threats of nuclear war and illness outbreaks, things are a little scary right now, globally. In 1993, science-fiction writer Octavia E.

Counting today, two Sundays are left in Ordinary Time. Two weeks from now, Advent begins. As is characteristic of the last weeks of Ordinary Time, the Church’s readings focus on eschatology: the Last ...

It starts with the modern hall of mirrors - a screen depicting a screen depicting a screen. I can count three of these before the detailing gets too small to make out, but even then I'm forgetting one ...

Onlookers who arrive at the Port Tobacco Theater for the upcoming Port Tobacco Players' version of "Doubt: A Parable," which ...