Meteorologists warn that, with these cold temperatures, there’s a risk of hypothermia for people and animals, and sensitive plants and crops could be damaged.

Surreal figures crop up in “Evanston,” including Jane Jacobs, the author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”

Jean-François Millet's "The Gleaners," painted in 1857, immortalized this act of necessity: gleaning, the collection of leftover crops after the harvest.

Trump’s order focuses largely on the federally operated Central Valley Project, which delivers water from the Delta to farmlands that produce almonds, pistachios, tomatoes and other crops.

A robust number of near-experimental documentaries and narratives already call out to us from this year’s lineup, sure to yield a crop of future award winners.