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“August 28” also memorializes Hurricane Katrina’s descent upon New Orleans on August 28, 2005, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw starring in that harrowing depiction; and then-Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination for the presidency on August 28, 2008, the witnessing of which is dramatized by Lupita Nyong’o and Michael Ealy.

A former federal prosecutor who graduated from Harvard Law School alongside Barack Obama and Neil M. Gorsuch, Judge Watson became the only federal judge of Native Hawaiian descent upon his confirmation in 2013.

But while the fiery colors of fall are beginning their descent upon the green leaves of America’s East Coast, a rainbow of spring flowers is blooming into a short-lived, colorful carpet for a South African desert.

It can be hard to get a grasp on South by Southwest, the sometimes ungainly group of panels, conventions, and festivals the descent upon Austin, Texas in March.

The American Outlaws were beginning their their descent upon BC Place Stadium.