Culture and Society

Nutritionist and detox visionary Dr. Deanna Minich has a new book, "Whole Body Detox: A 21-Day Personalized Program to Break Through Barriers in Every Area of Your Life". You can't cheat transformation, but with this book, you can do it. And with this detox, you get to eat.

Clad in golden or pure white robes and with curly hair flowing down his back, Tennant's King Richard II is an arresting figure, oozing nervous faery-king charisma.

South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual music, movie, and technology conference that dominates life in Austin each spring, should be on everyone’s bucket list. Cutting-edge film, music, and technology can be enjoyed there, and there are ways to bring home the experience.

'I see it as horticultural theater. The way exhibitions are, there is tremendous complexity. It’s like when the curtain goes up the set changes.'

That was the standard practice of the explorers in the Victorian period: 'I paid you thousands of dollars to go far off into the forests of India to bring me back this plant. I want this plant.'

There are many reasons why owning a home is better than renting, especially when interest rates are so low.

The question that dominated many of the VR/AR seminars at SXSW was “How do you tell a story using this new technology?” "New" because the hardware has become affordable for consumers, and game engines used to create VR have become more powerful. The market is attracting a range of companies, from startups to ancient tech giants like IBM and Microsoft.

Terrence Malik and Robert Redford's "The Seer" asks what impact do you have on the land, your community, your environment?

The 'Greater Tuna' vet premieres his new comedy in the town that helped give him his start.

Can news reporters use virtual reality? This is the question that participants at “Sucked Into the Story: Virtual Reality and News” tried to answer at SXSW. I had the feeling that somewhere around 1950, a similar group of people sat around discussing what the impact of “this television thing” would be on radio news. We may be at a similar juncture.