Ian Kelly performs a one-man play called “Cooking for Kings.” It tells the story of Antonin Careme, who was Napoleon’s chef.
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James McNair is a judge of the Sutter Home Winery Build A Better Burger Contest. He tells Anne Strainchamps how to grill a burger and recalls some of his favorite winners.
When Robin Chase started the rideshare company Zipcar in 1999, she had no idea whether or not the idea would take off. While the idea of sharing a common car might have been a novel idea back then, these days it's the new normal, thanks in part to the so-called sharing economy. Robin says the business model behind companies like Uber and Airbnb is here to stay, and will upend traditional industrial capitalism.
Film critic Jake Horsley talks with Steve Paulson about the legitimate uses of violence in movies. He thinks it can be cathartic.
While "Blurred Lines" is the latest pop song to be accused of plagiarizing another, it's certainly not the only one. In fact, some of most iconic songs of the last half-century have been accused of being copies. Here's a small sampling, along with their purported originals.
James Lovelock believes that our planet is a self-regulating system that will carry on without people and that it is too late to reverse global warming.
Prohibition gave us speakeasies, jazz clubs and bathtub gin. But a new revisionist history uncovers a more disturbing legacy: campaigns against immigrants, the War on Drugs,and the rise of America's "incarceration nation" . Historian Lisa McGirr's "War on Alcohol" traces the unintended consequences of America's experiment in collective, state-sponsored renunciation.
Jacqueline Novogratz tells Jim Fleming how she combines capitalism and charity to apply business principles to philanthropy in a way that benefits people's lives.
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