OZY Daily Dose

It’s just another day for a young Vikas Khanna in Paris, where he is training in the kitchens of a well-known restaurant. He’s in his twenties. After stints with famous hotel chains in India from the Taj Group to the Oberoi and Leela, he wants to push the envelope as far as it will go and become an Indian chef of global renown.

It was a cold day in February about 10 years ago when my brother and I walked into the then Air Canada Centre in Toronto to see Kobe Bryant play our Raptors. Kobe’s one game in town every year was always marked in our calendars. I had been to a bunch of games, but there was always something different about when Kobe and the Lakers showed up.

When you walk in the doors, you hear the squeaking of shoes and the bounces of the basketball hitting the hardwood floor. A group of high school boys is huddled along the sideline, watching a game of one-on-one between a 16-year-old girl, wearing a private school uniform of a skirt and dress shirt, and an 18-year-old boy in Nike shorts and a T-shirt.

Because those aches and pains are not going to cure themselves. Mind Over Body Fitness: Want to get fit? Start with your head. Mind Over Body Fitness: How getting physically fit starts with being mindfully fit. We’re in Washoe County, near Reno, and even nearer a reservation. Specifically, we’re in the garage of James Painter, a Native American martial artist of the baddest-assed variety.

My phone rang at about 6:30 in the morning. It was my uncle. I was at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta, getting ready for the biggest weekend of my year: the Celebration Bowl. Source Getty He told me there was a house fire, and that my mom had passed away. He didn’t have a lot of details and explained that my dad was alive — but that he’d been burned. Someone had pulled him out. He told me that my mom had gotten out but had gone back in and had been trapped inside.

As Golden State tanks its way to a top draft pick, what does NBA history tell us about where the Warriors are headed? In what has undoubtedly already been the longest season in Steve Kerr’s impeccable career, the injury-ridden Golden State Warriors have bottomed out. At 10-34, the Warriors rest at the bottom of the league. Below the dysfunctional Knicks. Below the Hawks and the rebuilding Cavaliers and Bulls. On Dec. 15, Golden State forced 29 turnovers and lost by 21 points.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: “How was your day?” As told by Yemeni soldier Mansour Ali I was flat on the ground, confused, screaming in pain and choking for breath. I saw my friends, soldiers like me, walking toward me. Walking slowly and really cautiously. They looked strange. Then it dawned on me: They were trying to avoid stepping on a land mine. Another land mine.

“Mao shirt” reads the label next to photos of a male model clad in a satin button-up and white sneakers. It’s being sold by an upscale Dutch fashion chain, an untucked blue shirt inspired by the iconic ensemble made famous by Chinese chairman and dictator Mao Zedong. You might suspect a former Marxist symbol being sold commercially to be a sort of ideological fashion faux pas.

Davidica Little Spotted Horse has her hands full. She’s helping organize a concert for a traditional powwow celebration while keeping tabs on her infant granddaughter and fielding a reporter’s questions. But for the past five years, the 46-year-old singer, songwriter and activist has been mounting a bigger challenge to an issue as longstanding as it is controversial: missionaries proselytizing on Native American reservations.

Pacific fishers, bobcats, northern spotted owls and San Joaquin kit foxes are all listed as threatened or endangered animals under the Endangered Species Act. But there may be a surprisingly simple fix to their status: Legalize cannabis.