OZY Daily Dose

Mushrooms have often been a hard pass for many who find their texture to be too similar to that of a slug. But now they're popping up in coffees, chocolate, and soon, a new crop of soaps and hair care. Whole Foods even recently put "functional mushrooms" at the top of their food trends for 2018. Topping that list? The king of course! Meaty and dense, king oyster mushrooms have a unique texture that is often compared to scallops and squid.

Yeah, I know."Driving Under the Influence" is quite possibly the lamest response to the question "What are you in for?" But just a few years ago, I found myself in county lockup at the Los Angeles Central Men's Jail for that very reason. It's all about geography, really. In high school, when friends got thrown in the drunk tank for a night, it was a small-town jail. In a city whose population stretches into the millions, the town jail is a minimum-maximum-security prison.

It was miserable in Warsaw when I fell in love with a soup. That is, admittedly, the best weather to fall in love with a soup: drizzly and windy, the kind of weather where you know if you go outside you’ll spend the rest of the day just a little bit damp, even inside your shoes and your raincoat. The sad kind of weather you feel like you can’t escape. Then there was zurek.

For too many of the Southie women I interviewed for my upcoming book Women of Southie, Finding Resilience During Whitey Bulger's Infamous Reign, prison was as much a character in their stories as Bulger was.It was here they lost the men they loved, and here it was determined when and where they would be with their loved ones, and in what physical and mental state they would find these men.

For 20 minutes last Saturday, the NCAA Tournament second-round matchup between Villanova and Alabama was hotly contested. Alabama's lightning-quick point guard, Collin Sexton, bounced across the hardwood, erratically flashing the package of skills that made him the top-rated NBA prospect on the floor.Then Mikal Bridges took care of business.With a flurry of mystifying step-back threes, Bridges quickly snuffed out any hopes of a March Madness miracle for the Crimson Tide.

My heart is pounding and our guide is yelling something I can't make out. I think he's telling me to paddle harder, so I bend over to put my oar into the water but, to my shock, the water is not there. Turns out, we are on the very crest of the wave, and our raft is almost vertical. Then we crash. The walls of white foam close all around me, and I can barely see, let alone breathe. When we finally come back to the surface, I feel like a sock must feel after spinning inside a washing machine.

The Infinity Bike Seat looks like an artist's incomplete rendering of a bike seat - a sketch, an outline. All perimeter and no middle, dispensing with the tradition of being something to sit on. I was skeptical at first, but a thousand miles later, I can honestly say I love this crazy seat. And I've seen my share of bike seats - I'm an avid cyclist and have been reviewing bikes and bike gear for more than three decades.

OZY and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have partnered to bring you an inside look at how entrepreneurs and their good businesses are helping the communities around them. Enjoy the rest of our special series here.Katie Sampson would describe herself as a run-of-the-mill millennial. She is cash-strapped most of the time, but loves spending on experiences. The one thing she doesn't appreciate: feeling guilted about her small indulgences. She is not alone.

Within a year of moving in with her parents, Hope Oriabure-King had replaced the toilet she shared with her four children three times. Her little boys would flush Transformers and other stuff down the drain and clog the pipes, and though she says she can laugh at it now, at the time it was awful for her and her parents. Such arrangements are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. — a record 60.6 million people lived in multigenerational households in 2014, a Pew Research Center study found.

Christmas Eve is here. Well, not literally - it's mid-March, for Wooden's sake - but the eve of the greatest four-day stretch in sports is here. Thursday at 12:15 p.m. EST, March Madness starts in earnest. So, print your brackets out, start talking that talk to your least favorite co-worker and book a table for a nice long lunch on Friday afternoon.And don't forget to join OZY's Bracket Challenge for a chance to "Stump the Chump." That'd be me, folks.