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I’m Joe Morgenstern. I’ll be back on KCRW next week with more reviews.

While ordering genetic tests directly from a company seeks to empower patients and puts them in control of their own health data, the test results that are returned are often confusing…

Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, talks about his new book “Some Stories: Lessons from the Edge of Business and Sport.”

Michael Schneider joins us from New York, where he's attending the annual ritual of the broadcast TV upfronts.

The population of Texas is growing at an almost astonishing rate.

For Cornerstone’s latest piece “A Jordan Downs Illumination” the focus is really space and time (or more accurately *place* through time).

Los Angeles-Long Beach has once again been cited the nation’s capital for dirty air, just as LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has made cleaning the air a central plank of his green new deal.

This week we’re revisiting conversations with recent James Beard winners, including Samin Nosrat on her hit Netflix show “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.”

English actor Ian McShane talks American history and filmmaking in "Bolden".