Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced the Fab Four, as well as a number of other celebrities, like Mia Farrow and David Lynch, to the benefits of Transcendental Meditation, has died. Check out the 1968 video clip below where the Beatles accompany Maharishi to the city of Rishikesh where the spiritual leader had an ashram.

It was only two years ago that federal courts ordered two DVD rental companies that specialized in distributing “scrubbed” versions of movies (in other words, movies that have had all offensive content such as profanity and nudity removed) to cease their operations. Now the founder of one of those companies is facing criminal charges of…

Equinox Fitness Clubs–a national chain of workout clubs that are almost as common on NYC blocks as Starbucks–have only one outpost so far in Boston. However, it’s already causing quite an unhappy stir among some Boston Catholic folk. In order to drum up new memberships, the company ran quite an interesting (read: odd/shocking/even gratuitous) advertisement…

The Victorians, for all of their oppressive foibles, knew how to do death right. Sure, the intricate details and prescriptions of protracted mourning periods, sometimes of years, were surely a cause of much consternation, but the Victorians understood what we seemingly do not in this age of immediate access: That grief needs time and space.…

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