Millions of Americans battle chronic anxiety — but new research claiming a missing brain nutrient may be partly to blame is already drawing skepticism from experts who say the findings are far from conclusive. Using a non-invasive MRI-based technique that measures brain chemicals, researchers at UC Davis Health in California looked at data from 25 previous studies, … Read more
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been amicably married for 16 years. We enjoy each other’s company and are home together a lot. However, over the last year or so, I have had an increasingly hard time hearing what he’s saying. He sits in his chair and mumbles to the point where I can’t … Read more
CHICAGO — Part of the experience of a NASCAR race is hearing the engine roar, the rumble of each car’s approach and the zip when it whizzes past at more than 150 mph. NASCAR unveiled its first electric racecar Saturday in downtown Chicago, but it doesn’t thunder when the grand marshal says “drivers, start your … Read more
A recent Fashion Nova campaign is facing backlash for lacking body diversity, despite being billed as body-positive. On Instagram, the fast fashion company touted its “body positivity campaigns,” which feature models in sizes ranging from extra small to 1X, for “going viral” — but likely not for the reason they hoped. The brand’s followers slammed the … Read more
To watch “Hell’s Kitchen,” the new off-Broadway musical by Alicia Keys that opened Sunday night at the Public Theater, is to experience euphoria followed by enormous frustration over and over again. How can we not feel elated being there for the star-is-born moment of actress Maleah Joi Moon, who makes an earth-shaking professional debut as … Read more
Fresh off the atrocious “Devil Wears Prada” musical in Chicago, Elton John is back on the boards a mere two months later with the Televangelist Wears Mascara in London. That’s right. The singer-songwriter’s latest musical is “Tammy Faye,” a biopic of the controversial religious TV personality Tammy Faye Messner, which premiered Wednesday night at the Almeida … Read more