Category: Entertainment

Eskay Lim/EyeEm; Getty Images We spent waaaay too much time cooped up inside with our families, with our partners, or by ourselves for the past year and a half. While that meant a total loss of solitude for some of us—and an abundance of it for others—quarantine also meant the disappearance of something we didn’t…

Amazon Manscaping with the wrong equipment can be frustrating. Whether you like to be fully smooth or have a little bit of hair down there, you need a tool that’s safe to use and has plenty of options. If you’ve ever tried manscaping in more sensitive areas, you know it can be difficult not to…

Filmed in and outside London somehow during a global pandemic, Sexy Beasts features a cast of animal-prosthetic-dressed singles speed dating, drinking through beaks, and crossing their human fingers that their chosen animal companion is secretly hot. Spoiler: everybody is secretly hot. The series plays like some ungodly cross between The Masked Singer and Dating Around.…

LeVar Burton’s turn behind the Jeopardy! podium has been a long time coming. In 2013, Burton tweeted that his dream job would be to host Jeopardy!; in September 2020, he tweeted, “Not gonna lie, I feel like I’ve been preparing my whole life to occupy the Jeopardy! podium when Alex Trebek retires.” Then, the world…

One blustery night in Chicago a few years ago, I found myself sitting in the front row of a frigid black box theater staring at a half-naked man—and not the good kind of half naked, the Winnie the Pooh kind. He was squatting with his back turned toward the audience so that we could see…

Julia Haart, star of Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life, has a lot going on, what with running a modeling conglomerate, starring in a reality docuseries, and raising four children at the intersection of traditional Orthodox Judaism and the modern world. It takes a village to keep her world spinning—and that’s where Robert Brotherton comes in. Ever…

Welcome! If you’ve landed on this webpage, you’ve recently watched a devil make out with a mandrill after he proclaimed he was “a boobs guy” on television, which means you may be entitled to financial compensation, or at least some Netflix-funded therapy. Sexy Beasts, Netflix’s new dating show who’s trailer went viral on Twitter several…

A thing you have to know about Hannah Waddingham is that she likes to get plane drunk. Preferably on champagne, time of day be damned. In her words, “7 A.M.? Bubbles.” This was part of the plan when the minds behind Ted Lasso flew her out for a second audition for Rebecca, Ted Lasso’s steely…

Most summers bring unwelcome guests to Midwestern gardens: Japanese beetles. These iridescent green beetles are best known for feeding on roses and linden trees, but in fact they can feast on hundreds of different plants, according to Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist in the Plant Clinic at The Morton Arboretum. “We’ve started seeing them on…

The Chicago Blackhawks were in the market for a big-ticket defenseman, and they landed one in a blockbuster draft-night trade Friday, acquiring four-time All-Star Seth Jones from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Adam Boqvist. Jones agreed to terms on an eight-year, $76 million extension with the Hawks, which he can’t sign until the…

Dear Amy: I just found out (from reading an exchange of text messages) that my husband of 40 years has reconnected with an old girlfriend. They have been actively corresponding for about a year. Both are in their 70s. Their relationship is far more than a happy re-connection between old friends, catching up and sharing…

General Daily Insight for July 24, 2021 Our ability to pick up information of all kinds is supercharged today as intellectual Mercury forms a helpful trine with intuitive Neptune at 12:35 pm EDT. Meanwhile, the emotional Moon unites with cold Saturn to embrace a moderate and idealistic approach to our personal needs. Luna is also,…

July 23, 2021 As public health officials keep track of the contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 across the U.S., the CDC is also watching for a potential outbreak of another virus — monkeypox. More than 200 people in 27 states are being monitored for possible exposure after they had contact with an American who contracted…

July 23, 2021 — Chef Michel Nischan has won the prestigious James Beard Award four times, written cookbooks, and launched a restaurant with the late actor Paul Newman. But the motto on his website reveals what he’s really about: “Changing the world through food.” As co-founder and chairman of Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit founded in…

FRIDAY, July 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Money may not buy happiness but new research suggests it may at least help Americans live longer. “Our results suggest that building wealth is important for health at the individual level, even after accounting for where one starts out in life,” said Greg Miller, a faculty fellow at…

THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A proposed $26 billion settlement on opioid-related lawsuits has been reached with four large drug companies, a group of state attorneys general announced Wednesday.If enough states sign on to the deal with the country’s three major drug distributors — Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen and McKesson — and pharmaceutical giant…

Editor’s note: This is the part of a series highlighting the 2021 Olympic Games with a specific emphasis on health and wellness. July 23, 2021 — While thousands of athletes are now competing in the COVID-19-challenged Tokyo Olympics, about a dozen representing Team USA have another distinction: They’re moms. From U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan…

A study from Japan suggests that a history of cardiovascular (CV) events in a spouse may elevate risk for future CV events in the other partner, with one caveat. Men in the cohort study were at increased risk if their wives had such a history, but the association was only one way. The risk of…

Dear Amy: After we divorced (decades ago), at some point my ex-husband told me that he was the father of another boy (he and I have two sons). He said the woman had used him as a “sperm donor” without his knowledge and that she wasn’t interested in him playing any role in the child’s…

Chicago Tribune | Jul 23, 2021 at 7:54 AM TOKYO — Glenview’s Alie Rusher became the third member of her family to compete in the Olympics when the U.S. women’s quadruple sculls team finished fifth in its preliminary heat Friday. “I am really excited to join them, but I definitely don’t want the race that…

ST. LOUIS — Kris Bryant was not in the Chicago Cubs lineup for the second straight game Thursday. Bryant came out of Tuesday’s game with right hamstring fatigue, which later was described by manager David Ross as heavy legs. Ross sounded optimistic during Wednesday’s pregame availability that Bryant would be available, but when a key…