Wellness: No More Heartburn, No More Drugs

Wellness: No More Heartburn, No More Drugs

The Purple Pill Called Nexium: you can’t escape its ubiquitous commercials. The highly touted antidote to heartburn is one of the most widely used medicines in America; in 2012 it brought its maker, Astra Zeneca, nearly $6 billion. That’s because acid...
A Glass Apart

A Glass Apart

Ira Glass, creator of the long-running public radio program This American Life, has become a new generation’s answer to Garrison Keillor. Like Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion variety show before it, This American Life, though a very different kind of...
Page to Stage

Page to Stage

The first “issue” of Live Art Magazine!, a new, annual stage venture with the shape and structure of an art and music magazine, is almost ready for your perusal. The first few performers set the tone for the evening, with a quick-hitting series of short,...
Downstairs Upstairs

Downstairs Upstairs

Your typical tour of a historical mansion invites you to see the house through the eyes of its wealthy and powerful owners. You glide through sumptuous public rooms and peep into ornate bedchambers, with perhaps a passing reference to the household’s servants as...