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Medical Notes: Your Hometown May Be Making You Sick, Why Marriage Is Good For Your Health, And The Best Diet For Brain Function

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Medical Notes: Your Hometown May Be Making You Sick, Why Marriage Is Good For Your Health, And The Best Diet For Brain Function

What’s the best food for your brain? A new study in the journal Metabolic Brain Disease reveals the best diet to keep your mind healthy. Following a low-carbohydrate or low-calorie meal plan was shown to improve brain metabolism. Researchers found that just two weeks of this diet slowed cognitive decline and supported long-term brain function. The scientists are now conducting a larger clinical trial to see which dietary interventions make […]

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Viewpoints Explained: Where Halloween Really Comes From

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Viewpoints Explained: Where Halloween Really Comes From

This is Viewpoints Explained… This period marked the end of harvest season and the arrival of winter’s long and cold nights. According to records from the library of congress, Celtics believed the barrier between the living and the dead was at its weakest point on October thirty-first. To ward off these ghosts, people lit massive fires, disguised themselves in animal skins and left offerings for the dead. As time passed […]

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In brief: ‘Freakier Friday’ gets Disney+ release date and more

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In brief: ‘Freakier Friday’ gets Disney+ release date and more

Freakier Friday is headed to Disney+. The sequel film will begin streaming on the platform on Nov. 12. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reprise their roles of Tess and Anna Coleman in the new movie, which features a four-way body swap between a mother, stepdaughter, grandmother and granddaughter ...Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and Nobody 2 are making their way to Peacock. The films will soon begin streaming on […]

todayOctober 29, 2025

Tessa Thompson, Nia DaCosta on their reimagined ‘Hedda’ film adaptation

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Tessa Thompson, Nia DaCosta on their reimagined ‘Hedda’ film adaptation

Tessa Thompson stars in Nia DaCosta's film 'Hedda.' (Amazon MGM Studios)Tessa Thompson stars in director Nia DaCosta's Hedda.The new movie is a reimagining of the classic Henrik Ibsen play about a newlywed whose simmering discontent hidden under outward composure threatens to explode when her former lover reenters her life.Thompson spoke to ABC Audio about her approach in taking on the complex character."I'm really attracted to work that kind of tears […]

todayOctober 29, 2025

Chlöe added to cast of ‘The Julia Set’

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Chlöe added to cast of ‘The Julia Set’

Chloe Bailey attends the 56th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 22, 2025, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for BET)Chlöe has joined the cast of the coming-of-age drama The Julia Set. Deadline reports she is one of six new cast members, along with Nina Hoss, Carmen Ejogo, Nico Hiraga, Liz Lin and Alex Dillard. Production for the film has begun, but it's not clear what characters the new cast members will play.The […]

todayOctober 29, 2025

It’s a glass, glass, glass(es): New eyewear collection inspired by The Rolling Stones

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It’s a glass, glass, glass(es): New eyewear collection inspired by The Rolling Stones

(L-R) Ronnie Wood, Steve Jordan, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones perform onstage at SoFi Stadium on July 13, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)The Rolling Stones have found a new way to make their fans look cool.The legendary band has teamed with Revo, makers of high-performance polarized eyewear, for a new line of glasses.The Rolling Stones x Revo collection features nine designs, each named […]

todayOctober 29, 2025

KISS honors Ace Frehley as they release ‘Dressed to Kill’ 50th anniversary box set

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KISS honors Ace Frehley as they release ‘Dressed to Kill’ 50th anniversary box set

Cover of KISS' 'Dressed to Kill'/(UMe)KISS just released a 50th anniversary deluxe edition of their third studio album, Dressed to Kill, and in a message to fans, honored their late bandmate Ace Frehley, who passed away Oct. 16.“Just over a week ago we lost one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time, Ace Frehley, leaving behind a legacy that has reshaped rock forever,” read a post on Instagram. “As we honor his […]

todayOctober 28, 2025

Mariah Carey wants you to know that it isn’t time yet

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Mariah Carey wants you to know that it isn’t time yet

Mariah Carey performs onstage, November, 2024 in Highland, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Mariah Carey)It seems that Christmas season comes earlier and earlier each year, but it doesn't officially start until Mariah Carey says it's time. And as she made sure to point out on Tuesday, it's not.Mariah posted a montage of herself in different situations, saying, "Not yet," "I said, 'Not yet!'" and throwing in an "it's not time […]

todayOctober 28, 2025

Jackson Browne, Stephen Stills performing at LA fire benefit concert

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Jackson Browne, Stephen Stills performing at LA fire benefit concert

Musician Jackson Browne performs onstage during the Wild Honey tribute to Warren Zevon benefiting the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and the Ed Asner Family Center at The Granada Theatre on September 27, 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)Jackson Browne, Stephen Stills and The Killers' Brandon Flowers are among the artists performing at an upcoming benefit concert marking the one-year anniversary of the January 2025 Los Angeles […]

todayOctober 28, 2025

Jennifer Hudson, Damson Idris, ‘Sinners’ creative team to be celebrated at ABFF Honors 2026

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Jennifer Hudson, Damson Idris, ‘Sinners’ creative team to be celebrated at ABFF Honors 2026

'Sinners' poster (Warner Bros. Pictures)The American Black Film Festival has announced its 2026 honorees, selecting Jennifer Hudson, Damson Idris and the creative team behind the movie Sinners.Hudson will receive the Renaissance Award for "changing perceptions of people of color in the entertainment industry," while Damson will be honored with the Horizon Award for being a "formidable force in film and television." Salli Richardson-Whitfield will be presented with the Evolution Award for reflecting growth while creating […]

todayOctober 28, 2025