All summer, heat haters have been waiting for cooler weather and lower humidity. It’s here! And cooler and lower are two weather words we’re going to be seeing more of in the weeks and months ahead. So let’s get out there! For yourself! Your wife! Your husband! For your kids! For the future! For your waistline! For your heart!
MEET BAD BILLY TONIGHT!
Meet the one, the only, celebrated Medical Examiner columnist and all-round raconteur extraordinaire Bad Billy Laveau TONIGHT at Somewhere in Augusta on Washington Road. The Bad One himself is the emcee for The Comedy Zone beginning at 8:00 pm. You need a healthy dose of laughter. It’s the best medicine, after all.
LET’S CELEBRATE SCALPS!
Have you lost your hair because of cancer treatment or some other medical condition? The Medical Examiner is looking for you, whether you’re man, woman or child. During October, we’d like to celebrate the unadorned scalp. The idea is to have a gallery – or at the bare minimum, several individual profiles – of the bald and the beautiful in …
One magical hiatus
You may never see a more captivating look at a city than what you’re about to watch. Take a city – Singapore – with some spectacular architecture to begin with, then add the special effects of tilt-shift photography. It makes everything look like it was designed by the world’s best model train set designer. What is real looks fake. What …
It’s an I Hate Monday.
We have an excellent suggestion for our collective hatred today: mosquitos. These little death machines infect 700 million people with disease every year. And that’s just one of the amazing facts in the vintage Medical Examiner (from 2008) brought back to life here. Here’s another sobering statistic: mosquitos kill millions of people every year. One of the most recent was …
This is our 150th issue!
And people say the Medical Examiner doesn’t look a day over 100. Run your fingers lightly across your screen right now. Feels almost like glass, doesn’t it? That’s exactly what this week’s Examiner feels like. We’re using a new printery: better paper, improved printing, less ink on your fingers. Of course, the paper and ink are merely the vehicle. The …
Bully Central
The cover story in this week’s Medical Examiner (above) isn’t about neighborhood or school bullies. It’s about adults who should know better who go through life bullying clerks, waitresses and other people they view as inferior life forms. Even so, we did include a sidebar (page one, left side) about the very real and significant problem of youth bullying. It’s …
WASTE TIME PRODUCTIVELY
That’s right. Here is a Hump Day Hiatus that might make the rest of this week – and the rest of this year – more productive, less stressful, and therefore healthier. Procrastination is stress and anxiety’s best friend, and stress and anxiety are no friends to our heart, our sleep, our family relationships, our work performance, our self-esteem…and on and …
APPEARING TONIGHT!
Bad Billy Laveau offers a therapeutic dose of the best medicine tonight at Somewhere in Augusta, 8 p.m. He’s the M.D. (Mirth Doctor) and emcee for The Comedy Zone. Check it out!
Bad Billy Laveau in person!
Bad Billy Laveau, celebrated Medical Examiner columnist, appears every Wednesday at 8 p.m. through Oct. 3 at Somewhere in Augusta. He’s their House Doctor of Comedy. Doctor’s orders: go see him. Why? Because laughter is the best medicine.