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Master Mentalist Lior Suchard stopped by the Page Six studios and literally left us all speechless! Known as one of the most famous mentalists in the world, he has performed for the biggest celebrities, including Jason Derulo, Drake, Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and The Jonas Brothers, just to name a few. Make sure...

A creepy intruder in a “Pennywise’’ mask busted into a Tennessee garden center and swiped a saw blade — before being spooked by a sound over the store’s intercom and fleeing.

A.G. Gancarski breaks down how black voters will impact the 2024 presidential election and how this year differs from previous trends.

New Hampshire law requires proof of citizenship to register, photo ID to vote.

A proposed referendum on New York’s ballot aimed at protecting abortion rights could give illegal migrants the right to vote, according to a lawyer spearheading opposition to it.

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"I can’t believe he’s gone. What a loss," Bette Midler wrote.

The undefeated Seahawks fly into Detroit.

Assembly Bill 1858 will standardize school active-shooter drills and direct the state’s Department of Education to update its guidance. It was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

As the country is trying to keep up with this year's election shifts, an artist leans on queer family history to pay homage to the undocumented and queer immigrants that came before us.

The ruling means abortions will be permitted until later in pregnancies.

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Nadia Caterina Munno, known as ‘The Pasta Queen’ is known for her funny food videos and pasta demos on Instagram. She spoke exclusively to Page Six about the dinner she is hosting at the Food Network’s New York City Wine & Food Festival, presented by Invesco QQQ on October 18 as well as her celebrated cookbook, “The Pasta...

The former president is contemplating policies that would act like a self-inflicted pandemic.

A Nashville musician once offered Kris Kristofferson some feedback on “Me and Bobby McGee,” the 1971 Janis Joplin smash Kristofferson had written. The musician loved the song’s storytelling about young lovers on the road. But, he asked, “why do you have to put that philosophy in there?”“That philosophy” was the line “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” It sounded a little highfalutin, a little abstract, for a humble country tune—and, of course, it ended up becoming one of the most memorable refrains in the 20th-century American songbook.Kristofferson, who died at age 88 in his Maui home on Saturday, was a guitar-toting stage performer, a ruggedly handsome movie actor, and an outspoken humanitarian and activist. But at base, he was a thinker-poet who pushed country music in existentialist directions. The songs he wrote for himself and others, including Joplin and Johnny Cash, built on the insight that music is philosophy: To write a song is to connect ideas and sound into one flowing whole, to hitch the small to the big, to help everyone see beyond themselves.Born in Brownsville, Texas, Kristofferson grew up with ambitions of becoming a novelist. As an undergrad at Pomona College, he won a creative-writing contest held by The Atlantic; he went on to earn a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford. After a stint as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army, he turned down an offer to teach English at West Point to instead try to make a living as a songwriter in Nashville. His parents were horrified. “They knew I was going to be a writer,” he said in a 1970 interview with The New York Times Magazine. “But I think they thought a writer was a guy in tweeds with a pipe.”Making the adjustment from writing for college seminars to writing for beer-soaked saloons took some practice. “His grammar was too perfect,” the songwriter Marijohn Wilkin, who signed him to an early publishing deal, said in a 2003 interview with Nashville Scene. “He had to learn the way people talk.” Kristofferson’s breakthrough hit, “For the Good Times,” performed by Ray Price, was as plainspoken as imaginable. Yet the song’s yearning, calming power arose from what would become his signature technique: placing an intimate moment in cosmic terms. Two lovers are breaking up—but they find comfort in the idea that “this old world will keep on turning.”He got Cash’s attention with a grand gesture: landing his helicopter on the country star’s lawn with demo tapes in hand. In 1970, Cash made a smash out of one of his songs, “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” an impeccable example of Kristofferson finding the profound in the picayune. The first verse sees the narrator joking about drinking beer for dessert, but then his point of view spirals out, from noting the quiet ennui of a hungover morning to reflecting on “the disappearing dreams of yesterday.”[Read: The next great American mega-genre]Another Kristofferson hit of that year, “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” performed by Sammi Smith, was written during a lonely night on an oil platform (he’d had a job helicoptering workers to the rig). Its lyrics were a consummate example of how his emotional-telescoping technique allowed him to create layers of meaning. The words turned a personal experience of solitude into a fantasy of companionship, and in turn offered listeners companionship through their own dark nights of the soul. “Yesterday is dead and gone / And tomorrow’s out of sight,” he sang.After his early-’70s breakthroughs, Kristofferson became a genuine pop-culture fixture, appearing in big-screen hits (1976’s A Star Is Born) and flops (1980’s Heaven’s Gate). In 1985, he formed the successful “outlaw country” supergroup the Highwaymen, featuring Cash, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings. But as his own music took on more and more explicitly political dimensions over the years, it cost him reach. “For a country singer to be writing songs about Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi and Malcolm X, it’s not hard to see how some of the labels felt that I was unmarketable,” he said in a 2004 Pomona College Magazine interview. After the singer Sineád O’Connor controversially ripped up the pope’s photograph in 1992, protesting the Church’s sex-abuse cover-up, Kristofferson publicly embraced her onstage—a potent gesture for an exemplar of American heartland values to make.Today, country music—and really any kind of music that prizes depth and authenticity in songwriting—is so in Kristofferson’s debt that his impact can be hard to discern. But in a 2015 speech, Bob Dylan tried to spell out his influence. Speaking in his allusive, meandering style, Dylan suggested that the genre’s onetime unbending fealty to the simple and concrete was revolutionized by Kristofferson’s talent for looking inward and outward. “Oh, they ain’t seen anybody like him,” Dylan said. “You can look at Nashville pre-Kris and post-Kris, because he changed everything.”

On a recent Sunday morning, I sat on a cushioned mat across from Sister True Vow, a Buddhist nun at Blue Cliff Monastery. I had traveled two hours north from Brooklyn to Pine Bush, New York, to seek her perspective on the human tendency to want. “Desire and craving mean forever running and grasping after something we don’t yet have,” Sister True Vow told me, making gentle but unwavering eye contact. There was something else I wanted to know about desire, though. So I asked what she thought of Ozempic.Before my visit to Blue Cliff, I had been thinking about how so many people taking GLP-1 medications find that, without even trying, they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, tobacco, shopping, and more—and how Buddhists have been contemplating this exact transition for centuries. In his first sermon after reaching enlightenment, the Buddha taught that humans suffer because of our desires, and we must unshackle ourselves from them in order to become enlightened. And to some people who take Ozempic or other GLP-1 medications, the lack of cravings feels like freedom. For others, life becomes a little empty. If renunciation of desire is the key to enlightenment, why does the medication version of Nirvana seem relatively lackluster?Roughly one in eight Americans has tried a GLP-1 drug, a number that could increase as pressure is put on companies to lower prices and generics enter the market. This means that millions of Americans could soon confront a changed relationship with their general sense of desire. It’s a rare chance to peer inside a mindset that’s usually reserved for the spiritually awakened, and discover what it’s like to stop wanting, and what achieving that state in a matter of weeks reveals about the nature of human desire.GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro mimic a hormone that not only stimulates insulin production, but also interacts with the brain’s reward circuitry. Scientists are still working out exactly how people respond psychologically. Despite some anecdotal reports of depression and anxiety, a recent study didn’t find an uptick in neuropsychiatric issues with semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, compared with three other antidiabetic medications; another found that the drugs are not significantly associated with increased suicidal thoughts. The question of desire is more subtle. Davide Arillotta, a psychiatrist at the University of Florence, recently led a study that analyzed tens of thousands of English-language posts about GLP-1 drugs on YouTube, Reddit, and TikTok and found that, unsurprisingly, many express enthusiasm about weight loss. But other people “reported a lack of interest in activities they once enjoyed, as well as feelings of emotional dullness,” he told me.Anna, a 51-year-old in California who works in marketing—and who requested to withhold her last name to discuss details of her medical history—told me that several months after she started taking Mounjaro, she began to feel listless. Anna was diagnosed with depression 20 years ago, and treated her symptoms successfully. This was different. She still enjoyed aspects of her life: playing with her dog, spending time with her kids. “I still get joy out of them, but I have to force myself to do them,” she told me. In subreddits about GLP-1 drugs, others express similar concerns. “Does anyone feel depressed or feel lack of enjoyment of life while on ozempic ?” one person asked. From another: “Does the apathy fade?” “I just haven’t been finding much interest, joy, or motivation to do things. I haven’t been able to pinpoint why, exactly,” someone else wrote.Desire, or wanting, is a discrete mental phenomenon that is driven by the neurotransmitter dopamine. In the 1980s, Kent Berridge, a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan, led a study demonstrating that the neurobiology of wanting was separate from liking. Wanting is the motivation to pursue a reward, whereas liking is the enjoyment we get from that reward. This wanting is different from a cognitive plan, like wanting to stop by the library later; it’s an urge to act. Berridge and others have shown that wanting involves different chemicals and areas of the brain than liking does. This means we can want what we don’t like, and enjoy what we don’t crave; for example, Berridge has argued that addiction stems from the triumph of desire over enjoyment. Anhedonia, the loss of pleasure in activities that used to be meaningful, is commonly understood to be a symptom of psychological conditions such as depression. A better term for what’s happening to some GLP-1 users, Berridge said, would be avolition—a loss of motivation and wanting.The circuitry of desire can be surprisingly easy to manipulate. Berridge has shown that increasing dopamine can make rats seek out painful electric shocks. Some people who take dopamine-increasing Parkinson’s drugs develop compulsive gambling or shopping habits—an issue of too much wanting. Certain Tourette’s drugs, such as Haldol, lower dopamine levels, and can make life feel dull to some people. In his 1985 book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about a man with Tourette’s named Ray, who said that when he took Haldol, he was “average, competent, but lacking energy, enthusiasm, extravagance and joy.” Ray’s solution was to take the drug during the week, then get his fix of exuberance on the weekends.GLP-1 drugs affect dopamine pathways in the brain in ways that scientists are still working to understand. Kyle Simmons, who’s leading a clinical trial of GLP-1 drugs for alcohol-use disorder, told me that his team plans to pay special attention to participants’ potential loss in pleasure and their loss in wanting—and the difference between the two. Researchers still don’t know whether taking a GLP-1 drug reduces all cravings, or just the strongest ones, Berridge said. But the evidence from other desire-disrupting drugs and experiments can help illuminate why certain people on GLP-1 drugs end up feeling a bit blah. Some might have previously relied on food to regulate their emotions, and can’t eat at the same volume anymore. Others may feel lethargic simply because they’re eating less. And for a person who is used to strong feelings of wanting, “all of a sudden, that goes away, and you have to reestablish what your behavioral drivers should be,” Karolina Skibicka, a neuroscientist at Penn State who did some of the first studies on GLP-1 and dopamine in rats, told me.This explanation mirrored what Sister True Vow said as she reflected on my questions about anecdotal reports of apathy and GLP-1 drugs. Buddhism recommends contemplating your cravings over a period of years in order to gradually loosen your grip on them in a deliberate way. Ozempic and its peers, by contrast, “do it in a chemical way, without the psychology of us coming along with it,” Sister True Vow said. When people strongly identify with their cravings, feeling them disappear over a matter of weeks can be jarring. But it can also be an opportunity to uncover the roots of our desire in order to eventually let them go in a more deliberate way, Sister True Vow said. This doesn’t mean people have to forgo enjoyment of the present moment—in fact, Buddhism encourages such pleasures.The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way: a balance between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence. Enlightenment is approached not by breaking completely free from desire, but by gaining awareness of how and why you want things. After many months on the drugs, some GLP-1 users appear to be finding their own Middle Way. “I have had to learn more about what desire is, how it works,” Anna told me. When she meditated on what exactly she liked about her favorite hobby—collecting perfume—she realized that she is drawn to the infinite variety of scents, how they produce memories and smell differently depending on where on the body they’re applied. I told her she sounded a bit like a Buddhist.Modern American life is often accused of overloading our dopamine system with TikTok swipes and Amazon Prime deliveries, to the point that influencers and psychologists alike have endorsed “dopamine fasting” to help people break their instant-gratification habits. Desire, in other words, is a monster to be tamed if happiness is to be achieved. Yet people’s emotional responses to GLP-1 drugs reveal that our relationship with wanting is more complex. If an overattachment to every craving can bring suffering, a total renunciation of them can be unsatisfying too.

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) released a video showing the dangerous moment a Russian Su-35 fighter pilot flew right in front of a NORAD F-16 fighter pilot over the Alaska Air Defense Zone.

The "Game of Thrones" alum and Joe Jonas, who broke up in September 2023, are the parents of two daughters — Willa, 4, and Delphine, 2.

Courtesy Young VicI once asked Jay Leno—as he was ranting about the lack of timely political movies—if he’d ever seen A Face In The Crowd. “It’s my favorite movie ever!” he exclaimed.The 1957 picture, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, starred Andy Griffith as Lonesome Rhodes, a phony, but increasingly powerful, man of the people, and Patricia Neal as the woman who discovers him, loves him and then…well, reveals the true him. (Thank you, hot mic.) It also featured Walter Matthau as the sole man of conscience, and was the first time we saw Lee Remick, who played the majorette who briefly won Lonesome’s heart.All these years later, it is now in theatrical form. The script is by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl, with original songs by Elvis Costello. It opened in mid-September at London’s Young Vic, and is already creating buzz.Read more at The Daily Beast.

US officials are not evacuating American citizens from war-torn Lebanon amid military escalations with Israel, the State Department confirmed Monday.

The third Deadpool movie will soon be available to watch at home, for a premium price.

A Fulton County, Georgia judge struck down the state's abortion ban on Monday, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

At least 193 people have been confirmed dead following severe flooding and landslides in Nepal, where heavy weekend rainfall was reported.

Voters in northeastern Pennsylvania spoke to Fox News Digital about the 2024 election cycle from the streets of Scranton, which is the heart of the battleground county of Lackawanna.

The so-called AI-generated "series finale" spoofed several of the most famous television finales of all time.

The baseball experts considered most adept at calculating statistical probabilities peg the likelihood of the Dodgers winning the World Series at less than 20%.

Samples from the asteroid Ryugu contain key ingredients in the biological cookbook.

"Miami Vice" star Don Johnson has been married to his wife Kelley Phleger for 25 years, and credits his happy relationship to staying young. He was previously married to Melanie Griffith.

Scouted/The Daily Beast/Beau Domaine. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.Celebrities don’t age like the rest of us. Then you have celebs like Brad Pitt, who seems to get more attractive with age, like a fine aged gouda in a Dutch cheese cellar. Of course, Hollywood’s anti-aging secrets aren’t all that secret. For many A-listers, it’s discreet plastic surgery, fillers, and Botox all the way down. Stars may not like to talk about it, but we all know that many of them are getting a little extra help. I don’t know if Pitt’s ever gotten aesthetic treatments, but I did test his new anti-aging skincare line, which I assume he uses. The actor is the co-founder of Beau Domaine, a unisex French anti-aging skincare brand that uses patented grape extracts to fight fine lines, discoloration and other visible signs of aging.Read more at The Daily Beast.

We are talking about tens of thousands of these guns per year recovered at crime scenes at their peak.

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A man’s body was found weighed down with stones in the water just off Riverside Park on Monday morning, cops and sources said.

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security on Monday following whistleblower allegations about an internal employee group chat discussing “serious concerns” about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s China ties — some of which have been documented in classified files. Oversight panel Chairman James Comer revealed the internal debate on the “longstanding connection” between...

It was dinner and a no-show.

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Travis Kelce got back into the swing of things as he led the Kansas City Chiefs with seven catches for 89 yards in a win over the Los Angeles Chargers.

The team wasn’t ready Monday – or willing – to make predictions or grand proclamations. As always the case since Tom Thibodeau took over, the public message on goals was a cliched “one step at a time.” 

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty ImagesAriana Grande slammed “disreputable tabloids” for spreading rumors that she began dating actor Ethan Slater before he separated from his now ex-wife. The singer-actress in a new interview published Monday acknowledged the controversy surrounding her courtship with her Wicked co-star, whom she began dating in 2023 shortly after they each split from their respective spouses.“It definitely doesn’t get any easier, seeing some of the negativity that was birthed by disreputable tabloids,” the singer-actress told Vanity Fair, pointing to her absence from the public eye while working on Wicked as part of the media frenzy. “I understand why it was a field day for the tabloids to sort of create something that paid their bills.”Read more at The Daily Beast.