Heidi Stevens – Page 26

Column: Couples’ sex lives took a hit during COVID-19 pandemic. A new book aims to put them back on track.

April 20, 2021 at 2:07 p.m.

Early in the pandemic, sex therapist Ian Kerner's clients got awfully quiet. "I thought, 'Maybe people finally don't have the same old excuses for not having sex,'" Kerner said. "They...

Dayvin Hallmon, founder and music director of the Black String Triage Ensemble, a group of mostly Black and Latinx string musicians who go to scenes of tragedies and play music as a way to ward off hopelessness in communities, is seen on Aug, 26, 2020.

Column: The Black String Triage Ensemble plays concerts at scenes of violence. Now the Milwaukee group’s founder wants to start a Chicago chapter.

April 19, 2021 at 12:25 p.m.

When a community is shattered by violence, Dayvin Hallmon and his musicians start repairing the cracks. Hallmon is the founder and music director of the Black String Triage Ensemble, a...

Mark "Chaps" Schimmelpfennig, a combat veteran turned hospital chaplain, makes his rounds to talk to staff including Elsy Grajales Palmero, an environmental technician in the intensive care unit at Rush University Medical Center on April 15, 2021.

Column: As pandemic pace slows, hospital chaplain sees COVID-19 workers begin to process trauma. ‘All of us up here were fighting a war.’

April 16, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

It was flattering to be called a hero. At the Super Bowl. On hand-drawn signs. In campaign speeches. During beer commercials. "It was nice," said Greg Reilly, a registered nurse...

Column: Hank Azaria’s apology for voicing Indian character Apu on ‘The Simpsons’ should lead to an honest reckoning on our bias against accents

April 14, 2021 at 5:09 p.m.

Hank Azaria's recent apology for voicing the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, an Indian-born convenience store clerk on "The Simpsons," has launched some fascinating discussions that touch on, but also transcend, the...

Reed Benedict, left, and Al Morales at their home on April 11, 2021, in Chicago. Benedict donated his kidney to Morales in October.

Column: Chicago couple undergoes state’s first kidney transplant between HIV-positive patients. ‘They are really pioneers.’

April 14, 2021 at 7:56 a.m.

Al Morales learned he needed a new kidney in late 2017. He had a seizure around Halloween that year that left him blind in one eye, and a series of...

Jennifer Camacho, of Chesterton, holds up Pride flags during a protest and march outside Duneland School Corporation headquarters in Chesterton, Indiana, on April 12, 2021.

Column: Some parents complained about Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, so a Chesterton school removed them. Now students and parents are demanding their return.

April 13, 2021 at 12:12 p.m.

A Pride flag is a symbol. It doesn't love you. It doesn't listen to you. It doesn't stand up for you when bullies come for you in the locker room....

First lady Jill Biden arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on April 1, 2021. Biden was criticized for wearing fishnet stockings on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021.

Column: Let’s stop dragging out Melania Trump’s nudes every time we want to defend a first lady

April 8, 2021 at 12:32 p.m.

A teeny, tiny mini-scandal erupted when Jill Biden wore fishnet stockings on Easter Sunday, which is actually good news. (Yay for a return to an administration so bereft of glaring...

Chicago police investigate the scene near East Monroe and Lake Shore drives following a shooting in which a child was wounded on April 6, 2021.

Column: A 1-year-old boy in Chicago and a mother of 6 from Pennsylvania are both victims of road rage and America’s unique scourge — gun violence

April 7, 2021 at 12:28 p.m.

A 1-year-old boy in Chicago and a mother of six from Manheim, Pennsylvania, are forever and improbably linked, both having been shot during what police are describing as road rage...

Nash Ismael, 20, puts his arms around his sisters Nadeen, 18, left, and Nancy, 13, as they visit the gravesite of their parents on Father's Day at White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery on June 21, 2020, in Troy, Michigan. The Ismael children lost both their parents within weeks to COVID-19.

Column: About 40,000 kids have lost a parent to COVID-19. Schools need to step in and help.

April 6, 2021 at 12:03 p.m.

About 40,000 kids in America have lost at least one parent to COVID-19. That's a 20% increase in the number of children who lose a parent in a typical year,...

Chicago police pick up evidence as they investigate the shooting where eight people were shot, one fatally, in the 2500 block of West 79th Street in Chicago on March 26, 2021.

Column: Why aren’t Chicago’s mass shootings included in the outcry over recent violence in Atlanta, Colorado and California?

April 5, 2021 at 2:56 p.m.

When a gunman killed four people and wounded a fifth at a Southern California office building last week, news outlets, over and over, called it the third in a string...

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