One local author draws from personal experience in a new middle-grade novel about anxiety. Plus, "Crime and Punishment, A Comedy" is playing at the Old Globe. And, chamber music concerts and other events to look out for this weekend.
A lot of things went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic that apparently originated in a Chinese lab working on dangerous bat viruses and circled the globe, killing millions.
At age 17, Davida Rimm-Kaufman gave up her smartphone to finish high school with a so-called dumbphone, worried that an "extreme addiction" to social media was making her stressed and sad.