A rielle Herzig is a normal person. She does pilates, avoids gluten, works in tech, and lives on a quiet cul de sac in Florida with her husband, Justin. Justin seems normal, too. He’s 36, tall and slender, and wears a backward baseball cap most days that gives him the …
Read More »A Momfluencer's Son Drowned. Now Other Parents Are Rethinking How Much They Share Online
On Sunday, three-year-old Trigg Kiser died following a drowning incident. According to local NBC affiliate 12 News, authorities responded to a call in Chandler, Arizona, where they found the boy unconscious after being pulled out of a pool. The child was airlifted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital. The circumstances of the …
Read More »Covid Vaccine Boosters Won't Be Available for Healthy Adults Under 65. How Will That Work?
On May 20, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials announced that Covid-19 vaccines will no longer be available to everyone. Instead, annual boosters will be limited to people ages 65 and older, and those with certain medical conditions that put them at high risk for severe infection. In a …
Read More »How Kip Williams Remade 'Dorian Gray' for the TikTok Generation
Few people likely associate Oscar Wilde’s famed 1890 novella The Picture of Dorian Gray with the tech-laden, scroll-heavy social media of the 21st century. But for Tony-nominated director Kip Williams, this landmark work of queer literature and the fast-paced digital landscape of TikTok are a perfect fit — and the …
Read More »His Wife Went Missing. The Way He Responded Convinced Cops He'd Killed Her
When Jennifer Farber Dulos, a Brooklyn-raised daughter of great wealth and privilege, a member of the Brown Class of 1990 and once a member of the New York’s downtown literary elite, vanished after dropping her five kids off at the New Canaan Country School on the morning of May 24, …
Read More »Palm Springs Bombing Suspect Apparently Promoted Human Extinction
Guy Edward Bartkus, the 25-year-old man suspected of bombing a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California on Saturday in a suicide attack that injured four others, left behind what the FBI described as “anti-pro-life” writings full of “nihilistic ideations.” His apparent opposition to human procreation would seem to explain the …
Read More »'Comedy Is the Relief Valve': How Sarah Silverman Survived Grief and Backlash
S arah Silverman has a shy side. No, really. For years, she avoided doing a podcast because she didn’t want to ask her friends to be on another comedy show. Then, during the pandemic, Silverman came up with a solution. She made her fans the guests. Now, listeners call in …
Read More »Kennedy Ryan and the Fight to Make Romance Black
Before Kennedy Ryan was a New York Times bestselling romance author, she was an eighth grader in a rural North Carolina town hiding harlequin romances wherever she could fit them in her room. “It was the age of the cliche covers. You know, the kissing couple on the front,” Ryan …
Read More »5 Things We Learned From Netflix's 'Untold: The Liver King' Documentary
“Liver is king.” This statementis the central belief that took 47-year-old Brian Johnson from an awkward father of two to a social media superstar, 6 million followers deep. Johnson, better known online by the moniker Liver King, built a digital empire, lifestyle brand, and supplement company based on living an …
Read More »Inside the Battle for the Soul of the LAPD
A bove all, he remembers the boots the cops wore when they kicked down the door of his mom’s apartment. They yanked him out of bed and a deep sleep, 12 gang cops in riot gear searching the room of a tall-for-his-age 10-year-old named Tionne Tisdale. “Where is it?” they …
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