Features (Page 2)
May 20, 2025
Forza Is the Studio. Sydney Dumler Is the Brand.
Sydney Dumler created the Pilates studio of many people’s dreams. Women walk around in Forza sweatshirts and biker shorts, a la Princess Diana. SunLife Organics offers a Matcha, coconut sorbet, and raspberry smoothie called “Expensive,” which shares a name with Forza’s signature candle scent.
May 19, 2025
The Forgotten Stories of Southern Journalism
I drove three hours to talk with my grandmother about her years as an award-winning journalist. Her story began when she felt compelled to tell someone else’s—a man who had just written his first big country hit. It was the late 1980s when she cold-called the Mobile Press-Register, Alabama’s oldest newspaper, and pitched a feature.
May 19, 2025
I Slept in a Car for My First Music Festival. I was 11.
Not many people get to roadtrip to a concert at age 11. But with parents like mine, this would become a regular part of my childhood.
May 19, 2025
Displacement, Development, and the Fight for Home
"It’s like they’re building a city for someone else." As new high-end housing reshapes Linden, longtime residents like the Consuegras struggle to survive, caught in a crisis of affordability, community loss, and political inaction.
May 18, 2025
The Man Behind the Hollywood’s Historic Stella Adler Acting Academy
As an acting student, John Jack Rodgers never imagined he'd end up running one of the world's best acting schools. Yet, now that's the exact position he finds himself in as he attempts to ready the Stella Adler Acting Academy for its next act.