Virginia Pelley

In 2017, Kristina Baehr began experiencing strange and unexpected bouts of dizziness. As she tried to go about her day, a nagging fatigue overwhelmed her. By 2020, as she began quarantining with her family during the COVID pandemic, her symptoms only seemed to get worse. Baehr, a successful attorney in Austin, Texas, and mother of four, started losing items and forgetting things. She suffered frequent migraines and would suddenly feel drunk in the middle of the day, even though she hadn’t bee...

Lola Tung
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The lead of Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty feels equally supported by her on- and off-screen families.

Virginia Pelley

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Lola Tung's casting as the lead in Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty fulfills a dream she's had since she played the Tin Man in a sixth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. The actress studied drama at LaGuardia High School, aka New York's Fame school of the arts, and at Carnegie Mellon U...

outdoor learning during the pandemic

On April 28, 2021, a man in Moffat, a remote Colorado town with just over 100 residents, walked into a Colorado police station to report that several people had brought a dead body to his house.
The deceased woman wasn’t a stranger to the homeowner, Miguel Lamboy. She was Amy Carlson Stroud—although Lamboy also knew her as “Mother God”—the 45-year-old leader of Love Has Won (LHW), a New Age-y quasi-religious group and suspected cult. Videos and photos of Lamboy and Carlson Stroud together dat...

It was 10 years ago, but Andrew hasn’t been able to forgive himself for the accident.
Andrew’s daughter was two, and he was playing a game with her, raising and lowering her on the footrest of a reclining chair. At some point during the game, the 2-year-old lost her balance and got her finger caught in the bracket of the chair.
“I swear, I thought I cut off her finger,” says Andrew, a restaurant manager in Rhode Island who asked Fatherly to withhold his identity.
As it turned out, her finger ...

Metal yoga is more than just the latest yoga gimmick....

In an August 23rd video that quickly went viral, Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black father, was shot in the back seven times by police as he leaned into the open door of an SUV in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Three of his children, all between the ages of 3 and 8, were in the backseat and saw the shooting take place. Blake had opened the door possibly to soothe his three young children.
Videos documenting police violence across the U.S. are no longer surprising to many people — nor is it unusual for pol...

Shortly after her live-in boyfriend moved out, Helena, a lawyer in her mid-30s, added “find a younger therapist” to her post-breakup to-do list.
“It’s definitely a personal bias and comes down to my own level of comfort,” says Helena, who lives in Tampa, Florida. “I don’t feel comfortable talking to an older woman about [having sex with] randos from Tinder.”
Helena found it annoying to explain modern dating mores to her former therapist, who she guessed was in her 60s, particularly because th...

It’s becoming increasingly evident that, for some people, trolling isn’t just playing an asshole on the internet.
It was only after several friends cut him out of their lives that Dave* realized he had a trolling problem.
For years, Dave felt a compulsion to argue "with anyone about anything" online, he says, whether the topic was gun control or the accuracy of a quote from the movie Top Gun. He trolled under his real name as well as behind more anonymous handles on various message boards and...

The first year after Lilah was born was a bumpy one for Ben and Taylor. They had to learn how to navigate the new landscape of parenting. More daunting, they had to figure out their marriage, and how to transition from being a couple to being a family.
“Having a newborn changes everything in your life, including your relationship,” says Taylor, a public relations director in San Francisco. “You and your partner are in straight-up survival mode, operating on no sleep and thinking about nurturi...

Critics and viewers who initially imagined Netflix's mockumentary series American Vandal might be a one-note dick joke were quick to admit they were wrong.
Audiences remain riveted as high school documentarian Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez) follows a trail of spray-painted phalluses snaking through a high school faculty parking lot to unravel a low-stakes, even ridiculous, mystery. Simple on its face, Vandal's plot boils down to just four words: "Who drew the dicks?"
But the series transcend...

On her first trip to Europe last fall, Angela Lewis marveled at the snowy view from the top of Switzerland’s famed Jungfrau.
Meanwhile, critics have been marveling at Lewis, cited as a standout as Aunt Louie in FX’s Snowfall, where a very different kind of snow blankets 1980s South Los Angeles.
The series, which returns July 10 for season three, traces the origins and CIA orchestration of the crack epidemic. Louie’s nephew Franklin (Damson Idris) plays a central role in bringing the drug to L...

Meet the anti-natalists, people who believe reproduction is wrong.

"Great. Another fucking coconut."
This line, delivered by Selenis Leyva in the first season of Orange Is the New Black, dripped with her character's contempt for a new Latina inmate who could not speak Spanish. The moment also catapulted Leyva into the next phase of her career. Since then, she has consistently stolen scenes on the Netflix series, even though her character originally had no backstory beyond "Gloria Mendoza, Latina."
"If you ask any actor if they would ever expect to go from da...