How SoulCycle Lost Its Soul
The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.
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The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.
Alex Abad-Santos Vox Dec 2020 30min Permalink
You’re 19 years old. You get famous overnight. You move to LA. Now what?
Rebecca Jennings Vox Oct 2020 35min Permalink
A profile of the actor in the wake of the loss of his wife.
Gabriella Paiella GQ May 2020 15min Permalink
How an actor becomes a Trump-era activist.
CHRISTINA CAUTERUCCI Slate Aug 2019 20min Permalink
A profile of the 17-year-old star.
Josh Eells Rolling Stone Jul 2019 30min Permalink
A profile of the actor following a car accident that left him briefly in a coma and ultimately with a settlement so large he never has to work again.
Vinson Cunningham New Yorker May 2019 40min Permalink
“Every generation gets its own Keanu Reeves, except every generation’s Keanu Reeves is this Keanu Reeves.”
Alex Pappademas GQ Apr 2019 25min Permalink
Are some celebrity mediums fooling their audience members by reading social media pages in advance? A group of online vigilantes is out to prove it.
Jack Hitt New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink
The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.
Lauren Levy New York Jan 2019 25min Permalink
On the true backstory of Meghan Markle, a.k.a. the Duchess of Sussex.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Dec 2018 30min Permalink
Searching for the star behind Dlisted.
Soraya Roberts Jezebel Nov 2018 10min Permalink
The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min Permalink
A profile of Spears at her nadir.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Feb 2008 35min Permalink
A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.
David Foster Wallace Premiere Sep 1996 45min Permalink
Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.
Sarah Marshall Buzzfeed Feb 2017 35min Permalink
Two days with a broken-hearted Tom Hiddleston.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Feb 2017 15min Permalink
“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”
Carrie Fisher, Madonna Rolling Stone Jun 1991 40min Permalink
A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.
E. Alex Jung New York Jul 2016 20min Permalink
“Think about that: Kim has so thoroughly monetized the very act of living that the money she earns from being filmed going about her life constitutes a relatively small sum compared with the one she generates from allowing people to see pictures and cartoon drawings of the life she has already filmed. She has figured out how to spin the mundanity of being herself—something billions of people do every day for free—into a more lucrative business than being the most famous rapper in the world.”
Caity Weaver GQ Jun 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min Permalink
Fifty years ago, Rona Barrett forged a Hollywood gossip empire. Then she left it all behind, her innovations attributed to others, her legacy almost entirely overlooked.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2016 25min Permalink
Collections Business Sex Travel
Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions—a collection of articles on young money.
“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”
Nancy Jo Sales New York Dec 1996 20min
Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks who have barely survived a hellacious childhood.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2013 40min
On the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, who has “probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth.”
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2011 45min
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kim The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min
A profile of Paris Hilton at the height of her fame.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Nov 2003 10min
An invite-only social network for Georgetown assholes.
Angela Valdez Washington City Paper Jul 2007 30min
How two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.
Maureen Tkacik The New York Observer Aug 2010
A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”
Ken Silverstein Foreign Policy Mar 2011 20min
Dec 1996 – Aug 2013 Permalink
Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Feb 2016 45min Permalink
A conversation about God, anxiety, and the monkey.
Caity Weaver GQ Feb 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Tyler Perry.
Rembert Browne New York Jan 2016 15min Permalink