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Interview by Paul Salfen, Text by Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine Girl Scout Cookie season is one of America’s most familiar rituals—boxes stacked on folding tables, determined kids in uniform, parents hovering nearby. But in Cookie Queens, director Alysa Nahmias peels back the sugar-coated surface to reveal something far more complex: the real joys, pressures,

Interview by Paul Salfen, Text by Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine In a candlelit studio pulsing with bass and shouted affirmations, boutique fitness once promised transformation of body, mind, and soul. But behind the empowering playlists and $30+ classes lurked a powder keg of ambition, blurred boundaries, fat-shaming, racism, sexual misconduct, and cutthroat betrayals that

Interview by Paul Salfen Executive Producer Neil deGrasse Tyson and Academy Award Nominee Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy In the spring of 2019, before anyone had heard of COVID-19, Kennedy began investigating a global measles epidemic and filming with top public health officials–including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, MD; Karen Ernst; Dr. Paul A. Offit, MD; Dr.