
South Africa’s extravagant matric balls are the ‘Met Gala’ of high school dances
CNN
Before South African high school students complete their final exams, they first walk the red carpet, pulling out all the stops for their celebratory matriculation, or ‘matric,’ balls. The photographer Alice Mann documented the increasingly lavish dances for five years in her new book, “The Night is Young.”

When she was in her 40s Jenny Teeters had a serious secret drinking problem, but, she says, her success hid it exceptionally well for years. At one point she managed a high six-figure tech job, raised two teenage girls, finished her MBA, and taught Zumba in her spare time and somehow she did it all while intoxicated.But she got to a place where she knew she needed help, and like with what a new study found, she found what finally made her sobriety stick was developing a newfound faith in a higher power.




