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January 6, 1980, still stings in Houston. The Oilers had battled their way to the AFC Championship, carrying the hopes of a city chanting “Luv Ya Blue” from afar as they landed in Pittsburgh. The Steelers’ Three Rivers Stadium was packed, a fortress of black and gold, but Houston fans held tight to their anthem, […]

January 6, 1973 doesn’t get the same hype as Woodstock or Star Wars, but for Gen X, it quietly rewired our brains. That was the day Schoolhouse Rock first aired, slipping between Saturday morning cartoons like a cool substitute teacher with a guitar. You weren’t expecting a lesson, but suddenly you were humming facts you’d […]

2026 marks 50 years since an incredible run of films hit theaters in 1976, and many of them left us lines that still live rent-free in our heads. Here’s a few with some famous or often-quoted lines that helped cement their legacy. Taxi Driver – “You talkin’ to me?” A line so iconic it practically […]

The screen confirms what Gen X already knows in its bones. As of today, January 1, 2026, MTV has shut down its remaining music and supplemental video channels. MTV Live, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, and the last spaces dedicated to music on television are gone. MTV itself still exists, but no longer as a music […]

By the time you hit your forties, New Year’s Eve stops feeling like an event and starts feeling like a negotiation. How late do I really need to stay up? How cold is it outside? And most important, where’s the remote? A recent poll of 3,000 Americans suggests this is not a personal failing. It’s […]

National Pizza Day may fall in February, but data shows that the strongest pizza cravings hit much earlier in the year. According to Google search data analyzed by the website Vegas Insider, the single biggest pizza-craving day of 2025 was New Year’s Day. The reasons are not complicated. New Year’s Day combines late nights, hangovers, […]

If you’re in this group, you’re probably already annoyed I’m talking right now instead of rockin’ out. But hang with me for a second, because this one’s actually a “thank you” from everyone here at the station. A new poll asked people how often they listen to music, and the answers reminded us why what […]

It’s been over a decade since Guns N’ Roses delivered a full record, and the wait felt endless for fans hoping the classic band would get back in the studio. Now, we finally have a new song. According to the band it is a “newly-finished” track that emerged from the sessions for their 2008 album […]

Finding love has never been easy, and the numbers back it up. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, just over 49% of Americans are unmarried, whether they’re never-married, divorced, or widowed. That’s a massive dating pool… but the cost of actually using it keeps rising. From two-person dinners to movie tickets to just grabbing coffee, […]

Exactly 69 years ago, something magical happened in a tiny studio on Union Avenue in Memphis. Sun Studio, the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll, became the stage for an impromptu jam session that would go down in music history. Elvis Presley, already a national sensation, had dropped by to record some tunes. But fate had […]

Do people really dress up their pets for the holidays? PetSmart thinks so, and apparently, it’s a full-blown nationwide hobby. They released a list of the Top 15 cities where “pet parents” are most likely to make their pets participate in holiday festivities. And yes… some of these places are small enough that your dog […]

“Rolling Stone” has dropped its annual list of the 20 best movies of the year, and the lineup shows just how creative and unpredictable this year in film has been. At the top is “One Battle After Another,” a critically praised epic that the magazine calls the most gripping release of the year. The full […]