Doug O’Brien
Some people love shopping. Strolling the aisles. Reading every label. Trying all the samples. Then there’s the rest of us—people who’d rather wrestle an alligator than fight for a parking spot on any weekend. After all, we have football to watch and things to do around the house. Enter Walmart’s new drone delivery in Houston. […]
For decades, the NFL’s “chain gang” has been part of the league’s unique character — three officials carrying two poles connected by a 10-yard chain, running onto the field to measure those crucial first downs. But starting with the 2024 season, that sight is becoming history. The NFL has officially moved to a virtual measurement […]
We have all heard or even tried listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” while watching “The Wizard of Oz”. How did this urban legend start? Who started it? The idea originated via postings in early‑90s Usenet forums, suggesting that if you hit play just as the MGM lion roars, often the third […]
In the 80s and 90s, the nightclub was basically Electric Avenue, you went there to rock down to it, and maybe even take it higher. You didn’t text someone; you yelled over Come On Eileen, and half the time, they couldn’t hear you. Now? Across the U.S. and Europe, the dance floors are vanishing faster […]
Houston’s drivers have a new distinction that nobody wants. A recent study confirms what we have always known. Houston has some of the worst traffic in the country. We rank No. 7 nationwide. On average, Houstonians spend nearly 6 hours a week in traffic. That’s enough time to binge Smokey and the Bandit twice and […]
Before Rumours turned them into rock royalty, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were just two young musicians trying to make it in Los Angeles. After meeting in high school and performing together in the band Fritz, the duo became romantically and musically linked. In 1973, they released their only album as a duo: Buckingham Nicks. […]
The incredible thing about artists is that you may never know their name, but you know their art. We recently lost one of those artists. David Pryor Adickes passed away on July 13, 2025, in Houston at age 98, leaving behind a legacy of monumental public art visible across Houston and beyond. His first major […]
When WKRP in Cincinnati debuted in 1978, we met a new kind of bombshell: Loni Anderson as Jennifer Marlowe. She was more than stunningly beautiful with platinum blonde hair. She was also smart, unflappable, and always two steps ahead of the clueless men around her. She flipped the “dumb blonde” trope on its head and […]
Before TikTok, doomscrolling, and 47 open tabs you’ll never close, there was just a guy named Tim Berners-Lee, sitting in an office at CERN, trying to help physicists share files without having to stand up. On August 1, 1991, the World Wide Web quietly went live, and by “live,” we mean it blinked into existence […]
At 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981, a rocket launched on TV, not from NASA, but from a network no one had heard of: MTV – Music Television. The screen faded in with footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the flag planted, and a voice declaring, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” Then came […]
It was supposed to be a high-profile, feel-good event: a benefit concert for California Senator Alan Cranston at the Long Beach Arena. The Eagles, one of the biggest bands on the planet, were closing the show. But backstage tensions were already boiling over, and they’d hit a breaking point after a long run on the […]
Today, thousands gathered along Birmingham’s Broad Street to bid farewell to one of the city’s most iconic sons, Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away just over a week ago on July 22, at the age of 76. Just like Ozzy, the funeral procession was both emotional and electrifying. A hearse carrying Ozzy’s casket made its way […]