Pop Culture

The Ig Nobel Prizes are back—basically the goofy cousins of the real Nobel Prizes. Instead of rewarding breakthroughs that change the world, these honor discoveries that make you laugh first . . . and maybe scratch your head later. Here are the highlights from 2025’s winners: Literature Prize: Awarded (posthumously) to a guy who tracked […]

Robert Redford, Oscar-Winning Actor and Director, Dies at 89 Robert Redford, the legendary actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, has died at the age of 89. According to The New York Times, Redford passed away in his sleep on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at his home in the mountains near Provo, Utah. […]

September 8th is no ordinary day, it’s Star Trek Day, the anniversary of the show’s original premiere in 1966. When NBC aired “The Man Trap,” no one realized they were launching a pop-culture juggernaut. Back then, the series struggled with ratings and only lasted three short seasons. But in true Captain Kirk fashion, it refused […]

Happy 27th Anniversary to Google, though if history had gone differently, we might all be saying, “Let me Backrub that for you.” When Stanford PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin first cooked up their search project in 1996, they called it Backrub, because it analyzed the web’s “backlinks” to measure a site’s importance. Smart […]

In 1995, computer programmer Pierre Omidyar was just trying to solve a quirky problem at home. His girlfriend collected PEZ dispensers but couldn’t trade them easily online. So, Pierre did what any good coder in Silicon Valley would do: he built her a simple website. He called it AuctionWeb. What began as a personal project […]

Ozzy Osbourne died a little over a month ago, but that didn’t stop Roger Waters from stirring up controversy related to the “Prince of Darkness.” The former Pink Floyd bassist and co-founder blasted the late Black Sabbath frontman in an interview with The Independent Ink, prompting Jack Osbourne, Ozzy’s son, to respond. Waters took part […]

Long before Schoolhouse Rock! became a Saturday morning staple, it started with a frustrated dad and his Rolling Stones–loving kid. David McCall, an ad executive, noticed his son could belt out rock lyrics with no problem, but couldn’t remember multiplication tables. His idea? Put math to music. McCall enlisted jazz pianist Bob Dorough to give […]

AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet next month. Wait a minute.  Let me back up.  Yes, AOL was still offering dial-up in 2025. The same service that made your 90s-bedroom sound like R2-D2 having a meltdown, SCREEEECH–BEEP–BWAAA–KSSSHHHH, and just like that, we were “online.” Back in the day, AOL was the portal to the […]

Alice Cooper says golf saved his life, explaining, “I had to find an addiction that wasn’t going to kill me—because all my other ones were.” He first picked up the game because of its convenience; living in Phoenix, Arizona, he had access to over 130 golf courses. After just a couple of solid shots, Cooper […]

Hearing today’s news that Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea has passed away at 71 casts a bittersweet glow over five decades of pop‑culture upheaval. From his emergence as the all‑American hero of the World Wrestling Federation to his unlikely emergence as a reality‑TV patriarch, Hogan’s larger‑than‑life persona reshaped entertainment on multiple fronts and influenced a generation. […]

Hold onto your bat heads, folks because when the Prince of Darkness finally takes his final bow, the rock ‘n’ roll world will NEVER be the same again. Ozzy Osbourne isn’t just a rock legend – he is rock ‘n’ roll incarnate. Loud, wild, outrageous and unapologetically bizarre, Ozzy didn’t just break the rules, he didn’t […]

38 Special cofounder and frontman Don Barnes joins the Outlaw Dave Show, where “Outlaw Dave and Outlaw Don” dive into 50 years of 38 Special, the band’s upcoming album Milestone, a long-lost solo record and more! RELATED: Ranking Every Song by 38 Special RELATED: Sparks Notes: 38 Special RELATED: 38 Special Setlist: Eagle Fest