Critics and audiences have never agreed on everything, but sometimes the divide is almost impossible to ignore. A movie gets ...

American malls in the 1990s felt like their own little world. There was the music store near the food court, […] ...

Few golfers have ever embodied a quote as completely as John Daly embodied this one. Bursting onto the national stage with his improbable victory at the 1991 PGA Championship, Daly quickly became one ...

The Copper Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 3 near Khirbet Qumran. However, while the other scrolls were written on parchment or papyrus, the Copper Scroll was written on a sheet of ...

The Old West has been elevated into a legendary era of high noon showdowns and quick draw matches. Dime novels set the scene, and Hollywood did the rest. But the weapons that defined the frontier ...

When people think of the nuclear arms race, they typically picture mushroom clouds, ballistic missiles, and world leaders locked in Cold War rivalry. But behind every warhead stood a network of secret ...

A Canadian reggae-dancehall artist singing in a thick accent at such a fast pace that almost nobody could understand the lyrics. That’s “Informer” by Snow. Pitchfork eventually put it on their list of ...

We love innovation. New products solve old problems and slowly change the world. But some things don't really need it. The closer you look at a device that seems new, the older its basic concept turns ...

Few decades have been as ridiculed for their fashion as the 1980s. Shoulder pads big enough to get stuck on a doorway and bright neon patterns were all staples of the era. They look ridiculous now, ...

Throughout the years, artists and outsiders who didn’t seem to fit in anywhere else made San Francisco a place they could call home. Neighborhoods like the Haight, the Mission, and the Castro each had ...

Video game endings were leaving a mark on players long before the medium fully embraced cinematic storytelling. Even in the NES era and the early days of home computers, making it to the final screen ...