Why You Should Watch The NeverEnding Story as an Adult
The NeverEnding Story was a classic children’s fantasy of the 1980s, right up there with The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Legend, and The Last Unicorn in creating a latticework of terrifying…
Shock G, Humpty Hump Rapper and Frontman of Digital Underground, Dead at 57
Shock G, the co-founder of the iconic hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died. He was 57. The rapper, born Gregory Jacobs, was found dead on Thursday. “Our son, brother and…
The Way We Live Now
By Susan Sontag November 16, 1986 my gynecologist says that everyone is at risk, everyone who has a sexual life, because sexuality is a chain that links each of us…
Why rappers love Grey Poupon
Charting the rise of hip hop's favorite condiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOgPk5T1xi0
The Night The Block Burned Down: Philadelphia’s MOVE Bombing
How the Philadelphia police leveled a whole block to take down an unlikely messiah figure.
The Undersea Horror Movies of the Late 1980s
Between January 1989 and the spring of 1990, no fewer than five films all came out with a similar theme – DeepStar Six was first, followed by Leviathan, Lords Of…
Ghostbusters is a Surprising Antidote to Lovecraft’s Dismal Worldview
Ghostbusters is a perfectly structured film. Desire lines are clear scene by scene. Act breaks are sharp and propulsive. Every payoff is set up early in the film, including Mr. Stay-Puft. The…
Amusing manga of The Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, Marc Bolan, Hanoi Rocks & more from the 80s
Written in Japanese, most (if not all) are likely by the the rather prolific manga artist Atsuko Shima—but she wasn’t the only artist that created the cartoons that featured popular…
The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened
The Bizarre Modern Reality of The Simpsons