It might sound like one of those made-up stories that gets passed around on social media every once in a while, but there was actually a time when Jimi Hendrix went on tour with the Monkees. The year was 1967, and Hendrix had just made his first major concert appearance in the U....
Currently up there with Ebola and AI-induced human extinction as a matter of deep global concern, people sitting at home and masturbating too much has given rise to a brand new subcultural tribe. The subject of tabloid outrage, social media derision, and award-winning journalisti...
Once a band establishes its signature sound, fans can be surprised when they branch out. Sometimes, genre-bending can be beneficial, resulting in an unexpected hit song. That’s how these 3 rock hits from the 1990s sound nothing like the rest of the bands’ work.
Married… With Children star Katey Sagal landed her first acting gig in 1971, with the help of her father, director Boris Sagal. “He used to always tell me, ‘You should be an actress,’” Sagal recalled during an interview with Elle in 2012. “When I was 17, he gave me a job so that ...
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Just after receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2020, Burt Ward—who played Robin on the 1960s Batman TV series—decided to have a little chat with Page Six about his apparently massive penis, for whatever reason. As Ward explained back then, he’d gotten himself into...
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Humans sitting around a campfire, telling stories, spooky or otherwise, may have been just the evolutionary shot in the arm our ability to convey knowledge and experience with language needed to evolve to where it is today, as researchers theorize in a paper published in Proceedi...
Mercury has been moving quickly all summer — through Cancer, Leo, Virgo — covering ground at the pace you prefer. September opens with your ruling planet still in Virgo, and that’s where the month’s first lesson lives. Virgo is Mercury’s other home sign, but it operates different...
You’ve spent two months getting to know your own desires better than you usually let yourself. July asked you to be honest about what you value. August ran Venus through Neptune’s idealism and Saturn’s reality check in the same month — what do you actually want, and are you willi...
PlayStation just announced a big list of updates to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, including a particularly strong mix of smaller and indie titles.
Singer Raz-B, of the millennial boy band B2K, is mourning the tragic death of his three-month-old son. In the wake of this, the group is reportedly continuing their current tour.
In the early 90s, hair bands were fading, and the future of rock was unclear. That is, until Nirvana released “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on September 10, 1991. Before then, grunge was still in the underground music scene of Seattle, Washington. The Seattle scene established the ge...
Between 1995 and 1998, Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman three times. He was scheduled for a fourth interview in 1999, but never made it on the air. Interestingly enough, Korine was backstage that evening, and his actions behin...
When you think of the greatest producers in hip-hop, it won’t take you too long to mention Kanye West. His brand of soulful chops and reworking of old classics made him one of the premier producers of the 2000s. But as he branched out into his own work, his productions grew more ...
Kaggle, an online data science community that regularly hosts machine learning competitions with prizes often in the tens of thousands of dollars, has uncovered a cheating scandal involving a winning team. The Google subsidiary announced on Friday that the winner of a competition...
We have a powerful new moon occurring in the sign of Virgo on Thursday, September 10—and some zodiac signs will finally be taking action toward their dreams. Here’s everything you should know about the upcoming new moon, including how you can work with its powerful energy.
Sometimes you hear a song and think, “This could be the next big thing.” Over time, you realize you never hear anything else from the artists. Suddenly, your favorite hit is thrown in the one-hit wonder category, only to be rediscovered later. These three alternative rock songs f...