Hudson Hawk: 7 Wild Facts From May 24, 1991’s Bomb
Hudson Hawk hit theaters on May 24, 1991 and became Bruce Willis’s most notorious flop. 7 wild facts about the $65M cult classic that almost broke a career.
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On This Day: May 23, 1980 — The Shining Premieres
On May 23, 1980, Warner Bros. dropped The Shining into U.S. theaters and quietly rewired horror cinema for the next four decades. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining 1980 release wasn’t an obvious blockbuster on opening weekend — critics shrugged, Stephen King fumed, and the Razzies even nominated it for Worst Director. Forty-five years later, it’s preserved…
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The Flannel Manifesto: A Field Guide to Grunge for People Who Missed the 90s
A no-BS field guide to grunge — the bands, the secondhand flannel, and the Gen X mood that rewired the 90s in about three years flat.
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Van Gogh’s $82.5M Painting: 7 Wild Facts From May 15, 1990
The Van Gogh Portrait of Dr. Gachet auction on May 15, 1990 detonated the art market in under three minutes. Christie’s New York chairman Christopher Burge opened the bidding at $20 million and slammed his gavel down at a final hammer price of $75 million — $82.5 million with the buyer’s premium — making it…
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Soviet Exit from Afghanistan: 7 Shocking Cold War Facts From May 15, 1988
On May 15, 1988, Soviet tanks began rolling out of Afghanistan. After 9 years and 15,000 lives lost, Gorbachev called it a bleeding wound and pulled the plug. Here are 7 wild facts from the day Russia’s Vietnam finally ended.
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Seinfeld Finale: 7 Wild Facts From 1998’s TV Goodbye
The Seinfeld finale aired on May 14, 1998, and roughly 76 million Americans dropped what they were doing to watch four New Yorkers go to jail for being terrible people. Twenty-eight years later, it’s still one of the most-watched television finales in U.S. history, and it remains the most argued-about goodbye in sitcom history. This…
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How Cameron Crowe’s Singles Captured Grunge Before America Noticed
Cameron Crowe moved to Seattle in 1991 and made a romantic comedy that accidentally became the most accurate document of grunge ever filmed.
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Pope John Paul II Assassination Attempt: 7 Shocking 1981 Facts
On May 13, 1981, a Turkish gunman shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. The bullet missed his heart by millimeters. Here are 7 shocking facts about that day.
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Deep Blue vs Kasparov: 7 Stunning Moments From 1997
On May 11, 1997, Deep Blue vs Kasparov ended in a way nobody outside IBM thought possible. Garry Kasparov, the most dominant world chess champion of the modern era, resigned a game after only 19 moves against an IBM supercomputer, handing Deep Blue a 3.5–2.5 series victory in the Equitable Center in New York. It…
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Nelson Mandela Inauguration: 5 Powerful Moments in 1994
On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s first black president at the Union Buildings in Pretoria — five inauguration moments that defined the end of apartheid.
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Sub Pop Records: How Two Broke Founders Invented the Grunge Empire
Before Nirvana broke MTV, two Seattle slackers in a cramped Belltown office turned a fanzine into Sub Pop Records and manufactured the grunge movement single by single.
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Golden Girls Finale: The 1992 Goodbye That Broke 27M Hearts
On May 9, 1992, the Golden Girls finale brought 27.2 million viewers together as Dorothy Zbornak walked out of the Miami house for good in ‘One Flew Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ Here is how the goodbye played, why Bea Arthur left, and why The Golden Palace could not replace it.
