The grunge resurgence in 2020s fashion has reached photo-finish accuracy — pull up a shot from Lollapalooza 1993 and a clip from last summer’s Glastonbury and you’ll have to check the date stamp to tell which is which.
The Trapper Keeper Mead sold 75 million units between 1978 and the late 90s. Here’s why this 80s binder ruled every locker, hallway, and lunch table.
The Karate Kid Part II opened wide on June 20, 1986, and ended its first weekend with $12.6 million in the bank — a franchise record at the time, more than half a million dollars above what the original earned in its 1984 debut. By Labor Day, John G. Avildsen’s sequel had outgrossed The Karate…
A 21-year-old pop star is dressing like Courtney Love at the Reading Festival, and the entire fashion industry is sprinting to keep up. Here’s how Olivia Rodrigo turned a thrift-store aesthetic into the dominant look of the decade.
Every time the economy cracks, grunge crawls back out. It happened in 1991. It is happening again in 2024. The flannel knows something we don’t.
The Cosby Show saved NBC, redrew Black middle-class TV, and left a cultural legacy that now lives uneasily alongside Bill Cosby’s conviction. The full Huxtable story.
In 1988, the FBI’s Assistant Director, Milt Ahlerich, sent a letter to N.W.A.’s record label complaining about a song. The letter is famous — every rap fan knows about it. What gets forgotten is that the rap group whose actual catalog scared federal agents the most was Public Enemy, and Chuck D had been telling…
Slip dresses, baby barrettes, and smudged lipstick clawed their way out of 1994 and onto TikTok. The kinderwhore look is grunge’s loudest 2020s comeback — and Gen Z has no idea who to thank.
Winona Ryder slouched through Reality Bites in 1994 wearing thrifted slip dresses, combat boots, and a borrowed cardigan. Three decades later, Gen Z rebuilt her entire wardrobe and called it the grunge revival.
The Lost Boys 1987 turned Santa Cruz into Santa Carla and made vampires cool again. Here are 9 wild facts behind Joel Schumacher’s cult classic.
On June 11, 1982, a wrinkly little alien with a glowing fingertip and a heart-light walked into 1,103 American theaters and walked back out with $11,835,389 in three days — and Hollywood was never the same. The E.T. 1982 release wasn’t supposed to be a phenomenon. Steven Spielberg’s small, personal film about a lonely boy…
The Back to the Beach movie reunited Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in 1987 — Pee-wee Herman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the Big Kahuna explained.
