On October 23, 1993, Joe Carter hit a three-run walk-off home run off Mitch Williams in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6, giving the Toronto Blue Jays an 8-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies and their second straight World Series title. It remains only the second World Series ever decided by a…
On October 22, 1993, Oasis signed a six-album recording contract with Creation Records for a £40,000 advance, formalizing a deal label boss Alan McGee had offered on the spot five months earlier after watching the Manchester band crash an unbilled gig at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow. The contract routed through Sony worldwide,…
The Nightmare Before Christmas opened in limited release on October 13, 1993, four days after its premiere at the New York Film Festival and more than two weeks before its wide release on October 29. Disney distributed the stop-motion film through its Touchstone Pictures label instead of its own name, worried the gothic visuals —…
On September 16, 1993, Frasier made its NBC debut — a Cheers spin-off that Kelsey Grammer didn’t want to make, built around a concept Paramount had already rejected, with a cast assembled partly by accident. It ran 11 seasons, produced 264 episodes, and collected 37 Primetime Emmy Awards. Nobody saw any of that coming. The…
On July 16, 1993, Warner Bros. released Free Willy, the story of a troubled foster kid and a captive orca who wanted out. It grossed $153.7 million on a $20 million budget, closed with Michael Jackson’s “Will You Be There,” and — in the strangest twist of all — sparked a real-world campaign that eventually…
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.
Menace II Society 1993 changed hood cinema with one liquor store scene. Inside the Hughes Brothers debut, Caine, O-Dog, and the West Coast soundtrack that defined an era.
On May 30, 1993, Emerson Fittipaldi won the Indy 500 and skipped the milk for orange juice. Fans booed, dairy farmers revolted, and a tradition got more sacred.
In the spring of 1993, America sat glued to its TV sets watching a tense standoff unfold on a remote Texas compound. Fifty-one days, 76 deaths, and one charismatic doomsday preacher later, nothing would ever be the same.
Super Mario Bros. 1993 hit theaters on April 9, 1993, and even now it feels like a transmission from the weirdest possible alternate timeline. This was the first live-action movie ever built from a video game juggernaut, years before Hollywood figured out how to make game adaptations feel remotely coherent. For kids who grew up…
