Pop Culture Lunch Box

I was always much more on the side of the Nirvana/Mudhoney/Screaming Trees family tree of 1990s Seattle grunge. I flat-out didn't like P...

Even though I was a daily newspaper journalist for several years way back at the start of my career, I still love it when journalists open u...

It’s no wonder that it seems Lenny Kravitz has always been around. His awesome debut album was released a whopping 35 years ago. MOJO Magazi...

Always thinking back to The Jetsons, we keep asking whatever happened to the flying cars we were promised. I was quoted about this alongside...

In 1981, Rolling Stone proclaimed Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook as the next John Lennon and Paul McCartney. That definitely did not happe...

Adam Ant was one of the first MTV music stars who I remember melding with my pre-teen worldview of wanting to like popular music combined wi...

MOJO Magazine recently scored an exclusive interview with Paul McCartney, made even more meaningful because former Wings guitarist Denny La...

MAD About TV is a top-notch 1999 collection of TV spoofs from MAD Magazine.  Here I’m reviewing the takeoffs on All in the Family, Columbo ...

News this week that Sports Illustrated has fired its entire staff and Pitchfork has been folded under GQ's operations is not exactly sho...

Sure, I’ve always known the song “The Way We Were.” And I dug “Guilty” and “Woman in Love” since they were from her album of duets with Barr...

One of the most gripping magazine articles I've read this year was in the October issue of GQ. Called "The Race to Catch the Last N...

Supposedly not a cool confession to make, but when I was a pre-teen, the top of the music heap for me was Michael Jackson, Hall and Oates, a...

Malcolm David Kelley as Walt and Harold Perrineau as Michael  If you've never watched Lost and don't want to go down that 121-episod...

Honeymoon-Scott, Chambers, Hynde, Farndon (l-r) I've always considered Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders one of the very most cool rocker...

The perfect storm for a great comedy, in my book, mixes how touching a film is, hilarity, and a great soundtrack. That’s probably why School...

It’s hard to believe it was more than 20 years ago that I sat on the bleachers, mere feet away from the action, watching Andy Roddick play d...

Gram Parsons has always left me spellbound. Songs like “Brass Buttons,” “The New Soft Shoe,” “She,” “A Song for You, and “Streets of Baltimo...

Issue 312 of Classic Rock Magazine digs deep on the metal god’s fifth album, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and was the result o...

It’s hard to believe I’ve loved so many rock bands for so long. Forget the super classics like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. All these later...

Book of the Month: The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll : I’ve always been mildly interested in what some of the most tried and true s...