Pop Culture Lunch Box

I didn’t go baseball crazy until the late 1970s, so I missed all the hoopla by a handful of years. But anyone who knows a little about the g...

Bill Walton was mostly before my time in the worlds of college and pro basketball, but he was so much bigger than life that it was impossibl...

Maybe it’s just a matter of getting older and wiser, but it seems like the movie Super Size Me was the point in my life when I went from reg...

Western Ontario may not have been the best place to grow up for a kid, but for Alice Munro, it provided a fertile ground of small-town chara...

I know a lot of rock'n'roll hipsters like to proclaim the greatness of producer/musician Steve Albini , and while I can appreciate a...

I don't go super deep with Southern Rock. Sure, I love Lynyrd Skynyrd, Drive-by Truckers, The Black Crowes, and Jason Isbell. And I can...

If you grew up in the St. Louis area in the 1980s like I did, then chances are you'll never have a more favorite Major League Baseball t...

It was 41 years ago - on March 2, 1983 - that I saw my first real rock n' roll concert. My dad and his girlfriend took me and my new jun...

I was just a little too young to watch O.J. Simpson during his prime Buffalo Bills era, although I still have some cards from when he was on...

Back at the dawn of the modern election-conspiracy era, Al Gore and his running mate Joe Lieberman, despite winning a half-million more vote...

I've always loved the Beatles, but in college I was absolutely nutso for them. It was also a time I was deeply exploring anything in the...

Mwinyi with Michael Jackson Tanzania became independent from Great Britain in 1961 and Ali Hassan Mwinyi became the East African nation'...

For me, Golden Richards was the epitome of the pretty-boy Dallas Cowboys of the 1970s. I also think Richards, the talented wide receiver wh...

"Two thin layers of dry, rectangular pastry with a sweet filling and frosting" doesn't necessarily sound like something that w...

Marley and Barrett Anyone who has ever listened to a lot of Bob Marley and the Wailers knows that sound. That bounce. That groove. That skro...

Herbert Coward is not a name anyone knows. But his short, albeit horrifying, performance is one of the most memorable ones I can think of in...

When I was a kid, my friends and I watched Caddyshack over and over again. We must have watched it 10 times at my friend Dewey's house a...

I mostly remembered hearing about Ryan O’Neal because I’m a lifelong tennis fan and his daughter, Tatum O’Neal, was married to John McEnroe....

The years 1993 to 1997 were my most sports-crazed years as an adult. I worked as the sports editor at The Alestle, the student newspaper of ...

When little Norman Lear was a kid growing up in Connecticut, his dad Herman would say “stifle!” to his mom Jeanette when he didn’t like what...