Pop Culture Lunch Box

Remember when you used to hear one song that would be so good that you would go out and immediately buy the CD or album? In my teens, "...

Henry Kissinger advised 12 - yes, 12! - presidents on foreign policy and has passed away at the age of 100. I’m not sure whether he helped C...

9/11: One Day in America was sitting on my DVR for a long time. The 2021 six-part National Geographic documentary (that they show at the 9/...

When it comes to female indie rockers of the 1990s, I put Liz Phair, Juliana Hatfield, and Kim Deal at the very top. So it was awesome to fi...

It's been a long time since I had nightmares after watching a film, but it happened last night after I watched 2019's Midsommar.  Fl...

I’ve been reading The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach . The author, Sarah Stodola, after years as a tra...

The whole time I was watching CODA, I was trying to figure out what the title meant. Since the story is largely about music, I figured that ...

Legendary Sonic Youth singer/guitarist Thurston Moore just released his first book, Sonic Life, which is a mix of autobiography and music hi...

Noa Tishby grew up in the suburbs of Tel Aviv and became a child actor. After she got out of the mandatory Israeli military, she moved to Lo...

Rosalynn Smith was young Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth's best friend back in 1945 when he asked his sister to set them up. It was pract...