Grunge circles weren't the cozy love-in that fans would perhaps prefer to imagine them as. "There was a rivalry to have your voice be heard, and be successful," is how Courtney Love described the situation.
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Michael Jordan's very own personal model of basketball (not baseball) shoes, the Air Jordan, created and marketed by Nike. Jordan himself, says Forbes, has taken home some $1.3 billion dollars for his troubles since the deal was inked in 1984. Here are the shoes he wore during each championship.
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If there is ever an appropriate time for an athlete to take their ball and go home, it's when they're playing the game of life against a deadly pandemic. But when the 1918 flu ravaged humanity, it turned daily life into a-life-or-death struggle.
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Hardly anyone can think of classic Hollywood without recalling actress Grace Kelly. She wasn't in very many films, but she had a huge impact.
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Andy Kaufman was a true original, and there has never been anyone else like him. While Kaufman's life ended in tragedy, the stories he created on the way there are unforgettable.
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The Ramones became of the most influential and important rock bands of all time. All the same, the Ramones' tragic real-life story is full of full of heartbreak and tragedy.
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It is an unfortunate fact that financial woes can come to any of us, no matter our level of success or our adamant stance on the subject of whether or not we can be touched. M.C. Hammer, born Stanley Kirk Burrell, came into money hard and fast when he released Please Hammer, Don't Hurt Em in 1990.
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After Richard the Lionheart died in 1199, people removed portions of his corpse and buried them separately in accordance with royal custom.
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David Crosby has been knocking around the biggest stages of rock and pop for nearly 60 years, and his untold truth is anything but gentle and folksy.
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It's been the better part of half a century since Antiques Roadshow took to the airwaves in its original British format. Yes, Antiques Roadshow started out as a BBC production. It's a show about people complimenting other people's musky possessions in moderate tones. This shouldn't be a shock.
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Among the more intriguing elements of Jet Li's personal life was his decision to renounce his American citizenship and jet off to new lands. What country could possibly propel Jet Li to just leave?
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KISS: a thing you shouldn't do all night or every day with strangers when faced with a highly contagious virus. And as of May, it's also a legendary band you won't catch playing on a cruise ship until at least 2021.
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Korn's nuanced, anguished lyrics serve as a means of catharsis both for them and the band's millions of fans. All that pain in Korn's music is real.
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As any Gen X'er who still wears acid wash jeans and calls people "dude" can attest, Winger was, for a while there, a band. According to some, it was none other than Beavis and Butthead who brought Winger down.
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In the film Bohemian Rhapsody, Jim Hutton is portrayed as romantic Yoda who, in many ways, fixes the troubled rock star. The reality of Jim and Freddie's time together was a lot less cinematic.
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Most people think athletes make mountains of money. That's not true, only some do. While athletes in their prime tend to command more when negotiating their contracts, only a rarefied few get to become and remain billionaires, and it takes a combination of luck and skill.
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For most people, a tsunami isn't a near-death experience — it's an uncheatable death. Tsunami researcher and forecaster Vasily Titov called it the reverse of an earthquake in terms of casualties, because it's such a difficult disaster to survive.
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The old joke is, "Where does a 500-pound gorilla sit?" And the answer is, "Anywhere he wants!" So, what kind of car does one of the world's richest men drive? Anything he wants. And what he wants, historically, is ...
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But stepping up to the plate before either Bogart or Chaplin were the world's most famous knuckleheads: The Three Stooges -- three Jewish men, former vaudevillians, not generally recognized for their political commentary.
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In a 2008 piece written for Esquire, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk explained his interest in manned interstellar travel by laying out some of the most likely threats to the human race. And do you know what else would be pretty bad? A Friday without boozy creations like Jello shots.
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From Jim Morrison's early days as a star in the making to his wild partying antics and ultimate, untimely demise, the singer unashamedly lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle until the very end. Unfortunately, this was not necessarily a good thing. This is the troubled history of Jim Morrison.
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Patsy Cline's tragic real-life story is the epitome of a country music song: dreams of love and fame punctuated by tough breaks and hard times.
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It's never easy, watching a member of an iconic group take their first tenuous baby bird steps out of the nest and plummet like a fleshy brick. Nobody hit terminal velocity with the same aplomb as Paul McCartney, and his band Wings.
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The Three Stooges was an act that went all the way back into vaudeville. The act lasted nearly 50 years, and though Moe, Larry and Curly were the most famous, there were other "replacements" throughout the shows tenure.
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Prior to performing his final song for MTV Unplugged in New York, Kurt Cobain shared an anecdote about a very special guitar. He was preparing to play "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," a song by his favorite performer: Lead Belly. He got it, and now it's selling for way more.
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Don't call it a comeback. He's been here for years, specifically 53 years. But that's not why you shouldn't call it a comeback. No one knows yet whether Iron Mike Tyson is actually coming back to the ring.
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Paul L. Vasquez shared a rare depth of wonder and appreciation with a viral YouTube video in which he effusively gushed over the sight of a double rainbow.
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