Pigs are often viewed through food-colored glasses, but they're more than just the other white meat. Sweet, loyal, and with remarkably human-like intelligence, they make great pets. And when danger strikes, pigs go ham, protecting people they care about from becoming the other dead meat.
Read MoreFew great historic disasters are without precedent, and before the catastrophic Fyre Festival there was the legendary screw up that was Woodstock '99. So what went wrong?
Read MoreWhat drives a person to see how long they can stay on a pogo stick, or how many things they can juggle underwater, or how fast they can punch?
Read MoreJames Dean is one of those actors who had an incredibly short career, yet still holds a firm place in the zeitgeist of American show business.
Read MoreMagicians are, by their very nature, big fat liars. That's their whole job -- to confuse the senses and mystify their audience. Their tricks (no, Michael, illusions!) are a series of artistically constructed con jobs designed to make you, the viewer, go "wha?"
Read MoreCommunity spread of the coronavirus within the United States has thrown a real wrench into the 2020 campaign season. So what are Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders doing to avoid getting the coronavirus?
Read MoreFinding the optimism in Sixx's dire recollections and warnings often feels like sifting for diamonds on a beach. You'll find them, though, if you look hard enough.
Read MoreMerle Haggard's youth really does sound like a country song: raised in a converted boxcar during the Great Depression, his father died when he was eight years old, after which he became a juvenile delinquent. In 1957, though, he pushed his luck a little too far.
Read MoreSam Cooke gave us such standards as "Another Saturday Night" and "Wonderful World." And then in the space of a single evening, it all went south.
Read MoreStability is not usually the word we think about with Hollywood relationships, but that's what Jessica Ditzel and Joe Rogan have.
Read MoreOn April 26th, 1986, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Chernobyl found itself quite unexpectedly exploding. With the irradiated area continuing to bring curious visitors from around the world, the question must be asked: how long will it take for it to shed its pesky radioactivity?
Read MoreIn 1969, Doors front man Jim Morrison was described as a "demonic vision out of a medieval Hellmouth," and "the Sex-death, Acid-Evangelist of Rock, a sort of Hell's Angel of the groin." Despite this, Morrison described his life in Los Angeles as "anonymous."
Read MoreJohn Wayne is revered by many. However, in 1971 he gave an ill-fated interview that would be haunting him today, if he were still alive.
Read MoreIt's easy to romanticize what life would have been like if you'd only been born a few thousand years earlier. No credit card debt. No student loans. No telemarketers. No need to pine over whether bae has watched your Insta story yet. The Bronze Age was just a simpler time. Simpler, but brutal.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 coronavirus is an increasingly worrisome disease for many countries. How dangerous is the coronavirus for children, and for that matter, young people in general?
Read MoreIn a legal battle that dragged on for years, Led Zeppelin was accused of plagiarism for the song "Stairway to Heaven." But they came out on top in the end.
Read MoreSome things go together like peanut butter and chocolate, like Johnny Depp and a certain level of cultural uneasiness, or turtles and their shells. Unless you're a hunter playing on easy mode, or a startling cartoon character, odds are that you've never seen a turtle outside of its shell. Why?
Read MoreThe wide world of sports is full of complicated dos and don’ts. Here are some of the most bizarre rules that professional athletes have to follow.
Read MoreOn the date of March 13, 2013, the Catholic Church recognized its 266th pope, when the current pontiff, Francis, was elected. The Church believes that history shows an unbroken line of popes since the time of Jesus Christ.
Read MoreOne tends to run out of superlatives when describing an artist as creative and influential as David Bowie. Can we say the same for his bank account?
Read MoreIn 2010, Tennessee resident Timothy Cranick paid a visit to the South Fulton firehouse and punched the fire chief in the face, in what can best be described as a case of fighting firefighter with fighter. Why? Cranick wanted payback after the firefighters allowed his parents' house to burn down.
Read MoreEija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer decried the fall of the Berlin Wall as a crime. "What they did was awful," she lamented. "They mutilated my husband."
Read MoreThere are many things people are asking about COVID. For instance, what is the virus doing to your poor cats and dogs?
Read MorePassenger pigeons were once perhaps the most multitudinous avians on the planet, numbering as many as 5 billion in their prime. But in 1914, the last known member of the species died at 29 years old in the care of the Cincinnati Zoo. Her name was Martha. Batman would have been furious.
Read MoreHistory has seen some pretty obscene popes. In fact, the Catholic Church saw a 60-year period of pontiffs so profane that it came to be known as the "pornocracy." This age of barefaced and often bare-butted corruption was rooted in an outrageous trial that took place in 897.
Read MoreStage travel was one way to get from Point A to Point B or even Q in the Old West -- But that doesn't mean it wasn't painful.
Read MoreIt's cliche to compare the life of a country music star to the events of a country music song, but the real-life life story of Randy Travis sounds like it was ripped from a tragic ballad.
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