Hatchimals make for the “it” toy this season

There’s no doubt, aside from the hard to find NES Classic Edition, the “must have” toy of this holiday season had to be Hatchimals. If you don’t have kids or yours are some of the few who haven’t been begging for them for months, picture a friendlier version of a Furby hatching out of a giant bird’s egg.

Simpsons continues to describe and define culture - for 30 years and counting

Were you there in the beginning? When a sketch short from a long-defunct comedy show became an American institution? Fox recently announced it would be renewing The Simpsons for a record 29th and 30th seasons. Homer, Bart and all the yellow-hued denizens of fictional Springfield will reach at least episode 669, making it far and away the longest-running weekly episodic program, outpacing even Gunsmoke, which ran 635 before the Marshal fired his final shot.

Vince Neil guilty of battery

Throughout the 80s, during the heyday of Hair Metal, no band defined hard rock excess quite like Motley Crue. The band was notorious on the road for drug-fueled debauchery and headline-grabbing shenanigans. Sometimes, they went a bit too far.

Lester Holt puts NBC in the spotlight

These days, the battle for “eyes on” your content is fragmented so much that even the traditional Big Three Networks are desperate for ratings to control the narrative and satisfy their advertisers. In a 24-7 news consumer culture, the networks and their personalities are becoming as much a part of the story as the candidates themselves.

Feldman marching ahead after rough Today Show appearance

He was the darling child actor in the early 80s who became part of a duo of Teen Beat heartthrobs in the late 80s and early 90s … but a recent appearance on The Today Show has many people wondering “what happened to Corey Feldman.”