Fellow 1970s kids, you have to get the new Rifftra x short, "Litter Monster." Not only did you probably see it when you were a ki...

I'm no Pinterest queen, but my friend Dana wanted to have a Harry Potter birthday party for her daughter. Now, you can find tons of Star...

I read a lot. On my phone, on my laptop, in print newspapers, paper magazines, books, Kindle, whatever ya got. I've been a journalist ev...

Need a holiday gift? How about giving a childhood friend Brian Bellmont's and my two pop-culture books? The perfect present for the best...

Facebook reminds me that four years ago yesterday, actor Harry Morgan died. I can't remember if I used this anecdote in the obit I wrote...

My latest review for  The Seattle Review of Books  is of the Microsoft Research-inspired "Future Visions." My favorite line is ...

So I'm back in the freelance-writing game after being laid off from NBC earlier in the year. My first story is. of course, something rel...

I lived through every day of the 1970s and relived many of them when co-authoring "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?" Therefore I...

I love this so much. The young stars of "The Brady Bunch" did a heckuva lot of cheesy movies and TV when they weren't hanging ...

This headline is misleading, I thought maybe they were going to install Scary Lucy in a haunted house and people would turn the corner, see...

Ha, I so remember Contempo Casuals as a mall fixture from the 1980s-90s. I thought it was an oddly named store even then, and was wondering ...