On one beautiful August night in NYC, disco rose from the dead — and thousands of dancing queens came out to celebrate, including me. Back in the galvanizing genre’s late 1970s heyday, I was just a couple of years too young to squeeze my way into Studio 54, or any of the other clubs that shook … Read more
Once a familiar sight in American lunchboxes, olive loaf, a processed deli meat studded with green olives and red pimentos, has nearly disappeared from shelves. Its cameo in the 1985 film “The Breakfast Club” cemented its place in pop culture, only to be discarded like it was in the movie when Ally Sheedy’s character Allison Reynolds opted … Read more
It took just a few minutes into this 2023 documentary for me to be dumbfounded that I had never heard about this chapter in American history, when an entire school bus of children and their driver, 27 people in total, disappeared mid-route on a hot summer day in 1976 in the small California town of … Read more
Music executive Neil Bogart’s career took off thanks to an extramarital affair. In the early 1970s, Bogart leaned in to kiss his mistress, Joyce Biawitz, and saw a demo labeled “Kiss.” “Kiss — that’s a good name,” Bogart said. “Do you really wanna talk business right now?” Biawitz, who was Kiss’ manager, replied. Soon after, … Read more