"Hey, that's a pretty handsome photo of Karl Myers," you're probably saying to yourself right about now. "Wait a minute, is that popular and easygoing comedic actor Paul Rudd in some sort of long-but-not-exactly flowing wig?"
You'd think that after 25 years, the jam would surely have been pumped up by now. But apparently it hasn't, and some brave souls refuse to rest until the mission is complete.
Republican New York mayoral nominee Joe Lhota has brought a new, urgent issue to the fore in the race to be the next chief executive of the city: Where do the candidates stand on the Nicaraguan civil war of the 1980s?
If Twitter had existed in 1980, you might have found this gem on the feed of U.S. Olympic hockey player Buzz Schneider: "Is that a gun in your pants? Or are you just a KGB agent?"
On Sunday night, the National Geographic Channel kicks off three nights of '80s mania with the first episode of The ‘80s: The Decade That Made Us. In honor of this incredibly rad development, '80s authority Robb Skidmore cooked up some fan fiction starring two charmingly insufferable relics from the Me Decade, the…
Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik — a big fan of wetsuits, hazmat suits and Lacoste sweaters — has enraged iconic French fashion brand Lacoste by mentioning the company in his manifesto and wearing it repeatedly outside of jail. In fact, the unwanted attention is getting so bad that the company has written to…
Times Square has always been one of the worst parts of town. Now it's crammed with badly dressed tourists waddling along the sidewalk trying to find M&M World. Back in 1986, it was just as bad.
Feathered hair, ripped jean cut-offs, muscle tees and tube socks: these were abundant in 1980s Brooklyn. After watching this video, one thing is clear: there's a void on TV that needs to be filled— and not by current Williamsburg residents.
ABC's after school special "Ace Hits the Big Time" was a revolutionary event. Marvel as a group of purple-clad men dance around revolutionary bowling commentator and former Mr. Belvedere cast member, Rob Stone (he was the older brother).
They're gonna punch his front teeth way back into his mouth!
Happy 25th anniversary of coked-out young dudes writing novels about being coked-out young dudes! To celebrate, Random House is finally updating the cover of Bright Lights, Big City.
Ha, Barack Obama's official photographer thinks he snapped this shot of a young Vladimir Putin standing there dressed like a big old nerd, ready to meet Ronald Reagan, 21 years ago in Moscow. Conspiracy?
Who made your heart and knees go all to jittery goo the quickest in the movies and TV shows of the wonderful 1980s? My personal fave has never-as far as I know-been filmed in the delightful leg-warmers of the period, so that field is wide open. And, yes, boy-crushes are welcome.
I love watching old TV commercials because they remind me of Saturday mornings and of a civilized age when you had four channels and when the cartoons told you they'd be right back after these messages, you believed them and you watched the messages because they were fun and if you watched them the cartoons really …
"'Heroes' star Hayden Panettiere has signed on to topline 'Daydream Nation,' a teenage comedy from writer Michael Goldbach, who is making his directorial debut. Kieran Culkin is in negotiations to star as well. ... The producers are hoping to reinvent the coming-of-age story for the 21st century, calling the film an…
Those born after 1975 probably won't remember New York's greatest and most tabloidiest gay, Andrew Crispo. He was a hoity-toity art dealer and sadomasochist who was—the week after he left prison for tax evasion!—the victim of a blown-up Hamptons home which happily provided him with a $5-million settlement. He would…
