The PSA star, deployed in the wild Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.com Smokey Bear turns 75 on Aug. 9. The star of the longest-running public-service advertising campaign in U.S. history is now big on social media, with Facebook,…
A ‘back-to-back’ Beetle rolls along the road at the 2006 Houston Art Car Parade. D.L./flickr, CC BY-SA With a mariachi band playing along, the last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line of a Mexican…
It’s the case of the missing ‘a.’ Nick Lehr/The Conversation via NASA, CC BY-SA On July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface…
Midlife is one of the least understood, appreciated and studied life stages. Sarah2/Shutterstock.com The way my mom imagined it, midlife was going to be great: counting down days until retirement, spending winters in Florida and…
Chesley Bonestell’s detailed drawings of space stations in Collier’s inspired millions of readers. James Vaughan/flickr, CC BY-NC In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program,…
When it comes to a terminal diagnosis, how can families talk about the unthinkable? A24 To my 87-year-old grandmother, not many subjects are taboo. She was treated for colorectal cancer in 1996, and she still…
China is projected to surpass the U.S. in box office receipts in 2020. DGArt3D/Shutterstock.com Marvel’s “Shang-Chi” – the studio’s first Asian superhero movie – is a sign of the times. Destin Daniel Cretton, who is…
When a group of white and African American integrationists entered a St. Augustine, Fla. segregated hotel pool in 1964, the hotel manager poured acid into it. AP Photo Summers often bring a wave of childhood…
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold. And even then, they’ve done so while facing tremendous discrimination and resistance from organizers, other wrestlers and fans….
In 2018, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love went public with his panic attacks and struggles with anxiety. Reuters/Kim Klement-USA Today Sports The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel…