Jesse Singer articles

Remember racing home, tossing your backpack down, and flipping on the TV for those oh-so-serious after-school specials? These one-hour dramas covered everything from first crushes to serious life lessons, usually with a now nostalgic mix of awkward acting, heartfelt messages, and the occasional future star.

Time travel movies can be a paradoxical playground. When they’re good, they twist your brain in the best way possible. When they’re bad, well, they can still be kinda fun. So while we are going to focus on the smartest, sharpest time travel stories that actually hold together—we also wanted to mention a few that happily throw logic out the window (and we didn't mind).

If you scroll through his playlist and start to feel like you’re reading his breakup diary—well, you might be. According to dating experts, certain songs are emotional smoke signals. From mopey pop to “I’m fine” ballads, these tunes scream one thing: he’s over it. And the playlist never lies.

Sometimes the movies we cherish most weren’t hits when they first came out. In fact, plenty of today’s cult classics were box office failures, leaving studios baffled and critics unimpressed—at least at first.

Some singers pour their souls into every note. Others? Their lawyers do. From re-recordings born out of lawsuits to albums made just to satisfy contracts, these stories show that not all music comes from inspiration—sometimes it comes from obligation. And once you know, you can hear it.

Boldly going into new moral dilemmas, thrilling sci-fi adventures, TNG gave fans some of the most human storytelling ever beamed onto TV. And here are the 30 best episodes of the entire series—ranked—from across the galaxy.

While most of us trace our names back to farmers, blacksmiths, or shopkeepers, a few lucky families can point to regal ties. These surnames are historically associated—sometimes loosely, sometimes directly—with royalty. Is yours among them?

George Carlin didn’t just tell jokes—he held up a mirror. He made people laugh at themselves, then think about why they were laughing. But in 1997, life hit him in a way that no punchline could fix. From then on, his comedy carried something raw. After that, his comedy wasn’t just funny—it was furious, and beneath the punchlines, you could feel something had cracked.

Not all one-hit wonders are created equal. Some of them didn't disappear into musical obscurity as fast as you may have remembered. These so-called one-hit wonders actually had a second hit song.