New Album Reviews on REBEAT Magazine
Looking for a holiday gift idea for your retro music fan? I recently reviewed three new album releases for REBEAT... First up is Ne...
Movie Review: Kopfstand (1981)
It's the holiday season, and nothing puts me in the Christmas spirit like seeing an Austrian art house film about someone thrown into...
Cos and Effect
Bill Cosby, we hardly knew you. At least it seems that way as one allegation after another has surfaced the past few weeks from women w...
Sharing Some Love for the Epilady
You may remember a few years ago I posted about my horrific earliest experiences with the Epilady--an epilator hair removal gadget tha...
Whatever Happened To...Ken Wahl?
I was sludging my way through writing a blog post about 1980s TV stars who fell from grace, partly inspired by the Bill Cosby sex scandal...
Why I'm Glad the Honey Boo Boo Show Went Kaput
Kramer called it years ago on Seinfeld... KRAMER: ...And you're the manager of the circus. JERRY: A circus? KRAMER: Come on, this...
A Song's Story #5: Superstar (Groupie)
I recently contributed to REBEAT Magazine's staff picks for guilty pleasure tunes , and while I went with the giddy, upbeat "My ...
Proof That Old Timey Halloween Was Way More Terrifying Than Modern Day Halloween
They breed. I did a blog post on this topic some years ago, but thanks to the proliferation of these photos on Pinterest and Flickr, it...
5 Songs That Made Me Happy Before "Happy"
OK Mr. Pharrell Williams, we get it--your song "Happy" is going to go down as THE proverbial song of 2014. However, long before...
New Article on REBEAT Magazine: 5 Artists That Deserve Their Own Biopics By Now
Hey all you groovy guys and gals, REBEAT Magazine has published another opinion piece of mine, 5 Artists That Deserve Their Own Biopics ...
Vintage Ads That Make You Go Blech!
We all know that sex sells, but what about content that can only be described as stomach churning? I apologize in advance for the eye and br...
Coming Soon to A Theater Near You: GoRetroPam in The Equalizer
Next week, on September 26, Denzel Washington's new movie The Equalizer opens in theaters. Why should you care and what does this ha...
For the Love of Train Travel: Thank Goodness Some Things Remain the Same
I've read lots of articles and blog posts in recent years lamenting how awful it is to travel on a commercial airliner these days com...
Movie Review: The Girl Most Likely to... (1973)
They treated her like a dog. Now, she's a fox. And she's going to make them pay. When Joan Rivers passed away last week, lo...
Checking in With the Labor Search This Labor Day Weekend
It isn't that often that I deviate from the retro-related observations to post personal stuff on Go Retro but it's been my experi...
Mother's Little Helper: Vintage Drug Ads Aimed at Women
Something I've discovered recently is how many prescription anti-anxiety drugs were marketed towards women or their husbands back in ...
Suddenly, Everyone Today is An Artist
Over the weekend I watched a lovely indie film released in 2009 called Local Color . It was based on the true story in the early '70s...
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