Browsing: nostalgia

Who remembers “Bleep and Booster” of Blue Peterfame? Voiced by Peter Hawkins. There’s a smashing guide here (annoying popup ads aside) from Laurence Marcus, reflecting on the serial, featuring art by William Timym

In the early 2000s, an average Disney Channel viewer — millennial kids, at the time — could come home from school and catch new episodes of “Hannah Montana,” “That’s So Raven,” “The Proud Family,” “Wizards of Waverly Place” and more. That night, they might see “The Cheetah Girls,” “Camp Rock” or “High School Musical” as…

Fan Expo Chicago 2026 is anticipating record-breaking attendance for this year’s show, running Friday, Aug. 14 through Saturday, Aug. 16, 2026, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois (close to O’Hare airport). Tickets are on sale now, where you can buy single-day passes, multi-day, family, youth and child.

Walk through any college campus right now and it can feel like stepping into a Y2K music video. Low-rise jeans are so back, as are butterfly clips, chunky belts and even flip phones. It’s a full-scale takeover of the trends that defined the early 2000s by Gen Z, a generation that was barely alive, or…

Palm Springs, CA (The Hollywood Times) 7/15/26 – There comes a point in adulthood when the music, television shows and larger-than-life heroes of our youth begin to feel more exciting than whatever is waiting in the present. Raging Midlife takes that familiar longing, wraps it in spandex and sends it crashing into the ring with an…