Beef Stroganoff is a Russian dish of sautéed pieces of beef served in a sauce with sour cream. From its origins in mid-19th-century Russia, it has become popular around the world,…
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA), the main auditing source for America’s newspapers, has reported that ad revenue for newspapers has suffered its biggest decline since the 1950s. Online advertising…
The term simultaneous contrast refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other. The effect is more noticeable when shared between objects of complementary…
This is a classic music video from Madness, the English ska band from Camden Town, London. They started in 1976 as part of the late 1970s and early 1980s 2Tone ska…
The remote future is a time that is many years distant from the present. It is characteristically after the span of time culturally defined as “tomorrow.” “The Remote Future” Remotely Controlled…
Pin-up girls posed for mass-produced photographs. These pictures saw wide appeal across popular culture. The photos themselves are for informal display. Just pin them up on a wall. These pictures…
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols is the only studio album by the English punk rock group Sex Pistols. The album was released in October 1977 by Virgin Records.…
Here’s a meal with budgets in mind. Split pea patties covered in a homemade barbecue sauce. Perfect for luncheons or a light dinner. Awfully delicious and easy to make! Bon…
Punk is a subculture that originated in the mid 1970s in America, Australia and the United Kingdom. Punk embraces a wide base of ideologies and various forms of individual expression…
Fritz Willis (1907-1979) was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a formally trained artist who became known for his pin-up girl illustrations, magazine illustrations and…
Bacon is an extremely popular meat product usually prepared from pork and cured. Fresh and dried bacon are typically cooked before eating, often by frying. A side of unsliced bacon is known as a…
The definition of a best-case scenario is the most favorable result possible. A worst-case scenario is a concept where the most severe possible outcome can reasonably be applied to a given situation. best-case adj. Most favorable;…
We all judge the times by our personal situations and how hard we are affected by the not so good times. If you think times are hard now you are…
While most of the attention goes to Bettie Page, the Queen of the Pinups, for her pinup photos taken during the 1950s, there was another Betty on the scene – one…
If it can be stuffed, then it will be. Try stuffing some zucchini with some kind of ground beef mixture and liberally smother with condensed tomato soup. Awfully good! Bon…
A steak is generally a cut of beef sliced perpendicular to the muscle fibers, or of fish cut perpendicular to the spine. Meat steaks are usually grilled, pan-fried, or broiled,…
The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1984. Broadcast on BBC2, the show featured anarchic, offbeat humor which helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and…
Bass describes tones of low (deep) frequency, pitch and range. In musical compositions, such as songs and pieces, these are the lowest parts of the harmony. In popular music, the bass part, which is called the “bassline”, typically provides harmonic and rhythmic…
Try one of these old gags on somebody today and chances are you’ll be charged with some type of felony. Or worse, they may return fire with a real gun.…
Media is the collective communication outlets or tools that are used to store and deliver information or data. It is either associated with communication media, or the specialized mass media communication businesses such as print media and the press, photography, advertising, cinema, radio, television and publishing. It’s media!
