Results tagged “popculture”

In the span of four short years Houston will have quadrupled the number of all-sports radio stations gracing its airwaves. Come August 20, KILE 1560 AM will be renamed KGOW after local businessman and owner David Gow when it signs on with a sports and entertainment talk format. Branded as "The Game," KGOW will enter a saturated market that includes KILT (610 AM), KBME (790 AM), and ESPN Radio affiliate KFNC (97.5 FM) The new... more ›

And now for something completely.. the same. Well, not exactly. It's no secret that Spamalot is "lovingly ripped-off" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but who can blame Eric Idle? The movie is extremely popular with everyone from British humor fans to nerdy teenage boys, and Spamalot tweaks the story just enough to keep the audience riveted, and also in stitches. We wouldn't say that the musical is exactly riding the coattails of... more ›

Ah, the 1980s — the decade of Square Pegs, big hair, leg warmers and Wham! But not everything was bad: Despite the black hole that was '80s pop culture, there was some good architecture going on — and one piece of it is for sale on Willowick Drive in River Oaks. The house in question, a 1981 contemporary design from John J. Stonehill of New York City's Stonehill & Taylor, is nestled among the... more ›

...and he's one of 6.5 million people that "Warcrack" has claimed, worldwide. And it's making their girlfriends angry...one woman scorned in favor of the game has started a Facebook group.

"When he spends night after sleepless night "raiding" with his "guild" in "Molten Core"..."Blackwing Lair" or something called "Nax(sp?)"... enough's enough. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if a real, non-computer animated volcano erupted outside his window and lava was buring through his walls, he would keep raiding (until his computer was consumed by the magma)."

It’s always fun to track the way pop culture lingo is evolving from year to year. Sunday the Global Language Monitor, a word-trend group, named the top buzz words of the year, which include originals from Comedy Central’s more ›

Brought to you by the producers of another summertime hit (albeit one of a few years ago), VH1's World Series of Pop Culture is a gameshow based on Entertainment Weekly's Pop Culture Quiz, and it's brought to you by the zany folks behind Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Sixteen three-person teams compete in tournament-style gameplay, answering questions in categories covering everything from The Brady Bunch to Buncha Crunch. The show is the first to... more ›