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These fawning, faux-friendly celebrity interviews make my teeth ache
By Virginia TrioliWhy is it that every interviewer now feels they must arrive to their four-minute-long encounter with a gift, a scrapbook, or a movie stub they've hung onto for decades?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-13/fawning-faux-friendly-celebrity-interviews/106788096
#Celebrities #Media #Movies #PopularCulture #InternetCulture #VirginiaTrioli
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These fawning, faux-friendly celebrity interviews make my teeth ache
By Virginia TrioliWhy is it that every interviewer now feels they must arrive to their four-minute-long encounter with a gift, a scrapbook, or a movie stub they've hung onto for decades?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-13/fawning-faux-friendly-celebrity-interviews/106788096
#Celebrities #Media #Movies #PopularCulture #InternetCulture #VirginiaTrioli
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Taylor Swift, Alanis Morissette inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame
By Mawunyo GbogboTaylor Swift has become the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She's among the writers behind some of pop's biggest hits to be inducted in 2026.
#MusicAwards #PopularCulture #MusicIndustry #AwardsandPrizes #MawunyoGbogbo
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Taylor Swift, Alanis Morissette inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame
By Mawunyo GbogboTaylor Swift has become the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She's among the writers behind some of pop's biggest hits to be inducted in 2026.
#MusicAwards #PopularCulture #MusicIndustry #AwardsandPrizes #MawunyoGbogbo
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Roxane Gay and Channing Tatum join forces thanks to this Australian
By Mawunyo GbogboIt's possible the ball may not have got rolling on Roxane Gay and Channing Tatum's upcoming novel if it wasn't for an Australian connection. Gay will appear at Vivid Sydney in a wide-ranging discussion.
#RomanceBooks #CommunityandCulturalEvents #AI #PopularCulture #MawunyoGbogbo
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Roxane Gay and Channing Tatum join forces thanks to this Australian
By Mawunyo GbogboIt's possible the ball may not have got rolling on Roxane Gay and Channing Tatum's upcoming novel if it wasn't for an Australian connection. Gay will appear at Vivid Sydney in a wide-ranging discussion.
#RomanceBooks #CommunityandCulturalEvents #AI #PopularCulture #MawunyoGbogbo
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Hackaday: Print Your Own Robby The Robot. “When it comes to robots, few are as iconic as Robby. [Ogrinz Labs] has wanted to build one and even examined a real one up for auction to get high-res photos of it. He also combined his designs with some other open-source designs, and it looks good. He’s released his design as a Creative Commons-licensed set of STL files that you, in theory, could […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/10/hackaday-print-your-own-robby-the-robot/ -
Hackaday: Print Your Own Robby The Robot. “When it comes to robots, few are as iconic as Robby. [Ogrinz Labs] has wanted to build one and even examined a real one up for auction to get high-res photos of it. He also combined his designs with some other open-source designs, and it looks good. He’s released his design as a Creative Commons-licensed set of STL files that you, in theory, could […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/10/hackaday-print-your-own-robby-the-robot/ -
I don't want to name names, but a picture I saw earlier today has made it impossible for me to believe a celebrity's denial of ever having had plastic surgery.
Will it ever be possible to discuss this topic honestly? Or is it wrong to think that a celebrity's plastic surgery should ever be a topic fit for public discussion?
Image: thelucascenter.com
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I don't want to name names, but a picture I saw earlier today has made it impossible for me to believe a celebrity's denial of ever having had plastic surgery.
Will it ever be possible to discuss this topic honestly? Or is it wrong to think that a celebrity's plastic surgery should ever be a topic fit for public discussion?
Image: thelucascenter.com
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Idris Elba shuts down the idea of a black James Bond
By Mawunyo GbogboIdris Elba has quashed rumours he was ever in the running to play James Bond, saying audiences are unlikely to come along for the ride if Bond is played by a black actor.
#ActionMovies #PopularCulture #Actor #FilmIndustry #Celebrities #ThrillerFilms #MawunyoGbogbo
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I'm pleased to share that I'll be presenting my paper "Strange Girls Now Missing: How Dark Academia Storytelling Revisits Historical Cold Cases" in the "History and Popular Uses of the Past" track at the 2026 annual conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) online in October.
#DarkAcademia #TrueCrime #MissingPersons #History #Gothic #Histodons #Literature #Academics #PopularCulture #OnlineConference -
I'm pleased to share that I'll be presenting my paper "Strange Girls Now Missing: How Dark Academia Storytelling Revisits Historical Cold Cases" in the "History and Popular Uses of the Past" track at the 2026 annual conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) online in October.
#DarkAcademia #TrueCrime #MissingPersons #History #Gothic #Histodons #Literature #Academics #PopularCulture #OnlineConference -
The Guardian: Colbert launches YouTube channel less than a week after late-night show ends. “Stephen Colbert hasn’t even been off the air for a week, but is already causing some hubbub with the launch of a new YouTube channel that has garnered more than 120,000 subscribers.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/the-guardian-colbert-launches-youtube-channel-less-than-a-week-after-late-night-show-ends/ -
The Guardian: Colbert launches YouTube channel less than a week after late-night show ends. “Stephen Colbert hasn’t even been off the air for a week, but is already causing some hubbub with the launch of a new YouTube channel that has garnered more than 120,000 subscribers.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/the-guardian-colbert-launches-youtube-channel-less-than-a-week-after-late-night-show-ends/ -
Radio Times: Doctor Who missing episodes addressed as Film is Fabulous founder explains preservation project. “Film is Fabulous founder John Franklin has shared an update on the charitable trust’s work to catalogue and preserve private film collections, while also clarifying its current position on missing Doctor Who episodes.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/radio-times-doctor-who-missing-episodes-addressed-as-film-is-fabulous-founder-explains-preservation-project/ -
Radio Times: Doctor Who missing episodes addressed as Film is Fabulous founder explains preservation project. “Film is Fabulous founder John Franklin has shared an update on the charitable trust’s work to catalogue and preserve private film collections, while also clarifying its current position on missing Doctor Who episodes.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/radio-times-doctor-who-missing-episodes-addressed-as-film-is-fabulous-founder-explains-preservation-project/ -
KXAN: Sharon Osbourne to release AI avatar of late husband Ozzy Osbourne. “Ten months after legendary rock singer Ozzy Osbourne died, his family is working to keep his memory alive. Sharon Osbourne, his wife, and Jack Osbourne, his son, are working to create an artificial intelligence-powered avatar of the Prince of Darkness.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/26/kxan-sharon-osbourne-to-release-ai-avatar-of-late-husband-ozzy-osbourne/ -
KXAN: Sharon Osbourne to release AI avatar of late husband Ozzy Osbourne. “Ten months after legendary rock singer Ozzy Osbourne died, his family is working to keep his memory alive. Sharon Osbourne, his wife, and Jack Osbourne, his son, are working to create an artificial intelligence-powered avatar of the Prince of Darkness.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/26/kxan-sharon-osbourne-to-release-ai-avatar-of-late-husband-ozzy-osbourne/ -
FUN, INSIGHTFUL COMEDY of manners set in an implausible fever dream environment: a fan cruise for a reunited 1980s boy band. Captures the impact of aging, nostalgia, parasocial hypercapitalism, and our longing for even manufactured authenticity. A MINUS
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #humor #satire #popularculture #popmusic
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FUN, INSIGHTFUL COMEDY of manners set in an implausible fever dream environment: a fan cruise for a reunited 1980s boy band. Captures the impact of aging, nostalgia, parasocial hypercapitalism, and our longing for even manufactured authenticity. A MINUS
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #humor #satire #popularculture #popmusic
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The Oaklandside: Berkeley toddler who inspired bestseller ‘Go the F**k to Sleep’ is now off to college. “With the publication of Adam’s latest book, the fourth in the series, ‘Go the F**k to College,’ the spotlight again shifts to Vivien, the eldest of Mansbach’s three children, completing a circle that began with their arrival. Now 18 and a high school senior, they will be leaving for […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/the-oaklandside-berkeley-toddler-who-inspired-bestseller-go-the-fk-to-sleep-is-now-off-to-college/ -
The Oaklandside: Berkeley toddler who inspired bestseller ‘Go the F**k to Sleep’ is now off to college. “With the publication of Adam’s latest book, the fourth in the series, ‘Go the F**k to College,’ the spotlight again shifts to Vivien, the eldest of Mansbach’s three children, completing a circle that began with their arrival. Now 18 and a high school senior, they will be leaving for […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/the-oaklandside-berkeley-toddler-who-inspired-bestseller-go-the-fk-to-sleep-is-now-off-to-college/ -
OCR A Level History A Popular Culture 2025 Question Paper
#OCR #ocralevel #ocralevelHistoryApaper1 #HistoryA #ocrHistoryA #Humanities #Historypaper1 #BritishPeriod #PopularCulture #Culture #History #alevelHistoryA #Y312/01 #Y312https://www.markscheme.net/item/1228/ocr-a-level-history-a-popular-culture-2025-question-paper
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OCR A Level History A Popular Culture 2025 Question Paper
#OCR #ocralevel #ocralevelHistoryApaper1 #HistoryA #ocrHistoryA #Humanities #Historypaper1 #BritishPeriod #PopularCulture #Culture #History #alevelHistoryA #Y312/01 #Y312https://www.markscheme.net/item/1228/ocr-a-level-history-a-popular-culture-2025-question-paper
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OCR A Level History A Popular Culture 2025 Mark Scheme
#OCR #ocralevel #ocralevelHistoryApaper1 #HistoryA #ocrHistoryA #Humanities #Historypaper1markscheme #BritishPeriod #PopularCulture #Culture #History #alevelHistoryA #Y312/01 #Y312https://www.markscheme.net/item/1229/ocr-a-level-history-a-popular-culture-2025-mark-scheme
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OCR A Level History A Popular Culture 2025 Mark Scheme
#OCR #ocralevel #ocralevelHistoryApaper1 #HistoryA #ocrHistoryA #Humanities #Historypaper1markscheme #BritishPeriod #PopularCulture #Culture #History #alevelHistoryA #Y312/01 #Y312https://www.markscheme.net/item/1229/ocr-a-level-history-a-popular-culture-2025-mark-scheme
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🔍 Der Beitrag basiert auf einer qualitativen Filmanalyse zu KI-Narrativen in lateinamerikanischen Filmen.
Auffällig ist z. B. eine im Vergleich zu Global-North-Filmen geringere #Anthropomorphisierung und Zuschreibung von #Agency zu #KI
Stattdessen stehen soziotechnologische Probleme im Fokus. Es zeigen sich häufig dystopische Motive: KI als Instrument von Unterdrückung sowie zur Reproduktion kolonialer Strukturen. -
New York Groove: We got to the bottom of the Sex and the City-style composting ads . “It’s hard to remember any recent conversation about transit ads that didn’t center around AI ‘companions,’ AI slop ‘recipes,’ endless GLP-1 plugs, and problematic tutorials on how to contour your nose…. So imagine my delight circa mid-March, when my texts and DMs started blowing up with pics of Scrappy, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/04/new-york-groove-we-got-to-the-bottom-of-the-sex-and-the-city-style-composting-ads/ -
New York Groove: We got to the bottom of the Sex and the City-style composting ads . “It’s hard to remember any recent conversation about transit ads that didn’t center around AI ‘companions,’ AI slop ‘recipes,’ endless GLP-1 plugs, and problematic tutorials on how to contour your nose…. So imagine my delight circa mid-March, when my texts and DMs started blowing up with pics of Scrappy, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/04/new-york-groove-we-got-to-the-bottom-of-the-sex-and-the-city-style-composting-ads/ -
Book Review: Blank Space by W. David Marx
Author: W. David Marx
Title: Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Narrator: Frits Zernike
Publication Info: Books on Tape, 2025
Summary/Review:Living in a college town, I often find myself in crowds of students and noticing that they dress pretty much the same as when I was in college in the early 1990s. With some exceptions like the rise of athleisure making yoga pants casual wear, the everyday fashions of young adults was frozen 30 years ago. Which is strange, because of you look at photos of young adults from the 1920s to 1990s, the fashions vary widely between decades and even within a decade. Similarly, the 20th Century saw the emergence of new musical styles every few years but arguably no new genres have been born since the 1980s. This is not to say there isn’t good music, and a lot of artists are doing interesting things across genres, but a lot of pop songs from 2025 sound like they could’ve been released in 2000 and vice versa.
I was hoping this book would give me some insight into this flattening of culture. My experience is that this book is a good if sometimes exhausting litany of twenty-five years of pop culture, a litany of music, fashion, reality TV, and internet culture. But I don’t find myself always agreeing with Marx’s analysis of what created this culture. He does make a good point about artists being omnivores, thus the creative mashups and remixes of existing culture. But he also calls 21st century culture a “monoculture” when I find that cultural touchpoints are actually more fractured than in the 20th century. His examples of monoculture include frequent references to things I’ve never even heard of, like the Bathing Apes clothing line. I suppose though that it is harder for niche cultures to remain niche thus not allowing subcultures to persist.
The book is very depressing in its analysis, particularly charging the millennial generation with compromising with consumerism (a harsh analysis in my view). He frequently cites the philosophical battle of poptomism versus rockism. Now I previously understood poptomism as appreciating that popular music, even silly love songs, can still be good art while rockism insisted only white dudes with guitars were worth listening. But according to Marx, rockists are artists with ____ values who don’t sell out, while poptomism is assigning value to pop cultural artifacts solely based on their financial success. Marx also chronicles how right wing politics evolved within this cultural milieu. Conservatives when from “stuffed shirts” to selling themselves as cool and transgressive, an unfortunately successful counter-counter-culture in some sectors of society.
Overall, I think there’s a lot of interesting details in this book that can provoke further discussion even if I’m not always on the same page as Marx. In the introduction, Marx admits that his observations are limited to the United States and the fields of his specialties. But even within that framework, there’s a lot more to be said about 21st century culture than can fit in a single narrative.
Recommended books:
- Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
- How Music Works by David Byrne
- Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida
Rating: ***
#21stCentury #Audiobook #BookReviews #Books #History #PopularCulture -
Book Review: Blank Space by W. David Marx
Author: W. David Marx
Title: Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Narrator: Frits Zernike
Publication Info: Books on Tape, 2025
Summary/Review:Living in a college town, I often find myself in crowds of students and noticing that they dress pretty much the same as when I was in college in the early 1990s. With some exceptions like the rise of athleisure making yoga pants casual wear, the everyday fashions of young adults was frozen 30 years ago. Which is strange, because of you look at photos of young adults from the 1920s to 1990s, the fashions vary widely between decades and even within a decade. Similarly, the 20th Century saw the emergence of new musical styles every few years but arguably no new genres have been born since the 1980s. This is not to say there isn’t good music, and a lot of artists are doing interesting things across genres, but a lot of pop songs from 2025 sound like they could’ve been released in 2000 and vice versa.
I was hoping this book would give me some insight into this flattening of culture. My experience is that this book is a good if sometimes exhausting litany of twenty-five years of pop culture, a litany of music, fashion, reality TV, and internet culture. But I don’t find myself always agreeing with Marx’s analysis of what created this culture. He does make a good point about artists being omnivores, thus the creative mashups and remixes of existing culture. But he also calls 21st century culture a “monoculture” when I find that cultural touchpoints are actually more fractured than in the 20th century. His examples of monoculture include frequent references to things I’ve never even heard of, like the Bathing Apes clothing line. I suppose though that it is harder for niche cultures to remain niche thus not allowing subcultures to persist.
The book is very depressing in its analysis, particularly charging the millennial generation with compromising with consumerism (a harsh analysis in my view). He frequently cites the philosophical battle of poptomism versus rockism. Now I previously understood poptomism as appreciating that popular music, even silly love songs, can still be good art while rockism insisted only white dudes with guitars were worth listening. But according to Marx, rockists are artists with ____ values who don’t sell out, while poptomism is assigning value to pop cultural artifacts solely based on their financial success. Marx also chronicles how right wing politics evolved within this cultural milieu. Conservatives when from “stuffed shirts” to selling themselves as cool and transgressive, an unfortunately successful counter-counter-culture in some sectors of society.
Overall, I think there’s a lot of interesting details in this book that can provoke further discussion even if I’m not always on the same page as Marx. In the introduction, Marx admits that his observations are limited to the United States and the fields of his specialties. But even within that framework, there’s a lot more to be said about 21st century culture than can fit in a single narrative.
Recommended books:
- Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
- How Music Works by David Byrne
- Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida
Rating: ***
#21stCentury #Audiobook #BookReviews #Books #History #PopularCulture -
Associated Press: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny top Spotify’s first all-time most streamed artists list. “It’s her, hi! Taylor Swift has topped Spotify’s first ever list of the most streamed artists of all time, published Thursday morning. She’s followed by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. That comes as no surprise: In 2025 the artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was named the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/23/associated-press-taylor-swift-and-bad-bunny-top-spotifys-first-all-time-most-streamed-artists-list/ -
Associated Press: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny top Spotify’s first all-time most streamed artists list. “It’s her, hi! Taylor Swift has topped Spotify’s first ever list of the most streamed artists of all time, published Thursday morning. She’s followed by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. That comes as no surprise: In 2025 the artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was named the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/23/associated-press-taylor-swift-and-bad-bunny-top-spotifys-first-all-time-most-streamed-artists-list/ -
MakeUseOf: I tried living on free streaming channels for a month and found some real gems. “I expected a downgrade, with endless ads, low-quality content, and a frustrating viewing experience, but what I found was surprisingly different. Free streaming felt less like scrolling fatigue and more like rediscovering TV as I remember it, where you stumble onto something good instead of endlessly […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/makeuseof-i-tried-living-on-free-streaming-channels-for-a-month-and-found-some-real-gems/ -
MakeUseOf: I tried living on free streaming channels for a month and found some real gems. “I expected a downgrade, with endless ads, low-quality content, and a frustrating viewing experience, but what I found was surprisingly different. Free streaming felt less like scrolling fatigue and more like rediscovering TV as I remember it, where you stumble onto something good instead of endlessly […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/makeuseof-i-tried-living-on-free-streaming-channels-for-a-month-and-found-some-real-gems/ -
AV Club: Great Job, Internet!: Intrepid Mystery Science Theater fan finds and uploads lost episode “K03”. “…seemingly out of the ether, a YouTuber named Arthur Putie has found a VHS copy of the show’s third episode, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, also known as ‘K03,’ and uploaded it to YouTube. On Reddit, they wrote that the tape was ‘found in a garage sale around Minneapolis & finally […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/great-job-internet-intrepid-mystery-science-theater-fan-finds-and-uploads-lost-episode-k03-av-club/ -
AV Club: Great Job, Internet!: Intrepid Mystery Science Theater fan finds and uploads lost episode “K03”. “…seemingly out of the ether, a YouTuber named Arthur Putie has found a VHS copy of the show’s third episode, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, also known as ‘K03,’ and uploaded it to YouTube. On Reddit, they wrote that the tape was ‘found in a garage sale around Minneapolis & finally […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/great-job-internet-intrepid-mystery-science-theater-fan-finds-and-uploads-lost-episode-k03-av-club/ -
Deadline: ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ Getting YouTube Channel For First Time. “As part of the agreement, All3Media-owned Little Dot’s team in the U.S. will work with Fred Rogers Productions to launch and manage the channel, providing strategic insight, content curation and paid media services. The channel will include full-length episodes and a collection of repurposed digital-first […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/22/deadline-mister-rogers-neighborhood-getting-youtube-channel-for-first-time/ -
Deadline: ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ Getting YouTube Channel For First Time. “As part of the agreement, All3Media-owned Little Dot’s team in the U.S. will work with Fred Rogers Productions to launch and manage the channel, providing strategic insight, content curation and paid media services. The channel will include full-length episodes and a collection of repurposed digital-first […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/22/deadline-mister-rogers-neighborhood-getting-youtube-channel-for-first-time/ -
Yonhap News Agency: Naver to offer special map service tailored to BTS comeback concert. “South Korea’s top search engine operator Naver Corp. said Friday it will offer a special map service tailored to this week’s comeback concert by K-pop sensation BTS, helping fans locate information desks and other facilities at the venue.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/yonhap-news-agency-naver-to-offer-special-map-service-tailored-to-bts-comeback-concert/ -
Yonhap News Agency: Naver to offer special map service tailored to BTS comeback concert. “South Korea’s top search engine operator Naver Corp. said Friday it will offer a special map service tailored to this week’s comeback concert by K-pop sensation BTS, helping fans locate information desks and other facilities at the venue.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/yonhap-news-agency-naver-to-offer-special-map-service-tailored-to-bts-comeback-concert/ -
TechCrunch: Channel Surfer lets you watch YouTube like it’s old-school cable TV. “There’s a fun new way to watch YouTube: by channel surfing like a boomer with cable TV. This creative idea comes from London-based developer Steven Irby, who has just launched a web app called Channel Surfer, which presents interesting YouTube videos in an interface resembling a retro-looking TV guide.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/14/techcrunch-channel-surfer-lets-you-watch-youtube-like-its-old-school-cable-tv/ -
RadioTimes: Inside the incredible recovery of two missing Doctor Who episodes – archive expert “optimistic” more will be found. “This week, Film is Fabulous announced that it had recovered two previously missing episodes of the Doctor Who story The Daleks’ Master Plan – The Nightmare Begins and Devil’s Planet – which will both be made available on BBC iPlayer in April. The two episodes […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/14/radiotimes-inside-the-incredible-recovery-of-two-missing-doctor-who-episodes-archive-expert-optimistic-more-will-be-found/ -
UC Davis: What Makes a Hit? On TikTok and Spotify, Listeners Only Partly Decide. “TikTok and Spotify differ from traditional media such as radio and even MTV. On both apps, user data, such as clicks and subscriptions, are fed into the platforms’ algorithms and influence the music that artists create to meet demand. This study highlights how the differences between the two platforms affect […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/13/uc-davis-what-makes-a-hit-on-tiktok-and-spotify-listeners-only-partly-decide/ -
ABC News (Australia): Iconic Australian-made pinball machines preserved for generations to come. “A full working set of Australian-made pinball machines will enter the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), including designs featuring cricket legend Dennis Lillee, the FJ Holden and the first Star Wars pinball machine ever made.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/12/abc-news-iconic-australian-made-pinball-machines-preserved-for-generations-to-come/ -
Do you wish to return to easier times?
Then check out our 3 new books on #nostalgia !
1) #CulturalHistory "Happy Days" by Benjamin L. Alpers examines how #popularculture in the 1970s reimagined their past - from 1950s teens to neo-slave narratives, the US #bicentennial or #filmnoir
