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[ When John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met in November 1966 at an exhibition of hers in London's Indica Gallery she claimed to have nev...

Ricky Wilson - born on this day in 1953 - was one of the founding members of The B-52's , a band whose sound was sorta punk and sorta...

Catapulted to literary fame by his 1959 book Goodbye, Columbus , Philip Roth has been slaughtering sacred cows by the herd ever since; in ...

[ Although the Sydney Harbour Bridge was set to be officially opened by Jack Lang , the Labour premier of New South Wales, on this day in 1...

On this day in 1930 Pluto was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh - based on calculations by Urbain Le Verrier , who first posited there was a ...

When I was 19 I was living in Ottawa, dating Morgin (soon to become Lisa), and had only a vague idea what I wanted to do with my life. (Hin...

Fame is one of those songs I am constantly rediscovering; I'll hear a snippet of that devastating bass line somewhere when I've a...

In the Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s, nothing ensured success for an actor like their ability to play a type; Edward Everett Horton's...

Seeing as the majority of history is written by men (or had been, at least until the advent of the social history revolution of the past two...

When I was growing up, Charley Pride was a regular feature on my mother's stereo; even when, as a teenager, I rebelled against everyt...

[ The globular cluster in the constellation Hercules now known as M92 was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1777, but was named f...

Routinely described as the architect of the American Civil Rights Movement , Bayard Rustin is just as routinely denied his legacy today by t...

Irish comedian Ed Byrne sounds off on what is stereotypically (as well as statistically) Ireland's favourite hobby - behind slagging ...

To my mind the only thing the Irish do better than music is comedy, which accounts for the day's second St Patrick's Day video hat...

Dylan Moran is just one of a crop of talented Irish comedians entertaining audiences around the world; a talented stand up, he's also...

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What St. Patrick's Day Irish music video hat trick would be complete without U2 ? Not this one, I can tell you that right now! Fr...

Since it's St. Patrick's Day (more on that later) I feel compelled by a serious case of Anglo guilt to highlight the cultural acc...

I can hear you purists groaning, but I've long been a fan of Enya , and since I think this is the most Irish of her songs that surely ...

As with many holidays of relatively long-standing, there is considerable lore surrounding St. Patrick's Day ; for instance, did you know...

What better way to kick off St. Patrick's Day than with a touching (in so many ways) performance by three of The Muppet Show 's fi...

[ As Attorney-General of New York, Eliot Spitzer led (amongst others) a campaign against high-end prostitution; his promising career as gov...

There are two different clips of this song on YouTube, and now both of them are on the Pop Culture Institute as well... Probably the mos...

Tammi Terrell was both prettier than Diana Ross and had a better voice than Diana Ross; so what did Diana Ross have that made her a major s...

On this day in 1978, terrorists with Italy's extreme left Red Brigades carried out a daring daylight kidnapping of former Italian Prim...

Birthday wishes go out today to Nancy Wilson - whom dupes to the patriarchy like me might refer to as Mrs. Cameron Crowe , even despite t...

[ From its commanding position on the western bank of the Hudson River adjacent to Highland Falls 80 km (50 miles) north of New York City...