The 1950s were a strange time to be cooking. The start of post-war America meant interesting ingredients, tools, and cooking practices. But not all made sense.
Filmmaker Jan Krawitz’s fascinating documentary “Nice Girls Don’t Ask” interrogates instructional films of the 1950s that ...
A small granite marker behind the Astoria Column commemorates an invention that traces its roots to the Oregon coast: cable television. In 1948 – four years before Portland got its first TV station ...
He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.
Even though Chevrolet is one of the most recognizable brands on the planet, and has been providing vehicles to the public for well over a century, it still needs to advertise its products regularly to ...
Neil Sedaka’s wife Leba Strassberg, their children and grandchildren, and the latest update on the legendary singer’s death at 86 ...
Remember the ’50s? Take a nostalgic trip back to the era of arsenic-green walls and mercury thermometers. Find out why these ...
ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor has 22 outdoor warning sirens throughout the city and their loud wail can be heard when they’re ...
From NTSC televisions to modern heavy-duty trucks, discover how "pull-through" market demand drives innovation more effectively than "push-through" government mandates.
And then she was done. After 30 years at WTAE, most of that time as a morning news anchor, Michelle Wright said farewell to viewers Friday just before 7 a.m., capping a sweeps month of on-air walks ...
EXCLUSIVE: A large-scale biopic based on the life of the legendary jazz and blues vocalist Dinah Washington is in the works, with veteran British playwright Winsome Pinnock signed on to write the ...
Jane Baer, a pioneering animator whose work shaped some of Disney’s most iconic films, died Monday at her home in Van Nuys, California. She was 91. Baer began her animation career in the 1950s at Walt ...