Festival headlines, lineups and the stories breaking across the scene.
You glance at the folio at checkout and there it is: a charge for a gym you never entered, a safe you never opened, a parking space for a car that never moved.
Read story
Picture a tiny private room, a bed that appears out of nowhere and a window full of moving landscape. That's the sleeping-car life, and the people who ride it a
Read story
The night before a trip feels like it should be about packing. Folding shirts, hunting for socks, deciding on a third pair of shoes. Experienced travelers know
Read story
If you lived through the 1970s, you couldn’t dodge these faces. They were on lunchboxes, supermarket magazine racks, Saturday-night TV and the poster taped abov
Read story
#30 – Norman Greenbaum Norman Greenbaum scored a massive crossover hit with “Spirit in the Sky” in 1970. The gospel-tinged rock track reached No. 3 on the Billb
Read story
These are 25 real cars that rolled out of 1970s factories and then, one by one, went out of production. Some died because the world changed around them. Oil sho
Read story
You remember the aisle: bright boxes stacked to the ceiling and every kid on the block begging for the same thing. Then, almost overnight, it was gone. This cou
Read story
Somewhere in the back of a kitchen drawer, a medicine cabinet, or a childhood memory, there is a product you assumed would last forever. The 1970s were full of
Read story
Airline fees look carved in stone, right up until someone asks the right question. Some of the items below are rights written into federal rules. Some are polit
Read story
#23 – The 6 A.M. Towel Drop on the Pool Deck Picture a pool deck at sunrise. Nobody is swimming and nobody is reading, yet every front-row lounger wears a folde
Read story
You can still hum the music from a few of these rides. Others slipped away so quietly that even devoted park fans draw a blank. Every attraction on this countdo
Read story
The final folio slides under the cabin door the night before disembarkation, and for a lot of passengers it lands like a small shock. Somewhere between the buff
Read story
Picture a retired couple at a park entrance station, digging through a wallet for a fee that one small card could have wiped out years ago. It happens more than
Read story
Backstage rules can look like diva paperwork until you learn where they came from. Many were written in the worst week of somebody's career, then kept because n
Read story
Some of the biggest names on a bookshelf were never written on a birth certificate. The authors in this countdown signed something else, and the invented name e
Read story
#13 – Iroquois Theatre Fire, 1903 Most backstage rules sound like dry paperwork until you learn where they came from. This one starts with a Chicago theater adv
Read story
Some festival moments feel so natural that you assume they have always existed: the shower of beads, the umbrella twirling over a brass band, the king who rules
Read story
Nobody planned these hits. Each one was tucked onto the flip side of a 45, the spot labels used for filler, until DJs, a movie, or stubborn listeners flipped th
Read story
#16 – Stourbridge Fair (Cambridge, England) Picture a charity fundraiser for a leper hospital turning into what one famous traveler called the greatest fair in
Read story
#13 – The Fanny Pack Nobody mocks the fanny pack at a festival anymore, and that is the clue. Worn on the hip or slung across the chest, it solves a problem eve
Read story