Popular Culture

Thanks for the guesses, all. I got one correct answer for the second photo and that’s all, so these were pretty tough, I guess. Answers here.

Mostly, child stars still look like themselves when they grow up. Ricky Schroder can call himself Rick Schroder and be a badass on NYPD Blue or whatever, but he still looks very much like the rich kid son of the eternally almost famous Joel Higgins on Silver Spoons, or perhaps the little boy in The … Read more

When I must have been either about to graduate or right out of college–so, 1991 or ’92–Charles and I wondered over a beer whether we’d be into hard rock and heavy metal, which had fueled both of our adolescences, when we were “old” with families. It’s stayed with both of us to some degree, though … Read more