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Some bands leave behind hit records. Others leave behind a little mystery. The Zombies are getting another chance to tell their remarkable story.
Two bands, two countries, and remarkably similar face paint. Did KISS borrow its famous look from Brazil's Secos & Molhados? The timing has fuelled an internet rumour for years.
That little pretzel-shaped symbol on your Apple keyboard has a surprisingly long history. It wasn't invented for computers, and its journey goes back centuries.
Meet Rudy the Ostrich, a forgotten comic-strip troublemaker who first appeared in 1924. After 94 years away, this feathered character is finally returning to the funny pages.
There was a time when buying an album meant owning a little piece of music history. You brought it home, admired the artwork, read the booklet and played it whenever you wanted. Remember that feeling?
When I was a kid, I couldn't get home fast enough to watch Spider-Man. As a latchkey kid, cartoons were my after-school escape, but this one left a musical impression that never faded.
Think the raccoons rummaging through garbage around MTL are little troublemakers? Meet their international cousins, who have turned up in Japan with a backstory straight out of an anime series. The unlikely star of this wildlife saga is Rascal, a lovable cartoon raccoon whose popularity helped spark a real-life craze for keeping the animals as pets.
Some brands become famous everywhere. Others cross a border and discover that their fortunes can change dramatically. A&W is a perfect example. The chain that once dominated the American drive-in scene has become a much bigger success story north of the border, where Teen Burgers, frosty mugs of root beer and an orange bear have become part of the fast-food landscape.
There are certain things we take for granted until the rest of the world starts fighting over them. Maple syrup is a perfect example. That bottle sitting in the kitchen cupboard might look like an ordinary breakfast companion, but it represents a surprisingly powerful food industry.
Halloween is hitting MTL, and the countdown to October 31 is officially on! The costumes are coming out, the candy bowls are filling up, and somewhere in Montreal, a perfectly good pumpkin is waiting to become something spooky, silly or downright spectacular. Have you carved your pumpkin yet, or are you still staring at that big orange gourd wondering where to begin?
Harry Houdini spent his life escaping handcuffs, chains and locked boxes, but there was one mystery he could never escape: his own death. On October 31, 1926, the legendary magician died on Halloween, and the story of his final days leads straight to Montreal. Just days earlier, Houdini had been performing at the Princess Theatre and speaking at McGill University.
This might be one of the strangest animated crossovers ever put on screen, and somehow it still works in that chaotic, offbeat UPA way. Magoo Meets Boing Boing throws together two completely different cartoon worlds by pairing the nearsighted Mr. Magoo with Gerald McBoing-Boing, the boy who speaks in sound effects.
Twister didn’t arrive as an instant hit. It quietly worked its way into pop culture and almost disappeared before anyone noticed. The game was created between 1964 and 1965 by Reyn Guyer, along with Charles Foley and Neil Rabens, and it was originally called “Pretzel,” a name that perfectly captured the tangled limbs players would end up in.
Here’s one of those strange details hiding in plain sight in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that most people miss until they don’t. Not long after the book was published in 1900, Willis L. Moore, head of the U.S. Weather Bureau, contacted L. Frank Baum’s publisher had a surprisingly specific complaint: the storm that carried Dorothy away wasn’t described correctly.
There’s a point in every comedy act’s life where the laughs start to thin out and the momentum slips. That was the reality for Abbott and Costello in the early ’40s. Then 1941 rolled in and flipped the script. Hold That Ghost didn’t just revive their career; it gave them a whole new lane to run in.
Evil Woman by Electric Light Orchestra stands as one of the band’s defining breakthrough hits, but its origin story is just as remarkable as its sound. Written by frontman Jeff Lynne in a burst of inspiration that reportedly lasted only six minutes, the track was created as a last-minute addition to the album Face the Music.
A seemingly perfect getaway becomes a deadly nightmare when cutting-edge robotics spirals out of control at a futuristic playground built for indulgence and escapism. In 1973, novelist turned filmmaker Michael Crichton made his directorial debut with a bold, genre-bending vision that fused science fiction with high-tension thriller storytelling.