The trek kicks off in April
Royal Blood are returning to North America next year. The tour begins on April 18 at History in Toronto, ON and wraps up on May 24 at the House of Blues in Boston, MA. Pre-sale tickets for Royal Blood’s mailing list members begins at 10am local time this Wednesday, December 1. General public on-sale begins at 9am local time on Friday, December 3. All ticket information is …
Foo Fighters have announce a string of North American stadium tour dates for 2022. The trek kicks off on May 14 at the Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown, PA. As previously announced, Foo Fighters will serve as one of the headliners for Welcome to Rockville on May 22. After a quick trip to Europe, the North …
November 30 in Pop Culture History
3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse, in Ireland.
1609 – Galileo Galilei realized that the moon was a landscape, not a flat surface on a circle in the sky.
1858 – The Mason Jar was invented and patented (#22,186) by Philadelphia tinsmith John Landis Mason.
1872 – First international soccer game was played. Final score: Scotland-England 0-0 (in Glasgow)
1875 – A patent (#170,460) was issued …
Amazon is delivering more than cyber-Monday deals! This holiday season Amazon Prime Video is treating us to cult classic films and new original series to keep you watching until the new year! Here’s everything that’ll be streaming on Amazon Prime Video in December 2021!
November 29 in Pop Culture History
533 (Earthquake) Aleppo (now Syria) – 130,000 people estimated killed.
1681 – The Royal College of Physicians, in Edinburgh, Scotland, was granted its charter by King Charles II.
1825 – First Italian opera in US, Barber of Seville premiered (in New York City, at the Park Theatre)
1910 – The US patent (#976,939) for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine. Similar patents were granted to …
This December Guillermo Del Toro returns with Nightmare Alley. This will be the the first film since 2017’s Oscar-winning The Shape of Water, that Del Toro returns to the directors chair. Nightmare Alley was written by Del Toro and Kim Morgan, adapted by the novel by William Lindsay Gresham.
The film will star Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and William Dafoe. The film follows an ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating …
From the Ocean’s franchise to Stephen King classics Hulu is serving up content new and old for you and your family to enjoy around the fireplace this season! Here’s everything that’s coming to Hulu in December 2021!
(Proclamation Given October 3, 1863)
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful …
November 28 in Pop Culture History
2348 BC – A supposed comet , under divine guidance, passed near Earth, causing the Great Flood, in the opinion of Anglican priest and mathematician, William Whiston. They did not know much about comets in 1696.
1582 – William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway (not the ‘our’ Anne Hathaway)
1717 – Blackbeard attacked a French merchant vessel called La Concorde, which he captured and renamed as the Queen Anne’s …
After being the streaming host to many blockbuster films this year, HBOMax is gearing up for the holiday season with these new releases!
12 Strong, 2018 (Dec 1)
20 Feet from Stardom, 2013 (Dec 1)
Adrienne, Documentary Premiere (Dec 1)
A Perfect Murder, 1998 (Dec 1)
All I See Is You, 2016 (Dec 1)
All Rise, Seasons 1 and 2 (Dec 1)
The Answer Man, 2009 (Dec 1)
Blade II, 2002 (Dec 1)
Bolero, 1984 …
November 27 in Pop Culture History
1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1826 – Chemist John Walker invented the friction match in England.
1834 – The direct current (DC) electric motor was invented by Thomas Davenport.
1896 – Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss was first performed.
1910 – Pennsylvania Station opened, called so because the Pennsylvania Railroad trains began using it November 27, 1910.
1924 – …
November 26 in Pop Culture History
1703 – The Great Storm – more than 8,000 people perished and the first Eddystone Lighthouse (Winstanley’s lighthouse) was totally destroyed overnight.
1716 – First African lion was exhibited in America (in Boston). It was just a single lion, which supposedly later joined a “menagerie” which was basically a traveling circus of exotic animals.
1789 – First (unofficial) national Thanksgiving in USA recognized by the new government. The 1621 …
