Like Totally 80s: What Life was Like in 1986
Aug30

Like Totally 80s: What Life was Like in 1986

The movies were great, and the new animations were, too. The year was 1986, and what a year it was. Boy was life simpler back then. What Life Was Like in 1986 TV Shows: ALF L.A. Law Matlock Amen Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Growing Pains The Cosby Show The Hogan Family The Oprah Winfrey Show Movies: Aliens Top Gun Platoon Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Stand by Me Pretty in Pink Crocodile Dundee The Money Pit People That Were Born in 1986: Lady Gaga...

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What Was the Song of the Summer of 1986? A Thirty-Year Retrospective
Jul05

What Was the Song of the Summer of 1986? A Thirty-Year Retrospective

Summer of 1986– the summer of Ferris Bueller and Max Headroom. The summer of Maverick, Goose, and Ice-Man. The summer I first read Catcher in the Rye and the summer when I finally committed to memory the words to “Hotel California.” And the summer where a dance song about a pregnant teen and her disapproving dad ruled the airwaves…well, according to Billboard, that is. In my opinion, the summer of 1986 gets...

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What Happened in 1986?
Aug24

What Happened in 1986?

Timbuk 3 said it best in one of the year’s top songs, “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.” 1986 was marked by both advances and setbacks. Technology advances helped the Soviet Union launch the Mir Space Station and had the UK and France building the Chunnel. Sadly, it also saw the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the explosion of one of the nuclear reactors at Chernobyl. We saw Fergie get married to the Duke of York and...

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
Oct20

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) informed teens everywhere in the 1986 hit movie Ferris Buellers’s Day Off. Considered one of the 80’s funniest films, the movie follows the adventures of fictional high school senior Ferris Bueller when he decides to play hooky. In an award-worthy performance, Bueller convinces his parents that he so...

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