What was special about the young people who came of age in the 90s? The label Generation X, from the Douglas Coupland novel, has stuck to this group. They were called an unwelcome, unwanted generation, and pilloried by their elders. And there was always a subset of youngsters who ...

In the 1990s, when animation took on a new edge, subversive wit became the order of the day, with the rise of The Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy and dozens more. We asked Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere, creators of The Rugrats on Nickleodeon, why the 90s was ...

Tony Kushner's Angels in America was a sprawling, epic 2-part play that burst onto the Broadway stage in 1993. Kushner, along with his director George C. Wolfe and a stellar cast, crafted a monumental response to the 1980's. The play created a world populated by ghosts, angels, ...

Rick Moody burst on the scene in the 90s with novels about the dark side of suburban America. He's best known for his book The Ice Storm which was made into a film in 1997. Moody told us how he fell in love with the grunge and ...

In the early 1990s, rap music was sounding angry, even militant. Today, many of those angry young men are mainstream movie and TV stars. So what on earth happened to hip hop over the 90s? How did all the rage against the machine get co-opted? Hip Hop journalist Bakari ...

Casual Merle Haggard fans may be surprised to hear the singer-songwriter of rowdy classics like "Mama Tried" and "Okie From Muskogee" crooning standards like "Stardust Memories" on his new album, Unforgettable. But as the country legend told Kurt Andersen in the studio, Haggard has experimented with his music ...

Cintra Wilson is a playwright and performer with a penchant for pop culture. She's a regular contributor to Salon, where her annual scathing review of the Oscars, is a must-read each year. She's the author of A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as ...