The last Renko novel, Hotel Ukraine, came out on July 8. Smith died three days later — echoes of Charles Schulz dying just ...

A few nights ago I decided on a whim to look for any Humphrey Bogart film I’d never seen. I landed on Sahara, a 1943 war film that was Bogart’s next flick after Casablanca. (“Bogey + North Africa, ...

Here’s a great little video from Variety in which actress Emily Blunt is handed cards with lines from some of her past roles and tries to remember the movies. It’s fun! She’s done 52 different ...

Most people recognize that there are first names given almost exclusively by Black Americans to their children, such as Jamal and Latasha. As scholars of history, demographics and economics, we found ...

Hello, friends of Who2! Fritz Holznagel here, co-founder (with Paul Hehn) of Who2. I’ve taken a new side gig as the quizmaster of The Conversation, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to unlocking ...

On a beautiful snowy Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in Boston, we went to the Boston Common to see the new tribute to Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King. The statue, or sculpture, is titled ...

2022 was a typically busy year in famous deaths. We tracked the passings of 32 famous people, from world leaders Queen Elizabeth II and Mikhail Gorbachev to hyphenated heroes Olivia Newton-John and ...

Actress Anne Heche has died, a week after her car crashed into a Los Angeles house and burst into flames. TMZ reports that a representative for Heche’s family said that the actress is now brain dead, ...

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her struggles with the 2020 death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin. Reports and interviews have noted that Mikaela “couldn’t even get out ...

Groundhog hero Punxsutawney Phil has made his annual appearance for 2022. This year he “saw his shadow” and thereby “predicted” six more weeks of winter. But we didn’t state flatly that the whole ...

Here’s a story about Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich, Champagne, and a bad quote. But! When hunting for the source of that quote recently, we couldn’t find proof that the actress ever said it at all ...

“May the Great Worm gnaw your vitals, and may your bones rot joint by little joint!” Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of …..