Police in the town of Ossipee have charged Dale Bozzio with three misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.  When police arrived at her home, they found cats in very bad shape, living in and surrounded by filth with some already dead animals. A dozen cats eventually had to be put down. Bozzio pleaded not guilty and has claimed [...]

  V-66 was born in the year 1985, before everyone had cable TV and after Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” redefined the marriage of music and video. It was the poor teenager’s MTV – created in a suburban office park at 111 Speen St. and available 24 hours a day to anyone with a TV set and [...]

After some 30 years of on – and off – togetherness, Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers is circumspect about his relationship with the band’s iconic frontwoman, Chrissie Hynde. Love-hate doesn’t quite sum up their complex bond, which has survived the early ’80s drug-related deaths of founding members James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon, as well as Chambers [...]

Videogame publisher XSEED Games announced today that Retro Game Challange for the Nintendo DS has shipped across North America. Retro Game Challenge is based on the original Japanese TV series, Retro Game Master, now adapted as an 80s handheld gaming adventure produced by Namco Bandai Games. Travelling back to the 1980′s, play as a young boy [...]

Love “Dirty Dancing?” Thank Michael Douglas. The “Wall Street” star’s bump-and-grind with Jill Clayburgh was cut from an obscure ’80s flick, leading the way for the cult-classic dance movie to be made, according to creator Eleanor Bergstein. More than two decades after it turned the innocent middle-school dance into an R-rated afternoon, “Dirty Dancing” leaps [...]

Rick Astley’s career revival may be based on people being tricked into seeing him, but the 80s pop star is now counting on fans buying actual tickets. Not only is Astley again headlining the Here and Now nostalgia tour, but the man who promised to never give you up, let you down, run around and [...]

Poison’s frontman Bret Michaels was in the Foxnews.com newsroom the other day for an appearance on their live streaming show Strategy Room. Which got them thinking about the good old days, otherwise known as the 1980s.  When hair metal bands like Poison vied with British pop groups like Duran Duran for the tops of the album [...]