Eddie Van Halen walked into a pawn shop in the valley carrying his iconic Frankenstrat guitar in its case. He needed an updated insurance appraisal for his instrument collection, and...
Eddie Van Halen was browsing a large guitar center in Hollywood, killing time before a lunch meeting nearby. He wandered over to the high-end guitar section where they kept the...
Eddie Van Halen walked into a high-rise recording studio in Century City. There to support his friend’s nephew, who was auditioning for a major label project. The producer, a powerful...
Eddie Van Halen was having a beer at a bar in Studio City after a long day in the studio. A young journalist approached him, clipboard in hand, explaining she...
Eddie Van Halen was listening to a classic rock radio station while driving home from the studio. The host was doing a segment ranking greatest guitarists of all time, and...
The Milk-Soaked Path to Ruin: How an Arrogant CEO’s Humiliation of a Janitor Triggered a Corporate Collapse. What happens when the person at the top of the food chain finally...
Ghosts, Golems, and Gold: The 10 Most Disturbing World War II Mysteries the History Books Tried to Hide. What if the most famous diary in the world is missing its...
I wasn’t looking for patterns when this started. I was looking at old photographs of my city, the kind you find in local history archives. Black and white images from...
The date was December 6th, 1929. Somewhere in Moscow, a government official signed decree number 118. The order was simple. All bell ringing in the Soviet state was now forbidden....
In 1860, 600 men gathered beneath a city block in Chicago. They positioned themselves under shops, offices, print houses, and a bank. Above them sat 35,000 tons of brick, stone,...