James Mitchell

There’s a reason “Spicy P” is still the answer to several different NBA trivia questions: Pascal Siakam went from a seminary student in Cameroon to a two-time All-NBA forward and 2019 NBA champion. The arc since includes a January 2024 trade from Toronto, a four-year, $189.5 million extension in Indiana, and a Hall of Fame … Read more

Few fictional friendships carry as much baggage as the one between Steve Rogers and James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes. He started as a sidekick in Captain America Comics #1 in 1941, according to CBR’s comic-history breakdown, and went on to become a brainwashed assassin and, eventually, a symbol of recovery. Eight decades of rewrites have left … Read more

Few Marvel characters waited as long for their own movie as Natasha Romanoff. After a decade of showing up in other people’s stories, the Black Widow solo film finally landed in 2021 — a prequel set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, with a box-office run complicated by a pandemic and a … Read more

Chris Cornell could fill a stadium with his voice and still sound like he was telling you a secret, which made the news out of Detroit on May 18, 2017 feel almost impossible. Hours after a Soundgarden concert, the frontman was found dead in his hotel room (Associated Press (news agency)); the Wayne County Medical … Read more

There’s a reason Evel Knievel’s name still lands with weight, more than 50 years after his peak: he wasn’t just a stuntman who jumped over cars and buses — he was a showman who turned risk into spectacle, and paid a severe physical price for it. This story traces the man behind the jumps, the … Read more

There’s something about Arthur Morgan that sticks with you long after the credits roll. A hardened outlaw who robs trains and kills without hesitation, yet also the man who scribbles heartfelt thoughts in his journal and helps a stranger for no reward. Age at death: 36 years · Cause of death: Tuberculosis (or gunshot wound) … Read more

There are actors who leave a show, and then there’s Wayne Rogers — who walked away from one of the biggest sitcoms in television history because he felt his character was being written into a corner, setting off decades of fan questions and a surprising second career. This article pieces together why he quit, what … Read more

Few pop stars make a British-born name sound as effortlessly international as Dua Lipa, who was born in London on 22 August 1995 and raised in Camden, according to Britannica (reference publisher). Her Albanian parents later returned to Kosovo, and Albanian remained her first language at home, as BBC News (U.K. broadcaster) notes; she moved … Read more

Anyone who lived through the mid-1990s remembers where they were when the verdict was read. But the name that anchored it all—Nicole Brown Simpson—often gets reduced to a headline rather than a life. She was a 35-year-old mother of two, a former waitress who met a football star at a Beverly Hills nightclub, and a … Read more