The term “Black Friday” began as a negative label used by Philadelphia police to describe overwhelming traffic and crowded ...

Lizzy Caplan nearly didn’t play Janis Ian in “Mean Girls.” The actress, 43, appeared on the latest episode of Penn Badgley’s ...

It’s always funny how words slip into regular use. “Hello” was a greeting introduced for the invention of the telephone–it was originally meant to be “Ahoy Hoy.” Online language moves so fast that the ...

When the brightly decorated horses leave the stables at the re-scheduled Kentucky Derby this weekend, they’ll parade to the starting gates to the familiar tune “My Old Kentucky Home.” This year, in a ...

Paul McCartney released “Take It Away” as the second single from his Tug of War album in 1982. The song soared into the Top 10, which wasn’t bad at all considering that it was one that McCartney had ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. “Woke” is now best known as a negative political buzzword used to describe anything deemed too liberal or progressive—like brands that ...

The 1985 release of Super Mario Bros. not only changed the course of video game history by introducing Nintendo’s most iconic franchise of all time, it also permanently altered the meaning of one of ...