As a child growing up in Southern California, Ann Carlson remembers mountains obscured by haze and yellowish brown air that stung her eyes and made her lungs ache. It was just “the environment,” her ...

Shane Romanchick is a writer at GameRant. He graduated from Regis College in 2019 with a bachelor's in communication. Alongside this, he minored in both film studies and writing. This led to Shane ...

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times ...

Cactus Jack has officially linked up with SpongeBob SquarePants for a collaborative apparel collection The capsule features heavyweight cotton garments with unique hand-sprayed treatments and ...

Eighty years ago, the enchantment ended. Los Angeles, that magical realm of shimmering natural beauty, was befouled by smog — maybe forever. The mayor, Fletcher Bowron, told Angelenos in 1944 to lower ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Even if you weren’t around Los Angeles in 1992, you’ve heard of Rodney King, the man whose videotaped beating at ...

Google is preparing three new SpongeBob SquarePants theme packs for Pixel devices: “I’m Ready!,” “Best Suds,” and “Fan-Sea.” Each pack includes three wallpapers, custom icons, system sounds, and ...

As a part of the March Pixel Feature Drop, Google is giving us a new Pixel Theme Pack. For those hoping for something less-branded or not a collaboration this time around, you might be disappointed.

Ice Spice is making a splash in Bikini Bottom. The rapper just dropped a brand-new song, “Big Guy,” for The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (out December 2025), and she didn’t stop there. Ice ...

Who lives in a Burger King above the surface? SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals, at least for now. In the days since Burger King unveiled its "SpongeBob Movie Menu" to celebrate the Dec. 19 release ...

Apparently, SpongeBob Squarepants transcends the Simlish language barrier, because the IP has officially come to The Sims 4 in two new Kits released Dec. 4. Aligning with the upcoming release of The ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...