How An 80 Year Old Beat America’s Toughest Trail
Betty Kellenberger, an 80 year old retired schoolteacher from Carson City, Michigan, became the oldest female to finish the Appalachian Trail after overcoming dehydration, Lyme disease, a concussion, a bad fall, knee replacement surgery, and Hurricane Helene across three separate attempts starting in 2022. Betty first learned about the 2,200 mile trail through 14 states […]
The Ultimate Shrek Proposal
Carter Allen spent five hours editing himself into the Shrek wedding scene to create the most perfectly personalized proposal for his girlfriend Andressa Da Silva, seamlessly adding a clip of himself running down the aisle saying he’s experienced true love too. The 26 year old writer and director met Andressa four years ago on a […]
New Year’s Wishes From Around The World Fell On Times Square
As the famous New York City ball dropped downward to deliver 2026, a deluge of hopes, dreams, and wishes rained down on Times Square, with tons of messages from the Times Square Wishing Wall mixed in amid the abundance of multicolored confetti that fluttered through the Big Apple skies. For the past month, interested participants […]
Gibson Delivers Record Breaking Year For Music Education
Gibson Gives capped off 2025 with the most impactful year in its history, donating 2,445 guitars alongside more than $5.3 million enabled for global music education initiatives and pushing the foundation’s lifetime total beyond 16,000 instruments. The philanthropic arm of Gibson placed guitars directly into schools, hospitals, community programs, and hands-on learning environments where access […]
January 10th Offers Best Chance All Year To See Jupiter’s Moons
January kicks off with an incredible opportunity to see Jupiter and its four largest moons with the naked eye, with the best viewing happening on January 10th when the solar system’s largest planet reaches opposition, meaning it’s positioned on the other side of the sky from the Sun from Earth’s perspective. Generally across US time […]
Stranger Things Finale Helps Dethrone Taylor Swift On Spotify
Joe Keery, who plays the beloved Steve Harrington on Stranger Things, just accomplished something most musicians only dream about: dethroning Taylor Swift on the Spotify charts. After the hit show’s series finale aired on new years eve, fans flooded social media with emotional TikToks and reels celebrating the end of the 10 year Netflix phenomenon, […]
Boss Rewards Employees With Half A Million Dollar Bonus
Graham Walker, the outgoing CEO of Louisiana based Fibrebond, made sure that 15 percent of his company’s 1.7 billion dollar sale to Eaton would go to his 540 full time employees, giving them bonuses worth 240 million dollars. Each worker will receive an average of 443,000 dollars paid over the next five years if they […]
One Birth Brings Hope To A Nearly Empty Italian Town
In Pagliara dei Marsi, an ancient village on the slopes of Mount Girifalco in Italy’s Abruzzo region where cats vastly outnumber people, celebrations erupted in March when baby Lara became the first child born there in almost 30 years. The entire community of roughly 20 people attended her christening in the church opposite her home, […]
This Paris Company Turns Festival Trash Into Furniture
A Paris based company called Maximum is transforming damaged concert barriers into stunning office furniture, proving that industrial waste can become tomorrow’s design treasures. The metal barriers that keep crowds safe at music festivals face one fatal flaw: their legs get crushed during transport, rendering the entire structure useless even when the main frame stays […]
Homegrown Mushroom Kayak Sails The Ocean
Los Angeles artist and mycologist Sam Shoemaker recently completed a remarkable 26 mile paddle from Catalina Island to San Pedro in a kayak grown entirely from mushrooms, proving that fungi based materials could one day replace the plastics that choke our oceans. Shoemaker cultivated his 14 foot vessel from mycelium, the dense root like network […]