Forty years after an Oregon man was wrongfully convicted of murdering a coworker, the state has agreed to pay him for the years he spent in prison and provide him a certificate of innocence ....
Most of the cultural conversation about the 1980s focuses on the iconography — the cordless phones, the latchkey afternoons, the shoulder pads, the Atari... The 1980s were a particular cocktail.
... (For example, TMZ founder Harvey Levin recently asked the public to send pictures of lawmakers doing anything but their jobs during Congress’s spring recess.) But this brave new media landscape and its consequences date back further, to the 1980s ... .
A pile of takeaway posters that extends the sound system’s logic into visual culture is accompanied by a mixtape developed with DJ DowntownOutlaws, evoking the sonic landscape of Port of Spain in the 1980s and 1990s.
We take a look at 10 models that debuted in Britain four decades ago. Then we cast our verdict on whether they are bona fide collectable classics or forgettable motors ....