Popular Culture

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The state Historical Society is slated to decide whether the state should purchase of Lawrence Welk's boyhood home in the south central North Dakota town of Strasburg.

More than 8 million are expected to watch the finale of Breaking Bad Sunday.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Explicit rules against explicit dance moves sent students at a Grand Forks high school waltzing out of the gym Friday night.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The other jury is in: A second periodical used for everything from predicting the weather to helping people lose weight agrees that this winter is shaping up to be cold and snowy.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego school district has agreed to expunge the records of 31 high school students who were suspended for making an on-campus video featuring "twerking" dance moves.

A clown wearing a Barack Obama mask appeared at a Missouri State Fair rodeo this weekend, as the announcer asked spectators if they wanted to see "Obama run down by a bull."

Amid reports of philandering (on video to boot), we learn this week that Chris "To Catch a Predator" Hansen is  leaving NBC.

You no doubt remember San Francisco TV station KTVU’s royal eff up with reading obviously fake Asian names for the pilots of the Asiana crash. Names like “Wi To Lo” and “Ho Lee (NSFW)"...

And now for one of my favorite subjects: the use, misuse and abuse of the English language...

Tony, we hardly knew ye...