90s

02 Mar 2020

A Former Overmedicated 90s Kid’s Message for Today’s Parents

by [REDACTED] By the time I went from elementary to junior high school in 2000, I had been on 8 different psychiatric medications, and as an adult I’m starting to get angry. I’m writing this anonymously because I don’t want to put my parents on blast. My parents were young

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10 Oct 2014

TONIGHT: Pete & Pete Reunion at Late Night Basement in Brooklyn

Did you grow up in the 90’s? If so, you know about the Adventures of Pete & Pete on Nickelodeon. That show should be a staple in your childhood if you’re 25 and older. And now you have the chance to see the two on stage together for the first

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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31 Mar 2014

The Saved by the Bell Parody: Bayside! The Musical! In New York!

  Photo from baysidethemusical.com As a fan of Saved By the Bell growing up, I can easily remember my mother rolling her eyes every time the audience “woooo-ed” at the palpable, albeit G-rated, sexual tension between characters, or when yet another of Zack’s harebrained schemes failed to come to fruition. My

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19 Dec 2012

How 90’s Adult Contemporary Ruined My Life

OK, fine. It didn’t ruin my life. But seriously. It kind of did. I have been cursed with a love/hate relationship with the songs of my Zima drinking, shoulder pad wearing elders who loved them some artists like Richard Marx and the Tony Rich Project. Here are the worst offenders

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28 Oct 2011

Broke Ass Nostalgia: You Won’t Believe That These Albums are Twenty Years Old

The 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind has been given a lot of attention in the last few months, deservedly so. It was a total game-changer; not only did it revolutionize alternative music but also the way in which people relate to music. Just listening to those opening

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08 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Nostalgia: Reality Bites

Sometimes I avoid watching movies I loved when I was younger in fear that I will realize that they are actually terrible (cough Labyrinth cough). Before Hollywood was obsessed with rebooting, sequels and movies based on stupid childhood toys, studios would take a chance on movies targeted at specific audiences,

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28 Apr 2010

HumpDay Video: Skee Lo “I Wish” for an Especially Annoying Wednesday

We here at Broke-Ass Stuart remembe when there was an entire network devoted to playing awesome new music videos. Men named Pinfield and women named Idalis would introduce block after block of original music videos from various genres interspersed with super fucking edgy interviews with musicians and video directors, which

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15 Apr 2010

The Ladies of ’90s R&B

A couple of weeks ago my best friend Abby and I were just sifting through old YouTube videos of Brandy, like you do, when we came across this particular gem that neither of us had ever seen before.  Go ahead and watch, I’ll wait. Brandy – I Wanna Be Down

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