I’ve enjoyed collecting Hard Times Tokens for many years now. These are some of the more notable ones in my collection.

I really thought it was going to be easy.

My 2021 feature about how Law & Order has influenced how people view the legal system got a nice shout-out on last night’s episode of Last Week Tonight With John …

We’ve seen several careers come to an end on (or above) the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards.

Lip syncing and not performing on albums are nothing new. But when Milli Vanilli did it, people lost their minds.

If you’re head of state, you’ll be on coins– even if you last about as long as “The Chevy Chase Show.”

Gary Barlow was supposed to be the next George Michael. Compared to Robbie Williams, he might as well have been Andrew Ridgeley. What happened?

How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.

Woohoo! Happy to report that Nixon in New York has hit 500 libraries

He might not have been the most important musically or on stage, but Depeche Mode will miss Andrew Fletcher. R.I.P. Fletch.