JNCO Jeans, big hair, “Sex and the City” and recession pop: Peak Millennial is back and the era’s trends are taking on a new life.
Category: Nineteen Hundred Nineties
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Looking Back at Lollapalooza 1995
Revisit a peak music festival with songs by Hole, Beck, Elastica and more.
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The Return of Pulp, a Serious Band That Doesn’t Take Itself Seriously
The Britpop group led by Jarvis Cocker reunited for “More,” its first album since 2001. The stakes are different, the band more mature and the songs still thoughtful.
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Val Kilmer in ‘Batman Forever’ Was a True 1990s Moment
The actor took only one turn in the famous batsuit. That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative artifact of its era.
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Angie Stone, Hip-Hop Pioneer Turned Neo-Soul Singer, Dies at 63
After having success as a member of the Sequence, an early female rap group, she re-emerged in the 1990s as a practitioner of sultry, laid-back R&B.
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Ananda Lewis, Former MTV V.J., Says She Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer
Lewis, the host of the 1990s MTV show “Hot Zone,” tried to fight her illness without undergoing a double mastectomy. She says she is responding well after resuming treatment.
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London Fashion Week Celebrates Middle Age
Once upon a time the London scene was wild and revolutionary. Now its fashion week is 40. What happens when the wild child of dress grows up?
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Hundreds of Readers Told Us Their Favorite 1999 Movies. Which Came Out on Top?
In a memorable year for film, there were recommendations of blockbusters, tender dramas and coming-of-age-tales. But one title stood out from the rest.
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10 Unforgettable Songs From 1999 Movies
Listen to tracks by the Chicks, Aimee Mann, Blink-182 and more linked to moments in a monumentally interesting — and busy — year of cinema.
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Revisiting the Women Who Defined Lilith Fair’s Sound
Hear songs by Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Meredith Brooks and more.
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My First Cigarette Was My Last
Thoughts on the coolest boy in Ontario.
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‘The Connector,’ a Show That Asks: Should News Feel True or Be True?
A new musical from Jason Robert Brown, Daisy Prince and Jonathan Marc Sherman explores the diverging trajectories of two young writers in the late 1990s.