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Starbucks, it’s not just for coffee anymore. That’s not the official new Starbucks slogan, but the company’s latest announcement, one year after changing its iconic mermaid logo, means the coffee giant is expanding the list of its liquid offerings. The world’s biggest chain of cozy coffee shops is going to begin offering beer and wine [...]

Members of his family have announced that the winningest college football coach in NCAA Division I history Joe Paterno has passed away this morning. Rumors circulated around the Internet last night that the 85-year-old had died apparently before the actual event occurred. Paterno, who was battling lung cancer, had been hospitalized at State College’s Mount [...]

It’s closing in on the time of year when people actually want their television to show them commercials. That’s right, the Super Bowl is just around the corner on Feb. 5. One of last year’s big hits was the little tyke who tries to channel Darth Vader and thinks he starts up his dad’s Volkswagen [...]

Watching extreme athletes perform, I am often so dazzled by their athleticism that I forget how dangerous their stunts and tricks really are. Yet, there is a reason the word extreme is used to describe them, and sadly sometimes they don’t survive their daring tricks. That was the case for freeskier Sarah Burke, who passed [...]

It’s one thing to track pop culture trends via social media numbers. The number of followers of Charlie Sheen’s Twitter account grew exponentially once he joined the site to report on all his “winning” and “Tiger blood” during his 2011 meltdown.  Twitter users have also broken big news stories before. The assassination of Osama bin [...]

We’re right in the midst of college football’s bowl season – a time when heroes are made. However, our heroes are still human beings who sometimes let us down. Unlike his moment of glory at Notre Dame when he was carried off the football field on the shoulders of his teammates, Daniel Ruettiger, or Rudy [...]

Rock and roll is here to stay, but apparently prized instruments get lost along the way. Legendary guitarist Peter Frampton got a pleasant and unexpected prize last month when one of his favorite guitars was returned to him after being missing for more than three decades. Frampton used his beloved instrument most famously on the [...]

In January, weather is often a hot topic. Or should I say “cold” topic, since it is the winter here in the Northern Hemisphere. Plunging temperatures, ice and snowpocalypse, which at one point covered 49 of 50 states simultaneously last year, are usually the terms being bandied about. Winter even creates such a thing as [...]

Happy New Year PopFi readers. We’ve survived 2011 and now are steeling ourselves for the challenges and opening our arms to the joys that await us in 2012. After the celebrating and epic fireworks of New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day is often one of recovery from the night before and hopeful anticipation of the [...]

  With the high divorce rate in the United States, lots of marriages get flushed away. For one couple, still together nearly 40 years later, it was their engagement ring that went down the toilet. Through a series of unusual circumstances, a couple in Stanford, Montana were able to retrieve the ring they thought was [...]

Mother Nature is at it again. Afternoon traffic came to a sudden halt in Coventry, England due to an unexpected downpour. No, it wasn’t hailstones that weighed nearly two pounds falling from the sky. Instead it was an onslaught of small green apples dropping from the heavens. Drivers initially assumed the falling fruit pelting their [...]

I live in a city that has one of the nation’s highest allergy and pollen counts nearly every day. This really creates havoc in my sinuses. Even with all these issues, I still have never felt the need to buy a Neti Pot and pour water into my nose in order to flush my sinuses. [...]

Now that we’ve hit the mid point in December, everyone with an opinion is rolling out their list of the best and worst of just about everything imaginable from books to television shows to influential people. Movie rental company Netflix will likely make several lists at the end of 2011 for some of its poorly [...]

Flash mobs, whether with a Glee theme or with an Angry Birds theme, were all the rage in 2010, but as 2011 winds down dancers are less willing to share the spotlight in group outings. Unlike the 1,500 Phillipino prisoners who perform dance routines together, the solo performers want all the attention, to be the [...]

Sometimes the United States government is accused of being a nanny state, overstepping its bounds in the so-called name of protecting its citizens. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., has now pushed through a bill that I can get behind. I’ve been begging for this sort of legislation for years. And now it has come to pass. [...]