Culture

For all his theories about the cosmos, Stephen Hawking may be remembered as much for his assessment of Homer Simpson’s “donut-shaped universe” as his groundbreaking work on the nature of time and existence of parallel dimensions – and that’s just one of Hawking’s many contributions to a surprisingly robust comedic …

Maybe Kenny Omega’s head was still spinning from a loss of blood. After all, it hadn’t even been 48 hours since Chris Jericho busted him open with Omega’s own IWGP United States Championship belt. Or perhaps New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s first-ever U.S. titleholder was exhausted after exacting revenge on Y2J …

In a professional world marred with contract disputes and conflicts over ownership rights, the WWE is usually the company flexing its muscles to withhold character names and keeping wrestlers’ gimmicks hostage. But this year, a long-enduring legal dispute kept the WWE from utilizing one of the most popular characters in …