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This year marks 30 years since the groundbreaking rock opera Rent opened on Broadway and revolutionized American musical theatre. In this episode of History of the 90s host Kathy Kenzora is joined by Rent's longtime musical director Tim Weil to trace Jonathon Larson’s long journe ...  Show more

The 1990s is considered by many to be the golden age of sneaker culture and there was one catalogue sneakerheads could not get enough of. The Eastbay Catalogue was a portal into an exclusive community no matter where you lived in the world. In this episode of History of the 90s h ...  Show more

When the curtain rose on the murder trial of Pamela Smart 23 years ago, the stage was set for the birth of reality TV. Accused of plotting the 1990 murder of her husband Gregory, 22-year-old Smart was subsequently convicted in the first fully televised, gavel-to-gavel court case, ...  Show more

The case and trial of Pamela Smart for her role in her husband's death gripped the entire country. The first trial to be televised live in it's entirety, it ushered in the era of "trial watching". This case was filled with salacious details that cause the media to flock to New Ha ...  Show more

Amanda Knox, was a Seattle-born study-abroad student who spent almost four years in Italian prison for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. The Netflix documentary, Amanda Knox, chronicles the murder trial and the surrounding media circus, which began from the moment Ker ...  Show more

In 1978, police closed in on a clandestine brothel located in a quiet, humble home in London. The ensuing trial of the brothel’s madam, Cynthia Payne, called into question everything the straitlaced British culture believed about sex work. Parcasters - Did you catch our most rece ...  Show more