Of all the things I expected to see at my first-ever National Sports Collections Convention in Chicago this past weekend, the one thing that really surprised me was just how happy the event was. Not ...

Tim Russert, right, and Luke Russert in New York City, on Sept. 1, 2004. “I’m on the third baseline of the Astrodome. On the field! Right where Ken Caminiti plays!” Dad was speaking my language. At 7 ...

I remember when I went to my first Star Trek convention in 1990, at a medium-sized venue outside of Buffalo, NY. I met James Doohan, Denise Crosby, and George Takei, bought my first cosplay shirt, ...

I’ve written previously for Poynter about my fondness for covering the quadrennial Democratic and Republican conventions. Recently, I realized that some of my souvenirs from those conventions ...

Greetings from Chicago and, as Rep. Jamie Raskin called it, “The Democracy Convention.” My first convention, as a staffer for then-governor and presidential candidate Jerry Brown, was in 1976. As a ...

Jordan Calhoun is Editor in Chief at Lifehacker and author of Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture. He holds a BA in Sociology and Criminal Justice, a BS in Psychology, and an ...