DragonKing Dark: The strange funeral of Graham Parsons

DragonKing Dark: The strange funeral of Graham Parsons

Karl Stern’s deep dive into pop culture infamy continues. My journey through the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history series continues on this week’s DragonKing Dark and this week, our show has a twist.  Yes, it was a tragedy that 26-year-old singer/songwriter

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DragonKing Dark: The Chris Brown scandals

DragonKing Dark: The Chris Brown scandals

Karl Stern discusses the controversial music artist. My look through the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history begins winding down and this week, we take a look at the domestic violence scandals of music artists Chris Brown. Brown has been hugely successful,

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Edgar Allan Poe

DragonKing Dark: The death of Edgar Allan Poe

Karl Stern’s look through the darkest moments in pop culture history continues. My ongoing spin through the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history series continues and this week, it is dark in many ways. The master of dark literature, Edgar Allan Poe,

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DragonKing Dark: The death of Ernest Hemingway

DragonKing Dark: The death of Ernest Hemingway

Karl Stern’s darkest moments in pop culture series continues. Ernest Hemingway literally changed the entire genre of popular literature. Preceded by the flowery and verbose language of the previous era, Hemingway wrote in a more straightforward style, often holding back and allowing silence

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DragonKing Dark: The Payne Stewart plane crash

DragonKing Dark: The Payne Stewart plane crash

Karl Stern’s path down the darkest 100 moments in pop culture continues. In 1999, television viewers tuned into the story about an out of control jet plane flying across the country from Florida toward Canada. The unresponsive plane was tailed by military jets

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