Do You Have Plans Sunday Night?

If you’re in or around LA this weekend, I am hoping your answer is yes. This Sunday night at 7 PM, I’ll be ringleading KCRW’s first-ever pop culture bracket. We’ll be ranking and choosing from the best of the ‘90s. With a lot of help from our audience (and some really fun live music), we’ll choose a piece of pop culture from the best decade that stands the test of time better than any other.

Franklin Leonard, creator of The Blacklist, will be our judge and referee. Traci Thomas, host of the books podcast The Stacks, and Eliot Glazer, comedian, writer, and author of the upcoming book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay, will be our contestants, debating our bracket entries across several rounds to declare a winner. We’ll have LIVE music. There will be prize giveaways. There will be a '90s dance-off, with audience participation, of course. And I am hoping that everyone, I mean EVERYONE, shows up in their favorite '90s looks.

Here’s the bracket that we winnowed down to 16:

Oprah vs. Jerry Springer
1996 USA Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team vs. The 90s-era Chicago Bulls
Titanic vs. The Rosie O’Donnell Show
Tamagotchis vs. Beanie Babies
The Spice Girls vs. Lilith Fair
Martin vs. Golden Girls
Janet vs. Madonna
The OJ Trial vs. Woodstock 99

Of course, I love to take things down to the wire, so this whole bracket may be different by the time Sunday comes around. You gotta be there to find out ;-)

Alright, happy weekend. ‘90s forever. See ya Sunday!

–Sam