T-shirts on display at the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping center’s Hot Topic. The store, now in its 30th year, has become a haven for merchandise tied to a wide range of fandoms.

So I associate Hot Topic with finding my identity.” Her collection of shirts “integrates serious topics with entertainment” with sayings like “Soft Emo” (which she says redefines the ...

Punk and Emo’s Hot Topic-worthy spikes set them apart from other fossils from the aculiferan branch of the mollusk family. “We don’t know much about aculiferans, and it’s unusual to find ...

You know your hobby is officially uncool when the lifestyle-providers over at Hot Topic try to cash in on it. It seems they're getting into the videogame T-shirt business in a big way. Some of the ...

Hot Topic, which was founded in a garage in the late '80s before becoming a chain with over 600 stores, used to be known for its loud punk music and an overwhelming amount of band T-shirts ...

21 of the best emo memes to help you relive your middle school glory days Take a trip down memory lane—and through the aisles of Hot Topic.

Hot Topic established itself as a fandom merchandise powerhouse with The Nightmare Before Christmas — and The Nightmare Before Christmas nurtured a growing fandom because of Hot Topic.

Today’s emo and emo-related bands may not be as visible as the mid 2000s Warped Tour bands were — all you had to do back then to find them was turn on MTV, or KROQ, or walk into a Hot Topic ...

Let's take a brief saunter down memory lane to the items we all owned in the time of Hot Topic, allowances, and being dropped off at the mall in a so-not-emo minivan. 1. Band T-Shirts ...

If you grew up shopping at Hot Topic, these edgy outfit ideas are the classy, adult equivalent. Here are the cool-girl looks that gift off major bad b*tch energy. It's like Hot Topic for adults.

Many associate the stores with goth, emo, punk, or grunge. But Hot Topic has grown to become much more than its ‘90s persona. It’s evolved into a pop culture fashion leader and one of the most ...

When Mark Sutton, an Imperial College London paleontologist pieced together 3D renderings of a tiny fossil mollusk, he was struck by the spikes that covered its wormlike body. "This is like a ...