You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. I was born smack in the middle of the '90s, which means I experienced the tail end of mall culture — ...

You don’t have to wear all black, drape yourself in chains, or sport multiple piercings to shop at Hot Topic anymore. Back in ...

Shoppers browse through a Hot Topic store in 2002 at the Serramonte mall in California. In the early 2000s, Hot Topic targeted a customer base between the ages of 12 and 22. (Photo: Getty Images) ...

Unless you've got a teenager or stockbroker in the house, you probably haven't heard about Hot Topic. The specialty retailer -- which caters to goths, punks, rockers and other teen subcultures -- is ...

How has an enclave for emo kids and mall goths resisted the retail apocalypse? With merch. By Paula Mejía On a recent afternoon, the Hot Topic store at the King of Prussia Mall, outside of ...

Before the Hot Topic store ever opened up, the buzz was going around school. So says Nathan Fitzpatrick, who has walked through the new store's iron-arch, club motif entrance 20 times since its April ...