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Boom and echo

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Reviewing NYC's most uncomfortable movie theater seats.

goes bumming around the arthouse circuit. 

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Stiff as a board

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The unbearable flatness of being online.

on the rise and fall of skeuomorphic design.

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Skeuomorphia

Alicia Kennedy

A conversation with food writer Alicia Kennedy. 

interviews Alicia Kennedy, author of the forthcoming book No Meat Required (Beacon Press, August 2023). 


No meat required

Starbucks Odyssey

Two kinds of runs. 

on Starbucks' siren NFTs, and Terry Nguyen on the Silicon Valley bank meltdown. 

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Bank for your buck

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Remember when Tumblrs turned into picture books?

on a strange period in 2000s culture—when a popular Tumblr could become a coffee table book.  

Look at This F*cking Hipster by Joe Mande, 2010. 

Look at This Fucking Hipster

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Little Bubby Child

A Mountain Dew-infused Appalachian cartoon. 

on a work of art that's redefining online Appalachian culture. 

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The name of the rose. 

and Chelsea Hodson discuss Hodson's new independent press. 

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Indie publishing 

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Everyone loves it (now). 

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The Girls rewatch

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