The romantic comedy is making a comeback, and after watching the last third of Ricky Gervais’s Ghost Town, BBC-phile Caitlin Boersma wants us to know that we should be very, very afraid.
Nick Martens looks back on the little playlist-sharing website that could.
Kevin Nguyen experiences terror at 500 feet and dropping, with a stiff crosswind.
The Bureau Staff scours the entirety of YouTube to bring you the most awful of the awful. Viewer discretion is advised.
Rioting: is it impassioned activism or groupthink-escalated violence? Locke McKenzie notices that Germans like to riot about, well, everything.
David Tveite searches for method to the madness of the MPAA’s tolerance for foul language.
Kevin Nguyen and his family take a break from forwarding each other funny pictures to discuss the Governor of Alaska’s veep credentials.
Restauranteur Jordan Barber whips up a menu of election entrées guaranteed to appease your political palate.
Nick Martens revisits Scott McCloud’s comic about comics, and compares it to the artist’s recent work for Google.
Kevin Nguyen examines the forces behind the recent swell of extraordinary, intelligent television.
Locke McKenzie relishes in the glory of Budweiser, the great American beer… which is now owned by Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate InBev.
Can you figure a person out solely by what they like? Jeff Merrion appraises our judgmental generation with a pop culture personality test.
We’re glad you could join us today. Hudson Hongo has a few things to say.
Charlie Nadler dispels the myths about tardigrades, a microscopic water-dwelling animal.
Taxi cabs are the merry-go-rounds of the soul. Nick Martens describes three rides during the Bureau’s trip to last week’s South by Southwest Interactive Conference.
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