Jeff Merrion lays out his case against the dissonant, disturbed indie pop of Jamie Stewart’s Xiu Xiu.
In Cooloola National Park, Bowman Leigh and her camping group get caught in the Noosa River flood.
Trying to compare the German and American versions of The Office, Locke McKenzie gets introspective about cultural generalization.
Greg Merrell interviews brothers Pat and Matt Flegel of lo-fi indie rock outfit Women. The band discusses their songwriting process, working with Chad VanGaalen, and the weirdest music they’ve ever heard.
Dubai may be the embodiment of modernization, but not without a human cost. Darryl Campbell argues the labors of its labor have been largely ignored by the Western media.
Nick Martens looks closely at Watterson’s later Sunday Strips—the “golden age” of Calvin and Hobbes.
Caitlin Boersma questions the hetero-normative depiction of gays in mainstream cinema.
Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666‘s U.S. cover.
Are schools forcing kids to grow up too fast? Locke McKenzie observes that, in Germany, they don’t have to.
Chloe Novak bewails the boring state of contemporary culture, which apparently can muster no higher expression than sepia-toned regurgitations of past generations’ honest labor.
In the Bureau’s first video submission, Emmett Kerr-Perkinson follows Director David Hartstein during the premiere of his documentary Along Came Kinky… Texas Jewboy for Governor at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.
Protests, riots, and violence—everything the UK’s news media would like you to believe happened during Wednesday’s G20 summit. David Tveite sees nothing but the whining of confused, uncoordinated causes.
There’s poetry in everything, including the user comments of NYTimes.com’s most popular blogs. Darryl Campbell investigates the web’s unlikely poetry community.
Jonathan Gourlay tries to count in Pohnpeian but never gets past “one.”
Caitlin Boersma talks to San Francisco-based musician John Vanderslice about domestication, the music biz, Twitter, and being one of the first mp3 bloggers.
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Nick Martens & Kevin Nguyen
Darryl Campbell
Jordan Barber, Caitlin Boersma, Locke McKenzie & Jeff Merrion
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