Articles by Kevin Nguyen & Nick Martens

arts 12.12.11 Best New Blogs of 2011

Editors Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens talk with fellow bloggers about their favorite new sites.
arts 08.31.11 Notes from PAX Prime 2011

Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens explore this year’s Penny Arcade Expo, the country’s biggest videogame convention, and find droids, dweebs, and ineffective armor.
arts 11.29.10 Best New Blogs of 2010

Editors Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens talk with fellow bloggers about favorite new additions to their RSS readers.
squid 01.04.10 Our Year in Review

Since we’re taking the week off, Bureau Editors Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens highlight their favorite articles from 2009. And swear. A lot.
arts 12.16.09 Best New Blogs of 2009

Editors Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens and fellow bloggers talk about the latest and greatest additions to their RSS readers.
squid 12.24.08 Best Local Albums of 2008

Tired of hearing about No Age and Bon Iver? Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens ask music bloggers from around the country for their top local picks.
humor 10.08.08 Voter Groups You May Have Overlooked

Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens turn the spotlight towards some niche demographics struggling to find a voice this election season.
arts 06.25.08 Artists for Obama

Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens look at three well-known pieces of Obama campaign material and discuss how they advocate the candidate in unconventional ways.

humor 10.19.07 More Indie Rock Shirts that Wouldn’t Sell

Desperate for traffic after a week of server issues, the Bureau Staff turns to an area guaranteed to bring in the readers: snarky indie shirts. In this installment, we discuss Scientology, robots, and the nature of human sexuality.
humor 08.20.07 Indie Rock T-Shirts That Would Never Sell

Before The Bygone Bureau, visionaries Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens staked a claim as t-shirt retailers targeting indie rock hipsters. Due to a series of production issues, conflicts of interest, America’s obesity problem, and robotic monotones, the site never took off. The Bureau’s editors present their line of shirts, sadly never put into production.