Nick Martens picks his favorite iPhone and iPad games of the year.
Nick Martens gets lost in the worlds of Game of Thrones and Skyrim.
People take seasonal produce very seriously. Nick Martens decides to get his information straight from the source.
Nick Martens presents a handy quiz to help your liberal arts-induced existential loneliness.
Nick Martens reports from Chicago’s Union Park on drummers, the summer heat, and Porta-Pottys.
Nick Martens would like you to stop making assumptions about his line of work. It really makes you look stupid.
Nick Martens would like to cheer up the Ewok-inhabited moon from Return of the Jedi.
Nick Martens wonders why media overexposure so reliably turns sports fans against star players.
Nick Martens adores his copy of McSweeney’s San Francisco Panorama, but it probably won’t save the newspaper industry.
Nick Martens hopes no one looks at his browsing history after this.
Nick Martens looks at some of NASA’s lesser-known missions from the ’60s.
Nick Martens sees his favorite band (Pavement!) in concert (twice!), which makes him wonder why they’re his favorite band.
Jonathan Gourlay tries to count in Pohnpeian but never gets past “one.”
Kevin Nguyen delves into the past, present, and future of karaoke, and speaks with Brian Raftery, author of Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life.
Josh Fischel interviews Spencer Tweedy — blogger, photographer, musician, and 14-year-old son of Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy.
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