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You’re never as busy as you say you are(0)

April 2, 2014

The answer to feeling oppressively busy.

Long stretches of nothingness

It might be America’s most popular sport but that doesn’t mean it’s more action-packed than others.

Remaining drive-ins face a new crisis

Digital projection might kill what’s left of drive-ins.

The scandal of a tax-exempt NFL

While we as a nation get to the bottom of a recent IRS scandal, attention should also be turned to the tax exempt status of the country’s most profitable sports league.

Facebook = driving less

Millennials are driving less. Is Facebook partly to blame?

Zach Braff’s Kickstarter ‘defeats the purpose’

Zach Braff and other name-brand Kickstarter campaigns are reason for concern for struggling filmmakers and artists trying to be discovered.

The decline of the album sleeve

Patrick West bemoans the decline of the record album sleeve.

The exploding magazine

Blogger Andrew Sullivan thinks it’s magazines, not blogs, that are dying.