For Lauren Bagby, awards season marks the time to track and trade DVD screeners with friends and coworkers in the movie biz.

Lauren Bagby has advice in case the show you’re working on doesn’t get picked up for a second season.

Jonathan Gourlay stops reading books. This is what happens to him.

After a lifetime of meticulously managing his own digital music collection, Daniel Adler lets loose and signs up for an unlimited streaming service.

The Bureau Editors on the most arresting fiction and nonfiction reads of the year.

Kevin Nguyen details his tenuous relationship with indie-savvy actress Zooey Deschanel, whom he’s never met.

Nick Martens picks his favorite iPhone and iPad games of the year.

Kyle Chayka explains how contemporary artists and art dealers are finally embracing the internet in strange and exciting ways.

The Bureau Staff selects their favorite new albums of the year.

Nick Martens gets lost in the worlds of Game of Thrones and Skyrim.

Editors Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens talk with fellow bloggers about their favorite new sites.

Darryl Campbell wonders if he ever learns anything from cooking shows, or if they just leave him with disturbing mental images.