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January 23-27, 2012

If you’re a music lover of a certain age, you know that mix CDs are awesome, but they’re just not the same creature as mix tapes. Mike Vincent wonders if even mix CDs aren’t obsolete, and revisits an early effort in “Winter”

It’s Oscar season again, and that means it’s time for Kevin Mattison’s annual “Great Oscar Race.” He sizes up the field in “Already out of breath”

Who watches TV one episode at a time anymore? Certainly not Sarah Pavis. And when Netflix offers so much all at once, how could one possibly be blamed? Read “The united queues of Sarah”

The internet is an amazing repository of the world’s knowledge. It’s a place where people can come together from across the world to accomplish amazing things. It’s also a steaming cesspool of humanity’s ignorance and filth. Lindsey Malta explores a bit of that cesspool in “Dumb internet shit”

Burger King is experimenting with delivery in the Washington, DC area, so The Friendly Foodie tries an experiment of his own, and finds he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Read “A supposedly successful experiment that I’ll never repeat”