You stream a song 40 times in a week. It's your favorite, it's on every playlist you own, and you'd feel a little guilty if you thought about it. So here's a fair question: where does your money actua...
Hollywood Just Remembered Why Movie Theaters Exist You finally get a free Friday night, open your streaming app, and search for that big movie everyone was talking about a month ago. Nothing. It's "co...
You open your phone to check one thing. Forty minutes later you have watched twenty-three episodes of a show about a housekeeper who is secretly a billionaire's estranged wife, you have paid $4.99 to ...
You go to re-subscribe to something for football season. The signup page loads. There are three plans, and the cheapest one — the one with ads — is already selected, highlighted, labeled Most Popular....
A friend of mine put out a song two years ago. It did well — not famous well, but genuinely well. Playlists picked it up, a couple of small sync placements happened, and the counter on her dashboard e...
Three friends came over for the season finale. The good one — the episode everyone had been waiting eight weeks for. Twenty minutes in, somebody said what everyone was thinking: "Is it supposed to loo...
Friday night, seven minutes to kickoff. You open the app you're sure has the game, and it doesn't. You try the other one. It wants you to log in with a cable provider you cancelled in 2021. By the tim...
You sit down on a Friday night, open the app, and there it is: episode one of the show everyone has been talking about. You watch it. Then you go looking for episode two — and the app tells you it arr...
A friend of mine got a car with a good stereo last spring and started driving to work the long way. Not for the scenery — for the album. He'd queue up a record from 1977, the whole thing, in order, fo...
You are standing in the lobby on a Friday night, doing the math. Two tickets, a large popcorn, parking. Call it sixty dollars. Your phone is in your hand, and somewhere in the back of your mind is the...
