Communications Major

Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.

They are hidden in celebrity photos on Instagram in many of our streaming shows. "Easter eggs" and harvesting them is now integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia.

But this is no elegy for Blockbuster, no lament for how Netflix killed the video star. There were plenty of those when the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010, shriveled to 300 stores and then mostly closed.

This is about the ability of the Bend store, like sturdy links in other dying chains, to live on and avoid being turned into a pawnshop or a fast-food restaurant.

The past two years have been a whirlwind of changes at Netflix — and it’s all to transform the company into a revenue-driving machine that outlives other streamers.

The internet is full of ways to curate (read: fake) your personal brand. Can we be honest about this one thing?

The conditions that produced Billy McFarland, Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes show no signs of abating.