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Work

A Conversation with Creamy Designs
By Pluck Staff, Published 11/03/11

From 'Big' Business to Small Business: The making of the Salsabol
By Michael Charley, Published 10/05/11

Mercy
By Emma Olsen, Published 09/30/11

The Red Earth: An Interview With Farmer Leah Penniman
By Pluck Staff, Published 09/21/11

What Your Drink Says About You: A Guide to Picking the Right Beverage While Networking
By Pluck Staff, Published 08/19/11

Boozy not Bombed – A Guide to Your New Limits
By Andy Michaels, Published 08/18/11

A Conversation with The Second 10k
By Pluck Staff, Published 08/02/11

A Conversation with Reason Furniture
By Pluck Staff, Published 07/19/11

The Pluck Guide to Networking
By Betty M., Published 07/15/11

Evasive Maneuvers: How I Learned to Talk about Transition
By Paulina Veyer, Published 06/03/11

A Conversation with a Curator In Training: Inside the Creation of an Exhibit
By Natalia Lauricella, Published 05/24/11

Lunch Break: how one step back got me going
By Libby Barker, Published 03/25/11

Why I Write: one grad quits her job to pick up a pen
By Meredith Moore, Published 03/21/11

The Trip that Changed Everything: Finding success by looking for happiness
By Kristina Libby, Published 03/07/11

A Stable Job: How the recession made one grad shovel manure
By Alex, Published 03/07/11

Adventures

A Conversation with Anthony Nicaj
By Pluck Staff, Published 12/05/11

In Search of Robert Johnson's Soul
By Andy Cook, Published 10/24/11

The Gourmet Guerilla: Adventures in Stealth Dining
By Tiffany Ng, Published 10/07/11

Stay Or Go: A Backpacker Considers Adventure in a City on the Brink
By Lily Rothman, Published 08/26/11

Defining Detroit: What to make of America's most interesting city, Part 3
By Sid Rothstein, Published 07/28/11

Defining Detroit: What to make of America's most interesting city, Part 2
By Sid Rothstein, Published 07/22/11

A Guide To Starting Your Own Country
By Alex Begley, Published 07/11/11

Five Easy Weekend Escapes From San Francisco
By Kate Thorman, Published 06/28/11

Returning From Uganda
By Mary Doman, Published 06/22/11

Five Easy Weekend Escapes For East Coasters
By Kate Thorman, Published 06/14/11

Road Trip Dos and Don'ts
By Azure Gilman, Published 06/07/11

Survivor's Guide to I-95: Ten tips on surviving the NY-DC commute
By Lisbeth Kaufman & Alexander Sassaroli, Published 04/26/11

"I am not Jack Kerouac": A young woman goes on the road
By Azure Gilman, Published 03/29/11

Hard Lessons: Teaching in San Quentin
By Mohit Singh, Published 03/07/11

What You Can Do with a Cellphone and a Box of Jelly Donuts: an Obama campaign staffer's adventure in Navajo Nation
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 03/07/11

Defining Detroit: What to make of America's most interesting city, Part 1
By Sid Rothstein, Published 03/07/11

What Are You Doing With Your Life?: A Comic
By Will Parschalk, Published 03/07/11

DIY

A Conversation with a Socialist
By Pluck Staff, Published 11/10/11

A Conversation with Rebecca Goldschmidt of Big Things
By Pluck Staff, Published 10/18/11

How to Start Your Own Non-Profit: An interview
By Matt Hansen, Published 03/07/11

The Tiniest Bones: A conversation with designer Alex Schmidt
By Dédé, Published 03/07/11

How to Move Home with Your Parents and Keep Your Dignity: A step by step guide
By Matt Hansen, Published 03/07/11

Love

My Normandy
By Mary-Margaret McSweene, Published 12/21/11

The Case for Clinging to Tradition, Or Yeah, I was a Debutante, But It's Not Like That
By Angélique Jamail, Published 09/29/11

Cut Paper Memories: A Story
By Mary-Margaret McSweene, Published 06/09/11

My Road to Iowa
By Michael Ceraso, Published 05/04/11

Divorce at 23 years old: boxes of the past
By Mary-Margaret McSweene, Published 04/14/11

Comic Relief: How I Learned To Get Screwed And Like It
By Max Levant, Published 03/23/11

A Marriage of Moments: One twenty-five year old takes the leap
By Anonymous, Published 03/07/11

Network

I am not Fooled by You, Virgin America
By A-J Aronstein, Published 09/14/11

Boundaries, Batsmen, and Beers for Breakfast: Experiencing the other World Cup
By Parth Vasa, Published 05/12/11

Pluck's Very Simplified Guide to Cricket
By Pluck Staff, Published 05/12/11

Honor for the Ages: What old manners tell us about our new selves
By Matt Hansen, Published 03/07/11

Opinions

Critical Agitation: A Look At Occupy Wall Street
By Kali Gene Borkoski, published 11/17/11

When You Can and Can't Pull IT Out
By Eugene k. Chow, published 6/17/11

My Linguistic Love Affair
By Stefanie Sturm, published 5/27/11

Trend Watch: Planking
By Nico Lauricella, published 5/20/11

Bin Laden's Death: the Celebration near the White House
By Melati Kaye, published 5/06/11

"The Transcendent Man": What a futurist can tell us about our warming planet
By Lisbeth Kaufman, published 3/18/11

What I Learned Wiretapping Mobsters
By Victoria, Published 03/07/11

Recessionomics: The unofficial federal arts project
By Brett Blake, Published 03/07/11

Procrastination

Read

One Pluckin' Year
By Pluck Staff, Published 12/27/11

The Curious World of Spam
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 12/17/11

Breakfast Candy
By Andrew Crabtree, Published 07/21/11

Pluck's Summer Reading List
By Pluck Staff, Published 07/01/11

"New York Spleen": an excerpt
By Ryan Ruby, Published 04/07/11

Five Books to Read
By Meredith Moore, Published 03/22/11

Steve Martin's New Book
By Molly M., Published 03/07/11

Watch

Artist Spotlight: Amber Vittoria
By Amber Vittoria, Published 09/07/11

A Conversation with Nicholas Maggio
By Pluck Staff, Published 09/01/11

Pluck's Guide to Photography
By Pluck Staff, Published 08/02/11

Top 5 Museum Exhibits You Shouldn't Miss
By Natalia Lauricella, Published 05/24/11

Start Your Morning With This "Big Bang"
By Molly M., Published 03/27/11

Top 5 Films
By Libby Barker, Published 03/25/11

Top 5 Comedy Duos You Don't Know Yet
By Max Levant, Published 03/23/11

The Best Movies to Watch Instantly
By Nico Lauricella, Published 03/07/11

Listen

The Best Albums of 2011
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 01/06/12

Judging Bands By Their Photos
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 08/11/11

A Conversation With Cruel Rhythm
By Pluck Staff, Published 08/10/11

Cruel Rhythm’s Top 5 Bands
By Jamila Scott, Published 08/10/11

The Ten Best Songs To Wake Up To
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 06/24/11

Catching up with Whiskey Sherpa
By Orr Shtuhl and Andy Keller, Published 06/01/11

Top 5 Music Picks from Whiskey Sherpa
By Orr Shtuhl and Andy Keller, Published 06/01/11

The Kills – Blood Pressures Album Review
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 05/18/11

Five Great LGBT Musicians
By Stefanie Sturm, Published 05/10/11

Listening to Chloe Makes Music’s "The Puppeteer"
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 04/28/11

Living In The Moment: A Conversation with up-and-coming band Weekends
By Alex Begeley, Published 04/21/11

The Top 5 Songs We’re Listening To Right Now
By Weekends, Published 04/21/11

Find Good Music with Daytrotter
By Lydia Ross, Published 04/02/11

Best Albums of 2011…this far
By Eugene K. Chow, Published 03/07/11

Wear

The Future of Men's Pants is here, and it is dropped
By Martin Mulkeen., Published 04/19/11

Spring Cleaning: The 5 Items to Exorcize from Your Wardrobe
By Molly M., Published 04/12/11

Women: the Spring Must Haves
By Molly M., Published 03/07/11

Men: Where to Buy Your Work Shirts
By Nico Lauricella, Published 03/07/11

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