Find yourself grappling for a definition when your parents and friends from home ask what exactly are those hipsters that you love to mock and/or emulate? Time handily explains the phenomenon for you:
The word would fade for years until it was reborn in the early ’90s, used again to describe a generation of middle-class youths [...]
Online magazine The Root has this embarrassingly unironic article about the rise of black hipsters, or… blipsters, thus somewhat legitimizing a term that probably should not have become a serious thing.
One Himanshu Kumar explains the advent of black people wearing tight pants to readers:
“You can’t really wear sagging jeans without being embarrassed on your skateboard,” [...]
October 3, 2008 – 4:39 PM
This week’s 4oth Anniversary edition of New York Magazine celebrates Wesleyan alumna Santi White ‘97 (Santogold) and Debbie Harry as they discuss the New York music scene, manipulative record labels and hipsters.Debbie Harry gives a special shout out to Wesleyan’s own MGMT:
NY: What’s your favorite band right now?S: I really enjoyed Vampire Weekend’s record.DH: I’ve [...]
October 3, 2008 – 3:39 PM
This week’s 4oth Anniversary edition of New York Magazine celebrates Wesleyan alumna Santi White ‘97 (Santogold) and Debbie Harry as they discuss the New York music scene, manipulative record labels and hipsters.Debbie Harry gives a special shout out to Wesleyan’s own MGMT:
NY: What’s your favorite band right now?S: I really enjoyed Vampire Weekend’s record.DH: I’ve [...]
The New York Times reports a microtrend of fresh-out-of-college hipsters choosing organic farming in upstate New York over slumming around in Williamsburg:
Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food [...]
The New York Times reports a microtrend of fresh-out-of-college hipsters choosing organic farming in upstate New York over slumming around in Williamsburg:
Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food [...]
A refreshing or disgusting break from the cute-fluffy-animal or random-youtube timewasting fillerpost-parade. Summer boredom prompts me to surf the internet aimlessly (funnily enough so does mid-term frantic academic blitzkrieg) and I found this wonderful little website called Hipsterotica. Just in case you were missing those eclectic parties:
I knew what was going to happen from the [...]
A refreshing or disgusting break from the cute-fluffy-animal or random-youtube timewasting fillerpost-parade. Summer boredom prompts me to surf the internet aimlessly (funnily enough so does mid-term frantic academic blitzkrieg) and I found this wonderful little website called Hipsterotica. Just in case you were missing those eclectic parties:
I knew what was going to happen from the [...]
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