Things That Are Currently Hip

This is your periodic update on what is hip.
DC So Hip That All the Hip People Are Priced Out
Washington, DC is known to be America's "capital" city—of hipness. Much of that hip, young vibe is driven by "millennial"-generation "hipsters," spreading their hipness around the city like a blanket of comforting disease. But has DC gotten too hip for the good of its own hipness?
"We're going to be the hippest city in the United States!"—Vincent Gray, the mayor of Washington, DC, speaking to a hip local crowd last night. What does he mean, "going to be?"
Old Folks Can't Handle DC's Hip Casual Dining Scene
The wave of hipness that has lately washed over Washington, DC has bathed the city's new residents in a glorious young, hip vibe. But it has also washed away the once sedate lives of the city's elderly, who now cower in their apartments, fearing that the next tidal wave of coolness may drown them for good.
Hip Town Washington, DC Is Redefining "Hip" as "A Place Dorks Like"
When you think of "hip," there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that, just after you think "the joint between the femur and acetabulum of the pelvis," you think, "Washington, DC, which is just a hip darn area in general." DC is so hip that it will unilaterally declare itself hip, facts be damned.
Is Yuppie Shit Threatening DC's Hipness?
We all know that "DC" has traditionally stood for "Duh, [our] City [is an epicenter of hipness]." An ill (slang for "bad") wind this way blows, however. Could gentrification be threatening Chocolate City's young, hip vibe?
Hip Williamsburg Trendsetters Invent 'Movie Theaters'
Williamsburg, which our nation's greatest newspaper has scientifically determined to be the only neighborhood in New York City that really matters, is responsible for the invention of the swimming pool, the cocktail party, and the man bun. What will the hip young creatives in this hot and happening area give to…
Hip City USA (Washington DC) Is Finally Getting Credit for Its Hipness
The Washington Post has a long and proud journalistic tradition of owning the DC Hipness beat—continuously breaking news on the young, hip vibe of our nation's capital, where conservative and liberal nerds alike can come together to act, apallingly, like children. This eagle-eyed coverage of The Hip is something of…
Bullshit List Says Washington, DC Is Not America's Hipness Capital (Yeah Right)
Any hip motherfucker worth his titanium hip knows that our nation's capital, Washington, DC, is also our nation's hipness capital, thanks to the young, hip vibe that permeates the city's air like the stench of a half-eaten half-smoke resting in the gutter outside of an upscale Half-Smoke Lounge that harkens back to…
Whimsical DC Adults Revert to Childhood
In Washington the District of Columbia, hipness is not just something you put on and take off every day like a "wacky" tie showing a photo of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley; it is a way of life. And DC's young, hip vibe is not just limited to young nerds—old nerds are getting in on the act as well.
The Following Things Have Been Deemed 'Hip'
An ironclad rule of hipness is that if you're looking for hipness, the best place to start your search is within the paragraphs of a newspaper article with the word "Hip" featured prominently in the headline. Mainstream newspaper stories explaining phenomena deemed "Hip" by mainstream newspaper editors: where hipness…
Adorable Little DC Trying to Be 'Hip' Like Its Daddy (NYC)
The Washington Post, having suffered years of cutbacks and foreign bureau closings, has now consolidated all of its remaining resources on its Peabody award-winning Hipness Desk. The paper's tireless hipness correspondents spend day and night fanned out across the metropolitan region in search of the elusive young,…
Where Is Hipness Occurring in America Today?
The first rule of hipness is that hip people talk about "hipness" a lot. When you're around someone who uses the word "hip" a lot, well, you know that hipness is in the air, because nothing is hipper than bandying about the word "hip" as it relates to "hipness," in both writing and casual conversation.
'Milbanksy:' Self-Awareness Strikes DC
At last, evidence of Washington, DC's newfound young, hip vibe that does not immediately inspire peals of derisive laughter. Meet Milbanksy: unshackling DC's reputation from hackery since 2011!
New York Is Sending Its Less-Hip Citizens Down to DC
Though newsroom budgets in our nation's capital have been slashed again and again, the Washington Post staunchly maintains its editorial commitment to keeping its Hipness Desk fully staffed. The young, hip vibe that has swept the town like a stiff Potomac wind is transforming the sleepy riverside burg into an…
Whether Liberal or Conservative, Hip Young DC Residents Are Nerds
It's already been established that Washington, DC—once known as the Most Dangerous City in America—is now being consumed by a young, hip vibe that threatens to engulf the entire metropolitan area in a tidal wave of youth, hipness, and white people. We now turn to the Washington Post for a deeper look at this…
Report: 'Young, Hip Vibe' Strikes Washington, DC
Three hipness reporters from the hipness desk of hipness arbiter The Washington Post drop an investigative bombshell today: while politicians were politicking, and lobbyists were lobbying, and tourists were touristing, and go-goers were go-going, something sinister was happening in Washington. It was becoming…
