A French mathematician has developed a formula to explain the "hipster paradox," the process by which "hipster" nonconformists tend to end up looking the same. Nobody understands what this math guy is saying because everyone calls hipsters fauxhemians
now. A wasted mind.
Neo-nazi hipsters. How long before they make the jump from Heidelberg to Williamsburg?
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These Are the "Most Hipster" Bands, According to Science
Have you been going through life concerned that the music you listen to just might not be cool enough? Well, wonder no more! The good people at Priceonomics have you covered.
This Is the Williamsburg of Your City: A Map of Hip America
What is your city's Williamsburg? What's its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch? (And what, for that matter, is its Bushwick, or "Next Williamsburg"?) If you don't know off the top of your head, don't worry. We…
Peak Hipster: Man Eats Sriracha-Flavored Ramen Out of His 'Beard Bowl'
Known to fans as Mr. Incredibeard, San Francisco native Isaiah Webb promises fellow beard enthusiasts one new beard style every Monday — or "Monbeardday," as he obviously calls it.
Unconventional ‘Hipsters’ Have Been Located in St. Louis, Missouri
What is the "hipster?" What does he or she do, and look like? Where does the hipster lurk? Intrepid journalists have spent years tracking hipsters in their natural habitats of Brooklyn and "the internet." Now, hipsters have been tracked all the way to the frontiers of St. Louis.
OMG Rich People Are Now Going Below 59th Street
New York's upper crust is struggling with the age-old existential question, “Do I have an affair, get a divorce or get a downtown apartment?”
Hipster Thieves Caught Because They Just Had to Instagram Their Food
Nathaniel Troy Maye and Tiwanna Tenise Thomason stole thousands of identities. And they might have gotten away with it, had it not been for a Morton's steak with macaroni and cheese, a meal so perfect and delectable it just had to be photographed and turned into food porn. It just had to be uploaded to Maye's…
Urban Outfitters Coming to Williamsburg; Williamsburg Finally Gonna Learn How to Dress Cool
Yesterday, when Williamsburg revealed its designs for the old Domino sugar factory site, people marveled at the gleaming new towers planned for the waterfront, or, more specifically, the giant gaping holes planned inside them. If solid buildings were the past, empty space-buildings are the future. Everything seemed…
Urgent New York Times Trend News: Middle-Aged White People Have Jobs, Move Out of the City
The Sunday Styles section of the New York Times exists to make folks mad, to be sure (and to sell handbag ads), but it is not really worth getting mad about this past weekend's paired section-front irritants—a profile of BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, and a trend piece about people forsaking Brooklyn to …
Everything That Happens at Williamsburg Pool Freighted With Heavy Sociocultural Significance
Generally speaking, no mischief perpetrated by teenagers is "news." Teenagers not perpetrating mischief is news. This is because—no matter what race, creed, nationality, or socioeconomic stratum they come from—teenagers are punks. Do not, however, tell this to the New York Times. They have a very incisive sociological…
Hipster Driver Is All, 'Yeah, I Ran My Benz Into Your House, And?'
Sophia Anderson is 21 years old. She lives in Brooklyn. She works as a waitress. That's right: hipster alert. Big time. And just like your average hipster, Sophia Anderson drove a red Mercedes-Benz CLK 320 into a house on Long Island last night.
Geiger Counter-Wielding Fukushima Hipsters Make Monitoring Nuclear Fallout Cool
It's been more than a year since the Japanese tusnami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the clean-up continues. But a bit of background radiation has not stopped a crew of Japanese hipsters from doing their hip business in the area. They've formed the "Gamma Watch Squadron," the world's coolest…
Senator Accuses Obama of Wearing 'Hipster Fedora' and Drinking 'Double Skim Lattes'
According to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, "President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for the hipster fedora and a double skim latte." Fair enough. [tips hipster fedora and raises double skim latte toward Hatch in recognition]