A long, long, long time ago (like, last year) I wrote an obituary for the word artisanal. It seemed high time to declare it dead and get on with our lives. And yet, it has become clear in the months that have followed that artisanal is not dead. Artisanal may, instead, be undead.
In response to my argument that our nation's capital is not a hip place and never will be, D.C. events space VerdeHouse has started the a Twitter campaign #hipDC that asks people to tweet out all the #hip things about the city. In the spirit of equal time, we are going to list them all here.
A post I wrote the other day about the things inherent to D.C. that make it difficult for the city to get hip has a lot of people very upset, proving that the hipness factor of this capital really matters to its residents.
A Washington D.C. neighborhood ended up on a Forbes list of the hippest places in the country, leading to the same old clichéd jokes about the very unhip city.
Just when you thought maybe we'd stopped talking hipster to death as a term (haven't we killed it, already?) it rears its head again: This time in Forbes' gleeful list of "America's Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods."
With Mormons and Presbyterians co-opting the term hipster, the trifecta of unlikely hipsterdom was just waiting for the addition of an Amish hipster.
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