We thought hipsters were dead! Not quite, according to the latest survey from the (attention-starved, but still reliable) folks at Public Policy Polling, which reports that just 10 percent of Americans identify as hipsters — that ill-defined category of urban, overeducated youth — while 50 percent of citizens between the ages of 18 and 29 say they wear the label with pride.
Hope you're hungry for schadenfreude, because The New York Times's recent Thursday styles piece on "Will.i.amsburg" was not only laughable, it was incorrect. And somehow, so are the corrections.
Oh no. It's happening again. The New York Times is discovering that Brooklyn is a popular place, and it's running trend pieces about how hipsters love the Williamsburg neighborhood therein. But this latest edition is more trollish than the others
Somehow, a dolphin has ended up trapped in Brooklyn's heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. The world watches with bated breath (and cruel Twitter jokes) while authorities attempt to rescue it — if the dolphin can't wiggle its way out first.
In a wave of irony, it is O.K. to do things one otherwise wouldn't. Right? Because you're being ironic. Meet the newest foodie trend of ironic dining, as inspired by Pete Wells' review of Guy Fieri's restaurant, and find out how to dine ironically for yourself!
For readers who don't obsessively comb through dozens of music blogs every day, we put together a guide to this year's musical micro trends. None were nominated for Grammys.
The New York Post's Sara Stewart reports that our mourning of the dinner party came too soon. It's not dead at all; it just changed locations, and its cast of roving characters.
There are as many "types" of hipsters as there are unique and beautiful-in-their-way Tupperware containers, and some of those hipsters are inspired by Martha Stewart. Martha Stewart?!
Christy Wampole's Opinionator piece in the Sunday New York Times, "How to Live Without Irony," has a lot of people talking, ironically or otherwise.
Let no one say that hipsters are not entrepreneurial. If the new "organic" cigarette for people who ride fixies is any indication, hipsters are very much entrepreneurial indeed, and they do not want to smoke garbage.
You know that scene in Portlandia where the insufferable couple keeps asking if everything on a restaurant's menu is local? Now, imagine how they might react knowing that the bees that supplied the honey for their tea were so close, they might risk being stung?
There's a final gentrification push in the land of Williamsburg, according to The New York Post, that may make the starving artist extinct, or possibly just make the starving artist move to Bushwick.
The second season of Portlandia, IFC's gentle sketch comedy show satirizing the many small lunacies of the bourgeoisie bohemian set, premieres tonight, following a formal premiere event last night at the Museum of Natural History in New York.
The New York Times's latest dispatch from Brooklyn is not only questionable for its newsworthiness; it's also a little bit porny.
Other than the venue — a Pabst-slinging bar with a taco truck parked in the backyard called Union Pool — the first general assembly for Occupy Williamsburg looked a lot like any other Occupy meeting.
It's doubtful that "being a hipster" ever meant anything, but the ever-lowering standards have made it really easy for hipster to pop up everywhere these days and today's unlikely breed are Hipster Presbyterians, just a week after last week's Hipster Mormons, also from The New York Times.
Hipsters are supposed to be the cool kids, but that's actually not the way it works: anyone can join in.
A new tumblr getting attention today asks the question on every Brooklyn-goer's mind: Halloween or Williamsburg?
Alcohol helps: "Not being able to see straight sometimes helps you see straighter."
It's sort of like how only the bourgeois worry about being bourgeois
Only in soccer and only in the Pacific Northwest, would fans battle over being hipsters
The 'most hipster' state is also one of the most bike-friendly, literate and tolerant
Three years after the author's death, his Brooklyn Heights loft is up for sale
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