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...Cosby's commentary is also strikingly similar to the words of a younger, hipper cultural critic: comedian Chris Rock. In Rock's "Niggas vs. Black people" routine from his breakthrough 1996 "Bring the Pain" tour, Rock contrasted the values of middle class blacks with lower-income blacks who had succumbed to a kind of gangsta despair. Among Rock's observations: some blacks liked watching movies in cinemas, other liked shooting them up; some blacks tried to be responsible, others thought if they merely took care of their babies they were doing something special. "There's like a civil war going...
Fifth Floor, the posh restaurant in Harvey Nichols (the like-Harrods-but-hipper store), serves sophisticated Milanoesque cuisine. Thanks to Fifth's seriously geeky sommeliers, its wine scene pulses with options. Try one of the new wine flights--a selection of four wines organized around a theme...
amNewYork is one of the latest bids in a broad effort to revive the newspaper industry after more than a decade of eroding circulation and closures. For years, papers have tried to attract gens X and Y with everything from hipper coverage to school partnerships to targeted pullout sections. Now several publishers are launching stand-alone papers with content tailored to the under-35 crowd, which tends to get its news from cable TV, websites and niche publications. According to a University of Chicago survey, fewer than a quarter of Americans ages 18 to 29 read a newspaper every...
...crowd why they had waited for several hours in sauna-like conditions to hear Broken Social Scene. The band proved that they had truly arrived with “Stars and Sons,” a plodding song accentuated by periodic bouts of clapping that got a room of hipper-than-thou indie types involved in some fashion of audience participation, if not actual dancing...
...Hipper-than-thou trends like this one tend to slip under my radar. But I had the pleasure of chatting it up with a man wearing a cardboard box over his head at the book party for the Practical Guide thanks to the good graces of an FM story assignment. The result: a membership on the Kaiju fan e-mail list and an invitation to this oh-so-happening fete...