Word: hipster
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...audience for garage rock never truly extended beyond the hipster crowd. The girl next door might have thought Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist was kind of cute, but she sure as spit didn’t request “Main Offender” on Kiss 97-FM. A media creation from the beginning, the mystique of this movement was fueled by a rockcrit elite eager to package and brand a look and sound that they found collectively palatable. Caught up in a rock revival zeal, few stepped back to question: What exactly did these four bands and the various...
...avoid using the word [hipster] at all costs," says Andrew Coulter Enright, 24, whose book, How to Be Fashionable or Consume Like Me, captured the ethos of this generation as it exists in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y. "You're talking about people who have creative pastimes or careers and are interested in fusing lots of different parts of culture together. The Creative Underground doesn't have the catch to it, but it's a little more accurate...
...smoky room, perhaps four of the 300 players were men, none in imminent danger of being ogled by young females. Not that there were many of those. Perhaps 10% were under 40. The women, clad in T shirts and jogging pants, munch on fish and chips and sip beer. Hipster jeans? Think hip replacement. It's less Sex and the City, more The Golden Girls. But there have been successful efforts to modernize. Industry officials say they spend tens of millions making bingo halls more youth-friendly and installing state-of-the-art equipment. The Ping-Pong balls with numbers...
...Pollock? He was America's first painter--pop star, the drunken angel of an emerging hipster culture in search of new routes to those old American goals, the instinctive and the transcendent. Though the role unnerved him, it was secured forever in 1956, when he died, like James Dean, in a car crash. But by that time the energies he had released were in motion everywhere. The painter Willem de Kooning said it best: "He broke the ice." True enough, but it broke him too. --By Richard Lacayo
...another September evening, the trio wandered into a party in downtown Salt Lake, an area populated by the city's hipster crowd of musicians, artists and indie rockers. While the two women mingled with the other guests and smiled politely at small talk, Mitchell "was such a spaz," says Anne Elizabeth Maurer, who snapped a picture of him and Elizabeth. After getting into a tense theological argument with another partygoer, Mitchell began shouting "Jesus lives!" so loudly that he was asked to leave...