Word: hipster
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...black and white picture on his wall, David Modigliani, stands in front of the Capitol Building decked out in 70s-style hipster tweeds, sunglasses and a pimpin’ hat cocked to the side. He’s got a brash, “what’s it to you” smile and exudes cool—the kind of guy whose name is on every VIP list. Ladies, don’t call him, he’ll call...
...more than 20 feet wide, Toad is all business. There’s a bar, some seats, a small stage and alcohol. The Improper Bostonian named it one of Boston’s Best in 2000, writing “a honeycomb hideout for the hipster and those in the know...
Like your critic James Poniewozik [ESSAY, Aug. 20], I am a hipster from the '80s who took pride in my knowledge of alternative rock. I proudly bought import records at the "cool" record stores and knew all about the right bands and songs. And though I genuinely liked the music, I also liked what it wasn't: accessible. People like me are the ones who now get to put that music in movies and commercials. But in doing so, we've taken away the edge, the hipness in simply knowing it. Somewhere, right now, a 15-year-younger version...
...world for plundering rock's past. Not I; if a luxury carmaker wants to kowtow to my tastes to move product--and tosses a few shekels to a great band--I say, Let it. What's more interesting, and a little disquieting, is what this new kind of hipster marketing says about my generation: not how the market has reshaped us but how we reshaped the market...
...Jocko Henderson. Douglas Wendell Henderson, from Baltimore, brought a soothing hipster air to his shows on the two "Negro" (but white-owned) radio stations in town, WHAT and WDAS. Imagine a voice with Billy Eckstine's swing and intimacy, to the beat of light brush strokes, as Jocko croons his standard intro: "Hey, daddy-o!/ Hey, mommy-o!/ This is your Ace from Outer Space,/ Jock-o!/ Spinnin' the records on the record machine,/ Correct time now: /five fifteen...