Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This funky boutique based in San Francisco has urban-hipster appeal. The clothes and accessories come from independent designers; find this Starlet Top under New at Finery. Another kicky site: karmaloop.com
Joshua Neuman, the publisher of Heeb Magazine: The New Jew Review, spoke to the Harvard Hillel on Tuesday and returned a little bit of hipster to the Jews of Harvard after a stint at the Divinity School. His brainchild is an irreverent quarterly devoted to “the unconventional, non-payis wearing, middle finger to the Hebrew School teacher, motorcycle riding, non-doctor, non-lawyer, bacon cheeseburger eating, rock-and-roll loving, crazy Jew”—or so someone on The New York Times letters page would have it. Neuman knows everything there is to know...
...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...