Word: hipsters
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...garage-rock movement continues to slather its greasy mixture of hipster apathy and commercial aspiration all over mainstream radio and magazine covers, another movement is bubbling just below a neon Spandex surface. It has finally arrived, with refreshing intelligence and flair, in the form of OK Go. The Chicago-based group’s eponymous disc meshes its tweaked guitars with rebel yells, resulting in one of the year’s best debuts...
...crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator?a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov?feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...
...crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator--a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov--feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...
Cambridge, 1 seems to already be attracting a loyal following of yuppyish twenty-somethings, aging hipster Cantabrigians and adventurous Harvard students, some of whom are not pleased that their secret will soon be out. The dining room is larger that it first appears, since the old Young and Yee kitchen is now on the side and opened up, a move that allows for a nice set of tables and windows at the back and provides a fresh dose of Western transparency to the cooking process. A smallish bar and row of stools for window seating add extra choices for quick...
...chilly Tuesday afternoon, several dozen visitors to the Harvard Square Newbury Comics store are still with anticipation. One aging hipster perfunctorily thumbs through a few albums, but his attention keeps drifting toward the corner of the store, where an acoustic guitar rests beside a pink amplifier...