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Into this breach has stepped the children's film festival. Like Sundance for squirts, they exist to promote and cultivate the entertainment version of beets: vitamin-rich sustenance kids are not quite sure they want to consume, no matter how delicious their parents say it is. Hipster-parent haven New York City supports a children's film festival (Brooklyn has its own), and they're popping up in other places as well. You'll mostly find them in big cities, but Asheville, N.C., had its first kids' film festival last year, as did Nantucket, Mass., and San Joaquin, Calif. Providence...
...Sweet hipster beard...
...LOLcats-meets-Hipster Bingo site, which launched a few weeks ago, spread across the Internet faster than that Jersey Shore clip of Snooki getting punched in the face. Hipster Puppies proves that you don't need an original idea to create a popular blog; you simply need to combine two things that people love - and sometimes love to hate. (That reminds me, I need to start my own blog: Republican Babies...
...just pretend my dog does all that. Which, as weird as that is, still doesn't make me as weird as people who actually do it, such as those who features their pets on the websites Hipster Puppies and Hipster Kitty. Both combine two of the Internet's favorite things: cute animals and making fun of hipsters. If they could somehow incorporate people falling down, they might be the most popular sites on the Web. (Watch TIME's video about Ben Huh, creator of the websites LOLcats and Fail Blog...
...That's the image I had too. Has the definition of a moonshiner changed? The hipster kids that drove the home-brew movement, making ale in their kitchens, are the ones now making booze in their kitchens. That part is very foodie, very crafty and very caught up in authenticity and care, and there's a booming - booming - hobby world. The federal law makes no dispensation for personal use. The penalties are still very severe: fines up to $10,000 and imprisonment of up to 10 years. But it's just a part of our current cultural place...