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...conference will take place in Williamsburg, Va., from June 2 to June 4. The number of participants is limited, but space is still available. If you are interested, visit our website at time.com/obesity or call...
Phillips, 44, first came up with the idea for such sessions while studying political philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Several days a week after class, he and other students would meet with a favorite professor at a local watering hole. Often other people at the bar would overhear their heated discussions and join in. "I thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful just to have these great conversations all the time?'" he says...
...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...
...Chicago, respectively). But by living across a river or in a formerly industrial neighborhood, they find the cheaper rent and supportive, small-town feel that make working as an artist doable. "It's like this handy Petri dish of culture," says Kirsten Hively, who founded wburg.com a website about Williamsburg...
...need that force driving you to keep coming up with something new," says Enright, sitting in a former industrial park in Williamsburg that New York University plans to convert into playing fields. "I don't waste my time worrying about being co-opted...