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McCarren Park Pool Redesign Approved Unanimously by Landmarks Preservation Commission
The hipster hangout is officially about to get a lot more ‘resorty.’ With Astroland gone, too, good clean fun is making a real comeback for 2009!
Posted 09/10/08 in Daily Intel : Hipsters
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‘Why Are the Hipsters So Small-Minded?’
A ‘Real World’ cast member from Utah grapples with the ultimate irony.
Posted 09/09/08 in Daily Intel : Irony
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Leigh Lezark Literally a Cartoon
The hipster-cum-fashionista has committed to animating herself for Fashion Week.
Posted 09/05/08 in The Cut : Seriously?
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Hipster Party on Williamsburg Bridge Makes Us Feel Out of Touch, Crotchety
They were partying IN THE BRIDGE. Not, like, under it, on the ground. In it. With booze! Someone call the PTA!
Posted 08/26/08 in Daily Intel : Hipsters
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Hipster Party on Williamsburg Bridge Makes Us Feel Out of Touch, Crotchety
They were partying IN THE BRIDGE. Not, like, under it, on the ground. In it. With booze! Someone call the PTA!
Posted 08/26/08 in Daily Intel : Hipsters
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Taavo Somer Stars in Hipster-vertisement
An ironically hip nod to Dockers commercials?
Posted 08/21/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Merlin Bronques Puts Sweaty, Greasy Hipsters to Work
Promoting an energy drink!
Posted 08/21/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed
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Brooklyn Lawyer Unable to Relinquish Inner Rock Star
A twentysomething hipster lawyer self-immolates.
Posted 08/08/08 in Daily Intel : Court Reporter
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Tory Burch Goes Hipster?
The recent CFDA award winner has hired Paris-based hipster company Surface 2 Air as creative consultants.
Posted 06/10/08 in The Cut : Run Through
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‘Netherland’ Is Everywhere; How Long Before Hipsters Start Playing Cricket?
We expect the grassy open spaces of Prospect Park to be filled with twentysomething Americans in dress whites by the end of the summer.
Posted 05/19/08 in Vulture : Ranters and Ravers
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Bedbugs: A New Reason Not to Camp Out in Union Square
Plus, trouble for UBS, victory for Stephen Colbert, and one or the other for anyone who took the bar last time around, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 05/07/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Rent Stabilization Not As Stable As Before
Plus, Skadden's role in the failed Microsoft-Yahoo talks, what Perez Hilton is doing in James Frey's new novel, and the rest of today's industry gossip.
Posted 05/06/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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The Search for Hipster Roommates on Craigslist Just Got a Little Uglier
We just found our favorite new pretentious sublet advertisement.
Posted 04/28/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Hugh Dancy Gets Sassy, Discusses Hipsters
Hugh Dancy’s in town from London to film Confessions of a Shopaholic and he brought his sass with him.
Posted 04/08/08 in The Cut : Party Lines
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‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead’ Trailer: Hipsters Suck
Jordan Galland's new movie is clearly about hipsters. But it looks kind of good anyway!
Posted 03/21/08 in Vulture : Trailer Mix
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Chuck Klosterman on the ‘Difference Between Hipsters and Retards’
We admit it: We harbor a secret crush on Chuck Klosterman. He has a nerdy hotness about him not unlike what Natalie Portman must have seen in Moby. We even almost joined the Facebook group "If Chuck Klosterman spit in my face, I'd stop taking showers," but then we promised our career counselor we wouldn't. Er, anyway, last night we went to the Highline Ballroom for a reading of his upcoming novel, Downtown Owl (even though we found it a little hard to follow). Over the course of the next half hour, we learned a few things about our little demigod: • Chuck used to have a few nicknames back in the day: Curtains (after a pair of unfortunate sweatpants his mom made him), Facehead (also interchangeable with Headface), and Joaquin Andujar. • Chuck does not think that rock and roll is dead. In fact, he thinks "it is pretty good right now." • No one ever has sex in Chuck's books because he identifies more with people being rejected. • Chuck is going to be teaching in Germany for fourteen weeks and what he will miss most is his girlfriend. We raised our hand to ask a question. So, how do nerdy guys get chicks? "Well," Chuck said, "it's like this. You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know." And in that moment, nerdy Chuck Klosterman got just a little bit hotter. —Lauren Salazar
Posted 03/07/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Coby Kennedy Just Doesn't Want to Look Like a Hipster
In the latest installment of the Video Look Book, our Nicole Hunt caught up with Coby Kennedy, a car designer with some intense hair that causes people to "bug out" a bit (he doesn't understand why, however — "it's just a haircut," he astutely notes).
Posted 02/28/08 in The Cut : Video Look Book
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Meet Olivia Thirlby, Your Next Big Indie Crush
The Juno co-star sends hearts racing up and down the L line.
Posted 02/27/08 in Vulture : Apropos of Nothing
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Single Female Needs Roommate (Williamsburg)
So you're sitting in your room in your apartment in Williamsburg, working on your collage series, Sad Girls With Chicken Arms, and listening to Matt and Kim on your iPod, and that "Yea Yeah" song comes on and you turn it up because you just love that song — it's so … repetitive. But of course, right away your annoying roommate starts pounding on your door. "Can you turn that down?" he says. "I'm updating my Facebook profile and I really need to concentrate." You ignore him. God, you hate your roommate. He always leaves his tube socks everywhere, he uses your hair product, and he totally ate the last piece of soy cheese and didn't replace it … you just hate him. You hate him so much you want to stab him! Stab him with the self-same Xacto knife you were just using to make your beautiful collage before he interrupted you, causing you to slice into the collarbone of a girl in a picture you printed off Cobrasnake! You can fuck with me, dude, but not with my art! Arwrrrrwgggghh! Goddamm it! When you get back from jail, your Treo, IBM ThinkPad laptop, and your Compaq laptop are missing. God, you hate your roommate… With Roomies Like These, Who Needs Enemies [Brooklyn Paper]
Posted 11/30/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Hipster Mutual Fund Is Despicable, Brilliant
In our lives, there have been many things that, in their early stages, we felt instinctively, absolutely certain the culture would not embrace. Ha! We said to ourselves smugly. There's no way people will like Garden State /drink Sparks/wear skinny jeans/elect Bush/use e-mail. As if! Clearly, we are fools. Which is why we're not going to chuckle knowingly about what a laughingstock-waiting-to-happen Thrasher Funds, a mutual-fund management company "by young adult investors for young adult investors" specifically targeting the American Apparel generation, is. Thrasher makes investments primarily in the retail sector; they have holdings in the dread AA, H&M, and Uniqlo, and also in Google and Volkswagen. Their Website sports many pictures of hot twentysomethings languishing in expensive jeans and says Thrasher follows the Democratic Convergence Thesis, which postulates "that there are specific companies and industries that are taking advantage of the convergence between Generation X and Y’s newfound spending power and trend setting and the Baby Boomers’ desire to stay young forever and use their spending power to emulate the trends of the younger generations." This of course makes our skin crawl. And combined with the designy-ness and the lack of self-awareness and, God, the name, we already have an extreme case of generational embarrassment, one that may or may not be manifesting itself in a full-body rash right now. But then again, that's how we felt about Garden State! In the end, Thrasher's strategies are simply explained, you can start with $100, and they have cool fonts. Our prediction: It's a hit! Let's see if our odds hold. In the meantime, we're going to go take some Benadryl. Thrasher Funds [via American Madness]
Posted 11/09/07 in Daily Intel : Intel
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