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Ideal round of golf: “any Wednesday evening at Mission Bay with three friends and 12 Stellas”

Hey Hipster: So my friend and I were having a conversation the other day about sports. He’s a PE teacher in North County. He says to me, “The only sport ...

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Mead and other boozy revivals

Dear Hipster: At this point, I have heard of hipster bars putting just about everything into a cocktail, or even straight up opening entire bars devoted to obscure alcohols. However, ...

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The purpose behind limiting access to pumpkin spice

Dear Hipster: One cannot help but grow up in America without being sold on the virtue of individualism, personal liberty, and the right for “you to do you,” as it ...

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The moment you first heard about Panda Express releasing an Orange Chicken Sandwich

Dear Hipster: Here’s a bit of a hipster paradox that, at least in my opinion, requires a little unpacking. I would be a rich man if I got a nickel ...

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Ralph + Advil = “Radvil”

Dear Hipster: Please pass along these cat name suggestions to Tyler from this last week’s column. Remember, he was torn between human names and nouns. He can have both by using your suggestion of descriptive ...

September 22, 2021

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Think George Mallory’s take on trying to climb Mount Everest: “because it’s there”

Dear Hipster: As I understand it, one of the most powerful motivating forces in the hipster universe is “wouldn’t it be funny if…” Invoking this ironic catchphrase still seems to justify doing all kinds of ...

September 15, 2021

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September 8, 2021

Dress up like an extra from Seinfeld and head in to Applebee’s

Before we get ahead of ourselves, I’ll remind everyone that we posed a riddle to the general public a few weeks back. We got some inspired guesses, and a few snide remarks, but a handful ...

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September 1, 2021

Brian Griffin has nothing on The Cat in the Hat

Dear Hipster: Everyone has to pick one, so: are hipsters dog or cat people? — Dylan D. Short answer: hipsters are bird people. Long answer: we relate to preferred pets on a level deeper than ...

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August 25, 2021

Everything will be fine at Coachella

Dear Hipster: For many years, faithful readers have come to you for help in identifying hipsters and their hipster behaviors. But nothing lasts forever, and even the coolest hipster may one day wake up, look ...

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August 11, 2021

What SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and Spotify don't have

Dear Hipster: Given that SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and Spotify make it relatively simple for musicians (myself included) to put their tracks, mixtapes, EPs, and albums out in front of an internet audience, it’s almost as if ...

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August 4, 2021

Nostalgia without anguish or disappointment

Dear Hipster: Here’s an obviously non-controversial premise for you: hipsters are very nostalgic, and they love old-fashioned stuff so much that they’re constantly imitating past trends in an effort to color modern life with the ...

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July 28, 2021

You can always find me in H&M

Dear Hipster: Riddle me this — if all the hipsters left town tomorrow, would there be no more hipsters, or would somebody step in to fill the “power vacuum,” so to speak, such as occurs ...

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When Honus Wagner looked like Robert De Niro

Dear Hipster: Even if staying outside the mainstream and being countercultural is super important, it sure is exhausting keeping track of what’s hip and not hip, so that one knows where one stands in relation ...

July 21, 2021

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Compare Middle Earth’s elves and men

Dear Hipster: What is the meaning of life? Is it all just a bunch of frothy beverages and salted caramels, or is there more to it? Will the tie-dye revolution ever dismantle the oh-so-fashions of ...

July 14, 2021

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July 7, 2021

Spotting realism failures in Harry Potter

Dear Hipster: One thing that has always bothered me is, why do fictional hipsters always seem to have it so easy? You see some hipsters on TV and movies, and they somehow get away with ...

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June 30, 2021

Cool, Costco summer is here!

Dear Hipster: Summer is here! And it’s not canceled this year! I’d say it’s time to celebrate, but do I even need to say it? I would imagine almost everybody is super stoked to have ...

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Ideal round of golf: “any Wednesday evening at Mission Bay with three friends and 12 Stellas”

Mead and other boozy revivals

The purpose behind limiting access to pumpkin spice

The moment you first heard about Panda Express releasing an Orange Chicken Sandwich

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