It's the blankets (tartines, cupcakes) at Frost Me Café and Bakery
Piazza della famiglia finally open in Little Italy
Ed Bedford 3 p.m., April 25
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George Plimpton: a life lived on a "wouldn't it be crazy if" basis
The number four most hipster thing ever
Dear Hipster: What are the five most hipster things that have ever happened? — Derek As promised, I now continue a painstaking countdown of the five most unequivocally hipster things that have ever happened. Last ...
The most hipster things ever
Hindu Love Gods come in at #5
Dear Hipster: What are the five most hipster things that have ever happened? — Derek [It was at that moment Stevens realized he could not joke his way out of this one, or cleverly elide ...
Y'all best stick to beer and booze
The wine world has no room for hipsters
Dear Hipster: Between discourses on the early days of the hipster-PBR relationship, paeans to the superiority of snooty craft beer, or nostalgic returns to traditional dad beers (e.g. Narragansett in the North East, Natty Boh ...
Hipster humor, explained
The majority of your friends will hate the Orange Head joke
Dear Hipster: Please tell me a good hipster joke. What kind of jokes do hipsters generally like, anyways? — Chad Well, on the one hand, you have your “hipster jokes” such as, “How many hipsters ...
Rap puts hipsters in a bind
We sometimes like the music just because it's good
Dear Hipster: We hear so much about hipsters and the obscure indie rock bands they love, but I want to take that discussion in another direction. Specifically, a direction completely apart from twee indie music ...
Crazy Town’s “Butterfly” counts as a sick party jam
He won't get the Mahler jokes
Dear Hipster: Most people probably don’t think about San Diego as having a vibrant classical music scene, but we do. It’s not, like, NYC, or 19th-century Vienna, but local fans enjoy an outstanding selection of ...
Cirque du Hipster
If you have to ask about the cool thing, then you're probably not sufficiently into it
Hipster: So, are there any notable hipster events held anywhere? Craft-beer festivals don’t count. Beard contests, obscure craft hobbies and art on display, booths with books of unheard-of authors, single-speed bike races? I think this ...
Wooing the ad-shy hipster
There is only one thing a Ferrari attracts: other dudes
Dear Hipster: What is the deal with advertising to hipsters? I would think that hipsters would be immune from marketing ploys, if for no other reason than hipsters wouldn’t want to purchase something so mainstream ...
The good old days that never were
The case for Howard the Duck and “Kyrie” is with the jury
Dear Hipster: I have been thinking about the popularity of retro stuff recently, at least from a pop-culture standpoint. To me, it seems like people remember the past as distinctly better than it actually was. ...
A blunderbuss-load of errata
No query too obtuse, no question too droll, no answer too useless
Nothing warms my heart in the dead of winter more than the random questions y’all propound upon me throughout the year. I refuse to believe you’re just messing with me. Instead, I think of this ...
The tortuous relationship between hipsters and stick-and-ball sports
The hipster goes through between one and five stages of sports appreciation, always in the same order
Hey Mr. Hipster Dude! With the passing of another Super Bowl of Crap, do hipsters actually pay any attention to all the sports crap that’s going on? If they do, WHY? I usually ride my ...
Where it's always 1997
Full House reruns 24 hours a day
Dear Hipster: Why can I not divide by zero? I feel like there’s some Illuminati conspiracy to cover up the truth. — Z. Math has nothing to do with it. As anyone with an ounce ...
Talk of the occasional guava pastry leads to a physics lesson
Ironic heat death of the hipsterverse caused by a gradual loss of potential coolness
Dear Hipster: Why is there never any parking near hipster coffee shops (especially ones that contain guava pastries)? — Janelle Khaleesi There’s a simple answer and a hard answer. I’ll give you the easy one ...
Get stabbed by a guy named Nekro Klown
Or die at Thunder Nationals
Dear Hipster: Would you rather attend the Gathering of the Juggalos or the Thunder Nationals monster-truck competition? I don’t actually care, but I admit to some curiosity. — Deb Oh. Wow. Tough choice. On the ...
Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy
Hating generates false camaraderie
Dear Hipmeister, In a recent answer to a question about increasing automobile size, you wrote, “It’s like a big middle finger to hipsters everywhere, which, naturally, people love.” That brought two questions to mind. One, ...
