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The recession hits Williamsburg (Brooklyn) hipsters

mojohand — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:20:21 -0800

Parents can no longer support their hipster children's lifestyle. Oh, the humanity. I realize that schadenfreude is a particularly ignoble emotional response, but how am I expected to control myself after reading: "...Luis Illades, an owner of the Urban Rustic Market and Cafe on North 12th Street, said he had seen a steady number of applicants, in their late 20s, who had never held paid jobs: They were interns at a modeling agency, for example, or worked at a college radio station. In some cases, applicants have stormed out of the market after hearing the job requirements. “They say, ‘You want me to work eight hours?’ ...."” [Yeah, yeah, I know. Schadenfreude is the entire point of the piece.]

The Hipster Grifter

R. Mutt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:56:46 -0800

Kari Ferrell is on Salt Lake City's Most Wanted List. Apparently Ms. Ferrell has moved from Utah to New York and has been hanging out with the hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Within the space of a half-hour, Ms. Ferrell was peppering him with questions about his sexual history—how many women he’d slept with and so on. “She was coming on to me, and I was super into it for the first part of it,” he said. “I realized I could have fun after work—but then I was like, ‘Let me check this girl out.’”

Damn Rippies

SportsFan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:13:26 -0800

The Ripster phenomenon was identified back in 2006, and apparently, the movement has started to build momentum. I, for one, welcome our new rock-hard nerd overlords.

The Williamsburg Avenger

PeterMcDermott — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:23:52 -0800

When two Williamsburg hipsters met at a party, they exchanged more than just telephone numbers. Hell hath no fury like a hipster infected. Meet the Williamsburg Avenger. (via Gawker)

decimalize

four panels — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:26:49 -0800

Hipster librarians. What, exactly, do these archivists do?

Video Podcast: TheBurg

k8t — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:39:50 -0800

TheBurg is an internet TV show set in Williamsburg and features hipsters doing what hipsters in Williamsburg do. Pretty funny stuff! Comes out once a month.

Well, there's at least ONE "Whitie" could use some killin'...

dersins — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:41:29 -0800

The minstrel show is alive and well. In case you were in any doubt that Williamsburg is chock full of unbelievable wankers, Jeremy Parker brings us Kill Whitie, a hip hop dance party by whitie, for whitie... to mock non-whitie (possibly NSFW). I mean, how is this really all that different from, say, this?

C'mon People Now, Shine on Your Hipster

dhoyt — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:00:09 -0800

C'mon People Now, Shine on Your Hipster • "A new and disturbing trend has sprung up as of late in our great city (NYC): beating up hipsters for sport. Sucker punching Williamsburg trendsters is the new Whack-A-Mole. It's cow-tipping for urbanites. It's blowing up mailboxes, but with less angst and more anger." (more inside)