Subcultures and Identities

Awesome Blossoms

Celebrate spring with Japanese culture

Touré Tackles Prince in New Book, Finds Jesus, Discovers They're One in the Same

Dearly Beloved, you are gathered here today to read our interview with a writer about a legendary performer. In this corner, Touré: Journalist and thinker for many an outlet (The New Yorker, VIBE, Time.com), and author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What It Means to Be Black Now. You perhaps kn ... More >>

Passion Pit

Holopaw

The Hot and Hungry Generation

If you're in your 20s, you're probably eating or hooking up right now. At least, that's what the NY Times might lead you to believe. Two separate features in this weekend's paper suggest that, of the many gritty realities that plague millennials, dining expenses and dating dilemmas are among the m ... More >>

How Following His Muse Paid Off Big for DJ Steve Aoki

The house's money

Dan Deacon

THAT SH*T CRAY-OLA

Coloring Isn’t Just for Kids

Rita Ora

POP CON

Capes are highly encouraged

Nativism, Fedoras, and the 'Hipster' Takeover of Montauk

A few weeks back, New York Times writer Jim Rutenberg wrote a piece on the newest victim of the constantly invading bohemian culture that sucks up dilapidation and spits out haute couture. Ugh, yes, it was another "This is where the hipsters are going this week" piece that we all love to hate b ... More >>

The B-52s

Dave Matthews Band

PUT A BIRD ON THIS

Fred Armisen plays his favorite songs

IN BLOOM

View the cherry blossoms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

KABUKI DOWN

Do the dance of Japan

The 'Hipster'-est Words in NPR's Definitive Piece About Hipsters

You know it's over when you're an NPR article. Or a costume.​Yesterday NPR posted an article called "The Hipsterification of America." We are momentarily lifting our ban on the word hipster to address it, because it is, indeed, something special, and should be publicly recognized. Never in the ... More >>

Nudists Want a Little, Naked Piece of Coney Island

​Hasn't Coney Island seen enough of sorrow, tribulation, and nakedness? Perhaps not. The American Association for Nude Recreation would like Coney Island to have a designated nude beach for reasons including Coney Island's accessibility via mass transit as well as the opportunity to "attract m ... More >>

PETAL PUSHERS

Delight in this flowery Brooklyn festival

Kids Today Care About Parenthood, Not Marriage

​According to a new Pew Research Center survey, something we've had an inkling of for a while now may indeed be true. Young adults -- let's be more obnoxious and call them "Millennials" -- have changing views of social institutions like marriage and having children. Not surprisingly, they are ... More >>

Who Still Loves Barack Obama? Young Folks!

​Despite the majority of stodgy old adults disapproving of President Obama's job performance, millennials -- who are aged 18 to 29, in case you're not one -- are still supporting him in droves. According to a recent Pew Research report, 58 percent of them are still quite happy with Barack. The ... More >>

CON ARTISTS

The Brooklyn Lyceum gets animated for a second time

The UCLA Hipster Panel Discussion: A Field Report

Via Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter.​Last night, a discussion panel regarding hipsters entitled Look at This F*cking Panel: A Sociological Investigation of the Hipster took place at UCLA's Ackerman Grand Ballroom. We dispatched author, blogger, and Friend of Runnin' Scared, Tess Lynch, to documen ... More >>

Intellectualizing Hipsters is the New Hipster Intellectualism

​Does the idea of hipsters as a sociological group or hipsterism as a sociological trend really merit the studying of hipsters as if they were an anthropological goldmine waiting to be excavated for crucial insights into the contemporary human psyche?

Making Fun of Hipsters Now More Unfunny Than Ever (Video)

​Even using the word "hipster" is a slight in and of itself, in some regard: it shows the need to pigeonhole a group of people who may have very little in common under one generally misanthropic label. That obviously hasn't stopped anyone -- certainly not us -- from using it, but the "making f ... More >>

Hipsters Hate Themselves the Most of All, As It Turns Out

"Hipsters" who hate themselves.​Science. In so many ways you are our friend. (Until you turn on us, but that's a story for another day.) In the latest of studies that we must bring to your attention, a couple of scientists named Zeynep Arsel and Craig L. Thompson have dug deep into the psychol ... More >>

PAGAN LOVE

Billy boy keeps some crazy company

SCHOOL DAZE

Comics get you ready for class

A REAL PATRIOT

Glenn Beck, meet your screenwriter

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Gary Shteyngart reads at Bryant Park

HuffPo Dispenses Invaluable Social Media Advice for Youngs

​God, if there's one thing we millennials need advice on, it's how to use social media. Here we are, posting pictures of ourselves shooting up on Facebook and whatnot, barely able to operate our iPhones, practically begging for some guidance from old people. We're in luck, because the Huffin ... More >>

The Hipster Behind Hipster Yoga Speaks, Believes in "Hipster Recovery"

Jon practices his third-eye gaze.​A while back we drew your attention to a rather amusing site called Hipster Yoga, where altered "hipster" yoga instructions are applied to photos of skinny-jeans-clad young people with ironic facial hair. Like so. We had the pleasure of speaking to the blogger ... More >>

NATURE VS. FUN

Tea ceremonies, anime, DJs, and—oh, yeah—some trees

TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL

Look at This Fucking Hipster is now a book!

Hasidim v. Hipsters: The Great Williamsburg Bike Lane Debate is Tonight!

This is the ultimate fight: Tonight's debate at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg between the hipsters and the Hasidim about the Bedford Avenue bike lane. You know the background: The Hasids, mostly Satmars, don't want to see half-naked goyim pedaling their bikes. The city late last year remove ... More >>

Professor Denounces Use of "Nerd" and "Geek"; Banning, Shaming to Follow?

​The Times used the term "cool nerds" in an article, and seems at first to have been taken to task for it by psychology professor David Anderegg. Under the headline, "'Nerd' and 'Geek' Should Be Banned, Professor Says," Anderegg is said to believe "that merely mentioning terms like nerd or gee ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download Star Fucking Hipsters' "3000 Miles Away"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Banned in NYC. Photo by Alyssa Tanchajja​>New York's Star Fucking Hipsters are a joyous, double-middle-fingers-ablaze coup on political punk rock--pretty much inventing "bubblegum crust" in one grung ... More >>

The Badly Behaved Wizards of Lev Grossman's The Magicians

Forget the snogging! This novel's hero prefers sex and recreational drug use.

Sympathy for the Hipster: Even Annoying Young Toffs Don't Deserve Rent Scams

​Queens Crap posts the sort of headline you expect to get the schadenfreude roaring: "Bushwick hipsters kicked to the curb." They refer to a NY1 story about several young people who'd been living in 20 apartments carved out of a building certified for only six, with which the DOB caught up and ... More >>

Das Racist

OTAKU ATTACK

Japan Society takes you to Tokyo

AN ANIME-TED LINEUP

Big-eyed cartoons take over the city

'Everything's Gone Green'

Stoned and Rethroned

Justin Timberlake reclaims his King of Arena Pop crown with nearly three hours of gleefully defied sexxlaws