For Mark Greif, one of the founding editors of the literary and political journal n+1, the modern-day hipster was reborn around 1999. His dating accords with my own perception. During my senior year ...

Perhaps the most salient aspect of the hipster paradox is hipster fashion. Eighty dollar distressed jeans from Urban Outfitters are paired with two dollar t-shirts from the local thrift shop. To the ...

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Zachary Crockett is one of the authors of the new book Hipster Business Models, the latest book from Priceonomics. Everyone loves to hate the hipster. A mere mention of the word hipster seems to ...

A young man caught my eye recently when he walked into a trendy café in Austin. It wasn’t his curling mustache but the fact that he was walking barefoot. This struck me as an odd choice given that it ...

How do you cope when the products you love become labelled as “hipster”? Consumers who identify with these products tend to find creative ways to remain loyal and elude derision, according to a new ...

Seattle's wealthy, chain-store-studded suburb Bellevue is "ranked among nation’s top hipster hot spots." PS — For the record, Bellevue is more diverse than Seattle.

Punk. Goth. Hippie. It appears as if every decade in the 20th century was characterized by a defining trait of some sort. The 1920s had the flappers, the 1960s had the mods, and the 1980s paved the ...

Well, almost. Norman Mailer's infamous "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" was originally published in 1957 in Dissent. Nearly a decade earlier, in 1948, Anatole Broyard, ...

A dusty, road-worn bike with curved metal handlebars and grease-coated gears. What does it sound like to you? A weekend activity to feel the wind in your hair? For me, it’s a perilous way to risk my ...