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The New York Times has a piece on hipsters discovering community politics in Williamsburg in order to defend their pseudo-anti-establishment affectations:

"Siri and I have been partying in this neighborhood for a long time," Ms. Sibley said one afternoon recently as she tapped the ash from her cigarette. "We know ( Read more... )

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It was nice knowing you. It appears, however, that the hipster hordes are at your gate. Courtesy of Brownstoner:

Is this it, Williamsburg? In a move that could presage a tectonic shift in hipster demographics, Brownstoner has learned that Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi has gone into contract on a charming 3-story townhouse in the historic ( Read more... )

According to the New York Post, CBS is in the script stage on an hour-long series called "Cobble Hill", basically a 'Friends' set in the recently gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.

God help us all.

As if we needed a magazine to tell us.

The New York Times has a piece on the closing of a longstanding bastion of pretense, condescension, and price gouging: the Avenue A Kim's Video.

No one, not even the store's managers, deny that Kim's employees often had a bit of an attitude, especially when customers sought mainstream movies. "We went against every business model that says, 'The ( Read more... )

Verified in the elevator earlier today: rat-tail haircuts are BACK, just in time for winter. It's apparently hip now to look like the kid who used to throw M-80's at your dog and beat up 5th graders on Halloween for candy.

someone responded to my last entry here with this comment ( Read more... )

In case you may have missed it...

http://www.blacktable.com/elder040212.htm

Shit is hilarious.