Though even if you aren't of the hipster species, it's still a pretty cool-looking phone accessory.
We went to one where the hipster owners were re-creating their mothers' cooking with cocktails and serving it tapas-style.
Pabst Blue Ribbon, endearingly nicknamed PBR by its fans and foes, has a reputation as the hipster beer of choice.
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Instead of coming off as sexy and vacuous, the wonk in the hipster glasses presents as functionally unisex and extremely content-rich.
"The hipster press has always been polite, but never found her that relevant, " Mr. Hochkeppel says, who says they are misinformed.
Say what you will about skinny jeans, but the home of the hipster has some of the most exciting new restaurants in New York.
PBR, though, trumps Bud Light in the hipster mecca of Williamsburg, showcasing that at the very least, local bars most likely understand their flask-wielding, ukelele-playing customers.
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The change in emphasis has been attributed to the rise of that much-maligned archetype, the hipster - the young urban bohemian, attired in self-consciously quirky thrift-store clothes.
At the very least, Locu has brought us one very insightful slew of data exploring the age-old question of whether PBR really is the hipster beer of choice.
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He costars on the hit HBO series Bored to Death and his Funny or Die web series, Between Two Ferns, has become must-see viewing for the hipster set.
Because, really, what IS the hipster capital of the universe?
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You can find the wonk in the hipster glasses in your newspaper too, or at websites that publish a lot of listicles, charticles, graphs, and, sometimes, acts of wonk-on-wonk violence.
It was widely perceived as a desperate attempt to recapture the interest of the hipster class that once propelled it into the mainstream, before being overshadowed by the creeping empire of Facebook.
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It is not clear why locals prefer the crowds on Malibu and Santa Monica's beaches and in the shops of Beverly Hills and the hipster enclaves of Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Echo Park.
The hipster salesperson would just roll his eyes.
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Ok, you've heard all the rumors and mumblings about iPod crime waves in New York (and abroad) and no, we're not talking about the Hipster iPod or music piracy, we're talking about people getting their little white jukeboxes swiped.
You might think, then, that somebody linking up with a CFO or other business professional would be more valuable than, say, your aunt who posted pictures of her dog or the hipster trying to understand the universe 140 characters at a time.
Though Seattle and Portland are both pioneering liberal-minded cities with strong community roots, they have long traded jibes on non-sporting matters, such as the quality of their brew pubs, the hipster rating of their alternative music scenes and the potency of their single origin micro-roasted coffee.
DovCharneyDov Charney, the embattled CEO of the hipster-retail empire American Apparel, is facing allegations in a lawsuit by a former employee that he held staff meetings in the nude, pranced through the office in his skivvies, and tried to pad the inventory numbers to mislead potential investors.
The superhero movie stars Seth Rogen, famous for playing overweight underachievers, and is directed by Michel Gondry who is best known for the twisty hipster film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Cover art was drawn by Jean Phillipe Delhomme of The Unknown Hipster, a blog that wittily and cannily chronicles the idiosyncrasies of the fashion world.
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This makes hipster the perfect definitional term for now because it's elastic enough to capture this essential eclecticism, and yet distinct enough for everyone to recognize what it distinguishes, the constellation of attitudes and accouterments deftly satirized in the YouTube hit, Hipster Olympics.
But multiple other websites suggest the true hipster mecca is either Silver Lake in Los Angeles or Williamsburg, a funky neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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In recent months, the group has played weekly to packed clubs in Manhattan and across the river in the latest hipster hangouts of Williamsburg.
"The whole hipster movement definitely helped, " says Paulson.
The deadpan American hipster Tommy Lee Jones gives the performance of a lifetime in this sombre but fascinating movie, playing a former army man, Hank Deerfield, whose son, Mike (Jonathan Tucker), after serving in Iraq, has gone AWOL in America.
More interesting than the proliferation of hip n' hipster following the Beat poets are the claims to the word's origins.
Clearly, however, it seems Gorham is unfamiliar with the great American hipster, for it is those very reasons that make the lobster case desirable.
Also like the New York rock group, they've scored buzz among the drainpipe-jeans crowd, complete with the unfortunate label "hipster rap" and the requisite backlash sure to follow.
Instagram, meanwhile, was founded in late 2010 and was only in recent months becoming part of the zeitgist. iPhone-toting hipster types liked the app for its mobility -- you cold post photos easily from your phone -- and filters that gave their pics a retro, vintage vibe.
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