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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yes, yes, the word "hipster" has been used past all meaningfulness, but that doesn't mean it is meaningless. Let's use it here for: young, trendy, college-educated, mostly white folks who are ...

The word “hipster” garners so many differing connotations, conjures so many different images and evokes so many different feelings. Opinions on the word and the subculture of people it represents ...

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, ...

It’s not entirely clear how the “hipster” came to absorb everything that is home-grown, butchered, built, assembled, shaved, and yes, pickled. But regardless of its hazy origins, the term has become a ...

Travel sites have been known to make some odd pronouncements about Seattle. But the latest one might be a step too far. According to a Trip Advisor, Ballard is one of the nation's "coolest hipster" ...

Richard Florida points to a familiar article about "blipsters" - "black hipsters." Which is funny, now that I think of it, because the original hipsters were known as "white negroes". Well, almost.