Results tagged “hipsters”

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market...

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom...

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a...

The beauty of Missed Connections is that so many are clearly total bullshit while others are endearing works of sincerity and a few make you wonder if they are true or not. Of course stalkers and way too many schlong shots freak us out. Speaking of, some guy wants to feed his hotdog to a JCI fan. When I Saw You, You Had Caught My Eye - 46 You were holding some trendy drink...

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal...

As the world holds its breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans...

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this week's Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate...

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the 'editorial we'? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are...

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the...

We saw this story early this week and couldn't help but comment on it. It turns out some teens were stealing beer, got shot at by a deputy and one got away. Of course, we at Houstonist do not condone stealing beer or underage drinking, and we are certainly anti-shooting at anyone (even lawyers). But if you're going to get shot at for stealing beer anyway, don't get shot at over a 12 pack of...

Attention hipsters: You can now use your iPod to drown out that annoying road noise while cruising around Montrose on your Vespa. From Engadget comes news of a do-it-yourself Vespa stereo system with an iPod dock. The system, which puts an amp and two 4-inch Alpine speakers in the glovebox space, fits Vespa Stella and P-series models. Up top is a dock for your iPod (or non-iPod audio player).

Internet research giant Nielsen//NetRatings has released the results of a study of iTunes users, and it seems we're all a bunch of Volkswagen-driving, cider-swilling hipsters. (Houstonist neither drives a Volkswagen nor regularly drinks cider, but who are we to argue with statistics?)

The problem with talking about Basquiat is that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to separate the art from the artist. The dude is quite a character. So it was great stepping into the Caroline Weiss Law building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Saturday night and being completely submerged in that fabled Lower East Side scene ... if that scene were sponsored by Starbucks and funded with generous grants from Altria. Houstonist...

We never thought we'd say this, but if you weren't at the museum on Saturday night, where the hell where you?