Sep 21, 2012
H Street is Hip for Hipsters, Say Capitalists
H Street is hip for hipsters, says Forbes magazine.
Apr 09, 2012
Washington is for Squares
D.C. is apparently so square that even San Juan, Puerto Rico and Kansas City, Missouri are considered better places for hipsters.
Mar 25, 2011
Yelp’s “Hipster Ambiance”: It Doesn’t Mean Anything
Here’s what my dictionary tells me when I look up the word “ambiance”: it’s “a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing.” So, hardly a quantifable thing — as a “feeling or mood,” any individual’s determination of “ambiance” is not necessarily transferable to others. “Hipster,” as we all know, is pretty much undefinable and is, frankly, one of the lazier terms anyone can employ. Given these facts, I’m somewhat struggling to figure out why Yelp is now giving its reviewers the option to categorize the “ambiance” of establishments around the District and the world as “hipster.”
Nov 18, 2007
Week Around the -Ists
SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the…
Sep 07, 2007
Rorschach is on a Myths Mission
Your mission, should you choose to accept: With only one week, adapt a randomly-chosen Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale into a compelling stage production. Such was the challenge for the team over at Rorschach Theater, which will premiere its season-opening stunt on Saturday. Last Sunday, 40 D.C. artists, many of them company members, were charged with the responsibility of turning tales like “Hansel & Gretel” into something we’d like to see on stage. Norman Allen, Randy…
Aug 22, 2007
Popcorn & Candy: Standing on a Beach
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Stranger Than Paradise “You go to some place new and everything just looks the same,” says Eddie, one of the two hipster-slacker protagonists of Jim Jarmusch’s wickedly funny second feature. Press materials made a big deal of the origin of the film, pointedly calling it “A New American Film by a New American Director.” There’s…
Jul 31, 2007
Gawker Perfects Art of Talking Out of Ass
Hey look, someone who writes for Gawker doesn’t know where to go out in D.C., and thinks that everyone who lives here works for the government and never changes out of their work clothes! How adorable.Yesterday, I was trying to get home from Miami, but the weather had other plans, and the plane I was on got diverted to Washington, D.C. To Dulles Airport, to be exact, which is way farther outside of the city…
Co-written by DCist Contributor Paul Ghosh-Roy Get together a bunch of artists, a bunch of bands, a cool venue, and a great time is had by all. On Saturday night, DCist ventured into the land of perfectly disheveled hair and meticulously scuffed jeans to see if the theory worked in practice as The Rock and Roll Hotel hosted the Big Art Show . The event is organized by a collective of artists and volunteers based…
Apr 01, 2007
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we’re sensational, but it’s very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we’ve decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: “Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!” On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick…
Dec 18, 2006
Go Home Already: We are all Special Edition
>> As you’ve all no doubt heard, we’re all Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Unless you’ve never authored a blog post, a comment, or even submitted a loosely-sourced tip to a blogger who would irresponsibly publish it. Then you’re nothing. [Time] >> Thieves rob hipster bar, police shrug. It’s Christmas, after all. [City Desk] >> Police have responded to a shooting on the 1200 block of U Street that took place around 4 p.m….