Yesterday NPR posted an article called “The Hipsterification of America.” We are momentarily lifting our ban on the word hipster to address it, because it is, indeed, something special, and should be ...

What does artisanal fishermen even mean in this case? Did they capture the shrimps with trained cormorants? Perhaps they constructed Algonquin fishweirs to entrap the wayward molluscs through artful ...

There is a newish web series on YouTube called American Hipster, featuring the creative endeavors of people spanning 10 U.S. cities. One of the cities featured is Seattle, which is where a couple of ...

You might ride around on an electric scooter in your shades and flannel shirt while sporting copious amounts of sculpted facial hair, but are you a hipster? In certain neighborhoods of New York City ...

It’s deck to a be a juicer, but ishtar to be a frado. Having lots of kale may polish some of the tassels, and being a wally can too. Phish are definitely jerry, and as for being Goth or a Slipknot fan ...

One might think, given the general opprobrium towards hipsterkind on behalf of the general public, nobody in his or her right mind would knowingly impersonate a hipster. Yet, perhaps because the whole ...

Lake Superior State University's new, 2008 Banished Words List needs innumerable additions. In addition to some excerpts we present our own suggestions of overused words and cliches that need to die ...