Tag: hipsters

Why do people — mostly men — want to throw axes and dress like lumberjacks?

Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.

From backlash to counter-backlash, coffee culture endures in all its glorious fussiness.

Ariana Kelly writes in The Atlantic about the invention and impact of the Mason Jar ─ that simple, indispensible glassware that facilitated rural American life ─ and what its current popularity in urban culture signifies.

To understand why Urban Outfitters and American Apparel have declined so spectacularly, it’s helpful to remember what it was that made them so successful in the first place. In their heyday, each made a science of identifying exactly what it was that made hipsters so attractive, then recreated that aesthetic in their stores.