Wednesday, May 11, 2011
New Orleans: officially on the hipster map
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:48 PM
The urban hipster* wasn't particularly populous in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina, but its numbers have grown since then, particularly in the Bywater (where one resident has painted HIPSTERS KEEP OFF on his/her front steps). Now New Orleans seems to have joined Brooklyn, N.Y., Portland, Ore., Austin, Texas and other well-known hipster enclaves as a destination spot, at least according to Buzzfeed's map, the "Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide To Inhabitable U.S. Cities."
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We are "NEW ORLEANS 'REAL culture and post-Katrina street cred' Louisiana," while our neighbor to the west is "AUSTIN 'Blue dot in Red Sea but at least there's a good music scene' Texas." Other destinations include "SAN FRANCISCO 'Live in a cardboard box in the Mission for $1000 a month Tweeting for an environmental nonprofit' California" and "PORTLAND 'If only there were more diversity AND I could find a coffee shop job while I work on my music' Oregon." It all sounds about right.
* You can argue all you want about what constitutes a hipster — or if there even is such a thing — but having been almost run down by a waif dressed like a 1920's newsboy with "Where's Waldo" striped tights riding a fixed-gear bike as I was walking through the Marigny, I can assure you: they exist.
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Is there a difference between 'Hipster' and a 'Gutter-punk'? Because they all look the same and carry mommy and daddy's credit cards.
Hipsters are pricing us out of the bywater/marigny.
Gutter punks live in flophouses in the treme.
Thank God we aren't the ONLY city on the map. Can we get some hackers to add a bunch more cities to it? Oh, what exactly is a hipster? It sounds like something from the black and white film era.
"The urban hipster* wasn't particularly populous in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina," No, actually this city has always attracted hipsters. I lived on the 500 block of Frenchmen in the early 2000s and I can guarantee you they were thick as thieves back then too. Of course, it does depend on your view of what actually contitutes a hipster.
i don't really care about any of it, i just wish they didn't smell like old crotch. i mean, if i can smell you from across the street, aren't you uncomfortable? that shit ain't right.
Classic hipsters, albeit the NYC variety (they're pretty much the same everywhere):
http://thisisbandit.com/wp-content/hipster…
http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/wp-content…
