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Indie Boys Don't Like Jam: Part 1

Morgana Edwards | Posted 16.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Social Ineptitude, Boys, Indie, Hopeless, Jam, Women, Student Life, Relationships, Hipster, UK Culture, London, UK Universities & Education News
Morgana Edwards

Like many other girls of my generation, I have long had a penchant for the indie boy. As a 16-year-old I spent many hours lamenting the fact that the bassist of 'insert name of NME's top-tip' was not, and probably never would, my husband.

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The Evolution of the 'Cool Music' Listener

Random Impulse | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Random Impulse, Hip Hop, Music, Rap, Genre, UK Music, Hipster, Cool, Video, UK Entertainment News
Random Impulse

With the kind of music I make, I never imagined in a million years that I would look out from stage and see guys and girls wearing One Direction t-shirts singing along to what I'm playing, standing next to guys that are almost old enough to be their fathers and who look like they were the Ramones' number one fans.

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Lena Dunham and the Voice of My Generation

Hugh Bassett | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Girls, Writers, Young People, Hbo, Lena Dunham, New York, Youth, Hipster, Role Models, UK Students, UK Universities & Education News
Hugh Bassett

Girls is littered with examples of overindulged, entitled twenty-somethings, unable to hold down a job for more than a few months due to personality clashes and boredom, while being entirely self-obsessed and overly concerned with every aspect of their own lives from fashion to food. It paints a picture of an age group trapped in arrested development, desperately unable to grow up.

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A Taste of Montreal

Akeela Bhattay | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Plateau Mont-Royal, Restaurant Week, Culinary, Mile End, Dante, Review, Toque, Food, Quebec, Travel, Indie, Canada, Montreal, Journal, Normand Laprise, La Fabrique, Flavours, Vintage, Hipster, Phonopolis, Gastronomy, North America, Fairmont, Adventurous, Bagels, Foodie, Arterie, Marché Jean-Talon, Creative, UK Lifestyle News
Akeela Bhattay

As you might expect, Mile End presents a far more interesting and eclectic shopping experience than Montreal's central shopping area in Downtown. L'Arterie on Bernard W. houses vintage apparel, shoes and accessories as well as creations from local designers in this neat little shop.

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Is a White Guy Even Allowed to Talk About Racism?

Xavier Toby | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Comedy
Read More: Racism, Australia, Lottery, Hipster, News, UK Racism, UK Race Relations, Bogan, UK Comedy, UK Comedy News
Xavier Toby

My slight bogan part aside, I really am the classic middle class, well-educated white male. I mean, there's no point me playing the lottery. By being born in a first world country to white middle class parents, I've already won first division. Big time.

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Girls And The All Too Familiar TV Woman

Stephanie Chase | Posted 23.12.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Sex and the City, HBO Girls, Lena Dunham, Girls, Hip, Hipster, Women in Tv, Cool, Sex, Hbo, Women on TV, Sexuality, Gender, UK Entertainment News
Stephanie Chase

With a show creating so many differing opinions you would think that what you are watching is something radically different, especially for American television. Well behind the cameras it is, but unfortunately on screen it's just more of the same.

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The Victoria, Bow: a Balanced and Sober Review

Iddo Goldfarb | Posted 30.09.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Bow, Hipster, Skinny Jeans, Shoreditch, East London, Moustache, William S. Burroughs, Hipster Kids, Hipsters, The Victoria, Synth, UK Comedy News
Iddo Goldfarb

Before I begin, I should state for the record that I quite like this pub; I've spent many a blissful, booze-soaked hour within. The following rant is almost exclusively the result of my treatment, one July afternoon.

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