What is your city's Williamsburg? What's its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch? (And what, for that matter, is its Bushwick, or "Next Williamsburg"?) If you don't know off the top of your head, don't worry. We… » 1/29/14 3:28pm 1/29/14 3:28pm

The boozy painting hipster art club in Williamsburg achieved the sort of vintage coolness that so many hipsters try (and fail) to achieve: on Thursday night, the NYPD shut down the popular art-and-wine class, calling it an “illegal speakeasy.” » 5/26/13 11:30am 5/26/13 11:30am

If you live in certain areas of Brooklyn and have a mannequin in your store window, use an iPad, or occasionally venture into your front yard in a housecoat, watch out: the Modesty Mafia is onto you. The New York Times reports: » 1/30/13 10:25am 1/30/13 10:25am

This fine Friday morning, the Wall Street Journal, a paragon of journalistic excellence and curmudgeonly fiscal conservatism, asked a very important, very incisive question that really cuts right to the core of modern civilization: can there be such a thing as "hipster" wine? The short answer? Fuck yes there is such a… » 1/04/13 2:50pm 1/04/13 2:50pm

If you're self-conscious about your lack of artistic talent or manual dexterity with a paintbrush, take heart — a few glasses of Pinot Grigio might be all that's standing in your way on the path to artistic greatness. » 4/01/12 1:35pm 4/01/12 1:35pm

Thanks to the reader who sent pictures of the advertising easel sitting outside Williamsburg, Brooklyn's "Subway" bar promoting $5 drink specials...and, it seems, sexual assault. The "Cum On In": an especially disgusting touch. [Woman Of Steele] » 5/15/10 5:50pm 5/15/10 5:50pm

• "She's not involved in this collection," said Ungaro owner Asim Abdullah just before his show commenced this afternoon, Paris time. He was referring, of course, to "artistic adviser" Lindsay Lohan, whose future at Ungaro had long been in doubt. [WWD]
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