Want to roll out of bed and pick up a cup of single-origin java from a
coffee shop on your corner? Or grab a gourmet grilled cheese sandwich
from a food truck parked down the street? Does a dream weekend include
foraging for organic veggies at a farmers market and watching the latest
hot indie band play on a small stage through the wee hours of the
morning? Then, my hipster friend, Los Angeles’ Silver Lake is the
neighborhood for you.
Silver Lake takes the top spot on Forbes’ inaugural list of America’s Best Hipster Neighborhoods. Nestled between Echo Park and Los Feliz, the trendy community boasts some of the nation’s most lauded food trucks and farmers markets, a multicultural blend of residents with eclectic professions, and a booming arts scene. Even the buildings exude an avant garde aesthetic a hipster could love: Silver Lake is home to some of the most celebrated modernist architecture in the country, including Richard Neutra’s VDL Research House and John Lautner’s Silvertop.
“It is amazing how many artists, musicians and designers and more traditionally ‘hipster’ occupations live in Silver Lake,” says Dabney Lawless, a vice president of Nextdoor.com, a private social network for neighborhoods. “It just blows every other neighborhood away.” In other words, if you want to slurp Pabst Blue Ribbon in your skinny jeans, you won’t be alone.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2012/09/20/americas-hippest-hipster-neighborhoods/
But, as SNL, put it, and I'm, paraphrasing "really, being called hip by Forbes is like your Grandpa saying schnizel!"
Rad, if "grandpa" finally gets it, we've been on the hipster map for some time, I guess, now it's only downhill from here!
Silver Lake takes the top spot on Forbes’ inaugural list of America’s Best Hipster Neighborhoods. Nestled between Echo Park and Los Feliz, the trendy community boasts some of the nation’s most lauded food trucks and farmers markets, a multicultural blend of residents with eclectic professions, and a booming arts scene. Even the buildings exude an avant garde aesthetic a hipster could love: Silver Lake is home to some of the most celebrated modernist architecture in the country, including Richard Neutra’s VDL Research House and John Lautner’s Silvertop.
“It is amazing how many artists, musicians and designers and more traditionally ‘hipster’ occupations live in Silver Lake,” says Dabney Lawless, a vice president of Nextdoor.com, a private social network for neighborhoods. “It just blows every other neighborhood away.” In other words, if you want to slurp Pabst Blue Ribbon in your skinny jeans, you won’t be alone.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2012/09/20/americas-hippest-hipster-neighborhoods/
But, as SNL, put it, and I'm, paraphrasing "really, being called hip by Forbes is like your Grandpa saying schnizel!"
Rad, if "grandpa" finally gets it, we've been on the hipster map for some time, I guess, now it's only downhill from here!
