Take the Hipsters Bowling* / Hipster Pick of the Day: Kickball Party! / Ruscin Photo of the Week

At the LC, we like to keep up with hipsterism on the national scale as well as the local, and a recent NY-Times piece offers a fascinating profile of a hipster bowling alley in New Jersey (apparently hipsters do play other 'sports' as well, so long as they are very beer-friendly sports). Here's an excerpt:

"...this appealingly scruffy hall...blends its old-school amenities (skeevy bathroom included) and hipster credentials (a D.J. playing 80's New Wave) with an authenticity that doesn't seem strained...The bandstand is plopped on top of the middle lanes, but you can still bowl in the outer lanes" (NY-Times).

Chip: "The authenticity seems a bit strained to me, but I'd love to bowl there once and 'accidentally' let my ball fly into one of the lanes with the stage at the end of it."

*Free PBR to the first hipster who gets the music allusion in the title of today's post.

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Just when you thought local hipsters might finally shut the fuck up about kickball for at least a few weeks, along comes tonight's End of the Season kickball party at Liberty Hall. Lawrence.com urges you to let the organizers know you're attending so they can "order enough freestate kegs and nix any potential bud light drinking."

Richard: "Wouldn't Bud Light be a step up for these PBR-swillers?"


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The boys are known for their excellent dance moves, but they don't grind on local dancefloors as often as they once did. Luckily, events such as NEON (Larryville's longest-running weekly dance party) still provides a venue for Larryville's best dancers. Our local hipster-photographer A. Ruscin's weekly photo-blog on Lawrence.com takes us right onto the dancefloor. Here's a look:














Chip: "Truly, 'the robot' never gets old."