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The hipster I’m talking about—the definition I’m trying to get back to—is an obsessive curator of her own life: from fashion and art to drugs and rock and roll, the real hipster is a voracious consumer of culture in constant search of new routes to beauty and truth, ways of forestalling death, of fighting back against the inevitable compromises of time and age. The real hipster is desperate to remain one step ahead of convention, to make art from life and life from art. She is a collector and a collage-artist, aesthetically adventurous, intellectually playful. Do not blame her for the marketing commodity her lifestyle becomes six months after she’s lived it.

Events of recent years have unleashed a huge amount of partisan information and unbridled hate into the political system that will likely challenge the Thai political system for years to come

Let me repeat it again: They wanted democracy. They had democracy. We can all go to the voting booth on Nov 14. But they flushed democracy down the toilet and chose instead, a rebellion

“For my students to see themselves on the big screen and to get that sense of accomplishment that they really did something and other people are noticing them I think is really good for their confidence and future learning,” said Life Academy High School for Film and Music teacher Gideon Rafel-Frankel.

In Kansas, there are grates on the ground to prevent livestock from walking across the road. In NYC, they are for women in high heels.

their story is both plausible and sobering. Plausible, because it brings so many aspects of the culture wars into sharper focus. Sobering, because the economic and cultural forces battering traditional family norms show no signs of abating – but the new, education-centered pathway to adulthood is often least accessible to those who need it most.