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Third Annual Pizza & Beer Pairing at Chelsea’s Co. With Sixpoint Brewery

230 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10001

My ticket to this event was another Valentine’s Day gift to me this year (gurl done good!). We arrived just as the event was starting at noon. I didn’t take any pictures because I left my cell phone behind to charge, but to give you an idea of what Co. looks like…

That’s almost the entire restaurant right there with a bit of bench seating along the left wall not pictured. The event, which ran from noon until 4pm, was extremely crowded at the beginning and so my girlfriend and I posted up on the bench and acted as hybrid consumers/coat-check station. The pizza and beer was served buffet style: a quesadilla-sized slice and 4 0z. of beer served out of continuously refilled growlers. Continue reading →

Tags: 7th Anniversary Ale, beer, Brownstone, Chelsea, Co., Edible Schoolyard NYC, Ham & Cheese, hipster, Hipster vs. Food, Little Bzzz, Mad Scientists #8 (Berliner Weiss), Margherita, Mushroom & Jalapeno, pizza, Popeye, Righteous Ale, Sixpoint Brewery, Third Annual Pizza & Beer Pairing Event, veal meatballs

RIP Barney Rosset

25 Feb

Owner/publisher of Grove Press from 1951-1985 and founder of the Evergreen Review, Barney Rosset, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 89.

Rosset was a counter cultural icon and 1st Amendment revolutionary that was pegged as a peddler of smut in the 50’s and 60’s. Rosset and Grove Press defended the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch among other works, citing their literary/artistic merit. Decades later, those three novels Continue reading →

Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Barney Rosset, beat generation, counter culture, D.H. Lawrence, Eugene Ionesco, Evergreen Review, Gary Snyder, Grove Press, Harold Pinter, Henry Miller, hipster, Howl, jack kerouac, Jean Genet, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Naked Lunch, October on the Railroad Earth, Philip Whalen, Samuel Beckett, San Francisco Scene, Six Gallery, Tom Stoppard, Tropic of Cancer, Waiting for Godot, William S. Burroughs

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Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror

24 Feb

Sleigh Bells’ Treats is an album that got played over and over again at my last apartment. The first time that I heard the record, I couldn’t tell whether or not I liked it. A mixture of hip hop, lo-fi, drumline and stadium rock seemed a bit too kitschy…plus, I was too busy focusing on losing at pool which Sleigh Bells unfortunately became a soundtrack for. Then I heard the sample of Funkadelic’s “Can You Get to That?” on “Rill Rill.” I became just as hooked as all of my shilling friends (I listened to a lot of Maggot Brain in college). Sleigh Bells has a sound that is all their own on Treats.

Aside: I actually missed seeing them live in Albany on a weekend in 2010 that some friends and I went to see Belle & Sebastian Continue reading →

Tags: Alexis Krauss, Born to Lose, Bring it On, Can You Get to That, Crush, Derek Miller, Funkadelic, hipster, Leader of the Pack, M.I.A., metalcore, Never Say Die, Poison the Well, Reign of Terror, review, Rill Rill, Sleigh Bells, Straight A's, Treats, True Shred Guitar, You Lost Me

The Artist

22 Feb

With Oscar Fever running rampant, I thought I might try to see a few more of the movies up for nomination this year prior to the Academy Awards. After buying my buddy Brad dinner a few weeks ago (yes, the same Brad that reviewed My Week With Marilyn), a movie man-date on his coin was mandated. After getting home late from a long, shitty day at work, 100 minutes of escapism sounded just about perfect last night.

Neither of us had seen The Artist and we had both heard good things. Here are some of the reviews that I heard: “It’s very good.” “It was pretty good.” “I thought it was really, really good.” “It’s a silent movie. But, it’s good.” With such ‘good’ endorsements, I figured it had to at least be a ‘should see.’

The Artist, from director Michel Hazanavicius, covers the Continue reading →

Tags: Bérénice Bejo, Bernard Herrman, Bill Fagerbakke, Elmer Bernstein, George Valentin, hipster, Hollywood, James Cromwell, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, Michel Hazanavicius, Norma Desmond, Peppy Miller, review, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, silent movie, Sunset Boulevard, The Artist, The Day of the Locust, the talkies

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The Dish & the Spoon at reRun Theater

19 Feb

A quick snippet about reRun theater…

reRun Theater, located in Dumbo Brooklyn, NY, shows independent films in a single theater that seats about 60. Said seats are reclaimed car seats…I hope you like upholstery. There is a bar in the theater. A bar! A bar that serves gastropub fare including popcorn sopped in all kinds of interesting fat. Amazing. Conceivably, one could check out an indie flick, grab a hot dog and some duckfat popcorn and get shlocked simultaneously. I kept myself in check Continue reading →

Tags: Alison Bagnall, Brooklyn, Buffalo 66, Dogfish Head, dramedy, Dumbo, gastropub, Greta Gerwig, hipster, independent film, indie flick, Olly Alexander, reBar, reRun Theater, review, The Dish & the Spoon

10,000 Views

18 Feb

Yesterday, February 17th, The Self-Hating Hipster reached its first viewing milestone: the site now has over 10,000 total views. That may not seem like much to some, but considering that I started the site in late August 2011, it’s nothing to scoff at. Our readership has grown exponentially over the past six months. The average number of views per day for the first two months was a measly 13. Our average number of views per day for the month of February is over ten times that!

More and more people are beginning to follow the website which Continue reading →

Tags: hipster, milestone, views

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John Talabot – ƒIN

15 Feb

The album title and the artist’s last name (despite “John” vs. “Jean”) had me assuming an early 2000’s Parisian house sound. Barcelona’s John Talabot does incorporate elements of house in his debut, ƒIN, however it is far from sounding dated. The musical chronology is intentionally skewed with track titles like “Destiny” (implying future), “When the Past Was Present” and “So Will Be Now…” Talabot, like some of his other successful contemporary electronic genre-benders in Sepalcure and Gang Gang Dance, savvily blends deep house, world music, disco, funk, club and dub-steppy indie pop into one easy-to-swallow pill.

Talabot’s genre shape-shifting is polished with his attention to tracking so Continue reading →

Tags: Bonnaroo, Destiny, Estui, Gang Gang Dance, hipster, John Talabot, Oro y Sangre, Panda Bear, Parisian house, Pional, review, SBTRKT, Sepalcure, So Will Be Now, Talking Heads, Toro Y Moi, Twitter, ƒIN

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Dr. Dog – Be the Void

13 Feb

Dr. Dog is a band that has released average to above average LPs since their formation in 1999 with the exception of their hard to come by first release, Psychedelic Swamp, which I have deemed unlistenable after multiple tries (though I’m told that don’t have the complete album). Their seventh album released earlier this month, Be the Void, is entirely average.

Dr. Dog has always been a crafty late 60’s to mid 70’s pop/rock rehash outfit, but Be the Void finds them Continue reading →

Tags: Be the Void, Do the Trick, Dr. Dog, Easy Beat, hipster, How Long Must I Wait, Lonesome, Mott the Hoople, Northern Lights, Oh No, Over Here Over There, Psychadelic Swamp, review, Say Something, Scott McMicken, That Old Black Hole, The Band, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Toby Leaman, Warrior Man

My Week With Marilyn

13 Feb

Here’s a review of My Week With Marilyn from SHH’s newest contributor, Brad.

I recently performed my yearly movie lobotomy to save room for what we all know as “The Oscar season.” This season started a little late for me but I managed to squeeze almost all of them into my dome. Sad as it is, both Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (recently reviewed by the Self-Hating Hipster) and My Week With Marilyn did not make the cut for best picture. Thankfully I still have a playful imagination and decided to host the Oscars myself, luckily finding one theater in upstate NY that isn’t buns; The Spectrum.

Having never been there before I was happy with my 6:20 movie experience. The theater is quaint which was perfect for this particular biographical movie. Knowing nothing about Ms. Monroe besides the fact that she was a prim lookin’ star gazer, one would foresee Continue reading →

Tags: Arthur Miller, biopic, Colin Clark, Eddie Redmayne, hipster, Kenneth Branagh, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn, review, Sir Laurence Olivier, The Oscar Season, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Spectrum

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Radiohead Silence

13 Feb

It’s rare that something I saw on a friend’s Facebook status would compel me so far as to write a post about it. The status in question, among other things, touched on whether or not people still care about Radiohead. Yes, that Radiohead. The one with the skipping, prancing, manic ball of ??? for a lead singer, the one with the spaced-out composer of a lead guitar player, not to mention an underrated drummer. While this is less a question about their earlier material, to what is the appropriate response to the band now that it really feels like there is nothing left.