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Hipster recession

Trust fund hipsters in Williamsburg are apparently getting hit pretty hard by the recession.

Missing the Drang

Jeffrey Overstreet breaks out the Ester Drang nostalgia.

The uber music snob

Are you an uber music snob? Try this shirt on for size.

Y2K 2.0

Have you heard the one about the world coming to an end in 2012?

LEGO Falling Water

Build your own Frank Lloyd Wright, in LEGO blocks.

A license for laziness

A ’60s Battleship box shows father and son playing while mom and daughter do the dishes.

Cash back

Are the days of making money from credit cards numbered?

Reporter ‘manhandled’

A reporter for a Louisville weekly was roughed up at a political dinner for no apparent reason.