Cool or played out?

Biking to work

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Also in this issue:

• Why the hipster must die: A modest proposal to save New York cool
• Why the hipster must die: The hipsterati talks back: We asked hipster-leaning bloggers to defend their constituency. See what they said.
• Why the hipster must die: Your responses: We've declared war on the hipster. Now it's time for you to pick a side.
• A hipstory: View a timeline on how this monster was created.
• Hipster quiz: The first sign of hipsterdom is self-denial. Take our quiz and get your hipster rating.
• Cool or played out?: We name 20 recent hipster markers; you vote on whether they have any cool value left.
• Name that hipster: The train that cuts across the greatest swath of hipsterdom is not the L—God, that's so two years ago—it's the G. See if you can match these swingin' youth to the stop where we caught them.
• Hipster detox: Quick impressions: See how three New York hipsters coped with two weeks of mainstream living.
• Hipster detox: Full assessment: After two weeks of ditching his Union Pool-and-Proust lifestyle, our resident cool guy breaks down his new life as a "reg."
• True originals: To look at them, you wouldn’t think these New Yorkers are hip. But then you find out what they did last night. We asked an octogenarian jazz maven, an avant-garde dance critic and Russell Simmons’s artist brother about NYC cool.
• Cool as shhh: The truly “hip” stuff is unpretentious and off the radar—until TONY reports it and ruins everything. So we thought we’d make amends with these blind-item tips.
• Cool as shhh: Guess the answers: Do you know what's cool in this city? Then prove it.
• Special Hipster-Issue Seek: Guest editor edition