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Extra, Extra: Liberal Hipster Eco-Elites Have Created "Coolocracy" Or Something
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Ben Yakas
Published Mar 22, 2014
Modified Mar 22, 2014
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Ben Yakas
Published Mar 22, 2014
Modified Mar 22, 2014
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- If I were your professor: Questlove is teaching a class on Prince at NYU this semester.
- Eco-minded hipster speak! Mark Zuckerberg! Coolocracy! The NY Post on how hipsters use cool as a weapon, man.
- Are cell phones ruining our sex lives? Hey, at least people are still having sex.
- Justin Timberlake is looking for a couple who got engaged on an LIRR train headed to Manhattan in January.
- Oh, these are just some monster frogs, no worries.
- People are starting to get fed up with Mayor de Blasio being late all the time.
- A man claims that the Bangladesh general consul kept him as a slave.
- A pregnant teen allegedly assaulted an MTA bus driver in Brooklyn over the fare.
- Here's what happens to your body when you get drunk and stoned at the same time.
- And finally, dogs don't really get magic, do they:
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