"SOMERVILLE IS SO HIP THAT IT WORRIES ITSELF" - front page headline in today's Globe

[ron_newman]

And yes, the headline is in ALLCAPS, above the fold. Subhead: "Trendy bustle brings uncertainty about city's essence".

Link to story here. Comments?

Comments

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

Sad what the Globe has become.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

As much as I love Somerville, I now live in Medford; the price of rent in Somervile is just too high.

[craigindaville.livejournal.com]

I moved to Somerville before it was cool.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

I feel like I should have a button: I WAS HIP BEFORE IT WAS....

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

was it in comic sans?

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[londo.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure we're part of the precipitate.

[dfan.livejournal.com]

"Trendy bustle brings uncertainty about city's essence" would be a great cryptic crossword clue.

[drglam]

I was a bit annoyed at the mention of the influx of people from Cambridge after Cambridge outlawed rent control in 1996, as though that had been a whim on the part of Cambridge, and not as a result of a statewide referendum passed mainly by votes in parts of the state that didn't have rent control.

[ron_newman]

Indeed, Cambridge voters voted against that referendum by a substantial majority.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Lol, rent control argument in 3, 2, 1....

[ron_newman]

No arguments needed here about that; drglam and I are just re-establishing facts that were omitted from the article.

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

I didn't read the entire article since the web site asked me to pay for it, but I was surprised that people were self identifying as hipsters.. do people actually do that? (Non-Ironically?..har har har)

[ron_newman]

I thought I linked to a copy that was free for anyone to read? I could read it with the text-only Lynx browser, which certainly doesn't know about my Boston Globe login.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

in other words, "slow news day".

[ron_newman]

We made the front page, yet someone being shot ETA: and killed in Copley Square last night at 11 pm didn't get into the paper at all. ETA: finally made the Saturday paper on page B4. I don't get it.

[teko.livejournal.com]

We're so hip it hurts, but there's still no food trucks in Davis Square area. Maybe that would be the tipping point where we'd get too hip for hipsters.