This document discusses hipster neighborhoods in Denver. It defines hipsters as people who affect an air of not caring about popularity and sneer at mainstream tastes. It provides a list of places often frequented by hipsters, including dive bars, independent coffee shops, and breweries. It then shows a heatmap of Denver neighborhoods ranked by hipster population, with Five Points being the top neighborhood. It also includes a shortest path analysis to help a hipster get to a new brunch spot. It concludes by noting signs that hipsters have moved into a neighborhood.

1. HERE THERE BE
HIPSTERS
By
Erik King

2. Which Denver neighborhood is your best
chance of running into a hipster?

3. First, what is
a hipster?
Hipsters are the friends who sneer when
you cop to liking Coldplay. They're the
people who wear t-shirts silk-screened
with quotes from movies you've never
heard of and the only ones in America who
still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good
beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets
and think Kanye West stole their
sunglasses. Everything about them is
exactingly constructed to give off the vibe
that they just don't care.
— Time, July 2009[10

4. Hipster
Spots
• Brunch Spots
• Independent Coffee Shops
• Dive Bars
• Select Food Stores
• Breweries
• Tattoo Parlours

5. Hipster
Heatmap
1. Five Points 25
2. Speer 18
3. Capitol Hill 16
4. Highland 14
5. City Park West &
Union Station 11

6. Help the
Hipster
This hipster found out his
plans changed, now he
needs to be at a different
brunch spot.

7. Cost Distance Analysis: Shortest
Path

8. Why should
you care?
Someday you’ll see people taking
pictures of their food, drinking PBR,
as if it’s the finest adult beverage
ever, and sneering at the common
person for following the
mainstream. At that point, you will
know that hipsters are in your
neighborhood.