# What annual events should I attend if I want to stay edgy and hip? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277 "2015-03-18T11:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277/21 "2015-03-18T19:34:53Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > You should never, ever say “hip”. Not even ironically. > > > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > > What should I say? Hep, as in “He’s a real hep cat!” Also, hubba hubba. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277/22 "2015-03-18T20:24:12Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > you guys are so unhip it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off. _I’m_ so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277/23 "2015-03-19T14:00:00Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I’m thinking things like SXSW, Burning Man, Coachella, San Diego Comic-con. What other annual events am I missing if I want to stay edgy and hip? Could you explain what exactly you’re wanting to do? If you want to stay up on the somewhat popular but still cool music, then your plans to go to SXSW and Coachella isn’t terrible. If you want to impress cool people with how cool you are, then smaller festivals would be a better idea. All of four of your suggested events are big and overwhelming and I’d only suggest that someone go to them if they really want to go, so I’m trying to figure out what exactly you are aiming for. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277/24 "2015-03-19T14:04:23Z")
If you have heard about it then it is no longer edgy and hip. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277/25 "2015-03-19T14:05:43Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > In what universe is Comic-Con “edgy and hip”? Nerdy and uncool, I could see. It started off nerdy and uncool. It became edgy and hip. Now it is overly commercialized and mainstream. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277/26 "2015-03-19T23:40:14Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I have Including the majestik møøse A Møøse once bit my sister… No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink I should just point out that quoting Monty Python is definitely not hip…anymore. It was in February. It probably will be again by May. Today? - well… sorry. You failed. (But the guy who quoted Beeblebrox? Woah. Definitely hip. No doubt). If anybody has any more queries about the rules of being hip, edgy and cool, I’m here to help. Remember, these rules are for _ **your** _ benefit. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277/27 "2015-03-20T12:01:31Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > Good luck staying edgy and hip! Another decade or so, and you’ll be wearing your pants with the belt around your chest, eating supper at 4:30 p.m., and grousing about “these kids today…” > > IOW, time’ll take its course. Practice in the mirror saying, “And get off my lawn!” Another decade or so and that will be the style the kids wear. If you told me ten years ago that wearing super-skinny jeans and dorky glasses were the way to go, I would have thought you were insane. > [@Shagnasty](#): > > The National Polka festival is _the_ big event for edgy hipsters this year: > [http://www.nationalpolkafestival.com/polkamusic.html](http://www.nationalpolkafestival.com/polkamusic.html) > > Whatever you do, stay far away from any event in Austin, Portland, OR or NYC (especially Brooklyn). Those places are finished and completely dead to the smart set now. Think more Cincinnati, Albuquerque or **Portland, Maine**. Apparently Hoboken, NJ has them beat > **[The most hipster city in the country is...Hoboken?](https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/the-most-hipster-city-in-the-country-is-hoboken?fb_ref=Default)** > > Apparently America's coolest city is located in Jersey, and it looks like this. Kinda... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annual-events-should-i-attend-if-i-want-to-stay-edgy-and-hip/715277.md?page=1)