Is this the business section or the society page?

It's stories like this that make me wonder. An honest headline would read,

Quadrillionaire real estate developer to apply a small portion of his considerable resources in money and contacts to flatter his hippie girlfriend.

While the healing center is only in the planning stages now, its founders say it will occupy a unique niche in the city. Louisiana is one of only three states without a cooperative grocery store, in which members buy an ownership share and work shifts to offset the cost of groceries, and Kabacoff said there is no place in the city where people can find various types of alternative medicine, "from reiki to acupuncture to things I don't even know about," under one roof.

Uh huh.

Here we have in one neat package everything that is wrong with hipster NOLA. A well connected real estate magnate, his new age "voodoo priestess" paramour, and a whole cast of self-important post-hippies who do things like "produce a series of essays and short films that paid tribute to the city" and then pat themselves on the back saying things like,

"What we're doing is unprecedented," said Andy Antippas, a salon member and the owner of Barrister's Gallery on St. Claude. "We've scoured for paradigms, and there aren't any."

Scoured for paradigms? Wasn't that a Depeche Mode album? Anyway please be my guest and read the rest of this article for more unintentional hilarity. via Suspect-Device

Note: Actually I'm quite enthusiastic about the idea of a co-op grocery. But, as is often the case in such ventures, it doesn't really offset the costs which come in the form of all this self-congratulatory hipster snobbery and as Kabakoff so lovingly describes his girlfriend's hobbies, reiki and acupuncture and "things I don't even know about"