Gentlemen, put down your razors! (Which you should have been doing for Movember, anyway.) This weekend marks the second annual NYC Beard Competition, sponsored by the Gotham City Beard Alliance. And the competition is looking fierce!
An Epic Facial Hair Face-Off Grows In Greenpoint
Boy Scouts Are Looking For Future Hipsters And/Or Beardos
The Boy Scouts have a new, strangely mesmerizing ad campaign—with the emphasis decidedly on strange. The manly new campaign features young boys with long scraggily beards and the inviting motto, "Be One With The Wild." We definiely think Ron Swanson would approve.
TV On The Radio Return With New Album, Single, Tour
Come April 3rd, there will be a giant handlebar mustache-sized hole in the heart of Williamsburg, after LCD Soundsystem play their farewell show at MSG and hang up their cowbells for good. But thankfully, hipsters won't have to suffer the indignity of sitting around crocheting bike seat covers to year-old chillwave cassettes: TV On The Radio announced that they will release their fourth album, Nine Types of Light, on April 12th.
Hirsute Men Find Acceptance In City's Workplaces
Possibly in honor of the cold weather today, the Post takes a look at how men with furry faces have become more accepted in the workplace. However, despite the newfound prevalence of beards, there are still no laws protecting those with facial hair that's not related to religion or disability! Didn't anyone tell them about Movember?
Hipster Grifter Thinks She's Great Enough To Deserve 16th Minute
Well you gotta hand it to Kari Ferrell, aka the Hipster Grifter. Five months after her story lit up the blogosphere and she's now in a Utah jail after being arrested for her fraudulent and thieving past, Ferrell continues to play the media like a fiddle. Ferrell has now taken her publicity tour to a bigger stage, giving "an exclusive jailhouse interview" to ABC News, providing her with a platform to express herself the way one would in an online profile. Among the choice tidbits and quotes that Kari shares:
NYPD Requires Clean Shaves
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has ordered a revision to the NYPD's appearance guidelines and facial hair on cops is for the most part forbidden. No full beards, no goatees, no chinstrap beards, and no highly sculpted facial hair patterns. Mustaches, of course, are still acceptable. Undercover cops are allowed to retain whatever facial hair they choose. Uniformed officers found to be insufficiently clean shaven could face a formal infraction report or the loss of a vacation day.

