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The Hipster GrifterBy Doree ShafrirApril 15, 2009 | 7:00 a.m.It?s likely that when Kari Ferrell walked into the Vice magazine offices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last month to interview for an administrative assistant job, they thought they?d hit the jackpot. Ms. Ferrell?petite, 22 years old, of Korean heritage?had a huge tattoo of a dragon across her chest and a cute pixie haircut. She was talkative, funny, charming, adorable. She had a tattoo on her back that read ?I Love Beards.? She told them she?d been working for the New York office of the concert promotion company GoldenVoice, which puts on huge rock festivals like Coachella near Palm Springs, Calif., and that she?d moved to New York from Utah just a few months earlier. They hired her on the spot...