We wuz robbed! BK Mag leaves Slope off list of best cheap bar snacks.

Image via cnn.comBrooklyn Magazine wrote a post highlighting the top bar eats in our favorite borough for under $6. Park Slope's own…own…what do you mean there wasn't a Park Slope bar on there??? There's got to be something in our favorite nabe that qualifies for the list.

Start with the goulash at Café Steinhoff. They have a goulash night. Once a week it's $7. Close but no cigar. Then there is the free popcorn at High Dive.  Are you a gymnast? Popcorn isn't going to soak up booze, at least not like we're going to be drinking it.

I think the fries at Union Hall are some of the best I've ever had. Fries are under $6 everywhere so it seems kind of cheap (pun intended) to use that on the list but its good enough for Brooklyn Magazine I guess. 

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Hold On and Mmmm-bop until Closing Time

Union Hall is hosting a sing-along of 90's One Hit Wonders, and I'm really, really hoping that everyone shows up wearing an actual "Ring Pop" and bring a working Tamagochi.  Saturday, at 10 p.m.  OOH!  You could bring your Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper full of printed lyrics.  That'd totally be authentic, right?

These are one-hit wonders, though, so don't expect to extrapolate on your Backstreet Boys versus N*SYNC arguments at this event.  You won't be able to point to any of the videos, there, as evidence.  These are strictly one-hit wonders.  They promise you that you'll be able to sing along with Vanilla Ice, Deee-Lite, Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch, Hanson, Oasis, Chumbawumba, Harvey Danger, Lou Bega, Marcy Playground, Tag Team, The Divinyls, Blind Melon, Duncan Sheik, Mark Morrison, New Radicals, Semisonic, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Haddaway, Deep Blue Something, Right Said Fred, and of, course, you'll do the Macarena.

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Whassup: Seven-Eleven Edition

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Hey, everyone -- it's the unofficial new mascot of New York day: 7/11! Celebrate by drinking the biggest soda gulps you can stomach before immediately dying of massive diabetes and obesity. FREEDOM! Welcome to Whassup: Seven-Eleven Edition:

* Through Saturday, July 13: BK Hip-Hop Festival, Various Sites: The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival enters its ninth year with headliners Pusha T, EPMD and Redman. Brooklyn, as you may be aware, had a decent history as a source of amazing hip-hop artists, long before it developed a reputation for kick-ass artisanal cronuts or whatever. This fest celebrates that heritage with musical performances, alongside panel discussions, an award show and a block party. Maybe Northwest will even show up. 7pm-11pm, $20+.

* Thursday, July 11: Belle and Sebastian and Yo La Tengo, Bandshell: When I tried to purchase a ticket, it appeared to be sold out. But the BRIC site doesn't officially say that, so maybe you'll have better luck. In any event, why would you buy a ticket, anyway? BRIC benefit shows should be viewed from outside the gates, as God intended. And this is a good one, particularly if you are an indie-music nerd who came of age in the '90's. Any such folks in Brooklyn? I guess we shall see. 7pm, $42.50.

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See Katniss run. Run Katniss run.

The baby name website Nameberry has come out with a list of the names that are trending high so far in 2013, based on the most viewed name pages, and it seems like breeders are OBSESSED with pop culture and celebrities. Shocker! Check out Buzzfeed's helpful rundown with photos that give an idea of each names origin -- although you'd have to live under a rock not to know where people got the idea to name their kid Katniss or Isla. 

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[What You Should Order At...] Russo's

Russo's has great prepared foods like lasagna and sandwiches like all their Panini's.  But it's the fresh mozzarella that's in the name (pasta too but this isn't "What you should order at…to bring home, undercook and destroy with a $2 jar of Ragu.") If a food place is so proud of one of their items that it's in the name that's a strong show of confidence. The mozzarella doesn't disappoint.

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