This NYC Subway Circles Map is driving me crazy

[VIA GOTHAMIST]

Every once in a while, someone will get the brilliant idea to re-design the NYC subway map for shits and giggles. Usually, it's fun to look at for like 5 seconds. Until you realize that you've lived in NYC for so long that you barely use the subway map anymore 'cause you always go to the same places. (Unless you have to go to Queens for some birthday party, in which case you probably end up taking a car anyway and spend the whole time questioning why you have friends who live in Queens). 

ANYWAY,  the latest iteration of this redisgned map trend comes to us from U.K. psychologist Max Roberts, who according to Gothamist "focuses his studies on schematic mapping and wayfinding information, design[ing] maps and condut[ing] studies to see how useable they are." His signature style? A 'Circles Map,' which reinvisions your usual transport system using concentric circles. 

He's designed Circles Maps for London, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Washington DC, and Chicago. And now he's taken on NYC. 

You know what else has concentric circles? Hell.

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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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An Ode to Root Hill Burger's Garbanzo Poppers

We were hit hard by the news yesterday that Root Hill Burger is shutting its doors. Sure, there are plenty of other burger joints in our hood, but none of them had The Garbanzo Poppers that kept me going back to Root Hill.

I saw these things on the menu, and I thought, 'Huh? did someone stuff a garbanzo bean with cheese and then deep fry it?'  But turns out that Garbanzo Poppers and Jalapeño Poppers are two completely different animals.  Also, Garbanzo Poppers are totally a thing that exists, which I did not know until I ordered them at RHB.

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Really, Daily News? Again with the "trend" piece about something that's not a new trend?

Image via ontheinside.comThe New York Daily News (sic)* is pissing me off.  Uh-gain.  They've written some piece-of-shit trend piece about how Brooklyn's "trendiest" restaurants don't take reservations and if you want to eat there, you're going to have to wait a long time.  So.  SO!  Here, in no particular order of importance, are my top 5 bitchy complaints about this latest piece of shit/waste of newsprint article.

Ahem.

1.  Any idea how long the wait is for a table at The Spotted Pig?  Crazy, right?  Yeah, but you could make a reservation there, prolly, because they're in Manha--aaaaah!  No!  Turns out there are restaurants in Manhattan that don't take rezzies, and which are also trendy, and for which the wait is long.  So, New York Daily News, when you say, "It's a Brooklyn thing," you are exactly and completely wrong.

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[What You Should Order At...] Double Windsor

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries. - Fran Liebowitz, Metropolitan Life (1978)

If you've got 8 bucks burning a hole in your pocket, I can think of few better ways to spend it than on an order of the DW Fries at Double Windsor. I'm a huge fan of most everything on the Double Windsor food menu, actually. The pulled pork sandwich is killer. The mussels are top notch, no matter what the prep. The mac and cheese is one of my guilty pleasures. The Pat LaFrieda burger rocks. But the DW Fries. Sweet suffering baby Jesus, are these fries good.

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