The Black Zine Fair, a free event held at the Powerhouse Arts (PHA) Grand Hall on Saturday, May 11, invited zine makers, educators, collectors, and those interested in zines to gather; trade or sell zines; and exchange knowledge about zine-making, publishing, and do-it-yourself culture.
Featuring 30 to 50 exhibitors, the Black Zine Fair presented in-person programs, including an all-day zine trading station and workshops featuring zine-making, screen printing, and generative writing.
No one really comes to New York City to relax. If you find yourself here on vacation here, expect chaos, rats and lots and lots of noise. Because of all of these factors, it should not come as a surprise that a recent survey found that the most chaotic tourist trap in the world is located in New York and, yes, it’s Times Square.
The survey was conducted by the language learning platform Preply, which analyzed more than 81 popular tourist attractions and surveyed thousands of people about which they thought were overrated, overcrowded and just generally not worth the time.
We get it, Times Square is loud, stinky, and the Frozen characters posing for pictures are a little bit scary.
In the Preply survey, 1,761 people called the area “overrated,” “underwhelming” or “a tourist trap.” One reviewer wrote that they had “high hopes and expectations and high disappointment. Times Square to us was crowded, grimy and overrated.” Tell us something we don’t know.
Even though they’re absolutely right about the area, we must admit that it’s hard not to get defensive. New Yorkers don’t step foot in Times Square unless they absolutely have to it’s different when we’re our own haters.
The other attractions that were considered major tourist traps by those surveyed was (in order from worst to best) Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin; the Eiffel Tower; The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen; Las Ramblas in Barcelona; Manneken Pis in Brussels; The Blue Lagoon in Iceland; the Hollywood Walk of Fame in L.A.; the London Eye; and the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.
You can check out the full list of the top 20 most stressful tourist traps here.
Preply also looked at the least stressful tourist hotspots in the world, and Switzerland’s Lake Caumasee took the number one spot, followed by Uluru in Australia and Monastiraki Market in Athens.
Again, there’s nothing surprising about us making the top of the list, so there’s no use in trying to defend Times Square. All we’re saying is there are many other things to do if you’re not the type who likes crowds, so please be respectful of this great city of ours.
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Looking to spice up your morning commute? Then shake your jelly to the underground jetty, because the people’s princess has taken over public transit. Grrraaah!
If you’re not chronically online, here is what we mean: the MTA just released limited-edition MetroCards featuring Ice Spice that you can get at select vending machines starting today.
The sure-to-become iconic passes were created in collaboration with Capitol Records in anticipation of the rapper’s debut album Y2K, which Ice Spice confirmed she has finished recording even though no official release date for it has yet been announced.
Photograph: Courtesy of the MTA
The MetroCards will cost the same as a regular MetroCard ($1) but they will only be available at these four subway stations—which take cash or a credit card—across Manhattan and the Bronx:
Fordham Rd (4 train)
Fordham Rd (B/D trains)
34 St-Penn Station (A/C/E trans)
Times Square-42 St (N/Q/R/W/S/1/2/3/7 trans)
For the uninitiated: Ice Spice first rose to prominence in 2021, when she started making music with producer and friend RiotUSA while she was in college.
In 2022, her song “Munch (Feelin’ U)” went viral on TikTok and, after that, the artist released a series of singles including “Bikini Bottom” and “Deli,” which also exploded online.
In subsequent years, the Bronx native released an EP and collaborated with artists like Taylor Swift, PinkPantheress and Nicki Minaj (the latter as part of the Barbie movie). Last week, the rapper dropped “Gimme a Light,” which samples Sean Paul’s “Gimme the Light” and supposedly shows off the sort of musical style that will define her upcoming, much-anticipated new album.
Ice Spice also likes to bring on the drama: she recently made headlines after her former friend Baby Storme leaked alleged series of texts including ones in which Ice Spice had some damning words against Nicki Minaj and other celebrity pals.
Clearly, the latest MTA collab feels timely and on the pulse. Fair warning, though: the transportation authority is only releasing 50,000 copies of the special edition MetroCards—so go get yours ASAP.
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Breads Bakery—the NYC bakery chainlet with locations in Union Square, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Square, the Upper East Side and Bryant Park—is known for its spectacular babka. That twisted, chocolate-laced beaut (no, we’re not getting into a Seinfeld argument with you, chocolate over cinnamon raisin every day) has plenty of admirers and one notable one, apparently, is food-TV queen Martha Stewart, who is partnering with the bakery on a brand-new babka.
On Friday, May 17, Breads Bakery and the media mogul are launching their collaborative new menu item “Martha’s Good Thing Babka,” which featuresthe signature laminated dough of the bakery’s award-winning chocolate babka but updates it with a generous filling of poppy seeds, plump golden raisins and a touch of citrus zest.
The limited-edition, savory-sweet babka will be available beginning May 17 both at Breads Bakery locations in New York City, for $17.50 a loaf, as well as on the online food marketplace Goldbelly (various combinations of babkas start at $49.95 on the food-delivery service) on both Martha Stewart and Breads Bakery’s storefront).
National babka shipments will begin on Monday, May 20, which is timed to coincide with the fourth season premiere of Martha Stewart’s Roku series Martha Cooks. Fittingly, the premiere episode will be focused on Breads Bakery, with Stewart touring the NYC bakery with owner Gadi Paleg and learning how to make the shop’s famous baked goods like a baguette, challah and egg sandwich.
The Stewart collaboration is nothing new for Breads—the bakery brand regularly introduces new collabs and flavors to its menu. It recently gave the classic babka a makeover with its bialy babka creation, released in collaboration with Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen fame. And in the past, Breads Bakery has reinvented black and white cookies and even given Purim-time hamantaschen a pizza-flavored makeover.
Take a sneak peek at that Martha Stewart x Breads Bakery collaboration “Martha’s Good Thing Babka” below before trying one for yourself later this week.
Photograph: Malin Hillemann | Martha’s Good Thing Babka at Breads Bakery
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