London seeks pop-up detente between The West and the Congo. Target opens four Bullseye Bodegas for just four days. These concepts sum up two considerations about modern life: It’s here today and gone tomorrow. And we HATE popups, right?

Ads yes. Concept shops, trendy restaurants, bars — no. These popups are the ultimate in urban cool.

When the chic French lifestyle retailer Collette opened in the Manhattan Fifth Avenue Gap store for a month this fall, that was a pop up. (Sorry my young style setters, but I must educate some of our readers on the vernacular.)

Last Sept. Target opened four Bullseye Bodega designer fashion popup stores in Manhattan for just four fashion-focused, style-drenched days. These stores generate a lot of buzz and must-see urgency, because they are so transitory. They’re even better when the crowds are in town.

Reading this Independent UK’s article on star chef Daniel Boulud’s favorite culinary hangout’s, I wasn’t surprised to read about his legal problems around the name of his soon-to-open-restaurant DBGB.

These four letters conjured up an instantaneous, “oh how clever” reaction, as my mind migrated to CBGB, New York’s home of underground music since 1973. Now closed at its Bowery location, the club insists that it will reopen in the future, at a new location.

Daniel Boulud insists that his latest DBGB restaurant, 299 Bowery, will not be a burger restaurant, but a 150-seat HIP cross between a brasserie and a diner!

Logging on to DanielNYC, there’s no photos of the DBGB restaurant, opening behind schedule by almost a year.