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This Summer, Things Are Getting More Caliente — Good, Cheap Mexican Food in BK!
As old-timey newspaper men in the movies would say, “Stop The Presses!” Being a Southern California native, I have a huge stick up my ass about the quality and price of Mexican food in NYC. Aside from the delicious taco van inside Union Pool, I had yet to find another

Have a Job Interview? Get FREE Dry Cleaning
As NPR reports here, a dry cleaning shop on the Upper East Side is offering free dry cleaning services to anyone jobless with an upcoming job interview. The unemployed can hardly praise bars in the same manner, since their attractive drink specials do little to help one be more marketable.

BYOB takes the financial ruin out of “dinner and drinksâ€
Standing alone, a dinner or drinks can be manageable, but combined…well, that’s just stupid. It’s like fighting two bears. I can’t do that. Budgets begin to implode. Enter BYOB restaurants – places where owners are lazy, poor, or philosophically aligned with drinking malt liquor with your dinner. I hardly ever

FREE Vodka Wednesdays at Blue Owl
Hump Day sounds disgusting, always has. “Bumping uglies” sounds gross too. I know people who hate the word “groin”. “Crotch” is crisp and tight to me, but friends find it equally unappetizing. One of Stuart’s friends has a website called The Fart Party. That leaves a very unpleasant taste in

$45 for 4 Days of Shows, available NOW!
4-day all-access badges have just become available to purchase for the Northside Festival in Williamsburg, a new music festival project by The L Magazine. $45 is like, INSANELY cheap for four whole days of bands that include: Vivian Girls, Bishop Allen, The Dodos, Bill Callahan, The Van Pelt, Brightblack Morning Light, O’Death, Asobi

House Party Tuesdays @ Sway: FREE Whiskey, cheap tequila/mini burgers
Sway feels cool because it hasn’t altered the outdated sign of its predecessor McGovern’s, has good music, and an attractive crowd (reminder: low light, dark backdrops and highballs make a lot of things attractive). Hell, attractive people can make anything look cool from old school American Gladiators to modern runway

It's Always Xmas at The Continental: 5 Shots for $10
The black tarpaulin outside of the The Continental reads “5 Shots of Anything $10: All day/All night (yes, we’re serious)”. And there really is no catch. No limiting “happy hour”, no restricted access to only the worst gut rot brewed in an industrial bathtub, no cutting down a