Head to the South End's hep Italian resto for the borderline insane weekday deal of five apps for $5, including prosciutto & Fontina pizzetta, garlic mayo-laced fried cauliflower, and calamari w/ pickled pepperoncini, also used in the ill-fated Italian knockoff children's toy, Pickle Me Elmo.

See the other apps and some delightful owner-based personal anecdotes at RoccaBoston.com

The nation's first hybrid-only car service, Boston-based PT has just added fresh options like online booking, free wi-fi in every car, and the ability to "track each passenger's carbon footprint", assuaging your guilt as you idle on the shoulder, Googling directions to the monster truck rally.

See what even the good people of Futureland couldn't conceive at PlanetTran.com

Just opened by the guy behind the ritzy Restaurant Dante, ICC's a more casual Italian cucina sitting in an old renovated Belmont firehouse, slinging traditional home-cooked grub like maiale (pork meatballs, mozzarella, sugo di testa), sweet and sour pepper bruschetta, tomato-braised flank steak, and spinach ricotta ignudi, Italian for "naked" ravioli, which'll totally make your wine blush.

Your mom lives in Belmont! Get at the seriously delicious grub on the full menu

Head to BiNA next Tuesday for the first in their series of weekly booze tastings, sampling tequila from Mezcal Del Maguey, a collection of "fine, rare, unblended" mezcals created by individual family producers in "remote villages scattered throughout the state of Oaxaca" -- because the ones from Oaxaca's high rise condos are lacking in character.