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Sports: PBR at the Mohegan Sun Casino

PBR at the Mohegan Sun Casino

Like most sports involving the mistreatment of livestock, bull riding is rarely found outside the Southwest, so it's crucial you make a daytrip to Connecticut for the Invitational's Sunday finals. Top riders like career earnings leader Justin McBride ($2,825,248.78) will strive to ride a punishing eight seconds in order to impress fresh East Coast groupies yearning for novelty sex with a man who wears tighter jeans than they do.

Tickets available at TicketMaster.com

Fri-Sun, Nov 18-20 |

Buying: John Varvatos Concealer (now closed)

John Varvatos Concealer

Finally, a Varvatos product that meets the needs of the roughhewn, blue-collar demographic: a facial concealer stick that hides scars from knife fights, dark circles from lonely nights with the bottle, and premature age lines brought on by years of backbreaking labor. Oh, and if you're a metro prettyboy, it also covers up zits and tear tracks.

JohnVarvatosScent.com

122 Spring St, at Greene; 212.965.0700, $26 |

Drinking: Fontana's

Fontana's

This sprawling spot will have something for everyone, with a neighborhood joint up front sporting plush booths, barstools, and charmingly toothless regulars; and a slick two-level back lounge where DJs will spin rock and Britpop. There's also a subterranean grotto the owners say was once a precinct jail, but will now host live bands, acclimatizing budding rockstars to crowds, and to a prison setting -- both of which they'll be seeing a lot more of should they enjoy any real success.

105 Eldridge, between Broome and Grand; 212.334.6740 |

Steakhouse Update: Blair Perrone Steakhouse (now closed)

Blair Perrone Steakhouse

As part of the Ruth's Chris chain, this block-long space didn't pack the muscle to compete with Major League NYC meat purveyors, due in no small part to the foolish former tenants burying the bar in the basement like an unwanted mutant child. The new proprietors, both founding managers of Mark Joseph Steakhouse, injected some much-needed restaurant-'roids before yesterday's grand opening -- first by moving the bar front-and-center, and then by luring away half the staff from Mark Joseph.

885 2nd Ave, between 47th and 48th; 212.796.8000 |