This LA-based skate outfits's offering a sweet NYC deal: each pair of their new "Max Fish" shoes (red heelguard, black/blue accents, extruded white side graphics) comes w/ free drink coupons stitched into the footbeds, redeemable at the same-named LES haunt -- a sweet deal, until you're ejected for not wearing shoes.

More kicks online at DVSShoes.com

To fine tune your mockery of people who sound different, simply listen to these passersby's voices and pick their countries of origin, getting extra points for guessing birth cities. To ensure no slang's spoken, each person reads from Rudyard Kipling's "If", which espouses the British ideal of a stiff upper lip in the face of the most grueling hardships, e.g., "omg, are you from Australia?!"

Quiz thyself at NJ-based LanguageTrainersGroup.com

This comfortably dive bar-ish eatery's plating up Mexican street/diner food like tacos (carnitas, pollo, hongos, etc), Torta Ahogada (sourdough stuffed w/ pork confit and beans), and Pollo Encacahuatado (chicken in mole peanut sauce). For the next few months they're BYOB, but they are serving Mexican Aguas made-to-order: cantaloupe, watermelon, even prickly pear -- wouldn't you be standoffish if everybody called you "pear-shaped"?

La Superior starts serving lunch next week; check the menus at LaSuperiorNYC.com

These playfully nasty tees (naked girl leaning out of shower, half-naked girl w/biker gloves, etc) feature the work of Richard Kern, the artistically lecherous EV filmmaker who directed music vids like Marilyn Manson's "Lunchbox", Sonic Youth's "Death Valley 69", and "Detachable Penis" -- the only charting single from King Missile, leading them to be dismissed as a one-eyed wonder.

Tee yourself at MishkaNYC.com