Sascha Petraske's latest, Star's a 3-room railroad of a joint ornately decorated w/ marble bar, black leather banquettes, and the eponymous Moroccan light fixtures. Petraske himself'll be behind the bar pouring boutique scotches/tequilas/microbrews, but he's eschewing shakers and juice to concentrate on traditional auto verseurs absinthe service and vintage liquor combos, e.g., scotch and soda, and the champagne/absinthe cocktail inspired by Hemingway's bullfighting book "Death in the Afternoon" -- because only a de classe establishment would mix a "Gored in the Gonads".

This just-outside-NYC artist is hawking three pop-cult-inspired prints: Happy Flight, featuring a haloed Almighty triumphantly riding Falcor; The Crucifixition of Jareth, depicting the death of Bowie's Labrynth Goblin King; and The Surrender, depicting Washington's victory over the British -- though Washington's riding a triceratops, the Continental Army's composed of Robocop, Fonzie, and Kool-Aid, and the British = Osama, Hamas, and Cobra Commander. So basically, it's historically spot-on.

Check out (and purchase) the madness at PeachStapler.com

Avail in four colors (black, blue, red, purple) and sporting high-quality Carl Zeiss lenses, these limited edition ALIFE specs are a colab with Italy's RetroSuperFuture -- which if you do the math, means "today".

Check them out RestroSuperFuture.com

The first of its kind, this haute bball court boutique (distressed wood planks, exposed brick) is carrying gear unique to this location, e.g., the 21 Mercer M-65 hoodie jacket (3-layer waterproof nylon, one-of-a-kind patterning), made-to-order 21 Mercer Air Force 1 Low Luxs, and the 21 Mercer LunaRacer -- ultra-light runners with soles in the colors of the Olympic rings, evocative of the childhood taunt "my shoes make me .001 seconds faster than you".

More photos of the gear at Nike.com<