Groupon Half-Price Special at Taix, Cult Classic Underground USA Screens Nearby

Who doesn't love Taix?  We sure do. Whether it's for watching sports or listening to live music in the Lounge, for a full meal or just a snack at the bar, we're there.

Groupon, the group deals site, is making it especially tantalizing to stop by Taix.

Click here to see the special they're offering: $20 gets you $40 toward a meal there. Looks like the offer doesn't expire until October 19, 2011, but you have to buy your coupon today.

And if you're really feeling like going crazy, consider this: 16mm film classic Underground USA screens Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and again at 9:30 p.m. just around the corner at the

Directed by Eric Mitchell, it was shot in 1980 and screened in clubs and bars in downtown New York, the film. Like many underground films from New York City, celebrity is its theme--in particular, celebrity in decline.

Star Patti Astor will be in attendance, who coindentally plays a former 1960s screen goddess.

The screening is in conjuction with the show Art, Access & Decay: NY 1975-1985 now up at . The show features documentation of underground art projects done in lower Manhattan before gentrification, when much of the area really was an empty shell.