Writing for NYC Lifestyle Guide ChangeUpMag by Jordan Clifford

Habana Outpost Fortified by a large fence like a military base parking lot that you'd really like to get drunk and fat in, Habana Outpost - Fort Greene's earth-conscious eatery, unofficial summer headquarters for the thirsty and financially-impared - holds within it a one-stop spot for summer.  Their margaritas are frozen, their bathrooms run on rain water and their customers run on Six Point beers at $2.50 a cup.   The Cuban-Mexican cuisine comes out of a truck parked out back, next to a bunch of picnic tables and their famous make-it-your-damn-self  human-powered smoothie blending bicycle - if you like want to burn off your marg calories before drinking it. A packed seasonal schedule of fun includes block parties and free moonlight movies every sunday screening classics ranging The Last Dragon through To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar , which becomes a classic after a few of those bike-blended margaritas.  Hanana Outpost  ; 757 Fulton St. at S. Portland; Brook

NYC offers quite a lot of options for trendy dessertophiles, what with the recent boom in artisan and faux-artisan cupcake innovators. But for the one-two diabetes-enducing punch of dessert and alcohol, Sweet Revenge takes, as they say, the cake/beer combo. A cupcake is like sex  - even when it's bad it's good, as long as it's just moist enough with not too much frosting. So let's get this out of the way - Sweet Revenge has perfect cupcakes. But even more notable is their acute selection of paired beer and wine. The only thing missing is a place to nap when you finish.  I went for the original, the "Sweet Revenge," a peanut butter cake with chocolate ganache filling and peanut butter fudge frosting ($3.50, worth all 350 pennies), paired with a German Weihenstephaner Hefe Weiss beer ($8, rarely found in bars, gorgeous) and boy howdy... the flavor combination hit me like a peanut butter truck fueled with Hefe Weiss beer. Cupcakes and beer sounds like the concoct

Are a you creative, passionate, innovative, environmentally-conscious entrepreneur? Probably. But you're probably not as creative, passionate and innovative as the environmentally-conscious entrepreneurs being gathered together to finally put an end to all this bad stuff in the world at The Feast conference 2010.  With its vague mission statement saying it's a "a cross-disciplinary series of programs addressing social innovation and new ways to make the world a better place," which could as easily be from the website of any liberal arts college or Ben and Jerry's flavor label, The Feast sets out to open a much needed dialogue between the world's most important creative types, thinkers, and takers of action about just what's to be done about keeping Earth alive these days.  Worry not, potential conference attendee, it is called a feast not just because of it's feast-like quality where the hungriest thought-eaters come to dine on the tastiest ideas, but

*Mulhollands - Enjoying your hipster community can be hard if you also happen to enjoy sports - at least, beyond liking hats with sports logos from 1985. Good bar food, good bar beer, flatscreens in and outdoors, sports on those screens, and a fireplace just to throw everything off, Mulholland's is the place to go for a real sports bar experience in an otherwise sports-hostile environment. Mulholland's [ mulhollandsbklyn.com ]312 Grand St between Havemeyer St & Roebling St; Williamsburg; 718.486.3473 *Kettle of Fish - A greenwich village community staple with its roots in the Beat scene of the 50s and the gay community - opening on Macdougal St. but since relocated a number of times finding itself on Christopher St. - this is one of the few bars that will boast its counter cultural history as much as its diehard Packer fandom. It may be a New York bar, but when it comes to football it's Wisconsin all the way to it's Milwakee-imported Brat Wurst. A comfy, friendly zo

You may remember a scene from a movie where a bunch of radicals re-contextualize a stuffy old museum from a boring place for nerds into a veritable FunZone of fun, running around where signs specifically ask them not to run, dancing where signs should specifically warn them not to dance, and other such hi-jinks, probably while drunk. You probably thought to yourself, "never could I have that much fun in a museum." How wrong you were. Welcome to First Saturday's at the Brooklyn Museum. Every Saturday night beginning at 5 p.m, the reclusive Wonka-esque owner of the Brooklyn Museum opens the gates of his wonderland to the mischief-loving youth of New York for a night of entertainment, art and music programming, and free access to most of their collections, complete with cash bars for those that need a little help with their art appreciation. This week, on Oct 2nd, the Target-sponsored night will include live music from D.C. punk-hop A.D.M. (Architects + Demolition Men, a ban

There's now a reason to go to an art gallery besides drinking complementary wine. While the artistic value of art is subjective, the monetary value of art is really, really overpriced. The word 'affordable' is almost as subjective as art, and art collection, much like the drug game, is a dealer's market, and you're not not going to buy some drugs. So for the art collectors out there who have fewer than 2 sets of monocles and decorative canes, the Affordable Art Fair is your chance to invest in art that won't cost more than your entire apartment, and you can probably get some free wine. Attempting to take the elitism and financial restrictions off this activity of the pseudo-intellectual aristocrats of the upper east side, the AAF finally lets the starving artist be supported by people who should support them: the starving collector. With over 50 international galleries represented and art priced as low as 100 McChicken Sandwiches (that's 100 dollars in poor-