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The Official New York City Beerathon

The NYC Beerathon is an annual tradition in its fifth year. The original idea behind the Beerathon was to create a marathon event in November for those of us whose enthusiasm for running includes making a beer-run. Now, this year, the official NYC Beerathon is being brought to the rest of this awesome city! So, come participate, rock out all day with beers, bands, djs, and the most fun you can have legally. You’ll leave with some great memories, or none at all.

NYC Beerathon
Saturday, November 19th
Various venues across NYC

Image via Thrillist

Fort Lauderdale Spring Break Survival Guide

It’s still mighty chilly here in the Northeast.  And this is the time of year when college students descend upon the warmer climates for a hedonistic ritual called Spring Break.  However, if you live full time in places like Fort Lauderdale, it’s a time full of bumper-to-bumper traffic that makes running daily errands or having a quiet meal quite cumbersome.  For our friends down there, check out this list of places where you’re unlikely to run into a Spring Breaker!

The Wild One at Otto's Shrunken Head

Do you like trashy movies cars and motorcycles?  Then check out Cine Meccanica’s series of movies featuring cars and motorcycles, every Tuesday night at Otto’s Shrunken Head.  This week features the 1953 classic The Wild One starring Marlon Brando as the leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club. 

Otto’s Shrunken Head Tiki Bar & Lounge
538 East 14th Street, East Village
7pm, FREE

Best Bars in Brooklyn to Watch the Jets!

Are you a Jets fan looking for a place to watch the big AFC Conference game?  Then check out this list put together by Brokelyn featuring beer and really big TVs!

Where are you watching the game?

10 Must-Try NYC Holiday Cocktails

It’s almost quitting time and almost time to start the weekend with a cocktail.  The holidays are a great time for cocktails, especially in New York City when the bars and restaurants are pulling out all the stops to create (and re-create) decadent cold weather drinks!  Eater NY put together a list of their 10 must-try holiday cocktails.  We’re bound to try a few of them tonight!

The NYC Marathon Eating Guide: Brooklyn Edition

With 12 of the 26.2 miles of the marathon in Brooklyn - from Bay Ridge to Greenpoint - there are plenty of options for food and drink along the way for both runner and non-runners.  The Brooklyn Paper shows us where to load up on carbs and booze during this year’s race on November 7th.

New York's Best Dive Bars

A dive bar can be best described as a church for down-and-outers and those who romanticize them, a rare place where high and low rub elbows.  It’s a place that wears its history proudly.  It could be your “neighborhood bar”, someplace relaxed and informal or it could be considered to be disreputable or sinister.  New York is full of these special places and The Village Voice and Ben Westhoff have put together a Top Ten list of their favorite Dive Bars.

A Carnival for the Kid in All of Us

New Yorkers don’t see many fairs or carnivals. We have seen them on TV and in movies but chances are most of us have never actually been to one. Unexpectedly, Bowlmore Lanes, a bowling alley near Union Square, decided to bring a carnival to city in classic New York style; by merging it with a night club.

Bowlmore Lanes
110 University Place, Greenwich Village

JENGA Tourney Tuesdays!

Are you a Jenga Master?  What about after a few Manhattans?  675 Bar hosts a contest of rigorous physical and mental dexterity that soon becomes a fun drinking game.  All teams get a complimentary round of beer as well as the chance to win great prizes.

675 Bar
675 Hudson Street, Meatpacking District

The Habitat's Wing Eating Contest

Think you can beat the record and eat 48 wings in 10 minutes?  Then enter the 3rd Annual Wing Eating Contest at Greenpoint’s The Habitat. The winner will walk away with $100 and a belly full of chicken.  Or, if you prefer to eat at a more leisurely pace, wings are 25 cents all night long.  Tuesday, August 31st at 10pm.  $5 to enter (12 contestants) and free to watch.

The Habitat
988 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint

"Rock With You" Michael Jackson Birthday Tribute

(Le) Poisson Rouge hosts “Rock with You” Michael Jackson Birthday Tribute presented by Michael T. and Deryck Todd on Saturday, August 28, 2010.  Doors open at 11pm.  2-for-1 well drinks from opening till Midnight.

(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleeker Street, Greenwich Village

The Whiskey Brooklyn

The team behind Whiskey Town and Whiskey Tavern have turned a former tonic water factory into a massive adult rec room, with concrete floors, old brick walls, dark wooden booths, and a central U-shaped bar dimly cast in an orange glow alongside modern touches like seven huge LCDs, and a DJ booth. For gamesmanship, a pair of hand-built shuffleboard tables nestle in one corner, while an adjacent room’s filled with foosball, Buck Hunter, mini-basketball, and an Arcade Legends machine housing 100 classics from Rampage to Street Fighter II.  However, it’s the brown liquor that steals the spotlight, showing up in Pickle Backs, ‘tails made from family made Tom Lawless American whiskey, and straight pours from a 50-plus-strong collection broken down by provenance, including America (Colorado, Michter’s…), Japan (Suntory Yamakazi), and Scottland, whose Famous Grouse is just upset it can’t get into Canadian clubs.

The Whiskey Brooklyn
44 Berry Street, Williamsburg