Email Author Drew Bixby

2010 Stories by Drew Bixby

• It's easy to drink alone all night if you've got a seat at the bar

  published December 23, 2010

  I'll drink alone all night as long as I have a seat at the bar — as long as I can bullshit with the bartender and other patrons,... More >>

• The Kids Are All Right

  published December 16, 2010

  During the holidays, “we spend so much time thinking and talking about Mary and the baby Jesus,” says artist Heather Doyle-Maier.... More >>

• Drew downs $100 in tequila at Lola

  published December 9, 2010

  The over/under time on me passing out at the bar or simply disappearing and cabbing home without saying goodbye to anyone (a favorite move of... More >>

• Social Sports Formal

  published December 2, 2010

  When Michael Kirkland started Six Pack Sports – a coed social sports league that takes the standards (softball, volleyball and hockey) and... More >>

• There's not really a Jake behind Jake's Food & Spirits, but that's okay

  published November 25, 2010

  The first time I walk into Jake's Food & Spirits, two days after its October grand opening, I'm greeted by not one, not two, but seven... More >>

• Bah Hum...A Few Bars

  published November 18, 2010

  The Colorado premiere of the Broadway hit A Christmas Carol, The Musical — with music by Alan Menken (Beauty and the... More >>

• If you still sorta miss Bump & Grind, you'll miss what's good at Park & Co.

  published November 11, 2010

  Everyone, it seems, misses everything about Bump & Grind: the barely-dragged-themselves-out-of-bed queen servers of the weekend Petticoat... More >>

• Drunk of the week: An energy-shot newbie chugs it down at Jackson's

  published October 21, 2010

  Next to the two-dollar tubes of cherry-flavored Chapstick, above the eight-dollar packs of Parliament Lights and Marlboro Reds, and beneath the... More >>

• Drunk of the week: An open letter to Lakeview Lounge on Sheridan

  published October 7, 2010

  The morning following my first adventure at the Lakeview Lounge, in mid-December 2008, I awoke feeling gnarly all over and wrote the following... More >>

• Vital Organs

  published September 30, 2010

  Churches: Love ’em or leave ’em, they’ve got all the damn organs in this town, so if you want to see and hear a towering set of... More >>

• Besides the rock, the Rockaway Tavern is an excellent place to just get drunk and hang out

  published September 23, 2010

  I'm sure the six-week-old Rockaway Tavern — part 15th Street Tavern museum, part club of its own — is a great place to see... More >>

• Stone Cold

  published September 16, 2010

  If you watched the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, there’s a good chance you saw some curling. You probably thought, “Shuffleboard on ice? An... More >>

• Fat Saturday

  published September 9, 2010

  According to the second of the ten commandments of the Tour de Fat — honor all other bikes — the eleventh annual cross-country party... More >>

• Drinking $7 Dark & Stormys at Lost Lake Lounge

  published September 2, 2010

  The DJ looks lonely. Partly this is because it's a balmy night and the front patio is packed; partly it's because everyone else is bellied up... More >>

• Shell Game

  published September 2, 2010

  Today’s Tour de Coops — unlike, say, the Tour de Franzia or the Tour de Flex — is exactly what it sounds like: a tour of... More >>

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  At Star Bar 2.0, you can't buy your booze with change

  published August 19, 2010

  "I just need something strong in my veins," she says, tapping the underside of her forearm with two fingers. "What's homemade? What can I get a... More >>

• Long Row(d) Home

  published August 19, 2010

  The city’s goals for the Better Broadway construction project were threefold: to create jobs, to make South Broadway safer, and to make it... More >>

• Let 'Er Rip!

  published August 19, 2010

  “If you’re anything like me,” admits Jeff Huling, chief operating officer of RIP-COREFX, “the first time I saw this device I... More >>

• The Streets of London Pub rings our bell

  published August 5, 2010

  TINGK! The traditional metal bar bell's sound is unmistakable. Even in a crowded spot with punk-rock jukebox blaring, the clang of the clapper,... More >>

• Drink more whiskey, fix my swamp cooler

  published July 22, 2010

  Tequila makes my clothes come off." "Drink more whiskey, fix my swamp cooler." "Los Angeles, we can smell you." These and a hundred other... More >>

• SHOTGUN WEDDING

  published July 22, 2010

  “The environment we create is crazy,” explains Mikayla Houser, creator of the philanthropic organization Big Ball Pub Crawls. “It... More >>

• KID TALK

  published July 22, 2010

  To supplement this diet, KGNU offers a three-day Youth Radio Workshop each summer. Now in its tenth year, the workshop — open to... More >>

• Root of a Problem

  published July 8, 2010

  When I requested two free street trees from the Park People’s Denver Digs Trees program and then purchased two more for my yard this spring,... More >>

• Is drinking at Brothers a good deal? It's all relative

  published July 1, 2010

  Sometime around my junior or senior year of college — the details are hazy, as they should be — I began blacking out on Wednesdays.... More >>

• Patriot Games

  published July 1, 2010

  As home to Denver’s oldest structure, the Four Mile House, Four Mile Historic Park knows how to kick it old-school style. Really old school.... More >>