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2010 Stories by Jonathan Shikes

• A new King Soopers brings booze to the party

  published Nov 15, 2010

  Thanksgiving dinner isn't complete without a big glass of wine, and King Soopers will open its first and only grocery/liquor store just in time to take advantage of that. The store, at 4600 Leetsdale... More >>

• Kent Lambert: Backward-thinking Shmuck, R-Colorado Springs

  published Nov 12, 2010

  It doesn't take much to be a Shmuck of the Week: Just add the term "R-Colorado Springs" to the end of your name. It's a sure bet. Take former state senator Dave Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, who la... More >>

• Twelve beers in sixy minutes: Speed tasting at the Boulder Beer Bloggers Conference

  published Nov 12, 2010

  Take twelve breweries, a hundred-plus beer bloggers and a buzzer, and go! During the first-ever Beer Bloggers Conference in Boulder last week, organizers lined up an event that they called live blogg... More >>

• Help Coors subsidiary AC Golden grow hops for its Colorado Native lager

  published Nov 11, 2010

  Oh, Coors! You make it impossible for me to keep dissing your giant aluminum face when your feisty little award-winning subsidiary, AC Golden Brewing, is so cool. Anyone who sends their name and add... More >>

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  Knives, jokes and hunks of meat fly at MCA Denver's bison-butchering bash

  published Nov 11, 2010

  It wasn't bloody, it wasn't smelly and it didn't attract flies. But then, the bison had already been slaughtered and quartered at a Nebraska ranch, separated from its head, hide and organs and hung u... More >>

• Marczyk Fine Foods plans to open a second location on Colfax and Fairfax

  published Nov 11, 2010

  The owners of Marczyk Fine Foods, who have run their upscale neighborhood market on Seventeenth Avenue for eight years, are planning to open a second, similar location in the vacant Fairfax Ace Hardwa... More >>

• Art Meets Beast at MCA Denver

  published November 4, 2010

  Butchering a buffalo is bloody, smelly work. It takes strength, it takes time, and it draws flies by the hundreds. The Plains Indians and white... More >>

• Snow! But can Twitter help you get a free snow beer in Denverr

  published Nov 09, 2010

  Yeah, it's snowing. We can see it, too. Love itr Hate itr Either way, snow means your local neighborhood watering holes and eateries want to warm you up -- and some are offering specials. Look below ... More >>

• The Wynkoop will make a special beer in January to honor former owner and Governor-elect John Hickenlooper

  published Nov 08, 2010

  The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, plans to make a special beer in January to coincide with John Hickenlooper's inauguration as Colorado's governor. Hickenlooper co-founded the Wynkoop in... More >>

• Beer bloggers plot world domination

  published Nov 08, 2010

  There are as many styles of beer blogging on the Internet as there are blogs, and there's a new beer blog starting out there every other day. Last weekend, at least a hundred of those bloggers -- from... More >>

• Starz Denver Film Festival is a reel good time

  published Nov 05, 2010

  The glitz! The glamor! The desire for popcorn! The Starz Denver Film Festival began on Wednesday and continues through November 14, but this weekend promises to be a big one. You can get in on the a... More >>

• The Wynkoop gives people a chance to sample every beer it brewed this year

  published Nov 05, 2010

  Feeling nostalgic about 2010r The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will help you relive the good times by cracking open a keg of all 35 beers that the brewery made over the course of the ye... More >>

• This meter maid -- make that Denver parking officer -- should get a ticket for being a Shmuck

  published Nov 05, 2010

  Sometimes we deserve the ticket. Sometimes we don't. And sometimes, well, sometimes a little human courtesy would be nice. But Denver's parking enforcement officers aren't known for their human court... More >>

• Get Wimpy at Borders

  published November 4, 2010

  If you know the names Greg Heffley, Roderick, Rowley and Fregley, then you know about the mesmerizing combination of snarky, sometimes off-color... More >>

• Chile roasters will make the most of Denver next fall with a change to the zoning code

  published Nov 03, 2010

  Chile pepper season is coming to an end in Denver, and the vendors who sell the smoky-hot goodness from New Mexico and southern Colorado will soon be packing up their roasters, bushel baskets and awni... More >>

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  Wynkoop Brewing Company hopes to expand next year when the Impulse moves out

  published Nov 03, 2010

  Last week, Impulse Theater, which has leased basement space from the Wynkoop Brewing Company for the past seventeen years, announced plans to move to a building at 55 South Broadway, next to the under... More >>

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  The Yard House sets opening date in time for Christmas, continues hiring

  published Nov 02, 2010

  The Yard House, which started interviewing job candidates last week, is tentatively hoping to open for business on December 18, just a week before Christmas.In the meantime, the restaurant, inside the... More >>

• Dia de los Muertos event featured hot temps and chile weather

  published Nov 01, 2010

  Tomorrow is the Day of the Dead, but the Olinger Crown Hill cemetery in Wheat Ridge celebrated El Dia de Los Muertos on Saturday with music, dancing, art, food, chiles and sugar-skull painting for kid... More >>

• Pumpkin-eating squirrels make for Halloween Shmucks of the Week

  published Oct 29, 2010

  Some of them sneak up when you're not looking. Some are brazen enough to do it right in front of you. But all of them -- every squirrel -- eat pumpkins. And I've had it. It's bad enough that these ... More >>

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  Updates for Bull & Bush, Euclid Hall, Vine Street: Pumpkin beers will get you jack-o'-lanterned

  published Oct 28, 2010

  Update: Two new events have been added (Avery's Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub's tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has bee... More >>

• Spicy Pickle makes Pilgrims happy with the Harvest Panini

  published Oct 27, 2010

  Props to the Spicy Pickle for having the guts to roll out its new Harvest Panini, essentially a Thanksgiving -- or Pilgrim -- sandwich remade and given a less holiday-specific (or politically thorny) ... More >>

• 50top chefs plan to get medieval on a bison at MCA Denver

  published Oct 26, 2010

  Jimmy the Butcher isn't used to performing for a large audience. "He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes i... More >>

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  MCA Denver gets ready to butcher, eat and celebrate an entire bison in its garage

  published Oct 26, 2010

  Butchering a buffalo is bloody, smelly work. It takes strength, it takes time, and it draws flies by the hundreds. The Plains Indians did it as often as they could, following the herds, hunting them,... More >>

• Dads & Dudes Breweria sets opening-day plans

  published Oct 25, 2010

  Dads & Dudes Breweria, a new pizzeria and brewpub in Aurora, 6730 South Cornerstar Way, is planning to open on November 1, after having to push back its first day by a week. Once it opens, the father... More >>

• NYC's Proximo Spirits plans to buy Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey, keep things the same

  published Oct 22, 2010

  Proximo Spirits, a New York-based liquor distributor that made a name for itself by buying or investing in such niche brands as Hangar 1 vodka, Kraken Black Spiced Rum and 1800 Tequila, is in the proc... More >>