The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 7 edition

Bite this. Today in Cafe Society: • Jack-n-Grill's Juarez burger gets a top 50 nod from Food Network magazine. • What's cooking? Events at cooking schools. • Colorado, Italian-style: How the West was undone. • The Recovery Room has recovered! • Veggie Girl: The Melting Pot. • Stranahan's leaves LoDo...

By Michael Roberts

May 7, 2009

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Bite this.

Today in Cafe Society: • Jack-n-Grill's Juarez burger gets a top 50 nod from Food Network magazine. • What's cooking? Events at cooking schools. • Colorado, Italian-style: How the West was undone. • The Recovery Room has recovered! • Veggie Girl: The Melting Pot. • Stranahan's leaves LoDo for old Heavenly Daze Brewery. • Now you can get in the swim at Casa Bonita.

Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Dave Dictor from MDC. • Infinite Mindz affiliate, O.N.E., goes solo with new mixtape. • Flier of the Week: Ideal Fathers CD Release at Larimer Lounge. • Former Machine Gun Blues singer to enter the ring as a luchador.

Today in The Latest Word: • Colorado's answer to swine flu: Close the prisons? • An update on Jay Marvin's health crisis. • Author Jeff Kass on how his Columbine theories differ from Dave Cullen's. • Colorado Public Radio lays off classical host amid continuing fundraising campaign. • Nails were bitten in yesterday's death-penalty vote. Anyone for a manicure?

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Michael Roberts began his career with Westword in 1990 as music editor. In 1999, he took on a new role, full-time media reporter, as author of a column called The Message. In 2008, he became the lead writer for Westword's news blog, The Latest Word, a position he held until January 2023. Michael continues to freelance for Westword, covering everything from business to sports and the media; he also contributes to Jazziz, a national music magazine. He holds a bachelor's degree from what is now Colorado Mesa University and master's degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Northwestern University.

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