Subject: Drew Bixby

• Last Weekend: Scenes From The Fabric Lab

  June 5, 2007

• The Boys and Girls of Summer Live On

  August 17, 2007

• Monday Morning Hang Over

  December 10, 2007

• Ask a Bartender: Most Authentic Irish Pub?

  March 14, 2008

• Ask a Bartender: Most Authentic Irish Pub?

  March 14, 2008

• The first DNC protest arrests?

  August 24, 2008

• I drink, therefore I am...confused

  October 8, 2008

• Lancer Lounge kitchen is on the rocks...again

    The Lancer Lounge at 233 Seventh Avenue is one of this town's great dives, a spot where you can always count on a collegial evening of drinking, as Drew Bixby recently reported in Drunk of the Week. What you can't count on is finding food there. The most recent tenant of the Lancer's kitchen, Sweet Baby Anna's, has moved on, the latest in a long series of operators. Our personal favorite was a combo Salvadoran/Japanese outfit, which had a brief run at the Lancer a dozen years

  December 15, 2008

• Tarantula Billiards

  What goes down must come up.

  October 25, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 4/10/2008

  April 10, 2008

• The Squire is one of Denver's greatest dives

  October 30, 2008

• Getting gonged at Bulldog Bar

  September 18, 2008

• Maloney's Tavern may be a corporate Cheers, but don't change the channel

  September 11, 2008

• Micky Manor

  Backfield in motion.

  December 13, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 5/22/2008

  May 22, 2008

• Mt. Fuji, the Pinnacle of Absurdity

  For the ultimate drinking game, look no further than Mt. Fuji Japanese Sushi and Hibachi.

  February 7, 2008

• Thunderbird Lounge

  A cure for the common code.

  December 6, 2007

• Lion’s Lair

  Lime aid

  November 29, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 2/21/2008

  February 21, 2008

• The Thin Man

  Get a pizza the action.

  February 14, 2008

• Uptown Tavern

  Smoke ’em while you’ve got ’em.

  January 31, 2008

• Satire Lounge

  The last last call

  January 17, 2008

• Scruffy Murphy’s

  Another liquid asset on Larimer.

  November 22, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 11/8/2007

  November 8, 2007

• Dixons Downtown Grill

  November 1, 2007

• The Dugout

  The gang’s all beer – and the bathroom’s full.

  October 18, 2007

• William’s Tavern

  I drink, therefore I am.

  September 20, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of 7/26/2007

  July 26, 2007

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  August 17, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of April 6, 2006

  April 6, 2006

• Creme de la Chrome

  November 24, 2005

• Peel Rubber

  Longmont breaks out the bikes for winter.

  November 17, 2005

• Talking Shop

  There’s plenty to enjoy along Upper 15th Street.

  November 10, 2005

• State of the Art

  Freedom & Liberties probes political postures.

  November 3, 2005

• Flick or Treat

  Local filmmakers bust out the guts and gore for Halloween.

  October 27, 2005

• They Vant to Suck Your Blood

  There are vampires galore at Starz.

  October 13, 2005

• Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

  Denver's First Thursday Moto Rally gets in gear.

  October 6, 2005

• Cirque du Something

  The Secret Circus brings in the (offbeat) clowns.

  September 29, 2005

• Radio Free Denver

  Dance for democracy -- and KGNU.

  September 22, 2005

• Westword.com's Map of the Bars

  View Westword.com's Map of the Bars in a larger map Because we are, by and large, a bunch of drunks, every week we feature at least one bar. One week, it's Drew Bixby braving some unchartered watering hole with his "Drunk of the Week." The next, it's Nancy Levine discovering some creatively poured, creatively named "Drink of the Week" in a usually (but not always) shinier establishment. We've been doing this for years, so we decided to throw together a map of all the places we've visited, with

  July 16, 2009

• What's the best dive bar in Denver?

  Club 404, one of Denver's top-ten dives.​What's your favorite dive bar in Denver? Drew Bixby, our Drunk of the Week columnist, features nearly a hundred great lounges, taverns and saloons in his book Denver's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile-High City, due out November 3. But while Bixby includes a list of the city's ten best dives, he doesn't pick a favorite. That's up to you! Post your nomination for the very best dive bar in the metro area below, and we'll count the vo

  October 8, 2009

• Dive in to our dive-bar essay contest

  Is this the best dive bar in Denver?​Last week we asked for your favorite dive (among the nominees: El Chapultepec, Lancer Lounge, Squire, PS Lounge, BarBar, Berkeley, Charlie Brown's Lion's Lair). Now it's time to prove your devotion: Write a love letter/tribute to your favorite dive bar, professing sincere fidelity to its wood paneling and nicotine-stained ceiling tiles; its five-plays-for-a-buck jukebox and pain-med-dispensing vending machine; its stiff pours and loose staff that inspi

  October 15, 2009

• Dive in to Denver's Best Dive Bars this week

  ​ Drew Bixby, Westword Drunk of the Week columnist, has dedicated countless hours -- and his liver -- to researching the town's true dives.The result is a new book, Denver's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Mile High City, which will be toasted at a series of events this week. First up: Bixby will be talking about his book at 10 p.m. tonight during Open Mic Comedy at the Squire, a bar at 1800 East Colfax Avenue that definitely qualifies as one of the town's classic dives. On Thurs

  November 3, 2009

• Denver's top ten dive bars

  The Rustic Tavern meets all the qualifications of a dive -- and then some.​Sample one of Denver's best dive bars at 8 p.m. Thursday, November 5, when Club 404, 404 Broadway, hosts a launch party for Westword Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby's Denver's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City. A true dive can't be manufactured. It can't show up one day on Colfax or Broadway and expect to possess the ethos of a joint that's served drinks through multiple wars and to m

  November 4, 2009

• Dive into Club 404 tonight

  ​Celebrate the town's best dives at 8 p.m. tonight, when Club 404, the joint at 404 Broadway that Jerry Feld has owned for more than fifty years, hosts the launch party for Drew Bixby's Denver's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City. Bixby will be on hand, of course, as will some of the regulars who make Club 404 such a classic. Join the club.

  November 5, 2009

• Join the club visiting Denver's best dives, starting at the 404

  ​ How do you know you're in a classic dive? It helps if the owner stands up and welcomes you to his place -- the place he's had for 58 years, and bought before he was old enough to own it legally. Jerry Feld bought the bar at 404 Broadway back in 1951, and he's run Club 404 ever since -- even though, as he told the crowd assembled for the launch of Drew Bixby's Denver's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City, he initially thought he'd sell it for big bucks after a few

  November 6, 2009

• Last Night: The Denver's Best Dive Bar release party at Club 404

  ​Westword and Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby celebrated the release of Bixby's book, Denver's Best Dive Bar: Drinking and Diving in the Mile High City, at Club 404 on Thursday night. See Aaron Thackeray's photos from the party on the slideshow page, and read about Drew's ten favorite dives here. Also: Relive our day and night at the Nob Hill.

  November 6, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  John Plessinger in a booth at the Nob Hill Inn, the bar his father put in his name back in 1969, when he was 21.​What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were hanging on every last word of our hi-larious stories about the time we spent getting up close and personal with the regulars at Nob Hill Inn, which may very well be the best damn dive bar in Denver. Those of us who write this food bloggy thing called Cafe Society are communing at the Fainting Goat next Wednesday night

  November 6, 2009

• From the week of November 12, 2009

  November 12, 2009

• Tonight: A Decade of Decadence and Belgian Quadrupel Beer

  ​Head up to the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, which is hosting A Decade of Decadence: Ten Years of the Reverend Belgian Quadrupel Beer Dinner and Vertical Tasting. The meal, which starts at 7 p.m., includes five courses and lots of beer; admission is $60. Drew Bixby rhapsodizes about the event here; for more details, call 303-440-4324 or visit www.averybrewing.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings.

  November 20, 2009