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Lakeview Lounge hosts unofficial sunrise service

The view at Lakeview Lounge at 7:14 a.m. Saturday​Lakeview Lounge, a classic dive at 2375 Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater, is a great place to drink any time of the day or night, as Drew Bixby reported in this recent Drunk of the Week. But the best time of all might have been this past Saturda ... More >>

Photos: The bars of Larimer Street

Star Bar, 2137 Larimer Street.​Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby just profiled Star Bar, and all the changes that have taken place since the old owner left and the new owners took over. Here's a nightlife tour by photographer Eric Gruneisen not just of Star Bar, but the other bars along ... More >>

Swallows goes upscale, ditches brunch

Drew Bixby​There's good news and bad news about Swallows Video Lounge & Bar, the pre-party/happy-hour gay bar now occupying the former Tosh's Hacienda/Kiva space at 3090 Downing Street. The good news is that - six months after launching and three months after I expressed "high hopes" for its s ... More >>

Happy-hour tipping: Where market economics and servers' brokeness collide

Click to enlarge the Lola happy hour menu.​Yesterday on this blog, Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby posted a British Bulldog receipt with what appeared to be inflated tip calculations, sparking a comment lightning storm (here and on Digg) that lasted well into the night. What we were l ... More >>

Zio Romolo's Alley Bar

Click to enlarge the Lola happy hour menu.​Yesterday on this blog, Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby posted a British Bulldog receipt with what appeared to be inflated tip calculations, sparking a comment lightning storm (here and on Digg) that lasted well into the night. What we were l ... More >>

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 rhapsodi ... More >>

From the week of November 12, 2009

​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 rhapsodi ... More >>

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 -- eve ... More >>

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 d ... More >>

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 reg ... More >>

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 so ... More >>

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 u ... More >>

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, pr ... More >>

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 wh ... More >>

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, ... More >>

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 kitche ... More >>

I drink, therefore I am...confused

  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 kitche ... More >>

Getting gonged at Bulldog Bar

  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 kitche ... More >>

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

  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 kitche ... More >>

The first DNC protest arrests?

  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 kitche ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 5/22/2008

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 4/10/2008

Ask a Bartender: Most Authentic Irish Pub?

Letters from the week of 4/10/2008

Ask a Bartender: Most Authentic Irish Pub?

Letters from the week of 4/10/2008

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 2/21/2008

The Thin Man

Get a pizza the action.

Mt. Fuji, the Pinnacle of Absurdity

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

Uptown Tavern

Smoke ’em while you’ve got ’em.

Satire Lounge

The last last call

Micky Manor

Backfield in motion.

Monday Morning Hang Over

Backfield in motion.

Thunderbird Lounge

A cure for the common code.

Lion’s Lair

Lime aid

Scruffy Murphy’s

Another liquid asset on Larimer.

Tarantula Billiards

What goes down must come up.

The Dugout

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

William’s Tavern

I drink, therefore I am.

The Boys and Girls of Summer Live On

I drink, therefore I am.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 7/26/2007

Last Weekend: Scenes From The Fabric Lab

From the week of 7/26/2007

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 6, 2006

Creme de la Chrome

From the week of April 6, 2006

Peel Rubber

Longmont breaks out the bikes for winter.

State of the Art

Freedom & Liberties probes political postures.

They Vant to Suck Your Blood

There are vampires galore at Starz.

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

Denver's First Thursday Moto Rally gets in gear.

Cirque du Something

The Secret Circus brings in the (offbeat) clowns.

Radio Free Denver

Dance for democracy -- and KGNU.