Jenn Wohletz

Reader: If I get charged by the pound, it's not pizza

How about some pizza to soak up all the comments still coming in about Jenn Wohletz's "five cocktails only dickheads would order," as well as Sean Kenyon's response? While Lori Midson has everyone guessing about a pizza covered with apple slices, Jenn Wohletz visited Beau Jo's, which just celebrated ... More >>

Reader: I'll order an Old-Fashioned often from now on

Is it too early for a drink? All the heated discussion of Jenn Wohletz's "Five cocktails only a dickhead would order," followed by veteran barman Sean Kenyon's response, left many people very, very thirsty. And for many readers, only one drink would do: an Old-Fashioned. See also: - Who's a dickhea ... More >>

Reader: Go ahead and slam daiquiris, but leave old-fashioneds alone

"There is a thin line between self-indulgence and being a dickhead, a line that any bartender could draw for you." That's how Jenn Wohletz started Friday's piece "five cocktails only a dickhead could love," and dozens of commenters -- bartenders included -- thought she definitely crossed that line w ... More >>

Who's a dickhead? Barman Sean Kenyon's response to Jenn Wohletz's cocktail grievances

On Friday, Jenn Wohletz served up "Five cocktails only a dickhead would order." Shaken, not stirred, Cafe Society contributor Sean Kenyon offers this response: Dear Jenn Wohletz: You don't know us You are not one of us You do not speak for us I woke up Friday morning and, as is my routine, I check ... More >>

Reader: If you pollute your body with piercings and tattoos, expect low-paying service jobs

While it sometimes seems that hip new restaurants require that employees have cool tattoos and piercings, other spots have strict policies against piercing, tattoos and other body ornamentation. Jenn Wohletz went after such prudey-pants policies last week, in her list of five reasons restaurant empl ... More >>

Reader: Five Star Burgers looks lame, but now I can't wait to try it

While Gretchen Kurtz was eating a $13 burger at Tom's Urban 24, Jenn Wohletz dropped by a link in the tiny Five Star Burgers chain. "The green chile cheeseburger was an exercise in Southwestern excess and ecstasy, with a fat, medium-rare burger that dripped pinky beef juice, smothered with diced gre ... More >>

Reader: Queso and Cool Ranch Doritos aren't the prettiest girl at the party, but need love, too

Last week Jenn Wohletz served up a heaping helping of the appetizers she hates seeing at parties -- including the dreaded queso dip. But some readers thought that Jenn's list was the real party-pooper. See also: - Five appetizers I hate seeing -- and eating -- at parties - First look: Cool Ranch D ... More >>

Reader: After her Buffalo Wings piece, Jenn Wohletz should be grounded

Denver diners love hot wings -- and hate anyone who criticizes their favorites. Yesterday Jenn Wohletz wrote about her trip to the Buffalo Wild Wings outpost at 8255 South Chester Street in Englewood, where she liked the Blazin' wings and not much else. The sports-bar atmosphere and conversation, in ... More >>

Reader: Horse meat argument is the most idiotic thing since your elk vigil piece

Yesterday Jenn Wohletz weighed in on the European horse-meat "scandal," revealing that not only would she eat horse, she'd eat it again. "It's horse meat, not poison, and if horse meat were sold at grocery stores here in the States, I might be nibbling on a haunch of roasted mustang right now," she ... More >>

Reader: Polyamory can be tricky ground to navigate

In our current cover story, "Big, Big Love," Jenn Wohletz profiles one big, happy, polyamorous family: Reggie, Eeza Alexander and Cassiday, who all share a home -- and a California king-sized bed -- in Denver. But polyamoury is not all sexual fun and games, she reports. The more people in a relatio ... More >>

Reader: Subway's food is so bad it can keep that extra inch

Does size really matter? So say the people suing Subway, who accuse the chain of skimping on its footlong sandwiches, by at least an inch. But Jenn Wohletz just offered five reasons why the suit is ridiculous. And a reader had another one: See also: - Subway's missing inch: Five reasons why the f ... More >>

Reader: I love me some Smashburger, but not those fries

Smashburger has been a smash hit since the homegrown chain was introduced in 2006. Since then, it's built a dozen stores in the metro area -- and expanded not just throughout the United States, but across the ocean. And in the next year, the company plans to open another sixty to seventy stores. But ... More >>

Reader: My Little Pony has already had a makeover

Since Hasbro's Easy-Bake Oven is finally getting a makeover so that little boy cooks won't have to use pink and purple models, Jenn Wohletz thinks it's past time to update other girl-centric toys to reflect reflect American society's changing views on stereotypical gender roles. Toys like My Little ... More >>

Reader: Into spanking? How about listening to Mitt Romney's speech

Fifty Shades of Grey -- The Classical Album, complete with fifteen selections that shlocky author E.L. James swears inspired her as she wrote her BDSM trilogy, hits stores today. But if you like more modern kink, you're wasting money if you buy the album, says Jenn Wohletz. Instead, she served her ... More >>

Reader: Green chile is not inspiring, interesting or satisfying

We asked several of Westword's previous restaurant reviewers to offer advice for Gretchen Kurtz, our new Cafe critic, whose first review will be published next week. Laura Shunk, who left the job for a move to New York in June, came up with ten tips, including this one: 9. If you don't have an opin ... More >>

Reader: That British Bulldog review was a dog!

No good deed goes unpunished. While we've been looking for a new restaurant reviewer, Jenn Wohletz has been lending a hand, writing full-length pieces that play off her "Jenn in Chains" posts on Cafe Society. Last week, for example, she took on the British Bulldog, one of nineteen links in Little Pu ... More >>

Reader: Food writers who recommend crab and cheese wontons sound like hicks

New spots are popping up all over town, including Little Dragon, a Chinese take-out and delivery spot in Mayfair. Jenn Wohletz dropped by and picked up an order of hot-and-sour soup and allegedly healthy, baked crab and cheese wontons. Is it wrong to crave these wontons?

Reader: Leftover Chinese makes for an awesome lunch

Jenn Wohletz recently served up her list of "Five restaurant leftovers you should not eat the next day." No one would quibble with her inclusion of sushi -- but her name-check of Chinese food left readers hungry for an explanation.

Reader: Why Le Peep is now Le Poop

After seeing that a recent Consumer Reports survey ranked Le Peep in the top ten of most popular restaurants in the U.S. -- ranked on taste, value, service and mood -- Jenn Wohletz decided to give this corporate-chain eatery another try. But she was not impressed by her meal at the City Park Le Pee ... More >>

Reader: Chick-Fil-A scandal distracts everyone from Twilight

form mt:asset-id="1112303" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">Chick-Fil-A has marginally good chicken sandwiches, badass waffle fries, and a company president with an avowed aversion to same-sex couples getting legally hitched. And last week plenty of critics were cryin ... More >>

Reader: There's a lot to be said for cheap, fast and tasty

Business Insider recently served up a list of the most popular fast-food chains in the U.S., put together by food-industry research firm Technomic; McDonald's rated the number-one slot. And in her own analysis of that fast food list, Jenn Wohletz confessed to having contributed to the financial heal ... More >>

Reader: Review of Red Robin, a hamburger chain, is not okay

Jenn Wohletz is on the chain gang -- and last week reviewed Red Robin's Burger Works, a homegrown concept from the Greenwood Village-based chain that debuted at the Shops at Northfield Stapleton last November. But not everyone enjoyed the culinary history lesson.

Reader: Red Robin's Burger Works Coke machine ties up traffic

Red Robin's new spinoff concept, Red Robin's Burger Works, is a smaller, less-dramatic-and-more-metallic version of the original, meant for smaller urban spaces. It has less hustle and bustle than the original stores, and also much less less square footage. But the Greenwood Village-based company ... More >>

Reader: Watch out for girls who drink Blue Moon and eat pudding cups

Cafe Society serves up a mixed menu: posts on restaurant openings, posts on restaurant closings, posts on bad customer behavior, posts on bad server behavior...and yesterday, Jenn Wohletz's list "five things I've found in men's refrigerators that made me not want to date them." The comments have be ... More >>

Reader: What do buffets in America have to do with starving children in India?

The news served up a smorgasbord of tidbits on buffet last week, including a guy in Wisconsin who picketed a restaurant that cut him off from an all-you-can-eat fish fry, and a Chinese buffet in the U.K. where management instituted a clean-your-plates or pay a $20 tab policy. Waste not, want not: ... More >>

Reader: Fast food sometimes hits the spot...especially on Mondays

Jenn Wohletz has been covering the fast-food beat in Jenn in Chains, and on Friday she served up "href="http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2012/04/top_five_reasons_why_reviewing.php#Comments">"Five reasons why reviewing isn't the worst idea in the world." And readers have some ideas of their own ... More >>

Reader: Fast-food chain coverage doesn't belong on Cafe Society

Yesterday Jenn Wohletz offered her assessment of the new Chick-Fil-A desserts in the latest installment of Jenn in Chains, her semi-regular look at developments on the fast-food scene. She loved the brownie, lusted for the waffle fries (and the cute little ketchup packets)...but isn't a fan of Chick ... More >>

Burger King's new menu plays catch-up -- and kung pao -- with McDonald's

Burger King issued a battle cry yesterday. In order to help boost its sluggish sales -- the chain has slipped to third, behind McDonald's and Wendy's -- the company rolled out the heavy artillery: ten new menu items, including specialty salads, chicken snack wraps, smoothies, flavored frozen coffee ... More >>

Reader: KinkforAllDenver needs to work out a few kinks

The KinkforAllDenver event on February 25 may have left a few people out of that all. A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the conference, criticizing the organizers -- Rebecca Crane of Boulder and Maymay, formerly of New York and the co-founder of KinkForAll -- for censoring presentation ... More >>

Reader: You wouldn't dare write about Jews or Muslims the way you did about Mormons

​Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in Utah, offered up t ... More >>

Tonight: The PBR Touring Pro Finale brings you 1,800 pounds of bull!

Tickets for tonight's PBR Bull Riding event at the Denver Coliseum are around $38 as of this writing -- the $15'ers have sold out -- but if you're looking for competitive rodeo, or just an excuse to wear the Western shirt you got for Christmas, tonight's the night!

Reader: Dollar Tree Thanksgiving a real turkey!

No turkeys at the Dollar Tree.​Some readers were not giving thanks for Jenn Wohletz's "Get your Thanksgiving dinner from the Dollar Tree," a seasonal guide to her favorite store. Sniffs dishpr: This comes off as snobby, elitist and in very poor taste. Adds GFTW: Westword, the DollarTree of r ... More >>

Occupy Denver streamlines its donation process with finance committee and PayPal account

​In recent weeks, Occupy Denver's procedure for handling donations has arisen as one of the group's most popular and controversial general assembly topics. Two weeks ago, the issue led in part to the suspension of the group's first member. Although donations are separated by entity -- the Thun ... More >>

Occupy Denver: Read the letters Denver's 99 percent wrote to President Barack Obama

Wikimedia Commons​Occupy Denver has launched a call-to-action in advance of Barack Obama's trip to Denver. The plan is for the president, here for a fundraiser and a jobs speech, to receive a bag of letters from the local 99 percent. Although the details of that plan are under wraps, the group ... More >>

Reader: Awesome way to show a complete lack of direction

Jenn Wohletz​Nothing is as polarizing these days in the Mile High City these days it seems as the Occupy Denver movement. In an effort to get some insight into the soul of Occupy Denver, we spoke with MC Sole, a musician who's fully immersed in the movement, to get his perspective. One reader, ... More >>

MC Sole on what the Occupy Denver movement represents and the solidarity it has fostered

Jenn Wohletz​The Occupy Wall Street movement is loosely modeled after the "Arab Spring" wave of demonstrations that swept through the Arab world. Immediately based upon civil resistance, civil disobedience and the overall right to general assembly, these protests have been sweeping the nation ... More >>

Occupy Denver: City Council's Susan Shepherd calls protests most important thing in country

Susan Shepherd.​This weekend, in a crowd estimated between 2,000 and 4,000 people, Susan Shepherd managed to stand out. The Denver City council member represents District 1 in an official capacity, but in the few days since her first rally with Occupy Denver, she has stepped out as a staunch s ... More >>

Occupy Denver profile: Scianda Long traveled from Alaska to end on the streets of Denver

​At eight in the morning, solidarity is more than just a word. In the cold, it's a necessity. Scianda Long's thermal blanket looks like a giant Hershey bar wrapper, but inside a sleeping bag and a Batman blanket, it is how she slept through the night. The next morning, there's a good deal of e ... More >>

Occupy Denver has a day of peace -- for now (PHOTOS)

Big pics below.​After a tumultuous week with police clashes, arrests and strict enforcement of the no-overnight-camping rule, Occupy Denver protestors had a quiet day on Sunday. Around 200 demonstrators occupied Civic Center Park in the afternoon and early evening, and their general assembly a ... More >>

Occupy Denver photo gallery captures the night (and morning) the tent city came down

Big pics below.​Occupy Denver's tent city was dismantled just after 3 a.m. today -- and Westword's Jenn Wohletz was on the scene before and after the authorities moved in. For instance, she saw the arrests of staffers who've been manning the site's kitchen, dubbed the Thunderdome. Page throug ... More >>

Occupy Denver: Soggy weekend fails to douse protesters' passion (PHOTOS)

The wet weather over the weekend did nothing to deter the core group of satellite Occupy Wall Street-inspired demonstrators camped out at Broadway and Colfax. Occupy Denver supporters vow to continue the camp-in in rain, shine and even into the snow season. Look below to see a photo essay of this we ... More >>

Reader: Sherri Tippie is doing a very good thing for beavers and our environment

Reader: If everyone who had a kinky desire stood up, it would be a revelation for many

Binding Barbie began my life in kink

Jenn Wohletz is the author of this week's Westword cover story, "Field Guide to Denver Wild Life." Here's her first-person account of how she got involved in the the kink scene. ​I used to tie up my Barbie dolls. I'd strip them, smother their smiling little mouths with duct tape smuggled fro ... More >>

Reader: "Jenn's immaturity showed through"

No, you're immature.​Call Sarah Palin what you will -- hell, call her "undefeated" if you want -- but there's no denying she inspires some strong feelings on either side of the political divide. Since Jenn Wohletz posted her recap of the Palin-stroking documentary The Undefeated Monday, the co ... More >>

Reader: "There isn't much REAL hate for Sarah Palin"

And there shall be hot dogs for all!​Normally, the Westword name would be enough to score press tickets to any movie screening you please -- not with the Sarah Palin camp, apparently. It was perhaps on account of our reputation that our requests for tickets to the premier of The Undefeated wen ... More >>

More Yelp tiffs: The Yelp Elite takes on the Yelp elite

​Here in Denver, 8 Rivers Cafe owner Wanda James is getting lambasted by Yelpers who don't take kindly to her calling out Yelp for its questionable filter algorithm. And while she insists that she has no problem with the reviews -- and, therefore, no beef with the Yelpers themselves -- she's n ... More >>

Reader: With your list of Yelp reviews, you've hit a new low

​In New York, people are yelping over Yelp's Elite Squad, "the most passionate Yelpers that makes our community so funny, useful and cool." And poorly behaved, according to recent reports on the bad behavior of Elite Squad members. Those reports inspired Jenn Wohletz to write about the "Top f ... More >>

Reader: Manwich makes a great Sloppy Joe

​Their hatred of the column blinded a few readers to the fact that Jenn Wohletz took over yesterday's In the Weeds shift from Kyle Garratt. (Yes, many, many writers pay the bills with restaurant jobs.) But a few discerning folks homed in on the critical point in Jenn's piece: the reference t ... More >>

Reader: For whom the Taco Bell Toils

​Taco Bell has introduced two new sauces, which Jenn Wohletz reviewed here yesterday. But the chain's most fiery condiment is very, very bland compared to the comments her post inspired, including this one from Joe: Good bet that if these sauces were served at a "respectable" Mexican restaura ... More >>