Subject: Jonathan Shikes

• Liquid Amber

  April 3, 2008

• Liquid Amber

  April 3, 2008

• Beer Cheaters Pour It On

  June 12, 2008

• Sunday Morning, 10 A.M. -- Time for Vodka

  July 6, 2008

• Phillip Bailey to be inducted to East High School Heritage Hall

  September 2, 2008

• Read all about it: Hickenlooper to unveil 2008 One Book, One Denver

  September 9, 2008

• No thinking allowed at the Denver parking office

  September 12, 2008

• Something Fishy at Cook's Fresh Market

  October 1, 2008

• Off Limits

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  November 25, 1999

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, October 22 edition

  October 22, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, October 29 edition

  October 29, 2008

• Waits for early voting: a preview of tomorrow?

  November 3, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: Snowbound Ale

  Craft breweries in Colorado and around the country make seasonal beers all year round, but my favorites come out in the fall. I call them holiday, or Christmas, beers. Often dark and with a higher percentage of alcohol, these big beers are the bad boys of the microbrewery world. Colorado makes some of my favorites, but there are many out-of-state beers available on liquor-store shelves as well. Over the next ten days, I'll lay out the best of the best. My first review is below. Cheers! -- Jonat

  November 24, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: Celebration Ale

  Celebration AleSierra NevadaThis is a beer that I sometimes dream about during the summer months; it's the only thing that makes me look forward to cool weather. It's also the first beer I think of when I consider the holidays -- and the first one I buy. Although it differs from most holiday brews because it brags an uber-hopped California-style flavor rather than dark malts and spices, Celebration Ale sets the standard. It is strong, it is festive and it is always fantastic. - Jonathan Sh

  November 25, 2008

• Gobble This: The bird is the word at Pat's Philly Steaks and Subs

  Pat's Philly Steaks and Subs 1624 Market Street and two other locations 303-534-1333 P.J. GobblerOver roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and mayo on a hoagie roll$8.50 for a medium Thanksgiving came early for me this year -- by about 48 hours, and in the form of a sandwich, a joyful creation that warmed my heart and stuffed my face. The P.J. Gobbler was everything I'd hoped for in a Thanksgiving sandwich (sometimes known as a Pilgrim), and more - more because it comes in four siz

  November 26, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: Alaskan Smoked Porter

  Alaskan Smoked Porter Alaskan Brewing Company It's really quite simple. Alaskan Smoked Porter is one of the best beers ever made. It is like a rare gem in a field full of sandstone, a shooting star, a pearl in the oyster that is my local liquor store. I read about this seasonal beer many years ago in a magazine article and tracked it down while I was living in California. And the article was right. The intense, smoky flavor and dense malts make drinking a bomber bottle of this porter a near-re

  November 27, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: Santa's Little Helper

  Santa's Little Helper Port Brewing Company San Marcos, California Port Brewing Company doesn't mess around. The company, which began as a pizza place in Solano Beach and now owns a large brewing facility in San Marcos, makes unbelievably big beers. And like Stone Brewing, their Golden State neighbor to the south, Port puts out one helluva holiday seasonal. Santa's Little Helper, available on Colorado liquor-store shelves for the first time this year, has an almost chocolate-milk-like consist

  November 28, 2008

• Off Limits

  March 2, 2000

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  March 9, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  September 21, 2000

• Our Weekly Bread: The Market Restaurant's muffuletta

  The sandwich: The muffuletta What's on it: Bologna, pepperoni, provolone, Greek slaw on a French roll. Where to get it: The Market Restaurant (1445 Larimer Square, 303-534-5140) How much: $7.65 The word muffuletta sounds cool no matter how you pronounce it. Moof-a-letta! Moof-a-lotta. Whatever. Supposedly of Italian origins but invented in New Orleans, it's a popular sandwich, but one that just doesn't sound all that appetizing when you look at the traditional ingredients: chopped olives and

  January 8, 2009

• Buffalo to go

  Eating buffalo is not only good for you, but it's good for the future of the animal, as Jonathan Shikes notes in this Save the Buffalo post. And thanks to Colorado Buffalo Grill, you can get it on the go. From 6 a.m.- 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday (weather permitting), the mobile restaurant is stationed at the southeast corner of Ponderosa and Parker in Parker, selling buffalo breakfast burritos (breakfast ends at 10:30), as well as buffalo burgers, buffalo sausage, buffalo Reub

  January 15, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  July 12, 2001

• The Prize Patrol Returns

  July 19, 2001

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  August 9, 2001

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  August 23, 2001

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  September 20, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  January 10, 2002

• Baby born at Denver Public Library truly is Unique

  Jonathan Shikes' January 27 blog "The Downtown Library's New Due Date" was the first to tell the story of a woman giving birth at Denver Public Library's main branch, at 10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway. Yesterday, Channel 4 correspondent Raj Chohan filled in the details via interviews with proud mom Dominique Trevino, helpful bus passenger Vittoria Whittsett and attentive security guard Zac Laugheed. Of course, the station also offered a closer look at the baby herself, whose lovely first name, Sari

  January 29, 2009

• My new obsession: Glayva Scotch Liqueur

  "Here. Try this." I handed over the small, green Jagermeister bottle and grinned. Because he's a good sport (and, like me, completely susceptible to even the weakest sort of peer pressure), my comrade-in-arms Jonathan Shikes screwed off the top without question and made a move to drink the mystery fluid I'd just pulled out of my jacket pocket. "Wait," he said, some base survival instinct kicking in at the last second and stalling his hand. "Can I smell it first?" "Of course," I said. He w

  January 30, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  July 18, 2002

• Go green at 8 a.m. today

  If you can't find fun today, you're not looking. A good place to start -- and end -- your St. Patrick's Day celebration is Katie Mullen's, the new - and giant - Irish pub at 1550 Court Place, which will be bringing in Irish entertainment all day after opening at 8:30 a.m. But beating Katie Mullen's by half an hour is the Fainting Goat, at 846 Broadway, which will be serving pancakes and beer at 8 a.m. today. Jonathan Shikes, Westword's managing editor who has a March 17 birthday, will be bloggi

  March 17, 2009

• Live blogging St. Patrick's Day from the Fainting Goat: Happy Birthday to me!

  This from a guest bar blogger: Hey all, we're having a great time here in Denver!!! We're discussing social networking and demographics, the future of journalism, and politics. Woo!!! We have found out that the 18-25 age demographic isn't as brain-dead as previous thought. They may actually have some positive impact on this planet, but it's too early to tell. Thoughts?

  March 17, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 17 edition

  Westword managing editor Jonathan Shikes celebrates his fortieth birthday by getting loaded on the job. Nice work if you can get it. What the hell does "begorra" mean, anyway? Today in Cafe Society: • Live blogging St. Patrick's Day from the Fainting Goat: Happy Birthday to me! • Centro dinner pairs Chilean wine. • A quick sketch of Sketch. • Go for the green today -- the green chile at La Fiesta. • Chuck E. Cheese's wants you to snap. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Dream grabs t

  March 17, 2009

• Rockies Opening Day 2009: The ill-advised live blog

  One of these shirts is not like the other. Read from the bottom up. Or not at all. 4:15: So I'm sitting here with one of those guys who wears his own team hat to a game even though that team is not playing. What I mean is that Joe is wearing a Cardinals hat even though the game is between the Phillies and Rockies. What a wanker. Also, Phillies suck. Rockies rule, baby. 4:05: Joe, what time is It? Oh shoot. Did I say taht out loud. So, my boss called and said she would fire me if I didn't blo

  April 10, 2009

• John Hickenlooper and the case of the vanishing F-bombs

  The video above, promoting Hick Town, a proposed documentary/reality series by director George Hickenlooper starring his cousin, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, has been available on YouTube for months. Most of the footage was shot during the Democratic National Convention -- hence the presence of Barack Obama, among other political heavyweights. But in recent days, a much saucier trailer turned up on the website of Epoch Films, a firm with which George is associated. As noted in an Examiner.c

  April 14, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of April 11, 2002

  April 11, 2002

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  April 27, 2000

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  In a class by itself...

  December 23, 1999

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  Why are there no cameras rolling in Denver?

  December 9, 1999

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  Columbine families prepare to unite for a new library...

  December 2, 1999

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  Mission unprofitable...

  November 11, 1999

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  A snitch in time...

  September 9, 1999

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  The future of Rockies baseball is here today.

  August 26, 1999

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  May 13, 1999

• Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches brings its Italian Night Club to Wash Park

  Lori MidsonWestword's Jonathan Shikes, who keeps all you serious bread heads in the know with his sandwich chat each week, doesn't give a baguette's butt that Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches, which started its sandwich monopoly in Illinois in 1983 and now has sixteen locations throughout the metro area, is a big-ass chain.  And I'll bet you a pickle that when Colorado's 17th outpost of Jimmy John's opens later this month at 331 East Alameda Avenue, less than two miles from Westwo

  June 8, 2009

• Columnist chronicles Denver's New Urbanism conference on the Huffington Post

  Photo by Jonathan ShikesThe new-urbanist enclave of Highlands' Garden Village. Last week, the Congress for the New Urbanism held its annual conference in Denver -- an event we commemorated with examinations of Bradburn Village, Highlands' Garden Village and several other New Urbanist developments in the city; find them in our Not-So-New Urbanism archive. As for the conference itself, the issues debated there are currently being chronicled on the Huffington Post by Frank Gruber, a columnist for

  June 17, 2009

• Candy Girls: Chocolate-covered bacon

  Liz Kellermeyer​ There's little left that hasn't been baconed.  Mints, vodka, lip gloss, gum, ice cream: all products upon which the salty meat flavor has been imparted.  Adding chocolate to the mix seems, for some, an inspiration from the heavens, while for others the mere thought of bacon playing in chocolate triggers a gag reflex.Chicago-based chocolate company Vosges Haut-Chocolate is perhaps the most famous for the sweet-and-salty pairing with its Mo's Bacon Bar, featuring bacon

  July 30, 2009

• Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: Day 11

  I display this to keep the other aliens away...​ It's funny. I've been writing about food for going on ten years now. I've won awards. I've written a book. And yet, the one piece of mine that's actually been picked up and given wide (although unusual) distribution in national magazines and websites? The one I wrote about aliens--about the alien that allegedly paid a visit to the home of Stan Romanek some years back and the one UFO I had seen personally, a long time ago, down in Wago

  August 26, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  Lori MidsonTony Bourdain on the streets of Denver​What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while bitching and moaning and posting very, very weird comments about Perky Cups, a new java joint that's coming to the streets of Aurora, complete with babes in bikinis: Coming next March to the Streets at SouthGlenn is a second outpost of Pho 95, Aaron Le's unassailable noodle joint on Federal that wipes that boulevard clean when it comes to being bowled over. Tony Bourdain, as you already k

  November 20, 2009