Subject: Marty Jones

• A Party Goes Dry

  November 8, 2007

• The Late Ike Turner Speaks

  December 13, 2007

• Mile High Makeout: Sharing the Wealth

  March 27, 2008

• Liquid Amber

  April 3, 2008

• Liquid Amber

  April 3, 2008

• Beer Cheaters Pour It On

  June 12, 2008

• Letters

  September 10, 1998

• Stocking Sudsers

  December 3, 1998

• Letters

  March 11, 1999

• Marty Jones returns to the stage with new songs

  After a few years hiatus, Marty Jones is returning to the stage with a new batch of tunes. At 9 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, at the Skylark, Jones and a new group of players -- Zach Boddicker, Scott Johnson and Clay Bielman -- will unveil a 45-minute set of brand new material, on a bill supporting the Beloved Invaders. With tunes bearing titles like "Teardrops of Your Own," "Half a Bed to Spare," "Drinkin', Sinkin' Thinkin'," it doesn't sound like old Marty will be straying too far from the s

  November 20, 2008

• Bad health reports, good pancakes at Children's Hospital

  The 24/7 cafeteria at Children's Hospital has long been known for its pancakes, which survived the trip from the old facility in central Denver out to the new Children's campus in Aurora. Years ago, Westword columnist Marty Jones flipped over the flapjacks in his Consumed column; just this fall, renowned restaurateur Frank Bonanno (of Mizuna, Luca D'Italia and Osteria Marco) touted them as "bar none, the best pancakes in the city." But there may not be a run on the panc

  December 11, 2008

• Backwash

  December 13, 2001

• Backwash

  January 3, 2002

• Backwash

  February 7, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  February 28, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  September 26, 2002

• Could a Coloradan be Beerdrinker of the Year?

  Colorado, which hosts the annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, could finally boast a home-state winner. Cody Christman, a Denver software engineer, is one of three finalists in the thirteenth installment of this prestigious contest. He is also the first Wynkoop regular to make it this far. An avid homebrewer, Christman (pictured) has been tasting in nineteen countries and teaches a Beer 101 course to hops-loving friends and family members in his basement, accor

  February 3, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  November 14, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  November 21, 2002

• Beerdrinker of the Year: A judge's tale

  For more photos from the contest, go to www.westword.com\slideshow It's good to be the judge, and I should know since I spent Saturday afternoon dressed in a black robe and a wig, drinking beer and making history -- beer-drinking history. The event was the thirteenth annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, and I'd been asked by Colorado beer writer and PR man Marty Jones to be one of seven people choosing would become the next Beerdrinker of the Year. A stout t

  February 23, 2009

• The Beatdown

  April 15, 2004

• Beer Up

  Think you’ve got what it takes to be Beerdrinker of the Year?

  December 25, 2008

• Feeling Haggard

  April 3, 2008

• Various Artists

  A Moveable Feast III

  September 20, 2007

• Getting the Brews

  September 21, 2006

• Critic's Choice

  Six Months to Live

  July 7, 2005

• The Show(case) Must Go On!

  June 19, 2003

• Hit Pick

  August 22, 2002

• Local Color

  Backbeat writers weigh in on local CDs

  August 8, 2002

• Our Town

  From blues to kiddie core, the year 2001 was an odyssey in local music. Backbeat writers remember the best.

  January 10, 2002

• Hit Pick

  Whoremones

  May 3, 2001

• Hit Pick

  The Denver Barn Dance

  November 23, 2000

• Please Release Me

  The funk, the punk and the drunk in a roundup of local recordings.

  January 27, 2000

• Judgment Day

  Backbeat contributors offer up their favorite recordings of 1999.

  December 30, 1999

• Feedback

  May 20, 1999

• They're Not Kidding

  November 26, 1998

• Playlist

  June 18, 1998

• Letters

  January 8, 1998

• Feedback

  September 25, 1997

• Eat Your Beer With Old Chub Bread

  Maybe you know Old Chub because you've had it on tap at Oskar Blues or bought a six-pack of this canned Scottish Ale at the liquor store. Or maybe you've heard the name because you took a momentary leave of your senses and purchased a tube of Old Chub chapstick, perhaps the only beer-flavored lip balm in the nation. Now the Lyons/Longmont-based brewery is giving Coloradans two other ways to enjoy Old Chub: in bread baked specifically for Whole Foods and in hot sauces.

  May 6, 2009

• Now you can get in the swim at Casa Bonita

  Courtesy Rob Lee on FlickrForget the cover letter and references. If you can do this, you're hired. Joel Warner, who recently wrote a Casa Bonita survival guide as a public service for anyone headed to that bastard child of Disneyland and Tijuana in the heart of Lakewood, has news for fans of the colossal Mexican restaurant/amusement park. Casa Bonita is looking for a new recruit for its indoor cliff-diving attraction! For details on applying, click here. To get an idea of what the life of a

  May 7, 2009

• Now you can get in the swim at Casa Bonita

  Courtesy Rob Lee on Flickr Joel Warner, who recently wrote a Casa Bonita survival guide as a public service for anyone headed to that bastard child of Disneyland and Tijuana in the heart of Lakewood, has news for fans of the colossal Mexican restaurant/amusement park. Casa Bonita is looking for a new recruit for its indoor cliff-diving attraction! For details on applying, click here. To get an idea of what the life of a Casa Bonita diver is like, read Marty Jones's "Dive Time."

  May 7, 2009

• Colorado beer drinkers have a crush on cans

  It's American Craft Beer Week - seven days that even the United States Congress felt should be set aside for one purpose and one purpose only: drinking micro brews. (To find out about tappings, food pairings and other events, click here or here.) But Colorado's beer culture is worth a deeper look since 100 craft breweries operated here in 2008, producing 75,000 barrels of delicious beer. Of particular note is the continued growth of canned micro brews, a trend that started in 2002 at Oscar Blu

  May 11, 2009

• Will it be Hoppy Days for Oktoberfest?

  September 17, 2009

• Marty Jones & the Great Unknowns

  October 8, 2009

• Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 5, 2009

  ​​As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with picks of your own after the jump.

  October 8, 2009

• Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

  ​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's Local Shakedown*, KTCL's Locals Only, 99.5 the Mountain's Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave*, which is syndicated on a number of stations across the country. See the full playlists posted after the jump.*These playlists have not been m

  October 12, 2009

• Former Oskar Blues idea man, Marty Jones, sets his mug down at the Wynkoop

  Marty Jones (left) and Andy Brown toast the Wynkoop.​Beerman-about-town Marty Jones has landed a new gig. The former Oskar Blues marketing whiz, Jones has taken a similar job at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, where he'll be guiding the brewery's fledgling canning project (the Wynkoop began canning its Railyard Ale last August and will follow up with Silverback Porter next month) and creating and promoting Wynkoop events and projects.

  October 30, 2009

• ’Koop Town

  November 5, 2009

• The holidays are here for the Colorado Brewers Guild

  ​Having trouble finding your favorite seasonal brew? The Colorado Brewers Guild is working on that. And on Tuesday evening, the Guild -- a trade group representing the majority of the 110-plus craft beer-makers in the state -- hosted liquor store and restaurant reps at its second annual holiday open house. One of the primary goals of the event, heldd upstairs at the Wynkoop Brewing Co., was to encourage liquor stores and restaurants to carry more Colorado craft beers on their shelves and

  November 4, 2009