Subject: Starbucks Corporation

• False Gold

  January 19, 2007

• Nobody Is Safe from the Zombies

  October 19, 2007

• Starbucks Goes Dunkin'

  May 16, 2008

• Slutbucks

  May 31, 2008

• Ray Loves Terrorists, Wants To Make Them Pie

  June 2, 2008

• Say It Ain't So, Joe: Starbucks Closes Stores

  July 18, 2008

• The Westword.com Blog Shortcut, July 18 Edition

  July 18, 2008

• On DenverBoulderCoffee.com, baristas tell all

  August 13, 2008

• Colorado Lottery scratches and sniffs

  August 19, 2008

• Letters

  August 5, 1999

• Vote: It's the only way to get free s*#t

  November 4, 2008

• The sweet, sweet taste of Buchi’s Cuban coffee

  November 5, 2008

• Paying and Playing It Forward at Starbucks

  Pay this forward. “You might think, only in a place called Loveland could generosity pour out in the form of a Vente café latte,” the TV news feature begins. Yup, just in time for the holidays, and to cheer everyone up during the recession doldrums, comes this story from KUSA Channel 9’s Adam Chodak – and picked up by CNN – about a customer at a drive-thru Starbucks in Loveland paying for the beverage of the person behind them in line – then that person paying for the person be

  November 21, 2008

• Best place to sober up in a hurry

  June 29, 2000

• Starbucks Tazo Tea Lattes

  Starbucks is unveiling a new set of beverages this month, Tazo Tea Lattes and Tazo Tea Infusions. I snagged one of the coupons that allow you to try one for free, and if there is one thing I'm a total sucker for it's free food and drink. The friendly barista at the Speer location (the one handily situated next to Le Bakery Sensual, so you can get your coffee and penis cakes in one quick trip) explained that the Tea Lattes were made by infusing a tea of your choosing in hot water and then ad

  January 8, 2009

• Best Place for an Afternoon Coffee Klatch

  March 29, 2001

• Man's head explodes after reading Woody Paige

  GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- A 42-year-old man died on Sunday when his head exploded while trying to decipher a story by Denver Post sports columnist Woody Paige. Joseph Patrick, a computer programmer and father of two, was waiting for his grande skim vanilla latte in a crowded Starbucks here when he casually picked up a copy of Sunday's Post, his wife said. Patrick had vowed years ago not to read Paige's work, according to his wife. But recent rumors that Paige had written sentences that almo

  January 19, 2009

• Various Artists

  February 7, 2002

• The Bite

  March 28, 2002

• Best After-Hours Club

  April 4, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  May 9, 2002

• Best Place to Dog-Watch on a Saturday Morning

  March 27, 2003

• Best Spot on the Cherry Creek Bike Path

  March 27, 2003

• Best Useless Guidebook to Colorado

  March 27, 2003

• Drunk of the Week

  October 23, 2003

• Best Mall to Shop With a Pug

  March 25, 2004

• Drink of the Week

  January 6, 2005

• Best Sushi Bar in the 'Burbs

  Kassai Sushi

  March 24, 2005

• Best Place to Ogle Buff Oldsters

  March 24, 2005

• Baristas Abuzz With Caffeinated Competition

  Coffee lovers are buzzing about Denver's first-ever battle of the baristas, and things could get frothy.

  February 28, 2008

• Stretching Outside

  Yoga in the Park brings exercise down to earth.

  May 4, 2006

• Back to Life

  May 10, 2007

• Pain Killer

  Islamorada Fish Company

  December 21, 2006

• Law and Order

  Take a hint, Starbucks.

  September 14, 2006

• Ti Amo Ancora

  Sermon on the mountain

  April 13, 2006

• Sicilian Breeze

  Undici Ristorante

  April 13, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of September 21, 2006

  September 21, 2006

• Off Limits

  Coffee to Go

  July 28, 2005

• Bean There, Done That

  Golden's independent coffee shops become the latest Starbucks targets.

  April 25, 2002

• Tea Time

  Turn over a new leaf at these two tearooms.

  April 12, 2001

• Mouthing Off

  July 4, 1996

• Wake-Up Call: Mall in the family

  At Monday's tourism rally, Governor Bill Ritter urged us to "Rediscover Colorado" this summer. I started by walking the length of the 16th Street Mall at lunch yesterday, and found that this seventeen-block stretch -- touted as the most successful pedestrian mall in the country and one of this town's major tourist attractions -- is looking much better these days. There wasn't a panhandler in sight, and while I didn't miss them, I was sad to find just one busker (playing "Hey Jude" on the pan f

  April 29, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 27 edition

  Photo by Aaron ThackerayTrent Nails it. Will you be game tonight? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails at Fiddler's Green. • An extended conversation with Tim Pourbaix. Today in Cafe Society: • Eight is enough at chef's table dinner at Strings. • Bucking to visit every Starbucks. • Mary Janes Pizza coming to LoHi. • Red Room goes black. • Old Chicago's World Beer Tour begins in Colorado. • Get your Jew 'fro onto the label of He'Brew. •

  May 27, 2009

• Free pastries this morning at a Starbucks near you

  Starbucks is apparently feeling flush, or maybe they're just trying to pass off their pastries to all those cynics (like me) who normally bypass the glass counter shelved with muffins, apple fritters, bagels, banana bread, oat bars and oatmeal cookies in favor of a good 'ol cup of java. Either way, today the coffee chain with a gazillion locations right here in Colorado is giving away a free pastry with any beverage purchase. Here's the caveat: You only have until 10:30 a.m., or until the pastri

  July 21, 2009

• Your cup runneth over downtown this morning

  No boss could refuse you a coffee break this morning -- not when dozens of downtown establishments will be offering all comers a free cup of joe between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Who'll be pouring it on (and out)? The three homegrown Ink! outposts, as well as the thirteen Starbucks locations downtown (including the one in REI), the Corner Bakery spots in the Pavilions and Tabor, the solo downtown Caribou Coffee, Peet's and Peaberry Coffee outlets, and even the Brown Palace. Fair warning: Sizes vary,

  July 29, 2009

• Today's featured event: Look to the skies at Aspen Grove

  TWAN/Babak Tafreshi​One thing we share unequivocally with our ancestors: the heavens above. And just like our prehistoric precursors, we continue to be fascinated and inspired by the moon and stars, even if, in this day and age, we've gone so far as to set foot on the former and have roundly hypothesized scientifically about the latter. With that in mind, Littleton's Aspen Grove Lifestyle Center urges you to look to the skies and be charmed tonight when, as part of its ongoing Stars Over

  August 5, 2009

• Sky High

  July 30, 2009

• Take an end-of-the-summer road trip down Colorado, Denver's boulevard of dreams

  September 3, 2009

• Free Starbucks coffee taste test starts today

  ​Starbucks, the giant java company with a storefront on a street corner near you, is joining the instant coffee market with a free taste test in every store beginning at 10 a.m. today and continuing through Monday, October 5. The national chain officially introduced VIA Ready Brew, its trio of instant coffees, on Wednesday. The four-day VIA taste test works like this: Hit up any Starbucks, saunter up to the counter and let your friendly coffeehouse barrista know that you're up for The Ch

  October 2, 2009

• Under Fire: Act Three

  Taylor Marsh​Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. There are a few signs that the holiday season is coming. The first is red cups at Starbucks, the second is seeing way too many jeans tucked into Uggs, and the third is Halloween. When you're a kid, by the time you come out of the candy daze, the turkey is pretty much going into the oven.

  November 3, 2009