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  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Reader: Trader Joe's at Eighth and Colorado is all kinds of wrong

    On Friday the Denver Business Journal broke the news that Trader Joe's would be opening its second store at Eighth and Colorado Boulevard. (The first -- which means the one that also gets to sell liquor under Colorado's convoluted code -- will debut next year in Boulder's Twenty Ninth Street develop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table, on staging at Alinea and the restaurant he'd call "Butter and Veal"

    Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Flipping pizzas at Pizza Hut. That was Brett Shaheen's firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Goodwill to open two stores this spring, including the thrift boutique Deja Blue

    Goodwill has plans to open two stores this spring, one in Longmont and a boutique in Cherry Creek, which will be do-good organization's 25th and 26th stores in the metro area.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Sex assault: Recognize alleged attacker of woman behind closed Albertsons on Sheridan?

    Big pic below.​The longer our current economic downturn lasts, the longer buildings sit vacant -- and that can be dangerous. Case in point: an attack that took place earlier this month behind a shuttered Albertsons at 3125 South Sheridan Boulevard. The Denver Police Department has released a d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Top Chef Just Desserts, round six: All in black and white

    Erika Davis's blue cheese milk chocolate soup​This week's Quickfire challenge was to make desserts using savory ingredients and -- the really hard part -- only one pot. "I'm used to having all these fancy little tools," mourned Zac, while Morgan, unable to use an ice-cream maker, tackled liqui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Recall affects hundreds of millions of eggs, including some in Colorado

    A Flickr photo​Unless you're like Michael Pollan, who thinks paying eight bucks for a dozen eggs is cool, or you're one of those urbavores who raises your own fowl, chances are good your fridge has contained eggs affiliated with the recent massive recall.

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    SmartCo Foods is hiring hundreds for its new Colorado stores

    A Flickr photo​After more than a hundred years of supplying restaurants in the West with discount groceries, California-based Smart & Final has started SmartCo Foods, and is opening its first five stores in various Colorado locations. Smart & Final already owns the Henry's, SunHarvest and Ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Tam Huynh and Thuy Nguyen plead guilty to being the Enfamil Bandits: Babies everywhere rejoice

    Tam Huynh admitted having a criminal formula.​Most young parents will tell you that baby formula is so expensive it could be made out of gold. But for Tam Huynh and Thuy Nguyen, it was basically the equivalent of poker chips and narcotics. That's the story told by the Jefferson County Distric ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Safeway and King Soopers workers vote on "win-win situation"

    ​For much of the past year, contract negotiations at Colorado King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons stores have dragged on amid an atmosphere riper than an unrefrigerated meat section. But at last, a peaceful solution seems near. Last week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 and Al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Albertsons workers reach tentative agreement on new contract

    ​In December, King Soopers employees approved a new contract offer, while Safeway workers rejected pretty much the same package. But Albertsons staffers were mostly silent -- until now. According to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 website, "Albertsons has offered a tentative ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Sunflower Farmers Market keeps blooming

    Sunflower Farmers Market​It's rough out there. Stores and restaurants are shuttering their doors faster than it takes Colorado's sunshine to melt the snow, and long-standing icons of the grocery store format (see Albertsons), have been forced to roll back locations everywhere, including Colora ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2009

    Can a mild-mannered bakery clerk solve the grocery workers' labor strife?

    Sunflower Farmers Market​It's rough out there. Stores and restaurants are shuttering their doors faster than it takes Colorado's sunshine to melt the snow, and long-standing icons of the grocery store format (see Albertsons), have been forced to roll back locations everywhere, including Colora ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 5, 2009

    What's a Belgian cafe doing on Colfax? Serving very good food.

    Sunflower Farmers Market​It's rough out there. Stores and restaurants are shuttering their doors faster than it takes Colorado's sunshine to melt the snow, and long-standing icons of the grocery store format (see Albertsons), have been forced to roll back locations everywhere, including Colora ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Will ProgressNow Colorado help nonunion stores more than union employees in a grocery strike?

    If these signs start popping up, ProgressNow will be prepared.​Last week, the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado created a searchable map designed to help customers of King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons find other places to shop in the event of a grocery-store strike. Shortly thereafter, a l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Behind the latest breakdown in talks between grocery workers and Safeway

    A September rally for grocery workers at UFCW Local 7 headquarters.​ On October 20, negotiators for grocery workers and Safeway, one of three giant chains whose contracts with union employees in Colorado have expired, sat down for the first time in ages to try and hammer out an agreement. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    The possible impact on grocery-worker negotiations of Albertsons store closings

    ​As we noted last week, there appears to have been zero measurable progress made in resolving the long-running contract dispute between unionized grocery workers and the big three local chains: King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons. But the latter triumvirate may have just gained a public-relat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Zero progress evident in grocery-worker negotiations

    An icon from the AlwaysHereForColorado.com site.​In early May, it looked like a strike against King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons by union employees was a real possibility. Since then, however, the situation has dragged out and out and out, with continued extensions creating little pressure ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Grocery-workers union recalls Soopers' first King

    The contract dispute involving workers at King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons has been quiet of late, with United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 seeking to maintain member loyalty during this period via releases about, for example, pension reductions that would go into ef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Grocery workers, management in potential-strike staredown

    An image from the AlwaysHereForColorado.com website. Just as they did in early May, King Soopers employees rejected the company's latest contract offer. In a press release, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7, characterized the margin of defeat as overwhelming and urged "the co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Not-So-New Urbanism: Lowry

    Photo by Melanie Asmar The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Grocery union ratchets up the drama as another contract deadline approaches

    The latest deadline in talks between United Food & Commercial Workers Local #7 and representatives of King Soopers stores is midnight tomorrow -- and while neither side seems to want a work stoppage to begin one second later, there's disagreement over how long an negotiations extension should be. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    If there's a grocery strike, what will you do?

    A Flickr photoWorkers picket a California Albertsons in 2003 Have you worked out your supermarket strike plan? If you haven't, now might be a good time. Although the corporate execs and lawyers at Safeway, King Soopers and Albertsons are still negotiating with the familiar, name-tagged faces who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    The huge variations in Denver Post subscription costs

    In "Loss of Rocky Mountain News Doesn't Add Up to Big Subscription Savings -- But I'm Not Complaining," a March 10 blog, I wrote about receiving a card from the Denver Post letting me know that my "premium dual publication" subscription rate from the days when I received both the Post and the Rock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Good news for GoodBelly, if you can stomach it

    GoodBelly is growing like the beneficial bacteria -- or probiotic -- that makes your belly feel good. The pet of NextFoods, a Boulder-based health-food company, GoodBelly was recently included in the Los Angeles Examiner's "Top Ten Best Food Product Introductions for 2008." The product was created b ... More >>

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    November 29, 2007

    Santiago's

    The forecast calls for chile.

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    November 20, 2007

    The Best of Westword 1990

    The forecast calls for chile.

  • Dining

    June 29, 2006

    The Tavern Lowry

    The biggest bar tab in Institute history.

  • Music

    August 25, 2005

    American I-Dull

    Since anointing Kelly Clarkson, the star machine's been running on empty.

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    March 24, 2005

    Best Illegal Drag-Racing Venue

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    November 18, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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    August 19, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of August 19, 2004

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Outfaxed

    His enemies thought they could use Mike Zinna's website to destroy him. Instead, they got caught with their fax down.

  • News

    November 13, 2003

    Rise and Shine

    Want to help the homeless? Wake up and smell the coffee.

  • Dining

    June 19, 2003

    Consumed

    Cooking With Gas

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Visual Aides

    At Neiman Marcus, home wasn't built in a day.

  • Dining

    August 15, 2002

    Consumed

    Pour It On

  • Dining

    May 30, 2002

    Buying Time

    Anthony Gengaro does battle on Broadway.

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of November 1, 2001

  • News

    October 18, 2001

    Home Sweet Clone

    Twenty-year-old Highlands Ranch has grown into a mega-planned community of mythic proportions.

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    Paying the Price

    Major gas companies are driving away independent operators, all in the name of greed.

  • News

    March 16, 2000

    Chewing the Fat

    How pork rinds became a health-food fad.

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Firing Line

    Former Visotcky employees sound off.

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    King of the Dump

    As the market for recycled materials dries up, King Soopers trashes part of its recycling program.

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Lots of Bad Luck

    Can't find your car? You may be an RTD commuter.

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    A Shock to the System

    The rush to protect battered women has turned domestic violence into "the social issue of the nineties"-- and raised issues of fairness for both perpetrators and victims.

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    Lucky Strikes

    The rush to protect battered women has turned domestic violence into "the social issue of the nineties"-- and raised issues of fairness for both perpetrators and victims.

  • News

    May 15, 1997

    An Unholy Union

    A young labor organizer was sexually assaulted by a colleague. Was Local 7 to blame?

  • Dining

    September 21, 1994

    MOUTHING OFF

    A young labor organizer was sexually assaulted by a colleague. Was Local 7 to blame?

  • News

    September 14, 1994

    CHILE DAYS AHEAD

    HOW AN OLD FAMILY RECIPE STOKED THE FIRES OF A NATIONAL FOOD OBSESSION.

  • News

    April 20, 1994

    THE SECRET FORMULA

    PROWLING THE BLACK MARKET IN SEARCH OF BABY FOOD.

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