Subject: Littleton

• Live Review: Januar at the Walnut Room

  May 24, 2007

• Review: Januar @ Walnut Room

  May 24, 2007

• Seafood, Eat It

  June 1, 2008

• Put Up or Shut Up

  Want to fight a real estate development in Colorado? Be ready to pay to play.

  April 2, 1998

• Best Pie Plates

  Mudworks Pottery

  March 29, 2001

• The chile isn't the only thing that's green at Mi Cocina

  Saul Sierra is no tree-hugger. "I wasn't always green," he says. "My brothers learned about all that stuff in school, but I never went over it." He is now, though, and both of his Mi Cocina restaurants are feeling the effects.  This fall, Sierra installed a solar patio at the Mi Cocina at 1600 West Belleview Avenue in Littleton, which has been open for over a dozen years. And he's also introduced environmentally-friendly procedures all both restaurants: using more

  December 12, 2008

• Is second Santa Fe Tequila Company drying up?

  Last month, the Santa Fe Tequila Company at 901 West Tenth Avenue (shown above)abruptly closed its doors -- shortly after opening a second outlet in Littleton. Although Jason Sheehan wasn't a big fan of the original spot, which was close to empty when he visited it this summer, he's no fan of closed restaurants, either. And now word has come our way that the surviving location at 2630 West Belleview Avenue is having severe problems -- and skipping paychecks. So far, our calls to management ha

  December 16, 2008

• Best barbecued brisket

  June 29, 2000

• Best public golf course

  June 29, 2000

• Big buzz, big stink: Swirls closes...for now

  About a month ago, I heard about a Littleton restaurant named Swirls that was putting out some awesome food, so I made a note to get down there to try the Southern-style cuisine. But a few days later, I heard that Swirls had closed. Turns out that this fall, an odor began coming up from the floor of Swirls, which had opened in late spring. The smell got so bad that it was distracting diners from the food. The problem turned out to be a broken sewage pipe right under

  January 9, 2009

• Best Place to Recycle a Defunct Monitor

  April 4, 2002

• Best Flea Market

  April 4, 2002

• Best Nursery Outfitter

  April 4, 2002

• Best Art at Invesco Field at Mile High

  April 4, 2002

• Best Tacos al Carbón

  April 4, 2002

• Best DIA Survival Guide

  March 27, 2003

• Something Underground

  We Came to Get Down
  Self-released

  March 20, 2008

• The Great Pumpkin

  Giant pumpkins and squash invade Littleton.

  September 25, 2008

• Lights Fantastic

  November 30, 2006

• Rub-a-Dubb's Pub

  August 14, 2008

• Eat, Drink and Be Merry

  Do all three at the Gorilla Room’s comedy night.

  June 19, 2008

• Various Artists

  Psychedelic States: Colorado in the 60s
  Gear Fab Records

  October 18, 2007

• Tour d'Art

  June 7, 2007

• Gaelic Gala

  Catch the luck o' the Irish all weekend long.

  July 6, 2006

• NoNo’s Cafe

  Thanks, but NoNo thanks.

  December 1, 2005

• Beyond Borders

  The Chen Brothers offer a pan-Asian experience at Blue Moon.

  October 13, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of March 10, 2005

  March 10, 2005

• The Commodes

  Cursed From the Beginning (Self-released)

  March 3, 2005

• Fragile Legacies

  The fate of classic modern architecture in the suburbs is now at a crossroads.

  May 13, 2004

• Scot Times

  Highlands Ranch festival promises a fling

  August 7, 2003

• Best Beer Selection

  The Wine Company

  March 27, 2003

• Best Dinner Destination for Impressing the Folks

  Opus

  March 27, 2003

• This Note's for You

  Chef Michael Long steals the show at Opus.

  November 7, 2002

• Art for Space

  June 10, 1999

• Mouthing Off

  March 25, 1999

• Courthouse for Rent

  Once a proud Littleton peacock, the old Arapahoe County Courthouse is now a home only for pigeons.

  July 17, 1997

• Melt Down

  August 15, 1996

• Fishing for Compliments

  March 7, 1996

• SPORTS & RECREATION

  June 28, 1995

• LETTERS

  February 1, 1995

• Today: To market, to market

  Marcyzk's Fine Foods, at 770 East 17th Avenue, today is offering 10 percent off on all store sales, as well as sales in the adjacent wine shop. For more info, call 303-894-9499 or go to www.marczykfinefoods.com. And the Cherry Creek Fresh Market kicks off its eleventh season at 8 a.m. today; it's in the Bed, Bath & Beyond parking lot. The Denver Botanic Gardens is throwing a local food festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Chatfield, 8500 Dear Canyon Road in Littleton; for information, cal

  May 2, 2009

• Veggie Girl: The Melting Pot

  I love to have new dining experiences -- but while being vegetarian creates some limitations, I've discovered that pregnancy really makes eating out challenging. Soft cheeses are a no-no nowadays and undercooked eggs will have to wait a few more days, until the baby is born. So will wine and all other wonderful, delicious alcoholic beverages. I've been obsessed with fondue since I first found out I was expecting. Luckily, many cheeses are still okay, and chocolate is baby-safe. So a stop at

  May 7, 2009

• The Market Report, June 20

  Since I found myself in Littleton Friday night, I decided to substitute a trip to the Southwest Plaza's farmers' market, at Wadsworth and Bowles, for my regular Saturday morning visit to the Boulder Farmer's Market. Big mistake.If you bill yourself as a farmers' market, more than 25 percent of the stands should feature weird stuff like produce. And if the "farmers" at these stands need to run to Safeway for produce, they should at least take the bar code off the asparagus.

  June 22, 2009

• Tonight: A symphony of food and wine at Opus

  Opus, Michael Long's longstanding restaurant at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, is hosting a wine and food pairing dinner honoring Italian winemaker and lettuce lord Lucio Gomiero, who, along with being a wine jester, just happens to grow more radicchio than anyone else in the world at his farm near Salinas, California. The three-course dinner, priced at $45 per person, begins at 6:30 p.m. tonight and includes sea scallops with watermelon carpaccio and arugula, followed by mushroom and pan

  June 29, 2009

• To Market

  July 9, 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

• YourHub.com: A local-media success story

  My copy of today's YourHub.com insert, zoned for Ken-Caryl, Littleton and South Jeffco.​The citizen-journalist project YourHub.com was initially championed by Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple, who touted it in an April 2005 Message column with some particularly high-flown rhetoric. "We can fulfill a role of helping to connect the community," he declared at the time. "Readers will be able to share their lives -- and we're giving them a platform to do it." Bac

  August 6, 2009

• Tonight: Wines from California vines at Opus

  ​Littleton's Opus restaurant, 2575 West Main Street, is hosting a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. this evening with grape guru Lisa Rein, the associate winemaker for Row Eleven Wine Company, a producer based in San Rafael, California. The four-course menu, prepared by owner/exec chef Michael Long, includes vanilla rum shrimp, duck prepared three ways, sweet onion-crusted Colorado lamb and chocolate beet cake. The price is $59 per person, excluding tax and gratuity, and reservations can be made by

  August 13, 2009

• Tonight: It's all about wine and chocolate

  ​Tonight at 6:30 p.m., self-described chocoholic and local book author Julie Pech, who penned The Chocolate Therapist: A User's Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate, is the featured guest at the International Chocolate & Wine Pairing seminar at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. The event includes a chocolate tasting, several wines and a discussion that addresses everything you've ever wanted to know about comparing and contrasting choco

  August 31, 2009

• Restaurant Roll Call for October

  Lori MidsonAnother 24/7 option: Tacos Rapidos on West Alameda.​ RESTAURANTS OPENING IN OCTOBER: CY Steak, 1222 Glenarm Place Illegal Pete's, 1744 East Evans Avenue Jack-N-Grill, 2630 West Belleview Avenue, Littleton Mangiamo Pronto!, 1601 17th Street Noodles & Company, 1737 East Evans Avenue Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 South Hover Street, Longmont Patsy's Pizza, 3651 Navajo Street Pico de Gallo, 2925 West 38th Avenue Rackhouse Pub, 200 South Kalamath Street Smashburger,

  November 2, 2009