Get your 2010 calendars now (and some green chile, too)

How do you know it's December? Not just by the holiday lights popping up all over town. No, you know the end of the year is near because as you exit your favorite Mexican restaurant -- El Tejado, Rosa Linda's Mexican Cafe, Mexico City Lounge -- you get a calendar,...

By Patricia Calhoun

December 18, 2009

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How do you know it's December? Not just by the holiday lights popping up all over town.

No, you know the end of the year is near because as you exit your favorite Mexican restaurant -- El Tejado, Rosa Linda's Mexican Cafe, Mexico City Lounge -- you get a calendar, usually one with some illustration of a bare-breasted conquistator with a lovely senorita.

But this year, Mexico City has gone with a portrait of the restaurant 2115 Larimer Street itself. Like the neighborhood around it -- which now boasts Marco's Coal Fired Pizzeria a few doors away, Twelve up the block, the Ginn Mill and Scruffy Murphy's down the block -- Mexico City has been spruced up lately.

Some old traditions remain, though. The hot green chile, for example, which is sweat-inducing this season.

And the Christmas calendar.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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