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Greetings from the Wine Cellar: A quick heads-up to everyone (especially the guys) – Valentine’s Day is just a week off, and closing fast!  Time to quit procrastinating, go find a card and get the flowers ordered.  And of course you’ll want a really nice bottle of wine to share with your someone special –…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Our brief Yuma winter appears to be pretty much over, and there’s plenty going on around Old Town in the out-of-doors this weekend for folks to enjoy the beautiful weather of late.  This Friday-Sunday, February 3rd – 5th, the annual Yuma River Daze Arts & Crafts Festival takes place…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   The “beer wall” is just about complete here at the Wine Cellar!  People have started to notice over the past month that more and more great brews, both imported and American craft, are appearing along the wall here at the Cellar.  We’ve re-arranged a bit and added more racks…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   This Friday, January 20th at the Historic Yuma Theatre here in Old Town, Lonely Street Productions and Bad News Blues Bandleader Mike “Johnny Guitar” Blommer present The Blues: From A–Z.  According to the promo, “This live concert performance will examine the origins of the blues from the cotton fields…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This weekend, more than a dozen Old West re-enactment groups from as far away as Colorado and Oklahoma ride into town for a showdown at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park here in Old Town.  The 14th Annual Gathering of the Gunfighters isn’t really hot lead – it’s just…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Coming up this week here in Old Town, our first of 2012, The Yuma Art Center presents Remembering The Ladies at the Historic Yuma Theatre (254 S. Main) on Sunday, January 8th.  According to the playbill: “British Singer-Comedienne-Entertainer Toni Morrell performs a multi-media tribute to the ‘Legendary Ladies of…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: New Year’s Eve is is just a few days away, and as we all know some good bubbly is essential to ring in the new year properly.  The Wine Cellar has plenty on hand, both the “real deal”, i.e. French Champagnes, as well as lots of great California sparklers, Italian…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Christmas continues to take precedence this week here in Old Town.  This Tuesday through Thursday, December 20th to 22nd, you can enjoy “A Country Christmas” at the Historic Yuma Theatre (254 S. Main St.) with Canada’s Jack Jackson.  “Join Jack for a warm Country Christmas celebration with fiddles, steel guitar…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Holiday happenings are only intensifying here in Old Town! The Centennial Christmas Village at Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park (201 N. 4th Ave.) opens to the public at 7:00 PM this Friday, December 16th and will continue from 5:00 to 9:00 PM every evening for the next week, through…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: Christmas is the theme here in Old Town this week.  Wednesday through Saturday, December 7th – 10th, Desert Pointe Productions presents the classic play by Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol” at the Historic Yuma Theatre (254 S. Main Street).  And no, I’m not going to tell you what it’s about;…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar: This Friday, December 2nd, the Yuma Crossing Heritage Area Corporation presents “Broadway Today.”  The show will feature “over-the-top” live versions of a variety of great Broadway show tunes; some classic and many of more recent vintage (get the wine reference?)  Examples include West Side Story, Hair, Mary Poppins, The Lion…

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:   Just a reminder to everyone this week that the Old Town Wine Cellar will be closed this Thursday, November 24th, as that is Thanksgiving Day.  But we’ll be back open for business as usual on Friday and Saturday, so drop by the Cellar and get an early start on…