Madrid

Girls gone vegan: "Naked activist" Ashley Bryne on her cold European tour

​Say what you will about People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- better known and often reviled as PETA -- but there's no denying their methods are, ahem, eye-catching. Sex sells, as PETA well knows, and there's probably never been an activist organization quite as openly willing to use ... More >>

International affairs: Denver's art scene takes a new global view

When it comes to charm, Cafe Brazil is the Rio thing

Guess where you're not eating: "World's Best Restaurant" to close for two years

El Bulli will close in 2012, and won't return the same.​El Bulli, the Spanish restaurant widely considered the best in the world, at least by people who have never eaten drunk at Jack in the Box at three in the morning, will close for two years starting in 2012 -- and may not ever return, chef ... More >>

Top Ten Latin Music Albums of 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM.Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to le ... More >>

Rapids Fans Lament, But at Least There Aren't Pigs Heads on the Field

Partly Sunny

CU students have twice won the Solar Decathlon. Can they make it a three-peat?

Honkin' Tonkin

Volver

Women take center stage in Almodóvar's latest.

Volver

Pedro Almodóvar returns with a lighthearted ghost story.

Pot of Gold

Joseph Brodsky has a nose for great coffee. It led him all the way to Ethiopia, in search of the Geisha.

Green Acres

WaterCourse is a growing concern.

All the World's a Stage

Doug and Wendy Ishii are more than mere players in the realms of science and theater.

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the top ten was a Payne.

Really Long Shot

Kevin Fletcher aims for the NBA --from Europe.

For the Record

For national releases, 2003 wonked as much as it rocked.

Follow That Story

Stencil Me In

Russian Roulette

The bride says she married for love; her mother-in-law suspects it was money. The only person who can settle the dispute is dead.

Impossible Dreamer

Terry Gilliam sets out to film Don Quixote but becomes him instead.

Backwash

Any way you want it: The Czars create some Spanish magic on a whirlwind tour of the Old Country.

An Unharmonious Ending

PeakArts founder Karen Romeo may be a victim of the Boulder arts community's haughty ego.

Letters

Hat Tricks

GONE SOUTH

A GLASS ACT

COMPOSER PHILIP GLASS SEARCHES FOR A DIFFERENT KIND OF BEAUTY IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.