South Africa

Think Mommy Dearest was tough? Consider these divas of the animal world

And you thought you had it bad when your mom said, "No cookies until after dinner"...at least your mother didn't devour her young! According to Brian Aucone, vice president for animal care at the Denver Zoo, a wide variety of animals have been documented killing and occasionally cannibalizing their ... More >>

Reader: Gluten-free diets are not a fad

Win tickets to the Beaujolais and Beyond wine festival!

Calling all wine fans! Tomorrow, the Beaujolais and Beyond food and wine festival kicks off at Glendale's Infinity Park Event Center, and if you were wondering how much food and wine will be there, the answers are: a) a lot, and b) as many as forty varieties of vino. The four-hour fest also feature ... More >>

Five stellar South African wines

Wine drinkers typically skew into two categories: those who love the taste of dirt, and those who are all about big fruit flavors. Put another way, the first group consists of peeps who worship at the altar of everything old world, including wines from across the pond (read: Europe), usually in a st ... More >>

Die Antwoord

Monday, August 6, Ogden Theatre, 888-929-7849.

Civil Twilight

Wednesday, April 25, Bluebird Theater, 888-929-7849.

100 Favorite Dishes: Panna cotta from Il Posto

No. 38: Panna cotta from Il Posto

100 Favorite Dishes: Raw carrot salad from Ambria

No. 44: Raw carrot salad from Ambria

100 Favorite Dishes: Croque Madame from Pierre Michel Organic French Bakery Cafe

Lori Midson​ No. 48: Croque Madame from Pierre Michel Organic French Bakery Cafe

100 Favorite Dishes: Croque Madame from Pierre Michel Organic French Bakery Cafe

No. 47: Croque Madame from Pierre Michel Organic French Bakery Cafe

100 Favorite Dishes: Pork tenderloin with bread pudding and green split peas from the Wooden Table

Lori Midson​ No. 51: Pork tenderloin with bread pudding and green split peas from the Wooden Table

100 Favorite Dishes: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner

Lori Midson​ No. 52: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner

100 Favorite Dishes: Mole verde with carnitas from Tarasco's

Lori Midson​ No. 54: Carnitas with mole verde from Tarasco's

100 Favorite Dishes: Samosas from the British Bulldog

No. 55: Samosas from the British Bulldog

100 Favorite Dishes: Mixiote de borrego from El Trompito Taqueria

Lori Midson​ No. 56: Mixiote de borrego from El Trompito Taqueria

100 Favorite Dishes: Gazpacho verde from Zolo Grill

Lori Midson​ No. 58: Gazpacho verde from Zolo Grill

100 Favorite Dishes: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas

Lori Midson​ No. 59: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas

Three great reasons to think inside the box (wine, that is)

​Let's face it: Boxed wines are not exactly perceived as the pinnacle of wine-drinking chic. Don't believe us? Just try showing up with a box of wine -- any box -- at next week's graduation/barbecue/baby shower and observe the look of utter disdain creep across your friends' faces. Yeah, they' ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Chili gobi from Jai Ho

Lori Midson​ No. 61: Chili gobi from Jai Ho

Our Commercial Culture: South African Candy

Lunch bar gonn' die!​Thanks to the internetz, we have spied for you today a little slice of South Africa via a commercial for a snack we've never heard of, from a company we've all heard of. It's more than a little aggravating to discover that other countries get different, and possibly more-t ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Chongqing Chicken from East Asia Garden

Lori Midson​ No. 64: Chongqing Chicken from East Asia Garden Some of the best cooking in Denver comes from restaurants that are completely off the radar -- those with generic names, facades as forgettable as last night's one-night stand and featureless dining rooms where the color scheme cl ... More >>

Tonight: Civil Twilight at Larimer Lounge

​It has been a long journey for Civil Twilight -- from South Africa to Los Angeles to Nashville, the band has been towing its sweeping, piano-heavy rock compositions along for more than a decade. Even if the band's moniker isn't immediately familiar, its big sound, which has been featured on s ... More >>

Our Commercial Culture: South Africa Fashion Week

Take that, Frankenstein.​Like graffiti, most adverts sloppily plastered to the screens of the technospere fall under the heading of worthless cultural detritus, but also like graffiti, some pop up out of nowhere and shock us with their inventiveness and brilliance. They cause us to take pause ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Luther burger from Crave

Lori Midson​ No. 65: Luther burger from Crave The scene at Crave, especially on weekends, can be complete pandemonium, with bodies crushed to the walls, standing in wait to wrap their jaws around what may very well be the most off-the-wall burger inventions this city has ever seen. Head burg ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Sea scallop and rock shrimp noodle bowl from Bones

Lori Midson​ No. 66: Sea scallop and rock shrimp noodle bowl from Bones Like a lot of people, I spent the majority of my years as an undergraduate obsessed with keeping my waistline shaped to a size two (those days are long, long gone) and spending whatever leftover scholarship money I had o ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Frico caldo from Frasca Food & Wine

Lori Midson​ No. 67: Frico caldo from Frasca Food & Wine Colorado's pope of Friulian cooking, Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson is a madman on the stove, a genius who bats around a menu that's full of wonderous dishes, and one of the few chefs we know who wears a toque -- and wears it with reveren ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: South African black ruff from TAG

Lori Midson​No. 74: South African ruff from TAG Troy Guard, chef/owner of TAG (and soon, TAG Raw Bar), has roots in Hawaii, which may explain, at least in part, why his board at TAG swims with shellfish and fish, including things like Maine diver scallops puddled in a parsnip vanilla puree a ... More >>

Stupid ad of the week: Stimorol's endless grocery store hell

The worst kind of hell.​Advertising is all around us -- and thanks to the Internet, we can see all the weird stuff other countries are doing -- telling us what to value and how to act, offering us insight on how to be better human beings (wink), or just making us laugh at ourselves or other cu ... More >>

Three chenin blanc wines to amp up your autumn

​Cugnette. Steen. Pineau de la Loire. Vouvray. What do these four wine terms have in common? They're all synonyms for chenin blanc, a stunningly drinkable white wine so worthy of your affection that you may find yourself tempted to consume it in abundant quantities shortly after reading this p ... More >>

Kahn Morbee of the Parlotones on its hard won success at home in South Africa

​ The Parlotones is not a household name in North America, but it is one of the best known bands out of South Africa. With hit singles in its native country, the Parlotones started to make waves outside South Africa with its second album, 2005's Radiocontrolledrobot. Hailing from Johanesburg, ... More >>

Tonight: Booze it up at the Blending Cellar, Cru or Cherry Creek North

A Flickr photo.​Thinking of imbibing some adult beverages tonight? Here are three events where the drinks are bound to be refreshing and delicious: The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl Street in Boulder, hosts a Tour de France Wine Tasting, a ride through the French wine appellations for each segme ... More >>

Tonight: South of the Equator white wine tasting

​As the northern hemisphere tilts toward the sun during this season, the increased heat and humidity (what there is of it in Colorado, anyway) tends to drive oenophiles away from the full-bodied reds and toward the lighter, crisper whites. South of the equator, it's wintertime, but that's no r ... More >>

Catch World Cup fever with five winning South African wines

​I've never been a fan of soccer, but seeing everyone get all fired up for the start of the World Cup this past weekend gave me a great excuse to revisit the other cool thing you've probably never realized about South Africa, and that's the fact that some rockin' good juice is produced there. ... More >>

Go shopping with Die Antwoord

It's been a while since we checked in with everyone's favorite South African rap-rave act Die Antwoord (since Ralphie brought us a micro-review of the act's first-ever US set at Coachella), but this should make up for it. The act is starring in the latest "What's in my Bag?" entry from Amoeba Reco ... More >>

Think pink, part deux: Five fantastic rosés to sip this summer

Photo courtesy of Noble Swine Supper ClubInfinite Monkey Theorem rosé​Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, some people might say that summer has officially started. Others might insist that It's now officially, unrepentantly, rosé drinking season. A few weeks ago I threw down the 201 ... More >>

Die Antwoord take us deeper down the zef rabbithole

Our first encounter with South African Internet sensation Die Antwoord saw us categorize them as just another bizarro novelty for the Freaky Friday canon. But then a funny thing happened -- as we dug a little deeper, we started to kind of like it (well, some us did -- we seem to have a split decisio ... More >>

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Whole Foods celebrates Fair Trade Month today with lunch "happy" hour

​We all know that drinking a glass of red wine a day is good for our health, but did you know that some wines are also good for the environment? October is Fair Trade Month at Whole Foods, and to help celebrate, Bernard Fontannaz, founder and owner of Origin Wines and winemaker for Fairhills ... More >>

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The story of an '80s anti-apartheid activist carries overtones of the present.

Smart and Pretty

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Field of Schemes

A gem of a story about diamond mines--real and fake!