Syria

Mike Peters battles cancer personally and professionally

The five best vegetarian/vegan dishes in Denver

Denver's a great town for vegetarians and vegans, as the Best of Denver 2013 attests. In that issue, you'll find accolades for Best Vegetarian Green Chile and Best Vegan Market, as well as many more green categories. But if you're looking for the best plant-based dishes in the city, look no further ... More >>

Damascus Grill offers a spread of Moroccan (plant-based) favorites, old and new

There are a lot of good Mediterranean restaurants in town -- places with great falafel, hummus or baba ghanouj. But for a good Mediterranean restaurant to rise to great, it should not not only execute the staples well, but also offer dishes that go beyond the basics. And for vegetarian and vegan din ... More >>

Best of Denver 2013 Readers' Poll: The Food & Drink finalists

For the first time in the thirty-year history of Westword's Best of Denver, we've split the Best of Denver Readers' Poll into two rounds, giving you the chance to look at the vote-getters and then voting again for your favorite bars, restaurants and foods in Denver and Boulder. And the results of th ... More >>

Firewater's frontman on actually leaving the country like others threatened when Dubya won

Disgusted with the re-election of George W. Bush in 2005, Firewater ringleader Tod A left New York -- where he'd lived for the previous two decades and where he'd fronted Cop Shoot Cop -- and headed out of the country on a three-year journey that took him to the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent ... More >>

Iraqi Student Project sending first student to Colorado

The war in Iraq has forced many Iraqi students to abandon their hopes of an education. Some fled the country and had to put their education on hold, while others found their schools destroyed. Recognizing these problems, the Iraqi Student Project, a St. Louis-based organization that has volunteers ... More >>

Reader: Aurora shooting coverage preventing us from hearing about other important stories

Yesterday, we highlighted a conservative activist's view that the Aurora theater shooting isn't a national story. And according to one of our readers, it's not the only story, either -- but blanket coverage of it is preventing us from learning about potentially more important ones.

Bentley Folse, exec chef of Finley's Pub, gives good cluck

Bentley Folse Finley's Pub 375 South Pearl Street 303-282-4790 www.finleysdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Bentley Folse, exec chef of Finley's Pub. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. I suppose my parents liked the car," muses Bentley Folse, whose first name conjures images ... More >>

In How to Start a Revolution, Gene Sharp focuses on toppling tyrants through non-violence

Regis University teaching online courses to refugees in Kenya, Malawi in pilot project

Regis University in Denver is taking the lead on a program to teach online college courses in refugee camps in Malawi and Kenya, and in urban Syria. The four-year pilot project is called "Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins" and it aims to solve a stark problem: the dearth of higher educ ... More >>

Round two with J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's

J. Michael Melton Zydeco's 1730 Wynkoop Street 303-293-2887 www.zydecosdenver.com This is part two of my chat with J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's. Part one of our interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I eat at Tom's Home Cookin ... More >>

Sultan Grill will feed you like a king...in an Arvada strip mall

After readers responded to my lament about the lack of interesting ethnic food near the Tech Center, I decided to explore not just the southern suburbs, where I grew up, but the entire circle outside of Denver city limits, looking for the best ethnic restaurants in the metro area, strip-mall salvati ... More >>

David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham, on moving your ass

David Bumgardner Williams & Graham 3160 Tejon Street 303-997-8886 www.williamsandgraham.com This is part one of my interview with David Bumgardner, exec chef of Williams & Graham. Part two of my chat with Bumgradner will run in this space tomorrow. The executive chef of Williams & Graham is leani ... More >>

DelectablePlanet.com's Lester Karplus on globalism, plant-based eating and why the elitist argument is flawed

Lester Karplus.​Lester Karplus, co-founder of DelectablePlanet.com, has eaten veggie for almost forty years; he'll be offering up cooking demonstrations at VegFest tomorrow, which runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. We talked to Karplus about his shift toward vegeta ... More >>

Chef and Tell, part two: Zi Fusion's Rhett Songer on more of the F-word, a pompous prick and being wine-drunk

Lori Midson​ Rhett Songer Zi Fusion 7340 South Clinton Street, Englewood 720-934-6402 www.ziasian.com This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Rhett Songer, executive chef of Zi Fusion. In part one of that interview, Songer dishes on the F-word, racism and sexism and eating a puppy... ... More >>

Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're Jason

​Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from green chile at La Fogata (yes, we're folding the green chile guesses into this contest) to a bowl of mystery pho to this plate of Syrian sausages. For correctly identifying it as coming from Damascus Grill, ... More >>

There's more Lebanese sangre in Mexico than you might think

Living and loving New Kids on the Block

Body of Lies, Ridley Scott's latest, is the post-9/11 tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve

Drop Boards Not Bombs

Llewellyn Werner thinks skateparks could get Iraq's economy rolling

Eye of the Tiger: State of the Obama/Clinton Race on the Eve of the Pennsylvania Primary

Soldier On

Twenty years later, our one-man military machine’s still going Rambo.

Ali Baba Grill

Don’t judge this restaurant by its hummus. Wait for the entrees.

Revelations

Southland Tales

Richard Kelly leaves nothing behind in his pop-packed, apocalyptic pageant.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 7/19/2007

Baklava for More

If Adam and Eve could escape Eden, they'd eat at Ya Hala.

Assassination Tango

A controversial docudrama imagines a post-Bush scenario.

Fair Game

The Taste of Colorado loses some regulars.

True Crime

Beat and run

The Name Game

Modern Mexican standoff

New Gig

Why a TV pro moved from Channel 7 to Al-Jazeera.

Call Him Al

An epic figure turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander.

The Message

Here's to the good, the bad and the funny in Denver's most newsworthy newsroom.

The Message

The media's massive buildup to battle makes war seem almost anti-climactic.

Golden Opportunities

These out-of-the-way restaurants should be on the eaten path.

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

The Bite

Eating well for a good cause.

Suffer the Children

A Time for Drunken Horses eloquently depicts the plight of the Kurds.

The Bite

Feeling Sheepish

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

The Bite

Fair to Middle Eastern.

A Plague on All Your Houses

Denver readies itself for a bio-bomb — but is the federal program behind this exercise a dud?

The Best Is Yet to Come

Sami Kraydie's Sinbad is the real deal.

Check, Please!

Give our food critic something to chew on.

The Pita Principle

Romany Holiday

Mouthing Off

Syria's Eating

Mouthing Off