Venezuela

The best EDM in Denver this weekend

FUR COAT @ NORAD | SAT, 3/9/13 Fur Coat hit the international scene hard last year after Damian Lazarus signed the act to his illustrious Crosstown Rebels label. Riding that wave of exposure, tracks like "Fall's Out," "You and I" and "Space Ballad" garnered hundreds of thousands of spins on dance fl ... More >>

Catch Fur Coat's silky-smooth funky grooves at NORAD

Input on how SupaHotBeats convinced him to share his harrowing Columbine experience

Gustavo D'Arthenay is better known these days as Input, an emerging rapper who's been grinding hard for the better part of the past decade. With a half-dozen releases already under his belt and two more -- including a collaboration with Broken titled Never Heard of Ya and Bomb's Over Everything, a s ... More >>

Now Showing: A Westword guide to the arts in Denver

DU isn't all about presidential debate and politics: School gets straight to the art

The University of Denver isn't all about political debates. The Lamont School of Music is offering 250 free concerts this year, for example. And in Now Showing, Westword's fall arts guide, DU arts administrators gave particularly intriguing answers to questions about the city's cultural scene.

Make Your Own Legends: Apply now for a 2012 Jonny Copp Award grant

Jonny Copp's credo for the Adventure Film Festival he founded in Boulder was "Make Your Own Legends," and, while the climber/artist/musician/writer/adventurer made many legends of his own before his death in 2009, one of his greatest legacies may turn out to be posthumous, thanks to the Jonny Copp F ... More >>

Pastry queen Yasmin Lozada-Hissom has plans to make Spuntino even sweeter

Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, the pastry chef of Duo and Olivea, where her husband, John Broening, is also the executive chef, was a regular at Spuntino, an Italian cafe in Highland, owned, in part, by Simone Parisi, who also runs a namesake pizzeria and deli, as well as its downstairs restaurant, Firenze a ... More >>

Cafe con Leche will party at Great Divide with Quiero Arepas, Biker Jim and Stick It to Me during the The Great Food Truck Race this weekend in Denver

​Just a quick update to this weekend's The Great Food Truck Race celebrations in Denver, which we've been covering extensively on the Cafe Society blog: Cafe con Leche, the Cuban food truck from Van Nuys, California, will be camped outside Great Divide Brewery, 2201 Arapahoe, on Sunday, from ... More >>

Duo and Olivéa pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom tapped to bake at the James Beard Foundation awards gala

​The James Beard Foundation awards gala, a glitzy, high-falutin' soiree that honors the best chefs, pastry kings and queens, restaurateurs, restaurants and wine directors in the country, takes place on May 9, 2011, at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York. And the culinary blowout ... More >>

Mexicans know I'm black -- what gives?

Today in Stoke: Boulder's "Out There Guy" goes Out of the Wild on the Discovery Channel

Photo courtesy Discovery ChannelRyan Van Duzer on the Discovery Channel's "Out of the Wild: Venezeula"​Tune in to the Discovery Channel tonight, when Ryan Van Duzer (Boulder's "Out There Guy" endurance athlete and adventure journalist) gets dropped off at Angel Falls with a bunch of annoying p ... More >>

Keep it simple: Run to Empanada Express Grill for the empanadas

Empanada Express Grill offers Denver a taste of Venezuela

Mark Manger​When I returned to the United States after a stint in South America, I feared I'd be unable to find empanadas, that nearly perfect food that stuffs pastry pockets with savory filling. My quest eventually took me to Empanada Express Grill, at 2600 East Street in Golden, where owner ... More >>

ICE arrests focus on criminal aliens: 78 busts include man convicted of making terrorist threat

​These days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, emphasizes that it's targeting criminal aliens, not otherwise law-abiding citizens who lack documentation authorizing their U.S. residency. And that's the theme of ICE's latest Colorado busts. Of the 78 people rounded up fr ... More >>

Arepas from El Caribe will soon be slung from a food truck

Lori Midson​Every Wednesday and Saturday at the Cherry Creek farmers' market, and again on Sunday at the City Park Esplanade farmers' market, Igor and Beckie Panasewicz feed Venezuelan arepas to the masses from their vendor booth littered with bags of Harina P.A.N. white corn meal, plates of ... More >>

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Blue Ice Martini Lounge warms up to South American cuisine

​Blue Ice Martini Lounge just hired a new executive chef -- and with the hire, got a new feature: South American food. "We do food from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Colombia," says chef Jose Santiago. "We have comfort food, and every weekend we are going to try to do a dish from another Latin count ... More >>

Denver Post puts right Rockies story up front

The John Leyba photo of Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba that accompanied today's front-page story in the Denver Post. This morning's Denver Post features a Colorado Rockies story on page one -- but it's not about the team's eleventh straight victory, which tied a franchise record. Rather, it conce ... More >>

Yorvit Torrealba kidnapping drama puts Rockies' woes in perspective

Yorvit Torrealba as he appeared on the cover of the October 15, 2007 Rocky Mountain News, during much happier times. The kidnapping and subsequent safe return in Venezuela of Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba's eleven-year-old son and brother-in-law certainly makes matters like the firing of manager ... More >>

A former Denver newsman on why America should give Al-Jazeera English a chance

Photo by Charles Steck.Gabriel Elizondo circa 2005. "New Gig," an October 2005 Message column, introduced readers to Gabriel Elizondo, who decided to leave his job as an assignment editor at Channel 7 in favor of an opportunity to join Al-Jazeera International, a new English-language spinoff of the ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Nathan Ybanez gets his week in court

By June of 1998, sixteen-year-old Nathan Ybanez couldn't take it any more. So he called his friend, seventeen-year-old Eric Jensen, to get him out of the house. And he got out, all right: In separate trials, both boys were convicted of the murder of Julie Ybanez, as detailed in Luke Turf's "Headed ... More >>

Liga Latina de Beisbol vet's baseball dream is coming true

Focus on the Family's nightmare scenario about an Obama victory

From the week of October 9, 2008

Culinary Cruising: The Bored Millionaire

Culinary Cruising: Power Struggle

Sporting Chance

Three strikes and Colorado's out.

PBS West

Much of PBS's signature news program comes out of a Denver office whose staffers have quietly been doing good work for nearly a quarter-century.

The Nicaraguan Pistol Team

Street Fighting Man

Tariq Ali is all around.

A League of Their Own

For La Liga Latina, baseball is more than a game. It's a way of life.

A Capital Idea

Marx in Soho offers Denver a lesson in Marxism.

Whirled Music

Devendra Banhart has plenty to Crow about.

The Skad-father

Skankin' it up with Bucket Hingley of the Toasters.

Bite Me

That's All, Folks

Short-Order Cooking

Johnson & Wales whips up a hoops treat from scratch.

The Message

Free at Last

Adios, Hugo

A populist leader's triumph in Venezuela is caught on film.

Kid Alienated

Kid 606 separates the beats from the crap.

A World of Celebration

The History of New Year's Eve.

Follow That Story

Faith healer Oscar Paniagua jumps bail.

The Truth Hurts

His former clients have a message for Oscar Paniagua: They'll see him in court -- they hope.

Amor the Merrier

Piscos goes south of the border. Way south of the border.

A Heavy Load

Feliz Feliciano

The Boys of Winter

Three's Company

Sweet Truth

A businessman tries to satisfy a craving.

CRITIC'S CHOICE

GONE SOUTH