Colombia

A Look Inside Batanga Tapas Drinks, Now Open Downtown

There's been a lot of talk about downtown Houston's "revival," sparked by a spate of restaurant and bar openings near Main Street. But the word "revival" seemed grossly inappropriate as I drove to Batanga Tapas Drinks this past Saturday for its media preview party, as the word itself suggests that ... More >>

Coffee Beans Could Be Extinct In 60 Years; Then What?

If you believe the news from over the weekend that coffee beans are in danger of extinction, you're probably hoarding all the Arabica you can find today and envisioning a future in which coffee -- already liquid gold for many of us caffeine addicts -- can be used as delicious, fragrant currency. No ... More >>

Houston Fine Art Fair

This Just In: SXSW Announces First Round Of 2012 Showcasing Bands, Including Fat Tony and Something Fierce

Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>

"Faces of History — Latin America: Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru"

6th Annual Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America

Ingredient of the Week: Fava Beans

luvjnx​What are they? Immortalized by Dr. Hannibal Lector in the Oscar-winning film Silence of the Lambs, these fat, light green legumes are one of the oldest cultivated plants in civilization, and they're currently in season. Coming in a pod that's around six inches long, they require a lit ... More >>

Patrick Regan and Ximena del Pilar Echeverry Arias: Husband-Wife Team Arrested for Running Guns from Houston to Colombia

Dad, get me out of this one​A Houston-area couple has been charged with smuggling arms to Colombia, and a whole lot of weaponry was seized. Federal agents arrested Patrick Regan, 40, and his wife Ximena del Pilar Echeverry Aria, 25, who was a Colombian native, on Tuesday, prosecutors announce ... More >>

Third World: Never Making Music For Other People

Each Wednesday (or Thursday), Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​Typically ... More >>

Shakira

Rio Grande Mud: Cops, Mayors and Judges Busted For Corruption, DWI And Whoring All Over Valley

Froget it, Jake. It's just the Valley​On moving to Miami during that city's Cocaine Cowboy heyday, a friend once described the place thusly: "You are nobody here until you are under indictment."As the frontline for the drug war has shifted from Colombia and South Florida to Mexico and South Texas, ... More >>

Macondo Latin Bistro

A Cooler Coke: HiT Lulo

Yes, that's a Build-A-Bear in the background.​Each Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks, we'll be taking a look at alternatives to cokes for the sticky Houston summer that lies ahead. And so here we are. A Cooler Coke has finally hit (pardon the pun) a roadblock in attempting to disco ... More >>

The Crucifixion of Juarez

On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death.

Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America

Filmmakers from south of the border show off their latest works

Random Ingredient of the Week: Panela

​What is it? A solid mass of evaporated cane juice. Completely unrefined, its richer flavor is developed from a natural process that consists of boiling cane juice until all the liquid has evaporated, leaving behind a mass of brown fructose and sucrose. Panela is the name used for the Colombia ... More >>

City of Coffee: Green Beans

​As noted in our recent City of Coffee feature, coffee tastes best when it's made from fresh-roasted beans. Some coffee fanatics take that concept to the extreme and roast their own coffee beans at home. (Hot air popcorn machines are very popular for this purpose.) Several of these home roaste ... More >>

Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America: The Maid

Filmmakers south of the border enjoy another golden age

Pinche Bumblebee man

CINEMATHEQUE: Latin American “Third Cinema”

Curator Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado pairs two agit-prop classics

Call of the Wild Lecture

Web exclusive!

Sonidos y Mas: Niyireth's Musica Colombiana Andina

Niyireth Musica Colombiana Andina - Music from Colombia (Arc Music) When we hear about Andean music, the first thing that comes to mind are those Peruvian pan-flute players who perform on city streets, either playing traditional tunes like "El Condor Pasa" and "Fina Estampa" or adapting America ... More >>

Your Mind on Drugs -- Great! A Book Review

Capsule Art Reviews: "Apertura-Colombia," "How Artists Draw," "John Alexander: New Paintings and Drawings," "Miguel Angel Rojas: FotoFest 2008," "Perspectives 160: Dawoud Bey,"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Apertura-Colombia," "How Artists Draw," "John Alexander: New Paintings and Drawings," "Miguel Angel Rojas: FotoFest 2008," "Perspectives 160: Dawoud Bey"

Miguel Angel Rojas gets political without getting polemical

Trade Marks

Capsule Art Reviews: "Apertura-Colombia," "Craft in America — Expanding Traditions," "Dario Robleto: Oh, Those Mirrors With Memory (Actions 1996-1997)," "How Artists Draw," "Katy Heinlein," "Miwa Yanagi — Deutsche Bank Collection"

Sex, Drugs and Amputees in "Apertura-Colombia"

The Station's at its best

Chess Masters at UT-Brownsville

An open-admissions university has become a national powerhouse in the collegiate game.

Alice McDermott and Laura Restrepo

Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series hosts a former underground resistance fighter and a Pulitzer Prize finalist

“Apertura Colombia”

Colombian photographers tell graphic stories at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art

On a Scale of One to Ten, How Much Do You Love Me?

“A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City”

Interactive exhibit presented by Doctor’s without Borders

Luis Fernando Roldan

Sicardi Gallery presents “Drawings”

THE TAVERN ON GRAY'S

SWEATING COLOMBIAN

Parish Predators

Despite the bishop’s remarks to the contrary, the Galveston-Houston Roman Catholic Archdiocese had child molesters and let them go. But don’t blame just the Church.

Gooooaaaal!

A few locals are afflicted with World Cup mania; also: Chango Jackson, KPFT and what touring bands really think of Houston

Ride This Wave

Scenes from a Theater

Best Art Gallery

My Pork Belly Future

Mi Pueblito is a restaurant for Colombians who miss home, but gringos will still enjoy its fare -- especially the chewy pork bits

Best Spanish-Language Radio Station

KEYH/850 AM

Best Latin Restaurant

Café Red Onion

El Rockero in His Labyrinth

Juanes ditches heavy metal and embraces the music of his native Colombia

Aterciopelados

Gozo Poderoso (RCA)

News of the Weird

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Colombian Supremo

At Anoranza's, it's best to know what you want

Spy Games

Tom Clancy and Harrison Ford take aim at the War On Drugs