AltWeeklies Wire
"If the Shoe Fits," "Welcome to America," and "Duke of Oil"new
AltWeeklies Award - News Story (1500 words or less)
Burning Man Festival Leaves Afterburnnew
For deviant bingo promoter Lawrence Phipps, the arts festival held in the Nevada desert has become a dangerous lifestyle obsession.
Bringing Down the Aryan Brotherhoodnew
Until a few years ago, Joseph Principe was a correctional officer at the highest-security prison in the country. Getting ensnared in a federal racketeering case made him an inmate.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
05-11-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Talkin' 'Bout My Generationnew
Symptoms of quarter-life crisis can include career indecision, student-loan remorse, spare-bedroom recidivism, a disintegrating social network and reoccurring delusions of graduate school.
Westword |
Jared Jacang Maher |
05-04-2005 |
Commentary
Post-Columbine, Colorado's Anti-Bullying Industry Explodesnew
Assisted, in part, by $8.6 million in grants from the Colorado Trust, educators are busy bully-proofing their schools.
Stripper Gets Things Off Her Chest, Implicates Docnew
A Diamond Cabaret stripper with a new set of breasts found herself addicted to Percocet, a painkiller her doctor would no longer prescribe. That's when a fellow dancer told her about a local doctor's prescriptions-for-porno deal.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
04-28-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Life Puts Boxer on the Ropesnew
Tony Duran's athletic ability -- in wrestling, running, football -- was excellent, and boxing seemed to focus all his energy. Boxing was a sport of brutal extremes, physical risks and unlikely monetary payoffs, but it was also the stabilizing factor in his life.
Tags: sports & fitness
Fortunate Sonnew
This film directed by the son of Michael Eisner is a stunning piece of work -- stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every way imaginable.
Grime Paysnew
Few musicians in England have risen from obscurity to celebrity more dramatically than Dizzee Rascal.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
04-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rock Ethicnew
Local 33's debut CD is a reminder of all that is pure, simple and honest about country and rock, a pep talk for anyone who's ever stared down misery, mortality and the void of the open road and lived to tell the tale.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
04-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Vail Hits Back When an Injured Skier Suesnew
Those who buy season passes to Colorado ski resorts may not realize they've signed a waiver that essentially holds the resorts harmless for any accident, whether the law says they are at fault or not.
Westword |
Eric Dexheimer |
04-12-2005 |
Recreation
The Air Force's Bad Case of Subpoena Envynew
A therapist is fighting a subpoena demanding confidential treatment records of an Air Force Academy cadet who says she was raped.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
04-12-2005 |
Commentary
How a Rancher Got a Sweetheart Dealnew
Attorneys working under Solicitor William G. Myers III at the Department of the Interior agreed to a settlement that heavily favored a Wyoming rancher at the expense of their "client," the Bureau of Land Management. The repercussions continue.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
04-12-2005 |
Environment
Against the Grainnew
A heckler who demanded that folk group d.biddle play faster might have been surprised to learn that singer/guitarist Duncan Barlow is a punk-rock veteran.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
04-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Celebrity Suicide Coverage Marked by Rationalizationsnew
A suicide prevention expert is concerned about the possible repercussions of rapturous coverage of Hunter S. Thompson's death.
