AltWeeklies Wire
Baseball Is in Ruins -- Until Springnew
The steroids use scandal that has caused baseball to stumble is part of a jarring pro-sports tumble.
Life in Prison Can Be a Riotnew
Low pay and high staff turnover contributed to the problems at Crowley County Correctional Facility, a private prison in Colorado. An investigation found that a July 20 riot there may have been due to improper use of force by staff.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
12-29-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Shipping Inmates to Private Prisons Costs Colorado Plentynew
Colorado inmates exiled to a private Mississippi prison called Tallahatchie have staged protests against substandard conditions there.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
12-29-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Let Us Fraynew
An unknown act -- one that's played fewer than a hundred shows, sold just over a thousand discs and performed out of the state of Colorado only once -- has garnered a major-label deal. It's the music that did it.
Westword |
Dave Herrera |
12-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Army's Video Game Moves In for the Killnew
When an Army contractor showed off the Army's free video game Special Forces at an entertainment center in Littleton, Colo., it was with more in mind than helping the young enjoy themselves. Recruiting is the goal.
Westword |
Eric Dexheimer |
12-22-2004 |
Video Games
Sorority Sisters Don't Let Go Easilynew
A University of Colorado student decided to withdraw her pledge to join Delta Delta Delta. Members of the sorority didn't respond well to being spurned.
Tags: Lili Armstrong, Tri Delta
Season's Bleatingsnew
Plenty of celebrities are looking to pad their bank accounts via Christmas recordings, and few appear to have broken a sweat while making them.
Fat Chance of Losing Weight Electronicallynew
The AbTronic Electric Fitness System promised consumers they could get “six-pack abs” by using its device, but the Federal Trade Commission found that wasn’t true.
Reporter Subpoenaed for Notes on Alleged Rape Victimnew
The Denver Post's Miles Moffeit received a subpoena for all "notes, memoranda, video tapes, audio tapes, and any other information and documents" he collected in reporting on the alleged 2003 rape of an airman stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. He considers the comments the alleged victim didn't want publicized sacred.
911 Call Captures Officer's Questionable Pepper-Sprayingnew
Asking an officer armed with pepper spray for his badge number turned out to be risky business for a Colorado choirboy.
Westword |
David Holthouse |
12-07-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Hail Snail Mailnew
In this film about a father and son delivering a mail route in the mountains of South Hunan lurks a stone-faced reverence for civil service that may seem downright bizarre to most Americans.
Warming Trendnew
At long last, Edith Frost is done chilling out. She has scheduled her first extended tour in ages and has developed new material for a CD that should reach stores by the first half of 2005.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
11-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
About a Boynew
Eighteen-month-old Kyran Leigh Gaston-Voss died in an explosion of rage. But was the killer his mother or her chief accuser?
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
11-30-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Perfect Husband Revealed as Perfect Crooknew
Marcia Simmons has uncovered disturbing information about the husband she never really knew. She's learned how difficult it is to pursue a fraud case against your spouse. And she's been frustrated by what she considers the foot-dragging of cops and prosecutors.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
11-17-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Working Girl Makes Good with Upscale Escort Agencynew
Veronika Lake put herself through art school as an escort. At 37, she owns and runs her own agency. "I never made much as an artist," she says, "and who wants to be poor for the rest of their life? I'd rather make a million dollars."
Westword |
David Holthouse |
11-17-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
