AltWeeklies Wire
Gallo's Polenew
Despite its formalistic failings and truly absurd Porn Moment, there's a morbidity here that feels quite genuine, and after the movie is over, it amounts to rough-hewn poetry.
Homegrown Salesmen Grab a Piece of the Heroin Tradenew
Most whites who sell heroin in downtown Denver fall in the category of gutter punk. They are homeless, semi-homeless or formerly homeless American youths in their teens and early twenties. They act as middlemen to support their own habit.
Westword |
David Holthouse |
10-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Immigrant Dealers Feed Americans' Hunger for Heroinnew
Most of the heroin dealers in downtown Denver are young Mexican and Central American men. Many of them are selling heroin to pay off thousands of dollars in debt to smugglers who spirited their families into the country.
Westword |
David Holthouse |
10-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Mexico, cocaine, Afghanistan, methamphetamine, drug, black-tar heroin, Colorado Department of Human Services' Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, drug dealers, Enforcement Administration, HIV infection rates, Honduras, intravenous drug users, Nicaragua or El Salvador, Opium, treatment centers, undercover narcs, crime & justice
Cruel, Vapid and Unfunny, This Shark Bitesnew
There's nothing at all sweet or endearing about Shark Tale, no warmth compensating for the clinically cold computer-generated animation.
Like Moths to a Flamenew
Jay Russell's action-packed, flame-broiled Ladder 49 is an all-out valentine to the firehouse fraternity. While it's good with mayhem, it's pretty weak in terms of actual human behavior.
Anatomy of a Cover-up: What Officials Knew About Columbine Killersnew
Families who lost children in the attack on Columbine High School had their worst suspicions confirmed by a grand jury's findings: Top Jefferson County leaders knew something awful about prior police investigations of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
10-04-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Animal Hoarders Love Their Many Pets to Deathnew
A Colorado couple with 146 neglected dogs exhibited a symptom common to animal hoarders: a distorted view of reality. None can see the squalor that is immediately apparent to outsiders.
Westword |
Eric Dexheimer |
10-04-2004 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues, attachment disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, a state inspector, Alan M. Beck, Barbara Novoryta, Brenda Schaible, Bureau of Animal Protection, caretakers, Carol Ann Martin, Elaine and Donald Marshall, Fred Schaible, Keith Synnestvedt, Mary Flanagan, Scot Dutcher, Tammy Schaible, the chief animal-cruelty investigator for the Denver Dumb Friends League, Trinidad State Junior College, zoophilia
Simple Rock Simply Inspirednew
Fu Manchu singer/guitarist Scott Hill is not a man beset with doubts about his purpose in life. He was put on this planet to rock, and rock he does.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
09-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fu Manchu
Alt-Weekly Columnist Sledgehammers Home a Pointnew
According to Wayne Laugesen, columnist for Boulder Weekly, there are times when members of the press need to stop observing and start participating. As such, he smashed a bunch of hazardous antique windows.
Tags: media
Rocky Mountain National Park Gets Loved to Deathnew
Besieged by 3 million visitors a year and another 3 million polluting neighbors at its doorstep, Colorado's premier national park is a vanishing wilderness.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
09-29-2004 |
Environment
Tags: Colorado, environment, National Park Service, Wildlife, Colorado River, Bear Lake Road, climbing guide, Coalition of Concerned National Park Service Retirees, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado's Fourteeners, elk herd, Enos Mills, Estes Park, Fort Collins or Boulder, George Wallace, Gerry Roach, Mark Magnuson, National Parks Conservation Association, natural resources, naturalist, nitrogen emissions, park biologist Karl Cordova, retirees, Rocky Mountains, RVs, U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Jill Baron
Shallow Popnew
Mr. 3000 isn't really about the athletes. It's more about the fans and even the beat writers who adore them and reward them and forgive them, no matter their arrogance or insolence.
Shell Shocknew
Innocence isn't a movie for animé neophytes. Embodying the best and worst stereotypes of the genre, it's amazingly beautiful to look at and often utterly incomprehensible.
Jeep Macnichol Sets Record Straight on Why He Left Samplesnew
It was that old standby, creative differences, that made drummer Jeep Macnichol split off from Samples seven years ago, and now he has a new album featuring musicians who were his childhood heroes.
Westword |
Dave Herrera |
09-20-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Papers React After Bloggers Disclose Journalists' Campaign Donationsnew
Scrutiny of campaign donations made by media figures has stirred such paranoia that the managing editor of the Rocky Mountain News told newsroom employees they could not attend a concert that would raise funds for senatorial candidate Ken Salazar.
Tobacco Researcher Dedicates Her Life to Being a Pain in the Ashnew
Environmental activist Anne Landman has become addicted to fighting tobacco. From the tiny hamlet of Glade Park, Colo., she authors the e-mail newsletter Doc-Alert, highlighting significant material the tobacco companies have been required to make public.
