The Top Ten Censored Stories of 2000

Have you read the one about corporations planning to charge you hundreds of dollars a month for your tap water? Or the one about military "psychological operations" specialists manipulating viewers of CNN? What about the highly skilled programmers in Silicon Valley who, because they are immigrants, are laboring under sweatshop-like conditions?

• by Tate Hausman, Don Hazen, Tamara Straus and Karynn M. Fish

Road Rage Rising in Black Forest Park

County Parks Director Barbara Nugent characterizes the 240-acre Black Forest Regional Park as a thickly forested pocket of tranquility and a haven from urban noise, traffic and hassles. In the 19 months since the county took possession, however, the park has been an ongoing source of legal wrangling as growth and preservation interests clash over the parks future.

• by Bob Campbell

Explore and Conquer

The Bush administration is too darn savvy to attach themselves to anything so transparently anti-environmental but that didnt stop the good people at the Ayn Rand Institute and The Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism from holding their anti-Earth Day gathering.

• by Bill Berkowitz

No One Gets Away Clean

Veronica Bowers and her daughter were victims of the war against drugs they died as a result of our anxiety about the impact of drugs on our society and the means we have chosen to address those concerns.

• by Roberto Rivera

IQ: What's the news?

What should the role of the press be? To report facts (2 + 2 = 4) and nothing more? To provide investigative analysis and context?

• by Bob Campbell

Southern Comfort

On a recent trip to Tennessee, food nirvana was achieved on a Saturday afternoon in Uncle Frank's dining room.

• by Kathryn Eastburn

In the Raw

A foray into Organica, a San Francisco restaurant that's on the cutting edge of the raw and living-foods movement.

• by Marina Wolf

Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone?

Traveling on a crowded train through the wet Dutch countryside, I came face-to-face with Joey Ramone, the legendary punk singer who fronted the trail-blazing Ramones. He was one day dead, but this was not a vision.

• by David Corn

Playing Around: Dick Dale

To hear Dick Dale play is mesmerizing; to see him play is mind-blowing.

• by Kristen Sherwood

E-victed

Colorado's nationally syndicated radio show, E-Town, remains homeless in Colorado Springs.

• by Kristen Sherwood

Bad Behavior

Is there anything more embarrassing than watching an over-the-hill casanova try to put some pep in his step by ceaselessly bird-dogging young, attractive women? That is the experience of watching Town and Country.

• by Kathryn Eastburn

Now See This

Lets make a deal. In exchange for your promise to run (not walk) to see Memento, I wont reveal any of the movies secrets.

• by Patton Dodd

One Night Too Long

Although One Night at McCool's carries a comic foundation, there isn't enough of a synergy between the three main male characters for their troubles with the female object of their desire to reveal much about them as characters, much less people an audience would care about.

• by Cole Smithey

Memory and Ritual

Rodney Wood delves into the disturbing beauty of his alter ego.

• by Dave Rootes

Swirlingly Alive

A tribute to Luis Jimenez's masterpiece, "Fiesta Jarabe," alive and well in the Fine Arts Centers sculpture garden.

• by John Hazlehurst

Bringing It All Back Home

The dozen or so skits and songs that make up First Strike's Home Show are as unabashedly campy as they are uncompromisingly forthright.

• by Owen Perkins

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• by Kristen Sherwood