Archives: September 2000

Kansas City Strip

Size matters: The game of “mine’s bigger than yours” between the Theatre League and Starlight Theatre has seen Starlight winning all the glory this summer. But that may have taken a turn last week, with the news that the Music Hall, the Theatre League’s home for Broadway tours, likely will get an upgrade of its own. It seems that Hardy…

A Bootleg Fortune

The CIS Development Foundation (CISDF), a nonprofit corporation ostensibly dedicated to collecting tax-deductible donations for the technologically strapped economies of the member nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), is located in Old Bridge, New Jersey. The foundation solicits only nonmonetary donations and claims it sent more than $22 million in humanitarian aid to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia,…

To Russia With Food Coloring

In June, McCormick Distilling Co. of Weston pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, to a single misdemeanor charge of falsifying an export document. McCormick, a privately held company with reported annual revenues of more than $115 million — and the oldest continuously operating distillery in America — had been nabbed in a $40 million smuggling enterprise…

Jailhouse Crock

Susan and Dennis Diviak were married on May 31, while Dennis was incarcerated in the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri. After serving four years of a five-year sentence for breaking and entering, he’s scheduled to be released next March 25. Susan Diviak has a court date of her own. The Federal Court of the Western District of Missouri…

Pig Out

The cycle begins with a horny boar in Kansas. The beast mounts a steel surrogate sow that’s shaped like a barrel, draped with a piece of carpet for comfort. Leg supports sprout from its sides for easy gripping. The boar grunts and thrusts, and workers stand at the ready with sterile plastic bags, poised for the moment of porcine ecstasy….