By Julia Gray

“My name is Tim. T-I-M. And I’m addicted to crack cocaine.”
This is how every episode of A&E’s Intervention begins. Each week highlights a person with a life-threatening addiction and they agree to have cameras follow their adventures under the guise that they’re in a documentary about addiction. Little do they know that they will face an intervention during the last 15 minutes of each show with an “interventionist” who, along with family and friends, will hopefully convince the addict to be trucked off to rehab someplace across country – or else.

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Posted on August 6, 2007

By Steve Rhodes

I’m from Minneapolis and I’ve driven on the stretch of 35W that collapsed into the Mississippi River about a million times. The highway is a major north-south route through the city, and also happens to run along the edge of both the West and East Banks of the University of Minnesota, where I was an undergraduate for, oh, a good six or seven years. I was having too much fun to leave, and besides, we were kicking a lot of ass at The Minnesota Daily.
I just saw the big ol’ house that me and four friends lived in our junior year on a national network broadcast. One of the all-time great party houses (before these guys prettied it up). I think we paid $190 a month each in rent. Our landlord was an ass; I’ll never forget the time one of my roommates, whose father was friends with my father at the same age, swung a golf club at him.
We lived just a few blocks west of the first entrance and exit ramps of 35W just after the bridge crossed the Mississippi; the campus was a few blocks to the east. We walked by that bridge every day.

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Posted on August 3, 2007