Alcatraz

Boston bomber sues Colorado’s ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ prison for $250,000

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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is suing the federal government for $250,000 over his treatment at the supermax prison in Colorado dubbed the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ – because officials took away his baseball cap. In his eight-page, handwritten lawsuit that was filed in federal court on Monday, the convicted terrorist decries the confiscation of … Read more

From that bridge to Chinatown and even Alcatraz – San Francisco is a collection of vibrant villages

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Perched on the Pacific, San Francisco is a gold-rush town that’s now pulsating with tech start-ups, and dominated by the Golden Gate Bridge.  Get in closer, though, and the city becomes a series of villages, all with their own identity; from hippy Haight-Ashbury and the cool Mission District to the old money of Nob Hill, … Read more