Sometimes Westword stories will veer together. Whether through randomness or fate, the act of completely dissimilar topics or profile subjects colliding can either result in beautiful synergy -- i.e., marijuana and Chinese food -- or in a twisted wreckage of irony and pain.
Case in point: Tom "The Troubleshooter" Martino is using his platforms in local media to draw his audience into a multi-level marketing scheme from which he and his business partners in the "Martino Matrix" stand to direct