Strip clubs equal bad food What the heck do we need a strip club for? Overpriced drinks, bad food, young women with wrecked lives and few job skills? Are we really deficient if we don’t have one of these institutions and their pathetic clientele? Konrad ZellerCharlottesville __________________________________________________________________ Bring us your English-speaking huddled masses Your pathetic […]
Quest for the Holy Grail Struggling to be charitable in my opinion of “Beware the Cyclops” by Richard Collins [Opinionated, June 12, 2007] and, in the same issue, the letters by Al Weed [“Can’t get a tee time,” Mailbag] and Jack Marshall [“Size matters,” Mailbag], I accept the challenge to describe an alternative vision for […]
A series of unfortunate events I would like to make an important correction to David Moltz’s article about the charter school application in Albemarle County [“County considers charter school,” Government News, June 5, 2007]. The city schools did not “pass on the school” as the headline suggested. There was a confluence of unfortunate circumstances including […]
Can’t get a tee time We who argue that those who live in a place should have some control over its future, are always being demonized by the growth machine. “You want to close the gate after you have gotten in” we are told. For a farmer, closing the gate is just plain good husbandry. […]
The story that keeps on giving First, let me say what an outstanding job C-VILLE has done in covering this most interesting situation [“Pantops land will remain in growth area,” Development News, May 29, 2007]. When Jayson Whitehead finally gets to the bottom of this, I feel sure we’ll all be sitting around slack-jawed. It’ll […]
Grief for Goddess I’m an avid reader of C-VILLE Weekly and am consistently impressed with your editorial discretion and caliber of reporting. However, I am dismayed with your decision to allow “Advice Goddess” Amy Alkon another opportunity to spew her biased and erroneous drivel regarding the prevalence of sexual abuse [“Diddle he or didn’t he?,” […]
Brian McNicoll, Director of Communications, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, accuses Dan Catalano ["Damner be damned," Mailbag, May 8, 2007] of making up facts on whether Tom Davis can “measure up” should he decide to run for the U.S. Senate [“The man who would be king,” The Odd Dominion, May 1, 2007]. In his […]
Just wanted to say I enjoyed the article on the Charlottesville Black Market [“Go inside Charlottesville’s black market,” April 17, 2007]. As someone involved in that lifestyle
O.K., we see the problem [“Justice for Jesus,” The Odd Dominion, April 17, 2007]. The lunatic fringe of the Christian right wing (and Pat Robertson is indeed the lunatic fringe) has succeeded in a stealth campaign using President Sh_t-for-brains to load up the federal bureaucracy with all these shifty-eyed evangelists. I want to know who […]