Stocking Wal-Mart’s issues I applaud the running of Geri Dreiling’s synopsis of Wal-Mart’s current legal woes in your October 12 issue [“Wal-Mart’s everyday low wages”]. However, the unbalanced inclusion of Susan Sorensen’s sidebar, “Cents and sensibility,” detailing how great the deals at Wal-Mart look to an average shopper, makes it appear that, “social justice issues […]
No letters published this week Correction In last week’s Read This First, the last name of Charlottesville Community Design Center director Katie Swenson was misspelled. C-VILLE regrets the error.
Run for the history book In the article by John Borgmeyer titled “Run for your life” [May 4] about ultramarathoning, he says that, “ultrarunning evolved in the 1970s as a response to mainstream marathoning.” This makes it appear that the idea of running ultramarathons was born in the 1970s. That’s far from the truth! According […]
Recent studies suggest that, in accordance with customary local belief, the world does indeed revolve around Charlottesville. We’re not too big, not too small; not too wholesome, not too seedy; not too hot, not too cold. In the words of Outside magazine, Charlottesville is one of those “dream towns that have it all.” Only one […]
On the right track Thanks for shedding light on an obscure, but wonderful sport [“Run for your life,” May 4]. What sets ultrarunning apart from marathons and triathlons is that it is a sport where your finishing time and mile splits don’t really matter. The ultimate challenge is to finish what you started, whether it’s […]
Village people Yes, Jennifer Pullinger, it does take a village, and Johnson Village has done an excellent job [“It takes a Village,” Neighborhood, ABODE, April 6]. The young people we know from Johnson Village are now out of college a couple of years and are getting advanced degrees, working for our government all over Europe, […]
Nobody’s a critic Thanks for a very enlightening article respecting the state of formal and credentialed art criticism in America as it impacts Central Virginia [“Do the arts mean anything to anybody anymore?” March 30]. One might better ask “Why do today’s critics in the arts have less impact on public tastes and community public […]
For Christ’s sake A friend once told me that every time he sees Sissy Spacek, he envisions her as Carrie, covered in pig’s blood. Well, that macabre visual must have stuck in Mel Gibson’s head, too, since it is seemingly the primary inspiration for his film The Passion of the Christ. Kent Williams gives a […]
Have some faith Kent Williams: I read your review of The Passion of the Christ today in the March 9 C-VILLE [“The gospel according to Mel,” Film]. While I understand that subjectivity, rather than objectivity, is permissible in writing movie reviews, your article is painfully lacking in references. You make claims, as fact, based only […]
Educate yourself In your February 24 article “Who is the real Rob Bell?” you included a section called “Bell’s bills.” H.B. 675—qualifications for providing home instruction—was one of the bills. You correctly cited your source at http://legis.state.va.us/. Unfortunately, the source is inaccurate. You would think the official site would be accurate concerning current laws. Below […]