Get on the bus I read with great interest John Borgmeyer’s article “Riders wanted” [November 11], about Charlottesville’s public transportation system. The article was well written and brings attention to one of Charlottesville’s best-kept secrets: its extensive public transportation system. As a transplanted northerner from Philadelphia, I was amazed that Charlottesville, being a comparatively smaller […]
Spoke too soon In reporting on the community bike program [“Dude, where’s my bike?” Fishbowl, November 11], John Borgmeyer stated, “Last year the City of Charlottesville and Dave Matthews Band funded a project to fix up old bikes.” The City has not provided any of the funding for this project. Most of the funding […]
Yellow journalismIn reporting on the Community Bike program [“Dude, where’s my bike?” Fishbowl, November 11], John Borgmeyer stated, “Last year the City of Charlottesville and Dave Matthews Band funded a project to fix up old bikes.…”The City has not provided any of the funding for this project. Most of the funding has come from Dave […]
Give it a whirl From both my military training and my flight experience, the thought crossed my mind that something else may be at work causing the illusion that Pegasus is flying lower at night [“Pegasus creates a flap,” Ask Ace, November 4]. I would suggest that Chopper Block step outside one night and see […]
Give peace a chance This is in response to Charles Mathewes’ letter [“Critic’s choice,” Mailbag, October 28] regarding my “No Exit” strip, printed in C-VILLE on October 14. My cartoon was a reaction to the wall that the Israeli military is building along and into the West Bank, which encompasses or surrounds many Palestinian towns […]
Drawing conclusions I really enjoyed your article “Sketchy characters” in the C-VILLE Weekly [January 7]. I am a fan of “Slowpoke,” “Tom Tomorrow,” “The City” by Derf, “Tom the Dancing Bug” and Ted Rall. They make me laugh and I like that; I am going to look for Ted Rall’s book of cartoons, Search and […]
Critic’s choice The “No Exit” cartoon by Andy Singer in your October 14 issue is certain to provoke complaints. As well it should, of course—apart from Israel and the United States, very few countries are ever compared to Nazi Germany. This is frustrating because it suggests that if Israel is bad, it is bad in […]
Clearing the issue In your October 7 Abode supplement, you featured the ways we have been experimenting with glass in our house over a long period of time ["Lighten up"]. We wanted to point out that the complexity of the research as well as the difficulties in designing with and fabricating these glass and metal […]
Porn again Rachel Albertson betrays a unique understanding of what pornography is in her letter ["Parental advisory!!" Mailbag, September 30]. In a way it’s touching and sociologically refreshing to hear such examples of completely ingenuous Puritanism I thought only survived locally in isolated pockets of the Shenandoah Valley. Me, I hadn’t considered there was anything […]
Parental advisory!! In the September 16 issue of C-VILLE Weekly, located in the section titled GetOutNow was a picture of three nearly nude women posing for the camera wearing only underwear and a mask covering their faces. As C-VILLE is supposed to be a community newspaper for all ages, this is improper and you should […]