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, […]
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, […]
Give us our daily Ted What will it take to restore Ted Rall to the pages of C-VILLE? Must one stand on 29N, holding a sign proclaiming “Will Bake Bread For Ted”? Or “In Thrall With Rall”? Now that we are approaching the nadir (not Nader) in our battle to win the hearts and minds—to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Clearing the Fog When someone takes a strong opinion into the theater, they miss things. This may be the reason why Kent Williams’ recent review of Errol Morris’ documentary The Fog of War [Film, March 30] was dominated by details ridiculed out of context, attacks on partial quotes and generalized bitter invective aimed at deterring […]
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 […]
Lowry’s losin’ it Rich Lowry’s propaganda piece, “Is chastity cool?” [Right Turn, March 16], manages to both distort the few facts that are provided while also completely failing to address findings that run counter to his conservative agenda. While Lowry admits, “it is difficult to disentangle the causes of the current trend towards less teenage […]
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 […]
Royal flush You know what the water bureaucrats have been doing in the two years since the drought of 2002? [“Hard water,” December 2, 2002] Revising drought numbers left over from 1930. No new pipes, no new pumps, no new dams. Just fiddling with numbers. That’s what they told City Council in their report on […]