Root the market
Should the City Market stay put and expand? Indeed it should!
We are dismayed to read that the City wants to sell the site of the present City Market for development [“An unmoveable feast,” July 12]. The City Market is a unique establishment which benefits farmers in the surrounding areas as well as city residents. The farmers realize additional income and city residents and tourists get the benefit of fresh locally grown produce and many organically grown.
There is no reason to change such a mutually beneficial arrangement!!!
Sincerely,
Chris and Easter Mary Martin
Charlottesville
Under the bridge
My favorite evocative smell in town [“Eau de Charlottesville,” July 5] is the musky earthiness under the railroad bridge at 4th and Water St. SE. Kind of basementy-grave like, both pleasant and spooky. Makes me want to wait for a train and howl like Sally Bowles.
Lisa McEwan
Charlottesville
You had your say on c-ville.com
Responses to the news story “Another moonscape?” July 5
amigo1: Well, where did all the oppossums, skunks, foxes, raccoons, mice, chipmunks,squirrels, snakes, box turtles, and birds go. This type of earth reconfiguring is so hateful to nature.
Ted: Who cares? There’s gonna be a new Trader Joes! This VITAL to seeville; denizens of that forest must make way.
Alexis: So why didn’t Trader Joes make an Eco Wise decision and use the tossed aside old Whole Foods building? Nope, gotta have it spankin new – that’s America for you. Move aside nature, we have an organic, “Earth Friendly” products market coming through… what a joke!
Responses to “When fine dining calls for fine beer,” July 12
I second Well hello!: It’s wonderful to hear you had such an enjoyable experience at a beer dinner (I’ve been to a number of them in town and they’re always fantastic), but I found some of your writing about beer/beer drinkers to be a bit condescending. Part of your article seems to imply that until recently, most beer drinkers were only “rednecks.” You may not be aware of this, but our own Thomas Jefferson was a brewer and Starr Hill even recently brewed a beer inspired by his recipes. (It’s called Monticello Reserve Ale, if you care to check it out.) Anyway, I wasn’t really offended by your implications, but you might want to be careful about the generalizations you make about others that you might not understand.
Megan Headley: I appreciate your warning against condescension. That was never and is never my intention in this column. Even as a wine gal, I love cocktails and beer (and cover them now in what was initially strictly a wine column) and, in fact, am drinking a Beck’s as I write this, happily digesting a less-than-gourmet meal with Wipeout on in the background.
aj: all i can do is quote the most brilliant philosopher and poet of our day “mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm beeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!” -homer (simpson, that is) With that said I am a redneck when I drink miller lite or miller high life, a drunken irishman when i switch to guiness, half and half, or harp. A pro indy/hippy when slamming back jomo and finally an educated beer appreciator when drinking the non-irish imports. So generalize away all of my personalities will be happy to be included!!