Letters
Think outside the brick
Published on Apr 29th, 2004
0 comments Christine Madrid French is my new hero. The postmodern Jeffersonizing of our town into a faux-Disney, pretend-historical-theme-park is not only revisionist, it's disrespectful to the legacy of...
Hook bashed privacy
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments What's more abhorrent: a man who vents his frustration on the answering machine of a colleague with whom he's having a conflict, that colleague publicly humiliating that man by getting a news weekly...
Old feel is gone
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments I was interested to read about discord at the Prism, because the Prism is a wonderful place. It was important to me as a student at UVA in the late 1960s– some folks I met back then are still...
Tell it like it is
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments I was pleased to read the article about the Prism dispute. Many dormant volunteers feel that finally, someone has stood up to the Fred and Kenyon that we all know. Joey DamianoBatesville
LETTER- Prism's privacy invaded
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments Your Prism Schism cover [April 1] made me think one of our best-loved (at least locally) institutions was falling apart. I stopped reading the article when the reporter quoted a message left on an...
Prism key to music
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments It takes critically important performance venues like the Prism to keep traditional music alive. And these venues wouldn't exist without folks like Fred Boyce and Kenyon Hunter, who have, quite...
Prism is friendly
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments The article "Prism Schism" omits the other community-oriented activities that go on every week at the Prism: jam sessions, open mics, Festival of the Book, cultural fairs, and a children's radio show...
Prism an odd place
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments The board structure of this supposedly tax exempt community non-profit organization is unlike any of the other non-profits I've been part of. Basically, the only people who get to vote for the board...
Anachronism needs Fred
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments Fred Boyce can be unreasonable. He can be grumpy and ill-tempered. He ranges from determined to downright stubborn. It's largely these qualities that have allowed him to do the seemingly impossible....
Median income below poverty?
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments Thanks for the outstanding article on the working poor. ["Nickel and dimed: Barbara Ehrenreich and tap-dancing on the edge," cover story, March 11]. Ehrenreich and Raskin are true journalists. I'm...
Why not cooperate?
Published on Apr 15th, 2004
0 comments Lost in the uproar over the trampling of Steven Turner's civil rights ["Fishing trip: 'Harassment' charges in rapist search," News, March 25, and "Profile surprise: How I made CPD's hit list," Essay...
Correct the escalator misunderstanding
Published on Apr 15th, 2004
0 comments I am writing in reference to your article on the SNL building, formerly Miller & Rhoads. ["Capshaw-ville II: DMB boss buys SNL building," News, April 1]. I am a native of Charlottesville and,...
Belmont wants sidewalks too
Published on Apr 15th, 2004
0 comments Published April 15, 2004, in issue #0314 of the Hook About city sidewalks ["Park Beech: Sidewalk threatens tree," News, April 1], as a 20-year resident of the southeast edge of Belmont along...
MS-diss no news
Published on Apr 15th, 2004
0 comments I find it very interesting that we would have to pass a bill to encourage the most obvious and active "new" technologies ["Back at it: Waldo brings Microsoft calling," News, March 18]. Thousands of...
Where's the ACLU?
Published on Apr 15th, 2004
0 comments In the last century, I took an interest in the lack of a ward system in Charlottesville, which seemed to coincide with Democratic majorities on the City Council ["Poor and ignored? Schilling makes...
Median income below poverty
Published on Apr 15th, 2004
0 comments Thanks for the outstanding article on the working poor. ["Nickel and dimed: Barbara Ehrenreich and tap-dancing on the edge," Cover story, March 11]. Ehrenreich and Raskin are true journalists. I'm...
Sorry, it's not stucco
Published on Apr 8th, 2004
0 comments I'm writing in regard to the article regarding the Monticello Foundation's purchase of Brown's Mountain/Montalto [Cover story, "Mountain Views, How Monticello got Montalto back," February 5]. While I...
Protesting too much
Published on Apr 8th, 2004
0 comments In your issue of March 25, you print an article by Lisa Provence setting forth the "harassment" of Steven Turner by the Charlottesville Police Department in their attempt to obtain a DNA sample [News...
McNamara and me
Published on Apr 8th, 2004
0 comments Published April 8, 2004, in issue #0314 of the Hook Thumbing through your March 18 issue, I saw the review Fog of War: 11 Lessons on the Life of Robert S. McNamara [Movie review, "To err is human?...
City's poor need help
Published on Apr 1st, 2004
0 comments I am a social worker, concerned citizen, and musician who grew up in this city. I am concerned about what appears to be the over-development and the gentrification of my city. One number mentioned in...
Staunton didn't self-destruct
Published on Apr 1st, 2004
0 comments "Is Staunton the next Charlottesville?" [Cover story, February 19] I hope not. I grew up in Charlottesville. I have friends and relatives in Staunton and have visited many times. I've been telling...
107.5 greed hurts listeners
Published on Mar 25th, 2004
0 comments Thanks for writing the article about the change on 107.5 [News, March 18, "Jazzed up: 107.5 change rocks Kidd fans"]. It's clear after reading the article (and hearing from Reagan myself–...
Hooray for smooth jazz!
Published on Mar 25th, 2004
0 comments You wrote that The Hook was unable to find anyone happy about the 107.5 format change. Well, here are two. My wife and I are fabulously happy about the new "mix" of music– we finally have the...
The elderly stay home
Published on Mar 25th, 2004
0 comments I was glad to see Jeanne McCusker get the exposure she deserves for her company, Home Instead, new to the Charlottesville area ["No place like it: Biz helps families cope," March 28]. Although the...
Turn off the lights!
Published on Mar 25th, 2004
0 comments I am writing in response to the article on Dominion's application for new nuclear power plants [March 11: "New nukes: Dominion plans cause reaction"]. Louis Zenner, spokesman for the Blue Ridge...
Share those kidneys!
Published on Mar 18th, 2004
0 comments The generosity of live organ donors like Tarpley Gillespie is remarkable. Most Americans won't even agree to donate their organs after they die. They bury their organs instead of sharing the gift of...
Vests warm the heart
Published on Mar 18th, 2004
0 comments Thank you for putting Courteney Stuart's moving article about the Vest family on your March 4 cover ["Home grown: The gift that keeps on giving"]. It was wonderful to read about the love they have...
"Stuff" fuels poverty
Published on Mar 18th, 2004
0 comments "These people mirror me." That thought wove like a thread through my mind continually as I read the March 11 cover story on the working poor in Charlottesville ["Nickel + Dimed: Ehrenreich talks...
ELFs are terrorists
Published on Mar 11th, 2004
0 comments While it may seem like a nice premise, "preserving" the environment has many sides to it. For instance, sometimes building a dam creates irrigation that saves thousands of starving people and creates...
Luke told ear story
Published on Mar 11th, 2004
0 comments Most movie reviews have a twofold purpose (aside from providing some people with a job): to alert a reader to avoid the movie if the reviewer praises it and to encourage a reader to see it if the...