Reader feedback 11.26.03
Critiquing the transit center, analyzing the Johnson loss
The sleazeball zone
You’re a victim of domestic violence and you’ve finally decided to get help. You need to get out. Now. You contact the Monroe County Department of Human and Health Services and you and your children are sent to… the Cadillac Hotel?! “That place is horrible. That’s the last place you want to send a…
News briefs 11.26.03
Just doing his job Ron Harris has been manufacturing and encoding CD-ROMs for the federal government for almost two years. But before he could do his job properly, his machine had to be outfitted with a super-sized computer screen, because he is nearly blind. Harris says he had to get so close to the…
Wound-lickers need not apply
Coming up on her one-year anniversary as Democratic Party chair, you might not think Molly Clifford has much to celebrate. Look no further that this year’s county executive race, where Democratic candidate Bill Johnson lost to Republican Maggie Brooks by nearly a 2 to 1 margin. The results, Clifford says, were surprising because polls…
In your ear: Wronged by rightwing radio
How sweet it sounded: The Golden Hour of the Little Flower. But the 1930s radio show was anything but pleasingly tasteful. This was the hour of Father Charles E. Coughlin, the Toronto-born, Michigan-based Roman Catholic priest who whipped up hatred and fear with a blend of religious fanaticism, far-right anti-capitalism, and anti-Semitism. The recipe…
Slick Nick, you devil, you
People who write letters to newspapers complaining about nudity, cursing, and anti-Christmas content in Love Actually (Lobsters in the manger scene?Those heathens!)will die if they see Bad Santa (opens Wednesday, November 26). It will literally kill them. Their heads will explode like popcorn kernels, so be careful who you sit near in the theater. They…
Pop psychiatry with an ax
Beginning with its title, the new horror flick Gothika employs a number of possibly insoluble puzzles to establish its position within its genre and, presumably, to create some additional appeal to audiences. That title, to begin with, is apparently intended as a reference to a long, bloody, and often marvelous history of literature and…
