Some people subscribe to the notion that Miles Davis’ trumpet artistry didn’t change as much as the varying harmonic and rhythmic contexts in which he placed it during his nearly […]
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Clause and Effect
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK you for the investment of time and energy spent on a very important topic (“Booze N the Hood,” 9/3). It is evident that you went […]
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Bible Stories
WHILE I DON’T BLAME Jim Siergey and Tom Roberts for being fed up with religion, I cannot agree with their cartoon portrayal of Happy Hippy Jesus, an apparent biblical contradiction […]
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Lambda Retort
I DON’T KNOW WHY Peter LaBarbera didn’t quit while he was ahead (The Mail, 9/3). Michael Gips’ piece on his publication, Lambda Report (“Lambda Razing,” The District Line, 8/13), was […]
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Homophobe, Heal Thyself
AS HIS LETTER OF REPLY shows (The Mail, 9/3), Peter LaBarbera’s brand of dislike for homosexuals is more troubling than the more blunt form common among “fundamentalists,” with whom he […]
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Drink Tank
IT WAS NICE TO SEE A piece on alcohol that treated the substance for what it is—a drug (“Booze N the Hood,” 9/3). Unfortunately, while Bill Gifford was dismantling the […]
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An Approving Testament
I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU know how much I enjoyed the “Deconstructionist Bible Study” in Cultural Jetlag (9/3). I immediately clipped it and put it in my Bible. It […]
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Nonviolence Then and Now
IN “BOSS TWEED OF THE Homeless” (8/13), you failed to make clear that a quote attributed to me referred to an old, adversarial, “us against the world” Community for Creative […]
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Dueling Agendas
THE RESPONSES YOU’VE received to your piece about Peter LaBarbera’s newsletter (“Lambda Razing,” The District Line, 8/13) range from the preachy to the ludicrous. What they share, however, is their […]