Letters to the Editor

At the Excise and Licenses hearing, all of the applicants' pre-filed petitions were withdrawn, silencing over a hundred residents in opposition to their cabaret/tavern application.

Some kind of tactics, but what do you expect from two people supposedly engaged to be married who choose to profile themselves as "available" under fake names on their swapper websites?

Carol Campbell
Denver

Here's the scoop: Regarding Michael Roberts's "Buddy Plan," in the August 17 issue:

Buddy Guy is to Chicago what chocolate is to ice cream. You will always have music, but none with as much flavor and satisfaction as his music has. We will be left with a huge, unsatisfied craving that no other flavor can fill the day this man leaves us.

Bre Tanner
Chicago, Illinois

Def match: Regarding Cole Haddon's "Fight to the Def," in the August 10 issue:

Singer Joe Elliott was never an illiterate grade-schooler. This "story" -- if you'd like to call it that -- shows who is the true illiterate grade-schooler.

Catherine Cleland
Brooklyn, New York

Hard-boiled egos: Cole Haddon said some pretty harsh words against Def Leppard, which is my favorite band. Granted, Journey put out a lot of great songs -- some of which I will listen to, but only if I have to. The thing I like most about Def Leppard is that there are no individual egos in that band. There is one ego, and that is of the band itself. Unlike most bands, Def Leppard stayed together even through the height of its popularity. Heck, even the Beatles broke up at the height of their popularity. And yes, even Journey eventually broke up, and we did not hear from them again until just recently.

My question would be, why? For what reason did Journey break up? Did one member want to go off and do a side project that the others did not like? Did someone's ego get in the way?

Therein lies the difference between bands like Journey and Def Leppard. This is where egos come in. No matter what each member of Def Leppard is doing, they always come back together to keep Def Leppard going. I have not heard the same being said of Journey.

Journey fans who read this will no doubt blow their lids off. But these are my personal views. I do like some of Journey's music -- just not all. And there are some out there who like some of Def Leppard's music -- just not all.

Donna Reid
Rockhold, Kentucky

Hung jury: Michael Roberts's description of Joe Bevilacqua, the director of FM programming for Clear Channel Denver, as an "evangelist" was right on (The Message, August 10). Clear Channel, with close ties to the (religious-right-favored) Republican Party, has been accused of boycotting Madonna's latest album and refusing to play it on the air since she is critical of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. I believe the accusation, as I just returned from Europe, where her new song "Hung Up" is a huge hit. Talk about censorship in the "land of the free."

On a side note, I really enjoy reading Westword. Keep up the good work!

Jaime Jacob
Aurora

Skating on the edge: At the end of the July 27 Off Limits item about the Denver Skatepark, why would your last words be "Skate or die, yo"? You are just feeding into what people think about us. I say "us," because I am a 33-year-old man who has been skating for about twenty years. I have had to hear plenty of negative words from all walks of life, because most people think we are all young punks. To say "Skate or die" implies that it's still 1988, and to end that with "yo" just sounds silly. I've never used that "word" in my life.

Gabriel Beyer
Westminster