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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 02:58 |
Reader expresses outrage
over Mexican flag billboard
I am OUTRAGED at the new billboard on Swannanoa River Road at the Fairview Road intersection depicting a Mexican flag.
I called the number on it and was told that there is another one just like it on Smokey Park Bridge. I can??t believe this!
 What??s going on here?
Have you seen it?
What are YOU going to do about it?
Devon Stockard
Asheville
Pritchard park drum circle
needs to minimize impact
All music is noise.
Music is a form of noise; it??s a subset.
For example, if
you are sitting quietly by yourself, that??s quiet; or the absence of
noise. If you start whistling, you??re making noise. It might be
musical noise but it??s still noise. In other words, you??re not being
quiet anymore.
The permit that
the drummers have is the same that Bele Chere has ?? or Shindig on the
Green or road crews with jackhammers. It??s a permit that allows the
permit holder to exceed the limitations of the noise ordinance for a
specific purpose approved of by the city. In other words, the city of
Asheville prohibits noise generally but can allow it on certain
occasions with a permit.
There is no
music ordinance. The permit does not state that you must limit your
noise to notes and melodies. The drummers can sing, drum, play flutes
or hum in unison.
If the city
deems that the event is in violation of the purpose for which the
permit was originally issued, the city can revoke that permit and the
permit holder would no longer have permission to exceed the noise
ordinance.
I would suggest
to the permit holder that they find a way to minimize their negative
impact on the quality of life downtown, just as any other law-abiding
person would, and thereby retain their permit to engage in peaceable
merry-making in Prichard Park, which is the perfect setting for this
particular brand of it.
TIM PECK
Asheville
Columnist termed lacking
in expertise, maturity
EDITOR??S NOTE: The following letter was sent to the Daily Planet in reference to theater-film columnist Meg Hale.
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Your lead
sentence in the June 21, 2006 review of Arthur Miller??s play ?®All My
Sons?∆ vividly displays how little you know about American Theater ?? or
American film history.
Arthur Miller??s
bold, searing post-World War II play ?®All My Sons?∆ was staged in 1947.
This was three years before Marilyn Monroe had a small speaking role in
John Huston??s 1950 film ?®The Asphalt Jungle.?∆
Implying the two
were in the sack together when ?®All My Sons?∆ was staged may seem like a
?®grabber?∆ lead to you, but it is terribly misleading and highlights the
lame editing of your writing ?? if, indeed, your column is edited at
all.
Two suggestions:
Peruse Arthur Miller??s autobiography ?®Timebends?∆ before you write about his personal life.
Try to eliminate the word ?®I?∆ from your ?®weak?∆ly column.
Reviewing plays and films is not about you. It is about the creative work.
Grow up.
Kennon Webber
Asheville
Letter writer gives thanks
for author??s ?¥literary forays??
EDITOR??S NOTE: The following letter was sent to the Daily Planet in reference to spirituality columnist Marc Mullinax.
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Winnie Risley
and I here at Brooks-Howell Home have been delighted with your recent
?®literary?∆ forays. She has made copies and sent it off to friends in
Vermont! Pow-pow, so there!
The one this
past week (the June 25 Daily Planet) brings to my mind the parable-book
by Dr. Nels Ferre, some years back, I believe the title was ?®The sun
and the umbrella?∆?? in which the umbrella was raised by the second
generation of followers who couldn??t abide the brilliance of the
original revelation.
Count this as a
letter of support for the benefit of your editor and all those
nay-sayers (especially the previous one about the ?®promise?∆ of the
hereafter). We look forward to more of your essays.
LeGrand Smith
Asheville
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