MEDIA WAR SCORCHED EARTH
This (“Media Wars,” April 19-25) will surely go down as the time The New York Post sneezed and The Times cut off its nose to avoid catching a cold.
Anonymous
I dug that history of slime (“A Brief History Of Slime,” April 19-25). And I’ll tell you one more thing. I dig the goddamned cover art for a change. Really I do. That’s right, I’m a fucking ignorant white trash art critic now. I like the cover goddamn it! You know you should be reading a book, but you say fuck it and indulge in the guilty NY Press pleasure. Ha! I’ll be the Junkie.
James
RESSURECTING GHOSTFACE
I always check on who’s writing about the avant-garde in hip-hop and Jamin Warren’s story (“Tall Tales And Fishscales,” April 19-25) was great. It’s good to see Ghostface coming back with the story telling and it’s good the Press notices. Aren’t we tired of T.I. and 50 Cent? Give us the Wu or something new! Thanks.
Jason Braun
ELITIST BITES
I have always appreciated your paper, but I just had to pipe in about Tony Dokoupil’s restaurant review of Pala (“Pumpkin Pizza?” March 22-28). While I take no issue with his opinions about the food (I haven’t eaten there) I did want to say how completely bummed out I was about his rather elitist comment about public housing. He said, in reference to Pala, that it now gives “Gray Line tour buses something to look at other than subsidized housing and people carrying laundry bags.” You guys are supposed to be a bit more hip to what is really going on in this city, rather than catering to that kind of upper-class, Disney-Giuliani-esque way of thinking. I was surprised to read a comment like this in NY Press.
Rebecca M.
NY PRESS ALUM ANGST
The short article in New York Press two weeks ago by “Ernie Koy” [“Counterfeit Detector,” April 12-18 ] was a real cheap shot. Not only did the author have the history wrong—the editors who ushered Jared Paul Stern into these pages were now-New York Times editor Sam Sifton and myself, not an editor who was giving a book reading at an Irish bar—and opinions were mixed on the fellow with the fedora who had a hard time making eye contact. I liked Stern, thought his ambitious plan to achieve a modicum of success and notoriety in Manhattan was admirable, and if his contrived get-up was self-consciously aped from long-ago decades, well, so what? Like that’s any worse from his conformist peers in the “alternative” media who dressed all in black? At least he was original.
Russ Smith
