LETTERS

Dear Las Vegas Weekly,

How refreshing it is to open this publication of July 21-27 and find the wonderfully positive interpretation of the Super Summer Theatre's offering of Once Upon a Mattress. Also, promotion of the arts is especially meaningful to Super Summer Theatre during this, the organization's 30th year of offering musicals to local audiences out at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.

It is with great anticipation that the Super Summer Theatre group looks forward to seeing your Contributing Editor Steve Bornfeld at the ranch to review Guys and Dolls, which opens on Wednesday, August 10, and runs through Saturday, August 27, as well as the Nevada Ballet Theatre, performing Thursday and Friday, September 1 and 2.

This gentleman's interest in offering a sincere evaluation of summer cultural entertainment is genuinely appreciated.

Sincerely,

Dear Las Vegas Weekly,

Well, I guess I'll write and say thanks for doing a more straight job with my letter. You weren't so straight with another letter that I sent you and you printed awhile back—that one was a whole lot more of a hack job, so this one was pretty good (even though it was edited—I guess it was needed for space). So thanks for that, even though too much of your staff is too into this stuff (any chick using her private body parts for profit—to put it nicely).

Also, the [July 14] edition is very good. The lifelong homeless girl and the young Republican stories were great! I have to give you guys a point for that (not that it matters to anyone there). I don't want to write just to bitch and never to commend when a good job is done. So—good job, LVW!

Till next time.

P.S. We'll see on that last and final day, huh?

Dear Columnist Anne Kellogg,

On your article, "Canned Chinatown" [July 21 edition], "canned" is the emphasized term. A planned Chinatown? Please. That's some yang gwei-za [white foreign devil] exploitation of an ethnic group. Some things never change. The Las Vegas Chinatown is anything but. Asian souvenirs and overdone pot stickers is fine for tourists. And there is profit in land leases, restaurants, shops. The local Chinese-American businesses were smart to join the bandwagon, especially when there was non-Chinese investment money being poured in.

Yes, on the surface, Las Vegas Chinatown works. But is it not Chinese.

There is no chi [spirit] beyond the façade. I fear the same for the growing Korean community in the Commercial Center over on Sahara Avenue. Chegiral! [Shit!]

There is talk of a whole Latin row Downtown with casinos, bars and restaurants. Hijole! [Wow!] As a town, Las Vegas keeps missing the point in its multi-national makeup. Ethnic communities are not planned; they are built and developed from within, imbued with cultural spirit and pride. There's none of that in Chinatown.

Dear Kate Silver,

I just read your article about mold and monsters [July 21] and I must say I'm disgusted with your attitude on the subject!!! Mold is real and it's becoming more and more of a problem. And all people suffering from its effects, wanting no more than help and answers because they are scared and don't feel well, are met by skeptics like you who, instead of possibly funding some research on this unknown problem and finding out if it's a reality or not, just make fun of this dilemma, thus pushing it further under the carpet and letting so many people go on suffering!!!

What are you people so afraid of? Mold being a reality or mold being a cover-up for a different kind of disease that may be affecting so many Americans? Why don't you take some time and do a little research on the effects of mold and fungi on the human body???

If the U.S. military can declare T2 mycotoxins a biological warfare agent, why would you want it in your home or in your life??? This being said, why don't you stick your tongue out and lick a moldy wall? Why don't you enter a few more mold-infested houses and see how you feel after your sensitivity level to mold is increased and you begin to feel some of the effects of mycotosis! In fact, if you're so sure mold is nothing but a made-up illness for sue-happy Americans, why don't you try spending a week in a mold-infested house and ACTUALLY STEP INTO THE SHOES of people suffering from the effects of mold and then we'll see if your article doesn't change a bit!!!!

I wish all you doubters, politicians, physicians and employees of all those agencies who say mold doesn't cause such symptoms and illnesses would try this and then we'd see how quickly your minds would be changed if your level of comfort in this life was compromised. I bet funding would be made quite available after such an experiment!!!!

Why don't skeptics like yourself open your eyes and pay closer attention to the world around you and start noticing how many people are suffering from fungal infections, chronic fatigue, rashes and other strange, misdiagnosed symptoms? Take a look at the fungal infections our military men and women are suffering from and then ask their neighbors if they are suffering any type of fungal infections. Why don't you research if there have been any recent water contamination reports in heavily populated military towns? Why don't you start noticing why suddenly places with dry non-mold-growing climates are suddenly turning up with mold? Why don't you ask President Bush about his wife's mold sensitivity problems???

Instead of doubting I wish someone would start investigating and noticing what so many people are feeling and saying before doubting and ridiculing and then maybe you would think twice about the humor in someone sticking their tongue to any mold-infested object!!! May those of you who cast so many stones start finding some pebbles in your own life!!!!