LETTERS

Mr. Martin Stein,

I read your review of the Silverado Steakhouse at the South Coast recently, but decided to go anyway. My New York Steak was cooked perfectly and if anything lacked salt—I had to put some on myself. I got the house salad that comes with the steak, which had a champagne vinaigrette that was also very nice. My mother had the beef Oscar, which was again cooked as ordered and no additional seasoning necessary because it was perfect. I think you may have misjudged this place and would recommend you try it again. I feel it might have been a bit unfair to publish a review based on opening night.

Dear (Nights on the Circuit Columnist) Xania,

Just read your online article on your evening at Jet. You captured the controlled chaos that is mega-clubbing to a tee. I did a trip to the island of Ibiza this summer at the end of August, and I think they actually might have Vegas slightly trumped in their peak months.

Respectfully,

Editors:

In defense of Sonja, who did that guy think he was, asking her to give up the column—Ted Turner? Did he really think that for squiring her around town for a couple of months and putting his feelings in writing, he'd gained ownership or that she'd forsake the local celebrity status she has earned through her writing to be his and his alone?

Not knowing the man it's hard to tell if his silly suggestion came out of arrogance, insecurity or naivete. Sonja, after all, is a well-known exhibitionist and inveterate man-izer, exactly what enables her to provide her readers with vicarious thrills and chills each week. Although, I do think she could have and ought to have protected him a little more, given his profile in town. That she didn't is the reason people are so mad at her now.

I don't think anyone should have to give up anything they're good at and love to do to be with someone. It didn't work for Ted and Jane, and it usually doesn't work for us lesser mortals, either.

Thanks.

Dearest Sonja,

I'm not trying to disrespect you or your column. So, although I do read your column quite regularly, I can say that as a female in the same predicament you are in, I am greatly disappointed in the CONTENT of your column. I feel that you could do SO much better. You seem so ... one-dimensional and contrite, which I know that you are not. In an effort to distinguish yourself from all of the other women in Las Vegas, you have modeled yourself and portrayed yourself through your writing to be exactly like every other Paris Hilton wannabe this concrete jungle we both call home boasts of ... senseless, uneducated, materialistic, judgmental, immature, etc. etc., and only concerned about one thing ... finding a man, as if that will "complete" you.

Seriously, Sonja ... think about the power that you have. You are the voice of SO many women being stereotyped in a city where women readily objectify and demoralize themselves just to be one up on the next woman some guy is looking at. You empower us, the women who have substance, interests, self-respect and intellect, and I wish that you would take that a bit more seriously when writing your column. After all, your life, along with ours, isn't just another episode of Sex and the City. Carrie Bradshaw isn't real. Your life, along with ours, is so much more complex. Universally, all of us suffer, most of us by the hands of men. This suffering is the embodiment of multifaceted complexity; it's unnerving, complicated, painful, uprooting; yet you describe it as if we were all back in high school: "This cute guy liked me, so I liked him, too, but then I saw him out with this other girl, and now my life totally sucks, I hate myself." Come on, Sonja. There's SO much more to life and relationships than someone that was interested in you turning out to be an asshole. Usually every guy a girl interacts with turns out to be an asshole. We have all been there and experienced that a hundredfold. I'd tell you to try and interact with different types of men, but let's face it, they're all basically the same (they're assholes). I'll give you that one. But try to keep things fresh, change the perspective and the language, because to be honest, your story is a little played out. I'm feeling just a bit under- and mis-represented. Try asking OTHER women what they have been through, there is ENDLESS material if you go that route, trust me! If you need any new material, or new perspective, let me know ... BOY do I have some stories for you!!

Anyway, best of luck to you, your relationships and your column in 2006!! I'm looking forward to your future columns and your perspective on the dating world. Go, Sonja, go!!!

Truthfully...

Dear Sir or Madam:

Why do the residents of the fine state of Nevada keep voting this corrupt man back into power? I guess I'll have to move to Nevada to vote against him. I'm a Mormon and am embarassed every time he opens his mouth. He received at least $68,000 from Abramhoff and associates and Indian tribes. I recall his son was doing business as well as some of his staffers ... Wake up people .... Nevada deserves better representation that this. He leads the Dems in stalling and NOT doing the people's business. There are no term limits, but you can vote him out ...

Sincerely,

Dear Las Vegas Weekly,

So Shuli is a big name now ("Superfan" January 5) ... well big f--kin' deal ... you made a puff piece just so you could say you knew him while he was in Vegas? ...well, arent u a suckup. You act like he's some kind of god just for talking to you ... If it wasn't for dumb dick jokes there would be no Shuli ... Of course he left LV... he didn't do SHIT while he was here, he's better off getting his sorry trailer trash ass out of town ... Shuli is a jackass, and he deserves to be a Howard Stern flunky because Howard Stern never was mainstream, and now that he's off the free airwaves, Howard Stern is over the hill and will die on the vine ... just like Shuli. I say good-bye and good riddance to Shuli—go back to the hoods of New York.

Sincerely,