Letters

If you don't provide this information in your printed paper, people will likely forget to get on your Web site later, and thus events are not as well attended. It also has reduced the listing of events, particularly for lectures and literary events.

Please reconsider your recent decision and begin including them in print.

Richard Gilbert
Houston

No Joke

Expand on the bands: That was the worst piece of writing I have ever read from you, and that's saying a lot ["Combat Rock," by Rob Harvilla, March 27].

Rather than expand on two of the better and more diverse bands out there -- that is, when you aren't writing lovely articles for Guns N' Roses or Saliva or some other shit act passing through -- you turn it into a joke.

Will Carpenter
Houston

To the Max

Stalling is super: Nice review of Max Stalling's One of the Ways. I think Max is great ["Vive le Max!" by William Michael Smith, March 27].

I happened upon him by accident about a year ago at Poor David's Pub in Dallas. He was a last-minute replacement opening act for Bruce Robison. I was hooked. I've seen him three or four times and constantly play his CDs; they touch my soul.

I feel Wide Afternoon is equal to One of the Ways and find Dime Box addictive. I am 58 and pretty hard to please -- Max is right up there with favorites Dwight Yoakam, Rodney Crowell and Radney Foster.

Thanks for the nice review.

Murray Young
Fort Worth

Pinko Press

Ponytail hell: Thanks for yet another lengthy, boring and, of course, smug column [Racket, by John Nova Lomax, March 27] on why we're proud to be Americans.

Luckily, socialism is dying out and so are all of you old, white-haired, ponytailed hippies left over from the '60s.

Alas, you have nothing fresh to offer to Houston; only a free rag that advertises booze, cigs and whores.

Bob Amir
Houston