Correction
Not Dead Yet
Sometimes, life at the Pulse resembles a Monty Python routine. Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that a Spotlight promoting last weekend's performance of the Appalachian Ballet claimed that composer Evelyn Glennie was dead. She's not. She's deaf—and there is a world of difference between the two states. As far as we know, Ms. Glennie is alive and well. We regret the error.
Huh? The Hun?
Aren't you just a little ashamed to print a review of a German restaurant (Linderhof) filled with so many trite and vicious stereotypes about Germans and violence? Would you find a review of a Mexican restaurant funny if it implied (all in jest, of course) that the water there might give you Montezuma's revenge? This work was beneath your dignity and beneath your standards.
Jeff Mellor
Knoxville
Carte (Cartay) could be Italian
Last night I read about "Mad Kings and Knoxvillians" in the Restaurant Rover report of the March 1 edition. I am very much for literary freedom, but as a regular patron of the Restaurant Linderhof, I am, to say the least, surprised and very disappointed by Ms. Carte's report. At the same time as she gives compliments to the restaurant, she confuses and, sometimes, insults, by the sequencing of her poor efforts at humor. If the article is not dissected, one would be pressed to know what she intends, despite the overall Rover Rating of four out of five.
In five of the eleven paragraphs, Ms. Carte praises or compliments the menu, the entrées, and the chef's ability. However, in her vain attempts at humor she writes six paragraphs insulting Germany and German food, the oawner's choice of decor, the people in the "Farragutian wilds" (including me) who're in Way West Knox. "It's strange fun" to hear "the sound of flesh being pounded" by the chef, either the snitzel or a waiter. Plus, "pigs" are animals while pork is the meat many eat, and I am sorry that helping Granny Carte make sausage has prevented Ms. Carte from enjoying truly fine food.
I hope in the future either Ms. Ally will be more mature in her writings about a business or the editor will do a better job at editing. Personally, I feel she should apologize to us Way West Knoxvillians and to the Linderhof for what I take as insulting, not humorous. I do agree that the Linderhof has superb German food.
And I am extremely curious about her name. Is Ally Carte the writer's real name or a take off on a la carte?
H. Alan Lasater
Knoxville
New Slogan? Nah
I just read Scott McNutt's article, "Trapping Tourists." I am certain he is an excellent writer and a fine journalist, however, his research skills leave a lot to be desired. If he will simply check the front of the travel brochure put out by the Knoxville Tourist Board, he will find that we already have a slogan that suits us just fine.
Underneath an artfully lit picture of the World's Fair Park one finds the word "Knoxville," and beneath that, in smaller print, the words "Who Knew?"
When I first saw the brochure, I have to admit that I was a little skeptical. Having since had time to consider it, I wonder whose idiot cousin got to make that decision. Only someone whose mental processes are seriously impaired could make an intuitional leap of such genius. I applaud whatever bit of nepotism led to it and encourage Metro Pulse to start a campaign to make "Knoxville—Who Knew?" our official city slogan.
I also feel we should push for a city ordinance requiring all Knoxvillians, when they say the name "Knoxville" in any conversation, to smack themselves on the forehead and say loudly, "Who knew?" Failure to do so should be punished by a stiff fine, possibly even jail time.
Kevin Pickle
Knoxville
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