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Letters from the issue of Thursday, June 9, 2005

A A A Comments Thursday, Jun 9 2005

Seriously, bringing up Nicole Simpson's and Ron Goldman's deaths in a review for gelato is tasteless ("The Sweet Life," June 2). This isn't Maxim; spare us the celebrity worship, people spending beyond their means, and lowbrow "humor."
Ben Vorono, Tempe We need a translator: Thank God you guys are doing some celebrity journalism once in a while (in the way of concert reviews, at least)! When you live in Phoenix and read local publications like the Arizona Republic, you think no celebrities ever descend on our hell-hole town. I was happy to see the Snoop Dogg cover and to read Stephen Lemons' take on the concert.

The only problem is, sometimes I can't understand what Lemons is getting at with all that hip-hop language, and I'm a big fan of the music. A lot of it I get, but sometimes he throws me. You guys should tell him to try not to be too insider-ish, because we're not all from L.A. like he is. Some of us have lived in white Phoenix our whole lives and don't pick up on all the black big-city references. Fo schizzle, my nizzle!

Mike Maas

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But I love Inferno; it keeps me up on the places I do and don't want to go. You guys were getting crusty until you started that column and began publishing Brendan Joel Kelley's "Revolver" in the music section.
Barry Gallo, Tempe Star-struck Kreme: Stephen Lemons (a.k.a. Kreme) had me going on that Snoop Dogg column. I really thought that lucky SOB had partied with the Doggfather. In fact, I was telling a friend about the column, and he said: "Duh, it was a joke. It was Kreme fantasizing about what he'd like to do." Then he told me to take a look at the cover drawing, where Kreme is cowering in the corner. Guess I'm an idiot.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the Snoop column, and I was glad to find out what's going on at a show I couldn't afford to attend. I wish you guys did more concert reviews so we poor bastards could live vicariously once in a while. The babes at that concert must have been off the hook! Reporting on the club scene is cool, but reporting on big concerts would be cooler.
Andy Jackson, Phoenix

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