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Letters to the Editor
3-D GLEE
As a sponsor of OutSmart’s 3-D issue [Apiril
2004], I wanted to congratulate you on a job
well done. BRAVO! Everyone I have spoken to absolutely
loved this innovative and exciting issue. This
issue was a first of its kind for Houston, and
I was proud to be both a sponsor and a reader.
The other day I walked into my favorite restaurant,
and it was such a blast to see so many people
reading their copy of OutSmart wearing the 3-D
glasses with our logo on them. What a great concept.
I can’t wait for next year’s 3-D
issue! Thanks again for creating a quality magazine
that provides invaluable information to our entire
community.
Lea Bogle
Premier Wireless Solutions
Houston
I just wanted to pass along my laudatory comments
about your recent publication. It was refreshing,
innovative, and a thoroughly enjoyable illustration
of the 3-D experience. The colors were so vivid,
and the artwork complemented the 3-D theme. Good
work, OutSmart!
Gary Teixeira
Houston
Congratulations, OutSmart, for putting it all
into focus for us! What fun to see triple. Really
cool.
David Kiser
Central Market sales manager
Houston
Central Market is a new distribution point for
OutSmart.
The OutSmart April issue—what a load of
fun! I couldn’t take my eyes off the pages
as I perused the magazine from front to back
and back to front again. Actually, while I wore
my 3-D glasses, I created a stir among folks
passing by. I quickly noticed a crowd doing the
OutSmart 3-D thing together with me. It was great
fun, and it brought me together with a bunch
of folks in the community. Congratulations and
thanks for this great issue and for all your
good work over the last 10 years!
Robert Tomlin
Houston
Your k.d.lang issue with the 3-D glasses was
so hip, so cool, so edgy, so OutSmart! Keep up
the good work.
Ed Smith
Houston
SPLASHING AROUND
Hello and thank you for doing your article on
the Splash events [“OutFront,” April].
This will be both my wife’s and my sixth
year going. It’s wonderful that this event
is available to our community each year, although
I wish there were more activities with dialogue
year round. We are really looking forward to
this event and are avid OutSmart readers. So,
thank you for the article and keep up the good
work.
Timberly Douglas and Tekeshia Parker
Houston
611 911
I noticed a small writeup about commending the
611 Club in your March 2004 issue [“Business
News”]. You mentioned the growth of the
bar over the past 20 years, the added features
of a train and organ, and the community benefits
the bar churns out. All of these items are respectable
in their own regards, but OutSmart sincerely
has failed to represent the true glowing features
of this “club.” I recommend you,
or anyone else for that matter, to spend any
given evening in close proximity of this building
and take note of the hustlers, street kids, prostitutes,
and now drug dealers that proliferate and openly
operate on the property, in the bar, or the immediate
area of the 611. Has anyone noticed how the bartenders
of this club get the patrons so intoxicated that
they can barely walk to their cars, and at 10
o’clock in the morning at that! The 611
might be raising money for HIV/AIDS causes, but
I assure you that it is also contributing to
the problem as well by condoning such blatant
activities and lack of ethical boundaries. As
a resident of Hyde Park and supporter of the
Montrose district, I sincerely hope that this
bar truly takes a look at what it is doing to
its neighborhood and make some immediate changes
for its own reputation, the people that live
in this historic residential neighborhood, and
the community-at-large.
Ryan Johnson
Houston
CLARIFICATION
After publication of our March issue, The Assistance
Fund canceled its benefit event scheduled for
March 12, which we covered in “OutFront.”
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
OutSmart photographer Yvonne Feece and her partner
Rebecca Mahaffey are co-editors of the Houston
section of Pride.04, the annual magazine published
for Pride month and distributed locally by the
Pride Committee of Houston.
If you have any comments about this article,
please email them to letters@outsmartmagazine.com.
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