Re: “The Great White North” by Kevin Capp (July 16)

I got a real laugh out of this article. I don’t know the DJ or ever heard his flow, but he needs to raise his aspirations. The notion that Seattle can be snobbish about its hip-hop scene is laughable. What hip-hop scene??? The “hip-hip” radio stations go from painful to awful, and KEXP, the “alternative/hip station,” has a hip-hop show on at the prime-time slot of 6 p.m. Sunday. So I tell the cat, move to LA or NYC where hip-hop lives.—TheNewGuy

Whoever the editor of this article is needs to get their facts straight. First off, I’ve personally known Ripynt and his brother Aether (name’s actually Curtis, not Chris) for some time now. They are both great at what they do. The editor pretty much describes Everett as a shithole. I wouldn’t want to be from anywhere else besides Everett. And there is no street named “Everett Way.” The street the White Buffalo is on is Evergreen Way.—Matt B.

SW responds: Corrections noted, thanks.

Re: “Ask an Uptight Seattleite” (July 23)

I confess to being one of those who is burdened with a sense of annoyance upon opening the Seattle Weekly and finding no trace of the Uptight Seattleite’s column. Now that I know that the work is written and published on a “non-Eurocentric polyrhythm” schedule, I’ll try to be more discreet in searching for it, perhaps just glancing over the top of my latte and smiling knowingly when I spy a new dispatch.

But since few other things in print make me laugh aloud as consistently as the Uptight Seattleite, I’ll continue to hope that your writer becomes a bit more Eurocentric in his rhythms.—Grant Fjermedal

Re: “How’s Rudolph Taste?” by Mike Seely (July 2)

I too used to like the [Ed’s] Kort Haus, but I haven’t stepped foot into it in almost three years and I only live a couple blocks away. Why? Ed doesn’t just flip customers shit, he is a fucking asshole! One night I was joking with my friend, not even talking to Ed, but he was standing nearby and came right in front of me and slammed his fist on the counter and said that he wasn’t going to take any shit. Any shit for what, I asked, I was just talking to my friend. He told me if I didn’t like his rules I could just leave, so I promptly got up and left. Now, I own two bars, I love flipping shit to my customers and employees, but Ed is a cranky old bastard and I warn anyone to tiptoe around him.—Ty Franzer

CORRECTIONS

In last week’s news story, “Crunch Time,” Laura Onstot said that a proposed change to the King County charter would create “a new budget office.” In fact, that office would be strictly involved in conducting economic and revenue forecasts, not in budgeting.

The story also said that the County Council “starts budget deliberations next month.” Those deliberations do not start until October.

In “Rubbing With the Stars,” Jonathan Kauffman described Volterra’s Fennel Salt as “developed with Ritrovo, an Italian company.” In fact, Ritrovo was strictly a distributor; Volterra chef Don Curtiss created the recipe and makes the product.