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Dear Editor,
    Seventeen years after moving out of Austin to the great ochre and blue about 90 miles to the west, I'm looking at the Chronicle for just about the first time in a while. The Chronicle used to be indispensable ... in Austin. But it seemed irrelevant to life out here.
    It's not. If the current issue online is anything to go by, the Chronicle has gotten even better. At 77, I'm a little over the hill for some of the subject matter. Still, your wider coverage – and specifically Marjorie Baumgarten's work – still knocks me out!

Dear Editor,
    I found the article asserting that Austin didn’t have a robust hip-hop scene until now offensive, lazy, and poorly researched [“Hip-Hop on the Verge,” Music, Jan. 16]. To cast these assertions and then rest the main body of the article on events from 2007 and 2008 involving an artist who isn’t even making or performing hip-hop on a consistent basis anymore is both confusing and incongruent. The fact that examples like the Cooly Girls exist and are still relevant for reference is evidence of a scene that has been flush with talent since the inception of hip-hop. The person covering hip-hop for the Chronicle should try to make it out to more than one or two shows a month by the same few acts (as shown in the acts covered in his pieces). Our scene would greatly benefit from someone who actually wants to cover Austin hip-hop, writing a more positive, complete representation of it.
    I do understand that not every act can be mentioned in every article, but I also understand that journalism is about telling the truth and presenting facts – or at least a full picture. The writer of this article posted on his Facebook page that this article was an “investment.” Investment in what? Tearing down the history of our local hip-hop culture by pretending it’s only starting now?
    We already have artists known nationally. We have owners of their art. Those owners are sustained by their art and business acumen built on a steady foundation of years of networking and honing their craft. That would be a good read. I have a longer version of this letter with suggestions and a few corrections, but the 300-word limit has left me short of space.

Dear Editor,
    Regarding Steve Davis' 2½ star review of Foxcatcher: I vehemently take exception [Film Listings, Dec. 19]. It's a riveting, spellbinding movie. Wrestling as a sport could vanish and I wouldn't notice or care, but this movie (while topically about wrestling) wasn't about wrestling. It's about a moment in history when a neurotic, privileged psychopath ruined the career of one man and killed another. I don't understand for a moment Davis' contention that it's an "unsatisfying experience" that you "have no idea what to make of." It's distressing that he is a movie reviewer at such a hallowed institution as The Austin Chronicle and makes such statements. In all seriousness, has he ever watched a Robert Altman movie? If ever there was an auteur that made art that didn't explain itself to you, it would be him. Did the moral ambiguity of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing similarly leave him confused and unsatisfied? Life isn't about things being neatly tied up at the conclusion; it's usually a protracted and messy experience that can be good. And so, too, is Foxcatcher. To anyone on the fence about this movie thanks to Mr. Davis' review: Go see it. It's a solid 4-star movie.