Comments on: Radio Free Broadside

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:53:57 +0000

Well, to be fair to Wal-Mart, the fast food restaurants have always been one of of town's main attractions. The only bright spot had always been a great Italian restaurant called Silvio's, but it was just replaced a few months ago by that reportedly terrible Mexican restaurant. There are some other places off the main drag that aren't too bad, but we are definitely due for some new blood. One thing your story illuminates about Clio: it is probably the last place in America where someone would find it interesting to note that there was a restaurant where "real Mexicans" worked in the kitchen.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:27:17 +0000

Thanks for the clarification! I am guilty of doing just what you said, scoffing when someone told me the correct way to pronounce it. It is like my dad's hometown in Nebraska, Beatrice. They pronounce it Bee-at-tris, with the "at" pronounced like the word "at". I do want to say, though, that Clio is rather awkward, and that Wal-Mart must be wreaking havoc like it always does. When I went and asked locals in the mostly dried up business district where I should go for lunch, they told me to go to the Mexican place. "There are real Mexicans there," they said. Turns out it is one of two places to eat that isn't a fast food chain.

By: judy b.

judy b. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:17:00 +0000

Lovely review/tribute. I love this: "...it gives the impression that the town was named by amateurs."

By: McCaron

McCaron — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:07:53 +0000

Thanks for the plug, D. Your kind words mean more to this grizzled heart than I can express. Mainly because I'm horrible with words.

Jeff's right, you guys. The paper is pretty boss.