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OCTOBER 27, 2016

CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

COVER STORY

the green eyes that haunts the battlefield IT'S ONE OF THE OLDEST GHOST STORIES IN THE CHATTANOOGA AREA...

AND IT'LL MAKE YOU SHIVER

By Daniel Jackson

WOHGLE MUT • HALLOWEEN GUIDE • LEGENDS OF JAZZ

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VOLUME 13, ISSUE 43 OCTOBER 27, 2016

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WALKING ALL OVER HEART DISEASE

If you knew every step you took could save a life, how many steps would you take? What if every step you took meant someone, somewhere got a step closer to surviving?

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WEAVING A UNIQUE TAPESTRY OF MUSICAL ART

In the past year, Wohlgle Mut the drunken Satyr has become something of a household name in our local music community. Joshua Songs lodges his character into memories and minds.

PAYING TRIBUTE TO BILLIE HOLIDAY & LESTER YOUNG

Jazz singer Billie Holiday was given the nickname “Lady Day” by her friend, saxophonist Lester Young. Young’s nickname was “Prez,” given to him by Billie Holiday.

THE ART AND PASSION OF ROLE PLAYING GAMES

It’s easy to think sometimes that art is a limited medium, or at the very least relegated to its own narrow focus. Composers write songs and perform concerts. Writers write books and hold signings.

ALSO INSIDE

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The Legend of the Green Eyes Something lingers over the Chickamauga Battlefield. Over 150 years later, the memory is not easily forgotten of the battle so bloody it cost the lives of 34,624. It’s as if 9/11 happened again and again 10 times in a row during September 18 to 20, 1864.

FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS

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CONSIDER THIS

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DINING OUT

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AIR BAG

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NEW IN THEATERS

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ARTS CALENDAR

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

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HALLOWEEN GUIDE

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JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

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MUSIC CALENDAR

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SUSHI & BISCUITS

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RECORD REVIEWS

Daniel Jackson is an independent journalist working in the Chattanooga area. He studied Communications at Bryan College and covered national events at the Washington Times. Follow him on Twitter @jcksndnl

Jen Sorensen’s weekly political cartoon appears in alternative newspapers around the country, as well as in magazines and websites such as Ms., The Progressive, and Daily Kos. Jen’s work has won several awards, including the Herblock Prize.

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BEGINNINGS ∙ CITY LIFE

Walking Against Heart Disease American Heart Association’s Heart Walk returns to Chattanooga

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If you knew every step you took could save a life, how many steps would you take? What if every step you logged in the grocery store, every step you took across campus to class, every step you took chasing after your child, puppy, or significant other, meant someone, somewhere got a step closer to surviving?

We hope you’d be signing up for marathons because in all honesty, every step you take can benefit someone in need if you’re walking at the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk.

This Saturday, start making strides to raise funds for the American Heart Association and all the good that they do for those in need. For those who have been affected by heart disease or stroke, or have a loved one who has, you’ll understand just how crucial proper funds for research, treatment, and rehabilitation are.

Being our country’s no. 1 and no. 5 killers, we need all the help we can get to show these illnesses that we aren’t going to take them lying down. We’re walking headon, full force into such illnesses and we will come out stronger for it on the other side.

Be one of the millions of heart walkers who are helping raise funds for advancements in research and treatment. Not only does this event promote fundraising, but this is your opportunity to be a light in the life of someone who has been affected by heart disease or stroke. Carry a torch for them, and don’t be afraid to let people know your motivation for walking.

“Remember, you can stop heart disease before it even starts. Start small. And keep Tennessee Valley Heart Walk Saturday, 8:30 a.m.

AT&T Field, 201 Power Alley tnvalleyheartwalk.kintera.org

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“Some experts, according to the American Heart Association, believe today’s children are not expected to live as long as their parents.” it simple. Make one change today and then you’re ready to make another,” says AHA’s website.

And that being said, the Heart Walk benefits more than just those being walked for, but it also benefits those walking. This one walk could be the kick start you needed in reaching your fitness goals, maintaining a healthier lifestyle, or simply motivating you to get up and out more. Embracing a healthier lifestyle now, may prevent you from being someone benefitted by the walk later in life.

It’s almost ludicrous to even think about, but some experts, ac-

cording to the American Heart Association, believe today’s children are not expected to live as long as their parents. Can you imagine that fact? It’s too difficult to bear, so let’s change it. Let’s get our kids, nieces, nephews, whoever, up and moving to keep their lives progressing in a positive, healthy direction, and while we’re at it, let’s live by example and take a shot at prolonging our own lives, shall we?

If you needed a sign, well here it is. Meet the hundreds of other heart walkers this Saturday and take the first step towards squashing heart disease.

Consider This with Dr. Rick

EdiToon

by Rob Rogers

“Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.” — Author Unknown

4 Bridges Arts Festival Poster Design Contest The 4 Bridges Arts Festival will return for its 17th year next April, bringing world-class fine art and craft to Chattanooga’s Southside. The diversity of styles and mediums are sure to bring artists and art buyers from across our region and beyond to create a one of a kind atmosphere of creativity.

How would you like everyone attending to see your artwork? Simple: all you need to do is design a poster to promote the festival and enter it into the 4 Bridges Poster Design contest. The winning design will be used in print and online, and is sure to be seen by tens of

thousands (if not more).

The guidelines are reasonably simple: it needs to be an original design that hasn’t been reproduced previously, it needs to be submitted by Midnight on

Halloween (yes, really), and you have to be at least 18 years or older and a legal resident of the U.S. What the folks at AVA are looking for is a poster design that not only represents Chattanooga’s largest art festival, but also shines light on our wonderful community of artists. So, grab your easel, fire up your computer, or whatever medium you like to work in, and get creative.

For the full list of guidelines and more information of the festival please visit 4bridgesartsfestival.org — Alyson McGowan

Wouldn’t it be great if all our religious institutions put aside their differences and judgments? How about if our socio-economic levels didn’t play a role in who we connected with?

What if we were all raised not to see color or race, sexual identities, ethnicities or lands of origin as problems? But instead, all these things were just part of the beautiful tapestry that makes life endlessly fascinating?

Some institutions, some individuals are able to do just that. No matter our differences, it’s our sameness, our human-ness that provides the moment to reach out a hand and help. Just help. Build that good karma and put it in the bank. Someday it may be your hand that is reaching out in need.

— Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D.

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COLUMN ∙ AIR BAG

Mediocre At Any Speed Our car guy has advice on how to keep on the road in the cold

David Traver Adolphus Pulse columnist

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INTER WEATHER IS MORE THAN just snow, although I don’t think anyone would be surprised by anything this year. As far as your car is concerned, temperatures below 40° are winter, and by Monday, Nov. 7th, the average low is 43, dropping to 40 by the 15th. That’s just over two weeks away. But what actually happens? It’s a combination of things involving your tires and the road.

First, rubber. Somewhere over 50 percent of the carcass (the “rubber” part of a tire) is actual rubber, made from tree sap. Rubber’s great trick is that when heated properly (vulcanised) it takes whatever shape you’ve given it--and never changes again.

You can’t melt it back down, because it’s changed chemically and isn’t the same rubber any more.

That’s been a huge problem for recycling, but it’s also a problem in making them, because it can only be one thing.

This is why there are summer, winter and all-season tires—because their materials have to be different.

Most people settle for all-season tires, which aren’t as good in warmth as summer tires or as good in the cold as snow tires.

I could probably draw a line somewhere across the country where it makes sense to have snow tires (I’ll call this imaginary line the “Mason-Dixon” line), but that doesn’t mean what you have on your car is the right thing.

The difference is how these things interact. For summer, you want something that holds up to heat, and stays stiff enough to handle cornering and braking on a road surface that could easily be 140 degrees. It also needs big channels to get rid of water and prevent hydroplaning, which is when water gets between your tire and the road, making you float away.

In winter, you need a tire that stays flexible in the cold and remember, “cold” means 40-ish, which turns out to be the limit of our current tire technology. We can’t make a rubber compound that excels across that barrier: It’s one side or another; or a little bit of both, which is what an all-season tire is, a compromise.

Ninety-five percent of you, then, are rolling on less-than-ideal tires, particularly troublesome at the end of summer. Your mediocre all-season tires have endured more than three months with temperatures above 90 degrees, accelerating wear, as well as breaking them down chemically. But last weekend it was into the low 40s, and the stiffening of your tires combined with changes in the road surface to make driving very different, whether you realized it or not.

All-season tires perform particularly badly in wet conditions—in an Edmunds test they came in last, worse than both snow and summer tires, in braking (by 58 feet!), handling and acceleration. Their conclusion? “Anyone who never sees

“You can use this information to change your driving habits not just in the event of snow, but based on the temperature or even time of day” or visits snow would be very well served by summer tires for yearround use.”

You can use this information to change your driving habits not just in the event of snow, but based on the temperature or even time of day. Imagine everything getting slicker as it closes in on 40, and the effect of rain being magnified.

Situations that are fine at lunchtime might become hairy after dinner, as you pass the critical threshold of slipperiness.

On a bright, crisp day, the threshold might be between light and shadow. You’re heading into a curve and go under some trees, where it’s 10 degrees colder and slightly damper, and what was adequate traction, isn’t, any longer.

It’s like looking ahead for any other kind of hazard or potentially dangerous situation. Is it getting dark? Slow down on the curves. Is it raining and cooling off? Watch out for standing water on the road.

Do you not know the last time you got new tires or at least had them rotated? Maybe stay off the highways altogether if it’s any of the above.

It’s not just stuff on the roads that changes in the fall. The road itself is different, and so is your car. You need to drive differently to be safe.

David Traver Adolphus is a freelance automotive researcher who recently quit his full time job writing about old cars to pursue his lifelong dream of writing about old AND new cars. Follow him on Twitter as @proscriptus.

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COVER STORY

Will The Real Green Eyes Please Apparate?

The legend points to something that has haunted this area for generations

By Daniel Jackson

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Pulse contributor

OMETHING LINGERS OVER THE

Chickamauga Battlefield.

Over 150 years later, the memory is not easily forgotten of the battle so bloody it cost the lives of 34,624. It’s as if 9/11 happened again and again 10 times in a row during September 18 to 20, 1864.

According to the tales, a specter with green eyes emerged from the trees and gun smoke and to this day stalks the Chickamauga National Military Park. According to Amy Petulla, owner of Chattanooga Ghost Tours, Green Eyes is one of the Chattanooga area’s most notable ghost stories. It’s significant both because of the number of people that know of Green Eyes, and the fact its haunt is the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the bloodiest wars the United States ever fought.

But talk to four different people and you may very well get five different answers as to what the Green Eyes legend is. It may take the form of a tiger, a head, a large dark figure or a Civil War soldier but “The green eyes are the thing that define it the most,” Petulla said.

“Basically lore or myth has been used by people over millennia to help explain the inexplainable and to help provide rationale for tragedy,” Pamela C. Ashmore said, head of the Anthropology department at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

And despite appearing farfetched initially, those folktales contain grains of truth. Ashmore, who focuses on biological anthropology, said in part of the Indonesian archipelago, folklore

described the presence of small humans. In 2003, scientists discovered Homo floresiensis. “We determined that there is valid fossil evidence for short statured humans that once existed on the island of Flores,” Ashmore wrote.

Paranormal investigators will take to the night with video and voice recorders hoping to capture proof of the paranormal. Could traces of Green Eyes and what it points to be found through the dusty records of local history rooms, flickering from the blue light of online databases?

Green Eyes Today According to the current telling of the Green Eyes

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legend, it is some kind of creature, a cat or something larger and more foreboding.

Georgiana C. Kotarski in her 2006 book “Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley” wrote Green Eyes takes the form of the tiger atop the monument to the Ohio 125th who is searching for the men who died when the company of 1,000 stood atop Snodgrass Hill to quell the advance of Confederates during the last day of fighting.

However, Mark Fults, psychic and author of Chattanooga Chills, said Green Eyes is a creature older than the battle, older than the Cherokee. While Fults said he has seen other paranormal events on the Battlefield (most that happened when he was driving through the

COVER STORY Battlefield often during the ‘90s) his description of Green Eyes that he wrote in his book came from listening to accounts from three people and interpreting it through his metaphysical beliefs.

He believes Green Eyes is a remnant of the worship practices of the mound builders, perhaps a guardian of a sacred space with the appearance to scare people away.

Perhaps Green Eyes is “an elemental,” Fults said, which walked with its large gnashing teeth, long hair and cape among the dead and dying during the battle to glean energy and trace elements. “Green Eyes has roots in something,” Fults said. “Either which way, he’s a warning but what is he a warning of?”

The Origins Jim Ogden, the mustachioed chief historian for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was clear about when the Green Eyes tale began. He wrote: “A former National Military Park employee who began working here in the late 1960s maintained that he was the one who started a ‘Green Eyes’ story connected with the Battle of Chickamauga.”

In other words, the Green Eyes tale is another invention from the same era that produced the Etch-A-Sketch and the 1964 Pontiac GTO. When Ogden talks with people who went to school in this area in the late 50s, early 60s, they don’t remember hearing the tale or hunting for the paranormal on the battlefield.

“When I came here in 1982, it was something that was already going around,” Ogden said. He learned about Green Eyes within the first few days that he started working at Chickamauga Battlefield. Back then, he worked in a law enforcement capacity, spending nights patrolling the battlefield.

“I’ve encountered a lot of strange things,” Ogden said, “but all those were people doing odd things, and many of them illegal things.”

The park is closed after dark and those searching for Green Eyes and other ghosts do so illegally. “It peaks” in the fall, Ogden said.

“The Green Eyes tale is another invention from the same era that produced the Etch-A-Sketch and the 1964 Pontiac GTO.” Early Ghost Hunts Accounts of early Green Eyes lore is stored in the James T. Callow Folklore Archive, which is run by the private Catholic school University of Detroit Mercy. Students taking anthropology courses recorded jokes, sayings and ghost stories. And while the school is

hundreds of miles away, Green Eyes stories may have come from the Peabody field note collection, according to Pat Higo, archives and special collections librarian for the university. There’s approximately 12,000 entries in the archive, and online they include no dates or names. According to the

archive, Green Eyes shed its animal form from 1964 to 1993. It was a soldier.

“Green Eyes (of Chickamauga Battlefield) is supposed to be a Yankee soldier that was shot, left to die, and never buried during the Civil War. His spirit is out for revenge,” said one entry. Another said it was the ghost of a soldier who lost his head thanks to a cannonball. Every night, the poor fellow searches for his appendage.

Groups of youth would drive their cars out to the battlefield to see if they could encounter Green Eyes. One group of young men believe they encountered Green Eyes when they saw a large shadow in their midst, but nothing was there when they turned on their headlights. Another account said a group watched a pair of white lights that shone in the trees descend and grow closer. After scrambling away, the group claimed they saw Green Eyes and they swore never to visit the battlefield at night.

So why do the ghost stories change?

Petulla thinks it’s a multi-year game of telephone. “The more times we tell something the more elaborate it gets,” she said.

Memory is like wet clay she said because it changes every time the event is recalled.

Furthermore, some people want to tell a good story, and embellishment occurs.

But that park ranger, the one that made up the Green Eyes tale, might not have made it up whole cloth. For there are other, older records of ghost tales in Chickamauga.

“Did you ever see a ghost?” asked “Uncle Jim” Carlock. “They used to see them on the Chickamauga Battlefields just after the war.” Carlock’s account rests in a worn, cloth-bound copy of “The Official History of Catoosa County Georgia, 1853-1953,” which sits in the genealogical collection of the Catoosa County Library. Carlock was only a child at the tail end of the Civil War. Eleven years later, he and a group of his friends traveled to Chattanooga for the Centennial celebration of 1876. They watched as a balloon was launched from Market Street. On the way home, they travcontinued on page 10

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COVER STORY eled through the battlefield.

There, in the darkness, Carlock and his companions saw it from where they sat in a wagon. “It was dark and no houses were near,” he recalled. “We saw it coming along and it looked like it was ten feet high with a big white head.” Another companion, Mr. Shields who was riding horseback, went up and hit it. There was a cry of a baby and “the ghost” said “Let me alone!” The figure was a black woman, and the large white head? It was a bundle of clothes the woman was balancing. “That was the only ghost I ever saw,” Carlock said.

Bierce’s Chickamauga And that brings us to a story birthed from the chaos of war, for years after the battle, a veteran wrote about the battle in the form of a fictionalized horror story titled “Chickamauga.”

The veteran’s name was Ambrose Bierce.

He was a contemporary of Mark Twain.

While Twain is known for his humorous writing, Bierce was known for his themes of horror. While Twain only joined the Confederate cause for two weeks, Bierce served in the Union Army as an aide to a brigadier general. On that fateful day in September of 1963, Bierce watched as thousands of Confederate forces poured into the hole in the federal line.

According to Ogden, “He has taken his own experiences and he turned it up a little bit.” Beirce wanted to be sensational for his time, a journalist and a great writer.

He may have also suffered from PTSD. Bierce, according to Ogden, had trouble recounting what personally happened to him during the Civil War, but he had “no problem describing the awful effect in horror.”

And there’s the matter of Bierce’s death.

To this day, no one is exactly sure how the writer died. All that is known is he was in Mexico at the end of 1913 with Pancho Villa’s army when he just disappeared.

According to Ogden, soldiers today come home seeking to the adrenaline rush they experienced in perilous situations like not knowing when an IED would explode.

“Today, the empty cannons of Chickamauga watch over rippling fields while birds call to each other in the autumn trees.”

They may turn to risky activities like high-stakes poker games.

In his story “Chickamauga,” Bierce tells the story of a young boy who goes out to play war near the battle of Chickamauga.

He falls asleep and wakes in the evening.

As he goes on his way, the boy discovers scores of wounded men crawling away from the fight, their faces streaked with blood, suffering wounds from which they will never recover. The boy plays among them.

Finally, he reaches a creek

where the dead are drowning. The boy goes across and he discovers his home ablaze with fire, his mother dead.

As Ogden said, fiction tries to capture a part of the human experience. Even veteran accounts that are embellished, very few are made up, according to Ogden, for they “are based on some degree of their perception of their reality.”

On the battlefield, one of the families in the path of the fighting had a handicapped child. “Did he interact with the family?” asked

Ogden. “We can’t say for certain.”

Bierce was just one person to leave Chickamauga forever changed. Today, the empty cannons of Chickamauga watch over rippling fields while birds call to each other in the autumn trees.

Years after the fight, soldiers like Confederate Captain Frank T. Ryan would recall the hellish aftermath. For Ryan, he lay shot through the leg, immobile, watching as a brush fire advanced upon him.

Ogden wrote, “You should feel something, often that something will be disturbing (although other places and/or other accounts can bring the sense of inspiration, awe, grandeur); let the real people help you sense the real events through the mind’s eye, and in the case of Chickamauga…often right where it took place.

One more thing. It’s one of those weird quirks of human events. According to his article titled “A Wry Self-Portrait,” Ambrose Bierce had green eyes.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Weaving A Unique Tapestry Of Musical Art Wohlgle Mut the Drunken Satyr melds art and music

Come And Enjoy Old Jews Telling Jokes If you have ever enjoyed a good “a priest, a rabbi and a frog all walk into a bar” joke, then you are sure to enjoy this featured presentation by Orchard Street Productions and association with Playhouse Productions, titled Old Jews Telling Jokes.

The cast of five (two women, three men) will be performing in Chattanooga for one evening only at the Jewish Cultural Center. The performance will be made up of hilarious one-liners, hysterical routines, classic jokes, comical songs and much, much more.

“We are fortunate to have this touring production stop in Chattanooga. Most of us know the work of Jewish comedians from Adam Sandler to Jerry Seinfeld, from Billy Crystal to Ben Stiller. And, this is only recent history. Think of comedians Carl Reiner, Danny Kaye, Ed Asner, Jackie Mason and Don Rickles, and the list goes on and on.” exclaimed Michael Dzik, Federation Executive Director.

All of the content will contain adult language and themes so this is not a place for the kiddies. However, it is sure to be a big chagiga (celebration) for Jews and Gentiles alike!

The Jewish Cultural Center is funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga and offers programs, classes, social services and preschool that all have roots in traditional Jewish values. — Alyson McGowan Old Jews Telling Jokes Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

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Wohgle Mut with Subterranean Circus' Lazarus Hellgate and friend

By Tony Mraz

Pulse contributor

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N THE PAST YEAR, WOHLGLE MUT THE Drunken Satyr has become something of a household name in our local music community.

Joshua Songs lodges his character into the memories and minds of his audiences with the help of theatrical elements, costuming, and an inventive spirit that is endearing as it is mischievous.

He created this persona that he maintains online and at performances, a 6-foot-tall goat man who sings like a pirate playing Tom Waits tunes.

He constructed a pair of stilts that he wears when in character, causing his body to look like something out of a C.S. Lewis novel.

“I would like each show to have the potential to be a transformative experience, like the wild hunt in Norse mythology; where people would be swept up in this thing that is simultaneously terrifying and intriguing, so that they become part of something that is larger than themselves,” Mut explains.

The term “panic” comes from the god Pan, who could at certain times have an impact on individuals and make them completely hysterical, afraid yet elated, completely overwhelmed in every way.

“You get excited, you get drawn in, you become afraid, afraid of yourself, afraid of the things around you,” says Mut. “You get carried away, watching yourself in the third person, laughing and crying, swept up in something that is larger than yourself. Something you can’t wrap your head around, something you never knew you were interested in at all.”

He continues, “I have seen it happen at shows, seen other artists do it, and I have been lucky enough to in some way participate in inspiring people in that way myself. When I find myself in the position of seeing that I helped pied piper people into some sort of apocalyptic mythological thing inside their head, it transforms me, it transforms them.”

Mut often feels like he is seeing a show or a performance from an outside perspective. A very

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“The right music made me forget the separation and be just participating, having the feeling of being a part of this amoeba of people.” emotional perspective, at that.

“Being at a show for the first time and starting to cry, being overwhelmed by the experience, is like watching a child being born—experiencing emotions for the first time. They knew the baby was going to be born, they knew what was happening, but being there and seeing it actually happen is completely different. You think you know what is going on, but when you’re there, something overtakes you. There is a connection on an emotional and spiritual level that is overwhelming. All of the things you thought, all the boundaries are dissolved.”

Dissolution is a common theme to Mut’s own creative process. He feels that performance art, by its very nature, is about boundary dissolution.

“I want people to get off their asses. I don’t think there’s anything respectable or cool about just standing there and nod-

ding your head to something that you feel strongly about,” he explains. “Maybe people aren’t made to feel strongly about something, maybe they’re hard to get to; they’re always out there. I was that way; terrified and uncomfortable around people.”

For years, Mut wouldn’t leave his house unless he was going to play a show, or going to see a show that he felt he absolutely had to see. Then at one point, he says he was watching a band called Whores for War, and they started playing a song that inspired him to run around in circles.

“I felt in no way separated from the people around me who were also moving, whereas before I felt completely alienated,” he says. “The right music made me forget the separation and be just participating, having the feeling of being a part of this amoeba of people.”

Josh has always viewed performance art as deep spiritual work. He associates his shows with shamanism, which he sees as a healing process for himself and the audience. “I like to think that we can blur the line of audience and artist, or at least confuse the apathetic

onlooker. I want the kid in tight jeans nursing his PBR in the corner to eventually get naked and flap his wings running around in circles.

We’ll all feel better once that’s out.”

He likes to think it’s just a matter of involving the observers. “We can all be this pied piper. We can all draw this depth out of ourselves and others. I believe that each show is a ceremony, every song is a ritual in itself, and there’s a particular sacrament, and set of movements with each song.

It’s like alchemy, turning the dirt into gold, the dark into light.”

To Mut, it’s all a transformative process that renders ailments into strengths. The idea of Wohlgle Mut, as he tells is, is a blend of mythos, metaphor, and the absurd.

“There are archetypal narratives dictating some of the framework that we perform within,” he notes. “It’s like we’re presenting gestures of thoughts.”

Wohlgle Mut and Mas Moss Manics will be performing next at Ziggy’s on Saturday, Nov. 5th.

THU10.27 Cocktails (& Costumes) In Color

Get creative and dress up as your favorite character from a painting.

8 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org

FRI10.28 The Rocky Horror Picture Show—An Interactive Experience

Let's all do the Time Warp again...

7:30 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Prky (423) 468-4192 thehonestpint.com

SAT10.29 Paws in the Park

Hundreds of animal lovers will be gathering to raise money for the Humane Educational Society.

10 a.m.

Ross’s Landing 100 Riverfront Pkwy.

(423) 643-6311 heschatt.org

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Last weekend for Fall Family Fun!

Open Friday thru Sunday

Oct 28-30

AquaScarium

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BlowingSpringsFarm.com

It’s

Oompah Time!

This Saturday & Sunday

October 29 & 30

Last weekend!

For more info call: 1.800.854.0675 or visit:

See RockCity .com 1400 Patten Road Lookout Mountain, GA 30750

Ooltewah Farmers Market 3 p.m.

Ooltewah Nursery 5829 Main St. (423) 238-9775 ooltewahnursery.com Signal Mountain Farmers Market 4 p.m.

Pruett’s Market 1210 Taft Hwy. (423) 902-8023 signalmountainfarmersmarket.com St. Elmo Farmers Market 4 p.m.

Incline Railway 3917 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 838-9804 lookoutfarmersmarket.com Homebuyer Orientation 5:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise 1500 Chestnut St. #102 (423) 756-6201 cneinc.org Janet Williams 7:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Old Jews Telling Jokes 7:30 p.m.

Jewish Cultural Center 5461 North Terrace (423) 493-0270 Cocktails (& Costumes) In Color 8 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art

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10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org

FRIDAY10.28 3rd Street Famers Market Erlanger Hospital 975 E. 3rd St. (423) 778-7000 AquaScarium 4 p.m.

Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St. (423) 267-3474 tnaqua.org MLK Blvd Night Market 5:30 p.m.

Jazznooga Arts Space 431 E. MLK Blvd. jazzanooga.org Halloween Eerie Express 5:45 p.m.

SPOTLIGHT: JANET WILLIAMS A Chattanooga audience favorite, the "Tennessee Tramp" doesn’t hold anything back about her views on marriage, divorce, men, and women.

Janet Williams The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com

Tennessee Valley Railroad 4119 Cromwell Rd. (423) 894-8028 tvrail.com Cambridge Square Night Market 6 p.m.

Cambridge Square 9453 Bradmore Ln. (423) 531-7754 cambridgesquaretn.com Harvest Moon Storyland Festival and Maze 6 p.m.

Tennessee Riverpark 4301 Amnicola Hwy. (423) 842-0177 Yoga on the Square 6:30 p.m.

Cambridge Square 9453 Bradmore Ln. (423) 531-7754 cambridgesquaretn.com Paddling by Moonlight

7 p.m.

Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org Michael Moore’s "Where Do We Invade Next?"

7 p.m.

Unitarian Universalist Church 3224 Navajo Dr. (423) 624-2985 uucc.org Janet Williams 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com War of the Worlds 7:30 p.m.

Historic Mars Theater 177 N. Chattanooga St. Lafayette, GA (404) 915-6939 backalleyproductions.org The Rocky Horror Picture Show—An Interactive Experience 7:30 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy.

(423) 468-4192 thehonestpint.com

SATURDAY10.29 Paws in the Park 10 a.m.

Ross’s Landing 100 Riverfront Pkwy.

(423) 643-6311 heschatt.org

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Halloween Guide hautned hilltop the final weekend of outdoor scares ghost tours learn about chattanooga's ghostly history plus: haunted houses & halloween events WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO SEE, WHEN TO SCREAM

your weekly guide to chattanooga's favorite halloween haunts

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The Haunted Hilltop

By Colin Moran

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our night begins two miles outside of the Chattanooga city limits. You pull up at the bottom of a dark steep hill. You then begin your slow ascent to the top. All you can see up on top of the hill is a house and flashing lights. When you arrive you see a house, barn, a big bonfire, cemetery and a cornfield.

You follow along a fence and a trail of tape, passing a large screen TV playing a horror movie. When you arrive at the door, you knock. The door swings open and the house looks empty. Your palms begin to sweat and your knees begin to shake. You can tell this isn’t a normal house. Are you up for the horror within?

The Haunted Hilltop returns, voted as Chattanooga’s Best and Largest Haunted attraction for the third year in a row. This attraction includes a huge haunted house, a dark maze, long terrifying haunted hayride through the woods and cornfield, and over 50 professional live actors nightly. You will also get to experience the longest vortex tunnel in the south.

This year they are bringing many new state of the art animatronics and props on top of much reconstruction to make this the most terrifying year yet.

What makes this attraction stand out from the others is the fact that you get two haunted experiences in one. You have the haunted house which twists and turns through two buildings and is full of actors, props, sights and smells, but when you make it out, the relief doesn’t last for long. You will load up on what looks like a nice friendly hayride around a cornfield. Hold on tight and be aware of your surroundings. You just never know what’s going to come out of the woods. Is that a chainsaw I hear?

One of the best features of the attraction is how well they accommodate you before the haunt begins.

There is no waiting in line. Tickets can be purchased online on their website or bought when you arrive. Once you have your tickets you go check in then they will call your group number over the P.A. when it’s your turn to enter.

It will get pretty nerve racking as the groups in front of you have their numbered called and your time is getting closer. Your heart racing will get your blood pumping but if that doesn’t warm you up enough they also have a huge bonfire and several outdoor heaters that will do the trick.

And if that isn’t enough they have a fully stocked concession stand. Another unique element of this haunt is the fact that they have a scary movie playing on a large screen TV as you wait. It really helps to get the mood right if all the other scare factors haven’t already.

Chattanooga Ghost Tours

By Alyson McGowan

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s a Chattanooga native and a huge fan of the supernatural, you would think I would know the eerie history of my own city. Turns out, I was wrong.

Now, I do know a few local legends like the story of the Reed House, but I had no idea the extent of what the Chattanooga Ghost Tours can tell you. In approximately a mile of walking through downtown, you’ll be sure to discover all the deep, dark history of Chattanooga’s past; and the best part is that all the stories are completely true.

Tickets for the downtown ghost

tours start at $15.95 when booked online and $16.95 when walking in. The tours are held nightly and begin at 8:30 p.m., normally leaving from their headquarters on Market Street, unless instructed otherwise.

The tours are roughly one and a half to two hours long and the route is wheelchair accessible. While guests are not guaranteed to see a ghost, many people have reported seeing apparitions, feeling tugging on their clothing, or a general sense of uneasiness.

The Chattanooga Ghost tours was

named a Top Ten attraction in the nation by TripAdvisor and would be a great Halloween activity for anyone with a sense of adventure. Just don’t let any of the ghosts follow you home.

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Haunted Houses & Events Acres of Darkness: Haunted Trail & Family Adventures Chattanooga Audubon Acres 900 N. Sanctuary Rd. (423) 892-1499 Fridays & Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $15; $5 off for CAS members acresofdarkness.com Asylum’s CarnEvil 527 W. Inman Rd. Cleveland, TN (423) 473-9668 facebook.com/asylumcleveland Blowing Springs Farm 271 Chattanooga Valley Rd., Flintstone, GA Fridays-Sundays in Oct. Tickets: $10 all ages, Free ages 3-under blowingspringsfarm.com Boo in the Zoo 301 N. Holtzclaw Ave. Fridays & Saturdays, starting Oct. 21 Tickets: $9.95 adults, $6.95 children, free ages 2-under, Half off for members chattzoo.org Fall Hayrides & Campfires at Cloudland Canyon 122 Cloudland Canyon Park Rd. Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $6 adults, $3 children, free 2 and under gastateparks.org Halloween Eerie Express 4199 Cromwell Rd. Fridays & Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $22 ages 2 & up tvrail.com The Haunted Barn 5017 McDonald Rd.,

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McDonald, TN Fridays & Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $20 all ages thehauntedbarnchattanooga.com Haunted Cavern Ruby Falls 1720 South Scenic Hwy. Fridays-Sundays in Oct. Tickets: $25 (Fri.), $30 (Sat.), $20 (Thurs/Sun) hauntedcavern.com Haunted Hilltop 8235 Hwy. 58, Harrison, TN Fridays & Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $20 for everything or $15 per attraction thehauntedhilltop.com Lake WinnepeSPOOKah 1730 Lakeview Dr. Fridays & Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $22 ages 3-54 lakewinnie.com/spookah Mayfield Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch 257 Hwy 307 E. Athens, TN Fridays and Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $13 mayfieldmaze.com Post-Mortem Haunted Trail 200 Natures Trl SW Cleveland, TN Saturdays & Sundays in Oct. Tickets: $15 teamtwiste5.wix.com/post-mortem Ringgold Haunted Depot 155 Depot St., Ringgold, GA Fridays & Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $15 for all ages cityofringgold.com The River Maze

1371 Hwy. 64 Cleveland, TN Fridays-Sundays in Oct. Tickets: $10, 3 & under free therivermaze.com Rock City Gardens’ Rocktoberfest 1400 Patten Rd. Saturdays & Sundays in Oct. Tickets: $22.95 for adults, $12.95 for kids seerockcity.com Shocktober Nights 490 County Rd. 67 Riceville, TN Fridays & Saturdays in Oct. Tickets: $16.50 shocktobernights.com Tennessee Aquarium’s AquaScarium & ODDtober Events 1 Broad St. Oct. 28 Tickets: $40 for adults, $30 for children tnaqua.org McKamey BARKtober Fest and MEOWlloween Party 4500 N. Access Rd. Oct. 22 Tickets: Free ($13 cat adoptions and $31 dog adoptions) mckameyanimalcenter.org Trick or Treat at Hamilton Place 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd.

Oct. 31 Tickets: Free hamiltonplace.com Trick or Treat at Northgate Mall 271 Northgate Mall Oct. 31 Tickets: Free visitnorthgatemall.com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR

FINAL WEEK! IN NATION VOTED TOP 10 a MUST SEE HAUNT -Rand McNally -Scurryface

Cirque de La Symphonie Northside Famers Market 10 a.m.

Northside Presbyterian Church 923 Mississippi Ave. Brainerd Farmers Market 10 a.m.

Grace Episcopal Church 20 Belvoir Ave. (404) 245-3682 Northside Farmers Market 10 am.

Northside Presbyterian Church 923 Mississippi Ave. (423) 266-7497 St. Alban’s Hixson Market 10 a.m.

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church 7514 Hixson Pike (423) 842-6303 Faff 6 11 a.m.

Cine-Rama 100 W. Mains St. (423) 521-1716 thecinerama.org Trail Zombie Run & Halloween Fest 5 p.m.

McCoy Farm 1715 Anderson Pke. mccoywalden.org Halloween Eerie Express 5:45 p.m.

Tennessee Valley Railroad 4119 Cromwell Rd. (423) 894-8028 tvrail.com Harvest Moon Storyland Festival and Maze 6 p.m.

Tennessee Riverpark 4301 Amnicola Hwy. (423) 842-0177 Janet Williams

7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com War of the Worlds 7:30 p.m.

Historic Mars Theater 177 N. Chattanooga St. Lafayette, GA (404) 915-6939 backalleyproductions.org An Evening of Opera Scenes 7:30 p.m.

Roland Hayes Concert Hall 752 Vine St. utc.edu The Library 8 p.m.

Chattanooga Theater Center 400 River St. (423) 267-8538

SUNDAY10.30 Rocktober Fest 8:30 a.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd. (706) 820-2531 seerockcity.com River GORGEous Fall Color Cruises 10 a.m.

River Gorge Explorer 201 Riverfront Pkwy.

(800) 262-0695 Haunted Chattanooga Market 11 a.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1829 Carter St. (423) 648-2496 chattanoogamarket.com

Faff 6 11 a.m.

Cine-Rama 100 W. Main St. (423) 521-1716 thecinerama.org Fall and Thanksgiving Table Center Workshop 1 p.m.

Crabtree Farms 1000 E. 30th St. (423) 493-9155 crabtreefarms.org Janet Williams 7:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Cirque de La Symphonie 7:30 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium 399 McCallie Ave. (423) 757-5580 tivollichattanoga.com

MONDAY10.31 Trick or Treat at AT&T Field 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley Miib.com Red Bank Farmers Market 4 p.m.

Red Bank United Methodist 3800 Dayton Blvd.

(423) 838-9804 lookoutfarmersmarket.com (423) 999-7958 Monday Night Social 6:30 p.m.

Cambridge Square

9453 Bradmore Ln. (423) 531-7754 cambridgesquaretn.com

Now until Oct. 31

TUESDAY11.1 East Brainerd Farmers Market 4 p.m.

Audubon Acres 900 N. Sanctuary Rd. (423) 838-9804 lookoutfarmersmarket.com Parsons Dance 7:30 p.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center 752 Vine St. (423) 425-4371 utc.edu

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WEDNESDAY11.2 Middle East Dance 10:30 a.m.

Jewish Cultural Center 5461 North Terrace (423) 493-0270 jewishchattanooga.com Main Street Market 4 p.m.

325 E. Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.com Wednesday Night Chess Club 6 p.m.

Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 643-7700 chattilibrary.com Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com

Check website for Details & Hours!

RubyFallsZIP.com 423.821.2544 423.821.2544

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MUSIC

Paying Tribute To A Pair Of Jazz Legends The music of Billie Holiday and Lester Young

Fiddle Fest Comes To UTC This Saturday Award-winning fiddlers Jim Wood and John Boulware, along with guitarist Inge Wood, are hosting the UTC Fiddle Fest this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and if you love the fiddle, this is exactly where you need to be.

The Fiddle Fest will be a day-long festival learning about and playing American fiddle tunes and folk music in an informal orchestra setting with musical arrangements of the tunes made by Jim Wood.

Jim Wood is a master with a fiddle in his hands. He has won over 160 first prizes in folk music competitions, including at least seven fiddle championships. His pupil, John Boulware, is also a Tennessee state champion in fiddling. Along with Jim’s wife Inge Wood, all three of these clinicians are multi-instrumentalists.

If you are a player of a string instrument, then you definitely don’t want to give up on this opportunity to learn from these experts.

The Fiddle Fest Orchestra is open to players of violin, viola, cello, and guitar at the intermediate to advanced levels for grades 9 all the way up to adulthood.

The ability to read music is required. Pre-registration is available at utcmusic.org, then click the button for UTC Fiddle Festival. The Festival will conclude with a public free concert at 5 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall on the UTC campus. — Colin Moran UTC Fiddle Fest and Fiddle Orchestra Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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By Ernie Paik

Pulse contributor

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AZZ SINGER BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS given the nickname “Lady Day” by her friend, saxophonist Lester Young. Young’s nickname was “Prez,” given to him by—you guessed it—Billie Holiday. Their special bond existed both inside and outside the musical realm, and the Knoxville duo of vocalist Kelle Jolly and saxophonist Will Boyd—who have a special bond of their own—will pay tribute to Holiday and Young at Barking Legs Theater on Thursday, Nov. 3.

“My favorite Billie Holiday song that she made famous is ‘He’s Funny That Way,’” said Jolly.

“It describes my relationship with my husband.

He’s always calm but will follow me with my wild ideas. Just like the lyrics say: ‘He never hollers, he’d live in a tent.’”

Jolly and Boyd met at South Carolina State University before Boyd moved to Knoxville to

study with revered jazz educators/performers Jerry Coker and Donald Brown. Jolly, who was living at Chattanooga at the time, and Boyd reconnected and performed frequently together, before getting married at a jazz festival in Japan.

In Knoxville, Jolly and Boyd have worked tirelessly to help cultivate the jazz scene; a multiinstrumentalist, Boyd teaches, leads clinics and is a member of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra. Jolly is the host of a TV show and the weekly WUOT radio show “Jazz Jam,” the founder of the annual Women in Jazz Jam Festival, an educator and a ukulele enthusiast, in addition to being a vocalist with a repertoire that includes jazz, folk, gospel and even songs by Dolly Parton.

In an interview with Marcus Carmon, Jolly described an incredible opportunity to fly to New York City to meet Nona Hendryx. After Hendryx asked Jolly, “Who are you as an artist?” Jolly realized she didn’t have an answer, and it was a pivotal moment in her career, when she realized that she needed to focus and define herself.

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“Jolly and Boyd have worked tirelessly to help cultivate the jazz scene; a multi-instrumentalist, Boyd teaches, leads clinics and is a member of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra.”

When asked how she would answer that question today, Jolly described her experience portraying the preacher and songwriter Leola Manning in the play Between a Ballad and a Blues as a member of Knoxville’s Carpetbag Theatre.

“Carpetbag Theatre exposed me to the legacy of African American musicians in East Tennessee,” said Jolly. “Musicians through the decades have served people in the same ways over time, playing parties, cultural celebrations, funerals, etc.”

“I related so much to these stories, and I saw myself in them,” said Jolly. “So during the process of performing on stage, I realized that I too was part of this African American musical heritage.”

For Jolly’s Women in Jazz Jam Festival, every rehearsal started and ended with a circle—which she learned from

the Carpetbag Theatre—and she was touched by the numerous stories she heard during these circles from women feeling overlooked or under-appreciated.

“We all have experienced some kind of art-making trauma, that left us not feeling good about ourselves,” said Jolly. “But this experience left women feeling supported and empowered.”

“That was the seed I wanted to plant with the festival: operate in honesty and love, and it will permeate through everything you do,” said Jolly.

“I also realized the economic impact of bringing women together. Mostly we are unaware of the systems we operate in and how left out of the loop women are because everyone treats it like it’s normal,” said Jolly. “So for young ladies, we have to build connections that give young women a network to plug into.”

While Lester Young may not be a household name, he influenced saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz and perhaps has had an even bigger cultural impact from the

slang terms that he coined, including “cool,” “crib” and “homeboy.”

“The most notable thing that I’ve learned from Lester Young is his sense of phrasing and lyricism,” said Boyd.

“Prez was famous for his understated style and use of space. He didn’t need to play a lot of fast runs and high notes if they were not necessary.”

At the November 3 performance, with Jolly and Boyd accompanied by guitarist David Bivens, bassist Matt Nelson and drummer Matt Turnure, don’t expect Billie Holiday impersonations.

(Google “David Sedaris Billie Holiday Oscar Meyer” if that’s what you want.)

“I’m not trying to copy Billie Holiday,” said Jolly. “But I would like to sing the repertoire she made famous, in my own way.”

“I like to sing like I am feeling those words for the first time even though I’ve been singing ‘All of Me’ for over 20 years,” said Jolly.

“Billie Holiday is quoted as saying, ‘If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.’”

THU10.27 Vincent Ivan Phipps

The master storyteller brings his unique style to an outdoor campfire, just in time for Halloween.

7 p.m.

Greenway Farms 5051 Gann Store Rd. outdoorchattanooga.com

FRI10.28 Here Come the Mummies

The best funk jam boogie band ever to put on endless layers of cloth strips and awesome face paint.

9 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co

SAT10.29 Shawnessey Cargile

Local singer/songwriter who has been making a name for himself for some time—come find out why.

9 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery and Restaurant 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com/chattanoog

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LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR

Backup Planet

THURSDAY10.27 James Crumble Trio 6 p.m.

St. John’s Meeting Place 1278 Market St. stjohnsrestaurant.com Rick Rushing Blues Jazz N’ Friends 6 p.m.

Bluewater Grille 224 Broad St. bluewaterchattanooga.com Live Bluegrass 6:30 p.m.

Whole Foods Market 301 Manufacturers Rd. wholefoodsmarket.com Vincent Ivan Phipps 7 p.m.

Greenway Farms 5051 Gann Store Rd. outdoorchattanooga.com Bluegrass Thursdays 7:30 p.m.

Feed Co. Table & Tavern 201 W. Main St. feedtableandtavern.com Jesse James & Tim Neal 7:30 p.m.

Mexi-Wing VII 5773 Brainerd Rd. mexi-wingchattanooga.com Keepin’ It Local 8 p.m.

The Social 1110 Market St. publichousechattanooga.com Open Mic with Hap Henninger 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com

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FRIDAY10.28 Eddie Pontiac 6 p.m.

El Meson 2204 Hamilton Place Blvd. elmesonrestaurant.com Binji Varsossa 6 p.m.

Cancun Mexican Restaurant & Lounge 1809 Broad St. (423) 266-1461 Tim Lewis 7 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonchattanooga.com Blackberry Smoke 8 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. tivolichattanooga.com

SPOTLIGHT: RYE BABY High energy folk/ Americana duo has been playing their brand of back-to-thebasics folk/roots/blues/ country music all over the Southeast.

Rye Baby Sunday, 12:30 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com

Special Selection 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Hap Henninger 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Backup Planet 9 p.m.

Revelry Room 41 Station St. revelryroom.co Here Come the Mummies 9 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co Caney Village, Heatherly 9 p.m.

JJ's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd.

jjsbohemia.com Jeff Bates 9 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery and Restaurant 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com/chattanooga Three Star Revival 10 p.m.

Clyde’s On Main 122 W. Main St. clydesonmain.com Matt Stephens Band 10 p.m.

Raw Bar & Grill 409 Market St. rawbarandgrillchatt.com VoodoSlim 10 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com

SATURDAY10.29 UTC Fiddle Fest 10 a.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center 725 Vine St utcmusic.org Eddie Pontiac 6 p.m.

El Meson 2204 Hamilton Place Blvd. elmesonrestaurant.com Binji Varsossa 6 p.m.

Cancun Mexican Restaurant & Lounge 1809 Broad St. (423) 266-1461 Tim Lewis 7 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR

Crunk Bones Jones El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonchattanooga.com NF 8 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co Special Selection 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Strung Like A Horse 9 p.m.

Revelry Room 41 Station St. revelryroom.co Shawnessey Cargile 9 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery and Restaurant 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com/chattanooga Crunk Bones Jones 10 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com KISFITS, Audacity 9 p.m.

JJ's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Matt Stephens Band 10 p.m.

Raw Bar & Grill 409 Market St. rawbarandgrillchatt.com VoodoSlim 10 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com

Dr. B and the Ease 10:30 p.m.

Roy’s Grill 116 Chickmauga Ave. roysgrill.us

SUNDAY10.30 Lauds 9 a.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Morning Song 10 a.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Kyle Nachtigal 11 a.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Rye Baby 12:30 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Liz Brasher 1:30 p.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Ryan Oyer 2 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Open Mic with Jeff Daniels 6 p.m.

Long Haul Saloon 2536 Cummings Hwy. (423) 822-9775

MONDAY10.31 Monday Nite Big Band 7 p.m.

The Coconut Room 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Very Open Mic 8 p.m.

The Well 1800 Rossville Blvd. #8 wellonthesouthside.com Open Mic Night 6 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com Open Air with Jessica Nunn 7:30 p.m.

Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfalloonchattanooga.com Halloween With Moon Taxi 9 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co Super Happy Funtime Burlesque Halloweeen Show 9 p.m.

JJ's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

TUESDAY11.1 Daniel Asia 7:30 p.m.

Cadek Conservatory of Music 725 Oak St. utc.edu Open Mic with Mike McDade

8 p.m.

Tremont Tavern 1203 Hixson Pike tremonttavern.com Big Business, Red Necklace 9 p.m.

JJ's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

WEDNESDAY11.2 Daniel Asia 5:30 p.m.

Cadek Conservatory of Music 725 Oak St. utc.edu Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonrestaurant.com Open Jam 8 p.m.

Raw Dance Club 409 Market St. rawbarandgrillchatt.com Wednesday Night Jazz 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Free Kittens Comedy Showcase 9 p.m.

JJ's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com CHATTANOOGAPULSE.COM • OCTOBER 27, 2016 • THE PULSE • 23

RECORD REVIEWS ∙ ADAM BECKETT

Chattaboogie Offers Free Music, Swayyvo Presents A Cornucopia

Chattaboogie Free Music (facebook.com/ ChattaboogieMusic)

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hattaboogie is currently producing some fantastic homegrown music. Where almost any genre can be found in production studios throughout the city, the content that has been standing out boldly here of late has been the hip-hop music.

With so many aspiring artists attempting to make a name, sometimes the market becomes flooded, and it becomes challenging to find quality music; however, that has not been the case in Chattanooga over the last few months.

The hip-hop scene is thriving, and it does not appear to be slowing down any time soon.

Contributing to the heavy hitting Chattanooga local hip-hop scene is Rock Floyd’s newest album Free Music, which is a spectacular album on so many levels.

Having all of the quali-

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ties that makes up good music, Free Music lacks nothing to be an elite album, and is a must have for any Hip-Hop or local Chattanooga music advocate. The musical blend with the lyrical flow is surgical in every track from start to finish; and the heart and soul that protrudes from its sound is brazen.

Free Music is what happens when a free thinker with the gift of gab gets an opportunity to unleash his spirit into a musical outlet.

Rock Floyd has a natural ability to guide the listener through a journey that is his mind, and it is easy to connect to it, and feel where his heart space was when creating the album. The tracks that standout are “Northshore Blues (featuring Kindor & Swayyvo)”, “Walnut Street Bridge”, “Sad Summer”, and “Real Life”.

To witness firsthand the progression of Chattanooga’s music scene grow exponentially over the last year has been rewarding.

Some excellent music has come from the ridges and valleys that cut through and surround it.

The local hip-hop scene is thriving, and those sleeping on the sound need a wakeup call. Rock Floyd’s Free Music is a

classic and is a staple album for any music collection.

Swayyvo Conrnucopia (facebook.com/swayyvo)

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ocal music artist Jerod Morton, who goes by the artist name Swayyvo, is drawing attention to his home town of Chattanooga with a sundry, soul-filled sound. He is a singular kind of artist that loves making music and performing, and specializes in the art of the emcee, piano, saxophone, and music production.

Swayvo can often be found at various locations across town giving the passerby ’s the gift of love through music with his saxophone, or performing live at various churches, and packed venues across Chattanooga.

Swayyvo recently released his first full length album Cornucopia, which is diverse music that is full of neo soul, hip-hop, Jazz, pop, heart, soul, and love.

Producing a full-length album gave him the platform to demonstrate his skills as a diverse musician and artist, and he took the opportunity to unleash his talent. He bends and blends genres with seamless ease, and his love for music is apparent through each individually hand crafted track.

Each vibrant track is unique and essential to the album, but notably “Real Good” featuring Floami Fly, “Good Father”, and “Wrong Idea” are all stellar tracks. Swayyvo does a masterful job at timing his saxophone to be in perfect tune with his music. It almost like listening to his soul pour out on record.

According to Swayyvo, the term “Cornucopia” reflects abundance. His musical mind is abundantly full of love, light, instruments, and understanding. That’s why the cover of the album has an image of a cornucopia coagulating with the different instruments inside of his mind that have been intricate to his musical persuasion.

Cornucopia reflects Swayyzo and his abundance as an artist.

Swayyvo is doing great things for the Chattanooga music scene. It will be fun to see what the future holds.

FOOD & DRINK ∙ DINING OUT

National Acclaim, Local Flavor Downtown Chattanooga's 212 Market Restaurant is a must-visit

By Jenn Webster Pulse contributor

For years, 212 Market has garnered awards across the state and even nationally.

The restaurant has blossomed since its inception—way back in 1992, during the Tennessee Aquarium’s construction. In fact, it’s Chattanooga’s oldest organic restaurant.

212 Market has won the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 15 years running.

This year, 212 Market was listed Tennessee’s best farm-to-table restaurant by Travel+Leisure. Other recognitions include certification by the Tennessee Green Hospitality Association and by the green|light program, a corporate sustainability certification awarded by Chattanooga’s green|spaces initiative.

Even now, “green” and “organic” may sound over-trendy, perhaps indicating a fleeting fad. 212 Market, though, roots its food fashion firmly in robust Tennessee tradition. Local farmers, fisheries, bakeries and wineries supply the fare, which varies—like Grandma’s used to—from season to season. There’s even an herb garden.

Examine this fall’s specials. There’s North Carolina trout with roasted red potatoes, mushrooms and red peppers with arugula pesto. Or try the October vegetables—Logan Turnpike polenta (solidified cornmeal porridge), eggplant, acorn squash, blistered tomatoes, roasted fennel and kale with a balsamic reduction.

Everything on the fall lunch menu highlights fresh, savory local fare, with notes varying from traditional Deep South to Country French. There’s a roast beet and orange sal-

212 Market Restaurant

Open daily for Lunch and Dinner.

212 Market St ∙ Chattanooga (423) 265-1212 www.212market.com

ad, a dish of fried green tomatoes accompanied by lemon fennel slaw, and a quiche with roasted broccoli, Southern Foothills shitake mushrooms (I had no idea we could grow shitake mushrooms in these parts) and Sweetwater cheddar cheese, accompanied by a salad of local greens. Sandwiches include delicious twists on old standbys, such as grilled pimiento cheese, pecan chicken club (yes, there’s bacon) and corned beef on pumpernickel.

For dinner, there’s my favorite— the Simpson Farms beef burger, served with pimento cheese and house fries. There’s another dish I hope to recreate for Thanksgiving: the roasted butternut and spinach risotto with cranberry relish that accompanies the Springer Mountain chicken. Or try one of the numerous vegetarian options, such as the ravioli made of local chestnuts, goat cheese and spinach, served

with fall greens, local shitake mushrooms, parmesan cheese and tomato ragout.

on local treats, 212 Market curates wines from around the world. Local craft beers are also represented—it was at 212 Market, back in the mid ‘90s, that I had my first Tennesseebrewed beer.

The atmosphere, too, is perfectly suited to a Tennessee autumn. With wrought-iron tables outside and bare wood fixtures inside, you won’t mind rolling up your sleeves and putting your elbows on the table.

Lately, local art has joined the Moses family’s works on display, some of it available for sale. And there are still the nosegays on the tables inside and the herb garden outside, scenting the air.

On-line reviews call out favorite servers by name, highlighting the stability of the staff and the friendly atmosphere. Visit 212 Market and prepare yourself for a long, leisurely evening of food, drink, and downhome tranquility.

“ With wrought-iron tables outside and bare wood fixtures inside, you won’t mind rolling up your sleeves and putting your elbows on the table. ” If you’re worried you won’t have room for dessert after one of these generous entrees, start with an appetizer and work your way straight to the sweets selection. Plenty of the items on the appetizer list are rich enough to make a meal, such as the maple glazed Georgia quail breast, served with polenta fries and cranberry ketchup. The dessert selection itself is ample: tarts, ice creams, sorbets, bread pudding, cheesecakes and…oh yes…peanut butter pie.

And on Tuesdays, get half-priced wine with featured flavors to explore. While the kitchen focuses

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FILM & TELEVISION

Deep Inside Role Playing Games Documentary looks at the art and passion behind Dungeons & Dragons

By John DeVore Pulse Film Editor

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T’S EASY TO THINK SOMEtimes that art is a limited medium, or at the very least relegated to its own narrow focus. Composers write songs and perform concerts. Writers write books and hold signings. Musicians play in orchestras. Painters and sculptors display their work in galleries. To experience this work, you must go where the art is. It’s impossible to make a living as an artist in this world without a patron or independent wealth. But these are fallacies to be sure.

Despite its many problems, our capitalist system is great for a few things. For one, it can reward the immensely talented. Strong natural ability combined with drive and luck creates success. Those individuals that can locate a need and fill it, no

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matter how niche, are destined to do great things.

There are many ways that art can fill a need. The most obvious would be the actors, illustrators, and composers used in Hollywood to create blockbusters. But art is not limited simply to performance—it is varied, applicable, and commonplace. It exists across areas of the economy that are often unexpected. The Dwarvenaut is a documentary that examines one such artist. It’s the story of how an artist can take an idea and fill a need that the rest of the world didn’t even know existed.

Most Americans will have at least heard of “Dungeons and Dragons”, the dominating, quintessential role playing game that lurked in the basements of a certain type of teen during the ‘80s. It’s still going strong today, of course, with games happening all over the country, still in basements of

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“After being rejected by the artistic community for his interest in realism, Pokorny found himself working in a miniatures shop and developing an idea that ultimately led him to success.” a certain type of teen, but also in the spare rooms of a certain type of adult.

As our society becomes more plural and accepting, and the nerd/geek style becomes more chic, D&D is not quite the marker of the strange that it was. For some reason, at the beginning of its popularity, the game suffered from right wing, religious paranoia, billed as a gateway to black magic and devil worship. Of course, this just heightened its demand, especially among teenagers that hadn’t found any other way to rebel.

My experience with D&D is limited to a few unfinished, late night campaigns in high school.

It was a harmless chance to act goofy with my friends. For others, though, D&D is a way a life.

Stefan Pokorny was one of these teens. Stefan was a talented artist who had no interest in school. His adoptive parents,

New York immigrants who took him to Europe in the summers, gave him a unique childhood on the streets of Brooklyn. D&D was his escape from the mean streets of New York and it gave him an opportunity to express himself in ways that he couldn’t find elsewhere.

Much later, after being rejected by the artistic community for his interest in realism, Pokorny found himself working in a miniatures shop and developing an idea that ultimately led him to success. Through the implementation of Kickstarter campaigns, Pokorny creates miniature, expertly detailed dungeons for players of “Dungeons and Dragons.”

The documentary focuses on his latest Kickstarter, which raised over $600k in one day, as well as his visit to Gary Con (the annual “Dungeons and Dragons” convention named in honor of game creator Gary Gygax) where he hopes to drum of support for his new city of Valoria.

The film is entirely focused on the art and background of Pokorny, a celebration of his peculiar endearing person-

ality and his artistic vision. It is his story, told through his eyes, in his words. As such, the film suffers some from a lack of perspective.

We get very little in the way of outside interviews, no clarity on the nature of Stefan Pokorny from the outside. There are hints at substance abuse, and deeper struggles and complexities, but the film seems content to focus on the positives and in some ways promote his company Dwarven Forge.

The film is short on real emotion—the only instance of Pokorny not being his chipper, weird self is at the end when he visits the final resting place of his parents.

It might have done better to explore this side of its subject, rather than focus entirely on his work.

Even with these lapses, The Dwarvenaut is an entertaining look at a subculture and an artist that works on his own terms. Documentaries are meant to open the eyes of the audience to new worlds. The Dwarvenautshows us a smaller one and makes it seems large.

✴ ✴ NEW IN THEATERS ✴ ✴

Inferno When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.

Director: Ron Howard Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan

Boo! A Madea Halloween Madea winds up in the middle of mayhem when she spends a haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls and zombies while keeping a watchful eye on a group of misbehaving teens.

Director: Tyler Perry Stars: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY indigenous North American tribes.

ROB BREZSNY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During this Halloween season, you have cosmic permission to be a bigger, bolder, and extra beguiling version of yourself. I trust you will express your deep beauty with precise brilliance and imagine your future with superb panache and wander wherever the hell you feel like wandering.

It’s time to be stronger than your fears and wilder than your trivial sins.

Halloween costume suggestion: the superhero version of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I won’t offer you the cliché “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

Instead, I’ll provide alternatives. How about this, from the video game Portal 2: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! Say, ‘I don’t want your damn lemons!’” Or you could try this version, from my friend Barney: “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on them like Tom Hanks did on his volleyball in the movie Cast Away, and engage them in sexy philosophical conversation.”

Or consider this Brazilian proverb: “When life gives you lemons, make caipirinhas.” (Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail.) Suggestion: Play around with these themes to create your Halloween costume.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All of us are creators and destroyers. It’s fun and healthy to add fresh elements to our lives, but it’s also crucial to dispose of things that hurt and distort us. Even your body is a hotbed of both activities, constantly killing off old cells and generating new ones. But in my understanding, you are now in a phase when there’s far more creation than destruction.

Enjoy the exalted buzz! Halloween costume suggestions: a creator god or goddess, like the Greeks’ Gaia or Prometheus; Rainbow-Snake from the Australian Aborigines; Unkulunkulu from the Zulus; or Coyote, Raven, or Spider Grandmother from

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1938, a chef named Ruth Wakefield dreamed up a brilliant invention: chocolate chip cookies. She sold her recipe to the Nestlé company in return for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Maybe she was happy with that arrangement, but I think she cheated herself. And so, I offer her action as an example of what you should NOT do. During the next ten months, I expect you will come up with many useful innovations and intriguing departures from the way things have always been done. Make sure you get full value in return for your gifts! Halloween costume ideas: Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Hedy Lamarr, Leonardo da Vinci, Temple Grandin, George Washington Carver, Mark Zuckerberg.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers, I authorize you to escape dull realities and go rambling through the frontier. Feel free to fantasize twice as hard and wild as you normally do. Avoid literalists and realists who think you should be more like them.

This is not a time to fuss over exacting details, but rather to soar above the sober nonsense and see as far as you can. You have permission to exult in the joys of wise innocence.

Halloween costume suggestions: bohemian poet, mad scientist, carefree genius, brazen explorer.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to fantasize about what your four great-grandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930. What?

You have no idea how to begin?

You don’t even know their names?

If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to create the future you want requires you to learn more about where and whom you came from. Halloween costume suggestion: your most interesting ancestor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At any one time, over two million frozen human embryos are stored in tissue banks throughout Europe and North America. When the time is right, their owners retrieve them and bring them to term. That’s the first scenario I invite you to use as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks. Here’s a second scenario: Scotch whiskey is a potent mind-altering substance. Any particular batch must mature for at least three years, and may be distilled numerous times. There are currently

Homework: Scare yourself with your exquisite beauty. Freak yourself out by realizing how amazing you are. Testify at Freewillastrology.com 20 million barrels of the stuff mellowing in Scottish warehouses. And what do these two scenarios have to do with you? It’s time to tap into resources that you’ve been saving in reserve—that haven’t been ripe or ready until now. Halloween costume suggestions: a woman who’s nine months pregnant; a blooming rose or sunflower; ripe fruit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To create a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, a winemaker needs about 700 grapes.

Compare this process with rain-making. When water vapor that’s high in the sky becomes dense enough, it condenses into tiny pearls of liquid called cloud droplets. If the humidity rises even further, a million of these babies might band together to form a single raindrop that falls to earth.

And what does this have to do with your life? I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have both an affinity and a skill for processes that resemble wine-making and rainmaking. You’ll need a lot of raw material and energetic effort to produce a relatively small marvel—but that’s exactly as it should be. Halloween costume suggestion: a raindrop or bottle of wine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some Brazilians eat the heads of piranhas in the belief they’re aphrodisiacs.

In Zimbabwe, women may make strategic use of baboon urine to enhance their allure. The scientific name for Colombia’s leaf-cutter ant is hormiga culona, translated as “fat-assed ant.” Ingesting the roasted bodies of these critters is thought to boost sexual desire. Since you’re in a phase when tapping in to your deepest erotic longings will be healthy and educational, you may want to adopt elements of the aforementioned love drugs to create your Halloween costume. Here are other exotic aphrodisiacs from around the world that you might be inspired by: asparagus, green M&Ms, raw oysters, wild orchids, horny goat weed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you know how to repair a broken zipper or patch a hole in your bicycle tire? Are

you familiar with the art of caulking a bathtub or creating a successful budget? Can you compose a graceful thank-you note, cook a hearty soup from scratch, or overcome your pride so as to reconcile with an ally after an argument? These are the kinds of tasks I trust you will focus on in the coming weeks. It’s time to be very practical and concrete. Halloween costume suggestion: Mr. or Ms. Fix-It. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the film Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger played a benevolent android who traveled here from the future. As a strong, silent action hero, he didn’t need to say much. In fact, he earned $30,000 for every word he uttered.

I’m hoping your speech will pack a comparable punch in the coming days. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your persuasiveness should be at a peak. You’ll have an exceptional ability to say what you mean and mean what you say. Use this superpower with flair and precision! Halloween costume suggestion: ancient Greek orator Demosthenes; Martin Luther King Jr.; Virginia Woolf; Sojourner Truth; rapper MC Lyte, Winston Churchill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the prosperity-building phase of your cycle. Let’s celebrate! Let’s brainstorm! Are there rituals you can create to stimulate the financial lobes of your imagination, thereby expediting your cash flow? Here are a few ideas: 1. Glue a photo of yourself on a $20 bill. 2. Make a wealth shrine in your home. Stock it with symbols of specific thrills you can buy for yourself when you have more money. 3. Halloween costume suggestions: a giant bar of gold, a banker carrying a briefcase full of big bills, Tony Stark, Lady Mary Crawley, Jay Gatsby, Lara Croft, the Yoruban wealth goddess Ajé.

Rob Brezsny is an aspiring master of curiosity, perpetrator of sacred uproar, and founder of the Beauty and Truth Lab. He brings a literate, myth-savvy perspective to his work.

It’s all in the stars.

JONESIN' CROSSWORD ∙ MATT JONES

“Small Furry Critters”—they’re so cute!

ACROSS 1 Crater’s edge 4 Airer of vintage films 7 Cold-weather phenomenon also known as pogonip 13 “What ___ you afraid of?”

14 Paris’s ___ de la Cité 15 Juliet’s family name 17 Rowboat implement 18 With 20-Across, Rocky Road ripple full of a nutty animal?

20 See 18-Across 22 Super Bowl on Feb. 3, 2019 23 “Homer came up with the drink, but I came up with the idea of charging $6.95 for it” speaker 24 Sang from the hilltops, maybe 28 European sports car marque 32 Love letters?

33 Distinctive historical period 34 Existentialist aquatic animal?

39 “You’re ___ party ...”

40 Tennis’s Bjorn and namesakes (but

not the “Star Trek” aliens, plural-wise) 41 “An idea!”

42 Poker hand that beats three field mice of a kind?

45 Common (and unimaginative) first episode title 47 Empty, as a mathematical set 48 It runs between “This American Life” segments 50 Battery terminal 53 Countless centuries 54 Romance/thriller novelist Hoag 55 With 60-Across, anesthesia administered by a small monkey?

60 See 55-Across 64 George Gershwin’s brother and collaborator 65 Like child’s play 66 “As a rule,” in a dict. entry 67 Dart in one direction 68 Final purpose 69 Avery of animation fame 70 Serpentine character?

DOWN 1 Country in Southeast Asia ...

2 ... and in the Middle East ...

3 ... and in South America 4 Actor central to the movie “Four Rooms” 5 Dry red table wine 6 Nothing other than 7 I, Freudian?

8 GoPro product, briefly 9 Gp. overseeing toxic cleanups 10 Problem for a parker, perhaps 11 Basic skateboarding trick 12 Imaginary surface coinciding with the earth’s sea level 16 Lead-in to light 19 Cagey 21 Nearly twentyyear-old Apple 25 You can’t live without it 26 “And all she wants to ___ dance, dance” (Don Henley lyric) 27 Endo- opposite 28 Classic TV nickname, with “The” 29 Plotting 30 Final purpose 31 “Sounds like a

good plan to me” 35 “48 ___” (1982 action-comedy) 36 Fictional account 37 Website with lots and lots of instructions 38 Lab maze runners 40 Hacking tool 43 Drew in 44 “Could you put that in layman’s terms?”

45 Teen’s rental from a menswear store 46 “I’m ___ hurry ...”

49 Examine carefully 50 Craft tapered on both ends 51 Eugene O’Neill’s “___ for the Misbegotten” 52 Animal on Australia’s coat of arms 54 B’way box office purchase 56 August, in Paris 57 11 1/2 wide, e.g.

58 Dwarf planet that dwarfs Pluto 59 License plates 61 “The Jungle Book” snake 62 European designer’s monogram 63 “Popeye” surname

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COLUMN ∙ SUSHI & BISCUITS

Tasting The Cuisine Of Myanmar Our resident chef prowls the beaches of Myanmar in search of sustenance

Mike McJunkin Pulse columnist

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ARKNESS FALLS QUICKLY AND absolutely in western Myanmar. I arrived in the tiny, coastal fishing village of Sinma just before nightfall after having endured a six hour, kidney-bruising minibus ride past endless fields of verdant sprouting rice and the occasional roadside tea house.

There was no electricity when I first arrived and the sun was setting fast enough for me to literally watch it descend into the Bay of Bengal as I finished checking into the hotel. Electricity in Sinma is a commodity that the wealthy take for granted and everyone else consumes consciously and sparingly, so even when the hotel’s power is switched on, it comes with an unspoken message of conservation.

Without the ubiquitous buffet of internet distractions and all-you-can-eat electricity,

there was little to do but focus on food, drink and the stars glittering against the velvety-black veil above my head. Before coming to Myanmar’s western coast, I had read tales of eating uni pulled straight from the sea and vendors patrolling the beach casually offering grilled prawns from platters balanced on their heads. But there are no vendors walking the beach in the dark, so I flicked on my mobile phone flashlight and made my way down the beach in search of fresh seafood and cold beer.

I came upon a nearly deserted, thatch-roof covered restaurant and was immediately greeted by a young Burmese girl who seemed relieved to escape the monotony of staring into her mobile phone. The vague English subtitles on the well worn, laminated menu simply read “fish curry” but the young girl elaborated in well-rehearsed English, “Rakhine fish curry. Very spicy. Spicy ok?” “Yes,” I said, I love spicy! I’ll

have a Myanmar beer as well.”

One day earlier, I had been in Yangon sampling meaty and tomatoey Shan sticky noodles just outside Bogyoke Market, devouring smoky and crisp tea-leaf salad (lahpet thoke) at a small shop near Sule Pagoda, and ending the night on 19th Street in Chinatown, drinking far too many Myanmar beers while eating my weight in the best grilled short ribs I’ve ever tasted.

But 24 hours and 150 miles later, I found myself in this small coastal village that happens to be home to a group of ethnic Rakhine people. Centuries ago, the Rakhine people originated the powerfully flavorful “Rakhine fish curry.”

While Burmese food is a blend of Chinese, Indian and Mon influences, Rakhine cuisine has a flavor profile all its own that emphasizes tongue-numbing spice, light flavors and lots of fresh seafood.

I smelled the curry long before it landed on my table. The pungent

Rakhine Fish Curry Ingredients : • 2 lb firm white fish fillets, cut into 2 in cubes • 3 tbsp fish sauce • 4 cloves crushed garlic • 1.5 cups chopped onion • 1 stalk of lemongrass, chopped into 2" pieces • 2 tsp finely chopped ginger • 2 tsp turmeric • 4 red chiles, seeded and finely chopped • Salt to taste • 3 tbsp cooking oil • 2 tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped

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chiles mixed with the fragrant lemongrass made my eyes involuntarily close in near ecstasy. When I regained my composure and opened my eyes, I could barely contain myself.

Set before me were thick, flaky chunks of butterfish drenched in a golden yellow curry sauce and dotted with fresh cilantro. The ingredients are simple, but the flavor is extraordinary. Spicy, savory, aromatic and rich, with a touch of sweetness—Rakhine curry is everything a fish curry should be.

The bad news is that there are very few written recipes for this dish.

The good news is that I brought a recipe all the way from Sinma, Ngwesaung, Myanmar. You can thank me later.

Longtime food writer and professional chef Mike McJunkin is a native Chattanoogan currently living abroad who has trained chefs, owned and operated restaurants. Join him on Facebook at facebook. com/SushiAndBiscuits

Instructions: Place the fish in a shallow dish and pour the fish sauce over it.

Use a mortar and pestle to blend the garlic, onion, lemongrass, ginger, turmeric, chiles and salt until it forms a thick paste.

Add the oil to a hot wok, stir in the blended paste and cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Add a tablespoon of water at a time until the paste reaches a thick, gravy-like consistency.

When the paste is cooked, add the fish (without the fish sauce) and stir to completely coat the fish with the paste. Raise the heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes or until the fish is just cooked on each side.

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