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The Holiday Travel Guide The do's and Don'ts for hitting the road this season

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Holiday Travel Do’s And Don’ts The holidays, we’re told, are supposed to be “the most wonderful time of the year.”

Yet holiday travel can be stressful, maddening, and downright overwhelming. Some things, like delayed flights, road congestion, and annoying relatives, just are.

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The Tennessee apple season starts around the end of July or early August, and the last apple usually falls off the tree around October. There are still farm fresh, local apple adventures.

I first reviewed Ikebe Shakedown in the summer of 2018. At the time I was so struck by their music that I produced such gems as “Quentin Tarantino ought to have them on speed dial.”

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Bonnie Scoggins, known artistically as The Bonnie Potter, has dozens of in-progress clay plates, mugs, and bowls drying on a shelf at her in-home studio in Red Bank.

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CITY LIFE · BETWEEN THE BRIDGES

Taste The Crisp Sweetness Of Fall

Cons ider This w ith Dr. Rick

“Here’s to those who inspire us and don’t even know it.”

Think about a grade school or high school teacher who was a strong, positive influence on you. If you were to run into him or her today, what might you say?

Think about when an older sibling or parent (or parental figure) protected you, supported you, or taught you something that you’ve been grateful for your whole life.

In my experience, I sometimes hear from folks about how something we talked about, or something they read in one of my books or columns inspired them. It’s a wonderfully rewarding experience!

Now think about the times you’ve tried to help someone in need, or inspire a youth, or help a friend…even the smallest gesture might have made a big difference. You may be inspiring someone every day without knowing it. Kind of makes you want to be your best self whenever possible, eh?

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Local apple orchards welcome visitors

HE TENNESSEE APPLE SEASON STARTS AROUND THE END OF JULY OR EARLY August, and the last apple usually falls off the tree around October. Even if the trees are bare, there are still farm fresh, local apple adventures to be enjoyed at several nearby orchards.

By Jessie Gantt-Temple Pulse contributor

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Come out and enjoy the breath-taking view while sipping on hot cider or warming up with locally sourced soup.”

— Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D.

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Although by early November the apples have all been picked, there are still bushels waiting for you to snatch up and take home to make sweet baked apples or to toss in a tangy Asian broccoli salad.

As the only you-pick orchard within an hour of Chattanooga, Wheeler’s Orchard & Vineyard offers a view and experience like no other.

With their nine children, Wade and Anne Wheeler bought the 50-acre farm atop Fredonia Mountain in Dunlap 1974. It’s been a family run operation ever since. They planted their first apple tree in 1978 and today, four generations live and help on the farm.

Jane Wheeler, who took over operations in 2016, began the Fredonia

Farmers Market. Every Saturday, the market offers cider samplings, Amish baked goods, and homemade items like soaps and hats.

“We will be open through midDecember and want folks to come out and enjoy the breath-taking view while sipping on hot cider or warming up with locally sourced soup,” Jane said as she pointed out the covered picnic tables.

They offer twenty varieties of apples and twenty varieties of grapes; you can research the ample flavor profiles through their extensive website at wheelersorchard.com. Tennessee Red, Arkansas Black, and Pink Lady can add a pop of color to your otherwise rainy, dreary winter day. You can see what is available and order

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to be picked up either at their shop (956 Wheeler Rd.) or at the Wednesday Main St. Farmers Market from 4 to 6 p.m.

Other nearby orchards include Apple Valley Orchard in Cleveland and Fairmount Orchard on Signal Mountain. Neither have you-pick; however, there are ample things to occupy your hands during a visit.

Apple Valley Orchards started as a hobby in the 1960’s. The family jokes how, the year after the father began, his wife suggested that he get a few more trees. She expected him to bring about forty plants, but he came home with around four hundred. Any sized group can spend a day in the enormous gift shop and bakery.

Open seven days a week until 5 p.m., Apple Valley Orchard grows 15,000 trees and is eager to extend a branch of knowledge to any inquisitive visitors. Field trips, tours, and tractor rides are only available during peak season, September and October, and come complete with the story of Johnny Appleseed, an apple, and a sample of cider. For more information, contact them at applevalleyorchard.com.

Started in 1971, Fairmount Orchard is nestled on Signal Mountain and open seven days a week from 9 a.m. until dusk until January. Their orchard is a bit more complicated to access, as it envelops the mountain side.

There are no tours or tractor rides, but their rustic gift shop is welcoming enough to entertain your mind and mouth for a while. Offering apples, homemade cider, jams, jellies, and caramel apple dip, Fairmount is worth a quick zip up the mountain to enjoy a slow afternoon treat.

Coming from a farmer, here’s some advice before you pack up the car and make a day trip to experience first-hand harvesting of apples or any produce. Some farms do not allow dogs, so call before you lug your pup all the way there just to leave him in the car. Pack a snack and water bottle because, even though they may have food on-site, it is always best to come prepared.

All of these facilities are working farms so there may be fire ant hills and animal dung. Go with an understanding to have attentive and eager eyes...and bellies.

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Holiday Travel Do’s And Don’ts A list to check at least twice before hitting the road

By Janis Hashe Pulse contributor

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In a lifetime of traveling, both professionally and personally, I’ve evolved some strategies you might find helpful as well.”

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HE HOLIDAYS, WE’RE TOLD, ARE SUPPOSED TO BE “THE most wonderful time of the year.” Yet holiday travel can be stressful, maddening, and downright overwhelming. Some things, like delayed flights, road congestion, and annoying relatives, just are. But you can alleviate some of the most common problems, even if they can’t be solved completely.

In a lifetime of traveling, both professionally and personally, I’ve evolved some strategies you might find helpful as well. If even one idea among them provides a little respite, that can be just the breathing moment you need.

HOLIDAY TRAVEL DO’S 1. Plan as far in advance as possible. It’s already November, so air bookings should be made…if they haven’t, this is now urgent. The holiday season is not the right time to wait

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for last-minute deals, unless you want to get stuck in, say, Minneapolis, for hours-long layovers.

Although this can be tough, book flights as early in the morning as is humanly possible for you. The later in the day, the more likely there will be delays, stacking flights up. Planning in advance also applies to driving routes and schedules, and hotel bookings if needed.

2. Have a back-up plan. This was my mom’s all-time favorite advice and

it holds true today. If your flight is canceled, what’s the alternative?

3. Discuss the trip in advance with the fam or sig other. Checking in with each other (and the kids, if applicable) about expectations can cut down on squabbling and make scheduling easier, as in: “Let’s plan to stay at Cousin Whosit’s until 1, then we’ll go skating.”

4. If driving, have the car serviced.

Peace of mind includes minimal mechanical meltdowns. While you’re at it, check weather and road updates.

5. Ship, don’t take. Not burdening yourselves with bags of gifts means more breathing space for everyone.

6. Create a budget—with a little wiggle room allowed. Okay, it’s impossible to estimate everything, but have a solid idea of what you’re spending on what, meaning post-holidays financial

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7. Build in some down time. This can be hard to do, but will have big payoffs if you can manage it. Maybe even just half an hour here and there where you can sit down and have a cup of tea before the next onslaught of holiday merriment.

8. Make a compassionate plan if you’re taking Fido. I’ll just say upfront that I don’t travel with my dogs and would never put them in an airline cargo hold. But if you do, for whatever reason, choose to take your dog with you, please think hard about her health and comfort while traveling, and while in a place that is not her home.

9. House sitter or home security.

I prefer to have a trusted individual staying at my home while I’m gone.

(They are also my pet sitter.) But if you feel your home security system is adequate for your needs, be sure it’s working properly. Have a neighbor pick up your mail.

10. Hydrate. Eggnog does not count. Don’t get me wrong, I love

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Build in some down time. This can be hard to do, but will have big payoffs if you can manage it.”

nog. But good old H2O is what you, and everyone else around you, needs during dehydrating flights and overheated cars and rooms. Dehydration is one of the most common causes of headaches, and honestly, isn’t wacky old Uncle Bert enough of a pain on his own?

HOLIDAY TRAVEL DON’TS 1. Leave too little travel time. With apologies to my ex-boyfriend Phil, who is a great guy in many ways, his perpetual lateness drove me crazy.

Then I read an article explaining that many people who are always late assume everything will function perfectly en route. They’ll hit every green light and encounter no bad traffic, no unexpected detours.

If you are this person, try hard not to be during holiday travel. In fact,

add extra time to get to the airport or drive to your destination.

2. Overpack. We’ve all seen them, those folks caravanning though the airport with four trolleys of luggage.

Just—no. Pick a color scheme that allows you to easily mix and match (and not have to pack seven pairs of shoes). Roll, don’t fold, when packing. Wear your heaviest coat onto the plane; store overhead or use as a blanket en route.

3. Forget to check kids’ packing for right shoes, layers, underwear, etc.

Arriving and realizing little Scooter doesn’t have enough socks (or any underwear) means a trip to Target.

And Target is the last place you want to be right before holiday events.

4. Overschedule yourselves while there. See “downtime” above. You want to see everyone and everyone

• 48.5 million: The number of travelers hitting the road around Thanksgiving, according to AAA. • 4.27 million: How many people flock into, and out of, airports around the world.

• 1,720,000: The number of airplane seats, according to Planestats.com, scheduled to fly on Thanksgiving.

• 60: Percent of improvement in traffic between the Saturday after Thanksgiving and Sunday. If you can white knuckle through one more day of Aunt Shirley, do it.

• 40: Dollars saved, per trip, by leaving on Thanksgiving, rather than the Wednesday before, per Google Flights.

• 5: Estimated number of jam-packed traffic hours the day before Thanksgiving. If you MUST make the trip on Wednesday, leave before 2 p.m. or after 7 p.m. Roads during the late afternoon and early evening are likely to dump you into a freak wormhole in the space-time continuum.

Alternatively, you could always host Thanksgiving and have everyone come to you. What’s the worst that could happen?

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wants to see you, but tired, crabby kids (and/or you) do not a festive occasion make. Ditto for trying to fit in 14 different holiday parades, trips to theme parks, etc.

5. Be afraid to say “No.” I don’t have a problem with saying “No” politely but firmly, but many people do.

If you feel pressured to add one more outing, or visit, and your instinct is telling you, “This is not a good idea,” trust your instinct. Think up excuses in advance if need be. Boundaries are good.

6. Just keep hauling out the credit cards. See “budget” above. It can be so tempting to rationalize spending on more gifts, more food, more whatever, with the refrain, “But it’s Christmas!” I promise you will not be saying ho-ho-ho when you get the bills. A couple of treats—of course.

Unlimited treating—of course not.

See “saying no” above.

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When all else fails, step back and recognize how many human situations are actually just silly. Allow yourself a chuckle at your own expense.” where and refuse to be guilted out.

8. Try Airbnb for the first time. I am not knocking Airbnb, but it’s not right for everyone, and I especially don’t recommend trying it for the first time during the holidays, especially if you’re traveling with kids.

9. Forget to weigh your luggage before a flight. If you’re checking a bag, they will weigh it, and they will slap you with fees if it’s overweight.

Check with your airline if you’re unsure what the limits are; it varies from airline to airline.

10. Lose your sense of humor.

When all else fails, step back and recognize how many human situations are actually just silly. Allow yourself a chuckle at your own expense—not at somebody else’s.

WORLD’S SIMPLEST TRAVEL TIP During a period when I was traveling a lot, including internationally,

I created what might seem a ridiculously simple strategy to help relieve the stress. Part of that stress is anxiety arising from constantly worrying about the whole trip.

“What if the parking lot’s full, what if I can’t make my connection, what if Aunt Poppy isn’t there to meet me?” I would silently wail.

Short circuit that thinking by focusing on one task at a time, and congratulating yourself on it. And I mean each task, as in, “Luggage is loaded in the car. Yay!” “Made it to 24 and we’re on our way. Yay!” “Got the shuttle to the terminal. Yay!” This may sound inane, but by breaking down the trip into small component parts and accomplishing them one at a time (giving yourself time to take a breath between them), you’ll find, as the Mary Tyler Moore theme song once told us, “You’re gonna make it after all.”

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“Homo For The Holidays” The good doctor presents his updated annual holiday missive

Dr. Rick

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F YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO loves spending intimate, quality holiday time with your family, sitting around the Thanksgiving table or Christmas tree with siblings, in-laws, aunts, uncles and assorted others, raise your drumstick high! Count your blessings because you may well be among the fortunate minority.

One of my best friends in California comes from just such a loving family. Sure there’s the occasional affair or divorce scandal. Or a young male cousin eschews the family business for a life in the theatre. But through ups and downs they form a very loving (and fun-loving) clan. Outsiders are welcome at their holiday tables, and there’s always a gift under the tree with my name on it.

But I don’t hear of too many stories like theirs, because I don’t think a lot of families genuinely get along so well.

Too many unresolved issues and unspoken rivalries. Prickly histories. Big pink elephants in the middle of the room that no one talks about. Let’s face it: the term “dysfunctional family” is a redundancy.

Why is this? Several reasons: There’s no such thing as perfect parenting.

Adult children screw up. Addictions happen. Illness, loss, and death take

their psychological toll. And the human condition is such that it’s easier to maintain the status quo than it is to rock the boat in an attempt to create healthy change. Old habits die hard with us humans, and while it may be better to forgive, it’s hard to forget.

If you’re the black sheep of your family with, for instance, political, spiritual, sexual, or other leanings that diverge from the “accepted” rules—some spoken and some not—then you probably know how it feels to be the outsider.

Sure, maybe as a kid you had great fun spending summers playing volleyball and croquet in Grandmother’s back yard. But now maybe you’re the one they roll their eyes over. Maybe you’re the one who married out of your race or religion. Or maybe you’re the one who’s gay or lesbian, transgender or queer.

Every family has someone who’s “different.” Every single family. Read that again: Every. Single. Family. You may not know who for sure, but you have your suspicions. Scurry around the limbs of your family tree for a closer look, sweep aside your denial. They are there.

And you know, for an unaccepted or closeted gay person the holidays can be an exercise in prolonged agony.

Fielding endless questions from Aunt Helen about when you’re going to find a nice girl (lesbians read: nice boy) to settle down with. Enduring Uncle Hank’s homophobic jokes and cringing as your loved ones laugh.

Sometimes you just can’t believe you come from these people. You’re from gay Pluto and they’re from Mars-aphobia and you’re a galaxy away from seeing eye to eye on anything. So you

drink more spiked punch, scarf down more tryptophan, and numb-out, silently counting the minutes till you’ve served your sentence.

Know anyone for whom this may be true? Someone you love and care about perhaps? Could you unknowingly be putting your son or daughter, niece or nephew through this? Because frankly, a surprising number of families do. One thing that has become very clear to me since moving to the South is the tremendous struggle over “the gay thing.”

LGBTQ folks are working toward understanding from their loved ones, and loved ones are struggling to reconcile those feelings with the beliefs they are taught from the pulpit. Sometimes this takes the form of intelligent, thoughtful conversation, and sometimes it’s a train wreck.

No easy answers, but there are questions for you to ask yourself: Are you an accepting person? A loving person? Someone open to opening your envelope a bit? Someone who can wrestle with what is okay with you, even in the face of many around you who disagree? It might mean the world

to your gay child. It may help keep them alive.

Yes, times are indeed changing, both politically and spiritually, and I see more and more acceptance, especially for and among young people who, with enough love, learn to accept themselves—and develop healthy selfesteem—at earlier ages. Nevertheless, for too many, this is not the case.

Which is why the suicide rate for teens even suspected of being LGBTQ is more than a third higher than the national average.

This holiday season, consider this: Be aware of how your words and deeds affect others. Come from a place of compassion with every opportunity.

Be thankful for those you love, and let them know it—often and without hesitation.

Break bread, pass the yams, and raise a glass in honor of each and every person at your table, without prejudice.

Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, author, minister, and educator in private practice in Chattanooga. Contact him at DrRPH.com, visit his wellness center at WellNestChattanooga.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Clay And Lace Inside the loving art of The Bonnie Potter

Glass Street Throws A Party The block party of the year is returning this Saturday. Glass Street LIVE! is a town favorite, known for a family friendly environment and cool entertainment.

With the event in its sixth year, its organizers—Glass House Collective and partner residents and groups—are kicking it up a notch by bringing in Citi Limitz, a music trio of teen cousins from East Chattanooga who were on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show. The trio, though growing in fame every day, are coming home to support their community and play for free.

The block party is always a huge hit for the kids (of all ages). They can dance and play all day in the bounce house and even battle it out in the wrestling ring.

Local artists will be painting a mural at the event so everyone can watch them make magic happen. The interactive Glass Street History Exhibit will showcase more art from the past.

Nearly 40 artists of all kinds are booked for the event, including rappers, dancers, spoken word artists, gospel singers, and much more.

Glass Street is an area of town that was once long ignored, and Glass Street LIVE! is part of a movement to bring new energy and grassroots investment to the area. Business is booming more than ever before; the block party celebrates the area’s success.

— Lauren Justice

By Rebecca Hazen Pulse contributor

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Most of Scoggins’ work features imprints of doilies that were handmade by her great grandmother.”

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ONNIE SCOGGINS, KNOWN ARTISTICALLY AS THE Bonnie Potter, has dozens of in-progress clay plates, mugs, and bowls drying on a shelf at her in-home studio in Red Bank. On another shelf are piles of doilies, ready to be imprinted into clay.

Known in the Chattanooga area for her handmade pottery, Scoggins estimates she makes thousands of pieces a year, ranging from tiny ring-holders to large plates. Her love of clay, and her signature imprinted textures, started with mixedmedia art classes when she was a child living in Boise, Idaho.

“When we did pottery, I was like ‘Oh! This is what I want to do.’ I was nine,” Scoggins says. When

she was 18, the art class was given a big box of found items for them to make impressions in clay. The textured vase she made that day is on display in her home now.

Most of Scoggins’ work features imprints of doilies that were handmade by her great grandmother.

At first she was afraid to use them, thinking she would ruin the fabric.

“There was a doily that had stains and holes, and my mom told me to

try it; I couldn’t hurt it any worse. It worked perfectly,” Scoggins remembers.

She started to put the doily imprints into the rotation with the other pottery designs she was working on, including leaf imprints and carving.

“People just really gravitated to it,” she says. “So I just started doing more and more.”

Scoggins flattens out her clay first with her hands, and then with a rolling pin. She places the doily onto the clay, and uses the rolling pin again to get the shape embedded into the clay. Most of her work is shaped by hand, but she does use a wheel for mugs. After firing the pieces in a kiln, she uses glazed paints to add color to the pieces.

Scoggins’ favorite piece to make is with the original stained and holey doily. It’s a bowl with wavy edges.

“I spend eight to ten hours glazing it, and it always comes out looking great,” she explains.

Some of her newest pieces are mugs and plates that feature the Walnut Street Bridge. She uses a curved silver stamp for the bridge items. She carved her design out of wax and had cast it into silver.

“I spent several days building and carving that wax bridge so it would

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If I can make it more special to that person using their grandma’s doilies, it makes an authentic emotional connection, which transcends it from a craft to art.”

look like it was made out of string,” Scoggins notes. “I started doing the bridge stuff because people like items that have that Chattanooga feel.”

Scoggins will create custom pieces from other people’s doilies and table cloths. She recently made a plate for a woman who was turning 100 years old.

“My doilies are special to me because they’re my grandma’s,” she explains. “But if I can make it more special to that person using their grandma’s doilies, it makes an authentic emotional connection, which transcends it from a craft to art.”

She also gets doilies mailed to her, for her to keep. Last year a potter from the Netherlands sent her some, because she knew they would be used and appreciated by Scoggins.

She also enjoys working with kids, showing the kids how to play and create with clay. Last week, she went

to an elementary school in Dalton, Georgia to work with second graders.

Scoggins says her goal for the future is to get back into carving. “I’ve only done like five carved pieces this year and I’d like to do one a month to flex that creative spirit more,” Scoggins says.

And, as any artist wishes to do, she hopes to keep honing and perfecting her technique. Scoggins’ work, which is priced based by size and number of color glazes, can be found at the weekly Chattanooga Market, which runs through the end of November. Her work is also at Winder Binder and Good World Goods. A plan is in the works to sell her pieces at a new jewelry store in Dalton.

She can also be contacted through her through her Facebook and Instagram pages, The Bonnie Potter, and her website, thebonniepotter.com

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Spectrum Silent Auction Cocktail Party

Whispers!

Encore Cabaret

Celebrate 26 years of Barking Legs Theater with dance and choreography featuring some of the city's best dancers.

7 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org

Hear some of your favorite performers belt out favorite showstopping tunes from our favorite CTC shows.

7:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. theatrecentre.com

A lively silent auction featuring a diverse selection of artworks from across the country.

6 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. huntermuseum.org

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR THURSDAY11.7 Lisa Nik Trunk Show and Designer Appearance Noon Fischer Evans 801 Market St. (423) 267-0901 fisherevans.com Blumenwagen Pop-up Shop 3:30 p.m.

The Mad Priest 1900 Broad St. (423) 393-3834 madpriestcoffeeshop.com Transform Us: Workshop & Exhibit 4 p.m.

Hart Gallery 110 E. Main St. (423) 521-4707 hartgallerytn.com TAROT. An Art Show 6 p.m.

BAZAR Art House 818 Georgia Ave. (423) 803-6578 chattpalace.com Introduction to Public Speaking: Two Part Workshop 6 p.m.

The Chattery at Chattanooga WorkSpace 302 W. 6th St. (423) 521-2643 thechattery.org Spectrum Silent Auction Cocktail Party 6 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Venting & Gratitude: Journaling 101 6 p.m.

The Chattery at Chattanooga WorkSpace 302 W. 6th St. (423) 521-2643 thechattery.org Open Mic Poetry 6:30 p.m.

Stone Cup Café 208 Frazier Ave. (423) 521-3977 stonecupcafe.com Killer Beaz 7:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St.

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Les Misérables (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Les Misérables 7:30 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5580 tivolichattanooga.com Alcoholics Not Anonymous Comedy Open Mic 8 p.m.

Barley Taproom 235 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 682-8200 chattanoogabarley.com

FRIDAY11.8 Lisa Nik Trunk Show and Designer Appearance Noon Fischer Evans 801 Market St. (423) 267-0901 fisherevans.com Scott & Tatiana Hill Exhibit 5:30 p.m.

River Gallery (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com Eames: A Retrospective 5:30 p.m.

Smart Furniture Studio 1700 Broad St. (423) 643-0025 smartfurniture.com Come Out N Play 6 p.m.

The Laughing Buddha

4810 Hixson Pike (423) 504-3923 Artist Meet & Greet: Jeff Revlett 6 p.m.

Refinery 3800 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 618-6570 refinery423.com Creating a 2020 Vision Board 6 p.m.

The Chattery at Chattanooga WorkSpace 302 W. 6th St. (423) 521-2643 thechattery.org Whispers!

7 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org Killer Beaz 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Les Misérables 7:30 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5580 tivolichattanooga.com Improv “Movie” Night 8 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com

Video Game Night 8 p.m.

Stone Cup Cafe 208 Frazier Ave. (423) 521-3977 stonecupcafe.com Ruby Falls Lantern Tours 8:30 p.m.

Ruby Falls 1720 S. Scenic Hwy. (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com Good, Old-Fashioned Improv Show 9:30 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com

SATURDAY11.9 Transcending the Photo Reference with Alyssa Monks 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 301 E. 11th St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Painting in Watercolor with Margaret Park 11:30 a.m.

Reflections Gallery 1635 Rossville Ave. (423) 892-3072 reflectionsgallerytn.com Glass Street LIVE! Noon Block Party

2508 Glass St. glasshousecollective.org Madama Butterfly 12:55 p.m.

AMC Chattanooga 18 (423) 855-9652 5080 South Terrace fathomevents.com Jewelry Fundamentals 1 p.m.

The Chattery at Chattanooga WorkSpace 302 W. 6th St. (423) 521-2643 thechattery.org Outland Book Launch Party 1 p.m.

Barley Taproom 235 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 682-8200 chattanoogabarley.com Spectrum Live Auction & Gala 6 p.m.

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

7 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org Our House is on Fire Again!: Nathan Swann 7 p.m.

Barley Chattanooga 235 E MLK Blvd.

(423) 682-8200 chattanoogabarley.com Killer Beaz 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Les Misérables 7:30 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5580 tivolichattanooga.com Encore Cabaret 7:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 theatrecentre.com Murder She Joked 8 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave.

(423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com Whose Line Chattanooga 9:30 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com

SUNDAY11.10 Transcending the Photo Reference with Alyssa Monks 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 301 E. 11th St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Chattanooga Market 11 a.m.

First Horizon Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Les Misérables 2, 7:30 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5580 tivolichattanooga.com The Godfather Part II 3, 7 p.m.

AMC Chattanooga 18 (423) 855-9652 5080 South Terrace fathomevents.com Stand Up for KW Cares 7:30 p.m.

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

MONDAY11.11 Transcending the Photo Reference with Alyssa Monks 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 301 E. 11th St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Writing for Stress Relief 5:30 p.m.

The Chattery at Chattanooga WorkSpace 302 W. 6th St. (423) 521-2643 thechattery.org Fall Belly Dance Session 6 p.m.

Movement Arts Collective 3813 Dayton Blvd.

(423) 401-8115 movementartscollective.com Joggers & Lagers 6 p.m.

Chattanooga Brewing Co. 1804 Chestnut St. (423) 702-9958 chattabrew.com Moccasin Bend Fall Lecture Series 7 p.m.

Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3D Theater 201 Chestnut St. (423) 266-4629 tnaqua.org/imax Comedy Open Mic 9 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy.

(423) 468-4192 thehonestpint.com

TUESDAY11.12 Chattanooga Self Improvement Meetup 8 a.m.

The Edney Innovation Center 1100 Market St. (423) 643-6770 theedney.com Transcending the Photo Reference with Alyssa Monks 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 301 E. 11th St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Tuesday Night Chess Club 6 p.m.

Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 643-7700 chattilibrary.com Chattanooga Writers’ Guild Monthly Meeting 6 p.m.

The Chattanooga Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 643-7700 chattlibrary.org Paths to Pints 6:30 p.m.

The Tap House 3800 St. Elmo Ave. taphousechatt.com KONOSUBA-God’s blessing on this wonderful world!-Legend

of Crimson 7 p.m.

AMC Chattanooga 18 (423) 855-9652 5080 South Terrace fathomevents.com Improv Crash Course 7 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com The Godfather Part II 7 p.m.

AMC Chattanooga 18 (423) 855-9652 5080 South Terrace fathomevents.com Poetry, Pups & Pints 7:30 p.m.

Stone Cup Café 208 Frazier Ave. (423) 521-3977 stonecupcafe.com

WEDNESDAY11.13 Main Street Market 4 p.m.

522 W. Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.com Transform Us: Workshop & Exhibit 4 p.m.

Hart Gallery 110 E. Main St. (423) 521-4707 hartgallerytn.com Annie, Jr. Musical 4 p.m.

Chattanooga Christian School 3354 Charger Dr. (423) 265-6411 ccsk12.com Artsperiences!

6 p.m.

Mad Knight Brewing Company 4015 Tennessee Ave. (423) 825-6504 madknightbrewing.com The Godfather Part II 7 p.m.

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THE MUSIC SCENE

When The Kings Are Left Behind A lush distillation of ‘70s funk

Fiddles, Banjos, And More Calling all bluegrass lovers and fans! Starting this Thursday is the Third Annual Forever Bluegrass Festival. Musicians from all over the Southeast will be congregating at Mountain Cove Farms in Chickamauga, Georgia, to give music lovers an unforgettable three days of nonstop bluegrass.

This family-friendly festival will include some of the most talented musicians on the East Coast. The festival will feature 20 bands with headliners like The Lonesome River Band, The Kody Norris Show, David Peterson and 1946, and others from across the region.

And if that’s not enough, there will be popup jam sessions around the campsite to feed your need for bluegrass.

Don’t want to miss out on any music? There will be campsites available to rent for the duration of the festival. Hot food and concessions will be on hand, as well as booths from local arts and craft vendors.

Tickets can be bought on their website, ForeverBluegrass.com, through the mail, or at the gate. Ticket prices range from $10.30 to $66.95 per person. Children 15 and under are free but must be accompanied by and parent or guardian.

The festival’s hours are Thursday, 5 to 9 p.m., Friday, 1 to 11 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 10 p.m. For more information, visit their website or call (423) 605-7975.

If you’re a die-hard bluegrass fan, head on down to Mountain Cove Farms at 994 Dougherty Gap Rd. this weekend and get your twang on! — Mackenzie Wagamon

By Marc T. Michael Pulse Music Editor

“

They play with the ease, confidence, and polish of a band that has been making this kind of music since it was new.”

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FIRST REVIEWED IKEBE SHAKEDOWN IN THE SUMMER of 2018. At the time I was so struck by their music that I produced such gems as “Quentin Tarantino ought to have them on speed dial,” and “music for facing down martial arts bad guys.”

I mention that because today when I sat down to listen to their latest release, Kings Left Behind, I found myself on the verge of saying exactly the same thing. I might have, if my own words hadn’t seemed so familiar that I looked up some older articles.

I hate speaking in reruns, although at my age it is inevitable, so rather than repeat the obvious I’m only going to say that I completely stand by that initial assessment and go on to explain why these things are true.

To say it simply, everything cool about the seventies is captured in the music of this soul/funk/afrobeat band that, at the tender age of eleven, has far more authentic cool than they have any right to. They play (and compose) with the ease, confidence, and polish of a band that has been making this kind of music since it was new, almost fifty years ago.

An absolutely lush brass section, cool jazz percussion, and the funkiest of guitar and keys combine in some

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If you don't remember what was genuinely cool about the era, put on a Shakedown album and you will find it, distilled to its purest, most bad-ass essence.” of the most sweeping instrumental music of any era, but with the particular edgy flavor of seventies instrumental music most especially.

Yes, Tarantino should have these guys on retainer; so should Aaron McGruder (of Boondocks fame) or ANY artist or director looking to capture the heart and soul of a bygone generation of music that was at once precise and fluid, gritty and real.

I recently found myself spoiling a cliché conversation (as I am wont to do) in which the first speaker was both praising the music of an older decade while bemoaning that there was “no good music today.” This runs neck and neck with “you don’t buy beer, you rent it” as one of the most tiresome, threadbare banalities people like to repeat as a substitute for actually thinking about what they’re saying.

I pointed out that every decade, every generation, produces some

truly stellar sound but for every revolutionary guitar player, socially conscious band, or whatever iconic trope you prefer, there is an exponentially larger volume of garbage.

Thing is, as time passes you tend to forget the garbage and only reminder the best of the best so in retrospect, it does seem like “music was better then.” The cream rises to the top, as they say, and the lousy bubblegum crap is interred with the bones (as I say).

The point of recalling the conversation is that the seventies aren’t quite so far gone that people have entirely forgotten the worst of them and too often (at least speaking for myself, who grew up in that decade) the best isn’t always the first thing you think of.

So, I am grateful for Ikebe Shakedown, because they are a potent reminder that for every whiny, bloated, self-indulgent crooner or flash-in-the-pan, dat-

ed novelty song, the seventies did produce some truly powerful music. If you don't remember what was genuinely cool about the era (or never knew in the first place), put on a Shakedown album—put on this Shakedown album—and you will find it, distilled to its purest, most bad-ass essence.

Punk arose in response to what was worst about the musical era, but Ikebe Shakedown has refined what was best. If you’re old enough to remember, you’re already in love with it before you’ve even heard it. If you aren’t old enough to remember, hearing it now will grant you the insight into why your favorite modern funk/ jam bands owe their existence to the folks who, while disco was collectively dumbing down a nation, kept the flame of cool alive and well.

Why do you want this album?

Because Ikebe Shakedown are the kings of seventies cool. No one else even comes close.

Native Daughter Brings The Jazz This Saturday one of Chattanooga’s beloved hometown heroines returns for a rare local show. Dana Rogers will be performing at Bela Lisboa on Frazier Ave., taking the stage at 6 p.m.

Rogers, who has been practicing her unique blend of acoustic folk/jazz since 1997, is an icon among singer songwriters from the area and in high enough demand that her touring schedule keeps her traveling most of the time.

Dana has shared the stage with Sarah Lee Guthrie, Guy Davis, Ingrid Michaelson, Steve Poltz, The Waybacks, and The Floating Men, to name just a few.

It’s a rare opportunity for a very special musical treat here in the Scenic City at one of the area's highest rated restaurants. While the show is free, it is highly recommended that you call ahead for reservations. — MTM

THU11.7

FRI11.8

SAT11.9

Velocity! with duo970

Safari Room, Side Affect, Magnificent Lions

Holiday Spirit Cocktail Festival

Flutist James Hall and pianist Susie Maddocks will present a program of eclectic chamber music for flute and piano.

7 p.m.

AVA Gallery 30 Frazier Ave. avarts.org

Three great bands, one hot night at everyone's favorite downtown venue.

9 p.m.

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

Holiday cocktails and great local music plus a chance to visit with the Big Guy himself.

6 p.m.

First Horizon Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com

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LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR THURSDAY11.7 Toby Hewitt 4 p.m.

Backstage Chattanooga 29 Station St. backstagechattanooga.com Fall Forever Bluegrass Festival 5 p.m.

Mountain Cove Farms 994 Dougherty Gap Rd. foreverbluegrass.com Danimal & Friends 6 p.m.

WanderLinger Brewing Co. 1208 King St. wanderlinger.com James County 6 p.m.

James Country Cattle Company 2553 Lifestyle Way jamescountycattle.com David Anthony & Paul Stone 6 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Velocity! with duo970 7 p.m.

AVA Gallery 30 Frazier Ave. avarts.org Toby Hewitt 7 p.m.

Backstage Bar 29 Station St. backstagechattanooga.com Open Mic 7 p.m.

Gate 11 Distillery 1400 Market St. gate11distillery.com Jimmy Dormire 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Jesse Jungkurth & Friends 7:30 p.m.

Mexi-Wing VII 5773 Brainerd Rd. (423) 296-1073 Ryan Ramey 8 p.m.

The Social 1110 Market St. publichousechattanooga.com The Twotakes with Seven Year Witch 9 p.m.

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Songbirds South 41 Station St. songbirds.rocks Open Mic Night with Jonathan Wimpee 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Tunnel Vision and Dream Collective 9 p.m.

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

FRIDAY11.8 Fall Forever Bluegrass Festival 5 p.m.

Mountain Cove Farms 994 Dougherty Gap Rd. foreverbluegrass.com Megan Howard 6:30 p.m.

Westin Dorato Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Track 145 7 p.m.

Songbirds North 35 Station St. songbirds.rocks John Carroll 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Ben Chapman 8 p.m.

Tonya’s Pub 5403 Wilbanks Dr. (423) 362-8881 Bubba Sparxxx & Alexander King 8 p.m.

James Country Cattle Company 2553 Lifestyle Way jamescountycattle.com Ben Van Winkle 8 p.m.

Charles & Myrtle's Coffeehouse 105 McBrien Rd. christunity.org Amber Fults 8 p.m.

The FEED Co. Table and Tavern 201 W. Main St. feedtableandtavern.com West King String Band with

Nicholas Edward Williams 8 p.m.

WanderLinger Brewing Co. 1208 King St. wanderlinger.com Maya Trippe 8:30 p.m.

Puckett’s Restaurant 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com Safari Room, Side Affect, Magnificent Lions 9 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com David Ingle & Friends 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Stone Cold Fox with The Afternoons 9 p.m.

Songbirds South 35 Station St. songbirds.rocks The Get Right Band 9 p.m.

HiFi Clyde’s 122 W. Main St. hificlydeschattanooga.com Cheering Tokyo 9:30 p.m.

Mitch’s Sports Bar 2555 Harrison Pk. (423) 698-4123 Sullivan Band 10 p.m.

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

SATURDAY11.9 Danimal 10:30 a.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Fall Forever Bluegrass Festival Noon Mountain Cove Farms 994 Dougherty Gap Rd. foreverbluegrass.com Glass Street LIVE! Noon Block Party 2508 Glass St. glasshousecollective.org

Holiday Spirit Cocktail Festival 6 p.m.

First Horizon Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com No Big Deal 6 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Jazz & BBQ 6 p.m.

The Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfalloonchattanooga.com Homegrown 6 p.m.

James Country Cattle Company 2553 Lifestyle Way jamescountycattle.com Drew Robins 6:30 p.m.

Slick’s Burgers 309 E. Main St. slicksburgers.com Encore Cabaret 7:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. theatrecentre.com Luke Simmons & Lovestruck 7:30 p.m.

Gate 11 Distillery 1400 Market St. gate11distillery.com Tre Powell 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Ryan Bingham with Jamestown Revival 8 p.m.

Walker Theater 399 McCallie Ave. tivolichattanooga.com Dallas Walker 8:30 p.m.

Puckett’s Restaurant 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com Randall Addams 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Lewis & Clark, Hannah Juanita & the Hardliners, One Timers, Horse Thieves 9 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia

231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Rubik’s Groove with Neon Queen 9 p.m.

Songbirds South 35 Station St. songbirds.rocks Blackwater Still 9 p.m.

HiFi Clyde’s 122 W. Main St. hificlydeschattanooga.com Sullivan Band 10 p.m.

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

SUNDAY11.10 Bird in the Bar 11 a.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Mark Andrew 11 a.m.

The Edwin Hotel 102 Walnut St. theedwinhotel.com Carl Pemberton 11 a.m.

Westin Chattanooga 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com My Name Is Preston Noon Southside Social 1818 Chestnut St. thesouthsidesocial.com Zack Ryan Noon Pax Breu Ruim 516 E. Main St. (423) 648-4677 Danimal and Friends 12:30 p.m.

The Feed Co. Table & Tavern 201 W. Main St. feedtableandtavern.com Big Band Day at The Chattanooga Market 12:30 p.m.

First Horizon Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Vion Wamps 1:30 p.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St.

flyingsquirrelbar.com The Other Brothers 2 p.m.

WanderLinger Brewing Co. 1208 King St. wanderlinger.com Open Mic with Jeff Daniels 6 p.m.

Long Haul Saloon 2536 Cummings Hwy. (423) 822-9774 The Gripsweats Quartet 7 p.m.

The Bicycle Bar 45 E. Main St. (423) 475-6569 Symphony Orchestra Concert: Stories through Music 7:30 p.m.

Collegedale Church of SeventhDay Adventists 4829 College Dr. southern.edu/musicevents Shooter Jennings with Hellhound Glory 8 p.m.

Songbirds South 41 Station St. songbirds.rocks Cody James Harris 9 p.m.

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

MONDAY11.11 Open Air with Jessica Nunn 6 p.m.

The Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfalloonchattanooga.com Quebe Sisters 6:30 p.m.

Metanoia Ministries 554 McCallie Ave. pcamna.org/metanoiaministries Monday Nite Big Band 7 p.m.

The Coconut Room 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Blues Night Open Jam 7 p.m.

Songbirds South 41 Station St. songbirds.rocks Very Open Mic with Shawnessey Cargile 8 p.m.

The Well 1800 Rossville Blvd. #8 wellonthesouthside.co

TUESDAY11.12 As Issac 2 p.m.

Chattanooga Community Kitchen 727 E. 11th St. homelesschattanooga.org Acoustic Bohemian Night 6:30 p.m.

Mexi-Wing IX 6925 Shallowford Rd. mexiwingix.business.site AJ Ghent with Rick Rushing 7 p.m.

Songbirds North 35 Station St. songbirds.rocks Danimal 7 p.m.

Backstage Bar 29 Station St. backstagechattanooga.com Space Jam Open Mic 7 p.m.

Barley Taproom 235 E. MLK Blvd. chattanoogabarley.com Steve Busie 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Pickin’ N Pints 7:30 p.m.

WanderLinger Brewing Co. 1208 King St. wanderlinger.com Jimmy Herring and the 5 of 7 8 p.m.

Songbirds South 41 Station St. songbirds.rocks Live Jam Session with Freddy Mc & Friends 8 p.m.

The Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfalloonchattanooga.com Open Mic with Mike McDade 8 p.m.

Tremont Tavern 1203 Hixson Pike tremonttavern.com Ringo Deathstar, Blushing, GMO Sharia Law, Lacing 9 p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY11.13 Terri Hall Group 7 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Jesse James Jungkurth 7 p.m.

Backstage Bar 29 Station St. backstagechattanooga.com Cocktail Choir 7:30 p.m.

Gate 11 Distillery 1400 Market St. gate11distillery.com Maria Sable 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com The Funeral Portrait 8 p.m.

The Spot of Chattanooga 1800 E. Main St. facebook.com/1800EMain Randall Adams 8 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Priscilla & Little Rickee 8 p.m.

Las Margaritas 1101 Hixson Pike (423) 756-3332 Rosedale Remedy 9 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Matt Thorton 9 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Gaelic Storm 9 p.m.

Songbirds North 35 Station St. songbirdsguitars.co Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com CHATTANOOGAPULSE.COM • NOVEMBER 7, 2019 • THE PULSE • 17

ERNIE PAIKS’S RECORD REVIEWS

New Music From Negativland, Sean O'Hagan

Negativland True False (Seeland)

Sean O’Hagan Radum Calls, Radum Calls (Drag City)

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tirical works that have tackled subjects where the truth is often questioned, like religion, journalism, and advertising.

On the other hand, the band itself has engaged in deception in cheeky ways; its most prominent examples are creating a fake press release that falsely said a Negativland song had possibly inspired a teen’s murder spree (the subject of the group’s 1989 album Helter Stupid) and releasing an EP entitled U2 with cover art that made it look like a release by the band U2.

Negativland’s new album True False comes at a time when, perhaps, the world has caught up with Negativland, rather than the other way around. Before the prevalence of Internet mash-ups and memes, Negativland was considered a pioneer of “culture jamming”, subverting the

he Oxford Dictionary appropriately named “posttruth” the “Word of the Year” in 2016; while personal beliefs and emotions have interfered with facts and rationality for the entirety of human history, this phenomenon has become more magnified in recent years for obvious reasons.

This writer found a recent Politico article about an ethics class at Appalachian State University enlightening, where the majority of the classroom, if forced to choose, would save the life of their mother rather than an entire city of five million innocent people from certain, immediate death.

The group Negativland has had an odd relationship with truth over its 40-year career, creating sound collages that use countless samples, often taken out of context, for sa-

methods of mass media as a critique on culture and politics and painstakingly splicing tiny bits of magnetic tape together before digital sampling became easy and affordable.

The album’s title True False reflects the current world of headlines and clickbait which has no patience for nuance and detail and where false dichotomies run rampant. In the track “Discernment”, a need for data is expressed, while there’s a mirroring of the natural melody of spoken words with instruments (a technique used by artists including Steve Reich and Scott Johnson).

Possibly the album’s most amusing track is “Fourth of July”, which features excerpts from a woman’s expletivefilled YouTube rant on election night in 2012 as she realizes that Obama will be reelected.

True False finds the group being more melodic than usual, although their collages are still complicated, evoking chaos and confusion among humor, and even a few dance-leaning beats can be heard.

In “This Is Not Normal”, multiple examples of people reciting the titular phrase are used; so what is normal, then?

We’re told, smirkingly, that dogs barking with the voices of children pretending to be dogs is normal, before oddly cheerful music with synth washes plays, with the sound

of children barking.

In the closing title track, we’re told that “we get into a loop which goes on forever” as history repeats. In the year 2019, True False doesn’t seem as riotous or provocative as it might have sounded a few decades ago, but it is a snapshot of how absurd the world has become. However, it’s easy to forget that things have always been absurd.

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ean O’Hagan titled his first solo album from 1990 High Llamas, a name which he then adopted for his band that frequently drew comparisons to Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys with meticulously crafted studio albums with lush instrumentation and arrangements—a style much more in common with '60s easy listening music or European soundtracks rather than aloof, low-fidelity '90s indie rock.

After a disappointing response to the last High Llamas album Here Come the Rattling Trees, which tied in with a theater production, O’Hagan decided to put the High Llamas name on the shelf for his next release as a sort of fresh start.

As O’Hagan told musicOMH in a recent interview, his intention was to not make a record “that belongs in another age”; while casual listeners will latch onto his Beach Boys influence (particularly with the

frequent use of constant quarter-note piano chords—think “God Only Knows”), his inspirations are more complicated than that; as he states, “I don’t see a demarcation between musical eras.”

So, O’Hagan’s beautiful and charming new pop album Radum Calls, Radum Calls can act as sonic comfort food, with flashes of familiar aural moods and sensations from the mid-20th century, but it’s also more inventive and multifaceted than apparent.

With this palatial music, it was easy for this writer to let the lyrics fall into the background, and repeated listenings are necessary to unlock the atypical narratives and storytelling going on, including tales of a woman in '70s Iran or a ghost or a cleaner in New York.

O’Hagan is reunited with his old bandmate Cathal Coughlan from the '80s group Microdisney, who sings on a few tracks. Several other tracks use a small chorus of female backing singers, including O’Hagan’s daughter Livvy.

Tweaked to perfection, every supple detail may seem ornamental—pretty for the sake of being pretty—with artificial electronics, strings, fantasyrealm harp runs, and gentle nylon-stringed guitar plucks, but everything fits into place without feeling gratuitous.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Studies suggest that on average each of us has a social network of about 250 people, of whom 120 we regard as a closer group of friendly acquaintances. But most of us have no more than twenty folks we trust, and only two or three whom we regard as confidants. I suspect that these numbers will be in flux for you during the next twelve months, Scorpio. I bet you’ll make more new friends than usual, and will also expand your inner circle. On the other hand, I expect that some people who are now in your sphere will depart. Net result: stronger alliances and more collaboration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I blame and thank the Sagittarian part of me when I get brave and brazen enough to follow my strongest emotions where they want to lead me. I also blame and thank the Sagittarian part of me when I strip off my defense mechanisms and invite the world to regard my vulnerabilities as interesting and beautiful. I furthermore blame and thank the Sagittarian side of me on those occasions when I run three miles down the beach at dawn, hoping to thereby jolt loose the secrets I’ve been concealing from myself. I suspect the coming weeks will be a favorable time to blame and thank the Sagittarian part of you for similar experiences.

“What Good Luck!”—let’s pitch in.

ACROSS 1 Wading bird 5 “Lethal Weapon” cop 10 “Whip It” group 14 Standard level 15 “Invisible Cities” author Calvino 16 In a frenzy 17 Provable 18 Some nightclub performances 20 Start of a quip 22 “___ Billie Joe” 23 ___-Cone 24 Support system 27 One-___ (rare events) 31 Digging animals 33 Head-inelbow motion 36 Part 2 of the quip 39 “The Mikado” accessories 41 Farmyard refrain 42 Mix up 43 Part 3 of the quip 46 Sean Lennon’s mom

47 Father Sarducci of old “SNL” 48 “Entertainment Tonight” alum John 49 Polo Grounds slugger Mel 50 Has been 53 “J’Accuse” author Zola 58 End of the quip 62 Reproduces by hand, maybe 65 “Buenos ___!”

66 Tandoori, e.g.

67 Clear the whiteboard 68 “___ Man of Constant Sorrow” 69 Like some memes 70 Portable dwellings 71 French Open surface DOWN 1 Split 2 Uninterested 3 “Go, me!”

4 Silvery food fish

5 Loaded (with) 6 “___ have to wait” 7 “The Ballad of Reading ___”: Wilde 8 Is brilliant 9 Existentialist Kierkegaard 10 “Fantastic Mr Fox” author Roald 11 Comedian Philips 12 Covenant 13 Approvals 19 Play-reviewing aid 21 Blanket material 24 Popeye’s rival 25 Lacquer ingredient 26 2019 World Series player 28 Author Jonathan Safran ___ 29 ___ gras (food banned by New York City) 30 Actor Ulrich 32 Breakfast drinks 33 Kitteh’s counterpart, in pet slang

34 Nearly 35 Hit the ground hard, in skating 37 Drink for the pinot gallery?

38 Makes a row in a garden, say 40 Time zone abbr.

44 “America’s Got Talent” judge Mandel 45 “That was close” 51 Plus column entry 52 Beach location 54 Doc on a battlefield 55 Related to a hipbone 56 Guanaco’s cousin 57 Short paper 58 Secret signal 59 “Kindergarten Cop” director Reitman 60 Brooding spot 61 Tests for prospective Ph.Ds 62 Fish and chips fish 63 Zoologist’s eggs 64 It may stain when leaking

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Persian polymath Avicenna (980–1037) wrote 450 books on many topics, including medicine, philosophy, astronomy, geography, mathematics, theology, and poetry. While young, he tried to study the Metaphysics of Aristotle, but had difficulty grasping it. Forty times he read the text, even committing it to memory. But he made little progress toward fathoming it.

Years later, he was browsing at an outdoor market and found a brief, cheap book about the Metaphysics by an author named al-Farabi.

He read it quickly, and for the first time understood Aristotle’s great work. He was so delighted he went out to the streets and gave away gifts to poor people. I foresee a comparable milestone for you, Capricorn: something that has eluded your comprehension will become clear, at least in part due to a lucky accident.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In addition to being a key figure in Renaissance art, fifteenth-century Italian painter Filippo Lippi had a colorful life. According to legend, he was once held prisoner

by Barbary pirates, but gained his freedom by drawing a riveting portrait of their leader. Inspired by the astrological factors affecting you right now, I’m fantasizing about the possibilty of a liberating event arriving in your life. Maybe you’ll call on one of your skills in a dramatic way, thereby enhancing

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Stand high long enough and your lightning will come,” writes Piscean novelist William Gibson. He isn’t suggesting that we literally stand on top of a treeless hill in a thunderstorm and invite the lightning to shoot down through us. More realistically, I think he means that we should devotedly cultivate and discipline our highest forms of expression so that when inspiration finds us, we’ll be primed to receive and use its full power. That’s an excellent oracle for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We devote a lot of energy to wishing and hoping about the meaningful joys we’d love to bring into our lives. And yet few of us have been trained in the best strategies for manifesting our wishes and hopes.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that now is a favorable time for you to upgrade your skills at getting what you want. With that in mind, I present you with the simple but potent wisdom of author Maya Angelou: “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.” To flesh that out, I’ll add: Formulate a precise statement describing your heart’s yearning, and then work hard to make yourself ready for its fulfillment.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries psychologist James Hillman said we keep “our images and fantasies at arm’s length because they are so full of love.” They’re also quite flammable, he added. They are always on the verge of catching fire, metaphorically speaking. That’s why many people wrap their love-filled images and fantasies in metaphorical asbestos: to prevent them from igniting a blaze in their psyches. In my astrological opinion, you Aries folks always have a mandate to use less asbestos than all the other signs—even none at all. That’s even truer than usual right now.

Keep your images and fantasies extra close and raw and wild.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are the key parts of your life—the sources and influences that enable you to be your most soulful self? I urge you to nourish them intensely during the next three weeks. Next question: What are the marginally important parts of your life—the activities and proclivities that aren’t essential for your long-term success and happiness? I urge you to corral all the energy you give to those marginally important things, and instead pour it into what’s most important. Now is a crucial time in the evolution of your relationship with your primal fuels, your indispensable resources, your sustaining foundations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet James Merrill was ecstatic when he learned the Greek language.

According to his biographer, he felt he could articulate his needs “with more force and clarity, with greater simplicity and less self-consciousness, than he ever could in his own language.” He concluded, “Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.” Personally, I think that’s an exaggeration. I believe the freedom to be yourself is very, very important. But for you in the coming weeks, Taurus, the freedom to not be yourself could indeed be quite liberating. What might you do to stretch your capacities beyond what you’ve assumed is true about you? Are you willing to rebel against and transcend your previous self-conceptions?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis,” wrote short story author Robert Musil. He was describing a conversation between a man and woman who were on different wavelengths. “When she mentioned love,” Musil continued, “he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the rise and fall in the annual birthrate.”

Many of you Virgos have the flexibility to express yourself well on both of those wavelengths. But in the coming months, I hope you’ll emphasize the beauty and love wavelength rather than the fatty tissue and statistical curve wavelength. It’ll be an excellent strategy for getting the healing you need.

your leeway or generating a breakthrough or unleashing an opportunity. (Please also re-read your horoscope from last week.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Musician Brian Eno made a deck of oracular cards called Oblique Strategies. Each card has a suggestion designed to trigger creative thinking about a project or process you’re working on. You Geminis might find it useful to call on Oblique Strategies right now, since you’re navigating your way through a phase of adjustment and rearrangement. The card I drew for you is “Honor thy error as hidden intention.” Here’s how I interpet it: An apparent lapse or misstep will actually be the result of your deeper mind guiding you to take a fruitful detour.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle was asked, “What is your signature perfume?” She said she hadn’t found one. But then she described how she would like to smell: “somewhere between fresh and earthy: cinnamon and honey, a rose garden, saltwater baked in the sun.” The coming days will be an excellent time to indulge in your own fantasies about the special fragrance you’d like to emanate.

Moreover, I bet you’ll be energized by pinpointing a host of qualities you would like to serve as cornerstones of your identity: traits that embody and express your uniqueness.

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FILM & TELEVISION

“Two Men Trapped In A Giant Phallus” The Lighthouse delivers indie-film strangeness We, The Marines On The Big Screen Happy birthday, Marine Corps! We, The Marines, a stirring IMAX film, will take you on an action-filled adventure into the rigorous experience of becoming a Marine and serving as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.

The Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3D will offer special screenings of this gripping documentary on Veterans Day weekend—Saturday through Monday.

Academy Award-winning actor and onetime Marine Gene Hackman narrates this film, which uses the giant screen to honor the dedication, service, and larger-than-life experiences that create the unbreakable ties between America’s “first responders”.

(Marine readers are already penning corrections to our descriptor of Hackman as a one-time Devil Dog: “ALWAYS a Marine.”

You’re right. And this film shows why.)

Part of the proceeds from the Aquarium’s We, The Marines screenings—up to $5,000—will be donated to the South East Tennessee Unit of The Young Marines, a nonprofit youth education and service program for boys and girls.

See this film Saturday at 11 a.m., noon and 7 p.m.; Sunday at noon; and Veterans Day Monday at 11 a.m. and noon.

And for all you Marines and supporters, there will be a USMC Birthday cake-cutting ceremony after the Sunday noon showing.

Come learn why the USMC is “always faithful” and help honor those who wore the uniform proudly. — Michael Thomas

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NE OF THE DRAWBACKS OF REVIEWING FILM is that you see a lot of film. This seems counterintuitive, of course. I love movies. Still, when you watch a lot of them, you start to see the same ideas over and over. Repetition drives audiences to theaters and dollars into studio coffers. Filmmaking is a business after all.

By John DeVore Pulse Film Editor

This means, though, that it’s sometimes hard to find something interesting to say about a film.

Whenever I’m asked in person if a movie is good or not, my response is almost always: “it’s fine.” That’s

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because, generally, this is true.

Most movies released by Hollywood are completely adequate.

Large budgets are generally given to competent people who make watchable movies. But there’s a difference between something being watchable and something being great, in the same way there’s

a difference between a microwave pizza and a large pepperoni from Lupi’s.

A microwave pizza technically does its job, but I can tell you which one I’d rather have. The problem is this: microwave pizza is easier to make and more likely to sell nationwide. We have a nation growing up on microwave pizza. And when tastes develop that way, something like Lupi’s is always going to seem foreign and weird. The Lighthouse is the film equivalent of Lupi’s pizza.

I savored every minute of it.

The Lighthouse is directed by Robert Eggers, known for his previ-

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The film can be best summed up by the words of the director himself: ‘Nothing good can happen when two men are trapped alone in a giant phallus.’” ous film The VVitch. There aren’t many auteur filmmakers left in American cinema, but Eggers certainly fits the description. If you’ve seen The VVitch, you likely either loved it or hated it. It was a monumental film, slowly paced and period accurate, relying heavily on the technical aspects of the film, as well as the heavy dialect of the Puritan 1600’s, all of which can easily be offputting for the modern film audience.

The Lighthouse is just as challenging, if not more so. The film is shot in black and white, with a 1.19:1 aspect ratio, making it reminiscent of German silent film, and highlighting the claustrophobic and isolated nature of the setting. Eggers was intentional here—he wants the audience to feel trapped by the sea, just like the characters.

On the surface, this film is about a pair of lighthouse keepers serving out a four-week term on a remote location. Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) is the elder of the pair, with Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) serving as his assistant. Winslow is new to the wickie life and Wake is more than aware of it.

Wake seems a stereotypical old salt, speaking in monologues filled with seafarer lingo and walking with a limp which keeps him from spending his remaining life on the sea. He’s a hard master, as well. Despite the guidelines outlined in the lighthouse keeper’s manual, Wake will not allow Winslow to tend the light.

Instead, Winslow hauls lantern oil,

fixes leaky shingles, repaints the lighthouse, and empties their chamber pots. When the wind changes and a storm strands the pair on the rock, their rations soon run low, leaving them to drink away the time and hope for the best.

The Lighthouse features powerhouse performances by both Dafoe and Pattinson. At times, they border on overacting, but in the best, most fun ways imaginable. The film is both dark and hysterical—from wild-eyed madness to understandable frustration over flatulence.

But it’s more than just a couple of New Englanders getting drunk during a storm. There’s fantasy and horror, violence and tender moments, and often just outright strangeness. The film can be best summed up by the words of the director himself: “Nothing good can happen when two men are trapped alone in a giant phallus.”

True enough, as the film is saturated with themes of male sexuality and hubris. But most importantly, The Lighthouse is different. It’s not a film I could predict or pretend to understand at first viewing. It makes it as rare a film as any this year.

All I want is a film to surprise me, to entertain me, to make me wonder.

Robert Eggers does this with his films and he does it in a precise, measured way that challenges the senses and pricks at the mind. I can’t say enough good things about the film. If you’re looking for something new, The Lighthouse is a film worth your time.

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COLUMN · ON THE BEAT

I Want My Friends To Wake Up An all-too-silent cop killer needs to be stopped

T Alex Teach

Pulse columnist

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I’m not blaming The Job on this, given the small statistical sampling here, but I can’t quite bring myself to exonerate it either. I just want all my friends to wake up.”

When officer Alexander D. Teach is not patrolling our fair city on the heels of the criminal element, he spends his spare time volunteering for the Boehm Birth Defects Center.

WO THINGS MAKE ME SAD. Okay, many more than two things make me sad, but I can narrow it down to just two of them for the purposes of this column: The first is the blossoming concept that somehow socialism becomes a successful tenet once the word “democratic” is placed in front of it, and the other is when my friends go to sleep and never wake up.

Quite frankly there isn’t enough page space to accommodate my supporting evidence of such buffoonery in regards to the first subject, but the second is both succinct and something I don’t mind talking about too much, so it should fit just nicely.

A few mornings ago (four to be precise), a co-worker essentially did just as I stated. Forty-nine years old, roughly 20 years on The Job, and he ultimately succumbed to complications from blood clots. (Apologies to family and fellow friends for oversimplifying something like this, but I am hoping for a pass to make a larger point.)

It immediately brought to mind the first time I was aware of this happening when a then-fellow detective (this time literally) went to sleep for the last time on December 22nd, 2010 after a long evening’s work.

These two examples then started to bring to mind the four others in the years between that are still with us but off The Job medically. Blood clots. Strokes that have happened or waiting to happen, all isolated in this small professional demographic.

They’re caused by blood either not flowing sufficiently and allowing platelets to clump, or from good ol’ cholesterol building up (and breaking free). In either case at my host agency the presumption is the former for disability pension

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purposes (depending on the whim of the current board members, as they are a separate entity from the disability-declaring employer) since we’re not in the Social Security system and since we’re required to sit in a car or at a desk for 8 to 12 hours at a time wearing elastic compression devices (known as “ballistic armor”) underneath polyester further supplemented by a constricting 3-inch belt with 10 or 12 pounds of steel and lead weighing it down.

But who is predisposed to such clotting is completely unknown, since the afflicted are generally in as good or better shape than the average po-po.

I’m not blaming The Job on this, given the small statistical sampling here, but I can’t quite bring myself to exonerate it either. I just want all my friends to wake up.

Such a strange profession. Of all the things coppers are subjected to— both the things they are aware of and not aware of—this one is in some ways scarier than the more obvious ones. Taking a bullet, crashing a car, even contracting a blood-born pathogen, are equally

horrible ways to be injured (or die), but at least they have firm footing in the psychology of what we expect. But “not waking up”?

A copper, much less an average Joe, can’t live in a world of perpetual fear of the unknown because quite frankly that’s not “living” at all. Not to mention that walking around with a pistol in one hand and a portable pharmacy in the other is just downright impractical in a customer service industry like policing, but I think you get my point.

Both co-workers I referred to above who passed so unexpectedly and prematurely were respected by their peers and loved by their families (and thus knew they were loved prior to their long goodnight), but while you don’t need the reminder...double down on making a point to make every moment count.

And if anyone else thinks the odds of clot-related issues in such a small sampling is out of the statistical norm...?

Feedback (beyond the usual suggestions to fire and prosecute me for my opinions) would be appreciated.

Be well. Literally.

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