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The Pulse CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

EDITORIAL

Managing Editor Gary Poole Contributing Editor Janis Hashe

November 27, 2014 Volume 11, Issue 48

Contributors David Traver Adolphus • Rob Brezsny Madeline Chambliss • John DeVore Mike Dobbs • Hayley Graham Janis Hashe • Matt Jones Ernie Paik • Rick Pimental-Habib Terry Stulce • Alex Teach Editorial Interns Maggie Hanna • Zach Nicholson Rachael Poe Cartoonists & Illustrators Rick Baldwin • Max Cannon Jen Sorenson • Tom Tomorrow

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Out To Conquer The World

Manchester, England is not usually the first city in the United Kingdom that comes to mind when one thinks “music city.”

London, Liverpool, Birmingham—even Glasgow have all been epicenters for various waves of musicians and bands coming “across the pond” to conquer America.

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Artlessness: Love Story Times Two

Flash back a few years, when Chattanooga-raised singer/ songwriter Taylor Smith’s work visa in Australia fell through, forcing him to return to Tennessee after five years, leaving behind his girlfriend of the previous year and a half.

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Hit the Floor Wide Open

Marcus Ellsworth commands attention the moment he walks into a room. He is not bombastic or over-the-top, but when he steps forward and speaks, you listen. It’s a talent that has become his passion, sharing his thoughts through spoken word.

15 holiday shopping GUIDE 29 BUSINESS: Camp Jordan lights up for the holidays.

21 JONESIN’ CROSSWORD 26 SPIRITS: An apple whiskey a day…

27 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 29 SCREEN: Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” is effective debut.

30 ON THE BEAT: Officer Alex explains that it’s the little things that mean a lot. Like sauerkraut.

31 DIVERSIONS

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Op-Ed: As Usual, Follow The Money Why are Tennessee’s senators really so mad about immigration?

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To maintain this criminalization of immigration, CCA donates large sums of money to ‘friends’ in the U.S. House and Senate.”

Even before President Obama delivered his policy statement on immigration last Thursday, Sen. Bob Corker appeared on Fox News snarling and salivating. He appeared to be overcome by his hatred of the president, unleashing a torrent of insults that were, at the very least, highly disrespectful, and at worst, slanderous. He kept repeating “weak president,” “weak leader,” and “worst president in U.S. history,” even though the Fox interviewer attempted to help him escape his obsessive verbal loop.

Let’s consider that his emotional agitation may have completely ne-

gated his short-term memory, because he apparently could not recall George Bush, who really was the worst president in U.S. history, having gone to sleep at the switch, which allowed Bin Laden to knock down the Twin Towers, starting two wars that have proven to be abysmal failures, and wrecking the economy with deregulation, bringing on the Great Recession. Now that is a bad president!

In comparison, terry stulce under President Obama, the stock market has skyrocketed from 7,949 to 17,826. Unemployment has decreased from 7.8 percent to 5.8 percent. The GDP achieved a gain of 9.9 percent in six years.

The deficit has decreased from 9.8 percent to 2.8 percent GDP. Consumer confidence has increased from 37.7 percent to 94.5 percent.

President Obama pulled us out of the worst recession in U.S. history, and now millions of Americans have affordable health care that had no chance of obtaining it under George Bush.

Bin Laden has been terminated with extreme prejudice and the president has resisted the influence of American chicken hawks to start another stupid war. That is a mighty fine record.

So what motivated Sen. Corker’s outburst? Is he just playing to the racist vote in the South?

Suppressing the minority vote while getting 75 percent of the white vote was a winning strategy for the Dixiecrats for decades. Yet I believe there is an even more sinister motivation.

The Faithful Democracy Coalition points out that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has been “covertly maneuvering in im-

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migration policy to increase detention rates while intentionally misleading the public about their efforts.”

The Continuing Appropriations Act of 2014 was passed with the strong support of both of Tennessee’s senators, Corker and Alexander. It mandates that the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency detain an average of 34,000 immigrant prisoners every day at a cost of $2 billion annually to taxpayers.

Criminalizing undocumented immigration is a lucrative business for CCA. The more immigrants imprisoned, the more profits for CCA. To maintain this criminalization of immigration, CCA donates large sums of money to “friends” in the U.S. House and Senate.

CCA has donated $51,450 to Bob Corker and $70,450 to Lamar Alexander. Any move to decriminalize immigration will be strongly opposed by CCA—and by proxy, their “friends.”

Maybe both Tennessee senators are pandering to their party’s radical right fringe. Maybe both simply lack the ability to empathize with real people. Or maybe their anti-immigrant stances are the result of their having sold their allegiances to corporate power and money.

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It's a “Skate-A-Palooza” at Ross’s Landing If you’re looking for something fun to do with your friends and family this holiday season, Chattanooga won’t let you down.

While most of the city’s annual festivities opening this week keep your feet solidly on the ground, there is one new attraction that requires your pedal extremities to glide.

On Friday Nov. 28, Chattanooga’s first riverfront ice skating rink, Ice on the Landing, will open to the general public!

It’s scheduled from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on that first eve. Come get a close-up view of the Lighted Boat Parade as you make your way around the rink. In honor of the opening, the penguins from the Tennessee Aquarium will be joining the party until 9 p.m.

Presented by Volkswagen Chattanooga, Ice on the Landing is an open-air rink measuring 50’ x 70’ that organizers say, “will feature a schedule to accommo-

IN THIS ISSUE

Gary Poole This week’s cover story on The 1975 is by managing editor Gary Poole. A longtime musician himself, Gary has an appreciation for any band that carves their own path through the musical world.

When not writing about music, he handles the day-

date general skating for the public, as well as special themes, appearances by Santa, and a rotating schedule to benefit not-for-profit groups.”

Located at Ross’s Landing at the riverfront park, Ice on the Landing will be open for six weeks, with the last day set for January 4, 2015.

Tickets, which include skate rental and skating for two hours, are $10 for adults and $8 for children 12 and under. Hours vary by date and weather and can be checked by visiting iceonthelanding.com — Madeline Chambliss

David Traver Adolphus to-day operations of The Pulse as well as many of the layout and design duties.

His lifelong love affair with newspapers started when he founded his middle school newspaper. Along the way, he's written for a wide variety of local, regional and national publications as well as spending a lot of time behind a radio microphone as both a disc jockey and a talk show host. You can follow him on Twitter @GaryPooleTN

David Traver Adolphus is our resident car geek, covering all things automotive for us on a monthly basis. David 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. David occasionally contributes to Road & Track magazine and often to roadandtrack.com and elsewhere.

He is also the founder of The Road Home, a nonprofit benefitting post-9/11 veterans. Learn more about it on Facebook @theroadhomeusa.

As far as his automotive writing, he welcomes the inevitable and probably richly deserved kvetching about Airbag and anything else on Twitter as @proscriptus.

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COVER STORY

Manchester quartet out to conquer the world, one country, one city, one show at a time.

By Gary Poole

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anchester, England is not usually the first city in the United Kingdom that comes to mind when one thinks “music city.” London, Liverpool, Birmingham— even Glasgow have all been epicenters for various waves of musicians and bands coming “across the pond” to conquer America.

In fact, if the average American has even heard of Manchester, it’s much more likely they’ll think of Manchester United, one of the top football clubs in the English Premier League.

But don’t dismiss the city as being only a sports town. In fact, Manchester has a long and storied musical history, spawning bands as diverse as The Smiths, The Buzzcocks, The Courteeners, The Fall, Joy Division (and its successor group New Order), Oasis, Elbow, Doves, and Take That. And now, add a new name: The 1975.

The quartet, which takes the stage at Track 29 this Friday night in the midst of their first headlining tour of the United States, came together in the northwest English city as teenagers when singer Matt Healy, guitarist Adam Hann and bassist Ross MacDon hooked up with drummer George Daniel.

Right off the bat, it was very hard to pin down exactly what type of musical style they were going to pursue. The band’s music drifts between brooding art rock, crisp electronica, dancefloor, rhythm & blues and ’80s gloss pop.

“I don’t think it’s confusing,” says singer Matty Healy of his band. “Feeling a lack of identity and the searching within oneself to acquire a real understanding of what you want to be, that’s something that loads of people can connect with. It’s so strange that with music people [they] want so many rules.”

If the 25 year old comes across older than his years, he has earned that road-weariness. His musical life started young when his dad’s best friend died, leaving him two guitars. And as many guitarists have discovered, there’s something about the instrument that seems to in-

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spire rebellion. Which didn’t bode well for his future in private school.

“I didn’t really care for being there, I got in a couple of fights,” he explains. “I got asked to leave, I never actually got expelled.”

After transitioning to public school at 14, he started drumming in a punk band with eventual bandmates Hann and MacDonald. But he was soon to move out from behind the drum kit when he meet Daniel.

“This weird kid turned up at school. He was really tall but he looked about nine and was this odd character,” says Healy, of how he first met the eventual drummer for The 1975. “My kind of boyfriend. Well, not really, but he might as well be, we don’t really leave each others’ sides.”

The pair bonded over their dislocated childhoods—Matt moved between London and Newcastle while George was born in Belgium and grew up in Seattle—and the sense of isolation they felt in their new homes in the Manchester suburbs.

Hann had heard of a “hippie council worker” who rented out local space for kids to play

“Feeling a lack of identity and the searching within oneself to acquire a real understanding of what you want to be, that’s something that loads of people can connect with.” shows, and the band formed in order to get involved. They began expanding their basic punk sound, adding elements of electronica, pop, and even some of the older British art-rock elements.

Several years of clubbing and touring the country, under a variety of band names, led them to two realizations. One, that they were on to something they felt was musically fresh, and two, that they needed to be very wary and protective of their music.

“We said ‘we’re not desperate to be famous, we’re not desperate to be in a massive band, let’s do it our way, on our terms, and make sure that our projection of ourselves is controlled by us’,” Healy notes.

They also needed to settle on a name. Though 1975 was the year The Sex Pistols formed and Talking Heads played their first gigs, the moniker has nothing to do with the date itself.

Healy explains he found it in the back of a Beat-era book given to him by a “gregarious artist” he met at a yard sale in northern Majorca at the age of 19.

“He showed me round his house, it was like a ’60s bizarre haberdashery.

He had photos of him with Hendrix…

I thought this guy was crazy! He gave me loads of Beat Generation literature, Kerouac and stuff. When I went home I read them and in the back of one of them there was all these mental scribblings, it was almost suicidal, and it was dated at the bottom ‘1st June, The 1975’. I was quite freaked out when I read it, the use of the word ‘The’ really stuck with me. It was the perfect band name.”

In 2011, armed with a new name and a large collection of road-tested songs, they signed with a regional label and produced the first of what would be three EPs over the following two years. Finally, in 2013, they went back into the studio to put together a full album of their best material.

“We’re weren’t making a record to support a couple of singles,” Healy says of the finished record. “On your debut album, whether you’re hyped or not, you’ve got shitloads to prove to yourself.”

And prove it they did. Their selftitled debut album entered at the top of the albums chart in the U.K. and earned rave reviews. “One immensely hooky debut,” said Entertainment Weekly and Billboard raved, “one of this year’s biggest breakouts.”

They’ve also proved it on the road, turning into musical world travelers. Since their first show in December 2012, they have put in countless miles. The band has spent the last five months on tour taking in North America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and mainland Europe. They’ve also been exposed to American audiences through televised appearances on “Conan,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

So where do they go from here?

“People need to get on board with what we’re doing and see that we’re for this generation. I want our music to be a part of people’s lives, properly,” says Healy.

You can get on board with The 1975 this Friday night at Track 29 and see for yourself what they are all about.

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Chilling Out in the Driver’s Seat Ways to stay cool during hot-temper driving season

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A mall parking lot on a big preChristmas shopping day is a display of unconcern for one’s fellows that makes you question your place in the universe.”

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. He welcomes the inevitable and probably richly deserved kvetching about Airbag and anything else on Twitter as @proscriptus.

For years, I was a bad the kind of jerk I hate. I driver. I exhibited a mixture know, right? For me, it’s all of passive-aggressive, selfabout preparation. righteous and just stupid fast The worst place for many driving that I cringe to think people is a parking lot. It’s about. I think I’ve wrecked certainly where you see the three cars, although I could worst driving—a mall parkbe forgetting one, and I’m ing lot on a big pre-Christmas sure for a long time there was shopping day is a display of at least one serious near-miss unconcern for one’s fellows a year or more, that makes like swapping you question ends on a dirt your place in road. Those the universe. impulses are My solution DAVID TRAVER still there has been to ADOLPHUS beneath the short-circuit surface, but the whole the key has been learning, aggression-begets-aggression slowly and painfully, to conprocess. If you don’t spend trol them.

10 minutes fighting for a spot For many people, this is a near the entrance, you can time of year when that bepark at the back of the lot and havior is hardest to control. be inside in half the time. It Even if you love the holidays, pays a second dividend, as they are often highly stressit’s easier to get out—and no ful and while you might be one’s fighting over your spot, coping, other people probeither. ably aren’t. Add in heavy and A major second technique frantic shopping traffic, short for me, believe it or not, days and weather for which has been viewing the Ruspeople are never prepared, sian dash-cam videos I menand it can become a cauldron tioned last month. Go to of emotion.

YouTube and search for Car I have had to work very, Crash Channel to find them. very hard not to be exactly The trick is to watch a lot of

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them. After a while I started recognizing what everyone was doing wrong in every incident, then trying to predict it. Now while I’m driving I’m constantly alert for those mistakes from both myself and other drivers, and the sorts of situations where accidents are likely to happen.

Not only am I driving much, much more safely, but my whole attitude is better. I see the crashes in the videos and I’m always thinking, “I don’t want to be like that,” whether it’s a driver causing a crash or someone inattentive who could have avoided one. Yes, sometimes someone is going to do something really offensive and I could brake-check them, but is my satisfaction worth the risk and incredible hassle of not having a car? It never is.

My last major breakthrough has been an acceptance that I’m going to be late sometimes. I hate being late. I think it’s the epitome of rudeness and shows an utter lack of respect for anyone you keep waiting. The problem comes when I feel as though I’m being held up by a slow driver. It enrages me, even if it just makes the eight-minute drive from my kid’s school to my office into

a ten-minute drive. Don’t they know this is a 40 MPH zone? Why are they going 30?

WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU! But I won’t speed, pass illegally or run a yellow because of it—because it’s not worth it. Part of my coping has been a rule I have for my kids, which I started after a near-disaster this summer: If they distract me, we stop. It doesn’t matter if we’re going to miss Grandma’s last lucid moment on her deathbed, we’re stopping. That insistence has also made me recognize when I have a moment like that myself, without them there. And it’s made me accept that being late isn’t the worst thing in the world.

I still hate it, and will yell at the person in front of me, but from a safe distance behind.

It’s like the AA Serenity Prayer: “God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.” Inwardly, I may be still seething, but my anger doesn’t direct my actions, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s the important part. If it’s a 12step program, then this part, where I’m a safe driver, is the first step.

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Keeping Up With the Joneses Again Great local band reunites for Turkey Day show After you eat your weight in turkey this Thursday, you’re probably going to consider spending the rest of your life sitting in some post-dinner sofa chair that’s always been there for you. But there’s no time for snoozing or tummy-rubbin’ this Thanksgiving.

Wolf down that bird and say thanks because once-defunct local band Up With the Joneses is back for a onenight reunion show. The event starts at 9:30 p.m. this Thursday at Rhythm & Brews. That gives you plenty of time to see the family, eat entirely too much, and head downtown. You’ll want to get there at the start, too, because local fave Danimal Planet will be opening the show.

If you’re not familiar with Up With the Joneses, the band is essentially a local star lineup of Chattanooga’s rock-n-rollers. TJ Greever, Dan Pin-

son, Matt Bohannon and Adam Brown will be bringing you rock that ranges from funk to alternative to blues. Everything they play puts out good vibes—just try to not smile when you listen to them. If you’ve seen Up With the Joneses before, you’ve got one chance to see them play again. If you’ve never seen them, don’t miss the opportunity to see a great local band from Chattanooga’s 2010 music scene.

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Artlessness: Love Story Times Two LeafCrown’s album touches Taylor Smith’s past and present

Marc Trovillion, Ross Carlson, Matt Lewis, Taylor Smith and Bob Stagner

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eaf Crown’s new country-rock album Artlessness (leafcrown.bandcamp.com) was written in Chattanooga and recorded in Nashville for a woman in Australia. Flash back a few years, when Chattanooga-raised singer/songwriter Taylor Smith’s work visa in Australia fell through, forcing him to return to Tennessee after five years, leaving behind his girlfriend of the previous year and a half.

He took a job “slingin’ springs” at a Chattanooga mattress shop and took advantage of the ample downtime to write songs for his sweetheart, halfway across the world.

Within the heartfelt affection expressed in Smith’s richly evocative and warm voice, there’s a bittersweetness, as the album also serves as a dediERNIE cation to the memory of local musician and Lambchop “charter member” Marc Trovillion— a.k.a. Buddie T—being one of the last albums on which he played before passing away one year ago from a heart attack.

The album’s title comes from a quote attributed to composer Claude Debussy: “I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.”

“Country music for me has always worn its heart on its sleeve,” said Smith via email. “It’s real. There’s no pretense. And I think that’s what ‘artlessness’ meant to me. Not concerned with whether it’s good or polished or smart or if people think it’s cool. It’s just there, simple and real.”

“I’m really only interested in music,

‘beautiful’ or not, that you can tell came from someone’s gut,” said Smith. “They spent something. They left something of themselves in the work. Saying something real. Something true. Even if it doesn’t make sense.”

Smith was joined by his close friend and guitarist Matt Lewis, but the rest of his backing band came together after he noticed PAIK some drums in a customer’s car as he was loading a mattress into it. “[Smith] asked if I was a musician, and the next day we’re laying down what would come to be the first song on the upcoming album,” said guitarist and Red Crow Studios owner Ross Carlson.

One thing led to another, and Carlson soon enlisted percussionist Bob Stagner (of the Shaking Ray Levis) who knew Trovillion, and the proceedings moved to Beech House in Nashville, under the skilled hand of respected engineer Mark Nevers.

“Things were kicked up a notch at Beech House,” said Stagner. “I like being under the gun, and it’s a beautiful piece showing some of Marc’s last music. Plus the entire

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record was a love letter to Taylor’s bride-tobe, and we had to make each song as strong as possible.”

During the 18-month separation, Smith met up with his girlfriend Antonella in Hawaii, where he popped the question; she accepted.

“Those love songs ensured the storybook ending that hopeless romantic was hoping for,” said Carlson.

When Trovillion passed away a year ago, friends, collaborators and Lambchop fans provided a flood of tributes to him. Media outlets across the world reported the news, including Rolling Stone, Spin, Pitchfork and NME, reflecting just how treasured and beloved he was.

“I can’t say I’ve ever met anyone imbued with such genuine kindness, talent and wisdom as Marc,” said Carlson. “Without fail, he was the one person in Tennessee who was always up for something fun, beautiful or adventurous at any time of the day or night.”

“I know I’m one of many people who love and miss Buddie T,” said Stagner. “I knew that anytime I picked up the phone

and called, he’d help talk me off the roof.

Making music with him was as easy as talking with him. He always added his soul, and you can hear it.

“Some of my happiest times were when I’d ask Marc what he was up to, and he’d say ‘I’m just here working on a custom woodwork. Last week we played the Royal Albert Hall in London,’” said Stagner. “I am really lucky to have made this record with such fine folk, and when I hear it now my heart is surrounded by light instead of being a bit broken.”

“Marc pretty much embodied what I want to be as a musician: someone who, over the years, has cultivated his gift, made great art and remained humble and hardworking until the end,” said Smith. “He was a real person, and I remember him telling me and Matt Lewis, that he loved us and he really just encouraged us to look after ourselves and keep making music and good things would happen.”

For Smith—reunited with the love of his life, and having released his new album, ripe for discovery and a breakthrough— Trovillion was right.

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AMBER FULTS & THE AMBIVALENT LOVERS 9p

80'S RETRO AND DANCE ALL NIGHT 2 SINGERS, 17 PIECE BIG BAND

with CONNOR CHRISTIAN

FANTASTIC BEATLES TRIBUTE BAND

with PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG

12.10 DOPAPOD & TAUK 12.11 JIMMY TAWATER 12.12 SAME AS IT EVER WAS

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RICH ROBINSON SOLO ACOUSTIC TOUR

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MUSIC CALENDAR

CHATTANOOGA

Vince Gill

thursday11.27 Jimmy Harris 7 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Open Mic with Hap Henninger 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191 Up With the Joneses, Danimal Planet 9:30 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Husky Burnette, James Legg 10 p.m.

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

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Jason Thomas and the Mean-Eyed Cats 5 p.m.

Chattanooga Choo Choo 1400 Market St. choochoo.com Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

El Meson 2204 Hamilton Place Blvd. elmesonrestaurant.com Chattanooga Acoustic

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Showcase 7 p.m.

Charles & Myrtle’s Coffeehouse 105 McBrien Rd. christunity.org Jimmy Harris 7 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com The 1975, Young Rising Sons, Cruisr 8 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co Southlander 8 p.m.

American Legion Post 81 227 James Asbury Ln. (423) 476-4451

Pulse Pick: The Molly Maguires Chattanooga's longrunning Irish party band returns to the stage at The Honest Pint for a traditional after-Thanksgiving party in true Molly's style.

The Molly Maguires Sunday, 7 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com

Tim & Reece 8 p.m.

Sky Zoo 5709 Lee Hwy. chattazooga.com Logan Murrell 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Sonic Brew 8:30 p.m.

VFW Post 2598 3370 N. Ocoee St. vfw.org Crunk Bone Jones 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191 Jordan Hallquist Duo 9 p.m.

World Of Beer 412 Market St. worldofbeer.com Amber Fults & The Ambivalent Lovers 9:30 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Caverna, Kindora Camp, Hise, Rockfloyd 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Aunt Betty 10 p.m.

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

saturday11.29 Jason Thomas and the Mean-Eyed Cats 5 p.m.

Chattanooga Choo Choo 1400 Market St. choochoo.com Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

El Meson 2204 Hamilton Place Blvd. elmesonrestaurant.com Mocha Renaissance Band 7 p.m.

Mocha Restaurant & Music Lounge 511 Broad St. mochajazz.net

Jimmy Harris 7 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Ragdoll 8 p.m.

Sky Zoo 5709 Lee Hwy. chattazooga.com Vince Gill, Janelle Arthur 8 p.m.

Tivoli Theater 709 Broad St. chattanoogaonstage.com Paul Smith and the Sky High Band 8 p.m.

American Legion Post 81 227 James Asbury Ln. (423) 476-4451 Logan Murrell 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Preston Parris Duo 9 p.m.

World Of Beer 412 Market St. worldofbeer.com Aunt Betty 10 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com The Breakfast Club 10 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com

Scott James Stambaugh 10 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191 Hatestomp vs. The Iscariots 10 p.m.

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

sunday11.30 Holiday Carolers 1 p.m.

The Chattanoogan 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Sunday Night Irish Music Jam Session 5 p.m.

Grocery Bar 1501 Long St. grocerybar.com Acoustic Gospel Jam 6 p.m.

Brainerd United Methodist Church 4315 Brainerd Rd. brainerdumc.org The Molly Maguires 7 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com

monday12.1 Rhythm Ballroom Dance 6 p.m.

The Ballroom at Hixson 7001 Middle Valley Rd. theballroomathixson.com Monday Nite Big Band 7 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com

tuesday12.2 Rick’s Blues Jam 7 p.m.

Folk School of Chattanooga 1200 Mountain Creek Rd. chattanoogafolk.com Tim Starnes, Davey Smith 7 p.m.

Sugar’s Downtown 507 Broad St. sugarschattanooga.com Chattanooga State Concert Choir 7:30 p.m.

Chattanooga State Community College 4501 Amnicola Hwy. chattanoogastate.edu Lee University Wind Ensemble 7:30 p.m.

Lee University Conn Center 1053 Church St. NE leeuniversity.edu Uptown Big Band 8 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com

MUSIC CALENDAR

Dan + Shay

901 Carter St Inside City Cafe 423-634-9191 Thursday, November 27: 9pm Open Mic with Hap Henninger Friday, November 28: 9pm Crunk Bone Jones Saturday, November 29: 10pm Scott James Stambaugh Tuesday, December 2: 7pm

wednesday12.3

Server/Hotel Appreciation Night

Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonrestaurant.com Dan + Shay 7 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co Jimmy Harris 7 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Dan Sheffield 7:30 p.m.

Sugar’s Downtown 507 Broad St. sugarschattanooga.com Angie Aparo, Connor Christian 9:30 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com E Rex, Dr. Steam, Subsurgence, Spoon, Churrin 10 p.m.

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

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Record Reviews

ZACH NICHOLSON

Apex of Synergy, Haunting Americana Circa Survive evolves, Rye Baby gets simple

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Violent Waves, was released independently, so when Circa Survive signed to Sumerian Records, I was very excited to see what they would produce. And these guys have totally blown me away. Descensus sounds much closer to the older albums On Letting Go and Blue Sky Noise. The instrumentals are generally heavier and catchier, and less ethereal than Violent Waves.

Every song on the album is fantastic. The first track and single “Schema” is a heavyhitting, fast-paced call to action. It’s a song that you sweat to. The drums and bass sync up and drive the rhythm while the guitars add layers of depth and body. I said the album was less ethereal than Violent Waves, but that doesn’t mean Circa Survive’s signature soundscape guitars aren’t here. Rather, I mean that the instruments are focused and every note is precise and purposeful. Ev-

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Rye Baby Cowboy Chords (Independent) erything builds on itself. Descensus is the apex of synergy between Circa Survive’s members.

And I haven’t even mentioned Anthony Green’s vocals.

Just like the instruments, the vocal melodies are more tightly composed. Anthony ranges from high-pitched angelic to outright screaming, and it’s all spot on.

The tracks “Child of the Desert” and “Only the Sun” are album high points, if I had to choose. Both songs are catchy and aggressive. “Child of the Desert” starts with a drumdriven 5/4 beat. Bass grooves under the beat while guitars bounce and reverberate on top.

Green’s vocals float around and pull you in with chorus harmonies. Then the end explodes into a heavy 3/4 beat reminiscent of psych-stoner rock.

Then we have “Only the Sun,” which sits on a dark, funky 3/4 beat. The bass slides up and down, hardly sounding like a bass guitar at all. Reverb stacks on the guitar and Green’s

vocals swell and swoon. And three minutes into the song, it hits. The song goes halftime, Green’s vocals overlap with multiple lyrics…everything climaxes and drops quiet.

Two other songs were surprises on the album. “Phantom” is an electro-centric song with light and quick funk drumming. The song is soft and eerie, not exactly a rock song, but beautifully written.

The minute-long interlude “Who Will Lay With Me Now” is similar, but is too short to get a good feel from it.

So—please go listen to this album. Circa Survive’s sound is unique and ever-evolving, and Descensus is the perfect starting point for falling in love with this band. ocal music duo Rye Baby is in the process of releasL ing their new album Cowboy

Chords. Currently being released one song at a time on Bandcamp, Cowboy Chords is a work-in-progress that I’m very excited to see complete.

Rye Baby embraces creating music with just two people.

Their music is spaced out, with instrumentation fit for two musicians. This sparse instrumentation really forces the vocals to the front.

And the best part of Rye Baby is found in the voices of Jennifer Brumlow and Callie Harmon. The two voices really pair well together, with Brumlow singing mostly in the front and Harmon supporting with harmonies and counterpoints.

Brumlow’s vocal style is hard to describe—she croons and shrieks, whispers and reverberates. The way she both controls her voice and sends it flying is mesmerizing. Then you have Harmon with the deeper, rooted harmonies and slow vibrato.

Because Rye Baby is a duo, the bandmates have to be experienced with multiple instruments. Of course, they both can sing wonderfully. But Brumlow and Harmon are also well versed in different instruments. On Cowboy Chords, Brumlow is listed as playing “guitar, mandolin, banjo, melodica, [and] percussion,” and Harmon, “guitar, mandolin, banjo, lap steel, [and] percussion.” And even though the two musicians play all these instruments, they forego overdubbing huge orchestrations that would include all their talent, and choose to record what could be played live between just the two of them. I like that.

Rye Baby gets at something simple with Cowboy Chords, and it feels good. These are songs that can be listened to any time in any situation. Rye Baby channels the folk-y Americana spirit into music that is at once soothing and haunting, familiar and strange. So far, Cowboy Chords is five tracks long, but I hope to see more recordings in the near future from these two. Because five songs just isn’t enough.

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Camp Jordan Lights Up For the Holidays Christmas Night of Lights is drive-through celebration This holiday season, treat yourof it is synchronized to muself and your family to a drivesic you can listen to on your through Christmas light show at car radio.”

Camp Jordan Park in East Ridge.

The Kings have been in With hundreds of thousands of the light show business for lights synchronized to Christabout five years now. They mas music, Christmas Nights of are currently running anLights does not disappoint. other show in Mobile, AL, The drive-through show is and past shows have been about a mile and a half long. in Nashville and Myrtle Richie King— Beach. who runs the Ad m i s light show along sion to with his wife the light and his brothshow varRACHAEL POE er—explained, ies based “Typically, people will stay 30 to on the number of people in 45 minutes, but you can drive the car. For a car of one to through the show at your own four passengers, admission pace.” is $6 per passenger. For a Extended viewing time is encar of five to nine passencouraged. “I’ve seen people bring gers, admission is $25 for pizzas,” King said, “and they’ll sit the entire vehicle. Children and watch the show. If you want ages 3 and under are admitto watch one section for a while, ted free. all you have to do is pull your car There are also coupons to the side so that the people who available from the Salvation want to keep moving, can.”

Army and the Chattanooga When asked how many ChristArea Food Bank. If you bring mas light bulbs were used to creone of these coupons, you ate the show, King laughed and can get $2 off the admisrevealed, “We tried to count them sion price per car, and part one time, but we quit. Basically, of the proceeds from your there are hundreds of thousands admission will go back to of lights driven by over one thouthose organizations. sand computer channels, and all After you have made your

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Christmas Nights of Lights Through January 3 Camp Jordan Park 323 Camp Jordan Pkwy, East Ridge christmasnightsoflights.com 20 • The Pulse • NOVEMBER 27-December 3, 2014 • chattanoogapulse.com

way through the light show, be sure to visit Santa’s Village, where all proceeds go to the East Ridge Fire and Police Needy Child Fund.

Santa is there, of course, and there are many activities for children and adults alike to choose from.

Children have the opportunity to write a letter to Santa, make Christmas tree ornaments, play on inflatables, and take a picture with Santa. King added, “The kids can make reindeer food, too. Then, on Christmas Eve, they can sprinkle it in their yard for Santa’s reindeer.”

Another highlight of Santa’s village is a pet adoption table run by East Ridge Animal Shelter. Children and their parents can visit the table

King. And don’t worry about getting cold during your visit to Santa’s Village—it is inside a climatecontrolled pavilion.

King noted that the light show looks better when there is a little bit of rain: “When it’s raining, the wet asphalt reflects the lights, so it’s actually prettier with wet roads than with dry roads.”

Barring “a huge snowstorm or a power failure,” both of which are unlikely, the Christmas Nights of Lights at Camp Jordan Park in East Ridge is open every night through January 3, including Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. Be sure to stop by with your family and friends to get into the Christmas spirit!

“After you have made your way through the light show, be sure to visit Santa’s Village, where all proceeds go to the East Ridge Fire and Police Needy Child Fund.” to see pictures of various animals up for adoption.

Directly outside Santa’s Village, there is a concession stand offering everything from funnel cakes to corndogs. There is also a fire pit for roasting marshmallows and making s’mores.

“It’s fun for the whole family,” said King. “From 8-year-olds to 80-yearolds, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.”

No matter what the weather is, Christmas Nights of Lights will remain open. “Rain or shine, cold or hot, you can come to the show,” emphasized

Jonesin’ Crossword

ACROSS 1 Doing OK on the golf course 6 Stinging creatures 11 Basic shelter 14 Get moving 15 Calm, as fears 16 “Achtung Baby” co-producer Brian 17 Acted like a human 18 Tae kwon do move 20 It drives Persians crazy 22 “Enough already!”

23 Where Gilligan ended up 24 Small buzzer 26 Like Russian matryoshka dolls 28 Breakfast noisemakers 33 Epps of “Resurrection” 34 Inspiron maker 35 Jane of “Glee” 39 “Iron Man” Ripken 40 Tile arrangements 42 It may be golden 43 Clue weapon

45 Jimmy Carter’s alma mater, for short 46 “Strange ___” 47 Bus driver of classic TV 50 Gangster called Scarface 53 Inflatable pilot in “Airplane!”

54 Dry 55 Shop-___ 58 Part of USSR 62 Indie band formed by actress Jenny Lewis 65 ___ Wafers 66 He was Jim in “The Doors” 67 Chopin exercise 68 Former “The Voice” judge Green 69 Chicago trains 70 Big Apple NL player, for short 71 “Melrose Place” actor Rob DOWN 1 One of Stephen Baldwin’s brothers

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8 Dickensian setting 9 Sandwich made with a press 10 Barrett once of Pink Floyd 11 Bank caper 12 Family man?

13 Took a legal puff, in some states 19 Like smoochy faces 21 Late “SNL” announcer Don 25 Snarls, like traffic 27 “Electric” creatures 28 “I got a ___” (Charlie Brown’s Halloween line) 29 Bowie’s singlenamed wife 30 “Going Back to ___” (LL Cool J single) 31 Axl’s bandmate 32 “The Price Is

Right” game 36 Revenge getter of film 37 Canadian Plains tribe 38 Kate Hudson’s mom Goldie 40 Intend 41 Food ___ : Portland, Oregon :: Food trucks : other cities 44 Role for Elijah 46 Low-budget flicks 48 Giddiness 49 Instantly 50 Do a Thanksgiving job 51 Popular font 52 Pharmacy inventory 56 Grad 57 Formally hand over 59 Westlife’s “If ___ You Go” 60 Cosmopolitan competitor 61 Art colony of the Southwest 63 Barbie’s significant other 64 “Still...”

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Guest Artists: Frederick Davis Dance theater of Harlem Brian Gephart Menlowe Ballet Featuring the Chattanooga Boy’s Choir

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ARTS SCENE

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The Art of the F-Stop New exhibit at Hunter showcases top photography On Friday, a new exhibit featuring photography from the New York Times Magazine opens at the Hunter. For over 30 years, the magazine has featured a wide variety of photographic work, with everything from photojournalism to fashion to portraiture. This exhibit focuses primarily on notable projects from the last 15 years.

Materials from different stages of the magazine’s commissioning process—such as storyboards, shot lists, videos, tear sheets and framed prints—will be on display, revealing the collaboration necessary to transform an idea into a finished layout.

The magazine provides a rare opportunity for printed visual storytelling and encourages crossover between artistic disciplines. As New York Times Magazine Photo Editor Kathy Ryan explained, the publica-

tion “is often at its best when we bring photographers to projects that fall outside their usual borders.” The exhibit will feature 35 artists from across the globe, including Sebastião Salgado, Gregory Crewdson and Ryan McGinley.

The exhibit will be on view through March 22. General admission is $9.95 for adults and $4.95 for children over 3 years old. If you plan to visit the Hunter on the next Free First Sunday, be aware that a $5 admission will be required to view this particular exhibit.

— Rachael Poe “New York Times Magazine Photography Exhibit” Hunter Museum of American Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org

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Artist’s Open House

Mise En Scenesters Present: “Crime Wave”

Holiday Carolers at The Chattanoogan

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arcus Ellsworth commands attention the moment he walks into a room. He is not bombastic or over-the-top, but when he steps forward and speaks, you listen. It’s a talent that has become his passion, sharing his thoughts through spoken word poetry.

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He has a wonderful softness and back from mostly ease of character that often works in other artists, so it’s direct opposition to the material he also really helpful.” presents in his art form, making him Ellsworth believes both him enigmatic and memorable. that this is one of His delivery is confident, clear and dithe great draws of Marcus Ellsworth Photo by L. Anastasia Holmes rect, and has a warmth that instantly Wide Open Floor: draws his audience to him. a chance to connect ists who are floating around the show.”

“Off the stage, I am with other artists, both In the spirit of that collaboration so shy,” Ellsworth says in similar and alternaand sense of community, the shortwith a chuckle. This tive mediums. ened time frame also allows for a seems strange coming Wide Open Floor re“talk-back” with the audience at the from a person who so turned in November, end of the show. This is a time for arthayley graham often stands in front after a hiatus due to the ists to answer questions about their art of audiences, includremodeling of Barking and inspirations, as well as an opportuing the monthly Wide Open Floor Legs, during which time Ellsworth, nity for more people to connect. “One event at Barking Legs Theater, which Sweet and Derek Williams began disof the things that’s been happening he hosts. Created in 2011 by Angela cussing new directions for Wide Open sort of unintentionally and what we Sweet, Wide Open Floor has played Floor, and decided that continuing to want to happen, is that we have artists host to any and all artists looking for a grow the sense of community would meeting each other and talking about home to share their art with a willing be an important part. The revamped the work and collaborating. So, now and receptive audience. show is shorter, with only 10 perforwe can provide a space and a time for “I loved it so much,” says Ellsworth, mances, the theme of each month’s people to actively do that,” he says.

“I loved the feel of it, the freedom show creating minor challenges for Ellsworth is proud of the commuof it, because it was an uncensored the artists to work around, such as nity that Wide Open Floor has built show.” He says that, as a spoken-word bare bones technology or a single, unand says they are like family, but they artist, he found that he was often moving spotlight. The idea has always are always excited to welcome new asked by other venues to shy away been to offer a space for artists to take faces into the fold, whether as perfrom topics that were too political or risks and showcase their work and, formers or audience members. “We controversial, which strangled his perEllsworth says, “We still want that are a collective,” he says, and now that formance, or was not able to secure sense of openness; anything can come Barking Legs has reopened and Wide gigs at all. But at Wide Open Floor, through the door; anything can hapOpen Floor is back, “It’s so good to Ellsworth says, “it was this feeling of pen, but we want to focus in this iterabe home.”

‘You can say and do whatever,’ and in tion more on challenging the artists.”

Wide Open Floor is the first Friday a supportive atmosphere. If you have In creating these small obstacles, the of every month at 8 p.m. at Barking something to express, express it.” artists are challenged to “Be creative!

Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave. AdHe says that Wide Open Floor felt It’s the nature of what we all do,” he mission is $5 and there are conceslike a safe space to open up and share says, “and if some of those elements sions at the venue. art, “because you knew you weren’t pose a challenge for you and you feel The next Wide Open Floor event is Dec. going to be criticized for it. And if you like you don’t have a skill set of your 5. barkinglegs.org got feedback, you were getting feedown, reach out to one of the other art-

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Creative Discovery Museum 321 Chestnut St. (423) 757-2143 cdmfun.org Ooltewah Farmers Market 3 p.m.

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river-gallery.com “New York Times Magazine Photography:” Exhibit Opening 10 a.m.

Hunter Museum of American Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Lighted Boat Parade & Ice on the Landing 7 p.m.

Ross’s Landing Park 100 Riverfront Pkwy.

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saturday11.29 The Barn Nursery Christmas Festival 2014 9 a.m.

The Barn Nursery 1801 East 24th St. Place (423) 698-2276 barnnursery.com Breakfast with Santa 9 a.m.

The Chattanoogan 1201 S. Broad St. (423) 424-3700 chattanooganhotel.com Brainerd Farmers’ Market 10 a.m.

Grace Episcopal Church 20 Belvoir Ave.

(423) 698-0330 St. Alban’s Hixson Farmers’ Market 9:30 a.m.

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church 7514 Hixson Pike (423) 842-1342 Gingerbread Workshops 12:30 p.m.

Creative Discovery Museum 321 Chestnut St. (423) 756-2738 cdmfun.org Christmas Special Dinner Train 5:30 p.m.

Tennessee Valley Railroad 4119 Cromwell Rd. (423) 894-8028 tvrail.com Landry 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Mise En Scenesters Present: “Crime Wave” 8:30 p.m.

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The Barn Nursery 1801 East 24th St. Place (423) 698-2276 barnnursery.com Holiday Carolers at The Chattanoogan 1 p.m.

The Chattanoogan 1201 Broad St. (423) 424-3700 chattanooganhotel.com Christmas Carol Dinner Cruise 6:30 p.m.

Southern Belle Riverboat 201 Riverfront Pkwy.

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monday12.1 Tweentastic: Film Group 4 p.m.

Northgate Library 278 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 870-0635 chattlibrary.org Kids Lego Club 5:10 p.m.

Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org

tuesday12.2 Beginning Readers Book Club 4 p.m.

Northgate Library 278 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 870-0635 chattlibrary.org Chattanooga WordPress Meetup 5:30 p.m.

Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org

wednesday12.3 Main Street Farmers Market 4 p.m.

325 E. Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.com Community Yoga Benefiting Chattanooga Young Artistic Network 5:30 p.m.

Thrive Studio 191 River St. (423) 800-0676 thrivestudio.net

ongoing “Breakdown Lane Orrery” Cress Gallery of Art 736 Vine St. (423) 425-4371

cressgallery.org “Folk Art Show” Reflections Gallery 6922 Lee Hwy. (423) 892-3072 reflectionsgallerytn.com “Member’s Choice” Gallery at Blackwell 71 Eastgate Loop (423) 344-5643 chattanoogaphoto.org “New York Times Magazine Photography Exhibit” 10 a.m.

Hunter Museum of American Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org “Open 24 Hours” Hunter Museum of American Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org “Ephemeral Forms: Works by Shadow May” AVA Gallery 30 Frazier Ave. (423) 265-4282 averts.org “Art Begins at 40” In-Town Gallery 26A Frazier Ave. (423) 267-9214 “PRINT” Jewish Cultural Center 5461 N. Terrace Rd. (423) 493-0270 jewishchattanooga.com “Self-Reflection”

River Gallery 400 E. Second St. (800) 374-2923 river-gallery.com “The Polar Express” in 3D IMAX Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Theatre 1 Broad St. (423) 262-0695 tnaqua.org “The Threads That Bind” Bessie Smith Cultural Center 200 Martin Luther King Boulevard (423) 266-8658 bessiesmithcc.org Zuri Quilting Guild Exhibition Bessie Smith Cultural Center 200 Martin Luther King Boulevard (423) 266-8658 bessiesmithcc.org ZIPstream Aerial Adventures Ruby Falls 1720 South Scenic Hwy. (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com Chattanooga Ghost Tours The Little Curiosity Shoppe 138 Market St. chattanoogaghosttours.com Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com

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An Apple Whiskey A Day… Our man on the bar stool whips up Crown Royal recipes for holiday health

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Crown Royal Canadian Whisky has blended its legendary rye and corn product with Regal Gala apples and hints of spice to create a 70-proof winner.”

Mike Dobbs writes about all things liquor.

When not relaxing at home with his Tonkinese kitten Amélie, he’s an architectural designer by trade. A night owl since birth, he’s honed the craft of bacchanalian roister and developed an appreciation for the finer elixirs of life.

They say, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” With the cold and flu season coming into full swing, I’m not really sure it’s such a grand plan to go it alone with just a piece of fruit that’s usually reserved for still-life paintings and as a target to shoot on people’s heads. I would advise consulting a qualMIKE ified physician at the local neighborhood discount pharmacy and Photomat.

Nevertheless, that’s what they say, and just to be on the safe side I’ll abide…in my own way.

That said; let’s get to the core of the situation.

The spirits world has been going berserk over flavored vodkas lately. There’s everything from cotton candy to sriracha out there. You can’t blink an eye without glimpsing a brightly colored martini glass full of fluorescent jive.

So it was only a matter of time before the rest of the industry began catching up with the hype. The whiskey genre hasn’t been neglected in the least. But it’s been lagging in

the variety department. I’ve taste tested many, many of the flavored whiskeys over the last couple of years and most of them leave me quite satisfied.

Luckily, none of them have been candy corn with sprinkles and gummy bears served out of peanut butter cups. I tend to stick more to the classics when I go DOBBS brown.

That’s why I’m pleased that the folks up at Lake Winnipeg, in Manitoba have been busy out in the orchards this year.

Just in time for the holidays, Crown Royal Canadian Whisky has blended its legendary rye and corn product with Regal Gala apples and hints of spice to create a 70-proof winner that’s sure to look right at home next to the fireplace this season.

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Crown Royal Regal Apple, Apple Schnapps and a splash of cranberry juice. It’s a tad sharp.

But I put a splash of 7-Up over it and it laid right out.

“The Candy Apple” really hits the spot with Crown Royal Regal Apple and a dose of Crown Royal Maple Finished whisky. Just give them a shake over ice, pour these in a glass and let them do the rest. We thought it would be really good topped with Horchata. But I was fresh out.

Lastly, “The Big Apple” is Crown Royal Regal Apple with a little sweet vermouth and a dash of angostura bitters. It’s basically a Manhattan—hence the name. So, you can put a cherry in it if you simply can’t resist and that will be just fine.

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The other day, I sat down and had a conversation with a tipple of Crown’s Regal Apple and was pleasantly taken by what it had to say. It’s rather tart at first. There’s a very crispy and refreshing candyapple tone to the top of the tongue. It then finishes with a slightly sweet caramel taste that’s warm and soothing. It was perfectly steady on its own feet with just an ice cube sliding around in the tumbler.

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Free Will Astrology SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who is sometimes called “the father of modern science.” He expressed his innovative ideas so vigorously that he offended the Catholic Church, which convicted him of heresy. For us today, he symbolizes the magnificence of rational thought. And yet Galileo also had a weird streak. For example, he gave lectures on the “Shape, Location, and Size of Dante’s Inferno,” analyzing the poet’s depiction of hell.

In the course of these meticulous discourses, Galileo concluded that Satan was more than four-fifths of a mile tall. In this spirit, Sagittarius, and in accordance with current astrological omens, you are temporarily authorized to de-emphasize the constraints of reason and logic so that you may gleefully and unapologetically pursue your quirky proclivities.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): While in his early twenties, actor Robert Downey Jr. appeared in the films Less Than Zero and Weird Science. That got him semi-typecast as a member of Hollywood’s Brat Pack, a group of popular young actors and actresses who starred in coming-of-age films in the 1980s. Eager to be free of that pigeonhole, Downey performed a ritual in 1991: He dug a hole in his backyard and buried the clothes he had worn in Less Than Zero. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ceremony to help you graduate from the parts of your past that are holding you back.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In her book Revolution from Within, Gloria Steinem offers a challenge: “Think of the times you have said: ‘I can’t write,’ ‘I can’t paint,’ ‘I can’t run,’ ‘I can’t shout,’ ‘I can’t dance,’ ‘I can’t sing.’” That’s your first assignment, Aquarius: Think of those times. Your second assignment is to write down other “I can’t” statements you have made over the years. Assignment three is to objectively evaluate whether any of these “I can’t” statements are literally true. If you find that some of them are not literally true, your fourth assignment is to actually do them. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform “I can’t” into “I can.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dogs don’t know where they begin and end,” writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her book The Wave in the Mind. They “don’t notice when they put their paws in the quiche.”

Cats are different, LeGuin continues. They “know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep

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holding the door open…It’s a cat’s way of maintaining relationship.”

Whether you are more of a dog person or a cat person, Pisces, it is very important that you be more like a cat than a dog in the coming weeks.

You must keep uppermost in your mind exactly where you begin and where you end.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): What exactly do you believe in, Aries?

What’s your philosophy of life? Do you think that most people are basically good and that you can make a meaningful life for yourself if you just work hard and act kind? Do you believe that evil, shapeshifting, kitten-eating extraterrestrials have taken on human form and are impersonating political leaders who control our society? Are you like the character Crash Davis in the film Bull Durham, who believed in “high fiber, good scotch, the sweet spot, and long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days”? Now would be an excellent time for you to get very clear about the fundamental principles that guide your behavior. Re-commit yourself to your root beliefs—and jettison the beliefs that no longer work for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I have two encyclopedias of dreams, and they disagree on the symbolic meaning of mud. One book says that when you dream of mud, you may be facing a murky moral dilemma in your waking life, or are perhaps dealing with a messy temptation that threatens to compromise your integrity. The other encyclopedia suggests that when you dream of mud, it means you have received an untidy but fertile opportunity that will incite growth and creativity. I suspect that you have been dreaming of mud lately, Taurus, and that both meanings apply to you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are there certain influences you would love to bring into your life, but you can’t figure out how? Do you fantasize about getting access to new resources that would make everything better for you, but they seem to be forever out of reach? If you answered “yes,” it’s time to stop moping. I’m happy to report that you have more power than usual to reel in those desirable influences and resources. To fully capitalize on this power, be confident that you can attract what you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Should you cut back and retrench?

Definitely. Should you lop off and bastardize? Definitely not. Do I recommend that you spend time editing and purifying? Yes, please.

Does this mean you should censor and repress? No, thank you. Here’s my third pair of questions: Will you be wise enough to shed some of your defense mechanisms and strip away one of your lame excuses? I

hope so. Should you therefore dispense with all of your psychic protections and leave yourself vulnerable to being abused? I hope not.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I know you’re beautiful and you know you’re beautiful. But I think you could be even more beautiful than you already are. What do you think?

Have you reached the limits of how beautiful you can be? Or will you consider the possibility that there is even more beauty lying dormant within you, ready to be groomed and expressed? I encourage you to ruminate on these questions: 1.

Are you hiding a complicated part of your beauty because it would be hard work to liberate it? 2. Are you afraid of some aspect of your beauty because revealing it would force you to acknowledge truths about yourself that are at odds with your self-image? 3. Are you worried that expressing your full beauty would intimidate other people?

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Helsinki, Finland is growing downwards.

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There are also projects underway to construct 200 other underground structures. I’d like to see you start working along those lines, Virgo— at least metaphorically. Now would be an excellent time to renovate your foundations so as to accommodate your future growth.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Pantone Color Matching System presents a structured approach to identifying colors. It’s used as a standard in the printing industry.

According to its system of classification, there are 104 various shades of grey. I suspect you will benefit from being equally discerning in the coming weeks. It just won’t be possible to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys.

You’ll misunderstand situations that you try to simplify, and you’ll be brilliant if you assume there’s always more nuance and complexity to uncover. Don’t just grudgingly tolerate ambiguity, Libra. Appreciate it. Learn from it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I am not necessarily predicting that you will acquire a shiny new asset in time for the solstice. Nor am I glibly optimistic that you will get a raise in pay or an unexpected bonus. And I can offer only a 65-percent certainty that you will snag a new perk or catch a financial break or stumble upon a treasure. In general, though, I am pretty confident that your net worth will rise in the next four weeks. Your luck will be unusually practical. To take maximum advantage of the cosmic tendencies, focus your efforts on the one or two most promising prospects.

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SCREEN SCENE

Mystery! Intrigue! Writers Block!

Mise En Scenesters screen unseen gem “Crime Wave”

Authentic. Fresh.

Trust the Mise En Scenesters, “Chattanooga’s Pop-Up Arthouse Theater” to offer a screening of what they describe as “one of the most criminally underseen films of the 1980s.” And just in time to help you recover from your post-Thanksgiving pig-out trance!

According to MES, “This Canadian cult oddity [is] an early example of postmodern filmmaking. The story details screenwriter Stephen Penny’s attempts to write a crime film in the grand cinematic tradition. He has a variety of potential beginnings and endings, but he struggles to find a middle. He discovers an opportunity for script-doctoring assistance through a mysterious man named Dr.

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MES will be donating 100 percent of the proceeds to the filmmaker himself.

And, they add: “You won’t be seeing this one on Netflix anytime soon!”

MES Presents “Crime Wave” 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29.

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The Story Behind The Story Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” an effective directorial debut

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eal evil is so much more boring than fictional evil. In fact, most evil in this world can be categorized as simple ignorance and dissatisfaction rather than a desire for oppression and wanton destruction. It is born out of complacence, fear, selfinterest and doubt.

I suppose it’s easier to blame an outside force, a supernatural darkness that influences our actions, but the truth is humanity is the evil it sees in the world.

It is also the good. “Rosewater,” a new film by Jon Stewart, based on the memoir “And Then They Came for Me” by Mazair Bahari, examines these themes with sincerity and grace. Bahari is a London-based Iranian journalist who was imprisoned in Iran after the 2009-10 election protests, in part due to participating in JOHN a comedy bit for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” He was accused of being a spy for the CIA, the Jews, and anyone else the Iranian government found to be working in opposition to the Ayatollah. The film recounts the days leading up to his arrest, the situation in Iran at the time, and gives insight into the inner workings of the political prison system in that country.

It is a solid directorial debut for Stewart, who makes only a few missteps, and is an engaging film for anyone with an interest in Iran.

The film opens with Mazair Bahari (Gael Garcia Bernal) returning to his home county to cover the Iranian elections for Newsweek. Incumbent President Mahmoud Amhadinejadis is facing the populist candidate Mir-Houssein Mousavi. There is an electricity in the streets for Mousavi, backed by the poor and uneducated Iranians who are crying out for change. Bahari interviews supporters for both men, but finds himself in the company of Mousavi supporters, who secretly install satellite

dishes and provide VPN networks for Iranians who want information not conMaziar Bahari, Jon Stewart and Gael Garcia Bernal trolled by the state.

During his coverage, he speaks with American comethe skies of Iran. At times, it feels like dian Jason Jones, who refers to himself watching a car insurance commercial. as a spy for the Americans. It is a very These shifts in verisimilitude detract small, very brief part from the very strong human story he’s of his coverage. His telling. There is a better way to express more important work these ideas—hopefully, these are just is videotaping the viothe growing pains of a new and compelence that breaks out tent director. after Amhadinejad is reIran has been a considerable source of DEVORE elected in a suspicious Hollywood inspiration in the past few landslide. A few days after this footage years. In 2013, “Argo” won several Osis uploaded, Bahari is arrested, impriscars for depicting a nerve-wracking draoned, and interrogated for 118 days. ma about the Canadian Caper during The crux of the evidence against him the Iranian Revolution. The year beis a snippet from “The Daily Show” fore, “A Separation” won the Oscar for where he is shown talking to a “spy.”

Best Foreign Language film by tellMost of the film is engaging and powing a story of a dissolving marriage in a erful. Bahari’s experiences are harrowcomplex and rigid society. ing and tense. But even more fascinat“Rosewater” may not be in contening is the look at the bureaucracy behind tion for an Academy Award, but the film his imprisonment, the banality, and the continues the tradition of informing forces at work. We get flashes of governviewers and exploring a country many ment frustration and ennui, even from Americans fear and despise. Each of the interrogator, who smells of rosewathese films presents a distinct picture of ter. He appears as an overworked peon, a region that sits perpetually on the edge hoping to get through his day and go of significant, dynamic change. Whathome to his family. ever oppression exists there will not Had the film focused solely on these remain eternally. “Rosewater” may the themes, allowing the characters to tell weakest of these films—but not bethe story entirely, it would have been cause the story is less compelling. It exceptional. Stewart, however, makes suffers only because it is tonally inthe odd choice of beginning and endconsistent. The film overcomes these ing with voiceover, with having flashes quibbles in the end and tells an excepof the past appearing on shop wintional and personal story about hope in dows in London, and having Twitthe face of oppression. It is a film that is ter hashtags appear in block letters over certainly worth a look.

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Have a Happy Copsgiving Officer Alex explains that it’s the little things that mean a lot.

Like sauerkraut and mustard.

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Whatever you’re thankful for, hold on to it. Keep it close. And when Aunt Lana tries to kick you out for no reason or Cousin Jefferson spills your drink? Just let it go.”

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. Follow him on Facebook at facebook.com/alexteach

Picture it: The cloying scent of multiple dishes of food combining to permeate every pore of your body (as well as your clothing—you will smell delicious the next time you wear that fall sweater). The sound of family bickering due to the heat of the kitchen and the forced proximity. The occasional whiff of alcohol from the statistically likely intoxicated family member who is either veheALEX mently denying it or openly embracing it and announcing the worst is yet to come…

“Special” dishware seen only twice a year (three, depending on the recognition of Easter on a family-by-family basis), an octogenarian who may or may not have a pulse (or teeth) based on their position as they lay unconscious in a chair, an unwanted pet leaving shit-mines on the floor…

It’s Thanksgiving, a beautifully nondenominational holiday based on nothing but the concept of gratitude for nourishment that is hard to not look forward to no matter how

some group of assholes tries to somehow vilify it as is done to other holidays. I actually look forward to it, but wait—I’m a cop.

I’ll be spending it in a car. (“Sad Trombone Sound.”)

My view of Thanksgiving?

It’s not of snot-nosed kids breaking mom’s antiques or Aunt Lana’s rants of eternal self-deluded victimization.

No. My view is of afternoon streets TEACH looking like a set from “The Walking Dead” (not to be confused with East Lake), and business districts normally packed with cars now only populated by the errant stray cat or newspaper insert drifting along a sewer drain at the mercy of the wind…

Streets usually packed with people are barren, and even the malls are nearly locked down. Everyone is at home, except for cops and our distant cousins, the convenience store clerks. Even the bums are gone, huddled inside churches or the Community Kitchen downtown eating to their hearts’ content.

On The Beat

And so for the indigenous cop, Thanksgiving turkey comes in the form of a turkey dog (or so I hope) and the trimmings consist of whatever can be squeezed out of a sealed packet or now, thanks to advancements in Convenience Store Technology, actual bottles of condiments. The only pie for dessert will be a miniature one filled with pecans and a “Little Debbie” label on its wrapper, but the pumpkin spice coffee-powder-machine thing will bring some comfort at least.

If this sounds negative, though, it’s not. Those are just observations of Cop Reality.

We chose this job and there’s no time off for good behavior.

Speaking of which, I do have one unspoken rule about working Thanksgiving and Christmas that may come off as a tad harsh: Mandatory Arrests for Domestic Disorders.

I don’t feel as strongly about it as I did earlier in my career, but I’ve always felt that if you are such a dysfunctional human being that you cannot control yourself to the point of not having to call the police to your home on arguably the most wholesome holiday of the year, you have an automatic ride to the Quiet Room coming your way.

I’d go pretty far to spend this holiday with my family,

but I made a choice that requires me to be on the job instead of with them. So if you get the privilege of being with yours and require actual police intervention to restore order… well. Order will be restored and the only cranberry sauce your ass will be getting will be in the corner of a Styrofoam tray from the capable chefs (no lie) at 601 Walnut Street.

I just want to help people, and for the sake of your family, I will help you a lot on a holiday.

(Fair warning.)

Where was I? Ah. The addition of sauerkraut in the modern Kangaroo (and occasional Racetrack).

It’s really changed my traditional on-duty holiday meal. It almost seems taboo, but that thought fades once that Heinz spicy mustard makes itself known under that kraut...Mmmmm.

Whatever you’re thankful for, hold on to it. Keep it close.

And when Aunt Lana tries to kick you out for no reason or Cousin Jefferson spills your drink? Just let it go. Tomorrow is another day, and it’s not a holiday. Enjoy your meal in peace and I assure you…I will enjoy mine.

(I mean, spicy mustard and sauerkraut, right?! Now every day can be Thanksgiving…for Officer Teach.)

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Diversions

Consider This with Dr. Rick

by Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D.

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” — Aristotle Onassis OK, so everyone living a completely worry-free, nothing’s-everwrong, smooth-sailing kind of life raise your hand.

Nice fantasy, right? Well, maybe. We don’t learn the important things in life from the smooth, easy times, though. But we certainly learn—if we’re open—from the rocky, challenging times.

So how do we make the most of those chapters of life when we have to sail in high winds? Health, finances, family, loss, relationships, school, work…these can make for some tremendously rocky seas.

And yet, it’s reality. There’s nothing wrong with hoping for a restful sea, provided we can see things as they are. Perhaps the point is to learn, to use our tools and support system, our gathered wisdom, and then—move on. Confident that smoother sailing will have its turn. chattanoogapulse.com • NOVEMBER 27-December 3, 2014 • The Pulse • 31