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CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

EDITORIAL

Managing Editor Gary Poole

April 16, 2015 Volume 12, Issue 16

Contributing Editor Janis Hashe Music Editor Marc T. Michael Film Editor John DeVore Contributors Rob Brezsny • Steven W. Disbrow Hayley Graham • Matt Jones Mike McJunkin • Ernie Paik Rick Pimental-Habib Ward Raymond • Alex Teach Michael Thomas • Rusty Wolfe

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4 BEGINNINGS: What happened to the neighborhood record store?

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Serious Daring Starts From Within

Dozens of renowned Southern writers and their legion of readers descend on the Tivoli, Bessie Smith Cultural Center, the new UTC Library, Hunter Museum, and other venues for the Celebration of Southern Literature.

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Putting the Play in Playwright

A lanky 12-year-old girl swings her legs nervously in her chair, at the side of a stage where she’s illuminated by the soft twinkle of icicle lights. She looks around with apprehension as the lights dim and a group of actors step onto the stage.

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Pains Chapel Goes Up To Twelve

It is ironic that having “come of age” in the ’80s, I spent most of that decade in love with music from the ’60s and ’70s, yet now as I stare middle age squarely in the bifocals, I can’t help but feel some nostalgia for the era that birthed MTV. On the downside, there was an awful lot of really terrible music then.

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OpEd: What Happend To The Music Store?

Record Store Day is this Saturday.

So where is all the new music?

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We’re left with only a small handful of businesses in Chattanooga that stock only new music, mostly the big box stores.”

December 30, 2014 started out like any other day. I’d decided to go to Northgate in search of marked-down Christmas albums at For The Record and leftover holiday CDs at f.y.e. I was stunned at what I saw. There, in f.y.e.’s window, were several of those horrible yellow going-out-of-business placards. “Not again,” I sighed. I’m not sure if any of the customers parading in and out of the store understood what this actually meant. But I did. Once the f.y.e. sign was officially flipped to closed for the final time in mid-January, there would be no more “genuine” new music retailers in Chattanooga. None.

I can still remember buying my first 45s at Jack’s Music Shop on Market Street. They included “Wedding Bell Blues” by The Fifth Dimension, and three of Glen Campbell’s best: “Gentle On My Mind,” “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” and “Gavleston.” And yes, I still have all four of them. After leaving Jack’s, there were also times I purchased albums at Kress’s and Woolworth’s.

Then Eastgate took over, and my downtown music shopping became less frequent.

Record Bar, and later Canned Sound, rusty wolfe almost always had everything any music lover would want. If they didn’t, there was the Eastgate Woolworth’s, G.C. Murphy, J.C. Penney, and Eckerd that also sold current records and 45s. If I was still unable to find the hottest tunes, Brainerd Village had W.T. Grant, College Hi-Fi, and Service Merchandise. A little further down Brainerd Road, there were Hills, Paradise Records and Jubilee City (which later became Gibson’s, then Richway, and finally Target).

Never did I think the day would come whenever there would only be two “pure music” retailers left in this city. But it did. A little over a year ago, Hamilton Place Mall management forced one of the two f.y.e.'s that was left here in Chattanooga to shutter its doors. Then, on December 30, Northgate Mall management followed suit and the last “legitimate” music retailer in this city’s doors were closed in mid-January. People thought the decision was due to the ease of ordering through places like Amazon or via your favorite artist’s personal website.

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But there was never a lack of foot traffic at the Hamilton Place store, and when I checked out there for what turned out to be my next-to-the-last time, I asked two store clerks if this was f.y.e.’s decision. They both said they were being “forced out of the mall.” When I paid what turned out to be my final visit to the Northgate store, I asked three more f.y.e. employees that same question and was given the same answer.

So, in an effort to try and find out why mall owners CBL came to this decision, I emailed Jason Shelton, CBL’s head of leasing for both Hamilton Place and Northgate. I asked why he’d decided they no longer wanted consumers to be able to purchase new music at either of the malls.

I waited two weeks for an answer, but he never dignified my email with a response.

What we’re left with are a small handful of businesses in Chattanooga that stock only new music, mostly the big box stores.

When compared to f.y.e.’s vast inventory, these retailers’ music selections are minimal. Chattanooga still has places like Chad’s, For The Record, Inherent Records, Mayfield’s All Killer No Filler, McKay’s and a few others.

But much of what they stock is vintage. So how are supposed to keep the new music playing?

EdiToon

by Rick Baldwin

When Chattanooga Was Suffragette City Abby Crawford Milton of Fort Wood was 110 when she died. And in her active and important life, she served as the first president of the Tennessee League of Women Voters—in 1920, when the state became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.

Milton’s place in history will be revealed and honored on Monday, April 20 at the meeting of the League of Women Voters, as Dr. Daryl Black presents a program devoted to the women’s sufferage movement in Chattanooga. There is no charge to at-

IN THIS ISSUE

Hayley Graham Our arts feature this week on the Muse of Fire theatre project is by Hayley Graham. A selfdescribed Jill-of-all-trades, she hails from Nashville but has made Chattanooga her home. When not singing with her bands “Amber Fults and the Ambivalent Lovers”

tend the event.

The local members-at-large unit of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters has reorganized, elected officers and is now planning programs and projects. The LWV is an organization encouraging informed and active participation in government.

Membership is open to both men and women, and applications will be available at the meeting.

League of Women Voters April meeting, 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 20, Chattanooga Public Library, First Floor Meeting Room, 1001 Broad St. — Janis Hashe

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Steven W. Disbrow and “The Goodbye Girls,” or teaching yoga at Hot Yoga Plus and BeYoga Ooltewah, she can be found supporting local music, theatre, art and all of the wonderful events and opportunities Chattanooga has to offer. Hayley writes about art, culture and this town that she so dearly loves, and has become a regular contributor to The Pulse. She likes to further muse and ramble on her website at hayleygraham.com

Steven W. Disbrow is a computer programmer by profession who specializes in e-commerce and mobile systems development. But wait, there’s more.

Much more. He’s also an entrepreneur, comic-book nerd, writer, improviser, actor, sometime television personal-

ity and parent of two human children. He’s anxiously awaiting the results of the experiment that will prove whether or not the universe is a massive simulation. If it is, he’d like to have a chat with the idiot that coded the bits where we kill each other for no damn good reason. Along with various cover stories, his “Just A Theory” column on all things science runs monthly here in The Pulse. Watch out, Neil deGrasse Tyson! chattanoogapulse.com • April 16-22, 2015• The Pulse • 5

Dark Matter, Pluto...and Maybe Some ET? Prof. Disbrow on excellent science happenings you will want to tune in for

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In just a couple months, another amazingly cool celestial encounter will be happening out at the furthest reaches of the solar system.”

Steven Disbrow is a computer programmer who specializes in e-commerce and mobile systems development. He’s also an entrepreneur, comic-book nerd, writer, improviser, actor, sometime television personality and parent of two human children.

A Tiny Bang, But Lots of ’Em It’s hard to believe, but it’s been just over two years since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) shut down for upgrades.

If you don’t remember, the LHC is the STEVEN W. enormous (27 kilometers long) particle accelerator that straddles the French-Swiss border.

But, large as it is, it’s most famous for the discovery of the Higgs Boson back in 2012. (The Higgs Boson is an expression of the Higgs field that gives other particles their mass. For more on that, see “Gettin’ Higgy Wit It” in the June 12, 2014 issue of The Pulse.)

What’s the LHC looking for this time? Oh, nothing much, just 96 percent of the matter in the universe!

You see, the matter that you and I are made of, what we consider “normal” matter, makes up just 4 percent of the universe. The other 96 percent seems to be hidden from every instrument we’ve ever devised and we can only really detect it by its gravitational influence on the universe around us.

Scientists have dubbed

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this mysterious stuff “dark matter.” And, since the day it was theorized, they’ve been trying to find a way to actually “see” it.

So, there’s a good chance that with the newly renovated LHC operating DISBROW with 60 percent more energy than before, one or more of these dark matter particles will “pop out” of one of the trillions of collisions that it creates as it ramps up to full power.

Whatever happens, it’s almost certainly going to uncover new physics and create even more questions than we have now. And new questions are what makes science fun.

Just A Theory

Pluto or Bust!

Last month I told you about the Dawn spacecraft that had begun orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres. Well, in just a couple months, another amazingly cool celestial encounter will be happening out at the furthest reaches of the solar system.

On July 14, after a journey of nine-and-a-half years and billions of kilometers, the New Horizons probe will make the first flyby of the

dwarf planet Pluto!

When New Horizons was launched back in 2006, Pluto was still classified as a planet. And it was the only planet that humanity had not yet visited. Since then, a lot has happened to Pluto: It got demoted to “dwarf planet,” and we found two new moons orbiting around it (for a total of five).

Unfortunately, New Horizons won’t be orbiting Pluto.

It’s traveling far too fast and carrying too little fuel for that. But it will be sending back the best pictures ever of one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system.

Even more exciting is that, after the Pluto encounter, NASA plans to point New Horizons at at least one other Kuiper Belt object.

(The Kuiper Belt is like the asteroid belt, but a lot larger and a lot further out. It’s mostly full of cometary material and other “junk” left over from the start of the solar system.)

Who knows what New Horizons will find out there in the space beyond Pluto?

Any Day Now? One thing New Horizons probably won’t find is the remains of an ancient extraterrestrial (ET) civilization.

But that doesn’t mean that we won’t find ET someday soon.

In fact, earlier this month, NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan made news by

suggesting that we’ll have direct evidence of extraterrestrial life with 10 to 20 years.

This probably won’t be intelligent life. More likely, it will be some sort of microbial life (on Mars maybe) or more complex life, perhaps in the underground oceans of Jupiter’s moon, Europa.

But the bottom line is, everywhere we look in the solar system, we’re finding water, or evidence of past water. On Earth, at least, that always means life.

Even if we only find microbes, the implications would be staggering. Finding out that we aren’t alone in the universe would have profound implications for humanity on multiple levels, and would be the most important discovery since fire.

Charge!

Of course, once we find ETs, we’re going to want to sell them smartphones, and those phones will need great batteries.

A new aluminum-ion battery in development at Stanford promises to solve many of the problems with current lithium-based batteries like the ones used in current generation electronics.

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COVER STORY

All Serious Daring Starts From Within*

Drink in the words all weekend with the Celebration of Southern Lit

By Ward Raymond * Title from Eudora Welty

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istory may be written by the victors—but literature is the province of the South.

The next four days in Chattanooga bear out that unconventional wisdom, as dozens of renowned Southern writers and their legion of readers descend on the Tivoli, Bessie Smith Cultural Center, the new UTC Library, Hunter Museum, and other venues for the Celebration of Southern Literature.

The Celebration, a jewel in our city’s cultural crown sponsored biennially by the Southern Lit Alliance, marries the powerful legacy of Southern storytelling in traditional literary genres with an incisive look at Southern identity in the 21st century. Our stories are wed to our identities. As tradition dictates, a marriage brings something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue to the altar.

Speaking of old conceptions of Southern identity, award-winning historian James Cobb sees the potential for racial empathy to emerge in spite of old images. The enduring tropes of the Old South—lanterns on the levee, magnolias and moonlight,

“Spoken word fits in quite well with the traditions of the South. Historically, Southerners have always had a strong legacy of stories, songs, poems, being passed down orally.”

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mint juleps on the veranda—are outdated “impediments to getting more Southerners, black and white, to explore their individual ‘southernness’ as it was shaped by their personal experiences, not just the pleasant ones but the painful ones as well,” Cobb says.

Widely published on Southern culture and society, Cobb receives the Woodward/Franklin Award for Historical Writing, which honors two founding members of the Fellowship of Southern Writers: one white, C. Vann Woodward, and one black, John Hope Franklin. On Saturday, Cobb will tell the story of “how the two collaborated to make Franklin the first black scholar to speak at a meeting of the Southern Historical Association…historians who not only wrote history, but made it as well.”

Cobb elaborates: “As to the relevance of Old South/Lost Cause icons, while they are un-

derstandably offensive to many African Americans, they are also reminders of what the people who sang ‘we shall overcome’ truly had to overcome.”

Novelist Clyde Edgerton sees the Southerner growing up as “both nurtured and wounded by the South,” quoting photographer Paul Kwelicki.

Edgerton and six other writers conduct a panel discussion titled “Southern Identity,” sure to be a provocative topic, Friday afternoon at the Tivoli. “Conceptions of Southern identity start in the families and communities of writers when they are young, and these conceptions run the gamut, of course, from pure shame to pure glory-honor with stopping points at all stages in between,” Edgerton says. “Some of the prominent Southern politicians today are answering to those racist white men, often named ‘Skeeter,’ whose existence guarantees slow or backward movement toward racial reconciliation.”

A rising star in the literary firmament, Lookout Mountain’s

own Jamie Quatro says, “There’s a visceral presence to history here; we live in palimpsest, the record of struggle and defeat literally inches beneath our feet.”

Quatro, novelist Clyde Edgerton, and Roger Hodge, editor of the Oxford American literary magazine, will further discuss

ing by Events with Taste. (The evening could get animated.) It’s one of several get-togethers that Susan Robinson, the Southern Lit Alliance executive director, points to proudly as “wonderful after-hours events to make this uniquely Chattanooga event more accessible to all Chattanoogans.”

Indeed, this 2015 CSL reboots the program: The main ticket price for all the workshops and panels is cut in half to $50. Free and low-cost individual tickets are available for the Opening Reception on Thursday night at UTC’s new library, also the new home of the Fellowship; a Eudora Welty photography exhibit tour with a box lunch at the Hunter Museum on Friday; a cocktail event open to the public at The Flying Squirrel on Friday night; and the Heritage Dinner featuring John T. Edge at Easy Bistro & Bar, coinciding with the Moonshine Soirée at Bessie Smith Center, on Saturday night.

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Edgerton and six other writers conduct a panel discussion titled ‘Southern Identity,’ sure to be a provocative topic, Friday afternoon at the Tivoli.”

“Southern Identity” on Saturday night as part of a “Moonshine Serenade Soirée” featuring Edgerton and his band, The Rank Strangers (which he is careful to note includes two professional musicians to cover for himself).

“The title of the panel should probably be ‘Southern Identities’ because ‘The South’ isn’t a singular entity, but a multiplicity of regions and dialects and cultures and aesthetic ideals,” says Quatro.

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ductees into the Fellowship of Southern Literature, including Tayari Jones of Atlanta, author of an award-winning debut novel, Leaving Atlanta, set at the time of the Atlanta child murders in the 1980s. Also inducted will be George Singleton, Kate Daniels, Brooks Haxton, and C.D. Wright.

“I am so nervous,” says Jones.

“I’m going to read from my novel in progress, Dear History. Reading new work always makes me feel vulnerable.”

Another new event on Sunday brings a hands-on printmaking workshop “Why Books?” at The Open Press, a letterpress, printmaking, and book arts cooperative at 1271-B Market Street. Rhett Reeves, program director of the Southern Lit Alliance, waxes philosophical about old practices in a new age. “Sometimes we forget in this digital era that the printing press was the Model-T of books, taking handwritten manuscripts and mass-producing them for public consumption,” Reeves says. “This workshop is going to spin the wheels back toward the manual, creative side” of print manufacture.

“We’ve selected four quotations by notable members of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the folks at The Open Press have been working on some graphic designs. The end result will be one-of-a-kind letterpress posters for the participants to take home to frame.”

Reeves also touts the community-based aspect of the Celebration. Writers in Classrooms places 20 published authors into local classrooms at public and private high schools and colleges to interact with students and their teachers; Young Southern Student Writers competition engages the UTC English Department to sift nearly 4,000 submissions from K-12 students, honoring about 500 of the best in a ceremony at the Tivoli.

Though far from a new face at the CSL, poet Andrew Hudgins has “surprised myself by becoming a memoirist,” with publication of the aptly titled The Joker. While in town, Hudgins and his wife, noted novelist Erin McGraw, love to stay at the Read House, dine at St. John’s and TerraMae, and visit Yacoubian Tailors, drinking deep of Chattanooga’s personality. Both writers are faculty of Sewanee’s School of Letters graduate program in creative writing. In other University of the South news, Sewanee Review editor George Core receives the Cleanth Brooks Award for Lifetime Achievement on Thursday afternoon.

Hudgins will appear Saturday afternoon at a panel discussion, “Poems & Their Backstories,” along with R.H.W. Dillard, Maurice Manning, and former national poet laureate Rita Dove.

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hand about his own poem, but digressed onto the backstory of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who buried his only manuscript in his beloved wife’s coffin and had to dig it up again after considerable delay as well as…um…decay, finding wormholes throughout the papers. “I’ve wondered if the ‘worm’ was a bookworm, or a larvae that eats paper, or if a maggot from the wife’s body was the culprit—or if it was a plain ol’ earthworm,” Hudgins says. (Do you understand his memoir’s title now?)

Another fresh voice in the CSL colloquy, Chattanooga’s Christian Collier brings his intensely personal spoken word poetry, along with something borrowed.

“There’s a strong relationship between not just my performance style, but my writing style, and jazz music,” Collier says. In studying Beat generation writers, he discovered their affinity and his own for “the works of Miles Davis, who is still my favorite jazz musician, John Coltrane, and others. When I began writing poems that I’d be performing publicly, I crafted the lines and phrasings in the same way that a trumpet solo would sound. Jazz helped me to hear and showcase the music and tone of language.”

Collier performs Sunday afternoon at Bessie Smith Center, co-sponsored by Shane Morrow of Jazzanooga, with the Dexter Bell Trio for accompaniment. “I think spoken word fits in quite well with the traditions of the South,” Collier says. “Historically, Southerners have always had a strong legacy of stories, songs, po-

ems, being passed down orally.”

Although spoken word and other styles of poetry are less familiar locally, he says, “I have seen more opportunities come down the pipeline for spoken word artists, with more venues opening their doors, more publications doing stories, which help to let the general community know that we exist.”

Receiving a blue ribbon for best session title, and also borrowing from a recent movie title, comes a panel on “Women of the Southern Wild: Enduring Female Characters in Southern Literature & Drama.” Moderating that panel will be Jayne Anne Phillips, prolific short story writer and author of the National Book Award-finalist novel Lark and Termite. Other participants include Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Ron Rash, Randal Kenan, and the new “Fellow” Tayari Jones, who says of Phillips, “I figure she came up with that title by looking in the mirror. She is the boldest Southern woman I know.”

Phillips sees the primacy of character, naturally: “Southern fiction is not only full of great writers who happen to be women, it’s full of great female characters created by male and female writers alike. Certain literary characters become part of our cultural and personal identities. They are ways in which we understand ourselves.”

Come for the moonshine, or for the moonlight and magnolias. Come for the wedding of our literary legacy and Southern identity.

Stay for the understanding.

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• Over 30 amazing artworks on wheels • Cash Prizes and trophies for the winning school entries • Fun for the whole family • Parade to Main Street • Come out and Cheer on your Favorite Ride!

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SCREEN SCENE

The Broad Street Film Festival Is Back City’s busy film season concludes with a chance to support young artists

Grant & Russell Get Screwballed Heristage Film Series continues with '40s comedy classic When confronted with the seemingly endless stream of remakes, reboots and sequels coming out of Hollywood today, you often hear the refrain that “they just don’t make ’em like they used to.”

It’s hard to argue that point when presented with one of the greatest screwball comedies of all time, 1940’s “His Girl Friday.”

Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is a hardboiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard “Hildy” Johnson (Rosalind Russell), is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce

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Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) and settle down to a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York.

Walter determines to sabotage these plans, enticing the reluctant Hildy to cover one last story, the upcoming execution of convicted murderer Earl Williams (John Qualen).

“His Girl Friday” 2, 7 p.m., free Heritage House Arts and Civic Center 1428 Jenkins Rd. (423) 855-9474 chattanooga.gov

NEW IN THEATERS

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has earned a welldeserved vacation. But safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart answers.

Director: Andy Fickman Stars: Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez

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Unfriended A group of online chat room friends find themselves haunted by a mysterious, supernatural force using the account of their dead friend.

Director: Levan Gabriadze Stars: Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson

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hattanooga’s film festival season ends on April 18 with a reminder. While clubs like Mise En Scenesters and the extremely successful Chattanooga Film Festival have turned the Scenic City into a veritable haven for film enthusiasts in a very short time, there has been a considerable amount of progress for those inclined to create on the other side of the lens.

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The Broad Street Film Festival may be the beginning for an entire generation of filmmakers that will contribute to Chattanooga’s ever-growing film community.”

Many of the opportunities concerning film in Chattanooga are geared towards the audience—but, increasingly, filmmakers are become Chattanooga’s primary artists. From monthly events on filmmaking at the Backlot in the Heritage House to Chattanooga State’s Professional Film and Television program to the latest franchise film competition, the 54 Film Fest, filmmakers have a multitude of ways to practice their craft.

In addition, one of the primary focuses of the Chattanooga Film Festival is breaking down barriers between the audience and the filmmaker. Chances are if you see a film at the festival, you’ll get to meet the filmmakers, which can be a powerful learning tool for students, both in terms of technical understanding and as inspiration.

Very few filmmakers come to the art without some sort of training. Even the slacker god Kevin Smith attended film school for a season before making “Clerks.” That Chattanooga has these opportunities for filmmakers is nothing short of miraculous for a city this size. And so as the festival season wraps up, it’s fitting that we return to a Chattanooga institution: The Broad Street Film Festival.

The Broad Street Film Festival has a 10-year history of giving student film a place to shine. It was noticeably absent

last year and its return is the perfect way to end an incredible two months of film. Student films are frequently derided for being overwrought and overacted; the student film is typically accompanied by an eye roll and a sigh.

It’s easy for an audience to focus on the flaws. But educators see student film projects differently.

Most teachers try gently correcting while focusing on the good things found in any assignment. Festivals like the Broad Street are meant to engage the student in the audience experience and allow for self reflection on the work done. It’s a unique opportunity for the community at large to participate in the education of future filmmakers and actors, supporting the art form by thoughtful criticism.

How successful this experience is depends on the quality of the film community. It’s worth noting that the winner in the Short Film Category of the Chattanooga Film

“The festival features student submissions ranging from short narrative films and documentaries to trailers and music videos.”

Festival was a former student of Chris Willis, longtime organizer of the Broad Street Film Festival and professor at Chattanooga State.

Graham Uhelski’s short film “Doppelgänger” competed with 53 short films from around the world—and won.

Uhelski came through Chattanooga State and learned his craft there, perfected it, and continues his career in Chattanooga. The Broad Street Film Festival may be the beginning for an entire generation of filmmakers that will contribute to Chattanooga’s evergrowing film community.

The festival features student submissions ranging from short narrative films and documentaries

to trailers and music videos. All will be critically judged for awards in cinematography, editing, screenwriting, directing, acting and other technical categories. Judges include professors and professionals from around the region, each one looking for new talents and quality film.

Film screenings will take place at the Carmike Majestic 12 on Broad Street on April 18. Showtimes are 1, 5, and 9 p.m., and tickets will be available at the door for $7.50 per person, but an online donation of $10 or more to the Broad Street Film Festival Fund via The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga (cfgc.org) will provide donors with two tickets to the

film screenings.

I have been a judge for the festival in past years and was asked to judge again this year, although my teaching schedule will prevent me from doing so. I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes the films can be a little one-note. Given that many of the competing colleges are religious institutions like Bryan College and Lee University, a certain focus in subject matter is to be expected.

However, while the religious nature of some of the films can be on the nose, there is no doubt that the students are learning the technical side of filmmaking well. The goal of the festival is stated to be: “[increasing] the knowledge and talents of the next generation of collegiate filmmakers to make a difference in not only the Chattanooga area but the nation and the world as well.”

Come support this goal and local film this weekend.

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ARTS SCENE

Putting the Play in Playwright Muse of Fire’s spring project gives budding young writers a stage of their own

Puttin’ On The Ritz At UTC Tap-dancing monster invades UTC's Fine Arts Center The UTC Theatre Company presents an adaptation of a classic Mel Brooks’ film, “Young Frankenstein, The Musical,” through April 18, in the Dorothy Hackett Ward Theatre inside the UTC Fine Arts Center.

April showers aren’t going to stop this “monstrously funny” extravaganza.

As director Steve Ray tells us, this show involves the protagonist Frederick Frankenstein, “whose entire ancestry has created monsters by trying to resurrect the dead, and must come to terms with his legacy— plus jokes about private parts.”

The original movie is listed as

28th on Total Film magazine’s readers’ “List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time,” and true fans will find that this musical and the large cast of student actors lives up to the billing.

Says Ray, “If you like parodies, horror movies, old-fashioned musicals, bawdy humor, and twisted science, you’ll love this production. The students’ energy will be infectious and they will make you laugh.”

All shows are at 7:30 p.m., along with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday.

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Burlesque: “7 Deadly Fairytales”

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An annual wine-tasting event to celebrate Literacy and Wine. Proceeds benefit United Way's invest in Children's Programs and the Hunter Museum.

5:30 p.m.

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

Check in on the fairytales of old and see how life has turned out after “happily ever after” in a show that takes the naughtiness up a notch.

8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 847-2170 barkinglegs.org

wWiskey lovers will get to taste spirits from across our state, enjoy live music from Ghost Town Blues Band, and mingle with fellow enthusiasts.

6 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd.

(423) 521-4714 tnwhiskeyfestival.com

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lanky 12-year-old girl swings her legs nervously in her chair, at the side of a stage where she’s illuminated by the soft twinkle of icicle lights. She looks around with apprehension as the lights dim and a group of actors step onto the stage. The lights come up; she freezes in her seat and watches as the actors begin bringing a story to life: her story.

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Her eyes glow as the story she imagined takes on a life of its own right in front of her. This is her moment, and it’s magical to watch.”

Suddenly, a burst of laughter from the audience brings a grin to her face so large it could engulf the entire room.

Her eyes glow as the story she imagined takes on a life of its own right in front of her. This is her moment, and it’s magical to watch.

The Muse of Fire Project gathers a diverse group of ten kids, ages 10-12, three times per year to produce original plays which are performed by adults.

The kids spend two hours once a week for ten weeks developing and writing scripts before these are turned over to the group of actors who have approximately two weeks to create the plays’ worlds. The playwrights see their ideas in the flesh for the first time on the night of the performances.

This is the beauty of The Muse of Fire Project, a self-proclaimed “cool after-school theatre club for kids from all over Chattanooga,” co-created by Stevie Ray Dallimore and Kate Forbes in 2011, based on the 52nd Street Project in New York City. “People come and are blown away by that very element,” Dallimore says. “That’s maybe one of their favorite things about what we do… watching the playwright onstage watching her play, watching her take it in and then taking a bow for it.”

“Musers,” as they are affectionately

“It takes an enormous amount of energy to put these plays on,” Dallimore says.

“It’s not just a play. It’s eleven plays with 14 different actors and we want to honor each kid’s play to the best of our ability.”

referred to by the staff, come from diverse backgrounds and writing abilities, but are worked with closely to ensure their success. “Part of the mission of this particular program is an emphasis on writing,” Forbes says, “because especially at that age, they could tell you all of their ideas, but then I would say, ‘Well, how are the actors going to know that? How’s the audience going to know that? You’ve got to put that in the script.’”

As the weeks progress, the playwrights are encouraged to edit and make revisions to ensure the best possible version of their play is performed. This process is not always smooth sailing, but is ultimately rewarding for the playwrights. “One kid wrote for ten minutes and he said ‘That’s the longest I’ve ever written about anything,’” Forbes chuckles, “and he said, ‘I wrote about that long about Martin Luther King for school, but this is more fun.’”

Once the scripts are turned over to the actors and directors, the playwrights learn another valuable lesson: collaboration and letting go.

“They’re a little nervous,” Dallimore says. “We we have a pizza party celebration of their plays where the actors come and read their plays for the kids and make sure they’re signing off on them…and then we basically say, ‘OK, see you opening night!’” Then, the adult volunteers set themselves the task of creating worlds known and unknown; learning lines, developing characters, and building sets, costumes and props.

“It takes an enormous amount of energy to put these plays on,” Dallimore says.

“It’s not just a play. It’s eleven plays with 14

different actors and we want to honor each kid’s play to the best of our a b i l i t y. ” But that hard work and support pays off in a uniquely fun night of original plays.

“That’s a real, major point,” Dallimore emphasizes, “to see it, to get it done, to get it on its feet, to bring it to life, and all of us take ownership of that. That’s part of the beauty of it.”

The shows are intended for a wide audience, not only parents and friends, but anyone eager to see unique, funny, moving original theatre. “It’s a great date night,” Forbes enthusiastically suggests, and Dallimore adds, “It often gets written off as a kind of cutesy children’s theatre thing, which it’s not…It’s really an entertaining

night out, no matter what age you are.”

They both describe it as being “a mashup of Off-Broadway play meets Saturday Night Live meets The Muppet Movie,” and Forbes adds, “with some heart-piercing moments.

It’s really fun theatre.”

The Muse of Fire Project’s spring performances will be held at the Downtown Public Library, 1001 Broad St. April 17, at 7 p.m. and April 18 at 3, 7 p.m.

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ARTS CALENDAR

A Magical Evening Event

"Mary Poppins"

thursday4.16 2015 Celebration of Southern Literature 11 a.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org Wine on the Bluff 5:30 p.m.

Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Art + Issues: “Love of Self, Love Shared, Love Open to All” 6 p.m.

Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Life Drawing with Alex Loza 6 p.m.

Art Creations 7351 Commons Blvd.

(423) 531-7606 art-creations.com “Ease into Yoga: Bring the Joy Back to Paddling” 6:30 p.m.

Outdoor Chattanooga 200 River St. (423) 643-6888 outdoorchattanooga.com Celebration of Southern Literature Opening Reception 7 p.m.

UTC Library 600 Douglas St. (423) 267-1218

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southernlitalliance.org PSC Presents Don McGowan 7 p.m.

St. John United Methodist Church 3921 Murray Hills Rd. (423) 344-5643 chattanoogaphoto.org Classic Film Series: “His Girl Friday” 7 p.m.

Heritage House Arts and Civic Center 1428 Jenkins Rd. (423) 855-9474 chattanooga.gov “Mary Poppins” 7 p.m.

Chattanooga Christian School 3354 Charger Dr. (423) 362-4054 ccsk12.com Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Birmingham Barons

Pulse Pick: Jake Gulledge With a unique approach to using humorous stories and an R&B vocal style, Jake is set apart.

He has the ability to reach multiple genres by breaking walls down.

Jake Gulledge The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com

7:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 “Young Frankenstein: The Musical” 7:30 p.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center Vine and Palmetto Sts. (423) 425-4269 utctheatreco.com 10-Minute Play Festival 8 p.m.

Covenant College 14049 Scenic Hwy. (706) 419-1051 covenant.edu

friday4.17 2015 Celebration of Southern Literature 8 a.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org MusicFest 9:30 a.m.

Signal Centers 109 N. Germantown Rd. (423) 698-8525 signalcenters.org #CelebrateSoLit After Hours 6:30 p.m.

The Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. (423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org “Music of India” 7 p.m.

North River Civic Center 1009 Executive Dr. (423) 870-8924 Muse of Fire Spring Project 7 p.m.

Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. themuseoffireproject.org “Mary Poppins” 7 p.m.

Chattanooga Christian School 3354 Charger Dr. (423) 362-4054 ccsk12.com Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Birmingham Barons 7:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 Jake Gulledge 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com

“Bowties & Blossoms” 7:30 p.m.

Church on Main 1601 Rossville Ave. (770) 495-9775 bowtiesandblossoms.com “Young Frankenstein: The Musical” 7:30 p.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center Vine and Palmetto Sts. (423) 425-4269 utctheatreco.com Burlesque: “7 Deadly Fairytales” 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 847-2170 barkinglegs.org 10-Minute Play Festival 8 p.m.

Covenant College 14049 Scenic Hwy. (706) 419-1051 covenant.edu Lantern Tours 8:30 p.m.

Ruby Falls 1720 S. Scenic Hwy. (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com

saturday4.18 “Waking Up with the Birds” 7:30 a.m.

Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org 2015 Celebration of

Southern Literature 8 a.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org 11th Annual Garden and Art Expo 8:30 a.m.

Bachman Community Center 2815 Anderson Pike (423) 886-4842 Beginning Cast Drawing Workshop with Laura Hausler 9 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 201 W. Main St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Chattanooga River Market 10 a.m.

Tennessee Aquarium Plaza 1 Broad St. (423) 648-2496 chattanoogarivermarket.com “The M Play” 10:30 a.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 theatrecentre.com Little Owl Music and Arts Festival 11 a.m.

Audubon Acres 900 N. Sanctuary Rd. (423) 892-1488 chattanoogaaudubon.org Vintage Baseball Match Noon 6th Cavalry Museum 6 Barnhardt Cir. (706) 861-2860 6thcavalrymuseum.org

“An Ending Not Fondly Imagined” 2 p.m.

Chickamauga Battlefield Lafayette Rd. (423) 752-5213 “Young Frankenstein: The Musical” 2, 7:30 p.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center Vine and Palmetto Sts. (423) 425-4269 utctheatreco.com Youth and Family Theatre Double Bill 2:30 p.m.

Ensemble Theatre 5600 Brainerd Rd. (423) 602-8640 ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com 10-Minute Play Festival 2:30 p.m.

Covenant College 14049 Scenic Hwy. (706) 419-1051 covenant.edu Muse of Fire Spring Project 3, 7 p.m.

Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. themuseoffireproject.org Tennessee Whiskey Festival 6 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd.

(423) 521-4714 tnwhiskeyfestival.com “Mary Poppins” 7 p.m.

Chattanooga Christian School 3354 Charger Dr. (423) 362-4054 ccsk12.com

ARTS CALENDAR

Burlesque: “7 Deadly Fairytales”

Heritage Dinner with John T. Edge 7 p.m.

Easy Bistro 203 Broad St. (423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org Oxford American Magazine + Southern Lit Alliance: “Moonshine Serenade” 7 p.m.

Bessie Smith Cultural Center 200 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Birmingham Barons 7:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 Jake Gulledge 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Burlesque: “7 Deadly Fairytales” 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 847-2170 barkinglegs.org

Named “One of the Ten Most Incredible Cave Waterfalls on Earth” -World Reviewer

423.821.2544 RubyFalls.com

Open Saturday & Sundays!

RubyFallsZip.com Amateur Bar-B-Que Contest

sunday4.19 Beginning Cast Drawing Workshop with Laura Hausler 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 201 W. Main St. (423) 266-2712

April 25th • 10am-6pm Judging 4-5:30 Official Rules & Team Registration:

LanasLove.com

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Every Wednesday 4-6 pm April-November

4-5 pm December-March

“Spring-A-Ma-Jig” Season Kick-off Wednesday April 22nd from 4-6pm

Locally & Sustainably Raised Foods 325 East Main Street on Chattanooga’s Southside mainstfarmersmarket.com

SPRING FLING CELEBRATION Earth Week Open House Saturday, April 25th 10% off discount during Earth Week with this ad 4022 Brainerd Road (423) 227-0360

ARTS CALENDAR

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"The Sound of Music"

townsendatelier.com Civil War Cruise: Chattanooga, April 1865 10 a.m.

River Gorge Explorer 1 Broad St. (423) 267-3474 tnaqua.org “Why Books?”

Printmaking Workshop 11 a.m.

The Open Press 1271B Market St. (423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org “Lyre to Lyric” 1 p.m.

Bessie Smith Cultural Center 200 E. M.L. King Blvd.

(423) 267-1218 southernlitalliance.org “The Gothic Imaginary” 1 p.m.

Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org TCM Presents: “The Sound of Music” 2, 7 p.m.

East Ridge 18 5080 S. Terrace, East Ridge (423) 855-9652 carmike.com Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Birmingham Barons 2:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 milb.com Youth and Family Theatre Double Bill 2:30 p.m.

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Ensemble Theatre 5600 Brainerd Rd. (423) 602-8640 ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com Sinew Dance 7 p.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center 615 McCallie Ave. (423) 425-4371 utc.edu Jake Gulledge 7:30 p.m The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com

monday4.20 Cinematographer David George, Casting Call, & “Chasing Sunsets” Premiere 6:30 p.m.

Heritage House 1428 Jenkins Rd. (423) 855-9474 chattanooga.gov Monday Night Vintage Swing Dance 7 p.m.

Clear Spring Yoga 17 N. Market St. (931) 982-1678 Intro to Ballroom 7:30 p.m.

Ballroom Magic Dance Center 4200 N. Access Rd. (423) 771-3646 “Friday” 20th Anniversary Director’s Cut 7:30 p.m.

East Ridge 18

5080 S. Terrace, East Ridge (423) 855-9652 carmike.com

tuesday4.21 April Noon Nosh Luncheon: Speaker Avichai Peretz Noon Jewish Cultural Center 5461 North Terrace Rd. (423) 493-0270 jewishchattanooga.com

wednesday4.22 TCM Presents: “The Sound of Music” 2, 7 p.m.

East Ridge 18 5080 S. Terrace, East Ridge (423) 855-9652 carmike.com Main Street Farmers Market 4 p.m.

325 E. Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.com Wednesday Night Jazz 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org

ongoing “Gajin Fujita” Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org

Spring Season at Blackwell 71 Eastgate Loop (423) 344-5643 chattanoogaphoto.org “Abstracted Beauty” River Gallery 400 E. Second St. (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com “Driven” AVA Gallery 30 Frazier Ave. (423) 265-4282 avarts.org “Mixed Media, Contemporary & Abstract” Reflections Gallery 6922 Lee Hwy. (423) 892-3072 reflectionsgalleryTN.com “Shiny, Bright Things” In-Town Gallery 26A Frazier Ave. (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com Robert Calcagno’s “Over the Hill” Shuptrine’s Gold Leaf Designs 2646 Broad St. (423) 266-4453 shuptrines.com “Khirbet el-Maqatir”: History of a Biblical Site Museum Center at Five Points 200 Inman St. E (423) 339-5745 museumcenter.org

Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com

How To Pick Perfect Poultry Chef Mike crosses the road to find real chicken flavor

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The solution to getting chicken that still tastes like chicken and hasn’t been pumped full of more pharmaceuticals than Charlie Sheen’s kidneys isn’t cheap.”

Longtime food writer and professional chef Mike McJunkin is a native Chattanoogan who has trained chefs, owned and operated restaurants, and singlehandedly increased Chattanooga’s meat consumption statistics for three consecutive years. Join him on Facebook at facebook.com/SushiAndBiscuits

I once walked on the dark brood of choices. Most of the side, and it changed me. I chicken we eat comes from was once a Kentucky Fried young birds specifically bred Chicken store manager. To for their tender, delicious this day, I am haunted by the meat. These are typically unnatural sensation of burnt labeled simply as “chicken” sienna, polyester work pants or “broilers” and are usually dragging five-to-ten and scrapweeks old ing against and weigh my skin. I anywhere still have from twonight terand-a-half rors plucked to four-and a MIKE McJUNKIN from the half pounds. far recesses of poorly mainIf you are looking to furtained walk-in coolers filled ther rob the chicken cradle, with boxes of partially frogo with the four-to-five week zen fowl, dripping with faint old, single serving-sized pink slime.

Cornish hen. Despite their I had no idea how big of name, they can be either a an impact that experience male or a female bird and are would have on me, but rebest served whole, if you’re lentless, daily exposure to into that sort of thing. fleshy mounds of raw chicken Moving away from the made me less than enthusiasbarely legal birds you get into tic about anything that once “roaster” chickens. These bore wings and a beak. Since larger, older birds have maI couldn’t take the mystery tured enough for their bones out of my pre-prepared pouland cartilage to harden up a try purchases, I decided to bit, but nothing says flavor take matters into my own like a neutered male chickhands and essentially stop en, otherwise known as a eating chicken that I had not capon. You can just taste the cleaned and cooked myself. emasculation in every bite.

Because I am a naturalAll of the labels such born Southerner, a deep and as “cage-free,” “naturally abiding love for the taste of raised,” and “organic” prichicken is coded into my marily indicate the conDNA, so I needed to learn as ditions, care and feed a much as I could about these chicken received while beclucky little beasts so that I ing raised. I know there are could buy, clean and cook all those who will disagree, but the chicken I wanted in the when it comes to chicken, safety of my own kitchen. these indicators only make You may think that a chicka subtle difference in taste. en is just a chicken, but most They will, however, help you well-stocked grocery stores sleep better knowing a Franand markets will have a kenfowl with ’roid rage won’t

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arise from the fridge to slice your Achilles tendon while you hobble to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

In my experience, some of the processes that happen just after a chicken is harvested have a much bigger impact on taste than the food they eat or the conditions they were raised under. For example, most large poultry producers inject their chickens with a saltwater solution (called “plumping”), which can constitute 15-to30 percent of its final weight.

Apologists for this practice like to promote this as a way to make the meat juicier and more flavorful. In fact, this practice means you are paying for enough salt to help your hypertension specialist make his boat payment and it’s also why granny’s chicken from the farm tastes more “chicken-y.” The flavor, quite literally, hasn’t been watered down like the “plumped” chicken meat.

Most of the chickens we eat are also plunged into an ice water bath right after being slaughtered to bring them down to a safe temperature. It’s thought that

this causes the meat to draw in even more excess moisture, which can further dilute their flavor and make it difficult to get that wonderful crispy skin when cooked.

The solution to getting chicken that still tastes like chicken and hasn’t been pumped full of more pharmaceuticals than Charlie Sheen’s kidneys isn’t cheap.

Either raise your own or buy local birds raised naturally on a small farm. Expect to pay anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent more, but remember that you’re not paying for 30 percent saltwater, and an extra couple of bucks is a small price to pay for tender, juicy, drug-free chicken that doesn’t taste like a generic bouillon cube.

While you may not have suffered the horrors of a fastfood cooler full of poorly handled chicken or even the nightmare of polyester work clothes, knowing how to buy and prepare your own chicken is knowledge that will serve you well in the kitchen and help you stave off the pink slime nightmares.

Sleep well and bon appetit!

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MUSIC SCENE

Pains Chapel Goes Up To Twelve It’s back to the golden age of heavy metal with these mosh pit surviving locals

Unhindered Hinder At R&B Time to get your (hard) rock on downtown With black leather jackets, silver chains, and plenty of hair gel, the rockers of Hinder are ready to roll.

The band will perform at Rhythm & Brews on Thursday, April 16.

The multi-platinum American rock band is best known for “Get Stoned” and “Lips of an Angel,” pop-rock anthems that sent Hinder into stardom in 2005.

While the band maintains a rockin’ reputation, its music often crosses genres with catchy pop elements and subtle country influences. Drummer Cody Hanson says, “We don’t want to be a band that can only do that one thing. We have

something for everyone.” And that’s coming from the lips of an angel.

Their new album When The Smoke Clears drops May 12. So break out the devilish jacket and hop on your Harley so you’re not an hour late—the show begins at 8 p.m. with opening bands Full Devil Jacket and Hour Late. Full Devil Jacket is a recently reunited alternative metal band and Hour Late is a Chattanooga hometown rock band.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at rhythm-brews.com or hindermusic.com — Kristina Kelly

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Bradford Lee Folk & The Bluegrass Playboys, Slim Pickins

Denny Laine, The Cryers, John Salaway

Ever wondered where in Chattanooga you could go to find some tasty jazz or blues? Look no further than this weekly gathering for some tasty jazz and downhome blues.

7 p.m.

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

Southern native Bradford Lee Folk works hard and plays hard. By day he's out on a John Deere tractor.

By night he's tearing it up on stage with his Bluegrass Playboys.

7:30 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com

What's a Beatle to do when his band breaks up?

If he's Paul McCartney, he hooks up with his friend Denny Laine and starts a new band that took the world by storm. Find out why this Saturday.

7:30 p.m.

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

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t is ironic that having “come of age” in the ’80s, I spent most of that decade in love with music from the ’60s and ’70s, yet now as I stare middle age squarely in the bifocals, I can’t help but feel some nostalgia for the era that birthed MTV. On the downside, there was an awful lot of really terrible music then.

Music marc t. michael

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From the moment I slipped on the headphones and pressed play, I was transported back to a time of torn denim, heavily adorned with studs, spikes and sharpie marker art.”

Soulless “corporate rock” spread its evil wings over the decade. Glam, which had been so much fun in the ’70s, devolved into hair bands somehow selling the message that a bouffant and your mom’s makeup bag made you “tough” (I guess it had to…) but the early ’80s also saw the advent of new wave, the birth of hip-hop and, from ’77 to ’87, what had to be the golden era of hard rock and heavy metal music. You don’t hear that kind of sound anymore, at least I though you didn’t—until I heard Pains Chapel.

Jeff Campbell, Teddy Owensby, Tim Gray and Ken Williams are the boys who bring the noise with a sound that comes straight from metal renaissance of the early ’80s. From the moment I slipped on the headphones and pressed play, I was transported back to a time of torn denim, heavily adorned with studs, spikes and sharpie marker art (yes, Virginia, I was a little headbanger once upon a time).

The point I’m trying to convey is that this is a genre of music I am intimately familiar with from my youth and from that time to now I can’t think of another band that has captured the sound so perfectly.

The vocals of Ken Williams are simply stunning. Every player in this band is a master of their instrument and the

The Mysterious and Masterful David Gray

Photography: Cindy Gray

“If Williams’ vocals soar, it is the rocksolid guitar of Campbell and Tim Gray’s monstrous drumming with Owensby’s teeth-rattling bass providing the platform that allows him to do so.”

form. I would not diminish the role any of them play in the total sound of the band but this guy’s voice! Rarely have I heard this kind of power, range and control from anyone who wasn’t already a megastar. Dio, Bruce Dickinson and Geoff Tate would all scoot over to give this guy a seat at the bar. Listen to 30 seconds worth of “End of Reign” on Pains Chapel’s Reverbnation page to hear what I’m talking about.

That being said, powerful pipes are the icing on the cake in a metal band. Without a strong foundation, it’s meaningless, which is to say a great band with an average singer is far more memorable than a poor band with a brilliant singer.

Luckily, Pains Chapel has the total package.

Jeff Campbell is the six-string

slinger in the band, and one suspects that he spent some time eating the hearts of other guitar greats, absorbing their techniques into his own. His rhythm chops sound like two two guitar players at once. His versatility is neatly demonstrated on the dynamically interesting tune, “Alive.”

If Williams’ vocals soar, it is the rock-solid guitar of Campbell and Tim Gray’s monstrous drumming with Owensby’s teeth-rattling bass providing the platform that allows him to do so. Gray beats the skins like they owe him money and Owensby, in the oft-overlooked position of bassman, is the mighty powerful glue that holds it

all together.

The guys are currently working on their debut album with Josh Chuma at Breaker 17 studio in Fort Oglethorpe. The release date is till TBA, but in the meantime you can get a taste of what they’re up to at reverbnation.com/painschapel as well as their upcoming gigs at Playerz on April 25 and Ziggy’s on May 8 at 8 p.m, with special guests All or Nothin’ and Never Surrender.

If there was ever any fondness in your heart for the kind of music that may as well be aural amphetamines, you’re going to LOVE these guys—so break out the spikes and come enjoy a stage show every bit as impressive as the tunes they play.

For booking info contact Pains Chapel at prodrum@comcast.net

Overuse a word like “genius” and it becomes meaningless, so I use it sparingly and only when I honestly mean it. Local musician David Gray fits the bill, but he’s a very specific kind of genius, which is why I wanted to tell you about him this week. Specifically, Gray is a musical mad scientist, slaving away in his laboratory, populating the world with strange and wonderful creations. Up until now this has largely been for his own amusement (and that of his friends) but I think it’s too interesting to keep secret, so I’d like to shine some light into the dark corners of the cellar where his rock and roll creations live.

David Gray has been around for a while. By a while, I mean that if there was a band in the area that made it big, or came close to making it big in the ’70s and ’80s, David likely played with them or worked with them to some extent. He’s like a living Wikipedia entry on the local music scene for the last 40 years. These days, David has taken up a hobby. Namely, he creates “fake bands,” writes reams of music for them, records this music, and moves on to the next project. Essentially, Gray is pulling a “Spinal Tap” over and over again in multiple genres. He does it largely alone, although a friend or two has sat in on occasion, and he is damn good at it.

Gray’s latest project, Shooting Squirrels, has a Reverbnation page and a bevy of tunes for your amusement. Many are “recorded rough,” but in a way this demonstrates his skill that much more cleverly. Teasing a good sound out of less-than-optimal equipment is the mark of a master. Between writing, performing and recording, Gray clearly graduated from the Shaolin temple a long time ago.

A creative dynamo, Gray is also one of the friendliest guys you’ll meet and not averse to collaborations. Check out his work on Reverbnation or stop by his Facebook page and just say hi. If you’re a Chattanooga musician, David Gray is a man you need to know.

— MTM

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thursday4.16 Preston Parris 5:30 p.m.

Sugar's Downtown 507 Broad St. sugarschattanooga.com Bluegrass Jam 6:30 p.m.

Whole Foods Market 301 Manufacturers Rd. wholefoodsmarket.com Prime Country Band 6:30 p.m.

Ringgold Nutrition Center 144 Circle Dr., Ringgold (706) 935-2541 Feel It Thursday Open Mic 7 p.m.

Mocha Restaurant & Music Lounge 511 Broad St. mochajazz.net Bluegrass and Country Jam 7 p.m.

Grace Nazarene Church 6310 Dayton Blvd. chattanoogagrace.com Jesse James & Tim Neal 7 p.m.

Mexi Wings VII 5773 Brainerd Rd. (423) 296-1073 Songwriter Shootout 7 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Swoon, Stage Hands, Otto Rollo, Matt Miller 8 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd.

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jjsbohemia.com Hinder, Full Devil Jacket, Hour Late 8 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Open Mic with Hap Henninger 9 p.m.

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

friday4.17 Children’s MusicFest 9:30 a.m.

Signal Center 109 N. Germantown Rd. signalcenters.org Nikki “SloJams” Ellis 11:30 a.m.

Pulse Pick: Little Owl Music Festival Sarah Lord, Robin Burk, Jeff and Marcy Paulson, The Peggy Douglas Trio, Nina Ricci, Nancy Seiters, The Driftless, and Organized Kaos, all for one great cause.

Little Owl Music & Arts Festival Saturday, 11 a.m.

Audubon Acres 900 N. Sanctuary Rd. chattanoogaaudubon.org

Waterhouse Pavilion 850 Market St. (423) 265-3700 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 Showcase 7 p.m.

Charles & Myrtle’s Coffeehouse 105 McBrien Rd. christunity.org Joe Ridolfo and Anoose Taj 7 p.m.

North River Civic Center 1009 Executive Dr. chattanooga.gov Levi Stephens 7 p.m.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave. levistephens.com Summer Shyvonne 7 p.m.

Magoo’s Restaurant 3658 Ringgold Rd. facebook.com/MagoosTN Bradford Lee Folk & The Bluegrass Playboys, Slim Pickins 7:30 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Priscilla & Lil’ Rickee 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Zach Stacy & Eddie Crummer 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Sunny Ledfurd, The Michael Martin Band 9:30 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com One Night Stand Band 10 p.m.

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

saturday4.18 Sarah Lord, Robin Burk, Jeff and Marcy Paulson, The Peggy Douglas Trio, Nina Ricci, Nancy Seiters, The Driftless, Organized Kaos 11 a.m.

Little Owl Music & Arts Festival Audubon Acres 900 N. Sanctuary Rd. chattanoogaaudubon.org 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 Jesse James & Tim Neal 7 p.m.

Magoo’s Restaurant 3658 Ringgold Rd. facebook.com/MagoosTN T. Graham Brown, The Cains Trio 7:30 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium 399 McCallie Ave. chattanoogaonstage.com Larry Fleet 7:30 p.m.

Sugar's Downtown 507 Broad St. sugarschattanooga.com Order of Leviathan, Enfold Darkness, KOZA, Iniquities 8 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com William Wild 8 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Priscilla & Lil’ Rickee 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com SouthernXposures FX 9 p.m.

Lookout Bar & Grill 2536 Cummings Hwy (423) 596-8296 Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band 10 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com One Night Stand Band 10 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com She She Dance 10 p.m.

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

sunday4.19 Lyre to Lyric 1 p.m.

Bessie Smith Cultural Center 200 MLK Blvd. bessiesmithcc.org Mid-South Symphonic Band Spring Concert

2:30 p.m.

Christ United Methodist Church 8645 E. Brainerd Rd. christplace.org Acoustic Gospel Jam 6 p.m.

Brainerd United Methodist Church 4315 Brainerd Rd. brainerdumc.org Denny Laine, The Cryers, John Salaway 7:30 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Hatestomp, Roger Alan Wade, Sweet GA Brown 8 p.m.

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

monday4.20 Monday Nite Big Band 7 p.m.

The Coconut Room 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com

tuesday4.21 Rick’s Blues Jam 7 p.m.

Folk School of Chattanooga 1200 Mountain Creek Rd. chattanoogafolk.com Timbre with Big Emotions 7 p.m.

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JD McPherson 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com JD McPherson 8 p.m.

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

wednesday4.22 Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonrestaurant.com No Big Deal 6 p.m.

Springhill Suites Chattanooga Downtown 495 Riverfront Pkwy.

(423) 834-9300 Ben Friberg Trio, Booker T. Scruggs Trio 6 p.m.

Whiteside Park 756 E. MLK Blvd. jazzanooga.org Andrew Ripp & Cereus Bright 7 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Wednesday Night Jazz 8 p.m.

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Record Reviews

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Argentinian Sound Artistry, American Low-Fi Noise Anla Courtis teases with folklore, Corsano & Orcutt get primal live

Anla Courtis B-Rain Folklore (Yogoh) On the latest release from Argentinian musician and sound artist Anla Courtis, the full-length album B-Rain Folklore, he tantalizes with fascinating recordings that play with contrasts: clarity versus obscurity, and familiar sounds mixed with unusual instruments and noises.

Courtis is a mind-bogglingly prolific artist, known as a member and co-founder of the group Reynols and a collaborator with dozens of off-center musicians.

This solo album, originally re-

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt Various Live (Palilalia) corded in Buenos Aires in 2008 yet finally mastered in 2013 and released earlier this year on the Japanese label Yogoh, teases with a sense of mystery, like a piece of lingerie that veils bare skin.

Certain sounds act like figures in the distance—not blurred or distorted, but just hard to discern, and it is not always clear what is generating the sounds. While a few sounds are familiar, such as acoustic guitars, many others are South American instruments, ranging from the erkencho (folk

clarinet hornpipe), bombo legüero (drum) to the siku (panpipe).

The opening “Taqfwaj” begins with layered acoustic guitar patterns, but it takes a strange turn as the string squeaks—made by changing hand positions—become a major voice in the track, as skulking sounds linger in the background. “Cuero del Agua” uses a rattle and stomp and builds its agitated restlessness with alarming noises and wind instruments, and “Monte Erbio” employs a reverberating beat with panpipes and a beguiling mood.

“Ropno” is a playful number, featuring organic electronic tones that somewhat resemble the “boing” of a spring; the song ramps up with an increasing frequency of notes, like the sound of popcorn being popped.

The final track “Teryrupnuu” overlays guitar motifs and string drones and wisps on top of field recordings made in Japan, concocting a peculiar tension and foreboding mood, finishing an album of electro-acoustic explorations that is inviting and intriguing.

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he explosive, imposing drummer Chris Corsano— who has played with diverse artists such as Björk, Evan Parker and Jandek and thrashes about with guitarists Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny in the trio Rangda—teams up with the uncompromising, tradition-smashing guitarist and former Harry Pussy member Bill Orcutt for a cassette of live performances, recorded in Brooklyn, Mexico City and Northampton.

Not for the faint of heart, these recordings are brazen and wildly distorted, being both in your face and in the red; those averse to fuzz and lo-fi noise will want to steer clear of this tape, which sounds like it could disintegrate at any moment due to the white-hot intensity. There’s a trade-off at play here: while the album intentionally is lacking a bit of clarity, it makes up for it with its severity and potency.

Orcutt returned to music in 2009 after a long hiatus, playing the acoustic guitar with his own radically free style that re-

fuses to bow to tradition; on this tape, he is back on the electric guitar, redefining himself yet again, playing with a feral style that hearkens back to his Harry Pussy days in the ’90s.

Corsano’s style is primal and ferocious, tossing off rolls and violent blasts with his own unusual momentum that uses oblique angles instead of straightforward patterns; his energy is channeled in unpredictable ways, matching Orcutt’s wildcard moments to keep the listener on his toes.

The blistering opening number is brimming with a sparkspitting vigor, distorted beyond belief, and it ends with a yell, as if there was excess power that needed to be released. Orcutt flails and abuses his guitar, creating disturbing noises like a wild whinnying, and Corsano is similarly animalistic, showing a disciplined musicianship while laying down savage beats.

It’s a thrilling cassette and live document from a dynamic duo, with Corsano’s unrestrained power and a new, bold direction for Orcutt.

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Great Beer, Great Vinyl, Great Party Brewhaus Gastropub hosts Record Store Day April 18 Imagine you’re enjoying a plateful of flame-grilled brats and Bavarian nachos washed down with a tall, refreshing glass of Dogfish Head’s finest brew, while the dulcet melodies of your favorite music gently flow into your earhole, straight from a real vinyl record playing on an actual turntable.

This could be your life on Saturday, April 18 when Brewhaus Gastropub hosts michael Dogfish Head Brewery and Chad’s Records for an all-day parking lot party to celebrate worldwide Record Store Day. Record Store Day was created in 2007 by a group of independent record store owners and employees as a way to recognize and spread the word about the distinctive culture that exists in independently owned record stores, such as Chattanooga’s own Chad’s Records and thousands of similar stores all over the world. Record stores on every continent except Antarctica are taking part in Record Store Day—and Brewhaus is stepping up the celebration game with this day-long celebration.

Dogfish Head is the official beer of Record Store Day, which fits right in with the brewery’s philosophy of “Analog beer for the digital age.” This philosophy merges more traditional methodologies with modern taste to create beers that are truly unique and individualis-

tic. The brewery has teamed up with Crosley turntables to release a Record Store Day briefcase-style portable turntable bearing original art from legendary rock poster artist Marq Spusta.

Brewhaus will have one of these exclusive turntables on hand to spin vinyl selections from Chad’s thomas and is inviting diners to bring their own records to play while sampling some exceptional brews from the bar and delicious German-American pub grub from the kitchen.

The event starts at 11 a.m., and they will keep the music and beer flowing until midnight. Brewhaus will be serving their regular menu, which is jam-packed with dishes that are the perfect fuel for a full day of music and fermented malt beverages.

The Bavarian House Nachos are a brilliant culinary innovation that replaces boring tortilla chips with a plateful of silver-dollar-sized, crispy potato cakes, then tops them with handfuls of melty cheese, crisp lettuce, tomato and sour cream.

No self-respecting German-American restaurant

Dining Out

Brewhaus Gastropub Hours 224 Frazier Ave. Mo-Th: 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. (on the Northshore) Fri-Sat: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Chattanooga, TN Sun: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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“Brewhaus is inviting diners to bring their own records to play while sampling some exceptional brews from the bar and delicious GermanAmerican pub grub from the kitchen.” menu would be complete without a Bavarian pretzel, and Brewhaus has one that is hubcap-sized, pillowy soft on the inside and crispy on the outside.

They are served with a trio of house-made cider mustard, horseradish mustard, and my favorite, the cherry ale mustard.

For the more dedicated carnivore, there is the Brewhaha. The meaty delight is a grilled, beer-marinated brat and a smoked sausage cuddled up in a bed of tangy sauerkraut. This sausage party is accompanied

by German potato salad (no mayo, this is a vinegarbased potato salad), ale mustard, and a vegetable medley that would be in danger of being beaten up by the grilled meats if it weren’t so goldarned tasty.

If you prefer your meats tucked snugly between

pieces of bread, Brewhaus has a selection of sandwiches and burgers to go with any style of beer and any style of music floating through the Record Store Day air. My favorite is the half-pound beef Glockenspeil burger. Topped with a touch of sauerkraut, sweet pickled beets, a thick slice of melted Swiss cheese, lettuce and tomato piled between two soft pretzel rolls, this beautiful burger will make every part of your tongue sit up and sing in harmony as the sweet beets provide a perfect foil against the savory beef, buttery roll, and slight tang of the sauerkraut.

Dogfish Head is making available a bountiful selection of their awardwinning and spectacularly good beers to toast record stores, your favorite vinyl and anything else you can

think of to serve as an excuse to drink these delicious beers. Brewhaus will be pouring some of Dogfish Head’s best like the citrusy and hoppy 60 Minute IPA, the Belgian-style white Namaste, their Deltron 3030 inspired Positive Contact, and so many more.

They will also have their signature bartender’s choice flights that feature five 4-oz samples, including two high-gravity beers and three low-grav selections picked just for Record Store Day by their crack beer research team.

Mark your calendar, whet your appetite and get your taste buds set for some malted, hoppy goodness because there ain’t no party like a parking lot party, and this Brewhaus party won’t stop (well, not until midnight, because they are kind to their neighbors).

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Consider This with Dr. Rick

by Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain Which of us hasn’t told a little white lie from time to time? No, I’m not planning a surprise birthday party for you tonight. Well, I mailed the check last week; you should get it any day now. Are you kidding… that outfit makes you look thin!

OK, so hopefully no harm done.

But we have to be careful: Telling even small lies becomes a slippery slope, where it gets easier and easier to avoid telling the truth whenever it’s convenient. It can become insidiously habitual, and eventually, inevitably, you slip up. But worse, you dilute your integrity just as you diluted the truth.

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Free Will Astrology

“ Homework: When was the last time you loved yourself with consummate artfulness and grace? Testify at FreeWillAstrology. com

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The California Gold Rush hit its peak between 1849 and 1855. Three hundred thousand adventurers flocked to America’s West Coast in search of gold. In the early days, gold nuggets were lying around on the ground in plain sight, or relatively easy to find in gravel beds at the bottom of streams.

But later prospectors had to work harder, developing methods to extract the gold from rocks that contained it. One way to detect the presence of the precious metal was through the use of nitric acid, which corroded any substance that wasn’t gold. The term “acid test” refers to that process. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because it’s a good time for you to use the metaphorical version of an acid test as you ascertain whether what you have discovered is truly golden.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The time between now and your birthday will provide you with excellent opportunities to resolve lingering problems, bring drawn-out melodramas to a conclusion, and clean up old messes—even the supposedly interesting ones.

You want to know what else this upcoming period will be good for? I’ll tell you: 1. Surrendering control-freak fantasies. 2. Relieving your backlog of tension.

3. Expelling delusional fears that you cling to out of habit. 4.

Laughing long and hard at the cosmic jokes that have tweaked your attitude.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the mid-19th century, the entrance exam for the British Royal Navy was quite odd.

Some candidates were required to write down the Lord’s Prayer, recite the multiplication table for the number three, get naked and jump over a chair, and drink a glass of sherry. I’m guessing that your own initiation or rite of passage may, at least initially, seem as puzzling or nonsensical as that one. You might be hardpressed to understand how it is pertinent to the next chapter of your life story. And yet I suspect that you will ultimately come to the conclusion—although it may take some time—that this

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transition was an excellent leadin and preparation for what’s to come.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes, a Parisian ballet company that ultimately revolutionized the art form. The collaborative efforts he catalyzed were unprecedented. He drew on the talents of visual artists Picasso and Matisse, composers Stravinsky and Debussy, designer Coco Chanel, and playwright Jean Cocteau, teaming them up with top choreographers and dancers. His main goal was not primarily to entertain, but rather to excite and inspire and inflame.

That’s the spirit I think you’ll thrive on in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It’s not a time for nice diversions and comfy satisfactions. Go in quest of Ballets Russes-like bouts of arousal, awakening, and delight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Don’t ever tame your demons—always keep them on a leash.”

That’s a line from a song by Irish rock musician Hozier. Does it have any meaning for you? Can your personal demons somehow prove useful to you if you keep them wild but under your control?

If so, how exactly might they be useful? Could they provide you with primal energy you wouldn’t otherwise possess?

Might their presence be a reminder of the fact that everyone you meet has their own demons and therefore deserves your compassion? I suspect that these are topics worthy of your consideration right now. Your relationship to your demons is ripe for transformation—possibly even a significant upgrade.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Will you be the difficult wizard, Virgo? Please say yes. Use your magic to summon elemental forces that will shatter the popular obstacles. Offer the tart medicine that tempers and tests as it heals. Bring us bracing revelations that provoke a fresher, sweeter order. I know it’s a lot to ask, but right now there’s no one more suited to the tasks.

Only you can manage the stern grace that will keep us honest.

Only you have the tough humility necessary to solve the riddles that no one else can even make sense of.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My message this week might be controversial to the Buddhists among you. But I’ve got to report the cosmic trends as I see them, right? It’s my sacred duty not to censor or sanitize the raw data. So here’s the truth as I understand it: More desire is the answer to your pressing questions. Passionate intensity is the remedy for all wishy-washy wishes and anesthetized emotions. The stronger your longing, the smarter you’ll be. So if your libido is not already surging and throbbing under its own power, I suggest you get it teased and tantalized until it does.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Karelu is a word from the Tulu language that’s spoken in South India. It refers to the marks made on human skin by clothing that’s too tight. As you know, the effect is temporary. Once the closefitting garment is removed, the imprint will eventually disappear as the skin restores its normal shape and texture.

I see the coming days as being a time when you will experience a metaphorical version of karelu, Scorpio. You will shed some form of constriction, and it may take a while for you to regain your full flexibility and smoothness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Georgia is not just an American state. It’s also a country that’s at the border of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Many people who live there speak the Georgian language. They have a word, shemomedjamo, that refers to what happens when you love the taste of the food you’re eating so much that you continue to pile it in your mouth well past the time when you’re full.

I’d like to use it as a metaphor for what I hope you won’t do in the coming days: get too much of a good thing. On the other hand, it’s perfectly fine to get just the right, healthy amount of a good thing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When you’re a driver in a car race, an essential rule in making a successful pit stop is to get back on the track as quickly as possible. Once the refueling is finished and your new tires are in place, you don’t want to be cleaning out your cup holder or checking the side-view mirror to see how you look. Do I really need to tell you this? Aren’t you usually the zodiac’s smartest competitor? I understand that you’re trying to become more skilled at the arts of relaxation, but can’t you postpone that until after this particular race is over?

Remember that there’s a difference between the bad kind of stress and the good kind. I think you actually need some of the latter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Until the early 20th century, mayonnaise was considered a luxury food, a handmade delicacy reserved for the rich. An entrepreneur named Richard Hellman changed that.

He developed an efficient system to produce and distribute the condiment at a lower cost.

He put together effective advertising campaigns. The increasing availability of refrigeration helped, too, making mayonnaise a more practical food. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your own sphere, Aquarius: the transformation of a specialty item into a mainstay, or the evolution of a rare pleasure into a regular occurrence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated over 40 books for children. Midway through his career, his publisher dared him to make a new book that used no more than 50 different words. Accepting the challenge, Seuss produced Green Eggs and Ham, which went on to become the fourth best-selling English-language children’s book in history. I invite you to learn from Seuss’s efforts, Pisces. How? Take advantage of the limitations that life has given you. Be grateful for the way those limitations compel you to be efficient and precise. Use your constraints as inspiration to create a valuable addition to your life story.

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28 Love sickness?

29 Heavenly sphere 31 Procure 33 Central Internet computer 36 One of Tony’s confidants on “The Sopranos” 37 Molecular matter 39 Being broadcast

41 Cacophonies 42 “Amelie” star Audrey 44 “Thor” actress Alexander 46 “Oh, but you must!”

48 Secretive U.S. govt. group 49 Employer of Agts.

Mulder and Scully 52 Pea holder 53 Bills, later on 55 Just barely enough signal, on some phones 57 “Battlestar Galactica” baddie 58 Lump 59 Team-based pub offering 62 No-private matter?

64 Spread out 65 Major in astronomy?

66 “American Horror Story” actress Lily 67 “My Dinner with ___” 68 Apple chemical banned in the 1980s 69 1990s puzzle game set in an island world 70 2008 World Series runner-ups

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Sometimes Justice Is Swift Officer Alex reflects on the consequences of Walter L. Scott’s unfortunate death

“ I will admit that I’m as surprised as anyone at the swiftness with which he was punished by his superiors. Due process is a huge, if not the biggest part of what cops do.”

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.

“Michael T. Slager, COME ON DOWN!” the announcer cries at the annual banquet for the “A**hole of the Year Awards,” held April 1, 2016.

That’s the way I saw it in my dream at least, beALEX cause that’s what this guy is.

There was a slap heard ’round the world as tens of thousands of cops slapped their foreheads in disbelief when video was released of the April 4 shooting of 50-year-old Walter L. Scott by 33-year-old North Charleston policeman Michael Slager.

We had just begun the media recovery from Ferguson as the “Hands Up/ Don’t Shoot” mantra was dismissed as a falsehood (leaving the tragedy still a tragedy, of course) and the people making a profit from that sad machine had begun to disperse.Even those local to our area that were bound and determined to overlay the events of Ferguson as somehow relevant to Chattanooga had completely lost the steam that was only “activist”-born hot air…and now this happens. (Insert collective “sigh” here.)

It was the great state of Tennessee that clarified the “rule” of not shooting fleeing folk in the back (unless actively engaged in

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firing a gun while running away, something that can be done if you have arms, believe it or not) in the Supreme Court decision titled “ Te n n e s see vs. Garner.” Thanks, Memphis.

In this TEACH case, Mr. Scott was pulled over for a broken tail light. It is surmised he believed the officer was about to place him under arrest for owing somewhere in the neighborhood of $18,000 in child support, and so he ran, but at that time, the only thing Officer Slager knew was that this dude had committed a traffic violation.

Even before the officer knew of the citizen’s video, the most he said was that they struggled over his Tazer, which also appeared false upon review. The important part, though, was those six magic words: What He Knew At The Time. In short? He shot a guy in the back eight times for a broken tail light offense.

I will admit that I’m as surprised as anyone at the swiftness with which he was punished by his superiors.

Due process is a huge, if not the biggest part of what cops do. They don’t work at the speed of public opinion; they, unlike their criminal customers, have rules to go by, and not liking the pro-

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cess doesn’t mean they can or should circumvent it. In this case, however, Michael Slager was handled like heroin in a junkie’s needle: Abruptly and with immediate effect.

Am I decrying this for my brother officer? Nope. Because I truly don’t believe the swiftness was a response to public pressure so much as being a case of “it is what it is.” Even protestors are being relatively quiet about it, because he was dismissed and booked for murder before many folks were fully aware it had happened.

The righteous indignation displayed by those lacking impulse control (or reading comprehension) was lost here because the North Charleston police chief and his mayor did exactly what they would have wanted him to (I hope).

Hell’s bells, even Al Sharpton said he’s happy. What?

Despite facts that finally came to light, many of you won’t agree that Officer Darren Wilson shouldn’t have been publicly executed after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, based on speculation and assumptions. The process had to be dragged out to do justice

for both Brown and Wilson, and look what happened.

“Facts” disproved “assumptions” (and “lies”).

But now? No foot dragging necessary, just a very sad trial and a very unnecessary funeral, because there are no mysteries to plumb the depths of.

Cops hate no-win scenarios and this certainly counts as one for both sides. Walter L. Scott should still be alive and Michael T. Slager should still be drawing free air (instead of sitting without bond in a North Charleston jail cell), but instead we’re left trying to figure out how to not look grossly incompetent on one side and how to express mass indignation on the other despite all demands being met in advance of making demands.

Let me take a chance and just say that I’m sorry for what Officer Slager did, readers. He was handled professionally and quickly, though, and this mistake will be pored over for years and factored into the training of officers across this country (and oceans, too— make no mistake).

It’s not much for the Scott family, but it’s a solid first step.

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