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CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

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Contents

CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

EDITORIAL

Managing Editor Gary Poole Contributing Editor Janis Hashe

May 28, 2015 Volume 12, Issue 22

Music Editor Marc T. Michael Film Editor John DeVore Contributors David Traver Adolphus • Rob Brezsny Matt Jones • Zach Nicholson Ernie Paik • Rick Pimental-Habib Ward Raymond • Alex Teach Editorial Interns Ashley Coker • Shaun Webster Cartoonists & Illustrators Rick Baldwin • Max Cannon Jen Sorenson • Tom Tomorrow

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4 BEGINNINGS: “Summer of Love” tour reaches out to rural LGBT people.

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Summer Festival Survival Guide

Thanks to the combined forces of planetary rotation and orbit and axial tilt, music festival season is upon us once again, and I have been asked to assemble a sort of “survival guide” to aid the uninitiated in getting the most out the experience while minimizing injury and/or incarceration.

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Sometimes a book is just a book. But that can’t be said of the artist books on display through June 28 at the Public Library downtown. In an explosion of compelling creativity, “Renaissance” presents about 40 pieces from Chattanooga and North Carolina artists—all related conceptually to books.

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If It’s Unclassifiable, They’ll Love It

Today in the digital age, the barrier for self-releasing music has never been lower, but that doesn’t solve every problem. “If you really want it to work, you really have got to hustle,” said Jerry Reed, the main force behind cassette label Failed Recordings.

6 AIR BAG: Cars designed by marketers?

Not really what anyone is looking for.

14 ARTS CALENDAR 17 DIVERSIONS 19 COMEDY SPOTLIGHT: Rickey Smiley is a very funny man.

22 MUSIC CALENDAR 25 REVIEWS: Wilderun channels heavy metal giants, Side Affect solos out strong.

26 SCREEN: “Tomorrowland” just too much fantasy for most.

28 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 29 JONESIN’ CROSSWORD 30 on the beat: Officer Alex explains why he is the way he is, a peacekeeper.

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Ending Isolation and Fear with Love “Summer of Love” tour reaches out to rural and small-town LGBT people

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One goal is to document their presence to legislators who continue to claim, ‘There are no LGBT people in my district.’”

I’d like to ask a favor of those of you who continue to insist being gay is “a choice” or “a lifestyle.”

Take just one moment to try and picture this: You live in a rural area or small town in Tennessee. Based on the way you have felt since you were a small child, you believe you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

Nowhere around you is there any overt support. You fear your family will disown you or even throw you out of the house if you admit your belief about yourself to them. Your church will condemn you. Your employer, as you have no protections in

Tennessee, might fire you. There is no way for you to find an open, happy, fulfilled relationship with a person you love.

In late April, reports the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP), the Family Action Council of Tennessee “held an online conference/town hall on sexuality and gender. One speaker recommended describing being LGBT as “broken, corrupt, bent, not what it should be.”

Under these janis hashe conditions, you are still “choosing” to be LBGT? Doesn’t that sound just a little ridiculous? Doesn’t it seem much more likely that you are being forced by others to suppress how you were born?

The Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) is reaching out to isolated and often frightened people in rural and small-town Tennessee with its “Summer of Love” tour, which begins in June and continues through mid-September. According to TEP Executive Director Chris Sanders, the group has a good presence in urban areas, “but to be a truly statewide organization, we need to reach LGBT people in places we are currently missing.”

The tour has four goals, says Sanders. First, to connect LGBT people and allies with the statewide organization and resources. “What to do if you’re turned away when you apply for a marriage license; how to identify businesses that are safe, how to deal with bul-

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lying in schools,” Sanders lists.

Second, to connect with the tour-stop organizers, who will set up the meetings. “Our goal is to get 10 people at each stop,” he says.

Third, to document the needs LGBT people have in the areas visited, and fourth, to document their presence to legislators who continue to claim, “There are no LGBT people in my district.”

Sanders acknowledges there may be backlash to the tour. “We believe in the First Amendment. People have a right to express their views.”

But threats of violence will be reported to law enforcement, and beyond that, to the Department of Justice.

Change is coming slowly to Tennessee, Sanders agrees.

“We are a socially conservative state. [LGBT support organizations are] being outspent 3-to-1 by the religious right.

But we’ve shown we can beat back negative legislation.”

The TEP is asking for help to fund the Summer of Love Tour. “As little as $10 can make a difference,” says Sanders. If you would like to help, visit tnep.org

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by Rick Baldwin

Get In The Indigo Mood At Riverview Park Summer is the season of excuses. It excuses us from eating too much ice cream, drinking too much wine, and dressing a little more adventurously than usual. On Saturday, May 30, The Chattery will help add a splash of color to your clothes with an “Introduction to Indigo Dyeing” workshop hosted at Riverview Park, 1000 Barton Ave. Indigo dyeing is a fun and sim-

ple way of transforming ordinary fabrics into something both vibrant and personal. It’s organic, too, with foraged plant matter being used to create the trademark blue hue. The class is taught by dyeing expert Sara Sayler, who owns local women’s accessory and textiles business Moss + Elm. Sayler will provide an easy step-by-step guide to the art of dyeing and will even

IN THIS ISSUE

Marc T. Michael Our cover story this week on surviving summer music festivals is by music editor Marc T. Michael. who from an early age had two passions in life: music and writing. Noticeably selftaught at one and educated at the University of Kentucky for the other, Marc moved

divulge secrets of its history and process. Participants will not leave empty handed, as everyone will hand-dye and take home their own silk scarf.

The Chattery is a nonprofit organization that combines educational classes with community collaboration.

Indigo dyeing is the latest attempt to get Chattanoogans to roll up their sleeves, put on their thinking caps and try something a little different.

Workshop cost is $30 and the class begins at 1 p.m. For more info, visit thechattery.org — Shaun Webster

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David Traver Adolphus to Chattanooga back in the fall of 1993. When not playing with local Irish group the Molly Maguires, Marc can be found hosting trivia matches throughout the city as the regional manager for Challenge Entertainment. An avid supporter of Chattanooga’s burgeoning music scene, he currently resides in Red Bank with his wife Bryanna, his daughter Libby and two cats who, truth be told, are actually in charge of everything.

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. chattanoogapulse.com • MAY 28-June 3, 2015 • The Pulse • 5

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Some People’s Idea of Fun Our car guy is simply not very enamored of cars designed by marketers I was recently reading didn’t like them.

Car and Driver’s 1969 road Which brings me to Nistest of the Fiat 850 sedan, san. Nissan and Toyota because that’s what I do in seem to be having some sort my free time. The 850 was of perverse competition to was supposed to compete make their cars as unsightly with imported as possible economy cars, and in their especially the economy cars, Beetle, which, as joyless as if not fast, possible, too.

DAVID TRAVER was at least They’re necksomewhat and-neck with ADOLPHUS fun and defithe Yaris and nitely charming. Aside from the Versa, but then Nissan 30 mpg fuel economy and a pulls ahead with the atro$1,656 base price, however, cious Leaf over the acceptit failed utterly. Not only was able Prius. Toyota battles it not fun, it wasn’t practiback with the dreary Corolla cal, with limited passenger over the adequate Sentra, space, a crummy Idroconvert but Toyota has nothing like transmission (a clutchless the Cube. manual like the VW) and a When I first saw the 32-second 0-60 time. ThirtyCube—which is that cubetwo seconds. shaped, asymmetrical vehiIn 1969, the federal speed cle you might see around— limit was 75 mph, so 32 secI hated it. Then it actually onds after you hit the ongrew on me, until one day I ramp, you’d still be going was reading about Soviet-era 15 mph slower than most cars like Lada and Trabant, traffic—and you’d never acand I realized exactly what tually get there at all, as the the Cube was.

Fiat optimistically topped I have friends who drive out at 72 mph. As C&D said, Cubes, and if you’re com“one can dislike the Fiat for ing out of something like a an almost infinite number first-generation Hyundai Acof reasons.” I could turn my cent, a Cube must have been chair slightly and look up the amazing. But nothing about sales figures, but as I look it is fun, starting with its at old cars all day, every day styling. I would guess many and I’ve seen maybe one in (a relative term) people who the last decade, I’m going to own one or care about such go out on a limb and say they things went through the didn’t sell very well; they same stages of grieving I did: didn’t last long; and people denial, then depression, and

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Air Bag

possibly acceptance. After all, it’s different! Whee!

The way in which it’s different, however, is Soviet Different, different by committee. I know it was originally constructed for the Japanese home market where cars that look like surprised fish are everywhere, but even there groups of product planning executives spent countless hours discussing “Five Ways The Cube Can Be Different” and “How Can We Repackage This Drivetrain Yet Again” and then ticked off boxes on a checklist: grille, doors, windows, headliner, dash. Then in 2008, American product planning executives said, “Yeah! Let’s sell it here! It’s different! Whee!”

What it lacked was substance. It holds a lot, but so do other perfectly fine cars, and cubic feet was the Cube’s one trick. It was slow, unexciting, had poor aerodynamics and mileage and generally came saddled with a woeful continuously variable transmission (see: Idroconvert). Underneath the Five Differences it was an economy appliance, a self-storage unit, and no amount of bunting and balloons could turn it into a boutique.

Thankfully, Nissan is even now very, very slowly selling off the very last 2014 Cubes, but don’t worry: The torch has been passed.

The perfectly awful Scion iQ and Mitsubishi’s totally unacceptable i-MiEV and new Mirage are the current champions. There more upand-coming hopefuls, like the un-wonderful Chevrolet Spark and Honda’s very strong entrant in the Terrible Styling Derby, the CR-Z. Even BMW has the i3 and, as you know, all cars starting with a lowercase “i” are ugly.

The Cube was not the only example, but it’s the perfect one as it was surely the best-selling worst car in America, the standard bearer for calculated corporate cynicism. It’s what you get when the “car” part of a car is the last consideration, after marketing and accounting have their say. Sometimes it can seem as though we’ll get cars like the Fiat 850 and Cube forever. But there are exceptions, and next month I’ll talk in a much less curmudgeonly way about what happens when a car is built with no involvement from accounting and marketing at all (hint: you get the best car of the 20th century).

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.

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COVER STORY

Survival Guide: Summer Festival Season The do's and dont's on how to best experience your summer music

By Music Editor Marc T. Michael

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As much fun as you think it is to dance and spin and gad about in the rain, ten minutes later when you’re soaked and chilled you’ll kill your own grandmother for a dry pair of socks.”

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hanks to the combined forces of planetary rotation and orbit and axial tilt, music festival season is upon us once again, and I have been asked to assemble a sort of “survival guide” to aid the uninitiated in getting the most out the experience while minimizing injury and/or incarceration.

Bear in mind, I was never a tour kid.

I didn’t follow the Dead; I’m just a middle-aged guy who’s been playing music a long time, attended many festivals and made many stupid mistakes.

That’s the point of making mistakes, really. You make them so that you can help others to avoid them—allowing them the freedom to make even bigger ones. This, in turn, makes you feel better about your own. It’s the circle of gaffe and one of the great things about getting older.

Weathering the Weather So you love nature? Good, you should, but know this: Nature does not love you. Often it seems as though nature hates you, but this isn’t true (except in Australia where nature’s only business is sweet, sweet murder).

Nature is indifferent to you, and will roast, freeze or drown you without a second thought. At this time of year, in this part of the country, it’s going to be hot. Four million tons of exploding hydrogen nuclei per second will do that. Stay hydrated. I will be repeat-

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ing this a few more times throughout the article because it’s really important and people are so bad at it.

Wear sunscreen, lots and lots of it. If you are a ginger person, consider digging a burrow and staying there until the sun dips low over the horizon.

Clothing should be light, comfortable, and on. Seriously, running around half-naked can be great fun, but the idea here is not fashion or fun so much as protection. Some bits burn more readily than others and if it’s a bit you plan on using later in the evening, there isn’t enough aloe in the world to take care of that.

A dear friend of mine was on a gig in Florida with me once and decided to go kayaking in the middle of the day, in the middle of summer. After much admonishing from those of us who knew, he applied a little sunscreen in a perfunctory manner and headed out for an hour or so. It never occurred to him to apply any to his legs or feet, however. By the time the gig rolled around that evening, everything from the knees down was blistered, his feet

had swollen to twice their size, he was sick and in agony. He had a bad time.

Pack a poncho and/or an umbrella and have a dry change of clothes. Sooner or later the rain will come and as much fun as you think it is to dance and spin and gad about in it, ten minutes later when you’re soaked and chilled you’ll kill your own grandmother for a dry pair of socks.

Bring one thing with long sleeves. Yes, it’s going to be hot, but it’s nature, remember? On yet another trip down south to death’s waiting room late summer, we found ourselves basking in the upper 80s. Gosh, it was warm! We bedded down for the night and awoke the next morning to find that a freak cold front had pushed through. It was 41 degrees when we headed out to the event. Gosh, it was cold! No one had brought anything that wasn’t specifically for temps in the upper 80s.

Basic Personal Hygiene There isn’t any. Well, there is, and you should try to maintain it as best you can.

If there are showers on site, use them.

Take a buddy to watch your back, wear flip-flops if you don’t want your feet rotting off, and shower early and often. It’s a great way to stay cool and you’ll feel so much better if you aren’t crusted in funk.

Bring a towel and soap, of course. Always know where your towel is.

A word on patchouli: I used to love the smell of the stuff but, in much the same way a stomach virus will make you hate your favorite food, years of exposure to patchouli and what I can only assume

is decaying corpses have left me unable to stand the stuff. IT DOESN’T MASK THE SMELL! If anything, it serves as an advance warning to the innocent that someone nearby must not have bathed for a week or three; nature’s way of saying, “Don’t get too close.”

I asked a friend of mine who is a veteran of hundreds of festivals what he packed in his “festival kit.” His standard gear consists of soap, toothpaste (and brush), pain relievers, allergy meds, Neosporin, Band-Aids, tampons…Wait, what? Why is a dude bringing tampons to a festival? Because someone may need them, and when someone needs one, the person who has them is hero of the day.

Also making the list, wet naps, toilet paper (when the wet naps run out) and anti-diarrheal medicine. “Eww! He mentioned anti-diarrheal medicine! Gross!” Not nearly so gross as not having any when you need it because you know what they have at festivals?

Porta-johns.

My best advice on using the facilities at a festival is this: Try to avoid pooping for two or three days if you can. Otherwise, pick the units that are furthest away as they tend to see the least traffic. Bring your own supplies as far as toilet tissue goes. Also, stay hydrated.

Advice on Food A good festival usually has good vendors, but the food generally isn’t very healthy and can be ridiculously pricey. To the extent that you are able, bring your own. I’m not saying that

you should avoid the festival grub. It’s part of the experience and healthy or not, it’s usually pretty tasty, but don’t live off it. Your gut and your wallet will thank you. And do eat something.

It’s easy in the excitement to overlook minor things like nourishment, but your body needs fuel to have fun.

Water, which you should be drinking steadily the whole time, is generally available, but again, bringing your own will save you an awful lot of cash and allow you to stay hydrated.

go looking for candy from strangers. No one with good sense will acknowledge you, which means anyone who does is either too careless to be trusted or an undercover cop. Don’t try something you’ve never tried before.

It’s a bad environment for unpredictable effects. Mainly, don’t overindulge and don’t be a jackass. Personally, I have nothing but contempt for people whose pursuit of a “good time” involves spoiling everyone else’s. And stay hydrated.

The Intoxicants Well, there are two kinds: legal and illegal. Of the legal variety, beer is going to be your number-one bet at most festivals and hey, who doesn’t like a cold one with their buds, amirite? The downside is that the temptation to overindulge is mighty, and you know what’s worse than a walking hangover?

A walking hangover in 90 degree heat in the middle of a crowd of smelly people who won’t quit banging on those damn drums for ten minutes. Trust me, it’s a bad time. Here’s the deal: It’s hot, you’re exerting yourself, you probably aren’t staying well hydrated and the beer is going to dehydrate you that much faster while affecting your ability to make smart decisions (like hydrating).

Moderation, kids. Set a limit ahead of time when you’re thinking clearly and stick to it.

When it comes to the illegal stuff, no one ever does it and I certainly don’t know anything about it. Having said that, here are some tips: Don’t take candy from strangers, EVER! Don’t

The Reason You Went: Music Well, that’s what you’re here for, isn’t it? Know the schedule of bands ahead of time, especially if there are multiple stages or performance areas.

You may have to make some painful decisions about who you want to see if two different groups are playing at the same time. If the band on stage isn’t someone you want to see, maybe that’s the moment to go get a corndog or learn to knit. Few things are worse than waiting all day for your guys to come on and then having the people on the next blanket over raising hell and whooping it up because they don’t care about the act on stage.

If you feel the urge to get up and dance, do it, by all means! But try to be aware of whose face you may be shaking your ass in and whether or not there might be a better place to do it. Maybe go down front, or off to the side, but try not to block the view of your non-dancing brethren who paid just as much as you did to get in to the event. Same goes for hula-hooping and all the other neat things you might

feel the urge to do in response to the music; just take a second to make sure you aren’t doing it at someone else’s expense. It’s all about respect. And hydration.

And Speaking of Respect A little respect goes such a long way at these things and a lack of it can spoil things for so many people.

Respect the property. Don’t litter. I cannot fathom how people still do that in this day and age. You carried the garbage out there, now carry it back. Respect the crew running the show. I’ve been behind the scenes of a few festivals and the amount of work involved is colossal.

If you’re asked not to do something, don’t do it. If you’re asked to do something, do it. Lend a hand if you can.

Yes, you paid for your ticket, but that entitles you to get in, it does not entitle you to be a jerk. Respect the bands.

Festival gigs are fun, but they’re also usually a much bigger hassle than showing up to the club. Respect your fellow festival attendees. Everyone is there for a good time, and believe me, a good time can be had by all with just a little thoughtfulness and common courtesy.

So that’s it, kids. It isn’t rocket surgery. Plan ahead, be prepared, don’t overdo anything whether it be dancing, drinking or “what have you,” don’t get too stupid, show a little courtesy and respect. Follow that relatively simple plan and a music festival can be one of the most memorable and enjoyable experiences you’ll ever have!

IF you stay hydrated.

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So maybe studying improv at Chicago’s Second City or LA’s The Groundlings is not within your current financial prospects.

No worries, future Belushis and Radners. Beginning Wednesday, June 3, First Draft Productions is teaching a five-week improv workshop for beginning and intermediate improvisers.

Instructors are those two wild and crazy guys, Kevin Bartolomucci and Steven W. Disbrow (yes, The Pulse’s own Science Guy).

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wits and honed your repartee, you’ll get a chance to showcase your chops at a special performance on July 8.

The workshop is limited to 10 participants and you must be older than 13. Cost is $50.

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Lots of New Ways of Looking at Books Library’s Fourth Floor book exhibit turns tradition on its dust jacket

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ometimes a book is just a book. But that can’t be said of the artist books on display through June 28 at the Public Library downtown. In an explosion of compelling creativity, “Renaissance” presents about 40 pieces from Chattanooga and North Carolina artists—all related conceptually to books—running the gamut from fairly traditional prints to whimsical or serious threedimensional constructions.

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‘Renaissance’ presents about 40 pieces from Chattanooga and North Carolina artists, running the gamut from fairly traditional prints to whimsical or serious threedimensional constructions.”

On the whimsical side? A collection of Trivial Pursuit cards is strung together with waxed linen thread by Chattanooga artist Hollie Berry; this rectangular blue Slinky drapes over a shelf like a cascade of dominoes trapped in time. The title of the board game “haunted my every stitch, reminding me over and over again of my existing struggles with the book arts,” writes the artist, who is co-director of Book Arts @ The Open Press, one of the exhibit’s sponsors.

“Why make books in a digital age?” continues Berry. “Why make anything by hand?

Yet I kept on binding card to trivial card in a seemingly endless pursuit of something more—beauty? Strangeness? Newness? Rebirth? We all keep on creating in the face of triviality.”

“Renaissance” encapsulates the exhibit’s spirit in a word: rebirth of old forms, ideas, and materials. Scraps of cardboard, plant parts, even relics of deceased saints are meticulously interwoven or superimposed.

Stories and words flow together with snippets from the natural world, made larger or smaller than life to invite the viewer to a new viewpoint.

Synesthesia abounds. An oversized book cover—a giant red velvet tongue—binds up pages of surreal Escher-like drawings showing food swirling into a bowl of turtle soup along with a handwritten passage from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Laurie Corral created this “Eat Me Drink Me” piece out of a deep childhood love for books, combined with an adult’s artistic playfulness.

“I began with a two-dimensional image (of the tongue), carving it with enlarged taste buds—sort of weird—and then going to the structure and then the text of the book,”

says Corral.

Asheville Bookworks is Corral’s studio in North Carolina, where she and collaborators do printmaking, letterpress printing, and artist books—very similar in mission to The Open Press and its affiliate Book Arts in Chattanooga. A third partner, Triangle Book Arts Collaborative in Raleigh, NC, rounds out the studios contributing to this first-of-its-kind exhibit on the Fourth Floor of the library.

“What’s next?” asks Corral. “I’d love to see the conversation continue as artists in the three cities make connections, working in similar processes, admiring what others have done, and connecting personally with these other artists.”

Life experience provides the raw material for several intriguing creations.

Chattanooga artist Anna Carll represents seven stages of human experience, from infant to elder, using discarded sandpaper fragments in a book titled “WEAVE (Live).” Lisa Gilbert of North Carolina constructs a volume “Day Silent Retreat” about a meditation experience, infusing “chapters” with objects relating to the letters “re” again and again: retreat, renounce, refocus, release, redefine, reconnect, renew, and ultimately, relic.

Ellen Simak, formerly chief curator at the Hunter Museum, explores the concept of her recent retirement as a personal “renaissance” in a book of woven and stitched materials. “Some books and other creations here look very much like sculptures,” Simak says. “An artist may use unconventional materials in a three-

dimensional way, but within it is embedded something of a book, whether narrative or text.”

As a co-director of Book Arts @ The Open Press here, Simak “would like to see more collaboration of writers and artists, getting poets to put their poetry into book form” through the workshops and facilities of The Open Press. “I’d love to see artists getting into book arts–we’re offering classes off and on, beginning to explore in communities how we can interest artists and get those collaborations going.”

Heather Hietala of Asheville creates a metaphor in movement and form: a tiny book fragment bound tightly at the bottom of a fan handle—representing the repression of the medieval church—while on top, the fanned-out slivers of pages express the creative flowering of the historical Renaissance itself.

Irony is ubiquitous. A few feet away from these quirky handicrafts, the 3D printer in the Library’s Fourth Floor maker space whirs away.

Mary Barnett, public relations manager of the Public Library’s Fourth Floor operations, comments on the juxtaposition of technology beside these excruciatingly humanistic handmade objects. “We are a community space for making and creating, and we encourage all mediums, not just high-tech next-generation tools like 3D printers and laser cutters. When you get artists and technologists sharing the same space, you never know what sort of new collisions might occur.”

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ARTS CALENDAR

Presents

Matt Chatterley Sculpture Exhibit

thursday5.28 Workshop: Adding Edible Mushrooms to the Landscape 11 a.m.

Ooltewah Nursery & Landscape Co. 5829 Main St. (423) 238-9775 ooltewahnursery.com Homeschool Science Club 1 p.m.

Creative Discovery Museum 321 Chestnut St. (423) 756-2738 cdmfum.org Ooltewah Farmers Market 3 p.m.

Ooltewah Nursery & Landscape Co. 5829 Main St. (423) 238-9775 ooltewahnursery.com Nature Nuts Creek Stomp 5 p.m.

Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St. (423) 267-3474 tnaqua.org Art + Issues: Tagging for Truth, Race, Sex and Meaning 6 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of American Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 756-2787 huntermuseum.org Opening Reception: Matt Chatterley Sculpture Exhibit 6:30 p.m.

River Gallery 400 E. Second St. (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com The Backlot: A Place for Filmmakers 7 p.m.

Heritage House Arts and Civic Center

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1428 Jenkins Rd. (423) 855-9474 facebook.com/ TheBacklotAPlaceForFilm Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Biloxi Shuckers 7:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 lookouts.com April Macie 7:30 p.m.

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

friday5.29 Dreamnight 5:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Zoo 301 N. Holtzclaw Ave. (423) 697-1319 chattzoo.org

Pulse Pick: April macie With her irreverent brand of overtly sexual humor, April attempts to break down troubling double standards and lend her voice to women everywhere.

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

A Celebration of Impressionist Art 6 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of American Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 756-2787 huntermuseum.org “Making Trouble” 7 p.m.

Jewish Cultural Center 5461 North Terrace (423) 493-0270 jewishchattanooga.com “Mystery of Flight 138” 7 p.m.

Vaudeville Café 200 Market St. (423) 266-6202 funnydinner.com USSNAC Cup: Chattanooga F.C. 7 p.m.

Finley Stadium 1826 Carter St. (423) 266-4041 chattanoogafc.com Chattanooga Lookouts

vs. Biloxi Shuckers 7:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 lookouts.com April Macie 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com “Mash Up and Mingle” Dance Event 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 634-5347 barkinglegs.org Comedian Sean Patten 8 p.m.

JJ's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 266-1400 jjsbohemia.com

saturday5.30 Miss Rose of Hope Pageant 8 a.m.

Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel 1400 Market St. (423) 903-9394 choochoo.com CSM Family Fun Run 9 a.m.

Tennessee River Park 4301 Amnicola Hwy. (423) 842-0177 chattsportsministries.org Chattanooga River Market 10 a.m.

Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St. (423) 267-3474 chattanoogarivermarket.com Figure Drawing with Phoebe Cripps 10 a.m.

ARTS CALENDAR

Screen Printing Saturday Townsend Atelier 201 W. Main St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Artillery Demonstrations at Lookout Mountain 10:30 a.m.

Point Park Point Park Rd. (423) 821-7786 nps.gov Zines and Screens Noon Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org The Chattery Presents: Introduction to Indigo Dyeing 1 p.m.

Riverview Park 1857 Riverview Rd. (423) 413-8978 thechattery.org Screen Printing Saturday 2 p.m.

Downtown Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org CSO UnCorked!

6:30 p.m.

Reainassance Park 200 River St. (423) 267-8583 chattanoogasymphony.org USSNAC Cup: Chattanooga F.C. 7 p.m.

Finley Stadium 1826 Carter St. (423) 266-4041 chattanoogafc.com Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Biloxi Shuckers 7:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 lookouts.com Hops & Opera VII: “Ale & Altos”

7:30 p.m.

Summitt Pianos 6209 Lee Hwy. (423) 499-0600 summittpianos.com April Macie 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Night Run Chattanooga 5K 9:45 p.m.

Manker Patten Tennis Club 100 Douglas St. (423) 493-0270 nightrunchattanooga5k.org

sunday5.31 Figure Drawing with Phoebe Cripps 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 201 W. Main St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Chattanooga Market 11 a.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd.

(423) 266-4041 chattanoogamarket.com Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Biloxi Shuckers 2:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 lookouts.com Rickey Smiley & Friends 7 p.m.

Tivoli Theater 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5156 chattanoogaonstage.com April Macie 7:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch

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

monday6.1 Community Artists’ League: 40th Annual Juried Competition and Art Exhibit 5 p.m.

E.G. Fisher Library 1289 Ingleside Ave. (423) 333-5388 fisherlibrary.org One Step at a Time 6 p.m.

Shepherd Community Center 2124 Shepherd Rd. (423) 266-3539 Vintage Swing Dance 7 p.m.

Clear Spring Yoga 17 North Market St. (423) 266-3539 clearspringyoga.com

tuesday6.2 Alzheimer’s Foundation Fundraiser 5 p.m.

The Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. (423) 602-5980 flyingsquirrelbar.com Digital Photography Class 5:30 p.m.

Association for Visual Artists 30 Frazier Ave. (423) 265-4282 avarts.org The Art of the Singer/Songwriter 6 p.m.

Mountain Arts Community Center 809 Kentucky Ave. (423) 886-1959 butchross.com

OPEN EVERY DAY !

“The English Patient” 7 p.m.

Majestic 12 311 Broad St. carmike.com

wednesday6.3 Middle East Dance 10:30 a.m.

Jewish Cultural Center 5461 N. Terrace (423) 493-0270 jewishchattanooga.com Chattanooga Market 3 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd.

(423) 266-4041 chattanoogamarket.com Main Street Farmers Market 4 p.m.

325 E. Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.com Digital Photography Class 5:30 p.m.

Association for Visual Artists 30 Frazier Ave. (423) 265-4282 avarts.org Wednesday Night Chess Club 6 p.m.

Downtown Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org Improv Workshop 6:30 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 634-5347 barkinglegs.org

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

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IT’S BACK! musts and mustn’ts: • Entries must be NO LONGER than 500 words, must never have been published before, and must include a title.

• Only one entry per writer.

• Submit as Microsoft Word document, and include your name and contact info on the document.

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• Finalists will be published in the July 23rd issue of The Pulse.

NorthWest Georgia Summer Jam kicks off May 30

short story contest submissions due by: Friday, July 10, 2015 send to: CREATIVE@CHATTANOOGAPULSE.COM only

Hops & Opera VII "Ale & Altos" This concert of operatic arias and duets showcases the lower female voice.

And a keg of free beer.

Since 1982

This latest edition of Hops & Opera features all the riches, depth, drama, and beauty of the mezzo-soprano and contralto voice types.

Nine local singers share the stage to bring the full gamut of roles.

Limited Seating - RSVP Call Buddy Shirk (423) 499-0600

Saturday May 30 @ 7:30pm Summitt Pianos 6209 Lee Hwy Chattanooga 423.499.0600

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Confederate Railroad

The sudden increase in demand for metallic temporary tattoos points to one thing: Music festival season is here.

While simultaneously enjoying live music and soaking up some vitamin D sounds appealing, festival season can be a drag if you aren’t into paying $300 to strategically plan your porta potty breaks around peak vomiting hours. That is—until NorthWest Georgia Music Jam entered the scene.

This classic, down-home jam will feature nationally recognized Southern rockers Confederate Railroad. They will be joined by Southlander (with former Alabama drummer Mark Herndon) and radio legend Bobby Bones.

The festival commences Saturday, May 30 at Sunrise Farms in Trenton, GA. It involves no communal camp-

ing, no overlapping lineups and no fighting thousands of people just to see the stage.

You may not see the Teletubbies costumes and horse heads that bigger festivals provide, but you will still have something to look at, including a classic car show.

Twentieth-century Camaros make a lot more sense than grown men walking around in dinosaur suits, anyway.

If melodies of country music past and an overabundance of Cadillacs aren’t tempting enough, the price may be. Wristbands are $20 in advance and $30 at the gate, and while VIP status at most festivals will run you close to $2,000, NorthWest Georgia Music Jam will let you “meet, greet and eat” with the artists for $70.

— Ashley Coker

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brotherly rock

double trouble

live & local

Matt & Marty Bohannon

Arpetrio, Daimal Planet

It's a night of Bohannons as Matt & Marty take the stage. along with the always entertaining Al Scorch.

8 p.m.

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

Two of the most interesting—and entertaining—bands in town team up for a killer Friday night show.

9:30 p.m.

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

Jocelyn Arndt, Ryan Oyer, Jess Goggans Band You want great voices, great songs, and great stories? You got 'em!

8 p.m.

Ziggy’s Underground 607 Cherokee Blvd.

(423) 265-8711

If It’s Unclassifiable, They’ll Love It Chattanooga's Failed Recordings label releases music no one else will

T

oday in the digital age, the barrier for self-releasing music has never been lower, but that doesn’t solve every problem. “If you really want it to work, you really have got to hustle,” said Jerry Reed, the main force behind the local cassette label Failed Recordings (failedrecordings.bandcamp.com).

Originally founded by Reed’s friend and fellow musician Tony Levi, Failed Recordings has built a reputation for releasing daring, intense and uncompromising music, including noise, metal, hardcore and unclassifiable offerings.

Reed is a solo noise artist under the moniker Rurnt and has drummed for several hard-rock groups such as Rough Rope and Hoth, and he is also the organizer of the annual Leaky Sockets festival, featuring “way-out sounds” from regional and national musicians, the next of which will be held at Sluggo’s North on June 19 and 20.

Recently, Failed Recordings has unleashed a flurry of new releases and repressings for acts including the choppedand-screwed beat-oriented alias of local artist Joseph J. Micolo III called GTRUK, the Knoxville black metal band Argentiernie paik num Astrum, the blistering Kingsport power electronics project Mannequin Hollowcaust and the two-piece sludge band Red Necklace featuring Bill Robinson (of the Bohannons) and Patrick Wilkey.

The most mysterious and intriguing of the new releases is by a solo act called Tombwrecker, about which Reed has little information.

“Maybe the guy lives in Europe, maybe Japan?” said Reed. “It’s totally destructive breakcore fashion, lots of beats; you’re definitely not dancing to them, unless you happen to be dancing with knives in your brain.”

Although Reed is a vinyl collector, one of the reasons Failed Recordings concentrates on cassettes is a financial one.

“I don’t do vinyl because vinyl is expensive, and you have to do pretty intense minimums, like 300 copies,” said Reed.

“Try not to ever go into debt for anything you have to pay. Just doing tapes is pretty cheap. You could have a decent markup and still charge $5.”

“Some people are like, ‘Why do you do

Music

“

The main reason I got back into tapes is because they are a cheap, portable way to still experience finding new music through a physical medium.”

tapes?’” said Reed. “The main reason I got back into tapes is because they are a cheap, portable way to still experience finding new music through a physical medium, as opposed to just going on Bandcamp, although there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Keeping financial pressures to a minimum also allows for creative independence, as Reed explained.

“As soon as you try to cash in on something that brings you joy, you’re probably going to have to break a few rules you’ve set for yourself, or have an outside interest be a part of it that you can’t really argue with since they’re invested in it financially,” said Reed. “I don’t think it’s worth it. I don’t want to take away the joy I get out of just making music to feel like I have to change the music I make to feed my kids.”

With Failed Recordings being more like a fun obsession than a business, Reed only deals with music for which he has a passion, and one reissue—the 2010 album Ceiling by the Australian band Loomer—started with a simple question.

“I love that album so much that I reached out and asked, ‘Can I put this out?’” said Reed. “Honestly, that’s the hidden gem, because it’s pretty different from anything else put out by us.”

“I still want to put out the first thing I ever wanted to put out: a Tracers tape,”

said Reed. “The Tracers just blew my mind the first time I saw them, at a Pizza Hut in Ringgold.”

Reed explained that the Pizza Hut was rented out for a show in the late ’90s and was memorable for him and many others in the underground northwest Georgia community. It featured punk and rap acts, the first live noise set Reed ever witnessed and The Tracers, which he called “the most intense, damaged, Chickamauga crazy insanity rock-and-roll ever.”

For budding do-it-yourself musicians, Reed has some advice for letting their creations germinate.

“Figure out how you want to record,” said Reed. “Honestly, I’d wait a little while and not just throw everything that you have out there. Maybe give your project time to grow before you start documenting it.”

“When it comes to creating, you should only have to answer to yourself,” said Reed. “Once you start answering to someone coming from the outside who doesn’t have the same motivation as you—I’m not saying your bandmates, but like promoters, label guys—they’ll never have as much invested in your music and your art as you do. So do you really need to take what they say for their interest when you’re doing something that should be for you?”

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LIVE MUSIC MAY/JUNE

28 FRI ARPETRIO 9p 29 THAT 90’S SHOW SAT 9p 30 UPTOWN BIG BAND TUE 9p 2 JOEY WINSLETT BAND FRI 10p 5 SAT MASSEUSE 10p 6 THE CHIPPENDALES MON 9p 8 JOHNNY BALIK AND THE HOUSE BAND

THU 9p

with DANIMAL PLANET

with NICK LUTSKO

BIG BAND, BIG SOUND, BIG FUN

with MARLOW DRIVE

with CHARLIE THE HEAD GIRLS NIGHT OUT!

6.11 HANK AND CUPCAKES, SMOOTH DIALECTS 6.12 SOUL MECHANIC: ALLMAN BROS AFTER PARTY

COMING SOON

SHABTI, AGORI TRIBE SAT 10p 13 THROWING DOWN THE JAM

ALANNA ROYALE

with CALEB HAWLEY & MATHIEN

THU 9p

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MUSIC CALENDAR

CHATTANOOGA

Starship with Mickey Thomas

thursday5.28 Dana Rogers 5:30 p.m.

Firebirds Wood Fired Grill 2107 Gunbarrel Rd. chattanooga. firebirdsrestaurants.com Songwriter Shootout 7 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Feel It Thursday Open Mic 7 p.m.

Mocha Restaurant & Music Lounge 511 Broad St. mochajazz.net Jesse James & Tim Neal 7 p.m.

Mexi Wings VII 5773 Brainerd Rd. (423) 296-1073 Al Scorch, Matt & Marty Bohannon 8 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Open Mic with Hap Henninger 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Johnny Balik & The House Band 9:30 p.m.

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

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The Old Time Travelers, Taylor Kress & Bonnie Simmons 8:30 a.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd.

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

Chattanooga Choo Choo 1400 Market St. choochoo.com Binji Varsossa 6 p.m.

Cancun Mexican Restaurant & Lounge 1809 Broad St. (423) 266-1461 Spirit Family Reunion, Big Kitty 7 p.m.

Nightfall Concert Series Miller Plaza 850 Market St. nightfallchattanooga.com Starship with Mickey Thomas, Cumberland Blue 7 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium 399 McCallie Ave. chattanoogaonstage.com The Scarlet Love Conspiracy 8 p.m.

Pulse Pick: Lou Wamp From haunting to barnburning, Lou’s incredible dobro and slide talents (plus a band of players that can go there with him) showcases original material based in bluegrass, swing and swampy blues.

Lou Wamp Sunday, 12:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St. (423) 648-2496 chattanoogamarket.com

Tremont Tavern 1203 Hixson Pike tremonttavern.com Tom Cordell Trumpet Improv Ensemble 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Irenka* 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Husky Burnette 9 p.m.

T-Bones 1419 Chestnut St. tbonessportscafe.com Mipso 9 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Something Else 9 p.m.

Long Haul Saloon

2536 Cummings Hwy. (423) 822-9775 Arpetrio, Daimal Planet 9:30 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Ryan Oyer, Megan Howard 9 p.m.

World of Beer 412 Market St. worldofbeer.com

saturday5.30 The Old Time Travelers, Tarryn Smith 8:30 a.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com The Do Rights 1 p.m.

Chattanooga River Market 1 Broad St. chattanoogarivermarket.com Confederate Railroad, Southlander, Bobby Bare 2 p.m.

Sunrise Farm 2727 Hwy 301 S., Trenton, Ga. northwestgeorgiamusicjam.org Jason Thomas and the Mean-Eyed Cats 5 p.m.

Chattanooga Choo Choo 1400 Market St. choochoo.com Binji Varsossa 6 p.m.

Cancun Mexican Restaurant & Lounge 1809 Broad St. (423) 266-1461 CSO: Uncorked!

6:30 p.m.

Renaissance Park River Street chattanoogasymphony.org

Jocelyn Arndt, Jess Goggans Band, Ryan Oyer 7 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Arson 8 p.m.

Sky Zoo 5709 Lee Hwy. Preston Summerville 8 p.m.

World of Beer 412 Market St. worldofbeer.com Canopy, Kerchief, Chilhowee Royal 8 p.m.

Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfallooncha.com Tom Cordell Trumpet Improv Ensemble 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Gallows Bound 9 p.m.

The Brew & Cue 5017 Rossville Blvd.

(423) 867-9402 Life and Times 9 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com The Communicators Present: That 90’s Show, Nick Lutsko 9:30 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Georgia Pine 10 p.m.

T-Bones 1419 Chestnut St. tbonessportscafe.com Lonesome Heros 10 p.m.

Sluggo’s 501 Cherokee Blvd.

(423) 752-5224 Mark Andrew 10 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Sol Driven Train 10 p.m.

Clyde’s On Main 122 W. Main St. clydesonmain.com

sunday5.31 The Old Time Travelers, Highbeams 8:30 a.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Mountain View Bluegrass 11 a.m.

Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Lou Wamp 12:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com The Possum Hunters Bluegrass Band 2 p.m.

Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Josh Gilbert 5 p.m.

ReCreate Café @ The Salvation Army 800 McCallie Ave. csarmy.org Josh Hopper, The Molly Maguires 5 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy.

thehonestpint.com Open Mic with Jeff Daniels 6 p.m.

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

monday6.1 Monday Nite Big Band 7 p.m.

The Coconut Room 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Open Mic 7 p.m.

Magoo’s Restaurant 3658 Ringgold Rd. facebook.com/MagoosTN Very Open Mic 8 p.m.

The Well 1800 Rossville Blvd. #8 wellonthesouthside.com

tuesday6.2 Dana Rogers 5 p.m.

Firebirds Wood Fired Grill 2107 Gunbarrel Rd. chattanooga. firebirdsrestaurants.com Bill McCallie & In Cahoots 6:30 p.m.

Southern Belle Riverboat 201 Riverfront Pkwy. chattanoogariverboat.com Kane Brown EP Release Show 7 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Rick’s Blues Jam 7 p.m.

Folk School of Chattanooga 1200 Mountain Creek Rd. chattanoogafolk.com

MUSIC CALENDAR

Mipso

Open Mic with Mike McDade 8 p.m.

Tremont Tavern 1203 Hixson Pike tremonttavern.com Soddy Daisy, Swoon, Wall of Ears 8 p.m.

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

wednesday5.3 Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonrestaurant.com The Other Guys 6 p.m.

SpringHill Suites 495 Riverfront Pkwy.

(423) 834-9300 Dan Sheffield 7:30 p.m.

Sugar’s Downtown 507 Broad St. sugarschattanooga.com Mel Washington 8 p.m.

The Bitter Alibi 825 Houston St. thebitteralibi Wednesday Night Jazz 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Blues Night with Yattie Westfield 8 p.m.

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

901 Carter St. Inside City Cafe (423) 634-9191

Thursday, May 28: 9pm Open Mic with Hap Henninger Friday, May 29: 9pm Irenka* Saturday, May 30: 10pm Mark Andrew Tuesday, June 2: 7pm Server/Hotel Appreciation Night $5 Pitchers $2 Wells $1.50 Domestics ●

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Wednesday, June 3: 8pm Blues Night feat. Yattie Westfield Happy Hour: Mon-Fri: 4-7pm $1 10oz drafts, $3 32oz drafts, $2 Wells, $1.50 Domestics, Free Appetizers

citycafemenu.com/the-office

Thursday • May 28

Al Scorch Matt and Marty Bohannon

Friday • May 29

Comedian Sean Patton

Saturday • May 30 Life and Times

Tuesday • June 2 Soddy Daisy · Swoon Wall of Ears

Wednesday • June 10 Cusses · Behold the Brave

Friday • June 12

Desert Noises · Penicilin Baby

Friday • June 19 Turbo Fruits

Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event list-JJ’s Bohemia JJ’s Bohemia • 231Blvd.

E MLK Blvd.

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Record Reviews

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Wilderun channels heavy metal giants, Side Affect solos out strong

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HIPSTER VIBES 3902 Hixson Pike · Chattanooga 423-805-7974 www.hipstervibes.com

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Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth (wilderun.bandcamp.com)

I

’m not quite sure how or when it happened, but since time immemorial, heavy metal has favored the fantasy genre. Something just feels right about battleaxes and black magic emphasized by pounding drums and blazing guitars.

And when you place the soaring vocals of frontmen like Ronnie James Dio or Bruce Dickinson on top of all the distorted electricity, you can easily imagine bloodied knights and fabled colossi warring against each other. This combination of heavy metal and fantasy is something I’m all too familiar with, and on April 7, another album laden with wonder and intrigue was passed down to the masses.

Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, folk metal band Wilderun have released their sophomore album Sleep at the Edge of the Earth.

Having listened to their previous album Olden Tales & Deathly Trails (2012) and

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Side Affect Thrill (sideaffect.bandcamp.com)

seen their live performances, it’s obvious that Wilderun has transformed from a good folk metal band into something more complex. Production efforts are at an all-time high with the new album. The orchestrations are massive and picturesque, easily evoking images of roving plains, subjugated wastelands, or miststrewn waterfalls.

And contrasting these huge orchestrations is the precision picking of the electric guitars, accented by the drummer’s relentless chops. In one moment you might find yourself walking a green land that approaches the beauty of Bilbo’s Shire, and in the next, you could be thrust into an intensity rivaling Mordor’s fire.

Then there are the vocals— either brutal, low-pitched screams that fit perfectly amid the chaotic guitarwork and blast beats, or smooth, harmonious singing that doesn’t reach the high pitches of traditional power metal

vocalists, but remains in the lower register, giving the songs that ale-in-a-tavern feel.

Interspersed between all the heavy metal madness and huge orchestrations are breaks of acoustic guitar paired with vocals that sound like a bard’s song straight out of a medieval Finnish fairytale. Overall, I’m glad to see Wilderun keeping the fun of the genre, while still expanding their influences across multiple genres.

Sleep at the Edge of the Earth is at once familiar and refreshing, an album to be toasted to. Raise your glass with me, then, and salute the traditions of heavy metal and fantasy with Wilderun at JJ’s Bohemia on June 22.

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ailing from Chattanooga, one-man ethereal pop band Side Affect released his five-track album Thrill on March 10. One-man bands are an interesting course of action for a musician, and, if you do it right, you can achieve a synchronous sound like no other multimembered band could. Of course, there’s always that line between synchronous uniformity and flat-out redundancy that’s difficult to see, but Side Affect stares it down and walks it deftly.

Though Thrill is, essentially, a brief twenty minute tour of what Side Affect can do, the listener is able to quickly pick up on

common sounds and feelings.

First and foremost of these sounds is the washout of the mix. That is, the guitars swell rather than attack, and the bass sits in the back rather than commanding the front. Over the waves of guitar, you’ll hear a basssnare-focused drum beat that drives the tempo, and on top of it all is the voice. Chris Johnson manages to match his ethereal soundscape guitar with his singing. The vocals are wet with reverb, but not totally drenched, and occasional vocal harmonies creep their way into choruses, just loud and distinct enough to differentiate them from other instrumentation.

Thrill marks a strong freshman studio effort by Side Affect. It’s exciting to imagine where his music will be a year from today.

Often, these one-man bands evolve into a fully armed outfit, equipped with more guitarists and a drummer.

With Johnson’s creativity at the forefront, more music personalities could really emphasize the music’s individuality while sacrificing none of its original integrity.

Putting the headphones down and walking away from Thrill and Side Affect, it’s difficult to feel stressed or, really, any aggressive emotion. Thrill is a venture into the calm and serene, a too-brief wade in placid waters that leaves you with dreams of blue.

Rickey Smiley: A Very Funny Man Radio morning host brings his comedy show to the Memorial If you’ve turned on the radio in the morning to Power 94 (WJTTFM) lately, you’ve likely been quickly hooked on the lively and energetic morning show hosted by comedian and television personality Rickey Smiley.

If you haven’t checked out his show, you really GARY are missing out on some great comedy, entertainment and a healthy dose of commentary on social issues affecting communities across the country.

But there is far more to Smiley than just being one of the most popular national radio hosts.

He’s been on television, in the movies, has released a number of popular comedy albums, and always tries to find time for his true love: performing live before an audience.

This Sunday evening, Smiley brings his comedy stage show (along with some very entertaining friends) to the Memorial Auditorium. One of the few “clean” comics working today, Smiley has built a deeply loyal fan base who appreciate his quick-witted delivery and captivating energy.

Smiley got his start in Birmingham, AL 25 years ago, and now calls Atlanta home, though he spends an amazing amount of time traveling.

Taking a quick break from his unbelievably busy schedPOOLE ule, Smiley was able to spend a few minutes with The Pulse to talk about his comedy and his current tour.

The Pulse: What makes this current show different from past performances?

Rickey Smiley: I always try to bring some new jokes as well as performers. I will be mixing in a few of the fan favorites, because people get mad if I don’t do Bernice Jenkins or Lil Daryl.

TP: How much of yourself do you put into the characters you portray on your show and on stage?

RS: A lot of my material is based around people I know and a little of my life.

TP: What are the differ-

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“One of the few ‘clean’ comics working today, Smiley has built a deeply loyal fan base who appreciate his quick-witted delivery and captivating energy.” ences between performing on the radio and performing live in front of an audience?

RS: Radio is great because you have time to get people engaged. But I love performing live because it is instant gratification and I love the live audience reaction.

TP: What do you enjoy most about being a performer?

RS: Just being able to do something I love.

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than doing a job that doesn’t feel like work.

TP: What is the most important thing you feel people need to be doing today?

RS: People need to start learning to appreciate one another. And always before you react, think first and put the shoe on the other foot before you respond!

TP: Any advice to the people coming to your show this Sunday?

RS: Please tell every-

one to please come out and get their tickets early. I will definitely be coming and my comedy friends are so, so funny.

Please be on time because the show starts early at 7 p.m.

TP: Any final thoughts to share?

RS: I love the people in Chattanooga. They always show me so much love. And I want to thank everyone for listening everyday to “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show”!

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Case in point: This coming Tuesday you can treat yourself to a big bucket of popcorn and lose yourself in the majestic story of “The English Patient.”

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Sugarcoated Hope For The Future Disney's new “Tomorrowland” movie just too much fantasy for most

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ery few of us have confidence in an Arcadian future. Nowhere is this more evident than in the stories we tell. Dystopian novels and films have become leading visions—look no further than last weekend’s most popular film “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The film paints a picture of a brutal and dying world. There is little hope.

The same can be said of popular television. “The Walking Dead” is unapologetically bleak and fans tune in mostly to see which character will meet their demise, be it at the hands of lumbering corpses or by the sword of a deranged survivor. Happiness and wonder are in short supply when we examine the march of time.

“Tomorrowland” is a film that wishes to combat this trend. Here is an imagination of the future as something incredible and clean, full of wondrous technology and brilliant people. It is everything promised by mid-20th century futurism, a john devore vision promoted by Walt Disney and his California and Florida theme parks. Of course, looking back now, many of these ideas are laughable. But the fanciful optimism of a world of leisure and innovation can be easily understood given the economic conditions of a Baby Boomer childhood. This optimism was ripped away by Vietnam and Nixon and it has eroded ever since.

If “Tomorrowland” could succeed as the inspirational film it hopes to be, it would be a monumental film. But, unfortunately, the overall message of positive thinking is short-sighted at best and hopelessly naïve at worst.

It begins at the 1964 World’s Fair. A young Frank Walker hopes to win $50 for his non-working jet pack. The judges are less than impressed, but Frank attracts the attention of a mysterious young girl who gives him a pin that is the key to another dimension. This dimension has been populated by the best and brightest of our world, who have for generations been creating a utopia of technological achievement. Soon, they will unveil their creation and invite the world to take part

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As the film unfolds, the repetition of the power of positive thinking begins to be especially grating, as it largely ignores reality.”

in their experiment.

Fast forward 51 years. The invitation never came to pass. The world has descended into a joyless mess of doom and gloom, with 24-hour news networks broadcasting constant visions of wars and rumors of wars. A young Florida State student named Casey attends classes where every professor offers a variation on the same theme: The world is disintegrating and can only get worse. Casey is eternally optimistic. She feeds the wolf of positivity and continually asks, “How can we fix it?” And this is the major theme of the film, which is hammered home at every turn. The world can be saved if we change how we think about it.

This is not a bad message at all, in and of itself. However, as the film unfolds, the repetition of the power of positive thinking begins to be especially grating, as it largely ignores reality.

The world as we know it faces enormous problems, not because the majority of people think negatively, but because by and large we are in competition with ourselves for a finite amount of resources. A large portion of these resources are controlled by a very small number of people, who refuse to equitably share the wealth. Adding to this are significant differences in cultures and values, tribal thinking, and survival

instincts, which create a complex system of social problems that have to be addressed before most are even capable of thinking positively. This explanation is, of course, overly simplified, but still more complex than the ideas on display in “Tomorrowland.”

I assume Damon Lindeloff had months to write his script; however, deep thought has never been his trademark. A new world created by the best and brightest will still have struggles that mirror our own. Class structures invariably appear even in the most controlled environments and are not so easily dismissed. Someone has to sweep the streets, clean the toilets, and collect the garbage. But the politics of “Tomorrowland” are virtually ignored.

What’s left is a thin story with clichéd characters that lacks any emotional resonance.

This film looks wonderful—the scenes at the beginning where we get our first look at the world of the future are stunning and awe-inspiring. It is CGI spectacle at its best. The performances are adequate for what they are and George Clooney continues to outhandsome everyone in his immediate vicinity. Perhaps if I had entered the theater with a more positive attitude, I would have enjoyed myself.

But I doubt it.

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Why I'm The Worst Cop Ever Officer Alex explains why he is the way he is, a peacekeeper

“ You cannot ‘reason’ with a mob, and you cannot arrest your way out of a mob, so whatever the underlying issue, we cannot tolerate a mob.”

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.

So I was brought up in the generation that saw the end of the Cold War (“Google” it, it kept my ol’man busy for 40 years or so and has some interesting highlights) and pre-Columbine High School (“Google” it, it has some interesting highlights as well and that era sure as hell kept me busy ALEX too…though with slightly longer periods of “Not Having To Worry About Dying In My Sleep Every Holy-Hell Bug Infested Night”).

Not a lost generation by any means, but definitely one of some fairly interesting transitional periods.

I studied history like anyone else, but I knew the lessons of the Battle of Thermopylae before it was a really cool graphics-intensive movie.

I knew that John F. Kennedy was a blazing hero and martyr, but I also knew about what real soldiers on the scene thought of his actions at the Bay of Pigs and how they thought he should die a slow death at the bottom of a prison septic tank.

Hey, it worked out all right for planet Earth, but those that heard the screams of dying men denied the air support they waged their lives against had a differing opinion.

I knew that not working hard had a direct impact on how crappy your quality of life could be, versus expecting a TEACH great quality of life for an entry level job you “expected” to be granted so long as you could also only work “when you felt like it, as hard as you felt like” as they are attempting to legislate now.

Again, I was born during a strange time.

But I also know that I should not have the job that I do based on the assumptions of some outside of it, as well as those within.

Warriors. That’s what I was told I was, or should aspire to be. That my career was based on those with shields who protected citizens at all costs, without equipment or legal aid as hard as that may be to believe. That I was a Soldier.

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And I believed it. Why not?

Uniform, deadly weapons, fiery chariots and long-gun spears…and a mandate from the state itself? Why would I believe otherwise? And so, I was a Warrior.

But as time unfolded, I noticed an empty space inside where something was missing, something wasn’t being fulfilled. I defended people, yes. I was hurt in the process of defending people, yes. I saw and did things that would haunt me forever, yes…and I indeed felt like a warrior when I did some of those things that involved the cracking of bones and the tearing of sinew.

But the other ninety percent of the time I wasn’t doing, witnessing or partaking in something that was considered “horrible” by the average citizen? Something was off.

And it wasn’t until I was nearly two-thirds into my career that I figured out just what it was.

I wasn’t a Warrior. I was a Peacekeeper.

Are they one in the same?

Potentially, but a warrior is not an expert in such. A peacekeeper is different from a soldier, a peacekeeper has a different set of tools in his or her utility belt.

A peacekeeper doesn’t see each battle as the final one, as the last stop for resolution

(agreed or otherwise); a peacekeeper means just that: One who strives for balance, not necessarily victory.

One who seeks an amicable parting, not defeat.

One who seeks resolution, not subjugation.

Disagree with the above all you want (as a cop or a citizen), but I have to say you don’t need or want a warrior when your neighbor has a tree laying down on your side of the yard, or you have been the one singled out for speeding in a long line of fast-moving traffic.

It’s not a war...it’s just an ordinance, guys (and gals).

Have a plan to deal with such, but everyone is not trying to kill you. Which is such a difficult myth to debunk. You are there to serve, but with caution. With expertise. And dare I say…with professionalism.

In police work, once your customer is the enemy, so are you (the police). That is the evolution I have come around to, and writing such puts me in defiance of the current methods making me the Worst Cop Ever by those warrior standards, but I have to tell you… it’s worth the risk to consider such if you’re on the job at the moment.

Yes, it’s risky. Yes, you’re in danger. But…it’s not a war.

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Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keith Moon played drums for the rock band the Who. He was once voted the second-greatest drummer in history. But his erratic behavior, often provoked by drugs or alcohol, sometimes interfered with his abilities. In 1973, the Who was doing a live concert near San Francisco when the horse tranquilizer that Moon had taken earlier caused him to pass out. The band appealed to the audience for help.

“Can anybody play the drums?” asked guitarist Pete Townshend. “I mean somebody good?”

A 19-year-old amateur drummer named Scot Halpin volunteered.

He played well enough to finish the show. I suspect that sometime soon, Aries, you may also get an unexpected opportunity to play the role of a substitute. Be ready!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The weta is a very large insect whose habitat is New Zealand. It looks like a robotic grasshopper, with giant black eyes on a long red face, enlarged hind legs bearing spikes, and floppy, oversized antennae. The native Maori people call it “the god of the ugly things.”

Please note that this is a term of respect. The weta’s title is not “the most monstrous of the ugly things,” or “the worst” or “the scariest” or “the most worthless of the ugly things.” Rather, the Maori say it’s the god—the highest, the best, the most glorious. I suspect that in the coming days, Taurus, you will have a close encounter with your own version of a “god of ugly things.” Doesn’t it deserve your love and welcome?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have successfully made the transition from brooding caterpillar to social butterfly. Soon you will be in your full, fluttery glory, never lingering too long with one thought, one friend, or one identity. Some heavy-duty, level-headed stalwarts might wish you would be more earthy and anchored, but I don’t share their concern. At least for now, having a long attention span is overrated. You have entered the fidgety, inquisitive part of your cycle, when flitting and flirting and flickering make perfect sense.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Only one fear is worthy of you.

Only one fear is real enough and important enough to awaken and activate the numb part of your intelligence. So for now, I suggest that you retire all lesser fears. Stuff them in a garbage bag and hide them in a closet. Then put on your brave champion face, gather the allies and resources you need, and go forth into glorious battle.

Wrestle with your one fear. Reason with it. If necessary, use guile and trickery to gain an advantage.

Call on divine inspiration and be a wickedly good truth-teller. And this is crucial: Use your fear to

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming nights, try to see your shadow as it’s cast on the ground by the moon. Not by the sun, mind you. Look for the shadow that’s made by the light of the moon. It might sound farfetched, but I suspect this experience will have a potent impact on your subconscious mind. It may jostle loose secrets that you have been hiding from yourself. I bet it will give you access to emotions and intuitions you have been repressing. It could also help you realize that some of the deep, dark stuff you wrestle with is not bad and scary, but rather fertile and fascinating.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Greek statesman Demosthenes was regarded as a supremely skilled orator. His speeches were so powerful that he was compared to a “blazing thunderbolt.” And yet as a youngster he spoke awkwardly. His voice was weak and his enunciation weird. To transform himself, he took drastic measures. He put pebbles in his mouth to force himself to formulate his words with great care. He recited poems as he ran up and down hills. At the beach, he learned to outshout the pounding surf. Take inspiration from him, Virgo. Now would be an excellent time for you to plan and launch strenuous efforts that will enable you to eventually accomplish one of your long-range goals.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Longdistance flirtations may soon be just around the corner or across the street. Remote possibilities are taking short cuts as they head your way. I swear the far horizon and the lucky stars seem closer than usual. Is it all a mirage? Some of it may be, but at least a part of it is very real. If you want to be ready to seize the surprising opportunities that show up in your vicinity, I suggest you make yourself as innocent and expansive as possible.

Drop any jaded attitudes you may be harboring. Let the future know that you are prepared to receive a flood of beauty, truth, and help.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect that marriages of convenience will begin to wither away unless they evolve into bonds of affection. Connections that have been fed primarily on fun and games must acquire more ballast.

In fact, I recommend that you re-evaluate all your contracts and agreements. How are they working for you? Do they still serve the purpose you want them to? Is it time to acknowledge that they have transformed and need to be reconfigured? As you take inventory, be both tough-minded and compassionate.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Petrarch was an influential 14th-century Italian poet whose main work was Song Book. It’s a collection of 366 poems, most of which are dedicated to Laura, the woman he loved. For 40 years he churned out testaments of longing and appreciation for her, despite the fact that he and she never spent time together. She was married to another man, and was wrapped up in raising her eleven children. Should we judge Petrarch harshly for choosing a muse who was so unavailable? I don’t.

Muse-choosing is a mysterious and sacred process that transcends logic. I’m bringing the subject to your attention because you’re entering a new phase in your relationship with muses. It’s either time to choose a new one (or two?) or else adjust your bonds with your current muses.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The soul moves in circles,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Modern psychologist James Hillmans agreed, and added this thought: “Hence our lives are not moving straight ahead; instead, hovering, wavering, returning, renewing, repeating.” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because you’re now in an extraintense phase of winding and rambling. This is a good thing! You are spiraling back to get another look at interesting teachings you didn’t master the first time around. You are building on past efforts that weren’t strong enough. Your words of power are crooked, gyrate, curvy, labyrinthine, and corkscrew.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s no coincidence that your libido and your mojo are booming at the same time. Your libido is in the midst of a deep, hearty awakening, which is generating a surplus of potent, super-fine mojo. And your surplus of potent, super-fine mojo is in turn inciting your libido’s even deeper, heartier awakening. There may be times in the coming week when you feel like you are living with a wild animal.

As long as you keep the creature well-fed and well-stroked, it should provide you with lots of vigorous, even boisterous fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early,” quipped 19th-century English author Charles Lamb. I invite you to adopt that breezy, lazy attitude in the coming weeks. It’s high time for you to slip into a very comfortable, laidback mood . . . to give yourself a lot of slack, explore the mysteries of dreamy indolence, and quiet down the chirpy voices in your head. Even if you can’t literally call in sick to your job and spend a few days wandering free, do everything you can to claim as much low-pressure, unhurried spaciousness as possible.

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ACROSS 1 Baymax’s friend in a Disney movie 5 Art Spiegelman graphic novel 9 Dress like 13 More put-together 14 Convention center event 15 Banish from office 16 Members of the peerage who stay that way forever?

18 “Close My Eyes Forever” singer ___ Ford 19 Test that’s all talk 20 “Jaws” sighting 21 Irregular way to get paid 23 Come calling 25 Singer Josh 26 Aid in finding the Titanic 27 Go door to door, perhaps 28 2, 3, or 4, usually, in miniature golf 29 Robot comedian’s scanning command?

34 Wear down 36 Clumsy bumpkin 37 “Raw” pigment 38 Places that are lush to the max?

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DOWN 1 Salon sweepings 2 Pro 3 Catch, as a fish 4 Round figure 5 Badge justification 6 Impulse transmitter 7 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” station 8 “My apologies!”

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30 Pride sounds 31 Airer of the Triple Crown and the Summer Olympics 32 “Scream” actress Campbell 33 ‘01 and ‘10, e.g.

35 “Heavens to Betsy!”

39 As desired, in recipes 40 1960s U.N. ambassador Stevenson 44 Prank performed on someone in a headlock 45 Word in a Lennon title 46 Common font variety 47 Probably will, after “is” 48 Mangle 49 Companies’ money execs 51 Handle 52 Pro vote 55 Auditing gp.

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