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CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

A SAFE SPACE

FAMILY JUSTICE

A Place of Safety, Comfort—and Help

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Contents

CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

EDITORIAL

Managing Editor Gary Poole Contributing Editor Janis Hashe

June 25, 2015 Volume 12, Issue 26

Music Editor Marc T. Michael Film Editor John DeVore Contributors David Traver Adolphus • Christopher Armstrong Rob Brezsny • Matt Jones • Mike McJunkin Zach Nicholson • Ernie Paik Rick Pimental-Habib • Alex Teach • Terry Stulce Editorial Interns Ashley Coker • Shaun Webster

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Cartoonists Max Cannon • Rob Rogers Jen Sorenson • Tom Tomorrow

4 BEGINNINGS: More Middle East intervention is simply insanity.

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A Place of Safety, Comfort—and Help

The same question has been asked for decades—maybe centuries. Why do those in abusive situations stay? Why, for example, did Rosa Chatman, found beaten to death in her apartment in College Hill Courts, continue to see Bruce Stevenson, her alleged attacker, even though his history included aggravated rape, kidnapping and attempted murder?

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Two Days of Film and Provocation

After doing a karate kick near David Letterman’s face, on an infamous Late Night with David Letterman appearance in 1987, some thought that actor Crispin Hellion Glover was insane.

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Gosh, kids, it seems like I’ve been on a winning streak lately, getting disc after disc of brain-tickling music. It’s always easier to write about music you really enjoy and this week’s experiment, Wordsmith by Sweet G.A. Brown, is turning out to be a hoot and a holler.

14 ARTS CALENDAR 17 SPIRITS WITHIN: Our man on the bar stool agrees with Drake and Usher.

20 MUSIC CALENDAR 22 REVIEWS: Emily Kate Boyd grooves and calms, Gold Plated Gold cruises.

23 DIVERSIONS 25 SUSHI & BISCUITS: The return to favor of monosodium glutamate.

26 SCREEN: The Coin Op will provide another screening space in September.

28 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 29 JONESIN’ CROSSWORD 30 on the beat: Officer Alex revisits the site of his earliest days in blue.

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Op-Ed: The Chicken Hawks Are Back More American intervention in the Middle East is simply insanity

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General William Odom described the Iraq invasion as the ‘greatest strategic disaster in United States History’.”

Recently President Obama has faced fierce lobbying from right-wing politicians and chicken hawk think tanks to put “boots on the ground” in Syria and Iraq. This lobbying for war is based on the familiar delusion that American military intervention is a panacea for all problems in the Middle East.

Even though military adventures have blown up in our face over and over, war is still our default position.

The USA is like a man dying of thirst in the desert who sees a mirage again and again and continues to think it is water.

Let’s take a short tour of our misadventures, beginning in Iran in 1951.

Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh was elected prime minister with 90 percent of the vote. He had become even more popular when he nationalized the oil companies. In 1953, the CIA engineered two coups to overthrow him. The last coup put the shah back in power, and he maintained dictatorial control of the country for 24 years until a popular uprising overthrew him and installed the Ayatollah terry stulce Khomeini. “The chickens came home to roost” on November 4, 1979, when radicals overran our embassy and held 60 Americans hostage for 444 days. It was a humiliating international embarrassment for America.

Next stop: Lebanon. In1982, Ronald Reagan sent a military peacekeeping force to Lebanon.

On October 23, 1983, Hezbollah, with support from Iran and Syria, attacked the Marine barracks in Beirut. A truck bomb with 2,000 pounds. of explosives killed 281 Marines. Reagan wisely retreated in February of 1984.

Next stop: Afghanistan. Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted in an interview that in the summer of 1979, the CIA began training the mujahideen. This was a key precipitating factor for the Russian invasion on December 24, 1979. On that date, Brzezinski wrote to President Carter saying, “We now have the opportunity of giving the USSR its Vietnam War.” Between 1985 and 1992, the CIA trained 12,500 mujahideen in bomb-making, sabotage, and urban guerilla

Politics

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warfare. The CIA funneled 500 million dollars into this enterprise.

It helped fund groups lead by Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, which later became Al Qaeda. We helped create the Frankenstein’s monster that attacked us on 9-11.

Next stop: Iraq. General William Odom described the Iraq invasion as the “greatest strategic disaster in United States History.” The cost in money and lives is staggering. The outcome is that half of Iraq is a failed state where terrorism is ascendant, and the south is a Shiite dictatorship dependent on Iran. Recently, columnist Cal Thomas, who was a mindless supporter of the invasion, expressed nostalgia for the Iraq ruled by Saddam Hussein.

Our interventions in the Middle East have been abysmal failures. They have resulted in more chaos, senseless violence, and destruction, while increasing the number of terrorists and anti-American sentiment. We must acknowledge our incompetence and give up our delusion that American military power is the right hammer for every Middle Eastern nail.

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thing we can all agree on: dogs.

Well, except the cat people, but they’re wrong.

McKamey Animal Center and the Humane Educational Society have teamed up to create an event that’s got something for everyone (yes, even the cat people).

The shelters will be holding a mega adopt-athon at McKamey Animal Center from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on

IN THIS ISSUE

Janis Hashe Feature columnist, arts writer and Contributing Editor Janis Hashe has been both a staff editor and a freelance writer/ editor for more than 25 years.

Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AmericanStyle magazine,

Saturday, June 27. The festival will feature live music, food vendors and carnival games for the kids. Furry friends can enjoy the canine water park, and there will be a microchip and vaccination clinic from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The night will conclude with an ice cream social from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

There will be discounted adoption fees for dogs and cats all day at both McKamey Animal Center and the Humane Educational Society, so if you’re looking to add a new set of paws to your family, now is the time!

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Ernie Paik Sunset magazine, and the international magazine Monocle, among many other outlets. She has a master’s degree in theatre arts, is the founder of Shakespeare Chattanooga and a member of the Chattanooga Zen Group.

Her novel “The Ex-Club Tong Pang” was published in December of 2013 (we think it’s a great novel, but we may be just a wee bit biased).

Pick up a copy today, and tell all your friends about it.

Album reviewer and music writer Ernie Paik has written about music and film for various publications for over 20 years and has contributed regularly to The Pulse since 2005. He has contributed to the books “The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide”

and “Lunacy: The Best of the Cornell Lunatic”, and he is the current president of the Chattanooga-based nonprofit arts education organization The Shaking Ray Levi Society (one of our favorites). As a recording artist, he has created original music for film, radio, television and theater, and his video artwork has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the 2010 Big Ears Festival. chattanoogapulse.com • June 25-July 1 • The Pulse • 5

Cars: How To Make Them The greatest car of the 20th century is one you might not know even exists

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The 300 SEL 6.3 represents what can happen when the single consideration is ‘build the best thing you possibly can.’”

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Without the knowledge There are many truly or approval of any execugreat cars: The Big Three tives, he ordered a single of Packard, Peerless and long-wheelbase 300 SEL Pierce-Arrow; Rollsbody shell from their new Royce; Aston-Martin— six-cylinder S-class seall those and others made dan and into it stuffed a cars where engineering fuel-injected 6.3-liter V-8 and quality, not price, from a limousine. were the priority.

Waxenberger tried to But there’s one particusell the idea to managelar model which had all ment but didn’t necessarthat, plus performance, ily have plans for his 300 and one more thing. No SEL 6.3 beyond proving

a point. Then, late one night, the head of passenger car research Rudolf Uhlenhaut was working late when he heard something strange out the window.

All he thought he saw, however, was a motley 300 SEL making a very wrong noise. He immediately insisted on driving the 6.3 and even though Uhlenhaut still didn’t think it would sell, Waxenberger convinced him.

It wasn’t cheap—about $10,000 factory delivery when it debuted in 1968, and $14,000 at an American dealer in 1969. For an exotic sports car or cross-shopped against a Bentley, that was a great deal. But it was twice of the cost of an Imperial LeBaron, Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado, Lincoln Continental or even Jaguar XJ12 sedan.

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The interior was walnut, leather and wool all over and everything was made with the greatest precision possible, in the finest materials available.

At the same time, it could cruise effortlessly at 120 mph and accelerate faster than Porsche 911S or Ferrari 330 GTC, with the absolute confidence, stability quiet and comfort that befit a 4,000-pound luxury sedan.

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tor Trend said, “What surprises you immediately when you drive the 6.3-liter is the large amount of comfort—around you, under you and everywhere.

Second and here you must beware—you do not realize while driving that you are actually going fast, very fast indeed!” Road and Track said, “If we had to choose one car, regardless of cost, to serve all our automotive desires, it would have to be the 300SEL 6.3.” In Car & Driver, Brock Yates said “...the automobile is the most stimulating, desirable 4-door sedan to appear since the Model J Duesenberg...capable of going like the hammers of hell.”

The love for the 6.3 has never stopped, either, in part because it’s a rare Sixties car that feels at home today.

It’s been said Mercedes-Benz built this as a gift for its engineers: “Here,” they were saying. “Here is everything we are capable of doing. We know you spend your time building cars that can go a million

miles as taxis, and we appreciate it. Thank you.” The 300 SEL 6.3 represents what can happen when the single consideration is “build the best thing you possibly can.”

We love it not just because of what it can do but because of what it represents, the absolutely pure essence of what is possible when there are literally no limits. Edmond Rostand wrote in Cyrano de Bergerac, “Who knows her smile has known a perfect thing.” It’s a reason never to lose hope.

“So what makes it so great?” asked Road and Track. “Simply that whatever it is asked to do, it does better than almost any other car.” They didn’t sell many and probably lost money on it anyway, but almost 50 years later, it is as wonderful as ever, unchanged in the flow of time.

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. chattanoogapulse.com • June 25-July 1 • The Pulse • 7

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A Place of Safety, Comfort— and Help Opens in Eastgate Family Justice Center offers multiple services under one roof Story by Janis Hashe

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The Family Justice Center will officially open in its temporary location in the Eastgate area on July 1, offering multiple services for victims of any type of violence.”

he same question has been asked for decades—maybe centuries. Why do those in abusive situations stay? Why, for example, did Rosa Chatman, found beaten to death in her apartment in College Hill Courts, continue to see Bruce Stevenson, her alleged attacker, even though his history included aggravated rape, kidnapping and attempted murder? In a hypothetical situation, why does a well-off, educated woman stay with her abuser, even though she may have resources Rosa Chatman did not?

The answers are as diverse as the victims. But starting July 1, Chattanooga will have another major resource for domestic violence victims, women, children—and men. The Family Justice Center will officially open in its temporary location in the Eastgate area on that date, offering multiple services for victims of any type of violence. (The center will remain in its 7,000-square-foot temporary space for an estimated year, as the 40,000-square-foot permanent space is being built out in the former U.S. Post Office annex next to Brainerd Mission Cemetery.)

“The Family Justice Center concept originated in San Diego in the ’90s,” says the FJC’s Executive Director Valerie Radu, Ph.D., LCSW. “It was clear there was a need for centrally located services, with multiple providers in one place.” President George Bush supported the concept going nationwide, and Gov. Bill Haslam has overseen the creation of what will eventually be 17 Tennessee Family Justice Centers. “The start-up funds come from the state,” explains Radu.

“We will be the fourth to open. The local communities decide how to continue to fund the centers, and in our case, the city has stepped up. We will be part of the

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Chattanooga Police Department.”

Chattanooga was one of the first cities to participate in the initial request for funding, due mostly to the support of Mayor Andy Berke, and with the full support of Police Chief Fred Fletcher, she says.

“The statistics [on domestic violence] in Tennessee are awful. Fully 51 percent of crimes against persons are domestic violence-related,” Radu says.

Services the Family Justice Center will provide • Legal assistance. “We will provide court advocates, who can go to court with the victims to provide help and support. We can provide advice on orders of protection, and we work with Legal Aid of Tennessee,” says Radu. “Many victims, trying to navigate the legal system, are re-victimized over and over. We want to help prevent that.”

• Safety planning. “One in three women will experience domestic violence,” says Radu. “We’ll go through a series of questions with the women who come to us, and create a plan for them, to make sure they are as safe as they can be, whether they choose to

stay in their current situation or not.”

• Mental health counseling. The FJC is partnering with the Helen Ross McNabb Center, as well as the Southern Adventist School of Social Work, to provide free mental health counseling for victims of violence. Other therapists, says Radu, are also stepping up to help run groups for women, families and children. “We will be seeing people with significant [mental and emotional] trauma,” Radu says, “and we will be prepared to do assessments for those who need medication.” Victims who need physical treatment will be counseled and referred to local hospitals.

• Elder abuse intervention.

“We are a pilot site for an elder abuse shelter network,” says Radu.

“This is a very vulnerable population and there is often nowhere to place them.” Radu has been working with a successful New York organization, the Hebrew Home for

the Aged, which has a service such as the FJC will provide. “We have a team that will do home-based assessments. The Fire Department has been outstanding in helping us identify who needs help.”

• Partnership with the Child Advocacy Center. “Anything of a criminal nature will be reported to child protective services, but we will work with the CAC to provide support for the families,” says Radu.

• Connection to community resources. Victims often need other types of services, such as a safe place for their pets. Many will stay in an abusive situation rather than abandon a beloved pet to an abuser. “We are working closely with McKamey Animal Center on this and they have been wonderful,” says Radu.

• Complementary services.

Already, says Radu, volunteers have come forward to lead free groups and classes in things such as trauma-informed yoga, dance,

healthy eating on a budget, foods to combat depression, poetry circles, and other ideas.

Security and safety major priorities at FJC Radu emphasizes that the FJC is a walk-in facility and referrals are not needed. At the same time, great care has been taken to ensure security, with separate, locked entrances, security cameras and on-site security personnel.

The temporary center offers a variety of rooms where people can just rest and have quiet time.

It also has a shower and a small kitchen. While it will not be a shelter, it’s nonetheless a place where those who come there can feel safe.

Though not nearly as prevalent as violence against women and children, violence against men does occur. “Six percent of sexual assaults are against men,” Radu

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Many victims, trying to navigate the legal system, are re-victimized over and over. We want to help prevent that.”

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Domestic Violence

By The Numbers

says, noting that the number is likely very underreported as many men do not want to be perceived as “victims.” But the FJC has already received calls from men, and will be prepared to offer them the same services.

Also, Radu adds, the FJC is reaching out to the LGBT community, letting its members know that they will be welcomed at the center. “Chattanooga CARES will be one of our off-site partners,” she says.

In yet more community outreach, a “faith-centered initiative” will roll out to local churches.

“We are really trying to reach as many people and and as many age groups as we can,” Radu says, noting that social media involvement is important to reach younger people, who will not necessarily call a hotline. The center will advocate the use of the app ASPIRE, “which offers

ways to get help if you are in a dangerous situation,” says Radu.

Measuring results The Family Justice Center is creating a Coordinated Community Response team, which will collect data from the center and compare it with data from other cities and states. The FJC will also hold public meetings, beginning in July, both to educate people about the issues and the center’s mission, and also to solicit input. “We will get data from as many sources as possible, and the CCR will work with us to make recommendations,” Radu says.

She anticipates that there will be as much as a 30 percent increase in reporting of violent crimes against persons once the center opens, because victims will have another place of safety to go to. “We want to intervene earlier, get to people when

it is the second call. We’ll let people know that we can discuss your situation without reporting a crime, and that we can coordinate referrals for you,” she says.

The FJC is also accepting volunteers, who will of course be fully screened.

“If we had gotten a referral [to Rosa Chatman] on the second call, we could have helped her with a safety plan,” Radu says.

“We will reach out to you.

We will never close a case unless you ask us to, and we will always be a place that is safe.”

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• Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten.

• Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family.

• Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.

• Studies suggest that up to 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually.

• Nearly 1 in 5 teenage girls who have been in a relationship said a boyfriend threatened violence or self-harm if presented with a breakup.

• Everyday in the US, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends.

• Ninety-two percent of women surveyed listed reducing domestic violence and sexual assault as their top concern.

• Domestic violence victims lose nearly 8 million days of paid work per year in the US alone—the equivalent of 32,000 full-time jobs.

• Based on reports from 10 countries, between 55 percent and 95 percent of women who had been physically abused by their partners had never contacted non-governmental organizations, shelters, or the police for help.

• The costs of intimate partner violence in the US alone exceed $5.8 billion per year: $4.1 billion are for direct medical and health care services, while productivity losses account for nearly $1.8 billion.

• Men who as children witnessed their parents’ domestic violence were twice as likely to abuse their own wives than sons of nonviolent parents.

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ARTS SCENE

Two Days of Film and Provocation The unfiltered Crispin Glover comes to Barking Legs Thursday and Friday

Through Some Novelty Glass, Lightly

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fter doing a karate kick near David Letterman’s face, on an infamous Late Night with David Letterman appearance in 1987, some thought that actor Crispin Hellion Glover was insane.

Houston Museum’s new exhibit delights in whimsy Art can be a little intimidating.

We’ve all stood in a gallery, nodded our heads at a portrait of an obscure Victorian figurehead or a canvas of splattered paint and pretended to understand what it means to avoid looking like an uneducated fool. For all the confusion, however, thoughtprovoking art can be well worth the red face. And the Houston Museum of Decorative Arts is out to prove it.

On July 1, the museum, located in the Bluff View Arts District, unveils its new and untraditional exhibit entitled “Novelties, Whimsies and Oddities, Oh My!” The exhibit is a fun collection of handmade glassware that features a variety of rarely seen pieces from the Houston’s collection.

All of the art speaks to a distinct period of American glass-making

culture and history. Novelty pieces are a byproduct of the competition between companies, with extravagant items being forged to attract customers. The whimsical sculptures are the creative result of leftover glass, and oddities, as the name suggests, are peculiar pieces that were simply too weird and wonderful not to put on display.

Admission is $9. The exhibit will run throughout July.

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Arts ERNIE PAIK

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I am very careful to make it quite clear that What Is It? is not a film about Down Syndrome but my psychological reaction to the corporate restraints that have happened in the last 20 to 30 years in filmmaking.”

No, he’s not insane—Michael J. Fox described him in the incident as “excitable” instead, years later to Letterman—but a portrayer of vivid, eccentric and often unforgettable characters. Those who dig even deeper (his website crispinglover.com is a good start) will find a man of intelligence and wit who often seeks to not-so-gently push audiences out of their comfort zones.

Most know him from his film roles: the underdog George McFly in Back to the Future, the shockingly loyal Layne in River’s Edge or the silent killer the Thin Man in Charlie’s Angels, but his most personal artistic role is behind the camera as director of 2005’s What Is It? and 2007’s It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine which offer their own figurative karate kicks to the face.

Demonstrating Glover’s dedication to his films, he only screens them in his presence. They are unavailable on DVD or Netflix. In a sort of modern vaudeville presentation, these events also including dramatic hour-long slideshows and meet-andgreet book signings. Additionally, he allots at least one hour for a post-film question/ answer session, to address the intensely provocative and disturbing themes and images just witnessed. In advance of his two-day stint, with each day offering completely different material, at Barking Legs Theater, Glover answered some questions for The Pulse.

The Pulse: What is the most-often misunderstood thing about your own films?

Crispin Glover: The idea that there could be something negative about the intentions of making the films.

TP: What is the most interesting positive reaction you have received? Negative reaction?

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The films were designed to evoke conversation and thought, so any kind of discussion emanating from the shows and films is positive.

TP: You’ve previously mentioned that using a “Hero’s Journey” story structure, like Joseph Campbell’s “Monomyth,” can bring out subconscious intentions.

What have you discovered about your own intentions in the filmmaking process?

CG: It is almost like the concept of analyzing one’s self to say you would discover your own intentions. The selfanalysis always continues for an artist of any kind on some level. It is still very hard to say what I have discovered.

Sometimes at my shows I have had people notice thematic elements or things in the films that I had not noticed before.

I am very glad when that happens, because it means the subconscious element is genuine.

TP: Some critics have deemed your work, which sometimes employs people with developmental disabilities, to be exploitative. What is exploitation to you, and how would you address these critics?

CG: The word “exploitation” can have a negative connotation, meaning that it is something which enriches the exploiter to the detriment of the exploited.

[The monetary] definition of exploitation does not fit because I have not truly monetarily profited from the films. The other definition of exploitation is about the detriment of the people. There was nothing detrimental to the actors with

developmental disabilities that acted in the film. They all had guardians, and they were all met through organizations that had to do with using art as therapy for people with disabilities. My experience personally making the film was therapeutic, and I am quite certain it was for all involved.

I am very careful to make it quite clear that What Is It? is not a film about Down Syndrome but my psychological reaction to the corporate restraints that have happened in the last 20 to 30 years in filmmaking. Specifically anything that can possibly make an audience uncomfortable is necessarily excised or the film will not be corporately funded or distributed.

This is damaging to the culture because it is the very moment when an audience member sits back in their chair, looks up at the screen and thinks to their self, “Is this right what I am watching? Is this wrong what I am watching?

Should I be here? Should the filmmaker have made this? What is it?”—and that is the title of the film.

It is a bad thing when questions are not being asked, because these kinds of questions are when people are having a truly educational experience. So What Is It? is a direct reaction to the contents in this culture’s media. I would like people to think for themselves.

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The Royal Ballet: “The Winter’s Tale”

thursday6.25 Thomas & Friends: “Explore the Rails” Exhibit 10 a.m.

Creative Discovery Museum 321 Chestnut St. (423) 756-2738 cdmfun.org Homeschool Science Club 1 p.m.

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

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

Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St. (800) 262-0695 tnaqua.org History Happy Hour: Recycling 6 p.m.

Museum Center at Five Points 200 Inman St. (423) 339-5745 museumcenter.org “Mystery of the Nightmare Office Party” 7 p.m.

Vaudeville Café 200 Market St. (423) 266-6202 funnydinner.com “The Films and More

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Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” 7 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 theatrecenter.com The Royal Ballet: “The Winter’s Tale” 7 p.m.

Majestic 12 311 Broad St. (423) 826-2375 carmike.com Shakespeare Chattanooga reads “As You Like It” 7:30 p.m.

The Highland Center

Pulse Pick: Matt Mitchell Matt Mitchell is a pure Southern mash boogie comedian from Alabama with barefeet, mushmouthed drawling and a mile-wide social streak.

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

104 N. Tuxedo Dr. (423) 622-2862 facebook.com/ shakespearechattanooga

friday6.26 Tips & Tricks: Photoshop for the Fine Artist 9 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 201 W. Main St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com “Annie, Jr.” 5:30 p.m.

Tivoli Theater 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5156 chattanoogaonstage.com Canoe North Chickamauga Creek 5:30 p.m.

Greenway Farm 5051 Gann Store Rd. (423) 643-6888 outdoorchattanooga.com “The Films and More of Crispin Glover” 7 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org “Mystery of Flight 138” 7 p.m.

Vaudeville Café 200 Market St. (423) 266-6202 funnydinner.com “Big Fish” 7:30 p.m.

The Colonnade Center 264 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold (706) 935-9000 colonnadecenter.org CFF Presents: “The Wolfpack” 7:30 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 702-8081 thecamphouse.com Matt Mitchell 7:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” 8 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 theatrecenter.com

saturday6.27 MACfest 9 a.m.

McKamey Animal Center 4500 N. Access Rd. (423) 305-6500 mckameyanimalcenter.org Tips & Tricks: Photoshop for the Fine Artist 9 a.m.

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

Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St. (423) 267-3474 chattanoogarivermarket.com Brainerd Farmers Market 10 a.m.

Grace Episcopal Church 20 Belvoir Ave. saygrace.net Protect Garden Pollinators!

10 a.m.

The Barn Nursery 1801 E. 24th St. Place (423) 267-3474 tnaqua.org Forward Focus 10 a.m.

Center For Mindful Living 1212 McCallie Ave. (423) 486-1279 centerformindfulliving.org Southeast Conservation Corps Trail Day 10 a.m.

Tennessee River Gorge Trust Pot Point Trails & Cabin

17805 River Canyon Rd. (423) 664-2344 cumberlandtrail.org Zines and Screens 11 a.m.

Downtown Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon Noon Riverfront Pkwy.

(423) 667-9431 team-magic.com “Big Fish” 1, 7:30 p.m.

The Colonnade Center 264 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold (706) 935-9000 colonnadecenter.org Screen Printing Saturday 2 p.m.

Downtown Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org “Annie, Jr.” 5:30 p.m.

Tivoli Theater 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5156 chattanoogaonstage.com Georgia Winery’s Luau Wine Festival 6:30 p.m.

Georgia Winery 6469 Battlefield Pkwy.

(706) 937-9463 georgiawines.com Jazzanooga Presents: The Sounds of Motown 7 p.m.

The Camp House

149 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 702-8081 thecamphouse.com Chattanooga F.C. vs.

Knoxville Force 7:30 p.m.

Finley Stadium 1826 Carter St. (423) 266-4041 chattanoogafc.com Matt Mitchell 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Color The Curve After Dark 8 p.m.

Coolidge Park 200 River St. (423) 243-7689 colorthecurve.com “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” 8 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 theatrecenter.com

sunday6.28 Chattanooga Market: Blueberry Festival 11 a.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd.

(423) 266-4041 chattanoogamarket.com Moccasin Bend Brewery Tour & Tasting Noon Moccasin Bend

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Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon

Brewing Company 4015 Tennessee Ave. (423) 821-6395 bendbrewingbeer.com “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” 2:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 theatrecenter.com Matt Mitchell 7:30 p.m.

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Ooltewah Nursery & Landscape Co. 5829 Main St. (423) 238-9775 ooltewahnursery.com Advanced Watercolor Lessons 1 p.m.

Townsend Atelier 201 W. Main St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Science Demonstration: Great Balls of Fire 1 p.m.

Creative Discovery Museum 321 Chestnut St. (423) 756-2738 cdmfun.org One Step at a Time 6 p.m.

RubyFallsZip.com 423.821.2544

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Rock City Raptors Birds of Prey Show

Shepherd Community Center 2124 Shepherd Rd. (423) 999-7958 Vintage Swing Dance 7 p.m.

Clear Spring Yoga 17 N. Market St. (931) 982-1678 clearspringyoga.com Comedy with Max Fire 8 p.m.

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Gallery at Blackwell 71 Eastgate Loop (423) 344-5643 chattanoogaphoto.org Live Drawing Class 10 a.m.

North River Civic Center 1009 Executive Dr. (423) 870-8924 chattanooga.gov Rock City Raptors Birds of Prey Show 1 p.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd. (706) 820-2531 seerockcity.com Heavy Metal Bingo 7 p.m.

JJ's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com “Raging Bull” 7 p.m.

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Majestic 12 311 Broad St. (423) 826-2375 carmike.com

wednesday7.1 River Gallery July Exhibit Opening 10 a.m.

River Gallery 400 E. Second St. (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com Middle East Dance 10:30 a.m.

Jewish Cultural Center 5461 N. Terrace (423) 493-0270 jewishchattanooga.com Summer Dance Camps at Barre One 1:30 p.m.

Sportsbarn 301 Market St. (423) 313-380 barreone.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 Chattanooga Lookouts vs. Birmingham Barons 7:30 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley lookouts.com

ongoing “The Way We Worked” Smithsonian Exhibit green|spaces 63 E. Main St. (423) 648-0963 greenspaceschattanooga.org “Inside/Out” (ends June 30) River Gallery 400 E. Second St. (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com “Renaissance” ( ends June 28) Chattanooga Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 "Still In The Mist" In-Town Gallery 26A Frazier Ave. (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com “Novelties, Whimsies and Oddities, Oh My” Houston Museum of Decorative Arts 201 High St. (423) 267-7176 thehoustonmuseum.org “Eudora Welty and the Segregated South” The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org “Japonisme and America” The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org “Monet and American

Impressionism” (starts June 27) The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Local Homeless & Nontraditional Artists Exhibition H*ART Gallery 110 E. Main St. (423) 521-4707 hartgallery.com “Indivisible: AfricanNative American Lives in the Americas” The Museum Center at Five Points 200 Inman St. E (423) 339-5745 museumcenter.org “Mixed Media, Contemporary & Abstract” Reflections Gallery 6922 Lee Hwy. (423) 892-3072 reflectionsgalleryTN.com Spring Season at Blackwell 71 Eastgate Loop (423) 344-5643 chattanoogaphoto.org “Spirit Moves: Works by Allyson Mellberg Taylor and Jeremy Taylor” Association for Visual Arts 30 Frazier Ave. (423) 265-4282 www.avarts.org Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com

Roca Rocks the Tequila World Our man on the barstool agrees with Drake and Usher about which tequila to choose

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Wordsmith Lives Up to Its Promise Sweet G.A. Brown combines influences of Buck Owens and…Prince?

Rock’s Golden Days Are Back The Velcro Pygmies to bring back the ’80s at R& B For some, the controlled, toneddown feel of the typical 21st-century concert is a nice change of pace from the (sometimes) organized chaos that preceded it. Others, however, find themselves lamenting the lost glory days of rock ‘n’ roll. While it may pose more of a challenge now, fans of rock’s golden age can still find songs of sex, drugs and rebellion complemented by loud electric guitars and big hair.

The Velcro Pygmies do rock like rock was meant to be done: with loud instruments, over-the-top special effects and spandex pants. The cover band’s mission is to “lead the crowd on a roller coaster trip through the eighties.” They do just that with songs like Bon Jovi’s “Dead Or Alive” and Prince’s “Pur-

ple Rain.” But as hardcore as The Velcro Pygmies are, it isn’t all rock all the time for these guys. The audience will also get a taste of classic country with Toby Keith’s patriotic hit “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” and some legendary Southern rock with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.”

If you’re jonesing for a hit of that special rock era, jump on the Crazy Train and head down to Rhythm & Brews on Saturday, June 27 at 9 p.m. to rock out with The Velcro Pygmies.

— Ashley Coker The Velcro Pygmies Saturday, 9 p.m.

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Led by epic guitar riffs and soulful vocals, they blend together a variety of influences that are sure to find your ears smiling.

9 p.m.

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Fresh off a fantastic performance at Riverbend, The SLC get intimate at The Office.

9 p.m.

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

Old-fashioned country soul from one of Chattanoga's favorite troubadours.

9 p.m.

The Brew and Cue 5017 Rossville Blvd. facebook.com/ TheBrewAndCue

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osh, kids, it seems like I’ve been on a winning streak lately, getting disc after disc of brain-tickling music. It’s always easier to write about music you really enjoy and this week’s experiment, Wordsmith by Sweet G.A. Brown, is turning out to be a hoot and a holler. The original tunes on this album are clever, funny and musically excellent. The covers are...interesting. We’ll touch on that in a bit.

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The songs are wellconstructed and meticulously played, while the lyrics are at once poignant and playful.”

First things first. Sweet G.A. Brown is probably not this cat’s birth name. Don’t know, don’t care, doesn’t matter, it’s what he calls himself and it’s really the perfect name for this music. That being said, Brown is nearly a one-man show, certainly a minimalist anyway. According to the liner notes, the “percussin’” is handled by the always-talented Dave Dowda and Husky Burnette lent some dobro and lead guitar to the project.

Otherwise this is Brown’s baby, and the man has a head full of humor and licks.

My first impression was, “Buck Owens.” Brown doesn’t sing like Buck, his lyrics are a tad saltier than Buck’s, his picking…Actually, there are some similarities in the playing style, but the comparison is more about the overall feel of the thing. It reminds me of Buck in as much as the songs are well-constructed and meticulously played, while the lyrics are at once poignant and playful. I hope he has a blast playing, because it certainly sounds like it. Regardless, it’s a blast to hear.

Brown comes charging out of the gate with track one, a bright, bouncy honky-tonk tune called “I Broke Wahoo’s Leg.” It is a bit of humorous braggadocio about Brown’s many accomplishments. Whether he taught John Denver

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to fly a plane and sold shotgun shells to Kurt Cobain is subject to scrutiny, but I’d really like to think he pushed Bocephus off the mountain (unfortunately turning his career around). It’s a kicking little tune, and if the lyrics were about truckstops and waitresses instead of its more tongue-in-cheek fare, it could just as easily be a tasty Willis Brothers record (there was a thing called the Grand Ole Opry, kids, look it up).

I’m going to flash forward a few songs (except to say that track two, “My Give a Damn” opens with some blistering licks that would make Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins proud)

to the title track, “Wordsmith.”

Short, sweet, and hilarious, it takes a commonsense approach to some of pop music’s more nonsensical lyrics. I don’t know what the hell, “We all live in a yellow submarine” is supposed to mean, either. The shout out to Prince at the end of the tune (presaging the cover tune to come) was a nice touch.

There are 13 tracks on this album, mostly originals, but there are three cover tunes as well (for which Brown begs forgiveness from the original artists, a technique my own band has relied on from time to time). Covering John Prine is always a plus in my book, and

his version of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” is worthy as well but it’s the cover of “Let’s Go Crazy” which sounds more like a sweaty, breathless tent-revival preacher that speaks to me the most.

The man is Sweet G.A. Brown, the album is Wordsmith, and it’s 13 tracks of infectious, guitar and lyric-driven fun. Is it country? Psychobilly? Outlaw?

Who the hell cares? It’s good, really good, and you should keep your eye on Sweet G.A. Brown’s Facebook page for updates on his next live performance. In the meantime, check out the tunes on his Bandcamp page.

Lon Eldridge of the 9th Street Stomper is set to release his muchanticipated new solo album, Long Gone, this Thursday evening as part of the “River City Rumpus” celebration at the Honest Pint. Eldridge, whose jaunty mustache and dapper clothes are overshadowed only by his enormous talent, has compiled a collection of 10 tracks, a fairly even distribution of original songs and artfully chosen covers, including Robert Johnson’s, “Travelin’ Riverside Blues” and the Tin Pan Alley classic, “Shine On, Harvest Moon.”

Eldridge’s mastery of early 20th-century music is nothing short of virtuosity; that his original songs play as true and authentic as any of the vintage tunes he covers is a powerful testament to this. Recorded at Spanner Sound in Chattanooga, Long Gone is an infectious album, one that cannot help but cause toes to tap, fingers to snap, and an indelible grin to spread across your face. Originals such as “Hobo’s Blues” exemplify Lon’s triple threat: His superb songwriting (the tune could easily be a century old), his guitar prowess, and his vocal ability.

A popular performer in the local scene, it is only a matter of time before Eldridge gains nationwide notoriety, and though I’ve said it before, I think it bears repeating, this man and his music belong on “A Prairie Home Companion.” The album is Long Gone, the release date is Thursday, June 25, the event is “The River City Rumpus” featuring the Subterranean Cirqus and a huge slate of special guests, and the place is the Honest Pint.

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thursday6.25 Live Bluegrass 6:30 p.m.

Whole Foods Market 301 Manufacturers Rd. wholefoodsmarket.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 Moondogg Sikes, Kindora, New Planet, Rock 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 The Cadillac Saints 9 p.m.

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

friday6.26 Jason Thomas and the Mean-Eyed Cats 5 p.m.

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

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

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

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com From Another Planet 7 p.m.

Ziggy’s Underground 607 Cherokee Blvd.

Mountain Creek House Fire 7 p.m.

Pulse Pick: Jeff Miller A literal one-man band, Jeff uses his voice, guitar, hands and feet along with some advanced electronics to perform as each member of a regular band—a singer, guitarist, bassist, even a drummer.

Jeff Miller Saturday, 12:30 p.m.

Chattanooga River Market 1 Broad St. chattanoogarivermarket.com

Miller Plaza 850 Market St. nightfallchattanooga.com Tim Lewis 7 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonchattanooga.com Backup Planet, CBDB 8 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Lady God 8 p.m.

Sluggo’s North 501 Cherokee Blvd.

(423) 752-5224 Amy LaVere 9 p.m.

Miller Plaza 850 Market St. nightfallchattanooga.com The Dawn Osborne Band

9 p.m.

World of Beer 412 Market St. worldofbeer.com The Scarlet Love Conspiracy 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Georgia Pine 10 p.m.

T-Bones 1419 Chestnut St. tbonessportscafe.com RNR, Ragdoll 10 p.m.

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

saturday6.27 Jeff Miller 12:30 p.m.

Chattanooga River Market 1 Broad St. chattanoogarivermarket.com 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 Binji Varsossa 6 p.m.

Cancun Mexican Restaurant & Lounge 1809 Broad St.

(423) 266-1461 From Another Planet 6 p.m.

Cloud Springs Deli 4097 Cloud Springs Rd., Ringgold cloudspringsdeli.com Eli & Bill Perras 7 p.m.

Charles and Myrtle’s Coffeehouse 105 McBrien Rd. (423) 892-4960 Jazzanooga Presents: The Sounds of Motown 7 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd. thecamphouse.com Tim Lewis 7 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonchattanooga.com Chris Stalcup & The Grange 8 p.m.

World of Beer 412 Market St. worldofbeer.com Gilchrist, Nygaard & Reischman 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Husky Burnette 9 p.m.

The Brew and Cue 5017 Rossville Blvd. facebook.com/ TheBrewAndCue The Velcro Pygmies 9 p.m.

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221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Bn Nichols, James Legg 9 p.m.

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

sunday6.28 Kofi Mawuko 12:30 p.m.

Chattanooga River Market 1 Broad St. chattanoogarivermarket.com Emily Earle 2 p.m.

Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Open Mic with Jeff Daniels 6 p.m.

Long Haul Saloon 2536 Cummings Hwy. (423) 822-9775 Bohannons 7 p.m.

Sluggo’s North 501 Cherokee Blvd.

(423) 752-5224 Molly Maguires 7 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com John Mark McMillan 8 p.m.

Vineyard Chattanooga 6028 Shallowford Rd. vineyardchattanooga.com B-Snipes, IcanJapan, Big Emotions, Jesse RS 9 p.m.

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

monday6.29 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

tuesday6.30 Bill McCallie & In Cahoots 6:30 p.m.

Southern Belle Riverboat 201 Riverfront Pkwy. chattanoogariverboat.com 9th Annual Free Patriotic Organ Concert 7 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium 399 McCallie Ave. chattanoogamusicclub.org Rick’s Blues Jam 7 p.m.

Folk School of Chattanooga 1200 Mountain Creek Rd. chattanoogafolk.com An Evening with Jack Wright 7:30 p.m.

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Chris Stalcup & The Grange Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Open Mic with Mike McDade 8 p.m.

Tremont Tavern 1203 Hixson Pike tremonttavern.com Hammell on Trial 9 p.m.

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

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

Thursday, June 25: 9pm Open Mic with Hap Henninger Friday, June 26: 9pm The Scarlet Love Conspiracy Saturday, June 27: 10pm Andy Liechty (Atlanta, GA) Tuesday, June 30: 7pm Server/Hotel Appreciation Night $5 Pitchers $2 Wells $1.50 Domestics ●

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wednesday7.1 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 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

Thursday • June 25

Moondog Silkes · Kindora New Planet · Rock

Saturday • June 27

Ben Nichols (of Lucero) James Legg

Sunday • June 28

B-Snipes · IcanJapan Big Emotions · Jesse RS

Monday • June 29

Comedy Show with Max Fine

Tuesday • June 30

HEAVY METAL BINGO (7-9 Free) Hammell on Trial

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Record Reviews

ZACH NIChOLSON

Americana Meets the Blues, Summer Rock Keeps On Rockin’ Emily Kate Boyd grooves and calms, Gold Plated Gold cruises

Emily Kate Boyd In the Woods (Arca)

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here’s a lot to say about a woman’s voice and a good set of strings. It’s a combination perfectly suited for bonfires and coffeeshops, or barrooms and stadiums. Wherever you place it, a strong female vocalist + skilled strings = a damn good time. Emily Kate Boyd takes it a step farther, though, and recruits some talented bandmates for her album In the Woods. And when you put a band behind Emily Kate Boyd, her songwork really comes to life.

The album feels very Amer-

Gold Plated Gold Stay Golden (goldplatedfuture.bandcamp.com) icana as a whole, but draws from smooth-licked and lowtoned blues, particularly on the fourth track “Baby Bird,” my personal favorite on the record. Boyd’s voice exudes an easy confidence, a deep resonance that makes your ears hang on to her every breath.

The first half of “Baby Bird” coaxes the listener into enchantment, until the band bursts into an upbeat instrumental jam that showcases the synergy between the strings, bass, and drums. Hell, I could easily listen to a one-

off instrumental album if it grooved like that.

In the Woods thrives off this kind of interplay of ups and downs. And though the album does draw on multiple voices and styles throughout, it has a steady coherence that guides the listener all the way to the end. And that’s my favorite thing about In the Woods. It’s a tour de force of multi-genre talent, while at the same time being a concentrated effort toward a rustic and serene sound.

While listening to In the Woods, it’s easy to close your eyes and imagine Boyd and her bandmates playing in your living room. The album is raw, there’s no smoke and mirrors here. Boyd’s strong vocals, empowered by a lively band, don’t need it.

The last track “Welcome Me Home” ends the album with Boyd’s harmonies, upfront and alone. And as the last word trails off, you feel safe and calm, as if you had finally come back home.

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hattanooga locals Gold Plated Gold released The Liars Club a while back in 2013. I think I got my hands on it a few months later. I popped the 5-track CD into my old Rodeo and began my weekly two-hour drive to Nashville. And I listened to that album on repeat all the way there and all the way back. It was the perfect summer driving music. It was rowdy punk with catchy choruses, the drums were loud and the guitars were louder. It was a damn fine summer.

And about a week ago, Gold Plated Gold released another.

Hell, yes. The band released Stay Golden on June 9. It’s three tracks long, with songs clocking in a little over four minutes each. What was immediately obvious was that the guys in Gold Plated Gold are changing their sound. And I dig it. A lot.

Considering production, everything is a bit more washed out, giving Stay Golden a more experimental feel than The

Liars Club. The drums are farther back, laying down hits so you know when to bump and when to bop. The guitarplay is just as skillful and catchy, but less aggressively in-yourface. There’s more focus on songwriting and the full-band sound. All in all, it’s chiller.

Stay Golden is an album for cruise control at 65mph, something to sit back and simply enjoy.

That being said, I doubt Gold Plated Gold is settling down. Their live shows are punk-rock intensity, filled with drum-bangin’, bass-slappin’, guitar-shreddin’ goodness. So I’m looking forward to seeing them jam these songs live alongside their stuff from The Liars Club. Do what I did. Throw the album on repeat in your car, and you’ll quickly find yourself singing along to every word and drumming your hands on the steering wheel while two hours flies by and you still just want to let the album play one more time.

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by Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa I was eating at a neighborhood hole in the wall recently, peoplewatching for entertainment. As the group sitting next to me got up to leave, one of the women saw someone she knew, walked over to her and said, “Sue, you look great!” and they chatted for a bit.

A while later, when Sue finished her meal, I noticed she left a very hefty tip on the table. She also made a point of thanking her server for “excellent service.” Then those two chatted for a bit, and I could hear their conversation and laughter, sounding like they were each making a new friend.

When the next couple entered the restaurant, Sue’s server warmly greeted them with a big smile. (I hadn’t noticed her doing this earlier.)

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The Notorious M.S.G. Chef Mike documents the return to favor of monosodium glutamate

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There are no mysterious soylent-esque ingredients in MSG; it wasn’t invented by Monsanto to control the teeming masses, and most importantly, it is safe to consume.“

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

In middle school, I was tect umami were confirmed. taught that sweet, salty, bitThis solidified umami’s claster and sour were the four sification as the fifth basic cornerstones of taste. I was taste and cleared the way given a mimeographed diafor the word’s rise to foodie gram that used those familiar buzzword stardom. purple, blurry lines to map If the flavor behind umami, the tongue and particuinto four relarly glutamic gions; bitter acid, seems in the back, familiar, it salty and sour should. It’s across the been a part center, and of the human MIKE McJUNKIN sweet right eating exup on the tip perience for of the tongue. Imagine my centuries. shock and surprise when I Glutamates are why the found out my knowledge of ancient Romans and ancient taste and flavor was built on Chinese loved the fermented a foundation of lies. Lies! fish sauces they put in just LIES, I TELL YOU! Not about every dish they ate. only do our taste buds conGlutamates are key to the tain receptors for all four of soul-warming, umami-filled the tastes mentioned above, comfort of gravies, stocks, but there is a fifth taste. A meat juices and caramelized FIFTH TASTE! proteins. Escoffier, the legIn 1908, Japanese chemist endary 19th-century French Kikunae Ikeda sensed that chef, felt sure that a savory there was something beyond fifth taste was the secret of the four canonized tastes in his success and it’s what turns his wife’s dashi. (Dashi is a simple corn chips into the stock made from seaweed culinary crack we know as called kombu that is widely Doritos. used in Japanese cooking.)

Once Kikunae Ikeda zeIkeda set to work and found roed in on glutamate as the that glutamic acid was the source of umami, he put his source of that indefinable, chemistry skills to work, savory flavor he tasted in his learned how to crystallize gluwife’s soup. Although he had tamate from ingredients such identified the component as as sugar beets, sugar cane or glutamic acid, he decided to tapioca and founded a comgive it the Japanese name pany called Ajinomoto that “umami,” meaning “delibegan producing monosodicious” or “yummy.” um glutamate, better known While the taste receptors as the notorious MSG. There for sweet, salty, bitter and are no mysterious soylentsour had been identified long esque ingredients in MSG; it ago, it wasn’t until 2000 that wasn’t invented by Monsanto the receptors designed to deto control the teeming mass-

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es, and most importantly, it is safe to consume.

Yes, there are scores of alarmist websites that will disagree with that last statement, and yes, I know you have a cousin who swears her heart races and head spins every time she eats MSG and yes, I know there are a (very) small number of people with actual, diagnosed glutamate sensitivity. However, the science is clear. The average person is no more likely to have a reaction to MSG than they are to eating tomatoes or parmesan cheese.

Crystalized MSG was widely used in Asia beginning in the early 1900s before coming to the US in the ’50s. The ill-informed term “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” began cropping up in the US during the ’60s to describe the numbness, weakness and palpitations some people claimed were the result of eating MSG. These anecdotal stories went viral, causing consumers to avoid MSG, while manufacturers and restaurant owners began slapping “No MSG Added” labels on everything, even if the product contained other glutamate flavor enhancers.

Now, MSG is reemerging with the respect it deserves.

The renewed interest in the science of umami and a slew of research in support of MSG have prompted some chefs to embrace monosodium glutamate for what it is— magic umami dust. Trendsetting chefs like David Chang of Momofuku and Adam Fleischman of Umami Burger built their culinary careers on the basis of umami and Grant Achatz, often considered one of the world’s top chefs, travels with a panda-shaped shaker of MSG for personal use.

I count myself as a MSG convert. It’s become a staple in my kitchen, much like salt, pepper and bacon grease, amplifying and accentuating the best flavors in meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, soups, and sauces. Although tastes will vary from person to person as with any seasoning or spice, about one-quarter teaspoon of MSG to one pound of meat or four-to-six servings of vegetables or soup will give you a good place to start.

MSG doesn’t deserve the bad rap it’s gotten over the years. In fact, it can be a valuable tool in the toolbox of any serious cook. After all, who doesn’t love a little magic umami dust every now and then?

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SCREEN SCENE

Mise En Scenesters Resurfaces With “The Wolfpack” New venue The Coin Op will provide another screening space in September

He Really Was A Contender Robert De Niro stars in the ultimate boxing movie It was the movie that made Robert De Niro a star, and cemented director Martin Scorsese in the pantheon of great American directors.

The plot of “Raging Bull” is fairly straightforward: It’s the tale of Jake LaMotta, an emotionally self-destructive boxer, and his journey through life as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.

But it was far more than just a boxing movie. De Niro’s dedication to the role—including his now-famous weight loss and gain—combined with Scorsese’s incredibly intimate

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direction, led to what many consider one of the best films of the era, ranking #24 on the America Film Institute’s list of best American movies.

While controversial at the time for its violence, the film went on to get nominated for eight Academy Awards, including a Best Actor win for De Niro.

Ted 2 Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

Director: Seth MacFarlane Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth

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Max A dog that helped US Marines in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.

Director: Boaz Yakin Stars: Thomas Haden Church, Josh Wiggins, Luke Kleintank, Lauren Graham

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e-creation has always been part of a fascination with film. I don’t know many movie fans who have not at some point, especially as children, acted out their favorite scenes in their backyard.

In addition to being an arcade for the indie gamer, the Coin Op is going to work with MES and the CFF to provide a space for screenings, giving MES something of a home for the time being.”

There was a family in my neighborhood who had filmed a homemade recreation of “Stars Wars” on a camcorder (with a few scenes from “The Princess Bride” thrown in) entirely with their action figures. Many of the scenes were improvised, making their home movie as funny and engaging as children could make it.

Before the internet, before the need for constant stimulation, children were often allowed to be bored and forced to entertain themselves. This leads to creativity and self-reliance, something kids need to grow into themselves as adults. Absence of direction, it seems, is as important as unique experience.

But absence can go too far. Such is the subject of “The Wolfpack,” the first film in the Chattanooga Film Festival’s summer series.

“The Wolfpack” tells the story of seven brothers and a sister who are locked in a Lower East Side Manhattan apartment for 14 years by their father. The siblings are homeschooled, only allowed outside once or twice a year on structured trips that are controlled entirely by the man who holds all the power.

As a result of their confinement, the children know almost nothing of the outside world. What they do know comes from the films they watch. When the oldest brother turns 15, he disobeys his father and ventures out into their neighborhood. Soon after, the other sib-

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lings follow. The family begins to interact with the outside world.

They cope by using the only experience they have—they re-enact scenes from their favorite movies. “The Wolfpack” won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and has been described as “a haunting urban fable.”

Debuting at The Camp House on June 26, “The Wolfpack” is the beginning of a partnership between Mise En Scenesters and the Chattanooga Film Festival to continue to bring films to the city that would not come here otherwise. It is a complicated and expensive process. There is no doubt that MES screenings have declined in number as the film festival gained steam and director Chris Dortch found himself pulled in multiple directions.

But more than that, the remodeling of Barking Legs Theater and the absence of appropriate venues for screenings has been something of a struggle for MES. It seems venues in Chattanooga charge exorbitant prices for usage of their space, or have strange requests or rules for screenings, making programming rather difficult.

However, Dortch continues to move forward with his vision for Chattanooga film. “Both in terms of fundraising and in a growing level of awareness of CFF, I’ll be the first to admit I continue to be shocked every time someone has heard of CFF and thinks it’s exciting.

It’s mostly just bizarre because all this started in my living room,” he says.

MES and the CFF are still looking for a home, somewhere to show the best independent films in the country to a crowd of people starving for those experiences. Thanks to Brian Hennen,

another MES and CFF alum and staff member, there is some movement on that front.

Hennen is in the opening stages of a new arcade to be located near JJ’s Bohemia and the Bitter Alibi called The Coin Op. Hennen says, “The Coin-Op is going to be a melding of the sweet nostalgia that is the retro arcade and the creative forward thinking of the independent development community.

“From classic cabinets and pinball to indie game spotlights, I hope to create a dream hangout for the amazing and fast-growing tech community in this town.” In addition to being an arcade for the indie gamer, the Coin Op is going to work with MES and the CFF to provide a space for screenings, giving MES something of a home for the time being.

According to Dortch, “Hennen and I are big video game nerds as well, and the idea for the space is that in addition to being a traditional bar/arcade that there will also be a big stripe of doing good for indie software developers.”

The time line for the opening of Coin Op is September, but once it opens, MES and the CFF will have another avenue to exist, which is nothing but a positive for local film (and local gamers as well). It’s an exciting time in Chattanooga. See “The Wolfpack” on June 26. Visit the Coin Op in September. Support local film.

“The Wolfpack” Friday, June 26, 8 p.m. $5 in advance, $7 at the door The Camphouse 149 E. MLK Blvd. mesfilmclub.com

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Free Will Astrology

“ Homework: You know what to do and you know when to do it. Provide the evidence that this is true.

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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.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In its early days, the band Depeche Mode had the infinitely boring name Composition of Sound. Humphrey Bogart’s and Ingrid Bergman’s classic 1942 film Casablanca was dangerously close to being called Everybody Come to Rick’s. And before Charles Dickens published his novel Bleak House, a scathing critique of the 19thcentury British judicial system, he considered eleven other possible titles, including the unfortunate Tom-all-Alone’s.

The Solitary House that was always shut up and never Lighted. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, as the seeding phase of your personal cycle gets underway. The imprints you put on your budding creations will have a major impact on their future. Name them well. Give them a potent start.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One summer afternoon when I was seven years old, my friend Billy and I grabbed an empty jar from my kitchen and went looking for ants. Near the creek we found an anthill swarming with black ants, and scooped a bunch of them in the jar. A little later we came upon a caravan of red ants, and shoved many of them in with the black ants. Would they fight? Naturally. It was mayhem. Looking back now, I’m sorry I participated in that stunt. Why stir up a pointless war? In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Don’t do anything remotely comparable to putting red ants and black ants in the same jar.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In order for everyone in your sphere to meet their appointed destinies, you must cultivate your skills as a party animal. I’m only slightly joking. At least for now, it’s your destiny to be the catalyst of conviviality, the ringleader of the festivities, the engineer of fun and games. To fulfill your assignment, you may have to instigate events that encourage your allies to leave their comfort zones and follow you into the frontiers of collaborative amusement.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your symbolic object of the week is a magic wand. I recommend that you visualize yourself as the star of a fairy tale in which you do indeed have a wand at your disposal.

See yourself wielding it to carry out a series of fantastic tricks, like materializing a pile of gold coins or giving yourself an extraordinary power to concentrate or creating an enchanted drink that allows you to heal your toughest wound.

I think this playful imaginative exercise will subtly enhance your ability to perform actual magic in the real world.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The taskmaster planet Saturn wove its way through the sign of Scorpio from October 2012 until the end of 2014. Now it has slipped back into your sign for a last hurrah. Between now and midSeptember. I urge you to milk its rigorous help in every way you can imagine. For example, cut away any last residues of trivial desires and frivolous ambitions. Hone your focus and streamline your self-discipline.

Once and for all, withdraw your precious energy from activities that waste your time and resist your full engagement. And if you’re serious about capitalizing on Saturn’s demanding gifts, try this ritual: Write either “I will never squander my riches” or “I will make full use of my riches” 20 times— whichever motivates you most.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The advanced lessons on tap in the coming days are not for the squeamish, the timid, the lazy, or the stubborn. But then you’re not any of those things, right? So there shouldn’t be a major problem.

The purpose of these subterranean adventures and divine interventions is to teach you to make nerve-racking leaps of faith, whether or not you believe you’re ready. Here’s one piece of advice that I think will help: Don’t resist and resent the tests as they appear. Rather, welcome them as blessings you don’t understand yet. Be alert for the liberations they will offer.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Man’s being is like a vast mansion,” observed philosopher Colin Wilson, “yet he seems to prefer to live in a single room in the basement.” Wilson wasn’t just referring to Capricorns. He meant everybody. Most of us commit the sin of self-limitation on a regular basis. That’s the bad news. The good news, Capricorn, is that you’re entering a time when you’re more likely to rebel against the unconscious restrictions you have placed on yourself. You will have extra motivation to question and overrule the rationales that you used in the past to inhibit your primal energy. Won’t it be fun to venture out of your basement nook and go explore the rest of your domain?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “An obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia’s pasture-land from the overgrowth of cactus,” writes biologist Edward O. Wilson.

“A Madagascar ‘weed,’ the rosy periwinkle, provided the cure for Hodgkin’s disease and childhood leukemia,” he adds, while “a chemical from the saliva of leeches dissolves blood clots during surgery,” and a “Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry.”

I think these are all great metaphors for the kind of healing that will be available for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius: humble, simple, seemingly insignificant things whose power to bring transformation has, up until now, been secret or unknown.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “She is hard to tempt, as everything seems to please her equally,” said artist Anne Raymo in describing a hedonistic acquaintance. A similar statement may soon apply to you, Pisces. You will have a talent for finding amusement in an unusually wide variety of phenomena. But more than that: You could become a connoisseur of feeling really good.

You may even go so far as to break into a higher octave of pleasure, communing with exotic phenomena that we might call silken thrills and spicy bliss and succulent revelry.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): During my regular hikes along my favorite trails, I’ve gotten to know the local boulders quite intimately.

It might sound daft, but I’ve come to love them. I’ve even given some of them names.

They symbolize stability and constancy to me. When I gaze at them or sit on them, I feel my own resolve grow stronger.

They teach me about how to be steadfast and unflappable in all kinds of weather. I draw inspiration from the way they are so purely themselves, forever true to their own nature. Now would be an excellent time for you to hang out with your own stony allies, Aries. You could use a boost in your ability to express the qualities they embody.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” wrote German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”

According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, your oncea-year explosion of genius is imminent. It’s even possible you will experience a series of eruptions that continue for weeks. The latter scenario is most likely if you unleash the dormant parts of your intelligence through activities like these: having long, rambling conversations with big thinkers; taking long, rambling walks all over creation; enjoying long, rambling sex while listening to provocative music.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring,” says author Paul Auster. “It would be tedious to be alive.” But he goes even further in his defense of inconsistency, adding, “Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.” This bold assertion may not apply to everyone all the time, but it does for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You should feel free to explore and experiment with the high art of changing your mind. I dare you to use it to generate extravagant amounts of beauty.

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“A Bit of Foolery”—remember who comes first.

ACROSS 1 Arachnid abodes 5 ___ San Lucas 9 Exam for jrs.

13 “It’s a dry ___” 14 Become best buds?

15 “It’s ___ Quiet” (Bjork remake) 16 Air France airport 17 Bubbly Nestle bars across the pond 18 Taken-back auto 19 Daniel Defoe’s “___ Flanders” 20 Chess closer 21 Completely crush a final exam 22 NFL’s Patriots?

25 Gator tail?

27 “Chandelier” singer 28 “Antony and Cleopatra” killer 29 Jenny with a diet program 31 “Oh, for Pete’s ___” 34 “Bleh!”

37 Garbage bags for an action star?

41 Inflationary

figure, for short 42 DVR button 43 Extremely cold 44 Get, as the bad guy 46 Note a fifth higher than do 48 Mid-seasons occurrence?

49 Digit for a bizarre MTV host?

55 It’s just an expression 56 Rug-making need 57 TV talking horse, for short 60 Classic TV kid, with “The” 61 “___ bet?”

62 “Fame” actress and singer Irene 63 Bachelor finale?

64 “Card Players Quarreling” artist Jan 65 “The ___-Bitsy Spider” 66 Leonine outburst 67 “West Side Story” faction 68 Say no to

DOWN 1 “For ___ the Bell Tolls” 2 Dulles Airport terminal designer Saarinen 3 Members of the major leagues 4 French pen, or LG smartphone 5 Oxy competitor 6 Heart hookup 7 Showed disapproval 8 Yoga class chants 9 Prickly critter 10 Actor Charlie or Martin 11 Jellied garnish 12 Canine, e.g.

14 Disney classic of 1942 21 Crunch targets 23 Catholic title, for short 24 “New Soul” singer ___ Naim 25 “America’s Got Talent” feature 26 Release, like

a rap album 30 Turning into a hockey rink, e.g.

32 Busy-bee link 33 Arch holders 35 Observe 36 Caitlyn’s ex 38 Stand ___ Counted (U.K. news site for millennials) 39 Inuit word for “house” 40 ‘60s activist gp.

45 Common tat locale 47 “Yeesh ...”

49 River near the Vatican 50 “___ Billie Joe” 51 Mazda roadster 52 Bring delight to 53 Trio of trios 54 89 years from now, in the credits 58 Beginning for “while” 59 “The Banana Boat Song” opener 61 Banker’s newspaper, for short

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A Police Time Capsule, Complete With Mold Officer Alex revisits the site of his earliest days in blue

“ And best of all…I could still see the Krispy Kreme across the street… where they had built a police precinct across from a doughnut shop.”

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.

Darkness had settled in close my eyes to remember when I glided to a halt in a how it used to look. Oh, I dimly lit parking lot next to have an uncanny memory, a large cheaply made buildsure, but in this case I reing covered in an expensive membered mostly because brick veneer, and I didn’t it looked as shitty then as even realize I was smiling it looked now, only with far until my lips actually partfewer police cars in the parked into a full grin. It was ing lot (as mine was now the a rare trip only one). across town The lobby to a place I used to be hadn’t been manned by in years. a human ALEX TEACH S u i t e being who G-30 at 5600 was eventuBrainerd Road has had ally put back into a district, an interesting past. Not a since answering 911 calls “good” interesting like the turned out to be more imRead House or the Huntportant than the five people er Museum; more like an that walked in the door “Overlook Hotel from The at the back of a mall each Shining” kind of interesting, year for a police report to right down to the hideous be made. Patrol supervisors nekkid lady from Room used to marvel in the back 237. hallway at having their own Through the same poorly office since burglary and tinted windows, with the robbery detectives were use of a flashlight I could never moved out there as see the interior of the suite planned, and a locker room that had been our first powas built towards the end lice precinct. It had been for a workout room that gutted from wall to wall and never materialized (unlike there wasn’t even a ceiling the aforementioned black left, which made me wonmold). It was an experiment der where the nearly senthat was never budgeted tient black mold in the venfor in an era where change tilation systems had been for the sake of change was forced to move on to. embraced, and eventually My time here was brief abandoned like the precinct but very impressionable; I itself. was a baby then, a fledgling One particular office had to the dark blue polyester a sliding glass door and the I’m wearing even as I type, walls were carpeted in gray, but I don’t even have to and just outside was a light

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built from parts from Radio Shack that had the words “On Air” taped to it in handwritten bubble-letters.

It had been a DJ booth for one of the best rock stations to ever grace this town, “Fox 102.3,” and the stories from those days are now local media legend. But it is a well-known scientific fact that prior to the deregulation and corporate takeover and eventual automation of “non-personality-driven radio,” actual human DJs then were perverts and degenerates and the atrocities that took place here were both legend and representative of the Kenobian phrase of “never finding a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” So imagine the irony of such an Indian burial ground becoming a police precinct? It was perfect.

From this parking lot I could see the street where I got my first write up. (I stood on a street while someone served a misdemeanor warrant after 11 p.m. I was never interviewed, and pronounced guilty of “conduct unbecoming” in an inves-

tigation I never knew was taking place, and warned of more serious punishment up to and including termination, without ever being told what my conduct was in either sentence of the generic letterhead from the IA captain.)

It was also the parking lot where I said goodbye to a veteran officer at shift change. I watched him pass on from this earth a mere 45 minutes later on Amnicola Highway, his hand in mine, after a tragic car wreck.

And best of all…I could still see the Krispy Kreme across the street…where they had built a police precinct across from a doughnut shop.

It was a hole in the wall, almost literally, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love it like a cheap first car.

I left that wretched spot and carried on one last old tradition from there: Passing by the doughnut shop, I’d always refused to stop in after nearly driving through the center of it.

But that is literally a story…for another day.

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