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HISTORY MAKERS LUNCHEON Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:30am – 1:00pm Chattanooga Convention Center

Join the Chattanooga History Center in honoring the Legacy of Mose and Garrison Siskin at the 7th annual History Makers Luncheon on November 7 at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

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Urban Design Challenge, because of the innovative approach it took to planning,” Heather Sparkes, board member of TAPA’s West Tennessee Section said in a press release. “The energy that seemed to be created around the special areas that the various teams planned was exciting. The emphasis on creative placemaking was noted, and we also noted the interest that was created as part of this process.”

Urban Design Challenge, a year-long initiative to continue the revitalization and reconstruction efforts to major areas in Chattanooga, recently concluded with an award ceremony at Track 29. The River City Challenge Award was judged by three architectural buffs and received by Elemi for their plan focused on the 4th Street Corridor. BroadJump Team won The Civic Vision Award, which was judged by a tally of audience votes.

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The First Time She Fell:

An Award-Winning Collaboration Between the Verbal and Visual

Caleb Ludwick, a developer for local and regional brand strategies and author has been selected as a “Best of 2012 Project” by Print Magazine for his collection of short stories entitled The First Time She Fell.

Print Magazine is a bimonthly publication dedicated entirely to design, featuring a huge scope of projects from around the world varying from book design to street art. Ludwick will be featured in the December issue of Print Magazine as a best project in the Southeast USA of 2012.

Ludwick’s short stories include textual narratives juxtaposed with illustrations and designs from eight artists around the country who have, at one time, all lived in Chattanooga. The stories are set in fringe neighborhoods of downtown Chattanooga, and while the characters and situations are fictitious, each story reveals a poignant and universal truth that many outside the confines of Chattanooga can cling to.

“Less ‘collaboration’ in the traditional sense than independent, solo creative acts bumping into each other, interpreting each other, to create a fictional word,” Ludwick told UnderConstruction in April. The collection works to give voice to the underrepresented through a marriage between verbal and visual representation.

Design aesthetics aside, Ludwick’s short stories have also recently received literary acclaim. The First Time She Fell caught the attention of Meacham Writer’s Conference, a weekend-long writing workshop in Chattanooga. Ludwick was selected to participate in a public reading with visiting writers, Sharan Strange and Stephen Covey on October 27.

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On the Beat

ALEX TEACH

Five-Oh On: Footwear I GET WHY WE WEAR BOOTS. THE LEATHER IS SOMETHING that can be polished and looks good with a uniform and we encounter a great many different environments and terrains while also trying to appear professional.

The uniform itself is, though many do not realize it, a level of force; our very presence counts because of the fading idea of how a “reasonable person” reacts to the presence of lawful authority.

(You and I know that they now react with disdain and disregard, but once upon a time, The Courts assumed people were not self-righteous idiots. That went out the window with rotary phones and Barry Goldwater, but it’s still on the books that way at least.)

Me personally? I agree with the professional appearance, but they need to be running shoes. I don’t need ankle support; I need some light-ass shoes for chasing folk when the need arises. Some officers run like a scalded deer in them, but Officer Teach is NOT one of these officers.

They are heavy. Flat footed. Cumbersome. I feel like I’m running with scuba fins on, and look equally graceful. In short?

Boots blow.

Because of this, I use the car to its fullest extent. If you run, I strongly suggest you do so between a narrow row of houses or trees; fixed objects, specifically.

Fences are not an issue depending on the circumstances, because as certain dismayed members of the Shepherd Community will attest, you can wrap a chain link fence around a rear axle like a fruit roll-up and keep on trucking (for a while, anyway). TVA can attest that those two inch

swing-gate poles that block utility access trails are only as strong as the padlock holding them shut. And the City Attorney’s that wrote a few checks out can back me up too.

Throttle back the dismay, now; these events occurred after very prolonged foot and car chases of very bad people but they still happened and I can’t help but think the boots factored into this…particularly when the person being chased was no longer in a car, but on foot.

Cops (or at least this one) want a customer to be as tired as possible when it comes time to actually put asses in irons, and you can tell a veteran from a rookie fairly quickly when you see someone jump out of a squad car to give chase on foot, rather than put that cruiser in Drive and pull right around that stopped vehicle Mr. John Q. Turd has just bolted from. The veteran uses his or her car to its fullest extent rather than leave it parked uselessly (and with your “stuff” inside now exposed to the world).

That police car is a tool; use it! And the closer it gets us to our target, the fewer flat-slapping steps I have to take in those multi-

pound Rockies / Danner’s / 5.11’s, and the fresher I will be to do battle, and bring great justice. The closer I will be to help this confused and/or angry customer with the other end of my body, that great universal translator when common English (and sense) is not enough: My hands.

Oh, I’ve bucked the system: I’ve brought out the leather (or “leather-ish”) athletic shoes…but it never lasts. Because the boots are the way it’s always been done, and no other reason is needed to argue the subject. Police motto’s are the same from coast to coast and border to border: “Why change, when I don’t have to let you?” (That’s actually what some of that Latin shit on the cruiser door translates to in a few bold towns. They knew people can easily translate with “the Google” now, but ironically…they refuse to change this practice.)

Run. Run from me on foot, run your hearts out, but beware that sound of flat-footed thunder behind you if you do, and everything those deliriously annoyed steps are bringing with them. Because I will be half as tired, and twice as annoyed.

(Well…for a little while, anyway.)

Alex Teach has been a full-time police officer of nearly 20 years. The opinions expressed are his own.

Follow him on Facebook at facebook.com/alex.teach.

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Divorcing the Musician from the Instrument

BY RICH BAILEY Photos by Jaime Leah Smialek

Classically trained composer Tim Hinck has issues with musical instruments.

“I think the musical instrument has become a real fetish object,” he says. “I’m interested in divorcing the performer from the instrument because the instrument – the physical object – and the pageantry of the performance have risen to such a high level of prominence that the focus is no longer on performers, the expressive gesture or the improvisational gesture.

It’s now on all these extraneous superficial details of... quote... performance.”

In the last 18 months, Hinck has premiered pieces in Chattanooga that include classical vocalists singing computer code, a young vocalist who is not only accompanied by brass players but is assigned to move his accompanists around the room, and a musical quartet in which a beam of light shines at the audience almost like a fifth performer. Multimedia projections are part of many of Hinck’s compositions.

He just received a MakeWork grant to stage Cyclopedia, a much larger work that will feature 12-18 instrumentalists, dancers and singers, along with retro multimedia, staging, props and recorded sound.

But before premiering that work in February at the Cen-

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I’m trying to create music that involves a traditionally nonmusical element: light, movement or human speech Tim Hinck Composer

ter for Creative Arts, Hinck is presenting a musical manifesto in the first two weeks of November. Through lectures at locations around Chattanooga and two solo performances, he wants to share the thinking behind his evolving approach to musical composition.

Here is a preview of Hinck’s upcoming manifesto.

His work asks a fundamental question: What does it mean to be a composer?

“Does that mean that I write a symphony or a string quartet for this instrumentation and then it gets played and hopefully it gets printed and it gets

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canonized and goes into the pantheon of musical compositions that exists in a library somewhere?” he asks.

Instead, he’s more interested

in “getting to the very beginning, the core of the artistic process, things like the human gestural expression, things like the first spark of an idea when

you improvise, the actual physical body of the performer.”

What Hinck is after may be more an open marriage than a divorce. He doesn’t want to take

the instruments away, but his compositions call for the musicians to do more than play instruments and for non-musical elements.

“I’m really interested in writing music for what I call the holistic performer, not just an instrument but also the body, the voice, the way they move, everything that makes them unique as a performer,” he says. “I’m trying to create music that involves a traditionally nonmusical element: light, movement or human speech, which really got me started on a this, listening to human speech as music.”

This direction in Hinck’s work began two years ago when he was sitting in a crowded restaurant.

“I closed my eyes and listened to all the conversations going on around me. I had this moment,” he says. “I experienced this conversation as the most beautiful, tightly orchestrated musical composition I had heard ever.”

He immediately started integrating speech – words spoken by instrumentalists, not singing – into his compositions. But the real turning point came a few months later when Hinck saw a sculpture that he experienced as a musical composition.

“Stairway 2000” by Bruce Naumann is a series of concrete steps of varying heights going down a hill.

“When an audience member walks

down these stair steps they’re not only feeling a rhythmic pattern – long, short, short, long and so on – they’re also physicalizing that composition, they become performers as they move down the stairs.”

Hinck realized that a drummer could have produced the same pattern, but that would have been performing at the audience instead of transforming the audience into performers. He also realized that he didn’t need a sound-producing device to make a musical composition.

“Even in John Cage’s work – trying to think of the sound around us as music – there is still a sound producing device, a clock or something. That was really the moment in which all this first came together: the thought about using speech, these ideas of using body, and this idea of using inanimate objects to experience music.

Ever since then my work has been in that direction.”

Hinck wondered for a while if all this meant he was becoming a performance artist. But the answer was no.

“What I’m really interested in is how a composer approaches the issues of movement, of light... as a composer, not as someone working to create a theater piece,” he says. “I’m interested in taking light, physical objects, movement, the human being and actually scoring it the same way I’d score an instrument in a symphony or piano concerto.”

PIANO CONCERTO

“I Wrote This On YOur Chest,” a piano concerto in 42 movements (color pigment, ink, iron weight, paint, paper, pen and spotlight, piano string, rope, tape loop, typewriter, and water).

November 9 & 10 Tanner Hill Gallery Admission $15, Students $5

PRE-CONCERT LECTURES & EVENTS Nov. 4, 7 pm, Dinner party and pre-concert lecture.

Folk School of Chattanooga. (free) Nov. 6, 5:30 pm, Pre-concert lecture.

UTC Fine Arts Center room 356. (free) Nov. 8, 7 pm, Performance and lecture.

Artifact Gallery, 1080 Duncan Ave. (free) Saturday: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Paul Collins Beat Blondie, Ramones, The Dictators...the entire sonic vibe of the late 70’s and early 80’s punk and power pop. Paul Collins was at that forefront making music with his first band, The Nerves. Collins began his music career at Juilliard School of Music where he studied composition. Having spent much of his early youth in Greece and Vietnam while his father was a civilian working with the military, Collins was drawn

to the avant garde music scene in New York city and he found himself frequently at the Fillmore. He eventually moved to L.A. and formed The Nerves. Their single Hangin’ On The Telephone would be made famous when Deborah Harry and Blondie covered the catchy tune. Collins went on to form The Beat which is now known as Paul Collins Beat. They continue to write new material, give fans doses of

their favorites and perform across the country. When it comes to musicians who have legacy and forward looking artistic prowess, Paul Collins Beat is a complete package combining excellent musicians and a keen sense of musical style.

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J

ohn Prine has written several songs that have become so pervasive many musicians assume they’re timeless public domain classics.

Three of them were on his first album. Released in 1971, it wasn’t a hit (it made it to 154 on the Billboard chart), but thirty years later Rolling Stone rated it one of the 500 best albums of all time.

Prine first picked up a guitar when he was 14. His older brother taught him a few chords and he set out to learn some of the songs he liked on the radio. He liked the sound of the songs, but he found the lyrics wanting. He figured he could do better.

Covered by everyone from Bette Midler to 10,000 Maniacs, “Hello In There” begins with an eight-line verse worthy of O.Henry. It’s a short story about Joe and Loretta, an older couple living alone in an apartment in the city.

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Their children are all adults –“A life of their own left us alone.” While the song indicts the culture for marginalizing the old –“Please don’t pass ‘em by and stare / As if you didn’t care”— it also indicts the old for their cursory treatment of the young. Three of their children have grown and live far from home, but their fourth child, Davy, is at the heart of the song. “We lost Davy in the Korean war / And I still don’t know what for, don’t matter anymore.”

The singer is Loretta’s husband a man equally defeated by his failure to protect his family from the tragedy and his inability to offer his wife any meaningful consolation.

“Me and Loretta, we don’t talk much more / She sits

and stares through the backdoor screen” while the news on the radio “repeats itself ” talking about another war. In his notes for the album, Kris Kristofferson wrote: “Twentyfour years old and writes like he’s about two-hundred and twenty”.

It was Kristofferson, after hearing him sing in a Chicago folk club, who took him to Atlantic records. They sent him to Memphis to make his first record with the legendary producer, Arif Mardin. His production privileges Prine’s flinty delivery while setting it against a softly purring country band in an apparent attempt at making it more palatable to the pop audience.

Prine’s sympathy for the older generation, widely vilified by many of his peers in the late 1960’s, made “Angel From Montgomery” an instant classic. The song echoes many of the same sentiments as “Hello In There.” But this time the story’s told by his wife, a character reminiscent of Archie Bunker’s patiently beleaguered wife, Edith, whose crie de couer – “How the hell can a person go to work in the morning / And come home in the evening with nothing to say” – offered an insight shared by few men of any age in that era.

The songs retain their power because, as he told Roger Ebert in 1970, “In my songs I try to look through someone else’s eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.”

Given that, it’s perhaps ironic that the most celebrated song on the album, and the one covered by the broadest range of artists, is “Paradise,” a song about his own life. Written

for his father when Prine was in the army in Germany, it’s a wistful paean to Paradise, the small town in Muhlenberg County in Western Kentucky where his parents grew up and he spent his summers as a boy (“Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot our pistols / But empty pop bottles was all we would kill”). As always, the sting is in the chorus. Conjuring sweet memories while so far from home, he asks his father to take him back to his childhood haunts one more time. His father’s answer is an achingly eloquent ecological argument at a time when only a few people were talking about that –“Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking / Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.” That everyone from The Everly Brothers (whose father was also from Muhlenberg County) and The Country Gentlemen to Jimmy Buffett and John Fogerty has covered the song is a testament to Prine’s political subtlety.

These songs are still the centerpiece of his setlists. It’s likely he’ll sing at least a couple of them when he plays with his ace trio (the fleet fingered Jason Wilber on guitar and Dave “Shakey Legs” Jacques on bass) in The Tivoli on Saturday November 10th .

R i c h a r d Winham is the host and producer of W UTC-FM’s afternoon music program and has observed the Chattanooga music scene for more than 25 years.

Between the Sleeves RECORD REVIEWS • ERNIE PAIK We could see this coming: the latest U.S. Girls album, Gem, is clearly an attempt to reach a wider audience. While this can often be a bad thing, in the case of U.S. Girls, a.k.a. Megan Remy, this is actually a lateral move. Remy’s first two albums on the noise-leaning label Siltbreeze, Introducing… and Go Grey, were full of unabashedly low-fidelity, agoraphobic, pathologically shy bedroom studio noodlings. An imminent change could be sensed on last year’s U.S. Girls on Kraak and the split album with Slim Twig, and now with Gem, on the British FatCat label, the differences are clear: the hooks are more conspicuous, there’s almost no noise-love, and there’s less of a sense of mystery with less fuzzy, normal-fidelity recordings.

However, also, Remy sounds less uncertain and amateurish.

One constant is Remy’s singing voice, which still sounds like U.S. Girls a Ronnie Spector impersonation. Perhaps the biggest surprise Gem on Gem is an unmistakable affinity for early ‘70s glam rock (a (FatCat) la Marc Bolan and T. Rex) on the tracks “Jack” and “Slim Baby,” and one can detect a bit of new wave love on the number “Rosemary.” Remy revisits the song “Don’t Understand That Man” originally released on her first album, and the new version isn’t as sonically lonely and unsettling. Perhaps the most accessible moment is a cover of “Down in the Boondocks,” which is a mostly straightforward cover, even copying the insistent hi-hat taps of the original, but there are odd tweaks, including off-kilter backing vocals and a haunting middle section with a drum breakdown and Vibraslap percussion.

The sole, clear reference to Remy’s past experimental work is “Curves,” which features a rhythm box on maximum speed and echoing samples of British-accented dialogue. The mantra of the typical insufferable music snob is “The early stuff is better,” but in the case of U.S. Girls, the early stuff was wildly inconsistent and sometimes unfocused; the new U.S. Girls is different—a little more engaging, yet much less weird and eerie.

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Offhand, veteran avant-garde trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith’s new release Ten Freedom Summers may seem like a stunt; with over four hours of material, it’s an attempt to musically document the long and extremely thorny American Civil Rights Movement. It is simultaneously sprawling and cohesive, being modeled after the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by playwright August Wilson, about the 20th century Black experience and influenced by similar statements by jazz artists such as Duke Ellington and Max Roach.

The album centers on the titular decade of 1954-1964, book-ended by Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and it also provides sonic portraits of key figures, such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr..

However, it also takes a more expansive approach to the core ideas, and in the liner notes, Smith states that “…the struggle Wadada Leo Smith for justice is an essential part of the story of America.” This Ten Freedom Summers explains the inclusion of tracks like the somber “September (Cuneiform) 11th, 2011: A Memorial” and “Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press,” apparently inspired by the media exposé Into the Buzzsaw, featuring impassioned double bass and drum solos.

Smith wrote the first piece for Ten Freedom Summers in 1977, about the assassinated civil rights activist Medgar Evers, and it’s a fascinating composition with flute and viola highlights, percussion bursts, an unpredictable spirit and stark atmosphere, and a turbulent ending. On “Emmet Till: Defiant, Fearless,” Smith provides long, clear trumpet tones, expressing a sense of resolve, contrasted with a Ligeti-esque dissonance in other parts.

Over the four discs, Smith uses two different ensembles; his Golden Quartet/Quintet (featuring either drummer Pheeroan akLaff or Susie Ibarra, or both) plays avant-garde jazz, while the L.A.-based Southwest Chamber Music is used for more orchestral pieces. The first disc alone is strong enough to be considered one of the finest jazz albums of the year, but all together, stunt or not, Ten Freedom Summers is abundant and overwhelming, with tremendous emotional resonance for subjects with complicated histories.

Ernie Paik reviews new music each week in The Pulse.

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CHATTANOOGA NOVEMBER Thursday • November 1

Christobel & The Johns Final Show!

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Saturday • Novemeber 3

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Sunday • November 4 Ash Reiter, Pinstripes

Tuesday • Novemebr 6 MONSTRO, Red Necklace

Thursday • November 8

Peelander Z, Electric eel Shock

Friday • November 9

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Christabel and the Jons 9:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd.

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FRI 09.21 Kathy Veazey and John Rawlston 7:00 p.m. Blacksmith’s Bistro and Bar, 3914 St. Elmo Avenue 423-702-5461 blacksmithstelmo.com Queen B & The Well Strung Band 8:00 p.m. Acoustic Café, 61 RBC Dr., Ringgold, Ga. (706) 965-2065 ringgoldacoustic.com The Other Guys

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BEHOLD THE BRAVE with The Water Brothers & Crass Mammoth • We have been following Behold The Brave for some time now, almost to the point of being obsessive. Each performance reassures us that we have been right to do so. BTB has been creating new material recently and featured some of those compositions on stage this past Summer. The connective influences of the purest rock n’ roll combined with the clear originality of what they produce brings a real sense of purpose to their music. They’re addictive. Trust us.

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8:00 p.m. Southside Saloon and Bistro, 1301 Chestnut St. (423) 757-4730 southsidesaloonandbistro.com Ian Hall 9:00 p.m. The Office, 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191 Black Friday 9:00 p.m. SKYZOO, 5709 Lee Hwy. (423) 468-4533 skyzoochattanooga.com.

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with the Nim Nims, Behold the Brave and Crass Mammoth 9:00 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd (423) 266-1400 Husky Burnette 9:00 p.m. Bud’s Sports Bar, 5751 Brainerd Rd. (423) 499-9878 budssportsbar.com Soul Survivor 9:30 p.m. Sugar’s Ribs, 507 Broad St. (423) 508-8956 sugarsribs.com

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Soul Survivor 9:30 p.m. Sugar’s Ribs, 507 Broad St. (423) 508-8956 sugarsribs.com Paul Collins Beat with Bohannons and Future Virgins 9:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd (423) 266-1400 Barron Wilson 10:00 p.m. Northshore Grille, 16 Frazier Ave. (423) 757-2000 Kara-Ory-Oke 10:00 p.m. The Office, 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191.

That 90’s Show with The Nim Nims and Function 10:00 p.m. Rhythm and Brews, 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com

SUN 09.23 Lynn Rice-See 3:00 p.m. UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St. (423) 425-4601 utc.edu/music Ash Reiter and Pinstripes 9:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400.

TUE 09.25 MONSTRO and Red Necklace 9:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400

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10 Years On - Lockout Mountain 201 2 M A R K S T H E 10 T H A N N I V E R S A RY of The Pulse. We are marking the occasion with a retrospective of some highlights (or lowlights) from ten years of weekly publishing.

What can we say about Trebor Redle and his cartoon creation ‘Lockout Mountain’? Well, one thing we can say is that we never, and we mean never, knew what he would bring us from one week to the next.

One thing was certain though, it rarely failed to entertain

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if not force for you to choke on your beverage should you be in mid sip when you saw the cartoon. The man himself was wildly entertaining during his visits to the office. Remembering one of these visits, Trebor dropped his trousers in the middle of the office and began mooning everyone, including onlookers who happened to be passing by our front door. The building management wasn’t too happy about the tenant complaints. We just explained it as a cost of doing business.

Thanks to Trebor Redle and his creation of ‘Lockout Mountain’, a cherished part of our publishing past.

Screen

JOHN DEVORE

Heads in the Clouds WHEN IT COMES TO LITER ATURE, MY INTEREST IS ESPECIALLY CHAR ACTER DRIVEN IDEAS and perspectives rather than plot driven styles that move in only one direction. I like a frame story - one where the story is divided into parts by different narrators, which serves to create a fuller world, one more real and complex than it seems at the outset.

These leaps from narrative to narrative, from story to story, help keep my interest and challenge me to try to piece the narrative together from the myriad, sometimes seemingly unrelated parts. Cloud Atlas is a frame story that crosses generations – one that successfully pulled me in and kept my interest, despite a nearly 3 hour running time. I was at no point lost, because the structure forced me to pay close attention and keep track of six different stories at the same time. It also kept me thinking about the way these stories connected. I want to see the film again, looking for strands that were too subtle to notice the first time, which speaks volumes for the quality of the film. I would happily invest another three hours to dissect and understand the story more completely.

It’s hard to summarize the plot to a film of this scope. The stories are interconnected, the people reincarnations of previous lives, beginning in the South Pacific in the 1700s and concluding in the distant future.

But it jumps from time period to time period, depending on certain aspects of each life. These characters are all marked by shooting star birthmark, indicating their special nature and connections. The story moves from person to person, from time to time, from story to story seamlessly. A lesser film would make the material impossibly difficult to follow – I was particularly worried before saw it that I might be lost for most of the film. But the Wachowski siblings handled the story with care, adapting the novel by David Mitchell in a way that works, creating a dynamic flow that pulls the audience in without excessive exposition or explanation. Each story stands alone – the connections between them are tertiary at best. While occasionally the film errs on the side of convenient coincidence, each story is well developed.

The themes of the film deal with the powerful connections found in humanity and the idea that love is eternal. Some people are bound to each other. They will find one another, across all boundaries, sometimes

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It makes the argument that the actions of people vary widely, always dependent on circumstance and culture. They are products of their environment, capable to both evil and good.

The technical details of the film are excellent, as would be expected of the Wachowskis. They were responsible for the Matrix films, singlehandedly creating the technique known as bullet-time, which changed action films forever. Here, they don’t break any barriers technologically.

Instead, they focused on story. I prefer

Cloud Atlas to the Matrix trilogy for that reason. The film uses the same actors in each story, portraying different characters and, at times, different genders. Some of these are more successful than others – obviously make up is a challenge and evidently it is less challenging to make a white actor look Asian than making an Asian actor appear Irish.

I’m not the type of person that finds reincarnation plausible. Human populations are endlessly increasing – there are too many new people for everyone to have been Hannibal or Cleopatra or even a nameless Civil War soldier at one point in their lives.

It might, however, explain the curious occurrence of time travelling celebrities (try Googling that – strange indeed.) Like most religious belief, I think the idea of endless rebirth is comforting to a lot of people.

We all want to have another chance at life.

Death is too final for us to fully comprehend. We want to be part of both the future and the past, so that our lives seem meaningful rather than random. While I don’t know about the truths proposed in Cloud Atlas, I can say with certainty they make for good stories. My time was not wasted.

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Arts & Entertainment THU 11.01 Art After School (ages 6-8) 4:30 - 6:00 Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View. (423) 266-0944 huntermuseum.org Sip and Sketch 4:30 p.m. Shuptrine’s Gold Leaf Designs, 2646 Broad Street (423)266-4453 shuptrines.com FACES UnMasked 5:30 p.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538 theatrecentre.com Stand-Up Comedy: Etta May 8:00 p.m. The Comedy Catch, 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com

CALENDAR (423)425-4269 utc.edu/Administration/FineArtsCenter/ Wide Open Floor 8:00 p.m. Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org Ruby Falls Lantern Tours 8:30 p.m. 1720 South Scenic Highway (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com Stand-Up Comedy: Alysia Wood 9:30 p.m. Vaudeville Café, 138 Market St. (423) 517-1839 funnydinner.com

FRI 11.02 Pre-K Day 10-11 a.m. Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View (423) 266-0944 huntermuseum.org Fresh on Fridays 11 a.m. Miller Plaza, 850 Market St. (423) 265-3700 rivercitycompany.com “The Art of Gifting”Exhibition Open Reception 5-8 p.m. In-Town Gallery, 26A Frazier Avenue (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com Spectrum 2012 Preview Party 6-8 p.m. Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View (423) 266-0944 huntermuseum.org “Quiet Spaces” Exhibition Opening Reception 6:30-8 River Gallery, 400 E. Second Street (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com boom 7:30 p.m. Rivoli Art Mill, 2301 E. 28th St. (423) 265-4287 theaterforthenewsouth.com Stand-Up Comedy: Etta May 7:30 p.m./10:00 p.m. The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com The Curious Savage 7:30 p.m. Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga 1918 Union Avenue (423) 987-5141 ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com “An Evening of One Acts” 7:30 p.m. UTC Fine Arts Center, 736 Vine St.

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ALYSIA WOOD AT VAUDEVILLE CAFE’ • Alysia Wood hails from Seattle and has established herself as one of the best new faces on tour.

FRI 11.03 • 9:30 p.m. • Vaudeville Cafe’ (423) 517-1839 •funnydinner.com

SAT 11.03 Head of the Hooch Rowing Regatta 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Chattanooga Riverfront, 201 Riverfront Parkway (800) 262-0695, headofthehooch.org

1st Annual Reindeer Dash 8:30 a.m. Hamilton Place Mall, 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd.

(423) 894-7177 hamiltonplace.com Football at the Falls (Sept. Sat/Sun) All Day (8 a.m.-8 p.m.) Ruby Falls, 1720 South Scene Highway (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com Fall Craft Fair 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Brainerd United Methodist Church, 4315 Brainerd Road (423) 698-6951 brainerdumc.org Fall Color Cruises 10:00 a.m. Blue Moon Cruises, 5637 Hwy 411 South, Benton, TN (888) 993-BLUE http://www.bluemooncruises. org/cruise_fall_festival.htm Fantastic Fall Scavenger Adventure 10 a.m. Blue Moon Adventure, 6234 Hunter Valley Road Ooltewah, Tennessee (423) 645-9360 bluemoonadventures.biz “Quiet Spaces” 10 a.m.-5 p.m. River Gallery, 400 E. Second Street (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com Old McDonald’s Farm Days 10:00-7:00 Old McDonald’s Farm, 16705 Coulterville Road, Sale Creek, TN (423)-531-CORN oldmcdonaldsfarm.net Hamilton Place Annual Santa Arrival Parade 11 a.m. Hamilton Place Mall, 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd.

(423) 894-7177 hamiltonplace.com River Market 10 a.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960 chattanoogamarket.com The H Play 10:30 a.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538 theatrecentre.com November Open House 12-4 p.m. The Georgia Winery, 6469 Battlefield Parkway, Ringgolg, GA, (706) 937-WINE georgiawines.com Fall Color Cruises 1:00 p.m. Blue Moon Cruises, 5637 Hwy 411 South, Benton, TN (888)-993-BLUE http://www.bluemooncruises. org/cruise_fall_festival.htm The Curious Savage 2:00 p.m. Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga 1918 Union Avenue

(423) 987-5141 ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com Ronald McDonald House 3rd Annual Bowl-a-Rama 2-5 p.m. Pin Strikes Bowling Alley, 6241 Perimeter Drive (423) 778-4338 rmhchattanooga.com American Lung Association Celebration - Party Like a Rock Star 7:00 p.m. Marriott Convention Center Ballroom, 2 Carter Plaza (423) 629-1098 alatn.org boom 7:30 p.m. Rivoli Art Mill 2301 E. 28th St. (423) 265-4287 theaterforthenewsouth.com Stand-Up Comedy: Etta May 7:30/10:00 p.m. The Comedy Catch, 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com “An Evening of One Acts” 7:30 p.m. UTC Fine Arts Center, 736 Vine St. (423)425-4269 utc.edu/Administration/FineArtsCenter/ Shape and Sound: Individual Collaborations in Dance 8:00 p.m. Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org Stand-Up Comedy: Alysia Wood 10:30 p.m. Vaudeville Café, 138 Market St. (423) 517-1839 funnydinner.com

SUN 11.04 Football at the Falls (Sept. Sat/Sun) All Day (8 a.m.-8 p.m.) Ruby Falls, 1720 South Scene Highway (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com Head of the Hooch Rowing Regatta 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Chattanooga Riverfront, 201 Riverfront Parkway (800) 262-0695 headofthehooch.org Champagne Sunday Brunch 11 a.m. Chattanoogan Hotel, 1201 South Broad St. (423) 266-5000 chattanooganhotel.com Spectrum 2012 Brunch 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View.

(423) 266-0944 huntermuseum.org Free First Sunday 12-4:30 p.m. Hunter Museum of

American Art, 10 Bluff View (423) 266-0944 huntermuseum.org Bark For Life 12:15 p.m. First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com “Quiet Spaces” 1-5 p.m. River Gallery, 400 E. Second St. (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com Melissa Fay Greene 3:00 p.m. UTC University Center Auditorium, 615 McCallie Ave. (423) 425-4627 verbie-prevost@utc.edu Shape and Sound: Individual Collaborations in Dance 3:30 p.m. Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org The Curious Savage 6:30 p.m. Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, 1918 Union Ave. (423) 987-5141 ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com Ron White: Moral Compass Tour 7:00 p.m. Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St. (800) 955-4746 chattanoogaonstage.com

MON 11.05 “Quiet Spaces” 10 a.m.-5 p.m. River Gallery 400 E. Second Street (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com “The Art of Gifting” 1-5 p.m. In-Town Gallery, 26A Frazier Ave. (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com McKamey Animal Center Charity auction 6-9 p.m. Council Fire, 100 Council Fire Dr. (423) 499-9095 mckameyanimalcenter.org Chattanooga Monday Nite Big Band 7:30 p.m. The Palms at Hamilton, 6925 Shallowford Road (423) 499-5055 thepalmsathamilton.com Comedy Night with Tony Levi 9:00 p.m. The Office, 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191

TUE 11.06 “Quiet Spaces” 10 a.m.-5 p.m. River Gallery 400 E. Second Street

(423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com 4th Annual McKamey Animal Center Golf Challenge 10:30 a.m. Council Fire, 100 Council Fire Dr. (423) 499-9095 mckameyanimalconter.org Tuesdays at Tony’s 11 a.m. Tony’s Pasta Shop & Trattoria, 212 High St. (423) 265-5033 bluffviewartdistrict.com “The Art of Gifting” 1-5 p.m. In-Town Gallery, 26A Frazier Avenue (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com

MON 11.07 “Quiet Spaces” 10 a.m.-5 p.m. River Gallery 400 E. Second Street (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com Chattanooga History Center’s History Makers Luncheon 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Chattanooga Convention Center, 1150 Carter Street (423) 265-3247 chattanoogaconventioncenter.org Spectrum 2012 Curator’s Lunch 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View (423) 266-0944 huntermuseum.org “The Art of Gifting” 1-5 p.m. In-Town Gallery, 26A Frazier Avenue (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com Wine Wednesdays 5 p.m. Back Inn Café, 412 East 2nd St. (423) 265-5033 bluffviewartdistrict.com Wine Down Wednesday 5 p.m. Broad Street Grille, 1201 Broad St. (423) 424-3700 chattanooganhotel.com Ronald McDonald House 3rd Annual Bowl-a-Rama 6-9 p.m. Pin Strikes Bowli ng Alley, 6241 Perimeter Drive (423) 778-4338 rmhchattanooga.com

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Sushi & Biscuits

MIKE MCJUNKIN

Pseushi Redux CHATTANOOGA IS FACING A CRISIS OF EPIC PROPORTIONS. Our city is being overrun with an enemy so insidious, so deceptive, that it has infiltrated our shops, our lunchrooms, and even our own homes. We have an enemy within that must be driven from our city at the tip of a Shun blade. That enemy is pseushi.

UrbanDictionar y.com defines pseushi as, “sushi that is sold in grocery stores, gas stations, and Chinese buffets. It resembles sushi, kinda tastes like sushi...but it needs some help.” Sadly, pseushi cannot be helped, reasoned with or politely asked to leave. Like a zombie horde lurching its way through town, pseushi will slowly infect and assimilate the population until there is nothing left but a small enclave of true believers, politely refusing the cries of “Try the California roll” from those who have previously fallen prey to this blight. The horror.

The first victim of pseushi is the doe eyed sushi virgin. Hesitant to commit to a potentially expensive meal, they unwittingly wander into the belly of the beast – the “sushi bar” at the Chinese buffet. That’s like going to a Chinese buffet to try biscuits and gravy for the first time. I can hear the cries of those proclaiming their love for the sushi at Chef Lin or New China, but I stand firm against pseushi.

Plenty of people think the McRib tastes good too but that doesn’t make it a good pork sandwich.

As a general rule of thumb, if it’s premade it’s pseushi. I don’t care if you are standing in FreshWholeLifeGreenFoods, if it you’re holding a plastic container you’re about to jump into pseushi’s unmarked van and there’s no

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tasty treat like you were promised, only confusion and a really bad taste in your mouth later.

When eating at a decent sushi restaurant, such as Sushi Nabe or Sekisui the order you eat your dishes can make a huge difference in your experience. Order sashimi first. The delicate flavors of these thinly sliced pieces of fish should be eaten before other strong flavors affect your palate.

Order nigiri next, starting with milder flavors and building to stronger ones.

If you must dip, dip pieces of nigiri lightly into soy sauce (shoyu) topping side first. Turn nigiri pieces upside-down so that the sauce touches the topping instead of the rice and never dip the rice in shoyu. Eating nigiri upside down also ensures the fish hits your taste buds first instead of the rice.

Save anything spicy or cooked, such as unagi (eel) or tempura for the end of the meal because tasting subtleties after a spicy tuna roll is like listening to NPR on the way home from a Motorhead show.

Never mix wasabi into your soy sauce to make that unholy wasabi soup concoction. This is like putting ketchup on a steak. But if you are eating pseushi I recommend piling on whatever condiment helps you choke that mess down.

The pickled ginger (gari) is meant to be eaten between dishes of sushi as a palate cleanser. It’s not a condiment and is not meant to be

eaten in any type of sushi, or hand roll.

There are plenty of restaurants in Chattanooga that will gladly roll up cat food quality tuna with some cream cheese and overcooked rice into a cold, doughy, fishy tube of sadness and pretend it’s sushi If you’re trying to break the pseushi habit I recommend dining omakase style at a sushi restaurant such as Sushi Nabe, Totto, or Sekisui. Omakase style leaves the selection of dishes up to the Itamae (chef), similar to ordering a tasting menu. Places like NA Go YA, Mikado, Rain, and Kumo come dangerously close to pseushi at times and large chain restaurants like Shogun, Ichiban, Esushi and Fuji barely mask their embrace of pseushi flavors and combinations.

Chattanooga may or may not have enough serious sushi enthusiasts to support a truly top-notch sushi bar, but as customers we can continue to fight against the evils of the California Roll and live to tell the grandkids how we survived the great pseushi crisis of 2012.

Mike McJunkin cooks better than you and eats quite a lot of very strange food. Visit his Facebook page (Sushi and Biscuits) for updates and recipes.

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Free Will Astrology VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Urbandictionary.com defines “Skymall solution” as “an absurdly single-purposed tool or solution that solves a problem you don’t actually have.” The term is derived from the famous Skymall catalog, which sells unusual specialty products. According to my analysis of the current astrological omens, you should be wary of any attraction you might have to Skymall solutions. Do you really need a King Tut tissue box cover or an ice cube tray that makes ice in the shape of dachshunds or a stencil set for putting messages on your bundt cake? I doubt it. Nor do you need their metaphorical equivalents.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Right

before I woke up this morning, I had a dream that one of my teeth fell out. As I lay there groggily in bed, my mind searched for its meaning. “What does losing a tooth symbolize?” I asked myself.

I promised myself that when I got up, I would google that question.

But my rumination was interrupted by a dull ache in the back of my mouth, and it was only then that I remembered: Yesterday, in waking life, I had a real tooth yanked out by a real dentist. The moral of the story, Libra: Be wary of making up elaborate stories and mythic assumptions about events that have simple, mundane explanations.

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is an excellent time to explore the frontiers of wise foolishness.

I’m hoping you will take full advantage of learning opportunities that might require you to acknowledge how much you don’t know. Are you brave enough to disavow cynical thoughts and jaded attitudes that muffle your lust for life? Are you smart enough to understand how healthy it would be to go out and play like an innocent wild child?

Make yourself available for delightful surprises.

SAGITTARIUS

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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Zombies used to be terrifying.

But then they became a featured motif in pop culture, often in humorous contexts, and now there’s a growing acceptance and even affection for them. Here’s the view of Max Brooks, author of *The Zombie Survival Guide*: “Eventually rock and roll morphs from Sid Vicious to the Jonas Brothers. Same thing with vampires: We went from *Dracula* to *Twilight* to make them peachy and G-rated. Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to do to your personal fears what the entertainment industry has done to zombies: Turn them into amusing caricatures that don’t trouble you so much. For example, visualize an

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adversary singing a duet with Justin Bieber.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You must learn from the mistakes of others,” said humorist Sam Levenson. “You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” That’s excellent advice for you right now, Capricorn. In order to glean the teachings you need most, you won’t have to bumble through a single wrong turn or bad decision yourself. There will be plenty of blundering role models who will be providing you with the precise inspiration you need.

spective and meditative about your urge to merge . . . to think objectively about the way you approach togetherness . . . to be honest with yourself about what strengths and weaknesses you bring to the art of collaboration.

The most important question you can ask yourself during this inventory is this: “How do I personally contribute, either knowingly or unconsciously, to the problems I experience in relationships.” Here’s another query you might consider: “How hard am I willing to work to create the kinds of intimacy and alliances I say I want?”

AQUARIUS

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every November, thousands of writers participate in National Novel Writing Month. They pledge to compose at least 50,000 words of a new novel in that 30-day period.

In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I propose that you commit yourself to a comparable project in your own field.

Is there a major transformation you’ve long wanted to undertake but have always had some excuse to avoid? I predict that you will attract unexpected help and luck if you summon the willpower to focus on that task.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t believe the climate is changing? Go ask the birds what they think. Sixty percent of all the feathered species in North America have moved north in the past 46 years. Scientists are pretty sure their migration is a response to the warming trend that’s afoot. I like the idea of tuning in to how animals behave in order to get accurate information about the state of the world. According to my astrological analysis, the coming months will be a time when you can learn a lot from non-human intelligences.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Big opportunities are coming up for you. Even if you cash in on them, though, they aren’t likely to make an immediate practical impact.

They are subtle and deep, these prospects. So what are these openings? Here are my guesses: 1. You could root out a bad seed that got embedded in your subconscious mind before you knew any better. 2. You could reinterpret the meaning of certain turning points in your past, thereby revising the flow of your life story. 3. You could forgive yourself for an old sin you thought you’d never let go of. 4.

You could receive a friendly shock that will diminish some sadness you’ve carried for a long time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This

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Rob: I seem to be marooned in an interesting limbo. The sights and sounds are not exactly pretty, but they keep me perversely entertained. I’m sampling tastes that are more sour than sweet, thinking that sooner or later the sweetness will start to prevail -- but it never does. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a trance, unable to do what’s best for me. Can you offer any help? Like maybe give me a password that would break me out of the trance?

-Meandering Gemini.” Dear Meandering: This is one of those rare times when you have cosmic permission to favor what’s calming and reassuring rather than what’s amusing and stimulating.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): On September 22, the San Francisco Giants played a baseball game against the San Diego Padres. In the fourth inning, Giants’ Pablo Sandoval sprinted to the edge of the field, then hurled himself over a railing to snag a foul pop-up. The fact that he landed upside down but perfectly unhurt wasn’t the most impressive aspect of his feat.

Nor was his improbable ability to wield such precise concentration while invoking so much raw force.

Even more amazing was the pink bubble that Sandoval blew with his chewing gum nanoseconds before he dived. That’s the spirit I hope you will bring to your efforts in the coming days.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your unconscious mind will be more accessible than usual in the coming weeks. It will reveal its agendas more clearly and play more of an active role in your life. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It will depend on how open-minded you are toward the surprises your secret self will reveal. If you try to ignore or repress its eruptions, they’ll probably wreak chaos. If, on the other hand, you treat this other part of you as generous ally, you may be able to work out a collaboration that serves you both.

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10) Holder and Reno, for short 13) “Nets to Catch the Wind” poet Wylie 14) Goneril’s father 15) Sign for a packed theater 16) Getting gray 17) Ways out 19) Sketch show with Dollar Bill Montgomery 20) Bart Simpson word 21) Gothic novelist Radcliffe 23) 1 of 18 24) Explorer with a peak named after him 29) C times C, divided by IV 32) Chef who says “Pork fat rules!”

33) Had some hash 34) Type of 1-across, in Mexico 35) Burn in the tub 36) Election Day day: abbr.

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rockers The Pacemakers 38) Till compartment 39) ___ Harbour, Fla. 40) Shown past the foyer 41) “What is it?”

42) Native American group (and source of a Washington city that differs by one letter) 44) Yell on the links 45) Pop-up blockers block them 46) Drug abused by Rush Limbaugh and Courtney Love 50) Like growly stomachs 55) Removed from the actual action, as with a commentator 56) Where Cedric the Entertainer got a big break 57) ___ chi 58) Jimmy Eat World’s “Drugs ___” 59) “I thought it’d never get here!”

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5) Illegitimate 6) Unit of energy 7) She played drums on “Seven Nation Army” 8) Venue for drunken singing 9) Preset on a stereo, maybe 10) Org. 11) Bryant Gumbel’s brother 12) Player suspended in 2003 for using a corked bat 14) Zodiac sign for Ben Affleck or Roger Federer 18) Crime novelist Grafton 20) MSNBC rival 22) Lon ___ (palindromic coup leader) 24) Piquant 25) Pageant host 26) Lima and pinto 27) They may be stored in “Favorites” 28) Comic Poundstone 29) Nixon whose voice

replaced Natalie Wood’s in “West Side Story” 30) Golden Arches sandwich, sometimes 31) “Love Will Lead You Back” singer Taylor 34) Shift 36) Don’t rush 37) Reaches, as a high point 39) One of the Seven Sisters 40) Lamentable 42) Drink once pitched

by Yogi Berra 43) Beatnik interjection 44) Govt. arm mentioned by Eminem in “Without Me” 46) Muesli ingredients 47) Get an inside shot?

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Life in the Noog

CHUCK CROWDER

Tennessee makes whiskey, stills I RECENTLY READ WHERE OUR VERY OWN CHATTANOOGA Whiskey Company is leading attempts to reverse state legislation that currently prohibits the production of drinkable spirits in Hamilton County. If so, “Chattanooga” whiskey, currently distilled in Indiana, can rightfully claim its desired local connection.

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With the Jack Daniel’s distillery located in Moore County, George Dickel in Coffee County, Prichard’s in Lincoln County and Collier & McKeel in Davidson County, you can’t spell Tennessee without a shot of whiskey. The barrel brown firewater has been in our state’s DNA for more than a century. George Jones even had a hit with a song titled “Tennessee Whiskey.”

But even our state’s penchant for producing whiskey isn’t without its contradictive oddities. Just the fact that Jack Daniel’s has been made for more than 130 years in what is now a dry county will clue one in on the fact that our Red State is driven by staunch morals, even though times do seem to be a’ changing.

In 2009, the Tennessee General Assembly added 41 counties to the statute that previously limited the distillation of drinkable spirits to just 3 counties.

This change was expected to lead to even more producers of worldwide-popular Tennessee whiskey.

However, for some reason the home of one of Tennessee’s four largest metropolitan areas, Hamilton County, was left off of that list.

The current hold up in amending this legislation to include our home county is seated it seems with the upstanding intentions of Republican State Representative Richard Floyd

– of Chattanooga! He was quoted as saying that since drinking and driving kills, his faith will not allow him to vote for any such amendment.

What!?! Excuse me, but I thought his political party, currently trying to reclaim the White House for Pete’s sake, is all about JOB CREATION. And since he’s a representative of our city’s best interests – as well as being up for re-election as a Republican – wouldn’t he want to create more jobs right in his own back yard? What does drinking and driving have to do with that? Good thing Romney isn’t paying attention.

Thankfully Floyd’s Democratic opponent in the upcoming election, Frank Eaton, has the foresight to see that moving production of Chattanooga Whiskey to its namesake city not only creates jobs and produces tax revenue that stimulates the local economy, but just makes sense.

Fact is, Chattanooga has been a brewer of beer for more than a century. Before prohibition, we were home to many, many local

breweries. Since then, we brew and serve fine frothy alcoholic beverages by Big River, Chattanooga Brewing Company, Moccasin Bend Brewing Company and the Terminal Brewhouse, among others. What’s the difference between locally produced beer and locally produced spirits? Politics.

State laws – especially in Tennessee – are vastly different regarding anything having to do with beer, on the one hand, and liquor and wine on the other. You can’t sell everything in one store. You can’t even serve everything by the drink unless you jump through a few different sets of hoops.

So the same is true with the production of alcoholic beverages I guess.

The bottom line is that if we truly are “one of the most progressive, livable cities in America,” then we need to put our money (or at least a taste of Tennessee whiskey) where our mouths are. I don’t know about you, but I believe that Frank Eaton (and Chattanooga Whiskey Company) may actually have our district’s best interests in mind when it comes to growing Chattanooga further beyond the dark ages.

Chuck Crowder is a local writer and general man about town. His opinions are his own.

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