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HIGHLIGHTS hroughout this issue of The Pulse, we have highlighted some truly special events for your Halloween pleasure.
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So much, in fact, that we can’t imagine you are planning a night in with pop corn and movie. But in case that’s your preference, Film Writer John Devore has selected his ‘Best and Worst’ list of the Horror/Gore genre’s. Agree or disagree, there is most likely a film there that you haven’t seen yet.
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Bringing Life Back to Glass Street and Glass Street Back to Life Glass House Collective, an organization based out of an airy loft-style workspace on Glass Street is comprised of vibrant professionals with one common goal: breathe life into a once impressive area of Chattanooga that has, to no specific fault, been largely forgotten. “Glass Street was booming a long time ago. I was a little girl when, with my parents driving up and down Glass Street, some of the activities and some of the things that you saw— it was a community and there were businesses that were doing well,” Shawanna Kendrick, community organizer for the district design vision said. “I think that all of the residents are in agreement, as we are, that it can be built back up.” While the initiative is in part based on
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a sense of nostalgia, as Program Director Katherine Currin explained, Glass Street is central to major growth areas in Chattanooga such as downtown and Enterprise South. It also neighbors a national park and the popular Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Glass Street has good bones and Glass House Collective hopes that changing the public’s perception will bring energy back to this distinctive area. “A lot of what we’re trying to do to bring businesses back to the storefronts is start with making Glass Street more safe, clean and inviting,” Teal Thibaud, director of communications and outreach said. This seems to be Glass House Collective’s mantra, which has been echoed by Glass Street residents who have been more than willing to participate. The process
has grown organically through community meetings, a chance for residents to give opinions and suggestions about changes they want to see. In the first meeting, Glass House Collective was able to capitalize on some of Tennessee’s top architects in Chattanooga for a statewide convention. The architects were split into eight teams and peppered with Glass Street residents for preliminary brainstorming. Twenty-six ideas were conceived which David Barlew, community design architect, narrowed down to the “Big Five.” “We know from the first meeting that most teams proposed a park so we’re taking that and we’re asking them what they would use a community space for to inform what kind of park it’s going to be,” Barlew said. “We want them to have ownership over the document that ends up being produced.” There are five more meetings planned with demographics ranging from local merchants to area children. The idea of a “collective” really resonates here due to the level of support Glass House Collective has received not only from residents but community members outside of Glass Street. The cooperation between the Glass House Collective team and residents has manifested into an initiative brimming with progressive ideas centered on the community’s needs. “When we were first thinking of coming to Glass Street we started with conversations with residents, neighborhood associations, doing some door knocking. There was a constant commitment to wanting to see something happen,” Currin said. On December 6th there will be a public unveiling party in celebration of the finished plans. Glass Street’s revitalization will begin soon after. Stay tuned for more innovations from Glass House Collective including an event called “Build a Better Block” in late February inspired by Memphis’ wildly popular, “A New Face for an Old Broad.” To contact members of Glass House Collective for volunteer opportunities send an email to info@glasshousecollective.org. For more information on Glass House Collective visit www.glasshousecollective.org. - Erin McFarland
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Haunted House H a l l oween . W hat a magica l time of year . The only thing that’s better for criminals than wearing heavy coats to obscure firearms is a perfectly reasonable excuse to wear (or be caught carrying) masks as well. Most people, fortunately, don’t tend to look for weapons on everyone they encounter as often as cops do (which you may add that to your “things I am thankful for” list, right before or after “yoga pants”. For the Po-Po, it’s a task that never ends, on or off duty. Does this lead you to believe that cops hate this time of year more than any other? Strangely, no. Any good cop knows that he or she hates the Fourth of July and New Year’s more than any other... the asinine fireworks, complaints coming in by the megaton for the Fourth of July from curmudgeon sons of bitches, people that drive me almost as crazy as the bastards firing the things off for the days before and after this holiday, therefore giving it a bitter association for me and thus erasing my patriotic childhood. Oh, and of course New Year’s Eve and the inevitable complaints on “shots fired” calls at midnight, another baffling phenomena for people who lack either souls or common sense. We don’t hate Halloween the most, but it definitely makes the top five. Besides the valid points about the bulky coats and masks, I never really consciously thought about it until my girlfriend wanted me to take her to a haunted house. We went and I ended up spending both $40 and the entire evening barely resisting the urge to throttle the shit out of
every actor jumping out at me in the dark. (It’s called “muscle memory” for a reason.) Fascinating thing, muscle memory. The first time I acknowledged it was after walking through a project development on the Westside one winter night. I rounded a corner looking for a bad guy, my pistol drawn, and sure enough the bad guy was right around the corner with his back pressed up against the wall and his arm already extended with a revolver in his hand pointed directly at my head. Rather than point-and-shoot, my left hand reached out, clasped the revolver, twisted it inward towards his chest and plucked it from his hand as he lost grip on it. I stepped away, taking careful aim at him now, and in turn finally making the decision to shoot or not shoot. This all happened in a little over second, and it happened just the way it was supposed to. I was too close to shoot and I knew where his first bullet would go, so I attacked the weapon as I was trained. I said all of that to tell you how serious I am about “muscle memory” and reactions to rapid, unex-
pected physical threats, so when a twenty-something is in a blacked-out barn lit only by occasional strobe flashes and is reaching jumping out at me, it sets off some deep alarm bells in my dark cop heart. I’m not describing a Vietnam flashback, I’m just saying that it isn’t a lot of damn fun for me. If you really think about it, we work Halloween night every night of the year. Masks? Already covered. Zombies? I actually know their names, the bridges they live under, or where they score their rock. (I’m talking about Crackheads and the rare heroin addict.) Monsters? I’ve met some very real ones. Every building we search, business or residential, occupied or abandoned is a haunted house. And in those houses, the rules of engagement are very different. Halloween: A magical time of the year…but take your cop-friends psyche into consideration before planning any outings for a “good scare”. In fact, hop in their car on the job and look for the real thing. They’ll take you with a smile on their faces, and this time…the smiles will be real. As will the monster. Alex Teach is a full-time police officer of nearly 20 years experience. The opinions expressed are his own. Follow him on Facebook at facebook.com/alex. teach.
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October is that time of year where movie critics talk about horror movies. Endless lists of the scariest films are run on rarely watched cable channels, marathons of popular slasher franchises are forced on consumers, and Wes Craven materializes in television studios around the country. It seems only fitting that John Devore join in the revelry.
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I’m not the biggest horror buff – I want movies to be good, no matter what the genre. But there are ways to grab my interest instantly and it usually has to do with the type of horror movie When it comes to Halloween, I lean more towards the spirit world than the physical when selecting entertainment. Below you’ll find my favorite genres, with a few great examples, as well as my least favorite genres. Hopefully, you’ll be able to find something to watch with the lights out on the 31st. Haunted House I love a good haunted house movie. Some of the best are films that portray the location as simply evil – good examples of this are 1408, The Shining, and most recently, Sinister. Audiences don’t need explanations, Indian burial grounds or curses. We just need to know that a particular location is dangerous. Evil is by its very nature wanton and indiscriminate - a haunted house embodies these qualities to a powerful degree. The impersonal nature of the haunted house makes it much more horrifying than a human killer hid-
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ing in the shadows. The house/hotel room exists only to torment those that enter. These movies are excellent at creating a sense of dread – the feeling that something bad is going to happen. Dread is much more powerful than any visible monster. The audience reacts to this on a primal level, creating a spectacular tension not found in other types of horror.
films like The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Evil Dead, and Paranormal Activity, which are as affecting and powerful. If you’re looking for a more recent film, check out The Possession, a film about a Jewish evil spirit called a dybyyk. Sequels - Listen, I know you liked Paranormal Activity. I did too. It was a fun movie experience, one that I’d like to replicate. But four movies about the same thing, featuring the same scares, the same format, the same story isn’t going to cut it. Fear, like comedy, is only effective when unexpected. Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street are the same movie with different murder victims. At this point, we know that Jason is going to appear out of nowhere despite being a gigantic zombie. We know Freddy is going laugh at his own jokes. We can predict the horrible ways that people are going to die in Final Destination 2-900. A sequel to a horror movie is only going to leave you unfulfilled, like making a meal out of candy corn or leaving a strip club at closing. Branch out, find something new, and force Hollywood to scare you in new, interesting ways. You’ll thank me.
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Gore/Torture - I personally find this genre to be distasteful and boring. Just because Eli Roth is fascinated by graphic
eviscerations doesn’t make it frightening. The Saw franchise, Hostel, Final Destination, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects - these are all films that focus on depravity rather than story. I spent a summer cleaning and filleting live catfish for restaurant in Lenoir City. I killed thousands of fish that summer. Set it to a scary soundtrack and it might be as engaging as the typical Saw film. My point is that audiences should require more than buckets of blood and scores of decapitations in their horror movies. What you don’t see is always
scarier than what you do. Too much blood and the audience stops noticing it. Everyone has their own list, of course. If zombies, vampires (the non-twinkly kind) or aliens are your thing, that’s fine. Try finding a film you haven’t seen before or try experiencing a favorite in a different way. The Exorcist is a different experience with an audience than alone. Happy Halloween, folks. We’ll pick this conversation up again next October.
Possession – Demonic possession is a universal fear. Almost all religions allow for some sort of evil spirit capable of controlling an unwilling victim. In the United States where Christianity and society are inextricably mixed, possession is thought of as a very real possibility by a large number of people. Add an innocent to the formula, like a child, and you have a volatile concoction rubric for a horror film. Obviously, The Exorcist is the quintessential film for possession. But there have been other films, chattanoogapulse.com • OCT. 25-31, 2012 • The Pulse • 7
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THU10.25 MUSIC Hellblinki with Subterranean Cirqus The Bohannons
13th Annual All Hallow’s Eve Ball respected music blogs and magazines around the country with Unka and it’s immediately evident why once you hear it. Eight Knives is a relatively new band, and have come on the scene strong this year. Having composed a solid repertoire of original music, taking it to the stages at JJ’s Bohemia and Track 29, the Knives have proven their live gig chops. Nashville based How I Became The Bomb, has hit Chattanooga and garnered a local fan base since they formed in 2005. With tours taking them to SXSW, Bonnaroo, Spain and the UK, HIBTB continues to create great, popbased music, with unexpected and fresh hooks. Mix in the always entertaining and often elaborate costumes worn by the patrons and you have another great year of a Halloween tradition cherished by so many.
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• The start to an eventful Halloween weekend with a rock n’ roll freak show. 9:00 p.m. - JJ’s Bohemia - 231 MLK Blvd.. jjsbohemia.com
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Stand Up Comedy with Tim Sullivan • Vaudeville Cafe’ kicks off another double header of renowned comedy 9:30 p.m. - Vaudeville Cafe’ - 138 Market Street (423) 517 - 1839 funnydinner.com.
• The 13th annual Halloween bash is here! One of the most anticipated nights of the year! 9 p.m. - The Honest Pint - 35 Patten Parkway (423 468 - 4192 thehonestpint.com
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Celebrating Halloween just wouldn’t be the same without gathering at Patten Parkway. What was formerly Parkway Billiards and now The Honest Pint, has been the central hub of Halloween revelry going on 13 years. Remembering the only year that the space was dark with renovations still happening during the transition to The Honest Pint, many were lost on that night. Having no center of the Halloween universe, ghosts and goblins were scattered to the corners of the city. That dark dark evening is long gone now. The 13th Annual All Hallow’s Eve Ball has shaped up to be one of the best music line-ups yet with The Bohannons, Eight Knives and How I Became The Bomb. The Bohannons will be kicking off their Fall 2012 tour with this show, backing up the release of their newest recording Unaka Rising. The Bohannons have been getting rave reviews in
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• The Communicators have produced a number of special musical events over the past two years that consistently lather up their crowds with excitement. This “super group”, which is composed of members from other local bands, give performances that entertain as well as present some damn fine musicians. This weekend, The Communicators brings you Boogie Fiction Halloween Double Feature. On Friday Oct. 26th, they
will be performing cuts from the soundtrack of the 1997 movie ‘Boogie Nights’. Then, Saturday Oct. 27th, The Communicators bring you the soundtrack of ‘Pulp Fiction’. There’s so much great music on these two soundtracks and the theme for a set of Halloween shows couldn’t be more perfect. You can get to either performance for $15 or get entrance to both Friday and Saturday shows for a discount at $25. Contests, special theme
festivities (Twist contest Saturday night!), go-go’s and ghoulies galore. Boogie Fiction Halloween Double Feature 9:30 p.m. (Both nights) Friday October 25th and Saturday October 26th Rhythm & Brews 221 Market Street rhythm-brews.com
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Between the Sleeves record reviews • ernie paik With a story worthy of a Buena Vista Social Club-type documentary treatment, members of the Dutch post-punk band The Ex were captivated by early ‘70s recordings of Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria, on the Ethiopiques 14 compilation. In 2004, they tracked him down in his home country and persuaded him to visit Amsterdam, leading to collaborations, world tours and the album Moa Anbessa. Mekuria, now in his late seventies, expressed a desire to The Ex to create another album, sensing that it might be his last, and Y’Anbessaw Tezeta is the result, with an appropriately reflective mood, if somewhat less fiery than before—in his own words, capturing the “deeper, sensitive side” of him. Though Merkuria was trained on western-world standards, he claims ignorance regarding jazz music; instead, his repertoire is steeped in traditional Ethiopian music, and the priGetatchew Mekuria & marily instrumental Y’Anbessaw Tezeta draws from Ethiopian The Ex & Friends classics, from war-chants to folk tunes to wedding songs. The Y’Anbessaw Tezeta stunning “Tezeta,” a mostly solo saxophone number, apart from (Terp) a little vocalizing at the end, showcases Mekuria’s unique and complicated tone, which manages to be simultaneously ardent and vulnerable with strong modulations. On “Ene Eskemot Derese,” Mekuria tag-teams navigating a fluid melody with a rapidly plucked guitar, atop a sturdy brushed-drum pattern, and the warrior song “Aha Gedawo” boils over with a sax/horn call-and-response exchange. The album includes an hour-long bonus disc of mostly live recordings, featuring collaborations from the last eight years with The Ex and ICP (Instant Composers Pool), as well as haunting, historical tracks from the early ‘60s. In this incarnation, the ICP is a ten-person ensemble, including co-founders pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink, providing spirited and diverse contributions to the musical tapestry. Listeners expecting to hear raucous explosions may be disappointed by Y’Anbessaw Tezeta, but that’s not what Merkuria is going for on this outing, opting for a more moderate, yet profoundly expressive style.
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Chicago-based percussionist Tim Daisy demonstrates a unique amalgam of approaches with his trio Vox Arcana, drawing from vibrant free jazz influences that are integrated into his compositions; the rigorous, tightly synchronized runs and interplay evoke modern classical methods, and there’s also a wild card element with a penchant for sound exploration and experimentation. Vox Arcana has developed its own identity with some key trademark elements, including a stop-on-a-dime agility with rapid, abrupt starts and stops. Another hallmark is a sort of sonic pointillism, with streams of pin-prick note repetition, Vox Arcana resembling musical Morse code, heard on the opening track Soft Focus “De Grote Olifant” (“the large elephant” in Dutch), with clari(Relay) netist James Falzone playing with a sharp precision and spotless clarity while tapping out his telegraph message, to be joined by Daisy on the marimba; cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm intersects Falzone’s line, with some fluid, classically-leaning riffing. They take turns carrying the head vamp and alternate their flights into space, with unpredictable jaunts, and Daisy serves up a wild drum solo with a dense flurry of taut, swift beats, metallic clicks and rattles, and a delivery that paradoxically sounds both focused and scatterbrained. “White Numbers” also features staccato punctuation and minimalist dotted lines and remarkably seems to embody another contradiction, with the use of a peculiar kind of orchestrated disorder and controlled explosions. While all three musicians clearly enjoy their passages of freedom to explore, Lonberg-Holm exhibits a particular fondness for going beyond notes, from the violent string scraping sounds he generates on “Other Lights” to the glissandos that end the album on the closing track “The Siren.” Soft Focus strikes a nice balance between disparate elements and highlights stimulating contrasts of rigor tempered with play and classical composition giving way to free jazz, keeping the players—and the listeners—on their toes. Ernie Paik reviews new music each week in The Pulse.
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richard winham
Buckingham’s Machine
Lindsey Buckingham, coming to Track 29 for a solo show on Wednesday November 7th, ranked #99 on Rolling Stone’s Top 100 guitarists. That dismal showing while disappointing isn’t really surprising. Buckingham’s eccentricities as a player and a writer have routinely caused him to be underrated even when his band was at its height. He was the architect behind Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, the third best selling album of the rock ‘n’ roll era -- 30 million copies worldwide. For a time Buckingham was celebrated as a master hit maker and given carte blanche (and a budget to match) to craft a follow-up. He spent the next two years, and a reported million dollars, making Tusk. A sprawling double album that reflected the deep divisions within the band much like The Beatles’ White Album, it’s the sound of a band splintering. As was Rumours. But by then Buckingham had lost interest in crafting the kind of ethereal pop pioneered by his hero, Brian Wilson. He’d been listening to the punks. “I would have much rather been in The Clash than Fleetwood Mac at that point,” he told an interviewer for Guitar World Acoustic in 1998. The rest of the band weren’t happy. They reacted much the same way that The Beach Boys had reacted to Brian Wilson’s post-Pet Sounds work. “Lindsey,” they said, “we still want you to produce, but you can’t do this, and you can’t do this anymore.” It was at that point that he began concentrating on making music for himself. When an interviewer asked him for his three favorite songs, his answer was telling. One, not surprisingly, was “God Only Knows” –widely regarded as Wilson’s masterpiece, and yet, like Tusk, it was a commercial disappointment. Second was The Kingsmen’s garage-punk classic, “Louie Louie.” The other one was Frank Sinatra’s recording of “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” produced and arranged by Nelson Riddle. Together they help explain Buckingham’s idiosyncratic mix of careful craft and carefree abandon. Take “Tusk,” an unholy mix of Beelzebub and the heavenly choir, it was the more successful of the two singles from the very expensive double album. But with its thundering bass drum tattoo, marching band horns and soaring yet sighing harmonies it’s an eccentric mash-up of “Louie Louie” and “God Only Knows.” The album was a relative flop – selling five million copies –
compared to its mega-selling predecessor, and Buckingham took all the heat. But Buckingham remains unmoved. Since Tusk he’s bounced back and forth between the band and his own solo projects. Fleetwood Mac has never equaled their late 70’s success either musically or monetarily, but they’ve retained a huge and loyal following. Buckingham slowly slipped away from the band in the 80’s to concentrate on his own albums. Listening to them is like listening to L en non’s post – Beatles work. The sensibility that added some necessar y acid to his partners’ sugar is readily apparent. His guitar playing – a mix of rapid-fire fingerpicking and frailing like the banjo players he loved in his youth – is non-pareil. But he continued to funnel many of his best songs onto albums by Fleetwood Mac, who have managed to lure him back into the fold whenever they have re-united. Listening again to the three albums he worked on with the band in the 70’s, it’s apparent that without his guiding hand the band wouldn’t have been nearly so successful. Christine McVie’s limpidly romantic ballads and soft rock singalongs, and Stevie Nicks’ witchy woman reveries were hugely popular back in the day, but while they gained some heft from Buckingham’s production, they seem wan when paired with his edgy, off-kilter melodicism. But like his guitar playing, Buckingham’s production skills remain relatively unheralded. For Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac is the “big machine,” while his solo shows are the “small machine.” Fleetwood Mac is reportedly making plans for a reunion tour next year. They will almost certainly play the big halls and the arenas. His solo shows are much more intimate (as evidenced in numerous YouTube clips), and this tour is particularly so – back to his folky roots, just him, his guitar, and his voice still strong after all these years.
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Chattanooga Live Thu 10.25
Wednesday • October 24 Basslove
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Hellblinki w/ Subteranian Circus
Friday • October 26 Machines Are People Too • Baby Baby JJ Con - Comic Book Dress Up Party!
Saturday • October 27
Strung Like A Horse • Dead Soldiers Halloween Show!
Wednesday • October 31
Guilty Pleasures Halloween Party
Thursday • November 1 Christobel & The Johns Final Show!
Saturday • November 3 Paul Collins Beat • Future Virgins JJ’s Bohemia • 231 E MLK Blvd. 423.266.1400 • jjsbohemia.com
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A Man Called Bruce 7:00 p.m. Meo Mio’s Cajun & Seafood Restaurant, 4119 Cummings Hwy Exit 174. (423) 521-7160 The Johnny Foodstamp Show with the Punknecks and Dick 9:00 p.m. The Honest Pint, 35 Patten Pkwy. (423) 4684192. thehonestpint.com. Micky & the Motor Cars 9:00 p.m. Rhythm and Brews, 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com. Hellblinki Sextet with Subterranean Cirqus 9:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400.
fri 10.26 Brandon Heath and Matt Maher in Community Concert for Food for the Hungry 7:00 p.m. Calvary Chapel Chattanooga, 3415 South Broad Street, (855) 223-1008, museconcerts.com/ blue-mountain-102612 American Lesion, Kiserolls, Nut Bush 8:00 p.m. Ziggy’s Underground Music, 607 Cherokee Blvd. (423) 265-8711 A Song for the Children featuring Vince Gill 8:00 p.m. Tivoli Theater, 709 Broad St. (423) 642-TIXS chattanoogaonstage.com Robby Hopkins 8:00 p.m. Acoustic Café, 61 RBC Dr., Ringgold, Ga. (706) 9652065. ringgoldacoustic.com Jamie Laval and Friends 8:00 p.m. Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 6245347. barkinglegs.org Noah Gunderson and David Ramirez 8:00 p.m. The CampHouse, 1427 Williams St. (423) 702-8081. thecamphouse.com Baby Baby with Megan Jean & the
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MUSIC CALENDAR sun 10.28 Wurstbrats 12:30-4:00 p.m. Rock City, 1400 Patten Rd., Lookout Mtn, Ga. seerockcity.com Basically Baroque 3:00 p.m. The Read House Silver Ballroom, 827 Broad Street, chattanoogasymphony.org Songbook: Patti LaBelle with Karen Brown and the Joe Johnson band 6:00 p.m. Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 E Martin Luther King Blvd. (423) 266-8658. bessiesmithcc.org The Ragbirds 7:00 p.m. The Honest Pint, 35 Patten Pkwy. (423) 468-4192. thehonestpint.com.
Strung Like A Horse with Dead Soldiers
Strung Like A Horse produces great music and has a stage presence that is one of a kind. We can only guess what they will do when the show is called a “Zombie Prom”. All zombies are welcome! JJ’s Bohemia Saturday, October 27 9:00 p.m.
KFB & Machines Are People Too 8:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400. Queen B and the Well Strung Band 8:30 p.m. Meo Mio’s Cajun & Seafood Restaurant, 4119 Cummings Hwy Exit 174. (423) 521-7160 Dave Walters Trio 8:30 p.m. The Foundry (at the Chattanoogan Hotel), 1201 Broad St. (423) 756-3400. chattanooganhotel.com. The Most Important Band in the World 9:00 p.m. SKYZOO, 5709 Lee Hwy. (423) 468-4533. skyzoochattanooga.com. Crunk Bones Jones 9:00 p.m. The Office, 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191. Nathan Farrow 10:00 p.m. T-Bones, 1419 Chestnut St. (423) 266-4240. tboneschattanooga.com.
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Halloween Double Feature: Boogie Nights 10:00 p.m. Rhythm and Brews, 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com.
sat 10.27 Wurstbrats 12:30-4:00 p.m. Rock City, 1400 Patten Rd., Lookout Mtn, Ga. seerockcity.com Bipolar Express 8:00 p.m. Acoustic Café, 61 RBC Dr., Ringgold, Ga. (706) 9652065. ringgoldacoustic.com Red State and Stoneline Band 8:00 p.m. Ziggy’s Underground Music, 607 Cherokee Blvd. (423) 265-8711 Dave Walters Trio 8:30 p.m. The Foundry (at the Chattanoogan Hotel), 1201 Broad St. (423) 756-3400. chattanooganhotel.com.
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Juan of the Dead (film) Whoremones (last show ever!)
Mise En Scenesters will top off a great run of film screenings paired with musical guests at Barking Legs Theater. For the finale’ of October, MES screens the Cuban zombie apocalypse movie ‘Juan of the Dead’. After you have your fill of Cuban style blood and guts, catch the Whoremones in their last performance (Ever!). Say it isn’t so Whoremones! Come back from the dead and eat our flesh! Saturday, October 27th - 8:30 p.m. Barking Legs Theater (423) 624-5347 barkinglegstheater.org
tue 10.30
Opposite Box, Smooth Dialects, Subterranean Cirqus Feats of strength, the weird, the strange, the “omg...did that just happen?”. Subterranean Cirqus will bring out the wonders and perform their spectacle of human endurance. It’s all at The Honest Pint on Halloween proper with Opposite Box and Smooth Dialects for the nights music.
Halloween Eve with the Galactic Cowboy Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347. barkinglegs.org
wed 10.31
The Honest Pint Thursday, Oct.18 9:00 p.m.
13th Annual All Hallows Eve: Bohannons with Eight Knives and How I Became the Bomb 9:00 p.m. The Honest Pint, 35 Patten Pkwy. (423) 468-4192. thehonestpint.com. DownStroke 9:00 p.m. SKYZOO, 5709 Lee Hwy. (423) 468-4533. skyzoochattanooga.com. Strung Like a Horse with Dead Soldier 9:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E.
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MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400. Halloween Double Feature: Pulp Fiction 10:00 p.m. Rhythm and Brews, 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com. Halloween with Joshua Songs 10:00 p.m. The Office, 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191.
Open Mic with Mark Holder
Friday, Oct. 26: 9pm Crunk Bones Jones
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Blues Jam with Rick Rushing and the Blues Strangers 8:00 p.m. Meo Mio’s Cajun & Seafood Restaurant, 4119 Cummings Hwy Exit 174. (423) 521-7160
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2nd Annual Halloween Night Bash with Opposite Box, Smooth Dialects and Subterranean Cirqus 9:00 p.m. The Honest Pint, 35 Patten Pkwy. (423) 468-4192. thehonestpint.com. Rosedale Remedy 9:00 p.m. SKYZOO, 5709 Lee Hwy. (423) 468-4533. skyzoochattanooga.com. Milele Roots Halloween Party 9:30 p.m. Rhythm and Brews, 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com.
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halloween guide local haunts Blowing Screams Farm 271 Chattanooga Valley Road, Flintstone, Ga. blowingscreamsfarm.com Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. Every Friday & Saturday in October Tickets: Forest of Fear $15; Ghost Ride $15; $25 for both
Enchanted Maize
271 Chattanooga Valley Road, Flintstone, Ga. enchantedmaze.com Features: “Another Y-Ear of Corny Fun” Hours/Dates: Sept. 20-23 & 27-30; Oct. 4-7, 11-14, 18-21 & 25-28 Tickets: $9 adults; $7 children
Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern
The Pulse’s Panic! Halloween Guide will appear each week through Halloween (Oct. 4, 11, 18 and 25). Listings are updated weekly. If you operate a haunted house or event and would like to be listed or your listed event changes, submit information as formatted here and email to creative@chattanoogapulse.com.
Halloween Express
7425 Commons Blvd. Large selection of costumes, accessories, props and decorations. halloweenexpress.com
Doc Shock Horror Movie Night
Chattanooga Ghost Tours
100 Walnut St. chattanoogaghosttour.com Features: Walking ghost tours, ghost hunts with the talking Ovilus X and extended tours with an inside visit to a haunted location. Hours/Dates: Walking Ghost Tour 7:30 p.m. nightly; 9 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays in October; Extended Ghost Tour: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays & Saturdays;
Boo in the Zoo
301 N. Holtzclaw Ave. chattzoo.org Hours/Dates: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 19-20 & 26-27 Tickets: $8.95 adults; $5.95 children
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Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum 4119 Cromwell Road thehauntedbarnchattanooga. com Hours/Dates: Oct. 12-13, 19-20 & 26-27; trains depart at 5:45 p.m. & 7:45 p.m. Tickets: $22 ages 2 & up tvrail.com
The Haunted Barn 5107 McDonald Road
McDonald, Tenn. Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. Oct. 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27 & Nov. 2-3 Tickets: $15
The Haunted Hilltop
8235 Hwy. 58 thehauntedhilltop.com Hours/Dates: 7 p.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 5-6, 12-13, 1920 & 26-27 Tickets: $18
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155 Depot St Ringgold, Ga. ringgoldhaunteddepot.com Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. Oct. 12-13, 19-20 & 26-27 Tickets: $5 for Depot; $3 for Hayride Mystery Dog Ranch 975 Wooten RoadRinggold, Ga. mysterydogranch.com Features: “The Headless Horseman” Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. Oct. 12-13,
19-20 & 26-27 Tickets: $10
Sunday Slasher Cinema Sluggo’s North 501 Cherokee Blvd. Hours/Dates: 7:30 p.m. Every Sunday in October. Tickets: $2 (donation) Double Features: • Oct. 7: “Phantasm” and “Maniac” • Oct. 14: “The Beyond” and “Demons” • Oct. 28: “Private Parts” and “Halloween”
bars & clubs The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com • Oct. 27: 13th Annual All Hallows Eve Bash with The Bohannons, Eight Knives and How I Became The Bomb. Costume contest with cash prize. • Oct. 31: Second Annual Halloween Night Show with Opposite Box, Subterranean Cirqus and Smooth Dialects. Costume contest with cash prize.
Blowing Screams Farm Open every Friday and Saturday night in October, Rock City’s seasonal haunt offers more than your traditional haunted house experience. They start taking victims at 7:00 pm and continue until the last scream is heard. At the farm, you’ll find the Forest of Fear and the Ghost Ride. Tickets can be combined at $25 dollars for both attractions, or $15 individually. Prepare for an assault on your cerebral cortex, as every sense is tantalized to the extreme. Matt Dutton and his team flex their creativity with such devices as the audio pulsator, the laser beam visuo distractors, and the hilarious yet genius way to separate you from your friends, thus increasing levels of fear.
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Arts & Entertainment Thu 10.25 Yoga Underwater 7 a.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org Thrills, Gills and Chills 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org Art After School (Ages 6-8) 4:30-6 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)2664453, shuptrines.com Interpretations: Contemporary Jewish Art and Windows of Identity 5:30 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center, 5461 North Terrace Road, jewishchattanooga.com Dreamnight and Spooktacular Dance at the Zoo! 5:30-8:30 p.m. Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park, 1101 McCallie Ave, 423-6971319, chattzoo.org Landmarks on the Bluff 6:00 p.m. Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View. (423) 266-0944. huntermuseum.org God of Carnage 7:00 p.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538. theatrecentre.com Julie Scoggins 8:00 p.m. The Comedy Catch, 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 6292233. thecomedycatch.com
fri 10.26 Thrills, Gills and Chills 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org Fresh on Fridays 11 a.m. Miller Plaza, 850 Market St. (423) 265-3700. rivercitycompany.com 3rd Annual Fall Festival 4:00-7:00 p.m. Westside Community Center, 1201 Poplar St., (423) 756-3541
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Portrait Painting and Sculpture Demo with Mia Bergeron + Maria Larson 6-9 p.m. Townsend Atelier, 201 West Main Street, 423-266-2712 townsendatelier.com Haunted Canoe Rides at North Chick 6-10 p.m. Outdoor Chattanooga at Greenway Farms, 5051 Gann Store Road. (423) 643-6888, outdoorchattanooga.com Aqua-Scarium Halloween Party 6:30-9:30 Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org Sir Gooney’s Haunted Carnival of Nightmares 7 p.m. Sir Gooney’s, 5918 E. Brainerd Road. (423) 8925922. sirgooneys.com The Haunted Hilltop 7 p.m. The Haunted Hilltop, 8235 Highway 58. (423) 4883956. thehauntedhilltop.com Julie Scoggin 7:30 p.m./10:00 p.m. The Comedy Catch, 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233. thecomedycatch.com Post-Mortem Haunted Trail 8:00 p.m. Tri-State Exhibition Center, 200 Natures Trl SW Mc Donald, TN, http://teamtwiste5. wix.com/post-mortem God of Carnage 8:00 p.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538. theatrecentre.com Ruby Falls Lantern Tours 8:30 p.m. 1720 South Scenic Highway. (423) 821-2544. rubyfalls.com Stand-Up Comedy: Tim Sullivan 9:30 p.m. Vaudeville Café, 138 Market St. (423) 5171839. funnydinner.com
sat 10.27 An Artfully Wild Wilderness Experience 8:00 a.m. ?? John Muir Trail, Call Hunter Museum for details, (423) 266-0944, huntermuseum.org
Football at the Falls (Sept. Sat/Sun) All Day (8 a.m.-8 p.m.) Ruby Falls, 1720 South Scene Highway. (423) 8212544. rubyfalls.com Jane Dempsey Watts Book Signing 1 p.m. In-Town Gallery, 26 Frazier Ave. (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com Plein Air Workshop 10:00-4:00 Shuptrine’s Gold Leaf Designs, 2646 Broad Street, (423)2664453, shuptrines.com Thrills, Gills and Chills 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org River Market 10 a.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org The H Play 10:30 a.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538. theatrecentre.com Hayride for THE CURE 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mountain Creek Harley-Davidson, 1001 Market St Dalton, Georgia, mountaincreekharley.com Sir Gooney’s Haunted Carnival of Nightmares 7 p.m. Sir Gooney’s, 5918 E. Brainerd Road. (423) 8925922. sirgooneys.com The Haunted Hilltop 7 p.m. The Haunted Hilltop, 8235 Highway 58. (423) 4883956. thehauntedhilltop.com Julie Scoggins 7:30/10:00 p.m. The Comedy Catch, 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233. thecomedycatch.com Monster Bash 7-10 p.m. Thunder Creek Harley-Davidson, 7720 Lee Highway, thundercreekharley.com “Tribute to the Man in Black” 7:30 p.m. Tennessee Valley Theatre, 184 West Jackson Ave Spring City, 423-365-PLAY, tennesseevalleytheatre.com God of Carnage 8:00 p.m. Chattanooga
Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538. theatrecentre.com Post-Mortem Haunted Trail 8:00 p.m. Tri-State Exhibition Center, 200 Natures Trl SW Mc Donald, TN, http://teamtwiste5. wix.com/post-mortem Juan of the Dead 8:30 p.m. Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347. barkinglegs.org Stand-Up Comedy: Tim Sullivan 10:30 p.m. Vaudeville Café, 138 Market St. (423) 5171839. funnydinner.com Moonshine Mud Run: Run with the Zombies 8:00 a.m. Foot of Lookout Mountain, 588 Piney Rd, Trenton, Georgia, moonshinemudrun.com 2012 Tennessee Valley Heart Walk 9 a.m. The AT&T Field, 201 Pwer Alley, (423) 763-4408 chattanoogaheartwalk.org Old McDonalds Farm Days 10 a.m-7 p.m. Old McDonald’s Farm, 16705 Coulterville Rd., Sale Creek, TN (423) 531CORN oldmcdonaldsfarm.net
sun 10.28 Football at the Falls (Sept. Sat/Sun) All Day (8 a.m.-8 p.m.) Ruby Falls, 1720 South Scene Highway. (423) 8212544. rubyfalls.com Thrills, Gill and Chills 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org Champagne Sunday Brunch 11 a.m. Chattanoogan Hotel, 1201 South Broad St. (423) 266-5000. chattanooganhotel.com Haunted Market 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Chattanooga Market, 1829 Carter St., chattanoogamarket.com God of Carnage 2:30 p.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538. theatrecentre.com
Sunday Slasher Cinema: Private Parts and Halloween 7:30 p.m. Sluggo’s North, 501 Cherokee Blvd, (423) 752-5224 Rocky Horror Picture Show 8:00 PM JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400. Julie Scoggins 8 p.m. The Comedy Catch, 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 6292233. thecomedycatch.com Old McDonalds Farm Days 12 noon-7 p.m. Old McDonald’s Farm, 16705 Coulterville Rd., Sale Creek, TN (423) 531CORN oldmcdonaldsfarm.net
mon 10.29 Beginning Watercolor Workshop 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Townsend Atelier, 201 West Main Street, 423-266-2712 townsendatelier.com Adult Watercolor Workshop 1:00-4:00 p.m. Townsend Atelier, 201 West Main Street, 423-266-2712 townsendatelier.com Thrills, Gills and Chills
Sunday Slasher Movie Series: Private Parts (1972), Halloween (1978) Sluggo’s continues hosting this seasonal trek through the best of the cult film catalogue. In addition to the John Carpenter classic, Halloween, this Sunday will feature Private Parts from the eccentric actor and director Paul Bartel.
10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org Trunk or Treat 5-7 p.m. Shepherd Community Center, 2124 Shepherd Rd, (423) 855-2697 Chattanooga Monday Nite Big Band 7:30 p.m. The Palms at Hamilton, 6925 Shallowford Road. (423) 499-5055. thepalmsathamilton.com
tue 10.30 Thrills, Gills and Chills 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960. tnaqua.org Tuesdays at Tony’s 11 a.m. Tony’s Pasta Shop & Trattoria, 212 High St. (423) 265-5033. bluffviewartdistrict.com
Art After School (Ages 9-11) 4:30-6 Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View. (423) 266-0944. huntermuseum.org Theology on Tap 7:00 p.m. The CampHouse, 1427 Williams St. (423) 7028081. thecamphouse.comw
wed 09.26 Free Fall Carnival 6-8 p.m. Patten Center, 3202 Kelly’s Ferry Road, (423) 825-5955 Doc Shock Horror Movie Night 7:00 p.m. Ruby Falls, 1720 South Scene Highway. (423) 821-2544. rubyfalls.com Thrills, Gills and Chills 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad St. (423) 402-9960.
chattanoogamarket.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) 4243700. chattanooganhotel.com Guilty Pleasures Halloween Dance Party 9:30 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400.
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W riting is a lonely business, right? A fight to the finish between the scribbler and the blank page (or screen), with no witness but for the unsatisfied muse peering over the writer’s shoulder.
Writing is a lonely business, right? A fight to the finish between the scribbler and the blank page (or screen), with no witness but for the unsatisfied muse peering over the writer’s shoulder. Not really, says Rick Jackson, an award winning poet and UTC professor. As director of Meacham Writers Workshop, he’s been bringing together accomplished and emerging writers – both UTC students and writers in the community – twice a year since 1985. Whether they’re starting out or established, what writers really need, says Jackson, is a community of other writers. That’s what they find at Meacham. (Okay, getting their work critiqued by experienced writers and hearing writers read their work are pretty important, too.) According to Jackson, Meacham is easily the most informal writers conference in the country. Visiting writers are available about 12 hours a day for informal conversations. “At other conferences there’s always an air of formality. You know you’ve got to do certain things at a certain time. You don’t approach the writers except in a formal workshop or classroom setting, or maybe you can chat briefly after a reading.” The next Meacham workshop will be October 25-27, with workshops and individu-
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What writers really need is a community of other writers. Rick Jackson
Director, Meacham Writers Workshop
al conferences among participants and visiting instructors at UTC and readings by 20 writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry at Chattanooga State and various locations around town. Even when Meacham has had national literary figures like poets James Tate (Pulitzer 1992, National Book Award 1994) and Gerald Stern (National Book Award 1998), “They just hang around with people, whether they’re the most famous or the least famous. It’s incredibly democratic.” Oh, and it’s free. Next week’s readings by 20 writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry are all free and open to the public. Even workshop sessions and individual conferences are available at no charge to anyone who submits a manuscript, although the deadline has passed for this fall’s workshop. Many conference partici-
pants keep up an email correspondence with the visiting writers they meet at Meacham. “I think that’s pretty incredible. At other conferences, the conference is over and that’s it,” says Jackson. This kind of access is important to a writer who hasn’t yet gotten as far up the career ladder as these visiting writers because it’s an informal welcoming into the profession. “It’s like being a little league baseball player, and you go to the game and all of a sudden you’re invited into team locker room for Atlanta Braves, and they let you throw the ball. It gives you a sense of your identity and what you’re about, a sense that you’re part of that larger community, particularly when you have the writers who come in and encourage you and take you seriously and don’t think of you as an apprentice, as much as somebody who’s getting from where they are to being a better writer.” This sense of intimacy also appeals to the visiting writers. At most writers’ conferences, he says, the schedule is tight and the visiting writers are “handled” like rock stars. “You do your stuff and they hustle you back to your hotel room. Here you do your stuff and hang around more. The
writers like that because they get a sense of their audience, who they are writing for.” At Meacham, he says you might see a few pros sit down for a chat, then invite a workshop participant to join in. In fact, the informal atmosphere is one reason Jackson had been able to attract such a high level of writers as faculty, including Stern and Tate, as well as poets Philip Levine and Charles Simic, Guggenheim fellow Stanley Plumly and Oprah selection novelist Bret Lott. Jackson also brings writers from abroad including Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, England and the Czech Republic. “We get writers for a fraction of what they normally charge because they know the quality of the students and the community writers. They know the kind of atmosphere we have here.” Jackson thinks the larger community benefits, too, because they get a chance not only to see excellent writers, but also to see that they are real people who just happen to write beautifully. “I put a writer on same level that I put my mechanic. To me Bobby Parker is an artist. He can look at my car, figure out what’s wrong with it, and get it running. There’s an art to that, but he’s just a regular person. Gerald Stern comes in, and he can see some sort of a situation and find some words that describe it and create something new out of it, give it his own spin and send it out into the world. It’s the same sort of thing.” For the full program and access past readings on iTunes, visit www.meachamwriters. org.
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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions? I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in this task. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expectations and theories? Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a lab scientist.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am officially protesting you, Libra. I am staging a walkout and mounting a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you agree to my demand. And yes, I have just one demand: that you take better care of the neglected, disempowered, and underprivileged parts of your life. If and when you do this, I predict the arrival of a flood of personal inspiration. Halloween costume suggestion: a symbolic representation of a neglected or disempowered part of your life. SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page. There can be a delicious anticipation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesce into coherent images or words or music. Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’re facing a comparable challenge in your own chosen field. Halloween costume suggestion: a painter with a blank canvas.
SAGITTARIUS
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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As you contemplate what you want to be for Halloween, don’t consider any of the following options: a thoroughbred racehorse wearing a blindfold; a mythic centaur clanking around in iron boots; a seahorse trying to dance on dry land. It’s true that the coming days will be an excellent time to explore, analyze, and deal with your limitations. But that doesn’t mean you should be overwhelmed and overcome by them. Halloween costume suggestions: Houdini, an escaped prisoner, a snake molting its skin.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Does anyone know where I can find dinosaur costumes for cats?” asked a Halloween shopper on Reddit.com. In the comments section, someone else said that
he needed a broccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bring this up, Capricorn, because if anyone could uncover the answers to these questions, it would be you. You’ve got a magic touch when it comes to hunting down solutions to unprecedented problems. Halloween costume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaur costume.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Live Monarch Foundation made a video on how to fix a butterfly’s broken wing (tinyurl.com/ FixWing). It ain’t easy. You need ten items, including tweezers, talcum powder, toothpicks, and glue. You’ve got to be patient and summon high levels of concentration. But it definitely can be done. The same is true about the delicate healing project you’ve thought about attempting on your own wound, Aquarius. It will require you to be ingenious, precise, and tender, but I suspect you’re primed to rise to the challenge. Halloween costume suggestion: herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman, or other healer.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s
not a good time to wear SuperControl Higher-Power Spanx, or any other girdle, corset, or restrictive garment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willing participant in any situation that pinches, hampers, or confines you. In order to thrive, you’ve got to give yourself permission to spill over, think big, and wander freely. As for those people who might prefer you to keep your unruly urges in check and your natural inclinations concealed: Tell them your astrologer authorized you to seize a massive dose of slack. Halloween costume suggestions: a wild man or wild woman; a mythical bird like the Garuda or Thunderbird.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming days, many of your important tasks will be best accomplished through caginess and craftiness. I suspect you will have a knack for navigating your way skillfully and luckily through mazes and their metaphorical equivalents. The mists may very well part at your command, revealing clues that no one else but you can get access to. You might also have a talent for helping people to understand elusive or difficult truths. Halloween costume suggestions: spy, stage magician, ghost whisperer, exorcist. TAURUS
Jonesin’ Crossword
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(April 20-May 20): The coming week could have resemblances to the holiday known as Opposite Day. Qualities you
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usually regard as liabilities might temporarily serve as assets, and strengths could seem problematical or cause confusion. You should also be wary of the possibility that the advice you get from people you trust may be misleading. For best results, make liberal use of reverse psychology, freaky logic, and mirror magic. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): I don’t have a big problem with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hopscotching among all nine. In fact, I find your multi-level multiplicity interesting and often alluring. Having said that, however, I want to alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel unified, steady, and stable. Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): An avocado tree may produce so much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist, or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope your father didn’t beat you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are. But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing. Halloween costume suggestion: your father.
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1) Account of rounds 7) Drink brand with a lizard logo 11) Unlike prescription meds: abbr. 14) Point out similarity between 15) Think ahead 16) Gp. once headed by Charlton Heston 17) “Sorry, Buckeye State, but the whole General Assembly’s coming over for my party!” 20) Morse code sounds 21) Milhouse’s bus driver 22) What you used to be 23) U-turn from WSW 24) Distress call 25) Shannen’s nickname, on “Charmed” 27) Story about a guy who sells things in the Silver State? 33) Simple, as an on-screen process 34) “I’m ___ roll” 35) Angry game characters
38) Word after mole or mall 39) John with a lot of glasses 41) Prefix for friendly 42) Publication known for its pie graphs 45) With 58-across, “The Granite State! Oops, I just sneezed all over you!” 50) ___ weevil 51) Some assault rifles 52) Napoleonic marshal 53) Garbage hauler 55) Robert Smith band, with “The” 57) Gomer who said “Shazam!” 58) See 45-across 62) National Coming ___ Day 63) Garfield’s foil 64) Actress Evigan of “Step Up 2: The Streets” 65) Thatcher and Blair: abbr. 66) Feathery wraps 67) Grades in nonchallenging classes
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1) Fry’s cohort, on “Futurama” 2) Corazon of the Philippines 3) Went into heat, like a moose 4) Soviet news agency 5) Getting from ___ B 6) Be necessary 7) Good name for a Dalmatian 8) Medley 9) Scrooge’s kvetch 10) Brian once of Roxy Music 11) Precisely 12) Test answer 13) Prop for Mr. Peanut 18) Admiral Ackbar phrase 19) Flabbergast 24) Like some massage 25) Plastic for pipes 26) Tries again with a trial 28) Move like a bobblehead doll 29) “Mairzy ___” (1940s novelty song) 30) Easy instrument to strum
31) “Walking on Thin Ice” songwriter Yoko 32) Sought office 35) Folds in an iPod 36) Rocks, in a bar 37) Subjects of “either oar” situations? 40) Caustic cleaner 43) T-shirt size options: abbr. 44) Former NBA star ___ Mutombo 46) Gordie on the ice 47) “So, back to what I was saying...” 48) Montana’s capital 49) Minor villains in “The Lion King” 53) Hit Rodeo Drive, e.g. 54) Old pal 55) Type of “pet” that’s really a plant 56) Multi-purpose product’s benefits 57) Greek consonants 59) Judas Priest singer ___ Halford 60) Wedding words 61) Longtime Notre Dame coach Parseghian
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It is what it’s what? As a writer you’d think I’d at least try to be a scholar of the English language. Not so much. Although maybe a little more grammar conscious than the average bear, I have a command of the English language that stops at about the platoon level. However like all of us, I’m out there in the world, subjected to what others believe is a grasp of wordstuffs that will both satisfy utilitarian communication and more importantly, impress the opposite sex. That’s where catch phrases infiltrate and contaminate the English language with weeds of stupidity that cover our feeble minds like kudzu – and won’t let go. Nothing separates man from our former apelike selves like stupid, infectious catch phrases. “Heard that,” “Get r done,” “In the house,” “Give it up,” “KnowwhaI’msayin’,” “Go for it” and the teeny bopper misuse of “like” are just some of the offhand remarks that make me cringe and weep for the future of our country’s intelligence ranking among developed nations. Recently I overheard someone use the popular phrase “I ain’t ever seen anything like it” to describe an event, living creature or Wal-mart shelf filler that somehow amazed their otherwise sharp and unimpressionable mind. It was the casual way they just rattled it off without really thinking about what they were saying that really disappointed me. It was almost like the phrase had either become so watered down in their normal rotation of amazement exclamations that it was simply second nature or, even more sadly, there are a lot of common everyday things the comparable likes of which they’ve never seen. Either way, I felt a little sorry for that person. While watching some concert on television I
heard a rock n’ roll lead singer offer up the common rhetorical rebel rousing “We’re having a great time, are we not?” to which to crowd responded, as usual, with cheers of agreement. This one really baffled me. If you think about it, what this accomplished vocalist wants to establish with the first phrase, “we’re having a good time,” is confirmation that the crowd is in fact enjoying the night’s performance which, if so, would merit cheers of agreement. However, by adding the needless suffix “are we not?” the singer has turned the phrase around to imply some sort of negative connotation that means, when you reorganize the sentence to make sense states “we’re not having a great time, agreed?” So the crowd’s cheers, in this case, should actually be boo’s in order to generate the intended response. That is, unless the lead singer is looking for an excuse to get back to his drugs and groupies backstage. The crème de la crème of useless phrases in my book is the completely ridiculous “it is what it is.” The intent of this phrase has some merit. If you are
making a bigger deal out of something than need be (like the content of this column for example), you can quickly bring the matter at hand back down to its baseline of importance with this phrase. What I’ve noticed however is that people are using it in vain attempts to sound philosophical, or at least smarter than they actually are. This really hit home when Kate of the famous octagon family “Kate Plus Eight” used the phrase to describe both her divorce and the responsibility of raising that many children on her own. When you answer an interview question with a response that not only doesn’t provide any sort of explanation but in this case doesn’t provide ANY information at all, then you have failed English. Do over.
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