The Pulse 16.23 » June 6, 2019

VOL. 16, ISSUE 23 • JUNE 6, 2019

The Tenth Annual

Short Story Contest The cream of the crop of Chattanooga writers

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The Tenth Annual Short Story Contest Every year for the past decade, we've challenged Chattanooga area writers to come up with a 500 word or less story. As any writer knows, that's quite a challenge. And with a record number of entries this year, our team of judges had a very difficult time picking the best of the best—and the results are, simply put, amazing!

HOW WE ENGAGE ART

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ROCK 'N ROLL POLYGLOT

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Based in Chattanooga, VERSA Gallery is both an artistic space and creative team where the visual and the material meet to foster interaction and dialogue between art, artists, and you.

I’m getting old. I wear glasses to see things that are near, I wear different glasses to see things that are far, and if I don’t wear glasses, well, I don’t see so well at all. That’s my excuse, anyway.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

With phrases like, “You don’t know me” and “Go Home” incorporated into her work, Shut Eye Designs invites intrigue with honesty and realism with a cartoonish kick.

THE END OF THE WORLD

Good stories are almost always inspirational in some way. Although critics generally look down on it, fan fiction is a completely natural reaction to enjoying a book or a series of books.

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16 MUSIC CALENDAR

22 SUSHI & BISCUITS

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19 MUSIC REVIEWS

23 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

21 NEW IN THEATERS

23 JONESIN' CROSSWORD

12 ARTS CALENDAR

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CITY LIFE · BETWEEN THE BRIDGES

Rethinking How We Engage Art With VERSA

Cons ider This w ith Dr. Rick

Make plans to come to Saturday’s big show

By Jason Dale “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde In previous months this column drew inspiration from female authors for Women’s History Month, and from black authors during Black History Month. June is the traditional month of LGBTQ Pride, when most participating cities around the world hold their Pride festivals and parades. (Here in Chattanooga we celebrate in October, for a bit cooler weather.)

And so we’ll gather inspiration this month from the gay community, including allies, and see where it takes us. Let’s start with 19thcentury wit Oscar Wilde. Enjoy!

“In this world there are only two tragedies.

One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“Genius lasts longer than beauty.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D.

Pulse contributor

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While the gallery celebrates both local art and art from outside the city, they’re looking into working further with local artists and organizations.”

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ASED IN CHATTANOOGA, VERSA GALLERY IS both an artistic space and creative team where the visual and the material meet to foster interaction and dialogue between art, artists, and you.

Anne Daniels, Chloë George, Alesha Lee, Stephanie Loggans, Dana Ortega, and Dylan Pew comprise the six-person collective who direct the art gallery, as well as their canine friend Kenya. All six met while studying art as undergraduates at UTC, but VERSA’s conception would not be realized until after they graduated, with their first exhibition initiating in March of 2018.

They continued with nine additional exhibitions to round out a successful first year of running the gallery, and what was once a small art gallery soon began to pick up quite an audience of art appreciators.

So far, VERSA has worked with artists on three exhibitions in 2019, with a fourth scheduled to open

this Saturday, and more on the way scheduled throughout the year. The artists who house their exhibitions within VERSA’s gallery room are primarily from Tennessee, including local artists from Chattanooga as well as other states in the Southeastern region.

The works of art featured in the gallery are characterized by their open-endedness, as they typically address questions and ideas that do not have a definitive answer with abstract qualities and subjects. While the gallery celebrates both local art and art from outside the city, they’re looking into working further with local artists and organizations in an effort to positively interact with and contribute to the community as a

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good neighbor.

Besides exhibitions, the gallery seeks to offer workshops and art potlucks in the future as a part of this effort, which will encourage broader interaction between themselves and the community.

VERSA’s name isn’t a nod to the Nissan sedan; rather, it’s a reference to the Latin phrase “vice versa”. But VERSA does not simply mean just the name of the team to the team; they believe they carry VERSA with them wherever they are, and with whatever they are working on. They do not see VERSA as a stationary unit which operates solely in their exhibition space.

Rather, their work as VERSA has no set boundaries; the work the team does together in addition to the work done by themselves is a product of VERSA. An illuminated white room with two windows found on the second floor of the St. Andrew’s Center—the gallery’s exhibition space—is not simply a provided area for artists to display their exhibitions. Rather, the room is often an area artists shape that plays an immersive part in the exhibition. One example, for Erica Mendoza’s recent “I Hope It Doesn’t Rain Tomorrow” exhibition, the artist decided to create blinds for the space’s windows which featured lines of written poetry which are only visible when closed.

In another exhibition, David Onri Anderson painted the walls of the

room a stark black for his “Smoke, Sand, Stars in Your Eyes” exhibition, which embellished the background of the selected paintings. As the VERSA team is comprised of artists themselves, they understand firsthand that artists do not particularly enjoy being limited, so they welcome experimentation with the room to meet the artist’s creative vision of the exhibition.

While on the topic of exhibitions, VERSA’s June exhibition opens this Saturday. From June 8–22, Marla Sweitzer and Christian Vargas’s collaborative exhibit “Porto” will be featured within the gallery’s space. An opening reception will occur on Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m., with the artists themselves present as you engage their intriguing paintings and stimulating sculptural work. Admission is free!

As it stands, VERSA is an impressive team of ambitious young adults breaking the traditional mold of how art is viewed and appreciated in the city. If you appreciate the arts, then there’s no excuse not to visit the gallery and view the amazing work of local and regional artists pushing the boundaries of their respective mediums forward.

VERSA Gallery is located at 1918 Union Ave., at the St. Andrew’s Center. If you’re interested in viewing the artwork on display, simply schedule an appointment with the VERSA team by emailing contact@versagallery.org.

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COLUMN · SHRINK RAP

Loving Your Inner Cracked Pot Plus, the good doctor’s “Balanced Life Checklist”

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Dr. Rick

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It’s the cracks and flaws that make our lives together so interesting and colorful.

Perhaps we can better learn to accept each other for who we are and look for the good.”

Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, author, minister, and educator in private practice in Chattanooga. Contact him at DrRPH.com, visit his wellness center at WellNestChattanooga.com

N ELDERLY WOMAN HAD TWO large pots, one hung on either end of a pole which she carried across the back of her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. Feeling like a bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

“I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.”

The old woman smiled, “Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers for my table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace my home.”

The moral goes something like this: Each of us has our own uniqueness. It’s the cracks and flaws that make our lives together so interesting and colorful. Perhaps we can better learn to accept each other for who we are and look for the good. Perhaps “flaws” and “cracks” are a matter of perception.

It’s important to realize that we are all works in progress. The following is

what I call a “Balanced Life Checklist” to spark the process of taking stock—looking, realistically, at what works and what doesn’t: ▪ Freud said to love and to work are all we need. How is your love life? Are you happily involved? Happily single? Is there a pattern to the types of people you become involved with that you need to change?

▪ How is your work life? Do you look forward to waking up every morning with a sense of purpose to your day?

You’re the only one who can choose to set your path in a new direction if that’s what you desire.

▪ How balanced is your life? Are you a workaholic, or do you strike a healthy balance between work, love, family, fun, and relaxation? Balance is important in order to avoid burnout and feeling overwhelmed.

▪ The Mind/Body/Spirit connection.

How is your health? Do you help yourself to stay healthy physically? Are you keeping your mind sharp with thoughtprovoking conversations/books/mov-

ies? What about the state of your spirituality? Whether you’re a churchgoer, meditator, or tree hugger, it’s important to develop your spiritual self, and bring a sense of peace and connection into your life.

▪ Friendships. It’s a sure-fire sabotage of the relationship with your partner to expect him/her to be your everything.

And so we have friends. Some to confide in, some to laugh/cry with, some to discuss esotery with, some to pig out with.

And some to grow old with.

Take a look at this list every now and then, perhaps every year on your birthday, anniversary, New Year’s. See if your life feels in harmony, or if it’s out of balance. Which cracks are you keeping, and which do you want to change? It’s all up to you.

And meanwhile, remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path.

•••• Till next week: “I got called ‘pretty’ today. Well actually the full statement was, ‘You’re pretty annoying,’ but I only focus on the positive.” —unknown

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The Tenth Annual

Short Story Contest The cream of the crop of Chattanooga writers

Every year for the past decade, we've challenged Chattanooga area writers to come up with a 500 word or less story. As any writer knows, that's quite a challenge. And with a record number of entries this year, our team of judges had a very difficult time picking the best of the best—and the results are, simply put, amazing! And as a bonus, we have our honorable mentions online at chattanoogapulse.com

Legacy

By Adam Cook Before that morning, Jackson had never owned a necktie.

Likewise, he’d never been shown how to tie one, for his father had created a reliable vacancy in his life that failed to lend instruction of such basic skills every boy might one day need.

Jackson’s father was a hellraiser in his day. He frequented bars, pool halls, and poker games. Those activities culminated with him fatally shooting a man Halloween night of 1973, which landed him in the state penitentiary and branded his boy the son of a killer.

A person’s past is like a shadow—no matter where you go or how hard you try to outrun it, you can’t—it’s never far behind.

Twenty years later, on that March morning when the brisk winds of a fading winter briefly coincided with the perky intrigue of spring’s ascending warmth— that was the first time as an adult that Jackson’s appearance required the most formal of male clothing accessories.

Of course, the gas station and general store on the outskirts of town where he lived didn’t offer such an item. He instead drove into town where Weaver’s 8 • THE PULSE • JUNE 6, 2019 • CHATTANOOGAPULSE.COM

Department Store was getting by as well as could be expected in a town battling recession.

That’s all anyone can hope to do really…just get by.

Jackson faced that truth daily after returning home from Desert Storm. No longer a celebrated member of the U.S. Army, he now faced the war of civilian life amid battles of finding employment in his hometown’s stagnant economy while also attempting to raise his son alone after his wife squandered their savings and ran off with another man during his tour of duty.

Despite heartbreak and hardship, Jackson was upbeat about his interview at the chair factory that morning. The company employed half the community and paid well. In a town full of nothing to do, people always need good chairs to sit

in while taking part.

Jackson hoped the job would spark a better future—he desperately wanted his son’s life and relationship with him to be better than what he endured growing up.

The middle-aged man sitting across the desk seemed impressed with Jackson’s personality, work history, and military service. They swapped stories, talked sports, doted on their children, and seemed destined to cement a working relationship.

As the meeting’s crescendo approached—formalities in sight, Jackson noticed a raise in the man’s eyebrow as he glanced at his resume a dozenth time.

Something was amiss.

Jackson’s throat contracted with anxiety as he succumbed to fear of the unknown.

“Jackson Riley,” the man said. “Why does that name sound so familiar to me?”

All the hope he had mustered that morning began fleeted from Jackson’s heart and mind.

“I’m junior,” Jackson sputtered. “My father was Jackson Riley, Sr.” Sound ceased to exist and time stood still as the man’s demeanor shifted from jovial to somber.

“You knew him,” Jackson asked.

“You could say that,” the man replied.

“That son of a bitch killed my father.”

Random Thoughts

By Steven McNichols “Why do you think the way you do?”

The question was odd. I looked up from the stick I was polishing with an old rag and glanced at the man.

“What way?”

He cocked his head a little to the side and raised an eyebrow. I always wished I could do that.

“Your way.”

I looked back at the stick. It was smoothing up nicely.

“It’s just the way I am, I guess. Never gave it much thought, the thinking.”

He stood tall. Almost as tall as the door, but not quite as tall as the old smith.

No one was as tall as the old smith. He raised a large hand and pointed a finger at me.

“Well maybe you should. You ever

In The Shadow Of The Valley

By Marcus Patrick Ellsworth

The sun rises slowly in the valley, spooling up shadows in long sheets as it crests over the high ridge. Time doesn’t flow steady down here. Days roll in lazy and soft, then rush right by you in a blur.

The nights, though. The nights come quick and stay long. Too long.

Sitting on the front porch, you start to remember. There’s no one around to help you forget. He had light brown eyes that shone like polished brass— No. Best not to think on it too long. You focus on the waves of cricket chirps and frog calls rising and falling on the night air like the valley’s own breath. Softly droning Summer songs.

He used to sing. Silly and strange songs.

Songs about fairies getting tangled in your hair. Songs about the secrets that rocks

thought about that?”

I set the rag down next to the bucket at my feet, and placed the stick alongside my leg. It went from the floor right up to my knee. Perfect.

“I never gave much thought to should, either. Seems there’s always someone to tell you when you should do something, so no need to think about it yourself.”

He was wide. Not as wide as the door, but wider than the preacher. Though the preacher was wider in the middle. He was wide a bit higher.

“You mean you never think at all?”

I rummaged a bit through the bucket and found another stick. It needed polishing, so I picked my rag back up and started in again.

“Never said that. In fact, I think a lot.”

He was angry. I had never thought about whether the door could be angry, but I would be willing to bet he was angrier than the door could be if it could

get angry. My might even be angrier than Widow Sanderson. And that’s an awful lot of anger.

“Do you think this is fair?”

I kept polishing the stick. It needed it and I wasn’t in a hurry to be anywhere else at the moment.

“It’s not for me to think. About fairness, that is. Seems to me too many people do too much thinking about things that don’t need thinking about.”

He was silent. The door creaked a little from his weight. It was a solid door, though, worn nice and smooth from the hundreds of feet which had stood upon it.

The stick was finished. I put it back in the bucket and picked up the hood. The crowd stood quietly as I placed it over the man’s head.

I pulled the lever and the door opened beneath him.

“Some people just do too much thinking.”

in the river whisper to each other. Songs about being here forever. Songs that were fantasies. Songs that were lies.

You stand up and force a small cough to clear that creeping sorrow from your throat.

The woods are still. The frequent evening breezes are not visiting the valley. Fireflies leave pinpricks of light in the trees, but that is the only movement you can see.

It was windy on the starless night he left.

The trees bowed and twisted in the gusts.

His brass colored eyes looked so bright in his dark brown face. He was smiling when he offered his hand out to you, the other hand held his bag at his side.

“Come with me.”

Three words spoken just a breath above a whisper. The wind was high, but you heard him clear as day. You could almost feel his lips moving against your ear as you had felt with so many sweet nothings before. But this was not nothing. This was your love asking you to leave everything.

To go where Time flowed steady and night

didn’t linger so long.

You turned to face the yellow glow of the light inside your house, where mama was setting the table and daddy was reading the paper by the fire. Then you went inside to tell mama he was leaving the valley.

She kissed your cheek and said she knew you would miss your friend, but maybe he would visit or write.

He never did.

Now they’re all gone. It’s just you in the valley after all these years.

You hear footfalls just beyond the reach of the porchlight.

“Come with me.”

A dark hand reaches out to you. Eyes like old brass look up from the shadows. You don’t hesitate. You rush out into the trees to meet him. You want to beg his forgiveness, to make up for all the lost years in a moment.

But you don’t. You only hold him. Two men freed by being bound together in the dark. And when the sun comes to spool up the shadows, there is no one in the valley.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Woman In Black Creates Dazzling Art Goth moods find rainbow-colored expression WorkSpace Hosts Locals Only Night The Chattanooga WorkSpace has been a staple in the area since it was redeveloped in 2012. It was originally a nursing home until Chris Thomas’ creative direction turned it into the spot everyone flocks to for local art.

The space is used by an array of artists to create their work somewhere outside their home and to collaborate with other artists in the area. WorkSpace features multiple floors and around 42 studios that are perfect for anyone, experienced or not, who has a desire to learn about and enjoy art.

Starting this Friday, Chattanooga WorkSpace is featuring a Juried Locals Only Gallery Show/Gallery Opening during their usual Bring on The Heat Open Studio Night. There will be 38 local artists featured and presented in the gallery and in addition to that there will be 20 WorkSpace artists with their studios open.

If you want to spend your night surrounded by extremely talented artists from the greater Chattanooga area while enjoying wine and refreshments, this is the perfect place for you. The Juried Locals Only Gallery show will begin this Friday at 5:30 p.m. and run until 8:30 p.m.

Don’t miss this chance to embrace a new experience. Make sure you bring your friends! — Ensley McFarland

By Jessie Gantt-Temple Pulse contributor

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I love cartoons and children’s books, especially popup books. I take bright child imagery and spin it with a grown-up feel.”

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NE OF THE MOST COLORFUL ARTISTS IN the area, Morgan Oostra, smiles as we jest about her being the woman in black. With phrases like, “You don’t know me” and “Go Home” incorporated into her work, Shut Eye Designs invites intrigue with honesty and realism with a cartoonish kick.

“I’m not a very bright person when it comes to clothing but most of all my work is very colorful,” she explains. “I love cartoons and children’s books, especially pop-up books. I take bright child imagery and spin it with a grown-up feel.”

Character traits of Tim Burton, Adventure Time, and ‘90s Nickelodeon cartoons come through in her eyes without pupils, skeletal like body shapes, and jagged edges. The familiar bags under the eyes in both her humans and animals provide a tired and tireless portrayal that is

both dark and demure.

A Chattanooga native who has witnessed firsthand the evolution of the art scene for the past twenty years, Morgan has been actively selling her work since she was fifteen.

Formerly the Woven Dumpster, Shut Eye Designs was a vendor at every Sunday market where she consistently sold her handmade creations. “For several years, I was able to make a living from my art sales but then it changed.”

At nineteen, she decided to take on a steadier gig and accepted a

job at the inspirational Blue Skies.

This move allowed her to create more with less stress of having to depend on the income gained from her art. After a handful of years at the well-known Northshore store, she opted to delve back into her art full time.

Having experimented with sculptures and stuffed dolls, wood and acrylic, she best likes resin as she can layer up the art using elements like glitter. One of her largest pieces was an 8-foot cardboard Cat Dragon displayed at a pop-up show. She also did an 8-foot wall hanging that was made of cardboard and had a scaled tail that draped down to the touch the floor. Her 6-foot red-and-white wood canvas on display at the Bazar Arthouse within the Palace Theatre is the only wall hanging fixed in location.

Currently, Morgan is molding the digital medium to incorporate physical mediums to provide a universal palette for all her skills. She is working on 3D print, where she digitally draws and prints, then utilizes those pieces in a multi-dimensional display. I immediately envisioned a diorama which I absolutely loved when I was a kid and she did too. “I used to hand draw dioramas that included moveable pieces, but it destroyed my hands.”

Ten years ago, everything she created was handmade because the digital technology wasn’t available like it is now. “Painting is more therapeutic as

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A Chattanooga native who has witnessed firsthand the evolution of the art scene for the past twenty years, Morgan has been actively selling her work since she was fifteen.” it takes on a life of its own; however, digital art generates more satisfaction because I can execute my vision quicker,” she says as she shows me the difference between her hand-drawn, pastel- and earth-toned mermaid on a wood canvas versus her intricately detailed, digitally designed, altered catholic icon on print.

Life has been a bit complicated since 2017 and so she is thankful to have the artistic advances that allow her to find time to create in the most unexpected places. With no signs of complications beforehand, Morgan had a stroke when she went into labor with her first child, Vesper.

Because of that, Vesper was stillborn and, after being resuscitated, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and HIE. Since then, any time in the studio has been replaced with constant doctors’ appointments, working to acquire a wheelchair-accessible van, and partnering with Family Voices of Tennessee.

Since becoming a wife, stepmom

and mom of a special needs child, Morgan no longer wishes to consistently set up at markets like she did in the past. However, she is interested in an occasional exhibit and some upcoming pop-up shows around the area will provide an opportunity to get a firsthand account of her work.

Main Line Ink is hosting a Stranger Things themed event on Saturday, July 6th, where Morgan will have Shut Eye Designs on display. She is also attending the Emission Theory Art Show at the Woodshop in St. Elmo on Saturday, July 13th.

As the paint is still drying on her website, the best way to reach her is at EmailShutEye@gmail.com (and yes, there is an “email” included in her email address) or through her shut_eye_ Instagram. “I absolutely love having a direction when I create so commissions are welcome.”

With a portfolio ranging from cake toppers—one including the newlyweds’ dog—to Blue Skies’ storefront window, size is no issue for Morgan.

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Blumenwagen Pop-up Shop

The Floor Is Yours: Unbow Your Head

Hemp History Week Celebration

Come make your own bouquet from the wide selection of locally grown flowers.

3:30 p.m.

Mad Priest Coffee Roasters 1900 Broad St. madpriestcoffee.com

The best open mic variety show cabaret is back for June. Be proud of everything you are!

7:30 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org

Industry speakers, a Hemp Marketplace, food trucks, and more to celebrate all things hemp.

1 p.m.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR THURSDAY6.6 Urban Farmers Market and Marketplace 3 p.m.

Miller Park 910 Market St. millerparkmarket.com Blumenwagen Pop-up Shop 3:30 p.m.

Mad Priest Coffee Roasters 1900 Broad St. (423) 393-3834 madpriestcoffee.com Rafiki 4 p.m.

Palace Theater 818 Georgia Ave. (423) 803-6578 chattpalace.com Naughty Knights Chess Meetup 5 p.m.

Hutton & Smith Brewing Co. 431 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 760-3600 huttonandsmithbrewing.com Alley Hour 5:30 p.m.

Cooper’s Alley 10 E. 7th St. Intermediate Stained Glass Class 5:30 p.m.

Reflections Gallery 1635 Rossville Ave. (423) 892-3072 reflectionsgallerytn.com Introduction to Torso Art 5:30 p.m.

The Chattery 302 W. 6th St. (423) 521-2643 thechattery.com Festie Bestie: Flower Crowns 6 p.m.

Fox & Fern Botanical Styling 807 Chestnut St. (423) 838-3376 foxandfernstyle.com Growing Hydrangeas 6 p.m.

Elder’s Hardware 4921 Hwy. 58 (423) 899-6306 Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Nile” 7 p.m.

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

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theatrecenter.com DJ Sandhu 7:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Alcoholics Not Anonymous Comedy Open Mic 8 p.m.

Barley Taproom 235 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 682-8200 chattanoogabarley.com Country Line Dancing Class 8 p.m.

Westbound Bar 24 Station St. (423) 498-3069 westboundbar.com African American Family Film Series 8:30 p.m.

Miller Park 910 Market St. millerparkmarket.com

FRIDAY6.7 Head to Toe Drawing Workshop 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 301 E. 11th St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com First Friday Gallery Open House 5 p.m.

St. Elmo Community 4501 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 255-8086 Patterns of Nature

5 p.m.

In-Town Gallery 26 Frazier Ave. (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com Juried Locals Only Gallery Show 5:30 p.m.

Chattanooga Workspace 302 W. 6th St. (423) 822-5750 chattanoogaworkspace.com Butt City USA 6 p.m.

Frequency Arts 516 Tremont St. facebook.com/frequencyarts Brewdog Release Party 6 p.m.

Jack Browns Burger & Beer Joint 818 Georgia Ave. (423) 682-8198 jackbrownsjoint.com Photographic Society of Chattanooga Spring Show 6:30 p.m.

Gallery at Blackwell 71 East Gate Loop (423) 648-8001 blackwellautoinc.co Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Nile” 7 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 theatrecenter.com The Floor Is Yours: Unbow Your Head 7:30 p.m.

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

ENTERTAINMENT SPOTLIGHT Buried deep within the most luxuriant beard in comedy lives DJ Sandhu’s silver tongue just aching to get out and spread its diabolical thoughts.

DJ Sandhu Thursday-Sunday The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. thecomedycatch.com

barkinglegs.org DJ Sandhu 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Improv “Movie” Night Presents: A Fairy Tale 8 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com Video Game Night 8 p.m.

Stone Cup Cafe 208 Frazier Ave. (423) 521-3977 stonecupcafe.com Ruby Falls Lantern Tours 8:30 p.m.

Ruby Falls 1720 S. Scenic Hwy. (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com Good, Old-Fashioned Improv Show 10 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com

SATURDAY6.8 Gateless Writing 9 a.m.

Chattanooga Workspace 302 W. 6th St. (423) 822-5750 chattanoogaworkspace.com Chattanooga River Market 10 a.m.

Tennessee Aquarium Plaza 1 Broad St. publicmarkets.us Head to Toe Drawing 10 a.m.

Townsend Atelier 301 E. 11th St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Silk and Shades 10 a.m.

Chattanooga Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 643-7700 chattlibrary.org MAPS of the Mind 10 a.m.

Daily Practice 1322 Dodds Ave. (423) 322-2514 jasmilam.com All-Grain Brewing Class 11 a.m.

The Brew Market & Beer Garden 1510 Riverside Dr. (423) 648-2739 Hemp History Week Celebration 1 p.m.

The Signal 1810 Chestnut St. thesignaltn.com Shamanic Drum Making 1 p.m.

Toes Yoga 3228 Brainerd Rd. (423) 760-8375 toesyoga.com Bitter Goes Sour Beer Festival 2 p.m.

The Bitter Alibi 825 Houston St. (423) 362-5070 thebitteralibi.com Stone Cold Smash 4 p.m.

Stone Cup Cafe 208 Frazier Ave. (423) 521-3977 stonecupcafe.com Rafiki 4 p.m.

Palace Theater 818 Georgia Ave. (423) 803-6578 chattpalace.com “Porto” Opening Reception 6 p.m.

VERSA Gallery 1918 Union Ave. versagallery.org Tormented Desires Stage Play 7 p.m.

Chatt. State Humanities Theatre 4501 Amnicola Hwy. chattanoogastate.edu Show Your Passion 2 7 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Nile” 7 p.m.

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

DJ Sandhu 7:30, 9:45 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Your Stories 8 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com Whose Line Chattanooga 10 p.m.

Improv Chattanooga 1800 Rossville Ave. (423) 843-1775 improvchattanooga.com

SUNDAY6.9 Mala Making Workshop 11 a.m.

Southern Soul Yoga 313 Manufacturers Rd. (423) 643-9642 southersoulyoga.com Chattanooga Market 12:30 p.m.

The Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Artful Yoga with Jimmy Urciuoli 1:30 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View.

(423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Sacred Craft Circle: Smudge Bundles 2 p.m.

Spiral Path Yoga and Healing 711 Liberty St. spiralpathhealingarts.com Screen Printing on Clay 2 p.m.

Scenic City Clay Arts 301 E. 11 St. (423) 883-1758 sceniccityclayarts.org Rafiki 4 p.m.

Palace Theater 818 Georgia Ave. (423) 803-6578 chattpalace.com Adventure Supper Club 6:30 p.m.

Candlelight Forest 9862 Highway 193

(901) 828-2027 Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Nile” 7 p.m.

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

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com

MONDAY6.10 Spring Belly Dance Session 5:45 p.m.

Movement Arts Collective 3813 Dayton Blvd.

(423) 401-8115 movementartscollective.com Joggers & Lagers 6 p.m.

Chattanooga Brewing Co. 1804 Chestnut St. chattabrew.com Intro to Blues Workshop 7:45 p.m.

Peace Strength Yoga 3800 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 708-2779 peacestrengthyoga.com Comedy Open Mic 9 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com

TUESDAY6.11 Wake Up & Run 6 a.m.

Fleet Feet Sports 307 Manufacturers Rd. (423) 771-7996 fleetfeetchattanooga.com Chess K-night 5 p.m.

Mad Priest Coffee Roasters 1900 Broad St. (423) 393-3834 madpriestcoffee.com Tuesday Night Chess Club 6 p.m.

Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 643-7700 chattilibrary.com Paws & Pints with The Pearl

Group 6 p.m.

Play Wash Pint (423) 643-2275 playwashpint.com Chess K-night 6 p.m.

Mad Priest Coffee Roasters 1900 Broad St. (423) 393-3834 madpriestcoffee.com Paths to Pints along the Riverwalk 6:30 p.m.

The Tap House 3800 St. Elmo Ave. taphousechatt.com

WEDNESDAY6.12 Let’s Chatt LIVE 10 a.m.

The Moxy 1220 King St. (423) 664-1180 moxy-hotels.marriott.com Main Street Market 4 p.m.

522 W. Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.com Chalkboard Lettering 101 6 p.m.

The Chattery 302 W. 6th St. (423) 521-2643 thechattery.com Chattanooga Jewish Film Series 7 p.m.

Jewish Cultural Center 5461 North Terrace Rd. (423) 493-0207 jewishchattanooga.com Naughty Knights Chess Meetup 7:30 p.m.

The Bitter Alibi 825 Houston St. (423) 362-5070 thebitteralibi.com Open Mice Comedy 8 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com CHATTANOOGAPULSE.COM • JUNE 6, 2019 • THE PULSE • 13

THE MUSIC SCENE

Rock And Roll Polyglot Oweda: a cadre of crowd-pleasing rockers

What's So Insane About Clowns?

Insane Clown Posse is coming to Chattanooga this Sunday, and if you are not sure who or what that is, buckle in. ICP is a hardcore hip-hop group based out of Detroit whose style is specifically classified as “horrorcore” because of their elaborate live shows and transgressive lyrics.

But ICP is more than just music; they have also started their own professional wrestling foundation called “Juggalo Championship Wrestling”.

Not familiar with the word juggalo? Consider this article to be your quick ICP guidebook.

The juggalos (juggalette is the feminine term) are the dedicated fans of ICP or any of the other hip-hop groups signed with Psychopathic Records, although the term was created by Violent J (one of the front men for ICP) in 1994. Juggalos will typically attend events wearing clown-like face paint, much like ICP does when they are performing.

If any of this makes you remotely curious, I strongly urge you to go to the show on Sunday and see for yourself. ICP is turning 30 this year and is well known for their unforgettable shows and incredibly loyal fandom.

You can check this show out at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday at The Signal; tickets are available at thesignaltn.com. — Kelsey Fox

By Marc T. Michael Pulse Music Editor

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Forthright about their members coming from a wide variety of musical genres, they clearly have an egalitarian approach.”

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’M GETTING OLD. I WEAR GLASSES TO SEE THINGS that are near, I wear different glasses to see things that are far, and if I don’t wear glasses, well, I don’t see so well at all. That’s my excuse, anyway.

When the email came in about the upcoming album from Chattanooga band Oweda, I thought, “Hey, scheduled for release on June 4th?

Sweet! The timing is perfect for my upcoming feature!”

That’s why I was nonplussed (the actual definition, not the “people don’t know what it means and use it in to mean completely the opposite” one) when I re-read the email, dangerously close to my deadline, to discover that Oweda will begin recording the EP on June 4th.

Fortunately, the band has per-

formed enough, and built the sort of reputation that means there is plenty of live footage, enabling us to have a look at the band in anticipation of their upcoming release, the first notes of which are being laid down even as I type.

Describing themselves simply as “rock and roll,” the five-piece band consists of Casey Sowder and Jerrett Dewayne Haynes swapping roles on bass and rhythm, Cody Hawkins as drummer, Sam Beneduct on lead guitar and Tyler Sorenson behind the mic as lead vocalist.

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Multi-genre mastery can generally go one of two ways on a recording; it can be a syncretic masterpiece or it can be a confused identity train wreck.”

In an age of specialization, over compartmentalization, and the burning desire to set your band apart through niche descriptions more so than actual talent (pan-African bluegrass fusion metal might look fun on paper, but if you sound like a hot mess, you sound like a hot mess) the unassuming designation of “rock and roll” seems…Spartan.

It took about three songs for me to understand completely why the band chose that designation. Forthright about their members coming from a wide variety of musical genres, they clearly have an egalitarian approach to what makes it on stage.

The first tune I heard was a smokin’ blues tune, of a quality that leads you to believe, “Aha! Blues band.”

The next tune, recorded live at our beloved JJ’s Bohemia, tossed that right out the window with as fine a festival jam as I’ve heard so far this year. “Aha! Jam band!”

This was quickly followed by a slow rock ballad. “Aha! I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about! They pretty much play whatever they want!”

The list goes on and on, but the bot-

tom line is they aren’t kidding about their multi-faceted backgrounds, nor are they shy about playing whatever the moment and the crowd calls for. From an entertainer’s point of view, this is an extremely valuable skill, and speaks both to their talents as individuals and their ability to bring it all together as a band.

It will be curious to see what they bring to their first recording. Multi-genre mastery can generally go one of two ways on a recording; it can be a syncretic masterpiece or it can be a confused identity train wreck.

From what I’ve seen of their live performances and adoring fans, I lean towards the former. You can make your own assessment during one of the live performances they have coming up in the next several weeks, June 28th at HiFi Clyde’s or July 13th at JJ’s.

You could also peruse (in the proper definitive sense) their ample live performances available online. Whatever the case, their debut release will be featured here in these pages as soon as it comes available, and all signs point towards a gem of a recording.

Hollywood Horses Ride Into Town Plenty of music this week, but two shows stand out in particular as “can’t miss ‘ems.”

The first is this Thursday at JJ’s Bohemia featuring the assembled talents of The Hollywood Horses and Obliviots.

The Hollywood Horses— an award-winning band accurately self-described as “funny, sexy, cool”—are joined by local lesions…err, legends…Obliviots.

Obliviots are a group best described as a pocketful of long-time, highly respected local players perfectly capable of doing anything they want on stage, from prog to punk to a third thing, in strict observance of the rule of three.

Look for an evening of high caliber, high energy, “Hell yeah!” from this pairing.

The other is Butt City USA, featuring the musical stylings and artwork of Alex Volz/Burly Temple. Whether inspired by a favorite episode of Bob’s Burgers or not (it’s just as likely he’s never seen that episode) the lead-up to the show has been

apparent around town for weeks, with guerilla artwork popping up here and there, and an intriguing trickle of previews via social media.

Butts are cool.

Alex Volz is cool.

Burly Temple is cool.

That’s three kinds of cool, in strict observance of the rule of three, under one roof at Frequency Arts (in their new location right near Aretha Frankensteins) this Friday.

If you know Volz—and if you don’t, you should—you can expect an evening of high-concept silliness, profound and profane, one in the think, and one with a wink, leaving you, the listener, to assess as best you can the meaning of it all. — MTM

THU6.6

FRI6.7

SAT6.8

North Shore Jazz

The Daybreaks

Jazz night is here again on the Southside with half-priced wine and sexy jazz at one of the coolest venues in town.

8 p.m.

Flying Squirrel 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com

The free Nightfall Concert Series is back with a Nashville-based synthpop band that will get you in a retro '80s groove.

7 p.m.

Miller Plaza 850 Market St. nightfallchattanooga.com

The Impurity, Age of Deception, Pluto’s Advantage, At Odds with the Knight Headbanging, in-yourface, hard rock-n-roll!

7 p.m.

Music Box @ Ziggy’s 607 Cherokee Blvd. ziggysbarandgrill.net CHATTANOOGAPULSE.COM • JUNE 6, 2019 • THE PULSE • 15

LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR THURSDAY6.6 Fireside Sessions 5:30 p.m.

Moxy Chattanooga 1220 King St. (423) 664-1180 Seaux CHILL 5:30 p.m.

Cooper’s Alley 10 E. 7th St. londoncallingbar.com Danimal & Friends 6 p.m.

WanderLinger Brewing Co. 1208 King St. wanderlinger.com James Crumble Trio 6 p.m.

St. John’s Meeting Place 1278 Market St. stjohnsrestaurant.com Jason Lyles 6 p.m.

Charlie’s BBQ & Bakery 2309 E. Main St. (423) 541-1500 Thursday Night Jazz 6 p.m.

Coconut Room at The Palms 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Toby Hewitt 6 p.m.

Backstage Bar 29 Station St. backstagechattanooga.com Open Mic Thursday 6 p.m.

Stone Cup Cafe 208 Frazier Ave. stonecupcafe.com Bluegrass and Country Jam 6:30 p.m.

Graze Nazarene Church 6310 Dayton Blvd.

(423) 842-5919 Jesse Jungkurth & Friends 6:30 p.m.

Mexi-Wing VII 5773 Brainerd Rd. (423) 296-1073 Songwriters Music Finale 6:30 p.m.

OddStory Brewing Company 336 E. MLK Blvd. oddstorybrewing.co Courtney Holder 6:30 p.m.

Westin Dorato Bar 801 Pine St.

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The Aquaducks westinchattanooga.com Joanne Shaw Taylor 7 p.m.

Songbirds North 35 Station St. songbirdsguitars.co Bluegrass Thursdays 7:30 p.m.

The FEED Co. Table and Tavern 201 W. Main St. feedtableandtavern.com Jesse Jungkurth & Friends 7:30 p.m.

Mexi-Wing VII 5773 Brainerd Rd. (423) 296-1073 Megan Howard 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com North Shore Jazz 8 p.m.

Flying Squirrel 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Keepin’ It Local Thursdays 8 p.m.

The Social 1110 Market St. publichousechattanooga.com Open Mic Night 8 p.m.

City Café Diner 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Hollywood Horses, Obliviots, Possible Side Effects 9 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd.

jjsbohemia.com Open Mic Night with Jonathan Wimpee 9 p.m.

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

FRIDAY6.7 Summer Music Weekends 8:30 a.m.

Rock City Gardens 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com River City Sessions 4:30 p.m.

Lula Lake Land Trust 5000 Lula Lake Rd. lulalake.org Binji Varsossa 6 p.m.

Cancun Mexican Restaurant 1809 Broad St. (423) 266-1461 John Carroll 6:30 p.m.

Westin Dorato Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com New Grass Express 7 p.m.

Slick’s Burgers 309 E. Main St. (423) 760-4878 The 9th Street Stompers 7 p.m.

OddStory Brewing Company 336 E. MLK Blvd. oddstorybrewing.co

The Daybreaks, 3’s Company 7 p.m.

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

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonchattanooga.com Dustin Concannon 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com The Floor Is Yours 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Lew Card 9 p.m.

The FEED Co. Table & Tavern 201 W. Main St. feedtableandtavern.com Rock the ‘90s 9 p.m.

Songbirds South 41 Station St. songbirdsguitars.co The Aquaducks, FUX 9 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Three Star Revival 9 p.m.

HiFi Clyde’s 122 W. Main St. hificlydeschattanooga.com Amber Fults

SkyZoo 5709 Lee Hwy. (423) 521-2966 Sullivan Band 10 p.m.

HiFi Clyde’s 122 W. Main St. hificlydeschattanooga.com Rickey Cole & The Georgia Boys 10 p.m.

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

SUNDAY6.9 CBDB 10 p.m.

The Social 1100 Market St. (423) 266-3366 Matt Movin 10 p.m.

Glass Street Lounge 2319 Crutchfield St. (423) 362-0407 Rickey Cole & The Georgia Boys 10 p.m.

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

SATURDAY6.8 Summer Music Weekends 8:30 a.m.

Rock City Gardens 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Madison Community Band 12:30 p.m.

Tennessee Aquarium Plaza 1 Broad St. publicmarkets.us Binji Varsossa 6 p.m.

Cancun Mexican Restaurant 1809 Broad St. (423) 266-1461 No Big Deal Trio 6 p.m.

Coconut Room at The Palms 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Papa Sway 6 p.m.

Embargo ‘62 301 Cherokee Blvd. embargo62.com Playin Possum Blues Band 6:30 p.m.

Slick’s Burgers 309 E. Main St. (423) 760-4878 Preston Ruffing 6:30 p.m.

Westin Dorato Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Emerald 7 p.m.

Edley’s Bar-B-Que 205 Manufacturers Rd. edleysbbq.com Matthew Paul Revere 7 p.m.

Gate 11 Distillery 1400 Market St. gate11distillery.com Forever Bluegrass 7 p.m.

Westbound Bar 24 Station St. westboundbar.com Ryder Pierce 7 p.m.

Hutton & Smith Brewing Co. 431 E. MLK Blvd. huttonandsmithbrewing.com The Impurity, Age of Deception, Pluto’s Advantage, At Odds with the Knight 7 p.m.

Music Box @ Ziggy’s 607 Cherokee Blvd. ziggysbarandgrill.net

Tim Lewis 7 p.m.

El Meson 248 Northgate Park elmesonchattanooga.com Webb Barringer 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Hempy Hour Afterparty with The Communicators 8 p.m.

The Signal 1810 Chestnut St. thesignaltn.com Katrina Barclay, Ben Strawn, Grizzly Fowler, Nancy Dwight Seiters 8 p.m.

Palace Theater 818 Georgia Ave. chattpalace.com CBDB with Lenox Hills 9 p.m.

Songbirds South 41 Station St. songbirdsguitars.co C-Grimey, Pinecone, The Venus 9 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com The Pickup Lions 9 p.m.

Trish’s Sports Bar 4762 Highway 58 (423) 269-8400 Rosewood Grips 10 p.m.

Summer Music Weekends 8:30 a.m.

Rock City Gardens 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Carl Pemberton 10 a.m.

Westin Dorato Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com The Titos 11 a.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Champy’s 10 Year Anniversary Bash Noon Champy’s Fried Chicken 526 E. MLK Boulevard champyschicken.com Papa Sway Noon Southside Social 1818 Chestnut St. thesouthsidesocial.com Danimal and Friends 12:30 p.m.

The Feed Co. Table & Tavern 201 W. Main St. feedtableandtavern.com The Do-Rights 12:30 p.m.

The Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Sandi Grecco 1:30 p.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com The Other Brothers 2 p.m.

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1208 King St. wanderlinger.com Bluegrass Jam 4 p.m.

Fiddlers Anonymous 2248 Dayton Blvd.

(423) 994-7497 Open Mic with Jeff Daniels 6 p.m.

Long Haul Saloon 2536 Cummings Hwy. (423) 822-9775 Insane Clown Posse with RITTZ, MushroomHead, Marc Lethal, Kissing Candice 6:30 p.m.

The Signal 1810 Chestnut St. thesignaltn.com The Infinites, Psychic Dungeon, Sammy David, Handsome Grandsons 9 p.m.

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

MONDAY6.10 McQQeen, Michael Potter, Chris Lott, Rosey Grier 5 p.m.

Sluggos North 501 Boulevard St. (423) 752-5224 Jerry Fordham 6 p.m.

Big River Grille 2020 Hamilton Place Blvd. bigrivergrille.com Open Air with Jessica Nunn 6 p.m.

The Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfalloonchattanooga.com Blues Night Open Jam 7 p.m.

Songbirds South 35 Station St. songbirdsguitars.co Monday Nite Big Band 7 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Open Mic Night 7 p.m.

Fiddler’s Anonymous 2248 Dayton Blvd.

(423) 994-7497 Very Open Mic

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Edward + Jane 8 p.m.

The Well 1800 Rossville Blvd. wellonthesouthside.com

TUESDAY6.11 Papa Sway 6 p.m.

El Fogon Mexican Restaurant 8023 Hixson Pk. elfogonhixson.com Acoustic Bohemian Night 6:30 p.m.

Mexi-Wing 9 6925 Shallowford Rd. (423) 468-3366 Danimal 7 p.m.

Backstage Bar 29 Station St. backstagechattanooga.com Space Jam Open Mic with Xll Olympians 7 p.m.

Barley Taproom 235 E. MLK Blvd. chattanoogabarley.com Erik Kirkendoll 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Live Jam Session with Freddy Mc & Friends 8 p.m.

Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfalloonchattanooga.com North Shore Jazz 8 p.m.

Flying Squirrel

55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Open Mic Night with Mike McDade 8 p.m.

Tremont Tavern 1203 Hixson Pike tremonttavern.com Pony Bradshaw, Ben Strawn, Edward + Jane 9 p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY6.12 Amber Fults 4:30 p.m.

The Commons 4950 Swinyar Dr. (423) 664-3022 Webb Barringer Acoustic 6 p.m.

1885 Grill 3914 St. Elmo Ave. 1885grill.com John Carroll 6:30 p.m.

Westin Dorato Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Shawn Perkinson Trio 7 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Jesse James Jungkurth 7 p.m.

Backstage Bar 29 Station St. backstagechattanooga.com

Open Mic & Jam Night 7 p.m.

Wanderlinger Brewing Company 1208 King St. wanderlinger.com Papa Sway 7 p.m.

River Drifters 1925 Suck Creek Rd. riverdrifterschatt.com Rhythm & Brews Open Mic Jam 7:30 p.m.

Songbirds South Stage 41 Station St. songbirdsguitars.co Preston Ruffing 7:30 p.m.

Westin Alchemy Bar 801 Pine St. westinchattanooga.com Priscilla & Little Rickee 8 p.m.

Las Margaritas 1101 Hixson Pike (423) 756-3332 Dad’s Day Off 9 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Craig Conway 9 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com

ERNIE PAIKS’S RECORD REVIEWS

New Music From Ben LaMar Gay, Anthony Moore

Ben LaMar Gay Confetti in the Sky Like Fireworks (International Anthem)

“W

e can’t control ourselves. It’s like something from another world.” So says a participant (translated from Portuguese) in the short documentary film This Is Bate Bola, talking about a specific subculture of Brazil’s Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

Simultaneously frightening and absurd, Bate Bola involves masked groups wearing elaborate, puffy, and colorful costumes having chaotic rampages through the streets, with an aggressively competitive spirit between groups.

The film’s soundtrack was created by Chicago musician Ben LaMar Gay, and although the film is 18 minutes long, the entire soundtrack album runs 41 minutes, providing unedited audio source material.

For a film about a wild annual ritual, it might seem odd that

much of the album is eerie yet nourishing ambient music, but it turns out that it is perfect for capturing the aforementioned otherworldly feeling.

It’s the point where instinct takes over and you seem to be beside yourself, and in the film (which is on YouTube and worth watching), these moments are matched with Gay’s music, with shots rendered in beautiful slow motion.

Gay opened the spigot last year on his works recorded over the previous seven years, and this soundtrack album, Confetti in the Sky Like Fireworks, is one of seven unreleased albums that are now spilling out.

The 14-minute piece “Nos Reunimos Em Fantasias” (“We Meet in Costumes”) is an ambient wash that sounds like it was created by the software Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch, a technique that became a bit overused circa 2010.

However, other ambient moments offer more complex treatments, like the low, ominous rumbling of “O Rugido” or the gentle alarms of “Casos de Vidro Soam Como Sinos” and “Cuide de Cada um de Nós”.

In the middle of the album is a run of upbeat songs, driven by synth notes and beatboxes, with occasional ambiguous Brazilian sources, and “O Desfile da Madu” sounds like it could be a bizarro-world video game soundtrack, but with an

accordion part.

The album ends with “A Saida” (“The Exit,” which is the name given to the Bate Bola parade/rampage itself), an in-your-face baile funk track, featuring vocalist Flavio dos Prazeres, closing an album that veers violently between stretched ambient tracks and playful, colorful fantasy-world slices.

Anthony Moore Arithmetic in the Dark (Touch)

T

he British artist Anthony Moore’s new album Arithmetic in the Dark offers a way for listening to be “active perception” rather than simply a passive experience. These cosmically challenging pieces, without the typical structures or sounds of popular music, require more than a superficial listen for their strange nuances and details to emerge, and those drawn to the fascinating electronic work of Maryanne

Amacher may also find a kindred spirit here.

On the subject of reception being active, not merely passive, Moore cites phenomena such as otoacoustic emissions—where sounds can originate from one’s inner ear—and states, “The transmitting ear determines much about what it takes in.”

Anthony Moore has had a remarkable, often overlooked career since the early ‘70s, first with a few albums that reside in the minimalist and avant-garde camps. This writer’s favorite Moore efforts are with the band Slapp Happy, which stretched the notion of pop music with brilliant lyrical work, including Moore’s transcendentally vivid and poetic “Slow Moon’s Rose”.

Moore’s post-Slapp Happy solo albums channel an offkilter rock vibe that sometimes overlaps with what artists such as Brian Eno, John Cale, David Bowie, and Lou Reed were doing in the ‘70s, and Moore’s 1979 album Flying Doesn’t Help is the best starting point for this period.

Moore also was a lyricist for Pink Floyd on its controversial albums without Roger Waters, and in recent decades has worked in academia.

Arithmetic in the Dark uses a variety of techniques to create illusory aural experiences that emerge with careful listening; repeated, overlapping tones

and subtle modulations seem to generate phantom tones out of the ether, and an entrancing track such as “Synthi AKS Waves” uses an EMS Synthi AKS modular analog synth to linger on two notes to create its odd sonic bouncing.

Occasionally, voice samples are used—going from incomprehensible fragments to barely recognizable words—and are manipulated, yielding disorienting effects.

One can’t help but compare certain sounds to more familiar noises—“Spinturn” resembles the sound of a helicopter rotor and also features an actual melody, which is unusual for this album. The sharp, piercing electronic tones of “The Psaltery Sea” are like an artistic table saw, while the metallic ringing of “A Chime of Psalters” perhaps sounds like a bell being polished with a power buffer.

The album’s title refers to the artist’s notion of a way to perform mathematics using sounds—notes, after all, can be defined by frequencies and numbers of vibrations—rather than by writing and seeing numbers on a piece of paper.

For this writer, the title’s meaning also underscores a point—as if doing math in one’s head, the listener really needs to concentrate and actively process what’s going on to unlock its answers.

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FILM & TELEVISION

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And Good Omens will make us feel fine

By John DeVore Pulse Film Editor

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What is fan fiction if not ruminations on underdeveloped aspects of a story? Stories inspire stories.

It's just what they do.”

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OOD STORIES ARE ALMOST ALWAYS INSPIRAtional in some way. Although critics generally look down on it, fan fiction is a completely natural reaction to enjoying a book or a series of books. It can be difficult for new writers to start their own work—sometimes a familiar world with familiar characters can give someone a push out the door, allowing them to stretch their muscles and practice their art.

Other times, something new can come from something old, something that couldn’t have existed without the original work, something that adds to the story so strongly that it’s hard to imagine the original ideas without it.

While it might be surprising to some, much of the imagery behind Christian concepts of heaven and hell isn’t biblical. The character of Lucifer, his battles with God, the fall from grace, the gar-

den of Eden, etc. aren’t described in detail in the holy book. Most of it comes from John Milton and “Paradise Lost”, while the general concepts of Purgatory and Hell come from Dante Alighieri and his “Divine Comedy”.

What are these books if not fan fiction? What is fan fiction if not ruminations on under-developed aspects of a story? Stories inspire stories. It’s just what they do.

In 1990, these stories inspired another story. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman took what came before and added to it with “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, a story about angels and demons and the end of the world.

This week, Amazon Prime has released an adaptation of the novel as a miniseries.

The central conceit of Good Omens is that the world is really only around 6,000 years old, God’s Plan is largely ineffable, and that the world is largely fine. At least, it is for the angel Aziraphale, the former guardian of the gates of Eden, complete with flaming sword, and Crowley, the serpent demon who suggested to Eve that apples were really just fruit and doesn’t understand what’s wrong with understanding the difference between good and evil.

The pair have been crossing paths for aeons over the course of history, doing their thing, and by and large have become very comfortable on Earth. Suffice to say, they like it quite a bit. But all things come to an end eventually, and Armageddon is just around the corner. The Anti-Christ has been born and the Four Horse-

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It’s fairly faithful to the book and the decision to adapt the book into a miniseries rather than a multiseason show is a good one.”

man are getting ready to ride. It’s just that this particular angel and the demon aren’t quite ready to do battle. They decide to avert the End of Days and generally do a terrible job of it.

If you can’t tell, Good Omens is a comedy. It’s a very British comedy, in fact. The cast is excellent, featuring David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm, Frances McDormand, and Michael McKean, among others.

It’s fairly faithful to the book and the decision to adapt the book into a miniseries rather than a multiseason show is a good one— American Gods, another Gaiman classic, has been adapted into a show and suffers from a plodding second season that doesn’t seem to go anywhere.

Good Omens keeps the pace up and moves along from scene to scene, episode to episode, without ever being boring. The adaptation is so good, in fact, that it suffers from some of the same problems

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that the book had, namely that it jumps through the plot so quickly that the characters themselves feel a bit flat.

This is forgivable, given the genre, but it leaves the audience wanting more, especially when it comes to understanding the systems that these characters operate in. But then, when dealing with matters of faith and the order of the universe, that’s largely true of our own reality as well.

Most of the scripts were written

by Gaiman himself, which is likely why the miniseries seems so true to the books. It doesn’t suffer from the Game of Thrones syndrome where the writers are working with an incomplete story, where they need to fill in the blanks and lack the skill to do so adequately.

Overall, Good Omens is a satisfying experience for fans of the books, and likely a good one for those unfamiliar with the source material. It’s a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

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FOOD & DRINK · SUSHI & BISCUITS

Kewpie Is King...King Mayo, That Is The secrets behind the most magical of mayonnaises

W Mike McJunkin Pulse columnist

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Numerous studies have clearly shown that MSG isn’t responsible for the headaches, numbness, and nausea that it’s often blamed for, and the FDA has found MSG to be generally recognized as safe.”

Mike McJunkin is a native Chattanoogan who has traveled abroad extensively, trained chefs, and owned and operated restaurants. Join him on Facebook at facebook.com/SushiAndBiscuits

HEN IT COMES TO CONDIments there are two kinds of people in this world: people who believe mayonnaise is a magical Midas-like sauce that brings flavor and life to almost everything it touches, and a handful of vocal nay-sayers who believe mayo is a vile, viscous instrument of culinary torture straight from the bowels of Satan himself.

I love mayonnaise. It turns that stack of bland, dry bread and meat into a palatable lunch. It makes your grilled cheese extra crispy, your potato salad luscious, and your deviled eggs dangerously addictive.

But not all mayonnaise is created equal. Here in the South, Dukes is de rigueur followed closely by Hellman’s, while Heinz has recently invaded the condiment aisle with a horde of Moreauesque abominations such as Mayocue and Mayomust that we, as children of God, must reject as crimes against nature. But in the kingdom of mayonnaise, there can be only one king; only one standard-bearer all others strive to match—and its name is Kewpie.

Kewpie is a Japanese mayonnaise that comes packaged in a bottle with a drawing of a naked baby on it. If that wasn’t bizarre enough, the bottle is made from a strange, squishy material that makes a perfect squeeze bottle that is unsettlingly sensuous. But, thankfully, you’re not buying it for the packaging—you want the smooth, creamy goodness that waits inside.

As you might have guessed, Kewpie’s mayonnaise is itself a bit different from just about every other mayo on the market. American-style mayo is made from an emulsion of eggs and oil with distilled vinegar, lemon juice, spices, and salt. But unlike its American counterparts, Kewpie mayo is made from egg yolks and oil that are combined in a very special machine that makes Kewpie mayonnaise super

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smooth.

Normally, when you emulsify vinegar and oil, large molecules will remain, but Kewpie’s magic machine slams the molecules together, forcing the oil droplets to become absurdly small, resulting in Kewpie’s spectacularly creamy and silky texture.

Because Kewpie uses just the egg yolk instead of whole eggs, it has a much richer flavor than American-style mayo and, thanks to the rice vinegar instead of lemon juice and distilled vinegar, it imparts a tangy flavor with a softer edge and an extra bit of sweetness that somehow makes everything taste magically better.

But what is the one extra special, secret ingredient that makes Kewpie so magical? Good ole’ monosodium glutamate, otherwise known as MSG. Now before you get your apron in a bunch about MSG, let’s take a deep breath. MSG is a naturally occurring amino acid that is found in umami-rich foods like parmesan cheese, shitake mushrooms, and tomatoes. Numerous studies have clearly shown that MSG isn’t responsible for the headaches, numbness, and nausea that it’s often blamed for, and the FDA has found MSG to be generally recognized as safe (GRAS).

If you’re a fan of sushi or other Japanese foods you’ve probably consumed Kewpie mayonnaise (and a bit of MSG) for years. That creamy sauce on your sushi rolls almost certainly contains Kewpie. That delicious dipping sauce in your bento box—yep, Kewpie. You’ve also been ingesting naturally occurring glutamic acid in hundreds of other foods such as chicken, corn, ham, potatoes, and even grape juice.

In spite of the facts and because of an

unfortunate cocktail of xenophobia, bigotry, and an anecdotal tale written in a 1968 letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine, an aversion to MSG still exists in the US. So Kewpie’s US branch technically omits it from their made-in-America version. Technically.

When Terry Dunseith, director of sales and marketing for Q & B Foods, wrote about the US’s new formulation of Kewpie, he stated, “We use another Umami secret.” That umami “secret” is simply yeast extract. Yeast extract actually contains a lot of naturally occurring MSG, but the FDA doesn’t require labels to specify that ingredients naturally contain MSG, only that products containing naturally occurring MSG cannot claim ‘No MSG’ or ‘No added MSG’ on their packaging.

Hats off to Kewpie US for finding a way around the MSG misinformation, but taste tests show the original Japanese formulation that kept the straight MSG is hands-down the best tasting mayonnaise in the world.

If you love mayonnaise, you have to run immediately to the nearest Asian market and grab a squishy bottle of the good stuff. If you are one of the twenty percent who believe mayonnaise is gross, show me on the Kewpie bottle where they hurt you…I’m here to help.

JONESIN' CROSSWORD

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some birds can fly for days without coming down to earth. Alpine swifts are the current record-holders, staying aloft for 200 consecutive days as they chase and feed on insects over West Africa. I propose we make the swift your soul ally for the next three weeks. May it help inspire you to take maximum advantage of the opportunities life will be offering you. You will have extraordinary power to soar over the maddening crowd, gaze at the big picture of your life, and enjoy exceptional amounts of freedom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I think gentleness is one of the most disarmingly and captivatingly attractive qualities there are,” writes poet Nayyirah Waheed. That will be emphatically true about you in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

Your poised, deeply felt gentleness will accord you as much power as other people might draw from ferocity and grandeur. Your gentleness will enable you to crumble obstacles and slip past barriers. It will energize you to capitalize on and dissipate chaos. It will win you leverage that you’ll be able to use for months.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is the Loch Ness monster real? Is there a giant sea serpent that inhabits the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland?

Tantalizing hints arise now and then, but no definitive evidence has ever emerged. In 1975, enterprising investigators got the idea to build a realistic-looking papiermâché companion for Nessie and place it in Loch Ness. They hoped that this “honey trap” would draw the reclusive monster into more public view. Alas, the scheme went awry. (Lady Nessie got damaged when she ran into a jetty.) But it did have some merit. Is there an equivalent approach you might employ to generate more evidence and insight about one of your big mysteries, Leo? What strategies might you experiment with? The time is right to hatch a plan.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Earlier in your life, you sometimes wrestled with dilemmas that didn’t deserve so much of your time and energy.

They weren’t sufficiently essential to invoke the best use of your intelligence. But over the years, you have ripened in your ability to attract more useful and interesting problems. Almost imperceptibly, you have been growing smarter about recognizing which riddles are worth exploring and which are better left alone. Here’s the really good news: The questions and challenges you face now are among the finest you’ve ever had.

You are being afforded prime opportunities to grow in wisdom and effectiveness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How many languages are you fluent it?

One? Two? More? I’m sure you al-

ready know that gaining the ability to speak more than one tongue makes you smarter and more empathetic. It expands your capacity to express yourself vividly and gives you access to many interesting people who think differently from you. I mention this, Libra, because you’re in a phase of your cycle when learning a new language might be easier than usual, as is improving your mastery of a second or third language. If none of that’s feasible for you, I urge you to at least formulate an intention to speak your main language with greater candor and precision— and find other ways to expand your ability to express yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano from “The Book of Embraces”: “In the River Plate basin we call the heart a ‘bobo,’ a fool. And not because it falls in love. We call it a fool because it works so hard.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I hope that in the coming weeks, your heart will indeed be a hard-working, wisely foolish bobo.

The astrological omens suggest that you will learn what you need to learn and attract the experiences you need to attract if you do just that. Life is giving you a mandate to express daring and diligent actions in behalf of love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was twenty years old, a German student named Max Planck decided he wanted to study physics. His professor at the University of Munich dissuaded him, telling Planck, “In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes.”

Planck ignored the bad advice and ultimately went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in formulating quantum theory. Most of us have had a similar experience: people who’ve tried to convince us to reject our highest calling and strongest dreams. In my view, the coming weeks will be a potent time for you to recover and heal from those deterrents and discouragements in your own past.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not all, but many horoscope columns address your ego rather than your soul. They provide useful information for your surface self, but little help for your deep self. If you’ve read my oracles for a while, you know that I aspire to be in the latter category. In that light, you won’t be surprised when I say that the most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is to seek closer communion with your soul; to explore your core truths; to focus on delight, fulfillment, and spiritual meaning far more than on status, power, and wealth. As you attend to your playful work, meditate on this counsel from Capricorn author John O’Donohue: “The geography of your destiny is always clearer to

the eye of your soul than to the intentions and needs of your surface mind.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian biochemist Gertrude Belle Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988.

She was instrumental in devising new drugs to treat AIDS and herpes, as well as a medication to facilitate organ transplants. And yet she accomplished all this without ever earning a PhD or MD, a highly unusual feat. I suspect you may pull off a similar, if slightly less spectacular feat in the coming weeks: getting a reward or blessing despite a lack of formal credentials or official credibility.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today Mumbai is a megacity with 12.5 million people on 233 square miles. But as late as the eighteenth century, it consisted of seven sparsely populated islands. Over many decades, reclamation projects turned them into a single land mass. I foresee you undertaking a metaphorically comparable project during the coming months.

You could knit fragments together into a whole. You have the power to transform separate and dispersed influences into a single, coordinated influence. You could inspire unconnected things to unite in common cause.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I don’t think we were ever meant to hear the same song sung exactly the same way more than once in a lifetime,” says poet Linh Dinh. That’s an extreme statement that I can’t agree with. But I understand what he’s driving at. Repeating yourself can be debilitating, even deadening. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked for you in the past. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you try to minimize exact repetition in the next two weeks: both in what you express and what you absorb. For further motivation, here’s William S. Burroughs: “Truth may appear only once; it may not be repeatable.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Peter Benchley wrote the bestselling book “Jaws”, which was later turned into a popular movie. It’s the story of a great white shark that stalks and kills people in a small beach town. Later in his life, the Taurus author was sorry for its influence, which helped legitimize human predation on sharks and led to steep drops in shark populations.

To atone, Benchley became an aggressive advocate for shark conservation. If there’s any behavior in your own past that you regret, Taurus, the coming weeks will be a good time to follow Benchley’s lead: correct for your mistakes; make up for your ignorance; do good deeds to balance a time when you acted unconsciously.

“Pairin’ Up”—they both come together.

ACROSS 1 Photo session 6 Flame followers 11 Current measure 14 Barbera’s animation partner 15 “So long” 16 “Come Get It ___” (2014 Pharrell Williams single) 17 Snacks in sleeves 18 Fred who directed “High Noon” and “From Here to Eternity” 20 Baseball arbiter 21 Really cold temperature range 23 Quickly 24 False cover?

26 John of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 28 “Walking on Broken Glass” singer 32 Singer Lana ___ Rey 33 Involuntary movements 34 “___ kidding, right?”

35 Transportation link between Folkestone, Kent and Coquelles,

Pas-de-Calais 41 “___ of many colors” 42 Words of confession 44 Prominent NASCAR sponsor 47 Role revived in “Fuller House” 50 Second-smallest Teletubby 52 Apprehensive 53 Geneva girlfriend 54 Polecat 57 Sch. week start 58 Super Bowl X MVP 61 Ranking higher than 63 Raw metal source 64 Pestered 65 Lyft transactions, e.g.

66 Magazine with “Spy vs. Spy” 67 Bisected 68 Alleges as fact DOWN 1 Scold loudly 2 Consonant, musically 3 ___ Man (anime series about an extremely

powerful hero) 4 “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” cowriter 5 ___-Freez (soft-serve chain mentioned in “Jack and Diane”) 6 Activity on a placemat 7 Slayer of Ymir, in myth 8 Baking pans 9 One with a nest egg?

10 Take legal action 11 Put down 12 Be in charge of 13 Long-distance letter writer 19 Theresa who announced she’ll resign in June 2019 22 Wriggly animal 25 Galileo Galilei Airport locale 26 Ancient Irish king Brian ___ (anagram of O, RUB) 27 Yoked team 29 “___ Springfield” (Kent Brockman show) 30 Baseball Hallof-Famer Ryan

31 Wacky 36 Zip 37 “March Madness” hoops org.

38 Billiard ball with a yellow stripe 39 Designer in “The Incredibles” 40 Is on top of 43 Chardonnay feature 44 Skiing event with gates 45 Singer/actress Gray who was on Season 1 of “American Idol” 46 Like a wincer’s expression 48 Large wine cask 49 World capital that lent its name to a type of goat or rabbit 51 “Dancing With the Stars” judge Goodman 54 It’s often iodized 55 Had more than a feeling 56 Edit menu option 59 ___ Lanka 60 Score an upset, say 62 1990s R&B group Bell ___ DeVoe

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