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AUGUST 11, 2016

CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

URBAN RENEWAL

REBUILDING A NEIGHBORHOOD THE GLASS HOUSE COLLECTIVE CHAMPIONS INNOVATION

By Whitni McDonald

POETIC KAMA SUTRA • FORLORN STRANGERS • SUICIDE SQUAD

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Contents

CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE

EDITORIAL

Managing Editor Gary Poole gary@chattanoogapulse.com

Augusty 11, 2016 Volume 13, Issue 32

Assistant Editor Brooke Dorn Music Editor Marc T. Michael Film Editor John DeVore Contributors Rob Brezsny • Matt Jones Sandra Kurtz • Whitni McDonald Beth Miller • Ernie Paik Rick Pimental-Habib • Alex Teach

Features

Editorial Intern Hillary Eames

4 BEGINNINGS: Phil Windham chats about the art of the pool cue.

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Rebuilding A Neighborhood

The neighborhoods around Glass House Collective have rumbled with vibrant activity this summer. The energy continues to build as neighbors and community partners coordinate in preparation for the creative place-making nonprofit’s upcoming annual Glass Street Live block party event slated for September 24th.

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Exploring The Poetic Kama Sutra

The scene is reminiscent of an intimate, 1930s Chicago nightclub with the audience tightly packed around the performer. Small tables decorated with petite flower arrangements play host to VIPs. Heavy black curtains envelope the room as if part of a monochromatic filter applied to the evening.

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Musical Alchemy

Regular readers of this column know that there are certain words I don’t like to use, typically because I say so right before I use them. Today’s word is “Americana” and I like to avoid that word because it has been overused and misused to the point that it’s hard to know what it means anymore.

5 THE LIST: Losing your hair.

7 SHADES OF GREEN: Our environmental guru is not happy over increased production of tritium.

12 ARTS CALENDAR 16 MUSIC CALENDAR 18 REVIEWS: Funhausen tackles classic punk, Horse Lords channel minimal rhythms.

19 MIXOLOGY: A primer on the various types and tastes of beer.

20 SCREEN: Suicide Squad ignites fervor off-screen, falls on-screen.

22 ON THE BEAT: Officer Alex contemplates a tragic death.

23 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 23 JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

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BEGINNINGS

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Exploring, Enjoying The Art of Cues Phil Windham chats about the art and beauty of the pool cue It’s common knowledge these days that art isn’t so simply defined as it used to be. If you were to say you enjoy art, you’d surely be followed up with “what kind of art?” and the immediate responses would BROOKE be drawing, dancing, painting, writing, and so on, but what about this? Ornately designed, collectable pool cues. Yes, pool cues as in billiards pool cues.

Beyond the fact that a pool cue is an obvious necessity in the game of billiards, collectible pool cues are outselling some of the most

beautifully painted pieces, sculptures, and other highly regarded works of art from around the world.

I spoke with Chattanooga Billiards Club owner and cue collector Phil Windham about ‘the art of cues’ DORN to further understand just how valuable and sought after these cues are.

The beauty that Windham introduced me to in person was the “Celtic Knot” designed by Pete Tonkin. Winner of the Cuemaker’s Choice Award in Valley Forge and the People’s Choice Award at the

Leisure

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A Pete Tonkin custom designed pool cue

International Cue Collectors’ Show in Atlanta, this cue was special to say the least. Silver edging borders the detailing along the handle of the cue, detailing that runs in a celtic knot around the cue in ebony, ivory, and burl. The value on this one, you ask? $100,000.

“Custom cues like this can range anywhere from $2,500 up to, and sometimes above, $500,000,” says Windham. “But for a cue to be a true collectable, it must be useable. It can be as ornate as you want, but it has to have utility.”

Phil tells me that the two most collectible names are cues created by George Balabushka and his protege Gus Szamboti. Balabushka, considered the best cue maker of his day, created cues for professional pool players and after his time had come to an end, Szamboti stepped in as the predominant cue maker of his day. Szamboti’s son Barry still makes cues today, and has a waiting list for those interested.

Clearly, cue collecting is a serious business, and storing them is the most important part.

Phil keeps his cues in a humidity and temperature controlled room with a secured iron door. “The humidity is in the 50 to 60 percent range to keep the wooden cues from moving,” says Windham. Different materials expand and contract at different rates and could severely damage the cue and its inlays.

Other than the cue being required to have

utility, the cue’s ‘curb appeal’ if you will, the difficulty of its construction, and the cue’s credentials all factor into its collectability and price range. “Some collectors only collect on principle of history,” says Windham. “They want the cue to have a story.” Windham doesn’t limit his collection to cues of history, but one cue of his does have a story of its own.

“Jimmy Mataya [an American professional pool player] owned it, but George Balabushka made the cue,” says Windham. The cue he speaks of has an emerald colored base which he tells me is made of #9 Courtland, a linen fishing line wrapped finely around the handle. #9 Courtland line is no longer made, making the cue a bit rarer.

“This cue was used in The Color of Money. You can see it for a moment in the film.”

If you’re interested in learning more about collectible cues, check out CBC’s Cue and Case Show Oct. 27th through 30th. Free to the public, this event will display cues of all kinds for those interested to admire as well as a billiards tournament.

The List

EdiToon

by Rob Rogers

Losing You Hair...

It's a simple fact of life: the older you get, the more hair you lose.

And while men are the most noticeable "victims", hair loss affects both men and women.

Sipping and Swapping at The Granfalloon If you’re looking to recycle old clothes, shoes, jewelry, or handbags, the Granfalloon has an excellent opportunity for you. This Thursday, in partnership with the Human Initiative, you and your vintage outfits are invited to the Sip and Swap With a Cause clothing swap.

Participants can bring anywhere between ten and twenty items to swap. Retro to modern items are accepted, so long as they’re not torn, stained, or otherwise damaged. Setup for the event

begins at 6 p.m., and an hour later, the swapping begins. Participants must have a ticket and at least ten items to enter.

Tickets are ten dollars and can be purchased at the Granfalloon website, and a percentage of tickets will go to support The Human Initiative, a local non-profit homeless outreach program.

The Human Initiative collects living essentials and tools of survival for the homeless while also offering them, as their Facebook

IN THIS ISSUE

Whitni McDonald Our cover story this week on the latest happenings on Glass Street is

by Whitni McDonald. Whitni teaches writing at Southern Adventist University. She recently returned to the Chattanooga area after studying and teaching in Southern California and most recently,

describes it, “love in the form of a handshake, a hug, and conversation without expectation or judgment.” In addition to proceeds, any clothes left over from the swap will also be donated.

So that’s the “swap” aspect of this event; where does the “sip” come in?

Well, in addition to donating your old clothes and finding new ones for the good of humanity, there will also be food, live music, and beer. That’s right—the Granfalloon is giving you a chance to drink, mingle, support a great charity, and find a new home for those old purple clogs in the back of your closet.

— Hillar y Eames

Beth Miller New York City. Whitni is deeply appreciative of Chattanooga’s burgeoning cultural scene, and has enjoyed connecting with start-up initiatives such as Society of Work, Causeway, and Lamp Post Group. She is a regular blogger and can often be found working in her favorite downtown coffeeshops and parks, reflecting on life in her community. You can follow her on Twitter @ whitni_ann and at whitni.tumblr.com

In her dayto-day life, arts contributor Beth Miller is a writer, photographer and videographer who longs for the day she can toss her phone and computer into the river and live a life of solitude away from other humans and reality television. As a

teenager, she had high hopes to become the next Mia Hamm, but those dreams were dashed by her multiple attempts to complete a bachelor’s degree. She spends her time riding her mountain bike, paddling her kayak, and backpacking the Appalachian Trail. Her future dreams include unlearning everything she was taught in grad school and inventing edible socks to reduce pack weight on the trail.

And since The List is all about statistics, we thought we'd check with our friends at the Statistic Brain Research Institute to get the facts.

• Number of U.S. men experiencing hair loss: 35 Million • Number of U.S. women experiencing hair loss: 21 Million • Number of hair loss sufferers, world-wide, seeking professional treatment: 811,363 • Percent of men who will have noticeable hair loss by age 35: 40 % • Percent of men who will have noticeable hair loss by age 60: 65 % • Percent of women who will have noticeable hair loss by age 60: 80 % • Average number of hairs lost daily by hair loss sufferers: 100 Oh, and one note: comb overs are obvious. Just stop, men. No one if being fooled by this.

Source: www.statisticbrain.com/hairloss-statistics/

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COLUMN SHADES OF GREEN

Throwing Money Down a Nuclear Sinkhole Our environmental guru is not happy over increased production of tritium

SANDRA KURTZ

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While in you it bangs around amongst your cell walls likely impacting your DNA, causing genetic mutations and cancer as well as damage to brain, sperm and fetal development.”

Sandra Kurtz is an environmental community activist and is presently working through the Urban Century Institute. You can visit her website to learn more at enviroedu.net

“There are no jobs on a dead planet.”

— Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation Did you hear there’s a fabulous Pokémon Go game you should play? Did you hear that Taylor Swift is feuding with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian? Did you hear that Watts Bar Nuclear Reactor #1 has been given permission to increase the amount of radioactive tritium they produce for bomb making?

You likely answered yes to the first two questions and no to the third. The first two belong in the “who cares” category. They just take up time. We become so distracted by tweet size news of no societal import that we never hear life-sustaining information. Perhaps we would rather dwell on meaningless news rather than do something. After all, we are too busy.

That third question calls attention to leakage of tritium into Tennessee River drinking water. Tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, is a radiation hazard when inhaled or ingested in food or water. The U.S. Department of Energy gets it from nuclear plants like Watts Bar for bombs (how many bombs do we need?), but some leaks out into soil, water and air during the process.

As the usual concerns are raised, the nuclear industry folks say don’t worry about radiation health concerns. Be happy because tritium with a half-life of 12.3 years leaves your body in urine after only 7 to 14 days. In fact, not all of it leaves since it is part of water. While in you it bangs around amongst your cell walls likely impacting your DNA, causing genetic mutations and cancer as well as damage to brain, sperm and fetal

development. That’s pretty scary.

More questions: Have you heard about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)?

Coal and nuclear industries are trying to find ways to survive as we move to cleaner, safer energy sources. With all U.S. nuclear plants aging and too costly to build new ones, the industry believes SMRs are gold.

Did you hear that TVA submitted an early site application seeking approval to use a Clinch River site near Oak Ridge to build a prototype small modular reactor? Oh, there is no design as of yet and the site is full of karst topography and sinkholes, but never mind, these small 300-megawatt reactors including tritium can be buried in the ground near you.

This is truly money down a sinkhole that we could be spending on solar, wind and energy efficiency. The idea

that nuclear plants emit less greenhouse gases and solve climate change is neither true nor an acceptable tradeoff for more radiation and the creation of radioactive trash landfills.

Last question: Why are we not moving full-speed-ahead to slow climate change impacts as we experience extreme higher temperatures, long droughts, catastrophic floods, agricultural failures, and loss of water quantity and biodiversity? Tennessee is known for its many endemic aquatic species and its hardwoods economy.

There are also environmental refugees from coastlines moving here too.

It’s easy to use up time learning things on social media that require nothing of you. Spend time and money on meaningful information and actions to make this a better place.

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COVER STORY

Rebuilding A Neighborhood One Step At A Time The Glass House Collective brings innovation to urban renewal

By Whitni McDonald Pulse contributor

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he neighborhoods around Glass House Collective have rumbled with vibrant activity this summer. The energy continues to build as neighbors and community partners coordinate in preparation for the creative place-making non-profit’s upcoming annual Glass Street Live block party event slated for September 24th.

A consistent team at GHC, led by director Teal Thibaud, sets the participatory tone here in a neighborhood where residents are eager to see improvements and opportunity, but are understandably skeptical of whether those processes and changes will really include their ownership and input.

GHC continues to push the envelope in exploring what artists and community members can contribute to one another when all operations spring from the inspiration of neighborhood-invested artists and depend on the motivation and drive of the community itself to execute.

Thibaud looks ahead to this year’s block party with perspective on what feels different this time around. “In the past, Glass Street Live was more about inviting people from surrounding neighborhoods to visualize what a vibrant Glass Street would look and feel like. We’ve always aimed for neighbors, residents, business owners to claim this as their event, and this year it’s happening more than ever; it feels like a celebration of a proud identity that’s been growing as people listen to each other and work together.”

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Creative placemaking in underserved neighborhoods, many of which have a sharp racial divide, depends entirely on relationships and a willingness to imagine life perspectives differing from one’s own experience.”

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GHC’s director of operations, Zachary Atchley is particularly excited to welcome renowned artist and Hixson native, Wayne White to kick off “Wayne-O-Rama,” his year of Chattanooga residency, with two of his signature giant puppets, one of Union General Sherman and one of Confederate General Bragg parading as part of the Glass Street Live party. History blending with art and social activism stirs his enthusiasm for the tiring work of solidifying partner participation and buy-in.

Since GHC’s origin in 2012, the collective (labeled such because of its reliance on interdependency by design) has rented two different, formerly defunct buildings in what was once the central commercial hub of Glass Street. Thibaud, who at first served as the communications director for GHC, has a passionate tenacity and openness to learning and collaborating that gradually earned her the friendship and respect of residents, many of whom rightly doubted GHC’s intentions in the beginning.

Creative place-making in underserved neighborhoods, many of which have a sharp racial divide,

depends entirely on relationships and a willingness to imagine life perspectives differing from one’s own experience.

GHC projects are artist led and community driven, demonstrating the leading role art can play in making practical improvements, aiming for a cleaner, safer, more inviting community. When violence and unjust issues feel overwhelming on the national scale, it’s inspiring to take action by listening to and joining with our own neighbors.

What follows are several examples from this summer of a community in conversation, taking action to work, play, and create together as challenging as it can often be.

Active Trails For several years, the Sherman Reservation had been neglected and difficult to safely access from the business district, but cultivated GHC partnerships have renewed the accessibility of Sherman Reservation and created new trail access from Glass Street. Exciting plans are in development for a larger trail network and fitness loop, as asked for by the community. Landscape architect, Matt Whitaker, is leading the design, and Glass Street artist, Rondell Crier of Studio Everything has been commissioned to design and employ local residents to build the trail signage.

Meanwhile Sherman Reservation provided the ideal site for the popular Glass Street Juneteenth celebration held up on the battlefield grounds on

June 19, for what GHC hopes will become a yearly program commemorating the final slave liberation in Texas on June 19, 1865. Then just a few weeks ago, on July 27 and 29, volunteers led area youth on two separate hiking visits into Sherman Reservation.

Leaders used the popular Design Thinking model to engage kids’ response to encountering the NPS land, including the approach, which can still feel restricted due to the gated road.

GHC is still synthesizing the young visitors’ feedback to share with leaders shaping the park’s design, improvements, and programming.

GHC is committed to pairing infrastructure improvements with fostering community, so Nikki Lewis has been organizing Active Trails outings throughout the summer to engage neighborhood youth by providing safe, fun opportunities to go exploring outside. Lewis is passionate about relating with the area youth about the good surprises to be encountered out hiking on the local trails, learning about the beautiful plant life and views that attract so many visitors to Chattanooga.

“I was reluctant to get outside when I was younger too,” Lewis says, “It wasn’t something I just went off by myself to do, but when I had an opportunity to begin exploring, I realized what I’ve been missing out on, and I don’t want to see these kids miss out on what’s in their own backyard.”

That’s where Glass House Collective’s recent grant from Active Trails was a perfect fit, funding hiking, camping, and historical outings for the youth of Glass Street to enjoy.

Often partners like Outdoor Chattanooga and the YMCA provide support or food, and some older kids camped for the first time at the end of April out at Chickamauga Battlefield. As prep and orientation, GHC hosted a Fake Out Campout experience, which many little kids gathered for, making it easier to wait until they turn eight and can camp with the big kids.

The regular forays into nature have given kids more exposure to what could be fun about exploring the trails around their city, so that whenever Lewis has announced trips or activities throughout this summer, there’s

already crucial groundwork of trust and positive association. “They know me,” she says, “they’re in it for the ride with me. These kids could walk off and refuse to participate, but they trust me enough and allow themselves to be encompassed by childlike wonder.”

Ryan Keller was one of the volunteers responsible for taking the kids up to Lookout Mountain’s Point Park May 14, by way of CARTA public transportation. He recently moved to a neighborhood and enjoys working with the neighborhood kids as part of the GHC community. Keller also noted the challenging barriers facing the type of outing they undertook, and stressed the importance of the adults modeling healthy teamwork and care.

Although Lookout Mountain has always been visible for the kids, it was their first time on top. The Incline Railway was a hair-raising adventure for many of them, but they bravely faced their fears, and wound up enjoying the windy views.

Taking CARTA across town to Point Park, both on the first outing, in mid-May, and the most recent repeat trip in mid-July gives the kids a new sense of mobility and access to wider

Chattanooga.

Community Partnership: In early June, the local Habitat for Humanity’s home repairs division: Neighborhood Revitalization Program, partnered with GHC to conduct a day of volunteering called the Beautification Blitz. Weather caused a few delays, but overall, the event was a success, in that several new homeowners were registered for the help Habitat can provide with major repairs and improvements.

As for the former Glass House building, it was purchased by Michele Peterson, who has turned the space into ArchWay, an initiative geared toward community empowerment in business and marketing skills. To kick off operations, area kids were invited to participate in a branding workshop and contest to create a name and logo design for the building. The winning submissions received Target gift cards and gained experience with team evaluations led by Thibaud, Crier, and visiting consultant, Strat Parrott.

Peterson has stressed her gratitude to be partnering with the GHC team who has cultivated relationships with the local kids, piquing their interest in

what’s stirring along Glass Street. Most recently, she sponsored a rafting outing on the Ocoee River, where kids wanting to participate in ArchWay programs could bond and discuss potential strategies to name and market a signature donut from Koch’s Bakery.

Right next door to GHC, the Magic Markers crew showcased one of their recent projects last Friday evening, August 5 to an enthusiastic audience of family, friends, and curious community members. The kids formed a panel afterward to explain how they wrote, filmed, and edited the original music video, which is a heartfelt plea to restore peace and innocence to their neighborhood.

Many spoke about how much they enjoyed collaborating with peers in the Mark Making organization’s summer film work readiness program. The friendships forged during Magic Markers between local East Chattanooga kids and other participants from areas like Ooltewah and Red Clay served to broaden their vision for the future.

Another nearby work readiness initiative gave local kids a chance to practice carpentry skills building stools designed by Glass Street artist Zachary Reynolds of Woodwise. The team of eight young men worked with Andrew Mollenkof at Hope for the City, measuring, sawing palette wood, and assembling the stools, which Reynolds will market to local businesses.

Woodwise has been a regular partner with Crier at Studio Everything on Glass Street, another partner providing open creative studio access twice a week as a healthy, creative after school option, and during the summer, a way to beat the heat and learn valuable skills at the same time. A huge part of the draw for the kids is just getting to hang around Crier, who manages to challenge ambitious kids without scaring away those who are completely new to the woodshop environment.

If you haven’t been out to visit Glass Street before, there are plenty of reasons to plug into what GHC has been cultivating and facilitating lately. To stay connected, visit: www.glasshousecollective.org, where you can subscribe to the GHC newsletter and connect to their various social media postings.

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ARTS SCENE

Exploring The Poetic Kama Sutra

A spoken word performance group transcends traditional “poetry nights”

Fantastic Foto Fun At The Falls Come photograph one of Chattanooga’s unique places You don’t have to be a Chattanooga native to know about Ruby Falls.

Alongside the billboards encouraging you to “See Rock City,” you’ll often find a similar suggestion for Ruby Falls, always accompanied by a beautiful photograph of the attraction’s namesake. If you’ve ever seen those photos and thought you’d like to take a (literal) shot at it yourself, Ruby Falls has the perfect opportunity for you.

For the eighth year in a row, Ruby Falls brings Foto at the Falls, an exciting event for those who love photography. Ruby Falls has created a tour designed with photographers in mind, with specialized opportunities to take unique photos of the Ruby Falls cave and waterfall. This includes an extended session in the Falls Room, so participants will have the opportunity to find the perfect shot.

Photographers of all levels are welcome on the tour, so whether you’re a seasoned photographer or want an incredible opportunity for a first photography experience, Ruby Falls has got you covered.

“We had been wanting to create a tour that would allow photo enthusiasts a chance to really photograph the cave and have more time at the waterfall,” said Hollie Baranick, Tours and Special Projects manager for the falls.

“By creating a tour especially for photography, we have allowed our guests to really be able to stop and enjoy the scenery, set up a tripod, and use different settings on their camera without feeling the pressure of moving on for groups behind them.”

Reservations can be made online at rubyfalls.com/foto-at-falls — Hillary Eames

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BOOKS & BOOKS

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SKATE ACTION

Semi-Annual Book Sale

Pokécrawl Chattanooga

Chattanooga Roller Girls vs Vette City

Now through August 15th, come buy lots of books!

9 a.m.

Eastgate Town Center 5600 East Brainerd Rd. friendsofthelibrarychattanooga.com

A Pokémon GO pub crawl from Renaissance Park to the Hair of The Dog Pub. 7 p.m.

Renaissance Park 120 Manufacturers Rd. eventbrite.com

Come root on the hometown team in action!

7 p.m.

Chattanooga Convention Center 1150 Carter St. chattanoogarollergirls.com

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HE SCENE IS REMINISCENT OF AN INTIMATE, 1930s Chicago nightclub with the audience tightly packed around the performer. Small tables decorated with petite flower arrangements play host to VIPs. Heavy black curtains envelope the room as if part of a monochromatic filter applied to the evening. Lights dim leaving behind splashes of red and blue—the only colors in the room.

The announcer steps up cupping his hand around the mic—his deep voice signaling the show start. The crowd, now silent, waits anxiously for a poetry show unlike any other.

Arts BETH MILLER

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They decided to step away from the inflexible rules and restrictions governing most open mic shows and create their own show.”

La-Tesia Poole, Erika Blackmon and Joshua Hubbard make up the creative collective behind PKS or Poetic KamaSutra, a poetry group defying open mic tradition. They decided to step away from the inflexible rules and restrictions governing most open mic shows and create their own show that allows participants the freedom to express their thoughts and emotions through a poem, a song, a dance or the spoken word—defined as “performance poetry” by Hubbard.

Due to the suggestive nature of their title, the PKS collective works hard to erase any preconceived notions that their show is “pornographic.” Hubbard explains, “We have a tasteful and respectful show. We are crafty hence the term ‘poetic kamasutra’—it’s about the positioning of words not [body] parts.”

Poole’s original idea to create an erotic poetry show came about in 2011. And like so many good ideas, she jotted it down in her notebook with a few ideal locations and tossed it aside.

Poole, the PKS visionary and marketing manager, got her start in the poetry world as a teen struggling with loneliness. Her family repeatedly uprooted and started over causing her to turn inward for comfort. She says, “I dove into words instead of people. I didn’t have a prob-

lem meeting people. I just got tired of meeting them, and then we moved.”

Two years after closing the book on her poetry show idea, Poole ran into Blackmon at another poetry site and propositioned her to help get the show up and running. She agreed, but a name was needed for their newly founded poetry group. Name after name was offered until PKS was born.

Blackmon, the PKS talent scout and promoter, claims that poetry found her in the 5th grade. “I truly hated it at first,” but goes on to admit, “[I] quickly realized its importance in my existence. Poetry is an emotional interpretation of life.”

Hubbard was brought into the fold to help broaden the scope of the show due to his background in poetry and his business acumen. “One of the biggest things that I think sets us apart from most, if not all, poetry shows is that we don’t put just anyone on stage.” Hubbard continues, “We encourage artists to develop their craft, to perfect themselves, to not just settle for whatever comes out of their mouth.”

Hubbard, the PKS business manager, found the power of words while serving in the military. Stationed in Fort Sill, Okla. in 1997, he began by documenting his time there mostly out of boredom, but it wasn’t long before others began to notice his writing abilities and requested his services. Troops

with significant others back home asked Hubbard to pen love letters. The letters became very popular—even lucrative.

All three echo the same sentiment when it comes to their individual talent; they are all very different but value those differences and see how detrimental the differences are to the success of the poetry group. Blackmon enthusiastically admits, “I love creating show concepts and watching how the group morphs it and embellishes it with each of our individual talents making it a truly group-created show.”

The talent selected for each PKS show is handpicked. Not just anyone can walk in off the street and step up to the mic. However, an offshoot of the PKS show called Open Scribez is an open mic show catering mostly to locals and specifically to those who wish to get their feet wet in the poetry pool.

The next Open Scribez show coming up August 13th at Barking Legs Theater is a milder version of the original giving folks a chance to warm up to the more flavorful PKS show.

Poole admonishes, “It’s more than just a poetry show—it’s a spoken word experience. You are not going to get that anywhere else in Chattanooga. We bust our butts to bring you a different type of show, and we want you to keep coming back. We want you to feel as though you are intimate with us.”

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ARTS CALENDAR

Pokécrawl Chattanooga: A Pokémon GO Pub Crawl

THURSDAY8.11 Semi-Annual Book Sale 9 a.m.

Eastgate Town Center 5600 East Brainerd Rd. friendsofthelibrarychattanooga.com Ooltewah Farmers Market 3 p.m.

Ooltewah Nursery 5829 Main St. (423) 238-9775 ooltewahnursery.com Signal Mountain Farmers Market 4 p.m.

Pruett’s Market 1210 Taft Hwy. (423) 902-8023 signalmountainfarmersmarket.com St. Elmo Farmers Market 4 p.m.

Incline Railway 3917 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 838-9804 lookoutfarmersmarket.com Free Family Night 5:30 p.m.

Creative Discovery Museum 321 Chestnut St. (423) 756-2738 cdmfun.org Sip and Swap with a Cause 6 p.m.

The Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. (423) 265-0771 thegranfalloon.com DCI Big, Loud & Live 13 6:30 p.m.

Carmike East Ridge 18 5080 South Terrace

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carmike.com Tim Kidd 7:30 p.m.

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

FRIDAY8.12 Semi-Annual Book Sale 9 a.m.

Eastgate Town Center 5600 East Brainerd Rd. friendsofthelibrarychattanooga.com PSC Fall Show Reception 6:30 p.m.

Gallery at Blackwell 71 EastGate Loop (423) 648-8001 blackwellautoinc.com Pokécrawl Chattanooga: A

PULSE PICK: TIM KIDD

The "Vanilla Thrilla", Tim’s childlike exuberance and high octane fueled stage presence delivers a fastpaced record of his life from an exceptionally funny point of view.

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

Pokémon GO Pub Crawl 7 p.m.

Renaissance Park 120 Manufacturers Rd. eventbrite.com Tim Kidd 7:30, 9:15 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 1400 Market St. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com Good Old-Fashioned Improv Show 7:30 p.m.

Cine-Rama 100 W. Main St. (423) 521-1716 thecinerama.org USA Dance, West Coast Swing and Ballroom Night 7:30 p.m.

Brainerd United Methodist Church 4315 Brainerd Rd.

(423) 629-0333 chattanoogausadance.com Beauty and the Beast 7:30 p.m.

The Colonnade Center 264 Catoosa Cir. (706) 935-9000 mtishows.com Movies in the Park at Dark: "Inside Out" 7:30 p.m.

Heritage Park 1428 Jenkins Rd. bridgechristian.org Hamlet 8 p.m.

Northwest Georgia Bank Amphitheatre 220 Catoosa Cir. (706) 965-2500 nwgabankamp.com

SATURDAY8.13 Still Hollow 1/2 Marathon & 10K 7:30 a.m.

Enterprise South Nature Park wildtrails.org Semi-Annual Book Sale 9 a.m.

Eastgate Town Center 5600 East Brainerd Rd. friendsofthelibrarychattanooga.com Wild Ones: Pollinator Class 9 a.m.

Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org Ruby Falls Foto at the Falls

ARTS CALENDAR

Semi-Annual Book Sale 7:30 a.m.

Ruby Falls 1720 S. Scenic Hwy. (423) 821-2544 rubyfalls.com Dale Armstrong Jewelry Class 9:30 a.m.

The Museum Center at 5ive Points 200 Inman St. E (423) 339-5745 museumcenter.org Brainerd Farmers Market 10 a.m.

Grace Episcopal Church 20 Belvoir Ave. (404) 245-3682 facebook.com/ BrainerdFarmersMarket Chattanooga River Market 10 a.m.

Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St. (423) 265-0695 chattanoogarivermarket.com Northside Farmers Market 10 am.

Northside Presbyterian Church 923 Mississippi Ave. (423) 266-7497 St. Alban’s Hixson Market 10 a.m.

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church 7514 Hixson Pike (423) 842-6303 facebook.com/ StAlbansFarmersMarket Rain Barrel Workshop 10 a.m.

IMAX 3D Theater 201 Chestnut St. (423) 267-3474 tnaqua.org Slide the City Block Party

11 a.m.

Downtown Chattanooga Broad St., W. 5th St. slidethecity.com Open Screen Night 7 p.m.

Cine-Rama 100 W. Main St. (423) 521-1716 thecinerama.org Chattanooga Roller Girls vs Vette City 7 p.m.

Chattanooga Convention Center 1150 Carter St. chattanoogarollergirls.com Tim Kidd 7:30, 9:15 p.m.

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

Northwest Georgia Bank Amphitheatre 220 Catoosa Cir. (706) 965-2500 nwgabankamp.com

SUNDAY8.14 Semi-Annual Book Sale 9 a.m.

Eastgate Town Center 5600 East Brainerd Rd. friendsofthelibrarychattanooga.com Chattanooga Market 11 a.m.

Chattanooga Market 1829 Carter St.

(423) 402-9957 chattanoogamarket.com Broken Glass & StandUp Tragedy 4 p.m.

Swine Gallery 100A W. Main St. (423) 521-1716 facebook.com/swinegallery G.R Goodwin and Friends 7:30 p.m.

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

MONDAY8.15 Semi-Annual Book Sale 9 a.m.

Eastgate Town Center 5600 East Brainerd Rd. friendsofthelibrarychattanooga.com Red Bank Farmers Market 4 p.m.

Red Bank United Methodist Church 3800 Dayton Blvd.

(423) 838-9804 lookoutfarmersmarket.com The Backlot: A Place for Filmmakers 6:30 p.m.

Heritage House Arts and Civic Center 1428 Jenkins Rd. (423) 855-9474

TUESDAY8.16 East Brainerd Farmers Market

4 p.m.

Audubon Acres 900 N. Sanctuary Rd. (423) 838-9804 lookoutfarmersmarket.com

WEDNESDAY8.17 Middle Eastern Dance 10:30 a.m.

Jewish Cultural Center 5461 North Terrace (423) 493-0270 jewishchattanooga.com Main Street Market 4 p.m.

325 E. Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.com Studio Secrets 5:30 p.m.

Townsend Atelier 301 E. 11th St. (423) 266-2712 townsendatelier.com Wednesday Night Chess Club 6 p.m.

Chattanooga Downtown Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 643-7700 chattilibrary.com Chattanooga Lookouts vs Montgomery Biscuits 7:15 p.m.

AT&T Field 201 Power Alley (423) 267-2208 lookouts.com

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MUSIC SCENE

Musical Alchemy With A Mountain Heartbeat

Hip-Hop Meets Bluegrass Gangstagrass takes genre blending to another level In 2010, FX launched a new television series called Justified. It was a hit, but just as popular was the theme song “Long Hard Times to Come,” with its rap verses overlaying traditional bluegrass. The producer of the track was Rench, who had been creating mashups of local hip-hop emcees with classic bluegrass records for only three years before being approached by FX to write the song.

His efforts were recognized by press and fans alike, garnering him an Emmy Award nomination for best main title theme music. And this Friday, the same Emmy-nominated producer known for his extraordinary genre-blending talent is coming to Nightfall.

Rench’s experimentation began in 2006. At the time, he had already established himself as an in-demand Brooklyn country and hip-hop pro-

ducer, as well as a solo artist. He began creating his aforementioned mashups and shared a collection titled Rench Presents: Gangstagrass.

It took the Internet by storm, seeing an almost instantaneous buzz.

Rench’s mashups synched hip-hop beats and emcees with banjos, fiddles, and dorobs, creating a sound unlike anything else on the market that sounded seamless and natural.

The band now has four official LP releases, with their latest, American Music, debuting at number 5 on Billboard Bluegrass chart.

“There are a lot more people out there with Jay-Z and Johnny Cash on their iPod playlists than you think,” says Rench. Whether that describes your music tastes or not, the music of Gangstagrass is an unforgettable experience. If you haven’t heard them yet, Nightfall’s giving you that chance. — Hillary Eames

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ALL AMERICAN

TALENTED YOUTH

NO COVER SHOW

The Communicators

Chase Martin

Lew Card

Closing out the summer series with the supergroup.

6 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View huntermuseum.org

She has a soulful, country and a rock and roll edge.

10 p.m.

Raw Bar & Grill 409 Market St. rawbarandgrillchatt.com

A mix of bluegrass, blues and Americana funk.

9 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com

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Forlorn Strangers hit home with an amazing debut album

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EGULAR READERS OF THIS COLUMN KNOW THAT there are certain words I don’t like to use, typically because I say so right before I use them. Today’s word is “Americana” and I like to avoid that word because it has been overused and misused to the point that it’s hard to know what it means anymore.

Music MARC T. MICHAEL

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The band has achieved some musical alchemy with this first album in that its ten tracks collectively form a beautifully cohesive work, yet each track is its own unique gem.”

Fortunately, there are bands like the Nashville based quintet Forlorn Strangers who can set the record straight. Their sound is a fluid blend of folk, mountain music, “old time,” country, early rock and even flavors of Dixieland jazz. In short, it is American music (do you like American music? I like American music) and their self-titled debut album is the epitome of Americana. They’re bringing it to Clyde’s on Main on Friday, August 19th.

A point in the band’s bio made me smile in particular: “In May 2015, the Forlorn Strangers became full time musicians…” When I was a much younger fellow, being able to call yourself a “full time musician” was a badge of honor we all strived for and few attained. I should say, “full time working musician.” It wasn’t enough to merely own a guitar while otherwise jobless.

I very proudly made a go of it myself once, for about six months, until my unfortunate addictions to food and shelter forced me in another direction. It’s a very hard row to hoe, but Forlorn Strangers jumped in with both feet and by the end of last year the band had logged over 20,000 miles on the road. That’s the sort of transformative experience that only the strongest survive and the bands that do always emerge stronger, leaner and

Paying Tribute to Bowie and Prince

well-polished.

Abigail Dempsey plays fiddle and shares percussion with her sister Heather Leigh Lusk who also plays mandolin and upright bass. Chris Banke plays mandolin and guitar.

Benjamin Lusk plays banjo and guitar and Jesse Thompson rounds out the group with upright bass, guitar and dobro. All five members sing and, unusual in a group this size, all five are gifted songwriters contributing to the band’s output.

Five songwriters in one band, working together under the grueling conditions of the road suggests that the bonds these folks share are deeper than most; even the word “family” doesn’t seem strong enough.

The band has achieved some musical alchemy with this first album in that its ten tracks collectively form a beautifully cohesive work, yet each

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track is its own unique gem. That must seem like a no-brainer, but even the best bands occasionally release an album that has some throwaway tracks; a couple of “weird” ones that don’t really suit the album or a couple that just sound too much alike.

Bear in mind, this is a debut album; a little looseness or a little fluff would be forgivable, but that’s just not the case. Every tune is the best tune on the record.

“Bottom of the Barrel” is the opening track and can be viewed online in a number of live recordings, an official video and even an NPR “Tiny Desk Concert” version. Go find it. Watch it. I cannot imagine a better introduction to the group than this singular song.

“Sugarcane” is a bluesy, “swamp rock” work song in the finest folk tradition. “What I Don’t Remem-

ber” is Appalachian music with a contemporary makeover (it’s gorgeous, too.) “The Light” is…angelic, the vocals simply enfold you in the sweetest, most comforting way.

There’s a point to be made there.

Instrumentally, the entire band is at the top of its game. Their arrangements are perfection. The lyrics are poetry. It is the vocals, however, that raise this band high above the crowd. The vocals are simply magical. The voices themselves are pure and simple but the harmonies are transcendent. Frankly, the album and the band are breathtaking and the Forlorn Strangers are the worthy 21st century successors to the likes of Seeger, Guthrie and the Carter Family.

Sample their music online first and I am certain you will agree that on Friday, August 19th Clyde’s on Main is where you will want to be.

January 10, 2016 was the day the world lost David Bowie. It left me so overwhelmed at the time that all I knew to do was sit down and write about it. That small memoriam ran as the music feature that week, something I hadn’t done before and haven’t done since, not even when Prince followed him three months later. The impact that these men had on music, on listeners and on other musicians is incalculable.

Now, some of the Chattanooga music scene’s heaviest hitters, led by one of the town’s most respected artists, Eric Scealf, have come together to pay tribute.

On Saturday, August 20th, Scealf, along with Richard Tate and the Courters (to name a few) will take the stage at the Revelry Room to present Diamond Dogs: A David Bowie tribute back to back with Hardrocklover: A Prince tribute.

Doors will open at 8 p.m., show runs until midnight. Tickets are available now via at revelryroom.co. Come see some of Chattanooga’s finest paying loving respect to some of the world’s finest for one night only.

Chattanooga’s Greatest Hits

everywhere. every day.

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MUSIC CALENDAR

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THURSDAY8.11 James Crumble Trio 6 p.m.

St. John’s Meeting Place 1278 Market St. stjohnsrestaurant.com The Communicators 6 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View huntermuseum.org Rick Rushing Blues Jazz N’ Friends 6 p.m.

Bluewater Grille 224 Broad St. bluewaterchattanooga.com Live Bluegrass 6:30 p.m.

Whole Foods Market 301 Manufacturers Rd. wholefoodsmarket.com Bluegrass Thursdays 7:30 p.m.

Feed Co. Table & Tavern 201 W. Main St. feedtableandtavern.com Jesse James & Tim Neal 7:30 p.m.

Mexi-Wing VII 5773 Brainerd Rd. mexi-wingchattanooga.com Keepin’ It Local 8 p.m.

The Social 1110 Market St. publichousechattanooga.com Open Mic with Hap Henninger 9 p.m.

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

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FRIDAY8.12 Old Time Travelers, Amber Carrington 10 a.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Jennifer Daniels 6:30 p.m.

Cambridge Square 9453 Bradmore Ln. chattanoogamarket.com Gangstagrass, Mendingwall 7 p.m.

Nightfall Concert Series Miller Plaza 800 Market St. nightfallchattanooga.com Brandy Clark 7 p.m.

The Camp House 149 E. MLK Blvd.

PULSE PICK: THE MOLLY MAGURIES The Molly Maguires have been Chattanooga’s premiere Irish band for nearly two decades.

Come out, pick up a Guinness, and enjoy some of the best music in town.

The Moll Maguires Saturday, 12:30 p.m.

TN Aquarium Plaza 1 Broad St. chattanoogarivermarket.com

thecamphouse.com Watkins Family and Just Us Gals 7:30 p.m.

Ringgold Depot 155 Depot St. cityofringgold.com Standing Room Only 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Fred McIntosh 9 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Amber's Drive 9 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery and Restaurant 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com/chattanooga General Dollars, Slow Parade

9 p.m.

JJ 's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Fly By Radio 9 p.m.

Revelry Room 41 Station St. revelryroom.co Too Slim & The Taildraggers 10 p.m.

Clyde’s On Main 122 W. Main St. clydesonmain.com Chase Martin 10 p.m.

Raw Bar & Grill 409 Market St. rawbarandgrillchatt.com VooDoo Slim 10 p.m.

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

SATURDAY8.13 Old Time Travelers, AM Radio 10 a.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com The Molly Maguires 12:30 p.m.

Tennessee Aquarium Plaza 1 Broad St. chattanoogarivermarket.com Ripe 7 p.m.

Ross's Landing Riverfront Pkwy.

(423) 756-2211 riverfrontnights.com

MUSIC CALENDAR

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band Standing Room Only 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Lew Card 9 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery and Restaurant 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com/chattanooga Behold the Brave, Walking Man 9 p.m.

JJ 's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Rumours, Dream Police 9 p.m.

Revelry Room 41 Station St. revelryroom.co Minor Nine, American Lesion, Infidel 9 p.m.

Ziggy's Bar & Grill 607 Cherokee Blvd. ziggysbarandgrill.net Jocelyn and Chris Ardnt 10 p.m.

Clyde’s On Main 122 W. Main St. clydesonmain.com Polly Panic 10 p.m.

The Office @ City Cafe 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Chase Martin 10 p.m.

Raw Bar & Grill 409 Market St. rawbarandgrillchatt.com VooDoo Slim

10 p.m.

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

SUNDAY8.14 Old Time Travelers, Highbeams 10 a.m.

Rock City 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Road Man, Booker T. Scruggs Ensemble 11 a.m.

Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. flyingsquirrelbar.com Roxie Randle 12:30 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Rachel Solomon 2 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Open Mic with Jeff Daniels 6 p.m.

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

MONDAY8.15 Monday Nite Big Band 7 p.m.

The Coconut Room 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com

Concert for a Cause featuring Brett Young 7:15 p.m.

Revelry Room 41 Station St. revelryroom.co Very Open Mic 8 p.m.

The Well 1800 Rossville Blvd. #8 wellonthesouthside.com Open Mic Night 6 p.m.

Puckett’s Grocery 2 W. Aquarium Way puckettsgro.com Open Air with Jessica Nunn 7:30 p.m.

The Granfalloon 400 E. Main St. granfalloonchattanooga.com Flippinng Idiots, Thirteen Fingers, Rurnt, Torschuluspanic 9 p.m.

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

TUESDAY8.16 Tom Cordell Ensemble 6 p.m.

SpringHill Suites 495 Riverfront Pkwy. springhillsuites.com Open Mic with Mike McDade 8 p.m.

Tremont Tavern 1203 Hixson Pike tremonttavern.com Sawyer Fredericks 8 p.m.

Revelry Room 41 Station St. revelryroom.co Joshua Powell and the Great Train Robbery 9 p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY8.17 Johnny Hiland & Neil Zaza 8 p.m.

Revelry Room 41 Station St. revelryroom.co Wednesday Night Jazz 8 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. barkinglegs.org Wednesday Blues Jam 8 p.m.

The Office @ City Café 901 Carter St. citycafemenu.com Lyle Lovett and His Large Band 8 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. chattanoogaonstage.com Trunck Weed 9 p.m.

JJ 's Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com Map these locations on chattanoogapulse.com. Send event listings at least 10 days in advance to: calendar@chattanoogapulse.com CHATTANOOGAPULSE.COM • AUGUST 11, 2016 • THE PULSE • 17

RECORD REVIEWS ERNIE PAIK

The Stooges Get Deconstructed, Horse Lords Get An Intervention Funhausen tackles classic punk, Horse Lords channel minimal rhythms

Funhausen Funhausen (funhausen.bandcamp.com)

Horse Lords Interventions (Northern Spy)

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1961, which radically transformed Elvis Presley’s recording of “Blue Suede Shoes,” and even quoted composer Igor Stravinsky, who allegedly said, “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”

Today, of course, sampling is accepted and ubiquitous, helping to fuel hip-hop, industrial music, and mash-ups (to name a few genres), but true executions of Oswald’s idea of Plunderphonics—works entirely derived from existing recordings—are not as common.

n 1985, John Oswald presented his essay “Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative” at a time when digital sampling technology was starting to become common, making both an artistic and legal case for works derived from other works—and that would include his own future notfor-sale CD Plunderphonic, which fell victim to a cease-and-desist order.

Oswald cited works such as James Tenney’s “Collage 1” from

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That brings us to the new album Funhausen, created by Sean Moore from Atlanta, which is a track-bytrack destruction/reconstruction of the classic 1970 album Fun House

by The Stooges that manages to transcend novelty—if that wasn’t already guessed by the highbrow reference to visionary composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Funhausen was created solely from a CD of Fun House, sliced and diced and manipulated to varying degrees; it uses only a single song as a source for each track and retains not only the album’s original order but also the duration of each track.

The first half throbs and stutters, sometimes like a cross between Chrome, Lightning Bolt and a killer robot, with “Acelibate” (“Loose” transformed) sporting a motorik beat and “I-VD-I” (“T.V. Eye” transformed) going in and out of phase with itself.

However, things start to get really interesting with “Soiled” (“Dirt” transformed), which sounds like a haunted factory with an ominous and eerie mood, and “Year of the Dog” (“1970” transformed) that

concentrates more on textures than sonic stabs. Sax snippets cut in and out of the lurching, thick fuzzfog of “Black Site” (“Fun House” transformed), and the closing “LA Blooze”—the only track which actually uses Iggy Pop’s vocals—is a pulsating, abstract fireball, run through a tremolo effect.

Unlike most mash-ups that are heard once and then forgotten, Funhausen reveals more and more secrets upon each listen, taking a familiar album into unfamiliar territory.

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istening to the Baltimore quartet Horse Lords is often like trying to keep your eyes on which shell holds the pea, in a shell game operated by an experienced, quick con artist with great manual dexterity. With polyrhythms, seemingly borrowed from African sources, and an often minimalist style, it’s easy to get lost in the group’s fluid soundstreams and tight patterns that evolve in simple, gradual ways.

The band’s third album Interventions—its debut for the Northern Spy label—has a dizzying momentum with enigmatic turns

that sometimes bring to mind the avant-post-punk British group This Heat, like on the opening track “Truthers” that sprints along in 6/8 time with urgency and intensity, sometimes focusing down to just a single note being hammered.

With drummer Sam Haberman and percussionist/saxophonist Andrew Bernstein tapping out enthralling rhythms, bassist Max Eilbacher and guitarist Owen Gardner jump on the swift sound-escalator to weave a complicated rope—it seems like at any time, one wrong note could unravel everything, but that never happens.

One thought the listener might have when absorbing Interventions is “Why is the guitar out of tune?”—it’s actually not out of tune, but in tune with a different tuning system, as Gardner has created refretted basses and guitars for the band; this is most apparent on the nearly 10-minute track “Toward the Omega Point” which ramps up to a more manic state, reaching its stirring conclusion.

The album has a few anomalies, like “Intervention I” with effervescent electronic tones and flurries that bounce between the left and right stereo channels, or “Intervention III” with puzzling guitar wanderings and a digital rainstorm of static.

However, the band is at its best on tracks like “Bending to the Lash,” driven by simple, deeplycutting note-patterns, confusing yet exciting rhythms and the group’s distinctive, unusual intonation.

FOOD & DRINK MIXOLOGY

What Exactly Are All These Beers, Anyway?

A primer on the various types and tastes of our favorite liquid refreshment You know the trope: someone walks up to the bar and orders a “beer,” and a frosted glass filled with a foamy liquid slides into shot. The speaker drinks and the picture continues. Yet another unrealistic expectation movies have set for us.

If you go into a bar and order a “beer,” your bartender is going to ask a followup question: “What kind?” If you’re currently unknowledgeable about the varying types of beer, this could take you by surprise. But fear not, we at The Pulse have travelled down that rabbit hole to provide you with a handy primer, so all of your drinking decisions will now be informed.

Simply explained, beer is a beverage made with water, hops, and malted cereal grains—such as barley, wheat, rye, rice or corn. The mixture is then fermented with the addition of yeast. The yeast eats the sugar in the cereal grains, divides and multiplies, and produces carbon dioxide, creating the beer’s bubbly carbonation, and ethanol, the chemical compound we affectionately refer to as alcohol.

thank for that—not the king of pop, but the writer of the 1977 book The World Guide to Beer. In this book, Jackson categorized beers from around the world into style groups according to local customs and names, setting the modern standard for beer categorization.

Beer falls into two main categories: ales and lagers. Ales are fermented at

‘Beer style’ is a catch-all term to describe the different, and differentiating factors of brews, including color, flavor, strength, aroma, and mouthfeel, a very important aspect with a very weird name.

“Beer style” is a catch-all term to describe the different and differentiating, factors of brews, including color, flavor, strength, aroma, and mouthfeel, a very important aspect with a very weird name. We have Michael Jackson to

relatively warm temperatures for shorter time periods and use a top-fermenting yeast, meaning the yeasts float on top of the beer during fermentation.

Lagers, on the other hand, ferment for longer time periods with bottom-fer-

tier taste than blonde ales; sometimes with hints of caramel or chocolate, sometimes with a kick of bitterness.

Unlike pale ale, brown ale doesn’t carry many sub-categories, probably because the name says it all.

Now, onto the lager family tree. Pilsners are a pale lager with a light, translucent color, varying from pale to golden. They’re going to have a distinct hop aroma and flavor, most likely leading to a bitter taste. Hoppy doesn’t have to be synonymous with “bitter,” however; European-style pilsners, such as Heineken, will often have a slightly sweet taste. In this, pilsners are a sort of sister brew to blonde ales.

Of course, this is only a starter kit.

There’s the dark, well-hopped porters and the extra-strong stouts; there’s the ale-lager hybrids made possible by home brewing; surely there’s even styles of beers yet to be invented. The world of beer is vast and ever-growing.

Consider this a map as you venture into said world—and you are always free to take the road less traveled.

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menting yeast, meaning, you guessed it, the yeast settles to the bottom of the brew.

Some genera within these beer kingdoms are pale and brown ales in the ale family, and pilsners in the lager family.

Under the overarching pale ale umbrella we find amber ale, blonde ale, American pale ale (APA,) and India pale ale (IPA.) Amber ales are brewed with a proportion of amber malt and, predictably, have an amber color, ranging from light copper to light brown. Blonde ales are known for their pale color and crisp, dry flavor, with some sweetness from malt and little bitterness.

The APA is a strictly American concoction, and only a few decades old.

The first successful brew came from the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, in which they used American hops in the pale ale style to create a brew similar to both IPAs and amber ales.

The hoppy, light-colored IPA has seen a renaissance in the craft brewing scene, meaning all the cool kids are drinking it. In comparison, brown ales are lightly hopped with a deeper, nut-

SCREEN SCENE

Where Have All The True Movie Villains Gone?

The Second Open Screen Night Cine-Rama plays host to another indie short film showing In an age of 140 character Tweets and six second Vine videos, a two hour and fifteen-minute movie may be a bit too long to keep some of us interested. If you feel this way, know that you’re not alone, and discover the works of Open Screen Night at Cine-Rama.

The event consists of an hour and a half screening of various, independently-produced short works, some of which have been submitted by moviemakers here in Chattanooga, as well as surrounding regions.

Genres vary from comedies, dramas, documentaries, and even music vid-

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eos, each of them the perfect run time for our quick-moving brains.

Putting on the events are ChattaMovie, a local moviemaker group, and earLuminators, a local production group. ChattaMovie consists of industry professionals, student and amateur moviemakers, as well as movie enthusiasts who, along with members of earLuminators, want to shine a light on Chattanooga’s growing independent movie community.

So if you’re in need of some short works with a long-lasting effect, check out Cine-Rama this Saturday, at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

NEW IN THEATERS

Pete's Dragon The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon, in this updated revisioning of the 1977 liveaction/animated Disney musical.

Director: David Lowery Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence

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Sausage Party A sausage strives to discover the truth about his existence in this explicity Rrated animated romp that leaves very little to the (twisted) imagination.

Directors: Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon Stars: Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Alistair Abell

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Suicide Squad ignites fervor offscreen, leaves audiences unmoved

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FTER THREE MOVIES, THERE ARE SOME DISTINCT differences between the Marvel and DC Cinematic Universes.

One is brightly colored, funny, and rarely boring. The other is DC. At least, this seems to be the consensus among film critics who practically stumble over themselves to write sarcastic reviews and dismissive headlines.

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While DC’s Suicide Squad is by no means a great film, neither is it necessarily deserving of the hate it is currently receiving.”

On the opposite side are the fanboys, who despite having not seen a particular film, leave glowing comments and ratings on aggregate sites, defending their favorite characters enthusiastically while hurling insults at the out-of-touch elite on the payroll of the mainstream media.

Everything now is a battle of spiteful bickering over cultural products, from movies to politics to cat food, and every opinion held that differs from our own is a referendum on the integrity of the individual.

In the case of film, this simplicity of thought can be traced back to Siskel and Ebert, who refined criticism to the direction of a thumb and left it at that.

It worked well enough for television and the insightful commentary was left to their respective newspaper columns.

Of course, even with the decline of print, there are many places online to find such commentary—The AV Club is one, rogerebert.com is another. But then there is YouTube channel after YouTube channel full of contempt and anger directed not just at the film but at the fans as well.

I was reminded earlier this week of a quote by legendary film critic Pauline Kael in her essay “Art, Trash, and the Movies” where she says that “movies

are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.”

And so, while DC’s Suicide Squad is by no means a great film, neither is it necessarily deserving of the hate it is currently receiving. The film is mediocre, the way most summer films have been this year, and is exactly as good as it meant to be. It achieves its goals and by that measure is mostly a success.

Still, Suicide Squad isn’t quite great trash. It’s far too tame. It’s most fatal flaw is its reluctance to allow its team of villains to be villains. The characters aren’t the “worst of the worst” really— they’re just barely bad enough to earn a PG-13 rating. The story is illogical the way comic books tend to be.

In a world with powerful beings like Superman, a team of dangerous people is needed to protect it from the next big bad. Why the team needs to be staffed by criminals, some of which don’t even qualify as super-powered, is never explained. By and large, the less comic book films explain, the better it is for the viewer.

The slowest parts of Suicide Squad happen due to clunky exposition. But when Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) introduces Katana as having a sword that steals the souls of the people she kills, we have no reason not to believe him.

It’s all the introduction the audience needs. The film follows a standard hero format—an otherworldly being

who is definitely not Gozer the Gozarian starts tearing up Manhattan with faceless drones made from bystanders, the Squad is called up to do their part (and take ten years off their sentence.)

They wisecrack and team-build their way through the streets to the big battle where they learn a little about sacrifice and the greater good.

Yes, the characters are inconsistent.

Yes, the plot is juvenile. And yes, some of the jokes (and Jokers) fall flat. But there’s more than enough in the film to entertain an audience, which is what a summer movie should do.

Regardless of how the film is reviewed, there are more on the way.

Warner Brothers and DC appear to allow their directors more control over the filmmaking than Marvel does— while Suicide Squad was jump started

by Zach Snyder lead-ins, it is definitively not a Zack Synder film. It feels far more unique and maybe a tad less cinematic.

Marvel Films are very consistent across the board, to the point where it seems that the style of Joss Whedon or Jon Favreau is deadened some by the studio. It’s been argued elsewhere that Jon Favreau’s Chef is really about his desire to step away from the Iron Man films and return to filmmaking where he has more control over his product.

Suffice to say, there will be other directors for the DC Cinematic Universe.

It shouldn’t be written off just yet.

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FOOD & DRINK ON THE BEAT

It’s Time To Change The Script Officer Alex contemplates a tragic death and an inevitable reaction

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ALEX TEACH

We’re going to have to stop reading from an activist-penned script one of these days and actually address the problem, my fellow Americans, or we’re going to run out of young men or run out of cops.”

When officer Alexander D. Teach is not patrolling our fair city on the heels of the criminal element, he spends his spare time volunteering for the Boehm Birth Defects Center.

Hours had passed since the sun cast even a hint of pinkish light across the East Chattanooga sky. We aren’t moving a muscle and we’re sweating. Summertime in the ‘Noog at its finest.

I lifted a hand to facilitate the smoking process and the half inch of ash that had accumulated at the end of the cancer stick underscored the length of time we’d stood there as if on “pause,” staring transfixed over the crime scene we’d been working.

There was brass all over the street to accent the blood in various pools and it didn’t all match the type that was still sifting out of the recently christened corpse on the liquor store parking lot, and investigators were already there working the event backwards to trace it to its source.

A standard procedure, but on occasion it takes longer to wrap your brain around a large scale crime scene than it does to perform investigative time travel, and since some of the shell casings on the scene were our own this was definitely one of “those” kind of scenes.

The shit had gone down here in truly spectacular fashion, I thought to myself, when a long overdue breeze knocked the ash from its perch, and I flipped the remaining cigarette into a nearby storm drain like any good a-hole would without a thought.

While there was still a trace of light in the sky, a few of my co-workers had interrupted a fight on the street called in by passersby who also reported seeing a gun. (They were right.)

In the process of stopping an altercation we didn’t start, rather than shooting at one another as they had originally intended (or at least considered—I mean, they’d packed everything but a lunch for such an event) they ran and decided to shoot at us, instead.

Now we’re not trigger happy folks by

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any means, but we are trained folks and that really comes into play at times like these. All that said, though? That’s not what I’m really talking about this week; the crime itself, I mean.

When I was talking about drinking in the crime scene, you may have thought it was to perhaps accommodate the spiritual enormity of a life wasted and a family in mourning. Of what sequence of events lead our young gunslinger to his current final chapter. Of the senseless tragedy of the thing. And to an extent you’d be right—but what I (we) were really thinking of was how we as individuals and as a profession were going to be blamed for what happened tonight, and at least to us that made less sense than this death itself.

The man with the gun who was the subject of a fellow citizens 911 call was the one going cold on the sidewalk, as opposed to the cop who swore an oath to protect people from guys like these (and by “these” I mean “criminals” of course).

But what was probably going to be said? It would be said that this man was executed by police officers “because

of their fascist policies and history of abuse.” That the young man died because he was scared of police, and that is their fault, and his choice to bear a firearm in an argument in a street with a rival gang member and then to later shoot at cops for breaking such up was irrelevant.

But if it has been an officer down instead? Well, when police officers are killed…it’s also “because of their fascist policies and history of abuse” that actually puts them at fault for their own deaths. Even the President hints at this during police memorials, right?

We’re going to have to stop reading from an activist-penned script one of these days and actually address the problem, my fellow Americans, or we’re going to run out of young men or run out of cops, and neither of those are happy endings to these particular stories.

I was about to finally leave the scene when I pulled out another smoke, stared at it a second…then crumpled it up and the whole pack along with it. It was a habit that needed to be broken.

Let’s crumple up that script next, and for the same reasons. Deal?

Free Will Astrology LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let’s assume, for the sake of fun argument, that you do indeed have a guardian angel. Even if you have steadfastly ignored this divine helper in the past, I’m asking you to strike up a close alliance in the coming weeks. If you need to engage in an elaborate game of imaginative pretending to make it happen, so be it. Now let me offer a few tips about your guardian angel’s potential purposes in your life: providing sly guidance about how to take good care of yourself; quietly reminding you where your next liberation may lie; keeping you on track to consistently shed the past and head toward the future; and kicking your ass so as to steer you away from questionable influences. OK? Now go claim your sublime assistance!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Although you may not yet be fully aware of your good fortune, your “rescue” is already underway. Furthermore, the so-called hardship you’ve been lamenting will soon lead you to a trick you can use to overcome one of your limitations.

Maybe best of all, Virgo, a painful memory you have coddled for a long time has so thoroughly decayed that there’s almost nothing left to cling to. Time to release it!

So what comes next? Here’s what I recommend: Throw a going-away party for everything you no longer need. Give thanks to the secret intelligence within you that has guided you to this turning point.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here comes a special occasion—a radical exemption that is so rare as to be almost impossible. Are you ready to explore a blessing you have perhaps never experienced?

For a brief grace period, you can be free from your pressing obsessions. Your habitual attachments and unquenchable desires will leave you in peace. You will be relieved of the drive to acquire more possessions or gather further proof of your attractiveness. You may even arrive at the relaxing realization that you don’t require as many props and accessories as you imagined you needed to be happy and whole. Is enlightenment nigh? At the very least, you will learn how to derive more joy out of what you already have.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, I suspect that Life will attempt to move you away from any influences that interfere with your ability to discern and express your soul’s code. You know what I’m talking about when I use that term “soul’s code,” right? It’s your sacred calling; the blueprint of your destiny; the mission you came to earth to fulfill. So what does it mean if higher powers and mysterious forces are clearing away obstacles that have been preventing you from a more complete embodiment of your soul’s

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code? Expect a breakthrough that initially resembles a breakdown.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Maybe you know people who flee from the kind of Big Bold Blankness that’s visiting you, but I hope you won’t be tempted to do that.

Here’s my counsel: Welcome your temporary engagement with emptiness Celebrate this opening into the unknown. Ease into the absence. Commune with the vacuum. Ask the nothingness to be your teacher. What’s the payoff?

This is an opportunity to access valuable secrets about the meaning of your life that aren’t available when you’re feeling full. Be gratefully receptive to what you don’t understand and can’t control.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I placed a wager down at the astrology pool. I bet that sometime in the next three weeks, you Capricorns will shed at least some of the heavy emotional baggage that you’ve been lugging around; you will transition from ponderous plodding to curious-hearted sauntering. Why am I so sure this will occur? Because I have detected a shift in attitude by one of the most talkative little voices in your head. It seems ready to stop tormenting you with cranky reminders of all the chores you should be doing but aren’t -- and start motivating you with sunny prompts about all the fun adventures you could be pursuing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What you are most afraid of right now could become what fuels you this fall. Please note that I used the word “could.” In the style of astrology I employ, there is no such thing as predestination. So if you prefer, you may refuse to access the rich fuel that’s available.

You can keep your scary feelings tucked inside your secret hiding place, where they will continue to fester. You are not obligated to deal with them squarely, let alone find a way to use them as motivation. But if you are intrigued by the possibility that those murky worries might become a source of inspiration, dive in and investigate.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you ready for your mid-term exam? Luckily I’m here to help get you into the proper frame of mind to do well. Now study the following incitements with an air of amused rebelliousness. 1. You may have to act a bit wild or unruly in order to do the right thing.

2. Loving your enemies could motivate your allies to give you more of what you need. 3. Are you sufficiently audacious to explore the quirky happiness that can come from cultivating intriguing problems? 4. If you want people to change, try this: Change yourself in the precise way you want them to change.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Using scissors, snip off a strand of your hair. As you do, sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Seal the hair in an envelope on which you have written the following: “I am attracting divine prods and unpredictable nudges that will enlighten me about a personal puzzle that I am ready to solve.”

On each of the next five nights, kiss this package five times and place it beneath your pillow as you sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Then observe your dreams closely. Keep a pen and notebook or audio recorder near your bed to capture any clues that might arrive. On the morning after the fifth night, go to your kitchen sink and burn the envelope and hair in the flame of a white candle. Chant the words of power: “Catalytic revelations and insights are arriving.” The magic you need will appear within 15 days.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This would be a good time to have a master craftsperson decorate your headquarters with stained glass windows that depict the creation stories of your favorite indigenous culture. You might also benefit from hiring a feng shui consultant to help you design a more harmonious home environment. Here are some cheaper but equally effective ways to promote domestic bliss: Put images of your heroes on your walls. Throw out stuff that makes you feel cramped. Add new potted plants to calm your eyes and nurture your lungs. If you’re feeling especially experimental, build a shrine devoted to the Goddess of Ecstatic Nesting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You Geminis are as full of longings as any other sign, but you have a tendency to downplay their intensity. How often do you use your charm and wit to cloak your burning, churning yearnings?

Please don’t misunderstand me: I appreciate your refined expressions of deep feelings—as long as that’s not a way to hide your deep feelings from yourself. This will be an especially fun and useful issue for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I advise you to be in very close touch with your primal urges.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be vulnerable and sensitive as well as insatiable and irreverent. Cultivate your rigorous skepticism, but expect the arrival of at least two freaking miracles. Be extra nurturing to allies who help you and sustain you, but also be alert for those moments when they may benefit from your rebellious provocations.

Don’t take anything too personally or literally or seriously, even as you treat the world as a bountiful source of gifts and blessings. Be sure to regard love as your highest law, and laugh at fear at least three times every day.

“Running on Empty”—F at the top to E at the bottom.

ACROSS 1 Change cities, in realty-speak 5 Some Volkswagens 11 Blackberry byproduct, maybe 14 “Pictures ___ didn’t happen!”

15 Patton of the “Comedians of Comedy” tour 16 Disc in a tabloid photo 17 Like a piccolo’s range 18 17-mission space program 19 Min.’s opposite 20 Levels of command 22 Rookie’s teacher 24 Quattro minus uno 25 Setting for many movies, for short 26 Rapper/ actor ___ Def 28 Adjusted letter spacing, in printing 32 Bubble tea thickener 36 Rio Grande stuff 38 Auto dealership offer 39 Dosage unit 40 Flippant

41 Pumpkin spiced beverage, usually 42 Noteworthy times 43 “Take ___ Church” (Hozier song) 44 “___ Witch” (2016 horror sequel) 45 Muse’s instrument 46 Geometry class calculation 47 Never-before-seen 49 Striped blue ball 50 Risque 52 “Huh??”

54 “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice 57 Highbrow highlights of some festivals 62 One of four of 52 63 Orman who played Gordon on “Sesame Street” for over 40 years 65 Osso buco meat 66 Dispenser that might have a headphone jack for the blind 67 Priced to move 68 “Como ___ usted?”

69 Jeer from the crowd

70 Had to have 71 Appear (to be) DOWN 1 Le Corbusier contemporary Mies van der ___ 2 “Change the World” singer Clapton 3 Honeymoon quarters that lets the sun in?

4 Last check box, often 5 Bossa nova legend ___ Gilberto 6 Sister network of ABC 7 Counting by ___ 8 Jazz guitarist ___ Farlow 9 Permit tractor pioneer John?

10 Absolut rival, familiarly 11 Get visibly startled 12 “Bearing gifts, we traverse ___” 13 Psychobilly rocker ___ Nixon 21 Albanian currency 23 Put to rest, as a rumor 25 Hyatt alternative 26 Igneous rock’s source

27 Lascivious looker 29 Kay, if you do the math?

30 “Is that so?”

31 Birth-related 33 Ethereal author of “Honor Thy Father”?

34 Piercing look 35 Mary-Kate or Ashley 37 On a cruise liner, e.g.

48 Hulk Hogan’s ‘80s-’90s org.

51 “Fanfare for the Common Man” composer Copland 53 Places that are all abuzz 54 GM’s Swedish subsidiary 55 ___ Cooler (“Ghostbusters”themed Hi-C flavor) 56 ___ : 2003 :: Dory : 2016 57 Annapolis inst., e.g.

58 Part of the theater industry?

59 ___ off (annoyed) 60 Friend, in Fremantle 61 Poetry competition 64 157.5 degrees from N

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