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APRIL 10, 2014

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Happenings

EDITORIAL

Managing Editor Gary Poole

BEGINNINGS: "There's nothing to do in this town!" ... Helmets on for the Night Shift

Contributing Editor Janis Hashe Contributors Rob Brezsny • John DeVore • Steven Disbrow Hayley Graham • Daniel Jackson • Matt Jones Janis Hashe • Kelly Lockhart • Marc T. Michael Ernie Paik • Terry Stulce • Alex Teach

LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR

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ART: Love is a many-splintered thing

SPREADING THEIR WINGS 4 Bridges Festival once again pushes new talent to the fore

By Hayley Graham

TECHNOLOGY: Women in Technology comes to Gig City SCREEN: New “Captain America” reaches beyond comic book world NEW MUSIC REVIEWS: Early Residents, Recent Residents

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EVERYBODY FUNK NOW Soul Mechanic gets their funk on in style and soul

By Marc T. Michael

STEVEN W. DISBROW: How not to order a baloney sandwich ALEX TEACH: Cowards are the real ‘heroes’ here

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"There's Nothing To Do In This Town" When I moved to Chattanooga from Atlanta back in 1996, this was a very different city. I remember going downtown with my wife to eat at 212 Market on a Friday night and being struck by how quiet it was. We even noticed a group of UTC students riding their skateboards down 4th Street across Market and Broad without any worries about cross traffic.

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I still hear people say that there's nothing to do in this town.

Hogwash. Pure and simple hogwash."

Back then, it wasn’t uncommon (or invalid) to hear someone say, “There’s nothing to do in the town.” Indeed, while there were a few clubs and some nice restaurants, downtown was pretty empty, the Southside was a ghosttown, and the Northshore was anchored by a seemingly shuttered Naval Reserve base along the river.

My, how times have changed.

These days, those skateboarders would be made into not-so-attractive hood ornaments all too quickly, and it takes almost as long to decide upon which of the dozens of great restaurants to have dinner at as it does to find a parking space. The Southside is booming and

Smooth Dialects in concert. Photo by Lauren Coakley.

Coolidge Park is the understated gem of the waterfront revilization.

And yet, I still hear people say (or more commonly nowadays, post on Facebook) that there’s nothing to do in this town.

Hogwash. Pure and simple hogwash.

No, I am not normally the type of person who says things like “hogwash”, but if I wrote what I really say to those people, we’d have to place a Parental Advisory sticker on the cover of this issue.

But hogwash it is. When I hear (or read) someone make that complaint, I want to take a folded GARY POOLE up copy of The Pulse and smack them upside the head with it. Then open it up and point out the very full music and arts & entertainment calendars within these pages.

Aside from the 4 Bridges Arts Festival, which we cover in full detail in our cover story this week, this is what I would consider a fairly normal weekend in Chattanooga. Yet looking through the calendars, I find it nearly impossible to decide on which of the many interesting things I would like to do. Mainly because I don’t have a Harry Potter time-turner that would allow me to be in more than one place at one time.

Musically, we run the gamut this weekend. Just covering my own personal tastes, which admittedly are a bit on the eclectic side, I’ve highlighted Smooth Dialects at Rhythm & Brews on Friday, the big bluegrass gathering at Thunder Creek HarleyDavidson on Saturday (featuring Fox Mountain Express, Hamilton County Ramblers, Third Degree Bluegrass, Bent Creek and my longtime favorites, The Dismembered Tennesseans), Ryan Oyer over at the River Market in front of the Aquarium, any number of local bands performing at 4 Bridges all weekend, Glowing Bordis at JJ’s Bohemia Saturday night, and Sunday getting up early for The Lazenby

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Family over at Crabtree Farms.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Speaking of icebergs, flipping over to the arts & entertainment calendar, the first thing I notice is “Titanic: The Musical” is at the Tivoli this weekend. I still can’t believe they turned one of the greatest maritime tragedies in history into a musical, but I’ve been told it’s actually quite good.

That said, if you’re in a mood for theater, there are couple of local performances that are intriguing as well: “The Glass Menagerie” at the St. Elmo Fire Hall, and “Pump Boys & Dinettes” at the Theatre Centre.

There’s also the Habitat for Humanity “Raise The Roof” fundraiser gala at the Chattanoogan on Friday (disclosure: I’ve been a longtime supporter of this fine organization, even though my hammering skills were long ago judged to be lacking), and the always fun Camp Chair Cinema at Center Park on Friday.

Crabtree Farms is hosting their 14th Annual Spring Plant Sale and Festival all weekend, and the Volkswagen faithful from all over the Southeast are descending upon Camp Jordan for Bug-A-Paluza 16.

All in all, there are literally dozens upon dozens (upon dozens) of different “things to do in this town”. On a typical weekend. In which I didn’t even mention all the restaurants and nightclubs, the movie theaters, the parks, the shopping, the galleries, or places like the Aquarium, the Creative Discovery Museum, etc., etc.

And that’s no hogwash.

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Helmets On for the Night Shift Got a mountain bike? Love to ride it for hours at a time? How about a six-hour race in the middle of the night? SORBA Chattanooga presents the first ever twilight mountain bike race at Enterprise South Nature Park on April 12. Race solo, in duos or trios, and complete as many 10-mile laps as possible in six hours, on some of the best trails in Tennessee.

All racers earn pride and bragging rights, but in addition, the first 200 entrants will receive a reflective event T-shirt—and winners will receive a “super-secret one-of-a-kind trophy.” Swag raffles will also take place after the race.

Prizes include one of two Lynskey performance bikes, winner’s choice.

For friends or family who want to

cheer you from the sidelines, a vendors’ expo area and Rolling J’s Mobile Bistro will keep them entertained and fed while they wait for you to sprint through the transition area. Because you’ll work up an appetite (and may want some new equipment after a six-hour stint with your own), the expo and food truck will be available for riders as well before and after the race.

According to Michael Long, Night Shift was inspired by what Team SORBA Chattanooga thought would be “wicked fun” to do themselves, and we think they’re right. For more information regarding race time and registration details, visit teamsorbachattanooga.squarespace. com/night-shift. — Dea Lisica

IN THIS ISSUE

Hayley Graham This week's Pulse cover story on the emerging artists at this weekend's 4 Bridges Arts Festival is written by regular contributor Hayley Graham, a jill-of-all-trades originally from Nashville, Tennessee. When not singing with her bands “Amber Fults

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Steven W. Disbrow and the Ambivalent Lovers” and “The Goodbye Girls,” or teaching yoga at Hot Yoga Plus and beyoga Ooltewah, she can be found supporting local music, theatre, art and all of the wonderful events and opportunities Chattanooga has to offer. Hayley writes about art, culture and this town that she so dearly loves. She likes to further muse and ramble on her website at hayleygraham.com.

Our newest columnist and regular feature contributor Steven Disbrow is a computer programmer who specializes in e-commerce and mobile systems development. He’s also an entrepreneur, comic-book nerd, writer, improviser, actor, sometime television personality

and parent of two human children. He’s anxiously awaiting the results of the experiment that will prove whether or not the universe is a massive simulation. If it is, he’d like to have a chat with the idiot that coded the bits where we kill each other for no damn good reason. His science column, "Just A Theory" will run monthly here in The Pulse. Watch out, Neil deGrasse Tyson!

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Meet the Real Welfare Queens Yes, welfare fraud exists. But not everyone on government assistance is a thief or a crook.

During the past three decades, the favorite conservative pastime has been throwing poor people under the bus. At every opportunity, they have stolen from the poor and lavished more wealth on the superrich. “Conservatives” have become nothing more than lackeys for the wealthy, while engaging in derogatory campaigns to humiliate our nation’s less fortunate.

The famous centerpiece of all TERRY this was the story of the “Welfare Queen”, the black woman in Chicago bilking the system while driving a pink Cadillac, used so effectively by candidate Ronald Reagan in 1976. This stereotype was used to characterize all poor people as lazy, dishonest, inferior and parasitic.

We should remember this concept served some very useful purposes for the super-wealthy. First, it was used as a rationale to promote the interests of the rich to a position of preeminence over the interests of the country at large.

The “trickle down” theory starts with providing access to even more money to the already rich.

The poor, like Lazarus, can eat the crumbs that fall from the table of the rich man.

Second, the “Welfare Queen” was a way to focus attention and anger of on the poor and minorities as the source of our nation’s problems—a perfect way to distract the gullible from the shameless robbery of the middle class.

Third, it was a “dog whistle” to Southern racists. Nixon had already learned you can win elec-

tions in the South by appealing to racist sentiment. The story of the Welfare Queen became a tailormade racist fantasy just like the “happy slave” and the “sons of Ham” myths.

Of course, welfare fraud exists. The actual Welfare Queen, Linda Taylor, was sent to prison for defrauding the government of $8,000.

The infamous “Octomom” was charged with STULCE defrauding the government of $28,000. These are small-time crooks. The true American parasites are international corporations who bilk the U.S. taxpayer for billions of dollars each year.

To meet the real welfare queens you don’t have to go very far.

You’ve seen their signs: Walmart, McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Target, Kroger, Sears, to name a few. These companies have been successful in privatizing their profit and socializing their labor cost. Their frontline staff earns poverty-level wages and only a small percentage of them have benefits.

At the same time they’re forcing their employees to rely on poverty programs, they’re paying huge salaries and bonuses to their executives. Walmart had income of $17 billion last year and paid its CEO $20.7 million. McDonald’s made $5.5 billion and paid $13.8 million to its CEO. Right-wingers continually bash the poor as “too lazy to work” (see Rep. Paul Ryan’s recent comments). The truth is that 73 percent of those getting government

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Big Business shows reckless disregard for their employees, leaving them to depend upon government programs for healthcare and other basic services, including all too often, food.” benefits are employed, sometimes in more than one job. (Source: Allegretto, Doussard, et. al., ”The Public Cost of Low Wage Jobs”.)

Between 2007 and 2011, the U.S. taxpayer picked up the healthcare tab for 15.3 million working families. The total cost was $146.8 billion. While rewarding executives with Cadillac health plans, Big Business shows reckless disregard for their employees, leaving them to depend upon government programs for healthcare and other basic services, including all too often, food.

While the CEOs are buying Caribbean islands, their employees are standing in line to get food stamps. Nearly 14 million employees received food stamps between 2007-2011, at a cost to taxpayers of $33.5 billion. Because their wages were so low, 26.4 million workers received $58.5 billion in earned income payments. (Source: Allegretto, et.al.)

The total taxpayer bill to support working families during this period was an eye-popping $243.4 billion. The U.S. corporate freeloader is like having a useless brother-in-law that invites you to

a fancy restaurant, orders the most expensive thing on the menu, stuffs himself with a seven-course meal—then leaves you with the enormous bill. Conservatives cleverly send us looking in the wrong place for social parasites. They tell us to look for pink Caddies—when the real thieves are hiding in the boardrooms and executive offices of international corporations.

Terry Stulce hass been a longtime political activist. He ran for Congress in 2006 as one of the "Fighting Dems" but lost in the primary. A family counselor by profession, he is a decorated U.S. Army Ranger who served in the 101st Airborne, and a veteran of the Vietnam War where he fought and led soldiers in combat through two tours of duty. Stulce and his wife Kate have two grown children.

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CITY SCENE

Soul Mechanic: Everybody Funk Now

Young Heart, Old Soul Chris Burkich may be 16, but his talent’s full-grown A new generation of teenage musicians is taking the world by storm. Gareth Laffely, a 15-year-old flutist showcased his talents at the Chattanooga Pow Wow last week—and now 16-yearold Chris Burkich is taking the stage at Rhythm & Brews.

His dad was a singer/songwriter, so music backgrounded Burkich’s childhood and introduced him to the music world at an early age. He started warming his vocal chords at five, tickling the ivories and strumming the guitar at nine, and uploading songs onto iTunes at 13. At 16, Burkich combines his musical talents to create a unique sound.

His performances blend cover and original songs. Like Laffely, his songs showcase a high level of maturity that vaults him into the company of much more weathered musicians.

Themes range from his religious beliefs to the days of young love. The lyrics are described as having, “elements of irony, doubt, truth, reflection; in a word—wisdom” and “layers that many adult songwriters don’t achieve.”

Burkich will perform an all-ages, no-alcohol show on April 12 at 3 p.m. at Rhythm & Brews. Tickets are $3 for adults and free with a student ID. — Madeline Chambliss

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• You read about them last week here in The Pulse, check them out for yourself this week."There are a great many influences at work. In fact, the band self-describes as 'jazz, funk, soul, reggae, world' music which is accurate, if a bit wordy." —Marc Michael 9 p.m. • Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com

• Chattanooga native who's making waves in Nashville (and beyond) these days.

He is currently a regular in Music City’s most popular establishments, such as Tootsies, Rippy’s, Honky Tonk Central, and Third and Lindsley. Come out and see one of the brightest new stars in country.

9 p.m. • Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com

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HAT FOUR-LETTER “F” WORD BEST DESCRIBES the overwhelming trend in the local music scene? That’s right: funk. Funk is in, and whether that’s because of the popularity of jam bands or because all things naturally lead to funk, who can say?

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In a genre of music that can lend itself to hot-dogging, English and Jackson both demonstrate a sense of style and restraint that makes their work infinitely more compelling."

Whatever the reason, there is a lot of it going around. That’s great for the people who go to listen, but it does make it harder on the people who go to play. It means you have to work that much harder to stand out in a crowd. Competition is fierce.

But it’s a piece of cake for the guys in Soul Mechanic, who demonstrate time and again that they have the chops, dedication and direction to rise above the rest. If Soul Mechanic doesn’t do it for you, you might just have to funk yourself.

It started, as these things often do, with two guys in college. In 2009, bassist frontman Tyler Reddick decided it was time for a new project and recruited long-time friend Clark Jackson for the job.

The two began producing fresh, original tunes at an exponential rate while simultaneously casting about for the players that would round out the band. At one time they even snagged local phenom Yattie “The Stage Terrorist” Westfield, which frankly always looks good on a band’s resumé.

Eventually they found a winning combination in guitarist William English and drummer Kyle Kinzalow. The stage was set, the band was ready, it was time to go forth and play—so they did. A lot.

Soul Mechanic is band that’s been everywhere, man. The long string of shows at festivals and venues throughout the Southeast is a testament not only to their popularity and talent but especially to their drive and determination. It’s this as much as anything

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Soul Mechanic get their funk on. Contributed photo.

that allows them to rise above the rest.

They’re going places and don’t intend to waste a minute getting there.

Reddick’s bass lines are the kind of head-bobbing cool that makes you move whether you want to or not. Coupled with his smartly crafted lyrics and languid delivery, the guy encapsulates some of the best of ’70s soul. I’m surprised (and a little disappointed) that he isn’t sporting a huge afro.

Kinzalow’s drumming is the perfect complement to Reddick’s bass, Together, they form a potent sexual groove that is the soul of…soul. If you’re going to play funk and the rhythm section

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isn’t bringing it, nothing anyone else is doing will matter. These guys bring it.

English’s guitar work has been described as Zeppelin-esque, and that’s fair enough, although I think he practices more subtlety than Jimmy Page (a good thing). Jackson sounds like a fellow who graduated from the Carlos Santana school of tone and tasty licks.

In a genre of music that can lend itself to hot-dogging, English and Jackson both demonstrate a sense of style and restraint that makes their work infinitely more compelling, and the combination of their respective styles makes for an interesting flavor.

Side note to aspiring guitar gods: Few things are as off-putting as a guitarist with no sense of control. Yes, precious, we all see what you can do—but there really IS such a thing as too many notes.

Here’s a handy mnemonic device to help you remember to play appropriately: If it don’t fit, it sounds like…shinola.

Soul Mechanic: They’re playing every place you want to be (including the Widespread Panic after-party at Rhythm & Brews and the Sweetwater 420 after-party in Atlanta) and best of all, the kids have a new studio album called Research to Reality set to drop any day now. Tune in, turn on and funk out.

Local vocal instructor Trish Ferrell Wileman and dulcimer shredder Butch Ross are pleased to announce that they will be conducting a six-week course called “The Art of the Singer/ Songwriter”. The weekly classes will be held at the Mountain Arts Community Center on Tuesdays at 6:45 p.m. from June 3 through July 14.

The class will cover a broad range of topics relating to songwriting, as well as a practical approach to proper vocal technique. Local guest songwriters will be featured, and the course will conclude with students being able to showcase their original tunes in a coffeehouse concert.

All musical styles are welcome. The course is open to ages 14 and up. For more information regarding registration and fees, contact the Mountain Arts Community Center at (423) 886-1959, Trish Ferrell Wileman at (941) 3305547, or visit signalmountainmacc.org — MTM

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thursday4.10 CSO Lunchtime Concert Series 11:30 a.m.

Warehouse Row Food Court 1110 Market St. warehouserow.net The Word, the Sound, and the Image: “Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights and Beyond” 6 p.m.

The Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View. huntermuseum.org String Project 6:30 p.m.

UTC Cadek Conservatory of Music, 725 Oak St., Room 201. utc.edu/music Songwriter Shootout 7 p.m.

The Camp House 1427 Williams St. thecamphouse.com Roy Treiyer Recital 7:30 p.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center, Vine & Palmetto Sts. utc.edu/music Erick Baker, Ryan Oyer 9 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Andy D Pt. 2, soCro, Spoken Nerd 9 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com Captain Crunch, Kill Rex, Mark Yurm 10 p.m.

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

friday4.11 Jazzreach featuring Metta Quintet

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11 a.m., 6:30 p.m.

Bessie Smith Cultural Center Performance Hall 200 E. MLK Blvd. jazzanooga.org Downtown Jazz 12:30 p.m.

Waterhouse Pavilion 850 Market St. jazzanooga.org Sacred Sound 7 p.m.

Ringgold Depot 155 Depot St., Ringgold, Ga. cityofringgold.com BlueJohn 7 p.m.

North River Civic Center 1909 Executive Dr. (423) 870-8924 Voices Won, Calvin Newton 7:30 p.m.

Ringgold Depot 155 Depot St, Ringgold, Ga. cityofringgold.com Rosedale Remedy 8 p.m.

Sky Zoo 5709 Lee Hwy. chattazooga.com

Pulse pick: Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors A Tennessee-born, duck hunting, bourbon drinking, first edition-book-collecting, golf-playing Eagle Scout with a masters degree in divinity from Scotland’s University of St Andrews.

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors Saturday, Apr. 12, 8 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co

Hot Damn 8 p.m.

The Brew and Cue 5017 Rossville Blvd.

(423) 867-9402 Uptown Big Band, Smooth Dialects 9 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Jordan Hallquist 9 p.m.

The Office 901 Carter St. (inside Days Inn).

(423) 634-9191 Blackcat Moon 10 p.m.

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

saturday4.12 Clark Williams, Jim Everette, Rick Davis 9 a.m.

Crabtree Farms 1000 E. 30th St.

crabtreefarms.org Fox Mountain Express, Hamilton County Ramblers, Third Degree Bluegrass, Bent Creek, The Dismembered Tennesseans 11 a.m.

Thunder Creek Harley-Davidson 7720 Lee Hwy. thundercreekharley.com Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song 11 a.m.

4 Bridges Art Festival First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd. avarts.org Ryan Oyer 12:30 p.m.

The Chattanooga River Market Tennessee Aquarium Plaza 1 Broad St. chattanoogarivermarket.com Lon Eldridge 12:30 p.m.

4 Bridges Art Festival First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd. avarts.org The Goodbye Girls 2 p.m.

4 Bridges Art Festival First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd. avarts.org Chris Burkich 3 p.m.

Rhythm & Brew 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Birds with Fleas 3:30 p.m.

4 Bridges Art Festival First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd. avarts.org Decibella 5 p.m.

4 Bridges Art Festival First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd. avarts.org Smooth Dialects 6:30 p.m.

MUSIC CALENDAR

Charlie Wilson 4 Bridges Art Festival First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd. avarts.org Sullivan Band 7 p.m.

Magoo’s 3658 Ringgold Rd., East Ridge.

(423) 867-1351 Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors 8 p.m.

Track 29 1400 Market St. track29.co Charlie Wilson, After 7, Joe Johnson 8 p.m.

Chattanooga Convention Center 1100 Carter St. chattanoogaconventioncenter.org Mark Stuart 8 p.m.

Charles and Myrtle’s Coffeehouse 105 McBrien Rd. christunity.org Dagger Blue 8 p.m.

Sky Zoo 5709 Lee Hwy. chattazooga.com The Dubber 8 p.m.

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Early (Still Weird) Residents, Recent (Still Weird) Residents Forty years and we still don’t know who they are. Yay. of Frank Zappa’s “King Kong,” with dexterous guitar work, and a scalding take on Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm” with infantile violin playing.

The live track “Party of ‘71” includes a version of “Eloise” (from the Vileness Fats video saga) with an unsettling recitation over atonal disorder in the background, but the compilation’s masterpiece is the lengthy “Hallowed Be Thy Ween,” which is whimsical and nightmarish, constantly transforming itself with noises and unnatural voices.

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n today’s information glut, where over-sharing is an official thing, one wonders where the notion of mystery has gone. The musical group that has always welcomed mystery— possibly more than any other—is The Residents, which has been called “The world’s most famous unknown band.”

Some may recognize the top-hatwearing eyeball icon of the band, but few outside the musical underground would recognize the group’s music.

Few groups have been so art-minded as The Residents, being pioneers of the music video format and multimedia performances and software, and adopting certain guiding principles, including, most importantly, N. Senada’s “Theory of Obscurity,” which says that pure art is created by eliminating outside influences.

As an extension of this, in order to separate itself from the normal, social world, the band has remained anonymous for its entire 40-plus year

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career—which, naturally and ironically, has only stoked fans’ speculation about the members’ identities.

Yes, obsessive fans like this writer can’t simply “accept the mystery,” to quote from the film A Serious Man, and want to know how this highly eccentric music evolved. The accepted starting point for The Residents is the 1972 double-single Santa Dog, which began an incredible decadelong run of ardently strange concept albums and EPs with unfamiliar sonic palettes.

From the ’80s onward, when the group discovered MIDI keyboards, fans weren’t so unanimous in their praise, with big concepts and multimedia projects often overshadowing the music itself. The new collection Greatest Hiss (so named for the sometimes low fidelity of the recordings) billed under the pre-Residents moniker “The Delta Nudes,” focuses on the collective’s origins, culling material from unreleased albums and rari-

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ties recorded in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

It goes beyond ’60s counterculture and into the truly disturbing, with a brash, raw sound and some flat-out crazy moments, with cartoon-character voices and arrangements seemingly designed to provide discomfort.

One comparison for this music might be the kindred weirdos The Godz, with primitive guitar strums and a semi-hippie-cult feeling at times.

“Aircraft Damage,” taken from the aforementioned Santa Dog, is a slice of disorienting lunacy, with barking dogs, marching band drums, and enthusiastic people imploring you to “kick a cat today!” The Residents’ lead singer is recognizable, with his unmistakable Southern accent, and clearly, the outfit is taking potshots at traditional folk and gospel origins with tracks like “I Hear Ya Got Religion,” featuring sax bleats in no particular key and frantic picking.

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or a band such as The Residents with a fruitful and strange 40-plus year career, it is currently a particularly fruitful and strange time that seems simultaneously exhilarating and foreboding.

In recent years, The Residents celebrated its 40th anniversary with the “Wonder of Weird” performance series and put up for sale a $100,000 boxed set with rare Residents artifacts enclosed in an actual refrigerator. The key members are likely in their 60s today, and most notably, they have recently been putting out releases at a mind-boggling rate, making it the most prolific period of the band’s entire history.

It almost feels like the group is sensing its end and wants to make a glorious, mad dash to the finish line, doing more than ever as a sort of artistic bucket list. Another notable thing is that the members are now identified by individual names: Randy, Chuck and Bob. These, of course, are invented names, but it’s an unusual step for a group that has always guarded its anonymity.

The latest offering in the Residents’ realm is the double-CD Maxine / CB Suite released under the name “Charles Bobuck,” who is assumed to be the main composer for The Residents (Randy is assumed to be the lyricist and lead singer.) Having been disappointed with The Residents’ recorded output of the last decade, this release actually took this writer

by surprise for being more enjoyable than expected.

The release consists of two regular length tracks (“Go Home” and “Jambalaya”) and two album-length tracks: “Maxine,” which was used as walk-in music for the Demons Dance Alone performances, and “CB Suite,” composed of instrumental tidbits from the Coochie Brake recording sessions.

“Maxine” is a collage with many genres stitched together, not sounding like classic Residents; there’s everything from soul to Indian music in the mix, with space sounds, hums and drum loops that are frankly a bit distracting and occasionally annoying. The Residents had been moving away from N. Senada’s “Theory of Phonetic Organization” in the last two and a half decades; the theory says that sounds come first, and you build music up from the sounds instead of starting with a song structure and then working your way down to the individual sounds. However, in an alternate way, “Maxine” might be considered a return to this philosophy, by taking snippets and detritus and then assembling collages from the given materials.

“CB Suite” is engrossing, with tribal exotica drums, insect sounds, disembodied voices and many other elements that weave in and out, building a satisfying maelstrom with good morsels along the way; this writer would have left out some of the more generic-sounding drumbeats, but overall, the piece works. And if you’ve always wanted to hear an ambient techno version of Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya” with robot vocals, here it is.

Without a strict theme and narrative, this album is an oddly refreshing one for the Residents collective, and for the first time in years, this writer is compelled to check out more of the Residents’ current output. How long will they keep this up? It’s a mystery, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

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How Not to Order a Baloney Sandwich Welcome to The Pulse’s new science column. Watch out, Neil deGrasse Tyson!

Baloney Sandwiches!

If there’s one thing I love, it’s being lied to. There’s nothing like the warm embrace of a good lie to make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. And, if the lie was told specifically to control my behavior or to take my money, that’s even better!

Wait. Scratch that...I hate being lied to, and there’s one type of lie that I hate more than any other, and that’s the lie of “pseudoscience.”

“PseudosciSTEVEN W. ence” is anything that, at first glance, looks like science, but is in fact based on one or more incorrect assumptions. For example, astrology. Sounds scientific, right?

Heck, it even sounds like (and has many of the same letters as) “astronomy.”

Now, astronomy is the real science of repeatedly looking at things in the sky using various types of telescopes. But astrology? Pure nonsense based on the seemingly reasonable assumption that the stars and the planets have some influence on your life. (OK. OK. I’m kidding, astrology fans. It’s actually not a reasonable assumption. It’s completely koo-koo.)

Another “favorite” pseudoscience of mine is homeopathy. That’s where you create a “medicine” by taking some ingredient that, in normal doses, would cause the problem you want to treat and then you dilute that ingredient to the point where it’s vanishingly small (possibly nonexistent) in the final preparation.

So, if it’s liquid-based, you end up taking water, and if it’s pill-based, you end up taking a sugar pill.

The best part?

DISBROW Homeopathic “medicines” are super expensive and don’t work!

It’s a real win-win for the people that sell them: Low cost of materials (water or sugar) with a very high price charged to the consumer.

These are just two examples of what I refer to as “Baloney Sandwiches.” (For brevity’s sake, I’ll refer to these as “BS” from here out.)

If you live here on Earth, you can probably think of at least a dozen more.

How can you protect yourself against all the pseudoscientific BS that life puts on your plate? Well, I’m glad you asked, because, there is a fairly simple set of questions you can ask yourself whenever you

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are confronted with something that smells just a bit like BS. Your BS Detection Kit Astronomer, author, TV presenter and now full-time ex-person Carl Sagan once wrote a book called “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.” One of the chapters in that book was called, “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,” and in that chapter, he presented nine rules that you can use to sniff out the baloney in your own life. Loosely paraphrased, they are: • Is there independent confirmation of the “facts” of the claim?

• Has there been substantial debate on the claim by proponents of all sides? (For example, there aren’t a lot of homeopathic experts willing to debate actual doctor persons or chemists.)

• If the only argument for the claim is the “argument from authority,” i.e. “mommy said so,” then that should get your baloney senses tingling.

• Can you come up with any other explanations? If so, can you think of ways to disprove those explanations?

The explanation that survives is the one that’s most likely to be worth pursuing.

• Don’t get attached to an idea just because it’s yours. Ask yourself why you like the idea and ruthlessly compare it to others.

• Can you measure it? Things that can be measured are, in general, easier to explain. Even if the measure is just, “How many studies have been done about this?” that’s a valuable bit of information right there. If a proponent of something can’t point

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to a study showing its effectiveness, that’s a red flag all on its own.

• If the argument is based on a series of arguments, then every argument in the chain must be valid.

• Does the claim pass the test of

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Occam’s Razor? Occam’s Razor is a simple principle that says, “If there are multiple explanations, the simplest is the most likely to be true.”

Of course, this isn’t always the case: Quantum mechanics are anything but simple, but Occam’s Razor is a good starting point for working out the truth.

• Does it make predictions? Can you test it? Real science is built on predicting things and then testing those predictions. If something can’t be tested, it’s not a part of science.

(And before you even start that email: Yes, evolution does make predictions and they can and have been tested…again and again and again.)

So there you go.

Nine simple questions you can use to save yourself time, money and heartache simply by sniffing out the BS in your life.

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Spreading Their Wings in the Big Art Sky AVA’s 4 Bridges Festival once again pushes new talent to the fore

By Hayley Graham

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This year, five new Emerging Artists are also awash in gratitude for the opportunity to showcase their work on this large scale.”

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rt is often viewed through the lens of experience, with a timeline in mind. Critics may write that an artist’s earlier work is truly reflective of their best efforts, or that his or her work has gotten more rich over the span of years.

Regardless of critiques, this work is often truly viewed in the context of an hourglass; as the sands of time run down, the breadth and scope of an artist’s work changes.

It’s through experience that artists not only learn to spread their wings creatively, but practically and financially as well. For an artist can create masterpieces, but what is the value without resources to create, and an audience to view the work?

Experienced artists know how to get their work seen, to reel in their unique audience and capture its attention, not only in the short term but in perpetuity. It’s a necessity for those who wish their passion to become their self-sustaining life’s work.

But what about the novice

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painter, sculptor, printmaker?

How do they create a body of work with a depth beyond their present experience? It is with this thought in mind that AVA’s 4 Bridges Art Festival created its Emerging Artists Program.

Each year, a jury awards scholarships for up to six promising artists who are novice or parttime, such as recent college graduates or those who have left their careers in pursuit of a less stable, albeit more enriched livelihood.

For those selected, AVA provides complimentary booth items, a daylong “how-to” workshop, and special visibility, giving the artists a springboard to be seen by a large, diverse audience of peers, friends, and festival-going art lovers.

In 2004, Matthew Dutton was selected as an emerging artist, and has returned to the festival every year since, making this his tenth year sharing his work with the patrons of Chattanooga.

As artist in residence at Rock City, his art is seen daily by locals and tourists alike, though they may not realize that what they’re seeing is a sampling of the life’s work of a man who, like all artists, once was a novice looking for a break.

“4 Bridges has been cool, because it’s been a great learning experience,” Dutton says.

“We’re still just beginning to see what we have in store [for the Chattanooga art community] and luckily, we have 4 Bridges around to give us that opportunity. I’m very grateful for that.”

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Fuller, a Nashville native, found out about the festival from her aunt, who lives in Chattanooga, only two days before the submission deadline, and got hers in just under the wire.

She was thrilled to be selected as an Emerging Artist and

says that the experience has already been rich, as “it seems like [AVA] is really supportive of their artists,” and she’s felt inspired to create a large collection of new pieces specifically for this festival. “This is my first festival and I want to do it right. I’ve basically been painting nonstop since I found out.”

She works in watercolor, bringing many of her favorite subjects to life. “I’ve always been passionate about nature

and have always been an animal lover and I just think birds are gorgeous and accessible,” she said.

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Michael Smelcher Michael Smelcher is also hoping to connect to his audience on a personal level.

“Success is not in the sale, but in the bond that’s formed between the artist and the viewer,” he says. “Human emotion is the thread that binds us all together and if they can connect to that, then that is a success.”

A self-taught painter who works mainly with acrylics, he sees his artwork as therapy.

“I paint because it keeps me level. It’s one of the places in this crazy world where I feel perfectly at home, perfectly at peace. It’s like my secret garden,” he says.

He has attended the festival year after year, but has never exhibited. With a chuckle, he says, “I’ve always had a hard time calling myself an artist. I referred to myself as a paintpusher.” He submitted to the Emerging Artists program, in large part, because he was seeking some reassurance.

“It’s nice to have people you love love your work, but I wanted some external validation…that what I was doing was worthwhile.” His entrance into the 4 Bridges Festival has been just the validation he was looking for, though he admits, “I’m a nervous wreck. But I’m so looking forward to it. I’m as excited as a kid sitting on a box of tacks.”

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Michelle Kimbrell Echoing that excitement is mixed-media artist and printmaker Michelle Kimbrell from Chattanooga. “It’s such a cool opportunity because, as an emerging artist, you don’t have a ton of money and don’t know how to use [what you do have].” The Emerging Artist scholarship gives Kimbrell and the other artists a chance to exhibit in a festival without taking a large financial risk.

Kimbrell admits she submitted to the festival on a whim.

“I didn’t think I was going to get in. It’s been kind of a roller coaster.” She says that since being chosen she, like Fuller,

has been furiously creating new pieces.“It’s been awesome,” she says, “because I could prove to myself that I could put a body of work together over a matter of months.”

Kimbrell moved to Chattanooga only ten months ago, with the goal of diving into the arts scene after graduating from Georgia State University with a degree in studio art.

Shortly after moving to town she earned a printmaking apprenticeship at Open Press and a position with AVA, which proved to be of great benefit to her art. “My original goal

was just to work in the art community…I would not be where I am right now if I had not stumbled in and met the awesome people there [AVA], and at the Open Press, which is essential to what I do.”

Kimbrell creates textural works/mixed media with a hand-sewn element from a combination of prints created at the Open Press. Her work meant to be experienced. “I want people to interact with it, instead of just standing there looking at it” she says. “I don’t want them to be scared to touch it.”

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Turry Lindstrom For Turry Lindstrom, the anticpation lies in presenting his work to a wide audience.

“That’s the biggest thing,” he says, “getting my work in front of as many people as possible.

It’s really exciting because people are there to look at art and evaluate it.”

Lindstrom creates metal sculpture, but he is inspired by abstract painters like Jackson Pollack, as he believes

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in creating beauty from the imperfect. “I want to make something beautiful but not perfect…I believe that’s what we all are as humans: a bunch of imperfects that create something perfect.” He believes his art is a reflection of that idea and creates without precise measurements, believing that there are no mistakes.

“You have to do something different and then just have

the guts to stand by it.”

The Emerging Artist Program for Lindstrom is a chance to really challenge himself and to prove that he can sustain himself as an artist. “I feel like this is what I was meant to do. I get so much fulfillment and joy out of it and it’s what I want to do for the rest of my life: to keep creating things for people to enjoy.”

Maria Willison Maria Willison belives she’ll be taking a step forward in her career.

“I have been working on being a professional artist since 2010 when I graduated from college,” she says. “I want to get to a point where the business of being a professional artist is selfsustaining.”

A sculptor, Willison hopes to develop a mastery of the human figure, but is still exploring the different areas of the artist business. She is looking forward to showing a body of mostly brandnew pieces at 4 Bridges.

“This is one of my first big breaks getting my work out there, so I decided in January to create basically a whole new body of work.”

The beauty of a festival of this size and appeal is not only in the opportunity for both novice and experienced artists to show and sell their work, but also to allow the exchange of ideas and inspiration among the artists themselves. “I’m really excited to meet other established artists, to learn from them and see what works,” says Liz Fuller. “I think I’m going to learn a tremendous amount.”

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A New Face on McCallie McCallie Walls Project is drive-through art gallery Chattanooga’s artistic side continues to grow as the city’s first drive-through art gallery makes its debut on April 12 at 10 a.m. Kevin Bate, recipient of the now gone-but-far-from-forgotten grants program Makework, has been planning the McCallie Walls Mural Project for two years now.

Phase One of the project will feature local artists Hollie Berry, Miki Boni, Anna Carll, Jarred Green and Ali Kay to paint creative murals along the McCallie Avenue Corridor.

Bate’s idea of street art is sure to please Chattanooga’s eclectic residents.

“There is something about putting art in public spaces for everyone to see that appeals to me, “ said Bate. Phase One will be followed by two more phases, one featuring student artwork

for the walls and the third highlighting a musical theme. The grand opening celebration will take place on Saturday during Highland Park’s Neighborhood Day. The event will allow spectators to meet the artists—and maybe even get the opportunity to contribute to a mural.

The McCallie Walls Mural Project, extending along McCallie Ave. between Holtzclaw and Orchard Knob Avenues, transforming the Highland Park and Orchard Knob neighborhoods, will be Chattanooga’s longest-running murals project, lasting from this month all the way through summer and fall.

Get inspired, grab a brush and make your mark on McCallie. Keep track of the project at facebook.com/McCallieWalls — Leith Tigges

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• Enjoy classical and pops music during your lunch break with this delightfully informal performance by one of the South's greatest symphonies.

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• With workshops, crafts, beautiful garden plants and food, it’s a weekend of fun for the whole family. Admission and parking are free.

9 a.m. • Crabtree Farms 1000 E 30th St. crabtreefarms.org

• For over a quarter century, this annual benefit concert has raised more than $4 million for a wide variety of local agencies and nonprofit organizations.

8 p.m. • Chattanooga Convention Center 1100 Carter St. (423) 756-0001 anighttoremember.org

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UST THE TITLE OF THE MUSICAL “I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE Perfect, Now Change” is enough to make most people smile, often ruefully. It just seems be human nature to meet someone, be really attracted to them, convince yourself that their “little quirks” are actually adorable—and then progress to a stage where those same quirks drive you up the proverbial wall. In the beginning of love, it’s so easy to think, “Oh, so what if he’s never on time. He’ll realize it really bothers me.”

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The show’s tagline is, ‘Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.’”

Not so much.

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” continuing onstage at UTC April 9-12, premiered Off Broadway in 1996 and eventually became the second-longest running Off Broadway musical in history, finally closing in 2008. Which in itself is a testament to the universality of the subject matter. The show’s tagline is, “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.”

UTC materials describe it as “rid[ing] the rollercoaster of romance with such familiar types as the sloppy single guy, the career-driven single woman, the new parents who have forgotten how to speak to adults, the sex-deprived married couple and the rambunctious senior couple.” Cast members play a variety of roles as the scenes change.

According to the show’s director, Steve Ray, “The show has some deep and poignant things to say about relationships, but it is really just a lot of fun. Music, dance, and jokes are blended with tender scenes, but it never drags. It just zips through the stages of romance from the first date to

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the golden years.”

Some reviewers have pointed out that a vintage 1996 musical on this subject is already a period piece.

Take this excerpt from a review of a recent revival at Florida’s Plaza Theater: “Perfect is locked in a bit of a late 20th century time warp, too, but it only adds to its sweet spot. There aren’t blended families or diverse relationships in this heteronormative take. This Perfect knows its audience and plays to it. No doubt there are many scenes that will connect on an organic level with Plaza regulars.

(Legend has it that at one of the original show’s premiere performances…

a woman couldn’t contain herself and blurted out, ‘This is my life!’

There were a few such conversations intermingling at intermission in the Plaza ladies room.)”

The UTC casting addresses the “diverse relationships” angle to some degree. “This cast is going to shine. They are each very talented, but they are also funny,” says Ray. Trevor Denney, Cricket Glenn, Garrett Henson, Gregory

Jackson, Katelin Klepper, Trevor Miles, Erin Skelley and Courtney Tucker play all of the more than 50 roles.

Ray also has enthusiastic words for his well-known collaborators: “Tim Hinck is doing an amazing job as music director and Lindsay Fussell’s choreography makes this musical sparkle.”

So if a musical with songs titled “Cantata for a First Date”, “Men

“Tim Hinck is doing an amazing job as music director and Lindsay Fussell’s choreography makes this musical sparkle.”

Who Talk and the Women Who Pretend They’re Listening”, “Always A Bridesmaid”, “Marriage Tango”, “Shouldn’t I Be Less in Love With You?” and “I Can Live With That” rings any personal bells, this may well be the show for you.

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”, UTC Theatre Company in conjunction with the First Tennessee Foundation, Dorothy Hackett Ward Theatre, UTC Fine Arts Center, Vine & Palmetto Sts., April 9-12, 7:30 p.m., 2 p.m. matinee April 12 only. $15 general admission, $12 students/seniors.

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thursday4.10 Creating a Fundraising Plan Workshop 9 a.m.

United Way 630 Market St. (423) 265-8000 uwchatt.org CSO Lunchtime Concert Series 11:30 a.m.

Warehouse Row 1110 Market St. (423) 267-1127 warehouserow.net Art After School Session Four (Abbreviated) Drawing 101 4:30 p.m.

Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Meditations: “Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights and Beyond” 6 p.m.

Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 267-0968 huntermuseum.org Autism Awareness Fundraiser 7 p.m.

Uptown Art 2 Cherokee Blvd., Ste. 100.

(423) 602-8580 uptownart.com/Chattanooga Reno Collier 7:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com “The Glass Menagerie” 8 p.m. St. Elmo Fire Hall 4501 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 987-5028

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Crabtree Farms 14th Annual Spring Plant Sale and Festival 9 a.m.

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"Titanic: The Musical" Crabtree Farms 1000 E 30th St. crabtreefarms.org JazzReach 11 a.m.

Bessie Smith Cultural Center 200 E. MLK Blvd.

(423) 266-8658 bessiesmithcc.org The Performing Arts League, Inc.’s Spring Fashion Show and Luncheon 11:30 a.m.

Mountain City Club 729 Chestnut St. (423) 756-5584 Downtown Jazz 12:30 p.m.

Waterhouse Pavilion 850 Market St. Sew What 3 p.m.

Chattanooga Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org JazzReach featuring Metta Quintet 6:30 p.m.

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Pulse pick: Reno Collier A former P.E. teacher, West Virginia native Reno Collier has endeared himself to a wide range of audiences from college students to church softball teams.

Reno Collier Friday, Saturday & Sunday The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com

bessiesmithcc.org 4 Bridges Preview Party 6:30 p.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd.

(423) 266-4041 avarts.org Habitat for Humanity Raise the Roof 7 p.m.

The Chattanoogan 1201 South Broad St. (423) 424-3400 habichatt.org Reno Collier 7:30 , 9:30 p.m.

The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com “Titanic: The Musical” 7:30 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 642-TIXS chattanoogaonstage.com Camp Chair Cinema at Center Park 7:30 p.m.

Outdoor Chattanooga 200 River St.

(423) 643-6888 outdoorchattanooga.com “The Glass Menagerie” 8 p.m.

St. Elmo Fire Hall 4501 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 987-5028 “Pump Boys & Dinettes” 8 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8538 theatrecentre.com

saturday4.12 Waking up with the Birds 7:30 a.m.

Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 chattanoogaanc.org Crabtree Farms 14th Annual Spring Plant Sale and Festival 9 a.m.

Crabtree Farms 1000 E 30th St. crabtreefarms.org Bug-A-Paluza 16 10 a.m. Camp Jordan 323 Camp Jordan Pkwy., East Ridge bugapaluza.com Secrets of the Riverbank Cruise 10 a.m.

River Gorge Explorer 1 Broad St. (423) 262-0695 tennis.org/RiverGorgeExplorer “Master Your Garden” Garden Expo 10 a.m.

Camp Jordan, 323 Camp Jordan Pkwy.

(423) 490-0078 Spring Ephemeral Forest Bathing Retreat: A Mindful Walk in Nature 11 a.m.

Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160

chattanoogaanc.org 4 Bridges Arts Festival 11 a.m.

First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd.

(423) 266-4041 avarts.org Doggie Spring Egg Hunt 11:30 a.m.

Mckamey Animal Center 4500 North Access Rd. (423) 305-6500 Artful Yoga—Celebrating Slow Art Day 1:30 p.m.

Hunter Museum of Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 267-0968, huntermuseum.org “Titanic: The Musical” 2 p.m.

Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 642-TIXS chattanoogaonstage.com Jazz on the Southern Belle Riverboat 7 p.m.

Southern Belle 201 Riverfront Pkwy #2.

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A Night to Remember benefit and concert 8 p.m.

Chattanooga Convention Center 1100 Carter St. (423) 756-0001 anighttoremember.org “Pump Boys & Dinettes” 8 p.m.

Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8538 theatrecentre.com Chad Thornsberry 10:30 p.m.

Vaudeville Café 138 Market St. (423) 517-1839 funnydinner.com

sunday4.13 Crappie for Canines 7:45 a.m.

Chester Frost Park 2318 North Gold Point Circle.

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St. Elmo Fire Hall 4501 St. Elmo Ave. (423) 987-5028 Gospel Meets Jazz 5:30 p.m.

Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org Reno Collier 7:30 p.m.

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

monday4.14 Adaptive Cycling 6 p.m.

Outdoor Chattanooga 200 River St. (423) 643-6888 outdoorchattanooga.com Writers@Work Presents Author Jill McCorkle 6 p.m.

Chattanooga Public Library 1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310 chattlibrary.org “Catch the Groove” 7:30 p.m.

UTC Fine Arts Center Vine & Palmetto Sts. (423) 425-4269 utc.edu/fine-arts-center

tuesday4.15 Tennessee River Gorge Trust’s April Lunch & Learn Noon.

Tennessee River Gorge Trust 1214 Dartmouth St. (423) 266-0314 trgt.org

wednesday4.16 “Jonestown Survivor”: Laura Johnston Kohl 6 p.m.

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Women in Technology Comes to Gig City Men still outnumber women 3-to-1 in the STEM fields. But that’s changing in Chattanooga.

Growing up, Christa Mannarino, director of development for UTC, thought the glass ceiling had been broken and the janitor had long since swept the shards from the floor.

In the ’70s, her mother advocated for women’s rights, volunteered and ran her own business.

“I grew up thinking, ‘Yeah, DANIEL we’re good,’” Mannarino said.

It wasn’t until middle age, when she looked around her and saw her male colleagues in better positions with better pay that she realized, “Oh, this work really isn’t finished.”

A major area in which this disparity is evident is in STEM. In science, technology, engineering and math, there is one woman working for every three men, according to Chattanoo-

ga’s Technology Council. Here in Gig City, with its effort to try to become a mecca for technology, organizations have sprung up to help girls and women generate and sustain interest in the STEM fields, and support them as they move through their STEM careers.

For many women who entered STEM JACKSON fields in the past, it was likely because their fathers were in those fields, Mannarino said.

She was aware of the career option, and her father served as her role model.

Part of the reason now for low female participation in STEM careers, Mannarino said, is that many women don’t see the connection between bits, bytes and impacting the world. “Women will come in, but they won’t

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stay in,” she said, adding, “You can do creative things that are helpful to your community in a STEM field,” such as creating a website interface that helps the community.

According to a paper published by the White House in 2013, getting more women involved in STEM fields is an important step so the nation can “out-build, out-educate and out-innovate future competitors.”

On March 25, the Chattanooga Technology Council premiered its newest program: a chapter of Women in Technology. At the kickoff event held at Loose Cannon, the CTC recruited about 40 people, according to Jennifer Walker, office administrator for the CTC. About 100 people attended, including the CEO of Volkswagen.

Mannarino said the CTC got the idea for the chapter from the Technology Association of Georgia. A new director, Ronna-Renee Jackson, took over the CTC a year ago, and she was already studying the best

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Getting more women involved in STEM fields is an important step so the nation can ‘out-build, outeducate and outinnovate future competitors.’” practices of a technology council. Around this same time, the CTC decided to create a chapter of Women in Technology.

WIT’s founder, Carolyn Leighton, created the organization because as she developed her own technology business, she was “a woman struggling to build my own path.” She wanted to provide a place that would help women trying to reach middle- and upper-management positions succeed.

Mannarino said the organization offers “strategic network-

ing” for its participants because many women don’t know of other women in similar positions in different companies.

She hopes the Woman in Technology chapter will provide role models for up-andcoming women in Chattanooga’s technology market, including, for example, reaching out to a student struggling through statistics and encouraging her to stick with it, “because she can do so many cool things on the other side,” Mannarino said.

It’s worth noting also that other Chattanooga organizations are already promoting the tech field to women and girls in Chattanooga. Girls Inc. has initiatives to promote STEM fields, according to Mannarino.

And last year, a group of women formed CodeXX to further teach themselves code.

The glass ceiling might not be gone—but the cracks are widening all the time.

For more information on Chattanooga’s Women In Technology chapter, visit chattanoogatechnologycouncil.org

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FILM SCENE

New “Captain America” Reaches Beyond Comic Book World

Cinema In The Park Go inside the world of canyoneering without leaving your chair Bike in, walk in, ride in and bring your own camp chair to downtown Chattanooga's Center Park for a free screening of "Gorging: Let's Go Canyoneering", a film about the dangerous and enticing sport of canyoneering.

"Gorging" is an adventurous look at canyoneering, the sport of exploring canyons by means of hiking, swimming, climbing and rappelling.

Faced with a new era of off-the-couch recreationalists, three influential pioneers, a canyoneering instructor, photographer, and guidebook author each respond to a growing interest in the dangerous activity.

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A tale of adventure and risk, "Gorging" employs the story of canyoneering to examine larger questions about the pursuit of thrills and the consequences that follow.

Hosted by the Lookout Wild Film Festival and the River City Company, and organized by the always very busy (and fun) folks at Outdoor Chattanooga.

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"Transcendence" A terminally ill scientist uploads his mind to a computer. This grants him power beyond his wildest dreams, and soon he becomes unstoppable.

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"Heaven Is for Real" A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.

Director: Randall Wallace Stars: Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Connor Corum, Margo Martindale

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“C

APTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER” HAS a lot to say about the current state of the American intelligence community. It’s an action film to be sure, one that makes Captain Steve Rogers more than just the pinnacle of human potential, straying farther into the superhuman category than the previous film as he takes out entire platoons of elite soldiers with his physics-defying shield.

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What they’ve managed to do is create the best Marvel comic book film since ‘Iron Man’.”

But beneath this popcorn-munching exterior, the film is asking questions about the rights of the individual over the protection of the multitudes, about the necessity of mass information gathering, about the execution of perceived threats before a trial. Anyone that’s seen last year’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Dirty Wars” is familiar with the programs criticized by the film.

The Marvel filmmakers set out to make a political thriller within their comic book movie, and by their own admission were influenced heavily by 1975’s “Three Days of the Condor” (hence the mystifying but sensational inclusion of Robert Redford as Secretary Franklin Pierce). What they’ve managed to do is create the best Marvel comic book film since “Iron Man.” It’s hard to get tired of films like these when they maintain their quality—as long as the films continue to be this good, there is no end in sight.

The film starts with Captain Rogers striving to find his place in a world that’s left him behind. The film spends less time on this than it should. Rogers seems to take all of it in stride. The

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only real difference between him and everyone else is that Steve is slightly more cordial. I suppose this makes sense, as no one wants to see Captain America acting like someone’s racist grandfather, but I’d imagine that he’d have a bit more trouble blending into the modern world.

S.H.I.E.L.D., the world’s foremost spy agency, has been using Cap as their own personal janitor, cleaning up their messes after some questionable international behaviors. Understandably, Rogers is concerned by the actions of his superiors, but serves dutifully because at his heart Captain America is a soldier who follows orders.

But soon the organization he works for begins to spin out of control. Rogers discovers a list of targets, of people in the world who might threaten the control S.H.I.E.L.D. believes is needed for peace (the list has Bruce Banner on it, showing that the world’s greatest spy organization didn’t learn anything from the trials and tribulations of General Ross and his big, green problem).

Rogers now needs to face his former

employers and their new assassin, The Winter Soldier, a character as formidable and dangerous as Captain America himself.

Most of this is standard comic book fare, more than enough to hold my interest and satisfy my inner teenage love of all things superhero. The political side of the story is very much a surface reading of the real issues

America has to behave a certain way— he has to be a boy scout or the audience will not be satisfied. Marvel films reach a much broader audience than the comics, so what can be explored in the glossy color pages of a series might not necessarily translate well to a major movie audience.

Still, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” does a better job than most comic book movies. The film is certainly more convincing to watch than having Thor battle a race of ancient elves from outer space. The stakes seem higher. In fact, the more realistic violence in the film might give parents pause in taking their younger children. While my son loves the Avengers and the Marvel movies, this one might be a little too much for him. No one is shooting blue energy bolts at evil alien enemies, the bad guys in the film are people and the bullets they use come from real weapons.

Nevertheless, “Captain America” makes a real statement and raises the bar yet again for Marvel Studios. I’m excited to see where they take it.

No one is shooting blue energy bolts at evil alien enemies, the bad guys in the film are people and the bullets they use come from real weapons. facing the U.S. and its intelligence community. It raises questions about freedom, but Captain America is a relatively static character who has a black-and-white view of the world and of good and evil.

The themes on display were explored better in “Watchmen,” but then “Watchmen” wasn’t hamstrung by featuring one of the world’s foremost comic book characters. Captain

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Free Will Astrology

rob brezsny find a way to carry on constructive dialogs with people who have a hard time understanding you. It’s not necessarily that they are stupid or resistant to your charms. The problem is that they haven’t experienced some of the critical transformations you have. They can’t be expected to converse with you in your butterfly language. Are you willing and able to speak caterpillar?

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Freedom is the most important kind of joy you can seek right now. It’s also the most important subject to study and think about, as well as the most important skill to hone. I advise you to make sure that freedom is flowing through your brain and welling up in your heart and spiraling through your loins.

Write synonyms for “freedom” on your arm with a felttip pen: liberation, emancipation, independence, leeway, spaciousness, carte blanche, self-determination, dispensation. Here’s one more tip: Connect yourself with people who love and cultivate the same type of freedom you do.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s Love Your Messes Week, Taurus. In accordance with the astrological omens, you are authorized to love the hell out of the messes in your life—from the small, awkward knots of confusion to the big, beautiful heaps of fertile chaos. This is not a time to feel embarrassed or apologize for your messes; not a time to shy away from them or ignore them. On the contrary, you should explore them, celebrate them, and even take advantage of them. Whatever else they are, your messes are untapped sources of energy. Learn to love them for the mysterious lessons they keep teaching you.

Love them for the courage and willpower they compel you to summon. Love them for the novelty they bring your way and the interesting stories they add to your personal legend.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “A snowball’s chance in hell” is an American idiom that’s equivalent to saying “it probably won’t happen.” After all, a snowball would instantly melt if exposed to the scorching fires that rage in the underworld. But what if there’s an exception to this axiom? Let’s call on another American idiom: “when hell freezes over.” It’s another way to say “it probably won’t happen.” But the truth is that now and then a cold front does indeed sweep through the infernal region, icing its flames. When that happens, a snowball’s prospects of surviving there improve dramatically. And that’s exactly what I predict will happen for you in the coming week.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 2007, J. K. Rowling finished

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writing the seventh volume of her seven Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The day it was published it sold 11 million copies. But Rowling had actually written the final chapter of this last book way back in 1990, when she first conceived the story she was to spend the next 17 years working on. She knew the climax right from the beginning. I foresee a similar theme unfolding for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

As you plot a project you will be developing for a long time to come, you will have a vision of what it will be when it becomes fully mature.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When you see your shadow, it’s usually right next to you. It’s there on the ground or floor, a fuzzy black shape that follows you around closely. But today I saw my shadow waving back at me from afar. I was standing on top of a hill, and the sun’s rays created a dusky version of me in the meadow way down below. I think this is a useful metaphor for an opportunity that’s available to you. In the coming days, you will be able to view the shadowy, undeveloped parts of your personality as if from a distance. That means you will have more objectivity about them, and thus greater compassion.

You can get a calm, clear sense of how they might be mucking with your happiness and how you could transform them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars,” said psychologist Timothy Leary. That’s good advice for you to keep in mind in the near future. You might want to

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you thinking of linking your fortunes to a new ally?

Or deepening your collaboration with a familiar ally?

Have you fantasized about bonding intensely with a source that may be able to give you more of what you want and bring out more of the best in you? These prospects are worth contemplating, Libra. But I suggest you let your connection ripen a bit more before finalizing the shift. I’m not necessarily saying there’s a potential problem. I simply suspect that you need further exploration and additional information before you can make the smartest move possible.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Saturn has been in the sign of Scorpio since October 2012 and will be there until the end of 2014. (It will make another visit from June to September 2015.)

What does that mean? I have a view of Saturn that’s different from many astrologers. They regard it as the planet of limitation, struggle, and difficulty.

Here’s what I think: While Saturn may push you to be extra tough and work super hard, it also inspires you to cut away extraneous desires and home in on your deepest purpose. It motivates you to build strong structures that free you to express yourself with maximum efficiency and grace.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When I took an intermediate painting class in college, our first assignment was to imitate an old master. My choice was the Flemish painter Pieter Breugel the Elder (1525-1569).

I worked on reproducing his painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent as precisely as I could. It was tedious and liberating. I invoked Breugel’s spirit and prayed for his guidance. I sank my psyche deeply into his.

By the end of the four-week process I’d learned a lot about

painting. Given the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest you try something similar. Pick someone who excels at a way of working or a state of being that you would like to master yourself, and copy that person for a while. For best results, have fun with it. Play!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author J. R. R. Tolkien spent 14 years working on The Lord of the Rings. In using a typewriter to produce over 1,200 pages, he relied solely on his two index fingers. He never learned the ten-finger typing method. I suppose it didn’t matter in the end. Presumably, his impediment didn’t affect the quality of his work, but only made it harder to accomplish and required him to spend a lot more time. Is there a fixable limitation on your own ability to achieve your dream, Capricorn?

Is there some handicap you could, with effort, overcome? If so, now would be an excellent time to begin.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The truth’s superb surprise,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson, may be “too bright for our infirm delight.” Sometimes we’ve got to be careful about articulating what’s really going on.

“The truth must dazzle gradually,” she said. If it hits us too fast and hard, it may be difficult to digest. So did Emily suggest that we should lie and deceive?

No. “Tell all the truth,” she declared, “but tell it slant.” This is excellent advice for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s my report on your progress. You are not struggling to embody a delusional state of perfection as it is imagined by other people. Rather, you are becoming an ever-more soulful version of your idiosyncratic self, evolving slowly but surely.

You are not dazedly trudging along a narrow track laid down by thousands of sheep. Instead, you are lively and creative as you bushwhack a path for yourself through the wilderness. To celebrate this ongoing success, Pisces, I suggest you get yourself a new power object that symbolizes your inventive devotion.

Homework: Write a short essay on “How I Created Something Out of Nothing.” Go to FreeWillAstrology. com and click on “Email Rob.

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Cowards Are ‘Heroes’ Here Officer Alex points out that shooting at babies is not ‘gangsta’—just horrific and wrong It was 2 a.m. and we were in the middle of a “stepped-up” patrol presence on the street in response to a series of gang-related shootings.The shootings had become so common the local media had stopped running stories of any significance about them, a problem made worse for the gangs since local government no longer denied their existence.

This eliminated the air of drama ALEX and obfuscation and made them only “regular shootings”, which have a lifespan of an initial report and maybe a follow-up, therefore annoying “the media” to no end—but that is an entirely different story.

I was across the street from the scene of the most recent tragedy and spoke with a young man who was more than happy to be there, if not even seeking an audience to explain why. Fortunately for him, I am the talkative type.

Surveying the scene, the young man was proud to say that that we were “Gangsta’.” That this

was “Hood Life”, and that it was “Real” in Chattanooga, espousing the valor of the battle that took place on this spot. I listened, then told him, “Really? I was here the night it happened. This guy was shot in the back. He was unarmed. I heard it was over a girl.” My young General looked confused. I said, “That’s not Gangsta’. That’s a coward. That’s dogshit, pal.”

“Naw, naw…

TEACH that was real,” he said, but he now lacked conviction. I continued, “Shot him in the face when he was already down. Over a chick. Is that hardcore? You got a long way to go, kid. Life means something, man. That wasn’t gangsta’. That’s not taking care of your kids, your parents, defending folks. That was pathetic, and now he’s going to jail, the other guy is dead, the families are a wreck… Some gangsta’. He’s not a hero. He’s a fool.”

It was actually the lightest I’d ever gone (I wasn’t even waving my hands about yet) but my

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young veteran lacked a response, and lacking answers, he just walked away, unable to avoid the truth any more than he could the remaining crime-scene tape streaming from the street signs in the cool night air, the spot where the fire department had bleached the blood off the road, leaving a rare clean spot on the East Chattanooga streets.

I’ve had many lessons in fact vs. fiction, more than my young student had that night, I suspect.

I didn’t lead or live his life and I certainly wasn’t any better than him, but I’d experienced some fairly graphic examples. Another “gang-related” shooting came to mind that resulted not in revenge but the death of an infant inside its home, the one bullet of more than 40 fired that found an unintended target through a bedroom wall and into its undeveloped skull. “Gangsta”. The driver of the offending vehicle met a similar fate behind the wheel years down the road, but the damage was already done. “Gangsta”. A dead baby was an honorable result of…what? Nothing. How embarrassing to have to explain this to anyone. To anything.

This is where that kid’s head was at. Most of his neighbors’, too, in fact. The ones that have the right not to pull over when blue-lighted, or not to go to jail when beating their girlfriends

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A dead baby was an honorable result of…what? Nothing.

How embarrassing to have to explain this to anyone. To anything.” because of their subdivision’s tax base. Robbing a neighbor on the street or a local business was justified because “they had to eat”.

All without consequences—unless of course you count the dead infants and robbery and shooting victims that survived or perished.

But they’re not in the movie script, and therefore not subject to consideration. How convenient. How revolting.

Reality. How do you teach that without such horrific examples?

And how many of those examples can you use before they simply become the status quo, the new bar to be surpassed? Then how do you teach that without letting everyone else know how bad it really can be?

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m the one who has it screwed up…

but I don’t think so. And if I’m right, what if someone else finds out? Would life be better for us all if we all knew mankind was barely outside of the wild? For now, no. Lies are better. Theater is right. Happiness comes in the form of cookies, new love, temporary escapes, so why take that away? A long fantasy with infrequent disruptions beats “reality” any day of the week. But I will not give the most violently ignorant the satisfaction of taking the most cowardly of acts and repainting them as something ‘noble’, something ‘gangsta’.

They will forego their humanity, but they will not forego reality, at least while they’re talking to me on the street. Our street.

To my own shock, I’m not ready to give it up just yet.

Are you?

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