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Contents
CHATTANOOGA'S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE
EDITORIAL
Managing Editor Gary Poole Contributing Editor Janis Hashe
April 9, 2015 Volume 12, Issue 15
Music Editor Marc T. Michael Film Editor John DeVore Contributors Rich Bailey • Rob Brezsny • Matt Jones Sandra Kurtz • Louis Lee • Tony Mraz Zach Nicholson • Ernie Paik Rick Pimental-Habib • Rachael Poe Ward Raymond • Terry Stulce • Alex Teach
Features
Editorial Interns Gavin Gaither • Kristina Kelly
4 BEGINNINGS: America is still very far from being “post racial.”
Cartoonists & Illustrators Rick Baldwin • Max Cannon Jen Sorenson • Tom Tomorrow
6 GREEN: Earth Day 2015 might just be the most important one ever.
Cover Art Brian Mathas Burt, "My Favorite Fleece" Founded 2003 by Zachary Cooper & Michael Kull
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Give A Hoot About Nature
14 SCREEN: “What We Do in the Shadows” is effective vampire parody.
Everyone with an arts bone in their body will be at 4 Bridges this weekend. But next weekend features another festival you’ll want on your calendar—one of our area’s best yearly events for families, bird enthusiasts, and supporters of the arts—the fourth annual Little Owl Music and Arts Festival.
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25 BUSINESS: Grace Frank Group. 28 MUSIC CALENDAR 30 REVIEWS: Roddy returns with Waterfall Wash, Butcher & Moor get cathedral.
Fun, Fabulous, Festive 4 Bridges
For the past 14 years, the 4 Bridges Arts Festival has kicked off spring in Chattanooga. This year, the 15th installment of Chattanooga’s premier arts festival will begin this Saturday, April 11 at the First Tennessee Pavilion.
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32 TECH TALK: From “build it, they will come” to “there it is, let’s go.” 35 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Still Singing the Ghosts Away
36 JONESIN’ CROSSWORD
Kindora Camp: Is she vintage? Is she retro? One thing is for certain—her music beautifully captures a style of a bygone era. Think late-’80s/early-’90s R&B pop and you have a good fix on the sound.
37 DIVERSIONS 38 on the beat: Our need to make sense of a chaotic world.
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CALLING ALL HUMANS! If you have converted, created, mechanized, ornamented, electrified, amplified, or embellished your ride then it’s time to join us and celebrate your funky, funtastic self!
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OpEd: A House Still Divided Against Itself The sad truth is that America is very far from being “post racial”
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The greatest tragedy is that America’s strength is in its diversity. This lesson was driven home to me in Vietnam.”
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, many wishful thinkers in the media announced the end of racism and the beginning of “post-racial America.” But after the steady barrage of news about unarmed black men and young boys being killed by white policemen and vigilantes, this narrative has been exposed as a fraud. The cancer of American racism may have been diminished by the civil rights movement—but it was not close to being eradicated. It lay virulent and hidden in the basement of human evil and returned with a vengeance with the election of America’s first black president.
Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, chairman of the department of sociology at Duke University (where a noose was recently discovered hanging from a tree, sparking an ongoing investigation) says racism has evolved. The language of the “New Racism” is different but just as pernicious. He says, “The main problem nowadays is not the folks in the hoods, but the folks dressed in suits.” The old language of racism that asserted white supremacy directly is now terry stulce disguised. It is less overt, but just as offensive and derogatory. Some of the expressions are the same, such as defending discrimination on the basis of “states’ rights,” but direct expression of African American inferiority has been replaced by derogatory innuendo about individuals being “lazy,” ”untrained,” ”criminal,” ”dependent,” or “fatherless.” The rise of the New Racism has been driven by the politics of divisiveness. If you draw a map of the red states, it will follow the contours of the old Confederacy. Do you think that is a fluke? The Republican Party is 89 percent white. Do you think that’s a matter of coincidence? The harshest, most irrational critics of President Obama are white Republicans. Do you think that is a matter of chance? Republicans have actively cultivated divisiveness by nurturing the seeds of racism. Whether LBJ actually said, after signing civil rights legislation, “We have lost the South for a generation,” the longtime Senate majority leader from Texas knew it was true. Nixon
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created his “Southern Strategy.” Reagan doubled down on that appeal to racists by beginning his campaign for president in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the scene of violent racial strife, where three civil rights workers were murdered by the KKK. His speech there was a call for “states’ rights.” Is that “dog whistle” loud enough to be heard by everyone now? Those “dog whistles” have become outright hate speech directed at the president. The Republican rhetoric of today is not even thinly veiled hate speech. The greatest tragedy is that America’s strength is in its diversity. This lesson was driven home to me in Vietnam. The best combat units worked together in ethnic harmony. The worst units were plagued by racial hatred. In my 30-man platoon, almost every ethnic group was represented. Whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics fought together as brothers. We were all willing to risk our lives for our brothers in arms. This love was our greatest strength. If Republicans devoted the same amount of energy to bringing us together as they do to tearing us apart, our nation would be infinitely stronger.
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by Rick Baldwin
Aquarium Penguins Receive Nesting Rocks Humans give jewelry and flowers to woo their mate. Penguins give… rocks. The gentoo and macaroni penguins at the Tennessee Aquarium received their nesting rocks this past Thursday. Bringing these rocks to potential mates is an act of courtship and marks the beginning of the 2015 breeding season. As in, “you rock, baby.”
Male gentoo penguins shift through piles of pebbles to find the smoothest one to present to his choice companion. If the female approves of this mating request, she puts the stone in her nest. The macaroni penguins also use these rocks for breeding. They tend to create their nests of small stones and mud. Gentoo and macaroni penguins gen-
IN THIS ISSUE
Rachael Poe Our cover story about the changes at the 4 Bridges Arts Festival is by Rachael Poe. A writer, photographer, and unabashed Tolkien fanatic, she will graduate from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in May 2015 with a major in English literature and a minor
erally mate with the same partner year after year. Unless of course, something unfortunate happens to one of the mates, like being relocated to a zoo. Then the rock courting/breeding cycle starts all over again. Make sure to stop by Penguin’s Rock on your next Tennessee Aquarium visit. Penguin Keeper talks are 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. daily in the Ocean Journey section, Level 2. Now you’ll know the significance of a penguin waddling up to another with a rock in its beak. Could it work for you? — Kristina Kelly
GET READY FOR THE HOME OPENER! The 2015 Lookouts Home Opener is on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:15 PM against the Birmingham Barons. Opening Weekend will feature the first Fireworks Friday of the season, an appearance by the World Famous ZOOperstars! and Dogs on the Diamond. Reserve your tickets for Opening Weekend and other home games by calling (423) 267-4TIX.
Zach Nicholson in art history. She is a co-editor of the forthcoming National Collegiate Honors Council monograph entitled “Housing Honors” and a copyeditor for The Heroic Age, an academic journal about early medieval Northwestern Europe. In her spare time, she volunteers with UTC’s Women’s Action Council and listens to film scores. Oh, and she once accidentally attended a Spanish wedding in Seville. But that’s a different story.
Our cover story interviews with the 4 Bridges Arts Festival emerging asrtits is by former Pulse editorial intern Zach Nicholson. Zach says he loves two things above all else: words and music. Never able to make the choice between the two, he’s a writer by day and
musician by night. Luckily for him, the two intertwine enough for his life to have some sort of balance. Live music and summer storms, fresh albums and windows down, those are his favorite days. He digs foreign languages and foreign music. Find him lying in the sunshine or in the dark corners of a local bar. He loves that one-on-one conversational feel and figuring out what makes a person happy. chattanoogapulse.com • April 9-15. 2015 • The Pulse • 5
Are You Ready To Tie A Ribbon To The Tree of Life? Earth Day 2015 might just be the most important ever
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Many have been in denial, but it’s slowly dawning on us that Earth is a giant ecosystem and that we are the ones who can imagine a meaningful future where our species coexists on a sustainable planet.”
Sandra Kurtz is an environmental community activist and is presently working through the Urban Century Institute. Visit her website at enviroedu.net
Radical hope comes to our species on a resourcemind for me when spring constrained planet, we canarrives and life resurrects not continue to crowd other itself. How amazing is it animals and plants out of that, against all odds, green the way through human shoots peek out and baby overpopulation and destrucanimals aption of habipear? What tat. We cannot beauty there keep burning Shades is in an Appafossil fuels of Green lachian spring! and splitting April 22 is atoms for enSANDRA KURTZ the date we’ve ergy while officially celpoisoning air, ebrated Earth Day since water, and soil. We cannot 1970. Senator Gaylord Nelpreserve an economy based son founded a national day on ever-increasing, wasteof observance, a day for filled product consumption. “teach-ins” to bring attenIt’s a time of change. tion to rising environmental Many have been in denial, issues. but it’s slowly dawning He chose the birthdate of on us that Earth is a giant Sierra Club founder John ecosystem and that we are Muir, the eccentric wanderthe ones who can imagine ing naturalist and eloquent a meaningful future where spokesman for wilderness our species coexists on a preservation. Conveniently, sustainable planet. Muir had a spring birthday. As climate disruption Muir said, “When one continues, we can assume tugs at a single thing in naour moral responsibility as ture, he finds it attached to rigorous protectors of life in the rest of the world.” That all its forms. Both our moris such a profound statetality and planet mortality ment! As humans we are are at stake. It’s a matter of inextricably connected to justice for all. Earth’s ecosystems and proLast September, the Peocesses. We cannot survive ple’s Climate Justice March without that interconnected drew around 400,000 people web of existence. to New York City. In solidarAnd yet, we push the enity, marchers coalesced from velope. all walks of life, including If we wish to continue some Chattanoogans, car-
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ried ribbons and walked two miles to emphasize their Global Call for Action. At the start, there was a minute of silence to honor those impacted by climate change and the fossil fuel industry. At the end of the march, there was a huge art piece symbolizing the tree of life with “branches” spreading out over the streets. Each marcher wrote on a ribbon what he or she stood to lose due to climate chaos and then tied it to the tree or exchanged it with a fellow marcher. These are symbolic gestures, of course, but the Climate Ribbon arts ritual continues. In cities around the world, individuals are hanging ribbons and then holding events where one chooses a ribbon for wrist tying to wear as a reminder to reflect on what can be lost to climate chaos. (theclimateribbon.org) Another initiative that grew from the People’s Climate March is Commit2Respond (commit2respond.
org) encouraging people of faith and conscience to take action for climate justice. There is information about congregational and individual actions plus worship service materials as well as daily reflections during this Climate Justice Month. It asks for commitment: What action would you take of your own to shift to a low-carbon future? How would you take action to advance human rights of communities affected by climate change? Could you participate in a local climate awareness activity or commit to supporting an educational or grassroots advocacy activity in your community? There are many other useful websites if one just Googles them. As Earth Day 2015 approaches, take some time to s-l-o-w-l-y walk in nature. Pause and appreciate our beautiful support system. Really, when it comes right down to it, every day is Earth Day. What would your ribbon say?
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Give A Hoot About Nature— And Arts
Trash to Treasure, Gorgeous Glass Artists in color profiled at the River Gallery this month Philip Laszlo’s artwork truly embodies the phrase, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” This artist takes vibrant, abstract photographs of trash in landfills to symbolize the forgotten and discarded. His work, along with Algar Dole’s, is on display at the River Gallery’s “Abstracted Beauty” exhibit open through April 30. Laszlo is a Finnish photographer who beautifies and brings back to life that which has been thrown away. His photos zoomed in on objects to the point that they are not recognized as trash. The focus is instead on the colors and patterns that revitalize the objects. During this
exhibit, 100 percent of Laszlo’s net proceeds will benefit Orange Grove Center of Chattanooga. Algar Dole is a Georgia artist who uses Italian cane glass techniques to produce a vivacious selection of work ranging from functional vessels to ornate sculptural objects. Dole uses bright flourishes of color to create patterns in his glass that are almost mosaic; each is impossible to replicate. The River Gallery is located at 400 E. Second Street and open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. (423) 2655033, river-gallery.com — Kristina Kelly
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10% of sales during the evening will go to to raise awareness about our new sculpture park addition to Chattanooga (with 25% off low gravity pints). 5:30 p.m. The Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. (423) 648-8393 sculpturefields.org
The revelation of the divine in our own lives, as well as in the natural world around us, defines the quest of philosopher Andrew Harvey. 5:30 p.m. Bessie Smith Cultural Central 200 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 486-1279 bessiesmithcc.org
A fundraising event to provide music, visual arts, theatre and dance supplies and equipment for Hamilton County schools. 6 p.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 artsbuild.com
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The Little Owl Music and Arts Festival showcases Audubon Acres
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veryone with an arts bone in their body will be at 4 Bridges this weekend. But next weekend features another festival you’ll want on your calendar—one of our area’s best yearly events for families, bird enthusiasts, and supporters of the arts—the fourth annual Little Owl Music and Arts Festival.
Arts TONY MRAZ
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I saw a vulture land in an oak, and thought of the desert naturalist Edward Abbey, who always said he would come back as a vulture, because ‘it just seemed fitting.’”
The event will be held Saturday, April 18 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Audubon Acres, Chattanooga’s oldest wildlife sanctuary. This beautiful 130-acre piece of land has over five miles of walking and hiking trails, and is home to four species of owls and numerous other kinds of birds. Visitors to Audubon Acres have heard, and occasionally seen, barred owls, particularly on the trails near South Chickamauga Creek. This is typical habitat for the species. Other owls that can be sighted in the area include the Great Horned owl and the screech owl. (Barn owls are possible, but less likely.) Last year’s event featured an appearance by Roy Harper of Manchester, Tennessee. Mr. Harper was 89 years old at the time and had a number of life stories to tell. He went to work on the railroad straight out of high school, but played folk/rock professionally as time permitted. In 1986, he represented Tennessee in Washington D.C. for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This year, the master of ceremonies for Little Owl is Michael Gray, host of the River City Sessions, a con-
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“Little Owl Festival attendees can expect a wide variety of entertainment, including music, storytelling, and exhibits of arts and crafts.”
cert series presented on the second Friday of every month at The Camp House. Little Owl Festival attendees can expect a wide variety of entertainment, including music, storytelling, and exhibits of arts and crafts. There will also be a clothesline show of student art, the result of a poster contest whose winner will be announced at the festival. Festival organizer Ray Zimmerman tells us, “The works of art submitted in the student art contest are always a joy. Every year, I am astounded by the creativity and quality of the work.” He is personally inspired by nature, saying, “I wrote the poem ‘Reincarnation’ as I sat on the banks of South Chickamauga Creek, at Audubon Acres, years ago. I saw a vulture land in an oak, and thought of the desert naturalist Edward Abbey, who always said he would come back as a vulture, because ‘it just seemed fitting.’ The poem is in my first book, and I appear reading it in a YouTube video.” Zimmerman adds, “Audubon Acres is a beautiful outdoor venue, and this festival is a great way to enjoy it. The
acts on the stage begin with puppetry and storytelling for children. The rest of the day is devoted to folk and country music. Aside from the stage, we have a pioneer living activity at the historic cabin, a longhunter encampment demonstration, a birds of prey exhibit, local craft vendors and food vendors, and the exhibit of art from the student art contest. We also thank Parkridge Medical Group for sponsoring the festival.” Audubon Acres remains a hidden treasure, with many long-time city residents having never visited it, but the Chattanooga Audubon Society was founded in 1944 by author and naturalist Robert Sparks Walker. The mission statement: “To educate and promote an understanding of the responsibility to preserve and protect our environmental, cultural, and historical resources through programming and stewardship.” Pretty far
thinking for 1944! The Little Owl Festival is a great chance to enjoy the gorgeous Tennessee Valley countryside and to support an important nonprofit.
Stage schedule: • 11 - 11:30 a.m. Sarah Lord, Storytelling and Puppetry for Children • 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Robin Burk • 12:20 - 12:45 p.m. Awards ceremony • 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. Jeff and Marcy Paulson • 1:45 - 2:15 p.m. The Peggy Douglas Trio • 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Nina Ricci • 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Nancy Seiters • 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. The Driftless • 4:45 - 5:15 p.m. Organized Kaos Joe Ridolfo and Friends
Audubon Acres is located at 900 N. Sanctuary Rd., Chattanooga 37421. Admission to the festival is $7 individual, $15 carload. For more information about the Little Owl Music and Arts Festival, visit chattanoogaaudubon.org/little-owlmusic--arts-festival.html
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thursday4.9 BFA Senior Thesis Exhibitions “Show One” 9:30 a.m. UTC Fine Arts Center 752 Vine St. (423) 304-9789 cressgallery.org Spring Native Plant Sale 2 p.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org Straw Bale Gardening 3:30 p.m. Ooltewah Nursery & Landscape Co. Inc. 5829 Main St. (423) 238-9775 ooltewahnursery.com Visual Arts End-of-Year Show 5:30 p.m. Chattanooga State Humanities Theater 4501 Amnicola Hwy (423) 697-2460 chattanoogastate.edu Sculpture Fields Fundraiser 5:30 p.m. The Flying Squirrel Bar 55 Johnson St. (423) 648-8393 sculpturefields.org Opening Reception: Lee University Student Art Show 6 p.m. Museum Center At Five Points 200 Inman St. E (423) 339-5745 museumcenter.org
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East Lake Expression Engine Spring Benefit Concert 7 p.m. East Lake Elementary School 3600 13th Ave. (423) 493-0366 CSO: “Schumann’s 2nd” 7:30 p.m. Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5050 chattanoogasymphony.org “Four Blood Moons” 7:30 p.m. East Ridge 18 Cinema 5080 S. Terrace (423) 855-9652 carmike.com
friday4.10 Cycliad for Deep South Cancer Foundation
Pulse Pick: Josh Phillips Working throughout the country, Josh is loved everywhere he performs, especialy here in Chattanooga, not far from his hometown of Oakridge, Tennessee. Josh Phillips The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com
7:45 a.m. CHI Memorial Rees Skillern Cancer Institute 2525 de Sales Ave. (423) 495-2540 cycliad.com Spring Plant Sale and Festival 9 a.m. Crabtree Farms 1000 E. 30th St. (423) 493-9155 crabtreefarms.org Spring Native Plant Sale 9 a.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org BFA Senior Thesis Exhibitions “Show One” 9:30 a.m. UTC Fine Arts Center 752 Vine St.
(423) 304-9789 cressgallery.org Wildflower Hike 1 p.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org Wildlife Presentation by Tish Gailmard 3 p.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org “An Evening with Rumi” 5:30 p.m. Bessie Smith Cultural Central 200 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 486-1279 bessiesmithcc.org Josh Phillips 7:30, 9:45 p.m. The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com
saturday4.11 Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethics Trainer Course 8:30 a.m. Lula Lake Land Trust 29 Mt. Olive Rd. (706) 820-0520 lulalake.org Spring Plant Sale and Festival 9 a.m. Crabtree Farms 1000 E. 30th St.
(423) 493-9155 crabtreefarms.org Shuptrine’s Twisted Products Tasting 9 a.m. 1000 E. 30th St. (423) 266-4453 shuptrinestwistedproducts.com Spring Native Plant Sale 9 a.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org Chattanooga Cruise-In 10 a.m. Coker Tire Museum 1317 Chestnut St. (423) 265-6368 chattanoogacruise-in.com Chattanooga River Market 10 a.m. Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St. (423) 267-3474 chattanoogarivermarket.com Straw Bale Gardening 10 a.m. Ooltewah Nursery & Landscape Co. Inc. 5829 Main St. (423) 238-9775 ooltewahnursery.com 3rd Annual “Master Your Garden” Expo 10 a.m. Camp Jordan 323 Camp Jordan Pkwy. (423) 490-0078 mghc.org 4 Bridges Arts Festival 10 a.m. First Tennessee Pavilion
1826 Reggie White Blvd. (423) 266-4041 4bridgesartsfestival.org Why and How to Plant Natives in Your Garden 10 a.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org “Love In Action” 10:30 a.m. Grace Episcopal Church 20 Belvoir Ave. (423) 486-1279 centerformindfulliving.org Wildflower Hike 1 p.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org Controversial Crossings: Cherokee Removal on Moccasin Bend 2 p.m. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park 3370 Lafayette Rd. (706) 866-9241 nps.gov/chch Vegetable & Herb Container Gardening Workshop 2 p.m. The Barn Nursery 1801 E. 24th St. Pl. (423) 698-2276 barnnursery.com Paint & Sip Party 2 p.m. Georgia Winery
6469 Battlefield Pkwy. (706) 937-9463 georgiawines.com Wildlife Presentation by Tish Gailmard 3 p.m. Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center 400 Garden Rd. (423) 821-1160 reflectionriding.org “Ignite” Performance and Silent Auction 6 p.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534 artsbuild.com Josh Phillips 7:30, 9:45 p.m. The Comedy Catch 3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com “The Music Man” 9 p.m. Collegedale Academy Auditorium 4855 College Dr. E. (423) 396-2124 collegedaleacademy.com “Improv-A-Lot” 11 p.m. Ensemble Theatre 5600 Brainerd Rd. (423) 602-8640 ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com
sunday4.12 Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethics Trainer Course
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8:30 a.m. Lula Lake Land Trust 29 Mt. Olive Rd. (706) 820-0520 lulalake.org 3rd Annual “Master Your Garden” Expo 10 a.m. Camp Jordan 323 Camp Jordan Pkwy (423) 490-0078 mghc.org 4 Bridges Arts Festival 10 a.m. First Tennessee Pavilion 1826 Reggie White Blvd. (423) 266-4041 4bridgesartsfestival.org Spring Plant Sale and Festival 11 a.m. Crabtree Farms 1000 E. 30th St. (423) 493-9155 crabtreefarms.org Free Admission Sunday Noon The Hunter Museum of American Art 10 Bluff View Ave. (423) 756-2787 huntermuseum.org “The Music Man” 2, 7 p.m. Collegedale Academy Auditorium 4855 College Dr. E. (423) 396-2124 collegedaleacademy.com Chattanooga State Faculty Recital 2:30 p.m. Chattanooga State Humanities Theater 4501 Amnicola Hwy
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Yes, But Do Any of Them Sparkle? “What We Do in the Shadows” is effective vampire parody (and quite funny)
Oscar Winner "Ida" Coming Soon Best Foreign Language Film kicks off Jewish Film Series The 8th Annual Chattanooga Jewish Film Series isn’t set to begin until later this month, but you might want to go ahead and clear space on your calendar for Wednesday, April 22. That’s the date that “Ida,” the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, will (finally) screen here in Chattanooga, which includes a reception replete with specialty foods and live music. The film is set in the 1960s Polish People’s Republic, where a young novice nun, raised in a convent, is told that before she takes her vows
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she must first visit her aunt. There, she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. Subsequent films include “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” (April 29), “Mr. Kaplan” (May 6), “The Art Dealer” (May 13), “The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer” (May 20), and “The Green Prince” (May 27). The film series screens at the Jewish Cultural Center, 5461 North Terrace Rd, with all showings beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is just $7 and includes popcorn and a soft drink.
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he mainstream parody film has nearly been obliterated in the last 15 years, starting with “Scary Movie” back in 2000 and continuing to “The Starving Games” in 2013. For whatever reason, most of these films try to recreate the brilliance found in 1980’s “Airplane,” a film formula that was only destined to work once, no matter how many sequels were forced on the public.
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Set in modernday New Zealand, the film uses a ‘Real World’ style documentary/ reality television conceit to tell the story of four vampire flatmates.”
Suffice to say, if a film is a direct parody of a popular film franchise, it is most likely not worth your time or money. There are exceptions, of course: classic Mel Brooks, films by Edgar Wright, the occasional independent film like “The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.” Comedy is especially hard and within the genre, parody is likely the most difficult. It’s easy for the films found in the “Scary Movie” franchise to lose sight of their purpose in favor of cheap, easy laughs. The most successful parody films in recent years have avoided this trap by focusing their attention on creating more believable characters rather than having stereotypes drop one gag after another. This is the aim of “What We Do in the Shadows,” an effective and funny vampire parody from the minds of Jermaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”) and Taika Waititi. Set in modern-day New Zealand, the film uses a “Real World” style documentary/reality television conceit to tell the story of four vampire flatmates. Each character represents a vampire tradition: Viago (Waititi) and Deacon ( Jonathan Brugh) are distinctly Anne Rice, Louis-and-Lestat-style vampires who are younger and more in tune with the world, if only slightly. Vladislav (Clement) is more of the Bram Stoker
variety, a former count with a penchant for poking and torture. Petyr represents the even older, more monstrous, “Nosferatu” vampire, the one that sleeps in a stone coffin and haunts rather than interacts. The four share a dilapidated Victorian house in New Zealand, arguing over chores and clothing. Popular vampire myths are explored throughout the film, placing them in the context of minor annoyances—it’s hard to lure victims away from the nightclubs when you have to be invited in by the bouncer and even when you’re successful, no amount of newspaper will protect your furniture when you accidentally hit a major artery. The film follows the vampires through their day-to-day lives, their manipulative interactions with familiars, their uneasy hypnotism of the local police, and their frustration with a fledgling member of their coven who refuses to stop telling people he’s a vampire. “What We Do in the Shadows” is deftly funny. The material is solid and the writing never meanders away from the intended point, namely that
“It would have been easy for the filmmakers to wander into quickly dated pop culture references or tired one liners. Instead, the film understands the characters and forces them to exist within their own mythos. ” it’s hard to be a vampire in a modern world. It would have been easy for the filmmakers to wander into quickly dated pop culture references or tired one liners. Instead, the film understands the characters and forces them to exist within their own mythos. They generally know very little about the outside world and act and
respond as vampires would. There is a sharp focus on the traditional vampire tropes—we get the impression that many of these ideas are knowingly perpetuated by the vampires themselves, influenced by their own stereotypes and a desire to live within them (they prey on virgins because it sounds cool and certain stylistic choices in their
rituals come directly from “The Lost Boys”). The humor in the film works because the characters remain consistent throughout. If there is a drawback to the film, it’s that the running time is relatively short. In most cases, I’m thrilled when a film stays near the 90-minute mark, but “What We Do in the Shadows” left me wanting more. However, the film is well paced and adding more to it wouldn’t necessarily serve to enhance the story. It’s better that the filmmaker left off where they did. Hopefully, there isn’t a sequel in the works, and the film will continue to stand alone as an excellent addition to a particularly barren landscape of parody film. If anything, it shows that the filmmakers can make a good parody, which is encouraging for future projects. “What We Do in the Shadows” had two screenings at the Chattanooga Film Festival, both of which were well received. It is unlikely to receive a wide release; however, it will be available on VOD and DVD within the month. It’s likely to be one of the year’s best comedies and well worth a look.
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Fun, Fabulous, Festive 4 Bridges Arts Festival For the 15th year, artists and art-lovers converge on the First Tennessee Pavilion. Be there. By Rachael Poe
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or the past 14 years, the 4 Bridges Arts Festival has kicked off spring in Chattanooga. This year, the 15th installment of Chattanooga’s premier arts festival will begin this Saturday, April 11 at the First Tennessee Pavilion. As always, 4 Bridges will feature live music, local food, and, of course, the opportunity to peruse and purchase an impressive array of art. For 2015, nearly 500 artists applied to participate in 4 Bridges’ juried art show. The application period for the 2015 festival began in August 2014, and, after a lengthy and intensive deliberation process during the month of November, the jury selected 152 artists to participate in the show.
With more than 20 mediums represented, the show consists of more than just oil paintings. This year’s artists come from an impressive range of artistic fields, including photography, ceramics, fiber, basketry, furniture, jewelry, glass, and metal. Chattanooga’s very own Association for Visual Arts (AVA) is the organization behind 4 Bridges, but they are not responsible for the
Stop by AVA’s booth during the festival to see a map of the United States filled with thumbtacks. Each tack represents a different artist’s hometown, and this year there are tacks in over 30 states.”
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Willson refers to 4 Bridges as a ‘boutique festival’ because the rigorous jury process narrows the artists down to the best of the best.”
selection process. “The jury changes every year,” explains festival director Kat Wright. “Since there are fresh eyes every year, there’s always an opportunity for newcomers to participate.” This year’s three-member blind jury consisted of Katie Delmez, curator of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Bill May, executive director of the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts; and Peggy Wood Townsend, director of Public Art Chattanooga. Anne Willson, AVA’s executive director, points out, “4 Bridges is the only fine arts festival in this area, so it really is a signature cultural event, not just for Chattanooga, but also for our whole region.” If you are curious about the participating artists’ cities of origin, stop by AVA’s booth during the festival to see a map of the United States filled with thumbtacks. Each tack represents a different artist’s hometown, and this year there are tacks in over 30 states. Though participants come from all over the country, Willson refers to 4 Bridges as a “boutique festival” because the rigorous jury process narrows the artists down to the best of the best. Many artists
from Chattanooga apply, but there is no guarantee that they will be accepted since there is no festival quota for local artists. “We honor the integrity of the jury and their process,” Wright says. “The final artists are chosen entirely by the jurors, not AVA.” Each year, two local artists are selected to design the festival’s official poster and pin. Chattanooga artist Dana Shavin designed this year’s poster, titled “4 Chairs, 4 Bridges.” The original photo transparency for the poster will be available for auction throughout the festival weekend, and 75 limited edition poster prints will also be for sale. Local jeweler Christina Glidden designed this year’s festival pin, which is a simple but stunning design of natural horn and blue kyanite wrapped in silver. In addition to the organizers from AVA and the jurors, there is another group of people who make the 4 Bridges Arts Festival possible: volunteers. “There’s always work to be done,” says Wright, “so we need, love, adore, and cherish our volunteers. The festival is an all-hands-on-deck situation, and we couldn’t do this without them.” Volunteers are
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responsible for everything from coordinating parking to distributing food—both of which could get a little crazy since the festival organizers expect a crowd of 12,000 to 15,000 attendees over the course of the two-day festival. The ChattaFood tent at 4 Bridges will feature great food from all around the area. With vendors like The Hot Chocolatier, Good Dog, Lupi’s, Taco Mamacita, and Big River, the selection of eatables is sure to satisfy the taste buds and appetites of everyone who stops by. In addition to some delicious food, both days of the festival will feature the talent of local and regional entertainers. On Saturday, Courney Holder, Amber Fults, Scenic City Chorus, Waterfall Wash, and Moccasin Benders will perform. Sunday will feature Southside Stringband, The Dexter Bell Trio, Brass Works, and Booker T. Scruggs. Thanks to delicious food,
great music, and incredible art, this year’s 4 Bridges Arts Festival is sure to be an unforgettable experience. For Wright and everyone else at AVA, the festival is a labor of love; they are guided by the desire to build a sense of community through art. “We want to cultivate an interest in the arts,” Wright says. “If you come to the festival, you not only get to see and buy some incredible artwork, but you also get to talk to the artists behind that artwork. It’s an educational and communitybuilding experience.” The 4 Bridges Arts Festival will be held at the First Tennessee Pavilion on April 11 from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. and on April 12 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. One-day passes are available for $7, and two-day passes are $10. Free parking will be available in front of Finley Stadium. Visit 4bridgesartsfestival.org to find out more about the festival and to buy tickets.
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What is The Color of Chaos? 4 Bridges Emerging Artist Myles Freeman By Zach Nicholson
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There are no rustic barns or rolling landscapes, no hyper-realistic portraits or caricatures. His art is very much its own world, and every piece, it seems, adds a bit more depth to that world.
Myles Freeman is one of the two “Emerging Artists” of this year’s 4 Bridges Art Festival. The festival marks the first real public exhibition of his art, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. In three words, Freeman’s art is energetic, color-blasted and dynamic. When you start to look at one of his works, you try to take it all in at once and can’t fully comprehend what’s happening. And then your eye catches a starting point, follows it through the entire painting—and suddenly you see a character or a theme that was hidden in plain sight. This is the kind of art Freeman creates. There are no rustic barns or rolling landscapes, no hyperrealistic portraits or caricatures. His art is very much its own world, and every piece, it seems, adds a bit more depth to that world. But who is this wizard behind
the curtain? You might be surprised to find that Freeman has only recently adopted the artist moniker. Throughout childhood and early adulthood, Freeman never consid-
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How Lovely Is The Ordinary? 4 Bridges Emerging Artist Jillian Walther By Zach Nicholson “You have to look up.” Photographer Jillian Walther found that out when she visited South Korea. An “Emerging Artist” in this year’s 4 Bridges Art Show, Walther tries to find the beauty in the ordinary, because she’s convinced that if you look hard enough, you’ll see it. Old murals and signs are subjects she’s particularly interested in. Immediately, I think of walking down Martin Luther King Boulevard, where the past of Chattanooga is still apparent, though faded. Always the photographer in her group, Walther first considered photography seriously in South Korea when she wanted to show her parents the complete absence of grass and prevalence of concrete. Soon, she started looking up and photographing power lines that were tangled and bundled together, impossi-
bly messy, yet still providing light to the city. And she kept that mentality of “look up” when she came back to the States. Power lines were still interesting to her, and soon she began looking at water towers—another source of power and another consistently forgotten beauty. More generally, she’s drawn to buildings and how they touch the skyline, the con-
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tact point of structure and space. Beautiful camera craft aside, Walther is much more than a photographer. She’s a language-lover and craftsman, a teacher and a wife. Walther is proficient in German. If you’re learning German in Chattanooga, you’ll either recognize her or run into her soon. She picked up some Korean from traveling and some French from graduate school. Alongside her photography, she takes discarded pieces of wood and crafts them into small things of beauty. Walther and her husband moved to Chattanooga recently and have found the city to be a perfect combination of independence, locality, arts, and nature. With Chattanooga as her home now, Walther has begun to capture the city’s everyday beauty, photo by photo.
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tortoise character from that ancient parable. Progress is slow and steady without the roller coaster ups and downs of other cities experiencing similar growth. And that growth LEE is green. That’s makes it even more attractive to potential investors and prospective homeowners. “Typically it costs ten percent more to build an [energy-efficient] home,” explains Frank, “but as you look at the years of maintenance-free living and decreasing your utility bills by 35-40 percent, the return on investment is excellent.” The Grace Frank Group is an affiliate of the RE/MAX company and has been ranked among that company’s top teams for the last few years. Frank notes that the accolades are similar for individual team members in her group. For example, realtor Kim Bass is a multimillion dollar producer, a “Green” Designated Realtor, an Accredited Buyer Representative, and a Certified Distressed Property Expert.
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The group is also licensed in both Tennessee and Georgia, where Frank says the housing market is experiencing a similar resurgence to Chattanooga’s. She says houses aren’t staying on the market as long as in years past and certain buyers are finding the location ideal, such as retirees who are less concerned about the state income tax. They’re finding lower prices for comparable homes. Frank has found over the last 11 years that Chattanooga has wide appeal to a variety of home buyers. “Baby Boomers and Millenials seem to like downtown,” she says, pointing out that downtown condominiums are great starter homes for young professionals who
want something within walking or cycling distance to commerce and nightlife, but also attractive to empty-nesters looking to downsize and leave the maintenance to someone else. Conversely, the suburbs such as East Ridge, Ooltewah and Rossville are more attractive to families looking for more property for swingsets and near schools. And no matter where you live in the area, all the conveniences of a mid-size city are within a few minutes’ drive. And larger cities
such as Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta and Birmingham are just a couple of hours away by car. ChatWhile tanooga is considered a stable real estate market, Frank does see some increase in home prices appearing in the area. She says inventory is down yet the population is increasing. So by the rules of supply and demand, prices are naturally rising. But lots of new construction will likely hold off any spikes in prices. New smaller, energy-efficient single family homes and trendy multi-family complexs are either under construction or in the planning stages and will accommodate Chattanooga’s growing popularity and the resultant growth in population.
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Still Singing the Ghosts Away Kindora Camp’s gorgeous voice goes beyond vintage or retro to unique
Age Cannot Wither Nor Custom Stale Watts and Weston set to blow minds again at Barking Legs Jazz fans of Chattanooga, the Jazzanooga 2015 festival will be on again this month, but if you still can’t get enough of the genre, then you’re in luck. This Friday, April 10, Flying Fingers Productions and the Shaking Ray Levi Society present Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston at the Barking Legs Theater. Watts and Weston have both been astonishing audiences for many decades. Watts is a British saxophonist who is known for his “bold, compelling voice on the sax.” He helped found the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the 1960s, as well as other bands such as Amalgam and the Moiré Music ensemble. Meanwhile, pianist and composer Weston
is applauded for his “rare talent for creating astounding, freely-flowing, unexpected musical ideas, brimming joy and energy.” When these musicians come together in their improvisation jazz session, with their “exploration of the conversational nature of spontaneous music creation,” audience members at Barking Legs Theater will never be the same. These two free improv masters have been here before and are always unforgettable. Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston, Barking Legs Theater on Friday, April 10, at 8 p.m. $15 both in advance and at the door. More information, check out barkinglegs.org — Gavin Gaither
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She’s clearly very, very good at what she does. So what does she do? She isn’t old enough to be vintage and is too unaffected to be retro. No, I think the best term for Kindora is “New Old Stock.” She’s the authentic article, just 20 years in the future. Camp has an album debuting on April 14, and it is chock-full of shimmering vintage synth sounds and a pop diva voice that will leave the hair on the back of your neck standing (unless you’re one of those neck-waxing types, in which case it will give you a frisson). That there is an ethereal quality to her singing should come as no surprise given the nature of her introduction to music. As a very young girl, Camp believed there was a skeleton in the wall behind her bathtub and shared this alarming news with her grandmother. Grandma sagaciously suggested that “singing will keep the ghosts away,” and thus a star was born. It makes for a more interesting origin story than most. I myself first stepped up to the microphone only because everyone else
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Nick Lutsko has quickly risen in the Chattanooga music scene and with good reason. The young man has most impressive chops, musically. This is known already. Almost as impressive is his grasp of the business portion of the music business. I encounter many fantastic musicians here in Chattanooga, artists of high degree, but I’d guess that 96 percent of them are clueless about the business, openly despise the business or think that being “cute and sincere” is all it take to “make it.” Not so. Lutsko, along with his pro representation, makes use of all the tools available to achieve success. The album, Etc., is a fantastic piece of work, one which I intend to delve into further in the coming weeks. While his debut release was decidedly (delightfully) folk, Album Number Two represents a significant departure into pop, funk, industrial and psychedelic music, while still maintaining some of the folk songwriting of his earlier work. The album drops this Friday, April 10 at JJ’s Bohemia, where Lutsko will be appearing along with guests Birds with Fleas, Tree Tops and, apparently, puppets. For an early taste of what’s to come, find Lutsko on social media (seriously, he’s everywhere). You can be a great musician and maybe succeed in music, you can be great at business and marketing and maybe succeed is music, but Lutsko’s combination of skills in all arenas and a tireless, Zappa-esque work ethic all but guarantees this young man is on his way to the top. See him now so that later you can brag, “I knew him before he was famous.” — MTM
in my fledgling band was too shy. I’d much rather have “sung the ghosts away.” Whatever got her started, Kindora clearly fell in love with singing, which explains how her YouTube cover of Portishead’s “Roads” caught the attention of musician Jimmy Sowell and producer Rock Floyd. Sowell convinced Camp that she had something worth pursuing and Floyd was the man behind the board, producing all of Camp’s solo material. A word on Floyd: I hadn’t encountered his work before hearing Camp’s music, but the guy is one hell of a producer. When it comes to this particular style of music, Floyd is easily one of the very best.
The album is Dark Continent and it is packed with 12 superlative tracks ranging from the radio-ready “Safe” to the straightfrom-1988 “When I Wake Up.” This is an album equally at home in the car, the club, or the bedroom, and I can’t help but think that it would naturally increase your odds of a good time in any of those venues. It’s smooth, it’s sexy and Kindora Camp is the newest pop diva you haven’t heard of yet... but you will. The album drops in digital form on the 14th, and in the meantime, feel free to swing by Kindora’s Facebook page to keep abreast of what’s up and coming.
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Nashville Rock-Pop, Brit/ Dutch Improvised Canvas Roddy returns with Waterfall Wash, Butcher & Moor get cathedral lin; guitars wail, cymbals are taxed and bass drum beats propel the song like a locomotive. Finally, “Visions” closes the EP with some enhanced balladry marked by ardent strums and rousing harmonizing, finishing a release with an infectious energy that is hard to dislike. Waterfall Wash Foreign Chords (waterfallwash.bandcamp.com)
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John Butcher & Andy Moor Experiments with a Leaf (Unsounds)
brief “Prelude,” with small details like subtle backwards guitar notes, the EP takes off with “Currents,” marked with gospel and folk influenced vocal harmonizing, bringing to mind Fleet Foxes but with more optimism; it builds with pounding drums and hopeful strums, constructing a hearty, full sound, and with a tiny grin, it ends with the strum of an autoharp. The EP’s title track is a bouncy and immediately likeable number, with crunchy chords and a few unusual timbres lurking in the electric guitar parts; the one-minute track “Your Wave” is more than a trifle, with the acoustic guitar and vocals being accompanied by fuzzy and faint electric guitars, brushed drums and electronic percolations. The EP’s peak arrives on the track “Panama,” which rocks out and doesn’t hold back, except for a breakdown section with mando-
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n the world of free improvisation—that is, improvising with no particular genre in mind—players can sometimes fall back on a “bag of tricks” with various techniques or instant strategies to keep things moving along. So, it’s refreshing to hear a musician who can always surprise and impress, even with a familiarity of that performer’s musical personality. One such musician is British saxophonist John Butcher, who not only has a virtuosic command of his instrument but also has a seemingly infinite palette with which to work. On the new album Experiments with a Leaf, recorded live in a cathedral in Switzerland in October 2013, Butcher and electric guitarist Andy Moor both provoke each other yet mostly work toward synthesis, building new sounds that complement each other in complex, stimulating and satisfying ways. Moor is best known as a member of the Dutch postpunk band The Ex, and that
band’s fruitful collaborations with Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya are one example of how versatile Moor can be. On “Fantasy Downsize,” Moor accompanies Butcher’s fluttering bird noises with woozy low notes and scratches before he stabs with harmonics and atonal mini-blasts; the mood is one of playful and curious confusion, with kissing noises and the tense wringing of notes. “Joy is the Headlight” begins with bright flashes of sax melodies before scurrying away from recognizable, hummable tunes using frantic runs; the track ends with a half-minute of chilling near-silence to cleanse the palate, with barely audible sounds of what sounds like dangling strings rustling. On the 11-minute “The Tongue Is a Flame,” Moor uses a slide and alternates between low buzzes and inebriated high notes, and later, he generates ambient tones while Butcher’s desperate squawks reverberate gloriously in the cathedral space; notably, Butcher also manages to make his saxophone sound exactly like amplifier feedback. While Butcher is the master improviser here, Moor holds his own and has the discipline and creativity to set aside his post-punk tendencies to help formulate an engrossing canvas of abstraction.
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Come On In, the Disruption’s Fine From “build it, they will come” to “there it is, let’s go”
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According to Lavidge, major companies are increasingly interested in startups because they’re feeling the disruptive effects of new technologies nipping at their heels.”
Gig Tank begins its fourth iteration at the end of May. This year, the annual startup accelerator centered on Chattanooga’s gigabit Internet is bringing much of the focus back to where it began three years ago: companies whose business modRICH els are built around the networking possible with the Gig. I spoke with Alex Lavidge, director of this year’s Gig Tank, and Mike Bradshaw, executive director of the Company Lab, which sponsors Gig Tank, about what’s different in Gig Tank number four. “We’re starting to see our track record increase,” says Lavidge, with 2014 Gig Tank graduates like Feetz and Gridcure scoring major angel funding and being accepted into top-tier na-
tional accelerator programs. “We’re also starting to see an evolution in the way that we think about startup acceleration.” “Normally you’d say, well, these guys got investment in their c o m p a n y, now it’s capitalized, it’s ready BAILEY to go and see you later,” Bradshaw added. “When companies come out of a program like Gig Tank, if they are able to get into accelerators that expose them to West Coast investors a little more readily than we are able to at this point, it builds more and more of those connections,” which benefit both the companies and Chattanooga’s overall innovation economy. Some of those connections also come from companies that want to engage with Gig Tank startups as
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partners in the entire accelerator program. Partner companies announced this year include Alcatel-Lucent, Verizon Wireless, HomeServe USA, UPS Connect, US Ignite and Mozilla. According to Lavidge, major companies are increasingly interested in startups because they’re feeling the disruptive effects of new technologies nipping at their heels. At the beginning of the year, Lavidge represented Chattanooga and Gig Tank at an invitation-only, three-day gathering of 200 entrepreneurs, executives and investors from around the world, hosted by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis. One of the big topics of conversation was “exponential technologies” that are on the tipping point of causing disruptive change in many industries. They’re one of the major reasons most of the Fortune 500 companies from 1950 no longer exist, and why 40 percent of today’s Fortune 500 are expected to disap-
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pear in the next 10 years. “That kind of change is going to come from areas like big data, 3-D printing, virtual reality, wireless sensor networks, artificial intelligence, robotics and human genome sequencing,” says Lavidge. “What’s the theme? Those exponential technologies all require more bandwidth.” More companies are taking this shift to technologies that use ultra-high bandwidth seriously and moving to position themselves to participate in the change, rather than be destroyed by it. Part of that, for established companies, is engaging with the startups that are exploring the technologies now, even before the bandwidth is in place to roll them out nationwide. “We have an accelerator process that works, and it’s turning a lot of heads in investment communities across the country,” says Lavidge. Bradshaw points out that until recently, this dynamic was stuck in a chicken-or-
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egg conundrum. Visionaries believed ubiquitous high-speed bandwidth was coming, so it made sense to build products that need it. But until it existed, it was tough to convince funders to pay many millions to develop a product that wouldn’t be commercially viable without new national infrastructure that would cost billions of dollars. In the last few years, though, it’s become clear that the change is beginning to happen. “So that’s the theory of operation behind Gig Tank this year,” says Bradshaw, “that in order to make progress on ultra high-speed, low-latency network applications you’re going to need a great set of scaled partners around you.” Partners might be either first customers, who by using a new product can help a Gig Tank startup understand the market they need to penetrate, or companies that have already made the strategic decision to develop Gig-enabled products and see partnering with Gig Tank startups as a product development opportunity. “Established companies operating at scale are including these new lines of business in their 3- to 5-year plans,”
says Bradshaw. “That’s a new thing. It’s a distinction between where we were in 2012 when Gig Tank began and now.” “We’re not just selling the Gig,” adds Lavidge. “I’ve been traveling across the country and talking to people all over saying the only thing moving faster than the Internet in Chattanooga is the rate at which people come together and share ideas and form a community.” He sees these established companies’ ties to places like Silicon Valley, Austin, Texas, and Boulder, Colorado growing weaker because they are expensive places to live and do business. “When we bring people here and they see how quickly things can happen because of Chattanooga’s cultural DNA,” he says, “that’s a huge selling point, on par with the gigabit infrastructure.” Rich Bailey is a professional writer, editor and (sometimes) PR consultant. He led a project to create Chattanooga’s first civic web site in 1995 before even owning a modem. Now he covers Chattanooga technology for The Pulse and blogs about it at CircleChattanooga.com. He splits his time between Chattanooga and Brooklyn. chattanoogapulse.com • April 9-15. 2015 • The Pulse • 33
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Uitwaaien is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it’s exhilarating. I don’t know any language that has parallel terms for running in the rain for the dizzy joy of it, or dancing through a meadow in the dark because it’s such nonsensical fun, or singing at full volume while riding alone in an elevator in the mad-happy quest to purge your tension. But in the coming weeks, you don’t need to describe or explain experiences like this; you just need to do them. Experiment with giving your instinctive need for exuberance lots of room to play. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your nasty, nagging little demon isn’t nasty or nagging any more. It’s not doing what demons are supposed to do. It’s confused, haggard, and ineffective. I almost feel sorry for the thing. It is barely even keeping you awake at night, and its ability to motivate you through fear is at an all-time low. Here’s what I suggest: Now, when the demon’s strength is waning and its hold on you is weak, you should break up with it for good. Perform an ultimate, non-reversible exorcism. Buy it a one-way bus ticket to the wasteland and say goodbye forever. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When he was in his fifties, French painter Claude Monet finally achieved financial success. He used his new riches to buy a house and land, then hired gardeners to help him make a pond full of water lilies. For the first time in his life, he began to paint water lilies. During the next 30 years, they were his obsession and his specialty. He made them a central feature of 250 canvases, which now serve as one of his signature contributions to art history. “I planted my water lilies for pleasure,” he said. “I cultivated them without thinking of painting them. And then suddenly, I had the revelation of the magic of my pond.” I regard the imminent future as a good time for you to do something similar, Gemini: Create or
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find a source of beauty that will stimulate your sense of wonder and fuel your passion to express yourself for a long time. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love,” said Cancerian comedian Mel Brooks. Although he was joking, he was also quite serious. More often than we like to admit, desperation infects our quest to be cared for. Our decisions about love may be motivated by a dread of loneliness. We worry about whether we are worthy of getting the help and support we need. It’s a fundamental human problem, so there’s no reason to be ashamed if you have this tendency yourself. Having said that, I’m happy to report that you now have the necessary power to overcome this tendency. You will be able to summon tremendous courage as you revise and refine your relationship with love. It’s time to disappear the fear. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you ever feel reverence and awe, Leo? Are there times when you spontaneously yearn to engage in acts of worship? Is there anyone or anything that evokes your admiration, humility, and gratitude? The coming weeks will be a good time to seek out experiences like these. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will get tender jolts of transformational inspiration if you blend yourself with a sublime force that you trust and respect. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A lot has happened since you were . . . uh . . . indisposed. You’ve missed out on several plot twists. The circle has been broken, repaired, broken again, and partially repaired. Rumors have been flying, allegiances have been shifting, and riddles have been deepening. So are you ready yet to return to the heated action? Have you learned as much as you can from the commotion that provoked your retreat? Don’t try to return too early. Make sure you are at least 70 percent healed. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Rent,
but don’t buy yet. That’s my $250-perhour advice. Keep rehearsing, but don’t start performing the actual show. OK? Flirt, but don’t fall in love. Can you handle that much impulse control? Are you strong enough to explore the deeper mysteries of patience? I swear to you that your burning questions will ultimately be answered if you don’t try to force the answers to arrive according to a set timetable. I guarantee that you will make the necessary connections as long as you don’t insist that they satisfy every single one of your criteria.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Guerrilla Girls are a group of prankster activists who use humor to expose sexism and racism in the art world. Every so often they take a “weenie count” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. During their first survey in 1989, they found that five percent of the artists who had work hanging in the galleries were women, while 85 percent of the nudes depicted in the paintings were women. More recently, in 2012, their weenie count revealed that four percent of the artists were female, but 76 percent of the naked people in the paintings were female. The coming week would be a good time for you to take a weenie count in your own sphere, Scorpio. Conditions are more favorable than usual to call attention to gender disparities, and to initiate corrective action.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you were a four-yearold, cookies might be a valuable treasure to you. Given a choice between a bowl of stir-fried organic vegetables and a plate full of chocolate coconut macaroons, you’d probably choose the macaroons. For that matter, if you were four years old and were asked to decide between getting a pile of macaroons and a free vacation to Bali or an original painting by Matisse or a personal horoscope reading from the world’s greatest astrologer, you’d also opt for the cookies. But since you’re a grownup, your list of priorities is screwed on straight, right? You would never get distracted by a sugary, transitory treat that would cause you to ignore a more nourishing and long-lasting pleasure. Right?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The English term “engine” refers primarily to a machine that transforms energy into mechanical power. But its roots are in the Old French word engin, which meant skill or wit, and in the Latin word ingenium, defined as “inborn talent.” I’d like to borrow the original meanings to devise your horoscope this week. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your “engine” is unusually strong right now, which means that your cultivated skills and innate talents are functioning at peak levels. I suggest you make intensive use of them to produce maximum amounts of energy
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What I’m about to say is not a hard scientific fact, but it is a rigorous poetic fable. You don’t need to go to the mountain, because the mountain is willing and able to come to you. But will it actually come to you? Yes, but only if you meet two conditions. The mountain will pick itself up and move all the way to where you are if you make a lot of room for it and if you are prepared to work with the changes its arrival will bring.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): On June 23, 1917, Babe Ruth was the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in a Major League Baseball game against the Washington Senators. After the first batter drew a walk, Ruth got upset with the home plate umpire and punched him in the head. Ejected! Banished! The Babe had to be dragged off the field by the cops. The new pitcher was Ernie Shore. He proceeded to pitch a perfect game, allowing no further Washington player to reach base in all nine innings. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I see you as having the potential to duplicate Ernie Shore’s performance in your own sphere. Coming in as a replacement, you will excel. Chosen as a substitute, you will outdo the original.
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Consider This with Dr. Rick by Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D. “If you’re going through hell, keep going!” — Winston Churchill The Reverend Robert Schuller, pastor of the well-known Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, CA, recently died. A prolific author, one phrase he was most known for is: “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” Which of us has not known tough times? A student’s stressful struggle to make good grades may seem trivial to someone who’s trying to make mortgage payments, which may seem trivial to someone battling to survive cancer. But you know, each challenge is valid and important to each individual. A 20 year old has his worries, and an 80 year old has hers. Maybe sometimes the best we can do is remember the words of Winston Churchill, Rev. Schuller, or my own grandfather. “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps,” he’d say. This doesn’t apply to every challenge, of course, but sometimes all we have are those inner reserves, those strong, courageous parts of ourselves that we must summon up, dust off, and trust to lead us to a better place. chattanoogapulse.com • April 9-15. 2015 • The Pulse • 37
Trying to Explain the Inexplicable Officer Alex presents his view of our need to make sense of a chaotic world
“ People need to fill in the holes, to put things in a safe place so that they don’t have to live in perpetual fear of the reality that this kind of thing really happens some times, and we can’t do anything about it.”
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.
and we just as instinctively want to fix it. And when we can’t? It can eat at us. Frustrate us. And depending on our proximity to the event in question, it can wear our minds to a nub. I was visiting with a The simple expression few co-workers on a muof basic truth in that opentual friend’s boat recenting quote is ly, which something brought up that we, as a the topic of society, prerum. And fer to avoid the rum, ALEX TEACH (and thereof course, fore why it immediately brought up a few more topstuck in my mind). Some ics that related well with of you that have had their the setting of the sun, in sanity tested, really tested, that the topics got steadily know exactly what I mean darker. We weren’t just when you read that line. It telling stories, though, we is just that simple; many were conferring….conferof us are just a good solid ring on a topic always close (or not-so-solid) push away to our hearts, because it from turning into Roger represented an intangible Rabbit. part of an otherwise very Sixteen years ago at Coltangible job. umbine High School, we The topic? Madness. And wanted to know the same here is the hazy summary thing: Why? Where were of our combined thoughts: their parents? Was it the Madness is the word peomusic they listened to? ple are searching for when September 11, 2001: they are trying to explain, 2,985 lives lost. Why? We compartmentalize, and can’t blame the religion quantify tragic events so the perpetrators said comthat we can better wrap pelled them to do this or our heads around them. people will think we are Just as our eye is drawn to rude, so was it something a crooked picture on a wall we did to inspire this? or a seatbelt hanging outHurricane Katrina, Auside a moving car door, we gust 23, 2005: 1,836 lives instinctively know when were lost, tens of thousands something is out of place, “You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity: All it takes…is a little push.” -The Joker from “The Dark Knight,” 2008
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of displaced people (inappropriately called “refugees”) wandering on foot across Louisiana and Mississippi, and so desperate for the “why?” were people that some actually blamed then-President Bush for not signing the Kyoto Accords, which clearly would have fixed the world’s climate and therefore prevented that hurricane from occurring. People need to fill in the holes, to put things in a safe place so that they don’t have to live in perpetual fear of the reality that this kind of thing really happens some times, and we can’t do anything about it. That’s why we were glued to Fox News and CNN for 50 consecutive hours after the planes hit the WTC so long ago: Why? How? Disbelief. You can put your purse in the trunk of your car in the mall parking lot at Christmas time. You can install floodlights around your homes and get a large dog to decrease the odds of burglary. You can wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. But you can’t legislate the James Holmeses (Aurora, Colorado “Dark Knight” shooter) of the world, or the Timothy McVeighs, or the Harris and Klebolds, or the John Wayne Gacys—and it scares the hell out of us. Will a new gun law be enacted somewhere as a result of yet another shooting? Yup. But what gun
detractors inexplicably fail to realize is that Klebold and Holmes types, when preparing to break the law, generally don’t care about the law. Crazy concept, right? We’re screening 80-yearold ladies and 6-year-old kids for guns boarding airplanes these days and making it harder to get guns in the hands of lawabiding citizens that could stop people like Holmes or Seung-Hui Cho (the killer of 32 unarmed people at the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007) as they go about rudely murdering innocent people in places of trust. But it makes us feel better…it makes us feel accomplished, even if it equates to trying to cure alcoholism with liquor. But folks, like the bumper sticker says: “Shit Happens.” There isn’t always an explanation, a reason, or justification. All you can do is be prepared for it, no matter how unlikely it may seem. There doesn’t have to be a “why,” only a response. Mine will be with a Springfield XD SubCompact .40 and a racing but determined heart. Afterwards? Well, if there was an explanation, it wouldn’t very well be called “madness,”would it? No need for legislation. Just preparedness. That’s how I keep sleeping well, at least.
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