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• In Screen this week (Page 23), film critic John DeVore forces himself to see the top-grossing conservative political documentary “2016: Obama’s America” and comes away ... unimpressed, to say the least. In DizzyTown (Page 6), the Times Free Press’s new conservative editorial page editor, Drew Johnson, suggests Republicans throw the election and wait for 2016. On the cover: “Inside the Mitchell Avenue YMCA” by Miki Boni, a Gallery Hop participant.

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Alterna-flags fly in face of new city flag with unfortunate zeal and unnecessary haste, Chattanooga City Council on Tuesday, Aug. 28, voted 6-3 to approve a new city flag rushed to approval by Mayor Ron Littlefield and “designed” by former City Councilman David Crockett. In his refusal to allow appropriate debate and open the process to community comment, Littlefield again showed an alarming lack of instinct for public sentiment. Despite a passionate plea from Tianna Buckwaiter of the Company Lab, who spoke on behalf of citizens against the new flag, we are now inflicted with a drab, ugly city flag that represents no element of Chattanoo-

ga’s proud renaissance. Flying in the face of the status quo, The Pulse quickly created a gallery of citizendesigned flags that arose in the aftermath of the flag kerfuffle, each of which are vast improvements on Crockett’s aged “design,” likely crafted on a 1994-era PC in Harvard Graphics.

The flag fight picked up further steam when Pulse contributors Jason Dunn and Dave “Castlevania” Castañeda joined local artist David Ruiz of 423 Bragging Rights and PPRWRK in launching the NoogaFlags Tumblr site (noogaflags.tumblr.com) soliciting alternative designs in an effort to rescind the new flag and replace it with colors more symbolic of modern Chattanooga. “Our mission is simple,” the site’s founders state, “The new flag for Chattanooga sucks. We want to change this—so we are having an open call for people to design their own flags. The best flags that are submitted to this blog will be wheatpasted all over the city courtesy of PPRWRK/423 Bragging Rights. Let’s show this town what truly represents the Gig City.” Among those already submitted include Noble “Sandy the Flower Man” Cumming’s design (above) featuring elements present in many of the recently submitted designs— the Volkswagen and Lookouts logos—as well as stick-figure drawing of himself and a laptop accompanied by the word “Zing!” in a nod to Chattanooga’s gigabit Internet speed capability. Other submissions feature Moon Pies, the Choo Choo, Samuel L. Jackson, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, Coca-Cola, dinosaurs and City Councilman Andrae McGary. All are superior to the new flag adopted by city council last week and we look forward to viewing them around town, thanks to Ruiz’s talent with wheatpaste murals. Perhaps then the flag fight will get its proper debate, discussion and design process— but we’re not holding our breath. —The Editors

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Winkler in the Noog for MEF fundraiser we don’t expect the sort of “tmz”style stalking that occurred when Harrison Ford came to Chattanooga recently to film scenes in the forthcoming movie “42,” but our eyebrows (and thumbs) were raised when we quite accidentally came across a Facebook event announcement that Henry Winkler is visiting the

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city (today, Sept. 6) to appear at a fundraising event held by the Mountain Education Foundation on Signal Mountain. While organizers didn’t respond to our questions about Winkler’s visit, we were surprised and intrigued. According to the foundation’s website (meftoday.org), Winkler “will share his story and talk about the release of his upcoming movie, ‘Here Comes the Boom.’” Celebrity sightings are a relatively rare occurrence here, so if you happen to recognize Winkler or are going to the event, send us your “Brush with Fame” photo. Younger readers will know the actor from his recent roles in such TV series as “Royal Pains,” but to a generation he will always be “The Fonz” from “Happy Days.” To Winkler, we’d just say: “Ayyyyyyyyy!” —Bill Ramsey

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Photog optimizes business for engine if you own a local retail business, you might expect a knock on your door soon from photographer Bleu Hayes. Solicitors can be annoying, but hear him out. Hayes is now the only Google-certified photographer in Chattanooga trusted to capture your business for placement on the search engine’s business photos service, allowing users to take a virtual panoramic tour of a business linked to Street View and other popular Google search offerings. Google Business Photos, which has been available in larger cities for more than two years, has just recently rolled out in Chattanooga, Hayes said, and after undergoing a lengthy certification process, the photographer has been capturing local businesses for inclusion online. “I keep up with technology and when I heard about the program being launched in select cities, I applied for certification,” Hayes said, who notes he is one of only 200 Google-trusted photographers in the country. “When I got a call from a recruiter who asked me if I want to be a part of t h e service, I jumped at the chance.” Hayes said Google

is famous for its analytical testing of services it offers, so he wasn’t surprised at the lengthy processs, but he didn’t want to enter a market over-saturated with competition, either. “Fortunately, Google doesn’t want to saturate markets, either,” Hayes said. “They support small business, but they have very strict quality-control measures.” So far, Hayes has signed up almost a dozen local businesses, such as the new Fork & Pie Restaurant, for the service, which begins at $200 and includes detailed, panoramic photos surveying the entire premise, “as if you were actually there,” Hayes said. Google does refer businesses interested in the service to Hayes, but he more often finds himself simply knocking on doors. “I have to sell it, going door to door,” he said, “but having the Google name behind me, people are really receptive. I like meeting people and networking.” For more information, visit chattanoogapanorama.com. —B.R.

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Benefit to aid radio legend Tommy Jett “a jett high night,” a benefit for Chattanooga radio legend Tommy Jett on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Zan Guerry Clubhouse & Gardens, promises to be a “night like no other” in an effort to aid the former DJ in his ongoing health battle following an April car accident. Jett became a household name in the 1960s beginning with his work as DJ at the Top 40 giant WFLI and quickly ascended to local celebrity status and on-air heartthrob. He formally retired in 2009, but until his recent illness hosted the weekly “Tommy Jett Good Time Oldies Rock and Roll Variety Show” on his website, tommyjett.com. The 71-year-old suffered a seizure, which resulted in a one-car accident in April. The injuries sustained from the accident left Jett in critical condition, leading to subsequent hospital visits and health scares throughout the summer. Jett was readmitted to the hospital in early July due to complications from a previous surgery and was reported to be in “very critical condition,” but has since returned home for further recovery. “A Jett High Night” will feature performances by The Beaters, Jimmy Tawater, Charley Yates, Summer Hullender, Thom Cavin and Tim Starnes. For ticket information visit tommyjett.com. —Erin McFarland

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Sheriff Joe Says ‘Blow’ it’s been a big week for the constitution of the united states, the State of Arizona, and its major county (Maricopa) if you’ve been paying attention, or have not but potentially give a crap about State’s Rights (or its literal big brother). I can even credit the Miraculous President for this, to the surprise of many! Allow me to start from scratch: Joe Arpaio is the fivetime elected sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz. He is a second-generation American of Italian-born parents, a 25-year D.E.A. agent with posts in Argentina, Turkey and Mexico, and a man married to the same woman for more than 50 years. And he is a universally hated son-ofa-bitch, despite the support of constituents who have been re-electing him since 1992, to the consternation of his detractors, which makes me a fan. Arpaio has challenged the First Amendment rights of prisoners to bear pornography, and won. And he required all inmates over 18 to register for the Selective Service System. On the other hand, he has also been accused of spying on political rivals, racial profiling of Latino drivers for their legal immigration status, as well as the target of misspent funds gathered from the sale of pink underwear to the public. In a letter to Maricopa County Attorney William Montgomery concerning their decision to end their multi-million dollar investigation without charging anyone, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel wrote: “Federal prosecutors decided to not prosecute matters tied to alleged misuse of county credit cards by sheriff’s officials, alleged misspending of jail-enhancement

funds and other matters. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had already made public it would not pursue charges on those matters.” “Law enforcement officials are rightfully afforded a wide swath of discretion in deciding how to conduct investigations and prosecutions. Unfortunately, such discretion can act as a double-edged sword: although it empowers fair-minded prosecutors and investigators to discharge their duties effectively, it also affords potential for abuse. Our limited role is to determine whether criminal charges are supportable. After careful review, we do not believe the allegations presented to us are prosecutable as crimes.” Potential misuse of credit cards entrusted by the public? Bad. Not proving any actual wrong doing? Not so bad, unless you’re the one having to admit it. The Arpaio investigation began almost immediately after President Obama moved into the Oval Office and his nominee for attorney general (Eric Holder) was confirmed. Holder immedi-

ately initiated investigations of CIA interrogators and Arpaio, to give you a picture of his priorities. Three years and $30 million later, the U.S. Attorney’s Office found that criminal charges are unsupportable. Go ahead and start your defenses now. Knowing that I am a now minority supporter of the U.S. Constitution and an even lesser known concept called “States Rights,” this is actually a big week for our country. Am I pissed off? You bet. But I also consider it a “tie” for the nonsense from the same Justice Department regarding the 2008 case of King Samir Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party in which showing a weapon, making threatening statements, and wearing paramilitary uniforms in front of polling station doors calling white people “white devil” does not constitute voter intimidation. Civil cases still swirl around Arpaio, but what a bittersweet vindication for him, and those like him. Happy Birthday, America. This is actually a belated present. Hope you get more come January. Alex Teach is a fulltime police officer of nearly 20 years experience. The opinions expressed are his own. Follow him on Facebook at facebook. com/alex.teach. chattanoogapulse.com • SEPT. 6-12, 2012 • The Pulse • 5

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TFP ’s Drew Johnson a GOP Judas? readers expect, but still revel in maureen dowd’s evisceration of Mitt Romney in the pages of The New York Times. The columnist more than earned her reputation for pulling no punches last week during the Republican National Convention. On the eve of Romney’s long, strange journey to the nomination, Dowd wrote about the candidate’s appeal, “The emotion he evokes is pity. Romney slogged and spent his way to the G.O.P. convention his dad craved for himself only to find that his role is not so much leading man as forgotten man.” Here in the Red States, such heresy is ignored publicly if it is regarded privately, although Republicans seem uniformly unenthusiastic with their nominee. But what one would not expect to read on the rightside Free Press editorial pages is a wholesale rejection of Romney as a lackluster, transitional candidate who might deserve to lose in order for the New Order to take over the Republican Party. But that’s exactly what Drew Johnson, the paper’s new conservative editorial page editor, suggested in terms that cannot be confused. On the eve of Romney’s acceptance speech in Tampa, Fla., last week, Johnson wrote in an editorial headlined “The Romney dilemma” that, “By now, the same question has begun to creep in the dark recesses of the mind of many Republicans: ‘Would we be better off if Romney loses in November?’” While editorials are unsigned, this is clearly Johnson’s voice. Former Free Press editorial page editor Lee Anderson must be seething—this is clearly not your father’s TFP. “After all,” Johnson wrote, “you have to go pretty far down the list of potential GOP presiden-

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tial candidates before you find someone who is less conservative, less exciting or less authentic than Romney.” And those were just his opening salvos. Johnson continued to question his party’s choice, pining for more vigorous potential nominees such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or Massachusetts Sen. Scott Walker, before positing that Republicans consider giving up the White House in favor of controlling Congress and waiting for 2016. Johnson skillfully lays the proposition at the feet of his readers without a definitive move himself, but his preferred option is hard to ignore. If his marching orders are to upend traditional conservative bromides and hyperbole emitting from the right-side pages of the TFP, Johnson deserves a raise. It is refreshing to hear a conservative editorial writer for Our Daily question the worthiness of his own party’s nominee so blatantly. Still, longtime readers in print and online are unused to such rebellious thinking, where voters all but assured its own lackluster, button-down incumbent congressman a return to office. Nevertheless, these

daring words have reignited an editorial page routinely littered with the party-line rants of Anderson’s long reign. Buttressed by the miles of press aimed at Romney’s lack of appeal from much more well-known pundits, Johnson is the local voice of conservatives who doubt Their Man can defeat Obama. In the midst of the tidal wave of lies, disinformation and fallacies issued forth with little shame from a parade of Republican zombies in Tampa, we at least acknowledge Johnson’s attempt to have his party look inward and acknowledge their inability to cultivate a candidate with the appeal, likability and eloquence of President Obama. While the president is by no means assured a victory in November, Republicans are coming out of the closet of doubt in their support of Romney. Only the candidate’s choice of adding Paul Ryan to the ticket seems to have “energized the base.” But with Ryan quickly abdicating to his presumptive boss, we wonder if Ryan himself might wind up on Johnson’s list of damaging candidates. Meantime, we’ll watch with glee as Johnson stirs the pot. After all, come Election Day, he wins either way.

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Annual exhibit of emerging artists is ground zero for AVA’s Gallery Hop By Rich Bailey

uring this weekend’s Galley Hop, the Association for Visual Arts’ own gallery will open its annual “Fresh” exhibit, featuring the work of new and emerging artists from around the Southeast. Over the years, the “emerging” tag has included artists ranging from just out of high school to creators in their sixties, explains AVA’s Lauren Goforth. But the idea is always to show Chattanooga something unusual. “It’s about showing things that are not necessarily seen in Chattanooga all the time,” says Goforth. After several years as a program assistant, beginning this month Goforth is AVA’s director of education and exhibitions following Mark Bradley-Shoup’s departure to teach full time at UTC. “Fresh is usually a more avant-garde show, usually a lot of installations, a lot of abstract work,” she says. “But that’s not always the case. We have some really nice figurative work in this show. It’s always work that’s top notch when it comes to technique and execution, but the subject matter can really run the gamut.” AVA will host an opening reception for “Fresh” from 2-8 p.m. during Gallery Hop on Saturday, Sept. 8, at their gallery located at 30 Frazier Ave. The exhibit will continue through Oct. 13. The Pulse spoke to three of this year’s 11 “Fresh” artists.

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“Sol and Luna” Robert Tan

Their work in AVA’s annual exhibit ranges from digitally manipulated photographic meditations on cultural identity, to a sculpted reflection on the permanence of matter, and an artistic MRI riffing on classical mythology. Robert Tan of Duluth, Ga., who has one year left in an undergraduate printmaking program at the University of Georgia, explores issues of racial and cultural identity

through digital manipulation of family photos. “Sol and Luna” is a pair of images based on the same photo of the artist’s mother in her wedding dress. The Sol image places her against a golden sun and a white background, while the Luna has a moon and black background. In both images, her eyes are covered by a white strip with something written in Korean. The images relate to a Kore-

an folktale about the creation of the sun and moon, according to Tan. In the folk tale, a poor mother taking care of her two children sells dumplings in the market to support the family. On the way home one day, a tiger threatens to eat her unless she feeds him with the leftover dumplings. She gives him the dumplings, but the tiger eats her anyway, then dresses in her clothes and goes to find her children.

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The children run away to the sky and become the sun and moon. The Korean text covering his mother’s eyes reads, “We’ll see better days.” “I related with those children. I didn’t come up in best upbringing financially,” Tan says. “My parents divorced at a young age. It’s very weird and unheard of for Asian parents in Asian culture to divorce. It’s been a struggle to get back on our feet. The children in the story are living a brand new life as the sun and moon. For me, we haven’t reached that point but there is hope.” Melissa Precise of Birmingham, Ala., is represented appropriately by “Colony,” an installation of upward reaching wooden slats. With its clean lines and neat groupings of wooden pieces, it is neither entirely abstract nor obviously

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‘Fresh’ artists

• This year’s lineup of 11 “Fresh” artists was chosen from 32 who applied from around the Southeast: • Robert Tan of Duluth, Ga. • Claudia Dominguez of Raleigh, N.C. • Gabriel Regagnon of Chattanooga. • Hollin Norwood of Chapel Hill, N.C. • Justin Hamer of Chattanooga. • Keely Finnegan of Johnson City. • Mark McLeod of Ooltewah. • Matthew Dutton of Chattanooga. • Melissa Precise of Pelham, Ala. • Taylor Thomas of Nashville. • Victoria Campbell of McDonough, Ga.

representational. It might be a city or it might be a different kind of colony. “If you look at bacteria in a Petri dish, you see dense circles that spread out toward the edge, and in between are uncolonized places,” Precise says. “If you look at man’s environment from a satellite view, we do the same things. We’re not so separate from nature as we like to believe sometimes.” Precise admits to being a little bit of a nerd. Now in her first year of a sculpture MFA at Louisiana State University, she has an undergraduate degree in biology and an MFA in visual arts from the University of Alabama. “Wood has interesting life cycle,” she says. “When it’s growing and living it creates a built environment in nature, it colonizes nature. When it’s »P25

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Let’s go to The Hop after its near death experience (chronicled in The Pulse’s Aug. 23 issue), Gallery Hop rebounded with more gallery participation in planning and administration, plus bigger prizes for checking out galleries. Visiting at least 10 galleries will get you entered into a drawing for the Instant Art Collection of pieces donated by participating galleries and studios, an overnight stay for two in Miki Boni’s Artist’s Gallery Residence, and passes to next year’s 4 Bridges Arts Festival. A list of participating galleries and studios along with a map can be found on Pages 10 and 11. For more information, visit avagalleryhop.com.

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GALLERIES & STUDIOS 1. AVA, 30 Frazier Ave., hosts the Gallery Hop and features exhibits by emerging, mid-career and professional artists who explore the entire range of visual arts. 2. Art at the INCubator, 100 Cherokee Blvd., hosts 23 local artists with more 120 original fine art pieces. Its current collection’s theme is “local color,” featuring a wide breadth of mediums. 3. Area 61, 61 E. Main St., is a collective retail space for local craftsmen and artists. They have a collection ranging from woodwork and furniture to folk art and jewelry. 4. Gallery 1401, 1110 Market St., hosts 30 nationally and internationally recognized artists focusing on fine art with genres including contemporary realism, impressionism, and classical styles created with a variety of mediums. 5. Gallery 301, 1800 E. Main St. and 6. 301 Cherokee Blvd. (inside Brix Nouveau). 7. Gannon Art Center, 3250 Brainerd Road, specializes in custom framing, but also features a diverse mix of local contemporary and traditional art in its gallery. 8. Graffiti, a Hill City “art joint” on the North Shore,

hosts non-representational and representational contemporary art on consignment from emerging artists in southeast Tennessee. It also sells objets d’art from around the world that complement the art on display. 9. H*ART Gallery, 110 E. Main St., is a nonprofit entity hosting works by homeless and other non-traditional artists. Its extended mission is to provide art materials and classes to other nonprofit organizations that provide space for clients in art classes, from which the gallery chooses works to sell. 10. Ignis Glass Studio and Gallery, 1800 Rossville Ave. (currently building new location at 409 Broad St.), offers a hands-on glass blowing experience with artist Christopher Mosley, who also makes handmade glass sculptures inspired by movement, texture and science. 11. In-Town Gallery, 26A Frazier Ave., one of the oldest artists’ co-ops in the nation, started at Sheraton Read House in 1974, and now features works by more than 30 local artists. The September featured artist is Victoria Pearmain with her exhibition “Urban Landscape,” composed of oil paintings of factories, mills and old buildings in Chattanooga. 12. Shuptrine’s Gold Leaf Designs, 2646 Broad St., is celebrating 27 years focusing on fine American art. It also specializes in handcrafted frames, mirrors, art restoration and conservation,

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gold leaf application, and frame restoration. It will reveal new works from artists Robert Calcagno and Maggie Siner as a part of their fall exhibition, “FEMME,” and host its first end-of-summer sale. 13. Tanner-Hill Gallery, 3069 Broad St., began hosting exclusively contemporary southern outsider art but soon expanded its core to include emerging and mid-career sculptors and painters. It has placed pieces in private, corporate and museum collections such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and the High Museum of Atlanta. 14. UTC Cress Gallery of Art, 736 Vine St., is a teaching gallery that strives to expose students and the public to eclectic working styles and approaches to art that are relevant to the curriculum of the UTC Department of Art. Its current exhibition, “Across the Board,” is composed of selected pieces from personal collections of its faculty and staff. 15. Winder Binder Gallery & Bookstore, 40 Frazier Ave., began as a home for new and antique toys, books and other unusual gifts. It eventually expanded to house regional folk art with a dedication to folk, visionary, outsider and self-taught artists. 16. Yada Yada, 112 Woodland Ave., features vivid, whimsical art by Sylvia “YaYa” McCollum, a Dallas resident who opened this North Shore gallery as a creative outlet for her paintings and drawings.

The gallery also sells clothing, jewelry and other unique knick-knacks. 17. Artifact, 1080 Duncan Ave., is a collective of artists who hold bi-monthly exhibitions and events such as their Handmade Book Fair. They will be highlighting new work from five artists with specialties in pottery, ceramics, custom furniture and metals. 18. Ashley Hamilton Studio, 1440 Adams St. Featured in The Pulse’s State of the Arts 2012 issue, Ashley Hamilton is an emerging artist who works in large-scale mixed media and collage and conceptual installation work. Her studio doubles as show space Easy Lemon that hosts live music and experimental art. 19. Miki Boni Studio, 1611 Mitchell Ave. Miki Boni will reveal her dreamscape series made from combining art forms and pushing the bounds of reality. Her work is exhibited in private collections in Europe, America and now Mexico, where she is the first American female painter whose work was selected to be in the Museo Ateneo Cultural’s permanent collection. 20. SweetCycle Apparel, 1815 Bailey Ave. Design partners Christine and Annie pride themselves on keeping SweetCycle Apparel a highfashion clothing line made from sustainable methods. Their designs consist of independent and retro-inspired looks that are crafted from discarded clothes and forgotten fabric.

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MUSIC Kentucky Knife Fight • St. Louis band belts punk-blues. 9 p.m. • The Honest Pint • 35 Patten Pkwy. (423)468-4192 • thehonestpint.com

EVENT An Evening with Alexandra Cousteau • Jacques Cousteau’s grand-daughter. 6 p.m. • Tennessee Aquarium • 1 Broad St. (800) 262-0694 • tnaqua.org

FRI09.07 MUSIC Quiet Company, Telemonster • Final night of Nightall 2012. 7 p.m. • River City Stage at Miller Plaza 850 Market St. • nightfallchattanooga.com

• “Creative Placemaking” is a panel discussion about how communities use the arts to shape their social, physical and economic characters, hosted by Glass House Collective focusing on the challenges and successes of creative placemaking in Chattanooga. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at The Chattanoogan Hotel. The panel includes Rocco Landesman (center), chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, who will also

EVENT “Cabaret” • CTC opens its 89th season with the stage and film classic. 8 p.m. • Chattanooga Theatre Centre • 400 River St. • (423) 267-8538 • theatrecentre.com

SAT09.08 MUSIC Abbey Road Live • Awesome Beatles tribute band. 9:30 p.m. • Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. • rhythm-brews.com

EVENT Gallery Hop • AVA’s annual day-long tour of local galleries and studios begins with its “Fresh” exhibit. 2 p.m. • Association of Visual Arts 30 Frazier Ave.• (423) 265-4282 avagalleryhop.com • avarts.org

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recently won the Urban Design Challenge; Sarah Morgan, program officer for the Lyndhurst Foundation; Mike Fowler, architect and partner in Ross/Fowler Architects of Knoxville; and Larry Zehnder, administrator of the Chattanooga Parks and Recreation Department. Ann Coulter of A. Coulter Consulting will moderate the panel. receive an update on the Allied Arts Main Terrain Park’s $250,000 Out Town Creative Placemaking Grant. Also participating on the panel are architect Eric Meyers of Elemi Architects, which

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Lunch & Dessert with Alton Brown • Celebrity chef and Food Network fixture Alton Brown returns to Chattanooga to host a presentation during the Tennessee Aquarium’s annual Serve & Protect Lunch, beginning at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, at the IMAX Theater. Besides hobnobbing with Brown, guests can support the Aquarium’s work. Champagne mixers will kick off the morning, while sustainable seafood cooking demonstrations are presented throughout the IMAX Great Hall.

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sister sparrow (arleigh kincheloe) and the dirty Birds were well into their set Saturday at Riverfront Nights when the bright yellow, almost harvest-sized full moon caught her eye. “I want everybody to turn around and look at that moon!” she exhorted the audience. It was an ideal night to be down by the river. The soft breeze coming off the water cut the oppressive humidity that had bedeviled everyone all week, and a crowd, ready to dance, had gathered in front of the stage. After playing a non-stop set of hard-hitting, horn-driven, Brooklynstyle R&B for close to an hour, Sister Sparrow stopped for a moment to let everyone catch their breath and soak in the scene. “People want to have a party,” said Jeff Styles. He and the other organizers did all they could to make it happen. Someone backstage inflated a bunch of beach balls and threw them into the crowd, and a knot of children spent the rest of the evening chasing them across the grass in front of the stage, while their parents lazed and listened to the band. The natural amphitheater is a perfect setting for a show. But, as Styles noted, “It’s not a listening room.” For anyone looking for a listening experience it may have been disappointing. Sister Sparrow and her eight-piece band (including her two brothers, Jackson, who played often blistering Charlie Musselwhitestyle harmonica, and drummer Bram) played a spirited set. But as someone noted at the end of the show, they are a young band. It showed. They were strongest when playing someone else’s songs. The highlight of the evening for me was their take on the Stones’ classic, “Miss You.” It showcased all their strengths as a band. The horn section punctuated the verses with punchy, in-synch choruses. The bass player, Aidan Carroll, played fat, funky lines,

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At Riverfront Nights shows, “People want to have a party,” said Jeff Styles. With a band like Fishbone, that can’t help but happen. and Bram Kincheloe’s drumming fairly closely approximated Charlie Watts’ graceful swing. The song could have been written for them. If they take the time to analyze why the song worked so well for them, they have the potential to be a great band. At the moment they are eight very good musicians who haven’t quite figured out how to play as a band. Too often they made the mistake many young bands make:

They didn’t allow the music to breathe. It had a nervous, frenetic quality that undercut the soulfulness they were shooting for. Sister Sparrow has a strong and gritty delivery, but she needs less Celine Dion and more Lydia Pense, the unsung singer with the late-’60s band, Cold Blood. Despite their lack of experience, Styles said he believes that before long, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds will be headlining much bigger shows across the country. He feels the same about Joe Robinson, a guitar player from New South Wales in Australia, who will headline the final show of the Riverfront Nights season on Saturday, Sept. 15. Robinson was voted “Best New Talent” in Guitar Player magazine’s 2010 Reader’s Poll. “The guy shreds,” said Styles. Opening for Robinson will be local heroes Strung Like A Horse, fresh from their conquest of Nightfall in August, which ended with the band playing pied-piper for a crowd of 600 revelers who followed them to an encore show at Rhythm & Brews. Easily one of the best live bands in Chattanooga, the Horse may well give the young Australian pause when he has to follow them that night. Between these two relatively unseasoned acts is a band that opened shows for The Clash and Talking Heads. Fishbone, a band whose music mixes ska’s rhythmic pulse with P-Funk’s manic punky funk and rock, came out of Los Angeles in the early 1980s with a revolutionary sound and a memorable stage show. They’ll be headlining the show down by the river on Saturday, Sept. 8) “I saw them open for The

Clash and for Talking Heads,” said Styles, smiling as he relived the shows. “I’d never seen anybody stage dive. The dude [leader Angelo Moore] just threw his trombone down and leaped off the front of the stage. I thought he was committing suicide. There’s nothing but chairs out there, and I’m thinking, ‘Oh, my god.’ All of a sudden all these hands come up and they’re carrying him around and he’s pulling back toward the stage, and I’m saying, ‘Wow, that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.’” Yellow Dubmarine, the seven-piece reggae band playing Beatles’ songs, drew the biggest crowd so far this year. More than 10,000 people crowded onto the waterfront to dance and sing-along, according to Styles. It could be that Fishbone will be the other crowd-pleaser this season. As so often happens to pioneering performers, Fishbone’s influence has far outstripped its own success. Living Colour, No Doubt, and particularly the Red Hot Chili Peppers, rode the band’s innovative blend of rock and funk to much wider success. But Fishbone has stayed together, and judging by the videos of the band in performance on YouTube, time has done little to dissipate the energy of those early shows Styles so fondly remembers. If at Riverfront Nights people want to have a party, as Styles suggests, with a band like Fishbone that can’t help but happen. Richard Winham is the host and producer of WUTC-FM’s afternoon music program and has observed the Chattanooga music scene for more than 25 years.

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Southern Ground: Musical Grab Bag • Any Nashville native has grown accustomed to two highly polarized breeds of music festival the city hosts. The state capitol boasts its moniker “Music City” from the country music artists playing the ever-popular CMA Festival. And for a some time, before the likes of Soundland and Live on the Green, any festival seeker outside the “Grand Ole” demographic had to make the trek to Manchester for the widely known “hipsters gone hippie” festival, Bonnaroo. E n t e r Southern Ground Mu-

sic & Food Festival, an event that not only marries country and alternative music, but also wraps it in a four-course meal and serves it up with some Jack. This year’s Southern Ground Nashville lineup is truly all over the map with scheduled performances from Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson to indie heavyweights Edward Sharpe and The Lumineers. Among the big-ticket items you’ll find Sheryl Crow, Gregg Allman (left) and Blackberry Smoke

(recently deemed a modern-day Lynyrd Skynyrd by one music writer). For $349 a pop you can also purchase a front-porch stage box with amenities including a four-course meal served by Zac Brown Band’s executive chef, Rusty Hamlin, complimentary Jack Daniels cocktails and a private restroom, which any festival buff may consider the most impressive luxury. Southern Ground Music & Food Festival will be held in Nashville from Sept. 21-22 and Charleston, S.C., from Oct. 20-21. For ticket and line-up information go to southerngroundfestival.com. —Erin McFarland

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Flee The Noog for Moog in October • Moogfest, a music festival conceived in memory of synthesizer developer, Robert Moog (rhymes with “vogue”), will open a number of venues around Asheville, N.C., to music lovers and an impressive line-up of musicians. It’s no surprise that electronica will predominate the weekend with performances from Primus 3D (bottom center), Squarepusher, Four Tet and Orbital, as well as cult favorite Thomas Dolby (top center). The lineup is peppered, though, with some hip-hop and psychedelic dance bands from the likes of Santigold, Bear in Heaven and Nas. (Warning: Moogfest 2012 calls for a healthy

dose of dancing.) An underlying mission geared toward future generations and developed by the Bob Moog Foundation to marry music and science fuels Moogfest (proceeds of which directly benefit the foundation). Artists aren’t obligated to

use Moog instruments, but selection to play Moogfest is based on a style and performance that runs parallel to Moog’s ideals. Along with the 30-plus performances at venues all over Ashville, tickets to see “Invisible: The New Obsolete” performance and installation piece will be available to festival goers at a discounted price. The Pulse will also be giving away Moogfest tickets soon, so keep your web browser pointed toward our Facebook page. Moogfest will be held from Oct. 26-27. For tickets and the full schedule of performers and events, visit moogfest.com. —E.M.

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fri 09.07 Quiet Company, Telemonster 7 p.m. NightFall, River City Stage at Miller Plaza, 850 Market St. nightfallchattanooga.com Black Jacket Symphony performs “Hotel California” 8 p.m. Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St. (423) 642-8947 chattanoogaonstage.com Bluegrass Night 8 p.m. The Camp House, 1427 Williams St. (423) 702-8081 thecamphouse.com Sarah Jane 8 p.m. Acoustic Café, 61 RBC Dr., Ringgold, Ga. (706) 965-2065 ringgoldacoustic.com Vic Burgess 9 p.m. The Office, 901

Carter St. (423) 634-9191 Queen B and the Well Strung Band 9 p.m. Jack-A’s Chop Shop, 742 Ashland Terrace (423) 710-8739 jackaschopshopsaloon.com Michael Martin Band with Bobby Keel 9:30 p.m. Rhythm and Brews, 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com Yatti Westerfield Band 10 p.m. Raw Sushi Bar, 409 Market St. (423) 756-1919 Power Players Show Band 9:30 p.m. Sugar’s Ribs, 507 Broad St. (423) 508-8956 sugarsribs.com

sat 09.08 Fishbone, Opposite Box 7 p.m. Riverfront Nights, Ross’s Landing riverfrontnights. com

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KENTUCKY KNIFE FIGHT • Not from Kentucky, but St. Louis, where the five-piece punk-blues band trace their roots amid “southern hospitality and northern cynism, between bourbon in a pitcher and lukewarm beers that you have to open yourself.” We’re down with that. Local favorites Long Gone Darlings open. FRI 09.07 • 9 p.m. • The Honest Pint • 35 Patten Pkwy. • (423) 468-4192 • thehonestpint.com

“Ho Down At Show Down” with Red State, Stoneline Band, Howard Cheese & Kiserolls 7:30 p.m. Moccasin Bend Brewing Company, 4015 Tennessee Ave, (423) 821-6392 bendbrewingbeer.com Ryan Oyer 9 p.m. Market Street Tavern, 809 Market St. (423) 634-0260 Bary Jolly Island Party 8 p.m. Top of the Dock, 5600 Lake Resort Terr. topofthedock.net Power Players Show Band 9:30 p.m. Sugar’s

Ribs, 507 Broad St. (423) 508-8956 sugarsribs.com Manifest 8 p.m. The Camp House, 1427 Williams St. (423) 702-8081 thecamphouse.com Smooth Dialects, AFRO 9 p.m. JJ’s Bohemia, 231 E. MLK Blvd. (423) 266-1400. Jack Corey 9 p.m. The Office, 901 Carter St. (423) 634-9191 Abbey Road Live 9:30 p.m. Rhythm & Brews, 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com

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SouthLander 9:30 p.m. SkyZoo, 5709 Lee Hwy. (423) 468-4533 skyzoochattanooga.com Palmer & Roland Band 10 p.m. Raw Sushi Bar, 409 Market St. (423) 756-1919

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Between the Sleeves record reviews • ernie paik on the surface, mica levi (a.k.a. micachu) might seem like the sonic equivalent of the cinematic manic pixie, with music that’s unabashedly eccentric, off center, and maybe a bit obnoxious to rational types. However, consider that this British musician is classically trained in performance and composition and draws inspiration from the late microtonal music maverick and instrument inventor Harry Partch, leading one to believe that there might be method among the madness. Never is the second studio album from Micachu and her backing band The Shapes, and while it doesn’t leave the pop music world for rigorous classical excursions, it reveals Micachu as a lover of sounds—along the lines of similarly warped and playful artists like The Residents and Renaldo & The Loaf—who feels comfortable in odd situations. The album opens with the disparate ensemble of “Easy” with clangs, slide guitar licks, synthesized raucous bursts, Micachu & The Shapes and even the noises of a vacuum cleaner being powered Never down. Generally, it may resemble a less abrasive and (Rough Trade) rhythm-focused version of destroyed-keyboard electroclash mashed with Beck’s unrelenting sound-hopping and Tom Waits’s junkyardhobo percussion. Highlights include the hip-hop-beat-enhanced “Low Dogg,” with a nearly inane and simple yet effective hook, and “Nowhere,” which ends the album on a whipped frenzy, driving a note into the ground with glee. “Fall” is an oddball track among oddballs, with random guitar strum interludes that are mirrored by irregular drum hits. There is room for improvement on Never, particularly with the vocals, which could stand to be more animated and with more memorable lyrics. Ultimately, much of the listener’s enjoyment of Never may depend on one’s perspective regarding weirdness. It’s an album that may repel those who dislike musicians who try too hard to be weird and possibly appeal to those who think that musicians in general aren’t weird enough. at one end of the spectrum, there’s a standpoint on sampling in music that places it in the realm of high art, like the pioneering tape-based electroacoustic music of Pierre Schaeffer in the mid-20th century, now taken seriously as an avant-garde extension of modern classical music. Then, at the other end, there are throwaway novelty uses for sampling (think “Jingle Dogs”). Everything else isn’t so easy to place within the spectrum; there’s plenty of sub-par industrial music and hip-hop based on sampling, and truly inspired mash-ups are hard to come by. Ohioan Ted Feighan, the man behind Monster Rally, has found a cozy place on the spectrum, using obscure sample sources—seemingly from decades-old vinyl records, primarily—without crowding his aural collages, differing from contemporaries such as the samplecramming Girl Talk. On Monster Rally’s new album, Beyond the Sea, availMonster Rally able on vinyl and as a “name-your-price” digital download, Beyond the Sea Feighan wisely uses restraint and does not overdo it, with (Gold Robot) songs that last just long enough—around one to three minutes long—to present their ideas and not overstay their welcome. The tracks also aren’t quite as ambitious or outlandish as those from some like-minded artists that come to mind, such as 1990’s outfits Dymaxion or Stock, Hausen & Walkman, but they are actually a bit relaxing, despite often using upbeat funk rhythm snippets, with no jarring moments of discomfort. It’s like a circa 1960 international snapshot via your parents’ vinyl collection, with choice loops from genres including exotica, bossa nova and soul. An island flavor is conveyed with Hawaiian lap steel glides on “Waltz” or stuttering steel drums on “Animals,” while “Veranda” makes good use of harp runs and a minimal bassdrum-and-tambourine rhythm. For what it is, Beyond the Sea works just fine, but there is a definite potential for more daring adventures in plunderphonics. Ernie Paik reveiws new music each week in The Pulse. Read more of his reviews online at chattanoogapulse.com.

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Serving the Inedible By Rich Bailey america’s childhood obesity crisis has generated plenty of scary headlines, statistics and talking heads. “Lunch Hour,” a 2012 documentary by James Costa that takes the fight to the public school lunch tray, goes one better. It talks to the kids we ask to eat the inedible. “I hate chicken patties. They stink like poop.” “I was learning all about my health in health class, but in the cafeteria they serve you cookies and ice cream.” “I would like to tell [adults] I want you to eat the school lunch and see how we feel.” The adults in the film don’t mince words about school lunches either. “I don’t think it’s healthy, but I have to serve it to 600 kids. Parents don’t understand what they’re being served. If they knew ... I think they would be upset,” admits Principal Joanne Goubourn of the Hyde School in New York City. “If you look at the disparity between poor neighborhoods, middle-class neighborhoods and upper middleclass neighborhoods and you examine the school lunch programs ... you would see that food becomes another equity issue for children in the United States,” according to Maryann Hedaa, managing director at Hunts Point Alliance for Children in New York City. Rachel Ray, whose Yum-O nonprofit foundation works to empower children and families to eat and cook better, is more concise: “It’s barely food.” “Lunch Hour” shows Sept. 8 as the second featured film in River City Company’s Movies at The 700 Block outdoor film series, in partnership with the Arts and Education

The director of “Lunch Hour,” a documentary on what’s served on public school lunch trays, says change must happen now— before another generation of children become sick. Council. It’s on a double bill at 8:45 p.m. on the (for now) empty lot River City owns on the 700 block of Market Street, followed by “E.T. The Extraterrestrial.” The roots of the problem go back to the Great Depression. Farm prices were so low that farmers produced everything they possibly could, leading to too much food, even lower farm prices and more bankrupt farmers. That’s when the federal government first began buying excess farm products—especially milk and cheese—and selling them cheap to schools. In the last 80 years, those roots have grown into a tangle of competing interests. The film lays out the forces arrayed against American children, including: Federal policies: Budget

cuts in the early 1980s, intended to force school lunch programs to operate more like a business, have meant that schools feel forced to offer the junk food they know kids will choose, in order to receive federal reimbursements based on the number of children eating lunches. Nationwide, school lunch programs now receive $2.77 per child, and only 90 cents of that actually buys food. (In contrast to $5 per meal at a senior center and $7 per meal at a free soup kitchen cited by one person in the film.) Bad food: Much of the food schools receive through subsidized—and often mandatory—government channels is the lowest quality food, like “spent hen meat” from chickens too old to lay eggs any more, which has no commercial market except pet food. Industry lobbyists: With the federal government subsidizing seven billion meals a year for students in 99,000 schools, every food industry group lobbies hard for its piece of the pie. For example, milk is required to be on school lunch lines, even though it is not an essential nutrient and children in cultures all over the world do

just find without it. Schools are reimbursed for buying milk, meat and cheese —all foods with strong lobbying groups—but not for salad bars. Costa prefers not to point fingers, but he won’t let anyone off the hook. “Everyone is part of the problem. Nobody gets a free pass, nobody,” he insists. “Pointing fingers is not going to get us anywhere. I don’t want anyone to say ‘It’s that guy’s fault,’ and then walk away and say ‘Not my problem.’ No, it’s everyone’s fault. We allowed this to happen, and it’s wrong. These are kids that rely on us to take care of them. Type 2 diabetes is becoming normal now. Why are we giving them food that’s going to make them sick?” His film does show plenty of hopeful signs. “Rooftop gardens in schools are taking off everywhere,” he says. “Chefs around the country are coming into schools and saying ‘You need to feed 6001000 kids, that’s tough work. We feed 500 a night. We can show you some things.’” He says he sees many schools trying to change, “But there are also a lot of schools where they just don’t want things to change because if the parents aren’t complaining they think everything is fine.” Even in a time of tight budgets, Costa wants change now. “If we let this slip by, we’re going to have another generation of sick children. We can’t afford that. It’s a huge burden on health care, the military, everyone. And it can be fixed by getting people to eat healthy foods. We can easily put a stop to it, but we have to have the courage to do it.”

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CALENDAR (423) 629-2233 thecomedycatch.com The Gem Players: “Those Crazy Ladies in the House on the Corner” 7:30 p.m. The Gem Theater, 700 Tennessee Ave. (423) 263-3270 gemplayers.com “Cabaret” 8 p.m. Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St. (423) 267-8538 theatrecentre.com Wide Open Floor 8 p.m. Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347 barkinglegs.org Bluegrass Night 8 p.m. The Camp House, 1427 Williams St. (423) 702-8081 thecamphouse.com Reza: Illusionist 7:30 p.m. UTC Roland Hayes Concert, Hall, 752 Vine St. (423) 425-4269 rezalive.com James Ervin Berry 9:30 p.m. Vaudeville Café, 138 Market St. (423) 517-1839 funnydinner.com

Thu 09.06 Hunter Museum 60th Anniversary 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View (423) 266-0944 huntermuseum.org Street Food Thursdays 11 a.m. Motor Court at Warehouse Row, 1110 Market St. warehouserow.net Birds of Prey 11 a.m. Rock City, 1400 Patten Road Lookout Mtn., Ga. (706) 820-2531 seerockcity.com/birds Virginia Jones Skipper: “Out of My Mind” opening reception 2 p.m. Reflections Gallery, 6922 Lee Hwy. (423) 892-3072 reflectionsgallerytn.com Five for Five Thursdays in The Foundry 5 p.m. The Chattanoogan Hotel, 1201 South Broad St. (423) 266-5000 chattanooganhotel.com An Evening with Alexandra Cousteau 6 p.m. Tennessee Aquarium, 1 Broad St. (800) 262-0695 tnaqua.org Hamilton Place Mall: Fashion’s Night Out 6 p.m. Hamilton Place Mall, 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd. (423) 894-7177 hamiltonplace.com Open Mic 7 p.m. The Camp House, 1427 Williams St. (423) 702-8081 thecamphouse.com

fri 09.07 Fresh on Fridays 11 a.m. Miller Plaza, 850 Market St. (423) 265-3700 rivercitycompany.com City Share: America’s National School Lunch Program featuring James Costa

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sat 09.08 life is a CABARET • Sally Bowles (Jennelle Gilreath) and Kit Kat Klub Emcee (Cody Keown) are stars in the musical “Cabaret” opening Friday at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. FRI 09.07 • 8 p.m. • Chattanooga Theatre Center • 400 River St. (423) 267-8538 • theatrecentre.com

Noon. Green Spaces, 63 E. Main St. glasshousecollective.org Victoria Pearmain: “Urban Landscape” opening reception 5 p.m. In-Town Gallery, 26A Frazier Ave. (423) 267-9214 intowngallery.com Works from Artists Aaron Hequembourg and Susan Hutchinson opening reception 6:30 p.m. River Gallery, 400 E. Second St. (423) 265-5033 river-gallery.com

Quiet Company, Telemonster 7 p.m. Nightfall, Miller Plaza, 850 Market St. (423) 265-0771 nightfallchattanooga.com Pearl and Floyd Franks Scholarship Fundraiser: Testimony Quartet 7:30 p.m. Ringgold Depot, 155 Depot St. (706) 861-7674 shareamericafoundation.org D.L. Hughley 7:30 & 10 p.m. The Comedy Catch, 3224 Brainerd Road

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‘2016’: An Absurd, Strange Documentary in any other season, “2016: obama’s america” would be dismissed as absurd. The film contains far-right conservative interpretations of inherently unverifiable information, namely that Barack Obama’s presidential politics are rooted in a Third World anti-colonial mindset influenced largely by his absentee father and his former associations with people the right wing find objectionable. Its premise offers no real evidence—in fact, many of the film’s assertions are incorrect or misleading. But during election season, a film like this will gain traction because it speaks to those who are already predisposed to oppose Barack Obama and liberals in general. No minds are going to be changed—it will only serve to reinforce prejudices already held by people who weren’t going to vote for him anyway. I don’t understand why films like these get made. There are more than enough reasons for a conservative not to vote for Obama without inventing nefarious schemes about the destruction of our society. In fact, I could come up with several reasons for liberals not to vote for him. This country has endured far worse administrations. But money is certainly a driving factor behind this type of film, as Dinesh D’Souza has already made $10.8 million from his film and much more off his book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” But ultimately, when people are deliberately misinformed

by a piece of journalism—as this film pretends to be—the journalist is being wildly irresponsible. A good indicator of a poor documentary is an overwhelming presence of the filmmaker. “2016: Obama’s America” seems to be as much about D’Souza’s disingenuous personal quest to emphasize his similarities with Barack Obama as it is about who Barack Obama is as a person and a leader. He wants to be clear that he is a person of color, an immigrant, and an Ivy League graduate who made conservative choices rather than liberal. D’Souza spends quite a bit of time refuting the existence of racism in America, pushing the idea of American Exceptionalism, and defending white colonialism as a positive force in the world. He makes assumptions about Obama’s upbringing by quoting passages from the president’s memoir “Dreams From My Father,” carefully explaining that each passage points to a Third World collective mentality. He makes distinctions between good, old-fashioned American

anti-colonialism and Third World collectivist anti-colonialism: Americans were throwing off the shackles of an oppressive monarchy. Kenyans were ungrateful of the gift the West bestowed on them with their presence. Barack Obama was raised with “tension between the Americanism and his Africanism. He himself is an intersection of major political forces in his own psychology.” In D’Souza’s own mind, Obama always chooses “Africanism” over “Americanism” because of the powerful influence of a man he only met once. These are the same arguments that have been typed angrily into message boards across the Internet by conspiracy theorists and Tea Party patriots for the past four years. There is no real evidence, just loose associations and wild inventions of fanciful socialist machinations. Among his evidence of President Obama’s anti-colonial mindset is the return of a bust of Winston Churchill after taking office. Churchill was much, much more than a symbol of colonialism, but D’Souza uses him as such. He demands that returning this bust is of enormous significance. However, White House curator William Allma has said, repeatedly, that the bust was simply on loan from Great Britain and was scheduled to be returned before Obama ever took office. There is another bust

of Churchill on display in the private residence. He also cites as evidence that President Obama banned offshore oil drilling in the U.S. while encouraging it off the coast of Brazil and other areas in Latin American. He does not, however, mention the public opinion surrounding the Deepwater Horizon crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, nor that offshore oil drilling has been banned in the eastern gulf since 1995 and in Florida waters since 1992. On the foreign policy front, D’Souza states that the Obama administration has done nothing to ensure Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon. He says nothing of the severe economic and trade sanctions against the country. It seems that each point made by the film is easily refuted by a simple Google search. None of the evidence cited by the film points to an anti-American radical hellbent on turning the U.S. into a Third World, socialist society while encouraging the creation of an Islamic nation state in Middle East. And yet, this is exactly what the last 20 minutes of the film explicitly states. The filmmaking itself is strangely done. As mentioned above, the film focuses quite a bit on D’Souza. He is in every scene, pretending to investigate every angle. It includes dramatic reenactments and music on par with

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The Naughty Pleasure of Foie Gras admit it: you like to be a little naughty sometimes. Whether it’s those late night visits to YouPorn.com or tequila shots off of a hairless twink’s chest on the back dance floor of Alan Gold’s, we all do things we know we probably shouldn’t but can’t seem to resist the temptation. All too often these temptations arise from prohibition— and prohibition has roots that reach out to the things we eat and drink. Consider the story of Eve’s temptation in the Garden of Eden. The Bible’s first couple wandered around naked in the woods like it was their own personal Rainbow Gathering until The Man brought them down with a simple prohibition: “Don’t eat that fruit.” Of course they ate the fruit, so now I have door-todoor evangelists disturbing my dinner, and I can’t buy liquor on Sunday. But not all comestibles became taboo because of religious or health reasons. On July 1 of this year, California, which likes to think of itself as America’s Garden of Eden, banned a food whose roots date back to ancient Egypt and the Jewish diaspora and whose place in the culinary pantheon can only be rivaled by truffles, uni and bacon. California banned foie gras. They didn’t ban it because it’s unhealthy or because of religious sensitivities, they banned it because some believe it is, by necessity, the result of cruel

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Eating foie is a religious experience. The unctuous and smooth, custardlike mouthfeel combined with its rich, meaty flavor may cause you speak in tongues and organize a tent revival evangelizing unwashed foie virgins, baptizing them with sprinkles of truffle oil and warm duck fat.

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eraliness of liver. It is a bucket list experience that is to food as Dita von Teese is to sexy. So what’s all the fuss about? Why would California ban this delicacy? At issue is the feeding method called gavage that produces the oversized, fatty duck livers. Gavage takes place for a two-week period just before the young bird’s slaughter and involves inserting a smooth metal tube into a bird’s throat and forcing food down its gullet. The process takes a matter of seconds, and is usually repeated a couple of times each day. Does it look bad? Yes. Is it is as bad as it looks? Definitely not. I’ll let you do your own Google searches and come to your own conclusions about how comfortable you are with gavage and foie production. In my own research I’ve found that there are good, humane producers of foie here in America that produce a product no one should have any qualms about eating and there are some horror houses in Europe that look like ducks got together and made their own version

of Saw; I would stay away from that foie. Several Chattanooga restaurants serve humanely raised and beautifully prepared foie from one of America’s four remaining foie farms. I get a semi every time I think about the deep, rich flavors of the Braised Beef Cheeks with Hudson Valley Foie Gras and Sequatchie Cove Cumberland cheese fries from The Meeting Place. Boccaccia’s Filetto Rossini, is a filet, foie and brandy cream sauce dish that tastes like Jesus brought heaven to you on a plate. Don’t worry what people will think, try it. What happens in the dining room stays in the dining room. There may come a time when we decide foie is unacceptable and foie prohibition may become the law of the land. If that happens there will be temptation and temptation will breed rebellion. When the thick-doored “duckeasies” spring up, I will be there nursing a foie gras torchon and handing out “If you outlaw foie, only outlaws will eat foie” bumper stickers. Let’s just hope and pray that hellish nightmare never becomes reality. Mike McJunkin cooks better than you and eats banned food at every opportunity. Visit his Facebook page (Sushi and Biscuits) for updates and recipes.

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Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): Life tests you all the time. Sometimes its prods and queries are hard and weird. On other occasions the riddles and lessons are pretty fun and friendly. In all cases, life’s tests offer you the chance to grow smarter, both in your head and heart. They challenge you to stretch your capacities and invite you to reduce your suffering. Right now, oddly enough, you have some choice in what kinds of tests you’d prefer. Just keep in mind that the more interesting they are, the bigger the rewards are likely to be. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to the religion of ancient Egypt, Tefnut is the goddess of moisture. In the natural world, she rules rain, dew, mist, humidity, and condensation. For humans, she is the source of tears, spit, sweat, phlegm, and the wetness produced by sex. In accordance with the astrological omens, I nominate her to be your tutelary spirit in the coming week. I suspect you will thrive by cultivating a fluidic sensibility. You will learn exactly what you need to learn by paying special attention to everything that exudes and spills and flows. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m guessing that you don’t know the name of the person who sent the first email. It was Ray Tomlinson, and he did it in 1971. You’re probably also unaware that he originated the use of the @ symbol as a key part of email addresses. Now I’d like to address your own inner Ray Tomlinson, Gemini: the part of you that has done valuable work hardly anyone knows about; the part of you that has created good stuff without getting much credit or appreciation. I celebrate that unsung hero, and I hope you will make a special effort to do the same in the coming week. CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Busy editor Katie Hintz-Zambrano was asked in an interview what she does when she’s not working at her demanding job. She said she likes to gets together with her “article club,” which is like a book club, except it’s for people who don’t have time to read anything longer than articles. I would approve of you seeking out shortcut pleasures like that in the next few weeks, Cancerian. It’s one of those phases in your astrological cycle when you have a poetic license to skip a few steps, avoid some of the boring details, and take leaps of faith that allow you to bypass complicated hassles.

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that a-ha! experiences will arrive at a faster rate than you’ve seen in a long time. Breakthroughs and brainstorms will be your specialty. The only factor that might possibly obstruct the flow would be if you clung too tightly to your expectations or believed too fiercely in your old theories about how the world works. I’ve got an idea about how to ensure the best possible outcome. Several times every day, say something like the following: “I love to get my curiosity spiked, my hair mussed, my awe struck, my goose bumps roused, my dogmas exploded, and my mind blown.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dis-

appointments should be cremated, not embalmed,” said the aphorist Henry S. Haskins. That’s good advice for you right now, Libra. It’s an auspicious moment for you to set fire to your defeats, letdowns, and discouragements—and let them burn into tiny piles of ashes. I mean all of them, stretching back for years, not simply the recent ones. There’s no need to treat them like precious treasures you have an obligation to lug with you into the future. The time is right for you to deepen your mastery of the art of liberation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Columnist Sydney J. Harris told the following story. “I walked with a friend to the newsstand the other night, and he bought a paper, thanking the owner politely. The owner, however, did not even acknowledge it. ‘A sullen fellow, isn’t he?’ I commented. ‘Oh, he’s that way every night,’ shrugged my friend. ‘Then why do you continue being so polite to him?’ I asked. My friend replied, ‘Why should I let him determine how I’m going to act?’” I hope you’ll adopt that approach, Scorpio. This is prime time to anchor yourself in your highest integrity.

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21): In the 1960 Olympics at Rome, Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila was barefoot as he won a gold medal in the marathon race. Four years later, at the summer games in Tokyo, he won a gold medal again, this time while wearing shoes. I’m guessing this theme might apply to you and your life in the coming weeks. You have the potential to score another victory in a situation where you have triumphed in the past. And I think it’s even more likely to happen if you vary some fundamental detail, as Bikila did.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Wikipedia has extensive lists of the biggest unsolved problems in medicine, computer science, philosophy, and nine other fields. Each article treats those riddles with utmost respect and interest, regarding them not as subjects to be avoided but rather embraced. I love this perspective, and urge you to apply it to your own life. This would be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, to draw up a master list of your biggest unsolved problems. Have fun. Activate your wild mind. I bet that doing so will attract a flood of useful information that’ll help you get closer to solving those problems. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

There’s a certain lesson in love that you have been studying and studying and studying—and yet have never quite mastered. Several different teachers have tried with only partial success to provide you with insights that would allow you to graduate to the next level of romantic understanding. That’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that all this could change in the coming months. I predict benevolent jolts and healing shocks that will allow you to learn at least some of the open-hearted truths that have eluded you all this time.

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mother wrote to the “Car Talk” guys to ask whether it’s possible to cook food on a car engine. She wanted to be able to bring her teenage son piping hot burritos when she picked him up from school. The experts replied that yes, this is a fine idea. They said there’s even a book about how to do it, “Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!” I suggest you engage in this kind of creative thinking during the coming week, Pisces. Expand your sense of how to coordinate two seemingly unrelated activities.

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Life in the Noog

chuck crowder

Red Light District this week the red bank city commission will vote on a proposal from Mayor Monty Millard to take down traffic light cameras at several intersections in order to encourage more visitors to the tiny little town no one really has a reason to visit in the first place (unless, of course, they live there). Red Bank currently has cameras at three of its major intersections that snap pictures of the license plates of drivers who either cross the big white line as the light turns red, or don’t come to a full stop before turning right on red. Then, as I understand it, a third party vendor figures out the offender’s name and address and sends them a ticket for $50 in the mail. I should know, as I was caught one time when the light turned “orange.” For a while there, Red Bank was making a tidy sum from this system. However, new state laws have been enacted that prohibit the collection of fines for not fully stopping at a red light before turning right if a traffic camera photo is the only evidence of such an infraction. Therefore, revenue generated by these cameras has drastically reduced, rendering already highly unpopular police work essentially unprofitable as well. By the time this article is published the city commission’s vote will likely have taken place. Regardless of the outcome, I’m sure we all have our own opinion about these cyber ticket-takers, as well as Red Bank in general. Over the course of my adult years, I’ve owned two homes in Red Bank. Both were purchased due to the “good deals” the city’s older, charming homes have to offer, in addition to their

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superb convenience to downtown. And, growing up I spent a lot of time at church and friend’s homes in that area. But I must say that I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Dayton Boulevard. Regardless of the more recent traffic light cameras, the “boulevard” for many unfortunate souls is a necessary evil for getting from point A to point B, and the town knows it. That’s why the shotgun-straight, four-lane thoroughfare maintains ridiculously low speed limits and police who are camped out ready to pounce on anyone who exemplifies an inkling of lawless behavior. Taught to new drivers turning 16 since the dawn of time, Red Bank isn’t where you drive five miles over the speed limit, attempt to navigate even after just a rinse of alcohol-based mouthwash, or turn right on red—ever. But now the mayor wants to change all of that to entice more visitors to town. The city has already spent a good portion of their traffic camera ticket proceeds and other tax revenue to fund new sidewalks and streetlights

along the boulevard in order to make the quaint town a little more inviting. However, I’m having a hard time understanding where a visitor might visit if they do decide to show up. Red Bank does have its coups for sure. They have the now-rare Radio Shack, the area’s best Ace Hardware, and great restaurants like Amigo’s, Crust and Mojo Burrito. All of those places, however, are in a little cluster at the very south end of town—a stone’s throw from the Chattanooga city limits sign. In fact, the only reasons I can think of to keep going north up Dayton Boulevard would be to pick up my daughter (who now drives, so that’s out) or maybe to grab a bite at Typhoon of Tokyo. What else is there to do in Red Bank? Nothing. That’s why Red Bank chose to adopt the traffic light cameras in the first place. They needed revenue and since many use Dayton Boulevard as the gateway between places that actually do have something going on, they decided to make it a little easier to run up a toll for doing so. But that’s like tripping over dollars to pick up dimes, and apparently the dimes just didn’t add up. Chuck Crowder is a local writer and general man about town. His opinions are his own.

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