From the Publisher’s Notebook Chattanooga should be proud. We have great development up by the river. The Tennessee Aquarium, Imax Theatre, etc., etc.
town to its former glory, why this eyesore and into a safe place haven’t they stepped up with a – or Chattanooga might be on the plan (you know who you are)? national news again… and not in a good way. They shut down a motel in East Ridge and displaced over 150 P.S. The fire department has had people in a building that didn’t over 250 calls this year to date offer the dangers this one does. from this building. Come on city, county and civic groups, get these people out of
- Paul E. Burke Sr.
One has to wonder how this has been allowed to happen or whose watch did this take place.
Who will get the blame if a fire breaks out or the lower floors and We are restoring the southside many of the residents are
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Dear Rocco, Basketball season has started. Who’s your favorite team? LJ
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Dear Rocco, Do you have a favorite restaurant that you like to go all the time or take to impress out of town guests? MM
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ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) You can make progress if you deal with the right individuals. Be careful not to come on too strongly. Knowledge can be acquired if you listen. Secret affairs can only lead to devastating circumstances. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday. TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) Plan to do things with your faithful pet or with youngsters who have interesting hobbies. Your ability to communicate with ease will win the hearts of those you are in touch with this month. You may find yourself changing crowds. You may find your self in a romantic situation.
Your luckiest events this month will drama club. You may be consideroccur on a Tuesday. ing moving to larger quarters. Don't deny yourself this month. GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Your luckiest events this month will Concentrate on your career and on occur on a Saturday. making money. Don't let your emotions take over. Romance could LEO develop through social activities or (July 23-Aug 22) short trips. You will gain valuable You may not be that popular at insight and knowledge through the home but you should be able to experiences you have along the shine at social gatherings. Don't way. confront the situation if you don't feel you can keep your cool. Your luckiest events this month will Romantic encounters are evident occur on a Saturday. through travel or educational pursuits. Protect your interests legally CANCER if necessary. (June 22-July 22) You might have a problem juggling Your luckiest events this month will your time. Relationships may be occur on a Sunday. hard to handle. Join a choir or a VIRGO (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) You can have a great time if you go out with the one you love. Romantic opportunities are evident if you get involved in large groups or organizations. Be prepared to overcome frustrations and obstacles at work. Your intellectual charm will entice new love interests.
ing new people in exotic destinations will certainly satisfy your desires. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Monday. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) Secret affairs will only lead to heartache. You can get ready to celebrate your new direction. Don't start any arguments unless you're prepared to accept irrevocable results. Clear up domestic chores that have remained undone for some time. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Monday. CAPRICORN (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Don't let domestic problems interfere with your objectives. Take a short business trip if possible. You will find the excitement gratifying. Good friends will give you honest answers. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.
AQUARIUS Your luckiest events this month will (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) Try to ease any disappointment by occur on a Monday. making amends. Frustrations and limitations could cause anxiety this LIBRA month. Arguments with employers (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) Promote your ideas now. You will or colleagues will be to your detriinspire confidence in others. You ment. You could lose a good friend can get a great deal accomplished if because of it. you bring work home. You may want to talk to your boss about Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday. your future goals. Your luckiest events this month will PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) occur on a Friday. Arguments with children or friends may leave you steaming. Finish up SCORPIO any correspondence by early after(Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Travel will promote new romantic noon. Older relatives may make connections. Do not expect others unreasonable demands. Don't jump to do your work. The information into investments too quickly. that you gain can be used in every aspect of your life. You need some Your luckiest events this month will excitement in your life, and meet- occur on a Friday. ENIGMA
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Don’t Change the Range! There is currently a plan to move the Chattanooga Police Department / Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department Firing Range from it’s current location on Moccasin Bend Road. Ostensibly the move is to add property to the Moccasin Bend National Park area. I am very opposed to this move and will list my reasons why I believe this is an unwise, impractical plan which will have a huge financial cost and may well jeopardize the security of many jurisdictions served by agencies which train on this range. First let me discuss why I feel I am qualified to offer my opinion as to why the range should not be moved. I retired from the Chattanooga Police Department with just short of 30 years service. I took my physical agility test at the range prior to my being hired. I trained there every Friday for twelve weeks during the Police Academy as well as receiving riot control training after the academy
for the short-lived Civil Disorder Unit. I trained on the range for the state mandated yearly in-service when I was required to qualify with my service weapon,shotgun and back-up handgun. Later I would train there bi-weekly for 20 plus years as a member of the C.P.D. Special Weapons and Tactics team. As a sniper the use of this range was critical as I was practicing with a high-powered rifle and shooting at distances of from 100 to 300 yards. Ranges where you can do this type of shooting are extremely limited. I assisted with and frequently conducted firearms instruction training on this range for Academy cadets, in-service attendees and Swat members from our Police department as well as other teams which sent their SWAT trainees to our schools. I practiced with my service weapons and personal weapons on this range weekly for years. I am very familiar with this range. I know it is a huge asset to the CPD and other departments
range that was proposed was to be much smaller.
which train there. So now to why I believe that it’s a huge mistake to move the police firing range. If the range is moved it will not only affect the firearms training of the Chattanooga Police Department and Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office but also THIRTYPLUS law enforcement agencies which use this range . Many people are not aware that most local small police departments and local offices of many Federal agencies use the C.P. D. firing range. Where will these agencies train if the range is moved? Some may still be allowed to use the C.P.D. Range but this brings up logistical, maintenance, scheduling and “territorial” problems. Especially as the new
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While I am discussing usage the CPD range is also used for Police canine (K-9) training and housing, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and detonation of suspicious devices, police academy confidence course , SWAT training and many other uses which will be either impractical or impossible to conduct at an in-door range. There is also a rappelling tower at the range used for confidence course training, incline and decline angle firing for snipers and basic and advanced rappelling training. Where wil a new one be placed and at what cost?
The location of the current range is not far from the C.P.D. Headquarters on Amnicola Highway and is centrally located in the Hamilton County area. It has a huge natural berm which makes it almost impossible for a bullet to leave the range unless the weapon is pointed almost completely horizontal when fired. There is ample room for 20-25 officers to fire at one time on the firing line currently. My understanding of the proposed new range is that it would have ten to 15 firing positions at maximum obviously increasing training time. The area around the range is sparsely populated with only five or so houses nearby. If the range were moved to an outdoor location where would that be? Three outdoor civilian ranges in Hamilton County (there are probably only 6 or less) have had numerous complaints by neighbors and or legal action. It will be a huge challenge if it is even possible to find a community willing to accept the placement of a nearby outdoor Police range with the
subsequent noise. Also a huge consideration in moving the CPD range would be the cost. A saw a recent editorial in the local newspaper applauding the decision to postpone spending on repairs to the current range. I think this figure was $200.000 which is a lot of money to be sure. However what would the cost of moving the range, cleaning up decades of deposited lead, locating and buying a new K 9 Training and housing location. Not to mention the cost of finding a new bomb disposal area/ what community will be amenable to that? What will be the cost of building a new rappelling tower? Some of these activities could be moved but usually that will entail a cost which the taxpayer will have to bear. When moving the range was first proposed I was still a SWAT sniper. I was told our rifle training would have to be conducted at either a civilian range on Highway 58, a state owned range half-way up Signal Mountain or a military range in Georgia! Liability issues would have to be worked out. Travel time to and from these
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places would be greatly increased over travel to the CPD range. The cost of gas and wear and tear on city-owned vehicles would of course be carried by tax-payers. Were there ever any cost-analysis studies done on the consequences of moving the range and the resulting effects? There is also the question of an actual danger to communities due to area officers possibly receiving less training due to decreased training time as fewer officers may be able to train at a time on an indoor range. Officers who must qualify with “patrol rifles” will have to train on reduced size targets to simulate distance. It is not the same. These things could present liability issues. I have presented some points regarding my negative opinion on moving the CPD/HCSO firing range. It is my belief that the move was and may still be politically driven. I doubt my opinion or this article will change the probable decision to move the range. However, if you are a citizen concerned with police
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officers having a super facility and not being moved to a lesser facility for political reasons , a tax-payer not wanting your tax dollars wasted, a police officer or family member of any officer who uses this range or perhaps a caring politician then perhaps you will call or e-mail the city and county councils regarding this matter and propose a careful and rational examination of the closing of this range and it’s ramifications. Perhaps practicality can trump politics. I realize I am coming from a perhaps prejudiced viewpoint but I believe it’s also from an almost uniquely informed and rational position. I am retired so I can speak freely. On a lighter note… If the range is closed who will entertain the deer who stood and watched us shoot (yes they were that used to gunfire) or excite passengers of the passing Southern Belle Riverboat with “Tennessee Fireworks” (safe gunfire) ?
- Mark Haskins
ALPENA, Mich. - Police in Michigan said it wasn’t hard to recognize a drunken burglary suspect a few blocks away from the crime as she was covered in cake and frosting. Alpena Police said officers responded Sunday to a home where a resident reported finding an unknown woman making a commotion in their kitchen. The homeowner said the woman had knocked over or broken several items, including a tray of cupcakes. Alpena officers and Michigan State Police searched the area and discovered the suspect a few blocks away from the home covered in
cake and frosting. The police report said the woman was “highly intoxicated and had cupcake frosting and cake all over her torso and legs.” The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with unlawful entry and malicious destruction of property. She was taken to the Alpena County Jail. CHAMPLIN, Minn. - Police in Minnesota arrested a woman accused of sending anonymous threats to a neighbor family saying she wanted to “taste” their “delicious children.” Champlin police said Carrie Pernula, 38, was arrested Friday after an investigation into anonymous threats received
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by a family living in her neighborhood. The first note, received by the family Sept. 27, was addressed to “sir or madam” and said simply, “The children look delicious. May I have a taste?” The children’s mother posted a picture of the letter in a Champlin community Facebook group. The parents said they soon started receiving magazine subscriptions addressed to “Your Tasty Children.” Police said they tracked the magazine subscriptions back to Pernula, who admitted to sending the mail. “She was angry because the kids were leaving things in her yard and I think being a little noisy, being kids, the way kids are,” Champlin Deputy Police Chief Ty Schmidt told WCCO-TV. Police
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said the Champlin city attorney is reviewing the case for potential charges of gross misdemeanor terroristic threats and stalking. MADISON, WI - 15-year-old Dionte Hunter ran a successful business out of his mother’s house with his older brother Thaishaun. So successful, in fact, that the boys were able to cut their mother in for a 25 percent of the profits. The only problem is that the business they were running was a prostitution ring. An under-age prostitution ring. The young brothers were doing pretty well, until the 17-yearold was arrested in connection
with a shooting. If it weren’t for that pesky shooting. After the older Thaishaun Hunter was arrested, officers tapped the phones of the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center and heard conversations between the 15-year-old boy and his jailed 17-year-old brother about their little enterprise. Dionte Hunter was arrested on charges including promoting prostitution of minors, promoting commercial sex abuse of a minor, possessing sexually explicit photos of minors and first-degree robbery. But to add a touch of sentiment to the sordid tale, the mother of the boys allegedly did save her share of the profits to post bail for her 17year-old. TOMBSTONE, Ariz. - A Wild West gunfight reenactment in Tombstone, Ariz., got a little too realistic when a performer fired off a live round that struck another actor. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office said the Tombstone Vigilantes gunfight reenactment group was putting on a street performance Sunday when group member Tom Carter fired off a live round that struck Ken Curtis in the upper groin area. Investigators said Carter had arrived late for the event and his gun was not inspected to make sure it was loaded with blanks. The sheriff’s office said they examined Carter’s gun and determined he had fired off five live rounds during the performance. A woman standing in front of the Bird Cage Theater during the reenactment was injured by shrapnel from one of Carter’s shots, but she declined medical treatment. Curtis was taken to BannerUniversity Medical Center for surgery to remove the bullet. The Tombstone Vigilantes were ordered by the town’s mayor to cease performances until it could be verified that only blank ammunition would be used during the reenactments. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - An Arkansas girl’s fourth birthday party featured a CVS theme complete with prescription bottles filled with mints, her mother said. Sarah Fortune Gill of Fayetteville said her daughter, Iris, sees the local CVS store as a wonderland of “snacks, drinks, toys, chap-stick, and bandaids,” so much so that she puts the drug store on par with Disney World in terms of dream locations. Gill said Iris requested a CVS theme for her birthday party last week. “When CVS headquarters heard about Iris’ party, they sent us tons
of snacks, favors, and party supplies to celebrate. How cool is that? And when we told the local store manager about what kind of party we were having, he was so sweet to donate some CVS-brand water bottles to add to the goodie bags. Not to mention that her year was MADE when they flashed a big ‘Happy Birthday’ message to Iris up on the big sign out front.” The donated “goodies” from CVS included prescription bottles filled with mint candies, which Gill admitted in an Instagram post were “probably not the best idea for a party favor for kids.” “And thank you to CVS who helped make Iris’ fourth birthday so special. By the way, this is in no way sponsored by CVS,” Gill wrote on her blog. OAKLAND, CA - California has turned into a parody of one of its own Hollywood movies as a crazed man wandered down a street in Oakland swinging at passing cars with a machete. The entire bizarre episode was caught on video by an eyewitness who said it was 3 in the morning as the man stood on a street corner, yelling at cars. In a short while he wanders onto the street where a car deliberately tries to hit him. Since most drivers would try to avoid someone in the middle of the street carrying a weapon, we could conjecture that the driver knew who the maniac was. He did manage to strike the car a glancing blow with his machete as it passed within inches of him. Later in the video what appears to be the same car takes another swipe at the man from the opposite direction, then backs up and tries to run him over a third time. But while ‘machete’ was mostly successful in dodging the first car, a second car comes flying down the street and hits him squarely with the hood of the vehicle, sending the man sailing about 15-20 feet down the street. Miraculously, he immediately gets up and runs away, leading us to speculate that he might be a Hispanic ‘Highlander’. Police eventually showed up and arrested the man without any more incident. While no details were released as to what the hell was going on, and the vehicles involved were never identified, our guess is that is that strict gun control laws have reduced gangland hits to this. Whatever the story, I think it is safe to say that you should stay off the streets of Oakland after midnight.
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The end of an era. The Comedy Catch moves this month from their home of over 25 years in Brainerd to their new home at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Campus. Join us as we start a new tradition of laughter on the Southside.
CONCERT CALENDAR “Go See Live Music”
JOIN US FOR THE FIRST SHOW AT OUR NEW HOME
This week’s calendar covers events from Thursday, October 29, through Wednesday, November 4. We would be happy to publish your free listing in future Billboards, space permitting. Simply mail us the information so that we have it 7 days before the publication date. A photograph may be sent with the announcement. Send information to: Calendar Editor, Enigma, P.O. Box 825, Chattanooga, TN 37401 or e-mail to calendar@enigmaonline.com. All dates subject to change without notice.
Special Engagement NOVEMBER 12-14
KILLER BEAZ
WITH HIS TRADEMARK “ SAVE UP! ” R E F R A I N , KILLER BEAZ HAS BECOME A FAMILIAR, BELOVED PERFORMER TO MILLIONS OF COMEDY FANS NATIONWIDE. BEAZ DELIVERS EDGY, HIGHENERGY “ EVERYMAN ” STYLE HUMOR THAT APPEALS TO A WIDE AUDIENCE FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA TO MIAMI, FLORIDA. A GIFTED STORYTELLER, WITH TONS OF PUNCH LINES, HIS SHOWS ARE FAST PACED AND FUN! DON ’ T MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH “ THE BEST BUZZ IN TOWN! ” SEE HIS STAGE PERFORMANCE LIVE...YOU'LL BE "STUNG FOR LIFE!"
NOVEMBER 18-22
PHILADELPHIA PLOWDEN
SEEN ON AMERICA'S GOT TALENT PHILADELPHIA IS ONE OF THE MOST SOUND ACTORS/COMEDIANS WORKING TODAY. HIS OBSERVATIONS & REVELATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION, MIXED WITH STORIES FROM HIS OWN LIFE, TAKE AN AUDIENCE ON A 200MPH TRIP THAT COULD STOP AT ANY POINT ALONG THE JOURNEY
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JON REEP JEN KOBER
WE’RE VERY PROUD TO WELCOME BACK THE VERY FUNNY JON REEP. THE HOST OF SPEED'S "R U FASTER THAN A REDNECK "YOU’VE SEEN HIM IN HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY, THE ABC SITCOM RODNEY AND AS THE “HEMI GUY” IN NUMEROUS DODGE RAM TRUCK COMMERCIALS. JON WON SEASON 5 OF NBC’S LAST COMIC STANDING.
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TT HHEE CC OOM M EEDDYY CC AATT CCHH (Chattanooga) Janet Williams SSKKYY ZZOO OO (Chattanooga) DJ Exphacter JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBOO HHEE M MIIA A (Chattanooga) Great Barrier Reefs RRYY M MA AN NA AU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Sturgill Simpson AASSCC EE NNDD AAM MPPH HIITT H H EEA ATT RREE (Nashville) Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell, The Cadillac Three, Canaan Smith, Brooke Eden CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N NA ASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Psychedelic Furs TT HHEE EEAARRLL (Atlanta) The Features IIRROO NN CC IITT YY (Nashville) Mastodon, Corrosion Of Conformity
M OONNDDAAYY NNoovveem M mbbeerr 22 TT RREEM M OONN TT TT AAVVEERRNN (Chattanooga) Trivia Night TT HHEE OOFF FFIICC EE (Chattanooga) SpeakEasy FF OOXX && HH OOUU NNDD (Chattanooga) DJ Exphacter EE XXIITT// IINN (Nashville) Babes In Toyland TT HHEE TT AABBEERRNNAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Chance the Rapper, Metro Boomin, D.R.A.M., Towkio IIRROO NN CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Psychedelic Furs TT HHEE IINN TTEE RRNNAATT IIOONN AALL (Knoxville) All That Remains, We Came As Romans, Emmure, Failure Anthem AALLYY SS RROO BBIINNSSOO NN SSTTEE PPHHEE NNSS PPEE RRFFOO RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EENN TTEE RR (Birmingham) Chris Thile
TT U UEE SSDDAAYY NNoovvee m mbbee rr 33 TT RREEM M OONN TT TT AAVVEERRNN (Chattanooga) Open Mic w/ Mike McDade RREE VVEE LLRRYY RROO OOM M (Chattanooga) Allen Stone, Jmsn TT HHEE BBIITT TTEE RR AALLIIBBII (Chattanooga) Those Manic Seas IIRROO NN CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Soul Asylum, Meat Puppets TT HHEE LLOO FFTT (Atlanta) Everclear TT HHEE TT AABBEERRNNAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Chance the Rapper IIRROO NN CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Soul Asylum, Meat Puppets
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UPPCCO U OM MIIN NG G EEVVEEN NTTSS RREEVVEELL RRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Paul Thorn November 5 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Maradeen November 5 TT H HEE FFO OU UN ND D RRYY (Athens, GA) Loudon Wainwright III November 5 CC O OBBBB EE N NEERRG G YY PPEERRFFO O RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) Sufjan Stevens November 5 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) The Chris Robinson Brotherhood November 5 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Ben Folds, Ymusic, Dotan November 5 HEE AAVVEEN H N AATT TTH H EE M M AASSQ QU UEERRAAD D EE (Atlanta) The Devil Wears Prada, Motionless in White November 5 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) The Chris Robinson Brotherhood November 5 GEE O G ORRG G IIAA TT H HEE AATTRREE (Athens, GA) Minus the Bear, O’Brother, Aero Flynn November 5 TT EEN NN NEESS SSEEEE TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Kip Moore November 5 ZZYY D DEE CCO O (Birmingham) Cannibal Corpse, Cattle Decapitation November 5 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Randy Rogers Band, Wade Bowen November 5 TT IIVVO OLLII TT H H EEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) Ben Folds, Ymusic, Dotan November 6 RREEVVEELL RRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Yacht Rock Revue November 6 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Basement Benders, Bohannons, Folk Killer November 6 N’’ AAW N WLLIIN N SS (Cleveland, TN) Convertibull November 6 EED DD DIIEE ’’SS AATTTT IICC (Atlanta) Loudon Wainwright III November 6 CC O OBBBB EE N NEERRG G YY PPEERRFFO O RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) Wanda Sykes November 6 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Slightly Stoopid, Stick Figure November 6 ALLAABBAAM A MAA TTH H EEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Ben Rector, Judah & The Lion November 6 RREEVVEELL RRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Toadies November 7 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Sirens,, Naming Nations, The Fine Constant, Heartfelt, Carcosa November 7 CC LLO OU UD DLLAAN ND D SSTT AATT EE PPAARRK K (Lookout Mountain, GA) Mountain Art and Craft Celebration November 7 OCC O O O EEEE W WIIN NEE RRYY (Cleveland, TN) FRODaddy November 7 NO N O RRTT H H AATT LLAAN N TTAA TT RRAAD D EE CC EEN N TTEE RR (Norcross, GA) “Farm Rock Atlanta” Autograph, Femme Fatale, Britny Fox November 7 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Ben Rector, Judah & The Lion November 7 VVEERRIIZZ O ON NW WIIRREELLEE SSSS AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE AATT EEN N CCO O RREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Chris Janson, Chase Bryant, Raelyn Nelson November 7 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) WAR November 7 EED DD DIIEE ’’SS AATTTT IICC (Atlanta) Charlie Mars November 7 TT IIVVO OLLII TT H H EEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) Jason Isbell, Cory Branan November 8
TTRRA ACC K K 2299 (Chattanooga) Lettuce November 8 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Teaspoon Sun, Fraug November 8 CCLL O OU UD D LLA AN ND D SSTT A ATT EE PPA ARRK K (Lookout Mountain, GA) Mountain Art and Craft Celebration November 8 IIRRO ON N CCII TTYY (Birmingham) Prong November 8 YYEE LLLLO OW WH HA AM MM MEERR PPLL A AYYG G RRO OU UN ND D (Birmingham) “Yellowhammer Fair” GT, The Dexateens, Taylor Hollingsworth, Blackfoot Gypsies, The Green Seed November 8 SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY H HA ALLLL (Atlanta) NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” November 8 CCO O BBBB EEN N EERRG G YY PPEE RRFFO O RRM M IIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Puscifer November 8 HEE A H AVVEE N NA ATT TT H H EE M MA ASSQ QU U EERRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Toadies November 8 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Steven Curtis Chapman, EmiSunshine, Jeremy Camp, The Willis Clan, Natalie Grant November 8 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Elkmilk, I can Japan, Young Jesus November 9 EED DD DIIEE’’ SS A ATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Joe Ely November 9 VVII N NYY LL (Atlanta) Rachael Yamagata November 9 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Las Rosas, Fletcher C. Johnson November 10 EED DD DIIEE’’ SS A ATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Jon McLaughlin, Tess Henley November 10 HEE A H AVVEE N NA ATT TT H H EE M MA ASSQ QU U EERRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Insane Clown Posse, P.O.D., Young Wicked November 10 VVA ARRII EETT YY PPLL A AYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) Billy Gibbons November 10 ALLA A ABBA AM MA A TT H H EEA ATT RREE (Birmingham) Sufjan Stevens November 10 KN K NO O XXVVIILLLLEE CC O O LLIISSEEII U UM M (Knoxville) Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Sevendust November 10 TTH HO OM M PPSSO ON N BBO OLL IIN NG GA ARREEN NA A (Knoxville) Stevie Wonder November 10 BBLLU UEEBBIIRRD D CC A AFFÉÉ (Nashville) Kinky Friedman November 10 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Natural Child, Ian St. Pe November 11 MA M ARRA ATT H HO ON NM MU USSIICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) SOJA, J Boog November 11 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Sufjan Stevens November 11 TTH H EE FFA ACC TTO O RRYY A ATT FF RRA AN NK KLLII N N (Franklin, TN) Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, The Infamous Stringdusters, Peter Case, John Conlee November 11 IIRRO ON N CCII TTYY (Birmingham) Robert Cray, Shemekia Copeland November 11 ALLA A ABBA AM MA A TT H H EEA ATT RREE (Birmingham) Ben Folds, Ymusic, Dotan November 11 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Killer Beaz November 12 BBA ARRK KIIN NG G LLEEG G SS TT H HEE A ATT EERR (Chattanooga) Firekid, Ryan Oyer, Courtney Holder November 12 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Comedy Buffet w/ Ben Kronberg November 12 VVA ARRII EETT YY PPLL A AYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) Patti Smith November 12 IIM MPPRRO O VV CCO OM MEE D DYY CCLL U UBB (Atlanta) Kevin Nealon November 12 FFO O XX TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) Kem, Tamar Braxton November 12 TTH H EE M MA ASSQ QU UEERRA AD D EE (Atlanta) The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus November 12 CCEE N NTT EERR SS TTA AG G EE (Atlanta) Dave Barnes, Matt Wertz November 12
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BBLLIIN ND DW WIILLLL IIEE’’ SS (Atlanta) The Kinsey Report November 12 TT H HEE LLO OFF TT (Atlanta) Corrosion Of Conformity, YOB, Brant Björk, Black Cobra November 12 FFRRA AN NK KLLIIN N TTH H EEAATT RREE (Franklin, TN) Gary Puckett & The Union Gap November 12 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Killer Beaz November 13 GEE O G ORRG G IIAA TT H HEE AATTRREE (Athens, GA) Galactic November 13 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Rise Against, Killswitch Engage November 13 BBU UCC K KH HEE AAD D TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) The Wood Brothers November 13 IIM M PPRRO O VV CCO OM MEE D DYY CC LLU UBB (Atlanta) Kevin Nealon November 13 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Judy Collins November 13 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Rise Against, Killswitch Engage November 13 MAARRAATT H M HO ON NM MU USS IICC W WO ORRK KSS (Nashville) Evanescence November 13 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON NEE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin November 13 HII G H GH HW WAATTTT (Nashville) Matt Pond PA November 13 WO W O RRK KPPLLAAYY TTH H EEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Dave Barnes, Matt Wertz November 13 1111TT H H FFRRAAM MEE AATT M MAAD D IISSO ON N BBO OW W LLIIN NG G CC EEN NTT EE RR (Madison, AL) Saliva November 13 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Killer Beaz November 14 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) The Features, Mad Libre, Kerchief November 14 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Galactic
November 14 IIM MPPRRO O VV CCO OM MEE D DYY CCLL U UBB (Atlanta) Kevin Nealon November 14 TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEESS TT (Atlanta) The English Beat November 14 EEXXIITT //II N N (Nashville) Webb Wilder November 14 TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEESS TT (Atlanta) The English Beat November 15 D && LLII N 33RRD ND DSS LLEEYY (Nashville) Cicada Rhythm November 16 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERRN NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) King Diamond, Exodus November 16 TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEESS TT (Atlanta) The Dandy Warhols November 16 CCA AN NN NEE RRYY BBA ALLLL RRO OO OM M (Nashville) The Wonder Years, Motion City Soundtrack, State Champs, You Blew It! November 16 SSCC H HEERRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) “Onstage In The Off-Season” Sam Bush, Alison Krauss, John Oates, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale November 16 RREEVVEELLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) James McMurtry November 17 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Comedy Buffet w/ Shane Mauss November 17 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Philadelphia Plowden November 18 FFEERRSS TT CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) Mavis Staples, Joan Osborne November 18 TTH H EE FFA ACC TTO O RRYY A ATT FF RRA AN NK KLLII N N (Franklin, TN) Moe Bandy November 18 EEXXIITT //II N N (Nashville) GWAR, Born of Osiris, Battlecross November 18 MA M ARRA ATT H HO ON NM MU USSIICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) Metric November 18
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Weiland and the Wildabouts, The Icarus Line November 21 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Will Hoge, Sundy Best November 21 ALLAABBAAM A M AA TT H HEEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Smokey Robinson November 21 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Philadelphia Plowden November 22 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Husky Burnette, 20 Watt Tombstone November 22 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Donna the Buffalo November 22 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Circa Survive, Rx Bandits November 23 CC EEN N TTEE RR SSTT AAG GEE (Atlanta) Azealia Banks November 23 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Stone Jack Jones, Idle Bloom November 25 M AARRAATTH M HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO ORRK KSS (Nashville) Collective Soul November 25 CC EEN N TTEE RR SSTT AAG GEE (Atlanta) Manchester Orchestra, The Front Bottoms November 25 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Jon Reep, Jen Kobler November 27 TT RRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Collective Soul November 27 RREE VVEE LLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Toneharm November 27 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Paula Poundstone November 27 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Blackberry Smoke November 27 CC EEN N TTEE RR SSTT AAG GEE (Atlanta) Ciara November 27 BBU UCC K KH H EEAAD D TTH H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Futurebirds November 27 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Craig Ferguson November 27
CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N N AASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Paula Poundstone November 27 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Jon Reep, Jen Kobler November 28 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Shawn Mullins November 28 CC O OBBBB EE N NEERRG G YY PPEERRFFO O RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) Craig Ferguson November 28 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Moon Taxi, Reptar November 28 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Jon Reep, Jen Kobler November 29 CC A ALLEED DO ON NII AA LLO OU UN NG G EE (Athens, GA) Southern Culture on the Skids December 3 IIM M PPRRO O VV CCO OM MEE D DYY CC LLU UBB (Atlanta) Steve-O December 3 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Holly Golightly December 4 TT H HEE SSTT AARR BBAARR (Atlanta) Southern Culture on the Skids December 4 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Nick Lowe, Los Straitjackets, The Cactus Blossoms December 4 IIM M PPRRO O VV CCO OM MEE D DYY CC LLU UBB (Atlanta) Steve-O December 4 CC O OBBBB EE N NEERRG G YY PPEERRFFO O RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) Will Downing, Kenny Lattimore, Maysa December 4 TT H HEE SSTT AARR BBAARR (Atlanta) Southern Culture on the Skids December 4 TT EERRM MII N NAALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) Ryan Bingham December 4 TT EEN NN NEESS SSEEEE TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) The Avett Brothers December 4 WAARR M W M EEM MO O RRIIAALL AAU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Awolnation, Highly Suspect, Red Sun Rising December 4 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Black Willis December 5 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Southern Culture on the Skids December 5 ZZYY D DEE CCO O (Birmingham) Relient K December 5 CC O OBBBB EE N NEERRG G YY PPEERRFFO O RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) Brian Setzer Orchestra December 5 IIM M PPRRO O VV CCO OM MEE D DYY CC LLU UBB (Atlanta) Steve-O December 5 TT H HEE M MAASSQ QU UEE RRAAD D EE (Atlanta) The Academy Is... December 5 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Charles Kelley, Maren Morris December 5 RREED D LLIIG GH HTT CC AAFFÉÉ (Atlanta) “International Pop Overthrow” Brent Daniel December 5 CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N N AASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Nick Lowe December 5 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Brian Setzer Orchestra December 6 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Sturgill Simpson, Billy Wayne Davis December 7 EEXXIITT // IIN N (Nashville) Ryan Bingham December 7 RREEVVEELL RRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Dopapod, Nth Power December 8 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Sturgill Simpson, Billy Wayne Davis December 8 SSCC H HEE RRM MEERRH HO ORRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY CC EE N NTT EERR (Nashville) Kristin Chenoweth December 8 CC EEN NTT EE RR SSTT AAG GEE (Atlanta) Between the Buried and Me, Enslaved, Intronaut, Native Construct December 8 EEXXIITT // IIN N (Nashville) Ryan Bingham December 8 HEE AAVVEEN H N AATT TTH H EE M M AASSQ QU UEERRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Silverstein, Senses Fail, Hundredth, Capsize December 9
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January 16 BBRRIID DG GEESS TTO ON NEE AARREEN N AA (Nashville) Madonna January 18 TT H HEE EEAARRLL (Atlanta) Saintseneca January 19 PPH H IILLIIPPSS AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) Madonna January 20 TT EERRM M IIN NAALL W W EESSTT (Atlanta) Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson January 21 O ZZ N O N AASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Kaki King January 22 4400 W WAATTTT CC LLU UBB (Athens, GA) Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson January 22 TT EERRM M IIN NAALL W W EESSTT (Atlanta) Moe. January 28 CC O OBBBB EE N NEE RRG GYY PPEERRFF O ORRM MIIN NG GA ARRTTSS CCEE N NTT EERR (Atlanta) Johnny Mathis January 29 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Moe. January 29 G RRAAN G ND DO OLLEE O OPPRRYY H HO OU USS EE (Nashville) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis January 30 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Moe. January 30 IIN N FFIIN N IITTEE EEN N EERRG G YY CCEE N NTT EERR (Atlanta) Carrie Underwood February 1 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY AA TTLLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Colin Hay February 5 TT H HEE M MAASS Q QU UEE RRAAD DEE (Atlanta) Europe February 6 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Jenny Lewis, The Watson Twins, M. Ward February 6 FF O OXX TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) 2Cellos February 9 AN A ND DRREEW W JJAACC K KSSO ON NH H AALLLL (Nashville) Yanni February 10 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) R5, Ryland February 10 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Wilco, Girlpool February 10 TT RRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Mutemath February 13
Primary Objectives So things are heating up in the presidential primary races. Dr. Ben Carson eclipsed Donald Trump in the Republican polls. Hillary Clinton opened up a big lead on Bernie Sanders in a poll of Iowa Democrats. Marco Rubio is making (small) waves in the GOP race, while Jeb Bush just seems to be sadly prolonging his death spiral… ,,,The whole Ben Carson phenomenon is fascinating. The soft-spoken neurosurgeon has said some truly ridiculous and
offensive things, but 26 percent of registered Republican polled find such comments appealing. Like Trump, he is a political outsider. Unlike Trump, he’s a genuine man of faith who appeals to Christian fundamentalists. Trump, who had 22 percent in the approval poll, has been a bit ambiguous about his religious leanings. Such things shouldn’t matter in an election, but the aforementioned fundamentalists run their Christian filter over every candidate…
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primary opponents and Trump’s stump speeches are short on ideas and situational awareness… …Rubio picked up eight percent in the Iowa poll and has been making the talk show rounds. I still think he’s playing for the 2020 race or later. But there’s an outside chance that Republican primary voters will suddenly realize that Carson and Trump are totally clueless on foreign policy and governmental procedures.
Rubio could gain sudden Democrats who said they’d appeal if there is such a sud- vote for Biden if he ran den realization… flipped over to Hillary. The former first lady, senator from …Hillary Clinton’s stellar per- New York, and Secretary of formance in the Benghazi interrogation, combined with her strong marks in the Democratic debate, helped her open up a 41 percent lead over Bernie Sanders in the Monmouth University poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers. Clinton snagged the support of 65 percent of likely Dem caucusgoers, compared to 24 percent for Sanders. Martin O’Malley, another guy who’s playing for 2020 and beyond, was at five percent…
full steam, while Sanders’ sup- virtually daylong campaign ad port is mostly voluntary and that showed her looking very grass-roots. Hillary’s calm, presidential… intelligent replies during the …It’s worth noting how circus-like House Select insane it is that the results of some odd caucuses in a state as typically insignificant as Iowa shouldn’t have such a huge impact on both parties’ national primary races, but… they do. The Republicans have a big debate tomorrow night in Boulder, Colorado. By the time you read this, it will be over and we’ll know how Dr. Ben performs when he’s the (albeit narrow) front-runner. We’ll know if Trump can think of anything to talk about when he’s not at the top of the polls. But things are still far from over. It’s going to get wild…
…Ms. Clinton also got a bump from Vice President Joe Biden’s decision not to enter the primary race. Most of the sometimes 20+ percent (in State has a well-oiled national Committee on Benghazi were a some polls) of registered campaign machine running at
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— Mark Bedford
Words to Live By
Back in the days of smoke and haze during the era of peace and love, late at night I would sometimes get deep in thought. Included in this article are some of the world shaping sayings I came up with. As you read this keep in mind this was over 50 years ago. Some of tem are still relevant. • Love is a beautiful pain.
spend it in the marketplace of your life. • Check it out before you check out.
• No one knows everything – for today? Everybody knows they should be glad they tomorrow never comes. don’t. • Time may heal all wounds, • If you know no better – but how do you heal the there is no better. scars?
• Don’t resist – exist. • I hate it late at night when • It’s better to eat crow than the cold wind of loneliness to starve to death. blows between my sheets.
There are more. Maybe in the future I’ll share them with you.
• Enjoy life so when you die they find a smile on your face.
- Paul E. Burke Sr.
• Don’t hoard your time –
• Persist and you exist – don’t try and you die. • What’s wrong with living
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MONEY MANAGEMENT
AUDIT SERVICES PROS SHARE TIPS FOR HANDLING TAX DEBT No one ever said dealing with the IRS was easy. The feared federal agency is responsible for tax collection and enforcement of the Internal Revenue Code. Each year, the IRS collects about two trillion dollars without incident from hardworking Americans. But when a taxpayer makes a mistake, refuses to file a return, or deliberately underreports income, the agency has the power and authority to come after him. What Is An IRS Audit? About one percent of taxpayers are subjected to audits each year, and most of them are handled through the mail. A standard correspondence audit begins when a taxpayer is informed that he owes money to the government. There are several possible explanations for this. He may have made a math error, failed to report a portion
of his income, or taken a deduction he did not qualify for. But whatever the reason, there is a simple solution to the problem, and it all begins with communication. Don't Ever Avoid The IRS! If there's one thing IRS agents can't stand, it's when people ignore their letters. But because folks often make that mistake, those who are honest and sincere from the start generally get the benefit of the doubt. The single best piece of advice we can give you is to contact the agent in charge of your case as soon as you receive a notice in the mail. This will demonstrate to him and his superiors that you are serious about making good on your debt.
dealing with an agent on your own, it may be a good idea to contact a reputable audit services company. Contrary to popular belief, agents prefer working with other tax professionals because they know that pros are less likely to get emotional. People who have a grudge against or hold negative opinions of the agency would be well advised to always hire a firm to represent them. A Word Of Warning
pay their taxes! It is also important to note that there are no options available to tax professionals that are not also available to you, the taxpayer. With that said, the right audit services firm can be of invaluable benefit, especially when large debts are owed. Because advisers know the law, agents are more likely to negotiate with them in good faith. They are also more likely to come to a favorable settlement with them. Many of these settlements involve payment plans, which allow the debtor to pay his back taxes in manageable monthly installments. A good adviser will also attempt to minimize fines, fees, and interest payments.
Most taxpayers who owe money to the IRS are willing to listen to anyone who promises to solve their problems. That is why there are so many sensational claims about erasing tax debts or settling them for "pennies on the dollar" on TV. More often than If you own a sizable sum to the not, however, they are nothing IRS, the right audit services firm When To Call An Adviser more than empty promises. After can be a godsend. all, if there were an easy way to If you are apprehensive about erase the debt, no one would - Alfred Ardis
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End of An Era Saying Goodbye to Mom’s Little did Ollie Parker know when she purchased the Walnut Inn in 1961 she would become a household name in
Yes, “Mom” as in Mom’s been to New Orleans.” Italian Villa where Parker or as everyone who walked into “There’s other people who the door called her mom for tried to copy it. To be quite honest with you; unless you get the same buns, the same things we have, it’s not the same,” brags Shuford, who literally grew up in the restaurant and worked sideby-side with his grandmother for 27 of those years learning the tricks of the trade and her special recipes along the
her hometown Chattanooga.
of decades. Parker worked the kitchen every day and introduced the town to the mufIt wasn’t until 11 years later faletta, the one of a kind when Parker moved her iconic sandwich that the restaurant out of the St. restaurant has been synonyJohn’s Hotel and took a fate- mous with for 43 years. “We ful trip to New Orleans decid- brought it to Chattanooga,’ ing to change the cuisine says grandson, Randy from traditional meat and Shuford and current proprivegetables to Italian that etor of Mom’s. “We brought “Mom” was born. the sandwich after she had ENIGMA
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way. Generations of Chattanoogans have filtered through the doors to visit mom and her family. She, of course treated them like family as well. Mom’s was one of the first Italian themed restaurants in Chattanooga at the time of its move to 1257 Market Street. “She wanted to try the Italian line – spaghetti. There weren’t
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many Italian places in Chattanooga,” says Shuford. With the exception of Bush’s Spaghetti House across from the Choo Choo there weren’t many places for those in Chattanooga to eat Italian in 1972.
cences. “That was a life experience there not only to grow up around somebody that loved you but wanted to teach you a few things. That was the way my grandmother was. I’m blessed to of had that opportunity,” he adds.
“She felt like this was something she wanted to dabble in. We’ve kept the same recipe since 1972,” says Shuford. “Everything has been the same. I think in 1980 we discontinued the meats and vegetables and burgers and all that. We decided we needed to just concentrate on being Italian primarily. Ever since then we’ve done the same thing.” The food, the atmosphere and the service has remained the same since 1972. “Not one of the recipes have changed over the years. We’re still doing the same thing,” says Shuford. “My recipes are the ones I learned from my grandmother and the lady that worked with her and I’ve never changed anything. I’m blessed its stayed that way.” Unfortunately some things cannot remain the same forever. After the first week of November Mom’s will be closing the doors, ending a 43 year tradition and 54 years overall including the Walnut Inn. “I did something not many people get to do. I worked with my grandmother for 27 years side by side,” Shuford wistfully reminis-
“We’ve had congressmen, basically mayors. You don’t know who you are going to see. The fact is we’ve had a lot of great people.”
Shuford says the decision to close Mom’s was a tough decision, but after growing up not only in the business and the building he wanted to take time at the age of 53 Country music artist Billy to be a family man, spend Dean was great friends with time with his children and granddaughter. “It’s pretty tough, but it’s time to move on,” he says. But all may not be lost. “I sold the building but I did not sell the business. Mom’s is still mine and will always be,” says Shuford. “We may open somewhere else sometime. Just look for us in the future because we may be back.”
Randy Shuford, grandson of “Mom” relaxes at her iconic table in the back of the restaurant where she sat when she wasn’t working in her kitchen. An invitation to sit with Mom at her table was considered an honor back in the day.
“Not many people can say that. I’m touched there. I’ve been really blessed with that.”
Mom and frequented the restaurant a lot. “We’ve had him and really we’ve been blessed with people from all walks of life, which really After so many years in the makes it unique,” says business Shuford decided to Shuford. sell the building. Leaving the building after the first week of November he leaves behind many memories and quite a few disappointed locals. Mom’s always had a wide array of customers. “Well, you may see somebody that hasn’t eaten in a few days that walked off the street and he’s hungry and needs something to eat. You might go from that to a doctor or lawyer,” he says. ENIGMA
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With the loss of the iconic eatery Chattanooga has a void that will be hard to fill. “But right now it’s time for a little change, and take a vacation,” says Shuford. “If that doesn’t work out I’ll be back in the business somewhere sometime. Come see me.”
- Dave Weinthal
13 Reasons Why You Should Never Get A Job In today's society it is certainly the norm that everyone should have a vocation. A job in which you jump into after education, maybe move between a few different places, gain a few promotions, pay into your pension, then retire at the grand old age of 80 (I say 80 because I suspect the retirement age will be up there by time it's time for me to hang up my working shoes). Now to me, the idea of having a job and ploughing through the day working for someone else has always seemed a bit... weird? Perhaps it was my disdain for any sort of authority or being a control freak, but the idea of going to work for 60 odd years filled me with dread. Increasingly younger people are questioning this mundane and embedded piece of our society. Whilst those of an older ilk may label these people lazy or juvenile,
it definitely makes sense that in a convinced you that there simply perfect utopian society, jobs isn't any other choice. would simply not exist. The thing is, why can't we MAKE a I will add here; if you have had the choice? You-tubers for example, joy of being in a job that you have film themselves doing something always wanted to do and it fills they love, and they get paid for it you with so much joy, then this over and over again. probably isn't for you. After all, it probably doesn't feel like a job. Whilst this can't be directly related to things like food production, is it Similarly, I am well aware every- so far fetched that a system is posone needs money. For now any- sible in which everyone can spend way... their time being productive doing things that they want to do. That What I am going to argue is that way everyone can contribute to the idea of having a job is plain society, rather than contributing to wrong. In the age we live in, socie- the capitalist machine that frankly ty can and should evolve past the drains everyone of creativity and point of jobs. Of course if jobs did- motivation. n't exist, and we found our incomes through other methods But I digress! Let's move on with certain people and corporations the 13 reasons you should never get would be screwed. I say these are a job! the people are the way of change, and more than likely have already You are trading time for money
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Exactly that. How many of you get paid hourly, or even annually for a set amount of hours? Time is a resource that we will never ever get back, and currently the system of jobs means we are trading our valuable finite amount of hours doing something we don't want to do, for money. Wouldn't it make so much more sense to invest your time providing value, then getting paid time and time again? Imagine putting in hard work creating something amazing and then going out to dinner. Going to bed. Watching TV... all whilst getting paid for it. This is how royalties work for singers, writers, painters and so forth. It's exactly what happens when your favourite Youtuber uploads a video. It's exactly what happens when people update a website with a witty, clever, and altogether brilliant article that you just need to share with all your
friends and comment on. In all seriousness, it's true. Anything in this world that has any value can be sold. And normally people pay time and time again, after you initially put the time and effort in. That may not work for all of life's activities, but it does beg the question as to why we are so content trading our time to do some shitty boring task for some money (and get severely unpaid whilst doing it). Similarly, do you think your 9 hours of work relates to 9 hours of value created for your company? No way. What you do in one day of work could create value to last a week. Or even a year. That ÂŁ100 you earned yesterday for 9 hours of work may feel great right now, but think about the ÂŁ1000's it could earn your boss over the next week, whilst he does NOTHING.
You have an average life expectancy of around 80, if you manage to avoid serious illnesses and accidents that could strike at any moment. In fact, even tomorrow isn't guaranteed. And, you're going to spend the next 60 years working almost every single day, doing some trivial task that sucks the life out of you. You aren't going exploring, you aren't saving the world, you aren't playing in a field of puppies, you aren't surfing, you aren't painting, you aren't living. Think about how much time you have wasted at work. In fact, think about how much time you have wasted... whilst at work! Think of what you could have learned in the time you spent at work last year. I know I'm asking you to think of a lot, and that in itself is dangerous, but keep at it.
2. You only get paid when you are My point is, when you are at the working end of your life; you will look back and find that a large chunk of it As mentioned above, you only get was took up doing something you your wage slip if you march your didn't want to do, and didn't add little butt to work and put in the any real benefit to anyone. hours. Sure you might get a few days holiday and sick days, but you 4. You're a slave know you can't just chill for a few days. You can't go travelling or go Fact of the day (and Google it if on holiday. You can't spend too you don't believe me), the origin of much precious time with your fam- the word "boss" is the Dutch word: ily, because you won't get paid. "baas". The original translation of the word baas from Dutch is "masThe system is already in place and ter". So go back to work and make millions of people get paid when your master happy, slave. they are doing nothing. It's called passive income and we'll talk Okay, so the origin of a word doesabout it another time. n't make you a slave granted, but think about what other liberties But (as above) YouTubers, singers, are taken away from you. Are you writers, are already exploiting a given a set time and duration in system where they create the which you can eat? Do you have to value, and they can get paid when turn up at a certain time or you'll they are sitting at home doing get told off? Are you one of the nothing. Wouldn't it make far poor sods who has to ask to go to more sense to get paid for the the toilet, or have their toilet value you create and how much it breaks timed... ? You get to pick helps people in the future, rather what clothes you wear right? And than just getting that cash for you can have your hair how you working for an hour? want? No? 3. It's a waste of a life!
How would your slave master react if you got a new tattoo? Or that Having a job is a waste of a life. piercing that you've already wantThrough some scientific miracle ed? where the chances of occurring in the 0.00000000000000% life Another point in line with this, is exists, and out of all the potential the size of the rules and restricthings that could have come to life, tions that found in employee manyou are one of them. You could uals nowadays. There are set regueven have been one in a billion lations for pretty much everything when you were conceived. Yeah at work now. This rigidity in routhat's right, you are one in a bil- tine and system kills creativity. It lion. is good however in creating an ENIGMA
obedient and effective cog that one else. You are contractually keeps spinning the corporate obliged to do certain things or they machine... will sue your butt. You have about as much freedom as a dog. You 5. Do you like getting ripped off to turn up on time, you do are you make other people rich? are told, you get told off if you don't, then you get your treat at The simple fact is that however the end of it. Good boy. much money you earn at work, is no where near the amount you 8. Limited social life earn your boss and company. You can be sure that your wages incor- Some of your best friends may be porate the money that your boss from work, and if they are, please needs to pay to keep the lights on, don't be offended! to pay the rent on the building, to pay all of the business' taxes. The point is, your social life is dicThat's before you take into tated around your job. You spend account how much of your "wage" most of your time with the people you generously donate to your who happen to work at the same government. Then the business place, so unlucky if they are dicks. needs to make your they are earn- Secondly, when you aren't at work, ing something from you, so they you will avoid all those people can be profitable of course. who work different hours, or different days. The love of your life There are just way too many might be working nights when mouths to feed when it comes to you're on 9-5. having a job. You are being ripped off every step of the way. 9. It makes you sad! 6. It's unsafe A lot of people think that working for yourself or freelancing is dangerous. There simply is no guarantee that you will earn enough money. That's very true. But having a job is even more dangerous and unstable. If you are creating the value yourself and have passive income, you aren't limited to doing the same thing every day. For arguments sake, you could have 5 income streams. A writer could write tens of books and have an income stream from each one. OH NO, one book didn't sell! The income from the other 9 will cover it. What happens though when your company hits a rough patch and doesn't need you? The plug is pulled and you find that safe and reliable job has now vanished. As mentioned right at the time, this is about control. When you have a job, you are not in control of your destiny. Someone can pull the plug whenever. And what if you aren't happy with the amount you are earning now and want more? Can you work harder and get more? Of course not, you would need to beg your master for a pay rise... 7. No freedom Perhaps obvious from previous points, but you have no freedom when you are working for some-
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Working makes people sad! If you are stuck in a job that you don't well and truly love (again if you do, well actually you probably aren't reading anyway so... ) odds are you feel sad. You probably find it hard to sleep Sunday night because of the anxiety of going to spend the next 5 days being bored doing something you don't want to do.
Depression is one of the biggest problems with our society today. It's something I will write about soon, but in short; we are not doing anywhere near enough. And the increasing amounts of people suffering suggest that life itself is just more rubbish and stressful. People are far too sad. There is plenty to find happiness in the world, however the system we all live by means that all the joy and excitement is sucked out of us as it slowly and surely turns us into sad efficient robots . 10. You're another cog in the machine
dreams are crushed at such a young age because kids aren't given the freedom to truly seek out a life for themselves. If a kid wants to be a magician when they are younger 9 out of 10 parents would tell them it simply doesn't pay, and pushes them to do maths or something the kid just doesn't like. The result is bad grades, stressed kids, and the same bad attitude handed to them so they can stop their kids dreams.
Why? We're continuously told as youngsters that any idea we have won't work. Won't work, or "no sweet heart that isn't a real job, how about a tax collector?". So
Ultimately there is a job for everyone and if you are lucky enough to have found that and worked hard enough to achieve it then fair play. The problem lies in that far too
many people are not in jobs that are suited to them. They are in jobs for the money and thus the constraints around what dictates what is and isn't a job, means that they are stressed and depressed.
where every need we have as a society is fulfilled by someone who enjoys doing it. And for all them really bad jobs... robots ???? There is ways to earn money for yourself without a job and to earn money even whilst you are sleeping. This is how society should be, and thus getting a job is just stupid.
Society should have a place for every single person to get on and do what they enjoy doing. So much so that with everyone in their place and growing, society itself grows. With everyone happy and What do you think? Do you think contributing the system would be we will ever get to a place in our What would the 6 year old you hell of a lot more efficient. society where jobs become think of what you do now? Would defunct and everyone can spend they be happy and pleased at what I also don't buy the argument that their time being creative and contheir life as become, or would they there are some jobs people will tributing? Or are you a cog who not get it? Would they look at you always have to be. There is a wide thinks jobs are necessary and The capitalist world we live in is and just think you were another variety of people with an even always will be? one that has encapsulated the boring adult who sold out their wider variety of things they enjoy modern day way of life. So much dreams? doing. There must be a system - Sam De La Bertauche so that jobs are becoming more and more trivial and creating less 12. SO BORING and less value for our world; at the expense of more and more money I honestly don't see that I have to for the big corporations and big expand this point... Jobs are borbosses. As a little worker bee, ing. If you are currently in a job trained and whipped into domesti- that you don't love, chances are cation; taught to follow the rules you find it boring. Even the fun and turn up on time, trade your jobs are boring, if its not what you finite hours for a little treat, you want to do. are just another cog in the machine. Big businesses need peo- 13. Idiots. Idiots everywhere! ple willing to work for nothing (as in no real value), and they exploit Last but not least you have to cope them through underpaid wages. with the idiots. They benefit from the hard fought hours doing your job, just so you There will always be idiots in the can go home and switch on your world, and I am sure you have met big TV that you don't need, or so quite a few of them. The strange you can go and buy things you sim- phenomenon is, these idiots seem ply do not need - all so you have to to excel in the work place. So go back to work and earn that cash much so, they tend to always be back! the people in charge or above you in the pecking order! 11. The 6 year version of you would hate you There is very little worse than being extremely competent at your Perhaps one of the strongest rea- job that you hate doing, and somesons not to get a job, or at least, one who has half the brains is in a not get a job that is truly soul higher position and is in control of destroying and rubbish - is that the you. Worst still when they feel the 6 year old version of you would need to belittle you or tell you hate you. 6 year old's don't get how to do a task that they simply jobs, and why should they? They can't do. haven't been exposed to all of the bullshit brainwashing that society Unfortunately it's the way of the has to offer. 6 year old's are inno- world! cent. They like to play and they like to have fun. If you think back Let's conclude! at what you wanted to be when you were 6 chances are there will I want to finish off by saying, if you be no correlation between what do have a job you love, or aiming you do now, and what the 6 year for a job that you love and can old you wanted to do. make a difference - I salute you.
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Winning Ugly is Better Than the Alternative Winning ugly is better than not winning at all. I guess that’s what the Falcons’ camp was thinking after sneaking out of Nashville after beating the Titans 10-7 who were without their starting quarterback Sunday. The Falcons traveled 270 miles northwest up Interstate 24 to face the shorthanded Titans who were without their quarterback, the number two overall pick in the draft Marcus Mariota. And despite being shorthanded, the Titans remained in the game and held the lead until the midway
point of third quarter. And the outcome was still uncertain until Titans backup Zach Mettenerger was intercepted late to secure the win for the now 6-1 Falcons. Ironically, the Falcons were able to more the ball as they did against the Saints last week but turnovers quashed any chance of scoring. Devonta Freeman once again rushed for over 100 yards for the third week in a row but was unable to find the end zone for the first time since he took over as the starting back. Even Julio Jones finally looked to get ENIGMA
back on track after being hob- were very surprised at the fight bled by nagging injuries to catch in the Titans despite being shortnine passes for 92 yards and handed. The Titans’ defense Atlanta’s lone touchdown. Roddy White even had some nice catches as well. Turnovers, however has become the Falcons’ Achilles. Matt Ryan for the third week in a row was a turnover machine with two interceptions once again. Over the past three weeks he’s turned the ball over seven times. Very uncharacteristic for Ryan. The Falcons as well as their fans
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shutdown a very potent Falcons offense. “I think we did pretty well. You know, other than one drive where we allowed them to go down and score. You play 60 minutes and we allowed one touchdown to slip past us and it cost us the game.\,” said Titans defensive tackle Jurrell Casey. “If we do that one thing, make that stop, we come out of the game with a win. That’s what we’ve been harping on all week. One play and making the stop. “ Despite the Titans’ defense a lot of the Falcons offensive problems have been self-inflicted via the turnover bug, dropped passes and penalties. on eliminating the penalties and turnovers. “We are disappointed with the turnovers (penalties) especially the one resulting in a long play coming back from Devonta (Freeman) so those are the ones we would like to have over,” said Falcons coach Dan Quinn. “We will have to take a look and see how many of them were pre-snap and when there was a run and we could have released on the guy earlier for a big cut back play
so you have got to start off with a number of them that seem like they were on first-and-10 where it starts and goes into a first-and20 which makes it really tough to convert” Despite not having Mariota under center the Titans offense moved the ball well against the Falcons. With the exception of a few untimely Mettenberger the outcome might of bee different. Mettenberger looked comfortable under center and moved the ball well going almost throw for throw with his counterpart from Atlanta, avoiding the rush most of the day as he was sacked only once. “I thought at times he did a nice job in there. He was under control, he made good decisions getting the ball out. As with anything, there’s always going to be a couple that you want back. We’ll look at it and see,” said Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt. Despite all the hype over the Tennessee defense holding its own against the likes or Ryan, Jones and Freeman not enough is being made of the play of the ENIGMA
defense that held the Titans to 1of-9 in third down conversions (11 percent) and timely turnovers. Atlanta bookended each half with interceptions that ended scoring drives for the Titans. “We knew it was going to be a fight coming in and we were ready to go the distance today” said Quinn. “I love the way we finished at the halves, (Paul) Worrilow and (Robenson) Therezie having one as well. Those are exactly the types of finishes we want for our defense at the end of the half. We want to close out a game and that’s what we want to stand for.”
“We are just in a funk. We have to get out of it. We have to keep battling and keep going and keep trying to get better and fix these things,” said Jones. “We had a great week of practice and we got to the game and we couldn’t sustain drives. We just have to continue to keep practicing and fix us. That is the main thing. We just have to fix us and everything else will take care of itself.”
The Falcons offense will try to correct their offensive ship Sunday as they return to the friendly confines of the Georgia Dome as they host Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Therezie’s game-clinching inter- Buccaneers. Kickoff is 1pm and ception of Mettenberger seemed the game will be aired on Fox. like old times for the Atlanta safety who has also intercepted The Titans take to the road after the Titans QB in preseason. “We being at home the past month as just stuck to our fundamentals. they hope to change their forWe had a zone pressure on and I tunes as they play the Houston was reading the quarterback,” h Texans. Kickoff is scheduled for said. “I was just in my zone and 1pm and the game will be aired he threw it right there. We had a on CBS. little pressure on him and he had to get it out quick. I was just dis- - Dave Weinthal ciplined.”
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Forget the Slip, Cowboys Just Sliding As the New York Giants pounded yet another nail in the Dallas Cowboys coffin with an underwhelming 27-20 victory, the epitaph on this season’s tombstone will read something like “I coulda’ had class. I coulda’ been a contender!” With apologies to the late great Marlon Brando, the 2015 season for the Cowboys is fundamentally over. Against the Giants, Dallas saw running back Darren McFadden break loose for 152 yards. The team accumulated 460 yards on offense to New York’s 302. The Cowboys held the ball for an uncanny 38 minutes to the Giants 21. It just didn’t matter. The Cowboys are stuck in this endless losing streak because they simply get worse as the game goes along because they simply fail to show up as a team in the second half. This damage to this team was done
way before the season ever started. It all began with the lopsided overconfidence of its front office personnel named Jones. Coming off an improbable 12-4 season with an underwhelming defense and a ferocious offense, the false sense of security the Jones’ boys felt would be their undoing for the 2015 season. It all started with two particular free agent defections on the offensive side of the ball that should have never been allowed to happen. After a heartbreaking loss to the Green Bay Packers, who somehow won the game with a hobbled Aaron Rodgers free to run the show, there was confidence around Valley Ranch the upcoming 2015 NFL season would be a special one for Dallas. With the team notching claiming the NFC East title in impressive fashion behind a young and talented offensive line, the Cowboys were ready to explode. They had their 21st ENIGMA
Century Triplets in All-Pro quarterback Tony Romo, All-Pro receiver Dez Bryant and the NFL rushing champion DeMarco Murray. And let’s not forget All-Pro tight end
Jason Witten. The Cowboys were going to be a defensive coordinators worst nightmare to game plan around.
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The operative word here is “were”. seven minutes left to tie the game. They ran the ball effectively taking The first mistake the Cowboys off five minutes from the clock. front office made was not taking The only problem with the strategy DeMarco Murray’s tremendous is Matt Cassel was the QB not Tony accomplishment of rushing for Romo. When it really counted with 1,854 yards very seriously. The sec- two minutes left in the game, three ond was overlooking the important incomplete passes stalled the drive contributions kickoff and punt at the New York 30-yard line. return specialist Dwayne Harris Though the Cowboys would get a had played in the team’s success as chance to get the ball back with well. Both players left the team for 1:36 to play, a muffed punt by slot division rivals who valued their receiver Cole Beasley was recovservices more than the Jones fami- ered by the Giants. Game over. ly did. The decision to let them
The inexcusable loss to the New York Giants, courtesy of exCowboy Dwayne Harris’ 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, may be the one psychological blow this team doesn’t recover from. So what if Dez Bryant plays against Dallas’ next opponent at home, the Seattle Seahawks. Its secondary isn’t nicknamed the Legion of Boom for nothing.
CCoow wbbooyy N N oottee ss –– The Cowboys had the No. 1 highlight on ESPN that featured Devin Street making a brilliant touchdown catch in the end zone to give Dallas a brief lead. Matt Cassel’s effort to get the ball to Street was an amazing feat in D eeffeennss iivvee eenndd G G rree gg Hardy itself. D had an amusing press conference after the game. He answered every single question with a “No comment! Next question!” It’s a surprise he didn’t plead the 5th. DDee ssppiittee tthhrr eeee iinnttee rrcceeppttii oonnss ,, Matt Cassel was indeed a better QB to lead the Cowboys than the woefully inept Brandon Weeden. He had four pass completions over 25 yards in his first game. Weeden had one over 20 yards in three starts. A A pphhaa nnttoom m ppaa ssss interference call against receiver Devin Street negated a 31-yard catch and run score by Darren McFadden in the second quarter. It was a sign of things to come. TThh ee CC oow wbbooyy ddee ffeennssee hasn’t forced a turnover during the four-game losing streak.
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walk has cost the Cowboys dearly. After a 2-0 start that saw Dez Bryant going down in the first game with a broken foot, followed by Romo breaking his clavicle the following week, the 2015 season has slowly turned into a series of weekly disasters. Management thought – correctly – that since Dallas was in a weak division, the team only needed to win two or three games to stay in contention as its star offensive players mended. Seemed like sound thinking. Reality was a different matter.
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TV show Ready, Steady Go when he grows irritated with the audience dancing around him…ironically, the song he’s singing is “Donna the Prima Donna”… 1199 6677 :: Iggy and the Stooges play their first gig at a halloween party…their three-chord mayhem will become the template for the punk music movement that’s still years away… 1199 6688 :: George Harrison’s soundtrack album, Wonderwall Music, is released in Britain as the first record on the newly created Apple Records label…a mashup of mostly instrumental Western and Eastern sounds, the record is an early harbinger of the world music movement that won’t show up for another couple of decades…commenting on the soundtrack’s Western elements in the 1980s, Harrison dismisses them as “loads of horrible mellotron stuff and a police siren”…
hand are fellow Swan Song artists 11 9977 77:: A Belgian travel agency files Maggie Bell, The Pretty Things and suit against The Sex Pistols charging Bad Company… the punk band with ripping off an image from one of its brochures for 119977 55:: As a measure of what a big the picture sleeve of the single deal he has become, Bruce “Holidays in the Sun”… Springsteen makes both the cover of Time and Newsweek following 11 99 8800:: T-Rex co-founder Steve the release of his monster LP Born Peregrine-Took dies when he to Run…this same week, Queen chokes on a cocktail cherry after a releases “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a night of morphine and magic mushsingle...with three and-a-half min- room consumption…this week also utes being the usual upper time marks The Boss’s first No. 1 album limit on a single, the band and pro- when The River tops the Billboard ducer Roy Thomas Baker have to LP chart… convince executives at EMI to release the six-minute recording 11 9988 11:: Fans of the punk band Fear without edits...the single will top rush the stage trashing TV equipthe UK chart for nine weeks and go ment during the band’s Saturday to #2 in the U.S....it will go to #1 Night Live debut and swan song all again in the UK in 1991 after lead in one go…the network cuts to a singer Freddie Mercury’s death… commercial… 1199 77 66:: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic kick off the P-Funk/Rubber Band Earth Tour in Houston,…it’s one of the most elaborate stage shows in pop featuring eye-popping costumes, special effects, and oversized props including the Mothership—a spacecraft that lands on stage during the band’s staggering three- to fivehour sets…
1199 7700:: Jim Morrison of The Doors gets six months in the slammer for exposing his privates during a show in Miami...Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas marries actor Dennis Hopper...they divorce eight days later, proving wrong those who said the marriage wouldn’t last a week…
1199 6611 :: A customer tries to buy a German-released Beatles single, “My Bonnie,” at the NEMS record shop in Liverpool…the store’s manager, Brian Epstein, says he’ll look into getting it…the rest, as they say, is history…
1199 7711 :: Twenty-four year-old Duane Allman dies in a Macon, Georgia motorcycle accident snuffing out the life of one of rock, blues and soul’s great guitarists…The Allman Brothers will experience a second gut punch just over a year later when incredibly, bassman Berry Oakley meets his demise after slamming into a city bus on his motorcycle just three blocks rom the site of Allman’s wreck…
11 9966 44:: 31-year-old Salvatore Phillip Bono marries 18-year-old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere…they’ll perform as Caesar and Cleo for a time, but won’t strike chart gold until they become Sonny and Cher…this same week, American pop star Dion stalks off the set of the British teen
1199 7744:: To launch their new Swan Song record label and celebrate Halloween, Led Zeppelin throws a bash in the Chislehurst Caves in Surrey, England…women dressed in nuns’ habits serve booze, a nude woman frisks in a jello-filled coffin and nude male wrestlers tussle…on ENIGMA
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11 9988 44:: At a Berkeley, California show, the Grateful Dead designate an area for fans to record bootlegs…also this week, Marvin Gay, Sr. receives a six-year suspended sentence and five years’ probation for manslaughter after fatally shooting his son Marvin (the soul singer added the “e” to his last name in part to distance himself from his abusive and often irrational
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It’s insulting to me the first rap LP to reach #1 on the 1199 9999 :: Korn debuts a new single, and to my audience, and it shows “Falling Away From Me,” on the sea- how lazy this particular sheriff is pop album chart… son premiere of South Park...the when it comes to doing his job.”... 11 998899 :: The Squeeze inaugurate the boys in the band also lend their long-running MTV Unplugged pro- voices and likenesses to the 22000099:: Rosanne Cash releases her new album, The List, revealing the gram when they tape their perform- episode… collection of covers is based on a ance in New York… 22000022:: Hip-hop giant Jam Master Jay list of 100 classic American songs 11 9999 00:: Michael Waite of British reg- of Run-DMC is shot dead in his created by her father, Johnny Cash, gae band Musical Youth is sent to Jamaica, Queens recording stu- aboard his tour bus in 1972 … prison for four years over his dio...police pursue many theories Rosanne recalls the moment her involvement in a robbery…mean- about possible motives including father handed her the list while, Axl Rose is released on unpaid drug bills, rival rappers, saying,”This is your $10,000 bail after allegedly bashing armed robbery, insurance scams, or education.”…also this week, a a bottle on a neighbor’s head after a rivalry with Murder, Inc. over 50 decade after his retirement, country the neighbor called the cops over Cent,...the crime remains star Garth Brooks announces he’ll loud music coming from the GNR unsolved… be holding down a five-year resifrontman’s abode…and also this dency at the Wynn Casino in Vegas week, at a show in Seattle, Billy Idol 22000044:: An arrest warrant is issued for starting in December…the venue is dumps 600 dead fish in Faith No Motley Crue singer Vince Neil after an intimate 1,500-seat theater that’ll More’s dressing room…the band he allegedly knocked a sound man feature the star singing his hits at Gilley’s accompanied only by his acoustic retaliates by strolling onstage nude unconscious nightclub…this same week R. Kelly guitar… during Idol’s set… is bounced off a tour with Jay-Z 1199 9911 :: Three members of Pink Floyd after Hova says he was doused in 22001111 :: Promoters of a Metallica conare injured in a Mexican auto race pepper spray by a member of Kelly’s cert in Delhi, India are arrested on when their car plunges down a 230- entourage… fraud charges after they pull the foot embankment near San Luis plug on the show following the colPotosi… guitarist Steve O’Rourke 22000055:: In a Las Vegas auction, the lapse of a security barrier then fail suffers a broken leg, David Gilmour white suit worn by John Lennon on to refund about 25,000 ticket holdreceives blows to the head, and the cover of Abbey Road goes for ers’ money… drummer Nick Mason, though $118,000…an Austin Princess hearse that appeared in the “Imagine” 22001133 :: The family of deceased soul injured, continues the race … video fetches an additional 11 9999 55:: Business manager Yolanda $150,000… Saldivar is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Tejano 22000066:: Kurt Cobain passes Elvis on singing star Selena...she murdered the Forbes magazine list of “Topthe singer upon being confronted Earning Dead Celebrities”...it’s estimated that the Nirvana frontman about embezzled funds… raked in $50 million over the past 11 9999 66 :: The Stone Roses call it year...a substantial part of that sum quits…singer Ian Brown says, “hav- results from licensing Nirvana songs ing spent the last ten years in the for movies and TV...asked what crifilthiest business in the universe, teria is used to decide on licensing it’s a pleasure to announce the end deals, Courtney Love’s manager of The Stone Roses”…also this Peter Asher says, “We’re interested week, Slash announces he’s parting in cool scripts that make use of company with Guns N’ Roses saying what the songs mean...No rock he and frontman Axl Rose have only bands, no suicides, nobody that’s been polite with each other twice trying to make any kind of Nirvana during the past two years… story.”...also this week, nearly four decades after his death, Jimi 11 9999 77:: R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry Hendrix graces the featured artists announces his retirement from the page of Verizon Mobile’s ringtone band…he plans to take up farm- site allowing countless Jimi fans to ing…he will occasionally join his blast “Purple Haze” via their cell old bandmates for reunion shows… phones…and finally this week, neo glam-rock outfit My Chemical 11 999988 :: Stray Cats leader Brian Setzer Romance rules the pop chart roost sues former bandmate Ken with its new album The Black Kinneally who played with the gui- Parade... tarist in the pre-Stray Cats group, The Bloodless Pharaohs … Setzer 22000077:: Cass County Sheriff Paul D. charges that Kinneally licensed 1978 Laney snares 36 Ozzy Osbourne fans studio tracks without his consent wanted for various infractions in a that turned up on the Collectibles sting...the Ozzheads were lured by Records LP Brian Setzer & the the offer of free tickets to Bloodless Pharaohs…in this same Osbourne’s show in Fargo, North litigation-heavy week, three former Dakota only to be popped when members of the S.F. punk outfit The they showed up at the venue...Ozzy ENIGMA
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man Marvin Gaye files suit against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke charging the pair lifted elements of Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up” in creating their mega-hit “Blurred Lines”…to bolster their claim, the family cites magazine interviews in which Thicke acknowledged connections between his song and Gaye’s…the Gaye estate will go on to win its case…because the decision is largely based on a similarity between the grooves of the two songs as opposed to their lyrics or melodies, intellectual rights experts warn this could mean a field day for copyright infringement lawyers and a potential snake’s’ nest for songwriters and publishers… 220 01144:: The Allman Brothers wrap a 45-year career with a final show at New York’s Beacon Theater…a nofrills affair without the guests that usually accompany such farewells, the songs comprising three lengthy sets are drawn from the band’s first three albums with “Whipping Post” being an obligatory encore…but the very last song the Allmans play is Muddy Waters’ “Trouble No More”— a blues Gregg Allman sang at the band’s very first show in 1969, thus bookending the career of a dynasty that defined the sound of Southern blues-rock…
looking for and after a valiant try for about five years have decided to call it a day. With the closing of RRU UM MOOUURR HHAASS IITT… … Casablanca, the Mediterranean hookah lounge on the northshore …After 15 years in opera- that makes three restaurants to tion the Vaudeville Café has decid- close ein the past month and a ed to call it a day. The iconic diner half. which was famous for its “murder mystery” dinners apparently were …The Comedy Catch offitired of struggling and decided to cially makes its move to the call it quits. Chattanooga Choo Choo campus on November 12 with a soft opening …Sugar’s Ribs downtown featuring K Kii llll eerr BBeeaa zz with the offihas called it a day. The BBQ/some- cial grand opening being times music venue never quite got November 27 with JJoonn RReeeepp and a hold of the kind of crowd it was JJeenn K Koobbee rr.
…PPhhiill CC oollll iinnss is ready to tour and record new music again. The news comes more than four and a half years after he announced he was “calling it a day.” In an interview with Rolling Stone that was published online Wednesday, the former G G eenneess iiss singer/drummer says, “I’m no longer officially retired. The horse is out of the stable and I’m raring to go.” Although CC ooll llii nnss retired in 2011 so he could be a full-time father to his sons, now he’d like to take them out on the road. He notes that they’re “10 and 14 and they want to see what their dad does. … They love my music and I’d like to take them out so they can enjoy it.”
A rree tthhaa FFrr aa nnkk llii nn is …A being sued over unpaid homeowner fees at a condominium in suburban Detroit. Hills of Lone Pine Association says it’s owed more than $11,500. The Detroit News reports that the association has filed a lawsuit to try to foreclose on the Queen of Soul’s property in the gated community in Bloomfield Hills. The lawsuit names Franklin and two companies that hold mortgages on the $700,000 condo. Franklin tells the newspaper that she owns the condo but doesn’t live there. She believes she’s been “overcharged for years” and has paid only what’s “credible and legitimate.” …BBuuddddyy G Guuyy , ZZaa kkkk Wyyll ddee , JJoonnnnyy LLaanngg , K W Keennnnyy W Waayy nnee SShheepphhee rrdd , EE rr iicc JJoohhnnss oonn and DDw wee eezz iill ZZaappppaa are among the axemen assembling for evenings of guitar brilliance in 2016. Destinations for the “Experience Hendrix Tour” include Atlanta, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Chicago, ENIGMA
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Atlantic City and New Orleans. In its second decade, the “Experience HHeennddrrii xx Tour” is as much a celemii H Hee nnddrr iixx as it is an bration of JJiim exploration of the guitar with the musicians performing their takes on classic numbers such as “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” and “Purple Haze.” Heading up the rhythm section will be BBiill llyy CCooxx, mii who played bass for the JJiim HHeennddrr iixx EE xxppeerrii eennccee and BBaanndd ooff GGyyppssyyss . But CC ooxx won’t be the only musician in the room with a direct H eennddrrii xx. BBuuddddyy connection to H GGuuyy , who served as an inspiration to Hendrix, was also a personal friend of the guitarist who defined electric guitar in the late ’60s-early ’70s and inspired just about every axeman that followed. The tour sees its fair share of musicians returning for more action. DD w wee eezz iill ZZaappppaa is returning for his third Experience H H eennddrrii xx road trip and G G uuyy climbing onboard the ol’ tour bus for his sixth adventure. Kee nnnnyy W Waa yynnee Then there’s K SShheepphheerr dd who has been on every H ee nnddrr iixx Tour since it Experience H began in 2004. …RRoorryy FFee eekk, of the husband and wife country duo JJooeeyy ++ RRoorryy , said his wife is ending her cancer treatment after a recurrence of tumors. JJooeeyy FFeeee kk had undergone surgery earlier this year to treat her cervical cancer that was being treated with chemotherapy and radiation. But in a blog post on Friday, RRoorryy FFee eekk said a new scan showed that the tumors had returned and the cancer was still spreading. A manager for the couple confirmed that that they were ending treatment. FFee eekk
wrote that they have reached the end of what medicine can do and that his wife had returned home to spend time with their young daughter. The couple won an award from the Academy of Country Music for top new vocal duo in 2010. …BBll aacckk SSaabbbbaatthh will not release a follow-up to 2013’s 13, according to reports. The heavy metal band’s nineteenth album and first release since the return Ozzzz yy O Ossbboouurrnnee - topped the UK of O and the US charts and earned the group a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. O Oss bboouurr nnee had previously stated that the band would record “one more album” with producer RRiicckk RRuubbii nn, now allegedly telling NOLA.com that plans have now changed. NOLA.com reports that the band has “opted against” recording a new album, stating that their upcoming world your will be “the end of Sabbath, believe me”. OOssbboouurr nnee added: “In December, I’ll
be f—-in’ 68 and I think it’s time to call it the end of the day. I’m not saying I won’t get on stage with GGee eezz eerr [BBuuttlleerr ] or TToonnyy [IIoom mm mii] or any of them some time, but officially we’re going to be done.”
ridiculous, retards. I’m sorry. Can’t help them. Way too serious. Too Keeee nnaann also much. Lighten up.” K contradicted previous comments Addaam m JJoonneess that made by guitarist A work has began on a new album. “There’s nothing to say. I can’t,” he …M Maayy nnaarrdd JJaam mee ss KKeeee nnaann said. of TT ooooll has criticized the band’s own fans in a new interview. TTooooll …US rapper W Waall ee has Occeeaann and headline the Monster Mash Music suggested that FFrr aannkk O m SSm miitthh owe their success to Festival in Tempe, Arizona on SSaa m October 31 in what was their first their sexuality as much as their tallive date of 2015. With the band ent. The hip-hop artist, a part of having recently settled an eight- RRii cckk RRooss ss’’ss Maybach Music Group year lawsuit, K Kee eennaann spoke to the alongside M Meeeekk M Miill ll, was quizzed Phoenix New Times on which he on the issue of homosexuality said that the rest of the band “had within the music industry in a to con me into” playing the upcom- recent interview. Speaking to The Waa llee was asked by ing show. The interviewer notes Breakfast Club, W Keeee nnaann’’ ss “answers quickly host A Annggeell aa YYee ee if he thought a gay that K Waa llee become curt” when asked about rapper would succeed. W TTooooll, and, when quizzed on the argued that not only would they be humor in TTooooll’’ss lyrics, he replied: a success, they would gain an “Yeah, it’s there, but people miss it unfair advantage from a world because they’re so focused on the ready to celebrate the issue. other bullshit. It’s lost”. The singer “People are probably going to go added of the band’s fans: bad on me for saying this, but it’s “Insufferable people... It’s just an advantage to be gay in this country right now, that’s just the Waa llee said. “If a fact of the matter,” W dude was gay, man, he’d get a Grammy,” he continued. “They’re gonna make fun of them. They’re gonna throw their Twitter jokes … but in the next three years there’s probably gonna be a dude who’s not even gay that’s just like ‘Man, this is my last resort’ … But nah, I would sign a gay rapper if he was dope.” W Waa llee went on to discuss FFrraa nnkk OOcceeaann , who spoke about his experiences in a same-sex relationship prior to the release of 2012 album Channell Orange, and m SSm mii tthh. W Waallee the openly gay SSaam Occeeaa nn “got pushed to the said that O moon” as a result of his sexuality: “He got the Grammy joint, everything … People look at it like you a hero, you a pioneer.” If you know any truths, half truths or outright lies about the music and club scene send it to Sissy Vance c/o rumoursmill@enigmaonline.com.
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1. David Gilmour 2. Ben Folds 3. Jason Isbell 4. Halsey 5. Jr. Jr. 6. Widespread Panic 7. Chris Cornell 8. Collective Soul 9. The Dead Weather 10. The Decemberists 11. Keith Richards 12. Harry Connick Jr. 13. Willamena 14. Hippo Campus 15. G. Love & Special Sauce 16. Glen Hansard 17. Trey Anastasio 18. Billy Gibbons and the BFG’s 19. Gabe Dixon 20. My Morning Jacket
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Television Media Shines a Welcome Spotlight on Would Be Shooters The individual who opened fire at a small Oregon college campus on Thursday, October 1st was directly influenced by what he saw on television news. Here's a quote from a blog post written by the shooter some time before his murderous rampage:
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Regardless as to the which had the most impact on his psyche, together they dangled the carrot of infamy in front of this troubled individual in Oregon. He chose to make a big wave and ended the lives of eight commu"I have noticed that so many peo- nity college students and a ple like [the man who shot and teacher. killed a reporter and camera man while they were filming a After he went on his rampage, news story in Virginia] are alone Sheriff John Hanlin of Douglas and unknown, yet when they County, Oregon flatly refused to spill a little blood, the whole mention the killer's name. He world knows who they are. A then encouraged the media to man who was known by no one, follow suit and not "glorify" the is now known by everyone. His murderer by giving him the notoface splashed across every riety he so badly wanted. screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all But the media has learned that in the course of one day. Seems shock and conflict leads to highlike the more people you kill, the er ratings and most did not think more you're in the limelight."* twice about spreading his name and image far and wide. They The angry man wanted to be seen broadcasted the possible motives and heard more than anything. of the awful deed, and therefore, By showing the face, name and let him voice his grievances possible motivations of the across the world. Virginia killer, media outlets unwittingly made it crystal clear A handful of television and radio that the easiest way to get the personalities chose not share his attention of the country was to identity. Sadly, there is not yet commit mass murder. enough of them to remove the lure of the "limelight" to future To be fair, lots of news organiza- killers. It will remain that way tions other than those on televi- until public outcry against this sion did the same thing. In fact, sensationalistic form of journaloutlets large and small plastered ism shames the others into acting websites, blogs, radio airwaves more responsibly. and newspapers with anything and everything they could find The next time an unhappy person about the news team murderer. shouts at the world with his guns, However, the moving images on think about who may share in the television likely portrayed events blame. more dramatically than other ENIGMA
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Ed Sheeran Brings HIs “A” Game
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A full house came to Philips Arena to see their adopted son Ed Sheeran I guess fame does have its drawperform. The 24-year-old singer/songwriter from “across the pond” had backs. been a media darling as well as a darling to untold fans since touring with Taylor Swift a few years ago. Edd Sh ee ran Set Lis t: I’m a Mess Since then the Brit singer has not only held his own, he’s blossomed into Lego House the must-see act of today. That was obvious by the tons of fans on hand Drunk to see him performs songs such as “The A Team”, a song that put him on Take It Back / Superstition / Ain’t the map as well as “Nina” and “Lego House”. No Sunshine (Bill Withers & Grover Washington, Sheeran was on fire. The crowd loved him and were game to clap and Jr. cover) sing with him. But one has to wonder if he is really suited for arena sow? One / Photograph Sure the music is good and the fans are selling out the joint, but his music Bloodstream is a little more intimate and well-written than some arena rock-style Tenerife Sea album. Even despite his success the kid looks a little out of place and Don’t / Loyal / No Diggity / Nina physically out of touch with his “people”. Feeling Good / I See Fire
(Nina Simone cover) Be My Forever (Christina Perri cover) (with Christina Perri) All of the Stars Kiss Me / Thinking Out Loud I Was Made to Love Her (Stevie Wonder cover) The A Team Encore : E You Need Me, I Don’t Need You / In Da Club / Know Yourself (Drake cover) Sing
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