Enigma 2/01/17 by Enigma Magazine

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From the Publisher’s Notebook Trying hard to write something ing the point. Hell, they can positive, but it’s hard in today’s even go in the men’s room if times. they want to. Like I said at the beginning of my notes—hard to Why do certain dumb ass peo- be positive with all the crap ple wait until they get to the happening. GO Trump. teller window before they fill out their deposit slip? They On to better things… Situated must be related to the dumb ass on Cowart Street in the enterthat waits to get to the mail tainment area known as clerk to fill out the form he Southside sits a very impressive needs. There must be a large brown brick building. It has colony of dumb asses in been several restaurants that Chattanooga that are all relat- tried but never really made it. ed. You know them, they are Cactus Jack and The Living the ones that forget they can Room look to change this. turn right on red, but have no problem running a yellow-red I recently stopped by on a light. God bless their little Friday after they reopened and pointed heads. was overly pleased. The Cactus

Jack’s country bar was great. The room had a warm fun feeling and everyone seemed to be having a great time. The recently opened upstairs looks out of this world. It is totally Miami South Beach.

away by the entire place. As you already know, I usually don’t write a positive article as I am a skeptic, but this place changed that for this article. I’m glad I went and will go again. You should too.

As you can see, I was blown

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Had to go to Walmart the other day (I hate Walmart), you know— Walmart, China’s retail outlet in the USA. One thing about Walmart confounds me— how do they get those big butts stuffed in those tight blue jeans? Remember when Walmart used to brag about selling “made in America” products—what happened? One wonders how Trump’s new ideas will affect there sales. Maybe more made in America items. I’m a little confused—what rights are women being deprived of? Is it so bad they have to march? If the march was to make it a level playing field, why did they stop pro-lifers from marching? I must be missENIGMA

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Dear Rocco, My dad bought a business geared towards younger people. In my opinion it’s his way of staying young, which is cool but he’s trying to impose his “old man” rules upon the business with very mixed results. How do I explain let the experts do their job and let him supervise instead of trying to change their perspective? PJ Dear PJ, Use Clint Eastwood’s line out of “Gran Torino” against him. Tell him to “get off my lawn” – or their lawn. It’s great that he’s still active and obviously has some business savvy, but he needs to realize he’s now part of an already established business with I’m guessing an already proven track record. This happens with every generation as they get older as they are slow or refuse to realize the stuff they did in their youth has advanced and changed over time. Your father instead of trying to implement his old school ways should do some reading and try to understand the business he bought into and how and why it works. He can offer a lot of knowledge in the business without changing the way the busi ness is done and possibly damaging inadvertently the product he’s wanting to help sell.

It’s very simple. Talk to him. A number of stepparents go overboard to mind their own business when it comes to step-kids because they don’t want to interfere with the relationship with a birth father. He will always be there for you as long as he feels welcome it seems. Set up boundaries with him – in this case let him know how you feel and let him know how you feel about him and that you would welcome some input from time to time. Honesty is a key as well. As long as you can be honest with each other things should go well. It seems like he’s been a good role model to you but is overly cautious not to overstep his boundaries. If ing around. She’s come by my only all parents were that way. work and even my mom has seen her drive by our house. How can I Dear Rocco, get her to understand I am no I am a young girl who is dating a longer interested in a relationship boy who likes me a lot. All my with? friends know him and say that he is WH a user and a player. He says he will commit suicide if he loses me. I Dear WH, still like him but I can’t stand this Have you led this girl around? If emotional stuff. All the guys I you’re honest with her and tell her know say to leave him and that he the truth that should be it. And is a jerk. I don’t want to hurt him once you break it off realize that and I still care about him a lot. It mean you should no longer have contact with her. Most young girls love attention and if you can completely ignore her she will finally get the picture. She will look for attention from someone else. This includes divorcing yourself on social media and any outside activities you may cross paths – at least for the time being. If you’re not leading her on and she’s still both ering you, you may have a real psy cho on your hands and she could jeopardize you job – which you said she’s come by and even your freedom and peace of mind. Be careful. Chicks be tripping.

Dear Rocco, I am 13 years old. I have a wonderful step-dad who has taken care of me since I was born. He and I don’t really ever talk except when I ask him to go somewhere or when I want something. That’s the only time I ever hug him too. What should I do so I can be closer to Dear Rocco, I have a girl that I used to like and him? now am no longer interested in. CR I’ve tried to break it off with her many times but she still keeps com- Dear CR, ENIGMA

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makes me cry. EB Dear EB, Are you freaking crazy? Get away from this clown as fast as possible because you will be in a world of hurt if you don’t. He’s obviously attempting to manipulate your feelings. Unless you have low selfesteem this should be obvious. This conniving bastard will do nothing but manipulate your feel ings to get what he wants with no concern for your feelings. If he wants to kill himself, let him. It’s just thinning of the herds. My final word of advice to you is run – as fast as you can away from this manipulative sociopath.

Rocco is a common sense, tell-itlike-it-is, no-nonsense kind of guy offering real advice on any subject put before him. Why pay thousands of dollars on a high-priced therapist when he’ll straighten you out for free. If you’d like advice from Rocco e-mail him at goaskrocco@yahoo.com.

ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Real estate investments could be to your ad vantage. Be careful not to take on other people’s problems. You may find yourself in a financial bind. Do not lend money or belongings to friends. Your honesty will not only win you points but also respect. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday. TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) You can ask for favors and get sound advice from close friends or relatives. You may want to take another look at the investment you are about to make. If you can’t get away, make plans to do something

special with friends or relatives. (June 22-July 22) Take your time be fore making per- You will be overly sensitive this sonal decisions. month. You can help sort out problems that friends are facing. Use Your luckiest events this month discretion in your dealings and will occur on a Wednesday. refrain from making verbal promises of any kind. You might not be as GEMINI reserved on an emotional level as (May 22-June 21) you’d like. Being unappreciated by your boss could make it hard to do your work Your luckiest events this month effectively. Keep your ears open, will occur on a Thursday. especially to those who care about you. Uncertainties regarding your LEO home and family are evident. You (July 23-Aug 22) can expect insincere gestures of Take your time and try not to overfriendliness this month. load yourself. Luck is with you, regardless of the financial venture. Your luckiest events this month Take your time. Your ability to put will occur on a Friday. things together will be appreciated by your comrades. CANCER Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.

females you live with could cause emotional stress. You may not see your situation clearly. You must refrain from overspending on entertainment. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) Be sure to find out all you can before you commit to anything. Exercise programs will be effective. It’s time to reevaluate your motives. You’ll be tempted to spend extravagantly this month. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Monday.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Try to spend some time on your own. You’re in the mood to get out VIRGO and visit friends. Help elders in (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) your family. Anger may cause you If you keep busy you won’t feel the grief; control your temper and try personal pressures you are going to sit back and calm down. through. Trying to deal with your mate will be unproductive and pos- Your luckiest events this month sibly hurtful. Look into any educa- will occur on a Wednesday. tional activities involving the whole family. You can make money AQUARIUS if you are careful not to let it trick- (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) le through your fingers. Try looking into new ways to make extra money. You may have a probYour luckiest events this month lem dealing with elders. Don’t let will occur on a Monday. criticism upset you. Hassles will delay your plans. You need to do LIBRA something that will make you feel (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) better about yourself. Your confidence will stabilize your position. Look into family outings Your luckiest events this month or projects. Your ability to stand will occur on a Wednesday. out in a crowd will bring you the recognition you desire. Real estate PISCES should be lucrative for you. (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Someone may not be thinking of Your luckiest events this month your best interests. Make money will occur on a Wednesday. using your ingenuity and creative talent. Deceit with coworkers is SCORPIO apparent. Don’t make unreason(Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) able promises. Talk to your mate about a vacation and discuss the expectations of Your luckiest events this month your relationship. Difficulties with will occur on a Monday.

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Days (And a Night) Gone By One Time Experiences From A Life One of the problems of writing for a monthly periodical/magazine is coming up with something to write about. The writers here are at Enigma are not assigned topics. We get to pick our topic and go with it. I’m sure some writers would be very happy with that situation as I am most of the time. However, the problem is not just deciding on your topic. You also have to consider if the readers will be interested in the article and actually read it. One can pick a current hot-topic like something political or controversial. Or sometimes you go out on a limb and try something different. This is one of those times... So this month I decided to write about different times in my life where I had a I’ll call them “life remembered experiences” (events that I believe I will remember all my life) which occurred only once. These events bring back good feelings and emotions even though some occurred many years ago. Yet all of them still give me an almost indescribable feeling of good times and often that exuberant feeling one gets in remembering experiences from one’s youth.

want to relate (and these are in no chronological order or level of importance) is one day long ago as my dad was preparing to go to work I asked him to bring me home a toy airplane. It was early morning and he was getting ready to commute from Cleveland to Chattanooga as he did every weekday to get to his school -teaching job. I showed him a picture of a plane from a magazine and he got in his Studebaker and left. That evening when he got home he had my red plastic jet plane. I “flew” that thing for hours on end frequently converting it in my imagination to a military jet although it was a passenger liner. I wish I still had it.

One day many years ago now my father loaded up our dirt bike ( coowned by me and my brother) and we hauled it down to my uncle Pewter’s farm in Southeast Bradley county. This was near an area off Spring Place Road called Buck’s Pocket. My cousins Mike and Jeff brought their motorcycles and we had a blast. We had a makeshift motor-cross course with a jump and a gully that we’d drop into and The first one time experience I jump out of. We rode for hours

while my Dad and Uncle Pewter looked on and talked. Then we went to a nearby store for Mountain Dews. To paraphrase a commercial, “it just doesn’t get better than that”. For some reason we never got back down there with the motorcycles again. Too bad. Another great one-time experience was when my brother Lyle, my Uncle Jack and myself went to Stone’s River Battlefield National Park. We went to the visitor’s center, watched the video, looked at all the exhibits, took the driving tour and walked several paths to look at cannon, entrenchments, and stream crossings used during the battle. We checked out pretty much anything there was to see involving the battle. We even went to some parts of the Battlefield that are outlying sections that don’t adjoin the main section of the park. To say we had a great time is a huge understatement. We had

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three history buffs very interested in the Civil War taking their time, enjoying the walk/s and all trying to envision the battle. It was the best Battlefield tour I’ve had (except for maybe when Uncle Jack and I toured Shiloh Battlefield). Two of my once in a lifetime experiences involve shooting. Several years ago a friend, David Manning and I were out at the Rebel Rifle Club. We were shooting across a ravine at objects at random several hundred yards away. Dave was coaching me on estimating distance. Like a “Jedi Master” of shooting he had me shooting targets hundreds of yards away by “eyeball” gauging the distance. If you’ve ever heard the term “Tennessee elevation and Kentucky windage” I was applying those. Man that was a good day. The other one-time range trip I had

was in Montana. I had a buddy Allan Lutes who had retired from the Police department here in Chattanooga and move out to Livingston, Montana. He became a Reserve Deputy there (later he was elected Sheriff) and he had access to the Police range. Although over the years we went several times this time we took several of his antique lever action rifles. There is a huge hill at the back of this range dotted with all sizes of rocks. We would pick out different targets and blast them with 44-40, 38-40, and some other esoteric caliber antique rifles. Shooting antique rifles with a friend and a beautiful Montana mountain range behind us. Man that was fun.

Bodkin, and I went out to Montana to snowmobile through Yellowstone National Park. Due to a stomach virus and a blizzard we did not get to snowmobile. However, there is one road kept open all winter in Yellowstone so we spent a day driving from Mammoth Hot Springs toward Cook City, Montana. On our trip we got the rare chance to see a pack of wolves eating off an elk carcass. Some wolves were eating while others were in the area either resting after eating or waiting their turn. This was all on a snow-covered tableau just at the foot of snow covered mountains. Awesome is an over-used word but that starts to describe this scene.

There have been several memorable range trips but those two really stand out. I’ve related my trip to the range with singer/songwriter Warren Zevon in Enigma before. Dave and I used to entertain the tourists on the Southern Belle Riverboat as they cruised down the Tennessee River passing by the Police range . But that’s a story for another day.

old enough to eat solid food. My girlfriend tried to get him to quit meowing but at bedtime even holding him in the bed he would not be placated. Finally I took him out to the couch and put him on my chest. He stopped meowing and finally went to sleep. The odd thing was he never did that again. Little Bit as I named him, due to his little bit of a goatee, became a rather aloof cat and was a loner even among the other cats. That is until about a year ago. He had surgery to have a large ulcer removed from his side. After that he became an almost- lap cat. If I was in my recliner he was in it right beside me and sometimes in my lap. This went on until recently when Little Bit started not eating as well. Then suddenly he stopped eating. After a trip to the vet it was determined Little Bit was suffering from kidney failure. My friend of fifteen years passed away on January 17th. I buried him in my yard. Now when I look at his recliner I miss him and remember that long ago night with the little mewling kitten who wouldn’t be quiet until he fell asleep on my chest.

One night I remember was after a friend had called me earlier in the day telling me “ come get this cat he’s gonna get run over”. The caller was “Rocco” who readers of Enigma are familiar with. Rocco advised this cat (really just a kitten) was at the gas station where he worked apparently orphaned. When rescued the kitten was filthy and contained in a box chewing on a chicken bone. The kitten was Once years ago a friend, John cleaned and fed. Thankfully he was To end on a little more upbeat note

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I remember a motorcycle trip years ago. Three of my friends and I had taken the longest most round about way to get to Murfreesboro and back that we accidentally could. We took the older “back roads” over Monteagle and through the valley on the west side of the mountain. On our way back on Highway 41 we were passing a church. This was on Sunday evening but was after service hours. We were trying to get back before dark and were roaring through the valley. There were three or four kids there in the church parking lot waving at us. We blew our horns and accelerated to make a little more noise. It had been a long and fun day but those kids standing by the road make that ride stand out. Sadly the four of us never rode together again. It’s too bad we don’t have the luxury of knowing when we are having a once in a lifetime experience with friends or relatives. I guess that’s what makes them so great sometimes.

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A mother was arrested after having sex with students at her daughter’s party. The Florida mother is facing seven different charges after providing alcohol to minors and having sex with five boys at her daughter’s party. Police said that 40year-old Jaimie Ayer returned to her home to find that her daughter was throwing a party for her friends. Ayer began socializing with the teens and provided them with alcohol, police said. She then told one teenager that she needed to shower and she invited him to “come to help her,” police said.

Classic. She then had sex with five boys. Three of the boys are 16 and two are 17. Police began an investigation after receiving a tip after the wild party. Although the sex acts were consensual, the boys are underage and therefore, Ayer was arrested on charges of unlawful sexual activity. The mother is being held on $22,000 bail. Federal agents seized $20 million in cash from underneath a mattress in Massachusetts in relation to a money laundering scheme. The cash was found hidden inside a box spring mattress in a Westborough, Mass. apartment where people had conspired to launder the proceeds

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of the massive TelexFree pyramid scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, a 28-year-old Brazilian man, was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering. Federal agents searched the TelexFree, Inc. headquarters in 2014 when one of the founders of the company, Carlos Wanzeler, allegedly fled to Brazil. Agents became aware of the multi-million dollar stash after following Rocha while he acted as a courier for Wanzeler’s nephew when a cooperating witness allegedly gave him $2.2 million in a suitcase which he later brought to

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the apartment. A Nebraska couple’s attempt at a creative baby “gender reveal” ended up earning them a sheriff’s citation for setting off an explosive without a state permit. Jon Sterkel, 26, said he and his wife, Ashley, wanted to do something unique for their baby “gender reveal” video on Facebook, so they used exploding targets he previously used without issue on their property. The video shows Sterkel shooting the target, which explodes and releases a cloud of blue chalk while he

shouts, “It’s a boy!” The explosion resulted in multiple calls to the Scotts Bluff County Sheriff’s Office from residents about 3 miles away about an explosion that some misidentified as a house exploding or a car engine blowing out. Sterkel said he heard about the reports from the radio and called the sheriff’s office to explain. He also posted an apology on Facebook. “I would like to apologize for all of the confusion,” he wrote. “This was just our way of announcing what gender our baby was.” The sheriff’s office ticketed Sterkel for setting off an explosive without a state permit, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. “The explosives I bought are readily available in most department stores, and even most law enforcers I have spoken to are not aware that they are illegal,” Sterkel said. The baby is due June 16, but Sterkel said not to expect another explosive stunt. “I think we’ll do something a little more lower key,” he said. A woman flew into a rage after her boyfriend told her that he was not ready to commit to a serious relationship with her, according to police in Michigan. Roseville police said that they have arrested 29year-old Batina Christine Jackson, after being accused of stabbing her 39-year-old boyfriend 9 times. According to the criminal complaint, Jackson recently met her boyfriend on the Internet, and they went out on two dates. After the second date, Jackson asked her boyfriend, who was not identified, whether he was ready to commit to a serious relationship. When he said it was too early to decide, Jackson pulled a knife and stabbed him in the back and neck 9 times. The man was rushed to the hospital where he is expected to survive. A California man whose two vehicles were both crushed by trees in different cities on the same day says he feels like “the luckiest guy.” Georgiy Karpekin said he was at Sacramento City College when strong winds swept over the area leading to an unfortunate discovery in the parking lot. “I walked up to my truck and I saw it was ‘taco’d’ around a tree,” he said. Karpekin got a ride to his West Sacramento

home where he made another shocking discovery — another tree had fallen on two vehicles parked in front of his house, including his own car. Karpekin said. “I feel like I’m the luckiest guy. Why? I came out alive. Everything is fine. My insurance is covering it. There’s no other way to look at it, right?”

fresh green coconuts with his head in just 60 seconds. The feat was recorded on video, and was uploaded on Facebook, where it went viral. Representatives of the Guinness World Record were at the scene to officially record the world record. Naseem revealed that he trained for six months to be able to achieve the world record. When he

A motorcyclist who crashed into the back of a car on a Washington state highway had a lucky escape from injury when he ended up sitting on the car’s trunk. Brian Becton posted a dashboard camera video to YouTube showing the scene that unfolded. The video shows a car traveling at a high rate of speed quickly brake when it approaches the rear of a slowermoving vehicle. A motorcycle traveling behind the car has trouble braking fast enough to avoid impact and the two vehicles collide, leaving the motorcyclist sitting on the trunk of the car. The car’s driver doesn’t appear to initially notice the crash, causing the man sitting on the trunk to knock forcefully on the rear window. The car pulls over a distance down the road and the motorcyclist is eventually seen pacing at the side of the road — visibly upset, but free from serious injuries. Police in Alabama discovered that a hunter who was reported missing was actually in a local jail the entire time. Local fire departments and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency were searching for 51-yearold Randy Keith Holt before Limestone County Sheriff’s Office discovered he was being held at a county jail on public intoxication charges. Holt was last heard from on Monday afternoon when law enforcement discovered him exposing himself. Holt’s family was unaware he had been arrested and reported him missing after he was three hours late returning from his hunting trip. Officers called off the search after learning Holt’s last name and locating him at the Limestone County Jail. Holt was held in the jail with a bond of $500. If you didn’t think there was a world record for smashing open coconuts with your head, think again. 30-year-old Rashid Naseem of Karachi, Pakistan just set it when he managed to crack open 43 ENIGMA

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began smashing coconuts with his head, he suffered splitting headaches, but they later went away as his body got used to the banging. Naseem holds the world record for smashing the highest number of drink cans. Last year, he smashed 210 walnuts with his head in 60 seconds, which is also a world record.

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WEDNESDAY February 1 RAW (Chattanooga) Open Jam REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Yarn THE INTERNATIONAL (Knoxville) Superjoint Ritual, Battlecross, Child Bite, Warclown, Scent Of Remains BIJOU THEATRE (Knoxville) Yonder Mountain String Band, The Railsplitters

THURSDAY February 2 SKYZOO (Chattanooga) DJ Av J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Vita and the Woolf REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Big Something, Opposite Box SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Michael Feinstein BLUEBIRD CAFÉ (Nashville) Cory Branan

THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Derrick Tennant, Jamie Ward J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Hatestomp, Roger Alan Wade TIVOLI THEATRE (Chattanooga) Dave Chappelle KNOXVILLE AUDITORIUM (Knoxville) Mary Wilson JENNNIE ANDERSON THEATRE (Marietta, GA) Jimmy Osmond THE EARL (Atlanta) Margaret Glaspy CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Neal Morse GEORGIA DOME (Atlanta) “Winter Jam” Crowder, Britt Nicole, Tenth Avenue North, Andy Mineo, Colton Dixon, Thousand Foot Krutch, NewSong, OBB, Sarah Reeves, Steven Malcolm ANDREW JACKSON HALL (Nashville) Nelly RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Chris Thile, O’Donovan SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Michael Feinstein IRON CITY (Birmingham) Blackberry Smoke

SUNDAY February 5 SKYZOO (Chattanooga) DJ Av EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Francine Reed

FRIDAY February 3 SKYZOO (Chattanooga) DJ Av RAW (Chattanooga) DJ Barnaby THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Derrick Tennant, Jamie Ward J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Superbody, Kindora, bbymutha, Koda, Rock Floyd REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Papadosio, Backup Planet HIGH WATT (Nashville) Margaret Glaspy PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Katt Williams CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Bob Schneider VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) The Devil Makes Three HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO (Cherokee) Yes THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Lucero, Esme Patterson SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Michael Feinstein BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) “Winter Jam” Crowder, Britt Nicole, Tenth Avenue North, Andy Mineo, Colton Dixon, Thousand Foot Krutch, NewSong, , Sarah Reeves, Steven Malcolm

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MONDAY February 6 TREMONT TAVERN (Chattanooga) Trivia Night THE OFFICE (Chattanooga) SpeakEasy

TUESDAY February 7 TREMONT TAVERN (Chattanooga) Open Mic w/ Mike McDade J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Harbor, Sinai Vessel, Lions HEAVEN AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) August Burns Red, Protest The Hero, Hearts Wake, ‘68

WEDNESDAY February 8 RAW (Chattanooga) Open Jam THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Adam DeVine CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Uli Jon Roth BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Alabama, Kenny Rogers, Rodney Atkins, Chris Janson, Jamey Johnson, Gentry, Michael Ray, Ricky Skaggs, Michael W. Smith, Tanya Tucker, Josh Turner

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UPCOMING EVENTS THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Etta May February 9 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Lauryn Hill February 9 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Uli Jon Roth February 9 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Al Di Meola February 9 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Emo Philips February 9 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Etta May February 10 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Masseuse, Cosmic Shift February 10 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Jess Goggans Band, Rick Rushing & The Blues Strangers February 10 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Bon Jovi February 10 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Michael Tolcher February 10 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Emo Philips February 10 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Grouplove, SWMRS February 10 WILDHORSE SALOON (Nashville) Rick Springfield February 10 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) “NuSoul Revival” Musiq Soulchild, Lyfe Jennings, Kindred The Family Soul, Avery*Sunshine February 10 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Etta May February 11 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Genki Genki Panic Release Party February 11 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Yacht Rock Revue February 11 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Judah & the Lion, Martina McBride, Lauren Alaina February 11 WILDHORSE SALOON (Nashville) Rick Springfield February 11 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) “Back To The 80’S - Live” Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Al B. Sure!, Jalil And Ecstasy, Hi Five, Big Daddy Kane, Cherrelle, Chubb Rock February 11 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Yonder Mountain String Band, G. Love & Special Sauce February 11 CENTER STAGE (Atlanta) Beth Hart February 11 BUCKHEAD THEATRE (Atlanta) AFI, Nothing, The Souvenirs February 11 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Emo Philips February 11 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Robn Thicke February 11 AISLE 5 (Atlanta) P.O.S., Ceschi Ramos February 11 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Grouplove, SWMRS February 11 LAUREL THEATRE (Knoxville) Scott Miller February 11 3RD & LINDSLEY (Nashville) G. Love & Special Sauce February 12 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Emo Philips February 12 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Lucy Kaplansky February 12 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Underwear Comedy Show February 14

BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Ariana Grande February 14 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Tesla, The Raskins February 14 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons February 14 INFINITE ENERGY CENTER (Duluth, GA) Andrea Bocelli, Heather Headley February 14 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Lauryn Hill February 14 SYMPHONY HALL (Atlanta) Yes February 14 CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Shawn Mullins February 14 HELL AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) Secondhand Serenade, Hawthorne Heights, Ronnie Winter February 14 THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Switchfoot, Relient K February 14 THE ROXY REGIONAL THEATRE (Clarksville, TN) “Gallagher’s Jokes On You Comedy Tour” Gallagher, Artie Fletcher, Nelson February 14 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Reba February 15 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons February 15 THE ROXY REGIONAL THEATRE (Clarksville, TN) “Gallagher’s Jokes On You Comedy Tour” Gallagher, Artie Fletcher, Nelson February 15 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Spanky Brown February 16 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) St. Paul And The Broken Bones February 16 3RD & LINDSLEY (Nashville) Valerie June February 16 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) The Temptations February 16 THE BASEMENT (Nashville) Parker Gispert, Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster February 16 THE ROXY REGIONAL THEATRE (Clarksville, TN) “Gallagher’s Jokes On You Comedy Tour” Gallagher, Artie Fletcher, Nelson February 16 INFINITE ENERGY ARENA (Duluth, GA) Eric Church February 16 SYMPHONY HALL (Atlanta) Yanni February 16 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Gabe Dixon February 16 LEGACY ARENA (Birmingham) Bon Jovi February 16 BIJOU THEATRE (Knoxville) Rufus Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche February 16 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Spanky Brown February 17 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) MPH Release Party February 17 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Kathleen Madigan February 17 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Drivin’ n Cryin’, Traveling Kine February 17 LEGACY ARENA (Birmingham) Eric Church February 17 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Corey Smith February 17 MARATHON MUSIC WORKS (Nashville) Moe. February 17 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) St. Paul And The Broken Bones February 17 3RD & LINDSLEY (Nashville) Gabe Dixon

February 17 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) The Temptations February 17 THE INTERNATIONAL (Knoxville) Excision, Cookie Monsta, Barely Alive, Dion Timmer February 17 40 WATT CLUB (Athens, GA) Drive-By Truckers February 17 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Spanky Brown February 18 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Danimal Planet, Creature Comfort February 18 COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Atlanta) Jay Leno February 18 40 WATT CLUB (Athens, GA) Drive-By Truckers February 18 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Moe. February 18 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Katt Williams February 18 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Shovels & Rope February 18 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Bon Jovi February 18 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) The Temptations February 18 THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) St. Paul And The Broken Bones, William Tyler February 18 COTTON EYED JOE (Knoxville) The Marshall Tucker Band February 18 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Spanky Brown February 19 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Shovels & Rope February 19 3RD & LINDSLEY (Nashville) Hamilton Leithauser February 19 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Charlie Wilson, Johnny Gill, Fantasia February 19 CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) John Doe February 19 SWEETWATER BREWERY (Atlanta) Moe February 19 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Rorey Carrol, Bohannons February 20 TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Devendra Banhart February 20 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Dan + Shay February 21 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Dashboard Confessional February 21 VINYL (Atlanta) Eisley February 21 SYMPHONY HALL (Atlanta) Tony Bennett February 21 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) ZZ Top February 22 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Dashboard Confessional February 22 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Elizabeth Cook February 22 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) “Comedy For Conservation” Moody Malovi, Roger Keiss, Karen Mills February 23 CENTER STAGE (Atlanta) AJR February 23 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Dashboard Confessional February 23 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Fortune Feimster February 24 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) The Nude Party February 24 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Candlebox February 24 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Twenty One Pilots February 24 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) “Comedy Get Down” George Lopez, Charlie Murphy,

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Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, Cedric The Entertainer February 24 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Little Big Town, Brent Cobb February 24 HEAVEN AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) Less Than Jake, Pepper February 24 COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Atlanta) Martina McBride, Lauren Alaina February 24 TENNESSEE THEATRE (Knoxville) Dan + Shay February 24 THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Moon Taxi February 24 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Fortune Feimster February 25 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Double Dick Slick, Planet, Rye Baby February 25 SAMFORD UNIVERSITY (Birmingham) Bernadette Peters February 25 SATURN (Birmingham) AJR February 25 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Dita Von Teese February 25 SMITH’S OLDE BAR (Atlanta) Parker Smith February 25 BUCKHEAD THEATRE (Atlanta) Dan + Shay February 25 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Little Big Town, Ashley Monroe February 25 THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Moon Taxi February 25 THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA (Knoxville) Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, Jon Pardi February 25 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Fortune Feimster February 26 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Harbor, Crowns, Formative Years February 26 BIJOU THEATRE (Knoxville) Ben Folds February 26 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Dashboard Confessional February 26 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Lake Street Dive, Joey Dosik February 27 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Sting, Joe Sumner, The Last Bandoleros February 27 ALABAMA THEATRE (Birmingham) Amos Lee February 27 HIGH WATT (Nashville) AJR February 27 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Ladie’s Night Comedy Show February 28 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Livingston Taylor February 28 THE EARL (Atlanta) Agent Orange, Guttermouth, The Queers February 28 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Sting, Joe Sumner, The Last Bandoleros February 28 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Dashboard Confessional February 28 CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Los Lonely Boys March 1 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Norah Jones March 1 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) John Wesley Austin March 2 MCKENZIE ARENA (Chattanooga) TobyMac, Matt Maher, Mandisa, Mac Powell, Capital Kings, Stevenson, Hollyn March 2 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Tedeschi Trucks Band, Leon Russell March 2 EXIT/IN (Nashville) Agent Orange, Guttermouth, The Queers, Atom Age March 2 BUCKHEAD THEATRE (Atlanta) George Clinton And Parliament Funkadelic March 2 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Aaron Lewis March

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2 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) John Wesley Austin March 3 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Tedeschi Trucks March 3 COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Atlanta) Alan Cumming March 3 HEAVEN AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) Suicidal Tendencies, Crowbar, Havok March 3 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Dawes March 3 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Norah Jones March 3 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) John Wesley Austin March 4 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Margo Price March 4 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Tedeschi Trucks March 4 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Dropkick Murphys, Blood Or Whiskey, The Interrupters March 4 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) “Legends Of Southern Hip Hop” Scarface, 8Ball & MJG, Mystikal, Bun B, Trick Daddy, Juvenile, Project Pat March 4 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Dawes March 4 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) John Wesley Austin March 5 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Los Lonely Boys March 6 MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Jimmy Eat World March 6 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Jimmy Eat World March 7 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Cold War Kids, Middle Kids March 7 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Pauly Shore March 8 INFINITE ENERGY ARENA Duluth, GA) The Lumineers, Kaleo, Susto March 8 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Young The Giant March 8 GEORGIA THEATRE (Athens, GA) Amos Lee March 8 3RD & LINDSLEY (Nashville) Amy Ray March 8 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Michael Kosta March 9 INFINITE ENERGY ARENA Duluth, GA) TobyMac, Matt Maher, Mandisa, Mac Powell, Capital Kings, Stevenson, Hollyn March 9 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) The Chieftains March 9 WORKPLAY THEATRE (Birmingham) Son Volt March 9 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Michael Kosta March 10 INFINITE ENERGY CENTER (Duluth, GA) Green Day, Against Me! March 10 COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Atlanta) “MJ Live” Michael Jackson Tribute March 10 TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Son Volt March 10 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) “NuSoul Revival” Musiq Soulchild, Lyfe Jennings, Kindred The Family Soul, Avery*Sunshine March 10 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) The Chieftains March 10 MERCY LOUNGE (Nashville) Mike Doughty, Wheatus March 10 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Beth Hart

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March 10 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Michael Kosta March 11 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Get the Led Out March 11 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) The Chieftains March 11 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Norah Jones March 11 COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Atlanta) Jim Jefferies March 11 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Livingston Taylor March 11 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) City and Colour March 11 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Michael Kosta March 12 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Greensky Bluegrass March 12 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Maluma March 12 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Madeleine Peyroux, Rickie Lee Jones March 12 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Gordon Lightfoot March 12 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Carol Burnett March 14 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Bryan Ferry March 14 MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM (Chattanooga) Earth, Wind & Fire March 15 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Carol Burnett March 15 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) WSOC Sub-Satellite March 16 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Son Volt March 16 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Regina Spektor March 16 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) WSOC Sub-Satellite March 17 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Carol Burnett March 17 3RD & LINDSLEY (Nashville) Son Volt March 17 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) WSOC Sub-Satellite March 18 MERCY LOUNGE (Nashville) Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson, The Goddamn Gallows March 18 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) WSOC Sub-Satellite March 19 GRAND OLE OPRY HOUSE (Nashville) Steve Martin, Martin Short, Steep Canyon Rangers March 19 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Regina Spektor March 20 THE INTERNATIONAL (Knoxville) Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson, Birdcloud, The Goddamn Gallows March 21 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Minus The Bear, Beach Slang, Bayonne March 21 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Conor Oberst, The Felice Brothers March 22 GEORGIA THEATRE (Athens, GA) Blue October March 22 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) D.S Sanders March 23 BIG EARS FESTIVAL (Knoxville) Colin Stetson, Six Organs Of Admittance, Glenn Kotche, On Fillmore, Wilco March 23 CANNERY BALLROOM (Nashville) Dinosaur Jr. March 23 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) D.S Sanders March 24 BARKING LEGS THEATER (Chattanooga)

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Pierre Bensusan March 24 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Bring Me the Horizon, Underoath, Beartooth March 24 BIG EARS FESTIVAL (Knoxville) Colin Stetson, Six Organs Of Admittance, Glenn Kotche, On Fillmore, Wilco March 24 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Steve Miller Band March 24 GEORGIA THEATRE (Athens, GA) Dinosaur Jr. March 24 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Chris Rock March 24 LEGACY ARENA (Birmingham) Charlie Wilson, Johnny Gill, Fantasia March 24 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) D.S Sanders March 25 BIG EARS FESTIVAL (Knoxville) Yasmine Hamdan, Colin Stetson, Six Organs Of Admittance, Kotche, On Fillmore, Aoife O’Donovan, Wilco March 25 LEGACY ARENA (Birmingham) Keith Sweat March 25 THE FIVE SPOT (Nashville) James McCartney March 25 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Bring Me the Horizon March 25 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) D.S Sanders March 26 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Peter Frampton March 26 BIG EARS FESTIVAL (Knoxville) Colin Stetson, Six Organs Of Admittance, Glenn Kotche, On Fillmore, Aoife O’Donovan, Wilco March 26 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) The Magnetic Fields March 27 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) The Magnetic Fields March 28 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Chris Franjola March 29 WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) The Flaming Lips March 29 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) The Rides, Los Lobos, March 29 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Chris Franjola March 30 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Chris Franjola March 31 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) “Legends Of Southern Hip Hop” Scarface, 8Ball & MJG, Mystikal, Bun B, Trick Daddy, Juvenile, Project Pat March 31 SATURN (Birmingham) Modern Baseball, Kevin Devine, Sorority Noise, The Obsessives March 31 CHATEAU ELAN WINERY & RESORT (Braselton, GA) Lou Gramm March 31 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Chris Franjola April 1 MARATHON MUSIC WORKS (Nashville) Modern Baseball, Kevin Devine, Sorority Noise, The Obsessives April 1 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Radiohead April 1 COTTON EYED JOE (Knoxville) Aaron Lewis April 1 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Chris Franjola April 2 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) The Flaming Lips April 2 KNOXVILLE COLISEUM (Knoxville) “I Love The 90s” Salt-N-Pepa, All-4-One, Color Me Badd, Coolio, Tone Loc, Rob Base, Young M.C. April 6 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Aaron Lee Tasjan April 7 LEGACY ARENA (Birmingham) Panic! At the

Disco, Misterwives, Saint Motel April 7 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Keller Williams, Leo Kottke April 7 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Jerry Seinfeld April 7 CANNERY BALLROOM (Nashville) JoJo April 7 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) The Zombies feat. Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent April 8 THE COCA COLA ROXY THEATRE (Atlanta) Glass Animals April 8 BUCKHEAD THEATRE (Atlanta) JoJo April 8 JAMES K. POLK THEATRE (Nashville) The Zombies feat. Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent April 9 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) The Decemberists, Julien Baker April 11 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Ariana Grande April 12 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Anthrax, Killswitch Engage April 12 INFINITE ENERGY ARENA Duluth, GA) Panic! At the Disco, Misterwives, Saint Motel April 12 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Red Hot Chili Peppers April 14 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Katt Williams April 14 KINGS NIGHTCLUB (Clarksville) Puddle of Mudd April 14 CENTER STAGE (Atlanta) Testament, Sepultura, Prong April 15 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Loretta Lynn April 15 TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Foxygen April 18 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Big Sean, Madeintyo April 18 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Neil Diamond April 19 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Jason Isbell April 20 THE STAR BAR (Atlanta) Southern Culture on the Skids April 20 LEGACY ARENA (Birmingham) Tim McGraw, Faith Hill April 21 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Thomas Rhett, Kelsea Ballerini, Russell Dickerson, Ryan Hurd April 21 CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Sweetwater 420 Festival” The Hip Abduction, Dirty Heads, Trey Anastasio, Natalie Cressman April 21 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Tim McGraw, Faith Hill April 22 CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Sweetwater 420 Festival” Sister Sparrow And The Dirty Birds, Anders Osborne, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue April 22 COCA COLA ROXY THEATRE (Atlanta) Corey Smith April 22 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Sister Hazel April 22 BIJOU THEATRE (Knoxville) Jason Isbell April 22 COUNTRY TONITE THEATRE (Pigeon Forge) Tanya Tucker April 22 CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Sweetwater 420 Festival” Lettuce, Dark Star Orchestra, Ween April 23 SYMPHONY HALL (Atlanta) Ben Folds April 24 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Joe Walsh April 25 BIJOU THEATRE (Knoxville) Dawes April 26 BARLEY’S TAPROOM (Knoxville) Paleface April 27

BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Def Leppard, Poison, Tesla April 27 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Paula Poundstone April 28 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Keith Sweat April 28 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Dawes April 28 THE EARL (Atlanta) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah April 28 SUN TRUST PARK (Atlanta) Billy Joel April 28 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Mastodon, Eagles Of Death Metal, Russian Circles April 28 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy April 29 GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER (Atlanta) Hank Williams Jr. April 29 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Dawes April 29 HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO (Cherokee) Alice Cooper April 29 THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA (Knoxville) Florida Georgia Line, Dustin Lynch, Chris Lane April 29 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Dawes April 30 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Neil Diamond April 30 EXIT/IN (Nashville) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah April 30 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Dave Davies April 30 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Dave Davies May 1 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) A Perfect Circle May 2 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Coheed And Cambria, The Dear Hunter May 2 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) The New Pornographers, Waxahatchee May 2 TUSCALOOSA AMPHITHEATRE (Tuscaloosa, AL) Def Leppard, Poison, Tesla May 2 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Def Leppard, Poison, Tesla May 3 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) A Perfect Circle May 3 MARATHON MUSIC WORKS (Nashville) Coheed And Cambria, The Dear Hunter May 3 TUSCALOOSA AMPHITHEATRE (Tuscaloosa, AL) Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds May 3 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Bastille May 5 KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY (Knoxville) Blood Sweat & Tears May 6 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals May 6 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds May 6 TIVOLI THEATRE (Chattanooga) Brian Wilson May 7 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Brian Wilson May 9 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Steve Winwood May 10 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 10 COCA COLA ROXY THEATRE (Atlanta) Bush May 10 HEAVEN AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) The Damned May 11 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 11 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT

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ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Zac Brown Band May 12 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) The Weeknd May 13 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Zac Brown Band May 13 ANDREW JACKSON HALL (Nashville) Alice Cooper May 14 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) New Kids on the Block, Paula Abdul, Boyz II Men May 17 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 17 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Little Big Town May 19 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey May 20 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Little Big Town May 20 HELL AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) Okilly Dokilly, Beatallica May 23 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Sigur Rós May 23 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Primus May 23 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey May 24 OAK MOUNTAIN AMPHITHEATRE (Pelham, AL) Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield May 24 HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO (Cherokee) Chris Rock May 25 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Chris Rock May 26 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Eric Church May 26 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Chris Rock May 27 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Eric Church May 27

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FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Chris Rock May 28 GRAND OLE OPRY HOUSE (Nashville) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 31 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield May 31 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds May 31 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Billy Currington June 1 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield June 2 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers June 8 TIVOLI THEATRE (Chattanooga) Gregg Allman June 9 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers June 9 ALYS ROBINSON STEPHENS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Birmingham) Jonny Lang June 10 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers June 10 ANDREW JACKSON HALL (Nashville) Sigur Rós June 12 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Dead & Company June 13 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Iron Maiden, Ghost June 13 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Third Eye Blind, Silversun Pickups June 15 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge, Lauren Alaina June 16 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge, Lauren Alaina June 17

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DECEMBER 2016

Post-Factual America Things just keep getting weirder in Washington. Here we are, in the middle of Donald J. Trump’s first week in office, and the human hairplug is still obsessed with things that have absolutely nothing to do with running the country. Despite the fact that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 2.9 million votes, the “Leader of the Free World” is suffering under the illusion that would have won it if it weren’t for “millions” of fraudulent voters. This despite the fact that his own White House counsel has gone on record as saying the election was not “tainted by fraud or mistake.” Trump’s own White House counsel said this. But Donnie still plans a full investigation in to the non-existent voter fraud. Keep in mind that he is protesting the election that he won... ...Like so many other things, Trump is woefully ignorant of how U.S. elections work. Elections are managed at the precinct, county and state levels. It would be virtually impossible for fraudulent voters to make any statistically measurable impact on a presidential race. I’ve seen various political science professors giving interviews in which they describe

how impossible the now-president’s paranoid scenario would be to pull off. Like so many other things, Trump won’t let a few pesky facts get in the way of his opinion...

spout ridiculousness about the crowd size at the inauguration. Conway showed up to defend Trump and Spicer in her live appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” This is when the magic happened. Conway said that ...Speaking of facts, let’s talk Spicer was using “alternative

about Trump’s yuge inauguration. He is somehow convinced that his inauguration was the yugest inauguration in history... and he doesn’t mind throwing his own people under the bus to spout his delusions. Press Secretary Sean Spicer and designated talking head/advisor Kellyanne Conway both went on the record to support Trump’s assertion. Spicer used his first appearance before the Washington press corps to

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to backtrack on his (Trump’s) initial claims. Now he’s trying to add global television and online viewers into his total. If this smells a lot like bovine fecal matter to you, you’re not alone. Conway is a predictable sycophant who will parrot whatever the boss tells her to say. But Spicer is going to have to work with the hard-nosed White House media corps for (perhaps) four more years. In his first real press conference, Spicer was basically asked if he would lie to the press if he was told to. He assured those in attendance that he would be truthful. But... was his response factual? Or... alternatively factual? Time will tell. Spicer is going to earn his paychecks...

...Welcome to post-factual facts” in his crowd size esti- America. Up is down. Black is mates... white. The emperor is wearing no clothes... and he’s surround...Alternative facts? ed by people who see him as Photographic evidence shows fully dressed... and fully sane... that the crowd for Barack Obama’s first inauguration in — Mark Bedford 2009 was obviously a lot bigger than the crowd for Trump’s anointing. Spicer has since tried

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The Healthcare Conundrum As the Republicans begin to disassemble the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare detractors are cheering while those on the left are screaming bloody murder. But there is a problem with the arguments on both sides. The ACA has done nothing about the high cost of healthcare.

doctors charge for their goods and the patient but because there is a services. And that’s the problem. belief once you’re in their store they can make you buy other items The healthcare industry is looked even if you have your prescriptions at as one of those few, if not only delivered or use a drive-thru. Once professions that if there is any they get your email address you question of the service or price it is will be inundated by offers and considered sacrilegious. And there sales you might and probably don’t is no proper way to challenge its care about. I guess that’s one of

This is the mirage of what the ACA is all about that has been masqueraded since it was introduced to the public in 2009 and put into law in 2010. The ACA does nothing to address the cost of healthcare and prescription medications. That’s right, we are paying the same price for the goods and services before the ACA was forced upon the American citizens now seven years ago. What the Affordable Care Act does is force all citizens to carry health insurance. If they don’t want insurance they have to pay an annual tax for pricing structure. Any other profession from dining to auto repair not having approved insurance. and real estate all prices are negoThis is another way for the federal tiable. Not medical services or government to get into the private prescriptions, although the latter is citizen’s pocket as well as private finding itself becoming more negobusinesses’. All the ACA does is tiable because of the competition require you to spend money on an between big retail chain pharmainsurance policy whether you want cies who are trying to optimize one or not. It does not impact their business by offering lower what drug companies, hospitals or priced prescriptions – not to aid

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ment and prescription drugs. We are basically told if we don’t agree to a procedure; take their pills and so on we will die a miserable death. Sometimes it is warranted, but as recently as four months ago it was released that women are now getting way too many mammograms – or needless ones. And Lord knows women and the general populace has had breast cancer for better or worse thrown in their face. I realize if you’ve had a loved one that has succumbed to cancer you are more voracious about it and with just cause. Yet all these years later they’ve really gotten nowhere to eliminate cancer. Oh sure, cancer survival has increased many fold, but why we get it no one still knows. There are scapegoats like smoking, sun exposure, pollution and others but not everyone exposed to any of these have contracted cancer. Instead, the patient is put through grueling treatments and surgeries that cause most unless they are either wealthy or have top-notch private health insurance to go deeply in debt or be forced into bankruptcy. Modern medicine will argue, “at least you’re still alive”. Yet they don’t realize that debt is one of the leading causes of suicide or mental instability. And medical bills are one of the leading causes of bankruptcy filings.

Doctors, hospitals and other healthcare services are never questioned or called out on what they charge for their goods and services. Whereas, if I need new brakes for my car I can call and compare prices. And while I realize this is comparing apples to oranges, the fact the healthcare and drug industry can set their own prices without consequence doesn’t seem to The pills we are prescribed all treat bother anyone. And how do they the symptoms of what is wrong do it? with us. They don’t fix or attack what is wrong. When being written They hold our lives hostage. a prescription one time I told my doctor that the medicine he was Yes, you read that last line correct- prescribing only addressed the ly. Doctors, their nurses and oth- symptoms of the problem and how ers in the business of medicine do I fix what’s wrong. He had no pretty much strong-arm everyone real answer for me and told me to when it comes to surgery, treat- just take the meds. He’s no longer

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my doctor. As I’ve gotten older I’ve had to visit specialists because, “well, you’re at that age”. I went to see a heart doctor that I was referred to. I was immediately put off when I arrived not only by the fact as soon as I signed in they asked for my insurance card, but the fact that the paperwork they had me fill out was on a clipboard and with a pen from a pharmaceutical that had been taken off the market by the FDA. When the doctor entered the room as I waited and waited before he even introduced me he handed me three prescriptions. “You need to be on this stuff,” he said. I asked why. “You just need to be,” he answered angrily. I then said, “why should I believe you when you had me fill out paperwork with a pen and on a clipboard that advertised a medication that the FDA pulled off the market?” I could see the anger in his eyes and our consult was contentious. That was the one

and only time I saw this heart “specialist”. Months later I read in the newspaper where he was put on leave from his practice because he got into a verbal then physical confrontation with a fellow doctor. I called that one right.

already knew my cholesterol numbers and they were non-existent. He told me to come back in three months for a lipid test.

I was given another doctor who was more stable but after meeting me he wanted to put me on all sorts of cholesterol lowering medications. When I asked why he told me just because and at may age. I

test to have my cholesterol tested. The test was quick and painless. A few minutes later the aid that gave me the test said, “ keep using those meds, you’re bad cholesterol was really low.” I said to the guy that gave me the test, “can I be honest And why do they get to set such a with you?” high price? Most drug companies He inched over and I told him I receive grants and government never filled the prescription. He subsidies to aid in all the research got this shocked look on his face. for our prescription drugs. They “Don’t bother, throw it away. You create the pills for pennies on the dollar and expect us to adsorb don’t need it.” whatever cost they decide to And how do we choose our “spe- charge because “it will help save cialists”? Referral. Many doctors our life”. They don’t care about my won’t see you unless you get a life or yours all they care about is referral. It’s like a high school the bottom line. Just look at the clique. There are groups of doc- Epi-Pen controversy that took tors that refer patients to each place in the fall when the maker of other in what in layman’s terms, to the drug decided to increase the line each other’s pockets. If you’ve price of the lifesaving injectible for been told about a specialist that’s asthma by 500 percent. And less not in their clique they will try to we forget last year when the maker send you elsewhere. If you are of an Aids drug did the same thing insistent with them more often and quite literally laughed at the than not they’ll do it but they will patients and media about it offering no explanation or apologies. be visibly unhappy.

I took the prescription and stuck it in my glove box and never looked at it again. I came in for my lipid

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for treatments. A traditional dialysis patient has to be in clinic a minimum three days a week. Besides dialysis more often than not a patient will be given a series of prescriptions they have to take because of kidney failure. And this can get expensive without private insurance or a Medicare supplement. To give you an example of some of the medicine subscribed to a dialysis patient is Sensipar that treats secondary hyperparathyroidism. Almost everyone at a clinic has a subscription. Without insurance a one-month supply costs a little over $1,700 a month. With private insurance or a supplemental Medicare policy the price is lowered to $30 a month. If you go to the Sensipar website you can download a voucher of card to lower the prescription to $5 a month if you have private insurance or a private Medicare supplemental policy. Why can’t they sell it for $5 a month without making patients jump through so many hoops?

The American healthcare system has been around for a few hundred years now. After all this time is there a way to hold them accountable for how much we are charged? Healthcare is great but unlike sports and the arts they’ve become

big business and unlike the other two people are dying to be seen – both figuratively and literally. With a never-ending stream of customers is there something that can be done to make actually affordable for everyone? Actually, yes there is.

able healthcare, surgery and checkups and in some cases free depending on a patient’s financial status. No matter what the patient will never be turned down or put off for proper care. The doctor or specialist will get paid a fair salary: nothing like many are making today, but let us not forget they did What is the biggest financial bur- not go in debt to become a healthden for every doctor or nurse? care provider. Education. Here is how you begin to fix our healthcare system. After this five or seven year stint at Provide free education to potential this facility then the may leave for doctors. Many young doctors find private practice or join a larger themselves from tens of thousands private medical group. During to hundreds of thousands in debt their time interning (for lack of a before they see their first patient better word), they will probably go because of the cost of education. the extra mile because their entire

The only doctor or specialists that can be left off this are plastic surgeons or vanity doctors – you know the ones who specialize in strictly aesthetic augmentations like face lifts and breast augmentations, which are purely voluntarily. However there are plastic surgeons that would be approved. Many don’t realize an amputee or a burn victim will see a plastic surgeon to help heal their wounds. And some nose jobs and facial reconstructions are not aesthetic. After receiving their education and training they will work as a resident at a healthcare facility one perhaps our government either state or federal government will build. At this point they will be required to work for roughly seven years (this can be slightly altered). These facilities will provide afford-

time will be used attract private medical groups or private healthcare providers that would want to take them in and then they can make a salary today’s doctors are more accustomed. Their entire time would be one big audition. And just like the marketplace, the better product you can offer the more your worth. It’s quite simple. The American healthcare system is a conundrum and no one seems to care except those that can’t get help or are denied. It’s about time the industry was held accountable for the limited access many have and for what it costs the consumer. And it’s time they were held accountable. After all it’s a matter of life and death – ours.

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South Chattanooga rode the train several times). I learned to swim at the YMCA on Mitchell Street and went to camp through there. There were three drugstores within Don’t try to bull me, I know three blocks of each other, what I’m talking about. Let me and a large cone of ice cream give you some history about was also a nickel. South Chattanooga and me. First, I was born on Jefferson After a few years we moved Street at home in a three-room again from Main Street to brick house. That was back around the corner to 17th when the doctors didn’t all Street. I still remember the live in the land in the sky, but number— 505 East 17th Street— were down to earth like everyonly 1? blocks to school. The one. He actually came to the Plymouth car dealer was locathouse, and I was born there. ed on Main across the street from a new business called After I turned about four years Slick’s (great burgers—go by old, we moved a block away and try one). and I lived in a house on Main Street. It was located between My mother worked at a clotha Shell (or was it Gulf?) service ing store across from the station and the neighborhood American Theater called grocery store (supermarkets Ableman’s (it was two or three hadn’t been invented) called doors down from Redford’s 5¢ Mike Striders. Around the cor& 10¢ store). ner and almost four blocks away was the Jefferson Street My dad ran a pool room across Elementary School, from from the train station and which I eventually graduated. almost next to the restaurant with the jumping frog signs. I was within walking distance There was a café & beer joint of the Main Street business next to the Terminal Hotel district. We had a Krystal on that had a big gambling room the corner of Main and Market in back. (hamburgers were a nickel) and a movie theater across the I could go on and on, but you street from it (The American). get the idea—don’t Southside There was a Pioneer Bank on me, it’s South Chattanooga. one corner of Main and Market and a Hamilton - Paul Burke Sr. National Bank on the other. You can call it the South Side to try and dress it up but it’s still the old area called South Chattanooga.

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Super Bowl Bound

Well look who’s playing this weekend in Houston. Nope, it’s not the Packers or the Seahawks. It’s my Atlanta Falcons who will face off against the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in Houston.

Norm Van Brocklin. Yep, I’m that old back when the NFL had a 14 game schedule and Monday Night Football was a new novelty for a kid who loved the sport and didn’t know you could watch pro football on a weeknight.

I’ve been a Falcons fan longer than most. I’m not a bandwagoneer like many who just recently bought a Matt Ryan or Julio Jones jersey. I go way back before cable TV or the Verizon Red Zone. My earliest memories were not of Julio or Vic Beasley or coach Dan Quinn, but guys like Bob Berry, Cannonball Butler and

“Back in the day” if the Falcons finished close to .500 or even .500 that was considered a moral victory. As much as we loved these Falcons we didn’t have any unrealistic hopes like they do now for every team. Of course back then you had dynasties in Dallas, Miami, Oakland and Pittsburgh. If our beloved team

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played any of these teams close it was the same as a victory. I still remember Atlanta’s first real winning season (sure they went 7-6-1 in 1971…). It was the 1973 team and Bill Lee was the starting quarterback. Prior to this season the most games the Falcons won was seven. This year they won nine and just missed the playoffs. I can still remember watching the Monday Night Football game that year against the undefeated Vikings. The Falcons won in a shootout. I remember Lee, who came from Minnesota avoid a sack scramble to one sideline, reverse field, get tripped up, regained his balance and threw a long bomb that set up the Falcons for victory. But like all Falcons fans I knew not to get my hopes up. The next year they sucked. They sucked so bad they fired Coach Van Brocklin. Their play was so bad they got a top draft pick and drafted golden boy Steve Bartkowski. Bartkowski was the team’s first franchise quarterback to be drafted by the team. The next ten years were a rollercoaster that saw the Falcons go to the playoffs for the first time, win

momentum going. Until less than ten years ago the Falcons never had back-to-back winning seasons. The ‘80s and most of the ‘90s were lost decades which saw the Falcons draft inconsistently and were always picking up other teams unwanted players – especially quarterbacks with mixed reviews. Names like Billy Joe Tolliver, Bobby Hebert, Erik Kramer, Wade Wilson, Jeff George and Chris Chandler to name a smattering of guys who saddled up under center for the Falcons in that era, the caveat being these guys were either free agents or trades – not drafted. The quarterbacks the Falcons drafted after Bartkowski was a who’s who of mediocrity and ©Dave Weinthal “what the hell were you thinktheir first playoff game and of But after every great season the ing?” The lone exception to all course blow a lead against the Falcons couldn’t keep the this was Brett Favre. But Brett Cowboys in the playoffs that could have eventually sent the team to the Super Bowl. One season the Falcons even won 12 games. Holy cow that was a lot of wins for team whose overall record is over 100 games under .500.

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was too immature to be in Atlanta and we know what happened to him after he was traded.

Was Atlanta charting a new course with coach Dan Reeves now? Nope. 1998 ended up being his last winning season coaching the Falcons until 2002 when a Michael Vick led team became the first team in NFL history to defeat the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in the playoffs.

As a long suffering Falcons fan (not a bandwagon fan like most) I was used to being disappointed and never got my hopes up. I was just happy to live within driving distance to a real NFL team. Of course I came from a generation where you were loyal to your home team – or at least the teams most geographically closest to you. Today teams have fans from all over the world, some who will never make it to an NFL game. Most are bandwagon fans. As a kid I was a Falcons and Dolphins fan. My friends liked the Dolphins until the Steelers started their dynasty. They jumped on to that bandwagon. Then of course they jumped to the Raiders, the Redskins, 49ers and Cowboys – you get the idea. To this day I still cheer for the Falcons and Dolphins. While it’s been years to have something to cheer for in Miami, I still look on and I’ve always kept up with the Falcons because I can drive to the Georgia Dome and the soon to be opened Mercedes Benz Stadium in roughly two hours depending on traffic.

This was followed by another disastrous season that led to another coaching change. Another winning season and then the team made news for the offfield antics of Vick who was federally indicted for bankrolling a dog-fighting ring. Let’s skip 2007 and go to 2008 now. After winning only four games the year before the Falcons hired a new coach, GM and had the third overall draft pick.

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No such thing. I remember halfwatching the NFC Championship game against the Vikings. I knew “our” luck had run out. Then the infamous missed field goal by Gary Anderson, perhaps the most accurate kicker in league history. Then came that magical season of The Falcons made it to the Super 1998. That was the year the Bowl. Falcons not only won a franchise best 14 games, they made it to the Of course they tanked to the Super Bowl. I can remember Broncos, a team I hate just being surrounded by the band- because of John Elway being on wagon fans. I remember that sea- their team. I’ve written in the son. As a long seasoned Falcon past why I hate Elway so you can fan I always waited for the look it up. proverbial other shoe to drop.

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Fortunes for the team actually started to turn at the end of the 2002 season. Arthur Blank, one of the founders of Home Depot

bought the team from original owner Rankin Smith. Blank promised to change the culture of the team and get the Falcons back to the Super Bowl. To be honest, I always felt that the Smith family saw the NFL franchise as a novelty. Sure, winning would be great, but it didn’t seem a priority to ownership. That’s probably why as much as I loved my Falcons I never got my hopes up. If you don’t get your hopes up you rarely get disappointed. In the 15 years that Blank has owned the team they have made the playoffs six times. During their first 36 years they only made the playoffs seven times and this week will be in the Super Bowl for the first time since the Home Depot founder bought the team and second time overall.

And not only back-to-back winning seasons the Falcons ended up with a winning record five seasons in a row. 2012 saw them start 8-0 and they hosted the NFC Championship game and even had a 17-0 lead before things went haywire. Falling behind 28-24 with time running out the Falcons drove to the 49ers’ 10-yard line. Unfortunately that’s where the drive stalled.

When Ryan was drafted in 2008 an unknown defensive coach for the Jaguars by the name of Mike Smith was named head coach and ©Dave Weinthal a talent scout from the Patriots by the name of Mike Dimitroff was much this season as Ryan was named the starting QB during prenamed GM. No one expected season. Was the kid from Boston College ready for NFL action already or were Falcon brass rushing him into action too quickly? After the first play there was no doubt. Ryan hit wide out Michael Jenkins on his first pass from scrimmage for a 62-yard touchdown in front of a shocked and delighted crowd at the Georgia Dome. And no it wasn’t beginner’s luck either. The Falcons became the league’s Cinderella team as they went 11-5 gaining a wild card berth. The following season the Falcons look to follow the usual pattern. With a 6-7 record they weren’t going to qualify for the playoffs but they managed to do something they’d never done before. They won their final three games to finish 9-7 and for the first time in franchise history they had back-to-back winning seasons. ENIGMA

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Unfortunately that was the team’s last winning season until now. After back-to-back losing seasons Mike Smith, who is the franchise’s winningest coach was let go. Falcons’ brass brought in Dan Quinn the defensive coordinator from Seattle to try and fix a porous defense. Last year the team started 5-0 and hopes were surprisingly high but things fell apart. There was definitely problems on offense as the team was having trouble adapting to offensive coordinator’s Kyle Shanihan’s playbook. There were public feuds going on between the offensive coordinator and franchise receiving leader Roddy White. People were calling for Shanihan’s head. Ryan who had signed a large contract extension a few seasons

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back was catching grief from fans as his interception total. The offense just wasn’t clicking. Was Shanihan one and done? During the off-season White was released and the team picked up free agent Mohammed Sanu from the Bengals. Everyone in Atlanta was skeptical. Most pundits didn’t expect the Falcons to win more than eight or nine games. After the season opener that saw them lose to divisional foe Tampa Bay 31-24 people were preparing for worst. Week two saw them going to Oakland to play the Raiders who everyone was predicting big things from. Oakland was a much-improved team and they did make the playoffs but on week two the Falcons won a shootout 35-28. Defense didn’t show up but the offense did. The following week they put up 42 points and 45 the next. But the defense was giving up their fair share of points.

After week three they took over chise and league passing records, first place in the division and as did Julio Jones. A season defining defeat of the Carolina never looked back. Panthers saw Ryan throw for over The 2016 Atlanta offense went in 500 yards (eighth most in league

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the record books as one of the more potent in NFL history tied for eighth most points scoring 540, tying 1999’s “Greatest Show On Turf” (Rams). Ryan set fran-

history) and Julio Jones with 300 receiving yards (sixth most in league history). And while everyone was impressed by the offense nobody was paying attention to the defense. The 2015 Falcons’ defense only recorded 19 QB sacks. This year second year pro Vic Beasley Jr. lead the NFL with 15.5 sacks. Atlanta lost five games by a total of 22 points. The team’s last loss was December 4 against Kansas City and since that game they starting literally doubling up points on the opponents winning by an average of 19 points.

the facility is retired. The game wasn’t even close. The two met earlier in the season and the Falcons rallied for a one-point win. The Falcons jumped to a 31-0 lead in the third quarter. The battle of MVP candidates wasn’t even close. Ryan passed for 392 yards, four touchdowns, ran for another 23 yards and another score. His counterpart, Rodgers added yardage late throwing for 287 yards and three touchdowns. Rodgers was knocked around and sacked twice. The former league MVP was even flagged for a facemask penalty that got him fined by the league this week. The Falcons won 44-21 an almost identical score that the Packers beat the Falcons in the Georgia Dome in the 2010 playoffs. And just like that there are believers. The Falcons are headed to their first Super Bowl in 18 years and they will face off against Super Bowl frequent fliers New England Patriots. Hopefully the team won’t act like they’re just happy to be there as they did in 1999. Ryan’s playoff performance has pretty much cemented his MVP award as he tries to finally quell critics that said he couldn’t win the big one. And if he does, I think you can say yes indeed, he is an elite quarterback.

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They clinched the number two overall seed in the playoffs but no one was giving the Falcons much consideration. Everybody was busy taking about the Packers and the Cowboys. The playoffs didn’t change anything for Atlanta. They handily defeated the Seahawks 36-20 allowing two late scores to make the final score semi-respectable. The Packers surprised the Cowboys and came to the Georgia Dome for one final game before ENIGMA

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Baby Boomers: Are Your Millenial Children Worse Off Than You? Parents typically want better lives Not in my opinion. for their children. Tackling Student Loan Debt So, some baby boomers may be a bit dismayed by the latest study According to this study, a good last week from the Federal part of the reason millennials are Reserve data reporting that mil- worse off than we were at their lennials actually make less money age is crippling student loan debt. than we did at the same age. Americans owe nearly $1.3 trillion The research shows that our mil- in student loan debt, spread out lennial children earn 20 percent among about 44 million borrowless than we did at the same stage ers. In fact, the average Class of of life with a median household income of $40, 581, despite being better educated. In fact, the median college-educated millennial with student debt is only earning slightly more than a baby boomer without a degree did in 1989.

the slate clean in bankruptcy. their lives afterward or are they Struggling to pay your student stressed out over the massive stuloans? Sorry, you’ll just have to dent debt they’ll carry for years? figure that one out on your own.” If our children are thinking about This was not always the case. taking out loans or co-signing stuOlder baby boomers will remem- dent loans for their own chilber that before 1976, all education dren’s college education, these loans were dischargeable in bank- are questions they should considruptcy. Along with much lower er. Parents need to make sure that college costs back in the day, this this financial investment is indeed is one reason we boomers were worthwhile and not made to the better off financially when we detriment of their own future well being. An article from Wall Street Journal pointed out that “as student-loan default rates climb and college graduates fail to land jobs, an increasing number of students are betting they can get just as far with a degree from a less-expensive school as they can with a diploma from an elite schoolwithout having to take on debt.”

There’s more. When we baby boomers were young, we owned more homes and had amassed assets worth twice as much as young people today. The report spawned many articles claiming these figures presented a dire picture for the 75 million millennials struggling for a piece of the American Dream. No wonder 2016 graduate has $37,172 in stuso many millennials still live with dent loan debt, up six percent their baby boomer parents, they from last year. pointed out. To make matters worse, this debt So what can we take away from all is not dischargeable in bankruptthis? Should we be depressed and cy. As an article from Time states worried for our children by this so well: “If you’re struggling to doom and gloom report? pay credit card debt, car loans or even gambling debt, you can wipe

Perhaps that’s why more students are choosing lower-cost public colleges, state schools, commuting to schools from home to save on housing expenses, as well as were young adults than our chil- choosing a more practical careerdren. oriented education. Nonetheless, not all is lost. If your millennial children are saddled with this heavy load, there’s plenty of great information on how to pay off student loan debt faster on the Internet. In addition, I propose that in light of the times, perhaps it’s time we change our thinking about the value of an elite private institution. If we’re truly honest with ourselves, isn’t the motivation for attending expensive, elite schools often prestige? But is it worth it? The sluggish economy and rising costs of college have intensified questions about whether that fancy education is worth it. Are graduates more satisfied with

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Food for thought for our grandchildren as they approach college age. Money Does Not Equal Happiness So, maybe our children are earning less, haven’t purchased a home yet, and don’t have as much money as we did when we were their age. Does that mean they’re doomed to misery? Heck no! If this recession taught us anything, it’s that money, expensive houses, and things doesn’t equal happiness.

Maybe the American Dream has In fact, home ownership rates are changed since we were young - at their lowest since 1995. In the and that’s not a bad thing. years since the housing bubble burst, many have come to the conRemember the 60’s, when many clusion that home ownership isn’t young people thought society had everything it’s cracked up to be been corrupted by capitalism and and are now renting a less expenthe materialist atmosphere it cre- sive apartment instead. Others ated? They looked down on their opted for home ownership, but parents, children of the decided to downsize. This idea Depression era who sought securi- spawned the whole tiny house ty in cookie-cutter houses in the movement. suburbs, enjoying an economic boom after World War II ended. So, maybe our millennial children Their parents were “square” and don’t own a home and are renting “materialistic” in their youthful an apartment instead. Is that such eyes, and had lost sight of the a tragedy? Without a huge mortmore meaningful experiences life gage debt hanging over their had to offer. heads, they’ll have more time to concentrate on spiritual matters, Then they grew up. their family and friends, volunteer work, and their health and wellLet’s get real. Many of those ideals being. Maybe our children don’t were left behind. Ironically, many have a demanding cooperate job “hippies” became “yuppies.” earning big bucks. Perhaps they’ll Despite all the talk and protests, a have more freedom for new expelot of baby boomers began work- riences, adventures, and seeing ing around the clock at burgeon- the world. ing careers, bought nice homes, enjoyed fancy vacations, chased Whose to say they can’t be happisuccess, and accumulated credit er without all the materialistic card debt. In the end, many entrapment that the so-called boomers became much more American Dream entails? materialistic than their parents. Multi-Generational Living Well, it seems the pendulum has swung once again. After the reces- Do you have millennial children sion, many young people are feel- living with you? You’re not alone. ing the same way we boomers did Statistics show that 21 percent of in the 60’s. millennials live with their parents. After all, many people bought extravagant homes they could not otherwise afford and lost them during the housing bubble burst. You know what? They learned life went on. Buying that home they always “dreamed of” turned into a nightmare and many discovered it wasn’t worth all the stress that resulted.

support for his three children and substantial legal debt from from his recent divorce and custody battle, he is currently living in a casita on our property. This works well for us as well, since we share living expenses. This is not an uncommon scenario in this recovering economy. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, three in 10 parents of adult children report that the economy forced their grown child to move back in with them in the past few years. Because of this phenomena, the term “boomerang kids” has been coined. To be clear, I’m not talking about kids who move back home and take advantage of you. Adult children who are lackadaisical about finding work, view your house as a permanent vacation spot, and use their earnings as disposable income to be used for going out, expensive trips, or

However, that doesn’t have to be a negative thing.

Shortly after my youngest son got married, he was forced to move back home. He was laid off during the recession and his wife was working at a dental facility that closed down. They lived with us for a few years until they got back on their feet and recently moved Turns out that dedicating yourself up north. to a career and owning a fancy home wasn’t the answer to finding My oldest son doesn’t match the contentment, satisfaction, and joy data from the Federal Reserve after all. Many of our children used for this latest study. He actutook note. ally earns more than my husband and I. However, because of child ENIGMA

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sports cars. That’s a totally different situation. However, if your children are living at home to pay off some student loan debt, are saving to buy a house, temporally out of work, or recovering financially from a divorce like my son, moving back home doesn’t have to be a negative experience. Helping your children regroup so they can live an independent life once again, if handled correctly, can be a rewarding experience. The fact is, studies show that people who live in multi-generational homes actually like it. In conclusion, baby boomers, let’s not cry a bucket of tears for our millennial children. Yes, they face some challenging times. But I have faith that, all in all, they’ll find their way and do just fine.

- Julie Gorges

Hollywood Needs A Late Night Comedy Show That Trashes Left-Leaning Politics Have you ever watched late night comedy shows and thought to yourself that the constant bombardment of Republicans, Tea Party Folks,

and Donald Trump just was not funny anymore? Yep, me too, and as a right-leaning libertarian, I just think it is persnickety, victimhood, progressive poop. What’s even more interesting is that all these shows are essentially the same, and they all compete against one-another, while all the right-leaning folks tune out. From a marketing and branding standpoint that just makes no sense, but their ideological slant doesn’t allow them to seek viewers outside this “hate speech” neo-liberal bubble - no wonder they cannot believe they lost the election they lived in their own living room echo chamber. Consider if you will the following Late Night Talk/Comedy Shows: Jimmy Kimble Jimmy Fallon Stephen Colbert John Stewart David Letterman

Ellen Degeneres John Oliver James Corden

tion, every night, night after night, year in and year out, no, it’s not funny anymore.

Of course, this indeed opens up On March 8, 2016 The Washington Post had an article titled; “Late night tells 3 times as many jokes about 2016 Republicans as Democrats,” By S. Robert Lichter, Stephen J. Farnsworth and Deanne Canieso. A recent survey at the height of the 2016 election season said it was 8:1 against Republicans. Another survey noted that before the 2016 election season, 48% of the audiences of late night TV shows a slot for a right-leaning talk identified themselves as nightly talk show host. Since Democrats and 17% Republicans. there are not any, that means There is an obvious trend here. he or she would have 50% of the audience immediately, all those Let’s say you have 4 shows on who have turned the TV off or every night and there is a vieware watching movies at night ership of 40 million people, or because they can’t stand people let’s just say for averages 10 milmaking fun of them and calling lion viewers for each show, yet, them ignorant, stupid, racists, we know that there are 40 milhaters, or bigots every night at lion Americans who feel aliennausea. Imagine the immediate ated by the late night talk show viewership numbers? hosts, just tired of being called stupid, and probably voted for From a right-leaning stand- Donald Trump and they would point, I must say the current watch if there was a show that nightly talk hosts think they are had balanced criticism and not comedians, but I just see it as just politically one-sided as we “entertaining hate speech” and have currently. find it rather hypocritical for them to condemn a group of Imagine a late night talk show people, tell us all to be ‘politi- with those kinds of ratings - I’d cally correct’ and then make be all in if I was FOX, and there fun of us on the right. is a fortune to be made. Maybe Personally, I find these people someone will see this opportusick, pathetic and disgusting - I nity in our nation’s psyche, just don’t find it funny at all. Oh as Trump saw an opening for his sure, it used to be funny once in brand of politics? Think on this. awhile, I mean I can take it a little, but on every major TV sta- - Lance Winslow ENIGMA

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THIS MONTH IN ROCK HISTORY 1954 Backed by his Jazz ensemble, Big Joe Turner records the original version of “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. The tune will top the Billboard R&B chart next June, but did not cross over to the Pop chart. Some of the original lyrics, that would have been considered highly sexual at the time, were changed when Bill Haley recorded the song five months later.

the Plaza Hotel in New York City in preparation for their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later.

A New York band called The Echoes recruited a young piano player named Billy Joel. The quartet would play cover songs under the names The Lost Souls, The Commandos and The Emerald Lords before Billy split two years later to join The Hassles. He would make his breakthrough in 1973 with below, pilot Roger Peterson “Piano Man”. seemed to become disoriented and flew the plane into the ground. 1965 One wing hit the frozen earth and The Beatles began filming their secthe small plane tumbled over and ond, as yet un-named movie, on over, killing the three musicians New Providence in the Bahamas. and the plane’s young pilot. The film would eventually be called Eight Arms to Hold You before pro1963 ducers finally settled on Help!. CoThe Rolling Stones take over as the starring in the movie was actor Sunday house band at the Station Victor Spinetti, who also appeared Hotel near London. They are paid in A Hard Day’s Night, Magical 24 Pounds ($67) to entertain a Mystery Tour and John Lennon’s crowd of 66 people. How I Won The War.

1956 Police in Cleveland, Ohio enforce a 1964 1931 ordinance that barred people under the age of 18 from dancing in Beatlemania comes to America public unless accompanied by an when “I Want To Hold Your Hand” adult. becomes the first of twenty Billboard number one hits for The 1957 Beatles. It would stay on top for 20-year-old Don Everly and his 2- seven weeks, with world wide sales year-younger brother Phil sign a of fifteen million copies. recording contract with Cadence Records. During their career, The Matthew Walsh, the Governor of Everly Brothers will have 35 Indiana declares the song “Louie Billboard Hot 100 singles. Louie” by the Kingsmen (which was currently #6 on the Hot 100) to be 1958 pornographic. He asks the Indiana Elvis Presley crams in one more Broadcasters Association to ban trip to a recording studio before the record, although stations claim joining the US Army. The session it’s impossible to accurately figure will produce “Wear My Ring out the lyrics from “the unintelligiAround Your Neck”, which will ble rendition as performed by the reach #3 in the US and the UK. Kingsmen.” Although much has been written about the controver1959 sy, Indiana was the only state to February 3rd, 1959 was for many, actually ban the record from radio “the day the music died”, when play. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were all killed. An estimated crowd of over four Their plane took off a little after 1 thousand fans and two hundred AM from Clear Lake, Iowa, when a journalists were on hand to greet cold North-East wind gave way to a The Beatles as they touched down blinding snow storm which drasti- at John F. Kennedy Airport in cally reduced visibility. Encased in Queens, New York. They would be a sea of snow with only white driven by limo, one per Beatle, to ENIGMA

Rhonda”, with guitarist Al Jardine singing lead vocal. The disc will become their second Billboard #1 and stay on the chart for eleven weeks. 1968 25-year-old Frankie Lymon, lead singer of The Teenagers, died of a heroin overdose in his grandmother’s New York home. Lymon was on leave from a Georgia Army post at the time and was scheduled to record for Roulette Records the next day. He first hit the national charts in 1956 when he was just 13 with “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”. 1970 Shocking Blue, a three man, one woman band from Holland, had the top single in America with “Venus”. It made #8 in the UK.

Simon And Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” entered the UK album chart at number 1, where it would stay for 12 consecutive weeks. It would return to the top The Beach Boys record “Help Me seven times, spending a total of 41

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weeks there over the next two years. In the US, the LP spent 10 weeks at number 1 on the strength of three Top Ten singles and was the number 7 album of the decade in America. The Jackson 5 make their TV debut on American Bandstand where they sing “I Want You Back”. After the family of the late Ferdinand von Zeppelin threatens a lawsuit, Led Zeppelin performs in Copenhagen, Denmark as The Nobs. 1973 Roberta Flack achieved her second Billboard #1 hit with “Killing Me Softly With His Song”. The tune was inspired by singer Lori Lieberman after she saw Don McLean perform at The Troubadour in Los Angeles. 1974 28-year-old Bobby Bloom, who is best remembered for his #8, 1970 hit “Montego Bay”, dies of a gunshot wound to the head. His death was originally thought to be suicide, but is now considered accidental. 1976 Paul Simon had his only solo #1 hit in the US when “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” made it to the top for the first of three weeks. The theme from the ABC-TV program S.W.A.T. became the first television theme song to top the Billboard Hot 100. Before that, the theme from the original Hawaii 5-0 had made it to number 4. The Eagles LP “Their Greatest Hits 1971 - 1975” becomes the first album in history to be certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The new certification represented sales of at least 1 million copies for albums and 2 million copies for singles. The Platinum award was originated in the early seventies because Gold status was achieved by most popular records in a very short period of time. The Eagles’ greatest hits

album stayed on Billboard’s Hot The Cars, who had placed 15 songs 200 chart for two and half years. on the Hot 100 between 1978 and 1987, announce their break up. 1977 Ray Charles is attacked onstage by Campaigning as a member of The a man who tried to strangle him Wild Party, Alice Cooper with a microphone cord. The man announces he is going to run for was a member of a group called Governor of Arizona. To no one’s Project Heavy, a community pro- surprise, he lost. gram for disadvantaged youths. 1990 They promised that the matter would be handled within the Milli Vanilli are awarded the Best organization and no charges were New Artist Grammy. It would take laid. until the following November for producer Frank Farian to confess 1979 that the duo of Fab Morvan and Blondie’s “Heart Of Glass” is certi- Rob Pilatus never actually sang a fied Platinum in Great Britain, single note on their recordings, where it tops the UK Pop chart. The causing the award to be withsong will also rise to number one drawn. in the US the following April. The original lyrics, Once I had a love, it Johnnie Ray, the 1950’s teen idol, was a gas. Soon turned out, it was died of liver failure at the age of a pain in the ass were altered to 63. He scored over twenty US Top Once I had a love, it was a gas. 40 singles between 1952 and 1960, Soon turned out, had a heart of including the number two hit, “Just glass, to ensure radio play. Walking In The Rain”. He was even referred to in Dexys Midnight 1981 Runners’ 1982 hit “Come On Eileen” Dolly Parton topped the Billboard as Poor old Johnnie Ray, sounded Pop Chart with her own composi- sad upon the radio, he moved a tion, “9 to 5”. The record reached million hearts in mono. #47 in the UK. 1992 REO Speedwagon started a 15 week The US Postal Service unveils two run at the top of the Billboard versions of its proposed Elvis album chart with “Hi Infidelity”. stamp for fans to vote on. The younger Elvis would win out over 1983 the Vegas Elvis and was issued on Air Supply’s seventh studio album, January 8, 1993. “Now And Forever”, is certified 2004 Platinum, peaking at #25 on the Hot 200 chart. The LP contained three Justin Timberlake caused a huge Top 40 hits, “Even the Nights Are uproar when he tugged at Janet Better” (#5), “Young Love” (#38) and Jackson’s outfit and revealed her “Two Less Lonely People in the left breast live on US TV during the World” (#38). half-time show of Superbowl 1985 David Byron, vocalist and cofounder of the British Rock band Uriah Heep, suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 38. 1986 George Michael announced that Wham! would officially split during the summer. 1988 ENIGMA

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XXXVIII (38). Four days later, that scene would become the most searched for image in the history of the internet. 2006 The Sex Pistols gave a virtual middle finger to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when they issued an open letter on front man Johnny Rotten’s Website, saying they have no intention of attending the induction ceremony at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. “Next to The Sex Pistols, rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum, urine in wine. We’re not coming.” 2011 The Cars announced that May 10th would be the release date for their first new album in 24 years. Boy George revealed a Culture Club 30th anniversary album and tour plans for 2012. 2012 Don Cornelius, the host of TV’s Soul Train, who helped break down racial barriers and broaden the reach of Black culture, died of an apparent suicide. He was 75. 2016 Maurice White, vocalist and cofounder of Earth, Wind And Fire died in his sleep at the age of 74. He helped the band place sixteen songs on Billboard’s Top 40 chart between 1974 and 1983. Health problems forced him to retire from touring in 1994, but he remained active on the business side of the group.