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HIGHLIGHTSJUNE 14-20, 2012 • VOL. 9 NO. 24

Styles Shapes Riverbend• For better or worse, Jeff styles shapes the lineup at Riverbend. By Richard Winham » 11

New Dischord Festival• classically trained symphony performers and uTc instructors gather to play highly abstract, decidedly contemporary works during the new Dischord Festival. Instead of taking place in recital halls or chambers, the pieces are presented in lofts, museums and even out in the open air. By Patrick Noland » 8

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it came as no surprise to us that Drew Johnson, the new right-side edito-rial page editor of the Times Free Press, was the subject of a recent Punk’d-style Tweet raid. The paper’s new Boy Won-der is something of a political gadfly who seems to invite derision. If you are not familiar with Johnson, you soon will be. He is a very serious-looking young man with hip eyewear and a conservative gaze that invites such mischief. Until his new post at the TFP, Johnson was director of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, one of those “think tanks” whose serious-sounding name is a misnomer for sniping at Democrats to please right-wing fun-draisers, as the Nashville Scene put it so delicately in a 2008 profile.

In that article, he is described by for-mer Gov. Phil Bredesen’s senior politi-cal advisor Will Pinkston as a “partisan nitwit who basically spends all his time dreaming up ways to terrorize rank-and-file state employees.”

Johnson, who replaces the retiring Lee Anderson as the paper’s top conserva-tive hack, was himself hacked on Twit-ter by a lively imposter before he’d even begun. Under the moniker “GQ Drew,” a fake Drew Johnson began Tweeting what the Times Free Press called “inappropri-ate, offensive and vulgar Tweets” under Johnson’s name. The Tweets were all those things, but they were also hilari-ous.

Last week, he was named as Ander-son’s replacement at the TFP, in charge of crafting Obama Bashing and the right-side of the editorial page and also a column. This should be fun.

But back to the Tweets, which, while vulgar and offensive to some, are also a

great spoof. Obviously, Johnson has en-emies. “When your job is to be a watch-dog and tell the truth about politicians,” he Tweeted under his own, new account (Drews_Views), “you make a few en-emies.”

The fake Drew Johnson, whom the real Johnson is fighting to dismantle, seems to have been Tweeting since September, but until Johnson’s recent appointment, the missives didn’t take on much impor-tance. In fact, GQ Drew seemed to have the scoop on his alter-ego’s new employer before the news was announced.

On June 8, GQ Drew announced, “I’m gonna pick up the world and drop it on your fucking head, y’all. The new opinion editor at @timesfreepress.com is me.”

This opening salvo was followed by, “Hey, Chattanooga. Open wide. There’s a BIG Johnson coming through.”

It gets stranger from there, but you get the drift. It may not qualify as good, clean fun—in fact, it does not at all—but it does point out that Johnson is a con-troversial young man with an obvious agenda.

Johnson begins his run at the paper later this month.

—Bill Ramsey

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my wife and I both agree (which is noteworthy in itself) that Alex Teach’s column consistently debases the pages of your paper. His snide tone, intolerant at-titude and sarcastic language are unwel-come and unnecessary. I can’t believe the police department is comfortable having him out there as a spokesperson. This is “community policing?” He is the absolute epitome of an arrogant, condescending, power-tripping cop and inspires people either to fear or loathe policemen. He talks about young people, minorities, the poor and the less fortunate as if they were lesser beings. To use Alex’s favorite word, why would you print this crap?

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See? I’m already be-ing condescending and I haven’t even started, which validates my hesi-tation. Who am I to judge jack or shit, except when it comes to freedom, civil law or life and death. Ask any music snob and they’ll tell you they’d rath-er have their eyes plucked out by crows than to allow a non-believer to form an opinion about music, but I’ve always taken this at-titude because these types inevitably remind me of the white guy that Forrest Gump decked at the Black Panther Party he crashed in the movie. But alas, that’s not my point.

As most cops do, I work on the side (something referred to as “extra jobs” in the South, and “moon-lighting” in the North, whatever the hell that re-ally means). I don’t do it as much as I used to, but as I approach my second de-cade in the business I do get to be a bit more picky in what I do and when, and this last week was a fluke that topped most others in all regards.

Instead of a polyester shell covering a Kevlar vest and a layer of funky body odor bearing wit-ness to my life being wasted away in the use-less gesture of guarding a convenience store parking lot that not coincidentally wreaks of decaying chick-en meat and human piss, I can wear a suit and tie

(vest optional), and make fabulous sums of money being polite while having a plan to kill everyone I meet as made famous by Marine Gen. James Mat-tis.

This work has had me backstage at glob-ally televised events, and while Bonnaroo doesn’t count as such, it was still one of the most unique. Some 80,000 ass-smell-ing people present at an event where it is not statistically unusual to have a person or two die of unnatural causes in a sweaty tent, and I’m eat-ing pineapple backstage with a vegetarian whose name you wouldn’t know from a hole in the ground, but he’s been in the same room and tax bracket as the likes of George Lucas and Warren Buffett. I “get it.”

So there I was with Thom Yorke whining his guts out 50 meters away, and I felt guilty. I knew a half dozen people that would vote Republican to be here if they had to (and you cannot possibly realize how profound a statement that is to these

people), and I was just annoyed that Radiohead reminded me of an elec-tronic Neil Young rip-off (think about it, eh?) and how pissed people would be if I said that. So it clicked: I need to say that. Maybe make it a separate review?

But to do that I’d prob-ably have to write during daylight, on a deadline, and without a frost-cov-ered bottle of Crown in hand—and I know I can’t change that formula now, folks.

I can, however, en-courage you to look up from that cell phone and appreciate when some-thing good is happening. It doesn’t have to be on-board a G-5 while pack-ing heat or backstage at an event to impress you, but you do have to look up and around to smell those flowers now and then.

Life: Attendance counts. Even when it’s filled with pre-pubescent vocals coming from a middle aged man whin-ing about electronic angst through the ironic use of synthesizers. Again.

So endeth my “review,” and that dirty-assed event as well.

Coparoo at BonnarooOn the Beat ALEx TEACh

Alex Teach is a full-time police officer of near-ly 20 years experience. The opinions expressed are his own. Follow him on Facebook at facebook.com/alex.teach.

almost fantastically, i thought about writing this week’s bit as a first-hand review of Bonnaroo 2012 for the newspaper that prides itself on being a beacon of local arts and music in particular. A non-connoisseurs point of view of one of the largest music events in the country as seen from the perspective of one who actually had no intention of being there, yet found himself backstage with one of the headlining bands (if that’s what you call them now).

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in 1912, a group of 15 Chattanooga electrical workers came together to form the Inter-national Brotherhood of Electri-cal Workers Local 175, which cel-ebrates its 100th anniversary this month. Local 175 is comprised of more than 3,000 members, all contributors to the landscape of Chattanooga and the surround-ing areas. And those members are proud.

“I decided to become an IBEW member because my father was a member and I was raised in a union household,” said Tom-my “Fuzzy” Clark, now 75, who served as the union’s assistant business manager from 1991-95, and recently received his 55-year pin.

The reach of the union extends far into the Chattanooga com-munity and beyond. Three of the more noteworthy collaborations in recent history have been with the Electric Power Board, Ten-nessee Valley Authority and the new Volkswagen plant.

Electric Power Board When the Electric Power

Board was created by a private act in 1935, IBEW Local 175 was already 23 years old. But the rela-tionship between the two entities has grown into a significant part-

nership. EPB now serves more than 169,000 residents in a 600 square-mile area that includes greater Chattanooga, as well as parts of surrounding counties and areas of North Georgia. And when EPB needs quality work done, it calls on IBEW members to do it.

When EPB moved into the fiber-optic business, it was pri-marily IBEW members the com-pany called on for installation. The union’s professional crafts-men install the system, and as the fiber-optic network continues to expand, the job continues, giv-ing rise to Chattanooga’s national reputation as “Gig City.”

Tennessee Valley Authority In the depths of the Great

Depression, with one in four Americans out of work, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act as one of the first of the “New Deal” projects created in the first 100 days of his administration.

The Tennessee Valley, which includes parts of seven states—Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Geor-gia and Mississippi—was also one of most economically disadvan-taged in the South. TVA was one of the most ambitious projects of the New Deal in its overall con-ception and was given the assign-ment to improve the economic and social circumstances of the people living in the river basin. TVA was also taxed to bring elec-tricity to thousands of people at an affordable price.

Sixteen dams and a steam plant were constructed by the TVA between 1933 and 1944. At

its peak, a dozen hydroelectric projects and a steam plant were under construction at the same time, and design and construc-tion employment reached a to-tal of 28,000 workers, including many members of IBEW Local 175.

In the 1930s, only 10 percent of the nation’s rural population had access to electricity. Private utility companies, which supplied electric power to most of the na-tion’s consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string elec-tric lines to isolated rural farm-steads.

But the Roosevelt administra-tion believed that if private en-terprise could not supply electric power to the people, then it was the duty of the government to do it. As TVA began to provide the power so desperately needed, families cherished their first fuse boxes as magical talismans, sym-bols of a better future. And as noted in the documentary “Built for the People: The Story of TVA,” “TVA created jobs—but labor unions taught the workers their craft.”

Years later, without the power produced by TVA dams, Oak Ridge could not have advanced the work on the nuclear bombs that ended the war in Japan. Post-war, TVA began to look at nuclear power as a major source

of domestic electricity—and IBEW Local 175 workers were vi-tal to the work needed on its three nuclear plants: Browns Ferry, Se-quoyah and Watts Bar, particu-larly during the 1960s and ’70s.

Today, TVA ranks as America’s largest public power company, with a generating capacity of 31,658 megawatts. Seventeen thousand miles of transmission lines deliver power through 158 locally owned distributors to 8.5 million residents of the Tennes-see Valley.

Volkswagen On July 15, 2008, at the Hunter

Museum of American Art, Volk-swagen officials chose Chatta-nooga as the site of their new as-sembly plant—and IBEW Local 175 members were among those excited about the new job possi-bilities.

In addition to the other factors considered, a deciding compo-nent of the German carmaker’s decision to locate its new plant in Chattanooga was that, “The area has a deep base of well-trained labor.” And this labor included, of course, the skills of Local 175 members.

Volkswagen eventually ended up with 180 electricians working on the site—with no time to waste due to Volkswagen’s commitment to be up and running by 2011.

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By Patrick Noland

you know that jarring sensation when you repeat a word over and over and over until, suddenly, all of its meaning fades away, leaving you with the feeling of something being both innately familiar yet totally alien?

Composer Tim Hinck not only encour-ages that experience, but he also wants you to take it in—to process and relish it, embrace the dissociative. That’s why in 2009, Hinck founded the New Dischord Festival, a four-day event that combines top-level classical performers with avant-garde experimentation and conceptual visual art, taking place in venues across the city.

The result is a concentrated exercise in juxtaposition. Classically trained sym-phony performers and UTC instructors gather to play highly abstract, decidedly contemporary works. Instead of taking place in recital halls or chambers, the pieces are presented in lofts, museums and even out in the open air. The vel-vet curtain is put away and events are brought out into the public, allowing the adventurous patron, the artsy enthusiast, and the unexpecting pedestrian to meet and mingle in an environment without the stuffy connotations of a stage and the-ater seating.

It’s all part of an experiment—an at-tempt to expose the general population to something that they would otherwise have to seek out. And as a testament to the evolving cultural palette of the city, the results have all been positive.

New Dischord, by its very nature not an easy event to market, has managed to garner attention from multiple major me-dia outlets in the city, and its Kickstarter campaign has already surpassed its open-ing goal of $800. That gives you a sense of the size (still small), but also a hint of the ambition behind it. At a time where de-veloping, non-corporate branded festivals are falling through the cracks and closing up shop, New Dischord has grown slowly but steadily over the last three years and is now poised for real growth in the up-coming year, thanks in no small part to growing community interest and a home-town appreciation for locals bringing the new and innovative to the people.

Hinck himself is a native Chattanoogan (he spent his undergrad years at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale be-fore receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue his Master’s in the Netherlands) and he works here both in residency at the Easy Lemon and as an instructor at UTC. However, it wasn’t just his connec-tions to the Scenic City that made bring-ing this festival to Chattanooga the easy choice. Capitalizing on the second-fiddle image that the Chattanoogan music scene has when compared to Nashville, Atlanta, and even Knoxville, New Dischord is also an attempt at contributing to a sound-scape that is refreshingly devoid of sonic predisposition.

“I wanted to do this in Chattanooga be-cause, especially on the Southside, there is a thriving community of visual artists and yet there is no real established musi-cal arts scene.” Hinck said. “The city is a blank slate in that regard.”

To combat this, Hinck draws from the pool of local talent, collaborating with members of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and Shaking Ray Levi Society, but for a little scenic diversity, the festival also brings in New York City imports such as Aaron Roche and Evan Lipson—artists with some national touring experience that can help cultivate the developing sound.

The focus this year is on a premiere en-titled “Blue Monsters.” This piece features a brass quintet, visual multimedia, and a

young boy soprano by the name of Ethan Dickenson leading a call and response against the movement of the brass. Inter-estingly, Ethan is not only involved in the performance, but was also a major part of the concept itself. The title stems from Hinck’s interviews with Ethan about his dreams and nightmares, and the result-ing imagery is an interpretation of those subconscious images. The visuals and performers are positioned in various yet carefully arranged locations around the hall, resulting in a surreal dreamscape in which the individual is encouraged to re-flect inward upon their own subconscious tendencies and confront their “monsters” that pervade both waking and non-wak-ing life.

Yes, it’s disarming and, frankly, very different than most performances that you’ll find in the area. It’s also exactly the type of thing that has to be experienced to be understood.

New Dischord FestivalJune 14 • 8 p.m.evan lipson and Tim hinckBarking legs Theater, 1307 Dodds ave.

June 15 • 8 p.m.cTRl + alT + sPeaK: a collaboration with ashley hamiltoneasy lemon loft, 1440 adams st.

June 16 • 11 a.m.new Dischord ensembleaquarium Plaza, aquarium Way

3 p.m.songs of the seahunter museum of american art, 10 Bluff View ave.

8 p.m.cTRl + alT + sPeaK: a collaboration with ashley hamiltoneasy lemon loft, 1440 adams st.

June 17 • 3 p.m.new music for chamber ensembleshunter museum of american art, 10 Bluff View ave.

8 p.m.“Blue monsters”lindsay street hall, 901 lindsay st.

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Chattanooga Football Club• Home game vs. DC United U-23S.7 p.m. • Finley stadium • 1826 carter st. (423) 266-4041 • chattanoogafc.com

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RIVERBENDThE FEATURES• Almost staples on the Chattanooga music scene, The Features bring their own brand of indie rock to town for a Riverbend concert in an intimate setting. FRI 06.15 • 7:45 p.m. TVFcu stageRiverbendriverbendfestival.com

meet The Tribe, a group of political-ly active hippies

of the “age of aquarius” living a bohemian life in new York city and fight-ing the draft in the rock musical, “hair.” The show grew out of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, and the musical’s profanity, its sexual-ity, and its irreverence caused controversy when it debuted off-Broadway in 1967. after moving to Broadway the following year, it ran for 1,750 per-

formances and its songs became anthems of the peace movement.

a Broadway revival opened in 2009, earning strong reviews and win-ning the Tony award and Drama Desk award for best revival of a musical. age has not lessened the powerful impact of this four-decades-old musical, as Time magazine re-ports: “Today hair seems, if anything, more daring than ever.”

“hair” opens at the chattanooga Theatre centre on Friday with a

calendar of related events accompanying its run through July 14.

• Friday, June 15: open-ing night reception begins at 7 p.m. followed by the show at 8 p.m.

• saturday, June 16: stay afterwards to watch the Riverbend finale fire-works from the Theatre centre patio at no extra charge.

• Friday, June 22: Be-In with hippie Radio 106.9 from 1-8 p.m. featuring music, face painting, food and drink, and entertain-ment from the cast of “hair.”

• Friday June 29: hippie chicks’ night out spon-sored by Brewer media with complimentary adult beverages.

• Friday, July 6: Talk back after the show with the director and cast.

• saturday, July 14: closing night show.

“hair”8 p.m. • June 15-July 14Tickets: $18Parking: $2chattanooga Theatre centre400 River st.(423) 267-8534theatrecentre.com

Long, Beautiful ‘Hair’

The cast of “Hair,” clockwise from top: Lebron Lackey as Berger, Ashley McKoy as Dionne, Cody Keown as Woof, Nathaniel Garth as Hud, and Emily White as Sheila.

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“i love my job,” said Richard Lloyd, the leg-endary Television guitar-ist, in a recent phone in-terview. “I mean, besides an actor or athlete, musi-cian is the only job where the word ‘work’ is replaced with ‘play.’”

Lloyd has been “play-ing” guitar professionally for more than 40 years, having taken lessons from none other than Jimi Hendrix as well as Jimmy Page’s guitar tech. His “work,” especially with the seminal 1970s New York outfit Television, has directly influenced just about every band of its kind since—namely Elvis Costello, U2, REM, Wilco and Sonic Youth.

“We were too young to be beatniks and too old to be hippies,” Lloyd ex-plains about his genera-tion looking to leave their own mark on art and cul-ture. “That’s why you get truly creative people like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, New York Dolls who just didn’t give a shit, but were talented.”

The mid-to-late ’70s brought attention and ac-claim to many New York bands, including the Ra-mones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Patti Smith and, the self-proclaimed house band of CBGB—Televi-sion. Lloyd and band mates Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell and Billy Ficca delivered something different from punk or new wave. Their intri-cate, interwoven double guitar melodies were, like the Talking Heads, con-sidered on a rung a little higher than, say, the “hey

ho, let’s go” of the Ra-mones. And, along with critics, guitar players everywhere became en-amored with Television’s 1977 debut LP, Marquee Moon.

“We toured opening up for Peter Gabriel, who’d just left Genesis at the time, and all those people wanted to hear were Gen-esis songs Peter wasn’t going to play anyway,” Lloyd said. “It wasn’t like playing CBGB’s 3-1/2-year New Year’s Eve party ev-ery night. I’ll admit we weren’t that good, but we were beyond great.”

Despite what Genesis fans thought, those who knew better knew that Television was something special. The band was be-coming so popular with musicians and critics alike that Elektra Records opted for a second record in 1978 and enlisted Bri-an Eno to produce what would become Adventure.

However, competition for label attention and in-ner struggles within the band led to Television’s demise in the early ’80s. But Lloyd stuck to his life’s goal of playing guitar for a living and began a string of solo records with the

release of Alchemy in 1978 and Fields of Fire in 1986.

He also participated in a project called “Rocket From The Tombs” with Dead Boys guitarist Chee-tah Chrome, releasing the cult favorite LP Barfly. In the ’90s, Lloyd played on John Doe’s first solo album and helped mold Matthew Sweet’s sound, playing on top selling albums Girl-friend, Altered Beast and 100% Fun. More recently, Lloyd has been enlisted to contribute on a new Frank Black album.

Until then, Lloyd is crisscrossing the east coast on tour behind a new record to be released in July. In addition to dates in much larger cities, Lloyd is coming to Lindsay Street Hall downtown on Wednesday, June 20, to show Chatta-nooga guitarists what he’s already figured out.

“The guitar is the mas-ter,” said Lloyd. “It con-tains the secrets to the universe. It’s in my DNA.”

—Chuck CrowderRichard LloydGrand Strand8 p.m. • $10 at the doorWednesday, June 20901 lindsay st.(423) 755-9111

Watching Television With Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd and Sheila O’Keefe

colonel bruce hampton has been a legendary figure in southern rock and jam band circles for more than four decades. The new documentary “Basi-cally Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton” captures Hampton’s strange and brilliant career. The film’s director, Michael Koepenick, answered questions for The Pulse via email in advance of the film’s Chatta-nooga debut on June 21.

The Pulse: You’ve mentioned that you were not an aficionado of Hampton when you joined the project. How had your appreciation changed, and what in particular struck you about him?

Michael Koepenick: I moved to At-lanta in 1987 and started having ran-dom encounters with Bruce Hampton fairly often and he always puzzled me. I knew the caliber of musicians that played with him and raved about him, but I just didn’t understand what he was all about and wrote him off as more eccentric than talented. But the more I learned about him from working on the film, the more and more respect I

gained for his dedication as an artist and just how much of a part he played in helping countless musicians have ma-jor breakthroughs in their playing and understanding about music and where it comes from.

What was the most important lesson you learned making the film?

I think the most important lesson is to really figure out what is the real story you want to tell in a documentary be-fore shooting the footage. You can re-ally miss out on getting the real pearls from an interview if you haven’t done your research ahead of time. The other thing to remember if you want to make good docs is that facts and information are interesting and can help a story, but if you don’t create an emotional connec-tion with the audience then they will most likely lose interest along the way.“Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce hampton”6 p.m. Thursday, June 21chattanooga Theatre centre400 River st.

Col. Bruce: ‘Basically Frightened’


RIChARD WINhAM

“Can we meet at the sta-tion?” Styles asked, referring to WGOW-FM, the radio sta-tion where he’s worked for 20 years as the host and producer of the morning show. “I for-got I’d arranged for an on-air interview with Commander Cody at 11. And after that I have a meet-and-greet with Cody at the Market Street Tavern. And then at 2 ...”

For Styles it was just anoth-er hectic day in his role as as-sistant production and talent coordinator for Riverbend. It’s a job many music fans might envy—until they get it. And although Styles—who rises before dawn for his radio gig and then works for the festi-val all afternoon—complains about his unrelenting sched-ule, he thrives on it. For him, it’s Riverbend all day, every day, all year long. Like most visionaries, he’s obsessive.

Styles, 52, had been a fan of Riverbend from the begin-ning. But by the late 1990s, after feeling increasingly frustrated with the festival’s talent line-up, he confronted Richard Brewer, the event’s original director. “I told him he was doing a terrible job,” Styles said. The executive brushed him off, but Styles persisted. Finally, one evening the exasperated Brewer—bristling after yet another as-sault—shouted at Styles, “If you think you can do better, come on and try!”

That was 12 years ago. After working as a volunteer for the first year, Styles was put on the payroll. Without Styles’ knowledge of and passion

for music—which is reflected not only in the breadth and quality of the acts, but in the arrangement of the nightly schedule—Riverbend would be forever destined to play staid, county-fair cousin to Bonnaroo’s urbane hipster.

For Styles, the design of Riverbend’s schedule is a par-ticular point of pride. “For me, a perfect night is to have four different acts that someone can see (and enjoy) as they go from stage to stage,” he said.

After the festival closes in mid-June, Styles has about a month off before the next year’s planning for Riverbend begins. He meets regularly with the 11 other festival com-mittee members to begin the often maddening process of mapping out a schedule, be-ginning with the big acts that play the Coke Stage.

Each committee member—Styles, Joe “Dixie” Fuller (the festival’s main talent coordi-nator), and representatives of the most popular Chatta-nooga radio stations—submit

an individual wish list. And although Styles insists that the 100 or so acts that play each year are the product of a democratic selection process, he admits that, except for the groups that play the Coke Stage, he and Fuller choose most of the artists.

Most people, of course, judge the festival on the basis of the Coke Stage acts, which reflect popular, local-radio programming. The hardest performers to book, according to Styles, are the “young acts” with one or two hits. Take Bruno Mars, for example. “We started by offering him $8,000 to play on the Bud Light Stage, and it looked like it was going to happen,” Styles said with a sigh. “And then, all of a sudden, bam, bam, two hits in a row and … he’s on the Coke Stage. We were looking at $80,000. Finally we got up to $170,000, more than we’ve ever paid anybody, and he was gone.” The amount of money festival promoters are willing to offer these young musicians is staggering—especially for a nonprofit festival like Riv-erbend, which has to at least break even to continue.

When he took the job, Styles thought he’d finally be in a position to bring the artists to town that everyone would want to see. He had no idea who he’d be dealing with in trying to make that happen. Agents representing artists in New York and Los Angeles “are just Wall Street traders—they want to buy low, and sell high. They need us more than we need them, but they’ll nev-er admit it,” he said.

Adding to the difficulty is Riverbend’s location in Chat-tanooga. And then there’s Style’s accent. “Oh, you can hear the change in their voice the minute I open my mouth,”

he said. “‘Bug Tussle,’ that’s what they’re thinking.” But he soon sets them straight. “‘Hey, it’s not Gomer Pyle here.’” But the bigger hurdle is getting agents to take Chattanooga seriously. “We don’t have the music reputation,” Styles said. “We’re getting there. But for a lot of folks it’s drive-through, pass-over country.”

Styles had a similar cred-ibility problem with his bosses at Riverbend. It’s been tough, he said, “getting folks to un-derstand bands they’ve never heard of or their friends and peers have never heard of and that don’t get any radio play. And I say, ‘I promise you. I swear. Trust me. They will draw 10,000 or 60,000 peo-ple. That’s a lot of trust. But slowly over time, they’ve giv-ing it up.”

And now Styles is getting some help from Track 29. For the first time the city has a hall big enough to attract the kind of acts who will soon have the reputation it takes to play the Coke Stage. But from now on they’ll be coming back to a city that gave them an en-thusiastic welcome when they were on their way up.

Every year Riverbend com-petes with Bonnaroo for acts—and loses. “It’s the cool factor,” Styles said. “I mean, really, which one would you want on your resume?” But when Bonnaroo ends, music fans still have several days of music by the river, some of it as good as anything in Man-chester because of Styles’ ded-ication and hard work.

Styles Shapes Riverbend Lineupafter several aborted attempts, i finally caught up with Jeff Styles to talk about the Riverbend Festival, Chattanooga’s annual nine-day music street party, and we agreed to meet at WUTC-FM at 11 a.m. But 30 min-utes before our interview, the phone rang.

Richard Winham is the host and producer of WUTC-FM’s afternoon music program and has observed the Chat-tanooga music scene for more than 25 years.

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When the 21st Century Water-front plan reshaped Chattanooga during former Mayor Bob Cork-er’s term, the master plan may have been created by Hargreaves and Associates, but “Every single one of those elements had been studied by students in one form or another over the previous 15 years,” according to Blythe Bailey, an urban designer for River Street Architects.

He’s not suggesting that the national consulting firm cribbed from the students’ work. He’s talking about a well-established but little known aspect of Chat-tanooga’s downtown renaissance. Student designers were a key ele-ment of the old Urban Design Stu-dio, which guided Chattanooga’s urban revitalization under the leadership of Stroud Watson until Mayor Ron Littlefield began dis-mantling it in 2005.

“When the Design Studio stopped having students in about 2002 or 2003, that was a pause in what had been a pretty continual

presence of architecture students being in Chattanooga since the early 1980s,” said Bailey, who was one of those students when he studied architecture at UT. He now leads the Urban Design Forum, which rebooted that pro-gram of putting design students to work on Chattanooga’s most criti-cal urban design projects. The fo-rum was begun by architect John Coddington, who carried on Wat-son’s work as a River City Compa-ny employee.

“The forum is intended to el-evate the dialog about urban de-sign in the community so when we have the opportunity to do things well, we seize those opportunities, we’re as prepared as possible to do things the right way. It includes citizen education, as well as link-age with student work,” said Bai-ley.

Last week, a group of 10 stu-dents from Auburn University’s Master of Landscape Architec-ture program presented the de-signs they had developed over the

last few months for the upcom-ing Riverwalk extension south from the central business district toward Lookout Mountain. The students looked for opportunities to go beyond the Riverwalk path itself to create park areas nearby.

Their ideas include:• Build a park-like food court

around existing restaurants that connects the Riverwalk to Broad Street and uses a water feature to treat storm water before it flows into the river.

• Reclaim the old Scholze Tan-ner site (between the Southern Saddlery complex and the river) with a new development, mead-ows and rain garden that provide green infrastructure, and terrac-ing to connect the area to Broad Street.

• Re-purpose a large mound (formerly an industrial landfill) by creating a terraced park and a dramatic V-shaped cut facing the river as well as a hotel on top.

• Where Alstom has already granted permission for the River-walk to pass through its property, build a steel grid structure that gives dramatic views of the river and the Alstom facility as well as providing needed separation be-tween the Riverwalk and ongoing industrial activity.

Beginning with regional and local GIS mapping and site re-

search, the students attempted to let design ideas emerge from the site itself. Some of them even made their own maps of things that can’t be found on GIS maps, like where views are, how the wind blows, and bird habitats.

“Their designs came out of un-derstanding the site in its broader context. They found something in each site, rather than bringing something of their own to it,” said Jacqueline Margetts, an Auburn landscape architecture professor.

A few weeks ago in April, two other Auburn student groups presented architectural designs

for industrial heritage centers on Manufacturers Road and the for-mer U.S. Pipe site. “The best solu-tions ended up combining a mu-seum and an incubator for crafts-manship and creative industry,” said Bailey.

The value of student work, ac-cording to Bailey, does not depend on whether any particular idea is adopted as part of an official plan or taken on by a developer. Rather than considering any existing or likely plans for a site, their assign-ment is to dream: “Forget about what it will be, and think about what it should be.”

“There are a number of things that we have done with our down-town that are a reflection of stu-dent work,” Bailey said. “It’s not just empty academic hypotheses. It can turn into real life catalysts. Students are the ones that think of things the rest of us don’t think about because we’ve got our eye on the thing that we’ve got to do next.”

It’s really the same kind of speculative urban design work that River City Company’s Urban Design Challenge is doing, except with students instead of profes-sionals, he said. “It opens up the arteries of the imaginative com-munity process, makes it more likely that opportunities will be seized.”

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The science-fiction film “Prometheus” debuted this week, and it is a fit-ting return for director Ridley Scott to a fran-chise that made him fa-mous. “Alien” was always more horror than sci-fi; it used science as a vehicle for deadly things hiding in shadows, deadly things that, at times, burst from within. “Prometheus,” on the other hand, uses mon-sters as a vehicle for sci-ence fiction. We see in it a search for our origins, for immortality, for purpose.

“Prometheus” isn’t as pure as it could have been and it certainly doesn’t resonate as emotionally as it hopes. But Scott is attempting something in “Prometheus” that he didn’t with “Alien.” There is more here than cheap thrills and jaw-dropping visuals. “Prometheus” in-tentionally weaves terror with wonder, creating a much more poignant film than can be found in most summer fare.

The premise is as sim-ple as a late-night History Channel marathon. An-cient extraterrestrials are responsible for the origins of human life and have left clues in various an-cient historical artifacts. A corporation has found a distant moon where this civilization is located and dispatched a ship and crew to make contact with them. When they ar-

rive, they find evidence of an advanced Krell-like culture, long dead with-out explanation, leaving behind a massive working structure full of strange technology.

While the film follows the standard sci-fi/hor-ror plot, there are strong moments of brilliance throughout the narrative. Of particular note is Da-vid (Michael Fassbender), an android programmed to follow directions and mimic human behavior, who has been crafted so perfectly that his need to learn is irrepressible. He is fearless, fascinated with his surroundings, and subtly yearning for the freedom to pursue knowledge. His inclusion as a mirror is more reveal-ing of human nature than

all of the other characters combined. He is human-ity, distilled.

My only disappoint-ment came from the an-tagonists, whose motiva-tions we are left to guess. The xenomorph aliens, typical acid-blooded, multi-jawed abomina-tions, aren’t seen much. Instead we have large, bipedal humanoids not unlike ourselves. Why should they be automati-cally violent? Perhaps thoughtful magnanimity is best reserved for deities.

“Prometheus” isn’t great science fiction, but it’s good enough for a summer blockbuster and a thoughtful return to a classic franchise. Pair it with Dandelion Wine and pour one out to a lost master of fantasy.

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discovery is at the heart of good science fiction. it is the end result of the questions that lurk behind the veil of a secretive universe. This week, the world lost a man who asked great questions and forced us to see ourselves from a different perspective. To write science fiction is to take the vastness of the cosmos and reveal it in ourselves. Without Ray Bradbury, our collective imaginations would be narrowed. Bradbury showed us worlds and themes that are echoed in our films. Movie fans owe him a great debt.

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chattanoogamarket.comChattanooga Market: Father’s Day Brew & Bluegrass11 a.m. First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 carter st. (423) 402-9960chattanoogamarket.comBirds of Prey11 a.m. Rock city, 1400 Patten Roadlookout mtn., ga. (706) 820-2531seerockcity.com/birdsSummer Music Weekendsnoon. Rock city, 1400 Patten Roadlookout mtn., ga. (706) 820-2531.seerockcity.com“Drift”2:30 p.m. ensemble Theatre of chattanooga, 1918 union ave. (423) 987-5141ensembletheatreofchattanooga.comAn Experiment in Art & Music: New Dischord at the hunter3 p.m. hunter museum of american art, 10 Bluff View. (423) 266-0944huntermuseum.org“Drift”6:30 p.m. ensemble Theatre of chattanooga, 1918 union ave. (423) 987-5141ensembletheatreofchattanooga.comMusic Monday7 p.m. Pasha coffee & Tea, 3914 st. elmo ave. (423) 475-5482pashacoffeehouse.com

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WED 06.20Art Z Tots10 a.m. Planet altered, 48 e. main st. (423) 400-4100planetaltered.comArt Crusaders11:30 a.m. Planet altered, 48 e. main st. (423) 400-4100planetaltered.com“Ready2WorkIt” Job Readiness Program1 p.m. east lake community center, 2600 4th ave. (423) 752-4851Main Street Farmer’s Market4 p.m. 325 e. main st. mainstfarmersmarket.comJewish Film Series: “David”7 p.m. Jewish cultural center, 5461 n. Terrace Rd. (423) 493-0270jewishchattanooga.com“The Music Man”8 p.m. signal mountain Playhouse, 301 Rolling Way,signal mountainsmph.org

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Chef E. is a hyper-kinetic mem-ber of the team that provides food for the cast and crew on set, sepa-rate from the simple bagged lunch-es and snacks given to the hordes of extras. With the exception of a massive smoker on a trailer, the setup is a fairly straightforward, large catering configuration with grills, chafing dishes and table skirts. The lunch menu for the day had perfectly smoked pork loin, ginger glazed mahi-mahi, chipo-tle grilled chicken, octopus and shrimp ceviche, and a collection of side dishes such as cornbread, green beans and carrots with ma-ple and cinnamon that could rival a Baptist homecoming.

While Chef E. fried some plan-tains, our conversation turned to local foods and farmers. “I got that pig from a local farm I found in this magazine,” he said as he excitedly pulled a copy of Gaining Ground’s Taste Buds food guide

from his back pocket. He had emailed the farmers in the guide ahead of his arrival and set up relationships to buy produce and meats. “It’s more effort to buy lo-cal and sustainable, but the pro-duction companies and the people who eat the food prefer it. It’s a win-win for everyone when we get great food and the locals get

the money. We’d rather spend our money with the local guys than with the big box stores or huge companies like Koch’s.”

This commitment to sustain-able local foods is a huge source of pride for the chef and also the movie catering company he works for, Mario’s Catering.

I talked the chef into letting me follow along while he did a little shopping at the Main Street Farmers Market and he ran through the market like a tornado, picking up hundreds of dollars of locally grown and pro-duced foods in minutes. Dozens of eggs from Pocket Farms, a cooler full of sausages from Link 41, jars of Sale Creek’s sourwood honey, along with sackfulls of produce from farms such as Signal Moun-tain Farm, TanT Hill Farm and

Walden Peak Farm piled up for delivery to the movie set while the chef chatted up the farmers about the merits of certain varieties of squash and crop planting strate-gies. You know, food geek stuff.

Between purchases I asked the chef about his experience with Chattanooga area farmers and businesses.

“Chattanooga has been way easier to work with than many other cities because you have so many great farmers markets and such awesome small farmers,” he said.

Chef E. said he believes there is a serious opportunity for local farmers, food producers and the Tennessee Film Commission to form partnerships towards pro-viding future film productions with fresh, local food for their cast

and crew. Flexibility, competi-tive pricing, and availability will be key, he said, but Chattanooga is one of the more organized and forward-thinking cities that he’s worked in so he’s optimistic it can be done. Someone will just need to take the lead and connect the dots.

“We roll through town like an army,” he said. “So if I need basil or chickens I can’t have someone say ‘maybe Wednesday or Thursday.’ I have to be sure I have it when I need it and at a competitive price. I have no doubt you guys could do that.”

Mission accomplished, Chef E. mentioned that he had to go calm his hotel roommate, who was upset about the bathtub full of trout he found in their room this evening. Apparently the chef got a great deal from Pickett’s Trout Farm, needed somewhere to put them overnight and figured a bathtub full of ice would do the trick. I don’t know if that violates the Choo Choo’s bathtub trout policy, but I hope he at least left a crisp Andrew Jackson for house-keeping. I’m not sure if even the Scrubbing Bubbles are prepared for bathtub trout.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you remember what you were doing between July 2000 and June 2001? Think back. Did any-thing happen then that felt like a wild jumpstart, or a series of epiphanies, or a benevolent form of shock therapy? Were you forc-ibly dislodged from a rut by an adversary who eventually became an ally? Did you wake up from a sleepy trance you didn’t even know you had been in? I’m guess-ing that at least some of those ex-periences will be returning in the coming months, but on a higher octave this time.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Au-thor Steven Covey describes your “circle of concern” as everything you’re concerned with or worried about. Your “circle of influence,” on the other hand, is anything that’s within your ability to change right now. What I’m seeing for you, Cancerian, is that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to spend less time in your circle of concern and more in your circle of influence. Stop fantasizing about what may or may not happen, and simply take charge of the details that will make a difference.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a wild zoo about two hours north-west of Seattle. After paying your fee, you can drive your car through acres of land where large animals are allowed to roam free. When I took the tour, I stopped my rented Dodge Stratus by the side of the road to get a better look at a humongous buffalo with a humped back and a long woolly beard. It lumbered over to where I was parked and for the next five minutes thoroughly licked my windshield with its enormous purple tongue. My head was just inches away from its primal power, and yet I was safe and relaxed and perfectly amused. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a comparable experience sometime soon, Leo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the Biblical book of Genesis, Jacob had a dream of angels ascend-ing and descending a ladder that went up to heaven. I recommend that you try to incubate a similar dream, or else do some medita-tions in which you visualize that scene. It would help prime your psyche for one of this week’s top assignments, which is to be adapt-able as you go back and forth be-tween very high places and very low places.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thomas Edison said something to the effect that a person who is

thoroughly satisfied is probably a failure. I guess he meant that if you’re not always pushing to make your life better, you must not have very high standards or passionate goals. While I can see the large grains of truth in that theory, I don’t think it applies in all cases—like for you right now, for instance. During the upcoming grace peri-od, it will make sense for you to be perfectly content with the state of your life just as it is. To do so won’t make you lazy and complacent. Just the opposite, in fact: It will charge your psychic batteries and create a reservoir of motivational energy for the second half of 2012.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Twenty-four-year-old actress An-nalynne McCord has risen up in rebellion against what she calls “Hollywood’s perfection require-ment.” Lately she has been bra-zenly appearing in public without any make-up on. She has even encouraged paparazzi to snap photos of her in her natural state. “I’m not perfect,” she says, “and that’s okay with me.” I nominate her to be your role model in the coming weeks, Scorpio. You can gain power by not hiding anything. Here’s my guarantee: It’ll be fun to be free of unrealistic images and showy deceptions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Nineteenth-century Rus-sian novelist Ivan Turgenev once called his fellow novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky a “pimple on the face of literature.” But more than 100 years after that crude dismissal, Dostoyevsky is a much more high-ly regarded and influential writer than Turgenev. Use this as inspi-ration, Sagittarius, if you have to deal with anyone’s judgmental ap-praisals of you in the coming days. Refresh your understanding of the phenomenon of “projection,” in which people superimpose their fantasies and delusions on reali-ties they don’t see clearly.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take a few deep breaths. It’s important not to get overly worked up about your recent diversion from the Truth and the Way. I mean it’s not like you sold heroin to high school students or dumped toxic waste into a mountain stream, right? It’s true that you’ve in-curred a minor karmic debt that will ultimately have to be repaid. But I doubt any of it will matter in five years—especially if you atone now. So please go ahead and give yourself a spanking, make a defini-tive plan to correct your error, and start cruising in the direction of the next chapter of your life story.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Have you ever tried to drink from a fire hose? The sheer amount and force of the water shooting out the end makes it hard to actually get any moisture in your mouth, let alone enjoy the process. On the other hand, it is kind of enter-taining, and it does provide a lot of material to tell funny stories about later on. But are those good enough reasons to go ahead and do it? I say no. That’s why I advise you, metaphorically speaking, to draw your sustenance from a more contained flow in the coming week. Cultivate a relationship with a resource that gives you what you really need.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming week will be an ex-cellent time to declare your in-dependence from anything that depresses you, obsesses you, or oppresses you. You will attract help from unexpected sources if you take that brave action. At the same time, it’ll be a perfect mo-ment to declare your interdepen-dence with anything that fires up your imagination, stirs up smart hope, or fills you with a desire to create masterpieces. Be adven-turous as you dream about blend-ing your energies with the very best influences.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s time for your right hand to find out what your left hand has been do-ing lately, and vice versa. They’ve been attending to their separate agendas for a while, and now it would be wise to have them work together more closely. As they get reacquainted, a bit of friction would be understandable. You may have to serve as a mediator. Try to get them to play nicely with each other for a while before jump-ing in to the negotiations about how best they can cooperate in the future. And be very firm with them: no slapping or fighting allowed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some relationships that you call “friendships” may be little more than useful connections or status boosters or affiliations that en-hance your power and influence. There’s no shame in that. But it’s also a smart idea to make sure that at least some of your alliances are rooted primarily in pure affec-tion. You need to exchange energy with people who don’t serve your ambitions so much as they feed your soul. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cultivate friendships like that. Take good care of those you have, and be alert for the possibility of starting a new one.

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41. Scotch mixer45. Play with blocks47. Voyage to see the world’s great bedcovers?49. Movie that spawned the spoof “Scary Movie”51. Up the ante52. Marketer’s popularity quotient for Limburger?57. Curvy letter58. 100%59. Comedian Cook62. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star Vardalos63. Elvis Costello hit64. Controversial radio host Don65. Be a gourmand66. Highest-quality67. The largest one-digit square

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You see, in order to be a relevant music festival, you have to change things up and keep things cur-rent—something Riv-erbend refuses to do for the sake of maintaining its one-of-a-kind status. And, prideful as they are, festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, Beale Street Music Festival, Voodoo Festival, Hangout Fes-tival and Bonnaroo are running circles around our city’s slow-moving behemoth with top-notch acts which make millions of dollars in profits seem-ingly appear out of thin air.

Here are some of the differences:

1. Festival Length: Nine days is obviously too long, as every other festival mentioned is contained to a long weekend at best. Why so long if everyone else has already realized it just isn’t cost-effective to go past a single weekend?

2. Acts: This year Bonnaroo, for example, has Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish headlining. All current, relevant acts. Riverbend’s top names include Goo Goo Dolls, Charlie Wil-son (of the 70’s Gap Band) and Foreigner. Nowadays, Foreigner really is living up to its name as the only original member left in the band is currently re-covering from heart sur-gery and may not appear at all. If so, Riverbend has officially booked it’s first tribute band to the Coke

Stage. Many of the other 97 acts are local bands that play live around here all of the time, so any true “music festival fan” has seen them perform like, last week.

3. Audience: Two types of people make up 80 percent of the Riverbend audience—my teenage daughter and my senior citizen parents, neither of which spend a dime at the festival. Every other mu-sic festival caters to the 25-45 age demographic—beer-drinking music fans with lots of disposable in-come.

4. Ticket Prices: Bonn-aroo and Riverbend each claim to host 100-plus bands. In order to see top-notch talent, true music festival-goers are willing to pay a couple of hundred dollars a ticket. Bonnaroo says it attracts 70,000 at-tendees at roughly $200 each. Riverbend says it attracts 650,000 at an average of $32 each. Do-ing that math, Riverbend therefore claims to earn one-and-a-half times the ‘Roo in ticket sales, al-though I’ve never seen big acts like the Police or Bruce Springsteen play Riverbend. Hmmm.

5. Armbands vs. Pins:

The most common ques-tion you’ll hear anyone around here ask during that fateful week is “do you have a Riverbend pin I can borrow for one night?” This means that for every pin they sell, there are roughly an infi-nite number of attendees with access to it. A non-transferable armband—the staple of every other music festival—means more actual tickets sold and more money in the kitty.

6. Community Involve-ment: Bonnaroo donates sacks of money each year to the city of Manchester in order to help support their host community and make up for the sheer hell its citizens endure for four days each summer. Maybe I’m not paying attention, but what have Friends of the Festival directly given back to the city of Chatta-nooga in the past 30-plus years?

You’d think a festival of 30 years would learn from its peers and rethink or retool for the sake of improvement rather than lean on tradition. If we could take a page from the current edition of the Music Festival 101 text-book and create some-thing even more sought after than Bonnaroo, just think of what that would do for our city.

Riverbend is Irrelevantas you read this, our city center is waist deep in the throws of the one annual event that makes downtowners wanna flee like rats on a sinking ship—Riverbend. This “one-of-a-kind” festival infiltrates our riverfront with teenagers, good ole boys and funnel cakes the likes of which resembles more of a county fair on steroids than the “internationally award winning 9 day music festival!” as it’s website claims.

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