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Sept. 13-19, 2012

Chattanooga’s weekly alternative

Vol. 9 • no. 37

Season ofNonviolence

Gandhi’sGrandson in Chattanooga

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EDITORIALPublisher Zachary cooperCreative Director Bill RamseyContributors Rich Bailey • Rob Brezsnychuck crowder • John DeVore • Janis hashematt Jones • chris Kelly • D.e. langleymike mcJunkin • David morton • Patrick nolandernie Paik • cole Rose • alex TeachRichard WinhamCartoonists max cannon • Richard RiceTom TomorrowPhotography Jason Dunn • Josh langIntern Junnie Kwon • erin mcFarland

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HIGHLIGHTSTHE PULSE • SePt. 13-19, 2012 • Vol. 9 • no. 37

SUShI & BISCUITS• This week, our in-house chef and intrepid food writer, Mike McJunkin, samples olive oils from the new tasting bar, Olive Chattanooga. Yum-O! But can he escape the evil eye of Rachel Ray? » 18

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THEBOWLthe george t. hunter lecture series celebrates its fifth year with a lineup of speakers covering topics from education to the arts.

The series kicks off at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Roland Hayes Auditorium at UTC with education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch.

Author of the bestselling book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” Ravitch now repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on more than 40 years of research and experience, Ravitch is a critic of today’s most popular

ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, puni-tive accountability and charter schools.

The series continues on Nov. 13 at the Tivoli Theatre with Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and columnist for The New York Times. On Feb. 26, 2013, the series returns to the

campus hosting urban farming activist and MacArthur “Ge-nius” award-winner Will Allen. On April 7, 2013, the Tivoli will host Ira Glass, host and pro-ducer of the radio show, ‘This American Life,” heard locally on 88.1 WUTC-FM.

Over the past four years, speakers have included two Pu-

litzer Prize winners, two Peabody Award winners, two MacArthur Genius fellows and four listed on the TIME “100 Most Influential People,” who have collectively authored 12 best-selling books. —Staff

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it’s no secret that downtown chat-tanoooga needs to expand its affordable housing options, so news of the ground-breaking for the long-delayed Walnut Commons last week is a positive sign. The largest apartment complex built in center city since 1974 will bring 100 reasonably priced apartments to downtown—and in a great location.

The $11-million complex is slated as a mixed-use apartment building located on approximately 1.6 acres of land located at Walnut, Aquarium Plaza (Second Street) and Riverfront Parkway. The four-story building will feature loft-style apartment units and street-level commercial and/or live-work units ranging from $750 to $1,200 a month. The nonprofit Little Miss Mag Early Learning Center will anchor the ground floor.

Proposed first in 2006, the project has been delayed by land negotiations, the re-

FILM

Get ‘boozy’ with local film, TV pros at eventfilm chattanooga will be hosting its semi-annual Happy Hour event of Chattanooga Film Society members from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Easy Bistro and Bar, located at 203 Broad St.

Not a member? No problem. Anyone with an affinity for film or an interest in film production is cordially invited to get boozy with local film and television pro-fessionals on Tuesday as well.

Film Chattanooga is a product of the Chattanooga Film Society, a local non-profit organization aimed at boosting film production activity and raising the stan-dards for film and television professionals in the region.

For more information on Film Chat-tanooga or the Happy Hour event, visit filmchattanooga.org or chattanoogafilm-society.org.

—Staff

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ARTS

AVA names Dunn new 4 Bridges chiefpersonnel changes are afoot at the Association for Visual Arts, reports Anne Willson, AVA’s executive director. Kath-ryn Dunn has been named major projects manager, which includes directing the an-nual 4 Bridges Arts Festival.

Dunn succeeds Laura Linz in the role, and brings a comprehensive background in arts management, project management and marketing to the position, said Will-son.

Dunn completed both a master’s of fine arts at Florida State University and a mas-ter’s of public administration at UTC. She has previously worked with local busi-nesses Brewer Media, Shuptrine’s Gold Leaf Designs and Chattanooga Kids on the Block.

Along with Dunn, AVA welcomes Sa-vannah College of Art and Design gradu-ate Lauren Necko as lab monitor of AVA’s Media Lab and clean room photo studio.

Willson said Necko is knowledgeable in a range of design software and has profes-sional photography experience. The Media Lab reopened on Sept. 8 and will remain open on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

—Staff

Dizzy Town

Yet this is exactly the trap U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann has walked into, hoping, we sug-gest, to raise his profile among the many fresh-men of the right who see themselves as crusad-ers in signing Gro-ver Norquist’s Tax-payer Protection Pledge. Norquist, for the many who have never heard of him, is not an elected member of Congress or any government entity, but a Reagan-era anti-tax activist who formed Americans for Tax Re-form in 1985 to corral conservative state and national lawmakers into a rejection of any and all taxes on individuals and business and any net re-duction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Who wants more tax-es? Problem is, taxes are the necessary evil of any democracy—and with representation, when properly levied are in-tended to be a fair sys-tem of maintaining our society. Rejecting them wholesale is not patriotic, but rather damaging and wrong-sighted.

It is into these waters that Fleischmann has waded in dealing with the aging Chickamauga Lock,

which allows barges to move through TVA’s dam system and traverse hun-dreds of miles of the Ten-nessee River.

The lock is in dire need of repair and replacement,

and, without any other funding available,

the barge industry appears willing to accept a barge

tax increase from 20 cents to 29 cents

per gallon of diesel fuel in order to repair,

maintain and replace the 72-year-old lock—they are on board, so to speak.

Enter Norquist and The Pledge, to which Fleis-chmann has sworn al-legiance. By signing this pledge, Fleischmann is in the uncomfortable posi-tion of having to reject a tax increase businesses are in favor of to appease Norquist and the radical right-wing of the Republi-can Party, lest he fall out of favor, regardless of the consequences of the needs of the district he serves.

Bound by this Machia-vellian scheme, Fleis-chmann is forced to cower behind a vague proposal offered by U.S. Sen. La-mar Alexander that would delay the lock’s repair for another year, if then—es-sentially doing nothing. As he stood staring into the dewatered lock dur-ing a recent tour, Fleis-chmann thought not of the benefits a tax increase

levied on a willing indus-try, but of his standing as a member of the automa-tons who’ve found them-selves caught in Norquist’s web.

Meanwhile, Fleis-chmann’s Democratic op-ponent in the upcoming election, Dr. Mary Head-rick, rightly and perhaps predictably supports the tax increase.

“Until replaced, it should be repaired and remain in operation. I fa-vor increasing the marine diesel fuel per gallon tax, as favored by barge opera-tors,” she told the Times Free Press last week.

Fleischmann’s “intran-sigence,” as the TFP’s left-leaning Times-side edito-rial page rightly labeled the congressman’s record, is indicative of his conduct during his first term in of-fice.

That voters of the 3rd District would willingly accept this behavior is dis-turbing at best and mind-bogglingly foolish at worst. Tax reform, in and of itself, is a noble cause and should be a constant theme in any representa-tive’s efforts. But as an advocacy movement de-signed to cripple reason-able, rational thinking and actions on behalf of the people, it is a danger-ous flag to wrap oneself in.

If you’ve ever wondered why we call this Dizzy-Town, wonder no more.

Chuck’s Lock Stepthere are two types of people to avoid if you are a wide-eyed freshman member of Congress: lobbyists and activists. Consorting with the former will entangle you with all sorts of unsavory propositions in return for campaign cash, linking you with liability when things inevitably go awry. When confronted with the latter, you will likely be presented with patriotic-sounding pledges to sign that would seemingly align you with a righteous cause whose lofty goals will sound very appealing, but will, down the line, disable you from doing what is right for those you represent.

cession and snags in closing a U.S. Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development loan guarantee. —Staff

if you, like us, worry you’ll never get the opportunity to pet a miniature Scottish highland cow, don’t fret.

Celebrating its 80th anniversary, Rock City opens its 11th Enchanted MAiZE on Thursday, Sept. 20, featuring a new mo-bile petting zoo, Bagby’s Critter Corral, at Blowing Springs Farm.

Families and shameless adults can look forward to hayrides, the cow train, pump-kin painting, inflatables and Fairyland Forest Makeovers.

Come weekends in October, those who take delight in frights can come back af-ter dark for The Forest of Fear and Ghost Ride.

The MAiZE is located at 271 Chatta-nooga Valley Road, in Flintstone, Ga., at the foot of Lookout Mountain. For more information, call (706) 820-2531 or visit enchantedmaze.com. —Staff

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“Sure!” my buddy said, considering this a vic-tory with absolutely no thought whatsoever of my conditions. Maybe I knew that, maybe I didn’t; what’s the difference? “Let’s go,” he said. “We’ll eat at the ESPN joint on the way there, you’ll love it.”

It’s Manhattan, and the guy wants to eat at a cor-porate sports bar. “I hate sports, dude, you know this.” “Yeah, yeah!” he said, completely oblivious to my objection.

It’s not that I’m a push-over, mind you; quite the contrary. I’m a horrible person and moodier than a 14-year-old girl, but I was on a trip with co-workers and while I had convinced myself I just wanted this guy to shut up, I can now look back and see that I actually wanted to go—I just need-ed a push. And this guy? He had just chased Rich-ard Belzer down on foot in broad daylight after spot-ting him on the corner of 58th and Broadway for an autograph (“Law & Or-der” was still at its peak; had I mentioned this was September 2002?). He was known to push.

So two subway change-overs and a cab drive lat-er, we’re in this bar, and I don’t want to tell you the name for some reason, but I’ll give you a clue through the conversation I origi-nally intended to relay af-ter we arrived.

“They based ‘Coyote Ugly’ on this bar, you

know,” my buddy said with a quiet, smug cer-tainty. He was quite proud of digging up this place as if it were some kind of ob-scure gem in a mountain of chert rock. I liked it, too. I was in a seedy bar in the bowels of Manhattan Island with hot-chick bar-tenders and hardly any-one around. But remem-ber: I was still an asshole.

“No they didn’t. They based ‘Coyote Ugly’ on the bar ‘Coyote Ugly’ in the East Village,” I countered. “This place is a lot like it, just pissed off they didn’t have a movie made about it.”

“Bullshit!” he replied. “Look at this place! It smells like stale piss and the bartender is on the bar! What makes you an expert, anyway?”

“All trendy bars have hot bartenders and smell like piss,” I said. “Plus, I’m the alcoholic genius you were talking about on the plane to the aide from Congressman Weiner’s of-fice. This is the alcoholic part.”

I was settling in there as much as I settle in any-where (which is to say, lightly) when something horrible happened, made worse by the fact that it happened at least two

more times before we (al-legedly) left. George Tho-rogood’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” played, and the bartend-er—for the first time in my life—actively forced liquor down my throat.

Ever hear of someone getting schooled over a hangover, and the phrase, “It’s not like somebody held you down and forced you to drink, did they,” or some variation? Well, next time you do, give that per-son some slack because it can happen, as it turns out. If the bartender is hot enough and is holding bottles of cheap bourbon, scotch and beer in one hand (I shit you not) and telling you that if you don’t touch the ankles on either side of your ears she will have you beaten, you will do so.

There were rumors of a military E.O.D. team hav-ing arrived for a celebra-tion at some point later complicating the already awkward situation. But in the end, when the NYPD arrived, they were as pro-fessional as you’d expect them to be, so when they asked my name?

“Richard Belzer,” I said, followed with a “DONG-DONG!” as the show would have it.

And in my own hotel room I awoke. Alone, I might add—but I’d had a roommate. Ponderous.

But a story for another day. Take care, Constant Readers.

Coyote UglyOn 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.

“ok,” i said, “i’ll go the %$*#’in bar with ya’, but i don’t feel like it so we leave when I %$*#’in say so or I’ll leave you there on your own and you be %$*#’d, OK?”

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[ Gandhi’s Grandson in Chattanooga ]

Season of NonviolenceSeason of NonviolenceSeason of Nonviolence

But for Dr. Arun Gandhi, who will spend four days in Chattanooga begin-ning Monday, Sept. 17, there is a much more intimate connection. Mahatma Gandhi was his grandfather and the in-spiration for a life spent continuing the iconic peacemaker’s mission.

“During the two years I lived with my grandfather, he asked me each day to draw a ‘family tree of violence,’ tracing my own actions,” Gandhi said in a phone interview. “Physical, and what he called ‘passive violence,’ are the two branches of the tree. We may not be using physical violence, yet we continue to hurt people by our actions or our lack of actions.”

Arun Gandhi spent most of his child-hood in South Africa under apartheid, and as an Indian, was physically at-tacked by both white and black South Africans. “I became very hateful and angry,” he said. “That’s when my parents

sent me to live with my grandfather, say-ing, ‘You can’t change people when you become what they are.’”

Though still too young to know how influential Mahatma Gandhi was out-side of India, the experience of seeing hundreds of people lining up each day to catch a glimpse of his grandfather changed him. “After those two years, I was no longer the same hateful, fearful person.”

He went on to a 30-year career as a journalist for the Times of India, where he concentrated on stories about In-dia’s poorest people, the “untouchables.” Quoting his grandfather, “Poverty is the worst form of violence,” he said.

In 1987, he moved to the U.S. and founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, now housed at the Univer-

Dr. Arun Gandhi continues to cultivate his grandfather’s legacy

Bringing Dr. Gandhi to Chattanooga• It was on a visit to India, in which she followed the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi with Dr. Arun Gandhi, that inspired Missy Crutchfield, head of the City of Chat-tanooga’s Department of Education, Arts and Culture, to create a plan to bring Gandhi here. “I thought of it as a social justice and cultural tour,” Crutchfield said, pointing particularly to the speaking engagement at Howard School. “We are ask-ing students to investigate the work of Gandhi and Dr. King,” she said. “Gandhi’s message of ‘be the change’ is still everywhere, from T-shirts to the movie ‘Bully,’” she said. A mayoral proclamation will be presented at City Council on the Tuesday of Dr. Gandhi’s visit, marking the City of Chattanooga’s commitment to becom-ing a “Season for Nonviolence” city in January 2013. The season launches on Jan. 30, commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, and culminates on April 4, commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. —J.H.

e the change you wish to see in the world.” Many of us know that quote; some know the source: Mohandas Gandhi, called Mahatma (“Great Soul”), the founder of the modern nonvio-lence movement.B

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sity of Rochester. In 1996, he created the yearly celebration “Season for Nonvio-lence,” honoring both Mahatma Gandhi and the man he inspired, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2008, he founded the Gandhi Worldwide Educational In-stitute, dedicated to eradicating poverty.

When asked how he sees the Ameri-can role in moving to peace and nonvio-lence, he said, “The United States must demonstrate as much moral strength as political and military strength. We must understand that the stability and secu-rity of any country depends on the sta-bility and security of the whole world.”

Yet, he said, politicians can only do so much. “Change has to come from the bottom and grow upwards. As long as we keep teaching our children that suc-cess means getting there by any means possible, we are feeding ourselves with the seeds of violence.”

The way to counter violence sparked by the “our way is the only way” mindset of fundamentalist religions is to see that “each has a part of the ultimate truth. But today, the religions are like the blind men and the elephant, each believing that the part of the elephant he touched is the whole truth. All parts are needed to see the truth.”

In visiting Chattanooga, Gandhi acknowledged, he cannot change the whole city, “but if one person is changed, it’s worth it.” His hope for his own legacy is humble. “I am content to be a peace farmer, planting the seeds that may ger-minate in peace,” he said.

Schedule of Dr. Arun Gandhi’s Public Appearances

Monday, September 17• 5:30 p.m. Renaissance community garden

Tuesday, September 18• 10:30 a.m. Recreate café at salvation army• 11:30 a.m. chattanooga community Kitchen• 2 p.m. howard school • 6 p.m. city council presentation Wednesday, September 19• 5 p.m. “a season for nonviolence” mural unveiling (Brainerd Recreation center)• 6 p.m. chattanooga hindu Temple for celebration and festivities (Bonny oaks Drive) Thursday, September 20• 8 a.m. annual connecting the Dots summit 2012 “exploring arts and social Issues” with keynote speaker Dr. arun gandhi. (Bessie smith hall).• 3:15 p.m. Walking Tour of Brainerd mission • 4:15 p.m. sitar music by Joe Ridolfo at eastgate senior activity center• 5 p.m. eastgate library Blessing and Keynote address: “a season for nonviolence” at eastgate Town center

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• Is it fall ... already? We’re all about the cooler temps, but the year has flown by, and it’s just, well, spooky—and time again for chattanooga’s world-class haunted houses, farms and fields to rise from the dead!

already open is hal-loween express at its new location at 7425 com-mons Blvd. (behind Best Buy on gunbarrel Road). Visit halloweenexpress.

com/chattanooga for more information.

opening on Thursday, sept. 20, is Rock city’s enchanted maiZe at Blowing springs Farm at the foot of lookout mountain. The farm is a highlight of the hal-loween season, as Rock city gnome artist matt Dutton puts his awesome skills to work creating the creatures in The Forest of Fear.

at The Pulse, october means the launch of Panic, our weekly guide to all things halloween in chattanooga and the sur-rounding area.

as we did last year, Panic will offer special Pulse-flavored halloween-oriented features and the most comprehensive list of local haunts. look for Panic 2.0 to begin on Thursday, oct. 4, and con-tinue through halloween.

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“Macbeth”• Shakespeare’s classic through Sept. 30. 2 p.m. • st. andrews center1918 union ave. • (423) 987-5141ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com

• Who-Fest, a two-day outdoor celebration centering around folk, outsider, visionary and self-taught art, returns to coolidge Park in the north shore this weekend as Who-Too!

celebrating its sixth year in chattanooga, the festival is produced by Winder Binder gallery & Bookstore in collaboration with the Who ha Da Da artist’ collective.

originally produced in atlanta, Who-Fest moved to chattanooga in 2007. The festival attracts some 70 local, regional and national artists and

provides the opportunity to meet and purchase directly from artists who specialize in folk, outsider, visionary and self-taught art.

after five years at Renaissance Park, the fes-tival committee changed the venue to the much more visible coolidge Park. an earlier date in may was also secured to help avoid the typical memorial Day weekend heat.

Following its success-ful may debut in coolidge Park, patrons and artists called for a second event to be held in the fall.

Who-Too! will host a diverse line-up of musical offerings from nine local performers and bands over two days. For more information, read this week’s feature on the festival on Page 14.

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the lead vocalist for glass hammer, the veteran Chattanooga-based prog-rock band, is doing double duty these days as the lead singer for rock legends Yes.

Jon Davison, who has recorded two al-bums with Glass Hammer, has replaced Benoit David as lead singer for Yes. David

replaced original singer Jon Anderson, who left the band in 2008 after an illness.

Davison played bass for the Seattle-based band Sky Cries Mary, but also per-formed with the now-defunct San Diego-based Yes tribute band, Roundabout. Glass Hammer discovered Davison sing-ing Yes music online and he joined the band in 2009, recording the albums If and Cor Cordium.

In February, Davison was announced as the new lead singer of Yes, replacing David, who left the group because of ill-

ness. “Strangely enough, Jon’s name came

up when we started working with Ben-oit,” Yes bassist Chris Squire said in UT San Diego article. “In fact, my friend, [Foo Fighters drummer] Taylor Hawkins [whom Davison had gone to high school with], had been telling me for years: ‘If you ever need a replacement [singer], I know exactly the guy.’”

As Squire noted, “It’s funny. We’ve gone from Anderson to David to Davison.”

—Bill Ramsey

“Music is our passion, and the focus of the blog is to share the music we discover,” explains Rich, who started the site with wife Erika, who don’t use their last name to keep the focus on the music. To help share that music, they recently launched The South Rail Presents concert series featuring up-and-coming, must-see bands that have received the blog’s stamp of approval. The successful first installment was held on July 27 at Track 29, and a second event is in the works.

Additionally, South Rail Records is plotting a debut release for later this year. The imprint’s first project will be from Rich’s band, Eight Knives.

“The label is that third step of tying in The South Rail ini-tiatives and getting the Chat-tanooga name out there a little more,” Rich says.

Promoting the local scene is top priority for The South

Rail—but that said, the blog isn’t Chattanooga exclusive.

“The South Rail is a music filter, not a total reflection of everything music or every-thing Chattanooga,” Rich says. “It’s a blog that’s in Chat-tanooga, and a majority of our content is southern-based bands, but we also talk about

our favorite bands from other parts of the country.”

The tracks of The South Rail are paved with positivity.

“We never mention any-thing negative, instead it’s always about what we’re dig-ging,” he says. “It’s kind of an anonymous blog. We’re mod-est about it even though there are a ton of people that know we do this. I always want the focus to be on The South Rail, not us.”

After job changes brought The South Rail’s founders to Chattanooga in 2007, they missed the thriving music culture in their former home-town of Atlanta.

“We fell in love with Chat-tanooga and just wanted a music scene,” Rich recalls. “So many tours would pass by, and there wasn’t much online presence. We wanted to help it gain recognition as a music town and create visibility na-tionwide.”

In recent years Chattanoo-ga’s scene has gained traction and momentum. Rich says the city now attracts more touring artists, and those concerts, in turn, inspire lo-cal musicians to hone their craft. Local shows also draw fans from bigger cities who prefer Chattanooga’s smaller venues so they can get up-

close with the bands. For the artists passing through, the scene’s growing reputation lets them know to expect a quality opening act and solid fan turnout.

According to The South Rail, a convergence of fac-tors are drawing attention to Chattanooga’s musical landscape. Local bands who have received national atten-tion online and on the road in recent months include the Bohannons, Machines Are People Too and Strung Like A Horse.

Track 29 has also contrib-uted mightily to the scene because according to Rich, “It gives bands the opportunity to grow with the city.”

Artists can start at smaller venues such as JJ’s Bohemia and then graduate to Track 29 after they develop a local fanbase.

“There is lots of love and man hours that go into every-thing we’re doing,” Rich says. “From The South Rail to sim-ply going to weeknight shows to support the bands coming through and local acts that are getting to open for them, just knowing that we are put-ting hours and hours of our free time into making sure that cool things happen in Chattanooga.”

South Rail Tracks Local SoundsBy Sarah Skates

like the railroads that inspired its name, the South Rail Music Blog (thesouthrail.com) is connecting Chattanooga with the rest of the nation. Since debuting in 2009 to boost the local music scene with an online presence, the blog has evolved with the addition of a con-cert series and record label.

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FRI 09.14Scenic City Soul Revue7 p.m. meo mio’s cajun & seafood Restaurant, 4119 cummings hwy.(423) 521-7160meomios.comKathy Veazey & John Rawlston7 p.m. Blacksmith’s Bistro, 3914 st. elmo ave. (423) 702-5461blacksmithstelmo.comKathy Tugman8:30 p.m. The Foundry (at the chattanoogan hotel), 1201 Broad st. (423) 756-3400chattanooganhotel.com

Corey Smith9 p.m. Track 29, 1400 market st. (423) 521-2929track29.coStatue of Liberty9 p.m. The office, 901 carter st. (423) 634-9191Jordan hallquist, Mike McDade, Gabriel Newell, BJ hightower, Thomas Waters

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Last spring, Smotherman moved Who-Fest from Renais-sance Park to Coolidge Park, looking for more exposure.

“I thought this move will either kills us or it will work out great. And if it works out great, we’ll consider doing one in the fall, too,” said the owner of Winder Binder Gallery & Bookstore and the festival’s sponsor.

It did and he has. Who-Too! joins Smotherman’s stable of small and large festivals: the annual Who-Fest, Faux Bridg-es and One Bridge festivals, as well as the monthly Art ’til Dark mini-festival in the parking lot adjacent to his gallery and book-store on Frazier Avenue.

All focus on folk, visionary, outsider and self-taught art. Who-Too! is smaller—about 45 artists, compared to 72 at Who-Fest in the spring—because of the short notice, but “It’s one of the tightest groups of artists we’ve had,” he said.

There’s also more music: 10 bands, compared to seven in the spring.

“We’ve always focused on folk art, but we always end up with all kinds of stuff—jewelry, pot-tery, stained glass,” he said. “But the core group is always going to be folk art. We try to make sure there’s something in every price point.”

Among the artists exhibiting are Robert and Dolores Wells, who create fanciful copper sculptures that hang on a wall or that move in the wind. One wall piece, for example, consists of dozens of individual panels welded onto a grid. Passing an acetylene torch over the back turns crushed glass into solid enamel insets and gives the un-painted copper surface a patina of subtle tones.

Their wind sculptures make simple weather vanes look passé. One has a boy on a winged bicy-cle. The wind makes the bicycle’s

wings flap, thanks to gearing in-side. They fabricate everything, even the gears. “We’re the only ones that make it. Until you buy it, it’s only our hands on it,” said Dolores.

From their home east of Knox-ville, the couple travels to about 10 or 11 juried shows throughout

the year, but they’ve been travel-ing to art shows for decades.

“My husband and I have done fine arts for a living since 1966. We’re the old folks in the bunch,” she said. “We were both trained in the arts, plural, not just one thing. It takes a lot of steps to get to the end of our work. We are

always striving to do something nobody else does. We just enjoy what we do, and we don’t like to be doing what somebody else does.”

Andy Detwiler is on the other end of the spectrum in terms of experience. He’s been taking photographs for the last 10 years or so, but he only started selling his work at regional art shows in the last three years.

Through a complicated pro-cess, he prints his black and white photos on paper, then transfers them to wood panels. The result-ing work feels both vintage and contemporary, with photos that have a modern graphic approach to old southern themes, print-ed—not mounted—directly onto sturdy wood surfaces.

“Most of the stuff I do is music related,” he said. “I’m in Nash-ville, so that’s where my brain usually goes. I grew up in Deep South Mississippi, so anything that has that deep-rooted mu-sic and religion is what my stuff tends to focus on.”

Detwiler still hasn’t left his day job, but he’s been devoting more and more time to his art.

“It’s a retirement plan now,” he said, “but hopefully I’ll do art full time before I get to that point. It keeps my soul happy, so who knows.”

Who-Too! Doubles Down on Quirky ArtBy Rich Bailey

after six years in chattanooga, the annual who-fest folk art show now has a little sibling. This Saturday and Sun-day, folk and outsider art impresario David Smotherman spanks the baby, and Who-Too! brings another dose of quirky folk art to the North Shore.

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Take, for instance, the foot-washing scene at the Mennonite church. Several scenes before, we were introduced to the forbid-den preacher’s daughter, who by the rules of screenwriting was destined to fall in love with the young main character. That was all the exposition we needed for the relationship. The scene in the church didn’t add anything to the film in terms of information or character development—it only reinforced plot points from previ-ous scenes. But I’ll be damned if it wasn’t fun to watch. The entire scene created an overwhelming tension set to the driving beat of an unknown hymn—I loved the look and feel of the church, the congregation keeping strict time with precise arm movements, the overwhelming strangeness of ob-scure religious ritual. How can any self-respecting editor cut a scene like that?

Unfortunately, the problems

outweigh the careful direction and extraordinary performanc-es. “Lawless” could have been a great film. Set in the 1930s dur-ing Prohibition, “Lawless” tells the story of three bootlegging brothers, the Bondurant boys, who are said to be immortal by the backwater citizens of Frank-lin County, Va. There is a war coming between corrupt law enforcement and the complicit citizenry. Prohibition drove the

liquor industry underground, paving the way for the criminal element to run wild.

This theme has been explored in better movies, so “Lawless” doesn’t break any new ground. If the Bondurant boys existed as presented in the film, they don’t have many redeeming qualities beyond minor pleasantries like good manners and calm demean-ors. They seem to revel in unwar-ranted violence, having no regard for themselves or other people. We don’t get any insight into their motivations beyond the simple youthful greed of Jake (Shia LaBouef). Forrest (Tom Hardy) and Howard (Jason Clarke) are

men of few words, so they are only revealed through their ac-tions.

By that measure, they are deadly, destructive, without re-morse or sympathy for anyone outside their family. They might as well have been sociopaths. The plot is easily guessed and overly simple. The action is violent with-out having any real cause. Female characters have about as much characterization as the cars in the film, in that they are mostly possessions. Yet somehow, I still enjoyed watching.

The good parts of the film are worth the ticket price. Based on a book by the grandson of one

of the characters, the backwa-ter setting is exquisitely detailed and wonderfully done. The actors in the film are all exceptional, creating identifiable and memo-rable characters. The music, par-ticularly songs like “White Light, White Heat” by the Velvet Under-ground, were well chosen and en-hanced the film greatly. The mu-sic alone was more than enough to keep my attention. Add to that a setting that is both familiar and comforting—Franklin County isn’t unlike many places in East Tennessee—and you have a film that appeals to me on an emo-tional level. Had screenwriter Nick Cave had a stronger grasp his characters, the film may have been an Oscar contender.

There were opportunities here to comment on the clan-like na-ture of Southern Appalachia, to provide genuine insight into a fascinating culture that was forced to clash with the unre-lenting march of social order. Instead, we had a film that glori-fied violence for the sake of vio-lence, which could have been less graphic without losing any of the film’s purpose.

“Lawless” falls short of excel-lence, but the performances at least make the film entertain-ing. And maybe it’s just me, but I would rather watch a bad movie with good acting than a good movie with bad acting.

‘Lawless’ Not Flawless, But Well ActedJOhN DEVORE

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“lawless” is a film with a predictable plot, lacking real character motivations or logical decision making, and yet I enjoyed it immensely. It was overlong, continuing far past the point of where I cared about the characters, but I can’t say my time was wasted. The film shows how good acting, an intrigu-ing setting and wonderful music can save a movie from bar-gain-bin crime drama and elevate it to a completely watchable movie. There are scenes in this film that have no real reason to exist beyond advancing the plot, but were so wonderfully executed that I can’t fault the director for including them.

Tom Hardy and Shia LaBouef star in “Lawlesss.”

“Had screenwriter Nick Cave had a stronger grasp his characters, the film may have been an Oscar contender.

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ThU 09.13

National Education Partnership: Create. Learn. Achieve.hunter museum of american art, 10 Bluff View(423) 266-0944huntermuseum.orgStreet Food Thursdays11 a.m. motor court at Warehouse Row, 1110 market st. warehouserow.netBirds of Prey (Thurs-sun)11 a.m. Rock city, 1400 Patten Roadlookout mtn., ga. (706) 820-2531seerockcity.com/birds“Out of My Mind” artist demonstration2 p.m. Reflections gallery, 6922 lee hwy. (423) 892-3072reflectionsgallerytn.comFive for Five Thursdays at The Foundry5 p.m. The chattanoogan hotel, 1201 s. Broad st. (423) 266-5000chattanooganhotel.comDowntown Sunset Kayak Paddle5:30 p.m. Tennessee aquarium, 1 Broad st. (800) 262-0695tnaqua.orgFree Family Night5:30 p.m. creative Discovery museum, 321 chestnut st. (423) 756-2738cdmfun.orgFaux Reception at The Mill6 p.m. The mill, 1601 gulf st., ste. 100(423) 634-0331themillofchattanooga.com“Cabaret” with captioning7 p.m. chattanooga Theatre centre, 400 River st. (423) 267-8538theatrecentre.comThollem McDonas8 p.m. easy lemon loft, 1440 adams st. easylemon.wordpress.comPat Dixon

8 p.m. The comedy catch, 3224 Brainerd Road(423) 629-2233thecomedycatch.com

FRI 09.14Community Auditions for “The Nutcracker”Vancura Ballet conservatory, 3202 Kelly’s Ferry Road(423) 821-2055Fall 2012 CAMOMC Children’s Consignment Sale10 a.m.-7 p.m. east Ridge community center, 1517 Tombras ave.(423) 521-cluBchattanoogamother-sofmultiples.comAnnual Fall Pet Adoption (humane Educational Society, McKamey, Pet Placement Center, Catoosa County, and East Ridge Animal Shelter)noon-8 p.m. Petsmart, 2130 gunbarrel Road(423) 899-9223Fresh on Fridays11 a.m. miller Plaza, 850 market st. (423) 265-3700rivercitycompany.com

Tee Off Un“teal” There is a Cure Golf Tournament for Ovarian Cancer11:30 a.m. Bear Trace at harrison Bay, 8919 harrison Bay Road(423) 326-0885tngolftrail.net“Textures of the heart” artist reception5:30 p.m. Tanner-hill gallery, 3069 s. Broad st.(423) 280-7182tannerhillgallery.comRuby Falls Lantern Tours8:30 p.m. 1720 s. scenic hwy. (423) 821-2544rubyfalls.com“Grease”7:30 p.m. Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad st. (423) 642-TIXschattanoogaonstage.com“Macbeth”7:30 p.m. st. andrews center, 1918 union ave. (423) 987-5141ensembletheatreof-chattanooga.comPat Dixon7:30 & 10 p.m. The comedy catch,

3224 Brainerd Road(423) 629-2233thecomedycatch.com“The 39 Steps” Opening Night8 p.m. chattanooga Theatre centre, 400 River st. (423) 267-8538theatrecentre.com“Cabaret”8 p.m. chattanooga Theatre centre, 400 River st. (423) 267-8538theatrecentre.comMike Stanley9:30 p.m. Vaudeville café, 138 market st. (423) 517-1839funnydinner.com

SAT 09.15Community Auditions for “The Nutcracker”Vancura Ballet conservatory, 3202 Kelly’s Ferry Road(423) 821-2055ballettennessee.orgFootball at the Falls 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Ruby Falls, 1720 s. scene hwy. (423) 821-2544rubyfalls.com

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GREASE• National tour of the Broadway musical comes to Chattanooga for a three-day stop beginning Friday.FRI 09.14 • 7:30 p.m. • Tivoli Theatre • 709 Broad st. • (423) 642-TIXs • chattanoogaonstage.com

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Film Chattanooga Tech Seminar: Picking the Right Camera for Your Production9 a.m. ePB Bldg., 7th Floor, 10 West m.l. King Blvd. chattanoogafilmsociety.orgBattlefield Bicycle Tour9:30 a.m. outdoor chattanooga, 200 River st. (423) 643-6888outdoorchattanooga.comRummage Sale9 a.m. grace united methodist church, 9833 hixson Pike(423) 842-5872graceumcsd.orgRiver Market10 a.m. Tennessee aquarium Plaza, 1 Broad st. (423) 402-9960chattanoogamarket.comFall 2012 CAMOMC Children’s Consignment Sale10 a.m.-7 p.m. east Ridge com-munity center, 1517 Tombras ave.(423) 521-cluBchattanoogamother-sofmultiples.comAnnual Fall Pet Adoption10 a.m.-8 p.m. Petsmart, 2130 gunbarrel Road(423) 899-9223Introduction to Stand-Up Paddleboarding10 a.m. Tennessee aquarium, 1 Broad st. (800) 262-0695tnaqua.orgOvernight Backpacking Cumberland Trailnoon. outdoor chattanooga, 200 River st. (423) 643-6888outdoorchattanooga.com“Macbeth”2 p.m. st. andrews center, 1918 union ave. (423) 987-5141ensembletheatreof-chattanooga.comh*Art Gallery Fundraising Event6 p.m. call (423) 521-4707 for more information.

“Grease”7:30 p.m. Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad st. (423) 642-TIXschattanoogaonstage.comPat Dixon7:30 & 10 p.m. The comedy catch, 3224 Brainerd Road(423) 629-2233thecomedycatch.com“Cabaret”8 p.m. chattanooga Theatre centre, 400 River st. (423) 267-8538theatrecentre.com“The 39 Steps”8 p.m. chattanooga Theatre centre, 400 River st. (423) 267-8538theatrecentre.comRiverfront Nights: Joe Robinson, Strung Like A horse7 p.m. Ross’ landing, 100 Riverfront Pkwy. (423) 756-2211riverfrontnights.comMike Stanley10:30 p.m. Vaudeville café, 138 market st. (423) 517-1839funnydinner.com

SUN 09.16Football at the Falls 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Ruby Falls, 1720 s. scene hwy. (423) 821-2544rubyfalls.comChattanooga Market: Kickin’ Chicken11 a.m. First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 carter st. (423) 402-9960chattanoogamarket.comChampagne Sunday Brunch11 a.m. The chattanoogan hotel, 1201 s. Broad st. (423) 266-5000chattanooganhotel.comJazz Brunch: The Dave Walters Trio11 a.m. 212 market Restaurant, 212 market st. (423) 265-1212212market.com

Annual Fall Pet Adoptionnoon-4 p.m. Petsmart, 2130 gunbarrel Road. (423) 899-9223Chattanooga Market: Courter, Clouse & King12:30 p.m. First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 carter st. (423) 402-9960chattanoogamarket.comChattanooga Market: Matthew Walley2 p.m. First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 carter st. (423) 402-9960chattanoogamarket.com“Grease”2 p.m. Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad st. (423) 642-TIXschattanoogaonstage.comWhisperings Concert featuring David Lanz, Michael Dulin and Joseph Akins2 p.m. lindsay street hall, 901 lindsay st. (423) 755-9111brownpapertickets.com“Cabaret”2:30 p.m. chattanooga Theatre centre, 400 River st. (423) 267-8538theatrecentre.com“Macbeth”6:30 p.m. st. andrews center, 1918 union ave. (423) 987-5141ensembletheatreof-chattanooga.comTheresa Andersson, Charles Allison7:30 p.m. Barking legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds ave. (423) 624-5347barkinglegs.org

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Ray built an empire out of using extra virgin olive oil in all of her “recipes,” whether they need it or not. She has championed extra virgin olive oil as the pixie dust of the culinary world that can magically make any dish healthier, taste better and may even give you longer-lasting and more powerful erec-tions.

Every time Ray, or anyone else for that mat-ter, sautés or pan fries with a high quality extra virgin olive oil, a petal falls from a rose in Alton Brown’s bedroom. Extra virgin olive oil’s 320-de-gree “smoke point” (the temperature at which it begins to burn and de-compose) is too low to be used in many cooking applications. When oil reaches its smoke point it begins to give off gaseous fumes, the flavor deterio-rates and its nutrients are diminished. Sure, you can use an oil over its smoke point, but you’re destroy-ing the healthy qualities and flavor of the oil that you probably bought it for in the first place.

Because good-quality extra virgin olive oil has such distinct fragrant and fruity flavors with just a hint of pepperiness, it should be saved for salads and dressings, drizzled over slices of crusty bread, or brushed onto fish or meat before serving. The best extra virgin olive oils really shine when their natural balance of flavors

aren’t being abused like a spoonful of Crisco.

Like cheese and wine, extra virgin olive oil ben-efits from terroir, the concept that the flavor of a food comes from the environment it’s produced in. Temperature, humid-ity, soil, air, water and even the nearby flora and fauna all contribute to the flavors an olive tree will produce.

Until recently, shopping for olive oil in Chattanoo-ga has been part guess-ing game, part popular-ity contest. It usually in-volved intently staring at the designer bottles with Italian or Greek names, trying to avoid Rachael Ray’s thousand-yard stare from the label of her “Ev-eryday” extra virgin olive oil (I swear her eyes follow me), then picking the cool-est looking, moderately priced one and hoping it doesn’t suck.

But the olive oil gods cast their glistening favor upon our fair city and in-spired Chattanooga na-tive Randall Steppenbeck to open Olive Chattanoo-ga, a fine oil and balsamic tasting room. I’ll give you a minute to let that sink in—Chattanooga now has an olive oil and balsamic vinegar tasting room. Upstairs, at the corner of Woodland and Frazier Avenue, you’ll find a very unique opportunity to ex-plore 40 varieties of high quality oils and balsam-ics, including fused and infused oils from Califor-

nia, Argentina, Chile and Spain.

Olive is not setup like a retail store; it is a tast-ing room so you just walk in, grab a little plastic cup and pour yourself a small taste of something that catches your eye. I started with an unfla-vored extra virgin olive oil then progressed through samples of Persian Lime, Blood Orange and White Truffle. The flavors were pronounced, but not too aggressive and you could taste the quality of the in-gredients, especially when compared to any mass-produced, grocery store oil. I spent almost an hour tasting and working out combinations between the balsamics and oils but I finally came up for air, made my purchases and got out of there before I started rubbing myself down with a triple varietal like a hirsute Kardashian.

With a business like Olive Chattanooga right here in town, there is no excuse for not having a high-quality extra virgin olive oil in your pantry. And you won’t have Ra-chael Ray’s eyes glaring at you from a bottle of her nasty, blended olive oil. The culinary gods have spared us once again.

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Free Will Astrology ROB BREzSNY

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Ar-thur Turner, a Virgo reader from Austin, is upset with my recent horoscopes. In his email, he wrote the following: “You’re making me mad with your predictions of non-stop positivity. I need more dirt and grit and muck. I’ve got to have some misery and decay to motivate me. So just please shut up with your excess projections of good times. They’re bringing me down.” Here’s my response to him and to any other Virgo who feels like him: I’m afraid you’re scheduled to endure even more encounters with cosmic benevo-lence in the coming week. If these blessings feel oppressive, try to change your attitude about them.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The humorous science journal Annals of Improbable Research pub-lished a paper entitled “The Ef-fects of Peanut Butter on the Ro-tation of the Earth.” Signed by 198 physicists, it came to this conclu-sion: “So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.” If possible, Libra, I suggest you summon a comparable amount of high-powered expertise for your own purposes. Round up the best help you can, yes; call on all the favors you’re owed and be aggressive in seeking out brilliant support; but only for a truly important cause.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sept. 16 is the first day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. So begins 10 days of repentance. Whether or not you’re Jewish, Scorpio, you are entering an astrological phase when taking stock of yourself would be a bril-liant move. That’s why I invite you to try the following self-inventory, borrowed from the Jewish organi-zation Chadeish Yameinu. 1. What would you like to leave behind from the past 12 months? 2. What has prevented you from living up to your highest standards and be-ing your very best self? 3. What would you love to bring with you into the next 12 months?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If I’m accurately interpreting the astrological omens, the com-ing months will be a soulful feast in which every day will bring you a shimmering revelation about the nature of your soul’s code and how best to activate it. Reasons for grateful amazement will flow so freely that you may come to feel that miracles are routine and naturally-occurring phenomena. And get this: In your dreams, Cin-derella and Sleeping Beauty will get married, win the lottery, and

devote their fortune to fostering your spiritual education until you are irrevocably enlightened.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A reader named Marissa begged me to insert a secret message into the Capricorn horoscope. She wanted me to influence Jergen, a guy she has a crush on, to open up his eyes and see how great she is. I told her I wouldn’t do it. I never try to manipulate people into do-ing things that aren’t in alignment with their own desires. And I faith-fully report on my understanding of the tides of fate, and refuse to just make stuff up. I urge you to have that kind of integrity, Cap-ricorn. I suspect you may soon be invited or coaxed to engage in what amounts to some tainted be-havior. Don’t do it. Make an extra effort to be incorruptible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The far away, the very far, the far-thest, I have found only in my own blood,” said poet Antonio Porchia. Let’s make that thought your key-note, Aquarius. Your assignment will be to search for what’s most exotic and unknown, but only in the privacy of your own heart, not out in the great wide world. For now at least, the inner realm is the location of the laboratory where the most useful experiments will unfold. Borrowing from novelist Carole Maso, I leave you with this: “Make love to the remoteness in yourself.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It would be an excellent time for you to elope, even if you do so with the person to whom you’re already mated. You might also consider the possibility of wearing a wed-ding dress everywhere you wan-der, even if there is no marriage ceremony in your immediate fu-ture. Please at least do something that will symbolize your intention to focus on intimacy with an inten-sified sense of purpose. Seek out someone who’ll give you lessons in how to listen like an empathetic genius. Compose and recite vows in which you pledge to become an utterly irresistible ally.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never be able to actually gaze upon your own face. You may of course see a reasonable likeness of it in mirrors, photos, and vid-eos. But the real thing will always be forever visible to everyone else, but not you. I think that’s an apt symbol for how hard it is to get a totally objective view of your own soul. No matter how sincere you may be in your efforts to see yourself clearly, there will always

be fuzziness, misapprehensions, and ignorance. Having said that, though, I want you to know that the coming weeks will be an ex-cellent time to see yourself better than ever before.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ve got three related pieces of ad-vice for you, Taurus: 1. The most reliable way for you to beat the system is to build your own more interesting system. 2. The most likely way to beat your competi-tors is not to fight them, but rather to ignore them and compete only against yourself. 3. To escape the numbing effects of an outworn tradition, you could create a fresh tradition that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Doctor of Love: My heart is itchy. I’m totally serious. I’m not talking about some phantom tingle on the skin of my chest. What I mean is that the prickling sensation originates in the throb-bing organ inside of me. Is this even possible? What should I do? —Itchy-Hearted Gemini.” Dear Gemini: I suspect that it’s not just you, but many Geminis, who are experiencing symptoms like yours. From what I can tell, you have a lot of trapped feelings in your heart that need to be identi-fied, liberated, and dealt with.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you make a conscious decision to combine plaids with stripes or checks with floral patterns, I will wholeheartedly approve. If, on the other hand, you absent-mindedly create combinations like that, do-ing so because you’re oblivious or lazy, I will soundly disapprove. The same holds true about any hodge-podge or hybrid or mishmash you generate, Cancerian: It’ll receive cosmic blessings if you do it with flair and purpose, but not if it’s the result of being inattentive and careless.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Should we boycott the writing of Edgar Allan Poe because he married his 13-year-old cousin when he was 26? Should we stop using iPhones when we find out that Steve Jobs said that “doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life”? Should we stop praising the work that Martin Luther King Jr. did to advance civil rights because he engaged in extramarital affairs? Those are the kinds of questions I suspect you’ll have to deal with in the coming days, Leo. I encour-age you to avoid having knee-jerk reactions.

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Jonesin’ Crossword

ACROSS1. Words before “friends” or “careful out there”7. “___ Carter” (Lil Wayne album series)10. “Don’t let your boss catch you watching this” acronym14. Common baseball situation15. Hua ___ (Thai beach resort)16. Glow17. Categorize18. Summer hrs. in South Carolina19. Air quality problem20. A pair of cards reduced to a fine powder?23. Six, to Italians24. Make ___ of (write down)25. Sphere in a scepter28. A pair of cards, a few hours from now?33. Tic-tac-toe line34. Chinese restaurant general35. “Video Games” singer ___ Del Rey36. GI’s stint peeling

potatoes, for example39. Hauled in41. Idle who performed in the 2012 Olympic closing ceremonies42. ___ in “Oscar”45. Wall St. worker46. Pair of cards with unreasonable aspirations?51. Lucy of “Elementary”52. Singer Guthrie and street skater Eisenberg53. “Weetzie Bat” author Francesca ___ Block55. Pair of cards that are...a pair of cards?60. Tara in the tabloids62. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star Vardalos63. Like many modern-day pirates64. Start the pot65. “Srsly?!?!”66. Assent to the captain67. “Naked Maja” painter68. Prop for a ball69. Malaria-carrying fly

DOwN1. A bunch2. Follows

3. Boston Red Sox song covered by the Dropkick Murphys4. Chimney sweep’s grime5. ___ Khalifa (world’s tallest building)6. “I’d Rather Go Blind” singer ___ James7. Popular wedding website, or what’s tied at a wedding8. Grotesque9. Like some security software10. Poet Ogden ___11. Redundant count12. Round ‘do13. Move like a happy hound’s tail21. Half-___ (coffee mix)22. Toothpaste variety26. Actress Russo27. Singer Paisley29. Certify, with “for”30. Abbr. on a business card31. Reply to a liar32. Excuse36. Totally awesome37. Toyota hybrids, jokingly

38. Lack of cohesiveness40. Boat with two elephants43. Ever44. Room for carry-ons47. Item held by Karl Lagerfeld48. That, in Tijuana49. It includes the Braves and Phillies50. Old sitcom character Dobie ___54. Engulfed in flames56. Mental concoction57. “The City ___ War” (Cobra Starship song)58. They may get moved to the attic59. Captain Hook’s mate60. Disreputable newspaper61. “Achtung Baby” co-producer Brian

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Death, in my mind, not only robs you of life, it robs you of being around to see what happens next. First of all, you wouldn’t know who else died right around the time you did. Even if Gene Simmons spontaneously com-busted on stage the very night after your day of doom you wouldn’t know it. Your house could be hit by a tornado a day later, or your car totaled while Uncle so-in-so was drivin’ her home and you would have no idea any of it occurred. But I guess at that point you wouldn’t care, either.

People who’ve lived through death-defying incidents love to tell, in painful detail, how they narrowly escaped a life-threatening situation. It’s always a car wreck where the cop on the scene ad-mits how lucky you are to be alive. Or it’s some stupid feat you attempted like jumping off a cliff into a quarry pool, or try-ing to navigate a ski slope well above your skill level. These stories always end the same way—“I could’ve almost died.”

Probably the most harrowing story you’d ever be able to tell about yourself is how you died. But death cheats you out of that one too, leav-ing it for your friends to embellish in their own unique storytelling fash-ion. Even with creative license however, they’d never be able to capture the true feeling of know-

ing you’re about to die, or what it felt like when you actually went. Are you re-ally supposed to move to-wards the light at the end of the tunnel?

I imagine one of the big-gest pastimes in the here-after is sitting around at the bar comparing stories of what it took to get you there: “The plane was going down, there was nothing we could do but scream and pray those last few minutes.” “That ain’t nothin’, I was eaten by sharks—sharks I tell ya! The horror.” “I was shanked in the prison shower 47 times—try that one.”

Then, just like in real life, you have those typi-cal, run-of-the-mill sto-ries: Cancer? Heart at-tack? Peacefully in your sleep of natural causes? All of those stories al-most also end the same way—“My entire life flashed before my eyes.”

Another weird obser-vation about dying is that people in graves haven’t eaten in a very long time. I get really hungry if I don’t eat at least one

solid meal every day. Just think, you can’t have your favorite foods any more, or a drink for that matter. The lyrics to the Drive By Truckers’ song “Women & Whisky” includes the line “when I’m six feet under I think I’ll need a drink or two.” And that would be the best time to party your ass off—no more responsibilities, and you don’t even have to get up in the morning.

Trouble is you wouldn’t have anybody to party with. All the fun stuff is happening above ground and you’re missing it. I think about that a lot, too. All of the parties, concerts, movies and sunny days I’ll miss when I’m gone. The fact that my friends will be able to go on and enjoy those things without me really pisses me off. But then again, I sometimes feel a little guilty when I’m enjoying a good time my aforementioned buddy would’ve loved to experi-ence right along with me.

People have their own concepts of death and dy-ing, and what it’s like to be six feet under, miss-ing all that’s going on up top. They say funerals are for the living, and that we spend too much time thinking about the one thing we won’t have to worry about once we’re the guests of honor.

Dying to Knowover the years, i’ve had the unfortunate experience of seeing several friends die too young. In fact, the first anniversary of the death of one of my best friends occurred last month, making me reminisce about what it was like back when he was alive. And it’s weird to think about what’s hap-pened since.

Life in the Noog ChUCK CROWDER

Chuck Crowder is a lo-cal writer and general man about town. His opinions are his own.

Reflections on death and dying.

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