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    Today\'s Events
    • Quarterly Chattanooga Film Commission Meeting at Chattanooga Choo Choo, 6pm
    • All you can eat Comedy Buffet at JJ's Bohemia, 9pm
    • Fiesta Night & Billy Hopkins at Market Street Tavern, 5pm
    • Karaoke at Bud's Sports Bar, 9:30pm
    • Open Mic at Tremont Tavern, 9pm
    • "Watershed: Prime Elements" at In Town Gallery
    • 15th Annual Strides of March Kick-Off Event at Chattanooga Theater Center, 5:30pm
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • "All Around the Block" Exhibition at In Town Gallery
    • "Cabaret" at Tivoli Theatre, 7:30pm
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • "Talk Portraiture" at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • That’s A Moray – Tennessee Aquarium’s Celebration of Love at Tennessee Aquarium, 10am
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am

    Tomorrow\'s Events
    • That’s A Moray – Tennessee Aquarium’s Celebration of Love at Tennessee Aquarium, 10am
    • Leticia Wolf and The Nim Nims at Rhythm & Brews, 9pm
    • Fried Chicken at The Palms, 8pm
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • "Watershed: Prime Elements" at In Town Gallery
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Multicultural Book Club: Beloved at Rock Point Books, 6pm
    • "Talk Portraiture" at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • Ben Friberg Trio at Market Street Tavern, 7pm
    • Jason Thomas and the Mean-Eyed Cats at Bud's Sports Bar, 9pm
    • "All Around the Block" Exhibition at In Town Gallery

    Later Events
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • String Theory at Hunter Museum of American Art, 6:30pm
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • "All Around the Block" Exhibition at In Town Gallery
    • That’s A Moray – Tennessee Aquarium’s Celebration of Love at Tennessee Aquarium, 10am
    • "Talk Portraiture" at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • "Watershed: Prime Elements" at In Town Gallery

    Shrink Rap: It’s Good to Laugh—Because Then You Live Longer

    I was in the grocery store the other afternoon, chatting with the check-out gal and the elderly man who bags the groceries.  He’s always struck me as the grandfatherly type who’d tell his grandkids interesting stories, or teach them silly card tricks, or just enjoy making them laugh.  I have no evidence of any of this…it’s all purely in my imagination.

    And don’t we do this all the time with people we don’t know:  endow them with positive traits or negative traits, often based on nothing but the sound of their voice, the look of their clothing, their age, a tattoo, or whatever.  We do this using nothing more concrete than the fantasies we create from our own personal history with people who sound like that, or look like that, or have a tattoo like that. Our human minds don’t do well with vacuums, so we fill the void with past references in an attempt to wrap our minds around a person who’s unfamiliar.  Once we can find a category to put him or her in, then we feel we know how to more »



    Life In The Nogg – Un-Date-Able!

    Well, it’s the Valentine’s season and this year the heart-shaped Whitman’s Sampler is all mine—for I am single, single, single. Why, do you ask, is more »


    On The Beat – Greg Beck: Are You OK, Sir?

    I was out and about last December shopping for a donut maker and a new set of jackboots when I first heard the news about more »


    Spirits Within – Gin for the Gods

    As with last week’s selection, rum, gin is also a spirit that has not had its share of the limelight as a weekly Great Buy.  more »


    Shades of Green – CARTA: Bringing Exact Change

    Although many Chattanoogans are perfectly content to ride their bikes around town, even in the chilliest of weather, there are some warmer options that will more »


    Free Will Astrology – Week of February 4

    AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I got an e-mail from an Aquarian reader complaining that the astrologers she consulted in early 2009, including me, were wrong more »


    Ask A Mexican – Special Narco Edition

    Dear Mexican,
    How can a formerly proud Latina like myself feel proud to be Mexican again after my beloved relative was murdered in Mexico by narcos more »


    Shrink Rap: A Positive Attitude and a New Wellness Center

    We have kicked off the year with discussions about wellness—trusting our “internal healer” and putting ourselves in the driver’s seat for our psychological and physical more »


    Life In The Noog: A Woman’s Intuition Is A Man’s Worst Nightmare

    Ask any woman any question about anything she holds near and dear and you’ll be very surprised as to the level of accuracy and detail more »


    On The Beat – Automated Tickets: Here’s Your Reply

    Last week’s exposition on the use and benefits of traffic cameras has led to so many responses that I thought I’d continue the dialogue with more »


    Shades Of Green: Best Friends in Need

    Almost two years ago, I made one of the best decisions of my life. I had moved into my first house with a large fenced-in more »


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