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

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

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

    Educating Jenny

    Embedded in my childhood is the fuzzy memory of a VHS tape called Mr. T’s Be Somebody…or Be Somebody’s Fool.  It was your typical star-studded 1980s public service announcement for kids, in which Mr. T, sporting an array of cutoffs and mounds of gold chains, extolled the virtues of resisting peer pressure, respecting one’s mother, and, of course, getting a proper education.

    Invoking his famous catchphrase, Mr. T made his purpose clear in the opening musical number: “If you don’t want to be a crazy fool, you better study real hard and stay in school!”

    Lone Scherfig’s new film An Education (this week’s selection in the AEC’s Independent Film Series) isn’t as bleedingly obvious as Mr. T, but both films are PSAs for the same message: Stay in school and life will be better!

    Jenny Miller (Carey Mulligan) is a bright 16-year-old girl with high hopes of going to Oxford to read English after graduation.  It’s the ’60s, and she lives in a suburb of London with her stodgy father and complacent mother (Alfred Molina and Rosamund Pike) who dream of her Oxford future in more »



    New In Theaters – From Paris With Love

    The career of John Travolta has been one of singular contrasts.  From the dimwitted Sweathog of the classic Welcome Back, Kotter, to the dangerous strutting more »


    Citizen Welles

    In 1940, RKO Pictures occupied the bottom rung of the top tier of American movie studios.  While MGM was releasing film after film with big more »


    New in Theaters – Edge Of Darkness

    There was a time when Mel Gibson was considered “money in the bank” as far as Hollywood was concerned.  His name on a movie marquee more »


    Spring Independent Days

    Independent film fans, rejoice: the AEC has just announced the list of films for the Spring Film Series—and it rocks. And on top of that, more »


    This Queen Might Amuse

    Great Britain and her citizens value the high drama of their aristocracy in equal measure to how much we Americans value our conquests in war.  more »


    New In Theaters: The Book of Eli

    American film audiences have always loved a good disaster movie, at least judging by the success of films such as 2012 and their ilk.  Yet more »


    Ten Movies You Shouldn’t Have Missed This Past Year

    Is it possible for any film critic hope to have a complete Top 10 list at the end of a given year?  Not unless one more »


    New In Theaters: Youth in Revolt

    Michael Cera has become Hollywood’s go-to actor for movies involving lovelorn young men pining for the girl of their dreams.  With his liquid puppy-dog eyes more »


    Meryl, George and Holmes

    This Christmas, after the turkey has been devoured and the all the boxes lie in unwrapped piles around the tree, you may just get the more »


    Advance Word on Avatar

    A few weeks before James Cameron’s Titanic hit theaters in 1997, I remember seeing a special on ABC about the making of the film.  Mind more »


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