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    Today\'s Events
    • Tennessee Aquarium’s Tropical Holiday Adventure at Tennessee Aquarium, 10am
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • "Reflections" Exhibit at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • Gallagher at The Comedy Catch, 7:30pm
    • C.S. Lewis Society Book Club, "Mere Christianity" at Rock Point Books, 7pm
    • Ruby Falls’ “Deck the Falls” at Ruby Falls, 8am
    • 34th Annual YMCA Christmas Gift Market @ the Chattanooga Convention Center at Chattanooga Convention Center, 10am
    • Jazz Photography by Milt Hinton at Chattanooga African-American Museum
    • Rock Point Books: Fun Fridays – Children’s Reading Hour at Rock Point Books, 10:30am
    • Shirtless Dave Birthday Roast feat. The Rayons and Captain Black at JJ's Bohemia, 10pm
    • "Driving Miss Daisy/To Kiss A Rose" at The Colonnade, 7:30pm
    • Nathan Farrow at Bud's Sports Bar, 10pm
    • Noah Collins at Mudpie Restaurant, 11:03am
    • Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Packages at Chattanooga Choo Choo

    Tomorrow\'s Events
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” Nov '09-May '10 at Creative Discovery Museum
    • "Reflections" Exhibit at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • Ruby Falls’ “Deck the Falls” at Ruby Falls, 8am
    • Tennessee Aquarium’s Tropical Holiday Adventure at Tennessee Aquarium, 10am
    • "Driving Miss Daisy/To Kiss A Rose" at The Colonnade, 10am
    • Works by Susan Dryfoos-Solo Show from New York at Gallery 1401, 11am
    • Art Until Dark at Winder Binder Gallery of Folk Art, 12pm
    • "The Screwtape Letters" at Tivoli Theatre, 4pm
    • Mark Merriman at The Enchanted Garden of Lights at Rock City Gardens, 6pm
    • "Driving Miss Daisy/To Kiss A Rose" at The Colonnade, 7:30pm
    • Cattle Truck, Leigh Steinhouse, Hellbilly Iron Hymes, and more at Ziggy's Package Store, 7:30pm
    • The Mystery of the Red Neck-Italian Wedding at Vaudeville Cafe , 8pm
    • Nim Nims, TaxiCab Racers, Mean Tamborines at JJ's Bohemia, 9pm

    Later Events
    • Jazz Photography by Milt Hinton at Chattanooga African-American Museum
    • Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Cinema Opera at Rave Motion Pictures, 1pm
    • Echoes Exhibit at River Gallery
    • Ruby Falls’ “Deck the Falls” at Ruby Falls, 8am
    • Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Packages at Chattanooga Choo Choo
    • Sorry Dad and Indian Friend at JJ's Bohemia, 10pm
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • "The Kennedy's: Portrait of a Family" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” Nov '09-May '10 at Creative Discovery Museum
    • "Reflections" Exhibit at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • Irish Music Sessions at Tremont Tavern, 6pm
    • “Black Nativity” Dancer Auditions at Barking Legs Theater, 3:30pm
    • Chattanooga State Concert Choir at Rock City Gardens at Rock City Gardens, 6pm

    Never Too Many Christmas Carols

    6.47ScreenI am not a Jim Carrey fan. For me, he hasn’t done anything that really taps into his undeniable talent since In Living Color (OK, maybe “Eternal Sunshine”), and like many, if not most, comics, is misused and misdirected in many of the films he’s made since that classic TV show. (I should probably mention I am also not a fan of Jerry Lewis, Benny Hill or The Three Stooges, although I adore anything Python.)

    I am also not a big fan of director Robert Zemeckis’s work. Here at The Pulse, they will joke that I am much more likely to be sighted weeping over an independent film from Poland with subtitles than Forrest Gump.

    Yet I fully plan to see Disney’s A Christmas Carol, and luckily for me, it looks as though it will be playing all the way through the holiday season.

    There have been at least 30 film versions of A Christmas Carol, dating all the way back to a black-and-white version in 1901. Dickens has been credited with “re-inventing Christmas” and there is certainly something eternal about the tale of a miserable more »



    Job’s Funnybone

    I’ll admit from the start I don’t quite know how to write about Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film A Serious Man, but I’ll begin more »


    Holiday Feast for the Imagination

    As we head into the holiday season, Hollywood has prepared a feast of the imagination—and this year, it looks like there is something for everyone. more »


    Everything Is Possible

    The Carmike Bijou will close its doors at the end of this week and Chattanooga will say hello to the beautiful new 12-screen Majestic next more »


    Wild at Heart

    If you want to bear witness to a few moments of perfect cinema, watch the first couple minutes of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things more »


    Zombieland – Undead Can Dance

    It makes me angry. Angry, I say! Zombieland will never win an Oscar for cinematography, simply because it is a zombie movie. In a world more »


    What’s Love Got to Do With It?

    Reality and fantasy, documentary and fiction are all a blur in this week’s Arts and Education Council Independent Film Series pick.  Paper Heart is a more »


    All About Adam

    This week’s selection in the Arts and Education Council’s Fall Independent Film Festival is the 2009 Sundance hit Adam.  The film soared at the January more »


    You Need To Be In The Loop

    We Americans are pretty good at satire—one need only look at the plays of Neil Simon, the essays of David Sedaris, and the whole canon more »


    They Would Do Anything For Love

    The Arts and Education Council’s Fall Independent Film Series started last week with a sold-out matinee screening of Food, Inc.  With a line out the more »


    Lights, Camera, Independence

    I must apologize for confusing you a few weeks ago about the opening of Food, Inc. here in Chattanooga.  The powers that be at Magnolia more »


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