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  • Events Calendar Sponsored by ChattanoogaHasFun.com
    March 2010
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    Today\'s Events
    • Wild Ocean in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Hubble in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater
    • "Talk Portraiture" Exhibition at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • "Earth" at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • Mystery of the Red Neck Italian Wedding at Vaudeville Cafe , 8:30pm
    • Mac Comer at T-Bone's Sports Cafe, 10pm
    • Dave Kennedy at Tremont Tavern, 10pm
    • Eoto, Vibesquad, Archnemesis, Whitenoise at Club Fathom, 10pm
    • Bluegrass Pharaohs at Market Street Tavern, 10pm
    • The Molly Maguires at T-Bone's Sports Cafe, 10pm
    • Bluegrass Pharaohs at Market Street Tavern, 10pm

    Tomorrow\'s Events
    • Wild Ocean in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Sweet Adelines, Region 23 "Six Minutes to Fame" Convention at Chattanooga Convention Center
    • Hubble in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater
    • "Talk Portraiture" Exhibition at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • "Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • “Explorations in Steel” by Julie Clark at In Town Gallery, 11am
    • "Earth" at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • "Recent Landscapes: Lawerence Mathis" Exhibition at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • Rick Rushing and the Blues Strangers at Mudpie Restaurant, 6:30pm
    • Born of Osiris, Your Demise, Every Word a Prophecy, Permillisecond at Warehouse Row, 7pm
    • Mike Speenburg at The Comedy Catch, 8pm

    Later Events
    • Southern Literature Book Club Meeting: "Gap Creek" at Rock Point Books, 6pm
    • "Earth" at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • "Talk Portraiture" Exhibition at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • "Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Wild Ocean in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater
    • Auditions for "Pig Farm" at Chattanooga Theater Center, 7:30pm
    • Hubble in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • "Speak Easy" Spoken word and poetry at Mudpie Restaurant, 8pm
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • "Recent Landscapes: Lawerence Mathis" Exhibition at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • “Explorations in Steel” by Julie Clark at In Town Gallery, 11am
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art

    Don’t Stash the ’Stache

    If you don’t already know about Moustache Friday, then I don’t know where you’ve been hiding the last few years.  I suppose I can let it slide, provided that you don’t let it happen again.

    Moustache Friday is a little local holiday that started about five years ago.  It is the last Friday in March every year.  The holiday serves three purposes.  Purpose one is about America.  It’s the God-given right of a man, nay, an American man, to have a moustache.  Embrace this freedom.  Feel it on your face.  Taste yesterday’s soup from your upper lip, and know that you, sir, are a man.

    It can wordlessly say so much about a man by giving you a follicle-sized window into their soul.  In fact, through the ages, the military of several countries have used the size and style of a man’s moustache to indicate rank among them.  Lesser men had lesser moustaches, while the more elaborate and majestic moustaches were reserved for men more advanced in rank.

    “Moustache” the word, is derived from the 9th-century medieval Greek term “moustakion” and the spelling I use is the proper spelling more »



    New Music Reviews – Four Tet, Saturday Looks Good to Me

    Four Tet
    There Is Love in You
    (Domino)

    It’s commonly said that Four Tet, Kieran Hebden’s one-man band, is an electronic outfit that’s difficult to classify.  Hebden has more »


    Have Kazoo, Will Travel

    Imagine it’s 1970-something, and your parents have treated you to a night at Shakey’s Pizza. Right there along with your substandard slice is something you more »


    New Music Reviews – Small Black, Joanna Newsom

    Small Black
    Small Black EP
    (Jagjaguwar)

    It is possible for a diligent and resourceful musician to create a professional-sounding recording in a modest bedroom studio, nowadays.  Then, there more »


    All Hail Cowpunk

    If you are a Tennessean who might pride yourself on being in the know about what our fine state has to offer musically, then surely more »


    New Music Reviews – Jack Rose, Various Artists

    Jack Rose
    Luck in the Valley
    (Thrill Jockey)

    Fingerstyle guitarist Jack Rose died of a heart attack at the maddeningly young age of 38 last December; his newest more »


    4/20 of the Future…Near Future

    I’ve been getting slammed with questions, e-mails, calls, and texts about the Sweetwater 4/20 Festival this year.  As most of you know, it was a more »


    New Music Reviews: Miles Davis, Songs For Chris Knox

    Miles Davis
    Isle of Wight
    (Columbia)

    Getting rock-and-pop-centered listeners into jazz requires some kind of gateway.  Some will respond to Duke Ellington’s big bands, Charlie Parker’s bebop, or more »


    476 in the 423

    I constantly write about local bands and what they are up to, or what national acts might be doing in our neck of the woods.

    What more »


    New Music Reviews – U.S. Girls, Anais Mitchell

    U.S. Girls
    Go Grey
    (Siltbreeze)

    There’s something endearingly ghetto about the configuration of a performance from the Philadelphia outfit U.S. Girls.  Megan Remy, the sole member, kneels or more »


    Howlies Take Discoteca

    The Howlies are a garage doo-wop four-piece from Atlanta you can catch at Discoteca this Saturday night. Their first full-length album, Trippin’ with Howlies, came more »


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