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in a nice piece of media reporting, Nooga.com’s Chloé Morrison crafted an in-depth story for the local news website late last week about attempts of anony-mous organizers to unionize Our Daily via an email to staffers designed to “test the level of interest ... and gauge the na-ture of management’s response” before revealing their identities.

Interest, according to the organizer’s spokesperson, is strong. Management’s response? Not so strong yet, but fast. Mat-thew Salada, the paper’s human resources director, quickly tried to tamp down any rumblings among staffers by claiming the email was spam “to obtain access to your Google account username and password,” he wrote in his own email to employees, according to Morrison’s story.

We won’t attempt to explain the whole

story here; Morrison did an excellent job of reporting on the opening salvo from the Workers of the Times Free Press, as the group calls itself, as well as a concise history of unions—and their poor his-tory in the South. You can read her sto-ry, “Anonymous group seeks to unionize Chattanooga Times Free Press” on Nooga.com, which also contains links to the flier the group circulated via email through the paper as well as a link to their Face-book page.

The unionizing move was the result, according to the group’s spokesperson, of the alleged action of the paper’s man-agement of inserting undercover “consul-tants” planted in the newsroom posing as interns to see who can be eliminated or what work can be outsourced—what was called “right-sizing the operation.”

Regardless of legitimacy of the group or its claims, it’s no secret that times are tough at the TFP, as they are at almost every daily newspaper across the country.

In the wake of news that the New Orleans Times-Picayune is soon to become the nation’s largest city without a daily news-paper (the paper is downsizing, switching to three-day publication and focusing on its website), similar downsizing rumbles have echoed through newsrooms across the country. So it’s no surprise a union movement might arise.

Problem is, newspaper unions—though once strong—have all but disappeared, especially in the South, where employ-ers have been historically anti-union for decades. That said, it’s not illegal for em-ployees to organize a union—it’s just dan-gerous, hence the secrecy.

While employees are protected from being targeted by employers for attempt-ing to form a union, it is possible that an employer could use something else as a pretext to fire someone, said attorney Maury Nicely in the Nooga.com story.

“The smart employee does not do this publicly, and the smart employer doesn’t terminate employees because they engage in this discussion,” Nicely was quoted in Morrison’s story.

It’s worth noting that the TFP’s Salada is a former labor and employment attor-ney who must be aware he has to tread lightly if the organizers are indeed real and attempts to unionize the paper move forward.

It’s also worth noting that while most newspaper staffers—here and else-where—might be sympathetic to a union effort (there is union activity at the Knox-ville and Memphis papers, the story re-ports), they may also be justifiably ner-vous about aligning themselves with the effort for fear of reprisal on another front.

On the other hand, newspapers—espe-cially daily newspapers—aren’t gaining any ground; in fact, the reverse appears to be true if New Orleans is any indication, so the question some might be asking is: What have we got to lose?

“Job security isn’t for suckers; you can have it too,” reads the first line of the email sent to TFP staffers. Will they rise and rally or hunker down and hope for the best?

As the anonymous organizer was quot-ed in an email to Nooga.com: “This is a story that will have legs. Stay tuned.”

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Me? Cynical? What a load of crap. And I can prove it: Something good has come from the Southside, and it was something I actually took home with me and held close for years. No, liter-ally.

I was a Brainerd man in those days, which meant I dealt exclusively with two types of crime: traf-fic violators (wrecks in-cluded) and shoplifters. It was horribly boring (less the occasional foot chase through what was, at the time, the largest mall in Tennessee), so upon find-ing I’d been loaned out to Charlie Team (the zone that covers the aforemen-tioned blight of the city), I thought “Hey, this will be a different kind of hor-rible at least.” And hey, maybe the Shoney’s from my training days was still open.

I learned two things over the next few hours. One, the grass is never greener on the other side—it just gets fed by a different septic tank. And two, the damn Shoney’s was closed after all. No one had the decency to even put a cheap Mexican restaurant into the build-ing, as is generally re-quired across the nation.

I had barely gotten into the team area when the radio chirped and any remaining thoughts of an easy, unmotivated night perished. Well, most of them.

Howard High School. I was being sent on an un-known trouble call there,

and let me tell you: An “unknown trouble” call at a failing inner-city high school can have a lot of possibilities in this world. I acknowledged the dis-patch and headed that way.

I arrived about the same time as my backup unit and we headed to the front office. The absence of banter between us be-ing notable since I was a tourist in his team. We knew each other by nam-etags but not much else, and we opened the front doors silently considering one another until we were interrupted by the sound of screams.

There were no sounds of shots or scent of gun-powder or other signs of CNN-style shit breaking loose, so we navigated a few hallways and turned to find a group of kids out-side one particular class-room. We asked what the problem was. “Sn… Sn…” one girl tried to say be-tween heaving sobs and some kind of dancing on tiptoes. “Hey, hey now … it’s OK. Tell me what is wrong?”I asked her as soothingly as possible.

“Sn… Sn... SNAKE!” she cried, then pulled her own hair and ran up the hallway where the others

had gone.It was a Ball Python,

to be exact, being held in the rear left corner of an English classroom with a broom held by a very sur-prised looking teacher. “Please take this. Please.”

We later found that the snake in question had been a classroom pet, an environmental sciences specimen that had ap-parently escaped its ter-rarium and spent the last year living in the walls of an inner-city high school undetected … amazing.

Scarred and emaci-ated, its aggression and hunger were balanced by its weakened physical condition, so naturally I bonded with it. Upon learning that neither the Humane Society nor any other agency would claim this thing, I did what any other decent human be-ing would do. I took the poor bastard home.

What good came of the “pre-revitalized” Southside? A serpent (later named “Howard” of course, it being his alma mater, after all).

Five good years we had, Howard and I—eat-ing mice, scaring chicks and never having to say a word to each other. A friend.

“Cynical?” I think not. Next question?

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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.

i took a little heat for last week’s bit on the southside. people said I sullied its name and espoused only the negatives, the stereotypes, and described it from the cynical perspective of a burned out asshole. Oh, and that I was somehow a racist (which usually just entails my presence).

in what soccer world sports agency owner Mark Weisman claims is, “The highest professional soccer event to ever hit Tennessee,” Club America will face off against Pachuca at 8 p.m. on July 7 at Finley Stadium. With a soccer fan base that has proven supportive for the Chatta-nooga Futbol Club, Weisman says, “We are thrilled and honored to host these amaz-ing and legendary teams from Mexico, and we are confident that the thousands of soccer fans in the Southeast will come out to support what are two of Mexico’s most popular clubs.”

With soccer still considered the world’s most popular sport, America is catching up in the international ranks. As a result, a match-up of this magnitude with two members of Mexico’s top-level profession-al Primera Division is very rarely seen on American soil—and a complete rarity in Chattanooga. The scheduling of an exhibi-tion match of this size in Chattanooga is a reflection of the city’s rising status as a host not only in our region, but also with events of international appeal.

With an expected sell-out crowd at the 20,668-seat Finley Stadium, the event has generated quite a bit of anticipation and support from the local community.

“This is a great opportunity for Chat-tanooga to once again showcase how wel-coming we are to international communi-ties,” said Gladys Pineda-Loher, business coordinator for the Chattanooga Cham-ber. “This is the biggest sporting event that has come to Chattanooga in a long time and we will be excited to help it become a success.”

—Cole Rose

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Chattanooga: Futbol Capital of Tennessee?

in the aftermath of the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold Obam-acare, the court did allow states the op-tion to refuse to expand Medicaid, which might seem crazy given the program pro-vides tons of free federal money to pay for health care for residents and help doctors and hospitals recoup their losses. But ac-cording to a recent report in the Nashville Scene, guess who’s opting out? Tennessee! Like many Red States, it seems, Tennessee Republicans just want to thumb their nose at Washington—at the expense of its citi-zens. Shameful? We think so.

—Bill Ramsey

OBAMACARE

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Reddit is one of the country’s most highly trafficked websites, but its general manager, Erik Martin, keeps a remark-ably low profile. Most Redditors know the 33-year-old Martin solely by his username: HueyPriest.

“Part of that’s just me, but part of it is like, we never wanted Reddit to be about the people who work there,” said Martin from the second floor of a San Francisco café that was swiftly inching toward swel-tering in the late April heat. Dressed in a plaid button-down and jeans, with dark circles forming beneath his eyes, he looked every bit the startup ingenue. “We don’t want it to be this cult of personality thing that I think some sites get turned into.”

Owned by Advance Publications, Red-dit is not a publisher but a platform that allows users to share links, stories and multimedia. Often referred to as the “front page of the Internet,” it is notorious for in-side jokes. While cartoon rage comics, for instance, may have originated on the ever-more-offensive 4chan message boards, they certainly reached their apex on Red-dit. Users also can create their own “sub-reddits”—or sections—based on any topic of their choosing, and volunteers with no formal association to Reddit moderate them. Democratization is inherently wo-ven into the site’s functionality: users vote

posts up or down at their pleasure. The more votes a post gets, the better chance it has of making it to the “front page,” where the most readers will see it.

And an eye-popping number of users do see it: The site averages 2.5 billion pa-geviews a month. With user sta-tistics like that, and an espe-cially loyal following, d e t r a c -tors have derided it as a “hive mind,” but that doesn’t fully account for the complex-ity and generosity of the community. A few months ago, the site hosted a poignant quest ion-and-an-swer session with a survivor of Norway’s Utoya massacre, for example, and there are countless threads that help collect donations for the community’s sick or needy mem-

bers.“‘Hive mind’ is often used pejoratively,

and I definitely understand what people are referring to, but I think the idea of a hive mind works pretty well for bees,” of-fered Martin, when asked about Reddit’s “upvote now-assess later” tendencies. For bees, he explained, a hive mind means that it takes a democratic consensus to make an important decision, like where to construct a new hive.

“[The hive mind] is a very fast, sort of reactionary thing, and that has bad re-sults sometimes, results where people are

not as skeptical as maybe they

should be. You need to make sure enough bees are going to

double-check the new location.

You need a bunch of bees going like, ‘You are right,

that is a pret-ty great new home, it has a

tire swing.’’’A little history:

In 2005, the site’s young co-founders,

Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, were accepted by the start-up incubator Y Com-binator for its first-ev-

er round. A year later, in a push to expand its

online brand, Condé Nast acquired Reddit for be-tween $10 million and $20 million. At the

time, Reddit averaged just 70,000 unique daily visitors.

After the sale, Condé worked feverishly to fold Reddit into its stable of well-estab-lished print brands, like Vogue and Wired. “We thought of Reddit, [technology blog] Ars Technica and Wired as what Condé Nast deemed the ‘innovation group,’’’ said Jena Donlin, who runs business operations for Reddit and still works out of the Condé Nast office in Times Square.

Martin, who had majored in American Studies at Tulane and worked in the docu-mentary film industry, served as the site’s community manager at the time, a role that he said entailed “answering user ques-tions, dealing with spam and finding cool things in the community to promote.”

By all accounts, Martin also played a significant role in ushering in a successful transition from an independently run web-site to a division of a major publishing con-glomerate. What made the job even harder was that Reddit’s approach to publishing exemplified the democratizing influence of the web, which at that very moment was violently destabilizing the whole we-speak-you-listen model that Condé Nast, with its pantheon of all-powerful editors, had long since mastered.

As Reddit’s user base continued to grow following the acquisition, the tension be-tween the democratized user-generated site and its ancient publishing parent be-came more pronounced. Reddit does not offer traditional advertising, so its prima-ry stream of revenue came in the form of Reddit Gold, a paid premium membership subscription, as well as what Martin called “self-serve ads for mom-and-pop shops” and carefully selected marketing partner-ships.

The site, which boasts a barebones user interface that harkens back to the halcyon days of ’90s Usenet groups, has always

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the top-scoring link of all time on the social news website reddit is a post that users were never meant to see at all. It is titled, “test post please ignore,” but almost 27,000 Redditors found it so amusing that they voted it up. ¶ That is testament to the website’s impassioned community—and their brand of dry, often geeky humor (the site’s logo is an alien, after all). But Reddit’s user base, which a recent PBS documentary pegged as 72 percent male, has wide-ranging interests. Other top posts include a link to a news item about the el-derly volunteering to clean up nuclear waste in Japan following the 2011 tsu-nami, and a question-and-answer session with the famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.


shunned traditional advertising, a stance that even a cash-starved, ad-hungry Condé Nast couldn’t change. Monetizing Reddit is something Condé Nast “has still not been able to figure out,” Ohanian said in a 2010 episode of Big Think (bigthink.com), adding, “Reddit has a fantastic audi-ence ... How do we advertise to them in a way that isn’t screwing them as a user and at the same time provid-ing enough value to an advertiser to want to do it?’

But in August 2010, an advertis-ing controversy erupted between the stodgy parent company and its will-ful child. The activist group Just Say Now wanted to host self-serve ads on Reddit in support of the proposed California marijuana legalization law Prop 19, but Condé Nast refused. The Reddit team responded by agreeing to host Just Say Now’s ads on their site for free, a move that was still technically within the bounds of the parent company’s rules, but made a strong point.

Reddit’s traffic continued to ex-plode, and in early 2011, the site was getting upward of two billion pa-geviews a month. Condé Nast wasn’t equipped to handle the technological and cultural challenges that came with that kind of traffic. And the tensions between the little-website-that-could and its old-school parent company were starting to take their toll. “In the spring of 2011, we had one programmer and two system administrators and me,” Martin ex-plained. “It was kind of a rough time, and I was like, ‘If Reddit needs me to move out to San Francisco, I’ll do it. I’ll do whatever Reddit needs. I can’t

let this fail.’’’Martin agreed to move to San

Francisco at the behest of Condé, and took on the general manager role. He began to grow the team, hiring a handful of programmers to admin-ister the site. Finally, in September 2011, the company spun Reddit out of the Condé Nast family into its own standalone subsidiary, while still re-taining ownership.

“We don’t want to get in users’ way,” Donlin explained. “We want to serve what the community is already doing. Condé Nast understood that, and it’s why we’re independent. They understood that we needed to be able to do that in order to grow. And they realized in the current structure of Condé Nast, it wasn’t as easy to [grow] because there wasn’t a prece-dent that was set. We’re more bottom up whereas Condé is more top down.”

Martin agreed. “The process didn’t allow for [what Reddit needed], that was the main tension. [Condé’s] pro-cess is set up for sales cycles that take longer and there’s more sort of time for that kind of vetting and deci-sion-making. But most of the Condé brands have more people on the sales side than we have total employees.”

Reddit hired its first-ever CEO in March 2012, an ex-Pay Pal and Facebook engineer named Yishan Wong. Now, Reddit is a subsidiary of Advance, separate from Condé, and reports to a board populated with executives from both Condé and Ad-vance, along with Ohanian. “We’ve been working with Advance Publi-cations to complete [R]eddit’s spi-noff,” Wong wrote in a triumphant blog post on Reddit, “[including] a

revamped capital structure that will allow Reddit to manage its own fi-nances and operations.”

“The way that the site works,” said Kevin Morris, a staff writer at the Daily Dot, in a recent PBS segment about Reddit, “[is that] it tends to at-tract people who want to know the truth.” In January 2012, the Reddit community’s large-scale vocaliza-tion of their opposition to SOPA and PIPA, coupled with support from equally passionate communities on Tumblr and Wikipedia, eventually persuaded lawmakers to table the legislation. Reddit, an online com-munity that had only been around for six years, had successfully helped to defeat the American government.

in april 2012, much to his surprise, Martin was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influ-ential people. For the event, Martin donned a tuxedo for only the second time ever—the first being a friend’s wedding—and completed the outfit with a shiny pair of Reddit cuff links.

“It was very surreal,” he confided a few weeks after the event. “I’ve never been to something like that. I got to meet Ralph Nader, who is adorable. He asked about Reddit and I ex-plained it to him, but I don’t know if I was successful.”

Martin is unfailingly humble about his contributions to Reddit. “Any credit I would get,” he said, “would be for not fucking it up.”

“At Reddit, he doesn’t say, ‘Hey, check me out,’’’ explained Nils Olsen, an old friend of Martin’s. “He says, ‘Hey, check you out.’”

“He can be very humble,” agreed Donlin. “That humbleness has also been what’s made him so successful.”

Martin will be moving back to New York in July to focus on the business and media aspects of the site and to run the New York office.

As for that Time 100 award, it doesn’t appear to have gone to his head.

“Ralph Nader went to give me his business card and he said, ‘Well, I kind of ran out of my current cards, but I grabbed this stack of cards from the 1970s.’ All it had was a P.O. box. It didn’t have a phone number, so he scribbled it on the back,” he said.

“I was like aaahhhh, I am framing this! It was amazing.”

That sounded like an upvote.

First published in The New York Observer.

Reddit Chattanooga it’s no secret chattanoogans love to make their voices heard in comment sections online, and Reddit is no different. Search “Chattanooga” on the site and, like the city itself, you’ll find a small but vocal community full of opinions and hyperbole. The most re-cent post asked, “Favorite lunch spot in downtown Chattanooga?” to which 89 respondents rave over the entire landscape of downtown dining. But by far, most threads involve advice solicited by potential newcomers to town. On this subject, the “advice” runs the gamut from the pros and cons of living downtown (“just avoid it,” says one commentor), to opinions of Mayor Ron Littlefield (“a complete idiot and total slimeball”) and a rather involved argument on the merits of McKay Books. In general, Chattanoogans give their city an upvote and are quick to point out its high and low points. A group of Chat-tanooga Redditors once gathered at various downtown restaurants, but the group now seems dormant. — Bill Ramsey



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NIGhTFALLDIRTy BOURBONRIVER ShOW• Soulful sounds from New Orleans in the eclectic style of folk gypsy circus rock. Local duo The Snake Doctors open.

FRI 07.06 • 7 p.m. River city stagemiller PlazaDowntown chattanooganightfallchattanooga.com

Deerhunter guitar-ist lockett Pundt launches the

second album of his solo group, lotus Plaza, with spooky action at a Dis-tance. Pundt’s presence in Deerhunter’s music, while certainly evident, mixes into the sonic fabric and makes his part more important in the context of the whole. Pundt re-tains his signature sound of strong guitar hooks smeared with a haze and reverb distance in this side project.

What’s evident with spooky action is that lotus Plaza has achieved their own coherence with strong, complete song

writing. spooky action is decidedly the best of the two albums released from lotus Plaza, with Pitch-fork’s Ian cohen calling it “... one of the strongest indie rock records of the year so far.” JJ’s Bohemia scores yet another coup bringing the band to the stage Friday night in the early stages of their u.s. tour.

Lotus Plazawith hollow stars, eight Knives and The Whoremones9 p.m. Friday, July 6JJ’s Bohemia231 mlK Blvd.(423) 266-1400

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What these two world-class musicians do is “genuinely im-provised,” as Watts put it in an interview in Jazz Planet. “Neither of us know what the other is going to play, nor does Veryan anticipate what I will do next or vice versa.” Having made music together in vari-ous configurations for close to 50 years, the two have devel-oped an instinctual chemistry “and the concentration and quick reaction to what is being played in the moment.”

This is intense, challenging music. When asked what ad-vice he’d offer a young musi-cian setting out to master the art of improvisation as they practice it, Watts suggested that the artist “be ready for re-jection ... It could be a difficult path.” The same might be said of newcomers to the duo’s free-wheeling musical dialogue. Not immediately inviting,

their work refuses to reveal itself in easily digested verses with catchy riffs and hum-mable choruses. Yet it yields unmistakable rewards. As a critic wrote in All That Jazz about Watts and Weston’s 2011 album, Five more Dialogues, “It feels as if dawn has been hung upon the waking sky by the dream-like pirouetting of piano and saxophone.”

Watts’ compositions are also often surprisingly approach-able and melodic. In “Uhura,” an extended, quietly winding piece that can be heard on Watts’ MySpace page, his so-

prano sax traces long, spidery lines over the steady thrum of the percussive and yet subtly melodic drone of the urukun-golo, an oversized, dulcimer-like instrument played (and invented) by Mexican-born musician, Gibran Cervantes. “Uhuru” has the feel of an In-dian raga: gently insinuating, very relaxing and almost hyp-notic. “Musical” and “melodic” may seem the antithesis of the music he makes with Weston, but for Watts it’s all of a piece.

“I’d like to make it clear that I love ALL music that stimu-lates me whatever style is car-rying the music is immaterial,” he said in the Jazz Planet in-terview. “If it’s something that comes from the heart, then I can relate to it. That’s as much to do with classical music as ethnic music as jazz.”

Watts, born in 1939 in York-shire in northern England, met Weston, a classically trained pianist from Cornwall in southwest England, in the mid-1960s, a time in which cre-ativity and originality seemed an artist’s birthright. Watts, a self-taught musician and less-than-successful student, only escaped a soul-shriveling fac-tory job by joining the Royal Air Force. It was there that he met drummer John Stevens. After leaving the military, the two formed the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in London in 1965. Weston was also a part of the ensemble for a time.

SME’s music was based on rhythm more than melody. Imagine a beautiful room without furnishings, just the bare architectural bones. Watts calls it “pointillistic.” Drawing on that same concept almost 50 years later, Watts and Weston focus on moments rather than long, integrated pieces. In a state of ecstatic concentration, each responds

to the other in the moment. The result is sometimes man-ic, sometimes serene. In a wild flight of Coltrane-like fancy, Watts stabs the saxophone keys with a furious flurry of notes; in the next moment Weston delivers with a deep, thunderous run on the piano, while Watts blasts an airy clus-ter into hypersonic space. And that’s just the first few minutes of their performance at Bark-ing Legs last summer (see the video on YouTube).

The two musicians share Coltrane’s fascination with In-dian modes and the often furi-ously propulsive interplay be-tween the sitar and the tabla. When they’re playing a raga, the Indian musicians respond to each other’s cues, weav-ing a dense skein of rhythm and melody as they reach for ecstatic release—very much like Weston and Watts in full flight.

For these virtuoso musi-cians—and their adventur-ous audiences—the journey itself is the objective. Decid-ing what they’ll play ahead of their performance, writing it down on paper, and formal-izing the composition would mean reaching the destination before they left. That would take all the fun out of it for ev-eryone.

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igor stravinsky sparked a riot when he debuted “The Rite of Spring” in Paris in 1913. When British saxo-phonist Trevor Watts and pianist Veryan Weston pre-sented their equally challenging improvisational jazz at Barking Legs last year, the audience response was “phe-nomenal.” That’s not always the reaction the pair’s music engenders in first-time listeners. As a result, according to Barking Legs owner, Bruce Kaplan, “The Englishmen are eager to play for us again.” They’ll be back at Barking Legs on Dodds Avenue at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 12.

Richard Winham is the host and producer of WUTC-Fm’s afternoon music program and has observed the Chat-tanooga music scene for more than 25 years.

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singer neneh cherry has had a meandering musical career spanning three decades, going from post-punk era outfits like Rip Rig + Panic to hip-hop/pop/dance solo artist success (remember “Buffalo Stance”?) to being a collaborator with the pio-

neering trip-hop group Massive Attack. It’s easy to forget that she was raised with an infusion of free jazz—her stepfather was the brilliant trumpeter Don Cherry, whose own remarkable solo al-bums were often unfairly overshadowed by his partnership with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The Scandinavian free jazz trio The Thing was formed a dozen years ago initially as a tribute to Don Cherry, so it makes sense that Neneh Cherry and The Thing have teamed up on an album that attempts to bring free jazz out of the fringes.

“Cashback,” a Neneh Cherry original, is an impressive opener, with urgent, insistent drumming from Paal Nilssen-Love and pointed, sturdy upright-bass playing from Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, complementing the street-smart flair of Cherry. However, Mats Gustafsson steals the scene with his fiery sax squawking, coming

from the Peter Brötzmann school of hard-blowing, and kudos to him for not holding back. The other original, Gustafsson’s “Sudden Moment,” slithers with the vocals and sax mirroring each other, and it might be a surprise to those only accustomed to his in-tense avant-jazz side. A cover of Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream” avoids the metronomic momentum of other renditions and has a peculiar tug to it, going for a smoother roll; it definitely grows on you. Some covers dig into a riff with less success, like the take on the Stooges’ “Dirt,” but the non-western groove of “Golden Heart” (a Don Cherry piece) and the soulful, loose rendering of “What Reason Could I Give?” (by Ornette Coleman) work well. The quartet storms through its material, serving as an avant-jazz crossover that may get the attention of rockist listeners and presents Cherry as an ample jazz songstress.

the husband-and-wife queens-based duo the home of easy credit has its own twist on free improvisation—that is, spontaneous music with no particular genre in mind—by putting it in various, sometimes unexpected settings with expansive, if con-

fusing elements on its self-titled album. Take for example the open-ing nine-minute track, “Monolithic Insanity,” which unfurls the twosome’s playing styles: saxophonist Louis Dam Eckardt Jensen, originally from Denmark, whips up a hypnotic mesh of repeated three-note patterns, while bassist Tom Blancarte, from Texas, goes to town with furious string harmonics, gradually rising in intensity and disorder. However, the odd thing about the track is how atmo-spheric it sounds, with certain qualities of ambient music. Even-tually, Jensen adds her wordless siren-song vocals, and the whole bundle is gorgeous, eerie, and unsettling.

The duo doesn’t seem to be concerned with showboating chops or delving into extended techniques to demonstrate a huge range; that doesn’t seem to be the point here. Instead, Blancarte and Jensen seem to be extending the idea of musicianship by using electronic

manipulation and recording controls as part of their strategies. For example, Blancarte’s bass taps are magnified using stereo delay panning effects on “The Dream of a De-mocracy of Goods,” while the album’s enigmatic closing track features Jensen on flute, with delicate sequences that gingerly swell with microphone feedback. Jensen’s vocals provide an uncommon characteristic, like on the disorienting “The Feast of the Meal Replacement Bars,” with echoing snippets of singing with an enunciation that evokes Björk’s elfin weirdness. “A Fireproof House for $5000” provides acoustic noise and bub-bling chaos, with Jensen seemingly blowing raspberries while Blancarte tries to sound as ghostly as possible, and more conventionally palatable moments, like the smoky jazz of “The Dream of the Pursuit of Happiness,” have a sinister undercurrent of faint looped vocals. Pushing away from the crowd, The Home of easy Credit distinguishes itself with its playful, strange, yet sometimes angelic discordance.

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One world is the exotic yet fa-miliar community of American expatriates in Korea, cruising drunkenly through a culture they don’t attempt to understand. The other, more interesting world is the troubled relationship of two sisters—one Caucasian, one ad-opted from Korea by an Ameri-can GI—and the knot of family secrets surrounding them.

The staid white Allison and the confident Korean wild child Mina begin the novel as a pair of op-posites. But by the end they seem more like their own unique yin-yang symbol, so different but cir-cling around each other always, each one holding the seed of the other for better or worse.

Baker’s three books all draw on her 12 years living in Korea and traveling around Asia. “They’re all about the allure and alienation of Americans traveling in or living in Asia,” she said.

The Life Plan (2009) is a comic novel about a woman trying to keep her marriage together by chasing after her husband who has left to study massage in Thai-land. Talismans (2010) is a darker book, a collection of linked short stories about a woman travel-ing around Asia trying to find out what happened to her father, a Vietnam veteran who moved back to Vietnam and then disap-peared.

“One of the nice things about being with small presses is that I can just write about whatever I want,” she said. “I have friends who are published by the bigger presses. Often there is a lot of pressure to write same book over and over.”

The Huffington Post called Baker one of “today’s strongest emerging talents in literary fic-tion and poetry.” If her summer teaching schedule is any indica-tion, the rest of the world is also noticing: the Yale Writers’ Con-ference in June and City Univer-sity of Hong Kong in July.

Baker returned from Korea in 2007 to become an assistant professor of English and creative writing at UTC, as well as as-sistant director of the Meacham Writers Workshop. She is also fic-tion editor for Drunken Boat, an online journal of art and litera-ture.

“It takes a while to write about a place when you’re closer to it. I think I had to leave Korea to write about it,” she said. “My novel I’m just starting now is set in Chatta-nooga. I moved here in 2007, and I haven’t felt like I was ready to write about it until now.”

The idea for into This World,

published last May, began at the Hunter Museum. Baker helped organize a teachers conference held there in 2010 and joined other participants in writing a response to a painting. She wrote about “Confrontation” by Hughie Lee Smith, showing two girls in a desolate landscape. Baker de-cided they were estranged sisters, one of them Korean, and won-dered why they were estranged. “That was the germ of the novel. I have to thank the Hunter for that,” she said.

into This World is quite a page-turner, without having any of the throwaway qualities of fiction that usually gets that label. The set up is simple: adopted sister Mina goes to Korea looking for her birth mother, and Caucasian sister Allison follows to be sure she’s okay.

Looking back after finish-ing the book, it’s clear that the relatively mundane events of the first few pages—a drunken call from Korea, worried parents, the American sister reflecting on

the torch she carried 12 years for her boss until quitting that day—foreshadowed the unfolding of a complex story of great emotional subtlety. The ending is the cul-mination of an intricate weave of revelations and reversals. It grows organically from that first scene with the inevitability of a knot of DNA unraveling to give up its se-crets.

“Allison becomes the person who wants to know the truth no matter what,” said Baker. “At the beginning not so much. She doesn’t want to deal with the truth. Once she deals with how she’s been stuck in her life, who her father is and who her sister is, she wants to expose it to the whole family, even if that makes the fam-ily fall apart. Mina is concerned about finding out the truth of her own identity, but she doesn’t care about dealing with family.”

As Mina comes closer to finding her mother, she loses something of herself. But as the once passive Allison searches for Mina, she becomes a stronger, more sym-pathetic character and is, in fact, the engine moving the novel to its dramatic finale. The book ends on a moment of stunning clarity and emotional power. Without negat-ing the suffering that led to it or pasting a literary smiley face on a complex story, the final scene and the very last image place a beauti-ful full stop at the end of this rich literary composition.

Revelations and ReversalsBy Rich Bailey

sybil baker’s new novel, into this world, draws the reader into two worlds, slowly at first, then faster and faster as it moves relentlessly toward a climax of secrets revealed and relationships changed.

Chattanooga author Sybil Baker has been called one of “today’s strongest emerging talents in literary fiction and poetry.”

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Sushi Nabe to The Pulse: We create delicious Japanese cuisine, not jazz last week the pulse profiled Sushi Nabe Japa-nese Cuisine in an article titled “Sushi Nabe Serves Comfort Food, Japanese Style.” The content of the ar-ticle, however, was switched in a freak copy-paste inci-dent. Instead of sushi, the article reviewed an experi-mental jazz quartet. After the article was published, Mr. Nabe contacted our offices and explained that, while he certainly appreci-ates jazz, he would continue to make Japanese cuisine to satisfy the fans of Sushi Nabe for years to come and

leave the jazz to musicians. Mr. Nabe did speculate,

however, that the gesture of “Jazz Hands” in a dance style would be possible for him after making a partic-ular selection of sushi rolls.

“I understand that ‘Jazz Hands’ are popular. So is my sushi,” he said.

The Pulse has long been a fan of Sushi Nabe as well as jazz, but the combination of these two elements in an article is regrettable. Give Sushi Nabe a visit and “like” the restaurant on Face-book.com/sushinabechat-tanooga.

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Warren Zevon famously said, “Enjoy every sandwich,” when faced with the impend-ing certainty of his own death. He used the perfect, poetic simplicity of the sandwich to illustrate lessons he had learned about life, death and the misdirected value of excess in a culture that elevates the elaborate and mocks the mini-malist. He also really liked sandwiches. And Mexican food. Which completes the cir-cle of life between the advice of my mother, the life lessons of Zevon, and the one sandwich that ties it all together—the Mexican Torta.

If you are not already famil-

iar with the Mexican torta you are missing out on one of life’s simple pleasures. These are not complicated sandwiches with hand-crafted aioli’s or care-fully tweezed micro-greens. These are two-fisted, look-you-in-the-eye sandwiches with no pretension or hidden agendas. They’re the kind of sandwiches that hold your hair back after a hard night on the town and can comfort you after an early morning walk of shame.

A successful sandwich, like a successful life, is all about bal-ance. The ratio of bread to con-diment to filling is of utmost importance and must be care-fully managed, similar to the

balance between work, social obligations and masturbation. The torta is an undefeated champion of balance, starting with its soft, comforting bread with its light crust and equally light flavor. Depending on the preference of the cook, either a bolillo or a telera bun is used, which is then split, toasted and spread with a nice schmear of refried beans, a little mayo and some avocado slices.

In Mexico, street vendors and tortería owners fill their sandwiches with an endlessly creative assortment of fillings and give them names like “La Gringa” or “La Barbie.” Here in Chattanooga, most restau-rants keep it simple and stuff their tortas with chicken, beef, chorizo sausage or pork carnitas. Occasionally, Taque-ria Jalisco will offer a torta with pork, ham and grilled pineapple, but my personal favorite is a simple pork car-nitas torta. Finish filling the sandwich with a little lettuce, tomato, maybe a few slices of pickled jalapeno, and you have the Philosopher King of sand-wiches, ready to sustain you, please you, and present itself for contemplation on its sim-plicity should you feel the need to contemplate. If not, just enjoy the sandwich and leave the contemplation to Richard

Gere. When I find myself in need

of the comforting simplic-ity of the mighty torta, I make my way to my neighborhood sanctuary of solace—La Al-tena Mexican restaurant. La Altena offers pork carnitas, which are the most holy of all torta filling options. Pork carnitas are shoulder cuts of pork that are slow cooked un-til tender, pulled and picked, then quickly roasted or pan seared just prior to service to produce a tongue-seducing textural playground between the softness of the slow-cooked pork and the crispiness of its caramelized edges. While it should be illegal to fill a torta with any other meat, such in-tolerance runs counter to the guiding principles set forth by Mr. Zevon and my mom so I will refrain from such narrow judgments for now.

As time goes on, the more I realize my mom and Warren Zevon were right. Appreciate, enjoy and elevate the simple things, even if it’s nothing more than a really good sandwich.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The epic breadth of your imagina-tion is legendary. Is there anyone else who can wander around the world without ever once leaving your home? And yet now and then there do come times when your fantasies should be set aside so that you may soak up the teach-ings that flow your way when you physically venture outside of your comfort zone. Now is such a moment, my fellow Cancerian. Please don’t take a merely virtual break in the action. Get yourself away from it all, even if it’s only to the marvelous diversion or magic sanctuary on the other side of town.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Norse mythology, Fenrir was a big bad wolf that the gods were eager to keep tied up. In the beginning they tried to do it with metal chains, but the beast broke free. Then they commissioned the dwarves to weave a shackle out of six impos-sible things. This magic fetter was no thicker than a silk ribbon, but it worked very well. Fenrir couldn’t escape from it. I invite you to take inspiration from this story, Leo. As you deal with your current di-lemma, don’t try to fight strength with strength. Instead, use art, craft, subtlety, and even trickery. I doubt you’ll need to gather as many as six impossible things. Three will probably be enough. Two might even work fine.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a time when your personal ac-tions will have more power than usual to affect the world around you. The ripples you set in motion could ultimately touch people you don’t even know and trans-form situations you’re not part of. That’s a lot of responsibility! I suggest, therefore, that you be on your best behavior. Not neces-sarily your mildest, most polite behavior, mind you. Rather, be brave, impeccable, full of integ-rity, and a little wild.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Gold-fish that are confined in small aquariums stay small. Those that spend their lives in ponds get much bigger. What can we con-clude from these facts? The size and growth rate of goldfish are directly related to their environ-ment. I’d like to suggest that a similar principle will apply to you Librans in the next ten months. If you want to take maximum ad-vantage of your potential, you will be wise to put yourself in spacious situations that encourage you to expand. For an extra boost, sur-round yourself with broad-mind-

ed, uninhibited people who have worked hard to heal their wounds.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Over the years, you’ve explored some pretty exotic, even strange ideas about what characterizes a good time. In the coming days, I’m guessing you will add to your col-orful tradition with some rather unprecedented variations on the definition of “pleasure” and “hap-piness.” I don’t mean to imply that this is a problem. Not at all. To paraphrase the Wiccan credo, as long as it harms no one (including yourself), anything goes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There come times in your life when you have a sacred duty to be open to interesting tangents and creative diversions; times when it makes sense to wander around aimlessly with wonder in your eyes and be alert for unexpected clues that grab your attention. But this is not one of those times, in my opinion. Rather, you really do need to stay focused on what you promised yourself you would concentrate on. The temptation may be high to send out sprays of arrows at several different tar-gets. But I hope that instead you stick to one target and take care-ful aim with your best shots.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve been meditating on a cer-tain need that you have been ne-glecting, Capricorn—a need that has been chronically underesti-mated, belittled, or ignored, by both you and others. I am hoping that this achy longing will soon be receiving some of your smart at-tention and tender care. One good way to get the process started is simply to acknowledge its valid-ity and importance. Doing so will reveal a secret that will help you attend to your special need with just the right touch.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Due to the pressure-packed influ-ences currently coming to bear on your destiny, you have Of-ficial Cosmic Permission to fling three dishes against the wall. If you so choose, you also have clearance to hurl rocks in the direction of heaven, throw darts at photos of your nemeses, and cram a coconut cream pie into your own face. In the next phase, you should capitalize on all the energy you’ve made available for yourself through purgative acts like the ones I mentioned. Capital-ize how? For starters, you could dream and scheme about how you will liberate yourself from things that make you angry and

frustrated.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Check to see if you’re having any of the following symptoms: 1. Sudden eruptions of gratitude; 2. A declining fascination with con-flict; 3. Seemingly irrational urges that lead you to interesting dis-coveries ing and receiving the love that’s available to you. If you’re experiencing any of these, you are certifiably in close alignment with the cosmic flow, and should keep doing what you’ve been doing. If none of these symptoms have been sweeping through you, get yourself adjusted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Members of the Nevada Repub-lican Party have concocted a bizarre version of family values. A large majority of them are op-posed to gay marriage and yet are all in favor of legal brothels. Their wacky approach to morality is as weird as that of the family values crowd in Texas, which thinks it’s wrong to teach adolescents about birth control even though this has led to a high rate of teen pregnan-cies. Why do we let people with screwed-up priorities claim to be the prime caretakers of “family values”? I urge you to reject the conventional wisdom as you clar-ify what that term means to you. It’s an excellent time to deepen and strengthen your moral foun-dation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s a term for people who have the ardor of a nymphomani-ac in their efforts to gather useful information: infomaniac. That’s exactly what I think you should be in the coming week. You need data and evidence, and you need them in abundance. Be as thorough as a spy, as relentless as a muckrak-ing journalist, and as curious as a child. P.S. See if you can set aside as many of your strong opinions and emotional biases as possible. Otherwise they might distort your quest for the raw truth. Your word of power is empirical.

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33. Detergent brand34. Band of John Wayne-loving computer programmers?39. Come up short40. It’s good to hear after a spill41. Freddy’s street43. Big bone46. ___-rock47. Popeye’s kid ___’Pea48. That, in Spanish49. “Call Me Maybe” singer Carly ___ Jepsen51. Stair part52. Completely fooled one of the Beverly Hillbillies?57. Color of un zafiro58. Bumper sticker slogan for Stooges fans?61. ___ and void62. Fixed sock holes63. 56, in old Rome64. “___ does that star-spangled banner...”65. ___-Hawley Tariff66. Have some havarti

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33. Leaping creature35. Pond fish36. Punk offshoot37. Song from “Licensed to Ill,” with “The”38. Show whose fans are named by adding “ks” to the title42. Debussy’s “La ___”43. Selena’s music genre44. Rodeos and Troopers, e.g.45. Actor Scott of “Quantum Leap”46. Train in a 1974 movie title, or its 2009 remake47. ___ Spin (classic toy)50. Heartburn causes, maybe51. No longer working: abbr.53. Pocoyo’s pachyderm friend54. Prefix before space55. Fighting word that means “hand,” not “person”56. ___-‡-porter59. Jefferson founded it60. Model maker’s need

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By the time our con-necting flight was of-ficially cancelled I was already cued up at the United Airlines customer service desk watching the next available agent type a novel on her tiny key-board just to re-book us on the next available flight to Atlanta—at 8 a.m. the following morning.

Maddie grabbed a few of the limited number of airline blankets and tiny bags of peanuts tossed out to the masses like consola-tion prizes and set up our camp in one of the coveted rows of seats in gate C-18 that was located near an electrical outlet for phone recharging.

As I made my way down the concourse in search of food, I passed several hobo camps of makeshift tents and sleeping pallets constructed from luggage and blankets. It reminded me of some sort of post apocalyptic Mad Max situation where we bohe-mians would do anything to procure “the juice.” In this case “the juice” wasn’t gasoline but actual juice, or anything of sustenance that could be found.

The only places in an airport terminal still open for business at 1 a.m. are 1) Dunkin Donuts and 2) snack kiosks. The first option offered little more than sugary-sweet lard rings and high-powered caffeinated drinks, both of which would ensure we’d remain completely conscious for the rest of our ordeal.

The snack kiosk was our only hope. But by the

time I found one it had already been ravaged and nearly cleaned out by the other campers. Within the remaining rubble I found an overlooked package of snack crackers, some beef jerky, Skittles and a copy of the latest entertain-ment magazine with Lou-is C.K. on the cover. Score!

Back at the camp, I proudly shared our boun-ty with Maddie like a papa bear returning to the den with a freshly mauled ga-zelle or beaver—whatever it is bears eat. Anyway, once fed, we decided that sleep was the only activity that would make the night go by a little faster.

Laid out across four or five row seats I closed my eyes, but the stimulating surroundings meant nap-ping wasn’t going to hap-pen so easily. The whole environment reminded me of the FBI’s sleep-de-privation tactics used to drive David Koresh and his followers out of their Waco compound.

First of all, the place is lit up like a bar at closing time. Fluorescent light boxes on the ceiling every two square feet made the

place glow so brightly that you couldn’t even see your own shadow. Then there was the noise.

The sound of an airport terminal when you take away the chatter of daily inhabitants is a potpourri of vacuum cleaners, loud TV news broadcasts and a soft-rock, radio-free intercom system that contained Kenny G’s en-tire catalog—and noth-ing else. But even Kenny himself couldn’t top the random FAA-regulated announcements.

My favorite? “May I have your attention please. An alarm was de-ployed and is being inves-tigated by the fire depart-ment at this time. We will keep you informed of fur-ther instructions. Thank you for your patience and cooperation.”

Air travel can be way overrated, or underrated, depending on your most recent experience with it. When cancelled flights, lost luggage and layovers get in the way, flying sud-denly becomes overrated. But when you think about the fact that we have the ability to catapult a couple of hundred people 35,000 feet in the air from des-tination to destination at 500 mph—air travel might be one of the most underrated feats man has ever accomplished. At least that’s what I pon-dered while stranded for the night at gate C-18.

Overnight at Gate C-18when my daughter and i landed in washington d.c. we had no idea that oncoming storms were about to render Dulles International Airport a homeless shelter for the night.

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