BARRY COURTER: Lisa, everybody’s favorite dancing war hero will be in town Saturday at the Tivoli. J.R. Martinez will be there as part of Dancing With the Stars Chattanooga. I like him. What an amazing journey he’s been on since being injured in 2003 while fighting in Iraq as an Army infantryman. Coming back from that to become a soap-opera actor, motivational speaker and winner of “Dancing With the Stars” Season 13 is amazing enough. But he just seems like a good guy too.
LISA DENTON: I couldn’t agree more. He comes across as a beautiful person inside and out.
Saturday’s event will pair eight amateur dancers with Fred Astaire instructors to raise money for the Partnership for Families, Children and Adults, a very worthy cause.
I also want to find time to see “Hair,” which is playing on the CircleStage at Chattanooga Theatre Centre the next four weekends. I have vague memories of learning the 5th Dimension’s “Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” medley in school, but that was about as close to the bohemian lifestyle as we got at Sale Creek.
BARRY: “Flow it, show it / Long as God can grow my hair” are lyrics I’ve tried to live by. It speaks to me more than “They’ll be ga-ga at the go-go, when they see me in my toga / My toga made of blond, brilliantined, biblical hair.”