Image from video shows 14 year old crocodile Gena, in her enclosure at an oceanarium in the eastern Ukraine city of Dnipropetrovsk Friday Jan 21 2011. Gena has been refusing food and acting listless after eating a cell phone dropped by a woman as she tried to photograph him in December. Aquarium workers initially didn’t believe Rimma Golovko, a new mother in her 20s, when she complained that the crocodile had swallowed her phone. “But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena’s stomach and we understood she wasn’t lying,” said an employee. The crocodile has not eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain. (AP Photo/ Associated Press Television News) TV OUT
Staff photo by Dan Henry – The Chattanooga Times Free Press. Bradley Central’s Darien Johnson (12) drives towards the basket while playing against Ooltewah during the first half of play in Friday evenings matchup in Cleveland, Tenn.If you go’ What: “Fat Shirley’s: A Trailer Park Opera.”‘ When: 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, July 31-Aug. 1; 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2; 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 6-8.’ Where: Mountain Arts Community Center, 809 Kentucky Ave., Signal Mountain.’ Admission: $15 adults, $12 ages 60 and older, $8 ages 12 and younger.’ Phone: 423-886-1959.
Guest ShirleysThe MACC production of “Fat Shirley’s” will include a clever twist: Each performance will feature a new guest playing the role of Shirley. The schedule of guest Shirleys is:’ July 31: Styckman from WUSY-FM US101′ Aug. 1: Beth Neuhoff from WTVC-TV NewsChannel 9′ Aug. 2: Dr. Herbert Barks, former Baylor School headmaster’ Aug. 6: Trish Wileman’ Aug. 7: Genimar Holland’ Aug. 8: Rabbit Zielke of WUTC-FM 88.1
When Whitfield County residents Tom Brown and David Crawford created “Fat Shirley’s: A Trailer Park Opera,” the two Georgians never imagined their little redneck musical would be performed at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival – but it opens there Aug. 10 performed by Three Chords Company, a Bristol, U.K., theatrical troupe.
Chattanoogans, however, don’t have to travel farther than Signal Mountain to enjoy this lighthearted show. It will be presented over the next two weekends at the Mountain Arts Community Center. Josh Ruben is directing “Fat Shirley’s,” which pokes a lot of good-natured fun at Southern stereotypes through singing, storytelling and sight gags.
Shirley is the beloved, 832-pound landlady of a trailer park. The residents have gathered to celebrate her birthday when the landlady keels over into the cake. Following her graveside service – where the trailer park residents ruminate over life in the hereafter (“Will There Be Trailer Parks in Glory Land?”) – Shirley’s friends throw their late landlady a wake with a barbecue.