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JACKSONIAN COTTON BARONICH

“Cotton” Baronich helps wom-en with their chairs. He adds “dahlin’” to just about every sen-tence when he speaks with them.

That’s the kind of old-school southern gentleman he is—his daddy raised him up right. He clearly loves women, and he loves music. “There was a lady the other day, and I says to her: ‘Precious lady. You make me feel brand new,’” he says, ending in song. Baronich, 84, has lived in Jackson since he moved here from Biloxi, his birthplace, in 1970. Long-time Jacksonians likely know him for mixing their perfect cocktail at the Sun & Sand (back in the days when state lawmakers made the hotel their home dur-ing the annual legislative session), George Street Grocery, Hal & Mal’s or the Edison Walthall Hotel. The bartender may not have remem-bered your name, but he knew how many olives you liked in your martini. The second time you patronized his bar, he probably ar-rived with your drink before you ordered it. This year, the impeccably turned-out Baronich—who’s made being nice to ev-eryone his mantra—is the grand marshal of the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade, which takes on the theme “Drink Local, Think Global” this year. He’s humble about the honor. “I’ve been around a long time,” Baronich says. He knew the Malcolm and

Hal White’s father before he knew them. The Mississippi Gulf Coast has a thriv-ing Slavic community, he says, especially among those whose ancestors made their livings by fishing. Baronich’s parents im-migrated to the United States from Croa-tia’s Adriatic coast, and Rudolf (Baronich’s given name) was the fifth of the couple’s eight sons. “I’m first generation in this country,” he says, proudly. He got his nickname, “Cot-ton,” from his blonde “cotton top”—back before his hair turned silvery white. It was in Jackson that Baronich met and married the love of his life, Jean Sham-berger, a ballerina who taught some 300 young dancers in her studio. Before Jean’s death six years ago, the couple reveled in taking their turn on the dance floor. Their jitterbug brought applause. “She made me look good,” he says. “Skin like silk, dahlin’—moisturizer and lipstick only,” Baronich says as he shows Jean’s photo. “I still miss her, every single day.” His granddaughter, Britney, who lives in Texas, calls Baronich daily. Like every good bartender, Baronich doesn’t repeat secrets divulged with alcohol-loosened tongues. But the twinkle in his eyes say that he’s seen his share of improprieties, even from the most respectable of southern gents and ladies. —Ronni Mott

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10 In PursuitThe Mississippi Bureau of Investigations is taking a closer look at high-speed chases after the Madison Police Department engaged in a high-speed pursuit last month that injured a bystander.

28 If You Build It“Unpretentious is an understatement: even for the relatively no-nonsense city builder genre, ‘Banished’ is spartan. The challenge, then, is not making your city sprawling and profitable, as ‘SimCity’ would have it; or luxurious and mighty, as the fantastic Caesar series instructs, but merely to survive.”

—Nick Judin, “Home on the Range: A Review of ‘Banished’”

38 Piano and PaddyDavina and the Vagabonds bring its eclectic sound, with influences ranging from New Orleans jazz to past generations’ rock, to headline the Iron Horse Grill’s St. Paddy’s weekend.

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W hile I studied abroad in Ire-land, I loved coming across little bits of old-fashioned wisdom—phrases such as,

“For an Irishman, talking is a dance,” or “It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.” But what I learned in Ireland went much deeper than these idioms. In my case, I learned about the Dub-lin bus system and how to make cabbage actually edible. I learned the rules of rug-by and a handful of Gaelic words that I’ve mostly forgotten since. I met my extended family—people with my mother’s maiden name who didn’t look like me and didn’t talk like me, and were so distantly related from me that the paper family tree we brought was worn and wrinkled from being pulled out and pored over and refolded so many times. But de-spite being my second cousin thrice re-moved or whatnot, these people were fam-ily from the moment we met. They took me in, fed me meals and took me to the most fabulous Irish wedding. They taught me that family bonds stretch a lot further than you might ever know. But mostly, I learned a lot about my-self while studying there. Visiting another country is nearly always an enlightening experience, but what I’ve realized is that you usually learn as much or more about yourself as you do about the new place. While living in Dublin, I felt like met myself for the first time all over again. I found a renewed sense of independence in sitting alone on a bus, watching the scenery zip by. I found new favorite dishes (read about one on page 27) and learned to appreciate real food—the kind that’s grown, raised and made simply. I learned that I love architecture. I learned what it means to love a place, to let it become part

of you and let yourself become part of it. Every year, when St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, I can’t help but think back to my time in the Isle of Eire and the les-sons I learned there—especially since St. Paddy’s has come to be such a significant part of springtime in Jackson. While Ireland and Mississippi might be miles apart, geographically and cultur-

ally, the two have more in common than you might believe. Mississippi is actu-ally only about 16,000 square miles larger than Ireland, and although Dublin vastly outpopulates our city with soul, if you include Jackson’s metro area, the two are somewhat comparable. Ireland is a place with a past wrapped up in agriculture. The people there are family-oriented. Music is an integral part of the culture, and local bars and pubs

play host to local musicians night in and night out. Sound familiar? One thing I found is that the Irish have a real appreciation for their cultural identity, both in its historical sense and in its modern equivalent. I remember stu-dents on campus in an apartment near ours practicing the Irish language—a dead language, with no practical modern use—just to keep that part of the country’s history alive. I participated in pub crawls honoring Irish music and classic literature. I smile fondly looking back at my photos of hordes of Irishmen and women going into the cobblestone streets and raising a pint of Guinness at exactly 5:59 p.m. on Sept. 23, 2009, toasting “To Arthur!” and breaking out in joyous renditions of Happy Birthday to the man that created Ireland’s signature beer. I studied in Dublin in the fall, so I missed St. Patrick’s Day itself, but I heard tales of the citywide celebrations, which seem to take on a sort of funny conflu-ence of native Irish culture and a global-ized partying mindset. But Dublin isn’t the only place I’ve lived where St. Patrick’s Day and Irish cul-ture are a big deal. After I graduated from Millsaps College, I moved to Boston, Mass., for two years. Boston is very differ-ent from Jackson, with its size, its weather, its noise and brashness. St. Paddy’s in Bos-ton is all Southie accents, rough pride and women with big hair selling access to their bathrooms for $5 a trip. Getting on the T (Boston’s subway) the morning of the St. Patrick’s Day parade is an adventure like no other. Green-clad locals and tourists pack into train cars like sardines until it’s just an indistinguishable mass of bodies. Despite the inherent risk of being crushed by the mob, strangers become friends and

trek across the city together. Boston has lessons we could learn, too. Bostonians are fierce in their love for their city, whether its cheering on the Red Saawx, fighting those pesky Canadians at a Bruins match, claiming its seafood as best in the world or boisterously shouting from the rooftops (sometimes literally) on St. Paddy’s Day. St. Patrick’s means different things to different people and different places. How we celebrate here in Jackson is different from how they celebrate in Dublin or in Boston or in San Francisco or in Montreal. To me, the day has always been a combina-tion of celebrating a specific culture—one that happens to be my heritage through my mother’s side—and celebrating local frivolity. It’s often a day when tourism and local celebrations merge—and isn’t that the best type of tourist attraction? Isn’t the idea that what your locals are doing is so fun and so exciting that others just have to come along and experience it, too? Certainly we’ve seen that as our own Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade has grown from a smat-tering of friends parading down the street to a highly anticipated weekend drawing tens of thousands to our city. So this weekend, as you revel with your friends and family, as you drink green beer and catch beads and listen to music and frolic, take time to appreciate being part of a celebration that is at once both global and utterly unique to Jackson. Besides abiding by what is probably my favorite bit of Irish wisdom (“What butter and whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.”), I urge you to do as the Irish do, and as Bostonians do: Have pride in our city, our state and the cultural iden-tity we are forming for ourselves, on St. Paddy’s Parade day and beyond.

One day sales representative David Rahaim will finish his first novel. He promises. It may just be after he finishes his second.

R.L. Nave, native Missou-rian and news editor, roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson. Send him news tips at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com or call him at 601-362-6121 ext. 12. He wrote the cover story.

Graphic Design Intern Jesse Flowers is a Delta native and graduate of Delta State Uni-versity with degrees in graphic design and painting. In his free time, he paints, travels and attends music festivals. He helped design the issue.

Molly Lehmuller is a 2013 grad-uate of Millsaps College’s Else School of Management. She enjoys visiting her beautiful blonde mother in Belhaven. She wrote a St. Paddy’s feature.

Jesse Flowers David RahaimMolly LehmullerR.L. Nave

CONTRIBUTORS

Irish Wisdom, Irish Pride

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the Univer-sity of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He wrote the business roundup.

Genevieve Legacy

Genevieve Legacy is an art-ist-writer-community develop-ment consultant. She works at Hope Enterprise Corporation and lives in Brandon with her husband and youngest son. She wrote an arts story.

Dustin Cardon

by Kathleen M. Mitchell Features EditorEDITOR’S note

Julie Skipper lives, works and plays downtown. Ask her about it if you want an earful. She hopes to learn to cook one day, but mostly thinks of the kitchen as additional closet space. She wrote a piece for the St. Paddy’s package.

Julie Skipper

Freelance writer Ronni Mott has been a Mississippian since 1997. She’s an award-winning writer and a yoga teacher, just stumbling and fumbling toward bliss like everyone else. She wrote the Jacksonian.

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“Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, 66, Has Died; Tillman Acting Mayor,” by JFP Staff

Richardlaswell Such high hopes for our city. I hope that we won’t throw away all that he has accomplished in his short time as mayor.

tsmith Sad, sad day for the city. Mr. Lu-mumba, like him or not, was an intel-ligent man who was taking control and making positive things happen. He was a stable infl uence. Now I fear it will revert back to the circus it has been for years.

NotLikeU From afar, it looked like Jackson had found the mayor that will get the city on the right track. I was really looking for-ward to how Jackson will develop under Lumumba. Strength to the Lumumba family and friends during this time.

tombarnes12 What a horrible shock for Jackson. From what I have observed, Lumumba was a thoughtful man with a plan to move the city in a positive direction. Terribly sad.

Duan It’s a tough pill to swallow, because—outside of Chokwe being mayor—he was a good human being. Some tried to sell him short of being a good humanitarian! He was a voice for those who didn’t have one, and he believed wholeheartedly in that. I do believe in the ability of the citi-zens in Jackson to fi nd a mayor, the same way we found Chokwe. We have to be dil-igent in the campaign process, and ask the tough questions, evaluate the candidates’ credentials and ask the candidates (about) their vision for Jackson. It would be a dis-service to Mayor Lumumba to take a half-way approach to fi nding his successor. Titus 2:13 “looking for the blessed hope!”

“Chokwe Lumumba, 1947-2014,” by R.L. Nave

AnnGarrison Thanks for this, including the details of the city’s response that the press from outside don’t have. I’m devastated by his death. Though he was not a federal or even state offi ceholder, I didn’t think there was a more important leader in the U.S. or the world today. But I’m grateful for his pro-found thoughts and plans, which despite their depth, were not diffi cult to under-stand. Also grateful for the love he so ob-viously felt for his people and for anyone trying to be a decent human being.

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YOUR TURNRemembering Mayor Lumumba on jfp.ms

Jason King Under the Woodrow Wilson bridge by the train tracks.

Stephanie Burks Wherever Ja-mie Moss is bartending. (The best theme ever!)

Cody Walker Fenian’s.

Summer Nation Fondren Public!

Miranda Jordan Good theme!

James Ridgley M Bar, Freelons, Martins Bar

Tim Murphy The Bulldog, Jack-son’s new Barkade.

JustSay ThatThen Yes! Been going (to The Bulldog) even when it was Lager’s.

IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR MAL’S ST. PADDY’S PARADE! THIS YEAR’S

THEME IS “DRINK LOCAL, THINK GLOBAL”—WHAT’S

YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL DRINKING SPOT?

For more on late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba’s life and legacy, explore a gallery of photos from photographer Trip Burns and others at jfp.ms/lumumbapictures.

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C hokwe Lumumba was a compli-cated man. Close observers of his four-de-cade-long career as an activist, at-

torney and politician are likely aware of this on some level, but the multifaceted nature of Lumumba’s life came into stark focus at his memorial services, which took place last weekend in Jackson. Jolivette Anderson, a poet who lived in Mississippi for a decade as artist, community organizer and activist, noted in a tribute to Lumumba that his rivals during the 2013 mayor’s election painted him as an extremist and tried to raise doubts about his Christian faith. However, Anderson said, like Jesus Christ, that Lumumba was a revolutionary, a Christian and a black man. Certainly those strains were evident among the well-wishers who attended Lumumba’s funeral, who came dressed in traditional western suits as well as dashi-kis and tunics common to African and the Middle East. Kangols, berets, kufis, hijab and headwraps adorned their heads. Throughout the service, speakers invoked Jesus Christ, Allah and the orishas of the west African Yoruba tribe. “All of us know God by different names, and we should recognize all those names,” said Bishop Jeffrey Stallworth, Lumumba’s pastor at Word & Worship Church. “It’s good to have a God that big.” While Lumumba’s time in public office dominated many of the tributes, other lesser-known parts of Lumumba’s biography also came to light. Acting Mayor Charles Till-

man, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson—who was formerly the mayor of Bolton, near where the Lumumba and the Republic of New Afrika wanted to start a new black-led state in early 1970s—and former Mississippi Gov. William Winter also spoke. Winter confessed that he had res-ervations about Lumumba’s election as mayor last year. “Based on the stereotypes this old white man had formed about (Lumumba), I thought that he would di-vide our city. I could not have been more wrong,” Winter said. Lumumba’s reputation as a divisive came in part from his ferocity in the court-

room. Imhotep Alkebu-Ian, whom Lu-mumba appointed to work in the city’s legal department, talked about relocating to the capital city to work with Lumumba. “I was happy to move to Mississippi to work with Chokwe Lumumba. There was no Chokwe Lumumba in Texas,” Alkebu-Ian said to the crowd. Jackson State University professor C. Liegh McInnis recited an original poem he wrote titled “Free the Land Man” (see page 12), a reference to the phrase with which Lumumba often began speeches. McIn-nis described Lumumba as “our own Afro-American Robin Hood with MXG on

Memorial Highlights Lumumba’s Complexity by R.L. Nave

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Chokwe Antar Lumumba eulogized his late father this weekend in Jackson. Antar’s sister, Rukia, said her father was complicated beyond comprehension.

Wednesday, March 5 Doctors at an AIDS conference in Boston reveal that a second American baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment four hours after birth. … College Board officials update the SAT for the first since 2005 to make the exam better repre-sentative of what students study in high school and the skills they need to succeed in college and afterward.

Thursday, March 6 The Obama administration puts new visa restrictions on pro-Russian op-ponents of the new Ukraine government in Kiev and clears the way for financial sanctions, while the European Union also begins to impose sanctions. At the same time, lawmakers in Ukraine’s Crimea re-gion unanimously declare their intention to split from Ukraine and join Russia instead, scheduling a referendum in 10 days for voters to decide the region’s fate.

Friday, March 7 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says there is “no way” he will rec-ognize Israel as a Jewish state and accept a Palestinian capital in just a portion of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.

Saturday, March 8 A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people goes missing over the South China Sea on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Sunday, March 9 European Union’s foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton says that meet-ings with Iranian officials and world powers on ongoing negotiations over the country’s nuclear program and the civil war in Syria may not reach a final deal.

Monday, March 10 Boston public-safety officials reveal that he number of police officers patrol-ling this year’s Boston Marathon will be doubled to more than 3,500 in response to last year’s attack.

Tuesday, March 11 The Senate passes legislation in sup-port of devoting $126 million over the coming decade for additional research into pediatric cancer and other child-hood disorders like autism and Down syndrome. It now goes to President Obama for his signature.

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T he candidates vying to replace May-or Chokwe Lumumba are wasting no time, with the first handful of candidates making their intentions

known early this week. The first out of the gate were a couple of relatively old hands in city government. On Monday, March 10, former Jackson Mayor Harvey John-son Jr., whom finished in third place behind business Jonathan Lee and just a shade behind Lumumba in the 2013 Democratic primary race, jumped in. Johnson tied his own narrative as the city’s first African American mayor to that of Smith Robertson, Jackson’s first black alderman, with an an-nouncement at the museum named in Robertson’s honor. Jackson, known for being a bit of an infrastructure wonk, rattled off a long list of road repairs completed or started during his three terms as may-or. A reporter asked Johnson why he was seeking another term when voters rejected him in 2009, when he lost to late mayor Frank Melton, and 2013. “If you’re keeping score, they said no twice, but they said yes three times,” Johnson quipped. Johnson also addressed rumors that he pulled up stakes and settled in Madison—a rumor that surfaces every time he runs. Johnson said he lives in Jackson on Hallmark Drive and owns a barn where he keeps horses in Hinds County north of Clinton. “I don’t live in a big mansion in Madi-son County. I don’t even live in a big man-sion in Jackson,” said Johnson. A search of land records in Madison County turns up

no listings for Johnson or his wife, Kathy; a Hinds County landroll query yields two re-sults for Johnson. Ward 6 Councilman, long believed

to be positioning himself to run for mayor someday, is also in the running. In announcing his candidacy, Yarber said: “My commitment from day one is to give you a reason to shop in Jackson, to eat in Jackson, to stay in Jackson, to love Jackson and if you’ve moved away, we’re going to give you a reason to move back.” Socrates Garrett, a Jackson-based devel-

oper, supports Yarber’s candidacy. “I’ve been in this town a long time, over 30 years, and I’ve watched mayors come and go and this young man has all of the talents,” Garrett

told the Jackson Free Press. In a bit of a surprise move, Regina Quinn, former general counsel for Jackson State University, confirmed to reporters at the city council meet-ing that she would also run. Quinn finished in fourth place in last year’s Democratic mayoral primary. When the race came down to a runoff be-tween then-Ward 2 Councilman Lu-mumba and businessman Jonathan Lee, Quinn threw her support to Lumumba. Many of her supporters also got behind Lumumba; currently, several members of her campaign staff hold positions in city government. That sets up an interesting race given that Lumumba’s son, Chokwe Antar, also plans to seek the seat and is expected to draw much of his late father’s political base. “I’ve worked so closely with Chokwe and, honestly when Antar said he wanted to run, I kind of felt like I’d be running against my nephew. But then I really started thinking about what Jackson needs and what I could

bring to the table to get that done,” Quinn, the only woman so far to definitively declare her candidacy, told the JFP. Quinn also stressed that her candidacy does not mean she has doubts about the leadership potential of Chokwe Antar or anyone else who has declared intentions. “I don’t have doubts about anyone’s leadership abilities, but what I have confidence in is

what I bring to the table,” she said. Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. also made announcements on Tuesday, after the Jack-son Free Press had gone to press. Supporters of Mayor Lumumba had been pushing for Chokwe Antar as the most logical person to succeed his father and con-tinue the policies and programs of his father’s administration. Chokwe Antar seemed to start that ball rolling when he eulogized his father on Saturday, calling himself an exten-sion of his father’s vision for Jackson and re-minding attendees of Lumumba’s career in human-rights activism. Priester, who succeeded Lumumba as Ward 2 Councilman and ascended to city council president after the mayor’s death, is also seeking the seat. He announced at his law office. In a press release, he enumerated his bona fides for the job, which include “deep ties to the community” and working to improve relationship between the Jack-son Police Department and neighborhood groups. He will also transform the city’s bud-geting process and promptly address constit-uent concerns about potholes, drainage, and blighted properties, he pledged. Jonathan Lee, who finished in first place during the primary last year but lost to Lumumba in the primary, declined to run, ending wide speculation whether he would attempt again to capture the mayor’s chair. Also, Ward 7 Councilwoman Mar-garet Barrett-Simon said she was weighing a bid, but would finalize her plans at the end of the week. Watch jfp.ms/politicsblog for break-ing updates. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com.

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his chest,” referring to the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, an organization Lu-mumba co-founded. Members of the New Afrikan People’s Organization, which Lumumba also found-ed, along with the MXGM, NAACP and Nation of Islam, representing Minister Louis Farrakhan, gave remembrances as well. Dr. Safiya Omari, a former Jackson State University professor who managed Lumumba’s campaign and worked in his administration as chief of staff, said Lu-mumba “not only wanted to build institu-tions, but to improve institutions to better serve the people.” “This man, that people thought was too

divisive, was able to bring every segment of this city together,” Omari told the crowd. Myrlie Evers, a civil-rights icon and wid-ow of slain Mississippi civil-rights hero Med-gar Evers, said she was grateful for Lumumba and challenged attendees to continue his goal of “one city, one aim, one destiny,” which has also become an unofficial motto for Jackson city government. Bill Chandler, a veteran labor organizer and immigrant-rights advocate who has known Lumumba since the 1970s, said he moved to Mississippi for many of the same reasons Lumumba moved here from his na-tive Detroit. “To change America, we have to change

the South. And to change the South, we have to change Mississippi,” Chandler said. Lumumba was eulogized by his chil-dren, Chokwe Antar of Jackson and Rukia, who lives in New York City. “He was complex. He was a man who loved deeper than we could comprehend,” Rukia said in her remarks. “He knew that if he loved his people, he loved all people.” Chokwe Antar, Lumumba’s young-est child, whom family members and other longtime family friends often called “little Chokwe” during the memorial, delivered an impassioned eulogy to close the service. “I am Chokwe Antar—another Chris-

tian brother with an African name,” he said, repeating a phrase his father used often dur-ing his 2013 mayoral race when opponents attempted to cast him as a Muslim. Antar, who announced this week that he will attempt to succeed his father as mayor, also tackled the notion of that the elder Lumumba was divisive and started the process of injecting himself into his father’s narrative. He said that love, not hate, spurred his father’s activism. “Love changed Jackson, Mississippi — and Chokwe Lumumba was love,” he said. Comment at jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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T he Mississippi Bureau of Investiga-tions is reviewing policies of the Madison Police Department after its officers engaged in

a high-speed pursuit through the streets of Jackson on Sunday, Feb. 23. The chase of auto-burglary suspects, which began at the Jack-son Target store at approximately 2 p.m., caused two auto accidents, left a bystander in critical condition and caused $30,000 in damages to a Jackson building. The Jackson Police Depart-ment asked MBI investigate what it calls a “hot pursuit chase.” “Madison police officers en-gaged in a high-chase pursuit with-out the authority or assistance of the Jackson Police Department. The Madison officers had no arrest powers for an alleged crime that oc-curred in the city of Jackson. There was no request for assistance to investigate a crime in Jackson,” JPD said in a statement. JPD Assistant Chief Lee Vance told the Jackson Free Press that the pursuit proceeded down Interstate 55 onto High Street where the first accident occurred. The pursuit con-tinued, ending close to South Gallatin Street where the pursuit caused a second accident in which a truck slammed into a building. A bystander was injured as well. Vance told the Jackson Free Press that the Madison police pursuit of auto-burglary suspects was too dangerous for the pursuit of suspects in a non-violent crime. “If there is somebody that we are look-ing for that we end up having to chase be-cause we know they have just shot somebody, we are far more prone to chase them than we would somebody that broke into a car,” Vance said. “Both are felonies, but the differ-ence is that the person that shot somebody, common sense will basically dictate: If they

are willing to shoot one person they may be willing to shoot somebody else. So again, the

public would be in greater danger if someone was running loose who had just shot some-body as opposed to if they had broken into somebody’s car.” Madison police told the JFP that the suspects involved in the chase were already under investigation for a string of auto bur-glaries that took place the Saturday before in Madison. The suspects allegedly stole credit cards and used them at a Target store in north Jackson that same day. That Sunday, Madison police received a call from the Target store’s loss-prevention team notifying them that the suspects had returned. Upon seeing the Madison police, the suspects fled, and the chase ensued. Madison police identified the three auto-burglary suspects as Lemoyne Rakes May, 33; James “Joshua” Johnson, 27; and Yvette Blanchard, 46. Investigators with the Madison police are currently working to link the suspects with auto burglaries from their corresponding jurisdictions.

A Safety Question Vance said that the issue goes beyond

the jurisdictional question; the main issue is one of public safety. He said JPD limits its pursuits to violent crimes. Several police pursuits in Mississippi over the last few years for suspects in non-violent crimes resulted in individuals being injured or killed. On the morning of Feb. 5, 2012, a 38-year-old mother, Milinda Clark, died when a car, containing two individuals suspected of stealing about $500 worth of groceries from a Ridgeland Kroger, slammed into the woman’s driver’s side door at the intersection of Grants Ferry and Highway 25 during the Ridgeland police’s pursuit of the suspects into Rankin County. Both the suspects and the police were driving close to

100 miles per hour on the busy streets. On Oct. 26, 2013, a teenage girl died in a crash during a police pursuit that ensued when a car fled from police at a checkpoint in Kosciusko. Just last month, a two-car col-lision resulted after police chased two teenag-ers through Starkville for fleeing from police on Feb. 19, 2014—then charging them with felony fleeing from police officers. Advocacy groups such as Chico, Calif.-based Voices Insisting on PursuitSAFETY estimate about one person dies each day in the U.S. due to police pursuits. These often occur because policies are insufficient and between jurisdictions, and because the public and police officers spend too little time considering the consequences and high costs in lives of such pursuits. Madison Justified? While the Madison Police Department continues its investigation of the auto bur-glaries, the Mississippi Bureau of Investiga-

tions is pursuing an independent investiga-tion into the Madison Police Department, as JPD requested. “The Jackson Police Department pol-icy regarding high-chase pursuits takes into consideration the inherent dangers of high-speed chases on the public thoroughfares. The facts that have been presented to date did not show that a criminal act occurred that would justify a high speed chase,” JPD said when announcing the MBI investiga-tion of Madison police. Madison Assistant Chief Robbie Sand-ers addressed the “justified” question in an interview with the Jackson Free Press. Sand-ers said that upon Madison officers’ arrival at the Target store, a Jackson police car was already parked in the parking lot. This led Madison police officers to believe that Jack-son police were already aware of the situa-tion. Madison dispatch had contacted the Jackson police prior to Madison police’s ar-rival, Sanders said. However, Jackson police say that Madi-son made no request for assistance to investi-gate a crime in Jackson and that JPD officers were only contacted after Madison police were already on the scene at the Target store and initiating a high-speed chase. “What it really comes down to is the safety of the public,” Vance said. “That’s our number-one concern.” Vance said that although he cannot speculate on how Madison police made their decisions that day, he believes police officers must abide by safe pursuit policies. “This reminds me again of why most police departments have strict policies in relation to these things and strict guidelines that must be followed so that the public is not put in any unnecessary danger,” Vance said. “That’s the basis of most policies relat-ing to these types of pursuits. Is what you’re chasing this person for worth putting the public in some type of risk?”

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B ill Chandler, a veteran labor orga-nizer, says it’s ironic that during this 50th-year commemoration of Freedom Summer, when activists

descended on Mississippi to demand fairness and equal rights for black citizens, which in-cluded the right to organize labor unions—that Mississippi legislators are trying to turn back the clock on those gains for workers. Last week, the Mississippi House of

Representatives advanced several bills that would restrict labor unionizing and picket-ing activities, which Chandler called an “at-tack on the democracy.” Those measures include Senate Bill 2473, the “Prohibition Against Employer Intimidation Act,” which would make it ille-gal during a unionizing campaign to coerce a business into signing a neutrality or card check agreement (as opposed to holding se-cret ballot votes). SB 2653 restricts mass picketing of a residence or place of business and clears some legal roadblocks to obtaining a court injunction against such demonstrations. Fi-nally, the House version of SB 2797 requires the Legislature to approve certain agreements between businesses and labor unions. “It’s an insult to the work that people did 50 years ago,” Chandler told the Jackson Free Press. Robert Moses talked about those goals of Freedom Summer in a speech at Stanford University in 1964. “If we gain the right to picket in integrated picket lines, then labor unions will gain the right to picket in inte-grated picket lines in Mississippi,” said Mo-ses, then the field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. “And, possibly, the trade unions and UAW (United Auto Workers) and the Teamsters and the labor unions will move into Mississippi and begin to organize working people.” During debate on the House floor, Rep. Oscar Denton, D-Vicksburg, called

the legislation unnecessary. “I’ve been a union person all my life. … I’ve even picketed. As of today, most pickets are peaceful.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents many of the nation’s largest companies, is pushing for the legislation. Robert Shaffer, president of the Missis-sippi AFL-CIO union federation, told the Associated Press: “They’re over there passing

laws to keep people beat down when they make a pitiful wage.”

A Flood of Uncertainty Officials with the Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District (levee board) are concerned about a bill the Mississippi House is considering. The legislation would lump levee districts in with counties and municipalities and place them under the direction of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency in times of emergencies. Keith Turner, levee-board attorney, said the bill is vague. Turner said the levee

board works with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during flood events, and it’s unclear how the proposal would affect that relationship. “Are we for it or against it?” asked Flo-wood Mayor Gary Rhoads, who also pre-sides over the levee board. “It’s unclear, so I’d suggest we’d be against it,” Turner told the board.

Expanding Health Care, Just not Medicaid The Legislature continued throwing money at health-care centers, apparently to give the appearance that they’re taking care of citizens’ health-care needs while continu-ing to resist Medicaid expansion. The House passed its version of SB 2117, which creates the Mississippi Qualified Health Center Incubator Grant Program. The program sets aside $3.2 million per year to increase “access to care to uninsured or medically indigent patients in Mississippi.” Some Democrats lawmakers have groaned that the amount is too small to have a widespread impact, but the bill passed 112-0 anyway. The House also passed SB 2829, which permits 15 regional community mental health centers in Mississippi to offer primary care services to patients, but the bill does not appropriate any money for what could be a massive medical-services expansion. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Free-the-Land Man (For Chokwe Lumumba)by C. Liegh McInnis Just like a river that knows where it’s going,your feet have kept you like the Wise Menheaded for the North star.There was no fat cat with pockets full enough.There was no pothole deep enough.There was no curve, bend, or speed bump in the roadto keep you from arriving at your destination.You are a steamroller grinding angry asphalt into smooth street,making rough roads ready for revolution to ride to town.You are the cement foundation upon which we build our freedom house.You are the forest of fruit from which we may findnourishment from the fangs of poverty.You are the fortified fortress that protects us from the vandals of industry.You are the ocean of hope in which we swim to safety.A Detroit demolition man destroying the dragons of self-hate sothat self-determination can fertilize the community into a bouquet of spring flowers. Better than Superman,you be Free-the-Land Man.Able to leap skyscrapers of injustice in a single boundand slam dunk the lies about us through the hoop of truth.Able to slay slimy Judges with a lightning rod of litigationFaster than a speeding bullet,you erased the “t” from can’t, making us a city of can.And stronger than a locomotive,you broke through the barriersthat have kept us herded like cattle,unshackling our dreams from the dungeon of DixiecratsA liberation lawyer willing to lumberjack the liarswho attempt to lay waste to the lives of rainbow children.More than a mouthpiece for a moment,You welded words into stainless steelto slash the noose of oppression from the wretched of the earth.Even when bad times became storm clouds blocking the sun,you were a lighthouse leading people to the land of liberty.Whether it’s planting proper seeds into your sonsso that they can sprout into life-giving trees,or being an architect for your daughtergiving her the blueprint of properly engineered manhood,you are a brick wall that protects all familiesfrom the wolves, thieves, and pimpsthat lurk like fungus in the pit of the night. One of the Chief Captains of the Justice League of Super Negroes—more amazing than Spiderman, you be Anansi the word weaverspinning webs to stop the wicked from stampeding our sanity,more fantastic than the four,our shining Dark Knight of Democracyfreeing the land from monstrous mercantile Magnetos.When my mild mannered mayor removed his suit there wasMXG on his chest and instead of a Batsignalwhen we needed him we simply shined NAPO in the skybut the feet-washer that he was kept him Assembled among the Peopleour own Afro-American Robin Hoodwho was more Daring than those Mississippi DevilsNow that your spirit finally became too big for your body,you are a pulsar that will forever illuminate our path to justice. Poet and fiction writer C. Liegh McInnis, the editor of Black Magnolias, read this poem at Mayor Lumumba’s Celebration of Life on March 8.

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Stop Endangering Lives with ‘Hot’ Police Pursuits

I n 2012, young mother Milinda Clark was hit by a car going 100 miles per hour in a Flowood intersection and killed. Why? Po-lice from Madison County were chasing

people they suspected of stealing groceries from the Ridgeland Kroger through crowded subur-ban streets in broad daylight. Two weeks ago, Madison police got a call from the Jackson Target about auto-burglary sus-pects who might be using stolen credit cards there. The officers showed up and began chasing the sus-pects deep into Jackson in what the Jackson Police Department called “hot” pursuit, causing two acci-dents, injuring an innocent bystander and causing $30,000 worth of damage to a local building. Those two instances had two major things in common besides the fact that they seemed at the behest of a big-box stores: First, none of the sus-pects was suspected of actually hurting a person, which might justify such a TV-drama police chase. Second, they both caused much more damage than the people were actually accused of inflicting. Oh, and a third one: The police response was dumb, overblown and very dangerous to public safety. Here in Jackson, the police department has caught up with modern criminal-justice best practices based on the reality that high-speed po-lice pursuits must be limited to situations where the risk of not pursuing is higher than the risk

of a pursuit. As you can read in Haley Ferretti’s report on page 10, JPD has paid attention to the dangers of pursuits and the research showing how often high-speed pursuits kill people (aver-aging one life a day nationally). Meantime, suburban law-enforcement agen-cies continue to conduct themselves in a wild-wild-west fashion, seeming to think that any crime merits the police barreling through streets chasing down the suspect like Keystone cops—except that these chases aren’t funny. Ask the family of Milinda Clark and others right here in the metro who have lost loved ones to such chases. Adding insult to injury, suburban cops seem to think they have the right to leave their jurisdic-tion and endanger lives in nearby towns and com-munities as well. This cannot continue. JPD rightly asked the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations to look into this clearly unnecessary police pursuit—based on the facts the Madison police themselves provided. In addition, members of the public must be-come educated about the risks of high-speed pur-suits—before losing an innocent loved one—and demand loudly that these suburban agencies move into the 21st century. They must adopt smart po-lice-pursuit policies with teeth, and then reveal them to the public on demand. They work for us, and they are supposed to protect our safety, not endanger it.

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I walked the entire Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade route last year. Literally—the entire lay of the land. That was my goal. But first, I had to park.

As I zoomed past the High Street and Pearl Street exits, I saw cars lined up to enter the parade. Not for me. I knew I could not go wrong by taking the back way under the Stack. Trying to fool the 60,000-plus cars trying to park, I got off at the State Street exit on Interstate 20 West. I’m so smart. Not. A train was barreling down the track, blocking my destination. Looking at cars turning around, I had to think fast. I advanced toward Gallatin Street, and then I saw my first passageway. The graffiti-splattered steel bridge under the tracks was my first window toward downtown. I looked down South Street and spotted a rustier bridge. Under the tracks I went. I was now just blocks away from downtown. OK. I had found the golden entrance. But as I passed, I saw parked cars everywhere. I was so late. If I got one more text from my friends asking where I was … I saw a man let-ting people park for $10. I wasn’t falling for this. Everyone else found a free spot, so I passed him up, sure I could find a free parking space. But then, I saw in front of me, about a half block down South Street on the left, a lanky man holding up his hand. Curious, I drove closer. Shoving my left hand out my win-dow, I spread my fingers as wide as they could go, and we connected. I felt like I was in New York. He looked at me, eye to eye, without any hes-itation to direct me to a parking space. I pulled in. The spring-clover-cov-ered parking lot was actually a rundown field and the back yard of an abandoned building. The land had limited space, yet this man was making it happen. As I entered, I suddenly felt wran-gled and trapped as I drove my Ford Ex-pedition far back into the lot. I thought I would never get out. As I passed him, halfway hanging out my window, I stopped and asked him, “Sir, can I get out of here when I am ready to leave?” He said, “Sure, but you need to back up in this space. It would help.” Two more cars pulled into the lot, wanting to know where to park. I felt

even more trapped—more cars in this money-making pit. It was a very sardine-like moment. I sat in my car, still wanting the as-surance of an exit. Then, the man and his counterparts placed orange cones at the front entrance. I was not sure if he knew the car count, but he had made an executive decision. After the last two cars behind me entered, he shut down the space. He knew his lot was full. No more revenue. This man was a true entrepreneur. He knew his limits. As I got out of my car, I walked toward him. With a very calming look on his face, he assured me that I could exit at any time. He was

customer-focused. I handed him $5 for the fee, then I rushed to the parade. In my hurried state to get to the event, I forgot my cell phone. I realized it after walk-ing several blocks al-ready. I had to go back. I was not happy, and I was still late. Mad at myself, I walked back to my car, passing all kinds of parade-goers that were happily prancing towards the parade,. As I grudgingly walked back to the lot,

the man asked me if I needed help getting out of my space. He thought I was leav-ing, but I told him I had left my phone. I did not need his help; yet, he was so nice and accommodating. What a great entrepreneur, I thought. He set me up for exit success and asked if I needed help as I passed him up to re-trieve my phone, so I stopped to show him I appreciated his genuine concern. I extended my hand in gratitude, his very long fingers wrapped around my whole hand. We shook. We did the business-man eye-to-eye look … entrepreneur to entrepreneur. He knew kindness and respected his clients. He was there for me when I was in doubt of his product. Finding customer service in the deep bowels of our beloved Jackson was peaceful. Jackson is a melting pot of diversity. We are a “family” in this great city. We celebrate one of the nation’s most popu-lous and widespread parades and under-stand we are all the same. Oh, the parade was fantastic, but if I get one more text asking where I am … David Joseph is the operations manager of the Jackson Free Press.

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It took Malcolm White a few years to fi nd the right place to anchor his St. Patrick’s Day parade. The fi rst year, 1983, White and his friends started at CS’s and paraded to George Street. The second year, CS’s dropped out, and White and his fellow revelers started and ended at George Street. At one point, they set up shop at the state

fairgrounds. “We stayed down there for a number of years, but it never felt right. It didn’t have an ambiance to it. It was cold and institutional,” White said. But when White and his brother, Hal, got the lease to the old railroad depot building on Commerce Street and turned it into Hal & Mal’s, White moved parade operations to the restaurant. “We headquartered it here just because it made perfect sense for everything that we were doing to have a physical place … so it would have an address, so that we could have offi ces and phone lines and bathrooms and infrastructure,” White said. Over the years, Mal’s parade has grown into the third largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the nation and the single largest annual event in the Jackson metro-politan area. Its success, combined with White’s ex-perience planning other major events, led him to join the Mississippi Arts Commission as in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Coast and, along with it, the region’s arts economy (and his second home there). In 2013, Gov. Phil Bryant appointed White to heard the tourism division within the Mississippi Development Authority. Recently, White talked with the JFP at Hal & Mal’s, the restaurant he started with his brother, who passed away in 2013, about tourism, the future of the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade and how each is vital to telling the whole Mississippi story.

The parade started with you and your friends and has grown into this huge organism with lots of moving parts. How has the parade changed in terms of the planning that goes into it?

When I created it, I was in the business of creat-ing events. It performed precisely as envisioned. As the years went on, I never envisioned that I would

leave the private sector and go into the public sector. I never thought about running the (Mississippi) arts commission or being the state tourism director. That was never even a remote thought. So that evolution has changed a lot about the way I think about it. I have a full-time job. My brother has passed, and we’re into the next generation now of family that runs this place, and I’m frankly looking eagerly to the day when the parade is in the second generation. I have worked for years with the Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau, Down-town Jackson Partners and honestly anybody who would talk to me about forming some sort of next generation for the parade. But the bottom line is that nobody wants to work that hard. No one wants to take the responsibility, and it falls on me every year. If I didn’t do it, nobody would do it. I have a team of a lot of people. I do big ideas, and they do all the small details. We have multiple partners. Ardenland is a partner in the concert. Charley Abra-ham is one of the managing partners in the parade. Blair Batson Hospital for Children is a partner in the run, the fundraising, the registration of the fl oats. The city’s a partner in inspecting the fl oats. The fi re department is involved in the inspection. The county’s involved in the cleanup. I bring a guy to run the children’s festival. There’s a staff of probably 20 key people that do key things that keep me from having to do it all. The res-taurant does a lot in terms of the street after-party and Arden (Barnett) puts on the music.

These are volunteers? Oh, yes. There’s no full-time person responsible. It’s not a full-time job. When I started it, I had a com-pany called Malcolm White Productions. This is one of the many things I did. I did Jubilee! JAM, I did Zoo Blues, I did Wellsfest. I had a portfolio (of events) … all over the state and down into Florida, and what I did was produce events, do fundraisers, book banks. My brother and I did this. But a decade ago, I got into public service and started to phase myself out of all of this stuff.

What was the thinking behind that? I can’t imagine public service was more lucrative.

No, I took a huge pay cut. I went into state service because of Hurricane Katrina. My vision was that if the lower six counties of Mississippi were going to recover and re-envision themselves, then the art story piece had to be a huge part of that. And that was the reason I wanted to work at the Arts Commission. I planned on doing three years; I stayed seven. Then I was offered this opportunity to lead the tourism offi ce, and I thought it was a logical next step for me, so I’m still going.

In that role, what’s your sales pitch for Mississippi?

Our sales pitch is that Mississippi is an authentic, real place. The experiences that you can have here are unique and unparalleled—whether it’s music, literature, architecture or food. Civil War. Civil Rights. The arts, sacred spaces, fi lm … it’s a unique and curious place. It has abundant natural resources. It has an embarrass-ment of riches of a cultural story to tell. It’s unparalleled in the number of musicians we produce, the number of writers we produce, sports fi gures we produce. It’s a fascinating, powerful place. As James Meredith said, Mississippi is the most powerful word in the English language. No one says “Mississippi,” and there’s no reaction. So my job is to encourage people to visit Mississippi. And, I think, to get them here, they have to rethink it. My job is about rethinking Mississippi. The way we intend to do that is by telling the whole truth, nothing but the truth and be-ing honest about all of it. We’re just as interested in civil rights tours as we are in golf tours. Our hardest job is to get people to come here the fi rst time. But (once) we get people here the fi rst time, we usually can get them back. My job is to get more people to come here and get them to stay longer. So we’ve got to promote our natural resources, we’ve got to promote our great culture. We’ve got to be open-minded about our past and include that as part of the story. We can’t just leave out the 20th century. It’s a diffi cult but fascinating opportunity. If it were easy, I wouldn’t have been interested. It’s hard, and we have a lot of competition. Missis-

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sippi has the smallest advertising and promotion budget than any other state in the union by a long shot. We are tiny; it’s miniscule.

What kind of number are we talking about?

Three million dollars. The next closest is about $8 million, $8.5 million. Part of the challenge is trying to tell the story and not really having any resources to tell it with. But that’s fi ne. I accepted the job knowing this. So what I look at is social media, because it’s affordable, and it’s real time. (I look at) promoting what we have and starting to recognize who our new visitors are. The current visitor to Mississippi is 52 years old ,and they stay 2.5 days. I want them to stay longer and start coming earlier. I think international (tourism) is a great opportu-nity for us. Interestingly, when you say “Mississippi,” people in Iowa will have an opinion. If you say it in Germany, not so much. Germany has a past that ours pales compared to, in terms of struggle. They under-stand struggle; they understand civil war. They know oppression. They know evolution. But internally, in the United States, Mississippi can be a tough sell. Exter-nally, not so much. You mention Mississippi in Asia or Europe, they know about the river, they know about the blues, and they know a little bit about the civil-rights stuff. But they’re intrigued and curious as opposed to turned off and appalled. We have to focus on regional promotion. We want people from Texas and Tennessee and Florida and Ar-kansas to come. And we’re going to get some people from New York and some people from California and from the Great Lakes. But I am more focused on Canada and Europe for new growth. Canadians can drive here, and their golf courses are frozen, and their food is rather bland, and they don’t have the blues. But they want the blues. Europeans, Canadians, Asians know more about American music than the average Mississippians, and we’re the birthplace of America’s music. That’s why the Blues Trail has been so successful, the country music trail and the freedom trail and some of those projects. That’s why the B.B. King Museum is so important, the Grammy Museum is so important.

Mississippi is building the only other Grammy Museum outside of Los Angeles, and that’s because we have more Grammy winners. We spend a lot of time allowing other people to tell our story and getting it wrong the whole time and poor-mouthing ourselves and selling ourselves short. I think we have a very powerful and compelling story to tell, and I think it’s time we got busy telling it. Once we agree—if we can agree collectively—what that story is, there’s a lot of power in that.

So developing international tourist interest is your main focus?

There’s an initiative for Europe, there’s an initiative for Canada, there’s an initiative for Asia. They’re all cul-turally different. But it’s big, and it all requires resources and manpower, which we’re short on. We’re really focused on 2014 as the year of the creative economy in Mississippi. We’re launching this Mississippi homecoming campaign, and that’s about how we tell our story and celebrating the things that are uniquely Mississippi. And inviting people to come and visit. We target successful creative Mississippians like Morgan Freeman and ask them to help bring peo-ple here. We target musicians and celebrity chefs and invite them home and celebrate creativity. And that’s a state-supported initiative, from the governor’s offi ce down to the local CVBs (convention and visitors bu-reaus). And then we’re all building toward 2017, when the state celebrates its bicentennial, 200 years of state-hood. This summer, we celebrate Freedom Summer. We commemorated the Evers assassination, Freedom Rid-ers. We treat all of that as part and parcel of our story. Mississippi has the last free-fl owing, un-impeded river system in the United States. It’s called the Pascagoula River system and, for the outdoor enthusias-tic, this a crown jewel.

We’re inviting people to paddle and to camp, bird watch and get outside. Our barrier islands are an amaz-ing resource, the Mississippi River is an amazing re-source. We’re fi nally getting outfi tters set up so they can have a Mississippi River experience. The Natchez Trace is covered in bicyclists. People come from all over the world to ride the Natchez Trace. These are gigantic assets that we have. We’ve never done a good job of promoting them.

A lot of people might be surprised, that as a Mississippi state offi cial, you’re willing to talk about the uglier parts of our history along with the positives.

I’m the director of optimism. I don’t believe you can tell part of a story and expect people to trust you. You’ve got tell it all. We’ve got to tell the Emmett Till story as well as the John Grisham story. We’ve got a huge story to tell. Oprah Winfrey is a story of success; Medgar Evers is a story of disgrace, but they’re both stories we have to tell. The Jim-my Buffet story a lot of people think is really interesting. There are so many things that people don’t even real-ize. The way Americans eat, and this whole phenomenon of the celebrity chef (that the Food Network has furthered) was created by three people: Julia Child, James Beard and a guy named Craig Claiborne. And Craig Claiborne is from the Mississippi Delta. One of the three people who have changed the way that Americans think about food was from Mississippi. He was the fi rst food editor and food critic for The New York Times, and that’s a big deal.

The children of brothers Malcolm and Hal White took over running Hal & Mal’s after Hal’s death in 2013. Now, Malcolm (pictured) is also looking for a new generation to take on his popular Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade.

America gets credit for creating three art forms: modern dance, movie making, and jazz or American music. One out of the three came out of Mississippi.

What kinds of supports are there for someone who, say, has an idea for the next Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade or similar arts events?

We don’t take just anybody off the street who has a big idea. If someone comes to us with a fully fl eshed-out busi-ness plan (for) a tourism-related project that looks like it can employ a signifi cant number of people, that can create change, then sure. But government’s role is not to be in the big-idea business. Government’s role is to support people who have big ideas. And sometimes support doesn’t mean a grant. Sometimes support means infrastructure, connecting dots and hon-oring—the year of the creative economy is about honoring creatives. (Like) Jim Henson, who is from Leland, Miss., who created the Muppets and Sesame Street and single-handedly taught more people to read and write than all institutions of education collectively, in my opinion, through his puppets and through his tele-vision presence. He didn’t come to the MDA and say, “I’ve got this idea about the Muppets,” but he was encouraged through teachers and his family to be imaginative. Then you go back and cele-brate his accomplishments and to encour-age other people to dream up big ideas. The MDA is a large government agency that is not as fl exible and nimble as, say, Hal & Mal’s. But by the same token, its role is to grow the economy and create jobs and create opportuni-ties, whether its in fi lm or its in creative economy, manufacturing, the health-care industry. So we are a place where ideas become realities and industries are launched—sometimes organically, and sometimes with us as their partner. My job in tourism is about promoting tourism-based busi-nesses and encouraging people to come. Anybody brings me a big idea about a tourism event, I’m very interested.

Is the climate today better than when you started?

Yeah. When I started the St. Paddy’s Parade, my contact was not the state tour-ism offi ce. My contact was the Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau. When I fi rst started, the CVB helped me. They don’t anymore, and they shouldn’t. I’m a fully mature event: 32 years, 75,000 peo-ple. They need to be seed-funding some-body else. The state is there and available to help people with idea. We have a grant

program where we fund all sorts of festi-vals and events around the state, from lit-erary to music to civil war and civil rights stuff, arts festivals. There’s a group that wants to start a book festival, and we’re very supportive. We helped them get started, given them some seed funding, sit on their commit-tees ... some day we hope to have a book

festival in Mississippi, and we can say we’ve done our part to support it.

You mentioned the next generation, in terms of the parade. Do you have plans for that?

If I knew the answer to that, I would have already put it in place. As I’ve men-tioned, I’ve approached the (Conven-tion and Visitors Bureau), Downtown Jackson Partners, and any other group I thought might have the bandwidth, range, capacity and ability to take it on. The city’s not the right entity. It’s prob-ably going to have to be a group of family, some of these people who help manage

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it. The truth is, I don’t know. I’ve been trying to fi gure that out. Now that the next genera-tion is here, it would be logical for them to take it over—my daughter, my brother’s son, his daughter and her husband. That’s who’s running this place and I would assume they would eventually take a leadership role in the parade. Like I said, we’ve got these other part-ners—Arden Barnett, Charley Abraham, Bob McFarland. The hospital itself—they do a lot. They organize the run, they organize the reg-istration of the fl oats. And the city does a lot. It’s just having somebody to manage all that, and I think we’re getting closer to (fi guring out) who that’s going to be.

Do you think you’ll stick it out in public service for a while?

Yeah. I don’t have a plan for how long I want to be there. Like I said, I went in with a plan of staying three years, and I just entered my eighth. I’ll stay as long as I think I can make a difference.

Is that why you’ve stayed so long—because you feel like you’re making a difference?

I feel like progress is being made. Take the notion of the creative economy as an ex-ample. We did a study in 2011 when I was at the Arts Commission to look at creative class and creative enterprises in Mississippi. From that, I’m now in a position to work with the governor and have him declare the year of the creative economy and Mississippi homecom-ing. That is a progression of success. The Blues Trail is probably the most suc-cessful initiative that the state of Mississippi has achieved, culturally, in my lifetime. The creation of this trail, leading people to museums, leading people to communities—the telling of the story of the birthplace of America’s music. The B.B. King museum, the Grammy museum, the Elvis Presley birthplace. This is a gigantic global story that we have fi nally fi gured out how to tell. This trail leads people all over the state to share the good news, and it builds civic pride. It is a win-win-win-win-

win-win-win. We’re going to build a civil-rights museum and a new history museum. We’ll be the only state in the union that has a state-supported civil-rights museum. We’ve invested in interpretive centers for the Emmett Till murder up in the Delta. We’ve invested in commemorat-ing the life of Medgar Evers, and working to make his home a visitor’s center. We are so on the right track here for telling the whole story and getting it right. The Unit-

ed States Poet Laureate is from Gulfport. That is a big damn deal—that Natasha Trethewey grew up and became the poet laureate of the United States of America. Gigantic. We need to be celebrating that. That’s a big story. We spend more time talking about what we don’t have than talking about what we do have. My vision has always been to take this success we’ve had in the creative sector and use it to reinvent ourselves, to tell ourselves, to re-educate our children. I always say that Mississippi is fi rst on every list we want to be last on and last on every list we want to be fi rst on. And we need to change that. That is about teacher pay raises, but it’s also about acknowledging Freedom Summer. It is about jobs, but it’s also about AIDS. And as the tourism director, I get to take it all on and talk about all of it, and have some infl u-ence and some impact. The way I do that is through the sto-rytelling. Mississippi is 2.9 million storytell-ers—we’re all good storytellers. We need to use that ability that we have to encourage people to come visit us, to teach, to love each other, to care about each other. I just think that if we’re celebrating St. Paddy’s Day or the ribbon cutting on a civil-rights museum, this is all really rich soil that we have an opportunity to plow together. Man, if we ever get right, we’re going to be hell on wheels. Medgar Evers used to say, Mississippi is going to be a great place when ... when people are treated fairly, when we are able to heal the past. That was 50 years ago, and it’s still true. I was talking to Myrlie Evers (Med-gar’s widow) yesterday, and she said, “I came

home to be a part of the new Mississippi. I came home so we could get it right.” I’m just on a big team of people who are trying to get it right and trying to put a positive spin on in, but no smoke and mirrors. No sweeping. Just telling it the way it is. That’s why I’m still here. (For) optimists like me, it doesn’t take a lot of success to keep us motivated.

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device. A map. Weaponry. A pair of sturdy shoes. For walking the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade—a Mardi Gras-style festival held in downtown Jackson each March for more than three decades—and the subsequent after-noon and evening revelries, I advise you to strap up much the same as you would to fi ght the zombies. Now, I’m not telling you to bone up on “Survivor Man” episodes, but I’ve been burned at one too many out-door celebrations by heat, low blood sugar, dehydration and the subsequent shenanigans that result from treating your body a little too rough. I’ve been getting to the parade under my own steam (well, generally—thanks for pushing me up State in the shopping cart, Wade!) for the past four

years. I highly recommend walking or biking to downtown from a nearby neighborhood, if the option’s available to you (kids, crutches and puppies might need closer drop-off points). It’s often faster than fi nding a parking place if you’re coming from the ’burbs, and if it’s warm and sunny, you can think of it as your most enjoyable workout of the year. Here is my survivalist’s checklist to having the best time at Jackson’s biggest party (RIP Jubilee! JAM).

Rendezvous: My old home in Belhaven, across from Baptist Hospital, was the perfect rendezvous, organization and replenishment point for friends from all over the metro area. I advise you make friends NOW with someone who lives within one or two miles

of the parade route—a place to park your car, leave unwanted beads, refrigerate leftovers and adult beverages, etc.

Allies: Do not go to this parade alone. If you are walking downtown on your own, the location of your allies (or friends-of-friends-of-friends) is valuable intel if you’re suddenly overcome by crowds or you run

out of Lucky Town. Make sure you know of at least one tail-gate, tent, port-o-potty, or street corner controlled by friends, family or an employer.

Outfitting: Do your damndest to blend in. The individuals who now populate the downtown of our capital city are coated in fabrics, paint, imitation hair and plastic ob-jects in every lurid shade of green. Don’t be afraid to go to extreme measures to match

their newfound devotion, as the more outlandish the outer-wear, the greater likelihood you’ll seamlessly integrate your-

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self into the parade experience. You’ll get sweaty very quickly if the sun’s out, so factor that into whatever plush chicken suit you’re considering renting. Since you’ll be walking, comfortable and sturdy boots or tennis shoes are essential … wearing your foam pool fl ip-fl ops on hot concrete in a crowd brings a new scope to the phrase “there will be blood.”

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panies or at college fairs) or other inexpensive backpack to carry keys, consumables, a small wallet and any other desired provisions. The rucksack can be deposited in a friend’s home or vehicle if you grow weary of it, and the small wallet maintained about one’s person.

Comm devices: Even though the parade doesn’t attract crowds at New Or-leans Mardi Gras levels, anyone who’s been to an Ole Miss-LSU game or

similar crowded, compact venue can attest to their cell phone losing service due to a high volume of users, or else draining its battery searching for signal in its owner’s pockets. Write down the phone number of at least one responsible ally, or that of the admin-istrator of your recon point (above), so that you’ll be able to communicate from a public phone if yours dies unexpectedly.

Sustenance: Hydration is key. If you don’t partake in alcohol, skip down to “per-sonal defense.” If you do, here are my top sources of liquid sustenance along the main route to the parade: backpack beer, tailgate beer and bars-along-the-road-way beer. According to my

extensive research, green beer—available only during mid-March, due to the annual algal growth in underground beer caverns from whence most major breweries harvest their product—is the most nutritious. However, man cannot live by ale alone, so tote a bottle of water or two in your ruck, and drink from it at least every half-hour to prevent possible evening coma-naps.

Avoiding the catatonia and eventual deep nappage that occurs around 5:30 p.m. on parade day, accompany water with a nutri-

tious mini-meal. In past years, my go-tos were peanut butter and sliced apple sand-wiches (which never seem to go bad despite

heat and weight displace-ment) and balance bars. They’re good to share, espe-cially when you see a fellow survivalist worn down with

sun- and Special K breakfast-fatigue around 2:45 p.m. Street vendors, bars and restau-rants on the parade route and your walking itinerary will offer superior food, but I fi nd I forget to eat at St. Paddy’s unless my snack is immediately at hand.

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forcement: It’s been a long, hot day, and once the parade is over, you might, depending on your loca-

tion when the parade ends, make your way to the nearest eatery or home kitchen for a fortifying “linner” meal, accompanied by more water. Pizza Shack (925 E. Fortifi ca-tion St.), Jaco’s Tacos (318 S. State St.), and Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St.) are all great nearby choices. For dessert, split a small can of Red Bull or a Diet Coke to stay awake on a full belly. If you return to your home or rendez-vous point afterward, wash up and choose a new nighttime outfi t that isn’t soaked in sweat and acrylic paint. Charge your phone and contact friends and family to create a tentative schedule for the night, which may include another meal, a get-together at one’s house or bar-hopping. Or all three. If you need a little time to be a rugged individualist after suffering a mob of strang-ers to touch your bare arms, the end of the night is drawing near, and you fi nd yourself unable to extricate yourself from a social situation, order the smelliest thing on the menu to passively but effectively rid yourself of hangers-on. For me, it’s the Scotch egg at Fenian’s—I almost lost some dear friends with the initial order.

Personal safety: As I’ve emphasized the conve-nience and pleasantness of walking to and fro the parade site, it must be said that, as with any large, pub-

lic celebration, be on your guard. At night, if you choose to walk more than a few blocks, stay in well-lit areas and on busy streets, and try to travel with other like-minded indi-viduals. Sometimes large crowds attract un-savory characters, so be aware of yourself and your surroundings. Having a destination and someone expecting you there can make all the difference between a fun night and toned legs, and getting lost and spending the night huddled under the lights of the drive-through at the State Street McDonald’s.

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M al’s St. Paddy’s Parade day is one of my favorite days in Jackson. To some, it’s just an excuse to day drink, and that’s fi ne (as long as you imbibe responsibly and don’t drive home). But what

makes it special to me is that it’s all about celebrating our city in an irreverent, fun spirit and in an environment where ev-eryone is welcome. That being said, the day is a marathon, not a sprint, so it’s important to have a plan. Herewith is my approach, honed over years of trial and error.

1.Kick things off (but not too hard). Friday night is the Marching MALfunctions Second Line Stomp. For this event, the marching krewes invite anyone

who wants to participate to gather at the King Edward Hotel at 5 p.m. and march to Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St.) for a party. It’s a festive way to start the weekend, but Saturday is the main event. I generally march in the stomp, but I head home by 8 p.m. so I don’t wear myself out.

2.Ready supplies and start hydrating. Friday night, I purchase adult beverages and mixers, bot-tled water, snacks, ice, sunscreen—all the parade

necessities I don’t want to purchase in the morning when I’m dressed up like a crazy person. Also, on Friday night I assemble my traditional food contribution to the morning’s pre-parade gathering.

3. It’s the big day! I wake up way before my alarm like a kid on Christmas morning, and the hardest part is to wait until a decent hour to head outside.

Luckily, if you’re an early riser, you can participate in or watch the 5K (though I defi nitely don’t run on parade day).

4.Get dressed. On this one day of the year (and only this one day), I strongly advocate putting comfort before fashion when it comes to footwear.

Standing—or marching—for a long time, with a lot of peo-ple, requires practicality. Don’t wear stupid shoes unless you want to be utterly miserable. I consider “stupid” parade shoes

anything with a stiletto, giant wedge, ankle strap that will cut into you, or fl ip-fl ops (all those people who wear them regardless of the drink spillage everywhere, gross). Converse Chuck Taylors are an excellent option, providing comfort, coverage and a hipster style element.

5.Drink water. My parade-day rule is to refrain from any adult beverage before 10 a.m. The goal is to not peak too early and miss out on the street

party. Generally, a group of downtowners and their friends enjoys a pre-parade gathering on the balcony of the Electric Building (308 E. Pearl St.), so I go to that for some green eggs and ham, green cookies, green, well, everything. Last year, I was invited to join the marching krewe the Nugget League of Mayhem, so now parade morning includes go-ing to Hal & Mal’s to meet the girls to dress, mingle with the other marching krewes and line up for the parade.

6.Parade time! Have fun, catch beads, kiss an O’Tuxer and dance.

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O n Ireland’s rocky west coast, a little hamlet of a town lies in County Clare somewhat south of Galway. The town is called Doolin. Tiny

quaint houses are clustered between largely unbroken expanses of green, dotted only by sheep. In Doolin, a cluster of build-ings slightly larger than normal marks it as the tiny town’s cultural center. A B&B offers room and respite to a handful of travelers, and down the way a little is Gus O’Connor’s pub. Thanks to its close proximity to the Cliffs of Moher, a tourist favorite, the pub has developed a reputation that far outreaches its population. Established in 1832, Gus O’Connor’s is well known for two things: the local music that fills its walls nearly every night and the food. I remember distinctly what it felt like to walk into Gus O’Connor’s on a chilly, sharp autumn day. Escaping the seaside wind, the pub was a warm haven, with a fire lit in a deep hearth and two musicians playing leisurely in a corner. Extricating ourselves from layers of coats, scarves and gloves, my companion and I sat down for lunch. Only one meal is worth ordering at O’Connor’s—not because it’s the only good thing on the menu, which I’m sure it isn’t, but because it is so delicious and so suited to its location that to order anything else would be a crime. It’s a softly steaming bowl of beef and Guinness stew, with a side of brown bread and butter, and a pint o’ black beauty to wash it down. The warm, thick stew immediately banishes any lingering chill from outside, and the comforting, familiar flavors make your fellow tour-ists feel like family. I’ll never forget that bowl of stew. One of my goals this year was to learn to make beef and Guin-ness stew. Although I can’t recreate Doolin or Gus O’Connor’s, this meal is perfect for any day where you want to escape the cold, feel comforted and loved, or both. You can make this stew a million different ways—on the stove, in the oven, in a slow cooker—and with lots of slight differences in the ingredients. This recipe is the result of combining a few versions I’ve found, and tinkering with what I like best. The key is to not rush. This is a meal that will take you several hours to make (for me, it’s about four), and there’s no point in trying to finish it in less time by kicking up the heat (I’ve tried, and the charred beef you’ll get isn’t the flavor you’re looking for, trust me).

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Directions: Toss the meat in olive oil until it is lightly covered on all sides (you don’t want it dripping). Brown the cubes in a large pot. Be sure there is only one layer of meat in the pot at once—brown in multiple batches if need be, then set aside for the moment. Add the onions and carrot to the pot, cooking until just beginning to soften. Add the garlic and cook another minute. Put the beef back into the pot and add the rest of the ingredients. Adjust the heat so the stew is just barely boiling, cover and let cook for 2-4 hours. Check every hour or so and add more liquid if too much has boiled off (either beef stock or Guinness, depending on your preference). The stew is done when the beef is very tender, and you can easily pull it apart with a fork. Serve over mashed potatoes with a side of bread (and a pint of Guinness, of course). Feeds 4-6.

Ingredients: 3 tablespoons olive oil2 pounds boneless chuck roast, cut into 1-inch cubes1/4 cup flour2 cups onion, coarsely chopped2 cups carrots, coarsely chopped3 garlic cloves, minced

2 11.5-ounce Guinness Stout beers 3-4 sprigs fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce2 tablespoons tomato paste3 cups beef stockSalt and pepper to taste

T he challenge of a good city builder is all in the planning. Never is the player expected to react on the fly—that’s the domain of real-time

strategy. No, what tests us is our ability to see a plan come together, to make a budget that funds an empire or to craft a distribu-tion system that feeds a city. Complexity is the bread and butter of these titles, and recent years have seen no shortage of that, whether in the ecological factions of the futuristic Anno 2070 or the endless charts and services to be managed in the modern iterations of “SimCity.” “Banished” takes a different tack: re-markable simplicity. A one-man project under the banner of Shining Rock Games, there’s nothing particularly revolutionary about the design or implementation of the technology. Ban-ished is a small-scale city builder. Your village will begin with a few families and will top out at a few hundred, and you’re just as likely to watch your first settlement wither and die before you ever see so much as a town hall. The theme of “Banished” is survival: As the title sug-gests, your people have been exiled from their ancestral home and must find a place in the wild to found a new village. There is no campaign, no plot, no contact with the outside world save for the occasional appearance of river traders. Unpretentious is an understatement: even for the relatively no-nonsense city builder genre, “Banished” is spartan. The challenge, then, is not making your city sprawling and profitable, as “SimCity” would have it; or luxurious and mighty, as the fantastic Caesar series instructs, but merely to survive. There’s a simple cycle to “Banished.” The villagers need food—foraged, grown or traded—homes to protect them from the elements, and firewood in the winter for heat. They need tools to remain effi-cient—iron or steel, to be replaced every

few years—clothes to keep them warm outside, herbs and doctors to keep them healthy, and wine and religion to keep them happy. And critically important to “Banished” is the concept of scarcity. Clear-cut the for-ests and they will die, and likely your vil-lage with them. Strip-mine the mountains, and stone and iron will need to come from somewhere else. There’s no easy answer for a paucity of resources in “Banished.” So the cycle goes. Your foresters keep the woodlands healthy, your gatherers and farmers keep the people fed. Each home produces offspring, who in time demand their own homes in which to begin fami-lies. These new families require more resources: more farms, more carefully preened forests, more fuel to keep them warm in the winter. Expand too quickly, and the storehouses will run empty. Fam-ine culls your workers, which only causes

more famine. Expand too slowly, and your population will age childless in their parents’ homes, leading to an elder boom that will similarly cripple your economy as one by one they die. This cycle defines “Banished” as a game that quickly reveals itself, beneath its quaint exterior, to be a brutal, unfor-giving picture of frontier life, a tenuous balancing act between growth and death. This game will frustrate and infuriate you, leaving you with anxious unease in its summers and outright despair in its win-ters. Your reward will be subtle—nothing triumphant and marbled, or colossal and sprawling, merely a quiet, strikingly or-ganic village in the wilderness, a church or a market the smallest signs of prosperity. There’s something beautiful about that, and it makes “Banished” an experi-ence to be savored.

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I n the summer of 1964, several hundred college students came to Mississippi to work with the Stu-dent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and its campaign to increase black voter registration. The

campaign, marked by the murder of three organization volunteers in Neshoba County, succeeded in focusing na-tional attention on Mississippi and its mandated oppres-sion of African Americans and their right to vote. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer. In celebration of the gains the SNCC made and in recognition of those who lost their lives, the Mis-sissippi Museum of Art is hosting a number of exhibits, centered on “This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.” Organized by the Center for Documentary Expres-sion and Art in Salt Lake City, Utah, the traveling ex-hibit consists of 157 black-and-white images. Because the everyday activists, rather than photojournalists covering breaking news, took the photos, they offer an insider’s perspective. “The exhibit makes sense for the museum,” Julian Rankin, the MMA’s director of new media, says. “Over the past few years, we’ve started a tradition of holding exhibits that connect historically with the anniversaries of the Civil Rights Movement.” Matt Herron, one of nine photographers represented

in the show, is the curator for “This Light of Ours.” Along with Heron, the exhibit includes images by Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, David Prince, Her-bert Randall, Maria Varela and Tamio Wakayama. All of the photographers in the exhibit lived and worked in the south between 1963 and 1967, primar-ily as members of SNCC. The images, which Heron grouped by theme, represent SNCC’s strategy as an or-ganization. Those themes include resolve in the face of violence, impact on the nation’s policies and influence on the nation’s consciousness. Audio guides—personal ac-counts recorded by the individual activist-photographers that accompany the images—give the viewer a deeper understanding of the moment the photographers chose to document and its impact. “Activist photography is an interesting dynamic because the people taking the photographs are able to get up close and personal at the events,” Rankin says. “Though some were art-ists, they weren’t necessarily at the event to create art—they were there to document the story as it was happening.” During the exhibit, the community will be invited to contribute to a memory wall titled “A Wall To Tell Our Stories.” People are encouraged to bring photographs and family mementos from the time period. “We’ll make digital copies of people’s documentation from that time period, as an interactive way to connect personal history

with social and cultural history,” Rankin says. Submission guidelines for the memory wall will be avail-able after the exhibit opens March 7. Digital images can be sent by email to Carol Peaster cpeaster@msmuseumart.org Several corresponding exhibits will be on display during the five-month duration of “This Light of Ours,” which ends Aug. 15, including “The Slave Series: Quilts by Gwendolyn A. Magee” March 7-May 18. Using ap-plique, embroidery and layered fabrics and embellish-ment, Magee creates pictoral quilts based on historical accounts of the treatment of slaves. Another event is “Norman Rockwell’s Murder in Mississippi” June 14-Aug. 31. LOOK Magazine commissioned the piece in 1964, several months after the murder of three volunteers in Neshoba County, Rockwell created an iconic illustra-tion for the cover of the magazine. Rockwell did extensive research about the circumstances of the crime and pro-duced a number of preliminary drawings and sketches before completing the finished oil painting. “This Light of Ours” will be in the Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions at the Mis-sissippi Museum of Art until August 17. Admission is $10 for regular admission, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for children ages 5 and under and museum members. Visit msmuseumart.org for more information or to purchase exhibition tickets.

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Steve Hendrix’s long, slender hands might indicate that he has psychic abilities, if you believe in that sort of thing. At the very least, palm

readers would say they’re a sign of an active mind in search of knowledge. His hands are one of the first things you’ll notice about Hendrix—that is, if his shoulder-length dreadlocks don’t reg-ister as unusual. Hendrix, 26, a tattoo and visual artist, says his pas-sions center on his 7-year-old son, Dante. Hendrix is a single father, and several of Dante’s Aveng-ers action figures (along with Token Black from “South Park”) occupy a shelf in his workspace at Hardroc Tattoo in Brandon—where children aren’t al-lowed. His latest tat, on his left inner arm, is Spiderman. “He’s my son’s favorite,” Hendrix says. “He jumped for joy for that.” Hendrix, whose real last name is Smith, has worked as a professional tattoo artist for about a year since completing an apprenticeship, but his interest in art goes back to his days at Can-ton High School. He was always sketching back then, he says, and later tried his hand at graphic design. “I hated painting when I was younger,” Hendrix says. “I just never understood it.” He kept at it, though, and now con-siders painting his therapy. “I get lost in it,” he says. Dante frequently watches his daddy work, and Hendrix was thrilled when his son told him he wants to be an artist “just like you,” when he grows up. “Don’t let anyone tell you (that) you can’t do it,” Hen-drix told him. Hendrix began painting in earnest when he saw the work of Atlanta-based Miya Bailey several years ago. Bailey is also a tattoo and visual artist, and his life shows Hendrix that he can make it, too, doing what he loves. “His work is amazing,” Hendrix says of Bailey. “(And) he’s a real down-to-earth, humble guy.” Most of Hendrix’s canvasses are stark,

highly graphic portraits based on pho-tographs of iconic African Americans he admires, rendered in acrylic paint. His portrayal of Malcolm X in black, white and shades of gray has a brooding quality. Black, cool blue and purple are the only col-ors in his painting of Tupac Shakur, orange is the color of choice for his image of Ray

Charles, the warm color accentuating Charles’ open, wel-coming smile. Mi-chael Jackson’s image floats on an appro-priately frenetic field of yellows. Comics also feature in Hendrix’s art—and on his skin. He sports several tats of the Joker from Batman comics. His first tat was Super-man’s “S” shield, and Spidey’s web covers the back of his left hand. Hen-drix inked several of his own tattoos as part of his training. His mom’s name, Sherell, is on the inside of his right wrist, a sign

of his admiration for her strength and constant inspiration. “She helps me a lot with life,” Hendrix says. “I can go to her with anything.” College hasn’t been in the cards for Hendrix, who was born in Peoria, Ill., but he’s a big believer in gaining knowledge for personal growth. Hendrix hopes to take his art overseas, eventually, but for now he’s a voracious reader who’s constantly seeking to better himself. Right now, he’s reading the classic “Think and Grow Rich” by Na-poleon Hill, first published in 1937. “I like to learn,” Hendrix says. “… You can find everything in a book.” Hendrix sums up his life’s philosophy this way: “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let them teach you. … Take that negative energy, that anger, and (transform it with) your art.” See Steve Hendrix’s work at Soul Wired Café (111 Millsaps Ave., 601-863-6378) during a one-man show on March 15 from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. or midnight. Drinks and food will be available. The event is free and open to the public. Visit instagram.com/stevie-hendrix87 to see photos, or contact Hardroc Tattoos (1149 Old Fannin Road, Brandon, 769-251-5363) to schedule your own ink.

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T he 48 Hour Film Project, formed in 2001 and based out of Washington, D.C., is an international competi-tion in which teams of amateur and

professional filmmakers make short films over the duration of a selected weekend. To ensure fairness, each team is assigned a specific character, prop, line of dialogue and genre, which they must include in the film, at precisely 7 p.m. on Friday. At that point, teams have exactly 48 hours to write, cast, shoot, edit and musically score their films. They must hand-de-liver a hard copy, which can be a data or playable DVD, or a USB flash drive, to the local organizer (producer) by 7:30 p.m. Sunday. With every year comes increased participation. Now, approximately 120 cities host local 48 Hour Film Project competitions. The winning film of each city then competes at Fil-mapalooza—which took place this past weekend in New Orleans. The Crescent City, which has solidified itself as a premier film production city, was a great destination choice for Filmapalooza. Hundreds of par-ticipating filmmakers descended upon the city to take part in the four-day festival, and hundreds of locals attended daily. Teams screened their films at the newly renovated Joy Theater on Canal Street. The atmosphere was not short on networking or socializing, either. Filmmakers, indus-try folk, and festival patrons mingled at scheduled parties each night. Buzz about the recent Oscars was everywhere. The mix between southerners and people from other parts of the country and the world was neat and refreshing to observe. Despite cultural and geographical divides, a love of movies and filmmaking unified everyone . Besides the screenings and parties, the 48 Hour Film Project organized various film-related panel discussions and offered tours of the filming locations of recent no-table productions, including “Dallas Buy-ers Club” and “12 Years a Slave”—both of which were filmed in and around Nola. Although Filmapalooza overlapped the opening weekend of the famed South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Tex-as, cinemaphiles weren’t deterred. With high attendance and excitement, by all accounts, the festival was successful. A packed crowd watched winners get crowned Sunday, fol-

lowed by a celebratory closing-night recep-tion at ROUX Public House. The honor of Best Film went to “Geen Klote!” by Amster-dam team De Filmband. To watch the win-ning film and see the list of categorical win-ners, visit 48hourfilm.com/en/filmapalooza. Our city of Jackson last hosted a lo-cal 48 Hour Film Project competition in 2012 (read more about it and opportunities for young filmmakers in Jackson at jfp.ms/

raisingfilmmakers). With nearly 20 teams in competition, the weekend was a success; however, due to production missteps, the competition didn’t come together in 2013. Luckily, the 48 Hour Film Project is returning to Jackson this year. I have taken on the organizing position, charged with reigniting the competition in our artistically and culturally rich state. I am in the process of selecting a competition date. Trying to maximize participation, the 48 Hour Film Project and I are aiming for a late-May or early-August weekend that doesn’t conflict with surrounding competitions in New Or-leans, Memphis, Little Rock and Nashville. I truly believe the 48 Hour Film Project and its local competitions give both estab-lished filmmakers and newcomers an excit-ing platform to make creative cinematic art. It is a great vehicle to increase awareness of and promote our Mississippi creative econ-omy. Whether high school or college stu-dents, amateur or professional filmmakers or simply curious newcomers, the competition and its process is extremely rewarding. For more information about the 48 Hour Film Project and the Jackson competi-tion, please email jordan.w.sudduth@gmail.com or like the Facebook page, facebook.com/Jackson48HFP. Thank you for your future interest and support. That’s a wrap!

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After an inactive year, the 48 Hour Film Festival returns to Jackson in 2014, giving opportunities to budding and professional filmmakers alike.

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WEDNESDAY 3/12 Poker Run is at 6 p.m. at Fleet Feet Sports (500 High-way 51 N., Suite Z, Ridgeland). Free; call 601-899-9696; fleetfeetjackson.com. … Tickle Me Wednesdays Comedy Show is at 9 p.m. at The Penguin (1100 John R. Lynch St.). $10 in advance, $15 at the door; thepenguinms.com.

THURSDAY 3/13 Jackson 2000 Millennial Meetup is at 5:30 p.m. at Sal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St.). Free; jackson2000.org. … High Note Jam: Hip Hop Night is at 6 p.m. at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) in the Art Garden. Rashad Street, DJ Young Venom, Cody Cox, 5th Child and DJ Brik-a-Brak perform. Free; call 601-960-1515; ms-museumart.org. … An Evening with Jungle Jack Hanna is at 6:15 p.m. at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). $100; call 601-352-2500; jacksonzoo.org. … The Blast Downtown is at 9 p.m. at Martin’s (214 S. State St.). DJ Scrap Dirty, The Nasty Sho, Sketch the DJ and DJ Spirituals perform. $5; theblastdowntown.com.

FRIDAY 3/14 “Musical of Musicals” opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Warehouse Theatre (1000 Monroe St.). The musi-cal about musicals is a comedic satire of musical theater. For mature audiences. $10; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com. … Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild Live is

at 8 p.m. at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino (875 Beach Blvd., Biloxi). The wildlife expert shares the stage with ani-mal friends. $10-$20; call 888-566-7469 or 800-745-3000.

SATURDAY 3/15 Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade is at 1 p.m. in downtown Jackson. It begins at the corner of State and Court streets. Free; malsstpaddysparade.com. … Mal’s St. Paddy’s Offi-cial After-party is at 3:30 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Com-merce St.). Performers at the street party include Better Than Ezra, The Weeks, The Revivalists and Rooster Blues. For ages 18 and up. $15; call 601-292-7999; ardenland.net. … The Hendrix Experience Art Show is from 7-11 p.m. at Soul Wired Cafe (111 Millsaps Ave.). Enjoy artwork, a cash bar and music from DJ Can-non. Free; call 601-863-6378. … Cindy Scott performs at 9 p.m. at Yellow Scarf (741 Harris St., Suite E). $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $5 students; call 866-590-4647; yellowscarf.ojahmediagroup.com.

SUNDAY 3/16 Made for a Runway II Fashion Weekend: Model Cast-ing is from noon-6 p.m. at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). Males and female models ages 16 and up may audition. Free; call 982-8467; thekmarshi-ionline.com. … GMO Grand Challenge is at 6:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Participants take a mul-tiple-choice test for a chance to win prizes, including cash. Free; call 601-937-7224; email lukelundemo@gmail.com.

MONDAY 3/17 OFNA Happy Hour is from 6-7:30 p.m. at Sneaky Beans (2914 N. State St.). Free; email byronknight1@gmail.com; facebook.com/OurFondren. … “Immigrant and LGBTQ Rights in America” is at 7 p.m. at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) in the Academic Complex, Room 215. Civil rights activist Filipe Matos speaks. Free; millsaps.edu.

TUESDAY 3/18 Chef’s Table is from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Fairview Inn (734 Fairview St.). $65; call 228-493-6555; eatyall.com. … “Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano” is at 7 p.m. at Mal-co Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). $15; call 601-898-7819; malco.com. … Wanton Bishops performs at 8 p.m. at Crossroads Bar and Lounge (3040 Livingston Road). The garage rock and blues band from Beirut, Lebanon performs. Free; wantonbishops.com.

WEDNESDAY 3/19 Shellie Rushing Tomlinson signs copies of “Heart Wide Open” from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Lorelei Books (1103 Washington St., Vicksburg). $14.99 book; call 601-634-8624; loreleibooks.com. … All 4 Children Consignment Spring/Summer Pre-Sale is from 5-8 p.m. at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Purchase or sell gently used children’s clothing and accessories through March 22. Free, $10 pre-sale; call 601-566-7046; email cbpampa@ya-hoo.com; all4childrenconsignment.com. … The Fleshtones perform at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Used Goods also performs. $10 in advance, $12 day of show; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

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Jackson 2000 Millennial Meetup March 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza and Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.). The purpose of the event is to create a network for young, for-ward-thinking Jacksonians. Free; jackson2000.org.

“Musical of Musicals” March 14-15, 7:30 p.m., and March 16, 2 p.m., at Warehouse Theatre (1000 Monroe St.). The musical about musicals is a comedic satire of musical theater. The perfor-mance is part of New Stage Theatre’s Unframed Series. For mature audiences. $10 (cash or check); call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade March 15, 1 p.m., in downtown Jackson. The Mardi Gras-style parade begins on the corner of State and Court streets. Enjoy the Trustmark Children’s Festival and the Pet Parade before the main event. Visit website for schedule. Free; malsstpaddysparade.com.

Mal’s St. Paddy’s Official After-party March 15, 3:30 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). Performers include Better Than Ezra, The Weeks, The Revivalists and Rooster Blues. Gates open at 2:30 p.m. For ages 18 and up. No coolers. $15; call 601-292-7999; ardenland.net.

History is Lunch: Commemorating 175 Years of the Old Capitol, at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Sessions are at noon. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.• March 12, MDAH historians Mike Stoll and

Clay Williams examine the Old Capitol’s history.• March 19, Millsaps College history professor

Stephanie Rolph talks about civil and voting rights during Old Capitol’s history.

Precinct 2 COPS Meeting March 13, 6 p.m., at Jackson Police Department, Precinct 2 (711 W. Capitol Street). The forum is designed resolve community problems. Free; call 601-960-0002.

Jackson Garden and Patio Show March 14-15, 9 a.m.; March 16, 11 a.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Enjoy shopping, gardening seminars, children’s activities and door prizes. Special guests include gardening experts Nellie Neal and Dr. Gary Bachman. $6, children 12 and under free; call 601-919-8111; msnla.org.

Roll-Off Dumpster Day March 15, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Lee Elementary School (330 Judy St.). Jackson residents can bring tree limbs, other yard debris, household furniture, small appliances and

accessories. Tires, chemicals and gas tanks are not accepted. Proof of residency may be required. Free; call 601-960-0000; jacksonms.gov.

Bat Education Program March 15, 2 p.m., at North Mississippi Fish Hatchery and Visitor Edu-cation Center (457 CR 36, Enid). The program focuses on Mississippi bat species, diets, habitats and more. Call 662-563-8068; mdwfp.com.

Information Technology for Nonprofits March 18, 9 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (201 W. Capitol St., Suite 700). The

workshop includes topics such as server and Inter-net security, protecting and backing up data, and new hardware and software products. Registration required. $109, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

Coffee & Cars Third Saturdays, 7-10 a.m. through Sept. 20, at Primos Café and Bake Shop (2323 Lakeland Drive, Flowood). Car enthusiasts are welcome to view or display cars of all makes and models. Free; call 601-936-3398; email mike_marsh@bellsouth.net.

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The Japan-America Society of Mis-sissippi is partnering with the Crossroads Film Festival to bring a

little bit of Japanese culture to the metro area, by showing three Japanese films at Madison Malco Grandview theater start-ing March 13. The film series is an out-reach program by the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville, and Nissan Neigh-bors sponsors the series. “I think it’d be neat for Jackson metro to show up and really learn a little bit about the culture of a country whose company has employed more than 8,000 people here in Missis-sippi,” says John Henry Jackson, vice president of the Japan-America Society of Mississippi. The first film is “Always: Sunset on Third Street,” directed by Takashi Yamazaki and adapted from Ryöhei Sagan’s manga “Sanchöme no Yühi,” which means “Sunset on Third Street.” The film, set in post-war Tokyo, follows the lives of a few residents in a single year as the Tokyo Tower is be-ing built. The film shows at Malco at 7 p.m. March 13. “Brave Story,” directed by Kôichi Chigira, is the second film. Based on Mi-yuki Miyabe’s fantasy novel of the same name, the movie centers on a boy named Wataru who tries to change his fate by

entering a world full of magic and mon-sters, where he must summon his courage and go on a journey to find the Goddess of Destiny. The movie will air March 20 at 7 p.m. The third film is “Robo-G,” di-rected by Shinobu Yaguchi. The plot follows three employees of the Kimura Electrical Company who plan to present a new robot at an exhibition but, after an accident destroys the robot, they hire an actor to get inside the remains. It shows at Malco March 27 at 7 p.m. The Japanese film series begins at Malco Grandview Theater (221 Grand-view Blvd., Madison) on March 13 and ends March 27. All films will be shown with English subtitles. Seating will be on a first-come first-served basis. The event is free and open to the public. For more infor-mation, visit jasmis-us.com.

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Soul Session: Our Health March 15, 2-5 p.m., at Open Arms Healthcare Clinic (500 E. Woodrow Wilson Ave., Suite M). The LGBT health care initiative includes health information, a Q&A ses-sion and medical tests. Registration required; space limited. Free; call 601-899-2843; bit.ly/P1ezT6.

GMO Grand Challenge March 16, 6:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The purpose is to raise awareness about the health and environ-mental risks of consuming genetically modified foods (GMOs). Participants take a multiple-choice test for a chance to win prizes, including cash. Test preparation CD available. Free; call 601-937-7224; email lukelundemo@gmail.com.

Baptist GYN and Breast Cancer Support Groups Joint Meeting March 18, 5 p.m., at Baptist Medi-cal Center (1225 N. State St.). In the Baptist for Women Conference Room. The meeting includes remarks from cancer survivor Cynthia “Mammy Gram” Stuart and refreshments. Registration required. Free; call 601-948-6262; mbhs.org.

NAMI Basics Class beginning March 18, at Hol-mes Community College, Ridgeland (412 West Ridgeland Ave., Ridgeland). The six-week course is for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illnesses. Pre-regis-tration required. Space limited. Free; call 601-899-9058 or 800-357-0388.

Bottleneck Blues Bar Comedy Tour, at Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar (4116 S. Wash-ington St., Vicksburg). Nardo is the emcee, and shows are from 7-9 p.m. No cover; call 601-638-1000; ameristar.com.• March 12, performers include Antoine Black-

mon, Mark Brooks and Reggie Walker. • March 19, performers include A.G. White and

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Events at Tinseltown (411 Riverwind Drive, Pearl). Call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.• “Werther” March 15, 11:55 a.m. The Metro-

politan Opera presents Massenet’s opera. Encore show March 19 at 6:30 p.m. March 15: $22, $20 seniors, $15 children; March 19: $20, $18 seniors, $14 children.

• “Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano” March 18 and March 26, 7 p.m. See the simul-cast of the pop star’s concert The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. $14, $13 seniors and students, $12 children.

“The Cherokee Word for Water” Film Screen-ing March 18, 7 p.m., at Russell C. Davis Plan-etarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The film is based on a true story about a rural Cherokee communi-ty’s efforts to bring running water to their families. Free; call 601-326-3001; cw4w.com.

Dialogue March 13, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The eight-piece horn band plays songs from the group Chicago. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All-ages show; adults must accom-pany children. $12 in advance, $15 at the door, additional $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

High Note Jam: Hip Hop Night March 13, 6-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) in the Art Garden. Rashad Street, DJ Young Venom, Cody Cox, 5th Child and DJ Brik-a-Brak perform. Cash bar included. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Sturgill Simpson March 13, 7:30 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Nashville native sings alternative country music with soul and roots influences. Doors open at 7 p.m. $8 in advance, $10 at the door, additional $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email jane@halandmals.com; ardenland.net.

Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music’s Early Music Concert Series March 13, 7:30 p.m., at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (5400 Old Canton Road). The British group Stile Antico presents 17th- and 18th-century sacred choral music. $30, $5 students, $125 season tickets; call 601-594-5584; email info@ancientmusic.org; ancientmusic.org.

Faculty Piano Recital March 18, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In the concert hall. Dr. Stephen Sachs performs works such as Franz Liszt’s “The Sonata in B Minor” and selected movements of Olivier Messiaen’s “Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jesus.” Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

Wanton Bishops March 18, 8 p.m., at Crossroads Bar and Lounge (3040 Livingston Road). The garage rock and blues band from Beirut, Lebanon performs. Also enjoy a performance from Vasti Jackson. Free; call 984-3755; wantonbishops.com.

Donald Link Guest Dinner March 12, at City Grocery (152 Courthouse Square, Oxford). Enjoy a four-course meal from Chef Donald Link, author of the cookbook “Down South: Bourbon, Pork, Gulf Shrimp and Second Helpings of Every-thing.” Reservations encouraged. Signed books for sale after the dinner at Square Books ($35 book). $70 with pairings, $60 without pairings; call 662-232-8080; citygroceryonline.com.

Rising Readers Storytime (Ages 3-5) March 19, 9:30-10 a.m. and 10:15-10:45 a.m., at Can-ton Public Library (102 Priestley St., Canton). Includes stories, music, movement, crafts and more. Free; call 601-859-3202.

“Heart Wide Open” March 19, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Lorelei Books (1103 Washington St., Vicksburg). Shellie Rushing Tomlinson signs books. $14.99 book; call 601-634-8624; email loreleibooks@wave2lan.com; loreleibooks.com.

Purple Word Book Club Third Sundays, 1-4 p.m. through May 18, at Purple Word Center for Book and Paper Arts (140 Wesley Ave.). The monthly book discussion is for ages 18 and up. $5 annual fee, free for members; purpleword.org.

Spring Break Art Break March 12-14, 10 a.m.-noon, at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (565 N. Fifth Ave., Laurel), in the annex. Children in grades K5-6 create a variety of media including sculpture, paint and collage. Reservations required. $50, $40 members; call 601-649-6374; lrma.org.

Visiting Artist: Rick Anderson March 16, 1-4 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Muse-um (2145 Highland Drive). The Mississippi artist gives workshops on creating spring paint-ings with acrylic paint. $8, children under 12 months and museum members free; call 601-981-5469; mschildrensmuseum.com.

Discover Class Series March 18, 6-8:30 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Options include mixed media with Larry Strayer or felting with Jane Mullins. Reg-istration required. $35 per person; call 601-856-7546; email education@mscrafts.org; mscrafts.org.

Events at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). Call 601-979-2040; jsums.edu.• Student Juried Art Show through April 4.

See works from JSU students in the Liberal Arts Gallery.

• The ArkLaMiss Photography Show through May 2. See the exhibit of photographs in John-son Hall Gallery.

Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.• This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of

the Civil Rights Movement through Aug. 15, in the Barksdale Galleries. See the Civil Rights Movement through the work and voices of nine activist photographers. Includes admission to the Slave Series exhibit. $10, $8 seniors, $5 students, free for members and children ages 5 and under.

• The Slave Series: Quilts by Gwendolyn A. Magee through May 18, in the Barksdale Gal-leries. See the late artist’s quilts that tell the story of slavery in America. Includes admission to the This Light of Ours exhibit. $10, $8 seniors, $5 students, free for members and children ages 5 and under.

• C3 (Conversation. Creativity. Community.) Participatory Art Project Thursdays and Sat-urdays through March 19 Significant Develop-ments is the facilitator. Participants record their own symbols of identity onto clay bells that will be part of an art installation in the Art Garden. Public ceremony March 20 at 6 p.m. Email daniel@significantdevelopments.us.

The Hendrix Experience Art Show March 15, 7-11 p.m., at Soul Wired Cafe (111 Millsaps Ave.). Enjoy artwork, free wine, a cash bar and music from DJ Cannon. For ages 18 and up. Free; call 601-863-6378.

March Art Exhibit through March 31, at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St., fourth floor). See works from Ellen Langford. Free; call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

Lagniappe: A Little Something Extra through April 30, at Mississippi Library Commission (Education and Research Center, 3881 Eastwood Drive). See Susan Wellington’s oil and watercolor paintings, and fine jewelry from Jackie Messer, Martha Scarborough and Laura Tarbutton of The Beach House Studio. Opening reception March 20 from 5-7 p.m. Free; call 601-432-4111; email gloriajw@mlc.lib.ms.us.

Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance Advo-cacy Meeting March 12, 6 p.m., at Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (612 N. State St., Suite B). MIRA discusses current issues and upcoming campaigns at the meeting held on sec-ond Mondays. Open to the public. Light dinner included. Free; call 601-968-5182; yourmira.org.

Breaking Bread March 15, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., at Poindexter Park (200 Poindexter St.). The purpose of MS Move’s community event is to fellowship with the homeless. Includes healthy food from Nuttin’ But Smoke Catering and music from DJ Sean Mac. Vendors welcome Free; call 601-918-4350 or 601-201-5658; email mac@msmove.org or seanmac6@gmail.com; msmove.org.

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D avina Sowers started playing the piano when she was a little girl. Unlike most, she kept going after the lessons ended. Like even fewer, she now makes her living pounding the keys.

“I wasn’t throwing down Fats Domino or anything like that, but I started taking piano at 6 and have just never quit,” Sowers said in a February phone inter-view. “I’ve pretty much been playing my whole life. And now it is pretty much my whole life.” Sowers is the Davina of Davina and the Vagabonds, the Minneapolis-based combo she has fronted since 2005. A rare guitar-free ensemble, Davina and the Vagabonds is often tagged as a blues band. But the music isn’t blues in the con-temporary sense. Nor is it jazz, even though it has horns, piano and drums. “I think unique is a good word,” Sowers said, trying to define her band. “I think eclectic has been overused, but it fits for me, too. It’s hard for me … to come up with one word for what we do. There’s New Orleans jazz in it, blues, pop, old school rock ‘n’ roll. … We make it our own, so it has a specific sound to it.” The pre-war sound, evocative of the 1920s through early 1940s, comes from Sowers’ childhood. Her folk-singer mother remarried when Sowers was young. Her adoptive fa-ther, far older than her mother, was born in 1902. As a child, she listened to artists such as Judy Collins, Simon and Gar-funkel, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. She recalls listening to her mother’s records of The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin

on her Edison record player. In her small Pennsylvania town, Sowers’ mother’s records were her best exposure to music. “I grew up in a really depressed coal-mining, railroad town (with) this park where they’d bring in washed-up bands, like The Guess Who with one original member,” she said.

On stage, Sowers— frequently compared to Janis Joplin and Adele—is nothing if not enjoyable as she sings and plays in her boisterous, engaging style. She performs her distinctive mix of music with trumpeter and vocalist Daniel Eikmeier; trombonist Ben Link; drummer Connor McRae; and bassist and sousaphonist Andrew Burns Davina and the Vagabonds’ current tour crosses 13

states—from the Northwest to the Southeast and back through the middle of the U.S.—in three months. That’s business as usual for the Vagabonds. Sowers, however, some-times yearns for more time in her Minneapolis home. “I’m a homebody, and I’m a woman, so I may want

nesting to a certain extent,” she said. “But I’m a business owner—the band is my business—and I’m passionate about my music, so I need to share that with people outside of my com-munity. Sometimes, do I just want to eat nachos and watch really bad TV for a week? Sure. Sometimes you need that. I get just enough that I can get back on my horse and get back on the highway.” This year, Davina and the Vagabonds will release its fifth album, a follow-up to 2011’s “Black Cloud,” which brought the band to ’70s rootsy pop territory. Sowers, who writes all the band’s songs, says the new record, called “Sunshine,” is again made up en-tirely of originals. And again, it’s impossible to classify beyond being Davina and The Vagabonds music. “There’s some pre-war, some New Orleans mu-sic,” she said. “It sounds like us. I didn’t start doing country or rap or rock ‘n’ roll. Well, there’s some early

rock ‘n’ roll in there. It’s just us, once again.” Davina and the Vagabonds headlines the St. Paddy’s Block Party, starting at 3 p.m. March 15 at The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St., 601-398-0151). Otis Lotus, The Bailey Brothers, and Chris Gill and the Soul Shakers also perform. Admission is $5. Visit theironhorsegrill.com and davinaandthevagabonds.com.

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I f the Neilsen ratings are to be believed, 13.95 million people watched “The Night That Changed America: A Gram-my Salute To The Beatles.” For those

that didn’t see it, it was two-plus hours of various artists performing The Beatles songs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band performing on “The Ed Sullivan Show” for the first time. The performers ranged from Stevie Wonder to Ed Sheeran. Overall, the concert was pretty decent and featured some fine renditions of classic music. The show ended with a living Beatles “reunion” between Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. McCartney remarked at some point that he wasn’t sure about doing the show at first, as it seemed silly to pay tribute to himself. It got me thinking about tributes and the art of performing other folks’ work. I started playing rock music in earnest when I was in college at Delta State with Danny McGreger. Danny played guitar and I started playing bass as we formed Lately David. The “band” (hardly deserving of that moniker, as it was just me and Danny) served as an outlet for our burgeoning songwrit-ing careers. Somewhere in the ether of how

things came together, we made an unspoken decision: We would not play cover songs. I don’t have a problem with cover songs or with the musicians who choose to play them. I usually play a good number of other people’s songs during my own solo sets. The two of us just figured that if we were going to

mess up someone’s music, it might as well be our own. That decision has probably cost us

countless paying gigs, but we have lived with it, and are still happy to write and record as Lately David. Playing cover tunes takes a certain art. One method is to recreate the song as it was recorded. Jacksonians are probably familiar with Sid Thompson and his band DoubleShotz. Thompson told me how he takes pride in is his ability to recreate the guitar solos in the songs the band covers. Todd Rundgren released an album in 1976 entitled “Faithful.” The first side of the record is a collection of classic songs that Rundgren re-recorded. He recreated Jimi Hendrix and The Beach Boys tunes that sound identical to the original versions. I can only guess that his motivation was just to prove that he could. I recently took my daughter to see American Pink Floyd, a band that presents a note-perfect concert of Pink Floyd music. In a case such as this, my young daugh-ter will never experience seeing the real thing live, so these tribute bands will have to suf-fice. Needless to say, they’d better be good at what they do in order to sustain livelihoods as touring bands.

There is something to be said of musi-cians that can play cover music well. Audi-ences enjoy hearing music they know and love; plus, it requires a strict discipline and special skill to execute flawless covers. The other method to cover material is for musicians to put their own spin on the material—to make a song their own. A great example of this is Johnny Cash’s later record-ing with producer Rick Rubin, “American IV: The Man Comes Around.” Cash was singing songs that the likes of Danzig or Nine Inch Nails wrote, but the songs were unmistakably Johnny Cash. Plus, it just made the aging artist seem all the more cool to younger audiences. The greatest tribute might perhaps be to cross genres. To take a pop melody and have it performed by a classical orchestra might be the ultimate compliment to a songwriter. I own several jazz CDs that are tributes to rock artists I admire. This gives a song a more broad appeal, as some listeners simply do not like certain genres of music. Of all the tributes and cover songs, I usually find that very few examples that top the original.

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T his offseason has seen the New Orleans Saints make cuts left and right, some of which were obvi-ous—but last week, the team

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tect, run inside or outside. He was a great receiver in the passing game and a danger-ous return man in the kicking game. A healthy Sproles allowed the Saints to put pressure on defenses with his ver-satility. In fact, losing Sproles might have the biggest effect on the Saints offense if the team can’t sign a replacement. New Orleans tight end Jimmy Gra-ham tweeted he was “shocked and disap-pointed” by the Saints cutting Sproles. Graham’s tweet was kind of funny since

he is one of the rea-sons New Orleans had to cut Sproles and the other players. Graham wants a huge salary, to be paid as the top tight end in the league or paid like a wide receiver. That means someone has to go to free up money for the tight end. Graham wants to get paid like Saints quarterback Brees, who

got his money lined up a couple of seasons ago. I understand the short window for playing in the NFL, and I don’t begrudge either player for wanting to make as much money as possible. But Graham shouldn’t be shocked—he should know he played a part in these cuts. The salary cap in the NFL makes it one of the most exciting sports in the world. It levels the playing field and is part of the reason that, at the start of each season, fans for every team feel they could win the Super Bowl (well, except perhaps fans of the Cleveland Browns). But what happened last week in New Orleans shows the ugly side of the salary cap.

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