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Necessity led David Skato to filmmaking. In 2007, the Mississippi State University graduate bought a video camera to film his children, Omarion, now 11, and Sar-

ah, now 10. A year later, Skato created a TV ad for his company. With a 2006 bachelor’s degree in computer science and an IT business, he ex-pected the ad to bring him more work. Instead, local producer Andy Bryant of Video Magic One offered him a freelance vid-eography gig. Before long, Skato’s focus turned to video and TV production. His first film, “Gutta Story,” brought Ska-to to Jackson in 2010. “I didn’t want to leave Mississippi,” but his hometown of Starkville was too small, he says, so he moved here and fell in love with the city. By now, Skato has completed two feature films and two short-subject films, in addition to varied commercial work that, for now, pays the bills. “Croenoak,” which Skato expects to release in November, is a thriller/ghost story about a down-on-his luck detective hired to find a missing child. Like most independent filmmakers, Skato invested his own money into the $20,000 bud-get. He also raised $7,000 through a Kickstarter campaign. As with his previous films, Skato is “Croenoak’s” producer, director, writer, editor and publicist, but his main interest is produc-ing and directing. “Croenoak” (he based the name on the “lost colony” of Roanoke) is a departure into

pure fiction. Skato’s earlier films, while not documentaries, dealt with real-life issues. He’s most proud of “I am Woman,” a drama about domestic violence completed in 2012. “My objective was to show all sides of the situation,” Skato says. “Everybody has their own story.” “Killing Joy,” released this year, is about a young woman who suffers a stroke, and high-lights how illness can rip apart relationships. “(Stroke) is a leading cause of death for African Americans,” Skato says. “I wanted to show a different side of that.” 2010’s “Gutta Story” is, perhaps, the most autobiographical of Skato’s films. The story centers on a man trying to make it after prison when a friend is mysteriously murdered. Admittedly, Skato’s own life could have gone wrong. He grew up poor, and street life held some thrills. Between becoming a father and his best friend, Corinthius, dying in prison in 2005, at age 22, Skato turned himself around. “I didn’t try to hide what goes on in the streets,” he says of “Gutta Story.” Skato now mentors youngsters to help them stay away from violence. “Sometimes, they just need someone to talk to them.” Skato hopes not be pigeon-holed into be-ing a “black filmmaker” even as he traces his in-terest to Gordon Parks’ 1969 film, “The Learn-ing Tree,” and admires game changers like Ty-ler Perry. “Creativity inspires me,” Skato says. “I want to do things that nobody’s ever done.”

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39 Inside GrillingJust because the air is about to get cooler doesn’t mean you have to completely give up grilling.

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and more reminders as time goes by (and I’m notorious for waiting forever to fix the problem). While many of my memory problems are a result of the almost 50 gi-gabytes of music I have on my computer, the majority comes from somewhere else—thousands upon thousands of photos. For as long as I can remember, I’ve al-ways had a camera pressed to my face, from the days when I would only use dispos-able cameras to my current high-powered DSLR. I’m not sure what specifically drew me to photography, though it probably stems from my need to express myself artis-tically without drawing or painting. It’s an incredible medium, and you can do so much with it. My favorite photo in the world is “Dalí Atomicus” by Phillipe Halsman. It’s this insane black-and-white photo with suspended wooden furniture, cats and water flying through the air, and Salvador Dalí jumping in the background. Halsman said it took him 28 tries to get everything perfect. Imagine having to throw cats and water and jump 28 times in a row. That, to me, is more exciting than spending five hours working on one paint-ing. You get to record light in the blink of an eye, whereas with painting and drawing, you have to sit in one spot for hours cre-ating and recreating, drawing and redraw-ing one line. I’m not saying that you won’t spend hours trying to get the perfect shot, but at the end of everything, you have more to choose from. Photography may seem like an easy skill to learn, and if you understand the ba-sic concept of “hit the shutter button and you take a picture,” then yeah, it probably is. But really learning photography takes a

long time, and you may never perfect your skill. I’ve taken numerous photography classes and have read many articles, and I’m still not as good as I could be. Sometimes, it takes a while for me to be satisfied with the shots I take. Like everything, sometimes photography is about taking a step back, breathing and then trying again. Another wonderful aspect of pho-tography is that you don’t have to be par-ticularly inspired. Sure, inspiration makes

many a great photo, but really the key to being a good photographer is seeing. Elliott Erwitt once said: “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. … I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” If you see something cool, take a pho-to. A friend once told me that she doesn’t understand photographers who never seem

to have their camera with them; who never see the perfect shots in front of them. I’ve told people before that I think be-ing a millennial is neat because many of us remember what it was like when everything was analog, but we also saw the birth of modern technology. Those who were born around the time I was are young enough to integrate themselves in technology, but we also remember that there are things to do outside of texting on a cell phone. Many of us even watched the death of film photog-raphy. I remember that for photography in high school, we had to buy a film camera, and I bought a nice Canon Rebel 35mm. But when I took photography at Hinds Community College, film cameras had all but disappeared, so I ordered an antique camera from Amazon. Though I’ve done more digital work in my lifetime, I can still remember the basics of a darkroom. Any time I smell vinegar, I remember passing photo-graphic paper through chemical baths and washes, the dimness of the safety lights as I developed photos, watching as an image came from almost nothing. Not that I don’t love digital. It’s much easier, and it’s instant. I don’t have to fumble around in pitch-black darkness trying to wind a roll of film onto the reel or see spots when I finally turn on the overhead lights afterward. But if I had the money and space, I’d buy darkroom equipment and rediscover my love of film. Technology lends itself well to photog-raphy, especially apps like Instagram. I can now take a photo and instantly show it to people, whether it be silly, serious or a photo of my food. I don’t necessarily consider that true photography, though, because to me, photography is about more than pushing a button. Now, photographers post some incredible photos, and many do it with just an iPhone, and that’s cool. But I think any-

one who really and truly loves photography should really learn the skills behind it. The only way to really understand something is to see where it comes from. A button on a home screen can only do so much. If you really want to do something worthwhile, you have to learn how to use a real camera, with a manual function for aperture, shut-ter speed, white balance and ISO. That’s also why I think not everyone is a photographer, nor can every person in this world hope to be one. It takes work and vision, and a grander view of the world. There’s more to life than tak-ing photos of yourself or your food. I don’t consider my Instagram photos art. They’re just me goofing around, showing people my everyday life. People criticize photographers for constantly having a camera pressed to their faces, and I’ve been criticized by people for constantly stopping to take a photo. I had a friend get mad at me in Scotland for doing that (in my defense, it’s Scotland). But the wonderful thing about pho-tography is that you’re still there. You’re still in the moment. People think you’re not en-joying it, but the truth is, you are. You’re si-multaneously taking in the scene in front of you and capturing concrete proof that you were there at that precise moment. That’s why people often pay too much money for a wedding photographer. As you grow old-er with your husband, wife or partner, you will sometimes forget the good moments. It’s nice to have something to remind you that you love this creature standing beside you, yammering on about dirty dishes. Sometimes you have to remember to actually stop and take a look around you, yes, but what you get from a photo is a re-cord of a memory. Our human memories fail us, but photos are forever (if you don’t delete them). I, for one, would much rather be behind the lens than in front of it.

CONTRIBUTORS

Inside the Lens

Former Editorial Intern Mary Spooner is a Jackson native who studies English at the University of Southern Mis-sissippi. She enjoys creative writing, cinema and vegetarian cooking. She interviewed John Krasinski for this issue.

Mary Spooner Music Editor Micah Smith is a graduate of Mississippi College and has neither an eye patch nor a soul patch. When not writing or editing, he performs with the band Empty Atlas. He arranged event listings and wrote arts stories.

Micah SmithEvents Listings Editor Latasha Willis is a native Jacksonian, a freelance graphic designer and the mother of one cat. See her design portfolio at latashawillis.com. She edited event listings.

Latasha WillisMusic Listings Editor Tommy Burton is keeping the dream alive one record at a time. He can usually be seen with a pair of headphones on. He wrote an arts pre-view blurb. Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Tommy Burton Feature Writer and Tishomingo County native Carmen Cristo studied journalism at Missis-sippi State University and wrote for the Starkville Free Press. She likes Food Network, ’90s music and her husband. She wrote an arts preview blurb.

Carmen CristoR.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 Talks.

R.L. NaveGenevieve Legacy is an artist, writer and community-devel-opment consultant. She works at Hope Enterprise Corporation and lives in Brandon with her husband and youngest son. She wrote a music story.

Genevieve LegacyAdvertising Director Kimberly Griffin is a fitness buff and foodie who loves chocolate and her mama. She’s also Michelle Obama’s super-secret BFF, which explains the Secret Service detail.

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strings attached. Yarber and the council came to logger-heads over several issues, including last-min-ute additions and the mayor’s reticence in

implementing a $120,000 pay increase for city workers earning minimum wage even as the mayor is increasing pay for three city departments by about $500,000. Yarber said moving forward with the smaller increase would throw the budget off balance. Council members took exception to Yarber’s explanation, they said, because the mayor’s budget staffers had advised the

council throughout the development of the pay-raise plan and helped calculate the ex-pense. In addition, the council said it agreed to let the mayor “staff up,” according to his administration’s needs. From 2013 to the budget passed this week, salaries in the mayor’s and chief-administrative officer’s offices alone have

increased by $480,781. “If we can pay the mayor and CAO’s of-fice a half-million dollar increase (for salaries), then we don’t need to be paying slave wages to people who are out there filling ditches,” Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr., who chairs the Budget Committee, told the Jack-son Free Press. The city attorney’s office also jumped

from $1.9 million in 2013 to just over $2 million under the current budget. As an alternative to the minimum-wage raises, Yarber suggested a feasibility study be done, arguing that the council had not con-sidered the effect of implementing the raises on vacant positions. The move seemed to blindside the six members who attended. Ward 7 Council-woman Margaret Barrett-Simon lambasted Yarber’s refusal to implement the council’s action, which she called historic. “If the council can be ignored on some-thing like this, then what are we doing here?” she asked. During the meeting, Priester offered a compromise in order to meet the legal re-quirement to finish the budget by Sept. 15, instructing Yarber’s administration to find a way to implement the minimum-wage hike or the council would come back later and take back salary increases now going to department heads and other top-tier staff members. The budget passed 5-to-1. Ward 3 Councilwoman LaRita Cooper-Stokes voted no; Ward 1 Councilman Quentin Whitwell did not attend the meeting. The council can revise the budget through the end of the month, which Pries-ter hopes to accomplish before year’s end. There was one big bright spot in the city budget for taxpayers: City officials man-aged to roll the millage rate back to 2013 levels, which equals a property tax cut of about $5 million. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Wednesday, September 10 President Obama outlines in an ad-dress to the nation an expanded military and political effort to combat Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, includ-ing airstrikes in Syria and expanded air-strikes in Iraq.

Thursday, September 11 A 9/11 memorial service in New York begins with a bell toll, a moment of silence and the reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in New York, at the Pentagon and near Shanks-ville, Pennsylvania. … The European Union decides to place new economic sanctions on Russia—including ones tar-geting the country’s vital oil industry—for what it sees as Moscow’s meddling in eastern Ukraine.

Friday, September 12 Government and rebel forces ex-change dozens of prisoners captured during fighting in Ukraine as part of a cease-fire agreement sealed in early Sep-tember. … Texas asks a federal appeals court to allow the state to immediately enforce a law requiring all abortion clin-ics to adhere to costly standards required for walk-in surgical clinics, which would close more than half of the state’s abor-tion facilities.

Saturday, September 13 President Barack Obama condemns as a “barbaric murder” the slaying of Brit-ish aid worker David Haines by Islamic State extremists.

Sunday, September 14 Two raging wildfires in California force hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, including one near a lake-side resort town that burns nearly two dozen structures, many of them homes.

Monday, September 15 An act of Congress allows President Obama to present two Vietnam War soldiers—one still living, one killed in action—with the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony nearly 50 years after the men threw themselves into harm’s way to protect their fellow soldiers.

Tuesday, September 16 Ukraine’s parliament ratifies an agreement to deepen economic and po-litical ties with the European Union and passes legislation to grant autonomy to the rebellious east as part of a peace deal.

“Get On Up” (2014)—After spending time in Jackson, Dan Akyroyd, who plays James Brown’s manager Ben Bart in the film, decided to contribute a little more to Hinds County. Sheriff Tyrone Lewis swore him in as a deputy sheriff this past January.

“As I Lay Dying” (2013)—Filmmakers thought “As I Lay Dying,” a novel by William Faulkner, would be difficult to turn into a film due to the many narrative voices. But James Franco was unperturbed. He captured this aspect of Faulkner’s work by camera edits, dialogue and voice-overs.

“The Help” (2011)—Director Tate Taylor (also of “Get On Up”) and the author of the film’s novel namesake, Kathryn Stockett, grew up together in Jackson and have been friends since kindergarten. They both graduated from Jackson Prep.

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MADE IN MISSISSIPPIby Amber Helsel

I f you’ve been in Jackson the last couple months, you probably heard talk of John Krasinski (yes, Jim Halpert from “The Office”) being in town. He was directing “The Hollars,” which concluded shooting in Jackson a couple of weeks ago. But besides “The Hollars,” Mississippi has seen some other incredible movies make their way through

our great state. Here are some interesting facts about some of the more recent ones.

A fter the Jackson Free Press followed up on a tip regarding water dam-age to decades-old documents in the Hinds County Courthouse,

Hinds County Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn told us that no documents were at risk of water damage and there had been no flooding. After a visit to the file-storage area in the courthouse, though, it is clear that files housed there are not treated with care or as if they are important to the city. Within the maze of dirty rooms and wading among trash and other odd objects, court documents and criminal files rot away on the fourth floor of the downtown Jack-son public building. “It’s been picked through or whatever you want to call it and just put up there be-cause we don’t have room down here to keep it,” Dunn said of the files stored upstairs. A puddle seeping out beneath one bookshelf is clearly not the only presence of water. Boxes on top of boxes with water-damage marks signal the risk of seriously detrimental destruction of files.

In one room, two buckets and a trash-can filled with water catch droplets from the leaking pipes above. “We have buckets down here under the stairwell that have to

be emptied every now and then, and that’s been from day one,” Dunn said. While many of the documents con-tained in the county courthouse are elec-

tronically backed up, not all are, and the building’s current condition is sure to con-tribute to the destruction of Hinds County history. “I don’t have any earthly idea,” Dunn said when asked how much of the courthouse’s documents are backed up elec-tronically. “Some is, some isn’t.”

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T he GOP establishment called them sore losers. In return, the Mississippi Tea Party cried foul play. The 2014 U.S. Senate race pinned

two sides of the Republican Party against each other in a heated primary that present-ed more possible problems with Mississippi’s election law than it did focus on issues facing the state and solutions in either the Missis-sippi Legislature or the U.S. Congress. For two months the Chris McDaniel camp complained about the Thad Cochran camp in a tirade that made it easy for the media to take sides by playing off the Tea Party’s election integrity concerns as baseless feuding. But Mississippi’s election process, especially in the primary stage, does concern the state and the general public so much that Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann con-vened a panel of 51 state citizens to discuss just that on Sept. 10 at Old Capitol Inn. Both state party chairmen—Rickey Cole with the Democratic Party and Joe Nosef with the Republicans—warned against taking drastic steps to change the state’s elec-tion law. Still, all the political leaders tended to agree that some reform is needed.

Laws from the Dark Ages? Election lawyer Cory Wilson said that Mississippi election laws are totally outdated. “They were written during a time when there was one-party rule in the state,” Wilson said. “There are a lot of timelines and dead-lines and requirements under the election procedures that really need to be revisited in a comprehensive way.” Mississippi has open party primaries, which means that anyone can choose which primary they want to vote in, even though candidates of the same party will run against each other initially, then face the other party’s chosen candidate in the general election. There is no party registration. Voting track record is not taken into account. A person can only cast one vote in the primary election and, in the case of a runoff, cannot switch party lines from the party they voted with initially—but other than that, open party primaries are fair game. This caused much confusion during the U.S. Senate race, highlighting the prac-tice of one party’s voters raiding the opposite party’s primary to influence the outcome of the general election—an open practice in Mississippi. State Sen. McDaniel recently called for closed primaries, which could have benefit-ted his race against incumbent Cochran. “I think we have to move toward some sort of closed primary system at some point,” McDaniel said. But the openness of a primary election is

a state policy decision and one most officials are not in favor of changing. “We shouldn’t have a knee-jerk reaction to our primary and what people think may or may not have hap-pened,” Nosef said at the panel. Political experts say the state is unlikely to completely change the election process from open to either closed, semi-closed or

“top two” primaries, but Hosemann’s panel did discuss them. Louisiana, for example, has what is called a “top two” or “jungle” primary—in which all the candidates are initially placed on the same ballot, regardless of their party, and the candidates with the top two highest percentages enter into a runoff. Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler spoke to the panel touting his “top two” system and its successfulness. Two other states—California and Washington—also have “top two” primaries. He said the closed primary system, which Louisiana has used before and which requires primary voters to have party registration, was not a suitable system—although 18 states have closed pri-maries as well as the District of Columbia. Closed primaries are criticized because they “take away a freedom of choice Missis-sippians currently enjoy,” State Sen. David Blount, a Democrat, said. Mississippi joins 15 other states with open primaries. Seven states have a combi-nation of both with semi-closed primaries, and the remaining six states have different primary systems between parties. Ten states have party-elected systems, meaning each party determines how open the primary is, while the rest of the states’ primaries are state-mandated.

Less Invasive Options? Some members of Hosemann’s panel expressed interest in the top-two system Louisiana has, but Cole said a number of less intrusive election changes could solve the problems seen in the recent Senate race, as opposed to a complete overhaul. Nosef agreed with the sentiment.

“It’s not as much what system that we have as it is … there’s no way to enforce our law,” Nosef said. “Being able to enforce whatever the rules are is something that I think would be nice because from a voter standpoint that’s unbelievably frustrating.” One unenforceable election law in Mis-sissippi is one that says that a voter cannot “participate in any primary election unless he intends to support the nominations made in the primary in which he participates.” Assistant Secretary of State for Elections Kim Turner mentioned the impossibility of enforcing the law. When asked why we have an unen-forceable statute in the first place, Hosemann directed the question to the Legislature, say-ing they are responsible for creating the law. Instead of reforming the entire system, Cole suggested changing the law to make runoffs less frequent. If the Senate race had not required a runoff, Cole does not believe the state would be having a discussion about election reform. Thomas Carey, the U.S. Senate Repub-lican candidate whose name no one can re-member, paid $300 to enter into the election and knock the race into a runoff. If the quali-fying fees were $3,000 instead, Carey—who many see as a frivolous candidate—would have not been able to essentially muddy up

the election, Cole argues. He says those fees should be multiplied by 10 in each election. While Rep. Cecil Brown, a Jackson Democrat, said he is in favor of smaller changes, he does not believe in increasing the qualifying fees to prevent someone from running. “The fees should be reasonable. It shouldn’t be something that would cause somebody to not be able to qualify,” Brown said in an interview. In addition to higher qualifying fees, Cole says the threshold for the percentage of votes the leading candidate gets to prevent the race from going into a runoff should be lowered to 45 percent rather than 50 percent as it is now. “I don’t think there are a lot of negative consequences associated with those chang-es,” Cole said of laws that would prevent runoffs. Other implementations include early voting, which allows all residents to go to a planned location to vote before Election Day, and online registration, which is traditionally not popular with Republicans. Hosemann said online voter registration is in the works. Blount said that since Mississippi now has voter ID requirements, elec-tion law should also allow for same-day registration at the polls. None of the pro-posed reforms, however, address the most dramatic complaint from the McDaniel camp: vote buying.

Votes for Sale? When it comes to complaints from the Tea Partiers of vote buying by the Cochran campaign, nearly every neutral politician, Republican or Democratic, seems to say the same thing: “I don’t have any reason to be-lieve that happened,” Brown said. “If that was a problem, they just need to be prosecuted,” Brown said. “Any law can be broken. You just have to catch them.” Get out the vote, or GOTV, efforts—canvassing, passing out flyers and going door-to-door—are legal and have always been a major element of political campaign-ing. But when someone crosses the line by promising a voter something of value for their vote, they’ve broken the law. The lack of transparency in the ex-change of money in political campaigning, however, is a federal problem. Cole believes the financial reporting requirements must be stricter, but the Mississippi Legislature can only improve those laws on the state level and in state elections. Super PACs like the recently cre-ated All Citizens for Mississippi, Cole said, should have to report their expenses with the FEC within 24 hours. The PAC,

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run by New Horizon Church Interna-tional Bishop Ronnie Crudup, has until mid-October to file their completed and amended reports for expenditures in July. Cole said they shouldn’t have that much time, which federal election law provides. One thing that could have prevented the problems with voter irregularity and alleged crossover votes in the Senate race is simply better poll-worker training. The regulation of crossover voting in a runoff, Cole said, is “left up to the discre-tion of poll workers.” Hard-copy poll books are used to check voters in at the polls. In the case of a runoff, the party’s poll books are to be swapped so poll workers know if a voter voted in the opposite party’s primary in the initial election. If he or she did, the poll workers are then supposed to prohibit the person from voting. While the McDaniel camp com-plained of crossover votes, their evidence included a vast number of votes they de-termined were “irregular” due to strange markings in the poll books. Cole said this

indicates that the training of poll workers needs improvement. Cole also said that switching to elec-tronic poll books would help solve this problem. But no matter which election processes Mississippians deem most effective, the im-portance of democracy remains. Lynn Evans from Common Cause Mississippi worries that laws like voter ID requirements, as well as the belief that people who voted in the U.S. Senate Republican primary should not have, contributes to the disintegration of voter rights in the state. “We seem to have sort of leftovers in our subconscious from the old days of Jim Crow that voting is not a right, it’s a privi-lege, and that only certain people should be able to vote,” Evans said. “It seems to me what we should be doing is looking to re-move obstacles to people voting.” Evans said the current conversation—which involves closing primaries and requir-ing voter ID—is one that asks: How can we restrict certain people from voting? “That to me is the wrong conversation. That was supposed to have been settled,” Ev-ans said. Comment on this story at www.jfp.ms. Email investigative reporter Anna Wolfe at anna@jacksonfreepress.com.

A fter the video surfaced of Ray Rice’s assault of his now-wife, Janay, and people on the Internet started ask-ing questions that sounded an aw-

ful lot like victim-blaming, an author named Beverly Gooden took to Twitter to explain why she stayed with her abusive husband for more than a year. Using the hashtag #WhyIStayed, Gooden explained—and legions of others followed—her reasons for remaining in the relationship: She believed he would change, her pastor counseled her on the biblical con-sequences of divorce, she was isolated from her family and support system. And there were other practical reasons: “I had to plan my escape for months before I even had a place to go and money for the bus to get there,” Gooden tweeted. Wendy Mahoney, executive director of the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence, says women—85 percent of do-mestic-violence victims are women—stay for myriad reasons, including not wanting to leave the familiar environs of their homes and facing the stark reality of everything they would need to reestablish themselves in a new place. Coming up with cash for pas-senger fares, housing and utility deposits can

seem like especially insurmountable obsta-cles considering that domestic-violence vic-tims are often subjected to economic abuse, shut off from accessing household finances. “These types of barriers can hinder in-dividuals from leaving an abusive situation,” Mahoney said. In Mississippi, one of those barriers is being lowered. On Sept. 10, the

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companies in the state, approved a new rule that would provide a 60-day utility deposit waiver for people who are certified as victims of domestic violence by a shelter. The waiver applies to all regulated utilities that the PSC has jurisdiction over, which does not include municipal utilities such as the city of Jackson’s water system. “This simply gives them some breath-ing room,” said Northern District Com-missioner Brandon Presley, who started developing the rule a few months ago be-cause domestic-violence victims in rural areas lack access to temporary housing that victims closer to big cities have. Presley said his rule was modeled on similar measures in Louisiana and Texas, “but goes further in protection of confiden-tiality of victim’s identities and prevention of shifting costs to other utility customers.” The rule passed the PSC unanimously, 3-to-0, but did have some resistance from some utility cooperatives.

Jim Herring, a former Mississippi Re-publican Party chairman and lawyer who represents both the Mississippi Rural Water Association and Madison County’s Bear Creek Water Association, told the Associated Press that his clients favor helping victims of domestic abuse but believed the PSC over-stepped its authority in setting the rule. The rule, which goes to the Mississippi secretary of state for publication before go-ing into effect, states that a security deposit is different than a rate and that the rule should not be construed as the PSC’s attempt to run a utility’s day-to-day affairs. A call placed to Herring’s Canton law office was not imme-diately returned. Presley says he bent over backward to allay the concerns of the utility companies in coming up with the final language for the rule. “If their goal was for me to withdraw my proposal, that wasn’t going to happen,” he said. Presley and his staff also worked with domestic-violence advocates to address

their concerns as well. Earlier versions would have empowered law enforcement officials to certify individuals as victims of violence, but in the final rule, that was au-thority given to solely to domestic-violence shelter professionals. They also added lan-guage to strengthen privacy protections for people who receive the waivers. Sandy Middleton, executive director of the Center for Violence Prevention in Pearl, called the rule another tool to help people who, despite being abused, may have a job, children or other considerations preventing them from uprooting and moving into tran-sitional shelter. “The main thing we know about vic-tims who are fleeing for their safety is that they leave with few belongings and little or no money,” Middleton said. The PSC’s deposit-waiver rule came one day after the video footage of Ray Rice, who has since been suspended indefinitely from the National Football League, went vi-ral. Previously, Rice had received a two-game suspension for violently hitting the woman

he planned to marry. The release of the Rice video, showing him knocking her out in a hotel elevator and then dragging her out of it, has sparked a national conversation about domestic violence, helped along by social-media discussions such as those Gooden’s hashtag prompted. Wendy Mahoney compared the Rice incident to Magic Johnson’s admission of his HIV-positive status in the early 1990s, which shined a light on a disease that was not understood at the time. “Sometimes, it takes a figure like that” to spur the conversation, Mahoney said. Middleton echoes Mahoney, saying that she’s happy that people are now talking about domestic violence in public spaces. “Ray Rice and his wife put a face on the same experi-ences so many people are having across the country,” Middleton said. Now, she added: “We need to carry over those same emotions to the cases that are happening right here in our communities.” Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

T rue or False: I have been tempted to leave home. True or False: Most people will laugh at a joke at times.

True or False: I always feel sure of myself. True or False: I am usually a happy person. True or False: I am restless person. Depending on how you an-swer these questions and about 90 others, you just might be on drugs, according to an assessment the State of Mississippi is requiring of some people applying for govern-ment benefits. On Sept. 10, Mississippi Department of Human Services started randomly administering Substance Abuse Subtle Screen-ing Inventory, or SASSI, assess-ment to first-time applicants to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a federal program administered by states that provides monthly assistance for low-income families. The regulation outlines the process and highlights the concerns of opponents: “The questionnaire must be completed prior to approval of a TANF application. Refusal of the adult to submit to the ques-tionnaire will lead to denial of the TANF application. If results of the questionnaire indicate the reasonable likelihood that abuse of a controlled substance exists, the adult will be required to take a drug test.” The requirement resulted from a law

that conservative lawmakers in Mississippi have proposed for several years and, finally, succeeded in passing earlier this year. Civil-liberties groups and Democratic

budget-watchers immediately called foul on the proposal that they argued discriminates against poor and is potentially costly. After a public hearing, the Mississippi chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union helped modify for the new regulation, but Charles Irvin, the ACLU’s legal director, says several organizations still have concerns. Calling the screening requirement a “disgusting framework” that targets the poor, Irvin said the ACLU wanted to eliminate SASSI, developed by the Indiana-based SASSI Institute, as the testing instrument. Irvin said SASSI tests are typically ad-

ministered in clinical settings to people who voluntarily seek drug treatment; giving the test to TANF applicants could skew the re-sults, he said.

Irvin added that the ACLU remains unclear on who would pay for the required drug treatment in the event a TANF re-cipient tests positive. In the Jackson metro, a drug-treatment program can cost up to $16,000 per person. “With a figure that large, we need to know how that’s going to affect people who are already receiving benefits,” Irvin said. DHS also revised its rules to specify that children would not lose coverage by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families if a parent fails a drug test. Under the up-dated rules, the benefits can be transferred

to so-called “protective payee,” or third-party stand-in for the parent. Around 4,300 adults and 12,900 children in Mississippi received TANF

benefits in May, and each family received $67.94 for an individual on average and $139.65 for a family, although the family size was not specified. Drug testing of TANF re-cipients has gained momentum the past couple years, such as in statehouses in Florida, Utah and Georgia. During Florida’s rollout, questions arose about Gov. Rick Scott’s relationship to a chain of urgent-care centers he co-founded that offered drug testing services. So far, DHS has not submit-ted a request for bids for a third-party administrator for either screening or testing of TANF recipients. Under the rules, DHS case managers will administer the

SASSI assessment. In another states, Utah, officials won-dered about the economic sense of that state’s drug-testing program for welfare recipients. There, a state agency found that the state spent $30,000 the first year and found 12 people who tested positive for drug use. “The amount of energy and fund-ing you’re putting into this relatively small pool, is it worth it to the state?” the AC-LU’s Irvin asked. “It doesn’t seem like a wise decision to me.” Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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10 Years Ago: Debating the Convention Center

In the JFP’s early years, the now-built convention center was but a mere plan with much controversy surrounding it. Publisher Todd Stauffer wrote much about the pros and cons of convention center—and the prescient problem of the need for a convention-center hotel, as well as the concern for who would pay for it. Here is an excerpt from his Sept. 22, 2004, piece about it, available at jfp.ms/convention14.

C onvention business in the U.S. is indeed tough, most convention cen-ters lose money, and the economic benefi t of a convention center can vary dramatically. In the case of Knoxville and Shreveport, their solutions to disappoint-

ing convention business have been more investment—each city is now working on a city-subsidized convention hotel. The “host hotel” issue is brought up again and again—few convention centers thrive without a host hotel connected (or at least contiguous) to the center; the Capital City Convention Center has no funding for a host hotel, although there’s a plot where one could go in the plans. Given current trends, it’s unlikely that a hotel company would build one in Jackson without considerable subsidies.

And that host hotel could be a big issue—with only 508 rooms within walking distance of the convention center, conferences with thousands of at-tendees would need to stay at High Street and Interstate-55, where another 1,200 rooms await. It could be a nice problem to have, but it might also encour-age event planners to choose more accommodating cities.

Support for the Capital City Convention Center plan appears to be strong—this week the Capital City Convention Center campaign will an-nounce a list of supporters, including over 100 restaurants in Jackson, compa-nies such as BellSouth and Marriott, and religious organizations. On Thursday, Sept. 23, Jeff Good and Dan Blumenthal, co-owners of BRAVO! and Broad Street Baking Company, are holding their own press conference at Banner Hall to pledge support for the convention center.

The opponents have strong support as well with much funding reportedly coming from outside the city. Cashion said: “MHRA provided the ‘seed’ money to start up and create the structure. We have received several corporate contribu-tions and numerous individual contributions from restaurateurs and hoteliers.” He declined to detail the specifi c funders.

From here, it’s a footrace, with supports looking for 60 percent of Jackson voters to believe that there’s a pent-up demand for convention space—while de-tractors try to encourage voters to dump this proposal and second guess whether Jackson needs a convention center at all. —Todd Stauffer, Sept. 22, 2014

Yarber Needs New Attitude with Council

I n the last two mayoral administrations, Jack-son City Council members have griped about not receiving adequate or timely information from the administration. We have found

merit in those complaints. Failure to get information ahead of time to the council, which holds the purse strings for the city, results in council members’ inability to make informed fi nancial decisions. In fact, we heard that very complaint from former Ward 6 Councilman and candidate Tony Yarber earlier this year when he was seeking the mayor’s job. He promised to us and to voters that, if elected, he would reverse that trend and provide the city council with ample time to review impor-tant information. Based on his administration’s actions in his fi rst budget presentation, Yarber has apparently forgotten those promises. This week, council members said the fact that they did not get copies of the massive budget book far in enough advance hamstringed them on setting the millage rate, which factors into what the city charges for property taxes for the year. By law, the city cannot change the millage rate after it has been set. Equally as concerning is the 11th-hour addi-tions to the budget emailed to the council on the same day the body, under state law, was required to submit a budget for the next fi scal year, which commences Oct. 1. Of course, budget proposals are like phone books in that they are often out-dated the moment they are printed. Government

budgets are moving targets with lots of pieces and sometimes require adjustment, depending on economic conditions. The Yarber administration’s addendum, to-taling about $2 million in increases, did not result from a natural disaster that stuck Jackson in re-cent weeks or the stock market plummeting and, therefore, its timing seems diffi cult to justify. In addition to asking to double the amount he wants to spend on lobbyists in Jackson and Washington, D.C., the mayor waited until the last minute to express his opposition to a $120,000 minimum-wage pay increase the city council approved nearly unanimously earlier this month, even as he is asking for $500,000 in pay increases for three city departments in the same budget. Government transparency notwithstand-ing, the political wisdom of spending heftily on a major Republican lobbyist while stiffi ng the city’s bottom-most earners —some of the very “every-day people” Yarber said he was campaigning on behalf of this spring—is at best questionable. Yarber himself seemed to have an “it’s easier to say you’re sorry than ask for permission” atti-tude with the council, expressing regrets for not giving the council the information sooner. Such a mindset is likely to grind the city to a halt when, after a tumultuous year that in-cluded the death of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and young, energetic additions to the council, we should be clicking on all cylinders. We hope Yarber rights the ship soon.

Email letters and opinion to letters@jacksonfreepress.com, fax to 601-510-9019 or mail to 125 South Congress St., Suite 1324, Jackson, Mississippi 39201. Include daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length and clarity, as well as factchecked.

Why It Stinks: Corporal punishment in parenting has entered into mainstream conversation among political pundits after the Minnesota Vikings deactivated and then reinstated running back Adrian Peterson amid child-abuse charges. But for Fischer, Peterson’s problem isn’t that he hit his child, it’s that he left a mark. The costs and benefi ts of corporal punishment are an important topic for discussion. What Fischer seems to be advocating is infl icting as much pain on children as possible as long as no one is able to tell, which could lead to emotion-al scarring. And it’s abuse. That should defi nitely be part of the conversation.

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BACK THEN

CAMERON, N.C.—This tiny town on tobacco road in central North Carolina looks much like it did back when my father grew up

here in the 1920s—a gathering of stores and homes with wrap-around porches between the railroad tracks and Plank Road, piney woods and fertile fields in the distance. Scratch the surface, however, and what you find is deep, fundamental change—the homes are nearly all antique shops now, some with smart, little cafes and coffees shops that serve espresso. The residents are artists and collectors, local and transplant, not farmers and seed merchants. A lot is changing in my home state, and the change here says much about the South today. Hard-right Re-publicans control this once Democratic haven, and their impact includes: refus-al of Medicaid to 500,000 people, slashed federal un-employment benefits and state earned-income tax credit to more than a million, deep cuts in public education funding and new tax breaks for the wealthy. A progressive populist movement has risen up, however, and challenged the con-servative junta in the state capital of Raleigh. Led by the Rev. William Barber II, president of the state NAACP, the multi-racial Moral Monday movement has been in action April 2013. Hundreds of supporters have been ar-rested for opposing the junta’s restrictions on voting and abortion rights, gerrymandering legislative districts and gutting of the safety net for the poor. The movement has spread across the South, including Mississippi, and beyond. Now, members have aligned with a wide range of progressive activists, including the “Fight for 15” fast-food workers seeking union representation and $15-per-hour wages. Movement leaders like Rev. Nelson Johnson of Greensboro, N.C., and the Rev. J. Herbert Nelson of Washington, D.C., were early supporters of the effort to bring a union to the Nissan plant in Canton. “The South has been one of the greatest purveyors of death and destruction,” Nelson said at a pro-labor rally in Memphis, Tenn., in 2006. “We come here to join in the strug-gle. People are being mistreated on their jobs, getting injured on their jobs, and being cut from their health care, individuals on tem-porary work and who’ll never have any kind of retirement income, people who work 40, 50, 60 hours a week and don’t make enough to put aside to help their children go to col-lege. That’s our congregation.” An old friend of mine in North Caro-lina, Vietnam and Afghanistan war veteran Bob Mayton, told me during a recent visit

that Mississippi may be pulling ahead of North Carolina in the wake of the Repub-lican takeover there. I told him Mississippi should never be a model, not with a gover-nor like Phil Bryant who can refuse Medic-aid to 350,000 in the nation’s poorest state. Despite mainstream media’s general avoidance of any positive news about the la-bor movement, workers are gaining ground in the nation’s least unionized region. The 712-626 vote against union representation at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., in February may have caused anti-union Gov.

Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, both Repub-licans, to pop champagne, but it also opened the door to a new kind of organizing that may prove a model for unions in the South. The United Auto Workers decid-ed to forego an appeal of the vote to the National Labor Relations Board—an appeal justified in view of Haslam and Corker’s obvious in-

terference in the campaign—and establish Local 42, a voluntary, members-only union that will fight for workers’ rights in Chatta-nooga and hopefully grow large enough to get official recognition. Last month, a federal judge ruled that the Michigan-based Kellogg Co. violated the labor rights of the 226 Memphis, Tenn., workers it locked out after a contract dispute. The 10-month lockout ended with workers returning to their jobs, and Kellogg’s multi-millionaire CEO John Bryant exposed as a paragon of greed in corporate America. In many ways, the Mississippi Free-dom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference in Jackson in June was a landmark event in all this southern activism. The conference drew activists from across the region. More importantly, the conference brought young people together to pick up the banner for social justice in the South. Some 400 students participated in a pro-union rally outside the Nissan plant at the conference’s end, waving placards, sing-ing labor and civil rights songs, and shouting their approval when the Rev. Isiac Jackson of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nis-san told them: “Union today! Union tomor-row! Union forever!” The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s began with black students’ protest at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greens-boro, N.C. Mississippi later became its most heated battleground. Is Mississippi the next stage for today’s movement of progressive ac-tivism? Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, colum-nist, and professor of journalism at the Uni-versity of Mississippi. He can be reached at jbatkins@olemiss.edu.

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Mississippi: The Next Stage for Progressivism?

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The fi rst time I met director and actor John Krasinski, I waited on him at the local restaurant where I worked. I didn’t recognize him until I handed him a menu. The realization of who this per-son was caught me suddenly, and I froze. I’m not sure how long I stood in silence before I slowly extended the menu in a ro-botic motion. He later described our fi rst encounter: “You just dropped the water and started sliding across the fl oor like a sloth. I was like, ‘Oh, that woman is injured. Somebody help her.’”

Eventually, Krasinski began asking me questions about college, my Jackson Free Press internship and what I want to do with my life, sprinkling the conversation with jokes and animated remarks. As a resident of the real world beyond television—as a husband, father and actual person—he was genuine, courteous and accessible. Krasinski was in Jackson to fi lm his upcoming movie, “The Hollars,” which con-cluded shooting last month. Though he is best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the hit NBC television series “The Offi ce,” Krasinski has been in fi lms such as “Away We Go,” “Leatherheads” and “Promised Land.” He also wrote the screenplay for his directorial debut, “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” in 2009. “The Hollars,” his second time in the director’s seat, features Hollywood faces such as Anna Kendrick, Richard Jenkins, Charlie Day, Margo Martindale, Josh Groban and Sharlto Copley. While the fi ctional location for much of the fi lm is in the Midwest, its fi lming is our own Mississippi. Before fi lming concluded, I sat down with Krasinski to talk about fame, “The Hollars” and what it’s like fi lming in Jackson.

Tell me about your upbringing. Were you always interested in performing?

I was always interested in sort of making people laugh, and I had the best up-bringing. My family is incredible. I don’t know how they put the pieces together in this perfect way to raise us so well. Now that someone hands you the puzzle and says, “Here’s all the pieces. You have to put together,” you’re like “This can’t happen.” For so long, I mean, before high school, really all I cared about was hanging out with my family and making my brothers laugh and laughing with (them). It’s almost like we had our own little aesthetic or something, and I think that, to me, is inherent in who I am as a person but also in who I am as a performer. You know, I always, in the back of my mind, remember moments in movies when I’m like, “I think my mom’s gonna like this.” And that’s true. I say it out loud all the time, and “I know that that’s going to make my brothers laugh,” and I know I’m onto something good when they like it. I remember being a young kid and staying up to watch “The Tonight Show” or “Saturday Night Live” anywhere there was a TV. Most of the time my parents didn’t know until I started coming down doing impressions from the night before, and my mom was like, “Why are you doing impressions of current events?” Then I remember in high school I was defi nitely into making people laugh, just telling jokes, not in performing. I never wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be an English teacher. I got into Brown University, and there was a small part of me that thought I would play basketball. Then I got there and opened the gym door and saw literally fi ve seconds of these guys, and I was like, “Too big. Too good. I’m out!” I walked across campus and pulled down a fl yer for a sketch comedy group, and because I’d liked “Saturday Night Live” so much … that became not only one of the main activities I did at Brown, but the gateway to this entire world that I had never experienced. All of the sudden this decision to go into this world of having fun and acting with my friends turned into ... a deluge of independent movies, independent music, this whole new world that I hadn’t experienced and that I very quickly realized was the world I was always meant to be in. That is when I sort of felt—it sounds so stereotypical—but my weird creative awakening, and all the stuff that was new was making sense.

As you gained fame, was the realization sudden, and how did it feel? It was so sudden. It was literally overnight. I was waiting tables, had no money, could barely afford an apartment, had shut off my cell phone for a time, because I couldn’t afford that … but they were the most fun days ever. Then I got “The Of-fi ce.”… We shot the pilot, and then we got picked up for, I think, six episodes. It was a slow drip process. NBC had no idea what to do with the show at fi rst. I’ll never forget the day, for me, that it changed. B.J. Novak—we went to high school together—we shot his episode that he wrote called “Diversity Day,” which was the racial training. When we shot that I, again, said, “I know my brothers are going to like this. I know my mom is going to like this. I know I like this.” It felt electric and a little dangerous.

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Still, at that point we were being told by NBC that we wouldn’t be picked up, and probably the show wouldn’t come back for a second season. ... The moment that I re-alized (fame) happened was we were in the second season. My friend Danny and I went to the same diner everyday. (One day) we were just having breakfast like we always do, and then the next day we went in, and we walked through the door, went to our same table, and (in) the 25 feet to get from the front door to the table we always sat at, there (were) murmurings and whisperings and pointing and people being like, “That’s the guy. That’s the guy.” The night before, the episode “Sexual Harassment,” which was B.J. Novak’s episode, had just aired. The day be-fore, no one knew anything. Also our show, right at that time, was at the exact moment that iTunes started releasing televi-sion shows on iTunes. I was walking through New York (City) a few weeks lat-er, and some guy was walking with earphones, and I thought (he) was talking on the phone, and then he turned to me, and he was like, “Oh, hey!” I thought I should know him, and he was like “You’re on my iPod!”...There was that moment where I was looking at a stranger’s iPod, and my face was on it, and I was like, “This is different.” One thing that I will say about “The Office” is that because of iTunes and because of what was happening, and because we were an underdog and really shouldn’t have made it, we can lay claim to the truth that we don’t actually exist without our fans. Our fans saved the show.

Tell me more about “The Office.” It was more than a job. It was a complete life change, and it gave me every opportunity I’ve ever wanted. You’re watching a family of people. I mean, you are literally watch-ing a family of people, and I think that’s the reason why so many people like the show, because you really had to fall in love with all of us. I think the family aspect is what I miss most about the show. The best thing that could have hap-pened to “The Office” was that none of us had really done anything. None of us were really known for anything. I cer-tainly wasn’t, unless you frequented the restaurant I was at. We bonded like a theater company does, knowing that our theater company is going under, and then all of the sudden someone said, “Not only is it not going under, it is one of the most popular shows on television.” I connected to Jim in so many ways. I think he’s a nor-mal guy who is nervous about the choices he made in life and whether or not it’s too late to make different choices. I think that’s pretty much everybody at some point in their life, and so I think that you can see yourself in him, and you can see yourself in a lot of these characters. I think that was one of the fun things about all of us was that we were playing real characters, and that we had gotten it down so well, and it was a well-oiled machine. We had so much fun with it that by the time we were known, we were just doing the same thing, Whereas, I think if we had gotten super well-known and super well-loved early, I do think it would have changed the trajectory of the show. The thing about being recognized for Jim, it really is nice. It’s an honor to do that. One of the greatest things that ever happened to me was a girl came up to me at an airport. She followed me and gave me this note: “I just wanna give you this note. Don’t read it now, but, you know, I just wanted to say ‘Hi.’” I opened up the note in the car, and it said, “My dad was dying of cancer, and for the three years that I was by his bedside, all we did was watch ‘The Office,’ and it was the only thing that made him laugh.” I just burst into tears. That’s when you start thinking that this whole entertainment thing,

you know, not at all taking credit for it, but this entertain-ment thing, to be able to share experiences with people that you weren’t even in the room with, is just such an honor.

Why do a movie like “The Hollars”? “The Hollars” came to me, actually, as a script just to act in, about four and half, five years ago, and it was one of the best scripts I had ever read. Period. The reason why it was so good was because it was extremely genuine. This is one of the most quintessential movies about family that I’ve seen in a long time, because it’s honest. It’s not pushing the … family into one realm or another. Whether you have a great relationship with your fam-ily or you don’t have that great of a relationship, you’ll find yourself in this movie. I connected to it so much, and then weirdly, right when I got the rights, my wife (Emily Blunt) was three months pregnant, so all of the sudden this guy who was nervous about his life and whether he was doing all the things he wanted to do and being the guy he wanted to be kicked into high gear for me, and I started reading the words much differently. ... That’s when I decided to direct it. Anna Kendrick’s character is pregnant with our child in the movie, and I was like “I know how to play this,” because I just went through it. Bringing it full circle, it holds your life to a mirror in a way that you’ve never had (it) held up to you before, and that’s basically what the movie is about for my character. Right at the moment when he’s sort of in this tran-sitional phase of not knowing if he’s everything he wanted to be, his mom gets sick, and he goes home to take care of her in what he thinks is sort of a routine situation. … The situation turns out to be not so routine. The greatest part about this movie is in its writing by this guy named Jim Strouse, who is incredible. He wrote a script that does these hairpin turns between … these beauti-fully real moments, and then (he) turns it on its head into these hysterically funny moments that are also still real. I felt like I had to do it. The last phase of it was like, “I need to as-semble a team who will protect me and take care of me.” You find out how good the script you have is when you start get-ting responses from actors. When you get people like Margo Martindale and Richard Jenkins who are, in my estimation, two of the great actors we have. Then you get people like

Anna Kendrick, Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sharlto Copley … it’s surreal. The thing just starts coming together on its own.

What drew you to Mississippi and Jackson?

Well, I never planned on shooting in Jackson. Then, we got these producing partners and financiers, and Sycamore Pictures, Tom Rice and Ben Nearn. They brought up the idea of Mississippi. The way I am in life, but especially cre-atively in any endeavor, is I always want to do what’s honest and best for the project. So I came down here. It was a different take on the movie than I had thought. In the first sort of driving around, I was trying to search—not to sound super heady—but I was searching for my movie. I was searching to see, “Do I see the movie here?” There were places I saw it, and there were places that I didn’t, and then at the end of the driving around (Tom Rice) said, “Oh there’s this one last place I want to take you to. It’s called Fondren,” and he drove me through it, and I was just like, “Done.”

Describe your experience filming in Jackson. (Shooting in Jackson has) been phenomenal. I love go-ing to different places, so getting to experience this state and also these people, you know, we’re all different wherever you come from, and being down here has been really, really spe-cial. They all say, “Thank you for shooting here,” which I think is so nice that there is an awareness that we could have gone somewhere else, but we chose here, which does not hap-pen when you go anywhere else. The other thing that does not happen is like, “Are you enjoying Mississippi?” and you go, “Yes!” And then they go, “Come over to our house on Friday.” It’s, again, totally genu-ine, and people being like, “I will cook for you.” To me that’s such an open-armed, warm environment that you don’t get to experience very often. To have people still so positive and so loving and so open hearted is hugely inspiring to me. It’s going to be really sad to leave. We had a lot of fun. You sort of embed yourself in a place and feel like you’re a part of (it), and then, all of the sudden, that place gets taken away from you. Mississippi is in our movie. We never say it’s Mis-sissippi, but what Mississippi is, as in who the people are, and there is an inherent thing that will come out on screen, that if you shot somewhere else wouldn’t be the same, so that’s a huge testament to the people we’ve met, the places we’ve shot and how open people are. I actually think that people down here would be open to anything. They’re that nice. It’s like “We’re gonna have Jetsons’ cars flying overhead all the time,” and they’re like, “That would be cool. You seem like nice people. You should have Jetsons’ cars flying overhead all the time.” Jetsons’ cars will start here.

Any parting words to Mississippi and Jackson? This is such an amazing place to shoot. More people should come down here. It’s refreshing, I think, to not shoot in a place (that) has had 84 movies shoot there, and they’re over it. They’re eye-rolly about the whole thing. As far as Jack-son goes, I’ve hung out down south every now and again. It is a lifestyle and a group of people that you very much admire what they have. You guys have a very, very special thing that in more cosmopolitan places, we’ve lost. You get down here and you realize what a tight-knit community is and that ev-erybody actually does know each other. You feel it everywhere you go. That’s so rare to have people have your back like this. This Mississippi community, you have something very, very special. I think the rest of the country could take a huge page out of your book. This interview has been edited for clarity and space.

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John Krasinski gets out of a taxi while shooting a scene for “The Hollars.”

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As part of her practice for individuals, for instance, Hancock offers mediation services to enable certain disputes to be resolved more quickly and often less expensively than winding through the courts. For business cli-ents, Hancock Law Firm likes to start by help-ing with their business formation paperwork and “startup” legal counsel to make sure that people with good ideas and strong entrepre-neurial drive don’t get tripped up by the legal system.

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To celebrate 13 years of support from the community, the Hancock law firm is offering $250 off every estate plan (will or trust pack-age) through the end of September.

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$5 Cover • Ages 18+ Live Music • Southern Fried Karaoke • Rooster Sports Pub

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Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.)• Museum After Hours Pop-Up Exhibition

Sept. 18, 5 p.m. Enjoy a cash bar and a pop-up exhibition featuring Figment Jackson artists. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Members and Sponsors Preview Party Sept. 26, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The exclusive event is for the upcoming opening of the Robert Henri exhibitions. Includes Spanish-themed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Included with museum membership or exhibit sponsorship; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Opening Day for Robert Henri Exhibitions Sept. 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Options include Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain, and Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face. Shows hang through Jan. 4. $12, $10 seniors, $6 students (includes admission to the Mississippi Invitational), ages 0-5 and museum members free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Museum After Hours Pop-Up Exhi-bition Oct. 9, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Enjoy a cash bar and a pop-up exhibi-tion featuring works from A Plus Signs and Creative. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Members Opening Reception for the 2014 Mississippi Invitational Oct. 31, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The recep-tion is for museum members and participating artists. Show hangs Nov. 1-Jan. 25. Included with museum membership; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Opening Day of the 2014 Mississippi Invi-tational Nov. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The exhibition is partially funded with a grant through the Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Division. Show hangs through Jan. 25. $12, $10 seniors, $6 students (includes admission to Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain), ages 0-5 and museum members free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Mississippi Invitational "Conversations with..." Panel Discussion Nov. 2, 2 p.m. In Trustmark Grand Hall. Speakers include guest curator Carla Hanzal, Jane Hiatt and the recipi-ent of the 2014 Hiatt Artist Fellowship. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Museum After Hours Pop-Up Exhibition Nov. 20, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Enjoy a cash bar and a pop-up exhibition featuring works from

Julia Reyes and other artists in collaboration with Mississippi Modern magazine. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

September Opening Reception Sept. 19, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St., fourth floor). The gallery presents works from Billie Bourgeois and Liefje Hogg Smith. Free; call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

Opening Reception for From San Miguel de Allende to New York City Sept. 20, 4 p.m.-8 p.m., at Cassidy Bayou Gallery (103 S. Court St., Sumner). The exhibit includes gallery founder Desaix Anderson’s work, created and exhibited in 2013 in La Aurora Gallery in San Miguel last November and en route to New York City for a 2015 exhibition. Show hangs through Oct. 19. Free; call 212-473-9472; cassidybayou.org.

Millsaps Faculty Exhibition Sept. 22, at Lewis Art Gallery (Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex, 1701 N. State St.). Includes Sandra Murchison’s Traversing the Blues Trail and Kristen Tordella-Williams’ Excavations. Hangs through Oct. 28. Free; call 601-497-7454; email johnsda1@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Events at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.)• Artist Talk Sept. 25, 2 p.m. In the Dollye M.E.

Robinson Building, room 166/266. Erin Wiers-

ma discusses her artwork in her exhibit, Traced Time, that hangs in the Johnson Hall Gallery through Dec. 5. Free; call 601-979-0879; email laneysa.v.harris@jsums.edu.

• Opening Reception for Traced Time Exhibit Sept. 25, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. See works from Erin Wiersma in Johnson Hall Gallery. Show hangs through Dec. 5. Free; call 601-979-0879; email laneysa.v.harris@jsums.edu.

Camera + Kiln Exhibit Opening Recep-tion Sept. 25, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., at Missis-sippi Library Commission (Education and Research Center, 3881 Eastwood Drive). See works from photographer Suzi Altman and glass/multimedia artist Candy Spur-zem. Show hangs through Oct. 30. Free; call 601-432-4056.

Zoom into Nano Traveling Exhibition Opening Sept. 26, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). Children learn about nanotechnology through activities such as building a giant carbon nanotube, stretching a molecule or looking inside a butterfly wing. Open through Jan. 4. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Events at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.).• The Mummy Returns Exhibit Open-ing Oct. 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at The famous mummy returns again for display through Oct. 31. Free; call 601-576-6920; oldcapi-

tolmuseum.com.• Present Meets Past Oct. 30, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. In

the living history program, come face-to-face with key figures who shaped the history of the Old Capitol and the state of Mississippi. Free; call 601-576-6920; oldcapitolmuseum.com.

Premier Art Show and Open House Oct. 2, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., at Gallery 119 (119 S. President St.). Art consultant Paula Jackson is the host. Featured artists include Lisa Paris, Sarah McTaggart, But-tons Marchetti and Opal Smith. Also see table designs from Marion Bowen of Eventful. Free; call 601-949-3103, ext. 21.

Millsaps Faculty Exhibition Gallery Talk Oct. 24, 3:30 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In AC335. Sandra Murchison and Kristen Tordella-Williams are the speakers. A reception follows in Lewis Art Gallery. Free; call 601-497-7454; email johnsda1@mill-saps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Events at Southside Gallery (150 Courthouse Square, Oxford)• Artist Reception Oct. 2, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

See works from Blair Hobbs. Show hangs through Oct. 25. Free; call 662-234-9090; email southside@southsideartgallery.com; southsideartgallery.com.

• Artists Reception Oct. 30, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. See works from Norma Bourdeaux and Laurin McCracken. Show hangs through Nov. 22. Free; call 662-234-9090; email southside@southside-artgallery.com; southsideartgallery.com.

Photamerica Film Premiere and Heartalot Kickoff Party Oct. 3, 5 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.) and Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The event for Josh Hailey’s Photamerica project includes exhibits and documentary screenings at both locations, and a dance party with food in the Art Garden. Per-formers include Paperclip Scientists, Vibe Doctors, DJ Scrap Dirty, and Hot and Lonely. Free with cash bar, donations welcome; call 601-214-2068; email info@photamerica.com.

October Opening Reception Oct. 16, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St., fourth floor). See works from Charles Carraway and Caroline Vaughn Good-man. Free; call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

Opening Reception for Guest Artist Exhibi-tion: Photography By Jeremiah Ariaz Oct. 18, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). In the Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center Gallery. Explores tension between nature and Manifest Destiny. Show hangs through Nov. 28. Free; call 601-974-6478; belhaven.edu.

Wolfe Studio Artists Show Oct. 23, 3 p.m.-6 p.m., at Wolfe Studio (4308 Old Canton Road). See works from local artisans. Show hangs through Nov. 8. Free; call 601-366-1844; wolfebirds.com.

B+ Exhibit Nov. 5, at Lewis Art Gallery (Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex, 1701 N. State St.). See sculptures from Stephen Coles. Show hangs through Dec. 17. Free; call 601-497-7454; email johnsda1@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

November Opening Reception Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St., fourth floor). See works from Cathy Hegman and Stacey Johnson. Free; call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

B+ Exhibit Gallery Talk Nov. 14, 2 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In AC215. Stephen Coles is the speaker. Free; call 601-497-7454.

Exhibit Openings

Wolfe Studios hosts its Artists Show Oct. 23 to Nov. 8, emphasizing some of the best local talents.

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• Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St., Suite 102). Call 601-960-1500; arts.state.ms.us.

• B. Liles Studios (215 W. Jackson St., Ridgeland). Call 601-607-7741; bfineartjewelry.com.

• Blaylock Fine Art Photography Studio & Gallery (3017 N. State St.). Call 601-506-6624; blaylockphoto.com.

• Bottletree Studios (809 Adkins Blvd.). Call 601-260-9423.

• Brown’s Fine Art & Framing (630 Fondren Pl.) Call 601-982-4844; brownsfineart.com.

• The Cedars (4145 Old Canton Road). Call 601-981-9606; fondren.org/cedars.

• The Commons at Eudora Welty’s Birth-place (719 N. Congress St.) Call 601-352-3399; weltycommons.com.

• Dallye M.E. Robinson Liberal Arts Gal-lery (1400 John R. Lynch St.). Call 601-979-2191.

• Daniel MacGregor Studios (509 Pelahatchie Shore Drive, Brandon). Call 601-992-6405; danielmacgregorstudios.com.

• Fischer Galleries (3100 N. State St., Suite 101). Call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

• Fondren Art Gallery (601 Duling Ave.). Call 601-981-9222; fondrenartgallery.com.

• Gaddis Group Studio (2900 N. State St.). Call 601-368-9522.

• The Gallery (3332 N. Liberty St., Canton). Call 601-859-0797.

• Gallery 1 (1100 John R. Lynch St., Suite 4). Call 601-960-9250; jsums.edu/gallery1arts.

• Gallery 119 (119 S. President St.). Call 601-969-4091; 119gallery.com.

• Heavenly Designs by Roz (3252 N. State St.). Call 601-954-2147

• Lewis Art Gallery and The Emerging Space at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Third floor of the Academic Complex. Call 601-974-1762; millsaps.edu.

• Light and Glass Studio (523 Commerce St.). Call 601-942-7285.

• Millet Studio & Gallery (167 Moore St., Suite F, Ridgeland). Call 601-856-5901; markmillet.com.

• Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Call 601-856-7546; mscraft.org.

• Municipal Art Gallery (839 N. State St.). Call 601-960-1582.

• North Midtown Arts Center (121 Millsaps Ave.) Visit midtownjackson.com; nmacjxn.com.

• Nunoerin (533 S. Commerce St.). Call 601-944-0023; nunoerin.com.

• Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). Call 601-376-9404; offbeatjxn.com.

• One Blu Wall Gallery (2906 N. State St.). Call 601-713-1224.

• Richard McKey Studio (3242 N. State St.). Call 601-981-9222; richardmckey.com.

• Samuel Marshall Gore Galleries (199 Monroe St., Clinton). Call 601-925-3880; art.mc.edu

• Sanaa Gallery & Boutique (5846 Ridgewood Road). Call 769-218-8289; sanaagalleries.com.

• Southern Breeze Gallery (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 5005, Ridgeland). Call 601-607-4147; southernbreeze.net.

• Wolfe Fine Art Studios (4308 Old Canton Road). Call 601-366-1844; wolfebirds.com.

• Wyatt Waters Gallery (307 Jefferson St., Clinton). Call 601-925-8115; wyattleewaters@gmail.com.

Artists and galleries! Please send information and dates for new exhibits and gallery openings to events@jacksonfreepress.com.

Galleries

Fondren Art Gallery offers both custom frames and prints from some of its most esteemed artists, such as Darryl Anderson, Kelli Berry and Randy Everett.

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ON VIEW THIS MONTH!SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 – JANUARY 4, 2015

Robert Henri (1865-1929), Portrait of El Matador Felix Asiego, 1906. oil on canvas, Robert

Henri Estate, LeClair Family Collection. (Detail)

Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain

is organized by Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia. 

This exhibition is made possible through the generous 

support of the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz 

Foundation for the Arts, Terra Foundation for American 

Art, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Robert 

Henri and Spain, Face to Face. An Exhibition about 

Connoisseurship, Conservation, and Context is organized by 

the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi. 

Local presentation of these exhibitions is made possible 

through the generous support of the Robert M. Hearin 

Support Foundation. The Mississippi Museum of Art 

and its programs are sponsored in  part by the city of 

Jackson. Support is also provided by:

Go to WitchCrafted 2014 on Facebook for details or visit www.craftsmensguildofms.org.

Presented by The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi

A Wickedly Creative Week of Activities

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.)•An Evening with Dale Watson and the Lone

Stars Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; dulinghall.com.

•Carbon Leaf Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m. The band plays a blend of bluegrass, Celtic, folk, Americana, pop and rock music. Caroline Glaser also per-forms. $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 sur-charge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

•Joshua James Sept. 26, 9 p.m. Singer-song-writer Joshua James performs with Neulore and Armon Jay. Seated, all-ages show. Adults must accompany children. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

•Greensky Bluegrass Sept. 30, 8 p.m. The quin-tet from Kalamazoo, Mich., performs. All-ages show. Adults must accompany children. $15 in advance, $18 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

•Jamestown Revival with the Black Cadil-lacs Oct. 8, 8 p.m. Jamestown Revival and the Black Cadillacs, a blues-based indie rock band, perform. Seated, all-ages show. Adults must accompany children. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

•Andre Delano Oct. 10, 8 p.m. The saxophonist and Jackson State University alumnus performs. $25, $50 VIP; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

•Lettuce Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. The seven-member funk band from Brooklyn, N.Y. performs with Late Night Radio. For ages 18 and up. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; dulinghall.com.

•Chris Robinson Brotherhood Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. Chris Robinson, former lead singer for the Black Crowes, leads the rock band. For ages 18 and up. Standing room only. $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

•MarchFourth Marching Band Oct. 29, 9 p.m. The twenty-piece jazz/funk band with stilt walkers has origins in Portland, Ore. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; dulinghall.com.

Symphony at Sunset Sept. 18, 7 p.m., at The Cedars Historic Home (4145 Old Canton Road). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs. Free, tables: $500 friends’ table, $1,500 corporate; call 601-981-9606 (general) or 601-291-2323 (table reservations); fondren.org.

FlashBang Sept. 19, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., at Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St.). The EDM, hip-hop and trap dance party features perform-

ers such as Malignate and GLOtron. For ages 21 and up. $5 in advance, $8 at the door; call 601-826-4431 (text); email swankyfoxproductions@gmail.com; find FLASHBANG on Facebook.

BankPlus International Gumbo Festival Sept. 20, 11 a.m., at Smith Park (302 E. Amite St.). The BankPlus Gumbo Festival returns to Jackson. It features a gumbo cook-off and live music. Tickets are $10 for those over the age of 12; jacksongumbo.com.

Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Fes-tival Sept. 20, noon, at Washington County Convention Center (1040 S. Raceway Road, Greenville). Performers include Bobby Rush and Grady Champion. Gates open at 10 a.m. Small

coolers only. $25 through Aug. 31, $30 after, $5 children under 12, $100 all-access/backstage pass; call 662-332-0488; deltablues.org.

Roadkill Ghost Choir Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The rock band from central Florida performs. $10 in advance, $12 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email jane@halandmals.com; ardenland.net.

Chamber I: Beethoven & Brahms Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Com-plex (1701 N. State St.). The Mississippi Sym-phony Orchestra presents celebrated works from classical masters Beethoven and Brahms. $16; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

For King & Country in Concert Oct. 2, 6 p.m., at Christ United Methodist Church (6000 Old Canton Road). Dara Maclean also performs. $10; call 800-965-9324; christunitedjxn.org.

Bon Voyage: A Farewell Tribute to Akami Gra-ham Oct. 3, 9 p.m., at Jackson Marriott (200 E. Amite St.). Dexter Allen, Karen Brown, Larry Johnson perform with singer Akami Graham. Doors open at 8 p.m. $25; call 601-914-9666; tlsmanagement.eventbrite.com.

Faith and Family Night Oct. 4, 7 p.m. Perform-ers include Christian acts MercyMe, Building 429, and Love and the Outcome. $13-$47; call 800-745-3000; awakeningevents.com.

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Woodland, Mississippi is seeking eighteen temporary farm workers and laborers for potato

crops; two days of training will be provided.

Hours are Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at $9.87 an hour, beginning September 25, 2014 and ending November

25, 2014. Employer will provided housing, cooking facilities and transportation to stores to purchase groceries for workers located in

areas where it will not be feasible to return to at the end of the working day. After workers have completed 50% of the work contract period, employer will reimburse worker for the cost of transportation and subsistence from which the worker came to work for the employer to the place of employment. The type of work contemplated will be performed in all weather conditions including extreme heat,

will include labor performed by hand, extensive walking, bending, stooping, and lifting crates of potatoes, repair of potato crates, and

use of hand tools such as shovels and hoes will be required. Removing debris and weeds from fi eld together with other fi eld preparation such

as digging water furrows with hand tools, will be part of everyday routine. Required tools will be provided by employer at no cost to

worker. Interested workers may contact Scott Ellison at 662-542-7095or by mail at: Ellison Farms, LLC, 279 CR 68, Woodland, MS 39776,

in order to schedule an interview, or your nearest State Workforce Agency. The Houston WIN Job Center, 210 South Monroe Street, Houston, MS 38851. The job order number for this job is 104365.If selected, you will be guaranteed three fourths of the work hours between the start date and the end date of the job as listed above.

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Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.)•Music in the City Oct. 7, 5:15 p.m. In Trust-

mark Grand Hall. Music from Shawn Leopard and John Paul at 5:45 p.m. Free, donations wel-come; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

•Town Creek Arts Festival Nov. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Enjoy art, crafts, food and music in the Art Garden. Details pending. Free admission, food and art for sale; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Mac Powell Oct. 9, 8 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email jane@halandmals.com; dulinghall.com.

Jackson House Music Reunion’s Dancing for a Cause Oct. 10, noon-8 p.m., at Smith Park (302 E. Amite St.). The Blast Downtown is the hosts this breast cancer awareness event. Performers include DJ Scrap Dirty, Gene Hunt and more. Free, donations welcome; call 917-512-1379; email helpusnowjxn@gmail.com..

Brantley Gilbert Oct. 11, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). Aaron Lewis, Chase Bryant and Brian Davis also perform. Includes free admission to the Mississippi State Fair. $26.8-$32; call 800-745-3000.

Paint the ‘Burg Purple and Gold Music Festival Oct. 17, 3 p.m., at downtown Vicksburg. On the 1000 block of Washington Street. Includes local music, concessions, vendors and more. $15-$40;

call 601-214-6922; email purpleandgoldmu-sicfest@gmail.com; purpleandgoldmusicfest.com.

Events at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive)• Concert XIII Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m. In the concert

hall. Enjoy an interactive showcase of new works from Belhaven student composers. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

•Belhaven University Symphony Orchestra Concert Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m. In the concert hall. The orchestra presents Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

•Instrumental Arts Concert Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m. In the concert hall. Ensembles of several genres play contemporary jazz, blues and gospel music. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

The Mississippi Chorus Concert Nov. 2, 4 p.m., at St. Columb’s Episcopal Church (550 Sunny-brook Road, Ridgeland). The Chamber Singers present Daniel Forrest’s “Requiem for the Living.” Other performers include Anacrusis, Power APAC and the St. Columb’s Parish Choir. Admission TBA; call 601-278-3351; mschorus.org.

Willie Nelson Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The legendary country singer-songwriter is known for the song “On the Road Again.” Leon Russell also performs. $35-$85; call 800-745-3000.

G eorgia hip-hop artist Tauheed “2 Chainz” Epps visits Jackson at the peak of his popularity. The rapper made tremendous leaps

in the last year, with the success of original tracks such as his Pharrell Williams collaboration, “Feds Watching,” and “Netflix,” which features former Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie. He also has a number of guest spots on major hit tracks such as Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty” in late 2013 and the remix of “Turn Down for What” by DJ Snake and Lil Jon in 2014. Having released new music in three con-secutive years—2011’s mixtape “T.R.U. REALigion,” 2012’s “Based on a T.R.U. Story” and 2013’s “B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time”—it’s likely that the acronym-obsessed rapper will perform songs from his unannounced, yet inevitable, next album as his tour sweeps through the Southeast. Louisiana comedian Robert Powell

III joins 2 Chainz onstage, opening the night with his flippantly mordant hu-mor. Best known for his appearances on the “Shaq’s All-Star Comedy Jam,” Pow-ell’s profanity-filled storytelling makes a

perfect counterpart to 2Chainz’s equally irreverent rhymes. 2 Chainz and Powell perform at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St., 601-969-0114) Friday, Oct. 10. Tickets range from $35 to $70 and are available through Ticketmaster. For more information, visit 2chainz.com/tour.

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37th Annual Mississippi DeltaBlues & Heritage Festival

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2014Washington County Convention Center Fairgrounds1040 Raceway Road • Greenville, Mississippi

Main Stage & JukeHouse Artists

KeKe Wyatt • Syleena Johnson • Sweet AngelBobby Rush • Willie Clayton

Grady Champion • Lucky PetersonDwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers

Leo “Bud” Welch, Jr. • Liz Davis

Gates Open @ 10:00 AM, Festival Starts at NoonAdvance Tickets (Until 8/31) ................ $25General Admission.............................. $30Children Under 12.................................. $5All Access/Backstage Passes............ $100

Purchase Tickets Online at:www.ticketweb.com

For Additional Informationwww.deltablues.org

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Education (MACE) and MACE Affiliate Organizations and

Next to Smith-Wills Stadium

LIVE MUSIC ON TWO STAGES

5K RUN/WALK/1 MILE FUN RUN - 8 A.M.CHILDREN’S FAIR / SILENT AUCTION / COFFEEHOUSE

FREE ADMISSION

Vasti Jackson / Latinismo! / Young Valley / Bill & TemperanceChris Gill & Friends / Scott Albert Johnson & Chalmers Davis / D’Lo TrioNew Bourbon Street Jazz Band / Swing de Paris / Accoustic Crossroads

James Martin & Friends / Leaf River Blues with Nathan Bankston

“Mrs. Mannerly” Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 21, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is about a 10-year-old’s attempt to earn a perfect score on his final exam for his etiquette class. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

“South Pacific” Sept. 18, 7 p.m., Sept. 19, 7 p.m., Sept. 20, 7 p.m., Sept. 21, 2 p.m., Sept. 25, 7 p.m., Sept. 26, 7 p.m., Sept. 27, 7 p.m., Sept. 28, 2 p.m., at Mississippi College (200 S. Capitol St., Clinton). In the Jean Pittman Williams Recital Hall. $20, $10 children and students with ID; call 601-925-3440; mc.edu/marketplace.

Outdoor Movie Night: “Fountainhead” Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Art Garden. The Mississippi Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is the host. Refreshments served. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Free; call 960-1515; aiamississippi.org.

“Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Jr.” Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 21, 2 p.m., Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 28, 2 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). $15, $10 students, military and seniors (cash or check); call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.

L.A.V. Live with Friday Night Laughter Sept. 19, 8 p.m., at Kingfish Grill (4107 Northview Drive). Enjoy R&B music from L.A.V. as well as stand-up comedy from Chris Lil’ One, J.B., Nut, Who Dat Redd, Rita B., Silk Breezy, Jimmy Quinn and JoJo. BYOB. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 769-524-7812.

Kevin Mills: Elvis at His Best Sept. 20, 7 p.m., at Regency Hotel and Conference Center (420 Greymont Ave.). Doors open at 6 p.m. $20, $30 VIP; call 601-940-4247; find MJ’s Elvis Rockin Oldies on Facebook.

“Rumors” Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 28, 2 p.m., at Actor’s Playhouse (121 Paul Truitt Lane, Pearl). The Neil Simon play is about an upscale dinner party gone awry. $20, $15 students, military and seniors; call 601-664-0930; actorsplayhouse.net.

“Like Fine Wine” Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Sept. 28, 3 p.m.-6 p.m., Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). In McCoy Auditorium. MADDRAMA presents the play about a cab driver who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. $10, $5 students with ID; call 979-2121.

Events at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive)

• "The God Committee" Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 4, 2 p.m., Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m. In Blackbox Theatre. Doors open 30 minutes before the show. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students and employees; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu.

Events at Tinseltown (411 Riverwind Drive, Pearl)

• "From Here to Eternity" Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 5, 12:55 p.m., Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. See the simulcast of Tim Rice’s adaptation of the classic World War II story. Encore shows Oct. 5 and Oct. 9. Includes behind-the-scenes footage. $17, $15 seniors and students, $15 children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

• "MacBeth" Oct. 11, 11:55 a.m. The simulcast of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy plays is part of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series. $22, $20 seniors, $15 children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

• "Le Nozze di Figaro" Oct. 18, 11:55 a.m. The Metropolitan Opera presents the simulcast of Mozart’s opera. $22, $20 seniors, $15 children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

• "Pompeii from the British Museum" Oct. 23, 7 p.m. This 2013 film is about the town of Pom-peii nearly 2,000 years ago when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. $10, $7.50 seniors, students and children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

• "The Legend of Love" Oct. 26, 11:55 a.m. The Bolshoi Ballet presents the simulcast of the performance about a queen who sacrifices her beauty to save her sister’s life. $17, $15 seniors and students, $14 children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

Circus Electronica Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., at Bolo-gna Performing Arts Center (Delta State Uni-versity, 1003 W. Sunflower Road, Cleveland). The circus is a combination of electronic dance music and traditional acts. $25-$35; call 662-846-4626; bolognapac.com.

Events at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grand-view Blvd., Madison)

• "Manon" Oct. 16, 7 p.m. The Royal Opera House Ballet presents the simulcast of the perfor-mance about a young woman who falls prey to the moral corruption of 18th-century Paris. $19, $16 children; call 601-898-7819; malco.com.

• "RiffTrax Live: Anaconda" Oct. 30, 7 p.m.Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. A comedic commentary on the sci-fi

movie from the Carolina Theatre in Durham, N.C. $12.50; call 601-898-7819; malco.com.

“Mrs. Independent” Oct. 17, 8 p.m., Oct. 18, 3 p.m., Oct. 18, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The play is about a couple’s strained marriage due to the wife’s higher salary. $30.5-$33.5; call 800-745-3000; mrsindependenttheplay.com.

“All the Way” Oct. 21-25, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 26, 2 p.m., Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 2, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play features dynamic figures from the civil rights era such as J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King Jr., Gov. George Wallace, Sen. Hubert Humphrey and President Lyndon B. Johnson. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

“The Merry Widow” Oct. 26, at Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). The Mississippi Opera presents Franz Lehár’s oper-etta about a man’s attempt to have a rich widow remarry in order to keep her tax contributions. Admission TBA; call 601-960-2300; msopera.org.

Screen on the Green Oct. 30, 5:30 p.m., at Mis-sissippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Art Garden. Includes a cash bar, concessions and a screening of “Corpse Bride.” Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

“Miss Evers’ Boys” Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Nov. 7, 10 a.m.-noon, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Nov. 9, 3 p.m.-6 p.m., Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). At McCoy Auditorium. $10, $5 students with ID; call 979-2121; maddrama.com.

Events at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.)

• Fall Dance Concert Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 8, 2 p.m., Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13, 11 a.m., Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. In the Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center Studio Theatre. Doors open 30 minutes before the show. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students and employees; call 601-965-1414; belhaven.edu.

• DOXA Dance Concert Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m. In the Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center Studio Theatre. Mem-bers of DOXA, the dance department’s student-led organization, host the event featuring the choreography of young creative artists. Doors open at 7 p.m. $2, free for Belhaven students and employees; call 601-965-1414; belhaven.edu.

“The Ponder Heart” Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 9, 2 p.m., Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 16, 2 p.m., at Vicksburg Theatre Guild/Parkside Playhouse (101 Iowa Blvd., Vicksburg). $15, $10 seniors, $8 ages 12 and under; call 601-636-0471; vicksburgtheatreguild.com.

Screen on the Green Nov. 12, 5:30 p.m. In the Art Garden. Includes a cash bar, concessions and a movie at dusk. Movie title TBA. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Events at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive)

• "Tartuffe" Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15, 2 p.m., Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. In Blackbox Theatre. The comedic play is an English translation of Moliere’s masterpiece. $10, $5 seniors and stu-dents, free for Belhaven students and employ-ees; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu.

• Evening of One Acts Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m. In Blackbox Theatre. Enjoy an eve-ning of original short plays. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu.

“In-laws, Outlaws, and Other People (That Should Be Shot)” Nov. 13-15, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 16, 2 p.m., Nov. 20-22, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 23, 2 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). $15, $10 students, military and seniors (cash or check); call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.

Bill Maher: Live Stand-up Tour Nov. 15, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Maher is a political satirist and host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Admission TBA; call 800-745-3000.

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A fter 80 weeks of traveling, and a year compiling hundreds of thousands of photos and miles of (virtual) film, Josh

Hailey’s Photamerica is culminating with a seven-hour, family-friendly blowout Oct. 3. Jackson artist Hailey conceived Photamerica, (subtitled “the good, the bad, and the beautiful USA”) practi-cally on a whim. “I was bored, for one,” he says. “The economy was crap. The Occupy movement had just started. … I was watching a lot of TED Talks and a lot of Kickstarters. The culmination of all that, I just woke up one morning and said, ‘I have a van, and I don’t have to be here.’” So he got moving. Hailey’s original plan, funded through a Kickstarter campaign, was to visit all 50 states in 52 weeks beginning Jan. 1, 2012. Eventually, he extended his plans by another 30 weeks, returning to Jackson October 2013. He rented a space in Fondren where he displayed photo-collage canvases of every state (he’s since moved into The Hatch in midtown). He put the photos on T-shirts, shower cur-tains, fine-art prints and everything in between. In his spare time, Hailey began formulating plans for heARTalot to bring the arts into Mississippi’s public schools.

Proceeds from the Photamerica website and the event benefit heARTalot.

The event marks the premiere of the music video “This Land is Art Land,” and numerous interactive Story Projectors fea-turing interviews and film of each state. But that’s not all. Photamerica, new art, games, barbecue and music will be at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.), the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.) and the Art Garden. The fun begins at 5 p.m. and lasts until midnight. Paperclip Scientists and Vibe Doctors will play, followed by DJ Scrap Dirty and Hot & Lonely. And it’s all free! For more info, visit Photamerica Premiere on Facebook and Photamerica.com.

Josh Hailey’s Photamerica project culminates in a blowout at the Mississippi Museum of Art Oct. 3.

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Events at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland)• Discover Class Series Sept. 18, 6 p.m.-8:30

p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Options include surface design with Diane Williams and mosaic sculpture with Teresa Haygood. Registration required. $35; call 601-856-7546; mscrafts.org.

• Discover Class Series Oct. 14, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Options include pottery with Bianca Love and chain-mail bracelet making with Martha Scarbrough. Registration required. $35; call 601-856-7546; mscrafts.org.

• Discover Class Series Nov. 13, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Options include candle mak-ing with Carmen Castilla and blacksmithing with Lyle Wynn. Registration required. $35; call 601-856-7546; mscrafts.org.

Art in Mind Art Program Sept. 24, 10 a.m.-11:45 a.m., Nov. 19, 10 a.m.-11:45 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Hosted by the Alzheimer’s Association of Mississippi. Participants tour galleries and make art. Registration required. Free; call 601-987-0020; alz.org/ms.

Teen Acting Class Sept. 29, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The class for youth in grades 7-12. Sessions held Mondays through Nov. 17. Register by Sept. 26. $150; call 601-948-3533, ext. 232; newstagetheatre.com.

Art Nights Thursdays, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. through Dec. 25, at Drip Drop Coffee Shop (1044 Highway 49 S., Suite D, Richland). Includes materials and coffee. $20 in advance, $25 walk-in fee, $15 per person in groups of four or more; call 601-939-0410; dripdropcs.com.

Events at Purple Word Center for Book and Paper Arts (140 Wesley Ave.)• Woodcuts: Carving and Printing Oct. 4, 1

p.m.-4 p.m. Ian Harkey is the instructor. Partic-ipants carve wood blocks and make prints with them on a printing press. Registration required. $50, $35 members; purpleword.org.

• Relief Printmaking for T-shirts Oct. 11, noon-4 p.m. Guy Stricklin is the instructor. Learn to carve reliefs on linoleum blocks. Registration required. For ages 18 and up. $55, $40 members; purpleword.org.

• Collaged Coptic Stitch Books Nov. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Kristen Tordella-Williams is the instructor. Learn the basics of creating a simple collaged artist book. Registration required. For ages 18 and up. $60, $45 members; purpleword.org.

Visiting Artist: Kelly Harp Haber Oct. 5, 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Oct. 19, 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). The ballet and modern dance performer teaches techniques. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Creative Classes

I f you want something that’s both ed-ucational and entertaining this fall, the Old Capitol Muse-um’s Mississippi Archae-

ology Expo offers edifying fun while celebrating our state’s history. The annual event shows artifacts and hands-on exhibits from Mississippi’s di-verse cultural heritage. The expo features inter-active installations, including Civil War camp reenactment and traditional Native Ameri-can games and crafts. Instruc-tors from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians lead activities such as stickball, storytelling, basket weaving, ce-ramics and dancing. After being held at Millsaps College since 2008, the expo moved to Mississippi State University in 2013. For Patty Beech, treasurer for the Mississippi Archaeologi-cal Association, the decision to return the expo to Jackson came down to the city’s rich history and its prehistory. “Something we’re trying to get to the general public is it’s not just prehistoric,” Beech says. “It’s history—things we’re re-searching right now.”

Presenters and demonstrators will share skills, modern and archaic, that

they’ve honed with years of training. “You get to see a lot of state’s best archaeologists and techniques,” Beech says, including the latest ground-penetrating radar. It’s also a chance to see ancient abilities still in use today, like flint-knapping, the process of crafting tools from flint rock.. The Mississippi Archaeology Expo is at the Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St., 601-576-6920), Saturday, Oct. 18 ,from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The expo is part of the Mississippi Archaeology Association’s Archaeology Month. For more information, visit mdah.state.ms.us/oldcap.

The Mississippi Archaeology Expo brings expert presenters to Jacksonians of all ages.

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Book Signing with Author and Polyglot Benny Lewis Sept. 17, 7 p.m., at Books-A-Million (4950 Interstate 55 N.). Lewis is the author of “Fluent in 3 Months.” $17.99 book; call 601-366-3008.

Jesmyn Ward Book Reading Sept. 18, 4 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In room 215. The award-win-ning author’s books include “Salvage the Bones,” “Where the Line Bleeds” and “Men We Reaped.” Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202)•"Justice for Ella" Sept. 18, 5 p.m. Pam

Johnson signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $19.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Painted Horses" Sept. 23, 5 p.m. Malcolm Brooks signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Between Wrecks" Sept. 24, 5 p.m. George Singleton signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $15.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Director's Cut" Sept. 29, 5 p.m. Joe Lee signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $22.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"The Sea Sleeps: New and Selected Poems" Sept. 30, 5 p.m. Greg Miller signs books.

Reading at 5:30 p.m. $22.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest: Fifty Pieces from the Road" Oct. 1, 5 p.m. Curtis Wilkie signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $30 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson" Oct. 7, 5 p.m. S.C. Gwynne signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $35 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Country Stores of Mississippi" Oct. 11, 5 p.m. June Davidson signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. Free reading, $19.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Com-mander in Chief" Oct. 14, 5 p.m. James M. McPherson signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $32.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"We Are the Music Makers!" Oct. 15, 5 p.m. Timothy and Denise Duffy sign books. $38 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Sister Golden Hair" Oct. 21, 5 p.m. Darcey Steinke signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $15.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@

lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.•"Ed King's Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of

Freedom Summer" Oct. 22, 5 p.m. Ed King and Trent Watts sign books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $40 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"The Search for Good Wine: From the Found-ing Fathers to the Modern Table" Oct. 23, 5 p.m. John R. Hailman signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $29.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music" Oct. 24, 5 p.m. Ben Wynne signs books. $38 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Fifty Mysteries" Oct. 29, 5 p.m. John M. Floyd signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $18.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuri-abooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker" Nov. 5, 5 p.m. Carolyn Brown signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $20 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

•"Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story" Nov. 19, 5 p.m. Rick Bragg signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $27.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Bibliophile Mixer Sept. 23, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., at Lorelei Books (1103 Washington St., Vicksburg). The special gathering is designed for book lovers. RSVP. Free; call 601-634-8624; email lorelei-books@wave2lan.com; find Lorelei’s Bibliophile Mixer on Facebook.

Community Book Talk Lecture Series Sept. 25, 5 p.m., at Coahoma County Higher Education Center (109 Clark St., Clarksdale). The speaker is Mary Miller, author of “The Last Days of California.” Free; call 662-624-4461.

Meredith Etc. Author Book Release Party Sept. 28, 4 p.m.-7 p.m., at The Room (421 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). The party is for poet Ty A. Patterson, author of “Southern Jewel: The Elements Within.” For ages 21 and up. $5 admission, $12.99 book; call 601-720-4420 or 601-372-0229; eventbrite.com.

Events at Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square, Oxford)•"Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That

Will Change Your Life" Oct. 2, 6 p.m. Trac-ey Jackson and Paul Williams sign books. This is a Thacker Mountain Radio event. $27.95 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"The League of Seven" Oct. 3, 4 p.m., at Square Books Jr. (111 Courthouse Square, Oxford). Alan Gratz signs books. $16.99 book; call 662-236-2207; squarebooks.com.

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•"Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson" Oct. 6, 5 p.m. S.C. Gwynne signs books. $35 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"Real Man Adventures" Oct. 9, 6 p.m. T. Cooper signs books. This is a Thacker Mountain Radio event. $14 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"Charleston" Oct. 14, 5 p.m. Margaret Brad-ham Thornton signs books. $25.99 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief" Oct. 15, 5 p.m. James M. McPherson signs books. $32.95 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"The Eye of Zoltar" Oct. 16, 6 p.m. Jasper Fforde signs books. This is a Thacker Moun-tain Radio event. $16.99 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"Sister Golden Hair" Oct. 20, 5 p.m. Darcey Steinke signs books. $15.95 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"Ed King's Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer" Oct. 21, 5 p.m. Ed King and Trent Watts sign books. $40 book;

call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

•"The Search for Good Wine: From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table" Oct. 22, 5 p.m. John Hailman signs books. $29.95 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com.

Events at Lorelei Books (1103 Washington St., Vicksburg)•Eudora Welty Writers Symposium Oct. 23,

7:30 p.m.-10 p.m.Oct. 24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.Oct. 25, 9 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi University for Women (1100 College St., Columbus). In Poindexter Hall. The theme is “Homesick for Somewhere: Displacement, Loss, and Long-ing in the South.” Authors and readers from around the region discuss books, writing and the arts. The keynote speaker is author Tim Parrish. Free; call 662-329-4750; web3.muw.edu/welty/program.

•"In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodg-ers and the Origins of American Music" Oct. 25, 1 p.m. Ben Wynne signs books. $38 book; call 601-634-8624; email loreleibooks@wave2lan.com; loreleibooks.com.

Community Book Talk Lecture Series Oct. 23, 5 p.m., at Coahoma County Higher Edu-cation Center (109 Clark St., Clarksdale). The speaker is Newberry Award winner Lois Lowry, author of “The Giver” and “Number the Stars.” Free; call 662-624-4461.

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Literary & Signings J oe Lee’s seventh published novel is a “once-in-a-lifetime” story that was meant to be written.

“Typically, (the publish-ing process) takes one to two years,” he says. “This was one of those rare occurrences where everything just rolled right out, and it was done from start to fin-ish in three months.” “Director’s Cut” (Dogwood Press, 2014; $22.95) is the fifth nov-el in the Oakdale series, suspense stories that share the same back-drop—a rural town in northeast Mississippi. Lee, a Mississippi native and the owner of Dogwood Press in Brandon, began writing the book in early 2012, drawing inspiration from towns such as Starkville, Ripley and New Albany for its fictitious setting. “You don’t have to go in order,” Lee says of the series. “I’m very careful to sprinkle in back story so as to not confuse the reader. You can start

with any of them and not miss important things.”

In “Director’s Cut,” the main character, Tripp Kelly, is a popu-lar film professor at the university adjacent to Oakdale who is also a serial killer. “It’s about the people we assume every day are rational and normal,” Lee says. “Someone does some-thing horrid and you hear comments like, ‘Gosh, we lived across the street from him for 20 years. He was a great man and father. Who knew?’” Readers will have the

scoop on Kelly from the beginning but will have to wait to see if any of his peers figure him out. “It’s a fun novel—a page turner. I think anyone who enjoys a good southern novel will enjoy it,” he says. Joe Lee will sign “Director’s Cut” at 5 p.m. Sept. 29 at Lemuria Books (4465 In-terstate 55 N., 601-366-7619).

Brandon author Joe Lee signs “Director’s Cut” Sept. 29 at Lemuria Books.

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Fall Equinox Restorative Yoga Class Sept. 18, 5:45 p.m.-7 p.m., at Tara Yoga Studio (Energy in Motion, 200 Park Circle, Suite 4, Flowood). Proceeds from the annual class benefit the Animal Rescue Fund (ARF). Free admission, monetary or pet food donations welcome; call 601-720-2337; email info@tara-yoga.net; tara-yoga.net.

Cyclists Curing Cancer Century Ride Sept. 20, 7:30 a.m., at Baptist Healthplex, Clinton (102 Clinton Parkway, Clinton). The annual bike ride along the Natchez Trace benefits Baptist Cancer Services’ Serenity Garden. Ride 25, 50, 62 or 100 miles; rest stops included. Lunch, door prizes and music after the ride. Registration required. $50 through Sept. 5, $55 after; call 601-925-7900; mbhs.org/cyclistscuringcancer.

300 Oaks Road Race Sept. 20, 8 a.m., at downtown Greenwood. The scenic race includes a 10K run, a 5K run/walk and a one-mile fun run (includes craziest costume contest). Post-race party on the Yazoo River. Registration required. $20-$70; 300oaks.com.

The Way To Go 5.29K Sept. 20, 8 a.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). College Savings Missis-sippi is the host. Includes a one-mile fun run, door prizes and family activi-ties. Proceeds go toward Mississippi Affordable College Savings 529 scholarship plans. Register early for a $5 discount. $25 5.29K, $15 fun run; call 601-359-5255; treasurerlynnfitch.com.

Family Fun Day 5K Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m., at New Summit School (1417 Lelia Drive). In front of the new high school. The run, walk and mile fun run is a fundraiser for New Sum-mit School. $20 race and T-shirt; $30 race, T-shirt and Family Fun Day access; $15 fun run (ages 12 and under; includes T-shirt and Family Fun Day access); call 601-982-7827; newsummitschool.com.

Zombie Frenzy 5K Sept. 20, 1 p.m., at Choctaw Trails (McRaven Road, Clinton). Centurion Events is the host. Runners dodge volunteers dressed as zombies as they complete the course. Registration required. $30-$60; email lauren@centurionrun.com; active.com.

Capital City Rollergirls Roller Derby Sept. 20, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Missis-sippi St.). The team takes on the Mobile Derby Darlings. Doors open at 6 p.m. Bring school supplies to donate. Use #ccrg_ms on Instagram for a chance to win prizes. $10 in advance, $12 at the door, free for children ages 10 and under; call 354-7051; capitalcityrollergirlsms.com.

Peddle, Paddle and Pound Sept. 21, 9 a.m., at Walter Anderson Museum of Art (510 Washing-ton Ave., Ocean Springs). The triathlon includes a 10-mile bike ride, a one-mile run, a two-mile kayak race and another one-mile run. Registra-tion required. $75 without kayak rental, $100 with kayak rental; call 228-872-3164; email development@walterandersonmuseum.org.

National Recovery Month Program Sept. 25, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., at Hinds Behav-ioral Health Services (3450 Highway 80 W.). Includes speakers, live music, refreshments and more. Free; call 601-321-2400.

Community Bike Ride Sept. 26, 6 p.m., Oct. 31, 6 p.m., Nov. 28, 6 p.m., at Rainbow Natural Grocery Cooperative (2807 Old Canton Road). Bikers ride to a different destination on the last Friday of each month. Jackson Bike Advocates is the sponsor. Free; call 366-1602; email co-opgm@rainbowcoop.org; find Jackson Bike Advocates on Facebook.

Health and Wellness Expo Sept. 27, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at St. John M.B. Church (4895 Medgar Evers Blvd.). Includes exhibits from local health

organizations, a children’s play area, school sup-ply giveaways for children in grades K-6 and care package giveaways for seniors. School sup-ply and toiletry donations welcome. Free; call 601-566-5474; email jackie5228@yahoo.com.

Jackson Heart Study Community Outreach Center’s 14th Birthday Celebration Sept. 27, 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). At the Thad Cochran Center. Includes health awareness information, line dancing and lunch. Free; call 601-979-8709 or 601-979-8736; jsums.edu/jsucorc.

Walk to Defeat ALS Sept. 27, 10 a.m., at Trust-mark Park (1 Braves Way, Pearl). Check-in is at 9 a.m. Proceeds from the one-mile walk go toward the ALS Association Louisiana-Missis-sippi Chapter’s care services programs as well as awareness, advocacy and research efforts. Free; call 225-343-9880, ext. 6; email chelsea.moreau@alsalams.org; alsalams.org.

Bricks and Spokes Bicycle Ride Oct. 4, 8 a.m., at downtown Vicksburg. The annual ride through downtown Vicksburg includes crossing the Old Mississippi River Bridge. Take the 10-mile, 30-mile, 50-mile or 62-mile route. Includes rest stops and snacks. $40; call 601-634-4527; email kimh@vicksburg.org; bricksandspokes.racesonline.com.

On the Road to Health’s Zoo Run Oct. 4, 8 a.m., at New Horizon Church International (1770 Ellis Ave.). 5K run/walk ends at the Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.) Kids’ run for ages 12 and under starts at 9:30 a.m. Awards given to top walkers and best animal costume. Fees TBA; call 371-1427; find On the Road to Health on Facebook.

The AKA 5K Oct. 4, 8 a.m., at Tougaloo Col-lege (500 W. County Line Road, Tougaloo). At the Owens Health and Wellness Center. The Rho Lambda Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is the host. Check-in is at 7:30 a.m. Includes a run/walk and a one-mile fun

run. A health fair follows at 9 a.m. Registration required. $20 in advance, $25 race day, $75 teams, free fun run; call 601-624-3825; email alphakappalpha5k@gmail.com; active.com.

Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi’s Walk for Diabetes Oct. 5, 2 p.m., at Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance (1401 Livingston Lane). Check-in is at 1 p.m. Proceeds go to DFM programs such as Camp Kandu, education and assistance for families in need. Raise at least $50 to receive a T-shirt featuring Marshall Ramsey’s

dog Banjo. Registration required. $20 minimum suggested donation; call 877-DFM-CURE; msdiabetes.org.

Supercaper Fun Run Oct. 8, 6 p.m., at Fleet Feet Sports (Trace Station, 500 Highway 51 N., Suite Z, Ridgeland). Wear a super hero costume for a chance to win a prize. Free; call 601-899-9696; fleetfeetjackson.com.

Light the Night Walk Oct. 9, 5:30 p.m., at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Way, Pearl). The annual walk benefits the Mis-sissippi/Louisiana Chapter of the Leuke-mia and Lymphoma Society. Fundraising encouraged; call 601-956-7447; light-thenight.org/msla.

Over the River Run Oct. 11, 8 a.m., at Old Mississippi River Bridge (Interstate 20 and Washington Street, Vicksburg). The 26th annual event includes a five-mile run/walk and a one-mile fun run. A

party follows in the Ameristar Delta Point parking lot; Slaphappy performs. The first 500 to register receive T-shirts and goody bags. Early registration recommended. $25, $15 ages 10 and under, $55 family (limit of 5), $75 corporate/civic club (three to five members), $5 late charge after Oct. 1; call 601-631-2997; southernculture.org.

Jackson State University Homecoming Football Game Oct. 11, 2 p.m., at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium (2531 N. State St.). The JSU Tigers take on Mississippi Valley State University. $35-$60; call 601-979-2420; jsutigers.com.

Lazy Acres Hillbilly Run Oct. 11, at Lazy Acres Plantation (596 Lazy Acres Road, Chunky). The 5K race with farm-themed obstacles is a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Registration required. Prize given for best cos-tume. $30 through Sept. 1, $35 Sept. 2-30, $40 Oct 1-11, $9 spectators; call 601-655-8264; email lazyacresfarm@hotmail.com; lazy-acres.com.

Canton Friendship Golf Tournament Oct. 16, 11:30 a.m., at Country Club of Canton (183 Country Club Road, Canton). Lunch is at 11:30, and tee time is at 1 p.m. Registration required. $100 per person, sponsorships start at $200; call 601-859-5816; email ccoc@canton-mississippi.com; canton-mississippi.com.

Purple Dress Run Oct. 23, 6 p.m.-10 p.m., at Jaco’s Tacos (318 S. State St.). Catholic Charities’ annual 5K run/walk is a fundraiser for domestic-violence victims. Includes a post-race celebration. Registration required. $35, $100 team of four; call 601-326-3758; catholiccharitiesjackson.org.

The Great Race Oct. 25, 7 a.m., at Mor-rison Heights Baptist Church (3000 Hamp-stead Blvd., Clinton). Check-in is at 6 a.m. Includes a 5K run/walk and a one-mile fun run. Each registration fee goes toward the orphange, church plant project, mission or

other cause of the participant’s choosing. Awards given. Registration required. $15-$65; call 601-925-6479; email kallen@morrison-heights.org; morrisonheights.org.

Laps for Little Ones Oct. 25, 7 a.m., at Jackson Academy (4908 Ridgewood Road). Check-in is at 7 a.m. The 5K run/walk and fun run benefits The Little Light House of Central Mississippi, a nonprofit for special-needs chil-dren. Awards given, including for best Disney costume. Registration required. $10-$30; call 601-956-6131; llhms.org.

Hot Diggity Dog 5K and Dog Walk Nov. 1, 7 a.m., at Laurel Street Park (1841 Laurel St.). Check-in is at 7 p.m. Includes a 5K run/walk, a one-mile dog walk and a kids’ agility challenge. Dogs welcome. Proceeds benefit the Gallant Hearts Guide Dog Center. $20 5K and dog walk, $10 agility challenge; gallanthearts.org.

Sanderson Farms Championship Nov. 3, 9 a.m., Nov. 4, 9 a.m., Nov. 5, 6:30 a.m., Nov. 6, 6:30 a.m., Nov. 7, 6:30 a.m., Nov. 8, 8 a.m., Nov. 9, 8 a.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive). The golf tournament is part of the FedEx Cup and is a fundraiser for Bird-ies for Charity. $15-$90; call 601-898-GOLF; sandersonfarmschampionship.com.

Sawdust and Splinters Logging Sports Event Nov. 7, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., at Shirard Grey Estates (1107 Grey Cem-etery Road, Magnolia). Includes lumberjack and pole climbing competitions, chainsaw carving, the “A Journey of Valor” 5K (benefits the Wounded Warrior Project), food and art vendors, children’s activities and entertainment. Bring lawn chairs. one day: $20, $18 veterans and seniors, $15 ages 5-12; two-day pass: $38, $34 veterans and seniors, $30 ages 5-12; children 4 and under free; call 601-876-9635; email contact@sdsfest.com; sdsfest.com.

Mississippi Sports Expo Nov. 8, 8 a.m.-10 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Includes interactive sports activi-ties, vendors, the Youth Fun Run, a spirit squad exhibition, the City with Soul Classic basketball tournament and more. Admission TBA; call 601-940-8853 or 800-745-3000; email info@mssportsexpo.com; mssportsexpo.com.

Metro Jackson Heart Walk Nov. 15, 9:15 a.m., at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). The American Heart Association hosts the annual three-mile walk and one-mile survivor route. Check-in is at 8 a.m. Teams welcome. Free; call 359-3114; metrojacksonheartwalk.org.

Lucky 7 Run Nov. 15, 3 p.m., at Missis-sippi Legends Grill (5352 Lakeland Drive, Flowood). The seven-mile run ends at McB’s in Ridgeland where the one-mile fun run takes place. Optional Poker Run available for individuals for an extra $10. Proceeds benefit Special Olympics Mississippi and the Law Enforcement Torch Run. $36, $46 Poker Run, $14 fun run; call 601-856-7748, ext. 104; email jenny.woodruff@specialolympicsms.org; specialolympicsms.org.

Platinum Productions Barrel Racing Com-petition Nov. 21, Nov. 22, Nov. 23, at Kirk Fordice Equine Center (1207 Mississippi St.). Equestrians compete for cash prizes. Free; call 228-860-8104 or 228-234-2049; email twood-cock@neseenterprise.com or kenleel@hughes.net; platinumproductionsbarrelracing.com.

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Mississippi Parafest Oct. 3, 7 p.m.-noon, Oct. 4, 10 a.m., Oct. 5, noon, at Southern Cultural Heri-tage Center (1302 Adams St., Vicksburg). The paranormal festival takes place at several locations. Includes a meet and greet, a screening of the film, “A Haunting,” a karaoke party, a zombie costume contest, vendors and paranormal expeditions at the Strand Theater and Lena’s Bakery. $10-$75; call 601-618-9509; email info@southernculture.org; deltaparanormalproject.com.

Pumpkins in the Park Oct. 4, 5:30 p.m., at Bel-haven Park (Poplar Boulevard). Includes pumpkin decorating, family-friendly activities and refresh-ments. Details pending. Free, donations welcome; call 601-352-8850; greaterbelhaven.com.

Boo at the Zoo Oct. 24, 5 p.m.-8 p.m.Oct. 25, 5 p.m.-8 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The zoo provides a safe place for children to go trick-or-treating for Halloween. Admission TBA; call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org.

Park After Dark Oct. 24, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at LeFleur Museum District (Interstate 55 North and Lakeland Drive). Enjoy spooky activities and trick-or-treating at the Mississippi Children’s Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and LeFleur’s Bluff State Park. Costumes welcome. Admission varies per location; call 601-981-5469; mississippichild-rensmuseum.com.

Hallow’d Be His Name Halloween Festival Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at The Salvation Army Corps Community Center (570 E. Beasley Road). Includes a costume contest, dancing, food, games and prizes. Free; call 601-982-4881.

Halloween Yoga Class Oct. 30, 5:45 p.m., at Tara Yoga Studio (Energy in Motion, 200 Park Circle, Suite 4, Flowood). The annual class includes a costume contest. $12 drop-in fee, class packages apply; call 601-720-2337; email info@tara-yoga.net; tara-yoga.net.

Events at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mis-sissippi St.)• Mistletoe Marketplace Nov. 6, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.,

Nov. 7, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. More than 100 vendors sell their wares at the annual holiday shopping event. Proceeds benefit the Junior League of Jackson. Visit the website for a list of signature events and special guests. $10, $20 three-day pass, $5 seniors and children

ages 6-12, children under 6 free (no strollers permitted), separate admission applies for special events; call 601-948-2357; email info@mistleto-emarketplace.com; mistletoemarketplace.com.

• Handworks Holiday Market Nov. 21, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Nov. 22, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Shop for handmade gift items from more than 140 exhibitors at the annual event. Concessions included. Reservations required for groups. Strollers permitted. $7, $5 per person in groups of 12 or more, children under 12 free; call 205-937-4834; handworksmarket.com.

Olde Towne Holiday Market Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at Olde Towne Clinton (Jefferson Street and West Leake Street, Clinton). In front of City Hall. Shop at the open-air market in Olde Towne Clin-ton. Free; call 601-924-5472; email mainstreetclin-ton@clintonms.org; clintonms.org.

Veteran’s Day at the Zoo Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Active and retired military personnel receive a 50-percent

admission discount. $9.25, $8.25 seniors, $6.75 ages 2-12, $4.63 military, children under 2 and members free; call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org.

Wolfe Studio Christmas Open House and Sale Nov. 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Nov. 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Nov. 16, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., at Wolfe Studio (4308 Old Canton Road). Shop for handmade gifts for the holiday season. Free admission; call 601-366-1844; wolfebirds.com.

Turkey Day 8K Nov. 17, 7:30 a.m., at Fleet Feet Sports (Trace Station, 500 Highway 51

N., Suite Z, Ridgeland). The annual race is a fundraiser for the Ridgeland Multipurpose Trails. Fees vary, VIP option available; call 601-899-9696; fleetfeetjackson.com.

Events in Fondren• Fondren Unwrapped Nov. 20, 5 p.m.-8

p.m. The holiday event includes a visit from Santa and Fonzy the Fondren Reindeer, a Christmas tree lighting with carols at Dul-ing Green, shopping and dining. Free; call 601-981-9606; fondren.org.

• 12Ks for the Holidays Charity Run Nov. 22, 7:30 a.m. Check-in is at 6:30 a.m. The annual 12K race, which includes a holiday costume contest, benefits the Good Samari-tan Center. The race begins at Old Canton Road and Duling Street. Includes a kids’ run at 9 a.m. In advance: $35 through Nov. 9, $40 after; $45 race day; call 601-355-6276; christmas12k.com.

Gloria in Excelsis! A Christmas Celebration Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In the concert hall. The Belhaven Concert Choir, Belhaven Chorale, soloists and instrumentalists perform Antonio Vivaldi’s “Gloria.” Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

Holiday Peppermint Pops Nov. 28, 7 p.m., at Saenger Theater Biloxi (170 Reynoir St., Biloxi). The Gulf Coast Symphony Orches-tra performs holiday favorites at the annual concert. Admission TBA; call 228-896-4276; gulfcoastsymphony.net.

Downtown Vicksburg’s Old-fashioned Christ-mas Open House Nov. 30, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., at downtown Vicksburg . Vicksburg Main Street hosts this holiday shopping event which emphasizes some of Vicksburg’s best local shops in a fun and festive celebration of Christmas spirit. Free; downtownvicksburg.org.

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Look and Learn with Hoot Sept. 19, 10:30 a.m., Oct. 17, 10:30 a.m., Nov. 21, 10:30 a.m., Dec. 19, 10:30 a.m., Jan. 16, 10:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). This educational opportunity ages 5 and under and their parents features a hands-on art activity and story time. Please dress for mess. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Events at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive)

• Visiting Artist: Jerry Jenkins Sept. 21, 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Instructor Jerry Jenkins uses the west African djembe drum to teach children lessons in creative writing and hon-ing literacy skills. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and mem-bers free); call 601-981-5469; mississippich-ildrensmuseum.com.

• World Wide Day of Play Sept. 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The event is part of Nickelodeon’s “The Big Help,” which encourages children to be active and play outside. Included with admis-sion ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippi childrensmuseum.com.

Events at Ridgeland Public Library (397 High-way 51, Ridgeland)

• Rising Readers Storytime (Ages 3-7) Tues-days, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. through Sept. 30 Programs include stories, songs, flannel board activities, movement and crafts. Free; call 601-856-4536.

• Baby Bookends (Ages 0-2) Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. through Sept. 24 Children and their caregivers sing rhymes, play musical instru-ments, read stories, and do flannel board and movement activities. Free; call 601-856-4536.

Events at Madison Public Library (994 Madi-son Ave., Madison)

• Rising Readers Storytime (Ages 3-5) Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. through Sept. 30 Includes songs, rhymes, movement and storytelling to strengthen early literacy skills as well as an enthu-siasm for reading. Free; call 601-856-2749.

• Baby Bookworms: Mother Goose on the Loose (Ages 0-2) Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-10:30 a.m. through Sept. 24 Parents and caregivers interact with infants and toddlers through nurs-ery rhymes, action rhymes, songs and stories. Free; call 601-856-2749.

• Baby Bookworms: Mother Goose on the Loose (Ages 0-2) Wednesdays, 10:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m. through Sept. 24 Parents and caregiv-ers interact with infants and toddlers through nursery rhymes, action rhymes, songs and stories. Free; call 601-856-2749.

Events at Canton Public Library (102 Priestley St., Canton)

• Rising Readers Storytime (Age 5) Wednes-days, 9:30 a.m.-10 a.m. through Sept. 24 Includes songs, rhymes, movement and storytell-ing to strengthen early literacy skills as well as an enthusiasm for reading. Free; call 601-859-3202.

• Rising Readers Storytime (Ages 3-4) Wednes-days, 10:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m. through Sept. 24 Includes songs, rhymes, movement and storytell-ing to strengthen early literacy skills as well as an enthusiasm for reading. Free; call 601-859-3202.

The Old Capitol Bowl Oct. 2, at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Teams from selected high schools compete in a scholar’s bowl contest. The quiz competition tests students’ knowledge of government and Mississippi history. Registra-tion required. Free; call 601-576-6920; oldcapi-tolmuseum.com.

Jackson Freedom League Youth Football’s Freedom Bowl Oct. 16, 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., at Newell Field (800 Riverside Drive). The

South Jackson Eagles compete in three games against teams from other leagues. Includes presentations, special guests and fireworks. $1-$3; leaguelineup.com/jfl.

Nature Nuts Preschool Program Oct. 21, 10 a.m., Nov. 18, 10 a.m., at Clinton Community Nature Center (617 Dunton Road, Clinton). The nature discovery program is for children ages 2-5. Adults must accompany children. A professional educator from the Mississippi Natu-ral Science Museum teaches the class. $5, $3 members, $1 discount for each additional child; call 601-926-1104; email ccnaturecenter@gmail.com; clintonnaturecenter.org.

Camp Kandu Nov. 8, 9:30 a.m., Nov. 9, at Twin Lakes Camp and Conference Center (155 Milner Road, Florence). The Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi hosts the biannual camp for children with diabetes and their families. Registration required. Free; call 877-DFM-CURE; msdiabetes.org.

“Disney on Ice: Treasure Trove” Nov. 13, 7 p.m., Nov. 14, 7 p.m., Nov. 15, 1 p.m., Nov. 15, 5 p.m., Nov. 16, 1 p.m., Nov. 16, 5 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mis-sissippi St.). The show features the Disney princesses and other characters such as Peter Pan and characters from “The Lion King.” $12-$60; call 800-745-3000.

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Events at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive)• Annual Fall Fix-up Sept. 15-18. The museum

closes to the public to paint, repair and clean the 50,000 square-foot facility. Volunteers need-ed. Al ages welcome. Free; call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

• Fall Festival: In the Land of Oz Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Dress up as your favorite Oz character for the museum’s annual fundraiser. Includes music, hands-on science experiments, crafts, face painting and giveaways. Sponsorships available. $25 per person; call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Events at Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (201 W. Capitol St., Suite 700)• Strategic Planning 101 Sept. 17, 9 a.m.-

noon Understand your organization’s external challenges and opportunities, and find the strengths and weaknesses. Learn to set goals and objectives for today and tomorrow. Reg-istration required. $109, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• Advanced Grant Proposal Strategies Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sept. 19, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The comprehensive two-day workshop shows you the essential and advanced components to writing a well-crafted grant proposal. Reg-istration required. $369, $199 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

Events at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.)• Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports

Conference Sept. 23, 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Attendees gain knowledge regarding PBIS and how it supports Mississippi’s Response to Inter-vention initiative. Speakers include Dr. Jeffrey Sprague of the UO Institute and Dr. Heather George of the University of South Florida in Tampa. $50 (register by Sept. 8), $20 CEU credits; call 601-266-4747; usm.edu.

• U.S. Senator Thad Cochran Forum on American Enterprise Sept. 25, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The keynote speaker is Dennis Lock-hart, CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Sponsorships available. $125; call 601-974-1325; mscee.org.

• Winter-Reed Partnership Award Tribute Din-ner Sept. 30, 7 p.m. This year’s recipient is Dr. Hank Bounds, the Mississippi Commissioner of Higher Education. Also includes a raffle of artwork from Andrew Bucci. RSVP. $75, $750 table of eight; call 601-573-0896; mapie.org.

Events at Eudora Welty Library (300 N. State St.)• Nonprofit v. For Profit Concepts: What's the

Difference? Sept. 17, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. In the mul-tipurpose room, first floor. Learn how to start the process of setting up a nonprofit and how it differs from starting a for-profit business. Free; call 968-5811; msnonprofits.org.

• Jackson Audubon Society Chapter Meet-ing Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m. Members and visitors welsome. Free; call 601-832-6788; jacksonaudubonsociety.org.

History Is Lunch Sept. 17, noon, at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Old Capitol Muse-um historian Michael Stoll presents “Monu-ments to Democracy: The 50 State Capitols.” Free; call 601-576-6998.

Hinds County Human Resource Agency Meet-ing Sept. 17, 7 p.m., Oct. 15, 7 p.m., Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Dec. 17, 7 p.m., at Hinds County Human

Resource Agency (258 Maddox Road). The Board of Directors meets on third Wednesdays. Open to the public; Hinds County residents encouraged to attend. Free; call 601-923-1838; hchra.org.

“Regional Advertising Doesn’t Have to Suck” with Robert Campbell Sept. 18, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (The Belhaven, 1200 N. State St., Suite 100). Learn ways to effectively advertise in several states through the Internet. Registra-tion required. $25 non-members and associate members, $5 student members, free for full members; call 398-4562; aafjackson.org.

Events at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive)• Ridgeland Under the Stars Sept. 18, 6 p.m.-9

p.m. The Ridgeland Chamber of Commerce is the host. Includes a reception, a silent auction and music from Almost Famous. $40, $70 for two, discounts for members; call 601-991-9996; email admin@ridgelandchamber.com; ridgelandchamber.com.

• Jackson Symphony League Ball Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m. This year’s theme is “Emeralds.” The gala is a fundraiser for the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. Includes dinner, auc-tions and music. Admission TBA; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

Olde Towne After Dark Sept. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20, at 303 Jefferson (303 Jefferson St., Clinton). Main Street Clinton hosts the trivia competition in which contestants in teams of four compete for cash and other prizes. $10 per team; call 601-924-5474; clintonms.org.

Precinct 3 COPS Meeting Sept. 18, 6 p.m., Oct. 16, 6 p.m., Nov. 20, 6 p.m., at Jackson Police Department, Precinct 3 (3925 W. Northside Drive). These monthly forums are designed to

help resolve community issues or problems, from crime to potholes. Free; call 601-960-0003.

Mississippi Greek Weekend Sept. 19, 6 a.m., Sept. 20, 8 a.m., Sept. 21, 10 a.m., at various Jack-son locations. The annual event that unites Greek organizations includes signature parties, sports games and fundraisers. Schedule available online. Some events free, other events start at $15; call 601-706-9273; msgreekweekend.com.

MBJ Business Marketplace Sept. 19, 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mis-sissippi St.). The marketing and networking event includes exhibitors, seminars and the Business

After Hours Networking Party. Free tickets avail-able online; call 601-364-1011; email tami.jones@msbusiness.com; msbusiness.com.

Mississippi Ultimate Outdoors Expo Sept. 19, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sept. 20, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sept. 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Off Road Adventures (118 Elton Road). Includes product exhibits, a shooting range, archery, a 5K race, tractor and ATV test drives, seminars, a kids’ area, food and more. $10 per day, $20 all three days, $5 ages 5-15, children under 5 free ; call 927-7957; email msoutdoorexpo@gmail.com; msoutdoorexpo.com.

New Summit Upper School Grand Opening Sept. 19, 10 a.m., at New Summit School (1417 Lelia Drive). undefined Free; call 601-982-7827 ; newsummitschool.com.

Coffee & Cars Sept. 20, 7 a.m.-10 a.m., at Pri-mos 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.

Jackson Audubon Society Annual Hawk Migra-tion Watch Sept. 20, 9 a.m.-noon, at Vicksburg National Military Park (3201 Clay St., Vicksburg).

At Fort Hill. Expert birder Skip Anding leads the walk. $8 park entrance fee; call 601-832-6788; jacksonaudubonsociety.org.

JoJo’s 50th Birthday Celebration Sept. 20, 11 a.m.-noon, at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Zoo staff give the chimpanzee presents and a cake. Guests also receive birthday treats. Included with admission ($9.25, $8.25 seniors, $6.75 ages 2-12, children under 2 and members free); call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org.

Cruzin’ Clinton Car Show Sept. 20, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Clinton. The parade of cars begins at 9 a.m. and goes from the Clinton Plaza Shop-

ping Center to Mississippi College. The cars will then be on display from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Car exhibitors must register. Free admission, show participants: $15 in advance, $20 on site; call 601-924-5472; clintonms.org.

Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.)• Fall Community Enrichment Series Sept. 22.

Most classes begin the week of Sept. 22 and fall into the categories of art, music, fitness, design, business and technology. Call to request a bro-chure with classes and fees. Fees vary; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

• Basics of Bird Watching, Part I Sept. 25, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Jackson Audubon Society education chair Chris King is the instructor. Sessions are Thursdays through Oct. 23, and the program ends with a field trip Oct. 25 at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park at 8 a.m. $100; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

Armed to Farm: Sustainable Agriculture Train-ing For Military Veterans Sept. 22, multiple loca-tions. Veterans and spouses interested in farming get an opportunity to see sustainable, profitable

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P rohibition cocktails. Craft cock-tails. Drinks with literary names. Face it: Long gone are the days when hav-

ing a drink meant a gin-and-tonic or a scotch-and-water. But face it: Today’s fancy cocktails can be pricey at a swanky watering hole, or complicated to make at home. Chris Robertson, Bravo Italian Restaurant and Bar’s bar manager, can help you with that. In the fifth install-ment of his Bar Series classes, titled Home Bar 101, the sea-soned bartender hopes to eliminate some of the guesswork—and all of the fear—from drink mixing. “The whole idea is to remove the mysteriousness from the bar,” he says. “People toss around terms like ‘mixolo-

gist’ or ‘cocktailist.’ I heard someone say ‘cocktailian’ today.’”

An artist with a bachelor’s degree in oil painting from Millsaps College and a master’s in marketing from the University of Mississippi, Robertson, 36, puts vision in his cocktails, as well. “There’s an artistry to it—an air

of creativity,” he says. “I even believe there’s an aesthetic quality to it.” Robertson has mixed liquors from here to London, but Home Bar 101 is his way of showing participants that they don’t have to leave the house for classic cocktails such as Manhattans, cosmopolitans and margaritas. “There’s no reason that when you get home from work you couldn’t make something with the same strength and flavor we have here. It’s not a science,” Robertson says, before backtracking with a laugh. “Well, there’s a little sci-ence. But there’s definitely no magic!” Bar 101 continues with “Home Bar 101” at 3 p.m. at Bravo Italian Restau-rant and Bar (4500 Interstate 55 Front-age Road #244; 601-982-8111), Satur-day, Sept. 20. Limited seating; $30 per person. Call to reserve a spot. For more information, visit bravobuzz.com.

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Jackson City Council Meeting Sept. 23, 6 p.m., Oct. 7, 10 a.m., Oct. 21, 6 p.m., Nov. 4, 10 a.m., Nov. 18, 6 p.m., at Jackson City Hall (219 S. President St.). Open to the public. Free; call 601-960-1064; jacksonms.gov.

Jobs for Jacksonians Job Fair Sept. 24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Metrocenter Mall (1395 Metrocenter Drive). Participants meet with employers with job opportunities in different fields and industries. Dress professionally and bring a resume. Free; call 601-960-0377; jacksonms.gov.

History Is Lunch Sept. 24, noon, at William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Author Robert Blade talks about his book, “Tupelo Man,” a biography of George McLean. Free; call 601-576-6998.

Lunch and Learn Series: Payroll Policies and the Law Sept. 24, noon-1 p.m., at Butler Snow Law Firm (1020 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). At the Regions Bank office. Under-stand state and federal laws that govern how you

pay employees. Lunch provided. Registration required. $15, $5 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

ACT-SO Kickoff Jazz Jam Sept. 24, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., at M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge (1072 John R. Lynch St.). The Afro-Academic, Cultur-al, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) is NAACP’s youth competition program. The Southern Komfort Brass Band performs. Free; call 601-353-8452.

Habitat Young Professionals’ Picnic at the Cedars Sept. 25, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at The Cedars Historic Home (4145 Old Canton Road). Professionals ages 21-40 enjoy music and network while supporting Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area. Bring food, drinks and chairs. Free; call 601-353-6060; email tgathings@habitatjackson.org.

Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project’s Pro Bono Awards Dinner Sept. 25, 6 p.m., at Gal-lery 119 (119 S. President St.). Former Mississippi Gov. William Winter is the keynote speaker, and honorees include Walter Boone, Brandi Denton Gatewood, Alan Moore and Hinds County Chan-

cery Court Judge Denise Sweet Owens. $150; call 601-960-9577; email tgraves@mvlp.org; mvlp.org.

Blue Jeans, BBQ and Bluegrass Sept. 25, 6 p.m., at Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Per-forming Arts (100 University Ave., Oxford). The casual event includes a barbecue dinner and music from Breaking Glass. $60, $100 couples, $500 table of eight; call 800-340-9542; email umf@umfoundation.com; fordcenter.org.

Zoo Party Unleashed Sept. 25, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The Jackson Zoo’s annual fundraiser and adults-only event includes local food, live music and more. For ages 21 and up. Sponsorships available. $75; call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org.

Dinner and a Movie Sept. 26, 6 p.m., at Jef-ferson Street . Purchase food from Garden to Fire and watch the film “Divergent.” Free; call 601-924-5474; clintonms.org.

Voices of Mississippi Competition Sept. 27, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). The Mississippi Opera is the host. Details pending. Admission TBA; call 601-960-2300; msopera.org.

Settlers Day at Milepost 89 Sept. 27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Clinton Visitor Center (1300 Pinehaven Road, Clinton). The event is a celebration of those who contributed to the Natchez Trace Parkway. Free; call 601-924-5474; email visitor-center@clintonms.org; clintonms.org.

4 the Record Swap Sept. 27, 11 a.m. Location TBA. Buy, sell or trade vinyl records at the biannual event. Includes music from Skull and Crossfaders. Record sellers and other vendors must register. Bring your own turntable. Admis-sion TBA; call 601-376-9404; email 4therecord-jxn@gmail.com; 4therecordswap.com.

Young Business Leaders of Jackson’s Fall Banquet Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). This year’s speaker is Ron A. Andrews, President of the Generic Sciences Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific. RSVP. Sponsorships available. $35, $280 table of eight; call 601-201-5489; email dowen@ybljackson.org; ybljackson.org.

Business After Hours: A Spanish Taste of Art Sept. 30, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). World Trade Center Mississippi’s young professional network, the Young Globals, host the event. Includes a wine tasting, tapas and networking. For ages 21 and up. $40, $30 members; call 960-1515; mswtc.org.

Urban Forestry and Green Infrastructure Conference and Awards Oct. 1-3, 8:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Includes workshops and an awards ceremony. Registration required. Limited registration scholarships and CEU credits available. $45, additional fees apply for optional events; call 576-6000; email dyowell@aol.com; msurbanforest.com.

Events at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.)• History Is Lunch Oct. 1, noon Author Curtis

Wilkie talks about his new book, “Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest: Fifty Pieces from the Road.” Book sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

• History Is Lunch Oct. 8, noon Civil rights movement leader Rev. Edwin King talks about his new book, “Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer.” Book sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6920.

• Mississippi Archaeology Expo Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Celebrate Mississippi Archaeology Month with demonstrations of archaeological techniques and other educational activities. Free; call 601-576-6920; oldcapitolmuseum.com.

• History Is Lunch Oct. 29, noon Old Capitol Museum staff present a preview of the upcom-ing program, “Present Meets Past.” Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

Events at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Com-plex (1701 N. State St.)• Millsaps Fall Forum Oct. 1, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. At

The Bowl. Chicago-based singer-songwriter Joe Goodkin presents “Homer’s Odyssey in Song.” Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Millsaps Fall Forum Oct. 3, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. In room AC 215. Millsaps faculty and students discuss their research with the Herculaneum Graffiti Project. Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

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Jackson 2000 Friendship Golf Outing Sept. 18, 8:30 a.m., at Deerfield Country Club (264 Deerfield Club Drive, Canton). The shotgun start is at 8:30 a.m., and lunch is at 1 p.m. Door prizes included. Proceeds benefit Jackson 2000, an organization devoted to racial har-mony. Sponsorships available. $125, $500 team of four; call 601-948-3071 or 601-957-0434; email hibbett.neel@neel-schaffer.com or jnlamp-man@aol.com; jackson2000.org.

LatinFest Sept. 20, noon-8 p.m., at Old Trace Park (Post Road, Ridgeland). LABALink is the host. The annual cultural celebration includes art, dancing, food and live music. A portion of proceeds benefits the Mississippi chapter of the American Red Cross. $7 in advance, $10 at the door; call 601-853-2011; latinfest.org.

Cure Sickle Cell 5K Sept. 21, 4 p.m., at Jackson State University, Walter Payton Recreation and Wellness Center (32 Walter Payton Drive). Check-in is at 3 p.m. Runners, walkers and rid-ers welcome. Includes a tailgate-style party. Pro-ceeds benefit the Cure Sickle Cell Foundation. $20, $15 per person in groups of 10 or more; call 601-853-3402; email contact@curesickl-ecell.org; curesicklecell.org.

WellsFest Art Night and Auction Sept. 23, 5:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The preview party with the Buy It Now Tent is at 5:30 p.m., and the live auction is at 7 p.m. Pro-ceeds from sales benefit Partners to End Home-lessness. Refreshments and music included. Free admission, art for sale; call 601-353-0658; email arden@ardenland.net; wellsfest.org.

Ovarian Cycle Jackson Ready. Set. Ride! Sept. 25, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive). The indoor cycling marathon is a fundraiser for raising awareness and funds for ovarian cancer research. Cyclists select their own one-hour time slots. All skill levels welcome. Space limited. Registration required. $50

registration fee and required fundraising goal of $250, no fee or fundraising minimum for virtual riders; call 956-1411; email rblais-dell@ocrf.org; ovariancycle.kintera.org.

WellsFest Sept. 27, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at Jamie Fowler Boyll Park (1398 Lakeland Drive). Wells Church’s annual event includes live music with Vasti Jackson as the headliner, food vendors, arts and crafts, a 5K race, a pet parade, children’s activities, a silent auc-tion and a plant sale. Proceeds benefit Part-ners to End Homelessness. Free admission; call 601-353-0658; wellsfest.org.

Purple for Peace Oct. 2, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). The Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence is the host. Includes dinner, a raffle and a silent auction. The speaker is Sulaiman Nuriddin of Men Stopping Violence. Proceeds go toward MCADV’s Engaging Men initiatives. $35, $350 tables; call 800-898-3234.

Jacktoberfest Oct. 17, 11 a.m.-11 p.m., at Downtown Jackson. On Congress Street between Amite and Capitol streets. The annual street festival includes concerts, craft beer and

other refreshments for sale such as bratwurst, burgers and drinks. Free admission; email jack@jacktoberfest.com; jacktoberfest.com.

Events at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland)• WitchCrafted Craft Competitions Oct. 23

Enter the Pumpkin Carving Competition or the Mastercrafted Creatures Competition for a chance to win prizes. Runs through Oct. 31. Pumpkin Carving: $10; Mastercrafted Creatures: $10 individuals, $25 groups; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

• WitchCrafted 5K Run Oct. 26, 8 a.m., at Old Trace Park (Post Road, Ridgeland). The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi is the host. Includes the Super Heroes Fun Run for kids. Costumes welcome. $30 5K, $25 one-mile run, $20 ages 12 and under (includes T-shirt, breakfast and one-day pass to the Smokin’ On the Rez BBQ and Music Festival); call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

• WitchCrafted Monster Bash Oct. 31, 7 p.m. The party includes a costume contest, music, adult beverages, ghostly storytelling, showing off “Thriller” dance moves and more. $25; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

JFP Chick Ball Masked Jam Nov. 1, at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The costume party is a fundraiser for the Center for Violence Prevention. Includes live music, Southern Fried Karaoke and the Rooster Sports Pub. For ages 18 and up. $5 cover; call 948-0888; email director@jfpchickball.com; jfpchickball.com.

Day of Dialogue: A Greater Jackson Town Hall Nov. 12, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., at Missis-sippi e-Center at Jackson State University (1230 Raymond Road). Jackson 2000’s forum features interactive sessions to facilitate hon-est and constructive conversations about race and ethnicity in the community. Registration required. $30; call 979-1246; email msecen-ter@msecenter.com; jackson2000.org.

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• Millsaps Fall Forum Oct. 7, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. In room AC 215. Dr. Wendy Moore speaks on the topic “Reproducing Racism.” Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Millsaps Arts and Lecture Series' Ross Moore History Lecture Oct. 7, 7 p.m. Retired archaeologist Sam Brookes speaks on the topic “The Mounds of Mississippi and the Proposed Mound Trail.” $10, $5 students; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

• Millsaps Fall Forum Oct. 14, 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m. In room AC 215. Author and Millsaps alumna Polly Dement join panelists to discuss the topic “Social Entrepreneurship in Missis-sippi.” Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Millsaps Fall Forum: Arts and Humanities Symposium Oct. 31, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. In room AC 215. The forum features the best student research papers of the year. Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu

• Millsaps Arts and Lecture Series Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Judge Leslie H. Southwick, United States Court of Appeals justice for the Fifth Circuit, speaks on the topic “Nominated as a Federal Judge and Surviving to Write About It.” $10, $5 students; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

• Millsaps Fall Forum Nov. 7, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. In room AC 215. First-semester students present essays written in response to the summer 2013 required reading of “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Millsaps Fall Forum Nov. 10, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. In room AC 215. Dr. Carolyn Dupont speaks on the topic “The Role of Religion in Missis-sippi during the Civil Rights Years.” Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Millsaps Arts and Lecture Series: Southern Songwriters Night Nov. 24, 7 p.m. Lauren Murphy and Will Kimbrough perform. $10; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

Events at Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (201 W. Capitol St., Suite 700)• Federal Grants: The Process Oct. 2, 9 a.m.-

4 p.m.Oct. 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The comprehen-sive two-day workshop is a walk through the many federal funding programs and how to interpret their application guidelines. Regis-tration required. $399, $249 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• Technology for Nonprofits Oct. 7, 9 a.m.-noon. Learn the best practices for technology in your organization including software secu-rity, hardware, server and network options. Registration required. $109, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• Developing a Sustainable Fundraising Plan Oct. 31, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Learn to diversify your fundraising options in an effort to create a long-term funding plan for your organization. Registration required. $109, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• Starting a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Nov. 4, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The presentation covers the steps to establish a nonprofit organization from forming initial committee to completing state and federal forms. Registration required. $139; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• No Funds, No Budget, No Problem Nov. 5, 9 a.m.-noon Learn how to deal with money and budget problems for your nonprofit. Reg-

istration required. $109, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• Social Media: Beyond Twitter and Facebook Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-noon Learn about other plat-forms such as Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube. Registration required. $109, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• Crowd Funding for Nonprofits Nov. 13, 9 a.m.-noon Explore how crowd funding can be used in your organization as another layer in your fundraising plan. Registration required. $109, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

• Lunch and Learn Series: Selecting a Grant Writer Nov. 19, noon-1 p.m. Learn ways to select and contract out for grant writers, fund-raisers and other professionals. Lunch provided. Registration required. $15, $5 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

Fondren After 5 Oct. 2, 5 p.m., Nov. 6, 5 p.m., Dec. 4, 5 p.m., at Fondren. This monthly event is

a showcase of the local shops, galleries and restau-rants of the Fondren neighborhood. Includes live music, food and vendors. Free; call 601-720-2426; email newfondrenafter5@gmail.com (artists, craft-ers and musicians); fondrenafter5.com.

Tru Skool Skate Night Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m., at Skate N Shake (Jackson Square Promenade, 2460 Terry Road, Suite 1600). Includes music from DJ Phingaprint, free shots and giveaways. $10; call 346-2522; email jbentertainmentgroup@gmail.com.

Precinct 1 COPS Meeting Oct. 2, 6 p.m., Nov. 6, 6 p.m., Dec. 4, 6 p.m., at Jackson Police Depart-ment, Precinct 1 (810 Cooper Road). These monthly forums are designed to help resolve community issues or problems, from crime to pot-holes. Free; call 601-960-0001.

Jackson Audubon Society First Saturday Bird Walk Oct. 4, 8 a.m.-10 a.m., Nov. 1, 8 a.m.-10 a.m., Dec. 6, 8 a.m.-10 a.m., at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park (2140 Riverside Drive). An

expert birder leads the walk. Bring binoculars, water, insect repellent and a snack. Call ahead if you would like to borrow a pair of binocu-lars. Adults must accompany children under 15. Free, $3 car entrance fee. Free walk, $3 car entrance fee; call 601-832-6788.

Rankin County Democrats Monthly Breakfast Oct. 4, 8:30 a.m., Nov. 1, 8:30 a.m., Dec. 6, 8:30 a.m., at Corner Bakery, Flowood (108 Market St., Flowood). On first Saturdays at 8:30am, Jackson-area Democrats meet for breakfast and discuss current political activities. Open to the public. Free with food for sale Free with food for sale; call 601-919-9797; rankindemocrats.net.

Renaissance Euro Fest Classic European Auto and Motorcycle Show Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). See classic cars and motorcycles, and newer special-interest vehicles. Exhibitors must register by Sept. 28 (no entry fee). Awards given, and exhibitors enjoy additional

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Partners to End Homelessness’ Project Homeless Connect Sept. 16, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.Sept. 17, 1 p.m.-3 p.m.Sept. 18, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., at Downtown Jackson. At Poindexter Park (200 Poindexter St.), the Homeless Service Fair is Sept. 16 from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., and Picnic in the Park is Sept. 17 from 1-3 p.m. The Homeless Confer-ence is Sept. 18 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at Gal-loway Church (305 N. Congress St.). Free; call 601-213-5301; ptehms.org.

Dates for Leukemia Sept. 18, 7 p.m.-11 p.m., at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The annual silent date auction is a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Mississippi. Includes heavy hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and live music. Wear cocktail attire. $50 in advance, $60 at the door; call 601-954-1717 or 601-573-4181; email jamie@jwoodspr.com or tbouchillon@comcast.net.

Sit. Stay. LOVE. Sept. 20, noon-4 p.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). At Anthropolo-gie. This annual event, hosted at Anthropolo-gie stores across the country, promotes pet adoptions from local shelters. The pet supply and adoption event benefits Cheshire Abbey. Donations welcome; call 601-898-1201.

Pink Tie Gala Oct. 9, 5:30 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The black-tie fundraiser includes a silent suc-tion, a three-course dinner, the Pink Tie Guys presentation and honoring survivors. $50 per person, $400 table, VIP: $100 per person, $800 table; call 601-932-3999; komencentralms.org.

Take It to the Streets Oct. 12, 9 a.m., Dec. 14, 9 a.m., at North Ridge Church in Fondren (3232 N. State St.) and Madison (inside St. Joseph High School). Partici-pants meet to serve the community through activities such as feeding the homeless, repairing homes for the disabled or another designated task. Call for details. Free; call 769-218-5140; northridgejackson.com.

Family and Friends of LGBTQI Persons Support Group Oct. 13, Nov. 10, Dec. 8, at

call or email for location and time . The group offers a safe place for people to share their feel-ings and experiences. Professional counselors lead the sessions. Free; call 601-842-7599; email supportforfamandfriends@outlook.com.

Partners to End Homelessness’ ‘70s Disco Ball Oct. 18, 7 p.m.-11:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). This 1970s-themed party and fundraiser includes food, a cash bar, a silent auction and a costume contest with celebrity judges. Tickets also sold at the door. $35; call 292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ptehms.org.

Southern Soiree Oct. 21, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at The South Warehouse (627 E. Silas Brown St.). The fundraiser for the Palmer Home

for Children includes food, a silent auction, and a guest appearance from 2014 Miss Mississippi Jasmine Murray. For ages 21 and up. $50; call 968-0137; email thesouthware-house@yahoo.com; palmerhome.org.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk Oct. 25, 9 a.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Check-in is at 8 a.m. Proceeds from the annual 5K walk benefit the American Cancer Society. Fundraising encouraged; call 601-321-5512; email jacksonmsstrides@cancer.org; makingstrideswalk.org.

Red Beans and Rice Celebration Oct. 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Way, Pearl). The theme is “Hollywood: Where You Can Bean a Star.” Enjoy samples from the red beans and rice competition, family-friendly activities and live music. Proceeds benefit Stew-pot Community Services. $10 in advance, $12 day of event, $5 ages 6-12, free for ages 5 and under; call 601-353-2759 or 601-540-8555; redbeansandrice.org.

JFP Chick Ball Masked Jam Nov. 1, at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The costume party is a fundraiser for the Center for Violence Prevention. Includes live music, Southern Fried Karaoke and the Rooster Sports Pub. For ages 18 and up. $5 cover; call 948-0888; email director@jfpchickball.com (especially if you want to perform!); Details at jfpchickball.com.

NAMIWalks Nov. 8, 9 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). At the Art Garden. This year’s theme is “Walkin’ off the Blues.” Check-in is at 8 a.m. The 5K run/walk is a fundraiser for NAMI Mississippi, a branch of the National Alilance of Mental Ill-ness. Fundraising encouraged, donations wel-come; call 601-899-9058 or 800-357-0388; email kjones1980@gmail.com; namiwalks.org.

Out of the Darkness Community Walk Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-11 a.m., at The Nature Park (Flowood Drive, Flowood). The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is the host. Check-in is at 8 a.m. Proceeds benefit local and national suicide prevention and awareness programs. Fundraising encouraged; call 888-333-2377; outofthedarkness.org.

34th Annual Squat & Gobble Nov. 20, 6:30 p.m.-10 p.m., at Reservoir Pointe (140 Mad-ison Landing Circle, Ridgeland). Friends for a Cause hosts the annual party to raise funds for domestic violence and sex trafficking pre-vention. Includes turkey calling and dance contests, a silent auction and music from Greenfish. $35 through Nov. 2, $45 after, $5 donation for Ultimate Private Party for 30; call 601-898-1934; friendsforacause.com.

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activities before and after the main event. Free; call 601-946-1950; email mike_marsh@bellsouth.net; euro-fest.net/ridgeland.

National Night Out Celebration Oct. 7, 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). The’s Jackson Medical Mall Foundation annual crime prevention party includes food, games and entertainment. Vendors welcome. Free admission, $25 vendors; call 601-982-8467; email sblack@jacksonmedicalmall.org.

Pumpkin Adventure Oct. 8, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 9, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 10, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 15, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 16, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 17, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Oct. 22, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 23, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 24, 9 a.m.-noon, Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Enjoy a hayride tour of the grounds, a visit to the Heritage Center Gallery, milk and cookies, and picking a small pie pumpkin to take home. $7, children under 2 free; call 601-432-4500; mdac.ms.gov/agmuseum.

Canton Flea Market Oct. 9, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at His-toric Canton Square (Courthouse Square, Can-ton). The biannual shopping extravaganza includes goods from artists and crafters. Free admission; call 601-859-1307; cantonmsfleamarket.com.

Precinct 2 COPS Meeting Oct. 9, 6 p.m., Nov. 13, 6 p.m., Dec. 11, 6 p.m., at Jackson Police Department, Precinct 2 (Metrocenter Mall, 3645 Highway 80 W.). On the lower level. These monthly forums are designed to help resolve community issues or problems, from crime to potholes. Enter from the back entrance. Free; call 601-960-0002.

Events on Jefferson Street• Dinner and a Movie Oct. 10, 6 p.m. Pur-

chase food from 303 Jefferson and watch the film “Frozen.” Free; call 601-924-5474; clintonms.org.

• Dinner and a Movie Oct. 24, 6 p.m. Purchase food from Lurny D’s and watch the film “E.T.” Free; call 601-924-5474; clintonms.org.

Jackson State University Homecoming Parade Oct. 11, 9 a.m., at Downtown Jackson. Enjoy floats, special guests and marching bands including the Sonic Boom of the South. Free; jsums.edu.

The Blueprint III: JSU Homecoming Alumni After-Party Oct. 11, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., at Union Station (300 W. Capitol St.). Includes music from DJ Freeze, DJ IE and DJ Unpredictable. Wear upscale attire. VIP packages available. $20 (price subject to change on day of event); email info@wecame2play.com; eventbrite.com.

Events at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.)• Alumni J-Settes Reunion Party Oct. 11,

9 p.m.-3 a.m. Includes music from DJ Whitehouse, and Henry Rhodes and the Mo’ Money Band. Wear upscale attire. For ages 25 and up. $25 in advance; call 960-2321; reunionevent.com.

• Racial Reconciliation Celebration Banquet Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Bishop Duncan Gray II, the Rt. Rev. Duncan Gray III and Reuben Anderson. Sponsorships available. $65; call 601-353-6477; missionmississippi.net.

• Black Tie Gala Oct. 24, 6 p.m. The Jackson State University National Alumni Association is the host. Includes a silent auction ar 6 p.m. and the main event at 7 p.m. Honorary chairs are

Dr. Juanita Sims Doty and Dr. Timothy Quinn. The Russell Thompson R&B Funk Band performs. RSVP. $100, $1,000 table of 10; call 601-979-2281; jsunaa.org.

Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance Advocacy Meeting Oct. 15, noon, Nov. 12, noon, at Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alli-ance (612 N. State St., Suite B). MIRA dis-cusses current issues and upcoming campaigns at the meeting held on second Mondays. Open to the public. Light dinner included. Free; call 601-968-5182; yourmira.org.

Events at William F. Winter Archives and His-tory Building (200 North St.)• History Is Lunch Oct. 15, noon Archaeolo-

gist John O’Hear talks about the Mississippi Mound Trail for Archaeology Month. Free; call 601-576-6920.

• History Is Lunch Oct. 22, noon Jacksonian Tim Whitsett—musician, music publisher, songwriter, producer and author—talks about his international career in music. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

• History Is Lunch Nov. 5, noon Historian Walter Howell presents “Town and Gown,” which is about the history of Clinton. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

• History Is Lunch Nov. 12, noon Deborah Thomas, digital projects coordinator for the National Digital Newspaper Project at the Library of Congress, discusses Chronicling

America, a project to digitize America’s historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

• History Is Lunch Nov. 19, noon Carolyn J. Brown talks about her new book, “Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker,” from University Press of Mississippi. Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

Great Mississippi Road Trip Oct. 16-19, at multiple locations. The Mississippi Center for Justice hosts the annual trip that includes stops at landmarks such as Medgar Evers’ home, the Fan-

nie Lou Hamer monument and the B.B. King Museum. The Oct. 16 Champions of Justice Dinner honoring Bill Minor and Oleta Fitzgerald is included. Register by Aug. 29. $300 through July 31, then $350 (hotel rooms cost extra); call 601-709-0859; email lwelford@mscenterforjus-tice.org; mscenterforjustice.org.

Fall Flower and Garden Fest Oct. 17, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.Oct. 18, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Truck Crops Experiment Station (2024 Experiment Station Road, Highway 51 S., Crystal Springs). The annu-al home gardening show includes a one-mile fun walk, food vendors, garden tours and seminars. Free; call 601-892-3731; msucares.com/fallfest.

Scarecrow Cruise and Car Show Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 18, 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Tulane University, Madison Campus (2115 Main St., Madison). Includes a car show, a 5K run, a silent auction, a magic show, a visit

from Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers, and arts and crafts vendors. Proceeds benefit Hope Hollow Ministries and the Mississippi SIDS Alliance. Car exhibitors must register. Free admission, car entries: $25 through Oct. 6, $30 after; call 601-720-4606; email keith_bates@comcast.net; msclassiccruisers.com.

WAMA Jama Oct. 18, 7 p.m., at Kress Live (814 Howard Ave., Biloxi). The costume party with a Day of the Dead theme includes a sec-ond-line parade, Mexican food, face painting and music from The Funk. VIP tickets avail-able. $50; call 228-207-4362; email develop-ment@walterandersonmuseum.org.

Unburied Treasures: Cover to Cover Oct. 21, 6 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Presenters include author Elizabeth Wolfe and A. Mecklin Stevens of Pearl River Community College. Ensemble Polonaise performs. Cash bar at 5:30 p.m. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Mississippi-Louisiana Black and Blue Civil War Living History Event Oct. 25, 11 a.m., at Histor-ic Jefferson College (16 Old North St., Natchez). The annual program features re-enactments of slaves who fought with or assisted Union soldiers during the Civil War. Free; call 601-442-4719; email forksyaroads@aol.com.

Mississippi Black Leadership Summit Oct. 30-31, at Jackson Marriott (200 E. Amite St.). The theme is “Moving Mississippi in the Right Direction.” Includes workshops, networking and discussions on social issues. Registration required. Free; call 601-960-9594, ext. 304; uniteonevoice.org/mbls.

Spencer Perkins Center’s Awards Banquet Nov. 1, at King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.). The theme is “A Legacy of Success: A Foun-dation for Future Leadership.” The keynote speaker is Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber. $50; call 601-668-1555 or 601-334-1563; thespc.org.

Mississippi NAACP State Convention and Policy Institute Nov. 6-8, at downtown Vicks-burg. The theme of the 69th annual event is “All in for Justice and Equality.” Includes panel discussions, guest speakers and special events throughout the city. Details pending. Registra-tion fee TBA; naacpms.org.

Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton King-dom Symposium and Cotton Pickers Ball Nov. 7, at Mississippi Valley State University (14000 Highway 82 W., Itta Bena). Khafre Inc. hosts annual event that includes discussions on historic preservation and a black-tie ball. Abstracts, proposals due Oct. 7. Free sympo-sium; $25 ball; 662-347-8198; info@khafreinc.org or linda@khafreinc.org; khafreinc.org.

Madison County Showcase Nov. 18, 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. Coun-ty Line Road). The Madison County Chamber of Commerce hosts the annual awards pro-gram. Enjoy food samples, a silent auction and more. Admission TBA; call 601-605-2554; madisoncountychamber.com.

Unburied Treasures: Cover to Cover Nov. 18, 6 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Curator Dr. Roger Ward talks about the influence of Spain and of Span-ish artists on artist Robert Henri. Ensemble Polonaise performs. Cash bar at 5:30 p.m. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Fondren’s Duling Hall transforms into a honky-tonk club when coun-try purists Dale

Watson and Marty Stuart bring their au-thentic southern style to its stage. Alabama-born and Texas-bred Dale Watson has been writ-ing songs and picking guitars for more than 30 years. His latest release, 2013’s “El Rancho Azul,” puts his rich baritone voice and twangy guitar-playing to work. The album displays Wat-son’s legendary influ-ences, such as Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, in catchy, traditional tunes like “I Lie When I Drink,” which sounds like it could have been written in 1966. Marty Stuart should be no stranger to Mississippians. He grew up in Philadel-phia and has been a musical ambassador

for our state and its country music heri-tage, starting as a young teen on the road

with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, later as part of Johnny Cash’s band, then as an in-dependent recording artist. Since 2008, he’s hosted “The Marty Stuart Show,” which airs on cable’s RFD-TV. The musical va-riety program features talented upstarts and celebrated country-music performers. Dale Watson and The Lone Stars play at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave., 601-

292-7121) Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. Marty Stu-art and The Fabulous Superlatives perform Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for Dale Watson and $30 for Marty Stuart. Purchase through ardenland.net. For more informa-tion, visit theconnextion.com/dalewatson and martystuart.net.

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Electric griddle—It may not seem like it, but an electric griddle can function much like a grill. Some come with attachments to mimic a grill grate, and you can

find ones to fit griddles that don’t come with the attachments. The heat source isn’t as effective as a grill that uses fire as a heat source, but you

can still grill things on it … and make pancakes.

Grill pan—This is your best bet for grilling indoors. You can find these at stores such as The Everyday Gourmet (1625 E. County Line Road, Suite 500, 601-977-9258), and they come in styles such as flat like a griddle or with the raised lines. These are available for electric and gas stoves, but gas is ideal because it provides an even layer of heat.

Oven broiler—Brown says that most steak houses actually use a broiler to grill. Place a rack on the top rung in the oven and put the food directly on it, leaving a pan on the rack below to catch drippings. Brown says to put a wad of aluminum foil in the door so it doesn’t shut all the way (to keep the heat constant). Also, remember to add just a touch of oil to keep the food tender.

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Liquid smoke—It’s actually smoke that was passed through a tube from a combustion chamber with wood chips to a condensation chamber, where

the smoke turns into a liquid. Brown says you can add this about an hour before cook-ing, along with some salt, and it will produce a smoky flavor.

Anything from veggies to steak, though I wouldn’t roast a whole hog inside.

What about grilling peppers or tomatoes to make sauces? These are most often done either on a grill or a gas stove. If you’re like me, and you’d like to make these sauces but have neither, you have two options—a kitchen blowtorch or your oven. While a blowtorch is fairly cheap, using it to roast tomatoes or peppers is probably go-ing to take a while. If you don’t want to buy one, use your broiler. To broil tomatoes or peppers, cut them in half and place them cut-side down on a bak-ing sheet. Put the oven rack high up, and place the tray of veggies on it. Turn the broiler on high and cook them for 5 to 10 minutes, or until they’re blistered and blackened. While it’s not the same as creating a salsa from freshly grilled tomatoes and peppers, you get much of the same effect. You can also blacken veggies to create a roasted veggie soup or to add another layer of flavor to a dish.

Grilling indoors will never be the same as using a charcoal or gas-burning grill, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have that same flavor. If you don’t want to freeze your butt off while cooking outdoors in the winter, why not bring the party inside and have an indoor cook-out?

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‘Laugh So You Don’t Cry’by Mary Spooner

LIFE&STYLE | wellness

J osh Lewis hunches forward in a vinyl chair in the emergency-room waiting area. His thin arms lie in a crumpled heap in his lap. He mas-

sages the elbow of his right arm with his left hand as he rocks back and forth in a slow, jerking motion. His eyes look glassy, exhausted from the familiar, biting pain. Despite his position, he is impeccably dressed, as always. His dark hair is swept

away from his face in a voluminous style. Lewis, normally chatty and expressive, speaks slowly in a wavering pitch. He forces a smile, but his lips quiver. “Laugh so you don’t cry,” he tells himself. Lewis is having a pain crisis caused by sickle cell disease, a hereditary blood disor-der. Patients with sickle cell have “sickle” or crescent-shaped blood cells caused by abnormal hemoglobin, a protein that car-ries oxygen. Sickled blood cells have a short lifespan and often stick together, blocking blood flow in small vessels in the limbs and organs. The disease can cause anemia, jaundice, gallstones, pain crises, vascular complications, stroke, organ damage and weak immunity. Approximately 100,000 Americans suffer from sickle cell. Lewis, who lives in Jackson with his wife, Kimberly, has struggled with the ill-ness his whole life. He works in artists and repertoire for NOW Entertainment, where he is also a producer and writer. Lewis has received treatment from various hospitals, locally and out-of-state. When he has a sickle-cell crisis, he is in an inordinate amount of pain. He believes that sickle-cell patients are stigmatized, largely because of racial prejudices. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report one out of every 500 African American children born in the U.S. has sickle cell disease. One out of every 100 Latinos has the trait, and one in 36,000 are born with sickle cell. Sickle cell most often affects people with Indian, Middle Eastern, Hispanic, African and Mediterranean heritages.

Lewis believes that because the dis-order affects mostly racial minorities, it doesn’t receive the attention or research funding it deserves. When compared to other diseases, sickle cell often lags behind in research and funding. In an article on bloodjournal.org, pub-lished by the American Society of Hema-tology, researchers and hematologists from Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hop-

kins School of Medicine found that in comparing national research funding for sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis, the funding for cystic fibrosis was 4 percent greater than funding for sickle cell. Approximately three times more people in the U.S. have sickle cell disease. Lewis believes that under-treatment and disorganization occurs in hospitals, because emergency room staff do not always have the specific knowl-edge to properly treat the per-son. On one occasion, Lewis waited from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

for treatment. He says that ER doctors will frequent-ly try to give him a shot of pain medication and a common NSAID pain reliever, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, which has little ef-fect on his pain. “I know patients who have stopped going altogether because of inad-equate care,” Lewis says. There is hope, though. University of Mississippi Medical Center recently opened a sickle-cell clinic to offer specialized care to those who suffer from the disease. The clinic is located in UMMC’s day-surgery area and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is the only clinic of its kind in Mississippi. UMMC says it will ease the congestion in the Emergency Department. Lewis visited the clinic at UMMC for the first time July 15. After checking into the ER at the clinic, Lewis was quickly wheeled to the day-surgery waiting room. A smiling nurse then escorted him to a private room. She calmly moved about the room, asked questions, drew his blood and gave him fluids. A nurse practitioner figured out how best to treat Lewis’ pain. Then, the nurse administered Lewis the medicine he needed and checked in on him. Lewis now sits in the hospital bed, gently massaging his arm. “We’re trending upward,” he says with a grin. Lewis encour-ages other sickle-cell patients to try the new clinic at UMMC, which allows them to by-pass the ER. Lewis hopes that the sickle-cell clinic will solve many of the problems he has encountered in hospitals over his life-time of treatment. “It’s a step in the right direction,” Lewis says.

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Autumnal Ventures

LIFE&STYLE | girl about townby Julie Skipper

“W ill you be in town this weekend?” It’s a ques-tion I ask often during football season, as I try

to find time to catch up with friends. This being SEC country, the response is usually, “no,” and will remain that way until the sea-son ends. The past few weeks, I’ve been on the road following Ole Miss at its away games in Atlanta and Nashville. Road games are a great chance to get away, and those two cities are fun to visit. Ex-tending the trip beyond game day for a little extra time means getting to enjoy some great din-ners and brunches, shopping and sightseeing along with the main event. But after two week-ends away, I was eager to stay put for a bit. While exploring another city is always a good time, this fall brought a number of new places to try in Jackson, and I was feeling the need to play catch-up and try out the ones that had opened while I was away. First on my list was CAET (3100 N. State St., Suite 102, 601-321-9169), Jenni-fer and Derek Emerson’s new wine bar and small-plates offering in Fondren. I’m a big fan of wine and small plates, and to have smaller portions of Emerson’s great food, as well as a great selection of wines by the glass, is something I think has been missing in Jackson’s culinary landscape. So, after work one day, I met a friend there. Upon entering, my first reaction was, “It’s so pretty!” The atmosphere is warm and welcoming, elegant without being stuffy—a mixture of wood, metal, glass and cool colors, with beautiful low flower arrangements. I also loved sitting beneath a painting the restaurant commissioned by local artist William Goodman. The staff was quite attentive, and our server brought over Dave Grenley, the wine specialist in the Emersons’ restaurants, to answer questions and make recommendations. CAET offers wines by the bottle, of course, but the big draw is that they also offer by the taste, half-glass and glass, so you can play around and try things you might not otherwise. I was happy to see a few wines that I love, but also to try some new things. I also appreciated the dessert-wine selection. And for those who are not oenophiles, there’s a cocktail and beer menu as well. Emerson stopped by to chat and let us know that the small-plate offerings will change frequently, so there will always be something different and tasty to try. I know I’ll be back often.

While away, another familiar haunt, Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St., 601-948-0888, halandmals.com) started some-thing new: It now serves brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays, which is good news for fans of the weekend mid-morn-ing/early afternoon meal, and for those who

perhaps need a little grease in their bellies after a Friday night on the town. Chef Ryan Bell recommends the ba-con and eggs, which includes pork belly, grits and two poached eggs, as well as a dish called The Hash—potatoes, red onion, bell peppers and pulled pork served with tor-tillas and topped with “Mal style” onion rings, barbecue sauce and cream gravy. Also, the Breakfast Po-Boy blends breakfast and lunch into one sandwich, with scrambled eggs, andouille sausage, bacon, ham and cheese on French bread. Rounding out the new kids in town is Saltine Oyster Bar in Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave., Suite 201, 601-982-2899). I made it for the open house during August’s Fondren After 5, but only experienced the décor and atmosphere on that stop. It’s a very cool environment incorporating nods to the building’s history as a school, as well as touches that reflect the seafood the res-taurant now serves. The curved oyster bar—with an inset of actual oyster shells above—invites you to settle in and watch the guys shuck. Alas, my schedule has not allowed me to do so, yet, but I will soon. If you follow Saltine on so-cial media (@saltineoysters on Twitter and Instagram), you can find out what the oys-ters and catch of the day are, as well as the Randall (infused beer) of the day. With all these new offerings, non-foot-ball weekends will have plenty to enjoy here in town. But whether you’re on the road cheering for the team or watching from a perch in the city, enjoy the season.

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AMERICAN/SOUTHERN CUISINEBasil’s (2906 N State St #104, Jackson, 601-982-2100)Paninis pizza, pasta, soups and salads. They’ve got it all on the menu.Broad Street Bakery (4465 Interstate 55 N. 601-362-2900)Hot breakfast, coffee drinks, fresh breads & pastries, gourmet deli sandwiches.Primos Cafe (2323 Lakeland 601-936-3398/ 515 Lake Harbour 601-898-3400)A Jackson institution for breakfast, blue-plates, catfish, burgers, prime rib, oysters, po-boys & wraps. Famous bakery!Rooster’s (2906 N State St, Jackson, 601-982-2001)You haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Rooster’s burger. Pair it with their seasoned fries and you’re in heaven.Two Sisters Kitchen (707 N. Congress St. 601-353-1180) Lunch. Mon-Fri, Sun.

PIZZASal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St. 601-368-1919) Pizzas of all kinds plus pasta, eggplant Parmesan, fried ravioli & ice cream for the kids!Mellow Mushroom (275 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood, 601-992-7499) More than just great pizza and beer. Open Monday - Friday 11-10 and Saturday 11-11.

ITALIANLa Finestra (120 N Congress St #3, Jackson, 601-345-8735) The brainchild of award-winning Chef Tom Ramsey, this downtown Jackson hot-spot offers authentic Italian cuisine in cozy, inviting environment.BRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) Award-winning wine list, Jackson’s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining. Cerami’s (5417 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, 601-919-28298) Southern-style Italian cuisine features their signature Shrimp Cerami.

STEAK, SEAFOOD & FINE DININGThe Islander Seafood and Oyster House (1220 E Northside Drive, Suite 100, 601-366-5441)Oyster bar, seafood, gumbo, po’boys, crawfish and plenty of Gulf Coast delights in a laid-back Buffet-style atmosphere.The Penguin (1100 John R Lynch Street, 769.251.5222) Fine dining at its best.Rocky’s (1046 Warrington Road, Vicksburg 601-634-0100) Enjoy choice steaks, fresh seafood, great salads, hearty sandwiches.Sal and Phil’s Seafood (6600 Old Canton Rd, Ridgeland (601) 957-1188)Great Seafood, Poboys, Lunch Specials, Boiled Seafood, Full Bar, Happy Hour SpecialsShea’s on Lake Harbour (810 Lake Harbour Drive, Ridgeland, MS 39157 (601) 427-5837)Seafood, Steaks and Southern Cuisine! Great Brunch, Full Bar Outdoor and Seating

MEDITERRANEAN/GREEKAladdin Mediterranean Grill (730 Lakeland Drive 601-366-6033)Delicious authentic dishes including lamb dishes, hummus, falafel, kababs, shwarma.Vasilios Greek Cusine (828 Hwy 51, Madison 601-853-0028)Authentic greek cuisine since 1994, specializing in gyros, greek salads, baklava cheesecake & fresh daily seafood.

BARBEQUEPig and Pint (3139 N State St, Jackson, 601-326-6070) Serving up competition style barbecue along with one of the of best beer selections in metro.Hickory Pit Barbeque (1491 Canton Mart Rd. 601-956-7079) The “Best Butts in Town” features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and po’boys.

COFFEE HOUSESCups Espresso Café (Multiple Locations, www.cupsespressocafe.com)Jackson’s local group of coffeehouses offer a wide variety of espresso drinks. Wi-fi.

BARS, PUBS & BURGERSCapitol Grill (5050 I-55 North, Deville Plaza 601-899-8845) Best Happy Hour and Sports Bar in Town. Kitchen Open Late pub food and live entertainment.Cherokee Inn (960 Briarfield Rd. 601-362-6388) Jackson’s “Best Hole in the Wall,” has a great jukebox, great bar and a great burger. Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap.Hal and Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials.Martin’s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection.Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St. 601-960-2700) Pub food with a southern flair: beer-battered onion rings, chicken & sausage gumbo, salads, sandwiches.Time Out (6270 Old Canton Road, 601-978-1839) Your neighborhood fun spot! Terrific lunch special and amazing Happy Hour!Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Pan-seared crabcakes, shrimp and grits, filet mignon, vegetarian sliders. Live music. Opens 4 p.m., Wed-SatWing Stop (952 North State Street, 601-969-6400) Saucing and tossing in a choice of nine flavors, Wing Stop wings are made with care and served up piping hot.

ASIAN AND INDIANCrazy Ninja (2560 Lakeland Dr., Flowood 601-420-4058) Rock-n-roll sushi and cook-in-front-of-you hibachi. Lunch specials, bento boxes, fabulous cocktails.Fusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetop Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588)Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushiNagoya Japanese Sushi Bar & Hibachi Grill (6351 I-55 North, Ste. 131, Jackson 601-977-8881)Fresh sushi, delicious noodles & sizzling hibachi from one of jackson’s most well-known japanese restaurants.

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the BankPlus International Gumbo Festival. The band blends beloved “Mardi Gras Indi-ans” tradition with modern-day music. “In the early 1900s, the Indians led carnival parades and parties in neigh-borhoods for older residents and (people of color) who were not allowed to visit certain parts of New Orleans, due to the discriminatory prac-tices of the time,” says Dollis, also known as “Big Chief.” In simi-lar fashion, he and the Wild Magnolias bring a party every-where they perform. “Dress comfortably and prepare to sweat,” Dollis says. “No heels or dressy clothes are necessary, and you’re going to leave tired.” With roots in reggae, hip-hop, rock and a touch of zydeco, the troupe de-livers a high-energy expe-rience that encourages the crowd to celebrate. They combine conventional and modern instruments during per-formances as well, including the bass drum, piano, electric and bass guitars. A New Orleans native, Dollis, 32, prefers to perform at festivals rather than clubs because it gives the Wild Magnolias a chance to introduce children to the culture. Young people rarely see the

flamboyant streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras, so the band welcomes any op-portunity to share the love. Dollis has been a part of the group for nearly 20 years. He enjoys the sense of brotherhood, and says each member of-fers input on show ideas and additions. He

first took the lead when his father, Bo Dol-lis Sr., New Orleans icon

and the band’s previous leader, became ill in 2006. Dollis Sr. introduced his son to the stage at age 12 so he would be prepared when it was time to take the reins. “I’m quiet and calm off stage, but I come alive when I hit the stage,” he says. “I write my songs and just take life experi-ences as inspiration.” Dollis doesn’t stray too far from some Wild Magnolia traditions, though, including such old-favorite songs as “In-dian Red.” While other bands have used

the Wild Magnolias name over the years, this group has the distinction of being the original, and he takes that honor seriously. In many ways, Dollis’ group has acted as a gateway to introduce the country to New Orleans culture, including through appear-ances on the HBO series “Treme.” The Wild Magnolias crew hasn’t become complacent. “I’m writing new stuff,” Dollis says. “I’m just going to get in the studio and record it, and it will be ready to go.”

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WEDNESDAY 9/17 Dale Watson and the Lone Stars perform 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; dulinghall.com. … Big Easy Three perform at 6:30 p.m. at Underground 119 (119 S. Presi-dent St.). The Jackson-based jazz trio perform New Orleans classics. Free; call 601-352-2322; underground119.com.

THURSDAY 9/18 Symphony at Sunset is 7 p.m. at The Cedars His-toric Home (4145 Old Canton Road). The Fondren Renaissance Foundation hosts the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. Bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnic bas-kets. Reserved seating with dinner available for sponsors. Free, tables: $500 friends’ table, $1,500 corporate; call 601-981-9606 (general) or 601-291-2323 (table reserva-tions); fondren.org. … Author Jesmyn Ward’s reading is

4 p.m. at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.) in room 215. Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu. … The Gallery Concert, featuring Passages and Places with Melissa Thorson Hause, is 7:30 p.m. at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.) in the Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

FRIDAY 9/19 FlashBang is from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. at Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St.). The EDM, hip-hop and trap dance party features performers such as Malignate, GLOtron, Light and Sound, and more. Includes a free photo booth and drink specials. For ages 21 and up. $5 in advance (limited), $8 at the door; call 601-826-4431 (text); email swankyfoxproductions@gmail.com; find FLASHBANG on Facebook.

SATURDAY 9/20 The BankPlus International Gumbo Festival begins 11 a.m. at Smith Park (302 E. Amite St.). The festival features a gumbo cook-off and live mu-sic from the North Mississippi All-Stars, The Wild Magnolias and more. Tickets are $10 for those over the age of 12. $12. … LatinFest is from noon-8 p.m. at Old Trace Park (Post Road, Ridgeland).The event includes art, dancing, food and live mu-sic. A portion of proceeds ben-efits the Mississippi chapter of the American Red Cross. $7 in advance, $10 at the door; call 601-853-2011; latinfest.org.

SUNDAY 9/21 “South Pacific” continues with a matinee at 2 p.m. at Mississippi College (200 S. Capitol St., Clinton) in the

Jean Pittman Williams Recital Hall. The musical is about love on a South Pacific island during World War II. $20, $10 children and students with ID; call 601-925-3440; mc.edu/marketplace.

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WEDNESDAY 9/24 History Is Lunch is noon at the William F. Winter Ar-chives and History Building (200 North St.). Author Rob-ert Blade talks about his book, “Tupelo Man,” a biography of George McLean. Free; call 601-576-6998. … DJ Durdy Costello performs for 50-Cent Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Metropolitan Bar (M-Bar) Sports Grill (6340 Ridgewood Court Drive). Free; call 601-389-0999.

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S tationed on an island in the South Pacific, U.S. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush wasn’t focusing on the fighting that took place during

World War II, or her home in Little Rock, Ark. She had her eyes set on French planta-tion owner Emile de Becque, a man many years her senior. Sound a little familiar? It should. That’s the central tale of Richard Rodgers and Os-car Hammerstein’s musical, “South Pacific.” Debuting on Broadway in 1949, the play maintained its must-see status for a

number of years, eventually becoming a film in 1958 with actors Mitzi Gaynor and Ros-sano Brazzi. The musical will take on new life this September, thanks to the music de-partment at Mississippi College in Clinton. Despite the prolific writing team be-hind “South Pacific,” Kristen Gunn, MC’s assistant professor of voice and coordinator of musical theater and opera, says it doesn’t have the same following as other Rodg-ers and Hammerstein productions, such as “The Sound of Music.” “Their works are so well loved, but ‘South Pacific’ is a musical that a lot of peo-ple know the tunes to, but don’t really know the story,” Gunn says. Gunn, 33, is the music director for “South Pacific,” having directed the sing-ers of five musicals and three operas in her seven years at MC. The play’s stage director is Chris Roebuck, educational director at New Stage Theatre, and the choreographer is Marlena Duncan of the Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex in Jackson. With a directing team that represents the broader Jackson dramatic community, it’s no surprise that this year also adds a few new faces to the cast—some newer than others. Gunn says MC musical roles have been open to the community—adults, high-school students and children—since last year’s “Les Misérables.” “For ‘South Pacific,’

it made sense to do that again because one of the leading roles (Emile de Becque) is in his 50s,” Gunn says. That’s where celebrated baritone Patton Rice comes in. A music instruc-tor at the Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven, Rice is a strong choice for de Becque, portraying the middle-aged planter with the appropriate amount of gusto. Rice, who has also performed with the Mississippi Opera, lends his considerable experience to the proceedings, which is needed this time around; the directing team has one less

month to prepare than for previous musicals. Despite the ticking clock, Gunn, Roebuck and Duncan have taken on big challenges with “South Pacific,” including double-casting many of the roles. MC senior Olivia Broome and junior Jamie Fergu-son play Nellie Forbush, while junior Nicholas Ford and sophomore Charlie Bell play the role of U.S. Marine Lt. Joe Cable, to a name just a few of the leads. Unlike understudies, these actors and actresses

alternate each night, which creates a differ-ent experience for every performance. “We encourage each person who is double-cast to bring their own unique skill set to the role,” Gunn says. “The colors of their voices make the music sound different.” In more ways than one, “different” is the operative word for “South Pacific.” In a time when racism often went ignored, Rod-gers and Hammerstein’s singing heroes chal-lenged audiences to accept less conventional loves. The team aimed a mirror at the rac-ism that ran rampant in post-war America. During the play’s second act, Lt. Cable sings about the conscious cultivation of racism stateside in the song “You’ve Got to Be Care-fully Taught,” a number nixed from most performances in the South. Musicals aren’t just a piece of history for Gunn, but something to be cherished today. “People who don’t even have musical back-grounds revere it as an art form,” Gunn says. “I think, with the American musical, we have ownership of that. That’s our genre.” “South Pacific” shows in the Jean Pit-tman Williams Recital Hall at Mississippi College (200 S. Capitol St., Clinton), Sept. 18-20 and 25-27 at 7 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., Sept. 21 and 28. Tick-ets are $20 for adults and $10 for children or students with IDs. For more information, call 601-925-3440.

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Love and Equality in the South Pacificby Micah Smith

Mississippi College’s “South Pacific” cast performs “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” from “South Pacific” with singers (left to right) Sam Lovorn, William Crutcher, Hosea Griffith, Duvy Salvant, Tyler Normand, Charlie Bell, Nicholas Ford, (middle left to right) Charles Runyan and Cole Angel.

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A thens, Ga., has incubated plenty of important musical acts in the last 40 years. With Pylon and REM as vanguards, the city

proved to be especially fertile ground for stripped-down four-piece bands. Playing eccentric variations of folk, punk or pop, with front-and-center vocals and guitars, bands like Love Tractor, Futurebirds and Modern Skirts have worked the model and furthered the sound. White Violet is an up-and-coming, indie-pop outfit from Athens that puts its four-piece structure to good use. Where many Athens bands embrace quirkier ele-ments, White Violet’s sound is made of moody, melody-based grooves. Leader and vocalist Nate Nelson says the songs he writes and the music he makes are directly attributable to living in a town that nur-tures musical creativity. “I grew up in Athens, and I give 100-percent credit to that town for being the best and coolest, most supportive place to make music,” he says. “I know I wouldn’t make the music I make if I hadn’t lived there and if I didn’t know the people I know. Athens can be supportive and very competitive—both are positive.” Nelson has been writing songs for about 10 years. He recorded his first album at age 16, and released his debut White Violet album, “Hiding, Mingling,” with the help of friends and fellow musicians in 2012. For Nelson, forming a touring band and transitioning from the studio to the stage was a challenge, as White Violet couldn’t find a core group of musicians. “I think there’s been about 20 mem-bers in White Violet. It’s been a struggle. People kept quitting or not working out,” Nelson says, though in good humor. “Even-

tually, I decided to just sit back and watch the evolution. Every time a new personality came in, they brought something different, and the band expanded a little more.” Through trial and error, Nelson eventually arrived at the current line-up—Vaughn Lamb on bass and vocals, Brad Morgan on guitar and Athens-born Lem-uel Hayes on drums. “I was really grateful when Lemuel and Brad joined the band,” Nelson says. “With them, I knew what White Violet should sound like. These guys are such good players. They do things that make the songs so much better than what I can do alone.” That doesn’t mean that Nelson wants to hand over the reins. He wrote all the songs on the band’s new album, “Stay Lost,” which is scheduled for release Sept. 23. At the same time, he has come to appreciate the importance of fleshing-out songs with his current crew. “We spent three months at home, stopped touring and practiced almost every day to work-out the record together,” Nelson says. “I wrote the songs, then we would learn them together—turn them into White Violet songs. With this al-bum, I feel like I finally have the best band in the world.” White Violet makes its Jackson debut Sept. 20 at 10 p.m. The band shares the stage with Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires of Sub-Pop Records at Martin’s Restaurant and Bar (214 S. State St.; 601-354-9712). The cover charge is $10. “We’re excited to playing with our great buddies. We’ve played with them a bunch a times,” Nelson says. “It will be great to meet up with them in Jackson. “ Visit whiteviolet.net for more informa-tion and to hear new music from “Stay Lost.”

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One of the biggest surprises of the early NFL season is the start of the New Orleans Saints. It is never a good way to begin the season to be in a must-win game in week three.

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THURSDAY, SEPT 18 College football (6:30-10 p.m., ESPN): The Auburn Tigers hit the road to face a tough Kansas State team out of the Big-12 in a big non-confer-ence match up. … NFL (7-11 p.m., NFLN/CBS): The Tampa Bay Buc-caneers face the Atlanta Falcons in a battle between NFC South rivals.

FRIDAY, SEPT 19 College football (7-10 p.m., ESPN or ESPN2): Connecticut faces South Florida as both teams open confer-ence play in the American Athletic Conference.

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B y now everyone who has wanted to see it has seen the video of Ray Rice punching his then-fi -ancée in a casino elevator. The

video, released by TMZ, brought major heat down on the NFL for the two-game ban Rice got to start this season. The outrage is understandable against the NFL. Watching the video was stomach-turning and just reading the police statement should have pressed the NFL to do more. Senators, the National Organiza-tion for Women and others have called for Commissioner Roger Goodell’s head for his handling of this case. As the outrage grows, the calls on the NFL to do more grows, but is most of the outrage misplaced? Atlantic City prosecutor Jim Mc-Clain allowed Rice to enter a pre-trial intervention program to avoid prosecu-tion. According to McClain, Rice would have never seen the inside of a jail as his only option. For a fi rst-time offender, it’s either PTI or probation. While everyone is screaming for the NFL to do more, we should all be scream-ing even louder to have tougher domes-tic-violence laws passed. After seeing the tape, I was more shocked that Rice isn’t in jail than how many games the NFL suspended him from. As a father of a

daughter, I hope to see the justice system do more than a sports league to protect her. I hope the law would be held to a higher standard than the NFL. While all the outrage is against Goodell in the sports world, I would love to hear more people in the sports press ask for tougher laws against domestic violence. I would also love to see the law changed, where prosecutors who see tape like that give stronger consequences than a year in a PTI or two years of probation. We are missing a chance to ask for better laws, while we scream that Goodell should be fi red. Instead of Congress investigating the NFL, they should be looking to do more against domestic violence. While most of the country is in agreement that Rice got off lightly, Congress could use this momentum to pass tougher laws. New Jersey and the rest of the country, including Mississippi, can use this case to look at their laws and push for tougher legislation to stop violence against women. Hopefully, the NFL is not just providing lip service. The NFL and their players should be held to a high standard. But the law should be held to a higher standard and do more to help protect the victims of domestic violence. All men and women should all demand it.

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