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T he icy water stung the skin of Melanie Patterson and her husband, Randy Pat-terson. The sky was filled with clouds, and rain pitter-pattered on their heads.

Their nerves tried to get the best of them, but they just kept swimming. That day in April 2005, the couple became certified scuba divers in Vortex Springs, Fla. Patterson, 55, is a strong believer that the ocean is something to be both explored and respected. A certified diving instructor at Tanks Dive Shop in Flowood, Patterson loves passing on this belief to all her students. Patter-son’s students learn the academic training first, and then move to the Flowood YMCA’s pool, where they practice techniques to help them become comfortable with diving. “The ocean is like being able to explore another world, or another planet,” she says. “Now, we can go, be-cause of our equipment and technology, where we shouldn’t be able to go.” The North Carolina native moved to Jack-son in 1989 with her husband. Long before she took her first dive, she was a nursing student. In 1991, Patterson graduated from nursing school at Hinds Community College. After gradua-tion, she worked for several organizations in the health-care field, including Baptist Health Systems and St. Dominic’s Hospital. In 2000, Patterson decided to leave health care and stay at home with their children. Five years later, her kids were older, and her husband convinced her that she should try diving. He had dived a

little in college but never pursued it further. Her husband says the scuba equipment today is completely different from the equip-ment from the ’70s. Today’s gear is more com-fortable and more user-friendly to ensure a much more fun experience for everyone. Patterson tells her students they will prob-ably only concentrate on their own air bubbles during their first time in the ocean. “‘Oh my gosh, I’m breathing under wa-ter, I’m breathing under water. I’m breathing … under water,’ is probably the most com-mon thought people think their first dive in the ocean,” Patterson says. “They can’t focus on anything else but their breathing. But that second dive? Sud-denly you see that big grouper, or the eel, or the fish. The longer the dive, the more you see.” Patterson has partnered with Tanks since the shop opened in May. Scuba Schools Inter-national, her certifying agency, requires that instructors collaborate with dive shops. Now, Patterson has 500 dives under her belt, and she says she can’t wait for that number to grow. She recently had surgery that will keep her from diving for some time, but she can’t wait to get back to teaching and diving. “You can dive the same site 100 times, but you’ll see a 100 different things every time. Every dive is a spiritual experience that connects you to Mother Earth. It’s surreal,” Patterson says. —Nia Wilson

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17 “Hello from Japan!” is opening at the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

20 “It was a stressful time to do (‘MasterChef’), for sure, but I gained confidence through it, met people that I’m still in contact with, and just gained a lot of knowledge. Especially being as young as I was, but I think even someone older, being around people who have been professionals in the industry for years and are highly acclaimed, it’s a free opportunity to learn.” —Whitney Miller, “‘MasterChef’ Meet Cute”

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I started thinking a lot about the “creative economy” when we started our coverage of the 2014 TEDxJackson event. The whole idea behind Jackson’s first TEDx

event was big ideas, and many of them were incredible. The big focus was the creativity and innovation in the state. It featured speakers such as Kermit the Frog and Kristi Hen-derson, who is the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s chief telehealth and inno-vation officer. Some of the ideas included teaching kids about computer coding, the importance of creating a more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly city and the benefit of city-wide WiFi. Of course, after all the fuss over that event, there was one question I and prob-ably many others had: What now? What happens to all these big ideas after people get on a stage and tell you why they should be part of reality? How do we make them happen so they don’t just dis-sipate into thin air? Near the end of 2013, Gov. Phil Bry-ant declared 2014 the “Year of the Creative Economy,” a 12-month celebration of cre-ative jobs that have propelled Mississippi’s economy forward. So what exactly does a creative economy look like? While it includes areas such as art, cu-linary arts, architecture and design—jobs that are part of a creative enterprise—it also includes creative jobs in sectors of the economy that aren’t creative enterprises such as printing, media and construction, and even jobs like painting cars. The Mississippi Creative Economy’s executive summary says that in 2008, 9,580 creative workers worked in creative enterprises, 20,420 creative workers were employed in non-creative enterprises, and 30,704 non-creative workers worked in creative enterprises. That’s a total of 60,704 people em-

ployed in Mississippi’s creative economy. That same year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Health Resources and Services Administration estimated Mississippi’s population to be 2,918,785. From 2009 to 2013, 22.7 per-cent of the population lived below the pov-erty line. In that time frame, the average income was $39,031, $14,015 below the national median. While it does suck to have to talk

about how we rank at the top of bad lists (though we have improved in a lot of areas) and the bottom of good lists, we have to talk about those areas, especially when you start talking about a creative economy. Initiative 42 goes on the ballot this No-vember, and Republican legislators, includ-ing Gov. Bryant, who heralded the idea of “Year of the Creative Economy,” seem hell-bent to make sure it doesn’t pass. But if you want to base a major part of the economy on creative industries, here’s the problem with not passing legislation to fully fund educa-tion: If you don’t fund public schools, those districts have to start cutting programs. And what classes are often among the first to go? Arts. Music. Culinary arts. The very classes that can create a base for a creative economy

are under-funded in our state. That’s not to blame public schools. They do what they can with they have, though they are not per-fect entities. What could happen if you don’t ex-pose kids to creative subjects? They may never realize their full potential. Some start getting into trouble because they don’t have an outlet. They may drop out. They may end up living below the poverty line, and the cycle continues. Creativity cannot fix every problem in life—but creative problem-solving is vital. So is the act of creation itself. I’ve heard so many stories of kids who were getting into trouble and then were introduced to art, and guess what? They turned their lives around. Art, writing and other creative pursuits can be a therapeutic outlet for everyone. When I’m feeling par-ticularly down, I listen to music, or I write, or I make art. I’m not great at art, but the fact that I can take something and make it beautiful (or at least fun) helps me out a great deal. If I’m particularly angry, I like to go and throw paint on a canvas. It’s crazy to me that legislators think in such a limited, illogical way. They want a creative economy, but they won’t fund something that can help further it. No, it may not help immediately, but in the long run, those kids who were ex-posed to art and creative pursuits will likely graduate from high school and then from college. They come back to Mississippi, or even stay in the first place, and they open up studios and community organizations. They mentor, they inspire, they lead. They help further others along on their paths. That’s what I like about the Jackson creative community. The city seems to have everything going against it. Fund-ing. Education. Infrastructure. Negative perceptions. But the community looks past all of that and says, “We’re going to

help Jackson anyway.” Creatives stay. They come back. They open studios. They start and volunteer for nonprofits. They see the neighborhoods that are falling apart, and they try to help those communities. They help expose kids in those neighborhoods to things they never thought possible. To me, the key to bringing Mississippi off the bottom and to the top of any list begins with education. Only after you ad-dress that can you really begin to focus on the big ideas. This year’s TEDx Jackson centers around the idea of “moonshot ideas,” meaning those that could have a significant and lasting positive impact on the state. The theme of the event is “liftoff.” The tedxjackson.com website says the event will focus on Mississippi’s contribution to space exploration and how to help the state im-prove its quality of life and opportunities. Currently, TEDx Jackson is accepting applications, so the speakers have not been announced. Last year was inspiring and made me think about topics I had never addressed before. But my biggest hope is that last year’s TEDx Jackson and the 2015 event don’t just become a place where you can tell people your ideas, but no one ever does anything with them. The only way we’re ever going to have a creative economy is if we find solutions, especially creative ones, to help figure out some of those issues and make big ideas come to life. After all of that is said and done, we can talk about this idea of a cre-ative economy. Let’s not let those big ideas go to waste. Assistant Editor Amber Helsel received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi in 2011. She’s not-so-secretly a superhero in training. Email her feature story ideas at amber@jacksonfreepress.com.

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To Build a ‘Creative Economy,’ Fund Education

Events Editor Latasha Willis is a native Jacksonian, a free-lance graphic designer and the mother of one cat. See her design portfolio at latashawillis.com. She compiled the events listings.

Former editorial intern Brian Gordon was raised in upstate New York and moved to the South to carpetbag but forgot the bag. He teaches social studies in Jackson Public Schools. He contributed to the cover package.

Music Editor Micah Smith found the ancient city of Hamunaptra and accidentally revived a centuries-old evil that could bring about the next apocalypse. He also enjoys scrapbooking. He contributed to the cover package.

News Editor R.L. Nave is a native Missourian who 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 a news story.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies. Maybe she should try spelunking. Email her story ideas at arielle@ jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote the cover story.

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took photos for the issue.

Advertising 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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I n the chaos of Hurricane Ka-trina, while living in a tempo-rary shelter, Caesar Marshall had a heart attack and had to be

transported to Mobile, Ala. Caesar’s wife, Mae Beth, wasn’t allowed to go with him. “I had to wait until my son and his friend came down to get me to take me to where my husband was,” Mae Beth would later recall. As if recovering from a heart attack wasn’t bad enough, the Mar-shalls returned to their Pass Chris-tian home to survey the wreckage. “[I] found some pictures and a scrapbook … the water hadn’t dam-aged” in her home’s rubble, she says. “Had papers from my mother-in law and my momma from the1800s; they were all wet. I kept them, even though you can’t read them.” Marshall had grown up on the Gulf Coast but moved to New York City, where she worked as a computer operator; she and her husband moved back home to Pass Christian in the 1980s to help care for her mother-in-law. Even though Katrina had destroyed their house and the memories in it, Marshall wanted to return home. However, re-housing residents along the Mississippi coast would become the most daunting problem of the recovery—logistically and politically speak-ing. In his recent book, “America’s Great

Storm,” then-Gov. Haley Barbour writes of Katrina on the coast: “By the second week, housing had become the critical issue, and it

stayed the pivotal issue every week for the next three or four years.” Barbour devotes a little over three pages of the book, which Democratic strategist Jere Nash co-wrote, to housing chal-lenges in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, focusing mostly on the handwringing over where to put federal relief workers and debris-removal crews. The upper floors of Biloxi’s Imperial Palace Casino Hotel was the first hotel to reopen on the coast, while the U.S. Navy sent a hospital ship to care for and house sick people; plus, there were the inadequate trailers the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided. Still, many on the coast believed federal and state offi-cials, including Barbour, ignored the needs of lower-income resi-dents. Advocates for low-income Mississippians argue that initial housing-recovery programs were full of gaps created when Bar-bour successfully asked the federal government to waive provisions requiring a portion of recovery funds to go to low- and moderate-income people like Mae Beth and Caesar Marshall. Katrina recovery funds

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Wednesday, August 19 Kentucky’s 6th circuit appeals court upholds a ruling ordering Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to issue mar-riage licenses to gay couples. … A man named Vester Lee Flanagan II shoots and kills two of his former coworkers at WDBJ in Roanoke, Va., during a live news broadcast while filming the act, then posts the video on social media before committing suicide.

Thursday, August 20 Ultra-nationalist Israelis from a group called the Ateret Cohanim settler organization forcefully take over a four-story building in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

Friday, August 21 Defense Secretary Ash Carter an-nounces a new Pentagon venture to de-velop cutting-edge electronics and sen-sors that can flex and stretch and could be built into clothing or the skins of ships and aircraft.

Saturday, August 22 New Orleans and other cities along the Gulf Coast hold ceremonies for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Sunday, August 23 Germany, France and Britain press for better processing of migrants arriv-ing in southern Europe, a European Union-wide list of countries considered safe and a special meeting of EU interior and justice ministers. … The Obama ad-ministration changes the name of North America’s tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali in a major symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives.

Monday, August 24 The U.S. Justice Department tells a federal judge that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s de-cision to oust Planned Parenthood from Louisiana’s Medicaid program appears to violate federal law by denying Medicaid patients the right to choose providers.

Tuesday, August 25 U.S. District Judge David Bunning orders Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and her staff to federal court to explain why she should not be fined or jailed for contempt after Davis again refused to is-sue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, this time in direct defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court. Breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

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cash into the coast’s economy as a typical Mississippi state budget. To make sure poor people without political clout re-ceived their fair share, three nonprofits—Hope Enterprise Corporation, the Mis-sissippi Center for Justice and Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP—joined forces and now, 10 years later, are telling a story of Katrina’s recovery that is in stark contrast to Barbour’s version.

Barbour’s ‘High-Level Mistakes’ For the past 10 years, Gov. Barbour has beamed about how much better Mississippi, under his leadership, responded to Katrina than officials in neighboring Louisiana. “The state publicized its success very strongly all along the processes,” said Reilly Morse, executive director of the Mississippi Center for Justice. “And it did some things right; it got some important pieces of the re-covery right pretty early on. But it also made some high-level mistakes.” Katrina slammed ashore in Missis-sippi as a Category 3, hurricane on Aug. 29, 2005, damaging more than 65,000 homes and causing $125 billion in damage. One month later, Hurricane Rita hit. The storms prompted Congress to appropriate $5.5 billion in community development block (CDBG) grant funding to Mississippi for building and recovery, including for afford-able housing. However, Mississippi decided to “reprogram” the funds, which should have gone to rebuilding poor neighborhoods, to the Port of Gulfport expansion project on the promise of creating 2,586 jobs by 2015. Civil-rights organizations said they could not stand for it. In December 2008, the Mississippi Center for Justice, on behalf of the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center and several individual residents sued HUD for approving the plan, which they believed would continue residential segregation. “In a disaster, when you’re rebuilding, the question is going to be: Are you going to rebuild the pattern of racial segregation that was there before, or are you going to try to move people to higher-opportunity loca-tions, create a little more racial integration? For the most part, Mississippi chose to repro-duce the pre-existing patterns,” Morse said. The challenges went beyond housing. Many of Mississippi’s post-Katrina policies continued to fuel socioeconomic and racial disparities in housing, employment and op-portunity. Carol Burnett, executive director of the Mississippi Low Income Childcare Initiative, said child care was originally not part of the recovery plan. However, while several groups, including Chevron, which needed child-care centers to reopen so their workers could return to the job, helped get

centers up and going again; many mom-and-pop centers could not reopen, she said. Eventually, the MCJ and HUD settled by getting an additional $132 mil-lion in disaster recovery funds set aside for lower-income households in south Missis-sippi. Two years after the settlement, the MCJ estimated that well over 5,000 Mis-sissippi households lack permanent afford-able housing, “due to unjust decisions by Mississippi policymakers, irrational inter-pretation of federal audit, elevation, and environmental rules, and discriminatory

zoning decisions by local governments.” As of this year, Morse said, 4,500 people still needing housing assistance—and Missis-sippi has the money to do something about it. Records show Mississippi is still sitting on a half-billion dollars in federal recovery funds. Information from the Mississippi De-velopment Authority shows that of the $5.48 billion in Katrina CDBG disaster-recovery funds allocated to the state, just under $5 bil-lion has been spent through March 31. The bulk of the funds were to go for homeowners assistance and economic development. “More than 99 percent of the recovery funds are obligated, with more than 90 per-cent disbursed,” said Marlo Dorsey, an MDA spokeswoman. “The remaining funds are al-located to large infrastructure projects such as Port of Gulfport and other infrastructure projects. We are comfortable with the status of these recovery dollars, as these larger proj-ects were expected to be the last items com-pleted under comprehensive recovery.” Still, Morse credits the state for making quiet progress after the settlement with HUD and despite the port expansion controversy. “The way it stands now, because we succeed in getting those changes (to the re-covery plan), the completion of that is hap-pening under the radar in Mississippi. It’s

also something the state, for whatever reason, isn’t all that ready to congratulate itself for. I think that’s kind of odd since its a large num-ber of folks that they’ve helped, and they’ve done it successfully. It’s created a lot of jobs. The reason I can come up with is that they don’t want to acknowledge that they made a mistake in the first place, and they’re now correcting it this many years later,” he said.

Seeking HOPE While living in a FEMA trailer, Mae Beth Marshall met a woman program offi-

cer from HOPE, a Jackson-based nonprofit financial services company that has credit unions throughout Mississippi and Louisi-ana. Marshall is one of several people profiled in a HOPE report titled “After the Storm” published in late August. Through HOPE’s Home Again, Marshall rebuilt her home in the same place it previously stood, but also included a lift for Caesar’s wheelchair. Bill Bynum, HOPE’s executive director, said the organization had been meeting with groups before Katrina hit about opening a credit-union branch to provide alternatives to high-interest payday loans. A few months later, HOPE opened a temporary office in Biloxi to provide recovery accounts for peo-ple who needed to deposit their checks from FEMA and insurance companies. It was a concern Bynum had from the beginning because of HOPE’s experience working in the Mississippi Delta. So after Katrina, HOPE helped set up a pilot project in Pass Christian that included 64 homes, which helped the organization learn what it took to get people back on their feet. “New building regulations made things more complex. Even if you had the best ac-countants and attorneys helping you, it was still a very difficult situation,” Bynum said. The nonprofit also provided financial

support and counseling for recovery plan to help navigate the financing and contracting scams that were so prevalent after the storm. “There were sharks in the water, and people were ready to separate people from their money,” Bynum said. In all, HOPE helped 10,000 people receive $600 million to rebuild their homes. Bynum said the additional work was a strain on their core work, but foundations includ-ing the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and NeighborhoodLIFT pro-gram helped subsidize some of the work.

“We had staff members who lost their homes, family members of staff who were affected by the storm. It was a personal ex-perience for us as well. It’s hard not to think about Katrina and have severe mood swings when you think about how much pain and destruction you saw when we were on the coast,” Bynum said. Four years after Katrina, the financial crisis was another blow to low-income homeowners. Even though the nonprofits helped fill the gaps after the storm, groups are still working to address the disparities. Bynum said with the one-two punch of Katrina and the economic meltdown, gaps between the haves and have-nots are wider than they’ve ever been with the business community still at the front of the line for receiving help. “Half of all children in Mississippi are nonwhite, and if you look at indicators of socioeconomic well-being—whether its wealth, health or education—those commu-nities and those children fare worse than the population overall and that’s not sustainable. That’s the future workforce of Mississippi, and we’ve got to do better to make sure ev-eryone is equipped to succeed and to con-tribute to the economy.” Comment at www.jfp.ms.8

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S hamberi Horton found the after-school program at Stewpot Com-munity Services through a friend in seventh grade. A big bus came to her

middle school to pick up kids at the end of the school day, and Horton got curious. “My friend told me to just get on the bus,” Horton said. “So I got on the bus—I was ready.” Yolanda “Lala,” Kirkland called Hor-ton’s mother to tell her that her daughter had shown up unannounced, but from then on, Shamberi and her sister were allowed to get on the bus every day after school. Horton was not homeless growing up, but she was raised by a single mother and understands the importance of having a pro-gram for children to hold them accountable for their schoolwork. Now Horton, 29, leads the elementa-ry-school side of the after-school program., while Kirkland, who has been with Stew-pot for 17 years, leads the middle and high school side. Horton’s students grow up and go to Kirkland’s building when they get to middle school. Horton said she makes sure to fuss at them and check in on their prog-ress. “I know what they’re capable of,” she said. “It takes a village.” Stewpot Community Services is one of several programs that serve homeless youth in the Jackson area. More than 3,000 stu-dents in Jackson Public Schools are homeless. Services for those students should improve in the coming year because the Mississippi Department of Education has approved ad-ditional federal funding for homeless youth in 15 school districts, including $181,290 going to JPS.

The funding comes from the federal McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program. Fifteen school districts will receive more than $23,000 per district depending on the needs and num-

ber of homeless youth. The grant lasts 15 months and can go toward tutoring needs as well as medical, dental or mental-health services that homeless youth likely cannot access on their own. The state will reimburse districts monthly. “We can’t do anything about what’s go-ing on at home, but we can make sure aca-demically you can stay strong and that you become a successful adult,” Kirkland said. The Stewpot Neighborhood Children’s Program currently serves 88 students from kindergartners to high-schoolers, primar-ily students who live in shelter programs through Stewpot, with the goal of helping them graduate from high school. Not all the students in the program are homeless; it is open to all students and completely free, so the staff relies on JPS to provide tutors and counselors to students. Depending on how JPS allocates its additional funding, Stewpot might be able to serve more students with more tutors and support from JPS. Engaging with homeless families can be difficult, but the end result makes it all worth it, the staff said. “Getting those parents engaged can sometimes be difficult because they have other issues: no home, no food, no cloth-ing,” Kirkland said. Stewpot Neighborhood Children’s Pro-gram started in 1991, and the after-school tutoring program in 1997. Initially, the program struggled as kids would leave and never come back, but as the program grew, so did the consistency of the staff and students alike. Academics are difficult for homeless students because they are often moving and

sometimes already behind a grade level with nowhere to get the homework help—or motivation—they need. Marcus Cheeks, the director of federal programs at the Mississippi Department of

Education, said there are more than 10,000 homeless students in the state. “Homelessness is a real barrier,” Cheeks said. “If a child doesn’t have a regular night-time residence to deal with their regular

social needs, that rolls over into the school and not (being) able to focus on the regular academics of the day.” The Mississippi Department of Educa-tion is required to track the amount of home-less youth in the state in order to receive Title I funding and now the McKinney-Vento funds. School districts give their numbers to the department each month, but the districts can only do so much with the money; of-ten middleman organizations like Stewpot’s after-school program must supply the actual services. Congress passed the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act in 1987. The federal funding is conditional, and the states must agree to the conditions set by the U.S. Department of Education to receive funding. At Stewpot, students’ families have ac-cess to shelters, health care and other services that schools cannot provide for homeless youth, although JPS can supply tutors. The Stewpot Neighborhood Children’s Program works largely because of the rela-tionships the staff builds with the kids’ par-ents, Kirkland said. If kids in the program are homeless, it’s likely because their parents are homeless, so maintaining relationships with parents to keep track of the kids is crucial. The staff consists of four women—Lesley Collins and Horton work with the

elementary-school students, while LaQuita White and Kirkland work with the middle-school and high-school students. Students take buses or get rides from the staff after school and come to two build-

ings in the back of the Stewpot Commu-nity Services complex. There they work on homework in a structured environment, with tutors from JPS and the Stewpot staff. The program for middle- and high-school students helps them get ahead on school-work, providing materials for bigger projects if needed. The program is continuously taking students in, and the model works largely be-cause when a child comes in, he or she is in for good. “Once you’re a Stewpot baby, you’re always a Stewpot baby,” Collins said. The program hinges on the belief that graduation is a child’s ticket out of home-lessness. The first question Kirkland asks students she hasn’t seen them in a while is “Where’s my diploma?” After graduation, the Stewpot team encourages students to go on to college and get a job. Kirkland and White have graduated all their students in the past six years. Cheeks said eight of the 15 districts that will receive the funding are lower-performing districts. The school districts receiving grants are: Corinth, Harrison County, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Lafayette, Lowndes, Natchez Ad-ams, Noxubee, Oxford, Simpson, South Delta, Starkville Oktibbeha, Tupelo, Vicks-burg Warren and Yazoo City. Comment at jfp.ms/news. Email the re-porter at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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NUMBER OF HOMELESS YOUTH BY CITY-COUNTY RECEIVING MCKINNEY-VENTO GRANTS

*Data from the Mississippi Department of Education. The 2014-2015 Consolidated State Performance Report indicates that 10,131 students in the state are homeless.

Jackson Public Schools 3,086Harrison County 1,529Yazoo City 335Lafayette County School District 287Simpson County 261Natchez-Adams School District 218Hattiesburg School District 208Corinth 178

South Delta 174Vicksburg-Warren 155Tupelo 142Noxubee County 136Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated 111Oxford 88Lowndes 57

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M ayor Tony Yarber is opening up. Specifically, his administration is developing an open-data policy for the City of Jackson.

This week, he signed an executive or-der to “codify and standardize open-data processes and policies to share data openly with residents, as well as internally.” In lay-men’s terms, the City will create a portal within its existing website to make pub-lic information more readily available. Yarber stressed that the new system would not replace the open-records process, but make it easier for citizens to retrieve some

documents without filing requests. “If there’s anything to show that we’re serious, it’s giving you a portal that’s clean of red tape, and (citizens) not having to go through the process of open-records requests as often as you would normally have to … for information that should be readily available,” he said. Yarber added that the policy will “en-sure staff across city departments understand the purpose of data collection, regularly col-lect and publish data, and make decisions based on such data.” The mayor added that the system would complement an open-government database system that the city council approved and is developing. In August, the City announced that it would participate in What Works Cities, a $42-million Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded national initiative. The Washington, D.C.-based Sunlight Foundation and the

Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University will consult with Jack-son on its system. Within 30 days, Yarber expects to form a governance committee to coordinate the project with a final plan de-veloped with in two months.

Finally, Room at the Inn After an initial kerfuffle, Jackson State University has announced that all students who were on the waiting list for housing this semester have been placed. The incoming freshmen class is the largest the university has ever seen. There are a few spaces available

to accommodate late arrivals or those who might still need to complete their registra-tion or resolve financial matters, according to JSU’s news release. “We appreciate the students, their fami-lies and the public’s patience and help in re-solving this issue that was caused by record enrollment at JSU this year,” said university President Carolyn W. Meyers. The university has enrolled almost 10,000 students this year, and according to James C. Renick, provost and senior vice president of academic and student affairs, this year the university placed nearly 3,000 students in campus housing compared to 2,400 students last year. Budget 2.0 As the Jackson Free Press goes to press, Mayor Tony Yarber is submitting the second draft of his budget proposal to the Jackson

City Council, the plan will not include an 8-percent tax increase, he announced at a town hall meeting at Progressive Baptist Church on the evening Aug. 27. The news drew polite applause in the brightly lit sanctuary full of Jackson residents who have seen their water and sewer bills rise in recent years and are now paying 1 percent more sales tax on certain items. In the back of the room, Ward 6 Coun-cilman Tyrone Hendrix wore a look of satis-faction; a week earlier, at his own town-hall forum, he and fellow Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. said the council would not ap-

prove a budget that contained a tax increase. Yarber’s budget was for about $509 mil-lion—$494 million in anticipated revenues and a deficit of $15 million. To close that hole, Yarber proposed the tax increase along with furloughing most full-time workers one day each month. “We have not taken furloughs off the table,” Yarber told reporters after the event. Yarber also said his revised budget would include a $1 million appropriation to the Jackson Zoo, a reduction from the $1.2 million he originally proposed. The city council’s counter proposal was to budget $600,000 for the zoo to help balance the budget with the understanding that another $600,000 payment could come later, but zoo officials worried that could jeopardize the park’s accreditation, which re-quires periodic reporting. This should come as welcome news

to Spanky, a 1-year-old male North Ameri-can river otter, who arrived in May and recently made his otter exhibit debut from the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo, N.Y. Too young to develop a New Yorker ac-cent or walking pace, he seems to be settling into Mississippi culture just fine. Between 2013 and 2014, the zoo fought against losing its accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums due to concerns about the zoo’s fiscal situation. The zoo retained its AZA accreditation in March 2014 partly because of financial backing from the City. Yarber also said the City hopes to make changes to garbage collection. Currently, city residents have garbage pickup twice a week and recycling pickup twice a month. Under a new proposal, Yarber said residents would have one day every week for recycling pickup and another day for other refuse. For individuals who do not have recy-cling pickup services, the City has a drop-off point at Battlefield Park. Yarber said Jackson is still a long way away from having a per-manent long-term recycling center, but city officials have toured such facilities, and he is open to hearing from firms willing to offer Jackson those services.

An SOS for Abandoned Property Bidding on 360 parcels of tax-forfeited property started last week. The Mississippi secretary of state holds properties when own-ers fail to pay ad valorem property taxes, which provides funding to city and county governments as well as local schools. Of the approximately $75 million in forfeited land the SOS holds, almost $15 million of it lies with in Hinds County, according to a Jack-son press release. “Our goal is to get this property back on the tax rolls to benefit the capital city and the State of Mississippi,” said Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann through a news release. “By partnering with the City of Jack-son, we are taking an aggressive step to return these dilapidated and abandoned properties to productive use.” Ads for the available properties for pub-lic bidding began Thursday, Aug. 27, on the secretary of state’s website. Shortly after taking office last year, Mayor Tony Yarber’s administration tackled problem properties. “Our Community Improvement Divi-sion has made great strides over the past year ridding areas of dilapidated structures that mar our neighborhoods. Now, this auction will give citizens the opportunity to purchase property and play a vital role in Jackson’s re-vitalization,” Yarber said. Comment at www.jfp.ms/news. Send story tips to rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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T here’s an expression that says if the nation sneezes, Mississippi catches the fl u. As the poorest state, national economic downturns hit us especially hard, and it

takes us longer to recover. For example, Missis-sippi’s 6.6 percent unemployment rate is the 46th highest in the nation, a full percentage point higher than the national average of 5.5 percent. On top of that, with the combination of Hur-ricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the Great Re-cession and the BP Oil Spill of 2010, Mississippi darn near caught pneumonia. Imagine the parents of a chronically ill child using money that should go toward their medical care to rebuild a carport or buy a second home, and the outrage that would follow. This scenario is not unlike what Missis-sippi has done with its disaster recovery funds. In the case of the 2005 hurricane season, which brought some of the most powerful storms in recorded history, Haley Barbour’s Mississippi argued successfully to President George Bush’s Department of Housing and Urban Develop-ment that expanding the Port of Gulfport would help the Mississippi coast recover faster than re-housing low- and moderate-income families. We’ve seen how well that plan has worked: The port expansion has so far proved to be such a boondoggle that Mississippi has had to ask the feds for more time. Instead, groups like the NAACP, Missis-sippi Center for Justice and HOPE Enterprise Corp. had to step in and force the state to do

right by the people of the Gulf Coast. After ending up in court over the Katrina funds diversion, one might have expected that state offi cials had learned their lesson. Yet, even when the oil spill of 2010 compounded Katrina’s destruction, Barbour’s successor, Gov. Phil Bry-ant, directed $15 million from an early BP oil-spill settlement to go toward a minor league base-ball stadium in Biloxi. That money should have gone to help re-store the ecology of the coast and to fi shermen, many of whom lost their livelihoods. The funds could have been used to address poverty in coastal cities. As we report this week, there are more than 1,500 homeless school-age children in Harrison County on the coast—and we know that home-lessness is often underreported. Mississippi has a chance to somewhat right the ship. The state still has about 1 percent of its federal Katrina funding remaining, which doesn’t sound like a lot until you realize that it’s about $54 million, which could help the estimated 4,000 people the Mississippi Center for Justice says still need housing assistance. In early July, Mississippi settled with BP for $1.5 billion for the oil spill of fi ve years ago. State Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, said he plans to propose legislation in the upcoming session to require most of the funds to be spent on the Mis-sissippi coast. We hope that Mississippi offi cials learn from mistakes of the past and do the right thing for the real victims of these and future disasters: people.

Among the many refl ections on the effects of Hur-ricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, the discussion of its effects on schools in New Orleans may be the most disingenu-ous. There is no doubt that pre-Katrina public schools in New Or-

leans were struggling, but the narrative is that post-Katrina, with its charter-school takeover, New Orleans education is better. Some even hint that Katrina was a godsend, that we should wipe the school slate clean and start over. Two major pieces appeared last week, one in The New York Times and another from The Institute for Public Affairs, providing blistering rebuttals to this narrative. Both articles lay out the evidence that the “ac-complishments” of charter schools in one of the poorest, most struggling school systems is a mirage. In addition, the Network for Public Education has a study compar-ing charter schools in Louisiana to the state’s traditional public schools, controlling for race, ethnicity, poverty and whether students qualifi ed for special education. On eighth-grade reading and math tests, charter-school

students performed worse than their public-school counterparts by enormous margins—two to three standard deviations. Despite this evidence, we hear disturb-ing calls for a similar takeover of public edu-cation in Mississippi with the mantra that “more money is spent than ever before, but schools are no better.” A few public-school opponents even have called for doing away with “government indoctrination centers” altogether. And it’s not just talk radio: This scorn goes all the way up to Gov. Phil Bryant,

who called public education in Mississippi an “abysmal failure.” Some claim that if we closed every school in the Delta and southwest Mississippi, the state would go from 48th to around 24th in the nation in education. Did education magically improve? No, but the numbers would look better. In effect, that’s what happened in New Orleans. Keep the “de-sirable” students (and their scores), and force out the rest. The problem, as it has always been with public education, is that we are asking schools to overcome the effects of conditions in the communi-ties they exist in. It takes more resources to offer students in struggling communities the same opportunities as those in affl uent ones. Simply put, we have to spend more money in struggling schools—not to simply throw good money after bad, but to try and overcome outside factors. Research proves that two-thirds of student-achievement impact happens away from school. With students in stable, affl uent homes in strong communities, this two-thirds is a plus. For those students in un-stable, poor homes in struggling communities, this two-thirds is a minus. Public schools refl ect their communities. When people attack schools, they are actually attacking the communities those schools serve. Saying we should stop supporting “failing” schools is tantamount to saying we should stop supporting “failing” communities. But in both cases, we never made a serious attempt to improve them in the fi rst place. Mississippi has opposed public schools for decades. We resisted pro-viding free textbooks in the 1940s; we consolidated schools to maintain segregation in the 1950s; we tried to abolish public schools altogether in response to integration in the 1960s; we tried to shift public funds to segre-gation academies in the 1970s; we resisted attempts to provide kindergar-ten and basic standards in the 1980s; we resisted adequately funding edu-cation in the 1990s; we resisted adjusting school funding to fi x inequities in the 2000s; and we are determined to privatize education in the 2010s. To those who say public education is a failure: Just when are we ever going to give it a chance to succeed? Are we ever going to try provide an adequate education to all our state’s children, instead of fi nding excuses not to? Or have we decided as a people to accept the inequity as permanent, creating a dual system of education for the haves and the have-nots? Shannon Eubanks is principal of Enterprise Attendance Center in Brookhaven.

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OXFORD—Politicians and lo-cal editorial writers love Howard Industries of Laurel. The editors at the Laurel Leader-Call shower

their blessings on Jones County’s largest em-ployer and castigate any naysayer who might want to offer an alternative viewpoint. Poli-ticians have showered the producer of elec-trical transformers with money—taxpayers’ money—to the tune of at least $60 million in local and state subsidies so far, plus a $20-million bond issue from the county. Howard Industries rewards its friends. Besides taking out newspaper ads, it recently gave $8,000 worth of new hel-mets and face shields to the Laurel Police Depart-ment. Each of the state’s legislators once received a Howard Industries lap-top computer, a thank you for their $31.5 mil-lion taxpayer-funded gift to the company in 2002. The only thing poli-ticians asked of company CEO Billy Howard was that he use the money to create more jobs. And there’s the rub. What kind of jobs? Many of the com-pany’s predominantly black workers say they’re underpaid for the hard, grueling work they do, but negotiations with man-agement went nowhere after at least 16 meetings. A recent union-backed study shows a top-line Howard Industries maintenance worker earns just 61 percent of the wages paid a similar worker at the ABB transformer-manufacturing plant in Crystal Springs. Defying the local newspaper and the power Howard Industries wields in the community, the Laurel City Council voted 5-1 in July to support the workers’ call for higher wages. Those five council members quickly found out what hap-pens when you stand in solidarity with workers rather than their bosses. In Au-gust, the council reversed its vote. The council members initially “decided to pander to a handful of dis-gruntled workers,” the Laurel Leader-Call editorialized. The council’s support of the workers “got our community crossed off the list of every major company that would think about locating and hiring a large workforce here.” Nowhere in the Leader-Call’s Aug. 10 editorial was there mention of the dismal record of arguably one of the state’s worst employers. This is the company that seven years ago became the site of the largest raid against undocumented migrant workers in the history of the United States. Federal im-

migration agents arrested approximately 600 workers from Mexico, Panama and points farther south. Most of them were hauled off to a prison camp in Jena, La., where they languished for weeks in overcrowded cells without formal charges. The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance then shamed the company into releasing 283 paychecks it still owed to the migrant workers it had hired. This is a company that the Occupa-tional Safety and Health Administration fined nearly $200,000 for 54 violations of work-safety rules in the same year as the immigration raid. “It is unconscionable

for an employer to tolerate serious injuries, including amputations, as just a cost of doing business,” said Clyde Payne, Jackson’s OSHA di-rector at the time. Apparently the company is still going on the cheap in regard to its workers. “For the type of work they do, (wages) are incredibly low,” says Rog-er Doolittle, a Jackson-based attorney who represents the 2,000-plus workers at the 4,000-worker plant who

belong to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1317. “It is a travesty that the City of Laurel supports hundreds of thousands in tax exemptions to that kind of employer. … It defies belief.” Attempts to get a response from How-ard Industries have been unsuccessful. The workers protesting the low wages are IBEW members, a fact that sticks in the craw of both company leaders and the Laurel Leader-Call. This is the solution the newspaper offers: “If you’re unhappy with your pay or working conditions, get an-other job.” And remember, the newspaper editorialized, “Unions fleece workers under the guise of working in their best interests.” Ironically, the City of Laurel was the site of one of the greatest victories of the pro-union movement known as Opera-tion Dixie after World War II. Some 3,500 workers at the Masonite plant there joined the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), prompting Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hodding Carter Jr. in Greenville later to write, “CIO union contracts have added more than five million dollars to Laurel’s annual payrolls.” Worker payrolls apparently aren’t a pri-ority with Howard Industries’ friends in the news business and legislative halls. Keeping Howard Industries happy is their priority. Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, col-umnist, and journalism professor at the University of Mississippi. He can be reached at jbatkins@olemiss.edu. 13

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O n a rainy Thursday in August, people began gathering in the Mississippi Museum of Art’s lobby, milling around displays

that featured artwork such as “Superhero Down Time” by Christopher Mitchell, a large painting depicting superheroes such as Wolverine and two of the Teenage Mu-tant Ninja Turtles playing “PAC-MAN.” In the piece, Spider-Man is taking Ninja Turtle Raphael’s pizza with his web shooters. “Death” by Ariss King features the char-acter Death from Neil Gaiman’s “The Sand-man.” Pop artist Adrienne Domnick also had a piece in the show, “Weather Goddess,” which depicts the female superhero Storm, one of Marvel’s X-Men. The museum partnered with Phillip Rollins, also known as DJ Young Venom, for Museum After Hours Offbeat Art. Rol-lins told the Jackson Free Press in an in-terview that MMA had approached him a while back about a pop-up show. “I couldn’t tell you the exact date be-cause me and Julian (Rankin) were talking on and off about it,” Rollins said. “He asked me (if I wanted) to do it, and I said, ‘Yeah, cool.’ It just kind of went on from there. … (MMA) is always trying to do something dif-ferent for their Museum After Hours events … and (Julian) has been to the store before. We worked together with some projects with

some kids, and he likes what vision I’m do-ing with Offbeat.” For Mitchell’s piece, he told the Jackson Free Press that he decided to take his favorite video games and comic book characters and put them together. “I was in the store shopping for a canvas, and I saw (one), and I just thought about the table games at (places such as) Pizza Hut,” Mitchell said. The Siwell Middle School teacher said he has been drawing his whole life but has only been painting for the last two years. In The Palette Café by Viking, MMA Executive Chef Nick Wallace and his crew prepared for Revenge of the Noodle, which is Wallace’s second time hosting a noodle bar for his ‘sipp Sourced pop-up menus. This one’s menu featured dishes with locally sourced produce and meat, including noodle dishes such as chicken ramen, which had a 48-hour green curry chicken broth, pickled ginger, whole roasted chicken, a poached egg, scallions, lemon thyme, mustard greens, green garlic, radish and soba noodles. Wallace’s bacon dashi ramen featured cilantro, a poached egg, bean sprouts, fer-mented black beans, pickled ginger, kale, sesame, scallions, pork belly, a bacon dashi broth and soba noodles. At 7 p.m., the event featured a short fi lm from RecklessMindzTv’s “Unlikely

Heroes: Narcotic Revelations Ep. 1,” which Andre’ Carter directed. In the fi lm, which is the fi rst in a series, a superhero who has the power of electricity tries to convince his friend, Aiden, who has the power of fi re, to help stop a drug dealer. After the screening, Carter said he wanted it to deal with many of the issues he faced growing up in Jackson. After the screening, local artist and MMA’s Director of Engagement and Learn-ing daniel johnson (who doesn’t capitalize his name) hosted Art Bar Pop Trivia, which this time dealt with nerd culture. johnson gave away extra points for things such as having a stranger in your group. When the trivia was over, the MMA screened video games on the CSpire Stage in The Art Garden. Friends and strangers gath-ered together and battled each other in “Street Fighter,” though Rollins said he would have liked to have more four-person games such as “Mario Kart” or “Smash Bros.” Rollins said that the event helped bridge the gap between people who liked things like video games and comic books but who have never been to the art museum and those who were used to more traditional forms of art. “I want people to realize that everything you see everyday is a form of art, from the ar-chitecture on buildings to (the) cartoons you watch—somebody had to draw that; comic books—somebody had to know how to

write, to draw, do storyboards; even toys—somebody had to sculpt the design for that, (and) it was probably a drawing fi rst. All of that takes a precedence in how art infl uences your everyday life, and a lot of people take it for granted,” Rollins said. Rollins also said that the event helped bring exposure to minority artists in Jackson. He hopes that allowing artists such as Adri-enne Domnick and Mitchell getting to dis-play their work in spaces such as Offbeat and for events like Museum After Hours helps push them forward. Mitchell said events like that have a good effect on Jackson. “It exposes a lot of people to that culture or that artsy side of Jackson,” he said. “... There’s a lot of people that maybe I know that may not be quick to go to the museum. If I had a piece in the museum, they might come. Then, they see the museum and get interested and want to come back.”

The next Mississippi Museum of Art Mu-seum After Hours even is “Lounge and Light,” Thursday, Sept. 17, and features Mississippi-made furniture from designers such as d+p De-sign Build, SwingLab, NunoErin, and light-ing from Davaine Lighting. The ‘sipp Sourced menu for that day has not been released yet. MMA will continue Screen on the Green with a showing of “Guardians of the Galaxy.” For more information, visit msmuseumart.org.14

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Pop artist Adrienne Domnick, 29, wishes she started doing art sooner. Growing up in Jackson, her mother told her painting wasn’t a practical pursuit. After graduating from the University of Southern Missis-

sippi with a bachelor’s degree in sports education in 2010, Domnick discovered her that her artwork, which is often colorful, bold and lively portraits of African American art-ists and musicians, could sell. She draws inspiration from the music she loves and the artists she admires. Domnick recently sat down with the Jackson Free Press at Offbeat in midtown, where she paints, lives and serves as president of the Business Association of Midtown.

When did you know you had a talent for portrait pop art? It was a Biggie portrait. It was three cardboard pieces I did, just because it was easier to paint on cardboard. That’s how I was getting my practice in. And once I did the Biggie and a Janelle Monáe, people were asking “Why’d you do this

on cardboard? This is good.” They asked me for others, and I didn’t have any. That’s when I start doing more canvas. That’s what really started my whole style.

Let’s say a person lays a portrait you made side-by-side with the original photograph. What new meaning do you hope people get from seeing your interpretation? I just want the image to come alive. It’s like, I just want to wake the photo up. And if you see my art, if you don’t know the person, I want you to want to know the person because you can see the feeling in the photo.

How do you identify who you’re going to draw? It depends. Sometimes it’s an image that’s just strik-ing to me. The portrait of Miles Davis, for example. The photo alone is like, “Whoa.” His eyes are so deep and dark. I really wanted to convey that in the piece. I think he’s try-ing to be spooky. If I can really tell where the light and dark spots are, I will want to draw it. But the majority of the time, it’s just the music or just the inspiration of the person I’m drawing that attracts me to it.

Is it the lyrics or the sonic value of the musician’s work that inspires you? It’s more production, overall sonically. It’s music that, when you look at it, you see colors. And that’s real. When I listen to Miles, I see blue.

Lauryn Hill. What color do you see? Magenta.

Old Dirty Bastard? I see yellow. For Wu Tang. Killa Beez.

Where do you come across the portraits you paint? Old books. I love vinyl, too. I get a lot of inspiration from looking at a lot of vinyl. I took inspiration for (my recent pop-up show at the Mississippi Museum of Art) from (a) Marvin Gaye vinyl.

Are you always looking for striking portraits? I’m never looking for it. The only time I look for it is if I do a commission for someone. Anything I want to do, it just happens to come. I don’t search it out. I’ve been doing artists, but mostly musicians, I really love (paint-ing). Like, I really love jazz, and jazz musicians have the best photos, the best images.

So once you’ve found the right image, what comes next? I start with a sketch of the person, and I sketch my way through the dark to leave the light. It’s almost like a

painting that’s not finished. Like, if I were to take these colors and blend it, it would probably look more like the real photo. But instead, I leave some areas solid to show the light and dark.

I noticed you paint many portraits of solemn faces, several of artists who died young. Does a sense of sadness in images attract you to them? It’s just that the dark images come across better for me. I just like the ones where they are just really staring and try to wake the photo up with some color. I like to focus on the sadness in the eyes.

Is there something about the artist’s personal experience with struggling that draws you to the people you paint? Like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hill, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone? I can’t say I can relate to everybody that I paint. I don’t have a rough life or anything. But as far as my story as a painter, I felt like it never was going to hap-pen, and it’s happening. To just tap back into it feels good. I think (artists with art degrees) look down on me. That’s why I feel I understand what Basquiat went through with people tell-ing him that what he was doing wasn’t art.

As president of the Business Association of Midtown, what’s your hope for what the neighborhood looks like in five years? You know, it’s turning into what I want it to be. When I first came down here, there was only one building that had art studios. Now, there (are) art studios; there’s Off-beat (that) I can walk to; there’s a lot of great things going on in terms of creative economy here. I would love to see more artist studios and more artists collaborating—just painting midtown beautiful colors.

What has midtown meant to you? To be honest with you, I went to Washington D.C., after graduating college and loved the creative en-ergy there. Then I came back home and had a love-hate relationship with Jackson. My studio in midtown made me love my city again. For more information on Adrienne Domnick, find her art page on Facebook or visit adriennedomnick.com.

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Saturday September 26, 2015 from 9am-4pmOutdoor Festival across from the B.B. King Museum and the Blue Biscuit along the banks of Indian Bayou in downtown Indianola! Come see art vendors from all over

the state of Mississippi as well as sample delicious southern cuisine. Free family fun!

Friday October 2, 2015 at 6:30pmCome enjoy soulful sounds on the lawn of the B.B. King Museum, as a part of

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October 3rd-16th, 2015Opening of the photographic installation by artist Bea Chauvin.

Opening Night Reception: 4-8pm

Cedars Juried Art Show Opening Recep-tion Sept. 3, 5-8 p.m., at The Cedars Historic Home (4145 Old Canton Road). This year’s juror is artist and designer Myrna Colley-Lee. Show hangs through Sept. 30. Free; call 601-981-9606; fondren.org.

Demonstrating Guest Artist: Emily Cate Sebree Sept. 3, 5-9 p.m., at Fondren Art Gallery (3030 N. State St.). See the artist’s paintings in the gallery watch her create a new work. Includes a sidewalk sale and discounts on prints. Free; call 601-981-9222.

Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.)

Sept. 17, 5:30-8 p.m. See creations from d+p Design Build, SwingLab, NunoErin, 555 Custom Designs and Davaine Lighting, and

purchase cuisine from Chef Nick Wallace. Includes cash bar. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Sept. 26, 10 a.m. See 85 oil paint-ings and 35 works on paper in the Barksdale Galleries through Jan. 3. $10, $8 seniors, $5 stu-dents, free for ages 0-5 and museum members; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Sept. 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. See the late artist’s sketchbooks from her travels through North America, France, Spain and Morocco. Show hangs through Jan. 10. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Oct. 15, 5:30-8 p.m. See works from artists whom the late artist Marie Hull had influ-enced and purchase cuisine from Chef Nick

Wallace. Includes cash bar. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Nov. 19, 5:30-8 p.m. See works from grantees of the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Folk Arts Apprenticeships and purchase cuisine from Chef Nick Wallace. Includes cash bar. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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

Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Learn about contem-porary aspects of Japanese language, cuisine, fashion, and design intertwined with tradi-tional cultural values. Open through Jan. 3. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

- Sept. 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Get a

sneak peek of the Asian heritage exhibit that is open from Sept. 19-Jan. 3. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mis-sissippichildrensmuseum.com.

Sept. 20, 2-5 p.m., at Signa’s Grille (680 Highway 51, Suite E, Ridgeland). The come-and-go affair includes works from local artists on display, hors d’oeuvres and wine. Exhibitors include Ginger Thomas, Paul Canonici and more. Free; call 601-853-0266.

Oct. 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). The famous mummy returns again for display through Nov. 1. Free; call 601-576-6920; email info@oldcapitolmuseum.com.

Events at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.)

- Oct. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. In the

Lower and Upper Atriums. Show hangs through Nov. 15. Free; call 601-360-0082 or 601-960-1557, ext. 224.

Oct. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. In the front main galleries. Show hangs through Nov. 22. Free; call 601-960-1557, ext. 224.

Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. In the back main galleries. Show hangs through Nov. 22. Free; call 601-960-1557, ext. 224; email dakotadave7@aol.com.

- Oct. 11,

1 p.m.-3 p.m. In the back main galleries. Show hangs through Nov. 22. Free; call 601-960-1557, ext. 224; email dakotadave7@aol.com.

Reception Oct. 22, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. In the front main galleries. Show hangs through Nov. 22. Free; call 601-960-1557, ext. 224.

Art Show Oct. 2, 7 p.m., at Attic Gallery (1101 Washington St., Vicksburg). See artwork centered around the number four from Pat Brown, Vidal Blankenstein, Lucy Hunnicut, Lane Berg, Jean Blue and Rick Anderson. Free; call 601-638-9221; email atticgal@aol.com.

October Art Reception Oct. 8, 5:30 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. Presi-dent St., fourth floor). See works from Martha Ferris’ Cityscapes series. Free; call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

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The Mississippi Children’s Museum is now helping kids learn more about Japanese culture with the “Hello from Japan!” traveling exhibit. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan began the exhibit earlier this year, and after

closing May 17, it began traveling across the U.S. “The opportunity (to host the exhibit) was presented to us a while ago,” Chellese Hall, communications coordinator at the Children’s Museum, says. “We host a number of visiting exhibits throughout the year. This is new. It’s more focus-ing on arts and culture, a different culture very diverse from ours. Currently, we have one about STEM and science. We had ‘Zoom Into Nano’ last fall, and this is just another cool opportunity to have something different.” The Children’s Museum will open “Hello from Japan!” with a preview event on Friday, Sept. 18. The exhibit opens to the public Sept. 19 and runs through Jan. 3. “It’s very bright, it’s colorful, (and) it’s very visually engaging,” Hall says. Visitors will tour the Harajuku District in Tokyo and

travel across a bridge designed after the city’s famed Jungu-bashi Bridge. They will learn about traditional and modern Japanese culture, from fashion to the Katakana, one of the country’s writing syllabaries. The exhibit will feature dif-ferent storefronts and activities to educate children about contemporary Japanese culture, as well as traditional values.

The exhibit will also teach kids about healthy eating through avenues such as the bento box, which is a portioned meal com-

mon in Japanese cuisine. The exhibit is part of the Freeman Founda-tion Asian Culture Exhibit Series, which The Freeman Foundations funded. MCM partnered

with the Japan-America Society of Mississippi for it, and Nissan, Renesant Bank, M-Tek and Yoko-

hama Tires are sponsors. The preview event for “Hello from Japan!” is

Friday, Sept. 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and the ex-hibit runs Sept. 19, through Jan. 3, 2016. The Mississippi

Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd., 601-981-5469) is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m. Admission is $10, and children un-der 1 and members can get in free. For more information, visit mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

The Mississippi Children’s Museum’s “Hello from

Japan!” traveling exhibit runs from

Sept. 19 to Jan. 3.

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Mining Your Memories: Writing Family Sto-ries Sept. 3, 1-2:30 p.m., at Ridgeland Public Library (397 Highway 51, Ridgeland). The monthly class is an informal, hands-on approach to writing personal memoirs and family stories. The class combines discussion, examples and practical exercises in helping you achieve your goals. Free; call 601-291-3590.

Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.)

Sept. 5, 1:30-4:15 p.m. In the Entergy Classroom. Students work from reproductions, still life, and imagination, investigating traditional and experimental applications of materials. Sessions held Tuesdays and most Satur-days through Dec. 5. Space limited. $825, $701.25 members; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Sept. 14, 6-9 p.m. The class for adults is held Mondays for 10 weeks. Using live models and artistic exercises derived from traditional academic modes of drawings, participants hone their observational skills and tech-niques. Registration required. Space limited. $275; call 960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

(Town of Livingston, 129 Mannsdale Road, Madison)

Sept. 12, 9:30 a.m.-noon Topics include chopping, slicing, dicing, mincing, julienne and brunoise. Registration

required. $59; call 601-506-6821; farmer-stableinlivingston.com.

Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-noon Learn to make bagels, chocolate doughnut holes, biscuits and cranberry scones with lemon glaze. Registration required. $59; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Sept. 18, 6-8 p.m. Learn to make butter lettuce salad with green goddess dressing, grilled filet, corn pudding, honey and sea salted sautéed carrots, and whiskey chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream. Registration required. $89; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Sept. 24, 6-9 p.m. Learn to make sweet potato gnocchi with brown butter and sage, homemade spaghetti with meat ragu, zucchini stuffed with ricotta cheese, and apple and almond gratin with lemon mascarpone. Registration required. $69; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Oct. 8, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Learn to make clam chowder, homemade chicken and noodles, and tomato and basil soup. Registration required. $59; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Oct. 14, 6-8:30 p.m. Learn to make a contempo-rary version of the fall classic along with har-vest salad with poppy seed dressing, yellow squash casserole, and apple brown bettie with lemon and honey mascarpone cheese. Reg-istration required. $59; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Oct. 17, 9 a.m.-noon Learn to make beer punch, Charleston dip and crackers, roasted jalapeño poppers, grilled steak sandwich with Boursin cheese, and bourbon-glazed wings with blue cheese dip. Registration required. $59; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Oct. 21, 6-9 p.m. Learn to make harvest salad, braised beef with sour cream mashed potatoes, whole roasted baby carrots, apple crisp with cinnamon whipped cream. Registration required. $79; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Oct. 23, 6-9 p.m. Learn to make crab and corn chowder, seared beef ten-derloin with Boursin cream sauce, parmesan orzo pasta, roasted green beans and raspberry pavlova. Registration required. $89; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Nov. 10, 6-9 p.m. Learn to make a Caesar salad with croutons, hunters chicken stew, polenta and honey almond cake with vanilla glaze. Registration required. $69; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Nov. 14, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Learn to make a wedge salad, grilled filet, potato dominos and broccoli with blistered tomatoes. Registration required. $89; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

Events at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland)

Sept. 22, 7-9 p.m. Learn to weave a scarf or spin yarn with Marcy Petrini and Kathy Perito in the 10-week class on

Tuesdays. Registration required. $195; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

Oct. 5, 6-8:30 p.m. Learn to create textures and pat-terns with burs and a woodburner. Additional classes on Oct. 5 and Oct. 8. Maximum of six students. $160 plus $10 materials fee; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

Oct. 31, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Ken McLemore is the instructor. Learn basic techniques and make a gumbo paddle to take home. Registration required. $75; call 601-856-7546; email education@mscrafts.org; craftsmensguildofms.org.

Nov. 10, 6-8:30 p.m. Lyle Wynn is the instructor. Learn the basics of blacksmithing and create a project to take home. Registration required. $35; call 601-856-7546; email education@mscrafts.org; craftsmensguildofms.org.

Oct. 6, 4:30-7:45 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Develop portraiture and documentary photography skills in urban and nat-ural landscapes throughout Jackson. Sessions held Tuesdays through Dec. 1 excluding Nov. 17. For ages 18 and up. Registration required. $400, $340 members; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Nov. 1, Nov. 15, 1:30-5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). The reputable illustrator gives drawing tips. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

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

b. Fine Art Jewelry (215 W. Jackson St., Ridgeland). Call 601-607-7741; bfineartjew-elry.com.

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

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 Birthplace (719 N. Congress St.) Call 601-352-3399; wel-tycommons.com.

Fischer Galleries (736 S. President St.). Call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

Fondren Art Gallery (3030 N. State St.). Call 601-981-9222; fondrenartgallery.com.

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

The Gallery (3338 N. Liberty St., Canton). Call 601-331-4515.

Gallery1 (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.

The Hangar (140 Wesley Ave.). Call 601-354-5373; midtownpartners.org.

The Hatch (126 Keener Ave.). Call 601-354-5373; midtownpartners.org.

Interiors Market (659 Duling Ave.). Call 601-981-6020.

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; facebook.com/LightandGlass.

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.

Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Call 601-960-1515; msmuseumofart.org.

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

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

Samuel Marshall Gore Galleries (199 Monroe St., Clinton). Call 601-925-3231; art.mc.edu

Sanaa Fine Art & Framing (5846 Ridgewood Road, Suite C-212). Call 769-218-8289; sanaagalleries.com.

Southern Breeze Gallery (500 Highway 51 N., Ridgeland). Call 601-607-4147; southern-breeze.net.

View Gallery (1491 Canton Mart Road, Suite 7). Call 601-487-6477; viewgalleryart.com.

Wolfe Fine Art Studio (4308 Old Canton Road). Call 601-366-1844; thewolfestudio.com.

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

For an extended look at local galleries and art exhibits, visit jacksonfreepress.com/galleries.

The Mississippi Museum of Art, at 380 S. Lamar St., hosts a number of events and temporary exhibits, in addition to its permanent collection.

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Boo at the Zoo Oct. 23-24, 5-8 p.m., at Jack-son Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The annual Halloween event includes eight candy stations, a costume parade, a hayride and more. $9.25, $6.75 children, $3 members; call 601-352-2580, ext. 227; email aharris@jacksonzoo.org; jacksonzoo.org/events.

Haunting of Olde Towne Oct. 29, 6-8:30 p.m., at Olde Towne Clinton (Jefferson Street and West Leake Street, Clinton). Includes candy, contests and a pet costume parade. Canned good donations go to the 4C’s. $2 or $1 plus one canned good per person; call 601-924-6082; clintonparksandrec.com.

Park After Dark Oct. 30, 5:30-8 p.m., at LeFleur Museum District (Interstate 55 North and Lakeland Drive). Enjoy spooky activities and trick-or-treating at the Mississippi Chil-dren’s Museum, the Mississippi Museum of

Natural Science and LeFleur’s Bluff State Park. Costumes welcome. Admission TBA; call 601-981-5469 or 601-576-6000.

The Haunting of Duff Green Oct. 31, 10 p.m., at Duff Green Mansion (1114 First St. East, Vicksburg). Join the Mississippi Paranormal Research Institute and the Mis-sissippi Paranormal Society for a paranormal investigation of the historical site. Includes ghost hunting tips and hands-on training with paranormal equipment. $30 per person; call 601-618-9509; email d_childers@live.com; ghostscouters.com.

Events at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Missis-sippi St.)

Carnival Ball Nov. 4, 7-11 p.m. In the Mistletoe Special Events Pavilion. Includes food from Fresh Cut Catering and Floral,

live and silent auctions, music from The Krackerjacks and a preview of products for sale at Mistletoe Marketplace. Black tie optional. $100 (includes admission to Mistletoe Marketplace Nov. 5-7); call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com.

Nov. 5-6, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Nov. 7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. More than 100 vendors sell their wares at the 35th annual holiday shopping event. Proceeds benefit the Junior League of Jackson. Visit the website for a list of signature events and special guests. No strollers or rolling carts allowed. $10 online; $12 at the door; $5 seniors ages 60 and over, and children ages 6-12, children under 6 free; call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com.

Mississippi Veteran’s Day Celebration Nov. 15, noon-4 p.m., at War Memorial Building

(120 S. State St.). The purpose of the event is to honor and thank all who served in the United States Armed Forces. Free; call 601-398-2433 ; email lsh@theholmesinc.com; theholmesinc.com.

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Nov. 15, 3 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The symphonic pop band from Omaha, Neb., has been performing since 1974. Enjoy energetic versions of classic holiday music along with multimedia effects. $25 and up; call 888-502-2929; jacksonbroadway.com.

Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., at Bologna Performing Arts Center (Delta State University, 1003 W. Sunflower Road, Cleve-land). Lightwire Theater presents the holiday show which features light art, puppetry and a variety of holiday tunes. $25-$35; call 662-846-4626; bolognapac.com.

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Food & Drink Kindred Spirits Whisky Tasting Sept. 11, 7-9 p.m., at Mississippi Agricul-ture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). In Sparkman Audito-rium. More than 40 brands of whisky are available for sampling. Admission includes 20 whisky coupons and a commemorative glass. The event is part of CelticFest. For ages 21 and up. $40 in advance, $60 at the door; call 601-812-5470; celticfestms.org.

Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Nov. 14, 1-3 p.m., at High Noon Cafe (Rainbow Plaza, 2807 Old Can-ton Road). Hosts include Mississippi Vegetarians, Rainbow Natural Grocery Cooperative and Dr. Leo Huddleston. Bring a plant-based dish to share. Free; call 366-1513; follow Rainbow Natu-ral Grocery Cooperative on Facebook.

Wine with the Blind Sept. 28, 5:30 p.m., at Bravo! Italian Restaurant & Bar (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 244). The annual wine-tasting and fundraiser benefits Missis-sippi Industries for the Blind. Ages 21 and up. $30; mibfoundation.org.

Events at Olde Towne Clinton (Jef-ferson Street and West Leake Street, Clinton)

Oct. 10, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. This month’s theme is “Fall for Clinton.” Free; call 601-924-5472; email mainstreetclinton@clintonms.org; clintonms.org.

Nov. 14, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Shop for food and gifts at the eighth annual event. Free; call 601-924-5472; email mainstreet-clinton@clintonms.org; clintonms.org.

J ackson is on the menu for the next season of FOX’s hit pro-gram “MasterChef.” The net-work announced its seventh sea-

son casting route, which includes a stop in Jackson on Saturday, Oct. 3. The competitive cooking show, which features judges Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and Christina Tosi, puts amateur chefs in the hot seat, competing for $250,000, a published cookbook and the title of MasterChef. Many previous winners, such as first-season victor Whit-ney Miller, a Poplarville, Miss., native and graduate of the University of Southern Mis-sissippi, have gone on to have successful cu-linary careers, which can draw competitors

from around the country to audition sites. “With my initial audition in New Orleans, people drove from places like Alabama, Texas and Tennessee,” Miller says. “Whenever you have a southern city (host) one of these, you’re going to have people from all over come.” Miller, who was in her senior year at USM when she auditioned, didn’t ini-tially plan to start her career with reality TV. In fact, she only found out about the audition two weeks before. However, since winning season one, Miller has de-livered cooking demonstrations across the country, written for publications such as Southern Living and Taste of Home, and released one successful cookbook with

her follow-up, “Whitney Miller’s New Southern Table” (Nelson, 2015, $26.99), hitting shelves Oct. 27. “I’m very thankful because it opened a lot of doors,” she says. “It was a stressful time to do the show, for sure, but I gained confidence through it, met people that I’m still in contact with, and just gained a lot of knowledge. Especially being as young as I was, but I think even someone older, being around people who have been profession-als in the industry for years and are highly acclaimed, it’s a free opportunity to learn.” “MasterChef” auditions are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Hilton Gar-den Inn (235 W. Capitol St.). For more information, visit masterchefcasting.com.

Christina Tosi, Gordon Ramsay and Graham Elliot (left to right) bring Fox’s “MasterChef” to Jackson on Saturday, Oct. 3.

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Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.)

Sept. 2, 8 p.m. The Los Angeles comedian is known for his laid-back, self-deprecating style of humor. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles actor Miles Allen performs. For mature audiences. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

-(1701 N. State St.)

Sept. 4, 7 p.m. In room 137. See Gonzalo Díaz Ugarte’s film, “I Am from Chile.” Free; call 974-1000; millsaps.edu.

Sept. 18, 7 p.m. In room 137. See Marcelo Gomes and Karim Aïnouz’s film, “I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You.” Free; call 974-1000; millsaps.edu.

Oct. 2, 7 p.m. In room 137. See Pedro Pérez Rosado’s film, “Wilaya.” Free; call 974-1000; millsaps.edu.

Oct. 30, 7 p.m. In room 137. See Icíar Bollaín’s film, “Even the Rain.” Free; call 974-1000; millsaps.edu.

(1100 Carlisle St.)

Sept. 15-19, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 20, 2 p.m., Sept. 22-26, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27, 2 p.m. The play is about the plight of three young Mississippi sisters. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

Oct. 27-31, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 1, 2 p.m., Nov. 3-7, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 8, 2 p.m. The play about racial tensions in a small Southern town is based on John Grisham’s popular novel. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

(255 E. Pascagoula St.)

Sept. 23, 7:30-9 p.m. The Sufi dervishes from Turkey per-form to ceremonial music. Exhibit and reception before the performance. $15-$40; call 601-454-4782; email jackson@thedialoginstitute.org.

Nov. 21, 8 p.m. Neil Goldberg directs the performance featuring cos-tumed acrobats and original music. $25 and up; call 888-502-2929; jacksonbroadway.com.

Oct. 8, 7 p.m., at Jaco’s Tacos (318 S. State St.). The Detectives pres-ents the interactive comedy. Cocktails at 6 p.m.; show at 7 p.m. Includes a three-course meal. Res-ervations required. For ages 18 and up. $43; call 601-937-1752 or 601-291-7444; thedetectives.biz.

(1400 John R. Lynch St.)

Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 9, 10 a.m., Oct. 9-10, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11, 3 p.m., Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. In McCoy Audito-rium. MADDRAMA presents the Lorraine Hansberry play about a poor black family who must grieve the death of their patriarch and determine how to spend the resulting life insur-ance check. $10, $5 seniors and students, $7 per person in groups of 20 or more; call 601-979-5956; jsums.edu/speechcomm.

Oct. 17, 7 p.m. In McCoy Auditorium. Tracey Neyland with HumbleWay OutReach directs the play about three women who are affected by breast cancer. A portion of the proceeds goes to the American Cancer Soci-ety. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-946-6328; email theneylands@bellsouth.net.

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13, 10 a.m., Nov. 13-14, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15, 3 p.m., Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). At McCoy Auditorium. MADDRAMA presents the drama set during the 1964 New York riots. $10, $5 seniors and students, $7 per person in groups of 20 or more; call 601-979-5956; jsums.edu/speechcomm.

Oct. 15-18, 7:30 p.m., at Alamo Theater (333 N. Farish St.). For mature audiences. Limited seating. $25-$35; call 601-301-2281; fondrentheatreworkshop.org.

-Oct. 23, 7 p.m., at The Hideaway (Deville

Plaza, 5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Fringe Dinner Theatre presents the show about a monster’s ball. Includes a three-course meal, Thrill-er/Time Warp-themed line dance lessons and a costume contest. RSVP. $25 plus tax and tip; call 601-941-3816 or 601-850-2318; email fringedin-nertheatre@gmail.com; fringedinnertheatre.com.

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Maybe Baby? Sept. 3, 5:30-7 p.m., at River Oaks Hospital (1030 River Oaks Drive, Flowood). The Q&A session for couples considering par-enthood includes a tour of the facility and hors d’oeuvres. Space limited. Reservations required. Free; call 877-907-7642.

Events in Fondren Sept. 3, 6:30 p.m. The annual

run/walk is a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mississippi and is part of Fondren’s First Thursday this year. The race starts on Duling Avenue. Includes a post-race party with music from Southern Grass. $25 through Aug. 23, $35 after; email pam@rmhc-mississippi.org; rmhcms.org.

Nov. 21, 7:30 a.m. Check-in is at 6:30 a.m. The annual race with a holiday costume contest benefit the Good Samaritan Center. Race begins at Old Canton Road and Duling Street. Includes a kids’ run at 9 a.m. Registration required. $35 through Nov. 9, $40 Nov. 10-20, $45 race day, free fun run, $105 family of four (immediate family members only); call 601-355-6276; christmas12k.com.

Sept. 4, Oct. 2, Nov. 6, 2 p.m., at Methodist Rehabilitation Center, East Campus (1 Layfair Drive, Flowood). On first Fridays at the Methodist Specialty Care Center, suite 500. Open to stroke survivors, their loved ones and caregivers. Refreshments served. Free; call 601-936-8888.

Sept. 7, 6:30-10 a.m., at 100 Concourse at Colony Park (1052 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary is the host. Includes a 5K race for runners and a 10K race for walkers. Awards given. Strollers and pets welcome. Pre-register to receive a T-shirt. $30 through Aug. 17, $35 after; email sawaofms@gmail.com; racesonline.com.

(Trace Station, 500 Highway 51 N., Suite Z, Ridgeland).

- Sept. 8, Sept. 10, 7 p.m. The

goal of the 12-week program is to physically prepare for the 2K’s for the Holidays 5K scheduled for Nov. 21. The program kicks off Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. Free meeting, $100 program (does not include race registration); call 601-899-9696; email karen@fleetfeet-jackson.com; fleetfeetjackson.com.

Nov. 26, 7 a.m. Includes a run/walk and a quarter-mile kids’ run. Awards given. The annual race is a fundraiser for the Ridgeland Multipurpose Trails. Registration required. $20 through Aug. 31, $30 Sept. 1-Nov. 10, $40 after; call 601-899-9696; fleetfeetjackson.com.

Sept. 10, 8 a.m.-11 p.m., Sept. 11, 5 a.m.-11 p.m., Sept. 12, 8 a.m.-10 p.m., at Liberty Bowl Memorial Sta-dium (335 S. Hollywood St., Memphis). The event includes concerts, a parade, a tailgate party and more. Gladys Knight and Jammin Jay Lamont perform at Orpheum Theatre Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. Jackson State University’s football game against Tennessee State Uni-versity is Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. concert: $62.50-$82.50, tailgating fees start at $152; football game: $20-$35; call 800-745-3000 or 800-332-1991; southernheritageclassic.com.

Sept. 12, 7:30-11 a.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral (305 E. Capitol St.). The third annual race is a fundraiser for the Mississippi Food Network. Includes a free fun run for ages 12 and under. $30-40; call 601-973-7089; email scain@msfoodnet.org; eventbrite.com.

Sept. 19, 9-11 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The annual three-mile walk is a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association. Check-in is at 9 a.m., the opening ceremony is at 9:45 a.m. and the walk is at 10 a.m. Fundraising encouraged; call 960-1515; email afboyd@alz.org; alz.org/walk.

Sept. 20, 8 a.m.-9 p.m., at Walter Anderson Museum of Art (510 Washington Ave., Ocean Springs). Includes a 10-mile bike ride, a two-mile run and a two-mile kayak race. Awards given. Registration required. $40 individuals, $60 teams of two, add $20 for kayak rental; call 228-872-3164; email develop-ment@walterandersonmuseum.org; walterander-sonmuseum.org.

Sept. 23, at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Jeremy Gordon of Boxers Rebellion is the instructor. The class incorporates boxing, mixed martial arts, self defense and more. Runs through Dec. 2. $150; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

Sept. 24, 2-7 p.m., at YMCA Flowood (690 Liberty Road, Flowood). In the Indoor Arena. The purpose of the event is to help raise awareness about health and well-ness within the Flowood community. Includes a scavenger hunt for kids, posture assessments for adults, door prizes and more. Free; call Foxworth Chiropractic Clinic at 601-932-9201.

Sept. 26, 7:30 a.m., at Baptist Healthplex, Clinton (102 Clinton Parkway, Clinton). The annual ride along the Natchez Trace Parkway is a fundraiser for the Baptist Cancer Services Serenity Garden. Registra-tion required. Registration starts at $50; call 601-968-1489; mbhs.org/cyclistscuringcancer.

Sept. 26, at Northpark Mall (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). The race

includes getting hit with colored powder along the route. Registration required. Slots limited. Discounts for kids and teams. $65-$75; call 601-957-3744; thecolorvibe.com.

- (2531 N. State St.)

Sept. 26, 6 p.m. The Jackson State University Tigers take on Texas Southern University at the annual football game. JSU fans are encouraged to wear white.. $15, $35 reserved, $50 box seats, season tickets avail-able, additional fees apply for parking passes and tailgating; call 601-979-2420; jsutigers.com.

Oct. 3, 6 p.m. The Jackson State University Tigers take on Grambling State University at the annual football game. $15, $35 reserved, $50 box seats, season tickets available, additional fees apply for parking passes and tailgating; call 601-979-2420; jsutigers.com.

Oct. 24, 2 p.m. The Jackson State University Tigers take on the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff at the annual game. $25, $35 reserved, $50 box seats, season tickets avail-able, additional fees apply for parking passes and tailgating; call 601-979-2420; jsutigers.com.

Nov. 7, 6 p.m. The Jackson State University Tigers take on Alabama State University. $15, $35 reserved, $50 box seats, season tickets available, additional fees apply for parking passes and tailgating; call 601-979-2420; jsutigers.com.

Nov. 28, 2 p.m. The Jack-son State University Tigers take on Alcorn State University. $25, $35 reserved, $50 box seats, season tickets available, additional fees apply for parking passes and tailgating; call 601-979-2420; jsutigers.com.

Sept. 29, at Lake Caroline Golf Course (118 Caroline Club Circle, Madison). The for-mat is a four-person scramble. Includes awards,

games and a raffle. Register by Sept. 22. $125 per person, $500 team of four; call 601-605-2554; madisoncountychamber.com.

Oct. 1, 5:30-8:30 p.m., at Butterfly Yoga (3025 N. State St.). Instructor Aaron Lind is a renowned teacher of partner acrobatics and founding member of the Acro Revolution teach-er-training school. Call 601-594-2313; email info@butterflyyoga.net; butterflyyoga.net.

Oct. 4, 2 p.m., at Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance (1401 Livingston Lane). Check-in is at 1 p.m. Pro-ceeds go toward DFM programs such as Camp Kandu, education and assistance for needy families. Raise at least $50 to receive a com-memorative T-shirt featuring illustrator Mar-shall Ramsey’s artwork. Registration required. Minimum fundraising amount of $20; call 601-957-7878; msdiabetes.org.

Oct. 10-11, 7 a.m., at Hyatt Place Jackson/Ridgeland (1016 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). Check-in is at 6 a.m. The cycling event along the Natchez Trace is a fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Soci-ety. Cyclists ride 25, 45 or 75 miles each day. Reg-istration required. Minimum fundraising amount of $150; call 601-898-8815; bikems.org.

Oct. 24, 8-10 p.m., at Traceway Park (200 Soccer Row, Clinton). The run/walk includes a one-mile route for “zombies” only, and a 5K for humans and “zombies.” Race winners receive coupon prizes. Costumes encouraged. Registration required. Free entry with donation of one 3.5-pound bag of candy; call 601-924-6082; clintonparksandrec.com.

Oct. 31, 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.

Nov. 2, 9 a.m., Nov. 3, 11 a.m., Nov. 4-6, 6 a.m., Nov. 7-8, 7:30 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 Birdies for Charity. $15-$50; call 956-1411; sandersonfarmschampionship.com.

Nov. 7, 8 a.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The annual 5K run/walk is held in conjunction with the Junior League of Jackson’s Mistletoe Marketplace. Include a one-mile fun walk. $25 through Oct. 31, $30 Nov. 1-5, $35 after, $15 fun walk; call 353-0603; racesonline.com.

Nov. 7, 8-11 a.m., at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). Events begin at 8 a.m. and the walk begins at 9:15 a.m. Includes a three-mile walk and a one-mile survivor route. Fundraising encouraged; call 359-3114; metrojacksonheartwalk.org.

- Nov. 20-22, at Kirk Fordice Equine

Center (1207 Mississippi St.). Equestrians compete for cash prizes. Competitors must register. Free for spectators; call 228-860-8104; email twoodcock@neseenterprise.com or misty.platinumproductions@gmail.com; platinumproductionsbarrelracing.com.

Sports & Wellness

Jackson State University’s Sonic Boom of the South will cheer on the Tigers as they take on Tennessee State University at the Southern Heritage Classic on Sept. 12 at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis.

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Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202)

Sept. 4, 5 p.m. Hester Young signs books. $25.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 9, 5 p.m. Edwin E. Meek signs books. $35.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 10, 5 p.m. Matthew Guinn signs books. $25.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 14, 5 p.m. Malcolm White signs books. $34.95; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 15, 4 p.m. Drew Daywalt signs books. $18.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuria-books.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 15, 5 p.m. Lauren Groff signs books. $27.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 17, 5 p.m. Ron Rash signs books. $26.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 21, 5 p.m. Rick Bragg signs books. $27.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 23, 5 p.m. Stuart Stevens signs books. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 29, 5 p.m. Bruce Levingston signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $50 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Oct. 1, 5 p.m. Barbara Gauntt signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $35 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Oct. 7, 5 p.m. Jonathan Evison signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Oct. 13, 5 p.m. Richard Grant signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $16 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Oct. 15, 4:30 p.m. Mike Curato signs books. $17.99 book;

call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuria-books.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Oct. 19, 5 p.m. Garth Risk Hallberg signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $30 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuria-books.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 11, 5 p.m. Roberta Kaplan signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $27.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 12, 5 p.m. Neely Tucker signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $27.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 18, 5 p.m. Leonard Pitts Jr. signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 23, 5 p.m. Jon Meacham signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $35 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Sept. 24, 6 p.m., at Eudora Welty Library (300 N. State St.). Dr. Doris Ginn of Jackson State University presents “Let’s Talk: Margaret Walker’s Centennial Celebration.” Free; call 601-968-5811.

Oct. 8, 6 p.m., at R.G. Bolden/Anne Bell-Moore Public Library (1444 Wiggins Road). Poet C. Liegh McInnis of Jackson State University hosts a discussion of Margaret Walker’s poem “Octo-ber Journey.” Free; call 601-922-6076; email twilkins@jhlibrary.com.

Oct. 13, 7 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In the recital hall. Katy Simpson Smith, Taylor Kitchings, and Jamie Kornegay are the speakers. $10, $5 stu-dents; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

Oct. 17, noon-5 p.m., at Jayne Avenue Community Center (3615 Jayne Ave.). Includes book, maga-zine and treat bag giveaways for all ages, food, entertainment and other activities. Free; call 601-750-6511; email circleofcolor@yahoo.com.

Oct. 23, 7 p.m., at Missis-sippi University for Women (1100 College St., Columbus). In the Banquet Room. The annual event features a cocktail reception with the authors of this year’s Welty Writers’ Symposium and a presentation from author and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke. $75 friend, $500 patron, $5,000 benefactor (table of eight); call 662-329-7148; web3.wub.edu/welty.

(1119 Pinehurst Place)

Oct. 29, 5 p.m. Barry Moser signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $22 book; call Lemuria Books at 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 17, 5 p.m. Tom Piazza signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.95 book; call 601-353-7762; lemuriabooks.com.

Nov. 15, 6 p.m., at Margaret Walker Alexander Library (2525 Robinson Road). Dr. Robert Luckett of Jackson State University presents “The Thoughts I Will Keep and Remember from the Margaret Walker Centennial Celebration.” Free; call 601-968-5825.

Literary & Signings

Poet C. Liegh McInnis hosts the Margaret Walker Centennial Lecuture on Oct. 8, at the R.G. Bolden/Anne Bell-Moore Public Library.

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Sept. 3, 10-11 a.m. The popular character from the PBS Kids program “Sid the Science Kid” appears in conjunction with “Sid the Science Kid: The Super-Duper Exhibit!” Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Sept. 6, Sept. 20, 1:30-5:30 p.m. Jenkins uses the west African djembe drum to teach children cre-ative writing and literacy skills. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; missis-sippichildrensmuseum.com.

Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The topic is dental health. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Oct. 4, Oct. 18, 1:30-5:30 p.m. The ballet and modern dance performer teaches basic tech-niques, classic steps and traditional dances.

Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Nov. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Children study and interact with living organisms in order to learn more about physiology. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Sept. 8, Sept. 22, 3:30-4:30 p.m., at Madison Public Library (994 Madison Ave., Madison). Chil-dren ages 6-8 develop engineering skills while visiting various stations involving LEGOs, Minecraft and more. Sessions on second and fourth Tuesdays. Free; call 601-856-2749.

Sept. 10, 3:15-5:30 p.m., at C.E. Roy Commu-nity Center (300 E. 5th St., Hattiesburg). Children ages 4-13 participate in art, music, creative movement, writing and theater activities. Held Thursdays and Fridays through Dec. 11. Free; call 601-583-6005; email hattiesburgartscouncil@gmail.com; hattiesburgartscouncil.org.

Sept. 15, 6 p.m., at Traceway Park (200 Soccer Row, Clinton). Youth ages 6-15 get to showcase their football skills. Winners advance to the next level of competition for a chance to compete at the New Orleans Saints Team Championship in December. Online pre-registration recommended. Free; clintonparksandrec.com.

Sept. 16, at Eudora Welty Educa-tion and Visitors Center (1109 Pinehurst Place). Mississippi students in grades 7-12 may submit original works in 10 categories, including poetry, short story, critical essay, dramatic script and new category editorial cartoon. The deadline is Dec. 16 at 5 p.m. $5 per person, $20 per portfolio; call 601-354-5210; email info@artandwriting.org; artandwriting.org.

(380 S. Lamar St.)

Sept. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20, 10:30 a.m. 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.

Nov. 17, 9:30 a.m.-noon, in the Bancorp South Classroom. Homeschool students experi-ence a guided tour of current exhibitions, learn through a hands-on studio art activ-ity, make connections through art and literacy, and enjoy lunch. For ages 4-12. Pre-register by Nov. 10. $30 per student; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Oct. 8, 9 a.m.-noon, at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Teams from selected high schools compete in a scholar’s bowl contest with questions about government and Mississippi history. Registration required. Free; call 601-576-6920; email info@oldcapitolmuseum.com; oldcapitolmuseum.com.

Live at 5 Fridays, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. through Oct. 30, at Town Square Park (100 Main St., Hattiesburg). The Hattiesburg Arts Council provides smART space art activities for children at the gazebo. Free; call 601-583-6005; email hattiesburgartscouncil@gmail.com; hattiesburgartscouncil.org.

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H&R Block Job Fair Sept. 2, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., at H&R Block (Deville Plaza, 5250-C Interstate 55 N.). Available positions include tax profes-sionals, receptionists and office managers. Free; call 601-956-2554.

Events at William F. Winter Archives and His-tory Building (200 North St.)

Sept. 2, noon. Mabel Pitt-man presents “Central United Methodist Church in Jackson: Its First Hundred Years.” Free; call 601-576-6998.

Sept. 9, noon. Author Rob-ert Luckett discusses his book, “Joe T. Patter-son and the White South’s Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement.” Free; call 601-576-6998.

Sept. 16, noon. The speaker is Alysia Steele, author of “Delta Jew-els: In Search of my Grandmother’s Wisdom, will present “Delta Jewels and the Power of Oral History.” Sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998.

Sept. 23, noon. Retired judge and law professor Gordon A. Martin Jr. discusses his book, “Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote.” Sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998.

Sept. 30, noon. Bruce Lev-ingston, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College artist-in-residence at the University of Mississippi, discusses his book, “Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull.” Sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998.

All 4 Children Consignment Fall/Winter Jack-son Sale Sept. 3, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sept. 4, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Sept. 5, 8 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Purchase or sell gen-tly used children’s clothing and accessories. Call for information on pre-sales for consignors, new moms and moms of twins. Free admission; call 601-566-7046; all4childrenconsignment.com.

Mississippi Minority Business Alliance Power Sept. 3, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Hilton

Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). The theme is, “The Role of U.S. Minority Businesses in the 21st Century Global Marketplace.” The keynote

speaker is Antwaun Griffin, Deputy Assistant Sec-retary for U.S. Operations at the U.S. Department of Commerce. RSVP. $75 through Aug. 10, $100 after, reserved tables available; call 601-965-0366; email info@mmba.us; mmba.us/powerluncheon.

Jackson Audubon Society First Saturday Bird Walk Sept. 5, Oct. 3, 8 a.m.-noon, at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park (2140 Riverside Drive). An expert

birder leads the walk. Meet at the picnic area. Free with $4.04 car entrance fee; call 601-832-6788; jacksonaudubonsociety.org.

Rankin County Democrats Monthly Sept. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7, 8:30 a.m., at Corner Bakery, Flowood (108 Market St., Flowood). On first Sat-urdays at 8:30am, Jackson-area Democrats meet for breakfast and discuss current political activities. Open to the public. Free with food for sale; call 601-919-9797; rankindemocrats.net.

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

Sept. 8-11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The museum closes to the public to paint, repair and clean the 50,000 square-foot facility. Volunteers needed. Al ages welcome. Free; call 601-709-8976; email esimmons@mcm.ms.

Sept. 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Representatives from the State Treasury of Mississippi MPACT and MACS programs provide information about MACS, Mississippi’s 529 college savings program. Register to win one of two MACS scholarships. $5.29; call 601-981-5469; mis-sissippichildrensmuseum.com.

Senior Day Sept. 10, 9 a.m.-noon, at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Seniors ages 65 and older enjoy the zoo at their own pace with activities and light refreshments provided. Free for seniors, oth-ers: $9.25, $6.75 ages 2-12, children under 2 and members free; call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org.

Jackson Audubon Society Saturday Birding Field Trip Sept. 12, 7:30 a.m., at St. Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge (21 Pintail Lane, Sibley). Expert birder Chris King leads the expedition with an emphasis on shorebird migration. Free; call 601-832-6788; email saintcatherinecreek@fws.gov; jacksonaudubonsociety.org.

Anime Getaway Jackson Sept. 12, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m., at Regency Hotel and Conference Center (420 Greymont Ave.). The anime convention includes a dealer’s room of Japanese imports, art

displays, game rooms, a cosplay contest and out-door battle games. Features guests include voice actress Caitlin Glass, vlogger CinnamonToast-Ken and cosplayer SuperMaryFace. $5 through Aug. 30, $10 at the door; call 969-2141; animegetaway.com/jacksonms.

(105 E. Pascagoula St.)

Sept. 12, 11 a.m. Includes the organiza-tion’s annual meeting and food. The keynote speaker is political commentator and author Donna Brazile. $100; call 601-354-3408; email office@aclu-ms.org; aclu-ms.org.

Oct. 19-20, 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Oct. 21, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The annual conference is for non-profits and mission-based agencies. Topics include community engagement, money matters, leadership and volunteering. Reg-istration required. $189 through Aug. 26, $249 after; call 601-407-2747 or 601-665-3975; email info@positionedforprogress.com; positionedforprogress.com.

Policy Summit Oct. 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The goal of the event is to promote an economic security agenda for women. The keynote speaker is Anita Hill, professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis Univer-sity. Registration required. Free; call 960-2321; mswomensecure.org.

Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) Sept.

15, 8:30 a.m., in the lower level of the Campbell College Center. Speakers include Sara L. John-son, senior research director at IHS Economics, and economist Darrin Webb. Includes a conti-nental breakfast at 8 a.m. RSVP recommended. Space limited. Free; call 601-974-1254.

Series Begins Sept. 21. Most classes begin the week of Sept. 21 and fall into the categories of art, music, fitness, design, business and technology. Call to request a brochure with classes and fees. Fees vary; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

Good Neighbor Day Sept. 2, 8 a.m., at Greenbrook Flowers (705 N. State St.). Receive a dozen roses for free, and give away 11 roses to neighbors and friends. Supplies limited. Also included a raffle to raise funds for the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children. Free roses, raffle tickets start at $1; call 601-957-1951.

(380 S. Lamar St.)

Sept. 18, 7-10 p.m. Includes refreshments, a cash bar, enter-tainment and a $500 drawdown raffle. This year’s honoree is retired UMMC pediatric hematologist and oncologist Dr. Mary Gail Smith. $50 (includes one raffle ticket), additional raffle tickets: $10 each or three for $20; call 601-366-5874; mssicklecellfoundation.org.

Nov. 7, 9 a.m. At the Art Garden. This year’s theme is “Walkin’ off the Blues with NAMI Mississippi.” Check-in is at 8 a.m. The 5K run/walk is a fundraiser for NAMI Mississippi, a branch of the National Alliance of Mental Illness. Fundraising encouraged, donations welcome; call 601-899-9058; email walkmanager@namims.org; namiwalks.org.

Month Competition Sept. 20, 1-6 p.m., at Murrah High School (1400 Murrah Drive). The Prancing Step-perettes, Purple Diamonds, Jazzy Jewels of Crystal Springs, Glamour Girls, Ladies of Sparkle, Glamorous Gems and Pink Ladies of Vicksburg perform. Unwrapped toy dona-tions welcome. $10; call 601-918-6805.

Oct. 1, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). JFP editor-in-chief Donna Ladd is the emcee, WLBT’s Maggie Wade is the speaker and Missis-sippi Attorney General Jim Hood is this year’s award recipient. Includes raffles. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. $30; call 800-898-3234; mcadv.org.

Oct. 18, 11 a.m., at The South Warehouse (627 E. Silas Brown

St.). Tea sittings are at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Includes appearances from Cinderella and other princesses. Proceeds benefit the Eagle’s Nest Children’s Home in Guatemala. $25 tea, $10 optional boutique appointment for girls (hair and makeup); call 968-0137; email thesouthwarehouse@yahoo.com; fairytaleprincesstea.com.

Nov. 19, 6 p.m., at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). Friends for a Cause hosts the annual party to raise funds for domestic violence and sex trafficking prevention. Includes turkey calling and dance contests, a silent auction and music from Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster. Admission TBA; call 601-955-1677; friends-foracause.com.

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Wendy Mahoney, director of the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence, organized the the Purple for Peace Luncheon on Oct. 1.

Political commentator and author Donna Brazile headlines the ACLU’s 2015 Jazz Brunch on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Jackson Convention Center.

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Hinds County Human Resource Agency Meet-ing Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18, 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 are encouraged to attend. Free; call 601-923-1838; hchra.org.

Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.)

Sept. 17, Oct. 18, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. daniel johnson, artist and MMA Direc-tor of Engagement and Learning, is the host. Teams are challenged to an art and pop culture inspired game of trivia. Cash bar included. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

for Educators Oct. 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. In the Yates Community Room. Educators learn more about the museum’s mission, programs for teachers and student groups, and resourc-es available for museum-classroom connec-tions. Get 0.5 CEU credits and educational resources. Space limited. $10 for CEU credit; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Oct. 6, Oct. 17, Nov. 10, Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Oct. 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Hill is a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University. The Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Initiative hosts the reception in conjunction with the Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Policy Summit Oct. 10. $100; call 960-1515; mswomensecure.org.

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Sept. 18, 12:30 p.m., in room 215. Fifth Circuit Judge James Graves talks about the documentary, “The Loving Story.” Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Sept. 15, 7 p.m., in the recital hall. Speakers include former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, photographer Tim Isbell, author Nancy Kay Sullivan and political writer Jere Nash. $5-$10; call 601-974-1130; email gib-sonk@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu/conted.

Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m., in room 215. Dr. Robert Luckett, director of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, talks about the life of Margaret Walker. Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Oct. 16, 12:30 p.m., in room 215. Civil rights activist Rev. Ed King presents “Race War and Genocide: A Historical Perspective from the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.” Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Oct. 30, 1:30 p.m., in room 215. Panelists discuss the topic, “Reflec-tions on the 50th Anniversary of Millsaps’ Desegregation.” Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Nov. 2, 12:30 p.m., in room 215. Rabbi Jeremy Simons of the Institute for Southern Jewish Life speaks on the topic, “Jewish Culture in Post-War Poland.” Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Creative Economy Nov. 10, 7 p.m. Speakers include Nell Linton Knox and Ellen Rodgers Johnson, publishers of “Studio Jackson,” Mal-colm White of the Mississippi Development Authority, and artists Tony Davenport, Jerrod Partridge and Elizabeth Robinson. Art for sale. $10; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m., in room 215. Author Rod Dreher speaks on the topic, “How Dante Changed My Life.” Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Nov. 20, 12:30 p.m., in room 215.Carl Abbott, fellow of the Ameri-can Institute of Architects, speaks on the topic, “Maya to Modern In/Formed by the Land.” Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive). The theme is “Hollywood to Bollywood.” The annual black-tie event is a fund-raiser for the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. Includes dinner, live and silent auctions, and music. Reservations required. $150; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

(420 E. Fortification St.)

Sept. 21, 2-3 p.m. Historian H. Grady Howell Jr. examines dueling in Mississippi and the life of Col. Alexander McClung, contemporary of Charles Henry Manship. Free; call 601-961-4724; email info@manshiphouse.com; manshiphouse.com.

Nov. 5, 1-4 p.m. Jeff Klingfuss, H. Grady Howell Jr. and Cheryl Munyer Waldrep discuss the history of Thanks-giving and dining in the 19th century through lectures and demonstrations. Reservations required. Free; call 601-961-4724; email info@manshiphouse.com; manshiphouse.com.

Sept. 24, 6-9 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The theme is “Royal Flush Blues.” The Jackson Zoo’s annual fundraiser and adults-only event includes Mississippi-inspired food, live music and more. For ages 21 and up. Sponsorships available. $75; call 601-352-2580, ext. 227; email aharris@jack-sonzoo.org; jacksonzoo.org/events.

Sept. 24, 6-8:30 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 admission; call 601-353-6060; email lclark@habitatmca.org.

Oct. 3, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Nativity Lutheran Church (495 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon). Purchase handcrafted items from local and international artists at the seventeenth annual event. Bakes goods also for sale. Proceeds benefit several nonprofit organizations. Free; call 601-825-5125; email pastor@nativitylc.org.

- Oct. 3, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at Renaissance

at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). Enjoy the beauty of British, Ital-ian, German and many other European vehicles produced before 1990 as well a signature newer models. Exhibitors must register. Free; call 601-946-1950; email mike_marsh@bellsouth.net; euro-fest.net/ridgeland.

Oct. 3, 6-9 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). The Children’s Museum’s annual fundraiser includes fairy foods, prizes, live music, pirate games and more. Limited tickets. Sponsorships available. $25 in advance through Sept. 30, $30 at the door; call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Oct. 8, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at Historic Canton Square (Courthouse Square, Canton). The biannual shopping extravaganza includes goods from artists and crafters. Free; call 601-859-8055; email cantonmsfleamarket@gmail.com; cantonmsfleamarket.com.

(100 S. State St.) Oct. 24, 10

a.m.-4 p.m. Celebrate Mississippi Archaeology Month with demonstrations of archaeological techniques and other educational activities. Free; call 601-576-6944.

Oct. 29, 5-8 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 Missis-sippi. Free; call 601-576-6920; email info@oldcapitolmuseum.com.

Conference and Reception Nov. 5, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. The theme is “Social Studies in Mississippi: College, Career and Civic Life.” Includes field trips to Jackson-area historic sites. Registration fee TBA; call 576-6800; mcss.org.msstate.edu.

Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Brandon Civic Cen-ter (1000 Municipal Drive, Brandon). The event includes a woodcarving exhibit, live demonstrations, door prizes and a supply sale. Children ages 8-12 will be able to participate in soap carving from 1-3 p.m. Free; call 601-906-9933; pearlriverwoodcarvers.org.

Nov. 6, 7:30-11 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). In the Mistletoe Special Events Pavilion. The event includes food from Fresh Cut Catering, a full-service bar and American music from the 1980s. The event is in conjunction with Mistletoe Marketplace. $45; call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com.

Sept. 3, Oct. 1, Nov. 5, 11 a.m.-11 p.m., in Fondren. Studio Chane hosts the mostly monthly neighborhood event formerly known as Fondren After 5. Includes shopping, food vendors, live music, open houses, a pet adoption drive and more. Free; call 601-720-2426; fft.city.

Sept. 22, 5:30 p.m., at Dul-ing Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The annual event includes an art auction, local food and music from Andrew Pates. Free admission, art for sale; call 601-353-0658; email arden@ardenland.net; wellschurch.org.

Sept. 26, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at Jamie Fowler Boyll Park (1398 Lakeland Drive). Wells Church’s annual event includes a 5K race and kid’s run at 8 a.m., a pet parade at 9 a.m., live music starting at 9:30 a.m., children’s activities, arts and crafts vendors, concessions, a plant sale and a silent auc-tion. Free admission; call 601-353-0658; wellschurch.org.

-cert Sept. 26, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Sickle cell survivor Josh Foxi, and comedic duo Merc B. and Rita B are the hosts. Performers include Tonya Boyd Cannon, Southern Komfort, Kerry Thomas, AJC and the Envelope Push-

ers, and Storage 24. Proceeds benefit the Cure Sickle Cell Foundation. $25-$75; call 601-853-3402 or 800-745-3000; email con-tact@curesicklecell.org; curesicklecell.org.

and Ride Sept. 27, 4 p.m., in downtown Jackson. At the Mississippi Museum of Art and Thalia Mara Hall. Check-in is at 3 p.m. Sickle cell survivor Josh Foxi and WLBT’s Maggie Wade are the hosts. Proceeds benefit the Cure Sickle Cell Foundation. Pre-regis-ter by Sept. 4 to receive a T-shirt. $15-$25; call 601-853-3402; email contact@curesick-lecell.org; curesicklecell.org.

Oct. 25, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., at Missis-sippi Farmers Market (929 High St.). LABA-Link is the host. The annual cultural festival includes live music, authentic food from 15 countries, art from Central America, South America and the Caribbean, dance contests, space jumps and more. $10; call 354-6573; email labalink@gmail.com; latinfest.org.

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Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. The

singer-songwriter performs to promote his album, “Complicated Game,” his first album in six years. Tim Easton also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. The eight-piece horn band plays songs from the group Chicago. All-ages show; adults must accompany children. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Sept. 18, 9 p.m. The southeastern-based bluegrass band is known for the “gypsy punk” style of music. $8 in advance, $10 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m. The Austin-based southern soul band performs. $8 in advance, $10 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Sept. 24, 8:30 p.m. The folk rock band from Denton, Tex. performs. $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Oct. 2, 9 p.m. The Californian singer-songwriter performs to promote his album, “MCIII.” The Cairo Gang also per-forms. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Oct. 7, 8 p.m. The deejay and elec-tronic artist hails from Michigan. Big Wild and Louie Lastic also perform. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

- Oct. 9, 9 p.m. Chris Robinson,

former lead singer for the Black Crowes, leads the rock band. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. The Brooklyn, N.Y. pop band’s latest album is entitled, “Bad Self Portraits.” The Congress also performs. All-ages show. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m. The New Orleans-style jazz band has been performing for 35 years. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Oct. 22, 8 p.m. The Nash-ville acoustic band plays a combination of Americana and pop. $5 in advance, $10 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. The northeastern band plays progressive rock and dance music. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. The funk, soul and jazz band from Leeds, U.K. performs on their “Made for Pleasure” tour. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

- Oct. 30, 8 p.m. The cover band has

been performing since 1995. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 29, 8 p.m. The guitarist is a member of the band Jethro Tull. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m. The New Orleans funk band’s latest album is entitled, “Into the

Deep.” Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band also per-forms. $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $3 sur-charge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 14, 8 p.m. The country singer and Flint, Mich. native’s latest album

is entitled, “Sonic ranch.” Tony Martinez also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $75 VIP (limited tickets), $3 surcharge for patrons under 21 ; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 19, 9 p.m. The indie rock band from New Orleans performs. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 5, 8 p.m. The singer-songwrit-er and frontman for the band Cinderella per-

forms. $30 general admission, $105 concert plus meet and greet (limited tickets), $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Sept. 5, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The concert featuring local bands also includes beer and merchandise for sale. $5 at the door; call 601-376-9404; offbeatjxn.com.

Sept. 11, 7 p.m., Sept. 12, 10 a.m., Sept. 13, 11:30 a.m., at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). The annual celebration of Celtic culture includes concerts, dancing, a whisky tasting, games and food. Performers include the trio Dylan Foley, Dan Gurney and Sean Earnest, Brendan Nolan, The Máirtín de Cógáin Project and more. $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 seniors and students, $6 ages 5-17, $4 ages 4 and under; call 432-4500; celticfestms.org.

Sept. 11, 8 p.m.-2 a.m., at The Hideaway (Deville Plaza, 5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Enjoy music from Terry Mullan, Paul Anthony, Tony Markham, Cam-eron Kelly and 360. For ages 18 and up. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; VIP: $45 in advance, $50 at the door; call 208-8283; facebook.com/bangthatshakethat.

Sept. 12, 10 a.m., at down-town Pelahatchie. Includes the Barefoot Celebrity Muscadine Stomp, live music, children’s activities and more. Performers include Tracy Lawrence, Raphael Semmes, TroyLaz and Jeff Bates. Lawn chairs welcome. $3, children under 6 free; call 601-854-5224; email pelahat@bellsouth.net.

Sept. 17, 7 p.m., at The Cedars Historic Home (4145 Old Canton Road). Foundation hosts an evening of music from the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. Bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnic baskets. Reserved seating with dinner available for sponsors. Free; call 601-981-9606; fondren.org.

Sept. 19, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., at Smith Park (302 E. Amite St.). The annual event with a gumbo cook-off and live music is a fundraiser for the Harold T. and Hal White Memorial Scholarship Fund. Performers include Paul Thorn, Kudzu Kings, Maggie Koern-er, Sweet Crude and The Marcus King Band. $10 in advance, $15 at the gate; call Ardenland at 601-292-7121; jacksongumbo.com.

Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 15, 2-4 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Enjoy tradi-tional Mississippi fiddle tunes on third Sundays. Free; call 601-942-7335.

Sept. 25, 8 p.m., at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino (875 Beach Blvd., Biloxi). In Beau Rivage Theatre. The country singer-songwriter and Oklahoma native performs. $60.0-$80.0; call 888-566-7469; beaurivage.com.

Oct. 2, 5 p.m., Oct. 3, 10 a.m., Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at War-field Point Park (296 Warfield Point Park Road, Greenville). The music lineup includes perform-ers such as Cutty Rye, Good Paper, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Cedric Burnside Project and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. $30 Oct. 2 or Oct. 4, $45 Oct. 3, $45 three-day pass, $10-$15 parking pass; call 662-335-7275; mightymsmusic.com.

T he second annual Anime Getaway Jackson may be a celebration of entertainment and culture com-ing to Mississippi by way of Japan,

but the convention itself originated in Memphis, Tenn. George Min, owner of Japanese pop-culture store Ani-max, created Anime Get-away about five years ago. Memphis native Amanda Morley has been with the organization since the be-ginning. While shopping at Animax shortly after turning 18, she over-heard Min discussing his vision for the event, and she wanted in. “From then on, I helped with advertising, answering emails and stuff like that, and I just kind of stayed with them,” she says. “Then, a little over a year ago, we decided to branch out and take anime conven-tions to areas that don’t necessarily have many to choose from. We thought Jack-son was an area that could benefit from an anime convention.” Now, Morley serves as the chairper-son for Anime Getaway Jackson, which saw more than 600 visitors in 2014. This year, she says they’re expecting close to 1,000 attendees, thanks in part to the variety of artists, craftsmen, vendors and featured guests. Fans may recognize voice-actress Caitlin Glass for her work on hit anime shows such as “Fullmetal

Alchemist” and “Attack on Titan.” The guest list also includes Tupelo-based You-Tube stars Cinnamon Toast Ken, whose video-game channel has more than two million subscribers, and Super Mary Face,

an Australian-born model and cosplayer with more than 263,000 subscribers. Panels and live-action roleplaying battles are a plus, of course, but Morley says the real benefit of events like Anime Getaway is more personal. “I love comic conventions, I need to say, but it’s all in one room—the deal-ers, the panels, all of it. It’s open,” she says. “But with anime cons, you get to know the people. You really get to sit down and connect.” Anime Getaway Jackson is 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Regency Ho-tel and Conference Center (400 Greymont St., 601-969-2141). Admission is $10. For more information, visit animegetaway.com.

Anime Getaway Jackson, which features an appearance from YouTube star SuperMaryFace, is Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Regency Hotel and Conference Center.

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Moonvine Art & Music Fest Oct. 3, 1-8 p.m., at Live Oaks Golf Club (11200 Highway 49 N.). Performers include Water Liars, Sand-ers Bohlke, Mississippi Rail Company, Sam Mooney and Wyatt Waters. Also includes 32 craft beers and food for sale, artist booths and games. No coolers. Gates open at noon. Chairs and blankets welcome. $5 in advance, $10 at the gate; call 601-292-7121; ardenland.net.

Air1 Positive Hits Tour Oct. 3, 7 p.m., at Broadmoor Baptist Church (1531 Highland Colony Parkway, Madison). Performers include

Crowder, Lauren Daigle, NF, Finding Favour and 3for3. Doors open at 6 p.m. $20, $49.50 VIP, $15 per person on groups of 10 or more; call 800-965-9324; air1.com.

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Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major with Anton Nel on piano and Dvorak’s New World Symphony. $23 and up; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra pres-ents music from “Downton Abbey,” “The Piano,” “Love Actually,” “Jurassic Park,” “Shawshank Redemption,” Mannheim Steamroller and the Beatles. $18 and up; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents selections from Copland’s Rodeo, Ben Williams and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4: The Inextinguishable. $23 and up; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

Oct. 7-18, at Mississippi State Fairgrounds (1207 Mississippi St.). The annual fair includes livestock shows, rides, food, games and concerts. Performers include Bell Biv DeVoe, Cory Smith and Joe Nichols. Admission TBA; call 601-961-4000 or 601-353-0603; msfair.net.

Oct. 11, 3 p.m., at Shack Up Inn and Hopson Commissary (001 Commissary Circle, Clarksdale). Performers includes Bobs of the Blues, Super Chikan, Clay Swafford and more. Proceeds go toward masterclass scholar-ships for youth. $15 donation; call 662-624-

8329; email info@pinetopperkinsfoundation.org; pinetopperkinsfoundation.org.

Oct. 15-18, at downtown Clarksdale. The Hooten Hallers, Eleganza!, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Mr. Airplane Man, Scott H. Biram, Henry’s Funeral Shoe, Stacy Puckett, Javier Matos, Black Mountain Moan, The Bush League, Dale Beavers, Johnny Lowebow, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, The Bonnevilles and many more. Cover charges vary per venue; deepbluesfest.com.

Oct. 23, 8 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The saxophonist and Jackson State University alumnus performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email jane@halandmals.com; ardenland.net.

Oct. 23, 8 p.m., at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino (875 Beach Blvd., Biloxi). In Beau Rivage Theatre. The country and pop singer is a Jackson native. $45.0-$65.0; call 888-566-7469; beaurivage.com.

Oct. 30, 8 p.m., at Vicksburg Auditorium (901 Monroe St., Vicksburg). The festival includes per-formances from T.K. Soul, Big Pokey Bear, Jeff Floyd, Nathaniel Kimble and Mr. Jones. Doors open at 7 p.m. BYOB. $30 in advance, $35 at the door; call 800-745-3000.

Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. through Oct. 30, at City Hall Plaza (Front Street, Hattiesburg). Enjoy five outdoor music performances. Bring a sack lunch. Free; call 601-583-6005; email hattiesburgartscoun-cil@gmail.com; hattiesburgartscouncil.org.

Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., at St. Columb’s Episcopal Church (550 Sunnybrook Road, Ridgeland). The Mississippi Chorus presents American standards. Pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. $20, $5 students; call 601-278-3351; mschorus.org.

Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In the recital hall. The trio includes musicians Marta Szlubowska on violin, Alejandro Encinas on viola and Taylis Fernandez on cello. Pianist Dr. Lynn Raley and violinist Julia Kirk accompany them. Free; call 601-974-1422.

Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m., at Clyde Muse Center (515 Country Place Parkway, Pearl). The singer-songwrriter is also a member of the Gaither Vocal Band. $25; call 800-965-9324 or 601-982-4881; itickets.com.

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Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m. The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra pres-ents musical selections from the Baroque period, including works from Corelli, Handel and Vivaldi. Admission TBA; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

-cert Nov. 22, 3 p.m. The theme is “Through The Ages,” and the featured soloist is Julie Hudik on oboe. Free; call 601-927-7494; email sallysteincohen@gmail.com.

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A s a musician and Mississippi Delta resident, Alphonso Sanders feels a deep connection to the “King of the Blues,” B.B. King, who died in Las Vegas on May 14, 2015. But as the director of B.B. King Recording Studio

and chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Mis-sissippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Sanders wanted to acknowledge more than King’s music. To help preserve the late musician’s legacy, Sanders cre-ated the first annual B.B. King Day, a two-part event that takes place at MVSU and the B.B. King Museum in Indianola on Sept. 3. “Delta people are the characters that his mu-sic highlighted time and time again,” Sanders said. “Juke joints, lost love, cotton fields, glad rags and a Saturday night fish fry (are) what we live in the Delta. We work hard and play every chance we get, which gives us a balance that people from other places only read about. B.B. told the world our story in a way that is universal … through blues music, which held families, communities, and couples together through slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping and two Great Migrations.” The event will feature appearances from members of King’s touring band, as well as blues greats such as Otis Clay, Bobby Rush, Denise LaSalle, Teeny Tucker and Ra-ful Neal, to talk about their personal encounters with King as a friend, fellow musician and blues ambassador. Each year, the organizers will select one musician to perform with Lucille, King’s legendary guitar, for the event. Sanders and other music scholars will discuss the symbol-ism, origins and interpretations of Kings’ music, which was admired internationally as much as it was regionally. “B.B. King somehow told our stories in a way that made the world pay attention to us and our plight down in the Delta,” Sanders said. “… He put it in a perspective that struck a chord with basic human instincts and conditions in a land that was and continues to be the epitome of poverty exemplified in these United States. B.B. King wanted the world to know the joys and pains of life as he experienced

it in a place that has been written about and performed in almost all literary and artistic forms.” Sanders is a composer, songwriter, and performer of jazz, blues, gospel, folk and country music, and plays trumpet,

saxophone, flute and harmonica. He placed second at the International Blues Challenge

in 2009 and 2010. He also facilitates and performs with the Yalobushwackers on Thacker Mountain Radio and is the founder of First Thursday’s Jazz & Blues Night at the B.B. King Museum. Currently, he is working on a new album ten-tatively titled “Cool of Blues,” scheduled for release November 2015, which will feature a song called “Mississippi,” Sanders’ personal tribute to King’s life. B.B. King Day is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 3, at B.B. King Recording Studio on the campus of Mississippi Valley State University (14000 Highway 82 W., Itta Bena, 662-254-9041). Evening performances from the forum and panel guests at the B.B. King Museum (400 2nd St., Indianola, 662-887-9539) will close out the event. All activities are free and open to the public.

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WEDNESDAY 9/2 Fondren Comedy Featuring Dave Stone is 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Los Angeles comedian is known for his laid-back, self-deprecating style of humor. Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

THURSDAY 9/3 Mississippi Minority Business Alliance Power Lun-cheon is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). The theme is, “The Role of U.S. Mi-nority Businesses in the 21st Century Global Marketplace.” The keynote speaker is Antwaun Griffin, deputy assistant secretary for U.S. Operations at the U.S. Department of Commerce. RSVP. $100, reserved tables available; call 601-965-0366; email info@mmba.us; mmba.us/powerluncheon. … Fondren’s First Thursday is 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. in Fon-dren. Studio Chane hosts the monthly neighborhood event

formerly known as Fondren After 5. Includes shopping, food vendors, music, open houses, a pet adoption drive and more. Free; call 601-720-2426; fft.city. … Demonstrating Guest Artist: Emily Cate Sebree is 5 to 9 p.m. at Fondren Art Gal-lery (3030 N. State St.). See the artist’s paintings in the gal-lery watch her create a new work. Includes a sidewalk sale and discounts on prints. Free; call 601-981-9222.

FRIDAY 9/4 Author Hester Young signs copies of “The Gates of Evangeline” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). The book is the first in a proposed trilogy that features protagonist Charlotte “Char-lie” Cates. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

SATURDAY 9/5 A History of Painting Processes and Materials is 1:30 to 4:15 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) in the Entergy Classroom. Jeffrey Hodges is the host. Students work from reproductions, still life, and imagination, investigating traditional and experimental applications of materials. Ses-sions held Tuesdays and most Saturdays through Dec. 5. Space limited. $825, $701.25 members; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. … Light Beam Rider, Dream Cult, Fi-des and Rafiki Grove perform 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). $5 at the door; call 601-376-9404; offbeatjxn.com.

SUNDAY 9/6 The Big Easy Three perform 11 a.m. at Char (High-land Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road, Suite 142). The Jackson-based trio plays traditional New Or-leans jazz during Char’s Sunday brunch. Food prices vary; call 601-956-9562; charrestaurant.com.

MONDAY 9/7 The Labor of Love Kettle Bell Run is 6:30 to 10 a.m. at 100 Concourse at Colony Park (1052 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). The Salvation Army Women’s Auxil-iary is the host. Includes a 5K race for runners and a 10K race for walkers. Awards given. Strollers and pets welcome. Pre-register to receive a T-shirt. $30 through Aug. 17, $35 after; email sawaofms@gmail.com; racesonline.com.

TUESDAY 9/8 The Fall Fix-up is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). The museum closes to the public to paint, repair and clean the 50,000 square-foot facility. Volunteers needed. All ages welcome. Additional dates: Sept. 9-11, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free; call 601-709-8976; email esimmons@mcm.ms. … Booher performs at 8 p.m. at Big Sleepy’s (208 W. Capitol St.). The rock-and-roll band from Austin, Texas, performs with local alternative bands. $5; call 601-863-9516; find the event on Facebook.

WEDNESDAY 9/9 History Is Lunch is at noon at the William F. Win-ter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Au-thor Robert Luckett discusses his book, “Joe T. Patterson and the White South’s Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement.” Free; call 601-576-6998. … James McMurtry performs at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The singer-songwriter is touring to pro-mote “Complicated Game,” his first album in six years. Tim Easton also performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

FRIDAY 9/4Higher Learning performs at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar.

THURSDAY 9/3The Red Shoe 5K is in Fondren.

WEDNESDAY 9/9Photographer Ed Meeks signs “Riot” at Lemuria Books.

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T hursday marks the start of the 2015-2016 college football season. Here are a couple of things to chew on while you wait for your favorite

team to kickoff the season. Quick question: Can you name the one university that has been a full member of Conference USA since the conference was formed in 1995? If you guessed the University of South-ern Mississippi, give yourself a prize. The Golden Eagles have watched the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida, the University of Louisville, Texas Christian University, the University of Cincinnati and other schools move to con-ferences that were or are power conferences. USM has its lost main football rivals, Louisville, the University of Memphis, Tu-lane University and East Carolina Univer-sity. The University of Houston, Southern Methodist University and the University of Tulsa have left, as well. Now, the conference features teams such as Western Kentucky University, Uni-versity of Texas at El Paso, the University of North Texas, Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University, to name a few. Southern Miss has been faithful to C-USA as the rest of the college football land-scape changed over the last few years. At some point, though, the Golden Eagles had to have made some calls to other conferences. The university is stuck in a ter-rible television market in an age when the potential amount of eyeballs on a TV screen matter more than wins and losses. Loyalty or lack of TV power has left Southern Miss in Conference USA. The Golden Eagles missed their chance to move to possible greener pastures when the last exit of the conference helped build the new American Athletic Conference in 2013. Conference USA at times was one of the top two non-power conferences in the land. It is now solidly behind the Mid-American, American and Mountain West. Now, the Golden Eagles’ fate is tied to CUSA for the foreseeable future. On another note, Mike Rosenberg, formerly of the San Jose Mercury News, spent some time compiling the amount of arrests in college football at the FBS level.

Thanks to arrestnation.com and Rosenberg, we now know that over the last five years, the University of Mississippi had 20 arrests, Mississippi State University had 11 arrests,

Southern Miss had five arrests, and the Jackson State University Tigers had just one arrest. UM tied for sixth place on the list, Mississippi State tied for 11th, and South-

ern Miss tied for 64th. Rosenberg said on Twitter that both the Rebels and Bulldogs had four arrests in the past year. The SEC had 13 teams in the top

42 highest arrest rates and had 11 teams in the top 25 on that list. While the numbers are interesting, it does make you wonder how differently each town treats college football players. This is especially interesting in light of how much the Tallahassee police has been ac-cused or documented of looking the other way from Florida State’s problems. Rosenberg also listed the arrest numbers over the last five years for each NFL team. The New Orleans Saints had just four arrests.

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THURSDAY, SEPT 3 College football (6:30-10 p.m., ESPN3): Alcorn State hits the road to try to take down No. 16 Georgia Tech to open the season. … NFL (6-9 p.m., NBC): The New Orleans Saints face the Green Bay Packers to wrap up the preseason slate as players battle for a roster spot.

FRIDAY, SEPT 4 College football (9 p.m.-12 a.m., ESPN): Boise State is used to bringing down big teams, and the Broncos may add another pelt to the wall when they take on the Washington Huskies.

SATURDAY, SEPT 5 College football (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels open the season at home against FCS team Tennessee-Martin. … College foot-ball (9 p.m.-12 a.m., Fox Sports 1): The Southern Miss Golden Eagles host the Mississippi State Bulldogs in a big in-state matchup.

SUNDAY, SEPT 6 College football (2-5 p.m., Fox Sports 1): The Marshall Thunder-ing Herd out of C-USA look to take down the Purdue Boilermakers out of the Big Ten.

MONDAY, SEPT 7 College football (7-10 p.m., ESPN): The last team to defeat Ohio State on their way to the title last sea-son was Virginia Tech. Can the Hok-ies take down the Buckeyes again?

TUESDAY, SEPT 8 Soccer (7-9 p.m., ESPN2): The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team will face a major test as it takes on Brazil in a friendly.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT 9 College football (8-11 p.m., SECN): The day before the NFL sea-son starts, get your football fix with a replay of Auburn against Louisville. If you want to kick the college foot-ball season off at a live game, check out the Riverside Rumble between Mill-saps and Belhaven at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 3. The cost is $10 per ticket.

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OFFICIAL HOUSE VODKA

COMING UP WEDNESDAY 9/02

Restaurant Open as Usual THURSDAY 9/03

Restaurant Open as Usual FRIDAY 9/04

Swing de ParisRestaurant

Here Come the

Heartlights!A COMEDY TOUR

FT. CYRUS COOPER, KAITLIN MARONE,

ADDY NAJERA $10 starts at 8:30

Red Room

SATURDAY 9/05Closed for Labor Day

MONDAY 9/07Closed for Labor Day

TUESDAY 9/8

PUB QUIZRestaurant - 7:30pm - $2 to Play

UPCOMING

12/5: Big K.R.I.T. BUY

GROWLERSOF YOUR FAVORITE BEER

TO TAKE HOME$24 for f irst time f ill for high

gravity beer. Ref ills are $20.00$19 for first time fill for regular beer.

Refills are $15.00 HAPPY HOUR$1 off all Cocktails, Wine, and BeerMONDAY - SATURDAY

4PM - 7 PM

4PM-2AM MON-SATNEVER A COVER!

901 E FORTIFICATION STREET601-948-0055WWW.FENIANSPUB.COM

4PM-2AM MON-SAT4PM-2AM MON-SAT4PM-2AM MON-SAT

WEDNESDAY 9/2

Pub QuizWITH DEREK NELSON

THURSDAY 9/3

EMERALD ACCENT FRIDAY 9/4

CHAD PERRYSATURDAY 9/5

JASON DANIELSMONDAY 9/7

KARAOKE WITH MATT COLLETTE

TUESDAY 9/8

OPEN MICContest

WITH BROCK BAILEYsponsored by

Liberty Tax Service

JX//RXCOMPLETE SHOW LISTINGS & TICKETS

dulinghall.com

ANDY MCKEE

DAVE STONEStand-Up Comedian

DIALOGUEChicago Tribute Band

THE WEEKSLight Beam Rider

SERYNYoung Valley

Thursday, September 10

JAMES MCMURTRYTim Easton

Wednesday, September 9

Wednesday, September 2

Thursday, September 24

ONE MANBREAKING BAD

ROXY ROCASpecial Guest Blues Legend Bobby Rush

Wednesday, September 23

Friday, September 25

Monday, September 14

STRUNG LIKE A HORSE

Friday, September 18

Friday, October 2

MIKAL CRONINThe Cairo Gang

HANNAH BELLEFriday, October 23

Tuesday, December 1

Win A

FREE PARTY TRAY FOR TAILGATING

Enter In Store When You Dine In or Pick Up!

Fax: 601-366-7122

DINE-IN OR TAKE-OUT!Sun-Thurs: 11am - 10pmFri-Sat: 11am - 11pm

WE DELIVER!Fondren / Belhaven / UMC area

WE ALSO CATER!VISIT OUR GROCERY STORE NEXT DOOR.

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500 N. State Street, Jackson, MS

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NEW BAR77 beers to choose from!

Extended Bar Hours!

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