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We welcome our new Minister

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This is such an exciting time to be in Jackson and especially the Fondren area. Fondren Presbyterian Church has a rich history of serving and advocating for our neighbors in Jackson. Being a part of this historic church and this exciting ministry is a great joy for me.

The prophet Jeremiah called on the people to ‘seek the welfare of the city.’ I am so excited to work with the members and friends of Fondren Presbyterian Church as we continue to seek the welfare of our city.

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9 JXN Boarding at ‘The Slab’ SkateMS is dedicated to growing the city’s nomadic skater culture.

10 Natural + Organic Mama Nature’s is creating a healthy local movement.

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By Good Measure This techy Jackson woman is looking to change the state’s health outlook through data.

14 Expat Teen Actor Rising Kylen Davis might be 15, but he’s already felt the hot lights of Hollywood.

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16 Secret JXN A Street Car Named Jackson Once upon a time, trolley lines ran up and down city streets.

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18 Progress Moving Up The scoop on recent developments in the city.

20 Wellness Target: Good Health We’re improving our options and our outlook.

21 Biz True Healing Kimberly Strong doesn’t give her patients the standard treatment.

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22 Biz Beautiful Skin Making locals more beautiful, one treatment at a time.

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22 Still Waters Run Deep Matthew Haynes created a soothing oasis on Highway 80.

23 Best of Jackson Clinics, Doctors, Dentists, Oh My Readers chose this year’s best Jackson dentists, doctors and health-care providers.

27 Menu Guide Paid advertising.

34 Bites A Real Spice Girl Marilyn Kithuka brings soul and passion to her Cajun cooking.

37 Young Influentials Bright Stars Read about some of the people who are changing the Jackson metro—and maybe even the world.

46 Do Gooder Determination, Intensity, Desire Lloyd Ross gives kids a leg-up on the basketball court.

48 BodySoul Here, Right Now Mindfulness is this woman’s full focus.

49 Melodies Becca Rose Sings Her Diary This import has a knack for songwriting.

50 Events Heat of the Summer What to do and see in these next three months.

56 Cool, Too Memphis Blues Travel through our kindred city up north.

58 Local List Jackson, Jake Style A Jackson-phile shares his absolute top 10 favorite local stops.

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week before this BOOM Jackson city that I wonder if Jackson can fully harness.

We hurried back from Birmingham for went to the printer, a small group from TeamJXN and associated economic- TeamJXN’s first THIRDspace at Deep South development nonprofits went to Bir- Pops in Belhaven. With craft beer, popsicles and conversations, I brightened up as this new aftermingham, Ala., to observe that city’s economic work event felt similar to our Alabama visit. development and downtown improvements.

Two days later was

My favorite was the 19Stray at Home in Smith acre Railroad Park in downPark—makers and artists town Birmingham that is an in tents; food trucks; a cornurban greenspace: lush grassy hole tournament; live muareas, a natural amphitheater, sic. The JXN Trailblazers’ wooded areas for shade, extent highlighted progress tensive water features, walking on Jackson’s Museum Trail, paths, family-friendly events, a a multi-use bike/walk trail café—and tons of energy. Even that will connect downtown in the middle of a Wednesday and the Mississippi Farmafternoon, people from all ers’ Market to the Chilwalks of life were hanging out Publisher Todd Stauffer dren’s Museum, Museum to enjoy the outdoors. of Natural Science, Missis Railroad Park takes up about 12 city blocks, and it cost about sippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum. $20 million to build—and the resulting new

I’m excited to be part of the local launch of development around the park represents hundreds of millions of new dollars in resi- Co.Starters in June via Coalesce, the downtown dential, dining, retail and other amenities. co-working space, which is also home to 1 Mil The park is a unique asset that represents lion Cups on Wednesday mornings. Co.Starters both a health and a community focus in Bir- will meet in the Innovate Mississippi offices, mingham that boosted the standard of living which recently relocated downtown. We will and offered a source of pride for residents. As a host our first nine-week cohort of local entrepreneurs working on their “business canvas,” result, it created investment in the city in a part learning about the challenges and rewards of of town that had been dormant. entrepreneurship and executing crucial market

We visited RevBirmingham’s 55th Place Arts complex, which is a business-incubation validation of their ideas, with the help of local and co-working space where Rev does its eco- speakers and mentors.

On Aug. 24, the Greater Jackson Arts nomic-development work, which touches many parts of the city. The group focuses on three ar- Council is bringing KickStarter CEO Yancy eas: business growth (through the Co.Starters Strickler to talk about art, creativity and public good. Prior to that TeamJXN will hold a placeprogram for entrepreneurs and similar mentorship programs); catalytic development (the making “Shark Tank” and encourage crowdfunding around the winning placemaking pitch building we met in was in an economically challenged area, but was developing into a more to foster more creativity and public art.

My point? The energy our group felt in Biractive and entrepreneurial part of town); and revitalization, where Rev works to organize lo- mingham is happening here. It’s fits and starts, and things don’t always go in a straight line, but cal merchants in urban commercial districts.

I’m personally seeing more momentum for a

We also visited Make Birmingham, a maktech/entrepreneur/economic-development er space with tools for wood-working projects, push than I’ve seen in a while here. Some of it ceramics, art, screen-printing, and a co-working space for office or creative work. They had also even has a (walking, biking) healthy angle as well ... which is close to unprecedented here! “incubated” retail space, including a boutique

It needs great energy—so I invite you to with craft and hand-made items, an ice-cream get involved. You can join TeamJXN and attend shop, and a bicycle co-op for repair and tuning.

Such trips are certainly inspirational. But our luncheons, THIRDspace and the “shark tank” this summer. Join at TeamJXN.com or they can be disheartening, too, especially when find us on Facebook to help make it happen. it seems like I’m feeling an energy in another

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Douglas Bonilla (left) and Chance Black (right) skate on “The Slab” in midtown.

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mid the concrete and brick of Mill Street, just a few blocks away from the King Edward Hotel, a vacant lot sits where a Jitney Jungle once stood before burning to the ground.

However, “vacant” isn’t quite the right word. Cars and trucks are accumulating in the parking lot. Small clusters of folks with skateboards hang out on top of large concrete structures. A dog trots around, happy to bask in the attention.

The people in the lot make up SkateMS, and on afternoons when the weather is nice, they all gather here at what they call interchangeably “The Slab” or “Mill Street DIY” to skate.

“We definitely don’t want to be labeled as ‘the Jackson skater culture,’” Amanda Ivers, a relatively new skater who manages Rogers Dabbs Chevrolet by day, says. “It’s just easier for people if we put a name to it.”

The group is more than just a name, though. SkateMS operated as a nonprofit from its inception in 2001 until just a few years

ago. The organization has since watched several do-it-yourself skate spots rise and fall over the years. That included converted warehouses, and vacant lots with custom concrete structures, among other spaces.

Until Jackson gets a public skate park, SkateMS has dissolved its 501c3 nonprofit

SkateMS:

at Benjamin Brown Park can once again pick up steam, with the help of his son Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who had won the Democratic mayoral primary as of press time.

Occasionally, SkateMS will host fundraisers to cover the cost of the concrete and the group’s share of property taxes. The most recent event was April 29 in midtown, featuring a lineup of bands such as Stonewalls and comedians such as Holly Perkins and Nardo Blackmon.

They’re not in it for growth’s sake, Ivers says. SkateMS plans to keep doing its thing “until somebody comes in and kicks us out and tears it down,” she says.

“It’s a wonderful thing to see neighborhood kids decide they want to learn how to skate instead of sell drugs or get involved with gangs,” she says. “As long as we can build in this spot, it’s going to keep growing and evolving, especially if we have more people that decide that this is a really good thing for the community.”

For more information, find SkateMS on Instagram and Facebook.

Not A Subculture

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// by Alex Thiel status to save what little money the group has toward building costs for the entirely do-ityourself project.

“The Slab” is technically the private property of a local business owner, and people in SkateMS say they enjoy the freedom that this grants them to build. But the group’s members are optimistic that the previous Lumumba administration’s proposal for a skate park

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Mama Nature’s Healthy Movement // by Malcolm Morrow

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fruit-infused waters. The business also has products such as overnight ama Nature’s Juice and Salad Bar co-owner Tkeyah Williams’ mom, truck driver Nora Weston, went vegan in April 2016 to oats, which are a blend of oatmeal made with almond or coconut milk, fresh fruit toppings and add-ins such as peanut butter, and other vegetarian help with health issues such as hypertension. West then began and vegan options. researching the subject and would give Williams information,

Weston and Williams also go out into the community to help eduas her own daughter, Londyn Stalling, suffered from chronic asthma.

Williams began putting together juice and smoothie recipes to help cate people, especially young people, on the importance of eating healthy and ways to make better choices. They have spoken at churches, comStalling’s body heal from the illness, and when her friends got colds, she munity centers and more around the area. would help them. Along the way, Williams says West kept pushing her to

“We ... try to reach begin selling her products the youth by exposing to help others have healthier them to a wider variety options. “I thought, ‘Maybe of fruits and vegetables.

I’m going to be that outlet,’” We teach them how to Williams says. prepare healthy meals

Williams and Weston themselves and ways to began Mama Nature’s, fuel the body with proper a mobile-delivery salad, nutrients,” Williams says. smoothie and juice bar, in

They provide tips November 2016 as a way to on how to start and help ignite a healthy-eating maintain a new diet, they movement. teach about the dangers

The business offers of processed foods, and a wide variety of juice and also about natural ways to smoothie combinations fight the common health such as strawberry ginger issues in the communilimeade, carrot orange, ties they service, includchocolate and beet juices, ing diabetes and high and also recipes that meet cholesterol. customers’ needs.

Williams says she

Williams says the busiwas surprised with the ness has juices and waters amount of support they’ designed to detox the body have received since bewhile fighting fatigue and ginning the business. energy depletion; flushes

“We had been told for assistance with blockthat people in Mississippi ages and colon cleansing; wouldn’t be interested, combinations to help imand it would be hard prove libido; and multi-day to find a clientele,” Wilcleansers that help the body liams says. “Sharing absorb nutrients faster and our personal testimony more efficiently. of how this lifestyle

Mama Nature’s also change improved has has meal prep and planning really won people over.” services. For that, custom WilliamsandWeston ers can choose from one plan to open a storefront or two meals a day over at 5054 N. State St. in the course of five days. Wilsummer 2017. liams says Mama Nature’s

Visit mamanaturepushes vegetarian meals, swellness.com.Always so the meal plans often inconsult your doctor over cludes food such as salads, Tkeyah Williams (pictured) and Nora Weston started Mama Nature’s Juice and Salad Bar in November 2016. diet and health changes. and all of the plans include 10

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Let’s Get Analytical // by Amber Helsel

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Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure and the Mississippi Board of Nursing on the app, and she is currently in talks with the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy and the state Department of Health.

“As part of application development, we can inform the professions about how they can situate themselves to meet the needs of the state,” Krause says. “But also we could bring all the members of the health-care team together, so you aren’t making these decisions in a vacuum. ... If you’re deciding where you think you need to place physicians, but you’re not taking into consideration advanced nurse practitioners, physician assistants, what does the rest of it look like?”

Krause says the next big step is making a map of health outcomes so the state’s health professionals can see where specific diseases, such as diabetes, are striking hardest and what types of resources are most needed in specific areas.

The company also has plans to create an app to help people find the medical professionals they need in their area.

While it is important to create these maps for health professionals to see where the state’s needs are, Krause says it is also important to look at factors such as the number of people living in the area, the demographics and whether the area could have any other barriers to care.

“You’ve got to look at the population, how many people are really going to use the services, too, so not just how many people are there,” Krause says.

“You might have a provider, a physician or dentist or whatever, across the street, but if there’s another barrier to care, then you could still have a problem,” she says. “It’s not just about availability, but that is a really important point. And then you can address some of those other more complicated issues—culture, language barrier, education.”

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ississippi has a health problem, and Denise Krause says it’s not exactly what you think it is.

Krause, who is an associate proDenise Krause, an fessor and soon-to-be full professor at assistant professor the University of Mississippi Medical at the University of Center, says that she studied the disMississippi Medical tribution demographics of dentists in Center, created the company Health Data the Mississippi from 1970 to 2000 for Analytics to map the her master’s degree thesis. The redistribution of health search made something clear to her: services and the health The state’s medical workforce has a outcomes in the state. distribution problem.

“When you start mapping them, you see that they’re all kind of clumped together,” Krause says.

That thesis served as the beginning of Health Data Analytics, a company that she started in order to map the state’s health workforce, services and outcomes.

Krause says she had not always imagined herself in the medical field.

Krause, who grew up in Kansas, attended graduate school in California at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She graduated in 1989 with a master’s degree in international policy and Russian. She says her plan was to go into the Central Intelligence Agency, but with the Cold War finally thawing, the focus began to shift from Russia to the Middle East.

When she came to Jackson

While she worked toward her master’s and 25 years ago, she says she was just passing doctorate, the dental school at UMMC asked through, but a little while after she got here, she took a position as a researcher at the University her to put in a local area network and hired her of Mississippi Medical Center and worked her to be the LAN administrator. Before long, she says she had built up the network and had servway up from the bottom.

“Every time I would think I was leaving, I ers, a server room, a data warehouse and a clinical electronic dental record. She then accepted would get promoted,” she says. the position of information technology director.

After a while, she decided to attend school Through working on her thesis, Krause beat UMMC to get her master’s degree and then doctorate in preventive medicine and epidemiol- gan working on the app for dental workforce distribution demographics. Once she completed it, ogy. She graduated with both degrees in 2007.

Krause says that as she worked her way she showed it to dentists, who she says weren’t excited about it. Once she showed it to physiup, she eventually became a resource for people cians, it began to gain traction. when it came to computers.

Thus far, Krause has worked with the Mis “I had an aptitude for it, so I just started besissippi State Board of Dental Examiners, the ing the go-to computer person,” she says.

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Silver Screen at 15 // by Micah Smith

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Afterward, he got a call from Alexander White, a talent agent based in Atlanta who asked if they could meet for an interview and expressed interest in representing him. UltiJackson Beals

t 15 years old, Kylen Davis already has a more impressive résumé than many movie-industry professionals. The Hattiesburg-born actor has scored small roles in several major motion pictures, locally filmed projects and big-budget blockbusters alike, over the past four years.

Davis says his first acting experience started in the fourth grade when he joined the Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex in Jackson and chose to pursue theater in 2009.

“There were four sections or departments that I could choose from—visual, dance, vocal and theater—and I didn’t like anything but theater because I kind of had that funny personality, and I was always that dramatic little boy,” he says.

Davis performed in a wide variety of plays and musicals during his time at Power APAC. Then in 2013, his acting teacher gave him the opportunity to audition for the James Franco-helmed adaptation of William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury,” which was partially filmed in and around Canton.

Davis got the part of Luster, a young servant who looks after the protagonist Benjy.

“I didn’t really think much about it too much when I got the part because I didn’t think it was big until my first day on set, when I saw all these cameras and actually saw James Franco and all the actors,” Davis says. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. This is really happening.’”

Actor Kylen Davis, who grew up in Jackson, has a a recurring role on the event-series crime drama “Shots Fired” on FOX. mately, the agent told the young actor that he would need more experience first, so Davis got to work, appearing in non-speaking roles in “Get on Up” and “Fantastic Four” in quick succession and learning more about the filmmaking process.

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ocal engineer Jamar Dawson, who works at Eaton Corporation, knows how to stay prepared in many cases, including when he goes running. Recently, the Raleigh, N.C., native let us take a peek at what he keeps inside his truck.

Here’s what we found.

1. Poker chip

3. Flashlight

5. Bible

7. Solar charger

2. Energy drink

4. Water bottle

6. First-aid kit

8. Backpack 9. AXE spray

Can we peek inside your work bag? Write editor@boomjackson.com.

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enced everything on set, how it worked, the cameras and what they’re doing, the (points of view), different perspectives and everything,” he says. “Then, I finally got in touch with the agent again, and he liked that about me—that I don’t just like having speaking roles (but also) love just being on set.”

White took the actor on as a client, and Davis and his mother, LaShonda Dixon, moved to Marietta, Ga., in 2015 to be involved with Atlanta’s film scene.

The move has led to small appearances in films such as “Ant-Man” and “Free State of Jones,” and TV shows including “Hap and Leonard” and “The Carmichael Show.”

Most recently, viewers around the country saw Davis in the TV crime drama “Shots Fired,” which premiered March 22 on FOX. He appeared in six episodes of the 10-part event series, which follows officers from the U.S. Department of Justice as they investigate two cases—one involving a black deputy who shot an unarmed white college student, and the other, the overlooked murder of a black teenager.

“This role really hit me because I was like, ‘Wow, I have the opportunity to portray this kid who’s in the middle of this racial tension.’ I know a lot of people who are this kid’s age can relate to this, so if I actually do it right, if I portray it how people can relate to it, then I can be an (inspiration) to people my age,” Davis says. “That’s what really drove me to play this role.”

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Trolleys Long Gone // by Amber Helsel

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These days, you can no longer see the street-car tracks that used to run around Jackson such as at the intersection of Capitol and State Streets. At one time, they were a popular—and segregated—form of transportation here.

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The publication says that it was important ong before cars and busses became an accessible form of transportation for cit- in shaping the city because the lines could be ies such as Jackson, people travelled by easily expanded, which allowed for commercial and residential development away from the city methods such as street cars.

Jackson’s first street car was a long time center, making it possible for neighborhoods coming. In “Chimneyville: ‘Likenesses’ of the such as Fondren, midtown and west Jackson to Early Days in Jackson, Mississippi,” author H. develop.

Street cars, of course, eventually became Grady Howell Jr. writes that the walk from the west Jackson railroad depot to the State House subject to segregation. “From Frontier Capital” says that in 1900, the cars were segregated along and business district in east Jackson was long, dusty and sometimes muddy. So as early as the Civil War, the city had considered establishing a rail line in Jackson.

The city’s first mule-drawn street car made its inaugural run on Oct. 20, 1871. A Clarion-Ledger article from that time says that two dozen citizens took the first ride from the Edwards House (now the King Edward Hotel) to the Mississippi State Capitol.

At that point, it was a one-mile ride, but with more track added in 1875, it became 1-7/8 miles in length, operating with four cars and 10 mules.

By the 1890s, horses replaced the mules. The publication “From Frontier Capital to Modern City: A History of Jackson, Mississippi’s Built Environment,” which former Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. prepared for Jackson, says that on Feb. 22, 1899, Jackson Electric Light, Power and Street Railway Company electrified the lines. The company SOURCE: “From Frontier to Modern City: also purchased Jackson Electric Gas Capital A History of Jackson, Built and Light Company and eventually re- Mississippi’s Environment” named itself the Jackson Electric Railway, Light and Power Company.

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racial lines, with six seats in the back reserved for black people, and on Sundays, white people and black people rode in separate cars.

In 1903, Jackson Electric Railway operated 6.5 miles of track, and three years later, the company had six more miles under construction.

Around 1912, Jackson Light and Traction Company purchased Jackson Electric Railway, Light and Power, and in 1916, that company operated 16 miles of track. The cars could accommodate between 30 and 35 people and could travel up to 20 miles an hour. Before 1920, a handful of companies operated the street railways, including the Edwards Hotel and City Railroad Company and the Jackson Belt Line Railway Company.

Trolley service officially ended on March 24, 1935, when Mississippi Power & Light sold its transit operations to Jackson City Lines, which began doing municipal bus rides through the city.

A Jackson Railway and Light map in “From Frontier Capital,” shows that trolleys ran through streets such as West and State streets, Bailey Avenue, Rankin Street, Robinson Road, Parkside Place, Lorenz Boulevard and Mitchell Avenue, covering areas of the city such as midtown, downtown and west Jackson.

After 82 years of wear and tear from weather and activity, it is hard to pick out the places where the rail lines used to be. boomjackson.com

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tiative, a program that increases access to nutritious food in com When the Westin Jackson munities that lack these options. hotel (407 S. Congress St.) opens The Healthy Food Initiative near Thalia Mara Hall and the receives support from the U.S. federal courthouse in August Treasury Department’s Com2017, it will bring Estelle Wine munity Development Financial Bar & Bistro with it. The restauInstitutions Fund and private rant aims to be a café bar by day investors. and an upscale hotspot at night, In addition to bringing featuring American dishes with fresh food options into the area, European influences.

Price’s store brings 25 new jobs

“Estelle is going to be to the capital city. open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and will cater to people from the suburbs, downtown New Apartments residents and business people Opening at Eastover The Westin Jackson hotel is the latest addition to Jackson’s skyline. alike,” Mike Burton, general The District at Eastover manager of Westin Jackson, told (1250 Eastover Drive), a multiand I love it here for that. When we announce the Jackson Free Press in April. use development in northeast our head chef for Estelle in a few weeks, I think

“Our closeness to places like Thalia Mara Jackson, will begin renting out apartment space people are going to see how we’ve made sure in the coming months. The building includes Hall, the Jackson Convention Center, the Mississippi Museum of Art and plenty more places, to understand the kind of great establishments 115,000 square feet of office space on five floors Jackson is known for to create a great menu of and an adjacent 400-space parking garage. means we’re in a great position to provide a our own.” unique dining option to people going to see a Move-ins for people who have already reserved play, for example, who can then come back, space will begin in June, and the apartments will have a glass of wine and stay with us.” be open to all comers by August.

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Estelle’s will have a wine bar, a lounge, a pa There are 261 apartment units at The

Greg Price, who owns grocery store Jacktio and an open kitchen. The menu will feature son Cash & Carry with his brother, Chester District. Renters can choose from five styles of locally sourced produce and ingredients, appe- Price, partnered with Hope Credit Union and one-bedroom apartments ranging from 572 to tizers and shareable plates, and entrees such as Hope Enterprise Corporation this spring to 838 square feet, two styles of two-bedroom units char-grilled tuna, salmon sashimi, grilled fish move the business from 1204 W. Capitol St. to ranging from 958 to 1,136 square feet, and threeand steaks. The restaurant will also have a wood- 3520 Terry Road. The store now occupies the bedroom units at 1,358 square feet. fired oven for preparing flatbreads and pizzas.

Amenities include an elevated saltwaformer Kroger location that closed in 2015, leav “I was once a chef myself in Cape Cod, Mas- ing part of south Jackson a “food desert”—an ter pool, a sun deck, two outdoor kitchens sachusetts, and when I came down to Jackson, area with limited access to fresh food options. with a dining terrace, a double-sided outI was so impressed with the restaurant scene Hope provided Price with $1.25 million in fi- door fireplace, a two-story open-air resident here,” Burton said. “I didn’t realize just how nancing for acquisition, renovation and working lounge, a fitness studio and an indoor pet spa. prevalent seafood is here in Jackson, for one, capital through its Mid South Healthy Food Ini The District also includes restaurants and

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shops such as Cantina Laredo Modern Mexican, Freshii, a local market and butcher, a sushi bar, Orange Theory Fitness, Origin Bank and Results Physiotherapy.

For more information, call 601-366-8588, visit thedistrictloftsateastover.net or email thedistrictlofts@arlingtonproperties.net.

Housing at Helm Place

The Helm Place affordable -housing development community in the Farish Street Historic District has won two awards for its design. The 88-townhome development won the Best of American Living Gold Award in 2016 for the Best Affordable Single-Family Attached Housing category. It also won the Mississippi Homebuilders Association Multi-Family New Construction award in 2016.

Gov. Phil Bryant visited the community May 10. “We are rebuilding downtown Jackson one home and one family at a time,” Bryant said.

“I’m excited because of the real change it will make in the lives of the children here in their educational, emotional well-being.”

Helm Place is named after Mount Helm Baptist Church, the oldest African American

church in Jackson, located nearby. Chartre Consulting Ltd., an Oxford-based company, built the development in 2014 with housing tax credits administered through the Mississippi Home Corp., made possible with federal Housing and Urban Development funds.

The wait list for Helm Place is quite long, and developers plan to expand the community and add more townhomes in the future.

Woodrow Wilson Place

The Jackson Medical Mall Foundation hosted the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for Woodrow Wilson Place (310 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.) on Wednesday, April 12.

Woodrow Wilson Place is a 10,000-squarefoot retail site that currently houses Mississippi Smiles Dentistry, Mississippi EyeCare Associates, a Subway restaurant and a Cricket Wireless store.

The Medical Mall Foundation completed construction on the facility in summer 2016 and began to bring in businesses shortly after.

Gertrude C. Ford Literacy Garden

In April, the Mississippi Children’s Muse-

um announced the naming of the Gertrude C. Ford Literacy Garden, a 13,000-square-foot outdoor gallery that first opened in the summer of 2014. The Gertrude C. Ford Foundation made a $500,000 commitment for the Literacy Garden.

The Literacy Garden is designed to encourage early language and reading development for children 8 years old and under.

It includes literary-inspired sculptures, native plants and an edible garden, among other features. The museum uses the space to host activities such as “Know to Grow,” a monthly program that combines storytelling with handson gardening activities.

The American Automobile Association selected the Literacy Garden as a Southern Travel Treasure in 2014. In spring 2017, the Institute of Museum and Library Services nominated the Mississippi Children’s Museum as a finalist for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, which is the United States’ highest honor for institutions that make significant contributions to their communities.

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JXN // wellness UMMC: The Good and the Bad

Until recently, the UNACARE Health Clinic had been the primary health-care provider for the midtown neighborhood. After the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing learned that a lack of transportation was making it hard for residents to get there, they had the idea for the UNACARE Mobile Clinic.

Starting this summer, the clinic will be in midtown twice a week. The front of the van will be the registration area, and the exam room will be in the back.

“We looked at the no-show rate and other factors and realized that a large number of // people in the area had no transportation,” Dr. Janet Harris, the associate dean of practice and community engagement at the School of Nursing, said in a press release. “We realized we needed to take health care to people in the community.”

In the release, Harris says the van will be built to the nursing school’s specifications. A two-person team will operate the clinic, but the hospital will expand services as needed.

The van will also do prescreening diagnostic tests for children so they can attend Head Start.

release. “Words cannot express the gratitude we have towards all our staff taking us on this journey to improve patient outcomes at the same time increasing job satisfaction.”

In May, Mississippi Baptist Health Systems also merged with Baptist Memorial Health Care, which is headquartered in Memphis. Baptist Memorial has 17 locations spread throughout Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, and Mississippi Baptist has four hospitals in Mississippi.

and provide access to healthcare.”

On the JSU website, the university says that the School of Public Health’s mission is to prepare health leaders and improve the health of people in Mississippi, the nation and the world through evidence-based and community-oriented teaching, research and service.

Students will study areas of public health such as behavioral health promotion and education, epidemiology, health policy and management, and environmental and occupational health. The school offers a master’s degree and a doctorate in public health.

While the application Helsel deadline for the DPH has passed, the deadline for the MPH to enroll in the spring semester is Oct. 15. For more information, visit jsums.edu.

A Dose of Health News

by Dustin Cardon and Amber

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More Dental, Health-Care in and near Capital City

Jackson-area residents now have more options for dental and health care.

National dental-care company Aspen Dental opened a new practice in Flowood, its first in Mississippi, in January.

The office provides services such as dentures, preventive care, general dentistry and restoration. For more inforBaptist Receives Jackson State University opened the first School of Public Health in mation, call 844-856-5258 or Magnet Title, Merges the state of Mississippi in early April as part of the university’s push to visit aspendental.com

In March, Baptist Medicurb rising medical costs, fight diseases and prevent early death.

NewCare MD (129 Founcal Center in Jackson received tains Blvd., Suite 101, Madia top honor for nursing excelson), a new direct primary-care clinic, opened lence when the American Nurses CredentialJSU Opens School of Public Health ing Center named it a “Magnet.” Hospitals that Jackson State University opened the state’s for business on Jan. 3, 2017. At direct primarycare clinics, patients pay through a monthly fee, receive the title have to satisfy a set of criteria first School of Public Health during a ribbon-cutrather than through methods such as an insurmeasuring patient-care quality and professional ting ceremony at the Jackson Medical Mall on ance company. As a result, they see their prinurse practice. Only 7 percent of hospitals in the Monday, April 3, which coincided with National U.S. receive the recognition, and Baptist is the Public Health Week. In a press release, JSU said mary-care physician as often as needed with no co-pay or deductible, and physicians can spend only one in the state to get it. that the School of Public Health is part of the

The ANCC defines a Magnet hospital as school’s push to curb rising medical costs, fight more time with individual patients.

TrustCare Express Medical Clinics held one where nursing care results in excellent pa- diseases and prevent early death. a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Dec. 7, 2016, tient outcomes and where nurses have a high Dr. Mohammed Shahbazi, who is the inlevel of job satisfaction. The designation began terim dean of the School of Public Health, said in for its fifth urgent-care and walk-in clinic. The northeast Jackson location (4880 Interstate 55 in 1990 as a way to honor hospitals that attract the release that he’s optimistic that the state will N. Frontage Road) is the third clinic that the orand retain high-quality nurses. reap the benefits from the school. ganization has opened this year. TrustCare also

“This honor is the ultimate affirmation of

He said that over the past 100 years, publichas clinics at The Township at Colony Park in quality and excellence in the care of patients health practices have added 25 years onto the from nursing and from everyone in the orgalife expectancy of people in the U.S. He also said Ridgeland, Crossgates in Brandon, Lake Harnization,” Baptist Health Systems Chief Nursthat those actions “keep our food and water sup- bour Drive in Ridgeland and Old Fannin Road ing Officer and Baptist Medical Center Chief ply safe, prevent the outbreak of infectious dis- in Flowood. For more information, call 601-4879199 or visit feelbetterfaster.com.

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A Sleuth for Wellness // by Andrea Wright Dilworth Imani Khayyam

Truth Wellness Center in Flowood features living-room-like rooms for patients to receive vitamin IV drips and other treatments without the traditional hospital atmosphere.

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actually got a lot of these conventional-medicine patients to do natural therapies. And the next thing you know, I had people starting to hear about me and coming from all these different places.”

When that clinic closed, Strong knew it was time to revisit her purpose.

“God had been telling me for about three years, ‘Kim, you need to start your own clinic,’” she says now.

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imberly Strong’s bouts with various health issues, such as a hormonal imbalance, fibromyalgia, and a sensitivity to gluten and milk, led her on a quest to find what was causing her illnesses, and why conventional medicine had no answers.

When she was studying to be a nurse practitioner, she heard about an integrative medicine practitioner in Jackson and was intrigued. She decided to complete her clinical hours there.

The four-month experience was an educational journey for Strong, whose symptoms and frustrations mirrored those of many of the patients. She observed as people seemed to get better with the aid of natural herbal remedies that targeted the source of their ailments, instead of prescription medications that temporarily masked the symptoms.

“As soon as I got off that rotation, I went to my first integrative-medicine convention, sat in the classes and was like, ‘Wow,’” she says. “The things they were teaching made so much more sense instead of just throwing medicines on the signs and symptoms, and BAND-AID-ing them.”

After earning a family nurse practitioner degree from the University of Mississippi in 2013, the Air Force veteran and mother of two went to work for a primary-care clinic.

“But the more I learned about metabolic nutritional medicine, it was harder for me to practice the same way,” Strong says. “I

Family Nurse Practitioner Kimberly Strong founded Truth Wellness Center in April 2016.

On April 1, 2016, she opened Truth Wellness Center in Flowood.

“We want to tackle things now at their functional level, and we want to look for the core of the problem,” she says.

The standard treatment for treating high cholesterol, for example, is to prescribe cholesterol medicine. Strong says high cholesterol is a symptom of a bigger issue.

“If the cholesterol is messed up, there’s a reason why,” she says. “One thing I’ve learned in this whole journey is there’s so much that people don’t know about. I find bacteria, parasites, fungus and yeast overgrowth that people are harboring. Our test results are only as good as the test was designed.”

Strong says that she usually prescribes herbal supplements to her patients to work on the underlying causes. “I really think that God gave us everything we need here on Earth to handle our business,” she says.

However, a medical doctor’s supervision should accompany all alternative treatments.

After less than a year since its opening, Truth enjoys a steady influx of patients. While some followed Strong from the old clinic, most new patients come by word of mouth.

Some patients, such as Becky Davis do not mind, traveling for treatment every few months. The West Point accounting instructor has battled a number of health problems, and conventional medicine did not satisfy her.

“Kim is a super sleuth, like a detective,” says Davis, who has been seeing Strong for a year and a half.

In addition to her family nurse practitioner degree, Strong is on her way to receiving a second master’s degree in metabolic and nutritional medicine, which is an evidenced-based approach to preventing and treating diseases naturally. She hopes to earn her degree by the end of the year. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine, where she is working on becoming certified in functional and regenerative medicine.

Truth Wellness Center (252 Katherine Drive, Suite A, Flowood; 601.882.5801) is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m to 5 p.m. It is closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch. For more information, visit truthwellnesscenter.com.

Editor’s note: Consult with your physician on all treatments.

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Beautiful Skin // by Katie Gill

learned that she is particularly skilled at.

“We had just started doing waxing (at school), and two weeks into it, my teacher came up and was like, ‘Do (my brows), Chelsea,’” she says.

“I was like ‘Nuh-uh, I’m not gonna mess yours up!’

“Later she told me, ‘You’re the only one in this class I trust to do it.’”

Other popular services depend on the season, she says. Waxing is popular during the summer, and in the winter, chemical peels and facials are more popular.

Despite the challenges, Esthetician Chelsea Thaw, a Flowood native, Thaw enjoys the one-on -one opened Bella Skin Studio in September 2016. relationship the business gives her with her customers.

“I really like when you get somebody that’s suffering from a lot of acne what an esthetician is or what we do,” she says. and having confidence issues, and we’re able to “People think, ‘Oh, you’re an esthetician, you do makeup.’ They just think facials and makeup. make a difference in their skin,” she says.

“Even if we just start them on a new skinThey don’t realize there’s several different steps.

We have to look at your skin, we have to know care routine and they text me like, ‘Oh, my face looks so much better,’ that’s such a satisfying what skin type you have, if you have certain alfeeling,” Thaw adds. lergies—we have to know a lot of stuff and really

For more information or to make an customize a facial for every different client.” appointment, visit bellaskinms.wixsite.com or find

One of the more popular services that Bella Bella Skin Studio on Facebook.

Skin Studio offers is brow waxing, which Thaw than makeup. However, she fell in love with the other facets of the field, as well.

“I think a lot of times people don’t realize

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ne of Flowood’s newest skin-care clinics, Bella Skin Studio, is a one-woman show. Chelsea Thaw is the owner, receptionist and esthetician, which is a term used to describe a skin-care specialist. The Flowood native has been operating Bella Skin Studio since opening in September 2016.

Thaw says she had not originally planned to open a business or be an esthetician.

She attended the University of Southern Mississippi to study psychology—a field in which she later earned a bachelor’s degree at Millsaps College in May 2016.

“I was actually having lunch with my dad one day, and he said, ‘What do you want to do with your life?’ I said, ‘I just feel like everything I can do at Southern or what I can do at a regular college just isn’t making me happy.’

He said, ‘What makes you happy? What do you like to do?’ I said, ‘I like to do makeup, but I can’t do that,’ and he said, ‘Why not?’”

Thaw soon enrolled at the Mississippi Institute of Aesthetics, Nails & Cosmetology in Clinton, where she graduated in May 2016, and learned that being an esthetician is much more

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efore Jackson massage therapist Matthew Haynes launched Blue Skyz Still Waters Massage Therapy, he says people told him for many years that he “has a pretty good touch.”

Haynes had been an aerobics instructor for about 10 years when he realized that he wanted to go in a different direction with his career.

“I started this business because I wanted something of my very own,” Haynes says.

Haynes says his priority is to make clients comfortable and to pro-

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Calm Minds, Blue Skyz // by Christopher Peace Matthew Haynes opened Blue Skyz Still Waters Massage Therapy in May 2012. vide a relaxing environment. He keeps his space neat and simple, with two massage tables, a stool, adjustable lights and ceiling fans to add to the feeling of tranquility.

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Highway 80 West. “You will forget that you’re on Highway 80,” he says.

After researching different massage-therapy schools, Haynes decided to attend the Mississippi School of Therapeutic Massage, then on Lakeland Drive. He received his license in 2010 and opened Blue Skyz Still Waters on May 14, 2012.

Haynes has been a finalist for the category of massage therapist for the Best of Jackson awards for three consecutive years since opening.

Through Blue Skyz, he offers most forms of massage therapy, including couple massages, reflexology, and full body, as well as prenatal massages and mobile services. He also creates sugar and salt scrubs to exfoliate the skin, and he recently added hot stones to his services.

Haynes says he wants Blue Skyz to be accommodating to its clients. He talks as little as possible and uses music or silence while he works, depending on the customer’s preference. Because some clients prefer a female massage therapist, Haynes has connections with several female therapists to accommodate those needs and to assist him in couples massage sessions. He also makes referrals to chiropractors in the area.

“I definitely want the clients to get the services they’re wanting,” he says. “At the end of the day, it’s about helping people, whether it’s them regaining a certain motion or getting in a better mental state. … Massage therapy is more than the physical.”

For more information, find Blue Skyz Still Waters on Facebook. boomjackson.com

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Best of Jackson: Health Care

At some point, we all need a health-care provider, whether we’re going to a doctor for a wellness visit, to a dentist to get a cavity filled, or to a hospital or clinic if something happens, and we need urgent care. For this Best of Jackson pop-up ballot, Jacksonians voted for the best doctors, dentists, surgeons, health-care providers and more. Here are the results. courtesy Timothy QUinn

Best Doctor: Timothy Quinn (Quinn Healthcare, PLLC, 768 N. Avery Blvd., Ridgeland, 601.487.6482, quinntotalhealth.com)

Dr. Timothy Quinn has a passion to help people, and he wants that help to go beyond his business, Quinn Healthcare.

“I provide services to the community that are past the walls of the clinic,” Quinn says.

Quinn’s clinic specializes in family medicine and can treat conditions such as sinus infections, colds and flues, minor inju-

ries, and can do school vaccines, flu shots, vaccines and more.

The McComb native attended Jackson State University and Belhaven University, and graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville. He then completed his residency at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.

—Christina Spann

courtesy Shelby Brantey

Best Cosmetic Surgeon: Shelby Brantley (The Face & Body Center, 2550 Flowood Drive, Flowood, 601.939.9999, faceandbodycenter.com) After more than two decades in cosmetic surgery, Shelby Brantley says he still finds gratification in his work. “From my standpoint, it’s just very gratifying and personally self-fulfilling to get up every day and know that I’m going to have a positive effect on ... people’s lives that day,” he says.

Brantley received his doctorate from the University of Missis-

(St. Dominic’s Martin Surgical Associates, 971 Lakeland Drive, Suite 211, 601.200.4350)

Best Surgeon: Phillip Ley (Merit Health Surgical Oncology, 1020 N. Flowood Drive, Suite C, Flowood, 601.933.6132)

Dominic for around 21 years.

“I’ve never seen anyone spend the time that he does just trying to detail exactly what’s going to happen and how this is supposed to happen and everything that by the time the patient leaves ... they feel so much more comfortable with what’s going on,” office manager Michael Gregory says.

Phillip Ley received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his

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Finalists Adair Blackledge (Blackledge Face Center, 1659 Lelia Drive, 601-981-3033) / David Steckler (Mississippi Center for Plastic Surgery, 200 W. Jackson St., Suite 100, Ridgeland, 769.300.4055) / Scott Runnels (The Runnels Center, 1055 River Oaks Drive, 601.939.3223) / Stephen Davidson (The Face & Body Center, 2550 Flowood Drive, 601.939.9999)

residency at Texas A&M University Health Science Center. He specializes in breast-cancer surgery and can do mastectomies, cancer risk assessments and more. —Amber Helsel Finalists Gustavo Luzardo (University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., 601.984.1000) / James Hurt III (UMMC, 2500 N. State St., 601.984.1000) / Steven Patterson (Lakeland Surgical Clinic, PLLC, 971 Lakeland Drive, Suite 1460, 601.208.0234)

Dr. Reginald Martin courtesy Phillip Ley

sippi School of Medicine in 1983 before his internship and his residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

After joining Plastic and Hand Surgery Associates, he left to form a new surgery group. That group then expanded and moved from St. Dominic Hospital to Flowood in 2001, eventually becoming the Face & Body Center. —Micah Smith

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Best Surgeon: Reginald Martin

This year, Jacksonians nominated two people in the metro area as Best Surgeon: Phillip Ley at The Surgical Clinic Associates and Reginald Martin at St. Dominic’s Martin Surgical Associates.

Martin specializes in general, oncologic, laparoscopic and robotic surgery. He received his medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Tennessee in 1988 and did his residency at the University of Louisville. He has worked at St.

Finalists Bard Johnston (Baptist Main Street Family Medicine, 2173 Main St., 601.605.3858) / Christin Hurt (Magnolia Dermatology, 815 Highway 80 E., 601.910.3004) / Laura Barron (The Children’s Clinic, 2946 Layfair Drive, Flowood, 601.420.8233) / Zilin Wang (Heart Care Plus, 1020 River Oaks Drive, Suite 480, Flowood, 601.932.8060)

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BEST OF JACKSON // medical Best Orthodontist: Eugene C. Brown

Best Hospital: St. Dominic Hospital

(Smiles By Design, 5800 Ridgewood Road, Suite 103, 601.957.1711)

(969 Lakeland Drive, 601.200.2000)

Finalists Kenneth Walley (Kenneth Walley DDS, 2174 Henry Hill Drive, 601.922.3888; 208 Key Drive, Madison, 601.898.1788) / Priscilla Jolly (Jolly Orthodontics, 1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland, 601.605.2400) / Richard Simpson (Simpson Orthodontics, 100 Luckney Station Road, Suite A, Flowood, 601.919.031) / Susan Fortenberry (Pediatric Dentistry, 5315 Highway 18 W., 601.922.0066, smileinspector.com)

(1000 Highland Colony Pwky., Suite 7205, Ridgeland, 601.366.0855, mississippimigrainecenter.com)

Finalists Garvey Back and Neck (766 Lakeland Drive, Suite B, 601.982.2916) / Magnolia Dermatology (815 Highway 80 E., 601.910.3004) / Mississippi Sports Medicine (1325 E. Fortification St., 601.354.4488) / Truth Wellness Center (252 Katherine Drive, Suite A, Flowood, 601.882.5801)

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Patient Experience and Overall Outpatient Experience.

—Christina Spann Finalists Baptist Health Systems (multiple locations, mbhs. org) /Merit Health River Oaks (1030 River Oaks Drive, Flowood, merithealthriveroaks. com, 601.932.1030) / University of Mississippi Medical Center (2500 N. State St., 601.984.1000)

Best Physical Therapy: Paul Jerome Foster

This year’s winner for Best Physical Therapy, Paul Jerome Foster, whom many know as Jerome Foster, has been a physical therapist assistant since 1999.

Foster owns and operates Specialized Physical Therapy, which specializes in myofascial release, visceral manipulation, and treating pain relief caused by facial restrictions such as temporomandibular disorder, also known as TMJ, which causes the jaw to lock up.

SPT offers hands-on treatment without machine assistance, which Foster says is uncommon.

Foster says managing two locations can be challenging, but he would never give that up. He opened his Flowood location in 2001. He opened the Ridgeland lo-

cation in October 2016. “It’s a lot of hours per day dealing with all of it but I don’t want to quit treating. I love treating, it’s fun,” Foster says. “I have a large patient load, and it’s just a lot of fun.”

—William H. Kelly III courtesy Paul Jerome Foster

which includes nurse practitioners Rebecca Smith Adams and Jenna Gaddy, have treated more than 2,000 patients for a wide range of headache disorders such as chronic migraines, intracranial hypertension and allergy-associated headaches.

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(Specialized Physical Therapy, 533 Keyway Drive, Flowood; 113 W. Jackson St., Ridgeland; specializedptms.com, 601.420.0717)

Best Specialty Clinic: The Headache Center

Migraines can be debilitating and have a profound effect on people’s quality of life, and they affect more people than some may think. Data from the Migraine Research Foundation show that the headache disorder is the third most widespread illness in the world.

The Headache Center is dedicated to providing resources for patients in the Jackson metro area in order to find solutions and educate themselves on their illnesses.

Family Nurse Practitioner Christina Treppendahl founded the center in Renaissance at Colony Park in Ridgeland in 2013.

Since then, she and her staff,

St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson has become increasingly well known for its services in the Jackson area. The hospital provides comprehensive medical, surgical and emergency treatment.

In 1946, the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Ill. purchased the Jackson Infirmary, which eventually became the foundation of the hospital. Today, the hospital is a 535-bed acute-care facility The hospital has facilities such as a cancer center, a heart and vascular institute and a neuroscience center. St. Dominic has services such as women’s care, orthopedic services, diabetes care, radiology, surgery, programs such as Healthy Weight Advantage. Besides placing in Best of Jackson for two years in a row, St. Dominic also won two

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courtesy Eugene C. Brown

Right before his freshman year of college, Dr. Eugene Brown got braces. When he started at Mississippi College, he thought pharmacy would be his career path.

It was a conversation with his own orthodontist that ultimately made Brown to discard pharmacy and set himself on the path to orthodontistry.

He completed his doctorate at University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, receiving his Master’s of Science in orthodontics in 1980.

“Seeing the transformation in a child, who is self-conscious about their smile and appearance, become confident in them is what gives me joy from what I do” he says about what he enjoys most about his job.

—Veer Singh

Finalists Brian Hendley (Madison Performance Therapy Clinic, Madison Healthplex Performance Center, 501 Baptist Drive, Madison, 601.898.5777) / Charles Benford (Capitol Physical Therapy, P.A., 5888 Ridgewood Road, Suite B, 601.978.1798) / Kathy McColumn (McColumn Physical Therapy, 5225 Highway 18 W., Suite C, 601.487.8456) / Mark Ware (The Strength Center Physical Therapy, 4435 Mangum Drive, Suite A, Flowood, 601.932.0305) boomjackson.com

Best Chiropractor: Dr. Clayton Pitts

Best Urgent Care Clinic: MEA Medical Clinics

(Norville Chiropractic Clinic, 1000 Lakeland Square, Suite 400, Flowood, 601.398.9412, flowoodchiropracticcare.com) courtesy Clayton Pitts

Dr. Clayton Pitts’ path to chiropractic medicine began before he was born, when an 18-wheeler hit his mother, Kathy Vanliere. Pitts says he saw how much chiropractors helped her over the years.

He has been with Norville Chiropractic Clinic full-time since January 2013. He says one of the most rewarding things about his job is making lasting improvements on patients’ lives. “I’m able to kind of get down to some people’s reasons behind things, as far as the reasons why and not just treating the symptoms,” he says.

Pitts received a bachelor’s degree in exercise science at the University of Mississippi in 2009. He soon enrolled at the Palmer College of Chiropractic and earned his doctorate in chiropractic in 2012.

(multiple locations, meamedicalclinics.com)

Finalists Dan Garvey (Garvey Back & Neck Clinic, 766 Lakeland Drive, Suite B, 601.982.2916) / Jeremy Wilson (Tullos Chiropractic, 3710 Interstate 55, 601.981.2273) / Laura Stubbs (Body in Balance Healthcare, LLC, 5472 Watkins Drive, Suite C, 601.376.5636) / Leo Huddleston (Natural Wellness Center, 6500 Old Canton Road, 601.956.0010)

—Micah Smith

Best Nurse Practitioner: Alisha McArthur Wilkes (Quinn Healthcare, PLLC 768 N. Avery Blvd., Ridgeland, 601.487.6482, quinntotalhealth.com)

Finalists Christina Treppendahl (The Headache Center, 1000 Highland Colony Pwky., Suite 7205, Ridgeland, 601.366.0855) / Josie Bidwell (University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., 601.984.1000) / Kimberly Strong (Truth Wellness Center, 252 Katherine Drive, Suite A, Flowood, 601.882.5801) / Rebecca Smith Adams (The Headache Center, 1000 Highland Colony Pwky., Suite 7205, Ridgeland, 601.366.0855)

Work. Live. Play. Prosper.

and insurance physicals.

For more information, visit meamedicalclinics.com.

—Dustin Cardon

Finalists Baptist Medical Clinic (multiple locations, baptistmedicalclinics.org) / Corner Clinic Urgent Care (132 Lakeland Heights Blvd., Suite A, Flowood, 601.992.0004, cor nerclinicurgentcare.com) / Merit Health Walk-in Clinics (multiple locations, 601.326.1000, merithealthcentral.com) / Trustcare (multiple locations, feelbetterfaster.com)

Best Dentist: Matthew Harris (Mississippi Smiles Dentistry, 1189 E. County Line Road, Suite 1010, 601.308.2022, mississippismilesdentistry.com)

Dr. Matthew Harris is a family dentist at Mississippi Smiles.

Ridgeland native Harris attended Mississippi State University and received his dental degree from University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2010.

Harris currently works at Mississippi Smiles, which has offices on County Line Road and Woodrow Wilson Drive.

Besides regular dental services such as cleanings, Mississippi Smiles also has services such as conscious sedation.

“(Harris is) very personable and easy to talk to. He does spend a great deal of time (getting) to know his patients and families. I think that makes the difference,”

says front office Manager Jennifer Delaughter. —Christina Spann

courtesy Matthew Harris

2015. “I listen to the patients. ... I listen to what’s going on with them and try to make as accurate of a diagnosis as I possibly can,” she says.

—Amber Helsel courtesy Alisha McArthur Wilkes

Nurse Practitioner Alisha McArthur Wilkes says she originally wanted to be a pediatrician.

While studying premedicine at Alcorn State University in 2003, she attended a medical program in Chicago, where she shadowed a pediatric nurse practitioner.

After she saw how hands-on the job was, she decided to take that route.

She graduated from Alcorn with her pre-medical degree in 2005 and then with a bachelor’s in nursing in 2007, her master’s degree in nursing education in 2012 and her post-master’s degree in family nurse practitioner in 2015.

She has worked as a nurse practitioner at Quinn Healthcare since

When something happens, you may need medical help fast, and that’s where urgent-care clinics such as MEA come in.

A group of physicians affiliated with St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson established the original MEA Medical Clinic in Pearl in 1979 with the goal of serving the needs of patients outside the normal 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours of standard clinics.

The business currently has 14 clinics in Pearl, Madison, Canton, south Jackson, Brandon, Byram, Clinton, Flowood, Richland, north Jackson, Vicksburg and Laurel.

It also has five primary-care clinics in Pearl, north and south Jackson, Madison and Laurel.

MEA’s services include family and occupation medicine, drug testing services, x-rays, school

Finalists Brigetta Turner (Dr. Brigetta K. Turner, DDS, 4510 Hanging Moss Road, 601.982.2124) / Lamonica Davis Taylor (Smiles on Broadway Dental Care, 5442 Watkins Drive, 601.665.4996) / Martha Lewis (Dental Solutions of Clinton, 315 Morrison Drive, Clinton, 601.925.5163) / Shenika KellyMoore (Kelly Family Dentistry, 514 E. Woodrow Wilson Ave., Suite G, 769.572.4425) / Terrance Ware (Terrance Ware Family Dental, 5800 Ridgewood Road, Suite 104, 769.251.5909) 25

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legs. That was when she ran across gumbo. he scent of Cajun spices wafts through

“I read about it, what it was and all that, the air at Gumbo Girl. A cashier in a black T-shirt with the restaurant’s logo on it and I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to make stands at the register, taking phone and me some,’” Kithuka says. “I went to the store, in-person orders as a steady stream of customers and I got a box of Zatarain’s because, of course, I didn’t know how to make gumbo from scratch walk into the restaurant.

The “gumbo girl” herself, Marilyn and all that—didn’t know anything.”

Though Kithuka used the box recipe iniKithuka, is in the back prepping the restautially, she says she added rant’s spicy turkey-neck her own tweaks, and famdish. The preparation ily members began telling and recipe itself are both her that she should sell it. secrets, and she will only Then, she started experitell you that she makes menting with the recipes each dish at the restauto perfect her version, and rant with “a whole lot of now she’s been making love and passion.” gumbo for 20 years.

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She graduated from open in its current locaJackson State University tion on Highway 18 for in 2002 with a bachelor’s around a year and a half, degree in broadcast jourbut the storefront wasn’t nalism, and received her the beginning. Kithuka master’s degree in public says her mom, Johnnie relations from the universiShelby, taught her and Marilyn Kithuka (pictured) ty in 2014. After working in her two sisters how to and her husband, James broadcast journalism for a cook soul food growing Kithuka, opened Gumbo Girl while, she realized that the up. Kithuka loved seain south Jackson in 2015. media field wasn’t for her. food, though she says She started working for her her family often couldn’t brother-in-law, Troy Wells, at his business, afford it. Nonetheless, she promised herself Wells Heating and Cooling, as an administrathat when she became an adult, she would tive assistant. She met her husband, James eat all of the seafood she wanted.

Kithuka, in 2009, and the couple married in

Her love for seafood is what piqued her 2011. They had their son, Solomon, in 2012. interest in Cajun dishes.

Over the years, Kithuka mostly sold her

“One day, I wanted—I’m not going to gumbo to friends and family, and she also beparticularly say gumbo; I didn’t even know, came a licensed caterer. James says they had honestly, what gumbo really was,” she says. originally looked at their current restaurant

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found out that Kithuka was pregnant.

“We just couldn’t see ourselves experiencing a pregnancy and actually opening a restaurant at the same time with, like, no restaurant experience,” he says.

“And I wasn’t ready,” Kithuka adds.

While in graduate school, she was making gumbo for her professors, and her husband convinced her to post on Facebook about it.

“When I posted it, everybody went crazy,” she says. “They started inboxing me, private-messaging me, asking me, ‘Can I buy this?’ And they were hitting me up on my page. It just really blew my mind.”

After that, Kithuka began selling gumbo out of her home. When the business got too big (she says people were even asking for reservations), she and James started scouting for spaces again. They first looked at one in Clinton, but it would have required a complete renovation. Then, they came back to the space off Highway 18, where the couple then opened Gumbo Girl in 2015.

Kithuka says the recipes on the menu are ones that she often makes for her own family, including dishes such as steak tacos and the house surf-and-turf gumbo, which has Gulf shrimp, blue crab, crawfish tails, chicken, sausage and okra.

“My menu, it’s just a makeup of everything that I would cook at home,” she says.

“Everything that I fix at home, that’s what I put on my menu. Nothing different; I haven’t invented anything.”

Gumbo Girl (5681 Highway 18 W., 601790-0486) is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, visit gumbogirl.com. boomjackson.com

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YOUNG INFLUENTIALS 2017 The most influential people sometimes come from unlikely places. Meet more of Jackson’s under-40 power group: They’re creative, connected and engaged.

Liz Broussard

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alvin Black entered Millsaps College in 2012 with the goal of eventually becoming a lawyer. But one night, he and his friend and current business partner, Sean Joseph, talked about into business for themselves.

“It was like, ‘You know what would be nice? If after college, you never just go get a job. You could work for yourself,’” Black says.

It started off as them selling T-shirts under the moniker, Started With a Dream, which is now the name of their holding company. But

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iz Broussard, 26, likes to get out of her comfort zone.

She hails from Concord, N.H., went to Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and graduated in May 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in food and the environment, and another in music. She spent a year in Norwich, Conn., as a service member for FoodCorps, which aims to connect kids to healthy food in

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school. When the organization offered her a position in Jackson, she told herself, “Why not? It’s a place that I know nothing about.”

Four years later, Broussard is still in Jackson and working at the National Center for Appropriate Technology as its foodjustice project coordinator. She says she is passionate about “connecting people to their food and where it comes from,” and works with low-income, minority and under-served groups such as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Asian Americans for Change and others. Her work is to educate adults and children on healthy eating, helps train new farmers, helps create school and community gardens, and tries to advance local farmto-table efforts.

“I take great joy in the work that I do,” she says.

Broussard is also involved with The Cooperative Community of New West Jackson, which is an organization that aims to build a resident-led model neighborhood from the ground up and from the inside out. She refers to her work there as “not my day job, but the rest-of-my-time job.” Broussard refers to her work with the cooperative as “Some of the most meaningful (and innovative) work I do.”

Liz is a classically trained singer and designed her own major in college, “Food and the Environment.” She attends CityHeart Church in Jackson.

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they now have two local businesses: finance-app business, and Better Beignets, which Black says seeks to add a missing element to Jackson’s food culture.

Black, a New Orleans native, grew up eating at Café Du Monde.

After coming to Jackson in 2012 to attend Millsaps College, Black says he wanted to bring the New Orleans

institution to Jackson. But after the business said no to a franchise, he had the idea of creating his own.

Black graduated from Millsaps in May 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in business and a minor in political science. He is currently two classes away from completing his master’s degree in business administration.

He started Better Beignets in summer 2016. For the first few months, he and business partners Joseph, Emerson Brundick and Lauren Jean Kerr focused on spreading the word. They began delivering beignets to businesses and organizations such as the Mississippi Development Authority, and even made them on-site on college campuses and at events such as Fondren’s First Thursday. In May 2017, the business did its first catering event at Seersuckers & Sombreros.

Black, 23, is also the software developer for finance-research app Finaius. The business began last year during Startup Weekend.

He says another reason he wanted to become an entrepreneur was because he wants to live his life to the fullest. “What (life is) about is knowing yourself and thinking, ‘Would I rather spend (life) doing something I love and am passionate about, or would I prefer working a job I don’t care for just for a paycheck and hope I make enough to live on later?’” he says.

For those who want to become entrepreneurs, he says that you can’t let fear hold you back.

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Alachua Nazarenko Community Crusader

“I love being in a small Jewish community because ownership belongs to you,” she says.

“To make something happen, you have to do it and not rely on someone else to get it done. It’s really beautiful and rewarding.”

After working at the institute for two years as an education fellow, she was offered a fulltime position as the cultural programming coordinator.

Through her position, she covers a 13-state area from Texas to Virginia, and one of her main activities is matching Jewish presenters—artists, authors, comedians, storytellers, musicians and others—with congregations at affordable prices. She also works with Jewish congregations to find collaborators, such as churches or universities, to help with funding.

Nazarenko met her husband, Erik, who is a senior financial systems analyst at Butler Snow Law firm, in Boston. The couple lives in Brandon near the reservoir and enjoys the Jackson food and music scene.

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lachua Nazarenko, 26, is from Tallahassee, Fla., but has lived in the Jackson area for four years now and says that she is enthusiastic about her adopted home.

“I see myself as an ambassador to others to tell the Jackson story,” she says. “People hear about the Jackson negatives, but not the positives, and my husband (Erik Nazarenko) feels the same way.”

In spring 2013, shortly before Nazarenko, who is Jewish, graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., she was wondering what the future would bring.

Then, she stumbled upon an advertisement for a fellowship at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson.

After spending a semester abroad in Israel and a year in Poland helping under-served Jewish communities with education and cultural activities, she knew that she wanted to keep serving Jewish congregations.

Torey Cahn Political Powerhouse

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lor’s degree in history and stayed on with Chism as a senior staffer. He then ran the company’s Jackson office for about a year. His first taste of political campaigning was with Joce Prichett’s campaign for state auditor in 2015.

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olitics is in Torey Cahn’s blood.

Cahn grew up in the east suburbs of Seattle, Wash., and his parents, Andy Cahn and June Rogers, were in politics. His father was an organizer against nuclear power in the 1980s, and his mother worked in Washington, D.C., with various congressional campaigns. His uncle, Dwight Pelz, was the chairman of Washington state’s Democratic Party.

“The dinner table was always politics,” he says. “It wasn’t how the (Seattle) Mariners were doing. It was what the new fed chair had done to raise rates or something.”

Though he grew up in an activist family, Cahn says he didn’t really think of politics as a career. He says he thought that he would either have to live in Washington, D.C., or work at the state capitol to follow that path.

Cahn came to Jackson in fall 2010 to attend Millsaps College. While there, he began interning at Chism Strategies, formerly Zata|3, as a junior staffer and went to Washington, D.C., in 2012 for that year’s presidential election. He graduated from Millsaps in 2014 with a bache-

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gay woman who was willing to just be brave enough … to say, ‘Hey, I’m part of Mississippi, too,’” he says. “I’m very proud of that race.”

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tor for the New Hampshire Democratic Coordinated Campaign from June to November 2016 during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

From January 2017 to May 2017, Cahn worked as the data director for Sen. John Horhn’s mayoral campaign. His role during the campaign was to evaluate Horhn’s progress through methods such as polling and canvassing neighborhoods, and he also ran the voter files and databases, and trained with volunteers and staff members. For that race, he did all of the polling in-house.

“It’s using data analytics to target our voters and data analytics to figure out how well we’re doing and how well our staff is doing,” he says

Cahn, 25, says that what keeps him coming to Jackson is the sense of community in the city.

“I will not walk into any restaurant or place and not know three people. I just have a friend at every coffee shop,” he says. “… Jackson just has that charm that just grabs you and doesn’t let you go,” he says.

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Bilal Qizilbash

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Hungry? initiative, he is working on his next invention. The scientist, philanthropist and innovator from Queens, N.Y., says he constantly looks for ways to improve the world around him.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stony Brook University in 2010, Qizilbash went to Mississippi College to get his master’s degree in medical sciences in 2015. He is currently working on a master’s degree in business administration at MC, as well.

Several years ago, Qizilbash and other students began feeding the homeless in downtown Jackson. He says that the only question they asked was, “Are you hungry?” Now, the R U Hungry? program feeds around 200 people every Friday at Smith Park. Through his nonprofit, Draw a Smile Foundation, Qizilbash also started R U Fed?, which partners with local restaurants to provide meals for those in need.

“Poverty isn’t always what you think it looks like,” Qizilbash says. “We are in it to try and solve the problem.”

bash is also working on the Happy Homes Initiative, which would create low-cost housing and help end the homeless epidemic.

“I want to establish equity, justice and peace,” Qizilbash says.

“I want to help people thrive, instead of just survive.”

He says that one of his reasons for working so hard is that he has a heart for Jackson. “I fell in love with Mississippi,” he says.

“The people are beautiful.”

Some also know Qizilbash as the “Mississippi Kale Guy” for his research on whether kale can kill cancerous cells. In 2014, he presented his findings at the Global Health Innovation Conference at Yale University, discussing the numerous health benefits of kale and how he believes the vegetable “superfood” has the potential to fight cancer.

He created his own company, Qizilbash Holdings, to continue his research and share his discoveries on a larger scale. He even has a “Kale Yea” license plate.

“I have a weird sense of humor, but I think most scientists do,” Qizilbash says with a laugh.

—Abigail Walker

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y day, Jackson native Amanda Furdge, 29, is the youth program coordinator for the Children’s Defense Fund, but in her free time, she is a poet, writer, community leader, cultural curator and a mother of two boys, Titan and Mega.

Furdge says she was attracted to the arts at an early age, first through singing in and directing her church choir. She later took an interest in writing and began creating songs, poems and short stories.

“There’s an excitement that comes from writing, it’s much like anticipation,” she says. “Wherever I am when inspiration hits, and I’m thinking, ‘What will I write and how will this come together?’, it feels like something else takes over, and I kind of just give in.”

After graduating from Lanier High School and a brief stint in the U.S. Navy in 2006, she enrolled at Hinds Community College. She moved to Chicago in January 2007 and began taking classes at Truman College that spring.

Over the years, she has worked in various capacities with people such as the poet Malik Yusef, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and civil-rights leader and political activist Fred Hampton Jr., who is currently the chairman of civil-rights organization Prisoners of Conscience Committee.

“I was Chairman Fred’s secretary (from 2008 to 2013), and to be so connected to a source of power and legacy undoubtedly changed my life,” she says. “There is so much love, so much love in my relationship with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and all of those guys. It balanced me as a southern belle, artist and activist.”

She moved back to Jackson in 2014 after the birth of her first son, Titan.

She began working for the Children’s Defense fund in February 2017. In her position there, she says she is in charge of keeping southern black and brown youth engaged in leadership programs and helping them find resources.

“We want them to be leaders,” Furdge says. “We want them to be aware of their surroundings. … We want them to see that Mississippi is a place to stay.”

Recently, she released her latest creative effort, “From a Brown Paper Bag,” which is a collection of short nonfiction stories, poems, quotes and more that express her thoughts and ideas. The book is available on Amazon and on her website, amandafurdge.com.

She says that she’s looking at other mediums, such as photography and theater, to present FABPB in a new light in the near future.

“I really want to do my part to reconnect literature (poetry and storytelling) with music and visual art,” Furdge says. “Think Zora Neal Hurston on stage with Coltrane while Gordon Parks documented the entire scene.”

—Malcolm Morrow

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He says his goal is to stabilize Jackson homelessness and create a model that can be used throughout the country. Qizil-

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ilal Qizilbash, 30, says he “can’t sit still.” When he is not helping to feed the underprivileged through the R U

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Felicia Brown-Williams

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n impressive toy collection of female characters from television shows, movies and public figures sits on shelves in Felicia Brown-William’s office at Planned Parenthood Southeast in Jackson. “After a tough day, especially during the past election, I stared at these figures and they reminded me of the amazing things women can do,” Brown-William says.

She was not pleased with the outcome of the election, but had faced fights before.

“Planned Parenthood is the most scrutinized organization in the state and maybe even the country,” she says. “We have to be sure everything is in order all the time.”

When videos that allegedly showed Planned Parenthood executives describing fetal-tissue donation were released in 2015, they ignited a renewed controversy for the organization.

Williams was not surprised, given the scrutiny and was never worried. “We knew we did nothing wrong,” she says.

The Hattiesburg native says she first came to Planned Parenthood, which does not perform abortions in Mississippi, as a patient. BrownWilliams, who had been involved in women’s

rights issues, decided to apply for a job as a grassroots coordinator, and has worked her way up in the organization. In September 2016, she became the Mississippi state director for Planned Parenthood Southeast.

She says scrutiny and more broadly, misinformation, are forces that Planned Parenthood encounters all the time. “If a see a person on the street protesting the women’s clinic in Jackson, I don’t stop my car to have a conversation,” Brown-William says. “I know I won’t reach that person, and I know that I’m not moveable from my positions. I look for someone who is willing to learn and listen. The best way to change minds is by having a conversation.”

In her position at Planned Parenthood, Williams participates in advocacy along with her lobbying work. When the Legislature is in session, she listens to debates for bills such as Proposition 26, also known as the Personhood Amendment, which was defeated in 2011, attends committee hearings and talks to senators and representatives. “The work that we do is so important because I can see the real impact we have on people’s lives,” she says.

—Mike McDonald

Lesley Collins Multi-Style Artist

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ocal artist Lesley Collins has worked at Wolfe Studio, a family-owned ceramic studio in Jackson, since November 2016. The studio’s founders, Carl and Mildred Wolfe, first opened shop in the early 1940s. Their daughter, Bebe Wolfe, now runs the business.

“Owls, pelicans and other birds are the most popular figures we produce here, along with things like elephants and rabbits,” Collins says. “The best thing about them is that they’re handmade in Mississippi, right here in Jackson.”

Collins, who was born in Missouri but grew up in Jackson, moved to Chicago in 1999 due to her father Corrice Collins’ work as a TV news producer. However, she returned to Mississippi for college and graduated from Jackson State University with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 2011.

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Collins says that when she first came to Wolfe Studio, she only planned to work there part-time, but the family of artists at the studio inspired her to focus on her creative passion.

“I’ve always wanted to be able to devote myself to art full-time, and they put a fire in me to really think about how I approach my work,” Collins says.

In addition to her work at Wolfe Studio, she also serves as a coordinator for the Mississippi Museum of Art’s Museum School, a summercamp program that brings in local artists to teach children about a variety of mediums.

Collins also is devoted to her own artwork. She is best known for her found-object pieces, which often deal with sociopolitical issues such as voting rights. Her artwork also allows her to use her love of research to add new levels of depth to each piece.

— Dustin Cardon

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Kazuaki Shiota

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family father, Pat Whale, who was also a musician. Both skills came in handy when he decided to stay in the U.S. and attend the University of North Texas College of Music and needed to showcase something original at the prestigious school.

“I really liked composing tonal music at that time and learning minor-sevenths and add-nines and tension chords that sound cool,” he says. “But the chairs in the department didn’t like it. ‘Well, it sounds like someone’s music.’ … I said, ‘Hmm, OK. How about I learned how to tap-dance and fiddle, so what if I put that together?’”

He graduated from the University of North Texas with a bachelor’s degree in composition in 2004 and then moved to Ohio to attend the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music on a full scholarship and stipend, earning his master’s degree in 2006 and his doctorate in 2012.

He and his wife of six years, Jackson native Karen Wissel, moved to Mississippi in 2015, but he continues to teach online courses at the University of Cincinnati in subjects such as music technology, and Japanese pop culture and video-game music.

—Micah Smith

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n her former position as the community-relations manager for the Mississippi Children’s Museum, Chellese Hall spent the

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usician and educator Kazuaki Shiota has only lived in Jackson for about two years, but he has already been active in many of the city’s cultural institutions.

He currently teaches music technology, theory and composition at the Millsaps College Conservatory of Music, and is a substitute instructor for St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and Jackson Preparatory School

Shiota, 36, is also a board member for the Japan-America Society of Mississippi, a nonprofit that works to promote business and cultural relations between Japan and Mississippi.

He created JASMIS’s monthly Japanese Culture Forum, which allows the organization’s Japanese and American members to interact and learn about each other’s cultures.

Even before officially moving to the United States in 2000, Shiota had a tie to Mississippi in Osaka, Japan, which participates in an exchange program with St. Andrew’s in Jackson. He took part in the program as a high-school senior and was sent to Austin, Texas, rather than Jackson, but the move ended up being an important one for his education and career path.

Through his time at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Shiota began experimenting with different musical styles and instruments through school and learning how to improvise from his host-

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last six years promoting programs dedicated to improving education for children in Mississippi.

In January 2017, Hall, 24, became the communications manager for Woodard Hines Education Foundation, which is a nonprofit that provides college access for students throughout Mississippi through its Get2College program.

That program helps students choose the right college, provides information on colleges for parents, and helps students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

“The Get2College program focuses low-income or disenfranchised students, who in many cases may be the first person in their family to go to college,” Hall says.

“The program helps students from all backgrounds get to college and increases the number of students staying in and graduating.”

Originally from Detroit, Hall moved to Mississippi with her family at age 6 in 1998. She graduated from Brandon High School in 2000 and went on to Belhaven Universi-

ty, where she majored in electronic communications for journalism, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2014.

Hall started volunteering at the Children’s Museum in spring 2011 because of the museum’s commitment to finding fun ways to teach kids.

“I saw it as a new experience that would provide a great opportunity to learn,” she says. “It’s the museum’s mission to inspire children to develop a love of learning through a young age through fun activities and exhibits. Everyone there takes fun seriously and indulges that fun-in-education aspect in everything that they do.”

She worked part-time for the Children’s Museum as a student and then entered her full-time position in the marketing department after graduation.

In her former capacity as the community-relations manager for the Children’s Museum, Hall assisted with social media, relayed information on events happening at the museum and promoted the museum’s efforts for children in radio and television appearances.

She also assisted with programs such as “Lights! Camera!

Imagination!,” a talent search that introduces children to the performing arts by giving them the chance to become the face and voice of the museum’s marketing materials.

Hall is a board member of the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi, where she advocates and helps provide grants for programs aimed at helping women succeed in college and move toward economic security. She also has served as the communications guru for the Satchel Podcast Player since July 2016 as a consultant.

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Marlena Nip

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rom the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles to Seattle to Hawaii and finally to Jackson, Marlena Nip has been quite the journeywoman in her 24 years.

After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2014, Nip moved to Seattle and volunteered for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest.

There she served in marginalized communities and began to hone in on her desire to work in food sustainability and food justice.

“I’ve always liked working outside and not just sitting behind a desk,” she says. “I need things to do constantly.”

Nip says that she did not expect to end up in Jackson. After a yearlong stint in Hawaii as a service member for FoodCorps, which aims to connect kids and schools to healthy food), she applied to be fellow in her home state, California.

“I told myself, ‘I’m ... going back to California. If I don’t get that, I’ll find a different job,’” she says. “Well, I got a phone call from FoodCorps

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asking if they (could) send my application to Mississippi.”

Despite having never been to the South, she accepted when FoodCorps offered her the job, and she moved to Jackson in fall 2016.

As a fellow, Nip primarily works to support the 10 FoodCorps service members in Mississippi. “I go for on-site visits to see how they’re doing in the classroom and make them feel supported,” she says. “A lot of them come to me for questions, and I just support them through ideas and what to do.”

In addition to supporting the service members, over the past two months, Nip has started up a new project with FoodCorps and the National Center for Appropriate Technology.

“I’ve developed a garden education training program where we go into communities or schools,” she says. “We just did one at the Piney Woods School, and we taught all the teachers how to utilize the garden and outdoor space into their lessons, to mix it up. It’s hard to students to sit in a class for six hours”

Despite her West Coast predilection, Nip says she has really taken to Jackson during her seven months in the capital city.

“I’m here, doing this work, and I love it.”

—Tyler Edwards

Jim Sterling Video-game guru

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nyone familiar with YouTuber Jim Sterling and his weekly web series, “The Jimquisition,” might be surprised to learn that there’s quite a difference between the condescending, self-aggrandizing English host and the actual video-game journalist who plays him.

“It’s sort of my personality turned up to a horrific extreme that would get me ostracized from polite society, but it works really well in the form of that show,” Sterling, 33, says. “… People seem to really get behind the ironic cult of personality we’ve built around it, this character who has no business deifying himself. He stands in front of action figures and yells about video games but treats himself as some godly prophet.”

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working at games media outlet Destructoid in 2006 and created “The Jimquisition” about four years later. He then sold the rights to another media outlet, The Escapist, but realized that the audience for the site wasn’t interested in the no-budget, unscripted style that he had been doing.

Sterling retooled the show and boosted the production quality, but the audience still wasn’t interested for a while, so he decided that, if no one else was having fun, then he would. Sterling says he began rubbing in the show’s existence, signing off episodes with, “Thank God for me,” and saying that he was jealous that viewers could watch the show and he could only make it.

“It was really going over the top with this persona, and it turns out, the more I ground that into people’s faces, the more they enjoyed it,” he says. “So I couldn’t make the show popular when I was trying to make it popular, and I couldn’t make it hated when I was trying to make it hated.”

Despite the brash character that he plays, Sterling most often uses “The Jimquisition” as a force for good. His videos tend to focus on realworld issues in the game industry, covering topics such as shoddy business practices, working conditions for developers, and how sociopolitical changes affect games.

“Although, mostly, it is just a show about a man yelling at video games when he should have better things to do,” Sterling says with a laugh.

He began self-producing “The Jimquisition” in late 2014 with the help of supporters on Patreon, which currently has more than 5,400 monthly contributors. He also has more than 495,500 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He married his wife, Alex, about eight years ago, and the couple has lived in Jackson ever since.

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basketball player in a white and orange jersey dribbles down the court, dodging opposing players. His blue and white sneakers squeak across the court, as his mentor looks on.

Two years ago, Lloyd Ross started D.I.D Hoopers as way of mentoring and giving a positive outlook on life to kids from ages 9 to 15 in Imani Khayyam

On May 7, Amateur Athletic Union traveling basketball team D.I.D. Hoopers, which Lloyd Ross founded two years ago as a way to mentor and help kids, played the team Mississippi Force.

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Jackson. D.I.D., which is an Amateur Athletic Union traveling basketball team, now has 50 kids in the program, with seventh-, eighth- and ninthgrade teams.

“This started as a way to give kids opportunities for kids that don’t have supportive parents for various reasons,” Ross says.

“Some parents have to work long hours or don’t care, and that leaves these kids in the street, where trouble finds them because they don’t have other places to go.”

Ross says the mentoring program uses basketball to teach life lessons. The name D.I.D standing for desire, intensity and determination. “Every child can be successful if they have desire to want to be great, intensity that gives them fire inside, and determination to do what you have to do to make it in life” Ross says.

“A kid doesn’t’ have to be the smartest, most liked, or best-looking to succeed in life. D.I.D gives strength and power to succeed, and gives kids what they need and something to live up too.”

Ross graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans, receiving his occupational therapy degree in 2007. From 2008 to 2011, he taught science at Whitten Middle School in Jackson.

Ross is passionate about his program. He says he draws inspiration from Psalm 28:7, which says, “The Lord is my strength and shield; my heart trusts him and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and song when I praise him.”

That scripture has significant meaning for Ross, as he feels his calling is to be the strength and shield for at-risk kids in Jackson.

“Children are my ministry, and I want to shield them from the streets and give them strength to be great,” Ross says. “It takes time for some of these kids to trust me and let me help them.”

His kids know that they have to do the work in the classroom to get on the court, so tutors from the Yates Save-A-Seed Foundation in Jackson have helped the students. He provides tutors to kids that may need extra help to be successful students.

“One of my kids fell a grade level behind,” Ross says. “He was able to get in a school program, and our tutoring has helped him catch back up and he will graduate with his class in the future. Another kid ended up in alternative school in the seventh grade. We gave him an opportunity, and he has worked on his schooling and gotten his life on track. It took him losing basketball and our team letting him play to know how much he missed it. He learned to use basketball to do better with his life.”

But Ross says some of the kids need more than just help in the classroom. Other players struggle with issues from their upbringing.

“I have a kid that has bounced around from home to home. He has anger issues and a lot that is going on in his home life,” Ross says. “We have worked with him on his anger and let him know that there are better ways of handling things such as praying and turning over some troubles to God. The coaches have encouraged him to breathe and relax when things don’t go his way. This young man is still a work in progress, but he is learning to control his anger from a rough upbringing.”

For more information on D.I.D. Hoopers, find the team on Facebook.

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BODYSOUL // presence

Happy, Healthy, Holistic // by Mike McDonald

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r. Megan Sones Sones Clapton, the owner and therapist at Ridgeland clinic Mindful Therapy, says she believes the mind and body are connected, influencing one another in a kind of symbiosis. That is an

in the end, she nearly died. She eventually saw results when she began treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where she learned more about mindfulness meditation.

Ultimately, Sones Clapton learned a lot Imani Khayyam

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from experiencing both forms of treatment and has since brought that knowledge into her work at Mindful Therapy, she says.

“Western medicine teaches us that only the symptoms matter, casting aside the root of the problem,” Sones Clapton says. “Here at the clinic, I provide evidence-based therapy, complete with outcome data, using various methods like art, music, podcasts and other forms of technology to help my patients. I try to speak their language.”

Sones Clapton focuses on providing patients with the best care that she can give while avoiding medication unless a dire situation calls for it. Part of her strategy revolves around using alternative methods to produce high serotonin or dopamine.

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says. “There are so many ways we can use our natural environment to (alleviate) our worries and strife. I participated in a conference recently that included a nature retreat, ways to use plants more effectively at home and at work.”

Through Mindful Therapy, Sones Clapton also coordinates workplace crises workshops and workplace therapy sessions to improve business cultures and performance.

“People can be so stressed out at work; they need techniques to relax and focus,” she says. “I try to use the five-senses model, both personally and professionally: stopping to pay attention to all around me with those senses. It makes me grounded.”

Sones Clapton is a seventh-generation Mississippian. She grew up in Belhaven and attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal School before going to the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where she earned bachelor’s degrees in religion and art history in 2002.

She then got her master’s degree in clinical psychology at The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, in 2006. She returned to the Jackson metro area to attend Mississippi College in 2009 and received her doctorate in clinical counseling from MC in 2015.

Through conversations with friends and strangers, she says she found the traditional culture of the South and Mississippi to be closed and insular. She decided to open a clinic that fosters inclusiveness along with honesty and openness, and founded Mindful Therapy in August 2015.

“I see people who struggle with their identity, struggle with their place, so to speak, in this state and American culture more broadly,” Sones Clapton says. “Individual consultations are my primary focus, but I do the occasional group family session, as well.”

Sones Clapton says it is important for people to accept their true selves rather than what they portray for others. She also stresses the preventative aspect of mindfulness to counteract distractions, such as technology.

“We need to give our brains time to rest,” she says. “We must be a human being, rather than a human doing.”

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MELODIES // improv

Sing Your Diary // by Katie Gill

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“I’d love to be in a city full-time enough, meaning on weekends, where I could actually kind of dive into the scene and meet other musicians to play with,” she says.

Still, she likes Jackson and enjoys local performances.

“Jackson has a really cool music scene,” Rosenthal says. “The way I describe it to people who aren’t here is it’s kind of a ‘big fish, small pond’ kind of place. My hope is that people who want to get involved in the music scene here come to an open mic, start playing and meet the people. It’s really easy to kind of get into it and meet some awesome folks.”

Since coming to Jackson, Rosenthal has most often played for open-mic nights, Fondren After 5, and events at Lucky Town Brewing Company and Hops & Habanas in Fondren. She’s also a regular at Fenian’s Pub, playing gigs as well as open mics.

“When I play there, people know my songs,” she says.

“And to have people sing your diary back at you is insane.”

One of the events that Rosenthal says that she enjoyed playing at the most was the Mississippi Pride Festival in 2016.

“The vibe of the crowd was really cool,” she says of the festival. “It was the weekend after (the Pulse nightclub shooting), Singer-songwriter Becca Rose moved to Jackson in 2015 for a fellowship with the Insitute of Southern Jewish and so it was either going to be Life. She has since become a regular at venues such as Fenian’s Pub and Lucky Town Brewing Company. huge or tiny, and nobody really knew what the event was going to be. It was one of those really important moments where the show goes

“(Songwriting) was really cathartic, and I decided I’m going to on, the world goes on, as sad as it is.” keep doing this,” she says.

For Rosenthal, part of the joy of performing live is the live aspect

An Oakland, Calif., native, Rosenthal, who performs under the itself. In performances, she often incorporates improvisation and sponstage moniker Becca Rose, found herself in Mississippi through a taneity into her mix of original and cover material. She will ask the audifellowship with the Institute of Southern Jewish Life, which she acence for random words or suggestions for song titles then freestyle a song cepted in June 2015. She plans to move back to the West Coast when based on the suggestions, trying to incorporate as many as she can. her fellowship ends this summer.

“There’s this freedom of everyone is looking at you, which means

“I graduated from (Claremont McKenna) College with a degree in Middle East Studies, and I was burnt out on the Israeli-Palestinian that nobody is,” she says. “And if you mess up, literally your only option Conflict,” Rosenthal says. “I heard about (the fellowship), and I said, is to keep going. I just love that anything is possible in that moment live.

And it happens once. It’s right there for the people in the room, and ‘That sounds like a fun adventure.’” sorry, everybody else.”

Due to regular travel with her ISJL fellowship, Rosenthal says she

For more information, find Becca Rose on Facebook or visit does not get to play as much as she would like, as her shifting work musicbybeccarose.com. schedule and locations make it difficult to schedule shows. ecca Rosenthal’s music career started with a song titled “Shoot Me in the Face,” which she wrote as a junior in high school as a dare from a friend. While she has sung and played guitar almost her whole life, whether for her synagogue’s Rock and Roll Shabbat band or just for summer-camp acoustic sessions, “Shoot Me in the Face” was her first composition. As it turned out, she had a knack for it, and that dare led to a lifelong pursuit.

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The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Evening Without Bob Dylan June 1, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Artists including the Cynical Twins, Sika, Lee Barber, Josh Little, James Martin, Bronwynne Brent and more perform covers of Bob Dylan’s greatest hits. Proceeds benefit the children and families that Operation Shoestring serves. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601.353.6336; operationshoestring.org.

1-11 Million Dollar Quartet June 1-3, 7:30 p.m., June 4, 2 p.m., June 6-10, 7:30 p.m., June 11, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The production brings together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Studio in Memphis to record hits such as “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “That’s All Right,” and “Great Balls of Fire.” $35, $28 for seniors, students and military; call 601.948.3533; newstagetheatre.com.

Heatwave Classic Triathlon June 3, 7 a.m.-noon, at Reservoir Pointe (140 Madison Landing Circle, Ridgeland). The year’s race consists of a half-mile swim in the Ross Barnett Reservoir, a 24-mile bike ride along the historic Natchez Trace Parkway, and a 10K run along Ridgeland’s multi-use trail. $75; call 601.853.2011; visitridgeland.com.

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The Last Slave: Sylvester Magee in History and Memory June 6, noon-1 p.m., at The Oaks House Museum (823 N. Jefferson St.). Max Grivno discusses the history of the last enslaved people in Mississippi, their lives and what the public perception of their stories suggests about how white and black Mississippians deal with the legacy of slavery. Free; call 601.353.9339; email info@ theoakshousemuseum.org; theoakshousemuseum.org.

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Mississippi Craft Beer Festival June 9, 6 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Features over 100 beers for sampling from twenty-eight breweries. Special emphasis is placed on Mississippi breweries and breweries from neighboring states, with brewer representatives on hand to discuss their products and brewing methods. $35, $65 for VIP; call 877.987.6487; ardenland.net.

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Museum After Hours June 15, 5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Features one-night pop-up exhibitions, pop-up dining experiences and combinations of live music, outdoor movies, games and more. Each month has a different theme. Free admission; call 601.960.1515; msmuseumart.org.

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“Camino Island” June 21, 1 p.m., at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). John Grisham signs copies from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. A discussion follows at 5:30 p.m. $32, includes book; call 601.366.7619; lemuriabooks.com.

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Seventh Annual Independence Showdown June 24, 4:30-9 p.m., at Newell Field (1900 N. State St.). Bands from all over the country, including the Jackson State University Band and the Mississippi All-Star Band, perform. $5; call 601.879.4627; email msmusicinstitute@gmail.com; eventbrite.com.

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12 Stones June 17, 8 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.).

The Louisiana-native rock band performs. Candybone and Another Lost Year also perform. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

Sal & Mookie’s Crawfish Boil June 5, 5-9 p.m., at Sal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St.). Includes unlimited crawfish, live music from local bands, and more. $35 in advance, $40 at the door, $15 for ages 12 and under; call 601.368.1919; salandmookies.com.

20 Rodgers + Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” June 20, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The play tells the classic fairytale story of Cinderella, the wicked stepmother, Prince Charming and more. $35-$75; call 601.960.1537; jacksonbroadway.com.

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Mississippi Comic Con June 24, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., June 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The comic and pop-culture convention features arts and craft vendors, panels, cosplay contests, and special guests such as Jeremy Bulloch, Walter Jones, David Yost and Deep Roy. $20 per day, $30 two-day pass, $5 for ages 2-8, free under age 2; mississippicomiccon.com

Jackson area events updated daily at jfpevents.com.

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Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit July 19, 8 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The singer-songwriter’s latest album is titled “The Nashville Sound.”

Amanda Shires also performs. $30.50-$49.50; call 877.987.6487; ardenland.net.

7 Jubilee Picnic July 7, 11:30 a.m., at Margaret Walker Center (1400 John R. Lynch St.). Features live music from local performers and free food including birthday cake. Free; call 601.979.3935; jsums.edu.

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Music in the City July 11, 5:15 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.).

Irish artists Virginia Kerr, a soprano, and Colman Pearce, the conductor of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, perform.

Free; call 601.960.1515; msmuseumart.org.

Ice Cream Safari July 15, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Features local media celebrities showing off their personalities and scooping ice cream that participants vote on to award best flavor.

Admission TBA; call 601.352.2580; jacksonzoo.org.

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“Made in Mississippi” Comedy Showcase July 15, 7:30-10:30 p.m., at The Alamo Theatre (333 N. Farish St.). The stand-up comedy show features performers hailing from Mississippi, including JJ Williamson, Karlous Miller, Marvin Hunter, Kdubb, Rita B and Bo-P. $25; eventbrite.com.

Matthew Sweet July 25, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The rock singer-songwriter performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 877.987.6487; ardenland.net.

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2017 Animal Welfare Conference July 2829, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). The conference includes sessions on spay/neuter programs, nonprofit technology and animal advocacy. Lunch buffet included. RSVP. $25, free for United Spay Alliance Members; email elaine.adair@msspan.org; msspan.org.

B.o.B. July 20, 8 p.m.-midnight, at Lucky’s (209 Commerce St.). The chart-topping rapper performs.

SILAS also performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $15$40; find it on Facebook.

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“Fierce Kingdom” July 28, 5 p.m., at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Gin Phillips signs copies. $25 book; call 601.366.7619; lemuriabooks.com.

Jimmy Herring & the Invisible Whip July 20-21, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The guitarist is a founding member of Widespread Panic. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $35 in advance, $40 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 877.987.6487; ardenland.net.

12th Annual JFP Chick Ball July 22, 6 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The fundraising event features local food vendors, drinks, live music and a silent auction.

Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Contact to donate money or items for the silent auction, to join the committee or to volunteer. $5; call 601.362.6121; email i​nfo@jfpchick ball.com; jfpchickball.com.

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Question it? Discover it!—Brain Day July 29, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Participants explore interactive exhibits that represent different parts of the brain with specialists from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Free with admission; call 601-709-8964; mschildrensmuseum.org.

Jackson area events updated daily at jfpevents.com.

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Induction Weekend 2017 Aug. 4-5, at Mississippi Sports Hall-Fame (1152 Lakeland Drive). The weekend’s events include the drawdown of champions at the museum on Friday night, an opportunity to meet the inductees at the museum on Saturday morning, and the formal enshrinement and banquet on Saturday evening at the Jackson Convention Complex. $50; call 601.982.8264; msfame.com.

Kiss My Curves: Plus-Sized Pole Competition Aug. 12, 6-9 p.m., at Taboo Dance & Aerial Fitness (856 S. State St.).

The event is for amateur athletes and smaller polefitness studios.

Judges include Roz “The Diva” Mays, Crystal Belcher and Summer Vyne.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. $20 through July 31, $25 in advance, $30 day of the event; call 601.502.4000; mytaboofitness.com.

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Museum After Hours Aug. 17, 5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Features onenight pop-up exhibitions, pop-up dining experiences, live music, outdoor movies, games and more. Each month has a different theme. Free admission; call 601.960.1515; msmuseumart.org.

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Butterflies by Grace Defined by Faith Gala Awards Celebration Aug. 19, 6:30-10:30 p.m., at Hilton Garden Inn (235 W. Capitol St.).

The keynote speaker is Katina Rankin, a native of Magee, Miss., the evening anchor for WATN-TV in Memphis, Tenn. This year’s theme is “Your Past Doesn’t Defined Your Future.” $40; call 601.353.5464; bbgdf.org.

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Brown Bag Lunch Talk Aug. 24, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at U.S. Small Business Administration (210 E. Capitol St.). Participants discuss concepts regarding starting, financing and growing a small business.

Free; email rosetta.harris@sba.gov; sba.gov.

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Got Game 3-on-3 Tournament Aug. 5, 10 a.m.6 p.m., at Walter Payton Health & Recreation Center (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The winning team in the basketball tournament receives a $1,500 grand prize.

Includes food vendors and entertainment. For ages 18 and up. $180 team registration; eventbrite.com.

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Music in the City Aug. 15, 5:45 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Pianists Rae Shannon and John Paul perform Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, rearranged for one piano. Free, donations welcome; call 601.960.1515; msmuseumart.org.

Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza Aug. 4-6, at Mississippi Trade Mart (1207 Mississippi St.). The annual event includes more than 200 exhibitors from across North America, demonstrations, children’s activities and more. Admission TBA; call 601.605.1790; mswildlife.org.

Mississippi Book Festival Aug. 19, 9 a.m., at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). Features authors Richard Ford, Greg Iles, Linda W. Jackson, Ron Rash, Angie Thomas and more. Includes more than 30 panels, live interviews, book signings, a kids’ corner and more. Free entry, ticketed events prices vary; call 769.717.2648;

Jackson Rhythm & Blues Festival Aug. 18, 6 p.m., Aug. 19, 5 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Includes more than 30 performances on five stages. The line-up includes Ludacris, Jazmine Sullivan, Ro James and more. $55; call 601.960.1891; jacksonrhythmandbluesfestival.com.

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Mississippi Trail Ride Aug. 26, 10 a.m., at Grants Down Racetrack (2900 Forest Ave. Ext.). The horseback-riding event also features live music from LJ Echols, Big Yayo, T Baby and DJ Short Chains.

ATVs and campers welcome. $15 admission; call 601.259.7658; find it on Facebook.

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Bright Lights Belhaven Nights Aug. 12, 2-7 p.m., at Belhaven Park (1000 Poplar Blvd.). The annual street festival features local food and drink vendors, live music, games and more.

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f you drive down Interstate 55 South three hours, you’ll find yourself in the jazz capital of the world, New Orleans. But if you drive on that interstate north for three hours, you’ll emerge into Mississippi’s kindred blues spirit, Memphis. The city has so many sights that it’s really tough to see them in one day (trust me on this one), but here are a few good ones.

sculptures. A Holocaust memorial gallery is in a room off to the side of the Judaic art.

Inside a MATA trolley in Memphis Memphis Area Transit Authority (matatransit.com)

This isn’t necessarily an attraction, but it could be a vital part to any trip to Memphis. The city is big, so there’s a lot of ground to cover.

While MATA may not be able to get you to every nook and cranny in the city, it can get you to most places, whether you’re taking a trolley around downtown or looking to get to areas such as midtown or Germantown. The transit system has three centers where visitors can buy MATA passes, and adult fare is $1.75 per ride. It can be daunting to get the hang of the system, but once you do, it makes travelling around Memphis so much easier. Just make sure you plan ahead.

The Peabody Memphis (149 Union Ave., 901.529.4000, peabodymemphis.com)

Besides the city’s storied blues history and sites such as the Lorraine Motel, the Peabody Hotel is probably one of the most wellknown attractions in Memphis, especially for its ducks (yes, they’re real). The original Peabody opened on the corner of Main Street and Monroe Avenue in 1869. Belz Peabody Hotel fountain Enterprises built a grander version of the hotel at its current location in 1925, and in 1933, the hotel put the ducks in the fountain, and each day, you can watch the March of the Peabody Ducks. The hotel has shops and restaurants, and even a couple of museums.

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Center for Southern Folklore Center for Southern Folklore (119 S. Main St., 901.525.3655, southernfolklore.com)

A block west from the Peabody is the Center for Southern Folklore in the Pembroke Square Building. The center is a nonprofit that dedicates itself to documenting and celebrating the people, music and traditions of the South.

It has a store called The Folklore Store, where people can find gifts and works of art, and it also has a café. Walk through the media galleries, and you can see photos and art that tell the story of the South and the blues. The gallery even has a stage in the back where bands can play.

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Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art (119 S. Main St., 901.523.2787, belzmuseum.org)

The Belz Museum is downstairs from the Center for Southern Folklore. The museum is composed of pieces of art that Jack and Marilyn Belz, who own Belz Enterprises, have collected over the years. It started out as just three rooms, but over the years, it has expanded even more.

The museum tells the story of Asian art such as the meaning of dragons in Chinese culture and the importance of stones such as jade. The museum also has a large exhibition room full of Judaic art, including paintings, menorah and

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Hostel Memphis (1000 S. Cooper St., Memphis, 901.273.8341)

Memphis isn’t short in things to do, so you may have to consider lodging for at least one night.

While the city has a lot of hotels, Hostel Memphis, is located at First Congregational Church of Memphis, is one of the cheapest places you can say.

Mural at First The word “hostel” Congregational is probably off-putChurch of Memphis ting to some, but don’t worry. It’s not scary. You can stay in co-ed or male or female dorms, or if you’re going with three people, you can also get a private room.

The hostel has showers for guests, a full kitchen and more.

National Civil Rights Museum

National Civil Rights Museum (450 Mulberry St., 901.521.9699, civilrightsmuseum.org)

One of the most monumental and tragic moments of the Civil Rights Movement happened at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis: the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The museum that tells the story of the Civil Rights Movement, from the beginning of slavery in the U.S. to the movement’s legacy in the present day. The last exhibit in the main museum is the room King was staying in on the night he died. boomjackson.com

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4. The Palette Cafe (Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S. Lamar St, 601.960.1515) Nick Wallace’s monthly ’sipp Sourced pop-up menu is just as creative as the artwork hanging on the walls.

2. Library Lounge (734 Fairview St., 601.948.3429) When I want to give visitors a taste of the Mississippi mystique, we go drink a Willie Morris or Margaret Walker cocktail under the magnolia canopy at The Library.

5. Aladdin Mediterranean Grill (730 Lakeland Drive, 601.366.6033) You can find some of the best sweet tea in Mississippi here.

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3. The Cypress Swamp Loop Trail (Natchez Trace, milepost 122) You only have to take a few steps off the Trace to experience the beauty of our natural landscape.

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7. Crawdad Hole (1150 Lakeland Drive, 601.982.9299) On the first sunny, warm Saturday in the spring, I can’t imagine being anywhere else than the Crawdad Hole.

8. Greenwood Cemetery (701 N. West St.) The cemetery’s most prominent resident, Eudora Welty, lies at the farthest end from the gate, which means most visitors will pass the headstones of Mississippi’s earliest leaders—those who are now remembered as namesakes of counties, cities and streets.

9. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Reading Room (William F. Winter Archives and History Building, 200 North St., 601.576.6850, mdah.ms.gov) A free entry card will get you access to MDAH’s public reading room and a treasure trove of archival materials.

You’ll also have the city’s best view of the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum going up next door.

10. Millsaps College beer garden On nice fall Saturday afternoons , you can find me drinking Lucky Town in the north-end zone beer garden. boomjackson.com

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