V13n13 Ferguson: An American Moment

2

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

TRIP BURNS

JACKSONIAN COREY ELLISON

C

orey Ellison doesn’t have a background in cooking, and she never thought it would be something she would do as a career.

Yet, what started as an entry-level job waiting tables has become something Ellison takes great pride in.

Ellison was born and lived in Jackson until her family moved to Madison in 1999. She attended Madison Central High School and later enrolled at the University of Mississippi, which prompted her to move to Oxford, where she lived for six years. She got her bachelor’s degree in journalism with an emphasis in public relations at Ole Miss in 2009.

Ellison returned to Jackson after graduation and began looking for work. Because she was a bartender during college and found it to be an enjoyable way to make money, Ellison looked for restaurant-related work in Jackson.

She took a server position at Underground 119 (119 S. President St., 601-352-2322), but quickly grew tired of waiting tables. The turning point in her career came when her boss took notice and offered to help out.

“I had also done some server work during college, and at that point I was really hating it,” Ellison says.

“My boss at Underground 119 was Tom Ramsey (now owner of La Finestra), and he saw how bored and burned out I was and started inviting me into the kitchen once a week to teach me some basic cooking skills. I really took to it, and I later moved into the kitchen full

CONTENTS

time and became the kitchen manager.”

Ellison ran the kitchen at Underground 119 for about two years before she started looking for something to fully invest herself in.

Then, Peter Sharp, owner of Fairview Inn, and Gary Hawkins, executive chef at 1908 Provisions (734 Fairview St., 601-948-3429), approached her about coming to 1908.

Ellison started out as a waitress for brunch and banquets before she moved into the kitchen as a pantry chef when the position opened about a month after she started in June 2013.

As a pantry chef, she primarily prepared salads, appetizers, desserts and other light items.

In July this year, she was promoted to sauté chef and is now in charge of restaurant’s “hot line”—the station that prepares dishes requiring the use of a stovetop or sauté pans.

After a year and a half of working at 1908, Ellison, 27, has come to love the variety her position affords her.

Ellison, whose nickname at the restaurant is Baby Hands, says the best thing about 1908 is cooking for banquets, receptions and other events. “There’s always something different going on; it’s not the same items over and over,” Ellison says. “A banquet for a hundred people is different from a regular dinner service. It keeps you on your toes and is a good way to learn to evolve in a chaotic situation.

I’ve learned a lot from Gary and am glad he trusted me enough to let me keep learning and growing at this job.”

—Dustin Cardon

Cover photo of a Ferguson Protester

by AP Photos/ Chris Riedel

6 The Fast & The Furious

A campaign is now under way to pay fast-food workers in Jackson $15 per hour. Heated controversy has followed the effort in other cities. Will Jackson be next?

24 French I Dos

Writer R.H. Coupe had quite an experience when he attended the French wedding of Ludovic Paul and Cécile Klein.

38 Omingnome Psychedelic Soul “We have these good intentions we put into the music. We want it to heal, we want it to help people, and we want it to be a little —Tyler Cuttita, “The Year of Omingnome” political .... ”

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

4 ............................. EDITOR’S NOTE 6 ............................................ TALKS 9 .......... BEST OF JACKSON BALLOT 14 ................................ EDITORIAL 15 .................................... OPINION 17 ............................ COVER STORY 24 .................................... HITCHED 25 ............................... GIFT GUIDE 26 ......................................... FOOD 29 .............................. DIVERSIONS 30 ...................................... EVENTS 31 ....................................... 8 DAYS 32 ....................... MUSIC LISTINGS 33 ..................................... SPORTS 35 .................................... PUZZLES 37 ....................................... ASTRO 38 ............................................ DIY

CORUTESY OMINGNOME; ANNE COUPE; TRIP BURNS

DECEMBER 3 - 9, 2014 | VOL. 13 NO. 13

3

EDITOR’S note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Why Don’t We Value Black Lives?

I

t happened under an oak tree deep in the woods of Franklin County in 2005.

Two weeks after a jury had finally decided to convict somebody for planning the murders of three civil rights workers in my county in 1964, I was listening to the brother of Charles Moore, killed by Klansmen weeks before the Neshoba murders, talk about unspeakable times for his family.

We were standing over Charles’ grave.

I was already in on the idea that justice needed to be served for old Klan murders; I was there because I wanted, in part, to show that Mississippians could give a damn about the naked brutality that still defines our state for so many. Ever since I’d started peering behind the curtain as a teenager at the veryrecent past that adults wanted to hide from us kids, I had seen how unresolved community hate could stunt a town’s—and a state’s—growth. I was with Thomas Moore in southwest Mississippi, once the heart of “Klan nation,” to pick at that scab.

On this road, I’ve discovered that we don’t always “know” what we think we know. The facts aren’t enough, and neither is a general sense of how wrong murder is.

As we stood there on a sweaty July day, Thomas let it all out. And suddenly I felt in my gut how it must feel for self-righteous men to pluck your brother off the face of the planet, and no one cares. At least no one white. No one who would tell you they were sorry, or try to do anything real to help bring justice for your loss.

I was eye-to-eye with this decorated military veteran as he described the raw pain of two self-ordained protectors of the peace beating and drowning his brother, kind of like losing one of his arms. All I had to do was take a step forward and stand in his shoes to feel his anguish. While he described a world where no official came and even talked to his mother, Mazie, and one in which she demanded silence about her son’s murder

even in the house so as not to endanger the life of her other son, I suddenly got it.

As much as anything, this was about the living. It was about black mothers who saw the mangled body of Emmett Till in 1955 in an open casket in Jet magazine and feared, rightfully, that their boys might never come home, executed because society did not value them. And once their boys were dead, these mamas knew that their state and country would somehow justify it. It’s all they knew.

Are we so different from our parents and grandparents?

Then and now, young, black men are often killed because white people fear them, and they kill each other because society tells them their lives are worthless. But the most terrifying part is that white people still defend others killing black folks because we have been socialized for generations to accept it. In the 1960s, police and Klansmen (often the same people) could kill young men of color for sport and get away with it. Today, police and everyday citizens regularly kill black people for minor crimes—if not just the fear that they might commit one—and are then applauded for it because we’re still stunted by what we were taught to believe.

Growing up in America, white people have always been told either directly or indirectly to fear black people. If we’re lucky enough not to have parents who hawk straight-up racism—that black people are

lazy or more violent—we have to maneuver a culture built on the idea that we whites just do things better. These days, whites are more likely to point to “black-on-black” crime or the terrible families who allow such violence to happen, or who don’t provide role models who “work for a living.” We’re still told that black people do these things to themselves.

Seriously, how many times have you seen those memes on Facebook just in the days since the Ferguson grand jury decision?

Many otherwise-educated whites march them out so quickly it makes your head hurt, while few bother to ask their own black friends how they feel about the situation.

Each time, I wonder if they know they are using the same three excuses that sent Charles Moore, and so many others, to their graves? Back all the way to justifying slavery, whites have been taught (a) that black people are dangerous and (b) they are lazy if left to their own devices and (c) just want the government (meaning us) to take care of them.

Nowadays, it’s morphed into “many” black people are those things, especially if the ones who have managed to overcome those so-called natural tendencies don’t force the others to pull up their pants and get right.

On that same trip with Chief Master Sgt. Moore, I visited a former Klansman, Kenneth Greer, who had been friends with James Ford Seale and Charles Edwards, the men who kidnapped Moore and his friend Dee and doomed them to their death.

Greer, who could still drop the n-word here and there, was remarkably honest on my visits with him about why he had joined the Klan back then (and later helped the FBI). It was simple: His family had taught him that black men were violent, and whites believed they especially had to protect their daughters from them by any means necessary. And, they were lazy: They didn’t want to work and care for their families, and the rest of us had to pay for that. Ironically, Greer

and his friends were also worried about black people taking their decent-paying jobs at International Paper and Armstrong Tire Co. By that twisted logic, it was understandable to those men to harass, murder and work to keep “them” away from the ballot box. Today, it is somehow justifiable for a cop to fire 12 rounds at an unarmed Michael Brown, because he stole cigarillos and scuffled with him, rather than the officer to get out of the way if he was scared. And it makes total sense for a neighborhood “protector” to stalk and kill Trayvon Martin because of what many white folks believe he “must” have been up to—just look at him—but not for him to have tried to fight back against a possible raging racist trying to harm him.

Because, we’re told repeatedly, just look at black-on-black crime.

Yes, look at it. And ask why. Ask why the hunted could become the hunters. Ask why many black families struggle with the hand our society has dealt them and tried to lock them into. Ask why our majority culture justifies using deadly force for shoplifting or on a 12-year-old with a BB gun, if the “perp” happens to be a black person in the wrong place. Ask why we still believe fear of black skin justifies just about any response.

Then, ask why we talk so little about white-on-white crime and what we should do, being that folks overwhelmingly kill people of their own race. Are we so different from our parents and grandparents? Will future generations try to hide their parents’ thirst for brutality in a painful lockbox as so many of us have tried to do about the past?

For now, black parents are left fearing the same thing they always did: that like Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Till and Trayvon and Michael’s mamas, their kids will leave the house one day and never come home. Then they will listen to white America tell them they deserved it and to shut up about it.

Let’s step into their shoes for a while.

December 3- 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

CONTRIBUTORS

4

R.L. Nave

Anna Wolfe

R.H. Coupe

Amber Helsel

Julie Skipper

Micah Smith

Zilpha Young

Kimberly Griffin

Everything News Editor R.L. Nave needed to know about Ferguson he learned from his Grandma GG. He’s proud that people around the world, including in Jackson, are still talking about Mike Brown. He wrote the cover story.

Investigative Reporter Anna Wolfe, a Tacoma, Wash., native, studied at Mississippi State. In her spare time, she complains about not having enough spare time. Email her at anna@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote a news story.

R.H. Coupe, avid fan of the beautiful game, is a husband, brother, father of four and still wondering what he wants to be when he grows up. He wrote a Hitched story.

Assistant Editor Amber Helsel graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She likes to imagine that she’s an elf, though she knows she’s more like a hobbit. She coordinated the gift guide.

Freelance writer and attorney Julie Skipper works and plays downtown. Ask her about it if you want an earful. She hopes to learn to cook one day, but mostly thinks of the kitchen as additional closet space. She wrote a food story.

Music Editor Micah Smith is a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks, where he majored in street smarts and minored in massage therapy. He also plays in the band Empty Atlas.

He wrote a music story.

Ad Designer Zilpha Young has dabbled in every medium she could get her hands on, from blacksmithing to crocheting. To see some of her extracurricular work (and lots of cephalopods) check out zilphatastic.tumblr. com. She designed many ads.

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

ART SALE MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM of ART SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 3 – 7 PM SALE & SILENT AUCTION 5 PM COCKTAILS Trustees, staff, artists, and friends of the Museum are donating prized possessions and rare original work from their personal collections to be sold for the benefit of the Museum. Just in time for the holidays!

Sale is free and open to the public.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.MSMUSEUMART.ORG

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

380 SOUTH LAMAR STREET JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI 601.960.1515 @ MSMUSEUMART

5

´7KLV FRXQWU\ LV EXLOW RQ GHPRFUDWLF YDOXHV DQG , WKLQN WKRVH YDOXHV FDQ EH EHVW WDXJKW DQG EHVW OHDUQHG ZKHQ HYHU\ERG\ JRHV WR VFKRRO WRJHWKHU ¾ ² )RUPHU 0LVVLVVLSSL 'HPRFUDWLF *RY :LOOLDP :LQWHU RQ WKH LPSRUWDQFH RI SXEOLF HGXFDWLRQ

Wednesday, November 26 Police arrest key student leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests as they clear the most volatile of the area’s three protest camps. ‌ Police disperse protesters from the streets of Ferguson after a second night of demonstrations following a grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Friday, November 28 French President François Hollande becomes the first Western leader to travel to one of the 3 countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak when he flies to Guinea to visit an Ebola treatment center run by Doctors Without Borders. ‌ A report by the U.N. Committee Against Torture finds that the United States is not in full compliance with an international anti-torture treaty, citing problems with police brutality, military interrogations and maximum-security prisons.

Saturday, November 29 No. 18 University of Mississippi defeats No. 4 Mississippi State University 31-17 in the Egg Bowl.

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Sunday, November 30 Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, resigns, effective immediately, prompting intensified protests in the St. Louis suburb. ‌ At least 5,000 Russians march through Moscow to protest plans to lay off up to 10,000 doctors and close 28 hospitals in the capital.

6

Monday, December 1 Pro-democracy protesters push past police lines and clash with officers in an attempt to surround and block Hong Kong government headquarters.

Tuesday, December 2 House Speaker John Boehner says that the Republican-led House will vote this week to undo President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

Waging Battle Against the Minimum Wage

by R.L. Nave

W

hen Byron Johnson applied for his job at a McDonald’s in Jackson five months ago, it wasn’t because he was so lacking in work experience that fast-food employment was the best he could hope for. Johnson, 22, brought a range of skills he picked up working in construction and landscaping and at the Jackson Country Club, where his grandmother was a housekeeping supervisor. And in the course of one shift, Johnson, who grew up in Jackson and Carthage, may do maintenance, operate the front cash register or work the grill.

Despite his experience and generally pleasant, positive demeanor, Johnson’s starting hourly salary was—and remains—$7.25 per hour. “I can’t complain about me (not) having a job, but the way I go in and present myself for my work, I feel like I deserve more than that,� Johnson said recently.

Some days, Johnson said the conditions he works under makes him feel defeated. In addition to the quick pace that fast-food restaurants promise their customers, he says certain managers seem to enjoy humiliating workers when customers are present.

One day, Joshua Dedmond, a union organizer, observed this treatment and told Johnson that he didn’t have to put up with it.

Eventually, Dedmond recruited Johnson to be one of the first workers in Jackson to join a national campaign for a $15-per-hour fast-

food wage. It began with hundreds of striking fast-food workers in New York shortly after Thanksgiving in November 2012. Today,

a paper published this summer, called raising the minimum wage “a particularly blunt instrument to use to deal with the very real TRIP BURNS

Thursday, November 27 Members of Israel’s Shin Bet security service say they have uncovered a vast Hamas network in the West Bank that was planning large-scale attacks against Israelis in Jerusalem. ‌ Crude oil prices fall to their lowest in over four years in the wake of an OPEC decision to maintain production levels despite a recent sharp fall in prices.

$IWHU D KXJH IHGHUDO FRXUW ZLQ D -DFNVRQ FRXSOH LV RQ WKH YHUJH PDNLQJ KLVWRU\ SS

Byron Johnson, 22, works at a McDonald’s in Jackson and says earning minimum wage allows him to barely scrape by. He recently joined a national campaign to pay fast-food workers $15 per hour and plans to participate in a Dec. 4 strike.

the campaign for $15 has spread to 150 cities and 33 countries. City councils in Seattle and San Francisco have raised the minimum wage to $15 in those cities.

The minimum wage has been a flashpoint for politicians in recent years. In response to President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the federal minimum to $10.10 per hour, the libertarian Cato Institute, in

problem of stagnating incomes among the working class.�

Furthermore, report authors Logan Albright and Ike Brannon conclude that raising the minimum wage would hurt people who typically gravitate toward low-wage work. “By reducing employment for stuPRUH :$*(6 VHH SDJH

They Said That: Southerners on Ferguson ³:KDWœV ZURQJ ZLWK PDUFKLQJ DQG ZDONLQJ ZLWKRXW EHLQJ GHVWUXFWLYH"´³*ODG\V 6PLWK 3LQH %OXII QDWLYH DQG 5 / 1DYH¡V JUDQGPRWKHU

RWKHU DQLPDO ,Q -DFNVRQ WKH SROLFH IRUFH PDWFKHV WKH SRSXODWLRQ ´ ³7\VRQ -DFNVRQ -DFNVRQ UHVLGHQW DQG IRUPHU 6W /RXLV UHVLGHQW

³:KR FRXOG UHDOO\ VD\ KRZ WKHVH WKLQJV DUH VXSSRVHG WR EH RUJDQL]HG" 7KLV LV D YHU\ FKDRWLF VLWXDWLRQ ,W VHHPV OLNH SHRSOH DUH GRLQJ WKH EHVW WKH\ FDQ RQ WKH À\ ´ ³$GRIR 0LQND -DFNVRQ UHVLGHQW

Âł7KH VDG FRPPHQWDU\ LV QRW WKDW WKH JUDQG MXU\ GLG QRW FRPH EDFN ZLWK DQ LQGLFWPHQW 7KH VDG FRPPHQWDU\ LV PDQ\ $IULFDQ $PHULFDQV KDG QR H[SHFWDWLRQ IRU WKHUH WR EH DQ LQGLFWPHQW 7KHUH PXVW EH D UXVK WR UHVWRUH WUXVW LQ RXU MXVWLFH V\VWHP IRU DOO

Âł, WKLQN -DFNVRQ LV D ZKROH

$PHULFDQV 7KLV EHJLQV ZLWK DQ KRQHVW GHEDWH DERXW SHUYDVLYH V\VWHPLF Ă&#x20AC;DZV LQ WKH MXVWLFH V\VWHP DOO RYHU WKH FRXQWU\ :H ZLOO EH YLJLODQW LQ -DFNVRQ 0LVV WR HQVXUH WKDW WKH ULJKWV RI DOO FLWL]HQV DUH XSKHOG ´ Âł-DFNVRQ 0D\RU 7RQ\ <DUEHU Âł7KH PLGGOH FODVV KDV WR MRLQ IRUFHV ZLWK SRRU SHRSOH ´ Âł%ULWWDQ\ *UD\ *UHHQZRRG QDWLYH DQG -DFNVRQ DUHD UHVLGHQW

³7KH WKLQJ WKDWœV KDSSHQLQJ LQ )HUJXVRQ 0R LV WKH PRVW LPSRUWDQW WKLQJ WKDWœV KDSSHQHG IRU WKH EODFN UDFH SDUWLFXODUO\ \RXQJ EODFN PDOHV VLQFH WKH V LQ 6FRWWVERUR $OD ´ ³-DPHV 0HUHGLWK -DFNVRQ UHVLGHQW

Old Jackson Christmas

by Candlelight Tour BUSES RUN BETWEEN

Antique toys and decorated trees Model trains of Possum Ridge Live holiday music

Friday, Dec. 5 • 4:30­8:30PM FREE • 601­576­6800 MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Governor’s Mansion • Manship House Old Capitol Museum • State Archives Eudora Welty House

7

TALK | economy :$*(6 IURP SDJH

dents—many of whom are presumably in their first job—it runs the risk of exacerbating labor-market problems a few years down the road by making it harder for many wouldbe entry-level workers to learn the dos and don’ts of the workaday world.

It also prevents them from building a résumé and skill set that will appeal to future employers after they leave school and are more likely to be supporting a family,” the authors wrote.

The Obama administration has gone on the offensive, putting out information through the U.S. Department of Labor extolling the benefits of raising the minimum wage. Labor department research reviewed more than 60 studies on minimum-wage increases, finding “no discernible effect on employment.”

“Minimum-wage increases have little to

no negative effect on employment as shown in independent studies from economists across the country. Academic research also has shown that higher wages sharply reduce employee turnover which can reduce employment and training costs,” DOL information shows.

The Mississippi Economic Policy Center also determined in 2012 that the state’s $7.25 minimum wage is “substantially below the $12.63 per hour that one Mississippi worker needs to cover their basics and have modest savings.”

“Mississippi’s workers earning minimum wage have to work more hours to cover important expenses like child care and university tuition than they did two decades ago,” MEPC analyst Sarah Welker wrote in June 2012.

She continued: “Covering all these costs is increasingly out of reach for those earning amounts near the minimum wage and beyond. These findings underscore both the importance of public supports and programs

that reduce these expenses for families and initiatives that move more working adults to quality-wage employment.”

Although Johnson went to work for McDonald’s thinking he would work a fulltime, 40-hour week, he said he is usually scheduled for half that amount.

He would like to take his girlfriend, Shateque, to the movies, but his $260 biweekly paycheck is only enough to help his grandmother with utilities and groceries for the household.

That sum could be reduced even further should Johnson’s cash register ever come up short; he said employees whose cash registers are short must replace missing money or be terminated.

But Johnson doesn’t want to earn a higher wage to lavish gifts on his significant other or even to purchase a car for himself; he catches rides to work either from Dedmond, the labor organizer, or his aunt.

He’s more concerned with helping his grandmother replace furniture they had to

discard after finding bedbugs.

“My grandma needs a lot of help. By me going to work every day, even making this minimum wage, if that’s to help her, I’m down with that. But I could do a lot more if minimum wage did go up,” said Johnson, who teaches Sunday School and plans to attend Tougaloo College next year.

The Jackson area’s first strike in the push for a $15 minimum wage is planned for Thursday, Dec. 4, at the McDonald’s at Hanging Moss Road and Northside Drive. It will likely be a small gathering, but Johnson is excited about helping to grow and help lead the effort in Mississippi.

Johnson said obtaining $15 per hour is just the first step.

“I feel like I’m worth more than $15; I’d say (I’m worth) about $25 an hour,” he laughs.

“But $15, that’s still reasonable. I could have a better chance at living.”

Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

Making Mississippi 420 Friendly

by R.L. Nave

8

marijuana plants for their personal use. The state would classify anyone with more than nine plants as a cannabis farmer, required to pay an annual $25 fee to the local municipal or county. Prospective dispensers would have to pay $1,000 for a special license. Ad-

with it because it’s none of their business,” she said. “If you’re going to have a wine cellar, nobody’s going to ask you how much you’re going to put in there.”

Twenty-three states plus Washington, D.C., have either legalized recreational use FLICKR/TONY WEBSTER

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

S

hannon Smothers-Wansley joined Mississippi’s latest marijuana legalization push for her grandmother, who passed away in September 2011 after battling dementia, which took away her appetite.

“If she had access to something with cannabis in it, she would not have died of starvation,” Smothers-Wansley told the Jackson Free Press.

The potential of cannabis as an appetite stimulant is among the key arguments from proponents of rolling back legal restrictions for marijuana for its medicinal purposes.

However, opponents of legalizing, or decriminalizing, weed point to the fact that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not recognize cannabis or its extracts as a medicine. And despite the growing number of states and cities that have decided to start looking the other way when it comes to small amounts of recreational marijuana, the federal government continues to define marijuana as a Schedule I drug on the same level as heroin and cocaine.

But advocates in the Magnolia State hope that the momentum toward legalization, which is bolstered by the presence of the nation’s medical marijuana farm at Ole Miss, has made Mississippi more 420 friendly.

Last week, organizers of a statewide ballot initiative to legal and decriminalize, submitted language for the measure with the Mississippi secretary of state.

The proposal would end the prohibition on cannabis and fully legalize the use and taxation of marijuana for adults over age 21.

Recreational users could have nine or fewer

Some Mississippians wants to follow the lead of Washington state and Colorado and legalize marijuana for medical and recreational purposes and to pardon individuals convicted of nonviolent marijuana-related offenses.

ditionally, a state sales tax of 7 percent would be charged on all sales with the exception of medical marijuana and industrial hemp.

Kelly Jacobs, a Hernando resident and one of the organizers of the ballot initiative, wants state law to treat marijuana the same way it does alcohol.

“With alcohol, nobody’s going to ask you when you go to the store how much beer you’re buying and what you’re going to do

of marijuana or removed penalties for using cannabis for medical or small amounts of recreational uses. In Washington state and Colorado, the first two states to legalize marijuana, the industry is booming and resulting in millions of dollars in tax revenue to those states.

Jacobs sees the same potential for Mississippi, the nation’s poorest state and the state with the second highest incarceration rate.

She estimates that legalizing marijuana

would add $17 million to the state’s coffers in tax revenue and the savings from not incarcerating people for nonviolent marijuanarelated crimes. The second part of the ballot initiative would grant pardons to everyone in the state formerly or currently convicted of marijuana possession or distribution.

Supporters understand that conservative Mississippi might be frosty to full legalization or pardoning marijuana crimes.

Gov. Phil Bryant has vowed not to grant any pardons in the wake of the 2012 controversy over hundreds of pardons fellow Republican Gov. Haley Barbour issued before he left office. During the last legislative session, Bryant signed legislation allowing the sale of cannabidiol, a marijuana extract that does not contain THC, only after receiving assurances that the substance is not addictive.

Jacobs argues that marijuana is no more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol, both of which are legal. “Why aren’t you limiting tobacco which is the real gateway to cancer?

Or alcohol, the gateway to drunk driving?” she asked.

To put the initiative before voters in 2016, organizers must collect 107,000 signatures from across the state by October 2015.

David Lions, founder for Mississippi for Medical Marijuana, acknowledges that the 2016 ballot measure goes a step farther than he was calling for. But looking at actions in other states, Lions believes most states might be headed toward full legalization anyway.

“It goes a step beyond where I wanted to go—but, hey, ride the wave,” Lions said.

Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

B

nn

est of Jackson 2015 nominations are overâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;welcome to the finalist ballot! Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tallied the write-in nominations from our first round of balloting and present you with the finalists from those nominations.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to pick the winner in each category.

We must receive your paper finalist ballot by Dec. 19, 2014, or you can submit online by midnight on Dec. 21, 2014. If you opt for the paper ballot, it must be torn from your JFP (no photocopies allowed) and mailed in or dropped at our office during business hours. We will announce the winners in the Best of Jackson 2015 issue, which publishes Jan. 21, 2015.

ua

l

RULES

Fi t na lists Ballo

2%!$ &)234

3OHDVH UHDG EHIRUH FRPSOHW LQJ \RXU EDOORW DV YLRODWLRQV ZLOO GLVTXDOLI\ \RXU HQWLUH EDOORW DQG SRVVLEO\ \RXU RU \RXU IDYRULWH FKRLFH·V

FKDQFH WR ZLQ <RX PXVW YRWH LQ AT LEAST CATEGORIES IRU \RXU EDOORW WR FRXQW .O PHOTOCOPIED BALLOTS WILL BE ACCEPTED <RXU EDOORW PXVW EH WKLV QHZVSULQW YHUVLRQ RU FDVW RQOLQH DW EHVWRIMDFNVRQ FRP

People

PXVW QRW RIIHU Ã&#x20AC;QDQFLDO LQFHQWLYHV RU GLVFRXQWV VHW XS FRPSXWHUV RU VFULSWV ZLWK DQ\ YRWHV SUH FKRVHQ RU DVN WR VHH VRPHRQH·V EDOORW 2Q WKH SULQW EDOORW LV LV LPSRUWDQW WR CIRCLE NAMES CLEARLY IRU YRWHV WR FRXQW SOHDVH ZULWH QHDWO\ RU XVH WKH RQOLQH EDOORW )UDXGXOHQW EDOORWV XVLQJ RWKHU SHRSOH·V QDPHV DQG FRQWDFW LQIRUPDWLRQ ZLOO EH GLVFDUGHG $O NOT ½LL OUT A BALLOT FOR ANYONE ELSE OR SUGGEST A SLATE OF VOTES

Community & Culture

7RQ\ 3HDFRFN

&DLWOLQ &R[

&RG\ &R[

$PDQGD ,YHUV

"ARTENDER %UDG 5HJDQ -LPP\ 4XLQQ

$VKOH\ /HZLV -DPLH 0RVV

5REHUW $UHQGHU

"EST $RESSED 0LFKHOH 0F*HH 0LFKDHO $UPVWURQJ

-LPP\ :LOVRQ 1LNNL +HQU\

$PDQGD 3RZHOO

#HEF $OH[ (DWRQ 7RP 5DPVH\

-HVVH +RXVWRQ 1LFN :DOODFH

'HUHN (PHUVRQ

#RAIG .OONE ±2OCK )T /UT² .EW #HEF $OH[ (DWRQ 7KH 0DQVKLS $OH[ +DPPDFN %URDG 6WUHHW %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\ -HVVLFD )XUFKHVV ,VODQGHU 2\VWHU +RXVH /RXLV /D5RVH /RX·V )XOO 6HUY *UDQW +XWFKLVRQ 3LJ DQG 3LQW

!RTS /RGANIZATION 1HZ 6WDJH 7KHDWUH $UGHQODQG 0LVVLVVLSSL $UWV &RPPLVVLRQ

0LVVLVVLSSL 0XVHXP RI $UW %DOOHW 0LVVLVVLSSL

#OMMUNITY 'ARDEN .ATURE !TTRACTION $UW *DUGHQ DW WKH 0LVVLVVLSSL 0XVHXP RI $UW 0\QHOOH *DUGHQV -DFNVRQ =RR 06 0XVHXP RI 1DWXUDO 6FLHQFH &OLQWRQ 1DWXUH &HQWHU ,OCAL ,IVE 4HEATER 4HEATRICAL 'ROUP 1HZ 6WDJH 7KHDWUH 0HQWHH 0RYLH &DVW &UHZ $FWRUV 3OD\KRXVH )RQGUHQ 7KHDWUH :RUNVKRS %ODFN 5RVH 7KHDWHU .ON 0RO½T /RGANIZATION &RPPXQLW\ $QLPDO 5HVFXH $GRSWLRQ &$5$

6WHZSRW &RPPXQLW\ 6HUYLFH &KHVKLUH $EEH\

)URQW 3RUFK 'DQFH *RRG 6DPDULWDQ 1876

2ADIO 0ERSONALITY OR 4EAM 1DWH DQG 0XUSK\ :<2<

5LFN $GDPV DQG .LP $OOHQ :06,

6FRWW 6WHHOH DQG 7UDFL /HH :06, '- -RQDVW\ :-0, .LP :DGH :<$%

*ACKSON 6ISUAL !RTIST -RVK +DLOH\ :\DWW :DWHUV 6FRWW $OOHQ $GULHQQH 'RPQLFN

7RQ\ 'DYHQSRUW

2ADIO 3TATION :<2< < :67= =

&ACIALIST %STHETICIAN :KLWQH\ 'DYLV 5DFKHO 0FGXIÃ&#x20AC;H 6DUDK -DFNVRQ 'HERUDK %DOORX

$QQ *HGGLH

3TAGE 0LAY ´$ &KULVWPDV &DUROµ 1HZ 6WDJH ´6KUHN WKH 0XVLFDOµ 1HZ 6WDJH

´+DLUVSUD\µ 1HZ 6WDJH

´$V <RX /LNH ,Wµ 0LOOVDSV

´0UV (YHUV %R\Vµ -68

&ITNESS 4RAINER 7HUU\ 6XOOLYDQ &XUW 0F$IHH

&DP :RRGDOO

(AIR 3TYLIST 7LIIDQ\ -DFREV 1LNNL +HQU\

%ULWWDQ\ +RUWRQ $QWKRQ\ 5HSSRQG 3DXO 3ULQH *ULII +RZDUG

,OCAL "USINESS /WNER &KULV 3DLJH 0DULR 7ROOLYHU 6WHSKDQLH %DUQHV 3KLOOLS 5ROOLQV -ASSAGE 4HERAPIST 0DUWKD +RZHOO -HUPDLQH 6LPV 0DWWKHZ +D\QHV &RXUWQH\ 0DQVHOO

2OLYLD +HUULQJ %DUUHWW

-HII *RRG

'OSPEL !RTIST /DXULH :DONHU 'DWKDQ 7KLJSHQ

$OLVD 3DWULFN 0F'RQDOG %HQMDPLQ &RQH ,,, &KDQGUD :LVH

.DUO %RPELFK

-USICIAN -D9RQWH <RXQJ &RG\ &R[

-DVRQ 7XUQHU +XQWHU *LEVRQ

3INGER .HUU\ 7KRPDV $NDPL *UDKDP

6KDXQ 3DWWHUVRQ &KDG :HVOH\

*HRUJH %H\ -HIIUH\ -DFNVRQ

1RHO 'LGOD

0UBLIC &IGURE -HII *RRG 0HOYLQ 3ULHVWHU -U

7RQ\ <DUEHU 3KLO %U\DQW

%DUELH %DVVHWW

2ISING %NTREPRENEUR 0DULR 7ROOLYHU 3KLOLS 5ROOLQV $QWKRQ\ 5HSSRQG 7\OHU 5DERUQ 6WHYHQ 2·1HLOO

46 0ERSONALITY 0DJJLH :DGH %HUW &DVH

:DOW *UD\VRQ 0HJDQ :HVW

5RBAN 7ARRIOR -HII *RRG %UDG )UDQNOLQ 6ISIONARY -HII *RRG 0HOYLQ 3ULHVWHU -U

5RQ &KDQH

5RQ &KDQH 7RQ\ <DUEHU

Nightlife & Music #LUB $* <RXQJ 9HQRP

0ROFESSOR *DUUDG /HH -DPHV %RZOH\

3ERVER 7AITPERSON /DXUD :HEE -DQLV %RHUVPD 0LFKDHO /DERUGH 5\QH 0RUURZ

:06, 0,66 :-0, -$0= :031 0LVVLVVLSSL 3XEOLF 5DGLR

&DWK\ $PEURVH

+RZDUG %DOORX

$UGHQ %DUQHWW

3DP *UHHU

$UGHQ %DUQHWW

6SUH

3KLQJDSULQW

7 /HZLV

(IP (OP !RTIST WK &KLOG '- <RXQJ 9HQRP

7ULFN\ /7 -DPHV &URZ

6NLSS &RRQ

*AZZ !RTIST 6RXWKHUQ .RPIRUW %UDVV %DQG 3DP &RQIHU $OYLQ )LHOGHU

9LEH 'RFWRUV %DUU\ /HDFK

*UKEBOX 6DP·V /RXQJH /DVW &DOO 2OH 7DYHUQ RQ *HRUJH 6WUHHW

-&·V 6\OYLD·V 2QH %ORFN (DVW

+ARAOKE $* '- 6WDFKH &DVH\ +DUGLJUHH

' 'D\ 0DWW &ROOHWWH $QJHOD 3LWWPDQ .UD]\ .DUDRNH

,'"4 (ANGOUT %RWWRPV 8S )HQLDQ·V 3XE -&·V 6RXO :LUHG ,IVE -USIC 6ENUE 8QGHUJURXQG 'XOLQJ +DOO .EW "AR 2QH %ORFN (DVW

0DUWLQ·V +DO 0DO·V

,URQ +RUVH *ULOO

&$(7 :LQH %DU

6DOWLQH

7KH +LGHDZD\

/PEN -IC .IGHT 0F %·V )HQLDQ·V 3XE

2OH 7DYHUQ RQ *HRUJH 6WUHHW 6\QHUJ\ 1LJKW # 0HGLWHUUDQHDQ *ULOO

/RIGINAL "AND <RXQJ 9DOOH\ 'UHDP &XOW

6RXWKHUQ .RPIRUW %UDVV %DQG $FRXVWLF &URVVURDGV )XUURZV

0LACE FOR #OCKTAILS /LEUDU\ /RXQJH &$(7

$SRWKHFDU\

-XOHS

%DEDOX

-DVRQ 7XUQHU

0LACE TO $RINK #HEAP 6DP·V /RXQJH 0DUWLQV &DSLWRO *ULOO )HQLDQ·V 3XE

6KXFNHUV 2QH %ORFN (DVW

&KDG 3HUU\

&RG\ &R[

)HQLDQ·V 3XE

$SRWKHFDU\

+DO 0DO·V

$UWKXU -RQHV

#OLLEGE 3TUDENT (ANGOUT &XSV )RQGUHQ )HQLDQ·V 3XE )RQGUHQ 3XEOLF 6QHDN\ %HDQV 2OH 7DYHUQ DW *HRUJH 6WUHHW #OUNTRY !RTIST "AND 7- %XUQKDP <RXQJ 9DOOH\

6RXWK RI

6KDXQ 3DWWHUVRQ

#OVER "AND 6RXWKHUQ .RPIRUW %UDVV %DQG $FRXVWLF &URVVURDGV

'LHVHO 6KDG] RI *UH\

-DVRQ 7XUQHU %DQG

&KHURNHH ,QQ )HQLDQ·V 3XE

%DEDOX 7DFRV 7DSDV

6KXFNHUV 'XOLQJ +DOO

=DFK /RYHWW

$IVE "AR 6DP·V /RXQJH 0DUWLQ·V

)HQLDQ·V 3XE 7LPH 2XW 6SRUWV %DU

6KDXQ 3DWWHUVRQ

"AR )RQGUHQ 3XEOLF &DSLWRO *ULOO

6FRWW $OEHUW -RKQVRQ %REE\ 5XVK

(APPY (OUR &DSLWRO *ULOO 6DOWLQH

0LACE TO $ANCE 2OH 7DYHUQ RQ *HRUJH 6WUHHW &OXE 0DJRR·V %RWWRPV 8S

3INGER 3ONGWRITER -DVRQ 7XUQHU 7ULFN\ /7

"LUES !RTIST -DUHNXV 6LQJOHWRQ -HVVH 5RELQVRQ

.O EMPLOYEES FULL OR PART TIME OF *ACKSON &REE 0RESS )NC ARE QUALI½ED TO WIN "EST OF *ACKSON CATEGORIES DQG PXVW QRW FDPSDLJQ RQ DQ\RQH·V EHKDOI 9LRODWLRQ RI DQ\ RI WKHVH UXOHV FDXVHV IMMEDIATE DISQUALI½CATION IURP EHLQJ QRPLQDWHG IRU RU ZLQQLQJ %HVW RI -DFNVRQ DZDUGV 927( 21/,1( DQG VHH PRUH UXOH H[SODQDWLRQV DW EHVWRIMDFNVRQ FRP

6KXFNHUV 2QH %ORFN (DVW

Paper Ballot Due Dec. 19. Voting ends online Dec. 21!

"ARISTA =DFK /RYHWW

<RXU EDOORW PXVW LQFOXGH \RXU REAL ½RST AND LAST NAME ZLWK LOCAL PHONE NUMBER DQG EMAIL ADDRESS IRU YHULÃ&#x20AC;FDWLRQ LI QHHGHG 'R QRW DVN IULHQGV DQG IDPLO\ IURP RXWVLGH -DFNVRQ PHWUR WR QRPLQDWH \RXU RU \RXU EXVLQHVV %ACH VOTER MUST CHOOSE EVERY VOTE CAST ON HIS HER BALLOT VLPLODU DQG LGHQWLFDO EDOORWV ZLOO EH LQYHVWLJDWHG DQG SHUKDSV GLVFDUGHG 9OU ARE WELCOME TO CAMPAIGN E\ DVNLQJ SHRSOH WR YRWH IRU \RX EXW \RX

You can also go to bestofjackson.com to vote online.

0LACE TO 7ATCH THE 'AME )RQGUHQ 3XEOLF &DSLWRO *ULOO %XUJHUV DQG %OXHV 0LVVLVVLSSL /HJHQGV 6SRUWV %DU $OXPQL +RXVH 6SRUWV %DU 0LACE TO 0LAY 0OOL 6DP·V /RXQJH &KHURNHH ,QQ 7KH *UHHQ 5RRP /DVW &DOO 6SRUWV %DU 0UB 1UIZ 4RIVIA .IGHT )HQLDQ·V +DO 0DO·V 2 " !RTIST .HUU\ 7KRPDV

$NDPL *UDKDP

3LJ 3LQW

2QH %ORFN (DVW 3RS·V $URXQG WKH &RUQHU %RQQLH %ODLU·V

-DUHNXV 6LQJOHWRQ

$-&

2OCK !RTIST -DVRQ 7XUQHU &KDG :HVOH\ 'UHDP &XOW 7KH (PSW\ +DQGHG 3DLQWHUV $QGUHZ &DPSEHOO 3EXIEST "ARTENDER &EMALE $VKOH\ /HZLV &RXUWQH\ %R\NLQ 1LFROH 5RJHUV /DXUD :HEE

'L[LH .UDXVV

3EXIEST "ARTENDER -ALE %UDG 5HJDQ %ODNH 0F'RQDOG 6KDZQ %HHU &DPHURQ /RZHU\

-LPP\ 4XLQQ

3EE THE BACK OF THIS PAGE FOR THE REST OF THE BALLOT

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;¢ jfp.ms

1 The 3th A

9

0LACE FOR $ESSERT $PHULJR &KDU

/D %ULRFKH

0LACE FOR 2IBS +LFNRU\ 3LW ( / %DUEHFXH

&KLPQH\YLOOH .LQJ (GZDUG *ULOO

&ITNESS #ENTER 'YM )LWQHVV /DG\ WKH &OXE 9,3 )LWQHVV 7KH &RXUWKRXVH

%DSWLVW +HDOWKSOH[

3LJ 3LQW

&LORIST 0RVWO\ 0DUWKD·V 'DLV\ $ 'D\

*UHHQEURRN )ORZHUV

%UXQR·V $GRER $ODGGLQ

'ARDEN 3UPPLY .URSERY *UHHQ 2DN &DOODZD\V *DUGHQ :RUNV +XWWRV

6DO 0RRNLH·V

0LACE FOR (EALTHY &OOD +LJK 1RRQ &DIH 5DLQERZ &R 2S %URDG 6WUHHW %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\

3ULPRV &DIH

0LACE TO 'ET #OFFEE 6HDWWOH 'ULS 0RFKD 0XJV &XSV 6QHDN\ %HDQV %URDG 6WUHHW %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\

Food & Drink

0LATE ,UNCH 0F'DGH·V 0DUNHW 3ULPRV &DIH

:DONHU·V 'ULYH LQ 7UDFH *ULOO

!SIAN 2ESTAURANT 0U &KHQ·V 1DJR\D

)XVLRQ 6DNXUD %DQD

2ESTAURANT %DEDOX 7KH 0DQVKLS

%5$92 ,WDOLDQ 5HVWDXUDQW %DU :DONHU·V 'ULYH ,Q 6DOWLQH

"AKERY &DPSEHOO·V %DNHU\ /D %ULRFKH

%URDG 6WUHHW %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\ %HDJOH %DJHO 3ULPRV &DIH

3ANDWICH 0LACE 5RRP 6HUYLFH %HDJOH %DJHO %URDG 6WUHHW %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\

"ARBECUE 3LJ 3LQW &KLPQH\YLOOH

( / %DUEHFXH 6PRNHKRXVH

3EAFOOD :DONHU·V 'ULYH ,Q 6DOWLQH

,VODQGHU 2\VWHU +RXVH 6DO 3KLO·V 0D\ÁRZHU &DIH

3OUL &OOD %XOO\·V 7ZR 6LVWHUV .LWFKHQ

*ORULD·V .LWFKHQ 3HDFKHV

+LFNRU\ 3LW

,OCAL "EER 3ELECTION )RQGUHQ 3XEOLF 3LJ 3LQW %XUJHUV DQG %OXHV ,URQ +RUVH *ULOO

Paper Ballot Due Dec. 19. Voting ends online Dec. 21!

,OCAL "REAKFAST 3ULPRV &DIH %UHQW·V

%URDG 6WUHHW %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\ %HDJOH %DJHO +HDUW 6RXO 'LQHU

,OCAL "RUNCH -XOHS /D )LQHVWUD

&KDU

7DEOH

,OCAL $OUGHNUTS 'RQXW 3DODFH 3LOORZ 'RQXWV

0RQURH·V 6FXUORFN·V

'REEK 2ESTAURANT .HLIHU·V .ULODNLV

.ULVWRV

'UMBO )DW 7XHVGD\·V &KDU (ANGOVER &OOD 7KH &KHURNHH ,QQ %UHQW·V

6DOWLQH

+DO 0DO·V 'D\OLJKW 'RQXWV

%LOO·V *UHHN 7DYHUQ

9DVLOLR·V

%XUJHUV DQG %OXHV

-OST )NNOVATIVE -ENU 7KH 0DQVKLS 3DUORU 0DUNHW %DEDOX /D )LQHVWUD )TALIAN 2ESTAURANT $PHULJR %5$92

6DOWLQH 2\VWHU %DU

/D )LQHVWUD

&HUDPLV

(O\·V

3USHI *APANESE (GR -DSDQHVH 6DNXUD %DQD 4AKEOUT 6DO 0RRNLH·V

)UDWHVL·V

7LFR·V

$PHULJR

,OCALLY /WNED "USINESS 0DXULFH·V %DUEHUVKRS 6WXGLR &KDQH 6ZHOO :LOLD 9,3 )LWQHVV 7KH 1DLO %DU

&KDU

1DJR\D

&DIH 2OH

+LJK 1RRQ &DIH 5DLQERZ &R 2S $ODGGLQ

0DMHVWLF %XUJHU %XUJHUV DQG %OXHV

7INE ,IST 3ELECTION %5$92 ,WDOLDQ 5HVWDXUDQW %DU 7KH 0DQVKLS

+DO 0DO·V

&$(7

&KDU 7DEOH

Urban Living !NNUAL %VENT 0DO·V 6W 3DGG\·V 3DUDGH -DFNWREHUIHVW

0LVWOHWRH 0DUNHWSODFH &HOWLF )HVW 06 %ULJKW /LJKWV %HOKDYHQ 1LJKWV

+ID´S -ENU 6DO 0RRNLH·V 3ULPRV &DIH

,VODQGHU 2\VWHU +RXVH %UHQW·V 'UXJV %URDG 6WUHHW %DNHU\

,OCAL "URGER 7KH )HDWKHUHG &RZ %DEDOX

!UTO 3HOP %DUQHWW·V %RG\ 6KRS 8SWRQ 7LUH 3URV &DSLWDO $XWR %RG\ 3XWQDP·V $XWRPRWLYH 6HUYLFH )UHHPDQ·V $XWR 5HSDLU

%XUJHUV DQG %OXHV &RRO $O·V

-USIC &ESTIVAL %ULJKW /LJKWV %HOKDYHQ 1LJKWV &HOWLF )HVW 06 )RQGUHQ $IWHU -DFNVRQ 5K\WKP %OXHV )HVWLYDO -DFNWREHUIHVW

,OCAL &RENCH &RIES %XUJHUV DQG %OXHV 5RRVWHUV

0XJVKRWV

)HDWKHUHG &RZ

&RRO $O·V

,OCAL &RIED #HICKEN 0DPD +DPLOV 7ZR 6LVWHUV .LWFKHQ 5RRVWHUV )HDWKHUHG &RZ

-XOHS

,OCAL ,UNCH "UFFET 0DPD +DPLOV ,FKLEDQ

6SLFH $YHQXH

7ZR 6LVWHUV .LWFKHQ 7KDL +RXVH

-ARGARITAS -DFR·V 7DFR·V /D &D]XHOD 6RPEUD 0H[LFDQ .LWFKHQ -EAL 5NDER +LJK 1RRQ &DIH %DVLO·V

&DIH 2OH

3DSLWRV

.EW 2ESTAURANT 3LJ 3LQW /RX·V )XOO 6HUY

6DO DQG 0RRNLH·V

$ODGGLQ

.HLIHUV

6DOWLQH

6RPEUD 0H[LFDQ .LWFKHQ )HDWKHUHG &RZ

)LVFKHU *DOOHULHV )RQGUHQ $UW *DOOHU\ 6RXWKHUQ %UHH]H *DOOHU\

"EAUTY 3HOP OR 3ALON 7ULP 5LW] 6DORQ 6PRDN 6DORQ

%HDJOH %DJHO

%DEDOX

!RT 'ALLERY %URZQ·V )LQH $UW *DOOHU\

"ARBER 3HOP )RQGUHQ %DUEHUVKRS 0DXULFH·V 5LGJHODQG &XVWRP &XWV DQG 6W\OHV /LO 'DYH·V

%DEDOX 7DFRV 7DSDV 0DUJDULWDV

-EDITERRANEAN -IDDLE %ASTERN 0HGLWHUUDQHDQ *ULOO 3HWUD &DIH -EXICAN ,ATIN &DIH 2OH /D &D]XHOD

6DOWLQH

&$(7

"OUTIQUE 7UHHKRXVH 0DWHULDO *LUOV

$FH\·V

6DORQ

/D&UX

)RQGUHQ·V )DVKLRQ +RXVH 3LQN %RPEVKHOO :LOLD 6ZHOO

"RIDAL &ORMALWEAR 3TORE %ULGDO 3DWK %HOOD %ULGHVPDLGV 7X[HV 7RR :RR &RXWXUH

/DFH %ULGDO %RXWLTXH

#ATEGORY 7E ,EFT /FF 1DLO 6DORQ 0DUWLDO $UWV 6WXGLR 7HDFKHU )RRG 7UXFN %HVW 0DNH XS $UWLVW #ATERER %DEDOX )UHVK &XW &DWHULQJ )ORUDO .LQJ (GZDUG +RWHO ,VODQGHU 2\VWHU +RXVH 0DQJLD %HQH &DWHULQJ

/UTDOOR $INING :DONHU·V 'ULYH ,Q .HLIHUV

3LJ 3LQW %XUJHUV DQG %OXHV

%DEDOX

$ANCE 3TUDIO %DOOHW 0DJQLÀFDW 'DQFH $FDGHP\

,OCAL 0IZZA 6RXOVKLQH 3L]]D 7KH 0DQVKLS

3L]]D 6KDFN %DVLO·V

6DO 0RRNLH·V

$AY 3PA $TXD 'D\ 6SD

%DOOHW 0LVVLVVLSSL 0LVVLVVLSSL 0HWURSROLWDQ /LQGVH\ &ODLUH 'DQFH &RPSDQ\ 6DOVD 0LVVLVVLSSL 'UHQFK

-USEUM 0LVVLVVLSSL &KLOGUHQ·V 0XVHXP 0LVVLVVLSSL 0XVHXP RI $UW 0LVVLVVLSSL 6SRUWV +DOO RI )DPH 0LACE FOR A &IRST $ATE %DEDOX :DONHU·V 'ULYH ,Q

6DQFWXDU\

6SD %HFD

%RG\ $QHZ

06 0XVHXP RI 1DWXUDO 6FLHQFH 06 $JULFXOWXUH DQG )RUHVWU\

.LQJ (GZDUG %DU DQG *ULOO

&XSV

6DOWLQH

0LACE TO "UY !NTIQUES 2OG +RXVH 'HSRW $QWLTXH 0DOO RI WKH 6RXWK )ORZRRG )OHD 0DUNHW 5HSHDW 6WUHHW ,QWHULRUV 0DUNHW ,OCAL 0LACE TO "UY "OOKS 7KH %RRN 5DFN 2IIEHDW

0U &KHQ·V

2II %HDW

-EN´S #LOTHING 7KH 5RJXH 7KH /DQGLQJ .LQNDGH·V )LQH &ORWKLQJ *UHDW 6FRWW 6ZHOO R 3KRQLF

0DPD +DPLO·V

6KDSOH\·V

2(& ([SUHVV

6EGETARIAN /PTIONS /D )LQHVWUD 7KH 0DQVKLS %5$92 ,WDOLDQ 5HVWDXUDQW %DU

7INE ,IQUOR 3TORE .DWV :LQH 6SLULWV %ULDUZRRG :LQH 6SLULWV )RQGUHQ &HOODUV &RUNVFUHZ 0F'DGH·V :LQH DQG 6SLULWV

*HRUJLD %OXH

%DVLO·V 6WHYH·V 'HOL

/LWWOH 7RN\R &UD]\ 1LQMD

6EGGIE "URGER +LJK 1RRQ &RRO $O·V

+DO 0DO·V 4XH 6HUD 6HUD %URDG 6WUHHW %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\ 3L]]D 6KDFN 7KH )HDWKHUHG &RZ

3TEAK .DWKU\Q·V

/DNHODQG <DUG DQG *DUGHQ

+IDS´ %VENT :HOOV)HVW .LG)HVW 'U 6HXVV &KLOGUHQ·V 0XVHXP 6DO DQG 0RRNLH·V &KLOGUHQ·V &DUQLYDO )RQGUHQ $IWHU

&LUFOH \RXU YRWH DQG SOHDVH PDNH VXUH LW·V FOHDU ZKLFK 21( EXVLQHVV \RX·UH YRWLQJ IRU 7KDQNV 7KDL 7DVW\

:KLWOH\·V )ORULVW *UHHQ 2DN

/HPXULD

7KH %RRN 6KHOI

1876

0LACE TO "UY +IDS #LOTHES 4OYS /HPRQ 0HULQJXH 3RSÀ]] +HOHQ·V <RXQJ $JHV 2OGH 7\PH &RPPLVVDU\ 0LVVLVVLSSL &KLOGUHQ·V 0XVHXP 0LACE TO "OOK A 0ARTY OR 3HOWER 'XOLQJ +DOO .LQJ (GZDUG +RWHO )DLUYLHZ ,QQ 7KH &HGDUV

7KH 6RXWK

0LACE TO 'ET -ARRIED 7KH &HGDUV .LQJ (GZDUG +RWHO 7KH 6RXWK )DLUYLHZ ,QQ 0LVVLVVLSSL 0XVHXP RI $UW $UW *DUGHQ 0LACE FOR 5NIQUE 'IFTS 2IIEHDW 6ZHOO R SKRQLF 3HUVQLFNHW\ )DLU 7UDGH *UHHQ

$SSOH $QQLH·V

0LACE TO 7EAR 3EQUINS +DO DQG 0DO·V 1<( 0LVWOHWRH *DOD -DFNVRQ &RQYHQWLRQ &RPSOH[

%RWWRPV 8S 7KDOLD 0DUD +DOO

2EASON TO ,IVE IN *ACKSON 7KH 3HRSOH )RQGUHQ *UHDW )RRG

%HOKDYHQ

&RVW RI /LYLQJ

4AILOR 0LFKDHO $UPVWURQJ )LQLVKLQJ 7RXFK &XVWRP 7DLORULQJ E\ $O 1DQD·V $OWHUQDWLRQV 4ATTOO 0IERCING 0ARLOR 7ZL]WHG ,PDJHV 6TXHQFKV (OHFWULF 'DJJHU (WHUQDO %RG\ $UW 4HRIFT #ONSIGNMENT 3HOP 2UDQJH 3HHO 1876 5HSHDW 6WUHHW

+RXVH RI 3DLQ

6LOO\ %LOO\·V

)RQGUHQ 0XVH

4OURIST ATTRACTION 0LVVLVVLSSL 0XVHXP RI $UW 0LVVLVVLSSL 0XVHXP RI 1DWXUDO 6FLHQFH )RQGUHQ 0LVVLVVLSSL &KLOGUHQ·V 0XVHXP $JULFXOWXUH DQG )RUHVWU\ 0XVHXP 6ETERINARIAN OR 6ET #LINIC *OXFNVWDGW $QLPDO &OLQLF %UDQGRQ $QLPDO +RVSLWDO +RPHWRZQ 9HW 1RUWK 6WDWH $QLPDO +RVSLWDO $OO &UHDWXUHV 7OMEN´S 3HOES $UFR $YHQXH 0DLVRQ :HLVV 9OGA -R\)ORZ

6WXGL2P

6KRH %DU DW 3LHFHV :LODL %XWWHUÁ\ <RJD

<RX PXVW LQFOXGH \RXU QDPH HPDLO DGGUHVV DQG D YDOLG SKRQH QXPEHU ZLWK DUHD FRGH IRU \RXU EDOORW WR FRXQW &DXWLRQ :H FDOO PDQ\ YRWHUV WR FKHFN EDOORW DXWKHQWLFLW\ 1R IDNH SKRQH QXPEHUV

7DUD <RJD

1DPH 3KRQH (PDLO 0DLO EDOORW WR WKH DGGUHVV EHORZ E\ 'HF -DFNVRQ )UHH 3UHVV 6RXWK &RQJUHVV 6WUHHW 6XLWH -DFNVRQ 06

´%HVW RI -DFNVRQµ LV D UHJLVWHUHG VHUYLFH PDUN LQ WKH VWDWH RI 0LVVLVVLSSL

TALK | marriage

LGBT Mississippians Win Major Battle

by Anna Wolfe

TRIP BURNS

L

ast week, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves struck down a law enacted in 2004 with 86 percent of the vote from Mississippians that bans marriages between same-sex couples.

Speaker of the House Philip Gunn characterized Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; actions as â&#x20AC;&#x153;willful denialâ&#x20AC;? of the law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is unfortunate that one judge has decided to ignore the will of the people of Mississippi,â&#x20AC;? Gunn wrote in a statement.

But Reeves, in his ruling, prioritized protecting the rights of all American citizens over following a popular vote. During the hearing, Reeves told the state defender to be careful when using the â&#x20AC;&#x153;willful denialâ&#x20AC;? argument, because a majority vote never justifies infringing upon a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights.

Matt Steffey, constitutional law expert and Mississippi College School of Law professor, said Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ruling â&#x20AC;&#x153;gutted most of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arguments, held them up for examination for what they were, which is really just a naked dislike for gay couples,â&#x20AC;? Steffey said.

In a 72-page order handed down Nov. 25, Reeves posited: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In reviewing the arguments of the parties and conducting its own research, the court determined that an objec-

Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s same-sex marriage case, argued on Nov. 12, resulted in the overturning of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s same-sex marriage ban.

tive person must answer affirmatively to the following questions: Can gay and lesbian citizens love? Can gay and lesbian citizens have long-lasting and committed relationships?

Can gay and lesbian citizens love and care for children? Can gay and lesbian citizens provide what is best for their children? Can

gay and lesbian citizens help make their children good and productive citizens?

Without the right to marry, are gay and lesbian citizens subjected to humiliation and indignity? Without the right to marry, are gay and lesbian citizens subjected to statesanctioned prejudice?â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Answering â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to each of these questions,â&#x20AC;? Reeves continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;leads the court to the inescapable conclusion that same-sex couples should be allowed to share in the benefits, and burdens, for better or for worse, of marriage.â&#x20AC;?

Then, Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; money line tackled the fundamental federal question that judges in his position must grapple with: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The court concludes that Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s same-sex marriage ban deprives same-sex couples and their children of equal dignity under the law. Gay and lesbian citizens cannot be subjected to such second-class citizenship. Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s same-sex marriage ban violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.â&#x20AC;?

Though Reeves found the ban unconstitutional, he granted the state a two-week stay, which puts same-sex marriage in Mississippi on hold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not anything particular to gaymarriage issues,â&#x20AC;? Steffey said. Often, he said, higher courts will postpone a ruling from taking effect to maintain the status quo until PRUH 0$55,$*( VHH SDJH

Only 20 minutes from Jackson

A collection of items of a special, rare, novel or unusual quality. We are Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premiere source for metaphysical esoterica from nature.

Featuring: Natural Crystals Specimens â&#x20AC;˘ Pendulums Books â&#x20AC;˘ Wands â&#x20AC;˘ Moldavite Jewelry & More National Natural Landmark

601-879-8189 124 Forest Park Rd., Flora, MS www.MSPetrifiedForest.com

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ jfp.ms

ES - O - TER - I - CA:

11

TALK | marriage 0$55,$*( IURP SDJH

the case is resolved on appeal.

Steffey said that while he predicted that Reeves would not issue a stay, this decision is appropriate because it protects same-sex couples from having legal problems with their marriage in the future if the ruling is overturned.

In most other states with same-sex marriage battles, county clerks did not issue marriage licenses until the federal appeals court ruled.

On Nov. 26, the state filed an appeal to the decision and issued a request for stay from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that would last until the appeals court settled the issue. In response, one of the plaintiffs in the case, Campaign for Southern Equality and attorney Roberta Kaplan petitioned the 5th circuit for an expedited review on Nov. 28.

The 5th Circuit, which has jurisdic-

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gay and lesbian citizens cannot be subjected to such secondclass citizenship.

Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s same-sex marriage ban violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.â&#x20AC;?

Millsaps Moves and Tea with the King (Edward)

by Dustin Cardon

T

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ jfp.ms

12

Millsaps Receives Grant for International Program Millsaps College recently received a $200,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to establish the International Perspectives Program, a new model for incorporating global experiences and conversations on campus as well as in field programs. Funds from the foundations will be used to launch the International Perspectives seminars and an annual International Perspectives Conference, key components of the program.

The program will designate 12 Millsaps students as International Scholars starting

If the odds bear out, and the case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court, the vote could hinge on Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion in striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Kennedy tends to vote with the conservative majority on the court, but has been a key swing vote on some cases, including DOMA. Even if SCOTUS ensures same-sex marriage, Steffey believes that state leaders may look to regulate marriage in the state as politicians have attempted with issues such as abortion. Despite the federal Constitution protecting abortion access, Mississippi has passed a number of laws regulating abortion providers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first thing we will see is a law that says nobody has to marry anyone if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like it,â&#x20AC;? Steffey said of the possible legislative response to same-sex marriage in Mississippi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be interesting to see what people will try to do to stand in the way.â&#x20AC;?

Comment at jfp.ms. Email Anna Wolfe at anna@jacksonfreepress.com.

For example, a student from Egypt with experiences in a new democracy, a Greek student with perspectives on recent austerity measures and a Guatemalan student researching Mayan history would share their experiences during the seminar.

Millsaps President Dr. Robert W. Pearigen said in a release that the International Perspectives Program builds upon the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track record of creating nationally recognized field-learning laboratories across the globe, including its facilities in Yucatan, and con-

the Street and Around the Globe: Partnerships and Influences at Millsaps College.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The new program will allow Millsaps College to expand and deepen international learning experiences for Millsaps students that are fully integrated into their liberal arts experience, provide a global literacy model for other institutions working to address international learning challenges and build on the strength of our current signature curricular programs,â&#x20AC;? Pearigen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are grateful to the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for their partnership and support.â&#x20AC;?

in fall 2017. They will reside together in a living/learning community on campus, participate in weekly International Perspectives seminars during the fall semester and work with a visiting scholar-in-residence to plan a spring campus-wide seminar. A Millsaps International Faculty Fellow will plan the weekly International Perspectives seminars during the fall semester and assist the visiting scholar-in-residence with the spring conference.

Half of the International Scholars will be Millsaps sophomores and juniors from the United States with previous international experience, while the other half will be Millsaps degree-seeking students from countries outside the U.S. The International Scholars will explore global topics such as emerging democracies, war, immigration, climate change, famine, development issues, water management, green-market economics and gender issues.

Dr. S. Keith Dunn, senior vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college, said in a release that the International Perspectives Program will bring viewpoints from around the world to bear on internaThis holiday season at the historic King Edward tionally important issues on campus.

Hotel will host a series of Teddy Bear Teas for kids â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be an exciting way to of all ages. bring the impact of our international studies program home to enrich the perspectives of all our students,â&#x20AC;? Dunn said. nects to the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic plan, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Across

DEONICA DAVIS

his holiday season at the historic King Edward Hotel, also known as the Hilton Garden Inn Jackson Downtown, will host a series of Teddy Bear Teas for kids of all ages.

Each of the five scheduled Teddy Bear Teas will feature a photo with Santa and his elves, storytelling, kid-friendly treats and a King Edward teddy bear for each child.

Admission is $25 per person for adults and children more than 1 year old. Children under 12 months receive free admission.

Participants will receive a $1 discount with a copy of a ticket from the Mississippi Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum.

The teas will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 14 and 20-22. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the hotel at 601-969-8507.

tion over Mississippi, already has same-sex marriage cases on its docket. Steffey said he believes the 5th Circuit, which is considered one of the most conservative federal courts in the country, will follow suit with the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld same-sex marriage bans in four Midwestern and Southern states early November.

Just before the 6th Circuit decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear cases regarding same-sex marriage bans because each federal appeals court in the country at the time had found the bans unconstitutional.

Now that there is a circuit splitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the courts have given conflicting opinions on the constitutionality of the banâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;experts like Steffey predict the Supreme Court will take up the issue this session or next.

That means the United States could have national same-sex marriage by this or next June. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last three chances they (the Supreme Court justices) have weighed in on gay rights issues, they have gone in favor of gay rights,â&#x20AC;? Steffey said.

Millsaps Dean Named Outstanding Educator The Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants recently named Kimberly G. Burke, dean of the Else School of Management at Millsaps College and professor of accounting, the 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award. Burke will receive the award during the 2015 Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants convention in Sandestin, Fla. Burke has more than 19 years of teaching experience. As dean of the Else School, Burke oversees Millsapsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; undergraduate business, accounting and economics programs, an MBA program, an Executive MBA program, and a Master of Accountancy program.

Burke holds a B.B.A. and an M.S. in accounting from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University. She joined the Millsaps faculty in 1995.

Comment at www.jfp.ms.

Our G IFT C ERTIFICATES Makes The Perfect H OLIDAY G IFTS !

w w w. b u t t e r f l y y o g a . n e t B EST

OF

J ACKSON

Weekly Schedule Monday

Thursday

10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:15 am: Power Flow 5:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6:45 pm : Level 2

12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 pm: Level 1 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:15 pm: Vinyasa

Tuesday

Friday

10 am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 am: Gentle Yoga 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 pm: Level 1 5:15 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5:45 pm: Tabatas 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:15 pm: Level 1

Wednesday 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 pm: Restorative Yoga 5:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6:45 pm: Yoga Basics

(Mixed Level)

12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 pm: Level 1

Saturday

9 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10:15 am: Level 1 10:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:45 am: Yoga Over 50

Sunday

3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4 pm: Yoga at Crossfit 601 5:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7 pm: Bellydancing

3025 North State Street - Fondren District - 601.594.2313

OCD Cleaning & Organizing Locally Owned Since 1984

I N S U R E D â&#x20AC;˘ B O N D E D â&#x20AC;˘ W O R K E R S CO M P.

601.927.5286

A clean house sells the BEST! Let OCD get your house ready for the market.

Call Teresa TODAY! Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ New Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Residential Real Estate Ready for Market â&#x20AC;˘ Move Out for Deposit Refund Pack or Unpack â&#x20AC;˘ Strip or Wax Floors Windows, Tracks & Screens â&#x20AC;˘ Carpet Cleaning Polishing â&#x20AC;˘ Organizing â&#x20AC;˘ Hostess Events Optional Cleaning Services ORGANIZING Deep â&#x20AC;˘ Partial Deep â&#x20AC;˘ General Customers Priority List

Teresa Miller, Owner â&#x20AC;˘ 601.927.5286 â&#x20AC;˘ ocdcs11@gmail.com

% $ ! "

$# % $ % ! ! $ ! " # Features must be enabled by customer.

Available with qualifying packages. Monthly fees $ Hopper, $12; Joey, $7; Super Joey, $10. Requires Internet connection.

! ! " $

%% (""!*+ *!)-$*! &(',# (&&$,&!', ' *! $, )- %$0 ,$('

%% ,( / ' + .!

1-800-805-6158

Important Terms and Conditions: Promotional Offers: Require activation of new qualifying DISH service. All prices, fees, charges, packages, programming, features, functionality and offers subject to change without notice. After 12-month promotional period, then-current everyday monthly price applies and is subject to change. ETF: If you cancel service during first 24 months, early termination fee of $20 for each month remaining applies. Additional Requirements: Hopper: Monthly fees: Hopper, $12; Joey, $7; Super Joey, $10. With PrimeTime Anytime record ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC plus two additional channels. Commercial skip feature is available at varying times, starting the day after airing, for select primetime shows on ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC recorded with PrimeTime Anytime. Recording hours vary; 2000 hours based on SD programming. Watching live and recorded TV anywhere requires an Internet-connected, Sling-enabled DVR and compatible mobile device. Premium Channels: 3-month premium offer value is $135; after 3 months, thencurrent everyday monthly prices apply and are subject to change. Blockbuster @Home requires Internet to stream content. HD-only channels not available with select packages. Installation/Equipment Requirements: Free Standard Professional Installation only. Leased equipment must be returned to DISH upon cancellation or unreturned equipment fees apply. Upfront and additional monthly fees may apply. Miscellaneous: Offers available for new and qualified former customers, and subject to terms of applicable Promotional and Residential Customer agreements. State reimbursement charges may apply. Additional restrictions and taxes may apply. Offers end 1/16/15. Š 2014 DISH Network L.L.C. All rights reserved. HBOŽ, CinemaxŽ and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. STARZ and related channels and service marks are property of Starz Entertainment, LLC. DR_15394

Christmas Catering by

Great for Office Lunches Family Gatherings

Holiday Parties

Choice of: All-Natural Oven Roasted Turkey Breast Applewood-Smoked Ham Garlic Herb & Olive Oil Roasted Chicken Breast Seitan Turkey with Focaccia & Cornbread Dressing with Gravy Pan Roasted Brussels Sprouts Yeast Rolls $18 per/person

call

601â&#x2C6;&#x2019;969â&#x2C6;&#x2019;1119

2 LOCATIONS125 S. Congress St. 601.969.1119 â&#x20AC;˘ 200 S. Lamar Ave. 601.714.5683

Music Writing Interested in interviewing musicians, reviewing albums and networking within Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music community?

The Jackson Free Press is looking for freelance writers interested in covering the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music scene.

Please e-mail inquiries to micah@jacksonfreepress.com

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ jfp.ms

V OTED B EST Y OGA S TUDIO

13

I Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Not Talk About Ferguson

I

would like to not talk about Ferguson. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to turn a blind eye and stay in my own world, full of first-mom wonders and worries, diapers and onesies, Sesame Streets & Peg+Cat. But I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t not talk about Ferguson, because the child in my lap, the sweet one that I nurse and nourish, is brown and male just like Michael Brown. I educate him on his extremities, sing sweet ABCs to him, but one day there will come a time that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to educate him on how to live.

No, son, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play with water guns that look real in public. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run freely in public without looking like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re truly exercising, and even then, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to have ID and be mindful of your wardrobe. Always keep your hands up, and be especially cautious when stopped by the police.

Actually, it will be better for his father to talk to him. I personally saw the highly talented artist and decorated veteran make himself smaller, his speech slower, words deliberate in the presence of a cop while taking photos at sundown on the reservoir.

That officer wore the same Airborne wings that adorned my husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uniform a few years ago, but there was no brotherhood in his tone as his words angrily spat down on my husband, with heated accusations of trespassing and disobeying a locked gate that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, all the while with his hand on his weapon.

In that momentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;full of our seed, a brown male child that we createdâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I felt angry. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize the man he became in that instant, so he could be a father to our son in months. I wanted to scream at the officer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you see the same divinity that lies in you is in him? Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you see how beautiful and valuable he is, that his life matters as much as yours, and the life of our son matters like your kids?â&#x20AC;?

I have to talk about Ferguson because one day, regardless of the many wonderful friends and family we have of different hues and religions, someone will attempt to make him feel small. Someone will point out his difference and associate it with people they feel mirror him. Someone will associate my son with some image seen in the media.

I have to talk to my son because someday his chubby cheeks will flatten and grow hair. His baby babbles and coos will become deep-based vibrations that may strike chords of fear in those around him, and that fear could lead to his death.

It makes me uncomfortable, and it makes me feel helpless, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary like the air we all breathe. I encourage you to talk about it as well in hopes the next generation can breathe a bit freer, answer questions we refuse to ask and clean up our mistakes wrapped in fears. For they will take care of us in our twilight and hopefully bear a torch into a brighter future.

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ jfp.ms

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;unfortunateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

14

Âł,W LV XQIRUWXQDWH WKDW RQH MXGJH KDV GHFLGHG WR LJQRUH WKH ZLOO RI WKH SHRSOH RI 0LVVLVVLSSL ´ °3PEAKER OF THE (OUSE 0HILIP 'UNN ON 5 3 $ISTRICT *UDGE #ARLTON 2EEVES´ DECISION TO OVERTURN THE STATE´S BAN ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE Why it Stinks: Yes, in 2004, 86 percent of Mississippians voted to enact a ban against same-sex marriage. Setting aside the enormous strides that the LGBT community has made in securing their rights as American citizens and the shifting attitudes of their allies in the last 10 years, a majority vote has never justified the systemic erosion of a group of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rightsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is the point of the U.S. Constitution. If anyone, a state leader in Mississippi should know this.

Ending Racial Bias: Hard and Necessary Work

W

hite Americans are more punitive than people of color. Whites misjudge how much crime African Americans and Latinos actually commit. Whites who more strongly associate crime with racial minorities are more supportive of punitive policies. Media crime coverage fuels racial perceptions of crime.

These are conclusions of a September 2014 report from the Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project. The report synthesizes 20 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; worth of data on white perceptions of race and crime and gives support to what we understand on an emotional level. For instance, we know that nothing bad will ever befall the throng of handgun-toting middle-aged white men at a tea-party rally. Even white men who perform mass shootings are usually taken quietly into custody.

And we suspect that even last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislative push for prison sentencing reforms was as much about keeping white kids busted for popping pills out of Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prisons as about keeping the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costs in check.

Sentencing Project researchers address this in their report: â&#x20AC;&#x153;White Americans, who constitute a majority of policymakers, criminal-justice practitioners, the media and the general public, overestimate the proportion of crime committed by people of color and the proportion of racial minorities who

commit crime. Even individuals who denounce racism often harbor unconscious and unintentional racial biases.â&#x20AC;?

But people of color often contribute. Imagine the frightened elder leering at the group of teenagers on the corner they suspect of being up to no good. What police sergeant or city council person wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dispatch a squad car as quickly as possible to allay a senior citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerns?

People of color are subject to the same socialization as whites and, as scholars such as Jackson State University political scientist Byron Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Andra Orey note, have internalized many of the same racial perceptions of themselves.

For this, the Sentencing Project offers some recommendations: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The media, policymakers, and criminal justice practitioners can implement several proven interventions to sever associations of crime with race, and temper their impact. News producers can monitor and correct for disparities in crime reporting. Policymakers can curb excessive incarceration and develop policies to reduce disparities in sentencing and crime rates.â&#x20AC;?

We will continue our commitment to reporting on issues that touch race as deeply and thoroughly and with as much context as possible. And we will continue to insist that other media outlets and policymakers work to eliminate these disparities as well. We urge you to join us on this vital mission.

#/22%#4)/. ,Q ³5LFKDUG .HOVR /LJKW RQ WKH /DQG´ 9ROXPH ,VVXH 1RY 'HF -DFNVRQ )UHH 3UHVV SXEOLVKHG WKDW WKH RSHQLQJ UHFHSWLRQ IRU .HOVR LV 7XHVGD\ 'HF 'HF LV DFWXDOO\ D 7KXUVGD\ -DFNVRQ )UHH 3UHVV DSRORJL]HV IRU WKLV HUURU ,Q ³0LVVLVVLSSL /DVW ,Q 9DFFLQH &KRLFH´ 9ROXPH ,VVXH 1RY 'HF WKH VWRU\ VWDWHG WKDW YDFFLQHV DUH DGPLQLVWHUHG E\ DJH WKHUH DUH YDFFLQHV RQ WKH &HQWHUV IRU 'LVHDVH &RQWUROœV UHFRPPHQGHG OLVW DOWKRXJK VRPH RI WKHP UHTXLUH PXOWLSOH GRVHV 7KH VWRU\ DOVR FKDUDFWHUL]HG +HSDWLWLV % DV D VH[XDO WUDQVPLWWHG GLVHDVH :KLOH LW LV RIWHQ VH[XDOO\ WUDQVPLWWHG LW FDQ EH WUDQVPLWWHG LQ RWKHU ZD\V 7KH -DFNVRQ )UHH 3UHVV DSRORJL]HV IRU WKHVH HUURUV

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

LESLIE MCLEMORE II What If He Were White?

EDITORIAL News Editor R.L. Nave Assistant Editor Amber Helsel Investigative Reporter Anna Wolfe JFP Daily Editor Dustin Cardon Music Editor Micah Smith Events Listings Editor Latasha Willis Music Listings Editor Tommy Burton Writers Bryan Flynn, Shameka Hamilton, Genevieve Legacy, Michael McDonald, LaTonya Miller, Ronni Mott, Zack Orsborn, Greg Pigott, Julie Skipper Consulting Editor JoAnne Prichard Morris Interns Melanie Dotson, Ashley Sanders ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY Art Director Kristin Brenemen Advertising Designer Zilpha Young Design Intern Joshua Sheriff Staff Photographer/Videographer Trip Burns Photographer Tate K. Nations ADVERTISING SALES Advertising Director Kimberly Griffin Account Managers Gina Haug, Brandi Stodard BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS Distribution Manager Richard Laswell Distribution Raymond Carmeans, Avery Cahee, Clint Dear, Michael McDonald, Ruby Parks Bookkeeper Melanie Collins Marketing Assistant Natalie West Marketing Intern Mandi Jackson Operations Consultant David Joseph ONLINE Web Editor Dustin Cardon Web Designer Montroe Headd Multimedia Editor Trip Burns CONTACT US: Letters letters@jacksonfreepress.com Editorial editor@jacksonfreepress.com Queries submissions@jacksonfreepress.com Listings events@jacksonfreepress.com Advertising ads@jacksonfreepress.com Publisher todd@jacksonfreepress.com News tips news@jacksonfreepress.com Fashion style@jacksonfreepress.com Jackson Free Press 125 South Congress Street, Suite 1324 Jackson, Mississippi 39201 Editorial (601) 362-6121 Sales (601) 362-6121 Fax (601) 510-9019 Daily updates at jacksonfreepress.com

The Jackson Free Press is the city’s award-winning, locally owned newsweekly, with 17,000 copies distributed in and around the Jackson metropolitan area every Wednesday. The Jackson Free Press is free for pick-up by readers; one copy per person, please.

First-class subscriptions are available for $100 per year for postage and handling.

The Jackson Free Press welcomes thoughtful opinions. The views expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily those of the publisher or management of Jackson Free Press Inc. © Copyright 2014 Jackson Free Press Inc. All Rights Reserved

"TTPDJBUJPO PG "MUFSOBUJWF /FXTXFFLMJFT

J

ohn Grisham’s racially charged novel, “A Time to Kill,” took us on a mesmerizing journey that tapped into our inner psyche as it relates to the racial divide in the state of Mississippi.

“A Time to Kill,” which some consider to be Grisham’s magnum opus, featured the everso-glaring and, may I add, uncomfortable dichotomy of black vs. white.

When making his closing argument, the charismatic white defense attorney eliminated the “black vs. white” mentality of the jurors and substituted it with simple empathy. Grisham’s protagonist proposed the notion during closing arguments of “What if she were white?” This question reversed the color of the young victim’s skin, allowing empathy to show her beautiful features.

By using empathy strategically, our hero lawyer (bet you don’t hear that phrase everyday) tugged at the heartstrings of his audience and the jurors, securing the verdict he fought so hard to obtain.

I have previously described empathy as simple, and that’s because, basically, it is. Empathy is easily defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of someone other than oneself. Surely, a word so easy to understand and a concept that is just as easy to grasp would have any reasonable person concede that this ability resides in the hearts of most, if not all.

The present-day world far too often showcases racial injustice of its own. The tragic death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., leaves us with an opportunity to embrace the simple notion of empathy just as Grisham’s fictitious jurors did. Feelings of fear, pain, mistrust and anger have consumed the African American community since the grand jury decision proclaimed that shooting an unarmed black teen dead and leaving his body in the hot Missouri sun for four hours isn’t enough to establish the low legal burden of probable cause.

That a grand jury essentially decided that the shooting of an unarmed teen isn’t enough to even conduct a fair fact-finding trial angers the African American community in a way that seems to confuse the masses. Many people are baffled at the forms of protest since the grand jury decided to not let a dead young, black teen have his story heard in court. The overwhelming majority of protesters in Ferguson and this country are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who are simply exercising basic civil liberties, which the U.S. Constitution grants to them.

These protesters represent those who feel fear, pain and mistrust. Most have found a way to bottle their anger and take

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s route of ultimately not becoming what you despise or protest. A miniscule faction of protesters chose to take an alternate route. They chose to release their anger the only way they deem fit—through looting, aggression and the destruction of property. An eye-for-aneye mentality, if you will.

The fear, pain, mistrust and anger the African American community feels toward law enforcement dates back to postReconstruction when Jim Crow laws were implemented. Then, the domestic-terrorist organization known as the Ku Klux Klan used law enforcement as a tool to carry out lynches, burnings and a laundry list of other heinous crimes against African Americans.

This association has had lasting consequences, along with other law enforcement initiatives such as the “War on Drugs.” History has greatly contributed to the mistrust we in the black community feel toward law enforcement, which we associate more with harassing and killing than protecting and serving.

These factors shouldn’t shock anyone. That said, it has baffled me to witness the lack of empathy the majority has displayed as it relates to the different emotions that consumed a certain faction of the population since the grand jury decision. In order to get the majority to truly understand, should one take the John Grisham route?

Let’s try it. Imagine a world that featured a young, white unarmed teenager, walking home. A black police officer shoots him dead and leaves his body in the street for four hours, even as many white witnesses give accounts implicating the officer.

Even though the community is overwhelmingly white, black police officers make up the vast majority of the law enforcement population. Imagine a grand jury deliberation, which features a black prosecutor, majority-black jurors and a presiding black judge. Essentially, the courtroom would be made up of black people deciding issues that directly affect everyone.

How would the majority react in such a reversal—the same or differently? If differently, then I have wasted your time, and I sincerely apologize. However, if you think that maybe the majority would feel the same fear, pain, mistrust and anger, then you, my friend, have caught a case of empathy.

Leslie McLemore II is a Jackson native, now in Washington, D.C. He is a proud graduate of Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University School of Law (J.D.) and American University Washington College of Law.

Imagine a young, white unarmed teenager, walking home. Then he is dead.

7ZR ORFDWLRQV WR VHUYH \RX

+ & /8(1&,$/ 63

+LEDFKL

&KLFNHQ IRU

0RQGD\ WKURXJK )ULGD\ 1030-A Hwy 51 • Madison Behind the McDonalds in Madison Station

769.300.2149

1002 Treetop Blvd • Flowood Behind the Applebee’s on Lakeland

601.664.7588

6A0=3E84F A M A LC O T H E AT R E

South of Walmart in Madison

ALL STADIUM SEATING Listings for Fri. 12/5– Thur. 12/11 The Pyramid R Nightcrawler R Horrible Bosses 2

Dumb and Dumber To PG13

Penguins of Madagascar (non 3-D) PG

Interstellar PG13

3-D Penguins of Madagascar PG

Ouija

The Theory of Everything PG13

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible… PG

R

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 PG13

Beyond the Lights PG13 Big Hero 6 (non 3-D)

PG PG13

The Judge

R

Gone Girl

R

GIFT CARDS AVAILABLE DAILY BARGAINS UNTIL 6PM Online Tickets, Birthday Parties, Group & Corporate Events @ www.malco.com

Movieline: 355-9311

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Editor-in-Chief Donna Ladd Publisher Todd Stauffer

15

Honda

1 # s ’ i p p i s s p i Missi h s r e l a e D a d n o H AND

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

The People’s Choice

16

555 Sunnybrook Road, Ridgeland, MS 39157 (601) 957-3400 • www.pattypeckhonda.com

TRIP BURNS

On Dec. 1, Jackson State University students staged a so-called die-in at Gibbs-Green Plaza, where local police opened fire on anti-war protesters in May 1970, killing two young black men, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, and wounding 12 others. The officers involved in the shooting never faced criminal penalties.

FERGUSON: An American Moment

What you have to look at is what is happening in this country. And what is really happening is that brother has murdered brother knowing it was his brother. White men have lynched Negroes knowing them to be their sons. White women have had Negroes burned knowing them to be their lovers. It is not a racial problem. It’s a problem whether or not you’re willing to look at your life and be responsible for it and then begin to change it.

That great Western house I come from is one house, and I am one of the children of that house. Simply, I am the most despised child of that house. And it is because the American people are unable to face the fact that I am, in fact, the flesh of their flesh, bone of their bone, created by them. My blood, my father’s blood is in that soil.

They can’t face that. And that is why the city of Detroit went up in flames.

— James Baldwin, 1969

I

n some ways, the story of Ferguson began in the South.

Consider the case of my grandmother, Gladys Smith. Grandma GG, she is called, was born in Pine Bluff, Ark., and married my grandfather young. They

raised their family of six children in north St. Louis City.

Like other Midwestern cities, St. Louis’ population exploded after World War II, fueled by the Great Migration of African Americans fleeing the political and economic oppression, racial terrorism and uncertainty of the South.

One of the main characters in Isabel’s Wilkerson’s 2010 book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” for example, left Chickasaw County, Miss., and moved to Chicago after a white mob savagely beat one of her relatives, who was falsely accused of stealing turkeys. The relative had a reputation for taking things that didn’t belong to him, so the white posse who beat the man near death offered no apologies. Another character in Wilkerson’s book, a black physician from Louisiana, did his medical training in St. Louis’ Homer G. Phillips Hospital, which was built to serve the city’s black population and was one of the few places African American doctors could work.

In St. Louis, city fathers decreed that black migrants were allowed to settle only in neighborhoods north of Delmar Avenue, which cuts the city and its imagination into halves.

Today, St. Louis is one of the nation’s most segregated cities,

north city being code for black and south city code for white, much like our local parlance attempts to communicate about west and south Jackson and the city’s northeast side.

Like the lines on a geometric plane, the demographic boundaries didn’t end at the St. Louis city limits.

As the challenges of poverty and crime worsened, aided by hapless Reagan-era urban policies, black families that could afford to move out of the city migrated into north St. Louis County. The presence of well-paying multinational companies like Chrysler and Ford and defense contractor McDonnell Douglas, that had manufacturing operations in North County, was a big pull for these families.

Today, North County municipalities like Florissant and Hazelwood, located just north and west of Ferguson, remain bastions for upper-middle-class and wealthy blacks. At the same time this was happening, St. Louis was following the trend of other major American cities in demolishing (instead of fixing) its segregated, drug- and crime-plagued high-rise NPSF '&3(640/ TFF QBHF

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

by R.L. Nave

17

Ferguson, GSPN QBHF public housing projects. Many residents moved closer to relatives and economic opportunity in north county—frightened mothers in the North who sent troubled sons to “safety,” with wise, loving grandmothers in the old Confederacy.

Some of them found apartment managers willing to accept public-housing vouchers from the federal government; new apartment complex sprouted up to accommodate the influx.

Ferguson, wedged between St. Louis City and the wealthier North County communities, is regarded as affordable and safe.

So Ferguson is where my grandmother decided to retire. After decades spent working as a counselor for a social-services nonprofit, my grandmother gave up a beautiful twostory Victorian three blocks from the apartment building where my mother lived when I was born and moved to a ranch-style home in the relative peace and quiet of Ferguson.

Ferguson is the kind of city where some neighborhoods are black and some are white, but people are polite and neighborly when they pass each other on the street in Ferguson’s quaint downtown business district.

My grandmother’s street is the kind of

children are rarely seen except when relatives visit on holidays.

Ferguson is the kind of place where, by my grandmother’s recollection, she had to interact with the police just one time in the last 20 years. And it is the kind of place

The realization that Ferguson is a uniquely American creation has us terrified. place where upper-middle-aged men washed their cars and mowed their front lawns proudly and with religious devotion every Saturday afternoon, a neighborhood where

so humdrum that even someone like my grandmother can go two decades without realizing that this majority-black town had a white mayor, a nearly all-white city council

and an overwhelmingly majority white police force.

So Aug. 8, 2014, was a wake-up call for everyone, myself included.

I

was supposed to be in Ferguson the day Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown. It was the week of my father’s 60th birthday, an event that ordinarily means a small celebration at noon Saturday at Grandma GG’s house.

My parents instead decided to go to Memphis, so we could meet halfway. If I had gone to St. Louis as originally planned, I might have been seated on her large, comfortable sofa balancing a plate of food on my lap about the time that Wilson, a Ferguson police officer, confronted Brown, who was 18, and his friend for walking in the middle of the street.

Brown was going to visit his grandmother, too. Wilson would later testify to a

#Ferguson: A Timeline of Events Aug. 9: At about noon, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American high school graduate, was shot and killed by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, 27, in the Canfield Green Apartment complex in Ferguson, Mo., in north St. Louis County. Before the shooting, Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson, were videotaped at a convenience store on nearby West Florissant apparently stealing a handful of cigars.

Wilson later testified before a grand jury that he was responding to another call when he encountered Brown and Johnson walking in the middle of the street impeding traffic.

Witness testimony varied widely. Wilson and some others said Brown, who did not have a weapon in his possession, assaulted the officer. Others, including Dorian Johnson, denied claims that there was a struggle for Wilson’s gun. Most witnesses agreed, however, that Brown ran away from Wilson, but turned back toward him.

That’s when Wilson fired several shots, hitting Brown with six, including two to the head. Brown’s body lay in the street uncovered for more than four hours. Wilson went on paid administrative leave.

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Aug. 10-13: St. Louis County police Chief Joe Belmar addressed the incident in a news conference even though the facts remained hazy. That evening, mourners held a peaceful gathering to remember Brown. After dark, several businesses on West Florissant were vandalized and looted. Over the next several nights, daily protests were met with a heavily militarized police presence, tear gas and rubber bullets. Many protesters were arrested and charged with destruction of property and other crimes.

18

Aug. 20: A grand jury began investigating the circumstances around Brown’s shooting and considered criminal charges against Wilson.

Aug. 21: Gov. Nixon ordered the National Guard to begin withdrawing from

Ferguson.

Aug. 25: Mike Brown’s funeral took place at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in north St. Louis city.

Aug. 25-Oct. 14: Sporadic protests continued in Ferguson; police made some

arrests.

Oct. 22: St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a leaked autopsy report the paper claimed supported Wilson’s assertion that an altercation took place between Wilson and Brown in the officer’s vehicle. A pathologist the paper interviewed later issued a statement saying that her report only indicated that findings were consistent with Wilson’s claims and were not a definitive statement of what took place.

Nov. 17: In a preemptive move, Gov. Nixon declared a state of emergency a week ahead of the expected announcement of a grand jury’s decision whether to indict Wilson in connection to Brown’s death.

Aug. 14: President Obama addressed the nation and urged calm and an “open and transparent” investigation into Brown’s death. Gov. Jay Nixon announced that the Missouri Highway Patrol, led by Capt. Ron Johnson, would take over security in Ferguson. A night of demonstrations was nonviolent for the first time in days.

Nov. 24: St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch announced that a grand jury decided not to indict police officer Wilson for any crimes related to the fatal shooting of Brown. Protesters vandalized several Ferguson-area businesses in what was regarded as the most chaotic night of violence since Brown was killed.

Aug. 15: For the first time, officials released Darren Wilson’s name as the officer who killed Brown. Several activists from the Jackson area traveled to Ferguson to observe. Late that night, unprovoked, police threw flash grenades at peaceful protesters.

Nov. 28: Protesters descended on three St. Louis-area malls, successfully shutting them down, in protest of the grand jury decision. Similar acts of disobedience around the nation followed.

Aug. 16: A march led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson started in Canfield Green Apartments and went to a local church. At a press conference, Gov. Nixon declared a state of emergency and midnight curfew in Ferguson. Protesters left Ferguson and headed to nearby Dellwood, assuming the curfew would not be in effect. There, protesters clashed again with police.

Dec. 1: Students at Jackson State University staged their own hands-up protest and die-in, in which they lay on the ground mimicking the way that Mike Brown’s body lay on the street. The die-in was at Gibbs-Green Plaza, where local police opened fire on anti-war protesters on May 15, 1970, killing JSU junior Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21, a junior, and James Earl Green, 17, a senior at nearby Jim Hill High School, and wounding 12. No officers were ever arrested or punished.

Aug. 18: In response to the weekend unrest, Gov. Nixon called in the Missouri Army National Guard. President Obama dispatched outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder to monitor the situation in Ferguson.

See the Jackson Free Press’ and R.L. Nave’s full archive of Ferguson-related stories at jfp. ms/ferguson where you can comment.

grand jury that it was during this confrontation that he remembered a “stealing” call that came across his radio earlier and that the description of the suspects matched Brown and his companion, Dorian Johnson.

Because Brown’s body lay on the ground uncovered for more than four hours, I undoubtedly would have encountered emergency vehicles and the swelling crowd of onlookers. I likely would have stopped at the

write in the name of the African American woman McCullough defeated in the Democratic primary earlier in the year.

And like a lot of older African Americans, she’s embarrassed by the looting and how it reflects on the rest of the black community.

“It’s really weird. I don’t understand it.

Why would you do that?” she told me after the announcement that a St. Louis County grand jury would not indict Wilson.

“You know, we live around here and those little mom-and-pop stores, people use those services. I mean, black folks got little shops and things, probably all their lives dreamed of owning a business, and this is where they got their little start.”

“What’s wrong with marching and walking without being destructive?” she asked me.

“Do you think they would have made their point by marching?” I asked her back.

She paused.

“Well, no.”

T

he meaning of Ferguson is vigorously debated and will be for the foreseeable future.

Is it a moment or a movement? A battle or war? Is its objective political control or NPSF '&3(640/ TFF QBHF

Go to www.visitjackson.com to discover two full months of festive, citywide holiday events, shopping, and hotel packages for a great family getaway to Jackson, Mississippi.

Call 1-800-354-7695 or 601-960-1891 for your free events calendar, and celebrate the season in the City with Soul!

C i t y w i t h f l a v o r. C i t y w i t h c h o i c e . C i t y w i t h s o u l .

TM

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

JAMELLE BOUIE

America resorts to brute force to spread her ideals around the world and, as history teaches us, against those who insist on holding her to those ideals.

QuikTrip for a fillup and a fountain drink, which only costs $.79 in the summertime.

Instead, the news of the shooting came via my mother’s iPhone during dinner at a chain steak restaurant in suburban Memphis. After the string of shootings of unarmed black teenagers, I’d trained myself not to react right away. To wait on the facts. Or maybe I have just become numb to these things.

My senses returned the following day when Ferguson erupted into chaos, and I thought of my grandmother no more than a few blocks away from where the QuikTrip gas station was engulfed in flames and the police were shooting people, many of them young folks, with rubber bullets and tear gas.

Grandma GG talks a lot about her confusion and disappointment in everyone involved. She’s confused as to why Darren Wilson believed killing Mike Brown was the only way out of their confrontation.

She’s disappointed in the video that reportedly shows Mike Brown bullying a tiny store clerk not long before the shooting. Once, she joked aloud that instead of breaking into the small shops along West Florissant, a bolder statement would have been to bust into one of the local banks. After Bob McCullough, the St. Louis County prosecutor, drew wide criticism for bungling the investigation of Darren Wilson, my grandmother asked me whether it was legal, come November, to

19

Ferguson, GSPN QBHF economic empowerment? If one were to poll protesters on any given night, one would find affirmative answers to each of these questions.

At play among the Ferguson faithful is a unique kind of American individualism.

Each person who has sojourned to Ferguson to march along West Florissant and South Florissant with their hands in the air has done so for his or her own reasons. Some of those reasons have everything to do with Mike Brown and how disposable we con-

sider black lives. Some of those reasons have little to do with Brown’s death per se or the desire to prosecute Officer Wilson.

The lack of a defined objective seems to have only made Ferguson’s movement stronger. Now, the Wikipedia entry for the “Shooting of Mike Brown” is longer than the entry for the city of Ferguson.

The underlying current, to paraphrase James Baldwin, is that America’s political and economic arrangements have proved to be too expensive for most of America. Ferguson

is teaching us that America will change its arrangements, or our arrangements will be changed for us.

One-hundred-sixteen days have passed since the worlds of Wilson, a 27-year-old white police officer, collided with the world of Brown, an African American 18-year-old who was about to start trade school, on a street in Ferguson, Mo. One hundred fifteen days have passed since Ferguson collided with the imagination of the world.

Counting from the day after Brown’s death, when the teary-eyed vigil of peaceful mourners somehow mutated into a night of vandalism, looting and tear gas, the Ferguson protests have now lasted longer than the six days of unrest in 1992 that followed the acquittal of white police officers who beat Rodney King senseless on the side of a road in Los Angeles. The Ferguson protests have NPSF '&3(640/ TFF QBHF

An Explosive Mixture

How Much Has Changed Since the 1960s ‘Riots’?

D

bridge racial gaps and repair disparities in segregated cities, the country would fall into a “system of apartheid” in urban areas. The commission went after many realities of black American life that are often (still) ignored by the white majority, and recommended a plethora of fixes from job creation, workforce training, better housing, improved public education and media that didn’t feed white America’s obsession with black crime, which was long an excuse for mistreatment and brutalization of African Americans.

They found that uprisings, such the Ferguson protests, are not the result of one “triggering” or “precipitating” incident. Instead, the actions were and are “generated out of an increasingly disturbed social atmosphere, in which typically a series of tension-heightening incidents over a period of weeks or months became linked in the minds of many in the Negro community with a reservoir of underlying grievances. At some point in the mounting tension, a further Protesters vandalize a police vehicle outside of the Ferguson city hall incident—in itself often routine or trivTuesday, Nov. 24, 2014, in response to the grand-jury decision. ial—became the breaking point and the tension spilled over into violence.” lice killed two young men here at Jackson State University.

To better understand conditions that eventually tip into At the time, many white Americans looked on with riots and unrest—such as today’s pattern of killing unarmed “shock, fear and bewilderment” at the destruction that was blacks for either minor crimes or misplaced fear, exacerbated included in the protests—much as many are doing now in by widespread white acceptance of it—read the full Kerner the wake of the refusal to indict Darren Wilson for killing report at jfp.ms/kerner. Here are key points, pulled from the Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. How could anger and de- 1968 report (which used the then-common “Negro”): struction possibly help anything? they asked then, and many • “Discrimination and segregation have long permeated are asking now—thereby “deepening the division” in the way much of American life; they now threaten the future of a refreshingly honest commission warned about years ago. every American. This deepening racial division is not inTo get at the causes of the riots, and potential ways to evitable. The movement apart can be reversed. Choice is prevent them, President Lyndon Johnson assembled the 11still possible. Our principal task is to define that choice member National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and to press for a national resolution. To pursue our presin July 1967 to explain the riots and compile recommendaent course will involve the continuing polarization of the tion for the future. The 1968 report—commonly called the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of Kerner Report and compiled by nine whites and two blacks, basic democratic values.” with one woman—pulled few punches, warning in a now- • “The alternative is not blind repression or capitulation to infamous phrase that the United States was “moving toward lawlessness. It is the realization of common opportunities two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” for all within a single society. This alternative will require a The industry, political and police leaders correctly precommitment to national action—compassionate, massive dicted in the report that, without serious efforts by “white and sustained, backed by the resources of the most powersociety” at acknowledging conditions and then working to ful and the richest nation on this earth. From every Ameri-

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

DAVID GOLDMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

uring the 1960s, “riots” exploded in more than 100 cities over a variety of race-based issues starting in 1964 and continuing through the decade, especially during a two-week period in July 1967, in Newark and in Detroit and then after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, and even into 1970 when local po-

20

by Donna Ladd can it will require new attitudes, new understanding, and, above all, new will.”

• “The vital needs of the nation must be met; hard choices must be made.... Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans.”

• “What white Americans have never fully understood—but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.”

The commission recommended these basic responses: 1. To mount programs on a scale equal to the dimension of the problems; 2. To aim these programs for high impact in the immediate future in order to close the gap between promise and performance; 3. To undertake new initiatives and experiments that can change the system of failure and frustration that now dominates the ghetto and weakens our society.

The ‘Disorders,’ Explained • “The civil disorders of 1967 involved Negroes acting against local symbols of white American society, authority and property in Negro neighborhoods—rather than against white persons. … The overwhelming majority of the persons killed or injured in all the disorders were Negro civilians.”

• “The final incident before the outbreak of disorder, and the initial violence itself, generally took place in the evening or at night at a place in which it was normal for many people to be on the streets.”

• “Violence usually occurred almost immediately following the occurrence of the final precipitating incident, and then escalated rapidly. With but few exceptions, violence subsided during the day, and flared rapidly again at night.”

• “Disorder generally began with rock and bottle throwing and window breaking. Once store windows were broken, looting usually followed.”

• “What the rioters appeared to be seeking was fuller participation in the social order and the material benefits enjoyed by the majority of American citizens. Rather than rejecting the American system, they were anxious to obtain a place for themselves in it.”

NPSF ,&3/&3 TFF QBHF

Children enrolled in United Way’s Imagination Library program receive a free book each month, delivered directly to your home.

Go to ImaginationLibrary.com to enroll your child or dial 2-1-1 to reach a call specialist.

Children (birth-age 4) who reside in Hinds, Madison, or Rankin County are eligible for this program.

Made possible in part with funding from Nissan.

YP L YOUNG LEADERS IN

PHILANTHROPY

UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

FREES! K O O B

21

Ferguson, GSPN QBHF for American retailers.

You have our attention.

In fact, no movement, even ones where the objectives were more clearly defined, has ever been successful without disrupting the prevailing economic arrangements. Montgomery is probably the most iconic of these disruptions in modern history. And so was

as well as the Black Friday demonstrations, forget that this country was born out of one of the most famous acts of vandalism in recorded human history.

What we now romanticize as the Boston Tea Party was the result of dissatisfied British subjects disguising themselves as American Indians and destroying the cargo

JAMELLE BOUIE

lasted a third as long as the Montgomery Bus Boycott that took place between December 1955 and December 1956.

Ferguson is, so far, somewhere between L.A. and Montgomery.

At times, like we saw in Los Angeles, Ferguson protests have been marked by pure rage at the institutional arrangements in a country that gives its assent to the extrajudicial execution of black men for the most minor of legal infractions or no infraction at all.

Sometimes, the rage in Ferguson has been misdirected, aimed not at the system but at a cake shop. At other times, Ferguson has had all the makings of the bus boycott, which extended to African American bus passengers the fundamental human right simply to rest after a long day at work.

What started organically in Ferguson with mad, disconnected young African American boys and girls, as a series of unorganized nightly actions, has matured over the past 100 days into a sophisticated movement. We saw the evidence of this recently after the grand jury’s predictable declination to criminally indict Darren Wilson and have him stand trial. The decision sparked a new round of destructiveness and outrage in Ferguson.

The announcement also ignited demonstrations that took place the day after Thanksgiving when activists shut down three upscale shopping malls by lying down on the ground and singing anti-racism Christmas carols. All this, on the most important day

At various times, Ferguson has combined the fiery insurrection of the American Revolution and the stubborn dignity of the Civil Rights Movement to create a kind of movement our nation hasn’t experienced in a long time.

L.A. That’s because people who lack political power can make big statements with relatively small amounts of money.

Those who lament the economic toll of the Ferguson protests (by some estimates, the L.A. riots cost that city $4 billion), which includes the looting and property damage

of the East India Tea Company, one of the richest and most powerful corporations in the world.

That’s not to say the tea party was right, either, but it did happen that way.

The Declaration of Independence, which codified all the grievances of the

Founding Fathers against the British empire and provided the foundation for the American Revolution, itself sounds like it could have been penned by St. Louis activists.

Just replace all the instances of “British soldiers” with “Ferguson Police Department” and be crushed by the weight of what is happening in Ferguson.

It is that realization, that Ferguson is in that way a uniquely American creation, has us terrified.

There is, of course, the terror of every black man in America that they might, too, find themselves lying in the street for hours after an encounter with a peace officer. There is the understandable terror of black mothers and fathers who can no longer dismiss the deaths of the Trayvon Martins and Jordan Davises, the Edward Evanses and Quardious Thomases of the world as isolated tragedies that happen to parents who failed to raise their kids right.

In the second half of this year, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Ezell Ford and Tamir Rice, the baby of this groupat age 12, have been added to this list, along with Michael Brown.

Above all, simmering in Ferguson is a terror that people aren’t going to take it any longer, that people have studied the history of this country and that history is repeating itself, and that we are helpless in knowing for sure where history will lead us.

Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

,&3/&3 GSPN QBHF

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

• “The proportion of Negroes in local government was substantially smaller than the Negro proportion of population. Only three of the 20 cities studied had more than one Negro legislator; none had ever had a Negro mayor or city manager. In only four cities did Negroes hold other important policy-making positions or serve as heads of municipal departments.”

22

‘Deeply Held Grievances’ The commission found 12 “deeply held grievances” of black Americans, ranking them in intensity starting at No. 1: 1. Police practices 2. Unemployment and underemployment 3. Inadequate housing 4. Inadequate education 5. Poor recreation facilities and programs 6. Ineffectiveness of the political structure and grievance mechanisms.

7. Disrespectful white attitudes 8. Discriminatory administration of justice 9. Inadequacy of federal programs 10. Inadequacy of municipal services 11. Discriminatory consumer and credit practices 12. Inadequate welfare programs By the writing of the report, the commission found “little basic change in the conditions underlying the outbreak of disorder. Actions to ameliorate Negro grievances have been limited and sporadic; with but few exceptions, they have not significantly reduced tensions. In several cases, police militari-

zation was the backward response: “In several cities, the principal official response has been to train and equip the police with more sophisticated weapons.”

The Basic Causes The commission found a number of causes, but zeroed in on the most basic: “Of these, the most fundamental is the racial attitude and behavior of white Americans toward black Americans. … Race prejudice has shaped our history decisively; it now threatens to affect our future. … White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture which has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War II.” The report pointed to specific types of racism that had created the conditions in inner cities (excerpted verbatim): 1. Pervasive discrimination and segregation in employment, education and housing, which have resulted in the continuing exclusion of great numbers of Negroes from the benefits of economic progress.

2. Black in-migration and white exodus, which have produced the massive and growing concentrations of impoverished Negroes in our major cities, creating a growing crisis of deteriorating facilities and services and unmet human needs.

3. The black ghettos where segregation and poverty converge on the young to destroy opportunity and enforce failure.

Crime, drug addiction, dependency on welfare, and bitterness and resentment against society in general and white society in particular are the result.

The commission pointed out that many whites and blacks who had escaped what it called “ghettos” have “pros-

pered to a degree unparalleled in the history of civilization.

Through television and other media, this affluence has been flaunted before the eyes of the Negro poor and the jobless ghetto youth.” It pointed to these additional ingredients: • Frustrated hopes are the residue of the unfulfilled expectations aroused by the great judicial and legislative victories of the Civil Rights Movement and the dramatic struggle for equal rights in the South.

• A climate that tends toward approval and encouragement of violence as a form of protest has been created by white terrorism … .

• The frustrations of powerlessness have led some Negroes to the conviction that there is no effective alternative to violence as a means of achieving redress of grievances, and of “moving the system.” These frustrations are reflected in alienation and hostility toward the institutions of law and government and the white society which controls them ...

• A new mood has sprung up among Negroes, particularly the young, in which self-esteem and enhanced racial pride are replacing apathy and submission to “the system.”

• The police are not merely a “spark” factor. To some Negroes police have come to symbolize white power, white racism and white repression. And the fact is that many police do reflect and express these white attitudes. The atmosphere of hostility and cynicism is reinforced by a widespread belief among Negroes in the existence of police brutality and in a “double standard” of justice and protection—one for Negroes and one for whites.

Read the full Kerner report at jfp.ms/kerner. This summary information came from historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Love Your Vote!

Thank you for the nominations in these categories!

Best Consignment Store Best of Jackson 2015

bestofjackson.com

Wedding

Feature Writer Wanted

Now Open Sundays!

Mon- Fri: 10-6 Sat: 10-5 Sun: 1-5

242 Hwy 51, Ridgeland | 601.605.9393 Facebook: Repeat Street Metro Jackson Twitter: @RepeatSt | www.repeatstreet.net

The Jackson Free Press is seeking writers to cover unique couples and weddings in the Jackson metro area for our Hitched section.

Send letter of interest and writing samples to amber@jacksonfreepress.com.

Jackson

Photographs by Ken Murphy Signed copies available!

- Best Place to Book a Party or Shower -Best Place to Get Married - Best Place for Cocktails: Library Lounge

Please vote for us on the Finalists ballot running December 3 - December 21, 2014.

Thanks!

Featuring the new Jackson State University cover

Visit FairviewInn.com to see our Fall 2014 menu at 1908 Provisions!

PROVISIONS

734 Fairview St, Jackson, MS (601)948-3429

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ jfp.ms

202 Banner Hall Exit 100 601.366.7619 www.lemuriabooks.com

23

FOOD p 26

A French Wedding

by R.H. Coupe

E CO

E UP

24

ing a gray suit with a red, white and blue sash, sat across the table from the bride and groom, each flanked by two friends.

The mayor welcomed everyone to the ceremony. He told a few jokes and then went through the paperwork in front of him, asking Ludovic and Cécile questions from

N AN

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

A

s I glanced at the menu, I groaned inwardly. We had two more courses to go—a “soupe de fruits rouges” and a “pièce montée.” It already felt like the wedding was yesterday. “Close,” I thought. It was 11:30 p.m.

The wedding had started at 2:30 p.m. that afternoon.

The ceremony was about 50 kilometers, or 31 miles, from Strasbourg, where we currently live, so we had to rent a car to get there. Denver, our 11-year-old, had Saturday school until noon so we had to wait for her, pick up the car, figure out how to get the GPS to speak English and get to Sélestat, before about 2:15 p.m.

Converting the GPS to speak American was our first mistake. Our avatar’s name was Eloise, and I think ours was alive with plenty of French attitude. You know when how you miss a turn, the GPS voice says “recalculating” and then very pleasantly gives new instructions? Well, ours got angry! You could hear it in her voice, and if we did not immediately follow the new instructions, her voice got thinner and angrier. In one long stretch, I swear she began muttering imprecations in French, and there was something about that fool Lafayette and how he should have left well enough alone.

We made it to the place where we were supposed to park by 2 p.m., and then a nice, young couple led us through the warren of narrow streets to the center of town. We turned a corner and, suddenly, we were in the town square. There stood Ludovic Paul, the groom, in a tuxedo, and Cécile Klein, the bride, wearing a beautiful white wedding with sequins, bare shoulders and a small train. It fit snugly to her lithe frame. With her olive skin and dark hair and eyes, she was a dream. Her long hair was piled on top of her head with a pinkish-red flower on the left side, her veil interwoven in it. No one was dressed as well as the bride and groom.

I met Ludovic in 2006 when he came to Mississippi to do an internship with me at the U.S. Geological Survey, and we became fast friends. I met Cécile a couple of times over the years on brief trips to France, but it was only a fortuitous chance that my time in France coincided with their wedding.

A few minutes later, we were all ushered into the town hall and to a rectangular conference room with a few chairs that faced a long table. The mayor, wear-

Freelance writer Richard Coupe, now living in France, recently attended the wedding of French couple Ludovic Paul and Cécile Klein.

time to time, which they mostly answered with “Oui.” Everyone clapped when the mayor finished, and the bride, groom, mayor and the four official witnesses got up and signed the register.

We assembled in the town square and followed the bride and groom to the sound of bells through the narrow streets to the local church, a massive stone structure with a history dating to the 13th century, its thick walls towering over us with a series of long and narrow stained-glass windows around the top.

The pastor, wearing a plain black cassock and a pilgrim-like white tie, met us in front of the church and signaled for us to proceed into the building. The inside was surprisingly small, with long narrow benches that have hotwater pipes running underneath them. The eerie reflection of the stained glass windows moved along the east wall as the sun set.

The pastor was a jolly sort, with a great and enthusiastic smile and sparkling eyes, and though he loved to sing loud and robustly, he was not really good at it. An unseen organist in the balcony accompanied him.

Communication seemed to be difficult, since the pastor was making multiple hand signals and looking into the balcony in frustration as he tried to start or stop the music.

The bride’s father walked her down the aisle, and she joined the groom to the right of the altar. Soon, the witnesses—a different set from the civil ceremony—got up from the pews and joined the bride and groom in the front of the church as the couple said their vows.

Then, the wedding was over, and the bride and groom processed down the aisle to a recording of Marvin Gaye’s “Little Darling.” We all gathered in the church’s courtyard for handshaking, lots of kissing and many pictures.

After the wedding, we drove through the fabulous wine country in the Alsace region of France to the Chateau Du Hohlandsbourg, a 13th-century castle perched on top of a hill overlooking the Rhine Valley. Walking the ramparts of the castle 40 meters (about 131 feet) off the ground with a clear view of the valley as the sun set gave me chills.

The reception was wonderful—lots of games, dancing, food and drink. A few minutes after midnight, the “cake” was served. It wasn’t really a cake, but rather what looked like caramel-covered donut holes filled with cream that were glued to a conical support. Fireworks accompanied the cake as servers brought it out. The bride and groom “carved” the cake with decorative serving knives.

Just as I was about to give up, I saw the first guests saying their goodbyes. We quickly joined them, said our goodbyes, found our way down the mountain in the complete darkness and made it home by 3 a.m. and slept the sleep only the truly exhausted know.

We did not make it back for the 11:30 a.m. brunch and found out later that the bride and groom had danced until 4 a.m. Next time, I’ll be better prepared.

<HWL WXPEOHU

%XIIDOR 3HDN 2XW¿WWHUV

*XLWDU VWUDSV )RQGUHQ *XLWDUV

2014

7KLPEOHSUHVV

7RN\R 0LON KDQG FUHDP

6ZHOO R 3KRQLF

7KLPEOHSUHVV

0XOEHUU\ 'UHDPV

%OXHV JXLWDU VOLGH )RQGUHQ *XLWDUV

Stuff Your Stockings %HDQLH

Local

by Amber Helsel and Mandi Jackson, photos by Trip Burns

/HDWKHUPDQ XWLOLW\ NQLIH %XIIDOR 3HDN 2XW¿WWHUV

I

6ZHOO R 3KRQLF

/LEE\ 6WRU\

(DUWK *UDFH 6WHUOLQJ EUDFHOHW

%ULJKWRQ VWXG HDUULQJV

tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a proven fact that shopping local boosts the economy in your community, and the holiday season keeps many small businesses thriving.

This Christmas, why not put the gift of local in your loved onesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stockings?

)ODVK WDWWRR 6WDQFH VRFNV

6PDOO 6TXDUHV ZLWK 0LJKW\ :RUGV

-XGLWK /HH¶V

-XGLWK /HH¶V

Where2Shop &DSUL %OXH 0XVH 9ROFDQR FDQGOH /LEE\ 6WRU\

You have enough on your mind.

"UFFALO 0EAK /UT½TTERS ,QWHUVWDWH 1 6XLWH EXIIDORSHDN QHW &ONDREN 'UITARS )RQGUHQ 3ODFH IRQGUHQJXLWDUV FRP

*UDITH ,EE´S +LJKODQG &RORQ\ 3DUNZD\ 6XLWH 5LGJHODQG ,IBBY 3TORY +LJKODQG &RORQ\ 3DUNZD\ 6XLWH 5LGJHODQG OLEE\VWRU\ FRP -ULBERRY $REAMS 1 6WDWH 6W

3WELL O 0HONIC 1 6WDWH 6W 6XLWH FKDQH FRP 4HIMBLEPRESS 1 6WDWH 6W WKLPEOHSUHVV FRP

Let us worry about your guests.

With two Jackson locations, the Cabot Lodge offers the perfect home base for your wedding party. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make sure everyone is well taken care of with full southern breakfast and a nightly hospitality cocktail reception. Your guests can catch up between events in our Great Room. And our well-appointed rooms ensure everyone will be well rested, relatively speaking. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a weekend-long reception.

Millsaps!!800-874-4737 cabotlodgemillsaps.com Jackson North/Ridgeland!!800-342-2268 cabotlodgejacksonnorth.com

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;¢ jfp.ms

Holiday

*ROG IRLO QDSNLQV

25

JFPmenus.com

26

AMERICAN/SOUTHERN CUISINE Basil’s (2906 N State St #104, Jackson, 601-982-2100) Paninis pizza, pasta, soups and salads. They’ve got it all on the menu.

Broad Street Bakery (4465 Interstate 55 N. 601-362-2900) Hot breakfast, coffee drinks, fresh breads & pastries, gourmet deli sandwiches.

Primos Cafe (2323 Lakeland 601-936-3398/ 515 Lake Harbour 601-898-3400) A Jackson institution for breakfast, blue-plates, catfish, burgers, prime rib, oysters, po-boys & wraps. Famous bakery!

Rooster’s (2906 N State St, Jackson, 601-982-2001) You haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Rooster’s burger. Pair it with their seasoned fries and you’re in heaven.

Two Sisters Kitchen (707 N. Congress St. 601-353-1180) Lunch. Mon-Fri, Sun. PIZZA Sal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St. 601-368-1919) Pizzas of all kinds plus pasta, eggplant Parmesan, fried ravioli & ice cream for the kids!

Mellow Mushroom (275 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood, 601-992-7499) More than just great pizza and beer. Open Monday - Friday 11-10 and Saturday 11-11.

ITALIAN La Finestra (120 N Congress St #3, Jackson, 601-345-8735) The brainchild of award-winning Chef Tom Ramsey, this downtown Jackson hot-spot offers authentic Italian cuisine in cozy, inviting environment.

BRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) Award-winning wine list, Jackson’s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining.

Cerami’s (5417 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, 601-919-28298) Southern-style Italian cuisine features their signature Shrimp Cerami.

STEAK, SEAFOOD & FINE DINING The Islander Seafood and Oyster House (1220 E Northside Drive, Suite 100, 601-366-5441) Oyster bar, seafood, gumbo, po’boys, crawfish and plenty of Gulf Coast delights in a laid-back Buffet-style atmosphere.

The Penguin (1100 John R Lynch Street, 769.251.5222) Fine dining at its best.

Rocky’s (1046 Warrington Road, Vicksburg 601-634-0100) Enjoy choice steaks, fresh seafood, great salads, hearty sandwiches.

Sal and Phil’s Seafood (6600 Old Canton Rd, Ridgeland (601) 957-1188) Great Seafood, Poboys, Lunch Specials, Boiled Seafood, Full Bar, Happy Hour Specials Shea’s on Lake Harbour (810 Lake Harbour Drive, Ridgeland, MS 39157 (601) 427-5837) Seafood, Steaks and Southern Cuisine! Great Brunch, Full Bar Outdoor and Seating MEDITERRANEAN/GREEK Aladdin Mediterranean Grill (730 Lakeland Drive 601-366-6033) Delicious authentic dishes including lamb dishes, hummus, falafel, kababs, shwarma.

Vasilios Greek Cusine (828 Hwy 51, Madison 601-853-0028) Authentic greek cuisine since 1994, specializing in gyros, greek salads, baklava cheesecake & fresh daily seafood.

BARBEQUE Pig and Pint (3139 N State St, Jackson, 601-326-6070) Serving up competition style barbecue along with one of the of best beer selections in metro.

Hickory Pit Barbeque (1491 Canton Mart Rd. 601-956-7079) The “Best Butts in Town” features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and po’boys.

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

BARS, PUBS & BURGERS Capitol Grill (5050 I-55 North, Deville Plaza 601-899-8845) Best Happy Hour and Sports Bar in Town. Kitchen Open Late pub food and live entertainment.

Cherokee Inn (960 Briarfield Rd. 601-362-6388) Jackson’s “Best Hole in the Wall,” has a great jukebox, great bar and a great burger.

Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap.

Hal and Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials.

Martin’s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection.

Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St. 601-960-2700) Pub food with a southern flair: beer-battered onion rings, chicken & sausage gumbo, salads, sandwiches.

Time Out (6270 Old Canton Road, 601-978-1839) Your neighborhood fun spot! Terrific lunch special and amazing Happy Hour!

Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Pan-seared crabcakes, shrimp and grits, filet mignon, vegetarian sliders. Live music. Opens 4 p.m., Wed-Sat Wing Stop (952 North State Street, 601-969-6400) Saucing and tossing in a choice of nine flavors, Wing Stop wings are made with care and served up piping hot.

ASIAN AND INDIAN Crazy Ninja (2560 Lakeland Dr., Flowood 601-420-4058) Rock-n-roll sushi and cook-in-front-of-you hibachi. Lunch specials, bento boxes, fabulous cocktails.

Fusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetop Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588) Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushi Nagoya Japanese Sushi Bar & Hibachi Grill (6351 I-55 North, Ste. 131, Jackson 601-977-8881) Fresh sushi, delicious noodles & sizzling hibachi from one of jackson’s most well-known japanese restaurants.

VEGETARIAN High Noon Café (2807 Old Canton Road in Rainbow Plaza 601-366-1513) Fresh, gourmet, tasty and healthy defines the lunch options at Jackson’s own strict vegetarian (and very-vegan-friendly) restaurant adjacent to Rainbow Whole Foods.

Brunching in the Capital

by Julie Skipper

T

hey say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But what if it’s the weekend, and you sleep in? What if you want permission to have an adult beverage before noon? In that case, you brunch.

For those who enjoy sleeping in (or getting up early and doing yard work) and then lingering over a leisurely mid-morning or early afternoon meal on the weekend, brunch is a highlight of the week to be savored. A number of local restaurants provide the materials to do just that.

TRIP BURNS

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Paid advertising section. Call 601-362-6121 x11 to list your restaurant

LIFE&STYLE | food

Local restaurants such as Brent’s Drugs now serve brunch.

After opening in mid-August, Saltine Oyster Bar in Fondren (622 Duling Ave., 601-982-2899, saltinerestaurant.com) began testing a small brunch menu in October, which the restaurant offered Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in addition to the regular menu. Chef Jesse Houston’s favorite dish is the southern-style chicken biscuit, served with pickles (also available Nashville hot style, which is a hot sauce). Other options include blue-corn pancakes with spiced maple syrup, homemade cast-iron cinnamon rolls and a breakfast baked-oyster dish.

Saltine’s bloody Mary is made with Cathead vodka, homemade cocktail sauce and garnished with celery and boiled peanuts (with an option to add an oyster) and can be savored while watching one of four 48-inch flat-screen televisions purchased specifically for Saturday-football watching.

At Brent’s Drugs (655 Duling Ave., 601-366-3427), recent kitchen renovations and expansion provided a chance to revisit its breakfast offerings and expand to a Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Amanda Dove Wells, a partner at Brent’s, says Sunday brunch gives folks a chance to “relax, take their time and enjoy the neighborhood, instead of running in and out in a rush on their lunch break.”

While sampling the bloody Mary bar (a collaboration with the bartenders from

Apothecary, in the back) full of housemade bloody Mary mix and pickled veggies, diners enjoy a menu of “kicked-up” breakfast items such as shrimp and grits, chicken and waffles (Wells’ favorite), and a “Prescription Omelet” made with bacon, pimento cheese and green onions.

Over in Belhaven, The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 N. State St., Suite 100, 601-398-4562, themanshipjackson.com) serves a brunch menu on Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Like Saltine, this small (two- to three-item) menu is in addition to the regular lunch menu also available. The specific items change weekto-week but always include a breakfast-style pizza, a classic breakfast with meat, eggs and polenta, and brunch specials.

Downtown establishments are getting in on the brunch game as well. Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St., 601-948-0888, halandmals.com) serves up brunch on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. with such hangover-friendly items as bacon and eggs, and a hash made with potatoes, red onion, bell peppers and pulled pork served with tortillas and topped with “Mal-style” onion rings, barbecue sauce and cream gravy.

Cinnamon rolls are popular with those who have a sweet tooth, and a kids’ menu offers up something for the little ones (or those with smaller appetites).

For those who prefer to brunch on Sunday, the new brunch from La Finestra (120 N. Congress St., 601-345-8735, eatlafinestra.com) runs 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. A recent visit found a bustling crowd at noon, filled with families and groups of friends.

Each menu item, served small-plate style, costs less than $10, and while all can be ordered à la carte, an option to pick any three for $15 or taste all seven for $40 provides value. While enjoying unlimited Cathead Vodka bloody Marys or mimosas, patrons can linger over the restaurant’s Italian take on classics such as a parmesan-oregano chicken biscuit, garlic-oregano waffle and duck with green-tomato jam.

During Sunday brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St., 601-398-0151, theironhorsegrill. com), has a waffle and omelet bar. For omelets, patrons can choose from meats and toppings such as crabmeat, crawfish, onions and peppers, and for waffles, they can choose toppings such as candied pecans and blueberries. Both come with sautéed hashbrowns and Delta Grind grits for $12.95.

With local offerings like these, there’s no reason not to take some time on the weekend to be a little lazy and brunch.

Anyone else do a great brunch?

Write amber@jacksonfreepress.com for future coverage.

Best of Jackson Winner 2012-2014 NEIGHBORHOOD KITCHEN Open for Lunch and Dinner Monday through Saturday

904b E. Fortification St. Jackson

601-487-6359

LIVE MUSIC D ECEMBER 4 T HE B OW T IE B AND D ECEMBER 5-6 LIVE MUSIC D ECEMBER 9 RNS J AZZ B A N D Voted one of the Best Restaurants and Bars In Metro Jackson Best of Jackson 2014

Plate Lunch Starting At $10 Includes Tea! Minutes from Downtown!

info@lousfullserv.com

Now Taking Holiday Orders!

And Don’t forget to

Vote for Us in Best of Jackson!

•Best BBQ •Best Ribs 970 High St, Jackson

(601) 354-4665

www.chimneyville.com

1100 John R. Lynch Street | Suite A | Jackson, MS 769.251.5222 | thepenguinms.com

THANK YOU for Nominating Us • Best Sea Food • Best Kids Menu • Craig Noone “Rock It Out” New Chef: Jessica Furches

Best of Jackson 2015

DON’T FORGET Finalist Voting 12/3 - 12/21 Come in for our Weekend Brunch!

Maywood Mart • Jackson, MS • www.IslanderOysterHouse.com • 601.366.5441

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

www.lousfullserv.com

27

TH E G

COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT Winter 2015 | www.millsaps.edu/conted | 601-974-1130 Course Arts and Crafts

Instructor

Beginning Knitting Beginning Photography Bob Ross® Painting: Landscape Botanical Drawing Calligraphy - Beginning & Advanced Floral Design How Not To Be A Starving Artist Intro to Mosaics Intermediate Mosaics Loop 2 Loop Easy Crochet Oil Painting Paint & Antique Furniture Like a Pro Portrait Drawing Pottery/ Sculpture Waste Not Want Not: Recycling Clothing Watercolor Painting

Donna Peyton Ron Blaylock Michael Hughes Dain Hayes Betsy Greener Tom & Nancy McIntyre Tracie Wade Teresa Haygood Teresa Haygood Regina Powell Thomas C. Morrison Latresa Enns Keisi Ward Thomas C. Morrison Shon McCarthy Laurel Schoolar

Your Neighborhood Funspot!

- Pool Is Cool-

Best of Jackson Winner

Best Place to Play Pool Industry Happy Hour Daily 11pm -2am

Daily Beer Specials 12pm - 7pm

Dance Introduction to Ballroom Dancing Line Dance for Fun and Fitness Zumba®

Pool League

Mike & Lisa Day Sandra Plunkett Ashleigh Risher

Mon - Fri Night Drink Specials Burgers-Wings-Full Bar Gated Parking Big Screen TV’s League and Team Play Beginners to Advanced Instructors Available

Health and Fitness Tai Chi Yoga for Everyone

Mike Chadwick Sally Holly

Heritage and History A Brief Architectural History of Belhaven Mississippi’s Plantation Houses Pilgrimage Primer: What to Know Before You Go Researching Your Mississippi Civil War Ancestor The Mississippi Architecture of Hays Town

Todd Sanders Todd Sanders Todd Sanders Jeff Giambrone Todd Sanders

444 Bounds St. Jackson MS 601-718-7665

Home and Garden Garden Design 2015 Lawn Care Spring Planting for Summer Herbs and Veggies

Rick Griffin Felder Rushing Felder Rushing Looking for the

perfect gift for the music lover

Language and Literature Art and Science of Writing Biographies and Memoirs Talking Your Way Through the French-Speaking World Talking Your Way Through the Spanish-Speaking World To Tell the Truth: Creative Nonfiction Writing and Selling Short Stories Parts 1 & 2

James Dickerson Robert Kahn Robert Kahn Ellen Ann Fentress John Floyd

in your life?

Money and Business An Introduction to Effective Grant Writing Basics of Investing Becoming a Better Board Volunteer Developing Your Own Fashion Line: Start to Finish Exploring Entrepreneurship Fundraising Ethics Serving Your Community: Board Service 101

Buy a Gift Certificate

Kenneth Wheatley Mark A. Maxwell Joe Donovan Shon McCarthy Joe Donovan Joe Donovan Joe Donovan

for

Lessons

Adult Group Piano for Beginners Part I Beginning Guitar Beginning Harmonica Music and Mysticism Orchestra, Color, Instrumental Personalities and Music

Christy Turner Jimmy Turner Scott Albert Johnson Igor Iwanek Igor Iwanek

BUY

SELL

TRADE

CONSIGN

601.362.0313 LESSONS

REPAIRS

Come in for our

Personal Development

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Give the Gift of Music from Jackson’s Best Music Lesson Program or select the perfect gift from our large selection of New and Used musical equipment.

607 Fondren Place | Jackson, MS www.fondrenguitars.com

Music

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Creative Art Journaling Make a Vision Board for 2015 Organize Your Life!

Power Communication for Executives Thresholds and Thin Places: Perspectives on Pilgrimage

Luke & Charlotte Lundemo Beverly Keaton Beverly Keaton Gretchen Cook Linda Berry Rebecca Youngblood

Special Offerings A Taste of Italy: Italian Wines and Cities ACT Test Prep Course Backyard Astronomy Beginning Magic Dance for Parkinson’s Hispanic Cinema I: The Spanish Civil War Spirituality, Romance, and Relationships Wine, Beer, and Spirits

O RO M

R EE N

MILLSAPS COLLEGE

Patsy Ricks Leonard Blanton Jim Waltman Robert Day Krista Bower and Phoebe Pearigen David Wood Bob Nevels John Malanchak

28 GIFT CERTIFICATES ARE NOW AVAILABLE.

Daily Lunch Specials!

Mon-Fri 11am-2pm

THANK YOU FOR NOMINATING US:

HAPPY HOUR Daily 4-7pm

Best College Hangout, Best Jukebox, Best Open Mic & Best Place to Dance Remember to log on and vote for the winner December 3rd-21st!

Open Mon-Fri 11am-2am Sat 4pm-2am

601-960-2700

facebook.com/Ole Tavern 416 George St, Jackson, MS

LIVE MUSIC S ATURDAY 12/06

Ben Bradford SPONSORED BY

EVENTS p 30 | 8 DAYS p 31 | SPORTS p 33

COURTESY OMINGNOME

The Year of Omingnome

by Micah Smith

Psychedelic soul-rock band Omingnome of Savannah, Ga., brings fun yet thoughtprovoking music to Soul Wired Café Wednesday, Dec. 3.

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

I

f album titles like “The Coming of the Winter Warlock” and “Dance of the Enchanted Fetus” bring to mind epic tales of fantasy, you’re on the right track. That’s exactly the exhilarating, fun atmosphere that the psychedelic-soul rockers of Omingnome want listeners to feel in their music.

The band is busy kicking off “The Year of Healing,” a four-stage tour that follows the transformative life cycle of a butterfly: caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly and laying her eggs. In the first explorative segment, the band members will make stops at venues where they’ve never played. As it happens, one of those is Jackson’s Soul Wired Café on Wednesday, Dec. 3.

In just two years, Omingnome has already released two EPs, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to purchase a vegetable-oil-powered bus and earned a loyal fan base in its hometown of Savannah, Ga., where all of the members met through work and social circles.

When guitarist Tyler Cutitta moved to Savannah from Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2012, an acquaintance told him about singer Melissa Hagerty, who was searching for a music producer. Shortly after, he began driving pedicabs—bike taxis—around the city as a side job, where he met co-workers and band mates, drummer Eric Braun and bassist Tony Bavaro, who moved to Savannah the same exact day Cutitta did. It wasn’t long before the quartet began performing as a unit.

One of Omingnome’s strengths is the ability to improvise on stage, from Cutitta’s effects-laden guitar work to Hagerty’s shifting melodies and delivery.

“I feel like we have a good connection live where we can risk going into something we haven’t tried. Even vocally, Melissa’s got an incredible ability to just get a melody over something,” Cutitta says. “It makes it very interesting to write guitar parts for me personally.”

Omingnome also has an unofficial fifth member, though his instruments work a bit differently. Projectionist Simon Ross, a friend of Cutitta who also moved from Brooklyn, is the mind behind Omingnome’s “liquid light,” a visual element that he created for the band’s live performances. Ross is traveling with the band for its current tour, along with friends Kelly Klo and Lauren Schwind, who are documenting the tour through video and photos.

While psychedelic influence is clear in Omingnome, elements of funk, soul and R&B also take center stage at times. The variety makes it challenging to classify the band, so Cutitta prefers a less common term: “gnomish.” It’s a reference to the group’s supernatural themes and a reminder for the band not to take things too seriously.

Cutitta tells a story of Tibetan monks who force themselves to laugh. Eventually, that forced laughter becomes genuine. That’s a bit like what Omingnome does.

“We have these good intentions we put into the music. We want it to heal, we want it to help people, and we want it to be a little political, where it gets people thinking about what’s going on in our world,” he says. That doesn’t mean standing on a soapbox and shouting about social issues, though. Instead, Cutitta says, an Omingnome show should feel like seeing an old friend.

“You go from an experience like that where you’re around all these like-minded thinkers, and then you go back to maybe something in more structured society,” he says. “You kind of feel like, ‘Hm. That feeling was a little nicer than this, wasn’t it?’”

Omingnome performs at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Soul Wired Café (111 Millsaps Ave., 601-863-6378).The band’s music is available for free or by donation at omingnome.com.

29

(/,)$!9 Attaché Show Choir 35th Anniversary Revue Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., at Clinton High School (401 Arrow Drive, Clinton).

The ensemble of singers, dancers and musicians perform 1950s classics and Broadway numbers. $9-$10; call 601-924-0707.

Events at Jefferson Street (Clinton) • Santa Claus Crawl Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. Participate in the scavenger hunt through Olde Towne Clinton for a chance to win a prize. Includes a complimentary glass mug of cider and hors d’oeuvres. $20 in advance, $25 day of event; call 601-924-5472.

• Clinton Christmas Parade Dec. 6. The 40th annual event takes place in Olde Towne Clinton. This year’s theme is “Christmas Around the World.” Free; call 601-924-5474; clintonms.org.

Sounds of the Season Dec. 5, noon, at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Enjoy Christmas carols from local choirs in the rotunda. Free; call 601-576-6920; oldcapitolmuseum.com.

Christmas Tree Lighting Dec. 5, 6 p.m., at Jackson City Hall (219 S. President St.). The City of Jackson hosts the annual event to kick off the holiday season. Free; call 601-960-1084 or 601-906-8572; jacksonms.gov.

Events at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.) • Millsaps Singers Christmas Concert Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. In the recital hall. The ensemble presents their annual Christmas concert along with select members of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. $15; call 601-974-1422; millsaps.edu.

• Advent Lessons and Carols Dec. 9, noon. The annual program takes place in the recital hall and includes music from the Millsaps Singers.

Free; call 601-974-1422; millsaps.edu.

Singing Christmas Tree Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). In the Soccer Bowl. The 130member choir consists of the Belhaven Choral Arts singers, additional students and employees.

Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

Deck the Hall Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum (1152 Lakeland Drive). Help decorate the museum’s first Christmas tree, create ornaments and holiday cards, and enjoy a visit from Santa. Included with admission ($5, $3.50 seniors and students, ages 5 and under free), LeFleur Museum District passes accepted; call 601-982-8264; msfame.com.

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Cookies with Santa Dec. 6, 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m., at Campbell’s Bakery (3013 N. State St.). The Children’s Advocacy Centers of Mississippi is the host. Includes pictures with Santa on his sleigh, a raffle, and milk and cookies for the children. Free admission, $10 pictures; call 362-4628.

30

JSU Christmas Choral Concert Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). In Rose E. McCoy Auditorium. Performers include the JSU Chorale, the JSU Singers, the JSU Choir, the Murrah High School Concert Singers and the Lanier High School Concert Choir. Free; call 601-979-2141.

#/--5.)49 Fondren After 5 Dec. 4, 5 p.m., at Fondren.

This monthly event is a showcase of the local shops, galleries and restaurants of the Fondren neighborhood. Includes live music, food and vendors. Free; call 601-720-2426; email newfondrenafter5@gmail.com (artists, crafters and musicians); fondrenafter5.com.

Autism Conference with Dr. Temple Grandin Dec. 8, 7 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi e-Center at Jackson State University (1230 Raymond Road). Grandin shares her experiences as a person with autism, and gives advice on overcoming obstacles and more. Grandin’s mother, Eustacia Culter, and Dr. Raun Melmed also speak. Registration required. $65-$155; call 800-489-0727; email msecenter@msecenter.com; fhautism.com.

+)$3 “Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!” Dec. 3, 9:30 a.m., Dec. 3, 11 a.m., Dec. 4, 9:30 a.m., Dec. 4, 11 a.m., Dec. 5, 9:30 a.m., Dec. 5, 11 a.m., Dec. 10, 9:30 a.m., Dec. 10, 11 a.m., at

34!'% 3#2%%.

Events at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison) • "RiffTrax Live: Santa Claus" Dec. 4, 7 p.m.

Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett give comedic commentary via simulcast on the 1959 holiday film. $13.50; call 601-898-7819; malco.com.

• "A Christmas Carol" and "Christmas in Connecticut" Double Feature Dec. 7, 2 p.m., Dec. 7, 7 p.m. The first film from 1938 is based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, and the second film is a romantic comedy from 1945 that stars Barbara Stanwyck. $13.50; call 601-898-7819; malco.com.

"% 4(% #(!.'% Salute to Our Heroes Gala Dec. 4, 6 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road).

The keynote speaker is Heisman Trophy Winner and NFL Hall of Fame member Earl Campbell. 2014 Miss Mississippi Jasmine Murray performs. Proceeds benefit the Brain Injury Association of Mississippi. $100, sponsorships available; call 601-981-1021; msbia.org.

Countdown to Victory for Special Olympics Dec. 4, 6 p.m.-11 p.m., at Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum (1152 Lakeland Drive). Biggest Loser winner Patrick House is the host. Includes a $5,000 drawdown, local food, live and silent auctions, the presentation of the Pat Fordice Volunteer and Athletes of the Year awards, and music from Stogdaddy and the Good Time Band. $50 (no drawdown entry), $100 couples (includes one drawdown), $25 optional insurance; call 9828264; specialolympicsms.org.

Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). The Mississippi Puppetry Guild presents the Puppet Arts Theatre production of Allison Gregory’s play that she adapted from Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones book series. Cash or checks only. $10, $8 per person in groups, one free adult ticket with each group of 10 children; call 601-977-9840; mspuppetry.com.

Snowflake Science Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Experiment with hot snow, make paper snowflakes and more. $4-$6; call 601-576-6000; msnaturalscience.org.

Garden Glow Nights Dec. 5, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Dec. 6, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive).

Includes a simulated snowfall, a visit from Santa, cookie decorating, entertainment and a light display. $10, free for children under 12 months and museum members; call 601-9815469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

30/243 7%,,.%33 “UFC 181: Hendricks v. Lawler II” Dec. 6, 9 p.m., at Tinseltown (411 Riverwind Drive, Pearl).

Watch the rematch between UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks and contender Robbie Lawler. $14, $13 seniors and students, $12 children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

Divorce Recovery Group Tuesdays, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. through Dec. 9, at mindCARES (751 Avignon Drive, Suite C, Ridgeland). Participants share their experiences on grief and separation, and support each other. Call for details on cost (insurance and self pay accepted); call 601-707-7355.

Mustard Seed Open House Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at The Mustard Seed (1085 Luckney Road, Brandon). Purchase handcrafted items in the gift shop and enjoy a silent auction, a bake sale and performance from the Bells of Faith at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free; call 601992-3556; mustardseedinc.org.

Carmila Chinn Hampton Legacy Foundation Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser Dec. 7, 6 p.m.-10 p.m., at Jackson Marriott (200 E. Amite St.). The purpose of the event is to raise funds for the foundation’s cancer prevention efforts. $40-$50; call 601-317-0404; email jgchill62@gmail.com; cchlfoundation.org.

Mississippi Gives Day Dec. 10, statewide.

The purpose of the event is to raise as much money as possible for participating nonprofits in a 24-hour period. Donations welcome; mississippigives.org.

Events at Tinseltown (411 Riverwind Drive, Pearl) • "RiffTrax Live: Santa Claus" Dec. 4, 7 p.m. Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett give comedic commentary via simulcast on the 1959 holiday film. $11.50, $10.50 seniors and students, $9.50 children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

• "A Christmas Carol" and "Christmas in Connecticut" Double Feature Dec. 7, 2 p.m., Dec. 7, 7 p.m. The first film from 1938 is based on Charles Dickens’ novel, and the second film is a 1945 romantic comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck. $11.50, $9 children and seniors; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com.

“Black Nativity” Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-noon, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Dec. 7, 3 p.m.-6 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.).

At McCoy Auditorium. $10, $5 students with ID; call 979-2121; maddrama.com.

“Miracle on 34th Street” Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, 2:30 p.m., at Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). The Madison Center Players Community Theater presents a play based on the 1947 film. $12, $10 students and seniors; call 601-953-0181; email madisoncenterplayers@ gmail.com; madisoncenterplayers.org.

“Peter Pan” Dec. 4-6, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 7, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is based on J.M. Barrie’s tale. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com.

Ballet Mississippi’s “The Nutcracker” Dec. 6, 2 p.m., Dec. 7, 2 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The performance is based on E.T.A Hoffman’s classic holiday story.

The Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party takes place before each show at noon at the Mississippi Museum of Art. $30 tea party, show: $12.50$32.50; call 601-960-1560; balletms.com.

Yancey Oatis: Ethically Offensive Dec. 6, 8 p.m., at Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Oatis does stand-up comedy in conjunction with the Next Level Comedy Series. Includes music from The Nasty Sho. In advance: $10 general, $15 VIP, $16 admission plus DVD; $15; call 601-454-5126, 601-9067806 or 601-527-9621; eventbrite.com.

#/.#%243 &%34)6!,3 Downtown Jazz Dec. 4, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Enjoy performances from local jazz and blues musicians. $5, free for members; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Chimneyville Crafts Festival Dec. 5, 7 p.m.-10 p.m., Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Dec. 7, noon-5 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Shop for holiday gifts from more than 150 juried members. The preview party is Dec. 5 and the festival is Dec. 6-7. Dec. 5: $50 in advance, $60 day of event; Dec. 6-7: $10; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

,)4%2!29 3)'.).'3 Carolyn Brown Book Signing and Reception Dec. 5, 5 p.m., at Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center (Ayer Hall, 1400 John R. Lynch St.). The author signs copies of “Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker.” Free, $20 book; call 601-979-3935.

#2%!4)6% #,!33%3 Simple Box with Divider Dec. 6, 1 p.m.-4 p.m., at Purple Word Center for Book and Paper Arts (140 Wesley Ave.). Suzanne Glemot is the instructor. Learn to build and cover a storage box with a divider on the inside. Registration required. For ages 18 and up. $50, $35 members; pu.

%8()")4 /0%.).'3 Events at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.) • Opening Reception for VSA of Mississippi Annual Exhibit Dec. 4, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. In the main galleries. See artwork from local artists with disabilities. Proceeds from each piece sold goes to the individual artist. Show hangs through January 2015. Free; call 601-960-1500.

• LEGO Jackson Opening Reception Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-noon. In the Center Gallery. See Dr. Scott Crawford’s replica of the city of Jackson made from LEGO blocks, play the game “LEGO Find It” and enjoy refreshments. Show hangs through Jan. 16. Free; call 601-960-1500.

,'"4 Family and Friends of LGBTQI Persons Support Group Dec. 8. Call or email for location and time. The group offers a safe place for people to share feelings and experiences. Professional counselors lead sessions. Free; call 601-842-7599; email supportforfamandfriends@outlook.com.

Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

THURSDAY 12/4

FRIDAY 12/5

SATURDAY 12/6

“Peter Pan” is at New Stage Theatre.

Chimneyville Crafts Festival begins at Mississippi Trade Mart.

LEGO Jackson opens at the Arts Center of Mississippi.

BEST BETS DEC. 3 - 10, 2014

Omingnome performs at 8 p.m. at Soul Wired Cafe (111 Millsaps Ave.). Fides and The Tallahatchies also perform. Call 601-863-6378; soulwiredcafe.com. … Sleep Recordings performs at 10 p.m. at Ole Tavern (416 George St.). Call 601-960-2700; find Ole Tavern on Facebook.

COURTESY JACKALS

WEDNESDAY 12/3

Rappers Ahmad Rashad (left) and Saddi Sundiata (right) perform with hip-hop collective Jackals Saturday, Dec. 6, at The Hatch.

THURSDAY 12/4

COURTESY JAMES ALEX WARREN

The “Sequence” Film Screening is at 8 p.m. at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). Director James Alexander Warren and producer Robbie Fisher present the collection of short films. Warren and Fisher are Mississippi natives. Includes a Q&A session and after-party. $10; call 601-898-7819; sequencethefilmjackson.bpt.me.

SATURDAY 12/6

Movie Night at the Alamo is at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. at the Alamo Theater (333 N. Farish St.). See the film “Fruitvale Station.” $10, Dec. 2 showing at 2 p.m. is free; call 601-291-6587. … Jackals perform at 8 p.m. at The Hatch (126 Keener Ave.). This concert in conjunction with Priced

BY MICAH SMITH to Move also features Skull & Crossfaders. Free; find Priced JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM to Move on Facebook. … Press Start is from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. at FAX: 601-510-9019 Doc 36 Skatepark (931 HighDAILY UPDATES AT way 80 W.). Performers include JFPEVENTS.COM Group Nation, T$G and T-lo Da Champ. Includes music from DJ Roqsii. $8 show only, $10 show and skating; call 601-272-2758; find Press Start on Facebook.

EVENTS@

Director James Alexander Warren presents “Sequence,” a series of four short films, Thursday, Dec. 4, at the Malco Grandview Cinema.

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

FRIDAY 12/5

31

The Old Jackson Christmas by Candlelight Tour is from 4:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. in downtown Jackson. Enjoy holiday decorations, music, refreshments and exhibits at the Eudora Welty House, Governor’s Mansion, Old Capitol Museum, Mississippi State Capitol and the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. Free; call 601-576-6800; mdah.state.ms.us. … Priced to Move: Volume 5 is from 5 p.m.-10 p.m. at The Hatch (126 Keener Ave.). More than 24 artists sell artwork for less than $100. Enjoy music from Loki Antiphony, Dream Cult and the Echo. Free; find Priced to Move: Volume 5 on Facebook.

SUNDAY 12/7

The Carmila Chinn Hampton Legacy Foundation’s Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser is from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. at the Jackson Marriott (200 E. Amite St.). The event raises funds for the foundation’s cancer prevention efforts. $40$50; call 601-317-0404; email jgchill62@gmail.com; cchlfoundation.org. … The JSU Christmas Choral Concert is at 7:30 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The annual event takes place at Rose E. McCoy Auditorium and features Handel’s “Messiah.” Performers include the JSU Chorale, the JSU Singers, the JSU Choir, the Murrah High School Concert Singers and the Lanier High School Concert Choir. Free; call 601-979-2141.

MONDAY 12/8

The SweetWater Beer Dinner is at 6 p.m. at Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza and Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.). Enjoy a six-course dinner paired with SweetWater beers. RSVP. $65 per person; call 601-368-1919; email webb@salandmookies.com. … Joseph LaSalla performs at 6:30 p.m. at Kathryn’s (6800 Old Canton Road, Suite 108, Ridgeland). Free; call 601-956-2803; kathrynssteaks.com. ...

Comedy Night Club is at 7 p.m. at One Block East (642 Tombigbee St.). Call 601-944-0203; oneblockeast.com.

TUESDAY 12/9

Advent Lessons and Carols is at noon at Millsaps College’s Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). The annual program takes place in the recital hall and includes music from the Millsaps Singers. Free; call 601-974-1422; millsaps.edu. … Christmas Vibes: Jazz Christmas is at 7:30 p.m. at The Church Triumphant Global (Odyssey North, 731 S. Pear Orchard Road, Suite 43, Ridgeland). Local artists perform Christmas tunes. Includes $100 cash giveaway.

Benefits Gateway Rescue Mission. Free; call 601-977-0007; email answers@thechurchtriumphant.info; triumphant.tv.

WEDNESDAY 12/10

Statehood Day is at noon at the Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Celebrate Mississippi’s 197th birthday with the annual statehood day address and reception. Free; call 601-576-6920; oldcapitolmuseum.com. ... Howard Jones performs at 6:30 p.m. at Underground 119 (119 S. President St.). Free; call 601-352-2322; underground119.com.

MUSIC | live

0XVLF OLVWLQJV DUH GXH QRRQ 0RQGD\ WR EH LQFOXGHG LQ SULQW DQG RQOLQH OLVWLQJV PXVLF#MDFNVRQIUHHSUHVV FRP

$%# 7%$.%3$!9

C O M I NG U P WEDNESDAY 12/03

NEW BOURBON ST. J A Z(Restaurant) Z BAND THURSDAY 12/04

Jeremy Moore (Restaurant)

FRIDAY 12/05

ANGEL BANDITS

THE

(Restaurant)

THE

SATURDAY 12/06

HUSTLERS

BARRY LEACH 6:30 No Cover Thursday, December 4th

STEVIE CAIN 6:30 No Cover

Friday, December 5th

SOUTHERN KOMFORT BRASS BAND 9:00

Saturday, December 6th

FEARLESS

CENTRAL MS BLUES SOCIETY

FOUR

7PM, $5 (Restaurant)

Tuesday, December 9nd

(Restaurant)

MONDAY 12/01

presents BLUE MONDAY

TUESDAY 12/02

PUB QUIZ

W/ ERIN & FRIENDS 7PM, $2 TO PLAY! (Restaurant)

UPCOMING: Ardenland Presents:

LUCERO + RYAN BINGHAM

w/ special guest TWIN FORKS Feb 27, 2015 at 7:30 PM tickets at Ardenland.net OFFICIAL

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;¢ jfp.ms

Wednesday, December 3rd

HOUSE VODKA

Visit HalandMals.com for a full menu and concert schedule

601.948.0888

200 S. Commerce St. Downtown Jackson, Mississippi 32

9:00

JASON TURNER 6:30 No Cover

THANK YOU FOR NOMINATING US

for Best Live Music Venue

REMEMBER TO LOG ON AND VOTE FOR US AT BESTOFJACKSON.COM

DECEMBER 3RD - 21ST

$%# 3!452$!9

$%# 4(523$!9 %XUJHUV %OXHV -DVRQ 7XUQHU S P &KHURNHH ,QQ '·/R 7ULR S P IUHH 'XOLQJ +DOO 6LODV 5HHG 1· 'D %RRNV S P IUHH )HQLDQ¶V (PHUDOG $FFHQW )LW]JHUDOG¶V -RKQQ\ %DUUDQFR S P 5LFN 5REHUWR 0RUHLUD Z &XFKR *RQ]DOH] S P *HRUJLD %OXH )ORZRRG %ULDQ -RQHV *HRUJLD %OXH 0DGLVRQ &KULV *LOO +DO 0DO¶V -HUHP\ 0RRUH ,URQ +RUVH *ULOO &DU\ +XGVRQ S P .DWKU\Q¶V 5HQHJDGH S P IUHH .HPLVWU\ 7URSLFDO 1LJKW Z 'M 6DOVD 3RRFKLH 7\SKRRQ S P IUHH 0 %DU 6LSSLQ 7ULSSLQ &RPHG\ 6KRZ Z '- 6KDQRPDN S P IUHH 0LVVLVVLSSL &ROOHJH 3URYLQH &KDSHO )HVWLYDO RI /LJKWV S P PF HGX PDUNHWSODFH 2QH %ORFN (DVW &ROOHJH 1LJKW Z '9'- 5HLJQ S P 3OXVK *URRYH 3RHWU\ 3DVVLRQ Z ,JQDFLR S P 6KXFNHU¶V $FRXVWLF &URVVURDGV S P 8QGHUJURXQG 6WHYLH &DLQ S P

$%# &2)$!9 $PHULVWDU %RWWOHQHFN %OXHV %DU 9LFNVEXUJ 0U 6LSS S P IUHH %XUJHUV %OXHV :HV /HH S P )HQLDQ¶V 0D\ 'D\ )LW]JHUDOG¶V -RKQ 3RZHOO 5REHUWR 0RUHLUD Z &XFKR *RQ]DOH] S P *HRUJLD %OXH )ORZRRG $DURQ &RNHU *HRUJLD %OXH 0DGLVRQ 6KDXQ 3DWWHUVRQ +DO 0DO¶V 7KH $QJHO %DQGLWV +DPS¶V 3ODFH %HVW LQ 5 % 6RXWKHUQ 6RXO 7KH +LGHDZD\ 6LG 7KRPSVRQ 'RXEOH6KRW] S P ,URQ +RUVH *ULOO 'LUW\ %RXUERQ 5LYHU 6KRZ S P IUHH

$PHULVWDU %RWWOHQHFN %OXHV %DU 9LFNVEXUJ 0U 6LSS S P IUHH %XUJHUV %OXHV 6FRWW 7XUQHU 7ULR S P &2857(6< 2) ',57< %285%21 5,9(5 6+2:

DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T FORGET TO VOTE FOR US IN BEST OF JACKSON! DEC 3 - 21

.DWKU\Q¶V 7KH /XFN\ +DQG %OXHV %DQG S P %RQQ\ %ODLU¶V 2SHQ 0LF .HPLVWU\ 0XVLF 7KHUDS\ Z '9'- S P IUHH 5HLJQ &HUDPL¶V 6WDFH &DVVLH S P 0 %DU )OLUW )ULGD\V Z '- IUHH &LW\ *ULOO 0DGLVRQ /DUU\ %UHZHU 0DUWLQ¶V 6N\PDWLF S P S P 0F%¶V /DUU\ %UHZHU 'RXJ +XUG )LW]JHUDOG¶V -RKQQ\ %DUUDQFR S P +XQWHU *LEVRQ 5LFN 0LOOVDSV &ROOHJH 0LOOVDSV 0RUHLUD S P 6LQJHUV &KULVWPDV &RQFHUW +DPS¶V 3ODFH %HVW LQ +LS +RS S P Z $]LDWLNN %ODNN 0LVVLVVLSSL &ROOHJH 3URYLQH .DWKU\Q¶V -HII 0DGGR[ S P &KDSHO )HVWLYDO RI /LJKWV .HPLVWU\ %ULDQ -RQHV S P IUHH S P PF HGX PDUNHWSODFH 0 %DU &HQW :HGQHVGD\V Z '- 3RS¶V 6DORRQ 7UDGHPDUN 'XUG\ &RVWHOOR S P IUHH 6KXFNHU¶V +DLULFDQH S P 0F%¶V $FRXVWLF &URVVURDGV S P 7ULSOH 7KUHDW GHFN S P IUHH 2OH 7DYHUQ 6OHHS 5HFRUGLQJV 8QGHUJURXQG 6RXWKHUQ .RP 6RXO :LUHG &DIH 2PLQJQRPH S P IRUW %UDVV %DQG S P 8QGHUJURXQG %DUU\ /HDFK S P )UHH

'LUW\ %RXUERQ 5LYHU 6KRZ

&OXE 0DJRR¶V -VLGH )HQLDQ¶V &KDG 3HUU\ )LW]JHUDOG¶V /DUU\ %UHZHU S P *HRUJLD %OXH )ORZRRG %ULDQ -RQHV *HRUJLD %OXH 0DGLVRQ -RQDWKDQ $OH[DQGHU +DO 0DO¶V 7KH +XVWOHUV 7KH +DWFK %OHQGHU IHDW 7KH -DFNDOV 3DVVLQJ 3DUDGH 6NXOOV &URVVIDGHUV S P 7KH +LGHDZD\ 6SDQN 7KH 0RQNH\ S P ,URQ +RUVH *ULOO $ELJDLO 2VWHHQ S P .DWKU\Q¶V .HUQ 3UDWW S P IUHH 0 %DU 6DWXUGD\ 1LJKW /LYH Z '- 6KDQRPDN IUHH 0DUWLQ¶V 6SDFHZROI S P 0LVVLVVLSSL &ROOHJH 3URYLQH &KDSHO )HVWLYDO RI /LJKWV S P PF HGX PDUNHWSODFH 2OH 7DYHUQ %HQ %UDGIRUG 3RS¶V 6DORRQ 7UDGHPDUN 5HHG 3LHUFH¶V %\UDP /HLWK /RIWLQ S P IUHH 5XVVHOO 'DYLV 3ODQHWDULXP <DQFH\ 2DWLV S P 6DLQW 0DU\¶V (SLVFRSDO &KXUFK %ROWRQ +RZDUG -RQHV -D]] D P 6KXFNHU¶V 'HHE·V %OXHV GHFN

S P IUHH +DLULFDQH S P 6RXOVKLQH 5LGJHODQG 6WDFH &DVVLH

8QGHUJURXQG )HDUOHVV )RXU S P

$%# 35.$!9 3URYLVLRQV )DLUYLHZ ,QQ .QLJKW %UXFH D P %XUJHUV %OXHV 'RXJ )UDQN S P &KDU %LJ (DV\ 7KUHH D P &6¶V 0 2 7 2 S P +RW 6KRWV %\UDP 0LNH 0DUW\·V -DP 6HVVLRQ .DWKU\Q¶V 6ROH 6KDNHUV 7ULR S P IUHH 6KXFNHU¶V $FRXVWLF &URVVURDGV GHFN S P IUHH 6RPEUD 0H[LFDQ .LWFKHQ -RKQ 0RUD D P 7DEOH 5DSKDHO 6HPPHV D P :HOOLQJWRQ¶V $QG\ +DUGZLFN D P

$%# -/.$!9 &DSLWRO *ULOO 2SHQ 0LF 3UL]H IRU %HVW 2ULJLQDO 6RQJ S P +DO DQG 0DO¶V &HQWUDO 06 %OXHV 6RFLHW\ UHVW S P -XOHS -RH\ 3OXQNHWW S P .DWKU\Q¶V -RVHSK /D6DOOD S P /DVW &DOO 6SRUWV *ULOO , /RYH 0RQGD\V Z '- 6SRRQ DIWHU S P 0DUWLQ¶V 2SHQ 0LF )UHH -DP

$%# 45%3$!9 %XUJHUV %OXHV -HVVH ´*XLWDUµ 6PLWK S P )HQLDQ¶V 2SHQ 0LF )LW]JHUDOG¶V /DUU\ %UHZHU 'RXJ +XUG S P .DWKU\Q¶V 6WDFH &DVVLH S P 0DUJDULWD¶V -RKQ 0RUD S P 7KH 3HQJXLQ 516 4XLQWHW 8QGHUJURXQG -DVRQ 7XUQHU S P

$%# 7%$.%3$!9 %RQQ\ %ODLU¶V 2SHQ 0LF S P IUHH +DPS¶V 3ODFH %HVW LQ +LS +RS Z $]LDWLNN %ODNN .DWKU\Q¶V /DUU\ %UHZHU 'RXJ +XUG S P 0 %DU &HQW :HGQHVGD\V Z '- 'XUG\ &RVWHOOR S P IUHH 6KXFNHU¶V 5RDG +RJV S P 8QGHUJURXQG +RZDUG -RQHV -D]] S P IUHH

*HW UHJLRQDO SLFNV QHZ UHOHDVHV DQG RWKHU PXVLF QHZV HYHU\ ZHHN DW 7KH 0XVLF %ORJ DW MIS PV PXVLFEORJ &RQWDFW LQIR DW MIS PV PXVLFYHQXHV

$ENNY ,AINE 1HLO¶V 0XVLF 5RRP 0HPSKLV -ICHAEL 7 3MITH /HVOLH :ULJKW )LQH $UWV &HQWHU %LUPLQJKDP

119 S. President Street 601.352.2322 www.Underground119.com

'IN "LOSSOMS ,3 &DVLQR %LOR[L 5SHER 6PRRWKLH .LQJ &HQWHU 1HZ 2UOHDQV 5SHER )HG([ )RUXP 0HPSKLV

DIVERSIONS | jfp sports

SLATE

by Bryan Flynn

The week before the Egg Bowl, Ole Miss lost 30-0 to the University of Arkansas, and Mississippi State won 51-0 over Vanderbilt University. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look that way at the bowl.

THURSDAY, DEC 4 College football (6:30-10 p.m., ESPN): The UCF Knights look to win a share of the American Athletic Conference title when they hit the road to take on the East Carolina Pirates.

FRIDAY, DEC 5 College football (8-11:30 p.m., Fox): The Oregon Ducks get to avenge their only loss of the season in the Pac12 Championship Game against the Arizona Wildcats.

SATURDAY, DEC 6 College football (3-6:30 p.m., ESPNU): Alcorn State looks to win its first SWAC Championship, while playing in its first title game since 1999, against Southern University.

SUNDAY, DEC 7 NFL (12-3:30 p.m., Fox): With the way things are going in the NFC South, this New Orleans Saints game against the Carolina Panthers is going to be huge for playoff hopes.

MONDAY, DEC 8 NFL (7:30-11 p.m. ESPN): The Green Bay Packers can help the rest of the terrible NFC South by winning over the Atlanta Falcons at home.

TUESDAY, DEC 9 College basketball (8-10 p.m., ESPNews): Alcorn State hits the road to play the Iowa Hawkeyes in a payment game to keep the athletic program going.

WEDNESDAY, DEC 10 NHL (7-10 p.m., NBCSN): Your weekly hockey fix features two Original Six teams as the Detroit Red Wings host the Toronto Maple Leafs.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Egg Bowl showed the beauty of rivalry games in college football. Throw out the record books and forget what each team did the week before the game.

Follow Bryan Flynn at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports and at facebook.com/jfpsports.

bryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rant 7HEN 3PECIAL )SN´T 3PECIAL !NYMORE

T

he sports gods are a fickle bunch.

It seems like a lifetime ago when the Associated Press tied Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi were tied for third.

The next week, the Bulldogs became the No. 1 ranked team in the land and stayed there for several weeks.

Hopes around the state were high, and a magical season for both the Bulldogs and Rebels seemed possible. Mississippi was the center of the college football world from the end of September until the beginning of November.

At the end of October, the Rebels lost their first game to Louisiana State University, and then three of their last five games. MSU had its first loss in mid-November to Alabama and then lost to Ole Miss. What once seemed like a special, once-in-a-lifetime season lost steam before the regular season came to an end.

Both Ole Miss and Mississippi State had wonderful seasons, but you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but wonder what might have been this year. What if Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go off script against Louisiana State University at the end of the game? What if that Auburn University defender hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grabbed the back of Rebels wide receiver Laquon Treadwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jersey as he bulled his way toward the end zone?

What if Mississippi State hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looked like a deer in the headlights against University of Alabama in the first half? What if the Bulldogs didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that same look in their eyes in the Egg Bowl against Ole Miss just two weeks later?

How good would Mississippi State

still be if Dak Prescott hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got banged up and gone into a funk? Would the Rebels still be in the playoff talk if they had decided to show up at any point against the University of Arkansas?

Why does it also seem fitting that when Mississippi, as a state, reaches for the brass ring, everything goes spectacularly wrong for both the Rebels and Bulldogs?

It just seems like we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t break through and finish something wonderful.

But there were things to be proud of this season. Mississippi State earned its first No. 1 ranking in the regular season in school historyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and became the firstever team ranked No. 1 in the College Football Rankings. The Bulldogs had their first 10-win season in school history.

Ole Miss defeated top-ranked Alabama at home and took the goalpost for a ride through Oxford. The Rebels walloped Texas A&M on the road the very next week. ESPN College Game Day came to Mississippi for back-to-back weeks, first for Ole Miss against Alabama, and then the next week for Mississippi State against Auburn.

It just seems like there should have been more. It seems like one of these teams should have been in the first college-football playoff.

All the early-season success and momentum for both the Rebels and Bulldogs evaporated as it got deeper in the season.

Now, both will go to a nice bowl game but could haveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe should haveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; done much more. Even if the sports gods are fickle, there is always next year for that special, once-in-a-lifetime season.

JFP Top 25: Week 14

F

ORULGD 6WDWH 8QLYHUVLW\ LV WKH ODVW XQ EHDWHQ WHDP DW WKH KLJKHVW OHYHO RI FRO OHJH IRRWEDOO DIWHU 8QLYHUVLW\ RI :HVWHUQ .HQWXFN\ XSVHW 0DUVKDOO 8QLYHUVLW\ 0LVVLV VLSSL 6WDWH 8QLYHUVLW\ IDOOV IURP WKH SOD\RII SLFWXUH E\ ORVLQJ WR LWV DUFK ULYDO 8QLYHUVLW\ RI 0LVVLVVLSSL &RORUDGR 6WDWH 8QLYHUVLW\ÂśV ORVV WR WKH 8QLWHG 6WDWHV $LU )RUFH RSHQV WKH GRRU IRU %RLVH 6WDWH 8QLYHUVLW\ WR JHW D QLFH ERZO 8QLYHUVLW\ RI $ODEDPD LV D 6(& &KDPSLRQVKLS *DPH DZD\ IURP PDNLQJ WKH SOD\RII 7KH SOD\ RIIV ZLOO EH VHW DIWHU WKLV ZHHNÂśV FRQIHUHQFH FKDPSLRQVKLS JDPHV 2ANK 4EAM

)ORULGD 6WDWH $ODEDPD 2UHJRQ 7&8

2ECORD 0REVIOUS 2ANK

%D\ORU 2KLR 6WDWH 0LFKLJDQ 6WDWH .DQVDV 6WDWH $UL]RQD 0LVVLVVLSSL 6WDWH :LVFRQVLQ 0LVVLVVLSSL *HRUJLD 7HFK 0LVVRXUL &OHPVRQ 8&/$ $UL]RQD 6WDWH /RXLVYLOOH $XEXUQ %RLVH 6WDWH *HRUJLD /68 8WDK 0DUVKDOO &RORUDGR 6WDWH

15 15

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ jfp.ms

the best in sports over the next seven days

33

So Many Great Restaurants...

DO I HAVE TO CHOOSE JUST ONE!?

Vote for One (Or All!) of these hot spots in Best of Jackson! bestofjackson.com

Fondren Corner 2906 N. State St. (601) 982-2001 www.glennfoods.com 120 North Congress St L1 (601) 944-9888 Fondren Corner 2906 N. State St. (601) 982-2100 www.glennfoods.com

-RLQ RXU 42)6)! ,%!'5%

%VERY 4UESDAY AT 3TRAIGHT TO !LE "EER FOR A 0INT ,OTS OF 3WAG AND 0RIZES

6SRQVRUHG E\ 6WUDLJKW WR $OH %UHZLQJ &R

4760 I-55 North (769) 233-8366 www.featheredcow.com

Ser v i n g Ja c k s o n s i n c e 1 9 8 4

%PHXPPE 'FTUJWBM Â&#x2026; %PHXPPE #MWE 'MPXPPE .4 Â&#x2021; 4VO 5IV Â&#x2026; 'SJ 4BU /LNH 8V 2Q )DFHERRN IRU 'DLO\ 6SHFLDOV DQG 8SGDWHV 0HOORZ0XVKURRP-DFNVRQ

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ jfp.ms

Intern at the JFP

34

Hone your skills, gain valuable experience and college credit* by interning with the Jackson Free Press. You set your hours, and attend free training workshops.

We currently have openings in the following areas: â&#x20AC;˘ Editorial/News â&#x20AC;˘ Photography â&#x20AC;˘ Cultural/Music Writing â&#x20AC;˘ Fashion/Style

â&#x20AC;˘ Arts Writing/Editing â&#x20AC;˘ Graphic Design â&#x20AC;˘ Communications: Marketing/Events/PR

Interested? E-mail interns@jacksonfreepress.com, telling us why you want to intern with us and what makes you the ideal candidate. *College credit available to currently enrolled college students in select disciplines.

%< 0$77 -21(6

/RRVH SLHFH LQ D IDVW IRRG EDJ 5HJJDH VXEJHQUH $FWHG VKHHSLVKO\" 'ROO FDOO 3LQNLH 3LH RU )OXWWHUVK\ H J 5D]RU EUDQG )RFXV RI D )UDQJOLVK OHVVRQ RQ JUDPPDU" ³0LGQLWH 9XOWXUHV´ PXVLFLDQ ³ )ODYRUV´ VLQJHU 'L)UDQFR ³7KH /LWWOH 0HUPDLG´ YLOODLQ ³(YLO 'HDG´ KHUR 6FKRRO IXQG UDLVLQJ JS (QJOLVK RU ,ULVK KXQWLQJ GRJ

UHVXPHV )RRWEDOO DQDO\VW &ROOLQVZRUWK 7RSLFDO PHGLFDWLRQ )UHVKO\ SDLQWHG .HSW ZDWFK RQ $VN WRR PDQ\ TXHVWLRQV &KDQJH MXVW D ELW ³<RX ZDQW D SLHFH BBB"´ 6HYHQWK RI D JURXS RI HLJKW IRUPHUO\ QLQH

)RRG UHFHQWO\ FURVVHG ZLWK D FURLVVDQW -HVVH RQ ³7KH 'XNHV RI +D]

]DUG ´ IRU RQH +RZ VRPH OHDUQ PXVLF BBB JKDQRXM $IJKDQLVWDQ LV WKHUH 0RVTXLWR RU Ã&#x20AC;\ ,QG\ XQLW 1XPEHU EHIRUH TXDWWUR Â&#x2039; -RQHVLQ¶ &URVVZRUGV HGLWRU# MRQHVLQFURVVZRUGV FRP

,AST 7EEK´S !NSWERS

)RU DQVZHUV WR WKLV SX]]OH FDOO FHQWV SHU PLQXWH 0XVW EH 2U WR ELOO WR \RXU FUHGLW FDUG FDOO 5HIHUHQFH SX]]OH

$OWN

!CROSS

3 , SOD\HG E\ 6HOOHFN 0XVFOHPDQ¶V DVVHW 5ROH IRU *HRUJH %XUQV RU $ODQLV 0RULVVHWWH (QHUJL]H ³'DPQHG GLUW\´ FUHDWXUH +DFNPDQ RI ³7KH 5R\DO 7HQHQ EDXPV´ 'UDE VKDGH IURP D .DUGDVKLDQ GLYRUFHH" 7RUWRLVH KDUH FRQWHVW /HQQRQ¶V LQ ODZV ³<RXQJ )UDQNHQVWHLQ´ DFWUHVV )HHOLQJ HQQXL 6HUYHG OLNH VXVKL

%XPSHG LQWR &RORUDGR FLW\ /X[XU\ DXWRV GULYHQ E\ 0HOFKLRU DQG %DOWKD]DU" )RUPHU ,QGLDQ SULPH PLQLVWHU *DQGKL %XFNHW R¶ ODXJKV ,W¶V WRXFKLQJ" 6R PXFK (FRQRP\ FODVV .ULVWHQ RI ³%ULGHVPDLGV´ /LWWOH ZKLWH OLH 6SRUWVFDVWHU $QGUHZV %XWWHUFXS UHODWLYH -RKQ 0F(QURH HVTXH" 0RVW FXUUHQW

%< 0$77 -21(6

,AST 7EEK´S !NSWERS

±#ELEBRITY 3UDOKU²

6ROYH WKLV DV \RX ZRXOG D UHJXODU VXGRNX H[FHSW XVLQJ WKH QLQH JLYHQ OHWWHUV LQVWHDG RI QXPEHUV :KHQ \RX¶UH GRQH HDFK URZ FROXPQ DQG [ ER[ ZLOO FRQWDLQ HDFK RI WKH QLQH JLYHQ OHWWHUV H[DFWO\ RQH WLPH ,Q DGGLWLRQ RQH URZ RU FROXPQ ZLOO UHYHDO HLWKHU EDFNZDUG RU IRUZDUG WKH QDPH RI D IDPRXV SHUVRQ SV\FKRVXGRNX#KRWPDLO FRP

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;¢ jfp.ms

±7HAT )F ² ²\RX¶OO ¿QG RXW VRRQ HQRXJK

%LJ WLPH ³*ODGLDWRU´ ORFDOH ³*HW RXWWD KHUH ´ ³7KH 6RXQG RI 0XVLF´ H[WUDV ([SORLW *HWV SDVW WKH RQUDPS 5RVHDQQH ZKR UDQ IRU SUHVLGHQW LQ /LNH D GLYD¶V SHUIRUPDQFH ³/ $ /DZ´ DFWUHVV 6XVDQ (QJLQHHU¶V FDOFXODWLRQ <HW DQRWKHU WLPH 0RQRSRO\ FDUG :HGGLQJ FDNH ¿JXULQH &DW LQ &RORPELD ³7KH 2XWFDVWV RI 3RNHU )ODW´ DXWKRU +DUWH 1HWZRUN WKDW VWLOO DLUV ³7KH 5HDO :RUOG´ %DG WKLQJ WR KHDU IURP D SOXPEHU VD\ ³6NHGDGGOH ´ 6ZLVV FXUUHQF\ $]DOHD QRW IRXQG LQ D Ã&#x20AC;RZHU EHG ³+XFNOHEHUU\ )LQQ´ WUDQVSRUWD WLRQ %HFRPHV LUULWDWLQJ WRZDUG ,W LQYROYHV SXWWLQJ RXW PDQ\

35

Do You Love Bravo!, Broad Street and Sal & Mookie’s?

Which is YOUR favorite of the three restaurants?

Show your LOVE by voting for us in Best of Jackson!

- Best Italian Restaurant - Best Restaurant - Best Vegetarian Options - Best Wine Selection

- Best Chef Alex Hammack - Best Bakery - Best Local Breakfast - Best Gumbo - Best Kid’s Menu - Best Place for Healthy Food - Best Place to Get Coffee - Best Sandwich Place

- Best Meal Under $10 - Best Takeout - Best Local Pizza - Best Place for Dessert - Best Seafood - Best Kid’s Menu

Don’t Forget To Vote Mangia Bene…

- Best Caterer, Mangia Bene Catering - Jeff Good, Best Local Business Owner - Jeff Good, Public Figure - Jeff Good, Urban Warrior - Jeff Good, Visionary

Need the perfect

STOCKING STUFFER? Give the Gift of Health

Anytime Fitness GIFT CARD

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

With an

36

901 Lakeland Place, Suite #10 Flowood, MS (in front of Walmart) flowood@anytimefitness.com 601.992.3488 2155 Highway 18, Suite E Brandon, MS (across from Home Depot) brandon@anytimefitness.com 601-706-4605 4924 I-55 North, Suite #107 Jackson, MS (in front of Kroger) jacksonms@anytimefitness.com 601-321-9465 www.anytimefitness.com Voted One of the Best Places to Work Out Best of Jackson 2010-2012

:LWK ERWK V\PEROLF DQG SUDFWLFDO DFWLRQV 6DJLWWDULXV ERUQ 3RSH )UDQFLV KDV WULHG WR UHIUDPH WKH PHVVDJH RI WKH &DWKROLF &KXUFK +H¶V KDYLQJ SXEOLF VKRZHUV LQVWDOOHG IRU WKH KRPHOHVV LQ 9DWLFDQ &LW\ +H KDV PDGH PRYHV WR GLVPDQWOH WKH FKXUFK¶V ELJRWU\ WRZDUG JD\V +H UHJXODUO\ FULWLFL]HV JURZLQJ HFRQRPLF LQHTXDOLW\ DQG NHHSV UHPLQGLQJ SROLWLFLDQV WKDW WKHUH FDQ EH QR SHDFH DQG MXVWLFH XQOHVV WKH\ WDNH FDUH RI SRRU DQG PDUJLQDOL]HG SHRSOH +H HYHQ LQYLWHG LFRQLF SXQN SRHW 3DWWL 6PLWK WR SHUIRUP DW WKH 9DWLFDQ &KULVWPDV &RQFHUW <RX QRZ KDYH H[WUD SRZHU WR H[HUW WKLV NLQG RI LQLWLDWLYH LQ \RXU RZQ VSKHUH 6DJLWWDULXV %H SURDFWLYH DV \RX SXVK IRU FRQVWUXFWLYH WUDQVIRUPDWLRQV WKDW ZLOO EHQH¿W DOO

#!02)#/2. $EC *AN

7KH OLPSHW LV DQ DTXDWLF VQDLO :KHQ LW¶V VFDUHG LW HV FDSHV DW D UDWH DSSURDFKLQJ WZR LQFKHV SHU KRXU ,I \RX JHW Ã&#x20AC;XVWHUHG LQ WKH FRPLQJ ZHHN &DSULFRUQ , VXJJHVW \RX Ã&#x20AC;HH DW D VSHHG QR IDVWHU WKDQ WKH OLPSHW¶V ,¶P PDN LQJ D OLWWOH MRNH KHUH 7KH WUXWK LV LI \RX GR JHW LQWR D VLWXDWLRQ WKDW SURYRNHV DQ[LHW\ , GRQ¶W WKLQN \RX VKRXOG OHDYH WKH VFHQH DW DOO :K\" 7KHUH DUH WZR SRVVLELOL WLHV )LUVW \RX PD\ EH XQGHU WKH LQÃ&#x20AC;XHQFH RI PLVWDNHQ LGHDV RU KDELWXDO UHVSRQVHV WKDW DUH FDXVLQJ \RX WR EH QHUYRXV DERXW VRPHWKLQJ WKHUH¶V QR QHHG WR EH QHUYRXV DERXW 2U VHFRQG LI \RX DUH LQGHHG LQ DQ DXWKHQWLF ELQG \RX UHDOO\ GR QHHG WR GHDO ZLWK LW QRW UXQ DZD\

!15!2)53 *AN &EB

6FLHQFH ¿FWLRQ QRYHOLVW 3KLOLS . 'LFN KDV EHHQ RQH RI P\ IDYRULWH DXWKRUV VLQFH , GLVFRYHUHG KLV ZRUN \HDUV DJR , ORYH KRZ KH UHFRQ¿JXUHG P\ PLQG ZLWK KLV PHWD SK\VLFDO ULIIV DERXW SROLWLFV DQG KLV SURSKHWLF TXHVWLRQV DERXW ZKDW¶V UHDO DQG ZKDW¶V QRW 5HFHQWO\ , GLVFRYHUHG KH RQFH OLYHG LQ D KRXVH WKDW¶V D IHZ EORFNV IURP ZKHUH , QRZ OLYH :KLOH KH ZDV WKHUH KH ZURWH WZR RI KLV EHVW ERRNV , ZHQW WR WKH SODFH DQG IRXQG LW ZDV XQRFFXSLHG 7KDW QLJKW , VOHSW LQ D VOHHSLQJ EDJ RQ WKH EDFN SRUFK KRSLQJ WR VRDN XS LQVSLUDWLRQ ,W ZRUNHG $IWHUZDUGV , KDG DPD]LQJ FUHDWLYH EUHDNWKURXJKV IRU GD\V , UHFRP PHQG D FRPSDUDEOH ULWXDO IRU \RX $TXDULXV *R LQ TXHVW RI JUHDWQHVV WKDW \RX ZDQW WR UXE RII RQ \RX

0)3#%3 &EB -ARCH

'R \RX HQMR\ WHOOLQJ SHRSOH ZKDW WR GR" $UH \RX DOZD\V VFKHPLQJ WR LQFUHDVH \RXU LQÃ&#x20AC;XHQFH RYHU HYHU\RQH ZKRVH OLIH \RX WRXFK" ,I \RX DUH D W\SLFDO 3LVFHV WKH DQVZHU WR WKRVH TXHVWLRQV LV QR 7KH NLQG RI SRZHU \RX DUH LQWHUHVWHG LQ LV SRZHU RYHU \RXUVHOI <RX PRVWO\ ZDQW WR EH WKH ERVV RI \RX 5LJKW QRZ LV D IDYRUDEOH WLPH WR LQWHQVLI\ \RXU HIIRUWV WR VXFFHHG LQ WKLV JORULRXV FDXVH , VXJJHVW \RX PDNH DJJUHVVLYH SODQV WR LQFUHDVH \RXU FRQWURO RYHU \RXU RZQ GHVWLQ\

\RXU EOLQG VSRWV DQG XQFRQVFLRXV KDELWV *HPLQL" +D 7ULFN TXHVWLRQ 7KH\ ZRXOGQ¶W EH EOLQG VSRWV DQG XQFRQVFLRXV KDELWV LI \RX DOUHDG\ NQHZ DERXW WKHP 7KDW¶V WKH EDG QHZV 7KH JRRG QHZV LV WKDW LQ WKH QH[W VL[ ZHHNV \RX FDQ FDWFK JOLPSVHV RI WKHVH EORFNV DQG PDNH D JRRG VWDUW WRZDUG UHGXFLQJ WKHLU SRZHU WR GLVWRUW \RXU UHODWLRQVKLSV

#!.#%2 *UNE *ULY

1RZ DQG WKHQ LW LV LQ IDFW SRVVLEOH WR ¿[ PDOIXQFWLRQ LQJ PDFKLQHV E\ JLYLQJ WKHP D IHZ VZLIW NLFNV RU DXWKRULWDWLYH ZKDFNV 7KLV VWUDWHJ\ LV FDOOHG ³SHUFXVVLYH PDLQWHQDQFH ´ ,Q WKH FRPLQJ GD\V \RX PLJKW EH LQFOLQHG WR XVH LW D ORW 7KDW¶V SUREDEO\ 2. , VXVSHFW LW¶OO ZRUN HYHQ EHWWHU WKDQ LW XVXDOO\ GRHV 7KHUH ZLOO EH SUREOHPV WKRXJK LI \RX DGRSW D VLPLODU DSSURDFK DV \RX WU\ WR FRUUHFW JOLWFKHV WKDW DUH PRUH SV\FKRORJLFDO LQWHUSHUVRQDO DQG VSLULWXDO LQ QDWXUH )RU WKRVH , UHFRP PHQG VHQVLWLYLW\ DQG ¿QHVVH

,%/ *ULY !UG

:KDW IHHOLQJV RU VXEMHFWV KDYH \RX EHHQ ZDQWLQJ WR WDON DERXW EXW KDYH QRW \HW EHHQ DEOH WR" $UH WKHUH PHV VDJHV \RX DUH DFKLQJ WR FRQYH\ WR FHUWDLQ SHRSOH EXW FDQ¶W VXPPRQ WKH FRXUDJH WR EH DV FDQGLG DV \RX QHHG WR EH" &DQ \RX WKLQN RI DQ\ VHFUHWV \RX¶YH EHHQ NHHS LQJ IRU UHDVRQV WKDW XVHG WR EH JRRG EXW DUHQ¶W JRRG DQ\ PRUH" 7KH WLPH KDV FRPH WR UHOLHYH DW OHDVW VRPH RI WKDW WHQVLRQ /HR , VXJJHVW \RX VPDVK \RXU H[FXVHV EUHDN GRZQ EDUULHUV DQG OHW WKH UHYHODWLRQV Ã&#x20AC;RZ ,I \RX GR \RX ZLOO XQOHDVK XQIRUHVHHQ EOHVVLQJV

6)2'/ !UG 3EPT

,Q 'XWFK SDLQWHU 5HPEUDQGW ¿QLVKHG ³7KH 2DWK RI &ODXGLXV &LYLOLV ´ ,W ZDV IHHW E\ IHHW WKH ODUJHVW SDLQWLQJ KH HYHU PDGH )RU D VKRUW WLPH LW KXQJ RQ D ZDOO LQ $PVWHUGDP¶V 7RZQ +DOO %XW ORFDO EXUJRPDVWHUV VRRQ GHFLGHG LW ZDV RIIHQVLYH DQG UHWXUQHG LW WR WKH DUWLVW WR EH UHZRUNHG 5HPEUDQGW XOWLPDWHO\ FKRSSHG RII WKUHH IRXUWKV RI WKH RULJLQDO :KDW¶V OHIW LV QRZ KDQJLQJ LQ D 6WRFNKROP PXVHXP DQG WKH UHVW KDV EHHQ !2)%3 -ARCH !PRIL ORVW $UW FULWLF 6YHWODQD $OSHUV ZLVKHV WKH HQWLUH SDLQWLQJ 7KH 1DWLRQDO 6FLHQFH )RXQGDWLRQ HVWLPDWHV WKDW ZH VWLOO H[LVWHG EXW QHYHUWKHOHVV UDYHV DERXW WKH UHPDLQLQJ HDFK WKLQN DW OHDVW WKRXJKWV SHU GD\ 7KH YDVW SRUWLRQ FDOOLQJ LW ³D PDJQL¿FHQW IUDJPHQW ´ , XUJH \RX PDMRULW\ RI WKHP KRZHYHU DUH UHUXQV RI LPSUHVVLRQV WR WKLQN OLNH $OSHUV ,W¶V WLPH WR FHOHEUDWH \RXU RZQ WKDW KDYH SDVVHG WKURXJK RXU PLQGV PDQ\ WLPHV EHIRUH PDJQL¿FHQW IUDJPHQWV %XW , DP SOHDVHG WR UHSRUW WKDW LQ WKH FRPLQJ ZHHNV \RX $ULHV IRONV DUH SULPHG WR EH IDU OHVV UHSHWLWLYH WKDQ QRUPDO <RX KDYH WKH SRWHQWLDO WR FKXUQ RXW D SURIXVLRQ ,)"2! 3EPT /CT <RX QRZ KDYH D VSHFLDO WDOHQW IRU FRQQHFWLQJ WKLQJV WKDW RI RULJLQDO LGHDV IUHVK SHUFHSWLRQV QRYHO IDQWDVLHV KDYH QHYHU EHHQ FRQQHFWHG <RX DOVR KDYH D PDJLF WRXFK DQG SHUWLQHQW TXHVWLRQV 7DNH IXOO DGYDQWDJH RI WKLV DW XQLWLQJ WKLQJV WKDW VKRXOG EH XQLWHG EXW FDQ¶W PDQDJH RSSRUWXQLW\ %UDLQVWRUP OLNH D JHQLXV WR GR VR XQGHU WKHLU RZQ SRZHU ,Q IDFW ,¶P LQFOLQHG WR EHOLHYH WKDW LQ WKH QH[W WKUHH ZHHNV \RX ZLOO EH XQXVXDOO\ 4!5253 !PRIL -AY OXFN\ DQG DGHSW DW IRUJLQJ OLQNV EURNHULQJ WUXFHV EXLOG , HQMR\ JHWWLQJ VSDP HPDLOV ZLWK RXWUDJHRXV GHFODUD LQJ EULGJHV DQG JHWWLQJ RSSRVLWHV WR DWWUDFW , ZRQ¶W EH WLRQV WKDW DUH DW RGGV ZLWK FRPPRQ VHQVH ³(DWLQJ VDO VXUSULVHG LI \RX¶UH DEOH WR FRPSDUH DSSOHV DQG RUDQJHV LQ DGV PDNHV \RX VLFN´ LV RQH RI P\ IDYRULWHV DORQJ ZLWK ZD\V WKDW PDNH JRRG VHQVH DQG FDOP HYHU\RQH GRZQ ³:DWHU LV ZRUVH IRU \RX WKDQ YRGND´ DQG ³6PRNLQJ LV KHDOWKLHU WKDQ H[HUFLVLQJ ´ :K\ GR , ORYH UHDGLQJ WKHVH ODXJKDEOH FODLPV" :HOO WKH\ UHPLQG PH WKDW HYHU\ GD\ 3#/20)/ /CT .OV , DP EDUUDJHG E\ QRQVHQVH DQG GHOXVLRQ IURP WKH QHZV ,Q $P\ 7DQ ELUWKHG KHU ¿UVW QRYHO ³7KH -R\ /XFN &OXE ´ +HU QH[W ³7KH .LWFKHQ *RG¶V :LIH ´ FDPH RXW PHGLD WKH ,QWHUQHW SROLWLFLDQV FHOHEULWLHV DQG D KRVW LQ %RWK ZHUH EHVWVHOOHUV :LWKLQ D IHZ \HDUV WKH RI IDQDWLFV ³6PRNLQJ LV KHDOWKLHU WKDQ H[HUFLVLQJ´ LV VWXGHQW VWXG\ JXLGH SXEOLVKHU &OLIIV1RWHV GLG ZLWK WKHP MXVW D PRUH H[WUHPH DQG REYLRXV OLH WKDQ PDQ\ RWKHUV WKDW DUH EHWWHU GLVJXLVHG 7KH PRUDO RI WKH VWRU\ IRU \RX ZKDW LW KDV GRQH ZLWK PDQ\ PDVWHUSLHFHV RI ZRUOG LQ WKH FRPLQJ ZHHN %H DOHUW IRU H[DJJHUDWLRQV WKDW FOXH OLWHUDWXUH SURGXFHG FRQGHQVHG VXPPDULHV IRU XVH E\ VWXGHQWV WRR OD]\ WR UHDG DOO RI WKH RULJLQDOV ³,Q VSLWH RI \RX LQ WR ZKDW¶V JRLQJ RQ GLVFUHHWO\ EHORZ WKH VXUIDFH P\ LQLWLDO VKRFN ´ 7DQ VDLG ³, DGPLW WKDW , DP SHUYHUVHO\ :DWFK FDUHIXOO\ IRU JOLWFKHV LQ WKH 0DWUL[ KRQRUHG WR EH LQ &OLIIV1RWHV ´ ,W ZDV D VLJQ RI VXFFHVV WR JHW WKH VDPH WUHDWPHQW DV VXSHUVWDU DXWKRUV OLNH '%-).) -AY *UNE 6KDNHVSHDUH DQG -DPHV -R\FH 7KH &OLIIV1RWHV DSSURDFK (YHU\ RQH RI XV LQFOXGLQJ PH KDV EOLQG VSRWV DERXW LV FXUUHQWO\ DQ RSHUDWLYH PHWDSKRU LQ \RXU OLIH 6FRUSLR WKH DUWV RI LQWLPDF\ DQG FROODERUDWLRQ (YHU\ RQH RI 7U\ WR ¿QG LW LQ \RXU KHDUW WR EH KRQRUHG HYHQ LI LW¶V XV VXIIHUV IURP XQFRQVFLRXV KDELWV WKDW LQWHUIHUH ZLWK SHUYHUVHO\ VR )RU WKH PRVW SDUW WULPPLQJ DQG VKRUWHQ RXU DELOLW\ WR JHW DQG JLYH WKH ORYH ZH ZDQW :KDW DUH LQJ DQG FRPSUHVVLQJ ZLOO EH EHQH¿FLDO +RPHZRUN :KDW JLIWV GR \RX ZDQW IRU &KULVWPDV +DQXNNDK .ZDQ]DD <XOH DQG WKH ZLQWHU VROVWLFH" :ULWH WR %XGGKD &ODXV DW XDUHJRG#FRPFDVW QHW

BULLETIN BOARD: Classifieds

As low as $20! jfpclassifieds.com RETAIL

2EBECCA 2OSE &LEA -ARKET

&RPH MRLQ XV LQ \RXU VHDUFK IRU KLGGHQ WUHDVXUHV 2YHU VT IW RI LQGRRU VKRSSLQJ 2UJDQL]HG FOHDQ IULHQGO\ VHUYLFH &UHGLW 'HELW FDUGV DFFHSWHG /LNH XV RQ IDFHERRN UHEHFFDURVHÃ&#x20AC;HDPDUNHW +Z\ 6 5LFKODQG 06

HELP WANTED &ULL 4IME 2EGISTERED .URSE

4XDOLW\ FRUUHFWLRQDO KHDOWK FDUH KDV DQ RSHQLQJ IRU D VWDII UQ RQ HYHQLQJ VKLIW DW PDGLVRQ FRXQW\ GHWHQWLRQ FHQWHU 7KLV SRVLWLRQ LV PRQGD\ IULGD\ KRXUV SHU ZHHN SP SP WR DSSO\ KWWSV TFKFZHE DSSOLFDQWSUR FRP MREV KWPO

REAL ESTATE $OWNTOWN 3PACE &OR ,EASE 2I¿FH VSDFH IRU OHDVH LQ GRZQWRZQ -DFNVRQ Q 6WDWH

)XOO\ IXUQLVKHG SURIHVVLRQDO RI¿FHV SHU VT IHHW SOXV FDP FKDUJHV &DOO IRU DGGLWLRQDO LQIRUPDWLRQ

TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD: Post an ad at jfpclassifieds.com, call 601-362-6121, ext. 11 or fax to 601-510-9019.

.EED A LITTLE EXTRA #ASH

5RPDQWLF $GYHQWXUHV LV ORRNLQJ IRU D IHZ RSHQ PLQGHG IXQ ORYLQJ SHRSOH ZLWK PRUH WKDQ WKHLU IDLU VKDUH RI FRPPRQ VHQVH 0DG SHRSOH VNLOOV DUH D PXVW *LYH XV D FDOO DQG JHW WUDLQHG EHIRUH WKH KROLGD\V WKHQ DVN XV DERXW RXU ERQXV SURJUDP

Deadline: Mondays at noon.

FARM LABORERS To harvest vegetables

$10.26 / HR.

Applicable piece rates depending on crop activity.

JOB STARTING 11/1/14 - 6/10/15

786-763-0823 FL9956790

Please Vote For Us BEST FRIED CHICKEN BEST BUFFET bestofjackson.com 707 N Congress St., Jackson | 601-353-1180 Mon thru Fri: 11am-2pm â&#x20AC;¢ Sun: 11am - 3pm

Write stories that matter for the publications readers love to read.

The Jackson Free Press and BOOM Jackson are seeking hard-working freelance writers who strive for excellence in every piece. Work with editors who will inspire and teach you to tell sparkling stories.

Enjoy workshops and freelancer events.

Impress us. Email and convince us that you have the drive and creativity to join the team. Better yet, include some kick-butt story ideas. Send to:

micah@jacksonfreepress.com

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;¢ jfp.ms

3!')44!2)53 .OV $EC

37

www.jfpsites.com

38

“W h me ere et offi sf un ce fl cti exi on bil ali ity ty ”

December 3 - 9, 2014 • jfp.ms

Web and Mobile Marketing for Central Mississippi

We specialize in office solutions that are designed to meet your individual business needs…

Professional Office Solutions fully furnished professional offices Virtual Business Solutions professional appearance for virtual offices Meeting Solutions convenient, cost effective, full service meeting space CALL TRIAD BUSINESS CENTERS TODAY!

www.triadbusinesscenters.com info@triadbusinesscenters.com (601)-709-4610 460 Briarwood Drive | Suite 400

Need a new site?

Join local businesses and organizations like Walkers, Mangia Bene Catering, the MS Hospitality and Restaurant Association, Capital City Beverages, Good Eats Group and others in the Jackson Metro.

The JFPSites tool offers a desktop and mobile site in one package, and we’ll update your site every week! Choose from great-looking templates or sign up for a custom design.

Serious about your Google ranking? JFP can help with SEO -- better site design, blogging, Get Found database injection, Search Engine Marketing and social media management.

We’re ready to move you up in search!

To learn more, visit www.jfpsites.com, call 601-362-6121 x17 or write todd@jacksonfreepress.com to learn how you can get started NOW on a customer-focused, affordable, revenue-generating, easy-to-update Web and Mobile website!

Open for lunch! Call

(601)944-0203

for to-go orders or order online for large groups at www.oneblockeast.com

LIVE MUSICâ&#x20AC;¢BAD ASS BURGERS

M-F Lunch starts at 11am and Happy Hour from 11am-7pm! $2.50 domestics, $3.50 well drinks and $1.50 off all call and top shelf liquors

Wednesday 12/3

DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T FORGET to vote for us in Best of Jackson! bestofjackson.com

KARAOKE

Thursday 12/4

OPEN AT 7 Friday 12/5

NEVER A COVER! Daily Blue Plate Lunch Special w / D r i n k $9.00 M ONDAY-FRIDAY

LADIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NIGHT

WEDNESDAYâ&#x20AC;©12/03â&#x20AC;©

With DJ KoolLaid Saturday 12/6

Lunch: Red Beans & Rice

ANDREW DILLON

evening:

Sunday 12/7

Pub Quiz

WITH â&#x20AC;©A NDREW â&#x20AC;©M C L ARTY

OPEN AT 7

Monday 12/8

THURSDAYâ&#x20AC;©12/04

$1 DOMESTICS!

Lunch: Chicken Diane

Tuesday 12/9

$2 TUESDAY

evening: IRISH

$2 domestics and fireball all day and night!

NIGHT

E MERALD A CCENT FRIDAYâ&#x20AC;©12/05

Lunch: Fried Catfish evening:

May Day

SATURDAYâ&#x20AC;©12/06â&#x20AC;©

Chad Perry

IN

Lunch: Hamburger Steak

BEST WINGS

evening:

7 YEARS IN A ROW!

CRAFT BEER SPECIALS

! ® W rts ing Expe

398 Hwy 51 N, Ridgeland 601-605-0504 1001 Hampstead Blvd, Clinton 601-924-2423

925 N State St, Jackson 601-969-6400 1430 Ellis Ave, Jackson 601-969-0606

Karaoke

WITHâ&#x20AC;©MATT

COLLETTE

TUESDAYâ&#x20AC;©12/09

Lunch: Grilled Pork Chop evening: WITH

Open Mic

JOE CARROL

HAPPY HOUR $1 off all Cocktails, Wine, and Beer

M ONDAY â&#x20AC;©-â&#x20AC;©SAT URDAY 4 P M â&#x20AC;©-â&#x20AC;©7â&#x20AC;© P M

901â&#x20AC;©Eâ&#x20AC;©FORTIFICATION STREET

601-948-0055

WWW.FENIANSPUB.COM

December 3 - 9, 2014 â&#x20AC;¢ jfp.ms

W

TOWN GS

BE S

T

MONDAYâ&#x20AC;©12/08

39

MARKET PLACE

advertise here starting at $75 a week

0% - &!

BLOOD DONORS NEEDED!

Photo I.D. and SSN required Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Interstate Blood Bank 3505 Terry Road Suite 204 Behind Walgreens Call: 601-718-0986 Bring this ad for a $2 bonus!

601.362.6121 x11

DO YOU HAVE RENTERS INSURANCE? Landlords donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cover your personal property!

RATES AS LOW AS

$12 A MONTH!

Valarie German www.insurewithval.com

(601)613-8100 FREE ONLINE QUOTES!

STUN GUNS PEPPER SPRAYS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

Order Mississippi State

Over 65,000

ARMCAPZ

for the holidays!

Square Feet!

DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T BE A VICTIM

Coats for the needy drop off point.

Donate a coat and get in free!

1325 Flowood Dr. â&#x20AC;˘ www.fleamarketms.com Sat: 9am-5pm â&#x20AC;˘ Sun: 12pm-5pm â&#x20AC;˘ $1 Admission

Winston J. Thompson, III Managing Partner Former Hinds County ADA

162 Amite St., Suite 100 Jackson, MS WWW.COCHRANFIRM.COM

Jackson Redwood Dr

3BR/2BA, 1260 sqft Fireplace, Garage

Lease Program Call for Details

Booth Space Available

2512 Raymond Rd. â&#x20AC;˘ 2570 suite 12 Bailey Ave www.safetypp.com â&#x20AC;˘ 601-238-8108 safetyproductsplus@yahoo.com

HOME FOR SALE

www.armcapz.com

855-671-5657

CALL US if you have POSSESSION OR SELL CHARGES!

Office: (601)812-1000 Cell: (601)934-5464 Silent nights are soâ&#x20AC;Ś overrated!

(Gadgets and lingerie will help you create some serious holiday cheer this year.)

175 Hwy 80 East in Pearl * 601.932.2811 M­Th: 10­10p F­Sa 10­Mid Su: 1­10p * www.shopromanticadventures.com