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om Beck has a passion for storytelling.

It’s one of the factors that drives his work at Spot On Productions, LLC, which he founded with business partner Philip Scarborough in 2011. While Beck, 47, has seen success as a film producer and still photographer, his path to that point was hardly direct.

Beck was born in Jonesboro, Ark., and moved to Jackson with his family in 1982.

He graduated from Forest Hill High School in 1985, and then attended the University of Mississippi for two years.

“I had a double major in English and history, and minored in philosophy,” he says. “So, naturally, I became a photographer and went into the film and video business.”

When he left college in 1987, he began working as a sound engineer, which brought him some interesting job opportunities, including bartending and bouncing.

“I was a bouncer for a long time,” Beck says. “I bounced at W.C. Don’s (in Jackson, now closed), I bounced at a nightclub in Memphis called The South End, and the last place I bounced was The Groove, which was a nightclub in downtown Jackson on State Street.”

In 1991, Beck enrolled at Arkansas State University, hoping to study psychology. But after a year, his part-time jobs pushed him over the financial threshold for his Pell Grant. Without it, he couldn’t afford college. He returned to Jackson and worked various jobs until 2000, when his friend, Monte Kraus, who owned

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Krauscape Films, approached him about writing commercial scripts. Soon after, Beck began producing commercials with the company.

Then, in 2002, he decided to pursue professional photography, which he still does in addition to his work with Spot On. “We are storytellers,” Beck says of Spot On. “Even a TV commercial tells a story, so that’s what makes it interesting. You’re telling a story in 30 seconds. It’s almost like a haiku.”

One of Spot On’s earliest projects was a documentary short for the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation called “Growing Our Own,” which screened at the 2014 Madrid International Film Festival. Last year, Beck worked on award-winning public-service announcements for Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and TV ads for the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Many people also remember last summer’s viral hit “#HappyMS,” which was a joint project with Beck and producers Scarborough, Thabi Moyo, Nina Parikh and Terry Sullivan.

Today, it’s had more than 96,000 views on YouTube. At the American Advertising Federation Jackson’s 2015 Addy Awards, the video won the Best in Show award and the Mosaic Award, which recognizes diversity in advertising.

“It’s nice to have that validation,” Beck says. “But when I have a client that says, ‘This is better than I ever thought it could be,’ and calls me back for another (project), then I’ve done my job correctly.”

—Micah Smith

Cover illustration of Crossroads Ruma Award 2015

by Clay Hardwick

6 System on Trial

Last week, attorneys for prisoners at Walnut Grove Correctional Facility did something rare. They put one of the nation’s top private prison companies on trial.

22 Serving the Neighborhood After Louis LaRose left his position as executive chef at the Mississippi Museum of Art in 2013, he found his own groove in Jackson’s restaurant scene through Lou’s Full-Serv Neighborhood Kitchen.

24 Get Behind Gov’t Mule

“We had no aspirations of (Gov’t Mule) going for even five years, much less 10 or 20. We were just looking to do a project and didn’t put any pressure on it whatsoever. It would have surprised any of us if you had told us that —Warren Hayes, “Get Behind The Mule” we’d still be doing it.”

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EDITOR’S note

by Amber Helsel, Assistant Editor

Crossroads = Creativity

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hen I was younger, I dabbled in filmmaking. I say dabbled because I only made a few videos with my friends. They were mainly just us goofing around. If it was something besides just goofing off, it probably wasn’t scripted. I often thought about going to film school, though it always seemed like a pipe dream. Even in college, I considered changing my major to film because I love movies and the filmmaking process.

Even if I have all these videos and dreams, I don’t think I could ever be a filmmaker, though I could definitely see myself as a screenwriter. But I’ve always respected the work of filmmakers and what they do. It’s incredible how they can take an idea and translate it onto a screen. As a rule, my favorite films are the weird ones.

The first time I encountered Crossroads Film Festival was at Parkway Place Theater a long time ago. I walked into the movie theater to see a film by myself (something I’ve always liked to do), and I saw the events’ merchandise table. As I bought a Crossroads bag (which I still have to this day), I remember thinking of how neat it was that Jackson, out of all places, had a film festival. I’ve tried to go every year since and either haven’t had the money or the time, which is sadly the case this year. I’ll be out of town during this year’s festival.

The Crossroads issue is one of my favorites to do at Jackson Free Press.

One of my first assignments as an intern was to review films for the 2013 festival, and I loved getting to see some of the films before everyone else did. Last year was the first time I planned the Crossroads issue, and this year, the tradition continues.

I and other writers, including Gen-

evieve Legacy, Richard Coupe, Ronni Mott and R.L. Nave contributed to this cover package, reviewing films that cover everything from Depression-era Mississippi, to a wandering rabbi, to the Mo-

With Mississippi’s creative class on the rise, it’s no surprise that a film festival such as Crossroads survived over the years. tor Vessel Mary Parker. Though we never have time to review every film, we get to see a good chunk of them, and to us, they’re all good. And many of them are done by Mississippi filmmakers; catch those in the Mississippi film blocks at the festival.

This year’s films tell stories of tragedy, happiness, anxiousness and the everyday lives of the people featured in

them. They’re a celebration of our state, from its namesake river to small towns to the quirkiness you so often find in Mississippi. One of the films I particularly enjoyed was “Leadway,” which features Shaw, Miss., native Cindi Quong Lofton, whose father, Alfred Quong, who owned the Leadway grocery store, was killed in 2007 (see page 17).

Crossroads doesn’t just include films from professional filmmakers. Many of its films come from students, and what they created is incredible.

Micah Smith’s cover story (see pages 13-14) gets inside the state’s film industry and highlights its intricacies, such as how its film incentives program works.

The story also highlights a couple of the challenges Mississippi presents to many filmmakers, including its lack of a working crew base, though schools such as Hinds Community College are working to change that.

With Mississippi’s creative class on the rise, it’s no surprise that film festivals such as Crossroads and others, including the Jewish Film Festival, have survived over the years. Maybe people doubt the validity of the state’s creative class, but Crossroads is a testament that the class not only survives; it thrives. It paves the way for people like me to write novels, or for others to write screenplays and make movies, and for local artists such as Clay Hardwick to create the art for the Ruma Award at this year’s festival.

The Ruma is named for a former Crossroads vice president, Ruma Haque, who died in a car accident in 2002.

Haque, an attorney, was an active supporter of Jackson’s creative efforts. A local artist creates the award each year, which is given annually to the festival’s most promising filmmaker.

Mississippi’s burgeoning film in-

dustry is one of the things that will keep college graduates from leaving the state.

The state may be small—some would say backward—but the creativity of its residents only serves to improve how the world views Mississippi.

While I roll my eyes at some of the things the state government does, I’m still proud to be from and live in Mississippi. I may not stay here forever (just because I’ve lived here my entire life), but when I decide to leave, I can leave knowing that I can pass the torch to those who decide to stay or even come back home from wherever they’ve been.

After all, who knows better about home than Mississippians? And of course, I’ll come back to bring whatever knowledge I find somewhere else and apply it here.

Crossroads attendees, whether you’re from here or somewhere else, know that you are contributing to the creative class in Mississippi. By attending the festival, you are helping build the state’s film community and improving the way the rest of the world sees Mississippi, then you’re in luck. We want you here. We like you being here.

You make us look good.

Crossroads Film Festival is April 9-12.

The festival begins at Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St., 601-948-0888) April 9, with the Great Southern Music Video Showcase, which WJTV sponsors. The event is $5 and begins at 7 p.m. The films show April 10-11 at the Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison, 601-898-7823). For more information, see pages 15-20 and visit crossroads filmfestival.com.

Email Assistant Editor Amber Helsel with story tips for arts, food & drink, wellness stories, and people to feature for Jacksonians at amber@jacksonfreepress. com. And watch for her novel.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Micah Smith

R.L. Nave

Genevieve Legacy

Richard Coupe

Ronni Mott

Maya Miller

Tommy Burton

Gina Haug

Music Editor Micah Smith is pretty sure that Furbies watch him in his sleep. His hobbies are parachuting and being afraid of heights. He performs with the band Empty Atlas. He wrote about Mississippi’s film industry for this issue.

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

Freelance writer Genevieve Legacy is an artist, writer and community development consultant. She works at Hope Enterprise Corporation and lives in Brandon with her husband and youngest son. She reviewed Crossroads films.

Freelance writer Richard 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 reviewed Crossroads films for this issue.

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

Freelance writer and former editorial intern Maya Miller is a senior psychology major at Jackson State University.

She enjoys books by Stephen King and Netflix marathons.

She wrote a food story for this issue.

Music Listings Editor Tommy Burton is keeping the dream alive, one record at a time. He can usually be seen with a pair of headphones on. He wrote a music story and compiles the music listings. Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Account Manager Gina Haug is a self-professed information collector who has a love for all things fun. She is a huge Ole Miss and Saints fan, and her birthday is her favorite holiday.

She did her part to promote local businesses in this issue.

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Thursday, April 2 Iran and world powers seal a breakthrough agreement outlining limits on Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuclear program to keep it from being able to produce atomic weapons. â&#x20AC;Ś Al-Shabab gunmen rampage through a university in northeastern Kenya at dawn, killing 148 people in an attack targeting non-Muslim students Friday, April 3 Indonesian authorities free hundreds of fishermen from an isolated Indonesian island, where an Associated Press investigation found that many were enslaved to catch seafood that could end up in the United States and elsewhere.

Saturday, April 4 Mormon leaders vow to be a leading advocate for the belief that marriage is an institution exclusive to a man and a woman during the religionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biannual conference. â&#x20AC;Ś Hundreds calling for Indiana to add protections for gays and lesbians to state civil rights laws march through downtown Indianapolis.

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Monday, April 6 Kenya launches airstrikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following the attack on a Kenyan college. â&#x20AC;Ś The man accused of killing three North Carolina college studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;their family says because they were Muslimâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;appears in court.

Tuesday, April 7 Jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begin deliberations after both prosecutors and his lawyers say Tsarnaev must be held accountable for participating in the terror attack.

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ince pleading guilty to armed rob- on behalf of Walnut Grove prisoners al- advocates find that Walnut Grove is still bery in 2012 and being sentenced leging that the Mississippi Department of a violent place, with practices that vioto eight years in prison at Walnut Corrections fails to keep people in their late the U.S. Constitutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prohibition Grove Correctional Facility, J.E. custody safe from violence. against cruel and unusual punishment. says he has seen correctional officers trafficking contraband, drug use, daily gang fights, sexual assaults (of which he says he was a victim and why the Jackson Free Press is not using his full name) and at least three riots.

The most recent riot took place on July 10, 2014, when J.E., who holds an associateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in nursing and holds several other medical certifications, was conscripted to help triage injured prisoners, some of whom had to be airlifted to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just chaotic. It was Jody Owens, managing attorney at the Mississippi Southern Poverty Law Center, something you would think to see criticized the vice president of a private prison company in court for not having more detailed knowledge about a riot at Walnut Grove, which she oversees. in a move, but this was reality. It was a sight,â&#x20AC;? he testified in federal court in Jackson last week.

J.E. testified that one of the victims Located in Leake County, Walnut MDOC disagrees and recently filed a mohe treated begged him not to leave his Grove opened in 2001 for children convict- tion to terminate a federal settlement. side, fearful that the guards would let him ed as adults in criminal court, and has been Thomas Friedman, an attorney from die. Earlier in the hearing, when lawyers the subject of nearly ongoing scrutiny for Phelps Dunbar representing the State of played videos of the riot that showed pris- civil-rights violations. In 2010, the ACLU Mississippi, said during his opening stateoners being kicked and beaten, sometimes and SPLC sued over conditions and won ment in U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves with plastic milk crates and once with a a settlement for their clients that included courtroom: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try this case because microwave oven, J.E. would not look at promises from MDOC to improve condi- of what occurred. â&#x20AC;Ś We urge the court to the flat-screen monitors, not wanting to tions and reduce violence at the facility. That look at what the condition of the prison relive the memory. consent decree requires periodic monitoring is today. They want to try a facility that The video was the centerpiece of a from an independent reviewer. doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist anymore.â&#x20AC;? case brought by the ACLU National Prison Three years later, and operating unPRUH 35,6216 VHH SDJH Project and Southern Poverty Law Center der a new private operator, prisoner-rights

In a Galaxy Close, Close By¨ Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie scene is certainly on the upswing, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve yet to score our own sci-fi epic.

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Wednesday, April 1 President Barack Obama creates the first-ever sanctions program to penalize overseas hackers who engage in cyber spying and companies that knowingly benefit from the fruits of that espionage. â&#x20AC;Ś Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid alObeidi announces that security forces have â&#x20AC;&#x153;accomplished their missionâ&#x20AC;? in the month long offensive to drive the Islamic State group out of Tikrit.

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LeFleurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluff State Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;From the battlefields of Naboo to the forest moon of Endor, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Warsâ&#x20AC;? films love natural locales. Jackson has those as well, offering lake and woods landscapes without much driving.

Hinds County Courthouseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The courthouse is one of the coolest-looking structures in Jackson, so why not make it one of the coolest in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Warsâ&#x20AC;? universe? Besides, space politicians need offices, too.

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Walnut Grove is still very much the same violent place it was when the parties settled the case, plaintiffs allege. “In three years, MDOC has never yet been in compliance with this consent decree,” Margaret Winter, the associate director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project, said in court.

But over the three days that they presented their case, attorneys for Walnut Grove prisons did more than argue whether MDOC and Walnut Grove had violated the Eighth Amendment; they put private prisons themselves on trial as well.

Training Days At he time of the original consent decree, Florida-based GEO Group Ltd.—the nation’s No. 2 private-prison company—ran Walnut Grove. Today, Management & Training Corp., the third-largest correctionsmanagement firm in the nation, headquartered in Utah, holds the contract.

The strategy of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, who presented their case between April 1 and April 3, was to show how MTC’s business practices—namely, a profit motive—create an environment that relegates prisoner and staff safety to the back burner.

Marjorie Brown, an MTC vice president who oversees wardens at the four prisons the company manages in Mississippi and

one in Florida, said that despite telling prison after the July 2014 riot “we forgot how to do our jobs,” the company terminated a halfdozen staff members. Brown, who is also an MTC shareholder, also said she is still confident that the company can meet the terms of its MDOC contract.

Brown also said MTC employees earn,

“Private prisons are doing everything on the cheap.” on average, less than state workers but that the starting pay for correctional officers recently went up at MDOC’s urging to between $10 and $10.50 per hour. Foes of prison privatization say lower wages, less rigorous training, understaffing and high turnover can all undermine safety at prisons.

Another video from the July 2014 Walnut Grove riot, taken from a camera mounted inside a guard station, shows correctional

officers attempting to deploy tear gas into the housing pod where the riot was taking place. In an apparent malfunction, the canister went off inside the booth and the guards cleared out for approximately a half hour, as the violence continued in the housing unit.

Jody Owens, managing attorney at the Mississippi Southern Poverty Law Center, argued in court that the video demonstrates that MTC’s guards were improperly equipped—the guard station lacked gas masks—and trained to respond to the riot.

Brown, the MTC official, said she had not seen the video and was not aware that the gas canister had gone off in the guard booth before she took the stand in court last week.

“Private prisons are doing everything on the cheap,” the Rev. Jeremy Tobin, a member of the newly formed Clergy for Prison Reform, which opposes privatization in the corrections industry, told the Jackson Free Press. Tobin’s group believes profiting from the incarceration is immoral.

The private-prison industry bloomed amidst the political ethos of the 1980s that encouraged elected officials to get tough on crime and to hire private companies to run basic government functions more efficiently. Privatization peaked during the Great Recession when governments were desperate for ways to save money and balance their budgets.

Privatization also invited temptation for corruption. Earlier this year, in the same courthouse the Walnut Grove hearing took

place, former MDOC Commissioner Christopher Epps pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from a Rankin County businessman named Cecil McCrory who briefly owned a company that provided commissary services to prisons and jails. McCrory was also a consultant to companies that did business with MDOC, including MTC. Eldon Vail, the former commissioner of the Washington (State) Department of Corrections and the plaintiffs’ expert witness, told the court that in his opinion MTC is “not paying attention to correctional basics” designed to keep prisoners and staff safe. Vail also characterized Walnut Grove’s response to the July riot as “pretty profound levels of incompetence.”

Vail also cited a lack of training, including in verbal de-escalation techniques, and lack of encouragement of prisoners to participate in educational programs, such as general-educational equivalency, vocational training and substance abuse counseling.

MDOC’s attorneys declined to speak with reporters during the hearing. Grace Fisher, MDOC’s spokeswoman, told the Jackson Free Press that the agency does not want to comment on evidence that will be presented in court. The hearing was originally scheduled to take three days. However, the defendants—MDOC—will present their case in a few weeks, attorneys said.

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Legal Pot Initiative Gets a Spark

by R.L. Nave

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espite the hard work of dozens of Mississippi volunteers and shifting national tide toward loosening restrictions on marijuana, a state ballot initiative to legalize cannabis is just hobbling along.

Backers of Ballot Initiative 48 started collecting signatures late last year hoping to let voters decide whether marijuana should be legal in Mississippi.

The proposed rule changes include full legalization and taxation of marijuana for adults over age 21.

Recreational users could have nine or fewer 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. Additionally, a state sales tax of 7 percent would be charged on all sales with the exception of medical marijuana and industrial hemp.

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

Kelly Jacobs, a lead organizer with Initiative 48 from

(Left to right) Susan Watkins, Kelly Jacobs and Shannon Smothers-Wansley rally for Initiative 48, which would legalize marijuana in Mississippi, at the Secretary of State’s office.

Hernando, said the group has faced a number of obstacles, everything from circuit clerks refusing to certify signatures to the misperception that law enforcement agencies will use the petitions to surveil and possibly arrest people for marijuana related crimes.

Jacobs said in Hinds County, for example, the circuit clerk’s office has rejected a number of ballots from people who signed petitions, but are not registered voters. Because state law doesn’t put time limits on when circuit clerks must certify signatures, Jacobs says the group has little recourse.

“More the half the signatures we’ve collected have been rejected by the circuit clerks,” Jacobs said.

Soon, thanks to an angel investor, the clerk’s offices may not be able to ignore Initiative 48 petitions much longer. Jeremy Buffard, a Jackson-area native and businessman living in Florida, recently upped the ante with what he calls a major investment in the medical marijuana industry in Mississippi.

Buffard, 34, recently announced that he would pay petition gatherers $1 for every certified signature they collect.

In the Mississippi Delta, Buffard said he would pay $2 per signature and would offer minimum $30,000 cash prize to the team who brings in the most certified signatures.

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Conservationists: ‘One Lake’ Will Damage Pearl River

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$300 million to build. American Rivers said Jackson is unlikely to see flood-control benefits. Areas immediately downstream would feel negative effects of faster flowing water, and it would submerge riverside habitat in

working towards mutual solutions,” Levee Board attorney Keith Turner responded to the announcement in a letter.

The Pearl River contains 7 million acres and drains an area of 8,760 square miles, TRIP BURNS / FILE PHOTO

American Rivers argues that reducing the flow of the Pearl River could jeopardize three threatened species, flood prime bird habitat, change the levels of saline in the Mississippi Sound, and negatively affect the basin that includes the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area and Honey Island Swamp.

LeFleur’s Bluff State Park.

“It is disappointing that environmental groups that profess the goal of protecting the environment use misinformation to promote their own organizations instead of

“I’m here because I believe I can make it safe and I believe I can make it profitable,” Buffard said at press conference in Jackson on March 27.

“Now is the time to put a little fuel on the fire and really kick it into high gear.”

Laws about paying signature gatherers vary from state to state. Mississippi banned the practice at one time, but a 1997 federal court ruling in the Term Limits Leadership Council v.

Clark struck down the state’s prohibition.

Buffard, who was born in Ridgeland and grew up in Gulfport, sees the ballot initiative as crucial to fostering the state’s cannabis economy and a school he plans to open in the Jackson area to teach the marijuana business. Medical Marijuana United, a school Buffard founded in central Florida, provides a model for Mississippi. The Florida school has graduated 2,400 people in caregiving, commercial cultivation, management, and legal and medical studies.

draining all or parts of 23 counties in Mississippi and three parishes in Louisiana. It flows about 421 miles before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico through Lake Borgne and the Mississippi Sound.

In Mississippi, the courses would cost between $99 and $399 each; housing and meal plans will also be available on the site Buffard said he is still negotiating for the 152,000square foot educational facility.

George Hodges is a farmer in Rankin County and said he has put together a group of fellow agriculturalists who want to grow industrial hemp, which he says is more stable than crops like corn, which can experience wide price fluctuations.

Growing industrial hemp is illegal in the United States. North Dakota, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, California, Montana, West Virginia and Vermont passed laws allowing for the commercial cultivation of hemp, but farmers in those states have been reluctant to do so because of the threat of prosecution from federal authorities. A bill brought forth by Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, would have legalized

In January, the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources in Biloxi passed a resolution opposing the dam project. The agency said it is concerned about anything that could have a negative impact on marine resources, particularly the oyster reefs that need freshwater from the river flowing into the Mississippi Sound.

The agency said it will hear from members of the Levee Board at its April meeting.

American Rivers has called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reject the Environmental Impact Statement and feasibility study on the project.

It argues that reducing the flow of the Pearl River could jeopardize three threatened species, flood prime bird habitat, change the levels of saline in the Mississippi Sound and impact the basin that includes the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area and Honey Island Swamp.

Andrew Whitehurst, the water program director at Gulf Restoration Network, said Mississippi can’t encourage upstream dams and still expect success with long-term coastal restoration projects downstream that depend on the river’s freshwater flow, like the ongoing $50 million BP early restoration project to rebuild marshes and oyster reefs in Heron Bay at the mouth of the Pearl River.

Mary Stripling, vice president of the Jackson Audubon Society, said, “The bird habitat along this major migration corridor provides one of the most important and diverse avian communities in our state.

This project threatens to remove valuable bottomland, hardwoods and wetlands that are vital to many species of birds, especially those in decline.”

R.L. Nave contributed to this story. Read more about Pearl lake proposals, and the full Level Board response, at jfp.ms/pearlriver.

hemp production in Mississippi, but the measure died in committee.

The volunteers working to put Initiative 48 on the ballot say it’s a no-brainer and points to the success of other states.

In Colorado, one of the first states to make selling weed legal, sales topped $700 million in 2014 with $63 million going into the state treasury as tax revenue and another $13 million generated from licenses and fees.

With Initiative 48, the marijuana school and Mississippi’s fertile farmland, Buffard said Mississippians can earn supplemental income and the state could become a marijuana powerhouse.

“There’s no good reason at this point to sit on the couch anymore. In fact, I think we’ve been sitting way too long, and I think it’s time for a change on that,” Buffard said.

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conservation group has declared the Pearl River one of the Top 10 Endangered Rivers for 2015 because a dam project proposed south of Jackson might threaten areas of the river downstream.

“Building a new dam on the Pearl River would be an expensive boondoggle that would cause irreparable damage. Now is the time to protect and restore our rivers, not build new dams and destroy the health of rivers and fisheries,” Ben Emanuel, with American Rivers, told The Sun Herald.

The Washington, D.C.-based group announced the designation Monday. The group said a flood- and damage-control district is proposing a dam that would create a reservoir nine miles downstream from the Ross Barnett Reservoir northeast of Jackson, which is the largest provider of drinking water to the city and the state. The project would also widen, deepen and straighten seven miles of the river.

The plan is currently under review with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District, also called the Levee Board, sent the environmental-impact study, or EIS, that considers a number of flood-reduction options to the Corps of Engineers late last year. Planners expect the agency’s review to take through the end of 2015.

The study contains 12 alternative proposals, including the Levee Board’s preferred option, the plan commonly referred to as “One Lake,” a 1,500-acre six-mile-long lake that would extend from Lakeland Drive southward down to Richland.

The Pearl River Vision Foundation, the nonprofit that oil businessman John McGowan started to shepherd his floodcontrol and economic-development plan, estimates that One Lake would cost about

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hank you for publishing â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Finish What They Startedâ&#x20AC;? by Leslie McLemore II (March 25-31, 2015) concerning the importance of voting and the need for laws to protect that fundamental right for all Americans. As the 50th anniversary of the March at Selma passes, we ought to improve our election laws by doing these things: â&#x20AC;˘ The United States Congress should pass a new Voting Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act has been good for America and good for Mississippi.

The result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder will be discriminatory changes that could have been easily prevented with U.S. Justice Department pre-clearance or expensive, lengthy lawsuits. â&#x20AC;˘ Mississippi needs to allow online voter registration to make it easier for all citizens to register and for voters to easily update their information if they move.

â&#x20AC;˘ Mississippi needs to allow early voting so citizens can vote in person two weeks before the election. â&#x20AC;˘ A Mississippian who has lost his or her right to vote due to a criminal conviction should regain that right after the individual has paid his debt to society and satisfied all conditions of his sentence. Today, tens of thousands of Mississippians are disenfranchised for life with no possibility of regaining the right to vote unless the Legislature passes a bill in their name, or they receive a pardon from the governor.

Mississippi ought to send a positive message to the country and embrace voting reforms that make our state better.

David Blount of Jackson, a Democrat, represents Hinds County District 29 in the Mississippi State Senate. He is vice chairman of the Senate Elections Commission and previously was communications director for Mississippi Secretary of State Eric Clark.

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ince early January of this year, our team at HRC Mississippi, along with dedicated volunteers, has been vigorously promoting our Equality Is Our Business program by inviting businesses, institutions and individuals to sign our pledge of public support for workplace equality and equal treatment in housing and public accommodations.

When I approached Dr. Kenneth Townsend of Millsaps College about signing the pledge, it only took a few days for him to reply, â&#x20AC;&#x153;All is clear to the sign the pledge.â&#x20AC;? It may not have seemed like a big deal to him, since Millsaps College is known as a place that values diversity and has inclusive policies.

In fact, as Dr. Townsend stated to me when we visited in person: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is what we practice at Millsaps. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason why we shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sign on and state that in a public way.â&#x20AC;? Sure, it seems like no big deal for the thousands of businesses, institutions and organizations already committed to equality. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no big deal because they know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the right and just thing to do, but it can also have an enormous positive impact in our communities.

In a nation where too many politicians argue that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people do not deserve the same protections that other citizens enjoy, and where daily we hear too many religious leaders preach that LGBT people are â&#x20AC;&#x153;abominationsâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;sinful,â&#x20AC;? every time a business owner or leader signs the Equality Is Our Business pledge, they deliver the opposite message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are welcome hereâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are important to us.â&#x20AC;?

My job at HRC Mississippi is to work with others to create a state where everyone is welcome. Or to put it this way, that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;hospitality stateâ&#x20AC;? truly embodies its nickname. All we want is a state where everyone is treated fairly and equally under the law, and that our Mississippi institutions treat everyone with dignity and respect.

Our Equality pledge costs absolutely nothing to the businesses, institutions and individuals who sign on, but it is worth so much to the LGBT Mississippians who hear, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are welcome hereâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are important to us.â&#x20AC;?

Rob Hill is the Mississippi state director of the Human Rights Campaign.

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here is no doubt that the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film incentives have revolutionized the movie industry in Mississippi.

Before 2004, when the Legislature passed the first version of the Mississippi Film Officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film-incentive program, Hollywood film crews were relatively infrequent visitors to the Magnolia State.

On the backs of the film business in nearby New Orleans, and with reinforcement from the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incentive packageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which rebates of 25 percent to 35 percent of the money a production spends in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mississippi is slowly becoming a film powerhouse. As Ward Emling, director of the Mississippi Film Office, notes in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cover story (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anywhere, USA: The State of Film in Mississippi,â&#x20AC;? pp 13-14), each film brings along with it â&#x20AC;&#x153;anywhere from 50 to 250 new people.â&#x20AC;?

These new people eat in our restaurants and sleep in our hotel and motel beds, and help spur tax revenues in cities like Jackson that in recent years hosted such major film productions John Krasinskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hollars,â&#x20AC;? the James Brown biopic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get On Up,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Same Kind of Different As Meâ&#x20AC;? with Renee Zellweger and Djimon Hounsou.

But because these productions often bring a large portion of their crews from cities like New Orleans and Los Angeles, hiring only a handful of local actors and crew members, the next phase of film incentives should revolve around

investing more in local film workforce training.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get us wrong. We certainly appreciate the presence of the productions. But to echo local Jackson officials, a real opportunity exists to build capacity right here in the capital city.

As Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber said this week during a city council meeting about building capacity within city departments: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Workforce training is about more than putting money in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pockets. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about training people so that when this job is over, they can do something else.â&#x20AC;?

In other words, training locals to work in the film industry means that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not only growing the talent pool for out-of-town productions, but also the possibility for more homegrown projects and ancillary film businesses.

To date, many of our two- and four-year colleges in the Jackson area have been slow to develop training programs that would expand the pool of qualified local film crewmembers. In the next round of budget negotiations, the Legislature should consider supporting Mississippi schools wishing to establish or beef up their filmproduction programs. We may be a bit removed from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Year of the Creative Economy,â&#x20AC;? but our stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative elements are still proving to be viable sources for economic growth.

We would also call on officials in Jackson and other municipalities to also look for ways to support film-related workforce development as well.

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mmunization is one of the greatest public-health achievements in the 20th century, but as with all medications, vaccines can harm. We should be asking why some children experience severe reactions, while most in society do not.

In 1988, the National Vaccine Injury Prevention Act established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program primarily to protect pharmaceutical companies from being sued for vaccine-related injuries.

The program is a no-fault alternative to civil court for the purpose of compensating plaintiffs who have experienced a vaccinerelated injury. It takes approximately two to three years for adjudication after a claim has been filed.

Claims are decided by eight special masters of the United States Court of Federal Claims or in a negotiated settlement. The secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the defendant and is represented by the Department of Justice.

Plaintiffs must go through the program before they can bring charges in civil court. Punitive damages are not allowed, and compensation for pain and suffering or death is capped at $250,000, which has not changed since the act was passed in 1988.

Compensation covering lifetime medical care and lost wages can reach $10 million.

Initially, plaintiffs merely had to demonstrate they were administered the vaccine and experienced a HHS-recognized adverse reaction within a specified time. However, in 1995, the HHS modified the table. In doing so, it eliminated some injuries and narrowed the injury time period associated with others. Consequently, it has become more difficult for plaintiffs to prove a vaccine injury, which explains the high dismissal rate. An individual who has received a vaccine containing tetanus must experience anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock within four hours of the vaccine administration. Encephalopathy must occur within 72 hours.

According to the NVIP, the vaccine injury must have endured for more than six months after the vaccine was administered or resulted in hospitalization, surgery or death.

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Also, the plaintiff must pay a $400 filing fee.

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$2,885,038,650.06 has been awarded to plaintiffs and $121,636,170.55 paid for legal fees. The highest number of claims was filed in fiscal years 1991, 2003, 2004, and 1990. The most common vaccines implicated in 14,591 injury-related claims were “Unspecified,” DTP, influenza, MMR and Hepatitis B, which accounted for 37 percent, 22.5 percent, 11.6 percent, 6 percent and 4.2 percent, respectively. Of the 1,156 deaths, DTP, influenza and DTaP accounted for 60 percent, 7.2 percent and 6.9 percent, respectively.

Those numbers represent such a small segment of our population, but these are people whose lives were seriously harmed.

It’s time we stop the pro-vaccine and antivaccine argument and begin a productive dialogue about ways of identifying those children who are genetically predisposed to vaccine complications to prevent the likelihood of them being injured. For example, some children are genetically predisposed to type 1 diabetes, and researchers have identified a number of environmental factors, such as dairy-based infant formula, that increases the risk of those susceptible children developing the disease. Perhaps such an examination should be done to identify and protect children who are at high risk of experiencing an adverse reaction to a vaccine.

There are contraindications to drugs, as well as vaccines. The U.S. National Library of Medicine defines a contraindication as a “specific situation in which a drug, procedure or surgery should not be used because it may be harmful to the patient.” The vaccine manufacturers have clearly identified contraindications to various vaccines in their drug pamphlets, and the CDC provides a guide to vaccine contraindications. The guide is “designed to help immunization providers determine what common symptoms and conditions should contraindicate vaccination and which ones should not.”

Do most health care providers refer to this guide and consult with parents before administering vaccines? Are parents even aware of the guide or the vaccine pamphlet inserts, which they can use to assess their child’s risk of injury and perhaps better plan when to vaccinate? These are legitimate questions that we should investigate if want to make vaccines as safe as possible.

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Once the producers guarantee that the project is filming here, the Mississippi Film Office creates a certificate of incentive for the filmmaker that â&#x20AC;&#x153;puts them into the financial queue for the funds,â&#x20AC;? Emling says. He adds that plenty of films have made it up to this point in the process, only to fall through.

After a movie finishes shooting, filmmakers submit their expenses to the Department of Revenue for auditing. If everything is in order, the production receives its rebate check in about 90 business days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very straightforward process,â&#x20AC;? Emling says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said to the Tax Commission on day one, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know what? We have to make this as easy as possible. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want more work, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want more work, and (filmmakers) donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want more work.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Even with its sleek, five-step incentive plan, Emling says the Film Office has plenty of challenges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every film has a question that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never had,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maddening to people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect that. I expect that. You know that there are so many components.

Every film is a collection of anywhere from 50 to 250 new people, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always something different.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always some variable in the make-up of a film.â&#x20AC;?

The promise of lowering their costs has proven to be a draw for filmmakers, whether their projects were large or small. Last year, 19 major film productions were made in Mississippi, including director and star John Krasinskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hollars,â&#x20AC;? the James Brown biopic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get On Up,â&#x20AC;? starring Chadwick Boseman, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Same Kind of Different As Meâ&#x20AC;? with Renee Zellweger.

Unfortunately, the upsurge of movies made in Mississippi also drew attention to one of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest deficiencies for the film industry: an under-developed crew base. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a challenge that producer Jen Gatien, production supervisor Lisa Riley and production accountant Jay Cannold face with their indie feature, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Neighbor,â&#x20AC;? which is now in production.

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s Ward Emling walks through chez in 1973. Emling was attending Mill- lockâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;St. Elsewhere.â&#x20AC;? But when the downtown Jackson, his daydreams saps College at the time and took a summer Mississippi Film Office was once again in transport him to 1840. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oldâ&#x20AC;? job working on the film as both an extra need of a director, he returned for what Capitol Museum on State Street is and a production assistant in the wardrobe was to be a seven-month stint. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been still brand new, and politicians clamor inside department. He credits the experience for there now for 24 years. about the future of antebellum Mississippi. being a catalyst for his role in the film inâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny because the challenge now Sometimes, his time jump isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so extreme. dustry. Before that, he had only worked in was not the challenge then in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 1950s, and Capitol Street is theatrical productions. early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s,â&#x20AC;? Emling says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In those days, it just Main Street, U.S.A. He passes local After graduating from Millsaps with was really about the location. Now, the first shops bustling with the vibrant life of the a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in English in 1976, two questions are about incentives, and American Golden Age. Emling continued to work in the film (then) workforce and available crew.â&#x20AC;?

As the director of the Mississippi Film Office, such musings are a regular occurrence for Emling.

Blame his career choice or just his general love of movies, but nearly every moment Emling is away from the office, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scouting for locations.

He sees potential shooting spots for filmmakers around every Jackson corner. His job is to have those filmmakers, many of whom know little about Mississippi, see them, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, movies are movies,â&#x20AC;?

Emling says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Movies can be made anywhere. I think one of things we knew, even when film commissions first started being created back in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s, is that a movie can move.â&#x20AC;?

He points out that a number of dramatically different regions are within easy reach from Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the Mississippi Film Office Director Ward Emling helps filmmakers find shooting spots across the state, including the diverse areas of Jackson. pre-Civil War homes in Holly Springs to the acres of cotton in Clarksdale.

But Mississippi has more to offer than its oft-shown historical elements. Part of industry in whatever positions he could If You Incentivize, They Will Come Emlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job is to show filmmakers the many find. From 1980 to 1983, Emling was The first version of the Mississippi Film options the state can provide, and Jackson is the director of the Mississippi Film Officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film-incentive program passed the a major selling point.

Commission, which was later renamed state legislature in 2004. Since then, Emling â&#x20AC;&#x153;You tend to look at a city concentrical- as the Mississippi Film Office. and Deputy Director Nina Parikh have inly,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You radiate from a base where â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was an actor, and I would just stay in troduced major improvements to streamline your crew can stay. Depending on if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re touch with the film office because I wanted the process for filmmakers. Today the proin downtown Jackson or Ridgeland, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re acting jobs with movies that came in. But I gram, which rebates 25 percent to 35 pertalking about reaching Vicksburg to Morton had worked on films in the production of- cent of the money a production spends in and Forest, Yazoo City, and down to Crystal fice and on production,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Mississippi, takes about five steps.

Springs and Magee. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a big area of â&#x20AC;&#x153;They needed a three-month replaceFirst, a filmmaker interested in producreally fabulous locations, and we know the ment because the director, (Walterine ing his or her project in Mississippi comindustry will move. The industry will go and Odom), was going on maternity leave. That pletes a two-page online application. Then, shoot on real locations.â&#x20AC;? three months turned into over three years.â&#x20AC;? the filmmaker submits a budget and a script Emlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knowledge of the film indusEmling moved to Los Angeles in for the project to the Mississippi Film Office. try comes from years of on-set and behind- 1984, where he worked as an actor and If it looks like a good fit, the office replies the-scenes experience. The first movie he a location manager. He had small roles in with a letter of commitment, which includes worked on was â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Musical Adventures the 1990 comedy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Problem Childâ&#x20AC;? and in an estimate of the rebate amount. This part of Huckleberry Finn,â&#x20AC;? which filmed in Nat- several television series, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mat- of the process, which once took about 30

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“It’s a real issue trying to find crew when you’re staffing a film,” Riley says. “The experienced crew here is used to making commercial rates, which are highly paid positions, so when an independent film comes in, they turn it down. They don’t want to JONNY COURNOYER

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for best short documentary at Crossroads, the Northern California Film Festival and the Madrid International Film Festival.

Volunteering with Crossroads heightened Fisher’s involvement with Mississippi’s film industry. She commends the film office’s work with the incentive program, which some forget isn’t just for filmmakers coming here from out of state. Local producers and directors can also take advantage of the program’s benefits.

“If it helps a film be made financially, then that’s good for the filmmaker.

If it, in turn, provides jobs and money being spent in Mississippi, then that’s good for the taxpayer and for the state” Fisher says. “I think it’s a win-win from all perspectives.

She adds that Mississippi’s lack of a large crew base has come up more than a few times within her circle of friends and peers, but Fisher is quick to point out the progress being made to address the problem. Several Mississippi Film Office Director Ward Emling Mississippi’s Dynamism colleges, including the Univertook producer Jen Gatien around the state to find Thankfully, Mississippi’s bensity of Southern Mississippi Gulf locations for “Dixieland,” which stars Faith Hill. efits outweighed its drawbacks for Coast, Pearl River Community Gatien, who also hails from New College and Hinds Community York City. Gatien met Emling last year while Orleans, Atlanta and across Mississippi.

College, have film-related programs. producing the film “Dixieland,” which Gatien echoes Emling in praising the “It’s just going to take time to build wrapped shooting in Jackson last October. state’s many locations. up,” she says. “It doesn’t happen instantly, Emling took Gatien and company across “What’s interesting about Mississippi but it is in the works.” the state, scouting in cities such as Tupelo is that it hasn’t been seen a lot in cinema, In the meantime, Fisher and the Crossand Southaven. They ultimately chose the so there are a lot of undiscovered gems roads crew continue to support the local film Jackson area as their base of operations for here,” she says. “The state is so vast in dif- community. The 16th annual Crossroads ”Dixieland” and decided to return here for ferent (types) of architecture, or … rural Film Festival is April 9 through April 12 at “The Neighbor.” versus city, industrial versus suburban. I the Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grand“It’s been refreshing to film here be- think you could pretty much source any view Blvd., Madison, 601-898-7819). cause people are so willing to support inde- look you want for film here.”

This year, the festival received submispendent films and projects here, and a lot Whereas “Dixieland” embraced the sions from far-flung international locations, of other cities are jaded about films,” Ga- typical southern landscape and culture of including Poland, Kazakhstan and Iran; tien says. “It was important to (Emling and Mississippi, Gatien says “The Neighbor” however, Mississippi remains a strong presI) on our first film we did together … to doesn’t require that kind of specific locale. ence in the 90 films on the schedule, says “It’s Anywhere, USA,” she says of the festival coordinator Michele Baker. On Satfilm’s setting. “It’s not Deep South, and Jack- urday, April 11, the festival has eight Mississon worked to sort of play that. … It could sippi-based film blocks. be Middle America, it could be the Midwest, “If you’re going to be the capital or it could be virtually anywhere.” city, you need to have high-quality film At the same time, Gatien’s first Missis- festivals. We’re doing that. We have the sippi project holds more personal meaning, Mississippi International Film Festival in part due to the film’s usage of the state’s and the Jewish Film Festival (and several natural character. She hopes that “Dixieland,” others). I also think film festivals are imwhich premieres April 19 at the Tribeca Film portant because they give those shorter Festival in New York City, draws other film- formats an outlet to be seen. You’re not makers to the magnolia state. (normally) going to see a four-minute Producer Robbie Fisher has also carved film at Malco or at Parkway (Place Theout a film career in Mississippi. Fisher has ater in Flowood). It’s just not going to worked on a number of independent short happen,” Baker says. films and has served as president of the Cross“… Mississippians tell great stories, and roads Film Society board of directors since we need a place to tell (them).”

New York City film producer Jen Gatien brought her feature film August 2014. Her involvement started with For more information about the Missisproject “The Neighbors” to Jackson her first Crossroads’ submission in 2013: sippi Film Office, visit filmmississippi.org. For after a successful experience with “Delta 180: Changing Lives in the Missis- more information about the Crossroads Film her previous movie, “Dixieland.” sippi Delta.” The film won awards that year Festival, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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tie up weeks of their time when they could make the same amount of money with a three- to four-day commercial shoot.”

As a Jackson native, Riley has seen the potential and the problems of the state’s burgeoning movie business. Riley, who moved to Chicago after graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1984, has worked on a number of films and television series. When her family left Chicago for Madison in 2002, Riley got involved with the local film industry and began volunteering with the Crossroads Film Festival. Short local films, such as those shown at Crossroads, are a great way for aspiring crewmembers to get their feet wet, she says, but that can’t fill every filmmaker’s needs.

“There’s lots of room for (inexperienced workers), but a minimum crew is 40 people,” Riley says of feature-length productions. Early on, Riley says, she was willing to work for film credits instead of focusing on the money. Once a crew member has more experience, then he or she can start working on films for better rates and better film credits.

Cannold, who lives in New York City, believes one solution would be for a network or cable TV series to take occupancy in Jackson. Regular employment opportunities open the door for a regular crew base, which can’t exist without long-term projects and permanent fixtures. This would also pave the way for local production and equipmentrental companies to add value to Mississippi’s production scene. Most projects filmed in

train as many Mississippians as we could, so the next go-round, we’d have a deeper crew base, which has been the case.”

In fact, about 70 percent of the film’s cast and crew is Mississippi-based, including actor Marco St. John, who had roles in “Thelma & Louise,” “The Punisher” and “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” among other major projects. For many years, St. John sought work in New York City and Los Angeles. The acting veteran has lived in Biloxi for the last few decades, though, and he finds work in New

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Director and star John Krasinski chose to make his most recent film, “The Hollars,” in Jackson.

the Jackson area rent equipment from New Orleans, which is costly to filmmakers and sends potential revenue out of the state.

“If you have a regular TV series that does 26 episodes a year, then when indie films come in, there’s a crew base,” Cannold says. “Usually, off-season, they could pick up the whole crew and go shoot movies.”

Riley worked with a producer on the film “Life at These Speeds” who told her about the effect that a major TV series had on Miami’s South Beach neighborhood.

Before “Miami Vice” began filming there in 1984, the area had a relatively low profile, and its real estate wasn’t in high demand. As the show became a long-running hit, property values and tourism skyrocketed.

“The Gulf Coast needs a ‘Miami Vice.’ It makes it sexy. It makes it desirable, and everyone starts buying there,” Riley says. “Then, you’ve got a TV show, you’ve got a crew base, and you’ve got real estate that totally lifts up the economy.”

all been in Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss shoes. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ve all thought when we were 18 or 19 that we were ready to live on our own, and to be fair, some of us were, (I was not one of them, however).

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n one of his classic poems â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Road Not Taken,â&#x20AC;? poet Robert Frost wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.â&#x20AC;?

People often use that as a metaphor for taking the high road in a tough situation or staying on your own path when everyone else goes astray.

When Anna Norris, (Anna Petrie Hill) uses it in the short film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adult-ish,â&#x20AC;? sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss using it as a way to show her parents that even if she is 18, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss ready to start her life as an adult.

The concept of the film, which Alec Martin directed for the 2014 Mississippi 48 Hour Film Project, is pretty simple, which is what makes it fun to watch. Anna writes a letter to her parents, Jayla and Jared Norris, explaining to them that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss bought a house because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss closer to her new internship, and she feels like sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss ready to begin her journey into adulthood. Her parents look annoyed because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss pretty obvious that she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tt actually know how to be an adult. They know that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss more than just shaving your legs twice a week and knowing not to eat Oreos for every meal (both things she mentions when trying to show that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss ready).

Of course, anyone who has graduated college, even those who are just about to, have figured out that saying youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x2122;re re an adult is quite different than being one. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ve

In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adult-ish,â&#x20AC;? Anna Hill reads a letter to her parents saying that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready to move into her own house at the age of 18.

Best Actress and an Honorable Mention for production design), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss pretty obvious that many people can relate to the film. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adult-ishâ&#x20AC;? is on Screen A at 5 p.m., April 11, in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts 7: Mississippi Showcaseâ&#x20AC;? block at Crossroads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). For more information, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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ithout the western river system, the United States would shut down,â&#x20AC;? declares the captain of the Motor Vessel Mary Parker in the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barge,â&#x20AC;? Mississippi native Ben Powell directs.

The Mary Parker is a tugboat working out of the Port of Rosedale, Miss., towing barges up and down the Mississippi River as far south as New Orleans. Its crew (none are identified in the film) is made up of eccentrics, ex-convicts and formerly down-ontheir-luck guys who found renewed purpose working on the river in 28-day stints.

Sometimes, as the film depicts, deckhands donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t adjust well to the strenuous round-the-clock labor. For the good of the whole crew, the captain must let them go.

Similar to life on a barge, the film ambles along without reaching a dramatic climax. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadliest Catchâ&#x20AC;? it is not. Instead, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bargeâ&#x20AC;? simply and beautifully introduces us to some of the people that play an important role to our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commerce.

The captain sums up the job this way: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not one thing you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch, use or drive on, daily, that was not in a barge.

When you get in your car and leave your

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ultimately decided that it was unconstitutional), serves as a backdrop to Outlaw and McPhersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey. One segment shows images of protests for and against gay marriage, In one part, the camera goes to a woman holding a poster with these words printed on it: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gays have every right to be as miserable as I make my husband.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Mississippi Love Storyâ&#x20AC;? is on Screen B at 7:10 p.m., Saturday, April 11, in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts 8: LGBTQ Blockâ&#x20AC;? block at Crossroads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). For more information, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

drivewayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;guess what? Concrete was probably in a barge. The tires youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re rolling on?

The petroleum to make them was in a barge.

When you pull out on an asphalt road, that stuff was in a barge. Styrofoam plates, plastic cups, plastic chairsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all the stuff that was involved in making that stuff was in a

In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barge,â&#x20AC;? a deckhand on the Motor Vessel Mary Parker stares out at the Mississippi River.

barge at some point.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bargeâ&#x20AC;? is on Screen A at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 11, in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts 2: Mississippi Documentariesâ&#x20AC;? block at Crossroads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). For more information, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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his year, the Crossroads Film Festival celebrates 16 years of providing Jacksonians with a creative, cultural and cinematic outlet. The festival, held at the Malco Grandview Cinema, features films from all over the world, including some from right here in Mississippi. All-access passes for the whole weekend, April 9-12, are $45 regular admission or $35 for Crossroads Film Society members, seniors 65 and older and students. General admission to the Great Southern Music Video Showcase, Thursday, April 9, are $5. Saturday passes are $20 regular admission and $15 for members, seniors and students. A membership to Crossroads Film Society is $35 regular price and $25 for students. Admission to Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s showing of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battlecreekâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clown Serviceâ&#x20AC;? are $10 general admission and $8 for members, students and seniors 65+. Individual film blocks are $8 regular admission and $6 for members, seniors and students. For the complete event schedule and to buy tickets, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com. Here are reviews of some of the featured films.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Mississippi Love Story,â&#x20AC;? which Robbie Fisher produced and Lauren Cioffi directed, features the love story of Eddie Outlaw (pictured) and Justin McPherson, whose California wedding is in the film.

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obbie Fisher produced and Lauren Cioffi directed and shot a beautiful film on many levels with â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Mississippi Love Story.â&#x20AC;? It demonstrates love for another, love for Mississippi and the South, and the love of a parent for a child.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the story of how a parent can surprise that child by accepting who they love. It is about the struggle for acceptance that we all face in one way or another.

The short, 13-minute documentary follows Eddie Outlaw (a frequent contributor to Jackson Free Press) and his now-husband Justin McPherson, owners of William Wallace Salon and Fondren Barber Shop, as they describe the struggles and victories of trying to be who they are in an often lessthan-hospitable South. The unique use of animation to transition between scenes in the film adds flavor and grabs your attention. The film will pull you in and have you rooting for the good guys (Eddie and Justin, whose California wedding is in the film) and crying with frustration over the obstacles in their path to happiness and the setbacks they experience.

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with color. He shares his beloved coffee; he paints. Once the masterpiece is at last finished and the coffee is again depleted, what will become of our artist and his muse? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coffeeâ&#x20AC;? is on Screen A at 7:20 p.m., Saturday, April 11, in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts 9: Romantic Comedies from Around the Worldâ&#x20AC;? block at the Crossroads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). For more information, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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livia Martha Ilseâ&#x20AC;? is a nar- Tammy Blanchard (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Into the Woodsâ&#x20AC;?) plays rative short film set in Nora; Greenwood native Tonea Stewart Depression-era Mississippi (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rosa Parks Storyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Time to that follows three sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Killâ&#x20AC;?) plays Eloise; James Harkness (â&#x20AC;&#x153;UnforOlivia, Martha and Ilseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as they grow up. gettableâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silent Witnessâ&#x20AC;?) is Andrew; Actress Jaclyn Bethany, a Jackson native (and Jaclyn Bethany (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get on Upâ&#x20AC;?) is Martha; former JFP intern), joined forces with Los Angeles native Sophia Kiapos to make the film. Anton Chekhovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three Sistersâ&#x20AC;? inspired the film, which is set on an estate in the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s instead of a provincial town in Russia in the 19th century.

The film opens with a birthday party for Ilse at the Chekhovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three Sistersâ&#x20AC;? inspired family estate. Andrew, Ilseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anton Jaclyn Bethany and Sophia Kiaposâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Olivia brother and caretaker, introduc- Martha Ilse,â&#x20AC;? which is about sisters (left to right) es the family to his fiancĂŠ, Nora, Martha, Olivia and Ilse. and his business associate, William Bailey. To the sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dismay, after Nora Lindsey Newell (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Introvertsâ&#x20AC;?) plays Olivia; moves in, she systematically insults and mis- and actress C.C. Kellogg stars as Ilse. treats everyone in the household. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Olivia Martha Ilseâ&#x20AC;? is on Screen A at Shot on location in Mississippi, the 5 p.m., Saturday, April 11, in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts rich colors and interior, period costumes and 7: Mississippi Showcaseâ&#x20AC;? in the Crossroads makeup in the film offset the compactness Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at the Malof the story. The cast includes several recog- co Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview nizable faces. James Frain (â&#x20AC;&#x153;True Detectiveâ&#x20AC;? Blvd., Madison). For more information, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sleepy Hollowâ&#x20AC;?) plays William Bailey; visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

n the short documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leadway,â&#x20AC;?

Cindi Quong Lofton says her father, Alfred Quong, was like the Chinese James Dean. He loved Harley-Davidson motorcycles and muscle T-shirts and wore his long hair in a ponytail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tt the stereotypical Chinese grocer that you would imagine,â&#x20AC;? Lofton says in the film. Quong and his wife, May Chin Quong (Loftonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom), owned Leadway Grocery in Shaw, Miss., until his death in 2007.

In the film, Lofton recalls her memories of the grocery stores, from the color of the tiles in the downtown location to how Quong would often do business on credit if people were having money problems.

On Sept. 19, 2007, Shaw locals Joshua King and Terrance Stanton shot and killed Quong and So Ha Jung, an employee at Leadway. Almost a year later, on Sept. 17, 2008, King and Stanton were indicted for two counts of capital murder. Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss trial ended in a mistrial in July 2009. Dec. 14-16, 2010, the Circuit Court of Bolivar County retried King and found him guilty on both counts. The trial court sentenced him to two life sentences.

King appealed to the Mississippi Supreme Court in 2011, but after the court found no errors in court proceedings, the judges affirmed his conviction.

In the film, Lofton said her family was devastated after his death. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leadwayâ&#x20AC;?

follows Quong in her journey to continue her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss legacy of helping everyone he could and to building people up. She now works at Community Counseling Center in Shaw. She also mentors kids in the local school system, including one named Will

In the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leadway,â&#x20AC;? directed by Robbie Fisher and Dudley Percy Olsson, Chinese American and Shaw, Miss., native Cindi Quong Lofton reflects on the legacy of her father, Alfred Quong, whom Joshua King and Terrance Stanton killed in 2007.

Dukes, who is 14. She says she does this to give him and other students someone to look up to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If these kids donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tt have someone to take them under their wings and guide them, then they end up running the streets,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leadwayâ&#x20AC;? is on Screen B at 3:10 p.m., Saturday, April 11, in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts 6: Mississippi Culture Blockâ&#x20AC;? in the Crossroads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at the Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). For more information, 17 visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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The artist in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coffee,â&#x20AC;? played by Kasra Kalami, interchangeably drinks coffee and stares at a blank canvas until he meets his muse, April Amoretto.

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ver been so distraught to have run out of coffee that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve put your wallet, and then you rush out to the market before remembering to put on shoes and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even notice that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a beautiful naked girl on the sofa of your studio apartment? If so, you can empathize with the main character of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coffeeâ&#x20AC;? from director Pouya Eshtehardi.

This short film stars Kasra Kalami as an artist with painterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s block who spends his days staring at a blank canvas and sipping cups of kettle-brewed java from the solitary hot plate in his tiny apartment that overlooks a busy interstate. Our artist goes from the coffee pot to the window to his virgin canvas back to his coffee pot. Then, he notices the winsome April Amoretto, who, ironically, also appears in a film called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silence of Paintings,â&#x20AC;? which could have easily been the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coffeeâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title. She wastes no time in awakening the artist. The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grayscale fades to color as the temperas, palettes and brushes on the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s table come alive

ake elements of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfather: TV writer Dante Blank, and a televangelist Part III,â&#x20AC;? the black political com- named Gold who strongly resembles actor edy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wag the Dogâ&#x20AC;? and any given Bill Murray. episode of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Law & Order,â&#x20AC;? and you arrive at Lorenzo Berghellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Too Bad.â&#x20AC;?

It all takes place in Bangland, a major city in dystopian America, where Steven Spielberg is the Republican president facing re-election. As Election Day nears, President Spielberg wages war against the fictional African nation of Mahaba â&#x20AC;&#x153;Too Bad.â&#x20AC;? is an animated short film that takes place in fictional Bangland, a major and launches a propaganda camcity in dystopian America, where Steven paign that casts all nonwhites as terSpielberg is president. rorists. In the final scenes, African Americans, including what appears to Bloods and Crips street gang members, Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also in Italian and has subtitles. wage an insurrection. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Too Bad.â&#x20AC;? is on Screen A at 3 p.m., Amidst the chaos, which conspires to Saturday, April 11, in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shorts 5: Visually muddle the story in places, Berghella weaves Striking & Experimentalâ&#x20AC;? block in the Crossnarratives of five characters, including a pair roads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at the of mob-enforcer types named Toucan Char- Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview lie and Tony Beretta, loan shark Loogie Boo- Blvd., Madison). For more information, visit gie and his unruly family, Christian-series crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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irector Frank Hall Green’s feature film “Wildlike” is a meditative and artful exploration of loss, betrayal, friendship and healing in the unspoiled terrain of the Alaskan frontier.

Traveling to multiple locations within a vast setting, the film is a hybrid of drama, road trip and nature film. With a minimum of dialogue, Green makes good use of silence and soundtrack. The characters reveal themselves through subtle means: nervous habits, facial expressions, gestures and actions.

The story centers on Mackenzie (Ella Purnell of “Maleficent”), a troubled teenage girl who has recently lost her father. While her mother is in treatment in Seattle, she sends her to Juneau, Alaska, to stay with her uncle (Brian Geraghty of “Flight” and “The Hurt Locker”). After he betrays Mackenzie’s trust, she runs away and tries to get back to Seattle. On the way, she meets a middleaged hiker, Rene Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood of “Endless Love” and “Star Trek: Into Darkness”). Bart befriends Mackenzie and helps her get home.

Alaska’s undeniable sense of place permeates the film, which Green shot in Juneau and the Denali National Park and Preserve.

Long sequences filmed in Denali’s six-mil-

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andering Rabbi” is a short documentary on just that—a wandering rabbi—although Rabbi Marshal Klaven calls himself a circuit-riding rabbi. Klaven has a fixed routine visiting rural Jewish congregations that are too small to have a dedicated rabbi.

He covers 110 congregations from Texas to Virginia. The film partially focuses on the rabbi and his interactions with the communities across Mississippi.

Henry Wiener made the film as part of his master’s degree program at Stanford University. The story focuses on the mostly rural Jewish communities in Mississippi.

The film opens on scenes of rural Mississippi shot from a car window to the accompaniment of jazz. Upon first seeing Klaven, it may be obvious to the viewer that he is no ordinary rabbi. He is a youngish man with an infectious grin, a neatly trimmed goatee and muscular arms covered in tattoos.

One scene shows Klaven bowling with the Ole Miss Hillel, an organization for Jewish students at the university. He throws the bowling ball the entire length of the ally for a crashing strike.

The film also focuses on the decline of

The film “Wandering Rabbi” focuses on the journey of Rabbi Marshal Klaven as he travels throughout rural Jewish congregations in the South.

a once rich and vibrant Jewish community in Mississippi. At one congregation, a member says that the average age of its congregants is 70. At another, the average age given is “deceased.” The last scene is quite poetic.

The rabbi wanders the Windsor Ruins in Claiborne County. With the majestic columns as a backdrop, Klaven contemplates the future of Jews in Mississippi.

“Wandering Rabbi” shows on Screen B at 3:10 p.m., Saturday, April 11, in “Shorts 6: Mississippi Culture Block” in the Crossroads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at the Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). For more information, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

lion-acres are the highlight of the film. More than mere setting or backdrop, the dramatic landscape is the movie’s ever-present fourth character.

As Mackenzie and Bart explore Denali, the awe-inspiring wilderness carries the story and its inhabitants toward resolution.

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udy’s Olde Hat still fronts onto Boutwell was quirky enough. In the film, Highway 42 about where Petal and his voice describes the store (“A little of this Hattiesburg meet, although the and a little of that.”), and its contents help original proprietor, Rudy Boutwell, narrate his life. Snell and Scarborough spent has been dead for several years. Look for the hours with Boutwell, following him as he faded signage: Used Antiques, Primitives, described his wares, played music and sang, Collectibles. and talked about women, dogs and life.

The store is no longer open, but you Abandoned as an infant, Boutwell spent his can still look in the window and see the childhood in a series of “homes for destitute items piled floor to ceiling. The store had boys” in New Orleans. He never married tall, twisting aisles leading around and be- and never fathered children. tween the wares that could defeat the narHe was also hard-pressed to sell any of rowest Walmart shopping cart. But this the random items that he collected over 80 wasn’t Walmart, except maybe in an alternate universe kind of way.

Rudy’s specialized in selling castaways of 20th-century made-to-bedisposable paraphernalia—Mickey Mouse toys and anonymous doll parts, Fisher Price music boxes, portraits of Captain Kirk and Jesus, mismatched plates, gravy boats and shoe stands, and maybe a chair or two you could actually sit in. Surely, some priceless treasure lay hidden here, gathering To Herman Snell, Rudolph Boutwell’s Rudy’s dust and cat hair from Boutwell’s’ss un- Olde Hat was a quirky piece of Americana numbered felines. and a story that needed to be told.

“Don’t do any climbing and try not to rearrange,” Boutwell would years even though nothing was really worth tell visitors.

Some would call it a junk store. For much—unless “somebody comes and wants Herman Snell, Rudy’s Olde Hat was a sin- it,” he said. “Whenever something becomes gular, if quirky piece of Americana, and obsolete, the value goes up,” Boutwell deBoutwell was a harmonica player in a top hat clared, a philosophy that counters any with a story. In 2003, Snell began shooting known capitalist logic. a documentary at Rudy’s. He never finished “He overpriced everything,” Scarborit. Like Boutwell and his store, Snell defied ough says. “It’s like he didn’t want to let go of categorization. A self-described free-thinking anything.” Boutwell might price a jar of buteclectic, in 2002, Snell became the first mu- tons at $50 or a scratched plate with Andy sic editor for Jackson Free Press, a position Gibbs’ face for $25. he held until his death in 2010. He directed Fourteen minutes can’t tell the whole the Crossroads Film Festival from 2004 to story of a man’s life, of course. Like the fact 2009. He painted and loved ancient music, that Boutwell had a long, decorated military rock ‘n’ roll, funk and zydeco. career that spanned World War II, Korea Snell met Philip Scarborough, co-own- and Vietnam. Or the fact that he lived in er of Spot On Productions LLC, when they the store, in a room packed with books and both attended the University of Southern magazines, varying in decor from his shop Mississippi, and they reconnected in Jack- only because it contained Boutwell’s bed. son through Crossroads, eventually becom“Rudy’s Olde Hat” is partly a tribute to ing collaborators. “When we would screen his old friend, Scarborough says, but it took films for Crossroads, if there was this weird, a couple of years after Snell’s death in 2010 experimental film everybody hated, he to even begin the process. Few knew of the would love it,” Scarborough says, explaining gastric-bypass surgery Snell underwent, and why the festival named an award for film in- when complications took his life at age 40,, novation in Snell’s honor. many of his close friends were gobsmacked.

Late last year, Scarborough finally com“I’m still kinda mad at him for that,” pleted “Rudy’s Olde Hat.” He compiled the Scarborough says.

14-minute film from the footage Snell di“Rudy’s Old Hat” is on Screen A at rected and they both shot, spending months 11 a.m., April 11, in the “Shorts 2: Misreviewing, categorizing and editing. One of sissippi Documentaries” block at the CrossScarborough’s guiding principles was, “How roads Film Festival April 9-12. You can also would Herman edit this?” he says. Would it view “Rudy’s Olde Hat” at https://vimeo. com/114387325.. For more information, reflect Snell’s inventive spirit?

Ultimately, Scarborough decided that visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

In Crossroads Film Festival’s feature film “Wildlike,” Mackenzie (Ella Purnell) tries to get back home from Alaska with the help of hiker Rene Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood).

“Wildlike” shows on Screen C at 5:20 p.m., Saturday, April 11, in the features block at Crossroads Film Festival April 9-12, hosted at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). For more information, visit crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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great universities (and) three great hospital complexes, and it’s less than two miles from the business district downtown.

The lunch crowd is good in Jackson. I know there’s a lot of restaurants in Jackson, but I think good restaurants breed good competition.”

LaRose kept the original checkerboard floor tiles for

menu and add a few new dishes.

“I think everything on our menu sells really well, and the people who come like what they like, but at some point, you have to change it up—not to stay competitive, but to stay current,” he says. “They’ll be healthy changes, not like health conscious, but something to breed new IMANI KHAYYAM

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ince its inception in March 2014, Lou’s Full-Serv Neighborhood Kitchen has made itself into an eclectic hideaway tucked in a quiet corner of a district where faces are familiar and everyone has a recipe for shrimp and grits. Jackson native Louis LaRose owns the restaurant, which is located in historic Belhaven.

No stranger to Jackson or Belhaven, LaRose uses his 23 years of culinary experience to tweak southern dishes to promote new interest and stimulate palates.

LaRose, 38, got his start in the food-service industry as a dishwasher at the now-closed POETS restaurant in The Quarter in the early ’90s. There, he moved up to busboy, barback and prep cook, before working as a waiter and, eventually, a cook. He also worked at POETS’ sister restaurant, the former Sam’s Westside, where Broad Street Baking Company (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601-3622900) is located today, and he worked at BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar (4500 Interstate 55 N., 601-982-8111).

And all that before he graduated from high school. LaRose went to college at Johnson and Wales University in north Miami, where he earned his associate’s degree in culinary arts in 1998, graduating summa cum laude.

With his relationship with Jackson restaurateurs Dan Blumenthal and Jeff Good still solid, he returned to BRAVO! as a sous chef. Within months, the restaurant promoted him to chef de cuisine in the late ’90s, a position he held from until 2010, when he tried to get a job at Sysco to focus more on his family. When the job at Sysco didn’t pan out, he took a job as the chef de cuisine at Derek Emerson’s Local 463 Urban Kitchen (121 Colony Crossing Way, Suite A, Madison, 601707-7684). In 2012, he joined the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-960-1515) as its executive chef, but LaRose soon realized he wanted something else: his own restaurant.

“I was thinking, if I was going to get back at it and really grind it out, working 80 to 90 hours a week sometimes, I needed to do it on my own terms,” he says.

When he left MMA in fall 2013, he set out to find the perfect location for his new restaurant. He found it when the historic spot on Fortification Street that previously housed Basil’s 904, Parkins Pharmacy and many other endeavors became available in February 2014. He signed the lease in early March.

“I love the old homes,” LaRose says of his new neighborhood. “The history of the area is great. There are two

by Maya Miller

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After leaving his position at the Mississippi Museum of Art as its executive chef, Louis LaRose decided it was time he opened his own restaurant.

Lou’s Full-Serv, as well as a vintage postal-service window that writer Eudora Welty once used. The dining area has a welcoming industrial quality that LaRose envisioned when he overturned the space. The architecture is unique, with exposed conduits, a direct view into the kitchen and the restaurant contains many items, such as the server’s station, that LaRose made himself. But the decor is merely a backdrop to the main attraction: the food.

LaRose’s culinary training influences his menu, which includes a few dishes featuring veggies and sauces found in traditional Caribbean or Creole recipes. For the most part, he tries to keep the dishes fresh and simple, giving customers a taste of something new without radically deviating from classic southern staples such as redfish, scallops, and shrimp and grits.

For the spring, LaRose plans to lighten up the winter

interest and raise some eyebrows.”

The decision to open a restaurant was a gut-wrenching one for LaRose, but he felt that he was meant for something more than working in someone else’s kitchen.

It’s not about the money for him, but rather a desire to be fulfilled and spend his days doing something he genuinely loves. Working at the Mississippi Museum of Art rekindled his passion for culinary excellence, he says, and since signing the lease for the Lou’s location, he says everything’s been fine. “It’s a little frustrating at times, but every bit of it is educational and strengthening,” he says.

“It’s definitely been worth it.”

Lou’s Full-Serv Neighborhood Kitchen (904B E. Fortification St., 601-487-6395) is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday. LaRose is considering extending the restaurant’s hours. Visit lousfullserv.com.

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hile store-bought granola can have many added sugars, homemade granola can be much healthier for you, with nuts, grains and dried fruits—all good stuff. The ingredients contain nutrients such as protein, so you it’s a great start to a healthy day. When you make it yourself, you know exactly what you’re

putting in it, so you’re not in for any surprises. Granola is a great breakfast or brunch item to fix up, and you can prepackage it so when you have a morning where you just have to get up and go, you can grab a bag of granola and be on your way. And, of course, it’s easy to fix for a brunch. You can make it and then leave it alone. It practically serves itself.

Granola This recipe can be made several days prior to serving. Having granola on the table takes so much pressure off you as a host as all you have to do is place it in a bowl and serve it with store-bought yogurt or milk. You can even have your guests make their own parfaits by having cut up seasonal fruit. My recipe has a medley of nuts and dried cranberries; if you change the types of nut, I would recommend keeping the same quantities.

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Ingredients 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats 1/3 cup sunflower seeds 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds 3/4 cup almonds, sliced 1/3 cup walnuts, chopped 1/3 cup pecans, chopped 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger, powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup oil 1/4 cup honey 3/4 cup cranberries, dried 1/2 cup coconut, shredded Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the oats, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, nuts, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, nutmeg, ground ginger and salt. Toss lightly. Place the brown

sugar, honey and oil in a 1-1/2-quart saucepan, and cook over medium heat until all the sugar is dissolved. Immediately pour the brown-sugar mixture into the bowl of oats and nuts and toss to coat the oats with the brown-sugar mixture.

Place the oats on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven and toss the granola. Do not skip tossing every 10 minutes as this step ensures the granola is cooking evenly.

Place the granola back in the oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes; then remove, add the coconut and toss again.

Place it back in the oven and bake for another 10 minutes. The granola should be done at this point. You are looking for the oats to have a golden color and to no longer be moist.

Remove the granola from the oven and place the dried cranberries on top.

Once it has cooled completely, place in a container to enjoy at another time.

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The Feathered Cow (4760 I-55 North 769-233-8366) Simple and homemade equal quality and freshness every time. You never leave The Cow hungry!

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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) Chef Tom Ramsey’s 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.

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The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 North State St. #100 601-398-4562) Transforms the essence of Mediterranean food and southern classics.

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 Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Avenue 601-982-2899) Creative seafood classics. Named one of Jackson’s Best New Restaurants.

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.

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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.

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Burgers and Blues (1060 E. County Line Rd. 601-899-0038) Best Burger of 2013, plus live music and 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.

Legends Grill (5352 Lakeland Dr. 601-919-1165) Your neighborhood Sports Bar and Grill.

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.

One Block East ( 642 Tombigbee St. 601-944-0203) Burger joint and dive bar located in downtown Jackson. Great music, tasty beverages and Bad Ass Burgers is what we do.

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.

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outhern-rock jam band Gov’t Mule has been a staple of the American live-music scene since forming in the early ’90s, playing more than 100 shows a year. The band will perform Tuesday, April 14, at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson. Here’s what guitarist and vocalist Warren Haynes had to say about the past and present of Gov’t Mule.

When we first formed Gov’t Mule in 1994, (bassist) Allen Woody and myself were full time members of The Allman Brothers, but we had a fair amount of free time based around The Allman Brothers’ schedule. We just decided to do something for the fun of it. We had no aspirations of it going for even five years, much less 10 or 20. We were just looking to do a project and didn’t put any pressure on it whatsoever. It would have surprised any of us if you had told us that we’d still be doing it.

have time to catch your breath when you’re on stage as a trio, especially when you’re basing your music on improvisation. … The chemistry is very important, and the chemistry the three of us had was uncanny, not only as a band but as friends. To continue that seemed futile, but we got a lot of encouragement, not only from friends, but from people who lost key band members and continued.

Once we decided to give it shot, the question was put to us by management and the record company: “If you were to do a record, who would you want to play bass?” I would always, as some sort of smart-ass remark, say, “Well, for this song, I would want Jack Bruce (of Cream), and for that song, I want Bootsy Collins (of Parliament-Funkadelic), and for this song I would John Entwistle (of The Who),” and so on.

So, after that banter occurred a few times, we decided, “Why not?” Why don’t we invite some of Woody’s favorite bass players to come and make a record with us? It’ll be a healing process and also buy us some time so we wouldn’t have to decide on a permanent replacement.

After Allen died, you brought in different bassists to pay tribute to him on “The Deep End, Vol. 1” and “The Deep End, Vol. 2.” How did that come about?

People in Jackson would be interested to know you played with Mississippi blues artist Little Milton. Why do you think Gov’t Mule thrives on collaborations?

When Allen first passed, our initial thought was that Gov’t Mule was finished. It took me a long time to wrap my head around continuing without him. He was such a big part of the sound of the band and also the spirit. The trio, which is what we were in that time period, is the most sensitive of all rock ‘n’ roll formats. All three members have to be hitting on all cylinders at all times. You don’t even

I think partially because we started out as a trio, it was always a welcoming experience when one of our friends and cohorts came on stage to play with us. It was like adding to what we had. Part of our philosophy is that every concert experience should be different from the last. One of the ways that we go about that is by inviting people on stage or into the studio to see what happens. I

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Gov’t Mule, featuring (left to right) multi-instrumentalist Danny Louis, guitarist and vocalist Warren Haynes, bassist Jorgen Carlsson and drummer Matt Abts, performs Tuesday, April 14, at Thalia Mara Hall.

was honored to call Little Milton a friend. I miss him a lot. We shared a lot of great memories together. Being in Jackson will conjure up some good memories of him.

You’re primarily known as a live band. How does that translate in the recording studio?

We love making studio records, but it’s a whole different mindset. We’re much more comfortable on stage making music in front of audiences. You can’t get that in the studio.

We’re always trying to conjure in the studio the energy we are capable of making on stage. That may be backward. The concert stage is our laboratory.

Do you find your skills as a vocalist and guitarist complement each other?

I started singing first. I was 7 or 8. All my heroes were soul singers. It would be several years before I heard bands like Cream, (The) Jimi Hendrix Experience and Johnny Winter. It was that music that made me want to play guitar.

In my mind, they were always equally important: Singing, guitar playing and songwriting were three things I had in my life that were very positive. ... If I was ever down on my guitar playing, I could feel good about my singing. It was always one of those things to keep me feeling good about what was going on. I think we’re all our own worse critics. It’s probably a good thing because it drives you to want to do better.

Gov’t Mule performs 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St., 601-960-1537).

Tickets are $25.50 to $45.50 at ardenland.net. For more information, visit mule.net.

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Laughter in Awkwardness

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Jackson-born comedian Tig Notaro performs Tuesday, April 14, at Brewsky’s in Hattiesburg.

Texas, when she was in kindergarten.

“They were both places that I always went back to over the summers and over the holidays,” she says of her hometowns.

Notaro has family spread throughout the South: Her father lived in Hattiesburg, her grandmother in Jackson, and many members of her family are in New Orleans. “I have nothing but fond memories of being there. My family is just really remarkable and progressive for small-town, Deep South-type folks.”

Notaro lived in Spring until she dropped out of high school in the 9th grade. She went to Denver, Colo., and worked as a band manager for a short time before heading to Los Angeles. About that time, she began pursuing her passion for stand-up comedy, one that she developed watching Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and countless HBO specials. By the time she was about 26, stand-up comedy was Notaro’s full-time career.

Where many comedians write, re-

write, rehearse and perform their jokes over a long period of time, Notaro’s performances are always different because they have to be: She mostly improvises her material onstage. She may enter the occasional word or phrase into her cell phone for reference, but the jokes come from whatever is on her mind at that second.

“I think it’s just more in the moment,” Notaro says. “I think that when I write onstage, it has more of a fight-orflight-type feeling, and I feel like my brain has to work a lot faster because there’s an entire audience waiting for me. And I feel like it works better. I feel sharper.”

Comic improvisation isn’t her only skill, though. Notaro is in the process of writing a memoir about a difficult fourmonth period of her life that is set for release early next year. She also wrote and directed a short film, “Clown Service,” that premieres Friday, April 10, at the Crossroads Film Festival.

“I was, in my life, going through a break-up years ago, and hanging out with a friend of mine at her place in Dallas,” Notaro says of the impetus behind the film. “I told her the only thing that would make me laugh or make me happy would be if I ordered a clown to come over. She thought that was hilarious, and she said, ‘You know, if you can get a clown to come over, I’ll pay for it.’”

Ultimately, the Dallas party company denied Notaro’s request because they were dubious about sending a clown to entertain two adult women. That didn’t stop Notaro from fulfilling her wishful scenario in “Clown Service.”

“There are a lot of awkward moments in it,” she says of the film. “I feel like there’s so much comedy in awkwardness. … When I was in real life calling the clown, that’s what was amusing to me: the thought of this person being uncomfortable and confused, headed to my house, and the awkward exchange, one on one.”

While many viewers will relate to her character’s emotional state, Notaro says audiences will also find plenty in common with the clown.

“I think anyone can relate to not being in the mood for something, kind of the perspective of the clown, when you’re not in the mood to be on or available to the world, but you have to just keep pushing through.”

Tig Notaro performs 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at Brewsky’s (3818 W. 4th St., Hattiesburg, 601-261-2888), with host Hub City Comedy. See “Clown Service” 6 p.m. Friday, April 10, at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison, 601-898-7819) during the Crossroads Film Festival. For more information on Notaro, visit tignation.com.

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lenty of people know Tig Notaro, even if they don’t remember from where. The comedian has appeared on a number of primetime television series, including “The Office,” “Community” and “Bob’s Burgers.” Her acting résumé also boasts film roles in “Walk of Shame” with Elizabeth Banks, “Shreveport” with Ryan Phillippe, and writer and actor Lake Bell’s “In a World,” which won Best Screenplay at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

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The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is at Old Capitol Museum.

Visiting artist Amelia Key is at the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

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The Mighty Souls Brass Band performs Saturday, April 11, for the Township Jazz Festival at the Township at Colony Parkway in Ridgeland.

J. Lee Productions’ Dinner Theater is 7-10:30 p.m. at The Penguin Restaurant & Bar (1100 John R. Lynch St.). Enjoy an interactive drama, a three-course dinner and music from Kerry Thomas. Encore performance Thursday, April 9, 7-10:30 p.m. RSVP. Limited seating. Doors open at 6 p.m. Guests must be seated by 6:45 p.m. Tickets not available at the door. $35 per person, $200 VIP table of four; call 601-208-0965; email jleeproductions@yahoo.com; jleeplays.com.

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edu/margaretwalkercenter. … The Crossroads Film Festival is 7 p.m. at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). Enjoy dozens of independent films, workshops and parties during at the three-day event. Continues April 11, 10 a.m. Awards brunch April 12. Discounts for members, students and seniors. $8 per screening, $20 oneday pass, $50 all-access pass; call 601-345-5674; email info@ crossroadsfilmfestival.com; crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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NatureFEST! is 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Includes reptile encounters, watching divers feed the fish in the giant aquarium, guided tours, a dinosaur bone display and more. InBY MICAH SMITH cluded with admission ($4-$6); call 601-576-6000; msnaturalscience.org. … The Township JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM Jazz Festival is 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

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The Crossroads Film Festival’s Music Video Showcase presents Jaxx City’s video for “Laughter” Thursday, April 9, at Hal & Mal’s.

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The Creative Arts Festival is 1-8 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The theme is “Margaret Walker: This Is My Century” and is an exhibition of visual arts, spoken word, performing arts and creative writing. Poet and activist Nikky Finney is the speaker. Continues April 11, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free; call 601-979-2055; jsums.

SUNDAY 4/12

Zoo Blues is noon-9 p.m. at the Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The annual event includes live blues music, and food and beverage vendors. Performers include Clarence Carter, Mr. Sipp, Lacee, Blues Boys and Dexter Allen. Lawn

chairs and coolers welcome. $25 in advance, $30; call 800745-3000; email aharris@jacksonzoo.org; jacksonzoo.org.

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The “Exploding Universe” Sky Show is 3 p.m. at the Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The film is about supernovae, colliding black holes, high-energy particles and other explosions that have shaped the universe.

Continues Monday-Saturday, 3 p.m. through May 30. $6.50, $5.50 seniors, $4 children (cash or check); call 601960-1550; thedavisplanetarium.com.

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“The Descent/Lifted Me” is 7 p.m. at the Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive) in Blackbox Theatre. Interwoven story lines explore descending, ascension and resurrection. Continues April 15-17, 7 p.m., April 18, 2 p.m. and April 18, 7 p.m. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students, employees and family members; call 601-968-5940; belhaven.edu.

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Crossroads Music Video Showcase April 9, 7 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St.). In the Red Room. See 13 Mississippi-made music videos, and enjoy music from The Cynical Twins. $5; call 601-345-5674; email info@crossroadsfilmfestival.com; crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure April 11, 8:15 a.m., at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Check-in 6 a.m. 5K and one-mile walks, 5K and 10K runs, a kids’ fun run and the Motorcycle for Mounds ride. Benefits the Komen for the Cure’s breast-cancer research. Must register. $20$40; call 601-932-3999; komencentralms.org.

Crossroads Film Festival April 10, 7 p.m., April 11, 10 a.m., April 12, at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison).

Enjoy independent films, workshops and parties during at the three-day event. Awards brunch April 12. Discounts for members, students and seniors. $8 per screening, $20 one-day pass, $50 all-access pass; call 601-3455674; email info@crossroadsfilmfestival.com; crossroadsfilmfestival.com.

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Millsaps Arts and Lecture Series April 10, 7 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). The New York City Slickers and the Millsaps singers present Carol Barnett’s “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass.” $10; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

CU at the Zoo April 11, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The Credit Unions of Mississippi host the event in honor of Youth Savings Month. Includes giveaways, crafts and financial literacy tools for children. Free admission for the first 1,500 people; call 601-923-4329; email sharmon@memexcu.com.

Mississippi Jubilee: From Slavery to Freedom April 15, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., April 16, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., April 17, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at downtown Jackson. Includes an opening reception at Smith Robertson Museum April 15 from 6-8 p.m., a freedom celebration at the Mississippi Museum of Art April 16 at 5:30 p.m., presentations from renowned historians and more. Free; call 601576-6800; mdah.state.ms.us.

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Children learn about biomedical science and explore the functions of the body with medical equipment. $10, children under 12 months and members free; call 601-9815469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

• Visiting Artist: Amelia Key April 12, 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Make silly clay sculptures with the artist in a dedicated studio space. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

&//$ $2).+ Zip39 Crawfish Boil April 9, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., at McB’s Bar & Grill (815 Lake Harbor Drive, Ridgeland). Admission includes a pound of crawfish and one beer with more for sale, drink specials and live music. Stay afterwards for Karaoke Thursday at 8 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-605-2554; tinyurl.com/zip39cb15.

“The Descent/Lifted Me” April 15-17, 7 p.m., April 18, 2 p.m., April 18, 7 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In Blackbox Theatre. The interwoven story lines offer an exploration of descendings, ascensions and resurrections. Door open 30 minutes before the show. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students, employees and family members; call 601-968-5940; belhaven.edu.

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hen Jackson bassist Raphael Semmes and Tripp Douglas, who is the owner of Fusion Coffeehouse (1111 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite A, Ridgeland), created the Fusion Jazz Series 10 years ago, they had a bit of an agenda. As jazz lovers, they felt the music didn’t receive as much attention as other genres.

“The blues in Mississippi is the beginning and the end. … That’s a great thing, but you know, we have a really rich jazz heritage here, too,” Semmes says, pointing to Mississippi-native legends such as Milt Hinton and Lester Young.

“You can hear blues, pop and rock just about anywhere … in the metro area, but jazz is a bit harder to find.”

Some of Mississippi’s foremost jazz musicians began performing for the Fusion Jazz Series, including Rhonda Richmond, Lisa Palmer, Russell Thomas and Mose Allison. Soon, there was hardly enough room to hold the still-running monthly event. Semmes and Douglas realized that they had an opportunity to provide something even bigger for jazz enthusiasts and newcomers, so in 2007, they held the first Township Jazz Festival.

“It’s an ongoing learning experience,” Semmes says. “I think the conclusion that tive drama, a three-course dinner and music from Kerry Thomas. RSVP. Guests must be seated by 6:45 p.m. Tickets not available at the door. $35, $200 VIP table of four; call 601-208-0965; email jleeproductions@yahoo.com; jleeplays.com.

Movies in the Park April 10, 6 p.m.-10 p.m., at Belhaven Park (Poplar Boulevard). The Greater Belhaven Security Association is the host. See the Disney film “101 Dalmatians” and enjoy concessions, face painting, door prizes and a costume contest. Free; greaterbelhaven.com.

“The Taming of the Shrew” April 10-11, 7 p.m., at Mississippi College (200 S. Capitol St., Clinton). in Aven Little Theater. The Mississippi College Communications Department presents a spring scene from the Shakespeare play. $3; call 601-925-3453; email seawrigh@mc.edu.

Zoo Blues April 12, noon-9 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The annual event includes live blues music, and food and beverage vendors. Performers include Clarence Carter, Mr. Sipp, Lacee, Blues Boys and Dexter Allen.

Lawn chairs and coolers welcome. $25 in advance, $30 day of show; call 800-745-3000; email aharris@jacksonzoo.org; jacksonzoo.org.

Gov’t Mule April 14, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Southern rock band performs on their 20th anniversary tour. $25.5-$45.5; call 800-745-3000; ardenland.net.

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Coffee & Contacts April 10, 8 a.m.-9 a.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). At CSpire. The Madison County Chamber of Commerce hosts the fast-paced business-card exchange and networking hour. Free; call 601-605-2554; email info@madisoncountychamber.com.

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J. Lee Productions’ Dinner Theater April 8-9, 7 p.m.-10:30 p.m., at The Penguin Restaurant & Bar (1100 John R. Lynch St.). Enjoy an interac-

“33 Variations” April 14-18, 7:30 p.m., April 19, 2 p.m., April 21-25, 7:30 p.m., April 26, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is about the connection between Beethoven and the scholar who specializes in his compositions 200 years later. $28, $22 students; call 601-948-3533, ext. 222; newstagetheatre.com.

New Orleans jazz singer Germaine Bazzle performs for the Township Jazz Festival at The Township at Colony Parkway.

The eighth annual Township Jazz Festival is Saturday, April 11, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at The Township at Colony Park, and features New Orleans jazz singer Germaine Bazzle, the Mighty Souls Brass Band of Memphis, The Vamps, Southern Komfort Brass Band, Raphael Semmes and the Fusion All-Stars. Jazz bands from Ridgeland High School, Madison Central High School, Jackson Academy and the University of Southern Mississippi will also perform. For more information, visit townshipjazzfestival.com.

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Harpsichordist Shawn Leopard performs Scarlatti. $15, $5 students; call 601-594-5584; ancientmusic.org.

Creative Arts Festival April 10, 1 p.m.-8 p.m., April 11, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.).

The theme is “Margaret Walker: This Is My Century” and is an exhibition of visual arts, spoken word, performing arts and creative writing. Poet and activist Nikky Finney is the speaker. Free; call 601-979-2055; jsums.edu/ margaretwalkercenter.

Events at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland) • Fly Tying Class April 12, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Roger Pearson is the instructor. Students learn to tie three different fishing flies. Registration required. $40; call 601-856-7546; email education@ mscrafts.org; craftsmensguildofms.org.

• Fused Glass with Jennifer Thomas April 14, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Learn to make a trivet or a set of coasters. Registration required. $35; call 601-856-7546; email education@mscrafts.org; craftsmensguildofms.org.

%8()")4 /0%.).'3 Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Opening of Eudora Welty Biennial: Classical Mississippi April 10, 10 a.m. The exhibit includes photographs, sculptures, full-size replicas of columns from the Ruins of Windsor, pediments of the Mississippi State Capitol and photographs that Welty took herself. Show hangs through July 3.

Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Perspectives in the Press: Using Civil War Era Newspapers in the Classroom April 11, 10 a.m.3 p.m. Dr. Stephanie Rolph of Millsaps College and representatives from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History speak. Space limited. $10, $8 seniors, $5 students, free for members and children ages 5 and under, lunch for sale; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Student Invitational Art Exhibition Opening Reception April 11, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., at Belhaven University, Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center (1500 Peachtree St.). The juried exhibition of student works includes drawings, paintings, photography, prints and more. Show hangs through May 16. Free; call 601-968-5940; belhaven.edu.

"% 4(% #(!.'% Light the Spectrum: Transforming Autism April 10, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). Includes a silent auction, live music and food. Benefits autism programs at Mississippi Children’s Home Services. Ages 21 and up. $50; call 601-352-7784; mchscares.org.

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.

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Pro baseball is back. The Mississippi Braves will open the 2015 baseball season against the Tennessee Smokies April 9-13 at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Way, Pearl).

The Mississippi College Series at Trustmark Park resumed Tuesday, April 7, with Ole Miss taking on the University of Southern Mississippi. The Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cup game between Ole Miss and Mississippi State University is Tuesday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m.

Holmes Community College baseball upset No. 1 Hinds Community College 7-6 in a metro JUCO clash on April 2. Holmesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; win broke a 10game winning streak for the Eagles.

Former Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace hosts the ESM Football Camp at Jackson Academy on Saturday, April 18, at 1 p.m. To register, call 864-350-1222.

The final week of the NBA season is here. Catch Lanier High School great Monta Ellis and the playoff-bound Dallas Mavericks vs. Phoenix Suns on Wednesday, April 8 (watch the game on ESPN at 8:30 p.m.), and on Sunday, April 12, the team goes up against the Los Angeles Lakers (watch the game on NBA TV at 8:30 p.m.).

Tee up your dials. ESPN 105.9 FM The Zone (WRKS) is launching a new weekly golf show with hosts Jon Wiener and longtime WLBT sports anchor Chuck Stinson on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m.

Jon Wiener is the host and producer of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home Cookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? on ESPN 105.9 FM The Zone. He has a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in English and masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in broadcast journalism.

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Mississippi Braves since the team moved from Greenville, This Thursday, April 9, the Mississippi Braves open S.C., to Mississippi in 2005. The team plays its home the 2015 season at Trustmark Park against the Tennessee games at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Way, 601-932-8788). Smokies for a five-game series. The Braves hit the road and It has made the playoffs three times and won the Southern donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t return to Pearl until April 20, when they begin a fiveLeague Championship in 2008. game series against the Chattanooga Lookouts.

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