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ince she was a little girl serving guests where her father worked in France, Anne Amelot-Holmes knew she belonged in the restaurant business.

Born in France, Amelot-Holmes moved to the U.S. with her parents and sister, Sophie, when she was just 9 years old. Her father, Christian Amelot, is a trained French chef who has served as executive chef for the late Foreign French Minister Maurice Schumann and has also worked as chef de cuisine at The Sundancer in Highland Village and as a corporate chef for Valley Food Services Inc. and U.S. Foods.

When she was 18, Amelot-Holmes went back to France to study hotel management, working in a few hotel restaurants for a couple of years before returning to the U.S. in 1998. From there, she took a job as a server at Amerigo Italian Restaurant and later worked at Nick’s Restaurant from 1999 to 2010, making her way from server to general manager.

In 2010, Amelot-Holmes helped Derek and Jennifer Emerson open Local 463 Urban Kitchen, but shortly after its summer opening, her mother, Patricia Amelot, passed away.

Amelot-Holmes decided to take a short break from the restaurant business and focus on raising her daughter, Gabrielle, with her husband, Warren Holmes. In May 2011, David Conn of Amerigo, Char Restaurant and Sombra Mexican Kitchen reached out and offered her a position in sales and marketing. In January 2012, Conn took over the former AJ’s On

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The Lake space in The Township and asked Amelot-Holmes what she thought he should do with the space. She suggested a French cuisine restaurant. With the help of her father, Amelot-Holmes opened Anjou Restaurant in April 2012 and now serves as the proprietor. “Dad and I always talked about if we were ever to do our own restaurant, this is what we’d have in mind, this is the menu we’d want to do,� she says. “The concept was there, in our heads, anyway, so it was easy after that.�

Since opening, Amelot-Holmes has worked hard to create a classic French bistro dining experience, with a few southern classics, such as fried catfish. Her father is the executive chef, and together, they collaborate on the menu to keep things authentic while also stirring up interest. “We try to stay as true to French cuisine and me and my dad’s French background as much as possible,� she says. “I think (people have) really embraced us.�

Amelot-Holmes says she would love to open another Anjou in neighboring states, but she doesn’t have any plans just yet. For her, everything is about keeping the focus on the customer, having a good team to support the restaurant, and finding balance. She says that since her mother’s passing, she’s learned how to do that. “I’ve learned that this is what I like to do. I like to be surrounded by people every day, to make people happy,� she says. “If you’re not happy doing something, walk away. Life is too short.� —Maya Miller

cover photo Fried Chicken Liver with Hot Pepper Jelly from chef Nick Wallace, photo by Julian Rankin

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SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 6, 2015 | VOL. 14 NO. 4

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EDITOR’S note

by Amber Helsel, Assistant Editor

Jackson: All About Community

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’ve been in my apartment for about two months now. It’s a tiny one-bedroom place that, for now, fits me perfectly, although my kitchen is hilariously tiny.

The other day, my mom asked me if I had met any of my neighbors. I told her no. When I go home, I tend to turn my social butterfly switch to off, and it stays that way until I get up the next morning to go to work or the gym or wherever.

It’s not that I don’t want to meet my neighbors. I do, but outside my work and social life, I don’t handle meeting people well. I tend to get awkward and quiet, and many people just assume I’m rude, instead of just shy. So when I’m home, I go about my business. I watch Netflix.

I lie in my bed and daydream. I nap. I cook. I clean. I check the mail, which means occasionally, I do talk to a fellow apartment dweller, though for not more than a minute or two.

I know the girl who lives in the apartment on my right likes “Hello Kitty.”

She’s got a cute little charm on her car’s rearview mirror. The most interaction I ever get with her is the occasional glance as I pass her on the stairs. The woman who lives on my left likes to cook. At night, I can always hear her banging around cabinets, grabbing items off shelves and clanging around pots and pans.

I know both of them are there, and I know they know I’m there. But I still haven’t met them.

When I was young, I lived on a fairly close-knit street just outside Pearl’s city limits. I knew both the neighbors on my left and right, the family that lived two houses down from me (it was my childhood best friend Lindsey’s grandparents’ house), and I attended the daycare across the street when I was little. But after we moved, it seemed that all of that changed.

When we lived in Crossgates, I knew my immediate neighbors, but hardly anyone else. And as an angsty 16-year-old, I didn’t really want to know anyone.

When I first heard we were moving to Crossgates, I remember being so excited because I’d finally have people around.

We would be in this large subdivision with winding streets that connect to each other, and we’d have large block parties all the time. That’s what I imagined. But

as Fondren’s First Thursday or the Mississippi Museum of Art’s Museum After Hours. Events like that just seem to be acclimated into the city’s culture.

Last week, I sat at The Hatch as the kitchen crew from Little Samaritan Montessori school served elderly midtown residents a lunch of baked chicken, cooked carrots and celery, a wheat roll and some Kool-Aid. They chattered on and on, talking

It’s so easy to live somewhere and not ever get to know your neighbors.

actually, I think we may have had one block party. As you walked down the streets, people would give you a friendly wave, but that’s it. No stopping to talk.

The only people who went to the area’s pool were those who could afford the expensive membership, so that wasn’t really something my family could do.

In my time working in Jackson and living in the suburbs, I’ve noticed a major difference in the way people interact.

Jackson is a big city, but everyone seems to know each other. Neighbors aren’t complete strangers. Our newest reporter, Arielle Dreher, has said multiple times that she finds it amazing that when she goes to the grocery store, she frequently runs into people she knows.

At least once a month, many of Jackson’s neighborhoods have a festival, such

about everything from the weather to the music playing to the sinkhole on Lamar Street. At some point, Raymond Horn of Mississippi Cold Drip Coffee & Tea Co., which is in The Hatch, walked in and offered the residents some bite-sized tiramisu that he still had left after serving at Highland Village’s courtyard unveiling the night before.

As I sat there, listening to their conversations, I was amazed by how much they loved their neighborhood. While we talk a lot about having a sense of community in Jackson, it was never more apparent than in that room. These midtown residents know each other. They care for each other. They help each other when they need it the most.

Some of the residents told me about how in the ’90s, midtown felt to them

like the Wild West, but a group of them still saw a better future for the area. They fought to get it, and for the most part, their vision has come to fruition, though midtown still has a long way to go.

Before that day at The Hatch, every time I’d drive down Wesley Avenue and see people sitting on their front porches, I didn’t understand why they did that. We claim to be a sitting-on-the-front-porch kind of culture, but in reality, you don’t see that often in the suburbs. My parents were probably the only ones in Crossgates who sat on their front porches on a daily basis. But if you drive through midtown’s streets, you’ll see so many people sitting on their front porches, watching their surroundings. Just talk to the residents, and that sense of community becomes contagious. It made me want to get to know my own neighbors.

We live in a place where hospitality means everything, and it always amazes me that many people who move to the suburbs seem to lose that sense of community. I would imagine that if I went from an urban neighborhood to the suburbs, I’d feel pretty lonely.

But for many people, they lose that sense of community. I think Jackson’s community sensibilities are part of the reason I find myself volunteering for so many events, even ones outside of work.

I want to carry that to other people, and help them and love on them. Even the city’s animals.

It’s so easy to live somewhere and not ever get to know your neighbors. But why wouldn’t you want to? They probably have some great stories to tell.

Amber Helsel is the assistant editor of the Jackson Free Press and the managing editor of BOOM Jackson magazine. Email her feature-story ideas at amber@jackson freepress.com.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Julian Rankin is the marketing director for the Mississippi Museum of Art. He was raised in Mississippi and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He took the cover photo.

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He did the photo essay on Lucky Town and contributed many photos.

Nick Wallace is the executive chef for The Palette Café at the Mississippi Museum of Art and the creator of the ’sipp Sourced pop-up menu series. Visit his website, nickwallaceculinary. com. He contributed to the cover package.

Scott Prather is a Jackson native who co-founded local indie label Esperanza Plantation. He recently returned home after doctoral work in ethics and theology in Scotland. He wrote about the Clinton massacre.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote several news stories.

News Editor R.L. Nave is a native Missourian who roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson.

Send him news tips at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com or call him at 601-362-6121 ext. 12.

Music Editor Micah Smith has the eye of a tiger and the other eye of a water buffalo.

He wants his last words to be in Cantonese so his family will be like, “Could he speak Cantonese?” He wrote a books story.

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

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2015 Breast Cancer Awareness Schedule of Events

OCTOBER 6: Pink Ribbon Distribution 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Join Citizens National Bank and Baptist Cancer Services at the Castlewoods Kroger to pick up a breast cancer awareness pink ribbon and important breast health information. It’s Free.

OCTOBER 12: Zumbathon 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Join the Baptist Healthplex – Clinton for this dance/exercise party benefiting fund for the girls.

Enjoy door prizes, a photo booth, and tons of fun. $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

Call 601.925.7900 for more information.

OCTOBER 16: National Mammography Day Talk to your doctor, know your risk factors for breast cancer, and be screened appropriately. If you’re 40, it’s time for a mammogram – sometimes sooner depending on your risks. At Baptist’s Center for Breast Health you get your results before you leave. If imaging results are abnormal, a surgeon can see you within 24 hours. Ask your doctor about having your mammogram at Baptist. Call 601.973.3180. Previous films must be on hand at the time of the screening.

OCTOBER 27: Breast Cancer Screening, Education Seminar 5:30 PM Join Radiologist James L. Burkhalter, M.D., and Breast Navigator Adrienne Russell, R.N., M.S.N. for a free seminar about the importance of self-breast exams and

mammograms. Following the presentation, there will be a clinical breast exam screening (not a mammogram).

Screening appointments are limited. Call 601.948.6262 to register. It’s Free.

Baptist’s Girl Friend’s Guide to Breast Cancer Baptist Cancer Services has developed a free resource booklet covering treatments and side effects as well as practical ideas for what really helps during treatment.

Download your free copy at www.mbhs.org/powerofpink.

It’s Free.

Consider Contributing to fund for the girls Baptist Health Foundation’s fund for the girls supports Mississippi women in need by raising funds to provide breast health services through Baptist Health Systems. One hundred percent of the funds support direct patient care and services in our local community. Contributions are tax-deductible.

Since its inception in 2012, fund for the girls has helped almost 1,000 women with needed care. Learn more about the fund, shop products supporting the fund, and see fun fundraising activities at www.fundforthegirls.com.

“Live Life Pink” at Georgia Blue During the entire month of October, Georgia Blue will celebrate “Live Life Pink” with a portion of their profits supporting fund for the girls to provide breast health services for Mississippi women in need.

“Tickled Pink” at The Manship During the entire month of October, The Manship will be “Tickled Pink” with fund for the girls by contributing a portion of their profits to provide breast health services for Mississippi women in need.

“Fund Days at Renaissance” Raffle Purchase a $20 “Fund Days at Renaissance” raffle ticket at fundforthegirls.com for a chance to win a premier shopping and dining prize package valued at over $2,000.

The drawing will be Friday, October 30th. Proceeds benefit fund for the girls. You do not have to be present to win.

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OCTOBER 2: Pink Lemonade Day 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Join WLBT, Baptist, Citizens National Bank, Gray-Daniels Auto Family and fund for the girls to kick off breast cancer awareness month and WLBT’s Power of Pink. Come by the Hederman Cancer Center on North State Street.

Sign the Power of Pink Cars, collect goodies and pick up breast health information. Register for Baptist Breast Health Patient Navigator Adrienne Russell’s free seminar at noon by calling 601.948.6262. It’s Free.

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Wednesday, September 23 The leaders of the European Union gather for an emergency summit in Brussels to seek long-term responses to the continent’s ballooning migrant crisis.

Friday, September 25 World leaders at a U.N. summit in New York City unanimously approve a 15-year blueprint to eradicate extreme poverty, combat climate change and address more than a dozen other major global issues. ‌ House Speaker John Boehner announces that he will resign at the end of October in the face of hardline conservative opposition over a movement to defund Planned Parenthood that threatens a government shutdown.

Saturday, September 26 Jackson holds its 32nd annual WellsFest music festival at Jamie Fowler Boyll Park. ‌ Dozens of volunteers and the Columbia Strong organization help rebuild and landscape 23 Mississippi homes that a tornado destroyed last year.

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Monday, September 28 Scientists report that Mars appears to have not only frozen water but also flowing streams of salty water in the summertime, according to data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. ‌ Royal Dutch Shell announces that it is abandoning its exploratory oil drilling efforts around the Alaskan coast because it failed to find enough oil to make further drilling worthwhile.

Tuesday, September 29 The U.S. Department of Education awards RePublic Schools in Mississippi and 12 other charter school networks with $9.6 million in federal funding.

Breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

by R.L. Nave

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ackson police Chief Lee Vance said it boldly: “We’ve got too many guns in this city.�

The capital city’s top cop made the pronouncement at Koinonia Coffee House on Sept. 25. “It’s ridiculous (that) you can be 18 and go get an assault rifle, but you have to be 21 to go to the liquor store.�

Vance’s remarks came as he touted an overall reduction in major crimes from last year, approximately 14 percent, as well as JPD’s homicide clearance rate of 80 percent, which he said is above the national average of 62.5 percent.

This, he said, is done through JPD’s emphasis on community-oriented policing and its relationships with citizens who help officers catch lawbreakers. Vance believes JPD’s community presence helps Jackson avoid the kinds of officer-involved incidents that have sparked protests in some cities in the past year and a half. “If you are seen as an adversary by a majority of the community, they ain’t gonna tell you nothing,� he said. “You can’t abuse the community and then say you serve it—that’s not a very effective way to police.�

Vance spoke candidly about the challenges facing his department, including the freezing of dozens of positions in the JPD budget for the coming fiscal year and the decision to not have a recruit class next year. Even with those moves, Vance said the department has “wiggle room� to

hire about 30 cops if necessary. Budgetary challenges are also the reason for Mayor Tony Yarber’s decision to withhold JPD patrols from the state fair this year unless

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Thursday, September 24 A stampede kills at least 769 pilgrims and injures hundreds more on the outskirts of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage that marks the start of the Muslim Eid alAdha holiday.

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Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance believes there are too many guns on the capital city’s streets, but that his department’s focus on community policing helps JPD clear homicide cases at a rate above the national average.

a last-minute compromise can be reached with the Fair Commission. “We will not be there,� Vance said, which met with approval among those at the west-side coffee shop and eatery.

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Lewis and Barbour left office, the state stopped picking up the tab, Vance said.

The city’s legislative agenda in recent years has included requests for funding related to providing police and fire protection to state property and events, including the Fair, but lawmakers have largely rebuffed those requests.

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sippi State Fair Commission to justify a payment to the city.

Rick Reno, executive director of the Mississippi State Fair Commission, told WJTV on Sept. 4 that the commission would use a mix of Hinds County Sheriff’s deputies inside the fair, private security and Capitol police.

Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes told the city council last week that he hopes the city and state can come to an agreement: “If they’re going to have a successful fair, they need JPD,” Stokes said. “There’s some folks out here who are really bad and the only people they’re scared of is JPD.”

JATRAN on the Move A number of changes are coming to the capital city’s mass-transit service, JATRAN, starting Oct. 1, city officials say.

In August, the City of The City’s Special Transportation Program under Jackson approved an operaits Department of Human and Cultural Services is moving to JATRAN and will be called HandiLift. tions contract for JATRAN That and more changes at Jackson’s mass-transit with U.K.-based National company become effective on Oct. 1.

Express Transit Services. A committee, which included Mayor Yarber said state law requires JATRAN riders, recommended the city municipalities to provide a reasonable go with the offer from National Express amount of protection, but that it will be at for approximately $4.5 million, officials Vance’s discretion to determine what that said at the time. John Andoh, the city’s protection consists of. Yarber said the city transportation planning and transit serhas submitted information to the Missis- vices manager, said the move would save

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tatewide and county posts, along with Initiative 42, are up for a vote in November.

Don’t forget to register to vote by Oct. 3 in order to participate in November’s election.

BY MAIL: Mail an application with driver’s license number or last four digits of Social Security number on application. (If you cannot provide those numbers, you must include a copy of a valid ID or a copy of a utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or another government document that shows name and address) to your Circuit Clerk’s office. Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 3.

IN-PERSON: Register to vote in person at Circuit Clerk’s office, Municipal Clerk’s office, Department of Public Safety, or any state or federal agency offering government services (like DHS). The application will require the same information as stated above.

Voter-registration applications are available online at: http://www.jfp.ms/register_vote.

Information from the Mississippi secretary of state’s website. Visit sos.ms.gov for more voter registration details.

the city $2 million in the upcoming fiscal year.

The three-year contract requires the city to pay a monthly fixed fee to the operator plus an hourly rate. Andoh said the city’s legal department is considering a request for proposals for advertising on JATRAN buses, benches and shelters.

Previously, the city had a management contract. Under that agreement, the city would pay for any cost overruns. With an operations agreement, which does not include purchasing new equipment, National Express would absorb any overruns.

The years-long construction on the JATRAN administrative offices is also

Remembering the Clinton Massacre

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date Amos R. Johnston, spoke, the first Republican took the stage: Capt. H.T. Fisher, a former Union officer and the editor of a local Republican newspaper.

One of the white men quickly heckled him, “Well, we would have peace if you would stop telling your damned lies!”

An argument started that soon devolved into violence with the white Raymond men lining up in a formation, pulling out their weapons and firing into the crowd. At least five African Americans died, including two children, as well as three white men.

The violence continued for weeks after a mixture of local whites and White Liners from surrounding counties formed a posse to terrorize local black, including taking Square Hodge from his home, killing him and dumping his body in a swamp.

Historians estimate that from 30 to 50 black Mississippians died in the ongoing manhunt and massacre.

Tears and “Amens” flowed from the small fellowship hall at Northside Baptist Church, a historically white church in

by Scott Prather

Clinton, on Sept. 26 as about 100 people gathered for a day-long service of remembrance and truth-telling concerning the events surrounding the Clinton Riot of 1875 at Moss Hill.

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n Sept. 4, 1875, more than 2,000 former slaves crowded onto the grounds of Moss Hill, a plantation in Clinton, Miss., that had turned over to a Republican doctor after the South lost the Civil War. It was during Reconstruction, when Republicans—the earlier version of the party that freed the slaves and supported black rights—were briefly in control of the state, to the chagrin of the Democrats who had lost the war and the right to maintain and extend slavery. The black families were there, along with some whites, for a barbecue and political rally to get newly minted voters excited to vote. The Republicans even invited a Democrat to speak.

Mixed into the crowd were men called “White Liners” from nearby Raymond—one of the South’s many violent militia groups that formed to disrupt Reconstruction and take back the rights the federal government had given black people after the war. They were carrying concealed weapons.

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nearing completion. The $6.8 million facility replaces the old municipal public transit office on Terry Road. The federal government provided the brunt of the funding, leaving Jackson to pay the remaining $743,000 qualifying match for the support.

Construction hit a snag in March 2013, when federal regulators discovered some of the components of the building were not American-made, which violated stipulations of the federal funding. City officials say a grand opening for the new building will be scheduled for later in the fall.

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

The City of Clinton is acknowledging a bloody race massacre from its past with this historic marker.

Among those who addressed the faith communities was Melissa “Missy” Jones, a white member of Northside, the editor of the Mississippi Historical Society’s Mississippi

History Now and a visiting history instructor at Mississippi College. Jones has been working for the past six years to fill in gaps in the traditional historiography of Moss Hill, which has tended to place responsibility for the massacre on militant whites from outside Clinton (the “White Liners”).

Jones’ work shows how the massacre grew out of a well-organized network of fear and violence among white Clintonians and Hinds County officials rather than being a spontaneous reaction by a few “outsider” militants in Clinton to make trouble.

The City of Clinton commemorated the events on Sept. 3-4, with the unveiling of a new historical marker and a public symposium on history and race relations.

Jones ended her presentation by recalling the words of Stan Wilson, her white pastor, who once told her: “Reconciliation occurs as people begin to tell the same story.”

Jones told the audience she hoped her work, and the memorial events as a whole, will play some small part in helping Mississippians better tell their shared story.

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Upping the Ante: GOP Threatens Education, Medicaid in Budget Hearings

Mississippi Department of Education FY 2017 Budget Breakdown

by Arielle Dreher

The Republican leadership, which is against fully funding of MAEP, insists that if Initiative 42 passes, lawmakers will be forced to fully fund MAEP immediately, although its proponents are not asking for immediate funding. In addition, Republicans warn that it would require a 7.8 percent budget cut to most state departments. Friersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budgetcut proposals formed the basis for many of the inquiries of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee members at the Woolfolk Building on Sept. 21 and Sept. 22.

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Department of Education to submit budgetcut proposals that he asked all other state agencies to submit.

Last week, though, both Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon, questioned state education Superintendent Carey Wright about the effectiveness and cost of education programs that operate outside of MAEP funding such as the literacy assessments, pre-K programs and expanded college-preparation courses.

Moore added that these parts of the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget are susceptible to cuts should voters force the Legislature to fund MAEP in the amount state law requires. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These monies are all eligible for a seven-and-a-half percent cut rather than an increase according to the chairman of Appropriations in order to move that money directly over to the (MAEP) formula, is that correct?â&#x20AC;? Moore asked Wright.

Wright agreed and said such education cuts would be significant, but it depends on how the funds were cut and if pass-through funds (usually federal funding that goes straight to schools) were cut, too.

total budget request amounted to over $2.8 billion. Eighty-eight percent of the $2.8 billion would go to fund MAEP, leaving only $334 million for other education costs, according to the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget request submitted to the committee. A 7.8 percent cut to those funds would result in a loss of $26 million for the department.

Losing these funds would dampen progress the department has seenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially in their expansion of pre-K programs and third-grade literacy standards, Wright said.

Even though 92 percent of third graders in the public-education system passed the reading test, Wright told the committee this does not mean all students who went on to fourth grade are actually reading on grade-level because the assessment allows students to pass with the lowest achievement level possible.

Three thousand third graders were forced to repeat third grade this year. The thirdgrade reading gate is based on the Mississippi Literacy-Based Promotion Act and needs an additional $18 million in funding according to the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget request. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a number of children in fourth

grade that will continue to need more help,â&#x20AC;?

Wright told the committee.

The Department of Education wants to expand early-childhood education programs, because 58.9 percent of the kindergartners who participated in one of the 11 department pre-K programs scored at or above the expected score, as stated in an MDE news release in August. MDE wants to expand the pre-K programs, however, because a third of students still begin kindergarten without the necessary skills, Wright said.

The Medicaid Wedge Republican lawmakers also targeted the Mississippi Division of Medicaid at the budget hearings, playing it against education funding, primarily because it is exempt from the proposed budget cuts and its budget has grown substantially since 2008.

This year the division is asking for just over $1 billion in funding. The division asked for $71 million for the rest of fiscal-year 2016 to account for the funding deficitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Legislature has underfunded the division for the past three years. The Medicaid division provides health coverage for low-income people in the state, using a combination of state and federal dollars.

Republican leaders said if they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to fund the agency, they could have more money to spend on public schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would much rather invest in say, public education than in the Division of Medicaid, but we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had that luxury because the budget for the Division of Medicaid keeps growing substantially,â&#x20AC;? Reeves told the committee and Dr. David Dzielak, executive director of the Division of Medicaid.

Dzielak said his budget has increased because medical service costs are growing, with an inflation rate of 6.2 percent, but the divisionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costs are only growing at around 3 percent. The division plans to combat rising costs by changing their back-end services.

The division is transitioning the way it reimburses those who provide inpatient hospital services. Erin Barham, deputy administrator for communications at the division, explained that the it will pay its managed-care partnersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Magnolia Health and United Healthcare Community Planâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a set per member/per month fee for the services, instead of paying hospitals per-service fees.

The change will not affect recipients of Medicaid services, but it will cost $10 million in one-time funding to take effect. The in-patient to managed-care transition will start Dec. 1, but Dzielak does not know the exact cost savings yet because the program

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has yet to begin. Since the per member/per month fees are set, Barham said cost predictability will enable cost savings for the division going forward. While the committee focused on how much the budget increased over the past four years, Dzielak pointed out that more people have joined since the agency adopted the latest Affordable Care Act standards for modified gross income for people to qualify for Medicaid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are more people on Medicaid now than there were many years ago,â&#x20AC;? he said.

While enrollment (total state Medicaid recipients) is higher than in previous years, there has been a downward trend in 2015 since March. Some committee members were concerned with the decreasing enrollment that peaked in March when a total of 796,103 Mississippians were enrolled.

As of August, 781,669 Mississippians are enrolled in Medicaid, 14,434 fewer, even though costs are still increasing.

Dzielak said his division is still trying to determine why enrollment numbers are lower now than in March. He told the committee that one reason could be that new recipients who came onto Medicaid last year for the first time are rolling off the plan and not re-enrolling. The federal government no longer requires the division to do face-to-face renewals, based on new Affordable Care Act standards, which means Division of Medicaid workers must contact recipients with whatever information they received during intakeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it may no longer be current.

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op legislative Republican leaders are threatening to cut parts of the Mississippi Department of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget should voters pass Initiative 42 in November requiring legislators to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program public-school funding formula.

Republican lawmakers suggest that parts of the Mississippi Department of Education budget outside of MAEP are susceptible to their proposed 7.8 percent budget cuts if necessary. In July, Herb Frierson, a Poplarville Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, did not ask the Department of Medicaid and the

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Hall: Building a System and an Economy

by Arielle Dreher

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spent about $3 billion of taxpayer money to build 1,200 miles of new four-lane highway.

We were successful in that—our system we built was nationally ranked as the sixth best highway system in the United States and number one in the mid-South. But when we passed that legislation, we made two major mistakes. First, we set the fuel rate at a flat

major capital investment and not maintain it; that’s stupid business and stupid government, but that’s what we did. So that’s where we’re caught now, with flat revenues and increasing construction costs and … basically no maintenance, so we’re having to take most of the money we’ve got now to try to preserve what we have.

IMANI KHAYYAM

ick Hall was a Mississippi state senator in 1987 when Gov. William Allain vetoed the Four-Lane Highway Program bill, and it took a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate to override it. Hall said he stood up and spoke in favor of it, even though he represented a district it did not touch.

“I knew how important it was to the state’s economy. And when the state of the Mississippi economy is good, Jackson is going to do good,” Hall said.

Hall worked then in construction manufacturing, and owned a manufacturing representative business. He had started out in the House of Representatives in 1976 in the District 64 seat. He served as a representative until 1983, when he switched to represent District 25 in the Senate. In 1999, Gov. Kirk Fordice appointed Hall to fill an unexpired term as the Central District’s public service commissioner.

Hall has been re-elected four times, and is seeking his fifth re-election to the post.

A native of Vicksburg who grew up in Jackson, Hall graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business from Mississippi State University. He served in the Army from 1960 to 1961, and was in the reserves for eight years after graduation because he had participated in the ROTC program. He worked in Birmingham, Ala., for a few years before returning to the Jackson metro area.

Hall, 77, lives in Brandon with his wife, Jennifer, and their “sassy” bulldog, Abby.

They attend Lakeside Presbyterian Church.

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Why are you running for commissioner again, and why should voters re-elect you?

Prosperity rides on good roads, and I like to tell folks that we’re not just building a transportation system; we’re building an economy. In today’s world market, where we have to compete, you have absolutely got to have a modern and a mobile system of transportation to be competitive. Let me give you an example. If an industry is looking for a particular community to locate, they’ll ask you about your school system, they’ll ask you about taxes, particularly those they can get out of paying. But the first thing they are going to ask you is: “How do I get my raw materials in? And how do I get my finished product out?” If you can’t answer that question, they’re not going to stick around and ask you about your schools and taxes, they’re going to go somewhere else.

How did our transportation system get to its current state?

In 1987, we passed the state’s Four-Lane

10 Highway Program, and as a result of that, we

Dick Hall has served as the Central District’s transportation commissioner for 16 years, and he’s hoping to make that an even 20 after November’s election.

rate, at 18 cents a gallon, instead of a percentage. And the vehicle you drove back then got 12 to13 miles to the gallon, and the one you can drive now gets 25 to 30 miles to the gallon so our revenues have never increased— and the only reason they haven’t gone sharply down is because there are more vehicles on the highway now than there was then. But the cost of highway construction has gone up 300 percent, so we’re in a financial bind as to how to finance the system.

The other mistake we made was (there was) absolutely no provision for maintaining what we were getting ready to build. Now, a prudent businessperson doesn’t make a

As a result of all that, to fix or replace the structurally deficient bridges on our state system right now would cost (more than) $500 million. To fix the highways and to bring them up to the standard they need to be at would cost (more than) $1 billion.

We’re that far behind with what we’ve got, and our problem now is how do you move on to the future? I want to come back again and see if we can’t get over that hill where we can not only maintain what we have but move on to what we need to build because I saw it work. That ’87 program worked— without it there’d be no Toyota, no Nissan, no Severstal, there wouldn’t be hundreds of

other businesses that have located and expanded in Mississippi if we hadn’t build that kind of system. Now we’ve got to maintain it and build it again.

What are the top two or three things that you’ve done in your past 16 years as transportation commissioner to make our system better?

I think the stewardship of the resources we have, we’ve done a very good job with that. The Mississippi (Transportation) Commission and the department are now operating as it was intended—an elected commission responsible for planning and financing and so forth and a professional staff at the Mississippi Department of Transportation that runs the day-to-day business.

There was a time when everyone was fighting, with 2-to-1 votes, and we had a staff without leadership, but now we’ve changed that. This last four-year term, we can count the number of 2-to-1 votes on one hand. The commission is working together, and we’ve got the staff in place we’re comfortable with, and that’s the number one thing I’ve had a part in accomplishing.

We’ve done a lot of planning. We’ve done a good job taking what we have and prioritizing it to hold the system together.

And then we have built some things: We’re going to break ground in the next couple weeks, adding lanes to Lakeland Drive (Highway 25), (and) we’ve just finished this $85 million project in Madison County called the Split Diamond Project, adding lanes to I-55 North. We’re in the middle of adding lanes to I-55 South. We’re five-laning Highway 471 in Rankin County. But then we have things that aren’t done, like between Meridian and Philadelphia is Highway 19, and we’re going to four-lane it in three sections. We’ve completed two sections; the third section we have the right-ofway bought, and we got everything ready to go but no money to build it. In Greenville, we’re doing a bypass on Highway 82, and we’ve got $40 million invested in it but don’t have the money to finish it. So those are just easy-to-see projects, a poster-child need for more resources.

What distinguishes from your opponent in this election race?

I think my experience in all of this (distinguishes me). Rep. Mary Coleman is a very nice lady, and until now, I considered her a friend of mine, but there’s no substitute for the experience I have.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length. To read more: www.jfp. ms/2015elections. Email reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Brown: Learning from Kemperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mistakes

by R.L. Nave

syngas (synthetic gas) to run the plant. In fact, the combined cycle part of the plant is running today on natural gas. Once they try to switch it over to synthetic gas, nobody knows exactly whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen. But assuming it works OK, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still the question of whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to pay for it because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still the $6 billion-plus price tag.

Somewhere between $2 billion and $6 billion, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a number that may be justifi-

anti-Mississippi Power Company. Mississippi Power Company itself has a reputation of being a good corporate citizen. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a lot of good things for the Gulf Coast.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not out as a positional commissioner to punish the company. But my job would be to represent the ratepayers, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think their ratepayers should pay for the gigantic mistake they made.

IMANI KHAYYAM

As a financial adviser, how would you rate the Kemper deal?

For the company (Mississippi Power Company), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a disaster. They were originally talking about a $2-billion plant. The numbers have increased over time. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone up to $6 billion now, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rising every month. It could be really bad for the consumer, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the part Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m concerned about. My position is the customers of Mississippi Power Company should not have to pay for mistakes they made and that their parent company, Southern Company, made.

I think I have the background and experience to make reasonable judgments about that.

What more should the PSC do about Kemper?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a plant over there thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an experimental plant. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been a plant in the world built like that plant. It is using technology, the patent for which (belongs to) Southern Company, the parent of Mississippi Power Company. So nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly sure whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen when they turn the switch. It could work fine; it could produce

Since losing his seat in redistricting, Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, decided to run for the Public Service Commission.

able if the plant works. If the plant does not work, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whole other question. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suppose they turn the switch on, and this process doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. Then somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still got to pay for (the plant). If that happens, then I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the ratepayer pays for any of that part of the plant.

What are the lessons from Kemper?

The biggest lessons from Kemper are about not beginning a project when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to cost. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a lesson in management, not in terms of energy. And I want to make it clear that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve called for a review of the project. Who should lead that review?

I would like to keep the Legislature out of thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a right to be in it, but the Legislature has a way sometimes of chasing rabbits. I think the Public Service Commission and its staff should review what went on with Kemper from beginning to end. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to â&#x20AC;Ś see what mistakes the commission itself made. Then we need to go back and review the Baseload Act. I voted for the Baseload Act. I want to see if there was something that should have been in the leg-

islation that was not there.

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: The Baseload Act of 2008 lets utility companies to charge ratepayers for certain costs associated with new power plants while the facilities are still under construction.

How will the experience with Kemper factor into future discussions about net metering, solar and alternative energy?

The mistakes that have been made have been government mistakes: funding KiOR and funding these projects where the government agencies didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do enough due diligence to use taxpayer funds for something that was unproven. I think the State of Mississippi needs to stay out of the venture-capital business. There are lot of things that we can do for companies in terms of providing services, but I think we would have learned our lesson by now that unproven businesses should not be funded by the State of Mississippi.

I am for alternative energy sources.

I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that we need to jump in whole hog. Energy companies are investing in pilot projects all over the state. Entergyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing that, (South Mississippi Electric Power Association) is doing that, Mississippi Power is doing that. Solar is going to be part of their array of energy sources in the future.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always going to have a need for the grid. The grid now is hooked up to all these major power plants, and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be there for the foreseeable future.

A lot of people are not going to go for solar; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to want to put solar panels on their houses. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also got the issue of wind powerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is wind power feasible in Mississippi? But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think public money needs to go into any of that. If it works, it works, and if it works the economy will reward the people who did that.

Comment and read more election coverage at www.jfp.ms/2015elections. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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casualty of legislative redistricting, Democratic Rep. Cecil Brown would have had to run for re-election in a Republican-leaning district to remain in the Mississippi Legislature.

When he heard that Lynn Posey, the Republican Central District representative to the Mississippi Public Service Commission, was leaning toward not running for re-election, Brown decided to run.

Now retired from a 40-year career as a certified public accountant and money manager, Brown wants to bring his experience analyzing financial deals to the PSC, which regulates utility companies. Brown recently talked to the Jackson Free Press about the Kemper Energy Facility near DeKalb, and the future of energy in Mississippi.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;People Want True Thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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iss Doodle Mae: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The weekly Critical Thinking Thursday Morning Staff Meeting at Jojoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Discount Dollar Store has become quite popular. Staff members like the opportunity to vent and share whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on their minds before work begins. Jojo has noticed improved customer-service practices and genuine enthusiasm from his employees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the question-and-answer session of the staff meeting, my baby sister, little Dipsy Doodle Mae, posed a thought-provoking question to Jojo and staff.â&#x20AC;?

Dipsy Doodle Mae: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been watching the presidential debates. In my very humble opinion, these debates look like an elite membership of millionaires vying to control the affairs of common folk. Why canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t someone from the 47 or 99 percent run for president?â&#x20AC;?

Jojo: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good question, little Dipsy Doodle Mae. At this time, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid I do not have the answer. All I have to say is to avoid getting caught up in the nonsense at your mindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expense. Also, when times like these make you shake your head and wonder whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in this world, consider these thought-provoking lyrics sung by Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash (a.k.a. Labelle): â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;People want true things Or nothing at all People want sincerity And nothing moreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Also, consider this critical thinking point: People need love, peace and power. This is not a fight because this is not a war. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then, ask those politicians lobbying for your support: What can you really do for the common folk and me? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have a great day, staff!â&#x20AC;?

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Why it stinks: Boy, please! During last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Legislative Budget Office hearings, Republicans made education and Medicaid the bogeymen of the state budget. Oh, if only we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t staring down the barrel of Barack Husseinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Obamacare, we would fully fund education for only the third time since 1997! Tax refunds! Free ponies for sick children!

Mississippians are poor, but the state treasury is in relatively good shape.

Instead of taking from Paul and Peter to fill up the rainy-day fund, maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for lawmakers to put the taxpayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; money where their mouths are.

Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GOP Lawmakers Must Stop Pitting Poor Kids Against Sick People

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ississippi Republican leadership really must assume the worst about their supporters. They will stop at very little to try to scare voters into allowing them to continue violating state law and underfunding the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, even if it means using the sick poor of the state as a pawn in the game. Remarkably, they clearly assume that the majority of Mississippians care little about either ensuring that all children have books and walls without holes in them or about keeping poor Mississippians alive with access to health care. They will even say out loud that if they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to keep paying for Medicaidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;health care for the poor, including many elderly womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that they could have enough money to fund MAEP. This arrogant, heart-wrenching game was in full, shocking display in last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislative budget-request hearings. The lieutenant governor himself led the offensive charge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would much rather invest in say, public education than in the Division of Medicaid, but we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had that luxury because the budget for the Division of Medicaid keeps growing substantially,â&#x20AC;? Reeves told the committee and Dr. David Dzielak, executive director of the Division of Medicaid. And, no, Reeves didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow up that statement by citing research that shows that people who get a good education are less likely to end up on Medicaid. There wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a whole lot of forward thinking in evidence.

There hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been from the beginning from Republicans who callously do everything they

can to keep from funding even â&#x20AC;&#x153;adequateâ&#x20AC;? educationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a law that was passed in the first place to help decrease the disparities between public schools in wealthier areas and those in poor ones.

This is only the next move in a game to scare voters into voting against Initiative 42 in November, or at least those they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fool with a confusing ballot into voting for Initiative 42A (the first stunt).

GOP lawmakers insist (falsely) that they would have to fully fund MAEP immediately if 42 passes, which they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do and that its proponents arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t requesting, instead offering a commonsense funding transition based on state revenues.

They then told state agencies to suggest how much would immediately have to be cut if 42 passes to help build hysteria. Initially, they left the Department of Education and Medicaid off that list, but Reeves and company upped the ante in the meetings last week by suggesting that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the chopping block should voters stupidly demand they follow the law and fund MAEP (see page 9).

Obviously, public education and saving the lives of poor people must be large parts of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budgeting pie (and are more important than the iffy companies that easily wrangle corporate welfare out of these guys). The Mississippi GOP has gotten more brazen, and we get it: They really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care about poor children and sick people in Mississippi.

But voters donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to stand for it: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time we let them know why they need to care by turning out in November to vote for MAEP and against legislators who play such disgusting games.

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arshall, N.C.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Benny Wint grew up as one of the few whites in a black neighborhood of a small South Carolina town.

Today, if customers come into his roadside stand with a racist attitude, he wants them to leave.

Yet what Wint sells at his roadside stand are Confederate flagsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all kinds, from the traditional Beauregard battle flag to a Southern Cross with purple bars on a yellow background. He says he has black and Mexican customers, as well as white. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Confederate flag means freedom, the right to do what you want to do,â&#x20AC;? says the 56year-old who has been selling the flags for nine years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The right to do what you want to do is something you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do in this country any more.â&#x20AC;?

What the flag evokes for many African Americans is the image of 21year-old Dylann Storm Roof, gun in one hand, Confederate flag in the other, in a photograph taken before he allegedly walked into an historic black church in Charleston, S.C., and killed nine people.

What they see in that flag are Klan rallies, Jim Crow and slavery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Confederacy and what it stands for is treason,â&#x20AC;? said Charles Steele Jr., who heads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta.

More than likely, a Wint ancestor fought under that flag in a war that killed more than 600,000 soldiersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a toll equivalent to 6 million with todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population.

One out of every four white southern males between 16 and 45 years of age was killed, disfigured or disabled by the Civil War. Southern apologists have long claimed that the war was about statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights, union aggression and trade disputes. The great abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass would have none of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The very stomach of this rebellion is the negro in the form of a slave.â&#x20AC;?

Yet most of those white southerners on the frontlines of the Civil War owned no slaves. In fact, the 1862 Confederate Conscription Act exempted well-to-do slave owners from serving in the military. Southern dissension against the war was much more prevalent than so-called southern heritage groups would have you believe.

This â&#x20AC;&#x153;is a rich manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s war and a poor manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fight,â&#x20AC;? North Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Civil War governor, Zebulon Vance, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the politi-

cians and not the people.â&#x20AC;?

Yet the people fought that war to preserve slavery, the human property of the Southâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich elite. And they kept waving the warâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flag as Jim Crow loomed over the land, subjugating blacks once again, and even many poor whites who also couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford the poll taxes levied to restrict voting.

Working-class white southerners waved that Confederate flag into the 21st century while the successors of the southern antebellum elite mouthed â&#x20AC;&#x153;southern virtueâ&#x20AC;? and kept the region the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest.

The flag â&#x20AC;&#x153;is a sign of defiance, a sign of pride, a declaration of a geographical area that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud to be from,â&#x20AC;? country singer Charlie Daniels has said. Daniels is one of many Confederate flag-waving southern musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;David Allan Coe, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrdâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whose music embodies a spirit of rebellion from the corporate norm in Nashville or New York City.

I remember going to a concert by the ground-breaking rock group Buffalo Springfield in North Carolina in the mid-1960s.

Fans yelled uproariously when the concert began with the unveiling of a giant Confederate flag across the back of the stage.

However, those same fans then walked out in droves when Neil Young and other band members ventured into the long, mind-bending guitar riffs that foretold of the music that would later come from Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa.

Like many blacks, working-class southern whites feel alienated from much of U.S. society. Their wages stagnate while the earnings of the top 1 percent go through the roof. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fed Fox Newsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; race-tinged, anti-Obama, anti-Obamacare pablum 24 hours a day, yet the politicians Fox News pushes arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t putting food on the table or gas in the car.

Unlike struggling blacks, workingclass southern whites donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a natural support base among northernâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or southernâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;liberals or the Democratic Party, which today is nearly as dependent on corporate funding as the Republican Party and which has eschewed the working class in favor of identity politics. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a right to feel rebellious. The problem is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re waving the wrong flag to show it.

Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist, and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. Read his blog at laborsouth. blogspot.com, and write him at jbatkins@ole miss.edu. See related stories at jfp.ms/confeds.

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as if you have been transported to a time when Farish was the epicenter of all things cool happening in Jackson. Murals depict blues singers of yesteryear, and it has a spacious live stage so newer artists can showcase their skills. The sleek yet simple design and layout let customers know they are in for a dining experience. That was Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style choice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to appeal to the 25 and

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older crowd because I felt that it was something that was missing,â&#x20AC;? he says.

The food is undoubtedly southern cuisine. The Cajun pasta is one of many highlights on the menu, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made to order. Miller recommends the house speIMANI KHAYYAM

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cial, which is a pan-seared tilapia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chef Brian (Myrick) has created something truly unique,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And our basic finger foods are unmatched for folks just wanting typical bar-type foods. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for everybody. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re serious about the quality of food we offer.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to the downstairs restaurant, Miller is also making plans for the space aboveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his soon-to-be-opened venue, Club 540. â&#x20AC;&#x153;540 is a venue that will be available for wedding receptions and gatherings,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The space is amazing.â&#x20AC;?

Recently, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another word that people have attached to Farish: potential. A visit to Johnny Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s can easily make believers out of anyone who visits.

Johnny Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro and Blues is located at 538 North Farish St. For more information, call 601-954-1323 or find the restaurant on Facebook.

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John Tierre Miller, owner of Johnny Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro and Blues, got tired of talking and decided to take matters into his own hands. He opened his restaurant on July 24 of this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to spearhead the movement and show by example,â&#x20AC;? Miller, 38, says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to encourage other entrepreneurs with what can be done here.â&#x20AC;?

Walking down Farish Street, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to identify with the past. If you listen close enough, you can almost hear the echoes of rhythm and blues music wafting through the air. The Alamo Theatre, which still holds events on occasion, sits at one end of the street as if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waiting to come to life on a momentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notice.

Miller is very aware of his location and the role it could play in reviving the historic area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the roots of the blues,â&#x20AC;? he says.

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n a warehouse on Mill Street in midtown sits Lucky Town Brewing Company, Jackson’s only brewery. Brewmaster Lucas Simmons, who coowns the business with partners Chip Jones, Angela Ray and Brandon Blacklidge, recently gave the Jackson Free Press a tour of the brewery.

Brewing Luck text and photos by Imani Khayyam

While many breweries have their grains come in tall silos, Lucky Town’s grains come in 50-pound sacks. The grain mill cracks open the grain and breaks off of the inner cusp of the grain. The motor on top of the pipe spins and drags the grain up to the grist case, which stores the grain when it’s transferred from the mill. The holding time can be anywhere from a few minutes to overnight.

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The mash tun (the round device above) mixes the raw mill grain with hot water. The temperature depends on what you want to get out of the beer. The standard mash temperature is between 145 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Simmons says raising the temperature yields a beer with a thicker mouthfeel (the sensation that comes from the consistency or viscosity of the beer), and lowering the temperature results in a dry, easy-to-drink kind of beer.

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Once the hops finishes boiling, the unfermented beer goes through a pipe to the heat exchanger, and the cold liquor tank cools the beer down.

Lucky Town cans up to 26 beers per minute. On most days, Simmons is the only one brewing the beer.

When he cans the product, he has part-time workers help him, along with Blacklidge, who assists Simmons every Friday. Lucky Town can’t afford to have a big crew because state law prohibits the company from selling anything on site, though Simmons says the Mississippi Brewers Guild is currently fighting that law.

“It’s all about judging your time wisely,” Simmons says of the brewing process. “Basically, I can control any system in here from my phone.”

He also plans to add more tanks to the brewery that can help speed up the brewing process. Simmons also hopes for more brewing companies to come to Jackson to help the craft-beer industry in the city.

For more information, visit luckytownbrewing.com.

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Better Than Fair Food (Really)

by Amber Helsel

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ach year, the Mississippi State Fair brings many different foods, but also long lines. If you don’t want to fight the crowds, but still want fair foods or something better, try these restaurants.

If you want: Street corn Go here: Babalu Tacos & Tapas (622 Duling Ave., babalutacos.com)

If you want: A sweet treat Go here: Monroes Donuts and Bakery (6310 Medgar Evers Blvd.; 125 S. Congress St., 255 E. McDowell Road; 717 Rice Road; monroesdonutsand bakery.com); Broad Street Baking Company (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101,broadstbakery.com); Crazy Cat Bakers (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 173, crazycatbakers.com); Primos Café (2323 Lakeland Drive; 515 Lake Harbour Drive; primoscafe.com); Campbell’s Bakery (3013 N. State St., campbellsbakery.ms); La Brioche (2906 N. State St., labriochems.com) If you want: A burger Go here: Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland, burgersblues.com); Rooster’s (2906 N. State St., glennfoods.com); The Feathered Cow (4760 Interstate 55 N., featheredcow.com); CS’s (1359 N. West St.; 601-969-9482); Cool Al’s (4654 McWillie Drive, 601-713-3020); Mugshots Grill & Bar (4245 Lakeland Drive, mugshotsgrillandbar.com); LurnyD’s Grille (lurnyds grille.com); Stamps Superburger (1801 Dalton St., 601-352-4555)

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com); Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., saltine restaurant.com); E&L Barbeque (1111 Bailey Ave., 601-355-5035); Two Sisters’ Kitchen (707 N. Congress St., 601-353-1180); Mama Hamil’s Southern Cookin’ (480 Magnolia St., Madison, hamils.com); Ellis Seafood (1041 Ellis Ave., 601-353-9656) If you want: Hot dogs or sausage The Coffee Roastery (308 E. Pearl St., 601949-6994); Capitol Coney Island (601-573-6162); Fenians Pub (901 E. Fortification St., fenians pub.com); Fondren Public (2765 Old Canton Road, fondrenpublic.com); The Pig & Pint (3139 N. State St., pigand pint.com); Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland, burgers blues.com); Stamps Superburger (1801 Dalton St., 601-352-4555); Cool Al’s (4654 McWillie Drive, 601-713-3020) If you want: Asian food Fusion Japanese & Thai Cuisine (1002 Tree Top Blvd., 601-664-7588); Surin of Thailand (3000 Old Canton Road, 601-981-3205); Mr. Chen’s Restaurant (5465 Interstate 55 N., mrchens.chinesemenu.com); Bonsai Japanese Steak House (1925 Lakeland Drive, 601-981-0606); Thai Tasty (5050 Parkway Drive, 601-540-2534); Sakura Bana Restaurant (4800 Interstate 55 N., sakurabanajackson. com); Spice Avenue (4711 Interstate 55 N., spiceavenuerestaurant. com); Edo Japanese Restaurant (5834 Ridgewood Road, Suite B, 601-8998518); Wasabi Sushi & Bar (103 E. Capitol St., 601-948-8808); Crazy

Ninja (2560 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, crazyninja restaurant.com).

If you want: Greek or Mediterranean food Keifer’s Restaurant (705 Poplar Blvd.; 125 N. Congress St.; keifers.net); Aladdin Mediterranean Food (730 Lakeland Drive, keifers.net); Mediterranean Fish and Grill (6550 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland, medfishngrill); Vasilios Greek Cuisine (828 Highway 51, Madison, 601853-0028); Kristos Amerigreek Dining (971 Madison Ave., kristosofmadison. com); Zeek’z House of Gyros (132 Lakeland Heights Blvd., Flowood, zeekz houseofgyros.com); Kismet’s Restaurant & Catering (315 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon, kismets.net) If you want: Barbecue The Pig & Pint (3139 N. State St., pigandpint. com); E&L Barbeque (1111 Bailey Ave., 601-355-5035); Mama Hamil’s Southern Cookin’ (480 Magnolia St., Madison, hamils.com); Hickory Pit (1491 Canton Mart Road, 601-956-7079); Chimneyville Smokehouse (970 High St., 601-354-4665) If you want: A cold treat Deep South Pops (1800 N. State St., deepsouthpops.com); Pop Culture Pops (3023 N. State St., 601946-1543) If you want: Caramel apples Nandy’s Candy (1220 E. Northside Drive, nandyscandy.com)

With the many restaurants in Jackson, we couldn’t put them all in this story. Add more at jfp.ms/foodanddrink. For information on the restaurants that Jacksonians voted the best in town, visit bestofjackson.com.

Fair Food to Make at Home

by Amber Helsel

Baked Palmiers (If you want an elephant ear, try this.)

Palmiers

Sprinkle a generous amount of cinnamon sugar (3 tablespoons cinnamon and 6 tablespoons sugar) on the area where you’ll roll out the dough. Using cold puff pastry (you can also use biscuit dough, though it’s much more sticky and hard to handle), flatten it with a rolling pin to 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. Coat the top side in whisked egg and then sprinkle a generous amount of cinnamon sugar on it. Roll up the bottom of the pastry toward the middle, making sure it’s tight. Roll the other side until the dough looks like a scroll. Cover it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees and line a baking pan with parchment paper. Remove the dough and cut it perpendicularly into 3/4-inch slices. Place the slices cut-side down onto the parchment paper. Cook them for four to minutes on one side, flip them and then cook them for another two to three minutes.

Elote (Mexican grilled corn) Combine one cup of mayonnaise or sour cream with a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of chili powder and 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper. Rub a small amount on each grilled ear of corn to taste.

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Fried Chicken Liver with Hot Pepper Jelly

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2. Combine chicken livers, buttermilk, hot sauce, one teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper. Marinate for at least one hour.

3. Heat the oil in a large pot to 350 degrees.

4. Slice bread into four equal squares, brush with butter, and season with salt and pepper 5. Place bread on a baking sheet and toast until golden brown, about five to seven minutes.

6. One at a time, remove the chicken livers and coat them in flour, making sure to shake off any excess.

7. Fry them in small batches for two to three minutes.

8. Serve four toast points and top each with fried liver. Toss mint, parsley and onion with the oil and vinegar. Spread one teaspoon of pepper jelly over each liver and top with some of the salad.

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1. Sterilize six 8-ounce canning jars and lids. Heat water in a stockpot.

2. Place red bell peppers, green bell peppers and jalapeno peppers in a large saucepan over high heat.

Mix in vinegar and fruit pectin. Bring the mixture to a full rolling boil, stirring constantly. Quickly stir in sugar. Return to full rolling boil and let it go for exactly one minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, and skim off any foam.

3. Quickly ladle jelly into sterile jars, filling to within a 1/4 inch of the tops. Cover with flat lids, and screw the bands on tightly.

4. Slowly lower the jars into the pot. The water should cover the jars completely, and should be hot but not boiling. Bring the water to a boil, and process for five minutes.

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ne of the things I often say is cool plies, so I start thinking along academic lines, about Jackson is that it seems that too. As I pick up the big September issues of if you have a creative idea—for a fashion magazines (hello, 2-pound Vogue), business, for an event, for a proj- I also cull new reading lists, so it seemed fitect, for your life—there’s something about ting that this fall brought a new festival to this place that makes it possible for ideas to town to celebrate books and Mississippi’s littake root, become a reality, find support and erary culture—the Mississippi Book Festival thrive. That feeling is probably a less articu- at the Mississippi State Capitol. late way of describing Mississippi’s creative The book festival was another one of economy. We are a society of makers, and a those great Mississippi ideas. I only made place that produces creatives—artists, writ- it to a couple of the panels—one on cookers, musicians, actors, chefs—and (just as ing and the Southern Foodways Alliance importantly) the people who support them and the work they do. Increasingly, we also recognize that this creativity is a viable source of economic development to foster and encourage.

And that’s awesome.

It’s awesome, not only as a source of revenue, tourism and industry for the state and its people; for the importance that a creative class has in attracting and retaining talent across industries; and for highbrow goals about education and culture; but also … let’s face it, it’s just cool to have fun, interesting things Events such as Bright Lights, Belhaven Nights to do in the place where you are a chance for Jacksonians to celebrate live. Recently, a couple of events creativity and community. brought that idea home to me (literally, to my neighborhood).

Bright Lights, Belhaven Nights is the and one on Margaret Walker Alexander Belhaven neighborhood’s annual music and Eudora Welty—but both were incredstreet festival. For years, I’d lived in down- ibly interesting, with panelists who offered town Jackson, but this past fall, I moved to insight and humor, engaging with the panel Belhaven. That meant this was the first year moderators and audience members alike.

I could gather my crew and just walk over And while I thoroughly enjoyed those two to the event. Spanning several streets of the panels, the event had offerings on so many neighborhood, bands played on a number topics that pretty much everyone could find of stages, food vendors offered up nosh, and something—from sports to comics to poartists sold their wares. And all of them had etry and history. a connection to Belhaven, which means the For many, the highlight was a session festival truly showcased the creativity of the featuring John Grisham. My parents were neighborhood. While kids played in inflat- in town from Meridian for the day and atable bouncy castles, interacted with creatures tended it; my mom, a teacher, particularly from the Mississippi Museum of Natural enjoyed how Grisham’s answered a question Science, got their faces painted, ate snow- about the teacher who most influenced him cones, and saw a clown, adults enjoyed craft as a writer by asking if she happened to be beer and music, and everyone enjoyed each there—she was, and she received a standing other’s company. ovation from the crowd.

The crowd was great, and I couldn’t go I left feeling excited about the creativity a few feet without running into a friend or in our state, about the crowd who’d turned acquaintance to catch up with. The weather out to support a new endeavor, and about even apparently got a memo to cooperate what events like that continue to mean for for the evening and, despite it being mid- our city. At every turn, that energy and exAugust, it was comfortable, if not almost citement just keeps growing and finding giving off a hint of fall coolness in the air more outlets—Fondren’s First Thursdays, later on. the Millsaps-Belhaven football game. Each And fall coolness seemed appropriate week, there’s another instance, it seems, of for the back-to-school season. While tech- Jacksonians getting creative and finding nically it’s kids who head back to school, I something to celebrate and making this always feel wistful about buying school sup- place a little more awesome.

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Each room inside the Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions represents the different subjects Hull painted throughout her life.

On the front right wall is what could be her first painting: a self-portrait in which Hull wears a blue and white dress, her light brown hair pinned up. Next to it is a red woodblock print, the fourth in a series of 25, the locations of most of which are unknown. The museum’s registrar, Caitlin Podas, says that Deputy Director and Chief Curator Roger Ward believes Hull’s short hair dates the print to the 1920s.

As you walk through the exhibit hall, you see Hull’s paintings of birds, nature scenes, architecture, portraits, flowers (which were an ongoing subject throughout her life) and the artistic medium that consumed her last few decades of life: abstract art. Her later paintings provide a stark contrast to her previous work, with bright colors that often blend together. Many of those abstract pieces feature landscapes, including her series, “Ruins,” which, up close, just look like colorful paintings. If you stand back a few feet, though, the ruins become more visible.

“Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull” is on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art until Jan. 10, 2016.

“She was consistent, yet always changing,” Podas says.

Concert pianist and Mississippi Delta native Bruce Levingston first began curating the paintings he says. “I remember my mother and grandmother pointfor his recent book, which is the source for the MMA ing out her paintings to me, and so when I began to spend exhibit’s name. more time back in Mississippi in recent years, I started “During my childhood, my family was passionate looking at her work again and realized what a very great about painting and art, and particularly loved Marie Hull,” and important artist she was.”

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Jackson has made it to the top three of a pretty cool list: We’re no. 3 on Matador Network’s Top 10 Most Artistic Towns in America. The city is on the list with the likes of cities such as New Orleans; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Marfa, Texas; Sante Fe, N.M.; and Detroit, Mich. The website used three criteria for the places: The town’s art scene is relatively small; emerging artists have access to a low cost of living; and it has a strong community of visual artists, musicians and filmmakers. Congrats to Jackson’s artists! We’re glad the world is noticing.

He says that he thought more could be written about her. In light of her 125th birthday on Sept. 28 of this year, he thought it was time to do a reassessment of the Mississippi native and artist. The Hull exhibit at MMA is the largest assembly of her works presented to the public.

Like Levingston, Hull was a pianist. She was born in Summit, Miss., in 1890 to Mary Catherine Sample and Earnest Sidney Atkinson as the first of four children. She attended Belhaven College (now Belhaven University) and received her bachelor’s degree in music in 1909.

After graduation, she began teaching piano and played the organ for local Jackson churches.

At 19, she began taking painting lessons from artist Aileen Philips.

After two years of lessons, Hull realized that she had to leave Mississippi to further her art training. She went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where she studied under artists such as Hugh Breckenridge and Daniel Garber, who was part of the New Hope School, a group of Pennsylvania Impressionist artists who specialized in landscapes. After her time in Philadelphia, she joined the Mississippi Art Association (which eventually became MMA) and taught at Hillman College (now part of Mississippi College) in Clinton in 1913 and 1914. She married Emmett Hull in 1917.

Throughout her life, she traveled across the U.S., and to Spain and Morocco, received many awards and did many commissions, such as doing portraits for the Work Progress Administration in the 1930s and 1940s.

“She was somebody who had a tremendous impact on all of the arts and supported education in the arts, as well as, of course, in a very large way, painting,” Levingston says.

“And so I set out a few years ago to write this book and have photographs taken of as many of the great works we could find around the country.”

“Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull” is in conjunction with “On the Road With Marie Hull,” an exhibit in the William B. and Isabel McCarty Foundation Gallery, which features Hull’s sketchbooks, doodles, drawings and watercolor paintings. Both run at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-960-1515) from Sept. 26 to Jan. 10, 2016.

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for children ages 5 and under and museum members. For more information, visit msmuseumart.org.

MARIE HULL SELF-PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1920, COLOR WOODBLOCK. COLLECTION OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART.

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Cost: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students. FREE children 5 and under, FREE FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS

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Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull is sponsored by MEREDITH & JIMMY

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On the Road with Marie Hull is sponsored by Dea Dea and Dolph Baker.

The Mississippi Museum of Art and its programs are sponsored in part by the city of Jackson and the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau. Support is also provided in part by funding from the MississippiArts Commission, a state agency, and in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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THURSDAY 10/1

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TUESDAY 10/6

FFT @ Cups is at Cups in Fondren.

“Bravo I: From the New World” is at Thalia Mara Hall.

“Mississippi True: Documentary Photography” is at the Mississippi Museum of Art.

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The “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” Documentary Screening is at 6 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.) in the Student Center Theater, room 2200. The film is about Anita Hill, who testified at confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas for Supreme Court Justice about his alleged sexual advances. A panel discussion on gender, race and sexuality follows. Refreshments served. Free; call 601-979-2121; email info@mswomensecure.org.

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(Left to right) Jasmine Calvert, Lydia Brandt and Cedrick Riggs star in “Doubt,” on stage Sept. 30 through Oct. 3 at the Belhaven Center for the Arts.

THURSDAY 10/1

COURTESY BIG WILD

Fondren’s First Thursday is 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. in Fondren. Studio Chane hosts the monthly neighborhood event formerly known as Fondren After 5. Includes shopping, food vendors, music, open houses, a pet adoption drive and more.

Free; call 601-720-2426; fft.city. … The Purple for Peace Luncheon is 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). JFP Editor-in-Chief Donna

FRIDAY 10/2

“Doubt” is at 7:30 p.m. at the Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive) in Blackbox Theatre. The John Patrick Shanley play is about suspicion of child molestation at a Catholic school involving the school’s only African-American student. Additional dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 3, 2 p.m., Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students, employees and their immediate family; call 601-965-7026; belhaven.edu.

SATURDAY 10/3

St. Alexis Fest is 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at St. Alexis Episcopal Church (650 E. South St.). The festival includes vendors, children’s activities and music from Andrew Pates, Jason

BY MICAH SMITH Daniels Band, Jason Turner and more. Lawn chairs welcome.

Free, donations welcome; call JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM 944-0415; stalexisjackson.org.

FAX: 601-510-9019 … The Moonvine Art & Music DAILY UPDATES AT Fest is 1 to 8 p.m. at Live Oaks JFPEVENTS.COM Golf Club (11200 Highway 49 N.). Water Liars, Sanders Bohlke, Mississippi Rail Company, Sam Mooney and Wyatt Waters perform. Includes 32 craft beers and food for sale, artist booths and games. No coolers. Chairs and blankets welcome. $5 in advance, $10 at gate; call 292-7121; ardenland.net.

ing bands and drill teams, and music from guest performers.

Gates open at noon. $10; call 800-745-3000 (tickets) or 205226-0002 (vendors); email jitmusic@bellsouth.net.

MONDAY 10/5

The Stäge Pop-up Dinner is at Taste of the Island Caribbean (436 E. Capitol St.). Enjoy an exotic seven-course dinner from La Finestra owner Tom Ramsey. Ticket required.

BYOB. $50; call La Finestra at 601-345-8735 or Taste of the Island Caribbean at 601-360-5900; stagepopup.com. …

The Jackson Touchdown Club Meeting is at 6 p.m. at River Hills Club (3600 Ridgewood Road). Club members with an interest in football meet on most Mondays through Nov. 30. The speaker is TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte.

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Electronic artist Big Wild (pictured) performs with GRiZ on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at Duling Hall.

Ladd is the emcee, WLBT’s Maggie Wade is the speaker and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is this year’s award recipient. Includes raffles. Benefits the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. $30; call 800-898-3234; mcadv. org. … Mega Ran performs at 9 p.m. at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The rapper and chiptune deejay performs. JJ Spade 28 also performs. For ages 18 and up. $5; call 601-376-9404.

SUNDAY 10/4

The 13th Annual Southeast Regional Battle of the Bands is at 1 p.m. at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium (2531 N. State St.). Enjoy performances from march-

Fondren Comedy Featuring Derek Sheen is at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The comedian, actor and writer has toured with performers such as Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Janeane Garofolo and Rory Scovel.

Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $3 surcharge fowr patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

WEDNESDAY 10/7

GRiZ performs at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The deejay and electronic artist hails from Michigan.

Big Wild and Louie Lastic also perform. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-2927121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Purple for Peace Luncheon Oct. 1, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). JFP editor-in-chief Donna Ladd is the emcee, WLBTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Maggie Wade is the speaker and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award recipient. Includes raffles. Benefits the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. $30; call 800-898-3234; mcadv.org.

Fondrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Thursday Oct. 1, 11 a.m.-11 p.m., at Fondren. Studio Chane hosts the mostly monthly neighborhood event formerly known as Fondren After 5. Includes shopping, food vendors, live music, open houses, a pet adoption drive and more. Free; call 601-720-2426; fft.city.

#/--5.)49 City of Jackson Technology Symposium Oct. 1, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at Jackson Police Training Academy (3000 St. Charles St.). The session gives vendors an opportunity to get information to prepare them for contract work with the city. The public will be educated about various city alert programs, including Notify Me, Code Red and Tip 411. Free; call 601-960-1395; jacksonms.gov.

Millsaps Friday Forum Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m., at Millsaps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In room 215. Dr. Robert Luckett, director of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, talks about the life of Margaret Walker. Free; call 601-974-1061; email kenneth. townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

First Friday Oct. 2, 8 p.m., at Johnny Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro and Blues (538 N. Farish St.). Includes music from Akami Graham and the Key of G and a soft opening of the venue 540. Free; call 954-1323.

Fall Festival: Off to Neverland! Oct. 3, 6-9 p.m., at Mississippi Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). MCMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual fundraiser includes fairy foods, prizes, live music, pirate games and more. Limited tickets. $30 at the door; call 601981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

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Laguna Beach, Calif., singer-songwriter Mikal Cronin performs Friday, Oct. 2, at Duling Hall in support of his latest album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;MCIII.â&#x20AC;?

to be just the latest release in his series of self-titled albums, following 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mikal Croninâ&#x20AC;? and 2013â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;MCII.â&#x20AC;? But despite differences in the sound and material of his previous releases, Cronin says he sees â&#x20AC;&#x153;MCIIIâ&#x20AC;? as the continuation of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;journal of my 20s development.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like, thematically, this one ended up being very similar,â&#x20AC;? Cronin says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As I was writing this one, I saw the parallels with the second album in the themes. In a way, I kind of see them as three different chapters. (Based on the) subject matter, it seems like they could get together.â&#x20AC;?

Growing up in Laguna Beach, Calif., Cronin was always involved with music.

His mother, Susan Gardener, a classical piano and harp player, made sure that her son began piano lessons at a young age.

Cronin continued to pursue music while enrolled at Laguna Beach High School, where he played saxophone in the band.

After graduating, he decided to move to Portland, Ore., to attend Lewis & Clark College in 2004. But after almost two years of courses, Cronin chose to leave college and move home in 2006. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went through just this whole period of not knowing what I was doing in and with my life,â&#x20AC;? Cronin says.

That period soon ended after he re-

gether in my basement. After doing that for a little while, I realized that was what I was going to keep doing no matter what else I end up doing.â&#x20AC;?

Almost 10 years later, Cronin is still doing just that, though these days, his company includes famous show mates such as Father John Misty and Death Cab for Cutie. His style is still evolving, as well, with elements like a separate story on the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B-side and the inclusion of more exotic instrumentation.

For example, he picked up a tzouras, a Greek string instrument, while on tour in Greece and found himself so intrigued with its non-traditional sound that he incorporated it into â&#x20AC;&#x153;MCIII.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I look back on and listen to these in 10 years, it will be the closest thing to any sort of journal of me just going through my 20s and figuring this out,â&#x20AC;?

Cronin says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the numbers. I might break away from the numbers on this next one; I might not be able to. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, Led Zeppelin or Scott Walker or something.â&#x20AC;?

Mikal Cronin performs at 9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave., 601-292-7121). The Cairo Gang also performs. Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 in advance at ardenland.net. For more information, visit mikalcronin.com.

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s a rule, photo books have a few simple goals. Whether the focus is on nature, archi- ter, and makes them eye-catching. A few of these might even feel slightly eerie, but I tecture or even a specific event, they can either provide deep and poignant remind- found them to be his most captivating choices. ers of the past or lively, beauty-centered images of present. What However, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Storiesâ&#x20AC;? suffers a bit of a lull once it reaches food segment near the cenmakes Malcolm Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-published debut, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Stoter of the book, though it starts especially well. We encounter three images of a vivid, blue ries: A Collection of Mississippi Photosâ&#x20AC;? ($34.95, 2015), sky seen through trees and crossing wires that transinoteworthy is that, at times, it manages to do both. tion directly to a freshly picked-at plate of catfish on White is the tourism director for the Mississippi a red-and-white-striped tablecloth. Here, the final Development Authority and the owner of popular piece completes the patriotic color scheme to great Jackson eatery Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. With the help of New result. The next six pages of food pictures donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t York City-based photographer Chandler Griffin make a strong statement, but for any viewer who and graphic designer Catherine Jones, White just enjoys a well-framed photo of southern cuigathered about 300 photos he had captured on sine, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to. his smartphone to create a visual journal of his In terms of the images themselves, almost state-spanning travels. all of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Storiesâ&#x20AC;? is quite appealing to Some of the images offer a happy burst look at. The layout of the photos, which can of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, I know that place,â&#x20AC;? while others appear as one large centerpiece or as many strike a balance between unfamiliar and as nine to a page, is clean and simple. A yet unmistakably Mississippi. These are blanket of white surrounds each photo, some of the most successful moments in ensuring that the viewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eyes head right Malcolm Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut photo book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Stories: A Collection of Mississippi â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Stories.â&#x20AC;? Sites such as the fading where they need to be and stay there.

Photos,â&#x20AC;? is available now at Lemuria Books.

Barqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sign above Peachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CafĂŠ and the Ultimately, there is more than enough awe-inspiring rotunda at the Old Capitol character and intriguing imagery here to Museum will either be instantly recognizable or feel just out of memory. That isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something carry you through â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Stories.â&#x20AC;? While it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only collection to feature this style of one normally experiences from a photo book, which makes it all the more interesting. photography, this one is certainly specific to Mississippi and, perhaps more so, to White.

For fans of nature shots, there are plenty to be foundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;aerial views of smoothAnd I can say from experience, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll crack it open more than once to take another look flowing, muddy rivers and crisp, green grass lining a seemingly endless dirt roadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but at those places you just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite put a name to.

Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection is strongest when it turns to showcasing beauty in the mundane.

Malcolm Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Stories: A Collection of Mississippi Photosâ&#x20AC;? is available now at He finds the visible roughness of rust on an old car and the twist of a sloping banis- Lemuria Books. For more information, visit littlestoriesms.com.

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by Bryan Flynn

All hope isn’t lost for the New Orleans Saints.

Five teams have started 0-3 and still made the playoffs. True, it hasn’t been done since 1998, but it is overdue for some team to break through.

THURSDAY, OCT 1 College football (6:30-10 p.m., ESPN): The Miami Hurricanes try to reach their former heights as they hit the road to take on the Cincinnati Bearcats.

FRIDAY, OCT 2 Volleyball (6-8 p.m., SECN): The Lady Mississippi State Bulldogs take on one of the best squads in the SEC: the Lady Kentucky Wildcats.

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t is early in the 2015 NFL season, but with the New Orleans Saints sitting at 0-3 with star quarterback Drew Brees out with an injury, it might be time for them to start thinking about the next few years.

Only five teams have recovered from a 0-3 start to make the playoffs, the last being the 1998 Buffalo Bills. If the Saints lose this week to the Dallas Cowboys, they would have to replicate the success of the 1992 San Diego Chargers, the only 0-4-starting team to make the playoffs since the AFL-NFL merger in 1966.

Two factors make it especially important for New Orleans to turn things around over the course of the season: Brees enters the final year of his contract in 2016, and he is scheduled to make more than $27 million next season.

Both Head Coach Sean Payton and General Manager Mickey Loomis are signed until 2017 at their respective positions. New Orleans could sign

Brees for a single year—highly unlikely, given that he’s currently 36 years old— and all three could ride out together.

They could sign an extension and try to win one more Super Bowl together.

Or the Saints could cut Brees and save $20 million on their salary cap.

The 2015 salary cap was $143.3 million, and many outlets are projecting the 2016 salary cap to be $150 million, although NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk said the cap could reach $160 million for the 2016 season.

Analytics website Overthecap.com has New Orleans already surpassing the estimated $150 million by more than $1 million. The Times-Picayune has the team at only $130 million next season but also says the Saints will have to re-sign several players, including Cam Jordan.

While the Saints won’t be in cap hell like they were this offseason, there will be little room to make moves once again. They also have to decide if they

can keep winning with Brees, who will be 37 years old in 2016, behind center.

Brees is one of the oldest starting quarterbacks in the NFL, along with Peyton Manning, who turns 40 next year, and Tom Brady, who turns 39. If Brees’ shoulder injury is significant, it could be time to move on from the future Hall of Famer.

The hard part is that Brees has done so much for the city of New Orleans, especially after Hurricane Katrina. But in the NFL, you can’t pay players for what they have done. You have to pay them for what they will do on the field right now.

New Orleans has lost its three games by a total of 24 points, and the Saints were in each game until the final minutes. It wouldn’t be a stretch for things to turn around and for the team to make a playoff run. The Saints will either ride into 2016 for a final chance at a title, or the rebuilding process will continue without Brees and his massive salary.

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SATURDAY, OCT 3 College football (6-9 p.m., ESPN): A clash of undefeated teams as the Florida Gators host the University of Mississippi Rebels. … College football (6-9 p.m., FCS): Southern Miss should be halfway to bowl eligibility as they host winless North Texas. … College football (6:30-10 p.m., SECN): Mississippi State faces a tall task on the road against Texas A&M.

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SUNDAY, OCT 4 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., NBC): The New Orleans Saints and the Dallas Cowboys meet in a primetime matchup that, because of quarterback injuries, has lost some luster.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT 7 MLB (7-10 p.m., TBS): The baseball postseason continues with the National League Wild Card matchup, which will feature the Chicago Cubs.

UM has scored the most points in FBS football with 219. Delta State is also undefeated and has scored 190 points this season. You can see the Statesmen on ESPN3 this Saturday, Oct. 3, against Florida Tech.

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