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rtist Adam Farcus hasn’t needed much time to make friends and make a difference in Jackson.

The Illinois native moved here last November as the William R. Hollingsworth Fellow at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Since then, Farcus, who prefers gender-neutral pronouns, has been featured in several local exhibitions, joined the advisory committee for And Gallery and is working to reopen an alternative gallery, Lease Agreement.

Farcus has always been interested in the arts, something that was nurtured at their grandfather’s farm, where Farcus would work on crafts, draw birds and collect fossils in the pasture.

“The kind of energy I had for those things is the same kind of energy I have when I get excited about an idea that I make now,” Farcus says.

Farcus uses art to discuss a wide range of issues, from climate change to LGBT rights. Farcus focuses primarily on sculpture, but also works in photography, video, writing, drawing, painting, music and performance art, and on occasion, one piece will transition through several stages before Farcus finds the right medium.

Farcus sees arts education as important creative practice, both in adding to personal knowledge and teaching others.

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Farcus earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Illinois State University in 2006 and a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 2009. They stayed in Chicago for two more years, working as an adjunct professor at the University of St. Francis and working with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education.

Then, Farcus moved to Baltimore for about two years, teaching part-time at the Maryland Institute College of Art and running the first iteration of Lease Agreement before entering a one-year fellowship at Rollins College in Florida. Farcus returned to Chicago in 2015 and lived there until accepting the MMA fellowship last fall.

Before the fellowship, Farcus had not considered moving to the South but soon realized that, to make a difference, it is important to reach out to places where one’s ideals are not as widely accepted.

“There’s this thing as an artist, educator, activist, feminist and all those other ‘ists,’” Farcus says. “Doing that in Chicago is so great and rewarding, and there’s so many other people, and you’re part of a movement. … But I think, if my goal is to actually effect some kind of change, then it’s important to bring that to places where that isn’t as present or predominant.”

—Micah Smith

cover photo of the Mississippi Museum of Art’s Feburary Museum After Hours

by Julian Rankin

6 ............................ Talks 14 ................... editorial 15 ...................... opinion 16 ............ Cover Story 18 ........ spring events 20 ....................... sports 22 ........... food & Drink 30 .......................... music 31 ........ music listings 28 ......................... 8 Days

6 Smarter Crime Reduction?

The City is sticking its collective toe in the water of evidence-based violence prevention.

22 Sugar’s Legacy

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30 Kari Jobe and ‘The Garden’

The Jackson Free Press did a q&a with Kari Jobe ahead of her metro area performance on March 2.

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by Micah Smith, Music Editor

Try Everything, Learn Something

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ike a lot of people, when I was younger, I tried my hand at everything in the hopes that I would also be inexplicably great at everything.

I wrote poetry, scripted short films, started writing a book or two or six, bought drawing how-to guides, and auditioned for plays and movies. I bought tennis rackets and baseball bats and catcher’s mitts, and then, way too late, I realized my eyesight was too bad to use any of those well.

As it turns out, the burden of the lowly, independently wealthy comic-book artist, athlete and novelist-turned-screenwriter-turned-movie star was not mine to bear. At the same time, if not for the hours that I spent on hobbies that didn’t stick, I never would have found the thing that did.

I still enjoy a lot of the interests that I pursued in middle and high school, and on to college, but music is the one that’s grown the most for me as I’ve gotten older.

Part of what has made songwriting and performing so rewarding is that fact that I haven’t “got it.” There’s never going to be a point where I will put down my guitar and say, “You know what? That’s all the music.

Tell everyone to pack it up and go home.”

There’s never going to be a point where I’ve learned everything and mastered it all.

In fact, I’m most definitely a novice in a lot of areas when it comes to music, and while I think it’s important to challenge ourselves and always reach for more knowledge, the other great thing about music, and the arts in general, is that it gets infinitely better when we don’t go it alone.

I’m just going to go ahead and embarrass myself now and get this on the record: My first music was not good music. In seventh grade, I started an emo-rock group called Stained Glass Masquerade. It was a

bad name for an even worse band.

At our first show, which we (nearly) played in the middle of a schoolmate’s driveway, my friend who played drums— everyone called him “Suzie” because he looked like his grandma, but I only know that because he told me so; I don’t know how anyone in our middle school would have met his grandma—he got angry in the middle of the second or third song, broke his drumsticks over his knee and walked

It’s time for us to try everything, not because we have something to prove but because we want to improve. away. And that was the first and last hurrah for Stained Glass Masquerade.

I’m sure most people have similarly ridiculous stories about their earliest attempts at pursuing their interests, in the arts or otherwise. I’m sure there are painting teachers who told burgeoning local Rembrandts not to quit their day jobs, and I’m sure there are football, track and other athletic coaches who saw the first strides of potential Olympic athletes and said, “You know, sports aren’t for everyone. Namely, you.”

However, I think it’s important to recognize all of these experiences in your life as they happen or years later. Often without our knowledge, those interactions add up to make you into the artist or athlete or all-

around person that you are today. I don’t mean in the “failure is good, and it builds character” kind of way, though that can be true. I mean that every connection with another person involved in your passion will also shape your pursuit of said passion.

Even back in the Stained Glass Masquerade days (or day, I guess), I learned a lot from the friends I played with. We talked about the artists that influenced us, we borrowed each other’s favorite CDs, and as a group of people who cared about music, we discovered more about what we liked and why we liked it. I kept playing and kept forming bands, meeting new artists and working with them to create things that I couldn’t have made otherwise.

In more recent years, I’ve had the pleasure of playing music and collaborating with a ton of different people around town, whether joining their band for a while, filling in for a night, co-writing songs or stepping into the studio to give my opinion on a recording project. Despite being brief encounters, opening for and just chatting with other acts can also be a transformative experience. On plenty of occasions, I’ve watched someone play after me and thought, “That’s awesome. Why have I never done a song like this?”

All of it is fun, and all of it offers new opportunities to get better at the thing that I love doing.

While I didn’t know this when I started, with every collaboration, connection and conversation about the arts, I was slowly chipping away at this big, ridiculous marble block of vague interests from my childhood. Over time, it helped me to learn what I actually wanted to achieve, who I wanted to be, and what message I wanted my life and art to present.

This isn’t only for people whose interests fall into the visual or auditory arts, though. With this being the arts preview issue, you’ll obviously find plenty of awesome arts events coming up in the next few weeks, including classes, book signings, concerts and exhibitions. But this spring, you’ll also have a wide selection of lectures, cultural festivals, 5K runs, conferences, culinary activities and other events taking place right around the corner from your home or work or school, and you can read about a lot of them within this newspaper.

Here’s what I’m proposing: Do all of it. Try everything so you can learn something. Find friends who share your interests and friends who don’t; go to events that you wouldn’t normally attend and ones that are perfect for you; and be inspired and inspire others.

If you’re a sprinter, you should absolutely find a group of fellow runners and compete in one of the races around the Jackson metro area. Then, once you’ve sweated to your low-resting-rated heart’s content, swing by a local art installation, find a piece that speaks to you, and chat with the artist to learn more about it.

If you’re a musician, you should work with other singers and instrumentalists, get out of your comfort zone and catch a concert as motivation for a new project. Then, find a book signing to attend, chat with the author about his or her latest work, and pick up a novel that inspires you to bring deeper lyrical themes into your music.

When we were kids, we tried everything because we hoped we’d be great at everything. Now as adults, it is time for us to try everything again, not because we have something to prove but because we want to improve.

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contributors

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Julian Rankin

Amber Helsel

Tyler Edwards

Arielle Dreher

Sherry Lucas

Katie Gill

Myron Cathey

Mary Osborne

Mississippi Museum of Art Director of Marketing and Communications Julian Rankin was raised in Mississippi and North Carolina. His creative work explores identity and change in the modern South.

He took the cover photo.

Managing Editor Amber Helsel spends a lot of time laughing at her own jokes.

She is a demolitions expert and Gemini who likes art, cats, anime, food, music and more.

Email story ideas to amber@ jacksonfreepress.com.

Events Editor Tyler Edwards loves film, TV and all things pop culture. He’s a Jackson native and will gladly debate the social politics of comic books.

Send listens to events@jacksonfreepress.com.He compiled the arts-preview listings.

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 about EdBuild and Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

Freelance writer Sherry Lucas is an arts junkie, wordsmith and incurable home cook who likes playing with fire as long as it’s contained and regulated by her Bosch stove. She wrote about Sweetness Fest for the Arts Preview.

Katie Gill is a Jackson native and freelance arts and music reporter. When she isn’t writing, she can be found knitting, retweeting pictures of dogs and yelling at Food Network cooking competitions. She wrote about “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise.”

Sales and Marketing Consultant Myron Cathey is from Senatobia. He is a graduate of Jackson State University and enjoys traveling, music, and spending time with family and friends.

Sales and Marketing Assistant Mary Osborne is seeking out new ways to share all things good, all the time, because what the world needs now is love. Send your thoughts to mary@jacksonfreepress.com.

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“They (JPD officers) should not be put in the position of acting as immigration officers.”

—Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon discussing the city’s anti-profiling ordinance at last week’s city council meeting

Thursday, February 23

The Mississippi Senate kills House Bill 555, a bill meant to limit the powers of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.

Friday, February 24

A Mississippi Senate panel removes the firing squad as a proposed execution option in case the courts block the state from obtaining lethal-injection drugs.

Saturday, February 25

Democratic National Committee elects former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as new national chairman. He appoints challenger Keith Ellison as his deputy.

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Sunday, February 26

Donald Trump’s choice as secretary of the Navy, businessman Philip Bilden, withdraws from consideration, citing concerns about privacy and separating himself from his business interests.

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Monday, February 27

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announces that on March 7 it will hear Grenada-based attorney Carlos Moore’s appeal in a lawsuit to change the Mississippi state flag. … Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves says the Mississippi Senate will kill House legislation that would enforce taxation on Internet sales and earmark the money for road and bridge work.

Tuesday, February 28

Mississippi House Judiciary B and Appropriations Committees pass their version of legislation replacing jail with mental-health courts in some instances to the House for a full vote.

Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

A Violence Talk That Might Have Been

by Donna Ladd

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t felt more like a bait-and-switch. But that he was scheduled to be part of a public Heartbreaking Homicide maybe the City Hall gathering was a discussion. Six of the men on the dais wore Larry Nelson Sr. has looked for elustart of a new way of thinking about JPD uniforms. The men in suits were from sive justice for his son, Larry Jr., who was crime prevention in the capital city. the Drug Enforcement Administration involved in gang violence himself and shot

The Jackson Police Department had and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, soon in the back when he was 27. The father also announced the “Plea for Community Involvement” meeting for Feb. 23 at City Hall with a release promising what sounded like a forward-thinking discussion about reducing violence.

The host list was limited to law enforcement and not the larger crime-prevention community, however: The U.S. Department of Justice, the federal Violence Reduction Network, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and JPD would facilitate the conversation.

The flyer also promised presumably helpful “subject matter From left: Mayor Tony Yarber, JPD District Commander Duane Odom and Commander guests” from a metropolis that Tyree Jones were three of nine men on the City Hall dais during a violence-reduction has improved its multi-faceted forum on Feb. 23. The discussion didn’t go off exactly as announced, however. approach to reducing crime: Los Angeles Deputy Attorney General John joined by the mayor. Jones, JPD’s spokes- works to lower gun violence and provide Colello and LAPD homicide Det. John man, said later that representatives from the support for victims’ families.

Skaggs, who is featured in Jill Leovy’s best- U.S. Attorney’s Office sat in the audience.

Nelson sounded weary when he selling book, “Ghettoside: A True Story The hour-long meeting wasn’t ex- stepped to the mic on Feb. 23 after nearly of Murder in America,” for his refusal to actly revolutionary—crime is bad; people two months of heartbreaking gun violence ignore violence against people of color in need to be smarter; anger must be man- in the city, including a quadruple homicide challenged communities. aged; police can’t prevent murder; and in one night. “The only thing about this is

Neither Colello or Skaggs were yes, we’ll flash more blue lights around the numbers don’t decrease,” Nelson told in City Hall, though, on Feb. 23, with town—but glimmers of bigger thinking the nearly packed chamber about murder Skaggs surprised when reached the next day on crime broke through here and there. since his son died in 2007, adding

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Wednesday, February 22

Immigration and customs enforcement agents conduct raids after a yearlong criminal investigation at local Ichiban restaurants in Flowood and Pearl as well as dining establishments in Clinton and Meridian that the same person owns. … The Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees halts plans to find a firm to conduct a national search for a new superintendent and votes to keep Dr. Freddrick Murray as the interim superintendent for the next school year.

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Lawmakers Art Fest

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by JFP Staff he cover story for this issue is on Verge JXN, a free community arts festival in April. It’s Jackson-centric, so that got us wondering: If we were to put on a community festival dedicated to city officials and state lawmakers, what kind of projects would we have?

-A model of the city, complete with potholes and points of crumbling infrastructure. People can race remotecontrol cars and see just how bad the streets are.

-Scott Crawford’s Keep Building Jackson LEGO exhibit to contrast with the other model.

-A re-enactment of the first LGBT marriage performed in Hinds County.

-Spoken-word poetry on civil-rights issues that are near and dear to our hearts.

-An exhibit that features all of the car parts that Jackson streets have ruined.

-A giant collage of all the broken campaign promises, past and present.

-A skit of candidates promising more police.

“It is doubtful that the founding fathers had any concern at all for the sensibilities of atheists in adopting the Establishment Clause.”

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knowledging that “we don’t have components in the room” to address such causes in a “well-rounded conversation about how to prevent violence.” People also need “tools in your toolbox to solve problems,” Yarber said, pointing to people who pull out a gun in a fight over $5 in a card game.

Studying Police Interactions Soon, more residents took the mic, with complaints that one might hear at any neighborhood COPS meeting: crime in abandoned houses, code enforcement, loud noise and threatening people on their blocks, as well as a mother talking about

“We need to come up with a human preservation commission.” too little attention paid to her son’s murder in 2004. The chief responded to all of them respectfully, instructing commanders present to respond with more blue lights that night in midtown and other promises.

Near the end of the meeting, the mayor brought up the need for research and evidence-based solutions that might buck conventional wisdom (even proving that more cops can increase crime if used poorly). Just that day, Yarber said, he was in a meeting with potential partners including Tougaloo College to seek a Department of Justice grant to study how well police are interacting with young people in Jackson.

The Justice Department grant, called “Research to Improve Officer Decisionmaking,” is “aimed at improving officer decision-making skills to include, but not limited to, evaluation of training programs and curricula, and the impact of organiza-

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tional culture and individual personality traits,” a DOJ grant description reads.

“The goal is to build knowledge of and improve outcomes in police-citizen interactions, and/or prevent or reduce injuries or deaths,” in order “to meet the challenges of policing, particularly at the state, local, and tribal levels.”

Yarber told the audience in City Hall that such conversations were “great,” but that stakeholders must “start talking about evidence-based practices (and) produce our own local data that is culturally relevant.”

He then left a bit early to have dinner with his wife, and the meeting ended abruptly soon afterward with no additional discussion with the listeners on the dais.

State Sen. John Horhn, who is running against Yarber in this year’s election, helped get the BOTEC reports funded to research crime in Jackson. He did not attend the forum, but this week he applauded the Violence Reduction Network and its potential resources, telling the Jackson Free Press that the City should have done more sooner since becoming a member last August. He wants Jackson to seek grants to fund re-entry programs for ex-felons who often have no resources after prison and go back to crime as a result.

One way, Horhn said, is by finding resources and grants to hire “violence interrupters” such as in the Cure Violence strategy—former criminals trained and paid to work with young people to deter crime.

“That cycle has got to be stopped,” Horhn said Monday at the Jackson Free Press. “ … We can use those ex-felons and get them in the business of preventing other folks on their way to a life of crime. That way, you’re giving the ex-felons something to do, and you’re also preventing somebody else from following a negative path.”

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that the ages of victims are getting younger.

“We are looking at young men from age 17 to 30 that are being eradicated,” Nelson said, adding that too many of their deaths are not solved. This age group of black men, he said, need to be on “the extinct list.”

Then he shared arguably the most inspired idea of the night. “We need to come up with a human preservation commission. Let’s take all the resources we can find and take it and throw it at this problem,” Nelson suggested. Many thousands of black men from that age group have been murdered in the U.S. in the last decade, he said, echoing the fact that most victims of violent crime in America are young, black men, even as crime, violent and not, has dropped dramatically since the 1980s.

“This is an epidemic. We have to change our methodology, the way we’re looking at this thing,” he said, echoing national experts on crime who say that gun violence is like a virus that must be interrupted (and not always by police).

“Hopefully, we can get some answers … we’ve got to get our hands around the killing of our young black men ages 17 to 30,” Nelson said in what could certainly be called a “plea for community involvement.”

Before anyone on the dais could respond, the mayor and the police chief arrived. Vance agreed with Nelson that “the homicide rate is too high,” adding that his department solves 90 percent of the homicides. Still, “I do not have the power over life and death. … I’d rather be in the position where I can say to you our prevention rate is running above the national average.”

“Minor conflicts grow out of control and end up with someone shooting someone else,” Vance added, with few indicators that it is going to happen.

(Research, such as recent BOTEC reports on Jackson crime, say the two biggest predictors that a young people will commit violent crime is low school attendance/ dropping out and connection with police and the criminal-justice system.)

Mayor Tony Yarber then pointed to three potential solutions beyond policing the outcome: early-childhood education.

“The data is clear … people that are in jail cannot read,” Yarber said. Many resort to crime because they can’t “win” in the classroom because they cannot read, and then are not able to win in real world.”

Too many do not have opportunities to earn a living wage, the mayor said, ac-

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TALK | education

EdBuild: New Formula in Hands of Few

by Arielle Dreher

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Caring for Low-Income, At-Risk Students

Several public comments from last winter, published on the Legislature’s website, center around equity and ensuring that low wealth districts have access to funding similar to that of high-wealth districts.

“Funding should be more equitable— students in high-poverty districts should have comparable resources as students in more affluent districts,” one email says. “… the fund should ensure that all school districts, low in tax revenues, have funding on par with more wealthy communities BUT avoids shifting essential school funding to the local level in communities with more wealth,” another comment reads.

More than 74 percent of children who attend public schools in Mississippi qualified for and received free or reduced lunch in the 2015-2016 school year. Mississippi allocates an additional $268 for each of those students, considered “at risk” in the MAEP formula.

EdBuild says in its January report that $268, which is about 5 percent of the base student cost, is low and “may not

even be sufficient to cover the difference between the cost of a school lunch and the USDA reimbursement (for free and reduced lunches), much less supports in the classroom and school like interventionists, counselors and reduced student-to-teacher ratios.” EdBuild recommends that the Legislature allocate 25 percent additional funds above the new base student cost for each low-income student.

Most states use free and reduced lunch

a family to qualify for TANF and some of these other programs than you do for free and reduced lunch, same if you’re looking at poverty; it depends on what number you’re looking at in the Census data.”

If the Legislature chooses to take both of EdBuild’s low-income recommendations to heart, it could significantly increase funding for at-risk students, while potentially shrinking the pool of students considered at-risk in the first place. EdBuild Imani Khayyam

ississippi’s new education funding formula is in the hands of a few lawmakers and the statehouse leadership—and what it will look like or how much money will go into the formula are still a mystery to the public and the press. Since the New Jerseybased nonprofit EdBuild released its recommendations on Jan. 17, few people have been privy to the simulator that will spit out a new formula, based on lawmakers’ priorities, called “weights.”

While school districts and associations were able to give input initially, now the fate of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program is in the hands of a few top lawmakers in the capitol. Top officials have said that when they are ready, they will reveal the new formula in a special session or by suspending the rules and bringing up legislation before the Legislature adjourns April 1. Regardless, school funding for the upcoming school year depends on some sort of legislative action before lawmakers go home after the session.

Except for one hearing last winter and the opportunity to submit public comments, the public has not been privy to the process, while other stakeholders such as educational associations around the state have given input at some point.

House Speaker Philip Gunn (left) and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (right) are controlling the development of a new education funding formula, largely behind closed doors. Low-income students have the most to lose.

numbers to determine who is considered low-income for funding formula purposes.

A USDA provision called community eligibility can conflate numbers, allowing districts with 40 percent of their students who qualify for free and reduced lunch to serve free meals to all their students. This provision can potentially include kids who aren’t low-income in its count.

To fix this, EdBuild suggests Mississippi not use free and reduced lunch data to determine which students are “low-income,” but instead use Census data. This is likely to lower the number of students considered “at-risk,” for formula purposes.

Michael Griffith, a policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States who studies the at-risk component of several school-funding formulas, says states that use free and reduced lunch to determine at-risk students typically identify a higher number of people.

“Usually what happens is if a state does free-and-reduced-price lunch, the number of students that you will identify will be higher than if you look at just government assistance programs,” he said in an interview. “You have to make significantly less as

recommends setting the at-risk threshold at the U.S. Census Bureau estimates of district school-aged poverty rates, which are updated annually. If the Legislature chooses to use the federal poverty level, a student who comes from a family of four that makes $24,300 could qualify as “lowincome,” but children from a family of four that makes, say, $25,000 annually, would not be considered low-income. Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves told reporters this month that he was looking at both changing the definition of a low-income student as well as increasing the weight for those students.

The 27 Percent Rule

Some school-finance officers are also concerned about EdBuild’s recommendation to change the 27-percent rule, put in place back when the state adopted MAEP back in the 1990s. The 27-percent rule, which safeguards districts from paying more than 27 percent of the cost of public education, keeps the state on the hook for the majority of school funding—something authors of MAEP say was intentional.

“One of the things we wanted to do ... was help take the pressure off the ad-va-

lorem taxpayers. One of the reasons we had the cap and the 28-mill contribution (rule) is ... protection for ad-valorem taxpayers so that taxes on their farms, homes and cars did not go up,” Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, said in January at a public hearing he held about possible formula changes.

The EdBuild recommendations suggest that the state eliminate the 27-percent rule that diverts almost $120 million, its report says, “to districts that could otherwise generate more funding from local sources to support their schools if expected to contribute at the same tax rate as the rest of the state.”

Simultaneously, the New Jersey nonprofit suggests lifting the 55-mill cap for districts, enabling them to levy more local taxes to support their local schools. Mississippi school districts receive 50 percent of their funds from the state, around 34 percent of funding from local sources and 14 percent from federal funds.

These two suggestions have schoolfinance officers concerned because depending on what kind of school district you’re in, either one of those recommendations could have a large impact on a district’s funds.

Well-off districts that want to raise more funds from the local tax revenue could levy more than 55 mills under EdBuild’s suggestions, but almost all districts would shout about losing the 27-percent rule, forcing them to leverage more local tax revenue.

The Mississippi Association of School Business Officers, or MASBO, is composed mainly of school-finance officers whose jobs it is to understand MAEP and tell their district administrations how much money they need to levy.

Sheryle Coaker, the executive director of MASBO, says her organization cannot fully support all of the recommendations because not all member districts will receive more funds, depending on what lawmakers choose to change.

“At this point, there are still concerns about the reduction of state funding with the 27 percent (rule) with 28 mills ... as MASBO it’s hard to tell you that we can fully support any of it because we know there are going to be some districts that are going to hurt or take a hit locally that really don’t need to,” Coaker said.

Representatives thus far have expressed distaste for changing the 27-percent rule.

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know from MPB. One program, called “Bridge to Education,” is a summer festival that draws close to 4,000 parents and kids to Jackson to engage in interactive learning activities at different stations.

During the school year, 28 school districts use an MPB service called the Mississippi Interactive Video Network, which allows students from districts that do not offer certain courses to virtually attend classes in other districts that do offer the course.

Reshuffling and Trimming

MPB’s television programming for children may look like cartoons on other networks, but all shows have educational components. PBS recently launched a 24-7 kids’ television network, and MPB is broadcasting it. Beyond television programs, MPB has an education team that develops events for children throughout the state, often connected to shows they already

Like most state agencies, MPB is reshuffling resources and cutting back on the number of episodes of some of the locally developed content on MPB’s radio and television programs, half of which are produced and about local issues.

Agnew and Chief Financial Officer Paul Moore said MPB had considered how to be more efficient as an agency long before recent years’ budget cuts, which come

had to juggle some things,” Agnew said.

“Paul and I have to talk every day because we only have so many dollars that we can spend, and we have to hold our department heads accountable to what we’re doing.”

Bracing for More Cuts

Still, tougher times may be ahead for MPB. The Legislature is considering more budget cuts for the operation totaling more

than $500,000. In addition, House Bill 906 would hike rent for not only MPB but other agencies housed in the buildings on Eastwood Drive in northeast Jackson, which the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning board operates.

With the rent hike and no appropriations to cover the increased bill, Agnew estimates the fiscal-year 2018 budget cut will equal around $800,000. Two weeks ago, the Mississippi Senate voted to divert $1.5 million from MPB’s budget to the Veterans Affairs Board. The House, however, passed a budget for MPB last week that does not include such a drastic diversion. For now, Agnew does not seem convinced that the $1.5 million cut will materialize.

“I’m not really focusing on the $1.5 (million),” he said at the MPB offices. “If it hits …, we’ll have to figure out how we rebuild and what we can keep. But why in the world would you want to tear down something respected that you built that’s something that serves and educates people from one end of the state to the other?”

While MPB faces pressure from the Legislature, it could also face pressure from the Trump administration, which may be considering privatization for public broadcasting, Fortune magazine reported in January. Agnew said he is not too worried about the national pressure, especially with the support of Sen. Thad Cochran, a senior Republican whose father was among the founders of Mississippi Educational TV, which went live in 1970.

“Disruption doesn’t frighten me, I’m used to it,” Agnew said. “You have to react to it … so I know what that feels like, which is why we’re fighting hard right now to make sure we’re being good stewards of taxpayer dollars before even being asked.”

counts school attendance several times in a school year (instead of once), will give a more accurate picture of a district’s student body—and ultimately account for more students in a district, meaning more dollars.

For Jackson Public Schools, and likely most districts, changing the formula to count membership would mean a boost in funds.

JPS Chief Financial Officer Sharolyn Miller told the JPS board at its Feb. 21 meeting that JPS would see an increase in funding if the Legislature changed MAEP to membership. Miller also addressed the waiting game for the new proposal.

“We’re kind of in the blind, I met with

MDE officials on Friday, they have actually not been even asked to provide input to the legislators,” Miller told the JPS school board. “So they’re doing this all on their own not using information from MDE, so we’re all kind of at a loss.”

MDE confirmed that it is not working with lawmakers behind closed doors, using the simulator that EdBuild created.

There is an important distinction between MAEP and what EdBuild recommended. EdBuild’s recommendation is not a full study, while MAEP was developed to be used as a whole, Michael Griffith said.

“The way EdBuild wrote their study

is different than other studies; they sort of wrote it like … a tapas menu,” he said.

With menu in hand, lawmakers will pick and choose what best fits their goals for education, but those goals go much deeper than that, as Griffith explains.

“Some people say that the expectation is as long as kids come out of schools and read and do basic math, that’s enough.

Well, that doesn’t cost that much. … There are others that feel that they want educate kids to get to college: that cost is much higher, so it depends on your educational expectations, and that depends on how much money you put into the system.”

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Many administrators and schoolfinance officers support changing the way student enrollment is counted in the current education funding formula. A bill to change average daily attendance in MAEP to average daily membership was seen as a welcome change in previous years by MDE and school finance officers as well.

EdBuild recommends that change, too.

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in a national climate of Republicans calling for cuts to public media and arts programs.

MPB has already outsourced its master control service, which monitors the television programming with costly equipment that needs replacing every seven years or so.

Additionally, Agnew said his team has been careful with personnel decisions, working to re-shuffle after a person retires or leaves instead of rehiring.

“We are operating on less money and Imani Khayyam

onnie Agnew watched PBS shows like “Sesame Street” when he was growing up in Saltillo in rural Mississippi. Now the executive director of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Agnew tells the story of a friend who lived to be 103 years old, illiterate most of his long life until he discovered public broadcasting.

“At 99 years old, he learned to read and write for the first time by watching Sesame Street—his eyes were so bright when he learned how to sign his name (on his check),” Agnew said.

Some public television and radio shows are running shorter seasons this year due to mid-year budget cuts, but little seems to faze Agnew. He and his team at MPB braced for funding shortages long before the latest influx of budget cuts to state agencies, he said in an interview last week.

MPB has diverse functions, including radio, TV, education and outreach. But providing educational programming, Agnew said, especially to help with early education, is a particularly important focus.

“Our education mission is probably the one I consider at the top because I believe it’s the state’s biggest problem,” he told the Jackson Free Press. “I believe that we need all hands on deck in Mississippi to help solve the educational problem.”

Ronnie Agnew, the executive director of MPB, said the agency has reduced episodes and costs, but also found efficiencies long before budgets were tight.

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iss Doodle Mae: “In a time of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts,’ Jojo’s Discount Dollar Store has become a safe haven for the common people. Jojo, our fearless leader, always reminds the staff of their responsibility to uplift, encourage and serve the customer, because the open doors at Jojo’s Discount Dollar Store represent what makes America good. For example, the concept of allowing Chief Crazy Brother, our store display and head cashier, to use store aisle 7-and-1/5 for political, social and entertainment events. Aisle 7-and-1/5 proves to be an asset to the store and the community.

“Also, I’ve seen people enter Jojo’s Discount Dollar Store troubled and leave relieved because Jojo treats all people with the utmost dignity and respect. A highly educated staff person says Jojo is the ‘Sir Thomas Moore’ of the neighborhood because Jojo strives to create an almost utopian work and store environment.

“The good news is that Jojo’s Discount Dollar Store will continue to be affordable, accessible, accommodating and available to anyone who comes through the doors. The popular aisle 7-and-1/5 will become an improved in-store version of the community gathering place.

“Look for the anticipated isle 7-and-1/5 event: ‘In Search of Affordable Health Care Town Hall Meeting and Sale,’ also known as ‘What to Do When the Politicians Eliminate Health Care Insurance for the Poor.’ Congressman Smokey ‘Robinson’ McBride and Nurse Tootie McBride will moderate the meeting. All Trump supporters are cordially invited to attend.”

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—Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in a Feb. 28 statement.

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Why it Stinks: DeVos called historically black colleges and universities “living proof ” that more options for students means greater access and quality, when in actuality HBCUs were not so much a choice as they were a necessity for African Americans looking to attend colleges and universities back when the law barred them from “white” colleges. Integration was not an amenable occurrence, either, and several public institutions reacted in violence at integration efforts, such as University of Mississippi riots over James Meredith’s enrollment in 1962. Using HBCUs as propaganda for school choice is not only inaccurate—it’s as disrespectful as comparing DeVos to a young Ruby Bridges.

Killing Online Sales Tax Bill Is Hypocrisy

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he state’s budget is shrinking, and whether a lawmaker blames slow economic development or large tax breaks given to corporations that never came to Mississippi, the budget squeeze is on most legislators’ minds this session. They are grappling with how to deal with slow revenues and tax collections while simultaneously trying to add funding for education, roads and bridges. Where new revenue can come from is largely a political debate, but the House of Representatives managed to get bi-partisan support for a sales tax on all online purchases made in the state.

The collections generated by the legislation would have gone toward the state’s infrastructure. Then the Senate got the bill, and in the name of the Constitution, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves killed it.

Alabama and several other states have started collecting the tax, sometimes called the Amazon tax, bucking a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision that told states they could only collect such tax on brick-and-mortar retailers. Tax-free online sales is frustrating for local retailers who must collect sales taxes, charging more for items that Mississippians can get online right now without sales taxes.

“Because the Supreme Court made it clear 25 years ago that states do not have the authority to tax Internet sales, this bill is unconstitutional and any promised new revenue is simply fake money,” Reeves announced in a press release.

In a classic state’s rights-versus-federal control argument, Mississippi almost always goes for state’s rights—except when it comes to collecting revenue

it needs for very basics like roads and bridges.

The Mississippi Department of Revenue even brokered a deal with Amazon in February to start collecting the tax. Pressure from outside forces, however, is rampant at the Capitol this year. Americans for Prosperity, a conservative Koch-brother nonprofit creation, is picking up steam in Mississippi. Last week, they rallied at the Capitol with signs that said “Not 1 More Cent” to protest the Internet-tax bill that they considered a tax increase.

The House’s position on the bill was that use tax is already collected—so it’s not technically a new tax. It’s a tax consumers are not reporting on their tax returns, unintentionally gaming the system.

True. Technically, the bill is not “constitutional” in that the U.S. Supreme Court has not reversed its 1992 ruling, but as any Mississippian knows, the Constitution is bent and shaped to fit certain political needs in this state.

For Reeves to help institute the largest tax cut in recent history one session (remember the Taxpayer Pay Raise Act from 2016?) and then dispose of an attempt that even our Dixie neighbor Alabama is working on in the name of constitutionality is hypocritical and downright insulting. You cannot offer tax cuts, expect to adequately fund education and crumbling infrastructure, and then reject proposals like House Bill 480 without admitting your endgame goal. Reeves’ inaction on this bill proves at least one side of the statehouse’s intention: to drown state government in a conservative bathtub. The problem is, it won’t end well for Mississippians.

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XFORD—I’ll never forget Danny Glover as the drifter Moze in the 1984 film “Places in the Heart.”

It was a Depression-era story of a widowed mother in the South trying to keep her children and save her farm with the help of Moze and a blind war veteran.

I loved that story because it reminded me of my grandmother, Minnie “Mama” Atkins, herself a rural southern widow during the Great Depression who had to fend off local authorities who wanted her to give up her four small children.

Later I saw Glover as Joshua Deets in the 1989 television series “Lonesome Dove.” He was one of my favorites among the large cast in that 19th-century cattledrive tale that my family watched religiousJoe Adkins

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Danny Glover speaks in Oxford.

ly, episode after episode.

I never imagined I would eventually get to meet Glover, not so much as an actor but as a champion of working folks and their rights to organize and have some control over their lives at the workplace.

Glover was here in Oxford recently to rally students and citizens to come to Canton on March 4 and join U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the “March on Mississippi” against voter suppression and for workers’ rights, particularly in the ongoing unionorganizing effort at the giant Nissan plant in Canton.

He told the crowd of more than 100 a story about legendary actor, singer and human rights activist Paul Robeson, who suffered the blacklist and widespread scorn because of his political advocacy. Asked if he regretted anything in his life, Robeson said, “There’s not one thing I’d change in my life. It’s about the journey.”

Young people today would do well to think about their own journey in life, said Glover, 70, whose labor advocacy and human-rights efforts have earned him an international reputation. They need to listen to the stories of those around them, particularly the shared humanity of those who work hard and play by the rules yet

whose rights as humans are constricted by the powerful.

“I think about the journey. Over 50 years ago as a student, I didn’t know where that journey was going to take me. … You have an opportunity to look at the stories and make them part of (yours),” he said.

In Canton, thousands of men and women work at an automobile plant that was built with the help of $1.4 billion in tax breaks and other incentives that Mississippi, the poorest state in America, provided.

While they earn good wages in comparison to other Mississippians, they live in fear that they’ll lose their jobs due to injuries in a workplace that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently fined $20,000 for poor safety conditions.

They see their jobs increasingly threatened by management’s hiring of temporary workers who receive fewer benefits and lower wages. They worry that their management will find reasons to get rid of them if they show support for joining a union despite federal laws that prohibit such intimidation. For more than a decade, a community-wide effort has been underway to get Nissan to desist in the kind of voter suppression that makes a free union election impossible.

Glover said even though the South has changed, the fight for workers’ rights continues. “The rights of workers have been curtailed, stepped upon,” he said, adding that those rights will continue to be curtailed “without a union, a place where workers can go to collectively bargain, to have a conversation.”

Glover said it was his first trip to Oxford, but he has come to Mississippi several times to bring attention to the cause of the Nissan workers in Canton, 80 percent of whom are African American.

“When I see people win, they stand a little taller,” he told Nissan workers during a visit in 2012. “I want people to win, people lifting themselves up.”

Glover told them that he came from a union family. His parents were postal workers who were also active in the Civil Rights Movement. “I had health care all my life because the union created the situation where I could have health care.”

He also told the workers something that was echoed during his recent Oxford visit: “You are all part of a much larger legacy. Your story is going to resonate.”

Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. Email him at jbatkins@ olemiss.edu.

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in running it, these are the things that we learned,’” says Millsaps College art professor and Verge Coordinating Producer Kristen Tordella-Williams. She, Matthew Holl, who is Verge’s propaganda and marketplace producer, and Ashley Sullivan, who is the outreach producer, took up the task of organizing the festival.

“We … decided to make it specific to Jackson and just try to serve Jackson, which I think was the biggest challenge with FIGJulian Rankin

mustache, an ear and other facial features with toothpicks stuck in their backs sit on a table at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Off to the side, a Styrofoam figure named Mr. Picasso Head waits for people to add the features in whatever way they want. In the center of the room, people dip the wheels of small remote-controlled monster trucks into paint and then race them in a kiddie pool, the wheels leaving colorful tracks on the paper that lines the bottom of the pool.

In another area, people weave ribbons and other materials across a large loom.

The activities at February’s Museum After Hours at the art museum gave Jacksonians and metro-area residents a taste of what Verge JXN would look like.

Verge is a new community-oriented art project that evolved from FIGMENT Jackson. The website for FIGMENT says the mission of the events, which happen in multiple cities across the United States, is to give free, family-friendly, participatory art events to communities. The first event was on Governors Island in Upper New York Bay in 2007.

Architect Whitney Grant brought the event to Jackson in 2011. The last FIGMENT event was in 2013. In 2015, organizers held an interest meeting to see if the local arts community still wanted to have a participatory art festival.

“They were saying like, ‘We can’t lead it, but this is what we think it could look 16 like, and if there are people are interested

People paint on the community mural at Mississippi Museum of Art’s February Museum After Hours.

MENT,” she says.

“Basically, FIGMENT, because it was associated with these bigger cities, they didn’t sell food because you had restaurants nearby, and … you weren’t supposed to be selling anything. It was all free, which is great, but in a smaller city like Jackson, we don’t necessarily have the availability of

a restaurant around the corner,” adds Sue Carrie Drummond, who is the logistics producer and a visiting professor of art at Millsaps. And, Tordella-Williams says, with FIGMENT, they wouldn’t have been able to hold the event at Lucky Town Brewing Co., and have a marketplace for artists or food trucks.

“I think it’s the best of both worlds in that we get to give an opportunity to artists, and we also give the opportunity to people who are not artists to do projects, as well as for the community to see that art can be more engaging than just on a wall at a museum, and can actually see why artists have a passion for creating because visitors will be able to become a part of the art, be able to participate a little bit in that, in what it means to be an artist,” she says.

Massachusetts native TordellaWilliams graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with a bachelor’s degree in sculpture in 2010.

She graduated from Alfred University in New York in 2012 with a master’s degree in sculpture and dimensional studies. She moved to Jackson in 2014 when she got her job at Millsaps. Drummond, who grew up in the metro area, graduated from Millsaps with a bachelor’s degree in studio art 2012. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pa., with a master’s degree in book arts and printmaking in 2015.

Drummond says she had been a volunteer at past FIGMENT events, and in

2013, she and Samantha Ledbetter did people’s hair at the event.

“We figured that we would call ourselves the Braid Babes, and anyone who would allow us to do something to their hair, we would do,” Drummond says. She Drummond braided hair and made crazy hair styles with them, and Ledbetter created crowns and other items for people to wear.

Drummond says Braid Babes is a perfect example of how diverse the artistic projects at Verge can be.

“I hope people don’t feel intimidated by the event because you can come up with more socially engaged works if you want, something that’s maybe a little bit more serious, but also, it’s an opportunity to play; it’s an opportunity to have fun,” she says.

“I think we need more of that, especially today,” Tordella-Williams says.

“More of a reason to come together despite any differences you might feel, more of a reason to see each other as more human. … Matt and I lovingly termed (Jackson) the Wild Wild West because basically you can do whatever you want if you can make it happen.”

Verge JXN is Saturday, April 15, at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.) from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event will include projects such as a community mural from Jina Daniels of Jax-Zen and the One Word Story from the Verge JXN producers.

Verge will take artist applications until March 15. For more information, visit vergejxn.org or find Verge JXN on Facebook.

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Events at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.) • Jackson Black Business Expo March 4, noon-5 p.m. In the Walter Payton Center.

Registration is open to any black-owned business operating within the Jackson area. Also includes door prizes and raffles. Free; call 601675-2596; find it on Facebook.

• Hamer Humanitarian Awards Luncheon April 20, 11:30 a.m. Honorees include Martin Bennett, Michelle Deardorff, Jeffrey Kolnick, Leslie Burl McLemore and Thandekile Ruth Mason Mvusi. $40; call 601-979-1563; email hamer.institute@jsums.edu; jsums.edu.

March on Mississippi March 4, 1 p.m., at Canton Multipurpose Center (501 Soldiers Colony Road, Canton). Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Bennie Thompson speak on voter suppression and worker’s rights, specifically regarding the Nissan Plant. Pre-march program at 12:30 p.m. Free; find it on Facebook.

Events at William F. Winter Archives & History Building (200 North St.) • History Is Lunch: “From Tamales to Slugburgers: Mississippi’s Diverse Foodways” March 15, noon-1 p.m. Oral historian Sara Wood is the guest speaker. Free; mdah.ms.gov.

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irectors Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules are bringing a new documentary to Mississippi screens: “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” which debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and took home the audience award for Best Feature at the AFI Docs 2016 Film Festival.

“And Still I Rise” is the first featurelength documentary about the author and activist. It takes viewers through Angelou’s life from her childhood in the Depressionera South to Washington, D.C., in 2014, when the National Gallery unveiled her portrait. Never-before-seen archival images, interviews and videos place Angelou in context with iconic American moments and reveal history that most would not

• History Is Lunch: “Stephen D. Lee—A Higher-Education Perspective” March 22, noon-1 p.m. Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum is the guest speaker. Free; mdah.ms.gov.

• History Is Lunch: “Surrender According to Johnston and Sherman” March 29, noon-1 p.m. University of Virginia professor Stephen Cushman is the speaker. Free; mdah.ms.gov.

Mississippi Employment Expo March 21, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., at Metrocenter Mall (3645 Highway 80). Includes employment opportunities in manufacturing, retail, medical, sales, management and more. Military veterans, spouses and dependents may enter at 9 a.m. Free admission; mdes.ms.gov.

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New Summit Drawdown Fundraiser March 3, 6:30-10 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Features a $5,000 giveaway, silent auction, entertainment and heavy hor d’oeuvres. For ages 21 and up. Proceeds benefit the New Summit School. $100 for two people; call 601-982-7827; newsummitschool.com.

Helicopter Ball Drop March 4, 3-4 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (370 Old Agency Road, Ridgeland). Numbered golf balls are dropped from a helicopter towards a target on the track infield. The closest ball to the target wins the grand prize, the second closest gets the first prize, and so on. Prices vary; call 601853-6000; find it on Facebook.

know such as her early performing career, including her role as the White Queen in Jean Genet’s play “The Blacks.” courtesy William J Clinton Presidential Library

Women in Leadership Symposium March 2, 8 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi College School of Law (151 E. Griffith St.). Deborah Estrin is the moderator, and panelists include Tiffany Paige, Jocelyn Chisholm Carter and Jill Gordon. $75; email brandy.berry@nationaldiversitycouncil.org; find it on Facebook.

“Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” is the first feature documentary about the famed writer.

Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) • The Asylum Hill Consortium: Bioscience, the Humanities, and Opportunity March 21, 7 p.m. In the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall. Ralph Didlake, Amy Forbes, George Bey and Janice Brockley discuss the recently revealed burial sites under the former Mississippi Lunatic Asylum. $10, $5 for students; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu.

• Meet the Next Mayor Night April 5, 7-9 p.m.

The candidates running for mayor interact with students, faculty and alumni of Millsaps College. Free; call 601-974-1438; millsaps.edu.

Touch a Truck Jackson March 24-25, 9 a.m., at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Way, Pearl). Offers hands-on opportunities for children to explore

“And Still I Rise” is screening as part of Millsaps College’s partnership with the Southern Circuit Film Series and Crossroads Film Festival.

“We’ve been really fortunate to be able to partner with Crossroads and host the screenings of the films on campus,” says John Sewell, Millsaps’ director of communications and marketing. “(Crossroads) has done a great job getting the films together; we simply support them with a venue and a place to be screened.”

“Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” will screen at the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) on March 15. The screening is free and open to the public.

—Katie Gill

trucks, emergency response vehicles, heavy machinery and other equipment. $5 per person; call 601-948-2357; touchatruckjackson.com.

Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Conference March 30-31, 9 a.m., April 1, 10 a.m., April 2, 3 p.m., at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road). Civil-rights veterans, scholars, community organizers, educators and students convene for strategy sessions on modern-day issues. $25 one day, $75 three day; email mississippicivilrightsveterans@gmail.com.

Through the Lens of Education May 12-13, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at NAMI Mississippi (2618 Southerland Drive). Participants learn effective strategies to support diverse individuals living with mental illness. Free; namims.org.

Events at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.) • The Nugget League of Mayhem March 4, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

The March into March Parade Month kick-off party and fundraiser features live music, a raffle and more. Proceeds benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities. Free admission, cash bar; call 601-948-0888; find it on Facebook.

• Hair Ball 2017 March 26, 7:30 p.m. The circus-themed event includes music, food, drinks, an avant-garde hair competition, a silent auction and more. Proceeds benefit the Little Light House of Central Mississippi. $55 in advance, $65 at the door; email hairball2016@gmail.com; hairstylistsofthesouth.com.

Fight for Air Climb April 1, 8 a.m.-noon, at Regions Plaza (210 E. Capitol St.). The American Lung Association hosts its signature event with participants climbing the Regions Plaza stairwell—22 floors, 425 steps—in an effort to raise funds and awareness around lung disease. $25; call 601-206-5810; email victoria.stein@lungse.org; lungse.org.

Third Annual Creating Change Campaign Gala March 11, 6-10 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.).

Includes a silent auction, with proceeds benefiting Lupus awareness. $30, $50 for couples; call 404-692-0323; eventbrite.com.

Hunks and Heels April 27, 5-9 p.m., at Jaco’s Tacos (318 S. State St.). The womanless beauty pageant benefits the Mississippi Burn Foundation. Free entry; call 601-540-2995; msburn.org.

Spring Benefit 2017: Icing on the Cake April 7, 7-10 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Includes live music, dinner, birthday cake and more. Proceeds benefit the educational programs and exhibitions for the year. Sponsorship prices vary; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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unior League of Jackson will host its fourth annual Touch a Truck Jackson event on March 24 and 25 at Trustmark Park in Pearl (1 Braves Way, Pearl). Touch a Truck Jackson gives children the chance to climb inside, explore and learn about trucks, emergency response vehicles, heavy machinery and other equipment.

“This year we have three big excavators from Puckett Machinery, a

Touch a Truck Jackson lets children climb all over heavy machinery and other equipment. They love it.

LITERARY & SIGNINGS Events at Barnes & Noble Booksellers (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite 3009) • “Coast Guard Heroes of New Orleans” March 4, 2 p.m. Robert Mueller signs copies. $23.95 book; barnesandnoble.com.

• “The Real Antonette Come Forth” March 11, 2 p.m. Antonette Smith signs copies. Free admission; barnesandnoble.com.

KIDS Spring Safari Zoo Camp March 15-17, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Children participate in fun and educational activities, games, hikes, animal encounters, crafts, group projects, keeper talks and more. $155 for members, $165 for non-members; call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org.

Bridal Fashion Show March 26, 1-3 p.m., at Hilton Garden Inn (235 W. Capitol St.). Designer Samantha Woo of Woo Couture Bridal presents her latest collections of bridal wear. $12 admission; $18 VIP admission; call 601-454-3262; email woocouture@ yahoo.com; woocouture.com.

Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream April 6, 7 p.m., April 7, 10:30 a.m., April 7, 7 p.m., April 8, 2 p.m., April 8, 6 p.m., April 9, 2 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse host the show and share the stories of four Disney princesses, including Rapunzel, Snow White, Cinderella and Tiana. $15-$75; call 601961-4000; disneyonice.com.

brand-new fire truck from the Pearl fire station, 18-wheelers from the Mississippi Trucking Association, a helicopter from the state highway patrol, police cars, an ambulance and ... more,” Jane Harkins, Touch of Truck Jackson chairwoman, says.

New to the March 25 event is food trucks, with Hog Heaven BBQ, T & J Concessions, Grant’s Kitchen and Kona Ice taking part and providing lunch.

March 24 is Field Trip Friday, which is open to preschool, daycare or elementary school students some of whose schools participate in Junior League of Jackson’s Handy Helpers program, which helps schools organize field trips who ordinarily wouldn’t be able to due to financial reasons or other issues. The March 25 event is open to the public, and admission is $5 per person.

For more information, visit touchatruckjackson.com.

—Dustin Cardon

Events at Lemuria Bookstore (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s” March 4, 3 p.m. $15.99 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Barrowfields” March 8, 5 p.m. Phillip Lewis signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Eveningland” March 17, 5 p.m. Michael Knight signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Mississippi Blood” March 21, 3:30 p.m.

Mississippi-native author Greg Iles signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $28.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey” March 22, 5 p.m. Troy Ball signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Artist’s Sketch” March 23, 5 p.m.

Carolyn J. Brown signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $35 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “If I’m Found” March 25, 2 p.m. Terri Blackstock signs copies. $24.99; lemuriabooks.com.

• “White Tears” March 29, 5 p.m. Hari Kunzru signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.95; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “A Second Blooming” April 6, 5 p.m. Susan Cushman signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $18 book; call 366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” May 4, 5 p.m. David Grann signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $29.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Somebody with a Little Hammer” May 11, 5 p.m. Mary Gaitskill signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. more EVENTS, see page 20

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the best in sports over the next seven days

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by Bryan Flynn

One of the biggest weeks for NFL hopes is here, as the NFL Combine kicks off this Friday.

Thursday, March 2

College basketball (5-7 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels women will try to defeat LSU to advance in the SEC Women’s Tournament.

Friday, March 3

NFL (8 a.m.-3 p.m., NFLN): Running backs, offensive linemen and special teams begin day one of the NFL Combine. … College basketball (5-7 p.m., SECN): The winner of the LSU against UM matchup plays MSU in the SEC Women’s Tournament.

Saturday, March 4

College basketball (5-7 p.m., SECN): Check out the final regular-season game for the MSU men, as they host LSU. … College basketball (7:309:30 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels men finish the regular season at home against South Carolina. … College basketball (4-8 p.m., ESPNU): Watch both semifinal games of the SEC Women’s Tournament.

Sunday, March 5

NFL (8 a.m.-3 p.m., NFLN): Day three of the NFL Combine features defensive linemen and linebackers. … College basketball (1:30-4 p.m., ESPN): Witness the championship of the SEC Women’s Tournament.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Midtown Melee March 18, 6-10 p.m., at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.). Hard Knocks Revolution presents live pro wrestling. First bell is at 7 p.m. Free admission, $10 tour with beer samples; call 601-790-0142; find it on Facebook.

Run Now, Wine Later 5K March 31, 6:30-8 p.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). Includes a wine and cheese after-party. $30 until March 24, $35 after; call 601-519-0900; raceroster.com.

Sweetness Fest 5K April 1, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., at Walter Payton Center (34 Walter Payton Drive). The 11th annual 5K run/ walk and one-mile fun run aims to increase obesity awareness in Mississippi and to promote physical activity in the community. $15-$75; call 601-979-1368; email seneca.wilson@gmail.com; jsums.edu.

Racin’ for the Seed 5K April 8, 8 a.m., at Lakeshore Park (Brandon). Includes a 5K run/walk, a 14.6-mile bike ride and one-mile run/walk. All proceeds benefit the Mustard Seed. $30 5K, $50 duathlon; call 601-992-3556; email mandy@mustardseedinc.org; racinfortheseed.com.

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure April 8, 8 a.m., at Old Capitol Museum (120 N. State St.). The fundraising 10K and 5K races promote breast-health awareness, celebrates survivors, encourages breast cancer patients and honors those that have passed. $40 10 K, $35 timed 5K, $30 5K walk; call 601-9323999; email info@komencentralms.org; komencentralms.org.

Walk Mississippi April 22, 8 a.m., at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Way, Pearl). The walk-a-thon raises money to fight multiple sclerosis. Individual fundraising is encouraged. Free to attend; call 856-5831; email mandy.ferrington@nmss.org; nmss.org.

Ninth Annual Dragon Boat Regatta May 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Old Trace Park (Ridgeland). Teams work together in dragon boats to race to the finish line. Teams participate in weeklong activities such as team practices at Pelican Cove Grill and the annual Paddler’s Party at The Lake House on May 11. Free, $25 for Paddler’s Party; call 601-605-2554; visitridgeland.com.

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College baseball (6:30-10 p.m., SECN+): The UM Rebels host Georgia State at the same time as the MSU Bulldogs host Louisiana Tech for streaming entertainment. … College softball (6:30-9 p.m., SECN): MSU hosts Troy in a midweek battle as a final tune-up before SEC play.

Wednesday, March 8

College basketball (6-11 p.m., SECN): The SEC Men’s Tournament begins with a double header of teams that finished at the bottom of the standings.

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CREATIVE CLASSES Shape Note Singing Workshop March 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). At the Education Center. Participants learn to sing early American hymns in four-part harmony. Free; call 601-953-1094; email derstinetodd@yahoo.com.

Sheep to Shawl Fiber Arts Demonstrations March 18, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Participants see how natural fiber is turned into cloth.

Includes a live sheep shearing, handspinning demonstrations and handson loom weaving. Free; call 601-3732495; email news@ecm.coop.

Beginner Sushi Making Class April 15, 7-10 p.m., at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.).

Participants learn to make sticky rice and sauces, and how to serve raw fish at home. $50; call 601-790-0142; birminghamsushiclasses.com.

STAGE & SCREEN “The Shrink” Dinner Theater March 1, 7-9 p.m., at Anjou Restaurant (361 Township Ave., Ridgeland). The four-act comedy whodunit includes a three-course dinner. $49; call 601291-7444; email thedetectives@ymail. com; thedetectives.biz.

Events at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.) • “Best of Enemies” March 1-4, 7:30 p.m., March 5, 2 p.m., March 7-11, 7:30 p.m., March 12, 2 p.m. The play tells story about the relationship between a Grand Cyclops of the KKK and an African-American civil rights activist, during the desegregation of the Durham, N.C., schools in 1971. $28 admission, $22 for students; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com.

• “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” April 18-22, 7:30 p.m., April 23, 2 p.m., April 25-29, 7:30 p.m., April 30, 2 p.m. The farce is about a self-absorbed movie star who returns home to visit her brother and sister. $28 admission, $22 for seniors; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com.

“Big House Books” Film Screening and Reception March 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Library Commission (3881 Eastwood Drive). The film showcases the impact that the Mississippi Library Commission has on Mississippi prisoners and their lives. Free; call 432-4111; find it on Facebook.

“A.M. in the P.M.: An Evening of Olde Time Radio” March 2-3, 7 p.m., at Mississippi College (200 S. Capitol St., Clinton). In the Aven Fine Arts Building. The program consists of three shows: “The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective,” “The Burns and Allen Show” and a radio version of the film “Casablanca.” $5; call 601-925-3462; email tnichola@ mc.edu; mc.edu.

Sweetness Fest Takes a Run Against Obesity

weetness Fest organizers hope that only one thing gets bigger in the event’s fight against obesity: participation.

Seneca Wilson, director of the Jackson State University Recreation Complex at the Walter Payton Center, hopes 700 folks turn out for event’s 5K run and walk and more.

“That’s my goal,” he says. “… Hopefully, they’ll come, and even if they don’t run this year, maybe they can next year.”

The event, which is on April 1, tackles one of Mississippi’s leading health concerns, obesity, with community, camaraderie and activity.

“We’re trying to promote healthy lifestyles here,” by energizing JSU faculty, staff and the surrounding community to be more active, Wilson says.

Sweetness Fest includes a 5K run and walk at 8 a.m., Fun Run at 10 a.m., and the Sweetness Jam at the Walter Payton Center, which will have activities and live music from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The money raised at the event goes to scholarships for Camp Tiger Tails, which keeps kids active over the summer,

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NFL (8 a.m.-3 p.m., NFLN): The final day of the NFL Combine sees the defensive backs hit the field, as teams get a good look at safeties and cornerbacks.

See and add more events at jfpevents.com.

The 11th annual Sweetness Fest takes place April 1 at Jackson State University and includes a 5K run and walk, a fun run and other activities.

and does educational programs for them.

“I would like the community and the JSU community to come together and just uplift the city and educate them on being healthy,” Wilson says. “I think we all need it.”

For more information, visit jsums.edu.

—Sherry Lucas

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Events at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.) â&#x20AC;˘ Let the Music Dance March 4, 2-3:30 p.m.

Sarah Pautz and Jayson Pescasio, the principal couple from the Huntsville Ballet Company, perform. The program features â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les Petite Riens,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Impressionsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Le Corsaire, Act III.â&#x20AC;? $15; call 601-960-1560; balletms.com. â&#x20AC;˘ RENT March 7, 7:30 p.m. The musical follows a year in the life of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams. $30-$75; call 888-5022929; jacksonbroadway.com. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once: The Musicalâ&#x20AC;? March 12, 7 p.m. The musical tells the story of a Dublin street musician who is about to give up on his dream when a young woman takes an interest in his songs. $28-$100; jacksonbroadway.com.

FOOD & DRINK Cathead Crawfish Boil March 4, 1-8 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The Delta Mountain Boys perform at 2 p.m.

For all ages. Free entry, crawfish and drink prices vary; call 601-667-3038; find it on Facebook.

Desserts Firstâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;100 Years of Girl Scout Cookies March 4, 7-9 p.m., at Jackson Yacht Club (700 Yacht Club Road, Madison). Tickets include samples of gourmet desserts, one glass of wine or two beers, heavy hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres and beverages. $25; call 601-862-0542; find it on Facebook.

Fore Family Vineyard Wine Tasting March 12, 4 p.m., at Bravo! Italian Restaurant & Bar (4500 Interstate 55

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Murder Is Golden: A Golden Girls Parodyâ&#x20AC;?

Dinner Theater March 21, March 28, April 10, 7-9 p.m., at Georgia Blue (223 Ridge Way, Flowood). The murder mystery dinner theater featuring the Golden Girls includes a threecourse meal and drinks. $48; call 601-850-2318; fringedinnertheatre.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Til Death Do We Partâ&#x20AC;? March 23, 7-9 p.m., at Lost Pizza Co. (1392 W. Government St., Brandon). The Detectives present the four-act comedy whodunit. Includes a three-course dinner. $34; call 601-291-7444; thedetectives.biz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The River Nigerâ&#x20AC;? March 24, 10 a.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.).

The play is a drama about a Harlem family whose son returns from the Air Force and isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the hero they anticipated. $10, $5 for students and seniors; call 601-979-2426; jsums.edu.

Festival of Laughs March 25, 8-11 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). Features comedians Mike Epps, Sommore, Bruce Bruce and Arnez J. $47-$95; call 601-961-4000; find it on Facebook.

18th Annual Crossroads Film Festival April 6-9, 9:30 a.m., at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd, Madison). The festival features narrative and documentary shorts, experimental animated films, student and youth films, music videos and more. Admission TBA; call 345-5674; crossroadsfilmfestival.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Afootâ&#x20AC;? April 20-23, 5:30-7:30 p.m., April 27-30, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Black Rose Theater (103 Black St., Brandon). The play tells the story of a Broadway cast on a weekend getaway to a Connecticut castle when one of the guests is killed. $15 adult, $10 students; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.

N., Suite 244). The event features six wines for guests to try. $40; call 601-9828111; bravobuzz.com.

Moonlight Market March 23, 6-8 p.m., at Mississippi Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market (929 High St.). Features cooking demonstrations from local chefs, and fresh vegetables, dairy products, meats and more for sale. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Food Network and local farmers. $40 individuals, $75 couples; call 601-973-7089; email scain@msfoodnet.org; msfoodnet.org.

Sante South Wine Festival April 1, 6-10 p.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). The festival features Mississippi wine and food, and benefits Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mississippi.

Held in conjunction with the Ridgeland Fine Arts

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Festival and Ridgeland OBO Tandem Rally. $125 VIP, $80 grand tasting; call 601-519-0900; find it on Facebook.

Taste of Mississippi April 3, 7-10 p.m., at The South Warehouse (627 E. Silas Brown St.). Features 40 local restaurants, 10 beverage distributors, live entertainment and a live auction. Proceeds benefit Stewpot. $80; email racheljames601@gmail.com; atasteofms.org.

10th Annual Zoo Brew April 7, 6-9 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.).

Includes craft beer samples from Capital City Beverages, a wing-eating competition, a home-brew competition, food samples from local restaurants, specialty cocktails, animal encounters, keeper chats and live music. Admission TBA; call 601-3522582; jacksonzoo.org.

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Film Screening March 3, 7 p.m. The romantic comedy is about a popular actress, who starring in an important theater production, and her husband, the director. Free; call 601974-1000; millsaps.edu. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Second Mother (A que horas volta?)â&#x20AC;?

Film Screening March 10, 7 p.m. The film tells the story of house cleaner Val and her estranged daughter, Jessica, who suddenly shows up into her life. Free; call 601-9741315; millsaps.edu. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maya Angelou: And Still I Riseâ&#x20AC;? Film Screening March 15, 6 p.m. The film tells the story of the life and legacy of Maya Angelou.

Free; call 601-974-1019; millsaps.edu. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The If Projectâ&#x20AC;? Film Screening April 5, 6 p.m. The film follows a group of inmates in a maximum-security womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prison taking part in a writing workshop that a Seattle police detective co-created. Free; millsaps.edu.

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reparing meals for the masses isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anything new for Glenda Cage Barner and her son, Donovan Barner, who own Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place. They have spent years cooking up food for their large family reunions.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always made food for our fam-

students love sitting down for a helping of macaroni and cheese.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want them to feel welcome and at home,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Instead of calling out numbers, Glenda and Donovan greet people by their names. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know our customers,â&#x20AC;? Donavan says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just like stopping by the house.â&#x20AC;?

The food isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only way Glenda and her son are continuing Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mom had a big heart,â&#x20AC;? Glenda says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was always giving.â&#x20AC;?

Donovan and Glenda pour back out into the community by donating food for the local shelters and catering for charity fundraisers.

Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place has dishes such as chicken poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;boys.

Donovan says honesty and integrity are at the foundation of what they do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only one way ily,â&#x20AC;? Glenda says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donovan was the one on to do it,â&#x20AC;? Donovan says. the grill, and I was the one in the kitchen.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the right way.â&#x20AC;?

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until 2008 that they decided Glenda is also passing down family to turn their love of cooking into a busi- traditions to her six grandchildren. Dononess. Glenda had just retired from AT&T, vanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three sons help when they can, and he and Donovan was in between jobs. As soon hopes to see them expand the business as he and his son, Raphael, spotted the space for sale downtown, Donovan called his mother and pitched her the idea.

Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place (168 W. Griffith St.), is named after Glendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad thought she was so sweet, he called her â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sugar,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Glenda says. She and Donovan grew up helping Sugar in the kitchen, and now, they provide the same southern comfort food she gave them.

The restaurant features dishes such as chicken and waffles, cheese grits omelets, fried catfish, burgers, baked chicken, chicken wings, shrimp, salads and a variety Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place gets its name from the of sides. mother of co-owner Glenda Cage

The Barnersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; love of preparing food Barner (pictured), whose nickname has led to a successful catering branch of was Sugar.

Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve cooked for crowds as big as 650 people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the pace,â&#x20AC;? says Dono- one day. Cousins Marcus Dillard, Mauvan, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in the restaurant and cater- rice Moore and Charles Ransburgh opering business since he was a teenager. ate the kitchen.

Students, lawyers, judges and government employees call in to-go orders to Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place (168 W. Griffith St.) is Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on a regular basis. Glenda says they open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Frihave people who eat almost every breakfast day. For more information, call 601-352and lunch at Sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and neighboring law 2364 or find the restaurant on Facebook.

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Spring Events Preview EXHIBIT OPENINGS Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Economics & Art: Making the Connections March 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Participants explore the intersection of economics and the visual arts. The professional development includes discussions on economics and art, interactive gallery discussions and small working groups. Free; call 601-974-1325; msmuseumart.org.

• Re:Workshop March 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The monthly art-making and discussion workshop is about the intersection of art and social justice. The guest artists are Caroll Cloar and Lyle Peterzell. $10; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• Museum After Hours—“Art Battle” March 16, 5:30 p.m. This installment of the monthly event, which takes place every third Thursday, features 15-minute-round art competitions to win cash prizes. Also includes live entertainment, a ’sipp-Sourced popup menu from chef Nick Wallace and more. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

• The Magnificent Masterpiece Showcase: A MAC Whole Schools Pop-Up Exhibition April 4, 5-8 p.m. The one-night exhibition showcases art from 26 schools across the state. Lesson plans that prompted the student work are on display alongside each class. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Art & Music Vol. 2 March 3, 9 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.).

Merc B. is the host. The pop-up art exhibit features the work of Kira Cummings. Performers include Yung Jewelz, Tira D, Skipp Coon, Ray Kincaid, Mr. Fluid and DJ Young Venom. $10; email kcummings.art@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

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14th Annual Fossil Road Show March 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The exhibit features the museum’s fossil collection, collector displays, “fossil digs” and more. Free; call 601-576-6000; mdwfp.com.

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“The Art in Us All” Community Exhibition Opening March 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). The installment celebrates the artists of the Mustard Seed, a nonprofit community for adults with developmental disabilities. The installment runs through April 9. Free; mustardseedinc.org.

AND Gallery (133 Millsaps Ave.). The art gallery showcases the works from contemporary artists from the South. “March Forth: A Group Exhibition” features artists such as Adrienne Domnick, Adam Farcus, Jonathan Faulkner and Robin Jayne Henderson, and runs March 4-April 15. Call 601-351-5075; andgallery.com.

March Forth: A Group Exhibition March 4, 6-10 p.m., at And Gallery (133 Millsaps Ave.). Artists include Jonathan Faulkner, Robin Jayne Henderson, Jordan Hess, Adrienne Domnick and more. Email andgalleryart@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The Greater Jackson Arts Council features works from Mississippi artists. Open weekdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. with additional hours for special events. Call 601-960-1500; greaterjacksonartscouncil.com.

Alligator Pancakes & Cheesecake Gumbo March 11, 5-11:30 p.m., at Land vs. Ocean (3011 N. State St. ). Includes a collection of artwork from Jonathan Faulkner and live music from Physics for Poets and Double Take. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

Brown’s Fine Art and Framing (630 Fondren Place). The gallery represents more than 30 Mississippi artists. The opening for artist Greg Gustafson’s landscape exhibition is March 2 from 5-8 p.m.

Open Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Call 601-982-4844; brownsfineart.com.

Spring Farm Days 2017 March 15-17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive).

Includes cooking demonstrations, learning about farmstead life and gardening, and large farm and forestry equipment displays.

Also features baby chicks, chickens and other farm animals. $6 for adults, $4 for children; call 601-432-4500; msagmuseum.org.

Opening Day of “Dinos” April 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The exhibit features a fossil dig, an augmented-reality app to access special content and more. Runs through July 2. Admission price plus $2; jacksonzoo.org.

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Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Eilen Jewell March 1, 7:30 p.m.

The Idaho-native singer-songwriter performs. Holley Peel also performs. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Jake Slinkard & Co. EP Release March 3, 9 p.m., The Mississippinative singer-songwriter’s latest EP is titled “Parallels.” Empty Atlas also performs. $10; ardenland.net.

• Grady Champion March 4, 7 p.m. The Mississippi-native blues singer performs an acoustic set with special guests, as well as a full-band show. Big Yayo also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Son Volt March 7, 8 p.m. The alternative-country band performs.

Johnny Irion. $25 at the door, $20 in advance; ardenland.net.

• Southern Soul Assembly March 8, 8 p.m. The superband features JJ Grey, Marc Broussard, Anders Osborne and Luther Dickinson. $40 in advance, $45 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Martin Sexton March 15, 7:30 p.m. The singer-songwriter’s latest release is titled “Mixtape of the Open Road.” Brothers McCann also performs. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; ardenland.net.

• ZOSO: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience March 16, 8 p.m. $15 advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors April 5, 7 p.m. The Tennesseenative Americana band performs. $20-$70; ardenland.net.

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• Cabaret at Duling Hall: Hooray for Hollywood March 20, 7:30 p.m. The Mississippi Opera presents songs from Hollywood blockbusters. $20; msopera.org.

• Motel Radio March 30, 9 p.m.

The New Orleans-based indie-rock band performs. The Stonecoats also perform. $5 advance, $10 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Penny & Sparrow April 4, 7:30 p.m. The singer-songwriter duo performs. Lowland Hum also performs. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Jojo’s Slim Wednesday April 8, 9 p.m. The jazz and blues band performs. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; ardenland.net.

• Turkuaz April 26, 7:30 p.m.

The Brooklyn-native funk band performs. Organ Freeman also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net.

• An Evening with Chris Robinson Brotherhood April 14, 9 p.m. The rock-and-roll and psychedelic-rock band performs. $30 in advance, $35 at the door; ardenland.net.

Afrikan Art Gallery and Gift Shop (800 N. Farish St.). The gallery is also a venue for Afrocentric events. Call 601-979-1413.

Fischer Galleries (Dickies Building, 736 S. President St., fourth floor). The gallery features works from more than three-dozen artists and photographers. Call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com.

Fondren Art Gallery (3242 N. State St.). See an eclectic mix of paintings, sculptures and local art, including owner Richard McKey’s artwork. Open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Call 981-9222; fondrenartgallery.com.

Events at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.) • Slangston Hughes & Thelonius Kryptonite March 2, 8-11 p.m.

New Orleans emcee Slangston Hughes and St. Louis natives Thelonius Kryptonite and DJ Strategy perform. $10; call 601376-9404; offbeatjxn.com.

• Tabah March 21, 8-10 p.m. The Minnesota indie-rock band performs. Empty Atlas and Codetta South also perform. $7; call 601376-9404; offbeatjxn.com.

• Record Store Day 2017 April 22, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. The annual event includes exclusive vinyl releases, special sales and more. Prices vary; offbeatjxn.com.

Events at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.) • Eli Young Band March 2, 9 p.m.

The Texas-based country band performs. $25, $3 surcharge for persons under 21; ardenland.net.

• City and Colour March 9, 9 p.m.

The Canadian singer-songwriter performs. $35 in advance, $40 at the door; ardenland.net • Hal’s St. Paddy’s Parade & Festival March 18, 9 a.m. Includes a parade, a 5K run, children’s activities, a pet parade and more. Molly Ringwalds, Mustache the Band, and Freedom perform. Float lineup at 7 a.m. Festival gates open at 1 p.m. Free parade, $10 festival; halsstpaddysparade.com.

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Mississippi Community Symphonic Band March 4, 3 p.m., at Christ United Methodist Church (6000 Old Canton Road). Features a guest performance from Mississippi Swing.

Free; call 601-594-0055; email rlpearson546@gmail.com.

Metro Male Chorus Benefit Concert March 4, 7:30 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (305 E. Capitol St.). The choral concert benefits the Habitat for Humanity. The award-winning Murrah High School Choir also performs. $10 for adults, $5 for students; call 601-594-2902.

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

• Mississippi Symphony Orchestra’s “Chamber III: Haydn+” March 4, 7:30 p.m. Performers include Jean Françaix, soloist John Paul, Étienne Méhul and Polish composer Henryk Górecki. $17, $5 students; msorchestra.com.

• The French Cello March 7, 7:30-9 p.m. The new principal cellist of Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs romantic French music. Admission TBA; millsaps.edu.

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The Gallery at Deep South Pops (1800 N. State St.). The coffee and popsicle shop features a space to showcase work from different artists each month, with opening receptions every second Thursday. Open every day from 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Call 601-398-2174; deepsouthpops.com.

Municipal Art Gallery (839 N. State St.). The gallery displays permanent art collections that date back to the 1940s and features semimonthly exhibitions from Mississippi artists. Open Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 601960-1582; jacksonms.gov.

Gallery1 (One University Place, 1100 John R. Lynch St., Suite 4). â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Artistic Works of Nelson Mandela,â&#x20AC;? is on display through March 3. Open Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Call 601-960-9250; jsums.edu/gallery1arts.

Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The music, comic and clothing store features work from local artists. Open Wednesdays and Thursdays from noon-6 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from noon-7 p.m., and Sundays from noon-5 p.m.

Call 601-376-9404; offbeatjxn.com.

Lewis Art Gallery and The Emerging Space at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St., third floor of the Academic Complex). Open weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Call 601-974-1762, email mholl45@gmail.com; millsaps.edu.

Marie Hull Gallery (Hinds Community College, 501 E. Main St., Raymond). The gallery features six exhibits during the academic year.

Open Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Call 601-857-3277; hindscc.edu.

Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Featuring works from members of the Craftsmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guild of Mississippi. The center also hosts classes and other special events. Call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

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

The 2016 Mississippi Invitational runs through March 12, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Common Passages: Reconsidering the American Sceneâ&#x20AC;? runs through July 23.

Open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday from noon-5 p.m. Call 601-9601515; msmuseumart.org.

Pearl River Glass Studio (142 Millsaps Ave.). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fetishâ&#x20AC;? features works from Rebekah Potter and Richard Stowe and opens March 3 from 5-9 p.m. Open from Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 601-353-2497; pearlriverglass.com.

Samuel Marshall Gore Galleries (Mississippi College, 199 Monroe St., Clinton). The Competitive Art Showcase runs through March 31, and the 2017 Spring Senior Art Show runs April 5-May 5. Call 601-925-3880; art.mc.edu.

Sanaa Fine Art and Framing (The Quadrangle, 5846 Ridgewood Road, Suite C-212). The gallery sell fine art and offers custom framing. Artists include Lorenzo Gayden and Melanie John.

Call 769-218-8289; sanaagalleries.com.

View Gallery (Canton Mart Square, 1491 Canton Mart Road, Suite 7). The gallery that holds works from more than 20 Mississippi artists.

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Events at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.) â&#x20AC;˘ Experience Hendrix March 10, 8 p.m. The all-star Jimi Hendrix tribute group includes artists such as Billy Cox, Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Dweezil Zappa. $49.50$129.50; ardenland.net. â&#x20AC;˘ Chicago March 22, 8 p.m. The legendary rockand-roll band performs.

Doors open at 7 p.m. $46.50-$350; call 877987-6487; ardenland.net. â&#x20AC;˘ RAINâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Tribute to the Beatles April 5, 7:30 p.m.

The Beatles tribute band performs. $35-$100; raintribute.com.

Mississippi Anime Festival 2017 March 11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The festival celebrates anime, manga, pop culture and animation. Guests include Colleen Clinkenbeard and Brina Palencia. $15 admission, $5 for children; msanimefest.com.

Holi Melaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Festival of Colors March 11, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Hindu Temple Society of Mississippi (173 Vernon Jones Ave., Brandon). The festival features Indian food, herbal tattoos, music and more.

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Brantley Gilbert March 17, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). Brian Davis and Tucker Beathard also perform. $26-$186; call 800-7453000; ticketmaster.com.

Vertical Church Band March 24, 7 p.m., at Crossgates Baptist Church (8 Crosswoods Road, Brandon). The worship band performs. $10, $20 VIP; crossgates.org.

Charlie Mars April 22, 8 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The Texas country artist performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net.

The Weeks Record Release Show April 28, 10-1:30 a.m., at Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.).

The Mississippi natives perform. The Lonely Biscuits also perform. $18, $38 VIP; martinslounge.net.

Mississippi Chorus Spring Concert: Ancient Wisdom, Timeless Music April 29, 7:30 p.m., at Galloway United Methodist Church (305 N. Congress St.).

Features performances of Mendelssohn, Rutter and a tribute to the Russian Army Chorus. $20 for adults, $5 for students; call 601-2783351; mschorus.com.

Stray at Home Art and Music Festival May 13, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., at Smith Park (302 Amite St.). The festival includes music, art, crafts and more. Free entry; call hello@strayathome.com; strayathome.com.

C Spire LIVE Day of Country May 20, 2 p.m., at Baptist Health Systems (401 Baptist Drive, Madison). Performers include Kenny Chesney, Thomas Rhett, Jake Own, Jana Kramer and Russell Dickerson. $82; ticketmaster.com.

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THURSDAY 3/2

FRIDAY 3/3

SATURDAY 3/4

The “Big House Books” film screening and reception is at the Mississippi Library Commission.

The New Summit Drawdown Fundraiser is at the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

The Jackson Black Business Expo is at Jackson State University.

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WEDNESDAY 3/1

“Best of Enemies” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play tells story about the relationship between a Grand Cyclops of the KKK and an African American civil-rights activist, during the desegregation of the Durham, N.C., schools in 1971. Additional dates: March 2-4, 7:30 p.m., March 5, 2 p.m., March 7-11, 7:30 p.m., March 12, 2 p.m. $28 admission, $22 for students; newstagetheatre.com.

THURSDAY 3/2

courtesy Bridgett Brooks

Slangston Hughes and Thelonius Kryptonite perform from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.).

Slangston Hughes is a New Orleans-based emcee, and Thelonius Kryptonite is a St. Louis native. DJ Strategy also performs. $10; call 601-376-9404; offbeatjxn.com.

(Left to right) Yohance Myles, Marci J. Duncan, Rus Blackwell and Jessica Wilkinson star in “Best of Enemies” from March 1-5 and from March 7-12 at New Stage Theatre.

SATURDAY 3/4

The 14th annual Fossil Road Show is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The exhibit features the museum’s fossil collection, hands-on activities, “fossil digs” and more.

Free; mdwfp.com. … March on Mississippi is at 1 p.m. at the Canton Multipurpose Center (501 Soldiers Colony Road, Canton). U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Congressman Bennie Thompson speak on voter suppression and worker’s rights. Pre-march program at 12:30 p.m. Free; call 601by TYLER EDWARDS 859-2931; find it on Facebook. … The opening reception for “March Forth: A Group Exhibijacksonfreepress.com tion” is from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Fax: 601-510-9019 at And Gallery (133 Millsaps Daily updates at Ave.). Includes works from artists jfpevents.com such as Jonathan Faulkner, Robin Jayne Henderson, Jordan Hess, Adrienne Domnick, Adam Farcus and Tyler Tadlock.

Email andgalleryart@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

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Fitness expert Bridgett Brooks is one of the guest speakers for Glams Night Out on Sunday, March 5, at the Jackson Medical Mall.

FRIDAY 3/3

“Economics & Art: Making the Connections” is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Participants explore the intersection of economics and the visual arts. The professional development includes discussions on economics and art, interactive gallery discussions and small working groups. Free; call 60128 974-1325; email mscee@millsaps.edu; msmuseumart.org.

SUNDAY 3/5

Glams Night Out is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). Includes vendors, workshops, fashion shows, demonstrations and guest speakers such as Bridgett Brooks, Malika Sutton, Kutenia Good and Charence Higgins. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $35 VIP with beauty bags and reserved seating; email naturalusalon@gmail.com; eventbrite.com.

MONDAY 3/6

Precision Haircutting with Justin Thomas is from 10 a.m. to noon at Noble Barber (1065 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite F, Ridgeland). Thomas is a hair stylist, platform artist and educator with Hattori Hanzo Shears in California. The look-and-learn demonstration will touch on both men’s and women’s cutting. Limited seating. $30; call 601-856-6665; noblebarber.com. … The Poetic Seeds Youth Project Open House is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Soul Wired Café (111 Millsaps Ave.). Participants enjoy complimentary food and drinks and learn more about the open mic and art experience for special-needs youth. For all ages.

Free; find it on Facebook.

TUESDAY 3/7

“RENT” is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The musical follows a year in the life of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams. $30-$75; call 888-502-2929; jacksonbroadway.com.

WEDNESDAY 3/8

Phillip Lewis signs copies of “The Barrowfields” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26 book; call 601366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. … Southern Soul Assembly performs at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The superband features JJ Grey, Marc Broussard, Anders Osborne and Luther Dickinson. $40 in advance, $45 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; ardenland.net.

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Kari Jobe: Growth in ‘The Garden’

by Micah Smith

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Well, it’s been kind of a crazy ride as as a songwriter? we were writing for it. I was pregnant at the same time as my sister, and toward the end

I got a question the other day about of her pregnancy, she lost her baby. We had (if) I ever write for political stuff, or do I to have a funeral and the whole thing, and I write pro-Republican or pro-Democrat, was still pregnant. Just navigating that and like, what would I say my music is. I was grieving with her, but then also trying to like, “You know, I don’t focus on a certain celebrate the little life that was still inside of theme besides Jesus.” I love to write about me, growing. hope and restoration, and how you’re not

(There’s) pain and just the questions alone, and God is with you. I really don’t you start to have with God, just “Why? try to push God on people. In sharing what Why did something like this happen?”

God’s done in my life, I’m just like, “This is She’s an amazing woman, she’s a good perwhat’s happened for me, and this is what’s son, and she loves God, so it was just like, brought me life.” I don’t judge anyone “Man, why do these kinds of things hapthat hasn’t happened to, but I do always pen sometimes?” So I just started turning say, “You know, if you need something to those questions into songs as I wrote for change, open the door to God for a the album. moment.” If it doesn’t work

A garden was growing in out, you can always close our backyard—that’s where the the door back. inspiration came from (for the Kari Jobe performs at title)—and it started budding 7 p.m., Thursday, March right at the right time for my 2, at the Pinelake Church heart. Flowers were bloomat the Reservoir (6071 ing, and it was turning green, Highway 25, Brandon). and it just really reminded me Bryan and Katie Torwalt that God is in control. He goes also perform. Admission is before us and knows what we $26.50, deluxe admission with early entry and a preneed before we need it. The fact show Q&A is $39.50, and that that garden was planted many years ago but gave me joy in life the workshop package the moment that it did was is $74.50. For more just really a picture of how information, visit Worship singer-songwriter Kari Jobe performs at Pinelake Church pinelake.org.

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My fans, I feel like they always come with me. I mean, I never try anything too crazy where they’re like, “OK. What is happening?” I did do where there’s like vocal distortion here and there, and not everyone’s going to love that track maybe, but they can go to the next one. But I tried on this one to go all the way across the board. All kinds of stuff that I’ve done over the years, I incorporated in this project to where it would capture everybody.

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During that time, if I started crying while I was leading worship or just having a hard night, I would stop and say why, and I would even share where I was in the process. I went through a season of really questioning God on, “Why would you allow this to happen?” It didn’t shake my faith.

I’ll always believe in God and have faith in God, but I just was really disappointed that my prayers weren’t answered in the way that I was asking. We prayed she would be healed. We prayed that her heartbeat would come back, but it didn’t happen.

So I just shared that stuff with people.

I’m very vulnerable and transparent when I lead worship. I share where I am and what my questions are and where God meets me in those places, because I’m sure everyone else is in those places in some way or shape.

stuck with it.” It gave a little more creative license to go back in the studio. When you do stuff live, vocally, a lot of times you over-sing because you’re so excited or the adrenaline and stuff. In the studio, it’s a more protected environment, and you can really hone in on what you want the song to sound like vocally.

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3/10 - Young Valley w/ Anne Freeman & the Garbage Sons 3/11 - Cory Branan (Bloodshot Records) 3/15 - The Low End Theory Players (Tribe Called Quest Tribute) 3/17 - Zoogma 3/18 - Martin’s St. Paddy’s Blowout w/ Flow Tribe & more 3/20 - Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre 3/22 - Spoonfed Tribe 3/25 - Vibe Street

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n the worship-music industry, few contemporary artists have achieved the staying power of singer-songwriter Kari Jobe. Since the Waco, Texas, native released her self-titled debut in 2009, many of her hit songs, including “Revelation Song” and “Holy Spirit,” have become staples of Christian radio and church services around the world.

Thus far, she has received four Dove Awards and a Grammy Award nomination, and her past three albums—2012’s “Where I Find You,” 2014’s “Majestic” and her latest record, “The Garden,” which hit stores Feb. 3—have landed in the top 25 on the all-genre Billboard 200 charts.

After almost three years off the road, Jobe recently launched a 30-date national tour to support the new album, including in the metro area on Thursday, March 2.

The Jackson Free Press gave her a call to talk about the recording process and personal growth in “The Garden.”

Music listings are due noon Monday to be included in print and online listings: music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Cerami’s - Brian Jones 6 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Church at Northshore - Drakeford 7 p.m. free Duling Hall - Eilen Jewell w/ Holley Peel 7:30 p.m. $10 advance $15 door ardenland.net Fitzgerald’s - Hunter Gibson & Rick Moreira 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Mark Roemer & Jamie Weems free Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Chad Perry 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Silverado 7:30 p.m.

MARCH 2 - THURSDAY Burgers & Blues - Jesse Smith 6 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Blues Challenge w/ Dexter Allen 10 p.m.

Fenian’s - Becca Rose 9 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Joseph LaSalla 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jason Turner Georgia Blue, Madison - Dan Confait Green Ghost, Fondren - Risko Danza 5 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - David Vidal 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Amanda Jones 6:30 p.m. free Offbeat - Slangston Hughes & Thelonius Kryptonite w/ DJ Strategy, 5th Child, Timaal Bradford & devMaccc 8 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads 6 p.m.

Pinelake Church, Reservoir - Kari Jobe w/ Bryan & Katie Torwalt 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 7:30 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - Stace Shook 7 p.m.

Sylvia’s - Thursday Night Live feat.

The Blues Man & Sunshine McGhee 9 p.m. free

MARCH 3 - FRIDAY Burgers & Blues - Three Hour Tour 6 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

CS’s - Bailey Brothers & Jason Daniels Band 9 p.m. $5 Duling Hall - Jake Slinkard & Co EP Release Show w/ Empty Atlas 9 p.m. $10 F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $1; Jamell Richardson midnight $10 Fenian’s - Davis Coen 9 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Hunter Gibson & Ronnie McGee 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jonathan Alexander

Georgia Blue, Madison - Brian Jones Hal & Mal’s - Swing de Paris free Iron Horse Grill - Johnie B. Sanders Blues Band Revue w/ Ms. Iretta 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - The Axe-identals 7 p.m. free Martin’s - The Stolen Faces 10 p.m.

Offbeat - Art & Music Vol. 2 feat.

Yung Jewelz, Tira D, Skipp Coon, Ray Kincaid & Mr. Fluid 9 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Road Hogs 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 5:30 p.m. free; Spunk Monkees 8 p.m. $5; Josh Journeay 10 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - Andy Tanas 7 p.m.

Soulshine, Ridgeland - Chris Gill 7 p.m.

WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.

MARCH 4 - SATURDAY Burgers & Blues - Candice Duell & Jim Hartner 6 p.m.

Cathead Distillery - Crawfish Boil feat. Delta Mountain Boys 2 p.m. free Crawdad Hole - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 6-9 p.m.

CS’s - MOTO & Evil Engines 9 p.m. $5

Southern Soul Assembly Duling Hall - Grady Champion w/ Stace & Cassie, Geppetto Morgan & more 7 p.m. $15 advance $20 door F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; Jamell Richardson midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Brandon Greer Hal & Mal’s - March Into March Fundraiser feat. Deltaphonics 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5 silent auction, free event; Coke Bumaye 9 p.m. $5 women $10 men The Hideaway - Chad Wesley Band 10 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - The JoJo Long Show 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Shadz of Grey 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Anthony Gomes 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Steele Heart 2 p.m.; Jonathan Alexander 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sofa Kings 3:30 p.m. free; Spunk Monkees 8 p.m. $5; Brian Jones 10 p.m. free

3/3 - Dawes - Iron City, Birmingham 3/5 - Deafheaven - Republic NOLA, New Orleans 3/6 - TAUK - Zydeco, Birmingham 3/7 - Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Proud Larry’s, Oxford

Soulshine, Flowood - Daniel & George 7 p.m.

Soulshine, Ridgeland - Thomas Jackson 7 p.m.

Spacecamp - May Queen, Him Horrison, Nossiens, Dumspell & Late Bloomers 7 p.m. $5 WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m. free before 10 p.m.

MARCH 5 - SUNDAY Anjou - David Keary 11:30 a.m.

Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

CS’s - Fides, The Renders, Surfwax & Bad Magic 7 p.m. $7 Eme’s - Sunday Gospel Brunch 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Kathryn’s - The Sole Shakers 6 p.m. free MS Coliseum - TobyMac w/ Mandisa, Matt Maher, Mac Powell, Capital Kings & more 6:30 p.m. $15-$39 Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Jazz Brunch feat.

Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.2 p.m.

MARCH 6 - MONDAY Burgers & Blues - Jesse Smith Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

First Pentecostal Church - The Wilbanks 6:30 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Steel Country 6 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown noon; Shadz of Grey 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Brian Jones 3:30 p.m.

Sombra - John Mora 11 a.m.

Table 100 - Jazz Brunch feat.

Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.

Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.

MARCH 7 - TUESDAY Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Son Volt w/ Johnny Irion 8 p.m. $20 advance $25 door Fenian’s - Open Mic Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30 p.m. free

MARCH 8 - WEDNESDAY Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Southern Soul Assembly 8 p.m. $40 advance $45 door Fitzgerald’s - Larry Brewer 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Doug Hurd 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sofa Kings 7:30 p.m.

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THURSDAY 3/2

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SATURDAY 3/4

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Friday, March 3 JAKE SLINKARD & CO EP RELEASE

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Fundraiser featuring the Deltaphonics

Restaurant - 6:30 - 9:30pm - Free $5 donation to participate in silent auction.

COKE BUMAYE RED BALLOON Red Room - Doors: 8pm Show:9pm Tickets available at door - 18+

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MONDAY 3/6

CENTRAL MS BLUES SOCIETY PRESENTS:

BLUE MONDAY Dining Room - 7 - 10pm

$3 Members $5 Non-Members _________________________

“parallels” is a collection of songs that serve as anthems of youth and relation

Saturday, March 4 GRADY CHAMPION with Special Guest Big Yayo & An Acoustic Experience

Tuesday, March 7

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Wednesday, March 8

w/ Jimmy Quinn

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UPCOMING _________________________ 3/10 The Brook & The Bluff - RED ROOM Tickets available at the Door $10 18+ Door:8:00 Show:9:00 3/18 Hal’s St Paddy’s Festival featuring The Molly Ringwalds, Mustache the Band and Freedom.

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BONNIE BISHOP grammy-winning “queen of country soul”

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“The Best of 2016” —yes, there were some things.

23 Clubber Lang portrayer in “Rocky III” Across 1 Hairless on top 5 Had in mind 10 Backstage access 14 Lyft competitor 15 Tree with chocolate-yielding seeds 16 “At Last” singer ___ James 17 Red gemstone 18 Singer whose “Blonde” was Esquire’s #1 album of 2016 20 Late Jeopardy! contestant Cindy with an inspiring six-day streak (despite treatment for Stage 4 cancer and running a fever during taping) 22 Cries of exasperation

24 Shrewd 25 2016 animated movie with a 98% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes 27 El ___ (Peruvian volcano) 29 Furniture wood 30 Puts on, as clothes 31 One way to find out 32 Founder of analytical psychology 34 “Spy vs. Spy” magazine 36 With 38-Across, 2016 headline that ended a 108-year streak 38 See 36-Across 42 LBJ’s VP 43 Self-defense system with throws 44 “Westworld” airer

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45 Beverage brand whose logo is two lizards 48 Dandified dude 49 Copier paper orders 51 Newfound planet similar in mass to Earth (from National Geographic’s “6 Science Discoveries Worth Celebrating in 2016”) 54 “S” on the dinner table 55 “Inside ___ Schumer” 56 “Blueberries for ___” (Robert McCloskey kids’ book) 57 Donald Glover dramedy called “the best show of the year” by the New York Times 60 What Bertrand Piccard flew around the world using clean technology (one of BBC’s “Four good things that happened in 2016”) 63 Mascara ruiner, maybe 64 “A horse is a horse” horse 65 “SNL” producer Michaels 66 Former Montreal ballplayer 67 Cong. gathering 68 Key near the quote marks 69 Goulash, e.g.

45 Hiccups, e.g.

46 At least 47 Actor Peter and singer Susan, for two 48 Jokey Jimmy 50 Cheers up 52 Jerusalem’s home: abbr.

53 Syrup flavor 54 Take the wheel 57 A BrontÎ sister 58 Record, in a way 59 Get your ducks in ___ 61 Freemium game interrupters, perhaps 62 Curator’s canvases ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

Holistic Detective Agency” 25 Follow a jagged path 26 Bookie’s calculations 27 Cheese’s partner 28 “Kinda” suffix 29 Yoko who loved John Lennon 33 “I’m not touching that!”

34 Pretend pie ingredient 35 Opposite the mouth, in biology 37 Party mix cereal 38 Coffee holder 39 “And then ...?”

40 Watson’s creator 41 Head-shaking replies 43 “You had one ___ ...”

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1 They may get stuck to hikers’ socks 2 Lie adjacent to 3 Movie millionaire sought by a same-last-named “Dude” 4 Deadpan style of humor 5 “Back to the Future” hero Marty 6 “My Name Is ___” (Jason Lee sitcom) 7 Obamacare acronym 8 “___ of the North” (1922 silent documentary) 9 2020 Summer Olympics city 10 Chest muscle, slangily 11 “Resume speed,” to a musician 12 Be the headliner of 13 Seasonal mall figures 19 East, to Ernst 21 Actor Wood of “Dirk Gently’s

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Your immediate future is too good to be true. Or at least that’s what you, with your famous self-doubt, might be inclined to believe if I told you the truth about the favorable developments that are in the works. Therefore, I have come up with some fake anxieties to keep your worry reflex engaged so it won’t sabotage the real goodies. Beware of dirty limericks and invisible ladders and upside-down rainbows and psychic bunny rabbits. Be on guard against accountants wearing boxing gloves and clowns singing Broadway show tunes in runaway shopping carts and celebrities telling you classified secrets in your dreams.

I predict that you will have earned the title of Master Composter no later than March 26. Not necessarily because you will have packed your food scraps, wilted flowers, coffee grounds and shredded newspapers in, say, a deluxe dual-chamber tumbling compost bin. But rather because you will have dealt efficiently with the rotting emotions, tattered habits, decrepit melodramas and trivial nonsense that has accumulated; you will have worked hard to transform all that crap into metaphorical fertilizer for your future growth. Time to get started!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

It’s a good time for you to wield your emotional intelligence with leadership and flair. The people you care about need more of your sensitive influence. Any posse or tribe you’re part of will benefit from your thoughtful intervention. So get out there and build up the group morale, Taurus. Assert your healing ideals with panache. Tamp down the insidious power of peer pressure and fashionable nonsense. You have a mandate to wake up sleepy allies and activate the dormant potential of collective efforts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

If you were ever in your life going to be awarded an honorary PhD from a top university, it would happen in the next few weeks. If there were even a remote possibility that you would someday be given one of those MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grants, now would be the time. Likewise if you had any hopes of being selected as one of “The World’s Sexiest Chameleons” or “The Fastest, Sweetest Talkers on Earth” or “The Planet’s Most Virtuoso Vacillators,” the moment has arrived. And even if none of those things happen, I’m still pretty sure that your reputation and status will be on the rise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

You’re wandering into places you’ve always thought you should be wary of or skeptical about. Good for you! As long as you protect your innocence, I encourage you to keep exploring. To my delight, you have also been fantasizing about accomplishments that used to be off-limits.

Again, I say: Good for you! As long as you don’t overreach, I invite you to dream boldly, even brazenly. And since you seem to be in the mood for big thinking, here are other revolutionary activities to consider: dissolving nonessential wishes; transcending shrunken expectations; escaping the boring past; busting irrelevant taboos.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

I did a good job of raising my daughter. She turned out to be a thoughtful, intelligent adult with high integrity and interesting skills. But I’m not sure my parenting would have been as effective if I’d had more kids. I discussed this issue with Nathan, a guy I know. His six offspring are all grown up, too. “How did you do it?” I asked him. “Having just one child was a challenging job for me.” “I’ll tell you my secret,” Nathan told me. “I’m a bad father. I didn’t work very hard on raising my kids. And now they never let me forget it.” In the coming weeks and months, Leo, I recommend that you pursue my approach in your chosen field, not Nathan’s. Aim for high-quality intensity rather than scattershot quantity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

In her poem “Not Anyone Who Says,” Virgo writer Mary Oliver looks down on people who declare, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love.” She disparages the passion of anyone who asserts, “I’m going to choose slowly.” Instead she champions those who are “chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable.” Here’s my response: Her preferred formula sounds glamorous and

dramatic and romantic—especially the powerful and beautiful part. But in practice it rarely works out well— maybe just 10 percent of the time—mostly because of the uncontrollable and unsuitable part. And now is not one of those times for you, Virgo. Be careful and smart in matters of love, and choose slowly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke bemoaned the fact that so many of us “squander our sorrows.” Out of self-pity or lazy self-indulgence, we wallow in memories of experiences that didn’t turn out the way we wished they would have. We paralyze ourselves with repetitions of depleting thoughts. Here’s an alternative to that approach: We could use our sadness and frustrations to transform ourselves.

We could treat them as fuel to motivate our escape from what doesn’t work, to inspire our determination to rise above what demoralizes and demeans us. I mention this, Libra, because now is an excellent time to do exactly that.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

It’s time for the Bliss Blitz—a new holiday just for you Scorpios. To celebrate it properly, get as buoyant as you dare; be greedy for euphoria; launch a sacred quest for pleasure.

Ah, but here’s the big question: Can you handle this much relief and release? Are you strong enough to open yourself to massive outbreaks of educational delight and natural highs?

Some of you may not be prepared. You may prefer to remain ensconced in your protective sheath of cool cynicism. But if you think you can bear the shock of unprecedented exaltation and jubilation, then go ahead and risk it. Experiment with the unruly happiness of the Bliss Blitz.

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In his book “The Horologicon,” Mark Forsyth gathered “obscure but necessary” words that he dug out of old dictionaries. One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you right now. It’s “snudge,” a verb that means to walk around with a pensive look on your face, appearing to be busy or in the midst of productive activity, when in fact you’re just goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1. It’s important for your mental and physical health that you do a lot of nothing; that you bless yourself with a healing supply of refreshing emptiness. 2. It’s important for your mental and physical health that you do this on the sly as much as possible; that you avoid being judged or criticized for it by others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

I wish your breakfast cereal came in boxes decorated with Matisse and Picasso paintings. I wish songbirds would greet you each morning with sweet tunes. I wish you’d see that you have more power than you realize. I wish you knew how uniquely beautiful you are. I wish you’d get intoxicated with the small miracles that are happening all around you. I wish that when you made a bold move to improve your life, everyone greeted it with curiosity and excitement. And I wish you would let your imagination go half-wild with fascinating fantasies during this, the Capricorn wishing season.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet,” says novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Now is an excellent time to contemplate the intricacies and implications of that amazing truth—and start taking better advantage of how much freedom it gives you. Say the following statements out loud and see how they feel: 1. “My identity isn’t as narrowly circumscribed as I think it is.” 2. “I know at least 200 people, so there must be at least 200 facets to my character.” 3. “I am too complicated to be completely comprehended by any one person.” 4. “Consistency is overrated.”

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