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JACKSONIAN Michaela Fisk Delreco Harris

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ackson artist Michaela Fisk, 23, cannot remember a time when she was not creating.

“I was always making stuff; I remember making clothes for my Barbies out of random stuff like book covers,” Fisk says.

While growing up, art constantly surrounded Fisk, a Slidell, La., native.

“My mom (Linda Vicknair) is an art teacher,” Fisk says. “She’s always been supportive of me, and every gift I got as a kid was something creative.”

Fisk came to Jackson in 2012 to study art at Belhaven University. She says that at Belhaven, she was always surrounded by other artists and creative people.

“I never felt so accepted,” she says. “... [T]here are so many artistic people at Belhaven and in Fondren, I felt at home.”

After graduating from Belhaven in December 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in art, Fisk took a few months off from her art. She got a job at Beanfruit Coffee in February 2017, and then at Sneaky Beans in September 2017.

That February, she realized she had to return to art, so she began showcasing her work. In March 2017, she showed had an exhibit at Acorn Studios in Olde Towne Clinton in March 2017. She also had an

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art show at Deep South Pops in September 2017 and at the Mississippi Museum of Art’s “Museum After Hours” event on Oct. 19. In December 2017, she was one of the artists for Priced to Move, Vol. 8, an event where all art is priced at under $100 at Lucky Town Brewing Company in midtown.

“I really just want to get connected to artist and build up a body of work,” Fisk says.

Her favorite art mediums to work in are drawing and sculpture.

“I’ve always liked observant drawings,” she says. “I like sitting places and looking at how things come together.

In her sculpture work, she dips fabric in plaster and hangs them.

“It makes big, drapey, sheet-like things, then I can turn it or cut it or do what ever with it,” she says. She likes dipping the plaster more than the final product, she says.

Fisk says she sometimes thinks about leaving Jackson and going back to Louisiana or to somewhere new, but something always keeps her here.

“Whenever I get frustrated with Jackson or want to leave, I think ‘but there’s all these great people. I can’t leave that,’” Fisk says.

—Seth Reeks

cover photo of Rachel Phuong Le

by Tristan Duplichain

6 ............................ Talks 6 .................... sorensen 10 ........................... op/Ed 14 ............ Cover Story 18 ........... food & Drink 20 ......................... 8 Days 21 ........................ Events 21 ....................... sports 22 ........ music listings 24 ...................... Puzzles 25 ......................... astro 25 ............... Classifieds

6 Wrestling With the Mission

The Officer Identification Task Force is currently debating how the City will deal with releasing names in officerinvolved shootings.

10 Immigration and the Free Press

“Under President Trump, however, none of the 11 million immigrants in this country without full legal status are even temporarily safe from deportation.”

—Joe Atkins, “Immigration and the First Amendment”

18 Happy Mom’s Day

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4 ............ Editor’s Note

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editor’s note

by Micah Smith, Music Editor

Celebrating, Not Submitting to Mississippi Food

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ach year, my wife and I try to go on one big trip, and since we went out of the country in 2017, we decided to take in some of the natural splendor of the U.S. this time around.

I don’t know what first brought Seattle into the mix, but as neither of us had been to the Pacific Northwest, so that’s where we landed.

For just one week, I was a Seattleite, and it was awesome. I lived in a loft in its downtown area, enjoyed its arts scene, walked its streets and nearby forest trails, breathed its fresh air, and ate an obscene amount of its delicious food.

I’ve always been something of a food tourist. I don’t travel to a place solely for food, no, but you better believe I’ll be scoping out the best restaurants once I have a destination picked out.

Whereas Jackson’s restaurants are generally spread far apart like they owe each other money, so many of Seattle’s coolest local eateries are within walking distance.

The problem comes when you get so used to this method of transport that you get over-confident.

Thus was the case with what ended up being a four-mile, uphill trek to a shop called General Porpoise Doughnuts. However, while there, I got much more than just baked goods and coffee. I got a glimpse at what others think of our home state.

At the donut shop, a man and a woman, both in their early 20s or thereabouts, sat down next to us. I sometimes catch myself unintentionally listening to pieces of the conversations taking place around me, and I overheard that the woman was moving to the South.

The man, who said he “used to live in Florida so I know how it is,” began to

issue a series of warnings and non-factual factoids. So I perked up.

“Shrimp and grits is like a delicacy to them,” he told her first. “It’s like a rare treat, like fine dining.” Beyond the general weirdness of that regional stereotype, I found that particularly funny because, on our first day in Seattle, we went to a great local restaurant called Some Random Bar. One of their main specials: shrimp and grits. Pot, meet kettle.

We’re not just cupcakes, sugar water, grits and danger.

Second, the man warned his southbound associate to avoid our sweet tea, which we apparently brew with equal parts sugar and malice. “The tea there can literally kill you,” he said. I’ll have to paraphrase from there, but it was something along the lines of, “It can stop your blood.”

Third, he told her about our plentiful cupcake stores, which apparently make up—oh, I don’t know—all of our economy.

“There are a ton of shops that just sells cupcakes; they’re everywhere, practically one on every corner,” he said.

He kept on in that vein, although I will confess that I did eventually speak up when he told her that the South as a whole

is dangerous, like the place I’ve lived for most of my life is some lawless hellscape.

Thank goodness he made it out alive.

After the woman mentioned that her mom had once driven through Mississippi on her way from Orlando, he replied, “She’s brave.”

As much as I hate to admit it—partially because Seattle is a town known for beer, baked goods and sugary coffee so that’s hypocritical, but mostly because the donut-shop guy annoyed the bejeezus out of me—there was some truth underneath his overall misinformation.

Mississippians aren’t known for our healthy eating habits. Quite the opposite, in fact. And unfortunately, it’s to the point where people all around the country most likely think of that before any other image of our state.

We know that. We just don’t like to acknowledge it, and when we do, we turn it into a quick joke before going about our business, unperturbed. The last time someone mentioned to me that we’re the second most obese state in the U.S., my response was probably, “Hey, go, us. One spot better than last time. Sorry, West Virginia.”

Obviously, it’s not really a competition, but if it was, we would be losing not only against most of the nation but also against our past selves. A 2015 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 35.6 percent of Mississippi’s adults were obese. That number jumped to 37.3 percent in the following year.

I don’t say this to shame anyone who is looking to lose weight. I’ve been working on that over the past year, as well, and along with that journey come good days and bad days.

With how much I ate while vacation-

ing in Seattle—well, that could have been a handful of bad days.

But while we ate often and well, we were always seeking out healthy, locally sourced foods, and Seattle has a lot of choices on that front.

We also had plenty of rigorous exercise. In about a week, we walked just shy of 60 miles. Sure, that’s nothing compared to your average runner, but for someone like me who spends most of his days at a desk, that was an absolute game-changer.

Now that I’m back at home and at work, I do have to settle back into the swing of things, meaning hours staring at my computer with its desktop photo of mountains instead of, you know, actual mountains. However, I’ve also settled on applying some of the things that we experienced in Seattle to our life here in Jackson.

For starters, we have tons of healthy options here, more than I sometimes think about. We have opportunities to enjoy local produce, whether it’s from the Mississippi Farmers Market or one of the great produce-pack programs in the area, such as Foot Print Farms or Up in Farms Food Hub. Many of the best local restaurants are also taking up the farm-to-table torch, so we can find things that are good for us and good for our local economy even when we eat out.

Mississippi has so much great, healthy food already, and I’d love for the rest of the world to realize that we’re not just cupcakes, sugar water, grits and danger.

Why don’t we start celebrating our food instead of submitting to it?

Music Editor Micah Smith is married to a great lady, has dog-children named Kirby and Zelda, and plays in the band Empty Atlas.

Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Amber Helsel

Seth Reeks

Ko Bragg

Arielle Dreher

Bryan Flynn

Rebecca Hester

Kimberly Griffin

Zilpha Young

Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a storyteller who moonlights as an artist. You can often catch her running sound at CityHeart Church. Email story ideas to amber@jackson­ freepress.com. She wrote the cover story.

Seth Reeks was born in Shreveport, La., and is study­ ing journalism at Missis­ sippi College. He can play the guitar with his teeth, and enjoys singing Sinatra kara­ oke. He wrote about Jackso­ nian Michaela Fisk.

City Reporter Ko Bragg is a Philadelphia, Miss., transplant who recently completed her master’s in journalism. She loves traveling and has been to 25 countries to date. She wrote about policing in the city and new water bills. Look out.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is trying to read more than 52 books this year and wants to foster an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her tips at arielle@jacksonfree­press. com. She wrote about One Lake and single moms.

Bryan Flynn is nearly a lifelong Mississippian, who has free­ lanced for the JFP since 2010.

When not watching or writ­ ing about sports, he can be found working on some type of home brew. He wrote the Slate sports schedule.

Events Editor Rebecca Hester loves Alabama football, Bos­ ton Celtics basketball, the out­ doors, music, dogs and vol­ unteering. She organized the event listings, and she’s the new distribution coordinator.

Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin is a Jackson native who loves Jesus, her mama, cook­ ing, traveling, the Callaway Chargers, chocolate, her god­ son, working out, Mississippi University for Women and locally owned restaurants.

Zilpha Young is an ad designer by day, painter, illustrator, seamstress and freelance designer by night. Check out her design portfolio at zilpha­ creates.com. She designed ads for the issue.

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“We need something concrete, we need something everybody understands, but ... in the future, I don’t see it coming up pretty quickly.”

— Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on the possibility of immigration reform happening this year in the Senate.

WEEK IN REVIEW

Thursday, May 3 Entergy Mississippi Inc. announces that it is celebrating its 95th anniversary with $25,000 donation to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History that will make admission free for the first 95 attendees every day in May. ... GOP Mayor Hal Marx of Petal announces that he will run for governor in 2019.

Friday, May 4 U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker says he is among the victims of a Mississippibased Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent timber rights that officials say took in more than $100 million.

Saturday, May 5 Russians angry over the impending inauguration of Vladimir Putin to a new term as president protest in cities across the country, and police arrest nearly 1,600 of the protesters.

Sunday, May 6 Gina Haspel, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, offers to withdraw her nomination over concerns that a debate over a now-defunct program she oversaw of detaining, brutally interrogating and waterboarding terror suspects after 9/11 would tarnish her reputation.

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Monday, May 7 Tougaloo College grants honorary degrees to national NAACP president Derrick Johnson, civil-rights activist Flonzie Goodloe Brown-Wright and astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi.

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Tuesday, May 8 Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton, Democratic candidate for the Senate special election to replace Sen. Thad Cochran, drops out of the race, leaving two Democrats and two Republicans to run for the seat in November.

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Officer ID Task Force Wrestles with Mission

by Ko Bragg

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ixteen of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s 21 appointees to the officer-identification task force gathered at The Cedars in Fondren Monday night to decide if and how the Jackson Police Department will release names of police officers who are involved in shootings, as well as the timeframe in which that would take place.

It was the group’s third meeting, five weeks into the effort to resolve difficult questions around exactly when the public has the right to know the identity and circumstances around an officer-involved shooting in Jackson.

The mayor developed this task force under an executive order at the end of March because JPD has a longstanding practice of not releasing names of officers who shoot people, but nothing formally on the books. With seven reported officerinvolved shootings since Lumumba took office in July 2017, the mayor seeks a solution through community input, even as he leans toward releasing officer identities.

“It is time that we adopt a city policy which reflects the unique responsibilities and the unique concerns of both law enforcement and the concerns of citizens,” Mayor Lumumba said at the first task-force meeting on April 11.

Paul Hobson, a detective and president of the Jackson Police Officers Association, is a member of the mayor’s offier-ID task force.

But before the task force dealt with its mission Monday night, it debated whether they should widen the scope even further.

The discourse revealed the emotional undercurrents of this issue and also the need for structure and clarity as the task force gets further into the process.

Enter a ‘Monkey Wrench’ At Monday’s meeting, the task force hashed out something that has been eating away at their progress for weeks: Should the

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task force also tackle larger criminal-justice issues? Members discussed whether they should ask the mayor to expand the scope of the task force so that the members could also consider procedures such as reworking the City’s nearly 15 year-old use-of-force policy and creating policy around excessive force in a broader sense.

JPD Officer Christian Vance made the point that officer-involved shootings, while the circumstances can vary, tend to be more cut-and-dried compared to excessive-force situations that can range from using a Taser to a baton. Vance said that with excessive force, you have to be there to understand the issues at play.

“I am resigned to the fact that people are not always going to understand what I’m doing and that’s fine and might see it and be upset, and that’s OK if I’m doing my job and doing it correctly,” he said. “…

How I deal with community policing— policing is not what happens at the call; policing is everything in between the call.”

Paul Hobson, a JPD detective and president of the Jackson Police Officers Association, also characterized excessive force as “subjective.” The union leader reminded the group that its singular task is to develop policy around officer-involved shootings, without getting into the weeds and particulars of use-of-force policies.

“With respect to use of force, none of us are qualified to make those determina-

“I can tell you without reservation that I am in favor of legalizing medical marijuana that can be prescribed while under a doctor’s care.”

“The danger is deliberately bringing structures and people into the floodplain when you can’t guarantee that that reservoir and dam won’t be overtaxed by one of those outlier floods.”

— U.S. Senate candidate David Baria in a phone conference town-hall meeting.

— Andrew Whitehurst, program director at the Gulf Restoration Project, on the potential pitfalls of the “One Lake” flood-control/development plan.

tions, so that’s my monkey wrench,” Hobson said.

Keyshia Sanders, director of constituent services for the City of Jackson and a non-voting member of the committee, urged the group to stay focused on the narrow task because she was concerned about losing some of the volunteers who agreed to serve and develop policy around officer-involved shootings only.

Since Rukia Lumumba, the mayor’s sister and a social and economic justice advocate, started attending the task-force meetings, she has served as a de-facto facilitator to help discussions move swiftly and to ensure that those who want to speak get time to do so, and that not all the meetings are in police facilities.

Although the group did not get through all the agenda items Monday, her presence ushered the group toward reaching the consensus that they would stick within the mayor’s original order for the task force before getting to deep into other criminal-justice issues in the City.

The group ultimately voted 11-4 to keep the scope narrow, with Rukia Lumumba, Jed Oppenheim of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Nsombi Lambright of One Voice, Inc. and attorney CJ Lawrence who chairs the task force voting nay, and Hobson abstaining from the vote.

regularly attend the ID task-force meetings, few people have a clear idea of how the Jackson Police Department handles officer-involved shootings.

Both police officers and other community members did agree Monday on the need for transparency when an officer shoots someone, but debated whether that means releasing names but no photographs or keeping the names sealed but informing the community regularly about the status of the investigation.

Many came to the table with firm stances about protecting officers’ names and identities unless a grand jury indicts them. Two officers spoke about the dangers of the job and the perceived heightened risk of retaliation if their identities are out there.

“How do you assess my danger?”

Vance said. “I don’t know how you assess an immediate threat to me. ... [W]hen you do release my picture that threat goes up— it’s not a problem until it’s a problem.”

Michael Starks, a Vietnam War veteran also on the task force, passionately agreed with Vance.

“I’m in favor of not putting that officer out front until all the investigation is done, not only for his safety, his family’s safety,” he said. Starks also advocated for more relationships between the community and JPD.

Many on the task force have expressed concern about releasing a photograph of the officer to the media follow-

‘Policing is not what happens at the call; policing is everything in between the call.’

Transparency, Debated

Outside the roughly half-dozen police officers who

ing an officer-involved shooting. But Lambright said most people in the community already know who the officers are, so the photographs are less of a concern and that people really want to know what happens afterward in terms of discipline.

Lawrence, task-force chairman, agreed with Lambright. “I think that the ambiguity comes in when if I can’t even get your photograph, I can’t even hear about who it was that it committed the action, then there’s no way that I have any understanding of what it is that is truly going on in this particular process…,” Lawrence said Monday.

“I think it’s the ability not to necessarily tell the community every step of he investigation what’s going on, but to keep the community engaged with regard to the fact that something is going on.…”

At Monday’s meeting, the group agreed to bring in guests from JPD’s internal affairs unit, which investigates officer-involved shootings among other accusations against police officers; a representative from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, which investigates officer-involved shootings in the Jackson metropolitan area; and a representative from the Hinds County district attorney’s office, which handles the grand jury proceedings in these cases once an investigation comes to a close and an officer is charged. The task force has not identified the guests, yet.

With their clearer scope in mind, members will reconvene May 21 at a location that has yet to be announced.

More coverage at jfp.ms/policeshootings.

Email story tips to city reporter Ko Bragg at ko@jacksonfreepress.com. Twitter: @keaux_.

‘Stranded’ Siemens Customers Will Pay Two Bills

Bills will be released over the next six months, the largest among them set to go out first, Miller said. Jacksonians who have not received a water bill anytime in the last year or who have elected not to pay will be expected to pay for their current water usage as well as the back payments through a payment plan.

If customers have not received a bill in four months, they will have four months to pay past water bills, for example.

The updated contract requires Siemens and its subcontractors to help get the system going and working accurately in the next few months. Although there are skeptics about the contract, the mayor said that without a “buffet of options,” the quickest remedy was to bring in Siemens because it

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wo weeks ago, the Jackson City Council voted to accept Public Works Director Bob Miller’s proposal to rework the Siemens Inc. contract in order to start getting accurate water bills out to customers and recoup lost revenue. In the last six months, the City has spent $10 million more than it has brought in, depleting savings as it misses out on as much as $3 million a month and nearly half of all water and sewer revenues, Miller said at a press conference on April 30.

“Just as individuals in the community could not deal with half of their paycheck monthly, the City is not in a position where we can continue to deal with half of the enterprise fund coming in,” Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba said at that press conference.

At a press briefing on April 30, 2018, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba and Public Works Director Bob Miller informed the public about updates to the Siemens Inc. contract.

knows the system better than anyone.

Lumumba said the City takes full

responsibility for this “failure,” but he also mentioned that while vacancies in the public-works department play an important factor in the problem, they are not the “sum total” of the problem.

As of April 30, Miller said there were six vacancies in the metering section, seven vacancies in billing and five in the collections department. Miller is confident that Jacksonians will repay the bills en masse.

“What I have found that citizens of Jackson are honorable honest bill-paying customers and that with that we anticipate that our long-term collection rate is going to be at 98 percent or something even higher than that,” he said.

Read more on Jackson’s water-billing debacle at jfp.ms/siemens.

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How the Wage Gap Affects Single Moms

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High Costs of Child Care

Furdge realized quickly that she needed to enroll her boys in child care, especially if she was going to return to work.

She learned of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which requires participants to have a full-time job that qualifies within a certain income range or be looking for a job full-time. She used her TANF funds to cover child care costs at the time.

Eventually, she found work with in the City of Jackson’s print shop in the basement of Eudora Welty Library. The job had stable hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but Furdge did not mind the work as long as she could keep getting the child-care credit. To send both Titan and her younger son, Mega, to the facility she wanted would cost her between $650 to $800 a month, depending on how long the month is.

Furdge and her boys were still living with her parents. She finally was able to fix her grandmother’s car bestowed to her so she could get around. But then, the Mississippi Department of Human Services

removed other safety net measures she had relied on like food stamps and gas cards.

She continued to make it work, knowing she could not afford the cost of child care and was grateful to the TANF program.

Furdge received a job offer about two years

dreds of mothers who can access help from assistance program at their lowest points, but are quickly expected to make up the slack when they make small gains. Even when Furdge got her job at the Children’s Defense Fund, the extra income went toStephen Wilson

manda Furdge knows a thing or two about being a mom who fights for her kids. Furdge raises two boys on her own, as a single mother without child support.

A native Jacksonian, Furdge moved to Chicago in 2007. She worked several salary jobs, including one as a teacher assistant in Chicago Public Schools.

“You really don’t get to see your money like you need to see it because as long as certain things are paid, that’s OK,” Furdge told the Jackson Free Press.

Then she got pregnant. Furdge, determined to raise and nurse her newborn at home, decided to come home to Jackson. She quit her job, moved back in with her mom and dad and began to raise her son.

Her son’s father did not have a valid ID on him when her son, Titan, was born in Chicago, so his father is listed as “unknown” on his birth certificate. Consequently, his father was off the hook for child support, Furdge said. She qualified for food stamps and WIC, a federal assistance program for Women, Infants and Children.

At the time, she was not too concerned with finding a job because Chicago Public Schools was saving her job for her.

She wanted to move back to Chicago when Titan turned 1. She didn’t know at the time that she was pregnant again. At that discovery, she decided she would need to stay in Jackson and began looking for a job.

Amanda Furdge has been through just about every support system possible to keep her boys in quality child care, as well as food on the table.

later from the Children’s Defense Fund and realized that taking the position, with a salary, could mean losing all the child-care assistance.

“… It was really sad to even have to think about that, this structure is only set up to support me when I am suffering—like when I’m just at the worst,” Furdge said.

“If you’re pregnant and you’re struggling, you can get all the resources you need, but when you get ready to come out of those circumstances, oh we can’t help you; you’re on your own.”

In her new role, Furdge was kicked off food stamps and TANF but was able to move out into an apartment with her boys.

Luckily she still qualified for a working child-care credit through the Child Care Payment Program, meaning she has to copay for half of the child care costs for her sons, something she knew she could not afford, for a full day. In order to make ends meet, she sent her boys to Head Start for the first part of the day and to child care for the rest of it. Her current child-care certificate only lasts through September.

A Wage Gap Problem

Furdge’s story reflects stories of hun-

ward paying child care and rent, so it really did not feel like an increase in pay at all over her city job. If she had to pay child care costs without any help from TANF, she would have had $1.70 left to pay for groceries, gas and her phone bill Furdge, who did the math at the time, said.

A new study, “Women’s Access to Quality Jobs in Mississippi” that looks at how many and what kind of jobs are filled by women in Mississippi found that the pay gap, low-quality jobs and inability to move up the pay scale still affects women who are employed. For women of color, those results are even worse.

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the Mississippi Women’s Foundation released the study this spring.

“Despite the fact that most households with children in Mississippi depend on the earnings of women workers—more than one-third of family households are headed by single mothers and more than half of households with children have a breadwinner mother—the earnings of women workers, especially Black and Hispanic women, are even lower than the median for all Mississippi workers,” the study says.

Women make less than men in Mis-

sissippi on average, and the pay gap widens dramatically when white men are compared to black or Hispanic women in the state.

Tracy DeVries, executive director of the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi, said the study shows that eliminating the pay gap can decrease poverty in the state, particularly by giving women access to high-quality jobs that provide the opportunity for growth in salary. In order to access high-quality jobs, policymakers need to remove the barriers to training and education for those jobs, the report found.

“This means educating girls and young women early about both traditional and nontraditional occupations including job training requirements, occupational responsibilities, and earnings,” the report says. It lists several recommendations from passing a state equal pay law to increasing the minimum wage.

The Mississippi Legislature failed to pass an equal-pay bill in the 2018 session, after Rep. Mark Baker, R-Brandon, stripped the original language in the bill and inserted the federal equal-pay law language, weakening its impact on Mississippi employers.

The Senate killed the measure anyway.

“If you could just close that wage gap in Mississippi, to me that’s really powerful,” DeVries told the Jackson Free Press.

Mississippi has a long way to go on that front, however. Women earn 76 cents for every dollar a man in Mississippi earns, which is wider gender wage gap than the national one. But that’s mainly white women. Black women make 56.5 percent, and Hispanic women just 54.2 percent of white men’s wages in Mississippi, the report found.

Furdge, who recently got married, works with mothers in similar situations in her role as the young women’s leadership program director at the CDF southern regional office. She is quick to acknowledge that not all moms are easily able to access the many systems—like food stamps or TANF—like she did.

She has a laptop, for example, which she says many moms do not, making it difficult for them as the MDHS is beginning to convert to an almost entirely online system for requesting and tracking benefits.

Most of Furdge’s stories about receiving help from MDHS begin with an email.

“If moms make up a prominent part of the workforce …, which is basically pretty much all of it, why wouldn’t you support the people who are making up the workforce?” she said.

Email: arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

TALK | one lake

Coalition Forms Against ‘One Lake’ Proposal

by Arielle Dreher

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Alternative Flood Solutions?

Andrew Whitehurst, water program director at the Gulf Restoration Project, says the coalition is beginning to look at alternatives to the lake project, including a greenway that could act as a long floodway park along the riverbanks. The key to this idea, Whitehurst said, is that there would be no development along the river.

“The danger is deliberately bringing structures and people into the floodplain when you can’t guarantee that that reservoir and dam won’t be overtaxed by one of those outlier floods,” Whitehurst said.

He was referring to the historic flood-

ing in the South in recent years in Houston, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La.

He said a widened river might not help combat flooding if the wrong rainstorm hits the upper Pearl. Above the proposed project is about 11 miles of winding river and above that is the Ross Barnett Reservoir, a massive lake not built for flood control. The reservoir regularly releases water to the Pearl below, and the water levels of the reservoir are not meant to fluctuate by design. That means the reservoir typically begins releasing more water in anticipation of a storm or heavy rainfall.

a better idea of what flood control benefits the project will offer. Everyone inside those district lines will see an increase in taxes to fund the project.

“We’re working on the footprints for that—that will be happening in the later part of this year,” Turner said. He noted that the people newly added to the floodcontrol district would pay the taxes because they “are going to be getting the benefit.”

What benefits, exactly, the project provides are hazy as of now, and the report, which should go public this month, will show the specifics of how a lake on the Pearl River will help flood control.

The project will not, however, help flood control in the capital city’s many tributaries, including Town, Lynch, Belhaven and other creeks that run in and through many parts of Jackson. While the project might help backflooding when the Pearl River floods itself, the project is not designed to help localized or flash flooding, often seen during a heavy spring rainstorm, when creeks that run through neighborhoods rise and drainage clogs.

Several wildlife and environmentalist organizations formed a coalition opposing the “One Lake” flood-control and development project just weeks ahead of when the final report is supposed to be published.

Dallas Quinn, a spokesman for the Pearl River Vision Foundation, says the full project report will address 16 alternatives that the planners considered then rejected.

He noted that some alternatives, like “nonstructural solutions,” would mean razing several existing structures in the floodplain and buying out properties, which would cost billions of dollars.

Oilman John McGowan, who has pushed for several rejected versions of lakes and development along the Pearl River in Jackson, started the Pearl River Vision Foundation to support plans for the “One Lake” project. He, his family members and associates in McGowan Working Partners, have long owned property along the proposed lake projects’ footprints.

this project, so there aren’t individual citizens who are finding a windfall of money because their value of property will shoot up immediately, that’s not what’s going to happen.”

‘Indirect’ Benefit = Higher Taxes

What will happen, however, is the levee board will expand the flood-control district’s jurisdiction or footprint to cover more Jacksonians and more people in Rankin County than the district currently covers.

The Mississippi Legislature gave the board the authority to widen its taxing authority to people who will see not only direct but also “indirect” benefits.

Once the more than 3,000-page document is published, the public will have

A group of U.S. Army Corps engineers from districts outside Mississippi are reviewing the project report. Once it is published, the district and its sponsors will host public meetings, likely in June, giving the public a chance to review the document.

After this process is completed, the report will go to the Washington, D.C., Corps of Engineers for final approval.

The “One River, No Lake” coalition plans to host public meetings as well in the coming weeks in downstream areas that the “One Lake” project could affect.

Read more indepth coverage of the “One Lake” proposal, and previous versions, at jfp.ms/pearlriver. Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. Follow her on Twitter at @arielle_amara.

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everal wildlife and environmental groups came together to form a coalition against the proposed “One Lake” flood-control/development project on the Pearl River a few weeks before the report detailing the proposal is published. The group, called “One River, No Lake Coalition” includes Pearl Riverkeeper, Gulf Restoration Network, the Jackson Audubon Society, Mississippi Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club.

On April 24, the coalition hosted a public meeting to raise concerns about the Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood Control District’s plan to deepen and wide the Pearl River between Jackson and Flowood, creating a lake. The stated goal is to prevent outcomes like the historic floods in the 1970s and 1980s in Jackson that destroyed several downtown businesses and left the coliseum in a massive puddle. The meeting drew nearly 100 people.

Members of the “One River, No Lake” group expressed concerns about what the project would do to wildlife in the area as well as the potential impacts to water flow and quality downstream.

A November 2017 survey of two imperiled turtle species that live in the Pearl River, including the Ringed Sawback Turtle, between the Ross Barnett Reservoir and down through the proposed project boundaries shows that the project would affect more than 1,000 turtles—causing a localized extinction for already threatened turtles who rely on a flowing river setting.

Members of the levee board also had interests in potential lakefront property in previous lake concepts.

The project’s sponsors, the levee board and the Pearl River Vision Foundation, say now that economic development is not a component of the board’s mission for the project, although it was a stated goal of previous lake concepts to date. The proposed “One Lake” project would dredge out the bottom of the Pearl River, widening it and creating additional banks (new land) on the Rankin and Hinds County sides.

Actual ownership of the new properties that the project would create is not “final in its legal form, yet,” board attorney Keith Turner told the Jackson Free Press.

“We have to have control of the property to do the project, so some of that economic-development concept talk (the) opposition are worried about—‘this whole thing is putting money in private citizens’ pockets.’ That’s not at all what’s going to happen here,” Turner said.

“Because the district is going to have to be in control of all this property to build

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Immigration and the First Amendment

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XFORD—My late friend Marty Fishgold, a longtime labor writer in New York City, liked to say that good “journalism is a subversive activity” because it tells truth to power. Veteran Boston journalist Tom Oliphant said “Good reporters are anarchists” because they question all ideologies and authority.

Those are good things, and that’s why journalism gets special protection in the First Amendment. It may be the bestknown promise in that document and why the constitutions of nations as far-flung as Poland, Brazil, Egypt and Bangladesh include such language as well. One could argue that many of those countries don’t practice what they preach. Well, guess what? We don’t always, either.

Take the case of Manuel Duran, who currently sits in prison in Jena, La. Duran, who owns the Spanish-language news outlet Memphis Noticias, came to Memphis after working as a reporter in his native El Salvador, a war-and-drugtorn country. He’s now facing deportation back there, perhaps the equivalent of a death sentence.

Let’s consider why he sits in prison in Jena, which Father Michael McAndrew, who works with immigrant communities in Greenwood and north Mississippi, says is one of the “worst detention centers” in the U.S. for its treatment of immigrants.

On April 3 in downtown Memphis,

police arrested Duran and eight others who were protesting immigration policies.

Police said they were blocking a roadway, and Duran refused to move as ordered.

The protest also took place without a permit, police said. Two days later, prosecutors dropped charges against Duran.

He was far from a free man, however.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers immediately arrested him

We don’t always practice what we preach. and sent him to Jena. ICE officials said he missed a scheduled appearance in an immigration court in Atlanta in 2007 and thus had since been living in the States without legal status. His attorneys said he received no notice to appear that day, and they have asked the Atlanta court to reopen the case.

If Barack Obama were still president, Duran might be free since he has no criminal history other than misdemeanor driving offenses. Under President Trump, however, none of the 11 million immigrants in this country without full legal status are even temporarily safe from deportation.

“The actions pursued by government officials in this case threaten core First

Amendment freedoms that are essential to our democracy,” says a federal petition by the Southern Poverty Law Center seeking Duran’s release.

Duran’s greatest “crime” may be that he has been critical of the Memphis Police Department in his reporting. In July 2017, he reported in a Facebook post allegations that immigration enforcement officials and Memphis police had joined in a traffic stop operation, despite claims that they do not work together. Memphis police asked him to take down the post. His coverage also raised questions about police handling of the case of a Latino immigrant whose body was found in a police impound lot 49 days after he was shot in a robbery.

The Duran case evokes memories of what happened in Jackson to Daniela Vargas, a 22-year-old native of Argentina who had been living in the U.S. since the age of 7. Despite earlier protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, her more recent lapsed status resulted in a March 1 arrest and federal deportation proceedings. A SPLC petition helped win her release nine days later, but her fate remains as uncertain as Manuel Duran’s.

Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist and journalism professor at the University of Mississippi.

This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the JFP.

Citizens, Be Informed and Vigilant About ‘One Lake’ Project

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f you haven’t paid attention to the proposed flood-control/development project called “One Lake” along the Pearl River, now is the time to help vet the ambitious plan. Jacksonians and some Rankin County residents who now pay for flood insurance, as well as some who pay nothing, could be included in the footprint of taxable households to fund the Rankin-Hinds Flood Control District’s current lake plan. And if you’re Is ‘One Lake’ included in the new district’s boundthe best aries, you need to ensure you would option for get flood-control benefits.

The Mississippi Legislature gave flood control? the district the ability to tax you even if you get “indirect” flood benefits, something so vague in state law that taxpayers should demand answers for what qualifies. The report may go public this month with public hearings as the project’s backers look for quick consensus.

Once local comment is complete, the project heads to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for approval. Several wildlife groups op10 pose the project for its potential negative impacts on the river itself

and the local wildlife, like the local extinction of certain species of turtles. Opponents advocate for alternative flood-control options, but lake backers have rejected alternatives with little public input.

Taxpayers need to leave no stone unturned: Why is “One Lake” the best flood-control option? How will it work? Who will pay? Who will benefit from property that will increase in value?

Who owns all the property? How will eminent domain work?

Cost-benefit ratios for the previous versions of a lake development along the Pearl were unjustifiable. The “One Lake” proposal will not help localized flooding—such as a drain that overflows during heavy rains or a creek that floods. This project strictly deals with the Pearl River. “One Lake” backers are adamant that it is not about economic development, especially because developing in the floodplain is always a danger, but the same developer of previous versions formed the foundation that is co-sponsoring the study.

Many answers to these questions may be found in the morethan-1,000-page report when it is released. It may be late in the game, but show up to public meetings, call your mayors (Jackson, Flowood, Pearl and Richland), and demand answers before the project is rubberstamped. And read more at jfp.ms/pearlriver.

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achel Phuong Le is perusing the dessert cases at La Brioche Patisserie in Fondren.

“If I get something, will you share it with me?” she asks.

She decides on a fruit tart and the “Anna” entremet, which features Nutella mousse and hazelnut praline crunch. When the desserts hit the table, she immediately takes out her Canon DSLR and begins taking photos.

Food photography was her entry into the food world, she says. Those who frequent the Jackson Foodies and Eat Mississippi Facebook pages may recognize her name from her work, as she is a frequent poster on the former and an administrator for the latter.

The Long Beach, Calif., native moved to Jackson about six years ago. She was only supposed to stay for six months, but when she got here, she says that she fell in love with the hospitality and never left. Now, she is preparing to launch her own restaurant, Poké Stop, in Jackson as part of the incoming Cultivation Food Hall, set to open in the District at Eastover this summer.

Recently, the Jackson Free Press sat down with her to talk about life, eating, cooking and bringing other food cultures to the metro area.

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What brought you to Jackson?

My sister (Tami Le) has a business out here, and she’s kind of by herself, and we don’t really have family out here. So literally, she called me, and she said, “Can you come out with me a few months just to hang out?” … I put in my two weeks (at Ross Dress for Less), and I said, “Get me a ticket.” That week, I flew over here, and after that, I just kind of really fell in love with the town. She was really surprised because when you’re from a city, and you have everything at your fingertips, a lot of times 14 people don’t really want to relocate. I came

Rachel Phuong Le, who is the admin for the Eat Mississippi Facebook group, loves to support local Jackson metro area restaurants such as Fine & Dandy, La Brioche Patisserie, Big Apple Inn, Sugar’s Place and Pho Huong. She will open her own business, Poké Stop, at Cultivation Food Hall this summer.

to find out that I think I’m not (as much of a) city girl as I thought I was.

… I think part of it is being in California ... not everybody really talks to each other much, so you kind of lack that being able to talk to people.

I came home to visit (recently), and I was sitting in my front yard, and a neighbor walked by with her dog, and I was like, “Hi, how are you?” He heard and grabbed his dog and went across the street. People don’t interact with each other. It’s kind of like, “You mind your business; I mind my business,” so I feel like I didn’t get to experience that for like 27 years of my life. Now that I’m here, I’m like a talking, walking machine.

How did you get into food?

… It started off back in, like, 2005 when I got a little camera phone, and I was like, “What should I take pictures of?” and the only thing I enjoyed taking pictures of was food. Back then, it was just so weird because everybody would look at you like, “Why are you taking pictures of French fries?” … (Now) I’m a walking menu, pretty much. It’s funny. I don’t even know where some of these people come from. …

I’m on other food pages, and I will just have random people from Washington (asking for restaurant suggestions).

The other day, I had someone from New York go, “Hey, where should I eat when I’m in New York?” and I’m like, “I’ve

never been to New York, so I don’t know.”

It’s nice to see where everyone is at and where my pictures are going, just to see people getting inspired by what I eat, by wanting to cook it, by wanting to go out. People share with me their recipes, their food pictures, and I just love it. …

I could scroll through my Facebook all day, and I would not get tired of it because I love every single food page that’s out there, so all day long, all I look at is “food, food, food, food.”

How did you get into cooking?

I think it’s because, being in a very traditional Vietnamese family, a lot of times, the mother is like, “That’s my kitchen.

Tell me something memorable about the Jackson food scene.

I will always remember being at Bully’s (Restaurant for the first time). I looked it up for good southern food. I had never really had southern vegetables or anything like that before, and so I looked up this place, and it was in downtown Jackson.

I was talking to someone, and they were like, “You’re going to go to that part of town?” I said, “What is so scary?” … I went, and I sat in the front for a second, and I (said to myself), “It’s OK, Rachel. You’re going to go in there.

Local What’s so scary about foodie this?” I go in, and the Rachel first thing I saw when I Phuong walked in was a woman Le has more than 16,000 standing there, and she food photos was like, “Hi, welcome! in her collection.

Come on in!”

They sat me down, and I sat next to a JPD police officer, and he was eating—it was on a Monday, and he was eating liver and onions, and some veggies.

So I said, “I’m going to order what he’s having.” That was my first time having liver and onions, and southernstyle vegetables, and rutabaga. I had never heard of rutabaga until I moved here.

Oh my gosh. It’s like six years later, that is still my alltime favorite place to go. … It’s not just there because of the food. (It’s) just feeling like I’m at home, even though I’ve never had a southern family, but they make you feel so welcome. … It was so memorable to me because that was when I realized I love southern vegetables, and after that, I started going anywhere for southern food because I wanted to try different southern vegetables.

Why choose to stay in Jackson over cities with bigger food scenes like Atlanta or Memphis or Chicago?

I think because I have a connection to more of the locals and the people here. I just enjoy it more. Every single time I walk into any local restaurant, (I’m) not just there for the food. I’m there to see Mrs. Glenda (Cage Barner at Sugar’s Place). I’m there to see Mr. (Tyrone) Bully. I’m there to Geno (Lee at Big Apple Inn). So it’s like, they’re welcoming, they say, “Hi,” and you’re talking; you’re conversing. So when you’re at these other places, they might have different food that is good, it’s a different scene, but you don’t feel that homely connection. And a lot of people, even though it’s through food, you need that connection. You need that Rac hel P

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personal connection. That’s what really keeps me here, and that’s what I really enjoy: going out and patronizing these places.

Why is it important to bring other food cultures into Jackson?

I think that Jackson has a really good food scene. I think people here really long to try different things. I think they want to, and I want to be the person that introduces them to that. … I’ve really enjoyed the last few times I’ve had (foodie) meet-ups, where I show people, there’s (Carniceria) Valdez. There’s Pho Huong. There are different places you can go and try different things, and now these people love (those) places. They’re willing to try it; it’s just

no one is there to show them, and sometimes it can be a little intimidating.

I know it’s something that Jackson wants. I know it’s something that everybody here wants, to try something different. There are just not enough people to bring it in, and even if some people do bring it in, do they trust those people, really? I want to be that person. I’ve always (supported) other Asian local businesses, too. I’m like, “You’ve got to go over to this Thai place if you want Thai food,” and then, I let them know what starter dish to get because you’ve got to kind of push people into it a little bit. … To me, in the near future—this is just the beginning—I really want to bring other cultures’ food here and introduce Jackson to it.

Give me an example of starter dishes.

At any Thai restaurant, if you were to go, I would really recommend pad Thai. Pad Thai is just a stir-fried rice noodle dish, so you can get any kind of protein you want. You can do chicken, beef, seafood, whatever you prefer, and pad Thai doesn’t have a lot of spice in it either because a lot of Thai food is very spicy, or it’s very tangy.

(Pad Thai) has a very good balance between tangy, sweet and spicy.

For Vietnamese food, absolutely pho. Pho is amazing.

It’s slow-cooked beef bone broth, and usually, we cook it for 12 to 24 hours, so you get all the fat and flavor from the bone marrow, but when people try pho, they’re just like, “Well, there’s a lot of different meats in there.”

For starters, I always tell everybody, “If you’re going to have pho, get the meatball and beef brisket.”

They’re fully cooked, and it’s nothing weird. Just meatballs and brisket, and then after that, you can try other things.

I did a meet-up probably back in (November)—the first meetup to show the pho experience. It was about 25 people that joined, and now it’s like all of those people go on a regular basis, and now they try different things. They try pho with tripe; they try pho with shrimp; just different things. I give you a starter dish, and it’s what you feel comfortable with getting after that.

How did the idea of opening Poké Stop JXN come about?

I’ve had it multiple times in California and different places, and (when I go) I kind of pick and choose what I like. So (I was) like, “We don’t have any of that here.” We need something that can cater to a lot of different kinds of diets because nowadays, everybody, they can’t eat gluten, or they’re gluten-free, or they’re dairy-free, or they’re low-carb, or something like that, and vegetarian. And we don’t have a lot of those options, so I wanted to bring a healthier, lighter fare to Jackson because I feel like we need more FOODIE, see page 16

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That’s my area. You don’t get to enter my area.”

They don’t even want us in there, so I never got to really learn cooking from (my mother). When I was on my own, that was when I said, “I really want to get into cooking, and I want to just learn how to make these things that I’m eating at restaurants.”

… I was pretty young when I started taking pictures of food, so what, I was like, 16, 17, you know? It (wasn’t) like I could afford to go out all the time, so when I was eating, I was trying really hard to remember in my mind, like, “What’s it taste like? What similar spices can I use?

What texture is this that goes into this dish?” And I tried to mimic it as much as I could when I got home. What motivated me was being able to copy that dish and make it look exactly the same, and it became a hobby. It became really fun. Now, I just completely enjoy it because it’s like, “I taste it. That’s what it looks like. Copy it, Rachel.” And I come home, and sometimes, I can make the exact same thing, and it’s so satisfying because it’s like your work of art.

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The Eat Mississippi Facebook group, for which Rachel Phuong Le is an admin, often hosts meet-ups at metro area restaurants such as Simple Burger in Flowood.

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it, and then, I wanted to bring a lot of really good, fresh ingredients, and also be able to cater to people who are dairy-free, glutenfree, (on a) low-carb diet, who are trying to eat healthier, so I’m trying to promote a healthier lifestyle, as well.

It’s like, you can eat (whatever food) you want, just in moderation, but then also, you know, you can come here and eat as much as you want and don’t really feel the guilt too much.

When I’m visiting (California), I eat multiple times a day because I just love going on the food adventures and trying out new stuff and trying different cuisines. Every time I go back, there’s always something new, and poké was just one thing that I was so, so in love with.

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What is poké?

We’re going to be using a lot of fresh sashimi, sushi-grade fish, and it’s (quick-) marinated, or it’s in a sauce. … Basically, you get to customize your own bowl. It’s like doing your own sushi roll, but instead, it’s deconstructed sushi rolls in a bowl. It just makes it easier to eat. That’s how they do it in Hawaii. I’m going to have specialty sauces, so every time you come in, you’re going to have a different kind of bowl, so you’re not going to be having the same thing every time. … Even when I’ve been to a few in the South, the poké places, I just feel like what I have and the sauces that I’ve come up with are really special to what I’m starting up. To be honest, it’s very unique; it’s very different, so I’m very excited about that. I’ve even told my friends in California about it, and they’re like, “That concept is a little different,” you know, and “I wish we had something like that here.” I feel like Jackson is going to get something very special that even big cities aren’t getting.

What makes it unique compared to other poké places?

I have six sauces in the making already that are delicious. We had (them) in the

test kitchen, and it was just phenomenal.

I’m still trying to come up with a few more sauces, specialty, just for that. My sauces, basically, there’s no way you can go home and copy them. To be honest, if it’s something I can go make at home myself, then it’s not that satisfying because I’m like, “Eh, I can make this at home.”

But I know how the consumer feels, so I want to make sure that it’s something where when you eat, you feel special— where I know this is not something I can duplicate at home, and I can only get this here. I want it to be like that because a lot of poké places I’ve tried, it’s like, “OK, I can go home and do the same thing.” I wanted to make it … my own, so I’ve gotten with a chef here (Alivia Townsend), who develops a lot of sauces for the restaurants around here, and she helped with a few of mine.

Why is it important to eat at and support locally owned restaurants?

Because you want to support local people that live here, that invest in the city. Every time I can, I try to eat at locally owned restaurants because, to me, it’s just like I feel at home, and the food to me is better. I feel like they can cater to what you like, versus big chains, it’s hard for them to cater to what you want. I can go into Sugar’s and go, “Hey, I want my waffle crispier today. I want a little bit of cinnamon on it. Let me do this and that.” And they’ll be like, “OK.” They’ll give it to you however you want it.

I like to be able to support locally owned businesses because, to me, it’s just like I’m helping out my brother, I’m helping out my sister. That’s how I see them.

Why would I want to put my money somewhere else when I could just help my brother and sister out?

For more information on Poké Stop JXN, find the restaurant on Facebook and Instagram.

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La Brioche Patisserie (2906 N. State St., 601-988-

Iron Horse Grill will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., to serve a special jazz brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The brunch will feature live music from Thomas “Tiger” Rogers, a waffle and omelet bar, and more.

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On Mother’s Day, La Brioche will have special entrements with vanilla cake, strawberry and blueberry mousses, a white-chocolate glaze and edible flowers.

Seafood R’evolution (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite 9015, 601-853-3474, seafoodrevolution.com)

Seafood R’evolution will serve a Mother’s Day brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and a dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The brunch menu will feature appetizers such as corn and crab soup, seafood gumbo, beer-battered crab beignets, charbroiled oysters and deviled eggs, as well as brunch sandwiches such as steak and egg on French bread, and buttermilk chicken biscuits.

Egg dishes include R’evolution Benedict with poached eggs, sugar-cured ham, a sweet corn biscuit and sriracha hollandaise; the gulf crab omelet with crabmeat, mascarpone, Creole cream cheese and roasted red pepper cream; and Creole crab cakes. Entrees at the brunch will include Gulf shrimp and grits, smoked brisket, sweet potato waffles and more.

Dessert features a New York-style baked cheesecake with marinated strawberries and lemon ice cream, and drinks such as mimosas, bloody Marys, brandy milk punch and other cocktails.

The restaurant recommends reservations. For more information, visit opentable.com

Hilton Jackson

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On Saturday, May 12, High Biscuits will have a Mother’s Day High Tea from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The menu will have tea and items such as cherry scones, raspberry preserves, Waldorf fruit salad, strawberry cake petit fours, mini lemon cream puffs and more. The menu for children has treats such as chocolate-chip scones, strawberry jam, Nutella strawberry sandwiches, mini vanilla cream puffs, tea cakes and more.

On Mother’s Day, May 13, High Biscuits will host a Mother’s Day Tea from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will feature a luncheon plate with roasted leg of lamb or pork loin, a wedge salad with Thousand Island dressing or Champagne vinaigrette, roasted root vegetables, a savory scone, and tea or coffee; a tea plate with treats such as cherry scones, Devon cream, raspberry preserves, chicken-salad canapés, cucumber sandwiches, bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, Waldorf salad, chocolate-covered strawberries, petit fours, and tea or coffee; and a brunch expo, which has full-sized portions of brunch items such as bacon and eggs Benedict, sweet-potato hash, cherry scones, fruit salad, and tea or coffee.

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Amerigo (6592 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland, 601-9770563; 155 Market St., Flowood, 601-992-1550)

On Mother’s Day, Amerigo in Ridgleand will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring a chef special panko-crusted redfish with jumbo lump crab meat and sweet brown butter sauce. Amerigo in Flowood will serve its brunch menu from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The regular menu will also be available at both restaurants. For more 18 information, visit amerigo.net.

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Nandy’s Candy (1220 E. Northside Drive, Suite 380, 601-362-9553, nandyscandy.com)

For Mother’s Day, Nandy’s Candy will have treats such as chocolate- or caramel-dipped Granny Smith apples; handmade assorted chocolates and chocolate-dipped strawberries available in edible chocolate baskets; Mother’s Day cookies, divinity and petit fours; assorted candy baskets; and more.

Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St., 601-359-9000)

For Mother’s Day, Old Capitol Inn will have a lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu includes dishes such as an oven-roasted beef top round; soft-shell crabs and crab fritters; desserts include chocolate cupcakes; and more.

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Hilton Jackson will host a Mother’s Day brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu features deviled eggs, shrimp salad, smoked salmon, broccoli pasta salad, prime rib, baked ham, carved turkey breast, pork tenderloin, redfish, fried chicken and catfish, oysters on the half shell,

buffet will have dishes such as shrimp and grits, baked mahi mahi, oysters on the half shell, chilled gulf shrimp, carved roast turkey with gravy, made-to-order omelet and waffle stations, an ice cream sundae bar and more. The brunch is $32.95 for adults, $16.50 for children age 5 to 12, and free for children under 5. Reservations are required.

King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.)

The King Edward will serve a Mother’s Day brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu will include baked maple French toast, lemon-pepper baked salmon, smoked beef rounds, fried chicken and waffles, cornbread stuffing, a create-your-own pasta salad bar, $7 Bloody Marys, St. Germain mimosas, and white sangria and more.

The brunch is $29 for adults and $19 for children age 12 and under. Reservations are required. To make a reservation call 601-969-8505 Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro

(407 S. Congress St., 769-235-8400)

Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring a buffet with cinnamon buns, biscuits and more. The brunch is $38 for adults and $19 for children ages 12 and under. Estelle will also give out gift cards for Soul Spa Jackson good for $25 off spa services that are between 50 and 80 minutes long. For more information, find Estelle on Facebook.

Hickory Pit (1491 Canton Mart Road, 601-956-7079)

For Mother’s Day, Hickory Pit will have desserts such as Hershey and lemon-ice-box pies, and more. For more information, find the business on Facebook. candied yams, white chocolate bread pudding, Mississippi mud pie, carrot cake and more. The brunch is $29.95 for adults and $15.95 for children age 10 and under. For more information, find the Hilton Jackson on Facebook.

The Strawberry Cafe (107 Depot Drive, Madison, 601-

856-3822, strawberrycafemadison.com)

The Strawberry Cafe will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Mother’s Day, and will serve from its brunch menu and dinner menus. The restaurant’s outdoor seating and bar will be open for walk-ins on a first come, first serve basis, but reservations are recommended.

1908 Provisions (734 Fairview St., 601-948-3429 ext.

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1908 Provisions will host a special brunch buffet from 10:30 am to 2 p.m. with seatings every half hour. The

Babalu Tapas & Tacos

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On Mother’s Day, Babalu will have brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu includes dishes such as avocado toast with roasted Roma tomatoes, shallots and a sunnyside-up egg; chicken and waffles with Chihuahua and scallion waffles, marinated chicken tenders and local honey; and empanadas desayuno, with two chorizo empanadas filled with eggs, Chihuahua cheese and a three-pepper hash and topped with a sriracha lime crema, pico de gallo and avocado; and more.

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FRIDAY 5/11

SATURDAY 5/12

SUNDAY 5/13

The Sneak & Greet SOLEcial is at Offbeat.

Hank Williams Jr. performs at the Brandon Amphitheater.

“Hoot & Holler Family Creation Lab” is at the Mississippi Museum of Art.

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The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs for the annual “Pepsi Pops” concert at Old Trace Park in Ridgeland on Friday, May 11.

History Is Lunch is from noon to 1 p.m. at the Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Music historian and multi-instrumentalist Tim Avalon presents on the topic “The Differences Between Bluegrass and Old-Time Music.” Includes performance pieces to demonstrate. Free admission; email info@mdah.ms.gov; mdah.ms.gov.

Thursday 5/10

Courtesy Cherita Brent

The Ask For More Arts Exhibition and Reception is from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). The event will include artwork from students in the Lanier High school feeder-pattern schools. The theme is “Our Community: A Sense of Place” Free admission; find it on Facebook. ...

Moneybagg Yo performs at 10 p.m. at The Hideaway

Orchestra performs for the annual outdoor concert. A fireworks show follows. Guests can bring a small cooler, picnic basket, chairs and blankets. $15 in advance, $20 at the gate, $5 for ages 4-18; msorchestra.com. ... “One Night Only with Rita Brent” is at 8 p.m. at The State Room (952 N. State St.). The Jackson-native comedian has been featured on programs such as Comedy Central’s “Hart of the City.”

Includes a live podcast with Maranda J. and Rich the Relationship Mentor. $10; eventbrite.com.

Sunday 5/13

Saturday 5/12

The Local Beer & Crawfish Dinner is from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Barrelhouse Southern Gastropub (3009 N. State St.). Participants can enjoy five crawfish dishes paired with a selection of Mississippi beers. $55 per person; call 769-216-3167; find it on Facebook.

The Red Beans & Rice Festival is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

by Rebecca Hester at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., jacksonfreepress.com Ridgeland). The festival includes a red-beans-and-rice cook-off, Fax: 601-510-9019 music and more. $10 in advance, Daily updates at $15 at the gate, $25 family pack; jfpevents.com redbeansandrice.org. ... “Shakespeare in the Park” is from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Belhaven Park (1000 Poplar Blvd.). The event includes performances from the New Stage Theatre Youth Acting Troupe, a family-friendly Renaissance festival and food available for purchase. Additional date: May 13, 6-7:30 p.m. Free admission; greaterbelhaven.com. ... “art ways. vol.1a” is at 7 p.m. at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.). The pop-up gallery features artwork from Samantha Ledbetter, Sue Carrie Drummond and Reva Lashay, and musical performances from Pink Palaces, Joe McCullough and Silent G. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

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Jackson stand-up comedian Cherita Brent performs for “One Night Only with Rita Brent” at The State Room on Friday, May 11.

(5100 Interstate 55 N.). The Memphis, Tenn., hip-hop artist’s latest album is titled “2 Heartless.” Doors open at 8 p.m. $24-$150; find it on Facebook.

Friday 5/11

“Pepsi Pops: Picnic in the Park” is at 7:30 p.m. at Old Trace Park in Ridgeland. The Mississippi Symphony 20

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Wednesday 5/9

“Rise Above: Free Your Mind One Brushstroke At a Time” is from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Jax-Zen Float (155 Wesley Ave.). The book club and painting event includes discussion of a section of the book “Rise Above” and painting; call 601-691-1697; find it on Facebook.

Monday 5/14

Tuesday 5/15

George T. Malvaney signs copies of his book, “Cups Up: How I Organized a Klavern, Plotted a Coup, Survived Prison, Graduated College, Fought Polluters and Started a Business,” at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202.). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25 book; lemuriabooks.com

Wednesday 5/16

The Chef’s Counter Tasting is at 6:30 p.m. at Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro (407 S. Congress St.). Chef Matthew Kajdan presents a five-course meal with wine pairings. Reservations required. Limited to eight people. $80 per person; call 769-235-8400; find it on Facebook.

Events at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.) • History Is Lunch May 9, noon-1 p.m. Music historian and multi-instrumentalist Tim Avalon presents on the topic “The Differences Between Bluegrass and Old-Time Music.”

Includes performance pieces to demonstrate.

Free admission; mdah.ms.gov.

• History Is Lunch May 16, noon-1 p.m., George T. Malvaney discusses his new book, “Cups Up: How I Organized a Klavern, Plotted a Coup, Survived Prison, Graduated College, Fought Polluters and Started a Business.”

Free admission; mdah.ms.gov.

Gallery Talk | “Painting the River: The Mississippi as History and Heritage” May 9, 11:30 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Roger Ward leads the discussion on the Mississippi River and how it is portrayed in art. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

Make Mine Vintage Market May 12, 9 a.m., at Main Street Clinton (281 E. Leake St., Clinton).

The family-friendly craft market includes handmade items, food vendors, demonstrations from local artists and crafters, music, a car show and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Cars and Guitars May 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Lakeland Music (5200 Highway 25, Flowood).

The event includes classic cars and guitars on display. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

KIDS Question It? Discover It!—Child Safety May 11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Participants learn how to create a safe environment to prevent injury at school, work and home with special guests from Safe Kids Mississippi. $10 per person; mschildrensmuseum.org.

Hoot and Holler Family Creation Lab May 13, 2:30-3:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). A museum educator leads families with children ages 6-10 in an art project inspired by a different artist each month. $10 admission; msmuseumart.org.

FOOD & DRINK Local Beer & Crawfish Dinner May 14, 6:309:30 p.m., at Barrelhouse Southern Gastropub (3009 N. State St.). Participants can enjoy five crawfish dishes paired with Mississippi beers. $55 per person; find it on Facebook.

Chef’s Counter Tasting May 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro (407 S. Congress St.). Chef Matthew Kajdan presents a five-course meal with wine pairings. Reservations required. $80 per person; find it on Facebook.

STAGE & SCREEN One Night Only with Rita Brent May 11, 8-11 p.m., at The State Room (952 N. State St.).

The Jackson-native comedian performs. Includes a live podcast with Maranda J. and Rich the Relationship Mentor. $10; eventbrite.com.

“Shakespeare in the Park” May 12, 2-3:30 p.m., May 13, 6-7:30 p.m., at Belhaven Park (1000

Poplar Blvd. ). The event includes performances from New Stage Theatre’s Youth Acting Troupe, a family-friendly Renaissance Festival and food available for purchase. Free admission; call 601352-8850; greaterbelhaven.com.

Flowood Family Festival May 12, 4-10 p.m., at Liberty Park (694 Liberty Road, Flowood). The festival includes games, space jumps, a petting zoo, train rides, kid’s karaoke, fireworks, music from Zach Williams and For King & Country.

Free admission; cityofflowood.com.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS

The Taste JXN May 12, 6:30-10:30 p.m., at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The event includes musical performances from Stephanie Luckett, Lari Johns’n and Trifecta, as well as food, visual art and more. $12 admission; eventbrite.com.

Moneybagg Yo May 10, 10 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.). The hip-hop artist from Memphis, Tenn., performs. Doors open at 8 p.m. $24-$150; find it on Facebook.

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by Bryan Flynn, follow at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports

The University of Mississippi and Mississippi State will have to pull off several upsets if they hope to go far in the SEC Softball Tournament.

MSU is the 11th seed, and UM is the 12th.

THURSDAY, MAY 10

College softball (11 a.m.-8:30 p.m., SECN): Tune in for day two of the SEC Softball Tournament; the Rebels and Bulldogs will have to survive day one to meet one of the top four seeds.

FRIDAY, MAY 11

College softball (2-6:30 p.m., ESPNU): The semifinals of the SEC Softball Tournament feature a doubleheader deciding which teams will battle for the conference title.

SATURDAY, MAY 12

College softball (7-9 p.m., ESPN2): The SEC Softball Tournament championship game sees the winner get an automatic bid into the NCAA Softball Tournament.

SUNDAY, MAY 13

College softball (9-10 p.m., ESPN2): The “NCAA Softball Selection

Sneak & Greet SOLEcial May 11, 5-8 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The celebration of sneaker culture includes music from DJ Breakem Off, DJ Phingaprint and DJ Scrap Dirty and Friends. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

“Pepsi Pops: Picnic in the Park” May 11, 7:30 p.m., at Old Trace Park (Ridgeland). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs, and a fireworks show follows. Guests can bring a small cooler, picnic basket, chairs and blankets. $15 in advance, $20 at the gate; msorchestra.com.

“WC INC” Album Release Party May 11, 8 p.m., at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.).

The album release party includes music from Mr. Fluid, 5th Child, Timaal Bradford, Flywalker and Vitamin Cea. $5; find it on Facebook.

Red Beans & Rice Festival May 12, 11 a.m.3 p.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). The festival includes a red-beans-and-rice cook-off, music and more. $10 in advance, $15 at the gate, $25 family pack; redbeansandrice.org.

Special” will reveal all 64 teams in the national tournament, but will every SEC team get in like last season?

MONDAY, MAY 14

College baseball (5-8 a.m., ESPNU): Set your DVR if you missed game three of MSU’s series against Kentucky.

TUESDAY, MAY 15

NBA (6:30-10 p.m., ESPN): The NBA Draft Lottery begins the night, with game one of the Eastern Conferences finals to follow.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

MLB (6-9 p.m., ESPN): A slow sports night still features a good matchup between the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals.

The SEC baseball regular season wraps up May 19. That leaves little time for the Bulldogs to bolster their postseason hopes, but the Rebels can work toward a national seed.

Hank Williams Jr. May 12, 7 p.m., at the Brandon Amphitheater (8190 Rock Way, Brandon).

The country singer is known for hit songs such as “A Country Boy Can Survive” and “Family Tradition.” $20-$70; call 601-724-2726; brandonamphitheater.com.

“Cabaret at Duling Hall—British Invasion II: Sgt. Pepper’s & Beyond” May 12, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Mississippi Opera presents a concert featuring music from artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and more. $30 admission; msopera.org.

LITERARY SIGNINGS “Cups Up: How I Organized a Klavern, Plotted a Coup, Survived Prison, Graduated College, Fought Polluters, and Started a Business” May 15, 5 p.m., at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). George T. Malvaney signs copies. $25 book; lemuriabooks.com.

CREATIVE CLASSES Mommy and Me Jewelry Making Class May 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Pieces of Grace Inc. (310 Airport Road, Pearl). Shelly Owen leads the class. Participants ages 13 and up learn beadstitching techniques for pendants and more.

Supplies included. $30 per couple, $5 for each additional person; find it on Facebook.

“Rise Above: Free Your Mind One Brushstroke At a Time” May 13, 2-4 p.m., at Jax-Zen Float (155 Wesley Ave.). The book club and painting event includes a discussion of a section of the book “Rise Above” and painting; call 601-6911697; find it on Facebook.

Introduction to Ceramic and Mixed Media Sculpture May 15-17, 6-8 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The class, which instructor McKenzie Drake will lead, is for ages 16 and up. Each week participants will learn about a work of art in the museum’s Bicentennial exhibit, followed with creating their own work of art while learning about the process. $60 registration fee; msmuseumart.org.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS Ask For More Arts Exhibition and Reception May 10, 4 p.m.-6 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall Foundation (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.).

The art showcase features work from students in the Lanier High School feeder pattern schools.

The theme is “Our Community- A Sense of Place.” Free admission; find it on Facebook. art ways. vol.1a May 12, 7 p.m., at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.). The pop-up gallery features artwork from Samantha Ledbetter, Sue Carrie Drummond and Reva Lashay, and music from Pink Palaces, Joe McCullough and Silent G. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

BE THE CHANGE Events at Hinds Behavioral Health Services (3450 Highway 80 W.) • Suicide Prevention Candlelight Vigil May 9, 6 p.m. The event recognizes lives lost to suicide, loss survivors and those who are struggling with mental illness. Includes a candlelight vigil, a balloon release, resource information, food, activities and more. Free; hbhs9.com.

• Opioid Summit May 11, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Participants can learn how to prevent opioid use and learn about resources available for recovery.

Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Target the Arts 2018 May 10, 9:30 a.m., at Turcotte Range (100 Turcotte Lab Dr., Canton).

The clay-shooting event raises money for the Greater Jackson Arts Council. Flights are at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. $500 four-person team registration; greaterjacksonartscouncil.com.

Mississippi River Basin Model Cleanup May 12, 8 a.m.-noon, at Buddy Butts Park (6464 McRaven Road). Includes activities such as removing dirt and debris, and cutting down and removing invasive trees. Free admission; call 601-376-9131; find it on Facebook.

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MAY 9 - WEDNESDAY 1908 - Chris Nash 6:30 p.m.

Alumni House - Larry Brewer 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6:30-9:30 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Ronnie Brown 6-9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Bad Example 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

MAY 10 - THURSDAY 1908 - Bill Ellison 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

The District at Eastover - Brian Ledford 5:30 p.m.

Drago’s - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - Jonathan Womble 9 p.m. free Georgia Blue, Flowood - Brandon Greer Georgia Blue, Madison - Aaron Coker Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio 7-10 p.m.

The Hideaway - Moneybagg Yo 9 p.m. $19.50-$130 Iron Horse Grill - Will Wesley 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Scott Turner Trio 6:30 p.m.

Kemistry - DJ T-Money Majestic Burger - Doug Hurd 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Chris Gill 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Soulshine, Flowood - Jessie Howell 7 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Jeff Reynolds 7-10:30 p.m.

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1908 - Andrew Pates 6:30 p.m.

Bacchus - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Club 43, Canton - Josh Journeay 9 p.m. $10 Doe’s Eat Place, Florence - Joe Carroll 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Drago’s - Travelin’ Jane Duo 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Johnnie B & Ms. Iretta midnight $10 Fenian’s - The Sal-tines 10 p.m. free The Flamingo - Mr. Fluid Album Release Party feat. 5th Child, Timaal Bradford, Flywalker & Vitamin Cea 8 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood - May Day Georgia Blue, Madison - Shaun Patterson Hal & Mal’s - Johnnie B & Ms. Iretta 7 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Evol Love 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Chris Gill & the Sole Shakers 7 p.m.

Kemistry - DJ T-Money Lounge 114 - Stephanie Luckett 9 p.m.

Martin’s - Steve Chester 6-8:30 p.m. free; Cody Rogers w/ Reed Smith & Schaefer Llana 10 p.m.

MS Museum of Art - Eric Stracener 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. free Offbeat - “Sneak & Greet SOLEcial” feat. DJ Breakem Off, DJ Phingaprint, DJ Scrap Dirty & more 5-8 p.m.

Old Trace Park, Ridgeland - MS Orchestra’s “Pepsi Pops” 4:30 p.m. $15 advance $20 gate $5 ages 4-18 Pelican Cove - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 7-11 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Hairicane 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny Duo 5:30 p.m.; Hunter & the Gators 8 p.m. $5; Todd Smith 10 p.m.

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Soulshine, Ridgeland - John Causey 7 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Two Rivers, Canton - Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 8:30 p.m.

Underground 119 - Lady A 8:30 p.m.

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MAY 12 - SATURDAY American Legion Post 112 - The XTremeZ 9 p.m.-midnight Brandon Amphitheater - Hank Williams Jr. w/ The Cadillac Three 7 p.m. $20-$70 Burgers & Blues - Womble Brothers 6 p.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Club 43, Canton - Burnham Road 9 p.m. $10 Doe’s Eat Place, Florence - Big Earl from Pearl 7-9 p.m.

Duling Hall - MS Opera’s “British Invasion II” 7:30 p.m. $30 F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; T-Baby midnight $10 The Flamingo - “art ways. vol.1a” feat. Pink Palaces, Joe McCullough & Silent G 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Chad Wesley Georgia Blue, Madison - Brandon Greer Iron Horse Grill - Lady A & the Baby Blues Funk Band 9 p.m.

ISH - “Sound Off: The Silent Party” feat. DJ Unpredictable, Ron Tha DJ & DJ Phingaprint 10 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 7 p.m.

Kemistry - Kujho & the Nasty Sho Liberty Park, Flowood - Flowood Family Fest feat. For King & Country, Zach Williams & more 4-10 p.m. free Lucky Town - “Sippin’ Saturday” feat. Stonewalls 3 p.m.

Martin’s - Kenny Brown Band 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Fannin Landin’ 2-6 p.m.; Acoustic Crossroads 7-11 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Chase Tyler Band 10 p.m.

Renaissance, Ridgeland - Red Beans & Rice Fest feat. Marcia Ball, Chris Gill & the Sole Shakers & more 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $10 advance $15 gate Shucker’s - Steele Heart 3:30-7:30 p.m.; Hunter & the Gators 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Soulshine, Flowood - Jonathan Alexander 7 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Albert Castiglia 9 p.m.

MAY 13 - SUNDAY 1908 - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Anjou - David Keary 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m.

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

Pelican Cove - Phil & Trace noon4 p.m.; Bonfire Orchestra 5-9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30-7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m.

Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

MAY 14 - MONDAY Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Anna Livi & Robert King 6-10 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

MAY 15 - TUESDAY Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m.

Fenian’s - Open Mic Fitzgerald’s - Larry Brewer 7-11 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Dinner, Drinks & Jazz feat. Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Andrew Pates, Jay Wadswoth & Jenkins 6:30 p.m.

Last Call - DJ Spoon 9 p.m.

Martin’s - Brian Jones 6-8:30 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown 6-10 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

MAY 16 - WEDNESDAY 1908 - Bill Ellison 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m.

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Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition, and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with well-known English words (HINT: since a Q is always followed by a U, try hunting down the Q first). Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you wonít see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE! psychosudoku@gmail.com

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Born under the sign of Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned twentieth-century author and critic who wrote more than 30 books. He also served as editor for Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. When he was growing up, he spent most of his free time reading books: 16 hours a day during summer vacations. His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, bought him a baseball uniform, hoping to encourage him to diversify his interests. His response was to wear the uniform while reading books 16 hours a day. I trust you will be equally dedicated to your own holy cause or noble pursuit in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have cosmic clearance to be singleminded about doing what you love.

It’s possible you could pass for normal in the next three weeks; you might be able to fool a lot of people into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. But it will be far healthier for your relationship with yourself if you don’t do such a thing. It will also be a gift to your less daring associates, who in my opinion would benefit from having to engage with your creative agitation and fertile chaos. So my advice is to reveal yourself as an imperfect work-in-progress who’s experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life. Recognize your rough and raw features as potential building blocks for future achievements.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

“Paradise is scattered over the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.” Luckily for you, Cancerian, quite a few fragments of paradise are gathering in your vicinity. It’ll be like a big happy reunion of tiny miracles all coalescing to create a substantial dose of sublimity. Will you be ready to deal with this much radiance? Will you be receptive to so much relaxing freedom? I hope and pray you won’t make a cowardly retreat into the trendy cynicism that so many people mistake for intelligence. (Because in that case, paradise might remain invisible.) Here’s my judicious advice: Be insistent on pleasure! Be voracious for joy! Be focused on the quest for beautiful truths!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

These days, your friends and allies and loved ones want even more from you than they usually do. They crave more of your attention, more of your approval, more of your feedback. And that’s not all. Your friends and allies and loved ones also hope you will give more love to yourself. They will be excited, and they will feel blessed if you express an even bigger, brighter version of your big, bright soul. They will draw inspiration from your efforts to push harder and stronger to fulfill your purpose here on Planet Earth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

One of the advantages you get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and leanings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn -- also known as Father Time -- is now willing to allot you a more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on trivial pursuits. So I encourage you to be discerning and disciplined about nourishing your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you demonstrate to Saturn how constructively you can use his blessing, he’ll be inclined to provide more dispensations in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” hangs on a wall in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He created it in 1889 while living in a French asylum. Around that same time, 129 years ago, a sheepherder in Wyoming created a sourdough starter that is still fresh today. A cook named Lucille Clarke Dumbrill regularly pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her refrigerator and uses it to make pancakes.

In the coming weeks, Libra, I’d love to see you be equally resourceful in drawing on an old resource. The past will have offerings that could benefit your future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Love everyone twice as much and twice as purely as you ever have before. Your mental health requires it! Your future dreams demand it! And please especially intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes

don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind, as well: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off. As I napped, I had a dream in which an androgynous angel came to me and said, “Please inform your Sagittarius readers that they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.” Taken back, my dreaming self said to the angel, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?” “Yes, sir,” the angel replied. “Bootylicious.

Bumtastic. Rumpalicious.” I was puzzled. “You mean like in a metaphorical way?” I asked. “You mean Sagittarians should somehow cultivate the symbolic equivalent of having beautiful buttocks?” “Yes,” the angel said.

“Sagittarians should be elegantly well-grounded. Flaunt their exquisite foundation. Get to the bottom of things with flair. Be sexy badasses as they focus on the basics.”

“OK!” I said.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Now is a favorable time to discuss in elegant detail the semi-secret things that are rarely or never talked about.

It’s also a perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness into situations that have been suffering from half-truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my dear Capricorn. Take a bold stand on behalf of compassionate candor. And as you go about these holy tasks, be entertaining as well as profound. The cosmos has authorized you to be a winsome agent of change.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

In his 1931 painting “The Persistence of Memory,” Salvador Dali shows three clocks that seem to be partially liquefied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer Meredith Etherington-Smith speculated that he was inspired to create this surrealistic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Aquarius. Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

“My whole life is messed up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the truth. She inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred up more chaos than she was capable of managing. Luckily, you will have fewer problems with the attention coming your way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls. But you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. Here’s some help. Tip #1: Stay in close touch with how you really feel about the people who express their interest in you. Tip #2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached. Tip #3: Just because you’re honored or flattered that someone finds you attractive doesn’t mean you should unquestioningly blend your energies with them.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

The Torah is a primary sacred text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription. The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the coming weeks doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, Aries, but I hope you’ll make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as you can possibly be.

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