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ON THE COVER Velesha Williams, photo by Ashton Pittman

4 Editor’s Note 6 Talks

6 Missississippi v. Roe

The battle for and against abortion rights continues in the state.

10 opinion 12 Cover Story

Jhazmhon West

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hazmhon West, 26, had to “grow up fast,” she says, as her mother, Daffney Horn, worked a lot when West was a child with her aunt, Carolyn Thompson, pitching in to help raise her. This independence taught her a lesson as she watched her mother sacrifice for her children. Watching her mom, West decided that she did not want to work paycheck to paycheck.

While Horn showed West the value of hard work, her father, Tim Lee, showed her a passion for business when she was a teenager by encouraging her to follow her passions.

When West was 16, she told her dad that she wanted to own something. “He took me to (a bulk store) and bought me a black barrel and filled it up with candy,” she says.

“I became the candy lady. … I would sell candy during free period until they started trying to catch my attention in class; then I had to wait until after school to sell it.”

West’s father also helped her plan her future, she says.

After graduating high school in 2011, she attended the Jackson and Raymond campuses of Hinds Community College, from which she graduated in 2013 with an associate’s degree in accounting. That year, she began studying accounting at Jackson State University but left in 2015.

After graduating, West started working in human resources at

the Advance Auto Distribution Center in Gallman, Miss.

When the distribution center closed in 2016, West and her husband, Jason West, lost their jobs. Despite being unemployed and needing to support her children, West never lost hope, remembering her father telling her, “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will get you to build theirs.”

The couple took matters into their own hands, buying cleaning supplies and going door to door to advertise their new cleaning service J & J Professional Maids. She worked hard to ensure that this business would take off, sacrificing a social life, friendships and sleep, she says now.

“I would spend days sitting at my computer reading so that I could learn about accounting … because I could not hire someone to do it for me,” the entrepreneur says.

West started A Beautiful Event in 2018. It’s more than an event-planning business, though; she also designs and coordinates events from start to finish.

She knows her work is not yet complete.

“My business is not just mine,” she says. “... If I didn’t have my community and this city, I wouldn’t have made it.”

For more information, find A Beautiful Event on Facebook or visit jandjprofessionalmaids.com.

—Alex Forbes

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by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

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ere we go again. Mississippi has passed another law banning abortions prior to viability.” That’s how U.S. District Judge Carleton W. Reeves started his latest ruling blocking yet another attempt

by Mississippi leaders, mostly men, to keep women here from exercising our constitutional right to an abortion. These men want to forbid women’s vital personal choices— from saving our own lives, to not having our rapist’s or dad’s child, to deciding that it isn’t the right time for us to have or raise children, economically or otherwise.

Women take these decisions very seriously because they are key to our existence.

Pregnancy is life-changing, and a choice that affects our own lives, those we love around us and the new baby itself, especially if we are not in the position to care for it.

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Mississippi women know what’s up.

Back in 2011, Gov. Phil Bryant led a crusade to not only take away women’s right to a safe abortion, but also to block birthcontrol pills (even for health reasons) as well as access to in vitro fertilization when he chaired the Personhood effort. People here roared back, defeating the initiative handily at the polls and shocking the nation because we could spot political chicanery designed to hurt women and control our health-care choices even here in the heart of Dixie.

Some things are universal, or should be. That includes never forcing a woman to have a child, lose her contraception or forbid a safe way to help her have a baby.

The tell is that these kinds of laws never hold men responsible for their role in pregnancies or not using birth control.

I like to say that if abortion is considered murder, then there is no statute of limitations, and that should mean that every man who ever insisted on or paid for one should be criminally charged for conspiracy at least.

I suspect this addition to the anti-abortion efforts of our well-heeled politicians in state legislatures would convince them to pass on

this effort to control women’s choices and options in a matter of minutes.

Imagine, for instance, the stories the walls of the old Sun & Sand Motel and the Edison Wathall in Jackson would tell.

These guys’ wink-wink excuse is they care about “life.” I’m here to call bullsh*t on that claim. No evidence actually backs it up. Quite the contrary, in fact.

On May 20, Gov. Bryant tweeted: “A man has to stand for something or he will fall for anything. I stand with the unborn.”

That may be one of the more honest things I’ve seen our governor say. He sure doesn’t “stand with” actually alive children who need a chance at life, health- or mental-health services, a viable path out of poverty, a path into widespread early-childhood education or adequately (or better yet, superbly) funded public schools.

And as state reporter Ashton Pittman reported in a stellar piece last week, the governor and his anti-abortion squad aren’t doing mothers any favors, either. Pregnant women in Mississippi already die at higher rates than in most of the U.S., and the state is near the top in infant mortality.

Ashton also reported that the Mississippi Department of Health, or MSDH, released its annual report on maternal mortality in April, showing 22.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 2013 to 2016. Not to mention, Louisiana and Georgia, which passed their own near-total abortion bans recently, boast the highest maternal mortality rates in the country.

Although Bryant likes to hawk the myth to his white political supporters that abortion is “black genocide,” mortality is significantly higher among black women in the state, at 51.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. What about those black lives, Phil?

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Mississippi Male Leaders Again Pretend to Value ‘Life’

Yazoo City resident Mindy Brown protested for abortion rights outside the Mississippi Capitol on May 21 with this prop—an allusion to a pre-Roe era when women used hangers to self-induce abortions, often with deadly results.

But we get crickets from our governor on actual life-or-death issues for Mississippi women and “the born,” as we can call our children. Once they leave the womb, they’re on their own. I can just hear Republicans in the Legislature yelling at poor babies to “get a job!”—that’s no more nonsensical than obsessing over a six-week “heartbeat” bill but not giving a damn what happens to a child they force into the world.

Plus, the (false) assumption that more affluent women in their circles won’t face those problems post-birth couldn’t be more obvious among these arrogant men. They clearly assume that quiet doctor’s-office abortions will always be available to men and women of a certain stature. They also ignore the fact that desperate women— maybe a child who doesn’t want to have her daddy’s baby—will resort to dangerous back-alley-type procedures on themselves,

contributors

Ashton Pittman

Aliyah Veal

Alex Forbes

State reporter Ashton Pittman is from Hattiesburg, Miss. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied journalism and political science. He wrote the cover story and about the abortion-rights battle in Mississippi.

City reporting intern Aliyah Veal, a Jackson native, attended Spelman College and got a master’s in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York. The Tupac fan wrote about a new mural at Watkins Elementary.

Editorial intern Alex Forbes is a Jackson native who attends Rhodes College. While he is passionate about arts and politics, his true love is a good ham and cheese panini. He wrote the Jacksonian.

as has always been the reality when abortions aren’t safe and available to women.

Another tell is that they want contraception and real sex education that would continue lowering abortion rates off the table and out of schools. These dudes, many of whom sowed plenty of wild oats at Ole Miss, State or Southern or Millsaps, now want to proclaim that women, at least, should wait until marriage to have a child, or many kids, and to avoid birth control.

They have no grip on reality. It’s as if we’re cattle they can prod along and control for their own purposes, political and otherwise. Don’t forget, this battle over abortion is a new one since the 1960s; the political right adopted it to lure more votes for handing corporations anything they desire in exchange for their campaign dollars.

Mississippi Democratic men, however, don’t get a pass. They have a long and recent history of kicking women’s rights down the road and using us for their purposes without proper representation in their ranks, at their tables, or listening to our opinions and solutions. It’s a sick gradualism that runs women out of Mississippi—“shhhh on women’s issues; we’ve got to solve racism and public education first,” we’re told.

Time’s up, we must respond now.

Our rights and equality are the sacrificial lambs as these men continue failing at their attempts to regain power from a Republican-controlled state. Guys, alienating the women who defeated Personhood here is not going to serve your goals. Stop selling out women. We see you.

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In this episode of Let’s Talk Jackson, Editor Donna Ladd sits down with Rukia Lumumba for a wide-ranging discussion on criminal justice and solutions to crime and violence.

Perhaps best known locally for her work on her brother’s successful mayoral campaign, Rukia Lumumba is a Howard-educated attorney and executive director of the People’s Advocacy Institute, a non profit dedicated to finding community-driven solutions to crime.

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Southern ‘Defiance’: The Fight for Roe Rages in Mississippi

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he antis are here,” Kim Gibson whispered to Derenda Hancock, who had been watching former state Sen. Gloria Williamson tell a sympathetic crowd gathered outside the Mississippi State Capitol about a pregnancy that nearly took her life in the days before most abortions were legal in Mississippi.

Hancock looked up, sunglasses covering a third of her face and her wavy blonde hair hanging down over a bright pink worker vest with the words “Pink House Defenders” emblazoned across it. Not far in the distance, a middleaged man in a red hat and mint green sleeveless shirt had appeared.

It was Coleman Boyd, an “anti,” which is short for anti-abortion protester. Hancock knows him well from his almost daily protests outside the Jackson abortion clinic where she volunteers, helping patients avoid run-

ins with antis like himself at the state’s only remaining facility.

“Have mercy on the babies,” Boyd shouted over and over again.

Gibson moved quickly toward

him, but not fast enough to outpace a stampede of raging pro-abortion-rights men, all shouting as they advanced in Boyd’s direction. One with a long white beard and matching ponytail reached

Boyd first, and violently pushed him backward; another with scraggly brown hair, wearing an oversized tie-dye Bernie Sanders 2020 shirt, scowled just steps behind, next to a man with a white

10 Things Prettier Than Mississippi’s New Butt-Ugly License Plate 1. Phil Bryant’s face when he signs anti-LGBT and antiwomen legislation.

2. The mugshot that needs to happen if Rep. Doug McLeod indeed punched his wife before sex.

5. Corporate hotels where historic buildings used to sit.

6. North State Street under construction.

7. All the “closing early” signs downtowns on restaurants before a three-day weekend as we stand there starving slap to death.

8. AG Jim Hood scrambling to answer a black woman on why his fraternity’s “blackface” skits were not acceptable.

3. The Mississippi Flag.

(No, we’re kidding; it’s uglier.)

9. The thought of District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith in a gubenatorial debate.

4. The deep, dirt-filled pothole on your street with white paint around it. Actually, all of them. Call it our collective pothole.

10. Mississippians maneuvering a roundabout.

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Derenda Hancock leads a group of “clinic escorts” at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state’s only abortion clinic. The escorts help patients avoid anti-abortion activists as they enter the clinic.

goatee and a black cowboy with a black tshirt to match.

Hancock, thin and agile, swerved through the fracas and leapt between the men, as shouts of “We are shedding innocent blood!” and “Jackass!” sailed back and forth over her head. Men wearing similar “Pink House Defender” vests then appeared on either side of Hancock, locking arms with her to keep the untamed testosterone of their allies apart from the frantic street preacher.

tion a constitutionally protected right.

The May 21 protest outside the Mississippi Capitol, which organizers intentionally staged a distance from the steps of the building to avoid proximity to a statue dedicated to the women of the Confederacy, was among a series of hundreds of nationwide #StopTheBans demonstrations in opposition to a cascade of newly enacted, severe abortion restrictions in state legislatures across the country.

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization Director Shannon Brewer (right, front) leaves federal court in Jackson, joined by attorneys from the Center for Reproductive Rights, after a hearing on Mississippi’s six-week abortion ban.

In some ways, this was just another day in the life of Derenda Hancock, who has been helping women avoid men like Boyd while checking the passion of lesstempered abortion-rights activists ever since she began volunteering in 2013 as the Mississippi Legislature endeavored to get the clinic shut down.

Testing the Limits of Roe’ In many ways, 2019 is a world apart from 2013. Mississippi legislators’ efforts to use a convoluted admitting-privileges law to shut the clinic down faced near-certain defeat in the federal courts, which then brimmed with justices President Barack Obama had recently appointed.

Thanks to Trump’s election, Anthony Kennedy, the former swing justice on the U.S. Supreme Court who stopped the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 1992, is gone. After he stepped down, Trump replaced him with the more conservative Brett Kavanaugh, whom many antiabortion activists are hoping will tip the scales toward an evisceration of the court’s landmark 1973 decision that declared abor-

Fillingane, R-Sumrall, who sponsored one such bill in Mississippi this year, told the Jackson Free Press that those laws are indeed intended to trigger a Roe “test case” before the Supreme Court.

“With a fifth conservative taking the seat of Justice Kennedy, who was considered a moderate on the court, I think a lot of people thought, finally, we have five conservative justices and so now would be a good time to start testing the limits of Roe,” Fillingane said.

Just hours before last week’s protest in Jackson, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves heard arguments against Mississippi’s new fetal heartbeat law, which bans abortion at around six-weeks gestation.

The law allows no exceptions for rape, incest or severe fetal deformities. The Center for Reproductive Rights brought the case on behalf of the clinic where Hancock leads escort volunteers, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, or JWHO. ‘It Sure Smacks of Defiance’ Outside the court, JWHO Director Shannon Brewer told members of the press

that the number of women who have abortions at six weeks or earlier is “so small” she could not even estimate the number.

Most women do not even know they are pregnant at that time, she pointed out.

The lawmakers who passed the bill, and Gov. Phil Bryant, who signed it into law in March, know that, she said.

“They know that by the time a woman realizes she is pregnant, it’s too late for her to have that choice,” Brewer said.

Last year, Judge Reeves struck down another abortion law in the state, which banned the procedure after 15 weeks.

He found it unconstitutional, but the State appealed his ruling to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, where a hearing pends. Why, Reeves asked State attorneys, would lawmakers and state leaders expect a different fate for an even more severe law?

“It sure smacks of defiance of this court,” Reeves said.

At another point, Reeves posed a hypothetical to the State’s attorneys: Would a 10-year-old girl who became pregnant through rape be forced to carry a child to term if she did not seek an abortion before six weeks?

Mississippi Special Assistant Attorney General Paul Barnes said he was not sure, but suggested she likely would have to continue the pregnancy if a heartbeat could be detected. The man who impregnated her, though, could be charged with rape, Barnes noted.

Attorneys from the Center for Reproductive Rights asked Reeves to block the six-week ban, which was set to go into effect on July 1, and also to join that case with the 15-week ban case that now sits before the 5th Circuit.

The judge declined to issue a ruling from the bench on May 21, but days later, on May 24, he issued an order to temporarily block the law from going into effect.

‘A More Stealth Strategy’ After the hearing on May 21, the Jackson Free Press asked Hillary Schneller, one of the center’s attorneys, if she feared one of these cases could become the sort of “test case” Fillingane described—a possible death knell for Roe. “I think the court has stood fast by the right to an abortion for nearly 50 years,” Schneller said. “Over that time, the court has been of different compositions, and while state politicians may be hoping for a different result here, these bans have never stood a chance in court.

There are many ways the court could

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undercut the right to abortion, which I think we’re being distracted from focusing on by the fact that states are passing these bans now.”

Schneller cited restrictions, like the 2012 admitting privileges law the Legislature passed the same year Derenda Hancock’s volunteer efforts began at JWHO. After the courts struck that law down in Mississippi, a similar one in Texas met the same fate. The Center is now fighting a replica law in Louisiana, albeit with a less-friendly Supreme Court than during past battles.

“These are ways that the states are, in a more stealth strategy, undermining abortion without specifically challenging the core holding of Roe,” Schneller said.

Outside the courtroom, a member of the press asked Brewer, JWHO’s director, if she still has confidence in Roe. Brewer briefly paused.

“I’m confident in women,” she said.

“How about that?”

In 2011, Mississippi voters decisively defeated the Personhood initiative, which would have banned abortion, in-vitro fertilization and several forms of birth control in the state.

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A Thing of Beauty in Their Midst

by Aliyah Veal

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etween the age of 6 and 7, Eli Childers lived in an apartment complex in Mobile, Ala., with his father and stepmother. The complex had a lot of trash everywhere.

After moving to Jackson in 1998, he lived off Mason Boulevard in south Jackson.

By then the white and economic flight motivated by the 1970 forced integration

that decorates the back fence of Wilkins’ playground, even amid nearby blight.

“For me this is like homecoming in a way. These issues are really close to home,” Childers said.

The mural is a part of J.A.B.E.Z., a beautification project headed by Martha Alexander, chief executive officer of Leadership Next Generation Plus. The nonprofit Aliyah Veal

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of public schools had left many buildings abandoned or dilapidated and many businesses closed. Childers is aware of the effects growing up in blight can have on a person’s mindset, he says now.

“Living in those areas and growing up in those environments makes you hard to the world. It affected me in a life-experience kind of way and seeing the world for how it truly is,” Childers told the Jackson Free Press.

Using his passion and love for art, the full-time artist has come full circle by designing and painting a mural for Wilkins Elementary School on Castle Hill Drive.

The colorful depiction of black heroes, which he finished on May 14, means the neighborhood now has a speck of beauty

partnered with Keep Jackson Beautiful to help erase blight around the city.

Alexander said the playground was so bad that the principal didn’t allow the students to play on it. “We try to shield them as much from the blight as we can. So ... (the) artwork becomes an intervention strategy,” she said.

Pyramids and Heroes Alexander was looking for an artist when Alicia Crudup, the executive director of Keep Jackson Beautiful, showed her Childers’ portfolio. She describes seeing an image of two hands reaching toward each other, which matched the nonprofit’s logo.

“When (Crudup) pulled (it) up on her computer, it had two hands. It was

‘A Place of Promise’

All the other elements in the mural— from the sunflowers to the hands reaching toward each other—were Childers’ design.

After he primed the wood and sketched the design onto the wood, his friend Azha Sanders helped him paint the school colors, the cat on the pathway and the sunflowers on the left side. He said the design honors the children on the playground.

“The inspiration was supposed to be the left side being the past, the right side the present. In the middle they meet,” he said.

“It (the left side) represents struggle and trying to make things change. The right side

being future and a place of promise.”

Alexander said she wants to achieve hope and promise by putting the mural in the community.

“Blight removal is a mess, and the mindsets of the people is even harder,” she said. “I try to be understanding because sometimes when you live with despair for so long, it is difficult to see hope.”

A 2017 report from Urban Institute said that blight can create a climate of social and psychological disorder

“These factors have been shown to have deleterious effects on area residents, including mental distress; higher rates of chronic illness; sexually transmitted diseases; stunted brain and physical development in children; and mass retreat of area residents into unhealthy heating and exercise habits,” the researchers found.

Lucinda Turner Robinson, 64, has lived in the Castle Hill area for 26 years.

She said the neighborhood was beautiful and thriving when she moved into it. But in 2005, she said everything went downhill for the community when a tornado hit, and some homeowners and renters left and never returned.

The community is now plagued with empty houses, dilapidated apartments that board the elementary school, ditches and a lot of trees, which block her view of the elementary school.

“It was trees (and) bushes. I couldn’t see anything,” she said. It’s too dangerous for these kids to be walking up Shady Lane.

There are no sidewalks. They don’t have anywhere to walk.”

Robinson said the blight has had a significant effect on the self-esteem of the children who attend Wilkins and live in the neighborhood.

“It doesn’t give them confidence on what the future holds for them,” she said.

“It’s a devastating thing to pass by places and walk by places that you’re afraid of.”

She said Leadership Next Generation Plus helped clear the trees blocking the school. Now that she can see the children walking home from school, she feels safer.

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Eli Childers, a local Jackson artist, stands in the middle of the 72-foot mural along the fence of Wilkins Elementary School in south Jackson.

affirmation that that was God telling me that this is who you need. I had goosebumps all over,” Alexander said.

Childers and Alexander met up to sign the contract on April 19, and he had four weeks from then to finish the mural.

The mural is 72 feet in length, the school’s colors—yellow and black—bordering the left and right sides of the mural.

At its center sit six historical black figures: Marcus Garvey, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Barack Obama, Medgar Evers and Mary McLeod Bethune. They are shrouded in white clouds with Egyptian pyramids, an obelisk and a Sphinx sitting under them.

Childers said the historical figures were Alexander’s idea—people she credits with encouraging the African American community to value their self-worth and economic viability.

“When we look at the African American community, particularly the low-income community, we can’t say we can’t transform them,” Alexander said.

“Look at the pyramids. We can transform our communities.”

Childers said many students who came up to the mural were familiar with the figures he painted.

“It was great affirmation knowing they knew those figures,” he said. They could go to that panel of figures and talk about the contributions they gave to humanity.”

Jackson artist Eli Childers painted a mural featuring historical black figures for Watkins Elementary School on Castle Hill Drive in south Jackson.

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With the addition of the mural, she hopes it will get people’s attention.

“It’s beautiful,” Robinson said. “I hope it will remind them that we have children growing up in the community, and we want them to have the best outlook on life, and it starts at the ages they are now.”

The Chatter of Children

Martha Alexander said she sees the art as transformative and therapeutic. She said she has already noticed the mural’s impact on the children and the community as residents have been keeping their lawns cleaner and picking up trash.

“The sounds I hear on the playground now indicate that they enjoy being out there. I never heard the chatter of children the way I hear it now,” she said.

Alexander hopes that next year they can get the students to participate in the transformation process and add their artis-

Called Project Eject in Jackson, the program has coincided with a year-and-a-half of dramatic hikes in homicides in Jackson. Lumumba is on his third police chief of his administration.

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A Long-time Jacksonian, Cop, Chief Probably Mason’s best-known challenger, Vance spent 30 years with the Jackson Police Department after growing up on Wood Street.

“I started school when schools were still segregated, went to Mary C. Jones Elementary School,” he told the Jackson Free Press during a May 2016 one-on-one interview at Millsaps College. “When we went home for Christmas for my sixth-grade year, they started the integration process, and I ended up finishing my sixth grade year at Galloway.” He attended Lanier High School and later Jackson State University.

In JPD, Vance moved up in the ranks from patrolman to assistant chief of police to the police chief before retiring in December 2017, just months into Lumumba’s administration soon after JPD signed on to work with the controversial Project Safe Neighborhoods, a George W. Bush-era strategy to target gun violence that

drew charges then of disparately targeting black men.

Still, Trump’s first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, brought the program back, and Jackson was one of the earlier sites, drawing criticism from many criminal-justice reformers in and outside the capital city, as well as this newspaper. The City of Jackson has continued to participate in the program despite the mayor’s early defensiveness about Vance’s participation. U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst leads the

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba announces his endorsement of former Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance (left) for Hinds County Sheriff at a press conference outside the Hinds County Courthouse on May 24.

program locally, even though neither Vance or Sessions are still in the same positions.

However, the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is concerned about Project Safe Neighborhoods and is attempting to roll back its funding in Congress in lieu of other anti-crime efforts. The Crime Report in New York reported that the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies moved to defund the program for its budget year beginning Oct. 1.

tic view to the wall themselves.

“For the students, I hope they realize that despite the fact that they live in a blighted area or come from blighted areas, they can see a thing of beauty in their midst and learn to appreciate that,” she said.

Childers loved that his artwork could have a positive effect on the community and children, especially since he gives credit to art for helping him through some tough moments in his life.

“From my standpoint, these are just regular people living in these neighborhoods. These are just people who want to do their best and want to live in the best opportunities like everyone,” he said.

“To see people like this that come to their school, it gives them a lot of hope,” Robinson said of Childers. “That we do have a chance in life.”

Email city reporting intern Aliyah Veal at aliyah@jacksonfreepress.com.

Tackling ‘Erosion’ of Trust in Community

Vance would be rejoining local law enforcement in a time when the City of Jackson has also seen a spate of police shootings, drawing calls from this newspaper to identify those officers sooner to help rebuild public trust, especially in black communities where most of the police shootings occur. The endorsement came the Friday before Officer James Hollins, 29, was accusing of raping a 15-year-old in his patrol car, followed by his suicide by Monday.

In 2016, Vance said bad policing causes “an erosion” between the community and the police. “Those things don’t have anything to do with enforcement,” he said of excessive, disrespectful and even violent policing. In those cases, he said, “institutional control is not what it should be, in my opinion.” He added, “When you have that many types of incidents to occur, it should be a no-brainer that you’re not going to be in touch with the community.”

The chief said in 2017 that police must work to repair distrust in black neighborhoods of police of all races. Before the 1980s-era police beating of Rodney King, a black man, was captured on video, intimidation was one of the law enforcement’s go-to tools. As a young man, he knew that policing needed to change.

Vance likes to talk about “community policing,” which he defines as his officers being seen out in Jackson doing more than just issuing tickets and arresting individuals without rudeness or disrespect—even as Jackson has long experienced those problems, including in the last year.

Lee Vance is scheduled as the first candidate on the JFP’s new Let’s Talk Politics podcast. More at LetsTalkJackson.com.

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n a perhaps-surprising move, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba stood with former Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance outside the Hinds County courthouse to call on voters to select the Jackson native for the sheriff’s job.

“I do this out of a lot of thought, understanding that we need someone who not only has the experience and the ability to lead our city, but someone who has a true compassion for our city,” Lumumba told the press on May 24.

Vance is challenging incumbent Victor Mason, who has met a fair amount of controversy during his sole term as sheriff to date, including sexual-harassment lawsuits settled earlier this year. Mason also recently faced prostate cancer, but says that he is now cancer-free.

The former police chief is running against Donald Rhodes, Colendula Green, Richard Spooner, Les Tannehill and Juan Cloy as well as Mason.

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A Changing Culture in Jackson and Mississippi

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What place do each of us have?

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newer tech. Recently, there’s the talk of the global race toward 5G technology that is supposed to be 20 times faster than 4G. This is a good example of exploration. The participation is the one way most people will contribute culturally. I believe it’s the life and blood of culture.

As the song says, “People make the world go round.” We, as the everyday people, are participants in local culture and beyond.

Let’s look at Jackson and Mississippi.

There’s a new culture rising across our city and state. Because of my food and agriculture background, I believe there is no culture

without agriculture. Around the Jackson area, we’ve seen our food culture and palate transforming with new food trucks popping up, a food hall, new bars and lounges, and restaurants bringing something fresh to our plates. In farming, we are seeing a rise in sustainable practices, and small farms growing and in turn

These questions we must answer ourselves and to no one else, but here’s the opportunity to choose your role.

Whatever your passion may be—your skill, your pastime—you contribute to our culture. Where you shop, live, go to church, whether you go to church at all or not. Who you choose to support through

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ulture is the pattern in which we live as small family units, neighborhoods, cities, nations and a world.

It’s like a tidal wave, constantly changing how it moves and comes ashore; it’s adaptive. In this adaptation, there are a few factors, which I learned about in my Sunday school class with Andy Sauerwein, a professor at Belhaven University, and Paul Rankin, an elder of our church, that contribute to the changes: participation, making things and exploration.

There is always an exchange in and out between each factor, one to another.

These dictate how a culture breathes, grows and dies.

I like to think about it in the ways of baking. In kneading dough, as a person adds a new ingredient, that particular one is finding its place and seeking to balance itself with the other ingredients for optimal flavor and texture. Culture is a delicate kneading of making things, exploring and participating.

The three factors may seem selfexplanatory, but let’s look at them briefly.

In the age of technology, people make new products just as fast as we can blink. You have those like Tesla, Gates, Jobs—they’re constantly making new things and/or innovating them. If they’re not making them, they’re exploring new frontiers toward

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The culture in Jackson and Mississippi is changing, and new ideas like the Stennis flag, instead of a flag representing slavery, are starting to take root.

bringing more to our food market. We are seeing our culture transform, and we’re participating in it.

Just this past week, Jackson hosted ArtPlace America’s 2019 annual ArtPlace Summit. The Mississippi Museum of Art and other organizations came together to invite hundreds of artists, creatives, thinkers and doers from across the nation and some islands, too. I had the pleasure to run into some of them.

The feedback I got from them about their experience at the summit and in the city was uplifting. They raved about the amazing things that are happening right now and historically. A few of them questioned me by asking, “Why isn’t Jackson a hub for art?”

I believed and hoped that they all left inspired and hopeful for Jackson and our greater Mississippi culture.

As we are in the midst of cultivation within our local culture, I must pose a few questions: How are we actively and intentionally exploring, participating and making things to contribute to our culture? What place does each of us have? What responsibility do we hold, here and now?

time, money, voting and work.

All of these things in our day-today patterns aren’t just makeshifts but truly hold a place of permanence in the lives of our families, friends and neighbors in the city, and in our unique state. Jackson is changing. Mississippi is changing. New developments like the Fertile Grounds project, new flags like the Stennis flag, and new people like myself are taking root here and cultivating culture for today and tomorrow.

D.J. Baker, a native of Edmond, Okla., is a passionate gardener and farmer working to improve the access and quality of local food. He is the “Chief Gardener” of Esculent, a small consulting business centered around food. He loves good food, community and education.

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Velesha P. Williams • Age: 57 • Married for 35 years to Bennett J. Williams • 2 Adult Children, 1 Grandson • Former Officer in the U.S. Army • Former Director of Metro Jackson Community Prevention Coalition at JSU • Graduated from Callaway High School in Jackson • Master’s in Criminology and Justice Services from JSU

The Unwritten Story

The JFP Interview with Governor Hopeful Velesha P. Williams

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bout four years ago, Velesha P. Williams’ twin brother, Velester, began struggling with a host of symptoms caused by an unknown illness. Suddenly, the man his sister describes as “vibrant” and a lifelong “workaholic” who began working at age 14 was unable to work the way he once did. Luckily, he had insurance through the Affordable Care Act to help some, but the pain his illness caused did not go away, and all of his resources seemed to go to maintaining his house and his health.

Her brother’s story is just one of several Williams shared about Mississippians navigating what she considers a “broken system.” This year, she is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, running in a primary against the likes of Attorney General Jim Hood.

“We have a system that just keeps us down. Those are the stories that are real,” she told the Jackson Free Press across a

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small table at the Mediterranean Fish & Grill restaurant in Ridgeland. A trail of tears glistened just under her eyes as the rays of an early May sun reached into the dimly lit restaurant.

“Those are the stories that are real,” she said. “I know we can do better.

Mississippi has the opportunity to be better. But because people are invested in keeping others down and benefitting from that, I’m going to fight with every ounce I have for Mississippians, because they deserve better.”

For two hours, Williams shared her vision for moving Mississippi forward, and how she, a former U.S. Army officer who also spent years working at Jackson State University, plans to make it happen.

How did you get into politics?

What’s your story?

When I retired in 2016, I thought, “What better way to enjoy the fruits of my labor than by chilling out and just doing whatever I want to do?” So travel was my thing, swimming, just really enjoying

life and visiting with family and playing cards in the middle of the day—just really enjoying the fruits of my labor. And then, quite honestly, the spirit (of God) came to me and said, “No, I’ve got work for you to do, and this is not it.”

Have you done anything in politics before?

The only campaign that I worked on was when Obama was running for president in 2008. So I did some groundwork, got out and knocked on doors, stood on corners and those kinds of things.

What stood out about that experience in 2008?

I remember standing on the corners with a bullhorn urging people to vote for Obama because we needed a change in leadership and someone who would work for everyday people. But then just the opportunity to go door-to-door and asking folks to vote for him, seeing people in their conditions, listening to their stories. And I have, running now,

opportunities as I hear people and sit and talk with them and see the diversity of people’s conditions in Mississippi.

What drew you to Obama’s campaign?

The hope. The vision. The realness.

The idea that what people thought was impossible had in my mind real possibilities. And so that’s what drew me in.

Is that how you see your campaign?

I tell people all the time, God chooses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

And I believe we have an opportunity on behalf of Mississippians to do something really extraordinary.

What do you hear people talk about?

When you look at Mississippi, we are at the bottom or near the bottom on every social indicator. Everybody knows the issues. We’re at the bottom on health care.

We’ve got people suffering. I see people.

I know people personally who don’t have

we want to punish them because they don’t do what the rest of society does. It doesn’t make sense in my mind.

I don’t know anybody who wouldn’t rather have a good-paying job and be able to take care of their own family and not have to follow the rules and the reporting and be under government control. We create a system like that.

But if we can make sure people have a livable wage and give them the resources they need to help them get to a place where they are contributing

How would you bring more goodpaying jobs to Mississippi?

When it comes to jobs and it comes to attracting industries to Mississippi, unfortunately we have a situation where Mississippi gets sold as cheap labor. So we have companies and industries that come in and try to figure out how they can move their product in the cheapest way. And we can’t continue to sell our people out like that. We can demand a living wage because they wouldn’t pull that stunt in other states. courtesy Velesha P. Williams

What are the solutions?

Well, the immediate solution certainly could be Medicaid expansion.

We can’t turn down help that will help Mississippians. We need to look at, how do we ensure that everyone is covered? What resources does the state have to move us into that direction? We can look at best practices of, not only other countries, both other states and other places that have been successful at covering their citizens.

People say, “Where does the money come from? That’s costly.” But I’ll tell you, it is more costly not covering people and having them get their health care through emergency rooms.

Have you talked to others who have stories like your brother’s?

Everywhere I turn, black, white, red, yellow, I see the same thing with people. I just get so broken up about the stories I hear.

I was in McComb at the Golden Corral doing an event there, and a teacher was working as a waitress, but she was a schoolteacher. It was a weekend. … And I asked, “Why are you doing that?” And she said, “I’m doing this because I want to get some school supplies for my students, and I need to try to supplement my income.”

And I’m like, “What?”

I hear people tell stories about losing jobs. When we think about here in Mississippi, you think about the store closures. Toys“R”Us is gone, Payless Shoes is getting ready to go out. We look at businesses, but behind those businesses are lives. And we’re talking about how this is supposed to be a vibrant economy in the sense that there are more jobs than people can fill. Well, the jobs that are available don’t pay a livable wage.

And this is the thing that gets me when they talk about welfare and people on welfare abusing the system. I tell people: “You know what? What would you do to survive? If you didn’t have anything, what would you do to survive?”

Tell me more about that.

We create a system that allows people to stay with a foot on their neck, and then

Velesha P. Williams served as an officer in the U.S. Army.

Life is too short to try to hold people down” and thriving, who wouldn’t want that?

I’ll tell you who wouldn’t want it: Folks who want to control the way people live and think.

And that’s what kind of leadership we have been under. And that’s why Mississippi is at the bottom. People benefit from folks staying poor and unhealthy and we can stop it.

What do you think the minimum wage should be in Mississippi?

It’s about thinking, “What would you want?” Isn’t it OK for folks to want what you want? It’s fundamental. People want to be in a clean, safe environment where their kids can thrive and do well in this society. So what would the minimum wage be? I’m not sure, but I know $7.25 doesn’t hit it, and I know that $10 doesn’t bring us to where we need to be. So we would look at what’s appropriate for Mississippi and what businesses can afford. I’m not concerned about big businesses and corporations because they have the money, but when it comes to small businesses, mom-and-pop shops, we’ve got to make sure it’s appropriate. I think it’s worth bringing people to the table.

What would it mean if you won?

I tell people to visualize with me.

Think about a Velesha P. Williams as

governor. Not only what that says to Mississippians, but that was to the United States, what that says to the world.

Mississippi is changing. Mississippi is now willing to be open to changes, and to work for something better and greater.

That alone would start attracting folks because the deadness and heartlessness of our policies that have driven people and industries away because of how divisive and evil some of those policies are. We can’t continue to operate like that and say we love people. We say we are the hospitality state, but for so many, it’s the hostile state. We can’t continue to operate like that, and we wouldn’t under a Williams administration.

What is your position on the Mississippi state flag?

The state flag has its place. For me, personally, I think that’s in a museum. I think that we can’t continue to do things where we ignore half of the population.

And that’s not a racial thing. It’s a people thing. Half of the population, over half of it, do not believe that the flag is representative of who Mississippians are today and who we want to be representing when people look at the symbol for this state. I’m not opposed to asking the people, “What do you want to do?” Most people are ready for the flag to change. I think the people who want to hold onto it, some genuinely are historians, and that’s part of history.

And for them I say, “You’re right; it is part of history.” And let’s put it in an appropriate historical place. And for some, they do it because they want the world to see that Mississippi is still the Mississippi of old. And for them, I say, “It’s not.

Mississippi is changing.”

What is your position on the sixweek abortion ban Gov. Bryant signed in March?

I told you that I’m a proud officer in the military. I have commanded, when I was in the military, hundreds of soldiers as they were doing their military occupational specialty. I have served as acting inspector general, which monitors various policies to make sure they’re not being violated, and I have served as the principal investigator at JSU for several federal and state grants. I’ve supervised several individuals, and I’ve handled millions of dollars.

And I would say that it is impractical for somebody to tell me that I don’t have the capacity or the ability to then determine what’s best for my body and my family and our situation.

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health insurance who are suffering today and can’t get the treatment that they need because they just don’t have the resources.

And so they suffer a lot of times in silence.

And we know people try to self-medicate if they can’t get the treatment that they need with illicit drugs. So we create unnecessary problems.

The unwritten story is looking into the eyes of Mississippians who are suffering day-after-day because they can’t get what I believe is the right of all citizens, and that is health-care coverage.

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JFP INTERVIEW: Velesha P. Williams from page 13 in their lives, why would we presume that a woman doesn’t have the capacity or the ability to determine what’s right for their body? We control and make decisions about things every day. A woman knows and can decide what’s best, and for anybody to take that away from a woman is wrong.

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What do you think of the $1,500 pay raise the Legislature gave teachers this year, after cutting it down from $4,000?

We continue to play games with people’s lives. And that’s what I’m hoping people will realize when they go to the polls: You’ve been jerked around, lied to and taken advantage of for far too long. When we think about fully funding education, it not only addresses the idea of what’s needed to bring our kids to where they need to be and our schools where they need to be, but we have to take care of our teachers as well.

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Could you work with a potential Republican lieutenant governor and a Republican Legislature to get legislation passed?

I see myself working with anybody, and hopefully working with everybody.

Most of my adult life, I have spent working with people of diverse backgrounds.

We say we are the hospitality state, but for so many, it’s the hostile state.”

I’m an African American woman living in Mississippi, so to have gotten the places I’ve gotten and do the things I’ve done, I’ve had to work with different people.

How would you tackle the inequalities in the criminal-justice system?

We have to work to correct the disparities in sentencing, but also the disparities that exist with parole and probation. When it comes to releasing individuals back into society, if our expeccourtesy Velesha P. Williams

Do you support updating Mississippi’s hate-crimes law to include LGBT and disabled people?

I think that the circumstance of the LGBTQ community, what they’re experiencing, is not too far different from what the African American community has experienced in the past. And what was wrong then is wrong now. Whatever we can do to protect people and their life and their ability to live freely in our community, to be productive citizens, to excel and make us all better, we should do. Whatever we can do to protect citizens from being victims just because of who they are, the color of their skin, or who they love, that’s what we’ll do.

“If you didn’t have anything, what would you do to survive?”

once there’s cause for a next step, we have to make sure we are offering that next step, whether that’s counseling or medication. But we can’t afford not to do it.

People always ask, “How are we going to pay for that?” Well, we’re paying for not doing it now. Not treating mental health is how people get hurt, lose their lives, lose resources and lose families because we haven’t given them the proper care. And that’s where preventive care comes in.

Velesha P. Williams and her husband, Bennett J. Williams, married 35 years ago.

What are your proposals for mental health?

We’ve got to make sure that when we talk about the well-being of Mississippians, that we talk, not only about their physical health, but their mental health. Preventive care is important. We need to be checking in. Just like when you go to a doctor, and they check their weight and temperature, we need to be making sure we’re checking in on people’s mental health.

When I go to the VA, where I get my health care, and they’re asking me questions, always on this list is, “Are you depressed?” And that’s not just because they’re asking Velesha. But there is a mental-health aspect to that general check in, and we have to make sure we’re doing that. And

tation is for them to become productive citizens, then we need to restore their rights. So fundamentally, I think, when people come out of jail, our goal is to make sure they are integrated back into society.

We want them to make sure they are able to have a job, that they have a place to stay.

We can’t restrict the fundamental rights that they have. I tell people, that battle has already been fought. Taxation without representation is not acceptable.

Since we’ve been talking, news has broken on a TV behind us about a school shooting in Denver. What are your ideas on gun violence?

One solution I support is a buyback.

There ought to be a law put in place that certain weapons should not be allowed, so you create a year or two buyback pro-

gram where you can buy these weapons back. But when you have individuals who have those weapons and can outgun law enforcement, then you have a problem.

Do you have any stories from your time in the military that you would like to share?

One of my soldiers went to a military hospital in Germany to have exploratory surgery done. She was a young, vibrant lady who had a daughter and a husband, and she went into the hospital. We went to visit with her and laughed and joked. I came home, got a call, and they told me my soldier was dead.

In the process of exploratory surgery, they were using gas, and they thought she was waking up out of surgery because her vital signs were going crazy, so they gave more gas. What they realized later was that she was having an allergic reaction to the gas. So for all those who were left behind, it was, how do we deal with that? How do we deal with the husband and the young daughter? I thought, if this is her daughter, surely she’s had surgery before.

But it was not until after she died that I realized that was not her biological daughter—she was raising her sister’s daughter. And this was the first time she had gone to a hospital and the first time she had had any kind of medical treatment. And she was dead. And how did I deal with a circumstance like that?

In my military career, I’ve experienced a lot of pain. I had a soldier who ended his life, (and) we found him hanging. I’ve had a lot of tragedy, but I’ve had a lot of joy, being able to lift people to a better place and talk to them. I grew up fast, and I understand that life is too short to try to hold people down. You have a responsibility to do what you can to bring as much joy and as much peace and happiness to folks as possible. And people can’t be peaceful or happy if they are suffering. So I’ve learned in my military life that you have a real duty to try to bring as much to people as you can in the short time that we journey this life.

Mississippians will choose party nominees in each statewide race on Aug. 6. Voters must register 30 days before an election to be eligible to vote and must present an accepted form of photo ID at the polls. For a list of accepted IDs, go to sos.ms.gov.

This interview has been edited for clarity; a longer version is at jfp.ms. Follow reporter Ashton Pittman on Twitter @ashtonpittman.

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we’d do the barbecue, and then we would expand the menu to do food that everybody can come get.

It started out pretty simply, but we like we get bored really easy, so we want to do as many things as we can fit on the menu. That’s kind of how our menu got to be so big. And we just use local products. We already did (at The Flora Butcher), but now we can use (ones like) Salad Days Produce on a grander scale. They do all our lettuce and tomatoes, and then we get greens from Two Dog Farms, which is also in Flora. They share a driveway, and

want to be up front with them. I want them to believe in us because we’re not just trying to pull the wool over your eyes. If you’re going to (support local businesses), you might as well do it.

And I think it is important that you support local. My dad’s farm is where we get our Wagyu, so before we even get started, we’re already supporting, you know, my family farm. We decided to just focus on supporting everybody in the state of Mississippi that we could. We have very few things outside of it, some gourmet things, but other than that (we don’t). I mean everything in the restaurant, for sure, everything is just from a local producer, as much as we can.

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avid Raines’ passion for local is evident as he sits at a booth at Dave’s Triple B, explaining how each element of the restaurant came to be, from the salad produce the restaurant gets from Salad Days Produce, to artist Justin Ransburg helping with the chairs, to sous-chef-turned-artist Graham Caraway’s calligraphy on the chalkboard signs.

Raines started his first business, The Flora Butcher, in 2016. In early 2018, he took over the space that formerly house Chimneyville Smokehouse, and turned it into Dave’s Triple B restaurant, which specializes in barbecue that uses Wagyu beef from his dad’s farm in Louisiana. He recently talked about his journey as a chef, supporting local, barbecue and more.

How did you go build the menu?

We do blue plates at the Flora Butcher.

What have been some of your It’s just two items a day. … We were able to inspirations as a chef? just use those items. We dropped the things

I always liked cooking in general. Like, that weren’t popular. We added things, and when I was younger, and we’d go fishing, I we experimented over the last year or so was the guy who cooked fish. I was the guy to see what people really liked. … We just when we went hunting that spent all this tried to play with it, and see what we could time in the kitchen at the hunting camp, come up with. just trying to make cool food, and I just re (For example) I had a couple of people ally enjoy cooking for people. in here one day. We didn’t have a brisket

My grandmother was a great cook. sandwich on the menu, and they were so My mom was a great cook. Whenever my bent out of shape that I didn’t have a brisket dad had parties or something, it wasn’t like sandwich. So I was like, “I’m going to make a cocktail party. It was always him cooking you one,” so I went back, and I made a for everybody. It was a cultural thing for my brisket sandwich. (I) brought it out, and he family. When we entertained, we cooked in said, “This is, like, the greatest thing in the order to entertain. That was a big part of it. David Raines never thought he would open a barbecue restaurant, but with world.” You should have this on the menu, help from dad’s farm, he created Dave’s Triple B, specializing in Wagyu beef.

I wasn’t really going to be a chef. I and I was like “OK.” always thought I’d be rich something, doing

We have a chalkboard menu. You just something else, and then I could open a restaurant because whenever they have things in season, whether it’s broccoli wipe it off and write something else in, if you have good (I’d have) money. But I never got rich, so I went the other or just herbs and squash and zucchini, we just have some handwriting that is, so we just took something else off and way. At some point in my late 20s, I decided I was going menu items that we can change with the seasons so that just put the brisket sandwich up there, and we sell tons of to go to culinary school … so I did that, and then I just we can still use Two Dog. We get local pigs we use for … them now. Some things just happen to be. loved it. I’ve never loved school, but I loved culinary school. making our hams and doing our pork roast and smoking That was so awesome, and it led me into going to two other pork shoulders and ribs. It was actually not too hard to So what’s your favorite dish on the menu? culinary schools, and studying with chefs all over the world, develop the menu and pull it off just because we have so It’s got to be between the chicken-fried steak and the living in other countries, you know working for free just for much stuff at the butcher shop already. brisket. The brisket is just so good, but I love chicken-fried the opportunity to work in like a Michelin-star restaurant, steak. I loved fried anything. Fried chicken is probably my stuff like that.

Why is it important to highlight local producers? favorite weakness, but chicken-fried steak is so good.

They call them stagiaire (chef apprentices), but What’s the fun in not doing that? It’s already We make the white gravy like a traditional white gravy it’s just an opportunity. They’ll give you like a place to there. They’re wonderful people. Farm-to-table is very you get in Texas, but we also take we have our house-made sleep, and they give you food, and you don’t have any marketable, but most people don’t do it. We take a lot andouille and then pastrami and corned beef, and we grind expenses, but you don’t really get paid. You get paid with the of pride in doing it for real. I mean, we really do it. … I it all up together and then put it in the gravy, and it kind of experience. There’s so much to learn, and you get to live in don’t know any operators that do it quite like we do it. turns it a little pinkish, but it’s got spice, and it’s just got his a cool places sometimes.

We literally get the whole animals to do that, you know really intense flavor. It’s so good. So, you know, I just love it. the beef and the pork and chickens and everything, and We just do it all in-house, and play around with it. I So tell me about Dave’s Triple B. then we get all this local produce from people. … The didn’t think about (adding) andouille at first, but the an I didn’t really plan on doing a barbecue restaurant at molasses that we use (is local). We it put on our bread douille in there adds a little tiny bit of heat that people can all, even though that’s what it’s built for. But ... when we and in our barbecue sauce, and we used local kimchi pick up on and it’s really tasty. started thinking about it, (we decided) we could do some- (from Sweet & Sauer) while they still made it here. thing different. We could do Wagyu from my family’s farm, When they stopped making it, we dropped it off the Dave’s Triple B (970 High St., 601-500-7222) is open and Wagyu barbecue is something you can’t get. ... I get menu because we didn’t have a local source anymore.

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COMMUNITY Open Mic hosted by Reed Smith May 29, June 5, June 12, 9 p.m., at Martin’s Downtown (214 S. State St.). Participants sing, read poetry, tell jokes and more. Free admission.

Read, Engage, and Discover: Ebony Lumumba May 31, 11 a.m.-noon, at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). In the community room. Ebony Lumumba, assistant professor of English at Tougaloo College, presents a reading or “Follow the Drinking Gourd” by Jeanette Winter. Free admission; call 601-576-6800; email info@mdah.ms.gov; mdah.ms.gov.

School Supply Drive June 4, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at JPS Morrison Complex (1224 Eminence Row). For the event, people in the com-

munity can donate school supplies to the JPS school system. The Partners In Education store will distribute the supplies and give them to JPS teachers to use in their classrooms. Donations only.

Open Mic June 4, June 11, 9 p.m., at Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St.). Free admission.

a complete proposal package. $139 members, $209 nonmembers; msnonprofits.org.

The Village Social Trivia Night June 7, 7-9 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 281). The trivia night offers beer for attendees with prizes awarded to first- and second-place winners, as well as to those with

Basic Grant Proposal Strategies June 6, 9 a.m.3:30 p.m., at MS Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy (201 W. Capitol Street, Suite 700).

The workshop teaches attendees the basics of writing grant proposals. Covers topics including how and where to look for potential funders who are good matches for an organization, how to organize a successful grant-writing campaign, how to network and develop partnerships with a variety of funders, and how to put together

Economic Vitality Summit June 12, 8 a.m.5 p.m., June 13, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., at Mississippi College (200 Capitol St., Clinton). The event focuses on capital, incentives and other economic and financial tools to assist new and existing businesses, to catalyze property development and to create a supportive environment

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“Moonlight & Magic” Concert begins 7:30 p.m. at St. Dominic Chapel (969 Lakeland Drive). The recital features soprano vocalist Stacey Trenteseaux from Dresden, Germany, and pianist Zhaolei Xie from Beijing, China. The event is the first in the newly instated annual “Opera in the Chapel” series from the Mississippi Opera Association. Free admission; call 601-960-2300.

MUSIC the best team name, most spirited and best dressed. Must be age 21 and up. Free admission; call 601-982-5861; email lynsie.armstrong@ wsdevelopment.com.

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crowd gathered at the foot of the stage in the Cathead Distillery parking lot, as others sat on lawn chairs and blankets as they watched bands such as Moon Taxi and Hard Working Americans perform at Cathead Jam June 1-2, 2018. This year’s festival is May 31June 1, 2019.

When creating the event, Ardenland owner Arden Barnett wanted to have a festival that would bring musicians and fans together.

“We thought that because of the rich music heritage here in Jackson and throughout Mississippi, we could fill a niche and have a jam where bands Young Valley will perform on the second day of this could sit in with each year’s Cathead Jam, which is May 31 and June 1. other after they performed thereby, creating a community affect of camaraderie among musicians and fans,” he says.

On Friday, May 31, the gates will open at 5 p.m. for the first day’s festivities.

The Revivalists, Anderson East and Aaron Lee Tasjan will perform, and the music starts at 6 p.m. The gates open at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 1. The featured acts for that day include Umphrey’s McGee, Greensky Bluegrass and Young Valley, and the music starts at 2 p.m. The general admission weekend pass is $95. A $250 VIP Hoodoo Crew Weekend Pass will allow access to exclusive VIP lounges complete with complementary drinks and food, an exclusive viewing area and more. General admission single-day passes are $65, and children under 10 years old get in free all weekend. For more information, visit catheadjam.com.

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The Bean Path l Tech Office Hours June 8, 12:30-3:30 p.m., at Medgar Evers Library (4215 Medgar Evers Blvd.). The tech-focused nonprofit provides free technical advice and guidance to individuals, new startups and small businesses in the community at the library. Free admission; email theresa@thebeanpath.org; thebeanpath.org.

NHCI 2019 Job Fair June 11, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at New Horizon Church (1750 Ellis Ave.). In the Horizon Event Center. The job fair provides chances for participants to meet with professionals in various fields and learn more about career opportunities. Free admission; call 601-914-6273; email nhcwfd@nhcms.org.

Meet The Local Democratic Candidates Event June 11, 5:30-8:30 p.m., at Soulshine Pizza (Lakeland Drive) (5352 Highway 25, Flowood). Members of the public can meet local democratic candidates. Free admission.

Simple Steps to Start and Grow Your WellRun Business June 11, 6-7:30 p.m., at Dependable Source Corp. of Mississippi (840 E. River Place, Suite 605). The interactive business education and training program focuses on actions and outcomes, with practical applications. Participants review, discuss and apply key information from the lessons while creating or updating their customized business action plan and model. The class contains six lessons, taking place on the second and fourth Tuesday of May, June and July. The first and last lessons are live, whereas the middle four will happen through conference calls. Prices: $59 early registration, $79 on-site registration, $29 Women for Progress member, $29 SCORE Metro Jackson member, $29 Greater Jackson Partnership member; call 601-359-3420; email scoremstraining@gmail.com; events.r20. constantcontact.com.

for entrepreneurs and innovators that drive local economies. The summit includes panels with guest-speakers, including Donovan D. Rypkema of PlaceEconomics, who serves as the keynote speaker for June 12 at MC. On Thursday, June 13, the event continues at the William Winter Archives & History Building (200 North St.). $100 per person (includes lunch on June 12).

KIDS Kids Club May 30, 11 a.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland).

Northpark combines Kids Club and Gaming in the ‘Park to host a Just Dance 2019 event in the Eatery. Attendees receive a discount on Dippin’ Dots from Twisted Pretzel. Free admission; call 601-863-2300; email sreeks@ northparkmall.com.

Last Chance! Summer Fun Expo June 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Outlets of Mississippi (200 Bass Pro Drive, Pearl). The event gathers representatives from summer camps, VBS programs and other summer activities for kids so that parents can browse and learn more. Includes hourly door prizes. Free admission; parentsandkids.com.

Court Watch for High School Students June 3-8, 8 a.m.-noon, at Thad Cochran Federal Court Building (501 E. Court St.). The seminars expose high school students to careers in law and law enforcement. Students observe court proceedings and talk with attorneys, agents of the F.B.I., Drug Enforcement Agency, Secret Service and more. Sponsored by federal Judge Henry T. Wingate. Call or email for an application. Free admission; call 601-608-4100; email carmen_castilla@mssd.uscoruts.gov.

Events at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive) • Go Outdoors...3rd-4th Camp June 3-6, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. The camp engages children rising grades 3-4 in a variety of outdoor nature activities including hiking, wetland exploration, arts and crafts, and outdoor skills like archery.

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10 minutes after 3 p.m. Campers must bring a (nut free) lunch. Snacks provided in the morning and afternoon. $150 members, $175 nonmembers; ms.gov.

SATURDAY 6/1 See, Test & Treat is from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at University of Mississippi Medical Center (2500 N. State St.). The event offers free cervical and breast cancer screenings to uninsured and underinsured women ages 21 to 64. The screenings last

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animals, as well as compare habitats and learn about the plants and animals living in them.

Early drop-off begins 7:30 a.m. Late pickups penalized with late fees of $10 per 10 minutes after 3 p.m. Campers must bring a (nut free) lunch. Snacks provided in the morning and afternoon. $150 members, $175 nonmembers; ms.gov.

• Go Outdoors ... Preschool Camp June 3-5, 9 a.m.-noon. Each day of the camp allows children ages 3-5 to hike the museum grounds, explore nature, meet live animals and create crafts in a guided setting. Early drop-off begins at 7:30 a.m. Late pickups penalized with a late fee of $10 per 10 minutes after noon.

The museum provides a morning snack, but parents are allowed to send additional snacks (no nut-based products) with their children.

All campers must be fully potty trained. $100 members, $120 nonmembers; ms.gov.

• Fun Friday: RAWWRRR into Science June 7, 10 a.m.-noon. The event features dinosaur-themed activities, including dinosaur identification and matching games, making fossil molds, exercising with dinosaurs and a volcanic eruption demonstration. $6 adult, $4 child, kids ages 3 and below free.

• Go Outdoors ... 5th-6th Camp June 10-12, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. The camp engages children rising grades 5-6 in a variety of outdoor nature activities including hiking, wetland exploration, arts and crafts, and survival basics. Campers practice outdoor skills, learn about Mississippi wildlife, have a daily encounters with animals, compare habitats and more. On Thursday, June 13, campers stay overnight, and parents must pick them up by 9 a.m. Friday morning. Early drop-off begins 7:30 a.m. Late pickups penalized with late fees of $10 per

Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Little Masters: Playing with Sculptures & Shadows June 3-7, 9 a.m.-noon. In the Entergy classroom. The week-long art camp for children ages 5-6 focuses on sculptures and shadows. McKenzie Drake instructs children to make art. Art is displayed on the last day for parents and guardians to see. Materials included. Full-day (9 a.m.-4 p.m.) classes also available. $148.75 MAM members, $175 nonmembers; msmuseumart.org.

• Young Artists: Mixed Media & Movement June 3-7, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Instructor Samantha King teaches children ages 7-10 to tell stories through art using ceramics, paper, paint and performance. Final day of the week-long camp showcases students’ artworks for parents and caregivers. Half-day camp (9 a.m.-noon) available; call for details. Materials included in cost.

Kids asked to bring their own snacks and/or

Magic Mondays at MCM June 3, June 10, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). The museum extends its hours and hosts a Food Lab program at 3:30 p.m. $10 general admission, free for MCM members; call 601-709-5469; email sbranson@mcm.ms.

Ballet Mississippi: Summer Intensive June 3-7, June 10-14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi Arts Center (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The two-week dance program develops the dance skills of students ages 13-18. Curriculum includes ballet technique, pointe, character, classical variations, jazz and Pilates. Another course available for students ages 9-12 at the Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). Previous dance experience required. A non-refundable deposit of $150.00, which goes toward the program’s tuition, is required to reserve a space. $650 for both weeks; balletms.com.

K-8 Intensive Summer Intervention Program June 3-6, June 10-12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., at Jackson Education Support (2637 Ridgewood Road).

The program provides academic tutelage to students grades K-8 in various school subjects to prepare them for the upcoming school year.

MONDAY 6/3 The Bara Project: Formal Drawing Classes is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at World Overcomers Ministries Church (444 Pebble Creek Drive, Madison). Karlos Taylor, assistant professor in the art department at Mississippi College, helps students rising grades 5-8 develop their drawing skills. Each session is for two weeks. The first and third sessions are for the DrawPIXABAY ing 1 class. The second and fourth sessions are for the Drawing 2 class. Additional dates: June 4, June 7, June 10-11, June 14 (session 1). $200 per session; call 601-212-6610; email ktaylormedia@gmail.com.

lunch. Please dress for mess. Need-based scholarships available. $212.50 MMA members, $250 nonmembers; msmuseumart.org.

• Hoot & Holler Family Creation Lab June 9, 2-3:30 p.m. A museum educator leads families with children ages 6-10 in an art project taking inspiration from a different artist each month. $10 per child; call 601-960-1515; email mdrake@msmuseumart.org; msmuseumart.org.

• Young Artists: Painting, Drawing, & Mixed Media June 10-14, 9 a.m.-noon. In the BancorpSouth Classroom. Instructor Roz Roy guides children ages 7-10 in the week-long day-camp. Art projects use drawing, painting and mixed media. Please dress for mess.

Materials covered in cost. Students’ artworks are displayed on the final day for parents and caregivers to see. Full-day (9 a.m.-4 p.m.) option available; call for details. $148.75 MMA members, $175 nonmembers; msmuseumart.org.

• Mini Matisse: Mini-Workshop June 10, 9 a.m.-noon. In the Entergy Classroom.

Instructed by McKenzie Drake. Children ages 3-4 engage in gallery activities, hands-on art projects, art games and books. Art projects use an array of sensory media, as well as air-dry clay, washable paint, paper, pencil, crayons, glue and more. Kids may bring swimwear to play in the museum’s splash pad after class.

Materials covered in cost. $36 members, $40 nonmembers; msmuseumart.org.

TUESDAY 6/4 The Westin Wedding Show is from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.). The event invites attendees to meet wedding vendors, drink champagne and consider Westin Jackson. VIP tickets allow

Students must have finished the previous year with grades of Cs to enroll. Students are taught according to their grade level. $500 per session, both can be taken; call 601-724-2152; email learn@je411.com; je411.com.

Events at Willie Morris Library (4912 Old Canton Road) • Planet Earth’s Amazing Animals June 3, 10-11 a.m. Corey Wright from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science teaches children about some of Earth’s most interesting animals.

Free admission; call 601-987-8181; jhlibrary.com.

• Reading Stars Story-time June 5, June 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m. The space-themed program invites children up to 4 years old to listen to stories, sing songs and play. Free admission; call 601-987-8181; jhlibrary.com.

• Fun Facts with NASA June 6, 10-11 a.m.

A NASA representative teaches attending children about living and working in space during the Apollo space missions. Free admission; call 601-987-8181; jhlibrary.com.

• Marshmallow Constellations June 10, 2-3 p.m. Participants create marshmallow constellation crafts. Free admission; call 601-987-8181; jhlibrary.com.

• Motion and Force June 11, 1-2 p.m.

Cheryl Smith from Magnolia Health speaks with attending teens about social media issues such as identity theft and cyber-bullying and how it impacts global society. Free admission; call 601-987-8181; jhlibrary.com.

Time Travelers Camp June 10-14, 7:30 a.m.5 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). The camp teaches children about toys, tools and art from various periods of time. Registration for the week: $200 MCM member, $225 nonmember, $226.75 MCM member with prepaid lunches, $251.75 nonmember with prepared lunches. $200-$251.75; mschildrensmuseum.org.

Boxers Rebellion Superhero Academy June 10-14, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., at Boxers Rebellion Fighting Arts & Fitness (856 S. State St., Suite E). Boxers Rebellion hosts its inaugural summer camp, “Superhero Academy.” Participants ages 5-12 train in boxing, kickboxing and martial arts.

Parents may pay weekly or for the full six-week session. Committing to all six weeks costs $100 per week (paid as a weekly draft). Paying per week without the draft costs $125. Paying for all six weeks at once costs $500; call 262-994-3174; email cyoungblood.br@gmail.com; boxersrebellion.org.

“I Heart Art” Preschool Art Camp June 10-13, 8:30-10:30 a.m., at First Presbyterian Day School (1390 N. State St.). Shannon Blakely leads children ages 4-5 in creative art projects during the camp. Children should bring a snack and drink. $160; fpds.org.

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Camp College Summer Program June 10-14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Get2College Center (2600 Lakeland Terrace). The summer program gives rising seniors a crash course on what to expect from the college admissions and financial aid process. Students will leave with knowledge of resources that help them learn how to plan and pay for college and prepare for the transition from high school graduation to college. Registration deadline May 17. Students must submit an application, transcript and résumé. They must also meet at least one of these requirements: qualifying for a free or reduced lunch: being the first in your family to pursue college; being a student of color. Free

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2019 Taste the Town June 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Jefferson Street, Clinton. Restaurants from Clinton line the street with booths as they each showcase two dishes for attendees to sample.

Water, tea and lemonade included with ticket.

Craft beer available for purchase. In the event of rain, the event will be held indoors at the Wood Activity and Therapeutic Center. $20 ticket; find it on Facebook.

Birding Camp June 10-14, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Chris King and bird experts from the Jackson Audubon Society instruct participants to identify birds by sight and sound in this introduction to birdwatching. Campers learn about attracting birds to their own yards using bird feeders, bird houses and native plants. They will also learn about bird migration and bird conservation through games and activities. Each camper receive both a field guide and a set of binoculars. Scholarships will be available through the Jackson Audubon Society. For children ages 10-14. Kids asked to bring their own lunches and water bottles each day. $110 for the full week; millsaps.edu.

WEDNESDAY 6/5 Snake Day is from 10 a.m. to noon at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Participants learn more about live snakes from experts, such as how to identify venomous and non-venomous species. There

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4th Annual BBQ & Cook-Off June 1, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Smith Park (250 N. West St.).

The Jackson Firefighters Union 87 hosts the annual barbecue and cook-off event. Attendees can participate in the contest or otherwise eat barbecue food. Admission TBA; call 601-3166952; find it on Facebook.

“The Office” Parody Dinner Theater at Georgia Blue June 4, 7-9 p.m., at Georgia Blue (223 Ridge Way, Flowood). The troupe performs a murder-mystery parody of “The Office” while participants dine. For people ages 14 and up. Reservations required. $54 (includes tax and gratuity); email fringedinnertheatre@gmail.com; Eventbrite.

Fondren After 5 June 6, 5-8 p.m., in Fondren.

The neighborhood block party will have opportunities for people to enjoy food from one of nearly two dozen of Jackson’s restaurants, bakeries, bars and coffee shops. Vendors sell various goods. Free admission; finditinfondren.com.

Hideaway Crawfish Boil June 8, 4 p.m., at The Hideaway Club (200 Oklahoma St.).

The Hideaway hosts its annual crawfish boil.

Crawfish served until none remains. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

“The Office” Parody Dinner Theater at Genna Benna’s June 12, 7-9 p.m., at Genna Benna’s (200 E. Towne Drive, Brandon).

The troupe performs a murder-mystery parody of “The Office” while participants dine. For people ages 14 and up. Reservations required. $54 (includes tax and gratuity); email fringedinnertheatre@gmail.com; Eventbrite.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Events at Boxers Rebellion Fighting Arts & Fitness (856 S. State St. Suite E) • Boxing & Kickboxing May 29-30, June 3-6, June 10-12, 5-7 p.m. Instructors teach participants boxing and kickboxing skills. $15 single day, $100 session; more options shown on website; call 262-994-3174; email jeremy@boxersrebellion.com; boxersrebellion.org.

• 2019 Jackson Kickboxing Championships June 8, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. The competition features martial artists using both traditional and contemporary styles. $5 admission, $25 registration; call 262-994-3174; email jeremy@boxersrebellion.com; boxersrebellion.org.

Choreorobics Dance Off @ Steps the Studio May 29, June 2, June 5, June 9, June 12, 6:15 p.m., at Steps the Studio (6800 Old Canton Road, Suite 113). Dance professional duo Roger and Tena Long instruct participants in the hip-hop dance class that aims to provide a way for people to both enjoy dancing while exercising. Individual rates are $10 per class for drop-ins and $50 for unlimited classes for the month (total of eight). The family rate is $70 per month for two adults and any children ages 21 and under within the same home; choreorobics.com.

Capital City Roller Girls, Game 2 June 1, 4:30-9 p.m., at Mississippi Trademart (1200 Mississippi St.). Attendees watch the Steal Magnolias compete against Northsore in the roller derby event (5 p.m.). Afterward, the 8 Wheeled Mafia and Rocktown teams compete (7 p.m.). 10% of proceeds benefit Keep the Reservoir Beautiful. Concessions, bar and vendors available. An afterparty is held at Ole Tavern on George Street. $12 advanced, $15 atdoor, children 10 and under free; email capitalcityrollergirlsms@gmail.com; brownpapertickets.com.

The Salt Cave Breath Class June 3, 7-8 p.m., at Soul Synergy Center (5490 Castlewoods Court D, Flowood). The class focuses on the healing benefits of mindful breathing and salt therapy as the instructor guides participants through breath work, body awareness, visualization and music. Must bring and wear white socks to class.

Attendees are recommended to arrive 15 minutes early as the class begins sharply at 7 p.m.

Limited space. Admission TBA. Yoga for Everyone June 4, June 11, 6:15-7:30 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Sally Holly is the instructor.

Participants learn yoga techniques and postures to strengthen muscles and increase flexibility.

Must bring sticky mat and a firm blanket. Class meets Tuesdays from April 16-July 2. $150; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu.

Creative Healing Studio June 5, 12:30-2 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.).

Art therapist Susan Anand leads the bimonthly art activity for adults being treated for cancer or those who have previously been diagnosed with cancer. All skill levels welcome. Registration required. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; email smainlay@aol.com; msmuseumart.org.

Events at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.) • Bend & Brew | Pure Barre Style June 7, 5-6 p.m. Heidi Hogfrefe and her team lead the hour-long fitness session in The Courtyard. All fitness levels welcome.

Those who stay until the end can attend the post-workout Happy Hour drink. Those who wish to use mats should bring their own. Free admission; call 601-982-5861; email lynsie. armstrong@wsdevelopment.com.

• Bend & Brew | High Intensity Fitness June 12, 6-7 p.m. Sean Cupit from Crossfit 601 instructs attendees in a high-intensity workout.

All fitness levels welcome. Participants given a cold craft beer afterward. The event occurs every second Wednesday of the month. Free admission; call 601-982-5861; email lynsie. armstrong@wsdevelopment.com.

STAGE & SCREEN “Bright Star” May 29-31, June 1, 7:30 p.m., June 2, 2 p.m., June 4-8, 7:30 p.m., June 9, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.).

The musical relays the story of a woman who reflects on how she was forced to give her baby up for adoption. $35; newstagetheatre.com.

Movies In The Park June 8, 7:30 p.m., at The Township at Colony Park (1107 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). The event features a screening of “How to Train Your Dragon 3.” Gates open at 7:30 p.m. with food, drinks, popcorn and Italian ice available for purchase. Bring your lawn chair or blanket.

Pets welcome. Free admission, food & drink prices vary; find it on Facebook.

“Finding Neverland” June 11, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E Pascagoula St.). The theatrical performance relays an account the life of J.M. Barrie, the author of “Peter Pan.” $25-$85; thaliamarahall.net.

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Three teams from our state made the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Mississippi State and UM earned national seeds.

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NBA (8-11 p.m., ABC): 2019 NBA Finals game one FRIDAY, MAY 31

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/SECN): NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament regionals SATURDAY, JUNE 1

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/SECN): NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament regionals SUNDAY, JUNE 2

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/SECN): NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament regionals MONDAY, JUNE 3

NHL (7-10 p.m., NBC): Stanley Cup Finals game four TUESDAY, JUNE 4

College softball (7:30-10 p.m., ESPN): NCAA Women’s College World Series Finals game two WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5

NBA (8-11 p.m., ABC): 2019 NBA Finals game three THURSDAY, JUNE 6

NHL (7-10 p.m., NBC): Stanley Cup Finals game five FRIDAY, JUNE 7

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPNU): NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament Super Regionals SATURDAY, JUNE 8

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPNU): NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament Super Regionals SUNDAY, JUNE 9

College baseball (11 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPNU): NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament Super Regionals MONDAY, JUNE 10

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Live@Lunch! | Drew McKercher May 31, 11:30 a.m. Jackson-based musician Drew McKercher performs a set of acoustic indie rock at the lunch event. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

• Music in the City | Ken Graves June 4, 5:15 p.m. Accomplished clarinet player and professor

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(Millsaps and Mississippi College) Ken Graves and pianist Lynn Raley perform at the museum’s event. Cash bar opens 5:15 p.m. Performance begins 5:45 p.m. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

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Cathead Jam 2019 May 31, June 1, 5-11 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The annual concert features music from The Revivalists, Umphrey’s McGee, Greensky Bluegrass, Anderson East, The Wailers, Rayland Baxter, Aaron Lee Tasjan and Young Valley. $65-$400; catheadjam.com.

CS’s Friday Night Live May 31, June 7, 8 p.m., at CS’s (1359 N. West St.). The weekly event features live music from DBL Tour and other music artists. Doors open 7 p.m. $5 cover charge.

Backyard Mud Fest May 31, June 1-2, at Mississippi Off Road (118 Elton Road). The weekend-long event features camping, mudding and trail riding. Includes vendors and live music

fourth As Cities Burn album, “Scream Through the Walls,” out June 7 on Equal Vision Records.

Although Bonnette points out he can only speak for the first record, he says working on the new release was much more hands-on, partially due to everyone being

the lyrics, and all the band members would just play their part.”

The musicians took a different approach for “Scream Through the Walls.”

They huddled together in a Nashville practice space, with Cody often bringing only a riff or chorus as a jumping-off Alex Bemis

o longtime fans, a phoenix may seem like an apt metaphor for Louisiana-native post-hardcore act As Cities Burn, which has returned with a new album after 10 years. However, to vocalist T.J. Bonnette, the band’s revival isn’t as dramatic as it sounds.

He was a founding member of the group and performed on its debut album, 2005’s “Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest.” That was his only record with the band at the time, as he left in 2006 to support his family and moved to Hattiesburg. Meanwhile, As Cities Burn continued on, releasing two top-200 albums on Solid State Records: 2007’s “Come Now Sleep” and 2009’s “Hell or High Water.”

After that, Bonnette says the musicians played the occasional tour and reunion-type show, including a few with him on vocals, but largely, they spent the years focused on other projects and their home lives.

“Then, about two years ago in 2017, I ended up moving to Nashville where Cody—my younger brother, who’s the main songwriter—and Aaron (Lunsford), our drummer, live,” he says.

“Really (I had) no intention to make music. I just made the move for my career and personal things. But we would always hang out, and the idea came up to write some new music and see how it went.”

Thus, the Bonnette brothers, Lunsford, guitarist Hunter Walls and bassist Stephen Keech wrote the music for a

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(Left to right) Aaron Lunsford, T.J. and Cody Bonnette and Hunter Walls of As Cities Burn perform Wednesday, June 12, at Duling Hall.

more mature than they were in 2005.

“When we were writing ‘Son, I Loved You,’ we honestly had no idea what we were doing. We just got signed to Solid State and were super stoked young kids, just doing one of the coolest things to do,” he says.

“Cody … would bring to the table pretty much a completed song with a majority of

point to jam and write a song. The result, Bonnette says, is what he hopes fans will hear as a natural progression of As Cities Burn’s riff-laden rock and raw lyrics.

“We really wanted to stay true to an As Cities Burn sound being 10 years later as we’ve matured,” he says. “It’s a good, heavy, rock ‘n’ roll record that sounds like As Cities

Burn would sound in 2019.”

The reaction to the new direction has been largely positive so far, with single “Chains” already having garnered more than 72,000 streams on Spotify. At the same time, there will always be fans who either like or don’t like something stylistically, Bonnette says, so it comes down to connecting with what the band is saying.

“I love Cody’s writing style and what As Cities Burn is about as far as lyrically, like struggles in dealing with daily life, things like that, faith, and just how Cody writes it down,” he says. “I think there’s a need for that, regardless if people ask for it or not.”

Along with a more mature approach to music comes a mature approach to band life. Bonnette says they aren’t prima donnas about touring, but the members of As Cities Burn are happy to put the days of sleeping on strangers’ floors behind them.

“We like to, I would say, be as comfortable as possible,” he says with a laugh. “… We’re just taking care of ourselves a little more, being a little choosier on what we do as far as the amount of touring we can handle. It’s just a balancing act between everyone’s full-time jobs, but we still want to have this be part of our lives.”

As Cities Burn performs Wednesday, June 12, at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). All Get Out and Many Rooms also perform. Tickets are $16 in advance and $20 on the day of the show. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit ascitiesburn.net or find the band on Facebook.

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CMBS Blue Monday June 3, June 10, 7 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Central Mississippi Blues Society presents the weekly blues show, which features a “Front Porch Acoustic Hour” and a jam with the Blue Monday Band. Cash bar available. $5 admission, $3 for CMBS members; call 601-948-0888; halandmals.com.

Something Old, Something New June 4, 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m., at St. Joseph Catholic School (308 New Mannsdale Road, Madison).

The Mississippi Wind Symphony performs orchestral music from Ottorino Respighi, Percy Grainger, David Gillingham, Vincent Persichetti and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Field to Funk June 4, 6-8 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Grammy Award

winner Grady Champion performs.

Free admission; mdah.ms.gov.

Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular June 6, 8-10:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (4115, 255, E. Pascagoula St.). The annual show presents an arrangement of laser, lighting and video effects to the songs of legendary music artist Pink Floyd. $24-$38; email email@ynotcall.com; thaliamarahall.net.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Patrick Carpenter “Friday Night Hallelujah” Album Release Party June 7, 7:30 p.m. The singer-songwriter performs. Anne Rigby also perform. Doors open 6:30 p.m. $5 upcharge for persons under 21. $10 in advance, $15 day-of; dulinghall.ticketfly.com.

• Jimbo Mathus June 8, 8 p.m. The singersongwriter known for country, blues and jazz performs. Door open 7 p.m. $5 upcharge for persons under 21. $15 advanced, $20 day-of;

dulinghall.ticketfly.com.

• As Cities Burn—Scream Through the Walls Tour June 12, 8 p.m. The rock band performs, along with All Get Out and Many Rooms also perform. Doors open 7:30 p.m. $5 upcharge for persons under 21. $16 advanced, $20 day-of; dulinghall.ticketfly.com.

Widespread Panic June 7-8, 8 p.m., at Brandon Amphitheater (8190 Rock Way, Brandon). The rock band performs. Doors open 6:30 p.m. $59.50-$132; brandonamphitheater.com.

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

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Events at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N.) • “Disappearing Earth” Book Signing May 29, 5 p.m. Author Julia Phillips signs copies.

Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.95 signed book, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

• “North Mississippi Homeplace: Photographs and Folklife” Book Signing June 6, 5 p.m. Michael Ford signs copies of his book. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $39.95 signed copy, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Call Your Daughter Home” Book Signing June 11, 5 p.m. Author Deb Spera signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.99 signed book, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Cost of These Dreams” Book Signing June 12, 5 p.m. Author Wright Thompson signs copies of his book. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $18 signed copy, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Gallery Talk | Collection Sharing and Cultural Exchange May 31, 11:30 a.m.

Redell Hearn presents a talk that explores the historical significance—and contemporary relevance—of collection sharing, cultural exchange and ongoing dialogue between his two curator jobs for the Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

• Art and Coffee | Emily Clark June 1, 10-11:30 a.m. Historic resources specialist for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Emily Clark leads attendees through the Chickasaw exhibit for its final week. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

• Art Nights | The CAPE Lab June 11, 5:15 p.m. The museum hosts an evening celebrating art, literature, music and dialog.

Cash bar opens 5:15 p.m. Program begins 5:45 p.m. Free admission, drink prices vary; msmuseumart.org.

Shackles From the Deep: The Henrietta Marie May 30, 5:30-8 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Michael Cottman discusses his book “Shackles from the Deep.” The book details the four years he spent researching the origin of the “Henrietta Marie,” retracing the route of the slave ship and diving to the sea floor to explore the vessel’s remains. Book signings begin at 5:30 p.m. The presentation begins 6 p.m. Attendees may explore an exhibit honoring the “Henrietta Marie” following the presentation. Free admission; call 601-576-6800; email info@mdah.ms.gov; mdah.ms.gov.

CREATIVE CLASSES How to Edit What You Write June 4, 6-8 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Gerard Helferich is the instructor. The course teaches fiction and nonfiction writers to take their work from first draft to finished manuscript. Class meets Tuesdays from May 7-June 4. $110; millsaps.edu.

Rubber Stamp & Craft Paper Company June 8, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at Pearl Public Library (2416 Old Brandon Road, Pearl). The adult crafting group makes projects using crafting paper and rubber stamps on the second Saturday of each month. Free; find it on Facebook.

BE THE CHANGE The Pearl Factor: An All White Affair May 31, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at The Railroad District (824 S. State St.). The annual event features food, cocktails, a cash bar and live music from Gerald Richardson and Stephanie Luckett accompanied

by Musiq Theory. Proceeds benefit The Ebony Pearls Foundation, Inc. $50-$60; email thepearlfactorawa@gmail.com; rloaka.org.

Cornhole for a Cause June 8, 1-7 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.).

Participants compete in the cornhole tournament. The event also includes food, drinks, a silent auction, a kids’ fun zone and more. Players compete in teams of two, and individuals who register will be paired into teams. Prizes awarded to first, second and third place teams. All proceeds support Youth Villages Mississippi programs, which serve kids and families across the state who face a wide range of emotional, mental and behavior issues.

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Alumni House - Jerry Brooks and Jack Beal 7 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Sherman Lee Dillon 9 p.m.

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

Cowboy’s Saloon – Kreaux w/ Robbins N Lawess 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Luckenbach 8 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Dirt Road Cadillac 7 p.m.

CS’s - Karaoke 8 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Martin’s - Grass Dead 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m.

CS’s - Katelyn McCoy; Vitamin Cea 8 p.m. $5 Drago’s - Larry Brewer 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - R.J. and the Good Time Band 2 p.m.; Silver Tree Crossing 7 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $5; Lonn’e George & Flaschemidnight $10

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m.; Burnham Road 8 p.m. $5; Chasin Dixie 10 p.m.

Martin’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Dan Confait

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Keys vs Strings 6 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Andy Panas

Shucker’s - Sonny Brooks & Friends 7:30 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Blind Dog Otis 9 p.m.

WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m. free before 10 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m.

Wednesday 5/29 1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson 6:30 p.m.

Alumni House - Doug Hurd and Gena Steele 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Brian Jones 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Crocker 6 p.m.

Thursday 5/30 1908 Provisions - Chuck Bryan 6:30 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Travlin’ Jane Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Chris Gill 6 p.m.

Martin’s - Carry Hudson & South Jones 10 p.m.

Mississippi Museum of Art – Drew McKercher – 11:30 a.m.

Pelican Cove - Chris Gill and The Sole Shakers 7 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Chris Minter & the KJ Funkmasters 11 p.m. $5

Shucker’s - DoubleShotz 5:30 p.m.; Burnham Road 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry10 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Zach Bridges

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Josh Hardin

The Pub - T.J. Russell 8 p.m.

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Sunday 6/2 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Georgia Blue, Madison - Live Music Hal & Mal’s - Timmy Avalon Duo Iron Horse Grill - Ryan Lee Crosby 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Steele Heart 6:30 p.m.

Thalia Mara Hall – Paramounts Laser Spectacular 8 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Road Hogs noon; Dirt Road Cadillac 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Big Al & The Heavyweights 3:30 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.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum – Grady Champion 6 p.m.

Brandon Amphitheater – Widespread Panic 8 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Brandon Amphitheater – Widespread Panic 8 p.m.

WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m. free before 10 p.m.

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Iron Horse Grill - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 6 p.m.

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

Duling Hall - Patrick Carpenter 7:30 p.m.

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

Hal & Mal’s - Bill, Temperance and Jess

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

Monday 6/10 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Brint Anderson 9 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - CMBS 7 p.m. $5

Kathryn’s - The Sole Shakers 7 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Phillip Yarbrough 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jason Turner Band 7 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Johnnie B and Miss Iretta 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny Duo 5:30 p.m.; The Jason Miller Band 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Jazz with Raphael Semmes & Friends

F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Press Play midnight $10

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Live Music Georgia Blue, Madison - Live Music

Alumni House - Johnny Crocker 8 p.m.

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Bag of Donuts 8 p.m. $10

Hal & Mal’s - Crooked Creek

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Mr. Sipp 8 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m.; The Jason Miller Band 8 p.m. $10

Cowboy’s Saloon – The Hero and a Monster w/ Via Novus – 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Chasin Dixie 7:30 p.m.

Friday 5/31

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Pelican Cove - Four on the Floor noon; Bonfire Orchestra 5 p.m.

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Martin’s - The Iceman Special & Peter More 10 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Hunter, Rick and Chris 6 p.m.

CS’s - Karaoke 8 p.m.

Kathryn’s - DoubleShotz 7 p.m.

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

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Mike Rob & The 601 Band 8 p.m.

Fenian’s - T.J. Russell 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Barry Leach 6:30 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Mississippi Marshall 9 p.m.

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Hal & Mal’s - Jazz with Raphael Semmes & Friends

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1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Last Week’s Answers 43 Hit the mother lode 46 “Shameless” network, for short 47 Baby anteater 48 Noah’s ride 49 Suffix in geometry 52 Bread served with aloo gobi 54 Takeover try 55 Prefix meaning “one billionth” 56 Buddy cop show of the 1970s 60 Look sullen 61 “Jellied” British fish 62 “Certainly, Monsieur!”

63 March participants?

64 7-Across partner, maybe 65 Phrase before “Go!”

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38 Dale’s cartoon pal 39 Pack of cards 41 Soundly defeated 42 Pointer, for one 44 They’ll look over W-2s 45 Something stored in the cloud?

49 Los ___, California 50 As scheduled 51 Like a game for the record books, perhaps

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24 Slo-___ fuse 25 AKA, in the business world 26 ___ in “Charlie” 29 Fountain reward of myth 32 Alpine cottage 35 Haven’t yet paid 36 Balletic bend 37 Varnish ingredient 38 Jim Acosta’s network 39 Golden Globes category 40 Solemn promise 41 Some people’s preferred pronoun 42 One not responsible for the bad news

1 “___ T for Teen” 2 Aboriginal name for Australia’s Ayers Rock 3 Parsley bit 4 Do horribly 5 Closely monitored hosp. area 6 Juliet, for one 7 Mineralogist with a scale 8 Number of times the Milwaukee Brewers have appeared in the World Series 9 Not fixed 10 Sport involving horses 11 Friendly, like some relatives 12 “Jackie Brown” actress Grier 13 It’s made with warm fermentation 18 “___: Ragnarok” 19 Adequate 24 Vitamin also known as PABA 25 Early morning 27 “Once upon ___ ...”

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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 won’t 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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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

I prefer live theater over movies. The glossy flawlessness of films, accomplished by machines that assemble and polish, is less emotionally rich than the direct impact of live performers’ unmediated voices and bodies and emotions. Their evocative imperfections move me in ways that glossy flawlessness can’t. Even if you’re not like me, Gemini, I invite you to experiment with my approach for a while—not just in the entertainment you choose, but in all areas of your life.

As much as possible, get your experience raw and unfiltered.

I’ve got a message for you from Cancerian poet Tyler Knott Gregson. Please read it every day for the next 15 days, including when you first wake up and right before sleep. Here it is: “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

In 2003, a group of thieves in Antwerp, Belgium, pulled off the biggest jewelry heist in history. To steal the diamonds, gold and other gems, together worth more than $100 million, they had to outsmart security guards, a seismic sensor, a protective magnetic field, Doppler radar, infrared detectors and a lock. I mention this, Leo, because I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have a comparable ability to insinuate yourself into the presence of previously inaccessible treasures and secrets and codes. You’ll be able to penetrate barriers that have kept you shut off from valuable things.

(P.S. But I hope that unlike the Antwerp thieves, you’ll use your superpowers in an ethical manner.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

In the northeast corner of Spain, bordering France, is an area known as Catalonia. With its own culture and language, it has a long history of seeking complete autonomy. On four occasions it has declared itself to be independent from Spain. The most recent time was in 2017, when 92 percent of the Catalans who voted expressed the desire to be free of Spain’s rule. Alas, none of the rebellions have succeeded. In the latest instance, no other nation on Earth recognized Catalonia’s claim to be an independent republic. In contrast to its frustrated attempts, your own personal quest to seek greater independence could make real progress in the coming months. For best results, formulate a clear intention and define the precise nature of the sovereignty you seek.

Write it down!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

A Libran blogger named OceanAlgorithms wrote, “I’m simultaneously wishing I were a naturalist whose specialty is finding undiscovered species in well-explored places; and a skateboarding mathematician meditating on an almost-impossible-to-solve equation as I practice my skateboard tricks; and a fierce forest witch who casts spells on nature-despoilers; and a gothic heroine with twelve suitors; and the sexiest cat that ever lived.” I love how freewheeling and wide-ranging OceanAlgorithms is with her imaginative fantasies. In light of current astrological omens, I encourage you to do the same. Give yourself permission to dream and scheme extravagantly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Geologists aren’t exactly sure why, but almost six million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar closed up. As a result, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean, and within 1,00 years, it had mostly disappeared.

Fast forward 600,000 years. Again, geologists don’t understand how it happened, but a flood broke through the barrier, allowing the ocean to flow back into the Mediterranean basin and restore it to its previous status as a sea. I propose that we invoke that replenishment as a holy symbol for the process you’re engaged in: a replenishment of your dried-out waters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

I invite you to meditate on this proposal from freelance writer Radha Marcum: “The spiritual definition of love is that when you look at the person you love, it makes you love yourself more.” I hope there’s a lot of that kind of action going on for you in the next four weeks. According to my

assessment of life’s secret currents, all of creation will be conspiring to intensify and deepen your love for yourself by intensifying and deepening your love for other people.

Cooperate with that conspiracy, please!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Is there a creature on earth that’s more annoying than the mosquito? I’ve never heard anyone gaze upon one of the pesky monsters sucking blood out of her arm and say, “Aw, what a cute little bug.” And yet every year there is a town in Russia that holds a jokey three-day celebration in honor of the mosquito. The people who live in Berezniki even stage a “most delicious” competition, in which people allow themselves to be pricked by mosquitoes for 20 minutes, with an award going to whomever accumulates the most bites. I highly approve of the spirit of this approach for your own use in the coming weeks, Capricorn. If you have fun with the things that bother you, I bet they won’t bother you as much.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

It’s the Forever Season, Aquarius. You have a poetic license to act as if your body will live for a hundred years and your soul will live for all eternity. You are authorized to believe that in the coming decades you will grow steadily wiser, kinder, happier and wilder. During the Forever Season, you may have dreams like flying over a waterfall at sunset or finding the lost magic you were promised before you were born or discovering the key to a healing you feared would always elude you. As you careen through this unpredictable grace period, your understanding of reality may expand dramatically. I bet you’ll get practical epiphanies about how to express yourself with greater effectiveness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

A musical historian from Cambridge University decided it would be amusing to perform forgotten songs that were written in the Rhineland 1,000 years ago. His research wasn’t easy, because musical notation was different back then. But he ultimately reconstructed the tunes in ways that he felt were 80% faithful to the originals. He and other musicians subsequently performed and recorded them. I propose a somewhat comparable assignment for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. You will benefit, I believe, from trying to recover the truth about events that occurred a long time ago and/or by trying to revivify old beauty that has new relevance.

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In the coming weeks it will make good sense for you to travel down winding paths replete with interesting twists and provocative turns. The zigzags you’ll be inspired to pursue won’t be inconvenient or inefficient, but rather will be instrumental in obtaining the healing you need. To honor and celebrate this oddly lucky phase, I’ll quote parts of “Flying Crooked,” a poem by Robert Graves. “The butterfly will never master the art of flying straight, yet has a just sense of how not to fly: He lurches here and here by guess and God and hope and hopelessness. Even the acrobatic swift has not his flying-crooked gift.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Has a part of you become too timid, docile or prosaic?

Is there an aspect of your beautiful soul that is partially muzzled, submissive or housebroken? If so, now is a favorable time to seek an antidote. But listen closely: The cure isn’t to become chaotic, turbulent and out of control.

It would be counterproductive to resort to berserk mayhem. Here’s a better way: be primal, lush and exciting. Be wildly playful and unpredictably humorous and alluringly intriguing. Try experiments that rouse your rowdy sweetness, your unkempt elegance, your brazen joy and your sensual intelligence.

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1. Fauna Foodworks (Cultivation Food Hall, 1200 Eastover Drive, Suite 125, 601-287-1276, faunafoodworks. com)— The Ghanian Chop Bar is a must for any newbie to Fauna.

I have always loved chef Enrika William’s food. I’m so happy to have this cuisine experience as a lunch/ dinner option every day of the week.

2. Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (222 North St., Suite 2205, 601-5766800, mscivilrightsmuseum.com)— What I love most about the museum is its staff and that Mississippians get to tell the story.

3. Urban Foxes (826 North St., urbanfoxesjxn@gmail.com)—This is the coolest place to hang out nowadays. Not only does the

business offer an oat-milk option, but the atmosphere is great, and their baristas are the sweetest. The drinks and good eats complete the package.

4. The Beacon (3030 N. State St., 601-919-7477, thebeaconsupply. com)—This is awesome because of the vendor community Nicole and Jason Jenkins have nurtured. The market is my go-to event when it comes to selling Xcessory Freex, my handmade jewelry designs, and buying unique gifts for family and friends.

5. Red Carpet Ready Hair Salon (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave., 601906-2590)—This business made the list because every girl has to have a place to talk current events, local

news, and get tips and tricks on how to stay looking and feeling beautiful.

6. Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave., 601376-9404, offbeatjxn.com—This is my hot spot when I head out in the city. Owner Phillip Rollins, also known as DJ Young Venom, continues to do an amazing job at programming the space.

7. WonderLust (3911 Northview Drive, 337-378-9003, wonderlustjackson.com)— It’s the only place in Jackson where I can catch an awesome drag show, dance and play pool.

8. AND Gallery (133 Millsaps Ave., andgallery.org)—The space, which is tucked away in midtown, hosts some of the coolest exhibits and events the

city has to offer. The curation and programming are always on point.

9. Sweet Pea’s Vegan Eatery and Catering (210 Meadowbrook Road, 601-201-5179)—It’s a vegan food truck that can pop up across the city at all the events, and the menu is packed with great food options.

10. Conkrete Sneaker Boutique (1500 University Blvd., 769-243-6799, conkretekickz.com)—Conkrete is one of Jackson’s only sneaker boutiques.

The selection of fresh drip (clothes and shoes) is undeniable.

11. Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St., 601-9480055, fenianspub.com)—The food is amazing, and I just love the bartenders’ energy.

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