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city. But you know what? A lot of them stay. They ity of Jackson Urban Designer stay because they see potential. They see a city Salam Rida (see page 40) and her worth fighting for. They joke about the potholes fiancé Travis Crabtree, also an urban designer for the City, came and “boil water” alerts, and then remark about how cool the “Welcome to Jackson” mural is to Jackson from Detroit because they saw opportunity. They wanted to convert an and how neat it is that we a growing community of entrepreneurs. They see industrial property into a the city as it is now, and they multi-use facility, and guess think, “How can we make what? Mississippi and this place better?” Rida’s Jackson are affordable, so question of “why not?” is the they came here. question we should be ask“Why not have someing rather than “why should thing like this in the city?” we stay?” That only perpetushe told BOOM Jackson. ates a broken cycle. Many people love to rag Progress is happening on Jackson. It has too many all around us. You just have potholes; the state is too conto look up long enough servative; we don’t get enough Managing Editor to see it. For example, on concerts; our public transit Amber Helsel Saturday, June 30, the City system is broken; there is too of Jackson Department of much crime here; and don’t Planning and Development forget the ever-fun hashtag, will host a community meeting to engage the #nothingtodojxn. Some of those things might be true. Roads public on a mixed-use development project on land across from the Jackson Convention Comlike Mill Street and Riverside Drive look like war plex. They’re working on a bike-share program zones. Sinkholes keep popping up. Our transit system is broken, and our sidewalks need fix- that the City expects to roll out in 2019. They’re ing. Our water system is failing. We don’t get a working on a new addition to JATRAN. And things aren’t only happening at the city levels. lot of concerts in Jackson. Artists are painting murals. Event organizers It’s easy to look at that stuff and say that are working to bring bigger acts to Jackson. the city and the state aren’t worth staying in. Food trucks are popping up left and right. That’s why we lose more people than we gain each year. But those problems are only one part There are people in the community, including this year’s Young Influentials, who are working of the picture. There’s a much grander, better to make the city and state better. picture than some of us want to believe. Rida is effecting change at a City level; Catherine Lee, who is the co-founder of Charlene Williams is helping grow the state’s City Pins JXN, said in an interview that she and her husband, Garrad Lee, create their Jackson- craft-beer industry; Stephen Brown is showthemed pins as a tongue-and-cheek way to com- ing kids that college is not that scary or unattainable. They’re all here, and they’re making memorate things the city is known for, but they a difference. Like Young Influential Justin also use them as a way to celebrate the city and its uniqueness. They created enamel pins of the Ransburg’s mural in downtown Jackson says, “I Believe in Jackson.” old Mississippi Coliseum, a leaky fire hydrant with roses around it, and a Department of PubManaging Editor Amber Helsel is a storylic Works pin. They’re funny and cool, and even if those things make us cry and scream some- teller who moonlights as an artist. She loves food, cats, anime and art supplies. You can often catch times, those symbols represent Jackson. They represent all the times you hit a pot- her running sound at CityHeart Church. Email hole and blow a tire, but also every time you story ideas to amber@jacksonfreepress.com. walk in Fondren or Belhaven or downtown and think, “How beautiful is this city?” Because we all have those moments. Plenty of people here are smart and capable and probably could survive in a much bigger
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The idea for her and husband Jason Jenkins to open The Beacon arose from a problem: They liked to use high-quality art supplies but often could not find them in locally owned stores. “We figured that if we had that problem, then there were probably plenty of people in the area who did, as well,” Wyatt Jenkins says. The couple opened The Beacon, which
they describe as a “consciously curated modern general store,” in the former Fondren Art Gallery space at the corner of Duling Avenue and State Street in December 2017, following a soft-opening “makers’ market” in November. The store sells art supplies, vintage goods, bicycles, Mississippi-made products, and items from local artisans and businesses, such as Sweet & Sauer’s kombucha and
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Millsaps College professor Kristen TordellaWilliams’ handmade paper. Wyatt Jenkins says the name for the store came from them wanting to be “a beacon for art” in the Jackson metro area. “We’re located right on the hill in Fondren,” she says. “Our goal has always been to offer something that’s not available, and share our values for sourcing and sustainability and unique products.” Before opening The Beacon, the couple spent months researching the best products for the community and attending events to find one-of-a-kind items that people would like, in the midst of renovating the space and getting it ready to launch.
One of the greatest things about enjoying the success that the business has had thus far is being able to do it with her husband and coowner, Wyatt Jenkins says. “It’s amazing to run the business with him,” Wyatt Jenkins says. “It’s such a blessing to be able to pursue our passion every day and help others do the same, and it’s really important to us to help them connect with the community.”
They have plans to open the gallery space for classes, workshops and exhibitions later this year, placing an emphasis on showcasing underrepresented artists in the state. “We really want to highlight the artistic endeavors of all the Mississippi makers,” Nicole Wyatt says. The business is currently taking applications for artists who are interested in showing work in the gallery. For consideration, email beaconartgallery@gmail.com. The Beacon (3030 N. State St., 601.919.7477) is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Find the business on Instagram and Facebook, or visit thebeaconsupply.com.
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JXN // collection
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atherine Lee sports a collection of enamel pins on her bag and her jacket. Among them are a purple Share Bear pin from a Care Bears x Kidrobot blindbox and one of her and husband Garrad Lee’s own creations, a green basketball jersey with a shamrock and the name “Ingram” imprinted on it. Catherine designed it in honor of their friend John Ingram, who passed away a few weeks before this year’s Hal’s St. Paddy’s Parade & Festival. She says Ingram loved basketball, specifically the Boston Celtics, so they designed the pin with inspiration from Isaiah Thomas’ jersey.
Small Crafts // by Amber Helsel “We knew a lot of people were hurting and wanting to carry on his memory in some kind of way, so we talked to a few people who were planning on doing buttons for krewes for St. Paddy’s Day this coming year,” she says. Through City Pins, an initiative that they launched under Garrad’s Homework Town LLC, they ordered about 200 pins to sell at the parade for those who wanted to honor Ingram. The proceeds, which Catherine says totaled more than $1,000, will go toward a local nonprofit that Ingram supported, the Hard Places Community. Since starting City Pins in 2017, the couple has created a line of custom pins that is mostly Jackson-centric, focusing on the aspects of the city that are familiar to people. “I guess it’s a tongue-in-cheek way to address some of the more painful things about being a Mississippi resident and from Jackson,” 12
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Catherine says. “A lot of our city landmarks have offbeat’s been degraded or lost over time or have complicated meanings just because of the complication anniversary Pin of our history.” The couple’s large pin collection gave them the idea to start designing pins that were spewebsite Etsy may have more than 27,000 hits. cific to the capital city last year. “We start tossing around some ideas about The pin-maker community is also prolific on Instagram, with more than 564,000 posts under what we could do that would be very Jackson,” the hashtag #enamelpin. Garrad says. “... We were just wantThe affordability of pins is what draws ing to contribute something of our many artists to the medium. The Studio’s webown and have something to sell and to keep it rolling and to trade in stuff. site shows example prices as low as $2.53 per pin for an order of 100. It was all about taking something For artist Emily Hamblin, the choice to we already dug and then making it make her own pin was a creative one, as it specifically about Jackson.” allowed her to maintain the bright colors of The Lees’ foray into the pin her blockprinting while also getting a shiny, trade has also helped others in textured piece. Jackson to create custom pins. The Clinton resident, who is a studio For the last couple of years, Phillip artist at Good Citizen and general manager Rollins, owner of comic-book and at Cups Espresso Café in Clinton, says her record shop Offbeat, has been sellartwork often has themes of nature, animals ing buttons with the store brand, and even video games. but he decided to do something In November 2017, she decided to make different for the business’ fourth her first pin and chose one of her anniversary in May. favorite prints, a teal checkered The Lees pointed Rollins owl, for the design. To create the toward City Pins’ manupin, she scanned her print and facturer, The Studio, to saved it as a digital file. The comcreate Offbeat’s specialpany’s designers then made edition pins, which feature suggestions to help it work betthe mascot, Wesley the Bat, ter as a pin, including making with a boombox and sell the owl’s nose black. for about $7. “You send them your “It’s interesting to see artwork, and they go, ‘Awehow people are collecting emily Hamblin’s some, we can do this for them now,” Rollins says. “… you. Here’s what we think They’re fashion pieces (and) owl Pin you should do,’” she says. accessories, just as much as, like, “... At that point it does become a cool colbuttons are. (They’re) just a little bit more detailed or have a little more laboration with the people that are actually thought into the process and are shaped into working in this material for you.” Although Hamblin has only designed one whatever you want them to be.” Pins are an artform that is growing in pin thus far, she says that she is excited to make more in the near future and to see what other popularity beyond Jackson, as well. On a given day, a search for “enamel pins” on art-and-crafts local artists do with the art form.
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Decoding the Future // by Malcolm Morrow Stephen WilSon
Clarence Conner (left) is part of the 2017-2018 class of coders at the Mississippi Coding Academies in downtown Jackson. This year’s program will conclude in September.
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quita Bryant, 22, decided she wanted to know everything about the media ministry at her church, Crossroads International House of Worship in Jackson. She set her sights on learning how to use all of the equipment and moved up the ranks. Earlier this year, she became the director of media. Then, she got an opportunity to push her skills even further when her pastor, Joseph Jackson, told her about Mississippi Coding Academies, an 11-month program that trains recent high-school graduates on computer coding. She began the program in fall 2017. Bryant is a business administration major at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Miss., but she is currently taking a break from her collegiate studies to complete the coding academy. Classes for the Mississippi Coding Academies began in October 2017. Jackson native Herbert Brown, who is the instructor for the program, came on board after local pastor Ronnie Crudup Jr. recommended him for the position in June 2017. The program, which is at Innovate’s “innovation hub” in downtown Jackson, is tuitionfree, and includes books and a laptop for the coders. Rather than serving as an introduction to just computer coding, the course is designed to make students competitive candidates in the job market after completing the course.
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“Our main goal with the academy is to cultivate and educate industry level coders,” Brown says. “We want our students to be versatile and ready to adapt any working environment and style, so whether they decide to pursue a career in the corporate sector or go the startup route, they will be prepared. Ideally they will be marketable and employable after the end of the 11 months.” Bryant says her favorite part of the program has been designing websites. “I plan to teach the other youth at the church the things I’m learning,” she says. She also likes Startup Wednesdays, where different business owners in the area come in and speak with the students about starting businesses. Jackson restaurateur Jeff Good was one of her favorite presenters. “He really inspired me with my business,” she says. The one piece of advice she took from him was to get a business partner. Now, she has one, D’Ebonie Johnson. The two sell treats such as chocolate-covered strawberries and popcorn in their business, Qandy Qoated. On her future plans, Bryant says: “I know I would like to pursue a career in coding, but I also would like to do some fun freelance work on the side and assist teaching kids coding. I think that coding is a useful skill to have, and it can be applied in a lot of ways.”
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Brown sees the Coding Academies as an opportunity for Mississippi to lead in something positive and progressive, and that the continued pursuit of technological advancement is critical in helping to change the narrative of the state. “Having a resource like this in place for students in Jackson Public Schools and the surrounding areas is a powerful move and a step in the right direction,” Brown says. “It’s a great thing for those on the outside looking in to see.” With the expansion of robotics into job duties that once required a human operator, the concern of technology democracy has become a popular topic of debate. However, Brown says coding provides a way for humans to evolve with the world around robots. “The question of tech democracy has been asked since the beginning of time,” he says. “Every time an advancement comes, people begin to question what will happen to the predecessor. Technology will always move forward, and it doesn’t make sense to hold on to older models. Instead we should keep up with progress and adapt. We should be learning how to communicate with machines rather than fearing them because they are the future. Also, by teaching the most disenfranchised people these skills, it will help to elevate everyone.” Classes will conclude in September 2018. For more information on the Mississippi Coding Academies, visit mscoding.org or innovate.ms.
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index while others scribbled notes from ref- went into municipal court and left with a 30eraldine Edwards Hollis showed erence books,” Ledger staff writer Edmund day suspended sentence and a $100 fine. up at the white-only Jackson In 1962, the American Library AssociaMunicipal Public Library on March Noel wrote. “They ignored the anxious situation established that member libraries had to 27, 1961, in a suit she had designed tion they had created.” Police charged the students with breach- open facilities to everyone regardless of race, and sewn herself. It was double-breasted religion or personal belief. Mississippi and ing the peace and took them to jail. Hollis with three-quarter-length sleeves. In her three other southern states withdrew from book, “Back to Mississippi” (Xlibris, 2011, said in her memoir that the smells in the cell the association that year. $29.99), she recalls making sure she wore were worse than the outhouses at home and While then-racist newspapers like the something with pockets that day to put things at school growing up in Vidalia, Miss. She in for safekeeping. Hollis put on a green raincoat and a matching hat over her suit, which would make her easily identifiable among the other Tougaloo Nine’s mugshots, often displayed in a 3-inch-by-3-inch grid. Hollis was part of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council, along with members Joseph Jackson Jr., Albert Lassiter, Alfred Cook, Ethel Sawyer, Evelyn Pierce, Janice Jackson, James “Sammy” Bradford and Meredith Anding Jr. ThenField Secretary Medgar Evers had helped them organize the read-in at the library and alerted the media about the silent protest, and Tougaloo chaplain John Mangram served as an adviser to the students. The Tougaloo Nine, a group of students who staged a library read-in at the Jackson Municipal Library on Upon going into the March 27, 1961, received a marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail in August 2017. library, then at 301 N. State St., Edwards and the others knew what they had to do: Ask for research recalls dancing in the cell to remain “light- Clarion-Ledger at the time blamed this event books that were not available at the “colored” hearted and strong” despite the circum- for making Mississippi the target of overt racial demonstrations—something the reporter stances. She was in a cell with another young library across town. woman, and the other two women were in covering the read-in believed the state was A Clarion-Ledger story published the the last to avoid in the Deep South—the Touone across from hers. day after the event says the students went up “I do not know what they did with the galoo Nine are now far less recognized comto the circulation desk, arriving in twos and pared to other protesters of the era. young men,” Edwards wrote. threes, and told the librarian they needed cerBut in August 2017, a Freedom Trail Joseph Jackson Jr. told the Orange Countain books to do research. ty Weekly in 2015 that he feared for his life in Marker went up in front of the old Jackson She refused them and ordered them to Municipal Library to commemorate this that cell as he thought back to Emmett Till and leave, but the students remained and sat at moment in history, with seven of the nine Mississippi’s legacy of lynching black people. tables in the center. The morning after the read-in, the nine in attendance. “Some began thumbing through the card Work. Live. Play. Prosper.
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From Ecosheds to Food Halls:
Much Underway in Jackson // by Dustin Cardon
Hinds Renovates Metrocenter Space Hinds Community College and the Metrocenter Mall began renovations on March 29 to turn a 189,000-square-foot space in the southeast corner of the mall, which once housed Belk and the McRae’s department, into a “Comprehensive One-Stop Center.” The center will offer career-technical and workforce training programs for both high-tech training and middle-skill education. The renovations will take about six months. The bottom floor of the space will feature an event area, as well as a metal fabrication machining and welding area. The top floor will feature offices and classrooms dedicated to mechatronics, robotics, three-dimensional design, and MIBEST, a job-ready program for adults without high-school diplomas. The center will also offer services such as a job search program, unemployment-insurance benefits assistance, on-the-job training opportunities and more.
The Ecoshed to Virden Addition The Virden Addition Industrial Complex in Jackson will be home to a combination small business incubator, event and sustainable food-growing space when construction for The Ecoshed finishes in late 2019. “We’re currently doing crowdfunding for the project through small projects,” Travis Crabtree, who co-owns The Ecoshed with Salam Rida, told the Jackson Free Press. “Our plan is to make videos for a Kickstarter cam18
Smith Park in downtown Jackson reopened on Friday, April 13. The park now has fresh grass, a new stage floor, refurbished park benches and more green space. paign to display our vision for the project and gather investments.” Crabtree and Rida plan for The Ecoshed to serve as a space for demonstrating sustainable food and environmental practices that could be used elsewhere in Jackson. The Ecoshed will have a system to capture rainwater to make a cistern for growing food, and will also have a roof completely covered in solar panels for power and to reduce heat inside the structure. The first project to raise money and awareness for the Ecoshed will be a June 22 concert called Summer Camp featuring 21 bands performing over two days. Crabtree said The Ecoshed will remove the roof to create an open-air venue, and will also bring in large shipping containers that serve as an impromptu bar, art exhibition space and stage. For information visit carbonoffice.net.
Smith Park Reopens Smith Park in downtown Jackson reopened Friday, April 13, after being closed for renovations since November 2017. The park has fresh sod, a new stage floor in the center of the park, 26 refurbished park benches and more green space after the renovations filled in a creek bed at the edge of the park. The City hosted a ribbon-cutting for the refurbished park as part of Food Truck Friday that day.
New Trade Mart Opens The Mississippi Fair Commission held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Missis-
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sippi Trade Mart on Thursday, March 8. The Legislature authorized $30 million to build the new Trade Mart and to make improvements to the Mississippi State Fairgrounds. Jackson architectural firm Wier Boerner Allin Architecture designed the new building, and Jackson-based Fountain Construction is the general contractor. Cindy Hyde-Smith, former state commissioner of agriculture and commerce and now a U.S. senator, announced the building project in November 2017. The new 105,000-square-foot facility will be attached to the east side of the Mississippi Coliseum and replace the current Trade Mart, which was constructed in 1975. Hyde-Smith said in January 2017 that the building was outmoded, had a flat roof that leaked and would need to be demolished. The current Mississippi Trade Mart will remain in operation until the new facility is completed in late 2019 to early 2020.
Food Hall Coming to District On April 24, The District at Eastover on announced the first four vendors for its Cultivation Food Hall—a location that offers a mix of local chef-driven food concepts in one place— which will open this summer. Cultivation is a joint development with New Orleans-based St. Roch Market, which opened in 2014, and is modeled after its New Orleans counterpart. The four vendors announced are Fete au Fete StrEATery, Local Honey, Poké Stop and Whisk, a crêperie by La Brioche. The food hall boomjackson.com
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will include four other vendors by the time it opens, as well as a cocktail bar. Cultivation is an 8,000-square-foot space on the ground floor of the BankPlus Building. For more information, visit cultivation foodhall.com. In early May, the Leisure and Recreation District Ordinance, also known as the “go cup” ordinance went into effect. Now, visitors at The District can now take alcoholic beverages out of restaurants and drink them on the District Green. The drinks must have a restaurant insignia on them. Cantina Laredo and Fine & Dandy have “go cups,” and Cultivation Food Hall will off them when the business opens. For more information, visit thedistrictateastover.com.
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Fondren Sidewalk Project Moves Along In January, the city of Jackson began construction for the Fondren Streetscape Project, a remodeling of the neighborhood that will reconstruct sidewalks throughout the Fondren Business District. The district includes parts of Old Canton Road, North State Street, Fondren Place and Duling Avenue. When the project is complete, the neighborhood will have new sidewalks with curb ramps that meet current requirements in the Americans with Disabilities Act, and changes to traffic signals at intersections to improve pedestrian safety and accessibility. The neighborhood will also receive new landscaping and signage, bicycle racks, sidewalk accents, a new transit shelter and changes to Fondren’s drainage system. Charles Williams, engineering manager for the Jackson Department of Public Works, told the Jackson Free Press that teams of work crews are currently installing new sidewalks along Old Canton Road and Duling Avenue
and will move on to State Street within the next few weeks. Work on the new landscaping and signage will begin after the sidewalks and finished and should begin within two months. “We’re starting to see a lot more pedestrians walking in the area along State Street and near the restaurant on Duling Avenue, and the improvements will bring a tremendous for foot traffic there,” Williams said. “It’s exciting to see that the grants we needed from MDOT came through and that things are coming along.”
Refill Café in Former Koinonia Space When Koinonia closed in June 2016, it left a hole in the west Jackson community. But soon, the Refill Café plans to take its place. Around the time Lee Harper opened Koinonia in June 2008, a group of people at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral began to work on plans for a café that would double as a workforce training site. The group secured some initial funding, but after not finding a location, the project stalled. A couple of years before Koinonia closed, former project member Grady Griffin brought the idea to Soul City Hospitality, the group behind Up in Farms Food Hub. The organization decided to create a nonprofit that would focus on workforce training and development for people in the local food industry. That idea has now turned into Refill Café, which Soul City expects to open in fall 2018. The business will have a restaurant and retail arm with training stations for program participants. Refill’s website says the group wants to make sure participants are set up for success once they complete the program, so it will offer social-service and educational support, mentoring and employment services. Currently, Refill Café is accepting donations. In the interim, Refill will still host Friday Forum in the space. For more information, visit refillcafejackson.com. Subscribe to jfpdaily.com for biz news.
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The Landmark Center on Capital Street will bring a new grocery store to downtown Jackson when redevelopment of the 366,000square-foot building is complete. Corner Market, a full-service deli that Hattiesburg-based
Robert Co. owns, will open a 17,500-squarefoot store with indoor seating. Roberts Co., which owns eight Corner Market locations in Mississippi, signed a 10year lease with Weinstein Nelson Management of Baton Rouge, the company that is managing and directing the Landmark Center’s redevelopment. Construction is set to begin within the next two months and is scheduled to be completed by 2020. Roberts Co. also owns Mississippi chains Grocery Depot and Sunflower. AT&T, the Landmark Center’s original owner, moved out in 2012. The University of Mississippi Medical Center withdrew from a plan to use the building in 2014, and the state Department of Revenue later passed on relocating inside the building in favor of a site in Clinton. WN Management eventually acquired the building and announced a plan to build 200 apartments inside the center in 2016.
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BIZ // local
Creating Good Work Environments // by Amber Helsel
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Events such as April’s Startup Weekend at Coalesce in downtown Jackson show the growth of Jackson’s entrepreneurship community. It’s important to understand the challenges those businesses may face and help alleviate them.
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ne of BOOM Jackson and the Jackson Free Press’ biggest missions is to show people why they should support local business. Much of our coverage tends to center around local entrepreneurs and people. They’re important for the local, state and national economy. In fact, multiple studies have shown that on average, 48 percent of a purchase someone makes locally is recirculated in the community. Local businesses are important to the economy at state, local and national levels. A June 2015 article from the Small Business Administration says that in the first three quarters of 2014, small businesses added 1.4 million net new jobs to the U.S. market. However, as many small business owners could probably tell you, owning those types of businesses come with their own set of challenges. A recent study from research institute PolicyLink says that many small 20
businesses want to give good jobs to their employees but often face obstacles. The study says that though characteristics may vary based on the job, commonly cited attributes of a good job include the employer’s ability to provide a living wage, benefits such as retirement, health care, and paid sick and vacation days, and a decent work environment with career advancement, job safety and security, and job training. The barriers small businesses may face in providing good jobs include a knowledge gap in systems such as payroll, operations and inventory, short-term costs such health care, living wages and job training, and misguided policies and incentives. The study says that most tax and economic development incentives often prioritize how many jobs a business creates as opposed to the type of jobs or who gets them, and this can lead to an uneven playing field.
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PolicyLink says that communities can support local, small businesses in providing good jobs through understanding their needs and opportunities, and to also understand the different experiences, resources and challenges that certain business owners, such as immigrants, low-income people or African Americans, may face. The study outlines strategies those in the business development ecosystem (investors, small-business lenders, economic development agencies, business agencies, etc.) to help small business succeed. They include providing assistance to business owners who may not have the technical knowledge to create good jobs, develop financial tools to help businesses achieve their good-jobs goals, support public policies and programs that make it easier for small businesses to provide good jobs and help them comply with new worker laws. See the study at boomjackson.com. boomjackson.com
WELLNESS
The Health Care Roundup // by Dustin Cardon
Addiction Center Moves to Baptist
UMMC Epic Connect The University of Mississippi Medical Center entered into a partnership with the Mississippi Department of Health in February 2018 to launch UMMC Epic Connect, a project that links electronic health records between the two organizations. The joint project uses an advanced electronic health-care system called Epic that manages clinical information, registration, schedul-
ing and billing functions. UMMC Epic Connect allows the hospital to provide the system to other health-care organizations across the state, with the first being MDH. If a Department of Health patient visits UMMC, Epic allows the health-care provider to access that patient’s MDH records. Healthdepartment providers can also access records file photo
Pathway Healthcare, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center, moved its Jackson office from County Line Road to the Baptist Medical Center campus in early May. Pathway provides medication-assisted treatment and behavioral counseling to combat opioid addiction, as well as alcohol and other drug-use disorders. Pathway uses FDA-approved medication that counteracts the addiction in a person’s brain and dilutes the impact of the drug if the person relapses. The center also offers professional counseling for patients. Pathway treats people on an outpatient basis, meaning they come for appointments at the clinic regularly, instead of the traditional rehabilitative, intensive 30-plus-day model associated with substance-abuse treatment. Pathway takes patients who voluntarily come to get treatment, and the health-care provider takes most major insurance providers, except for Mississippi Medicaid.
UMMC Enters Diabetes Collaborative Earlier this year, the University of Mississippi Medical Center launched a partnership with the Mississippi Department of Health.
for UMMC patients who visit their clinics. The hospital’s Division of Information Systems put out a pilot version of Epic Connect in nine Department of Health clinics in central Mississippi earlier this year, and the program went live in the remaining 77 health department clinics in the state on Feb. 12.
State Medicaid Program Changed Mississippi lawmakers approved Senate Bill 2836 to update the state’s Medicaid program
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t’s summer, and that means one thing in Mississippi: It’s going to get hot. Dr. Timothy Quinn, who owns Quinn Healthcare, recently shared tips to stay hydrated and cool in the Deep South heat. Drink lots of fluids, including water and/or sports drinks, to avoid dehydration. This is especially important when outdoors.
University of Mississippi Medical Center’s John D. Bower School of Population Health launched a collaboration with the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in April 2018 called #DefeatDiabetesMS. The collaborative health practice project will aim to reduce type 2 diabetes in the Mississippi, which UMMC states currently affects 15 percent of the state’s adult population. #DefeatDiabetesMS will focus on more thoroughly screening patients seen at the Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson. Staffers will ask patients a set of questions to gauge if they are pre-diabetic, and if so, will offer medi-
// by Dr. Timothy Quinn
Limit extended exposure to the outdoors during the warmest times of the day as much as possible. Do strenuous activities or exercise in the early morning or evening hours, if possible. Wear loose-fitting clothing during prolonged exposure to the warm summer climate. These clothes allow air to pass along your
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on Tuesday, March 27. The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, allocates nearly $1 billion in state funds for the program that insures one in four state residents. It will establish funding for addiction treatment, and remove the previous limit on the number of doctors’ visits and prescriptions. Legislators agreed to the bill after negotiations that focused on an effort by a group of Mississippi hospitals to obtain part of the managed-care insurance business from the state agency. The government health-insurance program for the needy is funded with state and federal dollars. For every dollar the state pays into the program, the federal government pays about $3.
skin, which speeds up evaporation and carries off excess heat. Also, light-colored clothing doesn’t absorb as much heat as darker clothing. Wear less clothing when you’re out in the sun for a long time. Skin exposure allows a greater opportunity for the sweat to evaporate, cooling the skin.
When exposed to prolonged sunlight, wear proper sunscreen. Take multiple breaks during outdoor activities. Prolonged extraneous activities without breaks can result in medical emergencies.
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WELLNESS
Self Care Rituals for Summer // by Dr. Megan Sones Clapton
Results Physiotherapy Opens
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Results Physiotherapy, a national physical-therapy organization, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its clinic in The District at Eastover in November 2017, following its initial opening in May of that year. Australia native Gary Cunningham founded Results Physiotherapy in 1996 together with Olympic swimmer Tracy Caulkins. The clinic offers outpatient treatment for sports-related injuries; post-surgical treatment; headaches and migraines; lower back pain; nerve conditions; neck, shoulder, hip, back and foot pain; knee sprains, tendonitis, arthritis, vertigo and more.
he warmer months have finally settled in. Our flora and fauna have awakened from winter, and nature is in bloom. All flowers need roots, tending to, watering, sun, and some even need thorns for protection. Human nature is a lot like mother nature. As seasons in our lives change, so do our needs. Spring and summer can inspire a transformation in how we can practice self-care. Here is a list of big and small things that can help us take a few moments for ourselves.
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cal help and education on lifestyle changes. The questions cover family history of diabetes, blood pressure, physical activity and a patient’s weight and age. JHCHC and UMMC will use the data to determine whether pre-diabetes rates in the state are increasing or decreasing over time.
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Use a real alarm clock without snooze. If you use your phone as an alarm, you will press snooze and then finally you will check your email. Your brain isn’t meant to power on and off at nine-minute intervals, then quickly start uploading information. Take care of your brain by waking up gently with natural light. Mimic your pet by slowly waking up, and then stretching and drinking some water. Take three deep breaths before you get out of the car anywhere you go. Transitioning from one role or place to another can be times of distress. Taking deep breaths helps slow your thoughts and your heart rate. Please encourage your children to practice this, too. Do less multi-tasking. If you have time, go for a walk without a podcast. If you’re tired just lay down and deeply listen to one relaxing song. Sit and slowly drink your coffee with no distractions. Many people (not me) say that sitting at the sink and doing the dishes can be relaxing. Find your one moment of zen, and do that with precise focus. Technology can help! There are many meditation apps that can be a great introduction to daily meditation practice. If you are at work and need to destress on a lunch break, listen to a mindfulness meditation on YouTube. You can also sign up for insightful daily emails that can prompt a few minutes of calm reflection (for example, the app DailyOM).
Take yourself out to see something new. Our brain craves novel things, and we often get stuck in our own bubble. Spend time at the Mississippi Museum of Art, go to the Mississippi Farmers Market or see a movie. You can’t always have happiness, but you can always give it. Volunteering your time and talents can boost all those involved. Our city has so many nonprofits doing meaningful work, including Stewpot Community Services, Community Animal Rescue and Adoption, and Volunteer Mississippi. Exercise is the quickest way to boost our feel-good chemicals like dopamine. It also allows us to quiet down our thoughts. Take a yoga class at Tara Yoga or StudiOm. Go for a hike on the Mayes Lake trail or paddle the reservoir with Capital City Kayaks. Talk therapy can be a crucial part self-care. Most people who have high stress in their life can benefit from a counselor. Therapy can provide a time and a space to check-in with your self. We can help with goalsetting, processing emotions, problem-solving, and we often teach new coping skills specific to your needs. Dr. Megan Sones Clapton is a licensed professional counselor and clinical director of Mindful Therapy.
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Jackson Treatment Center Opens Jackson Comprehensive Treatment Center, an outpatient treatment program for adults struggling with opioid addiction, opened on Lakeland Drive in September 2017. The center offers medication and therapy to help patients overcome addiction to heroin, prescription drugs such as oxycontin, hydrocodone and fentanyl, and other opioids. Medication options at the center include methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. The center requires patients in the methadone and buprenorphine programs to visit each day for their medication initially. Doctors administer naltrexone as a once-a-month injection. Patients at the center also participate in therapeutic and educational activities such as individual- and group-counseling sessions.
UMMC HIV Testing Center Opens The University of Mississippi Medical Center opened Express Personal Health, a free HIV testing clinic for those who may be in danger of infection, on the third floor of the Jackson Medical Mall in February 2018. The Mississippi Department of Health provides funding for UMMC to operate Express Personal Health and provide HIV screenings—but not on-site treatment—to individuals who are at high risk. UMMC also received a grant from Gilead Sciences, a Californiabased biopharmaceutical company, to fund free testing for hepatitis B and C, and for the sexually transmitted disease syphilis. Express Personal Health occupies the space that Crossroads Clinic was in before it relocated to the health department’s Five Points clinic on the medical mall’s first floor in June 2017. That office offers STD screening and treatment for those diseases, except for HIV. Five Points and Express Personal Health provide immediate referrals to community clinics and organizations for treatment for those who test positively for that disease. Testing requires only a blood sample from a finger stick or mouth swab, which a laboratory will then analyze for the virus and deliver results in about 20 minutes. UMMC will link people who test positively with an HIV primary-care provider on the same day.
St. Dominic Awarded for Patient Safety The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit that collects and reports information on hospital performance, gave St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson an “A” rating in its spring 2018 survey for boomjackson.com
COURTESY KALE SHAKER
Kale Kreations // by Amber Helsel
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ou may have heard rumblings about a new way to eat kale, and the cool thing is it’s local: EasyKale. MiraKale Labs and Draw a Smile Foundation founder Bilal Qizilbash was in a lab at Mississippi College when he discovered that the leafy green would attack and kill melanoma cells while leaving noncancerous ones alone. He began thinking about ways people could get more kale into their diets without actually having to deal with the vegetable. Eventually, he figured out a way to produce a kale powder that is convenient, almost tasteless and preserves
its effects on the body. It comes in two ways: a shaker and a pouch. In a press release, Qizilbash said one teaspoon of the powder is equivalent to about one cup of real kale, and people can add it to foods such as smoothies, soups, salads and more. Those who want to buy EasyKale can purchase the products at easykale.com. The shaker is $29.99 for a 65-day supply, and the pouch is $12.99 for a 20-day supply. People can also find the products at Aladdin Mediterranean Grocery and the Mississippi Farmers Market.
Prolific Health and Wellness Congratulates
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patient safety. St. Dominic, which is the only hospital in Jackson to receive the designation, also earned an “A” ranking in the group’s last four rating periods. Nine hospitals throughout Mississippi earned an “A” rating in the spring 2018 survey, and 750 received the designation nationwide. The Leapfrog survey is peer-reviewed and freely available to the public. It uses 27 measures of voluntarily and publicly reported hospital safety data to grade more than 2,500 hospitals twice per year. For more information, visit leapfroggroup.org.
Merit Health Central Partners With Braves Recently, Merit Health Central partnered with the Mississippi Braves baseball team and the Mississippi Tobacco Quitline to launch an initiative to promote a tobacco-free Trustmark Park. The park implemented a new policy that prohibits tobacco use at the stadium for Mississippi Braves staff, players and park visitors. The policy went into effect on April 5. The Mississippi Merit Health network is also working with the Mississippi Tobacco Quitline to provide resources at its nine statewide hospitals and 25 primary-care clinics to assist anyone that is ready to stop using tobacco. For more information, call 1-800-7848669. The quitline’s services are free and all information, referrals and support are confidential.
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BEST OF JACKSON // medical
Best of Jackson: Health Care
At some point, we all need a health-care provider, whether we’re going to a doctor for a wellness visit, to a dentist to get a cavity filled, or to a hospital or clinic if something happens, and we need urgent care. For this Best of Jackson pop-up ballot, Jacksonians voted for the best doctors, dentists, surgeons, health-care providers and more. Here are the results. COURTESY LAMONICA DAVIS TAYLOR
Best Dentist; Best Pediatric Dentist: LaMonica Davis Taylor (Smiles on Broadway Dental Care, 5442 Watkins Drive, 601.665.4996) When Dr. LaMonica Davis Taylor was 12, she got into a bike accident and fractured her teeth. “My dentist fixed my smile and restored my confidence,” Taylor says. “I became passionate about teaching children about the importance of oral hygiene and want to be able to connect with them and take away their fear of coming to the dentist.” Taylor, 32, was born in Cleveland, Miss., and grew up in Mound Bayou, Miss. She graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, with
a bachelor’s degree in biology and pre-dentistry in 2007. She received her doctorate in dental medicine from University of Mississippi Medical Center’s School of Dentistry in 2011. She opened her private practice, Smiles on Broadway Dental Care, in November 2014. “I’ve always wanted to be a health-care provider because I love taking care of people and being involved in the community,” Taylor says. —Dustin Cardon
Best Dentist finalists: April Watson-Stringfellow (Watson Family Dental, 2181 Henry Hill Drive, 601.922.1171) / Matthew Harris (Mississippi Smiles Dentistry, 1189 E. County Line Road, Suite 1010, 601.308.2022) / Peter Boswell (Boswell Family Dental Care, 1513 Lakeland Drive, Suite 201, 601.366.1242) / Terrance Ware (Terrance Ware Family Dental, 5800 Ridgewood Road, Suite 104, 769.251.5909) Best Pediatric Dentist finalists: Emily Dasinger Heitzman (Magnolia Family Dental Care, 112 S. Ma-
ple St., Ridgeland, 601.707.5585) / Jerrick Rose (The Pediatric Dental Studio, 201 Riverwind Drive, Pearl, 601.965.9549) / Henry Cook (Pediatric Dentistry of Brandon, 142 Gateway Drive, Brandon, 601.824.1950) / Tiffany Green (Southern Smiles Pediatric Dentistry, 101 Luckney Station, Flowood, 601.992.8000)
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Best Doctor: Justin Turner (TurnerCare LLC, 2135 Henry Hill Drive, 601.398.2335, turnercarems.com) Dr. Justin Turner, who owns TurnerCare, says that after seeing his mom, Janice Armstrong, sacrifice for their family, he wanted to be able to help her. As he got older, he realized he wanted to be able to help others, as well. “When you’re walking in purpose, you don’t have to go looking for opportunities,” he says. “Opportunities come looking for you.” Turner received a bachelor’s
degree from Jackson State University in 2003 before getting his doctorate at Meharry Medical College in 2008. At TurnerCare, which he opened in 2013, he says that he and his staff take a holistic approach to wellness, dealing with each patient’s physical, mental and spiritual health to help that person stay healthy and feel better. —ShaCamree Gowdy
Finalists: D’Ellia McKinneyEvans (Odom’s Eye Care-Optical, 1461 Canton Mart Road, Suite A, 601.977.0272, odoms eyecare.com) / Carrie Nash (Baptist Medical Clinic, 1490 W. Government St., Suite 10, 601.825.1936, mbhs.org) / Kimberly Smash (Prolific Health and Wellness, 2675 River Ridge Drive, 601.718.0308) / Patrick Boler (Magnolia Dermatology, 815 Highway 80 E.,
Clinton, 601.910.3004, magnolia derm.org) / Timothy Quinn (Quinn Healthcare, 768 N. Avery Blvd., Ridgeland, 601.487.6482, quinntotalhealth.com)
Best Women’s Clinic: Jackson Healthcare for Women (291 E. Layfair Drive, 601-936-9190, jhcfw.com)
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Jackson Healthcare for Women, works to make it an overall good experience for every woman who walks through the door. The clinic offers services such as obstetrics (infertility treatment, maternity care, sonograms and ultrasounds), annual exams, contraception procedures, sexual health services and even weight management. —Amber Helsel
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Finalists: East Lakeland OB/ GYN Associates, PA (1020 River Oaks Drive, Suite 320, 601.936.1400, eastlakeland obgyn.com) / Southern Women’s Health (1020 River Oaks Drive, Suite 310, 601.932.5006, swhealth.net) / The Woman’s Clinic (501 Marshall St., Suite 400; 401 Baptist Drive, Suite 402; 601.354.0869, twcms.com) / Women’s Health
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Best Physical Therapy: Paul Jerome Foster (Specialized Physical Therapy, Myofascial Clinic, 533B Keyway Drive, Flowood; 113 W. Jackson St., Suite 1A, Ridgeland; 601.420.0717, specializedptms.com) For the second year in a row, Jacksonians named Paul Jerome Foster, who owns Specialized Physical Therapy, as the metro area’s Best Physical Therapy. At his practice, he and his therapists perform work such as myofascial release, which is visceral manipulation of the gastrointestinal system, and treating headaches and migraines. “It is the thrill of giving people back their quality of life,” he says about his work. “When
most people think of physical therapists they don’t imagine us manipulating the GI system, but (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) is being diagnosed more and more often now, and we can help with that,” he says. He does all his work without the aid of machines or drugs. “I love hands-on therapy,” he says. Specialized Physical Therapy has offices in Flowood and Ridgeland. —R.H. Coupe
Finalists: Angela Cason (The Strength Center Physical Therapy, 4435 Mangum Drive, Suite A, Flowood, 601.932.0305) / Candias Davis (Medicomp Physical Therapy, 1129 Highway 35 S., Suite 2, Forest, 601.469.3320) / Kathy McColumn (McColumn Physical Therapy, 5225 Highway 18 W., Suite C, 601.487.8456) / Mark Ware (The Strength Center Physical Therapy, 4435 Mangum Drive, Flowood, 601.932.0360)
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Best Chiropractor: Laura Stubbs (Body in Balance Healthcare, 5472 Watkins Drive, Suite C, 601.376.5636) As of June 1, Dr. Laura Stubbs has been a chiropractor for seven years. She owns Body in Balance Healthcare, a chiropractic, rehabilitation and massage clinic. “I like being a chiropractor because it is a different approach to health care,” she says. “We focus on the natural and holistic approach to maintain or increase a person’s quality of life without the use of drugs or surgery.” Stubbs graduated from Murrah High School. She attended
Alcorn University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in biology in 2007. After that, she attended Logan University in Missouri, where she received a bachelor’s degree in life science in 2009, a master’s degree in sports science and rehabilitation in 2011, and her Doctor of Chiropractic in 2011. She opened Body in Balance in June 2011. She says that everyone from children to seniors can benefit from chiropractic services, and
she has her own chiropractor that she visits regularly along with her children. —R.H. Coupe Finalists: Billie King (ArmstrongKing Chiropractic, 2014 Raymond Road, Suite A, 601.373.1310, Armstrong-king.com) / Clayton Pitts (Norville Chiropractic Clinic, 1000 Lakeland Square, Suite 400, Flowood, 601.398.9412, flowoodchiropracticcare.com) / Daniel Garvey (Garvey Back & Neck Clinic, 766 Lakeland Drive, Suite B, 601.982.2916, betterdisc.com)
/ R.A. Foxworth (Foxworth Chiropractic, 2470 Flowood Drive, Suite 125, Flowood, 601.932.9201, foxworth.com)
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Best Nurse Practitioner: Alisha McArthur Wilkes (Quinn Healthcare, PLLC, 768 Avery Blvd. N. , Ridgeland, 601.487.6482) Alisha McArthur Wilkes, who is a nurse practitioner at Quinn Healthcare in Ridgeland, wanted to follow in the footsteps of her father, Dr. Willie L. McArthur, a family medicine doctor. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology in 2005, her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 2007, her master’s degree in nursing education in 2013, and her nurse practitioner degree in 2015, all from Alcorn State
University. Wilkes has been at Quinn Healthcare since 2015. “I’ve been able to use the brain of a doctor and the heart of a nurse to provide patients with a fulfilled medical experience while saving lives through awareness.,” she says. —Malcolm Morrow Finalists: Bethany Edwards (TrustCare Express Medical Clinics, 4880 Interstate 55 N.,
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601.487.9199) / Kelly Engelmann (Enhanced Wellness Living, 115 W. Jackson St., Suite 1E, Ridgeland, 601.202.5978; 1855 Lakeland Drive, Suite M10, 601.202.5978) / Rochelle Sandifer (Family Health Care Clinic, 1307 Airport Road, Building 2, Flowood, 601.936.3485) / Skye Gray (Mississippi Medical Aesthetics, 111 Fountains Blvd., Madison, 601.790.9427) / Tracy Rhinewalt (Trustcare Express Medical Clinics, 768
Lake Harbour Drive, Ridgeland, 601. 499.0022)
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BEST OF JACKSON // medical COURTESY SCOTT RUNNELS
Best Cosmetic Surgeon: Scott Runnels (Runnels Center, 1055 River Oaks Drive, Flowood, 601.398.9903, runnelscenter.com) Dr. Scott Runnels had a love of art and science, and while in medical school, he began to see cosmetic surgery as a way to combine those two paths. “Even as child, I remember having an appreciation for people’s perspectives, and I think art gives a person an opportunity to express their perspective,” he says on the Runnels Center website. “Plastic surgery seemed to me the best combination in medi-
cine of the sciences and arts.” He graduated from Mississippi College with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988 and then from medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1993. He finished his general surgery and plastic surgery training at the University of Tennessee. He began practicing in Jackson in 1998 and then opened The Runnels Center in 2005. His specialties include aes-
thetic and cosmetic surgeries for the body, breast and the face. —ShaCamree Gowdy Finalists: Dev ManiSundaram (The Face & Body Center, 2550 Flowood Drive, Flowood, 601.202.4294) / Jep Cole (Cole Facial Clinic & Skin Care, 1030 N. Flowood Drive, Flowood, 601.933.2004) / Shelby Brantley (The Face & Body Center, 2550 Flowood Drive, Flowood, 601.202.4294) /
Stephen Davidson (The Face & Body Center, 601.202.4294)
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Best Hospital: St Dominic Hospital (969 Lakeland Drive, 601.200.2000, stdom.com) This year’s winner for Best Hospital, St. Dominic Hospital, consistently strives to improve its quality of care. In fact, it has earned an “A” for patient safety in the Leapfrog Group’s survey for the last four rating periods. It has also won multiple Best of Jackson awards and ones such as Outstanding Patient Experience from Healthgrades, an award that only 15 percent of hospitals in the U.S. get. It is also the only hospital in Mississippi that has received an Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Centers. St. Dominic, which the Dominican Sis-
ters of Springfield, Ill., sponsor, considers its calling not only to care for the sick, but to provide education and wellness services to the community so that risk factors can be eliminated before they contribute to more serious health problems. The hospital has services for everything from cancer to women’s services to wellness clinics and more. St. Dominic specializes in robotic surgery, women’s health care, and diabetes and heart attack treatment. —Andrea Wright Dilworth
Finalists: Baptist Health Systems (multiple locations, mbhs.org) / Batson Children’s Hospital (2500 N. State St., 601.815.8010, ummchealth.com/batson) / Merit Health Central (1850 Chadwick Drive, 601.376.1000, merithealthcentral.com) / University of Mississippi Medical Center (2500 N. State St., 601.984.1000, umc.edu)
Best Optometrist/Ophthalmologist: Tonyatta Hairston (EnVision Eye Care & Optical Boutique, 1316 N. State St., 601.987.3937, 987eyes.com)
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ter in Biloxi, and with Dr. Dewey Handy in Jackson and Dr. Watts Davis in Laurel. She opened EnVision in 2003. When Hairston isn’t at the clinic, she does public speaking on topics related to eye care and entrepreneurship. She is also an adjunct professor for extern students at Southern College of Optometry and at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. —Andrea Wright Dilworth Finalists: Christopher Bullin (Mississippi EyeCare Associates, 404 Riverwind Drive, Suite
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B1, Pearl, 601.398.3000; 310 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave., Suite 300, 601.366.9020; 7118 Siwell Road, Suite B, Byram, 601.373.0354, mseyecare.org) / Curtis Whittington (Jackson Eye Associates, PLLC, 1200 N. State St., Suite 330, 601.353.2020) / D’Ellia McKinney-Evans (Odom’s Eye CareOptical, 1461 Canton Mart Road, Suite A, 601.977.0272, odomseyecare.com) / Leslie Bear (Leslie H. Bear MD, 1815 Hospital Drive, Suite 462, 601.373.0594, merithealthcentral.com) / Marjorie McLin Lenoir (Reflections Vision Center, 101-C Lexington Drive, Madison, 601.605.4423, reflectionsvisioncenter.com)
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Dr. Tonyatta Hairston did not question what she wanted to be when she grew up. At the age of 6, she was captivated by optometry and ophthalmology, and kept her eyes focused on her goal of improving others’ ability to see the world. “I was fascinated with the human eye and how it allows us to view and interpret the world,” she says. Hairston graduated from Tougaloo College with a bachelor’s degree in biology. She graduated from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis. She did externships at Keesler Medical Cen-
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BEST OF JACKSON // medical Best Orthodontist: Chandra Minor
Best Urgent Care: Baptist Medical Clinic
(Smile Design Orthodontics, 201 Riverwind Drive E., 601.965.9561, smiledesignorthoms.com)
(multiple locations, baptistmedicalclinic.org)
Finalists: Dodd Brister (Brister Orthodontics, 3007 Greenfield Road, Pearl, 601.824.5878) / Eugene Brown (Smiles By Design, 5800 Ridgewood Road, Suite 103, 601.957.1711; 125 Jones St., Madison) / Priscilla Jolly (Jolly Orthodontics, 1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland, 601.605.2400) / William P. Edgar (Dr. William Edgar, 101 Avalon Court, Brandon, 601.919.1990)
Deidra Jones-Snell keeps a busy schedule at Ridgewood Smiles Dentistry, but her work doesn’t stop in the Jackson metro area. She often takes mission trips to Central America and South America to do dental work, which she says make her a better caregiver. “There’s a lot we take for granted,” she says. “It makes you humble. As a result, I try to be more giving in my practice.” She attended Alcorn State University for her undergraduate studies, and received her bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry in 2004. Jones-Snell then earned her doctorate in dental medicine from the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry in 2008. In2016,shebeganherownpractice, which provides a range of dental care services, from cleanings to surgery and more. —Andrea Wright Dilworth
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Finalists: Corner Clinic Urgent Care (132 Lakeland Heights Blvd., Suite A, Flowood, 601.992.0004, cornerclinicurgentcare.com) / MEA Medical Clinics (multiple locations, meamedicalclinics .com) / TrustCare Express Medical Clinics (multiple locations, feelbetterfaster.com)
(Ridgewood Smiles Dentistry, 5800 Ridgewood Road, Suite 105, 601.398.2934, ridgewoodsmilesdentistry.com)
(1067 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland, 601.707.3490, trustcareheart.)
Finalists: Armstrong-King Chiropractic (2014 Raymond Road, Suite A, 601.373.1310, armstrong-king.com) / The Headache Center (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite 7205, Ridgeland, 601.366.0855, mississippimigrainecenter. com)/ Magnolia Dermatology (815 Highway 80 E., Clinton, 601.910.3004, magnoliaderm.org) / The Strength Center Physical Therapy (4435 Mangum Drive, Flowood, 601.932.0305, thestrengthcenter.org) / Specialized Physical Therapy (533B Keyway Drive, Flowood; 113 W. Jackson St., Ridgeland, Suite A; specialized ptms.com, 601.420.0717)
with specific health needs. —Amber Helsel
Best Cosmetic Dentist: Deidra Jones-Snell
Best Specialty Clinic: TrustCare Heart Clinic
Heart disease is the most common cause of death in the U.S. Therefore, it is important to see a doctor if you are having heart problems. That is where a specialty clinic such as TrustCare Heart Clinic can help. The clinic, which is next to the Highland Colony TrustCare Express location, provides comprehensive cardiology care. It can perform services such as heart screenings, cardiac ultrasounds, electrocardiograms (measuring and recording electrical activity in the heart), carotid ultrasounds (using soundwaves to measure the blood flow in the carotid arteries), and stress tests. TrustCare is also in a network of clinics, so if you need to go see a regular doctor, TrustCare Express has locations across the metro area. —Amber Helsel
Sometimes accidents happen, and you need to get to a doctor fast. Luckily, this year’s winner for Best Urgent Care, Baptist Medical Clinic, has 15 locations in the metro area. Across its clinics in Jackson, Clinton, Flowood, Madison, Pearl and Richland, Baptist boasts more than 90 care providers. The clinics offer primary care and can treat non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses. Patients are able to get a variety of services, from routine exams to diabetes and coronary issue treatments. Many of Baptist’s offices are open seven days a week, with some open in the evening. Baptist also has specialty clinics, such as ear, nose and throat, and internal medicine clinics for those
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Growing up, Dr. Chandra Minor always wanted to be in the health field. Now as a medical professional, she says she feels honored to serve people. “I love orthodontics and am happy to be able to provide these services for my patients,” she says. Minor received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Alcorn State University in 2008 before getting a doctorate in dental medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2012. She completed her orthodontic residency program at Howard University. She opened her clinic, Smile Design Orthodontics, in 2014. It can perform orthodontic services for children and adults, including braces and Invisalign, an alternative to braces. —ShaCamree Gowdy
Finalists: Brock Westover (Westover Dental Associates, 2550 Flowood Drive, Suite 401, Flowood, 601.936.2144, westoverdentalassociates.com) / Clayton Grubbs (Clinton Dental Care, 736 Clinton Pkwy., Clinton, 601.488.4086, clinton dentalcarems.com) / Gary Keeler (Gary Keeler DDS, 1000 Lakeland Square Ext., Suite 700, Flowood, 601.936.3555) / Stewart Strange (Mississippi Dental Center, 4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 235, 601.987.8722, paulastewartdmd.com) boomjackson.com
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Large Lunch & Dinner Menu of Authentic Asian Cuisine Also Available Two Locations Open Daily 11:00am-9:30pm for Dine-In or Carry-Out IN FLOWOOD OFF LAKELAND DR: 1002 Treetop Blvd 601-664-7588 IN MADISON ON HWY 51: 1030-A Hwy 51 601-790-7999
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COLD COFFEE DRINKS FROZEN YOGURT Fondren Fro-Yo (2951 Old Canton Road, 601.944.2004) Berry Berry Good Frozen Yogurt (545 Park Way, Flowood, berryberrygoodyogurt.com) Millie D’s Frozen Desserts (140 Township Ave., Suite 112, Ridgeland; 127A Highway 80 E., Clinton, millieds.com)
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La Brioche Patisserie (2906 N. State St., 601.988.2299; Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S. Lamar St. labriochems.com) Broad Street Baking Company (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601.362.2900, broadstbakery.com) Cups Espresso Café (multiple locations; cupsespressocafe.com) Sneaky Beans (2914 N. State St., 601.487.6349)
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Mocha Mugs (multiple locations, mochamugs.com) Fusion Coffeehouse (1111 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite A, Ridgeland, 601.856.6001, fusioncoffeehouse.com) M7 Coffee House (111 N. Wheatley St., Ridgeland, 601.790.7971) East Brandon Coffee Factory (143 W. Government St., Brandon, 601.201.5730)
Deep South Pops (1800 N. State St., 601-398-2174; 4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 173, 601.398.0623) Brick Street Pops (400 Monroe St., Clinton, 601.990.9511, brickstreetpops.com) GELATO
Fusion Coffeehouse (1111 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite A, Ridgeland, 601.856.6001) La Brioche Patisserie (2906 N. State St., 601.988.2299; Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S. Lamar St.) Deep South Pops (1800 N. State St., 601.398.2174; 4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 173, 601.398.0623; deepsouthpops.com)
ICE CREAM 30 Below Rolled Ice Cream (601.720.3847) Chunky Dunks Sweets Truck (601.506.5951) Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St., 601.368.1919, salandmookies.com) MILKSHAKES Brent’s Drugs (655 Duling Ave., 601.366.3427) Fine & Dandy (100 District Blvd. E., 601.202.5050, eatdandy.com) Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St., 601.368.1919, salandmookies.com) SHAVED ICE Nandy’s Candy (1220 E. Northside Drive, Suite 380, 601.362.9553) Sno Biz (multiple locations, snobiz.com) boomjackson.com
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YOUNG INFLUENTIALS 2018 Aleesha Moses Hudson
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or Aleesha Moses Hudson, being a budget analyst comes naturally to her. “I’ve always been analytical and paid attention to detail,” she says. “... (I’m) so analytical that (I) think outside of the box.” Hudson, 37, is an analyst, area 3 for Enbridge, which is based out of Canada. She was originally hired in 2006 when the company was still known as Duke Energy. In January 2007, Duke sent her division off to form Spectra. Enbridge purchased Spectra in February 2017. When Hudson attended Raymond High School, computer science was one of the top majors in colleges and universities at that time, so that is what she pursued. “Computer programmers and computer analysts were in high demand,” she says. In 2001, however, Hudson had a summer internship with State Farm in Bloomington, Ill., to build work experience in computer programming. While there, she realized she did not want to go into that field. However, because she had one more year of college (and she was on academic scholarship), so she stayed the course and received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Jackson State University in 2002. In 2003, she became an analyst planner for one of the departments at Nissan North America in Canton in 2003. “I developed strong analytical skills while in college, and ... those skills made it very easy for me to transition to analyzing numbers,” Hudson says. In 2005, she entered the Aspire Program, an accelerated degree program for adults, at Belhaven University. She received master’s degree in management in 2006. Hudson also has a passion for serving others. She is a member of the Junior League of Jackson, where she currently serves as the 2018-2019 Internal Controls chairperson. In that position, she analyzes the Junior League’s processes including documents, and recommends improvements to the finance council. She also does risk assessments of financial practices and procedures. She is also active with the Jackson State University National Alumni Association Byram-Terry Chapter, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and its charitable arm, the Ebony Pearls Foundation Inc. She has been involved in numerous events, including on the steering committee of Ebony Pearls’ “Pearl Factor: An All-White Affair” from 2015 to 2017 and has been on the organization’s annual cotillion for several years. Hudson is married to Darrin Hudson. The couple has two children, Brandon and Alyson. —Maya Parker
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rew Mellon, the U.S. director of The Hard Places Community and the chief operating officer of Fondren staple Swell-O-Phonic, maintains a community-centered ethos in his work in Cambodia as well as in his life in Mississippi. Mellon’s sister, Alli Mellon, who currently serves as an executive director for the organization (Drew Mellon is also one), founded The Hard Places Community in 2008 to combat child sex trafficking in Cambodia through a grassroots approach. Mellon graduated from Memphis Theological Seminary in 2008, never expecting to return to Jackson. He married his wife, Ally, in 2010 and ended up relocating to Jackson after the library at Summer Hill Junior High School in Clinton hired her. Although he began working at Swell-O-Phonic shortly after he and his wife moved here, he still continued to apply for doctorate programs with the long-term goal of teaching social justice at the collegiate level. However, his passions shifted as he began helping Alli with organization and fundraising at Hard Places. “The thought of just sitting in a classroom and studying and writing for four or five more years just felt dead to me,” Mellon says. “I didn’t get excited about it, but when I thought about being on the ground and working with these kids and people being abused and trafficked, I felt life again.” Mellon says that Hard Places is a tool for local communities in Cambodia to use, as opposed to a top-down mechanism to impose outside solutions to local problems. “It’s a core Hard Places belief that we can’t swoop into these other countries and change it,” Mellon says. “We’re not these great white saviors coming from the west that can fix all the problems of a place that isn’t ours. … What we do is empower and help the people that are actually from there (to) really take care of their own country. Mellon says the organization has about 40 Cambodian staff members between a couple of centers. He goes to the country about once or twice each year in the summer. “It’s so cool to see these people who are from there changing their country for the future,” he says. “They want their children, their next generation to grow up in a place that’s different.” —Laney Lenox
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t was during her residency at Howard University that dermatologist Dr. Jasmine Hollinger decided to specialize in skin of color. “I saw people from all races there—(Asian), African-American, Latino, Native American,” she says. “I got to see skin conditions which affected each different skin color, and I found my niche treating vitiligo, hyperpigmentation and melasma.” Hollinger, 33, is one of the only African American dermatologists in Mississippi. She practices at University Physicians at Grants Ferry in Flowood. Besides treating issues such as vitiligo (loss of pigmentation in patches of skin), melasma (brown patches, usually on the face) and hyperpigmentation, she also treats acne, skin cancer and hair loss. The doctor says her passion for dermatology came from dermatology problems in her own family. “My brother had vitiligo,” she says. “I had eczema. Skin conditions are just a personal thing for me.” She saw dermatology as a way to give back to her community, but she also saw a lack of access to care for patients of color, as her brother had to go to Washington, D.C., for his vitiligo treatment. Hollinger attended Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where
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she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in African and African American studies with a minor in biology in 2007. She then attended UMMC School of Medicine, where she received her medical degree in 2011. She then did a year-long internal medicine internship at the hospital. After that, she did her dermatology residency at Howard University in Washington D.C., which she completed in 2015. Hollinger came back to Jackson that year because she felt a need to serve her community. “My family is here, this is my home,” she says. “There’s a need for my kind of dermatology in Mississippi because of the large population of people with skin of color. I’m glad I get to do it.” Hollinger began working at UMMC that year and says she enjoys working with students and the medical residents She says her students keep her on her toes. “I have to know my stuff, and if I don’t know it, I have to know where to find it,” she says. She has been married for seven years to her husband, Lowell, who is an associate director of band and music professor at Jackson State University. They have one daughter, Kynzie, and a miniature schnauzer named Kingsley. —Seth Reeks boomjackson.com
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XN Barley’s Angels founding committee member Charlene Williams did not always like beer. Her now-husband, Preston Williams, is a fan of craft beer and introduced her to it, listening to her likes and dislikes to find a beer that fit her style, she says. “We actually traveled out to North Carolina to see a concert, and while we were there on vacation, we decided to go into a Flying Saucer (Draught Emporium), and I sat down and said, ‘I don’t know. Just give me something local.’” The bartender handed her an India pale ale, and Williams says she fell in love. Williams, a Florence, Miss., native, moved to Jackson in 2006. She started college at Tulane University in 2015 and graduated in December 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in public relations and a minor in business. She also got management and new business venture certifications while studying for her undergraduate degrees.
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Public relations was a natural fit for Williams because she likes talking and networking, she says. She currently works as the marketing and associations management coordinator for McLaughlin, PC. She spends much of her time working with the Mississippi Brewers’ Guild on marketing, including brand awareness, “to try to get Mississippians drinking more Mississippi beer,” she says. “We have some great stuff.” She sees the need for more women in the craft-beer industry and says the state is actually doing well on that front. Mississippi breweries are doing it right, Williams says. “Women have ownership in it; women are on the front ends of getting the product out and developing the product. I just thought, since I have the knowledge, this is where I can fit into it,” she says. “It’s not just a man’s job. Women are equally into it.” Williams says that in 2014, JXN Barley’s
Angels founder Toni Francis had just had her baby and needed an outlet. Her husband, T Francis, encouraged her to do something with other women. Francis looked into different groups and realized that Barley’s Angels was something she was interested in. When Francis realized the group would be bigger than she expected, she asked Williams to be on the team because she is good at organization and coordination, also bringing on Shanna Head and Heather Collette. They started JXN Barley’s Angels thinking they would have maybe 10 people show up, but these days, Williams says anywhere from 25 to 40 women are at the group’s events. “There’s a need for it,” she says. “There are a lot women who enjoy this market, and enjoy this industry. They need an outlet. There are some who are like me, who ... were not really into it but wanted to learn more about it.” —Amber Helsel
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Urban Innovator Crabtree, during graduate school. While there, she decided that she wanted to create an ecoindustrial park where businesses and the community come together to reduce waste, share resources and create sustainable development. Detroit’s market for industrial property is extremely saturated, she says, and there were not many cities with affordable property where she wanted to live. While Jackson tends to fall toward the bottom of many lists for aspects such as health and transportation, the city has a low cost of living. In 2016, she and Crabtree bought the an industrial building in the Virden Addition Industrial Park in Fondren to turn it into what they’re calling The Ecoshed. “We want to turn into a mixed-used, closedloop-system building where everything that is grown at the building or created at the building either is recycled, reused or revitalized in some way,” Rida says. She and Crabtree moved here five months ago to begin work on the project and around the end of February, the couple began their posi-
tions with the City of Jackson as urban designers for the Long-Range Planning Division. Currently, Rida is working on projects for the City such as the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge, which is an up-to-$1-million grant that Bloomberg Philanthropies gives to cities that are working to tackle civic issues through public art projects. The topic for Jackson’s art challenge is food access, Rida says. “With food access, there are so many different metrics that go into deciding how states are designated as having high rates of heart attacks or obesity or having poor food access,” she says. The metrics include transportation, quality of restaurants and grocery stores, and the number of groceries per capita. Rida is also working on an expansion to JATRAN, tentatively called “One Line,” an autoindependent corridor near Fortification Street; the bike-share program that is supposed to begin in 2019; and a project that will turn the land across from the Jackson Convention Complex into mixed-use development space. —Amber Helsel
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reating social spaces has been a driving force behind Salam Rida’s work as an architect. “Thinking about how people can come together in different ways, and also thinking about how technology can also be utilized in that is a big part of what reinforces the work that I do today,” the Jackson city planner says. Rida, a Detroit, Mich., native, received her bachelor’s degree in sociology and urban studies from the University of Michigan in 2011. After college, she bartended for two and a half years while also doing graphic design and working for ESPN Rise as a sports photographer, mostly shooting hockey and basketball in Detroit. “I woke up one day and decided that I wasn’t really happy doing web design or photography with ESPN,” she says. “I was just like, ‘I need to find something that I really love to do.’” Rida liked design and working with people, so architecture was a good fit, she says. She earned a master’s degree in the field from the University of Michigan in 2017. She met her fiancé, Clinton native Travis
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adison resident Jason Duren has served as vice president for BancorpSouth’s main office in Jackson since June 2015. He was previously an assistant vice president for Regions Bank’s corporate office in Ridgeland starting in 2010. At BancorpSouth, Duren, 36, is primarily in charge of commercial banking, which involves lending, deposits and cash management. “I feel that I can best help people and my community by being transparent with everyone I work with and my business, being accountable and reliable, and looking out for the best interests of others,” he says. “I joined up with Bancorp South because I felt it would help expand my role and grow my footprint in terms of what I can do for the community.” Duren moved to Madison from Charleston, Miss., in 2006. He graduated from Charleston High School and went on to Mississippi College, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 2004. In addition to his position at BancorpSouth, he serves as president of the Capitol Area Sunset Rotary Club, which sets up clothing supply closets for students at Pecan Park Elementary School in Jackson. He is also a board member and chairman of the Ambassador Committee for the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership. “The Chamber promotes economic development in the Jackson community by hosting grand openings for new businesses,” Duren says. “We also serve as a resource arm for businesses in Jackson.” Banking is something of a family tradition, one that he says he took to from an early age. “I have plenty of family members involved in banking, including my grandmother, Nancy Duren, and my uncle, Tommy Duren,” he says. “I’ve always been good with numbers and had a talent for putting deals together, and I enjoyed the idea of establishing a strong customer relationship.” His hobbies include working out, playing golf, hunting and fishing. He and his wife, Sarah, have been married since June 2010. They have a 5-year-old son named Meyer and a 4-year-old daughter named Lola. —Dustin Cardon
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Justin Ransburg INSPIRED ARTIST
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ferent ways, but he always wants to get across one particular thing. “I want to prove to myself and others that if you love something, you’ll figure out how to manage through it,” he says. Ransburg says he sees himself doing nothing else but creating art. As for the near future, he has plans to create more murals and art books. Some of his recent works include a mural for Pretty Slayer Hair Salon on Old Canton Road in Ridgeland. He also released his deluxe coloring book series, “AXIOM,” in April. “It’s three books altogether,” he says. “Book one is called ‘The Coloring Book.’ Book two is called ‘Gyokuro’s Bath House,’ and book three is called ‘Dat’s Extra.’” Ransburg says his influences usually come from what he reads and sees online, as well as the people he interacts with in dayto-day life. Those people include some of his
peers in the Jackson arts scene. “I’ve been meeting with the Drawing Club at Sneaky Beans on Thursdays at 6 o’clock for over about two years now,” he says. “I know that those individuals have an influence on my work.” When not creating art, Ransburg enjoys collects cigar boxes, reads comics—mostly manga (Japanese comics)—and watches cartoons both for fun and as research for art. Ransburg also one of the founding members of “The Black Pocket,” a weekly podcast in which he and co-hosts Ryan Weary and Robert Morris discuss topics such as art, culture and current events. Within everything he is involved with, Ransburg says he lives by this mantra: “Love yourself because you’re awesome; always improve on what you do; help others if they’re struggling; be open to receive help yourself.” —Maya Parker
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lthough Justin Ransburg, 30, has been creating art all his life, he says that decided to make his passion a full-time commitment after working in visitor services at the Mississippi Museum of Art from 2015 to 2016. “I always (said to myself) while working at the museum, ‘I should be making this,’ but life happened, and I decided it was time to make a change,” Ransburg says. He has shown his work, which often features Afro-futuristic themes, at venues such as Gallery1 at Jackson State University and JaxZen Float in midtown. His murals appear at numerous Jackson businesses and venues, including Lucky Town Brewing Company, Offbeat and Spengler’s Corner in downtown Jackson, which features his “I Believe in Jackson” mural. With everything he creates, Ransburg says that he hopes it all speaks to people in dif-
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rystal Jackson will not be headed right back to hitting the books after getting her undergraduate degree. That is not to say the 21-year-old Jackson native is without a plan for her future, though. Jackson received her bachelor’s degree in music with a concentration on vocal performance from Millsaps College in May 2018, and plans to apply for master’s programs at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music, to name a few. Before continuing her education, Jackson says she wants to take a year to work at The Wolfe Studio, and pursue her careers as both
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a visual artist and as R&B and soul singersongwriter Krystal Gem. Although Jackson plans to continue studying operatic performance, as she has since childhood, Jackson says that she has not yet decided to commit to it as a career. “While I have been training for that since I was 7 years old, I find that singing and songwriting is a lot more cathartic and enjoyable for me as a performer as opposed to the theatrics and the seriousness of classical music,” she says. “I’m not sure what my life is going to look like, after (graduate) school especially, but performance is at the foundation.” Since beginning to perform popular music
at The Med Bar & Grill’s “Synergy Nights” in 2016, she has built a following in the local music scene. In the beginning, Jackson says that her music and art often focused on finding her place in the world as a young person of color and a member of the LGBT community. Now, she creates more from a place of selfacceptance and pride, she says. Jackson is currently working with producer DonChe on a new recording project, which spun off of a collaboration with Adorned by Chi, a Japanese pop-cultureinspired lifestyle brand based in Dallas. She plans to release her EP this summer. —Micah Smith
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ackson resident Shelby Parsons combines her love for volunteering and caring for animals with a desire to make a difference in Mississippi through her job as communications manager for Mississippi Spay and Neuter’s Big Fix Clinic (100 Business Center Pkwy., Suite B, Pearl). Through her job, Parsons manages the clinic’s website, social media and on-site thrift store, while also working with animals in the clinic itself. She also handles fundraising and newsletters for the clinic. She first joined the organization as a volunteer in 2013. During her first year there, she suggested starting a fundraiser to subsidize spay and neutering services for local pet owners who can’t afford it. Her idea came to fruition in February 2014 in the guise of the “Spaytacular,” which the clinic has held every year since. The event consists of a silent auction, live entertainment and a dinner at Table 100 in Flowood.
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Originally from Volcano, Calif., Parsons has lived in Jackson since 2012. She first began working with animals when she joined the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon while she was living in the state in 2010. The organization spayed and neutered wild cats that local residents brought in and then released the cats afterward. Parsons, 31, says she decided to move to Jackson because she “wanted to do something impactful in a place where fewer things were happening,” she says. “Although I didn’t know what I wanted to do right away at the time, I did eventually reach out to Mississippi Spay and Neuter here because volunteering is something that’s become a passion for me,” Parsons says. “While this kind of work may not seem exciting, it’s a method of prevention that makes a dent in over-population with the least amount of money possible.” A lack of widely available prevention services makes overpopulation of cats and dogs
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a huge problem in the South, she says. “The work Mississippi Spay and Neuter does is so important because by providing affordable services, we help a lot more animals with a lot less money and effort,” Parsons says. “At the moment, there are nine animals for every person in Mississippi, which is not a sustainable situation without spay and neuter services.” In addition to her work with the Big Fix Clinic, Parsons is president and co-founder of Big House Books, a nonprofit that has been sending books to inmates in Mississippi correctional facilities since January 2015. The organization is currently seeking donations of composition books, American Sign Language literature, adult coloring books and astrology, as well as packs of colored pencils. For more information, visit bighousebooksms.org. She also helps manage a cooperative workspace and art gallery in Big House Books’ base of operations in midtown. —Dustin Cardon
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tephen Brown, 31, has almost been a lifelong Jacksonian, but that does not mean he always planned on staying in the capital city. Brown, who performs as rapper 5th Child, went to Loyola University in New Orleans to study entertainment public relations and music business, graduating in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in public relations. Then, he moved to Atlanta, where he thought there would be more opportunities for his career. “I felt bad about leaving,” he says. After only a handful of months, he decided to return to Jackson in 2009 and got involved with Ask for More Arts, which allowed him to use his music skills to educate children. After that, he taught at Woodville Heights Elementary
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in Jackson for about three years. He says he loved teaching, but it didn’t pay the bills, so he left and began tutoring with the Boys & Girls Club, working on music and waiting tables at Papito’s Grill. “The money was better, but it wasn’t fulfilling,” he says. Then, Brown found an opportunity with Woodward Hines Education Foundation’s Get2College program as an ACT tutor. He began tutoring in May 2012, and in January 2013, Get2College created a full-time position for Brown as the assistant director of outreach. “I get to go out to schools and tell kids what they need to do to get into college,” he says. “I get to work with families on getting financial aid. I help them find scholarships.”
In addition to his work, Brown still records new music and performs as 5th Child locally and around the region in cities such as Memphis, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Atlanta. He has released seven albums, and his eighth will be out on Juneteenth this year. He has also continued to combine his abilities as a rapper and educator through the Poindexter Park Afterschool Club, which allows him to teach English to elementary kids through music. He says the children write their own songs and record them in his studio, and he helps them make music videos. “I returned to Jackson to give back, but I’ve found I’ve gotten more out of Jackson than I could ever give back,” he says. —Seth Reeks
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Luce Foundation that uses the art collections at both institutions to foster dialogue about civil-rights issues. CAPE guides some of the programming, which includes exhibits such as “Now: The Call and Look of Freedom,” a gallery that features artists with work grounded in the African American experience, including Romare Bearden and Betye Saar. “We’re trying to bring together parts of the community with art, with artists and with art-making in a way that responds to issues that are important to our community,” MMA Director Betsy Bradley says. Besides “White Gold,” the museum also acquired works such as Benny Andrews’ “Trail of Tears” and Hank Willis Thomas’ “Flying Geese,” which incorporates historic photos from an African American photographer woven into a single quilt-like piece that reflects on racial representation and perspectives. “We feel like artists and artworks are uniquely positioned to start conversation in ways that are unique to art,” Rankin says. “Artists give us a way as viewers to see the world through someone else’s eyes, which is ultimately what it means to become more understanding of the people that we share the world with.” The center will also launch two artist residencies. One will be for an artist outside of Mississippi (though the person should have Mississippi roots of some kind, Rankin says) to come to Jackson and do community-engaged artwork. The museum will also have two statewide residencies each year for artists in the state to do work in another community. “Everywhere you go in Mississippi, it’s ground zero for some persistent history and amazing storytelling traditions that are core to who we are as Mississippians and who communities are,” he says. “It’s doing a work, an installation or performance, ... a visual-art project, a community-engaged work that works with communities to make it.” The national residency will be invitation-based, but the statewide residency will begin with a “listening tour” to get Local chef Nick Wallace spoke during the April edition of “Re:frame.” The ideas from communities and see what stories need to be told theme for that month was “This Land Is My Land,” and participants talked and issues the art should deal with. After that, artists will be about economic justice and southern farmland. able to submit ideas. Rankin says the museum will start the CAPE Innovation Lab, a gallery space that allows viewers to commemoration of the assassination of Medgar Evers and the 50th engage with the art and dialogue, this fall. “There’s three values of CAPE, which (are) transparency, equity and anniversary of Freedom Summer. “We had been responding to these issues of equity and civil truth, and those mean a lot of different things. But one of the important elements of transparency is to bring the community and viewers and visirights and art, but CAPE is an intentional, strategic encapsulation of dotors along at different stages, not just when something goes on the wall, ing that work on a long-term, ongoing basis, essentially,” Rankin says. “It’s using artwork to start conversation in simple terms, and really but backing up about what we’re thinking about, what the community is thinking about, and use CAPE as a way to bring those together, so that to use it to move the needle to inspire deeper understanding and dialogue what we do can be meaningful and authentic,” he says. about issues that are relevant to contemporary life.” CAPE has also have a community-advisory council that will include The museum received a three-year grant in 2017 from the W.K. Kelpeople from each City ward (and beyond) who will workshop ideas, give logg Foundation to create CAPE and launched the initiative in November. feedback and hold the center accountable, Rankin says. One of the ways the center has used art to create dialogue around so“[I]n a sense, artists have a tradition of showing the world truths, not cial issues is through hosting events such as “Re:frame,” a dialogue series a single truth, but their truth, and so combining art works and that voice that connects art to modern life. During the April program, “This Land is My Land,” the center used “White Gold” to discuss economic justice and with the voices of people from all different walks of life is a natural way to southern farmland. The museum also has the Arts & Civil Rights Initia- have this really informative, compelling dialogue,” he says. For more information, visit museumcape.org. tive, a partnership with Tougaloo College through a grant from the Henry
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im yellow spotlights shine on Thomas Sayre’s earthcasts in “White Gold” in the Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Sayre created those pieces by pouring concrete directly onto earth. On the walls are “Thicket 1-14,” “Row 1-10” and “Barn 1-3,” which he created using tar and paint. The entire space is bathed in an orange light that mimics a sunset. The museum brought in the installation as part of its new initiative, the Center for Art & Public Exchange, which seeks to create dialogue around issues such as race equity through art. CAPE Managing Director Julian Rankin says the initiative was a natural progression for the museum. Over the last 10 years since the museum moved into its current space, it had commemorated civilrights anniversaries such as in 2011 with the Freedom Riders, the 2013
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onnie Dennis kneels on the floor of his workshop and hammers a cookie-cutter-like piece of metal into a leather strap, rounding its edges. After producing six or so symmetrical straps, he starts his next task and begins attaching metal buttons to the ends, which also requires a decent amount of hammering. “Normally, I’m wearing headphones so I can’t hear this part,” Dennis says. “This is loud.” All around, it is an atypical crafting session for him, mainly because it is on a weekday afternoon. By day, Dennis, 41, is a jury administrator for the U.S. District Courts, but by night, he makes custom gear for musicians across the country through his one-man business, Tone Snob Pedalboards. For five years, Dennis has run Tone Snob from the garage workshop at his home in Brandon, building pedalboards from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. most nights—with the door shut to avoid annoying the neighbors, of course. Before he launched the business in 2013, Dennis and his wife, Misty, made picture frames together and sold them at art shows around the South. “When we had our second kid, it became just me doing picture frames, and it was just a little too much,” he says. “So I got burned out on it. I think I was driving home from our last picture-frame thing, and I said, ‘I’ve got to figure out something else. I’ll just build pedalboards.’” Dennis has played the guitar since he was 14 years old, and as a young adult, he toured for about nine years with Ninth Hour, a Christian rock band that he formed with his twin brother, Ronnie,
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at age 17. He currently plays in the worship band at Christ United Methodist Church in Jackson. While he had never built a pedalboard before, he says that he knew how he wanted them to look, so he began doing research. “The first ones I built were to sell,” Dennis says. “They were terrible, of course. But they sold, and I just kind of kept doing it. … Pretty quickly, they came together and looked like I wanted them to look. Coming up with new ideas and different things to set them apart just kind of happens as you look for new materials and stuff.” When making custom pieces, Dennis says that he often gets to try new things and add specialty features, which comes with a certain amount of trial and error. He also enlists the help of friend Kevin Hoober for some of the more complicated electrical work. The range of the work depends on the client, he says. On this particular day in early April, Dennis is building a 15-by-30-inch board with a teal-and-white covering and backlit logos. A month earlier, Nashville guitarist David Elder challenged him to build the “tackiest, most obnoxious” board, resulting in a furry blue, pink and purple concoction. Naturally, the problem with being a one-man business is being one man, Dennis says, and building pedalboards requires a lot more time and materials than picture frames did. However, he hopes that Tone Snob will one day grow into a full-time business, with more employees to take on more orders. “And it’d be nice to make a profit,” he says with a laugh. For more information, visit tonesnobpedalboards.com.
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“I Love the ’90s” Tour June 8, 7 p.m., at brandon amphitheater (8190 rock Way, brandon). the concert features performances from Salt n pepa with Spinderalla, rob base, kid n play, coolio, tone loc and young mc. doors open at 6 p.m. $20-$65.50; brandonamphitheater.com.
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Dragon Boat Regatta June 9, 8:30 a.m., at old trace park (ridgeland). the 10th annual boat race also includes a free festival with food, drink and craft vendors, a children’s village and more. $300 team registration; madisoncountychamber.com.
Mississippi Comic Con June 23, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., June 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at mississippi trade mart (1200 mississippi St.). the comic and pop-culture event features vendors, artist booths, panel discussions, and guests such as ryan hurst, michael biehn, kate flannery and more. $20 per day, $30 two-day pass, $5 per day for ages 2-8; mississippicomiccon.com.
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The Bacon Brothers June 5, 7:30 p.m., at duling hall (622 duling ave.). brothers michael and kevin bacon front the americana-rock band. doors open at 6:30 p.m. $45 in advance, $50 day of show, $100 Vip meet-and-greet; ardenland.net.
Juneteenth on Farish Parade & Festival June 16, 4-10 p.m., in historic farish Street district. the third annual festival features vendor booths from more than 40 african american-owned businesses, tailgating, a parade, live music, food and drink for sale, children’s activities and more. tailgating begins at 2 p.m. free admission; call 601.927.8867; find it on Facebook.
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USA International Ballet Competition, Round III June 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m., at thalia mara hall (255 e. pascagoula St.). Finalists from the first two rounds perform a selection of classical and contemporary dance pieces in front of jurors, who will select the best dancers as the medalists for 2018. $27-$50; usaibc.com.
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Curiosity Day: Cool Science on a Hot Day June 27, 1:30-3 p.m., at mississippi museum of natural Science (2148 riverside drive). carl dewitt of hinds community college presents experiments with liquid nitrogen, one of the coldest materials on earth. included with admission ($6 for adults, $4 for ages 3-18, free under age 3); call 601.576.6000; mdwfp.com.
30 D3: Downtown Design Dialogue June 30, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Jackson convention complex (105 e. pascagoula St.). the city of Jackson presents the opportunity for citizens to learn more about plans to develop 7.75 acres downtown. residents can submit ideas for how they would like to see the area used via social media. free admission; find it on Facebook.
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Farm Bureau Watermelon Classic July 4, 7:30-10:30 a.m., at mississippi Sports hall of fame & museum (1152 lakeland drive). the annual event includes a 5k run/walk, a onemile wellness fun run, watermelon and beverages after the race, and more. participants are encouraged to arrive early. $25 5k, $15 fun run; msfame.com.
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Mississippi Corvette Classic July 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Jackson convention complex (105 e. pascagoula St.). the car show also includes vendors, live music, a silent auction, an opportunity to drive a new chevrolet, and more. $5 admission; call 601.668.0533; mscorvetteclub.com.
Mississippi Black Rodeo July 14, 8 p.m., at mississippi coliseum (1207 mississippi St.). the 16th annual rodeo show features a variety of events, including barrel racing, bull riding, roping, steer wrestling and more. admission tba; ticketmaster.com.
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Boss Business Expo & Summer Fashion Show July 7, 2-10 p.m., at new Jerusalem church (1285 Raymond Road). includes a vendor pop-up shop, prize drawings, giveaways, food and drink vendors, space jumps, a deejay and more. lookin ameerah is the host. doors open at noon. $10 admission; call 601.317.9196; find it on Facebook.
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Imagine Dragons July 8, 7 p.m., at brandon amphitheater (8190 Rock way, brandon). the las Vegas rock band’s latest album is titled “evolve.” grace Vanderwaal also performs. doors open at 6 p.m. $54.40-$94.50; brandonamphitheater.com.
Neon Night July 14, 8 p.m.midnight, at mississippi children’s museum (2145 museum blvd.). the museum’s summer fundraising event features local food trucks, live music, cocktails from local restaurants and more. admission tba; call 601.981.5469; mschildrensmuseum.com.
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Popcorn & Pajamas: Museum and a Movie July 20, 6-8:30 p.m., at mississippi museum of natural Science (2148 Riverside drive). includes a screening of a familyfriendly film and free popcorn. pajamas are encouraged. included with admission ($6 for adults, $4 for ages 3-18, free under age 3); call 601.576.6000; mdwfp.com.
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Moving Images in Mississippi July 26-27, 6:30 p.m., at mississippi museum of art (380 S. lamar St.). the event series features a screening of two films shot in mississippi, “my dog Skip” on thursday and “great drives: highway 61” on friday. includes panel discussions on their cultural and historical context. free; call 601.960.1515; msmuseumart.org.
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An Evening with Paula Cole July 27, 8 p.m., at duling hall (622 duling ave.). the grammy award-winning singersongwriter is known for hit songs such as “where have all the cowboys gone?” and “i don’t want to wait.” doors open at 7 p.m. $35 in advance, $40 day of show; call 877.987.6487; ardenland.net.
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“Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta” Aug. 9, 5 p.m., at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Author Julian Rankin signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601.366.7619; lemuriabooks.com.
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Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza Aug. 3-5, at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The annual festival features more than 200 exhibitors from across North America, equipment demonstrations, live animal exhibits, children’s activities, guest speakers and more. Admission TBA; call 601.605.1790; mswildlife.org.
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“Milkweed for Monarchs in Mississippi” Guest Lecture Aug. 7, noon1 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Audrey Harrison, a research biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, discusses Mississippi’s native milkweed plants, which draw monarch butterflies to the state twice a year. Included with admission ($6 for adults, $4 for ages 3-18, free under age 3); call 601.576.6000; mdwfp.com.
7 Music in the City Aug. 7, 5:45 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The monthly music series features performances from different classical and traditional artists with each installment. This month’s program features a recital from pianist Elizabeth Moak. Cash bar available at 5:15 p.m. Free admission; call 601.960.1515; msmuseumart.org.
Mississippi Book Festival Aug. 18, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). The third annual festival features authors from around the country, live interviews, book signings, panel discussions, vendors, tours of the capitol and more. Free admission; msbookfestival.com.
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“Joke’s On You” Comedy Tour Aug. 10, 8 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The comedy show features performances from veteran stand-up comics Gallagher and Artie Fletcher. Doors open at 7 p.m. $45 in advance, $55 day of show; call 877.987.6487; ardenland.net.
Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Fest Aug. 24-25, in Olde Towne Clinton. The annual street festival features live music, arts and craft vendors, food and drinks for sale, a home-brewing competition, children’s activities and more. For all ages. Admission TBA; redbrickroads.com.
11 Mississippi Craft Show Aug. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Aug. 12, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Clyde Muse Center (515 Country Place Pkwy., Pearl). The seventh annual indoor shopping event features artists and craftspeople from across the state presenting their work for sale. $7 for adults, free for ages 12 and under; mscraftshow.com.
17 Lyle Lovett and His Large Band Aug. 17, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Grammy Award-winning musician is known for his blend of country, swing, folk, gospel and blues. Doors open at 7 p.m. $30.50-$75.50; call 877.987.6487; ardenland.net.
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During Jackson native Sam Lane’s junior year at the University of Georgia in Athens, he sustained a traumatic brain injury in a bike accident. After his recovery, he graduated from UGA in May 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in English. Then, he decided that he wanted to travel. Now, he is back in Jackson, working as a project manager at Up in Farms Food Hub. He also recently completed training to be an Accessible Yoga ambassador. Here are some of his favorite places in Jackson.
including a recent exhibition from Texas-based mixed-media artist Rachel Livedalen. 4 Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202, 601.366.7619)—Lemuria is one of the finest purveyors of intelligence and taste in Jackson, with titles like “Empire of Light” by Michael Buble and “Jujitsu For Christ” by Jack Butler. 5 Fair Trade Green (2807 Old Canton Road, 601.987.0002)—I go here regularly for white sage and palo santo incense sticks, but not everything there is as “crunchy.” For example, the store has items such as felt birdhouses from Wild Woolies.
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6 Priced to Move (December)—This is my favorite annual art show in Jackson. This past year’s event had products such as a magnetic knife rack that D+P Designs crafted out of raw-edged live oak.
8 Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave., 601.376.9404, offbeatjxn. com)—This store is a vital part of the capital city. Its reissue selection has gotten me into albums like Bernie Worrell’s “All the Woo in the World.”
7 A Complete Flag Source (5295 Interstate 55 N., Suite A, 601.362.9333, completeflags.com)—This is truly an indispensable retailer here in the capital city, and where you can find a Laurin Stennis Mississippi flag locally. The business i s also fully equipped to install it as high as you like in front of your house.
9 Sweet & Sauer (126 Keener Ave., 303.748.0444, sweetandsauer.co)—While these foods also come out of midtown, you can find Lauren Rhoades’ kombucha, kimchi, fermented mustard and more around town at stores like Rainbow Natural Grocery Cooperative (my favorite grocery store), The Beacon or the Mississippi Farmers Market. boomjackson.com
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