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ON THE COVER Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald, photo courtesy Mississippi State University Athletics
4 Editor’s Note 6 Talks
8 Pray, Plant, Plow Get to know Hinds County Youth Court judge nominee
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euben Antvelink’s love of community and bringing people together that led him to work as a youth director at First Presbyterian Church of Madison and the tour manager at Lucky Town Brewing Company in Jackson. Antvelink, 26, was born in Hopkins, Mich., and graduated from Hopkins Public School before attending Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he received a dual-major bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies and Bible theology in 2014. After graduating from Kuyper, he moved to Jackson and applied for a master’s program at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson. He is will receive his master’s degree in theology from the program in May 2019. Antvelink decided to move here after finishing college to experience an unfamiliar city and a culture, he says. While he didn’t know what to expect from Jackson or Mississippi at first, life in the capital city turned out to be better than anything he could have hoped for, he says. “Jackson is full of people from all walks of life and belief systems coming together to support each other,” he says. They support local mom-and-pop shops, they invite you to come to their music shows, to come and see art that they’ve made. It’s what I think a society should be, supporting each other like that. Jackson
10 Foreign Interference Media talk about Russian interference in the U.S., but what about the U.S.’s interference in other countries?.
Reuben Antvelink has a soul that a lot of other cities don’t seem to have.” He became the youth director at First Presbyterian Church of Madison (7717 Old Canton Road., Madison) after a friend named Seth Duhs vacated the position to become a pastor in Natchez, Miss., in January 2016. Antvelink then became a tour manager for Lucky Town in September 2015. In that position, he shows visitors how Lucky Town makes its beer and tells the brewery’s story, he says. He also works as a bartender, assists in canning, kegging and packaging the beer, and represents Lucky Town at off-site events. “When I was living in Grand Rapids during college, I saw a lot of locally based breweries around and saw how they positively affected their communities,” Antvelink said. “Those breweries often don’t have a lot of money to start off, so they go into industrial parks or forgotten parts of cities to set up and bring life and revitalization into those areas.” Lucky Town did not open in midtown for the sake of an easyto-find building, he says. “They wanted to invest in the community,” he says. “... Representing Lucky Town both inside the brewery and in restaurants and other places where it’s served has become something I’m glad to do every day when I’m out and about.” —Dustin Cardon
14 One Lake 18 FootBall Preview 22 Slate
24 Island Vibes Chandeleur brought a taste of coastal life to Jackson Aug. 6.
26 events 28 music listings 30 Music 32 Puzzles 33 astro 33 Classifieds 34 DIY
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roponents of the “One Lake” project on the Pearl River have a high bar to clear, and I don’t think they’re doing it yet. Their problem is simple: lack of transparency. The “One Lake” plan may be a good idea. I would love for residents and visitors to gain more and varied recreational access to the river. I understand that the Pearl has already been channelized south of Lakeland Drive. If there’s some responsible modern engineering to do in that section of the river that can be (a) mitigated environmentally, (b) deals appropriately with wildlife concerns and (c) doesn’t open taxpayers up to massive lawsuits from towns downstream or national environmental groups, then perhaps it really is the way forward. But the fact that many of the same people who have previously been propo-
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nents of the discarded “Two Lakes” and “LeFleurs Lakes” plans are heavily involved in this report means, in my opinion, that they need to bend over backward to be public-facing and transparent. Oilman and developer John McGowan has stood at the center of a nearly 20year imbroglio called “flood control” on the Pearl River. In my experience, the people around McGowan have always been a little touchy when you ask questions. Or question their answers. Or disagree. We have come out of a long quiet period while we waited for the “One Lake” feasibility study. This summer, we finally had some “public comment” meetings—where the folks running the meetings wouldn’t allow comments out loud in public. As you will see in the cover story and from our other reporting, the Pearl River Vision Foundation and the Rankin Hinds Pearl River Flood & Drainage Control District (“Levee Board”) are somewhat uniquely averse to allowing people to ask questions about their locally sponsored project in public, instead telling them to ask in more private settings and/or to a transcriptionist, where they are then “answered” later in written format. This needs to change.
Suggestion No. 1: The Levee Board needs to hire a facilitator and start having real public meetings. Set ground rules and touchstones if you feel like it could get heated or out of hand. Allow all people in the group to hear the concerns that those who speak raise, and then address those concerns to the best of your ability both during and after the public comment event. Next, as you’ll see in this issue’s cover story, sometimes the Levee Board’s answer to a question is: We didn’t have to publish that at this time, so we didn’t. I think that’s the wrong approach, particularly given the history of the organization that is working on the study. The Pearl River Vision Foundation, a not-for-profit that McGowan helped create, is the group that has contributed significantly the feasibility study for what is now the “One Lake” plan. The foundation doesn’t have its own website; the Levee Board website (rankinhindsflooddistrict. ms.gov/) is used to publicize the project. A request for public documents on that site requires you to submit a form with your name and email address. After that, the documents are not sent to you immediately. (I’m still waiting.) That leads to suggestion No. 2: The Levee Board should publish everything in HTML or PDF format on their website. Make it instantly accessible. Suggestion No. 3: Publish a website for the Pearl River Vision Foundation, including information on its board of directors, staff and funding sources. If PRVF has a contract with the Levee Board, publish that. If this is an organization working exclusively in the best interest of flood control on the Pearl, then being fully transparent should only help its case.
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The “One Lake” plan on the Pearl River could be a good idea, but the way forward cannot be through shrouding it in secrecy and avoiding public comment, questions or open debate of such a large public-works project.
Suggestion No. 4: Publish an audit of land ownership in the river basin that this project will affect. In 2010, the JFP did our own investigation into the ownership of land bordering the river that an earlier iteration of the project would have affected. Where that now stands should be relatively easy for the PRVF to audit and publish. Suggestion No. 5: Put actual maps on the “Maps and Photos” page of the Levee Board’s website, which currently features uncaptioned photos of the Easter Flood—a flood at a level (“500-year event”) that the “One Lake” plan would not mitigate.
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Arielle Dreher
Delreco Harris
Bryan Flynn is nearly a lifelong Mississippian who has written for the JFP since 2010. When not watching or writing about sports, he can be found working on some type of home brew. He wrote the 2018 Football Preview.
Former state reporter Arielle Dreher is trying to read more than 52 books this year, as she continues freelance writing for the Jackson Free Press from out west. She was the lead reporter on the “One Lake” cover story.
Delreco Harris, also known as RaRCharm Artiste, is a professional photographer, singer, songwriter and artist based out of Brandon. He is the owner of RaR Productions, LLC. He contributed photos to the issue.
Suggestion No. 6—this one is for the rest of us. Let’s get real about who is going to pay for this. If you don’t read the cover story carefully, you may miss the part where the state Legislature gave the authority— last year—to the Levee Board to expand the district so more people can be taxed to pay for the project if it comes to fruition. These are people perceived to gain flood-control benefits “directly or indirectly” from the project. You may be on that list and not know it. So, who pays? Levee Board attorney Keith Turner says that’s not a piece of the puzzle we’re allowed to ponder until after the decision to move forward with the project. Isn’t it fair to ask how something is paid for before we sign up for it to happen? If the goal is to get a camel through the eye of a needle, then maybe the Levee Board and PRVF are doing the right thing. But I find it hard to support the idea of “managing the communications” the way they are attempting when what would actually make sense is to … communicate. Again, maybe “One Lake” is a good idea. Just come clean about who’s involved and what the plan is. Face the feedback, dig for answers and build support through transparency. That’s kinda how the system is supposed to work. Read more at jfp.ms/pearlriver.
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“The idea that Robert E. Lee was somehow opposed to slavery is belied by his entire history,” Kruse said. “He was a slave owner. He inherited slaves—that’s true—but what he did to those slaves was much more cruel and brutal than their previous owners had been.” Kruse cited historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor, whose account of Lee’s life stands in contrast to the heroic portrait
McDaniel and others paint. “Under Lee’s watch, every family except for one was broken up, which was an unusual form of cruelty,” Kruse said. “He tore mothers from their children, wives from their husbands, and on and on. He was not a kind master.” Kruse pointed to the 1866 account of Wesley Norris—a former slave of Lee’s—who said that after an attempted
escape, Lee ordered that he and another slave be whipped across their naked flesh and then washed with brine. “Literal salt in the wound,” Kruse said. “This was not a kindly slave master,” Kruse continued. “That’s a myth in general, but Lee was definitely not that.” As for Lee’s role in the Civil War? “He did support secession—he led an armed revolt against the United
Official Football Rulebook: The JFP Edition For a sport with a lot of rules, football can get pretty unruly. You know what would help, though? More rules. We at the Jackson Free Press decided to come up with some additional punishments for referees to dole out this season. • Players flagged for fighting must wear a two-person “buddy jersey” until they talk it out and make up. • Players flagged for excessive celebration must choreograph a dance routine for all players so no one gets left out. • Players flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct must complete an on-the-field etiquette class before the game proceeds.
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State Sen. Chris McDaniel’s embrace of Confederate revisionism appeals to his far-right voting base, such as many who turned out to support him at the Neshoba County Fair and catcall his GOP opponent.
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ississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, spent the early months of his 2014 Republican primary bid for U.S. Senate downplaying his ties to neoConfederate groups. Yes, he admitted, he delivered a keynote address to the Jones County Roslin Heels—a branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans—in June 2013. No, he said, he did not attend a Confederate conference the same group hosted two months later in which one speaker called President Abraham Lincoln a “Marxist.” “Senator McDaniel has driven across Mississippi to speak to many groups over the past decade,” his campaign spokesman, Keith Plunkett, said at the time, minimizing the significance of McDaniel’s interactions with the group known for seeking to recast the South’s role in the Civil War as noble. Now, in his 2018 bid for the seat he failed to capture four years ago, McDaniel has been less timid about aligning himself with Civil War revisionists. On Aug. 15, he started a Twitter firestorm when he sent out a screenshot of one of his own tweets from last year. “Here’s the irony: Robert E. Lee was the most decorated soldier in the U.S. Army,” McDaniel’s screenshot read. “He was a man of unimpeachable integrity. Lincoln offered him command of the Union Army, but Lee refused only because his loyalty was to Virginia. Lee opposed both secession and slavery. And yet to the historically illiterate left, a man who opposed both slavery and secession had come to symbolize both slavery and secession.” Historians across the country pounced on McDaniel’s screenshot (which turned out to be the unattributed words of conservative commentator and admitted felon Dinesh D’Souza). “I think it shows that if anyone is historically illiterate, it’s Senator McDaniel,” Kevin Kruse, a historian at Princeton University, told the JFP.
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As McDaniel refights the War Between the States on Twitter, a leaked poll showed GOP Sen. Cindy HydeSmith basically tied with Dem challenger Mike Espy.
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After state Sen. Chris McDaniel tweeted a poll of whether Gen. and slaveholder Robert E. Lee was a “hero” or a “villain,” more than 100,000 people voting, with 91 percent choosing villain. Whoops.
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Kruse said. “So all in all, Senator McDaniel’s view—or I guess Dinesh D’Souza’s since he stole the quote from him—is fundamentally wrong.”
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States,” Kruse said. “He broke the oath he took as a soldier of the U.S. Army and waged open war against the United States, and in that war, he was notably cruel to any African Americans he encountered.” Kruse pointed to the Battle of the Crater in 1864, in which soldiers under Lee’s command massacred black Union soldiers as they tried to surrender. Later, as president of Washington Lee College, Lee turned a blind eye as students were accused of abducting and raping black girls and of attempted lynchings. “He refused to see African Americans, both slave and free, as people,”
Responding to McDaniel via tweet, historian Kevin Gannon called McDaniel’s rendering of Lee a “racist, whitewashed version of history where the Confederates were ‘heroes.’” “To deny Lee was a supporter of slav-
ery and secession is to deny that the Civil War occurred because a substantial white regional minority refused to abide by the results of a legal election because they saw it as threatening their ‘right’ to own other people,” Gannon wrote. McDaniel’s assessment of Lee “flies in the face of all available historical evidence,” he added. McDaniel dismissed the critiques as “leftist hysteria, tweeting a poll asking fans to decide whether Lee was a “hero” or a “villain.” After 139,580 votes, 91 percent of respondents had sorted Lee into the “villain” camp, 9 percent “hero.” Read related history at jfp.ms/slavery.
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ohnnie McDaniels and his sons spent three days taping 1,411 bumper stickers across his pickup truck. They have not yet thought about how to get them off in November, because he is too busy campaigning to become Hinds County’s new youth-court judge. McDaniels has spent the last three years as the executive director of HenleyYoung Juvenile Justice Center in Jackson.
by Ko Bragg “A kid who’s been subject to abuse and neglect could very well have some delinquency issues, and he (or she) certainly shouldn’t be hauled into different court settings,” he told the Jackson Free Press in an interview in our office on Aug 10. Since he officially began campaigning in February, McDaniels has been on a 100church tour throughout the county. When he spoke to the JFP, he had already visited Delreco Harris
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Johnnie McDaniels, executive director of Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center, stuck 1,400 bumper stickers on his pick-up truck for the Hinds County judge race.
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He inherited a facility that has been under a federal consent decree since 2012. A federal court monitor once referred to the youth jail as “dungeon-like.” In the last calendar year, the facility began admitting juveniles charged as adults for pretrial detention. If elected, McDaniels hopes to create a pipeline to get their cases on the docket more quickly. Some kids at Henley-Young have been there without indictment on adult charges for nearly a year. Hinds County Court has three judges, one of whom presides over the youth court. The senior county-court judge assigns a judge to the juvenile docket, and that is who McDaniels hopes to become in November if voters choose him to fill Judge Bill Skinner’s seat. McDaniels believes this would be a natural progression from leading Henley-Young. He unsuccessfully ran for the same position four years ago before he became director of the facility. The youth-court system is currently split in two: Skinner presides over the abuse and neglect docket, and Judge Melvin Priester Sr., who is running for re-election, has been over the delinquency docket. McDaniels wants to change this.
50. As the son of a maid and a sharecropper from the Delta, McDaniels says he learned the “three P’s” of good politics from them. “I pray, I plant, and I plow,” he says. “And that’s what I’ll be doing until November 6.” Why are you running for this job? [T]he youth court has to have a functioning youth-court judge who is engaged in every aspect of that system, who understands the connection between services that children should be provided when they’re in detention and certainly alternatives to detentions…. I was of the position that you can’t lock your way up out of where we are now…. There’s a way to improve our system, both the juvenile-justice system and the adult system, (and) keeping our communities safe being at the forefront of that. … There are going to be people you have to keep away from other people, people you have to detain, whether they’re juveniles or adults… What I think has been the absolute failure of the juvenilejustice system in Hinds County for the last eight to 10 years (is) this one-shoe-fits-all approach. Detention first without looking
at alternatives is problematic, and we’re going to change the direction of that. What is your hope for juveniles charged as adults locally? ... [O]ne of the things I am going to advocate for as a youth-court judge is the creation of a juvenile-charged-as-adult docket that is separate and distinct from the adult docket for Hinds County. Those individuals who are charged as adults who are housed at Henley-Young … should have their court proceedings conducted in the youth court building. … When you have a juvenile charged as an adult that’s been in a facility like Henley-Young for 300 days unindicted, that’s a problem. … I think that there has to be a way for our circuit-court judges, our countycourt judges and our district attorney’s office and law enforcement and public defenders and others to fix that part of the system. There has to be a way to determine why they hadn’t been indicted. … Those determinations need to be made a lot faster in Hinds County. Would the youth-court judge be able to remand some to the youth-court system? Absolutely. Our laws in the state of Mississippi allow law enforcement to make determinations as to whether or not kids are going to be charged as adults, and I will continue to be adamant that the youth court should absolutely be a part of that determination. There should be a review of juveniles who are charged as adults to de-
termine whether or not their cases should remain in the adult system or whether or not they should be transferred or remanded to the youth court. And those are just factual determinations that shouldn’t be left solely to law enforcement; there has to be other entities taking a look at it. ... What is your strategy to win? ... I listened to my mom sing gospel songs to comfort her concerns, and one of her favorites was “May the Work I’ve Done Speak for Me.” My strategy has been simply to talk about the work I’ve done. No pun intended, but I’m not a Johnny-come-lately to this process. … I spent 13 years as a prosecutor in this city. … I understand how that system works. I’ve amassed expert knowledge on the issues associated with juvenile issues here in Hinds County … where kids were going simply from school to Henley-Young to Raymond to Parchman. I am certain that I am the only person in my race who is a part of the Hinds County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, where we meet frequently with the circuit judges, with law enforcement, with mental-health professionals, with all the people who have a stake in this process to discuss these issues. … You have to come to the table with strategies to improve the system, not just talking about it in the abstract. … I tell people I’m the son of a maid and a sharecropper, so I know I’ve got to work hard from sun up to sun down. … Full interview at jfp.ms/2018elections.
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President Donald Trump loves to wave his saber at Iran, threatening it and raising the specter of yet another war as if the American people weren’t sick of war after 17 consecutive years of it.
It’s not unusual to see terms such as “traitor” and “treason” in USA Today and other corporate media applied to President Donald Trump because of his relationship with Russia’s “thug” leader Vladimir Putin. Still, as valid as the story of Russian interference may be, is it worth this “tsunami of coverage,” as media critic Norman Solomon asks? “It’s very rare … to see any mention of the fact that each country, Russia and the U.S., has several thousand nuclear weapons basically pointed at each other,” Solomon says. “4,000 in each country … at the ready to basically be able to incinerate, not just the two countries, but billions of people on the planet.” Trump has rankled not only liberals and the Democratic Party, but also corporate interests because of his trade policies and military-industrial interests that would love to see another Cold War, or even hot war, with Russia. Missing in all this discussion is a sense of history and awareness of the utter hypocrisy of much of the U.S. handwringing about outside interference in a sovereign nation’s politics. Politicians on both sides of the aisle join in this hypocrisy. Trump loves to wave his saber at Iran, threatening it and raising the specter of yet another war as if the American people weren’t sick of war after 17 consecutive years of it.
Why is Iran no longer the close U.S. friend it once was under the pro-Western rule of the Shah of Iran? Let’s examine. When Mohammed Mossadegh became Iran’s prime minister in 1951, Iranians cheered at his strong stance against the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company that had soaked Iran’s resources while only paying back as much as 16 percent of its profits. England’s response was to join with the United States in launching Operation Ajax to oust Mossadegh and install in his place a Central Intelligence Agency puppet. They succeeded, and the Shah subsequently consolidated his rule into a dictatorship that lasted until the Iranian Revolution of 1979. A long list of countries could be added to Honduras, Yemen, Colombia and Iran as examples of U.S. political interference— Libya, Vietnam, Cuba, Chile and the Democratic Republic of Congo among them. I could go on, but I’ve run out of space. Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. His blog is laborsouth.blogspot.com. Email him at jbatkins@ olemiss.edu.
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to help develop the latest proposal. “One Lake” would reduce flooding levels in the Hightower neighborhood as well as others in downtown and northeast Jackson, Flowood, Pearl and Richland, the recently released draft Environmental Impact Statement for the project says. No ‘Easter Flood’ Prevention The EIS report, released in June after five years of work, shows that the majority of low-income and minority populations the project affects are in Jackson. Besides Hightower, the Levee Board would offer residents in the River Road Subdivision and Canton Avenue Estates in south Jackson voluntary buy-outs as a part of the “One Lake” plan. Downtown minority-owned businesses south and east of where Highway 80 and State Street meet also could choose a buy-out, as well as some businesses and residences in Flowood and Richland. The “One Lake” project does not include mandatory buy-outs, however, so COURTESY ABBY BRAMAN
osie Smiley is used to her street in the Hightower neighborhood in south Jackson flooding in the spring. Some years the water will be 6 to 8 inches deep, like it was last year, and it tends to stick around for about a week. Hightower is nestled south of Highway 80, about a mile west of the Pearl River that snakes past the capital city, dividing Hinds and Rankin counties in two. Hightower has a handful of businesses, churches and older houses on streets with no sidewalks, and about as many vacant lots and abandoned houses as occupied ones. The State of Mississippi owns some of the property; the City of Jackson owns other lots. When Smiley first moved in around 2010, she bought about three truckloads of dirt and poured concrete in other places to protect her house and yard from the water when it floods. Her house is on short stilts as well. They are about eight bricks high. “It was like we were on a little island (before the dirt),” Smiley said recently. If the “One Lake” flood-control and development plan goes forward, her house will likely be in a voluntary buy-out area, where project sponsors will offer to buy the property of the residents and some business owners because their homes and buildings will continue to flood despite the project. Smiley had not heard about “One Lake” before the Jackson Free Press approached her in early August for this story. She said she does not have flood insurance. “I like this area, but if the flood came up way high, you have to move out,” she said. “Every time the flooding came up, it makes the houses ragglier.” The Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District, often called the Levee Board, is supporting the “One Lake” plan, the latest version of a years-long strategy to create a lake development along the Pearl River through Jackson. Oilman John McGowan and partners have long supported and funded various blueprints that combine both flood control and development potential, but have met numerous obstacles along the way, from environmental to costs to public efficacy concerns. “One Lake” is the most modest plan to date. McGowan started the nonprofit Pearl River Vision Foundation in 2000, secretary 12 of state records show, and it has raised funds
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The Pearl River reached its highest flood stage in Easter 1979 when it crested over 43 feet, flooding parts of downtown Jackson. “One Lake” would not “control” a flood that size.
residents will not be forced to relocate out of areas at high flooding risking. On Easter 1979, the Pearl River crested at more than 43 feet, marking a 500-year rarity (called a .5 percent annual chance exceedance flood event), in the Jackson metro. The Mississippi Coliseum parking lot looked like its own lake, and several downtown businesses flooded— and subsequently closed up shop. Levee Board members and project
sponsors, like the Pearl River Vision Foundation, have used the flood to push their “One Lake” plan as the most feasible option for flood control in the area and are not playing up the development potential of new waterfront property it would create as much as they did with prior versions. The plan is not designed for a 500-year flood event, however, but up to a 100-year flood event. So, while it will provide some flood control to any property in a current flood zone, it would not accommodate identical flooding levels as the infamous “Easter flood” because it would have required a much larger footprint. “Designing for the annual 1 percent chance exceedance flood event allowed for the consideration of plans that reduce flood elevations and provide flood risk management yet encompass smaller project footprints,” the engineering appendix to the report says. In other words, if planned to accommodate “1979 Easter” flood-levels, the “One Lake” plan would have had a more adverse environmental impact. The plan, as proposed, will dredge (deepen and widen) the Pearl River channel in a 10-mile stretch along Jackson, Flowood, Pearl and Richland riverbanks, creating a 1,500-acre lake. The plan would move the weir, which is currently located at “Waterworks Curve” just east of Belhaven, south to below Interstate 20. The architects envision using dredged material to create islands as well as new banks along the river—land for recreational use and economic development. The project is estimated to cost more than $345 million, the draft report estimates. It would mean decreased flooding levels ranging from 2 to 8 feet within the project area, defined as the portion of the Pearl River that flows between Jackson and Rankin County, where Flowood, Pearl and Richland touch the river basin. Residents of northeast Jackson, where McGowan lives in the Eastover neighborhood, appear to benefit the most from the project, the draft EIS shows, because they have the most to lose in another 500-year flood event. Most of the structures that 100-year flood conditions would affect are north of Lakeland Drive in Jackson. In fact, the planners axed alternative lake options in the past even though they would have benefited northeast Jackson even more due to their negative environmental impacts.
Key •Impacted by 100 Year Flood Impacted by • 100 Year Flood
Northeast Jackson Number of Structures 2,228 Value ($1000) 349,620
Central Jackson Number of Structures 448 Value ($1000) 619,648
South Jackson Number of Structures 37 Value ($1000) 1,812
COURTESY RANKIN-HINDS FLOOD AND DRAINAGE CONTROL DISTRICT DRAFT FEASIBILITY & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
Number of Structures 947 Value ($1000) 464,245
Properties in northeast Jackson are at the most risk for flooding along the Pearl River in the metro area and also have the most to gain from the “One Lake” project if it works as promised.
Pearl Number of Structures 1,080 Value ($1000) 272,070
Richland Number of Structures 259 Value ($1000) 36,444
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District taxpayers will cover the costs of Environmental Trade-Off? A Lack of Details “One Lake” will have environmental some of the project, but not all. The report The actual flood-control district limits includes cost estimates and percentages of consequences. The plan would affect more are not spelled out in the study—and they how much the district, the State or the U.S. than 2,500 acres of vegetation, including will not be—until the U.S. Army Corps of Congress would pay, but project sponsors the removal of 1,800 acres of wetlands that Engineers in Washington, D.C., approves were hesitant to confirm those numbers or provide natural flood control along the the project. Currently, the district is based say they were anything but estimates. Pearl River banks currently. The dredged on a 2007 map, which includes residents in “It’s premature to be sitting here hav- material would fill that space instead, and Rankin and Hinds counties who live in the ing a discussion about 25 percent or 40 in some parts, parks or other development flood basin of the Pearl River. percent or 50 percent about anything be- would go on top of the new riverbanks. The The district would have to expand to cause there are a lot of variables going into draft EIS shows plans for camping loops, capture more taxpayer revenue to help fund the financing of this thing, and it’s kind of public parks, paved walking trails and other the project, however, likely including more premature to be getting into the details of development along the Pearl’s banks. Jacksonians. The 2007 district map con- that,” Turner told the Jackson Free Press. The plan is to “revegetate” the fill artains mostly Rankin County. eas after construction is finished. The Mississippi Legislature “Given the extent of the project gave the Levee Board taxing authorconstruction activities, the direct, ity in 2017 to “levy a special imadverse impacts to the vegetation provement assessment that applies resources within the Project Area are only to property in the district that considered major in intensity and is directly or indirectly benefited by long-term in duration,” the draft EIS says. “Mitigation measures, inthe project to provide funds for the operation, maintenance and presercluding habitat restoration activities, vation of the project.” will help offset the intensity of these How a person is directly or inimpacts during and after the condirectly benefitted as well as whose struction activities are completed.” property is considered inside the A “One Lake” forum drew mostly older attendees. Abby Braman, the Pearl Riverflood-control district lines will not keeper and a member of the Waterbe determined until later, however. The draft EIS says the flood-control keeper Alliance, says her main opposition is “Once we have a project approved, district is responsible for 35 percent of pre- the plan to rip out the natural wetlands and and we’re moving forward with precon- construction costs and 35 to 50 percent of replace them with dredged material. struction engineering and design—when total construction costs. If these estimates “To me that is not flood control; that we’re in that phase is the time we’ll begin are correct, the district will be on the hook is basically you’re burning down the house the process for district expansion,” board for between $121 million and $168 mil- in order to remodel the kitchen,” she said. attorney Keith Turner told the JFP. lion of the more than $345-million price “You’re destroying all of the natural flood The new district’s residents would get tag of the project. The projected annual and drainage control that is naturally there, flood-control benefits, and thus pay the cost to maintain the “One Lake” project is and you’re just creating more development taxes, he said, adding that the process to more than $600,000 a year. and more impervious surfaces.” expand it will include public participation In Braman’s view, cities along the Pearl Last year, Mississippi lawmakers killed through a notice and comment process. bond legislation to fund some of the proj- need more local flood control to begin The draft EIS was a long time in ect, the federal Water Resources Develop- with. Impervious surfaces, like streets and coming, but the design details are fuzzy in ment Act of 2016 already authorizes the sidewalks, make flash flooding in Jackson the report, when they are included at all. project. The legislation gives congressional a problem—which the “One Lake” project It mentions three adaptive management approval to the projects contained in it, in- is not designed to help. She said local floodplans that will later spell out how the dis- cluding the “One Lake” project, but does ing can be mitigated in different ways. trict intends to mitigate wetlands they are not guarantee funding for it in the bill. “Every citizen in the city of Jackson removing for project construction, for inThe “One Lake” project falls under needs to have a rain barrel. They need to stance, but no details are in the draft EIS. “Section 211” of the Water Resources have ways to soak up the current run-off “We have the concept scoped out of Development Act, meaning the sponsors they have off of the concrete jungle that where and what we want to do, but until could write their own report and that the is Jackson,” she said. “All of this water is we get to finalizing and implementing it, process for project approval is much more flooding down into these tributaries and we don’t have those details,” Turner said. will continue to do so.” flexible than traditional Corps projects. The draft EIS spells out how engiThe flood-control district is not develUltimately, the federal government neers, working for the sponsors, achieved can reimburse project planners up to a cer- oping a plan to mitigate flash flooding in the concept for the “One Lake,” but the tain amount, once approved. the Jackson area or flooding of tributaries design specifics will not be final until later. The flood-control district already re- that feed into the Pearl River. “One Lake” ceived state funding through a $200,000 would not help flash floods after severe Cost-Effective? Mississippi Development Authority grant thunderstorms such as those in Jackson on The “One Lake” project’s estimated to help finance the studies that went into Aug. 12. The project is designed to prevent cost of more than $345 million, the draft creating the draft EIS. Turner said counting the Pearl specifically from reaching high EIS shows, is less expensive than other al- from when the district started the project flood stages—not the creeks or tributaries. ternatives also examined: a total buy-out five years ago, the Levee Board has spent “One Lake” could potentially threaten of homes and structures in the floodplain under $3 million on the studies. endangered species that have habitats in and a levee construction plan. The draft Funds beyond state or local tax dol- the Pearl River. The report lists the ringed EIS estimates the levee plan to cost more lars to pay for the “One Lake” project will sawback turtle, the gulf sturgeon and the than $729 million, while the buy-out plan have to come from federal financing, if and Northern long-eared bat as three species would cost more than $2 billion. when Congress approves the funding. 13 more ONE LAKE, p 14
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Smaller Footprint, Big Money? John McGowan’s last plan for the Pearl, “Two Lakes,” faced heavy scrutiny because he, his partners and family members, as well as a Levee Board member, owned prime real estate that could become developable waterfront property. This time around, the sponsors of “One Lake” are promoting the project as primarily for flood control—not economic development. However, the draft EIS says the “One Lake” plan maximizes the National Economic Development benefits. It states that the project has a smaller footprint than the “plan from 2007,” but still maximizes economic-development benefits. By expanding the shorelines with the dredged soil, the Levee Board will control valuable riverfront property, some of which would become public parks, they say. The report has conceptual models for multipurpose walking trails, RV and camping loops, 14 an amphitheater and boat ramps to increase
river access. Two landfills in Jackson could be built over with parks—not buildings— due to waste guidelines. The draft EIS lists the recreational benefits of “One Lake,” including boating, fishing and canoeing. “There will be a shift, to a degree, in the types of recreational opportunities that are available post-construction with the significant shift in habitat with the channel improvements,” the draft EIS says. “At the same time, overall recreational activities, primarily those that are waterdependent, would increase.” Currently, the proposed project area has one point to access the river, north of the weir on the Jackson side, and the levees are officially blocked off to public access. Who will get to develop on the new riverfront property, outside the public parks, will depend on what the district does with
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potentially found in the project area. Gulf sturgeon, which spawn up and down the river, are not common in the project area. However, the draft EIS says project planners will have to develop an adaptive management plan to show how the fish will get up and downstream. Study engineers mentioned a fish passage, a separate stream that works its way around the weir, as a part of this plan when speaking to Louisiana lawmakers last week. The project would have to “include monitoring functions and the ability to provide alternative measures and/or structures that would insure that the Gulf sturgeon migration into and through the Project Area is available, post-project construction,” the draft EIS says. If Millsaps College biologist Will Selman’s turtle survey data are correct, the project cause a localized extinction of the ringed sawback turtle habitat, affecting around 1,000 turtles, causing a localized extinction. The draft EIS makes no mention of Selman’s survey, but project planners say they will create a mitigation plan in order to preserve habitats for the turtle population that live in and around the project area. The long-eared bat might be using the forests along the banks of the Pearl River as a summer habitat currently, and the construction of “One Lake” would destroy much it. Sponsors are open to having adaptive management plans to control for and help endangered species in the area. Nationally, the Trump administration unveiled a proposal in July to weaken the Endangered Species Act, and how those changes play into mitigation and management plans on “One Lake” is uncertain.
McGowan Working Partners next to the river, as well as the Pearl River Vision Foundation, which thus far has acted as the Levee Board’s right-hand man on “One Lake.” Duane O’Neill, president of the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, said his organization has been involved with the project since its conception. The chamber has more than 1,000 member businesses in Hinds, Rankin and Madison counties primarily. O’Neill said the project is important primarily because of flood control and believes that another 1979 flood—which “One Lake” would not address—would mean more than $1 billion in damages to local businesses and properties. “It now would be so much more devastating because of the build-out on Lakeland,” O’Neill said. “The downtown area would be underwater.” He said most of his business members in the floodplain have flood insurance now, but the project would bring many of them
Backers of “One Lake” and the Levee Board are not fans of debate about the project in open forums. As they have done in the past, they would allow only one-on-one and written comments and questions about the proposal at a July forum at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum.
the property it acquires as a part of the project and what covenants the flood-control district establishes. The draft EIS alludes to how the land use will be controlled. “Design considerations would be incorporated within the Alternative C project implementation to help avoid or minimize the overall significant of the direct, adverse impacts to the existing aesthetics and visual resources within the project area,” the report says. “Covenants would be utilized to help control land use and development along the riverfront and provide an additional level of protection for the viewscapes within the area.” Past lake plans would have significantly benefited McGowan, who owns
out of certain flood zones or keep them from having to have insurance at all. He also noted that some businesses close to the new lake will likely increase in value. “Everybody’s property that is that close is going to increase in value, and you won’t have to have flood insurance—not like you do today—so I actually think it’s a huge plus,” he told the Jackson Free Press. O’Neill also sees the lake as an opportunity to make Jackson’s downtown area like that of Chattanooga or Oklahoma City, with a blend of recreational and business development. “The millennials and the young people we lose to Nashville and Chattanooga and all these other places, if you had something
like that…. I think we could keep some of our young folks, and that talent that escapes from our community,” he said. Beyond land-use and riverfront development, questions of flood control for properties placed right along the river’s edge are not addressed to date. While some properties will be moved out of the 100- or 500-year flood zone because of the project, other property built along the river’s edge would presumably be in some sort of flood danger, eventually. In mid-August, Turner told Louisiana lawmakers, who are concerned about the effects downstream of development along the water’s edge, that now it would be at levee height, not down on the river’s edge. Environmental groups and activists who oppose the project do not support development along the Pearl for flood control, mainly due to the river’s nature. As Selman wrote in a column for the Jackson Free Press in July, “The Pearl River is strong and quite predictable. … It is going to flood. However, we don’t know the magnitude of future floods, so it is possible that another big one will happen.” Storms Brewing Downstream Downstream communities all the way to Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have expressed concerns about any lake project along the Pearl, including “One Lake.” Technically, the project has received federal clearance for the Jackson area, meaning the two downstream public meetings were not required for this project, although sponsors made the effort anyway. The draft EIS authors also wrote about downstream risks. Using historical gage data, which measure river height above a reference point, the draft EIS refutes the idea that the Ross Barnett Reservoir, which is upstream 10 miles of the Pearl to the project, has affected the river flow downstream. “Because a gate will accompany the weir structure as described in Alternative C, low flows downstream of the proposed improvements will not be impacted,” the draft EIS says. “… [A] 440,000 acre foot impoundment (the Ross Barnett Reservoir) has had positive effects as evidenced by minimal increases across most years. Therefore, it is not anticipated that a 15,000-acre foot project, as proposed with continuation of the same minimal flows as released by the upstream reservoir, would impact any downstream conditions.” The key to flows will come from how the weir gate is engineered to regulate river flows. Despite the report’s assurances, the State of Louisiana is mounting a solid effort to vocalize its concerns about the project. The Louisiana Pearl River Taskforce is gearing up to submit a large public comment, with letters from several state agencies, bemore ONE LAKE, p 16
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Support and Resentment The public meeting for metro Jackson about the “One Lake” project on July 24 was packed. Project sponsors estimate that 300 to 400 people filled the Sparkman Auditorium at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum near the Pearl River. The crowd was almost all at least 40 years old, and most older. Younger people in the auditorium were almost exclusively associated with the project workers. Attendees sat almost silently through the 40-minute presentation about the new proposal. The question time afterward remained civil as well, a fact that was not guaranteed before the meeting. “I’ll be back at my table, to be cussed out (after the presentation),” Abram Orlansky, an attorney for the project, said prior to
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fore the public comment deadline Sept. 6. Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Louisiana Republican, is coordinating her state’s response to the “One Lake” draft EIS, and at a meeting on Monday, Aug. 13, she said she expected a large crowd at the Slidell public meeting on Thursday, Aug. 16. Project sponsors estimate that about 250 people were at the Slidell meeting, receiving about a dozen public comments there. Before the evening meeting in Slidell, Hewitt’s committee heard from “One Lake” leaders, who explained the project and answered some lawmakers’ questions. On Thursday, Aug. 16, some Louisiana lawmakers expressed reservations about the project, in part due to what they already experience along the river with low flows or flooding, depending on the season. Lawmakers in Baton Rouge were concerned about the effects that the Ross Barnett Reservoir has downstream. Adding another lake below it just compounds their concerns. State Rep. Melinda White, a Democrat from St. Tammany Parish, which has adamantly opposed previous iterations of Pearl lake proposals, pushed for Louisiana to have a seat at the table on making decisions along the Pearl. “That’s my request today and my ask, and I’m sure you understand that, because if somebody proposed a project up above your area, you would have the same questions for them. It would affect Ross Barnett; it would affect your proposal and all of us, if someone up above made the same efforts to do something on the Pearl River,” she said. “We’re more than willing to have a conversation, and we envision an arrangement between the reservoir and this project as far as management goes, yes,” Turner responded. “We are willing to sit down with whoever to discuss it as it goes forward.” White wanted more than a chat, however. “I don’t want to just sit down. I want to be a part of the decision-making process for the future, not me per se, but some representatives of some sort from Louisiana be a part of those meetings,” she said. “… Someone from Louisiana needs to be a part of that as well, so we better understand the impacts of the river as a whole.” Legally, however, the Levee Board only has responsibility and jurisdiction in the Jackson metro area. In order to make those types of adjustments to the board, Turner said, it would require coordination with state agencies because the district does not have the authority to make decisions about the Pearl outside its district lines. Hewitt’s committee will take all the state agency responses and bind them together to submit an official response from 16 the State of Louisiana by Aug. 31.
meeting format. “They changed it from a public forum to a propaganda machine,” Jackson resident Rachel Knall told the Jackson Free Press at the meeting on July 24. “When you’ve got money involved, you usually get one side. I’m tired of big money being myopic.” The meeting was not supposed to be a debate, project sponsors said; it was supposed to answer questions. “I’ve heard from a lot of people who liked it,” Turner told the Jackson Free Press at the meeting. Braman asked Turner prior to the meeting if there was going to be a public comment period, and initially he said there would be. Then before the meeting, the website updated to say that the format had changed “due to logistical issues.” “We really could not facilitate it any other way than the way we did it,” Turner said. “… It’s the most effective way, otherwise you’re going to have to put time limits
Millsaps College biologist Will Selman warns that “One Lake” can cause a localized extinction of the ringed sawback turtle habitat.
the start of the meeting. There was no cursing, however, likely due to how the meeting was structured. The project’s sponsors opted to not have an open public comment period with questions and answers or open dialogue, instead asking people with questions to come up and ask them face-to-face to the report authors. Anyone wanting to submit a public comment at the meeting had to say it to a stenographer, but one-on-one conversations with report authors were not recorded. Only three people at the Jackson meeting submitted comments. Anyone can submit a public comment online to the levee board at rankinhindsflooddistrict.ms.gov through Sept. 6. Not everyone was pleased with the
on speakers. … This is an opportunity for folks to get efficient, effective communication. It would have taken us six to eight hours to get through things.” The meeting format was identical at the Pearlington, Miss., meeting, and in Slidell, La. Braman and other members of the “One River, No Lake” Coalition pointed out that most community members would not be aware of some of the potential issues with the project unless questions were posed in an open format. The “One River, No Lake” Coalition intends to submit a signed petition (which so far has over 2,000 signatures) to allow public comments in an open forum on the project before the comment period closes on Sept. 6.
What’s Next for ‘One Lake’? With the Sept. 6 deadline for public comments looming, some advocates are frustrated that project sponsors released the report without what are called biological assessments and coordination reports done on the project. Braman said she wanted to see those reports in the actual draft EIS to help her write her public comment. She probably will not get the chance, however. Turner said they did not have to release them as a part of the study because “we didn’t rely upon them to do the EIS.” He said he does not anticipate those documents being published until after Sept. 6. Those reports must be included in the final version that goes to Washington, D.C., but before then, sponsors are required to respond to each public comment in their draft as well as any concerns that independent reviewers had with the project. Once they have responded to all these concerns, the draft goes to the D.C. Corps of Engineers. The Corps then determines whether or not to approve the final EIS. If approved, it will be released for public comment again. After that public comment period, then pre-construction can begin. Construction (with full funding) is estimated to take about three years, but financing—or potential lawsuits downstream, by environmental groups or residents concerned about financial or other potentially harmful effects—could make that process much longer. After the D.C. Corps approves the project, the Levee Board still needs to enlarge the actual district, roping in more taxpayers who will presumably get the flood-control benefits and therefore will be forced to help pay to build it. From there, either the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the Levee Board can take the lead, and Turner said that has not been worked out yet. The district must clear its first hurdle first: responding to all the public comments submitted about the draft EIS, which could take all fall. Meantime, even in neighborhoods prone to flooding, residents are skeptical that they will ever benefit from a plan designed for both flood control and economic development in Jackson. Ruby Vingham was born 67 years ago in the Hightower neighborhood in the same house where she still lives. If “One Lake” moves forward and the flooding risk increases, Vingham said she is not sure she would take a buy-out. Instead, she would probably stay in her house and face whatever happens. She said it does not matter what she thinks about the “One Lake” proposal. “They’re going to do what they want to do, no matter what I say,” Vingham said. Read the history of various lake proposals at jacksonfreepress.com/pearlriver.
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f it was not clear from our hats, t-shirts, license plates, banners and bumper stickers, Mississippians are, by and large, pretty into college football. For many fans, though, there just is not enough time in the day to keep close tabs on every important aspect of the game, from off-the-field shenanigans to off-season staffing changes to preasons statistics. While the Jackson Free Press cannot keep up with all the big moments in the game, we do divert our attention once a year for the JFP College Football Preview. In this issue, we will walk you through some of the memorable wins and tragic losses of last season, and point you toward the potential of things to come for teams in the Magnolia State seeking gridiron glory. Whether you are routing for the Mississippi State University Bulldogs to come out as top dog or for the Millsaps College Majors to score a major victory this season, this issue can help the football fans among us to plan ahead. Read ahead to find out coaching records, game schedules, last-season recaps, power players on the field and on the sidelines, where you can listen to the games, and more for Mississippi teams of all sizes and statures.
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There is a reason the powers-that-be removed the interim tag from Matt Luke and officially gave him the University of Mississippi head coaching job. Everything looked like it was going to fall apart for the Rebels last season when Hugh Freeze resigned and the NCAA cloud still lingered over the university. Luke kept the program together even after quarterback Shea Patterson went down with a knee injury. Players and fans rallied around Luke while he got the Rebels ready to play each week, even without the carrot of a bowl game. The team saw some ugly losses, including a 3-66 bout against the University of Alabama, but UM managed some hardfought wins, as well, such as a 31-28 victory over Mississippi State University in the Egg Bowl. The Rebels finished 6-6, and Luke did a fantastic job overall in what could have been a dumpster fire of a season.
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Head coach: Matt Luke (6-6 at UM, 6-6 overall, entering second season) 2017 record: 6-6 overall, 3-5 SEC
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UM will need to make the most changes on defense if this team is going improve over last season, when the Rebels finished near the bottom of several defensive categories for the SEC, giving up more than 450 yards and 35 points per game. 2018 Outlook
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The NCAA is finally done with the Rebels, and the dark cloud has cleared. Now that the program is not waiting to hear its fate, UM can recruit players who want to be part of its future success. Luke earned the job by coaching like there was no tomorrow. Now that he has the reins of the Rebels, he will have to avoid coaching conservatively and take calculated risks like he did in his first season. The offense should be one of the best in the SEC, even after some players left due 18 to the NCAA sanctions.
Patterson transferred to the University of Michigan, giving the starting position to backup quarterback Jordan Ta’amu. However, Ta’amu stepped in and showed out in a big way after Patterson’s injury, and he should still be up for the task this season. He will have no shortage of targets to find in the passing game, either. The Rebels might have the best receiving unit in the SEC with A.J. Brown, D.K. Metcalf and DaMarkus Lodge, among others. UM will have to find a replacement for running back Jordan Wilkins, whom the Indianapolis Colts drafted. D’Vaughn Pen-
namon is the leading rusher to return, but only has 217 yards and two touchdowns. The Rebels may nominate the “running back by committee” approach until one player takes over as the leading man. Halting opponents’ running game will fall to defensive tackles Benito Jones and Josiah Coatney, the top returning player in sacks and tackles for a loss. Detric Bing-Dukes may lead the linebacker unit. The return of safeties C.J. Moore and Zedrick Woods will help with the secondary. Myles Hartsfield and Ken Webster are back at the corners, meaning the secondary will have experience all around. 2018 Prediction
The Rebels will face Texas Tech University, Alabama and Louisiana State University in the first five weeks of the season. UM also gets Southern Illinois University, Kent State University and
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University of Louisiana at Monroe mixed in the first six games. That means the season will end with six consecutive SEC games. Injury management will become key as the season progresses. The Rebels’ hope of a winning season could be derailed if the injury bug hits early in the schedule. UM plays back-to-back road games only once in the season, heading to Texas A&M University and Vanderbilt University. On the flipside, the Rebels play back-toback home games with Alabama and Kent State and then consecutive home games with Auburn University and the University of South Carolina. Offensively, the Rebels have enough firepower to stay with any time on their schedule. Defensive improvement will be key for UM staying in the hunt for a winning season. Depth could be a bit of an issue after some players transferred at the end of last season. Luke will have to keep this team focused, even without a bowl game at the end of the season. There are six wins on the schedule, but plenty of factors will try to keep this team from another .500 record. Record prediction: 6-6 Schedule
Sept. 1 Texas Tech (neutral location); Sept. 8 Southern Illinois; Sept. 15 Alabama; Sept. 22 Kent State; Sept. 29 @ LSU; Oct. 6 Louisiana Monroe; Oct. 13 @ Arkansas; Oct. 20 Auburn; Nov. 3 South Carolina; Nov. 10 @ Texas A&M; Nov. 17 @ Vanderbilt; Nov. 22 MSU
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In year two under Jay Hopson, the USM program made small improvements and went from a 7-6 record to 8-5. Losses to the University of Kentucky and University of Tennessee weren’t a shock. For a second season in a row, USM also lost to University of North Texas, which ended up winning the C-USA West in 2017. Most of the season, USM took care of business, though, putting together a pair of three-game winning streaks. USM even dealt with injuries at quarterback that didn’t send the season into a tailspin. Florida State University beat the Golden Eagles 42-13 in the Independence Bowl to end the season. Season Overview
USM returns three starters on the offensive line and quarterback Kwadra Griggs, which is good news. Keon Howard, who played after Griggs was injured, left the program. Southern Miss also has to replace stars such as running back Ito Smith, and receiver Korey Robertson, who are both on NFL teams now, as well as Allenzae Staggers and Isaiah Jones.
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In terms of collective receiving stats, the quartet had 182 receptions, 2,164 yards and 19 touchdowns. Throw in Smith’s 1,415 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns, and USM has a ton of offense to replace. Things don’t get much better for the defense. USM has just five returning starters from last season, and defensive coordinator Tony Pecoraro left for the same position at Florida Atlantic University.
When he was healthy, Griggs was solid in his first season as a starter. He threw for 1,879 yards with 16 touchdowns with just two interceptions, and rushed for 268 yards and three touchdowns. Quez Watkins, Jaylond Adams and Tim Jones are the top returning receivers. Tez Parks, T’Rod Daniels and George Payne, who returns from an injury, are now the top returning backs. USM also has Parker Shaunfield, who might be the best kicker in C-USA. New defensive coordinator Tim Billings will have to get the unit together. Linebackers Racheem Boothe and Jeremy Sangster will be the glue early on. Defensive ends LaDarius Harris and Darian Yancey should help the pass rush, along with linebacker Paxton Schrimsher. The secondary will rely on Rachuan Mitchell and Picasso Nelson, who was injured all last season. 2018 Prediction
The schedule sets up nicely for USM to rebuild this season. The non-conference slate features home games against Jackson Head coach: Tony Hughes (6-16 overall, all at JSU entering third season) 2017 record: 3-8 overall, 3-5 SWAC
Year two under coach Tony Hughes started out with a seven-game losing streak. JSU had some close losses but didn’t earn a win until its 24-5 victory over Mississippi Valley State University in late October. The Tigers lost their next game 3-13 to Alabama State University. The season highlights were narrow back-to-back wins against Alabama A&M University and East champion Alcorn. A lack of offense was the Tigers’ biggest problem. JSU averaged just 12.7 points per game, and only scored 20-plus points three times. That put pressure on the defense all season long. Season Overview
Fixing the offense was the top priority for Hughes in the offseason. To help with that, JSU lured Hal Mumme away from Belhaven University. If there is one thing he brings to the table, it is a high-octane offense. Under Mumme, Belhaven set single-game and season records for offense, and averaged 28.4 points per game in 2017. Success will depend on how quickly
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the Tigers pick up on his strategy. Mumme will need to find the right players for it to run at a peak level. The good news is that JSU’s defense should be a strength as the offense is trying to find its form. If their defense can further improve on last season, the Tigers could win more games off defense alone. 2018 Outlook
JSU hopes the team is greater than the sum of its parts. During SWAC Media Day, no JSU players landed on the first or second All-SWAC teams. Mumme could turn the keys over to Navarro College transfer Derrick Ponder, who played sparingly in 2017. In the JSU spring game, though, Ponder threw for 353 yards with three touchdowns. Running back Jordan Johnson, last season’s leading rusher, will return. JSU might not run the ball much under Mumme, but experience at running back could help if the offense struggles early. Defense is where JSU could shine. The Tigers return several players who should continue making an impact,
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State and Louisiana at Monroe, with road trips to Appalachian State and Auburn. Most of these opponents are beatable. In conference, USM hosts Marshall University and plays on the road against the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The 49ers finished last in the East, and the Thundering Herd finished third. The biggest games are against UAB and North Texas. USM ends the season on the road against the University of Texas at El Paso, which went winless last year. The Golden Eagles should potentially have six to eight wins if the new parts of the team come together. One thing USM will need to avoid is injuries at key positions while trying to break in new starters. Record prediction: 8-4 Schedule
Sept. 1 JSU; Sept. 8 Louisiana-Monroe; Sept. 15 @ Appalachian State; Sept. 22 Rice; Sept. 29 @ Auburn; Oct. 13 @ North Texas; Oct. 20 UTSA; Oct. 27 @ Charlotte; Nov. 3 Marshall; Nov. 10 @ UAB; Nov. 17 Louisiana Tech; Nov. 24 @ UTEP Radio: 95.5 FM Stadium: Veterans Memorial Stadium
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SWAC officials picked Jackson State to finish third in the East this season, which doesn’t seem like a stretch. The Tigers start the season against USM before playing rival Tennessee State. JSU travels to play Florida A&M University. The only other nonconference game is against the North Alabama. JSU also plays Southern, Prairie View A&M and Arkansas-Pine Bluff out of the West. This season feels like a crossroads. The program needs to start showing a move to toward the top of the SWAC. A six-win season us achievable and would show that things are heading in the right direction. Record prediction: 6-5 Schedule
including linemen Malik Hammer, Charles Anderson and Khalil Johnson. Eric Bowie, who recorded 46 tackles and 7.5 tackles for a loss last season, should lead the linebacker unit. Markel Gladney, with 17 tackles and 2.5 tackles for a loss in 2017, will head up the secondary.
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Head coach: Jay Hopson (15-11 at USM, 47-28 overall, entering third season at USM, eighth overall) 2017 record: 8-5 overall, 6-2 C-USA
Sept. 1 @ USM; Sept. 8 Tennessee State (neutral site); Sept. 15 @ Florida A&M; Sept. 29 Alabama A&M; Oct. 6 @ Arkansas-Pine Bluff; Oct. 13 MVSU; Oct. 20 North Alabama; Oct. 27 @ Southern; Nov. 3 Prairie View; Nov. 10 @ Alabama State; Nov. 17 @ Alcorn 19 see more on page 20
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For Mississippi State University, the 2017 season stuck mostly to script under head coach Dan Mullen. The Bulldogs defeated the teams that fans expected them to defeat without any shocking upsets. MSU defeated a ranked Louisiana State University team that turned out to be vastly overrated. There was a thrilling loss to Alabama, but it was a loss nonetheless. Trips to the University of Georgia and Auburn didn’t end well, with the teams outscoring MSU 80-13 in total. The only other slip came in the Egg Bowl after quarterback Nick Fitzgerald suffered an ankle injury. The Bulldogs bounced back with a victory over the University of Louisville in the TaxSlayer Bowl without their star quarterback. Before the bowl game, though, Mullen left the school to take over as head coach for the University of Florida. Season Overview
Fans were frustrated when Mullen lost big games against ranked foes, but he did build the Bulldogs into a consistent winner. That made the job attractive to new head
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coach Joe Moorhead, who built a winning squad at Fordham University before jumpstarting the Pennsylvania State University offense. MSU fans are excited to see if he can take the program to the next level. While some coaches jump jobs and leave little behind, Mullen left a solid foundation to work at MSU. Fitzgerald should return healthy, but Keytaon Thompson got valuable experience after Fitzgerald’s injury. The defense is loaded with talent but will have to fit into the scheme of its fifth coordinator in the last five years.
The Smalls Head coach: Fred McNair (12-11 overall, all at ASU, entering third season) 2017 record: 7-5 overall, 6-2 SWAC East
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Alcorn State should have a reload season instead of a rebuild. The Braves have 11 Preseason All-SWAC players. Only Grambling State University had more selections. First Team Preseason All-SWAC quarterback Noah Johnson returns this season with Preseason Offensive Player of the Year P.J. Simmons to run the ball. The offensive line should be good, as well, with offensive linemen Mustaffa Ibrahim, Deonte Brooks and Kevin Hall helping to open holes in the running game and provide quarterback protection. Linebackers Trae Ferrell and Solomon Muhammad should lead in organizing the unit. Defensive lineman Sterling Shippy will be the focus, with defensive back Brady Smith leading the secondary. Out of conference, Alcorn will probably struggle in the opener at the Georgia Tech but could have some success later in the season against New Mexico State University. In conference, ASU plays the predicted top three out of the West: GSU, Southern University and Prairie View A&M.
indicator. MSU travels to Kansas State University for a non-conference contest that should reveal more than its season opener. Two key three-game stretches could make or break the season. In the first three, State will play the University of Florida with Mullen at the helm, Auburn and Louisiana State University. MSU will end the season with a trip to Alabama, a home game against the University of Arkansas and a trip to main rival UM. Seven to eight wins should be doable based on the schedule. The real key for Mississippi State and its fans will be whether Moorhead can take down some teams that his squad isn’t expected to beat. Record Prediction: 8-4
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Moorhead should improve an already strong offense, and the defense could be the best in the SEC if it can get better against the run. Fitzgerald’s health will be an earlyseason question mark, but the Bulldogs do have some experience behind him. The second game will be an early
Sept. 1 Stephen F. Austin; Sept. 8 @ Kansas State; Sept. 15 LouisianaLafayette; Sept. 22 @ Kentucky; Sept. 29 Florida; Oct. 6 Auburn; Oct. 20 LSU; Oct. 27 Texas A&M; Nov. 3 Louisiana Tech; Nov. 10 @ Alabama; Nov. 17 Arkansas; Nov. 22 Mississippi
The Braves are the favorite to win the East for a fifth year in a row. ASU might not leave as many wins on the table this season, but seven wins is still possible.
It was not an unexpected move, as he had a 6-38 record in his four seasons at the helm of the program. MVSU named Vincent Dancy as interim coach before giving him the full-time position in December 2017. He inherits what might be the toughest job in college football. The team has not had a winning season since its backto-back successes in 2005 and 2006. However, the Delta Devils do have something that rival JSU does not: Preseason All-SWAC players, such as star receiver Quinn McElfresh. MVSU will be better if the offense can become more consistent. The team used three quarterbacks last year and couldn’t run, finishing with negative-103 rushing yards. The schedule is tough, with out-of-conference games against the University of North Dakota, Bethune-Cookman University and Jacksonville State University and Hampton University. In conference, MVSU has to play Alcorn and Grambling, the top two SWAC teams but also plays easier games against Texas Southern and Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
Record prediction: 7-4
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While Fitzgerald gets back up to speed, the offense will need running back Aeris Williams. He rushed for 1,107 yards and six touchdowns last year, and he might be the star of the show early this season. MSU will vastly improve its offense if the Bulldogs can get more out of the wide receiver unit. No receiver had more than 300 receiving yards last season. The Bulldogs bring back four starters on the offensive line, which should help Fitzgerald and get the running game going. On defense, eight starters return, with Jeffery Simmons and Montez Sweat creating havoc. Simmons is a defensive tackle/ defensive end hybrid, and Sweat is a defensive end/linebacker pass rusher.
2017 record: 9-4 overall, 4-4 SEC Radio: 105.9 FM Stadium: Davis Wade Stadium
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Head coach: Vincent Dancy (First year) 2017 record: 2-9 overall, 1-6 SWAC East
Head coach: John Bland (7-33 entering fifth season at MC, 82-59 overall entering 14th season) 2017 record: 1-9 overall, 1-7 GSC
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After last season, Mississippi Valley State University cut ties with head coach Rick Comegy in November 2017.
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Head coach: Todd Cooley (33-22 all at DSU, entering sixth season) 2017 record: 9-4 overall, 3-5 GSC
averaged 22.1 points per game last season but gave up about 26.8 points on defense. Just a touchdown more per game, and the Majors could have broken out of their three-wins-a-season funk. The biggest difference is getting better in the passing game on offense and defense. Quarterback Chance Clowers should return this season after playing in six games last year. His development could be the difference in win total. On defense, most of the young secondary from last season should be back along with top three leaders in interceptions return. Managing the schedule will be the key to a good season, with back-to-back road trips twice. If the Majors can just hold court at home, they will end up with five wins. Millsaps could be close to a breakthrough season with some better results in the passing game.
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Record prediction: 5-5
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Some fans and sports media might think that Delta State University overachieved last season after Gulf South Conference officials picked the Statesmen to finish sixth in the conference. Instead, DSU finished third and reached the playoffs. This season, GSC preseason polls predicted the team will finish in fourth place. Replacing running back Chris Robinson will be the biggest challenge for the Statesmen. Returning players on offense, such as quarterback Breck Ruddick and wide receivers Dillon Helm, Leon Green and Tyler Harrell will have to step up their production while another player prepares to take the lead on the rushing front. On defense, DSU returns linebacker Ovenson Cledanord to lead a strong unit, with Chandler Ector and David Herrington. The Statesmen will need a big season out of defensive linemen Tramond Lofton and Eric Sadler. DSU has only had one losing season under Cooley and should be in the mix at the top of the conference. The Statesmen will have to sneak up on a couple of the top teams to reach the playoffs again but should finish with a winning record. Record prediction: 7-4
Millsaps College Majors Head coach: Aaron Pelch (39-39 overall, all at Millsaps, entering ninth season) 2017 record: 3-7 overall, 2-6 SAA OUTLOOK AND PREDICTION
Millsaps College will not have to make vast improvements from last year in order to score more wins. The Majors
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including quarterback Ty Jobe and running backs Tiberias Lampkin and Alizee Chubb. While the offense remains mostly intact, the defense will need to rebuild quickly, as the Choctaws have only three starters returning from the previous season’s defense. Gulf South Conference officials picked MC to finish eighth in the competitive Division II conference, which presents the Choctaws tough games each week. MC will be able to improve its win total if the defense comes together quickly, though.
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Holmes Community College Bulldogs Head coach: Jeff Koonz (31-33 overall, all at Holmes, entering eighth season) 2017 record: 6-3 overall, 3-3 conference OUTLOOK AND PREDICTION
Last season, when the Holmes Community College Bulldogs were winning, they were doing so in an impressive fashion. Unfortunately, they lost in an equally impressive fashion. Taking the next step as a program means playing closer games, even in those losses. This could be the season that the Bulldogs take another leap as a football program. After finishing fourth in the North division last year, Holmes will try to climb the conference ladder once again this year. The community colleges in Mississippi have some of the best football programs in the country at their level. Holmes will be tested week in and week out, but posting a third consecutive winning season is attainable and impactful for the program. Record prediction: 5-4
Hinds Community College Eagles Head coach: Larry Williams (6-3 overall, all at Hinds, entering second season) 2017 record: 6-3 overall, 5-1 conference OUTLOOK AND PREDICTION
Head coach: Blaine McCorkle (First year) 2017 record: 2-8 overall, 1-8 ASC Former head coach Hal Mumme was known for producing offensive results, but his teams fell short on defense. Last season, the Blazers scored 28.4 points per game but gave up 48. Fixing the defense should be the first thing that new Belhaven University head coach Blaine McCorkle works on this season. Another necessary fix will be the running game. Last season, the Blazers only averaged 57.7 rushing yards compared to 387.6 passing yards, making for a onedimensional attack plan. Meanwhile, the defense can get some work in against the run. Belhaven gave up 227.3 yards per game on the ground last season. Belhaven can set the tone for the season by winning its first three home games, but to the new coaching staff, wins won’t be as important as setting a foundation.
Everything could have fallen apart for Hinds after Gene Murphy stepped down as head coach before the first game of last season. Instead, the Eagles stayed strong for a majority of the season. The final three games did end in losses, but with everything going on before and during the season, new coach Larry Williams did an outstanding job. Now the question will be, “Can he keep it up and return this team to the postseason?” There is a good chance of another postseason berth this year. Hinds plays Coahoma Community College, East Central Community College twice, Southwest Mississippi Community College and Mississippi Delta Community College. Those four schools finished at the bottom of their respective divisions last season. As long as the Hinds Eagles do not bottom out, all five of those games should be wins. In a 10-game schedule, fans can expect more than five wins from this team, as it makes a push for the postseason again.
Record prediction: 3-7
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Brown Bag Lunch Talk Aug. 23, 11:30 a.m.1 p.m., at U.S. Small Business Administration (210 E. Capitol St.). Participants discuss concepts in regards to starting, financing and growing a small business. Free admission; email rosetta. harris@sba.gov; sba.gov. Women to Women: A Celebration Luncheon Aug. 23, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive, Ridgeland). The City of Ridgeland Chamber of Commerce presents the second annual luncheon featuring keynote speaker Leisha Pickering, founder and artist of ideas at Musee Bath LLC. $40 general admission; call 601-991-9996; chamberdata.net. Creative Impact Luncheon: Piper Kerman Aug. 23, noon-1:30 p.m., at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The Greater Jackson Arts Council hosts the luncheon featuring guest speaker Piper Kerman, activist and author of the best-selling memoir “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison.” $50, $500 four reserved seats, $1,000 six reserved seats; greaterjacksonartscouncil.com. Richland Business Expo Aug. 23, 5:30-7 p.m., at Richland Community Center (410 E. Harper St., Richland). Participants meet with owners and learn about locally owned Richland businesses. Includes food vendors, door prizes, a discovery zone and more. Free admission; call 601-420-3400; find it on Facebook. Celebrating Our Stars Gala Aug. 24, 6 p.m., at The Railroad District (824 S. State St.). The Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation fundraising gala features guest speaker Audrey B. Wiley, food, a silent auction, live music from Musiq Theory featuring Gerald Richardson, and more. $70 per person; call 601-366-5874; mssicklecellfoundation.org.
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Repticon Jackson 2018 Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Aug. 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Wahabi Shrine Temple (4123 Interstate 55 S.). The reptile expo features animal breeders, merchandise and supplies vendors, door prizes, raffles, educational seminars and more. Two-day tickets: $15 for adults, $5 for ages 5-12, free for ages 4 and under; one-day tickets: $10 for adults, $5 for ages 5-12, free for ages 4 and under; repticon.com.
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Mississippi Democratic Party Luncheon Aug. 25, 11 a.m., at Brandon Civic Center (1000 Municipal Drive, Brandon). The luncheon features speaker John Bel Edwards, the governor of Louisiana, as well as U.S. Senate candidates Mike Espy and David Baria, and Congressional District nominees Randy Mack Wadkins, Bennie G. Thompson, Michael Ted Evans and Jeramey Anderson. Doors open at 10 a.m. $40 individual, $500 table for eight, $30 ages 16-35; call 601-969-2913; email bobby@ mississippidemocrats.org; secure.actblue.com. “Something to Think About” Empowerment Brunch Aug. 26, 2 p.m., at Edgewood Terrace Clubhouse (220 Edgewood Terrace Drive). The EDGE Foundation presents the brunch featuring guest speakers Malaysia Walker, Michael Benjamin-Robinson and pastor K. Carter. The
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menu includes chicken and waffles. $10 per person, purchase by Aug. 22; find it on Facebook. “The New Classic” Fashion Show Aug. 26, 6 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Allure Boutique presents the fashion show featuring host Karlie Redd, owner of Merci Boutique and star of “Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta.” $30 advance, $35 door, $45 VIP, $25 students; call 601-278-4933; find it on Facebook. Ideas on Tour: Culture & Appropriation Aug. 28, 5:30 p.m., at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.). The Mississippi Humanities Council presents the final installment of the summer series. The event examines the idea of cultural appropriation in areas such as food, clothing and music, the line between appropriation and appreciation, and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook. History Is Lunch Aug. 29, noon-1 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Maddee Miller, exhibits specialist for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, presents on the topic “The Story Behind the
THURSDAY 8/23 The Creative Impact Luncheon is from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The Greater Jackson Arts Council hosts the luncheon featuring speaker Piper
Swear Tapes performs at 9 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Mississippi garage-pop act performs to promote its debut album, “Second Son.” Fides also performs. Doors open at 8 p.m. $10 admission; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.
Stories Unfolded.” Free admission; call 601-576-6800; mdah.ms.gov. Empowerment Conference Aug. 31, 6-8 p.m., Sept. 1, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at Smith Robertson Museum & Cultural Center (528 Bloom St.). Woman to Woman with Joanne presents the fourth annual empowerment conference featuring guest speakers such as Talya Straughter, Mary Rountree, Jesselyn James, Sara Anna Powers and Sharetta Donalson. The theme is “Fearless— Breaking up with Fear.” $25 per person; call 601398-6733; eventbrite.com. Sneak & Greet Part Deux Aug. 31, 6-10 p.m., at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.). DJ Scrap Dirty, Sneakerboxx and Iric host the social event celebrating local sneaker culture. Includes music from the Violator All-Star DJs and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook.
Kerman, activist and author of the best-selling memoir “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison.” $50, $500 four reserved seats, $1,000 six reserved seats; greaterjacksonartscouncil.com.
FOOD & DRINK “End of Summer” Wine Tasting Aug. 28, 6-9 p.m., at Amerigo Italian Restaurant (6592 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland). The casual sampling event features four summer wines paired with Bruschetta Amerigo and tiramisu. Reservations required. Wines include Chateau Ste. Michelle Riesling, Clos Pegase Chardonnay, Paul Hobbs Felino Malbec and Graham’s 20-Year Tawny Port. $25 per person, plus tax and gratuity; call 601-977-0563; amerigo.net.
FRIDAY 8/24 Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Fest is from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Olde Towne Clinton (300 Jefferson St., Clinton). The annual street festival features live music, arts and craft vendors, food and drinks for sale, a home-brewing competition,
Raymond Country Fair Sept. 1, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., in downtown Raymond (Court Street, Raymond). The annual fair features live music, food and drinks for sale, arts and craft vendors, a kids’ fun zone, the Ainsley’s Angels Cannonball Roll 5K and one-mile fun run, and more. Free admission; call 601-906-3006; find it on Facebook. Community Business Expo Sept. 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). Campbell Ministries hosts the business expo and networking event. Includes business seminars, raffles, vendors and more. Topics include “When It’s God’s Vision, It’s God’s Provision (Getting Started),” “Maintaining Business Integrity,” and “How to Remain Relevant.” Free admission; call 615-713-8743; email acampbell681@ymail.com; find it on Facebook.
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“Milly Mills Reporting Live” Book Signing Aug. 23, 4:30 p.m., at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Children’s author Allie Ware signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $15 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. PAW Patrol Live!: Race to the Rescue Aug. 31, 6 p.m., Sept. 1, 10 a.m., Sept. 1, 2 p.m., Sept. 2, 2 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The interactive stage show features characters from the popular children’s TV show, including Marshall, Chase, Skye, Rubble, Rocky, Zuma and Everest. $20-$125; ticketmaster.com. Story Time with Uncle Story Sept. 4, 10-11 a.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Children ages
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Lunazul Tequila Dinner Aug. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (111 Market St., Flowood). Participants can enjoy a three-course Mexican meal with tequila pairings for each course. A representative from Lunazul Tequila Company will be on hand to speak to guests about the featured selections. Reservations required. $38 per person, before tax and gratuity; call 601-215-5445; flowood.sombramexicankitchen.com.
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CARA’s Dog Days of Summer is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pelahatchie Shore Park (478 Pelahatchie Shore Drive, Brandon). Community Animal Rescue & Adoption hosts its 11th annual fundraiser featuring a pet parade, a children’s carnival, food for sale, live music, arts and crafts vendors, a petting zoo, K9 unit demonstrations, a silent auction and more. Bring a bag of dog food to donate; find it on Facebook.
The Gathering Dinner Series: Italian Wine & Spirits Aug. 31, 6:30 p.m., at The Gathering at Livingston Mercantile (106 Livingston Church Road, Flora). The three-course, family-style dinner features a variety of Italian wines and spirits. Champagne hour at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. $45 per person; call 601-665-4282, ext. 3; livingstonmercantilestore.com.
SPORTS & WELLNESS Make a Miracle Superhero 5K & Fun Run Aug. 25, 7-10 a.m., at Madison Central High School (1417 Highland Colony Pkwy.). The annual superhero-themed run/walk is a fundraiser for the Batson Children’s Hospital. Superhero costumes are encouraged. $30 5K registration through Aug. 17, $35 after, $15 fun run; raceroster.com. Consider This: Mindfulness & Mental Health Aug. 23, 5:30-7 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi hosts the panel discussion featuring Dr. Megan Clapton, Dr. Ali Shaye Brown and Dr. Sonya Shipley. Topics include self-care strategies to promote mental health and well-being under stress, and more. Includes appetizers and cash bar. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Run for the Ribbons Aug. 25, 7:30 a.m., at University of Mississippi Medical Center Pavilion (1410 E. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). The 5K run/
SUNDAY 8/26 Repticon Jackson 2018 is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wahabi Shrine Temple (4123 Interstate 55 S.). The annual reptile expo features animal breeders, merchandise and supplies vendors, door prizes,
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walk is to raise awareness of the five primary gynecologic cancers. Proceeds benefit the gynecologic oncology fund to further education and patient services. Also includes a 100-yard tot trot for children under age 12. $25 in advance, $30 day of event; raceroster.com. South Central Summer Games Aug. 25-26, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., at Three Lions Crossfit (191 Spell Drive, Richland). The fourth annual indoor and outdoor crossfit competition features prizes for the top finishers. Each athlete or team performs three workouts over the course of the day and one mystery workout. $80 individual, $160 twoperson team; call 769-216-3624; email threelionscrossfit@hotmail.com; find it on Facebook. Bowling for Charity Aug. 25, 1-3 p.m., at Metro 24 Bowling Center (3003 J. R. Lynch St.). Lynch Lodge No. 2 hosts its annual fourperson-team bowling tournament. Trophies awarded to the top three teams, along with monetary contributions to the charities of their choosing. Free to attend; find it on Facebook. Mindful Midtown: CommUNITY Yoga Aug. 26, 9:30-10:30 a.m., at The Community Canvas at Jax-Zen Float (155 Wesley Ave.). The series of community classes features a diverse selection of mindfulness practices with qualified teachers and facilitators. Classes are open to all levels. This week’s class is “CommUNITY Yoga” with Sadara Evans. $5 to $10 suggested donation; call 601-691-1697; email contact@ jax-zenfloat.com; find it on Facebook. Boy Scouts of America Golf Tournament Aug. 28, noon-5 p.m., at Lake Caroline Golf Club (118 Caroline Club Circle, Madison). The golf tournament is a fundraiser for Boy Scouts of America programs in 165 different locations cross Central and Southwest Mississippi. Includes lunch at noon, and tee time at 1 p.m. Registration at 11:45 a.m. $150 individual, $600 team of four; find it on Facebook. Fleet Feet Pub Run Aug. 29, 6-8 p.m., at Soulshine Pizza Factory (1111 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). The run includes two- and four-mile options, and a free beer for participants after the run. Must fill out digital waiver in advance. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Labor of Love Race Sept. 3, 7-10 a.m., at Harper Rains Knight & Co. (1052 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). The Salvation Army fundraising run/walk features 10K and 5K options. Proceeds go to helping women and children, especially those in domestic violence situations. Awards for overall male and female winners in 5K and 10K run, and in 5K walk. $35 5K/10K, $40 after Aug. 29, $10 5K ages 7-9; raceroster.com.
hosts the screening and discussion of the twoseason WGN television series “Underground,” which centered on the work of the Underground Railroad network in Georgia. Includes free food. Free admission; call 601-208-0090; email cooperationjackson@gmail.com; cooperationjackson.org. The Mixer: Celebrating 10 Years of J. Lee Productions Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m., at Johnny T’s Bistro & Blues (538 N. Farish St.). The party celebrates the 10th anniversary of J. Lee Productions and features a meet-and-greet with writer/producer J. Lee and cast members from some of the company’s past productions. Free admission; jleeplays.com. “Gump: With Your Pal, Charlie Davis” Aug. 25, 8 p.m., at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.). Actor and comedian Charlie Davis reenacts portions of the film “Forrest Gump,”
TUESDAY 8/28 Marta Szlubowska Ensemble performs at 7 p.m. at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall. The sevenperson ensemble performs a concert of light classics and popular music
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while audience members select which scenes he performs from a box of chocolates. Includes beer giveaways. $5 admission; find it on Facebook. 24-Hour Theatre Event Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In Blackbox Theatre. Students present a 10-minute original play that they developed, wrote the script for, rehearsed and performed for the first time in a single day. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free admission; find it on Facebook.
Jackson Got Talent Aug. 22, 7:30 p.m., at Lounge 114 (105 Capitol St.). The talent competition features musicians vying for a cash prize, opportunities for paid gigs and a spot in the finals. Performers expected to bring seven guests. Admission TBA; lounge114jxn.com. Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • The Marcus King Band Aug. 22, 8 p.m. The South Carolina-native psychedelic southernrock band’s latest EP is titled “Due North.” Bishop Gunn also performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 day of show; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net. • The Band Camino Aug. 23, 8 p.m. The Memphis alternative band’s new single is titled “Fool of Myself.” Josie Dunne also performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $10; ardenland.net. • Jackson: Soul of the City Aug. 31, 8 p.m. Comedian Rita Brent hosts the night of local entertainment featuring music from DJ Young Venom, DJ Scrap Dirty and DJ SupaKik, and dance performances from Salsa Mississippi, Front Porch Dance and the Belhaven University Dance Ensemble. $10; ardenland.net. • Robert Earl Keen Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m. The Houston-native singer-songwriter’s latest album is titled “Live Dinner Reunion.” Cary Hudson also performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $35 in advance, $40 day of show; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net. Events at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.) • Swear Tapes Aug. 22, 9 p.m. The Mississippi garage-pop act performs to promote its debut album, “Second Son.” Fides also performs. Doors open at 8 p.m. $10 admission; call 877987-6487; ardenland.net. • “Legends of the Summer” Concert Aug. 25, 8-11 p.m. The concert features performances from Mississippi hip-hop artists Savvy, Dolla Black, Tricky LT45, Hollywood Luck and Coke Bumaye. Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 and up; find it on Facebook. • Country Cousinz Concert Series 7: Night of the Femcees Aug. 31, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The all-women hip-hop showcase features performances from Yung Jewelz, Renee Lee, Flexgod, Vikki Layne, Sycamore, Elrida Chick, Mz S.I., DJ Fortress and more. $10; find it on Facebook. Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Fest Aug. 24, 6-10 p.m., Aug. 25, 3-10 p.m., in Olde Towne Clinton (300 Jefferson St., 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. Bonnie Bishop, Travis Meadows and John Paul White perform on Friday, and The Josephines, Jarekus Singleton, Liza Anne, Devon Gilfillian, The Dip and Smallpools perform on Saturday. $20 weekend pass, $10 Friday, $15 Saturday; call 601-924-5912; redbrickroads.com.
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STAGE & SCREEN Black August Binge Series Watching Aug. 24-25, 2 p.m., at Cooperation Jackson (939 W. Capitol St.). Cooperation Jackson
CONCERTS & FESTIVALS
ISABELLA MENDES - PEXELS
The Lunazul Tequila Dinner is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (111 Market St., Flowood). Participants can enjoy a three-course Mexican meal with tequila pairings for each course. A representative from Lunazul Tequila Company will be on hand to speak to guests about the featured selections. Reservations required. $38 per person, before tax and gratuity; call 601-215-5445; flowood. sombramexicankitchen.com.
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8/22 - 9/5 WEDNESDAY 8/22 1908 - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m. Alumni House - Johnny Crocker 6:30-8:30 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Barry Leach 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - Marcus King Band w/ Bishop Gunn 8 p.m. $15 advance $20 door Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6:30-9:30 p.m. free; Swear Tapes w/ Fides 8 p.m. $10 Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30 p.m. McClain - Zack Bridges 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Robin Blakeney 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30-11:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.
Thursday 8/23 1908 - Carlos Calabrese 6:30-9 p.m.
Market Street, Flowood South of 20 6-8 p.m. McClain - Joseph LaSalla Pelican Cove - Phil & Trace 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.
Friday 8/24 1908 - The McGees w/ Vince Barranco 7 p.m. Ameristar, Vicksburg - Nu Corp 8 p.m. Castlewoods Country Club - Ralph Miller 7 p.m. Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Doe’s, Florence - Jonathan Alexander 6:30-8:30 p.m. Drago’s - Brandon Greer 6-9 p.m. F. Jones - The Amazin’ Lazy Boi midnight $10 The Flamingo - Cadillac Pac, JJ Sohn, Filthy Gerald & Boss Mane 9 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood Phil & Trace 7 p.m.
See more music at jfp.ms/musiclistings. To be included in print, email listings to music@jacksonfreepress.com. Shucker’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 5:30 p.m.; Hunter & the Gators 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Jason Turner 7 p.m. Soulshine, Ridgeland Barry Leach 7 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.
Saturday 8/25 Ameristar, Vicksburg - Nu Corp 8 p.m. Anderson UMC - Gospel Choir Competition 9 a.m.-2 p.m. free Burgers & Blues - Stormy Monday Blues 6 p.m. Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. Club 43, Canton Hairicane 9 p.m. $10 Doe’s, Florence - Robert King 6:30-8:30 p.m. The Ecoshed - Kicking & Evil Engines 9 p.m. $5 F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; The Amazin’ Lazi Boi midnight $10 Jimmy Fontaine
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Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Doug Hurd 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - The Band Camino w/ Josie Dunne 8 p.m. $10 F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - Andrew Dillon w/ Joe Carroll 9 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood Chad Wesley Georgia Blue, Madison Aaron Coker Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio 6-9 p.m. free Iron Horse - Lonn’e George 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - DoubleShotz 6:30 p.m.
LD’s, Vicksburg - Fred T & the Band feat. Joey Robinson 8 p.m. $10 Lounge 114 - DJ Lil Willie Birthday Bash 9 p.m. Martin’s - Modern Measure 10 p.m. Olde Towne Clinton “Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Fest” feat. The Josephines, Jarekus Singleton, Liza Anne, Dvon Gilfillian, The Dip & Smallpools 3-10 p.m. $20 weekend Pelican Cove - The Rubicks 2 p.m.; Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Burnham Road 9 p.m. Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m.; Hunter & the Gators 8 p.m. $5; Dos Locos 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Ron Etheridge 7 p.m. South Street Live - Key Glock w/ Young South, Tony the DJ & DJ Glinzy 10 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m. free before 10 p.m.
Sunday 8/26
Georgia Blue, Madison Shaun Patterson Hal & Mal’s - Jason Turner 7-9 p.m. free Iron Horse - Mark Doyle & Mr. Bud 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m. Lounge 114 - Jonte Mayon 9 p.m. Martin’s - CBDB & LUTHI 10 p.m. Olde Towne Clinton “Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Fest” feat. Bonnie Bishop, Travis Meadows & John Paul White 6-10 p.m. $20 weekend Pelican Cove - Chris Gill & the Sole Shakers 7 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Sweet Tooth Jones 9 p.m.
Georgia Blue, Flowood Brandon Greer Georgia Blue, Madison Chad Wesley Hal & Mal’s - Savvy, Dolla Black, Tricky LT45, Hollywood Luck & Coke Bumaye 8-11 p.m. $10 & up The Hideaway - “Neon Glow Paint Party” feat. DJ Rozz 9 p.m. $25 ages 18-20, $20 ages 21 & up Hops & Habanas Chris Gill 6 p.m. Iron Horse - King Edward Blues 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Travelin’ Jane 7 p.m. Lakeshore Park - Joseph LaSalla 3 p.m.; Vince Vance & the Valiants 6:30 p.m.
1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Iron Horse - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 6 p.m. Lakeland Presbyterian - The Gray Havens w/ Seeker & Servant 6 p.m. RSVP McClain - Chris Gill 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd noon-4 p.m.; Splendid Chaos 5-9 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m. Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Monday 8/27 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Cocker 7-11 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m. McClain - Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m.
Pelican Cove - Two for the Road 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.
Tuesday 8/28 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Doug Hurd 6 p.m.
Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Keys v. Strings 6:30-9:30 p.m. Millsaps Ford Academic Complex - Marta Szlubowska Ensemble 7 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Owens & Pratt 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 8/29 1908 - Bill Ellison 6:30-9 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Joseph LaSalla 6-9 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6-8:30 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m. Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30 p.m.
McClain - Robert Jones MS Legends Grill - Phil & Trace 6:30-9:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Stace & Cassie 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30-11:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.
THURSDAY 8/30 1908 - Vince Barranco 6:30-9 p.m. Blue Sky Studios - Ben Ford, Thomas Toole & Matthew Clark 6:30 p.m. $10 advance $15 door Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Jonathan Alexander 6-9 p.m. F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Hal & Mal’s - Cary Hudson 7-10 p.m. free Iron Horse - James Travis 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Bill & Temperance 6:30 p.m. Lost Pizza, Brandon Jonathan Womble 6 p.m. Market Street, Flowood South of 20 6-8 p.m. Martin’s - Afroman 9 p.m. McClain - Joseph LaSalla
Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Greenfish 7:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.
FRIDAY 8/31 Ameristar, Vicksburg Mike Rob & the 601 Band 8 p.m. Castlewoods Country Club - Zack Bridges & Trey Miller 7 p.m. Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Doe’s, Florence - Kern Pratt 6:30-8:30 p.m. Drago’s - Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - DJ Young Venom, DJ Scrap Dirty, DJ SupaKik, comedian Rita B & more 8 p.m. $10 F. Jones - Stevie J Blues midnight $10 The Flamingo - “Sneak & Greet” feat. Violator AllStar DJs 6-10 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - Yung Jewelz, Renee Lee, Flexgod, Vikki Layne, Sycamore, Elrida Chick, Mz S.I., DJ Fortress & more 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $10 The Hideaway - The Lacs 8 p.m. $25-$55 VIP Iron Horse - Ben Payton 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Chris Gill 7 p.m. Lounge 114 - Emerson Hill 9 p.m. Martin’s - Rutabaga Jones 10 p.m. Pelican Cove - Road Hogs 7-11 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Hairicane 9 p.m. Shucker’s - Sonny Brooks 5:30 p.m.; Snazz 8 p.m. $5; Topher Brown 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Brian Jones 7 p.m. Soulshine, Ridgeland Casey Phillips 7 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Two Rivers, Canton DoubleShotz 8:30 p.m.
SATURDAY 9/1 Ameristar, Vicksburg - Mr. Sipp 8 p.m. Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. Club 43, Canton Shatterframe 9 p.m. $10 F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Kern Pratt midnight $10 Hops & Habanas - Boil Water Notice 7 p.m. free
Martin’s - Sailour w/ Empty Atlas 10 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Jason Turner Band 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - The Axeidentals 3:30 p.m.; Snazz 8 p.m. $5; Billy Maudlin 10 p.m. Soul Wired - Jig the Alien, DoubleTake & Stonewalls 8 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.
SUNDAY 9/2 1908 - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Iron Horse - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. McClain - Bill Ellison Pelican Cove - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd noon-4 p.m.; Acoustic Crossroads 5-9 p.m. Shucker’s - The Chill 3:30 p.m. Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m. Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
MONDAY 9/3 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. McClain - Doug Hurd Pelican Cove - Keys vs. Strings 1-5 p.m. Shucker’s - Chad Perry 3:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.
TUESDAY 9/4 Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30 p.m. McClain - Robert King Pelican Cove - Josh Journeay 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 9/5 Alumni House - Johnny Crocker 6:30 p.m. Duling Hall - Robert Earl Keen w/ Cary Hudson 7:30 p.m. $35 advance $40 day of Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Doug Hurd 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30-11:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.
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Wednesday, August 22
Music/Events
Swear Tapes + Fides Red Room - 9:00 pm. - $10 New Bourbon Street Jazz Band Dining Room - 7pm - Free
Thursday 8/23
D’Lo Trio Dining Room - Free
Women’s Foundation of MS: Consider This Red Room - 5:30-7 pm. - Free
Friday 8/24
Jason Turner
Dining Room - 7pm - Free Closed at 9pm for Provate Event
Tuesday 8/28
Dinner Drinks & Jazz with Raphael Semmes and Friends Dining Room - 6pm
Thursday 8/30
Cary Hudson Dining Room - Free
Friday 8/31
The Country Cousins Concert Series 6: Jxn vs South MS Hosted b y OurGl ass M edia Gro up Promotions Red Room - 9pm - $10
Monday 8/27
RAPHAEL SIMMS To Return 9/11
Central MS Blues Society presents:
Blue Monday Dining Room - 7 - 11pm $3 Members $5 Non-Members
RESTAURANT OPEN Wednesday 9/5
New Bourbon Street Jazz Band Dining Room - Free
Upcoming
9/7 Akeela and the Beat 9/10 Blue Monday 9/11 Dinner Drinks & Jazz with Raphael Semmes and Friends 9/12 Pierce Edens Free 9/13 D’Lo Trio 9/14 The Kats 9/17 Blue Monday
Thursday, August 23
RESTAURANT OPEN
Legends of the Summer Red Room - 8-11:30pm - $10
blues rock wunderkind returns to Jackson to rock your world
Wednesday 8/29
9/1 - 9/3 CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAY BLUE MONDAY to return 9/10 Tuesday 9/4
Saturday 8/25
The Marcus King Band WITH BISHOP GUNN
9/18 Dinner Drinks & Jazz with Raphael Semmes and Friends 9/20 Sherman Lee Dillon 9/24 Blue Monday 9/25 Dinner Drinks & Jazz with Raphael Semmes and Friends 9/26 New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 9/27 D’Lo Trio 9/28 Crooked Creek
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THE BAND CAMINO
WITH JOSIE DUNNE dreamy indie rock out of memphis. catch ‘em before they blow up!
Wednesday, September 5
Robert earl keen WITH CARY HUDSON
texas country legend live in jackson! WARNING: this show WILL sell out!
Saturday, September 8
GRAYSON CAPPS BAND WITH ERIC STRACENER
when it comes to americana, grayson capps is one of the best to do it!
Wednesday, September 12
Jason Eady
country storytelling that will leave you enamored and begging for more
Thursday, September 13 AN EVENING WITH
Chris Robinson Brotherhood
rock legend and a powerhouse band taking you on a psychedelic trip
Saturday, September 22
Muscadine bloodline
WITH JOBE FORTNER AND JORDAN FLETCHER join us after gumbo fest for a good time with our favorite country rockers!
Thursday, September 27
IAN MOORE
WITH MAGNOLIA BAYOU austin guitar legend comes back to jackson to rock out all night
Thursday, October 4
ZOSO
THE ULTIMATE LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE led zeppelin classics all night long at the best venue in jackson
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Liza Anne: Moving Forward to ‘Fine’ by Micah Smith
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mean that making “Fine But Dying” was a dream scenario, though. After flying to Paris, they had only a week to track the live instrumentation, including drums, bass, guitars and vocals, all while fighting off jetlag and trying not to get sick, Odachowski says. They then com-
Liza Anne performs for the Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Fest, which takes place in Olde Towne Clinton on Aug. 24 and Aug. 25.
pleted the album over the course of about three months after returning to Nashville. “It was amazing. I mean, you know, it was seven days only, so honestly, the entire thing is a bit blurry,” she says. “In my head, it’s just like we got there and immediately had to start working on things. The timing was pretty gruesome. But … Zach and I have now made three records together, so making ‘Fine But Dying,’ I think if I had
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one more times. She also plans on returning to La Frette next year, albeit with more time set aside for experimenting with the songs. Although “Fine But Dying” steers more into indie-rock territory, Odachowski says the album is a natural growth from her previous work on “The Colder Months” and 2015’s “Two.” That applies not just to the sound but also to the type of stories she shares.
“I think that art, really, is a pretty continual movement deeper into self, maybe, if you do it consistently, which is what I’ve been doing over the last six years with those three records,” she says. “So yeah, I approached it the only way I could approach it after making those other two records. … It felt like I was being a bit more direct, but I wouldn’t have had that sense of directness if I didn’t make the other two records first.” “Fine But Dying” tackles topics such as the difficulties of human connection and growing out of relationships, but Odachowski says she aimed for the album to be energetic and approachable despite its sometimes-painful subject matter. “I wanted to talk about things that were very difficult but not lose people in the process of doing that,” she says. “I kind of realized through touring ‘Two’ and ‘The Colder Months’ that the moments within the set when I felt like there was like a fire in the room, this energy that people gravitated towards, I kind of mentally marked those moments and was like, ‘How do I write about things that are a little more—I don’t know—disgusting and hard to swallow, but then dress them up as something else?’ So yeah, kind of presenting that duality of happy/sad, all at the same time.” Liza Anne performs as part of Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Fest, which takes place Friday, Aug. 24, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 25, from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Olde Towne Clinton. Admission is $20 for a two-day pass, or $15 for Saturday and $10 for Friday. Visit redbrickroads.com.
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new people involved, it would’ve been stressful, but it’s like an extension, like another arm on my body to work with him anyway, so it was really good.” While she says that she likely won’t make a record that quickly again, this was an experience she would live a million and BRETT WARREN
hen singer-songwriter Liza Odachowski, whom fans know as Liza Anne, selected a studio for her third album, “Fine But Dying,” her choice revolved around atmosphere rather than equipment. For that, the Georgia native, now based in Nashville, Tenn., looked back on a viewing of “Look at What the Light Did Now,” a 2010 documentary about the making of Feist’s album “The Reminder” in France at La Frette Studios, near Paris. She and creative partner Zachary Dyke watched the film around the time they made Liza Anne’s debut album, 2014’s “The Colder Months.” “I’m rarely really blown away by some gear thing,” she says. “Like, truly, I think music can be made wherever the human being is. But some of my favorite records were made in that studio (La Frette), and it kind of changed the way I viewed a studio space, whereas certain studios in Nashville, I understand they’re notable, but they didn’t seem alive.” Odachowski says that she felt there was something different about La Frette. The studio was a part of the music. At one point, Feist stomped on the stairs for percussion, using the space as an instrument. “It just seemed like the house itself that La Frette is inside of was just a living, breathing force that I really wanted to invite into my creative process,” she says. “… I was like, ‘Zach, one day, we’re going to go here and make a record,’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, OK.’ We did it! It’s crazy.” Recording in her dream studio did not
Afroman performs at 9 p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The Los Angeles hip-hop artist is best known for songs such as “Crazy Rap (Colt 45 & 2 Zig Zags)” and “Because I Got High.” Doors open at 8 p.m. For ages 18 and up. Admission TBA; call 601354-9712; martinslounge.net.
For ages 18 and up. Admission TBA; call 601354-9712; martinslounge.net. • Sailour Sept. 1, 10 p.m. The Florence, Ala.based alternative band’s latest single is titled “Black Hole.” Empty Atlas also performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. For ages 18 and up. Admission TBA; martinslounge.net. “Voices for Health” Gospel Choir Competition Aug. 25, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Anderson United Methodist Church (6205 Hanging Moss Road).
The Task Force for a Healthier Jackson presents the concert featuring performances from local gospel choirs. Judges will select three small choirs and three large choirs to compete for a $2,000 prize in the competition finale on Sept. 15. Free admission; call 769-666-9021. CARA’s Dog Days of Summer Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Pelahatchie Shore Park (478 Pelahatchie Shore Drive, Brandon). Community Animal Rescue & Adoption hosts its 11th annual fundraiser featuring a
FRIDAY 8/31 Events at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) • CBDB & LUTHI Aug. 24, 10 p.m. CBDB is a progressive-rock band from Tuscaloosa, Ala., and LUTHI is a Nashville funk-rock band whose latest album is titled “Stranger.” Doors open at 9 p.m. For ages 18 and up. Admission TBA; call 601-3549712; martinslounge.net.
• Modern Measure Aug. 25, 10 p.m. The Atlanta electronic duo’s latest album is titled “Cold Enough for Fire.” Doors open at 9 p.m. For ages 18 and up. Admission TBA; call 601354-9712; martinslounge.net. • Afroman Aug. 30, 9 p.m. The Los Angeles hip-hop artist is best known for songs such as “Crazy Rap (Colt 45 & 2 Zig Zags)” and “Because I Got High.” Doors open at 8 p.m.
“Sneak & Greet Part Deux” is from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.). DJ Scrap Dirty, Sneakerboxx and Iric host the social event celebrating local sneaker culture. Includes music from the Violator AllStar DJs and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook. JENS MAHNKE / PEXELS
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Looking for something great to do in Jackson? Visit JFPEVENTS.COM for more. The Writer’s Circle Sept. 1, 4:30 p.m., at Kundi Compound (256 E. Fortification St.). Funmi “Queen” Franklin hosts the event featuring guest speaker Tonja Murphy, a Jackson-native author and columnist. Includes an interview portion and audience participation segments. Free admission; find it on Facebook. “Rush” Sept. 5, 5 p.m., at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Author Lisa Patton signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.
MONDAY 9/3 The Labor of Love Race is from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Harper Rains Knight & Co. (1052 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). The run/ walk features 10K and 5K options. Proceeds go to helping women and children, especially those in domestic
ARTS & EXHIBITS SUNDAY 9/2 “PAW Patrol Live!: Race to the Rescue” is at 2 p.m. at the Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The interactive stage show features characters from the popular children’s TV show, including Marshall, Chase, Skye, Rubble, Rocky, Zuma and Everest. Additional dates: Aug. 31, 6 p.m., Sept. 1, 10 a.m., Sept. 1, 2 p.m. $20-$125; ticketmaster.com.
SATURDAY 9/1 The Writer’s Circle is from 4:30 p.m. at the Kundi Compound (256 E. Fortification St.). Funmi “Queen” Franklin hosts the event featuring guest speaker Tonja Murphy, a Jackson-native author and columnist. Includes an interview portion and audience participation segments. Free admission; find it on Facebook.
music from artists such as Vince Vance & the Valiants, Jay Herrington and Joseph LaSalla, and more. The barbecue competition continues Aug. 26. $5 admission, free fishing event; barnettreservoirfoundation.org. Marta Szlubowska Ensemble Aug. 28, 7 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall. The seven-person ensemble performs a concert of light classics and popular music arranged for strings and the accordion. This event is part of the Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series. $10; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu. Songwriters in the Round Aug. 30, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at Blue Sky Studios (1554 Lakeside Drive). The house-show style event features performances and stories from Mississippi songwriters Ben Ford, Thomas Toole and Matthew Clark. Limited space. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; find it on Facebook. The Lacs Aug. 31, 8 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 Frontage Road). The Georgia-native country-rap duo’s latest album is “Dirt Rock.” For ages 18 and up. $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $55 VIP; eventbrite.com.
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pet parade, a children’s carnival, food for sale, live music, arts and crafts vendors, a petting zoo, K9 unit demonstrations, a silent auction and more. Bring a bag of dog food to donate; find it on Facebook. A Night of Music Aug. 25-26, 6 p.m., at Brandon First United Methodist Church (205 Mary Ann Drive, Brandon). The event features dinner and entertainment from the Chancel Choir. Proceeds fund improvements to the church sanctuary. $25 per person; call 601-8255958; find it on Facebook. Smokin’ on the Rez Aug. 25, 2 p.m., at Lakeshore Park (Lakeshore Park, Brandon). The sixth annual festival features a children’s fishing event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., a barbecue competition, food and drink vendors, live
LITERARY SIGNINGS Events at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.) • History Is Lunch Aug. 22, noon-1 p.m. Author Brenda L. Travis presents on her book, “Mississippi’s Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped My Life.” Sales and signing to follow. Free admission; call 601-576-6800; mdah.ms.gov. • History Is Lunch Sept. 5, noon-1 p.m. Author Sid Salter presents on his book, “Jack Cristil: Voice of the MSU Bulldogs.” Sales and signing to follow. Free admission; call 601576-6800; mdah.ms.gov. Elizabeth Guider Author Event Aug. 23, 5:30-6:30 p.m., at Lorelei Books (1103 Washington St., Vicksburg). The Vicksburg novelist and entertainment journalist presents on her latest novel, “Connections.” Sales and signing to follow. Free event, book prices vary; call 601634-8624 find it on Facebook.
An Evening with McCarty Pottery Friends Aug. 24, 5-7 p.m., at Altar’d State (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite 5009, Ridgeland). Participants learn the story of Lee and Pup McCarty, detailed in the book “McCarty’s of Merigold, Mississippi: The Pottery.” Guests include Stephen Smith, John Miller and Bill Powell. Includes refreshments and door prizes. Register by Aug. 23. Free; find it on Facebook.
CREATIVE CLASSES August Calligraphy Class Aug. 25, 10 a.m.12:30 p.m., at Posh Design Shoppe (420 Monroe St., Suite D, Clinton). Katie Boles leads the calligraphy course for beginners. All supplies included. Limited space. Call to reserve seat. $75 per person; call 601-7084815; find it on Facebook.
LGBT Harry Potter Night Sept. 1, 8 p.m., at WonderLust (3911 Northview Drive). The event takes inspiration from the fantasy book and film series. Includes butterbeer, a drag show, trivia with cash prizes at 10:30 p.m., and more. Participants are encouraged to wear their house colors. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.
BE THE CHANGE Correcting Corrections: A Deep Dive on Prison Education Aug. 23, 2-4 p.m., at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The discussion examines links between literacy and incarceration, along with the experiences of inmates and re-entry into society. Panelists include Piper Kerman, Carol Andersen, Pelicia Hall, Betty Lou Jones and Judge Keith Starrett. James E. Graves is the moderator. Q&A session follows. Free admission, reservations required; eventbrite.com. Ready to Run Mississippi Aug. 25, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m., at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.). The second annual conference is for Mississippi women interested in running for an elective office. Includes tracks for participants who are immediately ready to run and for those who want to know more about how they can get involved with politics. $25 registration fee; call 662-325-8409; stennis.gov. Enchanted Evening Aug. 25, 7-10 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The Friends of Children’s Hospital endof-summer party features live entertainment, a silent auction, raffles and more. The theme is “It’s a Small World.” $100, $60 for ages 35 and under; call 601-936-0034; email friends@ foch.org; find it on Facebook.
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violence situations. Awards for overall male and female winners in 5K and 10K run, and in 5K walk. Proceeds go toward a variety of local programs from The Salvation Army. $35 5K/10K, $40 after Aug. 29, $10 5K ages 7-9; raceroster.com.
Women for Progress Issues Forum Aug. 29, 5:30 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Women for Progress of Mississippi hosts the forum on the topic “She Is Running: Strategies for Women Running for Public Office to Achieve Success.” Includes guest speaker Attorney General Jim Hood, networking opportunities, strategy sessions and more. RSVP. Free admission, registration required; call 601259-6770; womenforprogress.net. Better Together Commission Meeting Aug. 30, 4-5:45 p.m., at Margaret Walker Alexander Library (2525 Robinson St.). The meetings provide an opportunity for the Better Together Commission to provide information, updates on current efforts and responses to public questions. The commission is designed partner with the community, assess district needs and identify assets. Free admission; call 601-2080775; email bettertogether@formississippi.org; bettertogether.formississippi.org. “Real Men Wear Pink” Reveal Party & Fundraiser Aug. 30, 5:30-8:30 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). The reveal party introduces the 2018 “Real Men Wear Pink” ambassadors for Central Mississippi. Includes a silent auction, jewelry from Kendra Scott, a photo vote for “Real Man of the Night,” a cash bar, music from 601 Live and more. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. $10 admission; call 601-321-5512; find it on Facebook.
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49 Airline based in Stockholm 52 Additive to some soaps 53 Not exceeding 54 Popular with the cool kids these days 55 After-dinner add-on 56 Half of a griffin 59 Gobsmacked 61 Longest-running sci-fi comedy (U.K., 1988-1999, 2009, 2012-present) 65 Upgrade the circuitry 66 Won over 67 Grand Slam Breakfast offerer 68 Tire company with a blimp
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39 It merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon 40 “Antony and Cleopatra” killer 44 General who’s a bit chicken? 46 Place to grab a bite 47 Omits in pronunciation 48 Model’s place 49 England’s tallest skyscraper, with “The” 50 Singer/songwriter Mann 51 Breed like salmon 56 He followed Carson 57 “... and ___ it again!”
58 Did too much, in a way 60 California wine, familiarly 61 Fed. rule 62 Is multiplied? 63 Davidson’s “The Crying Game” costar 64 Pres. on a dime ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com)
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“Long May You Run” —people keep tuning in. Across
1 Stood 9 Short outings 15 Jazz performance from an upright individual? 16 Mark somehow over the “n” in “Spinal Tap” 17 Longest-running western (U.S., 1955-1975) 18 Tattoo tool 19 Cartoonish squeals 20 Current HUD secretary Carson 21 Light-feather link 22 Swiss terrain
25 Mario Kart character 26 On the ___ (running away) 27 Longest-running home renovation show (U.S., 1979-present) 32 Upper limit 33 Way less common 34 Bermuda, e.g. (abbr.) 37 Longest-running variety show (Chile/U.S., 1962-2015) 41 Coach Parseghian of the Fighting Irish 42 They may be checkered 43 Maze-running rodent 45 Longest-running news show (U.S., 1947-present)
1 2018 documentary about a Supreme Court Justice 2 ___ de cologne 3 Online portal launched on the same day as Windows 95 4 Determine 5 “Woe ___!” 6 Alcove 7 “Benevolent” fraternal order 8 X member John 9 State capital since 1959 10 They’re made when making up 11 Ending for glob or mod 12 Wimbledon winner Rafael 13 City on the Arkansas River 14 Geyser output 20 Impolite 22 Bill-filled dispenser 23 ___ apso (small dog) 24 “Coco” studio 25 What things are “right out of,” when immediate 28 “Anywhere” singer Rita 29 Scottish kid 30 Convertible type 31 A, in Austria 35 Throat bug 36 Minimal 38 Collision sound
BY MATT JONES Last Week’s Answers
“Kaidoku”
Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with well-known English words (HINT: since a Q is always followed by a U, try hunting down the Q first). Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you won’t see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE! psychosudoku@gmail.com
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I think you’ve done enough rehearsals. At this point, the apparent quest for a little extra readiness is beginning to lapse into procrastination. So I’ll suggest that you set a date for opening night. I’ll nudge you to have a cordial talk with yourself about the value of emphasizing soulfulness over perfectionism. What? You say you’re waiting until your heart stops fluttering and your bones stop chattering? I’ve got good news: The greater your stage fright, the more moving your performance will be.
In all the time we’ve worked on diminishing your suffering, we may have not focused enough on the fine art of resolving unfinished business. So let’s do that now, just in time for the arrival of your Season of Completion. Are you ready to start drawing the old cycle to a close so you’ll be fresh when the new cycle begins? Are you in the mood to conclude this chapter of your life story and earn the relaxing hiatus you will need before launching the next chapter? Even if you don’t feel ready, even if you’re not in the mood, I suggest you do the work anyway. Any business you leave unfinished now will only return to haunt you later. So don’t leave any business unfinished!
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Are you ready to mix more business with pleasure and more pleasure with business than you have ever mixed? I predict that in the coming weeks, your social opportunities will serve your professional ambitions, and your professional ambitions will serve your social opportunities. You will have more than your usual amount of power to forge new alliances and expand your web of connections. Here’s my advice: Be extra charming, but not grossly opportunistic. Sell yourself, but with grace and integrity, not with obsequiousness. Express yourself like a gorgeous force of nature, and encourage others to express themselves like gorgeous forces of nature.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
“When I picture a perfect reader,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “I picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer.” I suspect he was using the term “monster” with a roguish affection. I am certainly doing that as I direct these same words toward you, dear Sagittarian reader. Of course, I am always appreciative of your courage, curiosity, cunning, suppleness and adventurousness. But I’m especially excited about those qualities now, because the coming weeks will be a time when they will be both most necessary and available to you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
You do not yet have access to maps of the places where you need to go next. That fact may tempt you to turn around and head back to familiar territory. But I hope you’ll press forward even without the maps. Out there in the frontier, adventures that will prepare you well for the rest of your long life await you. And being without maps, at least in the early going, may actually enhance your learning opportunities. Here’s another thing you should know: Your intuitive navigational sense will keep improving the farther you get from recognizable landmarks.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Healing isn’t impossible. You may not be stuck with your pain forever. The crookedness in your soul and the twist in your heart may not always define who you are. There may come a time when you’ll no longer be plagued by obsessive thoughts that keep returning you to the tormenting memories. But if you hope to find the kind of liberation I’m describing here, I advise you to start with these two guidelines: 1. The healing may not happen the way you think it should or imagine it will. 2. The best way to sprout the seeds that will ultimately bloom with the cures is to tell the complete truth.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Nineteenth-century British painter J. M. W. Turner was one of the greats. Renowned for his luminous landscapes, he specialized in depicting the power of nature and the atmospheric drama of light and color. Modern poet Mary Ruefle tells us that although he “painted his own sea monsters,”
he engaged assistants “to do small animals.” She writes that “he could do a great sky, but not rabbits.” I’m hoping that unlike Turner, you Piscean folks will go both ways in the coming weeks. Give as much of your creative potency and loving intelligence to the modest details as to the sweeping vistas.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
The two pieces of advice I have for you may initially seem contradictory, but they are in fact complementary. Together they’ll help guide you through the next three weeks. The first comes from herbalist and wise woman Susun Weed. She suggests that when you face a dilemma, you should ask yourself how you can make it your ally and how you can learn the lesson it has for you. Your second burst of wisdom is from writer Yasmin Mogahed: “Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Speak the following declaration aloud and see how it feels: “I want strong soft kisses and tender unruly kisses and secret truth kisses and surprise elixir kisses. I deserve them, too.” If that puts you in a brave mood, Taurus, add a further affirmation: “I want ingenious affectionate amazements and deep dark appreciation and brisk mirthful lessons and crazy sweet cuddle wrestles. I deserve them, too.” What do you think? Do these formulas work for you? Do they put you in the proper frame of mind to co-create transformative intimacy? I hope so. You’re entering a phase when you have maximum power to enchant and to be enchanted.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
As you map out your master plan for the next 14 months, I invite you to include the following considerations: an intention to purge pretend feelings and artificial motivations; a promise to change your relationship with old secrets so that they no longer impinge on your room to maneuver; a pledge to explore evocative mysteries that will enhance your courage; a vow to be kinder toward aspects of yourself that you haven’t loved well enough; and a search for an additional source of stability that will inspire you to seek more freedom.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
If you have been communing with my horoscopes for a while, you’ve gotten a decent education—for free! Nonetheless, you shouldn’t depend on me for all of your learning needs. Due to my tendency to emphasize the best in you and focus on healing your wounds, I may neglect some aspects of your training. With that as caveat, I’ll offer a few meditations about future possibilities. 1. What new subjects or skills do you want to master in the next three years? 2. What’s the single most important thing you can do to augment your intelligence? 3. Are there dogmas you believe in so fixedly and rely on so heavily that they obstruct the arrival of fresh ideas? If so, are you willing to at least temporarily set them aside?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
“All the world’s a stage,” wrote Shakespeare, “And all the men and women merely players.” In other words, we’re all performers. Whenever we emerge from solitude and encounter other people, we choose to express certain aspects of our inner experience even as we hide others. Our personalities are facades that display a colorful mix of authenticity and fantasy. Many wise people over the centuries have deprecated this central aspect of human behavior as superficial and dishonest. But author Neil Gaiman thinks otherwise: “We are all wearing masks,” he says. “That is what makes us interesting.” Invoking his view—and in accordance with current astrological omens—I urge you to celebrate your masks and disguises in the coming weeks. Enjoy the show you present. Dare to entertain your audiences.
Homework: What’s the part of yourself that is least evolved and needs most transformation? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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A Galaxy in a Jar by Amber Helsel
I
love to browse through images from the Hubble telescope. It gives such a cool view of space and all that happens in it. Those photos often inspire my work in more ways than one. Last night, they inspired me to bring a little bit of space into my own home in the form of nebula jars.
Materials Food coloring, watercolors, or acrylic or tempera paint in different shades of purple, blue and pink
Cotton Balls (lots of them)
AMBER HELSEL
Jar with a lid
Glitter Bottle necklace (optional)
----------Directions ---------Mix your colors with water. I used my homemade watercolor ink (see jfp.ms/ homemadeink), but food coloring or paint will also work. Keep in mind that with food coloring, your color may not be as concentrated. If you use paint, mix it well. If your jar has a label on it, soak it in hot, soapy water overnight and then remove it.
BONUS: Craft stores often have small bottle necklaces, so that’s also a good idea for this craft. Just make sure you use a small amount of cotton and plenty of color. If the lid to the necklace is a cork, glue it in place. You don’t want the water spilling everywhere.
Pour a color into the jar and then swirl glitter into it. Put cotton balls in water, being sure to cover them completely. Add more color if needed because you don’t want the cotton to absorb all of it.
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Once that layer is done, pour another color in. Then, swirl glitter and put the cotton balls into the mixture. Continue using different layers of color until the jar is full.
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