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COURTESY BOBBY RUSH/ ERIKA GOLDRING

JACKSONIAN BOBBY RUSH

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lues singer Bobby Rush may be one of Jackson’s greatest living musical exports. He’s been making worldwide audiences dance for more than 60 years. It’s only fitting that the Grammy Award-nominated musician is the grand marshal for this year’s Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade, themed “Bring Home the Grammyphone,” on March 21. “It just makes me so proud that Malcolm (White) thought enough of me that he would call and ask me to do this,” Rush says. “I’ve been making music for a long time now, and it’s nice to be recognized.” Similar to more well-known performers, like B.B. King, Rush, 81, plays the music that originated among slaves in the fertile fields of the Mississippi Delta: the blues. He performs more than 100 shows per year. “I’m very aware of my home when I’m performing away,” he says. “It means a lot to me to be able to say that I sing the blues, and I’m from Jackson.” Rush paid his dues performing on the so-called Chitlin’ Circuit, a slang term for the numerous soul and blues venues throughout the South that featured black musicians, during the ’60s and ’70s. On these stages, Rush built a name for himself, especially among African American audiences. He had his first hit record with the unlikely titled “Chicken Heads” in 1971. After relocating to Jackson in the early 1980s, Rush recorded for Malaco Records and Lajam Records and continued to find

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success on the radio. “I was really trying to make music that would appeal to black audiences and get airplay,” he says. Rush reached an even wider audience when he appeared in the 2003 documentary “The Road To Memphis.” The film was part of director Martin Scorsese’s “The Blues” series that aired on PBS. Many critics opined that Rush was the highlight of the segment. Around this time, Rush started his own record label called Deep Rush. It allowed Rush to record more personal music. “Over 60 years ago, I started out making music in my basement, and it was just me,” he says. “That’s the kind of music I’m making now. It’s like I’m going back to those roots.” The change was good move. His latest album, 2014’s “Down In Louisiana,” won the Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Album of the Year. Rush also tries to make the time to mentor up-and-coming local musicians such as Jarekus Singleton and Grady Champion. “I love what those guys are doing,” he says. “It’s important for them to be able to their thing and keep this music going. “I think Mississippi has come a long way. I’m so humbled when people like the governor reach out to me for the work I do,” he says. In 2013, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Gov. Phil Bryant. “I want to make good music for all people to enjoy.” —Tommy Burton

Cover illustration by Josh Sheriff

8 Plugging the Leaks

Leaky pipes, deferred maintenance and possible fraud have the city hemorrhaging water revenues, a scathing report shows.

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“(My grandmother) wasn’t going to drag you into the kitchen. … If you wanted to know how to make this biscuit, ‘you better be listening, boy. You better be looking at me because if you missed we will be making them again Wednesday.’” —Nick Wallace, “Cooking on the Fly”

38 Celling Out

Cell phones can be a distraction for you and those around you at concerts, even if you really, really need that blurry selfie.

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4 ....................... PUBLISHER’S NOTE 6 ................................................ YOU 8 ............................................ TALKS 14 ................................ EDITORIAL 15 .................................... OPINION 17 ............................ COVER STORY 20 ....................... ST. PADDY’S DAY 26 ......................................... FOOD 27 ................... GIRL ABOUT TOWN 28 .............................. DIVERSIONS 31 ....................................... 8 DAYS 33 ...................................... EVENTS 38 ....................................... MUSIC 40 ....................... MUSIC LISTINGS 44 ..................................... SPORTS 47 .................................... PUZZLES 49 ....................................... ASTRO

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PUBLISHER’S note

by Todd Stauffer, Publisher

The Most Vital Word in Eco-Development

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mentioned in a previous publisher’s note that I’ve been taking a course from New York University in its “Creative Cities” program, and I wanted to let you in on a surprising pattern I’ve been seeing over the past few weeks of study. Spoiler alert: The punch line is public education. One of the first things we talked about in the class is the idea of a “cluster” of related businesses that benefit one another. We studied, for instance, the technology cluster in Silicon Valley and the wine cluster in Northern California. The theory is that if you want to boost the overall economic health of your region, it’s a good idea to figure out what you’re already good at and find ways to develop that strength. It might be through direct investment (if Jackson’s potential cluster is medical technology, then perhaps we build an incubator around UMMC), or through marketing (“hey, Jackson is awesome for medical technology, c’mon!”), or by promoting industries and infrastructure that complement that cluster, such as—I don’t know—laser or battery development or long-distance screen-sharing technologies. (Go with me here.) In essence, the idea is that a strong cluster actually helps the companies and the workers in that area, because it creates a pool of both. When I think of all of the WorldCom and SkyTel orphans that we still have in the metro Jackson workforce, it seems to stand out as an example of not being in a cluster. There aren’t enough similar businesses to soak up the failure of a (rather large) outlier company like WorldCom. If Jackson develops a strong medical technology cluster, we might see a number of different places that could both attract talent and where talent could land when things need to change.

Something else we’ve studied and discussed is the notion of “startup cities.” Urban environments are best situated to incubate the startup businesses that can be a good fit with your cluster as well as the businesses that support quality of life in those places, including restaurants, entertainment, education, and “third places” for personal development, spiritual growth, exercise and so on. A city that attracts with a high quality-

Mississippi needs a sea change in our investment in public education. of-life quotient—particularly one that also has a well-identified and incubated cluster of businesses in some specific industries— can build prosperity both in businesses related to that cluster and the support businesses that increase quality of life. So here’s what frequently doesn’t work well: corporate welfare. Reaction to this idea of “incubating businesses” tends too often to skip the quality-of-life stuff and focus on making it cheaper or more economically attractive for a business to locate here, by offering free land, tax abatements, financing, etc., in order to encourage big businesses or manufacturing plants and so on to locate in a given area. To some extent that works, and smart incentives are essentially non-negotiable in today’s United States. But focusing too much on incentives is a big gamble.

How big? The New York Times has a database of incentives by state as of 2012 (jfp.ms/nyt_incentives). The top five for Mississippi are part of what I’ll coin the “Haley Barbour Victory Tour”: SiliCor (alternative fuels, $76 million; failed), Kior (alternative fuels, $75 million; failed), Stiton (solar power, $75 million; 200 jobs in Hattiesburg), Twin Creeks Technologies (solar, $54 million; failed), HCL CleanTech (wood into sugar, $75 million; company bought by Virdia, which was then bought by a Finish conglomerate, Mississippi plant’s future murky). Clearly, having the government gamble on startups can be problematic, particularly since startups have a high propensity to fail. Incentives have, indeed, become a huge issue around the country. In class, we studied a Harvard Business Review case study on North Carolina in the mid1990s, which throughout the 1980s and 1990s was known for not offering many financial incentives to relocate companies because the state offered so many other features, including a remarkable community college system for educating its workforce, great infrastructure, a mature manufacturing base and great universities. Eventually, however, the state was forced to get deeper into the incentives game because so many larger companies expect the incentives and desire them in order to pad their bottom lines. Yet so few of those incentives offer any sort of guarantee from the recipient corporation that too frequently the jobs don’t materialize, or they aren’t as great as we’d expected, or the cluster doesn’t develop around them that the government had hoped to see. What’s more, in the creative economy that is centered in cities, quality of life often trumps incentives. After all, a company

that’s looking for a specific economic cluster to join—one that offers a lot of talent that it can pull from—will often be drawn to the city that (a) has strength in that cluster and (b) offers a strong quality of life for it citizens. Tax breaks are secondary. So here’s what’s crazy. The one word that seems to pop up and highlight itself more than anything else as I’ve studied quality-of-life issues is—education. In fact, public education (or, in some cases, access to inexpensive private schools) comes up a lot in these creative economy discussions. Why? Because a lot of cities have challenges with education, and when people move out of the city because their kids reach a certain age, the clustering effects on the creative economy are dissipated. Conclusion? Mississippi needs a sea change in our investment in public education. From K-12 through community colleges, we should be putting more money into those issues—fully funding MAEP, encouraging magnets and more creative classrooms, and putting our weight behind programs such as Alignment Jackson, if they can be shown to make a difference. If Jackson and Mississippi are going to compete in the creative economy then we need to address two fundamentals right now: an educated workforce and the quality of place that comes with great schools in Jackson. How? Start by holding your representatives accountable for their MAEP votes—and remind them of the hundreds of millions of dollars in bad investments on the Haley Barbour Victory Tour. Tell them to chart a smarter course. Let’s get together—focused, engaged, and civic-minded—and fix our schools. Our creative economy depends on it. Todd Stauffer is publisher, president and co-foundation of the Jackson Free Press. Emal him at todd@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Josh Sheriff

Micah Smith

Dustin Cardon

Patty Limatola

Zachary Oren

Genevieve Legacy

Shameka Hamilton

Natalie West

Design Intern Josh Sheriff is a senior at Jackson State University. Thanks to some great teachers, he is making his way toward becoming a pro in the design industry. He illustrated the cover of this issue.

Music Editor Micah Smith created the game Tic-Tac-Toe as a way to deal with his frustration toward the letters X and O. When not writing or editing music stories, he performs with the band Empty Atlas. He wrote the cover story.

Web and JFP Daily Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He contributed to the cover package.

Freelance writer Patty Limatola is a chef and resides in California. She has two teenage children, teaches cooking classes and owns the blog MmGood. com. She is well traveled and loves exploring life. She contributed to the cover package.

News Intern Zachary Oren Smith comes from a long line of storytellers and decided he might as well make a dime off the family business. And no, he’s probably not related to the Smiths you’re thinking. He wrote a food story.

Freelance writer Genevieve Legacy is an artist-writer-community development consultant. She works at Hope Enterprise Corporation and lives in Brandon with her husband and youngest son. She wrote an arts piece.

Freelance writer Shameka Hamilton is a mom of four who enjoys music, books and food from other cultures. The Simpson County native dreams of writing a New York Times bestseller. She wrote a music story.

Marketing Assistant Natalie West enjoys marketing, assisting and blending SEO phrases into text so smoothly that no one jfp chef week in may even notices. She was a muppet in a former life. She does JFP and BOOM Jackson social media and plans events.

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Response to “Stop Meting Out Harmful School Discipline� by Editorial Board, jfp.ms/stopzt David B. Well, if you kept your schools from feeling like jails and prisons, pumped some money into them, hired bright, interesting people to teach, provided them with support, supplies, and training to succeed, and stopped over-testing them to meet “factory� specifications, then you might have an education system. George Edgar Worley In a presentation to the Holmes County School Board, Mississippi students taught school-board members about alternative non-violent discipline and requested they abolish school corporal punishment. A documentary on America’s public schools shows that some still beat children based on where they live! A public school teacher in Selma, Ala. injured a child with her paddle three days after Oprah marched there in MLK Day observance. David B.—George Edgar Worley The (presentation to the Holmes Count School Board) pre-supposes that Mississippi school board members are teachable. Most of them get on the board either to stop something or to use it as a stepping stone to higher political positions.

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Darnell—George Edgar Worley (The children in the video) are probably some of the same students that can’t stay off their cell phones or iPods during class and can’t get enough of discussing reality shows and rap videos while class is going on. You wonder why test scores are low and dropout rates are high.

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The big question should be where are the parents? Are students going to run the school or will the adults take charge of their children’s education? Be an adult and support vouchers for school choice for all parents if you are tired of the mess. Darnell The bottom line is this: Public schools are full of students from all kind of backgrounds. Many come from homes where there is no discipline and no respect for adult authority. These are the very students that are disruptive in class and make the learning process difficult for all students. Can you imagine taking a math or chemistry class that requires concentration and discipline with 25 students? Then you have five students that are part of the behavior-problem gang with no discipline to learn. The teacher has to stop his or her instruction every five minutes to deal with these problem students. The learning process has negatively affected the entire class. This is why a growing number of public-school teachers have their own children in private schools. They know the deal. And that’s is why vouchers are needed for parents to avoid these problems for their children. alex—Darnell Vouchers are just another way to dumb down the public-school system. Mississippi should cherry-pick children for vouchers because there won’t be enough money to voucher everybody. But wait, isn’t it the liberals’ fault?

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vative values do not work, so instead of bashing liberals and saying their policies haven’t worked, why don’t we come to Mississippi, with its $2 to $3 a day maximum welfare in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families? And do you really think welfare queens live like queens on $2 to $3 a day like third world countries? I don’t want to hear any conservative excuses. Mississippi and Alabama have had decades to try. Darnell—alex The public-school system is already dumbed down. Vouchers would allow parents who are fed up with this mess a way out. Vouchers would do several things: 1. Give parents options in educating their children. 2. Reduce class size and the overall student body of public schools. 3. Reduce the bureaucratic nightmare. 4. Increase competition among schools, thereby improving education for everyone. 5. Reduce government involvement in education. David B.—Darnell An interesting perspective; however, we pay our school systems to educate our

students up to age 17 or 18. After that, they can go on their way. Every student deserves an education, and the state is required to provide K-12. My way would provide more carrots; your way would provide more sticks. Allowing more advanced placement, gifted or college-level courses to more high school students, and providing more resources, better teachers and a better learning environment would certainly help. Allowing transfers more easily would be helpful too. Vouchers and totally different schools ought to be a last resort, as in a failing system. Joe Maxwell This is outrageous and shameful in 21st century America. Where else could adult bullies work at in our nation and hit kids all the way from kindergarten to sexually developed teenage males and females with pieces of wooden boards without being arrested and incarcerated for assault and battery? How are these paid school employees certified or qualified to hit young human beings? Do they come by this naturally or sadistically? These people that do this are not the parents of these students, nor do they have any emotional attachment to them. It is not their job to hit or beat anybody. This is not the function of our learning institutions. These backward schools dotted across the southern United States still practice their traditions of violence, which creates a hostile learning environment in our public schools. Even many third world nations forbid what is being carried out in rural places like Mississippi. Disgusting! David B.—Joe Maxwell I don’t know where you live, Mr. Maxwell; however, I suspect you live outside the South and envision Mississippi as a rather backward educational hell-hole, among other things. And quite frankly, you would be right. However, fewer and fewer schools do that any more. Why? Because it isn’t productive in the long run.

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Friday, March 13 In a sweep targeting the most dangerous criminal immigrants, federal agents arrest 15 people who have been allowed to remain in the United States under President Obama’s executive action. ‌ Islamic State militants accept a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian Boko Haram extremist group. Saturday, March 14 A nun in her ’70s is gang-raped by a group of bandits when she tries to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India.

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Sunday, March 15 The St. Patrick’s Day parade in Boston, Mass., makes history as two gay and lesbian groups join the parade for the first time after decades of opposition that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Monday, March 16 The Obama administration announces that it is abandoning plans to cut the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 by year’s end. ‌ Kurdish forces in Iraq begin investigating three possible recent chemical weapons attacks by the Islamic State group. Tuesday, March 17 House Republicans unveiled a $3.8 trillion budget plan for next year that effectively breaks tight budget limits on military spending while promising big cuts to social programs such as food stamps and Medicaid. Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

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he City of Jackson is hemorrhaging cash at its Water and Sewer Business Administration. Detailed in a report completed by an independent consulting firm hired last fall, the losses are primarily due to bad management practices and could even involve malfeasance at the WSBA.

to help the city’s legal department with the council-led probe. “If personnel have been doing things inappropriately, you’ll be amazed at how fast they start doing things appropriately once they realize that accountability is on its way,� Stamps told reporters. IMANI KHAYYAM

Thursday, March 12 Two officers are shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department just after a demonstration across the street in the wake of the resignation of the Ferguson police chief Wednesday. ‌ The IRS reveals that fake IRS agents have harassed 366,000 people with phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail as part of a huge nationwide tax scam that has cost taxpayers $15.5 million.

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At a March 6 press conference, City Council President De’Keither (right) and Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote (left) vowed to investigate findings of an audit that found rampant fraud at the Water and Sewer Business Administration.

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largest enterprise: water.� The fact that WSBA is the city’s biggest revenue generator makes the findings of the Raftelis report worthy of even more handwringing. Raftelis’ briefing to the Jackson City Council on the City’s water infrastructure problems last week was like watching a physician deliver a crushing, but not entirely unexpected, prognosis to a patient who’s been experiencing chronic symptoms for years. That prognosis: Unless the city finds a way to cut down on expenses, WSBA customers will likely face yet another rate hike. “There is significant uncertainty regarding the level of metered consumption and magnitude of capital and operating costs going forward for the water and sewer system,� Raftelis’ report states. “Given the size of the revenue shortfall in the out years, the City will need to restructure and may need to raise its water and sewer rates, so the City should begin focusing on rate planning and structuring.� The City asked Raftelis consultants to identify revenue problems based on the

symptoms found through the data analysis and detailed on-site analysis that revealed that many water customers continue receiving services despite not paying their bills on time, if at all. It also found that the city has a large amount of uncollected revenue from the number of delinquent accounts or those with large balances. However, the City does not have a good system to collect unpaid or large bills, the consultants note. Water accounts are coded by letter. For example, G-coded accounts refer to accounts associated with a government entity. E-coded accounts are reserved for emergency facilities such as hospitals and chronically ill customer for whom a water disconnection could jeopardize their health. The E-code lets the water department know not to disconnect those clients’ water. The City’s E-coding has no supervision, however. Anyone can go into the system and add an E-Code without any oversight and the WSBA has no system for verifying that customers in fact have health problems. In October 2014, the Jackson Free Press reported that

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the city had more than 1,100 E-code accounts totaling $2.2 million in water fees. Consultants outline the potential fraudulent activity through falsified E-code accounts, unwarranted bill adjustments possibly performed for friends and family members of WSBA cashiers, intentional stop billing orders, falsified meter reads, meter tampering and cash payments that never make into the bank. Rising Expenses Depending on how you look at it, the city is either facing a $1 billion infrastructure bill or, if you’re an elected official, Jackson has a billion-dollar investment opportunity in the coming years. On March 6, the public-comment period began for the 1-percent sales-tax infrastructure master plan, which a 10-member oversight commission helped develop with input from Raftelis. In January 2014, Jackson voters agreed to impose an additional sales tax of 1 percent on certain purchases. Forecasters said the tax

would generate between $12 million and $18 million per year or $300 million over the lifetime of the tax. Yarber told the Jackson Free Press he does not have a final tally of revenues from the tax but that the city is averaging $1.2 million per month, which works out to be $14.4 million over the course of the last year. Yarber added that the commission is looking to spend $60 million on infrastructure projects. Although the money is welcome, it represents a minute portion of the city’s infrastructure needs, which include the $400 million consent decree with the U.S. EPA. In addition, the city is struggling to meet its debt service, which will increase over time as revenues decline, information from Raftelis shows. Hendrix wants Yarber to extend the public comment period for another two weeks. See a full archive of coverage about Jackson’s water woes at jfp.ms/water. Watch for Part II of “Troubled Water,� R.L. Nave’s series on the city’s water-contract saga, on April 1. Write him at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com .

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hen it comes scoring its longsought a domed multi-use stadium, it’s hard to know whether Jackson State University is threatening in the red zone or looking at a Hail Mary scenario. Michael Thomas, the chief-financial officer for Jackson State, said March 6 that while a stadium is still in the school’s longrange plan, JSU’s legislative priorities are to seek funding for two new schools, one of public health and another for social work. Initial plans are for a stadium is designed for football, basketball, concerts and special events. For football games, the stadium would hold about 50,000, while it would pack 17,000 fans for basketball games and 21,000 for concerts. JSU had picked out a site near Battlefield Park, but that location met opposition from neighborhood associations. Now, Thomas says the school is looking at another site downtown, near the Jackson Convention Complex although he did not offer specifics. The new schools and stadium are all part of JSU’s master plan, which calls for extending the main west Jackson all the way to downtown, where the school is

Jackson State University’s master plan calls for the historically black university to extend all the way to downtown Jackson.

Public Policy and Administration as well as the Institute of Government. During a March 6 presentation of the plan at Koinonia Coffee House, Thomas explained that the university and its development foundation have been acquiring property around west Jackson, but he emphasized that there would be no “quick take.� In 2008, JSU pushed a bill that would allow it to take property through

munity groups and the bill died without before it got out of committee. “We’re looking to have conversations with people looking to sell,� Thomas said. JSU’s master plan aims to give the campus a more collegiate feel by lining the outside of the campus with trees and a more pedestrian-friendly experience by pushing parking to the edges of the campus. Renderings show that the proposed

School of Social Work would sit near the overpass at Pearl and Gallatin streets. Ideally, Thomas said, students will one day be able to take the approximately 20 minute walk from the downtown building to the heart of the west Jackson campus. Funding is the big obstacle. Jackson State University isn’t faring much better than the city of Jackson in terms of its legislative checklist. At the start of the session, lawmakers filed several bills on behalf of one of the nation’s most storied historically black universities. Two bills, one from state Rep. Angela Cockerham, D-Magnolia, and the other from state Rep. Earle Banks, D-Jackson, each sought a $2 million to help JSU get started on building a school of public health. Banks also sponsored a bill to sell $5 million in bonds for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program and two more bills to renovate Rose E. McCoy Auditorium and the College of Education and Human Development. Now it appears, the school’s last best hope is to get $8.5 million in the Institutions of Higher Learning appropriations bill. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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by 28 Republican state senators, including seven originally in the Conservative Coalition—Gandy, Harkins, Hill, Longwitz, Massey, Parker and Smith. McDaniel, Sen. Michael Watson, Sen. Melanie Sojourner Sen. Angela Hill are the only coalition members who consistently stick together these days, but McDaniel said the group still exists. “We all don’t think precisely the same way,� McDaniel said. “Some are more liberty-oriented than others.� — Associated Press

cially to students with severe disabilities. But opponents say the bill would take money away from the public-school system, and could funnel the state’s most vulnerable chil-

said Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson. “(These students) need help, they don’t need to be subjected to another disappointment by someone who is trying to scam them out of money.� After debating for about 45 minutes, the Mississippi House voted 65-51 for the bill, which would create The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act. It has already passed the Senate. A five-year pilot program would provide 500 students each year with $6,500 vouchers to attend any private school that is ‘Puppy Mills’ for Kids? accredited by the Mississippi A controversial bill that would Department of Education or anRep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, believes the so-called use taxpayer funds to send students special needs voucher bill would take money away from other state or regional accrediting with disabilities to private schools the public-school system, and could funnel the state’s agency. Parents will receive the advanced in the Mississippi Legis- most vulnerable children into schools with little oversight funds in an “ESA,� or educational lature Wednesday. The bill would when it comes to quality. scholarship account, and can use make Mississippi one of about half it on private school tuition, as well a dozen states with similar proas on tutoring, transportation, and grams. dren into schools with little oversight when it curriculum materials. In Mississippi, 54,000 Supporters say the bill provides families comes to quality. with a necessary option, since school districts “You are getting ready to open the PRUH /(*,6/$785( VHH SDJH can’t always provide needed services—espe- equivalent of puppy mills for children,� TRIP BURNS/FILE PHOTO

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tory. “If we really analyze what we consider to be of value when it comes to our young people … we have to look at what we practice as a people, look at what we believe,” she said. “… We are not clear how we value our young people, nor are we clear how we value one another.” Alexander indicated that most people give mere lip service to the terms value and transformation. Adults must demonstrate that the issues young people consider important are also vital to them, she said, and they must engage youth at every opportunity. True communication requires collaboration and coordination of effort, she added, which can’t be found on social media; it needs face-to-face interaction.

Adults must engage young people where they are to keep them interested. Without making education and communication relevant, young people will not see how adults value them.

“(Young people) will do what they need to do if they know we are in relationship with them and care about what they think is important,” Alexander said. “… One critical way we can work, as adults, toward saving … our young people is to get engaged with them,” and that includes making it clear what is acceptable behavior and what isn’t (and why), and asking them whether they find value in what we provide for them. Contributing to the problems of black youth is the negative narrative developed over the decades, Batteast indi-

A New Common Core Hurdle Mississippi became the latest state that could replace the controversial Common Core State Standards after the Mississippi House passed a bill on March 11 that will assemble a commission to examine the standards. House education chairman John Moore, R-Brandon, said the motion likely will not affect the bill’s passage, but some amendments may be added before it goes back to the Senate. If it is passed, members of the House and Senate will work together to assemble a panel of educational professionals and parents to look at the standards, and may

cated. Many people believe that more young black men are in prison than in college, for example. It is not true, but such statistics are stuck in the national consciousness. “If I’m constantly hearing that I have a better opportunity to go to prison than to go to college, which (place) would I aspire to go?” Batteast asked. “… I had a 7-year-old, and I asked him, ‘What to you want to be?’ He told me, ‘I want to go to prison so I can be with my daddy.’” Batteast believes we must address several areas to turn such thinking around, including strengthening family, community, self-esteem and academics. Changing the story must include a rigorous evaluation of the institutions where young people congregate—schools, churches and community organizations that provide services to them—and of the attitudes we foster, he said. “If you have a sick village, you can only raise sick children,” he said. “… Our young men have so many twisted definitions of what a man is,” but few real models of appropriate and supportive male behavior. Jackson alone has some 970 churches filled with people who could provide mentoring for young people, he said. If each church mentored just one African American youngster, it could make a huge shift in how young people see themselves. “When it comes to violence, if I don’t love me, I can’t love you,” Batteast said. “… If I don’t love who I am, it’s easy for me to take your life. It’s easy for me to take your stuff. We have to understand that.” By the 4th grade, “being smart is not cool,” he added, which has many youngsters hide their gifts and their deficiencies. If they can’t read, for example, they’ll act out in an effort to keep it a secret. Batteast offered several solutions to the problems young people face. First, he said, we have to change the way we speak about and relate to young people—change the story, in other words. Second, we must provide adequate resources to families, especially single mothers and fathers. Third, we have to support our school systems and freely provide the expertise of the African American community to teachers. “Young people want discipline. They want knowledge. They want to know that we care,” Alexander said. “… We create change and sustain it by getting engaged.” For more information about the KINGS leadership institute, visit kingsleadershipinstitute.org or find the organization on Facebook. For more information on Leadership Next-Generation Plus, email leadershipnextgeneration@gmail.com.

recommend new ones. Mississippi, along with more than 40 other states and the District of Columbia, signed on to the standards in 2010, which lay out what students are expected to know in math and English language arts in kindergarten through 12th grade. The Common Core coalition has fractured since then, and Mississippi is now one of several states that has introduced legislation to review the standards and consider whether to abandon them. The state has been distancing itself from Common Core for months. Last summer, Gov. Phil Bryant called the standards

“a failed program.” In the fall, Mississippi cancelled its five-year contract with a group of states that developed Common Core tests known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Soon after, though, the state signed an emergency contract to use the test for this spring because it was too late in the year to find a replacement exam. If the latest bill becomes law, the Common Core copyright and any references will be removed from the state’s standards, although some legislators questioned the legality of that action. — The Hechinger Report 13 March 18 - 24, 2015 • jfp.ms

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he knot of thorny issues facing most young African American men and women is a disaster-level crisis. Cassio Batteast, founder of K.I.N.G.S. Leadership Institute (the acronym stands for Knowledge Institute New Generation Scholars), recently framed the predicament through a series of questions. “What if 80 percent of children in special-education classes were white males? What if the future prison population was determined by the third-grade reading scores of white males? What if 45 percent of white males lived below the poverty line as opposed to 16 percent of black males? What if two out of every three white males were projected to be involved in the penal system by 2020? And if homicide was the leading cause of death among white males ages 15 to 34?” he asked rhetorically last week. “What would y’all think would happen? Would it not be a state of emergency?” Each of the statistics Batteast mentioned is true of black men in America, he said. Given what most black youth face—from lack of opportunity to lack of self-esteem—they have an uphill climb with little mainstream support. Yet, despite those structural barriers, the community can work from the ground up to change what has become hard reality for African American young people, especially boys. Through his organization, Batteast mentors African American boys and young men to become soughtout leaders in the community. In the March 11 Jackson 2000 program titled “The Destiny of Our Sons” at the Arts Center of Mississippi, he and Martha Alexander of Leadership Next-Generation Plus Inc. spoke to an audience of about 50 participants about the challenges and solutions for addressing the issues. “We have been inundated with this challenge for a long time,” Alexander said of America’s black communities. Since the Trayvon Martin shooting in February 2012, however, the plight of young black men has surfaced in the entire nation’s consciousness. Alexander, whose organization focuses on education and leadership skills, said members of the African American community must examine whether they value themselves before they can have an impact on young people. “We have to transform our value systems as African Americans, in particular, and people, in general,” she said. That transformation begins with evaluating oneself, she suggested. Before people can value their youngsters, they must value themselves, each other, their God and their his-

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Why it stinks: That ain’t saying much considering that for a good portion of the state’s history, a sizable number of people were enslaved and legally could not be educated or subjected to separate and unequal treatment under Jim Crow. Not to mention, the $100 million in “extra� funds Reeves is crowing about is still only about $200 million shy of the bare minimum schools need per the Mississippi Adequate Education Program. To paraphrase Malcolm X, who said, “You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress,� Republicans can’t give schools one-third of the money they need and walk around with their chests out. And if that’s a point of pride, Reeves and company—and the people who voted for them—need to do some soul searching.

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he City of Jackson is in violation of state law. On Feb. 26, the Jackson Free Press submitted a public-records request for documents related to the city’s $91 million performance contract with Siemens Industry Inc. Under state law, agencies should provide requested materials within one working day after a written request for a public record is made, and the agencies must produce (or formally deny) records no later than seven working days later. Mississippi’s public-records law reads: “If a public body is unable to produce a public record by the seventh working day after the request is made, the public body must provide a written explanation to the person making the request stating that the record requested will be produced and specifying with particularity why the records cannot be produced within the seven-day period.� To date, the city—specifically the Jackson city clerk—has not fully responded to the JFP’s request as the law requires. In all fairness, we understand that most of the city’s documents are not stored in the clerk’s office, which means assistant clerks have to goad minions in other departments to make the necessary photocopies. In short, the clerk, whom the city council supervises, can’t compel a city department director, whom the mayor supervises, to obey the law anymore than the JFP can. However, the city’s failure to figure out that workflow isn’t the public’s problem.

The city must treat access to public records with the same seriousness as its compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Consent Decree, or paying its debt service. That is, they should treat it as an absolute non-negotiable. Of course, we recognize there are financial and technological constraints on budget writers, and we are therefore glad to hear that the council is shopping around for a low-cost solution, even if it’s a temporary fix. As the JFP reported last week, the council recently had a presentation from Redwood City, Calif.-based OpenGov, which puts city financial data onto an interactive website. Representatives from the company told the council that some 275 cities have purchased their service, including the city of Los Angeles, which has an annual budget of $28.5 billion. Based on Jackson’s $400 million budget, OpenGov’s representative estimated their service would cost $21,000 per year with no maintenance or service fees. Implementation would cost $3,000 and would take less than one month. As good of a deal as that sounds like, it’s our hope that the city council would solicit bids for the service to make sure that Jackson taxpayers are getting the most bang for their bucks. We look forward to seeing more details about the proposal and urge city officials to give it careful consideration.

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But I believe the same phenomenon is at play. After a “reading� at a Georgia library, a young black man came up to me. A senior in high school, he had tears in his eyes. As I usually do, I fear that I have said something that was too raw, something that was hurtful to him. I have gone too far this time, I tell myself, I should just keep my big Mississippi mouth shut and do the politically correct thing. He held his hand out. “I’ve never heard a white man talk about his own racism before. I just never understood. I feel like I know you. So much makes sense to me now. It’s strange. I even understand my parents better. My own people.� He was as mystified as I was. In Atlanta, where I was invited to address a book group sponsored by the mayor at City Hall, the white mother of a bi-racial boy said because of hearing the story of a white man, somebody who represented the kind of person whom she believed most threatened the well-being of her child, she now understood her own son better, and the world that he must navigate. Upon reflection, what this young man and this mother taught me was the ultimate transformative possibility of story. For some of us who are separated by seemingly unbridgeable divides such as race, sexual orientation and ethnicity, we play stock roles in each other’s stories. We project our fears and anxieties onto each other. We are convenient foils for each other’s narratives that confirm our comfortable belief systems. But when we finally connect intimately with another’s story, our own story changes. The way we view the world, and ourselves in that world, is never the same. We are expanded. When we allow the truth of another’s story to enter our lives, we are transformed. Jonathan Odell is the author of two novels, “The Healing� (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2012) and “The View from Delphi� (MacAdam/Cage, 2004), which has been updated and republished as “Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League.� Odell was born and raised in Mississippi, growing up in the institutional segregation of a small town. In college, he sold “The Ebony Pictorial History of Black America� door to door in black neighborhoods across the South while the Klan tried to discourage him. He now resides in Minnesota.

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or the past month, I’ve been on the road doing readings of my new novel, “Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League� (Maiden Lane Press, 2014). Actually, “reading� is a misnomer. Mostly, I find reading to groups boring and artificial and a tad condescending. Sometimes I get around to reading, but mostly I tell stories. I can’t help it. I still find that’s the best way to have an intimate experience with a group of strangers outside of using mind-altering chemicals. And amazing things have happened. I often tell my stories of growing up in Mississippi during Jim Crow, and how I was taught by those I loved and trusted to be a racist. I go into detail and spare no one, including myself. I don’t preach diversity or engage in moralizing. I just tell the stories as they happened—or, at least, as I remember them. The response from whites, even those who grew up in the northern liberal bastions, has been astonishing. Instead of seeing me as some redneck oddity to be shunned, they come to me with their own stories of prejudice and bigotry that they observed growing up or were a part of, but until hearing my story, had never really considered. A woman in Minneapolis told me that she suddenly remembered how her father corrected her as a young girl when she referred to an African American walking on the sidewalk as “that lady.� He told her not to call her a lady, but a woman. Without being told explicitly, she understood that the title of “lady� was reserved for people the color of her mother. Again, there is something about the telling of one’s personal story in a non-accusatory way, without an agenda or trying to change someone else, that allows the forgotten stories of the listener to float to the surface of consciousness. It becomes safe to remember. The response from African Americans has been even more gratifying. They tell me when they hear me tell honestly of my racism, they feel free to allow their own stories to surface and often reshape their own memories. Who would have thought that me, a recovering racist, talking about his struggles, past and present, would come as a relief to those who feel they are still the victims of racism? It seems a paradox.

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Follow the Gold-Record Road:

Creating the Grammy Museum Mississippi by Micah Smith

his head and into the history books, he would need help. Hammons met with major players such as Jon Hornyak, executive director of NARAS’ chapter in Memphis, and Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum L.A., before the idea finally reached the board of NARAS. In April 2010, the academy announced development of the Grammy Museum Mississippi, though the project broke ground on the campus of Delta State University in June 2013. Today, construction is in full swing, and the museum is on schedule to open this fall,

Construction is underway for the state-of-the-art Grammy Museum Mississippi, a sister campus of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles that’s being built on the campus of Delta State University.

tentatively in September, moving quickly during the drier months of late spring and summer. The Cleveland attraction is almost equal in size to its predecessor with much less expense, coming in under $20 million in comparison to the Los Angeles building’s estimated $34 million cost. “The Grammy Museum Mississippi

is a bigger project than the B.B. King Museum,� Hammons says. “I think, in many ways, it’ll complement the B.B. King Museum because it deals not only with the history of the music that came from our state but also with the history of recorded music, period.� Hammons sees the museum as an opportunity to remind people of Mississippi’s contributions to music history, including legends such as Jimmie Rodgers, Elvis Presley and B.B. King. Charley Patton grew up only five minutes from the museum site at the Dockery Farms plantation, which is now a registered land-

‘A Whole New World’ by Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle Lucy Janoush has worked closely with Hammons on the Grammy Museum project since early 2011, serving as the president of the Cleveland Music Foundation, a nonprofit formed to oversee the museum’s development. Eventually, the foundation will also handle the day-today business of the museum. “My focus now remains on the construction and fundraising,� she says. “Then, when we open, our board will go to more of an advisory and troubleshooting board. I’ll go from doing lots

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mark. Hammons says the new Grammy museum also a chance to introduce visitors to the state’s hidden gems. “Many people don’t recognize or know much about a guy named Eddy Willis from Grenada, Mississippi,� he says. “He was one of the original Funk Brothers, the house band for Motown. Eddie probably played on more numberone hits than Elvis and The Beatles and The Four Tops combined.�

and lots and lots of things to not as many. I’m excited about (that) because I’m a volunteer. It has really been consuming my life in the past few years.� One of Janoush’s tasks as president of the Cleveland Music Foundation has been preparing for the opening. It also means designing future programs that will go beyond holding concerts. Much like its sister site in Los Angeles, the Grammy Museum Mississippi will be a PRUH *5$00< VHH SDJH

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ust off West Sunflower Road in Cleveland, Miss., past Walter Sillers Coliseum, where Delta State University’s basketball teams speed across the court, there’s a site that celebrates an entirely different kind of competition. It may not be ready just yet, but it’s closer than ever. Take a walk toward the university’s Darrell Foreman Golf Course. Instead of flags demarking golf holes, you’ll find metal girders reaching two stories up. The course has changed shape, allowing for a 4.2-acre construction site. Workers from local firm Eley Barkley Engineering and Architecture and Jackson firm Dale Partners Architects alternate in activity, pushing toward an ever-impending deadline. While the uninitiated might pass the upturned earth and steel structure without much thought, many residents of Cleveland know what it will become. It’s the site of the future Grammy Museum Mississippi, and come this fall, it will be one of the state’s biggest attractions. When Mayor Billy Nowell and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce decided to develop a music museum in 2009, they approached Allan Hammons of Hammons & Associates advertising firm. They’d seen Hammons’ vision at work when he helped design and coordinate the construction of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola when he was its interim executive director. They’d also seen how that museum boosted Indianola’s economy since its 2008 opening. “I kicked some ideas around and came back with the idea that maybe we could talk the (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) into building a museum in Mississippi based on the model of the (Grammy) Museum that had been built in California,� Hammons says. That first Grammy Museum, which opened in the Los Angeles LA Live entertainment complex in 2008, was a 30,000square-foot, state-of-the-art celebration of music history. Nowell and the chamber members agreed to the idea of building a sister museum in Cleveland, but if Hammons wanted to get a project of that size out of

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The Grammy Museum Mississippi has been in construction since June 2013.

‘That’s What Friends Are For’ by Dionne Warwick If that sounds like a lot for a volunteer to take on, it is. Janoush is thankful to have found some powerful collaborators, including Jackson businessman Malcolm White. Many people know White as the owner of Hal & Mal’s restaurant, but he has also served as the tourism division director for the Mississippi Development Authority since December 2012. White is a vocal supporter of the state’s “Year of the Creative Economy” initiative, which encourages innovation and growth in Mississippi’s artistic and innovative enterprises. “He’s a great partner,” Janoush says. “… Some people, when you start talking about the creative economy and tourism, that sort of thing, they just don’t get it. Malcolm has (understood) it from the

Jackson tradition that he began in the early 1980s: Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade. This year’s parade theme is “Bringing Home the Grammyphone.” The two days of events, on Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, celebrate the impending museum opening as well as the career of Grammy-nominated grand marshal Bobby Rush (see page 3). Mississippi began cultivating an association with NARAS even before the idea of a satellite campus for the museum came into play. In 2008, the state hosted a Grammy-sanctioned 50th anniversary celebration at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Jackson, leading to “Mississippi Night,” an annual event at the Los Angeles museum the following year. White began working with the academy while he was executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission, where he worked for seven years before taking a position with the MDA. He sees the Grammy Museum Mississippi as a logical next step in the state’s development of music-related tourist attractions, which include the Mississippi Blues Trail, the Country Music Trail and the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Museum in Meridian. Other projects in the works include an expansion of Elvis Presley’s birthplace in Tupelo and the Marty Stuart Experience, a museum cataloguing the country artist’s career that’s in early development in Philadelphia, Miss. “When you’re selling tourism, you sure want to be able to talk about a component like music and a cultural institu-

‘Just the Way You Are’ by Billy Joel While a number of organizations and individuals have helped to bring the Grammy Museum Mississippi this near to completion, White says the biggest supporters of the project are Delta State University and the residents of Cleveland. “You’ve got these people who are taking control of their destiny,” he says. “They aren’t just saying, ‘Boy, wouldn’t it be nice if the state did something for Cleveland? Wouldn’t it be nice if the state did something for Bolivar County and for Delta State?’ No, they’re saying, ‘We’re going to go to L.A. We’re going to get this franchise and this facility, and we’re going to go home and raise the money.’” Emily Havens is another important player in keeping the Grammy Museum on course, She joined the Cleveland Music

cover of Glen Campbell’s hit song “Gentle on My Mind” earned this year’s award for Best Country Duo or Group Performance. This is fifth Grammy Award win for the song, which took home four trophies in 1967. The Band Perry’s first win makes the trio a logical choice for the new museum’s first major event, along with the fact that the members are Ridgeland natives. “This will be the first large concert of its kind in Cleveland, Mississippi,” Havens says. “… It’s actually the first concert on the Delta State football field in the history of Delta State.” Havens believes it won’t be the last big show, either. The L.A. museum hosts about 90 concert events per year, and she expects the Grammy Museum Mississippi to reach similar numbers in the coming years. The goal is for invited artists to speak with children in an educational setting during the day, and then to perform for the public that evening. The museum will also mount quarterly temporary exhibits centered on some of history’s greatest musical artists. For the museum opening, organizers will present “Stevie Ray Vaughn: Pride & Joy.” In the next quarter, expect a British invasion with a special tribute to The Beatles. With all the recent additions to the music museum arena, the Grammy Museum Mississippi might seem late to the game, but Havens sees it as an integral piece in the state’s music-tourism puzzle. “I think that, obviously as the GramCOURTESY GRAMMY MUSEUM® MISSISSIPPI

and arts programs,” Janoush says. “We plan to be very involved with filling that void.” The foundation plans to accomplish those educational goals using assets that Delta State University and the Delta Music Institute already have in place. “Delta State already has a program where they video-broadcast art instruction to about 75 schools in Mississippi,” Janoush says. “If resources are such that kids can’t come to us, we can video-broadcast through that infrastructure and take our programs to them.” Students of the music institute will also benefit. The Grammy Museum plans to offer the students a number of internships, offering hands-on experience in areas such as fundraising, marketing, production, lights and sound. Plans are also in motion to provide an exchange program with the L.A. location.

tion like the Grammy Museum,” White says. “We look at what the B.B. King Museum has done not only for the tax base in Indianola, but in terms of our tourism product. It’s just remarkable.” While the Cleveland project’s $20 million price tag is no small sum, White says the cost is relatively little compared to the Grammy Museum’s potential annual revenue. “We already know that (Mississippi gets) $6.40 back on every dollar that we invest in tourism,” he says. “… (It) just doesn’t take long to see that return, and that’s good business, good development, and that’s a good investment.”

This design envisions the Grammy Museum Mississippi’s lobby.

Foundation as executive director in midJanuary, having served on the foundation’s board of directors since November 2011. With the new title comes more responsibility. Most recently, she’s been organizing one of the foundation’s largest fundraisers: an April 9 concert featuring The Band Perry in Delta State’s McCool Stadium. The Band Perry is fresh from this year’s 57th Grammy Awards, where its

mys, this will be the hive that brings all that music together,” she says. “… Country music, R&B, blues, gospel, rock-nroll—I think all of that story will be told in the Grammy Museum.” For more information on the Grammy Museum Mississippi, visit grammymuseum.org. For a full list of Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade events and times, visit malsstpaddysparade.com.

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hub for music education. About 80 percent of the foundation’s objectives are education based, she says. “So many schools across Mississippi, and across the nation, with limited funds have dropped things like music programs

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Face the Music: Mal’s St. Paddy’s After-Party by Micah Smith

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New Orleans native Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is proof that musical prodigies exist. At 6 years old, Andrews led brass bands during parades around his hometown. Starting at age 12, he began performing with various artists on international tours, including a 105show tour with Lenny Kravitz in 2005. Andrews was only 19 at the time. Now, the Grammy-nominated trombone and trumpet player fronts his own band, Orleans Avenue, a hip-hop-infused funk band featuring guitarist Pete Murano, drummer Joey Peebles, baritone saxophonist Dan Oestreicher and bassist Michael Ballard. Andrews’ studio albums—2010’s “Backatown,” 2011’s “For True” and 2013’s “Say That to Say This”—have all breached the top five spots on Billboard’s contemporary jazz charts.

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Dumpstaphunk, another New Orleans act on the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade lineup, boasts an impressive pedigree. While the band is best known for dual bass guitarists Nick Daniels III and Tony Hall, the roster also features keyboardist Ivan Neville, son of R&B legend Aaron Neville, and guitarist Ian Neville, Aaron’s cousin. When Ivan formed the band to back his solo performance at the 2003 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, he intended it to be a one-time engagement. Instead, the funk band has become a recurring presence at major music events across the nation, including Voodoo Fest, Bonnaroo and the Peach Music Festival.

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There’s Ozzy Osbourne, there’s Latin music, and there’s funk. Never the trio shall meet. Except, when they do, it turns out to be amazing. Since Brownout, a band from Austin, Texas, began touring with its Black Sabbath cover show in early 2014, the ninepiece Latin funk act has drawn plenty of unexpected attention. Major publications such as the Boston Globe and USA Today have printed articles about the band. The band’s selftitled seven-track record also earned some accolades. “Brownout presents: Brown Sabbath” appeared on NPR Music’s “50 Favorite Albums of 2014” list alongside releases from Mary J. Blige, Jenny Lewis and Robert Plant.

Like its brothers in Brownout, seven-piece Roxy Roca from Austin, Texas, benefits from its musical hometown. Vocalist Taye Cannon’s early years in Alabama were a meld of punk rock and classic soul. After moving to Austin, he formed his first band, Mocktigers, which leaned heavily toward the former, but at heart, he still considered himself a soul singer. Roxy Roca began to take shape after Cannon met guitarist Errol Siegel. Since the horn-fueled soulfunk band debuted at an after-party for the 2010 Austin City Limits Music Festival, Roxy Roca has performed with major acts across the board, including Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, B.B. King, and all three of its St. Paddy’s Parade co-stars. The band released its Stag Records debut album, “Ain’t Nothin’ Fancy,” in late February.

Mal’s St. Paddy’s Day Official After-Party begins at 3:30 p.m., Saturday, March 21, at Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St., 601-948-0888). Tickets are $20 in advance at ardenland.net, and $25 at the venue. The event is for ages 18 and up. For more information, visit malsstpaddysparade.com.

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Street and back to Court Street. This means, among other things, the popular watch locations in front of the Governor’s Mansion and along that street will be off route this year. In addition, the Buckethead Judges will be stationed in front of the Jackson Convention Complex. This year’s theme is “Bringing Home the Grammyphone� in honor of the Grammy Museum Mississippi.

11 a.m. - Children’s Parade on South Lamar Street in front of the Mississippi Museum of Art. 1 p.m. - Parade begins. After Parade - Awards ceremony

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nce a year, Jacksonians from all walks of life gather together to build floats, don green in a variety of ways (including tutus, a crowd favorite) and walk downtown’s city streets while collecting oodles of beads. Malcolm White and friends created the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade to be Jackson’s version of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras celebration, and this year, our parade events— including a Second Line Stomp and after party—are March 20 and 21. The parade is Jackson’s iconic way to celebrate the holiday and the coming of spring. But even if you’re not going to join the festivities, these recipes give you a way to celebrate the occasion from the comfort of home.

Tajin Green Beer My friend David introduced me to drinking beer with a salt and tajin rim one summer, and I love it. You can find tajin (a seasoning made with chilis and lime) in the Mexican section of the grocery store. Keep it on hand to spice up fruits and vegetables, especially during the summer. For your St. Patrick’s Day green beer, tajin on the rim will make it just a little spicy.

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Irish Soda Bread I found this traditional St. Patrick’s Day recipe in my “must try” pile a few years ago. When I finally made it, I fell in love with it. This is a great recipe for someone who’s uncomfortable or inexperienced with making bread. Because there is no yeast involved, it does not require letting the dough rise, and you don’t have to knead it much. The orange zest and currants make the bread slightly sweet..

Ingredients 4 cups all-purpose flour 4 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) cold, unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch dice

1 3/4 cups cold buttermilk, shaken 1 extra-large egg, lightly beaten 1 teaspoon grated orange zest 1 cup dried currants

Directions Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the butter and mix on low speed until thoroughly combined. In a large measuring cup, lightly beat the buttermilk, egg and orange zest together with a fork. Slowly add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture with the mixer on low speed, then add the currants to the dough. It will be

very wet. Dump the dough onto a well-floured board and knead it a few times, shaping the dough into a round loaf. Place the loaf on the prepared sheet pan and lightly cut an X into the top with a serrated knife. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean and the loaf makes a hollow sound when you tap it. Cool on a baking rack. Serve warm or at room temperature. Serves eight.

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Wet the outside rim of a large, clear glass with a lime wedge. Put the tajin on a saucer and roll the moistened rim of the glass in the spice to lightly coat it. Pour the beer in the glass, add food coloring (one drop at a time to get the color you desire), squeeze the juice from a second lime wedge and add a pinch of salt. Sláinte!

Crockpot Corned Beef and Cabbage Serves six

My mother-in-law gave me this recipe, and it became a family favorite for us. She recommends making this iconic Irish-American dish in a Crockpot because it’s simple, and it keeps the meat moist. The best part about this recipe is that you just assemble the ingredients in the pot and eight hours later, it’s ready to eat. You can even prepare this dish a day in advance, if necessary.

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4 to 6-pound corned beef brisket 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 garlic clove, chopped 1 bay leaf, dried 1 head cabbage, coarsely chopped

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Directions Put the onions, potatoes and carrots in the Crockpot. Place the corned-beef brisket on top of the vegetables and sprinkle it with black pepper; add the garlic. Pour the water and beer in the crockpot, add the bay leaf, cover and set it on high. Cook the brisket for seven hours. Add the cabbage and cook for one more hour. Serve hot.

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live performances by David Dunavent and Evol Love, and Stogdaddy and the Good Time Band. The event will have beer, food, games and a beer pong tournament. The after party is from 3 p.m. to midnight Saturday, March 21. Southern Beverage Company sponsors the event.

Jaco’s Tacos (318 S. State St., 601-961-7001) Jaco’s St. Paddy’s Party will feature live music by John Clarke. General cover is $7 and reserved seating with parking is $50. Jaco’s will have a beer cart set up outside during the parade with shots starting at $3. The party begins around 4 p.m. and goes on through the night.

Campbell’s Bakery (3013 N. State St., 601-362-4628) Campbell’s will have green petit fours and shamrock teacakes until March 21. Nandy’s Candy (1220 E. Northside Drive, Suite 380, 601-362-9553) For St. Patrick’s Day, Nandy’s Candy will have chocolate shamrocks, green chocolat shamrocks and chocolate pots filled with chocolate coins. The treats will be available until March 21.

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One Block East (642 Tombigbee St., 601-944-0203) One Block East is taking the party to the street with the second annual St. Paddy’s Block Party and Crawfish Boil. The event will feature live music bands including the Jason Miller Band, Burnham Road, Waylon Halen, Andrew Pates and Seven Handle Circus. Gates open at 10 a.m. and live DJs will perform throughout the day and into the night. The event will have beer gardens, Jager Girls, a large private viewing area to watch the parade, and crawfish and Bad Ass burgers served all day.

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Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St., 601-948-0055) March 17, Fenian’s Pub will host the Open Mic Night contest finals with Brock Bailey. The winner will get a chance to perform a one-and-a half-hour set during Fenian’s St. Paddy’s Day block party March 21. At the block party, the pub will have live music all day long, with performances by Spirits of the House at noon, 4 Hearts 1 Beat at 5:30 p.m. and The Cut at 8 p.m. Fenian’s will also have drink specials sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey, New Belgium Brewing and Capital City Beverages. Capital City will also be giving away swag. The party has a $5 cover beginning at 3 p.m., and all ages are welcome until 7 p.m., when the party is 21 and up only.

Stones, Crashing Broadway and Bikini Frankenstein. The barbecue will have a bounce house for kids, and those ages 12 and under get in for free. Regular admission is $20. Budweiser sponsors the event. Club Mirage’s Get Lucky St. Patrick’s Day Bash begins at 9 p.m. Lil Wyte will perform, along with DJ Kaila Troy and DJ Duvall. The cover charge for men is $20, and the event is $10 for women. The event will have free beer and an open bar all night. Text 202-575-2585 for tickets and more information.

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Broad Street Baking Company (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601-362-2900) Broad Street offers a special St. Paddy’s Day king cake made with Guinness beer swirled in chocolate Bavarian cream and cream cheese and then drizzled with a rich chocolate ganache on top. The cakes are $23.95 each and are available through March 21.

Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St., 601-948-0888) On Friday, March 20, at 5 p.m., Hal’s Marching Malfunctions kicks off with the Second Line Stomp featuring Southern Komfort Brass Band. It starts at the King Edward Hotel at 5 p.m. The Second Line

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The Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade celebrations are March 20-21, so it’s time to get your green on.

Stomp parade begins at 6:45 p.m. and marches from the King Edward to Hal & Mal’s Restaurant. Navin Johnson & The Special Purpose will perform in the dining room, and DJ Young Venom & Jonasty’s Bogus ’90s party is in the Big Room. Attendees can dress up in ’90s clothes, play games and dance to music from the era. The doors open for the event at 9 p.m., and the party will have a $10 cover charge. Lucky Town will tap its Brewe of O’Tux Charity Red for the very first time. On Saturday, March 21, the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Street Festival, which begins after the parade ends, will feature Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Dumpstaphunk, Brownout presents Brown Sabbath, and Roxy Roca. Tickets are available at ardenland.net and at Hal & Mal’s (cash only). Don’t miss the award ceremony inside with Southern Komfort Brass Band and DJ Nu AJC. Bonny Blair’s Irish Pub (1149 Old Fannin Road, Brandon, 769-251-0692) For its inaugural St. Patrick’s Day After Party Celebration, Bonny Blair’s will have

Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St., 601-960-2700) March 21, Ole Tavern will have its St. Patrick’s Day Ultimate Downtown Throwdown and Dance Party. DJ Glenn Rogers will kick off the event. The event includes sets from by Third Era and Violator, DJ Nasty Sho, DJ DVDJ Reign and Hardrock Resident, and DJ Hyphee, with live performances by Plow Mule, Rooster Blues and the Larry Waters Duo. The event begins at 2 p.m. F Jones Corner (303 N. Farish St., 601-983-1148) Bernard Lucas presents the Irish Party on Farish Street, featuring live performances from Dexter Allen and Blues Man. The doors open at 10 p.m. $1 Jell-O shots and other drink specials, and $5 grilled Rueben sandwiches will be available all night. Club Mirage (824 S. State St.) March 21, Club Mirage will host a St. Patrick’s Day BBQ & Crawfish Boil, which starts at 1:30 p.m. The event will feature performances from Saving Abel, 12

Martin’s (214 S. State St., 601-354-9712) Martin’s starts its St. Paddy’s celebration at 10 a.m. Beginning around noon, DJ Young Venom will perform in the bar’s parking lot all afternoon. There will be a full bar of both liquor and beer and no cover charge until 6 p.m., when Martin’s will begin collecting a cover for Flow Tribe’s performance at 10 p.m. The entire day’s events are 21 and up. Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland, 601-899-0038) March 21, Burgers and Blues will close down its back parking lot to make room for its St. Paddy’s Day Blow Out, which features a crawfish boil and drink specials all day, including a $5 vodka and energy drink special. The Aaron Coker Band perform from 1 to 4 p.m., and Drivin South perform from 6 to 10 p.m. For more information, find Burgers & Blues on Facebook. Club Eclipse (960 West St., 601-360-0063) Club Eclipse has its Irish Revolution Saturday, March 21, at 9 p.m. DJ Kaila Troy and DJ Duvall will perform. The party will have free beer and an open bar all night. The event ends at 5 a.m. The cost is $20 for men and $10 for women. Patrons get half off admission with a Club Mirage wristband. See and add more at jfp.ms/paddys15.

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AMERICAN/SOUTHERN CUISINE Basil’s (2906 N State St #104, Jackson, 601-982-2100) Paninis pizza, pasta, soups and salads. They’ve got it all on the menu. Broad Street Bakery (4465 Interstate 55 N. 601-362-2900) Hot breakfast, coffee drinks, fresh breads & pastries, gourmet deli sandwiches. The Feathered Cow (4760 I-55 North 769-233-8366) Simple and homemade equal quality and freshness every time. You never leave The Cow hungry! Primos Cafe (2323 Lakeland 601-936-3398/ 515 Lake Harbour 601-898-3400) A Jackson institution for breakfast, blue-plates, catfish, burgers, prime rib, oysters, po-boys & wraps. Famous bakery! Rooster’s (2906 N State St, Jackson, 601-982-2001) You haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Rooster’s burger. Pair it with their seasoned fries and you’re in heaven. Two Sisters Kitchen (707 N. Congress St. 601-353-1180) Lunch. Mon-Fri, Sun. PIZZA Sal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St. 601-368-1919) Pizzas of all kinds plus pasta, eggplant Parmesan, fried ravioli & ice cream for the kids! Mellow Mushroom (275 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood, 601-992-7499) More than just great pizza and beer. Open Monday - Friday 11-10 and Saturday 11-11. ITALIAN La Finestra (120 N Congress St #3, Jackson, 601-345-8735) Chef Tom Ramsey’s downtown Jackson hot-spot offers authentic Italian cuisine in cozy, inviting environment. BRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) Award-winning wine list, Jackson’s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining. STEAK, SEAFOOD & FINE DINING The Islander Seafood and Oyster House (1220 E Northside Drive, Suite 100, 601-366-5441) Oyster bar, seafood, gumbo, po’boys, crawfish and plenty of Gulf Coast delights in a laid-back Buffet-style atmosphere. The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 North State St. #100 601-398-4562) Transforms the essence of Mediterranean food and southern classics. The Penguin (1100 John R Lynch Street, 769-251-5222) Fine dining at its best. Rocky’s (1046 Warrington Road, Vicksburg 601-634-0100) Enjoy choice steaks, fresh seafood, great salads, hearty sandwiches. Sal and Phil’s Seafood (6600 Old Canton Rd, Ridgeland 601-957-1188) Great Seafood, Poboys, Lunch Specials, Boiled Seafood, Full Bar, Happy Hour Specials Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Avenue 601-982-2899) Creative seafood classics. Named one of Jackson’s Best New Restaurants. MEDITERRANEAN/GREEK Aladdin Mediterranean Grill (730 Lakeland Drive 601-366-6033) Delicious authentic dishes including lamb dishes, hummus, falafel, kababs, shwarma. Vasilios Greek Cusine (828 Hwy 51, Madison 601-853-0028) Authentic greek cuisine since 1994, specializing in gyros, greek salads, baklava cheesecake & fresh daily seafood. BARBEQUE Chimneyville (970 High St, Jackson 601-354-4665 www.chimneyville.com) Family style barbeque restaurant and catering service in the heart of downtown Jackson. Hickory Pit Barbecue (1491 Canton Mart Rd. 601-956-7079) The “Best Butts in Town” features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and po’boys. Pig and Pint (3139 N State St, Jackson, 601-326-6070) Serving up competition style barbecue along with one of the of best beer selections in metro. COFFEE HOUSES Cups Espresso Café (Multiple Locations, www.cupsespressocafe.com) Jackson’s local group of coffeehouses offer a wide variety of espresso drinks. Wi-fi. BARS, PUBS & BURGERS Bonny Blair’s (1149 Old Fannin Rd 769-251-0692) Traditional Irish pub food and live entertainment. Open 11am daily. Burgers and Blues (1060 E. County Line Rd. 601-899-0038) Best Burger of 2013, plus live music and entertainment! Cherokee Inn (960 Briarfield Rd. 601-362-6388) Jackson’s “Best Hole in the Wall,” has a great jukebox, great bar and a great burger. Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap. Hal and Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials. Legends Grill (5352 Lakeland Dr. 601-919-1165) Your neighborhood Sports Bar and Grill. Martin’s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection. Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St. 601-960-2700) Pub food with a southern flair: beer-battered onion rings, chicken & sausage gumbo, salads, sandwiches. One Block East ( 642 Tombigbee St. 601-944-0203) Burger joint and dive bar located in downtown Jackson. Great music, tasty beverages and Bad Ass Burgers is what we do. Time Out (6270 Old Canton Road, 601-978-1839) Your neighborhood fun spot! Terrific lunch special and amazing Happy Hour! Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Pan-seared crabcakes, shrimp and grits, filet mignon, vegetarian sliders. Live music. Opens 4 p.m., Wed-Sat Wing Stop (952 North State Street, 601-969-6400) Saucing and tossing in a choice of nine flavors, Wing Stop wings are made with care and served up piping hot. ASIAN AND INDIAN Fusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetop Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588) Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushi VEGETARIAN High Noon Café (2807 Old Canton Road in Rainbow Plaza 601-366-1513)Jackson’s own strict vegetarian (and very-vegan-friendly) restaurant adjacent to Rainbow Whole Foods.

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efore any meal preparation begins, chef Nick Wallace walks his whole kitchen at Mississippi Museum of Art’s The Palette Cafe by Viking. He leaves no cranny of the dry storeroom or refrigerator unexamined, making notes on his pad of paper. He touches every vegetable and protein. He then takes his list of ingredients and begins organizing the day’s meals, thinking, “What am I missing?” Lucky for Wallace, he has made a point of filling his phone with contact information for every farmer he has met over the years. Today, he might need an heirloom turnip or a Guinea hog shoulder. Within minutes, Wallace can drum up a whole market of fresh, locally sourced food. Wallace learned how to cook from his grandmother Lennell Donald Queen Morris in Edwards, Miss. “My grandmother took time with me. She never rushed me through anything. She let me make mistakes, too,” Wallace says. “… Being in that environment, the product is just so much better when you naturally let it happen. That’s what I like.” Cooking with his grandmother, Wallace learned everything from scratch, from how to extract honey from bee hives to making homemade blueberry preserves. Wallace says that he was the kid that ran around with pieces of bread and a mason jar, all sticky with blackberry jelly. Even today, preserves are among his favorite foods. He devotes a large part of his household refrigerator door to mason jars of colorful preserved fruit. Wallace says that it was his grandmother who instilled his drive to keep cooking. “You had to want to be there,” he says. “She wasn’t going to drag you into the kitchen. … If you wanted to know how to make this biscuit, ‘you better be listening, boy. You better be looking at me because if you missed we will be making them again Wednesday.’” When he was 8, Wallace’s parents divorced, and he moved to Lynch Street in Jackson with his mother, Susie Marshall, and sister, Nikki Wallace. He got his start in a professional kitchen at age 14, washing dishes and working the flattop grill at Fernando’s on Lake Harbor Drive in Ridgeland. “It was overwhelming seeing how fast they were using their knives,” Wallace says of the chefs there. “When you get your queso, you probably don’t realize, but it doesn’t take but minutes before your whole fajita is out. That’s quick. ... I did everything short of cutting my fingers off.” After 18 stitches and 27 years of traveling as a corporate chef for the Marriott and Hilton hotel chains, including a stint as executive chef at the historic King Edward Hotel, Wallace is now the executive chef at the The Palette Café. His focus right now is

‘sipp Sourced pop-up events. With his catalogue of farming contacts, Wallace is brings upscale, locally sourced food to the cafe for a few days each month. In March, Wallace is crafting a menu featuring pork from American Guinea hogs raised at Alderman Farms in Brookhaven. “It’s simple for me, man. There is no other way,” he says of his reliance on local foods. “It’s a lifestyle. It’s like getting up and brushing your teeth every day. It’s just something that you have to do. … People aren’t COURTESY NICK WALLACE

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just going to bring me Smucker’s and say, ‘Hey, have a good day.’ That’s just not going to work. But that jelly grandma Nana made? … Now, that’s my type of gift, there.” Looking back on his youth and career, Wallace gained experience in cooking on the fly, which comes easy to him now. “A lot of times (as an executive chef for the Marriott or the Hilton), you might have Tom Hanks coming in tomorrow, and they are only going to call you at 9 o’clock tonight at home to tell you, ‘Hey, you got Tom Hanks coming here. Can you make up a menu?’ You might (think), ‘What the hell?’ but that’s something you’ve got to get used to,” he says. “(In Jackson), I had to be able to feed all of my cousins at the drop of a hat. … It just became easy for me to go into the kitchen and create something magical.” The March ’sipp Sourced offers lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. March 19-21, and dinner 5:308 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-9601515). For more information and to purchase tickets, visit msmuseumart.org.

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’m not a very Zen person. I’m not good at doing nothing, or in general, just relaxing. I think it’s somewhat genetic. My grandfather was notorious for never stopping, and he had a penchant for rousing the entire family out of bed at 4 a.m. to start out on pre-dawn road trips. Similarly, his daughter, my mother, always seems mid-

lows to those who wanted to block out the light, as she repeated the affirmation of the day: “A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one single step.� At one point, Blumenthal even covered us in our yoga blankets if we wanted more warmth. I did, and it was like being in a cocoon. I’ll definitely go back for the restorative

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project, mid-trip, mid-something. I feel the tendency lessens a little with each generation, and now, it’s down to me. The tendency is diluted, but I still stay restless and feel the need to always be doing something. But there’s something to be said for rest and reflection. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, and when I saw that Tara Blumenthal’s yoga studio, Tara Yoga (200 Park Circle, Suite 4, Flowood, tara-yoga.net, 601720-2337), offered something called Restorative Yoga once a month, I thought, “That sounds like something I might need.� With a friend in tow, I headed off on a Sunday afternoon to the class. Tara Yoga is spacious and welcoming, with a nice changing area downstairs and a studio upstairs, where she encouraged us to, “Come on in and find your Zen!� As a special treat at the Restorative Yoga class, Carol Parks sets up her singing bowls and plays them as accompaniment. Over the course of the class, Blumenthal led us through a series of poses, but not in an active sort of way; we simply moved into a pose and stayed there for a while. It was a great way to just stop and be in the moment—something that I think many of us have a hard time doing, given the constant interruptions from phones, emails and the desire to share everything with everyone, all the time, immediately, on social media. She encouraged us to stay in a pose if we felt comfortable, rather than moving on to the next one just because the teacher suggests it. She gave lavender-scented eye pil-

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flock of rainbow-colored birds suddenly appears on the left side of the street when you round the bend on East Amite Street, heading toward the intersection of West Capitol Street. Caught in mid-flight, the flock dips beneath the blockprinted “Opportunity Center,” then rises and flies off into a background of pale blue sky. A simple but effective mixture of signage and art, the mural painting identifies the building and represents the spirit of the place—a day center where homeless people can shower, wash their clothes, receive mail and access the Internet. Artist Margaret Sullivan said the mural’s creation was a gratifying and affirming experience. At 24, Sullivan doesn’t have a formal, visual arts background. She took art classes at Power APAC in middle school and several drawing classes in college, but her bachelor’s degree from Millsaps is in English and creative writing. When the chance arose, her layperson’s skill and volunteer spirit led to the creation of the street-side mural at Stewpot’s Opportunity Center. “I was redoing the specials chalkboard in the bar at Sal and Mookie’s, where I used to work, and a volunteer in charge of getting the mural project off the ground saw what I did on the chalkboard and asked me to do the mural,” she says. “I said, ‘Of course!’” Sullivan had a free hand in the design. The actual painting of the mural was “an incredible experience” for the novice. Beginning on the first day that she arrived at the building to prime the wall with white paint, something happened that she didn’t expect. “I had a friend who’d volunteered to help me cover the rusty, maroon-red paint,” Sullivan says. “Immediately,

Jason Jenkins, who created the mural outside Martin’s Restaurant & Bar, takes his process for creating murals from the old masters. See jfp.ms/murals for a gallery of these murals.

so many of the men at the center wanted to help. In fact, several pointed out that I was not very good at painting. I admit, I’m not that great with a roller. They just jumped in and started knocking it out.” Working for two to three hours on Saturday and Sunday, it took Sullivan about a month and a half to paint the mural. Dividing the cost of supplies with the Opportunity Center, she estimates the cost at $250 to $300. “I’d been a bit apprehensive. (I) didn’t really know what I was doing,” Sullivan says.

“There was one younger man who was very eager to help. He’d studied graphic design. He helped a lot. Everyone had input. There were quite a few people who really had an eye for it. It was great to get their feedback.” When asked if she would be interested in doing more murals, Sullivan’s enthusiasm and motivation are clear. “Part of the reason I was really excited to get this opportunity to do the mural is because last year was tough,” Sullivan says. “I’ve been discouraged sometimes about the state of Mississippi the country (and) the world. I’ve found myself becoming really agitated because I don’t know what I can do. This was an opportunity to for me to contribute. It was important to me and made me feel like I did something.”

Like the Old Masters Artist Jason Jenkins has created a full-spectrum tribute to Mississippi music and iconography in the form of a 10.5-foot by 142-foot mural on the north wall of Martin’s Restaurant & Lounge just past the corner of State and Pearl streets. A guitarist, a horn player, a singer and harmonica player emerge from a broad panorama spanning the width of the building. It includes a sunset, sunrise and afternoon with trailing clouds. From beginning to end, with a seven-month hiatus in between, it took Jenkins about six months to complete the mural. Now 35, Jenkins has been drawing and painting since he was a kid. He has a degree in graphic design from the University of Southern Mississippi, but working on a computer didn’t prepare him for this undertaking.

DIVERSIONS | arts entwines different sights of the neighborhood: the bungalow houses and industrial buildings, the rail yard and trains, the workers and children, a woman kneeling in a vegetable garden. “The midtown mural was my translation of what the people in the neighborhood wanted,” Allen says. “It was one

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“I’ve painted murals before,” Jenkins says. “They were 8 by 10 or 20 feet long—Mural 101. With this mural, I had a choice to either project the images in small amounts or to grid it off like the Old Masters. I always refer back to them.” As with Renaissance muralists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, Jenkins’ mural was funded privately. Martin’s owner, Joseph Stodghill, commissioned the work and chose its musical theme. Jenkins began with two designs, but Stodghill decided on an amalgamation of both. Two of Jenkins’ small-scale murals—a bar scene and a surreal portrait of bluesman Robert Johnson—flank the entrance to Martin’s. He’s talking with Stodghill about doing another inside. Jenkins is inspired by cities such as Richmond, Va., where mural programs are in full swing, and he would like to see more murals in Jackson. “The more murals that go up, the more enlivened a community becomes,” Jenkins says, gesturing toward the wall. “Instead of seeing dilapidated building and crumbling brick, people get to see something like this.”

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Scott Allen is an artist with a mind Justin Ransburg painted a mural in Taboo Dance and Fitness of the owners dressed as pole-dancing superheroes. for business. Like the name of his company, A+ Signs and Creative, he’s not limited to one or the other. With a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from University of Southern Mississippi, Allen’s custom signs are all over of the most challenging things I’ve ever done because every- and Fitness. He painted the owners as pole-dancing suJackson and the southeast. True to form, Allen keeps the one had a different opinion. I went back and forth with perheroes on one of the business’ interior brick walls with art in his occupation. proofs for people to see and comment on. Their feedback bold, standout colors bordered with comic art’s familiar “We do large-format commercial signs, custom signs— was really helpful; it made the painting better.” black outlines. every type of sign,” Allen says. Allen did a Facebook promotion to see if he could get Della B’s Café in the Jackson Medical Mall is home “I try to do more hand-painted stuff because I like it. people involved in his most recent mural. Painted on the to Ransburg’s second mural commission. Painted on a sage It’s kind of a lost art form.” back of William Wallace Salon in Fondren, the whimsical green wall, the feisty bumblebee woman wears a chef’s hat, Allen’s largest and most recognizable mural is at 126 mural depicts a family of cyclists riding past traffic, while wields a rolling pin and has a stinger and antennae. The flower petals stream from the moth- tongue-in-cheek design also serves as a business logo. er’s bike basket. Ransburg currently oversees a student mural project at His was the first of a series of Lanier High School, which Parents for Public Schools’ Ask murals planned by F.A.W.N., which for More Art program funds. He’s working with 9th-grade stands for Fondren Art Walls Now. students to design and paint a 4-feet by 8-feet mural in “Public art or street art tran- their designated hall. Consistent with the project’s theme, scends the necessity for an art de- “Our Community, Our Sense of Place,” Ransburg set out gree. Anybody can do it, and it’s for to create a collaborative spirit. He began by soliciting the everybody,” Allen says. students’ ideas. “I did an informal survey, (asking) what is a community? What can you do to serve it? What makes a community More Art, Please better or worse?” he says. “Then I asked them to each do a Painter and graphic artist Justin sketch of their ideas about community.” Scott Allen of A+ Signs and Creative took a community Ransburg added murals to his reRansburg merged the individual sketches into one approach when creating the midtown mural. sumé in 2014. As a boy growing up large outline that the students are painting and filling in, in Jackson, he found inspiration in and as the mural progresses, he provides guidance. His role comic books, Manga and an older is facilitating the mural’s creation and supporting the stuKeener St. in midtown. Funded by a National Endowment sibling. When he was 9 years old, his brother, Maurice dents to create their own artwork. for the Arts Our Town Grant, Allen worked with midtown Williams, who was studying graphic design at the time, “The first day I came to their class, when the teacher residents to come up with the design. compelled him to discover his own artistic aptitude. announced they’d been selected for the program, their eyes “It took a long time to plan the mural,” Allen says “My older brother was the person who pushed me to just lit up,” he says. “They asked me if I was sure they could of the project. “We held a lot of community meetings so pursue it,” Ransburg says. “One day, I asked him to draw paint the mural. I assured them they could.” people could give us input about what they wanted to see something for me, and he just looked at me and said: ‘No. Though still a work in progress, the team will complete in their neighborhood. It worked out really well. They You go do it yourself.’ the mural by the end of the school year, and it will be part got to have a sense of ownership.” “The experience showed me that I could draw. It was of a program showcase in June. The design, Ransburg says, The roots of a large tree frame the mural, which something I didn’t realize I could do.” is “fine art, inspired by street art.”

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The San Diego-based hardcore band Capsize performs at Doc 36 Skatepark Monday, March 23.

New Orleans funk quintet Dumpstaphunk performs for Mal’s St. Paddy’s Street Festival at Hal & Mal’s Saturday, March 21.

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DJ Jonasty and DJ Young Venom’s Bogus ’90s Party is 8:05 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). Offbeat hosts this ’90s-inspired event with music, door prizes, themed attire, a playable Sega Saturn. Admission TBA; call 601-9480888; email jane@halandmals.com; find DJ Jonasty and DJ Young Venom’s Bogus 90s Party on Facebook.

March 21. Belle’s Tea Party follows the March 22 performance. Show: $18-$22, tea party: $25; call 601-853-4508; msmetroballet.com. … Gladys Knight performs 7 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Proceeds benefit the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s MIND Center, an organization specializing in Alzheimer’s disease research and clinical care. $29.5-$119.5; call 800-7453000; tickets available at Ticketmaster.com.

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Screen on the Green is 5:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) in the Art Garden. The event includes a cash bar, concessions and a screening of director Wes Anderson’s film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” at dusk. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. … The Opening Reception for Plein Air 2 Studio is 5-7 p.m. at the Mississippi Library Commission (Education and Research Center, 3881 Eastwood Drive). Members of the Plein Air Artists of Mississippi (PAAM) present their latest pieces. Show hangs through April 29. Free; call 601-432-4056.

SUNDAY 3/22

“Beauty and the Beast” is 2 p.m. at the Jackson Academy Performing Arts Center (4908 Ridgewood Road). The Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet presents the original production of the classic tale. Additional show 2 p.m.

Capsize performs 6:30 p.m. at Doc 36 Skatepark (931 Highway 80 W., Suite 600). The California-based melodic hardcore band is on the Equal Vision Records roster. They Will Fall, Brother Wolf and Amoretta also perform. $10; call 601-672-0771; find the event on Facebook.

TUESDAY 3/24

USA IBC Ballet Backstories is noon at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). In the second floor atrium. David Keary of Ballet Mississippi speaks on story, costumes, music, and humor of the ballet classic “Coppélia.” Includes lunch and door prizes. RSVP. $10; call 601-355-9583; email friends@usaibc.com.

WEDNESDAY 3/25

History Is Lunch is noon-1 p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Stephen Middleton presents “The Politics of Expedience: Reconstruction and the Enfranchisement of African American Males in the South.” Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

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The Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement 10th Anniversary Conference is 6:30 p.m. at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road, Tougaloo). The conference is designed to empower today’s youth through social activism, education and organizing. Includes guest speakers, the Jimmie Travis Civil Rights Legacy Symposium, the Veterans Legacy Banquet and luncheons. Additional dates March 19-20, 8:30 a.m., March 21, 9 a.m., March 22, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $75 through Feb. 28, $100 after, $25 one day, $25 college student, $10 high school student, $20 luncheon only, $50 banquet, free symposium; call 601-977-7914; email mscivilrightsveterans@ gmail.com; mscivilrightsveterans.com.

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(/,)$!9 Events at Northpark Mall (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland) • Easter Bunny Photo Experience March 2021, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., March 22-28, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., March 29, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., March 30, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., March 31-April 2, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., April 3-4, 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Kids get to visit the Easter Bunny and take a picture with him. Appointments encouraged. Free; call 601-957-3744; simon.noerrbunny.com. • Simon Kidgits Club Easter Egg Hunt March 21, 2 p.m. Children hunt for treats on the front lawn, make spring crafts and more. Includes refreshments. Free for members ($5 to join); call 601-957-3744; simon.com/kidgits.

Mal’s St Paddy’s Parade March 21, 1 p.m., at Downtown Jackson. The annual Mardi Grasstyle parade begins on the corner of State and Court streets. Enjoy the Trustmark Children’s Festival and the Pet Parade before the main event. Free; malsstpaddysparade.com. Mal’s St Paddy’s Street Festival March 21, 3:30 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). Performers include Trombone Shorty, Dumpstaphunk, Brownout and Roxy Roca. Gates open at 2:30 p.m. No coolers or pets. $20 in advance, $25 day of show; call 948-0888; email jane@halandmals.com; malsstpaddysparade.com.

#/--5.)49 Women of Vision 2015 March 18, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi hosts the luncheon to highlight recent accomplishments and honor people in the community. Includes a silent auction. RSVP. $100; call 601-326-3001; email kathy@ womensfoundationms.org. Chew & Chat March 18, noon-1 p.m., at The Bulldog (6111 Ridgewood Road). Mayor Tony Yarber discusses the progress of the city with constituents over lunch. Citizens purchase their own lunch. RSVP. Free; call 978-3502; email chewandchat@jacksonms.gov; jacksonms.gov. Events at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.) • History Is Lunch March 18, noon-1 p.m. Mississippi State University history professor K.C. Morrison presents “African American Political Participation in Mississippi Reconstruction.â€? Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

• History Is Lunch March 25, noon-1 p.m. Stephen Middleton presents “The Politics of Expedience: Reconstruction and the Enfranchisement of African American Males in the South.â€? Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us. Lenten Lunch March 19, 11:30 a.m., at Wells United Methodist Church (2019 Bailey Ave.). The guest speaker is Rev. Jamie McElroy, rector at St. James Episcopal Church. Free; call 601-353-0658; email admin@wellschurch.org; wellschurch.org. Lawyers in the Library March 19, 3-7 p.m., at Eudora Welty Library (300 N. State St.). Attorneys with the Mississippi Bar Young Lawyers Division offer free legal advice in the areas of criminal law and expungement, family law and child custody, wills and estates, and Social Security disability benefits. Appointment required. Free; call 601-576-4208. Art Bar Pop Trivia March 19, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). daniel johnson, artist and MMA Director of Engagement and Learning, hosts. Teams compete in an art- and pop culture-inspired game of trivia. Cash bar included. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. Millsaps Spring Public Forum March 20, 12:30 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In room AC 215. Dr. Deborah H. Barnes speaks on the topic, “The Impact of Indian Boarding Schools.â€? Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu. League of Women Voters of the Jackson Area Membership Meeting March 21, 10 a.m., at Mississippi College School of Law (151 E. Griffith St., Room 300). Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Tomie Green speaks on “A Day in the Life of a Judge.â€? Free; 925-7100; lwv-ms.org.

Jackson Area Alumnae Pan-Hellenic Association’s 2015 Athena Luncheon March 25, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (The Belhaven, 1200 N. State St., Suite 100). JAAPA honors local PanHellenic members, awards the annual scholarship and presents this year’s this year’s charity, Make-A-Wish, with a donation. RSVP. $25 luncheon, $5 raffle ticket; call 398-4562; email melaniemckinley@hotmail.com; jacksonpanhellenic.com. National Association of Drama and Speech Arts (NASDA) Conference March 25- 28, at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The theme of the conference is “Where History Meets the Future.� Registration required. $105 individual or director, $75 students, $500 member, $30 banquet only; call 601-979-2872; nadsainc.com. 1 Million Cups Jackson Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-10 a.m. through June 24, at The Hatch (126 Keener Ave.). The purpose of the weekly program is to engage, educate and connect local entrepreneurs. Free; jackson.sites.1millioncups.com. Forestry Days Thursdays, 9 a.m.-noon through March 31, at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Includes storytelling, tours of the Heritage Center with Paul Bunyan and the Nature Trail, sawmill demonstrations and hands-on activities with forestry props. Reservations recommended but not required. $2-$5; call 601-432-4500; email alya@mdac.ms.gov.

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City of Jackson Diabetes Management Class March 18, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at Golden Key Multipurpose Center (3450 Albermarle Road). Lisa Camel, project leader for Information & Quality Healthcare, is the instructor. Classes are March 18, March 25, April 1, April 15 and April 29. Free; call 601-960-2160; jacksonms.gov. USSSA Amateur Golf Tournament March 21, 8 a.m., at The Refuge Golf Course (2100 Refuge Blvd., Flowood). The Jackson Region District hosts for golfers ages 18. Winners have the opportunity to move on to the state and national championships. $2 spectators; golfers, $125 annual membership, registration fees vary; call 770-3144415; email usssagolftourjacksonms@gmail.com; facebook.com/usssagolftourjacksonms.

34!'% 3#2%%. “Down the Drain� Dinner Theater March 18, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at Char (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N.). The Detectives present the interactive comedy. Includes a three-course meal. Reservations required. For ages 18 and up. $49; call 601-937-1752; thedetectives.biz. Screen on the Green March 19, 5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Art Garden. Includes a cash bar and a screening of the movie “The Grand Budapest Hotel� at dusk. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. “The Honeymoon Is Over� Dinner Theater March 19, 7 p.m., at Julep Restaurant and Bar (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 105). Mississippi Murder Mysteries and Fringe Dinner Theatre present the show. Includes a threecourse dinner. RSVP. $47; call 601-850-2318; missmurdermystery.com.

Shen Yun Performing Arts Concert March 19, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Enjoy classical Chinese dance, music, animated backdrops and costumes. $50$120; call 888-974-3698 or 800-745-3000; shenyun.com/jackson. “Drake’s Homecoming: The Lost Footageâ€? March 19, 7:30 p.m., at Tinseltown (411 Riverwind Drive, Pearl). The concert film features Drake, a Grammy-winning hip-hop artist from Toronto. $11.50, $10.50 seniors and students, $9.50 children; call 601-936-5856; cinemark.com. “Beauty and the Beastâ€? March 21-22, 2 p.m., at Jackson Academy Performing Arts Center (4908 Ridgewood Road). The Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet presents the original production of the classic tale. Belle’s Tea Party follows the March 22 performance. Show: $18-$22, tea party: $25; call 601-853-4508; msmetroballet.com. USA IBC Ballet Backstories March 24, noon, at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). In the second floor atrium. David Keary of Ballet Mississippi speaks on tory, costumes, music, and humor of the ballet classic “CoppĂŠlia.â€? Includes lunch and door prizes. RSVP. $10; call 601-355-9583; email friends@usaibc.com. Events at Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.) • "Perfect Little Planet" Sky Show MondaysSaturdays, 1 p.m., Saturdays, 4 p.m. through May 30. Discover our solar system through a new set of eyes - a family from another star system seeking the perfect vacation spot. $6.50, $5.50 seniors, $4 children (cash or check); call 601-960-1550; thedavisplanetarium.com. • "Black Holes" Sky Show Mondays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. through May 30. Take a journey through one of the most mystifying, awe-inspiring phenomena in the universe. $6.50, $5.50 seniors, $4 children (cash or check); call 601960-1550; thedavisplanetarium.com. • "Exploding Universe" Sky Show MondaysSaturdays, 3 p.m. through May 30. The film is about supernovae, colliding black holes, highenergy particles and other explosions that have shaped the universe. $6.50, $5.50 seniors, $4 children (cash or check); call 601-960-1550; thedavisplanetarium.com.

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Sister Act: Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty March 18, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Eudora Welty Education and Visitors Center (1109 Pinehurst Place). Author Carolyn Brown discusses the personal and literary relationships between Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty. Free; call 601-353-7762. Margaret Walker Centennial Lecture March 19, 4 p.m., at Charles Tisdale Library (807 E. Northside Drive). Carolyn Brown of Millsaps College presents “Such a Bold Leader: The Unusual Young Adult Life of Margaret Walker.” Free; call 601-366-0021. Events at Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square, Oxford) • "Before He Finds Her" March 19, 6 p.m. Michael Kardos signs books. This is a Thacker Mountain Radio event. $25 book; call 662236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com. • Ole Miss Grads Debut Novels Signing March 20, 5 p.m. Jacob Rubin signs “The Poser,” M.O. Walsh signs “My Sunshine Away” and Alex Taylor signs “The Marble Orchard.” Call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks.com; squarebooks.com. • "I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son" March 25, 5 p.m. Kent Russell signs and reads from his book. $24.95 book; call 662-236-2828; email books@squarebooks. com; squarebooks.com. Events at Square Books Jr. (111 Courthouse Square, Oxford) • "Three Times Lucky" March 23, 4 p.m. Sheila Turnage signs books. $7.99 book; call 662-236-2207; squarebooks.com.

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artists at Mid City Prints and the release of singersongwriter Cody Cox’s new album. Free with cash bar; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. Opening Reception for Caren Vitell and Elizabeth Hughes Bass Exhibit March 20, noon, at Bozarts Gallery (403 N. Main St., Water Valley). See Vitell’s landscape paintings, and Bass’ landscape, still life and portrait paintings. Show hangs through May 9. Free; call 662-473-2484; bozartsgallery.com. Opening Reception for Power APAC Visual Arts Exhibit March 22, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Invitation only. See works from students grades 4-12, with a focus on the work of the Advanced Placement high school students. Includes an awards ceremony with music and refreshments. Show hangs through April 27. Free; call 601-960-5387.

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f you’ve been to a live concert recently, you might have noticed the sea of cell phones photographing and videoing the big moments. Like it or not, cell phones are going to play a role in your music experience. The question is: When and how often should you use your personal device during a performance? Some artists request that you don’t do it at all. When I saw Jack White perform in Starkville on Jan. 27, a speaker came onstage and informed the audience that this was a live show, meant to be experienced with our own eyes and ears. Then, he respectfully asked that concertgoers put their phones away for the duration of the performance. He told us that professional photographers were taking shots that would be available for free the next day. Most of the audience complied, and it made for an enjoyable concert. I also saw the Pink Floyd tribute “Bricks in the Wall” at Duling Hall Jan. 9. Down in front, one man took more photos and video than I thought a phone’s memory could hold.

Some musicians, such as Jack White, request that audience members put their cellphones away so they won’t distract the people around you.

I have news for the incessant cellphone photographer at concerts: Your tons of photos will never be as good as you think they will be. If you’re front and

center and can get a decent shot of your favorite performer, take a shot or two, if the artist is cool with it. I think that’s fine. I’m not above grabbing a snapshot or two myself during a concert. Several years ago, I saw The Police play in New Orleans. I was far enough away that I could just barely make out the outline of Sting and company as they plowed through their greatest hits. During the encore, I decided to go with the crowd and shoot some video. When I got home, I eagerly played my homemade movie and discovered that it was a blob of sound and lights. You couldn’t even make out the song that the band was playing. Most of the time, I don’t like the cellphone pictures and video I take at shows. They aren’t something that I use to remember the event, and no one else finds them interesting in the least. Even if an event is an amazing experience, the phone optics never quite replicate the moment. The same thing goes for larger devices. Sure, expensive cameras may take better quality video, but they are often

a distraction. When someone in front of me is shooting a video, I usually will find myself watching the concert through the little seven-inch window as opposed to watching the actual concert happening right in front of me. I bet I’m not the only one with that tendency. Finally, there’s the all-important concert selfie. I totally understand that you’re stoked that you get to see a Shovels and Rope gig, but it’s not all about you. Some people might want to simply enjoy the show. I’m always amused at people taking selfies at big arena concerts, especially with the flash. Usually, when you take a flash photo during a live show, all you can see is bright, shiny faces and a small, blurry light behind them. Trust me, Bruno Mars isn’t posing for your photo. Rather than seeing everything through a camera, try to enjoy the experience in real time, be aware of your surroundings, and try to err on the side of etiquette and common courtesy while taking cell-phone photos during a show.

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Callaway High School (31-3) won its fourth straight 5A title with a 66-43 victory over Ridgeland High School (29-4). Malik Newman scored 27 points.

The Raymond Lady Rangers (30-4) won the 4A championship 50-35 over Bay High School with 15 points and 13 rebounds from Michigan State University signee Octavia Barnes. University of Mississippi men’s basketball and Mississippi State women’s basketball earned invites to the NCAA Tournament. The Rebels opened play Tuesday against the Brigham Young University Bulldogs. Jackson State University baseball (127) won seven straight games before losses to Alabama A&M on March 14. JSU hosts Mississippi Valley State University in a three-game series March 21-22. Games start at 1 p.m. Millsaps College baseball (11-4) has won eight out of nine series games and will host consecutive series at Twenty Field (1701 N. State St.) March 23-24, March 28-29 and April 3-4. For times, visit Gomajors.com.

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Belhaven University softball (119) will host doubleheaders with University of Mobile (March 24, 1:30 p.m.) and Rust College (March 25, 1:30 p.m.) at McLeod Field (1600 Riverside Drive).

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But it is a very big deal. of exploitation and unfairness that The tournament is held in New come with it. York City and nationally televised on The MHSAA doesn’t want to ESPN with a field of the nation’s top endorse one of its teams playing in a teams and famed Madison Square made-for-TV-dollars event. It doesn’t Garden as its host. In short, the tourlike the idea of a team being chosen nament is a once-in-a-lifetime experilargely because of the focus on one by Jon Wiener ence for any high-school athlete. individual player, and it doesn’t inFor that reason, the MHSAA tend to treat that team any differently should have let Callaway play. But than any of its other member teams. when the school withdrew its appeal MHSAA’s intentions are noble on Monday after a drawn-out public but misguided. Instead of recognizbattle, the lifetime opportunity was ing a remarkable reward for a historic lost, creating a perceived black eye for team achievement, the MHSAA is the association. The MHSAA’s posidrawing a line in the sand and burytion is understandable. ing its head there out of fear of strayThe High School Nationals ing from its core values that are either is an eight-team postseason invitaoutdated or counterproductive. tional tournament run from Paragon The Chargers have won four Sports, a leading New York-based straight state championships and feamarketing company that founded ture the nation’s top-ranked guard, the showcase in 2009. Malik Newman, whom many conThe problem is, only a very small sider the best high school player in number of teams are actually eligible Mississippi history. to play. To qualify, a school must be To want to limit exposure for the ranked in the USA Today Super 25, program and your athletic organizahave won its state championship, and tion because other state champions have approval of its respective governdidn’t get the same recognition seems ing athletic body. puzzling. But to see the commercial The Callaway Chargers, ranked aspect of the tournament and the No. 4 and winners of the 5A state tidemand for Newman’s presence over tle for the fourth consecutive season, others as a detriment to going instead The Mississippi High School Athletic Association check the first two boxes. The third denied Callaway High School players, such as Malik of a positive is just plain backward. one is the rub. Since when did Lady Liberty care Newman, the opportunity to participate in the The MHSAA, along with near- Dick’s Sporting Goods High School Nationals. which player was looking at her? Or ly every other state governing athletic why? If Newman and the big-money body, doesn’t permit its teams to play showcases that want him bring about games after the season is over, so the that unforgettable sight for his teamChargers needed permission to play, which erans Memorial Stadium in Jackson to the mates and coaches, the more ready the MHthe association denied. 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