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G rowing up on the south side of Chica-go, Andre Carter always had a fascina-tion with comic books and superhe-roes, but he often found himself won-

dering why none of the heroes he read about ever looked like him or the people he knew. “There just didn’t seem to be any Afri-can American superheroes,” Carter says. “My nephew, Jeremiah, also loves superheroes, and he always wants to be Superman, Batman and characters like that who, cool as they are, just don’t seem like real people. I ended up thinking about that, and I decided that I’d just make my own superheroes instead.” Carter, a 23-year-old senior at Tougaloo College who has been living in Jackson for five years, decided to use his senior project for his mass communications class in November 2014 to bring his idea to life in a short film series titled “Unlikely Heroes.” He based the story and characters of it on people he knew and situations he dealt with growing up in his neighborhood. Carter plays the main character, Aiden, a young, anger-ridden alcoholic who took up drinking after his brother, Kindle, died attempting to deal with the main villain of the story, a ruthless drug dealer named Zachariah. Aiden inherited his brother’s fire-based powers after his death but lacks the power to control them. He directs his anger toward a group of other superheroes his brother had been in, who Aiden blames for getting Kindle killed when the group attempted to take on

Zachariah and his enforcers. The show’s first season, titled “Narcotic Revelations,” begins with an encounter between Aiden and Tarron (played by Noah Haille), a more laid-back character with lightning-based powers who was Kindle’s best friend. He tries to reach out to Aiden to convince him to stop drinking and continue the fight Kindle’s group started, which leads to a violent confrontation between the two. Instead of typical superhero names and “some kind of fairytale back stories,” he decided to give his characters regular names and back-grounds, and have them deal with the kinds of problems that real kids often deal with. “They fight the villains of the city—the people we see every day. They don’t fight guys trying to take over the world. They fight drug dealers dealing to kids; they talk to and inspire the girl who’s depressed; they talk to kids who are being bullied.” Carter hopes the characters of “Unlike-ly Heroes” can serve as role models to kids growing up in rough circumstances. “These characters are figures who can give those kids hope,” he says. “I want this to be a good thing to give to kids who grew up in neigh-borhoods like mine.” The first season of “Unlikely Heroes” is halfway through filming. Carter plans to release episodes biweekly on his YouTube channel, RecklessMindzTv. —Dustin Cardon

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9 Fast-food workers in Jackson and around the country want to be paid $15 per hour. But what are the ripple effects?

27 “Traditional art speaks to identity; it articulates who you are, where you’re from and where you’re going. It’s a way for people to access and have a better understanding of their culture.” —Jennifer Jameson, “Master and Apprentice: Sustaining A Tradition”

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W e started the “Best of Jackson” contest 14 years ago, simul-taneous to the launch of the Jackson Free Press; the ballot

was in the very first issue. We knew when we first launched that it was important for local people, organizations and businesses in the Jackson metro area to feel the warm glow of appreciation from our readership, and we be-lieved seeing all those people and places hon-ored in one place would make our readers a little prouder of their city at the same time. Fast forward to 2015, and now hun-dreds of restaurants, businesses, offices and individuals have Best of Jackson cer-tificates hanging on their walls, propped up on the bar or sitting conspicuously on their computer screens. The contest itself has its imitators (really, Clarion-Ledger, “Best of 2015” is what your corporate creative team came up with?), but there is only one Best of JacksonTM. And it’s the one that you, the reader, is responsible for making the best. As it has been for the past few years now, this year’s ballot is split into two—a nominations ballot, which is happening now, and a finalist ballot, which will go live the first week of December. And, as usual, it’s a long ballot. We appreciate everyone who has worked their way through the nominations ballot, which offers “write-in” blanks in 127 dif-ferent categories. When it closes on Sun-day, Nov. 22, 2015, we’ll count each of those categories and take the top four to six (depending on the vote distribution) as finalists; the finalists ballot will be mul-tiple choice to determine each winner. If you haven’t yet voted—or tried but couldn’t complete a ballot—please do so at bestofjackson.com. (There’s also a print bal-lot in this issue, but you need to tear it out and mail it by Friday, Nov. 20.)

If you need a little incentive, note that you only actually have to complete 20 categories for your ballot to count. As long as you are honest and diligent in those categories (don’t just vote for one person, or band, or businesses in a bunch of categories that aren’t relevant), then we’ll count your ballot. And if you want to nominate in more categories, feel free—although you don’t have to nomi-

nate in any category where you don’t feel like you have first-hand knowledge. As usual, we encourage nominations of local people, local organizations and locally owned businesses. This is a cel-ebration of the people who work, lead, inspire and invest in the Jackson metro area—chains stores and fast food aren’t what we’re looking to honor. We want even more people and organizations to get those certificates to hang on their walls or admire on their desks. Speaking of shopping locally, ’tis the season. In this issue, we’re focused on a number of ways you can celebrate the hol-idays—including making or buying your Thanksgiving feast—by taking advantage of uniquely local businesses and artisans. And coming up next week we’ll have some special emphasis on Small Busi-ness Saturday and shopping local after Thanksgiving—something that’s impor-tant to many small, local businesses out

there that make up an important part of our unique sense of place. None of this is easy—the Best of Jackson nominations ballot is long for you, the reader, and it’s a bear to count for us, the newspaper people. And some-times it’s even tough to shop locally when a big Mart beckons with promises of one-stop-ease and Black Friday deals. But it is important. As we’ve pointed

out frequently in the Jackson Free Press, studies show that a much higher percent-age of the dollars you spend in a locally owned business stay in the community. Most of the dollars spent in Walmart go to Bentonville, Ark. or Wall Street; many fewer of those dollars stay in Jackson. And as far as the job-creation stuff goes, if we had more local businesses instead of so many chains, we’d actually have more jobs, and they would pay better. Speaking of Walmart, how’s this—they’re not even the biggest problem any-more. Now it’s Amazon. That’s right: Ama-zon is even worse for local economies when you shop there, because they do nearly no hiring in our local area, don’t collect or re-mit sales taxes and, because they don’t have much of a physical presence, they aren’t paying property taxes. (Some big-box stores duck and dodge their property taxes, but at least they collect some sales tax from us.) The result? The more dollars spent at

Amazon, the fewer tax dollars generated in our communities by businesses. Which will mean, by default, a higher tax burden for individuals and families. Finally, with no boots on the ground, Amazon doesn’t leave much (if any) mon-ey in the local economy. In Jackson, for instance, the only thing you might be able to attribute to Amazon is a little pay for the UPS delivery person and a little of the gas that might be bought locally to go in the UPS delivery truck. Nothing else that a local business will frequently buy local-ly—inventory, supplies, energy, shelving, flooring, accounting, legal services—is something that Amazon isn’t going to buy from our local community. They probably won’t even sponsor the local softball team. So, as you’re out there this “Black Friday” season, don’t forget two things—first, feel free to grab a deal or two, but consider the options you have to shop local for some of those gifts. Then make a point of doing so in earnest on Small Business Saturday, hitting the local shops and restaurants up for clever gift ideas, gift certificates for family members and maybe even a little something for yourself. Second, take a little time with the Best of Jackson ballot this week and make sure you nominate some of your favorite local people, businesses and organizations so that they can move on to the finalist round—an honor in and of itself. Vote with your dollars and your nomination to support local businesses this holiday season—because those big boxes and cyberstores don’t help make Jackson the unique and fabulous place it can be. Todd Stauffer is the publisher of the Jackson Free Press. Email him at todd@jacksonfreepress.com.

CONTRIBUTORS

Vote, Shop and Give Thanks… Locallyby Todd Stauffer, PublisherPUBLISHER’S note

Sports writer Bryan Flynn is a husband and stay-at-home father to a baby girl. He con-stantly wonders, “If it didn’t happen on ESPN or Disney Jr., did it really happen?” He wrote about Mississippi’s holiday football games.

Ad Designer Zilpha Young has dabbled in every medium she could get her hands on, from blacksmithing to crocheting. To see some of her extracurricular work (and lots of cephalopods) check out zilphatastic.tumblr.com. She wrote a DIY piece.

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 wrote a story about local Thanksgiving food options.

News Editor R.L. Nave is a native Missourian who roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson. Send him news tips at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com. He interviewed journalist and author Leonard Pitts Jr.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote about con-traception issues.

Freelance writer Brinda Fuller Willis often plays tricks on people with her identical twin. She’ll go anywhere to hear the blues, and she is a real farmer’s daughter. She wrote a story about blues musician Garry Burnside.

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took many photos for the issue.

Distribution driver Mike McDonald attended the Uni-versity of Montana. He enjoys listening to rap music, writ-ing short stories and reading books about American history. He helped distribute the issue.

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S cott Crawford rambles north up State Street into oncoming traffic, a yellow safety vest with orange stripes and silver reflectors fastened to the

seat of his motorized wheelchair. “Always try to ride against traffic, so they can see your face,” Crawford warns. “It’s safer.” Despite the danger, Crawford has no choice but to ride in the middle of the street in most of Jackson. To the untrained eye of an of able-bodied person, Crawford’s Fondren neighborhood near State and Meadowbrook Road, where he has lived since 2006, looks accessible enough. Most of the sidewalks have curb cuts for people in wheelchairs, some relatively new, a sign that the City of Jackson has occasionally updated some of its infrastructure to comply with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. A closer look, guided by Crawford, re-veals a world of perils for people like him. A bus stop near his home has a curb cut, but its slope is slightly steeper than ADA guidelines of a 1:12 ratio; in other words, the angle should be no more than 1 inch tall for every 12 inches of length. This particular stop, which he measured with a digital level, is too tall. The practical significance of adhering to the ADA’s techni-cal specifications such as slope and the width of sidewalks becomes clear when Crawford whips his wheelchair around and his back wheel comes close to going off the curb. In several places, the sidewalks simply end; in many others, utility poles render the walk unusable for Crawford and his chair. Three people have been killed in the

past three years in wheelchair-related acci-dents in Jackson, and some 100 in the past decade, according to local news clippings included in a presentation Crawford gave to the ADA council earlier this year. Over the years, Crawford estimates

he has submitted 75 written complaints to the City of Jackson about various ADA violations; he has made many more verbal complaints. The original ADA legislation required cities to submit a plan; Jackson did develop a transition plan in 2011, but it was not formally adopted. Sam Gleese, the ADA coordinator for

the City, said going through three mayoral administrations between 2013 and 2014 made it even more difficult to nail down the details of a plan. The City is currently solicit-ing public comments on what Gleese calls an updated, more detailed transition plan that

builds on the 2011 document, now posted on the City’s homepage. The public com-ment period ended Nov. 16. Crawford and other advocates for peo-ple with disabilities aren’t hopeful that the plan will produce results. For him, only one remedy remains—filing a lawsuit against the City of Jackson, which his attorneys at

Wednesday, November 11 University of Missouri police arrest Hunter M. Park, 19, on suspicion of post-ing online threats to shoot black students and faculty following the resignations of two university leaders over racial tensions.

Thursday, November 12 Jackson State University officials announce the addition of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at the uni-versity. … New Mormon church rules targeting gay members and their chil-dren trigger massive backlash after being leaked to the public.

Friday, November 13 Three teams of Islamic State terrorists attack popular night spots in Paris, killing more than 129 people and wounding 350 in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. … A Utah judge re-verses his decision to take a baby girl away from her lesbian foster parents and place her with a heterosexual couple after his ruling caused widespread backlash.

Saturday, November 14 The second Democratic presidential debate takes place in Des Moines, Iowa. … About 70,000 people march in anti-gov-ernment protests in Seoul, South Korea.

Sunday, November 15 International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach announces that Russia’s track and field athletes will be banned indefinitely from the Olympics unless the country falls into line with all global anti-doping rules and the reforms are verifiable.

Monday, November 16 In a joint session at the Palace of Ver-sailles, French President François Hollande calls for the U.S. and Russia to unite with France in a grand coalition dedicated to destroying the Islamic State group after the attacks on Paris. … Five U.S. governors, including Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, threaten to halt efforts to allow Syrian refu-gees into their states in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Tuesday, November 17 Russia’s FSB security service con-cludes that an Islamic State bomb brought down the Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month and offers a $50 million reward for information on the masterminds. Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

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the nonprofit organization Disability Rights Mississippi say they are pre-

paring. “It is blatant discrimination,” Crawford said. “I have to ride in the street. My friends have to ride in the street.”

‘We Got Sued’ The ADA required that all cities with more than 50 employees come into full compliance by 1995. The law’s ultimate goal is to lower the barriers for people with differ-ent kinds of abilities and help integrate them into mainstream society. While advocates for people with disabilities say that few cities are shining examples of ADA compliance, Jack-son’s compliance is bad by any standard. Joi Owens, the managing attorney for Disability Rights Mississippi, said the plan Jackson developed in 2011—19 years late, she notes—was vague and lacked a firm timeline for implementing changes to make the city more accessible. In addition, ADA required municipalities to hire an ADA co-ordinator, which Jackson did not do until 1997, when Sam Gleese came aboard. “We want to make sure we do it right. We went round and round with this thing for a long time. As the disability community keeps pointing out, it’s 25 years late, and that’s true. I wasn’t here 25 years ago in this position. The mayor wasn’t here at that time so, in all fairness, we have to go from where we are,” Gleese said. Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber has said all projects outlined in the City’s 1-percent

sales master plan would include bringing roadways into ADA compliance. In their public comments on the ADA Transition plan, DRMS officials recommend amend-ing the document to contain firm timelines and budgetary commitments for necessary projects—and to include “people first” lan-guage (i.e. saying “a person with a visual im-pairment” instead of “a blind person”). “We are concerned at the lack of prog-

ress since then, the lack of timely correction of complaints submitted by members of Jackson’s disability community, and the lack of firm timelines for coming into compli-ance with this important human rights law,” said Owens, the Disability Rights Mississippi attorney. Private businesses get it, Crawford said, pointing to a “perfect” wheelchair ramp that a national drugstore retailer installed. He said businesses have a profit motive to encourage as many people as possible to shop there and that they tend to be more leery of get-ting sued than cities are. Cities, on the other

hand, get sued all the time and are slower to respond—until someone forces the issue. Crawford recalls a recent visit to Nash-ville, where he traveled miles in his wheel-chair looking for noncompliant sidewalks. When he met with an ADA coordinator there, Crawford asked how that city became almost completely compliant. The coordina-tor responded: “We got sued.”

25 Years Behind the Law Advocates say many of the cities that have the best ADA-complaint sidewalks have been sued. In July 2000, under then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, the Jus-tice Department settled with 17 cities, in-cluding Nashville, which agreed to remove barriers “to all aspects of civic life, including courthouses, libraries, polling places, police stations, and parks.” As recently as 2014, two groups in California filed a class-action lawsuit in fed-eral court against the City of Long Beach on behalf of plaintiffs alleging “a systematic failure to fix uneven and/or crumbling pave-ment, remove protruding and/or moveable obstructions, maintain a sufficiently wide path of travel, and correct excessive slopes and cross-slopes,” all of which are items Crawford has included in formal complaints to Jackson. “Persons who have mobility disabilities must choose between remaining segregated from significant kinds of daily activities—in-cluding visiting public facilities, places of pub-lic accommodation, or friends, and accessing

public transit stops–and thereby remaining safe, or risking injury or death by traveling on or around inaccessible pedestrian rights of way,” the Long Beach complaint states. Christy Dunaway, who lives in north-east Jackson, said inaccessible sidewalks have far-ranging effects. For example, a pool of standing water near a poorly designed curb cut might require a person in a wheelchair to go around into traffic; if they roll through the water, they can get their clothes dirty. “It’s one thing for an able-bodied per-son to stand out in the rain,” Dunaway said. “And an able-bodied person might be able to dodge a puddle of water; a person in a wheel-chair cannot.” Crawford, who is relatively active, said the condition of the sidewalks forces him to stay at home unless he has to venture outside for an important meeting or a snack from McDonald’s. Dunaway said that just goes to show that inaccessible sidewalks prevent people with disabilities from fully participating in the economy. “We’re 25 years beyond ADA’s passage. We’ve been talking to (City of Jackson offi-cials) for years and years and (they’re) still not getting it right. There’s no excuse for that.” Gleese, the ADA coordinator, said after the transition plan public-comment period ends, each City department will complete an ADA compliance self-evaluation, which he expects to be complete by Jan. 1, 2016. Comment at www.jfp.ms/news.

Mississippi’s only abortion clinic will become an official health provider for insurance compa-nies within weeks. The Jack-

son Women’s Health Organization should be registered with Medicaid by the end of November and will begin offering covered contraception options as soon as they have trained staff members to do so. The clinic is also working to add more insurance provid-ers soon, Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis, a JWHO doctor, said last week. Carr-Ellis says the clinic’s goal is to make comprehensive reproductive health care easier for women to access. “I don’t believe in (a) single kind of care—we know that comprehensive care is better,” Carr-Ellis said. “Why should women have to jump through so many hoops just to keep them-

selves healthy? It doesn’t seem fair.” JWHO plans to offer contraception from combination methods (hormonal pills, patches and rings), intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants. Pulling together the paperwork to accept insurance for women seeking non-abortion services at the clinic will not happen overnight. The clinic received a private grant that is paying for an employee to set up the insurance billing system and to ensure the clinic meets other requirements necessary to be a provider for insurance companies. Mississippians on Medicaid are eligible for family-planning services including all forms of contraception JWHO plans to offer. Carr-Ellis said women are highly mo-

Abortion Clinic to Offer Contraception, ‘Better Care’by Arielle Dreher

The Jackson Women’s Health Organization plans to expand its services by the end of the month, offering contraceptives to women with Medicaid, with other insurers to follow.

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tivated to look at their options for contracep-tion, and are comfortable talking about it, particularly after an unintended pregnancy. The three doctors who work at JWHO are certifi ed OB-GYNs and well-versed in more than just abortion. Carr-Ellis said she did a fellowship that focused on contraception education. In Boston, where she used to live and work at a similar clinic, she said women would never leave without at least talking to a doctor about their reproductive healthcare. “There was not a thought in my mind that a woman was going to leave without contraception or have to pay for it,” Carr-Ellis said. She said the focus was on what the woman needed, what was best for her and what necessary precautions or safety issues needed to be addressed for women post-abortion. Pregnancy and sexually transmit-ted infections (STIs) testing were also givens at her old clinic. Currently, JWHO doctors have to send women out of the clinic to get contracep-tion or related testing after they’ve received abortions. Carr-Ellis said she sends patients under age 21 to the University of Mississippi

Medical Center’s adolescent health center because they offer several contraceptive op-tions. If the patient is older, however, she re-fers them to the public-health department, but she knows that wait time can be long and availability of certain types of contra-ception not always reliable. If JWHO is able to take that extra step out of the process, the clinic doctor said, it could make the women’s lives easier as well as help the clinic break even fi nancially. “I think it’s important—and who bet-ter than us?” Carr-Ellis said. Most women’s reproductive health clin-ics in the area offer contraception options to women, including East Lakeland OB-GYN Associates, where Dr. Freda Bush works as an OB-GYN. Bush, who is vocally on record against abortion rights, said women’s health clin-ics should only be able to offer services for which they can handle the consequences. She said contraceptives come with health risks that doctors should inform women about before they take them. For instance, Bush cited a 2014 Centers for Disease Con-trol study that said using IUDs could lead to phallic infl ammatory disease. At her clinic, she informs her patients of the potential health consequences of contraceptives. At JWHO, the counseling about con-traception occurs in the patient intake pro-

cess Carr-Ellis said. Before women are even cleared for an abortion, the doctors perform health screenings and assess eligibility for contraceptive services with patients. Carr-Ellis said JWHO doctors load their patients with information about the different types of contraceptives, including the risks, and doctors rely on the CDC’s guidelines on contraception that spell out which patients are eligible for which types—including patients’ post-abortal care. “There’s a lot of good data on starting contraception on the same day of abortion,” Carr-Ellis said. “Every woman we talk to about contraception, we try to come up with a plan about how they can get it.” Currently, however, JWHO doctors can only send women away with recom-mendations, and they have to schedule ad-ditional appointments or go elsewhere to get screened all over again to get contraception. “It’s very frustrating to come up with a great plan for a woman and not offer it to her,” Carr-Ellis said. Bush said ultimately the decision to use contraceptives is up to the woman. “It’s not our decision—it’s up to the patient,” she said. “You present the method, the risk and the benefi ts, and the patient chooses.” Different methods of birth control are better for different women depending on

sexual and medical history, risk for infec-tions and age. Bush said women need to read information provided to them at clinics and do their own research to see what con-traceptive is the right choice for them. Additionally, OB-GYNs have to get a good medical history and examination of a patient before prescribing contraceptives, Bush said. She also said the best way to pre-vent STIs is by limiting partners. “Fifty percent of new STIs are in wom-en ages 15 to 24,” she said. Nationally, half of pregnancies are un-intended (either mistimed or unwanted), a Guttmacher Institute study found. Carr-El-lis said contraception could be seen as a so-lution for people who are against abortion, because contraception prevents pregnancy in the fi rst place. “If you truly are against abortion—there’s one way to do that,” she said. Contraceptives will soon take the na-tional stage again. In March, the U.S. Su-preme Court will hear several cases of reli-gious nonprofi t organizations that object to offering employees insurance that covers contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act. The religious groups object to the ACA mandate because, they said, contraception is against their personal religious beliefs. Comment at jfp.ms. Email Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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C ajania “CoCo” Brown, 24, says that she, her colleagues at Popeye’s Lou-siana Kitchen, and all other mini-mum-wage workers are worth more

than what their bosses and the State of Mis-sissippi say they deserve to be paid. “They tell us that if we want more money, we need to get better jobs and education, but none of us wants to do this for the rest of our life,” the Jackson resi-dent and mother of two said. Brown started taking business cours-

es in 2012 at Strayer University, a for-profit institution specializing in degrees for working adults with a campus off Briarwood Drive. She wants to go back and become a “black business leader,” but she says “it’s a struggle just to survive on $7.25 an hour.” She points to the costs of her energy bills, rent and groceries as some of the factors that led her to post-pone college. “Can’t survive on $7.25!” was one of the slogans a group of about 20 local activists, organizers and low-wage workers chanted Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the McDon-ald’s restaurant on Woodrow Wilson and Bailey Ave. From there, protesters visited and marched at several fast-food chains on U.S. Highway 80, including McDonald’s, Dairy Queen and Popeye’s. Ten fast-food workers were on strike that day, while sev-eral more joined the rally after their shift. Inside the Popeye’s on Highway 80 and at the McDonald’s on Bailey Avenue, protesters presented a statement to man-agers calling for $15-per-hour pay and union rights for all workers. The strike ended with a rally on the

steps of Jackson City Hall at noon, with union organizers and workers from the Nissan plant in Canton, the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Association, the Mis-sissippi Alliance of State Employees and state Rep.-elect Kathy Sykes, D-Jackson, bringing the crowd to around 50 people. “These young people weren’t around for the civil rights and labor move-ments of the past,” Jaribu Hill, who founded the Mississippi Worker’s Cen-ter for Human Rights in Greenville in

1996, told the Jackson Free Press. “So it’s critical for today’s struggles for jus-tice that they become engaged and their voices and experiences highlighted.” The local day of action was part of a nationally coordinated effort known as “Fight for $15,” which kicked off in late November 2012, with several hundred fast-food workers in New York City walk-ing off the job to demand $15 an hour and the right to unionize. Darcy Burgess, 47, who moved from New York City to Jackson in September, works with Fight for $15 and was one of the principal organizers of Tuesday’s action, recruiting fast-food workers and connecting them with local allies. Jackson was one of 270 cities across the U.S. that saw workers from various low-wage industries participating in the day-long strike. Burgess said she plans to stay in Jack-son until workers get $15 an hour and union rights, stressing that getting work-ers unionized would address the imbal-ance of power between owners, managers and low-wage workers, who have less job security than higher earners.

Mississippi is currently one of 25 states with “right-to-work” laws, which prohibit unions from developing “securi-ty agreements” with employers that would require their employees to join a union or pay union dues. Burgess said even though right-to-work laws hinder the ability of Mississippi workers to achieve real bargaining power, the goal of full union rights will remain an integral part of the struggle to get and keep a living wage.

A Necessarily Low Bar? Despite massive gains in worker productivity and technological capacity, overall wages for American workers have remained stagnant since the late 1970s, the Economic Policy Institute reports. In contrast, average income for the top 1 percent of earners has increased more than 240 percent since 1979. While the Fight for $15 movement promotes higher wages so that service jobs offer more livable wages to workers, some opponents of mandated raises say mini-mum-wage jobs are simply an entry-point into the workforce, a necessarily low bar from which one can climb the economic ladder. “If these jobs were meant to be your career,” Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, told the Jackson Free Press, “then not rais-ing the minimum wage would be a really bad idea. These jobs are just meant to get you climbing the ladder from point A to point B.” Mississippi’s current minimum wage remains at the federally mandated $7.25 per hour, which leaves a full-time worker earning $15,000 a year before taxes, just

above the federal poverty line for a house-hold of two. Ron Aldridge, state director for the National Federation of Independent Busi-nesses, says that the NFIB regularly con-ducts nationwide surveys of small busi-nesses showing that around 80 percent of their members oppose a minimum-wage increase. Aldridge said he was con-fident that the numbers for Mississippi small businesses would closely parallel, if not exceed, that national percentage. Aldridge said the issue boils down to how businesses with low-profit margins can stay afloat. “A raise to $15 more than doubles current labor-costs, and so you’re left with a choice between passing that in-crease on to the customer or cutting into your own profits,” he said. When asked whether larger fast-food chains such as McDonald’s were in a bet-ter position to wage raises, Aldridge said that the situation was really not all that different for successful corporations. “That’s really the wrong way to ap-proach the issue,” Aldridge said, “be-cause individual franchises are owned and run by local business leaders who have taken great risk and made personal investments, and their profit margins are still razor thin.” Both Aldridge and Fillingane point to Mississippi’s investment in work-force training programs as a better solu-tion than raising the minimum wage. “We’ve been spending somewhere between $20 (million) and $40 million a year in workforce training so that people on that lower-rung of the economic ladder can get trained to get a job at a Toyota, or Nissan or at a number of other industries that have come to our state,” Fillingane told the Jackson Free Press. “Those are tax dollars, and you could say that’s certainly part of the so-cial welfare net we’ve put in place in our state, that allow people to go from mak-ing $7.25 at a local restaurant to taking some courses for six months and going to work at one of these factories, making $12 to $15 an hour.” While an immediate raise to $15-per-hour might deliver a shock to the system in Mississippi, where poverty is rampant and wages for most workers are low, Fight for $15 advocates say that high concen-trations of wealth inequality are the real stumbling block to political progress. “Mississippi might only move to $10 or $12 for now,” Jaribu Hill said, “but first we’ve got to know what’s right and demand our full rights.” Comment at jfp.ms.

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TALK | books

L eonard Pitts Jr.’s “Grant Park” begins and ends with a dream. In the opening scenes of Pitts’ third novel, Malcolm Toussaint is stirred awake after dreaming about being a teenage activist, one where

he saves Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from assassination, which has been a recurring fantasy of his for the ensuing four decades. Forty years later, the nation prepares for an occasion that would have been unthinkable in 1968—the election of Barack Obama as Amer-ica’s first black president. Instead of reveling in the historic moment, Toussaint, a prize-winning black columnist for the fictitious Chicago Post, is in the midst of a professional crisis. Disillusioned about writing about killings of unarmed African Americans by Chicago cops and reading racist reader emails that inevitably follow those columns, Toussaint pens one that states: “I’m sick and tired of white folks’ bullsh-t.” The rest of the novel hits on many of the themes with which Pitts, who, like his protagonist, is an award-winning syndicated columnist, grapples in his regular column. Naturally, working for The Miami Herald (he lives in Maryland with his family), he writes a good bit about social issues, and politics, in-cluding the current presidential contest that in-cludes two Floridians, former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. Leonard Pitts Jr. will sign copies of Grant Park (Agate Bolden, $25) at Lemuria Books on Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. He recently spoke to the Jack-son Free Press about race, writing and reckoning.

Does the climate of social unrest we’ve had the past couple of years make it easier or harder to be a black writer? One of the reviews from Kirkus or Publishers Weekly or something said it is prescient, which is lovely to hear—that someone thinks you were ahead of the curve. Really, the kind of stuff we’ve been seeing the last couple of years has been going on all along. It’s just now that we’re focused on it. We’re paying more attention to it, and cell-phone cameras have become so ubiquitous that it’s on the news all the time. I don’t know that current events really had a hand one way or another in making the book easier or harder to write. I just chose Chicago and a random police shooting, but we saw a shooting similar to what I describe happen in New York to Amadou Diallo. That stuff never quite goes away.

Do you feel a responsibility to write about these things when they happen? You know that you’ve got the platform that there are things that need to be said. You’ve had enough experience at this to know what people are going to say in response, and it’s a matter of ‘Do I really feel like doing this?’” There have been times when writing the column when there’s stuff that has to be said, and I know what (criticism is) going to come in, and it sort of kills your soul a little to read it. My poor assistant, who is white, just gets so upset. She told me once that ‘I don’t understand how you don’t just hate white peo-ple.’ I told her, ‘I’d have to hate you, and you haven’t done

anything to me.’ You write those columns because you’ve got an obligation to do it, you have a duty. I’ll usually try to give myself a mind vacation where I write ‘I love apple pie’ or ‘My mom was great’ or something just to give myself a break from that kind of stuff. I suspect that, psychologically, it is probably not the healthiest thing for you to be banging your head against that brick wall all the time.

What’s it like working on a column while working on a novel? I don’t know that there’s a great divide. You mention accuracy, facts and fairness; I had to double check the novel for accuracy and, when I decided to fudge, to at least fudge knowingly. (In Grant Park) after the riot on Beale Street, there’s a scene where Malcolm is walking the Mississippi River trying to get to a Holiday Inn. I went to Memphis and walked that route just to try to get a sense of what it would have been like—what he would have seen, what the terrain was like. Obviously, the river has changed a lot since 1968, but I wanted to get some sense what that walk would have been like. Fairness is part of it. I didn’t want to paint my white characters as these one-dimensional people who

were there more as plot devices than as actual people. I think a lot of the things that apply to a column apply, differently perhaps, in writing a novel.

I’m not a native Mississippian, and sometimes feel that I haven’t earned the right to offer Mississippians my opinion. Who am I to tell

Mississippi that they should change the flag? You grew up in southern California, live in Maryland and write a column for The Miami Herald. How do you navigate that? I think you have to be fair, and you have to be sensitive to a reasonable degree, but I think it’s hard to do the job if you’re concerned about offending someone. Opinion is always going to offend somebody. Mississippi and—frankly, the larger South—is long overdue for a discussion about not just that flag but all the symbols of the so-called lost cause that it insists on embrac-ing. I always find it fascinating that the culture of the south embracing two things—it embraces a sort of hyper patriotism and love for America, and it also embraces symbols of treason. I just find that really kind of weird. It’s a sort of dual-ity of consciousness that I’ve always found rather strange. I’m sure if I was in Mississippi I’d be in as much trouble as you get in or probably more because there is just stuff that is obvious to me that requires saying.

Have you been able to make any sense of that paradox? Somebody mentioned, after Charleston in the whole discussion over the Confederate flag, where are there monuments to the cause that ac-tually won the war and the cause that has been vindicated by history? We’re wedded to this era of Civil War-era artifacts. We’re also wedded, which I find really troubling and also fascinating, to this notion about making the war about something other than what it was. It’s been successful to an ap-palling and amazing degree when people all over the country, particularly in the south and partic-ularly conservatives in the south now, say with a straight face that the war had little if anything to do with slavery, which is contrary to everything

anybody who fought in the war—the leaders—said. There’s some emotional duality, some deep denial-ism at work in the south that sooner or later you’re going to have to deal with. The thing about America is that we tend to put off our reckonings. Was it Jefferson who said, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that his justice cannot sleep forever?” That’s as succinct as you can have it put. You can deny, deny and deny, but at some point you’re going to have to pay the bill for that. And that’s what the Civil War was. The Civil Rights Movement was paying the bill for that denialism, and if we’re not careful we’re going to pay the bill again. Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Women Must Have Health, Reproductive Choices

From France, With Love and Pain

P erhaps Roe v. Wade was ahead of its time, or late in coming. Regardless, abortion has been legal in the U.S. for decades and to reverse it would mean reversing women’s

rights. Members of the religious and political right have made it clear that this is their goal, but because the majority stands against them, they know they can’t win a frontal assault on the Constitution. So, they’ve focused on a state-by-state legislative strat-egy of making access to legal abortion and family-planning services nearly impossible for the poor. In their fervor to make legal abortion services possible only for wealthier people, they also end up fi ghting against education and contraception pro-grams that are proven to seriously curtail unwanted pregnancies—and, thus, demand for abortions. The government doesn’t fund most voluntaryabortions, but the myth that they do fuels the calls to defund the (non-abortion) work done by such organizations. The anti-Planned Parenthood crowd has gained more traction than ever before and looks to yank the country back to 19th-century reality. Judges and state Legislatures around the nation are divining all sorts of ways to dictate to what extent a woman can control (or lose control of) her biologi-cal right to reproduce or not. In March 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the cases of religious nonprofi t organizations that object to providing insurance benefi ts to wom-en under the terms of the Affordable Care Act that allow them access to contraceptive methods on the grounds that management’s religious views trump their employees.

The roots of resistance to abortion and con-traception hail back to a time when women were allowed no role other than “mother” with few rights beyond her own home. But it’s 2015 now, and times have changed. Millennials aren’t getting married as fast or as often, and the fertility rate of the U.S. has been declining since 2008. At the same time, contraceptive use is at an all-time high. With more than half of pregnancies categorized as “unintended,” meaning mistimed or unplanned, women are beginning to realize, re-gardless of religion or political party, that science has provided a way to make family planning an actual reality—much thanks to contraception (and abor-tion when needed and chosen). Is this a threat to the traditional American idea of a family? Maybe to the 19th-century ideal where many women gave birth 10 times or more and often died young due to health issues. It’s past time to update our ideas of reproductive justice for women. Thanks to the women’s rights move-ment and several waves of feminism, women have made immense gains in the workplace and society. Contraception allows them to plan when and with whom they would like to have a family. This only works, however, when women have access to the right kind of birth control for their needs. Access is a problem in this state, and for those adamantly opposed to abortion—which is their right—the obvious, if not easiest, fi x would be to prevent an unwanted pregnancy in the fi rst place, and for many women that means easier and afford-able access to contraceptive options.

A sharp elbow to my left kidney brought me fully awake. “Answer that,” my wife said. I had recently changed the traditional chime on my iPad to the sound of a hunt-ing horn that really annoys her. She wanted me to turn it

off at night, but I demurred, saying, “What if the kids want to talk?” She rolled her eyes and said, “Let them call when the sun is up!” Sleep has always been important to my wife. Rolling over and peering onto the fl oor where the iPad was still lit up, I could see a screen full of messages. The fi rst was a Facebook post stating that our friend, Quitterie Blanchard, was safe, followed by a cryp-tic message from my brother: “What the hell is going on over there?” Communication from Europe to the U.S. has changed dramatically since my time as a solider in Germany some 40 years ago. Then, calling home required getting up early on Saturday morning, walking into town to the German post offi ce, standing in a line and then paying a lot of money for fi ve minutes’ worth of conversation. You had to coordinate carefully with the folks back home with a six- to nine-hour time differ-ence, and the unpredictability of the queue for the phone service meant long waits for a brief conversation. To many of my fellow soldiers, this was the highlight of their week,

and they couldn’t wait for each Saturday to ar-rive. I couldn’t be bothered. Now, there is instant communication with everyone in the U.S. from a multitude of de-vices. I can call the U.S. with my plain old lan-dline phone. I can walk to Germany, but I can’t call toll-free; however, I can call any phone in the U.S. without a charge! The miracle of mod-ern technology. My geographically challenged and Fox News-watching family and friends tend to think of France as one big suburb of Paris, so when the news of the latest round of Paris attacks hit the U.S. news, they immediately became con-cerned for me and my family, although we’re

not in Paris. And the corollary of the miracle of modern communication is that people can communicate with you anywhere you are at any time from multiple paths. I received emails from people I hadn’t heard from in years, text mes-sages with cryptic messages, “I’m praying for you and your family. L.” Who was L? And as the size of the attack became clear, the concern of family and friends heightened until the sheer crush of communicating with all those concerned about us became tiresome, and I starting just cutting and pasting a generic message into the return emails. Once again, François Hollande’s French administration is faced with a carefully orchestrated attack that has killed many, terrorized Paris and hor-rifi ed the world. The French want to hurt those responsible, and President Obama is being pressured to increase military action against ISIS. Many want him to commit Americans to the fi ght, boots on the ground. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is taking heavy criticism from members of her own party and others for standing up for the refugees from the Middle East and offering them asylum and a place to live, work and raise their children outside a war zone. Many European Nations are reconsidering their commitment to help the refugees and are turning a blind eye to their suffering. Our own GOP wants to do the same. It seems to me that if we are not careful and give serious and rational thought to the situation, the terrorists have a good chance of succeeding in destabilizing the West, isolating the refugees from any chance of a decent life, and turning their camps into breeding grounds of discontent and misery. If we chose to live in fear and base our decisions on our own safety instead of the needs of others, the terrorists win.

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“What the hell is going on over there?”

W e have one true purpose. It is to get as close as we can to completion before we termi-nate this earthly form we’ve

been given. Regardless of what religion you’ve aligned yourself with or what termi-nology is used, ultimately, wholeness and completion is what we are aiming for, right? We’d all like to get to a point where we have lived fully and happily. We all want to find true love, the kind that fills you up on the inside. We all want to do certain things that we’ve always dreamed of, correct? We all want to be whole. We want to have lived enough to not have any regrets at the end of our earthly journey. So, then, why in the hell do so many people—women and men of every nationality—stay in re-lationships that not only don’t fulfill them, but make them miserable? Let me be more specific. I’m not talk-ing about youthful ex-perimentation. When you’re under 30, you’re still learning who you are, so mistakes will be bountiful. But after a certain age, there should come some understanding of self, at least to the point that we aren’t repeating the same mistakes. We should, by then, recog-nize ourselves and know what makes us tick and tock. We should know what we can deal with and what we can’t. We should at least be beginning to recognize what we need to be happy. Right? Or no? I know people who have given up on their own happiness because they have found themselves in wedlock. Now, I am not a pro-ponent of divorce. But I am a proponent of not getting married when you aren’t happy to start with. Why would it get better? It is almost as certain as the sun shining that it will get worse. Some get married to people they don’t even like. I don’t understand that for the life of me. Now, I do believe that great partner-ships or friendships can grow into love and thus, love may not be present in the begin-ning but has room to form and blossom. But if you can’t stand the sight of the person at all prior to marriage, in a year you’ll hate him or her for sure. Is having a wedding that serious? Is the pressure from the family enough to sacrifice your feelings? Is being pregnant enough rea-son to commit to a life with a person that you irresponsibly had unprotected sex with? Life is a funny thing because it gets even more complicated.

Now, I understand that some people don’t believe they are in positions to change or alter where they are in their lives. But what I find unsettling is working in a job for your entire life, possibly keeling over dead while doing said job and being completely unfulfilled the entire time. What a waste that would be, right? What if people were hired according to what they could actually contribute and what they enjoyed doing? What if managers took an extra minute to consider personali-ties instead of what’s on resumés? I can’t even tell you how many resumés I’ve seen that had no clear attachment to the name on the top of it. Come on, seriously, people have to

be smarter than that. I believe that we’d be a happier society if we all did things that made us feel good about being happy. Working jobs we don’t like cre-ates tension, anger and resentment. Unfortu-nately, people can’t just leave because they don’t like it. In fact, in many

households, children (especially men) are taught that it doesn’t matter if you like it or not, you must work. You must provide. So if that means working on an assembly line instead of running for city government, that’s what you do. I admire the free birds, as I call them. The people who truly have this life thing down are the ones who don’t conform to what society says they should be. I com-mend those who follow their hearts and souls even if it means they might never be financially rich. They find wealth in things that are given to us as gifts. They enjoy things most people never give any atten-tion to like a smile from a neighbor on a rough day; a beautiful melody that makes the angst of the day disappear; the warm, tingly sensation of sand. Since all we know is that we won’t live forever, it seems to me that we should take more care with the time we have here. Give thought to those things that make us happy and work toward them. Unfortunately, parents, spouses, em-ployees, coworkers and neighbors cannot take your spot when it’s time to move on. So while you may love and care about them, ultimately your life, your happiness, your fulfillment has one authority—YOU. Be happy. Funmi “QueenFolayan” Franklin is a word lover, poet and advocate for sisterhood. She has a weakness for reality shows.

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T hanksgiving is a time when we get together with family and friends, and give thanks for another year. In between the feasting, naps, leftover

turkey, holiday shopping and more naps, there’s plenty of great football. The college teams playing in the final week of the regular season will want to end on a high note. In our state, a trio of games will highlight the holiday weekend. When Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi meet in the 2015 Egg Bowl, it will be a battle between teams whose pre-season presumptions have been upended through the course of the sea-son. By many accounts, the Bulldogs have

exceeded expectations; the Rebels, despite high-profiles wins, have underachieved. Mississippi State continues a school-record streak by being eligible for its sixth consecutive bowl game. The school has won seven games this season, even though most of the sports talking heads thought six wins would be a stretch, and bowl eli-gibility would be nearly impossible for this season’s Bulldogs, despite the return of star quarterback Dak Prescott. UM started this season as an offensive juggernaut. The high point came when the team beat the University of Alabama for the second straight year. Then, UM had shock-ing losses to the University of Memphis and the University of Arkansas, which put a damper on the early-season enthusiasm. Any chance at a SEC West title is essen-tially gone for both teams, so this year’s Egg Bowl will be for bragging rights, improved bowl standing and pride. If the Bulldogs beat the Rebels, Mississippi State can also

lay claim to a mythical state championship of the FBS teams because the team also beat the University of Southern Mississippi in the first game of the season. With a victory against the Rebels, MSU can claim a 2-0 record against the state’s FBS schools. If the Rebels beat the Bulldogs, UM can salvage this season, though it might still be remembered as a lost opportunity. Mississippi State has already reached my preseason projection with seven wins be-fore the Egg Bowl. UM would have to win against the Bulldogs just to meet my expec-tations of nine to 10 wins this season. Southern Miss could have something different to play for on Thanksgiving week-

end. Not only has the Golden Eagles pro-gram risen from the ashes like a phoenix, but greater glory could be ahead for the team. If USM wins out leading up to the hol-iday weekend, it will put the team on a col-lision course with Louisiana Tech University for the Conference USA West division crown and a spot in the conference championship game. Southern Miss can even drop one of its final home games before the showdown and still be on track to play for a division title against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. USM has put itself in a position to not just go to a bowl game but, in a bit of a long shot, to go as division or conference champions. Much like MSU, if the Golden Eagles keep winning, they will have surpassed the most college-football writers’ expectations. Personally, I thought the limit for USM was six wins, but they could have eight before they step on the field with Louisiana Tech. For the last of the trio of games, Mis-sissippians will have their eyes on the capital

city as Alcorn State University and Jackson State University rumble for bragging rights and a possible SWAC East division cham-pionship between the two premier SWAC schools in our state. Jackson State has faced as much turmoil off the field as they have on it this season. Interim Athletic Director Robert Walker stepped down just a few weeks before head football coach Harold Jackson was fired. The Tigers won only three games all season with just two left. Currently, the Ti-gers are holding third place in the SWAC East, looking up at Alcorn State and Ala-bama State University. On Jackson State Senior Day, the Ti-

gers could possibly play spoilers to their main state rival with a win. A loss would be just another damper in a season with five defeats in the first six games. Alcorn State hasn’t been nearly as domi-nant in the SWAC this season as it was last year, but the team currently sits at the top of the East division. The Braves are still in line to play for a SWAC title if they just win against JSU. This season, they have lost in close games against Grambling State Univer-sity and Prairie View A&M University out of the West division. Lurking behind Alcorn State is Alabama State, which can leap in front of the Braves if they stumble. JSU could get a chance to ruin Al-corn State’s dream of a repeat victory as the SWAC football champion. Jackson State has disappointed me this year, as I picked them to win seven games. I had Alcorn State winning seven games, which is still possible for the Braves, who could walk away with eight victories if they beat JSU.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 19 College basketball (4-6 p.m., ESPN2): The Mississippi State Bulldogs takes on Miami (Fla.) Hur-ricanes in the third game of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Basketball Tournament.

FRIDAY, NOV. 20 College football (8:30-11 p.m., ES-PN2): Watch a Friday night Mountain West shootout as the U.S. Air Force takes on Boise State.

SATURDAY, NOV. 21 College football (2:30-6 p.m., WLOO): Southern Miss goes for win eight against Old Dominion. … College football (2:30-6 p.m., CBS): The University of Mississippi looks to hand LSU its third straight loss. … College football (6-9 p.m., ESPN): Mississippi State tries to stop a surging Arkansas team.

SUNDAY, NOV. 22 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., NBC): The Saints are on their bye week, so watch Sunday Night Football as the unde-feated Cincinnati Bengals go against the Arizona Cardinals.

MONDAY, NOV. 23 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): For-mer USM linebacker Jamie Collins leads the New England Patriots at home against the Buffalo Bills.

TUESDAY, NOV. 24 College football (6:30-10 p.m., ESPNU): Get your midweek college football fix with an MAC face-off as Northern Illinois hosts Ohio.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25 College basketball (4-6 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels continue their early season basketball schedule when they host Georgia State. The Saints fired defensive coordina-tor Rob Ryan after giving up 424.7 yards per game, currently second worst in NFL history. New Orleans’ record-breaking 2012 defense gave up 440.1 yards per game.

The 2015 New Orleans Saints defense is starting to closely resemble their 2012 defense, which holds the NFL record for most yards surrendered in league history.

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Broad Street Baking Co. (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 101, 601-362-2900, broadstbakery.com) Broad Street’s menu for Thanksgiving includes baked

goods such as caramel apple king cake; decorated sugar cookies in fall leaf patterns; apple-raisin bars; and choc-olate-chip pumpkin bread. For its catering menu, Broad Street has dishes such as curried butternut squash bisque; BRAVO!’s signature spinach-and-goat cheese salad; an-douille dressing; spinach casserole; fried turkey breast; a rustic deep-dish quiche; pumpkin, pecan and sweet potato pies; and much more. Broad Street also has gluten-sensi-tive options such as honey-bourbon carrots, corn maque choux, cheese grits, gluten-sensitive chocolate-chip cookies and more. Customers can make orders until Sunday, Nov. 22, and pick up their selections on Wednesday, Nov. 25, by 2 p.m. The restaurant will be open the day before Thanks-giving, Nov. 25, until 3 p.m., and closed Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26.

Crazy Cat Bakers (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 173, 601-362-7448) This year, Crazy Cat has bread pudding, chocolate chip-bourbon-pecan pie, sweet-potato Bundt cake, spiced-apple cake and more. Crazy Cat will take or-ders until it can’t take any more. Pick-up will be the day before Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Grant’s Kitchen (2847 Lakeland Dr., Flowood, 601-665-4764, grantskitchen.com) Grant’s offers a Thanksgiving package for 12 to 18

people that includes a whole roasted turkey, two sides, a dozen rolls and two pies, as well as a wide variety of dressings, desserts and other menu options available individually. Customers can get vegetables and sides in pints, quarts, gallons and half gallons. For pricing, visit grantskitchen.com. The restaurant will be open the day before Thanksgiving from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Primos Cafe (2323 Lakeland Drive; Flowood; 515 Lake Harbour Drive, Ridgeland; primoscafe.com) For Thanksgiving, Primos offers a dinner package that serves 10 to 12 people. It includes a whole turkey or ham; cornbread dressing; giblet gravy; a large vegetable such as sweet-potato casserole; cranberry sauce; dinner rolls; and a choice of pies, including lemon ice box pie and sweet potato pie. Pecan pie costs extra. To inquire about the dinner pack-age or holiday office catering, call Primos at 601-898-3600 (Ridgeland) or 601-936-3398 (Flowood).

Cookin’ Up a Storm (1491 Canton Mart Road, 601-957-1166) Cookin’ Up a Storm will have a full holiday menu that includes stuffing with sausage, pecans and apples; scalloped pineapple casserole; corn souffle; vodka liqueur chocolate cake; and mini cinnamon rolls. The restaurant will accept or-ders up to the last minute or until it runs out of food. Cookin’ Up a Storm will be open Monday, Nov. 23, and Tuesday, Nov. 24, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Wednesday, Nov. 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The business will be closed Thursday, Nov. 26, through Sunday, Nov. 29.

The Strawberry Cafe (107 Depot Drive, Madison, 601-856-3822, strawberrycafemadison.com) For Thanksgiving, Strawberry Café will offer a special

family feast package. With it, customers have a choice of pork loin with an orange, honey, and rosemary demi glaze or a glazed boneless ham; cornbread dressing or oyster corn-bread dressing; a choice of three sides such as seasonal salad, green-bean casserole, baked apples, sweet potatoes with can-died walnuts, potatoes au gratin, or macaroni and cheese; a homemade cranberry sauce; dinner rolls; and caramel pie. The package feeds 10 to 12 people. The deadline for orders is Monday, Nov. 23, at noon, and the pickup deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 25, during the restaurant’s normal busi-ness hours.

CHAR Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 142, 601-956-9562, charrestaurant.com) The menu includes butter beans and green beans, mashed sweet potatoes, cornbread dressing and whole pecan pie. Orders need to be placed by Nov. 23. Customers should pick the food up by 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 25. The restaurant will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26.

Sugar Magnolia Takery (5417 Highway 25, Flowood, 601-992-8110) Sugar Magnolia Takery will have a full holiday menu that includes asparagus casserole, butter beans, turkey, spiral-cut ham, dressing and cranberry salsa. The restaurant will ac-cept orders until Monday, Nov. 23. It will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 25, and will be closed Thanksgiv-ing Day, Thursday, Nov. 26.

Whole Foods Market (4500 Interstate 55 N., 601-608-0405, wholefoodsmarket.com) For Thanksgiving, Whole Foods has dishes a la carte such as a smoked turkey and herb-roasted turkey breast. It also has dinner packages for that serve anywhere from four to eight peo-ple. The packages include a roast turkey breast dinner for four people that includes homestyle mashed potatoes, traditional herb stuffing, cranberry orange relish and turkey gravy. The turkey dinners for four to eight people include a green-bean casserole, in addition to the other items and the turkey. Whole Foods has other items such as Sriracha chicken wontons, Maryland-style crab cakes and apple pie. To order, visit whole foodsmarket.com or Whole Foods Market in Jackson.

McDade’s Market (Multiple locations, mcdades markets.com) McDade’s has a Create Your Own Dinner option for the holiday. Customers can choose items such as cooked tur-key or spiral ham, cornbread dressing; turnip greens, broccoli and cheese casserole; and apple cobbler. The order deadline is Monday, Nov. 23, and orders must be picked up by 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 26.

The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 N. State St., 601-398-4562, themanshipjackson.com) The Manship’s holiday catering menu has meats such as a whole turkey (spit-fired or fried) or a maple-glazed duroc pork tenderloin; sides such as pork and cornbread dressing; corn casserole; Lebanese rice dressing; and Brussels sprouts with pancheta; and pumpkin and pecan pies.

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Events in FondrenNov. 19,

5 p.m. The holiday open house includes family-friendly activities, shopping and music. Lucky Town Brewing hosts Tipsy Turkey Pub Crawl (registration required). Free;

call 601-981-9606; email angela@luckytownbrewing.com to register for the pub crawl; fondren.org.

Run Nov. 21, 7:30 a.m. Check-in at 6:30 a.m. The race with a costume contest benefits the Good Samaritan

Center. Race begins at Old Canton Road and Duling Street. Includes a kids’ run at 9 a.m. Registration required. $40 Nov. 10-20, $45 race day, free fun run, $105 family of four (immediate family only); call 601-355-6276; christmas12k.com.

Nov. 19, 6:15 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Join Wyatt Waters for an in-person signing in conjunction with the museum’s Third Thursday programming. Calendars for sale in the Museum Store. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., at Bologna Per-forming Arts Center (Delta State University, 1003 W. Sunflower Road, Cleveland). Lightwire The-ater presents the holiday-themed featuring light art, puppetry and festive tunes. $25-$35; call 662-846-4626; bolognapac.com.

Nov. 20, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Nov. 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Shop for handmade gift items from more than 140 exhibitors at the annual event. Concessions included. Reservations required for

groups. Strollers permitted. $8, $6 group rate (12 or more), children under 12 free; call 205-937-4834; handworksmarket.com.

Nov. 21-22, 1:30-4 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Learn the art of decorative paper cutting to create a collection of Christmas designs. Registration required. $40 one day or $75 both days, $25 per day for materials; call 601-856-7546; email education@mscrafts.org.

Nov. 21, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Cirque Dreams founder Neil Goldberg directs the performance featuring costumed acrobats and an original music score. $25 and up; call 888-502-2929; jacksonbroadway.com.

Send other holiday happenings to events@jacksonfreepress.com. Watch for our special winter arts preview issue in De-cember with still more holiday fun.

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B rick Street Pops (400 Monroe St., Clinton), a popsicle shop in Clinton that opened in late August, is hold-ing a grand-opening celebration Fri-

day, Nov. 20, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The celebration will include a ribbon cutting and a Main Street Red Carpet Rollout, which is a ceremony for new businesses that are part of Main Street in Clinton. In addition to popsicles, the shop of-fers retro candy and glass bottled drinks, including bottled root beer, orange crème soda and other selections. Brick Street has about 30 to 40 flavors of popsicles in all, with 14 flavors available on rotation every day, including cookies and cream, straw-berry basil, sea-salt caramel and more. All of Brick Street’s popsicles are made locally from fresh ingredients and fruit. Clay Mansell, Brick Street’s owner, in-tends for his shop to be a family- and pet-friendly destination, with dog dishes out-side for pets and special “puppy pops” for dogs made of beef or chicken broth with a rawhide stick for the handle. The shop has both indoor and outdoor seating, and students at nearby Mississippi College get a 20 percent discount. Anyone who attends Brick Street’s ribbon-cutting ceremony will receive a free popsicle, and the shop will also have hourly specials and sales all day on items such as drinks and T-shirts. From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., bands will perform outside,

including The Holy Ghost Electric Show, May Queen, Chad Perry and Robert Chi-solm. Attendees who have liked Brick Street on Facebook can show their phones

at the event to enter a drawing to win free popsicles for a year. The winner will be announced Jan. 1, 2016. Brick Street’s winter hours are 1 to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Starting March 1, 2016, the shop will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., for spring and summer. The store is closed Sundays. Brick Street will

be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for the grand opening celebration. For more information, find Brick Street Pops on Facebook.

Cathead Distillery Coming to Jackson Madison-based Cathead Distillery (644 Church Road, Suite 1, Madison), Mississippi’s first legal distillery, is relo-cating to 422 S. Farish St., in downtown Jackson. The new space will increase production. Cathead will host a ribbon-

cutting for the new distillery on Tuesday, Dec. 8, and a grand-opening celebration on Saturday, Dec. 12. Austin Evans and Richard Patrick co-founded Cathead Distillery in 2010. The company’s current brands include Cathead Vodka, Cathead Honeysuckle, Cathead Pecan, Bristow Gin, Bristow Reserve Gin and Hoodoo Chicory Li-queur. The new distillery is in a 20,000-square-foot space and will have equip-ment Cathead can use to distill other spirits, including whiskey. On Dec. 8, Cathead will hold the ribbon cutting at 10 a.m., and the new distillery will open to the public at noon the day of the grand opening. Attendees will get to taste the local spirits and enjoy live music. Tickets are $10 per person for that event. Starting Dec. 17, the distillery will be open for tours and tastings on Thurs-days and Fridays starting at 3 p.m., and at 11 a.m. on Saturdays. Guests can en-joy a bar full of local beers, a retail shop and a game of cornhole while visiting. Private group tours are also available, and the distillery is also available for private events and business meetings. To book a private tour or tast-ing, email Susan Olmsted at susan@ catheaddistillery.com. For more informa-tion about Cathead Distillery, call 601-667-3038 or visit catheaddistillery.com.

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AMERICAN/SOUTHERN CUISINEBasil’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.

PIZZASal & 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.

ITALIANBRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) Award-winning wine list, Jackson’s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining. Fratesi’s (910 Lake Harbour, Ridgeland, 601-956-2929) Fratesi’s has been a staple in Jackson for years, offering great Italian favorites with loving care. The tiramisu is a must-have! 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.

STEAK, SEAFOOD & FINE DININGThe 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. One of Jackson’s Best New Restaurants.

MEDITERRANEAN/GREEKAladdin 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. Zeek’s House of Gyros (132 Lakeland Heights Suite P, Flowood 601.992.9498) Jackson’s Newest Greek Restaurant, offering authentic gyros, hummus, and wide selection of craft beers.

BARBEQUEChimneyville (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 HOUSESCups Espresso Café (Multiple Locations, www.cupsespressocafe.com)Jackson’s local group of coffeehouses offer a wide variety of espresso drinks. Wi-fi.

BARS, PUBS & BURGERSBonny 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!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.ISH Grill & Bar (5105 I 55 N Frontage Rd. 769-257-5204) Jackson’s newest hot spot offering classic foods and cocktails in a refined and elegant atmosphere.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.Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Upscale Southern cuisine, gumbo, red beans and rice, fried green tomatoes, grilled or fried shrimp, catfish, kitchen open with full menu till 1 am on Friday and Saturday night.

ASIAN AND INDIANFusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetops Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588/1030-A Hwy 51, Madison 601-790-7999)Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushi.Ichiban Chinese (359 Ridge Way - Dogwood Promenade, Flowood 601-919-8879) Asian food with subtle and surprising flavors from all across the Far East! Surin of Thailand (3000 Old Canton Road, Suite 105, Jackson 601-981-3205) Jackson’s Newest Authentic Thai & Sushi Bar with 26 signature martini’s and extensive wine list.

VEGETARIANHigh 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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WEDNESDAY 11/18 Leonard Pitts Jr. signs copies of “Grant Park” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com. … The Steve Deaton Three Album Release Party is from 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. at James Patterson & Ron Blaylock Photogra-phy (3017 N. State St.). The multi-genre band performs. A video premiere, listening session and CD signing follows. $8 in advance, $10 at the door (includes a CD); call 601-292-7121; email james@119gallery.com; ardenland.net.

THURSDAY 11/19 Fondren Unwrapped is at 5 p.m. in Fondren. The holi-day open house includes family-friendly activities, shopping and music. Lucky Town Brewing hosts the Tipsy Turkey Pub Crawl during the event (registration required). Free; call 601-981-9606; email angela@luckytownbrewing.com to register

for the pub crawl; fondren.org. … “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” is at 7:30 p.m. at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). Actors reenact the popular Christmas film. Additional dates: Nov. 20-21, 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 22, 2 p.m. $15, $10 children, students, military and seniors; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.

FRIDAY 11/20 “Star Wars, Star Trek and Beyond!” is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Mis-sissippi Symphony Orchestra presents a selection of music from the soundtracks of film series such as “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Batman” and “Superman,” with a special appearance by the 501st Legion. $18 and up; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

SATURDAY 11/21 Cirque Dreams Holidaze is at 8 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Neil Goldberg di-rects the performance featur-ing costumed acrobats and an original music score. $25 and up; call 888-502-2929; jack-sonbroadway.com. … “Nina: A Burlesque Revue of Nina Si-mone” is at 9:30 p.m. at Dul-ing Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Black Hat Burlesque is the presenter. Performers include Remy, Rev. Spooky LeStrange, Talloolah Love, Lola Le Soleil, Desta Del Carmen and Roula Roulette. For ages 18 and up. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

SUNDAY 11/22 “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” at 2 p.m. at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). A troupe of actors present the classic Christmas tale in the style of old radio, using their voices and sound effects

to reenact the popular film. Additional dates: Nov. 19-21, 7:30 p.m., $15, $10 children, students, military and seniors; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.

MONDAY 11/23 The Jackson Touchdown Club Meeting is at 6 p.m. at River Hills Club (3600 Ridgewood Road). Club members with an interest in football meet on most Mondays through Nov. 30. The speaker is Senior Bowl Executive Director Phil Savage. Call for information on membership dues. $30 non-members; call 601-506-3186; jacksontouchdownclub.com. … Best of Belhaven I is at 7:30 p.m. at the Belhaven Univer-sity Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive) in the concert hall. The Music Department presents the most outstanding student performances of the semester in one concert. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

TUESDAY 11/24 Sleep Out to Help the Homeless is from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at Poindexter Park (200 Poindexter St.). Mem-bers of Mississippi MOVE and Phi Beta Sigma Frater-nity’s Mu Sigma Chapter sleep outdoors overnight to raise funds for Mississippi MOVE’s Help the Homeless Campaign. Donations are welcome; call 601-918-4350; msmove.org or gofundme.com/msmove.

WEDNESDAY 11/25 Cardinal Sons perform at 10 p.m. at Martin’s Restau-rant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The indie-rock band is on tour to promote its most recent release, “The Echo Choir” EP. Rooster Blues also performs. Admission TBA; call 601-354-9712; ryboltproductions@comcast.net; martinslounge.net.

FRIDAY 11/20The Brick Street Pops Grand Opening is at Brick Street Pops in Clinton.

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Jackson 2000 November Luncheon Nov. 18, 11:45 a.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The topic is “Heart Attack: What Is Next?” The speaker is Mark Stovall, division director of treatment services with the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Services at the Mississippi Department of Health. $12 ($10 for members); email todd@jacksonfreepress.com; jackson2000.org.

Alignment Jackson Career Exploration Fair Nov. 18, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The event is designed to support Jackson Public Schools’ Fresh-men Academy and provide those students with an opportunity to explore careers through interactive activities. Free; call 601-965-1353.

Look and Learn with Hoot Nov. 20, 10:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). This educational opportunity ages 5 and under and their parents features a hands-on art activity and story time. Please dress for mess. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Beaujolais Nouveau Celebration Nov. 19, 6-9 p.m., at Anjou Restaurant (361 Township Ave., Ridgeland). Enjoy a four-course prix fixe menu, a complimentary glass of wine and music from Swing de Paris. Reservations encouraged. $52 per person; call 601-707-0587; anjourestaurant.net.

Brick Street Pops Grand Opening Nov. 20, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., at Brick Street Pops (400 Monroe St., Clinton). The grand opening of the gourmet popsicle business includes a ribbon cutting at 10:30 a.m., music from Robert Chisolm, Chad Perry, May Queen and Holy Ghost Electric Show starting at 5 p.m., special deals and more. Free; 601-990-9511; brickstreetpops.com.

Platinum Productions Barrel Racing Competi-tion Nov. 21, 10 a.m., Nov. 22, 9 a.m., at Kirk Fordice Equine Center (1207 Mississippi St.). Equestrians compete for cash prizes. Competitors must register. Free for spectators; call 228-860-8104; email twoodcock@neseenterprise.com; platinumproductionsbarrelracing.com.

Jackson Touchdown Club Meeting Nov. 23, 6 p.m., at River Hills Club (3600 Ridgewood Road). Club members with an interest in football meet on most Mondays through Nov. 30. The speaker is Senior Bowl Executive Director Phil Savage. $30 non-members; call 601-506-3186; jacksontouchdownclub.com.

Planetarium Schedule Nov. 18-19, 1-3 p.m., Nov. 20, 1-4 p.m., at Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Options include “Perfect Little Planet,” “From Earth to the Universe” and “Exploding Universe.” $6.50; $5.50 seniors; $4 children (cash or check); call 601-960-1550; the-davisplanetarium.com.

DOXA Dance Concert Nov. 18-19, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University, Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center (1500 Peachtree St.). In the Studio Theatre. Members of DOXA, the dance department’s student-led organization, host the event featuring the choreography of young creative artists. Doors open at 7 p.m. $10, $5 seniors and students, free for Belhaven students, employees and their immediate family members; call 601-965-1400; belhaven.edu.

“It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” Nov. 19-21, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 22, 2 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). Various actors use their voices and sound effects to reenact the popular Christmas film. $15, $10 children, stu-dents, military and seniors; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.

P.O.E.T.R.Y. Nov. 21, 6:30 p.m., at The Nest at Highlites (501 County Line Road, Tougaloo). C. Liegh McInnis is the host. The open-mic poetry night also includes a performance by poet and author Treasure Sheilds Redmond. Includes a cash bar. $5; call 707-687-9273; find the event on Facebook.

“Cavalleria Rusticana” Nov. 21, 7:30-10 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riv-erside Drive). The Mississippi Opera presents the production that the organization first presented in 1945. Includes a 70-year retrospective with narra-tion from Belhaven University president Dr. Roger Parrott. $60, $15 students; call 601-960-2300; email exdir@msopera.org; msopera.org.

Katt Williams Nov. 21, 8 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The stand-up comedian and actor performs on his “Conspiracy Theory Tour.” $42-$99; call 601-353-0603.

Nina: A Burlesque Revue of Nina Simone Nov. 21, 9:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Black Hat Burlesque is the presenter, and per-formers include Remy, Rev. Spooky LeStrange, Talloolah Love, Lola Le Soleil, Desta Del Carmen and Roula Roulette. For ages 18 and up. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Mark Normand Nov. 25, 8 p.m., at Brewsky’s (3818 W. 4th St., Hattiesburg). Hub City Comedy and Southern Prohibition present a performance from the New York stand-up comic. Andrew Polk, Corbin McDavitt and Mallory Head also perform. $10; call 601-261-2888; brewskyslive.com.

The Steve Deaton Three Album Release Par-ty Nov. 18, 7:30-9:15 p.m., at James Patterson & Ron Blaylock Photography (3017 N. State St.). The band performs from 7:30-8:30 p.m., and a video premiere, listening session and CD signing follow. $8 in advance, $10 at the door (includes a CD); call 601-292-7121; ardenland.net.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.)Nov. 19, 9 p.m. The indie-

rock band from New Orleans performs. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 20, 9 p.m. Singer-song-writer Jeremiah Stricklin presents his own brand of folk and Americana music. Corey Kilgannon also performs. $5 in advance, $10 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pasca-goula St.). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra presents music from the soundtracks of film series such as “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Batman” and “Superman,” with a special appearance by the 501st Legion. $18; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

James S. Sclater Chamber Series Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., at Mississippi College (200 S. Capitol St., Clinton). In Aven Hall. The Accento Trio per-forms. Limited seating. $20, $5 students with ID; call 601-925-3440; mc.edu/marketplace.

Mason Ruffner Nov. 20, 8 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The blues guitarist and singer-songwriter from Fort Worth, Tex. performs. Kern Pratt also performs. $10 in advance, $3 sur-charge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email jane@halandmals.com; ardenland.net.

Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra Fall Con-cert Nov. 22, 3 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral (305 E. Capitol St.). The theme is “Through The Ages,” and the featured soloist is Julie Hudik on oboe. Free; call 601-927-7494; email sallysteincohen@gmail.com.

Choral & Vocal Arts Concert of the People and by the People Nov. 22, 7 p.m., at Covenant Pres-byterian Church (4000 Ridgewood Road). The Belhaven Concert Choir, the Belhaven Chorale and Belhaven University students present works

from American composers such as Dan Forrest, Daniel Gawthrop and Leonard Bernstein. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

Best of Belhaven I Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). In the concert hall. The Music Depart-ment presents the most outstanding student per-formances of the semester in one concert. Free; call 601-974-6494; belhaven.edu.

Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202)

Nov. 18, 5 p.m. Leonard Pitts Jr. signs books. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

of George Herbert Walker Bush” Nov. 23, 5 p.m. Jon Meacham signs books. $35 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

Malcolm White’s “Little Stories” Photo Exhibit & Book Signing Nov. 19, 5-8 p.m., at James Patterson Photography (3017 N. State St.). Signed prints and copies of “Little Stories: A Collection of Mississippi Photos” available. The event is part of Fondren Unwrapped. Free; call 601-918-3232; email james@119gallery.com.

Museum After Hours Pop-Up Exhibition Nov. 19, 5:30-8 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). See works from grantees of the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Folk Arts Appren-ticeships and purchase cuisine from Chef Nick Wallace. Includes cash bar. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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

Workshop: How to Assess Your Effec-tiveness-Outcomes Measurement Nov. 19, 9 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (201 W. Capitol St., Suite 700). Topics include the process for determining what to measure and how to measure it, how to analyze the outcome information, best practices in outcomes measurement reporting and how to use the information to improve services. Registration required. $99, $69 members; call 601-968-0061; msnonprofits.org.

Art Bar Pop Trivia Nov. 19, 7 p.m., at Missis-sippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). daniel johnson, artist and MMA Director of Engage-ment and Learning, is the host. Teams are chal-lenged to an art and pop culture inspired game of trivia. Cash bar included. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Millsaps Forum Nov. 20, 12:30 p.m., at Mill-saps College, Ford Academic Complex (1701 N. State St.). In room 215. Architect Carl Abbott speaks on the topic, “Maya to Mod-ern.” He is the author of “In/Formed by the Land: The Architecture of Carl Abbott.” Free; call 601-974-1000; email kenneth.townsend@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu.

League of Women Voters of the Jackson Area Meeting Nov. 21, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at Wil-lie Morris Library (4912 Old Canton Road). Includes socializing at 9:30 a.m. and a discus-sion of money in politics at 10 a.m. Free; call 601-987-8181; lwv-ms.org.

Holiday Top Hat Brunch Nov. 21, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., at Jackson Marriott (200 E. Amite St.). The National Coalition of 100 Black Women—Central Mississippi Chapter hosts the annual fundraiser. Includes a hat show and competition, live music, food and vendors. $45; call 601-750-5344 or 601-589-0050.

Marriage on Purpose Seminar Nov. 21, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at Homewood Suites by Hilton, Jackson-Ridgeland (853 Centre St., Ridgeland). Authors and entrepreneurs James and Natasha Roach are the speakers. Includes vendors and networking. $16-$36; call 601-899-8611; mar-riageonpurpose.eventbrite.com.

Families Affected by Autism Support Group Nov. 21, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at Eudora Welty Library (300 N. State St.). In the Ellen Douglas Meeting Room. Includes a family-friendly movie screening with popcorn at 11 a.m. and a support group meeting at 1 p.m. Free; call 601-968-5800.

35th Annual Squat & Gobble Nov. 19, 6 p.m., at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). Friends for a Cause hosts the annual party to raise funds for domestic-violence and sex-trafficking prevention. Includes turkey calling and dance contests, a silent auction and music from Dr. Zarr’s Amaz-ing Funk Monster. $55; call 601-955-1677; friendsforacause.com.

Sleep Out to Help the Homeless Nov. 24, 10 p.m.-6 a.m., at Poindexter Park (200 Poindexter St.). Members of Missis-sippi MOVE and Phi Beta Sigma Frater-nity’s Mu Sigma Chapter sleep outdoors overnight to raise funds for Mississippi MOVE’s Help the Homeless Campaign. Donations welcome; call 601-918-4350; msmove.org or gofundme.com/msmove.

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A chef will battle a former trainee in a culinary showdown, and folk-art apprentices and masters’ works will be on display side by side at

the Mississippi Museum of Art’s November Museum After Hours. MMA will partner with the Missis-sippi Arts Commission for this month’s event, “Folk Art: Master and Apprentice.” The featured artists for the evening are 2014 recipients of Mississippi Arts Commission’s Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program grants. The grant program helps sustain the practice of traditional art forms found in Mississippi by supporting the transmission of a master artist’s skills, including entrepre-neurial ones, to a promising novice. Master potter Brian Nettles has been a ceramicist for 20 years. In addition to teach-ing the craft, Nettles works with young people who are interested in learning the day-to-day business of running a ceramics studio, including business-plan development and advertising so the artists can continue on their own. His apprentice for the show, Joe Geil, was a recent college graduate with a bach-elor’s degree in ceramics from Montana State University when he began working at Nettles Pottery in Pass Christian, Miss. During his 12-month ap-prenticeship, Geil helped in the studio, making pots and learning how to design and build a wood-burning kiln. “I’ve designed and built over 50 kilns for myself and other peo-ple,” Nettles says. “Joe had helped build kilns before—he knew how to pile the bricks—(but) he wanted to build his own. I gave him

the freedom to come up with the design. I oversaw the project. When he made pots, he fired them in his own kiln.” Since completing his apprenticeship with Nettles, Geil has moved to Virginia to oversee operations at a ceramics foundation. “Traditional art speaks to identity; it ar-ticulates who you are, where you’re from and where you’re going,” says Folk Arts Appren-ticeship Program Director Jennifer Jameson. “It’s a way for people to access and have a bet-ter understanding of their culture. “ In the past, the Arts Commission has exhibited the work of the master and ap-

prentice grant recipients in their on-site gal-lery. The Museum After Hours exhibition at the art museum will be an upgrade. “We wanted to find a bigger stage and platform to support the good work these artists are doing,” Jameson says. “This is the fruit of our efforts to create a better showcase.” In addition to Nettles and Geil, the fea-tured artists for the evening include quilters Rhonda Blasingame (master) and Angelean Jones (apprentice) from Jackson; and two pairs of Djembe drummers, Jerry Jenkins (master) and Raha Maxwell (apprentice) from Jackson and Ridgeland, and Newman “Baba Asante” Nalls (master) and Lisa Dunn (apprentice) from Jackson. The “Master and Apprentice” theme will continue with a cook-off for this month’s ‘sipp Sourced. MMA Executive Chef and Culinary Curator Nick Wallace and his for-mer trainee, chef Enrika Williams, will com-pete for the “Grease Trap” Trophy.

In the Art Garden, the High Note Jam concert and Screen on Green seasons will come to a close with music by Paperclip Sci-entists, followed with a screening of “Back to the Future II.” The High Note Jam concerts and Screen on the Green will be plugged back into Museum After Hours in the spring. The Mississippi School of the Arts will host a “Connect Event,” with information for potential students and parents, at 6:30 p.m., in the museum’s Yates Community Room. “Third Thursday happens the same time every month, but it’s never the same thing twice,” says Julian Rankin, MMA’s marketing director. “We’re excited about ... ‘Folk Art: Master and Apprentice’ because it will highlight the authenticity of Mississippi’s cultural creation and artistic tradition.” Museum After Hours is at the Mis-sissippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-960-1515) Thursday, Nov. 19, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. For more information, visit msmuseumart.org.

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In the blues world, you have families: your biological one and your blues one. Holly Springs-based musician Garry Burnside carries both with him

at all times. The north Mississippi hill-country blues style of his legendary fa-ther, guitarist R.L. Burnside, who died in September 2005, inspired a line of 14 children, grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews to create their own music, forming bands and solo acts to perpetuate their heritage. Burnside, the 39-year-old son, used elements of his past to create his cur-rent body of work, relying on self-taught guitar instincts and inspiration from his extended blues family. He grew up meeting and being influenced by artists such as Albert Collins and Little Milton Campbell, and emulating others such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King. Burnside began learning to play instruments at age 10, starting with percussion before adding bass and guitar to his repertoire. “I picked up the guitar and drums because that’s what was around the house all the time,” he says. “I just did what came natural. When you grow up hear-ing this blues music, it gets in your head, heart and soul. I looked outside of home and picked up licks from other bluesmen, especially guitar players, to fill up on what they had to teach me. Then, I took from them to make my own sound that takes me into the future.” When Burnside started performing publicly as a teenager, he played bass for highly influential hill-country blues mu-sician Junior Kimbrough. But after Kim-brough died in 1998, Burnside struck out on his own to form a band and play lead guitar. The multi-instrumentalist’s turn as a frontman has become his main musical pursuit, though he continued to play bass alongside Grammy Award-nominated blues act The North Missis-sippi Allstars, appearing on several of the band’s albums. “It (lets) me experiment with new things while keeping the hill-country touch as a foundation that will never leave my show song list,” Burnside says. “What I learned from being on the road with Daddy and Junior is something that can’t be taught out of a book. They helped me to become a professional be-cause, in this business, things don’t al-ways go smooth. They showed me that you don’t have to have a lot of pieces

behind you in the band to produce the sound you’re looking for. They told me to always rely on what I know how to do and do that better than the next guy who may want to copy your sound.” That sound is at the forefront of Burnside’s debut album, 2013’s “The Promise,” as well as his upcoming studio project, “Come into My World,” which

he plans to release in spring 2016. De-spite his own skill and success, he says he owes a great deal to his father’s legacy and expansion of the music that came before the Burnside name. “He took something we all took for granted growing up and made some-thing great out of it,” Burnside says. “He built on the hill-country sound that blues folks from up this way created be-fore him, and he made it a brand that hill people could be proud of, and now his children, grands, and little cousins, and them down the line keep going from one generation to the next.” Garry Burnside performs at 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 20, at Underground 119 (119 S. President St., 601-352-2322). Admis-sion is $10. For more information, visit underground119.com.

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cines have already been produced, which may result in less effective vaccines. Vac-cination are still encouraged, however, be-cause in many cases, it can provide some protection against different but related influenza viruses. Sometimes people get vaccinated and may still get the flu, though the vac-cine itself does not cause this. Perhaps the person was exposed to the flu before vaccination or during the two-week in-terval it takes to develop the antibodies to fight off infection. You could also get the flu if you’re exposed to a strand not reflected in the vaccination you received or if you have an immune system that is unable to produce an appropriate im-mune response. Many patients tell me that they don’t want to be vaccinated because they believe they will catch the flu if they receive the vaccination. Some patients can get side ef-fects from it, including a runny nose and sore throat, but the symptoms are usually self-resolving in a short period of a few days. Egg allergies are also a concern due to the fact that the majority of vaccines are made using eggs. If this is a concern, patients should discuss alternative vac-cines with their health-care providers. For those who hate needles, many patients from 2 to 50 years of age can get a nasal vaccine spray. Most insurance plans pay for the influenza vaccination with no out-of-pocket expenses. Those who want to avoid the wait at a medical provider’s office can get most vaccinations at area pharmacies without a prescription. So we now have no excuse to protect our community and ourselves. Timothy Quinn is a family physician at Quinn Total Health who dedicates himself to giving his patients consistent, comprehensive and ethical medical care.

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