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Eventful Eating
BBQ on the Boulevard, Oct. 7, Clinton Plaza Shopping Center (224 Clinton Blvd., Clinton) If you love barbecue, this is the event for you. Churches, organizations, businesses and restaurants will...
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Warm Up This Fall
Even if the weather does not believe it, it is officially fall. The leaves are beginning to change colors; students are well into their first few weeks of classes; and the fair is in town this week....
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Where Mississippi's U.S. Lawmakers Stand on Gun Laws, Rights
Gun regulations, laws and loopholes are back in headlines after a gunman huddled in a high-rise Las Vegas hotel room packed with high-powered weapons and shot hundreds of festival-goers down below,...
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Music Videos, Evolved
The rat-a-tat of a snare drum rings out from the center of South President Street in downtown Jackson. It bounces off the smattering of parked cars and office buildings, but there's no audience in...
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Saved for a Reason: The Fight to End Domestic Violence
Cathy and Richard Green were on the verge of separating—this time for good. Cathy thinks he could likely see the finality in her eyes on that October night three years ago. That time, she was not...
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The ‘Radical’ Mayor, 120 Days Later
Hundreds of Jacksonians sat in mostly silence as Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba delivered his "State of the City" address on a late Monday afternoon in Thalia Maria Hall in downtown Jackson. They cheered...
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Matthew Kajdan
Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro Executive Chef Matthew Kajdan says that his favorite dish to make at the bistro is the grilled redfish. He prefers the dish, which comes with sauteed lobster, avocado,...
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Meeya Thomas: The Embellishing Queen
Meeya Thomas stands 5 feet and 2 inches tall—about three inches short of the national average for women. She says that because of her height, she loves to wear heels, and that is where her inspiration...
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Best of Jackson: Beauty & Style
It's time once again to nominate people for the 2018 Best of Jackson ballot (bestofjackson.com). While in this season, take a look at some of the 2017 winners in categories related to beauty and...
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Meeya Thomas
Meeya Thomas stands 5 feet and 2 inches tall—about three inches short of the national average for women. She says that because of her height, she loves to wear heels, and that is where her inspiration...
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How Integration Failed in Jackson’s Public Schools from 1969 to 2017
It was a cold winter day in 1969, but Brenda Walker was not thinking about the weather when she put her coat in her locker. After all, Central High School in the middle of downtown Jackson had...
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Jingle Bells and Local Celebration
Christmas Wonderland Christmas Wonderland is at the Mississippi Braves Stadium and the Outlets of Mississippi (200 Bass Pro Drive, Pearl) will host Christmas Wonderland all throughout November and...
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Holiday Side Favorites
Though holiday dinners are often centered around turkey, the side dishes that accompany them are also important. They are often personal and family traditions, and shared recipes. These are several...
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Teresa Haygood’s Work in National Spotlight
One Jackson-area artist's work is being highlighted on a national stage. The Mississippi Arts Commission chose mosaic artist Teresa Haygood to represent the state in the National Christmas Tree...
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Young Perps: The Costs of Sensationalizing Youth Crime
Shortly before 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11, in the Presidential Hills subdivision in northwest Jackson, a 14-year-old girl named Alexandria Love was shot in the head. Just an hour later, doctors at...
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Teresa Haygood
One Jackson-area artist's work is being highlighted on a national stage. The Mississippi Arts Commission chose mosaic artist Teresa Haygood to represent the state in the National Christmas Tree...
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‘Who Are We?’
When Pam Confer writes songs, she says the lyrics just come to her, and she starts singing them. So one evening in spring 2016, Confer was walking her dog, Jazzie, when she began singing, "Who are...
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Pam Confer
When Pam Confer writes songs, she says the lyrics just come to her, and she starts singing them. So one evening in spring 2016, Confer was walking her dog, Jazzie, when she began singing, "Who are...
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‘This Is Our State’: Museums’ Opening Makes and Breaks Peace
Charlie Davis, a 9-year-old from West Point, Miss., read the panel outside an Emmett Till exhibit not long after the doors of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. When he...
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Blows, Bullets, Tears: History, Civil Rights Museums Open Amid Hope, Distrust
Kids bundled up in parkas, one wearing a red "Make America Great Again" cap, leaned against the railing at the Allen C. Thompson Field Air National Guard base; another read Harry Potter while she...
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