Fearful and Fun
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View ArticleAn Honest Attitude
The Coffee Roastery308 E. Pearl St.601-949-6994thecoffeeroastery.comDebra Griffin has an honest attitude when it comes to past business failures.After two decades as a hospital administrator, Griffin...
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Half-Life
This summer, a couple of Walker's Drive-In employees painted a mural on the iconic eatery's patio wall in Fondren. It replaced a pockmarked and aging piece The Projectors, a trio of artists who still...
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Zombies and Filmmaking
Prepare Now for the Zombie Apocalypse! On Oct. 26, as part of the fourth annual Mississippi International Film Festival, zombies and their attendant goons will overrun the Russell C. Davis Planetarium...
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Sound Exchange
The vinyl nirvana for Jackson's music nerds is returning, in the ninth 4 The Record! vinyl convention and swap, Sept. 28, at Hal & Mal's (200 S. Commerce St., 601-948-0888).The first convention...
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Irish Dancing in the Capital
The Mostly Monthly Ceili series is a Sunday night event that brings the art of the Irish jig to Jackson.The Jackson Irish Dancers host the series."I lived in Ireland for a while and came up with the...
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Blooming Book Club
Jackson writer Eudora Welty inspired the name of the Cereus Readers book club, pronounced "serious." She and her friends would come together to watch the annual night-blooming of the cereus flower....
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Greek Goodness
When George Chuck Patterson's grandmother, Viola Donaldson, died of multiple myeloma, (a type of blood cancer), her battle had a huge impact on his life. He noticed a lack of awareness about sickle...
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Handmade and Live on Stage
The Canton Gin Market, located in the Old Cotton Gin across the street from the train depot in Canton, is a mecca for local artisans and musicians.Fraizer and Susan Riddell started the market seven...
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Vision 2022: A Regional Vision
The Vision 2022 plan (jfp.ms/vision2022) breaks down priorities, such as Leveraging Diversity, into possible actions.4.3: Leveraging Diversity Greater Jackson is one of the most diverse places in the...
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What Our City Needs
Anyone who has lived in Jackson for a while, and gotten involved even marginally in the community, knows that there is no shortage of ideas on how to improve our city floating around. Sometimes it...
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Robert St. John: The Unlikely Chef
To say Robert St. John is modest about what led to his success is to put it lightly. The Hattiesburg, Miss., native insists he "sort of fell backward" into the overwhelming success he's enjoyed as a...
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Fighting the Power in Kemper County
Barbara Correro's house sits just off an unpaved road of sandy, bright-red clay and under a canopy of shortleaf and southern yellow pine, sweetgum, oak, flowering dogwood, elm and hickory trees.A few...
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‘Standing Close By’ The JFP Interview with Dr. Hannah Gay
Dr. Hannah GayAge: 59Hometown: JacksonWorks for: University of Mississippi Medical CenterField of practice: Pediatric infectious diseaseEducation: Graduated from Wingfield High School; Medical degree...
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The Most Under-reported Stories in the U.S. and Mississippi
This year's annual Project Censored list of the most under-reported news stories includes the widening wealth gap, the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, and President Obama's war on whistleblowers—all...
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The Battle for Downtown, Part I: Watkins v. JRA, et al
Socrates Garrett sat silently in the second-story conference room of the Mississippi secretary of state's North Street offices on Oct. 29, his legs crossed and his eyes fixed on his former business...
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Killing Quardious Thomas: A Castle Doctrine Case Study
On July 12, just after 5:30 a.m., the police scanner crackled to life after more than four minutes of radio silence."I have a domestic disturbance. ...," a female emergency dispatcher said."Her husband...
View ArticleResolved: Help Young People in 2014
How do you resolve to make a difference in the lives of young people? Feel free to list them below and send to ladd@jacksonfreepress.com, post under this story at jfp.ms/kids2014 or just put on your...
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Mentoring: A Friend for Life
The word "mentor" is incredibly common these days—a good sign that more and more people understand the need to help young people, especially those unfortunate enough not to have a strong family support...
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Digging up the Roots
When discussing the very difficult issue of violence, we find there are two types of people: those who don't care why criminals resort to violence, and those who get that preventing it can only come...
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