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Pat Fordice

by Lynette Hanson

May 28, 2003

Whereas, Pat Fordice is a good Southern lady. In the documentary “Belles and Whistles" screened at the 2002 Crossroads Film Festival, former first lady Fordice says
her youngest son…

by ladd on 05/29/03 at 01:37 PM Comments (1) -- Read More...

M.U.G.A.B.E.E.

By J. Bingo Holman

Carlton Turner leads me upstairs to the V.I.P. room of The Forum where he is the public relations director. His older (by 13 months) brother Maurice waits for the interview with his weathered and dented Bach Stradivarius in his lap. "I take it…

by ladd on 05/15/03 at 08:11 PM Comments (1) -- Read More...

Janice Jordan

by J. Bingo Holman
May 1, 2003

My mom and I are sitting on her balcony outside her apartment in Belhaven Heights. She�s lounging in a plastic deck chair, wearing a white Mexican wedding dress and sipping a can of Miller Light out of a huggie. She�s jangled and sparkly talking about her upcoming trip to (in a fake backwoods accent) �New Yoork City!?!,� a place she�s always dreamed of going. Her mother was a fashion buyer for the Emporium in the �50s and �60s and would make long excursions to the Big Apple on shopping expeditions for work. Mom has pined to make the trip ever since.

by ladd on 05/01/03 at 02:39 PM Comments (2) -- Read More...

Knol Aust

by Rachel Malone
April 17, 2003

Although Knol Aust, 27, has never met Lenny Kravitz, Queen Latifah, or Sting, he works side-by-side with them each day as each helps motivate young American voters. Aust, a Web designer who grew up in Raymond, is leading the way to raise awareness of the importance of voting by starting a Rock the Vote chapter in Jackson. �Young people are not always given a voice in politics,� he said. �Sitting around without action will not promote or provoke change. It will take a unified movement and a strong system of support. Rock the Vote is completely non-partisan and believes that voting is one of the simplest actions a young American can do to make change.�

by ladd on 04/17/03 at 02:52 PM Comments (6) -- Read More...

Ouida Couch

by Kathleen Bruno
April 3, 2003

A menacing polar bear stalks two 5-year-old girls, doggedly chasing them through the backyard. The polar bear�s name is King, Ouida Couch�s 85-pound white German Shepherd, and this is their favorite game. Ouida is indomitable, delighting in the frolicsome chase. I�m the cowardly candy-ass shrieking atop the picnic table. Ouida and I are cracking ourselves up as we reminisce. We sit in her Belhaven home of 10 years with her wooly-headed American Eskimo, Mogi (with whom she plays a grown-up version of �polar bear�) and Mogi�s black cat, Mustang.

by ladd on 04/04/03 at 09:56 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...

Navonda Moore

by Judy Jacobs
March 20, 2003

Sitting in McAllister�s Deli, with her hair pulled back and up, ponytail style, her elbows on the table and chin resting comfortably on her hands, Navonda Moore looks like an average teenager. She is not. After moving to Mississippi from Kankkakee, Ill., at age 8, Moore later played basketball for Hardy Junior High and Murrah High School. "I always wanted to be around basketball," she says, "but I didn�t play organized ball until I was in the 7th grade. I realized I had natural ability, and I wanted to use it." She has. At Murrah she was named All State, three-time Dandy Dozen senior forward, state tournament MVP, and as a senior, she will play in the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game March 22 in Alabama.

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Elizabeth Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson did not take art classes while enrolled at the Mississippi University for Women. Until the school featured a 20-year retrospective of her work, she did not even know where the art department was located. In fact, glass sculpture wasn�t located anywhere on her personal radar until, in 1980, she needed a job and went to work for Andy Young at the Pearl River Glass Studio, to help manage the place. �You couldn�t work in that environment without developing a vocabulary for glass,� says the auburn-haired glass artist and entrepreneur. And so, for the next 10 years, Robinson immersed herself in the world of glass, learning from Young and from Susan Ford, a local glassblower.

by ladd on 03/10/03 at 12:15 AM Comments (0) -- Read More...

Jimmy King

We sit on the concrete steps that protrude out of the grass on an empty lot near the corner of Pearl and Minerva, I on a white handkerchief that Jimmy King has put down and he on the cold concrete. I�ve known King, whom I call Mr. Jimmy, for almost 10 years. He is the proprietor of the Subway Lounge, in the basement of the abandoned Summer�s Hotel, which opened Dec. 16, 1966. He is also the elegant presence in the documentary �Last of the Mississippi Jukes,� which just debuted on the Black STARZ network.

by ladd on 02/21/03 at 12:10 AM Comments (4) -- Read More...

Sally Slavinski

Sally Slavinski, 36, slides into a chair in Hal & Mal�s 30 minutes before we open. She apologizes for being late, explaining that she just ran 11 miles in training for the Mardi Gras half-marathon on Feb. 16. Dressed in a gray Berkeley zip-up sweatshirt over gray sweatpants with a New Zealand All Blacks rugby cap over her straw-blond hair, she opens a container of strawberry Dannon yogurt and sips from an Aquafina bottled water. It would take 20 pages to list all that she�s done in her short life, starting with a childhood in Long Island, N.Y., a biology degree from Michigan State, working summers in Yellowstone, veterinary school, working with the Heifer Project in Uganda, practicing small-animal medicine in Ohio, working with the World Health Organization for three months in India, working in Martha�s Vineyard and acquiring a degree in public health from Berkeley. But what does she do now?

by ladd on 02/10/03 at 11:07 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...

JACKSONIAN: Ken Stiggers

by J. Bingo Holman
Photo by Charles A. Smith

�It�s like a box of chocolates: You never know what you�re gonna get,� quotes Ken Stiggers, 41, of the City of Jackson's Public Education Government network studio (formerly officially called Public Access, and still referred to that way casually). He runs the local studio almost singlehandedly. �I wear 87 hats,� he says with a deep Barry White-like �heh-heh-heh.� Standing in the cramped base of operations of the studio, with videos lining the white concrete walls, he wears a black turtleneck sweater, dark jeans, brown leather shoes and a bomber jacket�a slick outfit that matches his build perfectly, if not his demeanor.

by ladd on 01/26/03 at 05:54 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...

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