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A Bit of Manhattan in Midtown
The Purple Word Book Club brings a fabulous big-city art scene to midtown.
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Mississippi Children’s Museum Hosting Artist Rick Anderson
Renowned Mississippi artist Rick Anderson will teach "Spring into Arts with Acrylic," an interactive painting class, at the Mississippi Children's Museum March 2 and March 16.
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The Finer Things in Life
From woodworking and jewelry to sculpture and painting, the Ridgeland Fine Arts Festival offers visitors a look at high-quality, handmade crafts from some of the best artists across the U.S.
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Jackson's Grand Jeté
As a ballerina, Aynsley Taylor Inglis' body is her medium. She controls and manipulates every muscle, making graceful movements, jumping, turning and spinning.
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A Quantum Leap
Johnny McPhail and Lana Turner have something in common. The six-feet-four-inch, 215-pound, longhaired, mustachioed north Mississippi farm boy-turned-actor and the Hollywood sex siren of yesteryear both got discovered in a …
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Stinker Quote of the Week: 'Backward'
The administration's mouthpiece should tone the sanctimonious rhetoric a bit.
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Business
99 Problems
The city of Greenwood and one of its major employers, Viking Range LLC, seem like a lesson in contrasts.
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City & County
Crime? There’s an App for That
Instead of fighting the fact that the overwhelming majority of Jackson's high-school students have mobile phones, Ward 6 Councilman Tony Yarber is hoping to convince young people—and all Jacksonians—to use …
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Jacksonian
Corey Davis
Most story ideas come to Corey Davis when she's bored and allows her mind to wander. One such daydream gave shape to the 16-year-old Clinton native's debut novel, targeted to …
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Editor's Note
Behind the Mask
When I don that fencing mask and jacket, I feel like I can do anything.
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‘The Whipping Man’: Anatomy of Freedom
Matthew Lopez wanted to expound on the fact that while Jewish Americans celebrated Passover the day after the Confederacy's surrender, a new exodus was happening around them.
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Rival Groups Clash in Ukraine's Crimea, 20 Injured
Fistfights broke out between pro- and anti-Russian demonstrators in Ukraine's strategic Crimea region on Wednesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered massive military exercises just across the border.
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Army Study Gives Women Taste of Combat Tasks
With roughly one in five Army positions considered combat-related, commanders are turning to science to find a unisex standard to judge which soldiers physically have the right stuff to fight …
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Tiny Houses Help Address Nation's Homeless Problem
While tiny houses have been attractive for those wanting to downsize or simplify their lives for financial or environmental reasons, there's another population benefiting from the small-dwelling movement: the homeless.
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City & County
Chokwe Lumumba, 1947-2014
The mayor's legacy is probably cemented; the vision he laid out for Jackson is in doubt.
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City & County
Condolences, Statements Rolling in on Death of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba
The reaction is swift and wide to the death of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba.
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Abortion Law Fight to Federal Appeals Court
A federal appeals court is expected to hear oral arguments in late April or early May in a lawsuit challenging a 2012 law that threatens to close Mississippi's only abortion …
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C. African Republic Orphans Walk to Safety Alone
Ibrahim Adamou's parents had just been killed in front of him. He wasn't sure whether any of his five siblings had survived the attack by Christian militiamen who opened fire …
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Rules to Limit Marketing Unhealthy Food in Schools
Even the scoreboards in high school gyms will have to advertise only healthy foods under new rules announced Tuesday by the Obama administration.
