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Sweet Sangria Popnew
Sangria popsicles are a fun summer twist on a favorite beverage.
Jackson Free Press |
Kathleen M. Mitchell |
05-30-2013 |
Food+Drink
Redefining Successnew
What makes on person successful when a person of similar intelligence, experience and means is not?
Jackson Free Press |
Kathleen M. Mitchell |
05-30-2013 |
Culture
What’s the Big Deal With Monsanto?new
If you're concerned about the future of organic food and farming, the May 25th March Against Monsanto is a tangible way of expressing your concern.
Jackson Free Press |
Jim Pathfinder Ewing |
05-28-2013 |
Food+Drink
Clear Your Mind, Move Your Feetnew
Running can be a mind-clearing and eye-opening therapeutic process.
Jackson Free Press |
Neil Polen |
05-24-2013 |
Health
Short and Sweet, No Longer Obsoletenew
Whether it's coercion from record companies or an imperfectionist's stance on music crafting, bands have a tendency to blend the bad in with the good.
Jackson Free Press |
Micah Smith |
05-20-2013 |
Music
The Cruel Mysterynew
Extreme tiredness is one of the most frustrating symptoms of lupus.
Jackson Free Press |
Stephanie Carol Newell |
05-20-2013 |
Health
Summer Blockbustersnew
Although you wouldn't know it from the wild fluctuations in hot-cold flashes of rain-sunshine forecasts, the summer blockbuster movie season has officially begun.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
05-20-2013 |
Movies
Making Worldsnew
In "The Kings and Queens of Roam," author Daniel Wallace illustrates the power words have to make worlds, both in the tragic whimsy of the world his words create and in the sad, scary world one character builds for another.
Jackson Free Press |
Kathleen M. Mitchell |
05-14-2013 |
Books
My Mother, the American Dreamnew
My mother and her family left Lithuania during the last year of World War II. Small but feisty, she carried her potty as the family wound their way through the country into Poland and on to Germany until arriving in a displaced person camp, where she lived until immigrating to the United States in 1950.
Jackson Free Press |
Deirdre Danahar |
05-10-2013 |
Culture
Antibiotics in Your Organic Apple?new
When people think of organics, they think that the food they buy is free from synthetic chemicals of any kind. However, as noted in a recent article in ACRES USA magazine, organic apples and pears may be treated with antibiotics.
Jackson Free Press |
Jim Pathfinder Ewing |
05-10-2013 |
Health
The Souls of Windsornew
Ignorance is bliss for most of the ancestrally indigenous people who live and work at the doorsteps of Windsor Ruins in southwest Claiborne County near Port Gibson, Miss., because plantation life is a part of their history they would just as soon forget.
Jackson Free Press |
Brinda Willis |
05-10-2013 |
Travel
Among Olympiansnew
Ralph Boston is an iconic Mississippi Olympian.
Jackson Free Press |
Bryan Flynn |
05-06-2013 |
Sports
‘Mud’ Explores Lovenew
Matthew McConaughey gives an Oscar-worthy performance in “Mud.”
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
05-06-2013 |
Movies
Seeing Signsnew
Keeping an eye and spirit open for universal signs of life has become like taking deep breaths for me.
Jackson Free Press |
Funmi "Queen" Franklin |
05-02-2013 |
Advice
We Are Familynew
A few weeks ago the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Proposition 8, the California law banning same-sex marriage, and the Defense of Marriage Act, the law Congress passed in 1996 that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Jackson Free Press |
Eddie Outlaw |
04-26-2013 |
LGBT