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So you think you’re funny, eh? You think this whole thing is hilarious, do yuz? Well, it ain’t. It ain’t one bit funny. You’re lookin’ here at the most important stuff you may ever read in your pitiful life. What’s left of it.

It’s the Best of Jackson – these here are the people, places and things that do it the best around this here town (at least, most of ’em). Some of ’em make your life worth livin’. (What’s left of it.) Some of ’em need a swift kick in the rear.

So sit back, have a cappuccino or somethin’ and – who knows – maybe you’ll learn something for once, eh?

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Great Cover!


Because Maggie Burks did such a great job mobbing up the contributor photos this week (she took most of the pictures and wrote the captions), Korey put them in a gallery so all you online readers can see them, too. I can’t decide which is the funniest, although Ronni’s “not her real name” is damn close.


What a lovely party! Thanks, JFP, for all the work you do!

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.