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lululemon athletica, a yoga, running and other athletic apparel manufacturer, is opening a new location in Fondren this August inside the former Fisher Galleries (3100 N. State St.) location. Credit: Courtesy Flickr/Rufai Ajala

lululemon athletica Coming to Fondren

lululemon athletica, a yoga, running and other athletic apparel manufacturer, is opening a new location in Fondren this August inside the former Fisher Galleries (3100 N. State St.) location.

Kyla Weems, showroom manager for the new location, told the Jackson Free Press that the store is likely to be open Thursday through Saturday and stock a limited number of styles. For more information on lululemon athletica, visit the company’s website.

Ciao Bella Expands Hours

Ciao Bella (4800 Interstate 55 N., 601-362-1688), previously open only for breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday for private events, is now open for dinner and walk-ins Thursday through Saturday. Owned by Paige and Christo Burnham, who previously ran Pavoni’s in Ridgeland, Ciao Bella offers a variety of dishes from across Europe, including Greek salads and gyros, hummus, Sicilian flatbread, a variety of Italian pastas, Hungarian meatballs, bruschetta, wurst pommes frites and more. Ciao Bella also offers olives, wines and cheeses at Pavoni’s Wine Bar.

Ciao Bella is open for breakfast from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and for dinner and bar service from 4 p.m. to midnight. For more information, follow Ciao Bella on Facebook at Facebook.com/ciaobellabypavoni.

Mobile and Location-based Marketing Webinar for Small Businesses

On Wednesday, June 26, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the W20 Group, a group of entrepreneurial digital-communications companies, will present “Getting Started with Mobile and Location-based Marketing,” the final topic in the social-media webinar series. The webinar’s goal is to help small business owners learn how to engage social media-savvy customers on the go through mobile marketing.

The webinar is from 1 to 2 p.m. CT, and includes topics such as types of mobile tools and tactics, location-based services, where mobile fits in a marketing plan and more.

All webinars in the series are free but space is limited. To register, visit the SBA’s website.

Digital Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi where he studied journalism. He started his journalism career years ago at the Jackson Free Press in Mississippi’s capital city as an intern and worked his way up to web editor, a role he now holds within the Mississippi Free Press. Dustin enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. Email him at dustin@mississippifreepress.org.