Jackson Jambalaya

Surprised Madison or Rankin haven’t built a theatre. Money out there for the taking with these events.

Has Chowke blamed the mold on gun shows, open carry, or white flight yet?

Good riddance. Having a potty mouth doesn't make you funny.

Too bad Brandon built an Ampitheater and no actual performance venue for these types of events and the Ballet and such….(besides City Hall Live)….

More traffic, more noise, more crime. No thanks.

Thanks Chowke you self interested incompetent grifter asshole.

“Structural issues”….yeahhhhh no. Mold isn’t structural there Arden.

Jackson: "The City with Mold"

You don’t think the fact that nobody knew who he is and tickets weren’t selling had anything to do with this cancellation, do you?

Who knews we had wheel of fortune!! That would have put the Thalia on every tv set in the world. They’ll be begging to come back once we get it shining again.

Kansas?
They'd never have to play "How far to the point of no return" again because they'd finally got there, and "Dust in the wind" would certainly be fitting

What you might not know is that there are no financial encumbrances on Thalia - Long, long since paid for and there are no property liens, assuming the mayor has not used the place as loan collateral.

Building a magnificent, suitable venue in the towns you mention, or anywhere else for that matter, would be a risky proposition at best and a likely cost-benefit failure at worse.

Engaging in such a proposition to simply thumb your nose and tell Jackson, "We told you so", would be pure damned insanity.

Gumflapper flapping again today.

I can't wait for a comment from the International Ballet Competition.

A four year rotation between:

Varna, Bulgaria
Moscow, Russia
Tokyo, Japan
... and Jackson, Mississippi ???

(I'm still wondering how JXN got the IBC in the first place).
Oh, I remember now ...

That was during the last years when Jackson was a place we were proud to call home.

A different era.

I think Dale Danks was the Mayor back then.

Kevin Hart is good enough to sell out two shows at Thalia Mira, which says to me that combining both audiences would fit just fine into the Coliseum. With all the promotional expense involved, I have to ponder what is the REAL reason why they could not move to the Coliseum like many others are doing...

"“Structural issues”….yeahhhhh no. Mold isn’t structural there Arden. "

Don't blame Arden - they don't own or maintain the facility, they just rent it for shows. The neglect of this theater is 100% due to the negligence (bordering on sabotage) of the fool elected by the bigger fools voting in Jackson.

If Lee Greenwood can't fill up a Junior College auditorium in Senatobia tonight...

“Building a magnificent, suitable venue in the towns you mention, or anywhere else for that matter, would be a risky proposition at best and a likely cost-benefit failure at worse.”

lol. This is pure 100% delusion.

Any body with a brain will tell you that actually investing in the venue improvement is an investment into money making projects. But, you know “ the rest of the story”.

We can't have nice things Jackson edition #749

CANCELED: Chowke Lumbubbles

Par for the course for Chalkline. He's too busy giving presentations in Puerto Rico about city government to actually attend to city government.

Jackson: "The City with Mold"

at September 6, 2024 at 7:45 PM. Correction, it's... The "MOLD" New City

"“Building a magnificent, suitable venue in the towns you mention, or anywhere else for that matter, would be a risky proposition at best and a likely cost-benefit failure at worse.”

lol. This is pure 100% delusion. "

Great idea. I'm glad you "100%" believe it. So, under the Ancient Doctrine known to my people as Put Up or Shut Up, I beseech YOU to put up YOUR money and build an alternative venue. I will but the first ticket to whatever you have booked to play once you are open for business.

Y'all can be thankful that Chowke can't destroy the Children's Museum. Can you imagine what it would look like if it was owned by the city?

There is no way any city in Madison or Rankin County could build a similar venue and it pay for itself. It is a losing proposition. It has to be built with consideration that taxes will supplement its operation. It’s necessary that taxes be allocated to support the venue with the return being cultural and education events for the public. It’s a quality of life thing. Citizens from the metro area would benefit , so it would be a good idea that the metro area come together to pay for it.

CANCELED: Jackson
Please turn out the lights and water on your way out.

Jackson:”The Mold New City”

Madison doesn't have a convenient airport or the accommodations and amenities that appeal to celebrities. You do not have the systems in place that are required. You don't bother to learn that details matter before you haul off and can't back off.
Our tax dollars would always have been better spent to make our capitol city the best in the country. You will never make "faux" look classic. Celebrities like to play at big venues in a city. The Coliseum would be better for these shows than wasting money on a theatre in a suburb. It'd be better for IBC too than the Prep theatre. Where are you going to house all the dancers and then get them back and forth for rehearsals easily. GEEZ people! The dancers stay at Belhaven. Their coaches have hotels and inns in Jackson nearby.
You won't get the IBC in Mississippi at all! It will go to Atlanta most likely. It's not run by redneck Mississippi politicians or dumb people. Nor are any of the entertainment organizations that support their talented people.
Please, please try to learn how something works and what the costs are and time factors are before you try to fix it or replace it!
You are determined to shoot yourselves in the foot rather than do what you always should have done, support and cooperate with the city to make it successful. Other southern cities "got it" before it was too late. But, not us. Best ask yourself why that is. Richmond, Raleigh, Atlanta, Columbia, Birmingham all figured it out and saved their cities. Their suburbs grew too . But, Mississippi refuses to learn from the success of others or is it that racism prevents us from working with well educated and financially successful people of color so that we can all prosper?

No 11:02 - you've got it exactly backwards. The racism prevalent among people of color in this town prevents them from working with successful white people "so that we can all prosper."

List of accomplishments under Chuckie
1. Water taken over by US govt
2. Police department taken over by State
3. Library system and buildings gone to hell
4. Zoo is just horrible for animals and visitors
5. Thalia Mara Hall closed uninhabitable
6. Road department maintenance had 700,000 for potholes repair and did not repair any
7. This guy and administration a joke, can anyone give me one accomplishment?

11:02, you can leave racism out of this. All the blame for Jackson’s increasingly rapid decline can be placed on the shoulders of its incompetent mayor. There’s plenty of racism around, and always has been, but for the issue at hand, it’s all Chockwe. Racism is not what caused mold to grow in TMH; the mayor’s infectious incompetence has permeated throughout Jackson’s administration and allows problems like TMH and the water crisis.

It would appear the Mayor has accomplished another one of his goals. Taking out Thalia Mara Hall also takes out a lot of money coming into Jackson/Hinds County. His daddy would be proud.

You forgot about Chokwe's Great Garbage Takeover!

“ Madison doesn't have a convenient airport or the accommodations and amenities that appeal to celebrities.”

And Jackson does? 🤣

11:02, you know nothing of how Jackson or the IBC work. A lot of well educated and very successful white people from Billy Mounger on out poured time and money into these things. They never discriminated racially. Perhaps you'd actually find out where, today, our well educated and affluent blacks are choosing to live and attend school. And neither set is much longer inclined to pour money into a graft ridden set of racist bumblers who hate whites or things that work.

In complete contrast, racist and black separatist Lumumba is part of the 60s Leftover Brigade who would rather burn their own town down than have nice things if a White dare even speak up, much less fix things. That is radical Black Marxism 101. Minneapolis, inner Atlanta, Detroit, Oakland, etc etc. Hate of Whites in action, as they genocide their own and blame Whites instead of the violent young black men who spill blood each day. Civilizational incompetence, by choice. Freedom of speech and actual democracy banned.

The Mold Ewww City. Long live Emperor Antar. If you don't agree, racist.

You are wrong. His father would have supported Thalia Mara as well as the arts.

"Madison doesn't have a convenient airport or the accommodations and amenities that appeal to celebrities. You do not have the systems in place that are required..."
That is a complete LIE. Private jets come and go from Madison, daily. The terminal is celeb-friendly, and looks like something in a Ralph Lauren Country ad. As for accommodations, even back when they were making 'A Time to Kill' there was no problem housing stars or the film crew. And there's a lot more in Madison, today. Between Madison and adjacent Ridgeland, there are more hotel rooms available, now, than would be needed - even before one considers the private luxury homes rented to VIPs.

In any event, the (something something something requiring a thirty-foot-long pylon sign just spell out the name) International Airport, is a short drive away, via interstate.

Also, you seem to have missed the fact that (either as a matter of law, or as the result of a binding resolution), the IBC HAS TO be held in Jackson. When that arrangement got cemented into place, it could not have been foreseen that America's cities would be targeted for deliberate destruction.

Oh, and Madison is an EXURB - not a suburb. It's across a county line, and is not contiguous with Jackson. Belhaven, by the way, IS a suburb, as are Woodland Hills and Fondren.

Does Millsaps College or Bellhaven College have a theatre that can be used for these type of events?