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BUILDING BLOCKS Can private developers build a way out of a housing crisis? Do they want to?

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COVER STORY BUILDING BLOCKS Can private developers build a way out of a housing crisis?

Cover photo by Josh Scheuerman

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uring the early 2000’s we were breaking high temperature records right and left in Jackson, with lots of 90-degree-plus readings. Before that, 1988 set the bar for a hot July, the year of the Yellowstone fires. But it was July of 1934 that was actually hotter than them all. Unfortunately, the monthly records are missing several days of observations, too many be able to count in the averages, but many individual days still have records that stand.

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THE BUZZ Citizens coined ‘protesters’ at meeting while council hesitated on housing

BY ROBYN VINCENT @THENOMADICHEART

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ast Tuesday’s Jackson Town Council meeting yielded an unusual scene in town chambers: Donned in button up shirts and blouses, more than 40 citizens settled in chairs, on windowsills and in the aisles for a meeting to discuss residential and commercial zoning in District 2. Others stood in the corners, shifting their weight from one leg to the other, struggling to see over the crowd, which quickly spilled into the lobby.

In the midst of a historic housing crisis, perhaps no other local issue could amass a more diverse and fervent assembly on a summer eve in Jackson.

Buzz percolated around the meeting when Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance launched a Facebook event encouraging residents to show up. And while audience members held signs reading, “Housing not Hotels,” “Middle Class not Marriotts,” and “Community not Resorts,” they remained silent for the entirety of the meeting, which was not slated for public comment.

But not everyone was in support of a healthy turnout. On Facebook hours before the meeting, Teton County Planning Commissioner John Stennis admonished potential participants.

“I am disappointed that the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance has decided to boycott the Town Council meeting tonight,” Stennis said in the post. “The kind of activist tactics they use have no place in our community and do nothing to foster mutual respect or an open dialogue. Like it or not they are the minority viewpoint yet they act like they represent our interests equally. They see this as winning a ‘war’ against what? Good planning?

Thinking about our future? Diversifying our economy? … I actively encourage you not to support the Alliance and encourage them

council meeting.”

Playing a key role in mobilizing citizens to attend the meeting was JH Conservation Alliance’s executive director Craig Benjamin, who was encouraged by the robust turnout.

“There is nothing more American than constructively engaging in our civic process and speaking up for a better future,” Benjamin said. “It’s incredibly disappointing that some people who Jackson’s Town Hall swelled with citizens last Tuesday while stand to individually councilors deliberated over the subject du jour: residential and benefit from proposed commercial development. zoning changes tried to label the citizens respectfully participatzoned for commercial use that has yet to be ing in our democracy as protesters.” developed, the area at the base of Snow King However, Mayor Sara Flitner told Jackson Mountain could be rezoned for residential, Hole Daily in its July 2 issue that folks hold- Stanford explained as audience members ing signs did not play a role in the outcome. raised their signs in agreement.

“I was being asked whether the signs being “We can be bold and zone [for downtown waived were distracting or if they caused us residential],” he said. “This is what the comto change our thinking, but we have been munity is asking for and we have the opporfactoring everyone’s comments in the whole tunity to do it … we are not causing economic time,” Flitner later clarified to The Planet. hardship, we would be creating opportunity Also in attendance Tuesday was Nancy all around while nurturing the heart of our Hoffman. She has lived in the valley since community, which is Snow King.”

1978. A former planning commission board Stanford also suggested rezoning for resmember who now volunteers in the non- idential development in the areas near the profit sector, Hoffman said she has watched Brew Pub (and soon-to-be Marriott), and a dire housing situation unfold in Jackson north of Miller Park. Councilman Don Frank and is particularly concerned about the lack sided with Stanford musing how nice it would of recognition given to low income families be to live in a neighborhood near the Brew and seniors in need of housing, not just the Pub. He also noted that the future employees middle class. “I think the council was being of Marriott might enjoy living in the area, too. political,” she said. “I don’t think they realize But Councilors Bob Lenz, Hailey Morton the critical issues they are facing.” Hoffman Levinson and Flitner resisted. Flitner told said she hoped the council would have taken The Planet that instead she anticipates the aggressive housing position they began future discussions about creating housing with during the housing summit in June. in Districts 3, 4 and 5 – in East Jackson, midA hearty turnout may have helped sway town and West Jackson. some of the council’s decisions.

Stanford isn’t keen on that idea. “We’re One victory for citizens arrived at the digging a deeper hole,” he said. “The more beginning of the meeting when the council the housing problem worsens, the more we’re agreed to remove lodging as a preferred use going to have to change the character of in the TN-1 district, the downtown’s core. existing neighborhoods.”

Landowners there will only receive additionTown planners will now take the direcal density if they build housing. But as the tion they have received from town counmeeting endured into the second and then cil and revise regulations. They expect to third hour, a few unique opportunities to cre- have a revision completed in about a month. ate housing arrived when Stanford urged the Community members will then have an council to take a courageous stance. opportunity to comment on the next draft Occupying 60,000 square feet of land before council members vote. PJH Josh Metten/JH Conservation Alliance

Silently opposed

not to boycott tonight’s meeting. Keep the Lodging Overlay as proposed.”

While protesting can be an effective tool in sparking societal change, in this instance, labeling citizens as protesters or activists, as some officials and media outlets have done, is a tactic used to discourage others from getting involved, explained Dr. McGreggor Cawley, a political science professor at University of Wyoming.

“If people work through the system, then they are viewed as ‘responsible’ citizens, but if they go outside the system then they become ‘irresponsible’ citizens and should be ignored [by the mainstream],” he said.

“The battle here – by calling people protesters – is to change perception. There are people in the public who view protesters as irresponsible, as troublemakers, and so rather than treating them as people, who, at least in their minds, have legitimate complaints, protesters are relegated to this category of troublemakers who should be ignored.”

Among the meeting’s attendants was carpenter and mountain guide John Douglass, a 20-year Jackson resident. While he said he recognizes the complexity of striking a balance between housing and commercial development, Douglass disagrees with the label slapped on citizens who attended the meeting.

“The people who have been coming and speaking at the meetings who are on the opposite side of the fence – have they been considered protesters?” Douglass asked.

“Community members trying to find a way to express their opinions are not protesters.”

Councilman Jim Stanford, who made several pleas during the meeting – to no avail – for councilors to take a renegade position by rezoning for residential development in certain areas of District 2, pointed out that regardless of how they’re labeled, citizens who attend meetings wield power.

“The greatest way to have an impact on the process is to show up,” he said, “that is something I learned quickly once I got on the council. It wasn’t always apparent to me or to a lot of others … some prefer writing an original email to the council or signing a petition and that’s great, but if you want to have a voice you need to come to the chambers.”

Sam Petri, a 34-year-old East Jackson resident who works in media relations, attended the meeting to send a message to local officials. “The reason we showed up was to let it be known that we believe strongly in the housing issue,” he said. “I’m an advocate for housing in Jackson, not a protester of the

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THE BUZZ Grizzly challenge Living with the Yellowstone bear

BY JAKE NICHOLS

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he grizzly bear population in the United States is …

Fill in the blank.

Wildlife biologists say everything from rebounding to robust. Conservationists and wildlife advocates might answer: encouraging, but still threatened. Ranchers and some subdivision homeowners on the perimeter of urban-wildland interfaces might call the grizzly a nuisance at best. But it’s what politicians in Washington are prepared to say about griz numbers that will hold sway in the forests of the northern Rockies where ursus arctos horribilis has made its last stand against extirpation in the Lower 48.

Coming to America By the time Lewis and Clark encountered the Mandan’s fabled “white bear” on April 29, 1805, the grizzly had been entrenched in the West, possibly numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Unlike the black bear known in the eastern U.S., the silver-tipped grizzly was a formidable foe.

“The black bear mostly evolved in North America,” renowned bear expert David Mattson said. “It grew up in heavily forested areas where its main defense was climbing a tree. The grizzly emerged from the steppe-tundra of Eurasia where the wide-open nature of the land is probably why the grizzly is more aggressive and stands its ground. Its claws, for instance, grew and developed more for ripping things open than for climbing.”

Scientists are fairly certain the griz migrated here by walking over the Beringia land bridge connecting Siberia and North America. Their assumptions that the migration took place during the last ice age, approximately 7,000 to 13,000 years ago, were turned upside down with a recent discovery made near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Grizzly remains found there were carbon dated to roughly 32,000 years ago, meaning the bear likely made the journey over the Crodilleran and Laurentide ice sheets between 55,000 and 70,000 years ago.

When melting glaciers slammed the door shut behind them, grizzlies were left to contend with larger, now-extinct carnivores from another era. Then came Native Americans, then European settlers.

Today, we are left with pockets of survivors. The Kluane and Yukon grizzlies known as Kodiak or brown bears took refuge in the harsh Canadian terrain. Some went to the coast to feast on salmon. Their southern cousins clung to isolated pockets of the Rocky Mountain West including portions of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Biologists still debate the differences between the species – some classifying the different bruins as subspecies or clades. But Mattson said one thing is for sure: the Yellowstone grizzly is a bear all to itself. It mostly has to do with its diet.

Grizzly habitat forecast: Grisly “The first point to be made about the diet of Yellowstone grizzly is it is altogether unique for any grizzly in the world,” Mattson said. “In the past, say the mid-70s to early-2000s, grizzlies got a vast majority of their protein from white bark pine, elk and cutthroat trout. Moths came into their diet in the mid-80s. But since the early-2000s, virtually all cone-producing white bark pine have been eliminated by beetle. Cutthroat trout have been decimated by changing stream flows, rising temperatures and illegally-introduced lake trout.”

With two of the bear’s four favorite food sources nearly wiped out, the omnivore has been turning into more of

Renowned bear expert slated to visit the valley, Dr. David Mattson chummies up with a replica of his favorite species. a meat eater. Elk and moose now provide grizzlies with much-needed protein but at a price.

Bears don’t distinguish between wild meat on the hoof or domestic cattle and sheep. It’s all fair game to them. Run-ins with ranchers and hunters have become more frequent. “This turn to meat is not cost free, in fact it is a hazardous undertaking for the bears,” Mattson explained.

Combine this taste for blood with the grizzly bear’s legendary sense of smell and large swath through the forest – females range 300 square miles of territory on average; males, twice that –­ and the potential for conflict is inevitable.

Mattson has worked with ranchers on ways they can coexist with the grizzly. Early results from the Blackfoot Challenge – a study of balancing the needs of people and wildlife in Montana’s Blackfoot Watershed – have been encouraging.

“Conflicts there have dropped to essentially nil,” Mattson said. “We can live with bears even if we’ve got livestock. It’s a proven fact.”

With the estimated population closing in on 1,000 grizzlies in the U.S., some say Yellowstone has reached its carrying capacity and the bear should be delisted. Roughly 500 bears are necessary to avoid inbreeding, Mattson said, but maybe 5,000 are needed to ensure a healthy genetic diversity. And don’t get him started on the so-called “magic 1,000” plateau.

“The thousand bear estimate has been bandied about lately,” Mattson said. “I’m kind of mystified when people say we’ve got 1,000 bears as if that was a lot. That’s about the population of people in Dubois. Put that number into context.

We’ve got 400,000 cows in the counties that are in the grizzly’s ecosystem, and at least that many people.

“How would you feel if the future of the entire human race was dependent on the residents of Dubois, totally cut off and isolated from the rest of humanity, to procreate and thrive?

Most people would not feel very secure with that situation.”

A buffer of 1,000 bears is not enough, Mattson said, especially if hunting the griz is introduced. Also, the isolation of Yellowstone’s grizzly population makes the bears more susceptible to genetic mutation and environmental hardships.

Finding the right balance between healthy bear numbers and peaceful coexistence with a quarter ton of beast capable of shredding a Buick to get to lunch in the trunk is tricky and, according to Mattson, is less about charts and graphs, and more about the human condition.

“How much room there is for bears has a lot more to do with what’s going on between people’s ears more than the physical realities of things like carrying capacity of the land,” Mattson said. “Encroachment is a matter of perception.”

The grizzly population has remained stagnant or even in decline since 2008, Mattson said. Increased sightings or conflict create an “inflated perception of how many bears are out there.”

“We have grizzly spread out over 40 percent more area since 2002,” he said. “So these sightings are mainly on the periphery where there are more people.”

Bearly believable

There is so much about the grizzly bear we have yet to learn. Wildlife biologists like Mattson have mounds of data to sift through but extrapolations and assumptions fill in the gaps as far as diet, genetic makeup and migration to America.

And forget about hibernation. It’s one of the most puzzling mysteries in all the animal kingdom.

“When it comes to hibernation itself, it’s mind-boggling to me,” Mattson said. “Curling up for four to six months without taking food or water, without defecating or urinating, and then emerging in the spring with as much muscle mass and bone density as when you entered the den? And without having experienced massive kidney failure? It’s nothing short of miraculous.”

Scientists have studied the unique capabilities of hibernating bears for possible applications to the medical field and space travel. A denning bear enters a near suspended animation state. Heart rate slows from 50-beats-per-minute to eight. The bear’s body core temps remain very near normal, however, unlike hibernating squirrels and marmots. Those critters’ body temperatures plummet to below 40 degrees Fahrenheit, which is why they must awaken every few days.

Bears feed off themselves during winter hibernation. Fat tissues supply water, keeping the bear perfectly hydrated.

Muscle and organ tissues furnish the slumbering bruin with a 4,000-calorie-per-day protein diet yet, despite the inactivity, bears don’t have high cholesterol problems. They emit natural bile to fight hardening of the arteries and dissolve gallstones. Not only do bears not waste away during the months of hibernation, they effectively use their own urine to restore muscles and organs.

“There’s been lots of research in the last 15 years but the mystery is still unsolved,” Mattson said. “We still have not unlocked those fundamental mechanisms behind hibernation.”

There is anecdotal evidence in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that grizzlies are hibernating for shorter periods of time. They den late and wake early.

“Bears are not denning as long,” Mattson said. “It probably has something to do with climate change. Also, eating more meat, compared to vegetal foods, means they can get food sources later in the years and early in the spring.” PJH Dr. Mattson is the featured guest speaker at an event hosted

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BUILDING BLOCKS Can private developers build a way out of a housing crisis? Do they want to?

BY JAKE NICHOLS

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or the most part, Jackson Hole is a happy, healthy place to live. Neighbors help neighbors, the post office is still a place to catch up with old friends, and a cordial raised-finger salute remains an enduring backroad ritual between passing vehicles.

But a blight threatens the very fabric of this community. It’s a cancer gnawing away at valley values and fellowship. The growing ranks of the neoteric homeless couch surfers, campers, and those choosing to move away are whittling away at a set of Jackson Hole values that was once stuff of legend. These aren’t urban panhandlers with shopping carts and rags. This is the new homeless – accountants, architects, business owners, prominent generational family names – bought out, cast out or shut out of anywhere to call home.

Teton County Housing Authority executive director Stacy Stoker sees it every day. “The Comp Plan talks about ‘generational continuity,’” she said. “People are moving away when they can’t find homes. People with a stake in this valley. People who have lived a long time in this valley.

My own sister lost her home and has moved away.”

Bureaucratic solutions have been only marginally successful against a bizarro real estate market fueled by worldwide wealth. When the Dow is down, affordable housing mitigation appears burdensome. We need to create jobs and spur the economy, everyone says. When the market is buzzing, we are suddenly reminded of our housing crisis. We kick ourselves, why didn’t we build more rentals?

“The temperature of the community is very reactionary to what is going on,” Stoker said. “Just a couple of years ago when the economy slowed people were saying, ‘We don’t need housing’ and ‘Mitigation rates are too high.’

The climate has changed now but how long will that last?

We have to keep working methodically to keep our workforce housed.”

Greg Prugh, broker/owner of his own full service real estate firm, agrees. More housing is and will always be needed.

“We should be building affordable and deed-restricted housing in good times and bad times,” Prugh said. “Today may not be the best time to build with high land prices, high cost of construction, and yet we should be building just the same.”

BIG BROTHER A BUST

But government efforts may have reached a standstill.

A recent town meeting to discuss zoning changes in commercial districts went heavy toward lodging despite the chambers being clearly packed with sign-toting citizens demanding more housing.

Town councilman Jim Stanford has often been the lone voice on the council for reining in bureaucratic measures that allow for more commercial development without getting affordable housing in return.

“Big picture, long term, we have to take a more restrained approach to growth,” Stanford said. “The town should not be fanning the flames of commercial development and then complaining that the room is too hot, and we hold a two-day summit to figure out how to build a really expensive and complicated cooling system.”

The Housing Trust hasn’t been the same since their grandiose plans for McCabe Corner crumbled. The organization has since been dogged by accusations of too little building and too much land banking. Habitat for Humanity recently announced they don’t see a viable way to build in Teton County anymore, and the Housing Authority is undergoing a likely organizational restructuring in light of cost overruns at its latest development, The Grove.

Subsidized housing doesn’t sit well with some taxpayers no matter how dire the straits. As the cost per unit of The Grove climbed ever higher, commissioner Paul Vogelheim, who was liaison to the housing authority for

two years, said enough is enough.

“We are subsidizing some of those units to the tune of $300,000 each,” he said. “Some people say that’s not a big deal, we’ve been doing that all along. Phase II has just tapped us out for $10 million dollars for not that many units. If we are going to really get after this – and there is talk that we are going to need 280 units per year to maintain the status quo of workforce housing if we want to keep 65 percent of our workforce here – we need the private sector. It’s critical. It’s the missing piece.”

But will private developers be willing to build affordable housing, to put low- to mid-range apartments on the ground instead of swank ski-in condos? A great number haven’t bothered. It’s not financially viable, they say. The town and county exactions and mitigation rates are too prohibitive, they say. The cost of land, the cost of construction, and the availability of labor and materials when the market is boiling steers developers straight to highend projects with juicy backend promise. Erecting tenements in Jackson ghettos for dishwashers and sheetrock hangers isn’t high on their lists.

APARTMENTALIZING

Prugh is one guy who thinks he can make affordable housing pencil out. He wants to. And he’s done it before with 810 West.

“The only way we could make that work was because the town essentially gave us the land and we used that to build the buildings,” Prugh said of the 2005 development, which was highly criticized for its look and business model. “We handed back to the town what we said we would. I think we were a little short. We said we would give them a million and ended up paying them back $986,000 or something like that.”

smart guy, too. I think between the two of them they could probably figure out something. But what about the market risk? Think about 2007. We were all geniuses, and then … it was like getting shot with a gun in October of 2008. It took us four years of bleeding out. That project may take three years to run through a process.”

Halpin declined an offer to participate in this story.

Speculation from real estate developers in town is he may be angling for yet another high-end hotel or convention center. A recent offer to slice out part of his subdivision development in Alpine for affordable housing suggests he may be buttering up local officials for the news that he, too, cannot see a way to build affordable housing at North Cache.

ANSWERS?

The Grove has become a whipping boy, for all that’s wrong with public meddling in the private sector. It has shaken the confidence in the housing authority for a few county commissioners and town councilors.

“I’ve had questions about the Authority for some time,” Vogelheim said. “It hasn’t been about the board. We have some dedicated and committed members of that board who have done a great job. It’s been more of an issue of the independence of the staff at the housing authority.

It’s become a culture of unresponsiveness and not being held accountable. They have, at times, been leading their board as opposed to the board being the boss.”

Stacy Stoker took over as TCHA’s director when Christine Walker resigned one year ago. It’s mostly Walker’s mess to clean up, and she continues to work as a paid consultant on the project. As for Stoker, she hopes to head the agency into a new future that will include some restructuring. She has heard the criticism that the

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“It is a grind,” Mills said. “We get that mountain resort towns are unique. You are going to have to have a higher tolerance for pain and unknowns. You are going to have to work through that. The one good thing about Jackson is all we ask is for people to do what they say they are going to do and to have some consistency. Even if that consistency is ‘we don’t know, but we are going to try to figure it out together,’ that’s much better than telling us it’s black when it’s really white, and they pull the rug out from under you.”

The unknowns brought about by LDR and zoning revisions have put every developer in a deep freeze. Still, Mills is hopeful his company can be a part of the future of Jackson Hole.

“While it’s very difficult with the LDR situation, and it’s tough to deal with because it’s an absolute unknown, the redeeming factor has been the people we’ve dealt with,” he said. “I’m very sincere on that. The vast number of electeds – you can get a hold of them, nobody is on airs, everyone is generally trying to do what’s right and in general nobody has agendas they are trying to push.

From that standpoint it’s been pretty spectacular to work [here]. We work in a lot of other cities where we are not so lucky.”

Mills’ recently backed out of a deal to purchase the 10-acre Forest Service parcel on North Cache. He said he just couldn’t make it work at the $12 million asking price.

“We had been working on it for some time,” he said.

“We still have an interest. We learned a lot about that property. We are very respectful of any new buyers. We needed a site modification for this deal to work and at this point the seller was not willing to grant that. I’m not sure if they ever will.”

Prugh watched the USFS parcel dealings from afar.

From Jerry Johnson’s failed play to Mills’ retreat to Mike Halpin’s current interest, Prugh says the property has some special characteristics.

“That’s not an easy one,” Prugh said. “SR Mills is a smart guy. He’s run all the numbers. Mike Halpin is a

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Prugh’s taste for deed-restricted or affordable housing has soured since. After losing money on the Pine Box live/work project, and waiting endlessly for a new Comp Plan and LDR revisions to bring clarity to Jackson’s future, Prugh only now is beginning to see a scenario where he can build much-needed housing. It will require a shift in thinking bordering on what he refers to as “heresy.”

The 41-year-old says the key is getting smaller and taller: Density packed into vibrant corridors of downtown Jackson where land is impossible to find.

“We need smaller spaces all the time,” Prugh said.

“The problem with The Grove is the spaces are too large.

A two-bedroom is 1,300 square feet. We are going to build a two-bedroom unit at 811 square feet [at his latest East Jackson trailer park development]. We are going as simple as possible. When I spent two years in Japan I lived in a very small space. What we need here are not larger units.”

Prugh’s redevelopment of the trailer park at Kelly and Milward will swap seven razed trailers for 12 small apartments. He wanted to put in twice that but changing the zoning for increased density was an all-out war he barely won on a 3-2 council vote.

“We’ve built lots of things but what we are focusing on today is by-right development because we don’t want to ask permission,” Prugh said. “I don’t want to go through nine months of trying to get zoning changed. It took us seven years to change the zoning on the trailer park.

Seven years ago I didn’t have a kid. I have three now. That market risk is an important thing to us. In 18 months this market could look very, very different.”

The grind of getting a new development through town or county bureaucracy is backbreaking. SR Mills, who heads Bear Development out of Kenosha, Wisc., has worked with numerous public housing authorities putting affordable units on the ground in places like Snowmass, Colo., and Peoria, Ill. His first foray into Jackson Hole was a purchase of Painted Buffalo Inn in 2006 – a proposed four-story redevelopment project that faced every speed bump imaginable from community outrage to lawsuits.

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Authority operates too much in a vacuum.

“I can see how that might have been the case,” Stoker said. “I don’t think we’ve very open with our communication. We could have done better to keep the community and the electeds informed. I honestly don’t know why it has been the case, though. It was not something done willfully, to hide anything. Some people are just better at communicating than others.”

Prugh is even more skeptical of government being able to fix the valley’s housing shortage. He is not keen on dependence on public money and an “open checkbook.” We should have a fiduciary responsibility to make sure taxpayer dollars are used in the most efficient way possible, he said.

“The Grove is what, $11 million over budget? That’s a really big number,” Prugh said. “If I was overrun like this on a project I would be getting sued by investors. I wouldn’t be working right now. [In private development,] each project has to hit its budget or we get wiped out.

We can’t go sit on a project for three years and all of the sudden say, ‘By the way, we are $4 million over budget.’

I think what’s wrong today with the public market, with the housing authority and housing trust, they can’t lose their jobs. They may not get additional funding, or they may not get SPET tax or donors, but no one is going to go bankrupt over it.”

Prugh’s proposal – and he’s not alone – is to harness the private sector’s budget-conscious leanness and pair it with government’s ability to purchase land or upzone existing properties.

Vogelheim sees great potential in public-private partnerships.

“We keep hearing from the private sector that it’s very difficult to pencil out and be somewhat profitable with a rental complex,” Vogelheim said, “but leasing the land long-term might make it work. The Grove has served as an example of why government should not be in the development business. I think there are other ways we can approach projects for workforce housing where we could bring land to the discussion. Similar to 810 West, which I was a critic of initially but have grown to appreciate over time, if we bring the land with a 50- to 75-year lease, a developer could come in and build the improvements at their expense and then give us back a percentage of their revenues. I like that model.”

So does Prugh.

“If the town really wants to buy land why don’t they just buy two lots here, four lots there, and put that into their long-term land lease plan? Then do a [request for proposal] that Habitat and the housing authority or the housing trust can go compete for along with private developers.” Prugh asked. “The town can say, ‘We’ll buy the land and Prugh, you are going to build the building.’

And the building has got to be right because I’m going to own the building and be taking care of the leases long term. Maybe the town or the county gets a first right of refusal for every vacant unit that pops up. Remember, I can go to them with a little bit different plan because I’m not a quasi-government entity and I’m not a group looking for a hand out.”

Stanford says he is open to any idea that gets affordable housing built as soon as possible.

“It’s possible that a housing agency could use public funds to buy land for more housing to be built by a nonprofit or a private developer,” Stanford said. “I’m always open to a discussion. Bring us some ideas. We have to be careful, though, about using public dollars to subsidize developers’ profits.”

Vogelheim says the county is ready to roll with available land waiting: five lots needing a clear definition of TCHA’s new structure. He is eager to see what tools the private sector can bring to the table.

“The private sector has capital they can bring,” Vogelheim said. They are the ones that have the financial leverage and capabilities. People like SR Mills; there are folks out there who are in this business, with tax-deferred credit, plans and ideas. We need those folks participating with their sophistication and know-how.”

Stoker still has faith in The Grove (“We built 20 units in Phase I,” she said) but would also be open to whatever public-private partnerships would build affordable housing. “Right now we are waiting on a consultant and public input [regarding an impending joint town-county restructure] and all future plans are on hold,” she said. “All our money is going toward The Grove.”

Stanford also is supportive of public agencies that have made an impact in difficult times.

“Public subsidies play a role,” the councilman said.

“The town put up $1.65 million two years ago to buy land at Redmond and Hall streets, and the housing trust is

raising millions to build at least 20 affordable rentals. I supported that purchase. The housing authority has built several great neighborhoods around the community, from Sage Meadows to Wilson, the Village Road and Hall Street.

Where would we be without that housing? I applaud the efforts of all three housing agencies.”

THE PERPETUAL PROBLEM: HOMELESS IN JACKSON

Those opposed to change say Jackson has always been a tough place to live. Internet trolls and haters write things like: “Move, if you don’t like it.” Opinions are many, solutions, few.

“It’s always been a challenge to live here going back a hundred years,” Vogelheim said. “I had to live outside the area for 10 years until we saved enough money to afford to move in. That was back in the 1990s when things were a little more affordable. Is it the worst now than it’s ever been? Not quite yet, I don’t think. I thought 2008 was a little bit more challenging. But this summer could really exceed that.”

Stanford’s inroad to Jackson housing is typical of most without means. The 23-year resident camped, bounced from couch to couch, and finally scored a home from the housing trust. “Back then there were more rentals advertised in the paper, and a person with decent employment (and a family) usually could secure a steady rental,” he said. Rents were lower then. So yes, I think the situation has gotten worse.”

Prugh has seen the effects secondhand.

“I’ve got a guy that’s been living in one of our bedrooms for six months because he can’t find a place to live,” he said. “He’s a good friend. He’s a CPA in Jackson.

“He was living up in Curtis Canyon before that. That’s not fair to go live up there. Yet the next thing they talk about is camps?” Prugh said, in reference to the idea of a tented labor camp in downtown Jackson proposed by Stanford. “If we’re really discussing camps then fine I’m all for it. Then we should start camping first in the square. If we’re really discussing camps then we’ve fundamentally

failed. The zoning has failed and the leadership has failed because we haven’t kept up with our need.”

PACKING IT IN

The Comp Plan’s mandate to house at least 65 percent of the county’s workforce in town will mean drastic rethinking. Four stories and density options have been taboo for decades. A shift in mindset may have to take place if forecasts are true: that three “Groves” will be necessary each year for the next 10 years.

“We are not going to be able to keep up with it,” Prugh said. “So how do we at least get what we want out of it without fundamentally changing the valley? The last thing we should be doing is looking at green space and saying, ‘OK, now we are going to upzone the Porter Estate or Seherr-Toss.’ It’s not a simple conversation. But I would rather see [town] redeveloped and ‘densified’ with threeand four-story buildings before we get anywhere close to south of town. Once you take that property it will never be the same.”

If Prugh’s penchant for modern design and contempo construction has ruffled a few feathers, his solutions for future housing in Jackson will be admittedly too radical for some. For one, he’s not about to put a moratorium on commercial development, which some say will only exacerbate the valley’s housing woes.

“Why is everybody talking about how we should limit the amount of commercial space?” he asked. “We’ve got 12 people working out of a 1,200-square-foot office right here. They would move in a heartbeat but there’s no new commercial space. You can’t build any new commercial downtown. They say if we limit the amount of commercial we will limit the amount of workers. The answer is no.

We have a two percent lodging tax that we’re using to create opportunities for more people to come to Jackson.

You just built a $50 million airport but you want no new commercial downtown? That makes absolutely no sense.

“And the county can’t just say ‘moratorium.’

Moratoriums are not planning solutions. They’re not tools.

Moratorium means: ‘I was elected to make a decision and

I can’t right now so let’s not make it.’ Everyone is going to have to give something to make that happen. What it’s going to take is pain.”

Pain means packing more people into tighter spaces, he said.

“We have to think higher; more density, less landscape and parking,” Prugh said. “We have to act more urban today. That’s going to freak everybody out because they are going to say more development just means more people.”

Both Prugh and Vogelheim eagerly anticipate the town’s discussion on districts three and four, where development tools like incentivizing apartments and allowing guest houses to be rented legally are the issues of the day.

“Government does have a role in this; a necessary role in terms of leadership,” Vogelheim said. “How do we help facilitate solutions from the private sector? We’ve done six or seven studies on this. We have looked at this long enough. We need to have a more action-oriented, forward-thinking group that can advise town and county on this challenging topic.”

Mills is one developer who says he is ready and able to put rentals and subsidized housing on the ground in Teton County.

“From an affordable housing side, we are still very eager to work to try and come up with a solution whether it’s in conjunction with the housing authority or the housing trust,” he said. “I think we can have a role, bringing some of the techniques and things we do in other areas, that, while more difficult in Jackson, will still be applicable.

For instance, we’ve worked for public housing authorities who are looking to rehabilitate their existing product, taking it from some pretty tough public housing stuff to rehab it, and layer in a variety of capital sources to be able to pay for it and do the construction.”

Many of the solutions to easing the housing crunch still hinge on government decisions. Town and county planners are wrapping up district rezoning and LDRs and finalizing a Comp Plan that has lumbered with tolerance during the economic downturn, but the process seems agonizingly slow for homeless people and hungry real estate developers alike.

One town revision potentially destined for a green light is upzoning some residential areas in formerly quiet East Jackson neighborhoods. These zones would allow for

garage apartments or accessory rental units (ARUs) to be built on existing single-family lots. Stanford calls it a practical step toward adding to the rental pool. Prugh would push the envelope even more.

“Who’s building between $500,000 and $1 million dollars today?” Prugh asked. “The answer is, aside from affordable housing, nobody. What if we take single-family neighborhoods and made them into duplexes? That’s heresy. Get ready for [pushback on] that one. Or what if we gave homeownsers the ability to build accessory units by-right and let it out separately? I’m all for that.

“There are 1,100 guest houses in Teton County but you are not allowed to rent them legally today. Yet it happens every day. Maybe we should just say, fine, everybody gets a guesthouse now. Let it becomes a [homeowner’s association] issue.”

PAYING FOR IT

Former START Bus director Michael Wackerly suggested a dedicated penny tax toward transit and housing.

A few politicians became intrigued by the idea after a Housing Summit in June. Would citizens vote to tax themselves to house themselves?

Vogelheim had a warning about the proposal.

“There’s been a lot of talk about how we need to throw another penny at this,” he said. “I’m not a fan of having that conversation until we redefine things, until we can prove to the public that we have a much more efficient and accountable process for delivering workforce housing than what has been exhibited by The Grove. I don’t even want to have the discussion until things have changed and we’ve demonstrated we can be good stewards of the taxpayer dollar, because we haven’t been with The Grove.” PJH

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CREATIVE PEAKS Whimsical, candid and bright Oil and clay coalesce for Daly Projects’ new show

BY KELSEY DAYTON @KELSEY_DAYTON

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eg Daly always loves entering her gallery, Daly Projects, and seeing the contemporary work on its walls.

It’s always intriguing, thought provoking and beautiful. But lately, with the oil paintings of Katy Ann Fox and ceramic vases by Eleanor Anderson displayed, it’s been best described as joyful. “It feels very fresh and lively in the gallery,” Daly said.

The two artists display their work in an exhibition “Together or Separate” at Daly Projects. The show hangs through July 25.

An opening reception is 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday so folks can still make Mix’d Media at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Daly said.

Daly explored artist pairings for the first shows of the gallery, which opened earlier this year.

The two artists are friends and share studio space together and while they work in different media, there is something similar about their work, Daly said.

Anderson created about 50 pieces for the show. Most are vases and there are a few bowls. The work is funky, Daly said.

Anderson plays with different graphic elements like lines, squares and circles.

“Nothing is precise,” Daly explained. “It’s very meticulously made, but kind of feels whimsical and joyful.”

The work explores the line between craft and fine art.

Anderson played with throwing vases on the wheel and then adding different shaped handles and creating new patterns.

Anderson, who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Jackson about a year ago, studied printmaking at Colorado College.

“It seems like a weird leap to go to clay, but it’s a lot of the same techniques of print making,” she said. “But once it’s fired, it’s a utilitarian form. You can touch it and hold it in your hands. I love the tactile feel of clay.”

Utilitarian ceramics are a great place to explore where fine art and crafts diverge and also come together, she said. The show is designed not as a group of objects, but to be viewed together. The pieces play off each other. As do Anderson and Fox’s work.

“At first glance our work is so different,” Anderson said. “But conceptually we both have a lot of respect for our mediums.”

‘On the Way to Breakfast,’ by Katy Ann Fox.

It is playful and celebrates delight, she said.

Fox is a gregarious and energetic person, but her work has a calming quality to it.

Fox doesn’t try to capture a romanticized version of the world, but instead documents what she sees, Daly said. Instead of focusing on jagged peaks, she paints the sagebrush leading to the base of the mountains. While she uses dashes of vibrant colors, her color palette isn’t saturated. It’s like a landscape photo before adding an Instagram filter on it. Originally from Idaho, Fox knows landscapes intimately and celebrates their natural beauty.

This exhibition features urban and rural landscapes and Fox uses a lot of deeper blues in an almost impressionistic way in her new work, Daly said. It is all oil on panels and features renditions of Jackson, Nevada, San Francisco and other places.

“Katy is great at capturing the palette of any season,” Daly said. “So many artists here are inspired by the landscape because it’s so beautiful. To me, Katy’s art is more in that classical representational style, but there is something really fresh and contemporary about it. It’s her design and her palette.”

The series of paintings is a storybook of what Fox sees in the places the wind takes her, she said in a press release. She wanders the West seeking to paint the soulfulness, compassion and sincerity found in the faces and places of the region.

Both Fox and Anderson craft such wellmade art, it is a joy to take in their work, Daly said. The work is pleasing to the eye, as well as intriguing. And like the title of the show, their work can be taken in together or separate, and each piece can be viewed alone or as part of the larger show. Either way, Daly said, it’s a delight. PJH

“Together or Separate,” an exhibition of work by Katy Ann Fox and Eleanor Anderson at Daly Projects, 125 E. Pearl. Show hangs through July 25; opening reception 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday.

THIS WEEK: July 8-14, 2015

Compiled by Caroline Zieleniewski

22nd International Climber’s Festival, Lander, WY., July 8-12

The International Climbers’ Festival is a five-day rock climbing festival that brings together hundreds of people from across the country to Lander. The event includes rock climbing clinics, speakers, and plenty of fun for climbers of all ages.

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ACT Crash Course Teaches Strategy & Test Techniques 12:30pm, Teton County Library Computer Center. Free. 307733-2164 Alive@5: Tunes on Thursday 5:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Free. American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 AMK Harlow Seminar Series 5:30pm, AMK Ranch. $5.00. Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon. $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 Bear Safety 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3392 Bear Safety (Moose) 4:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393399 Campfire Program at Colter Bay 9:00pm, Colter Bay Amphitheater. Free. 307-739-3594 Chamber Music 8:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. $25.00. Dance Party Thursday with Jackson Six 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Bar. Free.

307-732-3939 Developing Effective Communications and Marketing Strategies 8:30am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. $10.00 $20.00. 307-739-1026

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Free. 307-739-3594 Guitarist Marco Soliz at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge. Free.

307-733-4647 Introductory Talk on Transcendental Meditation 7:00pm, TM Center. Free. 307690-5727 Jackson Community Blood Drive 12:30pm, Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church.

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307-739-9891 Kids Movie Afternoon: “Up” 2:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium. Free. 307-7332164 x118 Michael Israel’s Wild Wild West presented by Special Olympics Wyoming 7:00pm, Center for the Arts. $40.00. 307-733-4900 Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge.

Free. 307-201-5433 Modern Dance Class at Dancers’ Workshop 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Salsa at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 6:30pm, Jackson Hole Playhouse. $19.00 - $60.00.

307-733-6994 Solar Astronomy at Peoples Market 4:00pm, Snow King Resort. Free.

307-413-4779 Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic 8:00pm, Haydens Post. Free.

307-734-3187 Stand Up Paddle Board Lessons on the Snake River 3:30pm, Rendezvous River Sports. 307-739-9025

Tavern Trivia 7:00pm, Town Square Tavern.

Free. 307-733-3886 Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library.

Free. Teton Topics 11:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Tipi Demo 9:00am, Colter Bay amphitheater. Free. 307-739-3594 Walking Tours 10:30am, Center of Town Square.

Free. 307-733-2414 x 213 Yoga on the Lawn 5:30pm, Healthy Being Juicery.

Free. 307-200-9006 Young Naturalists 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3654 Your Park Your Legacy 1:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center flagpole. Free.

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MUSIC BOX Music on Main hosts electronicfolk sensibilities of Blitzen Trapper

BY AARON DAVIS @SCREENDOORPORCH

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he experimental, Americana indie-rock foundation of Blitzen Trapper is arguably some of the most intriguing music of the last several years. The writing is personal.

The live show is extremely tight and moody.

And the subtle use of electronic textures over folk tendencies points to only one legitimate comparison: Wilco.

They’re returning to the Tetons on Thursday to play Music on Main.

When Blitzen Trapper played the Pink Garter Theatre in 2012, they had just released “American Goldwing,” an album that took a more classic direction similar to other West Coasters like The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Grateful Dead, but also The Allman Brothers and Cat Stevens. It seemed conservative, even traditional, when compared to earlier albums like “Furr” (which ranked No. 13 on Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2008), and “Destroyer of the Void” (2010), which was full of sci-fi synths, Beatles harmonies, and country-rock twang.

But it seems the band’s blitzkrieg of acoustic and electric rock escapades through a decade-long career is coming full circle. Over the last year, they’ve managed to cover some of the best singer-songwriters in the game, and have showed a reconnection to Americana in the process. Choice picks were Ryan Adams’s “To Be Young,” Bob Dylan’s “Unbelievable” and “I Don’t Believe You,” and a song-for-song cover of Neil Young’s most famous album, 1972’s “Harvest,” which Blitzen Trapper released on vinyl as a live recording on Record Store Day, April 18. The band is preparing to release its follow-up to 2013’s “VII” in September.

“It’s a little more of a live, aggressive record,” frontman Eric Earley said. “It’s probably the truest sounding to our live show.”

Debut album from Wood Smoke Rising

Writing, arranging and recording an album in “various houses and apartments” is not glitzy, but with the tools available in this day and age quality control is not only attainable, but a worthwhile education and a microscopic view of Blitzen Trapper has drawn comparisons to Wilco for sewing together electronic and folk sound. The experience of figuring sensibilities. The band headlines Music on Main at Victor City Park Thursday. out the process on a DIY level is respectable, and the personal arrangement of “Water Rising,” as well as the seven-plus minrewards can reach its fullest potential. ute Nash jazz-grass tune “Release the Hounds,” which feaOne of Jackson’s freshest up-and-coming acts, bluegrass tures solid bowing and thumping from Sidle in an openquintet Wood Smoke Rising, has done just that. The self-ti- aired jam format with a dramatic close. The Swanson/Gabel tled, 10-track release was a team project between members co-write “Tony’s Blues” is a standout track showcasing Gabel Andy Gabel (banjo/vocals), Josh Metten (fiddle), Lucas Nash on electric harmonica, with a solid solo run via Metten, and a (mandolin), Rob Sidle (bass/vocals) and bandleader Mike chance for everyone to showcase their chops. “Wood Smoke Swanson (guitar/vocals).

Rising” is evidence of a talented band of instrumentalists Engineered by Sidle and co-mixed by Sidle and Swanson, having fun and developing a sound that brings to mind no the album of original material is split between instrumental other contemporary string band, especially when Swanson dashes and lyrical experiences via a gruff-voiced Swanson. is singing. PJH The instrumental flourishes — often arranged and led by Nash — encompass a weighty portion of the attention span, To preview album tracks, visit WoodSmokeRising.com/ also highlighted by Gabel’s prominent banjo rolls, especially Music. Beginning Friday, digital copies of the album will be on the song “Solitude.” The studio set has the push and pull on iTunes, while CDs will be available via the band’s website. feel of a live show, at times mixed with an emphasis on what Wood Smoke Rising album release party is 10 p.m., the individual players have to offer as opposed to the sum of Thursday at Town Square Tavern. $5 includes a copy of the CD. the greater whole.

Moments of that group chemistry show up in a terrific Robbie Augspurger

Get blitzed at MoM

If you’re ready for heavy-riffing, fuzzed-out slide guitars with blasting drum side-by-side with a plucking banjo, strummed acoustic guitar and soaring harmonies, check out Blitzen Trapper on Thursday. For a musical contrast, don’t miss the storytelling songs and jam grass prowess of local sextet One Ton Pig. Blitzen Trapper with One Ton Pig, 6 p.m., Thursday at Music on Main in Victor City Park. Free, all-ages.

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Free. 307-733-0450 The Greats: Bernstein & Mahler 8:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. $25.00 - $55.00. Guitarist Byron Tomingas at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge. Free.

307-733-4647 Ian McFeron 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Bar. Free.

307-732-3939 Intuitive Tarot Readings at Spirit 10:00am, Spirit. $55.00 $135.00. 307-733-3382 Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Jackson Hole Rodeo Grounds. $15.00 - $30.00. 307733-7927 Jazz Night 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch. Free. 307-733-8833 Michael Charles 8:00pm, The Mangy Moose. $5.00. 307-733-4913 Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge.

Free. 307-201-5433 Nature in a Nutshell 1:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center Courtyard. Free.

307-739-3399 Papa Chan and Johnny C Note 6:00pm, Teton Pines Country Club. Free. 307-733-1005 R Park tour 4:00pm, Rendezvous Park. Free.

307-733-3913 Self Defense and Bootcamp Fitness 5:15pm, Gym 22. $12.00 $100.00. 307-220-2667 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 6:30pm, Jackson Hole Playhouse. $19.00 - $60.00.

307-733-6994 Stargazing at R-Park 9:00pm, Rendezvous park. Free.

1-844-WYO-STAR Teton Village Art & Antique Show 10:00am, Open space by Mangy Moose. Free. 303-588-1319

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Evaluating Effectiveness 8:30am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. $10.00 $20.00. 307-739-1026 Grand Teton Kids 4:00pm, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Grand Teton National Park Weekly Trails Volunteer Day 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park. Free. 307-739-3379 Intuitive Tarot Readings at Spirit 10:00am, Spirit. $55.00 $135.00. 307-733-3382 Jackson Community Blood Drive 8:00am, Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church. Free.

307-413-4561 Jewelry Making 3:30pm, The Local Galleria. $25.00 - $80.00. 208-270-0883 Kids Summer Activity: Plaster of Paris Molds 2:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium. Free. 307-7332164 x118 Lecture with Marthe Cohn: French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany 7:00pm, The Wort Hotel. $10.00 - $15.00. 307-200-4074 Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge.

Free. 307-201-5433 Mix’d Media 7:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art. Free. 307-733-5771 Music on Main 6:00pm, Victor City Park. Free.

208-201-5356 Photography Fundamentals 6:00pm, Center for the Arts. $120.00 - $145.00. 307-733-6379 Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 6:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Public Solar Astronomy 12:45pm, Elevated Grounds Coffehouse. Free. Senior Day at Jackson Whole Grocer 7:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer.

Free. 307-733-0450 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 6:30pm, Jackson Hole Playhouse. $19.00 - $60.00.

307-733-6994 Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library.

Free. Teton Topics 11:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 ThinkWY Gatering: A Music Experience 5:30pm, Center for the Arts Lobby. Free.

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KEEPIN’ IT CLASSICAL Bravo, Brahms and Bernstein Some killer Bs dominate this week’s GTMF offerings

BY MADELAINE GERMAN @MADELAINEGERMAN

Bravo Presents: Music in Town at Diehl Gallery 5:30 p.m., Wednesday at Diehl Gallery, 155 W. Broadway. $20, $15 day-of rush

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n their concerted effort to cultivate a new audience this season, Grand Teton Music Festival is rolling out another fresh feature on this year’s programming: a series of smaller concerts hosted by Bravo!, the festival’s young patrons social club, held at intimate locations in town. This week’s concert will be hosted by Diehl Gallery, a contemporary art venue run by native New Yorker Mariam Diehl. The evening’s programming features two string quartets perfectly suited to a smaller gallery space: “Lullaby” is George Gershwin’s first serious composition written in 1919 as a student exercise assignment and Mozart’s “String Quartet No. 21 in D Major.” That piece was written in 1789 at the height of Mozart’s chamber music popularity for the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist. This evening is a perfect date night choice, easy to get to and a big bang for the buck. No need to be a Bravo member to attend. Ticket sales are limited to 50 and include a glass of wine from event sponsor Landmark Vineyards.

Chamber Music: Debussy, Brahms, Ravel 8 p.m., Thursday at Walk Festival Hall $25, $15 day-of rush Thursday’s chamber music is a journey into the eras of musical romanticism, impressionism and modernism and features the vocal talent of guest artist and Grammy

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award-winning mezzo-soprano Kelly O’Connor. The program waltzes through the different music periods via works of Franz Berwald, a Romantic Swedish composer who actually made his living as an orthopedic surgeon, Brahms, a German Romantic era composer of such influence that he’s considered to be one of musical history’s “Three Bs” (alongside Beethoven and Bach), Debussy, the name of French musical Impressionism, and the likewise Impressionist master Maurice Ravel. O’Connor sings on Brahms and the program’s historical progression concludes with “The Great Train Race,” a work of demanding virtuosity and skill for solo flute by contemporary composer and flautist Ian Clarke.

Festival Orchestra: The Greats (Leonard Bernstein and Gustav Mahler) Open Rehearsal 10 a.m., Friday at Walk Festival Hall; performances 8 p.m., Friday and 6 p.m., Saturday $10 for rehearsal; $25-$55, $15 day-of rush The Festival Orchestra concerts this weekend are built upon the timeless themes of life, love and loss. Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from Westside Story” will open for Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” (The Song Of The Earth).

Both of these works are considered to be some of, if not the greatest work by the respective composers. Bernstein released “Symphonic Dances” in 1960, three years after the smashingly successful Broadway premiere of the “West Side Story” musical, which also marked the show’s libretto/ lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s first Broadway debut. A film by the same title was made in 1961, and the tale of forbidden romance and gang violence has seared it’s way into the hearts of millions of fans. Based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the play is set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1950s and chronicles the rivalry of two teenage gangs, the Jets (from Puerto Rico) and the Sharks (who are Caucasian). Tony of the Jets falls in love with Maria, sister to the leader of the Sharks, and love, drama and tragedy ensue.

Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances” highlights some of the show’s most memorable tunes.

Austrian composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Leid von der Erde” was written in 1909 and is a heartbreakingly beautiful and vulnerable work. During the summer of 1907,

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Mozart composes the String Quartet in D Major for Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and amateur cellist.

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Gustav Mahler’s last and arguably greatest symphony “Das Leid von der Erde” (The Song Of The Earth), written just after the composer discovered he was suffering from a congential heart defect, premieres posthumously in Munich. FEATURED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

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Debussy’s “Le Petite Suite” is performed for the first time at a salon in Paris. Its simplicity is in stark contrast with Debussy’s other modernist works at the time.

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Mahler suffered three devastating personal losses. Due to political rivalries and anti-semitism, he was fired from his long-standing post of director of the Vienna Court Opera. His daughter, Maria, died from scarlet fever, and then Mahler himself was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. “With one stroke,” he wrote to his friend Bruno Walter, “I have lost everything I have gained in terms of who I thought I was, and have to learn my first steps again like a newborn.” In 1908, Hans Bethge published “Die chinesische Flöte,” a volume of ancient Chinese poetry translated into German. Mahler was so moved by the work that he chose seven of the poems to compose to music for “Das Leid.” He combined the genre of art song and symphony to create an unforgettable work for two voices and an orchestra, and unfortunately passed away before the symphony’s premiere under the direction of Bruno Walter in 1911. Guest vocalists Kelly O’Connor and Simon O’Neill will perform this weekend.

Inside The Music: Classical Meets Pop 8 p.m., Tuesday at Walk Festival Hall Free

“Inside the Music” is an informal and educational program designed to share the background information of the featured works and to encourage audience participation in a classroom-style setting. This week’s host is festival musician Craig Hauschildt, who will walk the audience through a contemporary program of innovative and distinctly original modern works by composers such as Christopher Cerrone, Caroline Shaw and Elliot Cole, whose percussion-only work “Postlude No. 8” (2012) uses such unconventional techniques as running violin bows across vibraphone bars — a truly other-worldy and transcendental sound that you’ve probably never heard before and should mark your calendar to experience. PJH

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Leonard Berstein premieres Symphonic Dances from West Side Story after the success of the 1957 Broadway show debut. FEATURED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

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French Impressionist Maurice Ravel’s completes his Violin Sonata No. 2, a piece inspired by his love of American jazz and blues. FEATURED THURSDAY

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Elliot Cole releases Postlode No. 8, an innovative work for percussion ensemble featuring techniques such as bowing on vibraphone. FEATURED TUESDAY, JULY 14th

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Twilight Talk at Gros Ventre Campground 7:30pm, Gros Ventre Campground. Free. 307-7393399 Uncle Lucius 7:00pm, Town Square Tavern. Wendy Colonna & Friends 8:00pm, Haydens Post. Free. 307-734-3187 Young Naturalists 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393654

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American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393594 Art Fair Jackson Hole 2015 10:00am, Miller Park, corner of Millward Street and Deloney Avenue.. $0.00 - $5.00. 307-733-6379 Arthur Lee Land 8:00pm, Knotty Pine. Free. Artists in the Environment 5:00pm, Grand Teton National Park. Free. 307-7393606 Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon. $24.00 - $34.00. 307733-3370 Bear Safety 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393392 bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00.

307-733-6398 Campfire Program at Colter Bay 9:00pm, Colter Bay Amphitheater. Free. 307-7393594 Create Your Own Story Hides 2:00pm, Art Fair Jackson Hole. Free. 307-733-2114 Grand Teton Kids 4:00pm, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393594 The Greats: Bernstein & Mahler 6:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. $25.00 $55.00. Ian McFeron 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Bar. Free. 307-732-3939 Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Jackson Hole Rodeo Grounds. $15.00 $30.00. 307-733-7927 Lobster Fest 1:00pm, Streetfood at the Stagecoach. $35.00.

307-200-6633 Michael Charles 8:00pm, The Mangy Moose. $5.00. 307-733-4913 Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge. Free. 307-201-5433 Mix’d Media 6:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art. Free.

307-733-5771 Nature in a Nutshell 1:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center Courtyard. Free. 307-739-3399 Oil Painting - For Adults 10:00am, The Local Galleria. Photographers in the Environment 10:00am, Grand Teton National Park. Plein Air for the Park 6:00pm, Grand Teton National Park. Pre-Symphony Buffet 4:00pm, Alpenhof Lodge. $18.00. 307-733-3242 Screen Door Porch 8:00pm, Haydens Post.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 6:30pm, Jackson Hole Playhouse. $19.00 - $60.00.

307-733-6994 Star Valley Half Marathon 7:00am, Star Valley. $55.00. Teton Topics 11:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393594 Teton Village Art & Antique Show 10:00am, Open space by Mangy Moose. Free.

303-588-1319 Thin Air Shakespeare 2015 7:30pm, Center for the Arts. Free. 307-231-2443 Writers in the Environment 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park. Free. Yoga on the Commons 10:00am, Teton Villgae Commons. Free. Your Parks Your Views Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve Center Porch.

Free. 307-739-3654 Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00.

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SUNDAY JULY 12

American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393594 Art Fair Jackson Hole 2015 10:00am, Miller Park, corner of Millward Street and Deloney Avenue.. $0.00 - $5.00. 307-733-6379 Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon. $24.00 - $34.00. 307733-3370 Bear Safety 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393392 Campfire Program at Colter Bay 9:00pm, Colter Bay Amphitheater. Free. 307-7393594 Celebrating National Parks 11:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center Auditorium. Free.

307-739-3594 Guitarist Byron Tomingas at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge. Free. 307-733-4647 Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge. Free. 307-201-5433 Nature in a Nutshell 1:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center Courtyard. Free. 307-739-3399 Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach. Free. 307-733-4407 Teton Village Art & Antique Show 10:00am, Open space by Mangy Moose. Free.

303-588-1319 Thin Air Shakespeare 2015 7:30pm, Center for the Arts. Free. 307-231-2443 Twilight Talk at Gros Ventre Campground 7:30pm, Gros Ventre Campground. Free. 307-7393399 Whole Hog Roast & Live Music 5:00pm, Q Roadhouse & Brewing Co.. Free. 307739-0700

MONDAY JULY 13

American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393594

WELL, THAT HAPPENED

Best of 2015 (so far) A smidgen of this year’s pop culture delights

BY ANDREW MUNZ @ANDREWMUNZ

W

hether you see 2015 as half empty or half full (obviously half empty, folks), there’s no denying that we have hit our midway point, and it’s time for us all to take a nice break, sit on the deck and reflect. The year is whooshing by like a Georgia license plate through a four-way stop, and so much has already transpired that you might not even realize all the cool stuff you missed. Luckily, you have your friendly neighborhood Munz at the helm to steer you in the right direction.

Best debut bearded lady: Conchita Wurst There’s a pretty good chance you’ve never heard of Conchita Wurst, and likely an even greater chance that you’ve never heard of Eurovision. For the past 59 years, Eurovision has been Europe’s most popular television program, showcasing one artist from each European country competing to be the next European pop sensation. Last year, Austrian drag performer Conchita Wurst won in a historic victory, much to the dismay of the more conservative nations. The LGBT rights activist recently put out her debut pop album “Conchita,” which is unabashedly incredible.

I urge you to Google her winning “Rise Like A Phoenix” performance, or just stream the record and shamelessly rock out to some very catchy, very European pop jams. Thank me later.

Best lesson in badassery: “Mad Max: Fury Road” I wrote about it before and I’ll write about it again, but there hasn’t been an action

You don’t know her, but you should: Euro pop sensation Conchita Wurst.

movie in years that’s as perfectly composed and masterful as George Miller’s latest installment in his “Mad Max” saga.

Everything from the desert chase scenes to the sparse, yet complex character development is proof that action movies do not need to be mindless trigger-happy remakes dripping with sauerkraut and nostalgia (lookin’ at you, “Terminator Genisys”). Do yourself a favor and Redbox this when it’s out on DVD in September.

Best reminder that YA fiction reigns supreme: “Red Queen”

Victoria Aveyard’s kickass debut young adult novel is equal parts “Divergent” and “Gladiator,” but really is a game changer when it comes to recent YA trends. Not only does it toy with some mutant powers a la “X-Men,” but it also incorporates some of the dastardly devious devices that’ll appeal to people itching for their “Game of Thrones” fix. Already a New York Times bestseller, “Red Queen” will soon be adapted into a film.

Read the book first.

Best mindless time waster: Agar.io

Working with teens at the Teton County Library makes me feel more hip than I ever was in high school, so it makes me feel good cozying up to recent trends. Sure those Minecraft kids have their own fun, but the new web-based game Agar.io is where it’s at.

The premise is simple: eat smaller circles; don’t get eaten by big circles. All it takes is one session in the game, and you’re ready to ditch all responsibilities to get on the leaderboard. There’s very little strategy involved and eating smaller players is bizarrely satisfying. Suffice it to say if you’re exiled to a desk job or looking to waste an hour, pull up Agar and you’ll be as cool as today’s 14-year-olds.

I know I left out plenty of other things, but these are ones that have stuck with me since 2015 got going. Luckily we still have a whole other half of the year to look forward to. PJH

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Artists, Writers and Photographers in the Environment 9:00pm, Grand Teton National Park. Free. Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon. $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 Bear Safety (Moose) 4:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center. Free. 307-7393399 bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Campfire Program at Colter Bay 9:00pm, Colter Bay Amphitheater. Free. 307-739-3594 Coffee with a Ranger 7:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Grand Teton Kids 4:00pm, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornans. Free. 307733-2415 Kids Ivy & Bean Book Giveaway 10:00am, Teton County Library Youth Desk. Free. Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge.

Free. 307-201-5433 National Incident Management System - An Introduction 2:00pm, Teton County Emergency Operations Center.

307-358-1920 Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 6:30pm, Jackson Hole Playhouse. $19.00 - $60.00.

307-733-6994 Story Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library. Free. 208-787-2201 Strength Circuit Class at Dancers’ Workshop 7:15am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Teton Topics 11:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Young Naturalists 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3654 Your Park Your Legacy 1:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center flagpole. Free.

307-739-3399 Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398

TUESDAY JULY 14

3rd Annual Weed Pull and Identification at Emily’s Pond 5:00pm, Emily’s Pond Trailhead.

Free. 307-739-9025 American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon. $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 Bear Safety 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3392 Bluegrass Tuesday with One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Bar. Free.

307-732-3939 Celebrating National Parks 11:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center Auditorium. Free. 307739-3594 Coffee with a Ranger 7:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Detectives of the Past 3:00pm, Mercill Archaeology Center. $5.00. 307-733-2414 Disc Golf Doubles 5:30pm, Disc Golf Course. $3.00.

614-506-7275 Excel Introduction 3:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab. Free. Grand Teton Kids 4:00pm, Colter Bay Visitor Center. Free. 307-739-3594 Guitarist Marco Soliz at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge. Free.

307-733-4647 Hip Hop at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Indian Arts and Culture 1:30pm, Colter Bay Visitor Center.

Free. 307-739-3594 Inside the Music 8:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Free, tickets required. Introduction to the Incident Command System - ICS 100 2:00pm, Teton County Emergency Operations Center.

307-358-1920 Jackson Hole Bird and Nature Club 6:00pm, Ordway Auditorium B. Free. 307-733-2164 x229 Ladies Night Oil Painting 7:00pm, The Local Galleria. $25.00 - $80.00. The Maw Band 5:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

MELT at Dancers’ Workshop 12:10pm, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge.

Free. 307-201-5433 Nature in a Nutshell 1:00pm, Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center Courtyard. Free.

307-739-3399 Open Mic Night 9:00pm, Virginian Saloon. Free.

307-739-9891 Photography Fundamentals 6:00pm, Center for the Arts. $120.00 - $145.00. 307-733-6379 Picnic in the Park 6:00pm, Powderhorn Park. Free.

3076907206 Plein Air for the Park 6:00pm, Grand Teton National Park. Free. R Park Tour 12:00pm, Rendezvous Park. Free.

307-733-3913 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 6:30pm, Jackson Hole Playhouse. $19.00 - $60.00.

307-733-6994 Summer Sing!

Center for the Arts. $15.00 $60.00. 307-774-5497 Summer Speaker Series 6:00pm, Old Wilson Schoolhouse. Free. 307-733-9417 Toddler Time 10:05a, 10:35am, and 11:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium. Free. 307-733-2164 x 118 Town Pump Bouldering Series 6:00pm, Teton Boulder Park. $10.00 - $25.00. 307-739-9025 Uncharitable: How Restrains on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential 6:00pm, Center for the Arts. Free.

307-739-1026 Walking Tours 10:30am, Center of Town Square.

Free. 307-733-2414 x 213 Writers at the Library: What Comics Can Teach Us About Fiction Writing10:30am, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium. Free. 307733-2164 x229 Yoga on the Lawn 5:30pm, Healthy Being Juicery.

Free. 307-200-9006 Your Parks Your Views Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve Center Porch. Free. 307-7393654 Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop. $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398

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Give me shelter Get high via the gondola or tram to enjoy respite from scorching temps

BY ELIZABETH KOUTRELAKOS

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he summer feels unreasonably warm.

Part of it could be my exceedingly old age, but the warming temps seem legitimate. Extreme heat seems to swelter by the late morning. Unless coffee is downed before 7 a.m., cold brew is the only sensible option.

For this same reason, early alpine starts can help with comfort and ease in getting into the high country. But the want to sleep in can overtake my desire to get out of bed and outside at the first light. Racking up the hours in the sack has been a priority in my fading youth, but the guilt accompanied by my body roasting in the mid-morning on the valley floor has posed problems. There is a solution, however, which I found on a day I drank one too many iced coffees.

The answer to sleeping in came in the form of a big red box — the tram. The thought that I could be above 10,000 feet in a mere 12 minutes was exciting. So, off I went. The box itself was a little overwhelming. Chatty and nervous visitors pressed their faces to the glass, looking for moose and other wildlife on the way up. If you can’t handle people for one-sixth of an hour, this may not be the best excursion for you.

Before offloading the tram, the operator informed the passengers of the dangers of high elevation: be sure what you walk down you can walk up. It seemed to make sense considering she was dropping 50 people off (some of them in high heels) at the top of a mountain where the oxygen is scanty and merely wandering 20 minutes down the hill could take twice as long to get up.

What shocked me the most was that she announced paragliding flights were available if anyone opted out of walking or taking the tram back down the mountain. While I’ve never paraglided before, it seems like a pretty big commitment to fly through the air with a stranger. How many people actually take the tram up and randomly decide to choose the paragliding option down? While soaring

During her trail run, the author glimpses a paraglider floating high above Cody Peak.

through the air is probably fun, it is a decision I would likely mull over for a while and make before I got dropped off on a 10,450-foot mountain.

When the doors opened, I was greeted by a breeze 15-degrees cooler than the valley.

Psyched for life, I prepared for my run. The crisp, fresh air felt as though I was running early in the morning. There are many directions by which to run or wander at the top of the tram. Teton Village has myriad trails on the east side, while the national park and national forest have trails that lead down to Granite and Phillips canyons, and even Idaho.

Given the heat at lower elevation, my feet opted to stay in the high alpine environment and veer south toward Cody Peak. After meandering a little past Cody, I was able to soak in some terrific views of the mountains. The east side of the ridge dropped off into much loved winter lines like Once is Enough couloir. Looking down that popular line made me feel a little dizzy. It’s just so vertical. I went for a while past there until I needed snacks and was ready to make my way back. I often forget that the turnaround point is only halfway, but it was a pleasant jaunt back to the top of the tram.

Looking at the ground on the way back, I noticed an assortment of tiny wildflowers. Unless one is specifically looking at the ground, these are easy to miss but a wonderful addition for entertainment in the high peaks. When I arrived back at the top, I vaguely thought about the paragliding option. The thin air was definitely having its effect on me, but some activities are best left for another day.

Another option to beat the heat is taking the free Gondola to Couloir restaurant. The ride provided one of the more scenic happy hours I have ever experienced. The Wyomato and watermelon salad was a light and delicious appetizer spruced up with a hearty addition of avocados and goat cheese. Yes, it was amazing, but the beverage options were also hard to beat. In my old age, I have learned that one can never go wrong by ordering a drink from the menu that is accompanied by huckleberries. PJH

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IMBIBE Vino on your screen-o A quartet of worthy movies for wine-themed film viewings

BY TED SCHEFFLER @CRITIC1

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ho knows what any given coming weekend will hold, weather-wise?

Thanks to rain and scorching temps, I’ve found myself inside catching up on a lot of TV series and films that I’d previously neglected.

If you’re in the same hot, soggy boat, I have a suggestion: “Wino Weekend.” There are a lot of really great films about wine out there—many available for streaming on various platforms—that would make for a great weekend of binging. Why, you might even want to have a glass alongside—for “research” purposes only, of course. Here are four of my favorites.

“Somm”: To be honest, I thought this was going to be a yawn. After all, who really

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS wants to watch a documentary about four professional wine geeks immersed in studying for, and eventually taking, the two-day test for the prestigious master sommelier certification—a test with one of the biggest failure rates of any. And yet, I was quickly pulled in. In part, it plays like a reality TV show, and you’ll find yourself at times rooting for or against some of the candidates for acceptance into the often secretive and mysterious Court of Master Sommeliers. If there’s one word to describe the main players, it’s “obsessed.” There’s nary a waking moment when the wannabe master sommeliers aren’t studying flashcards about wine, testing one another’s knowledge and sipping—lots and lots of sipping. Along the way, I learned plenty about not only the art of being a sommelier, but also a lot more about wine that I hadn’t known, just by osmosis from taking a wine-soaked ride with these driven individuals.

“Red Obsession”: Wine experts have been speculating lately that it’s only a matter of time before a Chinese investor—given the recent rise of Chinese luxury consumption— will buy a first-growth château in Bordeaux.

There are already several wealthy Chinese investors lined up to do so, according to an article in the March 2015 issue of Wine Spectator, “Will a Chinese Investor Buy a First-Growth Château?” Narrated by Russell Crowe, “Red Obsession” is both a history

of Bordeaux wines—from Roman times, through Thomas Jefferson’s love of them—and a look at the present, where the primary markets for Bordeaux exports have shifted from the U.S. and Japan to China. It’s an eye-opener.

“Blood Into Wine”: This is a really fascinating film about rock star Maynard James Keenan (Tool, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle) and his foray into winemaking. And not just winemaking, but winemaking in Arizona, of all places. He owns Merk in Vineyards and Caduceus Cellars, southwest of Sedona.

But this isn’t just a story about a rich guy who buys a winery. It’s about a rich guy who puts his heart and soul into learning about wine and winemaking; this is much more than a hobby to Keenan. In the process, the viewer learns more about the challenges and

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techniques of making wine than in any other movie I can think of. It’s also highly entertaining, thanks to Keenan’s self-deprecating humor and sarcasm.

“A Year in Burgundy”: For the escapist, I really recommend this film. It follows seven different wine-making families in France’s Burgundy region throughout the wine seasons of a full vintage year in 2011.

There’s drama (weather), along with insight into various winemaking methods (traditional vs. modern). I’ve heard this movie called “great armchair travel,” and it surely is. It’s lush and scenic and, like the other three films mentioned here, taught me about wine without being overly pedantic. I highly recommend viewing it with a glass of great Burgundy in hand. PJH

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Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom and pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves!

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine. Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily.

7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

CONTINENTAL THE BLUE LION

A Jackson Hole favorite for 37 years.

Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m.

Early Bird Special: 20% off Entire Bill between 5:30-6:00pm. Must mention ad. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome.

160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

CAFE GENEVIEVE

Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., dinner nightly at 5 p.m., and happy hour daily 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer.

135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh. com.

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The deli that’ll rock your belly.

Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

Best ski food in the area! Korean and American style, from breakfast sandwiches, burgers, chicken tenders, Philly cheese steaks to rice bowls and noodles. Something for everyone!

Open Tuesday through Thursday, 9:30

Liberty burger features 11 different burger, including the standard liberty burger of just mustard, mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickle onion. There are six different meat selections along with our custom beef blend. Sides include skinny fries, sweet fries and onion rings. Two salads are on the menu along with two sandwiches.

Milkshakes, root beer floats, adult milkshakes, beer, wine and spirits are available. Open at 11 a.m. daily.

160 N. Cache, (307) 200-6071.

LOCAL

Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Our deck is open! Lunch Daily 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

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Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and houseinfused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner.

145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

MANGY MOOSE

Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose. com.

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Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Eleanor’s is a primo brunch spot on Sunday afternoons.

Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings. Open at 11 a.m. daily.

832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

At base of Summit Lift between the ski patrol room and the ice rink. 100 E. Snow King Ave. Order ahead (307) 200-6544, facebook.com/Kimscornercafe.

microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.

265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

Trio is located just off the town square in downtown Jackson, and is owned & operated by local chefs with a passion for good food.

Our menu features contemporary American dishes inspired by classic bistro cuisine. Daily specials feature wild game, fish and meats.

Enjoy a glass of wine at the bar in front of the wood-burning oven and watch the chefs perform in the open kitchen.

Dinner Nightly at 5:30pm Happy Hour 5:30-6:30pm at the bar

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Hot chips made fresh all day long Ten homemade salsas and sauces Margaritas that will make you happy, and service that will make you smile!

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385 W. Broadway, Jackson Authentic Mexican Cuisine (307) 733-1207 OPEN 7 DAYS 11am-10pm

Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner for over 36 years with deliciously affordable comfort food. Extensive local and regional beer list. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. features blackened trout salad, elk melt, wild west chili and vegetarian specialties.

Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. including potato-crusted trout, 16 ounce ribeye, vegan and wild game. Reservations welcome.

(307) 733-3553. sweetwaterjackson.com.

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Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square.

Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, drinks or dinner.

THE DECK IS OPEN! Lunch 11:30am Daily Dinner 5:30pm Nightly

Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m.

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INDIAN THE INDIAN

Just north of the Town Square on Cache (307) 733-2966

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The Indian is themed after a British officer’s club, The Indian serves Colonial Indian cuisine and classic cocktails. Enjoy a variety of dishes including butter chicken, lamb vindaloo and many other vegan and gluten free options. Open for dinner nightly at 5:30. Reservations.

165 N. Center St., (307) 733-4111.

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A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m.

2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

EL ABUELITO home of melvin brewing 20 craft beers on tap | food til midnight!

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar

Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

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385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

MERRY PIGLETS Order Ahead at 307.203.6544 Monday thru Friday 11:00am - 3:00pm

Voted Best Salsa! Jackson’s oldest authentic Mexican restaurant and a local favorite. Choose from over 10 unique and different salsas and sauces, Tex-Mex plates, including mesquite-grilled fajitas, wraps and fire-roasted chicken. Huge margs in 10 flavors plus “Big Pig Marg,” a 32 ounce original.

160 N. Cache, (307) 733-2966.

PIZZA FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT PIZZAS, PASTAS & MORE HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED OFFERINGS TAKE OUT AVAILABLE Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

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ARTISAN PIZZA

Blue Collar Restaurant Groups Italain style restaurant and pizza serves fresh salads, apps, Neapolitan inspired pizza and housemade classic pasta dish’s. All entrees come with soup or salad and house made garlic bread. Veggie and gluten free options available. Happy Hour in the bar Monday to Friday from 5 - 6 p.m. features $6 pizzas, 2 for 1 wine by the glass and well drinks, and $1 off all beer. Open Monday through Saturday at 11:30a.m.

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PINKY G’S

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from.

Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.

Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts.

Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m.

50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

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Do what, you say? Well, let me tell you a story. Sometime ago, far away in Africa, lived a really cute girl baboon named Bubbles. She was on the cusp of babehood and her mother was afraid that if she didn’t act soon, she’d wind up an old maid. Bubbles caught the eye of Bob, a babe magnet if there ever was one.

He had a bright blue nose and the roundest, reddest behind she’d ever seen. Talk about 50 shades of grey, this was 50 shades of red. To make a long story short, they met and fell in love, but he was no good and she wound up back home with a baby baboon and a mother who said, she’d told her so.

One of life’s greatest mysteries is what draws lovebirds together. Even germs, microbes, atoms and parasites seem to find something to date or at least divide with.

Even if I was a corpuscle, I could find true love. Cells seem to be able to do it without Tinder or Grindr.

Every spring a herd of geese congregates under my bedroom window, honking, carrying on and trying to kill each other. Since all geese look alike I have no idea how they sort things out. Eventually baby geese appear, so someone must know something. I can’t tell them apart so how do they know? Do they just guess?

A friend of mine had a boy raven named Bud. She had him for years and then one day, Bud laid an egg. Unless he was Caitlyn Jenner, he must have been a she all along. Did Bud know he was really Budena? Maybe he was as surprised as everyone else.

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Gallopin’ Grandma on a date in Hawaii. It wasn’t the worst date she’s ever had and he wasn’t bad kisser, either.

around, meeting someone would be easy, but apparently not. My friend, LaWanda, back in my hometown of Corn Cob, Iowa, has had nothing but bad luck. She went on a singles cruise and all she got was sea sickness and stomach flu. She tried speed dating, but she might as well have speed dated through the “Star Wars” bar and that probably would have been better. Someone suggested she try online dating. She tried Christian Mingle, but no Christian wanted to mingle. She tried EHarmony, but got only sour notes. She even tried JDate, but Jewish mammas don’t want their boys dating shiksas, especially her. She was thinking of listing herself on EBay, but that might be illegal and her mother is threatening to put signs along the highway.

I met my husband in college at a political meeting. One night he called up my roommate but she wasn’t home, so having no pride, I went out with him. He asked me out again, but failed to show up. And then he took some really dumb looking girl to the homecoming dance. Did I fail to get a clue?

Apparently so. Many years later he is still around and if he wants me to forgive him for being a jerk, that’s not going to happen.

After 63 years, I am still waiting for him to apologize, but that’s probably not going to happen either.

Meanwhile, I have learned that LaWanda has finally met someone. She went to the Norwegian Club to dance to her favorite polka band, The Six Fat Norske Boys, and she ran off with the tuba player. He’s fat, bald, 50 and still lives with his mother, but she is hoping for the best. That’s all anyone can do, no matter who she is. PJH

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ACROSS 01 Cap treated by an orthopedist 08 Hajji’s destination 013 Enthusiastic approval 020 Like amoeba reproduction 021 Show that had an annual “Favorite Things” segment 022 Part of a colloquial lament 023 Unflattering nickname for a boastful corporate bigwig?

025 Counterattacks 026 Coquette 027 Ruby in films 028 Mr. Mistoffelees’ creator 029 Packing 032 Clark Kent, on Krypton 034 Relatives of medians 036 Garish 037 Give a hoot 038 Two-mile-high city 040 Sign on 045 Allied gp. since 1948 046 Belief at the heart of “Miracle on 34th Street”?

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049 Tests 051 Unlock, to a bard 052 Little legume 053 Fended (off) 054 G-rated 056 Benevolent order 058 “Symphony of a Thousand” composer 059 Grammarian’s topic 061 “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” setting 063 28-Across, e.g.

065 LAX posting 067 Brilliance 068 Actor Colin’s body double?

070 Rigs on long hauls 072 Guffaw 073 Flight segment 074 California berry farm founder 075 Taj __ 076 Without vigor 079 “Birdman” actor Galifianakis 080 Licorice-flavored seed 082 Big Pharma name 083 Faline in “Bambi,” e.g.

085 Leg up 087 Dan Aykroyd’s birthplace 090 Very very 091 Momentous event in baseball history, as it turned out?

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014 Pursue 015 Old king’s slow-moving pet?

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033 Jumped out of one’s seat 034 Friend of Sydney 035 Worker welfare org.

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057 “The Metamorphosis” writer 058 Maestro Zubin 059 One-eighty 060 Scrap 062 Captain Kidd’s refusal 063 Ban 064 Hubbell teammate

066 High-speed letters 069 Like most Quechua speakers 070 Partner of Wesson 071 From Liverpool to Manchester 073 Camera letters 077 Biblical reformer 078 Smokey’s trouser material?

079 Nothing at all 081 Observe closely 082 Black and tan seller 083 Stupefaction 084 Granola grain 086 Cut out of the will 088 Send electronically, as funds 089 Sixth-day creation 092 Bounding main 093 Gives up 096 Instrument sometimes played in one’s lap 098 Make fizzy 100 Riveting icon 0102 RR station posting 0103 Actress Witherspoon 0104 __ salad 0105 Cupid 0106 Ashton’s partner 0107 They may be bruised 0108 Urgent 0110 Long-necked trumpeter 0112 Typing stat.

0113 Former green-card-issuing agcy.

0114 Claiborne of fashion 0115 Casual wear 0116 Retail posting: Abbr.

he healing power of pets has been extensively studied and written about both in rigorous academic research and in anecdotal reports. It’s exciting when research compliments, validates and even expands what we sense from our own personal experiences. Pet owners know their animals are a special part of their lives.

Here’s a small selection of specific — and often surprising— research findings on the healing power of pets: Studies from the University of California, Davis indicate that pet owners of all ages went to the doctor less often and felt more secure about themselves than people without pets.

Another study showed that the calming influence of patting a snuggly pet can be more effective at controlling high blood pressure than certain medications.

Dogs and cats are even being trained to use their superior sense of smell to sniff out cancer and to warn people with epilepsy of an impending seizure so the person can take preventive action.

Australian researchers showed that pet owners are less likely to develop heart disease than people without pets.

There is documented evidence that children who have pets demonstrate more compassion, less aggression and less stress than kids without pets in their homes.

Nursing homes in New York, Missouri and Texas reported that when plants, animals or birds were introduced into their facilities death rates dropped by 40 percent, the need for medication among the residents decreased by half, and residents experienced less depression and loneliness.

Another study at Brooklyn College found that a pet owner who suffers a heart attack lives longer when they return home than those who experience a heart attack and do not have pets.

A study done in Miami, Fla., found that when animals are present in innercity classrooms, there were significant improvements in attendance, test scores and the children’s ability to focus.

In case you had assumed that only cats, dogs and birds enhance well-being, one study involved giving residents in a nursing home one goldfish to care for and to have as their own. The same drastic reduction in depression, loneliness and the need for medication occurred with the presence of a single goldfish.

The moral of the story is not new, but it is important to practice in daily life. The opportunity to give and to receive love from all living things, large and small, adds immeasurable good to our well-being and our love contributes to their ability to thrive, as well. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant.

Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) How can you fulfill your potential as an Aries? What strategies will help you become the best Aries you can possibly be? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these riddles.

One of my Aries readers, Mickki Langston, has some stellar tips to inspire you: 1. One of your greatest assets is your relentless sense of purpose. Treasure it. Stay connected to it. Draw on it daily. 2. Love what you love with pure conviction, because there is no escaping it. 3. Other people may believe in you, but only sometimes. That’s why you should unfailingly believe in yourself. 4. It’s your duty and your destiny to continually learn more about how to be a leader.

5. Don’t be confused by other people’s confusion. 6. Your best friend is the Fool, who will guide you to laughter and humility when you need it most, which is pretty much all of the time.

enjoy yourself to the utmost, but not more than the utmost.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) While making a long trek through the desert on a camel, British author Somerset Maugham passed the time by reading Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. After finishing each page, Maugham ripped it out and cast it away.

The book weighed less and less as his journey progressed. I suggest that you consider a similar approach in the coming weeks, Taurus. As you weave your way toward your next destination, shed the accessories and attachments you don’t absolutely need. Keep lightening your load.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Between now and July 22, your password and mantra and battle cry is “serendipity.” To make sure you are clear about its meaning, meditate on these definitions: a knack for uncovering surprising benefits by accident; a talent for stumbling upon timely help or useful resources without searching for them. Got that? Now I’ll provide clues that should help you get the most out of your lucky breaks and blessed twists: 1. Be curious and receptive, not lackadaisical and entitled. 2. Expect the unexpected. Vow to thrive on surprises. 3. Your desires are more likely to come true if you are unattached to them coming true. But you should formulate those desires clearly and precisely.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “I have gathered about me people who understand how to translate fear into possibility,” writes John Keene in his story “Acrobatique.” I’d love to see you do the same, Gemini.

From an astrological perspective, now is a favorable time to put your worries and trepidations to work for you. You have an extraordinary capacity to use your doubt and dread to generate opportunities. Even if you go it alone, you can accomplish minor miracles, but why not dare to think even bigger? Team up with brave and resourceful allies who want to translate fear into possibility, too.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) When novelist John Irving begins a new book, his first task is to write the last line of the last page. Then he writes the second-to-last line. He continues to work backwards for a while until he has a clear understanding of the way his story will end. Right now, Cancerian, as you hatch your next big phase of development, I invite you to borrow Irving’s approach. Visualize in detail the blossoms that will eventually come from the seeds you’re planting. Create a vivid picture of the life you will be living when your plans have fully ripened.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Who is that can tell me who I am?” asks King Lear in the Shakespeare play named after him. It’s a painful moment.

The old boy is confused and alarmed when he speaks those words. But I’d like to borrow his question and transplant it into a very different context: your life right now. I think that you can engender inspirational results by making it an ongoing meditation. There are people in a good position to provide you with useful insights into who you are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) What’s hard but important for you to do? What are the challenging tasks you know you should undertake because they would improve your life? The coming days will be a favorable time to make headway on these labors. You will have more power than usual to move what has been nearly impossible to move. You may be surprised by your ability to change situations that have resisted and outfoxed you in the past. I’m not saying that any of this will be smooth and easy. But I bet you will be able to summon unprecedented amounts of willpower and perseverance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Franz Kafka produced three novels, a play, four short fiction collections, and many other stories. And yet some of his fellow writers thought he was uncomfortable in expressing himself. Bertolt Brecht said Kafka seemed perpetually afraid, as if he were being monitored by the cops for illicit thoughts. Milena Jesenská observed that Kafka often wrote like he was sitting naked in the midst of fully-clothed people. Your assignment in the coming weeks is to shed such limitations and inhibitions from your own creative expression. What would you need to do to free your imagination?

To get started, visualize five pleasurable scenarios in which you feel joyful, autonomous, generous, and expansive.

Go to RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes. Audio horoscopes also available by phone at 877-873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Even the most provocative meme cannot literally cause the Internet to collapse from overuse. It’s true that photos of Kim Kardashian’s oiled-up butt spawned a biblical flood of agitated responses on social media. So did the cover shot of Caitlyn Jenner in Vanity Fair and the Youtube video of a tiny hamster noshing tiny burritos and the season-five finale of the TV show Game of Thrones. But none of these starbursts unleashed so much traffic that the Web was in danger of crashing. It’s too vast and robust for that to ever happen. Or is it? I’m wondering if Virgos’ current propensities for high adventure and rollicking melodrama could generate phenomena that would actually, not just metaphorically, break the Internet. To be safe, I suggest you

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) On behalf of the Strange Angels in Charge of Uproarious Beauty and Tricky Truths, I am pleased to present you with the award for Most Catalytic Fun-Seeker and Intriguing Game-Changer of the Zodiac. What are your specific superpowers? You’re capable of transforming rot into splendor. You have a knack for discovering secrets that have been hidden. I also suspect that your presence can generate magic laughter and activate higher expectations and wake everyone up to the interesting truths they’ve been ignoring.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You have cosmic permission to lose your train of thought, forget about what was so seriously important, and be weirdly amused by interesting nonsense. If stress-addicts nag you to be more responsible, tell them that your astrologer has authorized you to ignore the pressing issues and wander off in the direction of nowhere in particular. Does that sound like a good plan? It does to me. For now, it’s your sovereign right to be a wise and innocent explorer with nothing much to do but wonder and daydream and play around.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to acquire a new title. It’s quite possible that a person in authority will confer it upon you, and that it will signify a raise in status, an increase in responsibility, or an expansion of your clout. If for some reason this upgrade doesn’t occur naturally, take matters into your own hands. Tell people to refer to you as “Your Excellency” or “Your Majesty.” Wear a name tag that says “Deputy Director of Puzzle-Solving” or “Executive Vice-President of Fanatical Balance and Insane Poise.” For once in your life, it’s OK to risk becoming a legend in your own mind. P.S. It wouldn’t be a bad time to demand a promotion—diplomatically, of course, in the Libran spirit.

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