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COVER STORY HIGH ALTITUDE SICKNESS When flying becomes crashing in Wyoming.

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think it would be safe to say that this week’s weather qualifies as Indian Summer weather. Warm days and cool nights, sunny skies, and the fall foliage still showing some nice colors. That is, the leaves that didn’t get blown away by the wind we had on Sunday morning as that cold front passed through Jackson Hole. At one point the airport weather station reported a steady wind of 35 mph with a gust to 46 mph. That is a pretty powerful leave blower right there!

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Overnight low temperatures will be dipping down below the freezing mark more often here in mid-October. The average low temperature this week is actually 23-degrees, so anything warmer than that is a bonus. Record low temperatures this week are somewhat revolting; back in mid-October 1987 we had a week of overnight lows that routinely dipped into the single digits and low teens. The bottom end of that cold snap was on October 20th with a morning low of just 3-degrees.

On the flip side, when we do get the IndianSumer weather in October, we can see temperatures pop up into the 70’s for afternoon highs. Mid-October 2003 was that way, setting new high temperature records into the mid-seventies each day between October 18th and October 23rd, six days in a row! The all-time highest temperature ever recorded though, for this week, was 79-degrees, set back on October 17th, 1945.

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GUEST OPINION Housing for Public, By Public Private development is missing the mark.

BY PETE MULDOON

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n my last piece in this space I wrote about what kind of housing we should be considering. Today I’d like to discuss who would own and operate affordable rentals in the town and county.

The free market is not going to provide affordable rentals in Jackson. We know this.

This means that if we, as a community, decide that we value having housing for our residents, we are going to have to chip in and help pay for it for those who can’t.

No one wants to pay more taxes. But we also know that people will pay more taxes if they feel they are getting value in return.

If you ask people if they’re willing to pay an extra $500 per year in taxes to pay for a public restroom with gold-plated fixtures, they’ll probably tell you to go to hell. But ask them to pay $500 per year for completely free public health care with no deductible and you’ll likely get a very different response.

So if we’re going to raise taxes to help pay for housing, we are going to need to make sure we are doing it in a cost-effective way. And I have concerns that the direction the draft Housing Action Plan is moving in is not the most cost-effective way to solve the problem.

The draft plan seems to be focusing on public-private partnerships. This isn’t necessarily bad, as that covers a lot of possibilities, but we need to be clear about the pros and cons of each. So let’s talk about them.

As noted above, the free market isn’t going to provide affordable rental housing. That means the public (us) is going to have to get involved. Here are some of the ways that might look: The public buys land and leases it to a private developer to build housing.

This is the easiest and cheapest way to go about it. Unfortunately, cheap isn’t always good, and especially not in this case. Private developers are going to want to build expensive free-market homes alongside the affordables, and each one of those homes is going to require more workers to build and maintain, which will be a step backwards. If there are rentals, we might be giving up the ability to set the rent level.

At the end of the day, we will be partnering with someone who does not have our best interests in mind. We can expect to fight the developer every step of the way, and as they are more experienced and will have better lawyers, we will often lose. The public will also have given up the opportunity to invest in housing. Instead, we’ll be handing that opportunity to a developer. And we will have given

up much of our ability to control the outcome of the project. There is no free lunch here.

This is going to cost more money. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. If the public designs and builds the housing, it will get exactly what it wants and reap the benefits.

There is a good argument to be made that managing the property is beyond the scope of the county and city. I don’t buy that argument.

I believe that with enough properties the economies of scale would be sufficient to allow the public to operate them as well, perhaps through the Housing Authority. Furthermore, any outside property manager will be tempted to cut corners and focus on making profits instead of managing the property. The public will not.

The public buys the land, builds the housing and operates it in the best interests of the community.

Now we’re making sense.

The thing about public-private partnerships is that the private partner always needs to make a profit. If not, they would be volunteering their services to the Teton County Housing Authority.

This isn’t necessarily bad. Sometimes they are performing a service that the public is just not equipped to do. It would be ludicrous to expect the housing authority to design and personally build housing, for example. They are not equipped to do that.

But what does a developer do? They envision a project, they lobby government to get it approved, they work with engineering firms, architects and construction firms to build it, and they provide funding. Are they better equipped than the public to do those things?

Let’s look at them.

• Envisioning the project The public wants affordable rentals. The developer wants to make a profit. Who do you think is going to better envision the kind of project the public wants – the public, or a developer?

• Lobbying for approval Well, the government represents the public, so there should be no need for this.

• Working with Contractors to design and build Here is where a developer’s experience is important. There is a lot of information asymmetry going on when the public negotiates with contractors. The public absolutely needs to hire outside people with the knowledge and experience to negotiate and analyze deals. This will be expensive, but it will be worth it. But we should pay money for that service, not hand over ownership of the project to a developer.

• Providing funding The public has the ability to provide funding through taxes or the issuance of bonds.

It does not need a developer to do this for us. The price is far too high. Yes, some people are just morally opposed to taxes. But when we want something, we have to pay for it. Taxes are how we do that.

If we’re really serious about providing housing and doing it in a fiscally responsible way, we need to do what any fiscally responsible person with a long-term outlook would do – buy land, build on it and reap the benefits of home ownership. PJH

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Lodge Leasing Not OK A federal report into the use of Brinkerhoff Lodge in Grand Teton National Park found that the Park Service was improperly leasing the cozy cabin to government officials on vacation. The lodge is designated for official government business only but enforcement in recent years has been lax.

Some politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, have stayed at Brinkerhoff for next to nothing in charges. Allegations of improper use of the 1947 cabin began last year when word got out that Biden bunked there while on vacation.

“From 2011 to 2014, more than 500 different people have visited the lodge,” a report by the Department of Interior said. “These visitors include state officials, friends of the prior superintendent, host speakers, foundation officials, and family and friends of official visitors.”

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Kelsey Dayton provided a nice wrap-up of the BLM’s photo contest in her latest WyoFile story. More than 40 BLM employees entered about 180 images, according to Cynthia Wertz, a public affairs officer with the BLM. Images were judged in three categories: living in Wyoming, playing in Wyoming and working in Wyoming. Sam Cox scored top honors in the playing in Wyoming category.

Last year’s flu was particularly viral. Wyoming reported 29 influenza-related deaths for the 2014-15 season. With the Centers for Disease Control predicting another nasty strain headed our way this winter, Wyoming Department of Health officials are urging residents to get their vaccines early.

Reggie McClinton, a WDH epidemiologist, told the Casper Journal not to take influenza lightly. “Sadly, we saw 29 influenza-associated deaths reported in Wyoming,” she said.

“This represents the highest number our state has seen in many, many years. We also had a high number of reported cases overall compared to usual.”

Last season’s flu shot missed the mark somewhat. The strain the vaccine targeted managed to mutate enough to cause some who received it to contract the flu anyway. Still, health officials say, a flu shot is the best method of slowing down the spread of the virus.

Walmart Dishes Out The Walmart Foundation awarded $157,500 to various Wyoming nonprofits last week.

Through the company’s Wyoming State Giving Program, Walmart leaders forked over money to four nonprofits including CLIMB Wyoming ($46,500) and the Wyoming Food for Thought Project ($26,000).

“We’re honored to partner with organizations that make a significant philanthropic impact and help Wyoming residents live better,” said Kal Patel, Walmart vice president and regional general manager.

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“We understand the situation where shutting you down causes economic hardship for a lot of people,” Commission President Randy Leinen is quoted as saying by Bob Moen of the Star-Tribune. “However, being in violation of the law per the attorney general’s opinion, I could not in good conscience allow this to continue.”

Five Wyoming military veterans are suing Houston-based KBR for improperly burning toxic waste in Iraq. The Star-Tribune reported the men are contending KBR failed to take necessary safety precautions when incinerating waste that included chemicals in burn pits.

Fox25 from Oklahoma City also aired the story on its nightly news. PJH

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State Democratic lawmakers could introduce a hate crime bill for the 2016 session. The Billings Gazette reported Rep. Jim Byrd is especially interested in seeing something on the books. The Democrat from Cheyenne sent an email to party colleagues last week asking for ideas. Wyoming is one of five states lacking a hate crime bill.

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Gone Too Soon Remembering the bright light of Billy Burke.

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eporting death is a bleak undertaking. To tell the story, reporters attempt to extricate themselves from the thorny grips of tragedy. Trudging through other people’s grief and anguish, we uncover the details that paint a grim tale for public consumption.

Oftentimes, when people die in Jackson Hole, The Planet seeks out the victims’ friends interested in paying tribute to the fallen. I tend toward this narrative because it provides readers with a raw perspective that the dry facts of a fatal accident cannot. For the writer, it is cathartic – to bring new life to death through the act of writing. And it is this type of heartfelt tribute that stirs a sincere response in each of us, acquainting us with the recently departed and allowing us to see them as people, not just cautionary tales.

But even with the tragedies I have narrated as a Jackson Hole journalist, I somehow had managed to escape reporting the untimely death of a friend, until now. As an eight-year Jackson resident, I find myself grappling with the notion that perhaps this is an improper rite of passage for members of the valley populace – to lose someone young and exuberant who was in the throes of adrenaline-tinged antics.

After learning the news of Billy (William) Burke’s fatal cliff diving accident in Lake Powell, I relinquished any notion of writing about him. Until, in the midst of my sorrow, as I stared blearily at a computer screen with a pit of sadness swelling in my stomach, I pondered his contagious vivacity and warmth. His devastatingly luminous smile. The endless determination the 10-year Jackson resident practiced on the river, in the mountains and when he hit the books. So to remember Billy the way that I, and the legion of people who cared deeply for him will, it’s important other folks know some of his wonderful qualities, too.

Billy’s insatiable appetite for adventure and lust for life meant that one day he was climbing the Grand (in one push, of course) and the next he was embarking on a road trip to see Phish, followed by a full moon kayaking caper. It meant that he blazed through nursing school while juggling jobs as a ski and kayak instructor (his adoring ski school clients were

Soaking up the rays in Lake Powell last week, Billy Burke was loved by many. He will be remembered for his unbridled warmth, compassion and a voracious zest for life. already contacting him this summer about lessons for the upcoming winter). It meant that on the way to the river, his favorite place, Billy would cram in study sessions, and that he needed little sleep, staying awake to imbibe on every ounce of excitement, which he was often the architect of. It meant that if you were new to town, Billy would immediately welcome and befriend you. But it also meant that more than one week ago, Billy decided to escape the valley’s drizzle with an impromptu trip to Lake Powell and that he would not return.

When a friend texted me Sunday morning to offer her condolences, I had yet to learn that Billy, 29, had surprised friends by attempting a gainer off a 90-foot cliff into Lake Powell on Friday and failed to reappear at the surface. Billy’s friends, including Jackson resident Scotty Dixon, sprang into action, scouring the area for him. After two members of the group dove multiple times more than 30 feet into the water and could not detect any sign of Billy, the crew called search and rescue. As of press time, Glen Canyon Recreation Area officials are still in the midst of an interagency search for his remains comprised of vessels, a dive team, remote operated vehicle specialists and law enforcement.

Perhaps the best testament to Billy’s magnetic personality is the abundance of loyal friends he kept. “Billy could make doing nothing awesome,” Dixon said. “He was just so fun to be around and refused to let anyone be down. Just the best friend anyone could have.”

During their time in Lake Powell last week, Dixon said Billy was looking forward to returning to Michigan this fall to take his registered nurse licensing exam and begin carving a path toward becoming a life coach while still instructing skiing and kayaking. “He wanted to dedicate his life to helping people,” Dixon said.

Michael LaRosa met Billy in 2003 in their hometown of Haslett, Mich., near where Bill’s mother Deb, father Bill and sister Melissa still reside. “That’s when he started dating my sister Angie, who would from then on be the love of his life,” LaRosa recalled. “I was a freshman in high school and he took to me like I was his younger brother. Bill was a world-class wrestler and coached me as I tried my hand at it.”

LaRosa watched Billy train his way to the state championship mat in wrestling.

There, “Billy always gave 110 percent, much like he does with everything in life. He’s always been patient, and willing to help others, particularly if it was a subject he was passionate about.”

When LaRosa was a sophomore in high school, Billy, a

freshman in college, introduced him to “the world of tricks.”

The two had recently discovered skiing. “We took a normal four-hour trip to Boyne Highlands in Michigan to ski, and it turned into an eight-hour drive in a whiteout snowstorm to catch some fresh snow and play in the terrain park,” LaRosa said. “That was where Bill and I both learned to do our first 360. He made sure I learned before we left that day.”

This uncompromising resolve, LaRosa said, was emblematic of Billy. “Ever since then, Bill, always with a smile on his face, and determination in his eye, has been pushing his body to enjoy what life had to offer – big ski runs, large tabletops, fast whitewater and inverted tricks.”

Regardless of the activity or venture, LaRosa says Billy would always try to improve his technique, sharing what he learned with anyone he might encounter, and that the two forged deep bonds.

“Bill is the older brother that I never had. Since becoming a part of my family’s life in 2003, he’s always been an outgoing, fun, exciting friend to be around no matter the activity.

He introduced me to the Grateful Dead, Phish, wrestling, skiing, and had coached me through my life over the past 12 years as I grew into the man he helped mold me to be.”

After graduating high school in 2004, Billy took his first trip to Jackson Hole.

“He talked about it every chance he got,” LaRosa said. Billy made the move to Jackson after obtaining an associate’s degree in photography from Lansing Community College.

For the next seven years, LaRosa found himself frequently visiting Billy, until he too made the pilgrimage out West.

There is one thing in particular that many people identified in Billy, LaRosa said. “If there was an activity he was excited about, no matter what it was, he would share it and soon afterwards it would be your favorite activity too.”

Although he didn’t climb all that often, Billy introduced LaRosa to rock climbing, and made sure LaRosa bought an inflatable kayak. “The water is his favorite spot to be,” LaRosa explained. “It is a great place for him to rest and rejuvenate as we all follow his path trying to enjoy life to the fullest extent.”

Coleman Menke met Billy in the winter of 2006. “It was the first winter in Jackson for both of us. We worked together at the Four Seasons and immediately became great friends,” Menke said. The following summer, Menke and Billy moved into the old KOA campground together with their friend, Nick Evon.

Menke says Billy “was the most genuinely nice, kindhearted, and compassionate person I’ve ever met. He loved his

waited for the buggy to be ready, the guide built a little kicker.

“Billy dropped in for the first time and styled out the first air with ease and the guide laughed in astonishment,” Reese said. “This place was magical; Billy and I could not hold back our elation as we headed up for a second attempt at the jump. Oh man, that smile.

Billy Burke’s smile was infectious to all around him, he never walked in a room without making it a better place.”

When the dune buggy arrived, Billy and Reese spent the next three hours flying up the Sand Dunes of Ica, Peru, waxing relic gear with pieces of white candles provided by the guides.

“Then we ripped down the 1,000-vertical foot dunes, enjoying the turns, high-fiving, laughing and standing in awe at that particular moment in life that we were sharing,” Reese said.

“Billy Burke is the most electric human being I have been lucky enough to cross paths with. I will never replace him. He was an adventurer, motivator, instructor and intended on helping people his entire life in the fields of nursing and life coaching. The absolute best guy anyone could ask for as a friend in this life.”

Friends of Billy’s will gather 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday at Mike Yokel Park. All are welcome. A memorial will be planned for a later date.

What Happened The search is still underway for Billy’s remains after he dove off a 90-foot cliff Friday in Lake Powell in Arizona and did not resurface. Billy was attempting a gainer, where the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward rotation, on a cliff in the Coconino County portion of Face Canyon.

Dixon was with Billy for their impromptu trip to the desert. “Billy had never been to the desert,” Dixon said. “He was always amped and ready for anything.”

Meeting up with a group of four in Salt Lake City on Oct. 3, Billy and Dixon had their eyes on slot canyons, but flash flooding stalled their plans for the week.

On Friday, Oct. 9, one day before Dixon and Billy were slated to return to Jackson, the group woke up early to go fishing. “We caught three fish and went back to camp to have breakfast,” Dixon recalled. “Then we loaded up on the boat to go water skiing and went to the canyon to take a bath.”

However, while the crew bathed, Billy had something else in mind. Dixon soon discovered Billy on top of the cliff. “He said he wanted to dive off of the rock, so we took a depth finder and learned that the water was more than 150 feet deep,” Dixon said.

The group then positioned the boat and a jet ski in preparation for Billy’s dive. However, Billy’s friends were not prepared for his decision to perform a gainer. “If any of us would have known he was going to attempt a gainer we wouldn’t have let him do it,” Dixon lamented.

Unable to make a full rotation, Billy was knocked out cold when his feet hit the water, Dixon said.

The group immediately sprang into action.

“We sent the jet ski first,” Dixon said. “We had two free divers who were a part of the crew and each dove down multiple times 30 to 35 feet looking for Billy.”

After the divers were not successful locating Billy, Dixon sent the jet skier to the nearest houseboat to contact search and rescue. Park rangers, officials from Utah State Park and Coconino Sheriff officials arrived to the scene within minutes, said Cristiana Admiral, spokesperson for Glen Canyon Recreation Area.

“It is really rugged terrain – sharp hills and valleys and where they are searching is not flat bottom. This is making the search slow and challenging,” she explained.

At such murky depths, it is not efficient to send divers because they can only spend two minutes at the bottom and must take 20 minutes to reach the surface, Admiral said.

A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has been combing the area, Admiral said. “Using the ROV out there, they have been searching methodically from the point where he entered the water.”

Searchers are using both video and sonar to capture images of the lake floor. On Monday, they completed a sweep of the area where Billy entered the water. They are now expanding recovery efforts to surrounding areas. “The focus of the search will shift to clear shallower areas that are more difficult to clear with the ROV, but safe for divers,” Admiral stated in press release Monday evening. “Divers will begin searching ledges and alcoves in the canyon wall, as well as finger ledges.

Since 1995, Admiral says the dive team has recovered all victims of drowning. “But with this recovery,” she said, “there are factors that make it a very complicated and slowgoing operation, such as rugged terrain and water depth.”

According to the Glen Canyon “fall calculator” on its website, cliff diving off a 90-foot cliff means impacting the water at almost 52 miles per hour. One of the last fatal cliff-diving accidents in Lake Powell involved a man jumping from a 70-foot cliff on Sept. 11, 2004. According to Admiral, his body was recovered at a water depth of 273 feet. PJH

Billy Burke trades the Tetons for sand dunes during a trip to Peru in November 2014.

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family so much. I remember several times over the years that he flew [back to Michigan] to take care of his mom during a time when she was sick, especially after his parents divorced, when she was alone.”

Billy possessed the same unconditional love for his friends. “He has more friends than anyone I’ve ever known,” Menke said. “He was a blast to be around on even the most mundane days – laughing, joking, making light of almost everything, and usually getting stoked for whatever was coming up next in life. There was never a boring day with Billy Boy.” Along with Billy’s irrepressible zest for life, Menke was awed by his ability to discern the good in others and his charisma. “He made everyone feel welcome around him. He would always greet you with a big hug and an even bigger smile – a smile that anyone who spent a day with him will never forget.”

When Menke married his wife Melissa in Peru last fall, Billy stood up as his best man. The South American wedding prompted more than a few Jackson folks to make an appearance, including Sam Reese, who enjoyed an unforgettable exploit with Billy during the trip.

“Our adventure truly began the day after the wedding as we headed five hours south of Lima to an oasis in the desert called Huacachina, located in the province of Ica,” Reese recalled. “The following days proved to be a true turning point in my understanding of the human being that Billy was. I had never found a traveling companion so receptive. We made decisions together with ease, and never slowed down. The first days were filled with more ‘touristy’ activities – guided dune buggy trips which included some ‘sand boarding,’ on wood planks painted white with Velcro strap bindings. Most people used these as sleds.”

But Reese and Billy, thirsty for excitement, were convinced there was more to Huacachina than just tourist activities.

And they were right.

“That evening we stumbled on the International Sand Ski School near our hostel,” Reese remembered. “After a few hours (and beers) the conversation veered toward Jackson, and what our lives entailed in the mountains that we love so much. Videos and pictures were shared, which led to them inviting us to a 5 a.m. departure (because cold sand is the best sand) for some real sand ski/boarding.”

The next morning, as Billy and Reese walked across the street, they saw the employees laboriously waxing dinosaur equipment. However, they would still have to prove themselves before the real fun ensued. After two short laps of about eight to 10 turns, the guide was pleasantly surprised. So as they

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The bold, shameless leering of David Zaitzeff is legendary around Seattle’s parks, and more so since he filed a civil complaint against the city in September challenging its anti-voyeurism law for placing a “chilling effect” on his photography of immodestly dressed women in public. Though he has never been charged with a crime, he roams freely (and apparently joyously) around short- skirted and swimsuit-clad “gals” while himself often wearing only a thong and bearing a “Free Hugs and Kisses” sign. Zaitzeff’s websites “extol” public nudity, wrote the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and explain, for example, that a woman who angles her “bod” to offer a view of “side boob” is fair game for his camera. Zaitzeff’s complaint—that the law criminalizes photography of a person’s “intimate areas” (clothed or not) without explicit permission—is distressing him.

Finer Points of the Law

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a federal lawsuit in California in September on behalf of an endangered crested black macaque that wandered up to an unattended camera on a tripod and clicked a selfie.

The camera belonged to photographer David Slater, who claimed copyright to the photo even though “Naturo” actually snapped it. The shot might be valuable to Naturo since it has become viral on the Internet. (Though the photo was taken in Indonesia, Slater’s publisher is based in California.)

Randy Richardson, 42, vying unopposed for the Riceville, Iowa, school board (having agreed to run just because he has two kids in school) failed to get any votes at all—as even he was too busy on election day (Sept. 8) to make it to the polls (nor were there any write-ins). To resolve the 0-0 result, the other board members simply appointed Richardson to the office. Riceville, near the Minnesota border, is a big-time farming community, and registered voters queried by The Des Moines Register said they just had too much fieldwork to do that day.

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Researchers recently came upon a small community (not named) in the Dominican Republic with an unusual incidence of adolescent boys having spent the first decade or so of their lives as girls because their penises and testes did not appear until puberty. A September BBC News dispatch referred to the boys as “Guevedoces” and credited the community for alerting researchers, who ultimately developed a drug to replace the culprit enzyme whose absence was causing the problem. (The full shot of testosterone that should have been delivered in the mother’s womb was not arriving until puberty.)

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The serpentine queue extended for blocks in September in Lucknow, India, after the state government of Uttar Pradesh announced 368 job openings (almost all menial)—eventually resulting in about 2.3 million applications, 200,000 from people with advanced degrees (even though the $240/month positions required only a fifth-grade education, according to an Associated Press dispatch). About 13 million young people enter India’s job market each year.

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tation)—except for the vomiting. At the “Vomit Temple,” Buddhist priests mix a concoction of 120 herbal ingredients that are nasty, according to the temple’s methamphetamine addicts interviewed for a recent Australian TV documentary. Said one, of the rehab agenda: “Vomiting is at 3 p.m. every day. Foreigners must vomit for the first five days. The vomiting is intense.”

n Jose Banks, now 40, filed a $10 million lawsuit in 2014 against the federal government because jailers at Chicago’s high-rise Metropolitan Correctional Center failed to guard him closely enough in 2012, thus enabling him to think he could escape. He and a cellmate had rappelled 17 floors with bed sheets, but Banks was re-arrested a few days later. Still, he claimed that the escape caused him great trauma, in addition to “humiliation and embarrassment” and “damage to his reputation.” (In September, the U.S. Court of Appeals turned him down.

Wrote the judges, “No one has a personal right to be better guarded.”)

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At a September convention on ethical issues involving computers, a researcher at Britain’s De Montfort University decried the development of devices that might permit human-robot sex. Though no human would be “victimized,” the researcher warned that such machines (some already in service) will exacerbate existing “power imbalances” between men and women and pave the way for more human exploitation. One critic challenged, offering that such robots would be no more demeaning to women than, say, vibrators. However, the researcher ominously warned that there may someday be robots resembling children, marketed for sex. (A September USA Today dispatch from Tokyo reported that the company SoftBank had banned sex, via its user agreement, with its new 4-foot-tall human-like robot—even though “Pepper” features nothing resembling genitalia.) n Thailand’s “Last Resort Rehab” at the Wat Thamkrabok Temple about 100 miles north of Bangkok resembles a traditional drug-detox facility (work, relaxation, medi-

Many in conservative Jewish communities still practice the tradition of Kaporos on the day of atonement, but the critics were out in force in New York City’s Borough Park neighborhood in September to protest the ritual’s slaughter there of 50,000 chickens. (A synagogue raises money by “selling” chickens to members, who then have butchers swing the chickens overhead three times, thus transferring the owners’ sins to the chickens. Ultimately, the chickens are beheaded, supposedly erasing the humans’ sins. Protesters ask why not just donate money.)

A judge refused to block the ritual but ordered police to enforce the sanitation laws governing the beheadings.

Recent Headlines From the Foreign Press

“London Zoo Monkey-Keeper and Meerkat-Keeper ‘Fought Over Llama-Keeper’” (a British human love triangle, September, The Guardian). “Man Suffering From Constipation for 10 Years Has 11-Pound Stool Removed” (Chengdu, China, August, Central European News).

“Naked Spanish Clowns Anger Palestinians” (a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Jerusalem backfired, September, YNet News). “Swedish Porn Star Jumps Into Spanish Bullfighting Ring to Comfort Dying Bull” (Malaga, Spain, September, The Local).

Readers’ Choice

1. In August, Che Hearn, 25, who police said had just shoplifted electronics items from the Walmart in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, was picked up while on foot near the store. Police found that Hearn had actually driven his car to the Walmart but that while he was inside shoplifting, a repo agent (who had followed him to the store) had confiscated it. 2. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell (the sixth man to walk on the moon) told a reporter in August that “my own experience talking to people” has made it clear that extraterrestrials are trying “to keep us from going to war” with Russia and that U.S. military officers have told him that their test missiles are “frequently” shot down “by alien spacecraft.”

Thanks This Week to Gerald Sacks, Maria Nilles, Dave Kanofsky, Robin Daley, Chuck Hamilton, and Gary Goldberg, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

High altitude

sickness When flying becomes

crashing in Wyoming.

BY JAKE NICHOLS

CRASHING P WWII bombers lost in Wyoming

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Perhaps the state’s most mysterious crash occurred during WWII. In one summer, Wyoming killed more soldiers than most Nazis ever would.

On Aug. 14, 1943, ranchers in the Shoshone National Forest area called to report a forest fire had started up near Trail Lake on the upper South Fork of Torrey Creek. When forest fighters arrived they found the smoldering wreckage of a B24 bomber. According to newspaper reports, the bodies of 11 crewmembers were badly mangled and burned to a crisp. U.S. Military personnel were called in from the airbase in Pocatello. Horses were secured from Trail Lake and CM ranches, and the mess was cleaned up.

Two months prior, a B17 had disappeared somewhere over Wyoming in late June. The last radio contact from the plane nicknamed “Scharazad” indicated it was somewhere

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lane crashes are often shrouded in mystery, especially when there are no survivors to tell the story. In days of yore – going back to the infancy of regular flight in the 1940s and 50s – planes crashed more often.

Pilots simply weren’t as good, aircraft components and instruments failed, and air support technology was not nearly as sophisticated as it is today.

Plane wrecks in remote areas of Wyoming were often not found until decades later, and then, often by chance. Even today, with modern global positioning satellites and radio communication, it might sometimes take a wayward hiker or hunter to stumble upon a skeleton belted into a crushed and rusting hulk of a cockpit.

over Powder River, Wyo., on its way to Grand Island, Neb. from Pendleton, Ore. where it was then to join a bombing campaign against the Germans. After the midnight radio communication on June 28, 1943, the plane was never heard from again.

The Army consulted with local forestry officials and it was agreed the most likely search areas included three ranges: the Wind River Mountains, Absaroka Mountains and the Bighorn Mountains. An intensive search was launched. The plane was never found. A month later, family members were notified their loved ones were missing in action and lost in Wyoming.

Then, on Aug. 12, 1945, cowboys Berl Bader and Albert Kirkpatrick spotted something shiny on an unnamed mountain ridge southeast of Lake Louise in the northern Wind River Mountains. It had taken two years for the bomber’s camouflage paint to wear off and the underlying bare aluminum to cast a glint from the sun, allowing the tail section to be seen. The men climbed up to the spot. What they found was chilling.

The B17 had pummeled its way into the mountainside less than 100 feet from clearing the ridgeline. Among the typical debris of twisted landing gear, gun turrets and the fuselage were the mummified remains of one crewmember, fully clothed and propped against a rock.

Beside him, reportedly, were an open bible and a billfold with pictures of family members taken out for viewing.

Massive forest fires in 1988 cleared the crash area significantly.

In the fall of 1989, more than four decades after the wreck, bighorn sheep hunters Jane and Scott Maller found a dog tag that had belonged to one of the crew.

The previously unnamed 12,887-ft. mountain in the Big Horns where the B24 bomber and its 11 souls came to rest was named Bomber Mountain the following year. Locals in the Wind Rivers have taken to calling what was once known as Henton Valley, Bomber

Basin, for the B17 that crashed there.

Other historic incidents Towering Elk Mountain outside of Laramie has claimed its share of wayward pilots. In 1942, an A-20 piloted by Lt. Robert F. Gleghorn slammed into the side of Elk Mountain. It was on its way to deliver aircraft parts to England.

Four years later, on Jan. 31, 1946, as war efforts were coming to an end and soldiers were being shipped back home, a DC-3 smashed into Elk Mountain in virtually the same spot as the A-20. United Airlines Flight 14 was en route from Boise to Denver when the pilot, Captain Walter Briggs, requested and received a change in flight plan as he flew over Rock Springs.

He presumably was looking for a shortcut between radio range navigational aids in Sinclair and Laramie, according to an NTSB investigation. The amended flight plan kept the cruising altitude at 11,000 feet instead of the flight plan’s original 13,000 feet. Elk Mountain is 11,152 feet. Twenty-one frozen bodies were packed out via dogsled the following week.

It was the deadliest airline crash in history at the time when United Flight 409 crashed into Medicine Bow Peak on Oct. 6, 1955. The Denverto-Salt Lake flight was assigned a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet but was off-course and attempting to pull up when it clipped the 12,005foot peak just below the summit. All 66 on board perished. The recovery mission was so challenging due to snow and wind, United eventually requested military jets bomb the mountain to bury the bodies. The cliff face was rigged with explosives the following spring and detonated.

“A short runway at high altitude presented too great a challenge to crewmembers accustomed to the flatlands of Texas.”

Clinton crash

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The highest profile incident in Jackson Hole to date

took place Aug. 17, 1996, when a Lockhead C-130, carrying President Clinton’s SUV, camping gear and nine total passengers, collided with Sheep Mountain just minutes after takeoff from the local airport. The 20-year anniversary of the crash was recently marked by locals who climbed to the spot to remove the last of the few fragments left on the belly of Sleeping Indian.

According to an exhaustive military and federal investigation, the accident was blamed on the crew’s complacency and failure to adhere to recommended takeoff procedure for a Jackson Hole departure.

Basically, they banked hard left for Washington, D.C. when they were instructed to ease out to the west and gain elevation first.

“A short runway at high altitude presented too great a challenge to crewmembers accustomed to flying in the flatlands of Texas,” stated an official Air Force report.

A transcript of the flight’s final minutes obtained

by The Planet show the pilot, Capt. Kevin N. Earnest, turned controls over to copilot Capt. Kimberly Jo Wielhouwer just minutes after “wheels up.” On the tarmac, Earnest is heard confirming with flight navigator Benjamin Hall, “All right, now if I need to turn, I need to turn right, correct? Or, excuse me, left.”

“Left turns,” Hall said. “We would like a pretty sharp left turn and a pretty rapid climb rate.”

“The climb rate we’ll have to work on; the left turn I think we can do,” Earnest responded.

Minutes later, at 10:50 p.m. local time, Earnest is recorded telling Wielhouwer she has the controls.

Wielhouwer responds with the last statement recorded by the flight’s black box: “Roger… my radar altimeter just died,” she said.

The fireball was visible as far as Wilson. Calls poured into dispatch. Sheriff Roger Millward scrambled Search and Rescue. At 10,392 feet, the site was accessible only on foot or horseback. SAR volunteer Keith Benefiel was one of the first on the scene.

“It was pretty bizarre,” Benefiel remembered. “We were still about a mile away when we started smelling the kerosene and burning flesh. Then we saw it. Pieces

NTSB safety inspector inspects wreckage of an RV-7 aircraft that crashed in GTNP in September 2013.

The site where a single-engine plane crashed in the Wind River range.

of aircraft, tires on fire, papers still fluttering down.

And bodies like I’d never seen them. It looked like they were crawling away from the wreckage. We were told later by medical personnel that the biggest muscles, in the back, will curl up like a piece of bacon, making it look like they were on all-fours trying to crawl away.”

Benefiel said he arrived about 4:30 in the morning.

It was a dark, moonless light but he thought the stars were as bright as he has ever seen them. “I remember vividly. It was the kind of night you could distinctly tell the mountain silhouettes [from the sky],” he said.

“I don’t get it. She tried to do a visual take off. She hit at an angle where you wouldn’t bounce at all. She was on full power and full tanks. There was no chance there.”

Modern day fatalities and near misses Actress Sandra Bullock, who maintains a family home in Jackson Hole, was involved in a potentially disastrous botched landing at Jackson Hole Airport in 2000. On Dec. 20, Bullock’s corporate jet, a Hawker Siddely HS-125-700 skidded off the runway and was damaged beyond repair. No one aboard was hurt.

An NTSB report said a copilot turned on the wrong runway lights, and in near whiteout ground conditions, the pilot believed the lights bordering the runway were centerline. The plane touched down 195 feet too far left of runway 18 and plowed into deep snow.

Well-known Jackson pilot Sparky Imeson cheated death more than once in his 20,000 hours of logged flight time. The expert mountain pilot authored 19 books on flying including the popular “Mountain Flying Bible.” Imeson walked away from a wreck in Montana in 2007. With four broken ribs, a broken back

and broken toe, Imeson limped out of the woods with a student pilot 18 hours after rescuers had started a frantic search for him.

Two years later, he was not so lucky. In March 2009, Imeson’s Cessna 180 was found two miles southwest of the Canyon Ferry airstrip between Bozeman and Helena. Brent Blue, a physician, and a pilot himself, said hypoxia, a condition that occurs when the body is deprived of oxygen, likely played a role in both accidents.

If Imeson’s resurrection from the 2007 crash was surprising, Jackson Hole’s Matthew Ramige and Jodee Hogg pulled off nothing short of a miracle. The two Forest Service employees were given up for dead when their crash site was found near Glacier National Park.

Authorities found nothing but melted metal and burned body parts. Meanwhile, Ramige and Hogg had opted to hike out despite being burned and broken. They were picked up by a passing motorist two days later.

Four beloved locals were killed in April when pilot John Short’s Cessna T210M ended up upside-down in a creek bed a quarter mile from the remote ranch airstrip in Idaho where the plane took off. Gusty winds were blamed. Found still belted to their seats in the cabin were AJ Linnell, Andy Tyson and Russell “Rusty” Cheney.

Other notable crashes A 2010 plane wreck in the Wind River Range resulted in a lawsuit settlement after Luke Bucklin and his three sons all perished in poor weather trying to get home to Minnesota.

“Descending rapidly,” was one of the last things Bucklin radioed before disappearing from radar on Oct. 25, 2010. Air traffic control was partially faulted for issuing improper flight clearance but most

expert testimony at the trial questioned Bucklin’s stubbornness on flying in bad weather.

Walmart heir John Walton died when he crashed his ultralight aircraft shortly after takeoff from Jackson Hole Airport in 2005. Another ultralight plane fell out of the sky in similar fashion on Sept. 11, 2013.

Russell and Carol Kamtz had mechanical problems immediately after takeoff. The plane, an RV-7, went into a nosedive and corkscrewed into the open sage south of the airport.

Champion bull rider George Paul died on his way to a rodeo in 1970. A rancher near Kemmerer discovered the wreckage on Commissary Ridge. Pilot fatigue was blamed.

Numerous locals were onboard American Airlines flight 2253 when the Boeing 757 overran the runway at Jackson Hole Airport on December 29, 2010. A video shot by a passenger clearly showed the plane’s reverse thrusters failing to deploy. While concerned with that, both the pilot and copilot didn’t notice that the jet’s speedbrakes also failed. The plane came to rest 730 feet past the end of runway 19, bogged in deep snow.

No one was injured.

Dave Rhyti crashed his glider plane into the Grand Teton on July 1, 2002. His Schreder RS-15 impacted the Grand just 200 feet below the summit. A definitive cause was never determined.

Longtime Jackson pilot Fletcher Anderson flipped his Cessna 182R into the Snake River in 2005. The plane hit a cable across the river and landed upside-down in the water. Authorities did not know why Anderson was flying so low over the river. Another plane landed in the Snake this past summer on Aug. 27. The two men aboard were unhurt after swimming from the aircraft just below the Palisades Dam near Irwin, Idaho. That plane also clipped a cable over the river.

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Nicole Ludwig has flown hundreds of missions for Teton County Search and Rescue.

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Flying

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ackson Hole Airport is a beautiful struggle. A takeoff requires nerves of steel and a whole lot of horsepower. Landing is even tougher. A short runway, surrounding mountains and treacherous crosswinds keep the high altitude airport at the top of every pilot’s “trickiest approach” list.

But it’s not merely the landing strip that presents challenges to even the most seasoned flyer. Wyoming and surrounding Rocky Mountain states are an unforgiving place to take flight. One mistake leads to another and, in a country where one mistake is sometimes all you get, gravity wins its share.

“You only get one fatal mistake in your career,” said Nicole Ludwig. The 44-year-old Swiss has flown hundreds of rescue missions, most notably for Teton County Search and Rescue where she is returning for her fifth year as SAR’s go-to helicopter ace.

Blue, who owns three aircraft including a Cessna 340 twin engine and a 1943 Stearman, says it’s usually a series of errors that gets pilots in trouble. Blue used the ill-fated flight of Luke Bucklin as an example.

“He should have never taken off in that setting,” Blue said. “His aircraft had no performance ability for that flight.

He lacked experience flying in the mountains. The weather was bad but he wanted to get home. You can’t just tempt fate like that. You pay the ultimate price.”

Bruce Landsberg, former Air Force officer recently retired as Senior Safety Advisor for AOPA, cited pilot overconfidence and inflexibility as reasons why aviators find themselves in situations they are ill equipped to deal with.

“The informal phrase in aviation circles is ‘get-thereit is,’” he said. “The Grand Tetons are spectacular as mountain ranges go. Jackson Hole Airport is a great place to visit in a light aircraft to see unparalleled vistas, towering

parapets, and the sheer grandness of the firmament.

It is also where too many general aviation pilots meet their maker prematurely. There is quite enough metal in the surrounding mountains without adding copious quantities of aluminum. If there is ever a place not to be complacent, Jackson is it.”

Altitude and terrain are the biggest challenges when flying in places like Wyoming, Landsberg said. Dozens of mountain peaks in the state loom above 10,0000 and 12,0000 feet – far above where most pilots have ever flown.

“The biggest adjustment in Wyoming is flying at much higher altitude. In Kentucky, where I did most of my flying, we took off at 500 feet and flew up to 5,000 feet. It’s a totally different world,” Blue said. “On a hot summer day in Wyoming the density altitude affects your ability to climb. Pilots who think they are going to clear a mountain quickly find out they cannot.”

Landsberg explained it this way. “There are multiple types of aircraft with different performance capabilities.

And they all perform better and more predictably at lower altitudes where air is nice and thick,” he said.

“In a naturally aspirated piston engine, as you go up, with less air, you don’t have much climb capability left after seven or eight thousand feet. A turbo engine airplane is a little better.”

Blue said he won’t fly his single-engine piston Cessna at night around Jackson Hole. He only trusts the twin-engine turbo for its horsepower.

Ludwig echoes the power point: it’s all about thrust.

“In high altitude everything reaches a certain limit quicker as to how much power is available. You are always pushing maximum horsepower limits at higher altitudes,” she said. “In the mountains, it often comes down to how big your engine is.”

Wind and snow

when they can’t see anything.

“Generally, when the ceiling is such that you can’t see where you are going, if you have a VFR pilot getting into an instrument condition you have a bad situation,” Landsberg said. “They will fly into the side of a mountain or they lose control because they can’t tell which way is up.”

Why don’t pilots just fly higher than the mountains in Wyoming? Most light aircraft flights stay under 10,000 feet because they don’t have pressurized cabins. Above that, oxygen gets scarce enough to inhibit decision-making. A pilot flying higher than 12,500 feet is required to use supplemental oxygen if he remains at that altitude for 30 minutes or more. Blue said symptoms of hypoxia – a dangerous oxygen-starved state – can set in even below 12,500 feet depending on the individual physiology and general health of a pilot.

Like flatlanders adjusting to Jackson’s high altitude, Ludwig said it takes getting used to.

“Altitude has an effect on the body,” she said. “If you are not well adjusted, it affects your decisionmaking. If you are not used to high altitude, and not as familiar with your aircraft as you should be, you make wrong decisions.”

And what happens when the shit hits the propeller?

Forced landings are more difficult in mountainous terrain. All pilots are trained to always be on the lookout for an escape route. Loss of an engine, oil leak, aileron malfunction – bad things happen in the sky.

When they do, pilots search for any flat stretch of land they can find. Golf courses, highways, open meadows all provide a makeshift landing site when bringing in a crippled bird.

“Obviously, if I’m going to have a forced landing I would much rather be in Kansas or Iowa and not in mountainous terrain like Wyoming,” Landsberg said.

“Airplanes are reasonably crashworthy if you maintain control. There are ways of crashing them that will better guarantee your chance of survival.”

Blue, who has crashed more than once, said he remembers something he once heard Bob Hoover say: Fly all the way through the accident. “Planes can land in some pretty harsh environments and do pretty well,” Blue said. “Don’t just give up. Control it as long as you can and you’ll make the crash more survivable.”

Crashing an aircraft is often a result of a decision made before a pilot straps in. Saving that flight for another day is sometimes the wisest option, but what if you draw your paycheck for deliberately flying when no one else will? The final decision to “go” or “no go” lies with rescue pilots like Ludwig. If there are lives on the line, it takes a lot to ground her.

“Being a search and rescue pilot, we have to go out when nobody else would fly. Ultimately the decision is on me. It’s a difficult call to make,” Ludwig said.

“Pilots in rescue operations always want to help but you have to weigh that with risking your life and the team’s lives. It’s happened where we’ve had to turn around and leave someone out for the night. I’ve also pushed the envelope to a degree, but I always have to be able to answer to myself: Can I bring everyone back home safely?” PJH

“If you are not well-adjusted to high altitude, it affects your decision-making.”

Trusting technology

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One last thing to keep in mind when trying to determine why pilots might find themselves overwhelmed in the Rockies is technology. During the golden age of flying, pilots flew more point-topoint flights. Navigational beacons were few and far between; weather reports, sketchy. Aviators flying at night or in low ceiling had to rely on instruments and crude maps.

Today’s cockpits are hi-tech. “We have some tremendous tools out there,” Landsberg said. A pilot has at his or her fingertips real-time weather updates, graphically enhanced GPS maps that show a flier where he is and where the mountains are, and vectorto-vector navigational aids that can virtually fly an aircraft all the way to approach.

The problem lies in overdependence on technology or, in some cases, unfamiliarity with it. In VFR vs. IFR flying, the former is visual flight rules. Most pilots feel more comfortable when they can see where they are going. At night or in poor visibility conditions aviators need to trust their instruments (instrument flight rules).

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Being underpowered is hardly a death sentence. But when things start to snowball on a pilot, and jagged mountains ranges are rising in the cockpit windshield, it’s a sickening feeling to pull up on the yoke and not have the horses.

And the weather doesn’t help, either.

“If we are looking at a relatively low-performance airplane to begin with and you add in icing from the clouds, which is not unusual, that’s going to mess up lift on the wings,” said Landsberg, adding that most smaller aircraft are not equipped to handle crystallized cloud ice that can build up on a plane even when ground temps are in the 70s. “When you take an aircraft that is already degraded in performance [because of altitude] and add in snow and ice, pretty soon you are at a point where the aircraft not only can’t climb but can’t maintain the altitude it was assigned. Then either it stalls out or hits the ground.”

NTSB records indicate that a majority of fatal crashes occur in October. Blue is not surprised.

“The worst icing times I have experienced in this area have been in the fall and spring,” Blue said. “Most icing occurs within five degrees of the freezing point.

You leave the airport when it’s 60 [degrees] and you fly through a cloud at 32 degrees, you are going to pick up icing. The old adage about icing is climbing to get out of it. Obviously, performance of the aircraft dictates how effectively you can do that.”

In addition to weather, which can change on a dime

in Wyoming, pilots have to contend with wind. Wind shear, downdrafts, ripples and crosswinds all plague aviators. Get anywhere close to the mountains and you’re dealing with a whole other animal.

A smoother updraft is the general rule for eastern slopes in western Wyoming. A prevailing jetstream out of the southwest is the typical pattern. This wind bumps into mountain ranges, blows upward to the top, and spills over into a more volatile downdraft on the western slopes.

“There’s more turbulence on the leeside, the Jackson side of the Tetons where we do most of our rescues,” Ludwig said. “It creates a ‘roller’ over the mountains that then rotates back to the [western] slope of the mountain.”

Picture it. Ludwig‘s day job is to hold a hovering aircraft as close to a craggy peak as she can while dangerous air currents work with gravity to suck her helicopter down and back into the mountain. Like other gifted aces, Ludwig has learned to “see” air.

“You learn to read air currents just like rafters look for water currents around boulders and such. As a pilot, you do something similar. You try to read the air through canyons and over mountains, and how it comes back up over rock faces,” Ludwig said. “When it’s really windy in the Jackson area I have learned sometimes the air isn’t as bad very close to the mountains. There is a sweet spot.”

Ludwig is also keenly in tune with her flying machine. When harsh elements make controls mushy, more sluggish to respond, extra time is needed for every maneuver, and a patient hand on the yoke is not something you can teach.

“You can feel what your controls are telling you. I just listen to the helicopter. It tells you what it wants to do and what it doesn’t like to do,” Ludwig said. “As a pilot, you can force an aircraft into doing something it doesn’t want to do. That’s when accidents happen.”

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CREATIVE PEAKS New Perspectives Visiting artists bring objects and organisms to life.

BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

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very day in Brooklyn, New York, Andy Ralph saw thousands of orange construction cones. They inundated the streets and tunnels. One day, Ralph spotted a tractor pulling a pallet of brand new shrink-wrapped cones that it deposited at the Lincoln tunnel.

Cones are the type of inanimate objects that intrigue Ralph.

“I love the form,” he said. “They are sleek, sexy and bright.”

And while you might laugh at his enthusiasm for their shape, you have to agree they are so common, everyone knows what a construction cone is and looks like. Ralph uses that recognition of everyday objects to help people relate to his quirky sculptures, which include spinning cones and lawn chairs propped high on twisting legs.

“There are these underlying messages and interests in my work,” he said. “But at least there is a common access point that makes it simple for someone to relate to immediately.”

Ralph and painter Cedra Wood are working in Jackson this month as part of Teton Artlab’s artist-in-residence program. They kick off the official second year of the program where artists from around the world come to Jackson and spend a month working and sharing their processes with the community.

Wood and Ralph will give a public talk Monday and host an open studio event Oct. 24, where people can see them in action.

The open studio is especially exciting, said Travis Walker, director and founder of the Artlab.

“It’s the only opportunity you have in this valley to do something and see something like this,” he said.

A jury selected Ralph and Wood from a pool of hundreds of applicants from around the world representing all art media.

Wood is a realist painter, using staged photographs with people in elaborate dresses and costumes. The New Mexico-based artist gets inspiration from organisms that survive harsh conditions in the Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. She investigates human and ecological relationships,

Andy Ralph’s inanimate objects and the hyper-realism of Cedra Wood land at the Artlab this month.

The artists give a talk Monday and an open studio Oct. 24. exploring ideas of belonging and survival in her work. She interweaves portraits of people and natural environments copying the form of better-adapted creatures to create paintings that are quirky, wistful and discomfiting.

“She’s almost a hyper-realist painter,” Walker said. “Her paintings are amazing.

They are surreal and realist at the same time.”

Ralph’s work is best described as a whimsical take on found material, Walker said.

He takes everyday items, like traffic cones or lawn chairs and adds his own twist.

“He has a good sense of humor,” Walker said.

And it shows in his work.

Ralph’s work is rooted in curiosity and joy.

“I like to make work that makes me laugh as well as makes me learn a technique,” he said.

He often looks at everyday objects and animates them in his mind. Then he sets to work figuring out how to build it.

For the cones sculpture, he had to call the manufacturer. It turns out you can’t buy industrial grade traffic cones at a local store.

The manufacturer laughed when he heard Ralph’s plan and donated 10 cones to the project, he said.

Ralph then figured out how to make the cones spin. He appropriated motors from Shogun Shiatsu kneading massagers. Once

motorized, the cones came to life and seem almost like sea urchins, he said.

The lawn chairs are physically static, but give off a pulsing sense. Some people find them inviting, while others find them a little creepy. And that’s OK, he said.

His goal is to bring these everyday objects into a different realm that is whimsical, disorienting, or even discomforting. He distorts the figure, but in a way that is technically precise.

Ralph has a background in carpentry and he’s proud of the craftsmanship that goes into recreating ordinary objects into something that looks unearthly.

He loves to tinker in his workshop. He’s driven by the investigation that goes into creating a sculpture, figuring out how to bring to life the vision he sees in his mind.

Then there is the end product.

“I just get a kick out of it,” he said.

While in Jackson, Ralph is working on surrealist images using massage boxes he’s covering in gold leaf drawings.

Ralph and Wood are working in Jackson in October. You can learn more about their work at the talk and open studio events Teton Artlab is hosting. PJH Teton Artlab visiting artists Cedra Wood and Andy Ralph; artist talk, 7 to 9 p.m., Monday, 175 N. Center St., above E.Leaven, free; open studio 6 to 9 p.m., Oct. 24, 130 S. Jackson St., free.

THIS WEEK: October 14-20 2015

Compiled by Caroline Zieleniewski

Saturday, 10am on Town Square: 37th Annual Pumpkin Sale The Rendezvous Parent-Teacher Organization is partnering with Smith’s for the annual pumpkin sale which raises money for the elementary schools.

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n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free.

307-733-6398 n Grand Teton National Park Weekly Trails Volunteer Day 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park, Free. 307-739-3379 n Water Fitness 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Intermediate/Advanced Ballet at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free. 307-733-2164 ext. 218 n Intuitive Guidance with Ellae Ellinwood 10:00am, Spirit, $100.00. 307733-3382 n Kindercreations 10:00am, Borshell Children’s Studio, $15.00 - $80.00. 307-73-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-7332164 x 118 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-7332164 n Voice for Public Speakers and Actors 10:30am, Off Square, $225.00.

307-733-3021 n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-7332164 n Cowboy Coaster at Snow King Mountain 12:00pm, Snow King Mountain Sports, $8.00 - $21.00. 307-2015096 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free. n Crystal Sound Bowl Experience with Daniela Botur 12:00pm, Intencions, Free. 307733-9290 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12:00pm, Teton Recreation

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n Ski Fitness with Whitney Wright 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $225.00. 307-733-6398 n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Nonprofit Workshop: Grand Writing 8:30am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, $10.00 - $20.00.

307-739-1026 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50. 307-739-9025 n Water Fitness 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, 307-739-9025 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free. 307-733-2164 ext. 218 n Playreading 10:00am, Off Square, $225.00.

307-733-3021 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50. 307-739-9025 n Fables, Feathers, and Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-733-5771 n Cowboy Coaster at Snow King Mountain 12:00pm, Snow King Mountain Sports, $8.00 - $21.00. 307-2015096 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Genealogy: Searching Vital Records 2:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free. 307-7332164 n Chess Club for Grades K-12 3:30pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-7332164 ext. 118 n Cubism + Surrealism

3:30pm, Drawing, Painting + Printmaking Studio, $45.00 $55.00. 307-733-6379 n Real Characters, Grades 3rd-5th 3:30pm, Off Square, $200.00.

307-733-3021 n Semi-Private Painting + Drawing 4:00pm, Borshell Children’s Studio, $20.00 - $130.00. 307733-6379 n Junior Players, Grades 6th-8th 4:30pm, Off Square, $225.00.

307-733-3021 n 2015 Awards for Creativity 5:00pm, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Free. 307-699-2110 n Dickie Landry Opening Reception 5:30pm, Art Association Gallery at The Center, Free. 307-734-8956 n Age Friendly Jackson Hole 5:30pm, Senior Center, Free.

307-733-7300 n Dogs on the Trails Workshop 5:30pm, Teton County Library, Free. 307-739-5565 n Microsoft Excel Basics 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $40.00. n Art + Soul: Creative Expression 6:00pm, Multi-Purpose Studio, $100.00 - $120.00. 307-733-6379 n Book Club “Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free. n Evening Yoga 6:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Belly Dancing with Cheryl Toland 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $75.00. 307-733-6398 n Who Takes Care of the Caregiver 6:30pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, Free. 307-699-7480 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75. 307-739-9025 n Salsa at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Tavern Trivia 7:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free. 307-733-3886 n Oneness Deeksha Meditation

SATURDAY & SUNDAY BRUNCH

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For complete event details visit pjhcalendar.com. n Jay Alm live at the Rustic Inn 8:00pm, The Rustic Inn, Free. n Karaoke 9:00pm, Virginian Saloon, Free.

307-739-9891 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free. 307-7331500 n Murs 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern,

FRIDAY 10.16

n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50.

307-739-9025 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Water Fitness 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Yoga 9:00am, 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50.

307-739-9025 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Intuitive Guidance with Ellae Ellinwood 10:00am, Spirit, $100.00. 307733-3382 n Fall Tours at Astoria Hot Springs 10:00am, Astoria Hot Springs, Free. 307-739-3942 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 10:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Cowboy Coaster at Snow King Mountain 12:00pm, Snow King Mountain Sports, $8.00 - $21.00. 307-2015096 n Water Fitness 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Skyline Volunteer Days 3:00pm, Top of Ferrin’s Trail, Free. n Free Friday Wine Tasting 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free.

307-733-4466 n Oktoberfest at Jackson Whole Grocer 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free. 307-733-0450 n 2015 Video Blitz 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $10.00. 206-321-4131 n Basic Jewelry: Beading 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $90.00. n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75. 307-739-0925 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free. 307-733-8833 n Boondocks

7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free. 307-733-2190 n Stargazing at Rendezvous Park 8:00pm, Rendezvous Park (R-Park), Free. 307-413-4779 n Richiebeats 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free. 307-733-1500 n Brad O’Brien 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free. 307-733-3886

CREATIVE PEAKS 2

SATURDAY 10.17

n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n NRA Basic Pistol Shooting Course 9:00am, Jackson Hole Gun Club, $140.00. 307-690-7921 n Barre Fusion at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Intuitive Guidance with Ellae Ellinwood 10:00am, Spirit, $100.00. 307733-3382 n Adult Oil Painting 10:00am, The Local Galleria, $25.00 - $80.00. 208-270-0883 n Annual Pumpkin Sale on the Town Square 10:00am, Town Square. n Cowboy Coaster at Snow King Mountain 10:00am, Snow King Mountain Sports, $8.00 - $21.00. 307-2015096 n Open Banya Day 10:00am, Bear and Doe Massage Works, Free. 307-732-0863 n Payasadas & Mexican Tin Art 11:00am, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free. 307733-2164 n Genealogy: Find Your Family Stories in Newspapers, Maps & Charted Lineages - Computer Lab 1:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free. 307-7332164 n South Park Loop Open House 1:00pm, 4140 S Wilson Road, Free. n Tango Workshop with David & Lucia 2:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $20.00 - $85.00. 307-733-6398 n Experience Live Raptors 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $10.00 - $12.00. 307-203-2551 n Oktoberfest at Jackson Whole Grocer 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free. 307-733-0450 n Basic Jewelry: Beading 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $90.00. n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75. 307-739-0925 n Live Music 7:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, Free. 307-739-9891 n Boondocks 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free. 307-733-2190

NICK PPOLE

Center, $3.75. 307-739-9025 n Acting for the Home Schooled Student 1:00pm, Off Square, $225.00.

307-733-3021 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 1:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Superheroes! Grades 4th-5th 3:30pm, Off Square, $200.00.

307-733-3021 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Photography Fundamentals 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $120.00 - $145.00. 307-733-6379 n Friends and Family Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Board Room of St. John’s Medical Center, Free. 307-7321161 n Adobe Photoshop 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $200.00.

307-733-7425 n Selective College Admissions and Timeline 6:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-7332164 n L.E.A.D (Latino Employees Achieving Dreams) 6:00pm, Latino Resource Center, 307-734-0333 n Knit Nite 6:00pm, Knit on Pearl, Free. 307733-5648 n Selective College Admissions & Timeline 6:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium. Free. 307-7332164 n Drink + Draw 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $35.00. n Pump The Movie 6:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free.

307-733-1500 n Modern Dance Class at Dancers’ Workshop 6:15pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75. 307-739-0925 n Spanish for Businesses 7:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00.

307-733-7425 n The Met: Live in HD – Il Trovatore 7:00pm, Center for the Arts, $10.00 - $18.00. 307-733-1128 n Sustainability Series Kick Off 7:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free.

303-483-8207 n “The History of Railroading in Jackson Hole” 7:00pm, Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum, Free. 307733-2414 n Mustache Militia 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free. 307-732-3939

Blitz Bliss Video comp illumes filmmaking finesse and eco advocates.

BY ROBYN VINCENT @TheNomadicHeart

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our burgeoning British filmmakers were traipsing through an Idaho potato farm this past weekend. Though their spud knowledge was rising exponentially, they weren’t there for the taters. The University of Bristol film students (dubbed Team Britain by their new Jackson Hole cohorts) had teamed up with the nonprofit, Valley Advocates for Responsible Development (VARD). The local organization rescues abandoned land bought by dallying private developers.

Team Britain was paired with VARD during a matchmaking session Friday at Spark.

Pulling names from a hat, the matchmaker, One Percent for the Tetons, has been connecting aspiring filmmakers and nonprofits for the past four years as part of its “Video Blitz.” The competition enlists seven filmmakers to produce a film and narrate a compelling tale about a local nonprofit focusing on long-term sustainability efforts in the Tetons. Competitors have less than one week to submit their creation. The films will then be screened during a soiree that begins at 6 p.m. Friday at Center for the Arts. Films will be judged in three categories –­ jury-selected, audience-selected and online. Winners have the chance to win cash prizes for their cinematic creations.

“This is the highlight of the year for One Percent for the Tetons,” said Jonathan Schechter, who spearheaded the local chapter of One Percent for The Planet in 2006 with Shawn Love. “Any time you can get impassioned people from different worlds finding common ground, it’s magic.”

One Percent for the Tetons traces Yvon Chouinard’s One Percent for the Planet blueprint, asking businesses to donate one percent of their profits to grants for conservation and environmental efforts that protect the planet.

Chouinard says that one percent can have rippling effects.

“I could spend hours here talking about some of the results of those grants, how many

Team Britain poses with the world’s largest spud in Driggs, Idaho Friday.

dams have come down, how many rivers have been cleaned up ... that 1 percent is one of the best things I’ve ever done,” Chouinard said recently in a video interview with Schechter.

Team Britain, in town for the WILD Festival held at the beginning of October, filmed their video just one day before their departure back across the pond. Their piece will explains how VARD reclaims zombie lands. These are areas that private developers bought, only to run out of money before actually building lofty golf courses and high-end homes.

Local filmmaker Rich Goodwin has been mentoring novice filmmakers through the Blitz since its inception. Each year he produces a behind the scenes video chronicling the mad dash to make a polished flick in a matter of days.

“When I actually hear the story behind some of these nonprofits, I’m amazed at the passion they have for these projects,” Goodwin said. One past project in particular that Goodwin recalled is the affectionately named Owl Poo Poo Project, spearheaded by the Teton Raptor Center. Myriad owls, including species of concern, were finding their way into the stinky depths of vault toilets located in the national parks and forests via a long pipe. Once they entered the waste pit, these birds of prey were trapped. Then the Raptor Center received a grant from One Percent for the Tetons that helped them install a simple fix. Screen vent covers attached to the open top pipe have saved the wise winged creatures from dung demise.

The result of pairing up energized filmmakers with passionate eco advocates in order to tell a story results in a shiny finished product, Schechter said. “That life force – the synergy of passionate nonprofits and filmmakers who love what they do animates these videos.”

Now Team Britain plans to take what they learned from filming for the Blitz back to the UK. “This has sparked our interest to work with NGOs,” said Alice Marlow, 25. “It would allow us to meet people who you would never normally talk to and do some real good. The reason we got into filmmaking in the first place is to advocate conservation.”

2015 Video Blitz, doors open at 6 p.m., film screenings starts at 7 p.m., Friday at Center for the Arts. A silent auction will feature dozens of items valued at thousands of dollars. The $10 ticket price includes free beer. PJH

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MUSIC BOX

Music Money; Murs Returns Jackson Hole Live offers cash awards for teens; underground emcee hits the Tav.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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endrix started playing guitar at age 15 after seeing Elvis, while Ludwig van Beethoven composed his first piece at age 12. Both also pushed through poverty while developing virtuosic musical chops. Sometimes it just takes the extra encouragement or mentor, and, in extreme cases, music immersion can even save lives. A teenager or young adult with a striking talent and visionary passion for a career in music is worthy of community attention, and there’s a new scholarship program geared toward this notion.

Jackson Hole Live—the free, all-ages concert series at Snow King Ball Park every summer—has stepped up to launch the inaugural Jackson Hole Live Music Scholarship.

The scholarship is aimed to “further the ambition of aspiring

MURS brings the rawness of underground hip-hop to the stage Thursday at Town Square Tavern. young musicians.” The program will offer a $3,000 award to one grand prizewinner and $1,000 to a runner-up chosen by a five-member committee that includes Steve Poole, Pete Closson, Sue Bybee, Michelle McCormick and Mac Munro. Jackson Hole Live seeded the scholarship fund with $500, and accepted $500 challenges from community members Scott Anderson, Chip Marvin, Greg Miles and Melinda Binks, Jeff and Amy Golightly, Rachel Ravitz, the Boathouse Foundation and one other anonymous contributor.

“We did a lot of preliminary research and considered the age range very carefully,” said Jackson Hole Live co-founder Shannon McCormick. “We really think this is going to be important to the young musicians in the area.”

The scholarship will be available to high school freshman through 20-year-olds, born in 1995. Residents of Teton County, Star Valley and Teton Valley, Idaho, are eligible.

Aspiring musicians must complete the online application by Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 2015. Applicants may submit a one-minute video along with their online application, but it is not required. Winners will be announced on Jan. 15, 2016.

Criteria and a scholarship application are available now at JacksonHoleLiveMusic.com/Scholarship.

MURS’ ‘Have a Nice Life’ Tour As a kid, L.A. rapper MURS was a skateboarder and video gamer that grew up around Crips gang members. His love of both geek and hip-hop culture made for a relatable mix

of lyrics. As a teenager, he hustled his music hand-to-hand on the streets for rent, leading to a stage name that is an acronym with multiple meanings including “Making the Universe Recognize and Submit” and “Making Underground Raw Shit.”

This past May, MURS released his first album on his own Strange Music label, “Have a Nice Life.” This is following a stint with Warner Brothers that included a string of collaborative albums such as 2012’s “This Generation” with Fresno rapper Fashawn. MURS describes Strange Music as “a home for strong, original personalities.” He signed Tech N9ne last year.

A zoomed-out look at MURS’s recording career since 1997 is one of ambition and range—nine albums including releases as a member of hip-hop groups Living Legends, Melancholy Gypsys, Felt and Melrose, as well as a stint as the lead vocalist of rock-rap super group, The Invincibles. An emotional realist, he often shuns the hip-hop gun culture in favor of insightful dialog about the streets.

Detroit rapper Red Pill and L.A. rapper King Fantastic will open the show.

MURS, 10 p.m., Thursday at Town Square Tavern. $15.

307Live.com, 733-3886. PJH Aaron Davis is an award-winning singer-songwriter, trout whisperer, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, and founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley.

WELL, THAT HAPPENED

Forgotten Viking Hey America, get your Nordic explorers straight.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

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n John Wayne’s World 10:00pm, The Rose, Free. 307-733-1500 n Whiskey Duo 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free. 307-733-3886

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SUNDAY 10.18

Why can’t anyone get Leif Erikson’s hometown hood right?

MONDAY 10.19

n Ski Fitness with Whitney Wright 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $225.00. 307-7336398 n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50.

307-739-9025 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am,10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 $2.50. 307-739-9025 n Jazzercise 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50.

307-739-9025 n Water Fitness 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50.

307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307733-6398 n Little Hands, Little Feet 10:30am, Borshell Children’s Studio, $15.00 $80.00. 307-733-6379 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50.

307-739-9025 n Story Time - Victor 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free. 208-7872201 n Yellowstone-Teton Clean Cities Fall Meeting 2:00pm, Gabe Room in the Bridger Center, Free. n Creative Adventure, Grades K-2nd

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period of time, but not until roughly 200 years after Erikson’s death in 1262.

Despite the fact that Obama states in his proclamation that Erikson is “a son of Iceland and grandson of Norway,” it’s kind of a huge oversight and a dig at Iceland to honor an Icelandic man and then thank Norway, a country Leif couldn’t even go to because they banished his father, Erik the Red. On top of it all, it’s not as if the U.S. doesn’t recognize the fact that Erikson is part of the greater story of its foundation. In 1929, Congress authorized the construction of a Leif Erikson statue that would be given to the Icelandic people on the 1000th anniversary of the Alþingi, Iceland’s first parliament. The statue was placed in Reykjavík on May 3, 1932 and now stands in front of Hallgrímskirkja, the tallest building in Iceland. Inscribed on the back of the statue are the words: “Leifr Eiricsson [sic], Son of Iceland, Discoverer of Vinland, The United States of America to the People of Iceland on the One Thousandth Anniversary of the Althing, AD 1930.”

This year also marks progress in the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day in at least nine cities around the country including Portland, OR, St. Paul, MN and Olympia, WA. South Dakota has been celebrating Native American Day since 1989, and neither Alaska nor Hawaii recognize Columbus Day as a national holiday.

Since more and more people are becoming adverse to celebrating the exploits of Columbus and, instead, are more interested in honoring the Indigenous Americans who settled here long before any Europeans did, why not make a bigger deal of Leif Erikson Day? Vikings weren’t all pillagers and rapists (Víking simply translates to “man from the bay”) and held much better relations with the natives than Columbus did. Plus, more and more people have been traveling to Iceland in recent years, so it’s no longer just a rock out in the middle of the Atlantic.

Lastly, Leif Erikson Day is one of Spongebob Squarepants’s favorite holidays.

So, next year lets celebrate the most famous Icelander after Björk and the discovery of North America by eating some rotten shark and sheep face. Skál! PJH

n NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course 9:00am, JH Gun Club, $140.00. 307-690-7921 n Season Pass Sale & Pick Up 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort. n Cowboy Coaster at Snow King Mountain 10:00am, Snow King Mountain Sports, $8.00 $21.00. 307-201-5096 n Tango Workshop with David & Lucia 10:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $20.00 - $85.00.

307-733-6398 n NFL Package 11:00am, The Virginian Saloon, Free. 307-739-9891 n Football at The Wort 11:00am, Silver Dollar Showroom, 307-732-3939 n NFL Sunday Football at the Trap 11:00am, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free. 307-353-2300 n From the Back of the Stacks - On KHOL 89.1 FM 12:00pm, 89.1FM. Free. n Sunday Silver 2:00pm, Center for the Arts, $30.00. n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 4:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75. 307-7399025 n Oktoberfest at Jackson Whole Grocer 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free. 307733-0450 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free. 307-733-4407 n Mark Nizer 4D 6:00pm, The Center for the Arts, $17.00 - $29.00.

307-734-8956 n Taize 7:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free. 307733-2603

S hop local, Save big!

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n the United States we certainly love our Days. Not just those simple days of the week, but rather holidays consisting of Person or Thing tacked on with a Day. Not too long ago, I spoke on National Dog Day and Women’s Equality Day, but we seem to have surpassed yet another seemingly important holiday without blinking. Since 1954, October 9 has officially been recognized as Leif Erikson Day, honoring the Viking who is believed to be the first European to reach North America.

If you grew up in the US, celebrating Columbus Day on October 12 is old hat.

Perhaps in elementary school you made construction paper replicas of the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, or were clued into what a chummy relationship Christopher Columbus had with the natives. But, despite having a national holiday, poor Viking explorer Leif Erikson (or, traditionally, Leifur Eiríksson), a man who braved the fierce Arctic seas, hasn’t gotten his due.

On Thursday, President Obama released his annual proclamation about the holiday (as every president has since 1954), stating, “Leif Erikson’s discovery marks the beginning of a meaningful friendship between Norway and the United States, and we have seen reflections of his team’s journey throughout history.”

The only problem is that Erikson wasn’t Norwegian.

He was Icelandic.

Sure, you could argue that during Erikson’s time (roughly 970-1020), Iceland was not officially its own independent country, but when Christopher Columbus sailed in 1492, Italy wasn’t the country we know it as today either. However, Columbus is considered an Italian explorer. Some might argue that Norway had control of Iceland for a good

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3:30pm, Off Square, $200.00. 307-733-3021 n After School Kidzart Club 3:30pm, Borshell Children’s Studio, $135.00 $165.00. 307-733-6379 n Hand + Wheel 4:00pm, Ceramics Studio, $125.00 - $150.00. 307733-6379 n Voice for Public Speakers and Actors 4:30pm, Off Square Theatre, $225.00. 307-733-3021 n Open Range 4:30pm, Archery Range at the Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50. 307-739-9025 n Explore Archery 4:45pm, Teton County Parks and Rec Gym, $7.00.

307-739-9025 n Barre Fusion at Dancers’ Workshop 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307733-6398 n Active Isolated Stretching for Weekend Warriors 5:30pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, $15.00. 307699-7480 n Hootenanny at Dornans 6:00pm, Dornans, Free. 307-733-2415 n Beginning Painting: Acrylic 6:00pm, Drawing, Painting + Printmaking Studio, $100.00 - $120.00. 307-733-6379 n Monday Sitting Group 6:00pm, Chiropractic and Sports Injury Center, 307-733-7584 n Slow Read Midway Discussion: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 6:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free. 307-733-2164 n Evening Yoga 6:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50.

307-739-9025 n Open Level Ballet at Dancers’ Workshop 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307733-6398 n Monday Night Football 6:30pm, The Virginian Saloon, Free. 307-739-9891 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75. 307-7399025 n The JH Chorale Rehearsals 7:00pm, Music Center in the Center for the Arts, Free. 585-872-4934

TUESDAY 10.20

n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50.

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Blurry Boundaries When a high-alpine run in the rain stirs gratitude for people and place.

BY RYAN BURKE

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hen you live in Jackson you have to redefine your definition of “normal” on a pretty regular basis.

Before moving here 12 years ago, a multisport day meant watching both football and baseball in the same morning, now combining various outdoor activities is known as a Tuesday afternoon. Assimilating to the “new normal” of Jackson Hole has taken some time, but adjusting to this lifestyle has its advantages. If a person is open to it, the Jackson mindset of adventure can bring you to some pretty amazing places with some pretty great companions. For instance, with my new Jackson filter of what is considered “fun” I accepted an offer from two friends to run 15 miles at 10,000 feet in 40-degree temperatures with heavy fog and pouring rain. Our goal was to traverse from the top of the tram to the top of Glory via the ridge of Rendezvous Mountain, staying off trail as much as possible.

While we rode up the tram, I looked around at my fellow passengers and pondered why anyone would pay $35 dollars to admire a 20-foot view. However, to the bewildered tourist, our endeavor must have

The author and Lewis Smirl navigating the fog atop Little Tuckermans Ravine (left); summiting first objective of Cody Peak in the fog. seemed just as useless, as my friends and I exited a perfectly dry tram-car to spend the next five hours navigating slippery scree fields. As I tied my shoes for the journey ahead, I made eye contact with one of the sightseers, each of us unsure of who was the zoo animal and who was the spectator in this comical scenario.

Before I had a chance to figure out what role I was playing, both of my companions were already jogging their way towards the first objective of Cody Peak. To the onlookers it must have appeared strange to see three people voluntarily leave the warmth of a heated building to venture into the cold tundra. However, I never questioned the pecularity of our adventure because my partners seemed to think it was a perfectly reasonable activity for a rainy Saturday in October. As we awkwardly maneuvered over snowy boulders and around rain-saturated trees, I noticed that for such an awful weather day no one was complaining. In fact, everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves while chatting away about politics, mountaineering, and the most paramount of debates: which tastes better, Snickers or Butterfingers.

As we hit the knifeedge of Rendezvous Peak I contemplated what others around Jackson might be doing. I knew of at least two friends who were running from Open Canyon to Granite Canyon regardless of weather, and I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear that many others around the valley were embarking on similar soggy adventures. What a strange town we live in, a place where spending time with friends means hikes up Snow King, mountain bike rides on Cache Creek

and climbing at Rodeo Wall.

Sure, Jackson is renowned as a destination where people push their physical boundaries, but most people visit for a week and call it good. People who live here embrace this tradition of exploration on a daily basis. To some, this ethos can be overwhelming and to others it just becomes the standard way of life. It would have been easy to stay home on a rainy weekend and watch a movie nestled in bed, but instead I chose to stumble around on loose rocks in the fog. Most importantly, however, I didn’t have to do it alone.

This is why I’m so happy to call Jackson my home. I feel like I have found my people here. People who enjoy being beat down by nature because “it’s just what we do here.”

This type of behavior may come across as “too agro” for folks who prefer pounding the pavement to pounding the trails. However, I perceive this attitude as an expression of all humans’ genuine curiosity to see what we are capable of. To me, Jackson residents will support any adventure, no matter the length, as long as someone is willing to try.

When we finally reached the top of Teton Pass, I was filled with a sense of calm knowing that there are other people like me. I felt secure in the knowledge that we all gathered in one town to be crazy together. Before moving to Jackson, I had always struggled to find partners that were game for an off the wall adventure. Today, that is not the case.

I am continually grateful to live in a place where it’s “normal” to go for a run in the rain and adversity doesn’t stop people from doing what they love. PJH

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By the Book In Bridge of Spies, Tom Hanks makes moral clarity compelling.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

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Mark Rylance and Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies. perfunctory, even though there’s not really any doubt regarding Abel’s guilt. We don’t win, Donovan insists, by putting Abel away during a show trial; we win by demonstrating the American principles we want to protect from The Other aren’t just as threatened by our own desire for security.

Hanks’ ability to make fundamental moral clarity and decency interesting is essential here, as Bridge of Spies eventually turns to focus on Donovan’s role in negotiating the exchange of Abel to the Soviets for downed U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell). The film spends a surprising amount of time on Powers’ training and preparations for his mission—up to and including an extended CGI-enhanced sequence re-creating Powers being shot down—and while it’s thematically important to emphasize that both sides were doing the same thing that Americans were so enraged about Abel doing, the story starts to lose focus whenever it drifts from Donovan’s mission.

Indeed, there are more than a few places where Bridge of Spies feels clunky, inefficient or formulaic. Donovan’s defense of the vilified Abel naturally results in people threatening him and his family, leading to the inevitable domestic conflicts as Donovan’s wife (Amy Ryan) tries to dissuade him from his dogged pursuit of the case. And as Donovan’s negotiations with both the Russians and the East Germans take over the story—Donovan

attempts to secure not just Powers’ release, but that of a jailed American student—the sheer number of players in this diplomatic game of chicken becomes a challenge to navigate.

Yet there’s still an edge to this story of sticking to a by-the-book sense of justice, as Spielberg shows us Russian snipers killing Germans trying to flee over the newly-erected Berlin Wall in 1961. There’s no attempt to whitewash the idea that totalitarian Communism was a genuine threat to freedom; the only question is how we react to that knowledge. When passengers on a commuter train stare holes through Jim Donovan because they recognize him as Rudolf Abel’s attorney, then later look at him as hero for his actions brokering the prisoner exchange, Jim Donovan himself is the same guy. It’s because of Hanks’ performance that we understand that, whether it’s hard or whether it’s easy, doing the right thing is still doing the right thing. PJH

BRIDGE OF SPIES BBB Tom Hanks Mark Rylance Amy Ryan Rated PG-13

TRY THESE (1962)

Frank Sinatra Laurence Harvey Not Rated

JFK (1991) Kevin Costner Sissy Spacek Rated R

Catch Me If You Can (2002) Leonardo DiCaprio Tom Hanks Rated PG-13

Captain Phillips (2013) Tom Hanks Barkhad Abdi Rated PG-13

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he first time we see Tom Hanks as insurance attorney Jim Donovan in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, he doesn’t seem like the kind of Tom Hanks character we’ve come to know and love. He’s wrangling with an opposing attorney about the disposition of a case he’s working on, a car accident in which Donovan’s client— the insurance company—has argued that it’s on the hook only for one specific accident in which five separate motorcyclists were injured, limiting the monetary compensation. This is weaselly lawyer-speak, it feels like, except that it’s not; Donovan is absolutely committed to a concept of fairness that he thinks is essential in order for the system— any system—to function.

That’s the Tom Hanks we know, our modern-day Jimmy Stewart, and that sensibility is crucial as Bridge of Spies unfolds. Set in 1957, it’s the fact-based story of how Donovan came to be assigned as the public defender for Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Russian spy facing possible execution for espionage. The prosecution and judge want the appearance of a fair trial that holds up America’s ideals during the peak of the Cold War, but they don’t really care about whether it’s actually fair. Unfortunately for everyone, except perhaps Abel himself, Donovan cares.

Bridge of Spies—as scripted by Matt Charman with a polish by Joel & Ethan Coen—plays out fairly baldly as an allegory for our contemporary approach to the War on Terror, as fear of an opposing ideology leads both government and private citizens to abandon principles when they prove inconvenient. We see Donovan’s son indoctrinated in school into both patriotism—Spielberg makes a sly cut from the courtroom at Abel’s trial being instructed to “all rise,” and the school classroom standing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance—and the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. But Donovan pushes repeatedly for a representation of his client that’s not merely

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Whether your interests lie in music, theater and the arts—or something a bit more downto-earth—here’s what’s going on in the Beehive State. (Visit cityweekly.net/events for complete listings.) So hit the road! But be sure and bring a snack—because, now and then, everybody craves something salty.

WEEKEND OF OCT. 16

n Aaron Wallis: The Street Bible Fri - Sat Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, Salt Lake City, Free n The Addams Family Fri - Sat Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 East 4700 South, South Ogden, 7:30pm, $9.00 - $14.00, 801- 3930070 n The Addams Family Fri, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theatre, 225 W 400 N, Orem, 7:30pm, $12.00 - $22.00 n Amalia Ulman: Stock Images of War Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n Anime Banzai Fri - Sun Davis Conference Center, 1651 N 700 W, Layton, 9:00am, $20.00 - $60.00, 385-259-5459 n Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution Fri - Sun Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, $9.00 - $13.00, 801-581-6927 n Breaking Vlad Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 Main Street, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $10.00 - $16.00 n Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Fri - Sun Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, $12.00 - $14.00, 801-581-7332 n Brian Christensen: RECONFIGURE Fri - Sat CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Bride of Frankenstein Fri - Sat Industrial Warehouse “Theater”, 1030 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $12.00 - $40.00 n The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales Fri - Sun Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, $12.00 - $14.00, 801-581-7332 n Buried Child Fri, Sat, Sun Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $18.00 n Castle of Chaos Fri - Sat Castle of Chaos, 7980 S. State, Midvale, $20.00 - $35.00 n Chad Farnes: Duct Tape Paintings Fri Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City, 9:00am, Free n DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR. Fri Hale Center Theatre - Orem, 225 W 400 N, Orem, 4:30pm n Egyptian Theatre Foundation presents “The

Shining” Fri Peerys Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, 7:00pm n Fear Factory Fri - Sat Fear Factory, 666 W. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $22.00 - $25.00 n Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n Gallery Stroll Fri The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm, Free, 801-531-9800 n The Glass Menagerie Fri - Sat CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 7:00pm n Grimm Ghost Tours Fri - Sat 18 West South Temple, 18 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $13.00 - $25.00 n Lagoon Frightmares Fri - Sun Lagoon, 375 Lagoon Drive, Farmington, 5:00pm, $37.50 - $49.95 n Laughing Stock Fri The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City, 10:00pm, $8.00 - $11.00 n Lizze Määttälä: Uphill/Both Ways Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free, 801-328-4201 n Music for the Soul Fri - Sat Tabernacle, NW Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, Free, 801-570-0080, 866-537-8457 n Mystery Escape Room Fri - Sat The Gateway, 157 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 9:30am, $29.95 n Nightmare on 13th Fri - Sat Nightmare on 13th, 300 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $15.00 - $40.00 n Odyssey Dance: Thriller Fri, Sat, Sat Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Cir, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $20.00 - $25.00 n Orny Adams Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 7:30pm, $15.00 n Rebecca Klundt: Reformation - A Rearranging of Elements Fri Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free, 801-245-7272 n The Secret Lives of Clowns Fri, Sat, Sat Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S 900 W, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $15.00 n Shawn Porter: Into the Ether Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, $5.00 n Stefan Lesueur: Obscura Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 11:00am, Free n Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus Fri - Sat Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus, 98 E. 13800 South, Draper, 7:30pm, $25.00 - $40.00, 801- 8508060 n Strayboots Interactive Scavenger Hunt Fri - Sun Salt Lake CIty, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, $10.00, 877-787-2929 n Tosca Fri - Sun Capitol Theatre, 50 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $35.00 - $89.00, (801) 355-2787 n Young Frankenstein Fri, Sat The Grand Theatre, 1575 S State St, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $18.00 - $20.00 n Young Frankenstein Fri - Sat The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., South Ogden, 7:30pm, $17.00 - $20.00 n Between the Wars: The Great Depression in

Northern Utah Sat Brigham City Museum of Art and History, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, Free n Downtown Farmer’s Market Sat Pioneer Park, 300 W 300 S, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free n Ginormous Pumpkin Regatta Sat Sugar House Park, 2100 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, Free, 801-486-0480 n Locomotive Restoration Project - 223 Narrow Gauge Sat Union Station, 2501 Wall Avenue, Ogden, 9:30am n 9th West Farmers Market Sun Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, Free n Mateen Stewart Sun Club at 50 West, 50 West Broadway, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm

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n Aaron Wallis: The Street Bible Fri - Sat Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, Salt Lake City, Free n The Addams Family Fri - Sat Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 East 4700 South, South Ogden, 7:30pm, $9.00 - $14.00, 801-3930070 n The Addams Family Fri, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theatre, 225 W 400 N, Orem, 7:30pm, $12.00 - $22.00 n Amalia Ulman: Stock Images of War Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free, 801-328-4201 n An Evening with Matt Nathanson Fri The State Room, 638 S State Street, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm n Between the Wars: The Great Depression in Northern Utah Fri - Sat Brigham City Museum of Art and History, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, Free n Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution Fri - Sun Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, $9.00 - $13.00, 801-581-6927 n Breaking Vlad Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 Main Street, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $10.00 - $16.00 n Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Fri - Sun Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, $12.00 - $14.00, 801-581-7332 n Brian Christensen: RECONFIGURE Fri - Sat CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Bride of Frankenstein Fri - Sat Industrial Warehouse “Theater”, 1030 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $12.00 - $40.00 n The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales Fri - Sun Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, $12.00 - $14.00, 801-581-7332 n Buried Child Fri, Sat, Sun Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $18.00 n Castle of Chaos Fri - Sat Castle of Chaos, 7980 S. State, Midvale, $20.00 - $35.00 n Chad Farnes: Duct Tape Paintings Fri Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City, 9:00am, Free, 801-596-5000 n DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR. Fri Hale Center Theatre - Orem, 225 W 400 N, Orem, 4:30pm n FAITH & FAMILY LGBTQ POWER SUMMIT Fri Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown, 215 W. South

Temple, Salt Lake City, 9:30am, $100.00 n Fear Factory Fri - Sat Fear Factory, 666 W. 800 South, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $22.00 - $25.00 n Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n Garden After Dark Red Butte Garden Fri - Sat Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm, $0.00 - $12.00 n Grimm Ghost Tours Fri - Sat 18 West South Temple, 18 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $13.00 - $25.00 n Keith Stubbs Fri - Sat Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th, Ogden, 8:00pm n Lagoon Frightmares Fri - Sun Lagoon, 375 Lagoon Drive, Farmington, 5:00pm, $37.50 - $49.95 n Laughing Stock Fri The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City, 10:00pm, $8.00 - $11.00 n Lizze Määttälä: Uphill/Both Ways Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free, 801-328-4201 n Mystery Escape Room Fri - Sat The Gateway, 157 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, 9:30am, $29.95 n Nightmare on 13th Fri - Sat Nightmare on 13th, 300 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $15.00 - $40.00 n Odyssey Dance: Thriller Fri, Sat, Sat Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Cir, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $20.00 - $25.00 n Rebecca Klundt: Reformation - A Rearranging of Elements Fri Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free, 801-245-7272 n The Rocky Horror Show Concert Version Fri, Sat, Sat Pioneer Theater Company, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $25.00 - $40.00 n Shawn Porter: Into the Ether Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, $5.00 n Stefan Lesueur: Obscura Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 11:00am, Free n Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus Fri - Sat Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus, 98 E. 13800 South, Draper, 7:30pm, $25.00 - $40.00, 801 850-8060 n Strayboots Interactive Scavenger Hunt Fri - Sun Salt Lake CIty, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, $10.00, 877-787-2929 n Young Frankenstein Fri, Sat The Grand Theatre, 1575 S State St, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $18.00 - $20.00 n Young Frankenstein Fri - Sat The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., South Ogden, 7:30pm, $17.00 - $20.00 n Downtown Farmer’s Market Sat Pioneer Park, 300 W 300 S, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free n Janet Sat EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $26.75 - $122.00 n Locomotive Restoration Project - 223 Narrow Gauge Sat Union Station, 2501 Wall Avenue, Ogden, 9:30am n Monster Block Party Sat Gallivan Center, 239 S Main Street, Salt Lake City, 11:00am, Free, 801-535-7704

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Original Zin Exploring Zinfandel, a uniquely American wine.

BY TED SCHEFFER @critic1

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aving lived and grown up in countries all over the world, I am not especially nationalistic. Jingoism makes my blood boil. Still, I am proud of American jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, baseball and… Zinfandel. Why Zin? Well, Zinfandel can be considered a uniquely American wine—the only one, in fact. It accounts for more than 10 percent of the grapes grown in California vineyards.

And yet, “Zinfandel” sure doesn’t sound American. Indeed, the name Zinfandel is thought to be of European origin, possibly linked to the “Black Zinfardel of Hungary” mentioned in “A Treatise on the Vine” by William Robert Prince in 1830. Others think it’s a modification of Tzinifánfli or Czirifandli, Hungarian terms that in term derive from the German Zierfandler (a white grape).

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into here—thousands of pages of research have been written—but anyone really interested in the obscure origins of what is called Zinfandel in this country might want to wade into the debates and DNA fingerprinting of Italian and Croatian Primitivo and Tribidrag grapes, versus Zinfandel.

Although the matter still hasn’t been settled to everyone’s satisfaction, Zinfandel is thought by some researchers to have genetically descended from Croatian grape varietals.

Whatever its etymology, Zinfandel in America dates back to the 1820s, when it was planted on Long Island. By 1835, Zinfandel was being used in the Boston area—cultivated as a hothouse varietal— as a table grape. It is first documented as a grape used for making wine in 1847, in John Fisk Allen’s “Practical Treatise in the Culture and Treatment of the Grape Vine.”

But, it would soon be supplanted in the Northeast by the heartier Concord grape, which could be grown outdoors.

In the 1850s, Zinfandel made its first appearance in California, albeit as a table grape that came west with the Gold Rush.

It’s thought that Joseph Osborne might have made the first California Zinfandel wine after he planted Zinfandel at his Oak Knoll Vineyard in the North Napa region. A Zin boom followed, and by the end of the 1800s,

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IMBIBE Zinfandel was the most common wine grape variety planted in California.

Today, Zinfandel tends to be made most often in a big, robust, high-alcohol style. Blackberry, anise and pepper flavors are typical of Zins from warm climates, while raspberry and strawberry flavors tend to find their way into colder climate Zinfandels. Either is great to drink with hearty dishes such as grilled or barbecued meats, pasta with red sauces, lasagna, roasts, stews and such.

I’m very fond of the American Zinfandels produced by Joel Peterson and his Ravenswood wines. Here’s a trio to try: Ravenswood Vintners Blend Old Vine Zinfandel is a great bang-for-the-buck at $12.99. It’s big and bold, but simultaneously approachable, with soft tannins and rich fruit flavors.

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Ravenswood’s Single Vineyard Designates is a wine series that’s all about terroir.

These are vineyard locations that are ideally suited to the grapes grown there: old, lowyield vines that are site-specific. Ravenswood Dickerson Zinfandel ($32.99) offers notes of mint and eucalyptus, along with sweet mid-palate fruit flavors that are well-balanced by the wine’s acidity.

Invest in America! Drink Zinfandel. PJH

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KAZUMI Kazumi is a family-owned and operated restaurant serving unique sushi rolls, fresh sashimi and nigiri, and off-the-charts specialty items. Located near the Town Square, we also feature hot noodle soups and the spiciest rolls in town! Open Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m - 9:30 p.m. 265 West Broadway, 307-7339168, jacksonholesushi.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, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 7333912, 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.

ELEANOR’S 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.

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.

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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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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 seasonallyinspired 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.

LOTUS CAFE 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 house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner. 145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

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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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TRIO 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.

Reservations. (307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO 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.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere.

Home of the original Jumbo Margarita.

Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Handtossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

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.

PIZZERIA CALDERA Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera. com, or download our app for iOS or Android.

Open from11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

REDNECK PERSPECTIVE SATIRE

Hoback Goes to Washington How to play the parties like a boss.

BY CLYDE THORNHILL

B

lythe Winters-Paulson, Vice President of Ethics with Goldman Sachs, for whom I serve as a beer-bellied play toy, had her private jet fly me to Washington D.C. last week. She was busy building political capital (soon to become financial capital) in the nation’s capitol.

And she was ecstatic about the current political turmoil.

“With the presidential primary debates in full swing and House leadership changes, there is money to be made,” she said. “Tea Party Republicans have blood in their eyes and establishment Republicans have given up trying to fend them off and instead are one upping each other in venomous attacks on all things not conservative. And the poor Democrats — they want Hillary to be Bernie, Bernie to be Biden and Biden to be Hillary. I haven’t had this much fun since I arranged a 2.8 billion euro loan to Greece and disguised it as a cross-currency swap using a fictitious market exchange rate. It caused the Greek financial crisis but we made a pile.”

“Which side are you bribing today?” I asked.

“Goldman Sachs does not bribe,” she said, indignantly.

“I am merely donating money, trips and dinners, or providing female or male companionship, as the case may be, to both sides. All we asked in return is influence on upcoming legislation.”

“What’s the difference between influence and bribery?” I asked.

“Bribery is when you buy a specific vote on a specific bill,” she explained. “Influence is when you write the bill.”

“I’ve been meeting with the Republican and Democratic Platform committees,” she continued, unable to contain her excitement. “I promised the Republicans that we would finance a national standard for American history textbooks that calls slaves ‘imported workers’ like they do in Texas.

We will support workers’ rights by eliminating the minimum wage and ending overtime pay, and we will push for new Middle East wars in an attempt to destabilize foreign oil production and get domestic oil back to $100 a barrel.

I promised the Democrats that we would pursue endangered species protection of the Greater Western Chisler, would encourage naming a bridge after Meryl Streep, and would work to promote a National Day of Global Injustice Awareness.”

“That sounds fun,” I said.

“Well, it wasn’t all fun and games,” Blythe replied. “I had to mediate an inter-party fight among the Democrats.

Instead of a National Day of Global Injustice Awareness, some of the more extreme elements of the party demanded a National Day of Inequality Awareness. After a two-day session, it was resolved that National Day of Global Injustice Awareness would include in its bylaws reference to inequality awareness. Now if only the Republicans could learn to

compromise like that.”

I wanted a piece of the action. “Can I bribe … I mean influence someone,” I begged.

“Sure,” Blyth said. “Trump’s coming by later. He’s all yours.”

“I can’t influence him,” I complained. “He’s got all the money and girls he needs.”

“Not money and girls,” she explained. “When he walks in just tell him he’s awesome, the greatest and the best. Trust me, he’ll do whatever you want.” PJH

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Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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01 Old story 05 They’re often exposed in ski lodges 010 Radio option 014 Religious factions 019 River in the Bernese Alps 020 Started anew at the campsite 021 Pump, for one 022 Summer gripe 023 Part of a dairy’s financial statement?

026 Tropical vine 027 Truckers’ competition 028 2013 Masters champ Scott 029 Whom Dennis often menaced 031 Bass ending 032 __ factor 034 Paper punditry 037 Common Market letters 038 Slim fish 039 Retired boomer 040 Karmann __: sports car 042 Hardly handy 044 Dry-eyes solution 046 Doesn’t eat with one’s mouth closed?

049 German finale 050 Dash devices 053 Doctrinal suffix 054 Strings for Orpheus 055 Wash. setting 056 Onetime Ritz competitor 057 Smidge 060 “That’s what they tell me” 064 Double Stuf treats 066 Astronauts’ gear 068 Cab cousin 069 Running bird 070 Take advantage of 071 Vacant seat you only thought you saw?

075 Right-to-left lang.

076 Some light bulbs 077 Capek’s robot play 078 Competed in a regatta, perhaps

079 Future moss 081 Settings for Monet 085 Genetic chains 086 Actor Ken 087 Spot on a card 088 City east of Wichita 090 Former telecom company 092 Seasonal tunes 093 Gung-ho 095 Spread for Sunday morning coffee hour?

099 Louis XV furniture style 0102 Hacienda brick 0103 Bounce in a cave 0104 Passenger vehicle 0107 Antlered animal 0108 The law has a long one 0110 Horace poem 0112 “__ So Shy”: Pointer Sisters hit 0113 Suffix with lact0114 Jefferson Airplane genre 0117 Dinghy movers 0119 Put sows below cows?

0121 Like horses 0122 Glance at the blackboard?

0126 Journalistic slant 0127 Twelve __: neighbor of Tara 0128 Houston athlete 0129 Thing south of the border 0130 Asked 0131 Like some audiobooks 0132 Dublin-born poet 0133 Uncommon blood type: Abbr.

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01 Users’ shortcuts 02 Bumpkins 03 One forging a doctor’s note, maybe 04 Driven drove 05 Eggy pastry 06 Dusk, to Donne 07 Minuscule lake plant 08 Make a mess of 09 Secure for the trip 010 Poisonous slitherer 011 Old reciprocal electrical unit

012 Thing to fill out 013 Dover distance 014 Mineral used in glassmaking 015 Mickey Mouse enemy __ Eagle 016 What Alice’s adventures began with?

017 Constantly 018 Marvel Comics superhero?

024 Stable sounds 025 Fix text 030 “Scream” director Craven 033 New Zealand bird 035 Agreement 036 Fixes 041 St. Francis’ home 043 Via, à la Burns 045 “__ we forget” 046 Polite sneeze 047 Pepé Le Pew’s pursuit 048 Appropriated 050 “His house is in the village __”: Frost 051 With 74-Down, dramatic Navy mission 052 Pizza scraps?

055 Slacks 058 Reunión attendees 059 How some stock is sold 061 Sling spirits 062 “Kicked-Up Sandwiches” author 063 Knighted Flemish painter 065 Rx 066 Spaghetti sauce staple 067 Quick ride 072 Nuanced color 073 “Democracy is two wolves and __ voting on what to have for lunch”: Franklin 074 See 51-Down 080 In need 082 Stereotypical pooch

083 Qatar’s capital 084 “Same Time, Next Year” playwright Bernard 089 Each 091 Rash symptom 092 Arkansas River tributary 093 Visitors center handout 094 Mount Rainier, e.g.

096 You don’t have to turn its pages 097 Took out in cuffs, say 098 Hot drink holder 0100 Checked the ID of 0101 Guatemala gold 0104 Singles bar lure 0105 Sort of, with “in” 0106 Sale indicator 0109 “Wedding Bell Blues” soloist Marilyn 0111 Take out 0115 Take out 0116 “Star Trek” villain 0118 Monterrey miss: Abbr.

0120 Song with arm motions 0123 “Best in Show” org.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Here’s actor Bill Murray’s advice about relationships: “If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if, when you come back, you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.” In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest you make comparable moves to test and deepen your own closest alliances. See what it’s like to get more seriously and deliriously intimate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Some firefighters use a wetter kind of water than the rest of us. It contains a small amount of biodegradable foam that makes it ten times more effective in dousing blazes.

With this as your cue, I suggest you work on making your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I mean the following: When your feelings arise, give them your reverent attention. Marvel at how mysterious they are. Be grateful for how much life force they endow you with. Whether they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” regard them as interesting revelations that provide useful information and potential opportunities for growth.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is a BBC TV min-series set in the early 19th century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult magic so as to accomplish practical works, like helping the English navy in its war against the French navy. Norrell is pleased to find an apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a course of study for him. Norrell tells Strange that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the study is a continual delight.” If you’re interested in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s available.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) We humans have put buttons on clothing for seven millennia. But for a long time these small knobs and disks were purely ornamental—meant to add beauty but not serve any other function. That changed in the 13th century, when our ancestors finally got around to inventing buttonholes. Buttons could then serve an additional purpose, providing a convenient way to fasten garments.

I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening to dream up further uses for elements that have previously been one-dimensional. Brainstorm about how you might expand the value of familiar things.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You would be wise to rediscover and revive your primal innocence. If you can figure out how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication and a few slivers of your excess dignity, you will literally boost your intelligence. That’s why I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of childhood, where you can encounter stimuli that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. Your upcoming schedule could include jumping in mud puddles, attending parties with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun with wild toys, and drinking boisterously from fountains of youth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) While still a young man, Virgo author Leo Tolstoy wrote that “I have not met one man who is morally as good as I am.” He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk for an hour every day.” Others were equally stern: “Go to bed no later than ten o’clock,” “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did provide himself with wiggle room, however. One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours during the day. Another specified that he could visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo.

Now is a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. As you refine and recommit yourself to these fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself enough slack.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Many astronomers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang. An inconceivably condensed speck of matter exploded, eventually expanding into thousands of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy event, right?

Actually, no. Astronomers estimate that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 decibels—less than the volume of a live rock concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge of your own personal Big Bang, Libra. It, too, will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy it unleashes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) For now, you are excused from further work on the impossible tasks that have been grinding you down. You may take a break from the unsolvable riddles and cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would also like to distance yourself from the farcical jokes the universe has been playing, go right ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that you have been as successful at weathering these trials as you could possibly be, even if the concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) One afternoon in September, I was hiking along a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my favorite grandmother oak, I spied a thick, 6-foot-long snake loitering on the trail in front of me. In hundreds of previous visits, I had never before seen a creature bigger than a mouse. The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but its head looked more like a harmless gopher snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for the duration, then slipped away after I finished. What a great omen! The next day, I made a tough but liberating decision to leave behind a good part of my life so as to focus more fully on a great part. With or without a snake sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable breakthrough for you sometime soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Canadian author Margaret Atwood has finished a new manuscript. It’s called Scribbler Moon. But it won’t be published as a book until the year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, along with the texts of many other writers who are creating work for a “Future Library.” The project’s director is conceptual artist Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to George Orwell’s question, “How could you communicate with the future?” With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: Compose five messages you would you like to deliver to the person you will be in 2025.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Every hour of your life, millions of new cells are born to replace old cells that are dying. That’s why many parts of your body are composed of an entirely different collection of cells than they were years ago. If you are 35, for example, you have replaced your skeleton three times.

Congratulations! Your creativity is spectacular, as is your ability to transform yourself. Normally these instinctual talents aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts to recreate and transform your psyche, but they are now. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate everything about yourself, not just your physical organism.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The coming weeks will NOT be a favorable time to seek out allies you don’t even like that much or adventures that provide thrills you have felt a thousand times before. But the near future will be an excellent time to go on a quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom, or an answer to the Sphinx’s riddle. In other words, Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning toward experiences that steep your heart with a sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that degrades, disappoints, or desensitizes you.

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.

Brain Intelligence How the body discerns truth.

Wired to Know What’s True The everyday flood of information published in the conventional and alternative presses, shared on social media, and marketed in advertisements makes it extra challenging to figure out what is true. The pace of scientific and health-related discoveries is moving so quickly that it’s also hard to keep up and know what’s true there, as well.

This is not to mention that people also run agendas that distort information, and sometimes information is intentionally manipulated.

Part of our awesome design is that we come equipped to discern what’s true, rather than settling for being confused or misled. The idea is to know about our built-in truth detection systems and how to use them. Two important parts of that system are the hemispheres of the brain and our body’s intelligence.

Each hemisphere of our brain is designed to access and to give us different kinds of input. Both give us valuable information when seeking truth; neither hemisphere alone can offer the complete picture. And yet the combination is unbeatable. In addition, the body has its own form of intelligence. It always knows what’s true and what’s not true and gives us visceral signals, which do not lie.

Left brain Very simply put, the left hemisphere deals with logic, what is sequential, finite and what can be measured by the five physical senses. Physically-based data is its way to determine and validate what’s real, what’s true and what’s possible. Left-brain knowing will give you the facts. The physical data is important, however the facts do not always convey the whole story. Ask the left-brain what’s true, and its job is to bring on the facts.

Right brain The right hemisphere of the brain is non-linear. It does not need facts, logic or physical data to reach valid conclusions or to solve problems. It perceives energy patterns and conveys information instantaneously in the form of what we call inspiration, hunches or direct knowing. Those out of the blue ideas, inventions, visions and flashes of insight are the domain of the right brain. It is always best to then get the substantiating evidence from the fact seeking left-brain.

Einstein’s brain One of the special things about Albert Einstein’s special genius was that he was equally talented as a mystic and as a scientist. His brain was preserved and left to science. One of the many things they discovered was that the hemispheres of Einstein’s brain were not just touching each other like they do in a “normal” brain, they were completely blended together.

When in doubt, ask your body In addition to all the brain can provide, the body has its own intelligence. The body immediately gives a physical sensation, a clear visceral reaction when something is true, or not true. If something you read, or hear or are being told is true, your body will register that with goose bumps, warmth in the heart, a rush, or even an involuntary tear in the corner of the eye. If something is not true, your body will tighten, contract and give signals of discomfort like a stomachache, a bad taste in your mouth or a funny feeling. Enjoy learning your own body’s vocabulary, and whenever possible listen to what it is telling you. But, of course, if something or someone sounds too good to be true, it probably is not true. 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

TetonWyo.org The public meeting agendas and minutes for the Board of County Commissioners and Planning Commission can also be found in the Public Notices section of the JH News and Guide.

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