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CLIMATE

RENEGADE

How a local female scientist is illuminating the threats of climate change in Teton County.

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11 COVER STORY CLIMATE RENEGADE How a local female scientist is illuminating the threats of climate change in Teton County.

Cover photo by Jay Nel-McIntosh.

4 FROM OUR READERS 18 CREATIVE PEAKS 6 GUEST OPINION

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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey

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y the time we get to mid-May, you would think the threat of accumulating snow in Jackson would be over with. Although, on several occasions over the years there have been days with three or four inches of snow falling in the valley, during this very same week. The most recent snow event here was on May 12th 2004, when 4 inches of snow was measured in a 24-hour period in town. That was a record snowfall for that date, by the way.

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Average low temperatures this week nudge up only one-degree over what they were last week, normally they would be around 31-degrees, when you average them out over the last 50-some years. As usual, mean temperatures don’t mean much. Commonly in mid-May we will dip into the 20’s, or have overnight lows in the 40’s on a cloudy night.

We have also cold temperatures as low as 13-degrees, like it was on May 13th, 1943.

Average high temperatures have moved up three notches over last week, with this week’s average high temperatures at around 63-degrees. Again, that may not mean much, as we have seen highs only in the 40’s this time of year, and on special occasions it can zoom up to near 80-degrees. Last time we hit 80 in town during this week was in 2001.

Record high this week is from long ago, when it hit 83-degrees on May 16th, 1934.

NORMAL HIGH NORMAL LOW RECORD HIGH IN 1934 RECORD LOW IN 1943

63 31 83 13

THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.8 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.8 inches (1967) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 1 inch RECORD SNOWFALL: 14.5 inches (1942)

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FROM OUR READERS Local businesses are doing fair share to house the valley’s workforce The blame game has its appeal. But pointing fingers, calling people greedy and picking a sole target to unleash frustrations about the housing shortage brings us no closer to understanding the problem or finding solutions. Wouldn’t it be more productive to abstain from harsh words that stir up anger. Instead, what if we engaged in gentle dialogue?

I’m certain that both sides have their merit. So let’s work together as a community for a solution to the housing crisis, because we all want the same outcome of more workforce housing.

When it comes to Jackson’s housing shortage, it’s just not that simple to blame commercial growth. What we should do is look at the root causes of growth in our community.

Over the last 13 years, institutional growth has increased at a rate of 98 percent. Commercial businesses have only grown at a rate of 1.9 percent, and hotels a mere .6 percent.

This is according to Jackson/Teton County officials.

Institutional growth means things like schools, libraries, churches, the Western Heritage Arena, the Wyoming Game & Fish office and the Center for the Arts. Like most Jackson residents, I support these institutions for the services they provide and the cultural opportunities they bring. Institutions like these are a part of what makes our community so great.

What we shouldn’t forget is these institutions also bring more jobs, and more need for housing. However, they are not required to provide employee housing.

Which begs the question: Where does employee housing come from? If you look at the biggest drivers of employee housing you will see it is the private sector—Jackson businesses that have supplied 80 percent of today’s workforce housing.

So why are business owners being blamed as the sole cause of Jackson’s housing shortage?

In reality, addressing commercial growth is a piece of the puzzle. Of course there need to be limits on commercial growth in Jackson. No one is arguing against that, but blaming the very people who have provided the majority of the workforce housing and jobs only separates us further from each other and from finding solutions.

A group of business owners in town recently started a coalition “Think About It, Jackson Hole” to express their opinion and to inform the public about the consequences and implications for the land development regulations proposed

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by town council. Judging from the content of their Facebook page, “Think about it, Jackson Hole” has valid points, and is not a faceless group of rich outsiders. They are our friends, neighbors, colleagues and bosses.

They’re people like Jim and Dood Loose, who have owned and operated the Golden Eagle and Four Winds Motel for decades. They are business owners like Mark Walker, who is passing the reins of his restaurant onto his kids, who grew up here and are now raising families of their own. They are also community fixtures like Joe and Denise Rice, who came to Jackson decades ago and built a business from the ground up, and now employ hundreds of Jackson residents providing housing for more than 50 of them. Moreover, they have plans for an 82-unit employee apartment building they are ready to build today, but are facing a lengthy Town approval process.

As the numbers of employee housing provided by these business owners point to, these people care deeply about the community, its future and the hard working men and women that keep this town and their business’ running. To paint them as faceless, corporate zombies with no greater motivation than greed is misinformed and insulting. Most importantly, it doesn’t serve to bring us together to find a positive solution to our housing shortage.

I imagine most Jackson employers and employees see the benefit of local businesses helping to provide housing, especially onsite. Onsite employee housing in the form of mixed-use buildings would cut down on traffic and help mitigate the housing shortage.

Earlier this year our elected officials reversed course on the 2012 Comprehensive Plan, ignoring the Planning Commissioners recommendations, and regressed back to the 1994 Plan.

Their proposed FARs (Floor Area Ratios) would severely limit opportunity for density and mixed use downtown. It’s difficult to understand how less density is going to provide more space for housing, yet that is what the new proposed FARs are offering.

There is no doubt it would be beneficial to business owners to build with more density; it’s also evident that it would be beneficial to mitigating the housing crisis. If a land owner is able to build with larger FARs then they can provide onsite employee housing. However, with the currently proposed FARs they’re discouraged from doing so.

As a community let’s have an issues-based conversation.

Let’s be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. Let’s not call names and assume the worst of our

ideological opposition. Let’s realize that both sides want the same conclusion, to mitigate the housing shortage, to take care of the men and women that are not only the workforce of Jackson, but what makes Jackson great.

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Wyoming women have choices

We write regarding Guiliana Serena’s recent article, “Voices of Choice,” [April 27, 2016] and abortion services in Jackson and, more generally, Wyoming. We were saddened to hear about the difficulties reported in the editor’s introduction, and we want to provide information so others may avoid similar stresses.

It is correct that Wyoming’s laws and too many of its politicians are not supportive of and, in effect, are punitive to women accessing their right to make their personal decisions about their lives, including abortion services. However, numerous advocates, supporters, and the local providers work indefatigably to support women seeking to access abortion care. Women for Women, a small nonprofit, provides information about providers (contact information, services, cost, etc.) relevant to Wyoming residents at wyomingw4w.org.

For those Wyoming residents who cannot afford an abortion, Women for Women offers funding. The Wyoming Abortion Fund, administered by Wyoming Planned Parenthood, likewise helps provide funding for Wyoming residents. NARAL Pro-Choice Wyoming, prochoicewyoming.org, has for the last 25 years successfully fought Wyoming legislators’ most egregious efforts to restrict abortion and effectively punish Wyoming women (and even their health care providers) for accessing this basic health care right. For example, Wyoming does not have any “waiting period” (compared to a Draconian 72-hour waiting period in neighboring states Utah and South Dakota). On the other hand, please be aware that Turning Point, like “pregnancy resource centers” throughout the nation, seeks to dissuade women from making and implementing their personal decisions to terminate their pregnancy. However, the local providers, whom you can find at wyomingw4w.org, are excellent resources and provide all-options counseling. You are also welcome to call Women for Women’s hotline - 307-438-9272 - for information.

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2016 PRIMARY ELECTION PROCLAMATION TETON COUNTY STATE OF WYOMING COUNTY OF TETON

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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK

TO THE VOTERS OF TETON COUNTY, WYOMING: IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 22-2-109 STATUTES, STATE OF WYOMING ELECTIONS LAWS, IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED THAT A PRIMARY ELECTION WILL BE HELD THROUGH THE 18 ELECTION DISTRICTS AND PRECINCTS OF SAID TETON COUNTY ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016. THE NAMES OF ALL OFFICES TO BE FILLED AT SAID ELECTION AND THE NUMBER OF PERSONS REQUIRED BY LAW TO FILL SUCH OFFICES ARE AS FOLLOWS: PARTISAN OFFICES TO BE ELECTED AT THE PRIMARY: NO. TITLE: 38 REPUBLICAN PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN AND WOMEN 36 DEMOCRATIC PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN AND WOMEN 36 CONSTITUTION PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN AND WOMEN 36 LIBERTARIAN PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN AND WOMEN

TERM: 2 YEARS 2 YEARS 2 YEARS 2 YEARS

PARTISAN OFFICES TO BE NOMINATED BY EACH PARTY AT THE PRIMARY: 2 TETON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 1 UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE 1 STATE SENATOR, DISTRICT 16* 1 STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE DISTRICT 16** 1 STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE DISTRICT 22*** 1 STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE DISTRICT 23****

4 YEARS 2 YEARS 4 YEARS 2 YEARS 2 YEARS 2 YEARS

NON-PARTISAN OFFICES TO BE NOMINATED AT THE PRIMARY: 1 MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF JACKSON 2 COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE TOWN OF JACKSON

4 YEARS 4 YEARS

PROPOSITION TO BE VOTED UPON AT THE PRIMARY: 1 % Specific Purpose Excise Tax (SPET) Proposition: West Broadway Landslide $6,000,000.00 for the purpose of stabilizing the landslide above West Broadway including acquiring land and/or easements, relocation and replacement of any impacted utilities, and planning, engineering and construction of a system to stop the landslide and restore public infrastructure. Any excess funding, including any unused contingency funds, shall be placed into a designated account, the principal and interest of which shall be used for the operations and maintenance of the public infrastructure in the affected area. (This project is sponsored by the Town of Jackson.) For the Proposition? Against the Proposition? *SENATE DISTRICT 16 INCLUDES DIST. AND PREC. 1-10 (SOUTH HOBACK), 4-1 (WILSON SOUTH), 4-3 (WILSON NORTH) **HOUSE DISTRICT 16 INCLUDES DIST. AND PREC. 1-2 (MID-EAST JACKSON), 1-5 (MIDWEST JACKSON), 1-6 (COTTONWOOD PARK), 1-8 (EAST JACKSON), AND 1-9 (WEST JACKSON). ***HOUSE DISTRICT 22 INCLUDES DIST. AND PREC. 1-10 (SOUTH HOBACK) AND 4-1(WILSON SOUTH), 4-3 (WILSON NORTH) IN TETON COUNTY AND PARTS OF LINCOLN COUNTY AND SUBLETTE COUNTY. ****HOUSE DISTRICT 23 INCLUDES DIST. AND PREC. 1-1 (SOUTH OF JACKSON), 1-3 (SKYLINE/HI COUNTRY/GROS VENTRE/ELK REFUGE), 1-4 (NORTH JACKSON), 1-11 (INDIAN TRAILS), 1-7 (RAFTER J), 2-1 (KELLY/MOOSE/TETON VALLEY HIGHLANDS/AIRPORT), 3-1 (MORAN/YNP), 4-2 (MOOSE-WILSON ROAD), 4-4 (TETON VILLAGE) AND 5-1 (ALTA) IN TETON COUNTY.

AUGUST 1, 2016 – LAST DAY TO REGISTER WITH THE COUNTY CLERK BEFORE PRIMARY ELECTION DAY. VOTER REGISTRATION IS ALSO PERMITTED AT THE POLLS ON PRIMARY ELECTION DAY. AUGUST 16, 2016 – PRIMARY ELECTION DAY

FEDERAL AND STATE CANDIDATES FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE. SEC. 22-5-206 COUNTY AND PRECINCT PEOPLE FILE WITH THE COUNTY CLERK. SEC. 22-23-302 MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES FILE WITH THE CITY CLERK. SEC. 22-23-302 FILING DATES FOR SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES, HOSPITAL BOARD CANDIDATES, CONSERVATION DISTRICT BOARD CANDIDATES AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES WILL BE AUGUST 10 THROUGH AUGUST 29. 2016. THEY WILL BE ELECTED AT THE GENERAL ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 8, 2016.

CANDIDATES MUST FILE A STATEMENT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS BY AUGUST 9, 2016 AND A STATEMENT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES BY AUGUST 26, 2016. STATE AND FEDERAL CANDIDATES FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES FILE WITH THE COUNTY CLERK. A CANDIDATE WHO FAILS TO FILE A FULL AND COMPLETE ITEMIZED STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES MAY BE CHARGED WITH A MISDEMEANOR AS PROVIDED BY W.S. 22-26-112. A CANDIDATE WHO FAILS TO FILE THE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS REQUIRED BY THE SEVENTH DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION SHALL HAVE HIS NAME PRINTED ON A LIST DRAFTED BY THE APPROPRIATE FILING OFFICE SPECIFIED UNDER 22-25-107. THE LIST SHALL IMMEDIATELY BE POSTED IN THE FILING OFFICE AND MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

A LIST OF POLLING SITES FOR THE PRIMARY ELECTION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE. ATTEST: SHERRY L. DAIGLE, TETON COUNTY CLERK May 1, 2016 Publish: May 11, 2016

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Protect Our Legacy Unite for the Wyoming Range, but don’t stop there.

BY CRAIG BENJAMIN

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’ll never forget the first time I saw the Wyoming Range. Though at the time, I had no idea what it was called. It was late September 2001 and I was nearing the completion of a two-day drive from my parent’s former home on the outskirts of Fort Worth, TX to Jackson Hole. Anxious and excited to start my new post-college life pursuing deep pow in big mountains, I couldn’t believe the size of the mountains on my right as I passed through Pinedale. But as I crested the rise just west of Hwy 352 and began to drop towards Daniel, I thought to myself, “Wow, this feels like Wyoming.” Fields of sagebrush covered in pronghorn and cattle, the Green River meandering through the valley, and a distant mountain range piercing the sky.

Fifteen minutes later I passed over Hoback Rim and saw the Wyoming Range in all its glory. My jaw dropped at the beauty of its purple peaks towering over the valley below.

To this day I look forward to this view every time I drive home on Hwy 191.

The Wyoming Range does more than inspire awe. It’s home to healthy and abundant populations of elk and mule deer, and half of Wyoming’s moose population. Its streams provide some of the best remaining native cutthroat trout habitat. It’s the secret stash where locals from Sublette, Lincoln, and Teton Counties go to escape the summer crowds and experience the wild, rugged beauty of our incredible state.

But only a decade ago, quickly expanding oil and gas drilling and exploration in the Upper Green River Basin threatened the pristine Wyoming Range. The U.S. Forest

Service consented to lease 40,000 acres along the eastern front of the range for drilling. In response, citizens from all walks of life spoke out and came together. Local landowners, ranchers, outfitters, sportsmen, business owners, and conservation groups set aside their differences to focus on one common goal: safeguarding all that was special in the Wyoming Range from oil and gas development. Former governor and Democrat Dave Freudenthal, along with Wyoming’s Republican Senators John Barrasso and Mike Enzi supported these citizens. They led the bipartisan effort to pass the Wyoming Range Legacy Act in 2009, protecting 1.2 million acres of the range from future oil and gas leasing.

What brought this diverse group together in support of the Legacy Act was a simple idea: Some places are too special to drill. The Act allows Wyoming to continue producing more than its share of energy resources, while protecting a special place that defines our state and our outdoor heritage. It’s since become the foundation citizens have built on to preserve the irreplaceable hunting and fishing lands, wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities in the Wyoming Range.

While the Legacy Act was a tremendous achievement, it did not directly affect the 40,000 acres of leases found, after protests and appeals, offered improperly by the Forest Service. It also didn’t affect valid existing leases—like ones in the Upper Hoback Basin.

Companies holding existing leases were still allowed to apply for drilling permits. And this is exactly what a company proposed to do in 2007 in the Upper Hoback. Many of you will remember the “Don’t Frack the Hoback” campaign in which, after years of hard work and negotiation, an agreement was reached to buy out and retire these leases for $8.75 million. The Legacy Act ensures the investment by so many generous donors (large and small alike) is a sound one, as it prohibits the area from ever being leased again.

For Citizens for the Wyoming Range, a local group of sportsmen, ranchers, outfitters, steelworkers, and land owners—a group that is not opposed to oil and gas development—the image of drilling rigs, compressor stations, roads, pollution and noise in the

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A view of the distinctive Wyoming Range from Monument Ridge. middle of prime big game habitat and their favorite recreational areas is just too much.

Some places are too special to drill.

The improper offering in 2006 of 40,000 acres for oil and gas development brought citizens together and inspired what are now two incredible success stories: the Legacy Act and the Hoback lease buy-out. Now the issue that started it all is the last one we need to resolve. It’s time to unite one final time for the Wyoming Range.

After 10 years of starts and stops, the Forest Service has at long last released a draft analysis for its final decision about these 40,000 acres of oil and gas leases on the eastern slope of the Wyoming Range.

Fortunately, the Forest Service identified “No Leasing” in their draft analysis as their preferred alternative, but they need to hear from us in order to make sure they follow through in the final decision, as a no leasing decision is the only one that will protect the Wyoming Range and protect our legacy.

Here’s what you can do to help.

First, and most importantly, please visit JHAlliance.org/protectourlegacy to write the Forest Service by May 23, 2016, in support of protecting the Wyoming Range through a “No Leasing” decision.

Second, join dozens of your friends and neighbors at a Citizens for the Wyoming Range event and free screening of a short film about the Wyoming Range’s incredible values and the citizens who have never stopped fighting to protect. The event is 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday at Teton County Library.

Third, consider that when we say some places are too special to drill, we imply some are not. But where is it OK to drill? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? The Gulf of Mexico? The Niger Delta? The Ecuadorian rainforest? The boreal forests of Canada?

That leads me to the last thing you can do. Think about the fact that as long as we as a society remain addicted to fossil fuels, the special places we cherish will remain under threat. This means that until we stop clinging desperately to the dirty energy economy of the past and start leading the charge toward the clean energy economy of the future, we’re going to be endlessly running defense as the pressure mounts to expand energy extraction. PJH

Craig Benjamin is the executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.

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THE BUZZ No Spin Zone Studying the small business side of the town zoning battle.

BY JAKE NICHOLS

Moving at the speed of life Government has never been accused of reacting quickly to community needs. The long, grinding process of finalizing LDRs for just one of the five town districts mirrors what developers say they have to go through to get anything on the ground in the town or county.

Planning director Tyler Sinclair admits the journey has been an arduous one. “Planning is often a slow, tedious process [looking] from the outside, but we’ve been committed to taking our time, getting it right, and having as many eyes on it and voices in it as we can,” he said.

After ratification of the Comp Plan in 2012, it’s taken town

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hat is it about this community? What disease has it caught that causes it to care so passionately, so intensely about practically everything? That zeal cuts both ways. Town and county planners say they appreciate the engagement from the public. But sometimes it never stops.

Land Development Regulations (LDRs) for District 2 in Jackson’s downtown core are headed to first reading after three years in the making. After a contested process, the regulations call for a freezing of commercial and lodging potential at buildout numbers targeted by the 1994 Comp Plan. The final draft is a lukewarm compromise hammered out to appease mainly the anti-growth, pro-housing factions, who grew noisiest in the ninth inning. They believe not adding anything that isn’t potential housing will at least make some strides toward sheltering the valley’s workforce.

But will it? And will anyone build rental apartments or lowcost townhomes in downtown Jackson?

A growing contingent of business owners is unhappy with the finalized LDRs for D2. They warn elected officials that pushing housing on the town at the expense of commercial and lodging would cause downtown decay and urban sprawl.

Many business owners take exception at commercial being targeted as a scapegoat and vilified as anti-housing. They say, with better tools and a more streamlined process, they can revitalize downtown with shopping, dining, and office space and at the same time build more workforce units than the government can.

In truth, it’s not fair to label either side as for or against housing. All feel the pain of that issue. Many nonprofit groups and individuals are adamantly opposed to large hotel chains like a Marriott, and see them as job-multipliers that exacerbate Jackson’s housing problem. Small business owners don’t like them either. They are killing small family businesses and they don’t take care of their workers the way local employers do, small business owners claim.

Interested community members like Pete Muldoon and Jorge Moreno challenge the notion that commercial and lodging developments will help the valley’s housing crisis in any way. Organizations like the Conservation Alliance, headed by Craig Benjamin, and the Community Resource Center, led by Mary Erickson, have pushed a prioritization of new residential projects above any development that does not put more housing inventory into the town and county.

Still, the two sides have more in common than they might think. It’s the mode of transportation that’s being argued.

Google Maps or Waze—how do we get to where we want to be? The Planet has focused on many of the folks who are now displaced from the valley’s housing emergency. So what do pro-growth small business owners have to say?

The Virginian Apartments will undergo renovation, displacing an estimated 300 residents. planners until now to propose the first set of correlating LDRs for District 2. The downtown core district is defined as the area where primarily the highest density residential uses will be envisioned with limited single-family detached units. It is also slated for 18 percent of the 5.1 million square feet of potential commercial/lodging in the county—of which roughly 2 million latent square feet is still undeveloped in town.

Some say that’s not enough.

John Stennis, member of the town planning and zoning commission since 2010 and associate at Gilday Architects, has been in the thick of it for six years. He says it’s still hard to get his head around it. Like some, he believes the downtown zoning discussion was hijacked by anxiety over the homeless and the view that any commercial is bad for car campers.

“The District 2 discussion kind of got derailed by housing issues. My personal opinion: I would say we are definitely working against our own interests. Maybe that’s what the community needs right now to feel good about itself in the LDR process,” Stennis said. “But I hope we can come back and revisit D2. There is a lot of unfounded fear. Community-based organizations that pushed the negative campaign against the LDR process in D2, and the whole housing issue, and the backlash against commercial development that is going to create even more housing problems. We are unfairly punishing new businesses.”

Business owner and hotelier Jim Darwiche, who just unveiled Jackson’s newest lodging facility—the Jackson Hotel, believes local businesses are being singled out to solve the community’s housing burdens. “For us to take economic incentive and choke it, we are not helping. Most of the area we are talking about is within a 5- or 10-minute walk to things downtown,” Darwiche said. “We never learn from the past.

They are going to choke this place with housing. It scares the hell out of me.”

Former mayor Mark Barron, who took a decidedly progrowth stance while in office, has been resolute about giving commercial a chance in downtown Jackson. He called the LDR revision for D2 an over-dependence on 22-year-old zoning.

“Sadly, I empathize with this workforce housing issue. I struggle with it on a daily basis,” Barron said. “I came here in 1975 and I camped. I lived in my car because there was a workforce housing shortage. There has always been a workforce housing shortage. It doesn’t make it right. But it’s a desirable place to live. And it’s a very tough place to grow your commercial business.”

Barron adds that he and his wife, Ruth Ann Petroff, have taken care of their employees with employee housing renting for “way below market rate.” To continue that, he says he needs better tools and more commercial potential. “We need solutions that can’t depend on the public sector to try to do everything for us,” he said.

Hotelier and businesswoman Clarene Law also said she understands the suffering of those struggling to find housing. “It touches my soul to see what’s happened to some of

these people, but I don’t think we should just go back to the plan we had 20 years ago,” she said. “I don’t want the town to become just investor properties. We have to have the tools to redevelop.”

Max Chapman, owner of Snow King Resort, asserts restrictions were causing a 20-year stalemate in renewal projects downtown that could bring vibrancy and housing. “This council has done a disservice to this community. [They] are going to encourage development that is not going to encourage housing,” he said.

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Developers say it’s about flexibility, yet in the past they’ve complained about predictability. Sinclair believes he and his staff have come up with regulations for D2 that better define what developers can do and streamline the process. Still, developers say too many hurdles and dollar signs jam the path from application to building permit.

“We are trying to build an 82-unit apartment complex in Jackson Hole right now. It is absolutely ridiculous how long it takes to get approvals,” said restaurateur Joe Rice. “Everybody says ‘workforce housing,’ ‘workforce housing.’ But I’ve seen no incentives out there. No one is trying to cut timeline and fees, or partner with us. There has been nothing from the town. It’s too cumbersome.”

Rice has a strong track record of housing his own employees. He says he can do better if regulations were relaxed a little.

“We are a huge proponent of providing workforce housing for our people. We’ve led by example in this. I think it’s an employer’s responsibility to look out for their employees and to take the onus on themselves to help with housing, but you’ve got to give us the tools to do that,” Rice said.

While Sinclair insists flexibility has been built in to the process, including an across-the-board 20 percent adjustment variation formula, Stennis, for one, would like to see more spot zoning and a return of the PMUD (Planned Mixed-Use Development) tool.

“Most of the useful buildings in town were built using planning tools which gave developers flexibility,” Stennis said.

“I personally don’t fear the PMUD. Successful developments like Daisy Bush were done with a planned development tool.

It’s been a very successful tool. It has provided housing and different amenities the community needs and wants. And you do have a lot of control over PMUD. The tools are going away.

You have to give the community more powerful tools. Without those we are left in a worse place than we are now.”

Property owner Jay Varley, who sold one parcel in town to make way for a new Marriott, said, “Current LDRs have not encouraged redevelopment and neither will the proposed District 2 LDRs. We would like to build more housing as part of mixed-use projects but zoning is not helpful.”

Large land owner Kelly Lockhart agrees.

“You have a housing crisis. It didn’t happen overnight.

There have been a lot of people who want to build houses but

haven’t been able to. District 2 is broken. We have to fix it,” Lockhart said. “I think that the town core really does need to be reserved for tax revenue so you can provide goods and services. You can’t do that any place else. If we can get some residential in downtown that’s great but we are not going to get 2,800 units. Under the current plan you are not going to get any housing downtown but in fact you are going to get urban decay. How you fix it is bring back the PMUD.” But redevelopment is happening to some degree and it has caused immediate strife. Some 300 residents are being displaced and added to the growing pool of homeless with the renovation of the Virginian Apartments. The complex will undergo a facelift—and presumably cater to a higher-end clientele in the end—in the meantime, the redevelopment is already aggravating an emergency housing situation.

Chamber of Commerce president Jeff Golightly said decrepit old buildings downtown will stay that way until better tools and incentives are offered to developers.

“Having only 18 percent of the [non-residential] supply in the downtown core means that the vast majority of it is going to move away from downtown and will end up causing us to get in our vehicles and drive back and forth to it,” Golightly said. “Growth is coming either way. The question is where do we want to see it? I thought it was ‘Town as Heart?’ This will create sprawl.”

Solutions?

Planning commissioner Christen Holt would like to see an increase in FAR (Floor-Area Ratio, or how big a building is allowed to be) and the ability to build four stories.

Rice says that is one of his biggest complaints.

“What’s the difference between three or four floors? I’ve never understood that. If we could put four floors in a 46-foot

building for more housing, why can’t we do that?” Rice wondered.

Town planners increased max height of downtown buildings from 42 to 46 feet, as long as the top floor was set back enough to reduce the feeling that large high-rises were cramming town streets.

Banker Jeff Fueschel said four floors would go a long way toward making projects pencil for developers. “At the end of the day, what you have to decide is whether or not what you are doing is economically viable. If you are going to allow 46 feet then allow four stories. That’s the way you get the density to drive down the cost to allow and accommodate the additional housing,” he said. “If you are not going to do that you are fooling yourself. If you look around at some of the communities that Jackson Hole competes with, you can see four- and five-story buildings that are what it takes to be economically viable.”

Town councilman Don Frank agrees, saying the idea that planners are restricting 46-foot buildings to three stories gives him heartburn.

Councilman Jim Stanford, however, says the community doesn’t want anything taller than three stories. “I’m going to stick with three stories. I don’t know it’s in our purview to rollback one of the main premises of the 2012 Comp Plan,” he said.

“There were a lot of people that wanted only one or two stories, so three at 46 feet is a compromise.”

Fueschel also believes a trailer park option would be helpful.

“You have to be able to build a product that is under $125,000 that serves the 18 to 30 thousand annual income earners if you are truly going to try to solve housing rather than just talk about it … and I’ve seen it talked about for the entire 35 years I’ve been here,” Fueschel said. “In one fell swoop, in one large trailer park, you can provide as much

housing product as this community has provided in the last 12 years. We’ve danced around that issue, and for some reason Teton County is the only county I know of in the state of Wyoming that doesn’t have that arrow in it’s quiver. What we are building is too costly for a lot of the people that live and work here.”

No easy fix Stennis says, given that the 1994 and 2012 Comp Plans both call for a doubling in population in the town and county, nonresidential potential should also double and if not in the downtown core, where do we want people to shop and work?

“For 20 years staff has thought that District 2 was mostly a commercial zone and wouldn’t have to deal with housing.

Downtown was not ever really intended to deal with our housing problems. Core should be commercial and office space for locals, not just tourists,” Stennis said. “There are other zones in town that are more specifically residential zones and the council has talked about accessory residential units there.”

Stennis adds that nonresidential in District 2 is also needed to shore up the town’s gateways, especially the north entrance where little has been done outside of the efforts of developer Jerry Johnson at the Rustic Inn property. “It doesn’t look like a world-class resort town coming in from North Cache,” he said.

“They call the 2012 Plan adaptive but it’s essentially what we’ve already had. It’s not a significant enough change and I think it’s unrealistic. It hasn’t netted us any redevelopment over the last 20 years, in fact we might have lost some buildings over that time,” Stennis said. “It’s taken us 20 years to come up with LDRs for District 2 and through it all we keep changing electeds and losing of continuity. In my opinion we need to just bust out a complete draft of LDRs; get it done now, and not this district-by-district approach.” PJH

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The eye-catching Vietnamese model and Playboy (Venezuela edition) Playmate Angie Vu complained to the New York Daily News in April that her five-plus months in jail in Brooklyn have been “torture” and “cruel” because of her lack of access to beauty care. Vu is fighting extradition to France for taking her 9-year-old daughter in violation of the father’s custody claim and is locked up until a federal judge rules. Among her complaints: “turning pale” in the “harsh light”; lack of “Guerlain’s moisturizer”; inability to look at herself for months (because glass mirrors are prohibited); and “worrying” about being hit on by “lesbians” (thus causing “wrinkles”). At least, she told the reporter, she has found God in jail and passes time reading the Bible.

Questionable Judgments

Chef Mahbub Chowdhury pleaded guilty in April to food and hygiene violations in Swindon (England) Magistrates Court after inspectors found “brown fingerprints” in the kitchen at his Yeahya Flavour of Asia carry-out restaurant.

Chowdhury was candid about his “cultural” habit of bypassing toilet paper and using his hand to clean himself. The plastic bottle with the fingerprints, Chowdbury said, contained water that he normally used instead of the toilet paper, and his lawyer argued that since the bottle was never actually lab-tested, the brown spots could have been “spices.”

Unclear on the Concept

n “Zero tolerance” claimed another victim, in Charlotte, N.C., in April, when Jaden Malone, 12, came to his bullied friend’s aid, was knocked down himself and repeatedly punched in the head by the bully, and pushed the boy off of him to avoid further damage—but was himself suspended for three days by his charter school Invest Collegiate. A school official pointed out that the bully got five days, and besides, the policy against “all” physical violence is very clear. (After having Jaden treated for a concussion, his mother promptly withdrew him from the school.)

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n Ms. Madi Barney, 20, courageously publicly reported her own rape accusation recently in Provo, Utah, and as a result has been disciplined as a student at Brigham Young University for allegedly violating the school’s “honor code.” (She is barred from withdrawing from courses or re-registering.) Whether the sex was consensual must be investigated by Provo police, but BYU officials said they had heard enough to charge Barney with the no-no of premarital sex. (Critics decried the advantage BYU thus gives rapists of BYU females—since the women face the additional fear of university reprisals irrespective of the criminal case.)

Latest Religious Messages

Idaho’s law protecting fundamentalist faith healers regained prominence recently in the case of Mariah Walton, 20, who was born with a routinely repairable heart defect but who received only prayer and herbs because of her parents’ religious rejection of doctors.

Walton’s now-irreversible damage leaves her frail and dependent on portable oxygen, and she will likely need lung and heart transplants to survive. Idaho and five other states immunize parents from criminal prosecution if they reject medical care on the ground of religious teachings.

Latest From Evangelicals

Christian political activist David Barton told his “WallBuilders” radio audience recently that Disney’s anthropomorphic characters (e.g., Bambi) are simply gateways to kids’ learning Babylonian pagan worship. n Brooklyn, N.Y., “prophet” Yakim Manasseh Jordan told

By CHUCK SHEPHERD followers recently that he has arranged with God to bring people back from the dead if they—cheerfully—offer a “miracle favor cloud” of gifts as low as $1,000.

n James David Manning, chief pastor of the Atlah Worldwide Missionary Church in Harlem, in a recent online sermon, stepped up his usual anti-gay rhetoric, warning “sodomites” that God would soon send flames “coming out of your butthole.” (A gay and transgender support group is fundraising to buy Atlah’s building and set up a shelter.)

Police Report

The Tap Inn bar in Billings, Montana, released April 11 surveillance video of the armed robbery staged by two men and a woman (still on the lam), showing two liplocked customers at the bar, lost in affectionate embrace during the entire crime, seemingly oblivious of danger.

The robbers, perhaps impressed by the couple’s passion, ignored them—even while emptying the cash register just a few feet away. n Andru Jolstad, 26, was arrested on April 16 and charged with using a pry bar to break into the cash boxes of four machines at Zap’s Arcade in Mesa, Ariz. Following citizen tips, a cop arrived to find Jolstad on his knees alongside one machine with his arm still inside. His total take from the spree was $18, and he’ll likely be sent back to prison from an earlier charge.

Yee-Hah!

Transportation Security Administration announced on April 27 that its screeners had confiscated 73 guns from passengers’ carry-ons—in just the previous seven days!

(Sixty-eight were loaded, and 27 had a round in the chamber.) n Federal regulators were deliberating in April whether to stop Minnesota’s Ideal Conceal from rolling out its two-shot, .380 caliber handgun disguised as a smartphone. Several police chiefs, and two U.S. senators, have expressed alarm. n Jeffrey Grubbs, 45, was charged with two felonies in March following a school’s 4-H Club carpentry project at which he (lacking a hammer) pounded a thumbtack into wood with the butt of his loaded handgun. (He subsequently realized the danger and removed the bullets.)

Perspective

California’s forests host major marijuana-growing operations (legal and illegal), and though the product has its virtues, cannabis farming creates massive problems— guzzling water (23 liters per day per plant—state drought or not) and needing the protection of a dangerous rodenticide. A state wildlife official told NBC News in April that the cannabis sites “use massive amounts of fertilizers, divert natural run-off waters, create toxic run-off waste and byproducts, remove large amounts of vegetation and trees, … create … unstable soils and kill or displace wildlife.”

Drugs! Is There Anything They Can’t Do?

Police in the Augusta, Georgia, suburb of Hephzibah arrested a meth-addled Ray Roye for battery and family violence against his wife in March. Roye was yelling about custody of their child, but his wife informed police they don’t have a child. n Johnnie Hurt, 38, was arrested after reportedly eating mulch from a motel’s landscaping in London, Kentucky, in April while missing a court-ordered drug test. When police arrived, Hurt was found in his wildly trashed a motel room.

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e read about it. We debate about it. We ridicule politicians and their stances on it. We complain about shorter winters and rising temperatures, but Wyoming resorts are still thriving and this area’s rivers still full of fish.

Besides lamenting the effects of climate change, many folks aren’t really doing anything about it. Last year was the hottest recorded year since 1880 (when weather records began). The average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.62 degrees above the 20th century average, according to NOAA. This has piqued the interest and perked the ears of conservationists, scientists, policy makers, fly fishers and ski bums alike.

Dr. Corinna Riginos is a local ecologist and research associate for the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative. The 37-yearold scientist is focused on climate change and how it will affect the future of Jackson Hole. “So much of our economy depends on

the environment and our ecosystems,” she said. “Anything that threatens these is also a threat to our economy.”

Alongside Teton County Commissioner Mark Newcomb and Jonathan Schechter, executive director of the Charture Institute, Riginos published the seminal report, The Coming Climate in June 2015. The 42-page study is the first scientific work to outline the effects of climate change in the Teton region on both natural and social science levels, specifically, in relation to the local economy.

Riginos said the project is intended to raise awareness and interest in the general public, as well as among leadership and decision makers.

According to The Coming Climate, “increasingly warm conditions can be expected to lead to significantly reduced depth and duration of snowpack (including more areas with transient snow). This means earlier spring snowmelt, lower summer stream flows, and generally more arid summers.

Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree on the threats of climate change. The data reflect our complaints about snowpack and snowmelt—climate change is arriving

at an alarming pace. Riginos’ work is central to a local strategy of counteracting climate change through raising public awareness.

Without her local scientific contributions, policy conversation and future projections were scattered and unclear. Her work has leveled the playing field in understanding what is at stake while sparking important dialogue.

A path to the Tetons

With a diverse background in biology and ecology, Riginos has always been connected to natural landscapes. She also has a knack for writing fiction and creative non-fiction.

Although she grew up in urban areas, she spent her formative years studying nature.

Riginos grew up in Washington D.C., taking frequent trips to Greece, her father’s native country. In the Greek islands, she hiked all over, watching goats and their impact on the landscape over time. “This is where it began intuitively for me,” she said.

Later, she attended Brown University, and spent two years in South Africa as a Fulbright Scholar studying native plants threatened by land management practices and grazing. Two

years into her doctorate studies at UC Davis, she moved to rural Kenya for the next seven years, where she loved watching elephants, giraffes and baboons from her veranda.

“I didn’t grow up in the great outdoors,” Riginos said. “But I have always loved nature, and I have always felt strongly compelled to protect the essence of it and conserve the spectacular species that live on this planet in the face of change that humans are causing around the world. This has been my main motivation since childhood and through my career.”

Riginos recalls the unique flavor of rural Kenya and its incredible wildlife, which she says she will hold dear for the rest of her life.

She reminisces about the morning she was eating breakfast with her husband in their yard, when a rhinoceros charged in. This endangered species moved her, along with the hilarity of their British Kenyan landlord, whose reaction was, “Oh what a bother!” In Kenya, “Every day was so special and every day was challenging.”

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plants; land that supports both wildlife and human needs. Her work is a reminder that the fate of the land, the wildlife it supports, and the humans that manage it are tied together. “We humans rely on healthy, functioning ecosystems every day,” she said.

Riginos recalls her work in East Africa’s savannas as an example. “Land that is healthy and in good condition produces the grass that cows and wild herbivores both need to live. When the land is overgrazed and loses grass, it begins to lose topsoil and starts producing less grass, in a feedback loop that leads to less and less productive land that is able to support fewer and fewer cows and wild herbivores,” she explained.

“This is a simple case where the condition of the ecosystem affects its ability to do the things that we humans want it to do. But the same thing applies to all ecosystems and the myriad things that they give us—clean water, clean air, moderation of floods and fires, etcetera.”

Three years ago, Riginos and her family moved to Jackson. Her husband, biologist Siva Sundaresan, is the conservation director for the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.

“Moving to a smaller town and doing field work while living in a place where you could get into nature more immediately felt right to me,” she said. “The thought of living in Greater Yellowstone, the gem of wildlife, with a vast and thriving ecosystem, and the stronghold of conservation in the lower 48 was very appealing to us.”

But living in the area is a gamble for Riginos, professionally. Since the Teton Research Institute of Teton Science Schools was closed down and she lost her position there as lead scientist, she has been working on a soft-money research basis, raising her own salary through grants and projects.

“I have been doing a lot of soul-searching about my career and what is important to me in life,” she said. “The decision to stay

in Jackson is a risky one—there is no job security in what I’m doing right now, and no institutional backing. I am running from project to project and always worried about where the next piece of salary will come from.”

Despite this uncertainty, she remains committed to Jackson, to this community, and to doing her part to conserve the diverse ecosystems of the Tetons and Greater Yellowstone regions. “Staying here feels right,” she said. “I think many people make this kind of [difficult] choice about living in Jackson, and that is part of what makes this such a special place.”

Along with the difficulties of making a life in Jackson, Riginos says we should remember something else we all have in common as citizens here. “Many of us recognize that the Tetons and Greater Yellowstone are so special. I am always impressed by how much people care here about wildlife and conservation. I think people sometimes get acrimonious because they care so deeply,” she said. “There is so much emphasis on the environment here, and people have many different opinions on how it should be managed. We should pause and realize that we are trying to achieve the same thing: protecting and conserving.”

Breaking into the boys club

In the field of science, traditionally dominated by men, Riginos has found unique ways to manage the demands, although she admits: “The challenges of being a mother and a biologist are definitely significant.”

Keeping up physically is difficult during and after pregnancy in terms of fieldwork, especially in the backcountry. Her two sons are one and five years old. “You can’t go into the backcountry when a newborn is dependent on you,” Riginos said.

International fieldwork demands even larger chunks of time. Her new project—The

Big-headed Ant Project—which examines the effects of non-native ants on the tree cover in Kenya, is funded for the next four years, and she will have to visit Africa several times per year for multiple weeks at a time.

Her family will travel with her.

“I never felt discrimination,” Riginos said, “but it is true that in a field dominated by men there is a male club that you are trying to break into, although that has never really held me back.”

Indeed, Riginos is an anomaly. The majority of senior management positions in research and science remain male dominated. “There is a switch that happens,” Riginos said, “as a student you are surrounded by a lot of women, but the role models and people who have made it big tend to be male.”

Science attracts many women, Riginos added, but does not often retain them in the higher ranks. “Every year, you see major articles trying to figure out why women leave science. It seems like the post-Ph.D. early professional phase is really critical, and a lot of that centers on intangible things like lifestyle choices that lead women away from research careers.”

As in many fields, connections and collaborations are key. “Building relationships is easier with people you have a lot in common with or hang out with outside of work,” Riginos said. “It’s a natural part of human nature, but it means that it’s harder for people who are different from the majority—whether because of gender, race, or any other reason—to build those partnerships and friendships that lead to opportunities. That said, I think that doing good, solid work opens doors, too, and that’s how I’ve always tried to operate.”

Women are often hit hard with family responsibilities at the same time they are required to meet research goals to secure tenure, the right to not have one’s job terminated without cause. According to Live

Science, “The challenges of child care and the demands of running a research lab are often seen as incompatible. Women who plan to have children in the future drop out of the academic research race at twice the rate of men.”

While women comprise 47 percent of the total U.S. workforce, they are less represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. Just 39 percent of chemists and material scientists are female, while 28 percent of environmental scientists and geoscientists are women, only 16 percent of chemical engineers and just 12 percent of civil engineers are female, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Riginos believes that many women in the previous generation have helped pave the way. She notices a shift in terms of parenting and social expectations, and it has become easier for women to succeed in the field of science. She notes that ecology itself has become largely female dominated.

“Statements about women ‘leaving science’ irritate me, because what they are really referring to is women who move away from doing research. But usually these are women who continue to use their scientific training to do something good and important in the world, like science education or science-based policy work,” Riginos said.

“We should be congratulating women and men who put their science training to good use, rather than making them feel like failures for leaving the academic research path.”

Riginos also credits the Womentoring program for helping her transition into a local leadership role. This mentoring component of Womentum, a local nonprofit dedicated to empowering women, chooses 16 mentor/ mentee partners, annually, and focuses on empowering women as leaders in the community. Riginos’ Womentoring mentor is Pam Case, who works in development for the Jackson Hole Land Trust.

During their partnership year with Womentoring, Case helped Riginos to better cultivate relationships with people interested in her work, and those interested in financing her projects. Operating independently and raising her own salary and funding has been a new challenge. “Pam has helped me embrace this challenge,” Riginos said.

Riginos is also partnering with other women in the field of science.

Her collaborations have the potential to illuminate the work of other females standing their ground in a male dominated sphere. She is working alongside Geneva Chong, research ecologist for United States Geologic Survey, on her flowering time in the Tetons project. Chong’s current research is focused on plant phenology (timing of

Corinna Riginos leads a training on rangeland health monitoring in Ethiopia.

The Coming Climate is here PLANET JACKSON HOLE: What did you want to accomplish with The Coming Climate report?

CORINNA RIGINOS: We brought together the best available scientific literature and best knowledge about trends and temperatures; this is not original research. We tried to translate it for Teton County. Climate change is a huge global issue and when you bring it to a local level, it helps people to understand why they should care. What we did was juxtapose information on ecological impacts and the economy of Teton County. It gives people more specifics through a comprehensive assessment.

PJH: What was the original vision for the project?

RIGINOS: We wanted to provide a reference point and then do an annual update, and every five years afterward, but we have not found financial support for this. This was a start, but not an end. It is difficult to convince people that they need to continue to address this information. In five years, we need to update it.

My hope is that we will get enough interest and support for a comprehensive update.

PJH: Why do you think it is hard to drum up financial support right now?

RIGINOS: Getting funding is always the big challenge for research, not just right now. I think people are more willing to fund projects that have immediate results that lead to actionable outcomes. Climate change is a long-term problem, and there are rarely clear-cut solutions to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on our ecosystems. At the same time, there are urgent problems that are easier to solve, so those tend to get funded more easily. Climate change is like the slow leak in the ship that nobody has time to look for.

PJH: What struck you most about your findings from the report?

RIGINOS: I always thought of climate change leading to an ecosystem’s slow unraveling. What struck me, from the research I did for the report, was the potential for rapid and sweeping changes in the Yellowstone ecosystem to occur.

Scientists predict that there will be much more frequent and extensive forest fires in the Yellowstone ecosystem by 2050.

This could pretty quickly lead to a situation where trees cannot regenerate, and much of the Yellowstone ecosystem could become shrub land instead of a forest. This would affect pretty much everything about how the ecosystem works, what kinds of species it supports, summer stream flows, and on and on.

Invasive ants and African savannas

PJH: Why is it so important to get this information to the masses?

RIGINOS: If we don’t start collecting data, we won’t know what is close to baseline.

Since the 80s, it has been getting warmer. I’ve been looking at the flowering time of plants. The timing is really important because it affects birds and the food chain on up. If plants are doing things at different times than in the past, this changes the lay of the land for animals as well. If birds do not also change their patterns, this could lead to problems such as reduced food supply. Next are ungulates, because deer and elk are migratory.

Also, if it gets green earlier in the spring, that means things will get dry earlier. Elk calving rates have declined. We know that the impacts are likely big on many species, but we don’t know the specifics for certain species.

PJH: What can we do to mitigate our carbon footprint on a daily basis?

RIGINOS: There are many small things we can each do that make a difference: reduce food waste, drive fuel-efficient vehicles, etcetera. I know that air travel contributes significantly to my own carbon footprint, so I have started buying carbon offsets for my air travel. Ultimately, however, the most important thing we can do is to push for climate change to be a priority in national and international politics.

PJH: What is the best way to push for climate change to be that priority?

RIGINOS: I really think the most important thing we can each do to tackle climate change is to talk about it. Talk about it with your friends and family and colleagues so that it stays an issue people think about. When people are aware of it and thinking about it regularly, they are more likely to make it a priority in terms of policy and urging for our political leadership to get serious about dealing with this problem.

PJH: What are some talking points the average person should use when trying to discuss climate change with other people?

RIGINOS: I would start with the fact that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by humans. That is a pretty staggering percentage of experts that agree on what the evidence says.

out a project dubbed The Times They are a-Changing, looking at how flowering times—what date a plant starts making flowers­ —are changing in the Tetons as temperatures rise in this region.

“By looking at the dates when plants first make flowers, we can start seeing how a warming climate is impacting plants, which usually translates to impacts on the various animals that eat plants,” Riginos said. She cites Frank Craighead’s data, collected in the 1970s, before much climate-changecaused warming had occurred, as central to the study. “We’re also hoping to set things up so that interested members of the public could help make observations in the future, as a way to get people directly engaged

in thinking about how climate change is affecting this ecosystem,” she said.

Additionally, a large focus of her work in Wyoming is centered on wildlife vehicle collision mitigation. WYDOT and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation fund her current project, Oh Deer. The project seeks to understand the conditions of roadways, habitat characteristics, and migrations as contributing factors to collisions. She has identified the most problematic sections of road in Wyoming.

“For example, we’ve found some places where deer migration routes cross major highways, leading to a spike in deer-vehicle collisions for just a few weeks in the fall and spring. These are places where some

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Riginos has her hands in many projects beyond climate and economy in Teton County. Her interests and experience range from wildlifevehicle collisions and large herbivore movement, migration and habitat selection patterns to rangeland monitoring, management, and restoration. She also studies the impacts of invasive species, land-use change, and climate change on natural systems.

With funding from Meg and Bert Raines Wildlife Fund, she is carrying

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life-history events such as green-up and flowering), as well as habitat quality and productivity.

For this project, in addition to working with young female scientists such as Chauncey Smith, Riginos has also received “vital volunteer support from two outstanding female biologists in the community.” One is Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation’s Frances Clark, who headed the Nature Mapping program focused on local wildlife education and conservation. The other is Susan Marsh, naturalist and awardwinning writer, who has been a wild land steward for more than 30 years for the U. S. Forest Service.

In May, the Ecological Society of America named Riginos Early Career Fellow, an honorary title given to eight or nine young ecologists, recognizing their contributions and expected future contributions to the field. Surprised by the award, Riginos said it was heartening to see that the Early Career Fellowship committee valued the conservation and outreach-oriented work she does, including working closely with WYDOT to try to reduce the number of deer-vehicle collisions on Wyoming’s roads.

“I think the awards committee liked the mixture of novel science, and really applied problem-solving and outreach that I’ve pursued in my career.”

Inspiring younger women with her dynamic accomplishments, she admits that her non-work time is mostly spent with family, ideally doing something outdoors.

“It is really easy to fall into the trap of measuring oneself against traditional definitions of success, which, in science, tend to be about gaining notoriety rather than making a positive difference in the world,” she said. “Women tend to undervalue their own accomplishments. We need to remember that we can do just as well in science as our male colleagues, but that it is also important to value a wide array of accomplishments that may not fit the traditional mold.”

Jonathan Schechter has worked closely with Riginos on several projects, including The Coming Climate. The Charture Institute’s vision is focused on ‘co-thriving,’ or the idea that humans and the natural world can simultaneously co-thrive. It’s aligned with Riginos’ focus on human impacts on surrounding ecosystems. Schechter notes that Riginos’ skills as a writer allow her to write in a way that is accessible to nonscientists. “If I have a challenging problem that involves a multifaceted environmental question, Corinna is my go to; she is able to put it into a framework that people can understand,” he said.

Schechter and Riginos intend to continue their professional partnership. “Corinna has the intellectual brilliance to understand complex problems well enough to present them to other people,” Schechter said. “The ability to be a first class scientist doesn’t always overlap with ability to relay that information. You need both the intellectual capacity, and the empathy to convey that to those who don’t speak the language of science. Corinna has that gift.”

diversity of East Africa’s whistling thorn savannas.

Looking to the future

Spending arduous days in the field, Riginos longs to write again. “I was very passionate and serious about writing, but I have not had much time for it in the last few years,” Riginos said. “I hope that in the future I’ll find a way to integrate that back into my life. I have a lot of experiences from living and working in Kenya and South Africa that I’d like to write about.”

With her hands in so many projects and longing for the time to feed her creative writing passions, she admitted, “Sometimes it feels schizophrenic to work on so many topics, but it keeps me engaged in so many things. It all falls under the umbrella of how humans impact the world and have consequences for native flora and fauna.”

She emphasizes that conservation work must begin with the goal of trying to understand what we can do to reduce negative human impacts and continue to conserve.

“We can’t take away people and their needs and desires, but we can try to find ways to live side by side with the natural world in a way that tries to meet both of our needs.”

Schechter venerates Riginos’ determination.

“She has an extraordinary stretch in the last year— she had a kid, lost a job, created a new career as a consultant, bought a house—and she has participated in several projects I have initiated. It takes a superwoman to do all this. She did it all with great grace and integrity. I admire her greatly.”

As the earth warms and many paint a grim picture of the future, Riginos remains optimistic. She believes the more information available to the public on scientific trends and findings will help unite the cause.

“We are faced with an enormous challenge with climate change,” she said. “The time to start getting serious about that is now.” PJH

JAY NEL-MCINTOSH

“The Yellowstone and Teton regions that my grandchildren see might be very, very different from what we know now, which makes me sad. ”

JAY NEL-MCINTOSH

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big, bright signs warning drivers could be put up for just those few weeks and hopefully help reduce collisions,” she said. “In other places, deer get hit year-round. We know that permanent signs don’t work very well (drivers get immune to them), so these are places where some other solution—like highway underpasses for the deer— might be necessary.”

The National Science Foundation funds Riginos’ new project in Kenya.

She will leave for Africa later this month to begin looking at how fast trees are growing, and how much damage from elephants they are sustaining before and after the invasive big-headed ant takes over the trees (and kills the native ants that protect the trees from the destructive actions of elephants).

“We will use this information to predict how much tree cover there will be in the future in places invaded by this ant.

Our preliminary work suggests that elephants will reduce tree cover substantially in places where the big-headed ant has arrived,” Riginos said.

The young scientist and her team will also be looking at how fast the invasion is spreading, where it is occurring, and what it means for wild herbivores (like zebras, gazelles, rhinos, even elephants themselves) to have so many trees destroyed by elephants. Black rhinos, for example, are a highly endangered species that primarily eat trees; if lots of trees are being killed, then black rhinos may have much less food to eat, she explained.

The information will be disseminated widely to local land managers, as well as the broader scientific community. “Land managers urgently need information about the extent and rate of the ant invasion and what it means for the land and wildlife they manage so that they can plan how to cope with this ant invasion and stop its spread in places where it is just getting started,” Riginos said.

Her preliminary work was published in the scientific journal, Ecology, and was highlighted in The New York Times.

“In the field, the loss of defensive Crematogaster ants in invaded areas led to a five- to sevenfold increase in the number of trees catastrophically damaged by elephants compared to un-invaded areas. In savannas, tree cover drives many ecosystem processes and provides essential forage for many large mammal species.” This means the invasion of big-headed ants may strongly alter the dynamics and

THIS WEEK: May 11-17, 2016

WEDNESDAY MAY. 11

n Self-Reflective Video 4:15pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $115.00 $138.00, 307-733-6379 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Cribbage Club 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-3545522 n Stride Strong, Pedal with Power: Road Biking Workshop 6:00pm, Stilson Ranch Parking Lot START Bus Shelter, $15.00, 307-739-9025 n The Artist’s Way 6:00pm, Spirit, $12.00, 307733-3382 n Tavern Trivia 7:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Songwriter’s Alley 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog 7:30pm, Buffalo Room at The Virginian Lodge, $12.00 $15.00, 307-203-9067 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500

THURSDAY MAY. 12

n Fitness & Dance Classes 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Spring Clean-Up Week 7:00am, Trash Transfer Station, Free, 307-732-5771 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 ext. 218 n Silver Projects: Stone & Elk Ivory Setting 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $60.00 - $70.00, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164

n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Sneak Peek: Grand Teton National Park in Art 11:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-733-5771 n Memory Loss Support Group 12:00pm, MorningStar Senior Living, Free, 307-739-7434 n Cribbage 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n Growing Through Grief 1:00pm, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-7482 n Culture through Clay 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 $180.00, 307-733-6379 n Mosaic Madness 4:15pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $60.00, 307733-6379 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Casino Night for Meals with a Mission 5:00pm, Elks Lodge, $20.00, 307-739-7515 n Teton Village Association Chamber Mixer 5:00pm, Hotel Terra Ballroom, Free, 307-201-2309 n American Heart Association First Aid 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $65.00, 307-733-7425 n Instruction and Certification provided by Jackson Hole Outdoor Leadership Institute 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $65.00, 307-733-7425 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Staying Safe in Large Carnivore Country 5:30pm, Teton County Library Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2321 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Improv Class for Adults and Teens 6:00pm, Black Box Theater, $200.00, 307-733-3021

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n Spring Clean-Up Week 7:00am, Trash Transfer Station, Free, 307-732-5771 n Fitness & Dance Classes 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Straight Talk for Executive Directors Series 9:00am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, $60.00, 307-739-1026 n Strollercize 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Story TIme 10:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 ext. 218 n Beginning Throwing Daytime 11:00am, Ceramics Studio, $165.00 - $198.00, 307-7336379 n Jackson Hole Chapter Women’s Business Roundtable 11:45am, St. John’s Church, Hansen Hall, Free, 512-2775047 n Grief Support Group 12:00pm, Eagle Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-7482 n Teton Mammas 1:00pm, Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-6175 n Genealogy: Searching International Databases 2:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Chess Club 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library - Driggs, Free, 208-3545522 n Chess Club: Grades K to 12 3:30pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 x118 n Drawing to Paint 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $50.00 - $60.00, 307-733-6379 n Hand and Wheel: Grades 4-8 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 $180.00, 307-733-6379 n English Riding Lessons 4:00pm, Heritage Arena, $65.00, 307-699-4136

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MUSIC BOX

WYOmericana Feels the Funk Five-state tour pairs local bands Screen Door Porch and Sneaky Pete with Laramie’s The Littlest Birds.

BY PATRICK CHADWICK @PatrickChadwick

O

nce defined by wedding gigs and obligatory covers of “Wagon Wheel,” the Jackson Hole music scene has developed a surprising streak of originality in recent years. The number of local bands producing radio-worthy albums and touring outside of the state can no longer be counted on one hand. Across Wyoming, there is a

The Littlest Birds (left), Screen Door Porch (right) and Sneaky Pete and The Secret Weapons (opposite page) comprise a touring bill of homegrown folk and funk. growing support system for original artists, including a new state-sponsored Wyoming Independent Music Initiative.

Now in its fourth year, the WYOmericana Caravan tour has been a timely accelerant for this rise in original Wyoming music. Conceived by Seadar Rose and Aaron Davis of the Jackson-based roots-rock band Screen Door Porch, WYOmericana has featured Wyoming acts ranging from revered songwriter and picker Jalan Crossland to country-rockers The Patti Fiasco to local indie-folk band Canyon Kids. The tour has inspired a feature in The New York Times and a rock-u-mentary that nabbed first place at the 2014 Laramie Film Festival.

“When we first started playing in Jackson, [local alt-country band] One Ton Pig was doing original stuff and that was it—there was just a whole bunch of rock or bluegrass cover bands,” Rose explained. “It was refreshing to see so many other bands on tour, but I still felt like there were not enough people from Wyoming doing it.”

Rose and Davis saw that even highly talented touring acts like Crossland were largely flying under the radar, and the concept behind WYOmericana was born: A tour of dedicated,

original Wyoming bands that would shine a light on homegrown musical talent for residents and out-of-staters alike.

For this year’s caravan, Screen Door Porch is teaming up with Jackson’s rising funk favorites Sneaky Pete and The Secret Weapons and the banjo-centered “backwoods soul” of Laramie-based The Littlest Birds. While funk and folk may seem like strange bedfellows, the musicians view the pairing as an opportunity to reach new audiences, expand their styles and bring energy to the end-of-show collaborations that are WYOmericana tradition.

“The ability to branch out and play something different was one of the things that sold us on the tour in the first place,” explained Bobby Griffith, the trumpet player/vocalist in Sneaky Pete and a Wyoming native. “It’s so important for musicians to be able to do that, and then you can bring it back to what you do.”

As a Casper-born singer and banjo player whose playing style spans from clawhammer to classical, Sharon Martinson of The Littlest Birds echoes these sentiments. “The collaborations that come from mixing instruments that you don’t expect with sounds that you don’t except is way more fresh,

WEDNESDAY Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic (Silver Dollar); Vinyl Night (The Rose) THURSDAY Rock Creek (Silver Dollar) FRIDAY DJ Dolph (The Rose); Rance May & Paul Nipper Bands (Town Square Tavern)

Local musicians Jessie Lestitian (left) and Lauren Conrad (right) refine their pickin’ and strummin’ sensibilities at Targhee Music Camp. fun and exciting as a musician, and I think it’s what the audience wants too.”

After touring the U.S., UK and Canada for six years, Martinson will be reimagining The Littlest Birds by recording a new album at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone analog studio this summer. Fresh off a March performance at the Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho, Sneaky Pete is recording an EP locally that will follow up their well-received debut album, “Breakfast.” Now three albums deep, Screen Door Porch has literally become a poster child for music in the Cowboy State, appearing in a new ad campaign from the Wyoming Office of Tourism.

The 2016 WYOmericana Caravan kicked off in Laramie on May 5 and will wind down in Bozeman June 4, rolling through Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Montana before the dust settles. Locals can get their first helping this Friday night at The Knotty Pine in Victor, while seconds will be served up at the Town Square Tavern in Jackson on Wednesday, June 1.

WYOmericana Caravan featuring Screen Door Porch, Sneaky Pete and The Secret Weapons, and The Littlest Birds.

9:30 p.m. Friday at The Knotty Pine. $10. 208-787-2866.

Pickin’ scholarships at Targhee Music Camp Speaking of support for local musicians, Targhee Music Camp is accepting applications for scholarships through this Sunday, May 15. Applicants should submit a one-page or less description of their music history and what they hope to accomplish at the camp to targheemusiccamp@gmail. com, entering in one of three categories: Local (those living within roughly 100 miles of Grand Targhee Resort), Young (18 years and younger) or Open (any human). Scheduled before the 2016 Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival, the 11th annual Targhee Music Camp will take place August 8 to 11 and feature world-class instructors ranging from members of The Infamous Stringdusters to mandolinist John Reischman.

PJH A lover of sad songs in our happy valley, Patrick Chadwick is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and a content writer for local businesses.

Here’s your opportunity!

SUNDAY Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach) MONDAY The Jackson Hole Hootenanny (Dornan’s) TUESDAY Bootleg Flyer (Silver Dollar)

RABBIT ROW REPAIR WE SERVICE THEM ALL …

The Jackson Hole Chorale will be performing the “Christmas section” of the Messiah in December 2016!

Come join us to sing along and prepare! All levels of singers who enjoy singing are invited.

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HAVE YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO SING HANDEL’S MESSIAH?

SATURDAY Chanman Roots Band and Major Zephyr at Jackson Hole Eco-Fair (Snow King Ball Field); Calder’s Charge (Pink Garter Theatre), Bryce Vine, DJ Skizz & Bobby Brando (Town Square Tavern)

Practices take place MONDAY EVENINGS - May 16, 23; June 6, 13 & 20; and will resume the end of August and continue up until the concert date – December 4 @ 3:00 PM.

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FRIDAY MAY. 13

n Fitness & Dance Classes 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Spring Clean-Up Week 7:00am, Trash Transfer Station, Free, 307-7325771 n Yellowstone National Park South Entrance Opens 8:00am, Yellowstone, Free, 307-344-7381 n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Strollercize 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307739-9025 n Clay and Sculpture 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $190.00 - $228.00, 307-733-6379 n Free Wine Tasting 4:00pm, The Liquor Store & Wine Loft, Free, 307-733-4466 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 - $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Wilderness First Aid/ Wilderness First Responder Re-certification 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $235.00 - $275.00, 307-733-7425 n Suicide Prevention Training 5:30pm, St. John’s Medical Center Moose Room, Free, 307-264-1536 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 - $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-6998300

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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART

n Intermediate Throwing 6:00pm, Art Association, $170.00 - $204.00, 307-733-6379 n Spring Gardening Seminar 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n Stained Glass - Design with Light 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $160.00 - $190.00, 307-733-6379 n Introduction to Digital Photography 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $80.00, 307-733-7425 n Los Colores: An Art and Movement Class with Jorge Olivares in Spanish 6:00pm, Borschell Children’s Studio, $5.00, 307-733-6379 n Mix’d Media 6:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n JH Community Band Rehearsal 7:00pm, Center for the Arts Performing Arts Wing, Free, 307-200-9463 n Spanish for Fun, Work & Travel 7:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $105.00, 307-733-7425 n Rock Creek 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog 7:30pm, Buffalo Room at The Virginian Lodge, $12.00 - $15.00, 307-203-9067 n National Park Radio 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-7333886

CREATIVE PEAKS

Smooth Creators Young people slice into the medium of glasswork.

BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

G

lass provides a delicate canvas. Clear or opaque, like paint, glass can be manipulated and deftly sculpted.

Under expert hands it can convey imagery, create incredible fields of colors and even tell full stories.

Several high school students from Jackson have spent weeks learning to manipulate the medium to create works of art. Their efforts come together this week in the form of a massive sculpture suspended from the ceiling at the Center for the Arts that weighs in at about 200 pounds.

On Monday night people can see 133 panels of individually crafted glasswork, brought together to create the installation that will hang in the public art space at the Center for the Arts.

Each panel is its own work of art created by an area high school student. Together the panels form a sculpture that is both cohesive and shows off the individual work of each student, Grace Davis explained. Davis is the assistant curator in youth and adult education at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. The sculpture is the culmination of an art program the National Museum of Wildlife Art launched in February.

The Studio Project groomed 11 young artists as they experimented with the intricacies of glasswork.

Museum staffers felt the museum’s works weren’t reaching high school students as much as they wanted or as much as the works connect with other demographics, Davis said.

The project, which is a partnership between the National Museum of Wildlife Art and the Art Association of Jackson Hole, allowed students to work with artists in the community, as well as learn and practice a new art form that isn’t readily available in their classrooms.

A survey showed students in the valley were most interested in glass fusing, a medium they weren’t often exposed to.

The 11 high school students selected for the program from Journey’s, the Jackson Hole Community School and Jackson Hole High School met every Monday night for three hours starting in February.

The students were treated like professional artists. They had to apply for the free program, providing art resumes and letters of interest. If they missed a class they had to make up the work on their own time, just as an artist would in his or her own studio, Davis noted. “The students are incredibly dedicated to an artistic process and took whatever we threw at them and went with it,” she said.

Each student created 12 5 x 5 pieces and one 7 x 14 glass panel. They used four different glass fusing techniques they learned in the class.

Cutting involves making smaller pieces from a larger one. It allows artists to experiment with different color fields. Each pane is a piece of art created in complimentary colors.

Screen printing uses a finer detailed line.

One student created a panel with the phases of the moon. Others drew on regional imagery, like a deer head, for inspiration and some went in a whimsical direction—one piece, for example, features an elephant holding a balloon.

Aperture involves heating glass in a ceramic bowl to 4,000 degrees then dropping it into a mold, allowing the colors to swirl together. Some come out opaque, others more transparent and some with dark colors. The finished product is a demonstration of the students’ understanding of how and when glass melts.

Frit painting uses a fine powdered glasslike paint. It creates the fuzzy, dreamy look of impressionistic paintings. Students used the technique to render landscape, portraits and images of their pets.

In addition to learning the art form, young pupils were also responsible for creating the final piece of art, the massive sculpture.

The program was meant to be an immersive experience that exposed aspiring artists not just to the skills needed for glasswork, but also branding and artwork sales. Visitors will be able to learn about the student artists in the public art space where their bios will hang along with their headshots.

The massive sculpture will hang in the Center for the Arts through July. Davis said the project was a success and the museum hopes to partner with the Art Association again to sponsor a similar class and project next year. PJH The Studio Project, open reception 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, Public Art Space at the Center for the Arts, free. Jhcenterforthearts.org.

Return to Form When taking a step back helps us to move forward.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

A glimpse at the author’s journal he has kept during his Icelandic adventure. show.”

As of today, I’ve completed 177 pages of that journal. Each time I returned to Iceland I made sure to write down as much information as possible. I was obsessed capturing every moment I experienced, every person I met.

If I didn’t write it down, then all those good moments would be victims of my unreliable memory. When I didn’t have time to flesh out a full journal entry, I resorted to keeping brief notes in my phone.

“Road trip w/ Sigga” “Deacon of Myrká” “Víðir’s Hjalteyri paradise” “AMAZING Lamb dinner”

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Each little note was enough to remind me of the full experience, and, when I found the time, I would flesh out the moments across the journal’s pages. I promised myself that since it was called “The Icelandic Journal,” I wouldn’t write in it unless my feet were planted in Iceland. But even after I left Chicago and returned to Jackson Hole, I occasionally offered a brief update.

“It’s important for me to keep returning to the pages of this journal,” I wrote. “I make sure to leave out all the frustrating, trivial problems of my day-to-day Wyoming life, but often times I’m so overcome with thoughts about Iceland and the life I left behind that I’m forced to crack open this book and reenter the mindset of the man who began it.”

Throughout the journal I talk about Icelandic Andrew: the adventurer, the optimist, the guy who eats sheep eyeballs and guides a whale watching ship. And I also

talk about Wyoming Andrew: the insecure writer, the guy wrestling with depression and figuring out his path. Recognizing those two versions of me is the creamy filling between all the adventurous travelogue entries, and without that self-reflection, the journal probably wouldn’t be as valuable to me.

Now that I’ve more or less settled in Iceland, working insane hours with little to no social release, I haven’t written as many entries. I chalk that up to the fact that Iceland is, regrettably, becoming less exciting. I’m not saying my sense of its wonder and majesty is fading, but, as I mentioned in last week’s column, things are becoming oddly… normal. I don’t feel the impulse to record my thoughts on every stranger who enters my life, nor do I jot down the fact that I, yet again, ate smoked lamb and butter on rye bread.

But even when I’m feeling like I’ve grown accustomed to this adventure that I placed in my path, I can always return to my journal to remind myself of why I came in the first place.

I know now how important a journal can be for people. It’s incredibly different than jumping back in time through your Facebook timeline to see how you reacted to a certain pop culture phenomenon. It’s far more human, personal, beautiful.

At a time when social media and technology is testing our sanity, it’s always nice for me to have this handwritten, tangible, beat-up little book— a reminder that it’s important to stay primitive. PJH

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he first time I visited Iceland was in 2012. I was 25, working in Chicago as a human resources manager for a tech start-up called SingleHop. After accruing a heap of paid vacation days, I was contemplating where exactly I wanted to go. Paris was high on my list, because I thought nothing would make me happier than to spend two weeks drinking coffee in cafes while sprinkling museum visits into my schedule. But because Chicago’s chaotic city life was getting me down, I chose the more adventurous path, and took my friend Karilyn’s advice to check out the land of fire and ice.

I hadn’t made any plans before I arrived and knew no one. I was flying blind and the notion of this exhilarated me. I purchased a simple journal, a Moleskine rip-off, to document my travel adventures. I wrote my first entry while sitting in a restaurant at the JFK airport terminal.

“I do wonder what I’ll say when it’s all over.

Too short? Did I overpack? Was it miserable?

But honestly I don’t care. Whatever happens is meant to. And optimism will be my best guide. Oh…hey, courage. I wasn’t sure you’d

ANDREW MUNZ

WELL, THAT HAPPENED

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n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307734-1535 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-733-8833 n Love Letters by A.R. Gurney 7:00pm, Black Box Theater at the Center for the Arts, $15.00, 307-733-3021 n Phil Round Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n Salsa Night - Raise the Floor!

9:00pm, The Rose, $20.00, 307-733-1500 n 4th Annual WYOmericana Caravan Tour featuring Screen Door Porch, Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons and The Littlest Birds 9:30pm, Knotty Pine, $10.00, 208-787-2866 n DJ Dolph 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Rance May & Paul Nipper Bands 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-7333886

GET OUT

n Fitness & Dance Classes 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Jackson Hole Lacrosse Mountain Roundup 8:00am, Jackson Elementary, North Field, Synthetic Fields, Middle School, Cow Pasture Fields, Free, 307-690-9385 n Jackson Hole Annual Community Spring Clean-Up Day 8:00am, Phil Baux Park, Free, 307-733-2087 n Wilderness First Aid/ Wilderness First Responder Re-certification 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $235.00 - $275.00, 307-733-7425 n Spring Clean-Up Week 9:00am, Trash Transfer Station, Free, 307-7325771 n Teton Valley Community Bike Swap 9:30am, Victor Elementary School, $5.00 $10.00, 307-413-1998 n Adult Oil Painting 10:00am, The Local Galleria, $25.00, 208-2700883

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Post Holiness Trudging through mud and ice to enjoy the ‘splendors’ of spring.

BY ELIZABETH KOUTRELAKOS @EKoutrelakos

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pring is waging a battle over the last bits of winter, clearing snow from the valley floor and tricking us into thinking the trails are clear. The waves of heat mixed with warm rain tell me anything is possible, and when there are daffodils growing it’s difficult to think otherwise.

My little adventures seem to embrace or avoid what’s left of the snow. There’s no happy medium.

Ski people don’t want to go anywhere if “the line doesn’t go all the way,” meaning there must be a consistent patch of snow in said area. They reject skiing lines if they have to take their skis off to walk.

The other group consists of folks that are itching to trail run, hike and bike. These people will never stop trying, no mater how deep the snow is. They don’t really care. They’ll walk anywhere and even attempt to stay on the supposed “summer trail” though everything is covered in snow. One may see evidence of these insatiable hikers in large and unexpected postholes imprinted in the snow.

Last weekend, on the brink of spring,

Top left: A hiker attempts to discern the trail amid a blanket of snow. Right: A nice river view seen from a ridge line. Bottom left: An old cabin that sits near the trailhead to Holmes Cave.

I had to decide: was I a skier or a hiker? I attempted to be a skier, but was left with no choice than to become a hiker after my partner bailed for an early morning ski. Secretly grateful, I stayed in bed and slept until a more reasonable hour. I then consulted with a hiker friend who suggested we hike the trails on Towgatee Pass.

From Moran, the trailhead was about 21 miles east. From the highway snow seemed to have melted away. We parked at the pullout for Holmes Cave; I thought a spring mission to a cave might be a fun and different thing.

This forest service trail was quite muddy, but it had frozen just so that if one was extra careful, it was possible to pass in a tiptoed scramble. We then got to the place that looked like a mountain of white and black spots, akin to what you might see on a giant cow; the patchy snow had prevailed.

We got to the top of a divide and looked down at where Holmes Cave may have been.

An endless ripple of snow expanded as far as the eye could see. At this point, I realized looking for caves in mountainous meadows that are still snowy is probably a terrible and dangerous idea. So we backtracked, glissading until we came upon some fresh large paw prints. They appeared to belong to a grizzly.

I tightened my fanny pack and made sure my bear spray could be accessed in one fell swoop.

My friend, born and raised in Moran, often tells me I shouldn’t be afraid of bears unless I can smell their breath. However, seeing those giant fresh tracks simply made me

afraid. The thing was close, and I guarantee its paws would be able to move more adeptly on the snow than my human feet. My fear deepened as our random steps became very post holey.

For those that like slight pain and unpredictability, I highly recommend dabbling in the art of post holing. One walks freely and is then engulfed (anywhere from ankle to hip deep) at random intervals as the weak snow swallows said extremities. After perpetual post holing, the ankle begins to numb and it’s kind of like a brain freeze in the entire body… except without the ice cream. On the plus side, if one is wearing shorts, post holing can be quite good at exfoliating the legs and ridding oneself of that dry winter skin.

In the mid afternoon, steps were unpredictable, which is part of the reason why a stick went into my hiking partner’s leg. We were about a quarter mile from the car and he had accidently stepped around a downed tree and post holed onto a stob. The stick, while small, found its way into his leg and when he pulled it out, white fatty tissue oozed out of the sides. I gagged a little, and though I wasn’t in pain, the nauseous feeling seeped into my entire being.

Choosing one’s own adventure for hiking or skiing can be pretty extreme this time of year. Just because there are leaves on the cottonwoods doesn’t mean all trails are a go.

While our excitement for greener, warmer pastures is difficult to contain, choose wisely when selecting your next May outing. PJH

Ultimate Towner Obstacle Course Race​, Sunday a​ t Phil Baux Park Jackson’s muddy tradition and team-building event will support the Jackson Hole Senior Center. The course will feature 25 inspirational obstacles over four miles around the town of Jackson.

SUNDAY MAY. 15

n Jackson Hole Lacrosse Mountain Roundup 8:00am, Jackson Elementary, North Field, Synthetic Fields, Middle School, Cow Pasture Fields, Free, 307-690-9385 n Ultimate Towner Obstacle Course 9:00am, Phil Baux Park, $89.00, 800-350-8850 n Wilderness First Aid/ Wilderness First Responder Re-certification 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $235.00 - $275.00, 307-7337425 n Intermediate/Advanced Tactical Pistol & Carbine 9:00am, Jackson Hole Shooting Experience, $145.00, 307-6907921 n Enameling on Metal 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $95.00, 307-7336379

n Fitness & Dance Classes 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Wilderness First Responder 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $725.00, 307-733-7425 n Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $85.00 - $102.00, 307-733-6379 n Little Hands, Little Feet 11:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $85.00 - $102.00, 307-733-6379 n Maker Monday’s 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n After School Kidzart Club 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $195.00 $234.00, 307-733-6379 n Handbuilding Plus!

3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 $180.00, 307-733-6379 n English Riding Lessons 4:00pm, Heritage Arena, $65.00, 307-699-4136 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n The Studio Project Opening 6:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, , 307-733-5771 n Spanish for Fun, Work & Travel 7:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $105.00, 307-733-7425

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n 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog 7:30pm, Buffalo Room at The Virginian Lodge, $12.00 $15.00, 307-203-9067 n Weekend Of BLYSS Charity Event Access to Natures Prescription featuring: Bryce Vine, DJ Skizz & Bobby Brando 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, $10.00, 307-733-3886 n Jameson Black Barrel Series Presents Calder’s Charge 10:30pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

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n Watercolor Class with Fred Kingwill 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $135.00 $162.00, 307-733-6379 n Solar Astronomy at the JH Eco Fair 12:00pm, Snow King Ball Field n 13th Annual EcoFair 12:00pm, Snow King Ball Field, $5.00, 307-413-0174 n Genealogy: Searching International Databases 1:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Progress Performance 2016 1:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $7.00 - $25.00, 307-733-6398 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $10.00 - $12.00, 307-203-2551 n ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Progress Performance 2016 4:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $7.00 - $25.00, 307-733-6398 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n 4th Annual Tie One On Banquet 5:30pm, Hotel Terra, $100.00, 307-413-3510 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Phil Round Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

n Watercolor Class with Fred Kingwill 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $135.00 $162.00, 307-733-6379 n SRB’s Barrel Program 11:00am, Snake River Brewing, Free, 307-739-2337 n Taize 6:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-733-2603 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog 7:30pm, Buffalo Room at The Virginian Lodge, $12.00 $15.00, 307-203-9067 n I Choose to Dance 10:00pm, Transformative Fitness, $20.00 - $120.00

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CINEMA TUESDAY MAY. 17

n Fitness & Dance Classes 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Youth Mental Health First Aid Training 8:00am, St. John’s Episcopal Church - Hansen Hall, Free, 307-733-2046 n Wilderness First Responder 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $725.00, 307-733-7425 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 118 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307733-5056 n Afterschool Monthly Workshops - All Sessions 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $180.00 - $216.00, 307-733-6379 n Animals in Art 3:30pm, Center for the Arts, $50.00, 307-7336379 n Semi-Private Painting + Drawing: Grades 3-8 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $20.00 - $24.00, 307-733-6379 n Joint Replacement Class 4:00pm, Moose Wapiti Classroom in basement of St. John’s., Free, 307-739-6199 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 - $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Jackson JR’s Community Golf Clinic 4:30pm, Snake River Sporting Club, $15.00, 307-200-3092 n Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Group in Spanish 5:00pm, Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-739-7678 n Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 - $45.00, 307-733-5386 n The Clay Surface: Color & Pattern 6:00pm, Art Associaiton of Jackson Hole, $115.00, 307-733-6379 n Video Expression 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $195.00, 307-733-6379 n Language Exchange 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n Playwright’s Collaborative for Adults 6:00pm, Black Box Theater, $300.00, 307-7333021 n Canine Good Citizen Class 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $125.00, 307-733-7425 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307733-2190 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939

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Where Are the Women?

A critic’s year-long look at the way movies portray one half of humanity.

BY MARYANN JOHANSON @MaryAnnJohanson

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saintly wife who stands by her screwup of a husband. A girlfriend kidnapped in order to spur her boyfriend into rescuing her. A gorgeous dream girl who motivates an ordinary schmoe into climbing a mountain, making art or saving the world.

Movies—from mainstream blockbusters to artsy indies to foreign-language imports— are dominated by stories about men, perhaps supported by female-shaped cardboard cutouts at their side.

As a lifelong movie-lover and woman, I’ve had it with this state of affairs. I wanted a way to quantify the problem that improved on the useful but limited “Bechdel Test”—does a movie include at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man?

So I developed a deeper way to examine the depiction of women onscreen with my Where Are the Women? test. WATW asks big-picture questions such as “Is there a female protagonist?” It also asks, “Is there a scene set in a strip club for no good reason?” The criteria were designed to nose out whether the women in any given film are shown to be flawed, complex human beings with full lives and desires of their own, or whether they exist only in terms of what they can do for men. (All WATW rating criteria and data can be found at my website, FlickFilosopher.com) From January 2015 through April 2016, I applied these criteria to 295 films released in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. WATW scores ranged from a high of 50 for The Divergent Series: Insurgent (a well-rounded female protagonist; numerous female supporting characters in positions of authority) to a low of -120 for Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (women regularly used as decorative objects; sexualized abuse of women played for comedic effect). Then, I looked more closely at

Shailene Woodley in The Divergent Series: Insurgent every one of the 153 movies released wide in the U.S. between December 25, 2014, and December 18, 2015. Of those, only 22 percent had a female protagonist, or a predominantly female ensemble (e.g. Pitch Perfect 2). A further 15 percent had female and male co-protagonists, or an ensemble that was reasonably gender-mixed. That left 63 percent of films entirely focused on men.

Now, a movie with a male protagonist can still represent women well, and similarly, a movie with a female protagonist can still depict women poorly, if it reduces them to stereotypes. But the median WATW score of these 153 movies was -13, meaning that mainstream movies are, overall, not very good at treating women like people. Only 31 percent of those 153 films earned a positive score.

Now, invariably the first response that comes when you mention a poor showing of women onscreen is: “But Hollywood is a business! There’d be more movies about women if they made money!” But Where Are the Women? has proven that this nebulous notion—movies about women are risky financial prospects—is not the case at all.

Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores— aggregating reviews of critics across the web and around the world—indicate that critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well. This may be because movies about men are so predominant and tell so many similar stories, that movies about women simply feel fresher. But as the industry stands now, critics are in general agreement that movies about women are more likely to be better movies than movies about men. The industry loves to trumpet a “fresh” score on Rotten Tomatoes for its new films, so Hollywood should be looking to boost those fresh scores by ensuring that its films represent women well.

CinemaScores are generated via polls of U.S. multiplex audiences on opening night for new

Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

films in wide release; scores can range from A+ to F, but most fall in the A-to-C range. Comparing CinemaScores to WATW scores shows that mainstream moviegoers are just as likely to give a high rating to movies about women as they are to movies about men. Audiences are not turned off by women’s stories—which contradicts the typical Hollywood “argument” that audiences do not respond to women’s stories.

We find much the same result when we compare global box office results to WATW scores: Filmgoers are just as happy to pay for a movie that treats women well as they are to pay for one that ignores women or treats women badly.

Profitability is the factor that Hollywoodas-a-business supposedly cares about most, and it’s the one with the strongest argument for making more movies about women. Movies about women have a median budget almost 24 percent less than the average budget of movies with male protagonists. Yet movies that represent women well are just as likely to turn a profit as movies that don’t. Since movies about women cost less to produce and are just as likely to be profitable, movies about women are actually less risky, as business propositions, than movies about men.

So, seriously, where are the women? If Hollywood really were primarily concerned with making money, we would have a movie environment overflowing with movies about women. We would be hearing men complain that they cannot find a movie that features people who look like them, and who share their concerns, worries and fantasies. And yet we see the exact opposite. Why? As the famous detective Ms. Shirley Holmes once said, when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable—Hollywood? Sexist?

Never!—must be the truth. PJH

Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy in Spy

n con·temp·POE·rar·y Sat, Sat, Sun Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $20.00

WEEKEND OF JUN. 3

Who’s up for a road trip? There’s plenty to do down south in Salt Lake City next weekend.

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.

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WEEKEND OF MAY. 20

n The Count of Monte Cristo Fri, Sat, Sat Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm n Innovations 2016 Fri - Sat Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $95.00 - $115.00, 801-869-6900 n TECH N9NE Fri The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $34.00 n Paul Simon Sun Maverik Center, 3200 Decker Lake Dr, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $64.50 - $144.50

n Innovations 2016 Fri, Sat, Sat Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $95.00 - $115.00, 801-869-6900

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n The Count of Monte Cristo Fri, Sat, Sat Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm n The Marriage of Figaro Fri - Sun Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $48.00 - $89.00 n Peter and the Starcatcher Fri, Sat, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 7:30pm, $30.00, 801-984-9000 n Stage Kiss Fri, Sat, Sat Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $30.00 n Make it Louder Music Festival Sat Gallivan Center, 239 S Main Street, Salt Lake City, 12:00pm, $30.00 - $50.00, 801-548-7884 n Wayne Pacelle: The Humane Economy Sat Humane Society of Utah, 4242 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, 2:00pm, Free n Golden Gloves National Tournament of Champions Sun Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 S West Temple, Salt Lake City n Salt Lake’s Urban Flea Market Sun Urban Flea Market in Downtown SLC, 600 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, 9:00am, Free

n 2016 Wasatch Back Student Art Show Fri - Sun Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Boulevard, Park City, Free, 435-649-8882 n Abstract Expressions Fri - Sat Evolutionary Healthcare, 461 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Brian Snapp: House of My Brother/House of My Sister Fri Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Chris D’Elia Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat Wiseguys Downtown, 505 South 600 East, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $30.00 n Cracker Fri O.P. Rockwell, 268 Main St, Park City, 9:00pm n The Cure & Twilight Sad Fri Maverik Center, 3200 Decker Lake Dr, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm n Curtis Salgado Fri The State Room, 638 S State Street, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm n The Federal Empire & The Artisan Thieves Fri O.P. Rockwell, 268 Main Street, Park City, 9:00pm n The Full Monty Fri, Sat, Sat The Grand Theatre, 1575 S State St, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $18.00 - $26.00 n Ginger Wallace: A Retrospective Fri - Sat Weber State University Shaw Gallery, 3964 W. Campus Drive, Ogden, Free n Gravehill Fri Club X, 445 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $5.00 - $10.00 n Ivanhoe Knight Fever Fri, Sat, Sat The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $16.00 n Jennet Thomas: The Unspeakable Freedom Device Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City n Joan Zone Fri - Sun Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 6:30pm, Free, 801-363-4088 n Laughing Stock Improv Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, 10:00pm, $8.00 - $16.00 n Lewis J. Crawford: Constructs Fri Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Lizard Kingdom Fri Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave, Logan, 7:00pm n Local Music Set Fri - Sat A Bar Named Sue on State, 3928 E Highland Dr, Salt Lake City, 10:00pm n Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Fri Great Saltair, 12408 West Saltair Drive, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $46.00 n Nathan Payne & The Wild Bores Fri Funk ‘n Dive Bar, 2550 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, 8:00pm n The Night Spin Collective Fri Area 51, 451 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $5.00 - $7.00 n ONE80 GAY FRIDAY’S Fri ONE80, 180 W. 400 S., Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $7.00 $15.00, 801-688-8401

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ANNIE FENN, MD

THE FOODIE FILES

Avocado Aficionado Tasty ways to love the ahuacatl morning, noon and night.

BY ANNIE FENN, M.D. @JacksonFoodie

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ey, avocado lovers: Smearing the buttery flesh of a ripe avocado on toasted bread and topping it with nothing but flaky sea salt may be the world’s most perfect snack. But when you are ready to branch out from your avocado toast obsession, I have a few more ideas. Have you ever swirled an avocado into a smoothie? Turned it into garlic butter? Or folded it into a decadent chocolate dessert?

Bear with me, I will explain.

First, let’s consider a few interesting factoids about the fruit (technically a berry) that has launched a million Instagrams of avocado toast. We have the Aztecs to thank for discovering the aphrodisiac properties of ahuacatl, as they named them, perhaps inspired by how avocados hang in pairs on the tree.

Centuries later, food scientists determined that the avocados’ high levels of vitamin E certainly could help maintain youthful vigor. Avocados are loaded with heart healthy fats, fiber, and contain more potassium than a banana.

There’s an art to picking the perfect avocado from the towering pile at the market. The flesh of a Hass (rhymes with “pass”) avocado, the most typical variety we see, should yield ever-so-gently to uniform pressure on the skin, which should be dark brown and lacking any obvious dents. Even the most careful avocado squeezer can get burned, however, by purchasing an over-the-hill fruit. A far better way to prevent the bummer of a brown avocado is to take a peek under the stem before buying. Pull off the stem and you’ll find a window into the avocado’s flesh: bright green or mottled with brown.

Discretely toss that brown one back and plan to eat the bright green one within a day — once the stem has been peeled off it will hasten the ripening process.

Bring your perfectly ripe (fingers crossed) avocado home

Left: Learn how to select the best avocados in the pile. Center: Blend avocado into a sippable creamy lassi for a portable treat. Right: Chocolate avocado pudding is easy, satisfying, slightly savory and not too sweet. and cut stem to tail with a knife. Twist the two avocado halves away from each other to separate, and carefully plunge a sharp knife into the pit. Twist and remove the pit, use a large spoon to scoop out the flesh, and place the avocado pit side down on a plate.

Now, how do you keep that avocado from turning brown?

Squirt with lemon juice? Store it with its pit? Submerge in cold water? Wrap tightly in plastic wrap? Unfortunately, none of these methods work. Avocados turn brown because the outer part of the flesh is covered with an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase. When the flesh is exposed to air, this enzyme initiates an oxidation reaction that results in brown, unappetizing avocados. The trick? Wipe off the exterior (the side that touched the skin) with a paper towel to remove all the polyphenol oxidase. Your avocado will stay green for several hours at room temperature. (Or, you could just eat it right away and not worry about brown spots.)

Transform a ripe avocado into a portable, sippable breakfast by taking a cue from India’s famous mango lassi, a creamy, shake-like drink made with mango and milk.

Whizzed in a blender with yogurt, milk, honey, lime juice, and a touch of salt, your avocado makes the perfect breakfast to go or sports recovery drink.

I have my mom to thank for my recipe for avocado butter.

Back in the 1970s she slathered it on swordfish steaks for an elegant dinner party entrée. Avocados were new to the scene back then, and their arrival at the market of my small hometown in upstate New York made quite a splash. To make avocado butter, cream the flesh of a ripe avocado with softened butter, lemon juice, crushed garlic, and salt. Form into logs and chill, then smear on everything from fish to steak to corn on the cob. Since avocado butter freezes well, this recipe is a great way to deal with a bunch of avocados about to go off.

Chocolate avocado pudding may not sound like a good idea, but trust me, it’s a keeper. And, it’s the easiest dessert you’ll ever make that both your vegan and non-vegan friends will love. Place avocados in a blender with vanilla, maple syrup, cocoa powder, fresh orange juice and Kosher salt.

Puree until ultra-smooth and taste; add a bit of agave nectar if you like it more sweet. Chill and serve topped with chopped pistachios, flaky sea salt, berries, chia seeds, or even black

sesame seeds. Let your friends and family guess the secret ingredient to this creamy, satisfying, slightly savory, not-toosweet pudding. The avocado flavor is just subtle enough to keep them all guessing.

Recipes Avocado Lassi Place 1 ripe avocado, 1 cup plain yogurt, 3 Tbsp. honey, 1 tsp. lime juice and 1 cup milk (I like almond milk) in a blender and whiz until smooth. Makes 2 lassis.

Avocado Butter

Place ½ cup unsalted, room temperature butter, the flesh of 1 ripe avocado, 5 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice, 2 cloves minced garlic, ¼ tsp. Kosher salt, and 2 Tbsp. chopped fresh Italian parsley in a food processor or blender. Scoop into a bowl or form into a log and wrap tightly with plastic wrap. Keeps for 4 days in the fridge or up to 3 months in the freezer. Makes about 1 cup.

Chocolate Avocado Pudding

Scoop the flesh from 2 ripe avocados into a blender. Add the seeds from 1 vanilla bean (or 1 tsp. vanilla extract), ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, ½ cup pure maple syrup, ¼ cup freshly squeezed orange juice, and ½ tsp. Kosher salt.

With the motor running, gradually stream in ¾ cup hot (but not boiling) water. Blend until perfectly smooth. Taste; add more orange juice or water to thin, a dash of agave nectar to sweeten. Divide amongst 8 4-6-ounce ramekins or small bowls, cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours and up to 3 days. Serve with toppings of your choice. (I like chopped pistachios and flaky sea salt.) Makes enough for 8 servings. PJH

After delivering babies and practicing gynecology for 20 years in Jackson, Annie traded her life as a doctor to pursue her other passion: writing about food, health, sustainability and the local food scene. Follow her snippets of mountain life, with recipes, at jacksonholefoodie.com and on Instagram @jacksonholefoodie.

Dreaming of One Precious Sip The Malkovich movie we won’t see, and the cognac we won’t drink.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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f you’re hoping to see the latest John Malkovich film, you’d better plan on being around well into the next millennium; it won’t be released until then. I only hope Mr. Malkovich got paid in advance and isn’t counting on income from the film’s “points.”

I’ve been exposed to innovative cinematic projects before. For example, I loved seeing Abel Gance’s 1927 Napoleon triptych, accompanied by a live symphony at Radio City Music Hall under the direction of Anton Coppola, years ago. But this one really takes the cake.

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS The movie, titled 100 Years—The Movie You Will Never See, is slated to premiere on Nov. 18, 2115. Until then, no one—not even the cast and crew—will ever see the final cut. I assume that the director of 100 Years, Robert Rodriguez, has seen the final cut, making him, literally, one in about 7.5 billion.

The film will appear at the 2016 Festival de Cannes in France. It just won’t be seen. You see, the film will be locked in a safe during Cannes—which can be viewed by invitation only (the safe, that is, not the film) at the Louis XIII Suite in the Hôtel Le Majestic Barrière Cannes. After Cannes, 100 Years will make a well-guarded trek from Los Angeles to Tokyo, London and New York City, before finally arriving at its century-long resting place: in the Louis XIII cellars in Cognac, France.

There, the film will hibernate until 2115 in a Fichet-Bauche safe. As stated in a press release about 100 Years, “We wanted a safe box that can be opened like never before: with nothing else but time. Once the door is shut, the countdown begins and there is no way of opening it until the 100-year countdown is complete on Nov. 18, 2115. Since the system that could guarantee we hold our promise didn’t exist, we invented it,” said Ludovic du Plessis, Louis XIII global executive director.

This may not just be one of the most innovative cinematic projects in film history, but also one of the most creative marketing schemes, thanks to the movie’s tie-in

IMBIBE with Louis XIII cognac. Now, I’ve never tasted it, and I doubt you have, either. Simply put, this is the world’s most sought-after and most expensive eau de vie—a cognac that is 100 years old upon release. That means that the craftsmen who make it never actually get to taste the product of their toils.

Decanters of Louis XIII cognac, which are made of Baccarat crystal, range in price from about $2,100 to $3,400 for a 700-milliliter bottle. However, certain limited edition bottles, such as Louis XIII Rare Cask 42.6 (referring to its 42.6 percent alcohol level), retail for around $22,000 apiece, and a halfounce pour at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills goes for $1,000.

Louis XIII cognac was on the wine list at Le Meurice Hotel in Paris, where I recently dined at the Alain Ducasse restaurant. Needless to say, I didn’t order it.

And so, just like the

cognac that must mature for a century before being enjoyed, such is the case with Rodriguez’s and Malkovich’s 100 Years, which was inspired by the time, patience and craftsmanship required to create each decanter of Louis XIII. Call me crazy, but I’m going to take a wild guess here that the brand financed the film project.

According to the Louis XIII folks, their cognac, which dates back to 1874, “evokes tasting notes and scents of myrrh, honey, immortelle, plum honeysuckle, wood bark, leather and passion fruits.” That’s quite a mouthful.

Let me know if you happen to have any you’d care to share.

PJH

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New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm. Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews.

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CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am.

Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm. Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

THE BLUE LION

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

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A Jackson Hole favorite for 38 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.

Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30-6:0pm, Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays through the off season. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.

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

Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 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 glutenfree 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.

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.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

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.

America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

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Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Eleanor’s is a primo brunch spot on Sunday afternoons. Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings. Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

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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.

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

Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner for over 36 years with deliciously affordable comfort food.

Extensive local and regional beer list. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. features blackened trout salad, elk melt, wild west chili and vegetarian specialties. Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. including potato-crusted trout, 16 ounce ribeye, vegan and wild game. Reservations welcome. (307) 7333553. sweetwaterjackson.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.

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

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

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

Dinner Nightly at 5:30pm

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

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

Lunch 11:30am Monday-Saturday Dinner 5:30pm Nightly

45 S. Glenwood

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MEXICAN Starting Thursday, May 12th will resume our normal hours!

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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.

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Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local microbrews 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 from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

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Motherly Love

go of the ways I may have hurt you by my tough-love, survival attitude mode of living. Dwelling on negative memories is useless. Delete your ‘complaint’ files.” - Betty

Gleaning maternal wisdom from the other side.

Transmission No. 2 - Relinquish the negatives

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ince we just celebrated Mother’s Day, I wanted to share two excerpts from my book, Why Wait — Wisdom for Life from Those Who Have Passed Over. The book is a compilation of communications (which I refer to as transmissions), that I have clairvoyantly accessed for my clients, from the souls of their late loved ones.

The following two excerpts, are chosen from longer communications from each of these mothers in the chapter “Transmissions from Mothers to Their Living Children.”

Regardless of your beliefs about life beyond physical death, perhaps you can find both inspiration and comfort in their words.

Note A clear message from the mothers whose transmissions are represented in this chapter of the book is that sometimes it takes being on the other side, where the soul is in charge and the ego is dismantled, for people to see clearly into themselves.

Whether or not these women were able to freely express love to their children during their lives, what they share from the soul makes it clear that at the soul level the love is always there.

Transmission No. 1 - Peeling away the tough love “In my life I was angry much of the time, which rallied my will to fight and to persevere. At the time, this was a perfect survival strategy. My anger let me feel strong and to not be a victim when people were abusive to me, and when life dealt me lemons. This tough attitude allowed me to feel I was taking charge in the face of serious difficulties. Don’t get me wrong; this got me through a lot.

However, I now understand this strategy was not at all about love. I can see that my attitude and behavior made it harder and harder both to experience or to give any love in my life. I can see that I pushed all of you away.

The reason I can understand all this where I am now is that nothing bad or mean happens here. So I finally get to push the ‘down girl’ and ‘at ease’ switches. You get the drift.

I hope all I am sharing about myself gives you a window into me so you can understand me better. Perhaps you can now let

“That feeling of endless love came over me when you were each infants before you could have gone to any school or held any job or spoken a word. I experienced the miracle of each of you.

I was marked by the experiences of my upbringing and I had many limitations. Regrettably parents put all kinds of pressures on their kids that often result in lessening one’s miraculous self for the sake of approval and acceptance. You know I fell hard into many of these societal beliefs.

My fondest wish would be to erase any of the ways I may have imposed my limitations on you. You can certainly give any of those negatives back to me… where I am, the love is so pure that negatives are instantly disintegrated.

Yes! That’s the key! In your lives please disintegrate anything that prevents you from seeing the miracle that you are.

Someday when people can see the miracle that they are, how wonderful everyone will feel, and how nobly they will act.” - Ida

Never stop nurturing Hopefully these excerpts opens your hearts to gratitude for what your own mothers were able to give you, and to greater compassion for what they were unable to offer because of their own experiences.

We are all given the chance to better our own lives by letting go of old hurts in light of the realization that everyone does the best they can with what they are given.

Whether or not you are a mother or a father, be aware that offering others a sense of consistent support, nurturance, and deep caring is by definition creating the environment for people to thrive.

As author Robert Heinlein has said, “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” PJH

Why Wait — Wisdom for Life from Those Who Have Passed Over is available at local bookstores and on Amazon Kindle.

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

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25 “Common Sense” pamphleteer 27 Chichén Itzà builder 28 Basque city with a Guggenheim Museum 30 Make up your mind 31 “Bus Stop” playwright 32 Juice unit 34 Knitting choices 35 People’s Choice Award winner for Favorite TV Drama, 2008-2011 37 Remarkable thing, in old slang 41 Winged stingers 43 __ Plaines River 44 Off-road ride, for short 45 Muchos meses 46 Dealer’s query 48 SEC concern 50 Yemeni capital 52 Palm products 54 Where to get the score 59 Sicilian skiing attraction 60 They may be about nothing 61 Jacket material 62 Drops the ball 63 Top story 65 Move a muscle 67 Some might vote in it 70 Time of life 71 Resort with a Forum Tower 75 CBS forensic series 76 Sammy Davis Jr.’s only #1 hit, with “The” 78 Short staffer?

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Like clarinet music Clarinet kin “Drinks are __!”

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Concern for some losers Ristorante course Safe haven “Furthermore, however, ... ” Cultural spirit Judge in 1995 news Pixar protagonist

13 Boardroom props 14 Edge 15 “Delta of Venus” author Nin 16 Beyond repair 17 Checkers speech?

18 Renaissance fair rides 24 Argentine plain 26 Restraining order?

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88 Otherwise 90 Fast time?

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Russian writer Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays. As he evolved, his pithiness grew. “I now have a mania for shortness,” he wrote. “Whatever I read—my own work, or other people’s—it all seems to me not short enough.”

I propose that we make Chekhov your patron saint for a while. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when your personal power feeds on terse efficiency. You thrive on being vigorously concise and deftly focused and cheerfully devoted to the crux of every matter.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Approximately 30,000 sites on the Internet attribute that quote to iconic genius Albert Einstein. But my research strongly suggests that he did not actually say that. Who did? It doesn’t matter.

For the purposes of this horoscope, there are just two essential points to concentrate on. First, for the foreseeable future, your supreme law of life should be “creativity is intelligence having fun.” Second, it’s not enough to cavort and play and improvise, and it’s not enough to be discerning and shrewd and observant. Be all those things.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In Western culture, the peacock is a symbol of vanity.

When we see the bird display its stunning array of iridescent feathers, we might think it’s lovely but may also mutter, “What a show-off.” But other traditions have treated the peacock as a more purely positive emblem: an embodiment of hard-won and triumphant radiance. In Tibetan Buddhist myths, for example, its glorious plumage is said to be derived from its transmutation of the poisons it absorbs when it devours dangerous serpents. This version of the peacock is your power animal for now, Gemini.

Take full advantage of your ability to convert noxious situations and fractious emotions into beautiful assets.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Clear moments are so short,” opines poet Adam Zagajewski. “There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.” Here’s what I have to say about that: Even if it does indeed describe the course of ordinary life for most people, it does not currently apply to you. On the contrary. You’re in a phase that will bring an unusually high percentage of lucidity. The light shining from your eyes and the thoughts coalescing in your brain will be extra pure and bright. In the world around you, there may be occasional patches of chaos and confusion, but your luminosity will guide you through them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) According to the British podcast series “No Such Thing as a Fish,” there were only a few satisfying connubial relationships in late 18th-century England. One publication at that time declared that of the country’s 872,564 married couples, just nine were truly happy. I wonder if the percentage is higher for modern twosomes. Whether it is or not, I have good news: My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you Scorpios will have an unusually good chance of cultivating vibrant intimacy in the coming weeks. Take advantage of this grace period, please!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Some days I feel like playing it smooth,” says a character in Raymond Chandler’s short story “Trouble Is My Business,” “and some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.” I suspect that you Sagittarians will be in the latter phase until at least May 24. It won’t be primetime for silky strategies and glossy gambits and velvety victories. You’ll be better able to take advantage of fate’s fabulous farces if you’re geared up for edgy lessons and checkered challenges and intricate motifs.

WINDSHIELDS

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Author Rebecca Solnit says that when she pictures herself as she was at age 15, “I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.” Let that serve as an inspiration, Capricorn. Now is an excellent time for you to celebrate the heroic, messy, improbable victories of your past. You are ready and ripe to honor the crazy intelligence and dumb luck that guided you as you fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You have a right and a duty to congratulate yourself for the suffering you have escaped and inner demons you have vanquished.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear.” The poet James Richardson wrote that wry advice, and now I’m passing it on to you. Why now?

Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities.

You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude and deepen your gravitas. So I hope you will invite and welcome the lumpy and the dappled, my dear. I hope you’ll seek out the tangy, the smoldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” That’s from a Coleman Barks’ translation of a poem by the 13th-century Islamic scholar and mystic known as Rumi. I regard this epigram as a key theme for you during the next 12 months. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime?

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

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Some things need to be fixed, others to be left broken,” writes poet James Richardson. The coming weeks will be an ideal time for you to make final decisions about which are which in your own life. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are either too damaged to salvage or undeserving of your hard labor? Consider the possibility that you will abandon them for good. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are cracked,

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Once every year, it is healthy and wise to make an ultimate confession—to express everything you regret and bemoan in one cathartic swoop, and then be free of its subliminal nagging for another year. The coming days will be a perfect time to do this. For inspiration, read an excerpt from Jeanann Vernee’s “Genetics of Regret”: “I’m sorry I lied. Sorry I drew the picture of the dead cat. I’m sorry about the stolen tampons and the nest of mice in the stove. I’m sorry about the slashed window screens.

I’m sorry it took 36 years to say this. Sorry that all I can do is worry what happens next. Sorry for the weevils and the dead grass. Sorry I vomited in the wash drain. Sorry I left. Sorry I came back. I’m sorry it comes like this. Flood and undertow.”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Dear Smart Operator: My name is Captain Jonathan Orances. I presently serve in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. I am asking for your help with the safekeeping of a trunk containing funds in the amount of $7.9 million, which I secured during our team’s raid of a poppy farmer in Kandahar Province. The plan is to ship this box to Luxembourg, and from there a diplomat will deliver it to your designated location. When I return home on leave, I will take possession of the trunk. You will be rewarded handsomely for your assistance. If you can be trusted, send me your details. Best regards, Captain Jonathan Orances.” You may receive a tempting but risky offer like this in the near future, Leo. I suggest you turn it down. If you do, I bet a somewhat less interesting but far less risky offer will come your way.

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THE RECYCLING CENTER: 3270 S. ADAMS CANYON RD. 9-6PM JACKSON TOWN HALL: 150 PEARL AVE. 8-5PM ECO FAIR MAY 14TH: SNOW KING BALL FIELD, RRR BOOTH Join the 13th annual Eco-Fair Saturday, May 14 at the Snow King ball field from 12-4 pm to celebrate simple and sustainable living in the Tetons.

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Trash Transfer Station will be open for extended hours during Spring Clean Up week MON. MAY 9 - FRI. MAY 13 FROM 8AM - 5PM, AND SAT. MAY 14 FROM 9AM TO 5PM. During this week, the Station will accept: • General public’s Yard waste for free (if brought in loose or in compostable bags) • Spring clean up related refuse at half the existing rates ($55/ton).

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