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Meet some of the female photographers turning heads in their backyard and beyond.

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9 COVER STORY F-STOP FATALES Meet some of the female photographers turning heads in their backyard and beyond.

About the cover photographer Growing up, Zoë Catalano often found herself attached to a camera. “My aunt is a photographer and introduced me at a young age,” the 24-yearold explained. A Massachusetts native, Zoë is drawn to shooting studio and fine art. These days she is also fixing her gaze on video post-production work.

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20 CULTURE KLASH

16 MUSIC BOX

27 COSMIC CAFE

18 DON’T MISS

30 SATIRE

Clarification: “All Hail the King” (September 21) misidentified the Peck family as one of Snow King Mountain’s current owners. The Pecks were bought out of the operation in 2014.

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September 28-October 4, 2016

By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey As September draws to a close this week, we can at least say that not only is summer over, but also the run of dry weather we had this summer is over. September rains far exceeded the norm, by almost twice the average amount. Total rainfall recorded in Jackson this September, through this past weekend, was at 2.5 inches. That amount was actually more than we received all of June, July and August combined.

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News flash: our average daily low temperatures just dipped into the 20s for the first time since early May. That was the last time this year that average lows were colder than 30 degrees. That is not to say every morning this week will be that cold. After all, it takes overnight lows both warmer and colder than that, to create the average. Coldest it has ever been during this week in Jackson is nine degrees, as it was on September 30, 1985.

Afternoon high temperatures in the 70s early this week are nice, not necessarily unusual, but noticeably better than highs only in the 50s or 60s. Average highs this week sit in the upper 60’s. Exceptionally hot for late September or early October would be in the 80s. Hottest day ever was back on October 1, 1997 when it zoomed up to a toasty 87 degrees in town. On the flip-side, we only saw a high of 35-degrees on September 30, 1971.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.27 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 3.9 inches (1961) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 0.2 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 2 inches

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In the Name of Change

Now that the official verdict has arrived from the Secretary of State, I will say that I’m exhausted by the investigation and reporting on the eligibility of Pete Muldoon to run for mayor, as well as the debate around the ongoing “newsworthiness” of it. Like most, as a young adult he made mistakes and suffered the consequences of poor decision-making. As a person running for public office there is reasonable expectation that past actions could surface and become a point of discussion. Pete knows this and is more than durable enough to withstand it.

But after being cleared by the state, I’m disappointed that both written and verbal narratives continue to focus on bad checks from 20 years ago rather than the many years Pete has spent as an advocate, activist, highly engaged and vocal member of this community. To me, that is a greater and more accurate measure of his character and ability to not only hold public office, but to be highly effective and efficient in his role.

As a member of the public who believes that our community is at a terrifying tipping point, I am content with his acknowledgement of his actions, and I support his desire to direct his time and energy on his campaign so he can eventually effect some real change in Jackson. Our town faces substantial challenges, and I consider his stance and comments thus far a testament to his commitment to keep the focus on the actual emergency situations we now find ourselves in.

I invite all who read this to examine their own decision-making throughout life, ask themselves if they believe that they are the same people they were 20 years ago, and think about which parts of their life experiences have given them the tools, motivation, and perspective to become better people, parents, friends, employees and community members. The person I have most faith in as a leader is someone who, despite an imperfect past, chooses to invest their own time in growing and galvanizing their community by contributing passionate and informed ideas alongside meaningful solutions. To me, that is the definition of a role model, and only one mayoral candidate fits it. I stand behind Pete.

— Cate Watsabaugh Jackson, WY

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THE BUZZ Mass Exodus Is NIMBYism to blame for the valley’s critical character loss?

BY JAKE NICHOLS

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n the coming weeks, two more families will leave the valley, joining a veritable caravan of emigrating, reverse-homesteaders browbeaten into uprooting and giving up on Jackson Hole. Two more couples tired of the treadmill and carrot. Two more tears in the fabric.

The Woods and the Siegfrieds could not be more different. One family couldn’t wait to unload their $19M property in Wilson and get out of Dodge for their home state of Oklahoma. The other couldn’t afford to waste any more time struggling to put down permanent roots in Jackson Hole.

But both parties are leaving, either directly or indirectly, because of an increasingly prevalent attitude here: “Not In My Back Yard.”

Tale of two desertions Robin and Cherrie Siegfried moved to the valley in 1997 from Tulsa. Robin fell in love with the western way of life offered in the Cowboy State. He embraced it with vigor even if his neighbors did not always feel the same about his arrival.

Siegfried ran afoul of the West Bank contingent almost immediately, beginning a pattern of feather ruffling that would eventually cause the aircraft industry magnate to decide the Hole is not the welcoming community he wanted to believe it was. An attempt to build a helicopter pad at his Fish Creek Road home was met with fierce confrontation and eventual denial by county commissioners. Siegfried also battled with immediate neighbors over their attempts to subdivide their property.

The legal haranguing culminated with a highly publicized war over his ranch’s ability to host weddings and other party events on his property. Loring Woodman and Melody Lin voiced their displeasure over being subjected to late night noise and traffic, leading to county-wide legislation over how many parties large landowners could hold and how often.

The bureaucratic battles soured the Siegfrieds on Jackson Hole. They recently sold their property for a reported $17 million and will be leaving the valley in frustration.

What the community loses is a couple that gave back. For years, the Siegfrieds bought the chicken for the fire department’s annual fund-raising chicken fry. Robin was also active in the police

department’s mounted patrol.

The Woods—Katie and Scott—would have given nearly anything to own a house and land in Teton County. Katie, who is from the Dubois-Crowheart area, moved here 11 years ago and it’s been a struggle to find housing ever since. She tried Victor for a year and a half but the commute didn’t suit her. She’s been on the “affordable list” with the Housing Authority for years with no luck.

After marrying five years ago, the Woods contemplated buying something, anything, but prices remained out of reach for the professional couple.

“After we started making more money we worked ourselves out of the low-end affordable category, but the free market isn’t going to work for us, either,” Wood said. “We are paying $1,500 a month for a basement apartment. We could maybe get into a low-end condo here and rent a storage unit, and hope [economic conditions] don’t shift and we go underwater, stuck living in a tiny condo with shared walls on all sides. We are just super frustrated. We don’t see a path out.”

Katie said she’s tired of playing the game—pushing a grindstone of second and third jobs, more hours, only to find she and her husband are chasing after a real estate reverie they’ll never reach. So they put in an offer on a home in Glacier, Montana, where they expect to be moving

by November.

With the departure of Katie and Scott, the valley will say goodbye to their media design company and its work with companies like Brain Farm and TGR. Wood Design donated countless hours to nonprofits in preparation for Old Bills. Scott has helped teach web design for the high school’s History Day. Katie helped found Thrive last summer—an empowerment program for young women that’s an offshoot of GAP! (Girls Actively Participating). She’s also done social work at Van Vleck House, and has taken up a side job of photographing weddings.

NIMBY, LULU, NIABY, and just plain BANANAs NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) is a coin termed in the early 1980s for the vigilante mentality that rises to challenge undesirable development, and it is largely to blame for the valley’s woes. The condition has worsened here over the years— brewing from civic engagement to entitled outrage—to the point where practically everything is contested.

Residential developments recently proposed in South Park and Bar J faced a storm of what can only be dubbed NIMBYism.

Transportation is hardly immune, either.

The Tribal Trails connector elicited a ferocious public response, and polarized the

community in a tug-o-war between tony Indian Springs homeowners and overnight traffic “experts.” And just try to bring up highway widening, a north bridge, or a roundabout at the “Y.” A hidden cell tower in downtown Jackson received heavy opposition as well, even as the same citizens complaining about it couldn’t load the town meeting agenda on their smart phones because of lagging webpage load times.

The location of a new elementary school, land use zoning in downtown Jackson, and a bucolic country road in Jackson’s adjacent national park have also received plenty of remarks and resistance along the way. NIMBYism might be the bane of town and county planners everywhere in America, but the “attitude of anti” is also heralded by some as democracy in action. And NIMBYs are passionate about their property rights and their community causes, especially in Jackson Hole.

While the term is viewed primarily as a pejorative one, more and more are wrapping themselves in the NIMBY flag claiming they are looking out for more than just their own interests.

“The proposed road’s opponents ‘are not NIMBYs,’ Nicole Krieger insisted at a public meeting in 2015 over the hotly contested Tribal Trails Road. The Jackson attorney represented a coalition of citizens opposed to the connector. “They are not people who want to put a roadblock in the transportation system within Teton County and the town of Jackson. To the contrary, they are Teton County citizens and residents who care tremendously about this valley and its future.”

In a 2010 Corpus Callosum article, local economist Jonathan Schechter wrote: “The current planning process is hopeful in that it reminds us just how much people care about Jackson Hole. Yes there’s some NIMBYism going on. But rather than self-interest, I think the primary cause of the planning-process cum-trench-warfare is residents’ passion for their community.

And that’s a wonderful thing.”

Notable author Alexandra Fuller, who lives in Wilson, is unabashedly proactive in protecting her yard. “I think corporations invented [NIMBY] so that we would be embarrassed into not fighting for our backyards. I absolutely am a NIMBY, and I am going to stay and fight for my backyard,” she said in a 2008 interview with New West.

NIMBYism has spawned its own acronymical dictionary including LULUs (Locally Undesirable Land Uses, NOTEs

(Not Over There Either), NIABYs (Not In Anyone’s Backyard), BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone), and even NOPEs (Not On Planet Earth!), CAVE people (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) and NIMTOOs (Not In My Term Of Office).

Matthew J. Kiefer penned a classic treatise for Harvard Design Magazine on NIMBYism as an inescapable feature of the development landscape. In it, the Boston attorney added a crop of tangential terminology that could be viewed as humorous if not spot on.

In his article, Kiefer examined a typical neighborhood meeting concerning a proposed condominium project that sounds so Jackson it’s as if he was in the back row at a council meeting.

“First, people complain that they did not get notice of the meeting—yet they are in attendance, so what are we to make of that?” Kiefer began. “The project-specific complaints follow familiar patterns too. The traffic in every neighborhood is, apparently, already intolerable no matter what the transportation consultants say about ‘level of service.’ The project will only worsen it, infringing upon residents’ inalienable right to uncongested streets.

“For large-scale urban projects, the second most prevalent objection is against building height, which often becomes the currency in which trades are made. For the neighbors, height is a signifier of all other impacts. For the developer, height is directly proportional to financial feasibility. So it rapidly becomes a zero sum game, which in turn leads to gamesmanship.

“A third leitmotif is view. Virtually all residents believe that the Constitution protects the view from every window of their homes.”

“There is no balance.

There is a real emptiness to the community now.”

- Katie Wood

We need housing… just not here

David Quinn, the man trying to develop four lots in South Park, which he says will provide at least 57 affordable homes, if not more, ran into a buzz saw of backlash with his project. It didn’t help Quinn and his Steelhead Partners that he rushed his pre-application in order to get in under the sun-setting PRD (planned residential development) tool, scheduled to be packed on ice just weeks from when he submitted his plans in December 2015.

The project involves a swap of land rights that will protect open space at the Lucas family’s cattle ranchland on Spring Gulch in exchange for 206 homes on 203 acres the Lucases own on South Park Loop.

“We thought we had a really great opportunity here to provide housing where

it is needed at no cost to the taxpayer. My family has been caught up in this housing issue; many of my friends as well. It’s very ‘in your face’ in this town,” Quinn said. “I don’t blame anybody. I’m not pointing a finger. But it’s been years and years of people who come to the county commissioner meetings who don’t want anything in their backyard. These same few people put the planning staff and [elected officials] under so much pressure they are scared to make a decision or say the wrong thing.”

Quinn says the red tape facing developers now—even those wanting to build affordable housing—has made it nearly impossible to get anything done, especially in the county.

“They’re continually adding more regulations, making it more difficult. It’s become such a complex, arduous, and drawn-out process that I’m not sure anybody can get anything through with any plan. No matter how good the merits of the plan are,” he said.

In 2007, Jackson lawyer Peter Moyer led a litigious intransigence against the county housing agency’s purchase of a 5.2acre parcel in his neighborhood on Cheney Lane. The result left county officials gunshy at developing the property as a dense affordable housing project. The property is currently under contract to be sold at a $100,000 loss after nearly a fallow decade in government hands.

A real ‘emptiness’ to the community

After citizens shot down development ordinances in the downtown core, town council has a new to-do list.

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ast week during a special referendum election, Jackson residents voted to repeal development ordinances in the downtown core in an 827 to 647 vote. Now the question is: How will Jackson town council proceed?

Mayor Sara Flitner says she will be advocating for the council to repeal the addition of short-term rental potential that likely caused the uproar over District 2 ordinances. In exchange for allowing developers to build short-term vacation rentals, the town had hoped to incentivize the private sector to build workforce housing in addition to their projects.

“Our job now is to improve affordable housing and share the message that we need public and private support to achieve this goal,” she said.

Flitner added that the council is not in favor of short-terms rentals “all over the place.”

In a September 21 newspaper article, the mayor said she was “disappointed” in the results of the vote.

When speaking with The Planet, Flitner intimated that public critique of private developers’ involvement in solving Jackson’s housing woes is misguided.

“The finger pointing, the character assassinations, the distortions of truth are a horrific injustice,” she said.

Councilman Don Frank offered a more

measured response. “I was surprised that between original petition solicitation and [the September 20 election] a very narrow policy agenda surfaced,” he said.

Frank has been a supporter of the controversial short-term rentals since early in the process of crafting downtown land use rules. He says he wants to “real world” test incentive tools like short-term rentals. “A growth monitoring tool exists in the Comp Plan and it can serve us well by replacing hypothetical narratives with measurable data,” Frank said.

But for voters like Margaret Gordon, a bookkeeper and mother of two who has lived in the valley 17 years, the specific incentive of short-term rentals was egregious, whether a monitoring tool or not.

“I voted no,” Gordon said. “While I think the majority of the ordinances were fine, I didn’t like that the ‘Vote yes’ contingent was selling the promise of employee housing in exchange for what would be essentially more hotel rooms.”

Gordon said she was put off by the strange bedfellows who supported the ordinances as-is. Prior to the September 20 vote, the Committee to Move District 2 Forward placed ads with local news outlets urging voters to vote “yes” on the referendum in order to create workforce housing. The committee was comprised of recent opponents on the D2 short-term rental incentive. Think About It Jackson Hole and the Jackson Hole Chamber had supported the incentive in past town council meetings, whereas Shelter JH and One22 had opposed it. Yet all of those organizations were part of the committee.

“The flip-flopping of certain organizations, and the fact that other local nonprofits jumped on the “yes” side, complete with nine people standing at the corner of Pearl and Broadway that morning holding signs, made me feel like a lot of money was being thrown at this to persuade us to pass it,” Gordon said. “That always makes me suspicious.”

The D2 referendum brought to light

questions of trust in a representative democracy. The perennial cry from elected officials to trust them came under scrutiny during the referendum’s direct democracy appeal, where voters had the final say.

Town council candidate Judd Grossman believes citizens have a reason to be suspicious. He says the council has not been transparent enough about its decision-making process. “The public is tired of being blindsided by consequences to council actions that aren’t fully disclosed or vetted ahead of time, so they instinctively put the brakes on at the ballot box,” Grossman said.

But the referendum did not necessarily educate voters about the complex LDRs in question, according to Jackson resident Lauren Olson. She says she didn’t have enough information to make an informed vote. Instead, the rushed nature of the referendum was dismaying for her.

“Forcing people to vote on this issue in the middle of September was part of what put me off about it,” Olson said. “It felt like I was being rushed, manipulated, and denied adequate information to make a vote I could feel confident about.”

While some town council members, like Hailey Morton Levinson, expressed patience with the continued process to educate voters and fine-tune the LDRs, stakeholders like mayoral candidate Pete Muldoon want the council to get the show on the road.

“The town council should go back to the original set of ordinances [which did not include the potential for short-term rentals] that they already read and pass them immediately,” Muldoon said. “They were a great compromise that the community arrived at with a lot of deliberation.” PJH The next Jackson town council meeting is 6 p.m. Monday, October 3 in town hall.

The town will release the agenda for this meeting on its website 4 p.m. Thursday, September 29.

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District Two Redo

‘Jackson’s Hole’—McCabe Corner project at 185 N. Glenwood (owned by Bear Development) will likely remain in limbo until LDRs for District 2 are settled and, perhaps, long after that.

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The Siegfrieds and Woods are just the latest evacuees washing their hands of the resort rat race. Katie Wood has mixed feelings about leaving but she knows it’s probably for the best.

“I don’t want to come across as ‘woe is me,’” Wood said. “We are not looking for a handout or someone to make Jackson work for us. We keep toughing it out and working harder, hoping Jackson will get its shit together. But we have to cut the cord and look out for ourselves and build a family and some equity.”

Wood fears the valley is headed for a serious awakening—a time when we all finally recognize a feudalism-serfdom society has taken root in Shangri La. “It’s a real shame. There are two extreme levels of people here: transient workers and those who can afford anything,” Wood said. “There is no balance. There is a real emptiness to the community now. I know so many people in the same boat. Jackson, you are losing the backbone of your community. People are throwing their hands up and so much of what makes this place special is being lost.” PJH

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Free Beer Folly Candidates warned that celebrating the democratic process cannot include doling out free booze or food.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

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hat exactly constitutes vote buying? Apparently offering free drinks and food to voters is one

way.

A recent press release from the Teton County clerk’s office was “a friendly reminder to local businesses and candidates to structure their election-minded promotions in a way that doesn’t break the rules.” Nowhere in the press release does it state that it is a de facto crime to offer giveaways, such as free food or beer, however. County clerk Sherry Daigle cited Wyoming Statute 22-26-109, which reads that offering bribes is willfully promising money or valuables “to induce a person to vote or refrain from voting for or against a candidate.”

At issue was a September 24 event held by mayoral candidate Pete Muldoon offering free beers at Thai Me Up for anyone who showed up wearing an “I voted” sticker. Muldoon received Daigle’s press release on September 23, and subsequently changed the language of his Facebook

event: “We are celebrating with free food and beer from Thai Me Up and Melvin Brewing. Stop by and celebrate your civic duty with us!” read the ad.

“We offered food and drinks to whoever showed up,” Muldoon explained, “regardless of whether or not they had an ‘I voted’ sticker.”

But Muldoon was not the only candidate unaware of how these arcane statutes might affect seemingly innocent voter soirees. In July, Mayor Sara Flitner held a similar event at eLeaven restaurant. In an email she stated eLeaven would offer a free drink or dessert to anyone wearing an “I voted” sticker. However, Flitner says a friend alerted her at the last minute to the possible problem and she decided against offering the beer and dessert at the event.

According to county attorney Keith Gingery, alcoholic drinks, such as beer, are considered a valuable. While this may not surprise brewing companies that hold their brews in high esteem, others may not find it so obvious that a beer is a thing of value.

Gingery says the issue is pretty clear when a candidate specifically offers a free beer or other valuable to a voter for voting specifically for her or him. However, things become murkier when it’s a get-out-thevote party.

“If a candidate is holding a party and if you show up with an ‘I voted’ sticker, and you get a free beer, there is a lack of the explicit statement but the candidate is still implicitly stating that he will give you something for your vote for him,” Gingery said. “This [hypothetical incident] is much grayer because you may not have voted for him and he doesn’t know how you voted.”

Gingery noted that bribery prosecutions are particularly fact-specific. “Clerk

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Delicious beer: apparently a ‘valuable’ commodity in the Cowboy State.

Daigle was trying to be very careful to not say that anyone had violated the law, but that there was the potential, and she just wanted everyone to be careful with how they were wording their ads.”

Businesses too must tread carefully, but under federal, not state, law. “If a restaurant is giving away some food item or beer simply because you voted, it does probably violate the federal election law that does not allow for offers for voting regardless of who they voted for,” Gingery said.

Rewarding people for turning out to vote has been in violation of federal law since 1948. But according to Slate.com, voter-bribery cases have been pursued more vigorously since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That bill was intended to protect racial minorities who face discrimination at the polls.

Small town local politicians are not alone in stumbling over outdated election offense laws. In fact big name businesses have tripped over such laws in recent years. In 2008, Starbucks and Krispy Kreme got their wrists slapped for offering Election Day free coffee and doughnuts, respectively, to voters. Instead they had to change their offer to include any customer, regardless of voting.

As of yet, sales in the microbrewery, fancy coffee chains, and sugar-laden fat product industries have yet to see a major boost from their new importance in American politics. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that any Jackson or Teton County candidates have broken bribery laws while campaigning this election season. PJH SEND COMMENTS TO EDITOR@PLANETJH.COM

November 8th, 2016 General Election ABSENTEE BALLOT NOTICE

Headed south for the winter? Worried about having to wait in line?

Have you made up your mind and want to vote NOW? That’s okay, because whatever the reason, you can vote by absentee from September 23 to November 7, 2016!

Stop in and vote at the absentee polling site located in the basement of the Teton County Administration Building at 200 S. Willow St., Jackson, WY. You can also call or email us to request that a ballot be mailed to you.

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All absentee ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on November 8th, 2016.

(From left to right) Camrin Dengel, Lina Collado, Hannah Hardaway, Jay Nel-McIntosh, Heather Erson and Kisa Koenig.

Photo by Zoë Catalano

BY JESSICA L. FLAMMANG

F-ST P FATALES

Meet some of the female photographers turning heads in their backyard and beyond.

EARLY FEMALE SHUTTERBUGS Constance Talbot (1811-1880) and Anna Atkins (1799-1871), an English botanist, were the first female photographers. The women originally shot under the tutelage of photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot.

They developed the earliest photographic methods, according to Dawn Oosterhoff, co-author of Women In Photography: A Story Still Being Written.

In 1897, a trend was spreading. The Ladies’ Home Journal published an article “What a Woman Can Do with a Camera.” Frances Benjamin Johnston, whose photographs of the White House, along with elite social events and celebrity portraits, were also featured in the magazine and in Harper’s Weekly. She eventually assembled and displayed the work of 28 women from across the United States at the seminal 1900 International Photographic Congress in Paris.

That year more than 7,000 female photographers were shooting professionally, according to British and American censuses. Home portraiture—predominantly featuring mothers and children—became an accepted social medium, and a profitable enterprise for female photographers near the end of the 19th century.

Women ultimately overcame the the significant

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and Prana. The “insatiable adventurista,” as Prana calls her, also serves as an ambassador for the brand.

The adept climber is now trying her hand at video work too after attending the 5Point Film Festival last year.

“There wasn’t a single female called on stage,” she said. “I realized it was the perfect opportunity for me to step into filmmaking.”

In the 1890s, less than 300 American female photographers were in the known circuit. But over the last several decades, professional photography has shifted from primarily a man’s field to a gender equal playing ground. In 1983, only 20 percent of photographers were female. Today, the gender balance on the job is about equal, according to a 2012 Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

The ambitious cadre of female photographers in Jackson Hole, many of them in their 20s and 30s, serves as testament to these new statistics. Women here are transcending traditional notions of their roles in the photographic field. More and more of their work is gracing the pages of major magazines, capturing feats of athleticism traditionally shot by men, and carving a fresh feminine style into the field.

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t’s almost 7 a.m. on the belay ridge. The wind is blowing sideways, soaking Savannah Cummins’ camera and layers of neoprene and down. The photographer’s lithe frame is loaded down with heavy camera equipment, climbing and safety gear, food, water, back up layers and a medical kit. Her fixed ropes, which she rigged above the shoot with an anchor well before daybreak, are already frozen. This makes it challenging to ascend in the icy dawn to get the shot she wants. She has already hiked for three hours and the shoot has not even started. Now Cummins is logging jumping jacks to stay warm before sunup. She is careful not to knock ice down on the athletes as she fights to keep her hands and feet from going numb.

An adventure photographer, Cummins is among the growing number of women entering a field historically dominated by males. “Shooting adventure photography is really physically demanding. I’m usually hauling heavy gear and on heavy ropes,” she said. “I put my camera through dust and mud, ice and driving snow.

The weather can be tough. I’m often hiking for the shoot before the sun rises and going to bed after the sun sets.”

Only two years into her career, Cummins already has contracts with Patagonia, La Sportiva, 5.10, Arc’teryx

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Photos by Savannah Cummins gender-based limitations at the turn of the 20th century, according to Oxford Art Online, and began to make their mark in the photography industry.

ANYTHING FOR THE SHOT Fast forward to the 21st century to the likes of Cummins, who enjoys shooting most from the perspective of hanging off a rope. “I have to push myself, whether I am on top of a frozen waterfall or hanging off a cliff,” she said. “Shooting on the ground is relatively easy compared to this.” Born out of a climbing background, at the age of 24, Cummins is a rising star in the adventure photography circuit, meshing her two passions: climbing and shooting.

A string of injuries prompted Cummins to begin looking at life through a lens. First it was a SLAP tear (superior labrum anterior and posterior) in her left shoulder. The injury forced her to pull the plug on an internship for Jackson Hole Mountain Guides, and an opportunity to be on Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s summer athlete team. Instead she did six weeks in a sling and six weeks of physical therapy.

Less than a year later, before she had gained full

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range of motion in her left shoulder, Cummins tore the labrum in her right shoulder while climbing in the Red River Gorge. “At the first bolt my shoulder popped out and my belayer and I both heard a nasty tearing sound,” she recalled.

Then this past summer, she tore the labrum in her right hip.

“I’m so thankful to have found photography,” she said, “it’s opened up so many doors for me and kept me sane throughout all of my injuries.”

Cummins’ heart is rooted deep in the climbing community. She recently co-launched the GoFundMe campaign for Scott Adamson and Kyle Dempster, who disappeared on the Ogre II face in northern Pakistan in the end of August. According to National Geographic Magazine, nearly $200,000 was raised to “cover search costs … and execute an order to go forward with a risky, high-altitude helicopter search.” Cummins dropped everything to participate in the Crowdfund.

Seemingly boundless creativity marks her ambition and style. Slated for movie houses in early December is Cummins’ Mixtress, a documentary film about women in North America pushing the standards of mixed climbing, a combination of ice climbing and rock climbing. Athlete

Dawn Glanc asked Cummins to assemble a team for the film, an all-female project.

Anne Banister, producer of Mixtress, told Outside Magazine, “On top of the fact that it’s a weird burly sport that not a lot of people do, here’s a group of women who are keeping up with the men.”

Jackson-based international outdoor adventure photographer, Greg von Doersten, who has mentored both Cummins and photographer Heather Erson, says it will be a film to remember. “Cummins produced, directed and shot the whole video on an all-female team.

The project exemplifies that women can do whatever men can do in the world of adventure photography.”

Documenting how women are pushing the limits in mixed climbing, Cummins explained, “It was interesting pitching to sponsors. We weren’t a production company.

We were five women making it happen.”

INTO THE JUNGLE

Lina Collado, 35, is a self-taught shutterfly on 35 MM film. The photographer, photojournalist and film producer has a true humanitarian focus. She fell in love with the art in high school, and the trilingual photographer later

elders chanting to nature who had passed away. These were incredibly significant to the community, along with the CD players she brought into the schools. It gave them their history in a form they could listen to over and over again.

Her passion for their culture and creative rapport with the community earned the shutterfly the trust of the people. “One morning, I traced a jaguar track in the Amazon to a river before 6 a.m. for a shot,” she said.

“I knew I was totally in the hands of the locals, with no real idea where I was. They trusted me enough to take me deep. I focused on maintaining this trust, amidst the challenge of keeping my camera dry, and protecting it from the choking humidity. I had to get the shot, but the trust was more important.” Collado’s project from the expedition arrives via ‘The Manú Project: The Trees Don’t Talk Anymore,’ slated for a December release. The trailer premiere 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29 at the Ordway Auditorium in Teton County Library.

Collado is pitching the full documentary to The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Outdoor Journal and Matador Network, but Jackson is the first place this will be shown and discussed publicly.

The multimedia project will later be available online

and free for educational purposes and Collado wants to bring the project full circle. She will return to the Amazon in May to give the Matsigenka people what they gave her. “The photo book and photo story will go back to the communities, so they can pass it down through the generations and keep their culture alive.”

FAMILY AFFAIRS Kelly (Kali) Collado, 29, (no relation to Lina Collado), alongside partner Noah Waldron, shoots time-lapse photography and motion control cinematography independently for their company, The Night Skies. “I work with my partner at times, and together we are a more powerful team,” Kelly said. “Since he is male and I am female, we strike a balance. Motion controlled photos can get very technical. We each bring a different dynamic.”

They sell their shots to production companies such as Brain Farm and Sheets Studios. Some of their recent work is featured in the new Travis Rice/ Brain Farm film, The Fourth Phase, by Red Bull Media. It’s the first snowboard movie in history filmed exclusively in 4K Ultra high definition, the most technologically advanced action sports video capability software. (Most

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completed a BFA in visual communications and graphic design, as well as an MA in film at Columbia University in New York. “My work aims to give voice to new cultures, remote spaces and conservation,” she said.

In April, the Puerto Rican born photojournalist and film producer spent a month deep in the Peruvian Amazon documenting the Matsigenka people, an indigenous culture of the Amazonian basin in Southeastern Peru. With independent journalist Shelby Johnson, Jackson-based Collado had GoPro, Mountain Khaki and LifeStraw sponsoring her trip.

Collado has worked with the Jackson Wildlife Film Festival; and for the last five summers, she has led student photography expeditions for National Geographic.

Alongside four men and only one other woman, she was the sole female photographer and program director working to document the lives and struggles of a relatively unknown culture in 10 separate communities.

She focused on how their connection with the jungle is being lost through a shift toward modernity, and why the youth are abandoning the jungle and their culture.

Most of the communities have already lost their native language, Collado explained. “They can no longer live without money; they are some of the poorest people in Peru, and feel they have no way to improve their fate.” The conundrum, Collado says, is exposing their story to offer them upward mobility, while at the same time maintaining their precious and unique culture, discovered by the outside world only 25 years ago.

Collado and Johnson were compelled to capture the struggle of the Matsigenka people, “to share the stories of the Amazon, and give the people an international voice.”

Although National Geographic rejected them for an Explorer Grant, the two women forged ahead. “We decided to continue and do it independently,” Collado said. “We held a Kickstarter campaign to make the project happen.”

Collado explained that female photographers have to be ready for anything and everything to be a part of the team. “It is definitely a man’s world—exploration and photojournalism,” Collado said. “In a world like the Peruvian Amazon, it was unnerving at the beginning.”

The females on the project had to find ways to navigate the male-dominated culture in remote jungle lands and they had to be careful to respect social mores.

But despite the many challenging encounters she faced as a woman in the Amazon, Collado says she was not discouraged. In fact, being a female opened a door for her there.

One approach that helped Collado find her way into the Matsigenka community was by printing Polaroid photos of mothers with their children. “These photos connected us,” she said. “The women had never seen printed photos before. It was a gift for them. We wanted them to see us as trying to help, not trying to take from them.”

But getting to the shot was not always easy. “Women are property in Matsigenka culture. I faced moments when women could not talk to us because men speak for them.” So Collado found ways to earn the community’s trust. She brought beads and face paint, enabling her to sit with the women and girls and talk to them. These authentic experiences, Collado says, led her into their world, their lives and their love of the jungle.

Although she was the only member of the crew who spoke Spanish, she was not allowed to be alone with a man from the community. “I had to find strategies to work around this, and find ways they would talk to me.” With help from Glenn Shepard, ethno botanist and anthropologist who has been studying the culture for the past 12 years, she was able to bring CD recordings of

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action sports video is 1080, so 4K equates to four times the number of pixels, allowing for stunning visuals.)

Ansel Adams who “waited for the perfect moment of light and captured it in a stunning way” inspired Kelly. Later, it was the iconic Annie Leibovitz’s music portraits that led her on a path to photographing concerts and live events.

Like Kelly, photographer Heather Erson was inspired by Leibovitz and interned for the famous shutterfly widely known for her stunning images—and photographing John Lennon on the day he died.

Erson also works alongside her life partner and right hand man, husband Drew McElwee. He was originally her assistant. “Drew began helping me as a photo assistant in 2007,” Erson said. “After we got married in 2013, Drew became involved in every aspect of the business, and now we are a true photography team.”

In 2008 Erson released “Revealed,” a collection of 30 black and white portraits of professional mountaineers, skiers and snowboarders. The candid, stylistic shots uncovered subliminal and private sides of the athletes. Leibovitz, she says, inspired this defining moment in her career. “I felt I had developed my style.”

Erson was later asked by Skiing Magazine to photograph the top female skiers in the US and Canada. In 2010, her images of female athletes graced the pages of the Jackson Hole Women’s Hockey Calendar. The exposé revealed the sculpted, stripped down bodies of female athletes in prototypical Erson style: authentic and unmasked.

Erson studied under many accomplished photographers, including famed Everest photographer David Brashears, who she assisted on a shoot in Nepal early in her career.

Today, when she photographs weddings, she is able to draw from her sundry photographic experience. “In my photos, I like the contrast between the delicate details of a wedding and the rugged details of nature,” she said.

Photos by Hannah Hardaway

Photos by Jay Nel-McIntosh

TOP DOGS IN THE INDUSTRY Even with the rising number of female photographers, only six of the 15 most widely recognized photographers are women, including Leibovitz, Kait Robinson, Janae Shields, and Anne Geddes, according to Webneel. Still, some of these top dogs, such as Leibovitz, have left a lasting mark on the field and bred a new crop of female talent.

Today women are rising up in the National Geographic circuit in growing numbers. Nikon ambassador and Nat Geo photographer Ami Vitale inspired Hannah Hardaway, former U.S. Ski Team athlete turned professional photographer. Hardaway says Vitale’s images, shot in more than 90 countries, embody “living the story,” exactly what Hardaway aims to capture in her images.

Hardaway realized in 2002 that she “didn’t want to just be remembered as an athlete.” Her heart was in art; at age 22, she began to transition out of competitive skiing amidst a series of five knee surgeries. “I had a worldview beyond mogul skiing,” she said.

Wedding photographer by trade, Hardaway’s passion also lies in photo documentary travel work. “The photos that are really special to me are when I have an authentic

connection with the subject. There needs to be some sort of spark,” she said.

Two of her favorite photos are from the floating slums of Belén, Columbia. She fondly recalls two little boys who ran out of their shanties, waving and smiling, before jumping off the dock to swim up to her boat.

Hardaway believes that photographs and video have an incredible way of showing the viewer people, places, and things that might be foreign or unfamiliar to them in a visceral way that makes them feel a connection to the subject.

This spring, her travels took her to France and Corsica, where she toted only one camera, one lens, and one type of film, Kodak Porta 400. “There was no decision-making involved because there were no lens choices. It made me move more … I am drawn to the intensity of getting the shot, just like I was drawn to competitive skiing,” Hardaway said.

PHOTOS AND MEMORY Up-and-coming travel, portrait, event and food photographer Jay Nel-McIntosh was deeply inspired by Annie Griffith, another of National Geographic’s female photographers, and one of their first. Griffith wrote A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel, a book about her travels

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around the world with her two children. “Originally for women, it was about trying to break the stigma,” NelMcIntosh explained. “Photography doesn’t have to be a male-dominated field.”

At Griffith University in Australia, the Canadian born Nel-McIntosh completed a photo-documentary of refugees and asylum seekers from around the world.

Across all nationalities and ethnic differences, she noted that all her subjects carried physical photographs.

“The refugees I photographed all had an original printed photo of family members they that they took with them when they fled their various homes,” Nel-McIntosh said. For the refugees, the photos held memories of a place that many would never be able to return to and family members they would never see again.

Nel-McIntosh was especially moved by the idea of purity and origin in these photographs. “One that I remember standing out was Khalifa, a 21-year-old Somalian refugee who carried a photo of his family taken the day they entered a refugee camp for the first time.

He told me this photo was one of his most important possessions because it reminded him of when he was a young innocent child, something he never felt he could truly go back to.”

Once a news photographer for the Gold Coast Bulletin in Australia, where she lived for seven years,

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Nel-McIntosh eventually found that the niche limited her creativity. She also experienced sexism in the field. “The only time I have ever felt undermined as a female photographer has been shooting on the sideline at major sporting events, where I have had other male photographers verbally question my ability to be there.

In my experience, sports shooting is still a bit of boys club that gives off the subliminal impression of ‘no girls allowed,’” she said. Still, that didn’t stop Nel-McIntosh.

Her first published photo depicted a boxer punching his opponent with blood spraying through the air. “I think I might have even got blood on me during that fight,” she said.

Eventually Nel-McIntosh was discouraged by her newspaper work. She remembers assignments where she was instructed to wait on the side of the road to get a shot of a mother crying at the sight of her gunneddown son. “It overdramatizes what doesn’t need to be seen,” she said.

Lately she has been shooting products for wellknown brands in the Tetons. “I love being able to do the things I am passionate about and take pictures doing it,”

she said. Recently she shot for Jackson Hole Fly Fishing School, and loved the days she spent on the river amid fall colors. “Photography is such an important aspect of our memory. To have high quality photos that represent a moment in time is a beautiful gift you can give to someone, whether it is a brand or an individual.”

The most challenging part of being a professional, according to Nel-McIntosh is having the confidence to charge what her work is worth. Male photographers earn an average of $35,500 in the U.S., while women earn a mere $16,300, on average, according to a 2008 report from the National Endowment for the Arts.

ON THE HEELS OF MEN? Women (and men) entering the field of photography often play the role of assistant first. Twenty-six-year-old Camrin Dengel assisted the famed outdoor photographer Gabe Rogel before going out on her own as a lifestyle photographer. She now shoots for Teton Family Magazine, Teton Valley Magazine and Big Life.

The Alaskan-born Dengel says she is not interested

in traditional notions of photographic success. “Big brands don’t appeal to me,” she said. She showcases small businesses like Winter Winds Farm in Victor, Idaho, Ruby & Revolver, a metal smith in Missoula, and sibling artisans Salmon Sisters, Alaskan fisherwomen who design ocean wear.

Dengel wants to convey the importance of homegrown foods and quality craftsmanship in a modern society.

“I started out in eco-journalism with the intention of making an impact environmentally. I have come back to that in a sense, by promoting slow living, sustainability and artisanship,” she said. “Essentially, my work is an environmental statement. I would like to encourage people to consume less and be more self-sufficient.”

At first Dengel says she was challenged as a woman in the field. “I have felt hindered by being a woman,” she admitted. “My images were worth more than I was offered one time. During the negotiation phase, the company was uneasy once the reps learned that I was a young woman. I lost the project at the final stage. It was really disappointing.”

Newborn baby photographer Kisa Koenig says she too has encountered gender bias in the field in terms of her work’s monetary value. As a small business owner, she is still working to market herself and understand how to charge enough for her work. But overall, Koenig says in her specific field, she has the upper hand as a female photographer. “Throughout my shooting career, being a woman has been a massive advantage. I could never be a successful newborn photographer without being a mom and having children first. That is ultimately what separates me from the masses.”

Koenig knows she has found her niche in newborn and family photography. “I know very few male newborn photographers,” she said. “This area of the industry is significantly dominated by women, and it’s a booming genre.” Koenig highlights the access to intimate moments as a female photographer: “Men would miss many of these, like being in the dressing room with the bride.” She shoots head down, with the light down the face. “It needs to feel serene, graceful” she said of her set. “A big part of that is the camera angle.” Soon her work will be displayed at St. John’s Hospital as a part of the Art and Healing public art program.

DOLLAR DISPARITY

Photos by Kisa Koenig

Today’s female trailblazers and photo business owners are forging into niches once shot only by men, and telling stories through pictures from a distinctly feminine angle.

But a big challenge still lies in being a business owner, as many independent photographers are. Today, women make only about 25 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn in personal businesses. According to the Economic Policy Institute, that’s a wider gap than the one that exists in the overall labor market, where the median earnings of women are about 83 percent of men’s.

But there have been small gains in recent years.

Close to 29 percent of America’s business owners are women, a three percent increase since 1997, according to The Atlantic. Additionally, female-owned firms have expanded 68 percent since 2007, compared to 47 percent across all business domains.

While commercial and sports photography still seem like a man’s world to Koenig, “The different genres that have been opening to women have encouraged more of us to become professional photographers.”

Kelly Collado agrees. “Women are becoming more empowered,” she said. “They are not letting anyone stop them.” PJH

THIS WEEK: September 28-October 4, 2016

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-7336398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2141 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n QPR Suicide Prevention Training 12:00pm, Center for the Arts, Room #12, Free, 307-2641536

n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Beginning Painting 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $140.00, 307733-6379 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Hand and Wheel 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $120.00, 307733-6379 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Oktoberfest week at the Q! 5:00pm, Q Roadhouse, Free, 307-739-0700 n Big R Ranch and Home Chamber Mixer 5:00pm, Big R Ranch and Home, Free, 307-201-2309 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Zumba 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n College Match Workshop 6:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 x 258 n Personal Talk: An 11 Year Old’s Memories on Kastner’s Train 6:00pm, The Wort Hotel, $10.00, 307-462-0847 n The Manu Project: An Expedition to a remote national park in Peru’s Amazon 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Printmaking 101 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $225.00, 307733-6379 n Silver Projects: Fabrication and Stone Setting Varieties 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00, 307733-6379

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n Introductory, Conversational Spanish 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $110.00, 307-733-7425 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n “Great Minds Don’t Think Alike…but they can learn to think together!”

6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-739-7493 n Disc Golf Doubles 6:00pm, Teton Village, 307733-2292 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307-7336994 n Latin Dance Week with FITO 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $120.00 - $300.00, 307-7336398 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic 8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Center Presents The Subdudes 8:00pm, The Center Theater, $53.00, 307-733-4900 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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n Yoga 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-7336398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Storytime 10:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2141 n Lap Sit 11:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Open Build 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-354-5522 n Ceramics Class for Seniors 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7336379 n Genealogy Workshop Time!

2:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-733-2164 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Oktoberfest week at the Q! 5:00pm, Q Roadhouse, Free, 307-739-0700 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Wednesday Community Dinner 6:00pm, Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole, Free, 307734-0388 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647

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MUSIC BOX

Big Easy Beloveds The Subdudes deliver the soulful, sundry sounds of New Orleans to the Center.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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magine Little Feat with a tambourine player for a drummer and an accordion in place of keys, add a hint of Van Morrison’s stretched out 70s sets, a touch of Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo, and the soulfulness of Steve Winwood. Oh, yeah, and that New Orleans R&B flair that

From soul, blues and gospel to rock swamp pop and funk, The Subdudes are emblematic of the Crescent City’s rich musical milieu. makes The Subdudes one hell of a musical quartet. Rooted in the Crescent City pastimes of soul, blues, gospel, Cajun, rock swamp pop, and funk, these dudes also bring fine vocal harmony with the focal point being singer/guitarist Tommy Malone.

The band originally came together after backing artists like Joni Mitchell and Roseanne Cash, eventually releasing a self-titled debut album in 1989. That album was followed up with a few albums that mixed original music and cover songs, including 1991’s Lucky and 1997’s Live at Last. After an eight-year sabbatical, the band joined Bob Dylan guitarist Freddy Koella to produce Miracle Mile in 2004, after which they made two appearances in Teton Valley for Music on Main in 2006 and again in 2009. If you followed the HBO series, Tremé, you would recognize their inclusion individually and as a group.

“New Orleans, with all of its problems, I just still love the way it feels,” Malone told Offbeat Magazine. “I split

after [Katrina], tried the Nashville thing, and it just didn’t feel right. So I came home. The other day, I’m sitting on the stoop and a guy rides by on his bike playing a tuba, man.

He’s got a smile on his face. You know he’s broke, but he’s smiling and happy, loving life. ‘Home.’”

With all founding members other than Johnny Ray Allen who passed away a couple years ago, Steve Amedee is on percussion and vocals, John Magnie plays keys, accordion and vocals, with relative newcomer Tim Cook on bass and vocals. The chemistry remains and so do the meaty grooves.

The Subdudes, 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 28 at the Center Theater. $55. jhcenterforthearts.org; 734-8956.

The Ultimate Ode to Beer

Held annually in Munich, Germany, as the world’s largest beer festival, Oktoberfest is traditionally a 16-day

WEDNESDAY The Subdudes (Center Theater), Open Mic/ Songwriter’s Alley ft. Katie & Nate Jones (Silver Dollar) THURSDAY Major Zephyr (Silver Dollar) FRIDAY Pam Drews Phillips Trio (Granary), Wyatt Lowe & The Mayhem Kings (Silver Dollar), BOGDOG (Town Square Tavern)

It’s that time of year again—where our steins runneth over with German beer during Snake River Brewing’s Oktoberfest. party attracting more than six million people. Imagine Germans dressed in dirndls and lederhosen where festivalgoers consume 1.5 million gallons of beer and 200,000 pairs of pork sausage. Thankfully, Snake River Brewing’s longstanding Oktoberfest necessitates its own town meeting of sorts—German style brews, traditional Oktoberfest style food, including the infamous sausage bier rocks, stein holding competitions and of course, polka tunes via Boise’s Wolfie and The Bavarians. Trumpet, accordion, clarinet, trombone, tuba, and drums makes for a zany good oompah session, and this one will be no different.

Oktoberfest featuring Wolfie and The Bavarians, 11 a.m. till late on Saturday, October 1 at Snake River Brewing.

Free. 739-2337.

Lowe treks from Colorado Wyatt Lowe’s 2015 release Songs from a Bottomless Well

was one of the most notable local releases of that year.

It rides the rockabilly revival a la JD McPherson’s retro release Signs & Signifiers with a fiery blues edge. Lowe is a young singer-songwriter with the look of a 20-something Johnny Cash, who fills a hefty portion of Lowe’s own bottomless well of influences that also includes Stratocasterwailing Jimmy Vaughn. Lowe returns to Jackson after moving to Colorado last year, rejoining the Jackson-based Mayhem Kings, Jason Fritts (sax), David Bundy (bass) and Scott Closson (drums).

Wyatt Lowe & the Mayhem Kings, 7:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, September 30 and October 1 at the Silver Dollar Showroom. Free. 732-3939. PJH Aaron Davis is a decade-long writer of Music Box, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

WE SERVICE THEM ALL …

MONDAY JH Hootenanny (Dornan’s) TUESDAY One Ton Pig (Silver Dollar)

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SUNDAY Open Mic (Pinky G’s), Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach)

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SATURDAY Oktoberfest featuring Wolfie and The Bavarians (Snake River Brewing), Wyatt Lowe & The Mayhem Kings (Silver Dollar)

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DON’T MISS

A Quest Immortalized Travis Rice’s new film is an intimate look into the snowboarder and his three-winter journey across the globe.

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fter years of production, Travis Rice, Brain Farm and Red Bull Media House will premiere The Fourth Phase in Jackson on Saturday, and once again redefine notions of what constitutes action sports films.

Spanning three winters, 2,000 hours of recorded footage and 245 terabytes of total hard drive space, the film was shot in Wyoming, Japan, Russia and Alaska.

The concept came to Rice while watching storms come and go. Observing the way they originate from the Pacific’s greater hydrological cycle, Rice was fascinated by this natural phenomenon. The Fourth Phase depicts the pro-snowboarder’s quest to chase this pattern across the world.

Upon first blush, the film’s name seems to reference the project being Rice’s fourth feature film (following First Descent, That’s It That’s All and The Art of Flight) but the truth is more interesting.

According to Rice, the name is inspired by the work of University of Washington professor Dr. Gerald Pollack, whose research indicates there is likely a fourth phase between solid and liquid water. The

Beyond aesthetic lines and tales of global adventure, The Fourth Phase depicts a side of Travis Rice largely unknown to audiences until now. professor’s findings have led some academics to believe this fourth phase may be the missing link between physical matter, and life as we know it.

“I really wanted to take a closer look at our relationship with water,” Rice noted in a press release. “Not only was I intrigued by the work of Dr. Pollack, but I also feel that his theory is a bit of a metaphor, since it states that with energetic input, water changes states. We wanted to immerse ourselves in our surroundings and see how our energetic input influenced the situations that we were seeking.”

Rice’s intrigue with Pollack’s ideas, coupled with his thirst to chase the hydrological cycle, provide the backdrop for his most ambitious cinematic project to date.

“This film is so much more in-depth than anything that we tried to do in the past,” Rice said, “and for me, it’s such a personal story that really started with setting off on this physical journey, and finished as so much more.”

What some are lauding as a hybrid between human narrative and high energy exploration snowboarding, The Fourth Phase had award-winning director Jon ‘JK’ Klaczkiewicz at the helm.

“The biggest factor that contributed [to the story] was Travis … opening up and being cool with shooting more vérité moments,” Klaczkiewicz told The Planet.

“The patience it requires to be followed around with a camera, hoping that we get the candid moments, was another big factor that helped us tell more of a story.

The best feedback we’ve gotten has been, ‘Wow, we saw a side of Travis we’ve never really seen.’”

Inspiration for plot points in the film were drawn from the classic “hero’s

journey,” monomyth. This narrative is an enduring formula where an unassuming protagonist is called to a seemingly impossible challenge. Faced with obstacle after obstacle, the ‘hero’ answers the call of adventure and eventually prevails.

Klaczkiewicz says he walked a fine line to authentically document the athletes’ real struggles. He had to balance the conditions on the ground and the crew’s narrative objectives while staying faithful to Rice’s ultimate vision. “You’re not forcing these things, because it is a documentary,” Klaczkiewicz said. “You’re capturing what you can along the way.”

And like many action sports projects, there was no shortage of hurdles that repeatedly humbled the crew. “There’s times when you think someone’s gotten injured or there’s a safety concern, whether it’s in Wyoming or in the backcountry of Japan, or you get caught in a bureacratic power struggle in Kamchatka, Russua ... There’s this constant: ‘OK, enough’s enough—let’s „ put the cameras down. ‘ Indeed, after all the hard work, the years of blood, sweat and film footage, The Fourth Phase has adaptability and perseverance etched into the film’s DNA. “We didn’t want to make Flight 2, we wanted to make something different,” Klaczkiewicz said. “The biggest win will be if people can take something away from the film that they can apply to their own experience.” PJH

The Fourth Phase screens at 3:30 and 8 p.m. (doors at 7) Saturday, October 1 at Center for the Arts. $17. Jhcenterforthearts. org.

SEE CALENDAR PAGE 21 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307-733-6994 n Latin Dance Week with FITO 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $120.00 - $300.00, 307-7336398 n Create Your Own Dreamcatcher 6:45pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, 307-699-7480 n JH Community Band Rehearsal 7:00pm, Center for the Arts Performing Arts Wing, Free, 307-200-9463

n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Bill Staines 8:00pm, Dornans, $20.00, 307-733-2415 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Zumba 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025

n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Electronics/Tech 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Free Friday Tasting 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Free, 307-733-0450 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7334466 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386

n Oktoberfest week at the Q! 5:00pm, Q Roadhouse, Free, 307-739-0700 n Art Association Artist of the Year Celebration & Bottle Release Party 5:00pm, Jackson Hole Still Works, Free, 307-733-6379 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-699-8300 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647

n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307-733-6994 n Latin Dance Week with FITO 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $120.00 - $300.00, 307-7336398 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307733-8833 n Refit Rockstar Royalty, Fundraiser for Baton Rouge Flood Relief 7:00pm, Dancer’s Workshop, Free, 307-690-6539

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CULTURE KLASH

Other Worldly How to broaden your proverbial horizons this week.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

T

he arts and cultural events on offer this week are like hiking up Josie’s Ridge in the fall. Dried stalks of balsam root rustle next to still-blooming purple asters, while golden aspen leaves clap as you traipse up the dry trail in bright sun. Across the valley, a skein of snow lies on the mountaintops, and a mile off a thundercloud builds. Three seasons packed into a few short weeks—summer, fall, and winter. If you are nimble on your feet and pack the right layers, you can enjoy them all.

The same principle holds for a week in which a Pulitzer prize-winning poet reads, a futuristic artist takes main stage, a young British sculptor shows her work, and Amazonian jungle inhabitants appear on film. All serve as a Whitman-esque reminder that we, like the world, are large and contain multitudes.

Go West, young Brit!

Tonight (Wednesday) is open studio night at Teton Artlab, where British sculptor Phoebe Baines is in residence. Educated at the Wimbeldon College of Art and the Royal College of Art, Baines normally hangs out in London, where she lives full time. But this month she’s been in residence at the Artlab, working on sculpture, drawings and paintings based on her interpretations of the local landscape.

“I have a much better understanding now of the impact of mountains,” Baines said. “I was starting to make work in London about large, monumental environments. Being here has changed my understanding completely. It’s more sinister now, in a good way.”

Baines said hiking in Paintbrush Canyon made her think about London. She found herself wondering if humans build huge architecture as a way of emulating natural towering rocks. “There is a strange similarity,” she said.

For the open studio, she will show wall drawings and sculpture that reference the night sky as well as Western wildlife. “For me, this landscape is so unusual that it feels alien,” she said. She hopes her outsider-looking-in perspective might offer locals a way to see familiar surroundings in new ways.

From an open studio and ponderings on our increasingly digital lives to Pulitzer Prize poets, a cornucopia of culture and art events happens this week.

Open studio with Phoebe Baines, 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Teton Artlab. tetonartlab.com

Self-determination in the jungle On Thursday, folks from The Manú Project, including local photographer Lina Collado, featured in this week’s cover story (page 9), present slides and a short teaser from their documentary expedition into the highly protected Manú National Park, a UNESCO recognized Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage site. The park is home to indigenous communities that have little contact with the outside world and who have little say in how the park is governed. Manu Project representatives hope that by telling the tribes’ stories they can influence park officials to include the indigenous people in decision-making about their home turf.

The team traveled more than 300 miles through the Amazon, visiting communities that live along the border of a zone with no outside contact. As civilization encroaches, youth from these communities often seek outside influences or move away.

The Manu Project slideshow presentation is 6 p.m.

Thursday, September 29 at Teton County Library. Free. tclib.org.

Art altered reality On Sunday, October 2, Los Angeles-based artist Zenka gives a TEDx talk exploring the question, “Will virtual and augmented reality move us into the knowledge age?”

What the heck is augmented reality (AR), you ask?

Zenka says, simply, “AR is the ability to look through a smart phone or goggles to see three-dimensional objects superimposed on top of the real world.”

Perhaps the most popular and timely example of AR is Pokemon Go, which enables users to run around catching “Pidgeys” as opposed to anachronistic birdwatchers sighting of old-fashioned, real-life pigeons.

Zenka is in town as a visiting artist with the Jackson Hole Wild Festival. Her art exhibit, Zenka: Augmented Reality Interventions, is on display at the Center for the Arts Theater Gallery. Visitors are invited to install a free phone app, and then make noises to cause 3D objects to move out of Zenka’s lino prints.

As part of her residency, Zenka worked with local high school students to create AR self-portraits. Using the Aurasma app, visitors will be able to see what is in the heads of each student.

Finally, Zenka will exhibit three virtual reality headsets

that trace the design evolution of the GameFace Virtual Reality android headset. Fired using an ancient Japanese technique called, raku, the ceramic heads reminded this reviewer of Wallace (from the British clay animation Wallace & Gromit) gone steampunk.

Zenka presents at TEDx Sunday, October 2 at the Center.

Other speakers include sex therapist Dr. Laurie Betito, neuroscientist Erin David Bigler, and women’s rights activist Dr. Willie Parker. The event is sold-out but there will be a concurrent screening in the lobby. Zenka’s art exhibit hangs in the Center Theater Gallery through October 31, with an artist reception October 7. She offers a professional development workshop on October 6. tedxjacksonhole.org.

Personal, and political

On Monday, Brooklyn-based poet Gregory Pardlo reads from his work and offers a free writing workshop.

Pardlo won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection, Digest. His memoir about his father, Air Traffic, comes out this fall.

According to The New York Times, Pardlo “writes intensely personal poems—with scenes that describe shopping for groceries with his daughter or unpack his anxieties about fatherhood—and delivers funny and poignant dispatches from the front lines of gentrifying Brooklyn.”

During his workshop, Pardlo will ask participants to consider various forms of cliché, like cultural assumptions, stereotypical depictions, and flat, easily anticipated turns of phrase. He will help the group devise strategies for uncovering the unique and lively thinking buried inside the cliché.

The library’s adult programming coordinator, Leah Schlacter, a poet herself, admires the many layers of Pardlo’s poetry. “I like how his work piles on images, pushing the boundaries between language and information, history and modernity, the personal and the external,” she said.

Schlacter has brought a number of notable writers of color to the library, including Pardlo and Claudia Rankine, in attempt to broaden the literary taste of the community, she said. “Writers of color give us the narratives that have been previously left out of American literature and history.” PJH Gregory Pardlo reads from his work 6 p.m., Monday, October 3 at Teton County Library’s Ordway Auditorium.

A writing workshop with Pardlo is 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday. Free. tclib.org

High Holidays Schedule of Events

In Praise of Wild Canids and Felids: Photographic Stories from the Field Monday, 5:30pm at Center for the Arts Melissa Groo, a world-renowned and award-winning photographer and Ashleigh Scully, a 14-year-old Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalist, will present for Wyoming Untrapped Monday, October 3.

The evening will focus on bobcats, coyotes, foxes, and the wild in celebration of canids and felids.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1

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n Octoberfest at the Knotty Pine With the Miller Sisters 6:00pm, The Knotty Pine, Free, 208-787-2866 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307-7336994 n Red Bull Media House presents The Fourth Phase: Hometown Premiere 7:00pm, The Center Theater & Lobby, $15.00, 307-7334900 n Wyatt Lowe & The Mayhem Kings 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom in The Wort Hotel, Free, 307-732-3939 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Latin Dance Party at The Rose!

9:30pm, The Rose, $20.00, 307-733-1500 n The Fourth Phase Premiere After Party 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $0.00 - $15.00, 307733-1500

Sunday, October 2

6:00 p.m. Erev Rosh Hashanah Prelude music begins at 5:30 p.m.

Thai Food New Years Party

Following Erev Rosh Hashanah services at Hansen Hall next door. Thai Food and goodies catered by Thai Plate Restaurant. $25 adults/$18 children/$5 under 5. Includes Thai chicken, noodles and vegetarian buffet, drinks, dessert and party favors. Reservations required, contact below.

Monday, October 3

9:30 a.m. Children’s Service 10:00 a.m. Shacharit, Morning Service (Childcare will begin at 10 am)

Potluck lunch to follow services in the Hansen Hall.

Please bring a main dish or side dish/salad to share.

Bagels, cream cheese and drinks will be provided.

Tacshlich to follow at Flat Creek.

Tuesday, October 4

Second Day Rosh Hashanah

10:00 a.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church library (No childcare)

Erev Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre Tuesday, October 11

Led by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and Chazzan Judd Grossman Prelude music begins at 7:00 p.m.

Services will begin at 7:30 p.m. (Childcare provided)

Yom Kippur

Wednesday, October 12

No tickets required JH Jewish Community 307-734-1999 info@jhjewishcommunity.org

9:30 a.m. Children’s Service 10:00 a.m. Shacharit, Morning Service (Childcare begins at 10:00 a.m.)

2:30 p.m. Workshop 3:45 p.m. Yizkor 4:45 p.m. Mincha/Torah Reading 5:45 p.m. Break 6:00 p.m. Rabbi’s Discussion 6:30 p.m. Ne’ila 7:00 p.m. Potluck community Break Fast in the Hansen Hall. Please bring a savory main dish or hearty side dish/ salad. Bagels, cream cheese, dessert and drinks provided.

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n Photography Composition & Visualization 8:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00, 307733-6379 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-7336398

n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-7336398 n Red Bull Media House presents The Fourth Phase: Hometown Premiere 3:30pm, The Center Theater & Lobby, $15.00, 307-7334900 n Fall Festival: Mother and Son Date Night 4:00pm, Old Wilson Schoolhouse, $46.00, 307-739-9025 n Latin Dance Week with FITO 5:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $120.00 - $300.00, 307-7336398 n Black Tie, Blue Jeans Ski Ball 5:00pm, Atop the Bridger Gondola, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $125.00 $200.00, 307-733-6433 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Wine Tasting on a Budget 6:00pm, Dornan’s Resort, 307-733-2415

Rosh Hashanah

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n Wyatt Lowe & The Mayhem Kings 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom in The Wort Hotel, Free, 307-732-3939 n Free Public Stargazing 8:30pm, Rendezvous Park, Free, 1-844-996-7827 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Friday Night DJ 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n BOGDOG 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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Unfettered Entertainment Lessons from the Laff Staff and the spirit of improv.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

E

ven though I have not performed in a Laff Staff improv show since 2014, I still get asked when the next show is. I performed with the troupe from the beginning, a solid five (or six?) seasons of filling the Black Box Theatre with snickers, awkwardness and some bad singing.

In our heyday, we sold out nearly every show in the season, which ran from the fall through the spring.

The Laff Staff became a consistent form of entertainment that evolved from a little-known cult classic to box office success. Everyone was welcome, and “laffs” were more or less guaranteed. Fan favorites like Justin Polly, Jon Christensen, Emma Pope, Jeff Bratz and the group’s founder, Todd Hjelt, etc., have since moved out of Wyoming.

The evolution of the Laff Staff, be it through the games that were played or the people that were playing them, was witnessed by our incredibly loyal fan base.

Familiar faces occupied the seats each weekend.

“How many of you have been to a Laff Staff performance before?” we would ask at the start of the show.

The Laff Staff circa 2009. (Left to right) Chris Staron, Nick Staron, Jeff Bratz, Andrew Munz, Jon Christensen, Kjera Strom Henrie and Brian Lenz.

The whole crowd often raised their hands, drowning the newbies under a tide of enthusiastic limbs. So we tried a different tactic.

“How many of you have never been to a show before?”

Ah, there they were. The friends of friends who’d been dragged to a local comedy show. Expectations were often low with the new folks, because, honestly, we’re in the mountains of western Wyoming. How funny could these people be?

But somehow we actors managed to pull ourselves together and deliver. I’ll be the first to admit that only 50 percent of the shows were knock-it-outta-the-park homeruns (and that’s being generous). But I can also say that there wasn’t a single show where the Laff Staff, a collected group of weirdos from different walks of life, didn’t give it their all.

Sure, jokes fell flat. Yes, accents and impressions were often a mess.

But under the warm lights, with nothing prepared, and zero shits to give, we’d step into a scene, and do our best to exalt the audience’s suggestions and deliver pure shambolic entertainment. Yes, our audiences were forgiving, and the Laff Staff wouldn’t be the success they are today if they weren’t. After the show we’d line up, offering up high-fives and hugs to every person who exited the theater. We’d say goodbye to friends, take the compliments, and try to deliver a better show next time.

Last week I went to see the Mike Birbiglia film, Don’t Think Twice, about a veteran group of improvisers called The Commune who perform at an improv institute in

New York City. In the film, when an SNLesque show called Weekend Live starts scouting for new members, Jack (KeeganMichael Key) is cast and ultimately leaves the group. The remaining members juggle with their own improv futures, deciding whether a life of low-paying improv performances is really what they want.

Sitting in the theater, I squirmed, both out of nostalgia and dread. The film is incredibly accurate to my experiences with the Laff Staff, as well as my two years of training and performance in Chicago at the iO Theater, Annoyance Theater and The Second City. Everything from the performer archetypes to the rapport with the audiences, the film hits the on the head (or in the coffin) of the improv comedy scene.

My ambitions of Icelandic exploits pulled me from the Laff Staff in the summer of 2014, and I haven’t performed improv since. That’s not to say I’m ready to let it go for good. There’s something therapeutic about improv, something addictive that lures even the most novice of performers.

I’ll always be hooked to that feeling of having nothing but a blank slate and a suggestion to guide my path, of saying “yes,” and making others look good.

Now a renegade devoid of a stage, I’ve implemented that mentality into my daily life in hopes of somehow reliving those glory days. Whether or not I’ll get on an improv stage again is unknown, but for now, I’m content with dishing out the applause and the suggestions rather than receiving them. PJH

n WYOBASS 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2

n First Sundays 9:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-7435424 n NFL Sunday Football 11:00am, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307.353.2300 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n High Holidays Rosh Hashanah 6:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 3077341999 n Wine Tasting 6:00pm, Dornans, 307-7332415 n TEDXJACKSONHOLE: PASSION 6:00pm, The Center Theater, $12.00 - $27.00, 307-7334900 n 2nd Annual Farm to Table Local Harvest Dinner 6:30pm, Local, $80.00 $120.00, 307-201-1717 n Open Mic 9:00pm, Pinky G’s Pizzeria, Free, 307-734-7465

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3

n Wyoming Untrapped presents In Praise of Wild Canids and Felids: Photographic Stories From the Field 6:30pm, The Center Theater and Lobby, $10.00, 307-7334900 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4

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n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-7336398 n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-7336398 n Yoga 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Wilderness First Responder and BLS CPR 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $725.00, 307-733-7425 n High Holidays Rosh Hashanah 10:00am, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 3077341999 n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Writer 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Zumba 4:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Relief Printing - Evening 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $64.00, 307733-6379 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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n Yoga 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-7336398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Wilderness First Responder and BLS CPR 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $725.00, 307-733-7425 n Intermediate Throwing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $170.00 $204.00, 307-733-6379 n Create with Me: Ages 2 & 3 with caregiver 9:15am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00, 307733-6379 n High Holidays Rosh Hashanah 10:00am, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-734-1999

n Kindercreations 10:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $70.00, 307733-6379 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Beginning Drawing 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00, 307733-6379 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Maker Monday’s 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n After School Kidzart Club: Grade K-2 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00, 307733-6379 n Handbuilding Plus!

3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $100.00, 307733-6379 n Stepping Stones 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $40.00, 307733-6379 n Chance Meeting 5:00pm, The Rose, Free, scott@siliconcouloir.com n Performance Arts Alliance Meeting 5:30pm, 635 Deer Drive Suite 201, Free, 307-734-9718 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Beginning Drawing Evening 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00, 307733-6379 n Stained Glass - Design with Light 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $160.00, 307733-6379 n Teenage Angst Screen Printing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00, 307733-6379 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307-7336994

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Rosé Redux Try these underrated pink wines each priced for less than $20.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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’ve written quite a bit about Rosé’s temptations in the past, so I won’t belabor the point here. To recap, though, I think of Rosé as the Rodney Dangerfield of the wine world: It gets no respect, although that’s changing, thankfully. Fewer people today are as prone to equate Rosé wine with White Zinfandel, America’s alcohol-infused Kool-Aid. Remember that most Rosé is a pinkish-red wine that drinks like a white wine.

The red hues in Rosé come from very brief grape skin contact with the actual juice— enough to give the wine a little color and body, but not enough to impart much in the way of tannins. And, unlike most red wine, Rosé wines should be served chilled, more akin to the temperature you’d serve a light white wine. Its versatility with

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food makes Rosé a slam dunk for picnics, barbecues and to sip on the patio while dreaming of Provençe.

Another attraction of drinking Rosé is its budgetary benefit. Although some highend French Rosé can get a little pricey, most bottles of decent Rosé can be had for under $20. Here is a smattering of some Rosé wines that I’ve found to be good values this summer.

Farview Goats Do Roam Rosé ($7.99) from South Africa—the name is a witty play on France’s Côtes du Rhône—is sort of a “training wheels” wine. Even folks who eschew wine generally can find something to love in this quaffable, strawberry-hued juice. It’s a blend of red-wine grapes that you’d normally expect to produce an intense, tannic wine: Shiraz, Grenache, Gamay Noir and Mourvèdre. But that’s part of the fun—and one of the winemaker’s challenges—in producing Rosé: knowing precisely when to take the juice off the grape skins. It’s a decision that determines everything from the color and intensity of the wine to the tannin structure and the wine’s texture. For the low price, Goats do Roam gets it right.

Located in Spain’s Priorat region, Celler El Masroig produces a 90 percent Grenache and 10 percent Syrah Rosé called

Solà Fred Rosat ($12.99) that I enjoy. The nearly neon pink color of the wine belies its subtle charms. It’s a wine that seems to have been created with tapas in mind—a light-but-lovely match for gambas al ajillo and tortilla Española.

A nice bang-for-the-buck pink wine from France is Les Vignes Rosé de BilaHaut ($12.14), a wine produced by Michel Chapoutier in Côtes de Roussillon, Languedoc. This is an attractive blend of Cinsault (which imparts floral aromas and red fruit flavors) and Grenache (offering citrus notes and crisp minerality). Fun

fact: The small cross symbol that forms the “T” in Bila-Haut pays tribute to the Knights Templar, who once took refuge in the house on the estate now known as The House of Bila.

Per en n i a l l y one of my go-to value Rosés, Ya l u m b a Y- S e r i e s Sangiovese Rosé ($10.99) never fails to please. This southern Aussie wine is a party on the palate with pomegranate, cranberry, strawberry and apple flavors, all crisp and zingy with a citrusy finish. For something out of the ordinary, sip some with lox and cream cheese on a bagel.

Two of my favorite American Rosé makers aren’t really known for their Rosé.

Nonetheless, great winemakers tend to make great wines across the board, and Vin Gris De Cigare ($16.95) from Bonny Doon Vineyards and Bucklin Old Hill Ranch Rosé ($16.99) prove the point. PJH

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

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine.

Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

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

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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.

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THE BLUE LION 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. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.

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Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. 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. 307-733-0005.

Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., dinner nightly at 5 p.m., and happy hour daily 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh.com.

ELEANOR’S

FULL STEAM SUBS The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs,

1110 W. Broadway • Jackson, WY Open daily 5:00am to midnight • Free Wi-Fi

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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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reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

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.

Napolitana-style Pizza, panini, pasta, salad, beer wine. Order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com

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MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

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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.

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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.

SWEETWATER 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.

TRIO Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations. (307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers.

Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

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

PINKY G’S The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts. Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

PIZZERIA CALDERA Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

SWEETS MEETEETSE CHOCOLATIER Meeteetse Chocolatier brings their unique blend of European style chocolates paired with “Wyomingesque” flavors. Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit, Sage, Huckleberry and Sarsaparilla lead off a decadent collection of truffles, Belgian chocolates and hand made caramel. Sample Single Origin and Organic chocolates at our Tasting Station. Open Weekends, 265 W. Broadway. 307413-8296. meeteetsechocolatier.com

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Intent Intentions How to manifest what you want out of life.

“You are what your deepest desire is. As your desire is, so is your intention. As your intention is, so is your deed, as your deed is, so is your destiny.

— The Upanishads

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he question, “What do you want in your life?” is easy to ask but it can be difficult to answer from the depth, clarity and knowing of the soul. This question is really inviting you to probe deeper into what truly nourishes your body, mind and spirit.

One reason it can be challenging to answer the seemingly simple question is that from an early age we are surrounded by messages about what constitutes success, meaning and happiness. Therefore, answers to “What do you want…” are often automatic, and may not align with what really works for you, based on your soul’s fulfillment. Automatic answers will mostly be answers born of our cultural conditioning, which have more to do with temporarily satisfying the ego rather than deeply nourishing your soul.

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Setting an intention Setting an intention follows knowing what you really want. An intention can be about your day, or about what you truly want of any situation, in support of what you really (soulfully) want in your life. An intention is a brief positive statement in the present tense. For example, “I move through life with grace and ease.” Your statement of intention is like a seed, which sets the infinite resources of the universe in motion.

Detach from the intention Once your intention is given over to your higher self and the greater cosmos, let go of any ideas of how, when or where your intention might come to you. The feeling and practice of detachment is about knowing that everything will work out as it should in the right timing. Your job is to let go and allow the Universe to present opportunities to you. Your higher self knows that everything is all right and will be all right, even without knowing the timing or the details of what will happen.

Scientific studies Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in California, shared results of two studies on the power of intention. Radin and Dr. Emoto (famous for work on how water crystals respond to our thoughts) conducted a double blind study. Two thousand people in Japan were asked to send positive intentions to bottles of water in the IONS lab in California. Under microscopic examination, the crystalline structure from the water infused with the positive intentions was judged to be significantly more organized and beautiful than the crystals from the control water.

Another experiment involved chocolate infused with positive intentions. In this double-blind study with placebo-controlled conditions, Tibetan monks and a Mongolian shaman infused the chocolate with positive intentions. The results of this experiment revealed that people’s moods were significantly elevated when they ate the chocolate that had been ‘blessed’ as opposed to the control chocolate.

Experiment and be curious Whether you are sending positive thoughts to your food and water, or setting intentions for what you truly want in your life, the best way to allow the Universe to work in your highest good is to simply be curious to how it will unfold. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant. Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

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Recognizing that most of us are not practiced in connecting with our soulful guidance, here are some questions to answer first, which will offer clues to what you really want in your life. Do this when you are quiet and feeling relaxed. Forget about any limitations related to money, degrees, practicality, etc. Be open to what spontaneously pops in.

If you could know anything at, what would that be?

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Our built-in access to the soul is through our open heart. The bottom line question to ask yourself in order to align with your soul’s version of “What do you want in life” is, “What is your heart’s deepest desire?”

The best time to pose and to answer this is when you are in a quiet, relaxed and aware state of being. This might be after meditating, after practicing yoga, after a silent walk in nature, or on awakening from a peaceful sleep. All of these are times when your mind is quiet and you are therefore most open to the wisdom in your heart and open to all possibilities.

If you could do anything at all, what would that be?

If you could be in a relationship which is ideal for you, what would that be?

What would you like your legacy (not including family or money) to be?

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Thank you for all the entertainment you’ve provided in the past 12 months, Libra. Since shortly before your birthday in 2015, you have taken lively and gallant actions to rewrite history. You have banished a pesky demon and repaired a hole in your soul. You’ve educated the most immature part of yourself and nurtured the most neglected part of yourself. To my joyful shock, you have even worked to transform a dysfunctional romantic habit that in previous years had subtly undermined your ability to get the kind of intimacy you seek. What’s next? Here’s my guess: an unprecedented exemption from the demands of the past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Are you able to expand while you are contracting, and vice versa? Can you shed mediocre comforts and also open your imagination to gifts that await you at the frontier? Is it possible to be skeptical toward ideas that shrink your world and people who waste your time, even as you cultivate optimism and innocence about the interesting challenges ahead of you? Here’s what I think, Scorpio: Yes, you can. At least for right now, you are more flexible and multifaceted than you might imagine.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You Sagittarians are famous for filling your cups so full they’re in danger of spilling over. Sometimes the rest of us find this kind of cute. On other occasions, we don’t enjoy getting wine splashed on our shoes. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, the consequences of your tendency to overflow will be mostly benign—perhaps even downright beneficial. So I suggest you experiment with the pleasures of surging and gushing. Have fun as you escape your niches and transcend your containers. Give yourself permission to seek adventures that might be too extravagant for polite company. Now here’s a helpful reminder from your fellow Sagittarian, poet Emily Dickinson: “You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I believe that during the coming weeks you will have an extra amount of freedom from fate. The daily grind won’t be able to grind you down. The influences that typically tend to sap your joie de vivre will leave you in peace. Are you ready to take full advantage of this special dispensation? Please say YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES. Be alert for opportunities to rise above the lowest common denominators. Be aggressive about rejecting the trivial questions that trap everyone in low expectations. Here are my predictions: Your willpower will consistently trump your conditioning. You won’t have to play by the old rules, but will instead have extra sovereignty to invent the future.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you can expect an unlikely coincidence or two in the coming days. You should also be alert for helpfully prophetic dreams, clear telepathic messages, and pokes from tricky informers. In fact, I suspect that useful hints and clues will be swirling in extra abundance, sometimes in the form of direct communications from reliable sources, but on occasion as mysterious signals from strange angels.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You know that inner work you’ve been doing with such diligence? I’m referring to those psycho-spiritual transformations you have been attending to in the dark … the challenging but oddly gratifying negotiations you’ve been carrying on with your secret self … the steady, strong future you’ve been struggling to forge out of the chaos? Well, I foresee you making a big breakthrough in the coming weeks. The progress you’ve been earning, which up until now has been mostly invisible to others, will finally be seen and appreciated. The vows you uttered so long ago will, at last, yield at least some of the tangible results you’ve pined for.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) What’s the difference between a love warrior and a love worrier? Love warriors work diligently to keep enhancing their empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence.

Love worriers fret so much about not getting the love they want that they neglect to develop their intimacy skills. Love warriors are always vigilant for how their own ignorance may be sabotaging togetherness, while love worriers dwell on how their partner’s ignorance is sabotaging togetherness. Love warriors stay focused on their relationship’s highest goals, while love worriers are preoccupied with every little relationship glitch. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time to become less of a love worrier and more of a love warrior.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) How will you deal with a provocative opportunity to reinvent and reinvigorate your approach to work? My guess is that if you ignore this challenge, it will devolve into an obstruction. If you embrace it, on the other hand, you will be led to unforeseen improvements in the way you earn money and structure your daily routine. Here’s the paradox: Being open to seemingly impractical considerations will ultimately turn out to be quite practical.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Is it possible that you’re on the verge of reclaiming some of the innocent wisdom you had as a child? Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect it is. If all goes well, you will soon be gifted with a long glimpse of your true destiny—a close replica of the vision that bloomed in you at a tender age. And this will, in turn, enable you to actually see magic unicorns and play with mischievous fairies and eat clouds that dip down close to the earth. And not only that: Having a holy vision of your original self will make you even smarter than you already are. For example, you could get insights about how to express previously inexpressible

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parts of yourself. You might discover secrets about how to attract more of the love you have always felt deprived of.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) I’m not asking you to tell me about the places and situations where you feel safe and fragile and timid. I want to know about where you feel safe and strong and bold. Are there sanctuaries that nurture your audacious wisdom?

Are there natural sites that tease out your primal willpower and help you clarify your goals? Go to those power spots.

Allow them to exalt you with their transformative blessings.

Pray and sing and dance there. And maybe find a new oasis to excite and incite you, as well. Your creative savvy will bloom in November if you nurture yourself now with this magic.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) One of your old reliable formulas may temporarily be useless or even deceptive. An ally could be withholding an important detail from you. Your favorite psychological crutch is in disrepair, and your go-to excuse is no longer viable. And yet I think you’re going to be just fine, Leo. Plan B will probably work better than Plan A. Secondary sources and substitutes should provide you with all the leverage you need. And I bet you will finally capitalize on an advantage that you have previously neglected. For best results, be vigilant for unexpected help.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Attention! Warning! One of your signature fears is losing its chokehold on your imagination. If this trend continues, its power to scare you may diminish more than 70 percent

by November 1. And then what will you do? How can you continue to plug away at your goals if you don’t have worry and angst and dread to motivate you? I suppose you could shop around for a replacement fear—a new prod to keep you on the true and righteous path. But you might also want to consider an alternative: the possibility of drawing more of the energy you need by feeding your lust for life.

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Middle School Mudslinging Eighth graders get a lesson in political warfare.

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t was a very long time ago when a group of cavemen picked up some rocks and old dinosaur bones and threw them at a nearby group of Neanderthals who promptly threw them back. This was either the first political convention or the weekly meeting of the local homeowner’s association.

The years passed and we are now at my hometown of Corn Cob, Iowa, where Mr. Klump, the 8th grade civics teacher at Agnes B. Fritch Junior High, decided that he was sick of his pupils sleeping through class, looking out the window, throwing spitwads and generally ignoring him. He believed that if they truly understood the fun and excitement of the electoral process, they would wake up in class and become good citizens. Mr. Klump said that they would have a class election, that it would be just like real elections and the winner could have extra ice cream at lunch.

Unaware of what he was doing, he allowed the class to pick the candidates.

The girls picked Mary Jane Figbee and the boys picked Marvin Munch. Mary Jane had the cutest clothes and Marvin was the class jock. The campaign started quietly enough, a few posters were put around and the school paper, printed by the journalism class, ran a brief article. Things were uneventful until something happened (and something always happens). All the posters were torn down and trashed and Mr. Klump was right, it was fun.

New posters appeared and the campaign went for the jugular. The posters were immediately festooned with unfortunate words and unflattering drawings.

A Figbee poster was glued inside the lid of a toilet in the girls’ bathroom. The Figbees retaliated by threatening to reveal all the antics from the 8th grade football party, complete with pictures.

In return, the Munch bunch promised all the boys that they could see pictures of Marvin’s sister in her underwear if they would vote for him. This came to nothing as his sister was 10 and most of the boys had seen their sisters in their underwear.

The Figbees promised a big party with cool

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Mr. Klump and Miss Fans, the music teacher, at a political rally. As you can see, there was great excitement in the air.

guys but then they didn’t know any and they’re weren’t any, anyway.

Things came to a violent head at lunch the next day when someone threw something and someone else yelled, “food fight!” The troops rallied and the air was filled with sandwiches, DingDongs, apples and milk cartons. Mr. Klump was hit in the eye with a wadded up peanut butter sandwich. It was chocolate pudding day and they were scraping it off the ceiling for days.

On election day only Mary Jane showed up and won by default. Marvin was home with the worse case of chickenpox the county had ever seen. He was one oozing sore from head to toe and all points in between. Strangely, his girlfriend Nancy Sue Nutt, had chickenpox too. And so did Frankie Figbee, Mary Jane’s brother. It looked like a case of germ warfare as a political dirty trick.

Marvin got over the pox and grew up to be a sleazy lawyer, a sleazy congressman and then was arrested for being sleazy.

The last I heard of Mary Jane she was a nun teaching at a girl’s school where they called her Sister Mary Nasty. The school board advised Mr. Klump that his class was too inflammatory and he retired to run a goat farm. At least no one was going to hit him in the eye with a wadded up sandwich there. PJH

2016 GENERAL 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 GENERAL ELECTION WILL BE HELD THROUGH THE 18 ELECTION DISTRICTS AND PRECINCTS OF SAID TETON COUNTY ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 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 GENERAL: NO. 1 1 1 1 1 1 2

TITLE: PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE STATE SENATOR, DISTRICT 16* STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE DISTRICT 16** STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE DISTRICT 22*** STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HOUSE DISTRICT 23**** COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

TERM: 4 YEARS 2 YEARS 4 YEARS 2 YEARS 2 YEARS 2 YEARS 4 YEARS

*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.

NON-PARTISAN OFFICES TO BE ELECTED AT THE GENERAL: NO. 1 2 4 3 1 1

TITLE: MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF JACKSON COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE TOWN OF JACKSON TETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 TRUSTEE ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL DISTRICT TRUSTEE TETON CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR AT LARGE TETON CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR URBAN

TERM: 4 YEARS 4 YEARS 4 YEARS 4 YEARS 4 YEARS 4 YEARS

QUESTIONS TO BE VOTED UPON AT THE GENERAL: STATE OF WYOMING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A:

Currently, the Wyoming Constitution allows the legislature to authorize the investment of public employee retirement systems funds and permanent state funds in equities, such as stock or shares in private or public companies. Permanent funds of the state include funds designated as permanent funds by the Constitution. The Wyoming Constitution does not allow the state to invest any other funds in equities.

The adoption of the amendment would allow the legislature, by two-thirds vote of the members of both houses, to authorize the investment of additional specified state funds in equities.

FOR AGAINST

JUSTICE(S) OF THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT

8 Year term – Shall William U. Hill be retained in office?

2 Year unexpired term – Shall Kate M. Fox be retained in office?

2 Year unexpired term – Shall Keith G. Kautz be retained in office?

YES YES YES

NO NO NO

JUDGE(S) A OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT 6 Year term – Shall Judge Norman E. Young be retained in office?

YES

NO

JUDGE(S) C OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT 6 Year term – Shall Marvin L. Tyler be retained in office?

YES

JUDGE(S) OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT YES YES YES

NO NO NO

TETON COUNTY GENERAL REVENUE SALES AND USE TAX:

Shall Teton County, Wyoming be authorized to impose an additional 1% of General Revenue Sales and Use Tax to be used for general revenue purposes?

FOR the county sales and use tax AGAINST the county sales and use tax

ABSENTEE VOTING BEGINS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

LAST DAY TO REGISTER WITH THE COUNTY CLERK BEFORE GENERAL ELECTION DAY. VOTER REGISTRATION IS ALSO PERMITTED AT THE POLLS ON GENERAL ELECTION DAY. GENERAL ELECTION DAY CANDIDATES MUST FILE A STATEMENT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. CANDIDATES MUST FILE A STATEMENT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES.

NOVEMBER 8, 2016 NOVEMBER 1, 2016 NOVEMBER 18, 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 GENERAL ELECTION MAY BE FOUND AT TETONWYO.ORG/CC ATTEST: SHERRY L. DAIGLE, TETON COUNTY CLERK May 1, 2016 Publish: SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

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4 Year term – Shall Judge Robert B. Denhardt be retained in office?

4 Year term – Shall Judge Curt A. Haws be retained in office?

4 Year term – Shall Judge James L. Radda be retained in office?

NO

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