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Art Fueled REVOLUTION A new exhibit on the housing crisis reminds viewers the integral role art plays in politics and society.
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11 COVER STORY ART FUELED REVOLUTION A new exhibit on the housing crisis reminds viewers the integral role art plays in politics and society. Cover photo by Robyn Vincent
4-5 OPINION
20 CULTURE KLASH
6-8 THE BUZZ
22 WELL, THAT...
16 MUSIC BOX
23 FEAST
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28 COSMIC CAFE
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October 12-18, 2016 By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey October is by no means the wettest month of the year in Jackson, averaging only 1.17 inches of precipitation. The only drier months in Jackson, based on average monthly precipitation, are: February, April and July. Based on the all-time record precipitation for each month, October ranks as third driest month in that category, with the 3.21 inches that fell in October of 1972. Only February and April have lower records for precipitation, with 2.83 inches and 2.66 inches, respectively.
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Frosty mornings are becoming more common by this time of year, as goes that old “frost-on-the-pumpkin” saying, since October is popular for that brand of squash. Record low temperatures this week would shrivel more than just the pumpkins, with single digit readings not uncommon by mid-October. The lowest of the lows is eight degrees. That record low this week has been reached twice in our history, once on October 15th, 1952 and again on October 14, 1954.
Average high temperatures this week are right around 60 degrees. Sixty is sort of that line you might draw on the thermometer, between being able to get away with wearing shorts and a T-shirt in the afternoon, versus, having to wear long pants and long-sleeves. That can be a tough decision some days. The record high temperature this week is 78 degrees, set back on October 13, 1958. The last time we even reached 75 degrees in Jackson in mid-October was in 2003.
NORMAL HIGH 60 NORMAL LOW 25 RECORD HIGH IN 1958 78 RECORD LOW IN 1954 8
THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.17 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 3.2 inches (1972) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 1.5 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 18 inches
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After reading “Housing Hopes” (The Buzz, October 5), it appears to me that Town Councilman Don Frank has forgotten that he represents all the people of Jackson, even if they don’t share his vision of Jackson’s future. At a recent town council meeting Mayor Flitner asked if anyone wanted to open the discussion on the District 2 do-over. Frank lashed out and made several statements about those who voted down the council’s planned land development regulations (LDRs) for Jackson’s downtown core District 2. In “Housing Hopes,” he was quoted saying: “There was a very noticeable, very well-funded, and very targeted argument about short-term rentals … I would have preferred that the sponsors of this referendum had been more honest about what they wanted to discuss … rather than fulminate a lot of misinformation and a lot of drama and a lot of emotion. And then bait-and-switch the issue after they got a lot of people wound up.” Frank sounds like the proverbial pot calling the kettle black. If I recall correctly, it took many town meetings and much discussion to hammer out LDRs in which all parties were satisfied. The council then voted “yes” on the first of three required votes on the LDRs for District 2. However, after meeting with or being contacted by developers who would gain financially, the council added more short-term rental potential to the District 2 plan. This was done with no input from town residents. Then with little or no public notice, the first of three required votes was quickly held. The council voted “yes” to the revised LDRs with the added short-term rental potential. Sounds like a bait-and-switch to me. During the following debate in regard to the added short-term rentals to the LDRs the “yes” side continually emphasized the incentives in the LDRs for developers to build more employee housing. This supposedly would create more employee housing than would be needed for the additional workforce required to staff the new commercial development. But this was debatable. In addition, the “yes” side downplayed that the short-term rentals would most probably be in the form of more hotel rooms. Sounds like a lot of misinformation, a lot of drama, and a lot of emotion. In other words, not very honest. On the day of the referendum, a number of people were seen at the corners of Broadway and Pearl holding very nice signs urging people to vote yes to the LDRs. This was in addition to other promotions/advertisements urging voters to vote yes. This gives the appearance of a very well-funded campaign to have the revised LDRs passed. Later, in the same Planet article, Frank states he does not believe it is good government to capitulate to a very small minority with a very small voting outcome. He further states he does not believe the majority of the 4,540 registered town voters share the agenda of this small minority. If there are 500,000 eligible voters, but only 10,000 people vote, the majority of those 10,000 voters determine the outcome of the election. As an elected official, you shouldn’t complain and claim that is not what the majority wants. If the majority did not go to the polls they must not have cared enough about the issue to vote. By the way, Frank only received 1,636 votes to become councilman in 2014. That is a minority of the 4,540 registered town voters. He seemed OK with that minority.
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On Thursday Wyoming’s Republican Party will hos former presidential candidate, Carly Fiorina. She had the good sense to denounce her party’s leader and has said that Donald Trump should end his destructive and embarrassing presidential campaign. Will Wyoming’s Republican leaders follow suit? Governor Matt Mead has indicated his “disappointment” in the Republican standard-bearer’s recently released comments about grabbing women by their genitals. Disappointing? Mead, formerly a U.S. attorney, must recognize that Trump’s remarks indicate behavior that is more than immoral; it is criminal. Meanwhile Wyoming Republican Party congressional candidate, Liz Cheney can be found on Twitter and in press releases extolling Trump’s virtues. Perhaps in Cheney’s Virginia this behavior can just be written off as “locker room talk,” but here in Wyoming we have higher standards. Throughout this campaign the Wyoming Democratic Party has stated clearly and frequently that Trump does not understand Wyoming and does not share our values of respect for others and civility. His boorish behavior, lying, and unwillingness to take responsibility for his actions should come as no shock to anyone who has followed his career or his campaign. Last weekend prominent Republicans with moral standing abandoned Trump. However, from Wyoming’s Republican leadership we learned only of their “disappointment.” The Trump campaign’s Wyoming director, Bonnie Foster shrugged off Trump’s behavior saying on television, “I’m married to the oil field and whether it is good or bad this is a conversation they have all of the time.” Putting Wyoming’s hard-working men and women into the same disgusting category as Trump and his dirty mouth is reprehensible. In announcing her abandonment of Trump, Fiorina said, “Donald Trump does not represent me or my party. I understand the responsibility of Republicans to support their nominee. Our nominee has weighty responsibilities as well. Donald Trump has manifestly failed in these responsibilities.” Now the question is, will a visit from Fiorina help Wyoming Republicans develop the backbone to renounce Trump and his bullying, hateful rhetoric? We can only hope.
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the area’s ecosystem in order to ensure a healthy environment, community and economy for current and future generations,” not a single candidate mentioned climate change. Not one. Nor did they connect climate change with our actions on important local issues. It bears repeating. It’s great that people here passionately debate issues that will shape our community for decades. But here’s the thing: it’s time to speak up about an existential threat to our future. It’s time to talk about climate change—what it will mean for our community, and what we should do about it. Look, I get it. It’s scary to talk about something that is already having such devastating consequences both in our community and around the world. This is exactly why I’ve struggled to talk to my kids about it. It’s a heck of a lot easier to ignore the scientific consensus and pretend climate change doesn’t exist, or deny there’s anything we can actually do about it. Again, it bears repeating. While no one community can solve climate change, we can proactively respond to it and prepare for its impacts. In doing so, we can build a stronger community; one prepared for whatever the future may bring. We can become a model community of living in balance with nature, and inspire communities across America and around the world to follow our example. But in order to do this, we must find the courage to speak up about how our community can prepare for and tackle climate change now. It’s time to use the next month before this fall’s election to force a community conversation about actions that will help break our addiction to fossil fuels. Actions like investing in transportation choices, directing growth from rural areas into walkable neighborhoods, and helping people who work here afford to live here so they aren’t forced into long fossil-fuel-consuming commutes. It’s time to stop being scared and start speaking up for a better future. PJH
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ver the past week I’ve been stumped, scared, and finally, ready to speak up. Let’s start with stumped. Last week an old friend and colleague, who works as the director of strategic communication at Sightline Institute (check them out at Sightline.org; they do amazing work) reached out to me as part of a project she’s working on that compiles tips for talking to kids about climate change from climate-savvy parents. Specifically, she asked me how I talk to my kids about the problem of climate change, the systems and politics that have led to climate change and our communities’ role in changing these systems, and how I talk to them about solutions to climate change. Over a decade ago I looked at the facts and data, and realized that the science was settled—climate change was happening, we were causing it from our burning of fossil fuels, and it was already having devastating consequences like monster wildfires, super storms and historic droughts. At the same time I realized I couldn’t imagine a day I would have to look my children in the eyes and tell them I knew about climate change, but I didn’t do anything about it because I was too busy having fun living the skid-luxury life and skiing 120-plus days a winter in the Teton backcountry. Since then, I have dedicated my life to helping our community prepare for and tackle climate change now by breaking our addiction to fossil fuels. So you’d think that responding to my friend’s questions would have been as easy and fun as skiing second turn in 18 inches of blower. But I found myself stumped. Then it hit me; I’ve never actually talked to my kids about climate change. And then I realized why: I know what the world will look like if climate change continues to play out as predicted. Here in Jackson Hole that’s a world where grasslands will have replaced evergreen forests; populations of boreal chorus frogs, cutthroat trout, grizzlies, moose, pikas, and dozens of other native species will see their populations
decimated; winter will be transformed into a rainy, sloppy mess; and the ferocious summer fire season could stretch out until October. Around the rest of the world things are predicted to get much worse. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, climate change “will likely lead to food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, and destruction by natural disasters in regions across the globe.” How in the world do I talk to my 7-year-old daughter Piper and 4-year-old son Ryder about this place they will inherit? While I have made the choice to focus my life on creating a better world for future generations (which I can honestly say is way more satisfying than focusing my life on skiing deep pow), I am still too scared to talk to my kids about climate change. But not nearly as scared as the people who dealt with Hurricane Matthew last week. As Matthew bore down on Florida, I found myself texting a good friend who used to live in Jackson and now lives in Miami. He said, “I enjoy winter storm warnings. Not so much hurricane warnings.” He was right to be worried. He was staring down the longest-lived Category 4 or 5 hurricane in the Eastern Caribbean on record. Just like Katrina, Irene, Sandy, and other recent devastating hurricanes, many scientists are saying climate change intensified Hurricane Matthew because warmer ocean waters help create stronger hurricanes. The same thing happened with Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, which became the strongest storm ever to make landfall as it devastated the Philippines. Yes, there have always been hurricanes, but now they are way more intense and way more destructive. This is exactly what climate change looks like, just as the Department of Defense predicted: “Destruction by natural disasters in regions across the globe.” Last week I attended a candidate forum for the Jackson town council and mayor of Jackson. Candidates answered questions regarding important issues like the skyrocketing housing prices and growing gridlock on our roads— issues that are threatening our quality of life. They pondered how to more effectively engage the Latino community in civic affairs, and how to move forward with updating our land use rules in downtown Jackson. Yet once again, even when discussing the core vision of our community as enshrined in our Comprehensive Plan where we as a community agreed to “preserve and protect
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Woeful Imbalance A new study zeroes in on the unhealthy, widening gap between residential potential and demand, and everything else that isn’t housing. BY JAKE NICHOLS
But first, let’s play a game What happens when you take a valleym, like this one, and shove all the empirical data you can find into a planning simulator of some kind, and then turn it on fast-forward to see what happens through the next century? We did that. Using SimCity 4, the city-building/urban planning simulation computer game by Maxis, we loaded a custom map of Jackson Hole into the software. Like the real Jackson Hole, our map showed a valley, a “hole,” hemmed in all sides by mountains with a river running through it. First, we created the necessary infrastructure—power, roads, water/sewer. We fashioned reasonable facsimiles of outlying towns on the West Bank like Wilson and Teton Village. We built highways to Star and Teton valleys and set those bedroom communities up with mostly low-density residential and very limited commercial zoning. Our valley had a few agricultural areas (iconic cattle ranches) and a lot of residential units (second homes) sprinkled into the woodsy mountainsides all around the periphery. Finally, we plopped in the Town of Jackson— zoned for tons of commercial, a medium amount of industrial, and very little residential. We turned on the game and let it run. After a few decades, population stagnated. Residents were generally happy but new blood was not exactly flocking to this cyber community. This virtual Jackson Hole looked like a 1940s Western version of the cowboy outpost we’ve all read about on microfilm editions of the Jackson’s Hole Courier. There were a few anticipated grievances from the “sims”—traffic and demand for housing, for instance—but life seemed fairly idyllic and peaceful, with an overwhelmingly positive mayoral approval rating. Then we decided to mess around with a few of the settings to make our Jackson Hole more reflective of the modern day version we all know. We created what amounted to Grand Teton National Park, the Bridger-Teton National Forest, and the Elk Refuge
Left: Sound familiar? Demand for housing and available jobs are soaring in the JH simulated SimCity game. Middle: Jackson Hole before the buildout. Right: Downtown virtual Jackson gets density and intensity. by making gigantic “community parks” and “playgrounds out of parcels girding the valley. We threw in a bigger airport than the game’s “advisors” suggested we needed. We then piled on a half-dozen “tourist traps” (that’s actually what SimCity calls them), three area sports stadiums (the game didn’t have ski resorts), and an internationally recognized landmark (we substituted the Great Pyramid for the Tetons). Lastly, we cut taxes to hardly anything. When we turned the game on again, we were shocked how fast we broke it. At fast-forward speed, our community crumbled to nothing in minutes. So we slowed it down to learn just what wrong. Right away land values had skyrocketed. The new people who flooded into our simulated valley immediately began screaming for things they wanted and complained nonstop about what they hated. They needed places to live. Traffic was ridiculous. The mayor’s approval rating crashed. We tweaked residential zoning slightly to allow for increased density in downtown Jackson. Those zones were built out and filled in immediately by simulated citizens. And, likewise, the crime rate soared along with pollution problems, increased commute times, and a bloated city budget straining to keep up with the growth. In 30 years, expenditures outpaced revenue and the mayor had been run out of town. At the 40-year mark, the city was bankrupt and the population in decline. By 50 years, chronic recession and urban decay had made the scenario unplayable. Quality of life had tanked, and our virtual valley was ruined. Game over.
Balancing act zoning Last week, the Conservation Alliance released the results of a land use study the organization had been working on since spring. The report’s subhead screamed “OUT OF BALANCE,” referring to the county’s commercial-to-residential inventory ratio. For most of the valley—including the informed electorate and those simply suffering the ill effects of a lack of housing—it was not surprising news. But for others it was an eye-opening, empirical data exercise that returned shocking findings even more dire than anyone thought: The inventory found four times more potential for commercial development (43-year supply) than residential (10-year supply). At current population projections and market demand it shows a community out of balance—“Way out of balance,” said JH Alliance’s executive director Craig Benjamin. “Until we correct this imbalance, we will struggle to advance the vision and objectives of our Comprehensive Plan, especially in regards to our goals of housing our
workforce locally, reducing our community’s climate and environmental impacts, and not exporting our impacts to neighboring communities,” added Mary W. Gibson, Alliance Community Planning Director. “This imbalance between residential and commercial land supply is a driving factor behind our community having too much commercial and lodging development compared to housing.” Rich Bloom has notable fluency with the Comp Plan process and outcome. He also served 18 months on the Blue Ribbon Panel for Workforce Housing launched from the Housing Summit and Housing Action Plan. He said the Alliance’s inventory report “finely quantifies what the community has known for years: that we have way too much low-wage job producing lodging and commercial potential.” Bloom suggested two courses of immediate action should include freezing any commercial or lodging potential in the town and county at current levels, and even exploring the conversion of some commercial/lodging potential into affordable workforce housing rentals. Bloom and Benjamin also expressed concern for two looming ski resort expansions planned for Snow King and at the Village. Nearly 600,000 square feet of commercial potential exists at Snow King, while some 400,000 square feet of latent commercial lies untapped at Teton Village. Long-range planner Alex Norton said he would like to talk to the Alliance in the coming days about their inventory report. To Norton, the results indicate a gap between commercial and residential zoning that no one is surprised by, “But some of their fundamentals, methodology and numbers are pretty radically different than those we’ve been working with since 2009,” he said. “The biggest takeaway form the report is ‘What happened to those 7,500 units?’ We’ll definitely talk to them to try and understand where they came from.” Norton pointed in particular to what seemed to be the Alliance’s undercount of residential by some 7,500 units—a discrepancy that could be explained by the recent LDR updates for rural areas of the county. Still, Norton admits there is an imbalance. “In the end, many of the recommendations of the Alliance are still those the planning staff has had for years. Obviously, we need to find places where residential can be built.” The Alliance inventory report was researched and authored by Alliance community planning intern Bentley Regehr, who conducted a similar study for the Truckee-Tahoe region. It was peer reviewed by Todd Chase (FCS Group) and David Viehman (JHRE). PJH
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Wildlife Get A Brake County officials make a commitment to protecting wildlife and motorists from highway collisions. BY JAKE NICHOLS
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Left: A proposal rendering of a wildlife crossing for I-70 near Vail, Colorodo. Right: Trapper’s Point overpass and wildlife crossing near Pinedale. Bottom right: The result of a moose-vehicle collision on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. the animal landed on the roof of his car and crushed his spine. He is now one of the foremost advocates for wildlife crossings in North America. In 2012, moose were being massacred in alarming numbers on Teton Village Road. A coalition was formed, WYDOT lowered the nighttime speed limit from 45 to 35 mph, the county bought electronic message boards, and private citizen Bruce Simon sprinkled moose silhouette cutouts down the road. The problem abated somewhat but the highway remains a favorite with moose and other wildlife.
First step
Smart partnering Western Transportation Institute (WTI) is a part of Montana State University’s College of Engineering. The 22-year-old organization is one of the nation’s leading experts in highway design in natural Western settings. Mobeck said WTI offers the perfect partnership for Jackson Hole. “I think it’s tremendous the board of
county commissioners has chose to work with WTI,” Mobeck said. “Rob Ament and that group have helped us before with our camera trap project. They are familiar with the area and they are experts. They’ve played in the sandbox with everybody. They also know the challenges with placements and campaigns necessary to get these things on the ground.” The cost of crossings remains the primary sticking point and the reason why they haven’t caught on in the U.S. Wildlife crossings have been a mainstay throughout Europe since the 1950s. In Canada, Banff authorities launched an aggressive campaign to install 38 underpasses, six overpasses, and some 82 miles of fencing to funnel big game safely across the TransCanada Highway. WTI will be working with WYDOT as that state agency goes through the planning stages of reconfiguring Highway 189 south of Jackson to four lanes all the way to Hoback Junction.
Crossings work Study after study shows wildlife-vehicle collisions are reduced by 80 to 90 percent in areas where crossings are installed. In fact, wildlife biologists continue to be amazed at how many different species use crossings. When put in for moose and elk, wolves and bears use them. When designed for mule deer and pronghorn, badgers and fox run across them. From mountain lions to mountain goats, wildlife gets it and gets it fast. When overpasses were put in place at Trappers Point north of Pinedale, authorities guesstimated it would take a few years for antelope to figure them out and begin using them. Wildlife began using the crossings immediately.
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“When we say in our Comp Plan that wildlife is a high, if not the highest priority value, what are the things we are doing to demonstrate that?” pondered Jon Mobeck, executive director of the Wildlife Foundation. “There are a number of things we could do better. We should be looking at speed limits, education, designating wildlife-crossing corridors a little more conspicuously, and wildlife crossings. They are all part of a package that can continue to reduce collisions. We’ve done some things but probably not enough. And we have an opportunity here to be a leader on a global scale; to show visitors coming here we are a community that truly cherishes our wildlife.” One tool in the toolbox in helping to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions is wildlife crossings—underpasses, overpasses, tunnels, and the like. They work, but they’re expensive. The JH Conservation Alliance has been at the forefront of leading a movement to get county officials to think about wildlife crossings. They had hoped to land a SPET initiative to that effort until Budge slide usurped the ballot.
Now, with the announcement that county leaders had dedicated $100,000 in seed money to study the feasibility of crossings in and around the valley, it appears the idea could be gaining traction. The declaration from the county commissioners last week read: “Commissioners unanimously approved a contract with Western Transportation Institute (WTI) to develop a plan to ensure Jackson Hole’s wildlife populations can move safely throughout their habitat, while also decreasing the chance of dangerous vehicle-wildlife collisions throughout the county.” Board of county commissioners chair Barbara Allen heralded the decision as both sustaining a healthy ecosystem and ensuring public safety. A prepared statement from the Alliance read, “The Alliance applauds the Board of Teton County Commissioners in moving forward with proactively addressing the critical problem of wildlife vehicle collisions in our county. This master planning effort will bring together all the relevant agency stakeholders in order to craft a data-driven, systematic master plan that identifies solutions for high-priority mitigation sites. Over the past few years, dozens of community members, conservation groups and agencies have spoken up about the need for such an effort. “
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arcia Willingham remembers driving up through Bondurant last fall on one of her frequent trips to Jackson. She was behind a semi tractor-trailer when she saw it plow into a small band of mule deer. One was hit so violently it flew through the air and landed in a mangled heap at the roadside. “He never hit the brakes. It didn’t look like he even slowed down that much,” Willingham said. That stretch of Highway 189 was recently dubbed a “wild game bowling alley” by local outdoorsman Paul Bruun. Wildlifevehicle collision mapping conducted by the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation (JHWF) identifies the Hoback Canyon—as well as other hotspots on Highways 22 and 390, north of Jackson on Highway 191, and numerous smaller feeder roads like Spring Gulch and Fish/Fall Creek Road—as a high priority area where big game carnage is especially high. Brent Cole was a 15-year wildlife conservation officer driving his Chevrolet Impala along the TransCanada Highway near Gander, Newfoundland, when he crashed into an 18-point, 1,000-pound bull moose. The accident left him a quadriplegic after
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“We certainly have plenty of evidence at Trappers Point—and data going back much farther in Banff and Montana near Flathead Lake—that we know crossings can be effective in reducing wildlife collisions,” Mobeck said. “The Wyoming Migration Initiative is doing extensive work on the pronghorn and their migration to the Red Desert. They identified that the structures built in Pinedale mostly for pronghorn were being used by all sorts of populations of wildlife. In fact, none of these animals are existing just in our valley. We are part of a larger system. And throughout the ‘Y to Y’ region [Yukon to Yellowstone] we know wildlife has to cross a lot of highways. It’s vital to keep these habitats connected.” So animals use crossings, but can that be a bad thing? Some skeptics have speculated wildlife crossings could create an unnatural condition—an ungulate smorgasbord—where ready snacks could theoretically be funneled right into the waiting teeth of predators. Data collected from Banff regional crossings suggest there is no evidence pointing to predators stalking crossings for prey; rather, crossings have assisted some species in procreation endeavors. In Banff, scientists found male bears used crossings as virtual speed-dating joints, moving freely back-and-forth across highways to inseminate sows.
The cost Wildlife crossings pack a hefty price tag, but what is the cost of doing nothing? We spend an estimated $8 billion a year in the U.S. running over wildlife. In Teton County, wildlife crashes cost motorists an estimated $1.2 million, annually, according to JHWF research. The foundation also estimated at least 118 animals were hit on park roads last year (GTNP keeps its own statistics) and 259 wildlife-vehicle crashes were also recorded in 2015. That number is expected to climb to 500 per year by 2020. This year began with several bear killings on local highways. A griz cub was struck and killed on Togwotee Pass this spring. Two bears were killed on the same day in June when Grizzly 399’s only cub was run down by a motorist in Grand Teton National Park and another black bear was struck and killed nearby. Neither incident was reported. Soaring population in Teton County, as well as record numbers of visitors, puts more people on the roads. Tourists, especially, are usually unfamiliar with safe driving habits in big game country. “Clearly it’s a safety issue and cost issue. You can do some pretty simple math and quickly arrive at a high number,” Mobeck said. “It’s kind of a win-win. Crossings provide the safety we are always looking for, and help protect the wildlife we cherish.” PJH
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Algae Bloom Blues Candidate forum tonight asks tough questions on managing the valley’s most precious resource. BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1
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forum on water resources tonight will put town and county candidates in the hot seat on pressing environmental issues. Co-hosted by several water organizations and agencies, the forum asks candidates to weigh in on how they will protect and restore Jackson’s pristine water resources. Friends of Fish Creek and the Teton Conservation District are spearheading the forum they hope will educate voters and candidates alike. “We want to get candidates up to speed,” said Dan Leemon, executive director of Friends of Fish Creek. Recent area water issues such as toxic algae blooms, fish kills, and fishing guides getting foot rot are all warning signs local officials should heed, Leemon explained. “We feel like we are getting out ahead of the issue,” he said. “Most communities don’t react until it’s too late. We want to reduce human impact now.” According to the white paper (or informational pamphlet) provided by Teton Conservation District, wastewater, or sewage, is one of the largest sources of water pollution in Teton County; and it’s growing as tourist and residential populations swell. “Wastewater is going to be a big political issue,” Leemon warned. The Town of Jackson owns and operates
the largest municipal wastewater treatment plant in Teton County. The plant services numerous ‘at-large’ areas outside of the town’s municipal boundary, and it receives all the highly concentrated sewage pumped from domestic septic tanks in the valley. According to Leemon, new EPA rules regarding wastewater are coming down the pike. “Local government needs to partner with water resource nonprofits because when these rules come down from the federal or state level, it’s at the local level that they have to be implemented,” he explained. In addition to wastewater policies, the white paper stresses the need for local leadership to partner with regional and national governing bodies. This will ensure Bridger Teton National Forest recreation areas receive their fair share of funding. In the past, this advocacy role has fallen through the cracks, water organization officials say. Snake River Fund executive director Len Carlman said there is a standard formula used to allocate recreation dollars to national forests, and BridgerTeton is not getting what it should. “When we ran the numbers using the standard distribution formula for the 12 regional forests, Bridger-Teton is coming up about $865,000 short,” he said. But local electeds, Carlman says, haven’t been aware of this huge shortfall. “We are not as sophisticated as we need to be in being partners with the Forest Service and in securing their budget. Electeds need to understand how the money is supposed to flow, and then go and ask that the standard formula be respected.” Amy Verbeten, executive director of Friends of the Teton River, said that water resource management is one of those things that municipalities tend to think somebody else is taking care of. “There is a gap in governance around water issues,” she said. “We want to close that gap.”
In addition to fisheries, 940 acres of riparian habitat between Moose and the South Park Landing are under consideration for transfer from federal to county ownership and management. County commissioners need to be ready to steward this land and water, Carlman said. “Our county commissioners have said they would like Teton County to own these tracts of land, and Senator Barrasso’s office is poised to move that forward,” he said. “But if the next round of county commissioners was hostile to the idea of taking over ownership of the parcels, it would set us back to square one.” Candidates will also likely be asked about native cutthroat trout, a bellwether of healthy local waterways, and water-conscious land use planning. Terms like “nutrient pollution” will be bandied about. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, nutrient pollution is one of America’s most widespread, costly and challenging environmental problems, and is caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus in the air and water. That pollution is what causes toxic algae and other problems that kill fish and give fishing guides foot rot. A coalition of organizations collaborated to plan the forum. Friends of Fish Creek, Teton Conservation District, Flat Creek Watershed Improvement District, Friends of the Teton River, Trout Unlimited, and the Snake River Fund prepared a white paper as well as 10 sample questions for the candidates. Candidates will be asked five of these questions tonight. The Candidate Forum on Water Resources, moderated by Dr. Jessica Western from the Ruckelshaus Institute School of Natural Resources at University of Wyoming, is 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 12 in the Grand Teton Room at Snow King Resort. For more info, fishcreekfriends.org. PJH SEND COMMENTS TO EDITOR@PLANETJH.COM
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Large kidney stones typically mean eye-watering pain and sudden urinary blockage until the stone “passes” (often requiring expensive soundwave treatment to break up a large stone). Michigan State University urologist David Wartinger told The Atlantic in September that he had recently happened upon a pain-free—even exciting!—way to pass stones before they become problems: the centripetal force from a roller coaster ride. In a 200-trip experiment preparing for a validating “human” trial, he successfully passed stones in his hand-held, silicone model kidney (using his own urine) about two-thirds of the time when sitting in a rear seat at Disney World’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
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With about 30 states having adopted some form of “stand your ground” defense to assault (or murder) charges, five membership organizations, charging up to $40 a month, have signed up a half-million gun owners concerned that law enforcement treat them fairly should they someday be forced to shoot—providing instructions and a “hot line” to coach members on what to tell police, plus liability insurance and help getting a lawyer. Critics say such organizations are also useful to those who might be prone to shooting people and want advice on how best to get away with it. The U.S. Concealed Carry organization’s wallet-sized card, to give to police, asks that the shooter under suspicion be given the same consideration as the officers might give to their own colleagues under suspicion. n In a dozen YouTube videos recently released, Syria’s Tourism Ministry praised the country’s sandy, fun-filled beaches as ideal vacation spots and its many World Heritage Sites as renowned tourist exhibits—attempting to distract world travelers from the country’s daily bloodshed (and the wartime destruction of those priceless historical sites). Before civil war broke out in 2011, Syria was a fashionable, $8 billion-a-year destination (and the now-devastated city of Aleppo was known worldwide for its food).
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Wanda Witter, 80, had been living on Washington, D.C., streets for 10 years, but insisting to anyone who would listen that the Social Security Administration owed her sums that recently reached $100,000, and that she had documents to prove it. However, given her circumstances, most regarded her as just another luckless person confused by homeless life. In June, though, after social worker Julie Turner took a closer look and found, improbably, that Witter was indeed owed $100,000 and even more improbably, that all of her paperwork was carefully organized among the unimpressive possessions she hauled around daily, SSA paid her $999 on the spot, and the remaining $99,999 arrived in August.
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One branch of the James Harper funeral homes, in Bromley, England, announced its latest promotion via a sign in a front window (reported by the Bromley News Shopper in September): “Wow! Free Child’s Battery Powered Vehicle With Every Pre-Paid Funeral Arranged This Month.” A Harper spokesperson said the purpose was to encourage residents to think ahead about funerals. n “Considering Cremation?” was the headline of the Aug. 7 advertising supplement to the Tampa Bay Times (and other Florida newspapers), appearing just below a snapshot of a mom, dad and three youngsters frolicking in the grass, seemingly overjoyed (http://bit.ly/2dBv3yk). Nothing about cremation appeared except dates and sites of free cremation seminars, sponsored by the National Cremation Society (whose website is thankfully more somber).
Recurring Themes
The most recent immigrant family living high on the hog in the United Kingdom is Arnold Mballe Sube and his wife, Jeanne, both 33, who drew the equivalent of about $130,000 in government benefits last year, but are still feuding with the Luton Borough Council near London over its inability to find (free) housing adequate for them and their eight children. They turned down four- and five-bedroom homes, were housed temporarily in a Hilton hotel, and said they would be satisfied only with a six-bedroom residence. Mr. Sube, from Cameroon, emigrated to France at age 18, then came to England in 2012 to study nursing at the University of Bedfordshire.
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Thomas Morgan, 42, was charged in a May 7 incident at the University of Iowa’s Main Library when, using a men’s room urinal, he turned to reveal to a fellow user that he was “measuring” his penis with a hand-lettered cardboard “ruler.” n Thomas Warren, 49, was arrested in September near the Iowa City home that he, naked, had allegedly trespassed into minutes before. He was discovered passed out in the grass, though his clothes, car keys and driver’s license had been left on the doorstep (along with telltale evidence that he had used the doorstep as a toilet). Alcohol and a controlled substance were involved, said police.
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The New York City Council, grilling police officials in September about their practice of freely seizing money from detainees under suspicion, asked for a thorough accounting of that money (suspecting that innocent victims rarely get it back unless aided by high-powered lawyers). Though (in “crime-fighting” hyperbole) NYPD routinely boasts of its half-million annual seizures, an NYPD official told the council it would be “impossible” to account for everything—that keeping track of it all would cause its computers to crash.
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Diego the giant tortoise, believed to be more than 100 years old, now lives in semi-retirement on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos, but from 1976 to 2010, Diego brought an almost-extinct species back to life by fathering about 800 babies in the captive breeding program on Espanola, another of the Galapagos Islands. Biologists did not realize Diego’s prowess until 2010 when DNA tests identified him as the father of 40 percent of all tortoises on the island. Even on Santa Cruz Island, Diego keeps busy, with a “harem” of six females. (Another Galapagos tortoise species did die out in 2012 when the last male, the centenarian Lonesome George, maintained his celibacy until death.)
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How rich is rich? When it comes to the “1 percent,” Teton County is in a class all its own. A recent New York Times story headlined, “Your Local 1-Percenters May Not Be as Rich as You Think,” highlighted the difficulties in identifying who exactly are the elite and where do they live? “But defining America’s 1 percent—and finding out “where the money is”—has become an increasingly subjective endeavor. As wealth becomes more concentrated in certain states and even counties, the gap between the national 1 percent and the local 1 percent is growing, creating wealth clusters that are pulling away from the rest of the country,” wrote Robert Frank and Karl Russell for the Times. A nationwide map provided by the newspaper showed Teton County far eclipsing traditional ‘moneybags’ burbs like Stamford, Conn. By a lot. “Why Jackson? Billionaires have been flocking to Wyoming, attracted by its outdoor lifestyle and low taxes,” the paper stated. “Teton County, Wyo., is the richest in America when it comes to 1 percent incomes, with 1-percenters earning more than $2.2 million.”
Bet the ranch Jackson Hole’s iconic Walton Ranch has finally sold. A deal was announced last week by Ranch Marketing Associates. Details were few, including the identity of the buyer (rumored to be a CEO of a large company headquartered in Pennsylvania) and the final price (the property was last listed at $39 million). The 1,848-acres working ranch had been in the Walton family for 50 years and on the market for the last five. When first listed, the property was offered at $100 million. That figure was slashed in half in 2014 to $48.7M, prompting local and national media sources to call it a “steal” at that price. RMA’s marketing material boasted the largest privately owned tract in Jackson Hole as “available to the buyer who desires a legacy property in one of the most enchanting places on earth and in the most tax-favorable state in the country. Opportunities like this do not come around very often.”
State unemployment stable Unemployment claims in Wyoming were down for the first time since December 2014 because layoffs in the energy sector are declining. As oil prices slowly creep up, the mining industry in Wyoming has begun to hire back on a limited basis, according to the Casper Star Tribune. The state paper reported Wyoming Department of Workforce Services saying September saw the largest decrease (64 percent from same month last year) in monthly claims in the mining industry. The stabilization has been mixed, though. Campbell, Natrona and Fremont counties reported increases in new unemployment claims. Carbon, Johnson and Laramie counties reported decreases.
Annie Oakleys The fourth annual Wyoming Women’s Antelope Hunt wrapped up last week at the Ucross Ranch in northeastern Wyoming. The three-day event drew huntresses from all over the state as 38 of the 45 participants harvested their pronghorn. Jackson’s Gloria Courser and Wilson’s Jo Gathercole both received Annie Oakley awards for bringing down their antelope with only one shot during the two-day hunt. Mia Anstine, the first American woman to be featured on the cover of Field & Stream magazine, was a media guest at the 2016 hunt. Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow handed out awards. KGWN-TV, a CBS affiliate in Cheyenne ran the news story.
Griz love from Cali The feds received more than 107,000 responses about grizzly bear delisting as the comment period ended October 7. The Sacremento Bee was particularly interested in how Californians weighed in. The story featured SoCal resident Leigh Clark, who sees the grizzly bear on the state’s flag as a poignant reminder for wildlife managers around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. “Californians wastefully, foolishly and irrevocably exterminated the last wild grizzly sometime in the middle of the third decade of the preceding century,” Clark advised the Fish and Wildlife Service on Oct. 3. “This kind of tragic shortsightedness cannot be allowed to pass for responsible conservation practice.” San Francisco resident Vincent Hoenigman wrote in on September 30, stating, “We live in California, where our grizzlies are extinct. I hope that you act to ensure that the same does not happen to the Yellowstone grizzlies.” PJH
REVOLUTION A new exhibit on the housing crisis reminds viewers the integral role art plays in politics and society. BY MEG DALY |
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recent poster campaign featuring a sendup of Mayor Flitner’s campaign poster. Referring to himself only as the Commissar and dressed entirely in red, the CRAP representative is as much an element of the art as the posters themselves. “We feel that many of our politicians perhaps have sympathy for struggles endured by workers, but as members of the ruling class they can never truly empathize,” the Commissar said. Speaking in Bolshevik-like slogans about class struggle and the need for artistic images that challenge the status quo, the Commissar said that art plays an important role in social change. “Art will be an essential weapon in the destruction of both the bourgeoisie and ruling class,” he said. “Art is our only counter to their hegemony over media, and consequently, ideas.” This arcane language might make it difficult for some to take the Commissar seriously, but CRAP falls into the vibrant tradition of agitprop—art forms with patently political messages. The 1987 activist group ACT-UP utilized agitprop to protest Reagan administration inaction on the AIDS epidemic. Their “Silence=Death” poster with an iconic pink triangle on a black background, became the image of a movement. Posters have always served as an accessible medium for political art. Even cave art points to the fact that storytelling via marking on walls is intrinsic to human communication. The Commissar says CRAP chose posters precisely because they occupy public space. “Public space is the property of all citizens, not solely the province of the ruling class and their lackeys in advertising,” he said. Though the Commissar’s declaration sounds reflexively true, in fact, the public has very little say in most public spaces. Areas like parking lots, curbs, even public parks are curated and designed by planning commissions, public ordinances, and nonprofit public art juries, as well as by the private businesses that occupy space adjacent to public areas. Take, for instance, the town square, which is ostensibly a place for the public to gather for any reason or no reason. However, anyone organizing a gathering of people there must first apply for permits with local government to organize events or install art on the town square. Similarly, public buildings, while seemingly ripe for
Top: Shepard Fairey’s ‘Hope’ poster became emblematic of President Obama’s 2008 campaign. Bottom: Aaron Wallis’ cardboard dream home he created for Shelter JH’s housing rally this summer.
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In the tradition of the Guerrilla Girls and other artist activist groups whose chief goal is to shake up the establishment, the artists behind the Flaunt Your Money for Mayor poster prefer anonymity to personal fame. A representative of the Council of Revolutionary Arts Publique (CRAP) spoke in confidence with The Planet about their
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n any fractious election year, you can be certain that artists will have a field day with controversial candidates and issues. Whether the tone is reverential, as in Shepard Fairey’s iconic HOPE poster featuring Barack Obama, or satirical, as in the guerilla art group INDECLINE’s naked statue of Donald Trump, political art is a mainstay of American freedom of expression. Despite Jackson’s dominant provincial politesse, political art does manage to sneak under the gates of our fair town once in a while. Several years ago, an anonymous artist plastered the town with the running meth box icon, satirizing a 2010 incident when Jackson police lost a box of methamphetamine during a training exercise. More recently, with the race for mayor becoming increasingly heated by the day, an anonymous artist known only by his nom de guerilla created a poster campaign, calling into question the issue of income inequality. “Flaunt Your Money for Mayor” read the blue and white signs, designed to mimic Mayor Sara Flitner’s original signs. The signs coincide with a new art exhibit at the library that focuses on the housing crisis. Together, the guerrilla art and its less incendiary cousin, the exhibition, expose challenging truths about Jackson’s socio-economic landscape. Is Jackson ready for an uncomfortable direct dialogue brought about by art? Or will the point be lost, like so many missing meth boxes?
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public art, are in fact bound in red tape. In order to host an art exhibit at a public library, the artist has to submit an idea to be approved or rejected by a committee of library employees. Style and design guidelines exist, not to mention rules governing offensive subject matter. Hence, the kind of art available in public buildings is heavily mediated and not representative of the public as a whole. As of press time, the Commissar said his team had installed more than 200 posters around town, but most were torn down within hours of being installed. This rapid response reveals Jackson’s naiveté when it comes to both political dissention and art. A vicious circle is created when a guerilla art campaign is squelched, ensuring that political opinions and controversial art are driven underground rather than enjoying healthy debate. “Do the people tearing down posters not believe in free speech?” the Commissar asked. However, he did not appear to be daunted by the damage to the CRAP campaign. “The voice of the artist cannot be silenced,” he said. “Even in its destruction our campaign is a victory, for it forces the ruling class to confront the inadequacy of their espoused ideals.”
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The politics of shelter
Images of the Commissar’s play on Mayor Sara Flitner’s campaign signs.
When Lyndsay McCandless set about curating an art show on housing to be exhibited at Teton County Library, she had to take multiple perspectives into concern. “As a curator, my responsibility to the public depends on location and scope of a project,” she said. “You do have to think about if the art will inspire or make people inquire. It’s the role of that curator to merge public sentiment and what it will evoke in a space.” Opening Monday, October 17 at the library, “House, Shelter, Home” features more than a dozen local artists and architects, and takes a look at Jackson’s housing crisis through creative lenses. There’s no denying that housing is a political issue, locally, nationally, and internationally. For instance, sociologists David Madden and Peter Marcuse wrote in Jacobin magazine recently: “Nationwide, nearly half of all renting households spend an unsustainable amount of their income on rent, a figure that is only expected to rise. This is not only a big-city issue. Around 30 percent of rural households cannot afford their housing, including nearly half of all rural renters.” But while the topic of the “House, Shelter, Home” exhibit is highly politicized, not all art about housing is political. A team of architects at Carney, Logan, Burke were invited to participate. The group decided to focus on one idea: temporary shelter for seasonal workers during the summer. They threw practicalities like zoning and permitting out the window to create drawings and models of possible shelters. “The art piece we are submitting is a collaborative piece using our sketches and study models,” said CLB architect Sam Ankeny. “You will see ideas ranging from glorified camping pavilions to a retrofitted parking garage.” Some “House” artists, like Emily Bloespflug, submitted pieces that are open to interpretation. Her painting, “Anywhere Alley,” refers to what she said is one of the worst places a person might have to use as a home: an unsightly alleyway. “An unforgiving alley, a dumpster, dirty pavement are often where the homeless can be found,” Bloespflug said. Though not obviously political, the painting contains layers of thought and meaning, according to Bloespflug. Harsh realities spiked with a little bit of home, as plants grow up from cracks in the concrete. “Like in a big city, there is a great separation between economic classes in Jackson,” she said. “Young working class people are doing anything they can for as long as they can in order to make a living here. This painting is pushing the boundaries of that message, telling of such desperate living conditions and means of survival. Yes, food from the dumpster, it happens.” Other artists in the “House, Shelter, Home” exhibit, like Aaron Wallis, present overtly political images. Wallis made a collage including a newspaper article featuring his impromptu cardboard box home that he used in the Shelter JH housing rally in June. In the image, captured by Bradley Boner, Wallis sits in the box below a flap that reads “Sotheby’s Luxury Property.” The collage includes a copy of the $500 check Wallis unexpectedly received from Sotheby’s after the photo ran in the paper. “I believe that good art asks questions of the viewer but doesn’t necessarily provide answers,” Wallis said. For Wallis, whose “Street Bible” print series recasts drug dealers and gang leaders as saints, making art is his way of questioning sanctioned societal morality. “Silence is complicity,” Wallis said. “It’s a small town and there is a certain way things are done in small towns. If you speak out against injustice or corruption, you will be marginalized. But an artist shouldn’t just make pretty pictures. There is a moral imperative to stand for social justice.” For the “House, Shelter, Home” show, McCandless invited artists whose work she was familiar with and gave them free reign over what they submitted. “We wanted the artists to take the directions they wanted,” McCandless said. “We just gave them the title and asked them to delve in, however they were inspired.” Photographer Anne Muller, the co-curator of the “House, Shelter, Home”
‘Can Last Forever’ by Mark Dunstan (top) and ‘Ruin with Red and Black Birds’ by Amy Unfried show in ‘House, Shelter, Home’ at the library. exhibit, said art can tell stories about social issues, helping to create awareness. Muller is also co-founder of The Awareness Project, which uses art to raise awareness about hidden social conditions in Jackson, with the intention to incite action. Muller’s work can currently be seen at the St. John’s Hospital professional offices building. In 2015, Muller made a video about the evictions that took place at the trailer park that was razed to make room for the Marriott hotel. A friend warned her that the work would be too controversial. Muller was undeterred. “These stories are real and they are part of our fabric in Jackson,” she said. “To cover them up is not the way to solve the problems.” Muller has since documented the evictions at the Virginian Village apartments. She says it’s not enough to simply state the numbers of people losing their homes. She felt it was important to show their faces. “Short of actually meeting the people, that is the only way the rest of us have a chance to know how it feels to be facing eviction,” Muller said. “Learning about each other’s stories expands us and, in the end, it is the only thing that makes a difference.”
Connect or confront?
Muller says her approach is to meet viewers where they are at, rather than to be confrontational with her art. Where Muller’s intent is to connect with her audience on common ground, Wallis doesn’t mind if he destabilizes the ground under viewers’ feet. “I don’t believe it’s the role of art to compromise to people’s opinions,” he said. “I believe the point of art is to force people to think even if they don’t want to, or if the topic makes them uncomfortable.” Determining whether or not a piece of art is going to make someone uncomfortable can be a literal crapshoot. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani tried to ban the work of painter Chris Ofili, who used elephant dung and pornography in a mixed media portrayal of a Black Madonna entitled, “The Holy Virgin Mary.” Giuliani, a staunch Catholic, sued the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999 in an attempt to shut down the exhibit containing Ofili’s work. He was not successful. Sometimes a very personal piece can read as political. In the case of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, which Dancers’ Workshop has brought to town several years in a row, the work presented on stage may involve
the Holocaust or gay male prostitution, but the real subject being explored is what it means to be human. In the company’s most recent appearance, the performance centered on Jones’ nephew, a black, gay, former hustler living with HIV. “Dancers’ Workshop didn’t invite Bill T. Jones in order to be political,” DW development director Amanda Flosbach said. “We aren’t necessarily endorsing, or challenging, the ideas an artist presents.” Flosbach said DW has dealt with the issue of presenting work that deals with sensitive social and political issues by preparing their audience ahead of time. “When we first brought Bill T. Jones we did a lot of education about him and his work,” Flosbach said. “That was three years ago. When we announced he was coming back this summer, we received a standing ovation. That’s how far we’ve come.” Flosbach said DW director Babs Case has worked hard to build trust with audiences. “Babs is not trying to make a particular point,” Flosbach said. “DW takes our role of connecting our community with dance seriously. We feel it’s our responsibility to present a diverse array of what is happening now in the dance world.” Dancers’ Workshop has been fortunate to have a major donor spearhead the idea of bringing Jones to Jackson. In other situations, as in the Brooklyn Museum example, funding is sometimes threatened if an organization or institution takes a risk on political art. Famously, on the national scene, several artists’ work was denied National Endowment for the Arts funding in 1990, due solely to content. Dubbed the NEA Four, four performance artists’ work, which included nudity and sexually explicit themes, was vetoed by the NEA director at the time. Similarly, Ohio senator Jesse Helms forced the NEA to change its policies regarding art content, based on Andre Serrano’s image of a crucifix in a jar of urine, and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography exhibition featuring images of gay sadomasochism. Locally, there have been instances when artists were asked to tone down their work for public consumption. A 2012 high school project slated to adorn a Pathways underpass ran afoul of expectations when the students included a commentary on Big Oil and war. The artists, who had been working with mentors Mike Tierney and Abby Paffrath, were asked by the town to change a few of the panels.
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“The imagery could be described as somewhat dark or violent,” Pathways director Brian Schilling said. “The town felt that piece was inappropriate for a pathway art installation. It’s not to say that the mural was in poor taste or tried to make a statement and failed, but simply that the delivered product was not consistent with the approved proposal.” The high school artists changed their work to be more in keeping with their original proposal; their new murals were installed and still hang today. But for some artists, changing the content of their work is out of the question. “I’ve never compromised my artistic vision,” Wallis said. “I’ve lost commissions because of that on numerous occasions. People say, ‘We love your art,’ but what they really mean is, you should change your art to fit our great idea. I think perhaps more local artists have progressive convictions but are afraid to express them because it might hurt their careers.” One way around the fear of reprisal is to develop separate bodies of work, as in the case of Sue Sommers, an artist in Pinedale. Her abstract landscape paintings are lovely, with nary a hint of the kind of political satire she has put into other work. In the mid 1990s, Sommers was part of the “Kunstwaffen Art Group,” an irreverent trio of Pinedale artists who created a Do-It-Yourself Vasectomy Kit. The kit came in a tiny plastic box containing a handful of tiny plastic ants, a piece of sharp flint, and detailed instructions on how to make the incisions, perform the procedure, and suture the wound with the ants. One of the group members had read about an African tribe that uses live ants for this purpose. “The ants would apparently bite the skin, then the human would pop the body off of the insect, leaving the insect surgical staple in place,” Sommers said. “The kit was not designed with mercy in mind.”
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Wilson-based artist Suzanne Morlock sought opportunities outside of Teton County to pursue the kind of socially progressive work that’s important to her. Morlock is the artist behind the giant Charlie Brown sweater knitted from mylar that hovered over its post at the ArtSpot on Highway 89 in 2011. Even that piece was political, Morlock says, incorporating “women’s craft” of knitting, and speaking up for the everyman after the economic recession of 2008. “I’ve always had this socio-political thread that runs through who I am as a human being,” Morlock said. Morlock recently completed a site-specific installation in Seattle as part of a larger street fair. Her installation, entitled “3772: Yellow Brick Road” references the number of people living unsheltered on Seattle streets in 2015. It involved what Morlock called “a stinky alley” in Seattle’s Pioneer Square district. “I decided the piece would occur in an alley that people who don’t have homes use as a bathroom and to buy and sell drugs, and have sex,” Morlock said. She spent months researching homelessness in Seattle, an eye-opening experience that took many hours and inured her to some of the perils faced by people living without homes. “One of the things I learned is that all it takes is one or two bad things to happen and you could find yourself
in a situation like this,” Morlock said. “It gave me a new relationship to my own privilege.” Her installation included a sculptural outline of a road down the middle of the alley using 3,772 white paper plates to delineate the road. She installed several small speakers along the road that projected prerecorded interviews with people who had experienced homelessness. Several of those individuals stood with Morlock at the head of the alley offering to talk with passersby about their experience. Morlock said the piece was inspired by her on-theground research. “Upon seeing this human landscape that was very disturbing, I felt like I wanted to understand more about this,” she said. “I didn’t have a frame of reference for how and why this happens for people.”
A trend in crisis
The nationwide housing crisis is increasingly a topic artists are exploring; the show at the library is in good company. The Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art both currently have major exhibitions devoted to the subject. If people are to believe Madden and Marcuse, the housing crisis is a cornerstone component of rapacious capitalism. Noting that nearly one billion people worldwide cannot find a decent or affordable home, the Jacobin article authors write, “The idea of crisis implies that inadequate or unaffordable housing is abnormal, a temporary departure from a well-functioning standard. But for working-class and poor communities, housing crisis is the norm. Insufficient housing has been the mark of dominated groups throughout history.” Which brings us back to that poster. CRAP was not invited to show the poster as part of the “House, Shelter, Home” exhibit. While the messaging of the poster does not scream “housing,” it does satirize the idea that money has influence in local politics, and politics play a big role in what kind of housing exists in any built environment. The Commissar says he wants the middle class to join forces with the working class to stand up to moneyed interests that dominate Jackson’s economic reality. “Because of the housing crisis, the bourgeoisie is rapidly becoming the proletariat in Jackson. The middle class must join with their brothers and sisters in the class struggle before they are exiled to Victor or the Star Valley Gulag,” he said. Meanwhile, back at the library, viewers can ponder for themselves the meaning of shelter through the eyes of Bloespflug, Wallis, and Ankeny, as well as Bronwyn Minton, Jenny and Sam Dowd, Mark Nowlin, Katy Ann Fox, Alissa Davies, Noni Pettenger, Thomas Macker, Travis Walker, Walt Gerald, Wendell Field, Agnes Bourne, Carol Benson, Sue Cedarholm, Amy Unfried and Nancy Hoffman. Muller hopes the housing related art will appeal to viewers’ hearts as well as their minds. “Art is the language of emotion,” she said. “I feel personally there is power in art, and artists need to use their voices to get people to think and be provoked.” PJH “House, Shelter, Home” opens 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, October 17 at the Teton County Library. Tclib.org.
Top to bottom: A disrobed Trump statue appeared in NYC and other American cities in August thanks to INDECLINE. Suzanne Morlock’s ‘3772: Yellowbrick Road’ references the number of homeless people in Seattle. The painting ‘Anywhere Alley’ by Emily Boespflug is part of the exhibit ‘House, Shelter, Home.’
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Mix’d Media at the National Museum of Wildlife Art 25 Fables: Aesop’s Animals Illustrated, Thursday, 6-9 p.m. Behold Emily Poole’s illustration for The Bat, the Bramble, and the Seagull
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n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Age Friendly Jackson Hole 5:30pm, Senior Center, Free, 307-733-7300 n Snow King Mountain Open Houses 5:30pm, King’s Grill, Free, 307-201-KING n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Community Entry Services Hosts The First Annual Plate Auction ‘The Art of Love’ Benefit 6:00pm, The Center For the Arts, $47.00, 307-733-7637 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Disc Golf Doubles 6:00pm, Teton Village, 307733-2292
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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, 208-787-2201 n High Holidays Yom Kippur 10:00am, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-7341999 n Fables Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-732-5435
n Lap Sit 11:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208787-2201 n Business Development Luncheon: Connect to Success this Winter! 12:00pm, Ranch Inn Hotel, Free, 307-201-2294 n Women’s Business Roundtable: Building Resilience, Pursuing Success 12:00pm, Teton County Library, Free 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 Zorro Negro Imports Trade Show - Boutique Wines from Argentina 2:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886
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MUSIC BOX Music Fixture Releases Debut Justin Smith celebrates his new release and valley sinners unite for the Devil Makes Three Redemption and Ruin Tour. BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch
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or more than two decades Justin Smith has been a dynamic staple of the local music scene. A long time in the making, Smith will proudly release his debut solo album of original material, Sprinklers in the Rain, with double release parties on both sides of the Tetons. Aside from his subtly smooth rhythm guitar playing and high lonesome West Coast vocals in his current bands One Ton Pig, Bootleg Flyer and Two Dollar Bill, Smith has proved to be adept at maintaining a do-it-yourself local music career. He emceed the infamous Friday night open mic “Joe’s Garage” for 10 years, served as president of JH Music Experience, taught guitar for Central Wyoming College, acted as musical director for the musical Cumberland Blues, and plays the manager/booking agent role in his projects. Smith was also a founding member of Mandatory Air, Free Roaming Buffalo Heard, Sister Smith, and Grass. In 2005, Smith gave me a copy of his published book of poetry and ramblings, On the Verge of Knowing Nothing. He’s a quirky, thoughtfully purging writer able to observe the most simplistic and organic threads in life, all the while encompassing deeper thought-provoking themes. Musically, Smith brings a breezy, grassy folk-rock vibe. “This album is similar to the model I used for On the Verge of Knowing Nothing in that it’s a collection of songs from a long span of years,” Smith said. “For instance, ‘Happy Day,’ was written in California about 30 years ago,
A wordsmith and pupil of philosophy, musician Justin Smith is gearing up to celebrate a project that’s been a long time in the making. whereas the title track ‘Sprinklers in the Rain’ is a new tune. ‘Pick Pocket’ was written when I first moved to Jackson. I had long hair and was dancing to a band at the Mangy Moose with a butt pack on (laughs). I sat the bag down for a second and somebody stole it with my wallet inside.” The tracks were selected from a sampling of about 100 songs. Smith, who studied philosophy in grad school, says he has always been in search of his own macro philosophy. “These songs really express that from my own vantage point and that is the true guidance. ‘Dead Man’s Bells’ is about a poisonous flower, yet there’s still a macro philosophy within the lyrics,” he said. “I can look back at this collection and see clues into my thought process, which is a really cool thing for me.” Primarily engineered and mixed by Rob Sidle, who also contributes bass to about half of the album, it took almost a year to complete the project. Initial tracking began as early as eight years ago in San Francisco with Smith’s brother, Derek, who played a major role in the project and contributed drums, percussion, vocals, keys
and steel drums. Derek will be in town from California to perform at the release parties. Other studio guests include Grammy winning guitarist Mike Dowling, Tony Furtado, and Ross Martin, as well as locals Tim Farris, Matt Herron, The Miller Sisters, Jon Degroot, Michael Batdorf, Andy Mahoney, Kyle Johnson, Marshall Davis and John Kidwell, among others. In the title track, Smith sings: “1,000 words that keep me up all night, I’m tired of all these words and the meaning that’s been blurred … when I hear these words again and again it’s like sprinklers in the rain.” While Smith is literally a “wordsmith,” he’s not singing about song craft or organizing thoughts for penning a poem, but rather an observation of modern culture. “All these words, the talking heads, everybody’s blah blah and overanalyzing everything. They’re forgetting simplistic humanity and togetherness,” Smith said of the lead track’s theme. “When I go to sleep, there are all these words from the week, the day, and I’ve been trying to quiet the noise through Buddhist type practices.”
THURSDAY The Devil Makes Three with Lost Dog Street Band (Pink Garter Theatre) FRIDAY ACDC cover band Fire & Guns! (Town Square Tavern); Pam Drews Phillips Trio (The Granary); Bootleg Flyer (Silver Dollar) Go ahead and sin, then repent at the Pink Garter with The Devil Makes Three... and then sin again. Justin Smith album release parties, 7:30 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, October 18 at the Silver Dollar Showroom; 7:30 to 11 p.m. Thursday, October 20 at the Knotty Pine (all-ages), and tune into KHOL 89.1FM 9:30 a.m. Monday, October 17 for a two-song studio performance. All shows are free. JustinSmithMusic.com.
Be ruined and redeemed with The Devil Whether it’s a tiny dive bar or a mega festival, The Devil Makes Three is a charismatic experience to behold in person. The throwback splice of neo-ragtime, folk, country, punk, gospel, jug band, bluegrass and gypsy jazz comes through the speakers in a double guitar and bass trio format. While drummer-less, the groove would have you think otherwise, and dancers would agree. The San Francisco-based act of New Englanders have put out six albums—four studio and two live—including the Buddy Miller-produced I’m a Stranger Here, which crept into the Billboard 200. Their 2016 release Redemption
& Ruin is a covers album that devotes half of the set to “ruin” and the other half to “redemption.” According to bassist Lucia Turino, the album “introduces our fans to the music that influences us.” Those influences include Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Tampa Red, Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson and Hank Williams. Hankering for the past while producing music that fits in the modern sphere, the band of 15 years is a mid-October blessing in Jackson Hole. Tennessee duo Lost Dog Street Band opens the show with their flavor of dark, moody country. The Devil Makes Three with Lost Dog Street Band, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, October 13 at the Pink Garter Theatre. $29.50 to $35. PinkGarterTheatre.com. 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.
SATURDAY Bootleg Flyer (Silver Dollar); DJ Capella (Town Square Tavern) SUNDAY Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach); Open Mic (Pinky G’s) MONDAY JH Hootenanny (Dornan’s) TUESDAY Justin Smith Album Release Party (Silver Dollar)
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-7336398 n Inspire Your Audience 8:00am, E.Leaven Restaurant, Free, 307-201-1774 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Sneak Peek of 25 Fables: Aesop’s Animals Illustrated 11:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-733-5771 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 Hand and Wheel 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $120.00, 307733-6379 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539
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n Zumba 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Ski Fitness 5:30pm, Teton County/ Jackson Parks and Recreation, $8.00 - $85.00, 307-732-5754 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Mix’d Media 6:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-7335771 n Printmaking 101 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $225.00, 307733-6379 n Workshop: Increasing your Social Fluidity 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $200.00, 307-733-7425 n Glaze like a Pro 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $84.00, 307733-6379 n Tech Meetup at SPARK - Pete Soderling on Optimizing your Engineering Culture 6:30pm, Spark JH, Free, 307690-3307 n JH Community Band Rehearsal 7:00pm, Center for the Arts Performing Arts Wing, Free, 307-200-9463 n SHIFT Terry Tempest Williams: Our Public Lands 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $10.00, 307-733-4900 n Major Zepher 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n The Devil Makes Three Redemption & Ruin Tour 8:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $29.50 - $35.00, 307-733-1500 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
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 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 Workshop: Wyoming Nonprofit Sector Report 9:00am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, 307-739-1026 n 25 Fable’s: Aesop’s Animals Illustrated 9:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-733-5771 n No School Day - Creative Picture Books 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $50.00, 307733-6379 n Tai Chi for Better Balance 10:30am, Senior Center of Jackson Hole, $3.00, 307733-7300 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 Photography Intermediate 3:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00, 307733-6379 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, 307733-4466 n Dine for the Cause 5:00pm, Elks Lodge, Free, 307-690-5450 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n JHW Kidlit/YA Critique Group 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, Free
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The highest and least talked about lake in the Tetons is a delightful wasteland. BY CONNOR KUNZ @connor.kunz17
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ooking at what the internet has to say about Icefloe Lake, apparently no one has actually made it there in decades. At least that was my impression as I sat at my computer, poring over trail blogs and scanty photographic records of the lake I had stumbled upon surfing Google Earth. Several sites managed to give clear instructions on how to get to the lake, though none provided a first-person account of reaching what I learned was the highest lake in the Tetons. The information I found asserted no existing trail or even cairn path will get you the whole way there. An absence of trail, very little information available and the guarantee of an expedition? It was, as they say, enough to make me “Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence.” (Here’s to you, John Muir.) Icefloe Lake sits at approximately 10,600 feet, nestled just below and to the west of the saddle between the Middle and South Tetons. There are three ways to access it. One begins by hiking the length of Cascade Canyon to the trail’s end at Avalanche Divide. Another requires you to bushwhack Avalanche Canyon through the surprisingly (dare I say jaw-droppingly) beautiful Taminah and Snowdrift Lakes. The final approach brings you in from Alaska Basin, over Hurricane Pass and up toward Avalanche Divide. All three routes converge at Avalanche Divide; from this point there’s no trail, but the basin visible below the Middle Teton makes the route clear if you know where to look. Where the
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cairns end, the adventure begins. There’s an interesting dynamic with the upper lakes of the Tetons. Many of the best ones are lightly but consistently trafficked by a core group of backcountry rangers, diehard hikers and adventurers—an outdoor cult following, if you will. There’s no doubt that Icefloe is hiked from time to time—a backcountry ranger I met on the trail seemed familiar with Icefloe Lake, and the story is told of Jackson’s Avery Resor, who in the summer of 1999 swam every one of the Tetons’ 44 named lakes. My experience required two attempts. The Avalanche Canyon route became a StairMaster from hell quickly, but once we reached Taminah Lake the uphill drudgery gave way to photographic nirvana. I’ve spent three years digging into the nooks and crannies of the Teton backcountry and I’ve rarely come across anything as scenic or remote. This attempt, unfortunately, was cut short by the arrival of a signature Teton thunderstorm. Rather than risk traversing an exposed ridge in a storm, we cut over the divide and down Cascade Canyon with the resolve to return another day. Our second and successful attempt arrived in the form of a day trip while backpacking the Teton Crest Trail. If Icefloe Lake sat at the bottom of the Tetons, it probably wouldn’t be a popular destination. The wildflowers, greenery and wildlife that draw tourists stretch across the canyon floor below; everything about this lake’s immediate surroundings is stark. There are few trees, only rocks. The only color—or life, for that matter,—is in the lichens clinging to scattered boulders. But within the lake’s starkness is a beauty rarely found in more picturesque locales. For me, outdoor adventures adhere to a kind of Golden Ratio: the beauty of a moment is inversely proportionate to the number of people present. The best moments in the outdoors are those shared with a few. Icefloe Lake will never be a popular destination; it’s too high, too remote and too hard to reach. But those aren’t deterrents—they’re selling points. Give me an Icefloe Lake over a Jenny Lake any day. PJH
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Shifting Sands SHIFT Festival brings together conservation and outdoor luminaries to address environmental issues du jour. BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1
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or the third annual SHIFT Festival, organizers decided to take on a precious topic, particularly in the American West. Public lands all over the country are currently endangered, as an increasing number of Republican lawmakers try to privatize them. SHIFT is bringing speakers and issues to the table that push back against the potential land grab. At issue are controversial topics such as the “Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Areas Act,” introduced into Congress this summer by Utah Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee. Former legislative policy analyst John Kelley, writing for High Country News, called the bill a “smokescreen” for opening all wilderness areas to mountain biking, thus undermining the Wilderness Act of 1964 that prohibits such use. But the bill has supporters beyond the anti-environment senators who introduced it. Organizations like the Sustainable Trails Coalition in Colorado are among the proponents. SHIFT festival participants have the opportunity to discuss this issue in detail at a happy hour sponsored by Stio 5 p.m. Friday, October 14 at King’s Grill. Moderated by Luther Propst, a panel of experts, on both sides of the debate, will discuss what opening wilderness to bikes might mean in the long run. Zooming out from the micro issue of bikes in the wilderness, at a macro level, SHIFT features several eminent speakers talking more broadly about the importance of public lands. Terry Tempest Williams speaks at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 13 at Center for the Arts. The award winning author of many books, including the classic, Refuge, Williams recently made the news for her purchase, with her husband Brooke Williams, of leasing rights to 1,120 acres of federal public lands in Utah. That means more than one thousand acres of southern Utah beauty that will not be marred by oil and gas exploration. In an essay in The New York Times, Williams wrote that the purchase was intended “to shine a light on the auctioning
From renowned author Terry Tempest Williams to Sierra Club Outdoors’ Stacy Bare, diverse speakers and inspiring ideas abound during this year’s SHIFT Festival. away of America’s public lands to extract the very fossil fuels that are warming our planet and pushing us toward climate disaster.” On the more agro end of things, SHIFT will serve up speakers like Stacy Bare, director of the award-winning Sierra Club Outdoors, which hosts 265,000 people a year in various outings from picnics to major mountaineering and riverine expeditions. Looking very much like a mountain man gone wild, Bare will keynote SHIFT’s “Adventure, Inspired” film night 7 p.m. Friday, October 14 at Center for the Arts. As the extraction industry rumbles forward in late stage capitalism, gobbling up natural resources and spewing them back to fuel cars and homes, the environmental movement is having a hard time diversifying its outreach beyond the rugged white dude. Perhaps what the environment needs is not so much badassery as it does common sense, collaboration, and dare we hope for estrogenic vibes to slow everyone down to smell the wildflowers. Judging from the line-up at SHIFT, enviros still have a ways to go, but inroads are being made, as reflected in some of SHIFT’s programming. A highlight is the workshop on diversity led by Aparna Rajagopal-Durbin, a former NOLS educator and diversity and inclusion manager. Among her many achievements, she led the first all-African American climbing attempt to summit Denali in 2013. She is also the founder of The Avarna Group, which guides organizations in diversity issues. According to SHIFT’s website, the Cultural Relevancy Workshop led by Rajagopal-Durbin will “help participants to understand and confidently articulate
what [diversity] entails, explain why it’s critical to our collective future, and build a plan for their organization to move forward with this work.” Another key component of making conservation and the environment relevant in today is new media and new generations. SHIFT has placed a strong emphasis this year on millennials and youth, including its “Emerging Leaders” program, as well as a keynote address by media specialist Alyssa Ravassio on “Outdoor Rec, Conservation and the New Media Landscape.” The festival concludes with the popular People’s Banquet 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, October 15 at the Center for the Arts. The event features keynote speaker Steven Rinella, host of the TV show, MeatEater, and author of several books on, what else? Eating meat. “Hunting and fishing are cornerstones of Jackson’s food heritage, and the hunting and fishing communities are deeply engaged in the protection and preservation of our natural resources,” said Christian Beckwith, SHIFT’s director, of Rinella’s appearance. The People’s Banquet offers a cornucopia of local food prepared by local chefs, (including meat). Also on offer are all manner of cheeses, veggies, and prepared dishes designed to deepen SHIFT-goers’ sense of place down into their bellies, and hopefully fueling a multi-generational populace of eco-focused minds. PJH
Reporter’s note: This preview only scratches the surface of a jam-packed weekend of SHIFT programming. Visit shiftjh.org for more information on all the scheduled talks and events, as well as ticketing info.
n Small Scale Casting: Pouring Pewter 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $200.00, 307733-6379 n October Beer Dinner 6:00pm, Q Roadhouse, $50.00, 307-739-0700 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-733-8833 n SHIFT Adventure, Inspired Film Program, featuring Stacy Bare 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $15.00, 307-733-4900 n Country Western Swing Workshop 7:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $65.00 - $90.00, 307-7336398 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 1-844-996-7827 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Friday Night DJ Featuring Fiesta Bob 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Fire & Guns! 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886
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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 Small Scale Casting: Pouring Pewter 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $200.00, 307733-6379 n Open Mic 9:00pm, Pinky G’s Pizzeria, Free, 307-734-7465
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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 Intermediate Throwing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $170.00 $204.00, 307-733-6379
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n Create with Me: Ages 2 & 3 with caregiver 9:15am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00, 307733-6379 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 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 QuickBooks Club 5:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $40.00 - $140.00, 307-7337425 n House, Shelter, Home Artists’ Perspectives 5:30pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-413-1800 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307-733-2415 n Beginning Drawing Evening 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00, 307733-6379 n Teenage Angst Screen Printing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00, 307733-6379 n Kiln Formed Glass 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $210.00 $252.00, 307-733-6379 n Selfie! Performance for Video 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $195.00 - $235.00, 307-7336379
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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 Collage 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $55.00 $70.00, 307-733-6379 n Assemblage - Daytime 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00, 307733-6379 n Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel (ECKANKAR) 2:30pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Community Room, 2:30PM, Free, 406-375-9077
n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Small Scale Casting: Pouring Pewter 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $200.00, 307733-6379 n Dornans Wine Dinner 6:30pm, Dornans, 307-7332415 n SHIFT The People’s Banquet featuring Steven Rinella 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $45.00, 307-733-4900 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n DJ Capella 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Jameson Music Series Presents Bo Elledge & Dave Rice 10:30pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500
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WELL, THAT HAPPENED n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Tai Chi for Better Balance 10:30am, Senior Center of Jackson Hole, $3.00, 307-733-7300 n Chamber/Rotary Candidate Forum Series 12:00pm, Snow King Resort, $25.00, 307201-2309 n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 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, 307690-6539 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Ski Fitness 5:30pm, Teton County/ Jackson Parks and Recreation, $8.00 - $85.00, 307-732-5754 n Relief Printing - Evening 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $64.00, 307-733-6379 n Tuesday Trivia Night 6:00pm, Q Roadhouse, Free, 307-739-0700 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-354-5522 n Art N Soul 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $105.00 - $126.00, 307-733-6379 n Justin Smith CD Release Party 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190
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Where the West Begins Anew HBO transforms ho-hum Western stereotypes into a dense sci-fi yarn in Westworld. BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz
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he camera pans over an expansive deserted valley. Treeless mesas tower in the distance as the sun begins its slow descent toward the horizon. Off in the sky somewhere, an eagle’s screech echoes through the vista. Oh, and look! A trailing dust cloud stretches across the prairie. We zoom in. Our hero, mounted atop his trusty steed, gallops fervently, as though chasing someone… or being chased himself. Cue the swelling orchestra music, maybe add a streak of headdress-wearing Indian chiefs up on the ridge line, stick a struggling widow on her front porch as she shields the sun from her delicate eyes, toss in a stick or two of dynamite, and boom! Ye got yerself the set-up for 80 percent of every darn Western film ever made, and that there’s the truth, son. I took my mom to see The Magnificent Seven remake last week and, hoo-wee, was it underwhelming. Unlike Quentin Tarantino, director Antoine Fuqua figured the 21st century Western needs no doctoring, no exciting new ideas, no
James Marsden and Evan Rachel Wood play hosts in Westworld. new twists, and instead delivered the most mind-numbingly tedious cowboy movie in recent history. Not even Denzel Washington or Chris Pratt could breathe some enthusiasm into this film. I get that it’s a remake, but could we at least surprise our audiences for once? Can we take a different path instead of featuring the same villainous prospector, the young rifle-toating waif who wants to avenge her dead husband, the rambunctious womanizer, etc.? I guess it is unique, having a black stranger offer to save an entire town of white folk, but if that’s the best Hollywood can come up with, I fear the Western will never live up to its ultimate potential. For me, The Missing (2003), The Assassination of Jesse James (2007) and The Revenant (2015) are some of the most interesting takes on the genre because they stray far from the age-old “white hat rides into town” trope, and deliver unique stories in a familiar setting. But our dwindling faith in Hollywood is nothing new, especially as we transition to trusting our streaming services more than our movie theaters. I’ve been eagerly anticipating HBO’s new original series, Westworld for months. Based off the 1973 film of the same name, starring Yul Brenner and written and directed by author Michael Crichton, the series, produced by J.J. Abrams, throws us directly into the fray without any back story. This allows for the show to unravel with every episode rather than setting up a season of origin stories before anything exciting happens (ahem... LOST). What we do know is that Westworld is a sci-fi-flavored virtual reality in which any average Joe or Jane can sink $40,000 to spend a single day in a seemingly flawless
Western existence. Much like a video game, the guest is able to interact with hosts—artificial human characters that are programmed with linear personalities—in any way they dream up. Whether the guests (known as newcomers) kill the hosts, play cards with them, rape them, or simply strike up a conversation is left completely to the guest’s imagination. Once the guest leaves Westworld, the world is reset, the hosts are revived and wiped clean, and all is well in the kingdom. But as with the film, this amusement park of sorts is not as perfect as it appears to be. For one, Ed Harris’ character, an unnamed “black hat,” has been a newcomer for quite a while, and is on a rogue mission to find the “deeper game” in Westworld. This involves him murdering, decapitating and breaking open skulls to find whatever meaning he’s seeking. The show’s main character, a host named Dolores (played exquisitely by Evan Rachel Wood), also seems to be malfunctioning in some capacity, but the truth has yet to be revealed. And behind the scenes, Anthony Hopkins and Jeffrey Wright act as the lever-pullers of Westworld, and soon have disagreements on exactly how human the hosts need to act. Ultimately, it’s a badass show that is injecting adrenaline into the dying Western genre. While Westworld does contain all the typical Western stereotypes I’ve mentioned, it manages to be self-aware of them, delivering a heart-pounding theme park malfunction adventure, while honoring both the source material and the spirit of the West. If the Western’s becoming trendy again and we’re paving a new era of cowboy tales, I’m hitchin’ my wagon to Westworld. PJH
Streetfood’s ‘Around the World’ dinners transport diners to a different place. BY ROBYN VINCENT @TheNomadicHeart
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Left: Streetfood co-owner Marcos Hernandez plates Spanish octopus. Right: Paella perfection. dessert, we were served nectarous sherry-glazed figs sprinkled with almonds and a velvety crema catalena, the Spanish iteration of crème brulée. The Around the World dinners have shipped diners to some of this world’s more unique culinary meccas, like Argentina, Morocco and the Philippines, where Anthony spent a month traveling with his girlfriend and kitchen extraordinaire, Dawn Balagot, a native of the small Western Pacific country. “I definitely think this town has a great food scene but there are a lot of things that are lacking,” Hatchard said. “We wanted to serve food you can’t get here.” The dinners also allow Anthony, who joined Streetfood in August, the creative license to craft inspired food, Hatchard noted. Years ago bartending at Bin 22, I often waited on the former Four Seasons staffers Hernandez and Hatchard (they imported
Anthony from the hotel where the couple met). It was clear they were in the industry—cordial and pleasant, they opted for excellent wines and experimented with the Bin’s more adventurous dishes. Today the globally inspired pair— Hernandez hails from Mexico, and Hatchard is here by way of Philadelphia, Martha’s Vineyard, Paris’ Cordon Bleu and the New England Culinary Institute—is among the cultured folks who come from everywhere to be in Jackson Hole. They are some of the people who make this place worth discussing to folks on the other side of the world. PJH Streetfood’s Around the World dinners, 7 p.m. Wednesdays through October. $35. This week: Italy, including diver scallop crudo, truffled fettuccine carbonara and tiramisu. A Mexican grand finale happens October 26. Call 307-200-6633 to reserve a spot. streetfoodjh.com
Sherry-glazed figs and crema catalena concluded the Spanish soiree.
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hen traveling the world, or the country for that matter, I sometimes find myself pointing to Jackson Hole’s increasingly international sensibilities. “A lot of residents are world travelers,” I explain to folks I meet. “People are cultured; they come from everywhere to live in Jackson.” Nowhere in the valley could this be more evident than at Streetfood, both with its success as a global cuisine enclave inside the Stagecoach and now with its international dinners Wednesday evenings through October. Although I didn’t attend Streetfood’s Korean feast two weeks ago (where diners were sent home with doggie bags of kimchi), one of the people who accompanied me on a trip to Korea happened to be there. Jess Farr and her fiancé, Chef Dave Van Ham, who has also eaten his way through Korea, say they were lucky to be among the 30 some diners seated at family style tables sheathed in tablecloths and elegant place settings. Yes, this all happens in the Coach’s normally cowboy-casual confines. “You can’t get Korean food in Jackson,” Farr noted. “And this is not something the head chef [Justin Anthony] does every day, so to put on a meal of that caliber where everything came out perfectly cooked was impressive.” Farr said she was not only taken by
Streetfood’s expertly prepared proteins, like the kalbi (barbecue short ribs) and samgyeopsal (pork belly), but that the Streetfood team seamlessly executed the multi-course meal for a large group. “As someone who has worked in a kitchen, I can tell you that’s no easy feat,” she said. After Farr raved on for another 10 minutes, detailing dessert—hotteok, a crispy corn pancake oozing with brown sugar and drizzled with yuzu tea syrup—I told her I had heard enough… and then I promptly made a reservation for the Spanish dinner served last week. Streetfood’s bright Spanish tapas were further testament to Anthony’s skills. Sitting next to me, Farr (now a Wednesday night convert) was quick to note the chef was at the helm of 35 plates of piquant seafood for another full house. Did I mention the restaurant’s kitchen stays open to serve patrons regular menu items for the entirety of the meal? The sold-out dinner began with woodfired Spanish octopus and patatas bravas. Wolfing down every last bite, Farr and I observed the utilitarian aspect of tapas— before a late night of dancing, which is de rigueur in many Latin countries, one can’t afford to be weighed down with heavy food. We decided this is why tapas are a staple of Latin cuisine, wishing that we too had a place to shake our hips into the late (early?) hours. Next we savored a paella dish. Served on pieces of black slate, Streetfood’s rendition was comprised of jumbo shrimp, Prince Edward Island mussels, Spanish chorizo, baby vegetables and a rich-yetbalanced saffron lobster sauce. As we washed the smoky chorizo down with gulps of Rioja from the adjacent liquor store, I took note of the service. With each dish, co-owners/husband and wife Marcos Hernandez and Amelia Hatchard checked in with guests to gauge their satisfaction. Anthony did the same. But alas, it wasn’t over. Wide-eyed for
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Trio is located just off the town square in downtown Jackson, and is owned & operated by local chefs with a passion for good food. Our menu features contemporary American dishes inspired by classic bistro cuisine. Daily specials feature wild game, fish and meats. Enjoy a glass of wine at the bar in front of the wood-burning oven and watch the chefs perform in the open kitchen.
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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) 7330022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai. com.
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. Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY
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THAI ME UP 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.
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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. Closed Tuesdays until ski season. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.
CAFE GENEVIEVE Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., Dinner Tues-Sat 5 p.m. and Happy Hour Tues-Sat 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh. com.
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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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Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square. Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, drinks or dinner.
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LOTUS CAFE Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner. 145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe. com.
SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.
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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 locallysourced 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.
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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The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.
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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.
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A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the
right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.
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. 307-413-8296. meeteetsechocolatier. com
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19 Sort 24 Bindle carrier 29 Broke a Commandment 32 “Point Break” FBI agent Johnny 34 Former 37-Down 35 Vacation spot 37 Abbr. on Cold War maps 38 Shoes may be left on them 39 Lake that anagrams 43-Down 40 Movie mogul Marcus 42 Clever remark 43 Land that anagrams 39-Down 44 City south of Salem 45 Kids 47 Ozarks, e.g.: Abbr. 48 Polite refusal 51 With 79-Across, 2003 N.L. Cy Young Award winner 52 Lane co-worker 53 “It’s __ good sign” 55 Golfer’s thrill 58 Unaccompanied 59 Put behind bars 60 Country poem DOWN 62 Scratching post users 1 Middle March 63 Dianetics creator Hubbard 2 Smoked salmon 3 Compensate for prior laziness, 65 Piña __ 66 “Terrible” tsar perhaps 67 Over 4 Hill workers 69 On the bad side (of) 5 Sault __ Marie 70 Expected result 6 It may be herbal 71 Deceitful lure 7 Discomfiting displays 72 Lois’ “Superboy” 8 Oversight counterpart 9 Fair-haired sci-fi race 75 Stimpy’s chum 10 Soda can feature 77 Bird on Canada’s 11 “That’s more than enough!” dollar coin 12 Business issue 79 Give some slack, 13 Natasha’s no with “on” 14 Broken down, say 80 What there oughta 15 Must pay be 16 “The Shining” word with two 81 Relinquish amateur mirror-image letters status 17 Through 84 Nocturnal 18 T-storms may delay them mammals
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Dog Telepathy, Moons and Intentions How to communicate with your canine; mysteries of the moon and more tips on creating your own reality.
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ust like many humans, dogs think in pictures. Try this with your pet if you’d like to practice communicating without words or hand signals. Form a mental picture of what you’d like them to do, look at the animal and direct the image toward them (hit “send” in your mind). As they receive your “photo message” you’ll notice the perk of an ear or an attentive expression. Dogs especially like to know what you are about to do and when you are going somewhere. You can practice sending a mental picture of explanation before you even tie your shoes or give other cues they are likely to recognize. Knowing what you are up to helps them, especially if they tend to experience separation anxiety. A few more amazing dog facts: Dogs have 300 million olfactory receptors; we have only five million. They take in scent continuously, even as they exhale and are able to tell who, what, when, where, how, which way and what next… all from scent.
Anomalies of our moon The actual age of our moon, how it got here, whether it has been previously inhabited and what might lie beneath its surface are all up for review. Here is some lesser-known evidence for new possibilities about the nature of our moon. If you are curious to learn more, a treasure trove of information awaits you on the internet. - Analysis of moon rocks and moon dust reveal the moon may be considerably older than the Earth, maybe even a billion years older. - Two former moon origin theories have been disproven. The moon was not formerly a chunk of the earth, and
it is too large to have been captured by the earth without mutual catastrophic destruction. - Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, Tibetan texts, and ancient symbols found in South America refer to ancient civilizations that lived here before the moon was in our night sky. - Our spacecraft has observed hundreds of anomalous lights from inside the moon. - Huge towers, rectangular structures, potential entrances to the inner moon, and UFOs have also been seen and photographed on various NASA missions. Scientists who have examined these photos conclude these cannot be natural phenomena. - Many indications point to a hollow moon. When the moon’s surface has been struck by parts of our lunar modules (Apollos 12 and 13), the moon rang like a bell for three hours to a depth of 25 miles. The same reverberations happened and lasted longer on other missions. - Decades ago, Carl Sagan suggested that the moon might be hollow. He added that a natural satellite couldn’t be hollow.
The difference between intentions and goals Many of you have asked me to clarify this. Hopefully this is helpful. Intentions are stated in the present tense as if what you desire is happening right now. Here is an example, “I am healthy in body, mind and spirit.” This describes the state of being which correlates to how you want to feel/be when living from your inner values, passions and purpose. The power of the intention statement is to activate and attract the energy frequencies matching your request. It is most effective to repeat your intention every day. Goals focus on the future and relate to the specific measurable steps, which will add up to achieving the intention we want. Here are some examples of goals related to achieving the intention statement, “ I am healthy in body, mind and spirit.” Goals: change to an organic diet, go for a run daily, learn meditation, get eight hours of sleep. Have fun combining your intentions with practical goals to make them real and lasting. 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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NATURAL MEDICINE Back to School Balance
wanted us to eat brown bread and I wanted to eat white bread, so we compromised. I had a sandwich with one slice of brown and one slice of white bread. If you are trying to think of new ideas for the lunchbox here are a few options: 1.
How parents and kids can stay healthy this school year. BY DR. MONIQUE LAI
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chool is such an exciting time and getting into a good routine is essential. Most people think about shopping for new clothes and computers to start the school year, but spending some time keeping kids healthy will benefit both them and you. The National Center for Health Statistics estimates American students miss 144 million school days per year due to illness. Meanwhile, parents miss more than 100 million workdays annually to care for sick children. Let’s do better than that this year. First of all, let’s focus on food. If you are making school lunches, a great first step is decreasing sugar. Snacks like unsweetened applesauce, a mixture of raw almonds/ cashews/raisins/cranberries, fruit roll-ups and grapes are all better than granola bars, which are loaded with sugar. For example, Each Nature Valley granola bar has 11 grams of sugar. A can of Mountain Dew has 77 grams of sugar. They say everything in life is a negotiation and I’m guessing no parent will argue with that. When I was a child, my mother
Use a wrap filled with chicken and guacamole or turkey and pesto. Make extra for dinner and put it in the lunch box. Kids love sushi. It’s healthy and easy to make. When I was in college, I made the poor man’s sushi: Nori, rice and canned tuna. Purchase an insulated food container. You can make soups or heat up a healthy can of soup and add something fresh to it. Add some fresh tomatoes to chili, or chopped parsley or spinach to lentil soup.
Second, keep your kids clean. Children are exposed to a plethora of germs in school. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recognizes hand hygiene as the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection. When your kids walk in the house from a day of school, the first thing they should do is wash their hands. The following is common sense, yet a great reminder for preventing illnesses by 30 to 40 percent: wash your hands before eating food, before and during food preparation, after using the toilet, after touching an animal or animal waste, after touching garbage and after blowing your nose. Third, there are a few supplements I recommend for children. School can be stressful for kids. I recommend taking a multivitamin that contains B vitamins and vitamin C. These vitamins nurture
the adrenal glands, which are responsible for helping us deal with stressful situations. Kids love them, but “Gummys” are NOT multivitamins. They are a form of candy marketed as multivitamins and you should avoid them. There is no question that learning and academic performance are affected by nutritional status. If your child is not a great eater, meaning he/she eats only white foods, i.e. mac and cheese, bagels with cream cheese, etc., studies have shown kids on this diet who take a multivitamin benefit most. A probiotic is another supplement I often recommend. Dr. Pedro Gutierrez– Castrellon recently published a study showing that preschoolers given a daily probiotic for three months had fewer respiratory infections and instances of diarrhea. Research has shown you can change your microbiome by ingesting vegetables and foods rich in probiotics. Fish oil is not only beneficial to your child’s immune system, it also benefits the brain. One study showed that when 200 children were given 1,000 mg of omega-3 fatty acids, after six months the children themselves did not report significant changes, but their parents
reported a 48 percent improvement in externalizing behavior (disobeying rules, physical aggression and threatening others). Parents also reported a 68 percent decrease in internalizing behavior (social withdrawal, feelings of loneliness or guilt, feeling unloved, feeling sadness, fearfulness, not sticking up for oneself, changes in sleeping or eating patterns). After practicing naturopathic medicine for the past 20 years, I’ve seen how children are exposed to a phenomenal amount of stresses whether physical, emotional or electromagnetic. The right food and supplements will give them a fighting chance and allow them to perform at their full potential. PJH
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
BY ROB BREZSNY
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Most of us can’t tickle ourselves. Since we have conscious control of our fingers, we know we can stop any time. Without the element of uncertainty, our squirm reflex doesn’t kick in. But I’m wondering if you might get a temporary exemption from this rule in the coming weeks. I say this because the astrological omens suggest you will have an extraordinary capacity to surprise yourself. Novel impulses will be rising up in you on a regular basis. Unpredictability and spontaneity will be your specialties. Have fun doing what you don’t usually do! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) During the final ten weeks of 2016, your physical and mental health will flourish in direct proportion to how much outworn and unnecessary stuff you flush out of your life between now and October 25. Here are some suggested tasks: 1. Perform a homemade ritual that will enable you to magically shed at least half of your guilt, remorse, and regret. 2. Put on a festive party hat, gather up all the clutter and junk from your home, and drop it off at a thrift store or the dump. 3. Take a vow that you will do everything in your power to kick your attachment to an influence that’s no damn good for you. 4. Scream nonsense curses at the night sky for as long as it takes to purge your sadness and anger about pain that no longer matters. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A Buddhist monk named Matthieu Ricard had his brain scanned while he meditated. The experiment revealed that the positive emotions whirling around in his gray matter were super-abundant. Various publications thereafter dubbed him “the happiest person in the world.” Since he’s neither egotistical nor fond of the media’s simplistic sound bites, he’s not happy about that title. I hope you won’t have a similar reaction when I predict that you Sagittarians will be the happiest tribe of the zodiac during the next two weeks. For best results, I suggest you cultivate Ricard’s definitions of happiness: “altruism and compassion, inner freedom (so that you are not the slave of your own thoughts), senses of serenity and fulfillment, resilience, as well as a clear and stable mind that does not distort reality too much.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Now is a perfect moment to launch or refine a project that will generate truth, beauty, and justice. Amazingly enough, now is also an excellent time to lunch or refine a long-term master plan that will make you healthy, wealthy, and wise. Is this a coincidence? Not at all. The astrological omens suggest that your drive to be of noble service dovetails well with your drive for personal success. For the foreseeable future, unselfish goals are well-aligned with selfish goals.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The ancient Greek sage Socrates was a founder of Western philosophy and a seminal champion of critical thinking. And yet he relied on his dreams for crucial information. He was initiated into the esoteric mysteries of love by the prophetess Diotima, and had an intimate relationship with a daimonion, a divine spirit. I propose that we make Socrates your patron saint for the next three weeks. Without abandoning your reliance on logic, make a playful effort to draw helpful clues from non-rational sources, too. (P.S.: Socrates drew oracular revelations from sneezes. Please consider that outlandish possibility yourself. Be alert, too, for the secret meanings of coughs, burps, grunts, mumbles, and yawns.) GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The Helper Experiment, Part One: Close your eyes and imagine that you are in the company of a kind, attentive helper—a person, animal, ancestral spirit, or angel that you either know well or haven’t met yet. Spend at least five minutes visualizing a scene in which this ally aids you in fulfilling a particular goal. The Helper Experiment, Part Two: Repeat this exercise every day for the next seven days. Each time, visualize your helper making your life better in some specific way. Now here’s my prediction: Carrying out The Helper Experiment will attract actual support into your real life. CANCER (June 21-July 22) New rules: 1. It’s unimaginable and impossible for you to be obsessed with anything or anyone that’s no good for you. 2. It’s unimaginable and impossible for you to sabotage your stability by indulging in unwarranted fear. 3. It’s imaginable and possible for you to remember the most crucial thing you have forgotten. 4. It’s imaginable and possible for you to replace debilitating self-pity with invigorating self-love and healthy self-care. 5. It’s imaginable and possible for you to discover a new mother lode of emotional strength. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It’s swing-swirl-spiral time, Leo. It’s ripple-sway-flutter time and flow-gush-gyrate time and jive-jiggle-juggle time. So I trust you will not indulge in fruitless yearnings for unswerving progress and rock-solid evidence. If your path is not twisty and tricky, it’s probably the wrong path. If your heart isn’t teased and tickled into shedding its dependable formulas, it might be an overly hard heart. Be an improvisational curiosity-seeker. Be a principled player of unpredictable games.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Some English-speaking astronomers use the humorous slang term “meteor-wrong.” It refers to a rock that is at first thought to have fallen from the heavens as a meteorite (“meteor-right”), but that is ultimately proved to be of terrestrial origin. I suspect there may currently be the metaphorical equivalent of a meteor-wrong in your life. The source of some new arrival or fresh influence is not what it had initially seemed. But that doesn’t have to be a problem. On the contrary. Once you have identified the true nature of the new arrival or fresh influence, it’s likely to be useful and interesting.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Some astrologers dwell on your tribe’s phobias. They assume that you Pisceans are perversely drawn to fear; that you are addicted to the strong feelings it generates. In an effort to correct this distorted view, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I hereby declare the coming weeks to be a Golden Age for Your Trust in Life. It will be prime time to exult in everything that evokes your joy and excitement. I suggest you make a list of
ARIES (March 21-April 19) A study published in the peer-reviewed Communications Research suggests that only 28 percent of us realize when someone is flirting with us. I hope that figure won’t apply to you Aries in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological situation, you will be on the receiving end of more invitations, inquiries, and allurements than usual. The percentage of these that might be worth responding to will also be higher than normal. Not all of them will be obvious, however. So be extra vigilant.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Has your world become at least 20 percent larger since September 1? Has your generosity grown to near-heroic proportions? Have your eyes beheld healing sights that were previously invisible to you? Have you lost at least two of your excuses for tolerating scrawny expectations? Are you awash in the desire to grant forgiveness and amnesty? If you can’t answer yes to at least two of those questions, Aquarius, it means you’re not fully in harmony with your best possible destiny. So get to work! Attune yourself to the cosmic tendencies! And if you are indeed reaping the benefits I mentioned, congratulations—and prepare for even further expansions and liberations.
these glories, and keep adding new items to the list every day. Here’s another way to celebrate the Golden Age: Discover and explore previously unknown sources of joy and excitement.
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