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The untold effects of domestic violence on a small Western town.
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VOLUME 14 | ISSUE 41 | OCTOBER 19-25, 2016
11 COVER STORY IT HAPPENS HERE The untold effects of domestic violence on a small Western town.
Cover illustration by Josh Scheuerman
6-10 THE BUZZ
22 GET OUT
16 MUSIC BOX
23 FOODIE FILES
18 CREATIVE PEAKS
28 COSMIC CAFE
19 WELL, THAT...
30 SATIRE
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October 19-25, 2016 By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey By late October, dustings of snow become more common in the valley than rain. This is the time of year when we begin the often slow transition to winter. With those marvelous exceptions when late October produces an exceptionally late stretch of Indian summer-type weather. In more recent times, it was this week in 2003 that broke some records that went above and beyond Indian Summer and took us all the way back to Summer-like temperatures. Read on.
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Average low temperatures this week are already down into the lower 20s. That seems cold enough to prepare us for the month’s ahead, right now. Yes, some mornings will be warmer than that, but brace yourself, as some days may be colder. Coldest temperature ever recorded here in Jackson during this week is three degrees. That has occurred twice, once on October 20th, 1987 and again on October 24th, 1995.
Average high temperatures this week are in the mid-50s. Do not be surprised by days with highs in the 30s or 40s. That can be more common by late October when colder storms roll through. As mentioned, we had an exceptionally warm late October in 2003. Between October 18th and October 23rd, a new record high temperature was established for each of those days. Everyday topped 70 degrees in town, the warmest of those reached 75 degrees, on the 18th & 19th, as well as the 22nd & 23rd.
NORMAL HIGH 56 NORMAL LOW 22 RECORD HIGH IN 2003 75 RECORD LOW IN 1995 3
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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FROM OUR READERS Grey Panthers Beware
The Jackson Police Department is profiling us. Consider this: would you rather nab an ISIS terrorist or a doddering senior? It’s a no brainer, but seniors are easy pickings. I was happily riding my bicycle down Snow King Avenue while thinking: “Wow, I rock! I’m getting exercise, I’m not polluting, and I’m not adding to the traffic problem,” when my reverie was interrupted by a red strobe light circling behind me. I thought, “Huh, wonder who that policeman is after?” and kept riding. The strobe light kept circling so I glanced behind me and was motioned to pull over. Long and short of it was that I didn’t come to a full stop at a stop sign and was given a ticket for $120. So I went to municipal court. And to paraphrase Arlo Guthrie, there were two things the judge could’ve done. First, she could have given me a medal for bein’ so honest because I pled guilty, or two, bawled me out and told me never to run a stop sign again. The judge began by saying I could be charged $750, at which point I got a bit disorderly, and $120 started sounding good. So she cut me a deal: traffic school. I did get “my day in court,” and spouted off about my fellow bike riders (mostly buff 20- or 30- somethings), who are a lawless, reckless lot, and break laws with gay abandon. But I had to go back to pondering why the police picked on me… a little, old lady. It all became clear in traffic school. I was certain I would be the only one with my particular problem but no, sitting right next to me was a white haired gentleman who got nabbed for the same thing. And that was my “aha” moment…The police are profiling bike-riding seniors. To add insult to injury, the fellow who ran a stop sign in a car was only going to be charged $110… because he had his seat belt on. And so there you have it: Two counts of discrimination…one against seniors and one against seniors on bikes who are not wearing seat belts. Profiling, plain and simple. So here’s my work-around: Start driving a Hummer, wear a wig and you may look like an ISIS terrorist. Then the police won’t even look at you. They’ll be too busy stopping and frisking the real scourge of this society: us lawless seniors.
- Sue Morgan, Jackson
Equally Evil
As an Independent I agree with Ana Cuprill and Bruce Palmer of Wyoming’s Democratic Party about Donald Trump (“From Our Readers,” October 12). I also agree Wyoming conservatives need to have courage and backbone to renounce Trump and his bullying, hateful rhetoric. But let’s compare Trump and Hillary Clinton on several issues referenced by Cuprill and Palmer. Cuprill and Palmer stated that Trump’s comments about grabbing women by the genitals is indicative of behavior that is criminal. Emails from Clinton’s Department of State (DOS) staff have indicated access to Clinton was fast tracked for those who gave substantially to the Clinton Foundation. Essentially selling access to the Secretary of the United States to the highest bidder. Emails from
Clinton’s DOS staff indicate that Friends of Bill (FOB) were given priority to assist Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Those that were not FOB were sent to a generic government website. To put organizations that were FOB ahead of others would put them first in line to secure lucrative government contracts. That is indicative of corrupt behavior that is criminal. Cuprill and Palmer also noted Trump’s behavior, lying, and unwillingness to take responsibility for his actions. As First Lady, Hillary campaigned to help President Bill Clinton pass NAFTA and has praised NAFTA throughout her career. Now she claims she was the only person in Bill Clinton’s administration that was against NAFTA and always has been. She called TPP the gold standard of free trade treaties. Now she claims she has always been against it and never called it the gold standard. She claims she came under sniper fire at the airport in Bosnia and ran from the airplane to secure vehicles. Videos show Clinton casually strolling on the airport tarmac being greeted by a multitude of people. Clinton has continuously lied about her State Department emails. She even claimed FBI Director Comey confirmed that she had always been truthful to the American public. He said no such thing. She insinuated that she set up her private email server on the advice of Colin Powell. He refuted this assertion. When confronted with evidence that contradict these claims and others, she refuses to acknowledge she’s been caught in a lie and keeps dancing around the truth. Cuprill and Palmer praise Republican leaders that disown Trump and express disappointment in those that still support him. Yet they show no disappointment in Democratic leaders that still support Clinton despite her exposed faults. The refusal to acknowledge Clinton’s flaws reminds me of the loyal followers to David Koresh in Waco and to Jim Jones in Guyana. Yes, Wyoming conservatives need to have the courage and backbone to renounce Trump, but liberals also need to have courage and develop a backbone to renounce Clinton. Both have told lies, are untrustworthy, dishonest, unethical, and possibly have committed crimes.
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THE BUZZ Fried and Retried District 2 land regs are repackaged sans short-term rentals after referendum repeal. BY JAKE NICHOLS
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he town council voted 4-1 Monday to move forward with new land development regulations for District 2 of Jackson’s downtown core by stripping out what officials felt was the most contentious aspect of the ordinances repealed by a referendum vote on September 20. Councilors debated the issue at a special afternoon workshop and eventually ratified their decision late Monday night at their regular meeting. Councilman Don Frank was the sole dissenting voice. Three options were presented by town planning staff. They included a return to previous regs (Option 1), consideration of readopted regulations with a removal of the 100,000 square feet of short-term rental workforce housing incentive (Option 2), or a complete overhaul of the district’s LDRs (Option 3). Hailey Morton Levinson said Option 2 presented the most practical solution given that the council had worked on the district regulations for many years. “I think there are a lot of good things in the ordinances that should be moved forward, and removing this one item that seems to be the sticking point is how to move that forward in my mind,” Morton Levinson said. Jim Stanford held to his pledge that, win or lose with the referendum vote, he would try to “bring the process to an expedient close.” He said he too has some reservations about building height, setbacks, and landscaping allowances inherent in the D2 LDRs, but in the spirit of compromise he was still committed to conceding some of these personal views in order to get something on the books. “We’ve moved to a stage now where I think the majority of the public would be comfortable if we simply removed the short-term rental provision,” Stanford said. Bob Lenz wasn’t sure short-term rentals were the only stumbling block in the repealed ordinances. He was adamant, however, that District 2 regulations should be passed by the end of the year. “It’s unfair to drop it into the middle of a new council,” he said. Lenz leaned toward Option 3 at the afternoon session but ultimately voted with the majority to simply strip out the short-term rental bonus. Don Frank held firm to his belief that a total overhaul (Option 3) was in order; since the referendum struck down ordinances in their entirety, he wanted to go back to the drawing board with the LDRs. The councilman also took the opportunity to again delve into the vote that repealed the ordinances the council was tasked to replace. “I did meet with some folks about this petition last week. That was not a secret meeting, but it sure was a meeting with a lobbying group,” Frank said. “How many of the signers and how many of the voters have actually followed these proceedings, have read the ordinances and understand them in context? I don’t know how you can say that a minority 189 voters are actually an impartial and well-informed electorate? I’d argue that they were provoked emotionally to be afraid of something they didn’t understand.” Mayor Sara Flitner stressed that protecting
To the (ostensible) delight of citizens who voted ‘no’ in the special September 20 referendum election, town council removed the potential for short-term rentals in the downtown’s core during its Monday meeting. neighborhoods and community character were the highest priority for town leaders. “I lean toward Option 2 in the spirit of the values I have talked about for 20 months—collaboration, compromise—and the fact that not a single one of us has a crystal ball. We can argue all day long about what people think, whether or not those who voted were fully informed. The fact is we elect people to serve the public interest, to take public comment and listen respectfully, and to make decisions we hope are in the best interests of the majority.”
The public speaks out Brenda Wiley asked the council to consider increasing the ratio of workforce housing mitigation from 2 to 1 to something more like 3 to 1, or even 4 to 1, to ensure enough housing gets built. Currently, without the new LDRs taking effect, the mitigation rate remains at 25 percent—meaning developers must dedicate a fourth of what they intend to build to affordable housing. Holland & Hart attorney Matt Kim-Miller, who has taken up cases recently on behalf of property owners/developers David Quinn, Jamie Mackay, and Jerry Lundquist, urged the council to get something on the books soon on behalf of the Teton Brewing Company looking to move forward with a project on East Snow King. “Our request would be for the council to speed along adoption of the District 2 regulations as quickly as possible. Along with this client we have other clients who do have capital at the ready, do want to make investments and the delays do affect their ability to do that,” KimMiller said. Armond Acri [of Save Historic JH], speaking as a town resident, recommended Option 1 to the council. “I know that probably isn’t what you want to hear … but the short-term rentals were the obvious [objection]. My concern is there are other issues. You guys are surrounded
by one crowd that is asking for higher buildings and more stuff because they have something to benefit from. I rub in a different crowd that has other concerns. In my view, what happened in the referendum is there are a significant number of people that are unhappy as a whole with the direction we went,” Acri said. “But I think we need to be aware of what made people vote the way they did and understand what it was about the regulations that they were unhappy with.” Town council hopeful Judd Grossman also suggested town leaders take into account there may be something more than just the short-term housing that was the sticking point with the majority of voters on September 20. He referred specifically to his concern about 1,200 unrestricted units that he said would be required in order to produce 1,000 deed-restricted units. He also pressed the electeds to wait until a new council was seated next year to move forward with D2 LDRs. “If we have a cap of 2,200 units or so that we can move into downtown, do we really want 1,200 of them to be unrestricted,” he asked.
Moment of decision
“What do you think, guys, do we want to continue these or try to get through a discussion?” Flitner asked her peers as Monday night’s meeting approached the 225-minute mark. With little fanfare, a visibly beleaguered council voted to retry District 2 ordinances with the removal of the 100,000 square feet of short-term rental allowance. Frank was the sole dissenting vote. PJH
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GENERAL ELECTION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 , 2016
The County Clerk’s office would like to remind you that the polling sites have changed this year. There will be six locations open on Election Day, and you may vote at ANY one of those locations, regardless of where you live in Teton County. All Vote Centers will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Election Day.
If these locations are not convenient, you may also vote at the absentee polling site in the County Administration Building, at 200 s. Willow St., Jackson, Wyoming, or request that a ballot be sent to you. All absentee ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on November 8th. The absentee polling site will not be open on Election Day for voting.
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THE BUZZ 2 Legacy of Action Taking a deep dive into Election Day numbers, and exploring the politically engaged history of Jackson, Teton County and Wyoming. BY JAKE NICHOLS
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f the heavy turnout for August’s primary in Teton County is any indication, the general election should flirt with record-setting numbers on November 8. Nearly half of all registered voters showed up to the polls on August 16—49.3 percent—for a primary that featured contested races at the town, county and state level. A SPET initiative to fund work on the Budge Drive landslide also may have pushed citizens to cast their ballots. The turnout was surprising to some, but Teton County has a robust track record of involvement when it comes to voting in either the primary or general election, especially in presidential years. A quick look at the numbers shows almost every single registered voter casts a ballot in the general election during presidential years. In 2000 and 2004, the numbers were more than 100 percent. (State statute allows voters to register at the polls on Election Day, which can result in a more than 100 percent turnout.) In 2008, 97 percent of voters visited the polls. Last election the numbers hovered around 96 percent. In non-presidential elections, the turnout historically hovers around an attendance of two-thirds of registered. By comparison, statewide, an average of 88 percent of all registered voters have cast their vote every November since 2000.A whopping 51 percent traditionally make it to the primary polls in Wyoming. Still, Wyoming is considered only average when it comes to getting out the vote. The state currently ranks 29th for the percent of voting age citizens who vote, according to data compiled in 2014 by 24/7 Wall Street. The nearly 50 percent that showed up in August in Teton County was better than years past. Between the years of 2000 and 2014, voter turnout in the primaries averaged around 40 percent. It was the highest in 2010 at 46 percent and the lowest in 2012 at just 30 percent.
Why so blue? What factors energized voters to get engaged? Some point to the resurgence of the Democratic Party, which energized young voters in record numbers. Bernie Sanders inspired a litany of new Dems in Teton County. Registered Democrats in the county soared from 3,332 on January 1, 2016 to 4,080 for the primary, and by the latest count, on October 1, 2016, that number is now 4,531. “I don’t think you can say things are trending strongly toward Democrats. It may be a blip just this year. These things tend to move slowly,” said longtime Democratic Party activist Joe Albright. “I might speculate that Independents are now choosing sides. If anything it shows there are some very ‘soft’ Republicans in the county. I would also point out one thing we’ve always known is people in our county like to vote in the primary where there is a contested race. So they will switch party affiliations in order to vote for or against, for instance, Liz Cheney. And sometimes they forget to switch back.” Albright added that Republican Party dissention over Donald Trump may have caused some voters to jump ship. “I mean, they didn’t come up with a replacement for Ruth Ann [Petroff]. They’ve never done that before. But they did
manage to pull it together to field county commissioner candidates,” he said. Democratic gains do not appear to be coming at the expense of Independents. While registered Independents have declined from last year to this year (3,132 in 2015 compared to 2,016 currently) the number of unaffiliated voters has increased even while Dems and Republicans have added to their ranks since the start of this year. The new wave of so-called “latte liberals” is evidenced beyond Teton County. Throughout the West, Democrats are making strong gains in many states once considered staunchly Republican—a trend that began even before Barrack Obama’s first election in 2008, according to Pew Research data. Republicans also saw gains—4,693 were registered at the beginning of the year. That number grew to 4,888 by August 16, 2016, and the latest data shows the GOP with 5,159 registered voters in the county. Long considered a “blue” county within a “red” state, Teton County, along with college-centric Laramie County, are two safe havens for liberals in Wyoming. Still, neither county has had more registered Democrats than Republicans in the modern era. Numbers were fairly even in 60s—Wyoming last voted a Democrat for president in 1964—but since then elephants outnumber donkeys 3 to 1 in the Cowboy State. Teton County’s D:R ratio is the closest it’s been in decades. What makes “22” even more unique is its independent streak. No county in the state has consistently registered more unaffiliated voters than Teton. Customarily one in five registered voters in Teton County claim no party allegiance. Currently, 2,160 are registered as Independents. Capturing this “swing” vote has always been key to victory for candidates in local races—even those gunning for nonpartisan seats. GOP state committeewoman Lisa daCosta said Independents have always represented the county’s coveted swing vote. “We’ve been watching this for years. Republicans have represented less than 50 percent of the voters for more than 10 years now,” daCosta said. “It’s always been about the Is. Many of them will declare either D or R for primaries just so they can participate in that election, but will wait until election day to declare they are switching back to Independent. So we won’t really know until after November where these numbers are coming from or what they mean.” Despite strong support for the Democratic platform in parts of the state, it’s still not easy to be blue in Wyoming. Of the state’s 90 legislators, 77 are Republican. The current governor, both U.S. senators, and the lone U.S. congresswoman are all Republican. Aimee Van Cleave is the executive director of the Wyoming Democratic Party. She told CNN in April: “I’d say the biggest challenge is making people believe that we have a chance.” Wyomingites prefer their lawmakers bleed red, but the state has a surprisingly healthy appetite for Dem governors. Since 1890, 20 Republicans have ruled the Equality State, compared to 12 Democratic governors from statehood to present.
Suffragette city Wyoming’s proud culture of recognizing women is deservedly earned. The state was the first to grant women the right to vote and first to elect a woman governor. Even before Wyoming was a state, John Allen Campbell, governor of the territory, approved the first law in the U.S. granting women the right to vote despite objections from DC diplomats. On November 5, 1889, voters approved the first constitution in the world granting full voting rights to women. Some historians challenge the motive behind the equality efforts. A pioneer Wyoming needed to attract the fairer
On the verge of a ‘petticoat rule,’ the Jackson’s Hole Courier noted the movement a month before the historic election on May, 11, 1920.
sex out West. Nonetheless, the Equality State has consistently championed a women’s right to vote and run for office. Nellie Tayloe Ross-D became the first woman governor in U.S. history when she stepped in for her late husband, William Bradford Ross, in 1925. Perhaps nowhere is the state’s fem persuasion more evident than in Jackson, where an all woman slate was elected to run the town in 1920. And it was more than a fluke. Grace Miller was elected mayor, along with council members Rose Crabtree, Mae Deloney, Genevieve Van Vleck, and Faustina Haight. Miller beat out Fred Lovejoy, 56 to 28; Crabtree and Deloney snatched 50 and 49 votes, respectively, for the two-term seats on the council—besting William Mercill (34 votes) and Henry Crabtree (31 votes). Van Vleck pulled down 53 votes with Haight’s 51. That was better than Maurice Williams, 31, and T.H. Baxter, 28. The vote for Jackson’s mayor and town council was held in May back then. An April 22, 1920 edition of the Jackson’s Hole Courier set the stage. “A fair sized crowd, which seemed inclined to favor the fairer sex, was witnessed at the caucus meeting,” the paper stated. “But there were some citizens present who, evidently, seemed to think that just for friendly competition there should be a competitive ticket, so another caucus was held, a few minutes later, and the following ticket elected: [Lovejoy, Mercill, Crabtree, Williams and Baxter]. With these two tickets in the field, the voters of Jackson have a chance to demonstrate their belief in or opposition to women suffrage, and their faith in women’s ability to hold and execute political positions.” The national Women’s Suffrage movement perhaps influenced voters, but the Courier speculated that Jackson voters sensed the uniqueness of what they were about to accomplish. “Their complete victory surprised even the women themselves,” the Courier reported on May 13, two days after the vote. “The election was void of all excitement and personal animosity. No unusual amount of ‘campaigning’ was done by either ticket. No special issue was at stake. Turnout was neither light nor heavy. It is thot (sic) the novelty of being the first city on record to be governed entirely by women helped the women to score such a complete victory.” Reaction was immediate and nationwide. In an address delivered on May 15 by then-Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge—who would go on to win the presidential election in 1923—the dry-witted statesman said, “The citizens of Jackson showed rare good sense in electing women to all town offices.” Officials of the National Women’s Suffrage movement wrote the town asking for pictures and statements, as did Marion T. Colley, editor in charge of the Women’s department of the New York Evening Post. Proving it more than novelty, Miller and one-year incumbents Van Vleck and Haight, were easily re-elected in 1921. PJH
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John Weigel and Olaf Danielson are engaged in a frenzied battle of “extreme birdwatching,” each hoping to close out 2016 as the new North American champ of the American Birding Association, and a September Smithsonian piece had Weigel ahead, 763 to 759. Danielson is perhaps better known for doing much of his birding in the nude (and is the author of the provocatively titled volume, “Boobies, Peckers and Tits”—all common names of popular birds). The old one-year record was 749, and the association attributes the larger numbers this year to El Nino, which has disrupted food supplies and driven birds into different locations.
Fine Points of the Law
Compelling Explanation: Senate bill 1342, passed in the Idaho legislature earlier in 2016, authorizes schools to use the Bible as a reference in classrooms (despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s having specifically condemned a previous version of the bill ever since 1964). The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Sage Dixon, said he thought his law was nonetheless constitutional because, “The little Supreme Court in my head says this is OK.” (Even so, Gov. C.L. Otter vetoed the bill.) n Nebraska voters in November will be asked whether to keep the state’s longstanding death penalty for murder—even though retaining it will require them to vote “repeal.” The legislature replaced death row last year with mandatory life sentences, and the referendum is to “repeal” or “retain” that legislation. Hence, to abolish the death penalty, voters must select “retain.” The state attorney general, and election officials, declined to challenge the confusing arrangement, instead suggesting that Nebraskans are smart enough to figure the whole thing out.
Fun With Pennies
Robert Napolitan, 34, was arrested in Taylor, Pennsylvania, in September and charged with theft of a drum containing 300,000 pennies from his employer, Pyne Freight Lines. That steel drum weighs several tons and, of course, netted Napolitan only $3,000. (By contrast, in New York City’s Diamond District in September, a brazen thief made off with a 5-gallon drum containing 86 pounds of something else—gold flakes, valued at more than $1 million—and is still at large.) Carolina, TV report, Larry Hall of Randolph County took seven-plus weeks out of his life recently and glued pennies to cover (except for windows and chrome) his 2000 Chevrolet Blazer (a total of 51,300 coins). The 1,496-page German novel “Bottom’s Dream,” translated into (broken) English, more than twice
Bright Ideas
While other vehicle safety-control engineers work on actually slowing down cars and buses when a risk is detected on the road ahead, one of Volvo’s recent innovations appears aimed merely at bullying pedestrians to get out of the way. According to a September report on Treehugger.com, the safety “control” for a Volvo bus consists of progressively louder horn-honking to scare off the pedestrian.
Simple As That
British farmer Pip Simpson, who lost nearly 300 sheep to rustlers in recent years, recently sprayed his remaining herd of almost 800 sheep a bright luminous orange (harmless, he said, though the sheep’s opinions are unknown) to make them less attractive to thieves. n Saudi Arabia switched to the 365-day Gregorian
calendar on Oct. 2, in part to reduce government expenses. Bureaucrats had been using the Islamic lunar Hijri (354- day) calendar, but now must work a 3 percent longer year for the same salaries.
Latest Religious Messages
In 2014, British entrepreneur Azad Chaiwala, 33, created the matchmaking service Second Wife— because, just as men have trouble finding that special person, some Mormons, Muslims and others have at least as much trouble finding that special additional person. (Most clients, he said, are in the United States and the United Kingdom, though bigamy is illegal in both places.) The service was so successful that Chaiwala this year inaugurated Polygamy.com, which he adamantly defended as a moral alternative to adultery and one-night-stand services such as Tinder.
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Police Report
The long-rap-sheeted Darren Clinton, 48, was in the process, according to Minneapolis police, of burglarizing a hotel room in September when an occupant returned and surprised him. Clinton, wielding a knife, escaped momentarily, but the occupant summoned his nearby roommates—the visiting University of Arizona men’s cross-country team—and after a chase, which included jumping several barriers, the runners steered a severely winded Clinton into the arms of a state trooper. n Kerry Johnson, 52, was arrested in August in Charleston, West Virginia, and charged with robbing a City National Bank branch. Police said Johnson had been gambling at the Mardi Gras Casino in nearby Nitro when he ran out of money at the blackjack table. (He left a $25 chip to preserve his spot, excused himself, went to the bank, and came back with more money.)
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as long as “War and Peace,” recently reached U.S. bookstores as a 13-pound behemoth, bound with a 14-inch spine that, based on a September Wall Street Journal description, will almost surely go unread. The story follows two translators and their teenage daughter over a single day as they try to interpret the works of Edgar Allen Poe, making for slow going for anyone not already conversant with Poe.
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n The Arizona legislature passed a child-molestation law recently that made any adult contact with children’s genitals a criminal act, but unlike in other states’ similar laws, neglected to include a requirement that the outlawed contact be for “sexual” purposes. Consequently, in principle, parents may be criminally liable, for example, for bathing a baby or changing its diaper. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in September that it is up to the legislature to change the law, but some lawmakers professed indifference, confident that district attorneys will use good judgment about whom to prosecute.
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THE BUZZ 3 Turned Away How alleged snafus in state databases are discouraging Latinos from voting. BY MEG DALY @MEGDALY1
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ome Latinos are facing hurdles at the voting booths in Teton County, which could impact local elections where margins are particularly slim. In an October 16 letter to Wyoming State Secretary Ed Murray, written on behalf of three U.S. citizens, Teton County resident Sharon Isabel Zumel alleged some registered Latino voters are being asked at the polls to prove their citizenship through multiple forms of identification. In Wyoming, a registered voter does not need to show an ID to vote. Zumel’s letter asserts that three Latino residents, two who were already registered voters and all of whom are naturalized U.S. citizens, were turned away from the voting booth and asked to bring in a second form of ID in addition to their driver’s licenses. “The most disconcerting consequence of this situation is that two of the three individuals who are qualified to and desired to vote did not do so in the August 2016 primary because of an additional burden of proof,” Zumel wrote. According to Teton County clerk Sherry Daigle, the problem arose because Wyoming’s voter laws are now based on identity, not on residency. “You used to be able to get a driver’s license in Wyoming without proving you are a citizen,” Daigle explained. The federal REAL ID Act of 2005 established new standards for state-issued driver’s licenses. Since that time, drivers must provide proof of their identity, birth date, legal status in the U.S., social security number and address of residence. However, the individuals Zumel wrote about had all either renewed or obtained their driver’s licenses since 2005. Why their names were on a list of people who needed to provide identification at the voting booth raises unanswered questions. In 2016, the Wyoming Department of Transportation updated its database of drivers registered in the state to align with new laws. Daigle estimated that 20 to 30 Teton County residents were identified by the state as having not yet proved their citizenship with WYDOT. The clerk’s office sent a letter to these residents notifying them that they would need to bring in a passport or other form of identification in addition to their driver’s license when it came time to vote. It’s possible, Daigle said, that some drivers may not have updated their license to show that they are citizens. “Some of those
folks had come in to the polls with Wyoming driver’s licenses, and WYDOT was saying they hadn’t yet proved citizenship with them,” Daigle said. “It upset a lot of people. But it was just a matter of WYDOT changing and updating their database.” Zumel, however, thinks the databases are not accurate because the voters in question are citizens. “I don’t understand the request to show verification again if citizenship information has already been captured, especially for individuals who have voted in past elections in Wyoming,” she said. In her letter to the secretary of state, Zumel noted: “The additional burden of proof is not being consistently asked of and required as a condition to vote by others who are qualified to vote.” In Wyoming, a state with a small population, outcomes of local elections might have margins as slim as 10 or fewer votes, Zumel said. “Anything that impedes qualified voters from registering and voting is significant and can ultimately affect the outcome of local elections,” she wrote. Zumel says she hopes Murray will inform the affected individuals of their eligibility to vote with enough time to vote in the November election. “Our office has received the letter in question and are preparing a response to the letter’s questions and its contents,” said Will Dinneen, public information officer for Wyoming Secretary of State. Local activists working with the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance have made a concerted effort to register Latino voters in Teton County. The Alliance’s voter registration campaign succeeded in registering dozens of Latino voters. According to the Alliance’s voter fellow, Maggie Shipley, being intimidated by the process of registering to vote has been the biggest hurdle for Latino voters. “There are a lot of Latinos who are eligible to vote but may not be registered,” she said. “It’s not as accessible if you’re not a native English speaker.” Housing activist and translator Jorge Moreno is one of several volunteer ambassadors for the Alliance’s #YoVotoPorMiFamilia campaign to register Latino voters. The campaign has registered at least 15 Latinos in Teton County. Among them is Moreno’s
sister, Elena Moreno. He says he was overcome with emotion watching Elena fill out the voter registration paperwork. “She told me I was more excited for her to vote than she was,” Moreno said. “It’s true, I was. I was imagining myself registering to vote.” Moreno is not a U.S. citizen and is unable to vote here, but that hasn’t dampened his passion for the cause. He noted that Mayor Sara Flitner won in 2014 by a margin of 40 votes. “I have my responsibility as a member of this community,” he said. “Voting is everybody’s responsibility. We can make a difference.” Political engagement, he noted, is new for Jackson’s Latino population. “Many never talked about this kind of political stuff at the local level. Now it is a topic of conversation at the dinner table. People are asking their kids what they want for their future.” The June Shelter JH rally was a turning point, Moreno said. The rally on the town square and subsequent attendance at a town council meeting marked a watershed moment when Jackson’s Latino community came out in force to talk about housing. “I think the desperation helped drive people to share their stories,” Moreno said. Affordable, stable rental housing is the number one issue for Latinos, according to Moreno. “We have no security of housing,” he said. “We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. We don’t know if a landlord will raise our rent 40 percent or put the property up for sale. We are given horrible rental contracts, or no contracts at all. There are no regulations to protect us.” In Teton County, Latinos make up 15 percent of the total population, according to the 2015 U.S. Census. If local demographics correspond to state demographics compiled by the Pew Research Center, Latinos comprise 7 percent of the total eligible voters in the county, or approximately 1,600 voters, a sizeable voting bloc. These numbers will soon rise as a crop of younger Teton County Latinos reach voting age, Moreno noted. “They want a place they can come back to after college. They love Jackson.” PJH
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HERE The untold effects of domestic violence on a small Western town. BY MELISSA THOMASMA
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those in same-sex relationships, the vast majority of victims are women abused by male partners. The stereotypical image of a battered woman is often depicted with black eyes and broken bones, but the truth of domestic violence is significantly more complex. Though it frequently does take the form of physical battery, it also assumes more insidious and manipulative forms. This complexity not only contributes to the difficulty many victims face in escaping abusive homes, but also ripples out to touch the rest of the community, sometimes in unexpected ways.
Some wounds can’t be seen An abusive person doesn’t
“The rural nature of Wyoming can signifcantly contribute to a victim’s isolation.” — Sharel Love
punch or kick on a first date; in fact, their behavior is frequently the opposite of violent. Often, they are quick to intensify a romantic relationship, flattering their partner with reassurances that nobody could possibly understand or love them in the same way. Frequently, as in Emmy’s case, they propose marriage after very little time. What seems like quick, consuming romance on the surface, however, can be sinister underneath. Many abusers go to great lengths to isolate their victims, both physically and emotionally, from their social and familial networks. “The rural nature of Wyoming can significantly contribute to a victim’s isolation,” said Sharel Love, executive director of Community Safety Network.
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Vast mileage between homes and communities can exacerbate a victim’s sense of isolation, and when she doesn’t encounter friends or family frequently, behavioral and emotional changes can go unnoticed. “When you’re in an abusive relationship and changing your behavior to manage your own safety, you often don’t see your own changes,” Sharel said. “If you aren’t interacting with a social circle often, there aren’t other people taking note and getting concerned.” Many women like Emmy move to the valley, leaving family and friends far behind. Without close friendships with individuals who notice changes or physical remnants of violence, or without nearby neighbors to overhear an incident and call for help, victims can feel entirely alone outside of their relationship. It didn’t take long for Emmy’s husband to start emotionally abusing and manipulating her. Within six months, she recalled, he was telling her what clothes to wear outside of the house. He would call her names, make demands on her behavior, tell her that she was fat and lazy. “Even though I worked up to six different jobs at one point, he would often berate me and tell me that since I didn’t work a ‘real job’ I wasn’t contributing,” Emmy remembered. “It made me feel so small. Like I needed him.” After an injury at work, his cruelty intensified. Emmy told herself that he was coping with trauma; he needed her unconditional love to fully recover. Instead, his anger turned towards her, and he began
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mmy* will never forget the day after she said, “I do.” Her excitement and dreams of married life ended abruptly when her new husband wrapped his hands around her neck. “You’re my wife now,” he hissed menacingly. “I expect dinner ready when I get home.” After leaving her family behind on the East Coast to pursue her passions for sports and the outdoors, after they had paid for a beautiful wedding celebration only hours before, she was mortified. She was too embarrassed to leave. As the months wore on, she didn’t tell many people about the way her husband called her names or made open threats of hurting her. The folks she did confide in expressed disbelief, or even scorn. “He wouldn’t do that,” said one friend. “People won’t believe you that he would do something like that.” So she hid the truth. It wasn’t hard to blame the bruises on her work as a rafting guide, or on a rough soccer game. “As an active person, it was easy to make up excuses,” Emmy said. On the river, on the field, or out with friends, she made sure that she seemed fine. But every night when she went home, she lived in fear. Across the nation, the single most dangerous place for women is their own home. Recent headlinegrabbing cases from the area demonstrate this: both Jennifer Nalley of Driggs, Idaho, and Dubois resident Laurie Thompson were gunned down by romantic partners in their homes. These murders illustrate the frightening and real potential of escalated domestic violence, as thousands more abusers continually terrorize and harm their victims every day. While domestic violence can and does happen to men and
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to threaten her in more frightening ways. “He would often talk about hurting other people or animals,” she said. “When people would walk their dogs past our house, he would watch them go by and talk about shooting the dogs in the head.” Emmy understood his comments were thinly veiled warnings aimed at her. “Do as I say, or else.” So she walked on eggshells to avoid triggering an outburst from her husband, modifying her behavior and tolerating his cruelty out of self-preservation. “People think that domestic violence has to be a black eye or being chased around with a baseball bat,” Emmy said. “But it’s not always like that. It can be as simple as repeating terrible things to someone to keep them down. Constantly hearing it is like being trained; you start to believe it.” Vicious name calling, belittling, veiled threats, isolating a partner from family and friends, controlling her bank accounts or credit cards: all are tactics frequently employed by abusers, and yet not a single one of them is against the law or leaves a bruise. But that doesn’t mean the damage isn’t significant.
Lasting consequences For victims of domestic abuse, living in a violent home is physically and emotionally detrimental. The Centers for Disease Control has identified dozens of chronic health conditions that victims are more likely to suffer. From diabetes and high blood pressure to chronic headaches and difficulty sleeping, the physical impacts of ongoing trauma are not yet fully understood, but health professionals widely recognize them as grave. Even after escaping an abusive home, over the course of her lifetime, a survivor of domestic violence is statistically more likely to visit healthcare providers at a higher frequency and have a greater number and longer duration of hospital stays than a non-victim. Dr. Jim Little Jr., a family practitioner in Jackson Hole, is no stranger to this phenomenon here in Jackson. “Though a complicated one, there is clearly a relationship between long-term exposure to a high-stress environment and impacts on a person’s metabolism, cortisol levels and other chronic and mental illnesses,” he said. Indeed, it’s not a difficult link to discern; the human body isn’t designed to live for extended periods in a heightened fight-or-flight state. Stress alone often contributes to victims’ self-medication. “Whether it’s pills or alcohol,” Little said, “victims abuse substances in an attempt to manage the pain and stress of the situation.” The CDC observes the same trend on a national scale: harmful coping behaviors like smoking, drinking and drug use are common among victims of domestic violence. Emmy, for one, can attest to this: “I started smoking cigarettes just to get through it. It calmed my nerves, and best of all, he hated when I smoked, so he’d tell me to go outside. That bought me 10 minutes of calm. Ten minutes away from him.” When you’re not in a safe environment, Little noted, it becomes difficult to take care of yourself. “Things like going to the gym, cooking healthy food and getting outside—those are luxuries that victims trapped in a violent home don’t always have access to,” he said.
When kids try to cope In a family, the serious physiological and
main target. Witnessing abuse alone can severely impact a child, but emerging evidence indicates a disturbing pattern. “Ten years ago, we thought that about 20 to 30 percent of children in homes with domestic violence were abused,” said Chris Moll, director of the Hirschfield Center for Children, a branch of Teton Youth and Family Services. “But now, we’re realizing that the number is much closer to 75 percent. In the vast majority of homes where partner abuse is occurring, child abuse is happening, too.” Moll is quick to point out that there is no “perfect picture” of a child who might be experiencing or witnessing violence at home. “Sometimes they’re the last kid you’d expect,” he said. “The fear they’re living with can manifest as desire for perfection, so they appear very high-achieving.” Others, however, show different symptoms. In social and classroom settings, they can be very disruptive, and act in a manner that Moll says is similar to the symptoms of ADD. “It’s really distracting to be worrying and focusing on your mom’s safety when you’re in a classroom. It’s burdensome on these kids to feel like they’re constantly keeping this huge family secret,” he said. As they grow older, children exposed to violence at home tend to abuse substances earlier, as well as engage in risky sexual behavior, Moll explained. “Boys especially are more likely to display delinquent behavior, and pregnancy rates for teenage girls exposed to domestic violence are significantly higher.” In other words, the consequences of violence at home don’t stop at the front door. They intersect and intertwine with other community issues, especially those that pertain to Jackson Hole’s youth. “If a parent is afraid for their life, they simply are not able to engage in critical bonding activities with their young children,” said CSN’s Love. The severe repercussions of domestic violence for children can have a silver lining, though. Love says that when victims realize the profound impact of abuse on their children, it can be the catalyst they need to leave once and for all. “When people think violence is only impacting them, they can justify martyring through it for the sake of their family. But when they really see and understand how it’s impacting their children, often they’ll have a lightbulb moment. It can be a real wakeup call.”
Why does she stay? It’s a question that many outside observers have
psychological impacts of long-term stress are by no means limited to the abuser’s
“In the vast majority of homes where partner abuse is occuring, child abuse is happening, too.” — Chris Moll
asked. Why would someone—intelligent, strong and kind—stay with a partner who emotionally and physically causes her harm? The answers are as complex and unique as the women in these situations, but some common themes emerge among victims. Some turn to their faith communities for guidance, and are sometimes met with little support or even hostility. Raised in a religious family, Emmy approached her pastor when she realized the situation with her husband was out of control. “He wouldn’t do that,” the pastor flatly told her. He’d known Emmy’s husband for years, and simply refused to believe that he was capable of violence. Emmy remembered: “He told me, ‘You shouldn’t come back here with stories like that.’” Dedication to ideals of family and community influence others’ decisions to stay as well. “Frequently, victims of domestic violence are some of the kindest and nicest people you will ever meet,” Love said. “From everything I’ve heard about Jennifer Nalley, she was a deeply nurturing person, frequently putting her own needs second to someone else’s.” Friends and teammates remember Nalley as loving and enthusiastic about an eclectic array of things; her energetic passion for roller derby, physics and music shines brightly in many people’s memories. Nalley had come to Teton Valley from Austin, Texas, a little less than a year ago to care for her aging grandparents, both in their 90s. Friends also recall the troubling nature of her relationship with Eric Ohlson of Jackson. Ohlson now faces charges for her murder. After disclosing to him that she was pregnant with his child, his emotionally abusive behavior escalated. The police affidavit indicates that Ohlson had a track record of verbally abusing Nalley, including sending her angry and aggressive text messages. While he denies any physical abuse, it’s difficult to know whether he had hurt her previously. The night of the incident, he claims, he had gone to Nalley’s home with a loaded gun with the intent of frightening her. The following morning, members of her family found her body with eight gunshot wounds. While some were aware that Nalley and Ohlson had a somewhat rocky relationship, many were shocked at the serious nature of the dynamic. How, they wondered, could someone so strong, brilliant and energetic fall
victim to such an awful fate in her own home? At the hands of someone who claimed to love her? Many women in abusive relationships genuinely love their partner, and believe that their kindness and compassion can help change their abuser. Moreover, they can be motivated by a desire to keep or build a family together. This becomes more complex for community members whose abusers are not in the United States legally, says Mary Erickson, executive director of One22. “Reporting domestic violence and involving law enforcement could lead to the abuser’s deportation. If a family depends on that person’s income to make ends meet, losing that income can be extremely problematic,” she said. Undocumented victims are also frequently hesitant to take legal action for fear of exposing their own immigration status, and this can lead to further isolation and a sense of being trapped in a violent home. Tracey Trefren is the coordinator of Teton County Victim Services. She noted that law enforcement in Teton County is dedicated to providing assistance to victims of crime no matter what the immigration status of the victim. “Local law enforcement does not report, investigate, or consider the documentation status of victims of crime,” she said. Hence, a victim’s immediate safety and that of their family supersedes their status as an undocumented immigrant. For all citizens, however, the housing crisis in Jackson heaps yet another unique challenge onto the plate of those seeking to flee an abusive relationship. With almost no affordable housing available in the valley, the prospect of heading out on one’s own can be financially daunting or even impossible. “Because housing options are so limited, people are afraid to leave a violent situation, and they just don’t
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Both Laurie Thompson (left) and Jennifer Nalley were gunned down in their homes by romantic partners. see any options,” Erickson said. “Those who are able to leave can find themselves in a really tough situation with a sense of ‘Now what?’ and ‘How do I survive?’ It’s not easy suddenly being a single mom.” Community Safety Network staffers recognize similar themes when it comes to victims needing a safe place after leaving an abusive relationship. CSN’s shelter provides emergency housing to both male and female victims and their children, offering a secure place to escape an abuser. Additionally, the organization has four transitional housing units— small apartments—that can provide longer-term housing for women and families working to get back on their feet. However, Love noted, these units have been filled since the day they opened. CSN is now building a fifth unit that will likely be occupied upon completion.
report experiencing violence at the hands of an intimate partner. Wyoming’s rate is well above this average at nearly 36 percent, while Idaho remains slightly below the national average at 29 percent. A startling number to recognize alongside this statistic is that Wyoming boasts the single highest number of guns per person in the nation. With just shy of 196 guns per thousand residents, Wyomingites easily dwarf the second place slot—the District of Columbia—with just 66 guns per thousand residents. Of course gun ownership by no means causes domestic violence, but it is a combination that warrants some reflection. In a state with above average rates of household violence, and overwhelmingly more access to firearms, early recognition of abusive relationships could help avert future scenarios like those that ended the promising lives of women like Jennifer Nalley.
Societal costs While it’s difficult to fully measure the toll that ‘I’m leaving…’ domestic violence takes on an individual or a family, One day, in a violent rage, Emmy’s husband tried to it’s important to recognize that it comes with a cost for the community at large. From medical and counseling costs, to missed work and school, diminished productivity and legal costs, domestic violence also hits the community’s wallet. The CDC estimated in 2003 that domestic violence cost the nation $8.3 billion dollars. There’s little doubt that the number has grown since then. Though it’s impossible to put a precise dollar amount on how much Teton County or the state of Wyoming has spent over the past year, it’s in the millions. According to the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), there were 2,513 reported cases of domestic violence across the state in 2015: one every four hours. Given how many victims don’t report abuse, or suffer victimization like name calling or psychological abuse that doesn’t rise to the level of criminal offense, this number is a gross underrepresentation of the issue. The most recent estimate from the CDC’s report is that Wyoming’s annual number of victims is around 52,000. Based on that count, the Equality State spends more than 12 million dollars annually on the aftermath of relationship violence. Nationally, approximately 30 percent of women
break a glass on her head. When he failed, he instead shattered it on the ground. “I can’t really put my finger on why,” she said, “but that was the moment for me. I shoved past him, and told him I was leaving.” He fumed in the doorway and told her that if she left, she had better not come back. So she didn’t. With the help of friends and the support of family, Emmy divorced her abusive husband and started over. Eight years later, she’s happily remarried, with two children. She says the violent history she endured with her ex-husband has offered her perspective on parenting. “I’m very cognizant of how I speak to them and treat them,” she said. “I make every effort to let them know that they’re smart, strong and capable. I never want them to let a partner make them feel worthless.” Experts interviewed for this story all hold the similar belief that, no matter how trapped a victim might feel in Jackson Hole, whether because of finances, housing uncertainty, language barriers, documentation concerns or any number of factors, there is hope, and there is safety. But the first step is seeking help, admitting there is a problem. It’s also important to remember, for victims and
their friends and family, that there is no single profile of a domestic violence victim, especially in Jackson Hole. “We are unique in that we have a higher level of people who are super wealthy, and many assume that domestic violence doesn’t affect them,” Little noted. “That assumption can multiply the stigma and associated guilt, especially if they’re highly successful individuals. It can be even harder for them to reach out.” Love agrees. “We live in a community that has so many highly capable, intelligent and athletically excellent individuals. Jennifer Nalley was a great example of that—to an outside observer, she appeared to be the last person anyone would expect to be a victim.” Many times, these motivated, bright women see themselves as providers and supporters to others in their lives and communities. This can make it difficult for them to recognize and accept that they are in need of help. That’s where friends and family come in. “The biggest thing for us as a community is to be aware and prepared to offer assistance,” Little said. Getting help, Love added, “doesn’t take a lot of steps, but it does take more than one. Moral support is a critical element for most people. Someone who can listen, believe them and support them in their decisions is key.” Ultimately, no demographic remains unaffected by domestic violence. It happens in Jackson Hole every day. The resounding conclusion from professionals here is this: regardless of background, education level, socioeconomic status or ethnicity, it can happen to anyone. So, in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month, do more than acknowledge it exists; understand that this isn’t just something that happens elsewhere. Learn more about the resources available locally. Most importantly, make it clear to folks you know, that should they need a safe person to reach out to, you will believe them. PJH *The person’s name has been changed.
THIS WEEK: October 19-25, 2016
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20
n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Jackson Community Blood Drive 8:00am, Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church, Free, 800-365-4450 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 Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free, n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 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 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 Funding Conservation: Insights from Foundation and Philanthropy Advisors 5:30pm, St. John’s Church Hansen Hall, Free, 307-7336856 n Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Board Room of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Bacchus & Brushes 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00, 307733-6379 n Sculptural Flameworking: Bugs and Animals 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $110.00, 307733-6379 n League of Women Voters Candidate Forums 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Glaze like a Pro 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $84.00, 307733-6379 n Sustainability Series: Diana Madson with The Mountain Pact 6:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 303-483-8207 n JH Community Band Rehearsal 7:00pm, Center for the Arts Performing Arts Wing, Free, 307-200-9463 n Major Zepher 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Tom Bennett One Man Band 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398
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n Selfie! Performance for Video 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $195.00 - $235.00, 307-7336379 n Film Showing: Providence 6:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $15.00, 307-733-1500 n Ballroom Dancing Workshop 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $75.00, 307-733-6398 n Climate Change Impacts on GTNP & GY Area 6:30pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-7335771 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic 8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939
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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, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Grant Writing Workshop 8:30am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, $20.00, 307-739-1026 n Storytime 10:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 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, 208-787-2201 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Jackson Community Blood Drive 12:30pm, Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church, Free, 800-365-4450 n Open Build 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-354-5522 n Innovate - USGBC WY Biennial Conference 2016 5:00pm, Hotel Terra, $100.00 - $140.00, n QuickBooks Club 5:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $40.00 - $140.00, 307-7337425 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n League of Women Voters Candidate Forums 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Introductory, Conversational Spanish 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $110.00, 307-733-7425
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aramie singer-songwriter J Shogren has solidified his brand of “catawampus American music” with the release of his fifth full-length album in the last decade, Why So Blue, Bird? This is in addition to his success as an environmental economist. Shogren was lead author of the Nobel Peace prize winning Intergovernmental
An intimate night with dynamic folk singer-songwriter J Shogren happens Wednesday at Songwriter’s Alley. Panel on Climate Change. He also served a year as the “King’s economist” in Sweden, and has been a professor at University of Wyoming since 1995 before stints at Yale, Appalachian State and Iowa State. But Shogren’s easy, approachable demeanor means you’d never sense his bigwig status in academia, unless you pressed the tall Minnesotan. Having spent two WYOmericana Caravan Tours with Shogren and his bandmates, I’ve gotten to intimately know his singular sound. Whether solo, duo or with a larger ensemble, Shogren is like the distant, Wyoming-born cousin of quirky songster Bonnie Prince Billy. With the release of Why So Blue, Bird?, there’s a sophisticated accessibility that pushes beyond his past releases. Tunes like “Works,” “Audubon’s Birds of America” and “Swampland” (the current single) are warm, dark rockers rooted in folk storytelling, yet with auxiliary arrangement dynamics that really draw the listener into the mood of the story. The studio band is great, which includes longtime
collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Jascha Herdt, and the songs are often epics. With 18 tracks to peruse including interludes, the set is a bang for your buck. Shogren will perform a solo set at Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic, which also opens the stage to the public via a sign-up-and-play format. The weekly event features swing jazz/blues trio The Minor Keys on Oct. 26. After a hiatus in November, Songwiter’s Alley returns for the winter season on a new day with a new format. Beginning in December or January, the event falls on the first “locals Sunday” of every month with multiple acts. Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic featuring J. Shogren, 8 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, October 19 at the Silver Dollar, free. Musicians can sign-up to play a three-song set of cover songs or original music. worthotel.com
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WEDNESDAY Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic featuring J Shogren (Silver Dollar) THURSDAY Major Zephyr (Silver Dollar), Tom Bennett One Man Band (Town Square Tavern) FRIDAY Fists of Funk (Town Square Tavern), Gary Small (Silver Dollar) Joe Rudd delivers a blend of analog and digital sounds to The Rose’s late night scene on Saturday. maker, and Apple Logic expert are among the credits for Joe Rudd, who recently moved here from LA after growing up in Green River, Wyoming, and living in Salt Lake City. While in California, the 20-something worked with major artists and production companies 1500 and Nothin, which linked him to Justin Beiber, Stevie Wonder, and even Dennis Rodman. After running the circuit in LA including producing singers from The Voice and recording music for many other artists and working for Apple, he decided to come back to his native state and hone his own sound. With influences from Eddie Harris and Robert Glasper to Kaytranada and Frank Ocean, Rudd worked with Aquile (pop-soul contestant on The Voice) in the band Orbit, which was based in SLC and performed at the Mangy Moose several years ago. His role as band arranger and saxophonist eventually led him to LA where he established a network for his own Goldcone Productions, a music production company specializing in compositional scoring and producing. Upon moving to Hoback,
Rudd’s ambitious personality and recognizable talent has led him to collaborate as a sideman and studio engineer with many local acts including Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons, Canyon Kids and Screen Door Porch. “Jackson is full of super talented musicians and there are some really great singers,” Rudd replied when asked about his outside perspective looking in. “The scene is a bit divided but has unlimited potential.” As a solo act, Rudd utilizes beats, keys, sax and vocals to layer textures, culminating in a one-man dance machine that blends R&B, hip-hop, funk, and jazz—an ideal blend for the velvety walls and late night vibe of The Rose. Joe Rudd, 10:30 p.m. Saturday at The Rose, free. Pinkgartertheatre.com PJH Aaron Davis is a decade-long writer of Music Box, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.
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CREATIVE PEAKS Camo and Propaganda Provocative new work by Thomas Macker tackles wartime aesthetics. BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1
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rom mess tents to tanks to uniforms, camouflage is a ubiquitous staple of war. The U.S. Army regularly tests and upgrades its camo patterns to match the latest in technology as well as the various locations soldiers are deployed. Meanwhile the camo craze in civilian clothing dawns eternal, with everything from T-shirts to trucker hats emblazoned in army green and desert sand. But has camo ever received its fair share of artistic investigation? A new solo show by Jackson artist Thomas Macker seeks to redress the omission. Macker’s exhibit, entitled “Holdout,” runs through January 15, at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper. “Camouflage means embedding something into the environment,” Macker said. “With camo, we are disguising something, making it invisible. I wanted to look at the ways camouflage literally changes the landscape.” The exhibit spans two rooms and features several sculptures, paintings and prints, all involving complex materials and processes. The work draws upon references from war history as well as art history. In his artist statement, Macker notes, “Since World War I, artists like Paul Klee, Franz Marc and other expressionists, cubists and surrealists have worked as camofleurs [camouflage artists employed by the government].” Macker wants to explore if a foreign occupation with a strict palette and style affects the landscape. One possible answer to the question of how landscape is changed by war might be found in Macker’s sculpture, “Unflagging, Hiroo Onoda’s Motto on Loyalty,” a model of a Miyajima pine tree, a gift from Japan for the United States Bicentennial in 1976. The sculpture is made of five sheets of mirror-polished stainless steel held together by several titanium pipes. Macker carpeted the room entirely in a beige carpet padding, which from a distance looks like rough sand. The viewer can see herself in the mirrored layers of tree sculpture, and using a bit of imagination the viewer can allow only a leg or a hand, for example, to appear in the mirror, creating the effect of the rest of the body simply blending into the desert-like room. In addition to investigating camouflage, “Holdout” examines what Macker calls the
A piece by Thomas Macker that coalesces wartime propaganda of yesterday and high-tech warfare of today. “holdout” character, a hero who holds out during a time of war, perhaps as a prisoner, holding out for life. Macker references the real life “holdout” figure of Hiroo Oonda, a Japanese soldier who held out for 30 years in the Philippines, thinking he was doing espionage for his country, not comprehending that World War II had ended. Reality for Oonda was camouflaged by his all-encompassing sense of duty. When asked about his inspiration for the exhibit, Macker says he thought about his father who was in the Navy, and the generations of Americans for whom conscripted service was a fairly pedestrian experience. Nowadays, Macker argues, it’s less the norm for people to become soldiers. “When I was 18 and 20 years old, I was talking to people about my artwork, not getting ready to go to basic training,” he said. “I wasn’t telling my family goodbye before getting shipped off to fight an enemy in a foreign land.” The exhibit also draws upon the history of wartime propaganda—leaflets used during World War II designed to disturb the enemy psychologically. Artists are behind the psychological propaganda leaflets, Macker noted, which are then dropped en masse upon enemy populations. He noted that it’s unusual for an artist to make something that is intended to have one meaning all at once to a large number of people. “Artwork usually has multiple meanings and is a private experience,” he said. Macker says during the course of researching his subjects, he met a former propaganda maker who had defected from the armed services because he didn’t want to be part of psychological warfare; he found it too disturbing. Often the subject matter
of propaganda leaflets preyed upon young men’s sexuality, taunting them that their spouses were cheating on them or being raped by other men. The imagery and intent is often dark and pornographic, Macker noted, with exaggerated cartoony features that appear when held up to a light. Emulating propaganda leaflets not through subject matter so much as unique, high tech paintings that reveal a secret message when touched, Macker used thermal paint on a copper plate that turns into a kind of liquid in response to body heat. What looks like a black surface when touched becomes an image of, for instance, a saluting soldier with the words “I’m hurting inside.” Macker says the thermal paint allowed him to reference high-tech warfare of today. “Thermal imaging and infrared have affected how the figure appears or performs in the landscape. Seen from the air by drones, we are viewed only by our heat signature,” he said. He also created an oversized riff on a leaflet, with the shadowy outline of a nude woman’s body. It is the artist’s nod to “Nude Descending a Staircase,” an iconic 1912 modernist painting by Marcel Duchamp. By creating a body of work that brings camouflage from the background to the foreground of consciousness, and by examining the art history of artists during wartime, Macker has created an eerie, provocative experience. His exhibit enables the viewer to think about the visual and psychological impact of warfare.
An artist’s reception happens December 1 at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper. www.thenic.org PJH
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perhaps a card is revealed that says a hurricane has destroyed all hotels on the red, yellow and blue spaces. You continue the game with these new constructs and there’s no knowing what will happen by game three or even game 12. Because the thing about a legacy game is that there are pieces and cards hidden from the players that don’t come into play unless they’re called upon. So with a game like Seafall, the campaign of the full game lasts 15 individual games, and the glory you earn in one game is carried over to the next time you play. Sealed boxes inside the game possess new pieces, new cards, and even new rules; players must keep them sealed until the game tells you to open them. And the decisions you made in game two might come back to haunt you later on. It’s admittedly a strange and unfamiliar way to play a board game. Who would have thought that the heyday of board gaming would be in the 21st century when we’re so wrapped up in technological dependency? Board gaming gives us a chance to hang out with our friends without distractions or electronic involvement (although playing the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack during a game of Seafall might be fitting). A legacy game pushes that camaraderie one step further by offering you and your friends the ability to customize a board, name the characters, rip up cards, etc. The way your board gaming group plays a game like Seafall will be completely different than that of my friends and me. And how incredible is that? Seafall can be a bit technical in comparison to something like Settlers of Catan, but there are also two other legacy games that you could try. Risk: Legacy is just like the classic game of world domination, but, once again, the continents you attack in one game could rise up and wipe you out in the next. Pandemic: Legacy expands on the original game (which, if you haven’t played Pandemic you most certainly should), by offering up a globetrotting, yearlong horror tale of deadly diseases that are spreading at an alarming rate. As we enter the period of dreary weather and rattling teakettles, there couldn’t be a better time to get your friends together and geek out behind closed doors. PJH
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he silver province was one with a dismal past and an uncertain future. Seeing the connection to the Starks of “Game of Thrones,” I named the province Úlfur—the Icelandic word for wolf. After an unanticipated turn of events, Zhango, the former leader of Úlfur, was killed and a new leader had to take his place. Aomame, his wife, rose above the ranks and became the new leader of the province and countess of the empire. Seeking revenge for— “Dude, that’s kind of racist,” my friend Zach said, looking at the artwork of the Asian girl on my leader card. “What? Aomame. It’s Japanese,” I replied. “Still…” “My province is Icelandic-Japanese. They’re like Viking samurais. It works.” Zach, Chris and I sat around the table looking over the expansive spread of the new board game, Seafall. Each one of us controlled a province and two ships, and the goal of the game was to expand our provinces into the open sea, discover islands and resources, and ultimately earn enough glory to be crowned emperor. But unlike a regular board game, the players don’t start with a clean slate every time the game is unboxed. Instead, Seafall is what is known as a legacy game, which is a customizable board game that evolves each time you play it. Imagine ending a game of Monopoly after getting totally pummeled by your friend. You’re down to only $215, you’ve had to mortgage three properties, and for some reason you keep landing on your friend’s Park Place with a hotel. Normally you’d pack up the game and be done with it. The next time you play, everyone’s odds of winning are equal. But in a legacy game, you would start the next game with your $215 and three mortgages right off the bat. And
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CULTURE KLASH Mind Calisthenics Stimulating art and literature events this week. BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1
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t is beginning to be that cozy, crackling fire time of year when homey interests become the focus. What better treat than listening to a story on such evenings? On Thursday, gather at Elevated Grounds for warm beverages and settle in for readings from creative writing fellowship award winners. The Wyoming Arts Council awarded three Jackson residents its annual accolades. The statewide competition honors scribes based on a writer’s body of work, reflecting “serious and exceptional writing,” according to the WAC website. Stephen S. Lottridge won the creative nonfiction award. Lottridge is a former professor of Slavic languages and literatures and a retired clinical psychologist. Jackson audiences will recognize Lottridge from his frequent appearances in local theatrical productions. You also may have seen him tooling around town on his bicycle, commuting to one of the book groups he leads. Connie Wieneke won the award in poetry. Her work has been widely published in literary journals, and she is a previous recipient of a WAC fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her latest project is a collection of poems about her family in both the social context and the landscape of the West. When she is not writing or crunching numbers as a bookkeeper, Wieneke can
Cozy up with local literary luminaries on Thursday. Then explore your relationship to nature Friday at the opening of ‘Nature’s Nature.’ be found hiking, biking, teaching yoga, or tending her chickens. Michael Sudmeier took the award in fiction. His claims to fame include biking across the country more than once, guiding outdoor education backpacking trips, and teaching high school English to students on a Zuni reservation. He is working on his first novel. The Writer’s Fellowship Reading, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 20 at Elevated Grounds. elevatedgroundscoffeehouse.com
Art of the wild After a bucolic night of stories, a Friday evening art opening delves into the tension between raw wilderness and civilization. “Nature’s Nature: The Artwork of David Reif” features work by the Laramie-based Reif, whose abstract sculpture outside the Albany County Courthouse was nominated for a Wyoming State Historical Society fine arts award. He is a professor emeritus of art at the University of Wyoming and a former chair of the Wyoming Arts Council. Reif’s show at the Art Association references his lifelong interest in the liminal zones between nature and the built environment. He grew up in southern Ohio on the densely wooded outskirts of west Cincinnati. He says that from a young age, he imagined himself to be “in the midst of a slow, epic conflict” between the raw wilderness of North America and the encroaching development of industrialized civilization.” The show consists of selected pieces from various bodies of work he has created over the years, all exploring the theme: what is the nature of nature? “My work argues for the idea that nature is much more than mountains, sky, trees, grass and natural forms,” Reif explained. “Nature is also an internal, spiritual and
psychological thing. There is a landscape out there that we look out at with the retina of our eye, but there is an inner universe too.” Reif said his work challenges the boundaries between what is natural and unnatural. Unafraid to take a stand, he says it is imperative that humans start seeing themselves as part of nature, rather than being separate from it. “We need to think instead of ourselves as part of one fabric,” he said. “Nature’s Nature: The Artwork of David Reif” opening reception 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, October 21 at the Art Association gallery. artassociation.org
Call for artists
One of Jackson’s most coveted call for artists is out. The Center for the Arts is seeking proposals from individual artists or small artist teams for the Center’s Theater Gallery. Essentially a wide hallway, this gallery is well traveled by the well heeled and the barely sneakered, offering artists a unique opportunity to reach a wide array of viewers. Past shows in the Center’s program include Kathryn Mapes Turner, Pamela Gibson, Wendell Field and Mike Piggott, Steven Glass, Camille Davis, Alissa Davies, Susan Thulin, June Glasson, Suzanne Storer, Bailey Russel, and many more local and regional artists. Call is open from October 17 to November 22. All artists that reside in the Intermountain West are eligible to apply. This is a juried show, which makes it particularly prestigious. The jury will remain anonymous until announcement of 2017 Theater Gallery artists. For more information check jhcenterforthearts.org, or apply through callforentry.org. PJH
Demo Week at Dancers’ Workshop Starting Monday, October 24
Demo Week returns, offering a full week of free adult fitness and dance classes from October 24-29 at Dancers’ Workshop. Online registration begins 5 p.m. Friday, October 21. Advance registration online is recommended. You must show up for class 5 minutes prior to start time to ensure a spot. Sign up online or by using the Mindbody app.
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n NFL Sunday Football 11:00am, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307.353.2300 n Quilting 12:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00, 307-733-7425 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Open Mic 9:00pm, Pinky G’s Pizzeria, Free, 307-734-7465 n Hospitality Night - Happy Hour 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500
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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, 307-733-6398 n Demo Week at Dancers’ Workshop 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398
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n JHSC Annual Ski & Gear Swap 7:30am, Heritage Arena, Teton County Fairgrounds, $1.00 $10.00, 307-733-6433 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-7336398 n Wyoming Department of Workforce Services and Central Wyoming College Community Job Fair 9:00am, Center for the Arts Glenwood Lobby, Free, 307733-4091 n Meet, Make & Elevate 12:00pm, Elevated Grounds, Free, 804-380-6728 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Welding 101 - Weekend Workshop 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $100.00, 307733-6379 n Children’s Learning Center presents Dancing with the Jackson Hole Stars 2016 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $35.00 - $100.00, 307-7334900 n Gary Small and the Coyote Brothers 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-733-2190
n Candace Miller & Friends 9:00pm, Knotty Pine, 208787-2866 n WYOBASS 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Jameson Black Barrel Music Series presents: Joe Rudd 10:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500
n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Mediation Training 9:00am, UW Extension Office/4-H Building, $225.00, 307-733-3087 n Intermediate Throwing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $170.00 $204.00, 307-733-6379 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 Old Bill’s Awards Party 5:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-690-5284 n Film: Monumental presented by Powder Magazine 5:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $10.00, 307-733-1500 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Beginning Drawing Evening 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00, 307733-6379 n 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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Park Passport From Yellowstone to Grand Teton, a new film celebrates winter adventures in protected places. BY ELIZABETH KOUTRELAKOS @ekoutrelakos
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owder Magazine’s first feature film will pique the interest of people both in and outside of the snow sphere. Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks is a celebration not only of athleticism, but also how the human relationship to nature has deepened thanks to the nation’s protected lands. The movie illuminates a handful of these inspiring places, as skiers explore the most remote corners of the national parks. The film takes viewers through Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Teton, Glacier and Olympic national parks during one of the parks’ most quiet and peaceful seasons: winter. Local writer and explorer Tom Turiano notes in the film: “For me backcountry skiing is really the only place where life makes sense—you can pretty much go wherever
In the winter months, the national parks transform into more complex, mysterious and peaceful places. you want, but you have to choose the most efficient line and so there’s beauty in navigating through terrain.” Each segment features unique historical perspectives from different locals who are intimately acquainted with the parks. They discuss the first explorers of the land and describe the fragility of these wild places before they became protected areas. Athletes like Jackson locals Griffin Post and Max Hammer, and Lynsey Dyer, Colter Hinchliffe, Kalen Thorien, Greg Hill and Connery Lundin practice extreme navigation in these places, enduring the beautiful and simplistic difficulties of walking and living in the mountains—when you must carry everything you need on your back. The avid mountaineer will appreciate that filmmakers managed to depict actual ski-camping life, including the ever so glamorous bushwhacking and stream crossings. And while the savvy cold weather adventurer may discern a few classic descents, most of the ski lines will remain a mystery to the viewer. What also sets this ski film apart is the absence of a dramatized, play-by-play conquering of the mountains. Instead, the main theme is to celebrate the power of place. Post explained: “I think there’s an emotional connection about national parks in these amazing landscapes that have been set aside for future generations to enjoy. The final product is more of a tribute to these places than it just being
about skiing.” In the process, viewers bear witness to a balance of slight misery and skiing adventure and gratification. A scene with Lundin comes to mind, when he steps up the fun factor in picturesque Yellowstone with some aerial sensibilities. One other notable element of Monumental: It portrays an equal number of men and women in the wilderness. From athletes to interviewees to a pregnant videographer, this isn’t the obligatory ski film where a female skier or rider merely flashes across the screen. Each athlete is proportionately incorporated into the film with ease and flow. Aside from the talented skiers and fascinating historical context, the true highlights of the film exist in the candid moments caught on camera, including some unexpected encounters with wildlife. For Jacksonites, the film captures a deep appreciation and undying love affair many have with the national parks in their backyards and beyond.
Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. screenings on Monday at the Pink Garter Theatre, $10. Athletes and filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following each screening. powder.com/monumental PJH
Street Food Sensibilities Transporting a taste of Italy’s foodcrazed island to Jackson Hole. BY ANNIE FENN, MD @jacksonfoodie
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Left: Fresh seafood and organ meats on display in the streets of Palermo. Middle: Making arancine with Chef Massimo in Palermo. Right: The fruits of cooking class labor: Sicily’s most popular street food, arancine. made with chickpea flour that tastes so much better than it sounds. The flour is beaten into a batter over heat, much like cooking polenta, and spread onto a slab of marble to dry. It’s cut into squares or triangles and fried until it puffs up crispy on the outside yet still soft in the middle. Panelle is served from a friggitorie (fried food stall) on a soft bun with a generous squeeze of lemon. Legend has it that the Arabs brought panelle to Sicily back in the 10th century, and locals have been eating it in one form or another ever since. We were determined not to leave Palermo without trying the classic sandwich that can only be found there on the street: pani ca meusa, also known as pane con la milza (spleen on bread). Giuseppe helped me find just the right vendor, and I ordered it maritata, with a generous squeeze of lemon (recommended for a newbie). I liked it, though not nearly as much as I liked my milza vendor, who reminded me of one of my uncles. The meat was supple and tasty, without any chewy mysterious bits, and my milza guy did a nice job draining off the lard so as not to make the bun soggy. While enjoying my hot spleen sandwich and cold beer, the polizia rode in on their scooters, shutting the whole piazza down. Vendors scrambled to disassemble bars, fold up tables, chairs and sofas, and wheel grills away into the night. I am still perfecting my technique for making panelle and will have a recipe for you soon. I did bring home a classic recipe for arancine courtesy of Chef Massimo, which you can find at jacksonholefoodie.com. Arancine are best made from leftover risotto and eaten promptly after frying. But they are also great portable snacks to serve as an appetizer, pack into a lunchbox, or eat after working out. If you love arancine but don’t feel like making them, check out Chef Matt Lombardo’s mini arancinette served at Bin22—as delicious as any I tasted in Sicily. PJH After delivering babies and practicing gynecology for 20 years in Jackson, Annie traded her life as a doctor to pursue her other passion: writing about food, health, sustainability and the local food scene. Follow her snippets of mountain life, with recipes, at jacksonholefoodie.com and on Instagram @jacksonholefoodie.
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street food scene. This food is not for the faint of heart— think spleen and lung sandwiches, brined and skewered goat intestines, and babbaluci, miniature snails barely seared on the grill before they’re doused with lemon and salt. Sicilians consider themselves to be Sicilian first, Italian second, with a unique language that’s as colorful as the food itself. You might as well throw away the Italian dictionary—it won’t help you down here. Potato croquettes, with their short cylindrical form, are affectionately nicknamed cazzilli (little penises). Arancine, rice balls known on the mainland as arancini, are given the feminine “e” ending in Palermo in recognition of their sensuously rounded form. And what could possibly be sexy about a sandwich made of spleen and lung simmered in lard? When ordering a pani ca meusa, your vendor will ask if you want it schietta (single, or spleen only) or maritata (married), meaning topped with a white “bridal veil” of caciocavallo cheese to tone down the intense taste. We eased into our foray with the comforting sfincione—Palermo’s focaccia-pizza hybrid topped with anchovies, tomatoes, oregano and breadcrumbs. It was luscious, salty, crispy and spongy and I vowed to start working on my sfincione recipe as soon as I got home. Eating arancine is another easy way to cut your teeth on the street food culture. Named for the Italian word for orange, arancia, which they somewhat resemble in size and color, arancine are balls of saffron-flavored risotto, stuffed with meat or cheese, rolled in bread crumbs and deep fried. They are a beloved snack all over Sicily, and their fillings and shapes vary from region to region. In Palermo we learned to make classic orangeshaped arancine (stuffed with soft cheese, peas and ragu) while taking a cooking class from Chef Massimo at the Ristorante Luci e Calici. But you’ll find them stuffed with chicken livers in the interior (where my grandparents are from), shaped like a cone rather than an orange in the south, and stuffed with sardines on the east coast. We even learned to make dolci versions of arancine— sweet rice balls rolled in pistachios, stuffed with candied orange and dusted with chocolate. Another street food not to be missed is panelle, a fritter
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ast month I traveled six thousand miles to the island off the toe of Italy’s boot intent on tasting every delicious thing under the Sicilian sun. I arrived with three friends and a long bucket list of foods to eat, wines to discover and recipes to track down. Our first objective: Palermo, Sicily’s frenetic capital city and home to one of the most distinctive street food cultures in the world. Imagine piazza after piazza in an ancient part of Palermo filled with makeshift restaurants and ersatz bars. Smoke plumes from huge grills covered with seafood and meat, and teenage boys on street corners ready to alert the arrival of the polizia who would shut the whole scene down. Street food may be having a trendy moment in the States, but Sicilians have been taking it to the streets for millennia. Influenced by all those who have invaded and occupied Sicily—the Greeks, Normans, Arabs, Romans and Phoenicians, to name a few—street cooks turn humble ingredients like chickpeas and organ meats into the stuff of dreams. Before diving into our culinary adventure, we took a few tips from Giuseppe, a local guy who was showing us around. Street food vendors are scattered throughout the city, but Giuseppe knew to take us to Piazza Caracciolo, the hidden corner of the city where tourists rarely wander. Sicilian street food is designed to provide maximum calories at minimum cost. “All you need is a few euros,” he told us. Giuseppe advised that we not be put off by the disrepair of the street vendor’s cart. Sicilian street cooks can do wonders with just a grill, a battered metal cart and a vat of boiling fat. There’s no place for squeamishness when perusing the
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Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY
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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 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.
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Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.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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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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Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.
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name has two hyphens 81 Make a home 82 Squat 84 Summary 86 It has Air, Mini and Pro versions 88 Part of a circ. 89 Fervently wishes 91 Stooge with a bowl haircut 92 Center of Florida? 94 Govt. guidelines 95 Name on the 1984 album “My Kind of Country” 96 Cologne cooler 97 NYC commuter letters 98 Thunder sound 100 Pains 103 Courier and Roman 105 King with a pipe 108 Very destructive 111 Nursery cry 113 See 49-Across 115 1990 #1 rap hit 117 Specialized slicing tools 119 Chugged, say 120 Links seen at pga.com 121 Doctoral candidate’s hurdles 122 Furry sci-fi creature 123 Huffy states 124 Duma vote 125 Lose intensity 126 Prevent
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Award declined by George C. Scott 14 Company with a blue bird logo 15 Used Lyft, say 16 Mining haul 17 Barcelona-born muralist 19 Leaves for a Chinese dinner 23 Line crosser 25 SpaceX CEO Musk 27 Chicago’s __ Center 31 Carlo __: wine brand 33 Money immediately available 35 Book jacket entry 39 Consequence of the telemarketing boom 40 It’s in our genes 41 Disappeared from view 42 Looks really happy 43 Upgrade, as on Yelp 44 Vet student’s workplace 46 Send for 47 Type of massage 48 Student advocacy gp. 50 Folk tales 52 Ownership claim ... and a hint to the relationship of each answer to a starred clue to a word it intersects 53 Earth goddess 54 Subj. with unknowns 57 Approaching the hour 59 Coarsely insulting, as language 61 Vice squad incursions 63 Classic for which Pavarotti won a Grammy 65 Frenzied 67 Did some farm work 70 Legal scholar Guinier 71 Lacking width and depth 72 Worst of the worst 74 Drink, in Dover
76 Hot 78 Foreman stat 80 Have a loan from 82 “Fresh Air” airer 83 Country on St. George’s Channel 85 *Memorable 1968 role for Mia 87 Treat on a stick 90 “Really, Captain Obvious?” 93 *First human woman, in Greek myth 94 Scheduled 96 Perry’s creator 97 CalArts degree 99 Eight, to Mozart 101 Street fare seekers 102 Luxurious fur 104 Bonnie or Clyde 106 Lerner collaborator 107 Company with an ironically crooked logo 108 Shadow targets 109 Beige shade 110 Marsh duck 112 Computer game title island 114 Gloomy fellow 116 Ballerina’s hairdo 117 Tool for Cupid 118 Hawk’s domain
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Letters connected to theater capacity 2 Collectible baseball card brand 3 Boston-to-D.C. rail service 4 Took off 5 *Second-longest reigning British monarch 6 Blue heron kin 7 Peter Benchley thriller 8 Giants great Mel 9 *First of all? 10 Slip 11 Facing 12 Bilingual subj.
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1 Twinkler 5 Block from the White House 9 Sunburn salve 13 Others, in Oaxaca 18 Almond __: candy 19 Like jeggings 20 Fist bumps 21 Talked a blue streak? 22 Ill-kept confidence 24 Seasonal drink 26 Tossed a bone to 27 Playground retort 28 Up-to-the-minute 29 “I never __ purple cow ... ”: Burgess 30 New Mexico county bordering El Paso 32 Dance partner 34 Mr. or Mrs. 36 Hard-to-imagine period 37 It’s charged 38 Winds up or winds down 42 *English surgeon Henry 45 Talks like Daffy 47 Mo. town 48 Like a paddling surfer 49 With 113-Across, “Funeral in Berlin” author 50 Waikiki wingding 51 Sounded nostalgic about 55 Tiger, e.g. 56 Churchill, notably 58 Curaçao cocktail 60 American Red Cross founder Barton 62 Prankster’s missile 64 “Popeye” pirate 66 Racing Unsers 68 Zen garden piece 69 Match made in heaven 71 Kept from squeaking 73 Lifesaver, initially 74 Potted dwarf 75 *Noted WWII lifesaver 77 Sticks figure 79 Drive-thru burger chain whose
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Peace Keepers How to remain calm and happy when conflicts at work arise.
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f internal energy conservation, less stress, better health, inner peace and being in the driver’s seat of your life appeal to you, consider applying the mantra of “letting go of fixing others” to include bosses and co-workers. Untold amounts of energy are expended at work (and after work hours) judging, criticizing, analyzing, gossiping about and trying to fix bosses and co-workers. Here are five reasons these behaviors are a waste of time and energy, and why they are self-destructive. 1. People who constantly criticize others subconsciously want to feel better about themselves, but this strategy does not work. Criticizing someone else does not create more self-confidence; it only builds ego-based arrogance. 2. Making your happiness at work dependent on needing someone to change actually sets you up to be a victim because you have no control over that person. People only change when they want to and are willing to do the work to make that happen. 3. Being judgmental takes a toll on your physical and emotional health. This happens because negative energies and their related toxic biochemistries are circulating in your body. While you are stewing, the other person is not suffering. 4. Judging others fosters adversarial relationships, rather than collaboration, and in the end everyone involved loses. Teamwork and collaboration are proven attributes of successful ventures. 5. If you start slacking at your job because others are not holding up their responsibilities, this also backfires. If you are a person of integrity, your selfworth will suffer if you opt to be a slacker.
Two constructive approaches Option number one is to focus on what’s right about your boss and co-workers. For example, if you are an employee and have issues with the business owner because that person lacks communication skills, you can either fester, or change the channel in yourself and focus on the positive. In this example, the positive spin is to appreciate that he/she created the business, which required vision, courage and perseverance. Be grateful that his/her business serves the community and offers you employment. Gratitude opens the heart. The more you focus on what’s right, the more others will respond with what is right about them. When bosses or employees are being held with disdain, there will be no opening for constructive change. People can feel criticism and judgment whether or not you verbally communicate it, and then they dig in and resist anything you might suggest, even if it is valid. Option number two is to embrace the perspective that every person is doing the best she can given her life circumstances and skill sets. This doesn’t mean you agree with everything your co-workers and bosses do. It means that you see that what they do is about their strengths and limitations, and not about you. This perspective opens up compassion for them, and compassion allows you to be on the same team working together toward the greater good.
The third (and final) option Once you are no longer leaking negative energy and blaming others, and if you discover that the values of your boss and/or co-workers, or the nature of the job are not working for you, then you can choose to leave and find other employment. Leaving because it doesn’t work for you is empowering and commendable. It says you know what you want without blaming anyone or being a victim. You are free to move forward with a peaceful heart and the positive energy to focus on your next great endeavor. 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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og Island’s mayoral race is down to two people, and it is turning into an ugly campaign. Lorna Doon won the August primary with 35 percent of the vote, edging out incumbent Mayor Sandra Flopper with 36 votes on the strength of his “tax the rich so the rest of us can have free bacon” platform. The two will face off in the general election on Nov. 8 after Doon was declared eligible because of a pardon for criminal activities in his past. Doon was found in possession of more than 50 pounds of bacon with intent to sell and was convicted of felony bacon dealing. He has also been accused of objectifying women, most recently sipping Bud Lite from the bellybutton of a girl from Star Valley. Doon denied those reports. “Star Valley girls are ugly! She was from Victor.” He clarified. Some women are offended about the beer sipping incident. “A woman’s bellybutton is not a cup to sip Bud Lite from,” one Hoback Junction woman objected. “If you are going to use a woman’s bellybutton as a vessel to hold booze, at least pour Wild Turkey, or a good single-malt scotch in it.” Flopper accused Doon of having “a history of using his power as a hip person to dominate women.”
Doon blames his indiscretions on a challenging childhood. “I grew up in a poor military family,” he explained. “With hard work, dedication, and having faith in America, I have transformed my deprived childhood into a career as a successful part-time musician.” Ladoon’s opponent, Flopper, while claiming to support free bacon in principle, was seen by many as flip-flopping on the issue and bowing to special interests from the Breakfast Cereal Association who fears free bacon will decrease demand for Fruit Loops. “I support free bacon,” she said in statement. “And I will continue to work on consensus building between the affected parties, such as bacon distributers, as well as consumers. I will move in an advancing direction with pragmatic, collaborative problem-solving with the goal of providing, not only affordable bacon, but free sausage gravy with biscuits.” Doon questioned Flopper’s sincerity. “Where was she these past two years when our workers needed bacon, when our businesses needed employees who had been fed, when our stoned citizens had late night munchies? If I am elected I will not only make Hog Island hick again, I will also direct the town attorney to investigate Flopper’s deleting of Bud Lite. She belongs in jail!” Doon was referring to the ongoing controversy surrounding the disappearance of 12 cans of Bud Lite left over from a Hog Island leadership seminar held during stripper night at the Bull Moose Saloon in Alpine. Flopper deleted (drank) the beer, claiming they were personal beers despite assertions from the Hog Island Parks and Rec Department that the beer was classified public property, which statutorily required the Parks and Rec Department to dispose of it. PJH
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
BY ROB BREZSNY
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In the course of her long career, Libran actress Helen Hayes won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. Years before all that glory poured down on her, she met playwright Charles MacArthur at a party in a posh Manhattan salon. Hayes was sitting shyly in a dark corner. MacArthur glided over to her and slipped a few salted peanuts into her hand. “I wish they were emeralds,” he told her. It was love at first sight. A few years after they got married, MacArthur bought Hayes an emerald necklace. I foresee a metaphorically comparable event in your near future, Libra: peanuts serving as a promise of emeralds. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Welcome to the Painkiller Phase of your cycle. It’s time to relieve your twinges, dissolve your troubles, and banish your torments. You can’t sweep away the whole mess in one quick heroic purge, of course. But I bet you can pare it down by at least 33 percent. (More is quite possible.) To get started, make the following declaration five times a day for the next three days: “I am grateful for all the fascinating revelations and indispensable lessons that my pain has taught me.” On each of the three days after that, affirm this truth five times: “I have learned all I can from my pain, and therefore no longer need its reminders. Goodbye, pain.” On the three days after that, say these words, even if you can’t bring yourself to mean them with complete sincerity: “I forgive everybody of everything.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) For the foreseeable future, you possess the following powers: to make sensible that which has been unintelligible … to find amusement in situations that had been tedious … to create fertile meaning where before there had been sterile chaos. Congratulations, Sagittarius! You are a first-class transformer. But that’s not all. I suspect you will also have the ability to distract people from concerns that aren’t important … to deepen any quest that has been too superficial or careless to succeed … and to ask the good questions that will render the bad questions irrelevant. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In the past eleven months, did you ever withhold your love on purpose? Have there been times when you “punished” those you cared about by acting cold and aloof? Can you remember a few occasions when you could have been more generous or compassionate, but chose not to be? If you answered yes to any of those questions, the next three weeks will be an excellent time to atone. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can reap maximum benefit from correcting stingy mistakes. I suggest that you make gleeful efforts to express your most charitable impulses. Be a tower of bountiful power.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) When the wind blows at ten miles per hour, a windmill generates eight times more power than when the breeze is five miles per hour. Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect there will be a similar principle at work in your life during the coming weeks. A modest increase in effort and intensity will make a huge difference in the results you produce. Are you willing to push yourself a bit beyond your comfort level in order to harvest a wave of abundance? CANCER (June 21-July 22) Cuthbert Collingwood (1748-1810) had a distinguished career as an admiral in the British navy, leading the sailors under his command to numerous wartime victories. He was also a good-natured softie whose men regarded him as generous and kind. Between battles, while enjoying his downtime, he hiked through the English countryside carrying acorns, which he planted here and there so the “Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.” (Quoted in Life in Nelson’s Navy, by Dudley Pope.) I propose that we make him your role model for the coming weeks. May his example inspire you to be both an effective warrior and a tender soul who takes practical actions to plan for the future. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Eighteenth-century musician Giuseppe Tartini has been called “the godfather of modern violin playing.” He was also an innovative composer who specialized in poignant and poetic melodies. One of his most famous works is the Sonata in G Minor, also known as the Devil’s Trill. Tartini said it was inspired by a dream in which he made a pact with the Devil to provide him with new material. The Infernal One picked up a violin and played the amazing piece that Tartini transcribed when he woke up. Here’s the lesson for you: He didn’t actually sell his soul to the Devil. Simply engaging in this rebellious, taboo act in the realm of fantasy had the alchemical effect of unleashing a burst of creative energy. Try it! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The planets have aligned in a curious pattern. I interpret it as meaning that you have cosmic permission to indulge in more self-interest and self-seeking than usual. So it won’t be taboo for you to unabashedly say, “What exactly is in it for me?” or “Prove your love, my dear” or “Gimmeee gimmeee gimmee what I want.” If someone makes a big promise, you shouldn’t be shy about saying, “Will you put that in writing?” If you get a sudden urge to snag the biggest piece of the pie, obey that urge.
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November 8, 2016 GENERAL ELECTION VOTER REGISTRATION NOTICE
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Let’s imagine your life as a novel. The most recent chapter, which you’ll soon be drawing to a close, might be called “The Redemption of Loneliness.” Other apt titles: “Intimacy with the Holy Darkness” or “The Superpower of Surrender” or “The End Is Secretly the Beginning.” Soon you will start a new chapter, which I’ve tentatively dubbed “Escape from Escapism,” or perhaps “Liberation from False Concepts of Freedom” or “Where the Wild Things Are.” And the expansive adventures of this next phase will have been made possible by the sweet-and-sour enigmas of the past four weeks.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In the coming weeks would you prefer that we refer to you as “voracious”? Or do you like the word “ravenous” better? I have a feeling, based on the astrological omens, that you will be extra super eager to consume vast quantities of just about everything: food, information, beauty, sensory stimulation, novelty, pleasure, and who knows what else. But please keep this in mind: Your hunger could be a torment or it could be a gift. Which way it goes may depend on your determination to actually enjoy what you devour. In other words, don’t get so enchanted by the hypnotic power of your longing that you neglect to exult in the gratification when your longing is satisfied.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In 1415, a smaller English army defeated French forces at the Battle of Agincourt in northern France. Essential to England’s victory were its 7,000 longbowmen—archers who shot big arrows using bows that were six feet long. So fast and skilled were these warriors that they typically had three arrows flying through the air at any one time. That’s the kind of high-powered proficiency I recommend that you summon during your upcoming campaign. If you need more training to reach that level of effectiveness, get it immediately.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the 1980s, two performance artists did a project entitled A Year Tied Together at the Waist. For 12 months, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh were never farther than eight feet away from each other, bound by a rope. Hsieh said he tried this experiment because he felt very comfortable doing solo work, but wanted to upgrade his abilities as a collaborator. Montano testified that the piece “dislodged a deep hiddenness” in her. It sharpened her intuition and gave her a “heightened passion for living and relating.” If you were ever going to engage in a comparable effort to deepen your intimacy skills, Aries, the coming weeks would be a favorable time to attempt it.
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