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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey I am not sure if we can say that March came in like a lion or a lamb? The first week of the month started colder than normal, then went warmer than normal and then went back to colder than normal. All of that went on in the first seven days of March. This week started colder and windy and will end up warmer and windy. I don’t want to jinx it, but there was also a noticeable drop in the amount of precipitation, compared to the deluge we experienced in February.

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Average low temperatures this week are in the mid-teens, and will hover there for about the next two weeks. We will usually see major departures from those averages, as we usually do. For instance, on March 11th, 1969 the morning low temperature plummeted to a quite chilly 28-degrees below zero. On the other hand, we’ve also had rather warm overnight lows, like 39-degrees above zero on the morning of March 10th, 1967.

The average high temperature this week is encroaching on the 40-degree mark. With temps like that, snow in the valley starts to show signs of melting away. During the mid-2000’s, earlier than normal melting ensued when high temperatures shot into the upper 50’s during this same week in 2005. Temps hit 60-degrees on March 12th, 2007. However, the record high this week of 63-degrees occurred a long time ago, on March 14th, 1934.

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The Betrayal of Trans America Attacks against vulnerable populaces open the door for attacks against everyone.

BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

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hen you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

This was Donald Trump talking to Billy Bush about sexually assaulting women more than a decade ago, but it has proven to be the ultimate expression of Trumpism.

When Matt Lauer, a rich celebrity, asked Trump, another rich celebrity, about North Carolina’s discriminatory “bathroom bill,” it became a question of whether Trump “would be fine with [Caitlyn Jenner] using any bathroom she chooses” in Trump Tower.

Jenner, like Trump, is a reality TV star with complicated lines between business and family. Of course she can pee wherever she wants.

But trans people who aren’t stars and who have to go to the bathroom in less glamorous places than Trump Tower are shit out of luck after the administration declared in late February it would not protect the rights of trans students.

Jenner spoke out against Trump’s reversal on trans issues, telling him to call her. But because she is also

President Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

a star, her plea misses the point. Trump attacks the most vulnerable.

If Trump wanted to understand how it feels to be denied access to basic services, he could talk to Gavin Grimm, a trans high school student whose lawsuit against his Virginia school district—for forcing him to use a refashioned janitor’s closet instead of the men’s room—was scheduled to reach the Supreme Court later this month, but was sent on Monday back to a lower court because of the new guidelines set by Trump’s justice department.

Or when Trump spoke at the ultra-right Conservative Political Action Conference in late

SNOW PACK REPORT CLOAKED IN WHITE This winter season more than 515 inches of snow has fallen at JHMR’s Rendezvous Bowl snow study plot; therefore the mountains are covered in white. Ski lines throughout the surrounding mountain ranges are fat and flat. Storm after storm has deepened the snowpack and often times built slab avalanches, which are some of the most dangerous types of avalanches for skiers and riders to negotiate. Almost all of these avalanches occurred during the peak loading or within the following 48 hours, which this season could have been most days.

The simple recipe for an avalanche is a slab, a weak layer or weak interface and a bed surface, which can be made by the avalanche. A dry slab avalanche is a cohesive unit of snow that is relatively stronger than the snow underneath it. At this point the slab is waiting for a trigger, either a natural trigger like loading from snowfall and wind or an artificial trigger like someone riding the slope. Once

February, he could have talked to Jennifer Williams and Jordan Evans, the two trans women who stood out in the hallway holding a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and a sign that read, “Proud to be Conservative, Proud to Be Transgender, Proud to be American #sameteam.”

“We spent the last year fighting for transgender rights and being part of a presidential campaign, [and] we didn’t know what we were walking into,” Williams said of the anti-trans fervor once again spiking in the ruling party.

Williams has attended the conference since 2006, when she was working on a film called “Fear of a Black Republican.” She felt that the conference and the

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Weather and geographic locations affect the snow in different ways. The three avalanche climates are maritime closest to the coast, and inter-mountain and continental furthest from the coast. Typically our snowpack is similar to an inter-mountain climate, but this season due to almost daily snowfall the snowpack has similar characteristics to a maritime climate. This season the snowpack depth of 150 inches, the frequent storms, the quick increase in avalanche hazard and the weak layer between the new/old snow interface are common to a maritime climate. Though we have still seen the cold temperatures common to this region, making our snowpack unique in how it forms. Enjoy the mountains covered in this deep snowpack and always check for problem layers and new slabs. – Lisa Van Sciver

conservative movement was moving toward the libertarianism of Ron Paul and away from the “traditional values” of Mike Huckabee.

Until 2016, she attended the conference presenting as a man, rather than as Jennifer, her authentic self.

She says she was received warmly when she reintroduced herself last year—her friends asked if she was still a conservative and when she said she was, they were cool.

But after a brief moment of high hopes, the mood shifted.

First, then-Breitbarteer Milo Yiannopoulos got a keynote spot on CPAC’s program. Yiannopoulos regularly called trans people “mentally ill” and used a December speech in Milwaukee to mock a trans student.

Like Yiannopoulos, some openly gay people at CPAC seemed eager to dis trans people in order to cement their own endangered status among the bigots. One conservative lesbian blogger sitting in the press section “explained” to a Breitbart editor how trans women were really just men who like to dress in women’s clothes and masturbate. “Autogynephiles,” she said, talking high and punching down.

“It’s going to be hard for the administration to go after lesbian, gay, and bi people because they have numbers, they have resources, they have money. We don’t necessarily have that,” Williams said. “You’re going after transgender people ... We’re only .6 percent of the population.”

Williams was briefly relieved when Yiannopoulos was disinvited from CPAC, but then, the night before the conference began, the regime rescinded the Obama-era directive offering federal protection for students to use the facilities that correspond with their gender identities rather than their birth certificates.

So when Williams and her friend walked in with their signs and their flag, they didn’t know what to expect. “I was really worried because people were hyped up. We didn’t expect it to be the issue du jour by 8 in the morning, walking into CPAC with 11,000, 12,000 conservatives of all different stripes from all over the country.”

Although Williams’ access to public facilities is legally protected in Maryland, where the conference took place, she and her friend located single-occupancy restrooms where they knew they would be safe.

“Hopefully nothing bad will happen, I don’t expect it to. This is my tribe, just as LGBTQ is my tribe. People at CPAC don’t start fights,” she said. “But there’s always that one person you have to be careful about.”

She is especially worried for young trans kids.

“When I grew up, we had no hope, and you knew that if you were going to be out and proud and live your life authentically, it was just going to be tough,” she said. “These kids have had a great run for several years making life better and easier so they can live openly.

But now if I’m them, everybody knows who I am.

What’s going to happen to me now?”

The fear, she says “has to be overwhelming, because

at least the federal government had your back. Now they don’t.”

At its best, the federal government protects the minority from the tyranny of the majority. But Trump’s populism says fuck that shit.

On the same day Trump press secretary Sean Spicer said that trans protections are “states’ rights issues,” he also said that recreational cannabis would be a federal issue. In this regime, there are no real principles, only power and the repression of anyone vulnerable enough to repress.

Williams has placed whatever hope she has left in the courts. “If we lose the Gavin Grimm case, it could be pretty dismal for a long time. I don’t want to say ‘until a Democrat gets elected,’ because I’m a Republican committee person,” she said. “Hopefully our party will be the ones to make freedom happen for everyone.”

That’s the thing about freedom: If it doesn’t happen for everyone, it doesn’t happen for anyone. PJH Baynard Woods is editor at large for Baltimore City Paper. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post. He is the author of the book Coffin Point: The Strange Cases of Ed McTeer, Witchdoctor Sheriff. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, focusing on ethics and tyranny, and became a reporter in an attempt to live like Socrates.

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The Silent Majority Who in the GOP has the courage to challenge Trump’s lies?

BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature

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o our beloved country has reached the point of insanity emanating from the very top—a sitting American president making allegations in the most public way, providing not a shred of evidence to support the charge that his predecessor, Barack Obama, personally ordered the illegal tapping of his phone lines.

This, from the same Donald Trump who falsely accused his predecessor without providing a scintilla of proof that he was born in Kenya.

This, from the same delusional president who, the day after his inauguration, marched out his press secretary Sean Spicer to make the embarrassing and blatantly false claim that the live crowd hearing Trump’s speech on the Mall in Washington, D.C. was the biggest in history.

This, from the same president who sent out his “senior counselor” Kellyanne Conway to advance the notion of “alternative facts” being tantamount to verifiable truth.

This, from the same president who marched out another “senior advisor” Stephen Miller, who falsely accused the state of New Hampshire, without offering a smidgeon of corroboration, that Democrats and Republicans had been complicit in widespread voter fraud.

This, from a president who repeatedly, incessantly, without shame, accountability and consequence, continues to advance paranoid conspiracy theories that possess no substance.

This, from our president.

Trump is the figurehead of the Republican Party. At what point do GOP leaders, particularly those retired politicians who claim to admirably put country before party, stand up and call him out?

Not one serving member of the Wyoming, Montana or Idaho congressional delegation has demonstrated the moral character to disavow the president’s conduct, and the lack of courage extends, too, to retired politicians who, with nothing to lose, remain silent.

If they are too cowardly to defend the integrity of our republic, then at least can they defend the dignity of the highest office in the land, condemning the actions of the person who, without precedence, is now debasing it?

Enough time has now elapsed with the new presidency, enough of Trump’s whoppers have been dispensed, that we know they are not aberrations but

‘Why is the GOP establishment in our Western states and the political apparatus in Washington so conspicuously silent?’

part of a disturbing and dangerous pathology—an immature, deeply insecure, megalomaniac with a penchant for temper tantrums who has his finger on the nuclear trigger. No, I am not referencing North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

Why is the GOP establishment in our Western states and the political apparatus in Washington so conspicuously silent?

Ordinarily, some responsibility would fall to the opposition party, the Democrats, to muster resistance, but the Left has made itself practically inane.

None other than the retired late night talk show host David Letterman told David Marchese and the online publication Vulture in a story published last weekend, “We don’t need more confirmation that there’s something wrong with Donald Trump. Let’s instead find ways to rebuild what is rational. And the Democrats, goddamn it, get a little backbone, get a little spine.”

That leaves only one entity. Few would question the patriotic devotion of award-winning historian David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for authoritative biographies on Harry Truman and John Adams. He is universally respected by intelligent America-loving people on both sides of the political aisle.

Last summer McCullough, a registered Independent voter, issued a warning and broke from his normal position of neutrality in publicly endorsing candidates in presidential elections. Besides also winning the National Book Award for two other works, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award from Obama.

Joining a group of prominent historians, McCullough presciently voiced his concerns about

Trump. He quoted President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who once said there were four key qualities by which citizens should measure a leader: character, ability, responsibility and experience.

“Donald Trump fails to qualify on all four counts and it should be noted Eisenhower put character first. In the words of the ancient Greeks, ‘Character is destiny,’” McCullough said. “So much that Donald Trump spouts is so vulgar and so far from the truth and mean-spirited. It is on that question of character especially that he does not measure up. He is unwise.

He is plainly unprepared, unqualified and, it often seems, unhinged. How can we possibly put our future in the hands of such a man?”

A short while later McCullough elaborated during an interview with The New York Times. “When you think of how far we have come, and at what cost, and with what faith, to just turn it all over to this monstrous clown with a monstrous ego, with no experience, never served his country in any way — it’s just crazy,” he said. “We can’t stand by and let it happen.

The Republican Party shouldn’t stand by and let it happen.”

Statesmen and stateswomen we all know are letting it happen and they ought to be ashamed. PJH

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THE BUZZ

Beyond Uber and Lyft Can a commuter rideshare program reduce travel time and cut down on one of the valley’s key problems?

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lose on the heels of the launch of Uber and Lyft, a new commuter rideshare app will arrive this spring in Jackson, and its creators are hoping to make a dent in workday traffic. Teton Rideshare is a new enterprise that encourages commuters from Teton Valley and Star Valley to carpool rather than drive solo to jobs in Jackson.

“The number of cars on the roads is a major challenge facing our community,” said Max Ludington, Teton Rideshare co-founder. “People are starting to feel it in a variety of ways and there is an impending sense that something needs to be done.”

Teton Rideshare utilizes the smartphone app “Duet,” which works by matching drivers and riders with similar commuting patterns in regional towns. Users sign in to Duet and create their commuter profile, indicating if they wish to be a driver or a rider.

The more people in a town or region

When big city traffic changes the pace of a small town, will rideshares be the answer?

who sign up, the better the matches and the more user-friendly the program becomes.

One of the appealing aspects of the program is that travel costs are reduced for both drivers and riders. Riders reimburse drivers for a portion of the cost of the ride— Ludington estimates that a trip from Victor to Jackson costs slightly under six dollars. Riders benefit because the cost of riding is cheaper than the cost of gas, plus there is less wear and tear on their car. For the initial test phase of the partnership between Teton Rideshare and Duet, Duet will not take their standard percentage of ride fees.

Like Uber and Lyft, Duet is cashless.

The app charges the ride to a credit card linked to a rider’s account.

Traffic problems drive a new notion The idea for Teton Rideshare originated a year ago at the 22 in 21 conference hosted by Jonathan Schechter of the Charture Institute. The one-day conference takes a look at overarching issues facing the valley and serves as a platform for innovative solutions.

Ludington attended the 2016 conference where traffic was a resounding theme. When someone in the audience asked, “Why isn’t there a rideshare app?” Ludington had an “Aha” moment.

He teamed up with Zach Smith, the mayor of Victor, Idaho, at the time, and began looking at options. They knew about Uber and Lyft, but those services are used as an alternative to taxis for

short-distance travel. Ludington and Smith wanted something that would work for long-distance commuting.

“Our approach is really aimed at community and setting up carpools,” Ludington said. “Our target audience is commuters.”

They secured a seed grant from 1% for the Tetons and began shopping around for a rideshare app company that would fit the region’s needs. They settled upon Duet, which has users in a variety of metro areas including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C. According to Jing Zhu, Founder and CEO of Duet, the Teton area appealed to his company, even though it isn’t a metro area. First of all, a traffic problem exists, thus there is need for improvement and demand for alternatives like Duet. Secondly, the road system and traffic patterns in the Tetons are “more desirable” than most urban areas, from the company’s standpoint.

“There are only three paths going into Jackson, and they’re not quite interchangeable, unlike those in the other metros,” Zhu said. “It’s a limitation to commuters but it works well for building a carpooler network as the potential carpool candidates or network is naturally defined and confined. For example, if someone goes from Driggs to Jackson, he has only one route: Driggs-Victor-Wilson-Jackson, and potentially he can pick up and drop

off people along this route. Whereas in big urban areas, a person can have two or three different routes to take and nowadays people always optimize the route choice based on the real-time traffic.”

Zhu said Duet was also impressed by the smartphone savvy of residents in the area. Plus Duet was inspired by the Teton Rideshare team’s enthusiasm and dedication to the cause.

“We took off our fees so that it can be a nonprofit program,” Zhu said. “We worked with them on their grant application, setting up the program, and marketing. We will continue supporting them to make sure the program is successful and making a positive impact on the communities there.”

Teton Rideshare vs. Uber and Lyft

Focusing on carpooling, Duet is distinctly different from taxi-like transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft, which both launched March 3 in Jackson. Those companies wasted no time after Gov. Matt Mead signed the so-called “Uber” bill into law Friday.

The bill, HB80, unanimously passed the Senate February 24. Sponsored by Sen. Affie Ellis-R, Cheyenne, the bill provided a regulatory framework for rideshare services.

Ellis said she sponsored the bill for two main reasons: to provide more taxi alternatives and to provide more employment opportunities for Wyomingites.

to work or play,” Dowson said. “Friends of Pathways is all about encouraging ways to move about Jackson Hole that don’t necessitate one person in one car, whether it’s a bike share, a ride share, a bus ride, a pathway or a sidewalk.”

But if you build it, will the people come?

Teton Rideshare has been slowly building a network of users since Ludington started working on the program. They just passed an important milestone when more than 120 users signed up to use the app.

“We’ve been working quietly to build up our network of potential users on the Duet app and have just reached a critical mass,” Ludington said. “With those numbers in place, the app should start to be a viable commuting option for people.”

The next step is to get all the users using the app at the same time, while also increasing the number of users through marketing and word of mouth.

To that end, Teton Rideshare is hosting “Intergalactic Rideshare Week” the first week of April. According to Teton Rideshare program coordinator Shannon Clay, it will be a festive week focused on transit hubs and incentives for signing up on the Duet app.

“We will have events at transit hubs like the Victor Depot and Stilson Ranch Lot during high commute times,” Clay said. “Because the bigger program is focused on getting cars off the road and getting people to commute together, highlighting transit hubs is our focus.”

But Clay said there is no need to wait until April to sign up. Interested commuters can visit TetonRideshare. com and be guided through the app download process from there. Users will be automatically signed up for Teton Rideshare’s e-newsletter and kept apprised of incentives for using the app.

So far, electeds on both sides of the pass are enthusiastic about the program.

Driggs Mayor Hyrum Johnson cites transportation as one of the region’s biggest concerns needing a regional solution. “We are one regional economy spanning two states,” Johnson said.

“We must think regionally if we are to

solve the problems we face. I see this ridesharing effort as a great complement to the existing transit options.”

Teton County Commissioner Greg Epstein is also a fan of the rideshare concept. He’s happy to see the private sector participating in finding solutions. “Any initiative to reduce the number of cars on the road will help the traffic situation in Teton County,” he said. “For instance, Teton Rideshare can fill in the gaps when START doesn’t run.”

Though there is no formal relationship with START, Ludington considers them to be an important, if informal, partner in Teton Rideshare’s program.

“Our goal is to reduce the number of cars on local roads,” Ludington said. “To achieve that, we recognize that any sort of transportation solution will work best when it can be integrated with other options.”

Teton Rideshare will share data with START on commuter patterns that may help fine-tune and improve bus service in outlying areas. “It is our belief that the better START works, the better other transportation alternatives, like ridesharing, will work,” Ludington said.

An essential ingredient in the alternative transportation stew is changing commuters’ behavior. Ludington thinks that the driving force behind adopting alternatives will be the inconvenience of traffic itself.

“It’s getting to be a worse and worse commute,” he said. “The inconvenience makes people want to explore other options.”

His goal with Teton Rideshare is that it will be so easy to use that it will make that behavior change easy too. The time cost and mental cost will be so minimal, he hopes, that people will quickly gravitate to the new option.

Dowson says it’s as simple as being willing to try something new. “If enough people in the area make small changes in their transportation choice, it will add up to less traffic,” she said. “It’s always good to try new things. It makes life interesting.” PJH

“It’s getting to be a worse and worse commute.

The inconvenience makes people want to explore other options.”

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“This diversifies our economy and provides new jobs,” Ellis told PJH. “People can supplement their income or being a driver can be a primary source of income for some households.”

To craft the bill, Ellis had conversations with rideshare company proponents, and also worked extensively with the insurance industry, the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, and even airports to design a bill that would address a range of concerns. The bill spells out the insurance requirements must have to operate in the state. It ensures that any potential rider has information about their driver and an estimated fee. And the bill addresses concerns on behalf of airports that any agreements with rideshare companies will have parity with similar agreements with taxi companies.

But while Uber and Lyft claim to hold the promise of taking cars off the road, that reality hasn’t panned out in big urban areas like New York City.

According to Bruce Schaller, the former deputy commissioner of traffic and planning at the New York City Department of Transportation and author of Unsustainable? The Growth of App-Based Ride Services and Traffic, Travel and the Future of New York City, on-demand companies are fueling a cycle of increasing congestion and declining transit use.

“On-demand ride companies drove 600 million miles on New York City streets in 2016—more than the same year’s total yellow cab mileage in Manhattan,” Schaller wrote in a recent New York Daily News op-ed. “Most of the added driving is in Manhattan and congested parts of Brooklyn and Queens near the East River, piling more cars onto already crowded streets.”

Schaller says the prompt, responsive, reliable and comfortable transportation provided by Uber and Lyft is causing more travelers—commuters and tourists—to forgo public transit, adding to congestion on the streets.

Teton Rideshare, whose business model did not require legislative approval, is hoping for the opposite outcome. It is currently housed at Friends of Pathways, as a special project of the larger organization. According to Friends of Pathways director Katherine Dowson, Teton Rideshare is part of an arsenal of tools to combat traffic congestion in the region. “It’s an uncomplicated and affordable option for people who have the same travel patterns, and who enjoy a good conversation while getting

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THE BUZZ 2 Quest for Equality Ensues After the state legislature shot down a non-discrimination bill, local groups are taking the matter into their own hands.

BY SARAH ROSS

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n February, the Wyoming Senate voted down Senate File 153, an Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) that would have protected employees from being fired, demoted, or mistreated on the basis of their sexual or gender identity. The vote was 13-17. The defeat of this bill has raised questions about the influence of money in state politics, and about the role of local governments in ensuring protections for their citizens.

Without a state bill to protect Wyomingites in the workplace, groups across the state, including in Jackson, are organizing for local legislation in its place.

“Now that we’ve seen these defeats at the state level, we have to take care of our own,” explained Mark Houser, longtime valley advocate for equality and coordinator of Jackson’s PFLAG. Sara Burlingame agrees. She is the outreach and education coordinator for Wyoming Equality, an organization that advocates for LGBT rights, and called the failure of the bill a huge disappointment. “The legislature spent two weeks arguing about where people should be allowed to go to the bathroom, yet they didn’t pass the ENDA, which municipalities had given them a mandate to pass ... They missed an opportunity to do the will of the people.” Now, Burlingame says local advocates and electeds will have to “do in patchwork and piece meal what the state legislature had a mandate to do.”

In 2015, Wyoming legislators came close to passing a different nondiscrimination bill, Senate File 115, which was far more expansive. In addition to providing workplace protections, it would have addressed housing and the right to service. The bill passed in the Senate 24-6, but failed in the House 26-33.

Given the support for SF 115, Burlingame expected that this year’s bill would make it farther: “We were much more modest in our goals … I will be honest and say we didn’t think it had a chance of passing in the House, but it was very disappointing to see it fail in the Senate, to see people who are our friends voting against the rights of LGBTQ Wyomingites.”

When dollars decide equality Some Senators who had previously voted for nondiscrimination legislation refused to support this year’s ENDA. Dave Kinskey, R-Sheridan, for example, supported the nondiscrimination bill in 2015. This year, however, Burlingame noted that “Kinskey took to the floor to rail against it. He said that the only reason this legislation was being passed was so that people who were fired for good cause could turn around and say

they’d been fired due to discrimination. It was painful for LGBT folks represented by Kinskey to hear him denigrate them that way.”

Burlingame suggests wealthy donors in the state might explain Kinskey’s change of heart, people who would refuse to finance Republicans that support nondiscrimination legislation. Daniel Brophy, for example, is one of the largest backers of Wyoming Republicans.

According to WyoFile journalist Andrew Graham, Brophy bought a home in Wilson in 2011, and has played a role in state politics since. In 2016, he was the single biggest donor in the primary elections. His wife matches most of his donations. Therefore, though the cap on individual donating in the primaries is $1,500, most candidates he supported received $3,000. In total, the Brophys spent almost $75,000 in the primaries.

Though Brophy did not respond to interview requests, Graham compiled some of his political beliefs from letters to newspapers and comments online.

Brophy has said that gun free zones attract murderers, that Medicaid expansion would be catastrophic for the state, and that he does not approve of the homosexual lifestyle.

He seems to donate to legislators based on how they score on the Wyoming Liberty Index, which tracks representatives’ votes on issues they see as pertaining to liberty. In 2015, the Liberty Index gave SF 115, the anti-discrimination bill, a negative grade, calling it a threat to liberty. Those who score high on the Index receive donations from Brophy, those who score low do not. As reported by Graham: “of the top 20 ranked candidates on the Liberty Index, nearly every one who faced a primary challenger received a donation from the Brophys.”

This has created pressure for Republican candidates: “Incumbent legislators who scored highly on the Liberty Index received their donations, while legislators who had scored poorly faced opponents suddenly flush with cash.”

Can Jackson learn from Laramie?

As the state political climate becomes increasingly fraught, local groups are taking the reins. Last week, Houser organized a meeting to discuss moving forward locally. This issue is urgent, he says: “We can’t wait another two years for the Senate to vote in a budget session.”

Matt Stech, community prevention professional for the Prevention Management Organization of Wyoming, helped organize the meeting. Protecting those who face discrimination could be a life or death matter, Stech said. He points to recent research correlating social equality laws with lower suicide rates.

“It protects actual lives to stand up for rights, to protect young people from feeling rejected from community.”

Those who face discrimination need recourse and resources at home, he added.

As reported by Forbes, a 17-year-long study looking at 47 states revealed that where same-sex marriage was legal, teenage suicide rates decreased. Suicide is the second greatest cause of death amongst teens. About 17 percent of heterosexual teens have thought about suicide, while 43 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual, and 50 percent of transgender youth, have considered it.

In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control reported that Wyoming had the highest suicide rate in the nation. In this context, state and local representatives have the responsibility to do what they can to protect their citizens. Houser believes that it is important for people to see that “the community is taking steps to affirm who they are.”

Laramie is the only town in the state with a nondiscrimination ordinance. Jackson has passed workplace protections for town employees, but there are no requirements for other employers. In December of 2015, the town council had the opportunity to pass a non-discrimination ordinance that would have covered all workers, but town attorney, Audrey CohenDavis, recommended the issue be pursued through a resolution instead. The council voted unanimously for the resolution. However, unlike an ordinance, a resolution is not binding and not enforceable.

Davis and her team recommended that the Town pursue a resolution rather than an ordinance because the Town might not be equipped for the latter. “The resolution is a policy statement, but if the town council enacts an ordinance it’s a law and they have to be able to enforce it.”

Currently, discrimination complaints are pursued as criminal issues, which means they have to be managed at the state or federal level. Cohen-Davis said that passing an ordinance would require a local criminal court to handle complaints. Because the town currently only handles civil issues, a new entity would have to be created to manage those complaints.

In Laramie, however, a different scenario has played out. Mayor Andi Summerville told PJH that Laramie did not create a new court. Instead, they managed it so that complaints would go through the city attorney and municipal court. “We didn’t want to create more structures we didn’t have or couldn’t afford, so we’re working through the structures we already have.” She says that so far, passing the ordinance has added no additional burden to city employees. “Rather, it’s started a question about what our city and employees value, and showed that Laramie expects all to be equal.”

Though she did not elaborate, Cohen-Davis said she and her team still had concerns about the methods implemented in Laramie, and would not recommend replicating them in Jackson.

During the November 2016 election, candidates for town council said they would support an ordinance.

At a candidate forum, now Mayor Pete Muldoon, said: “I understand the Town may have to spend money to implement enforcement, but I believe sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination is a violation of civil rights, and I don’t see how we can tell community members that yes, we believe their civil rights are being violated but sorry, we won’t do anything about it because justice costs money.” Council members Hailey Morton Levinson and Jim Stanford echoed Muldoon’s sentiments.

Now that HB 153 has failed, locals are looking to their town officials to follow up on their commitments.

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Tammy Felbaum surfaced in News of the Weird in 2001 when she, originally Mr. Tommy Wyda, consensually castrated James Felbaum (her sixth husband), but he died of complications, resulting in Tammy’s manslaughter conviction. (Among the trial witnesses was a previous spouse, who had also let “expert” Felbaum castrate him, saying, “She could castrate a dog in less than five minutes.”) Felbaum, now 58, was arrested in February at the Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania) Courthouse after mouthing off at security guards searching her purse. She quipped sarcastically, “I have guns and an Uzi [and] a rocket launcher. I am going to shoot a judge today.” She was in court on a dispute over installation of a sewer line to her trailer home.

n Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville, Fla.—who was convicted and given a 20-year sentence in 2012 for firing a warning shot into a wall to fend off her abusive estranged husband—finally had the charges dropped in February. The persnickety trial judge had earlier determined that Florida’s notorious “Stand Your Ground” law did not apply, even though the husband admitted that he was threatening to rough up Alexander and that she never aimed the gun at him. (With that defense not allowed, Alexander was doomed under Florida’s similarly notorious 20-year mandatory sentence for aggravated assault using a gun.) n In 2008, Vince Li, a passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada, stabbed another passenger, then beheaded him and started to eat him, and in 2009 was “convicted”—but “not criminally responsible” because of schizophrenia. He has been institutionalized and under treatment since then, and in February, doctors signed off on an “absolute” release back into society for Li (now known as Will Baker)—declining a “conditional” release, which would have required continued monitoring. Manitoba province law requires absolute discharge if doctors conclude, on the “weight of the evidence,” that the patient is no longer a “significant” safety threat. n Doris Payne, 86, was arrested once again for shoplifting—this time at an upscale mall in an Atlanta suburb in December—but according to a 2013 documentary, “career-wise,” she has stolen more than $2 million in jewelry from high-end shops around the world. No regrets, she said on the film, except “I regret getting caught.” Her California-based lawyer said, “Aside from her ‘activities,’ she is a wonderful person with a lot of fun stories.” n When disaster strikes, well-meaning people are beseeched to help, but relief workers seem always bogged down with wholly inappropriate donations (which take additional time and money to sort and store and discard; instead, all such charities recommend cash). A January report by Australia’s principal relief organization praised Aussies’ generosity in spite of recent contributions of high heels, handbags, chain saws, sports gear, wool clothing and canned goods— much of which will eventually go to landfills. (Workers in Rwanda reported receiving prom gowns, wigs, tiger costumes, pumpkins and frostbite cream.) n “I grew up fishing with my dad,” Alabaman Bart Lindsey told a reporter, which might explain why Lindsey likes to sit in a boat in a lake on a lazy afternoon.

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card picking the Top 8 competitors in the Fishing League Worldwide Tour event in February on Lake Guntersville. “It can be tricky,” he said. “I’ve done a lot of research.”

n Each December, deadspin.com reviews public records of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission to compile a list of items that caused emergency-room visits when they somehow got stuck inside people. The following are highlights from 2016.

In the nose: raisin, plastic snake, magnets in each nostril. Throat: pill bottle, bottle cap, hoop earring. Penis: sandal buckle, doll shoe, marble. Vagina: USB adapter, “small painting kit,” heel of a shoe. Rectum: flashlight, shot glass, egg timer, hammer, baseball, ice pick “to push hemorrhoids back in.”

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n Alvin Neal, 56, is merely the most recent bank robber to begin the robbery sequence (at a Wells Fargo branch in San Diego) after identifying himself to a teller (by swiping his ATM card through a machine at the counter).

He was sentenced in January. n Also failing to think through their crime was the group of men who decided to snatch about $1,200 from the Eastside Grillz tooth-jewelry shop in St. Paul, Minn., in February. They fled, despite two of them having already provided ID and one having left a mold of his teeth.

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n Matthew Mobley, 41, was arrested in Alexandria, La., in February (No. 77 on his rap sheet) after getting stuck in the chimney of a business he was breaking into. n Former postal worker Gary Collins, 53, of Forest City, N.C., pleaded guilty in February to having hoarded deliverable U.S. mail as far back as 2000. (He is far from the worst mail hoarder, by volume, that News of the Weird has mentioned.)

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n In December, a 400-pound black bear at the Palm Beach, Fla., zoo (“Clark”) got a root canal from dentist Jan Bellows, to fix a painful fractured tooth. n In January, a pet ferret (“Zelda”) in Olathe, Kan., received a pacemaker from Kansas State University doctors, who said Zelda should thus be able to live the ferret’s normal life span. n In January, an overly prolific male African tortoise (“Bert”), of Norwich, England, who had developed arthritis from excessive “mounting,” was fitted with wheels on the back of his shell to ease stress on his legs.

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In January, another vehicle flew off a Parkway West exit ramp in Pittsburgh, Pa., plowing into (the eighth crash in nine years) the Snyder Brothers Automotive parking lot. n Leonard Miller, 88, once again (the fifth time) picked up the pieces in January from his Lanham, Md., home after a speeding car smashed into it.

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The Standing Rock story corporate media didn’t tell you.

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Firsthand resistance

I also visited Standing Rock twice, spending a month total in camp.

During my first visit in November the main camp was peaceful, prayerful, and packed with people. Overwhelmed by visitors and support, Oceti Sakowin Camp stood proudly through eviction orders issued by both the governor of North Dakota and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACoE). On December 5, the scheduled eviction day, 15,000 people showed up to declare, “Mni Waconi!” (Water is Life!) and “No DAPL!” ACoE backed down and pipeline construction temporarily went on hold. The mainstream media showed up just long enough to declare victory for the Water Protectors. Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Dave Archimbault told everyone to go home because the Native-led protests had prevailed.

However, thousands of Water Protectors saw through the façade and stayed on, camping out through a North Dakota winter. As negative 20 temps became the norm, most people left their things in camp vowing to return when the weather warmed.

Many people who stayed grew ill, and some blamed it on heaps of Rozol rat poison that had been, according to the Bismarck Tribune, secretly and illegally spread on 80 acres directly upwind just across the highway from camp. Despite this and many other hardships and

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“We all need to start listening to Indigenous communities. I mean really listening. One thing I found interesting and frustrating was that even the most well-intentioned white folks feel the need to come in and ‘fix’ things rather than truly listening to the people who have been navigating oppression here for 500 years.”

For Brennan, the most memorable thing was being out there with her Dad. “I will never forget walking arm and arm with him in the North Dakota winter with hope in our hearts.”

Then there is Micah “Big Wind” Lott, a 23-yearold member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe from Riverton. He spent six months at Standing Rock and was arrested there twice. His comments reflect what Resor and Brennen experienced on a deeper level.

“Standing Rock started with prayer for clean water,” he said. “It grew into a community of passionate individuals who came from all walks of life, over 300 Native Nations, many countries, and all 50 states. We came with a common purpose: to stop DAPL. We created a family while there. We had daily tasks that became our jobs to make sure everything ran smoothly. We became more in touch with nature and our inner selves.”

Lott says he learned there is a third option beyond fight or flight. “We no longer have to engage in violence to survive like our ancestors did. That’s the basis of the movement: Prayerful resistance.”

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ilitarized police destroyed the encampments in North Dakota two weeks ago, but the movement that began at Standing Rock is just getting started. The peaceful opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is still playing out in court, and encampments against proposed pipelines have popped up in Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida. On March 10 the Native Nations Rise March in Washington, D.C. will show the world that this is about more than stopping one pipeline.

Support for the Water Protectors still pours forth from Jackson Hole. Several dozen locals made pilgrimages there, including Miller Resor who hosted solidarity events in Jackson and Los Angeles. He carted a donated 5th wheel camper full of equipment across the country to support the cause.

“For me, Standing Rock is about drawing a line in the sand and refusing to allow corporate interests to outweigh human rights or environmental conscience,” Resor said. “Standing Rock is about coming together for people and planet. It’s hard to explain the beauty and power of the prayer element present at Standing Rock. The power of peaceful protest was reflected in how hard the opposition tried to undermine and destroy it.”

Local sailor Kate Brennen brought this awareness back from Standing Rock:

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uncertainties, hundreds of Water Protectors endured the winter.

As the February “Snowpocalypse” shut down Jackson Hole, I returned to Standing Rock. It now felt more like a struggling refugee camp terrorized by surrounding security forces. The police had moved much closer and their floodlights filled the camp at night.

ACoE issued another eviction order for February 22, and Water Protectors called out on social media for help with spring-cleaning.

A 10-day heat wave was in the forecast and the government warned that the Cannon Ball River could flood, so going out to help clean up seemed like the best way to support the movement and protect the local environment.

By February 18 most of the camp was a quagmire of mud with deep ruts from heavy equipment used to clean up the camp. The roads through camp had become impassable. Further camp cleanup was seriously hindered after that.

Five days later approximately 200 militarized police invaded and destroyed main camp at Standing Rock. They came in humvees and armored personnel carriers. They wore body armor, brandished tactical weaponry, and barked orders aggressively while creeping through camp.

Their snipers scoped us from the surrounding hillsides. Their jamming devices hindered our live feeds. Their helicopter swooped overhead stalking independent journalists’ drones. Their heavy machinery destroyed everything in camp: tipis, tents, sacred sites, and even a barn full of tools and equipment.

They recorded our faces and actions while they hid behind masks and badges. They followed orders and collected their pay. At the expense of taxpayers they protected corporate profits from a few dozen peaceful people engaged in my favorite act of civil disobedience: illegal camping.

Short of shooting everyone on sight, the police behaved as if bulldozing a village of indigenous freedom fighters half the world away. The only warriors they encountered remained peaceful throughout the ordeal. Miraculously, no one was seriously injured as 47 people were arrested while standing up for clean water and human rights on ground considered sacred for centuries.

My friends were among those arrested that day. Fellow journalist Ed Higgins was detained while livestreaming at the front line during the raid. Fellow Wyomingite Lott got nabbed while holding space in camp. He described what happened after his arrest.

“We were put in cages and stripped to our base layers. Then we were transported for over five hours to a remote prison with our hands zip-tied behind us in freezing temperatures,” he said. “The zip-ties were too tight on some and their hands turned blue. We weren’t fed for 15 hours, and were blocked from calling our legal support for far too long.”

The women arrested that day got treated a bit better, perhaps because a revered Native grandmother walked among them.

The rest of us avoided arrest by escaping on foot across the frozen Cannonball River. The only open road to camp had been blockaded by Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for a week and was closed completely 24 hours prior to the raid.

Mainstream news did not cover the raid, instead repeatedly reporting the government’s official reason for eviction: supposed imminent danger of flooding from the Cannonball River, which remains locked in ice today. The Cannonball River is a small river that has only flooded nine times in the last 70 years. According to the National Weather Service, it is not forecast to flood in the foreseeable future.

The official reason for evicting the encampment was a lie. It painted Water Protectors as foolish water polluters. It portrayed the government as ecologically aware and preemptively poised to prevent a minor environmental issue while protecting the construction of a nearby oil pipeline.

A few days after main camp’s eviction, most of the remaining camps—on private land above the floodplain within the Standing Rock Reservation—were evicted on orders from the Standing Rock Tribal Council. Now only the small Cheyenne River Camp remains.

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week of February showcased a shameful spectacle punctuating a months-long siege against a peaceful prayer encampment in America. Fortunately, during final evictions police were more restrained than during many previous encounters with Water Protectors.

Arguably, the worst of it came on November 20 when tear gas, an LRAD (long range acoustic device), stinger grenades, rubber bullets, and a water cannon were used against Water Protectors. That day the air temperature was below freezing as police blasted people with cold water for nine straight hours. Police also shot down three media drones and targeted journalists with rubber bullets. Sophia Wilansky had her arm blown apart by a stinger grenade, at least 17 Water Protectors went to the hospital, and a few hundred people suffered from hypothermia.

The attacks of November 20 targeted Water Protectors attempting to remove two burnt military trucks blockading the Backwater Bridge on Highway 1806. Police abandoned the trucks there on October 27, and that night the trucks mysteriously caught fire.

Highway 1806 is the main road from Bismarck to the Standing Rock Reservation and its main business, the Prairie Knights Resort and Casino. The closed road hurt the tribal economy, hindered commuters, and endangered lives by doubling the drive time from Standing Rock to the closest hospital.

Officially, the road was closed because the bridge was “unsafe” due to the burnt trucks. Local government made empty promises to reopen the highway while police simultaneously beefed up their blockade with concrete barriers, razor wire, and assault vehicles. Highway 1806 remained closed for more than four months, until after the evictions in late February.

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Police and mainstream media wrote off the Water Protectors as arsonists, never asking why police abandoned the trucks on the bridge or who actually set them on fire.

Houston-based journalist Derrick Broze filmed the events of October 27, including a group of what appear to be hired thugs intimidating peaceful protesters before torching the trucks. Broze is a veteran livestreamer who has bravely reported from the frontlines at many confrontations with police. That night he hid in the trees near the bridge because the thugs—not the police— threatened to break his camera and demanded that he leave. He reported for Mint Press News: “Although stationed on the Water Protectors’ side of the bridge, a small group of individuals did not seem to hold the same values or practice the same tactics as the larger, Native-led movement against the pipeline. In stark contrast to the Water Protectors’ many actions of peaceful prayer and ceremony, the atmosphere at the bridge the night of October 27 was more reminiscent of an outdoor rave. The people on the bridge set fire to an SUV, and threw rocks and other objects at a row of armored vehicles operated by law enforcement. This small faction of non-peaceful protesters and officers briefly tossed smoke bombs back and forth.”

Broze recounted that officers eventually lit two smoke bombs on the north side of the bridge before parking two armored vehicles there. All law enforcement vehicles were gone within a matter of minutes, and people climbed aboard the armored vehicles before setting fire to them. The fires, Broze reported, burned throughout the night, as neither law enforcement nor fire department personnel ever arrived at the scene to extinguish the flames.

On October 28 Water Protectors and elders arrived on the scene to retake the bridge from the agitating faction wearing all-black clothing, a tactic for protests and marches known as “black bloc.”

There were no more than 20 of these provocateurs, Broze explained, and they all traveled together in five older pick-up trucks. Several fights broke out on the bridge as the agitators clashed with those calling strictly for prayer and ceremony, and the agitators were run off the bridge within an hour.

Broze noted that Sioux, the head of security for the frontline

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camp off North Dakota Highway 1806, said those who started the fires were not with the Water Protectors. Apparently intent on forcing their tactics upon the movement, these outside forces appeared uninterested in listening to the Standing Rock Sioux or other Native Water Protectors.

Although the black bloc tactic has been used as a legitimate way for protesters to shield their identities from law enforcement, it has also been exploited by law enforcement, Broze wrote. “Police masquerading as black bloc activists have been exposed at the 2001 G8 Summit in Italy, at protests in 2007 in Quebec, and police posed as activists to infiltrate the Occupy Movement.”

Regardless of whether or not the people who burned the trucks were hired provocateurs, police abandoned the trucks knowing that they would be vandalized, and used that to justify closing Highway 1806 indefinitely. These are the underhanded tactics that police resort to while terrorizing people who put their lives on the line performing acts of peaceful resistance.

The last time the American police state got this devious and violent with peaceful protesters was in 2011 when the Occupy Movement spread awareness around the globe. In response, a federally orchestrated crackdown swiftly evicted dozens of urban protest encampments that had popped up across America. Evictions were justified citing public health and safety, just as we saw at Standing Rock.

In reality, the Occupy encampments were deemed a threat to national security and financial stability because they raised awareness surrounding the fact that our currency is controlled by a private banking cartel. With near limitless power of the purse, these banksters exert undue influence across the spectrum of civilization.

A movement that wont wither

To this day the seeds sown by the Occupy Movement are still growing an enhanced awareness about the corrupt and crumbling foundation of the current financial system, a system that fails to adequately serve the vast majority of humanity and drives the shortsighted investment and development that is decimating nature and life across the globe.

However, the Water Protectors still bravely stood up for clean water, challenging the oil pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners in court. But on Tuesday a federal judge denied a request by the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River tribes to halt construction of the final piece of the Dakota Access Pipeline, NPR reported. Now Water Protectors and Natives like Lott will come together for the Native Nations Rise March 10 in Washington, D.C. “Little Wind and I will be at the [march]. After that we plan to travel to other Water Protector camps around the country to share what we learned at Standing Rock,” Lott said.

The DAPL is designed to pump fracked oil from North Dakota to Chicago so it can be shipped overseas. Fracking for fossil fuels pollutes groundwater and causes earthquakes. The pipelines don’t do well during earthquakes because all that shaking and shifting can cause them to break.

DAPL is designed to ship fracked oil from the Bakken Fields to Chicago at $8 per barrel, $6 less than it currently costs to take it by train. ETP hopes the pipeline will carry 470,000 barrels per day. At a rate of $8 per barrel, the company should gross about $1.4 billion per year on a $4 billion initial investment.

It’s all about making money, and one way ETP is more profitable is by employing very few people: if completed the pipeline will only need approximately 20 workers along it’s 1,134 mile length.

“Now that the sacred fire has been put out at all camps, it is time to let the fire burn in our hearts.”

During construction, of course, hundreds of police collected paychecks for sitting around in idling vehicles, terrorizing citizens engaged in civil disobedience, and protecting a private construction site. Meanwhile Water Protectors encamped in an impoverished area were criticized for setting up GoFundMe accounts. The absurdity of the situation is painful to dwell upon.

At a loss for words, I’ll leave you with something hopeful that Lott told me recently: “I wish everyday Americans could see the sacrifices we made here trying to protect sacred land and water, rather than focusing on the propaganda and drama that surrounds every movement. Thousands came in December to support Indigenous resistance, and this movement has inspired millions. Now that we have been forcibly removed from the camps at Standing Rock it is time to heal and reflect.”

“I grew so much emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically,” Lott continued. “Oceti helped me become a warrior and now that the sacred fire has been put out at all camps, it is time to let the fire burn in our hearts and utilize our resources we have gained here, share the skills that were acquired with others, educate people on what to expect if a similar situation threatens their ancestral lands.

“It was bittersweet leaving, but I know this movement is far from over. There are thousands of Water Protectors who will train thousands more. We will defeat the ‘black snake.’ The prophecy says the 7th Generation will kill the snake, and that is us. From what I have seen these past several months, our ancestors predicted certain situations from the unification of the condor (South American Natives) and the eagle (North American Native), to the rise of the 7th generation, to the Rainbow Nation joining forces with the Red Nation. All of that happened at Standing Rock and now it is time to make our ancestors proud.” PJH

THIS WEEK: March 8-14, 2017

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8

THURSDAY, MARCH 9

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Intermediate Throwing 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $154.00 $184.00, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n JD High Country Outfitters Brown Bag Fly Tying 11:00am, JD High Country Outfitters, Free, 307-733-3270 n The Center Presents A Celebration of Light by Leslie Gifford 12:00pm, The Center Theater Gallery, Free, 307-733-4900 n Growing Through Grief 1:00pm, St. John’s Medical Center, 307-739-7483 n Beginning Drawing 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00 $174.00, 307-733-6379 n After School Monthly Workshops 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $180.00 $216.00, 307-733-6379 n Stackhouse 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Après Ski and Art 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905 n Teton County Search and Rescue Foundation Chamber Mixer 5:00pm, Teton County Search and Rescue Hangar, Free, 307733-3316 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n The Center Presents A Celebration of Light by Leslie Gifford 5:30pm, The Center Theater Gallery, Free, 307-733-4900 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316

n JHW Kidlit/YA Critique Group 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, Free n Glaze Chemistry 101: A Guide To Creating Custom Glazes and Firing Kilns 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $184.00 $220.00, 307-733-6379 n Advanced Papermaking 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $132.00 $158.00, 307-733-6379 n Intro to Flameworking 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00 - $54.00, 307-733-6379 n One Night Seminars on Fly Fishing 6:30pm, JD High Country Outfitters, 307-733-3270 n Leadership for Life 6:30pm, Womentum, $20.00, 307-699-2110 n Armchair Adventures: South Korea-Land of the Morning Calm 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $5.00, 307-739-9025 n Jackson Hole Communty Band 2017 Rehearsals 7:00pm, Centre for the Arts, Free, 307-200-9463 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Auditions for Rumors by Neil Simon 7:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-203-9067 n Big Something 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $15.00, 307-733-1500

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Open Studio: Portrait Model 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative presents 2017 Jackson Hole Wildlife Symposium 9:00am, The Center Theater & Lobby, $100.00, 307-733-4900 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277

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n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Digital Photography 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, 307733-7425 n Developing Effective Communications and Marketing Strategies 9:00am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, $20.00, 307-739-1026 n Wyoming Office of Tourism presents ChinaReady Workshop 9:00am, Ranch Inn, Free, 307777-8561 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Professional Barista Training 1:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $25.00, 307-733-7425 n Snowshoe with a Ranger 1:30pm, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3399 n Get Your Taxes Done For Free 3:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n PTO 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Age Friendly Jackson Hole 5:30pm, Senior Center, Free, 307-733-7300 n Melt Hand and Foot 5:45pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Open Studio: Figure Model 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Flies for Every Season 6:30pm, JD High Country Outfitters, $75.00, 307-733-3270 n Greenneck Daredevils 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Met: Live in HD 7:00pm, Center for the Arts, $12.00 - $20.00, 307-733-1128 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

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MUSIC BOX

Planetary Potion No. 9 9th Intergalactic Ball goes deep space with The Librarian & El Papachango; Pink Garter and The Rose celebrate five years of stellar music and imbibing.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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t’s been a blockbuster season for electronic music fans, and the Ball rolls on. Local music producer and DJ Jeff Stein founded Intergalactic Ball a decade ago as a one-off birthday party with simple logic. “Just imagine a super duper costume party where your imagination can run wild,” Stein would explain to IGB newbies. “Anything goes, from tinfoil

The Librarian (left) throws down for galactic partygoers (right) at the ninth annual Intergalactic Ball Saturday.

flying saucers, wild cat women from planet Z, golden solar samurais or whatever else you can think of. Oh, and it’s a bass filled dance party, so consider mobility in your outfit.”

What has become synonymous with spring, the ninth annual throw-down—which took a one-year hiatus while Stein was co-producing Contour Music Festival in 2016—was cultivated to hear bass and DJ music that had previously never been heard in Jackson. Now, the gathering has become so epic that it attracts big name DJs like this year’s headliners, The Librarian and Oakland, California’s El Papachango, both IGB alumni.

Andrea Graham, a.k.a. The Librarian, is at the forefront of genre-bending sets, mixing UK dancehall, grime, and footwork. In 2008, Graham and her friend Liz Thomson—who also happened to give her The Librarian moniker—founded Bass Coast, an electronic music festival near Vancouver which has become one of the premier boutique festivals in the world. Admittedly, Graham was a late bloomer to the

electronic scene.

“My music path started when I was little, I went into piano lessons when I was 2 years old that evolved over the years into many different formations but it’s always been a part of my life,” Graham told AmplifyHER last year. “I had began feeling uninspired with my palette of instruments and around that same time I ended up at the second ever Shambhala [Music Festival]. It was the first time I experienced electronic music outside and in a community style setting. I left there, bought a computer and Logic [digital audio workstation] and took my songwriting skills into computer world … just tried to teach myself how to make beats. Over that time, I met other people making music and eventually someone lent me turntables and that changed everything.”

According to Stein, “El Papachango is a living legend of dance music.” He moved from Argentina to the states as a young adult and brought with him a love of music from South America, which he then blended with West Coast underground beats. Sultry,

WEDNESDAY Greeneck Daredevils (Silver Dollar) THURSDAY Big Something (Pink Garter), Major Zephyr (Silver Dollar), Disco Night (Stagecoach) FRIDAY Bootleg Flyer (Silver Dollar), Lazy Eyes (Moose Hockey) SATURDAY 9th Intergalactic Ball with The Librarian & El Papachango (Q Roadhouse & Brewing), Whiskey Mornin’ (Under the Tram), Joe Rudd (The Rose)

Big Something celebrates The Rose’s and Pink Garter’s fifth birthday.

soulful Latin sounds, modern bass, hip-hop and funk are his game. He is also one of the core creators of the legendary El Circo, one of San Francisco’s most prominent avant-garde performance groups that have accompanied acts like Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob, and Freq Nasty.

If you missed El Papachango’s and The Librarian’s Contour Music Fest performance at Center for the Arts, this is your chance to see how the two electronic mavens command a dancefloor.

Nomadic Events presents the 9th Intergalactic Ball with The Librarian & El Papachango, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Saturday, March 11 at Q Roadhouse and Brewing Co. $15 advance, $20 at the door. 21 and older. IGB9.

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Big Something Anniversary for Pink Garter Big Something is somewhat of an anomaly in what’s considered the jam world. Led by frontman/guitarist/ vocalist Nick MacDaniels, the North Carolina-based funk/jazz-fusion six-piece has been touring with

Umphrey’s McGee following a stint at Jam Cruise and a series of home release parties for its fourth studio release, Tumbleweed. What distinquishes the band’s sound is perhaps its saxaphonist Casey Cranford, who will frequently pull out the EWI—electronic wind instrument. It allows for the versatility of a wind instrument but with the flexibility of electronic music. While the band has been a household name in the Southeast for a few years, this will be its first Wyoming show.

This date also signifies the fifth anniversary of The Rose and the Pink Garter Theatre, which has been a vital addition to the local music scene, hosting myriad acts that have never before stepped foot in the Tetons. The Rose will thank everyone for five years of patronage by offering free drinks (on a first come, first serve basis), a champagne tower, and a $5 food menu.

High-fives to the owners, talent buyers and crew for sustaining and entertaining!

Big Something, 9 p.m. Thursday at the Pink Garter Theatre. $15. PinkGarterTheatre.com. PJH

SUNDAY Elephant Revival & Steve Poltz (Center Theater), Screen Door Porch (Silver Dollar) MONDAY Donovan Frankenreiter & Grant-Lee Phillips (Pink Garter), JH Hootenanny (Dornans)

TUESDAY One Ton Pig (Silver Dollar)

n FREE Friday Tasting at Jackson Whole Grocer 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Winter Appreciation Party 4:00pm, Snow King Mountain, Free, 307-201-KING n Après Ski and Art 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905 n Eddie Modestini Yoga Workshop: Finding Peace in the Postures 5:30pm, Teton Yoga Shala, $70.00 - $300.00, 307-690-3054 n Celebrate our 2nd Anniversary 5:30pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, Free, 307-699-7480

n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Jackson Hole Community School Gala 6:00pm, Four Seasons Resort, $125.00, 307-733-5427 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-7338833 n Moose Hockey Game 7:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633

n Adventures on the Roof of the World: Human-Wildlife Coexistence on the Tibetan Plateau 7:00pm, The Center Theater, Free, 307-733-4900 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 844-996-7827 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Laff Staff 8:00pm, The Black Box Theater, $10.00, 307-733-4900 n Whiskey Mornin’ 9:00pm, Mangy Moose, $7.00, 307-733-4913

n Hot Pass 9:30pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Friday Night DJ featuring Senior Hun 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500

SATURDAY, MARCH 11

n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398

n 35th Annual Jackson Town Downhill Mini Hahnenkamm presented by Fish Creek Excavation 8:00am, Snow King Mountain, $25.00 - $65.00, 307-733-6433 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Growing Food in Jackson Hole 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $75.00, 307-733-7425 n SCULPTING FROM THE FIGURE: ÈCORCHÈ 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $275.00 - $330.00, 307-733-6379

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n Feathered Fridays 12:00pm, Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center, Free, 307-201-5433 n Snowshoe with a Ranger 1:30pm, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3399 n Greenneck DareDevils 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Screen Door Porch 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7334466

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n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Teton Valley Winter Farmers’ Market 10:00am, MD Nursery, Free, 208-354-8816 n 4 Essential Elements for the Landscape 2:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00 - $156.00, 307-733-6379 n The People’s Market 2:00pm, Teton County Fairground Building, Free n Suzuki and Viewpoints Workshop 3:00pm, The Black Box Theatre, $50.00, 307-733-3021 n Music Under the Tram with Whiskey Mornin’ 3:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Free, 307-733-2292 n Veuve Cliquot In The Snow 3:00pm, Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole, 307-732-5175 n The Deadlocks 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-3532300 n Greenneck Daredevils 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Après Ski and Art 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905 n 2017 Ducks Unlimited Banquet 5:00pm, Snow King Resort, Grand Ballroom, 307-413-7603 n Eddie Modestini Yoga Workshop: Finding Peace in the Postures 5:30pm, Teton Yoga Shala, $70.00 - $300.00, 307-690-3054 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Wine Makers Dinner featuring Sam Tannahill 6:00pm, Dornans, $85.00, 307-733-2415 n Moose Hockey Game 7:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-201-1633 n Backcountry Film Festival - Winter 2017 7:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $10.00, 307-7331500 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n The Laff Staff 8:00pm, The Black Box Theater, $10.00, 307733-4900 n Greenneck Daredevils 9:00pm, Mangy Moose, $7.00, 307-733-4913 n Screen Door Porch 9:00pm, Knotty Pine, Free, 208-787-2866 n Sextones 9:30pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-7333886 n Live Music w/ Joe Rudd 10:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-7331500

SUNDAY, MARCH 12

n 35th Annual Jackson Town Downhill Mini Hahnenkamm presented by Fish Creek Excavation 8:00am, Snow King Mountain, $25.00 - $65.00, 307-733-6433

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CREATIVE PEAKS Light the Way Daylight Saving Time brings two new art shows that celebrate light.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

The dance of color The promise of abstract painting is to lift back the scrim of representation in order to delve into the potency of color, shape, line, and the energetic quality of brushstrokes themselves.

For Denver artist Leslie Gifford, whose exhibit “A Celebration of Light” opens Thursday at the Center for the Arts, abstract painting grew out of her love of dance, yoga, and spiritual healing arts. “Color, like sound and music, is a vibration,” she said.

Gifford is the first in the Center’s specially curated Campus Exhibitions program in the Theater Gallery. Six local and regional artists were selected to show their work in the gallery this year, along with shows by Center resident organizations. The other 2017 Center artists to exhibit will be Scotty Craighead, Matt Daly, Thomas Macker, and Bronwyn Minton, as well as Courtney Blazon of Missoula, Montana.

Gifford believes color can tap into our psyches and create a sense of peace and well-being. For her Center show, she draws upon her background as a dancer to express movement and joy on the canvas. Simple gestures and lines, robust blocks of color and hints of shapes erupt across Gifford’s canvases. What appears deceptively simple and almost primitive reveals itself to be eloquently harmonious. Her exuberant paintings live up to their aim to be renderings of joy itself.

According to the Center’s creative initiatives coordinator Carrie Richer, the jury for the Campus Exhibitions program felt that Gifford’s work was new and refreshing.

“It is great timing for this show as we are easing out of an intense winter,” Richer said. “I find myself reacting viscerally to each abstract painting. No doubt there is something very special energetically with this show.”

A unique component to the artist’s

Leslie Gifford’s ‘Uncorking the Magic’ hangs at the Center. Block prints by Ben Roth (right) can be found at Penny Lane Cooperative.

reception will be an improvisational performance by Dancers’ Workshop’s Kate Kosharek and Lindsay Larson, who will create a show in response to Gifford’s work. “My goal as a performer in this type of setting is to help create a mood or essence and to extend upon what already exists in the artwork,” Kosharek said.

A dance performance in response to paintings by a dancer offers a uniquely multi-dimensional experience of the work, inviting audiences to think about form, gesture, color and light on and off the canvas. “The performance element may encourage the audience to participate with the work in a new way,” Kosharek said.

Opening reception for Leslie Gifford’s “A Celebration of Light,” 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 9 at the Center for the Arts Theater Gallery, with a special performance by Kate Kosharek and Lindsay Larson.

Artist talk by Leslie Gifford, noon Thursday, March 9 at the Center for the Arts Theater Gallery.

Authentic beams Penny Lane Cooperative hosts an art opening Friday night, featuring new work by Alissa Davies, Jenny Dowd, Steven Glass and Ben Roth.

Davies’ new work includes a richly layered intuitive painting in deep reds and bold oranges. Roth will show recent black and white block prints of beautifully patterned moths. Dowd explores the personalities of inanimate objects in her drawings and sculptures. And Glass offers an eclectic mix of graffiti style portraits.

For Glass, Penny Lane has been a fun and profitable place to show work, where he can take chances that he might not take in a traditional gallery setting. “As a mixture of a hip boutique and an art gallery/bazaar, it gives artists the opportunity to create an organic, evolving space to show work,” he said. “It’s essentially your own gallery within a gallery. You get to be an artist, gallery curator and a small business owner. Plus you never know who will walk in and be interested in your art.”

Penny Lane is chic without being stuffy, elegant but not uptight.

Proprietor Andi Keenan brings her panache for style and her down-toearth friendliness to every aspect of her business. Her vision is solidly community based. “Local art and community events are the backbone of Penny Lane Cooperative,” Keenan said.

In the same way that small independent bookstores or neighborhood pubs also serve as community gathering spaces where a deepened sense of culture and connection happen, Keenan hopes her business serves the same function. “Penny Lane is here for locals to explore art, gather together, laugh with old friends, meet new friends, and experience the magic of Jackson community,” she said. “I want people to be a witness to the incredible talent, creativity, and passion of these artists while enjoying each other.”

Steven Glass will also DJ Friday’s event, and spirits and small bites round out the evening.

“Light it Up” art opening, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 10 at Penny Lane Cooperative, 185 Scott Lane. PJH

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Kong: Skull Island brings Vietnam to a war against monsters.

BY MARYANN JOHANSON @maryannjohanson

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hat’s the big surprise of Kong: Skull Island? No, it’s not a secret sequel to Peter Jackson’s 2005 film King Kong; the two movies are not connected in any way.

And no, in fact, this Kong is not a sequel to 2014’s Godzilla either, though the two are both part of the shared universe that’s being called the MonsterVerse.

The big surprise—not a spoiler!—is that Skull Island is actually a prequel to Godzilla. After a brief introductory sequence set in 1944, the action jumps to 1973 and stays there—which lends a delicious retro analog vibe to the goings-on.

A good reason to set this tale in 1973: it allows for mysterious Skull Island, hidden by a perpetual storm, to have been recently discovered in the South Pacific by the first Earth-mapping satellites. Scientist Bill Randa (John Goodman) finally gets permission to take his team on a mission to the island; he has a pretty good idea what’s there via his top-secret government project, Monarch (referenced in Godzilla), which is documenting the existence of “massive unidentified terrestrial organisms.” (It’s like an X-Files for monsters.)

So off they go accompanied by “tracker” James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), photojournalist Mason Weaver (Brie Larson) and an escort of U.S. military who are about to be demobilized from Vietnam.

Once on the island, they meet Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly), who was shot down over the island in 1944—that’s

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the opening sequence—and has been stuck there ever since.

Boiled down to its bonkers essence, Skull Island is a Vietnam war movie with monsters. (Kong is far from the only one.) It’s Ape-ocalypse Now, with a war-addicted, possibly insane Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), who is quite upset about the whole not-winning in Vietnam thing, going full Ahab and fixating on Kong as a “war” he can win. (He might be underestimating the capabilities of his squad.)

So while Skull Island has ironic fun with a running motif about how war can make a man see enemies everywhere, including in a giant ape that was just minding his own business until you started dropping bombs on him, there’s also a man-versus-nature thing running alongside it: mess with nature, and nature will mess right back, ferociously.

It’s like Jurassic Park, with a lot less wonder and a hell of a lot more horror.

Oh, the gruesome, intense ickiness here! This movie is really pushing the boundaries of a PG-13 rating—or maybe it only feels that way when you’re watching in 3D IMAX and the jungle bug slime and gore and monster vomit is all over you. This is a rare instance of 3D being put to actual use onscreen, rather than just serving as an excuse to hike ticket prices; there is real depth in the jungle, real dizziness to be found looking down from a high cliff. Jordan Vogt-Roberts, whose only previous feature film is the unpleasantly snide

ultra-low-budget coming-of-age dramedy The Kings of Summer, has acquitted himself well with his first massive effects-driven movie.

All the horror and the black comedy and the monster battles and the homages to a slew of other films: it all works, even crammed in like this, thanks to the fine line the terrific cast walks with just enough taking-it-seriously under the lashings of nonsense. Reilly steals the show as his lost-in-time pilot, but Hiddleston is a close second, plausibly rougher and tougher than we’ve seen him before in his first true action role.

Larson’s role could be meatier, but she is not a damsel in distress, and she is not there for Kong to inexplicably fall in love with. In fact, the most offensive Kong tropes have been excised, though they are alluded to.

One or two groans are necessary response to an obvious choice or two on the soundtrack of mostly awesome 70s rock tunes, but that’s not much to complain about when so much could have gone badly wrong here. I would have said, after Peter Jackson’s Kong, that he didn’t need another reboot. But I’m glad we got this one. PJH

KONG: SKULL ISLAND BBB.5 Tom Hiddleston Brie Larson John Goodman Rated PG-13

TRY THESE Jurassic Park (1993) Sam Neill Laura Dern Rated PG-13

King Kong (2005) Naomi Watts Jack Black Rated PG-13

The Kings of Summer (2013) Nick Robinson Gabriel Basso Rated R

Godzilla (2014) Aaron-Taylor Johnson Elizabeth Olsen Rated PG-13

n Kindercreations Ages 3-5 10:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $80.00 - $96.00, 307-733-6379 n Foreign Policy Series 12:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Silent Space 12:30pm, St. John’s Church, Free, 307-733-2603 n B.O.G.D.O.G - Band On Glen Down on Glen 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n After School Kidzart Club: Grade K-2 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $165.00 $198.00, 307-733-6379 n Handbuilding Plus!

3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 $180.00, 307-733-6379 n Studio Sampler 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $264.00 $316.00, 307-733-6379 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Foreign Policy Series 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Relief Printing, Condensed 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00, 307733-6379 n The Center Presents National Theatre Live’s broadcast of War Horse 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $10.00 - $18.00, 307-733-4900 n Donovan Frankenreiter 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $22.00 - $25.00, 307-733-1500

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n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Adobe InDesign Boot Camp 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $200.00, 307-733-7425 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277

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n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Digital Photography 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, 307733-7425 n Create with Me: Ages 2 & 3 with caregiver 9:15am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $75.00 - $90.00, 307-733-6379 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277

n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Teton Plein Air Painters Critique 12:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7336379 n White Lightning Open Mic Night 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n The Maw Band 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n POP UP: Art FUNdamentals 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $70.00 - $84.00, 307-733-6379 n Hand and Wheel 3:45pm, Ceramics Studio, $180.00 - $216.00, 307-7336379 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Auditions for The Tempest!

5:30pm, Black Box Theatre, Free, 307-733-3021 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Indian Cooking - Butter Chicken 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $65.00, 307-733-7425 n Relief Printing, Condensed 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00, 307733-6379 n Art N Soul 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $88.00 $105.00, 307-733-6379 n Eclipse and Chips #3 6:00pm, The Wildwood Room, Free n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n B.O.G.D.O.G. 9:30pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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n Rock the Ride 9:00am, Revolution Indoor Cycling, 307-413-0441 n SCULPTING FROM THE FIGURE: ÈCORCHÈ 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $275.00 $330.00, 307-733-6379 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Jackson Canine Carnival 11:00am, Teton County Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall, Free, 307-363-2791 n Casper Deck Party presented by Bud Light with DJ VerT-OnE 11:00am, JHMR Casper Restaurant, Free, 307-733-2292 n 9th Annual Snow King Pond Skim 12:30pm, Snow King Mountain, Free, 307-201-KING n Highland Country Allstars 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Major Zephyr 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Eddie Modestini Yoga Workshop: Finding Peace in the Postures 5:30pm, Teton Yoga Shala, $70.00 - $300.00, 307-6903054 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Screen Door Porch 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Center Presents Elephant Revival 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $29.00 - $37.00, 307-733-4900

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Cerveza Savvy Warm up with brews from clara to obscura.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

G

ather round, beer aficionados, because here are are some terrific Mexican and domestic Mexican-style brews to warm your bones and bring sunshine to your days.

Certain dark beers are called obscura in Mexico. Readily available year-round is Bohemia Obscura. It’s a bock-style beer that was developed originally by German immigrant brewers in Mexico.

German-style brewing is also well-represented in another excellent Mexican obscura: Negra Modelo. This creamy, slightly sweet beer is complex, with hints of Mexican chocolate or mole. It’s not too dissimilar from a

German altbier, and pairs well with pork, lamb, goat and beef dishes.

The German influence on the early Mexican brewing industry can be credited for one of my favorite Mexican clear (clara) lagers: Bohemia Lager. It’s a complex, German-style light/clear lager that is aged longer than most Mexican beers. Bohemia has fragrant floral aromas and a somewhat nutty malt flavor.

The same ginormous brewery that produces Negra Modelo—Grupo Modelo—also makes what has to be the most ubiquitous Mexican brew in this country: Corona Extra. Grupo Modelo, in turn, is owned by InBev, which also owns Budweiser. To be honest, I’m not a huge Corona crony. But, it certainly has its fans. It’s the best-selling non-domestic beer in the United States, and the fifth most popular beer worldwide. The truth is, Corona is easier to find here than it is in Mexico, since the American consumer seems to like its inoffensive, light, non-bitter, crisp flavors. I must admit, there are few beers that go down better on a beach or a boat.

When I’m in the mood for a light, crisp beer similar to Corona Extra, my

IMBIBE pick is Pacifico Clara. Also manufactured by Grupo Modelo and brewed in Mazatlan, Pacifico is a Mexican-style pilsner that’s a little more meaty than Corona, as well as slightly hoppier—one of the better light lagers from Mexico.

Here in the U.S., Epic Brewing makes a refreshing session-style lager called Los Locos. It’s a Mexican-style lager that has natural lime juice and a little sea salt added to balance hints of sweetness from corn adjuncts—sort of like a beer margarita that tastes great with nachos.

Another fun American beer with a sunny Mexicoinfluenced mind set

is Wasatch Jalapeño Cream Ale. The beer seems to come and go, depending upon the whims of Wasatch Brewery founder Greg Schirf. I absolutely love this unusual brew, when I can find it. Imagine a Shoenling Little Kings Cream Ale that’s been infused with fresh jalapeños.

The Jalapeño Cream Ale is light and refreshing—not too spicy—but brimming with vegetal jalapeño flavors.

It’s a terrific summertime sipper.

Another unique domestic Mexican-style lager is Proper Brewing’s Little Sister Cerveza. It’s a seasonal lager made with malted blue corn and German Tettnanger hops, named in honor of brewers Liam and Rio Connelly’s little sister’s 21st birthday. PJH

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Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm.

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ALPENHOF

Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience.

Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am. Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm. Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

THE BLUE LION

A Jackson Hole favorite for 38 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb.

Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30-6:0pm, Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.

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FULL STEAM SUBS

The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

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HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS

Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. 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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Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., Dinner Tues-Sat 5 p.m. and Happy Hour TuesSat 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh.com.

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LOCAL

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

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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.

LOTUS CAFE

Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner. 140 N. Cache, (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

MANGY MOOSE

11am - 9:30pm daily 20 W. Broadway 307.201.1472

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MOE’S BBQ

Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival. Moe’s Original Bar B Que offers award-winning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp MoeBoy sandwich. Additionally, a daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily from recipes passed down for generations. With a kitchen that stays open late, the restaurant features a menu that fits any budget. While the setting is family-friendly, there is a full premium bar offering a lively bar scene complete with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery for any size group for parties, business lunches, reunions, weddings and other special events is also be available.

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Jackson’s first Speakeasy Steakhouse. The Million Dollar Cowboy Steakhouse is a hidden gem located below the world famous Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Our menu offers guests the best in American steakhouse cuisine. Top quality chops and steaks sourced from local farms, imported Japanese Wagyu beef, and house-cured meats and sausages. Accentuated with a variety of thoughtful side dishes, innovative appetizers, creative vegetarian items, and decadent desserts, a meal at this landmark location is sure to be a memorable one. Reservations are highly recommended.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

307.733.3242

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.

TRIO

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

ITALIAN CALICO

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

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA

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

PINKY G’S

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, 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.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017

ACROSS

81 Marshland 82 Draws off, as maple syrup 86 Outback native 87 To have, to Henri 88 Grace starter 90 Its PAC is the Political Victory Fund 91 Campbell-Martin of “Martin” 94 “A mouse!”

95 Hawk’s claw 97 Synthetic silk 99 On the road 101 Holiday pantomime game?

104 Colombian export 108 Blockheads 109 “My stars!”

110 Necklace for a macho heartthrob?

112 Curly-tailed dog 115 MinuteClinic operator 117 Ceramic piece 118 “Terrible” Russian ruler 119 Little bird wielding an ax?

122 Genesis setting 123 Like Gen. Shinseki, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs 124 Forearm bones 125 Well-timed 126 Pair near your hair 127 Sailing ropes 128 Frets 129 Requiring a lot of attention

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5 6 7 8 9 10

Flix alternative Sideline shouts Post-exam exultation First African-American Best Actor Ocean bird Baby monitor alert Folksy Guthrie Hard on the eyes “Seems to be the case” __ Majesty

81 Maker of fancy notebooks 83 “I’ll take all the help I can get” 84 Urge 85 Right in the head 89 Big bore 92 Gets tough 93 “Never Wave at __”: Rosalind Russell movie 95 Screening org.

96 To blame 98 Spider woman?

100 “Java” trumpeter 102 “__ b?”: “Which is it?”

103 Pick up 104 Name on Re-Nutriv products 105 Site of the Cave of Zeus, in myth: Abbr.

106 Calculus pioneer 107 Glide on blades 111 Calls off 113 “... __ a puddy tat!”

114 Merged news agency 116 Move quickly, as clouds 119 “Breaking Bad” baddie Fring 120 Nonpro?

121 Very important

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1 2 3 4

11 Ottoman honorific 12 Not all there 13 Cable option 14 Visit overnight 15 [“That stinks!”]

16 Go off-line?

17 Move crab-style 18 Helped a tot tie a shoelace, say 24 Single-serving coffee choice 29 Bit of a belly laugh 30 Atkins of country 32 Time line divisions 34 Winery cask 36 Ground-up bait 37 Fanfare and then some 38 Come again 39 “Julie & Julia” director 40 Major course 45 Ref. for wordsmiths 47 Where to find fans 48 Stairway piece 49 They’re unlikely to pass the bar 52 Slugger Mel 53 Fresh 54 Spokane-to-Edmonton dir.

57 Modeling adhesive 59 Lost cause 60 Goofy collectibles?

61 Lift 63 Cabinet dept.

64 Closer to being raw 66 “Same for me” 67 Game inside a Narragansett beer bottle cap 69 “Rabbit” series author 70 Starbuck, for one 72 Conspire with 73 “Got it!”

74 Demonstratively romantic 77 Rodeo mount 78 “__ out!”

80 Blue state?

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1 Baloney 6 Novelist Evelyn 11 “The Sound of Music” high points 15 Risk being burned, in a way 19 Impressive dwelling 20 Press the point 21 One with kids 22 One-eyed Norse deity 23 Large retailer’s overexpansion, perhaps?

25 Georgetown hoopster 26 Sign word evoking days of yore 27 Watch kids 28 Is too sweet 29 Welcome summer cold snap?

31 In __ of 33 Terrier of old mysteries 35 “Oh, sure!”

36 Measure of stress inflicted by a crowd’s roar?

41 GPS displays 42 Monster slain by Hercules 43 Printer brand owned by Seiko 44 Black Friday mo.

46 Autocrats until 1917 50 News-selling org.

51 Resort in the Caucasian Riviera 53 Stout holder 55 Copacabana beach locale 56 Dole (out) 58 Sour 59 Storage unit for spray bottles, trowels, etc.?

62 __-Canada: Esso competitor 64 Don Juan 65 Bairns 66 MLBer with 696 home runs 68 Subtleties 71 Unbelievable one 72 Like some spore reproduction 75 Worms, to robins 76 Deep pit 79 Soup for toddlers?

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Embrace Awe and Wonder “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”

– Gautama Buddha

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here is a consensus among scientists and contemporary metaphysicians that in order for us to evolve to the highest level of our human potential, we have to upgrade our frequency. Simply put, fear-based states of being have a low energy frequency; love-based states of being have a high-energy frequency. Therefore, the key to upgrading our frequency is directly related to living with a loving, open heart.

We know that practicing gratitude, love, compassion, forgiveness, generosity and kindness are all heart openers. We also have learned that in addition to greater well-being, an open heart connects us to the wisdom and higher intelligence of our soul and the greater cosmos.

Awe and wonder are two more heart-opening experiences we can add to the repertoire for upgrading our frequency.

Endless natural beauty We are living in the ever-abundant beauty found in nature, which overflows with opportunities to evoke wonder and open our hearts. Interacting with nature is a built-in stress reducer designed to recalibrate us to our heart so we can reconnect to a higher vibrational frequency and live a higher destiny.

Therefore, anytime we choose to look carefully at a single flower or notice the perfect geometry of snowflakes, or breathe in the scent of a rose, or listen to the sound of a songbird, or touch the softest skin of a baby, or savor a sun-ripened berry, or look up at the myriads of stars on a clear night, wonderment is right there waiting for us to open our hearts to it.

Nature’s incredible intelligence Recent scientific research corroborates indigenous intuitive awareness that every cell, every plant, bird, insect, animal, blade of grass has intelligence, processes sensations and feelings, and is in constant communication with all other forms of life. Discoveries of profound intelligence in nature are another source of awe and ego-busting humility. Here are three recent scientific findings to inspire and expand your wonderment quota.

1. Plants perceive light, color, smell, and touch. They can learn, remember, and communicate, which are all traits we associate with human beings. Scientists have discovered that plants can see you when you are standing next to them, and discern the color of your clothing.

They don’t have eyes, but they have the same photoreceptor proteins all over their bodies, which we have at the back of the retina. Plants don’t have brains, but they translate electrical signals in their cells, the same way humans do with our neurons. Plants warn each other if danger is present, and collaborate to help each other to thrive.

2. Bees are invertebrates that have a brain the size of a grain of sugar. Yet they can see in the ultra-violet light spectrum, which we cannot. Iridescent colors in the ultra-violet spectrum inform bees which plants and which parts of plants have the most sugar. Bees can also understand abstract concepts like sameness and difference. They tell each other where to find the best nectar; they each fulfill the specific function for which they are designed in the colony. The collective effort makes for thriving bee colonies.

3. Octopus are remarkably smart; they have neurons in their brain, but the most neurons are in their eight arms, giving them something akin to a mind in each arm. Cut off an arm and it can grow back as good as new.

Octopus can taste with all of its skin, and they can see color through their skin. They can cause color to sweep across their body creating the illusion of movement.

With no bones, they can take any shape and pour themselves like water through any opening. They can even untie knots. Octopuses recognize individual people, even if they are dressed alike, just by looking up at them through the water.

Feel the wow Hopefully some of the information above evokes that feeling of “wow” in you. Try savoring the uplift of wonderment by allowing the feeling to circulate through your body. And then consider the following long-held wisdom teaching: Live each day as if today is the first day … as a way to take in the beauty with fresh eyes, to marvel at the intelligence all around us, and to feel the infinite support which every life on Earth embodies and provides.

It turns out that the old saying, “Take the time to smell the roses,” is true in several ways. This is about the importance of making time to just be; and it is also a fact that the aroma and beauty of a single rose opens the heart. 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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ran across one of those articles about the “best” of stuff, like the best place to live, the best colleges, the best place to get drunk and fall down, that kind of stuff. Actually, I think that “best” is very personal. My best is probably your worst, and that’s the way it should be. Sometimes it also is the same thing. If someone had to choose between the plague, typhoid or a hangnail, a lot would depend on how the day was going and what options were available and could something worse happen to someone else.

I got to thinking about what was best in my hometown of Corn Cob, Iowa, and while it was probably not a lot, I did remember a few things.

What was the best restaurant? There was the hotel, but that was also the bus depot. Then there was the Coffee Cup Café; it was infested with a horde of old Norwegian bachelors, retired layabouts and social leftovers. They clogged up the place, sucked up all the coffee, ate all the donuts and annoyed everyone.

You could also eat lunch at the drugstore, but the lunch counter had a resident cockroach who was delighted to sit on your sandwich and dine with you.

Should you desire more elegant dining, there was the Skunk River Supper Club. There you could eat, sneak in booze, and dance to Homer Hopwood and his Merry Men. Homer’s mother played the trombone and if she had to work at 7-Eleven on Friday nights, Homer’s cousin, Ilka, played her magic accordion and whistled requests from the diners.

I think the best event of the year was the county fair at nearby Silo City.

All the Corn Cob girls would hop in

The Ponca Nebraska Symphony Orchestra was chosen ‘Best Symphony Orchestra on the West Side of Town’ in 1929. We’re not sure what was on the east side of town, or if there was an east side of town.

their cars and race to the fair in hopes of picking up the Silo City boys and making out under the grandstand. My friend LaWanda came home one year with a selection of hickies and a terminal rash on her fanny, probably the result of poison ivy and cooties. I never did anything like that because unfortunately, I wasn’t that kind of girl. (If you have pimples and wear Girl Scout oxfords, you aren’t that kind of girl.)

I think everyone thinks their high school class is the best; ours was OK, but “best class” has to go to the class behind mine. The class president became a notorious serial killer. Next best class?

The one in which one of the boys grew up to be a congressman, then a crook (some people think it’s the same thing).

Then he became the father-in-law of a president’s daughter. He’s now out of prison, but he’s in hiding and still owes his mother-in-law $100,000.

The best thing I ever knew was that palace of delight, the dime store. I can still smell the cheap candy, the little bottles of colored toilet water, the paper dolls and the dresser sets. I just couldn’t leave the place alone and I had to touch everything again, and again. Sadly, delight fades and nothing stays the same. Woolworths became Woolco, Kresge’s became K-Mart; a salesman visited a Ben Franklin store in Minnesota, liked it, and went home and coughed up Wal-Mart. Sadly, our Minneapolis Dayton’s, where Mary Tyler Moore threw her hat in the air, is gone. It disappeared a long time ago and was replaced by square buildings decorated with red targets. There is a lesson here: that wonderful things like good parents can give birth to lousy kids. PJH

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) If you normally wear adornments, accessories and fine disguises, I invite you not to do so for the next two weeks.

Instead, try out an unembellished, what-you-see-is-whatyou-get approach to your appearance. If, on the other hand, you don’t normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I encourage you to embrace such possibilities in a spirit of fun and enthusiasm. Now, you might inquire: How can these contradictory suggestions both apply to the Pisces tribe? The answer: There’s a more sweeping mandate behind it all, namely, to tinker and experiment with the ways you present yourself, to play around with strategies for translating your inner depths into outer expression.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) As soon as you can, sneak away to a private place where you can be alone—preferably to a comfy sanctuary where you can indulge in eccentric behavior without being seen or heard or judged. When you get there, launch into an extended session of moaning and complaining. I mean, do it out loud. Wail and whine and whisper about everything that’s making you sad and puzzled and crazy.

For best results, leap into the air and wave your arms.

Whirl around in erratic figure-eights while drooling and messing up your hair. Breathe extra deeply. And all the while, let your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow freely through your wild heart. Keep going until you find the relief that lies on the other side.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That was his prerogative, of course.

Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Nothing is ever as simple as it might seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one hand, you will be closer than you’ve been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Evolved Scorpios don’t fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want. They might, however, experience urges to achieve total cunning, dazzling, merciless victory over those who won’t acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “The noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that’s best incited by music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. It’s time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile or apathetic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you’ll be six years old for the rest of your life,” author Anne Lamott says. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity— as well as conundrums, incongruity and anomalies—there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad!

Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Lichen is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers 6 percent of the earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis.

Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You’re primed for some sterling symbioses.

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

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Would you like to live to the age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the coming weeks could be important in that project. A window to longevity will open, giving you a chance to gather clues about actions you can take and meditations you can do to remain vital for 10 decades. I hope you’re not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity. If you’d like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes.

Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it’s an essential asset.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Let’s talk about a compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who practice this art don’t steal valuable things you love. Rather, they pilfer stuff you don’t actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor might sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Seek intimacy with experiences that are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex—and maybe even a sensational do-it-yourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet.

Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’re ripe. You’re delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. I think it’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let’s review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start. A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up.

Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing. P.S.: If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection.

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