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The People’s Poet U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera crosses borders and generations.

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15 COVER STORY THE PEOPLE’S POET U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera crosses borders and generations.

Cover photo by Blue Flower Arts

6 THE NEW WEST

20 MUSIC BOX

8 DEMOCRACY

IN CRISIS

22 FREE SPEECH 24 CINEMA

10 THE BUZZ

28 COSMIC CAFE

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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey The slowdown in town is much more noticeable this week, the mid-April lull is now in fill swing as we head into the heart of the off-season in Jackson Hole. Snowstorms are less frequent, at least the kind that might cause us to bring out the snow shovel.

Warmer temperatures allow us to bring out the bikes, and hopefully, get one last ride on the inner park road before the gates open to cars and motorhomes.

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The first half of April did not have a single morning with a low temperature that was above freezing. During the first half of March 2017 we had three days above freezing. You could say then, that April 2017 started out colder than the month of March 2017. The morning low on Easter Sunday this year was 19-degrees, making for some chilly egg hunting. Average lows this week are in the upper 20’s. The record low this week was 6-degrees, set back on April 20, 1982.

We had a high temperature in town last Thursday, April 13th, of 67-degrees. That was the warmest day of the year, so far, in 2017. The next day, Friday April 14th, the high temperature in town was only 40-degrees, a 27-degree cool down. Average high temperatures this week are in the mid50’s. Record highs are in the 70’s, with the highest temperature ever recorded this week a toasty 78-degrees, which happened on April 21st, 1994.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.14 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 2.7 inches (1963) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 4 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 24 inches (1967)

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FROM OUR READERS SPET Responsibly Once again, our local politicians and others have provided a “shopping list” of publicly funded SPET proposals, heavily advertised and promoted using the public’s money, in attempting to gain access to far more of the public’s money through the May 2 election. All funded by increased sales taxes, one of the most regressive of all taxes. We all pay, not just tourists.

For some of the new urbanites of the “entitlement generation” flooding into Jackson Hole, maybe it would be nice to have millions for subsidized housing.

Millions more for public transit despite very low public ridership. Heavily subsidized cooking classes and art classes.

And so on. Mostly very pro-growth projects, mostly benefitting private employers directly or indirectly.

All while the rest of Wyoming has to tighten its belt. But I hope that enough Jackson Hole residents remember fiscal responsibility and perhaps most importantly, remember that we live in one of the last great ecosystems on our planet.

A genuine American Serengeti in many respects. Human overpopulation and crowding with more exploitation and overuse—those are the most fundamental problems facing our community and the grizz, elk, deer, wolves, moose, bison and other wildlife species that preceded us by tens of thousands of years. They do not get to vote, but you do.

Please show the discipline to vote “no” except for truly necessary SPET infrastructure projects. We are the ultimate invasive species, but that carries with it a duty of stewardship in protecting this wonderful natural setting.

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ICE Cold Dear Wyoming, I am one of the persons to whose home the ICE agents came. They knocked on my door and without knowing who they were, I opened it. When I opened the door they entered the house without my permission, and the man from ICE loudly demanded some identification. I told them I did not have any and they said, “You better give us one because if you don’t we are going to arrest you.”

But they did not tell me who they were looking for. They asked me if I worked, was my husband legal or illegal, where did he work, and what was his telephone number?

After that they asked me where the person they were looking for was, they told me the name, and I told them that I did not know. They loudly told me, “You know that we can arrest you?” and I told them I did not know where the person lived, and they said again, “You do know where she lives.”

When they were leaving the man grabbed my telephone off of the table and seeing that it was turned off he put it back on the table. As they were leaving they said, “We are going to come back and we need your papers.”

They were very aggressive. All of this happened while my children were home.

– The “illegal” immigrant

Five is Nice I’m really digging the 5 percent sales tax rate that went into effect on April 1.

I could get used to this. Unfortunately, absentee voting has already begun in anticipation of the May 2 SPET election.

Are we sure we want to vote for all these SPET items and raise the tax back up to 6 percent? That’s a 20 percent increase in sales tax.

According to the State of Wyoming, Teton County’s cost of living is 52 percent higher than the state average.

Higher taxes won’t improve that situation. We should think long and hard about which (if any) of the SPET proposals are really essential, urgent, and cost effective. Maybe it’s time local government started living within its means,

like the rest of us have to. At the very least, we shouldn’t vote for all of the $70 million worth of SPET proposals. That would tie up the sixth cent for at least six years, and put us in a precarious position, where if any new and pressing infrastructure needs come up during that time we’ll have no choice but to raise taxes up to 7 percent, and that rate will never come back down, trust me.

Local officials are already laying the groundwork to ask the legislature for additional sales tax options above and beyond SPET. It’s up to the voters to hold the government in check. I recommend that we spend no more than two years worth of sixth cent revenue, which means whittling down this glut of proposals to around $24 million (or less).

Vote “for” what you think is really important and “against” the rest. Let’s keep our powder dry and our taxes low, so that we don’t make Jackson even more expensive, and so that we are ready for any unanticipated, urgent needs that may come up. Then, in two years, we can take another look at this and see how are priorities are shaking out.

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Earth to Trump The past paints a grim picture of what happens in the absence of environmental regulations.

BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature

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arth Day is Saturday—the 47th time it’s been commemorated since the first one was held in 1970.

In many locales, March for Science rallies are happening in support of science and against the Trump administration’s muzzling of scientists, gutting of federal research budgets, and slashing of funding for federal land management agencies, many of them foundational to the lifeblood of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Last year on Earth Day, the Paris Climate Accord was ratified by the U.S. and nearly 200 other nations, including China, serving as a voluntary framework for reducing human-generated greenhouse gases warming the planet. Under Trump, Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is pushing to have the U.S. withdraw from the agreement and go its own way in the world, denying that anthropogenic climate change is a serious problem.

Every year, we hear grumbling from the usual suspects—including those now identifying as Trumpians—curmudgeons who claim Earth Day as nothing more than a meaningless green pagan cult celebration, the product of hippie flower children leftists aspiring to self-righteously worship at the altar of nature.

Trumpians forget: Earth Day was as much born by mainstream Republican tree huggers as by progressive Democrats. Yet in recent years the spirit of its genesis seems to have been abandoned by most wings of the current GOP who have lost their mooring in the truism that conservation is a conservative ideal.

Let’s quickly recap where America was during the 1960s prior to the advent of Earth Day: • Many of this nation’s rivers were used as garbage disposal systems, carrying toxic waste dumped out the backs of factories, raw untreated sewage and run-off from streets and storm drains filled with paint thinners, poisons and other toxic household products. Some rivers, like the Cuyahoga, caught fire.

• In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, sullied the Pacific Ocean and served as a wake-up call for those who believed that all citizens had to do was listen to fossil fuel companies saying, “Trust us everything will be alright.”

The Santa Barbara spill ranks as the third worst behind the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010.

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Smog in urban areas, linked to bad air coming out of auto tailpipes and smokestacks, was causing modern outbreaks of childhood asthma cases and lung diseases.

The country’s public forests were being cut over and liquidated, given away to private timber companies that didn’t want to cash out their own private holdings when the federal government— read uninformed taxpayers—were ever so happy to subsidize their profits by building roads and giving away old growth for pennies on the dollar.

Hardrock and other mines, including those of radioactive uranium and coal, were dug with no reclamation plans, only to be abandoned, leaving taxpayers stuck with Superfund sites and billions of dollars in liabilities; in some cases, giving the public a clean-up burden that will last forever.

Tens of millions of public lands in the West were cleared of bears, wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, and even eagles by poisons, traps and bullets to ensure the landscape posed no threat to cattle and sheep overstocking rangelands. Many of the beneficiaries were not, in fact, mom and pop ranchers but corporate, tax-decrying outfits ever so happy to suckle from federal government subsidies.

Manufacturers of lead paint, lead gasoline and harmful pesticides were making children and others, across generations, sick by being exposed to contamination that diminished brain function and learning skills, harming the lives of poor people at disproportionately higher rates than the wealthy.

Earth Day was supposed to mark a turning point.

The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency was considered a bipartisan statement of hope and conviction that a clean and healthy environment mattered.

Think of this: The Endangered Species Act (the vanguard wildlife protection law in the world), the National Environmental Policy Act (which requires scientific and public review of major management actions), the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the National Forest Management Act and others came on line during the Nixon years. They were a response to ecological destruction directly linked to a lack of regulation and the failure of the free market to be the conscience of the common good.

Donald Trump will never get Earth Day. On a daily basis he flaunts epic environmental illiteracy. Those in Greater Yellowstone cheerleading his evisceration of longstanding environmental laws don’t get the hypocrisy of their desire to dwell in our region’s public land-rich paradise, which only exists because of Earth Day-era regulations and wise human self-restraint.

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Todd Wilkinson has been writing his award-winning New West column for nearly 30 years. It appears weekly in Planet Jackson Hole. He is author of the recent award winning book Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek, An Intimate Portrait of 399, the Most Famous Grizzly of Greater Yellowstone, featuring photographs by Jackson Hole’s Thomas D. Mangelsen. Special autographed copies are only available at mangelsen.com/grizzly.

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Stone and Smoke Republican dirty trickster disses Jeff Sessions’ take on toking.

BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

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oger Stone has two bongs shaped like his hero Richard Nixon. “One’s in the shape of his head, the other is kind of more artsy,” he said. “They’re both very cool but they’re a symbol to me that the war on drugs, as waged by Nixon, was a failure. Is a failure.”

Stone, the famous Republican dirty-trickster dandy who arrived in the public sphere when a stunt to discredit a Nixon opponent surfaced in the Watergate hearings, is as responsible for Trump’s ascent to the presidency as anyone. He has been urging Trump to run since the late 1980s and was an early manager of last year’s campaign. He saw Nixon’s anti-elitism as key to a future Republican victory—and was proven right when he helped a billionaire ride to the White House on the back of resentment against “the establishment.” He has a long history of racist and sexist remarks and founded an organization—Citizens United Not Timid—so he could call Hillary Clinton a “cunt.”

Lately, in addition to being at the center of the Russia scandal, Stone has been chiding the president for not reigning in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ outdated ideas about drugs.

“Sessions comes out of that conservative Southern, old-time tradition,” Stone told me on the phone.

“I think he’s quoted as saying, ‘Good people don’t smoke marijuana.’ No, Senator, sick people smoke marijuana. And it helps them. More than Western medicine sometimes. He has no life experience with that. He could not possibly understand because, you know, within Jeff Sessions’ circle of acquaintances and friends, he probably doesn’t know anyone who smokes marijuana.”

Stone, a snazzy-dressing swinger with a bodybuilding physique and a tattoo of Nixon on his back, is a libertine who might like to toke. But he also sees it as a philosophical issue.

“You can’t be for state’s rights when it comes to transgender bathrooms; you can’t be for state’s rights when it comes to abortion; you can’t be for state’s rights when it comes to medicinal marijuana, and then be against state’s rights when it comes to recreational marijuana,” he said. “Either you’re for state’s rights or you’re not. You’ve got to be consistent.”

For a crafty veteran of about 10 presidential campaigns, it’s a political issue as well.

“I think a lot of younger voters, I think a lot of libertarian-oriented voters—they may not even know that term—but voters who are fiscally conservative but

Roger Stone during an appearance on the propagandizing program Infowars.

socially progressive, I think they voted for Trump,” Stone said. Among those coming to Trump were pothead supporters of Gary Johnson.

I asked if he had talked to the president about it directly. “I’m gonna duck that question,” he said. “I just don’t want to fuck up my effectiveness, so I’d rather not address it.”

I wondered if Sessions—and by extension, Trump— might want to keep the drug war going for the same reason it was started. Nixon aide John Ehrlichman told Harper’s reporter Dan Baum that the administration used it to target and demonize its political enemies.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?”

Ehrlichman told Baum in 1994. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

“I’m not sure if it was as nefarious as Ehrlichman would put it,” Stone said. “I mean, yeah, at the time, the Nixonites, myself included, thought that all hippies smoke marijuana and all hippies were against the war and therefore all hippies were wrong.”

Now he has rethought all of that.

“In retrospect, I—any objective person has to realize that the war on drugs has been one giant, expensive, ignominious failure. We’re incarcerating people, we’re not rehabilitating anyone. We’re destroying lives over non-violent crimes, sometimes first-offense crimes. The whole question of drug abuse should be viewed as a public-health issue, not a criminal issue.”

And to show just how bizarro our political world is now, Stone, the ultimate Nixonian, is not only pro-pot but anti-war (“Anti pointless war when our national interest is not perfectly clear” he later clarified via text). Even if he recognizes some political benefits— including taking the “wind out of” the Russia investigations—to bombing another country, he said that, “going forward, Syria to me is a defining moment.”

“If this extends to a wider war, boots on the ground, saturation bombing, well then, the Trump coalition will fracture, and it will be hard for him to govern.”

Ever conspiracy-minded, Stone wondered if the chemical attack on civilians is what conspiracy theorists call a false flag.

“Could the use of chemical weapons in Syria have been a false flag not perpetrated by Assad?” he asked.

“Look up Gulf of Tonkin, but carefully. It never fucking happened. It was a phony operation Johnson used to justify a wider Vietnam War. That’s an indisputable fact today. We didn’t know it at the time. So yeah, I think the Deep State is capable of anything.”

It is true that Johnson—whom Stone believes had Kennedy assassinated—lied about U.S. ships coming under fire in the Gulf of Tonkin, justifying the resolution which remains the blueprint for military action undertaken by presidents without congressional approval. But that doesn’t necessarily say much about what is happening now in Syria.

But for Stone, it’s all part of the Deep State.

“There’s a permanent bureaucracy—I think what Eisenhower called the military industrial complex— of people in the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies and the defense contracting industry who have one neocon-based worldview,” he said. “They like foreign wars; they’re extremely profitable for some people.”

Stone was starting to sound like a hippie again.

But as he went on about the Deep State, which he thinks may have twice tried to assassinate him recently, I wondered if weed was making him paranoid—he has, after all, claimed to be developing a strain called Tricky Dick, whose primary feature, I imagine, would be paranoia.

“Am I paranoid? No, I’m pretty realistic,” he responded. 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 BUZZ

Narrative by Numbers Unpacking ICE’s past, present and future in Teton County.

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mmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was recently in Jackson to arrest nine undocumented people. These detainments—four were arrested—have spurred questions about ICE’s role in Teton County.

Although local law enforcement officials emphasized the visit was routine, some remain wary. According to immigration attorney Rosie Read, the weekly consultations she offers to the immigrant populace are regularly full.

“I have consistently hit my cap each week,” she said.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Matt Carr maintains, “We want to put the Latino community at ease. These are targeted operations.” Carr explained that ICE visits Jackson regularly—he estimated five to six times a year—to arrest individuals with serious criminal convictions: “They don’t come up here for traffic offenses. It’s not for minor situations.”

A recent joint statement issued

by Teton County Sheriff Jim Whalen

and Jackson Police Chief Todd Smith attempted to allay community fears about deportations in Jackson. Their message was that law-abiding people and those with minor offenses have nothing to fear. But ICE’s recent visit has people wondering just what “routine visits” mean, and examining ICE arrests in Teton County offers little solace.

‘Criminal’ in Teton County Though ICE has had a presence in Jackson Hole for at least 20 years, what is considered routine varies drastically year to year. Local law enforcement officials say ICE targets mostly serious criminals, but evidence suggests ICE has expanded its reach in the county.

Data compiled by Syracuse University reveals that between 2002 and 2015 in Teton County, 40 percent of ICE arrestees had no criminal conviction. Of those with convictions, 72 percent were misdemeanors.

The vast majority of arrests occurred between 2007 and 2012.

Whalen says he is happy with ICE’s role in Jackson, and has not witnessed overreach. “I’m living this world. I talk to ICE. I see this jail,” he said.

If the sheriff’s department arrests a person who is undocumented, law enforcement notifies ICE. “Ninety percent of the time, they say ‘no thank you,’” Whalen said. Though four people may have been arrested recently, Whalen says many more have been let go.

Yet, with a new administration

seeking to expand ICE’s reach, it’s worth noting how the agency interacts in communities.

Victor Narro, a professor at UCLA and expert on immigration and labor law, believes that one of the problems with current immigration enforcement is that policies may appear one way on paper, but are different in practice: “The Department of Homeland Security is telling us one thing, but agencies are very decentralized and there is no oversight.”

Syracuse’s Trac Immigration program obtained data from ICE for every 1-247 detainer request form issued between 2003 and 2016. These forms request that local jails or facilities hold undocumented people for up to 48 hours longer than normal so ICE can initiate immigration enforcement action.

As Carr stated, until ICE can transfer detainees to other facilities, “we will house these people as a courtesy.”

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, these detainers are unconstitutional, as they occur without due process and sometimes without “probable cause of any violation.”

ICE classifies crimes in three levels, and reportedly targets those who have committed the most serious offenses.

Level 1 crimes—defined as aggravated felonies—are the most serious. Level 2 criminals are those convicted of any felony, or three or more crimes each punishable by less than one year. The level 3 classification includes those convicted of a misdemeanor.

Since 2003, ICE has created

detainer requests for 845 people in Teton County—the highest amount in the state. ICE took custody of 525 of those people. Out of the 525, 127 had been charged but not convicted of a crime, and 83 had no criminal record.

Of the 315 people with convictions, more than 70 percent had committed misdemeanors (level 3) while just 15 percent had committed level one crimes.

In 2007, Teton County was in the top 61 percent of facilities in the country for its number of detainments and transfers of undocumented people. It’s difficult to track the transfer process.

Of the four Jackson individuals recently apprehended, three are no longer listed as being in an ICE facility. According to the ICE detainee locator, the fourth, Armando Montiel Garcia, is in the Otero County Processing Center in New Mexico.

From Jackson, many detainees go to Denver, like the nine detainees in Teton County taken into custody by ICE between December 2014 and August 2015. Colorado Public Radio reported that the federal immigration court there has the longest delay in the nation for immigrants waiting to have their cases heard. Most wait about two and a half years. There are 9,420 cases pending.

Narro says the vast majority of detainees will be deported without ever having legal representation.

Wyoming doesn’t deny ICE

ICE has increasingly relied on county

jails to temporarily hold undocumented people during enforcement operations.

Recently, local agencies across the country have resisted ICE’s requests.

Narro explained that local agencies are under no obligation to cooperate with ICE, though the Trump administration has threatened to revoke federal funding from those who resist.

Wyoming is one of seven states that has never resisted an ICE request.

Whalen says the county has no plans to change its policy of notifying ICE if they arrest someone who happens to be undocumented, and serving as a temporary detainment facility for those apprehended by ICE. “I have my policy because I shudder at the notion that I let someone go and they do something to endanger our community or country.

I’m fulfilling my duty,” Whalen said.

Detainer requests are not a result of Trump’s administration. In fact, Narro says it was under Obama that the pattern was entrenched: “Obama started the narrative that goes arrest, detain, deport.” That process has now become normalized, and Narro expects that “Trump will accelerate what Obama started. It’s going to get a lot worse. We’ll see more executive orders. Trump has found what resonates with his voters.”

Indeed, fear has already rippled through Teton County in recent months.

Carmen Bonilla, a Jackson local in her 20s, has watched this fear take hold.

Until recently, Bonilla managed a small business in Jackson. “When ICE came, I got calls from two employees saying they couldn’t come in today,” she said.

They had heard the rumors, and were too scared to leave their houses.

Bonilla called the police department and learned that ICE would only be targeting specific individuals. Still, her employees were scared: “The community is just in fear. They would rather be safe than go to work.”

Across the country, families are struggling to manage this fear, especially when many households have mixed immigration statuses. According to a report by Erikson Meier Consulting, 43 percent of Latinos in Jackson are foreign born, which is probably an underreported percentage. This is true for Bonilla. “In my family, my brother is undocumented but his wife and kids were born here,” she said. “We tell him not to drive at night. When we hear ICE is in town, the first person we think about are our friends and family.”

The immigrant community is small and close-knit, Bonilla says. One deportation, especially when it’s public, has deep impacts. “If someone gets deported for any reason, it’s hard. If one family gets affected, that’s how fear starts.”

In cities like L.A., there are many resources to support immigrants, Narro said. However, it is places like Jackson that worry him—smaller towns with fewer resources that have sizable immigration populations.

It rests with the community, then, to understand what is happening and protect its vulnerable members. PJH SEND COMMENTS TO EDITOR@PLANETJH.COM

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Housing Watch The private sector throws the housing crisis a few lifelines.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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hile solving the valley’s housing crisis has been largely focused on creating subsidized, affordable housing, a string of recent town council meetings has highlighted the private sector’s ability and willingness to step in.

A surprise proposal from business owner Kody Wojtasiak during Monday’s town council meeting could offer between 60 to 70 camping and RV spaces for workforce housing. Additionally, an ordinance to amend Land Development Regulations (LDRs) and exempt apartment buildings from affordable housing standards made it through one of three ordinance readings.

The town council also approved sketch plans for a large hotel on Center Street, which will at least provide housing for its employees, though councilors and the public are not convinced employee housing will be sufficient. The public has heavily criticized the hotel, but councilors have little choice but to approve it given current zoning and development regulations, which the project obeys precisely.

Here’s what went down:

Workforce camping Over the weekend, Wojtasiak sent a proposal to Mayor Pete Muldoon to create an RV campsite at 1080 South Highway 89. Wojtasiak does not own the land, but said he is in communication with the landowner, who is on board, pending town council approval.

Wojtosiak would be the one executing the project, and did not yet wish to release the landowner’s name.

Wojtasiak’s proposed campsite would provide 60 to 70 spaces for RV camping just south of Movie Works.

Wojtasiak said he has considered opening up a campsite for tourist use for a long time now, but when he saw that town council was considering workforce camping in downtown Jackson, he realized he had the opportunity to help. Rather than allowing for overnight camping in downtown parking lots, which Wojtasiak says would be a logistical nightmare, he would offer plots of land for a monthly fee. A certain number of spaces—more than half, he said—would be dedicated for workforce housing.

“There are people in this town that have land available, and can do something like this and make a decent amount of money,” Wojtasiak said. He says that RV campgrounds are ideal because they provide a stable place to stay, and also easily turn a profit.

They’re a win-win for the workforce and landowners.

Muldoon was intrigued enough to follow up with Wojtasiak before Monday’s meeting. “[The project] is certainly promising,” he said, “though we have to do our due diligence. It’s great that a member of the community is stepping up and offering to help with our housing crisis.”

The problem is that current zoning regulations do not allow for camping in any zoning district. In order for Wojtasiak’s proposal to work, town council would have to make another amendment to LDRs to allow for camping on private property. This could happen one of two ways, town planning director Tyler Sinclair explained: town council could declare an emergency, and move the amendment forward through an emergency ordinance. Alternatively, if the council wants the ordinance to become permanent law, they could put the ordinance through the usual three readings.

Vice Mayor Jim Stanford noted an official, non-emergency ordinance only requires 10 days between the first and third reading to become a law. To move the process along quickly, councilors could hold ordinance readings during specially scheduled meetings, or work them into already scheduled budget and council meetings.

Since the proposal was fresh and Monday’s meeting was its first public introduction, councilors unanimously moved to continue the discussion with Wojtasiak and town staff.

Don Frank, however, was ready to move forward Monday. “It seems like a gift,” he said. “When a private landowner sees a way to meet a public need, it seems like the appropriate response is ‘thank you, how can we help?’”

The council also voted unanimously to continue exploring options for limited overnight parking, which would allow workers who sleep in their cars to do so legally in designated sites. Conversations about car camping inflamed resident Tim Rieser, who asked in public comment if the council has “any idea what the scale of the problem is?” It’s “preposterous,” he said, that workers would have to compete with visitors for camping spots, and that overnight parking would leave people sleeping in the reclined front seat of their Subaru. “That’s how [electeds] want these people to live,” Rieser said. “It really pisses me off.”

Councilors said they happen to share Rieser’s concerns, and want to find a way to ensure camping sites actually work for the workforce. “I don’t want to provide camping for guests,” Morton-Levinson said. “If we’re going to do municipal camping, it has to be for the workforce.”

Another hotel in the Hole Town councilors unanimously moved to approve a sketch plan and conditional use permit for Crystal Creek Capital’s 99-room hotel, restaurant, bar, retail and employee housing project at Center Street and East Deloney. Although there were concerns that the hotel will require a larger staff than it can house, project leaders assured the council that they are committed to providing high standards of living for both seasonal and full-time employees.

“Living in Jackson, you can’t avoid the challenges associated with housing,” said Crystal Creek Capital president Jim Walter.

Walter noted the sketch plan in front of the council “complies with every requirement in the LDRs.” In fact, it exceeds requirements for employee housing by about 1,500 square feet.

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THE BUZZ 2 Tent season is descending upon Jackson’s workforce.

Still, the planning commission’s initial approval of the hotel met public outrage. Morton-Levinson said she has received a handful of emails and public comments from people asking how the council could approve another hotel in the midst of a housing crisis.

But given the current development regulations and zoning codes, her hands are tied. “We legally didn’t really have anything [to deny],” she said. “Unless we have a conversation about stopping all development, then that’s the only option.”

Ultimately, councilors were pleased the team of developers was able to present a project that so thoroughly complied with zoning and development regulations. “It’s refreshing to have a developer bring forth a proposal that meets all regulations,” Stanford said. In contrast to recent conversations that have positioned land development regulations as a burden to developers, Stanford said this project is proof that “obviously, regulations work when you follow them.”

Text amendment one step closer

Speaking of burdening LDRs. A text amendment that exempts apartment buildings of 20 units or more from affordable housing standards made it through the first of three ordinance readings with two conditions.

To ensure that a local workforce occupies apartment units, Muldoon proposed amending the maximum square feet per unit, to “keep it livable,” but not luxury. New maximum square foot measurements for all new units are: 450 for studio apartments, 675 for one-bedroom, 975 for two-bedroom, and 1,175 for three-bedroom apartments. Each additional bedroom after the third will not exceed 200 square feet. Staff will also include language for a 10 percent adjustment allowance to those measurements on a case-by-case basis.

Until two weeks ago, the council was divided on the amendment, which would exempt all future apartment buildings of 20 units or more from affordable housing standards, including restaurateur Joe Rice’s 90-unit complex slated for 550 W. Broadway.

Rice and his team proposed the amendment to town council in March.

Proponents argued that apartments are “inherently affordable.” But Stanford and Muldoon were not convinced, and retorted that affordable housing standards are the only way to guarantee affordability.

A series of compromises, including a five-year sunset clause that allows the council to evaluate the amendment in five years, alleviated some of their concerns.

The new conditions will be presented in the second reading in two weeks, and if there are any discrepancies, the ordinance risks going back to a first reading, or dying altogether. PJH

THE BUZZ 3 Rec Rookies Teton County receives little representation in state’s new outdoor recreation task force.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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lthough Jackson Hole is a nexus of outdoor recreation, only two people will represent Teton County in the state’s new 26-person Outdoor Recreation Task Force.

Members of the task force— Cheyenne has 10 reps, Cody and Lander each have four—assert representation is diverse and in line with their goal: to promote outdoor recreation and use it as a revenue driver for Wyoming.

But some worry Teton County is being denied a huge opportunity to share its expertise and receive important support for the valley’s outdoor industry.

Seizing an opportunity

Shifting the focus from public lands?

Who has a seat at the table?

Mead announced his support of the Outdoor Recreation Task Force at the opening of the SHIFT conference last fall. Out of more than 200 applicants, 26 made the cut. The goal, Westby said, was to create a group of people who could each “represent a specific constituent group.”

“We tried to find people that would work well on the task force but would also have multiple constituent bases.

Westby pointed to Lee Livingston, of Cody, as a prime example. As a

Teton appropriation?

county commissioner and an outfitter, Livingston wears at least two hats at every meeting.

State Parks director Domenic Bravo said that Teton County’s representation, or lack thereof, is mostly “just a matter of how folks applied.”

“There really weren’t a lot of other folks from Jackson,” he said. “Some mountain guides and other folks that are very important, but not a lot of manufacturers.”

But Parkins said he’d be surprised if more Teton County residents opted out of involvement. He knows one person who applied as a conservation leader and never heard back.

“I don’t know why Teton County would not want to be part of it,” he said.

Parkins buys the outdoor gear for JD High Country Outfitters, and is also on the advisory board for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.

Teton County’s two representatives are Tricia O’Connor from Bridger Teton National Forest and Melissa Turley, executive director of Teton Village Association. Turley said her contribution on the task force is to help determine how the resort brand “can be good partners with the rest of the state so that our visitors are taking the time to really enjoy other outdoor recreational resources.”

That the two representatives for Teton County do not represent small businesses (along with several other spheres), however, is a concern to people like Franco who have the most to lose. Franco is already looking at moving parts of his operation out of state, but says he does not want to sacrifice control of his product.

Jerimiah Rieman, director of Economic Diversification Strategy and Initiatives, the branch of Mead’s office responsible for ENDOW, was not available to comment on ENDOW. He was traveling to Japan for a meeting about selling coal, according to an office staff member. PJH

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Wyoming trails its neighbors in outdoor recreation revenue. The Outdoor Industry Association evaluated the economic impact of outdoor recreation per state. Economic impact in Wyoming was $4.5 billion, while Nebraska’s economic impact was $4.7 billion.

Colorado’s impact was the largest at $13.2 billion. Of all the Western states, the economic impact of outdoor recreation in Wyoming was among the lowest.

It is hard to deny Jackson Hole’s economic role in outdoor recreation revenue in the state. Grand Teton National Park released a report noting visitors to Grand Teton alone spent an estimated $560 million in local gateway communities. The ripple effects of that spending, the report noted, had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of more

than $728 million, supporting 8,862 jobs in nearby communities.

Rob Parkins is involved with a handful of hunting and fishing groups, including Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. He said he is certain that outdoor recreation in Teton County, specifically in the hook and bullet sphere, outweighs the rest of the state. Omitting those voices, he said, stands to directly impact the fly-fishing community and the spaces it occupies, both from a conservation standpoint and an economic one.

“It sounds bizarre that Teton County is not a part of [the task force], he said.

He speculates that the reason is to shift focus away from federal lands and toward state parks—a sentiment Teton County residents echoed at the listening session.

“There’s significant acreage in Wyoming state lands,” said resident Tim Young. “We can’t just look at public lands, but also at communities.”

Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks are not the only recreation areas in Wyoming but they do account for almost all visits tallied last year.

Of the 7.32 million park visits in 2016, 4.2 million were to Yellowstone, and 3.1 million were to Grand Teton National Park, according to a Wyoming Economic Indicator Report. This number also accounted for visits to Devils Tower, Fossil Buttes National Monument, and Big Horn Recreation Area, but those visits hardly made a dent.

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The task force is part of Economically Needed Diversity Options for Wyoming—an effort to diversify Wyoming’s economy beyond fossil fuels. Governor Matt Mead signed the ENDOW bill into law in March.

Approximately 20 people showed up to a task force listening session last week at the Teton County building.

People in the audience represented diverse sectors of outdoor recreation.

Folks like local snowboard manufacturer Mikey Franco, whose company Franco Snowshapes is testament to the variety of industries beyond tourism and service that could benefit from increased state support.

Franco was inspired to attend the session after a conversation he had with friends of Sego Ski Company in Victor.

Idaho, his friends told him, is a great place to run a business. State and local government supported Sego during its move, and incentivized it to relocate to Idaho. They suggested Franco move his shop over the hill from its location in Teton Village.

But Franco doesn’t want to move— he’s lived in Jackson Hole for 27 years, though he wonders when Wyoming will offer him the same support.

He thinks government support for small business would ultimately benefit the state’s economy, and put it on the map

as a real outdoor recreation hot spot. “[Wyoming’s outdoor industry] is entirely dominated by the service side,” Franco said. But the industry is bigger than that, and manufacturing business could be a real economic driver. Rather than outsourcing, Franco wants people to recognize “how many parts go into a ski or snowboard that could be manufactured in Wyoming. It could be much bigger.”

Franco’s chief concern about the task force is that the rest of the state won’t take people from Teton County seriously. “I worry that things we may ask for, we’ll get penalized for because we live in the wealthiest county in America,” he said. “Because we’re not agriculture, people will look at us like, ‘Why do you guys need money?’” Franco wants the rest of the state to see Teton County as a learning opportunity, a “resource of knowledge and experience and wisdom.”

When asked about geographic representation on the task force, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources director Darin Westby pointed to the underappreciated recreation opportunities in other parts of the state. He said his department, which directs the task force, is not trying to draw attention away from Teton County, but examine other areas of potential. “There are underutilized locations in Wyoming that could be discussed in local communities,” he said. “Let’s create a handful of pilot communities to focus planning efforts and potentially seed money to do different things.”

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Samuel West announced in April that his Museum of Failure will open in Helsingborg, Sweden, in June, to commemorate innovation missteps that might serve as inspiration for future successes. Among the initial exhibits: coffee-infused Coca-Cola; the Bic “For Her” pen (because women’s handwriting needs are surely unique); the Twitter Peek (a 2009 device that does nothing except send and receive tweets, and with a screen only 25 characters wide); and HarleyDavidson’s 1990s line of colognes (in retrospect as appealing, West said, as “oil and gas fumes”). West’s is only the latest attempt to immortalize failure with a museum. Previous attempts, such as those in 2007 and 2014, apparently failed.

Government in Action

Toronto, Ontario, Superior Court Justice Alex Pazaratz finally ridded his docket of the maddening, freeloading couple that had quibbled incessantly about each other’s “harassments.” Neither Noora Abdulaali, 32, nor her now-ex-husband, Kadhim Salih, 43, had worked a day in the five years since they immigrated from Iraq, having almost immediately gone on disability benefits and begun exploiting Legal Aid Toronto in their many attempts to one-up each other with restraining orders.

Approving the couple’s settlement in March, Judge Pazaratz added, “The next time anyone at Legal Aid Ontario tells you they’re short of money, don’t believe it. … Not if they’re funding cases like this.” n In May, a new restaurant-disclosure regulation

mandated by the Affordable Care Act is scheduled to kick in, requiring eateries (except small chains and independents) to post calorie counts for all menu items including variations—which a Domino’s Pizza executive said meant, for his company, 34 million calorie listings. The executive called the regulation, for the pizza industry, “a 20th-century approach to a 21st-century question,” since for many establishments, orders increasingly arrive online or by phone.

Redneck Chronicles

Dennis Smith, 65, was arrested in Senoia, Ga., and charged with stealing dirt from the elderly widow of the man Smith said had given him permission to take it. Smith, a “dirt broker,” had taken more than 180 dump-truck loads.

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n The California reggae rock band Slightly Stoopid

recently produced a vinyl record that was smokable, according to Billboard magazine—using a “super resinous variety of hashish” mastered at the Los Angeles studio Capsule Labs. The first two versions’ sound quality disappointed and were apparently quickly smoked, but a third is in production.

Pretentions

The telephone area code in the tony English city of Bath (01225) is different than that of adjacent Radstock (01761) and probably better explained by landline telephone infrastructure than a legal boundary. However, a Bath councilwoman said in April that she is dealing with complaints by 10 new residents who paid highend prices for their homes only to find that they came with the 01761 code. Admitted one Bath resident, “I do consider my phone number to be part of my identity.”

Magnificent Evolvers

Human populations in Chile’s Atacama desert have apparently developed a tolerance for arsenic 100 times as powerful as the World Health Organization’s maximum safe level, according to recent research by University of Chile scientists. n While 80 percent of Americans age 45 or older have calcium-cluttered blood veins (atherosclerosis), about 80 percent of Bolivian Tsimane hunter-gatherers in the Amazon have clean veins, according to an April report in The Lancet. Keys for having “the healthiest hearts in the world”: Walk a lot and eat monkey, wild pig and piranha.

Awesome

University of Basel biologists writing in the journal Science of Nature in March calculated that the global population of spiders consumes at least 400 million tons of prey yearly—about as much, by weight, as the total of meat and fish consumed by all humans.

n New for Valentine’s Day from the sayitwithbeef. com: a bouquet of beef jerky slices, formed to resemble a dozen full-petaled roses ($59). Daisies are also available. Chief selling point: Flowers die quickly, but jerky is forever.

n University of Utah researchers trained surveillance cameras on dead animals in a local desert to study scavenger behavior and were apparently astonished to witness the disappearances of two bait cows. Over the course of five days, according to the biologists’ recent journal article, two different badgers, working around the clock for days, had dug adjacent holes and completely buried the cows (for storage and/or to keep the carcasses from competitors).

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News You Can Use

In March, Harvard Medical School technicians announced a smartphone app to give fertility-conscious men an accurate semen analysis, including sperm concentration, motility and total count—costing probably less than $10. Included is a magnification attachment and a “microfluidic” chip. The insertable app magnifies and photographs the “loaded” chip, instantly reporting the results. To answer the most frequent question: No, semen never touches your phone.

The device still needs Food and Drug Administration approval.

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Management vacuum-sealed pages with grapeseed oil, then “fat-washed” them with a neutral high-proof spirit, and added a vintage sherry, mushroom cordial and eucalyptus.

The Columbia Room bar in Washington, D.C., recently introduced the “In Search of Time Past” cocktail—splashed with a tincture of old, musty books.

A study published in the journal Endocrinology in March suggested that whole-body vibration might be just as effective as regular exercise. The fine print: Vibration was shown only to aid “global bone formation,” which is not as useful for some people as weight loss, which was not studied, and anyway, the study was conducted on mice. Nonetheless, even for a mouse immobile on a vibrating machine, muscles contracted and relaxed multiple times per second.

This fine print will soon be useful when hucksters learn of the study and try to sell gullible humans a miracle weight-loss machine.

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U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera crosses borders and generations.

By Meg Daly @MegDaly1

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The People’s Poet

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veryday we get more illegal…

So begins a poem by Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States whose visit to Jackson this weekend marks the highlight of Teton County Library’s National Poetry Month celebration. He gives a public address 7 p.m. Friday at the Center for the Arts.

The first ever Mexican-American appointed to the office of Poet Laureate, Herrera is the son of migrant farmers. Born in 1948 in the agricultural town of Fowler, California, Herrera has witnessed—and spoken out about—the plight of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. for five decades. When he writes, “everyday we get more illegal,” the words are both timeless and timely.

Fears of deportation have skyrocketed among communities across the U.S. since the election of President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration has continued its hardline stance outlined by candidate Trump on the election trail to oust “illegal” immigrants and build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

As recently as April 12, The Washington Post reported an internal Department of Homeland Security document shows that the agency has already increased its stock of detention beds for undocumented immigrants by 30,000.

According to CNN, this same memo says the agency has been recruiting local police departments to join its 287(g) program, which essentially deputizes local law enforcement agents to operate as federal immigration agents.

Despite assurances from Teton County Sheriff Jim Whalen and Jackson Chief of Police Todd Smith that people with no criminal backgrounds should be alarmed, local Latino residents are still afraid. “It’s a scary time for people,” said Shelter JH co-founder Mary Erickson at a recent Civics 101 workshop.

Herrera likes to highlight the important role immigrants play in American society and their allegiance to this country. “[Immigrants] work very hard,” he said during a Democracy Now interview. “We live and die in those fields. We need support, resources, education.”

Herrera’s poetry speaks to the conditions faced

by Latino immigrants in Jackson and across the country, where despair lives alongside hope, where life rises from ashes, and generations of people continue the humble, tenacious quest to feed their families and build good lives for themselves.

From “Everyday We Get More Illegal” laws pass laws with scientific walls detention cells husband with the son the wife & the daughter who married a citizen they stay behind broken slashed un-powdered in the apartment to deal out the day & the puzzles another law then another Mexican Indian spirit exile

‘The uncertainty when you don’t belong’

Herrera’s personal story is emblematic of the kind of opportunity immigrants in the U.S. hope to find. Creative from an early age, he drew cartoons and played folk music in middle school and high school. After graduating San Diego High in 1967, he received a scholarship to UCLA from the state-funded Educational Opportunity Program. While in college, Herrera joined the Chicano Civil Rights Movement/ El Movimiento Chicano, which took inspiration from Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers movement and encompassed a range of social and economic justice issues for MexicanAmericans. The movement was fueled in large part by art and poetry.

Herrera began publishing poetry and performing in experimental theater throughout the 1970s. In 1980 he received his master’s degree in social anthropology from Stanford.

A decade later he earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Now, as Poet Laureate, he has attained the highest honor in the nation for a poet, and he is the first Latino to do so.

Herrera said the honor of being named Poet Laureate touched more than just himself. “It means my whole life,” he told Democracy Now. “And the life of many generations of Latinos in this country, and the writing we have done for so many years.”

Despite his long history in the struggle for equality and dignity for Mexican immigrants,

his poems maintain a contemporary relevance, noted Pati Rocha, Latino outreach coordinator at Teton County Library. Rocha met Herrera 15 years ago at a conference and she has twice facilitated visits by Herrera to work with students in Jackson’s public schools. His April 21 appearance will be the first time he gives a public address in Jackson.

“I think the Latino kids might relate to his poetry more than the adults because, like them, he was raised here,” Rocha said.

However, Rocha also recognized ways in which Herrera’s poetry does speak to first generation immigrants. Rocha herself is a firstgeneration immigrant from Colombia. She came to the U.S. 20 years ago, fleeing violence and poverty. “Herrera touches on how we feel as immigrants, that we feel like we don’t fit anywhere,” she said. “I feel like I belong nowhere. He touches on that uncertainty you feel when you don’t belong.”

A group of Teton County sixth graders are studying Herrera’s poetry this year as part of a Latino Leadership advisory class with Jackson Hole Middle School teacher Michelle Rooks. They have focused on Herrera’s poem “Everyday We Get More Illegal.” The students are constructing their own poems inspired by Herrera’s poem, and they will present them to him during a visit to their class, as well as in a video to be made available through the library.

Studying one poem in depth has allowed the students to contemplate the meanings of the poem line by line. One line in particular, “it is all in-between the light,” prompted the students to discuss what is legal and what is not legal, and how that might shift due to prevailing political winds. Students said they and their families have been particularly afraid since Trump was elected.

Derek, 12, said that he saw a woman on television talking about how her husband did not come home from work one day. She later learned he was deported. Derek now worries that could happen to one of his parents.

Blanca, also 12, shares Derek’s fears. She talked about the ripples of fear a recent visit from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials sent through the Latino community when they arrested several local men. Her parents closed their business early for the day and drove her home without stopping anywhere along the way. She heard whispers of “ICE.”

“I feel like I belong nowhere. He touches on that uncertainty you feel when you don’t belong.”

the year. The student had to move to Idaho to live with his mother, but the transition has been hard on everyone.

“I miss my friend,” one student lamented.

When Herrera visits their class, the students will perform “Everyday We Get More Illegal” as a group. During a recent practice session, they used percussion instruments to punctuate various lines.

Each of the 14 students read a line, or part of a line, and sometimes all 14 read together. The effect was powerful. The “we” in the title reverberated in the small classroom. Barely more than a decade old and the kids understand something about survival and injustice that is well beyond their years.

Concocting the solvent

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Herrera has said that he feels we are witnessing “a new segregation” in America.

In a conversation with poets Naomi Shihab Nye and Jane Hirshfield at the 2015 National Book Festival, Herrera said, “There are all these stereotypical, manufactured ways of talking about each other … and it seems to be getting more crystalized and more hardened.”

Poetry, according to Herrera, provides an antidote. “Poetry is like the solvent or magical liquid, like rain, that softens everything up.”

Rooks has witnessed this softening effect of poetry among her Latino Leadership students. For students who are new to English, poetry allows them to express ideas without worrying about perfect grammar. Students are also able to be freer in their writing, she says. “With poetry, it seems anonymous. You don’t have to have characters or names. You can be more honest.”

Local poet Matt Daly (who happens to be a sibling of this reporter) says that because of this freedom from formal constraints, poetry can create an intimacy between the poet and the listener. “Too often these days we see language used haphazardly and narcissistically to carve out an identity and position for the speaker,” he said. “In contrast, a poem is a gift that allows the reader or listener to make meaning.”

Herrera employs another softening agent in his poetry—humor. “His poetry blends surrealism and fantasy with politics and modern real life situations,” said poet and library adult program coordinator Leah Shlachter. “While he often tackles

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Even though the threat has passed, Blanca is still gripped with fear. “I have been staying up late to see if my dad comes home from work,” she said.

Blanca’s classmate Julietta, 11, has been sleeping with her parents since the last time ICE was in town.

“My mom carries a photo of me with her, so if she ever gets detained, they will know I am involved,” Julietta said. “After ICE came to town, I couldn’t stop shivering with fear. I got so scared.”

“What will happen to me?” asked Nicole, another student. Her biggest fear, however, is her parents being deported.

For classmate Jheili, 11, those fears were partially realized two years ago when her father was deported. “He said he would be back, but he never came back,” she said. “My baby sister never met our dad.”

When ICE came through Jackson, middleschooler Ashley and her parents locked their doors and did not go outside. “But we fear more for my uncle,” she said, tears in her eyes. “He has been deported twice.”

“It’s sad to see pieces of the poem being lived out,” Rooks said. The class lost one of its fellow students when his father was deported earlier in

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serious political topics, his poetry is also very playful and funny, using humor as a corrective societal tool.”

But not always. Herrera also engages tragedies and injustices without humor, and extends his humanism beyond Latino experience to encompass the complexity of living in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic world.

In his poem, “Poem by Poem,” Herrera writes about the nine victims of racial violence killed in a South Carolina church in 2015. He tells the reader:

However, the woman’s companion comes to see that their dislocation can be transcended and that they are in fact citizens of the world. Here Herrera shows how poetry can expertly, exquisitely encompass a singular experience, a ubiquitous experience, a political message, and a progressive new vision of a world in which we all belong. The rhythm and language of the last stanzas transform a dark bus ride full of danger and uncertainty into a bid for freedom much larger than simply for two people:

By Jackson Hole Middle School 6th Grade Latino Leaders, using lines from “Everyday We Get More Illegal”

by Juan Felipe Herrera

you have a poem to offer it is made of action—you must search for it run

Left for America on planes, buses, vans,

I remember

outside and give your life to it when you find it walk it back—blow upon it

No somos nada y venimos de la nada pero esa nada lo es todo si la nutres de amor por eso venceremos We are nothing and we come from nothing but that nothing is everything, if you feed it with love that is why we will triumph

We are everything hermana Because we come from everything

Lifting Lines

they said

Under the silver darkness

It is all in-between the light

I imagine going through a tunnel To a better life To a brighter future

They stay broken slashed

“I haven’t seen my parents in nine years,” my mom said.

My Grandma My uncle

My entire family

Left in Mexico

Rare visits by the lucky ones

Expired Visas Borders that divide Means we won’t come anymore.

I don’t know half of who I’m missing.

My dad’s tarantula, My turtle

My mom’s dog Left behind Depression Our hopes and dreams

Our culture

Our language Taken away

How can America be the land of the free if We can’t feel it?

Walking working With our mind Our life

This concept of a poem as a form of action resonates with Daly. “I think a poem can be a kind of action to end injustice and violence because poems focus on relationships and can re-envision relationships. I think violence often emerges when people ignore relationship in favor of the two poles: ‘us’ and ‘them.’”

Herrera told NPR that a poem could indeed bring about radical change. Not necessarily by “changing the levers of society,” he said. “It’s more like reading your poem … maybe you share it for a minute and maybe somebody is listening. And in that minute we both are changing, and perhaps that is the change we are seeking. It is personal, intimate and momentary.”

Another local poet, Connie Wieneke, said she responded to the universality implied in Herrera’s “Poem by Poem.”

“Poems are about the words, the language that is carried in the blood, in the breath, in the muscles by each of us,” Wieneke said. “We must honor the words we carry. It’s all about remembering the specifics of what happened, not clouding events over with rhetoric, but remembering there were nine people and those nine are each of us as well.”

In many instances, Herrera’s poems are incantations conjured to combat erasure. His poem “Borderbus” does this beautifully by weaving together a dialogue between two women crossing the border from Mexico to the U.S. Shifting back and forth from English to Spanish, the poem illuminates the numerous layers of dislocation experienced by the two women. They are in between homes, no longer in their home countries and yet not situated anywhere else either. They are simply on the bus, which is being stopped and searched. Caught entirely in limbo, one woman advises the other: … just tell them That you came from nowhere I came from nowhere And we crossed the border from nowhere And now you and me and everybody else here is On a bus to nowhere you got it?

In celebration of Herrera’s work, the library installed two large chalkboards in the library gallery for community poems. Inspired in part by “Borderbus,” one poem prompts, “I come from . . .” and people can fill in the space below. Some of the responses include, “I come from a town by Lake Michigan”; “A serendipitous series of accidents”; and “The American dream of two immigrants.”

The other space contains the prompt: “I dream of…”

Community poets have finished the sentence with, “being less fearful and more secured”; “the place that I come from”; “paz” [peace]; “a world without war”; and “la comunidad unida” [the community united].

When Rooks’ Latino Leadership student Nicole, 12, pondered what people dream of when they immigrate, she imagined traveling through a tunnel toward a light.

“It’s dark in the tunnel but at the end you see something brighter,” she said. For her, she reflected, that might be to have a career and start a family.

Hardly the sort of dream that should be illegal… for any citizen of the world. PJH

Teton County Library presents Juan Felipe Herrera, “We Come from Everything: Poetry and Migration,” 7 p.m. Friday, April 21 at the Center for the Arts. Free tickets available at Teton County Library.

Writing workshop with Juan Felipe Herrera 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at the library’s Ordway Auditorium. No tickets or registration required.

THIS WEEK: April 19-25, 2017

Casino Night for Meals with a Mission 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Elks Lodge This evening of casino games and dinner will raise funds to provide meals for local cancer patients and their families. The cost is $20 at the door.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19

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

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THURSDAY, APRIL 20

n Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $1,995.00, 307-733-7425 n Beginning Throwing Morning 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $184.00 $220.00, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free, n Art in Translation: Artist Talk with Verónica Gerber Bicecci 12:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Growing Through Grief 1:00pm, St. John’s Medical Center, 307-739-7483 n Drawing & Monotype Printmaking 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $160.00 $191.00, 307-733-6379 n After School Monthly Workshops 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $180.00 $216.00, 307-733-6379 n Music Video Production: GR 4-8 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $99.00 - $118.00, 307-733-6379 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Nature Mapping Jackson Hole Certification Training 5:30pm, Teton County Library, 307-739-0968 n Casino Night for Meals with a Mission 5:30pm, Elks Lodge, $20.00, 307-739-7517 n Bacchus & Brushes 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00 - $54.00, 307-733-6379 n Friends and Family Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Eagle Classroom of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-733-2046

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Digital Photography 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, 307733-7425 n Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $1,995.00, 307-733-7425 n Business Energy Efficiency - Coffee Talk 9:00am, Spark JH, Free, 307732-8515 n SPET Open House 11:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 x229 n Listen Local Live at Lotus Happy Hours 4:00pm, Lotus Organic Restaurant, Free n Wyoming Distillers Guild Tasting 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free, 307-733-4466 n SPET Open House 5:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 x229 n The Elliot Plays Talkback Series 5:30pm, Off Square Theatre Company - Black Box Theater @ the Center for the Arts, Free, 307-733-3021 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379

n Silversmithing: Projects 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $70.00 - $84.00, 307-733-6379 n Beginning Throwing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $215.00 $258.00, 307-733-6379 n Open Studio Modeling: Figure Model 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n Game Night 6:00pm, Snake River Brewing, Free, 307-739-2337 n Young Professionals of the Tetons Presents Todd Hanna 6:00pm, Spark JH, Free, yptetons@gmail.com n A Musical Conversation 6:30pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-774-5497 n Film Screening: “Trophy” & “Keep Grizzlies Protected” 7:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-730-2000 n “Decanted” Wine and Dinner Night 7:00pm, The Wort Hotel, $85.00, 307-732-2190 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

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MUSIC BOX Vocals and Vinyl Cathedral Voices taps conductorin-residence for Spring Fest, Record Store Day Vinyl Swap spins on Saturday.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

L

ast year the 30 some members of Cathedral Voices Chamber Choir scored the opportunity of a lifetime—singing in New York City’s Carnegie Hall. The choir’s audition tape led to an invitation to join about a dozen other choirs from around the country and Canada. Cathedral Voices collectively sung with 200 voices, supported by a pro orchestra, and under the direction of Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe.

Afterwards, Cathedral Voices artistic director and conductor Laura Huckin approached Dr. Scheibe about coming to Jackson to conduct the group in conjunction with community workshops. He was excited about the idea. And while the group’s spring concert has been an annual event since 2009, the upcoming Spring Festival is the first time it has expanded into a four-day event. In addition to featuring the Gala Concert & Reception with JH High School Concert Choir, JH Chorale, and the Cathedral Voice Chamber Choir, the fest will offer two free workshops and two open rehearsals.

“At Carnegie, we were being pushed to a whole new level of musical excellence,” explained Huckin.

“Cathedral Voices is a rather small group and singing with two hundred voices in a huge hall with an esteemed conductor was really extraordinary. I thought it was something worth bringing and sharing with Jackson, not just to bring out the best in the singers but to also engage with the community.”

Cathedral Voices represent.

Collaborating with artists from Elton John to the Rolling Stones, Scheibe has a wide-ranging background. He chairs the Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California and currently serves as chair of the Past Presidents’ Council of the American Choral Director’s Association. Under his leadership, USC Thornton Chamber Singers received the 2015 American Prize in Choral Music, and were one of 25 choirs selected to perform at the Tenth World Choral Symposium in Seoul, South Korea in 2014.

The first workshop, “A Musical Conversation,” is an opportunity to meet Scheibe and hear about his personal musical journey with choral music. It happens 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. John’s Episcopal Church and is free to the public. A second workshop, “The Art of Conducting,” explores what it takes to

conduct and gives attendees the opportunity to try conducting and learn the essential techniques. The latter workshop is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at Center for the Arts’ music wing and is also free. The week also allows for two open rehearsals—Tuesday and Friday—with Scheibe and the festival singers. Check out the full festival schedule at CathedralVoices.org.

For the Gala Concert and Reception on Saturday, the three choirs will perform individually, then together with a unified 75 voices. One piece will feature Scheibe conducting Laura Huckin on piano for a modern piece for choir, piano and strings.

“For those that may have a preconceived notion of choir music, the music planned for the Gala may be surprising as we’ll be incorporating contemporary composers and different styles,” Huckin said.

“The music is stunning, and this will be another

opportunity for us all to learn from Scheibe.”

Cathedral Voices 2017 Spring Gala Concert & Reception featuring conductor-in-residence Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe with JH High School Concert Choir, JH Chorale, and Cathedral Voice Chamber Choirs, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at the Center Theater, $10-$12.

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Vinyl swap & jam “It’s hard being a music fan and living in Jackson where we don’t have a record shop,” noted Jason Suder, organizer of Record Store Day Vinyl Swap.

“Vinyl covers the other side of the sensory experience.

To so many people, music is emotional. You feel it.

It sways your mood and complements what you are going through in your personal life, or helps you away from it.”

THURSDAY Salsa Night (The Rose) FRIDAY Jackson 6 (Silver Dollar), Pam Drews Phillips Trio (The Granary)

All hail the real sound of vinyl.

This Saturday’s classic vinyl event will build on KHOL’s Vinyl Night. Vinyl connoisseurs are encouraged to bring records to spin, to trade, or both.

Jackson Hole Music Store is also getting involved, donating a ukulele to the lucky vinyl junkie that finds a rose on the bottom of their beer can. Everyone that spins music also gets a free beer.

“On this national Record Store Day, we want to honor the type of environment that helped folks like me begin to understand the most beautiful sides of the human experience: love, pain, angst, connection, art, poetry, bullshit, fun and freedom,” Suder said.

“What better way to celebrate than by making something a special night during the off-season for something we already love.”

Record Store Day Vinyl Night & Swap, 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 22 at The Rose, free.

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SATURDAY Record Store Day Vinyl Night & Swap (The Rose), Cathedral Voices 2017 Spring Gala Concert (Center Theater) Jackson 6 (Silver Dollar) SUNDAY Open Mic (Pinky G’s), Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach) TUESDAY One Ton Pig (Silver Dollar)

Please note: ONLY THE FOLLOWING THREE VOTE CENTERS WILL BE OPEN ON ELECTION DAY: TETON COUNTY LIBRARY 125 Virginian Ln, Jackson, WY, TETON COUNTY/ JACKSON RECREATION CENTER 155 E. Gill Ave., Jackson, WY, and the OLD WILSON SCHOOLHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER 5655 Main St., Wilson, WY. You may vote at any of these locations, regardless of where you live in Teton County.

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If these locations are not convenient, you may vote at the absentee polling site in the County Administration Building at 200 S. Willow St., Jackson, Wyoming, or request that a ballot be sent to you. All absentee ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on May 2nd, 2017. The absentee polling site will not be open on Election Day for voting.

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Reason Reigns People will march in the name of science and its inextricable link to life in Jackson Hole on Saturday.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

S

cientists are about to get rowdy.

In response to President Trump gutting the Clean Power Plan, his proposal to slash funding to the Environmental Protection Agency, and his administration’s overall rejection of science, people are taking to the streets. This Saturday thousands of pragmatic humans will take part in the March for Science, a nationwide Earth Day celebration.

The main march takes place in Washington D.C. with satellite marches planned in communities around the country and the world, including Jackson Hole. Local organizers invite the community to gather at the Home Ranch Visitor Center parking lot 10 a.m. Saturday for a march followed by speakers and a science fair.

“Where better than Jackson to acknowledge how important science is to our everyday lives?” said local march co-organizer Joan Anzelmo. “We live at the doorstep to national parks and forests, with clean air, clean water and abundant wildlife. Science is critical to understanding our ecosystems.”

Following the march, participants will rally in the Town Square and hear remarks from nationally renowned geologist and geophysicist Dr. Bob Smith and Jackson behavioral scientist Ryan Burke. Several local organizations will host booths on the square to highlight their scientific work and accomplishments.

“I want to send a message to our nation, this community, and certainly our elected officials of how very important science is,” said march co-organizer Elisa Stephens.

On the local level, organizers chose the theme “Science saves lives.”

Stephens said she knows this both from her work as a nurse practitioner and on

a personal level.

“Each year, scientific research in the field of medicine offers amazing treatments and procedures,” she said. “I recognize the importance of science in my career daily, but it became even more personal one year ago when my daughter was born with a congenital heart defect.”

When her daughter was six weeks old, Stephens traveled to Philadelphia where she could have a life-saving heart procedure. Now, like most toddlers, she is full of energy and curiosity. Stephens credits science and modern medicine for her daughter’s good health.

Organizers on the national stage say the march is necessary to push back against the anti-science sentiment of the Trump administration.

“Scientific discovery and innovation are a critical part of our nation and our future,” said March for Science national co-chair Caroline Weinberg. “Despite this fact, science and scientists, and evidence based policies are under attack.

Policymakers threaten our present and future by ignoring scientific evidence when crafting policy, threatening scientific advancement through budget cuts, and limiting the public’s knowledge by silencing scientists.”

The symbolism of Earth Day is not lost on March for Science organizers.

Earth Day originated in 1970 when millions of Americans gathered for the first time to demand federal action on environmental policies. The action spurred the creation of EPA. Denis Hayes, an organizer with the Earth Day Network, noted that science

as well as EPA is under assault. “With an administration stocked with climate change deniers and the specter of devastating cuts to basic scientific research, scientists and all those who cherish good science are stepping forward to be heard.”

Locally, Anzelmo said the all-volunteer organizing group reflects a variety of scientific interests. “We have gone out of the way to make this non-partisan,” she said. “We think science should be part of decision making in government at all levels.”

Local march co-organizer Megan Kohli said that she got involved with the march to send a message to politicians that their constituents insist on sound science in public policy.

“It’s not only about climate change, which seems to be the source of a lot of the anti-science sentiments,” Kohli said. “Science is so important for our economy, especially right now when we depend on brilliant minds in science and technology.”

Anzelmo pointed to the important role science plays locally in maintaining the economic health of Jackson Hole. “We are in a one-of-a-kind, worldclass ecosystem,” she said. “Science has helped preserve this place that we love.

We will not have a sustainable economy if it’s not based in science.” PJH March for Science 10 a.m. Saturday, April 22 at the Home Ranch Visitor Center parking lot. Rally for Science with featured speakers at 10:45 a.m. at the Town Square.

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MA/LPC

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Counseling: n Sustainability Series presents: Going Green & Saving Green 6:00pm, Spark JH, Free, 303483-8207 n Introduction to Wildlife Photography 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $175.00 $210.00, 307-733-6379 n Enameling on Metal 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $32.00 - $42.00, 307-733-6379 n Jackson Hole Community Band 2017 Rehearsals 7:00pm, Center for the Arts, $10.00, 307-200-9463 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

FRIDAY, APRIL 21

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Pancakes for Pathways at Jackson Whole Grocer 8:30am, Jackson Whole Grocer, $5.00, 307-733-0450 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Earth Day Wellness Celebration 9:00am, Vertical Harvest, $10.00 - $35.00, info@verticalharvestjackson.com n Introduction to Long Range Precision Rifle Shooting 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $115.00, 307-733-7425 n 4th Annual Crazy Horse Snowmobile Hillclimb 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, $5.00 - $10.00, 800-TARGHEE n Bacon, Beacon, and Backcountry 9:00am, Stagecoach Bar, Free n Information Session for homeownership at the Grove with Habitat for Humanity 10:00am, Lincoln County Library - Alpine Branch, Free, 307-734-0828 ext 104 n Library Saturdays: Mini Music & Movement 10:15am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Writing Workshop 10:30am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 x229 n Intro to 3D Modeling 11:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $140.00 $168.00, 307-733-6379 n The Rose Vinyl Swap 6:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

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n 4th Annual Crazy Horse Snowmobile Hillclimb 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, $5.00 - $10.00, 800-TARGHEE n Intro to 3D Modeling 11:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $140.00 $168.00, 307-733-6379 n Quilting - Circles 12:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00, 307-733-7425 n Library College Prep: Comparing Financial Aid Award Letters 1:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 x 258 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Hospitality Night - Happy Hour 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

MONDAY, APRIL 24

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Digital Photography 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, 307733-7425 n Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $1,995.00, 307-733-7425 n Art Education: Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association Borshell Children’s Studio, $16.00, 307-733-6379 n Beginning Stained Glass Design With Light 3:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $176.00 $211.00, 307-733-6379 n After School Kidzart Club: Grade K-2 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $165.00 $198.00, 307-733-6379 n Studio Sampler 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $264.00 $316.00, 307-733-6379

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SATURDAY, APRIL 22

n Cathedral Voices Chamber Choir presents the SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017 7:00pm, Center Theater, $8.00 - $10.00, 307-774-5497 n Jackson Six 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $1,995.00, 307-733-7425 n Portrait Drawing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n Open Studio Modeling: Portrait Model 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n Art in Translation: Artist Talk with Sandra Calvo 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7336379 n SPET Open House 11:30am, Senior Center, Free n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7334466 n FREE Friday Tasting at Jackson Whole Grocer 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n The Art of Conducting 5:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 307-774-5497 n Cathedral Voices Open Rehearsal 5:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 307-774-5497 n Holdout by Thomas Macker, Artist Reception 5:30pm, The Center Theater Gallery, Free, 307-733-4900 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-7338833

n Teton County Library presents U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera 7:00pm, The Center Theater, Free, 307-733-2164 x229 n Jackson Six 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 844-996-7827 n Friday Night DJ with E.R.A 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500

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TUESDAY, APRIL 25

n Dance & Fitness Classes 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 Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $1,995.00, 307-7337425 n Teton Plein Air Painters 9:00am, Outdoors, Free, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Toddler Time 10:35am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-7332164 n Toddler Time 11:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-7336379 n Bubble Play 11:30am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-7332164 n Learn About SPET at Chamber/Rotary Joint Program 12:00pm, Elk’s Club, $25.00, 307-201-2309 n Photography Open Studio 12:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-733-6379 n Listen Local Live at Lotus Happy Hours 4:00pm, Lotus Organic Restaurant, Free n Adobe Photoshop 5:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $200.00, 307-733-7425 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-6906539 n Intermediate Throwing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $154.00 - $184.00, 307-733-6379 n Buttons & Heirlooms 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $70.00 - $84.00, 307-733-6379 n iMovie Editing Basics 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $140.00 - $168.00, 307-733-6379 n Advanced Photography Techniques 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00 - $78.00, 307-733-6379 n One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939

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CINEMA Gray Area A skilled filmmaker shows off his non-showy stuff in The Lost City of Z.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

C

ritic, heal thyself: As I prepared to write a lamentation about how, well into a 20-plusyear career, nobody quite appreciates director James Gray’s talents enough, I chanced to look back at what I wrote about his previous feature, 2013’s The Immigrant. The word I used to describe his dramatic style was “sturdy,” which is precisely the problem. Gray tells cinematic stories without flash or dazzle, focused on character, but with remarkable skill. If there’s no better word for that kind of movie than “sturdy,” there’s a problem with the language, or with what we expect from movies.

Perhaps there’s something fitting about Gray’s current thematic concerns, given the fact that he is so rarely part of the conversation about the greatest American filmmakers under 50. In The Immigrant, he examined people at a crossroads between the assumptions of society and a kind of respect that seems out of reach. He digs even deeper into that idea with The Lost City of Z, which turns a stranger-than-fiction real-life story into a meditation on colonialism, class and a world that can’t seem to see past whatever label it places on something.

The center of the story is Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a British soldier and family man stationed in Ireland circa 1905. Fawcett seeks advancement within the ranks, but as one nobleman delicately puts it, he has been “rather unfortunate in his choice of ancestors”—specifically, a father who was a gambler and a drunk. He’s so desperate to shed that inherited shame that he’s willing to take on a dangerous

Charlie Hunnam in The Lost City of Z

assignment: leading a team into the Amazon basin to survey the contested border between Brazil and Bolivia.

Along the way, however, Fawcett finds what he believes to be evidence of a highly advanced pre-Colombian civilization—a conviction that becomes an obsession over the next 20 years.

The events of Fawcett’s life dictate an unusual structure to The Lost City of Z, which can feel a bit jarring. Segments alternate between his domestic life with his wife Nina (Sienna Miller) and children, and his various expeditions that repeatedly fall frustratingly short of his goal. Those exploration sequences offer a grueling sense of adventure, full of piranha feeding frenzies, turbulent rapids and attacks by indigenous tribes, while a chapter set in the trenches of World War I delivers a similar urgency.

The hard cuts of Fawcett’s life back to civilized normalcy, by contrast, might give viewers just as much of a sense of whiplash as they gave him.

The repeated shifts between two worlds are crucial, however, to what Gray himself is exploring. Fawcett’s need to find “Z” is linked to his own diminished societal station, and to the inconceivable-to-the-British notion that a great civilization could exist among the heathen savages of South America. Where Fawcett faces repeated indignities back in England—including a pompous participant on one of his journeys (Angus Macfayden) threatening to sue him if

he doesn’t offer a proper apology—his Amazon travels become a perfect meritocracy, where success is based entirely on the ability to adapt and survive, and occasionally even interact with the indigenous peoples.

Hunnam sells that psychological journey with a mix of zeal and British restraint. The supporting cast is full of equally strong performances, including a nigh-unrecognizable Robert Pattinson as Percy’s traveling companion Henry Costin, and Sienna Miller finding reserves of frustration beyond the stereotypical “you care more about [x] than you care about your own family” wife. That family dynamic grows richer when the contentious relationship between Percy and his eldest son, Jack (new Spider-man Tom Holland), hints at the idea that Percy’s issues with his own absentee father are being repeated in another generation. When Gray ends this movie with a lovely image reflected in a mirror, it’s a reminder of the layers of depth he offers both visually and textually. That’s wonderful stuff for a tale about how you don’t need fussy elites to decide if you’ve accomplished something remarkable. PJH THE LOST CITY OF Z BBB.5 Charlie Hunnam Sienna Miller Robert Pattinson Rated R

TRY THESE Fitzcarraldo (1982) Klaus Kinski Claudia Cardinale Rated PG

The Emerald Forest (1985) Powers Boothe Meg Foster Rated R

Little Odessa (1994) Tim Roth Edward Furlong Rated R

The Immigrant (2013) Marion Cotillard Joaquin Phoenix Rated R

Punch Out Festive elixirs to celebrate spring.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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he self-serve aspect of punch means that during a party, hosts and hostesses can focus on other essential tasks, like keeping Uncle Milt away from the tequila. Here are a few of my favorite punch bowls, including non-alcoholic.

While serving as bar manager at San Francisco’s Rickhouse bar, Erick Castro created his excellent Champagne Punch. It calls for a Creole Shrubb, which is an orange-flavored rum. If you can’t find it, substitute with a similar rum or a liqueur like Mandarin Napoleon. Likewise, you can trade out the genever for London dry gin.

Combine 6 ounces of fresh lemon juice with 10 dashes of angostura bitters, 12 ounces of genever, 4 ounces of simple syrup and 4 ounces of Creole Shrubb.

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS Refrigerate for a couple of hours until chilled. When ready to serve, gently stir in 4 ounces of Champagne or other sparkling wine, 8 ounces of club soda, large ice cubes and pods of star anise and pineapple slices to garnish.

Anyone who’s ever sipped a screwdriver knows the affinities that vodka and orange juice have for each other.

Here is a Vodka Punch I adapted from the Big Girls Small Kitchen blog (BigGirlsSmallKitchen.com). It’ll serve an army. Ideally, you’ll want to use fresh-squeezed orange, lemon and grapefruit juice. In a large punch bowl, combine 3 cups of plain vodka (perhaps from local Kid Curry); 3 cups of orangeflavored vodka; 4 cups (total) of fresh lemon, orange and grapefruit juices; 1 quart of seltzer; 2 cups of simple syrup steeped with a handful of mint leaves; 2 cups of sparkling wine; 3 tablespoons of orange bitters (like Beehive Spiced Orange Cocktail Bitters); and 6 cups of ice. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.

Both kids and adults love this non-alcoholic punch recipe. The ginger ale gives it some celebratory zest in lieu of sparkling wine. To make Pretty Pink

IMBIBE Punch, begin by dissolving 2 tablespoons of sugar in 3 cups of cold water in a punch bowl. Then add two 64-ounce bottles of chilled cranberry-raspberry juice, a 46-ounce can of chilled pineapple juice and a 12-ounce can of thawed frozen pink lemonade concentrate. You can do all of this ahead of time, and refrigerate until you’re ready to serve.

Before serving, stir in 1 liter of ginger ale and garnish with lemon slices.

Though not technically punch, Rosé Champagne Cocktails aren’t too far off—and this mix is one of my favorites. For two cocktails, slice a sugar cube in half with a serrated or sharp, thin knife. Place half a sugar cube into the bottom of two Champagne flutes (I like to use old-fashioned coupes). Add four dashes of aromatic bitters (like Bitters Lab Aromatic) to each glass. Then top them off

with rosé. Add a lemon twist garnish and you’re ready to rock.

For whiskey fans, this Citrus-Irish Whiskey Punch recipe—which first appeared in Bon Appétit—is a musttry. It calls for oleo-saccharum, which adds a kick to the punch; you can find easy recipes for it online. In a large bowl or pitcher, combine 1 and two-thirds cups of Irish whiskey, 1 and two-thirds cups of black tea, half a cup of fresh clementine or orange juice, half a cup of fresh lemon juice, half a cup of oleo-saccharum, seven dashes of aromatic bitters, and 1 and a half teaspoons of freshly grated nutmeg. Chill for 3-8 hours, then strain into a serving bowl. Garnish with lemon and orange slices, and serve over ice with freshly grated nutmeg. PJH

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

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

HAPPY HOUR Daily 4-6:00pm

307.201.1717 | LOCALJH.COM ON THE TOWN SQUARE

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

CLOSED FOR THE OFF SEASON. RE-OPENING MAY 10.

733-3912

160 North Millward | Jackson, Wyoming

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI

LOCAL & DOMESTIC STEAKS SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK @ 5:30 TILL 10 JHCOWBOYSTEAKHOUSE.COM 307-733-4790

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

THAI ME UP

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

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

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

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

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(307) 733-0330 520 S. Hwy. 89 • Jackson, WY

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Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965 THE LOCALS

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Under the Pink Garter Theatre (307) 734-PINK • www.pinkygs.com

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. Closed for the off-season. Re-opening May 10th. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

CAFE GENEVIEVE

Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., Dinner Tues-Sat 5 p.m. and Happy Hour 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.

ELEANOR’S

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.

LOCAL

Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locallysourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as

a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am.

Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

LOTUS ORGANIC RESTAURANT

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

MANGY MOOSE

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

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.

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

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

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

Two- fer Tuesday is back !

Two-for-one 12” pies all day. Dine-in or Carry-out.

(LIMIT 6 PIES PER CARRYOUT ORDER, PLEASE.)

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

PizzeriaCaldera.com

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

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.

www.mangymoose.com

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

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

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Global Unrest: A Big Picture Perspective “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

forgiven in order to clean the slate and release these ills forever. This requirement may explain why the largely repressed dark side of our collective human nature is in our faces right now, and is up for release on a global scale.

This big picture perspective does not condone, support or excuse the tragic events happening in the world right now. But this view does offer insight and awareness that there is major evolutionary house cleaning in progress.

Everyone matters

majority of the world’s religions and indigenous wisdom traditions foretold the chaotic events happening in our times. These upheavals were never considered to do us in; rather, they would be a necessary purging in order to usher in a new, upgraded expression for the Earth and her inhabitants.

The evolutionary opportunity in front of us is about an entirely upgraded global platform, based on possibilities for thriving which can only unfold by creating a collective reality that is no longer polarized. This accelerated shift is happening now, and is often referred to as the New Paradigm, the New Earth, the New Human, and/or the Ascension. Scientists, mystics, and folks all over the world are noticing and experiencing evidence of this process.

Violence is not the only way to bring in a new paradigm. All of us have an important role to play if we’d like this shift to occur with more grace and ease. Keep in mind that every world tradition teaches to choose love over fear. It’s our turn to do just that.

Every person has the choice to clear out our own negative beliefs, attitudes and actions. No one is immune from being less than loving. Letting go of this old stuff is so powerful that it will directly mitigate the severity of the “purge,” allowing the entire upgrade to occur more gently.

If you feel called to be part of the “planetary transition team,” it’s time to let go of your old biases, negative thinking, emotional wounds, personal “war” stories, old identities, and whatever overt and covert judgments you harbor. There is no more looking in the rear view mirror to go forward.

Letting go

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Evolutionary times always require resilience, which includes letting go of things which no longer serve, are no longer working, and are fast becoming obsolete. This holds true for outdated beliefs, institutions, disciplines, policies, lifestyle choices, scientific theories and more.

The transition to the new Earth requires personal and collective shifts from fear-based and polarized states of being to integrated, inclusive, collaborative, heart-centered states of being. Making this leap means there are a lot of old polarizing patterns up for release. And there are new states of consciousness to embrace. This shift is not about “a new chapter;” it is an entirely new book.

Prerequisite No. 1 One prerequisite for this evolutionary leap is that long held personal, cultural, religious, national and global negativity have to be exposed, acknowledged and

The second prerequisite as you retire from the ego driven life, is to now live from the directives of your open human heart. The heart connects us to the soul, and then to the higher intelligence, guidance and unconditional love of Creation. With the heart and soul in the driver’s seat of our lives, we embark with the Earth on a new and higher destiny.

Heaven on earth It is not an accident that we are alive at this time in history. We are given this unprecedented opportunity to contribute our consciousness to help set the stage for an entirely new basis for life on earth. This evolutionary leap is what co-creating Heaven on Earth means. If you’d like resources for upgrading your consciousness, please email me at the address below. PJH

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

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ACROSS

1 “Yowza!”

5 Virtuous 11 Numéro avant six 15 __ speak 19 “Amarantine” Grammy winner 20 Stopped 21 Diamond family name 22 Nile menace 23 During contract talks, a marching band __ 26 All ears 27 __ story 28 One awarding stars, perhaps 29 Peter Fonda title role 30 Nimble 31 Thomas associate 33 During contract talks, a cruise ship’s crew __ 37 Woody and others 39 Caribou, e.g.

40 Ducks 41 Fragrant shrub 42 Panache 45 Shuts up, with “down” 47 During contract talks, a postal union __ 51 Beach letters 54 Bouncing babies?

55 Plot twist 56 Part of BC: Abbr.

57 Yogurt topping 61 Dental problem 63 Unlucky gambler’s wishful words 64 During contract talks, a veterinarians’ association __ 69 Get ready to surf 70 Not just happen once 71 Crude 72 City north of Des Moines 73 Mythical hunter 75 “Canst thou not minister to __ diseased”: Macbeth 77 One-handed Norse god

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During contract talks, a divers’ group __ 85 Paris divider 86 Wash off 87 Spelunkers’ haunts 88 Drops off 91 Pierre’s st.

93 Most artful 94 During contract talks, an opera company __ 98 Winner of the first two Super Bowl MVPs 99 Runs through a sieve 100 Instrument with a flared bell 101 Part of a cast 103 Avril follower 106 On 107 During contract talks, a fighters’ club __ 111 Jazzman Saunders 112 Clog or pump 113 Common soccer score 114 Memorable times 115 Vortex 116 Oenophile’s adjective 117 Fritters away 118 Squat

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Webster, notably One of the original Monopoly tokens still in use 18 Large chamber groups 24 Robin Hood foe 25 __ box 30 Bank insurance?

32 Jacob’s first wife 34 Inactive 35 Spotted 36 __ hour 37 Peak seen from Grindelwald 38 Greater N.Y. school 42 Lift 43 Your of yore 44 Last word of Joyce’s “Ulysses” 45 Ruses 46 Physics particle 48 Numbskull 49 Anglican priest 50 Latin 101 word 51 “Me too!”

52 Power connections 53 Blood relative?

56 Starfleet VIP 57 Key above F 58 Spacious 59 Boring bit 60 Private nonprofits: Abbr.

61 After-dinner drink 62 Old French coin 63 “Isn’t that something!”

65 Steamed 66 Number-picker’s game 67 Stomach 68 Squat 73 Jefferson, theologically 74 B&B, e.g.

75 Philip of “Kung Fu” 76 Enero, por ejemplo 78 Lawn invaders

79 Monastic titles 80 “Kon-__” 81 Good “pocket” holding in Hold ’em 82 Eternally 83 Video game letters 84 Summer hrs.

85 In a precipitous fashion 88 Many a chalet 89 Set, as a trap 90 Pact 91 Bandit chaser of film 92 1983-’84 #1 hit “Say Say Say,” say 93 Potbellies 95 Ruckus 96 Modern read 97 Zoo sights 98 __ Age 102 Coagulate 104 Miles away 105 “That being the case ... ” 107 General of culinary fame 108 Reporter’s query 109 Disney doe 110 “__ who?”

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

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BY ROB BREZSNY

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Fantasize about sipping pear nectar and listening to cello music and inhaling the aroma of musky amber and caressing velvet, cashmere, and silk. Imagine how it would feel to be healed by inspiring memories and sweet awakenings and shimmering delights and delicious epiphanies. I expect experiences like these to be extra available in the coming weeks. But they won’t necessarily come to you freely and easily. You will have to expend effort to ensure they actually occur. So be alert for them.

Seek them out. Track them down.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Contagion may work in your favor, but it could also undermine you. On the one hand, your enthusiasm is likely to ripple out and inspire people whose help you could use. On the other hand, you might be more sensitive than usual to the obnoxious vibes of manipulators.

But now that I’ve revealed this useful tip, let’s hope you will be able to maximize the positive kind of contagion and neutralize the negative. Here’s one suggestion that may help: Visualize yourself to be surrounded by a golden force field that projects your good ideas far and wide even as it prevents the disagreeable stuff from leaking in.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) A reader named Kris X sent me a rebuke. “You’re not a guru or a shaman,” he sneered. “Your horoscopes are too filled with the slippery stench of poetry to be useful for spiritual seekers.” Here’s my response: “Thank you, sir! I don’t consider myself a guru or shaman, either. It’s not my mission to be an all-knowing authority who hands down foolproof advice. Rather, I’m an apprentice to the Muse of Curiosity. I like to wrestle with useful, beautiful paradoxes.

My goal is to be a joyful rebel stirring up benevolent trouble, to be a cheerleader for the creative imagination.”

So now I ask you, my fellow Cancerian: How do you avoid getting trapped in molds that people pressure you to fit inside? Are you skilled at being yourself even if that’s different from what’s expected of you? What are the soulful roles you choose to embody despite the fact that almost no one understands them? Now is a good time to meditate on these matters.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In the coming weeks, there will be helpers whose actions will nudge you—sometimes inadvertently—toward a higher level of professionalism. You will find it natural to wield more power and you will be more effective in offering your unique gifts. Now maybe you imagine you have already been performing at the peak of your ability, but I bet you will discover—with a mix of alarm and excitement—that you can become even more excellent. Be greater, Leo! Do better! Live stronger! (P.S.: As you ascend to this new level of competence, I advise you to be humbly aware of your weaknesses and immaturities. As your clout rises, you can’t afford to indulge in self-delusions.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my ax,” said Abraham Lincoln, one of America’s most productive presidents. I know you Sagittarians are more renowned for your bold, improvisational actions than your careful planning and strategic preparation, but I think the coming weeks will be a time when you can and should adopt Lincoln’s approach. The readier you are, the freer you’ll be to apply your skills effectively and wield your power precisely.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Zoologists say that cannibalizing offspring is common in the animal kingdom, even among species that care tenderly for their young. So when critters eat their kids, it’s definitely “natural.” But I trust that in the coming weeks, you won’t devour your own children. Nor, I hope, will you engage in any behavior that metaphorically resembles such an act. I suspect that you may be at a low ebb in your relationship with some creation or handiwork or influence that you generated out of love. But please don’t abolish it, dissolve it, or abandon it. Just the opposite, in fact: Intensify your efforts to nurture it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Your astrological house of communication will be the scene of substantial clamor and ruckus in the coming weeks. A bit of the hubbub will be flashy but empty. But much of it should be pretty interesting, and some of it will even be useful. To get the best possible results, be patient and objective rather than jumpy and reactive. Try to find the deep codes buried inside the mixed messages.

Discern the hidden meanings lurking within the tall tales and reckless gossip. If you can deal calmly with the turbulent flow, you will give your social circle a valuable gift.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The best oracular advice you’ll get in the coming days probably won’t arise from your dreams or an astrological reading or a session with a psychic, but rather by way of seemingly random signals, like an overheard conversation or a sign on the side of a bus or a scrap of paper you find lying on the ground. And I bet the most useful relationship guidance you receive won’t be from an expert, but maybe from a blog you stumble upon or a barista at a café or one of your old journal entries. Be alert for other ways this theme is operating, as well. The usual sources may not have useful info about their specialties.

Your assignment is to gather up accidental inspiration and unlikely teachings.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) After George Washington was elected as the first President of the United States, he had to move from his home in Virginia to New York City, which at the time was the center of the American government. But there was a problem: He didn’t have enough cash on hand to pay for his long-distance relocation, so he was forced to scrape up a loan. Fortunately, he was resourceful and persistent in doing so. The money arrived in time for him to attend his own inauguration. I urge you to be like Washington in the coming weeks, Aries. Do whatever’s necessary to get the funds you need to finance your life’s next chapter.

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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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) A friend told me about a trick used by his grandmother, a farmer. When her brooding hens stopped laying eggs, she would put them in pillowcases that she then hung from a clothesline in a stiff breeze. After the hens got blown around for a while, she returned them to their cozy digs. The experience didn’t hurt them, and she swore it put them back on track with their egg-laying. I’m not comfortable with this strategy. It’s too extreme for an animal-lover like myself. (And I’m glad I don’t have to deal with recalcitrant hens.) But maybe it’s an apt metaphor or

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Now would be an excellent time to add deft new nuances to the ways you kiss, lick, hug, snuggle, caress, and fondle. Is there a worthy adventurer who will help you experiment with these activities? If not, use your pillow, your own body, a realistic life-size robot, or your imagination. This exercise will be a good warm-up for your other assignment, which is to upgrade your intimacy skills.

How might you do that? Hone and refine your abilities to get close to people. Listen deeper, collaborate stronger, compromise smarter, and give more. Do you have any other ideas?

| PLANET JACKSON HOLE |

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I love to see you Virgos flirt with the uncharted and the uncanny and the indescribable. I get thrills and chills whenever I watch your fine mind trying to make sense of the fabulous and the foreign and the unfathomable. What other sign can cozy up to exotic wonders and explore forbidden zones with as much no-nonsense pragmatism as you? If anyone can capture greased lightning in a bottle or get a hold of magic beans that actually work, you can.

poetic prod for your use right now. What could you do to stimulate your own creative production?

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| PLANET JACKSON HOLE |