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THIS WEEK

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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey With nice weather like we started with this week, it might be hard to believe that June is the second wettest month of the year in Jackson, averaging 1.63 inches of precipitation. Even harder to imagine is that May is the wettest month of the year, which did not pan-out this year. Average precipitation is May here is 1.80 inches, this May we had less than half of that, with only 0.73 inches of total precipitation.

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What a beautiful Memorial Day we had: mostly sunny and highs around 70-degrees. You may recall, however, the holiday weekend began with snow mixing with rain in town on Friday, with a high of only 48-degrees. That broke a record for the coldest high temperature, on that date. The previous record was 49-degrees set back on May 26th, 1973. Average highs this week are in the upper 60’s and the hottest we have ever been is 89-degrees, on both June 4th and 5th, 1988.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.63 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.8 inches (1967) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 0.1 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 5 inches (1973)

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There were only a handful of days in May 2017 when morning low temperatures were above freezing. Historically, the average low temperature this week is in the mid-30’s, so the odds of staying just above freezing in the mornings are getting better. The record low temperatures this week are enough to make you shiver; it has been down as low as 18-degrees in town. That happened twice, once on June 1st, 1940 and again on June 6th, 1983.

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FROM OUR READERS Sweet Shelley [This is an abridged tribute to Shelley Simonton. To read it in its entirety, check planetjh.com. – Ed.] After a valiant 18-month struggle with melanoma Shelley Marie Simonton,49, passed away on May 26 at her home in Jackson Hole, WY., with her husband and close family members at her side.

Shelley had a gift of creating roaring laughs and belly aches across the state of Wyoming and Iowa with her wit and charm. She enjoyed dabbing food near her mouth, seeing how long it took for someone to gesture to her to wipe it off and then purposely wiping off the wrong side with a teasing, quizzical look. She relished a chance to tuck her dress into her underwear in the bathroom, come out and walk around a party; plastering her friends’ faces with wide smiles and tears of laughter. She maintained one of the most powerful arsenals of side-splitting facial expressions and hilarious voices ever known to exist.

As a proud fifth generation Wyomingite, Shelley loved any opportunity to wear her boots and cowgirl hat. From participating on the winning pig wrestling team at the Teton County fair, to encouraging barrel racers at the Cody Stampede and Cheyenne Frontier Days to “Bring it on, home!”, to screaming “Go Pokes!”, “Go Broncos!’ and “Go Hawkeyes” over the crowds, Shelley’s energy and zest for life inspired everyone around her.

Shelley was very accomplished professionally. She reached the pinnacle of her career serving as executive director of the Wyoming Association of Municipalities (WAM) from 2014 until 2017. In this role, she tirelessly crisscrossed the state connecting with people and advocating for community issues. This was more than just a job to her. She was genuinely passionate about understanding the unique identity of each community and its citizens: 1A and 4A alike.

In December 2016, Shelley was ready to come back to Jackson and was selected for her dream job as President/ CEO of the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. Shelley was very excited and optimistic she would have a chance to fulfill this role until her health began to decline in the spring of 2017. Shelley was grateful to the Chamber board for their compassionate approach and support throughout the entire process.

Shelley never stopped giving back to her community and was an enthusiastic volunteer through the years. She was a staunch advocate for Wyoming women. She was a mentor and a mentee to many women throughout the state.

She was chairwoman of the Wyoming Women’s Foundation and co-chaired its first Wyoming Women’s Antelope Hunt, a very successful fundraiser for the Foundation. She also was a founding board member of Womentum, an organization charged with empowering and connecting women as leaders within the Jackson community.

She also served on the board of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, and Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust. She was a graduate of Leadership Jackson Hole and Leadership Wyoming.

A celebration of life will be held in Jackson on Saturday, August 5th with details to be announced.

For those who would like to honor Shelley’s legacy financially, the family suggests a memorial contribution to a special fund set up in her name at the Wyoming Women’s Foundation (1472 N. 5th St., Suite 201, Laramie, WY, 82072) or a gift to your community animal shelter. For those looking to honor her spirit, root for a great game when the Pokes take on the Hawkeyes to open up the college football season, throw the ball one more time for that energetic pup and sing along, loudly, to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” every time you hear it play.

– The Simonton family

The King Chronicles Continue The resort district master plan for Snow King is an outdated, obsolete document full of projects that were never built, and does not depict any of the projects that have been built in recent years.

SKMR LLC should’ve updated these 17-year-old plans before proposing every single thing that could ever be proposed for the rest of the ski area.

Thankfully, the town council is finally hosting a discussion concerning the future of the base area lands, and they need more guidance from the public before anything moves forward, possibly at the June 5 town council meeting.

At the May 15 council workshop, SKMR LLC explained that they would like to figure out the base area after the Forest Service decides what will

be allowed on our public lands. There were many business associates advocating for Snow King to be able to move forward with these plans, citing the need for “sustainability,” again, like the Phase 1 proposal that allowed poorly designed infrastructure and a mountain coaster to be built without public comment being considered.

Under proper management, our small town hill’s location in the tourism capital of the Northern Rockies should be plenty to suffice, especially since we now have a mountain coaster and an increased amount of radio revenue, rumored to be about $1M annually.

Most small ski areas do not have any of the advantages that Snow King possesses, and they continue to provide affordable winter recreation. The pity party is over, and the ownership team can obviously afford to develop the area in a righteous manner.

If the “sustainability” of our privately-owned Town Hill is truly all that matters to the executives and the community, then we deserve to know more about what will be proposed for the base area.

More short term lodging, expensive condos, restaurants, and retail shops in this area are not necessary, and should be considered “unsustainable.”

The base of Snow King should be dedicated to public parks to keep the area vibrant amongst locals, since the “resort connector zone” of S. Cache and E. Snow King will eventually be redeveloped to house visitors inside this mostly undeveloped sector of the lodging overlay.

The base area is also the most ideal place for additional public recreation facilities, like an additional ice rink/ multi use building, a climbing gym, skate park, bike park, dog park, etc.

If SKMR LLC were to offer some of its lands in exchange for a gondola on the Phil Baux Ballfield, then these projects could happen with the help of private donors and fundraising, similar to how most of our parks have been created.

Another key amendment needed for the base area is more adequate employee housing. This would help SK’s high turnover rate and address their increased workforce, which will grow much larger once this yearslong construction process begins.

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Do Your Job tone deaf talk of tutus with your back to us we are mute to you when we ask you to Show Up, Do Your Job two of you RIGHT NOW deciding who will live or die. (is this religion? your demigod position? learn to listen) your job is to provide but instead you are dividing us. why are you riding this ugly tide?

Do Your Job or step aside! surely even you cannot abide the un-christian bitch of a system that walls us in stalls us out cuts us off shuts us down now it’s the pope who stands for hope, who throws us a rope, who knows the scope of the soul and the slippery slope that rolls you down the avalanche of chances to hear the voices. the sleazy dance (with Achilles) and the choice to avoid is the thorn in your side. this is ground zero.

In Wyoming you could be a hero but the fear that steers you blinds you. we remind you: Show Up, Do Your Job #doyourjobreps – Anonymous Submit your comments to editor@ planetjh.com with “Letter to the Editor” in the subject line. All letters are subject to editing for length, content and clarity.

When We Stop Paying Attention Andrew Jackson, President Trump, Hitler and the seeds of global fascism.

BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

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Meet President Trump’s bestie Andy Jackson.

This is particularly troubling for us, of course, in the context of Trump, who has consistently acted as if he is the leader, not of the whole country, but of his supporters. He sees the press as the “enemy of the people” and finds less commonality with Democrats than he does with foreign nationalist authoritarians like Putin, Erdogan, or Rodrigo Duterte, whose murderous drug war Trump praised in the same conversation in which he gave the dictator the position of U.S. nuclear subs.

As with Manifest Destiny, white Christians believe Trump’s election was the will of God. “He offended gays. He offended women. He offended the military.

He offended black people. He offended the Hispanic people. He offended everybody! And he became president of the United States. Only God could do that,” evangelist Franklin Graham recently told The Atlantic.

I’m not saying there are zero differences between Jackson and Hitler and Trump. Two of the three are guilty of genocide. But neither Jackson nor Hitler had the capacity—in the form of nuclear weapons—to destroy the entire world. Trump does.

Arendt’s Origins is not about finding exact parallels, Jones said, but it is “a warning of what will happen if we don’t pay attention when people who try to sort of create dictatorships or a kind of power without limits.” PJH Listen to the entire conversation with Kathleen B. Jones, who is teaching a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar about Hannah Arendt, on the next two special episodes of the Democracy in Crisis podcast.

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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 earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, focusing on ethics and tyranny, and became a reporter in an attempt to live like Socrates. Send your tips to democracyincrisiscolumn@ gmail.com.

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’m writing this week from North Carolina, the state that may be the center of our current illiberal, anti-democratic and yet ostensibly populist politics. It’s the place that should be called North Coupd’etat-arolina after the Republican legislature tried to disempower the democratically elected Democratic governor in a session from which they expelled the press and the public. And it’s the place whose racially gerrymandered congressional districts the Supreme Court just ruled unconstitutional, causing—in what may almost constitute a miracle—Clarence Thomas to side with the court’s more liberal justices.

More specifically, I am in the town of Waxhaw, which claims—although it is disputed—to be the birthplace of Andrew Jackson, seemingly the only one of his predecessors that President Trump admires.

The town is named after the indigenous people who were wiped out during the Yamasee War, which ended 300 years ago this year, in 1717.

The Museum of the Waxhaws has a particularly noxious sign featuring a picture of Jackson, probably the president most responsible for the genocide of Native Americans (and that’s some stiff competition).

When the Supreme Court ruled that native lands were sovereign in Worcester v. Georgia, Jackson proclaimed “the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.”

The court-hating Trump may present himself as a Jacksonian in hopes of at some point employing this line, or more likely the apocryphal version, in which Jackson said Chief Justice “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”

The case addressed the forcible removal of the Cherokee, a horrendously shameful event in our nation’s history, and one that inspired not only Trump but also Adolf Hitler.

I thought of this a couple weeks ago when I talked to Kathleen B. Jones, a scholar who studies the work of the political theorist and Holocaust refugee Hannah Arendt, whose 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism became a surprise best-seller after the election. I called Jones because I wanted to talk about Trump’s declaration that he is “a nationalist and a globalist.” Trump’s nationalist supporters saw this claim

as a betrayal—and yet many of these same people praise Putin and used their dank memes for Marine Le Pen. Arendt wrote about the ways that initially nationalist movements like fascism ultimately embrace globalism as they move toward fullblown totalitarianism and seek to politically remake the world. I thought that might help me understand what was going on with this international movement of nationalists interfering in each other’s elections around the world.

“If you add the adjective ‘white’ in front of the word ‘nationalist, a ‘white nationalist’ and a ‘globalist,’ there isn’t really much of a contradiction between those two tendencies,” Jones said. “It’s interesting because when Hitler was formulating his program of land conquest … he writes about this in Mein Kampf, he turned to the United States as an illustration of the strategy to be pursued … to advance the interests of a people across the scope of an entire territorial area,” she said. “He was thinking of Manifest Destiny. And he was thinking of the decimation of the American Indian population.”

There we were, back at Jackson—via Hitler, who wasn’t inspired by our genocide of Native Americans and conquest of the continent alone. James Q. Whitman’s new book, Hitler’s American Model, shows to what extent Nazi race laws were inspired by Jim Crow laws in the American South from the period MAGA-ists seem to want to return to. Many Nazis even thought our race laws were too extreme.

Jones says that Trump’s “restrictive immigration policies” and his “draconian economic policies,” which will disproportionately affect communities of color, amount to a kind of recolonization of America and have parallels with what happened in Germany and Russia between the two world wars.

“It’s the transformation of people from all of the residents, all of the inhabitants of a country, into a racialized, ethnicized concept of the people that, simultaneously, basically deterritorialized the concept of nation,” she said.

“When you look at what Marine Le Pen is doing, France should become French again, you know who the targets are. She isn’t shy at all about naming them,” Jones said. “When you look at what’s going on in the Netherlands, in Hungary, in Poland, in Greece, these are all places where far-right nationalists’ parties, ethno-nationalist parties have gained footing in ways we haven’t seen since the between the wars period.”

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Liberal SoulSearching Montana’s special election begs the question, with weak opponents, why do Democrats keep losing?

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Montanans shocked the country last week with the election of Greg Gianforte... or maybe they didn’t.

Calvert’s answer: “Not necessarily because the political structure in this country is really sick right now, starting at the top and going on down the line.

You have some claiming the reporter had it coming.”

What’s scary for those who believe in the party of loyal opposition, he says, is that it’s rudderless.

What’s more, the Democratic Party’s anemic health in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho is an ongoing sign of problems—and disenfranchisement from its base— that started during the Clinton Administration, he said.

“The Democratic National Committee has been weak and unfocused and it’s really at fault here,” he said. “It has pretty much written off the interior of the US between the Appalachians and the Rockies, treating it as a no-go and it shows.”

At the same time, the GOP is now abiding a president with deepening legal and ethical issues as well as a health care plan that could appreciably worsen and endanger the lives of many Americans.

It should be a golden opportunity for Democrats to gain traction with voters but the party’s inability to win a race that could’ve been won exposes a serious lack of leadership.

Until the Democrats engage in deep introspection, admit their failings, and find a strategy for reconnecting literally with a middle America that feels abandoned, losing will remain the norm. PJH Todd Wilkinson has been writing his award-winning column, The New West, for nearly 30 years. He is author of Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek about famous Grizzly 399 featuring 150 pictures by renowned Jackson Hole photographer Tom Mangelsen. Autographed copies only available at mangelsen.com/grizzly.

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Imagine if it had been a school teacher attacking a student?

Gianforte’s apology still doesn’t explain why, within minutes after the incident happened, his spokesman Shane Scanlon pulled his own Sean Spicer move.

Scanlon quickly penned a press release claiming it had all been merely an accident and blamed it on Jacobs.

Scanlon’s action caused many to compare him to Spicer blatantly lying about the crowd size at Donald Trump’s inauguration and Kellyanne Conway’s promotion of “alternative facts.” But was it Gianforte who told him what to write?

Had a reporting crew from Fox News been there to refute Scanlon’s claims, one wonders if Gianforte would have nobly confessed the truth or opportunistically defended the spin of his flack?

The Congressman has, in his own rhetoric, echoed Trump’s assertions that the media is the enemy of the state, but poignantly, and ironically, it was the presence and courage of journalists that documented Gianforte’s assault and insured the truth emerged.

Jerry Calvert, the respected professor emeritus in Montana State University’s political science department, has tracked many elections. Contrary to professional pundits in Washington and New York, he didn’t see this race as a referendum on Trump. However, he noted, it could be an indication as much for Democrats as Republicans.

“You had two pretty flawed and vulnerable candidates. This is a race the Democrats could’ve won but they didn’t,” he said. “Some wondered what might have happened if Gianforte had assaulted the reporter a month ago instead of on the eve of the election— might it have changed the result?”

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air and square, Greg Gianforte prevailed in Montana’s special congressional election, held to fill the lone House seat vacated when former U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke became Donald Trump’s new Interior Secretary. He got the most votes.

Some national pundits claimed Gianforte’s race against Democrat Rob Quist was a referendum on Trump’s presidency or perhaps a harbinger for the GOP, but is it?

Before we examine these questions, let’s recap the bizarre events that unfolded just hours before the polls opened last week, when Mr. Gianforte allegedly “body slammed” a reporter for The Guardian newspaper.

According to eyewitnesses, Gianforte grabbed the journalist around the neck and threw him to the ground after the scribe inconvenienced the candidate with a question Gianforte didn’t like. In fact, he wanted Gianforte to explain his position on health care legislation, passed by the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Without even knowing what the impacts of the House bill would be on their own constituents, most Republican Congressmen, including Wyoming’s Rep. Liz Cheney, voted for the bill. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released its expert analysis noting the GOP plan would likely result in 23 million Americans losing health insurance.

In the build-up to the special election May 25, Gianforte had been cagey about his position and when pressed by Jacobs at a campaign event on May 24, he went into a rage.

At this point, the term “allegedly” regarding the Congressman-elect’s personal conduct seems almost moot. The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office in Bozeman recommended to the county attorney that, after reviewing evidence, there is probable cause for bringing a misdemeanor assault charge against Gianforte. And, on the night he won and delivered his victory speech, Gianforte publicly apologized to Jacobs, acknowledging that what he did “was wrong.”

Should politicians be held to a higher standard?

Most people would agree a mea culpa was the right thing to do. But there are a lot of folks who would lose their jobs, with cause, if they did something similar.

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THE BUZZ A Man’s World How a male-dominated workforce takes its toll on women in the valley.

BY SARAH ROSS

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omen in Jackson Hole can prove themselves on the river or in mountains in ways that are unambiguous—either you flip the raft, or you don’t, you ski the line or you go around. However, many of the most celebrated jobs in the valley, from guides to performers to elected officials, are still dominated by men.

The effects of this disparity are far-reaching.

A 2015 study by Indiana University in Bloomington demonstrated that women who work in male dominated occupations have higher levels of stress than those who don’t, and research published by the American Psychological Association demonstrates that, unsurprisingly, women in male dominated industries face more gender harassment. How does this play out for local women?

One of the guys In 1978, Jan Bradley became the first woman to guide the Snake River Canyon. Mad River hired her when she was in her mid-20s at a time when many guides were men in their 40s.

They weren’t used to sharing the river.

Once, she found a note on her car that read: “It takes balls to be a boatman.”

The outdoor industry was “a male dominated bastion of men who ski patrolled in the winter and were river guides in the summer. It was a boundary women didn’t cross,” she said.

Bradley crossed that boundary without realizing it. She had been a shuttle driver in past summers, and had grown to love the river. She was thrilled when she got the job, and shocked by the outcry. “There was a lot of talk about me not being strong enough or capable enough,” she said.

“Innocence had a lot of protective value for me,” Bradley continued. “I never stopped to think, ‘What if I can’t do this?’ I just kept doing my job.”

Slowly, Bradley earned the respect of

Jan Bradley, the first woman to guide the Snake River Canyon.

the men who had been skeptical. “They finally accepted me because I proved myself. I never flipped the boat, and they saw that. I won my way into their hearts.”

Bradley’s career lasted 10 years.

During that time she was a senior guide and the first female logistics coordinator. The other guides became family—on the river, they had to have each others’ backs.

“The fact that I was a woman opened the door for other women,” Bradley said.

Now, the gender breakdown has changed, but the field is still dominated by men. Currently, of Mad River’s 23 guides, four are women. These numbers are similar across the industry in Jackson—of the 91 guides currently listed on Exum’s website, 21 are women.

Last year, 17 of 82 ski patrollers were women.

For Bradley, working on the Snake made her feel stronger emotionally, intellectually, and physically. At the time, she says “it seemed so much gentler because it was all just unfolding.”

Now that it is more common for women to lead in the outdoors, Bradley says that in some ways, it seems more difficult.

Lucy Tompkins, 22, is one of the women whose experiences suggest that Bradley might be right. Tompkins spent part of her childhood in Jackson and guided on the Clark Fork River the summer after sophomore year of college.

The job was not what she expected.

Tompkins sought out a company

founded by women that prided itself on hiring more female guides and being family friendly. Instead she was among just a few women guides in a work culture inhospitable to women.

Early in the summer one of the male guides told a sexist joke. “What’s the difference between a woman and a washing machine?” he asked. “A machine won’t follow you around after you dump your load in it.”

Everybody, except Tompkins, laughed. Later, a co-worker was making fun of her for not laughing, and began retelling the joke. Before he could finish, their boss told Tompkins that she should repeat the punchline for everybody.

“My heart was racing, I felt my face was red. I was realizing, I think I have to do this if I want to be a part of the culture, which I really do,” she said.

That feeling became familiar. “River culture is raunchy,” she said. “You’re supposed to be dirty.” It was expected that guides participate in this culture, which meant ignoring the sexist and racist jokes. It meant not knowing what to do when a guide in charge started hitting on the younger women when he was drunk.

“It’s hard to speak out when the person who is perpetuating it is in power,” she said. “Women are put in the position of choosing to act more like the dudes to be accepted, or to stand firm in their femininity, which is hard to do.”

So she tried to do both. Male guides labeled her as uptight and “no fun”

until she started to party with them.

“To be accepted into the group you sort of had to be OK with things you weren’t OK with,” she admitted.

Tompkins was always cognizant she was in the minority. “It’s really intimidating to walk into a room of strong, outdoorsy guys, especially if they’re not welcoming, or if they’re treating you like a sex object,” she said.

“The outdoors is white, privileged, and male dominated,” Tompkins continued. “It’s comfortable for them to be on top. They’ve never been excluded from anything in their lives, they’ve never been the butt of the joke.”

Despite her discomfort, Tompkins learned to guide. She got to know the river, and facilitated amazing experiences for the families on her boat. A year later, however, she sent her boss an email explaining her decision not to return. He apologized and said that because of her email, they were making significant changes to company culture.

Tompkins’ summer on the river still impacts her. These are the experiences, she says, that may deter more women from seeking out jobs in male dominated environments, even if they really want them.

“I haven’t gone back to rafting, and I definitely mourn that.”

You can’t win The outdoor industry is not the only one in which women learn to navigate

music scene. “It’s negatively affected me to always feel like people see me as a girl, not a musician … there’s not an open, invited space for women.”

If women feel pushed to the margins of male-dominated industries, it can have a long-term impact on their future. The stressors that impact many in Jackson might be compounded for them.

For German, taking a break is no small decision when she’s already struggling. She recently lost her housing unexpectedly, and she’s not sure she’ll be able to stay: “I’m trying to grow roots in this community and to give back to this community, but it’s hard when at any moment you could lose your housing … it makes you feel like a second class citizen, like you’re not really valued.”

Constant fear of losing housing and struggling to make ends meet can distract from career development: “It affects health and productivity … when you’re working 12 hours a day six days a week it doesn’t really leave the time or space to do your best work. When you can only spend 5 percent of your time creating because you’re trying to survive, it’s discouraging.”

German has given herself one more year in Jackson. If she can’t find more stable housing or work, she may have to leave, taking a part of the female-driven music industry with her.

The tipping point As

Tompkins

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music. She has a music degree, and is a performer, a teacher, and a band leader.

She has found that some are threatened by her expertise. “Many people have fallen into music here. I didn’t fall, I studied. I’m ambitious, I speak my mind, and I know about music. I trigger something in the men here.” She’s been called crazy, over the top.

“Women have to work twice as hard … if I achieve success in my career, no matter what, people will say it’s because I’m a girl.”

When Bradley began guiding, she learned to work differently. She had less brute power than her male counterparts, so she learned to compensate.

“I was taught that because of a possible lack of strength, I would have to finesse things. I would have to think about my moves way ahead of time. I had to be more thoughtful.”

German, too, sees that she can approach her work differently. Without many successful female role models in the industry around her, German is forging her own path: “I try not to adopt the energy of competition, or feel like I need to be ‘one of the guys’ … In the end, I’ve learned that moving my feminine energy fully into leadership creates something that is more open, more collaborative. In my rehearsals, I bring this kind of energy … at the root of my music is the desire to open the space for people to be themselves.”

Feeling like she needs to prove herself takes a toll, though. German says she’s had to take a break from the local

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their careers surrounded by men.

Madelaine German is a musician in Jackson, a town whose music scene is primarily made up of men. She’s also an athlete. “I’m a rock climber and a skier and a horse wrangler. I grew up chasing men around the mountains,” she said.

Like Bradley, she feels that Jackson has provided unique opportunities as well as challenges. “Wyoming has a pioneer homestead history,” German noted. “This is a hard place to live, women historically had to work as hard as men. There’s room for women to step into leadership.”

While Jackson has given German the room to grow as a musician, she says her gender is always present in her work in a way that it is not for her male counterparts: “You’re never just able to be a musician. You’ll always be a girl too.”

Once, when German walked off stage with her band, an audience member high-fived all the male musicians.

When German asked where her highfive was, the man sarcastically replied, “Oh yeah, great job shaking your ass.”

No matter how she responds, she says it’s easy for men to dismiss her.

“The learning curve for me was steep,” German recalled. “You can’t win. I can work my ass off to get a gig, and guys will say, ‘Well, it’s because you’re a cute girl.’ If you play the cute role, you get dismissed. If you are assertive, you get called a bitch.”

German moved to Jackson six years ago. She started as a waitress, but quickly began devoting herself to her

That was then, this is now: Lucy Tompkins at the helm.

marginalized based on gender may deter women from entering male-dominated fields, or encourage them to quit.

This can have long term impacts on women. Male dominated fields tend to be better paying, though that changes once women enter them.

Researchers with the National University of Singapore found that men “abandoned formerly all-male professions in droves after women’s participation reaches tipping points, fearing the social stigma and wage penalties associated with ‘feminine’ occupations.”

Part of that “wage penalty” is attributable to a recent federal court decision. In April, courts ruled that it’s legal to underpay women based on their previous experiences. Employers can ask new hires what they made in their previous work, and pay based on that salary. Because women are already likely to have been paid less throughout their lifetimes, this perpetuates a pattern of women’s work being devalued.

As a report by Equitable Growth puts it, these cycles are difficult to break: “Men often underestimate women’s skills based on their current underrepresentation in certain occupations and thus discriminate against women in these occupations on the false assumption that increasing their representation would lower their overall productivity.”

According to Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the way to tackle the negative associations with women in male-dominated fields is to hire more women. Once occupations achieve a “critical mass of women they … dramatically reduce the prevalence of discriminatory behavior and force their workplaces to adapt to their female employees’ needs and demands.”

Greater gender representation in the workplace is beneficial for individuals and their companies. A recent Gallup study of more than 800 businesses found that gender diverse institutions had significantly better financial outcomes than those dominated by one gender.

Tompkins sensed that gender parity in the rafting company would have made it a more hospitable environment, one she may have been more likely to stay in: “If there are more women in the room, it’s just different. It’s less likely that people will make those kinds of jokes that make them feel unwelcome, it’s a different awareness.” PJH

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THE BUZZ 2 Usual Suspect In Birkholz death, alcohol, drug abuse were largely glossed over.

BY JESSICA SELL CHAMBERS @jesellechambers

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ne finding from the recent inquest into the death of Anthony “Tony” Birkholz, who died in January after ingesting alcohol and DMT, was largely overlooked by local media. Birkholz’s death may have had as much or more to do with the amount of alcohol he drank as the DMT he inhaled.

Birkholz’s body was cremated before an autopsy was considered. His death was deemed natural by Idaho’s Bonneville County Coroner’s Office at the time, even though the circumstances leading up to his death were questionable. So aside from blood tests, there is no physical evidence to determine cause of death.

However, Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue told PJH he isn’t convinced a physical examination of his body would have helped because, Birkholz “had no other reason to have his airway blocked except for aspiration.”

What caused Birkholz to die is mostly clear: aspiration and asphyxiation, but what caused that is seemingly unclear. The three-person jury decided he died due to “aspiration secondary to alcohol and 5-methoxy-DMT ingestion.” But Blue was less certain about the relationship between these factors.

Blood work indicated the 31-year-old had THC and alcohol in his system—not cocaine, as local media incorrectly reported, or DMT, which is hard to test for. Witness testimony during the inquest conducted by Blue revealed the local artist took a substance known as 5-Meo-DMT, or the compound 5-Methoxy-Dimethyltryptamine, an offshoot of DMT, the night he died.

Blue wrote the only other major unknowns in addition to the ingestion of DMT brought to light by the inquest were the timing of the events, and the movement of the deceased.

“Mr. Birkholz vomited but it is my belief had he not been turned over and had other manipulations, he would not have aspirated. Therefore, my personal opinion was the only relationship [between his death and DMT] was the vomiting. Obviously, [that is] my pure conjecture,” Blue wrote.

According to Blue, whose first exposure to DMT was during the recent inquest, Birkholz choked on his vomit.

Blue posited the man’s death was the result of converging factors and not directly due to the drug DMT or its chemical interaction with the alcohol he consumed that night. Blue wrote, “Often the DMT and 5 DMT do not have synergistic effects. However, DMT causes vomiting more often.”

Birkholz likely choked on his own vomit because of an unprotected airway, a risk associated with excessive alcohol consumption. Birkholz taking DMT could have been the cause for him vomiting—a common occurrence when taking DMT, but also of drinking to excess.

Both DMT and alcohol have potentially similar effects, making cause and effect murky.

In fact, according to Recovery.org, many of the

symptoms Birkholz allegedly exhibited—profound disorientation, vomiting, blue or pale skin, slowed respiratory and heart rate, passing out, etc., are all indicators of alcohol poisoning. Alcohol depresses the central nervous system, which controls involuntary actions such as breathing and the gag reflex, making choking a major risk of alcohol poisoning. Hence, the warnings to not let intoxicated friends “sleep it off” and to place them on their sides if you must leave them.

However, DMT also has connections to the central nervous system. It is a naturally occurring tryptamine compound. Tryptamine is also produced in the body and plays a fundamental role in much of its central nervous system regulatory processes.

Not so out of the ordinary Birkholz’s death may not have been so unusual for a person his age with multiple substances “on board” and a compromised nervous system. And it brings to mind another recent death involving a young person and drugs and alcohol.

Blue had an earlier conversation with PJH regarding Alexandria “Lexi” Lee Frank, 26, the Jackson woman found dead in her bathtub in April, later discovered to have been under the influence of Xanax and alcohol. The cause of death in that case was technically an accidental drowning. Frank passed out, slipped into the warm water and died, Blue explained.

When asked if Birkholz, too, could have died in a similar fashion considering his level of intoxication, Blue noted, “If Birkholz had been in a warm bath tub, it is possible he could have drowned as well.” However, Blue wrote, “aspiration implies the inability to protect the airway which can happen in very drunk people.”

But, he said, Birkholz’s blood alcohol content was a .18, which for a regular drinker isn’t that high. However, he noted his blood was drawn roughly two hours after his collapse. Blue clarified in a later email, “He had no other reason to have his airway blocked except for aspiration. A BAC of .18 is not high enough for someone to be so comatose that they would not protect their airway.”

According to numerous sources on the elimination rate of alcohol, BAC drops at approximately a rate of .015 percent per hour after a person stops drinking, meaning Birkholz may have had a BAC of approximately .21 when he collapsed.

Then there is the problem with any chemical compound: the risk of the unknown.

While the DMT itself could have been a botched chemistry or cutting job, because the other men who also took the drug were not adversely affected, it is unlikely that was the cause of Birkholz’s death. “Obviously everyone has a different effect of any drug but the fact the other two did not have a problem seems to imply the death was not ‘directly’ caused by DMT,” Blue said.

When asked about the prevalence of overdose deaths in the valley, Blue responded, “We have more alcohol related deaths.”

DMT awakenings?

DMT isn’t Jackson’s drug of choice. Jackson Police Chief Todd Smith said in an email that DMT is not all that prevalent in the valley, but that, “DMT seems to

Artwork Kelly Halpin made in memory of Anthony Birkholz.

be having a resurgence in the U.S. right now, of which Jackson is not immune.” More common, he said, are alcohol-related poisonings, mainly resulting in hospitalizations and occasionally in death.

According to recovery.org, N, N-Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a drug known for its ability to produce intense visual hallucinations. Risk of DMT addiction is believed to be relatively low, and unlike alcohol, cocaine, or heroin, it does not lead to compulsive drug-seeking behavior.

DMT originated with the usage of ayahuasca, the ancient Amazonian tea derived from the vines of Banisteriopsis caapi and leaves of the plant psychotria viridis; the tea’s hallucinatory effects are due to the DMT compound found in the leaves.

Ayahuasca has been used by shamans in the Amazon to cure illness and tap into the spiritual world and is even consumed by some religious groups in Brazil as a sacrament, explained a March Rolling Stone article. The practice caught on in the developed world too, reaching New York and California, not to mention Jackson Hole, where its users claim it helps cultivate greater self-awareness.

One local woman, who agreed to talk to PJH under the condition of anonymity, used ayahuasca ceremonially in Peru. “It’s like thousands of years of therapy in one night. Ayahuasca saved my life and has done the same for many others. You go way out into the source to find answers,” she said. Though the same woman cautioned against mixing it.

But addictions therapist at Curran-Seeley Ryan Burke is wary about the quick fix mentality he sees. He has doubts about the fast answers people claim to get with drugs like DMT. “You have to put in the work. Take the time to go to a counselor. Put in the effort,” Burke said.

He also warned the valley has a dark side, especially regarding alcohol. He said the things happening in Jackson rival reality television shows like Addiction. He explained there are people who have detoxed at the hospital 50 times and get out of the hospital only to return the same evening to detox again. He noted the U.S. comprises 60 percent of the world’s illegal drug market with only six percent of the world’s population.

“Everyone wants to be happy all the time and put on a happy face. Natural cycles have down time and people try and avoid it,” he said.

In response to a question regarding Birkholz’s personal accountability Blue wrote, “There is no question that Mr. Birkholz did something irresponsible. It was the juror’s opinion that had he had the proper intervention at the proper time, he would have lived.”

When asked about personal responsibility and accidental deaths involving drugs and alcohol Burke said, “You never want to speak ill of the dead, but if you don’t speak up it’ll continue to happen.” PJH

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Breaking News (Rare Fetish!)

NEWS

By CHUCK SHEPHERD

OF THE

n Social critics and futurists suggest that the next great market for computerization (already underway) will be selling “human improvement” (alas, perhaps merely helping already successful people to even greater heights). Some sports teams are experimenting with “transcranial direct current stimulation” as a way to put athletes’ brains into constant alert, and KQED Radio reported in May that about a third of the San Francisco Giants players have donned weak-current headsets that cover the motor cortex at the top of the head. The team’s sports scientist (bonus name: Geoff Head!) said players performed slightly better on some drills after the stimulation. (One the other hand, at press time, the Giants were still next-to-last in the National League West.)

WEIRD

Jordan Haskins, 26, was sentenced to probation and sex counseling in May after pleading guilty to eight charges arising from two auto accidents in Saginaw, Michigan.

Prosecutors said Haskins described “cranking,” in which he would remove a vehicle’s spark-plug wires to make it “run rough,” which supposedly improves his chances for a self-service happy ending. Haskins’s lawyer added, “(Cranking) is something I don’t think we understand as attorneys.”

The Entrepreneurial Spirit!

Le Plat Sal (The Dirty Plate) restaurant in the Marais district of Paris features specialties actually containing dirt—or as Chef Solange Gregoire calls it, “the mud of the earth that caresses our toes, the sand kissed by the sun, and rocks.” Mused a Food Network host in April, “What’s left? People are already eating snout-to-tail, leaves-toroots….” Gregoire extolled her four-star dishes, including pastry crust a la Mont Lachat rock and a Boue Ragout stew simmered with silt from the River Seine. (NPR also noted that the founder of The Shake Shack was “quietly” planning a new American chain, Rock in Roll.) n Goldman Sachs analyst Noah Poponak’s 98-page paper (leaked to Business Insider in April) touted the wealth obtainable by capturing the platinum reputed to be in asteroids. The costs to mine the stone (rockets, launch expenses, etc.) might have dropped recently to about $3 billion—a trifle next to the $50 billion worth of platinum Poponak said a single asteroid might contain.

(On the other hand, experts point out, such abundance of platinum might crash the worldwide price.) n The Twisted Ranch restaurant in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, saw crowds swell in March after it revamped its menu with more than two dozen items made with ranch dressing (including ranch-infused Bloody Marys). As one satisfied visitor put it, “Ranch is everyone’s guilty pleasure.”

Unclear on the Concept

Yale University graduate students (well, at least eight of them), claiming “union” status, demonstrated in front of the Yale president’s home in April demanding better benefits (beyond the annual free tuition, $30,000 stipends and free health care). Some of the students characterized their action as an “indefinite fast” while others called it a “hunger strike.” However, a pamphlet associated with the unionizing made it clear that strikers could go eat any time they got hungry.

Smooth Reactions

Police in Cleveland are searching for the woman whose patience ran out on April 14 awaiting her young son’s slow haircut at Allstate Barber College. She pulled out a pistol, took aim at the barber and warned: “I got two clips! I’ll pop you.” (She allowed him to finish up—more purposefully, obviously—and left without further incident.)

The Drone Economy

A Netherlands startup company announced in March its readiness to release drones capable of tracking freshly deposited dog poop (via an infrared glow from the pile) and, eventually, be guided (perhaps via GPS and artificial intelligence) to scoop up the deposits and carry them away.

Potentially Unemployed Bees

Researcher-inventor Eijiro Miyako announced in the journal Chem in March that he had created a drone that pollinates flowers (though requiring human guidance until GPS and AI can be enabled). Miyako’s adhesive gel lightly brushes pollen grains, collecting just enough to touch down successfully onto another flower to pollinate it.

Recent alarming headlines

“U.K. woman who urinated on Trump golf course loses case” (London). “Fish thief on unicycle busted by DNR (Department of Natural Resources)” (Battle Creek, Michigan). And, from the Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach), all on the same day (May 16, 2017): 1. “Man throws fork at woman in fight over dog poop.” 2.

“Senior citizen punches husband for taking Lord’s name in vain.” 3. “Two people busted for creating fake football league, lawmen say.” 4. “Man denies defecating in parking lot despite officer witnessing deed.”

BUY, SELL, SWAP OR BARTER

HELP-WANTED,

HOUSING

FREE AND WHO-KNOWS-WHAT ELSE FOR

Clearing the Conscience

In February, a 52-year-old man who, arrested for DUI and taken to a police station in Germany’s Lower Saxony state, wound up spontaneously confessing to a 1991 cold-case murder in Bonn. Police confirmed that, after reopening the files, they found details matching the man’s account, though the man himself was “not quite clear” why he had confessed. n A game warden in Titus County, Texas, reported in December arresting a man for possessing a shotgun (the man’s third arrest as a convicted felon with a firearm).

The warden had spotted the weapon only because the man “out of the blue” approached him and asked if he wanted to inspect his hunting license (which, it turns out, was in order).

CLASSIFIEDS

Update

The impending retirement from public life of Britain’s Prince Philip, announced in May, has likely quashed any slight chance he will visit the Imanourane people on Tanna (in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu)— tragic, of course, because Tanna’s Chief Jack and his followers continue to believe Philip descended from their own spiritual ancestors and has thus dominated their thoughts for the last seven decades. In fact, when Tanna was in the path of Cyclone Donna in May 2017, the Imanourane were quickly reminded of Philip’s continuing “powers.” (Philip has never visited, but Tannans have long prayed over an autographed photograph he sent years ago.)

A News of the Weird Classic (October 2013)

The story of Kopi Luwak coffee has long been a News of the Weird staple, begun in 1993 with the first reports that a super-premium market existed for coffee beans digested (and excreted) by certain Asian civet cats, collected, washed and brewed. In June (2013), as news broke that civets were being mistreated—captured and caged solely for their bean-adulterating utility—the American Chemical Society was called on for ideas how to assure that the $227/pound coffee beans had, indeed, been expelled from genuine Asian civets. Hence, “gas chromatography and mass spectrometry” tests were finally developed to assure drinkers, at $80 a cup in California, that they were sipping the real thing.

Thanks this week to Jon Maxwell and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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Summer flicks deliver familiar themes and familiar themes.

@davidmriedel

pathetic lives for a couple hours at a time, or that the president fired the FBI director. Movies can make us want to be better people (see: Casablanca).

But when I look at the movies coming out this summer and see that someone’s best idea for spending $40 million is The House, starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler as parents who open an illegal casino to earn enough money to send their daughter to college, I’m simultaneously heartened and dismayed. I’m heartened because it’s rare for comedies to address a problem regular people deal with. I’m dismayed because I’ve seen this plot in myriad different iterations: Fun with Dick & Jane (original and remake), the Going in Style remake. Even mediocre dramas such as Boiler Room feature illegal casinos as a major plot point and the classic Dog Day Afternoon features a bank robbery at its center as a means to fund a major life event.

Man, I’m a buzzkill. But The House is the best ya got, Hollywood?

Now that we all feel terrible, I’m going to strap on my boots, climb dick mountain and spin gold from the lead that is the upcoming summer movie season. No joke, kids: I’m trying extra hard to find the puppy dogs and rainbows amid all the turds.

So here’s what you can expect, helpfully broken up into categories inspired by a great movie by a longdead filmmaker.

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down amnesia lane to 1983 and my first big-screen viewing of Return of the Jedi. Here’s what happened: I grew up, suffered from student-loan payments, lowerback pain and way too many mediocre-to-poor sequels, prequels and bologna.

“Yeah, yeah,” you say. “Boo hoo. You get to write about movies for a living. Tough life.”

You’re correct in your disdain, imaginary reader.

It’s not like I’m reporting on human rights violations.

It’s a privilege to write about movies, and it’s usually pretty fun.

However.

For the first time since I’ve had this job, I’m deeply dismayed. Forget that there are billions of crummy-looking sequels coming this summer, including a sequel to a prequel (Alien: Covenant Please God Make It Stop).

But take a look at some of the rest of this shit.

There’s a film called Emoji Movie: Express Yourself being released in August. There’s a fifth—fifth!—Pirates of the Caribbean movie coming. And Demetri Martin has a movie coming out that he wrote and directed.

This is when I have to come right out and say it: Go to hell, movie business. You’re a rotten, festering pustule on the ass of humanity.

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ast year, I was inspired by the summer’s bumper crop of sequels, prequels and bologna.

This year, I’m already tired.

That’s because I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 a few weeks ago and it’s only OK (at best).

That really bummed me out.

It’s not that I expected it to be gangbusters. The first film is tons of fun, even if it doesn’t hold up as well at a home viewing like it does in a big, crowded theater with a ginned-up audience. But writer-director James Gunn has made some nifty and gross subversive stuff (Slither, Super). Throw those flicks together with his first Guardians and I had high-ish hopes for GotGV2.

Unfortunately, Starlord (Chris Pratt) and crew’s second adventure feels like a movie in search of a story, with plot points cribbed from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and mashed together with the armchair psychology of the Fast & Furious series. Sure, there are plenty of gags and some good killin’, but the whole affair made me shrug. Who cares whether Starlord finds his father?

So, when I revisited the list of upcoming summer movies and saw all the sequels, prequels and bologna listed, my heart sank. Not in a “Holy shit, bloated gasbag Donald Trump is president” kind of way, but it sunk nonetheless.

What happened to me? Last year I happily strolled

By David Riedel

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Alien: Covenant

Director Ridley Scott returned in 2012 to the Alien franchise and gave us Prometheus, a prequel that sorta kinda relates to the Alien mythology. Five years later, I’m still not sure what the point was (besides money), but Alien: Covenant, the aforementioned sequel to a prequel, seems like an attempt to marry Prometheus to Alien. Will it work? I dunno. But it can’t be worse than Alien 3 or Alien: Resurrection. (In theaters now)

Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon’s well received YA novel gets the big-screen treatment; and adapting YA novels is dicey. For each Hunger Games series, you get at least one The 5th Wave with a Divergent on top of it. Still, if you can get past the fact that Everything, Everything sounds like a retread of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, it has an attractive cast in Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson, as well as a director who comes from indies (Stella Meghie) and a nifty plot twist.

Fingers crossed. (In theaters now)

My Cousin Rachel

This latest adaption of the Daphne du Maurier novel stars Rachel Weisz. And the record for du Maurier adaptations is tops (Don’t Look Now, Rebecca, Jamaica Inn). Director Roger Michell has missed (Le Week-End, Hyde Park on Hudson, Enduring Love, Venus) more often than he’s hit (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes), but the source material and cast are strong. (Opens June 9)

Beatriz at Dinner

Salma Hayek is a massage therapist and John Lithgow is a billionaire asshole. They have a run-in at a dinner party. If you think this sounds like a rumination on Mexicans and Trump, you’re probably not wrong. Miguel Arteta directs, Mike White writes, and they’ve made two good movies together (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl). Note to studios: Cast Hayek more. (Opens June 9)

All Eyez On Me

It’s the Tupac biopic! No jokes, I’m in. (Opens Friday, June 16, what would have been Shakur’s 46th birthday)

The Book of Henry

Director Colin Trevorrow’s big-budget appeal is lost on me (see: Jurassic World), but I’ll de-

(probably)

fend his feature debut, Safety Not Guaranteed.

The Book of Henry feels a little more indie, as an 11-year-old genius and his mother (Naomi Watts) try to rescue the girl next door from a maybe-abusive stepfather. Sarah Silverman is in this, too. (Opens June 16)

Atomic Blonde

Charlize Theron in another action flick that isn’t Fate of the Furious? As Gregory Hines (R.I.P.) would say, “Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!” Theron is a Brit spy at the end of the Cold War. Stunt vet David Leitch directs. Sold, sold, sold. (Opens July 28)

The Dark Tower

I’m no Stephen King fan, but I love Westerns and Idris Elba, and I’m warming on Matthew McConaughey. The Dark Tower film is years in the making and it’s been dogged by delays and casting gripes (some fans are irked because they assumed The Gunslinger is white—eff those people). I’m just glad Elba is finally in a live-action film that isn’t a Marvel movie.

(Opens August 4)

Detroit

Kathryn Bigelow is back! And so is Mark Boal, who wrote Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. This flick takes place in Detroit during the 1967 riots, but was largely shot in Massachusetts (tax breaks!). John Boyega (yay!) stars. (Opens August 4)

Logan Lucky

It’s not another Wolverine movie, but a Steven Soderbergh film, proving that some people like to work in retirement. Anyway, Channing Tatum stars and he’s done good work with Soderbergh before (Magic Mike, Side Effects and the Soderbergh-shot Magic Mike XXL).

Adam Driver is the co-star and, Girls aside, I’m a fan. Also stars Hilary Swank (yay!), Daniel Craig (yay!), Elvis Presley’s granddaughter and Seth MacFarlane (barf). Could be fun. Maybe.

(Opens August 18)

It

I’m not sure how you turn a 1,138-page book into one movie, plus I’m not sure I want to see a movie in which a little boy’s arm is ripped off in the prologue. But I’m intrigued, mostly because I think clowns are stupid, not scary, and I’m still waiting for a Stephen King adaptation to be good. (Opens September 8)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

I expect nothing from movies except to entertain me. Everything else is gold, Jerry. But the Pirates franchise hasn’t done that since 2003 and PotC: At World’s End did the unforgivable: It made Keith Richards boring. And this tale, like all the preceding tales, is longer than two hours. WHY? Javier Bardem can only do so much and Johnny Depp can’t do enough. (In theaters now)

Wonder Woman

DC is 0-for-2 in the let’s-build-a-decent-franchise game, but I’m mildly encouraged by the notion that Wonder Woman cannot possibly be worse than either the anemic Man of Steel or the absolutely wretched Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. I also dig that the big studio brains hired Patty Jenkins to direct—who when she last helmed a feature, convinced the world that Charlize Theron was terrifying real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Plus, Gal Gadot and Chris Pine look great. Here’s to blind hope.

(Opens June 2)

Cars 3

Cars is terrible. Cars 2 is even worse. Even Pixar makes bad movies (Monsters University, the Planes series) and it’s rare the third film in a trilogy is the best. (Opens June 16)

Rough Night

I don’t know whether you’ve seen the trailer for Rough Night, but it looks as if it has exactly the same plot as Very Bad Things, which is a very bad movie that could have been a very good one, given its cast and pedigree. As for Rough Night, I’m suspicious of any movie in which non-entity Zoë Kravitz has a starring role.

(Opens June 16)

Amityville: The Awakening

You only star in Amityville movies if you’re trying to become a movie star (Amityvilles past stars include the likes of Ryan Reynolds and Meg Ryan; and in this flick, Bella Thorne), or you’re long past being a movie star (Jennifer Jason Leigh, this flick). Don’t go in the house, goddamnit. (Opens June 30)

Despicable Me 3

As much as I enjoyed the first and second installations, I can’t imagine what they’ll do here that they haven’t done before. Trey Parker plays the bad guy. Huh. (Opens June 30)

The House

See my rant above. Hopefully Jason Mantzoukas can breathe life into this premise. (Opens June 30)

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Please, please, please let me get what I want, which is for Sony to stop rebooting this g.d. franchise. Tom Holland dons the tights this time around. (Opens July 7)

War for the Planet of the Apes

Keep your hands off Pierre Boulle’s source material, you damn dirty studio executives!

Woody Harrelson shows up in this one to take on Caesar et al. (Opens July 14)

Annabelle: Creation

The thing the Annabelle franchise doesn’t seem to understand is that no one would buy a doll that looks so creepy. Jesus, Annabelle looks like the kind of doll just waiting to be possessed, so why on Earth would any consumer take that chance? But this is a prequel (gah!) to Annabelle, so maybe it finally explains why anyone would purchase a doll that looks like she’s gonna cut your throat in the night.

(Opens August 11)

Emoji Movie: Express Yourself (Opens July 28)

Fun Mom Dinner

Any movie with a title this lazy has to be awful. See also: Bad Teacher, Bad Moms, Horrible Bosses, Sex Tape. I’m kinda surprised Toni Collette would go in for this, but maybe I shouldn’t judge movies by their titles. Wait, who am I kidding? Of course I should!

Written by Julie Rudd (who’s married to Paul Rudd) and directed by Alethea Jones.

(Opens August 4)

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Baywatch

If you asked me which TV series of yore should never, ever, ever ever be made into a movie, I’d have said 21 Jump Street. But it and its goofily named sequel (22 Jump Street) benefit from smart writing, top-notch acting and not sticking in tone to the source material. Baywatch looks to be made with similar intentions (larfs and earning potential) and The Rock and Zac Efron both know from comedy. But does the movie know from crap? Director Seth Gordon is responsible for Horrible Bosses, after all.

We’ll find out, and if the hard-R is any indication, leave the kids with the grandparents for the evening. (In theaters now)

The Exception

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan moves away from wonky, emotionless space movies (Interstellar) and wonky, emotionless superhero movies (The Dark Knight franchise), to tackle a subject that deals in human emotion and carnage, the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk. One of the guys from One Direction is in this, along with Cillian Murphy (yay!), Kenneth Branagh (yay!), Tom Hardy (yay?) and Mark Rylance (yay!). Who knows what to expect, other than a gargantuan running time. (Opens July 21)

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

I’ve really had enough of movies in which a Nazi (Jai Courtney) is supposed to earn our sympathy. But here a Nazi soldier falls in love with a Jew (Lily James) while he’s keeping tabs on exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer). Hasn’t Courtney blown enough chances at being a movie star? (Opens June 2)

Luc Besson directs this adaptation of a beloved French comic, and it’s his first time directing sci-fi since The Fifth Element. I remember next to nothing about that movie, except for a wacky Chris Tucker and a blue Maïwenn. But I’m scratching my head, especially at casting Dane DeHaan as the lead. Herbie Hancock is in this, tho. Maybe “Rockit” served as inspiration. (Opens July 21)

The Mummy

Ingrid Goes West

Baby Driver

Baby (Ansel Elgort, a $24 name if there ever was one) is a getaway driver. It also stars Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Lily James and Jon Hamm.

But it’s directed by Edgar Wright, who, if he’s known for anything, it’s subverting genres.

Whether his movies work (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) or don’t (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World’s End), they’re usually worth watching. (Opens June 28)

Inconceivable

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

The last time Samuel L. Jackson starred in a parody, we got National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, which had exactly one laugh (Emilio Estevez: “You came!” Samuel L. Jackson: “That’s personal, but what’s important is that I’m here.”). But the trailer doesn’t look like the parody the poster is (of the Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner flick The Bodyguard), so I’m not sure what to expect.

Probably nothing good. (Opens August 18)

Bushwick

Brittany Snow is a long way from Pitch Perfect and any movie starring Dave Bautista not directed by James Gunn will feature Bautista’s rougher acting. But the premise—that these two people are running for their lives in the Brooklyn neighborhood after some assholes in Texas start a second Civil War—has pricked up my ears (so to speak). It’s also supposed to be one long take, which of course, it ain’t. It’ll just look like it is. (Opens August18)

Long Strange Trip

I only include Amir Bar-Lev’s four-hour Grateful Dead (alt name: The Appreciate Deceased) documentary as an opportunity to proclaim publicly, “Fuck the Grateful Dead. They suck.”

The only way I’d ever see this noodle-fest is if I had the world’s best LSD and a hammer to bash my brains in. (In theaters now)

Dean

This is the Demetri Martin movie I maligned in the introduction. Good news: At least one critic I trust and respect has seen it and enjoyed it. The story, about Dean (Martin), an illustrator who falls in love while dealing with his father in the wake of his mother’s death, sounds a little too Zach Braff for me, but I was once a young, sensitive person before life beat me into the dirt. I’ll try to remember that when I watch it sans popcorn or soda (because my doctor told me I’m too old to eat and drink that shit). (Opens June 2)

Band Aid

Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally star as a couple that starts a band to heal their broken relationship. The premise sounds absurd, but Lister-Jones is smart and she’s the director. Plus, Pally was frequently the best thing about ABC’s gone-too-soon Happy Endings. I’m open-minded about this one. I think.

(Opens June 2)

It Comes at Night But it drives an Uber during the day, so how scary can it be? (I made that up.) This movie is written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, whose Krisha had superb moments and indie studio A24 is releasing it. They do good work and star Joel Edgerton knows creepy (The Gift). This could be good. (Opens June 9)

The Hero

Sam Elliott is a great actor, beloved in many character roles, but he hasn’t had the opportunity to carry a movie. In this film, he stars as a washed-up actor who’s diagnosed with cancer.

Laura Prepon (eh) is his love interest. Krysten Ritter (yay!) is his daughter. Nick Offerman and Elliott’s real-life spouse Katharine Ross costar. (Limited release June 9; expands July 4)

The Bad Batch

Desert cannibals? Ugh. But this weirdo dystopian flick is directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, who made vampires palatable (ha) in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Suki Waterhouse is the star, and Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi and Keanu Reeves pop up. One thing’s for sure: It ain’t gonna be boring. (Opens June 23)

The Beguiled

Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel made Coogan’s Bluff, Dirty Harry, Two Mules for Sister Sara and then The Beguiled, which is as odd and as creepy as any other film either made. It’ll make your skin crawl (partly because it reeks of chauvinism). And this remake by Sofia Coppola— whose name alone makes my skin crawl—has potential. Angourie Rice (the best part of The Nice Guys), Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning torture Colin Farrell during the Civil War. You’ve been warned. (Opens June 23)

The Big Sick

One of the big-deal movies to emerge from Sundance, this film stars Kumail Nanjiani (who wrote with his wife, Emily V. Gordon) as a Chicago comedian who falls in love with graduate student Zoe Kazan. But then she falls into a coma. Directed by Michael Showalter, a veteran of The State and director of Hello, My Name Is Doris. (Opens June 23)

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“Deception hits home,” reads the poster. And there’s Nicolas Cage! Gina Gershon (yay!) plays his wife and there’s a new mom in town she doesn’t trust. Spooky? Cage’s hairline alone gives me shivers. (Opens June 30)

Aubrey Plaza plays a nutjob—which is what she specializes in—and becomes obsessed with Elizabeth Olsen’s celebrity. Also stars O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Ice Cube’s kid) and Wyatt Russell (Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn’s kid, who looks like an exact 50/50 copy of each of them, right down to Kurt’s teeth). (Opens August 11)

This is a follow-up by Lucy Walker to Wim Wenders’ 1999 documentary. Definitely worth a look-see. (In theaters now)

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A mummy terrorizes the planet and Tom Cruise has to stop it. It’s written by Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, barf; and Passengers, double barf), Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, double yay!; and Jack the Giant Slayer, triple barf!) and directed by Alex Kurtzman (People Like Us, eh). Oh, and Russell Crowe plays Dr. Henry Jekyll. Just what the hell is going on around here? (Opens June 9)

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LOCAL Local special

stuff

A Ghost Story

This David Lowery flick starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck had tongues wagging at Sundance. But be warned: These three made Ain’t Them Bodies Saints together years ago, and that movie deserves to have its negative burned. But Mara and Affleck are coming off huge performances (in Carol and Manchester by the Sea, respectively) and Lowery’s Pete’s Dragon is better than it has any right to be, given its source material. Keep an eye out for this one. (Opens July 7)

Landline

I’m told this re-pairing of director Gillian Robespierre and star Jenny Slate is nothing like their last film, Obvious Child. So if you loved Obvious Child, be warned. If you hated it, maybe you’ll like this one. (Opens July 21)

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

I’m sticking this in the WTF section because I can’t believe we’re still arguing over climate change in 2017. (I mean … it’s a hoax, right? Ha, just kidding! We’re all doomed.) Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk follow Al Gore in what’s probably the most depressing sequel ever, not including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

(Opens July 28)

The Trip to Spain

First Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon went to England, then Italy and now Spain. The Trip and The Trip to Italy are enormous fun and hopefully this one is, too. Michael Winterbottom returns to direct. (Opens August 11)

Tulip Fever

It’s the 17th century. Alicia Vikander (eh) is unhappily married to Christoph Waltz (yay!) and has an affair with painter Dane DeHaan (him again?). They invest in the tulip market together and found Holland, Mich. Or maybe they just enter the tulip market. I think someone is fucking with me regarding this plot. (Opens August 25)

Wind River ties The Dakota Access Pipeline protests ushered this country’s legacy of Native American oppression into the spotlight, and one new award-winning film will keep the conversation firmly at the forefront.

Taylor Sheridan’s movie filmed on the Wind River Reservation, Wind River, was awarded Directing Prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes last week. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Hell or High Water, Sheridan’s film is “a story of a man trying to move on from a tragedy without ever getting closer, it’s a story of a people trying to do the same thing,” he told Cannes YouTube channel. “It’s a murder investigation, a meditation on grief, it’s a study into a violent, harsh world.”

Market has hosted a monthly bike-in movie series at the base of Snow King following its Wednesday markets. Each year the crafty market folks toil over the four films to screen throughout the summer.

“Selecting the lineup is the best part about planning the bike-in movies,” former People’s Market movie selector Kori Price once told PJH. “Over the course of the year, we get all kinds of movie suggestions from the community at random—in the post office, at restaurants and social events—and we keep a list of the good ones. Then when the time comes to choose the final four, our main goal is to choose a lineup that will entertain the masses.”

Starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, the film premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, and will be released in the U.S. in August through The Weinstein Company.

In Sheridan’s absence, Harvey Weinstein accepted the Cannes award, reciting a potent statement from Sheridan, as reported in Variety: “The Tribal Councils of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Nations not only allowed me to tell this story, but embraced me and lent me their assistance in every way asked. It is a great shame of my nation the manner it has treated the original inhabitants of North America.

“Sadly, my government continues that shame through an insidious mixture of apathy and exploitation. There is nothing I can do to change the issues afflicting Indian Country, but what we can all do as artists—and must do—is scream about them with fists clenched.

What we can do is make sure these issues aren’t ignored. Then the people who can effect change will be forced to.”

Bike-in bonanza For almost a decade the Jackson Hole People’s

The Spud was once endangered after the drive-in switched ownership in 2010. Owners the Wydaho Group announced the following year they would shut down the drive-in because of dwindling revenues. But thanks to then former Spud operator Dawnelle Magnum and partner Tyler Hammond, the theater’s roots remain in the ground. They now lease and manage the property, but movies could not go on until the duo purchased a new projector, as reported in Teton Valley News.

The community answered the call donating money through the campaign Save the Spud and Magnum and Hammond footed the rest of the bill.

Today at the Spud the new and old coalesce— the 50s-style greasy spoon snack bar serves burgers, onion rings, fries, milkshakes and malts while modern movies play on the big screen.

As more drive-ins shutter across the U.S., supporting places like the Spud that offer a window into cinematic history is increasingly important.

From Dazed and Confused to Indiana Jones, nostalgic flicks are often on the roster for these outdoor screenings that begin after dusk.

Check jhpeoplesmarket.org for the forthcoming 2017 schedule.

Retro revival at the Spud Labeled “passion pits” by the 1950s media, one drive-in movie theater near you has managed to chug along. Located near Driggs, Idaho, the almost 70-year-old Spud Drive-in stands today not because of wild passion that ensues on its grounds, but because of a passionate populace.

information.

Films begin about 20 minutes after sunset, around 9 p.m. Double features follow the first film on Friday and Saturday. Check SpudDriveIn.com or call 208-354- 2727 for movie listings or more

The Spud is located on Hwy. 33, just south of Driggs. Look for a massive potato on a flatbed truck. PJH

THIS WEEK: MAY 31-JUNE 6, 2017

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31

THURSDAY, JUNE 1

n County and Town Planning Staff present Open House and Community Conversation 12:00pm, The Center Theater & Lobby, Free, 307-733-4900 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bike Maintenance Clinic 5:00pm, Peaked Sports, 208-354-2354 n Guide’s Night 5:00pm, Old Wilson Schoolhouse, $10.00 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Perennial Plant Exchange 5:30pm, Owen Bircher Park, Free, 307-739-9025 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Women’s Self-Defense Workshop 6:00pm, Round One Gym, $50.00, 307-620-1511 n Freeman Plastic Surgery Open House 6:00pm, Freeman Plastic Surgery, Free, 307-201-7121 n Introduction to Wildlife Photography 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $175.00 $210.00, 307-733-6379 n Improvisation for Adults with Josh Griffith 6:30pm, Black Box Theater, $150.00, 307-733-4900 n Jackson Hole Community Band 2017 Rehearsals 7:00pm, Center for the Arts, $10.00, 307-200-9463 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Free Country Swing Dance Lessons 7:30pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, Free, 208-870-1170 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Michelle Moonshine 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

FRIDAY, JUNE 2

n Nature Hike with The Hole Hiking Experience 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $15.00, 307-7399025 n Portrait Drawing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Open Studio Modeling: Portrait Model 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Car Show 9:00am, The Virginian, Free, 307-733-2792 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Summer Grilling Series at Jackson Whole Grocer 11:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer, $5.00, 307-733-0450

n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307-201-4452 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n FREE Friday Tasting 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free, 307-733-4466 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 $68.90, 307-733-6994 n Chanman Roots Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Taylor Scott Band 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, 307-733-4913 n Free Public Stargazing Programs 9:00pm, Rendezvous Park, Free, 1-844-996-7827 n Friday Night DJs 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Brendan Nolan 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, 307-733-3886

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SATURDAY, JUNE 3

n Introduction to Wildlife Photography 6:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $175.00 $210.00, 307-733-6379 n Birding With Bill 2017 6:00am, Teton Regional Land Trust, Free, 208-354-8939 n Grand Teton Half Marathon 6:30am, Teton Village, $139.00 n Snow School with Exum Mountain Guides 8:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $99.00, 307-739-9025 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Car Show 9:00am, The Virginian, Free, 307-733-2792 n Volunteer for a Wildlife Friendlier Fencing Project 9:00am, Buffalo Valley Swan Pond, Free, 307-739-0968 n National Trails Day 9:00am, Nelson Trailhead, Free, 307-733-4534 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Library Saturdays: Mini Music & Movement 10:15am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Jackson Kids Fishing Day 10:30am, R Park, Free, 307-733-2321

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n Business Over Breakfast 7:30am, e.Leaven Food Company, $16.00 - $25.00, 307-201-2309 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

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Hoback Happy Hours 9:00am, Hoback Sports, 307-733-5335 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-732-5417 n Beginning Drawing Topics 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $160.00 $192.00, 307-733-6379 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307-201-4452 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Open Studio Modeling: Figure Model 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Adult Basic Bike Maintenance Class 6:00pm, Fitzgerald’s Bicycles, $30.00, 307-739-9025 n Lightning Safety Course 6:00pm, TCSAR Hangar, $5.00, 307-739-9025 n Introductory, Conversational Spanish 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $110.00, 307-733-7425 n Disc Golf Doubles 6:00pm, Teton Village, $5.00, 614-506-7275 n GTMF Presents: Teton Brass Quintet 7:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-733-1128 n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds, $15.00 - $35.00, 307-733-7927 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Karaoke Night 9:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, 307-733-2792

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MUSIC BOX Summer Ignition Jackson Hole Live unveils a season of outdoor beats and eats.

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am. Blues. Soul. Sweet Rock. Whatever sounds fill your playlist, Jackson Hole Live is set to fill your Spotify search bar this summer. Shannon McCormick and his staff have released the full lineup for the outdoor concert series.

First on the roster is the return of the annual Jackson Hole Crawfish Boil on June 18. Set to take the stage during the Cajun classic is the New Orleans Suspects.

Announced in early May, these cats come across as a Dr. John or Tab Benoit derivative ripe with the sweet Southern sounds of a second line and zydeco keys along with a fresh Louisiana twang in the vocals.

“They’re definitely a kind of super group of those traditional jazz funk Indian styles,” McCormick said.

But there’s more on the menu than music for the kick-off concert. Teton Raptor Center will incorporate its annual RaptorFest into this same celebration, which happens to coincide with the summer solstice and Father’s Day. RaptorFest is bringing its birds early for a 3 p.m. start.

The marquee will look westward to the music capital of the world for the July 2 show, as the Austin, Texas, rock quartet White Denim makes its way to Snow King.

The indie crew embedded itself in its local music scene during the aught years, but rose to household status through the 2012 music festival circuit, following an opening slot on the previous year’s Wilco tour.

The band’s haunting dual guitar holds true to the Austin Sound with cowboy elements like a bottleneck slide and simple arrangements, with a drummer that does not impose. Still, funk licks can find a way into the

New Orleans Suspects

audio, prompting a stanky dance party. It’s open and inviting, easy to digest and ideal for a sunset session.

“I have been a White Denim fan for a while,” McCormick said. “I’ve been looking forward to getting those guys booked for years now. We’ve done a lot of really cool hippy, jam stuff [before], but I think these guys are in your face.”

Jamie McLean Band does not let the torch drop, bringing with him on July 21 years of Southern experience as the former guitarist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. This project digs deep into the dirt with reverb heavy blues-rock riffs and delta lyrics.

This year’s series, shorter than years past, culminates August 18 with the globetrotting bluegrass-based improvisation troupe Twiddle.

Although McCormick says the booking came at the adamancy of Jeff Potter, co-founder and Center

Management, Inc. business manager, Potter pushes credit back to the talent buyer.

Still, McCormick insists: “I’ll give kudos to Jeff on helping me get that done. He was instrumental, and he pushed me hard.”

Twiddle’s upbeat, and borderline reggae instrumentation has washed over crowds across the international festival circuit. If not a headliner, Twiddle frequently ripples around the top billed acts, including taking the forefront of SummerFest2017.

If crawfish from the first night just whet your palate, arrive hungry for the other food vendors from across the valley, too: Pinky G’s, Moe’s BBQ, Café Genevieve, Everest Momo Shack, Sweet Cheeks Meats, Pop Popcorn and Nom Nom Donuts. New this year is a food truck care of Sagebrush Grille.

Following the new trend of Jackson Hole Live’s

WEDNESDAY Charles Daval and BYU-I brass (7 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church) THURSDAY Michelle Moonshine (9 p.m. at Town Square Tavern) FRIDAY Friday Night DJ with Therapy (10 p.m. at The Rose)

White Denim

2016 precedent, all shows carry with them a five dollar donation at the entrance, a nominal fee that helps ensure the Snow King Events Center can maintain a full-time, three- or four-person summer staff.

“Jackson Hole Live is integral in helping Center Management keep its core staff on throughout the summer,” Potter explained. “[Center Management, Inc.’s] mission as a nonprofit is to operate the center at a breakeven. … It just helps us keep operations going forward.”

Save for the early activities of the first performance, each event opens its gates at 5:30 p.m. with opening sets by Jackson classics kicking up fresh tracks, including Boondocks, Brother Wolf, Tram Jam and the return of EDM drum duo Head to Head.

Free but not cheap Grand Teton Music Festival is getting an early jump on its 56th annual summer symphonies with two free shows, the first is 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 31 at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Trumpeter and 26-year festival veteran Charles Daval is the featured musician, accompanied by the Brigham Young University-Idaho brass faculty. A professor of trumpet at University of Illinois, Daval has been a member of such renowned outfits as the Boston Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Seattle Symphony.

The latter June 15 performance will host Flutist Nadine Luke, violinist Hyeri Choi, and cellist Eleanor Christman Cox. They will deliver string and woodwind classics to a Walk Festival Hall crowd as an example of the season to come. PJH

MONDAY Josh Washburton (9 p.m. at the Tavern) Hootenanny (6 p.m. at Dornans) TUESDAY Bluegrass Night with O.T.P. (7:30 p.m. at The Wort)

S N O ND !

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SUNDAY Songwriter’s Alley (7 p.m. at The Wort)

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SUMMER 2017

SATURDAY Bob Stevens (9 p.m. at The Virginian)

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CULTURE KLASH Gay Renegades How a crew of savvy performers is disrupting social dynamics in Jackson Hole and beyond.

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mall towns in the West extend little hospitality to LGBTQ folks.

Jackson Hole, for its part,—and the state of Wyoming—is devoid of gay bars or clubs. It is true that PFLAG engages in local advocacy and hosts events, like its annual pride picnic happening June 10. And the town sent a message when it passed an ordinance in 2014 protecting its employees from sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination.

But spaces and entertainment for LGBTQ people, and those who identify more with counterculture than cowboys or climbers, are largely absent from the valley’s social sphere. This in the state with a U.S. senator who recently said a man wearing a tutu to a bar “kind of asks for” a fight. (It’s worth noting, though, that following Sen. Mike Enzi’s remarks, Wyomingites protested by donning tutus at watering holes across the state.)

“It’s an underground gay culture in Wyoming, like the underground gay railroad,” Idaho drag queen Spyke Naugahyde, a.k.a. Casey Wynn, said.

The first drag queen to strut on a Jackson Hole stage, Naugahyde (say that name slowly) was the platinum blonde, six-foot-eight hostess/co-producer of drag bingo and the Tease Burlesque Revues Saturday at the Lodge at Jackson Hole.

The shows are the invention of Justin Buckles Productions, an outfit based in Portland, Oregon. Its mission: to inject doses of queer, and sexuality in general, into small communities across the West.

Founder Justin Buckles and his crew delivered to the valley its first taste of drag with the Caravan of Glam in January 2016 (think a shiny, queer-minded Cirque du Soleil). The

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performances included an all-ages early show “Circus” and the late-night scintillating “Freakshow” that garnered a full house at Center for the Arts.

An Oregon native who cut his teeth in Hollywood working for shows like American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, among others, Buckles launched Justin Buckles Productions in 2014. Since then he’s brought the first drag shows to other small town locales like Hood River, Oregon; Provost, Utah; Elko, Nevada; Kalispell, Montana; and the list goes on.

“We’ve done a lot of firsts,” he said.

“I love being able to say that, because I know I’m setting groundwork for changes in these areas and that’s incredibly important.”

Growing up in small town Oregon inspired Buckles to focus on places that would otherwise never have this kind of outlet, he said. “There were no options except drinking and partying. I wanted to change that.”

Buckles’ shows, in 14 states with about seven per month, not only speak to underrepresented populaces, they’re also satisfying a cultural void, especially in Jackson Hole, where events are often created with tourists in mind.

That the Old West Days, centered on Western lore, family activities and a rodeo, happened on the same day as drag bingo and the burlesque revues illuminated this truth.

Saturday’s burlesque shows starred men and women in glittery lace and fishnet. The performance was among

the few burlesque shows that has made a stop in Jackson Hole. The audience response was telling.

Armed with sultry song and dance, performers drove the crowd into gasps and hollers. From a 65-year-old woman in the front row to gay and straight couples in their 30s and 40s bedecked in sequins, there was a sense that Buckles and crew were providing an inclusivity long missing from the valley.

“Performers showcase their own brand and people who come to shows get to show up in their own brand too,” c o -produc er/ musician Pablo Gonzalez said.

He opened the show, accompanied by the selftaught songstress Dani Ward, belting soulful renditions of pop songs a la Amy Winehouse.

Other performers, like The Cigarette Girls hailing from Missoula, Montana, performed skits that riffed on pop culture, from Pulp Fiction to hiphop, before splitting off for seductive solo numbers as Stella Pearl and Belle Rees.

Then there was the irresistibile Birdie Le Tramp. As she leapt onto tables and into people’s laps some male audience members lost their composure. These were men who forgot the cardinal rule

A crowd favorite: Birdie Le Tramp.

enforced by hulky security guards in other places: Look but do not touch.

They were appropriately admonished by performers.

Meanwhile, Naugahyde peppered the show with witty repartee.

“This was from Cross Dress for Less!” he told the audience motioning to his skintight black dress. And while other performers were in the throes of a costume change, he wasted no time improvising, jumping on the stage to lip sync “I just want to fucking dance!” from Jerry Springer: The Opera.

Born and raised in small town Idaho, Naugahyde’s unflappable confidence is an encouraging display for those swimming against the mainstream, especially young people.

Buckles and crew understand this and it’s one of the reasons why productions like the Caravan of Glam perform all ages shows in addition to their raunchy adult iterations.

“I think about our show in Hood River, Oregon, where in the broad daylight drag queen Nae Nae Dominatrix was talking to kids about bullying,” Naugahyde said. “As a kid, I was constantly bullied. You don’t think there is anyone else going through what you’re going through, until you see that there is.” PJH

“I know I’m setting groundwork for changes in these areas and that’s incredibly important.”

n CZ Shootgun Shoot 11:00am, Snake River Sporting Club, Free, 307-733-3270 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307-201-4452 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free, n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 $68.90, 307-733-6994 n Chanman Roots Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds, $15.00 $35.00, 307-733-7927 n Beats by Capella 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, 307-733-3886

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MONDAY, JUNE 5

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Locals will talk politics Friday despite the absence of Wyoming’s congressional delegation.

BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

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n Jackson Hole, where Wyoming’s congressional delegation has yet to show up for a town hall meeting, those involved in the next public forum on Friday, have created a different outlet. The “alternative town hall” will feature art and performances that examine locals’ political frustrations and worries, from health care and public lands to foreign policy and Russia’s contested involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

People and groups can sign up for three-minute slots the day of the event to sing, recite poetry, share visual art, perform comedy sketches, or channel their feelings into any other form of politically motivated art.

“Art unites us and gets away from straight yelling,” said Beth McIntosh, a local artist who helped plan the performance element of the town hall. “We are more similar than different and art is often a great way to see those connections and start building community and good representation in our government.”

In February, at Jackson’s last town hall meeting,

The now famed lawmaker ‘heads’ by Greta Gretzinger, which have become part of a community art installation at Elevated Grounds, will make their way to Miller Park Friday for Jackson’s alternative town hall.

artist Greta Gretzinger created caricature portraits of the heads of Republicans Rep. Liz Cheney and Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, who were all invited to the meeting but didn’t attend. Instead, Barrasso was at a fundraiser in Teton Village with ticket prices ranging from $1,500 a head to $5,000 per political action committee.

In the lawmakers’ absence, the portraits became the centerpiece of the town hall and inspired the upcoming alterative town hall’s emphasis on art. “Rather than just having a lot of words—which are important and there are plenty of—you have this artistic expression and I think it was respectful and captured a community vibe,” McIntosh said.

Following the meeting, the “heads,” as they are called, found their way to the walls of Elevated Grounds where people were encouraged to write to their representatives on sticky notes as part of an interactive art installation.

It allowed folks to express themselves in a different way.

Those who wrote notes didn’t have to sign their name. They could be candid. (Although they were warned they had to be respectful and appropriate or their note could be taken down.)

One asked Cheney, a Wilson resident, to join a women’s weekly hiking group.

Another had only the word “shame.” Some asked questions about Russia and another invited a representative to

have coffee.

“People were pointed and they didn’t hold back in terms of how they felt, but no one called anyone a name,” McIntosh said.

The heads, as well as the sticky notes, will be on display at the alternative town hall. People also will have the opportunity to write additional comments and add to the installation.

Other than one gospel song, McIntosh doesn’t know what people will choose to perform at the event. She’s heard some want to stage a die-in, where people lie down and hold signs about health care issues.

While the format alleviates some of the tension and exhaustion for people following these issues, it doesn’t detract from their importance and the gathering will still offer a way for people to talk seriously about policy decisions that impact their lives and the community, McIntosh said.

And while no one expects the delegation to show up, it doesn’t excuse their absence, she said. Enzi and Barrasso are on the all-men committee in the senate drafting a new health care bill. Cheney is a supposed local. They should all be talking to voters.

But Jackson Hole is not alone. The trio has avoided town halls in many other communities around the state. Spokespeople for the missing lawmakers have said town halls are not ways these legislators traditionally

interact with constituents.

That excuse isn’t good enough, McIntosh said “The public has changed its need for direct access to their representatives,” she said. “The important piece here is that ‘business as usual,’ is no longer adequate.

If they can’t meet the needs of their constituents, they aren’t representing their constituents. They need to adapt to this very humongous groundswell movement from their constituents.”

Jackson’s alternative town hall takes place on Wyoming’s Statewide Day of Action, coined “Do Your Job.” Similar events will take place across the state. All will use the heads Gretzinger created of the Wyoming delegation.

McIntosh said she understands elected officials being scared to attend a public forum with people upset about policy, but it is their job to hear those voices. Plus, whether they come or not, Jackson’s alternative town hall requires people to remain respectful when performing or speaking. No name calling is allowed.

“We don’t have time for that,” McIntosh said. “We have big issues to address.”

PJH Alternative town hall, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 2 at Miller Park in Jackson. Email questions to beth@bethmcintosh.com

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n Art Education: Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association Borshell Children’s Studio, $16.00, 307-733-6379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370

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n 18th Annual Run and Ride for the Cure 9:00am, Wilson School, $20.00 - $25.00, 307-733-6094 n Car Show 9:00am, The Virginian, Free, 307-733-2792 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n First Sundays 11:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Wine Tasting 3:00pm, Dornans, $10.00, 307-733-2415 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Songwriter’s Alley 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Hospitality Night with DJ-1 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500

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n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307-733-2415 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 $68.90, 307-733-6994 n Josh Washburton 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, 307-733-3886

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n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Teton Plein Air Painters 9:00am, Outdoors, Free, 307-733-6379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Toddler Time 10:35am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Toddler Time 11:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Photography Open Studio 12:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-733-6379 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Bike Maintenance 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $45.00, 307-733-7425 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Teton Trail Runners Run 6:00pm, Different Location Each Week, Free, n Advanced Photography Techniques 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00 - $78.00, 307-733-6379 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 $68.90, 307-733-6994 n Introduction to Wildlife Photography 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $175.00 - $210.00, 307-733-6379 n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Ocho de España Eight great affordable Spanish wines.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @Critic1

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henever I’m wandering through Utah’s state wine stores, I am inevitably drawn to the aisles stocked with wines from Spain. Spain— along with Portugal and Greece—offers great wine values that are a little harder to find in the France, Italy and Germany sections of the store. A case in point: The following eight Spanish wines are well-made, delicious— and all priced under $20. In fact, they’re so economical, I’d suggest buying all eight and hosting a Spanish wine-tasting party along with some simple tapas.

Let’s kick things off with a terrific bottle of Spanish bubbly. Marques de Gelida Brut ($16.99) is an excellent SpanishsparklermadefromMaccabeo,Xarello,Parellada and Chardonnay. Thanks to Marques de Gelida’s yeasty, green-apple notes, tiny bubbles and long finish, I’ve fooled people in blind tastings into thinking this was French Champagne. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better sparkling-wine value. And it comes in a snazzy Veuvecolored orange and white bottle.

Tres Ojos 2009 ($10.49) is unfiltered old-vine

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Garnacha from Calatayud, in the northeast of Spain, between Madrid and Zaragoza.

Tres Ojos means “three eyes,” and is named for a local bridge with three arches, which is also pictured on the bottle label.

Raspberry flavors dominate this fruity wine, along with cracked pepper. I really enjoyed it with a sampling of Creminelli salami.

Another solid, inexpensive Spanish Garnacha is Tapeña 2009 ($10.99), with fruity cherry and strawberry notes and hints of vanilla. It’s the bomb with roasted pork and romesco sauce.

Let’s head to Rioja for the next couple of wines. One of the best bargains I’ve stumbled upon in the past year is Marqués de Riscal Próximo 2009, which sells for a measly $8.99, and is often on sale for $5.99. This Tempranillo-based wine is a bright, fruit-forward, easy-drinking red wine that pairs nicely with a wide range of Mediterranean flavors. It has hints of anise, which makes it a good partner for dishes with fennel.

However, one of the most beautiful wines I’ve tasted in a while is Bodegas Bilbainas Viña Zaco 2010 ($13.99).

I tasted this one without knowing the price, and thought it was something I wouldn’t be able to afford. Wrong! It’s an outstanding value, with rich, dark crushed-fruit flavors, yet surprisingly sleek and nuanced on the tongue, and it just gets better and better as the air hits it. Can you tell I love this stuff?

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

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From the Rueda region of Spain comes Bodegas Naia Rueda ($14.99), made from 100 percent Verdejo grapes, which produce soft, aromatic white wines that are medium- to full-bodied. A small portion of the wine is aged sur lie in French oak, with the balance in stainless steel. The result is gorgeous floral aromas upon opening the wine, with grapefruit, pear, white peach and lime flavors coursing through the mid-palate. It’s an interesting detour from more common Sauvignon Blanc.

Another intriguing, inexpensive white wine from Spain is Bodegas Aldial Lanzos Blanco ($9.99), a 50/50 blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Viura grapes harvested in Spain’s Castilla y León region. It’s a crisp, dry, unoaked white wine with guava, grapefruit and nectarine notes, and is a good match for grilled quesadillas with shrimp or Manchego cheese.

Well, let’s splurge on this final white wine: Bodegas Ruchel Godello 2011 ($17.99), from the Valdeorras D.O., just north of Portugal. This Godello is remarkably elegant and fine-tuned, with good minerality and acidity, reminding me more of French Chablis than typical Spanish Godello. It’s a perfect partner for shellfish like shrimp, crab, lobster and oysters on the half-shell.

Salud! PJH

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THE FOODIE FILES What Makes a Food Memory?

When tastes and emotions tangle to create a lasting impression on the brain.

BY ANNIE FENN, MD @AnnieFennMD

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hat makes a meal memorable? Is it the flavor of the food? The pairing of drink? The people you’re with? The place? Why do some meals, even though delicious in every way, become immediately forgettable, while others are embedded in our memory banks forever?

Megan Gallagher, director of Jackson Hole Food and Wine, got me thinking about food memories when she asked me to share a story during the upcoming Big Wines, Small Plates event. Part of the new nonprofit’s inaugural festival in June, this wine tasting luncheon will feature food and wine enthusiasts talking about memorable meals. And to make it an evocative trip down memory lane, the chefs will create small plates and wine pairings based on the memories.

“Think of a time when the food and wine made sense to you,” Gallagher said. “An ‘Aha’ moment, if you will.”

Just like all of you, I’ve had my share of memorable meals. But the one that immediately jumped from the recesses of my brain was a very old memory from a time when I knew nothing about food or wine.

It was when I had my first legal drink. I can see my 16-year-old self now: a scrawny kid with frizzy hair and a poor command of the Spanish language, trying to act nonchalant as I sidled up to the bar.

I had never really been anywhere outside my small upstate New York town before I traveled to Spain as an exchange student the summer I turned 16. Back then I had a palate that was as small and narrow as the town I grew up in. Weighing just less than 100 pounds, I didn’t eat much. I lived on pasta without sauce, ramen noodle soup made without the spice packet, and spoonfuls of Jif that I dipped in sugar. I had never tasted an avocado or eaten a raw tomato.

As soon as I arrived at my host family’s home, in a mountainous town outside of Leon, even smaller than the one I had come from, my Spanish siblings took me to the local bar. Seeing that I was at a loss for words when the bartender approached, my sister Asunción ordered for me: a vino tinto, the ubiquitous cheap table wine of Spain. It came in a short tumbler topped with a small plate of food.

I know now, but did not know then, that it is customary in Spain to have a small plate of food, a tapa, served with a drink. Tapa means lid, and that’s exactly how the bartender hands it to you balanced atop your drink.

This tapa happened to be a classic—a date stuffed with chorizo and wrapped in bacon. For a picky eater from upstate New York, this was the most exotic food I had

The author and her companion work their way through French bistro classics: steak tartar, ham and lentils.

ever seen. If my siblings hadn’t been watching, I probably wouldn’t have eaten it. It helped that I was starving and it smelled like bacon.

I took a small bite followed by a swig of wine. Another bite, another swig. Little did I know my life was pretty much changed forever. The world of food and wine had just opened up to me. Two months later, when I returned from Spain, I taught myself to cook and have been cooking (and enjoying wine) ever since.

I’m not sure if that wine would make me swoon now like it did then. But I remember what it was like to wash down that chewy morsel of date with the earthy wine. And I’ll never forget how it made me feel: Surprised, delighted and relieved;—after all, I had no idea what was stuffed inside that date—proud of myself for taking the plunge; and a little light-headed from the wine. Suddenly, I was a tiny bit less shy and more grown-up.

Fast forward a few dozen years and I am sitting in a Paris café with my 16-year-old son. We have eight unstructured days and nights strewn in front of us like a long summer. Our only plan is to eat our way through as many classic French bistro dishes as possible. Nick chooses steak tartar with pommes frites. I order white asparagus drizzled with a mustardy vinaigrette, sole Meniere, and a glass of Sancerre.

“Hey Mom, can I order a beer?”

I thought back to my first legal drink in that dim

Spanish bar circa 1980-something. I remember the dank smell of the bar mingled with the intoxicating aroma of the bacon-wrapped date. And I thought of how awesome it would be to wash down your first authentic French meal with a cold beer. Of course I said yes.

Will Nick remember that meal for the rest of his life?

Maybe yes, maybe no. (We had a lot of great meals in Paris!) Chances are he’s more likely to remember how he felt ordering that first beer.

How the waiter expertly guided him to a proper choice.

How he felt when his food arrived—the chilled steak tartar and the hot, salty pommes frites, the beer ceremoniously plopped down in front of him. And how it all smelled.

Food memories may be more about emotions than food. When a meal conjures strong feelings, good or bad, the details are stored in the deep emotional centers of the brain, like the hippocampus, rather than the more cerebral frontal cortex.

We learn to experience food through the five tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. But flavor is how we remember it.

Flavor is like a snapshot in your mind. It is so complex that the brain perceives it like a human face. Sensory

“I remember what it was like to wash down that chewy morsel of date with the earthy wine. And I’ll never forget how it made me feel.”

ANNIE FENN

Steak and Frites at Le Relais de L’Entrecote.

Do you remember your first legal drink?

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data from taste intertwines with smell and emotion to create a food memory. Aromas and emotions can evoke a food memory buried decades ago in the brain. It’s like remembering someone’s face but not their name. For me, chorizo stuffed dates wrapped in bacon with red wine don’t just make me think about being in Spain.

They remind me of how I felt when I was there.

At the risk of spilling the beans about my food and wine pairing memory for the Big Wines, Small Plates event, all I can say is that it involves my first trip to France and foie gras. I hope you will join me at this, or one of the other Jackson Hole Food and Wine events on June 22, 23, and 24. Proceeds from all events benefit Hole Food Rescue and the Central Wyoming College culinary program. Over at jacksonholefoodie.com, I’ll be giving away one ticket to Big Wines, Small Plates by asking readers to share their own food memories.

And I’ll be sharing a recipe for buckwheat galettes from Nick’s and my favorite little créperie in Paris.

To learn more about Jackson Hole Food and Wine, and to purchase tickets to Big Wines, Small Plates, check jhfoodandwine.com. PJH

Buckwheat galettes at Breizh Cafe, rumored to have the best crépes in Paris.

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Annie Fenn is physician with a passion for food, health, sustainability and the local food scene. Current mission: spreading the word about how to cook and eat to prevent dementia. Find recipes for longevity at brainworkskitchen.com and more food and stories at jacksonholefoodie.com.

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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!

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TETON THAI

1110 MAPLE WAY JACKSON, WY 307.264.2956 picnicjh.com

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine.

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

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

Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. 307-733-0005.

CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF

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

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

THE BLUE LION

A Jackson Hole favorite for 39 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30 & 6 p.m Must mention ad. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant. com

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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

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

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 gluten-free 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.

FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT

MOE’S BBQ

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

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY

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MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

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

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

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.

ITALIAN CALICO

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

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere.

Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA

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

PINKY G’S

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special. Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Sun.- Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts.

Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

PIZZERIA CALDERA

Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the

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

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

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

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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.

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ACROSS 1 5

Physics calculation They may be broken on purpose 9 “You gotta be kidding me!”

14 Aussie bedrolls 19 Comics pooch 20 Put in other words, say 21 British county 22 Garlicky mayo 23 Brand created in Toronto in 1904 25 23-Across buyer 27 Bank protection 28 Country 29 Web search tool 30 Cleared out 33 British peers 34 Some basilica singers 35 “How about that!”

36 Kin of -trix 37 “The Dark Mirror” antagonist, e.g.

41 Infamous 1974 bank robbers: Abbr.

42 School social worker’s concern 47 Plastic __ Band 48 Hypotheticals 49 Noisy disturbance 50 Fence material?

51 “I’m getting to it” 52 Curious to a fault 54 Galileo’s birthplace 55 Partner of 46-Down 56 Talk show medium 59 Cat Nation people 61 Industry heavyweights 63 Airport sign 64 Flutter 66 Colorful appetizer platter items 68 “The Call of the Wild” ride 69 Outdoor party focal point 72 Run off 74 “Swing Shift” Oscar nominee 77 Free sample constraint

78 79

Farm denizen Exiled Shah Mohammad __ Pahlavi 81 Press Secretary Spicer 82 Taylor’s husband between Wilding and Fisher 83 City near Tulsa 85 Still developing 87 Return ID 88 Former “How Do Your Children Grow?” PBS host LeShan 89 Alert precipitated by heavy rain 92 Follower’s suffix 93 Getting into the wrong business?

95 Duncan of the Obama Cabinet 96 They’re on the house 98 Sandberg in Cooperstown 99 Biker’s headgear, perhaps 101 Weeds out 103 Confirm, as a password 106 Descriptor in lotion commercials 107 Wrangler material 108 Audio system connector 110 Annual Silver State celebration 114 Goes for the lure 115 Espresso order 116 “Agreed!”

117 Whittle 118 Aromatherapy choice 119 Far-reaching 120 Put to sleep, perhaps 121 Some emailed files

DOWN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Comfy footwear Crown-installing org.

Sloth, e.g.

Aquanaut’s habitat Time off Tacked on Power conduit Squalid quarters Gave one’s word

10 11 12

Fingerprint pattern Big name in auto maintenance Word near Kazakhstan, on maps 13 Composer Rorem 14 Holy 15 Improvise 16 Golfer Isao 17 Secluded spot 18 Many a retired racehorse 24 Get a hint of 26 Piece of the past 28 Charged 30 Brand measured in drops 31 Completely behind 32 Newspaper revenue source 33 Run over 34 Online icon 36 Difficult to find 37 Start to tour?

38 Gorilla Glue, for one 39 How sun-dried tomatoes are packed 40 “Tut-tut” evokers 43 Military drill syllable 44 “You’ve found the right person” 45 Brand with a spokesstork who sounds like Groucho 46 Partner of 55-Across 51 File command option 53 Cried out 55 Inner turmoil 57 __ Butterworth 58 Streamlet 60 Trilogy, often 62 Meeting staple 63 Bad-mouth 65 Campaign funding org.

67 Bringing home 69 Clan symbol 70 Battery pole 71 Mr. Right

73 Opera star Pinza 75 Culinary guard in ancient Rome 76 Landscape artist George 78 Samaritan’s offering 80 National Humor Mo. 84 Creamy quaff 85 Factor in tanning 86 It’s usually down for the night 89 Go by quickly 90 Like some index cards 91 Claret or burgundy 94 England’s first poet laureate 97 Bank offering for smartphones 99 Word of agreement 100 “All the Love” singer Adams 101 Flu symptom 102 Fatuous 103 Messy meal 104 Many a Charlton Heston movie 105 Haul 106 Yard or boom 107 How-to presentation 109 NATO member since 2009 110 Collar 111 Today’s honoree, found in this puzzle’s eight longest answers 112 Boxer’s comment 113 No denial?

Conscious Parenting How to recognize when a child is recalling a past life memory.

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ow might you react if one day your three-year-old (or grandchild) says to you in all seriousness, “You were my mother before, when I was a baseball player,” or “We wore metal cleats then, but no helmets and no lights at night.”

Might you recognize the child’s effort to bring to light something important about a past life memory? Would you be willing to support the child in continuing to share, without either poo-pooing them or leading them on?

A new book: A true experience

How it’s possible Science takes some of the mystery out of why/how it happens frequently that children between the ages of two to five recall past life memories. From birth to about five years old, children will spend most of their time in theta brain wave cycles, which are the same brain wave states as deep meditation, deep relaxation, or hypnosis.

Theta brain waves automatically connect to heightened intuition, access to other dimensions of reality, the records of the soul and creative inspiration. Note: Practiced adult meditators, very creative people and people under hypnosis also have access to theta states where they experience similar phenomena.

Conscious parent takeaway No. 1 Past life recall or not, a very important step to becoming a more conscious parent is knowing that in those first five years when children are in theta brain wave states, they do not yet have a rational, analytical mind to analyze or filter anything we communicate.

Without a filter, everything, especially what we say and imply about them, goes directly to their subconscious and registers there as the “truth” and remains buried in the subconscious, where those unquestioned positive and negative messages will continue to influence the child’s perceptions of self, others and life.

Conscious parent takeaway No. 2 From now on, if/when your very young child/grandchild tells you startling things, you know the theta brain wave connection is what helps them to know uncanny things, including past life information. Hopefully this knowledge invites you to lean in, be curious and supportive.

The best approach is to ask the child non-leading questions so they can tell you more, and to let them answer without any commentary. Like author Cathy Byrd, you might also seek help from spiritual teachers, research published case studies, and consult with professionals familiar with past life memory in children.

Everyone benefits

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This really happened to Cathy Byrd who has written a new best seller about her son, The Boy Who Knew Too Much. Boyd and her husband were religious, non-believers in reincarnation, who were not even baseball fans. This true story is equally about Byrd’s journey becoming a conscious parent and opening her mind to reincarnation, as well as her son’s incredibly accurate past life recall.

Even before their son could talk, he was already obsessed with baseball. When he was two, he would always carry a baseball bat around with him, and taught himself to competently throw and hit a baseball. The child was a lefty, and at three he was so good, he was invited to throw out the first pitch for the Dodgers. He was playing baseball three to six hours a day, and told his mother, “I was a tall baseball player.”

Not yet able to grasp all this, Byrd immediately reframed the comment and told him that someday he will be tall, and maybe also a baseball player.

“No, I was tall like Daddy,” the boy replied.

That same year, the boy saw a poster of Babe Ruth, and turned to his mother and said, “I don’t like him; he was mean to me.”

Byrd began researching details of the Babe Ruth era and located a photo of that Yankee baseball team. Following her counselor’s advice, she showed it to her son saying only, “Is there anyone in this photo who didn’t like Babe Ruth?”

Immediately the boy pointed to Lou Gehrig, a tall man with dimples, and said, “That’s me.”

I leave you to read the book and learn so much more of

Byrd’s spiritual awakening, what happened when her son saw a photo of Gehrig’s family, what he answered when he was asked how he died, and what happens when he meets Gehrig’s actual family.

As mindful, open-hearted and open-minded parents (and grandparents) we set the stage for our children’s best lives, and we simultaneously evolve our own consciousness and well-being. PJH

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

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BY ROB BREZSNY

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “The most intense moments the universe has ever known are the next 15 seconds,” said philosopher Terence McKenna. He was naming a central principle of reality: that every new NOW is a harvest of everything that has ever happened; every fresh moment is a blast of novelty that arises in response to the sum total of all history’s adventures. This is always true, of course. But I suspect the phenomenon will be especially pronounced for you in the near future. More than usual, you may find that every day is packed with interesting feelings and poignant fun and epic realizations. This could be pleasurable, but also overwhelming. Luckily, you have the personal power necessary to make good use of the intensity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Nobody likes to be scrutinized or critiqued or judged.

But we Crabs (yes, I’m one of you) are probably touchier about that treatment than any other sign of the zodiac.

(Hypersensitivity is a trait that many astrologers ascribe to Cancerians.) However, many of us do allow one particular faultfinder to deride us: the nagging voice in the back of our heads. Sometimes we even give free rein to its barbs.

But I would like to propose a transformation of this situation. Maybe we could scold ourselves less, and be a bit more open to constructive feedback coming from other people. Starting now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The lion’s potency, boldness, and majesty are qualities you have a mandate to cultivate in the next three weeks. To get in the righteous mood, I suggest you gaze upon images and videos of lions. Come up with your own version of a lion’s roar—I mean actually make that sound—and unleash it regularly. You might also want to try the yoga posture known as the lion pose. If you’re unfamiliar with it, go here for tips: tinyurl.com/lionpose. What else might help you invoke and express the unfettered leonine spirit?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan posed that question. I invite you to put it at the top of your list of hot topics to meditate on. In doing so, I trust you won’t use it as an excuse to disparage your companions for their inadequacies. Rather, I hope it will mobilize you to supercharge your intimate alliances; to deepen your awareness of the synergistic beauty you could create together; to heighten your ability to be given the universe by those whose fates are interwoven with yours.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to carry out a flashy flirtation with the color red. I dare you to wear red clothes and red jewelry. Buy yourself red roses.

Sip red wine and savor strawberries under red lights. Sing Elvis Costello’s “The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes” and Prince’s “Little Red Corvette.” Tell everyone why 2017 is a red-letter year for you. For extra credit, murmur the following motto whenever a splash of red teases and pleases your imagination: “My red-hot passion is my version of high fashion.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “If you want a puppy, start by asking for a pony,” read the bumper sticker on the Lexus SUV I saw. That confused me.

Would the owner of a Lexus SUV be the type of person who didn’t expect to get what she really wanted? In any case, Pisces, I’m conveying a version of this bumper-sticker wisdom to you. If you want your domestic scene to thrive even more than it already does, ask for a feng shui master to redesign your environment so it has a perfect flow of energy. If you want a community that activates the best in you, ask for a utopian village full of emotionally intelligent activists. If you want to be animated by a focused goal that motivates you to wake up excited each morning, ask for a glorious assignment that will help save the world.

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Life is in the mood to communicate with you rather lyrically. Here are just a few of the signs and portents you may encounter, along with theories about their meaning. If you overhear a lullaby, it’s time to seek the influence of a tender, nurturing source. If you see a type of fruit or flower you don’t recognize, it means you have a buried potential you don’t know much about, and you’re ready to explore it further. If you spy a playing card in an unexpected place, trust serendipity to bring you what you need. If a loud noise arrives near a moment of decision: Traditionally it signifies caution, but these days it suggests you should be bold.

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Your body is holy and magic and precious. I advise you not to sell it or rent it or compromise it in any way—especially now, when you have an opening to upgrade your relationship with it. Yes, Taurus, it’s time to attend to your sweet flesh and blood with consummate care. Find out exactly what your amazing organism needs to feel its best. Lavish it with pleasure and healing. Treat it as you would a beloved child or animal. I also hope you will have intimate conversations with the cells that compose your body. Let them know you love and appreciate them. Tell them you’re ready to collaborate on a higher level.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “On some hill of despair,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell, “the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky—though it’s true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in.”

You may not exactly feel despair, Scorpio. But I suspect you are in the throes of an acute questioning that makes you feel close to the edge of forever. Please consider the possibility that it’s a favorable time to find out just how much light and heat are hidden inside you. Your ache for primal fun and your longing to accelerate your soul’s education are converging with your quest to summon a deeper, wilder brilliance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) A typical Capricorn cultivates fervent passions, even to the point of obsession. Almost no one knows their magnitude, though, because the members of your tribe often pursue their fulfillment with methodical, business-like focus. But I wonder if maybe it’s a good time to reveal more of the raw force of this driving energy than you usually do. It might humanize you in the eyes of potential helpers who see you as too strong to need help. And it could motivate your allies to provide the extra support and understanding you’ll need in the coming weeks.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) From my study of the lost prophecies of Nostradamus, the hidden chambers beneath the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and the current astrological omens, I have determined that now is a favorable time for you to sing liberation songs with cheeky authority … to kiss the sky and dance with the wind on a beach or hilltop … to gather your most imaginative allies and brainstorm about what you really want to do in the next five years. Do you dare to slip away from business-as-usual so you can play in the enchanted land of what-if? If you’re smart, you will escape the grind and grime of the daily rhythm so you can expand your mind to the next largest size.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’re in a phase when you have the power to find answers to questions that have stumped you for a while.

Why? Because you’re more open-minded and curious than usual. You’re also ready to be brazenly honest with yourself. Congrats! In light of the fact that you’ll be lucky at solving riddles, I’ve got three good ones for you to wrestle with. 1. Which of your anxieties may actually be cover-ups for a lazy refusal to change a bad habit? 2. What resource will you use more efficiently when you stop trying to make it do things it’s not designed to do? 3. What blessing will you receive as soon as you give a clear signal that you are ready for it?

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