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18 MUSIC BOX

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20 CREATIVE PEAKS

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THIS WEEK

JULY 12-18, 2017 By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey

This week marks the start of what are usually the hottest weeks of the year in Jackson Hole, from mid-July to mid-August. The warmest temperatures ever recorded here occurred within these coming weeks. This past week we had a couple days with temperatures approaching 90-degrees in the valley, officially the Jackson Climate Station hit 87-degrees last Thursday. So, if you are complaining about the heat this next week, that’s perfectly normal.

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Average high temperatures this week are 82-degrees, next week it bumps up to 83-degrees, which is the warmest week of the year. Back in July of 1934 though, the Town of Jackson actually did experience the absolute warmest week of the year during this week and part of next week. Six of the seven days this week and two of the seven days next week still have record high temperatures from 1934. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Jackson, ever, was 101-degrees on July 17th & again on July 20th, 1934.

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Cool is a bit of a relative term this time of year. Average low temperatures this week and next are in the lower 40’s, which incidentally, are some of the warmest overnight low temperature readings of the year in Jackson. Those are the averages; the reality is, that it can be much warmer overnight with rainier or cloudier weather. The record low temperature during this week is 25-degrees, which occurred on July 14th, 1977.

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FROM OUR READERS On “Community Mourns Loss of Bob Arndt,” July 2

On “The Buzz: Suffering in Silence,” July 5

I agree that no one deserves to be raped or be a victim, but there are things people can do to protect themselves PRIOR to the assault. Know the person you are going out with especially if you plan on getting drunk. Don’t get so drunk you lose control of your judgment. Yes JH is a party town and bad hookups can happen. You can say NO. Don’t make it consensual by playing along. Empower yourself. Go out in a group or with another couple if you are unsure about the person. If you know you don’t want to have sex with them, don’t go home with them or allow them to go home with you. When a line is close to getting crossed, make your wishes known. Guys assume sex if you go out, are all over them, go home with them, sleep in their bed, especially if you know them or have had sex before. You have to use common sense in addition to verbalizing. No one is going to read your mind, especially when alcohol is involved. A lot is at stake. For the victim, shame, being called a prude or troublemaker, etc. For the perpetrator, being targeted by the victims friends, shunned as a sexual predator or rapist, jail time, lifetime of registry as a sex offender. Each party needs to know what the other expects or wants from the evening. Don’t be afraid to call it quits early and for all that is common sense, don’t let alcohol make something happen that you regret. You sure wouldn’t want a pregnancy to happen out of a bad hookups you didn’t want in the first place and have a.lifetime of being tied to that person. Take responsibility for your own actions. Accountability and responsibility have flown the coop. And for God’s sake, if you are a sexual assault victim, get help. Report it. You have advocates in JH even if you don’t have a support group... Let the comments now start of how I am blaming victims. I’m not. I’m saying take responsibility for your body and your decisions. Both parties. – Lynda Carter

There is more to this story, it absolutely extends to the youth, I’d argue it might even start with the youth. Hookup culture in high-school age students in JH is seriously fucked, I don’t know a woman who has gone to high school there and left that would try to deny that. – Ruby Frances Jones

Lynda Carter, I think part of the problem is that people tip-toe and say “bad hookup” when they actually mean “rape.” I agree. There are things people can do “PRIOR” to the rape to prevent the rape, like stay with friends if you think you’ll be tempted to rape someone. Don’t

This is such a tragedy. I have known Bob and Melanie for many years. When they owned Harvest they hired my design firm to create a logo for the T-shirts for their staff. They wanted everyone to wear comfortable clothing to work that was functional and fun. From that first meeting together we worked on many more projects. Their next goal, to combine choice meats and other smaller venders to make whole grocers a market that would bring the best freshest ingredients to Jackson at a good price was just so enjoyable to watch and help be a part of. Working with both of them as a young entrepreneur myself really taught me about the kind of person I wanted to be. Bob was smart, kind, innovative and just a wonderful person, who was always smiling! He will be missed in his community, his family and by his many friends. My heart goes out to Melanie, I hope she is healing and that she knows how much love there is for her and for Bob. – Johanna Marcell-Miller I am sick to my stomach. Bob was an integral part of Jackson. Loved seeing him and Melanie ride their horses in the Park. Bob we love you and will never forget what you have down for this community. – Sonja Sharkey I have known Bobby since he was a tiny baby. Many years watching him grow up, later in life from afar. I appreciate this article: I have not seen him for many years. You were a special person Bobby and all my condolences to the friends out West that got to know him as an adult. – Carol LeBaron

SINGLE-TRACK MIND Summer is heating up, the trails are open, the days are long, and folks are finally coming around to mid-season levels. Now is the time for some big loops in new areas. So go explore, expand your boundaries, but go prepared. Stock up on your favorite drinks and food for long rides. Experiment with different brands. Just remember that plain water doesn’t cut it if you’re out in the heat sweating for more than an hour. Your body needs to replace several key nutrients and minerals while you’re riding. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, look at your helmet straps. Notice how they’re white? That’s all the sodium, potassium, magnesium and several other micronutrients that you’re losing through sweat. And if you happen to ride with a dog (or cat, goat, whatever!), remember that it can’t sweat. So keep your ride short and near water.

drink if you think it might tempt you to rape someone. Don’t invite someone home with you if you can’t trust yourself to not rape them. If your friend is unconscious, don’t touch them sexually. You know, things like that are super helpful to remind people to not accidentally rape someone, rather than putting the onus on survivors. Your message is well intentioned, but it’s laden with unhelpful finger pointing. – Anne Marie de Puits

On “The New West: Liz’s Climate Disconnect,” July 5

Regardless of your opinions on the cause, the results are the same. It’s irresponsible for Cheney and others to stubbornly ignore reality and not study or prepare for future contingencies. – Cassandra Buckner

I don’t think anyone’s ever accused Liz Cheney of being the brightest bulb in the box. – Pat Bohannan

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Also, pay attention to your calories while you’re out there. If your drink is low calorie, then be sure to bring food. This is where you’ll really need to experiment. Most people prefer to avoid protein during a ride, but too much sugar can create its own set of problems with cramping, bloating or just that nasty film on your teeth. Now that your body is fueled and hydrated, check your bike and repair kit. As a minimum, before every ride, clean your chain and suspension dust wipers, check your tires for cuts, bolts for proper torque and brake pads for adequate thickness. If it’s all good, set your tires and suspension to your favorite pressure, lube your chain, squeeze your brakes and go shred. Carry, and know how to use, a multi-tool, tire plug, and spare tube. – Cary Smith

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A prominent conservative signs on to change the Constitution. BY BAYNARD WOODS @DemoInCrisis

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introduce is the limit of federal control, including congressional and Supreme Court term limits; a balanced budget; and the elimination of federal regulations. While it seems like such a focus may be opposed to the Trump regime, it fits in perfectly with its stated goal of the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” as White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon put it. And Trump’s new voter commission—headed up by Kris Kobach, a surly Kansas extremist who is the perfect DeMint counterpart—might make the possibility of a new states-driven, conservative-leaning constitutional convention even more likely. The Trump/Kobach commission requires states to give voter data to the federal government (although many have refused) claiming, sans any evidence, that widespread voter fraud cost Trump the popular vote. But many fear there is an alternative motive to this data collection, namely that it will be used to further restrict voting. The state-level dominance Republicans presently enjoy is due in part to successful attempts to limit the votes of minorities and others they think might vote Democrat (the pusillanimous posturing of the Democrats doesn’t help). If they are further able to control the turnout, Republicans will be more likely to gain even more states, increasing the likelihood of a constitutional convention. The contradiction lends yet another glimpse into today’s so-called conservative movement, and is reminiscent of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s own hypocrisy—claiming at once to be pro-states’ rights, but also rejecting states’ decisions to legalize cannabis and trying to force states to comply with big-government mandatory minimum sentencing. In this case, much like that one, Republicans are speaking out of both sides of their mouths, saying they want to strip power from the federal government but using the federal government’s power to do so, by first attacking citizen voting rights. PJH

n the early years of the Obama era, then-Senator Jim DeMint embodied a series of contradictions in the American character. The hard-jawed and bitter-faced Sandlapper was simultaneously a theocrat, a cynic, and a salesman. What he sold, as salvation, was hate and fear. He realized before the rest of us that it does not matter what politicians say or do as long as they can demonize their enemies, turning them into villains that the American people can love to hate. DeMint came from the fundamentalist, mill-village town of Greenville, South Carolina, nestled in the piedmont at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains, not far from the North Carolina border. BMW and Michelin have recently turned the town into a somewhat more cosmopolitan place. But even 20 years ago—when I finally escaped—it was a town that produced dire, dour, and yet grimly visionary people, a severe, joyless place whose preachers obsessed over hell fire and the enjoyable things other people may be doing to hasten it. DeMint galvanized the Tea Party with this schtick, but he could only take it so far. It was a little too grim for the American Sucker. DeMint played the part like a great character actor—Harry Dean Stanton playing Ronald Reagan. Trump came along and brought a little P.T. Barnum to the act, taking DeMint’s gruesome view of America at war with itself and carnivalizing the carnage, in the same way televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart made the hell-fire sermons they heard in small Southern churches palatable to the masses on television. “The bigger government gets, the smaller God gets,” DeMint said in a radio appearance in 2011. Trump echoed this in May when he told a crowd at the fundamentalist Liberty University, “In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.” Perhaps DeMint was savvy enough to know he would do better as a vicar or an éminence grise, providing ideas to the crown, rather than the frontman. The Greenville in him was still a little too mirthless to break through to the next level. He left the Senate in 2012 to take over the ultra-conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. During the election, the foundation remained

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largely silent on Trump, putting DeMint in a perfect position to help guide the seemingly shocked and ill-prepared transition team. It provided policy papers, personnel, and a list of Supreme Court nominees, deeply influencing the beginning of the Trump era. So it was a fucking shocker—and sort of admirable— when the Heritage board ousted DeMint in May, with influential members arguing he had dulled the intellectual edge of the foundation by making it too activist. After his Heritage ouster, the former senator went to work for the Convention of States Project, a group that wants to invoke Article V of the Constitution to call for a convention to amend the Constitution. Article V outlines two ways to add an amendment to the Constitution; one of them has never been successfully employed. Each of the 27 existing amendments has been proposed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states. The other way, two-thirds of the legislatures of the states can “call a convention for proposing amendments.” The conventional way is politically impossible at present and, to a man like DeMint, undesirable. But the alternate way, relying on the states as it does, is almost too perfect an ideological vehicle. DeMint calls the Convention of States the next stage of the Tea Party, which wanted to limit federal power. It makes ideological sense for him to latch onto state legislatures’ ability to change the Constitution to limit federal power. But the crazy thing is that it might actually be possible. Thirty-four is two-thirds of 50. That’s how many state legislatures would have to request a convention. Republicans hold both houses in 32 states. If a convention relying on state legislatures would ever work for the right, it would be now. Twelve states have already requested a convention to amend the Constitution. Over the last few weeks, DeMint was lobbying hard in North Carolina to make it the 13th. It passed the senate, and failed in the house, which later voted to reconsider it. One of the big problems is the possibility of a “runaway convention.” The Convention of States argues that such a convention could be limited to a single topic: limiting federal control. But because it has never happened, no one knows how it will go. Imagine the Proud Boys and AntiFa outside the convention hall. “The one topic DeMint and his crew want to

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or years, conservationist Lisa Robertson and a devoted group of friends in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have tried to elevate public awareness about the moral and ethical issues tied to fur trapping. The practice inflicts pain and suffering upon animals that get caught in leghold traps, some that chew off their feet to escape. “Non-target” species are also victims. They are often killed or wounded by head-crunching conibears and family pets are severely injured by traps set along public hiking trails. Still, trapping watchdogs have been largely unsuccessful getting government officials to consider reforms to trapping regulations. Through the nonprofit wildlife conservation organization Robertson co-founded called Wyoming Untrapped, the perceived atrocities of trapping have been continually highlighted on social media. Recently citizen outrage surged again when a grizzly bear on Togwotee Pass was photographed with a bone-breaking conibear, likely set for pine marten, clenched to a front paw. The bruin’s prospects for survival were uncertain because of the permanent damage to its appendage. Behind the scenes, wildlife managers I know in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho admit that many aspects of trapping are anachronistic. After all, few if any citizens actually make their living by trapping. Although traplines may be part of the lore of rustic mountain men, they no longer serve a compelling societal purpose in the 21st century, especially as demand for fur continues to fall, critics say. As Robertson has long noted, wildlife traditionally treated as nuisances by states—be they wolves, grizzlies, or, it

turns out, even bobcats—are worth far more alive to local tourism economies than dead. Evidence, however, has been lacking. Two winters ago, Robertson had an epiphany after she enlisted a guide who ferried her via snowmobile to the banks of the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park. There, she along with photographers and other wildlife watchers from around the world had converged to watch a bobcat, an elusive animal normally difficult to see in the wild. The seeds of an idea grew from Robertson’s experience, and the fact that a Thomas Mangelsen photograph of the same bobcat became a popular image on social media and in his gallery. Working with Mark Elbroch, a biologist with the international wildcat conservation organization, Panthera, Robertson set out to make an assessment: how much that single live bobcat was worth in generating commerce versus the income from a bobcat lethally monetized for its fur. The results of an analysis published this week in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation, showed the Yellowstone bobcat was worth—brace yourself—more than $308,000 for the regional economy over just a winter season. That’s a value 1,000 times greater than the exploitive value— $315—a trapper would net for a bobcat pelt. “Also consider, that this same living bobcat could generate the same figure again the following year, should it survive the summer season in Yellowstone,” Elbroch and Robertson write, acknowledging, however, it would likely return less economic value outside the park. “But over its life, this bobcat in Yellowstone alone could generate well over $1 million in economic activity, shared across countless people involved in travel and tourism.” At present, a fur trapper in Wyoming can purchase an annual license for $44 and kill as many bobcats in a harvest season without limit. Besides the economic value of nature tourism, large and medium sized predators have incredible non-numeric existence value. They serve important ecological roles that do not factor into ledger sheets. The bobcat study also has implications for the debate over whether Wyoming should restart a controversial sport hunt of grizzlies when—or if—bears

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are permanently removed from federal protection and handed over to state management. “With millions of people coming through Yellowstone and Grand Teton each year, the value of living wildlife to local economies, visitor enjoyment, and even to those who may never visit these parks, cannot be emphasized enough,” Elbroch said. He has conducted pioneering studies of cougars in Wyoming. Robertson is convinced that were other cost-benefit analyses done for a number of species in Greater Yellowstone, they would yield similar compelling results. Kristin Combs, program director of Jackson Hole-based Wyoming Untrapped, has argued that if state wildlife agencies, especially in a time of declining revenues due to declining hunter numbers nationwide, ought to honestly ponder how keeping wildlife alive in Greater Yellowstone continues to fuel tourism, Wyoming’s second largest industry. “It is time that wildlife managers prioritize the value of wildlife for the community as a whole instead of only for the enjoyment or one-time exploitation by a single hunter or trapper,” Combs said. Elbroch says the study isn’t definitive. It is meant to elicit a reaction and ignite a better dialogue, not come across as an attack on trapping and hunting. For Robertson, societal respect and appreciation for wildlife has evolved. It has profoundly shifted since the days of the frontier when the value of animals was based solely on revenue generated through their lethal consumption. “We are smarter now,” she said. “Our policies need to reflect it.” 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 Jackson Hole Grizzly 399 featuring 150 pictures by renowned wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen. Autographed copies available at mangelsen.com/grizzly.

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THE BUZZ King Gets Close Plans that will bring major changes to the town hill move toward reality. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

t long last, Snow King will soon be able to inch forward with its phase 2 development plan, under a whole lot of conditions. The agreement Snow King representatives came to with Jackson Town Council at Monday’s meeting is complex, but affords some momentum. The tentative development plan includes a new gondola that will replace a 40-year-old chairlift, a restaurant, and expansions to Bridger Teton National Forest land. Such expansion, however, requires Forest Service approval. For the past year, Snow King has sought town council approval, in the form of a letter to USFS, to move forward with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. But some community members argued that before Snow King began the NEPA process, it should first amend its 17-year-old Base Master Plan. Snow King’s phase two master plan has been drafted and in the works since 2014, but the road has been rocky. At Monday’s meeting, Snow King board of directors member Jeff Golightly walked councilors through the journey so far: Snow King reps asked for the letter to USFS a year ago, and the town asked them to do public outreach. Snow King “happily complied,” and conducted “extensive outreach” in the form of open houses and community information sessions. They returned to the council in June to ask for the letter again, but this time community members showed an interest in Snow King first amending the master plan or at least amending it concurrently with the NEPA process. Updating the master plan, some argued, would give the public more of a say in Snow King’s future. “Each step in the planning process must be clear and involve public comment,” Dawn Webster, operations manager at Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, said. “Promises made, promises kept. NEPA is swift once it’s begun. [The

Alliance] ask[s] that you take this seriously, perhaps slow down, and make sure it’s done right.” “We have a non-functional master plan,” Councilman Jim Stanford said, “not just to the detriment of the community, but to the detriment of the ski area. Until we fix that, we’re going to be stuck here. We’re gonna keep piecemealing it.” Golightly recognized the community’s desire to evaluate the master plan in its entirety before moving forward with ad-hoc development additions. “We heard from the community that there’s this desire for us to revisit the base area plan concurrently with the mountain plan. We want to demonstrate our plan to do exactly that.” The motions made Monday night allow Snow King to do both—sort of. Town councilors will sign a letter to USFS allowing Snow King to start the NEPA process, but only after entering into a “Memorandum of Understanding” with the town “outlining the intent, schedule, expectations and cost sharing of updates to the Snow King Resort Master Plan.” So, they’ll sign the letter, but they’ll also open up the conversation about amending parts of the master plan. “It’s a joint planning process with the Forest Service so people can be talking about uphill improvements to the base area, which falls more into our regulatory realm,” Stanford explained. The final decision breaks Snow King development updates into phases. In the first, Snow King will enter into a community discussion about the Snow King Resort Master Plan for all areas except sub-areas one and two, update the plan based on existing conditions, and enter into the NEPA review. Stanford added an amendment that would require Snow King to revisit chapters seven and 12 in the master plan, which outline housing and “community benefits.” Under the agreement, any new construction on Forest Service land cannot begin until after phase one master plan updates are complete. Phase one updates must begin no later than December 31. “It’s a first step,” Stanford said at Monday’s meeting. “We’re at least beginning to discuss it concurrently.” The process, Stanford later told PJH, is going to take some time. “It’s not everything I sought, and it’s not everything Snow King sought.” But it’s a compromise. It allows the NEPA process to begin concurrently with a community-wide discussion about parts of the master plan. The motion to approve this process

carried three-to-two. Councilors Don Frank and Hailey Morton-Levinson opposed it, arguing that Stanford’s amendment distracted from Snow King’s immediate goals. “I want to see those improvements,” Morton-Levinson said. “I think a gondola or a new lift is appropriate … To tie that up with other elements of the master plan, I worry we won’t give those elements the time they deserve to be discussed, and also won’t see the improvements.”

Evolving community needs Councilors then voted against a second phase of amendments to the master plan for sub-areas one and two that could only begin after phase one amendments were complete. Councilor Bob Lenz argued that requiring Snow King to solidify a plan for sub-area two, which includes the gravel parking lot below the ice rink, is premature and unfair. “You have a piece of property, and absolutely no idea what you want to do with it, and we’re saying in the next two years they have to come up with a plan? That doesn’t make sense to me,” he said. “Let sleeping tigers lie.” Golightly said Snow King did, in fact, have a plan for sub-area two: to leave it as it is. “Allow it to be parked on for free at the rink, for people to play put-put, get lost in a maze,” he said. “That is our plan for it.” Asking Snow King to re-evaluate that section of the master plan right now, Golightly argued, risks binding it to a plan that doesn’t fit evolving community needs. “You wouldn’t hire an architect to design a house with no intention to break ground for a decade,” he said. But the lot in question has about 250,000 square feet of development rights attached to it that have never been realized. Muldoon questioned how he would explain to his constituents that they would update part of an outdated master plan, but “won’t update the biggest, most important part?” They’re going to have to take Snow King’s word that they won’t develop on that lot for “the better part of a decade,” Golightly said. Besides, any new developments on that land would need council approval anyway, which would trigger a new conversation about the plan. A number of concerned citizens shared Muldoon’s concerns with separating the master plan revision agenda. Leaving sub-area two, Snow King’s “cornerstone parcel,” out of the equation, is “like ordering a banana split without the banana—it just doesn’t work,” Skye Schell, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance civic

engagement director, wrote in an email to the council. “We do not believe that yet another piecemeal change is in the best interest of our community.” But councilman Don Frank agreed with Lenz. Expecting Snow King to know what to do with that lot, he said, is “unreasonable.” “Change is the only constant,” Frank said. Frank, Lenz and Morton-Levinson outnumbered Muldoon and Stanford in a vote against any phase two updates, for now. In a rather uncharacteristic move, town manager Bob McLaurin spoke up in favor of Snow King’s development plan before the second vote was taken. “Call it an amusement park, call it a carnival, but we have an operator trying to keep the mountain running. I feel like I have to say that,” McLaurin said. “I was at the negotiating table when the resort was hours away from turning the lifts off.” The options in front of the council, he said, allowed for critical progress. “It’s not perfect from either perspective, but it’s a step forward.” Finally, town councilors unanimously moved to draft a letter to USFS agreeing to be a cooperating agency in the NEPA review process, pending the aforementioned Memorandum of Understanding and potential master plan updates. As a cooperating agency, the town will participate in conversations with USFS about any updates the Forest Service approves or recommends.

An absent citizenry

While Golightly acknowledged the value of community input in shaping these discussions, Frank suggested perhaps the community at large is less concerned, or engaged than some would like councilors to believe. If constituents wanted to contribute to the discussion, Frank argued, they have had ample opportunity to do so. “I’ve listened to every bit of public comment, read every item emailed to me. They’re very thoughtful and constructive comments.” But, Frank said, “there are 9,456 citizens in the town of Jackson. I’ve seen less than 50 pieces of communication on this item, spread over three meetings. That contradicts the suggestion that they haven’t had the opportunity to speak. Those who wanted to speak, did. The rest are currently mute.” That may be true, Muldoon said, but citizens are not entirely to blame. “It’s a very complicated and complex situation. I’m still concerned people do not fully understand it.” PJH

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THE BUZZ 2 It Happens Here A young woman’s story shatters myths about sexual assault among youth in a small town. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

Growing up, Anne Carter (not her real name) thought sexual assault was something that only happened in movies or big cities. “I didn’t really believe that this stuff happened in our town,” she said. “This is Jackson, nothing bad happens here.” And then as a high school student, it happened to her. She was at a party and her assailant was a friend. “I was just so angry and upset and confused,” Carter said. “I was like, ‘Friends don’t do this to each other. I don’t understand.’” A PJH story last week noted how Jackson’s ski-town party culture normalizes non-consensual sex among its adult population. Carter’s story, however, suggests that such a culture trickles down to, or perhaps starts in, the homes and hallways of the youth that grow up in the valley. Carter’s assault, and her life in its wake, unearthed a massive divide in how she understood consent, and how some of her peers did. “My view had always been that yes means yes and everything else means no,” she said. But other influences in her life suggested otherwise. That her assailant was a close friend was traumatic enough, but what was more difficult was seeing how many of her peers defended him after she came forward. “I lost a lot of my friends,” Carter said. “It was kind of crazy seeing some of the people who supported me, and then people saying I ruined his life. People I thought were close friends were like, ‘oh, you were asking for it.’ And it crushed me.” She says she came to realize disregard for consent starts on the playground. “If you’re playing tag and someone says no and you ignore them, you’re just teaching them that’s OK.” While growing up, Carter recalls messages that harassment was synonymous with affection. “When we were younger we were like, ‘Oh that’s so funny this boy was mean to me and bothers me on the playground, maybe he

has a crush on me.” Indeed, youth and adolescence are times rife with confusing and inconsistent messaging, especially about sex. Playground and popular culture, as Carter observed, romanticize persistence and perseverance in the face of denial. In the new class “Gender Issues in Society,” taught by Jim Jenkins at Jackson Hole High School, students listen to the song “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke. The No. 1 most-played song of 2013 repeats the phrase “I know you want it” 18 times. After the students were done listening and singing along, Jenkins told them, “Just so you know,’ that line right now is the most popular thing that rapists say to their victims while they’re raping them.” A big part of Jenkins’s curriculum in his health and gender issues classes is encouraging students to think critically about the messaging they receive from song lyrics, movies and magazines. He was inspired by a talk the Community Safety Network hosted about media messaging and consent, where he learned that one in four women between the ages of 15 and 25 has been sexually assaulted. “My daughter was just turning 15 at that point. I got really fired up about it,” Jenkins said. He works with Community Safety Network education director Shannon Nichols on building curriculums that encourage healthy, consensual relationships. But such lessons require lots of un-teaching. Nichols says she is constantly working to dismantle the idea that physical contact and affection is something to be won. Especially among young men, she says, the pervasive idea is that “you don’t give up until you get yes for an answer.” Like the message of Thicke’s song, teenagers often see sex as a rite of passage, and all parties involved should always “want it.” Equally as dangerous, Nichols says, is the idea that consent can be quiet and unspoken. It’s weird to ask for a kiss, Nichols recognizes, but “if you’re not ready to ask them [for something], then you’re not ready to do that.” Nichols works closely with public and private schools in Teton County to create curriculums that promote healthy understandings of sex and relationships. CSN brings speakers and programming to high schools, and works with teachers like Jenkins on course curriculums. Last year, of 130 freshman students in Jenkins’s health class, Jenkins estimated 99 percent correctly defined consent on a final exam. His definition was exactly the same as Carter’s: “Yes means yes, and everything else means no.”

Jackson’s teenagers are not strangers to the town’s party culture. Teton County Public Health’s Public Health Assessment found that more than 80 percent of Teton County’s 12th grade students had tried alcohol, compared to 70 percent statewide. Thirty-one percent reported binge drinking. But Nichols said that conflating drinking with sexual assault contributes to an idea of a “grey area” of consent that doesn’t, or shouldn’t, exist. “It’s just really an excuse that people use,” Nichols said, both to deflect blame from assailants and place blame on survivors like Carter. “It’s not a cause and effect, that’s not how it works,” Nichols said. “It’s so important for people to know that you can do absolutely everything right and still get raped. It all depends on if you’re in the presence of somebody who chooses to violate you.” Carter said she “felt safe going to the party I was going to.” But now going out is constant cause for anxiety. She’s not only constantly on guard, but she also feels responsible for the well-being of her friends. “I’m constantly looking around and watching where my friends are,” she said. She struggled to adjust to college life after her assault. There are things, she said, that are still “huge triggers,” like people touching her back. Wearing dresses still scares her. But what comforts her, she says, is the idea of preventing others from experiencing the same trauma she has. She now works with young children, and pays particular attention to “playground culture.” She makes sure kids understand the importance of listening to “no.” “I call it out,” she said. She tells them, “if he or she says no, you’re gonna stop.” “This starts when we’re young, and that’s when we’ve gotta stop it.” PJH

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Bill T. Jones and company deliver art that underscores humanity’s unifying struggles.

By Meg Daly

@MegDaly1 Photos by Paul B. Goode

For Babs Case, director of Dancers’ Workshop, one moment from a Jackson Hole rehearsal with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company last year has stuck with her. The company members were stretching and warming up on stage while Jones and Case chatted in the wings. Tall and lithe with chiseled lines on his face, Jones is an affable man, accessible despite his immense fame as a legendary contemporary dancer and choreographer. But his warmth is tempered with precision and toughness. Case watched as the young dancers, clad in T-shirts and sweatpants, stretched and leaped playfully, laughing and enjoying the easy movement of their bodies. Suddenly, Jones stopped talking with Case and gruffly addressed his company. “Everyone,” he said, “I want you to leave this room. You will go around backstage and come in the other door. When you come in, you are ready to work.” The dancers snapped to attention and filed out of the room, returning a few moments later, focused and ready for instruction. Case says Jones’s ability to jolt people into the present moment is one of his gifts. “He will take things and shock people a little so their attention is right there.” What Jones’s dancers experience in rehearsal is indeed similar to what audiences experience watching the company’s multimedia performances. Often, your heart is in your throat, your mind stretching to decipher the various incoming information–dance, video, music, spoken word. Dance theater, after all, is a language that can take you inside human experience in nonliteral ways. But to interpret the language you must be fully present in the moment. For the past three years, Jackson audiences have witnessed the development of some of the most innovative choreography in the world. Jones’s Analogy trilogy, for which Dancers’ Workshop is a co-commissioning organization, explores the lives of three very different people to tell an overarching story of striving in the face of adversity, and of the delicate balance between serving others and retaining one’s self. By linking the stories of these characters through abstract concepts like movement, shape, and line, Jones challenges viewers to think and feel in unfamiliar ways. Accept the challenge, and your understanding of the human experience will expand. Jones’s and his company’s 2017 residency includes a master class on July 18, a company appearance at the Dancers’ Workshop gala celebration July 19, an open rehearsal on July 20, and two world premiere performances of Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant on July 21 and 22. To prepare for these shows, readers should consider reading the book that inspired the Analogy trilogy—The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald.

While the themes of Analogy are broad and universal, they are simultaneously specific and personal to Jones. The 65-year-old choreographer, director, dancer and writer has been utilizing personal material—including his own body—as a means of exploring large human themes since he first arrived on the New York dance scene in the 1970s. He’s been punching through boundaries ever since, and to immense acclaim. The New York Times called Jones “inarguably the most broadly laureled” figure in the dance world. His intense focus on bringing people into the present moment is a lesson that can be applied to many spheres of life.

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Jones, whose awards include a National Medal of Arts, a Kennedy Center Honor, Tony Awards, a Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship, is undoubtedly a big noise. But what interests him is human conversation, not didactic bellowing. During a visit to Jackson Hole in 2016, Jones met with a group of students from Summit High School. He explained that the company was presenting a work that dealt with gender, sexuality, and addiction (the second piece in the trilogy, Analogy/ Lance: Pretty a.k.a. the Escape Artist). Two students on the periphery began to snicker. Jones kept talking while the two students continued their whispered banter. Dancers’ Workshop director Babs Case remembers being impressed with how Jones handled the situation. “He stopped and looked at them,” Case said. “He asked them if they were with us. Then he told them, ‘I want you to be present with us.’” Akin to the message he sent to his dancers, this is the invitation Jones issues to all his audiences. “Bill addresses things through art that could be confrontational,” she said. “But he is not asking you to have the same opinion. He is asking you to be present in the same conversation.” The Analogy “conversation” began four years ago with the inception of the first trilogy segment Dora: Tramontane. The piece explored the life of Dora Amelan, the mother of Jones’s partner Bjorn Amelan. Jones incorporates text from his oral history with Dora into the dance. A French Jewish nurse and social worker, Dora survived the Holocaust and worked at an underground Jewish organization in Vichy France’s internment camps. Tramontane is the French word for a disturbing wind. The second part of the trilogy, Analogy/Lance: Pretty Boy a.k.a. the Escape Artist, debuted last summer. In it, the company delves into the life of Jones’s nephew, Lance Briggs, a dancer and model that has struggled with drug addiction, sexual

exploitation, and AIDS. As with Dora, Jones uti- various perspectives,” he said. “The choreography, lized transcripts from interviews with Lance as musical composition, storytelling, and design eleelements of the overall performance. ments are folded into a work that resembles origaJackson audiences have been privy to a major mi, reopened and refolded again.” shift for the Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Company. Jones told PJH motifs from Dora and Lance will The word “dance” has been taken out of the com- appear again in Ambros. pany name. Though strongly rooted in Jones’s “The piece is complicated and complex,” he iconic choreography—energetic, athletic, formally said. “It asks us to see it differently.” As with the precise—the company’s work has become so col- first two segments of the trilogy, repeated viewlaborative as to warrant a different title. Text, spo- ings will enhance audiences’ understanding of ken word, set design, lighting, music and singing the piece. “You don’t have to grasp it all in one are interwoven with dancing to such an extent that viewing,” Jones said. “See it more than once.” a hybrid form has been born. He also recommends reading The Emigrants, or at The company’s associate artistic director Janet least the section about Ambros Adelwarth. (Copies Wong says this hybrid is indicative of the present are available at Valley Bookstore.) This distinction moment in dance and performance. between emigrant and immigrant is something the “Nowadays the boundaries of dance and theater ensemble has explored. Jones says it comes down and music are so fluid,” Wong said. “I think get- to who is speaking and is an essential question for ting rid of the word ‘dance’ was perfect. But at the our era. same time, our work is embodied, just as human “Are you looking at the person who comes from experience in world is embodied.” elsewhere, the immigrant?” Jones asked. “Or are Jones says tasking the performers with acting you the emigrant looking at your new country?” and singing in addition to dancing deepens the PLAYING WITH FORM development of the ensemble. “Each performer is an artist, and individual growth is collective In The Emigrants, Sebald provided a model to growth,” he said in his director’s notes about Jones by blurring the lines between fiction, memAmbros. The final trilogy segment departs from Jones’s oir, dream diary, and recorded text. In Ambros personal life to probe the life of the fictional char- Adelwarth, the point of view shifts without breaking acter Ambros Adelwarth, the title character from a from character to character, from present to past, section of Sebald’s novel The Emigrants. Adelwarth from fact to fiction. Sebald included biographical is a manservant to a wealthy young Jewish scion, elements in his text, namely photos that illustrate certain passages. The photos appear to be Cosmo Solomon. Adelwarth “Are you looking snapshots from a family album. Are they was hired by Cosmo’s father to Sebald’s? Or are they a pastiche of found accompany the young man in at the person added into the text for effect? Are his escapades around the globe, who comes from pieces the photos elements of truth or of fiction? gambling and flying planes. The elsewhere, the Jones, too, incorporates disparate expresrelationship between Adelwarth and his charge is rife with innu- immigrant? Or are sive elements into the overall performance. In the past two trilogy episodes, Jones used endo, and seemingly the years you the emigrant transcripts from interviews with family the two men spend together are the most intimate of each man’s looking at your new members, read live by dancers on stage, as a way of interjecting personal narrative life. country?” into the larger themes explored. Thus form However, World War I haunts their lives; the glamour and excess of upper and movement bump up against narrative and text. crust Europeans juxtaposed with the continent’s Abstraction collides with representation. A single turmoil. Personal depression, isolation, madness person’s story—Dora’s or Lance’s or Ambros’s— all play a part, as Adelwarth’s tale is told through becomes multifaceted, as if viewers were looking the memories of his relatives, pieced together by through a kaleidoscope at a person’s life. Reflecting on the addition of text and spoken the narrator who goes in search of his mysterious uncle’s life story. So total was Ambros’s embrace word to the dance pieces, Case said the addition of of his role as manservant and butler that one of language does not plainly elucidate the work. “The his relatives comments, “I always felt sorry for language creates another layer through which we [Ambros] because he could never, his whole life have to look to see the real story or purpose,” she said. “The transcripts from Dora’s recollections long, permit anything to ruffle his composure.” In his director’s notes, Jones recommends that were presented very literally. But memory is always audiences view the performance as they would a so nebulous—what is imagined or made up, real or Cubist painting. “We show an object spatially from actual?”

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Ultimately making art, especially experimental, avant-garde performance work, is as much about interpersonal dynamics and what each individual brings to the table (or the rehearsal space) as it is about the subject matter. The art emerges from the relationships between people, how they nurture and support one another, how they challenge and drive one another. This is perhaps the most remarkable story within the story of a world-class choreographer and his company and their four years of developing work in residency in a small mountain town in Wyoming. Case grew emotional when discussing the impact of Jones’s work in the community. “I’m so honored that he has been here,” she said. “He’s such an important artist. Watching him work has had a tremendous impact on me; his willingness to be so bold, and to be demanding of his dancers. But also I’ve learned so much just by talking with him. Now everybody here knows who he is and what he is about. That has been really rewarding to share that with our community.” The respect flows both ways. Jones calls Case “a force of nature.” “The fact that Babs Case is in Jackson Hole is something to be celebrated,” he said. Wong agreed. When asked about what has made the Jackson Hole residencies unique, Wong said the main difference has been Case herself. “Babs is the most wonderful person I know,” Wong said. “She understands making work; she is an artist herself. She is so generous and kind, and bad ass at the same time.” Case is one of the arts community’s staunchest advocates for importing artists for valley residencies. The value of such residencies, she said, is immediately apparent: “The relationships that are made, drawing people in and nurturing connections between artists, plus the general access that our community has to minds and hearts like this,” she said. “We feel the impact of Bill’s work and the way he speaks to people.” Case remembered a talk Jones gave at a Jackson donor event last year. “He said that art is as important as hospitals and roads,” she remembered. “Art is important for our souls.” At that same talk, Jones challenged a mostly affluent audience to think about how they could put their privilege to work in the service of art. “What do you think about?” Jones asked the wellheeled group. Then he gestured to Case. “This woman is putting tremendous effort into creating new work. She is looking for the next Balanchine, the next Thomas Moran. If we don’t invest in that as people, then we listen to the same music, see the same paintings, watch the same dance. She deserves an army of support.”

DANCING TOWARD EMPATHY

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Dancers’ Workshop presents Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant, 8 p.m. July 21 and 22 at the Center for the Arts. Tickets are $45-$55, $25 for students at the Center box office.

Rehearsal director for Contemporary Dance Wyoming Francesca Romo values the opportunity to engage in an open dialogue with artists at such an intimate level. In addition to his work in the community, Jones has offered open rehearsals during each residency that include a talk-back session with him and the dancers. Though the issues discussed are sometimes uncomfortable, Romo said, “We are listening and learning, and this is invaluable.” A co-founder of New York City-based Gallim Dance and now a Jackson resident, Romo said that not only has Jackson Hole witnessed the development of a process and the final stages of a piece, the community has also become involved at the ground level. “Perhaps the work becomes very much more personal when watching the finished production,” she said. The performing arts in particular have a way of eliciting empathy between people, Wong said. These layers of empathy and connection—between DW artists and visiting artists, as well as between audiences and characters portrayed on stage— provide a necessary balm in the face of political and social turmoil. “With all the fights in Washington and on the streets, change has to happen inside the individual,” Wong said. “Art and culture has to help cultivate this change.” For Jones, taking risks, making human connections, finding new ways of understanding the human experience is what being an artist is all about. “What else is there?” he said. “I am successful, but I’m still a young turk. I still see myself as an experimental artist. I don’t have formulas. I’m still asking, ‘Maybe I should try this?’ and ‘What if?’” What if such an artist married the disparate stories of a Holocaust survivor, a dancer-turned-addict, and a buttoned up butler into a suite of performances about what it means to suffer, hope, and survive? What if, indeed. PJH

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10 - $16 n Plein Air for The Park 9:00am, The Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Free n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10 am, National Elk Refuge, Free n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free n Acrylic Painting Camp 1:00pm, Timber Ridge Academy, $100.00 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, Free n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00 n Library Summer Fun Movie Afternoon: “Sing” 2:00pm, Teton County Library, Free n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free n Jackson Hole People’s Market 4 pm, Base of Snow King, Free n Age Friendly Jackson Hole 4:00pm, Senior Center of Jackson Hole, Free n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38 - $46 n Alive@Five: Teton Raptor Center 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free n Rebecca Ryan 5 pm, The Deck at Piste, Free n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25 - $35 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38 - $46 n Jackson Hole Community Pathway Tours 5:30pm, Location Varies, Free n A Special Evening Honoring U.S. Troops & Native Translators 5:30pm, The Lodge at Jackson Hole Conference Center, Free n JH Community Pathway Bike Tour-South Park Loop 5:30pm, Jackson Hole High School Parking Lot, Free n Alliance Speaker Series: Safe Passages for Wildlife Community Event 5:30pm, Alliance Parking Lot, Free n Dine to Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Dornans Chuckwagon, Free n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00 n Open Studio Modeling: Figure Model 6:00pm, Art Association of

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Booker T. Jones

Lucky 13 for Targhee Fest Festival anoints audiences with North Mississippi Osborne, Booker T, Karl Denson and GTMF delivers Ben Sollee. BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

hirteen is an auspicious roll for Targhee Fest, sporting a three-day lineup lush with funk and soul veterans, modern Americana pioneers, and gritty blues. Friday is the funk night, Saturday is ultra eclectic with North Mississippi Osborne headlining, and Sunday is marked by the next generation of bluesmen. There are legends-in-the-making dotted through the lineup, and then there’s a legend. Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Musicians Hall of Fame inductee, and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and winner of four Grammy Awards, Booker T. Jones is certainly an American treasure. Booker T’s Stax Review is slated for Saturday for a journey through Stax’s classic canon for which he played on hits “Green Onions,” “Hang ‘Em High,” “Time Is Tight,” and “Melting Pot,” among others. His economical restraint and near vocal emulator as an organ player is unmatched, and the cast he set

for modern soul music endures, which makes the roots of his skills fascinating. “I was influenced by my mother’s chordal style of playing fifths on the left hand of the piano,” Jones replied when asked about how his style development. “My organ teacher taught me to ‘crawl’— holding a note with one finger while crossing over or under with another finger—while playing a melody on the right hand. I tried to emulate the right hands of Ray Charles and Jimmy Smith.” The B3 electric organ played through a Leslie speaker is an unmistakably rich sound, and Jones’s tone is just as singular. His restraint lies within holding straight tones, notes or chords often times for four or five beats, then engaging the Leslie effect for color. The tension and release builds anticipation for the listener. “The B3 and the Leslie have been married since the 1930s,” Jones continued. “It was a coincidence. They were conceived of by different companies that clashed for years until recently when Hammond bought Leslie. Nothing that I know of produces a sweeter sound.” On the flip side of the legend coin, we have the youngest buck on the bill, Sunday’s opener Marcus King Band. There’s been considerable buzz about this 21-year-old South Carolina Southern blues rocker. The band’s 2014 debut caught the attention of Gov’t Mule frontman Warren Haynes, who ended up producing the sextet’s self-titled second album from last year. He aims for a big band Chicago intensity and his voice is aged like a veteran. Mr. King is well worth adding to your radar for the weekend.

Immigrant music at GTMF

THURSDAY The Black Lillies (Town Square Tavern); Main Squeeze with Drew Fish Band (Victor City Park)

Ben Sollee

TARGHEE FEST SCHEDULE Friday The New Mastersounds – 4 p.m. The Motet – 5:30 p.m. Galactic – 7:15 p.m. Michael Franti & Spearhead – 9:15 p.m. Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons – late night in the Trap Bar

Saturday Assembly of Dust – noon Suzanne Vega – 1:30 p.m. Donna the Buffalo – 3 p.m. Booker T’s Stax Review – 5 p.m. Leftover Salmon – 7 p.m. North Mississippi Osborne – 9 p.m. The Deadlocks – late night in the Trap Bar

Sunday The Marcus King Band – noon The Record Company – 1:30 p.m. Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real – 3 p.m. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe – 5 p.m. Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons – late night in the Trap Bar

SATURDAY Targhee Fest (Grand Targhee Resort); Phiscuits (Town Square Tavern); 6 Foot 2 (Silver Dollar) SUNDAY Targhee Fest (Grand Targhee Resort); Elektric Voodoo (Village Commons) MONDAY JH Hootenanny (Dornan’s); The Minor Keys (Jackson Lake Lodge) TUESDAY Ton Pig (Silver Dollar); Stackhouse (Mangy Moose)

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Aaron Davis is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, audio engineer at Three Hearted Studio, founder/ host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

FRIDAY Targhee Fest (Grand Targhee Resort); The Railsplitters with The Boom & The Bust (American Legion Park in Pinedale); DJ Londo (The Rose)

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Kentucky cellist/vocalist/songwriter Ben Sollee is a bull’s-eye crossover act to feature at the six-week, classical music-focused Grand Teton Music Festival. Sollee is classically trained, though has made his commercial mark with those influences thrown into a melting pot of highly accessible and inviting singer-songwriter muses dipping into bluegrass, Appalachian, jazz, pop, soul, and blues. Like his opening set last December with The Wood Brothers, Sollee’s lineup will again feature longtime drummer/ percussionist Jordan Ellis. The duo will perform a set in advance of the five-piece band taking stage, Ben Sollee & Kentucky Native, which will be releasing an album of bluegrass-inspired string band tunes on August 11. “Bluegrass music is immigrant music,” Sollee said on his website. “It’s the music of Irish and Scottish musicians bringing their fiddle tunes; it is gospel music; it is African music; it is gypsy jazz; it is rock ‘n’ roll. It is all these things. What makes it unique and of Kentucky is that it was distilled by the people who lived here in Kentucky, and turned into something else.” PJH Grand Teton Music Festival presents Ben Sollee, 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 12 at the Pink Garter Theatre. $25. GTMF.org, PinkGarterTheatre.com.

WEDNESDAY Daisy O’Connor with Canyon Kids (Town Square Tavern)

Targhee Fest, Friday through Sunday, July 14 to 16 at Grand Targhee Resort. $79 per day or $189 for the weekend; late shows are $10. GrandTarghee.com.

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00 n Open Studio Modeling: Portrait Model 9 am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10 n Move With It 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole n Plein Air for The Park 9:00am, The Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Free n Festival Orchestra Open Rehearsal: StarCrossed Lovers 10:00am, Walk Festival Hall, $15.00 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free n Friday Float with Feathered Friends 10:30am, Teton Raptor Center, $69.00 - $79.00 n Summer Grilling Series 11:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer, $5.00 n Acrylic Painting Camp 1:00pm, Timber Ridge Academy, $100.00 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, Free n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free n FREE Friday Tasting 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free n Library Summer Fun: Tween Foodie Friday 4:00pm, Teton County Library, Free n Friday Night Bikes 4:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $10.00 n Targhee Fest 4 pm, Grand Targhee Resort, $79.00 - $189.00 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00 n Plein Air Watercolor Workshop 5:00pm, Grand Teton National Park n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 - $35.00 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00 n Soundcheck Summer Music Series 5:30pm, American Legion Park in Pinedale, Free n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90

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CREATIVE PEAKS Shake it Up Thin Air Shakespeare hearkens back to boisterous theatrics. BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

ack in the days of Shakespeare, going to the theater wasn’t a formal affair. Plays were staged outdoors, the audience got rowdy and the actors interacted with them from the stage. That tradition is carried on today every summer across the country, when theater companies perform Shakespeare plays in parks. In Jackson Hole, it takes place in the amphitheater outside the Center for the Arts. Off Square Theatre Company’s Thin Air Shakespeare brings the famous playwright’s tales to life each summer. In its fifth year, the company is performing The Tempest, a story of magic, revenge and forgiveness set on an island where some of the characters are marooned. The production is a dramedy, with moments of levity and also seriousness, and one of Shakespeare’s most musical plays, Natalia Macker, Off Square’s artistic director, said. It takes place on a remote island in an undefined time and there are spirits and magic in the story. “There is an other-worldliness about the place,” Macker said. Attending the show is free and families are encouraged to come together and bring a picnic. The outdoor venue is in the spirit of open-air Shakespeare productions across the country. The idea is to make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. In turn, the next generation is introduced to Shakespeare in a fun and relaxed atmosphere, Macker said. Plus, there is no better place in the summer to watch a play than an outdoor venue in Jackson Hole. Indeed, “in the summer in this town people don’t want to sit inside in a dark theater,” Macker said. The actors benefit, too. They can use their natural surroundings as part of the show and it gets the audience more involved. People get up during the performance to refill wine glasses, kids run across the lawn and the actors, in turn,

The Tempest characters Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo by artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg.

get to make it all part of the production, director Edgar Landa explained. “They’ll interact,” Landa said. “They’ll relate. There’s no fourth wall.” There are 16 actors in the show, about half of whom Off Square imported from Los Angeles for the production. The company sets the stage without the aid of major stage lights and an intricate set. The natural surroundings, like the stars in the sky, the rising moon and the mountains surrounding the valley all become part of the set and the story, Landa said. “We have to create the magic with the words,” he said. “It’s a difference between an LP and a CD. We’re analog and that’s wonderful and that forces us to think how we create a story without fancy lights.” Instead the scene is set with a soundscape created by a composer, along with simple effects that transports the audience to the island. Landa, who has directed previous Thin Air Shakespeare productions, hadn’t directed The Tempest before. He was drawn to the play’s theme of redemption, something everyone can relate to and think about in their own lives, he said. “Even when we have great injustice done to us, we can still find the ability to forgive in some way,” he said.

But he also explored the darker threads of the story, including the indentured servitude of a magical spirit, Ariel, (Jeff Bratz), and the enslavement of Caliban (Minerva Garcia). It was Caliban’s island and initially he had a mutually beneficial relationship with those that arrived, Landa said. But that goes awry and he ends up enslaved. He’s called a monster in the show and in some productions portrayed as one. “For me, I don’t think he’s a monster,” Landa said. “He’s absolutely human and why he’s called a monster—it’s all perception.” The show takes twists and turns, but even with the magic thrown in, Landa said he thinks people will find something relatable in the storyline. It is a production for all ages. People are encouraged to bring chairs, food and something to drink during the show. Landa hopes watching the play will remind people how poignant Shakespeare’s work can be. “I want people to go home and maybe think about reading a Shakespeare play,” Landa said. PJH

Off Square Theatre Company’s Thin Air Shakespeare presents The Tempest, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Center for the Arts’ amphitheater, free.

n Chanman - SOLO 7:00pm, Moe’s BBQ, Free n Ian McIver 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free n 6 Foot 2 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free n Thin Air Shakespeare Presents The Tempest! 7:30pm, Center Amphitheatre, Free n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds, $15 - $35 n Festival Orchestra: Star-Crossed Lovers 8:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00 - $55.00 n Free Public Stargazing Programs 9:00pm, Rendezvous Park, Free n Billy Pane Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00 n Hawthorne Roots 9 pm, Town Square Tavern, Free n Friday Night DJs 10:00pm, The Rose, Free n Late Night at The Trap: Sneaky Pete & The Secret Weapons 10 pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, $10

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n Farmers Market 8:00am, Town Square, Free n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00 n 10th Annual Tin Cup Challenge 8:30am, Driggs City Center Plaza, Free n Imagine, Create! Clay & Sculpture 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole n Elevated Yoga on the Deck 9:00am, Top of Bridger Gondola, $25 - $30 n Plein Air for The Park 9:00am, The Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Free n 10th Annual Tin Cup Challenge 9:00am, Driggs City Center n Coffee Tasting Experience 9:30am, Snake River Roasting Co. Warehouse, $45 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10 am, National Elk Refuge, Free n Library Summer Fun Finale Party! 10 am, Teton County Library, Free n Library Summer Fun: Bestselling Author Jean Reagan 11 am, Teton County Library, Free n Free Family Concert at Walk Festival Hall 11 am, Walk Festival Hall, Free n Library Summer Fun Magic Show 12:00pm, Teton County Library, n Targhee Fest 12:00pm, Grand Targhee Resort, $79 - $189 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, Free n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00 n Pre Symphony Buffet Dinner 4:00pm, The Hof in The Alpenhof n Animal Adoption Center’s New Leash on Life 4 pm, Snake River Ranch, $75 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38 - $46 n Plein Air Watercolor Workshop 5pm, Grand Teton National Park n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25 - $35 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38 - $46

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CINEMA Human Grace War for the Planet of the Apes delivers blockbuster action and potent societal commentary. BY SCOTT RENSHAW @ScottRenshaw

t’s not unusual for genre fiction to offer compelling allegories for our time. It’s considerably more rare for those allegories to be so thorny that you need to wrestle with them for a while. Three movies into this 21st-century incarnation, the Planet of the Apes saga has become one of popular culture’s most fascinating explorations of humanity at its worst—and, occasionally, its best. In 2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in particular, director Matt Reeves crafted a tale with echoes of the War on Terror slippery enough to make it hard to know whether we should be rooting for humans to win or lose. Now, with War for the Planet of the Apes, Reeves has attempted an even bolder gambit. This is a story told entirely from the point of view of the apes, with the few humans as the clear villains of the piece. And even then, there’s a lot about the behavior of the movie’s hero that challenges our notion of what makes a hero. That hero is Caesar (Andy Serkis), the chimp who still leads the ape troop in the Northern California forest, several years into the plague that wiped out most of the human race. An unexpected reappearance of armed humans alarms Caesar, and an act of mercy on his part unexpectedly leads to an attack that costs Caesar dearly. When he learns the identity of the man responsible—a relentless warlord known only as The Colonel (Woody Harrelson)—Caesar

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makes the unfam i l ia r-to-h i m choice of seeking revenge. It would be absurd not to begin any discussion of these movies with a bow in the direction of Andy Caesar (Andy Serkis) in War for the Planet of the Apes. Serkis, whose mot ion-capture perfora mutation of the “Simian Flu” virus mances as Caesar are doomed to be that has begun robbing humans of their ignored when discussing great movie speech, and The Colonel views it as an acting. His body and eyes provide the existential threat. “This is a holy war,” frame for the CGI-generated chimpan- he intones at one point, convinced that zee that give him soul, and create a speech is a defining part of what makes character on whom the burden of lead- us human. The fact that Caesar can also ership always seems to hang heavy. speak makes it easy to recognize how In some ways, Caesar is the very personal pain has led to The Colonel model of great leadership: cautious, abandoning a fuller sense of the soul thoughtful, slow to violence, always that defines humanity. considering the impact of his decisions All of that is heady stuff, which is on the lives of his charges. Serkis plays never to suggest that these movies are Caesar as Daniel Day-Lewis’ Lincoln tedious philosophical exercises. Much in simian form, and the result is just as of the second half becomes a prison-esmagnificent. cape movie, full of tension and close Such a comparison also makes it calls. It’s also hard to ignore the grim unnerving when Caesar becomes a tone that Reeves brings to these stories, force for retribution after suffering a which makes it particularly crucial to personal loss. Where Dawn of the Planet have a comic-relief character in the of the Apes offered the ape Koba—a rad- form of Bad Ape (Steve Zahn), a chimp ical convinced that there is no co-exist- who has been living in isolation in an ing with humans, to the point that he abandoned ski lodge. launches a false-flag operation to proWar for the Planet of the Apes might voke war— as counterpoint to Caesar, not be the kind of light-hearted fun we the realization now is that Caesar has often expect from summer movies, but some Koba within himself. The moti- it’s adventure with a richer payoff than vating power of fear and anger is always beating the bad guy: It’s about finding clear in these movies, but there’s no the strength to recognize the bad guy in comfort in the possibility that a saintly, ourselves. PJH benevolent ruler can save us from our darkest impulses. Every one of us has to WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES fight that urge. BBB.5 There’s an external threat, too, and Andy Serkis Harrelson does a fine job portraying the Woody Harrelson kind of separatist militia leader whose Steve Zahn racist rhetoric always makes at least a PG-13 small amount of discomfiting sense. War for the Planet of the Apes presents

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n Festival Orchestra: StarCrossed Lovers 6:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00 - $55.00 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90 n 6 Foot 2 7:30pm, Silver Dollar, Free n Thin Air Shakespeare Presents The Tempest! 7:30pm, Center Amphitheatre, Free n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds, $15.00 - $35.00 n Billy Pane Band 9pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5 n Phiscuits 9pm, Town Square Tavern, $10 n Live Music in the Rose 10:00pm, The Rose, Free n Late Night at The Trap: The Deadlocks 10 pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, $10

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00 n Plein Air Painting & Drawing 9:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10am, National Elk Refuge, Free n Open Rehearsal with NYCB Principals 12:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, Free n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free n TAP FOR BEGINNERS with Savion Glover 3:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38 - $46 n Alive@ Five: Jackson Hole Historical Society 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25 - $35 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00 n Solarplate Printmaking 5:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole n CHANMAN - SOLO 5:30pm, Huntsman Springs, Free n BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE TAP with Savion Glover 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25 n Dine to Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, DornansChuckwagon,Free n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Teton Trail Runners Run 6:00pm, Different Location Each Week, Free n Hoback Group MTN Bike Ride 6:00pm, Hoback Sports n Advanced Photography Techniques 6:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00 - $78.00 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90 n Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Master Class 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25 n Stackhouse 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free n GTMF Presents: Brooklyn Rider 8:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25 n Nathan Dean Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00 n Open Studio Painting & Drawing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole n Art Education: Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association Borshell Children’s Studio, $16.00 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10 am, National Elk Refuge, Free n Filmmaking & Screenwriting 10:00am, Center for the Arts n Watercolor Painting Camp 1:00pm, Timber Ridge Academy, $100.00 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free n TAP FOR BEGINNERS with Savion Glover 3:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25 n Chanman - SOLO 4pm, Snake River Brew Pub, Free n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38- $46 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25 - $35 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38 - $46 n Solarplate Printmaking 5:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole n BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE TAP with Savion Glover 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25 n Get Ready for the Great Jackson Eclipse of 2017 6 pm, Teton County Library, Free n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Teton Photography Group - Informal Critique and Comments 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90 n Movies on the Mountain: WALL•E 7:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, Free n Isaac Hayden 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free n Nathan Dean Band 9pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5

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n Walking the Trails In Laurance Rockefeller’s Footsteps 8:30am, Laurance Rockefeller Preserve, Free n Elevated Yoga on the Deck 9:00am, Top of Bridger Gondola, $25.00 - $30.00 n Plein Air for The Park 9:00am, The Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Free n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10 am, National Elk Refuge, Free n Meditation & Writing Workshop with Connie Wieneke 11 am, Teton Yoga Shala, $35 n Summer Sunday Brunch 11:00am, Westbank Grill n The Science of Popcorn 12:00pm, Jackson Hole Children’s Museum, Free n Targhee Fest 12:00pm, Grand Targhee Resort, $79.00 - $189.00 n Sunday Silver 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole n JH Sports Chainless Bike Series 3:00pm, The Bike Park, JHMR n Plein Air Watercolor Workshop 5 pm, Grand Teton National Park n Concerts on the Commons 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free n Whiskey Mornin’ Duo 5:00pm, Top of the Bridger Gondola - the Deck @ Piste, Free n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25 - $35 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free

n Twenty Paces 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free n Thin Air Shakespeare Presents The Tempest! 7:30pm, Center Amphitheatre, Free n Hospitality Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free

JULY 19 SUMMER FOODIE EDITION

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Tasty Transformation How Jackson’s beloved Chef Jeff Drew got fit, lost weight, and launched a crudité revival. BY ANNIE FENN, M.D. @AnnieFennMD

hen I saw Jeff Drew’s crudité creation at the Snake River Grill, it was love at first sight. Raw baby spring vegetables are draped on a buckrail fence as if a horse-drawn cart coming from the farmers market had just toppled its load. The wrought iron fence, designed by Drew and local sculptor Ben Roth, is a replica of those seen all over Jackson Hole. For dipping, there’s a Green Goddess sauce with a modern twist: intensely green, aromatic with dill and tarragon, and a creaminess that could only come from avocado. Drew is the chef at the helm of the Snake River Grill, considered the best restaurant in Jackson Hole and the state of Wyoming. A top chef in the region, Drew was chosen by the James Beard Foundation as a semi-finalist for Best Chef Northwest for four of the last 10 years. He represented the cuisine of the American West at the Milan Expo in 2015, and has cooked at the James Beard House in New York. Drew’s signature brand of mountain cuisine is one of the gems of the Jackson dining scene. Locals clamor to the Grill at the debut of each seasonal menu not only to get their fill of Drew’s classic dishes, along with the most impeccable service, but also to experience his latest creations. But even if you’re a regular at the Grill, like I have been for more than 20 years, you may not recognize Chef Drew these days. Looking at least 10 years younger and a whole lot more fit, Drew has figured out what seems an impossible task: to maintain a healthy lifestyle while running a top-notch restaurant. I sat down with Drew over cappuccino recently

to learn the secret of Left: Chef Drew dishes up trout with etoufee sauce at JH Food and Wine’s Savor the South. Right: Vegetable crudité “Wyoming style” with Green Goddess sauce. his newfound fitness (and the recipe for that Green Goddess from Logan, UT, to Jackson, WY, Drew’s first thought sauce I’ve been obsessing over). was, “No way. Two hundred miles in one day?” He regIt wasn’t that Drew was totally unhealthy before, istered, snagged a spot, and never looked back. but all those years of running the Grill started to take With true Jeff Drew-like intensity, he devoted all his their toll. “I would roll out of bed at nine or 10, head free time to training for LOTOJA. As Nicholson held to the restaurant, eat tacos every single day for lunch, down the stoves back at the Grill, this time as chef de or whatever we were making for the boys,” he said. cuisine, Drew was able to log some serious miles on “Working long days, drinking wine at the end of the his bike. night. Repeat, repeat, repeat.” It quickly became apparent that the less weight he Before moving to Jackson Hole, Drew was chef de was carrying around the better. “You can spend a thoucuisine at Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Easy sand dollars and shave a pound off your bike,” he said, access to the mountains and rivers fueled his passion “or you can spend a couple of bucks, go to the gym and for kayaking, and he and his sous chef often found time lose weight.” to squeeze in a paddle before work. “As soon as we got He started getting up early to hit the gym before on the water, the stress would just melt away. It was breakfast. “After breakfast, I’d head to the restaurant cool because we’d be kind of in the weeds the days we and work until 2 or 3. Get in 30 or 40 miles on the bike, went kayaking, but we’d always catch up.” shower and then go back to the restaurant.” After taking over Snake River Grill, Drew says it Pulling off double workouts became his new roubecame more difficult to get out on the water. “I got tine. Eventually, he added Pilates a few times a week. smarter, for one,” he said. “I didn’t kayak alone any- “I wasn’t seeing my wife much because I was spending a lot of time training and working. So that was somemore. It just became logistically difficult.” Staffing was another issue. “I couldn’t delegate thing we could do together.” Sometimes the couple’s because there was no one to delegate to,” he said. daughter joins too. Once Drew was deep into training, a change in his “Then Kyle Nicholson, our sous chef who was with me diet was inevitable. “I wouldn’t say I got on the glufor seven years, left and went to Italy and Texas.” After 15 years at the Grill, Drew said he was just not ten-free wagon, but I dropped a lot of it. I love dairy, living healthy day in and day out. He plugged away for but I cut back on that too. I still ate super rich European years without a fitness/adrenaline fix until two years style yogurt in the morning.” Breaking his caloric intake into five meals a day, he ago when a friend recommended he try one of those new carbon fiber racing bikes. “So I rented one and swapped his daily taco lunch at the restaurant for a plate of greens with grilled protein. Most of his calories went for a ride. Before long I was addicted.” Typical to Drew’s personality, his riding became his were eaten in the afternoon. At night, when service was new passion. “My wife and my mother would say that over, he’d have just a salad. What about processed foods? “I cut them out, except whatever my new focus is, I just dive in—all the gear, right before big rides.” reading up on it, all in.” Wine? “I was unwilling to give up my love of wine, When his sous chef returned to the Grill, it helped Drew shift his focus even more. “I didn’t have to be on but I did cut back. And I cut way back on other drinks the stoves 24/7. Having Kyle run the kitchen has been like spirits.” And what about coffee? Well, you could say coffee a big part of me being able to ride and be on my phone fueled Drew’s fitness routine. “I drank tons of coffee: a checking in.” The first time he heard of LOTOJA, the elite amateur double espresso before the gym, a pot of coffee after. At road cycling race that spans four mountain passes and 3 in the afternoon, I’d have another pot of coffee.” As LOTOJA loomed closer, he ramped up his training gains 7,000 feet of elevation over more than 200 miles

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kind of retro but it’s back in style.” Left: Drew trades his chef’s coat for spandex at LOTOJA. Right: Stellar vegetable sides: local morels and asparagus with piquillo pepper sauce. Crudité needs a great sauce, so Drew got to work revamping the Green Goddess of decades past. Annie Fenn is a physician with a passion for food, “We took out the anchovies to make it vegetarian, health, sustainability and the local food scene. Current added avocado and gave it a hit of salt.” Some of Drew’s most innovative creations are found mission: Spreading the word about how to cook and in the vegetable-forward small plates. In the win- eat to prevent dementia. Find recipes for longevity at ter there’s a whole roasted cauliflower served like a brainworkskitchen.com and more food and stories at steak on a puddle of curry sauce. In the spring, gor- jacksonholefoodie.com. geous spears of asparagus nestled in a piquillo pepper sauce. Grilled strawberries appear in a sugar snap pea salad this summer. And this year’s new classic: vegetable crudité “Wyoming style.” Just in case you’re missing the bread basket when Local is a modern American steakhouse and you sit down to eat at the bar located on Jackson’s historic town square. Grill, Drew added a menu Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, item he calls “better than fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, bread”: baked-to-order Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, Brioche rolls which come drinks or dinner. straight from the oven in all of their gluten-full Lunch 11:30am Monday-Saturday goodness, and are served Dinner 5:30pm Nightly with a salsa verde butter. Drew’s sensible approach to maintaining HAPPY HOUR Daily 4-6:00pm a healthy lifestyle for the long haul, without giv307.201.1717 | LOCALJH.COM ing up coffee, bread, and wine, seems to be workON THE TOWN SQUARE ing for both him and the Grill. “Now when I’m in the restaurant, I’m in a better mood too,” he said. “I’m no longer the grumpy chef.” Chef Drew graciously agreed to share his recipe for Green Goddess Sauce. Find it at jacksonholefoodie.com. PJH

a notch. After hitting a plateau in the summer, he knew to add more intervals to his regimen. “Towards the end, the guys [from One to One Wellness] had me on the high school field dragging a sled up and down, doing intervals, as they ran next to me with a stop watch.” They put 45-pound dumbbells on top of it. By race day, Drew had dropped 29 pounds—down to the weight he had been in tenth grade. “Then I cut my hair and lost another three-quarters of a pound,” he said. Drew’s only goal for LOTOJA was to finish before the gate closed at 14 hours. Instead, he left at 6:26 a.m. and finished at 6:26 p.m., “and ten seconds.” At the finish line he found himself surrounded by his wife, training partners and friends. “Are you going to do it again?” was the inevitable question. “My wife said: Are you kidding? I said: I have to do it faster.” After LOTOJA, Drew put on 10 pounds right away. “That was hard. But now I know that’s going to happen. The shoulder season is tricky—traveling and eating in restaurants makes it tough to stay on a workout routine. But now I know I can train when I get home and get that fitness back.” Indeed, LOTOJA 2017 is coming up in September and Drew is gearing up. Summer is also the busiest time at the Grill as visitors and locals keep the restaurant solidly booked. With one summer juggling training and the restaurant under his belt, Drew’s not too worried about sticking to his routine. “I did it last summer and was successful. I know I can do it again. And having great staff, like Nichols, means I don’t have to be constantly at the stove.” Drew says his new lifetsyle has not influenced the Snake River Grill’s menu—at least not too much. The Grill still serves its hearty iconic fare: a 10-ounce New York steak, a tower of onion rings served horseshoed around a branding iron, a cast iron seared elk chop. And there are all the decadent desserts locals love: Eskimo bars with a warm caramel dipping sauce, the warm French doughnuts, and currently on the summer menu, a pistachio crème brulee. Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but a basket of bread (and that addictive whipped butter with chives) no longer arrives at the table first thing. “But I didn’t want it to be like we were taking something away,” Drew said. “So I had this idea of replacing bread with crudité. It’s

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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!

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI Free Coffee with Pastry Purchase Every Day from 3 to 5pm 1110 MAPLE WAY, SUITE B 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.

THAI ME UP

Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm. Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. 307-733-0005.

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.

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A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

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, walkins 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 twotime gold medal wings. Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

LOCAL

Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY

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Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locallysourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

LOTUS ORGANIC RESTAURANT

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

MANGY MOOSE

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

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MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

Jackson’s first Speakeasy Steakhouse. The Million Dollar Cowboy Steakhouse is a hidden gem located below the world famous Million Dollar

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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Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival through its 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 Moe-Boy sandwich. A daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily. Moe’s BBQ stays open late and features a menu for any budget. While the setting is familyfriendly, a full premium bar offers a lively scene with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery is also available.

America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

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MOE’S BBQ

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

20 W. Broadway 307.207.1472 pizzeriacaldera.com

Our mission is simple: offer good food, made fresh, all day, every day. We know everyone’s busy, so we cater to on-the-go lifestyles with quick, tasty options for breakfast and lunch, including pastries and treats from our sister restaurant Persephone. Also offering coffee and espresso drinks plus wine and cocktails. Open Mon-Fri 7am-5pm, Wknds 7am-3pm 1110 Maple Way in West Jackson 307-2642956www.picnicjh.com

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

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SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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Like many a postcard scene Imminently dangerous situation 15 Achilles’ heel 20 “The NFL Today” analyst 21 Transfers, as a T-shirt design 22 Girl in Byron’s “Don Juan” 23 Get back (to) 24 Company that merged with Konica 25 Jason’s shipbuilder 26 Big party 27 Gross fraction 29 Brews for socials 30 Hook wigglers 31 Artist’s talent 32 Caribbean islander 34 Not just any old 36 Trig ratio 37 Hollowed out 40 Mayo is in it 41 Behold, to Brutus 44 Knowledge of spiritual matters 46 North Pole feature 48 [Yawn] 50 Come together 51 City on Lake Michigan 53 Casually arrive, in slang 54 “Need assistance?” 58 One of dozens, for millions 62 Classic VW 64 Had the nerve 65 Tiny messenger 66 Wise ones 68 Way to hit? 69 Timed perfectly 70 Lightning particles 72 Japanese noodle dish 74 Water collectors 76 1986 #1 hit for Starship 77 Gush on stage 79 Saw 81 Spanish royalty 83 Poppycock

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West Coast NFLer Musical Keys Stock maker’s flavor enhancer Short-lived Mormon state Chihuahua neighbor Manual reader Deli delicacy Poppycock, with “a” Make busts, say Bad person to share appetizers with? 104 Copied 105 Taoist force 107 Unsettling look 108 “Bus Stop” playwright 109 Berkeley school, familiarly 111 Sickly-looking 114 Rouge ou blanc 115 Rings 117 Like 45 records 120 Kate of “Th1rteen R3asons Why” 121 Mr. Spock forte 122 Bridges, in Venice 123 Up against it 125 __ cheese sandwich, popular Augusta National menu item sold for $1.50 127 Wrapped up 128 Product of ocean evaporation 129 Pisa party? 130 English novelist Charles 131 Nerve junction 132 Ones handing out cigars, stereotypically

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90 Suit 92 Trendy coffee order 96 Leave no room in 98 Wife of Aeneas 99 Spot in a newspaper 100 Muscle-to-bone connectors 102 Common soccer score 103 Kampala is its capital 106 Unbiased 110 Out of whack 112 Base runners? 113 Snow __ 116 Fries, usually 118 Tandoori bread 119 Peak in Thessaly 124 Poppycock 126 Big mouth

Lost in Translation But Shared Among Many

Tagalog (The Philippines) Gilgil – Does your friend, child, lover, even a cute puppy, evoke this in you? The word describes the irresistible urge to hug someone you find deliciously endearing and loveable. Layogenic – You see someone from far away who appears attractive, but then you get closer and uh, oh… oops, nevermind.

German

Spanish Spanish also has wonderful words that depict experiences we can all recognize. Flechazo – This describes the experience when cupid shoots his arrow (flecha) right into your heart. Love at first sight. Engentado – Oh yes, after lots of interaction with people,

Here is an Italian expression we are missing in English. Cavoli riscaldati – When you attempt, yet one more time, to rekindle an already failed relationship or love affair. It translates in English to “reheated cabbage.”

Portuguese (Brazil) This Brazilian Portuguese word is one of my favorites. Cafune – This refers to the warmth and tenderness evoked in someone you love as you run your fingers through his or her hair or gently stroke the nape of the neck at the hairline. When no words can describe the feeling that’s cafune.

Indonesian Jayus – This describes a kind of hilarity when a person who just can’t tell a joke to save his or her life keeps trying. The person goes on and on, forgetting key things along the way, and when finally arriving to the punch line, that is botched too. The telling itself is so ridiculous, the joke so atrocious, that the entire thing becomes hilarious. A jayus is contagious laughter at that kind of joke.

Norwegian Forelsket – This is the kind of bliss and pure radiant joy… the unbearable lightness of being that accompanies falling in love. Gjensynsglede – The joy of connecting with someone you haven’t seen in a long time. Utepils – Only in summer, this a beer you drink outside.

Hebrew (Israel) Firgun – The simple and unselfish joy felt when something good has happened to someone else.

Urdu (Pakistan) Naz – The feeling of overflowing with fullness and delight that someone loves you unconditionally.

Serbian (Serbia, Croatia)

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German has incredibly colorful words, which capture so much. Hopefully you’ll be smiling as you recognize these perfectly captured sentiments. Gretchenfrage – There is a lot of this word going on when you are on a first date. It is a question asked to find out someone’s real intentions. Verschlimmbessern – You know this feeling. This word means to make something worse when trying to improve it. Geborgenheit – This is the feeling of safety that comes from being with loved ones.

Italian

eing a lover of travel and languages, I find it fun to study words from languages around the world that express things we’re all familiar with, but don’t quite translate in English. Enjoy this light-hearted summer list of words from around the world, which express common experiences about love and relationships. The fact that we all share the same sentiments no matter what the culture is one more validation of our inherent connection, and that we are far more similar than we are different.

this is the feeling of being “peopled out” when you wish to just be alone.

Merak – I hope you all experience this one many times this summer. It is a sense of oneness with the universe from the simplest of pleasures. 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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CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote. “All life is an experiment.” I’d love to see you make that your operative strategy in the coming weeks, Cancerian. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now is a favorable time to overthrow your habits, rebel against your certainties and cruise through a series of freewheeling escapades that will change your mind in a hundred different ways. Do you love life enough to ask more questions than you’ve ever asked before? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Thank you for contacting the Center for Epicurean Education. If you need advice on how to help your imagination lose its inhibitions, please press 1. If you’d like guidance on how to run wild in the woods or in the streets without losing your friends or your job, press 2. If you want to learn more about spiritual sex or sensual wisdom, press 3. If you’d like assistance in initiating a rowdy yet focused search for fresh inspiration, press 4. For information about dancing lessons or flying lessons or dancing-while-flying lessons, press 5. For advice on how to stop making so much sense, press 6.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) If I had more room here, I would offer an inspirational Powerpoint presentation designed just for you. In the beginning, I would seize your attention with an evocative image that my marketing department had determined would give you a visceral thrill. (Like maybe a photoshopped image of you wearing a crown and holding a scepter.) In the next part, I would describe various wonderful and beautiful things about you. Then I’d tactfully describe an aspect of your life that’s underdeveloped and could use some work. I’d say, “I’d love for you to be more strategic in promoting your good ideas. I’d love for you to have a well-crafted master plan that will attract the contacts and resources necessary to lift your dream to the next level.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “There is a direct correlation between playfulness and intelligence, since the most intelligent animals engage in the greatest amount of playful activities,” National Geographic reports, “The reason is simple: Intelligence is the capacity for learning, and to play is to learn.” I suggest you make these thoughts the centerpiece of your life in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you have an enhanced capacity to master new tricks. That’s fortunate, because you’re also in a phase when it’s especially crucial for you to learn new tricks. The best way to ensure it all unfolds with maximum grace is to play as much as possible. ARIES (March 21-April 19) It’s not your birthday, but I feel like you need to get presents. The astrological omens agree with me. In fact, they suggest you should show people this horoscope to motivate them to do the right thing and shower you with practical blessings. And why exactly do you need these rewards? Here’s one reason: Now is a pivotal moment in the development of your own ability to give the unique gifts you have to give. If you receive tangible demonstrations that your contributions are appreciated, you’ll be better able to rise to the next level of your generosity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Other astrologers and fortune-tellers might enjoy scaring the hell out of you, but not me. My job is to keep you apprised of the ways that life aims to help you, educate you and lead you out of your suffering. The truth is, Taurus, that if you look hard enough, there are always seemingly legitimate reasons to be afraid of pretty much everything. But that’s a stupid way to live, especially since there are also always legitimate reasons to be excited about pretty much everything. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to work on retraining yourself to make the latter approach your default tendency. I have rarely seen a better phase than now to replace chronic anxiety with shrewd hope.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) At least for the short-range future, benign neglect can be an effective game plan for you. In other words, Gemini, allow inaction to do the job that can’t be accomplished through strenuous action. Stay put. Be patient and cagey and observant. Seek strength in silence and restraint. Let problems heal through the passage of time. Give yourself permission to watch and wait, to reserve judgment and withhold criticism. Why do I suggest this approach? Here’s a secret: Forces that are currently working in the dark and behind the scenes will generate the best possible outcome.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In late 1811 and early 1812, parts of the mighty Mississippi River flowed backward several times. Earthquakes were the cause. Now, more than two centuries later, you Sagittarians have a chance—maybe even a mandate—to accomplish a more modest rendition of what nature did way back then. Do you dare to shift the course of a great, flowing, vital force? I think you should at least consider it. In my opinion, that great, flowing, vital force could benefit

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) This is one of those rare grace periods when you can slip into a smooth groove without worrying that it will degenerate into a repetitive rut. You’ll feel natural and comfortable as you attend to your duties, not blank or numb. You’ll be entertained and educated by exacting details, not bored by them. I conclude, therefore, that this will be an excellent time to lay the gritty foundation for expansive and productive adventures later this year. If you’ve been hoping to get an advantage over your competitors and diminish the negative influences of people who don’t empathize with you, now is the time.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I advise you against snorting cocaine, MDMA, heroin or bath salts. But if you do, don’t lay out your lines of powder on a kitchen table or a baby’s diaper-changing counter in a public restroom. Places like those are not exactly clean, and you could end up propelling contaminants close to your brain. Please observe similar care with any other activity that involves altering your consciousness or changing the way you see the world. Do it in a nurturing location that ensures healthy results. P.S. The coming weeks will be a great time to expand your mind if you do it in all-natural ways such as through conversations with interesting people, travel to places that excite your awe and encounters with provocative teachings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You’re entering into the Uncanny Zone, Capricorn. During your brief journey through this alternate reality, the wind and the dew will be your teachers. Animals will provide special favors. You may experience true fantasies, like being able to sense people’s thoughts and hear the sound of leaves converting sunlight into nourishment. It’s possible you’ll feel the moon tugging at the waters of your body and glimpse visions of the best possible future. Will any of this be of practical use? Yes! More than you can imagine. And not in ways you can imagine yet.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The cereus cactus grows in the deserts of the southwestern U.S. Most of the time it’s scraggly and brittle-looking. But one night of the year, in June or July, it blooms with a fragrant, trumpet-shaped flower. By dawn, the creamy white petals close and start to wither. During that brief celebration, the plant’s main pollinator, the sphinx moth, has to discover the marvelous event and come to gather the cactus flower’s pollen. I suspect this scenario has metaphorical resemblances to a task you could benefit from carrying out in the days ahead. Be alert for a sudden, spectacular and rare eruption of beauty that you can feed from and propagate.

from an adjustment that you have the wisdom and luck to understand and accomplish.

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