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THIS WEEK

AUGUST 2-8, 2017

By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey August is now upon us, which always begs the question, where did July go? While July is the warmest month of the year in Jackson, August is not far behind; overall August is just a couple degrees cooler than July. Precipitation-wise, August is usually a little wetter month than July, averaging 1.20 inches of precipitation.

July averages less than an inch, however, July of 2017 was wetter than normal with 1.43 inches of total rainfall in town.

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Average high temperatures this first week of August have also dropped one-degree from last week’s average highs, from the end of July.

This week the average high is 82-degrees in town. The record high temperature during this first week of August is 94-degrees. We have achieved that level of hotness twice in early August, most recently on August 7th, 1994 and one time before that, on August 8th, 1958.

Without some rainfall for relief, those temps would wither more than just a pansy.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.2 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 3.8 inches (1945) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 0 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 0 inches

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Jim has been forecasting the weather here for more than 20 years. You can find more Jackson Hole Weather information at www.mountainweather.com

The average overnight low temperature this week is 41-degrees, which is a drop of one-degree from last week’s average overnight low temp of 42-degrees. As far as low temperatures go, August 8th, 1939 still holds the record as the coldest early August morning, with an overnight low temperature of 27-degrees. That is cold enough to freeze your most delicate garden flowers, but not cold enough to damage the hardiest of all flowers, which ironically, is the pansy.

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FROM OUR READERS On “Forest of Despair: Health care in Wyoming places a price tag on life some families can’t pay,” July 26

The Crabtree family has a four-generation history in Jackson Hole. That they will likely be forced to leave, not just Jackson Hole but the U.S., is symptomatic of how broken the health care system (a.k.a. the medical extortion racket) is in this country.

The World Health Organization ranks the U.S. 38th in the world, behind every advanced country, and behind third world countries like Colombia and Cuba. And we spend twice as much as the second most expensive country.

From 2011 to 2013, I lived and worked in Canada. During my first week of employment the financial secretary called me into her office. “Have you received your Care Card yet?”

“I’m a Yank,” I replied. “Don’t I have to become a landed immigrant first?”

“You are in a civilized country now,” she said. “We don’t permit people to go without health care.”

I filled out a one-page form and received my Care Card within a week.

Today, back in the good ole US of A, I was recently quoted $19,500 for a halfhour surgery that won’t even require an overnight hospital stay. I have “good” Medicare medical insurance that pays 80 percent of the cost, but I can still fly halfway around the world to Thailand and receive superior care for about the same expenditure as the co-pay portion of my “insurance.”

The purpose of health care should be to keep people healthy and repair

them whenever possible. But the goal of insurance companies and hospitals is to make profits for the shareholders and bonuses for the executives. You cannot reform or bandage a private insurance health care system and expect the result to be health care instead of profit maximization.

Solutions? 1. Universal health care as a right. 2. Double the number of medical doctors and trained practitioners by providing free medical education based upon merit and qualifications, not indebtedness or daddy’s money; physician salary limits and universal malpractice coverage. 3. Make all drugs legal and wipe out the drug cartels in one swipe. 4. Make all hospitals public and nonprofit. 5. Ban the patent medicine extortion system. 6. Fund them well and cut out the obscene profits of the drug industry. – Richard Elder

daughter and four friends just last weekend. One of them was another Jackson student, but the others were from the South and the East Coast. I asked them if their experiences were similar. My daughter’s and her classmate’s experiences were different, but both agreed that the pressure Sarah wrote about was very real, while the others said their experience was not as extreme. I continue to be concerned about the “extreme” mentality of this valley. Extreme tends to be very self-centered in general. I appreciate the responsibility you are taking and the voice you are raising on this issue.

– Libby Wood

incident I remember is that the school admin punished a guy for defending a female during such an instance, and they had punished the offenders less so.

It’s definitely a culture thing.

– Ian Rabin

Where the hell are the patents?

What ever happened to not letting your daughter go out with a guy until she brought him home to meet you, and then dad sits on the couch and cleans his shot gun?

People need to start threatening these boys within an inch of their life and telling kids, sex is a serious matter, you don’t have sex with just anyone for the fun of it.

This is what happens when children get the idea it’s okay to sleep around.

This is only discrimination if boys don’t get the same message. – Amy Ramirez

Fuller, your voice is needed, and heard. Thank you. Almost every extendThank you Fuller for standing up and ed social interaction I have had in the speaking plainly. Your perspective is past 3 days has discussed your sister’s, an important one, one that can make a and now your, article. I look forward to difference. I really hope everyone takes more men having the views you share the time to read it, especially (Jackson) and being vocal about them. As a parent boys and men and their parents. of two girls, I am very grateful for your We would do well as a community to article and the discussion it is inspiring discuss this more openly and honestly. in our community.

So Often the discussion is one sided and – Carrie Friess Kirkpatrick clearly that hasn’t changed much.

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On “We Were Wrong: A brother speaks to I went to school with com with “Letter to the Editor” in the the sexual dynamics his sister endured Fuller, but I graduated in 2016. subject line or join the conversation in Jackson Hole,” July 26 His statement is true that nobody on Facebook or planetjh.com. Letters was safe from either contributing to Thank you, Fuller Ross. Interestingly, it, or being a victim of it. I saw stuff are subject to editing for length, I read Sarah Ross’s story aloud to my content and clarity. and didn’t say anything about it. One

SINGLE-TRACK MIND Cyclists and non-cyclists alike are in for a special evening Thursday. JH Cycling teamed up with Red Bull Media House to screen Blood Road at the Pink Garter Theatre.

But this is not your typical Red Bull huck-fest. It follows Rebecca Rusch, multi-time world champion and Leadville 100 winner, as she rides 1,200 miles of the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the site where her father’s F-4 jet was shot down during the Vietnam War. She teams up with Huyen Nguyen, a Vietnamese cycling champion, for the adventure, allowing her to learn more about the culture and the profound effects the war had on the region and its people.

The doors at the Pink Garter open 6 p.m. and the movie starts at 7. All ages are welcome. I hope to see everyone there for what promises to be a great movie

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Meanwhile, our trails continue to impress as the rain is keeping the dust down and the flowers up. And the trail crews have been busy installing signs and improving trails as needed. Not even our elite trail crew can keep up with the tremendous weed growth along the edges of trails, however, so be sure to adjust your speed according to your sight lines. You never know if a walker, baby stroller or dog is lurking in the bushes.

In racing news, congratulations to Derek Nobman and Jeff Brines for their first and third place finishes at the Grand Enduro at Targhee last weekend. The Pierre’s Hole 50k, 100k and 100 mile races are Saturday at Grand Targhee. Good luck to everyone racing.

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Fetishizing the notion of normalcy is no way to condemn the Trump administration.

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November. They could float by for a while, but that is it. They will look like the idiot Republicans—who spent seven years railing about health care and can’t come up with a plan—do now.

Trump was right when he said the system was broken. He is proof of that. He is a product of our normal, its culmination.

He was able to make all of his opponents look like assholes because they were assholes. It’s not normal that a psycho rich guy like Trump takes over the office to make profit for his family. But it is normal for rich guys to hold the office.

When Obama was first elected, the entire Tea Party was basically screaming “This is not normal!” because we had never had a black president before.

The Klan and the Red Shirts noted that Reconstruction was not normal. George Wallace cried out that integration was not normal and the homophobic religious right still hollers about how abnormal gay marriage is.

By saying the Trump regime is not normal, you give power to his followers who voted for him for exactly that reason.

It validates them.

If Democrats and the mainstream opposition instead embraced some other terms, it might help them develop their own vision. “Not right.” “Not moral.” “Not smart.” “Not patriotic.” And of course “not legal.”

I did not get kicked out of Trump International, because, like the Democrats, I didn’t do shit—I just sat there checking email and taking notes.

But when I walked back out into the D.C. summer, I felt acutely how vulnerable we are. The regime is belligerent, woefully uninformed and ill-prepared. The odds are great that someone will attack us.

And when they do, the same people now calling for normalcy will likely fall in line behind the leader. And when they do, that will be normal. PJH

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went down to the White House to see Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner give his excuses surrounding the meeting that he, Trump’s son, and Paul Manafort, among others, had with Russians, hoping to get dirt on Hillary.

“This is not normal,” echoes through my head as I walk from the Metro Station and around the corner onto the freakshow between Lafayette Square and the White House.

They actually didn’t let me into the White House, though, because I hadn’t updated my day pass. And Kushner ended up saying absolutely nothing that was not in the written statement that had been released earlier that morning. After all of the non-televised press briefings, Kushner’s little spiel in front of a tiny podium was solely for the television cameras.

Both of these things—forgetting to request a pass and not missing anything after all because the press events are total bullshit—are totally normal.

Since I got turned away from the traditional White House, I figured I would go futz around at its bizarre corporate shadow, Trump International Hotel.

The Trump International Hotel really is not normal. In the Old Post Office building, it now looks like a castle. Big American flags wave above the word “Trump.” As I walked around, towards the door, I passed The Spa, by Ivanka Trump ™. Then I saw the sign for “Presidential Ballroom.” Yes, yes, it is creepy as fuck.

It’s not a real presidential ballroom in the White House but a ballroom in the hotel owned by the president near the White House that is branded as a presidential ballroom. No not normal.

The Inside of Trump International is exactly what you would expect—an ostentatious display of gaudy luxury

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Not ‘Not Normal’

being soaked up both by the truly rich, perhaps hoping to please our plutocrat, and the vacationing red-hats who treat Trump’s hotel the same way they’d treat a fancy hotel at Disney, holding out the possibility they may get a glimpse of the maestro known more for his small hands than the big ears on the mouse down in Florida.

Some of these people may be foreign leaders, so this hotel is also the site of the lawsuit filed against the administration by Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.

“The objective is to stop him from doing this because we don’t know whether he’s putting his financial interests first or the American people’s interests first,” Frosh told Marc Steiner on the Democracy in Crisis podcast a couple weeks ago.

Hell yeah it is fucked up if foreign governments use the hotel to give money to Trump and gain his favor. That’s the same reason I wasn’t going to spend a goddamned penny in that joint. But I was interested in seeing if they’d kick me out. I sat down on one of the overstuffed chairs.

There were several newspapers laid out.

The “Failing New York Times,” and the “Amazon Washington Post,” which the President has spent a lot of time attacking.

I love the Times and the Post, but alt-weeklies like this were founded to provide something alternative to their sense of normalcy. We know what happens to even our best papers when the war machine starts moving. I mean, if Colin Powell says it, it must be true.

That’s where my air-conditioned mind started to drift as I sat in this hideous hotel. Why are we fetishizing normalcy?

Whenever Trump does something illegal, immoral, or insane, we say it is “not normal,” to the point that it is almost the official Democratic slogan (and much better than their actual slogan, announced last week: “A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future.”)

I mean, sure, I get it that normal sounds pretty good in comparison with the Trumpian chaos that’s engulfed us all for the last six months. But if he falls tomorrow, the Democrats won’t have any better ideas than they had in

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Brooke Williams’s Open Midnight pieces together a poignant Western landscape and the people it calls to.

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efore William Williams joined other Mormon faithful—before he, too, set out on a religious pilgrimage Westward, ultimately dying in Wyoming—the forefather of writer Brooke Williams was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, in 1808. Just months later, Charles Darwin, one of the godfathers of evolution, was born in the exact same community.

Cut from different socio-economic cloth, it is unknown if Williams and Darwin ever crossed paths as boys from different sides of the tracks. Each, however, would later embark on journeys that changed the course of history.

In the case of the former, his shaped the destiny of the Williams clan in the West. For Darwin, famously, it involved sailing aboard the Beagle on a nautical course around the southern tip of South America and up to the Galapagos Islands, where the genesis for writing about the origin of species awaited.

In his new book, Open Midnight: Where Ancestors & Wilderness Meet, Brooke Williams, who divides his time between Jackson Hole and Castle Valley, Utah, muses on his affinity for untrammeled nature, on how landscape propels people forward and alters perception, and how the quest for meaning in wilderness delivers spiritual sustenance.

About a week ago, Williams gave a reading in Bozeman, Montana, met by a robust turnout of friends who have followed his work and that of his wife Terry Tempest Williams. (TT Williams was on her own book tour in support of the paperback release of her acclaimed homage to America’s national parks, The Hour of Land).

BROOKE WILLIAMS

Ode to Wildness

B o t h Williamses were raised in the LDS faith.

Today, Brooke identifies as a “post-Mormon.” He’s still trying to make sense of his heritage, knowing it is sometimes easier to see more clearly from the outside than looking in. He readily says he is at once an outgrowth of moral ideals that sprung from his kinfolk who settled in their holy version of Zion, the promised land, where teachings emphasize dominion over nature. Yet he is a passionate defender of wilderness.

Today, Utah is ground zero for the modern sagebrush rebellion, a state where the power of LDS religious philosophy is tethered to a political ideology that is anti-federal government, anti- federal ownership of public lands, anti-environmental regulation and at odds with Williams’s reverence for leaving nature alone.

Landscape protection has actually proved very lucrative for Utah’s economy with nature-tourism the main driver of Utah’s popularity as a destination.

If you did not care about monuments like Bears Ears or Grand StaircaseEscalante before, you will with Williams as your Thoreau-esque chaperone.

The thing about Open Midnight is that it is, in a way, a celebration of public lands, but it’s not a rant. Rather, Williams uses the parallel courses of his great-greatgreat grandfather and Darwin as springboards for pondering the existential factors that determine where people end up in their lives. What Williams couldn’t piece together from historic records about his relative, he invents by trying to imagine his frame of mind.

In fact, he gives his ancestor the chance he never had—to experience wild Utah in all her glory. As part of a trek of self-discovery, the author is a thoughtful, nurturing interpreter taking us to the wild haunts he loves, escorting readers on walkabouts through the slot canyons, pinyon-covered mesas and corners of southern Utah where ancient people first trekked a dozen millennia ago.

He ponders the things that compelled

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William Williams and Darwin and he delves into his own grasp of the sacred.

It’s a complicated weaving but it holds together. He brings his reflections into shining light, set against the backdrop of an immigrant’s dream.

William Williams was bound for Utah but he died on October 9, 1863, along the banks of the Sweetgrass River in far southwestern Fremont County, Wyoming.

Pondering the prospect of a better life that on faith alone compelled his elder to seek the unknown and to perish trying to find it, Brooke Williams literally wades into the Sweetgrass baptizing his own conviction that humility in nature holds answers.

“I believe that there is an underlying goodness, rightness and order in the universe,” he writes of his optimism even in these challenging times. “Call it what you will—God, a higher power, Great Spirit, Yahweh, Allah—but something is out there holding all this together, and it is big, complex, and beyond the most distant and radical limits of our ability to understand or even imagine, which renders meaningless all the arguments we have about life and death and what’s out there beyond the beyond.”

We are not in control, he admits, while finding solace, not fear, in places that remind him of that fact. “I feel good knowing that something is true even when it is beyond our ability to know,” he added.

What I know is Williams has penned a book that, in the best sense, will leave you agape, whether you believe in the religious definition of the word or not. 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 Sobering Stats A fatal crash Monday highlights Wyoming’s high rankings for driving under the influence.

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he passenger in a southbound Ford pickup on Highway 89 involved in a head-on collision died Monday evening from injuries he sustained in the accident. Ryan Coulter, 24, was the victim of the second DUIrelated accident in the valley in one month. The driver, Ethan Jackson, 25, of Idaho was traveling through Snake River Canyon at about 3:55 p.m. when he crossed into the other lane, causing a collision with a northbound traveling vehicle, according to Wyoming Highway Patrol Lt. Matt Brackin.

Jackson, who was driving home from his job in Wilson, had one other passenger in the vehicle. That person was treated overnight for injuries and released Tuesday morning. Jackson was the only one unscathed.

Terry Sullivan, the driver of the northbound vehicle involved in the accident, was released from the hospital Monday evening. She was the only one wearing a seatbelt, Brackin said.

The mule she was hauling behind her truck was uninjured.

In addition to being arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance, Jackson is also charged with vehicular homicide. “We could tell he was under the influence of a controlled substance,” Brackin said.

Jackson failed a sobriety test on site, and results of a blood test are pending.

Brackin happened upon the accident that shut down the highway during rush hour from about 4 to 6 p.m. “I was just trying to get home, like everybody else that night,” he said. “I rolled up on it before it was even dispatched.”

The scene he drove into was one of destruction—both trucks suffered “quite a bit of damage”—but also one of community support. “I was probably there within three minutes of it happening, and there were already 20 people outside helping people out of cars,

staying with them, making sure they were OK,” Brackin said.

Witnesses said neither driver was excessively speeding, but the speed limit in the canyon is 55 miles per hour. That’s fast for a head-on, Brackin said.

Jackson was also driving so far in the other lane that his truck collided on the passenger side, which Brackin said is unusual in a head-on collision.

It was also fatal for Coulter.

Jackson appeared in Lincoln County Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon. Lincoln County Clerk Sandy Hawkes said Jackson’s bail has been set for $30,000 cash or surety bond.

Coulter’s death is on the heels of another DUI-related fatality almost exactly a month prior.

Together, the accidents underscore Wyoming is among the states ranked highest in the nation for deaths relating to DUIs. On June 30, Bob Arndt was killed in a head-on collision on Highway 22. Arndt was well loved in the community, known for his ventures as a food entrepreneur. Residents felt his loss right away. Rudy Isla-Mejico, the driver of the other vehicle, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and vehicular homicide, and is still awaiting his preliminary trial.

DUI-related deaths are indeed all too common in Wyoming. Last year, there were 32 alcohol-related fatalities on Wyoming roads, out of 112 total road fatalities, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation. That’s 29 percent. Alcohol was also a factor in 14 percent of crash injuries.

In 2017, Wyoming has seen 83 accident fatalities, compared to 54 by the same time last year. Twenty-eight of those, roughly one third, are suspected DUIs, Tom Prichard, Wyoming Highway Patrol crash team supervisor captain, said.

The Cowboy State had the fourth highest drunk driving death rate in the country in 2012, according to the Center for Disease Control. The same report found 2.2 percent of people in Wyoming report driving after drinking too much, compared to 1.9 percent nationally. The rate of death per 100,000

people in drunk driving accidents in 2012 was 46 percent higher in Wyoming than the nationwide average.

Meanwhile, drug-related DUI deaths, like Coulter’s, claimed even more lives in 2015 than alcohol, CNN reported. They’re harder to identify, the article noted, because officers are not always trained to recognize the symptoms of intoxication, and there are no field tests, like a portable breathalyzer, to indicate how under the influence drivers are. Still, Brackin says he can

tell when someone is under the influence. And the consequences of such a decision are always high.

“It’s bad enough traveling at 55 miles per hour toward each other,” Brackin said. “If you’re under the influence of anything, even if there’s no legal intoxication, nothing that meets the threshold, you’re still impaired.” Anything that impairs reaction time, Brackin said, doesn’t belong on the road.

“It hurts too many families.” PJH

THE BUZZ 2 WE’WILL GET Day of Reckoning A local’s introduction to the eclipse.

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The eclipse will be busy at best, chaotic at worst. But it’s not all doom and gloom.

On the contrary, Ochs said, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, even, if not especially, for locals. “It can be really easy to look at this as an incident as opposed to an event,” Ochs said. “But it’s an event. A really fun event.”

The last time a total solar eclipse crossed the U.S. was in 1979. It won’t happen again until 2025 when the path of totality will span from Texas to Maine.

Even those working, as many will be on a Monday, need only step outside and look up (with protective eyewear!) to become a part of history.

Sure, it’ll get busy here, Brackenridge said, but tourism is what Jackson does best. It’s the backbone of the economy.

“It’s sort of business as usual,” she said.

Just a lot more business.

Speaking of businesses, some, including town and county offices, are modifying hours so employees can avoid rush-hour traffic. Service-oriented businesses don’t have the luxury of closing that day, Ochs said, but non-essential services might think twice about sending employees out that day. First, they have to consider whether their employees can even make it to work.

Unlike other spots along the path of totality like Missouri or Kentucky, Jackson Hole isn’t just an exit off the interstate. To get here requires planning, and people have been planning for years.

Brackenridge said many of the calls and emails she gets are from international visitors. And Jackson residents have the unique opportunity to welcome them.

“My hope is that people really take this opportunity to share the experience with other people … it’s a very powerful work of nature,” Brackenridge said.

Ochs agrees. “There will be incredible, iconic photos with our community in the background, and you’ll be able to say, ‘I was there.’” PJH

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Just how important are those official 3-D-looking eclipse glasses? “If you want to look at the eclipse, they’re absolutely

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required,” Ochs said.

Regular sunglasses won’t cut it, only certified eclipse shades that meet the international standard (they’ll say ISO 12312-2 on the inside). The real ones are so dark, you can’t see through them in regular daylight. Viewers can take them off during totality—when the moon completely blocks the sun’s rays—but err on the side of caution. Totality will last one minute and 40 seconds, and glasses should be back on before it ends. Plenty of public offices are selling the glasses, or giving them away, or people can buy them online.

For those two minutes of totality, prepare for darkness. Not quite middle-ofthe-night darkness, Ochs said, but “you’ll be able to see stars.” If you’re driving at any point during the three-hour eclipse, make sure to turn your headlights on, not just so you can see, but so people can see you. “Everybody’s distracted and looking up,” Ochs said.

Germann stressed that the eclipse is happening in the middle of fire season and as of Tuesday afternoon, fire danger is high. That’s subject to change in the coming weeks, but campers should be vigilant about completely putting out their fires, Germann said.

If something does go wrong, Teton County Sheriff’s Department and Jackson Hole Police Department are working together to ensure they are fully staffed, and are bringing in additional enforcement from out of town. An estimated 180 first responders will be at the ready, including extra officers stationed at a Red Cross base camp at Jackson Hole High School.

Since cell service will be spotty, Brackenridge recommends being clear with dispatch in the event of an emergency. Be prepared to tell them where you are, the nature of the emergency, and whether you need police, fire or medical.

Teton County also receives texts to 911.

All of St. John’s Medical Center’s outpatient clinics will be open, but only Urgent Care will be taking walk-ins. St. John’s has also worked with medical partners in the region to ensure they have access to air ambulance transport.

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n August 21 at 11:42 a.m., the moon will completely cover the sun and all its light for about two minutes, and Jackson residents will see it in all its glory. But while visitors have been planning for years to watch the phenomenon from Jackson Hole, locals are bracing themselves for what will likely be the busiest day, or week, they’ve ever seen.

“It will be crowded,” Rich Ochs, Teton County emergency management coordinator, said.

That’s putting it gently. Grand Teton National Park is predicting its busiest day in history. GTNP spokesperson Denise Germann says on an average day in peak season, the park sees anywhere from 20 to 25 thousand visitors. She expects the day of the eclipse to far surpass that. “We do anticipate it to be the busiest day in the park’s history.”

Traffic will be akin to July Fourth at the base of Snow King when the fireworks end and everyone tries to leave at once, Ochs said… but throughout the valley, for a whole day. Maybe even a few days.

Officials have given up trying to predict just how many visitors will be in town for the eclipse. “I’m not even going to guess,” Ochs said. What’s important, he said, is to be prepared for all scenarios.

Locals should prepare for the eclipse a little like they would for a short-term apocalypse. Ochs recommends stocking up on food and supplies. “I’m telling people to have three days of food and water on hand,” he said.

Germann agrees. The most important message she wants to communicate to park visitors is preparedness. Bring more than enough food and drink for the entire day. Fill your gas tank in advance.

On the other hand, local eclipse coordinator Kathryn Brackenridge recommends “emptying the tank,” so to speak, of trash, recycling, and anything else that will accumulate during the eclipse. “It can make all the difference in the world if restaurants and businesses are just as empty as they are full,” Brackenridge said.

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Your car likely won’t get you anywhere fast, so if you need it to get to work, give yourself ample time to get there— like, hours.

Brackenridge predicts the first surge of traffic will begin as early as 4 a.m. as people make their way into Grand Teton National Park.

All major roads are scheduled to stay open, WYDOT public relations specialist Stephanie Harsha said, but Highway Patrol and WYDOT are restricting overweight truck travel across the state. WYDOT may close any road on a moment’s notice if they need to make room for emergency vehicles.

Roadside parking on Moose-Wilson road and Highway 89 is extra off limits the day of the eclipse, Germann said, to allow easy access for emergency vehicles.

Pullouts along 89 are still OK, and the park is designating the left side of Gros Ventre to Kelly as an official viewing spot.

Traffic on Gros Ventre will only travel one way, east, toward Kelly.

The full eclipse lasts about three hours—1.5 hours on each end of totality.

If you want to beat the traffic, Ochs said, “What we’re hearing from other communities is that right after totality, people are ready to hit the road. If you’re willing to stick around for a little bit, you’ll miss the traffic.”

More people also means more cell phones, and more people using local towers. This is the first eclipse we’ve had since the advent of social media, Ochs said. People live-streaming and staying current on social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram will likely slow reception down to a crawl, or halt it altogether.

“We want people to record it,” Ochs said, “but we have to be prepared for the fact that service may be spotty.” Ochs says he and other officials have been working with service providers to expand coverage throughout the valley.

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BY THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL Oh, Those Monkeys

Good fortune quickly turned to horror for a man in Allyn, Wash., who scored some raccoon roadkill to use as crabtrap bait on June 25. As the unidentified man walked home dragging the carcass behind him on a 15-foot rope (so he couldn’t smell it), two vehicles stopped, and their occupants, mistakenly thinking he was dragging a dead dog, began berating the would-be fisherman. As the dispute heated up, someone produced a gun, shooting the man twice in the leg before he was struck by one of the vehicles as the assailants fled.

A monkey mystery unfolded near Mesa, Ariz., in early July as drone owner Jesse Sorensan dispatched his device over a facility rumored to house abandoned monkeys. “Hovered above it and took some pictures … and sure enough there’s monkeys in almost all the cages,” Sorensan said.

“What are these monkeys doing … in the middle of the desert?” Local TV reporters looked into the mystery and found the facility is used for research and breeding for the University of Washington and the Centers for Disease Control, who were quick to point out that the monkeys have access to air conditioning and veterinary care.

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Who You Gonna Call?

Least Competent Criminals

Pre-existing Conditions

In New Hampshire on June 29, a state police officer stopped the 57-year-old driver of a Honda Odyssey minivan who had piled a Beverly Hillbillies-esque stack of belongings on top of his car. The collection, which was about as tall as the minivan, included a wooden chest, a bike, a floor lamp, a rake, a snow shovel, a moving dolly and a folding ladder, along with blankets and towels and a shopping cart full of items hanging off the back. Police cited the driver for negligent driving, and the car was towed away.

Six suspects in a June 25 Denver mugging counted among their spoils the victim’s brand-new iPhone. After using Ryan Coupens’ credit cards at a nearby Walgreens, the thieves used the phone to post a Snapchat story about their shenanigans to Coupens’ account, where his friends—and police—could clearly see some of their faces. n A repeat offender came to the end of his career when he and an accomplice tried to burglarize a home in East Macon, Ga., on June 19. As James Robert Young, 41, a 35-time resident in the Bibb County Jail, and another man zeroed in on her television, the homeowner woke up and heard them. “When she yelled, the men ran out,” Sheriff David Davis said, and that was when the other suspect turned around and fired his weapon, striking Young in the head, killing him. The accomplice is still at large.

Oops!

What seemed like the best hide-and-seek idea ever took a frightening turn on July 6 in Colonial Heights, Va., when a 12-year-old girl became stuck in a sleeper sofa. Another child called 911 when she couldn’t free her friend. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” fire chief A.G. Moore said.

“When she got out, she was fine.” n In Green Bay, Wis., a driver crossing the Walnut Street Bridge on June 22 disregarded the traffic arm and drove around it onto the drawbridge as it was opening. His van ascended the opening span, but then rolled back down into the gap between the stationary bridge and the moveable span. Green Bay Metro firefighters, concerned that the van might slip through the gap, cut a hole in its roof to rescue the driver.

Suspicions Confirmed

Karen Leclair, 51, of Albion, Pa., was reported missing on June 11 by her commercial fisherman husband, Christopher, 48, after she went over the side of his boat on Lake Erie. Christopher told police he hadn’t been watching when his wife fell overboard. When her body washed ashore on July 4 in upstate New York, however, she had a gunshot wound in her head, and she was bound by nylon fishing rope and weighted with an anchor. Christopher was charged with her murder after the gun used to shoot Karen was found under a bed in their home.

Villagers in the eastern Thailand province of Amnat Charoen have called in the Royal Thai Police Force to help rid them of an evil female spirit, “phi pob,” they accuse of killing four cows and sickening four border police officers, reported the BBC in June. In Thai folklore, phi pob can possess people and sow chaos, including a 2016 incident in which neighbors were forced to strip naked at gunpoint by three reportedly possessed individuals.

Adul Chaitprasithkul, the local police chief, noted, “More people believe in phi pob than those who don’t.”

Police in Dearborn, Mich., are hoping a thief’s unusual loot might draw him back to the scene of the crime.

Surveillance video at a Walgreens store captured a bald man making off with seven boxes of Rogaine, a hairgrowth product, on June 22. “While this is not the most hair-raising crime … it is suspected he will continue committing this type of crime, as 12 to 14 months of consistent use is needed to see results,” Police Chief Ronald Haddad said in a news release.

Police Report

What does ol’ St. Nick do in the off-season? Perhaps look for a bail bondsman. In a dramatic chase, Maine State Police pursued a stolen car from Fairfield to Bangor on July 4, finally striking the vehicle and bringing it to a stop.

When the driver was taken into custody, he identified himself as Santa Claus. But rest easy, boys and girls: Turns out he was Christos Kassaras, 54, from New Hampshire.

Precocious

Residents of Baraboo, Wis., must have done a double-take when they looked outside during the early hours of June 30. Kelly, a full-grown elephant, had escaped from the Circus World Museum nearby and wandered the neighborhood, munching on marigolds. Apparently, her partner, Isla (also an elephant), had used her trunk to free Kelly from a restraint. A trainer from Circus World was summoned, and Kelly was returned to her home at the museum.

Smooth Reaction

Anger over spilled sugar led a Blue Springs, Mo., grandfather to a chilly end when his grandson, Tyreik Baldwin, 21, allegedly killed Harvey C. Baldwin, 77, and stuffed him into a chest freezer. A family member who had become worried about the elder Baldwin visited the home on June 30, then called police after Tyreik hit him in the head with a hammer and drove off in the family member’s truck. Police caught up with Tyreik as he tried to escape and took him into custody.

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Hunched over her smartphone, Chrissy Koriakin shakes her head in disbelief as she reads a tweet from President Donald Trump. Today, she broke her “media diet” to find a balance between her desire to stay informed and the anxiety that accompanies the headlines she reads.

Many Americans are indeed struggling amid the current political climate—a White House in chaos and a president who seemingly thrives in the bedlam. We watch the news, read erratic tweets, and scour social media for information, often leaving more confused than when we started. And many can relate to Koriakin when she laments, “It’s not healthy for me mentally to be plugged into the 24-hour news cycle, where the most dramatic headline wins.”

To be sure, we’re in a symbiotic relationship with social media and the now interminable news cycle. But what draws us to and repels us from the political chaos; and what factors determine how we process the information? The answers could be buried among the artifacts of evolutionary psychology.

Chaos or a positive shift?

Like a cat chasing a laser pointer, people are finding it hard to focus amid the overflow of daily information. “Content” must be industrial strength to win our attention. As a symbol of our distractibility, we elected a president who averages seven tweets per day with a total of 72,690 tweets since opening his Twitter account in 2009.

Koriakin, 32, had never been on Twitter before Trump was elected, but after he took office she couldn’t look away. “I became an insomniac, exhaustingly following the barrage of information until I couldn’t handle it anymore,” she said.

Other locals also report fatigue.

Michael Yin is the vice chair of the Teton County Democrats. He worries the rate of modern communication “amplifies the vitriolic tone of politics today and magnifies people’s unsettled happiness just beneath the surface.”

Yin, a 31-year-old software engineer, said politics has “become more fantasy based, where right and wrong, fact or fiction don’t seem to matter.” In their own bubbles of personal blogs, Instagram and Twitter followers, Americans isolate

themselves from conflicting ideologies, he said. “The middle ground has fallen out. The emotional voices have drowned out rationality and this is having a detrimental effect on policy decisions.”

Of course, how you perceive what’s happening in the political sphere has a lot to do with personal ideologies. Bob Culver, 71, of the Jackson Hole Tea Party sees a “sea change” happening in politics— “a profound redirection of political attitude.” An engineering consultant, Culver became involved in politics to “fight against excessive regulation.” He views this upheaval in a positive light: “The political status quo is being challenged and the old ways of doing politics as usual are being bypassed.” What he instead laments are the folks “threatened by these changes who are striking out in fear in the most irrational ways.

Claims are made without out factual basis. Ad hominem attacks, directed to the person and not the issue are very heavy and obvious.”

Outdated brains

For Yin and Koriakin, it may be helpful to understand the trappings of our evolutionary baggage. Modern culture and the politicians birthed from it exploit “vestigial traits” left behind by our tribal ancestors. For example, our physical “leftovers” that once served a purpose now create problems, like our appendix and wisdom teeth. These traits, though, may also be psychological. In other words, our old survival systems are having a hard time catching up to our modern ways.

From the time of our tribal ancestors, conflict has always commanded people’s attention. Throughout his campaign and now in his presidency, Trump has been the loudest voice, lambasting his opponents and using his audiences, everyone from the Boy Scouts to police officers, to propagate vitriolic messages. Whether you agree with his messaging or not, it’s hard to “stop watching” what will happen next.

Regardless of your political ideology, there is little question that Americans “Conflict produces a natural high and have become a captive audience to the events peddled on social media and people can be unconsciously drawn to across news outlets. Matthew Crawford, drama, reflexively attracted to the chaos author of The World Beyond Your Head, that we feel in our everyday lives,” Anne argues that smartphones, social media, Ellingson, a local certified addictions and the 24/7 news cycle has “creat- therapist, said. ed an American popuFrom a neurobiology lace that has become standpoint, the sensaquasi-autistic in its “People can be tions of joy and nervous nature.” Symptomatic arousal feel very simiof autism, we search unconsciously drawn lar in the body, causing out repetitive stimulato drama, reflexively humans in some ways to tion behind the glow of our phones, preferattracted to the chaos “like” conflict. It’s a trait that made our ancesring disengagement that we feel in our tors problem solvers, from those around us but today this byproduct to gain certainty in an everyday lives.” of evolution is used to uncertain world. create division and gain votes. In tribal times, “When we inhabconflict between group it a highly-engineered environment, the natural world members was intermittent, now it’s a begins to seem bland and tasteless, daily occurrence causing our brains to like broccoli compared with Cheetos,” develop a “neural tolerance” to politiCrawford said. “Stimulation begets a cal drama. According to the “cocktail need for more stimulation, without it, party effect,” studied by cognitive scienpeople feel antsy, unsettled. Hungry tist Colin Cherry, the brain will become almost.” From this description, it is accustomed to any background noise easy, then, to see how Hillary Clinton that is steady and constant. didn’t satisfy American taste buds and Like reality television, politics has why Trump fit the bill. In today’s world of constant stimulation, it seems only assumed a “what’s going to happen the truly dramatic sound bites make it next” feel and Americans are the captive through the onslaught of information. audience.

Culver has noticed in today’s fast paced world politicians’ mouths and fingers “are in motion before the brain is fully engaged, and electronic media has emboldened many normally cautious people to say stupid things without thinking through the reasoning or facts supporting the idea.”

In evolutionary terms, this type of unpredictable behavior can be described as “protean,” a survival skill where animals behave in an unsystematic way to throw off predators, akin to a rabbit’s movement when avoiding capture.

Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist from the University of New Mexico, argues that we are attracted to this type of behavior because it indicates “outside of the box” thinking and is a “fitness indicator” for future survival success. It’s one reason politicians can keep people confused and still get elected for another term.

Locally, Ellingson said she sees many people that are “maddened and depressed by politics, but they also can’t stop looking at the news. Angry and confused, they then retreat to their own personal bubbles of preferred opinions.”

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Flocking to our own homogenous colonies of political beliefs, however, is part of the problem. Politicians use this to their advantage because without communication between groups, they only need to speak to their base to get re-elected. Divide and conquer seems to exploit our evolutionary roots of “fearing strangers.” These days—and throughout history—that often means immigrants.

Take for instance the algorithm of the brain to give humans a pleasure bump when they come across novel information. The brain doesn’t necessarily care about the quality of the information, it just wants us to pay attention to “new Politicians utilize this evolutionary trait things,” according to Nancy and Kenneth by using emotional stories to overshad- Squires of University of California San ow hard statistics. The mental shortcut Diego. This is called the “oddball effect” because scientists discovof using anecdotal ered it when showing people evidence is called Humans initially pictures of circles, squares, the “availability heuristic” and believe everything they and odd shapes. Hence, every time Trump makes ensures we focus hear and then go back a remark that falls outside on personal stoof the ordinary, our brains ries when making later to dissect the receive a dose of dopamine decisions. It’s one reason why sim- information for validity. to figure out how that information affects us. ple, powerful rhetoric like “Islamic This hiccup in the brain Culver indeed attributes terrorism” is so runs under the dictum some of Trump’s success impactful in shapthat it’s better to be to his unorthodoxies. Many ing public percepAmericans were drawn to tion, even when safe than sorry. his “refreshing and hopefully there is evidence to the contrary.

So if someone were direct approach” and came to see Trump as a solution For example, stato tell us there is a to “the problems created by tistics released by the past politics as usual.” the Investigative bear behind us, we Fund at the Nation better at least first To confuse matters, howInstitute indicatever, many of Trump’s “odd” ed “that within the believe they are telling remarks are often untrue. past nine years, According to Politifact, right-wing extremthe truth.

“Seventy percent of Trump’s ists plotted or statements during the camcarried out nearly twice as many terrorist attacks as paign were false.” This causes many problems for our brains due to the Islamist extremists.” “false tagging theory” introduced by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert. It says humans initially believe everything Drowning in decisions they hear and then go back afterwards Crawford points out that humans “are to rationally dissect the information for not so much rational optimizers as crea- validity. This hiccup in the brain runs tures who rely on biases and crude heu- under the dictum that it’s better to be ristics for making important decisions.” safe than sorry. So if someone were to He notes America is a prime example of tell us there is a bear behind us, we betthis phenomenon with some of the high- ter at least first believe they are telling est rates of divorce, obesity, and credit the truth. card debt in the world.

But that’s problematic behavior.

The human brain is programmed to Gilbert explains that “when faced with survive in a small tribal culture where shortages of time and energy, we may life was primarily focused on avoid- fail to [reject] the ideas that we involuning threats and seizing opportunities. tarily accepted during comprehension.”

John Hawkes, an anthropologist from the In other words, when we’re overwhelmed

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George Lowenstein of Carnegie Mellon University argues we’re always looking to gather more data to help reduce our sense of uncertainty. Lowenstein says humans feel a mental itch “between what we know and what we want to know.”

Since modern technologies intensify the amount of information available, our curiosity for gathering abstract information also increases. Functional MRIs show this spike in wonder activates the left caudate of the brain, increasing happiness chemicals and our desire to keep searching for even more information in the media.

University of Wisconsin, noted today’s world is culturally much different than thousands of years ago, but our brains are not so different. “Early homo sapiens had brains within the range of humans today,” he said.

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Indeed, to remain on the public stage, politicians need to continually tap into our innate desire to crave information.

Elizabeth Phelps of New York University linked this hidden fear of outsiders to racial bias when she found through a sweat conductance experiment that “white people retained fear of black faces, and black people retained fear of white faces, much longer than for faces of their own race.” Scare tactics work, then, because the emotional brain was around long before the rational brain came online, so it always gets the first vote in any decision.

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Many grow frustrated when others can’t see their point of view and most likely never will. This is because the brain blocks out contradictory information and produces feelings of euphoria in the brain when it does so. The prefrontal cortex will activate when a belief is challenged in order to counteract—not consider—the information.

The pleasure pathway of the brain will then produce dopamine when the conflicting idea is successfully shot down. issue of “alter- Evolution, in this way, rewards us for being close-minded to promote group cohe“I realize my sion and consistency in anxiety isn’t helpideology.

with the fast-paced culture of today, our brains stop trying to sift through everything and instead believe what is in front of us. In addition, sheer repetition of the same lie can eventually mark it as true in our heads. It’s an effect known as “illusory truth,” named by a group of psychologists at Villanova University who found participants would rate a statement as true if they heard it often enough, regardless of its legitimacy.

To compound the native facts” is the unwritten rule of the brain to dig deeper into its previously held belief when ing, so I’ve started to To survive in a “tribshown contradictory al” world, then, it information. For both focus on ways to move makes sense to agree sides of the political forward.” with your friends and to spectrum, we stare block out information in amazement at the “other side’s” inability to see common from the “out-group.” This may be one sense. On Facebook and at government reason why 71 percent of teenagers in meetings we attempt to “help” others a 2005 Gallup poll reported their politsee the light, only to witness the “back- ical and social ideology is the same as fire effect.” This psychological curiosity their parents. Once a political loyalty states that when a person’s deepest and social identity is set it is then very convictions are challenged by contra- unlikely to change, according to Donald dictory evidence, their initial beliefs get Green and Bradley Palmquist from Yale University. They found partisan idenstronger. tification is a remarkably stable factor So when you confront someone of a over a voter’s life. different political opinion you have little chance of changing their minds and are A brighter path in fact pushing them further into the opinion you are trying to alter, accordFor Koriakin, there are days of news ing to researchers Brendan Nyhan and binging, followed by social media and Jason Reifler of Dartmouth University. news abstinence when it becomes too overwhelming. She commiserates with Everyone believes their “facts” are friends who call her during “true meltthe right ones and both sides are pas- downs and panic attacks when they sionate about their stances. Yin said think about the future.” She said often he “tries to keep an open mind” but it feels like everything is falling apart, worries “about the example President “but I realize my anxiety isn’t helping, Trump is setting for children when he so I’ve started to focus on ways to lies, cheats, and bullies.” move forward.”

Focusing on Trump’s policies instead of his behavior, Culver said he looks to Trump’s core values of “a constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility and free markets,” when forming his opinions. “Political principals have been distorted by all players over the decades,” Culver continued. “Logic and facts take much longer to overcome emotional arguments, it takes a while for someone with a strong ideology to see the light and feel the heat of the long-term impact of their issue.”

As a founding member of the local activist group JH Activate, she now spends her time looking for practical solutions, instead of just staring at the problem. Recently she helped organize the March for Science on the Town Square and is working to find a common ground with people of different opinions, instead of “just preaching to the choir.” She still fears what is coming next, but realizes that she can never be an advocate for change if she’s a “walking zombie of overstimulation.”PJH

“Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!”

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n 89.1 KHOL Summer Membership Drive 8:00am, KHOL Airwaves and Studios in The Center, Free, 307733-4030 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-732-5417 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307201-4452 n Tech Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Jackson Hole People’s Market 4:00pm, Base of Snow King, Free n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Alive@Five: Teton Raptor Center 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Gallery Concert Hosted by Diehl Gallery 5:30pm, Diehl Gallery, $25.00, 307-733-3050 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Dine to Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Dornans Chuckwagon, Free, 307-733-2415 n Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group 6:00pm, Eagle classroom at St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307732-1161 n Open Studio Modeling: Figure Model 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10, 307-733-6379 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Disc Golf Doubles 6:00pm, Teton Village, 307-7332292 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3

n Business Over Breakfast 7:30am, Wort Hotel, $16.00 $25.00, 307-733-3316 n 89.1 KHOL Summer Membership Drive 8:00am, KHOL Airwaves and Studios in The Center, Free, 307733-4030 n Community Volunteer Day 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3379 n Elevated Yoga on the Deck 9:00am, Top of Bridger Gondola, $25.00 - $30.00, 307-733-2292 n Yoga on the Trail 10:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free, n Artist Talk: Bronwyn Minton, New York 12:00pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 307-734-8956 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Tween Metalsmithing 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $100.00 - $120.00, 307-733-6379 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Alive@Five: Wild Things of Wyoming

Compiled by Caroline LaRosa 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Dine to Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Dornans Chuckwagon, Free, 307-733-2415 n Music on Main 6:00pm, Victor City Park, Free, 208-399-2884 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Monotype 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00 - $54.00, 307-733-6379 n MELT® Intro Workshop 6:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25.00, 307-733-6398 n Mix’d Media: “Iridescence: John Gould’s Hummingbirds” 6:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n TGR Bike In Movies 7:00pm, Teton Gravity Research, Free, 307-734-8192 n JHCycling presents Blood Road, a Red Bull Film 7:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $10.00 - $15.00, 307-733-1500 n Free Country Swing Dance Lessons 7:30pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, Free, 208-870-1170 n Canyon Kids 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Chamber Music with Pianist Denis Kozhukhin 8:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00, 307-733-3050 n Salsa Night 9 pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Sneaky Pete and The Secret Weapons 9 pm, Knotty Pine, $5, 208-787-2866 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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MUSIC BOX Songstresses Touch Down Songwriter’s Alley hosts accomplished pair of singer-songwriters, Satsang in Village Commons, KHOL calls for bands.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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wo award-winning songwriters are converging on Songwriter’s Alley concert series and open stage this Sunday, and its time to get inside their heads. Mandy Rowden of Austin, Texas, is a 2017 Great American Song Contest Finalist and her album These Bad Habits was voted No. 2 Album of the Year in the Austin Chronicle’s Music Poll.

The Littlest Birds, a.k.a. Sharon Martinson, is originally from Casper and has been based out of Laramie while traveling coast to coast and abroad. Martinson was recently awarded the 2017 Wyoming Arts Council Performance Fellowship Award and is about to release her fourth studio album, Phoenix Rising.

Mandy Rowden

PJH sat down with Rowden and Martinson for the nitty gritty.

PJH: Has your recent label deal with Howlin’ Dog Records helped you elevate your career?

Mandy Rowden: I’m still in the beginning stages with Howlin’ Dog and will be making this new record with them in September. They’re a really great team and I’m pumped to see where it goes.

PJH: You had some trailer issues while on tour recently. What happened? Would you consider it character building or a cuss-fest or both?

Rowden: Who says a cuss-fest can’t be character building? A blowout in Flagstaff, Arizona, put us behind a day and we had to have the entire undercarriage of the trailer rebuilt, and the heat wave in Phoenix melted our Y-harness so that the running lights never worked properly again. After a Saturday night post-show debacle on the side of an L.A. freeway taping bike lights to the back of the trailer so we wouldn’t get smashed into, I guess you can say we built some character... we certainly cussed plenty.

PJH: You took the band out on the road for a solid run. How was it compared to performing solo?

Rowden: The shows were more energetic and I couldn’t have maneuvered all the mechanical problems without them, so it was a great experience to try the team out on the road and I can’t wait to do it again.

It’s definitely more of a logistical mess with five people as opposed to one, but I’m lucky to get to play with such great people, not just great musicians. Solo tours keep me lighter on my feet and there’s a great bonus to not sharing the money with anybody else, but nothing compares with getting to play with the band night after night.

PJH: Hi Sharon. How will the Performing Arts Fellowship allow you to evolve with your music?

Sharon Martinson: As a Wyoming native who left and has come back to the state, it means a lot to me to be able to represent a slice of Wyoming’s vast talent.

I’ve been doing more solo shows in the last few years, and this grant will allow me to visit many small towns around the state and share my new sound. The Littlest Birds has evolved a lot since I started it in 2010, and since I came back to Wyoming, it has continued to do so. I’m excited to share my latest music, and having both the privilege and responsibility to the people of Wyoming will motivate me to promote what I think is the root of my musical expression, and that is to share music with others.

PJH: What have you been doing this summer, music or otherwise?

Martinson: I got back in March from my winter fieldwork in Panama, and it felt like spring blew by and summer hit early.

I took the month of April “off” to resettle into Wyoming life, and to get some logistics work done on the new album. I was back East in New England for 3 weeks and played some great shows back there, and then was home for just a few days and played a tour back in California for the rest of June.

I’ve also been working on another project that has now been sponsored by the Wyoming Arts Council and the Wyoming Arts Alliance called “Play It Forward.” My goal is visit every single state in the coming two years, and to perform music for people who don’t usually get to go to live shows. I’ll also pair a concert with a local band that has a strong female presence.

PLANET PICKS WEDNESDAY Vinyl Night (The Rose); Screen Door Porch (Mangy Moose) THURSDAY The Motet with Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons (Victor City Park); Salsa Night (The Rose) FRIDAY Railsplitters (Silver Dollar); Rebecca Ryan (Jackson Lake Lodge) SATURDAY Reckless Kelly (Pink Garter); Jackson Six (Silver Dollar)

Satsang (left) and The Littlest Birds a.k.a. Sharon Martinson

TUESDAY The Wailers (Pink Garter); Open Mic (Virginian)

Support local radio waves Jackson Hole Community Radio 89.1 FM recently announced Sudanese pop/ prog rock artist Sinkane for its summer membership drive and appreciation show on September 26 at the Pink Garter.

Sinkane is also the leader of The Atomic Bomb Band, which plays the music of William Onyeabor. In that project, he has worked with David Byrne, Damon Albarn, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Money Mark (Beastie Boys) and many more.

KHOL is also putting out a call to local bands and musicians to earn the opening slot for the appreciation show. Thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation of JH, the station has upgraded its in-studio performance space and is asking local acts from Teton County to show support by performing in-studio August 1 to 7 for the membership drive. Acts will encourage supporters to donate as their vote for said act to open the show. The act with the most donations earns the opening slot.

Interested acts must sign-up via zach@ jhcr.org or 733-4030.

Positive vibes endure The spirit of music icon Bob Marley and his messages of positivity— “life is worth much more than gold”—lives on

through The Wailers. Among the band’s musicians are some of the remaining members of the original Bob Marley and The Wailers band. They capture the essence of Marley who forever changed the musical landscape with uplifting, layered reggae arrangements.

On The Wailers’s website, guitarist Donald Kinsey remembers the days of playing with Marley: “What I could feel from the music was a positive energy. It was a different message in the music, and it was a different rhythm.”

Today, audiences at a Wailers show are privy to the flavors of these different vibrations, but also to reggae’s modern sensibilities. Young and exuberant players like drummer Aston Barrett, Jr. inject energy into the outfit.

Get irie with the legendary eight-piece band Tuesday at the Pink Garter. – Robyn Vincent The Wailers with Lifted, doors at 8, show at 9 p.m. Tuesday, August 8, $23-25.

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Rock bottom can surely show you the positive light and that’s exactly how Satsang frontman Drew McManus turned over a new leaf. Fueled by a difficult upbringing before finding peace in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, the singer-songwriter produces lyrics of change, growth, awareness and imperfection. Folksiness is but an element for the Red Lodge-based trio, often delivering tunes with soul and hip-hop undertones and a conscious sharing of truths.

“I grew up in an environment where aggression, violence, abuse, and addiction were always present,” McManus said.

“It made me a lot of things—angry, sad and ashamed. I hated my story and I was a slave to addiction. I tried for so long to

MONDAY The Minor Keys (Jackson Lake Lodge); Open Mic (Pinky G’s)

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SUNDAY Satsang (Village Commons)

hide from the reality of my story and the reality of how beautiful life could be. [An intense spiritual experience] changed my entire outlook on everything. I began to realize that had everything not happened to me exactly like it did, I would not be exactly who/where/what I am right now.”

Concert on the Commons presents Satsang, 5 p.m. Sunday, August 6 at the Village Commons in Teton Village, free, all-ages. JacksonHole.com.

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PJH: What’s the latest with your forthcoming album Phoenix Rising?

Martinson: I’m really excited about it.

I recorded it in San Francisco in an analog studio, hand-delivered the tapes to Chicago to be mastered, and then got vinyl pressed. Everything about this album has been an art project, and I want this album to be seen as a gift. I used a huge, old letterpress at Dartmouth College that is in the basement of a library to hand press every album cover, using art that I designed with a colleague, and old typeface for the font. Instead of typical liner notes, I found thousands of old USGS topographic maps of Wyoming, and hand-cut each one and found an old typewriter font to use for the lyrics and stories behind the song. It will be offered for sale January 1, 2018.

Songwriter’s Alley featuring Mandy Rowden and Sharon Martinson, a.k.a. The Littlest Birds, 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, August 6 at the Silver Dollar Showroom; open mic 9 to 10 p.m., free.

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n Open Studio Modeling: Portrait Model 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Festival Orchestra Open Rehearsal: Romantic Classics 10 am, Walk Festival Hall, $15.00, 307-733-3050 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10 am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Summer Grilling Series 11:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer, $5.00, 307-7330450 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307-201-4452 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246

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CREATIVE PEAKS Capturing a Feeling Kathryn Turner hangs new art and turns on the mic to celebrate.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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athryn Turner is no stranger to Wyoming’s majesty, in fact, she has made a career of painting it. But she wants to understand how artists of different mediums draw inspiration from the mountains so she’s inviting them to her gallery for an “Ode to Wyoming” open mic night.

“I really want to collaborate with people who are inspired by this place,” Turner said, “to create this opportunity for us to sort of share our inspiration when it comes to Wyoming, in once place, in one night.”

The place? Turner’s gallery, Trio Fine Art. The night? Thursday. The event coincides with the opening of Turner’s new exhibition of the same title: Ode to Wyoming.

“Really, that’s all of my work,” she said.

“It describes all of what I do, always. I paint about my passion for this place.”

Turner grew up in awe of Jackson’s landscapes. It’s what made her an artist.

And it’s no wonder, she said, other artists are as inspired as she is. “There’s a dynamic nature of the mountains I think that is a really key element to creativity,” Turner said. “It shapes us into being dynamic thinkers.” Indeed, Turner says she can never visit the same place twice.

The landscape is always changing.

And then there are the sheer dramatics, the undeniable power, of this area’s landscapes. They are humbling, inspiring, and intimidating, even to the most experienced artists.

“Anyone who has the audacity to try and paint the beauty of these mountains…” Turner said. “It really does, it takes audacity. I fall short every time.” But she’s always working to do the mountains justice.

Turner is a fourth-generation Jacksonite. She recalls her grandmother’s resentment for the same mountains she loves so much. Back then, she said, the mountains were a hindrance. “The mountains isolated them,” Turner said.

‘The View From Home’ by Kathryn Turner

“They represented this obstacle, this barrier to the rest of the world.”

Of course, infrastructure and technology have allowed us to soften our relationships with the mountains. Now, artists and spectators can share in Turner’s awe and admiration. But, Turner said, they have never lost their wonder.

“We all have a relationship with the mountains, whether it’s that you like to recreate, are intimidated by heights, or understand and are humbled by their sheer power,” Turner said. “It’s definitely an intimidating subject matter for artists.”

But where the mountains are intimidating, they are also nurturing. In a sense, they helped raise Turner as a woman and as an artist. “I feel personally like they hold us in this embrace,” she said. “We’re surrounded by them. To me it just feels comforting.”

When surrounded by something so big, and subsequently feeling so small, it’s nearly impossible not to feel inspired. As an artist, Turner said it forces her to shift her perspective, to eschew reason and make room for wonder. It’s a near-religious experience.

“We’re humbled into that place. We’re left to search for some other expression than the rational day-to-day things.” The challenge, she said, is to “paint in a way that makes it your own, that retains your own voice and imagery. That’s not easy to do.”

For this exhibition, as with much of her work, Turner split her time between plein-air painting, where she can react

directly to the landscape and working in her studio. Often, Turner starts a piece on-site, then brings it inside so she can finish it from “an expressive place, rather than a responsive place.”

Her paintings are the backdrop for her open mic night, but lyrics and melodies will bring them to life. Turner has invited a handful of writers and musicians to perform their art as it is inspired

by Wyoming. Included in the line-up is classical guitarist Byron Tomingas, whose grandfather worked alongside Turner’s great-grandfather, and whose father worked with Turner’s grandfather.

“Generations ago, we were collaborating and working together,” Turner said.

“I’m really excited to have him come.”

Tina Welling will also read from her new book Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature. Singersongwriter Madelaine German will bring a more “pop” sound to the evening.

“Then everybody in between,” Turner said. “Matt Montaine; Peter Chandler of Chanman Roots Band.” And whoever else feels inspired to share their work with an audience.

“I’m calling it a celebration of Wyoming as it inspires art, and music and poetry,” Turner said. “I want to hear from everybody,” PJH The evening begins at 5 p.m. Thursday, August 3 at Trio Fine Art and goes “until everybody’s done sharing.” It’s free and light refreshments will be provided. Turner’s exhibition will hang through August 6.

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fter a generation of progress, the global human rights movement finds itself at a critical moment.

There are the traditional challenges of conflict, refugees and autocrats, but there are also new threats all the time.

The nonprofit Human Rights Watch fights for human rights around the world in a constantly changing global landscape. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, will speak about the organization and its successes and efforts around the world, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ordway Auditorium at the Teton County Library.

Ann Lurie, a recently appointed member of the Teton County Board of Health and a passionate philanthropist involved with Human Rights Watch, brought Roth to Jackson, originally for a private dinner to discuss timely human rights issues, explained Robbin Levy, who helped Lurie organize the dinner.

Lurie quickly realized she wanted to share Roth’s message with more people than could attend the dinner. They spoke with the library to host the free event.

While Levy wasn’t sure exactly what Roth would discuss and Roth was unavailable for an interview, she did note that there are human rights issues around the world, including in the United States that people aren’t always aware are happening.

“There is so much he could say and talk about. That’s the part I find pretty interesting,” Levy said. “We live in our little bubble in Jackson Hole and sometimes it’s good to pop your head out and see what’s going on. People are willing to go out on a limb to protect a moose or an elk, but human beings don’t get as much attention here.”

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are even human rights issues in Jackson.

“There are human rights issues at all levels, they are just very nuanced here,” she said.

She hopes that Roth’s talk will shed light on issues people aren’t aware of, and resonate with listeners so they take action.

Action is indeed what Human Rights Watch is all about, Tara Golden, senior director for the Americas Initiative for Human Rights Watch, said.

The organization isn’t about simply raising awareness about an issue, it’s about actually creating policy change, she said.

The organization works in more than 90 countries around the world. While she wasn’t sure what Roth would talk about in Sifola, age 13, stands in the home she shares with her husband and inJackson, he usuallaws. Her parents took her out of school and arranged her marriage because they were struggling with poverty and wanted to conserve ly speaks on timely their resources in order to pay for her brothers’ schooling. issues, she said. For example, if his talk was scheduled for Human Rights Watch will also work July 26, when Trump tweeted about to protect activists. “In some parts of banning transgender people from serv- the world, doing environmental work is ing in the military, Roth might have devastatingly dangerous,” Golden said. talked about it, Golden said.

Human Rights Watch defends Human Rights Watch also recent- human rights defenders, and will ly launched a new environment and apply the same efforts to environmenhuman rights division, which Roth tal activists, she said. They don’t take might discuss in environmentally-con- on individual cases, but instead look scious Jackson Hole, Golden said. The at places where there are systematic organization is creating a new model to attacks on activists, she said. bring a human rights lens to environWhile Human Rights Watch isn’t mental issues around the world. The normally as concerned about raising organization will work on issues where awareness as it is in changing policy, environmental degradation is impact- Golden said the talk in Jackson could ing human rights. It will use the same get more people engaged with the orgamethodology it uses for other human nization and give them a better underrights violations. The organization con- standing of what it does. “We have the ducts and documents extensive inves- ability to create change in a lot of plactigations and then uses its findings to es,” she said. PJH create policy change and hold perpetraHuman Rights Watch: Confronting tors accountable, Golden said.

Global Challenges to Human Rights, For example, under its new envi- noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 8 at ronmental division, it will investigate Ordway Auditorium in Teton County logging in Brazil where companies are Library, free. taking over land where indigenous people have lived for hundreds of years, she said.

n FREE Friday Tasting 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free, 307-733-4466 n Friday Night Bikes 4:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $10.00, 307-733-2292 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25 - $35, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Swingin’ Sabbath 6:00pm, Contact us for venue and directions, Free, 307-734-1999 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 $68.90, 307-733-6994 n Teton Science Schools’ 50th Anniversary Celebration with keynote speaker Sally Jewell 6:30pm, The Center Theater & Lobby, $15.00, 307-733-4900 n Ian McIver 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n The Railsplitters 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-7323939 n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds, $15.00 $35.00, 307-733-7927 n Festival Orchestra: Romantic Classics 8:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00 - $55.00, 307.733.3050 n Erin & The Project 8:00pm, Mangy Moose, 307-733-4913 n Free Public Stargazing Programs 9:00pm, Rendezvous Park, Free, 1-844-996-7827 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307733-2207 n Latin Party w/ Calle Mambo 9:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $15.00, 307-733-1500 n Friday Night DJs 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n The Moist Boys 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5

n Pierre’s Hole 50/100 MTB Race 5:30am, Grand Targhee Resort, $60 - $190, 800-TARGHEE n Farmers Market 8:00am, Town Square, Free n Rendezvous Mountain Hill Climb 8:30am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $30.00 - $50.00, 307-7335898 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n 89.1 KHOL Summer Membership Drive 9:00am, KHOL Airwaves and Studios in The Center, Free, 307733-4030 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Library Saturdays: Mini Music & Movement 10:15am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Vertical Harvest Tours 1:00pm, Vertical Harvest, 307201-4452 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Pre Symphony Buffet Dinner 4:00pm, The Hof in The Alpenhof, 307-733-3242 n World’s Fastest Ambulance “Ambucycle” 4:00pm, Jackson Hole Jewish Community, Free, 307-734-1999 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Stomping the Divots 5:00pm, Melody Ranch Polo Fields, $300.00, 307-733-1374 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Festival Orchestra: Romantic Classics 6:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00 - $55.00, 307-733-3050 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Alliance Summer Party 6:00pm, Stilson Lot, $25.00 $100.00, 307-733-9417 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n Jackson Six 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Mandy Rowen 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, 307-7334913 n Jackson Hole Rodeo

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8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds, $15.00 - $35.00, 307-733-7927 n Reckless Kelly 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $25.00, 307-733-1500 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n DJ Just Kenny 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6

n 89.1 KHOL Summer Membership Drive 9:00am, KHOL Airwaves and Studios in The Center, Free, 307733-4030 n Elevated Yoga on the Deck 9:00am, Top of Bridger Gondola, $25.00 - $30.00, 307-733-2292 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n First Sundays 11:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Summer Sunday Brunch 11:00am, Westbank Grill, 307732-5000 n MK Cornhole Tournament 2:00pm, Village Commons, Free, 307-733-2292 n JH Sports Chainless Bike Series 3:00pm, The Bike Park, JHMR, 307-733-2292 n Concerts on the Commons 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Whiskey Mornin’ Duo 5:00pm, Top of the Bridger Gondola - the Deck @ Piste, Free, 307-733-2292 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307733-4407 n Songwriter’s Alley 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Hospitality Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

MONDAY, AUGUST 7

n 89.1 KHOL Summer Membership Drive 8:00am, KHOL Airwaves and Studios in The Center, Free, 307733-4030 n 12th Annual Targhee Music Camp 8:00am, Grand Targhee Resort,

$550.00, 800-TARGHEE n Art Education: Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association Borshell Children’s Studio, $16.00, 307-7336379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-7392246 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 - $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n Movies on the Mountain: Apollo 13 7:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, Free, 307-733-1128 n Isaac Hayden 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Matt Boone Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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CINEMA Detroit recreates one harrowing battle in an ongoing conflict.

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t probably doesn’t need to be said, but Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit isn’t really about Detroit. At least, it’s not just about Detroit, though its narrative explores a horrifying real-life incident during the July 1967 Detroit race riots that left three young African-American men dead. When you’re telling a story in 2017 about young, unarmed AfricanAmerican men left dead after encounters with police, there’s no way for that story not to resonate into an agonizing history of unaccountable authority and unanswered questions.

Bigelow’s approach in Detroit, however, is perhaps even more daring than that. The Oscar-winning director has shown her talent for exploring the brutality and psychology of warfare in The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and it’s no accident that she had her screenwriter for those movies, Mark Boal, also adapt this story. As much as Detroit recounts the brutal specifics from a dark American moment, this isn’t simply historical drama. This, as much as the current hit Dunkirk, is a harrowingly immersive war movie.

Boal’s screenplay shows its unconventionality from the outset, introducing the event that ignited the Detroit riots—a police raid on an unlicensed after-hours nightclub in a predominantly black neighborhood—without focusing on any of the characters who will become the primary players in the movie’s story. Yet that set-up becomes a pivotal context for the outrage, as the

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performances out of her cast members, accentuating their roles in the madness: Poulter, with his wildly arched eyebrows, radiating calculating sadism; Algee and Latimore, their initial defiance crumpling into despair; Boyega, playJohn Boyega in Detroit ing a man trying to use his role to keep people raided club is hosting a welcome-home alive while fearing that he’s not doing party for black soldiers returning from enough. Anthony Mackie also plays a Vietnam. Muhammad Ali’s infamous key part—a Vietnam veteran incurring quote—”No Vietcong ever called me the cops’ particular ire because they n*gger”—can briefly be seen framed on believe he’s pimping two white teenthe club’s wall, and Detroit establishes agers (Hannah Murray and Kaitlyn a time of men who were serving their Dever)—as Krauss repeatedly refuses country to protect a freedom they didn’t to believe he could be a “real” soldier. experience.

This isn’t a portrait of a country where Eventually, Detroit introduces the black Americans can be on “our” side; three primary narrative threads. A rac- it’s a country where they’re the enemy. ist Detroit cop with an itchy trigger finDetroit takes another structural risk ger, Krauss (Will Poulter), shoots a flee- by ending not with the resolution of the ing looter in the back, but is returned actual siege at the Algiers, but with proto duty during the state of emergen- ceedings that follow two years later as cy. Machinist Melvin Dismukes (John Krauss and two fellow cops—fictionalBoyega), moonlighting as a security ized versions of the real-life accused— guard protecting a grocery store, tries stand trial for murder. Yet the system to save black youth from the threats to that denies a chance at justice—full of their lives by local cops, state police and references to a history of wrong-doing the National Guard. Aspiring singer and assumptions that police claims of Larry (Algee Smith) and his friend Fred self-defense must be true—is just as (Jacob Latimore) get stranded in the crucial to the full story. conflict zone after their bus is attacked While the courtroom scenes can’t by rioters. Their lives tragically inter- match the gut-punch power of the sect at the Algiers Motel, when police scenes of literal police brutality, there’s fearing sniper fire storm the building another kind of violence on display. The and spend hours physically and emo- combination of the two is what turns tionally assaulting everyone they find Bigelow’s Detroit into such a particutrying to determine who the gunman larly damning kind of war story—one was—even as it’s not clear there ever that reminds us how often war is about was one. ensuring those in power hang on to it.

That centerpiece sequence takes PJH up the bulk of Detroit’s running time, and it’s one of the year’s most dev- DETROIT astating pieces of filmmaking. Barry BBBB Ackroyd’s hand-held cinematography John Boyega captures the chaos and sheer terror of Will Poulter the confrontation; every gunshot and Algee Smith shotgun butt to the ribs carries into R the audience. Bigelow pulls fantastic

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a three-layer bag with a spout for pouring. The bag houses 3 liters of wine, or the equivalent of four 750 ml bottles.

The spout has a small push button and is easily opened and accessed—no cork, no corkscrew, no problems with corked wine. But, perhaps the biggest advantage to boxed wines versus bottles is that they are perfect for anyone who drinks only a glass or two of wine each day or each week. That’s because they inhibit oxidation to a point where it’s virtually nonexistent.

When you pour wine out from your box, the bag inside collapses upon itself, leaving almost no room for

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wine in terms of oxidation potential, but wine in Tetra Paks is convenient for camping, rafting, picnics, hiking, boating and such, when you don’t want to carry around heavy glass bottles of vino.

So, which Tetra Paks should you buy? One of my favorites is French Rabbit, which is made by the folks at DeLoach and sold in 1,000 ml Tetra Paks. I’ve tried the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and found them both to be very good. Another of my favorite Tetra Pak wines is Yellow+Blue, which produces certified organic Malbec and Torrontes, among other varietals.

Three Thieves Cabernet and Pinot Grigio are solid wines, too, and the company even makes Tetra Pak sangria for your picnic.

For box wines, I’m partial to the aforementioned Black Box wines from California.

A 3,000 ml box of Black Box Chardonnay is a great way to get a party started. And the Cabernet Sauvignon is equally appealing. From France’s Luberon, you can enjoy one of my favorite house wines— La Vieille Ferme—in a box.

I like the rouge but enjoy the blanc even more, a pretty blend of Grenache blanc, Bourboulenc, Ugni blanc and Roussanne. So, feel free to box me in.PJH

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oxygen to sneak in and destroy the wine. Even after weeks of opening a box wine, I often can’t detect any evidence of oxidation. Once a bottle of wine is opened, by contrast, it rarely lasts in the fridge for more than a day or two before becoming oxidized.

Tetra Pak wines are a little different.

For all practical purposes, they’re the same as wine bottles, but are lightweight, made primarily from paper and use 92 percent less packaging to deliver the same amount of wine and 54 percent less energy to make than glass bottles. Most are recyclable. The wine won’t last any longer than bottled

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was at a pub recently and asked the friendly bartender about the wines they serve. One of them is Black Box Cabernet Sauvignon that, not surprisingly, comes packaged in a black box. Now, you might assume that I’d flee a bar serving box wines. But, you’d be wrong. In fact, I applaud bars for thinking inside the box and serving box wines.

Here’s why: First, box wines aren’t crap. Mostly.

Some are, but those are fairly easy to recognize. If the price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

And then there are inferior, sweet, flabby wines that are blends labeled as “Chablis” or “Burgundy” and have virtually nothing in common with the actual varietals that are Chablis and Burgundy. Watch out for those. But, there are also a lot of high-quality wines these days sold in boxes and Tetra Paks.

Here’s how box wines work: Most box wines are sold in 3-liter boxes. A sturdy cardboard box envelops

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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

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.

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

Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm.

Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

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

PICNIC

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

ELEANOR’S

Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings.

Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

LOCAL

Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonallyinspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products.

Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

LOTUS ORGANIC RESTAURANT

Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner starting at 8am daily. 140 N. Cache, (307) 7340882, theorganiclotus.com.

MANGY MOOSE

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

MOE’S BBQ

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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.

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

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

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

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SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

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

265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing. com.

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

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

Jackson’s first Speakeasy Steakhouse. The Million Dollar Cowboy Steakhouse is a hidden gem located below the world famous Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Our menu offers guests the best in American steakhouse cuisine. Top quality chops and steaks sourced from local farms, imported Japanese Wagyu beef, and house-cured meats and sausages.

Accentuated with a variety of thoughtful side dishes, innovative appetizers, creative vegetarian items, and decadent desserts, a meal at this landmark location is sure to be a memorable one.

Reservations are highly recommended.

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.

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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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21 Carpet installer’s step one 22 Surgeon general under Reagan 23 First name in game shows 24 “__, SpaghettiOs!”: Campbell’s slogan 25 It may call for an R rating 26 __ the finish 27 “Me, blab to flatfish? No way!”

30 Memo starter 31 Spelling song 32 Hosp. area 33 Relief, spelled out?

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50 Glasses problem 51 Nonsharing word 52 Antioxidant food preservative 53 Bus sign word 54 Fish playing on keys?

56 French four-time Formula One champ Prost 58 One in a black suit 62 Apprentices 63 Mercury’s Greek counterpart 65 Pool activity 66 Louis XIV, par exemple 67 Fish on stage?

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72 More 74 Furtive graffiti guy 75 Reason for turning on closed captioning

78 Property transfer documents 80 Dark crime films 81 “Stop imitating a pond fish”?

83 Class 85 Boater, for one 86 Decree 87 Bequeath 88 Blue fish, maybe?

93 Sights from the Gateway Arch 94 __ center 95 Petits __: garden peas 96 Made more baskets than 98 Food scrap 99 Bar food?

101 Great Smokies st.

103 Arles articles 105 Persia, now 106 Fish duo’s routine when something seems fishy?

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56 Ship-to-ship greetings 57 “You __ bother” 59 Last Sunday, this Sunday 60 Credit card introduced by Sears 61 Least meaningful, as compliments 64 Skirt feature 68 Big Island greetings 69 It can come before a sentence 70 Defensive structures 73 Word processing menu 76 Dissipated 77 Lustful look 79 Easy to get into 81 Scuttlebutt 82 Kentucky __, event before the Derby

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Become Your True Self with Help from Pinocchio

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e all know the story of the beloved puppet Pinocchio and his craftsman Gepetto, who is granted the wish that his puppet can become a real boy. Pinocchio’s story is a delightful children’s tale fully loaded with metaphysical meaning, esoteric symbols and instructions for how to become our true selves, living from the inherent goodness of the soul.

The name Pinocchio is composed of two Italian words.

Pino is a pine tree or pine nut and occhio means eye. The pituitary gland in our brain is the shape of a tiny pine cone and has long been associated with the spiritual third eye, the link between our material and spiritual natures.

Pine cone symbolism referring to the third eye/pituitary gland can be found worldwide. The pine cone represents the highest spiritual attainment.

The little wooden puppet sets out on the journey of awakening, which all of us must travel to actualize our true potential. He must find his spiritual component and moral compass to live up to the hidden meaning in his name, to become a real person guided by his higher nature.

Why a puppet?

On his way to school (knowledge) Pinocchio is lured into taking the easy road to success. Ignoring the warnings of his conscience, he allows himself to be sold to the narcissistic, cruel puppeteer Stromboli. (If you want to have fun with the name Stromboli, look it up in the Urban Dictionary.)

Pinocchio quickly discovers the great costs of this illusory success: He cannot go back to see his father, and the money only goes to Stromboli. Freeing himself from the low level to which he has fallen requires a combination of divine intervention (the Blue Fairy) and owning the truth of how he found himself in this sorry state. Our personal evolution also requires recognizing our self-destructive patterns, owning the truth, forgiving ourselves, upgrading and moving forward.

Lastly, there is Pleasure Island, the land of instant gratification and debauchery. It looks good to Pinocchio, but then there’s the Coachman, who first turns the boys into donkeys (asses), and then makes them his slaves.

At last love prevails Love for his father finally awakens Pinocchio. Learning Gepetto’s life is in danger, his higher nature finally clicks in. He is willing to sacrifice himself to save his father. He becomes courageous, compassionate, selfless, contributory and purposeful. Now a real boy, he first saves them both from life threatening danger, and then helps his father create a more abundant life in which the two can thrive spiritually and physically.

What’s it going to take?

The final—and more relevant than ever—existential question of this story is something worth noting: How many times must we repeat the same self-destructive patterns and repeatedly succumb to the never-ending desires of the ego before we wake up to our true higher nature? What’s it going to take for us to bring those soulful attributes into our everyday lives in this material world?

The truth is that no one needs a crisis to choose love over fear. This choice is always present and is the only way to become spiritually awake, ushering in our higher destiny.

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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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That Pinocchio is made of wood symbolizes that at this stage of development he is (and we are) only governed by our lower, material nature. And at that very early level on the path to spiritual development he is only an animated puppet, gullible and easily manipulated by anyone who “pulls his strings.”

To help him take the high road on the journey transcending his lower self and becoming a spiritual being, Pinocchio is given the higher guidance of the Blue Fairy and a conscience (Jiminy Cricket). We are also given many built-in support systems for taking the high road in life.

These include the superego/conscience in our psyche, the intuition/guidance of our hearts, and the gift of free will.

Lying is one of Pinocchio’s less than evolved behaviors, and his untruths are visible to anyone because his nose

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grows longer. Like him, our faces also reflect the story of what’s going on within us, both in the moment and over time. He is belligerent, impatient, annoyed, ungrateful— all attributes of our lower selves. Every time he lies, he is shown the error of his ways. He promises to change, but then repeats the same old pattern. Sound familiar?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Leo actor Robert De Niro once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you?

If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality.

Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone—just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It has almost become a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to reimagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So, yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness—an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories?

I suggest something less melodramatic. How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Are you gearing up to promote yourself and your services?

In my astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[Place your name here] is a poised overseer of nerve-wracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources. He/she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Love is your gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn—from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) It’s time to Reinvent the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus.

In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions.

Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you in a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Writing in The Futurist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear. “Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) The Riken institute in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the number of flowers.

The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next 11 months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s repu-

ARIES (March 21-April 19) In my astrological opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression; to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your eyes are more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away.

Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) August is Good Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans. It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense. Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks.

Secondly, it might bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most. For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your maximum effort for the Big Thing.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned, then crushed, then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time than the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

tation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature, make progress in dissolving your old conditioning and become more skilled at mothering yourself.

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