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AUGUST 16-22, 2017

By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey Everything hinges on the weather this coming Monday for the Solar Eclipse. Will the skies be clear enough to get a good view from Jackson Hole? Or, where will the skies be the clearest to get the ideal view of this momentous event. That is the million-dollar question, which I cannot answer in this short space. However, you can check in on the Solar Eclipse Weather page of mountainweather.com this week and see what I have to say.

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The average high temperature this week is barely at 80-degrees, actually it is 79.5, but I gave it the benefit of rounding up. The record high temperature this week is 98-degrees, set back on August 19th, 1981. That record has stood the test of time for the last 36 years, and it is also the all-time record high for the month of August in Jackson Hole. Not much chance of knocking that record off its throne this week, either.

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Average overnight low temperatures this week are sitting at 39-degrees, the first week that we have dipped into the 30’s for an average low since early July. That means we only have a few weeks a summer that average lows are in the 40’s. The record low temperature this week is 22-degrees, set back on August 22nd, 1966. I don’t see us breaking that record this week, but we should see a couple of nights dipping into the 30’s.

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How the events unfolded at the site of a potential domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville.

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wo middle-aged men, one black and one white, were walking a street in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, yelling at each other. It was a moment of relative normalcy in a day otherwise defined by mayhem.

Both men use the phrase “born and bred” to define their relationship to the smallish Southern college town, nestled in the hills in the politically contested state of Virginia.

The white man, Ed Knight, was wearing a Confederate flag bandana around his head.

“You, with that stupid Confederate flag, talking about history,” the black man, George Steppe, said. “You don’t know nothing about no history. Only thing you know is hate.”

“This is our history and it should not

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The Shattering of America

be destroyed,” Knight said of the statue of Robert E. Lee in the park, where a white supremacist Unite the Right rally had been scheduled.

Knight supported the rally that brought hundreds of armed racists and fascists to his home city on August 12. It also brought hundreds of anti-fascists, some of them armed with sticks and shields as well, pledging to defend the city from rightwing terror. Now, after hours of bloody battle during which they remained largely passive, riot police were breaking things up, pushing Steppe back, inching forward behind their shields. Knight walked alongside with a sign reading, “Make C-Ville Great Again.”

The chaos started the night before, as neo-Nazis and other racists gathered for the 21st-century version of a Klan rally—a Klanclave of khaki and tiki torches. At one point, a group of the white supremacists surrounded a group of counterprotesters, throwing punches and torches.

Within minutes of arriving in town on Saturday morning, we saw the first of many fights.

White supremacists with helmets— some German World War II-era—white polos, sticks, an assortment of flags, and homemade shields marked with the insignia of the racist group Vanguard America chanted at a smaller crowd of counterprotesters.

“You can’t run, you can’t hide, you get helicopter rides,” they said, a reference to far-right governments in Argentina and Chile in the 70s and 80s that threw leftists from helicopters to “disappear” them.

The racists began to march forward and the anti-racists tried to block them.

After a swirl of violence and swinging sticks, three of the counterprotesters were left with bloody faces—the racists seemed to target women’s faces with their sticks— and the racists, who also took some heavy blows, ran away as the cops finally rolled in and began setting up a barricade.

Over the next several hours, this same pattern continued to play out: Another fight broke out every few minutes as a new faction of the right marched in its crazed Tom Sawyer armor toward the park.

The park was filled with every variety of racist you can imagine, from the neo-Nazi biker to the fashy computer programmer.

They were almost exclusively white and male. The anti-hate activists who packed the streets were predominantly white a noticeable number of women and people of color were also there too. The two opposing armies seemed to be of roughly equal size. The fights were swift, chaotic, and brutal.

SINGLE-TRACK MIND Well, the (apoc)eclipse is upon us. Are you ready for the onslaught of people? There couldn’t be a better weekend to be a cyclist. If predictions are correct, driving will be pointless, so get on your bike and hit the trails. Pick a cool spot up high to watch the spectacle and don’t forget your eclipse glasses.

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Most of our trails are still riding really well thanks to relatively predictable afternoon showers. They are keeping the dust down at least a little, and there are still plenty of flowers to be enjoyed up high. Many trails still have an unprecedented amount of vegetation lining them, so remember to check your speed when you can’t see and cover your brake levers with a stiff finger to avoid an unexpected stop! – Cary Smith

The two sides launched bottles and tear gas canisters back and forth as state troopers stood and watched, slack-jawed. At one point, as a few bottles whizzed by him in quick succession, a trooper perked up enough to pull out his phone and record some of the mayhem.

When the police declared the assembly illegal before it even began and told everyone to leave, it forced these groups together.

Right-wing militia types wielding assault rifles and wearing MAGA patches on paramilitary uniforms roamed through the crowd. Guys with pistols seemed to keep their hands on them, ready to draw at any moment. It felt like something horrible would happen.

Then, as the various groups became separated, it seemed like the rumble had largely ended.

“I’m glad no serious gunshots rang out. I was threatened with a gun, though.

Police wasn’t around when a guy pulled up his gun up on me, though,” Steppe said, around 12:30 p.m.

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Steppe and Knight both seemed to think that it was the end of the day.

The racists, who had not been able to hold their rally, were trying to regroup at another park a little further from downtown. Eventually, as a state of emergency was declared, they decided to leave— some of them even suggested hiding in the woods.

Antifa burned right-wing flags in a park and then marched through the city; two groups converged on Water Street at around 1:35 p.m. It felt triumphant. They had driven the racists out of town—or at least those from out of town.

About five minutes later, as they marched through the streets, it sounded like a bomb exploded as a muscle car, which police say was driven by alt-right member James Alex Fields, sped down the street and plowed through the march and into other cars. Fields then threw the weaponized car into reverse, fleeing from the scene of terror.

Bodies were strewn through the road.

Street medics, marked by red tape, delivered first aid while waiting on ambulances to arrive. Activists held Antifa banners to block camera views of the injured.

The white supremacists were nowhere to be found. Trump meandered through a speech in New Jersey in which he condemned violence on “many sides.”

He did not use the words “white supremacists” or “terrorism.” He did not say the name of Heather Heyer, the woman who was killed in the terrorrist attack. He did not offer support to the 19 others who were hospitalized or prayers for those who were still in critical condition.

Fields, who was photographed earlier in the day with the same Vanguard America shield we saw when we first arrived in town, was arrested and charged with murder.

I am writing this the same day as the attack and I will not pretend to know what it means for our country. The racism is not new. The argument Steppe and Knight were having in their hometown could have happened any time in the last 50 years. But the way the battle over white supremacy was being waged around them was new, and Charlottesville was not ready for it. None of us are.

When that gray car slammed into those people, it shattered a part of America, or at least the illusion of it. I don’t know what that means yet, because it shattered something in me, too. PJH

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A New Watchdog NPS.GOV

Mountain Journal will raise regional consciousness about Greater Yellowstone.

BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature

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he Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has, heretofore, never had a single journalistic presence devoted entirely to making sense of our vast region.

Now it does.

Mountain Journal (mountainjournal. org) was just launched this week as an online, not-for-profit entity devoted to the mission of public-interest journalism.

“MoJo” was founded in response to the absence of a regular journalistic forum aimed at consistently, aggressively, methodically trying to piece together the differing parts of Greater Yellowstone into an understandable narrative. It will be a free, easy to access venue where people with a shared love for the region—no matter where they live—can gather.

My involvement with Mountain Journal and the mission of its board of directors springs from dozens of conversations held over the last couple of years with people in every corner of Greater Yellowstone.

The common thread from this discourse: Without a better dialogue, without better public understanding of what’s at stake, and without a strategy that involves major players in the region (federal and state land management agencies, elected officials, 20 different counties, local governments, and myriad private special interests), Greater Yellowstone faces a certain fate.

In the face of climate change, inward population migration, development patterns, and other forces occurring on the landscape, the character of Greater Yellowstone has little chance of persevering against impacts that have diminished the natural environment of almost every other place on earth.

It is the hope that Mountain Journal foremost will be a celebration of Greater Yellowstone while identifying

Bugling elk in Yellowstone National Park.

landscape-level issues that, for a variety of reasons, cannot be covered well by local media.

Here is a realization I’ve had after 32 years of writing about Greater Yellowstone, traveling elsewhere to other wild regions for magazine assignments and doing research for various book projects: For as much as we share mutual mega-passions for Greater Yellowstone, it’s striking, when you think about it, how little people in differing corners of the ecosystem actually talk to each other.

Through a stellar line-up of MoJo columnists, part of that gap will be closed.

On one hand, it’s perfectly understandable why folks from Whitehall, Montana, (located in Greater Yellowstone’s far northwestern corner) would not know many souls in the far southeastern tip of the Wind River Range in Wyoming.

Relatively speaking, that’s a vast geographical distance from here to there covering hundreds of miles. Yet between them the same interconnected landscape unfolds.

There is nothing that stands out obviously indicating why one national forest, national park, wildlife refuge, BLM land or Indian reservation would begin in one spot and end in another, certainly not if you are an elk or grizzly bear.

Nor is the reasoning behind boundary lines for Greater Yellowstone’s 20 counties—the fastest growing rural landscape in America— conspicuous; nor the rationale behind the three state lines drawn for Wyoming, Montana and Idaho that converge upon the ecosystem. Nor the city limits for the differing municipalities.

So, back to the point: there’s a strong affinity all of us feel for Greater Yellowstone, whether we live in Bozeman or Jackson Hole, Lima or Meeteetse.

At our gut level, we get why the region, apart from its scenery, is special. We take pride from living in a province where there is an extraordinary abundance of wild animals and geothermal wonders that still survive here because they haven’t been messed up by patterns of destruction that have occurred everywhere else.

Unfortunately, traditional print journalism, in most parts of the country, is suffering from advertising models that can no longer support large staffs. That’s why reader-supported public-interest journalism is the future.

It doesn’t matter if you are reading these words from a print or digital version of this great local newspaper. I honor the considerable effort of the editors who toiled to put it in your hands. They deserve your praise and your readership.

Mountain Journal looks forward to sharing content with Planet Jackson Hole and others in distant corners of Greater Yellowstone. With them, MoJo will be collaborating to deliver more in-depth stories that connect the dots of what’s happening in our region at the landscape level. A major focus area will be public land and wildlife issues mixed with illuminating commentary that transcends provincial thinking.

We live in a world-class region; it’s time to truly start thinking as one. 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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River of No Return Commissioners vote down river park on the Snake for now.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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onservation and recreation frequently go hand-in-hand.

Outdoor recreationists make the best conservationists, some argue, because they are personally vested in the land on which they play.

But they were at odds at a county commissioner meeting Tuesday during a discussion about the Jackson Hole River Park Project. In front of a room filled to capacity with river recreationists, county commissioners voted against authorizing Jackson Hole Kayak Club to submit a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to the Teton County Planning Department.

The next step, commissioners hope, is for recreationists and conservationists to go back to the drawing board to draft a plan that “enhances [the Snake River] while still providing the recreation resource,” County Commissioner Smokey Rhea said.

It was a familiar sentiment in local politics: commissioners unanimously agreed that the project has merit, and none of them wanted to kill it completely. But a majority—Board Chair Mark Newcomb, Commissioner Natalia Macker and Commissioner Paul Vogelheim—didn’t feel like they could confidently push this project forward yet.

“Any project we’re a part of, because we have these scarce resources, has to be carefully weighed against whatever else we could be doing,” Newcomb said. “I need to be able to look at this comprehensively.”

The Board of County Commissioners was not tasked with approving or rejecting the project and its merits. Instead, it was asked to consider authorizing an application for a CUD, which would have included a review of the project over the course of six months. They did not give such authorization, but encouraged all entities who might have a stake in the project to continue working on a plan.

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now six years in the making. It was first presented to the public in October of 2011, and has undergone a series of design plans, fundraising and procedura l hurdles to get it to where it was Tuesday.

In January, it secured a $500,000 pledge from an anonymous donor. The concept includes a greenway and eddy where visitors can swim, picnic and recreate. It also includes an in-water feature—a man-made wave, or series of waves. Proponents say such a feature is popular in other states across the U.S., and would provide a controlled environment for budding kayakers to practice in. But others were wary of the impacts of a man-made interruption in the Snake River.

“There’s a lot to potentially lose as the area gets more developed,” Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters project manager, said. “I’m concerned with any proposal that would potentially place this at risk.”

The primary ecological concern among conservationists is the impact a water park would have on the fish ecosystem. Back in 2015, Wyoming Game and Fish reported that the river park, if only on one side of the river, would have minimal impact on fisheries. But Anna Senecal came to the board with more skepticism Tuesday. In studying the impacts on similar features in Colorado, the lesson is “the degree of uncertainty cannot be mediated by careful survey.”

In other words, no amount of observation can predict how to mitigate unexpected consequences.

“This is a big project and a large undertaking,” Senecal said. “Other structures that were predicted to pass fish, do not.” Even if approving a CUD isn’t an endorsement of the project, Senecal said, “it is an acceptance on behalf of the board of that level of risk and uncertainty.”

Still, proponents countered, the CUD application is exactly what would allow them to evaluate those risks. Kayakers and river recreationists are the best

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Young river enthusiasts extolled the virtues of river recreation to elected officials during a packed Board of County Commissioners meeting Tuesday.

stewards of the river, Corey Milligan argued, and if at any point in the process it became clear that the impacts on the environment outweighed the benefits, project directors would be the first to pull the plug.

“Every single one of us is a conservationist first, and a recreationist second,” Milligan said. “We want to maintain and improve the quality of life for people that do live here. There are three generations of activists here ready to get this project done.”

Indeed, the floor of the commissioner chambers flooded with young kayakers offering support of the project, both in the form of physical presence, and in testimony. Ten-year-old Lucas Milligan shared that the park would not only benefit him, but his 70-year-old grandmother who “always wants to watch us kayak,” but is left watching GoPro footage instead. “There at the river park, she can watch us kayak and have her dreams come true,” the young Milligan said. “I love the river and would never do anything to hurt it.”

The discussion lasted almost two hours, to both the chagrin and encouragement of commissioners. Vogelheim said he had also received 166 emails “and counting” from engaged citizens prior to the meeting. “There’s clearly a passion from our community with regards to this issue,” Vogelheim said.

“It’s nice today to see the multi-user interest. The community is engaged.”

Vogelheim and Macker echoed Newcomb’s feeling that while the project may have merit, they were not ready to move forward with a CUP. Instead, they asked for a way to “channel the entities” of all concerned parties. “how do we

bring these organizations to the table, and come back with community-wide recommendations?” Vogelheim said.

Commissioner Greg Epstein fought hard to allow the Kayak Club to move forward with the CUP process.

“We have a community partner who is very interested and very engaged, and willing to put together something beneficial for the entire community,” Epstein said. The sheer volume of emails is the most he’s ever received about a single issue in his short tenure on the board.

“We’re sitting amongst a room of river experts … Look around this room right now at all these people who are advocates of the river. The years of experience is amazing.”

While commissioners voted 3-2 against the CUP, they encouraged all stakeholders in the room to keep the conversation going, and come back to them with perhaps a more holistic plan.

Ultimately, the project is still the county’s because it’s on their land, Macker noted. They have a duty, then, to make sure the “right stakeholders are at the table.”

Aaron Pruzan, director of Jackson Hole Kayak Club, says there is still hope for the park moving forward. “I don’t think this was a ‘no’ about the project,” he said. “It was a ‘no’ about the CUP being the vehicle. I’m excited about the possibilities still.”

If anything, Pruzan said, this is an opportunity for the community to come together and really decide what they want. “We found a lot more common ground with people that have expressed concern, than just clear opposition.”

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THE BUZZ 2 Animal Cruelty Conundrum Loose laws have enraged and mobilized a community.

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A still from the video that has sparked an animal cruelty investigation.

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It’s a tedious process, Gierau said, but necessarily so. “In order to be successful in legislature, it needs to be thought out.

Planned. Done carefully. Or you end up with nothing, which is exactly where we don’t want to be.”

There’s never a good time for an animal to die, but Gierau said if there’s a silver lining, it’s that the Travel Recreation Wildlife Committee has a scheduled meeting in two weeks, and the chairman is an “awesome resource on this subject.” Animal cruelty laws are now “front and center” on legislators’ minds. And bills are more likely to be passed when they come from a committee.

Gierau says he’s no animal cruelty expert, but “what occurred was in my view wrong. I know enough to know that.”

While Stanyon said calls to the sheriff’s office aren’t actually productive unless they’re from eyewitnesses, calls to the legislature, Gierau said, hold weight. “If it’s on this community’s mind, it’s on our mind. If it’s on our mind, we will work on it.” PJH

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“have to act within the confines of the law as written, and the legal precedents that are set there. When the law is inadequate, that’s when people need to step up and lobby to change it.”

Gierau says that’s exactly what people have done. He has fielded phone calls and even home visits from concerned constituents. “Within the last 20 minutes, literally in front of my house, people pulled over and said, ‘We want to talk to you about this.’” Gierau said he’s listening. But before he and other Wyoming lawmakers can take any meaningful action, they have to thoroughly weigh all their options.

First, the legislature has to determine whether the current laws are adequate (according to public outcry, they are not).

Then lawmakers must debate how to fix them. This happens most effectively in committee meetings. In drawn-out conversations with constituents and fellow legislators. Gierau says he will lean on Sen. Leland Christensen, who was not available for comment, for his experience raising and riding horses. And then in legislative session in the form of a bill.

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eton County residents have taken social media, email and phone lines by storm after a video published to Facebook last week showed a man, identified as Forest Stearns, tying up a horse in a way that many are calling inhumane.

The horse died the evening of August 8, and the Teton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating animal cruelty. Many are calling for justice and demanding stricter laws. But if Wyoming law is flawed, people like Rep. Mike Gierau are advocating for public patience.

“Change never comes as fast as people want it to,” he said. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It just has to be smart.

“Action is what people want,” he said.

“Meaningful action is what they deserve.”

The video, filmed by Stearns’s neighbor, Mary Wendell Lampton, has been shared more than 600 times. It shows Stearns, who owns Stearns Outfitters, tying his horse by its hind legs while the horse is fully saddled, known as hobbling.

The horse struggles for a moment lying on its side, and then goes still as Stearns walks away. It was found dead later that night.

PJH was unable to reach Stearns for comment.

A Facebook page called “Justice For Horses of Stearns Outfitters-Wyoming” has attracted 869 followers. Calls to action include calling state legislators, the Teton County Sheriff’s Office, and the Wyoming Board of Outfitters and Professional Guides to “report this abuse.”

Indeed, many have, said Wyoming Board of Outfitters and Professional Guides office administrator Amanda McKee. The board is a participating agency in the investigation, McKee said, but on the “administrative” and licensing side.

The board’s decision to revoke Stearns’s license is bound by the same law the sheriff’s department must adhere to.

Licensed outfitters will “provide any animal used in the conduct of business with proper food, water and shelter and not subject any animal to abuse and inhumane treatment as provided by Wyoming Law,” according to board rules and regulations.

But Wyoming’s animal cruelty laws are flimsy. In fact, they frequently rank among the worst in the country in the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s State Animal Protection Laws ranking.

Wyoming ranked 48th last year. Under Wyoming state statue, animal cruelty is a misdemeanor with two exceptions: dog or fowl fighting, and intentional harm done to an animal by someone other than the animal’s owner. The maximum penalty for a misdemeanor animal cruelty conviction is six months in prison and $750 in fines.

The sheriff department’s task now, Detective Sgt. Todd Stanyon said, is to prove that Stearns intentionally damaged or killed his horse. Wyoming law determines that a person who “unnecessarily or cruelly beats, tortures, torments, injures, mutilates or attempts to kill an animal” has committed cruelty. But hobbling is legal in Wyoming.

Lampton said she is disappointed with the sheriff’s response.

“I am saddened and appalled by the dismissiveness the sheriff’s office continues to show regarding the horse abuse committed by Forest Stearns,” Lampton wrote PJH. She alleged that enough people have reported Stearns to law enforcement over the years, and “no action has been taken.”

On the contrary, Stanyon said, “If we’ve arrested this man in the past, it should show we really don’t have an allegiance to him. We’re not trying to help him with anything.”

Stearns does have a criminal history in Teton County. He has a handful of DUI convictions, and was dismissed on charges of “unlawful contact: rude insolent or angry touch without bodily harm” and one count of battery against a household member, according to court records.

Stanyon and Lampton both recall an investigation back in 2015 into the death of one of Stearns’s mules. It was a similar situation, Stanyon said, in that the mule was tied down. That case was “thoroughly investigated,” Stanyon said, but dismissed “based on current standards and ranching standards.”

The sheriff’s office, Stanyon said, takes all charges of animal cruelty very seriously—just last week it cited two people or leaving dogs in their cars— but they

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THE BUZZ 3 Sleepless in the Hole As the eclipse approaches, valley commuters are preparing for days away from home, hours on the road and overtime.

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o Williamson anticipates a fivehour commute from his Star Valley home to Snake River Ranch on August 21. The trip usually takes an hour when his company Bo-B-Q caters events there, but four hours of traffic time will probably be necessary, he said, during a day of historic gridlock.

Yes, Jackson Hole is in the Great American Eclipse’s path of totality. An eclipse like this hasn’t crossed over the entire continental United States since 1918, making the event all the more alluring. Predictably, viewing the affair with a Teton backdrop will have tourists flooding the valley in incalculable numbers.

This massive tourist deluge could transform a 20,000-citizen county into veritable bumper-to-bumper chaos. As businesses prepare for just about every eventuality, traffic remains the wild card when it comes to getting workers through the doors. However the chips fall, employers are sure of one thing: they can’t afford their employees missing work. For many in the valley workforce, this will mean long days and several nights away from home.

The darkest day Denise Germann, public affairs officer for Grand Teton National Park, has no interest in even guessing how long it will take commuters to reach their destinations. “I’d be prepared to say it will most likely take hours [to get from town to the park],” she said, flinching over the word “hours” as if even that was a promise she wasn’t ready to make. She referred to expected tourist numbers as the “crystal ball question,” saying even a ballpark figure was anyone’s guess.

Regardless of visitor numbers, every

organization from the Jackson Hole Police Department to the National Park Service described staffing levels as “all hands on deck.”

For small business owners like Williamson, that means bringing his wife and three-year-old son along to help cater his event. He didn’t really have a choice. Because of the massive worker demand and traffic concerns during the eclipse, Williamson couldn’t recruit other valley residents to help him cater his 300-guest shindig during the eclipse. Jackson Hole is already facing a worker shortage, but that “all hands on deck” mentality means for Williamson, along with most of the valley, a lot of overtime.

To avoid the perils of traffic, assistant director of airport operations Dustin Havel said many workers at the airport simply wont leave. “A number of the vendors and stake holders will just drive up early that morning and work a double shift so they don’t have to drive on the roads, starting early when the airport opens around four or five in the morning, and then working until the last shift.”

Some airport workers, concerned about a multi-hour commute, will ditch their vehicles all together the day of the eclipse and the days leading up to it.

They’ll be biking to work instead, one airline employee said. But they’re not expecting the bike path an easy commute either.

A dawn to dusk expectation at the airport isn’t the only way vendors will stay covered. A long-standing federal rule at Jackson Hole Airport will be broken in light of traffic concerns. Havel said the airport and airline staff and vendors have established the “accommodation plan for preparedness,” which will allow workers to spend the night at the airport the day before the eclipse. Designated sleep zones in the airport, even for staff, have never been allowed before because of national park regulations.

Many more miles to go before we sleep Camping is in the cards for a lot of commuters. Williamson will pack his camping gear and “plenty of beer” in case he becomes stranded somewhere overnight after the eclipse, because it’s not just getting to the Tetons that will be an issue. The big exodus after the show might be worse.

“We’re asking people to just hang out after the eclipse, to wait and enjoy

the natural beauty of the park rather than everyone rushing out at once,” Germann said. “We want to create realistic expectations, and there will probably be a lot of traffic if everyone tries to leave at once. Visitors need to plan accordingly, have extra food, medication, fuel, etc. Maybe that means staying put for a while.”

To cut down on congestion, the park has staffed hot spots in accordance with worker’s housing locations, so employees are less likely to get hung up in the melee. But even with these precautions, along with Germann’s “all hands on deck” marching orders, the park will still have a hard time covering all the bases.

Germann explained that, regardless of title or position, every park worker will be utilized for eclipse-related work for the day; the trail crew might help with parking, administrative workers might manage eclipse activities or even man pullouts.

“No one is on vacation on August 21,” Amy Russian said. As the communications coordinator for St. John’s Medical Center, Russian said the hospital has found overnight camping near the hospital for hospital staff. Others will snooze on site. The hospital will not perform elective procedures during the week of the eclipse to cut down on foot traffic.

Meanwhile, hotels like Amangani face challenges too. The high-end hotel sits behind a two-mile-long privacy road that gains several hundred feet in elevation. “We’ve set up a system where if our employees are willing to bike to work from town, we’ll pick them up at the base of the butte in our shuttle,” Chandler Minton, evening hotel manager, said. “We’ve worked to set up schedules, so that people in town are on early morning shifts, and those who live over the pass work in the evenings.”

The resort has asked workers who live over the pass to sleep at friends’ houses the night before.

The hotel started taking eclipse reservations more than four years ago. It will be one of the highest revenue days in its history.

Unbridled anticipation is the norm for visitors to Jackson during the eclipse. Amangani’s neighboring resort, Spring Creek Ranch, has had reservations on the books for more than a decade; Williamson’s catering event was booked more than a year ago, and most hotels in Jackson have been sold out since last summer.

Wild expectations in tow, guests

are still calling hotels like Amangani looking for a room just days before the eclipse. “My real concern is just how many people will show up without any ideas concerning accommodation at all,” Minton said. “We’ve been turning people away for over a year now, but we still get a steady stream of calls asking for room availability. With every hotel in Jackson sold out, I just want to know where these people are going to go?”

Policing congestion and free rides

Emergency responders, too, must find alternative housing during the eclipse. The Jackson Hole Police Department worked with Teton County School District to find responders temporary housing during the eclipse weekend, Lieutenant Roger Schultz said.

Responders living outside the county will camp out in one of the school district’s buildings.

Schultz said congestion is the police department’s number one concern when fighting through the quagmire of eclipse-goers. It’s another all hands on deck scenario.

“All officers of the Jackson Police Department will be working every day during the weekend and deployed in designated zones throughout the town to better respond. The deployments are such that even if an officer has to walk, he/she can still get to where they need to be,” he said. JHPD and the sheriff’s office have also imported 13 additional officers from neighboring communities.

To mitigate some traffic anxiety, START Bus, which is reporting its highest ridership in history for the months of June and July, will be waiving all bus fares on the day of the eclipse. The hope among local officials is that this will alleviate some of the vehicular—and individual—madness.

“In addition to the fact that many people are likely to take the bus if it’s free, bus service will be more simple and efficient if bus drivers do not have to collect money from the mass amounts of passengers,” Jenelle Johnson, START board member, said.

START will also be expanding its schedule on the day of reckoning, offering additional rides between Jackson and Teton Village, as well as extra morning rides to Star Valley and Teton Valley. PJH For more eclipse info check TetonEclipse.com.

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When we arrived at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute on an early September afternoon in 2016, the sturdy, modern brick structure seemed palliative in itself. For nine months I’d been in a severe depression; no amount of antidepressants, antipsychotics, talk therapy, dietary changes, exercise, or meditation had made a dent. Now my husband had driven me four and a half hours from our home in Jackson Hole to my first ever treatment facility in Salt Lake City.

STABLE FEEL INGS

BY MEG DALY “Tough Break” by Taryn Boals | tarynboalsart.com

A psychedelic club drug has found its way into depression treatment.

But for at least one woman, ketamine is better left on the dance floor.

Living in the rural West means being at a distance from state-of-the-art psychiatric care. In Jackson Hole, patients can receive top-level orthopedic treatment because surgeons are eager to live in a world-renowned ski town where a fresh crop of torn ACLs is guaranteed each season. However, psychiatrists, who are not nearly as well-paid and who are in short supply nationwide, find little draw to Jackson, where they would still have to piece together a client list without the support of a larger treatment facility.

For patients like me, whose mental health issues are not as in vogue as sports-related ailments, living in a small Western town often means seeking adequate care further afield— at your own inconvenience and expense. Like other people I know with severe depression or bipolar disorder, I had exhausted my options for treatment in Jackson and had no choice but to travel hundreds of miles to get well.

The University Neuropsychiatric Institute, or UNI (pronounced “You-Nee”) resides in an unfussy professional building on the university campus. With carefully manicured lawns and flowerbeds, it has an air of self-confidence.

Large panels of windows line the front entry, and the lobby is lit in part by a skylight. There is a friendly receptionist at a sprawling desk, and a gift shop (neuropsych memorabilia for the whole family!). Graduate students bustle around with notebooks under their arms. This was clearly a place where sanity and balance would be restored, efficiently and sensibly.

Our destination was not, however, this main bastion of academic pulse and mental civility. I had an appointment at the Treatment Resistant Mood Disorder Clinic. As its name implies, the clinic is where doctors send patients when they can’t fix them with standard meds.

My husband Mark and I were directed to follow a labyrinthine route to the back of the

Freaks welcome

“It’s why I do what I do”

To a depressive’s ears, those words are more than music, they are a lifeline. Not many people want to enter your illness with you.

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Ketamine treatment for depression is not yet FDA approved, so any treatment a patient receives is essentially experimental. The medical community is only beginning to explore ketamine’s effect on people with depression.

In April 2017, a task force of the American Psychiatric Association issued a report based on a mere seven clinical studies involving 147 patients.

As the task force noted in JAMA Psychiatry, “The existing data surrounding the benefits of repeated infusions of ketamine remain limited … The lack of clinical trials in this area makes it difficult to provide suggestions on the frequency and duration of treatment with even minimal levels of confidence. Most studies and case reports published to date on this topic have examined the effects of less than one month of treatment.”

Can you imagine going in for treatment for cancer and trying a drug the doctors say that has only been clinically tested on 150 people, and only for efficacy of one month?

My doctor at UNI, Dr. Kendrick, explained during my intake interview that their clinic had seen encouraging results thus far. Mirroring numbers found in the literature on ketamine for depression, UNI has a 52 percent success rate among patients.

“These folks get better at a disproportionally higher rate than with traditional antidepressants,” Kendrick told me in a recent interview. “Seeing those numbers bear out is the part of this that keeps me engaged. It’s why I do what I do.”

As excited as he is about experimental depression treatments like ketamine, Kendrick is also a realist and he makes sure his patients are too.

“Ketamine is not a cure,” he said. “It’s a medicine like any other. If you stop taking it, your symptoms will recur.” What that means for long-term remission is that a patient would need to keep shelling out the big bucks to

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At the reception desk, we were greeted by Chelsie (not her real name) with whom I had been corresponding to register for the treatment. I immediately knew Chelsie because, as promised, she was the one with the purple hair.

This is a good a time to reiterate that I was there for a reason. My head hurt all the time, my limbs felt leaden, I wanted to cry and/or collapse and be put out of my misery. Joy was a feeling-state completely out of my grasp.

I suppose I was fortunate in that I could still walk and even manage to smile, though not with authenticity. I could still go through the motions of much of daily life, including eating, showering, dressing, and taking my medication that wasn’t working. The fact that an evil presence had wrapped itself around my mind and heart and was slowly strangling the life out of me was not apparent from the outside.

Probably to Chelsie I looked a little worn down or subdued.

Chelsie’s purple hair did offer me a glimmer of delight, beckoning like a human-headshaped banner, “Freaks Welcome Here.” I was verifiably a freak. I had treatment-resistant depression.

Like 30 percent of people who suffer from depression, I had only a partial response to the medication I’d been taking for more than a decade.

The medication helped. But it didn’t prevent me from falling into two major depressions in my 40s.

Still, I thought of myself as one of the lucky ones. Another 30 percent of people with depression don’t respond at all to the available treatments.

You can think of us depressives in a pie: one-third get remission from medications, one-third get partial results, one-third get no lasting relief.

“That’s a dismal failure rate for a class of drugs designed to improve a person’s basic ability to function,” a recent article in TIME magazine noted.

Chelsie and the other nursing staff were jovial and welcoming, unfazed by my, or any other patient’s, inner turmoil. Chelsie seemed a part of the treatment, a form of transference not new to me. I can’t tell you how many receptionists and pharmacists I’ve had

disproportionate feelings of attachment to, the secondary characters in the drama of mental health care who cheerily, efficiently play their parts. I want to kiss them for not reacting to me like the deranged beast I have perceived myself to be.

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building. We knew we had arrived when we passed through a metal hospital door and the comforting speckled carpets and photos of Arches National Park gave way to an off-white linoleum and bare walls. Let’s call the look “warm sterile.” Gone were the cozy offices and bright-eyed grad students. This was where the serious shit happened. Electroconvulsive shock therapy. Transcranial magnetic stimulation. Ketamine infusions.

I was there for the latter. I remember first hearing about ketamine in 2012. Researchers had released a report about ketamine’s ability to relieve major depression in a matter of hours. Scientists from Yale University and the National Institute of Mental Health had determined that ketamine caused new connections to form between nerve cells in parts of the brain associated with mood and emotion. I had been jonesing to try it ever since.

But it’s expensive, and until recently was only performed at facilities on the East Coast. The use of “jonesing” makes it sound like I’m some kind of street-drug-knowledgeable person. I am not. The only recreational drug I’ve ever used is marijuana when I was 17. It didn’t go well—I ended up a ball of paranoia in the corner of a room. However, learning about ketamine’s magic for depressives made me think, “Bring on the K hole!”

Veterinarians know ketamine as a horse tranquilizer. Ravers know it as Special K, or simply “K,” a powerful dissociative that can cause near death experiences. First introduced for clinical use in 1970, ketamine is a standard medication used for anesthesia and pain management. Its antidepressant effects are a new discovery. Facilities like UNI have begun offering intravenous ketamine treatments to depression patients who can pay.

Two sessions a week at $700 a pop, not covered by insurance.

Maintaining sanity when you’re mentally ill is indeed not cheap. Insurance may cover some medications and maybe 10 therapy sessions a year. For me, being financially stable has not protected me from becoming depressed, but it has certainly helped me pay for treatment. I fear for people living in poverty, who, according to a 2012 Gallup poll, are twice as likely to suffer from depression (31 percent, as opposed to 15.8 percent of people not living in poverty). A breakthrough therapy like ketamine is entirely out of reach for a demographic of people who may need it most.

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receive maintenance infusions. Kendrick said they do have a few patients at UNI who are able to do this financially and come in once a month for an infusion. So far, for that handful of patients, the treatment has kept their depression at bay.

Many people, like me, want to see if ketamine will work for them, Kendrick explained, and worry about the long-term plan later.

“Patients tell me, ‘At least it would give me hope,’” he said. “They are aware that FDA approval might be forthcoming and they want to find out if it does work.”

It may be difficult for non-depression-sufferers to grasp just how appealing any kind of relief for any duration can be. For me, the possibility that my depression could be erased by one infusion was too tantalizing to pass up.

I don’t think I even thought about the longterm efficacy. I was exhausted and I needed a break, any kind of break, to remember that I did have the capacity to feel good. After nine months of unrelenting depression, I’d nearly forgotten that I’d ever been un-miserable in my life.

A nurse ushered me to a hospital bed sticking out like a pale tongue in the middle of a dim room. She hooked me up to an IV and various wires. I was covered in blankets because the lab room was freezing and I wore a summer dress appropriate for the 85 degree heat outside. I’d wanted to seem sane, presentable, but now I wished I had on my rattiest sweatpants. Mark sat next to me in a drab, plastic chair.

Fifteen feet away and behind a curtain, another ketamine patient from Jackson Hole rested on his bed.

Piped-in classical music filled the room, which was otherwise about as welcoming as a large broom closet. Cabinets and sinks lined the far wall, which boasted one window.

The nurse told me that one of her patients liked to watch the trees swaying outside the window during his treatment. He must have had a vivid imagination.

Kendrick arrived and gave the OK to start the infusion. If I had feelings of fondness for Chelsie, the good doctor warranted adoration. Trained as a child psychologist, Kendrick devotes part of his time to ketamine treatment in adults. He said he appreciates the balance this

provides him as a clinician between working long-term with patients as well as helping people see quick results.

“I love what I do,” he told me when I spoke to him recently. “I spend my time working with a population in which there are severe mental illnesses. Mental health is such a struggle for so many people. I enjoy sitting with people in that struggle.”

To a depressive’s ears, those words are more than music, they are a lifeline. Not many people want to enter your illness with you.

“There’s nothing more intimate than sitting down and having people talk about things they might not tell anyone else in their life. It’s a vulnerable place to be and I take it seriously,” he said.

Down the K hole Once the ketamine infusion started, 10 minutes passed before I noticed anything odd.

Then, increasingly, objects in my field of vision would leave tracers as I shifted my gaze. It felt like a cross between being drunk and being at the eye doctor when they put dilating drops in your eyes and you lose your ability to read up close and everything becomes shiny and too bright. When I blinked, I couldn’t tell how long my lids were closed.

A normal blink amount?

Ten seconds? My pulse became very loud in my head like when my sinuses are stuffed with allergies.

I tried to smile at Mark but my face was suddenly that of a stroke victim. “Do I look funny?” I asked. He patted my hand reassuringly and said no. “I feel like Gumby,” I said, trying to enunciate.

This ended up being the fun part of the trip, which is saying something. I wish I had talked to someone who had done ketamine recreationally so I knew what to expect. A good friend of mine who has used the drug many times was surprised to learn that it was being administered to people with depression.

Then I began to panic that I was doing something wrong, that I had somehow caused the drug to have an ill effect on me. Why was I not joking around with the nurse like the patient next to me?

“It’s a fucking crazy drug,” she said. In her rave days, she encountered ketamine users seeking different experiences. “There were the introverted folks who preferred slumping into a corner over joining their saucer eyed friends of the dance floor,” my friend recalled.

Other users enjoyed the ecstasy-like euphoria with K, that, according to my friend, ensued if they snorted just the right amount—i.e. not enough to fall into a K hole.

Maybe it was a mistake to have done my homework about ketamine’s large animal tranquilizing capabilities. I grew up around horses; I started riding when I was five years old. I feel a kinship with them. Their big, solid bodies and deep, curious eyes are a source of comfort. I love their dusty, horsey smell, their gentle and sometimes feisty spirits. Few feelings compare to that of a horse muzzle against my palm. As an adult I haven’t spent nearly as much time around horses as I would like, but they are still very much in my psyche and in my blood.

Perhaps it’s only natural that once the ketamine infusion began, I turned to horses in my imagination to soothe myself. I closed my eyes and imagined a horse lying on the ground, tranquilized. Holding the gaze of the horse’s big placid eye, I told her we were going to be OK, even though it was entirely unclear to me that we would be. The horse was trapped in herself, only able to blink her eye. We floated there in what I imagined Tibetan Buddhists might call bardo, a state of existence between death and rebirth. Then I began to panic that I was doing something wrong, that I had somehow caused the drug to have an ill effect on me. Why was I not joking around with the nurse like the patient next to me? I could barely speak. Tears began streaming down my face and all I could see was the horse lying immobilized, which was the saddest sight in the world to me. Instead of being reborn, I imagined us dying.

Kendrick had warned me the effects of ketamine would become more intense right at the end of the infusion when they flushed the last remaining portion of the dose into my system. This was what I was experiencing as I began to panic about dying. I closed my eyes and waves rushed in my ears. The horse and I were drowning. The tears continued to flow. Mark held my hand, but I couldn’t feel him. I was in a dark well separated from the world, it going on without me. I had somehow failed. Kendrick and the nurse came up to reassure me, but I could see from their worried faces that mine was not the typical

She’s gonna find another way back home It’s written in her blood, oh it’s written in her bones Or You gotta believe me when I say I know.

You aren’t riding on this wave alone.

Several months later, after I finally found a more successful treatment for my depression, a friend showed me a charcoal drawing that so mirrored my ketamine hallucination it was uncanny. A horse hangs in a sling, as if it has a broken leg or other life-threatening condition that requires its weight to be lifted off its feet.

The sling cradles the horse’s belly; it’s legs hang down limply. Where hooves should be, the horse has human hands and feet.

While this was not the exact image in my mind during my first ketamine infusion, the artist’s melding of human and horse conveys nearly identically the merging I experienced. The drawing is not an easy image. At first glance, a viewer might find it unsettling.

The more I return to it, however, the more I see great tenderness there. The horse’s sad, resigned eye; her demeanor of surrender. She has no choice but to give herself over to the support, to hope and wait.

I met the artist who made this drawing, Taryn Boals, and she told me she drew it during a difficult time in her life when she herself was going through depression. Making the drawing helped release something, she told me. The drawing gave form to her inner ordeal, something no medicine can do.

Depression, like cancer, is an illness for which the treatment can be as toxic as the disease itself. Ketamine is just one of the various medications I’ve ingested that led me temporarily closer to darkness than light. But my story is not an anti-medication screed. I’ve had just as much trial and error utilizing other therapies: the Paleo diet caused an emotional breakdown, years wasted with ineffective therapists kept me more miserable than happy, and trying to look on the bright side only caused more internalized shame. While ketamine may not have budged my depression, it did give me a potent image for my experience: the horse in bardo, releasing her weight into the sling that undergirds transformation. PJH

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Meg Daly is a freelance writer based in Jackson, Wyoming. Her work has appeared in Homestead, The Oregonian, Oregon Business, Women’s Review of Books, and other publications. She is the editor of the 1996 anthology, Surface Tension: Love, Sex, and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women. Daly is working on a memoir about her experiences with depression and treatment.

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My eyesight still went wonky, the blood still rushed through my ears. But I actually had fun during this infusion. My mom was by my bedside this time; she sat happily reading articles to improve her bridge game. During a moment of euphoria, I texted a friend who also struggles with depression: “Ketamine is amazing!” I gushed. “I love you so much!

(Emoji, emoji.)”

The final flush of ketamine at the end still wasn’t great, but I managed not to sob. Then they sent me out wobbly into the world, and my mom and I went out to dinner. I tried to engage in some semblance of normal conversation even though my head seemed like it was inside a pillow, or in fact was a pillow. That night I slept fitfully.

The next day I did not arise feeling cleared or released or better in any way. Instead, a full day panic attack ensued. I was dizzy and confused and terrified. And my head still felt like a pillow. Getting a hold of Kendrick took hours (how dare he have a busy schedule taking care of kids with psychiatric problems?)

When he did call back around 5 p.m., he had the mercy to tell me I did not need to come back for more treatments. This was the same doctor who, during my intake interview, had the blunt fortitude to tell me that modern psychiatry is about 100 years behind the rest of modern medicine. When I asked him about that comment in our recent interview, Kendrick said, “Psychiatry is desperately in need of the objectivity medicine has. I cannot do imaging of your brain and say, ‘Ah, I see where your anxiety is bad,’ or, ‘Here’s the center of your depression.’ Practicing psychiatry can be like trying to study the geography of Earth from space.”

Kendrick does not mean to disparage his field. Instead, he wants patients to have clear, honest information. “The fact of the matter is that there are no trials that indicate, say, that Zoloft is better than Prozac,” he said. “That’s where the art of practicing psychiatry comes in. I never want my patients to fault themselves for where we are at with psychiatry.

Depression is a life-altering illness and I don’t want to over-promise results.”

Tender transformations

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patient response. “I’m so sorry,” I told Kendrick through my sobs. He told me it would be OK, that maybe the final flush of ketamine was too intense and they’d do it slower next time. “I’m really sorry,” I said, as if I’d let him down.

Readers who have taken ketamine recreationally may recognize that I was falling into a K hole. According to Kendrick, 10 percent of patients in a clinical setting have a negative incident like mine. A lucky 20 percent find it euphoric, while 70 percent report simply feeling “weird.” But according to my ketamine-expert friend, the K hole is a common experience. Out of body sensations and teetering on the edge of death are part of the deal. “The thrill, then, became digging oneself out of the hole and returning to reality unscathed,” she said.

Recreational users return to K again and again for what my friend described as the inimitable euphoria that precedes the K hole.

“It’s a feeling that compels users to do more and more in one sitting until they seemingly lose control,” she said.

Had someone informed me that feelings of “teetering on the edge of death” and “losing control” were potentially in store for me, I might have thought twice about trying ketamine. Those were not feelings I would suggest inducing in a depressed person, even for 45 minutes. However, the healing properties of ketamine do not correlate with its out of body experiences. According to Kendrick, ketamine’s antidepressant power has nothing to do with the kind of “trip” a patient experiences. He did say, however, that most depression patients who have a negative first episode do not return because they don’t want to go anywhere near that K hole again. I was one of the rare ones, by his account, who came back for another infusion.

Five days after my first infusion, I returned to the clinic armed with my own music. The logic in my head told me ravers understood something important about K and it had to do with your auditory input. If I’d really been on my game, I would have curated an entire playlist for myself. Instead, I picked one of the uplifting albums in my iTunes library, and let myself relax. Lucius’s “Wildewoman” is not what I would describe as particularly profound music. It’s kind of poppy and feminist, good for a road trip. But under the influence of ketamine, some lyrics took on a deeper meaning related to depression that I thought was being secretly revealed just to me:

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THIS WEEK: August 16-22, 2017

WEDNESDAY,AUGUST16

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 1pm, Vertical Harvest, 307-201-4452 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 Read to Rover 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 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 Rebecca Ryan 5:00pm, The Deck at Piste, Free, 307-733-2292 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 Open Studio Modeling: Figure Model 6pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10, 307-733-6379 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 Creating Confident Communicators 6:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n The HOF BAND plays POLKA! 7:00pm, The Alpenhof Bistro, Free, 307-733-3242 n Bob Greenspan “Down in the Roots” 7:00pm, Moe’s BBQ, Free n Screen Door Porch 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913

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n Jackson Hole Rodeo 8:00pm, Teton County Fairgrounds, $15.00 - $35.00, 307-733-7927 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n GTMF Presents: Pianist Garrick Ohlsson 8pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25 n Karaoke Night 9:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, 307-733-2792 n Jack Nelson 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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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 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 GeoFest 4:00pm, Driggs City Plaza, $30.00 - $60.00, 208-354-2500 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30pm, Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Alive@Five: Wild Things of Wyoming 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Josh Riggs 5:00pm, The Deck at Piste, Free, 307-733-2292 n Open Rehearsal with DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion® 5:00pm, Center Theater, Free, 307-733-6398 n Total Eclipse of the Cart!

5pm, Lucky’s Market, 307-739-0665 n August Art Walk 5:00pm, Various Galleries, Free n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Bar J Ranch, $25 - $35, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $38 - $46, 307733-5386 n Dine to Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Dornans Chuckwagon, Free, 307-733-2415

Compiled by Caroline LaRosa n Friends and Family Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Eagle Classroom of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-733-2046 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Writing the West: Author Craig Johnson 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307733-6994 n An Historic Evening with Anne Frank’s Stepsister; Mrs. Eva Schloss 6:30pm, Snow King Resort: Grand Teton Ballroom, $80.00 $150.00, 307-462-0847 n DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion® Master Class with Rico Velazquez and Ezra Masse-Mahar 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $25.00, 307-733-6398 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 Derrik and the Dynamos 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Chamber Music with Performance Today 8:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00, 307-733-3050 n Salsa Night 9pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Marbin 9pm, Knotty Pine, $5, 208-787-2866 n Jack Nelson 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Supersuckers 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $18.00 - $20.00, 307-733-1500

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n Open Studio Modeling: Portrait Model 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Festival Orchestra Open Rehearsal: Big Bang 10:00am, Walk Festival Hall, $15.00, 307-733-3050 n Summer Grilling Series 11am, Jackson Whole Grocer, $5, 307-733-0450 n Chasing Light 11:00am, Craig Thomas Discov-

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Total Eclipse of the Musical Hearts Eclipse weekend features Twiddle, The Deer, Supersuckers, Close but No Segar, David Gans and Sneaky Pete.

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he alarm is sounding for the final Jackson Hole Live concert this Friday, and thus the onset of summer dissipation. Progressive, tension-and-release exploratory jammers Twiddle are the season closers and it’s going to be a head-spinning mix of psych rock, reggae, pseudo-grass, and Santana-toned improvisational soloing via vocalist/guitarist Mihali Savoulidis.

Savoulidis is a technical standout and the band as a whole has been gaining copious steam in the last several years. Having formed in 2004 at Castleton State College in Vermont, yes,

this is the “other Vermont jamband” you’ve been hearing about.

“We’ve been going really hard at it for 12 years,” Savoulidis recently told Live Music News, “and I think a lot of people think our success happened overnight, or that we just kind of popped up in the last few years, but we’ve really been hitting the country hard for a lot of years, playing every small rock club across the country.”

Twiddle has released four studio albums since 2007, including PLUMP: Chapter One (2015/remastered 2017) and PLUMP: Chapter Two (2017). These albums have really upped their cred with both eclectic jamband lovers and critics. Sessions took place over two years and include a number of guests across string, horn and choral arrangements. The quartet has concluded that it was the hardest work they’ve ever put into a recording project. The double-album aptly fits the purpose of cataloging two new batches of songs based on how they relate to one another.

“Now the first album was very songwriting oriented,” Savoulidis said. “A lot of those songs I had written over the years were developed live with the band. With the second disc, we decided to go back to our roots a little more. The songwriting was a lot more spread out, and it was a much more collaborative effort as far as the writing goes. When we started as a band, I was writing a lot more story time lyrics about characters.

I started writing about my own kind of

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THURSDAY Marbin (Knotty Pine); Supersuckers with Risky Livers (Pink Garter) FRIDAY Twiddle with Head to Head (Snow King Ball Field); The Drunken Hearts (Town Square Tavern); Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash (Bull Moose in Alpine) SATURDAY Close but No Segar (Town Square Tavern); The Deer, The Lonesome Heroes, and Whippoorwill (American Legion Park in Pinedale) SUNDAY Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons with Shakewell and WYO (Village Commons); Papa Chan Trio (Silver Dollar)

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as players,” the band offered with the album’s release. “This new album both exemplifies and attests to the cohesive qualities of our musical chemistry, which can only be born out of a decadeplus long friendship filled with creative endeavors, tragedy, and endless artistic and cosmic exploration.”

The Deer’s music blends well within a cosmic, transcendental Texas surf-country sect that The Lonesome Heroes’ Rich Russell has been maintaining for over a decade. Opener Whippoorwill is the alt-folk-rock project of Alysia Kraft (of Patti Fiasco) and Staci Foster along with drummer Tobias Bank (Von Stomper). Distorted electric guitar, non-traditional banjo and tight harmonies bring the boots-in-the-dirt writing to the foreground.

The Deer, The Lonesome Heroes, and Whippoorwill, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, August 19 at American Legion Park in Pinedale. Free, all-ages.

PindaleFineArts.com. The Lonesome Heroes and Whippoorwill also play August 23 at Town Square Tavern, free, and August 24 at the Knotty Pine, $15.

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MONDAY David Gans: Dead Eclipse (Town Square Tavern); Pinky & the Floyd with WYO (Pink Garter); The E.T.s (Mangy Moose)

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Pinedale Fine Arts Council’s Soundcheck Concerts are a harmonious sleeper series, staging quality offthe-radar acts that eventually become a mainstay to Wyoming’s summer touring scene. Often a common thread to these shows is a connection to Austin, Texas, and for the series finale it’s a triple bill of Austinites—The Deer, The Lonesome Heroes, and Wyoming/ Colorado/Texas trio Whippoorwill— coinciding with Pinedale’s Total Solar Eclipse Festival.

The Deer have an inviting dreamfolk and delicate earthy vibe, which focuses its chamber folk foundation around the striking song and vocal chops of Grace Park. The tranquil method of composition is nothing short of gorgeous dream-pop with the patience of Iron & Wine, and that notion is in full display on the band’s third album, Tempest & Rapture. The quartet has obviously grown tight, both personally and professionally.

“Our most mature and collaborative effort yet, Tempest & Rapture solidifies the organic essence of who we are as songwriters and, collectively,

WEDNESDAY Garrick Ohlsson (Walk Festival Hall); GTMF Woodwind Trio (Alta Library)

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personal experiences, which was a little more introspective, and I think just a little more human.”

Jackson Hole Live presents Twiddle with local electronic duo Head to Head, 5:30 p.m. Friday, August 18 at Snow King Ball Field. Free, all-ages.

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Poetic Passage Diavolo delivers physical prowess and massive imagination.

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here are two phrases Babs Case uses to describe Jackson Hole: “visually stunning and extreme physicality.” They are the same phrases, Case, the artistic director at Dancers’ Workshop, uses to describe the dance company Diavolo, Architecture in Motion.

The company, which combines high-flying acrobatics with modern dance, all while using massive props like a giant ship on stage, are an artistic embodiment of the community, Case said. They represent extreme physicality, risk taking and beauty.

Diavolo will perform at 3 and 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday at the Center Theater.

It also will host an open rehearsal from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday.

Case describes the company as Cirque du Soleil-esque. The dancers are also gymnasts and Diavolo’s artistic director Jacques Heim choreographed the Cirque du Soleil show Ka, which still runs in Las Vegas. Heim has likened the pieces to a “live abstract painting.” The works feature emotional themes like fear, survival, chaos, faith and love.

Diavolo first performed in Jackson 10 years ago. It was the first major performance Dancers’ Workshop hosted in the then-newly built Center Theater. Case purposefully chose the company to show off the new theater’s capabilities. There wasn’t a place to host a company with Diavolo’s needs, both technical and space wise, before the Center came around.

Then, as now, the Center Theater also offered the audience an incredible experience to see the performances in such an intimate space, she said.

Case also deliberately chose the timing of the company’s performance this month near the solar eclipse. In part, it was a way to expose more people, with so many visitors in town, to the innovative dance company. But Case also feels Diavolo’s repertoire connects with the eclipse. Both “Passengers” and “Trajectoire,” the pieces the company will perform while in

Jackson, address journeys and change.

“Trajectoire” is a classic Diavolo piece.

Dances take place on a massive rocking ship on stage. It is described by the company as a “visceral and emotional journey through the ebb and flow of the human experience.”

“Passengers” is a new work, danced on and around a large morphing staircase and explores themes of journey, transition and the balance humans face each day as drivers and unwitting passengers.

Diavolo will also perform a duet Thursday morning near Persephone and Healthy Being Juicery, as well as at the Farmer’s Market Saturday. It’s a funny and sweet performance where a man and woman dance in, around and on top of a door, Case said.

Dancer Erin White joined Diavolo three years ago. It’s still difficult for her to come up with an answer when someone asks her to describe the type of dance Diavolo performs.

It is acrobatic, with dance theater, but at the center of it is really architecture, she said.

That refers to the large props created for Diavolo dances, but also the deeper meaning the structures used give the work.

“It’s about how we as humans interact with our environment and that’s architecture in motion,” she said.

White grew up a tumbler and in college started taking modern dance. It wasn’t until college she heard of Diavolo.

“Trajectoire” was the first piece White saw the company perform. She said she stood in her seat she was so amazed at the grace and beauty, but also the acrobatic flying

through the air. “It’s just such a spectacle and experience to watch,” she said.

Performing it takes trust and military-like precision, she said. It’s all about the connections the dancers forge on stage and being in the moment, every single time. “It feels like a life event every time you do it,” she said.

It’s an intensity that permeates the theater and gives viewers that unique experience White felt the first time she witnessed a performance from the audience.

White loves to perform the piece, but she also still marvels at it when she watches it.

The dancer happened to be part of the company when it created “Passengers.”

The piece is a rollercoaster of emotions, she said. It is serious and funny, intense and light and aggressive and beautiful.

The work doesn’t trace a straight narrative, but does follow a character that is on a transformative journey.

While neither piece was created with the eclipse in mind, White sees ways both works relate to the event. The boat in “Trajectoire” is half a sphere and there are circles used through the piece. Movement changes the impact of the spheres.

“Passengers,” meanwhile, is about change and how people digest and adapt to it.

“Do you stay as you are?” she asked.

“Or do you let your environment change you?” PJH Diavolo, Architecture in Motion, performances at 3 and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, August 18 and 19 at Center for the Arts, $45 to $55 evening tickets, $35 to $45 matinee, $25 students all performances. An open rehearsal is from 5 to 6 p.m.

Thursday, August 17 at the Center for the Arts, $10 suggested donation. Dwjh.org.

Shining Revelations TEDx Jackson Hole hosts speakers who’ve uncovered answers from living in darkness and light.

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from darkness” in the wake of a tragedy, Samford said. Works witnessed a mass shooting that killed her twin and younger sister, and has since dedicated her life to creating something meaningful out of that, Samford said. She is now studying to be a mental health counselor.

Other speakers run the gamut. One is a scientist who suggests the placebo effect is more than just a placebo effect.

“Our brains are immensely capable, and some brains are capable of creating the drug your body needs,” Samford explained.

Another speaker, Sun Dance Chief James Prosper, will compare massacres of his history to the battles Native Americans still fight today.

The evening is also full of familiar faces, like Herron’s, sharing their take on the theme. Author Alexandra Fuller will explore her upbringing in white supremacist Rhodesia. Playwright Andrew Munz narrates his time in Iceland on the “edge of the fjord.”

Singer-songwriter Beth Macintosh will take the stage with her sons Widen and Rainer Macintosh-Round for a musical interpretation of the theme.

Contemporary Dance Wyoming will explore darkness through dance.

“It’s a magic mix of performance, science, adventure, art and culture,” Samford said.

JH Wild almost hosted the event the night of the eclipse, but Samford said they realized that would be a “terrible life decision.” PJH Doors open at 5 p.m. Tuesday, August 22 at Center for the Arts. Talks begin at 7 p.m., $20 to 40. JHcenterforthearts.org.

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Such is the entry point into Herron’s talk, which she admits is still a work in progress. Her whole life, she said, has been a constant exploration of darkness and light, of grief and joy. Born, raised and educated in Minnesota, Herron left her home state in 2002. She held steady jobs, mostly in advertising, for seven years in New York, then pursued an MBA in Spain and worked in London for a year and a half “before finally moving back home in 2012 to Minnesota.”

She returned home looking for some semblance of a “normal” life. She wanted to “fit in—get married, and have kids.” But pursuits of normalcy were unsuccessful, so she packed up and got ready to leave again. Her options were to move back to NYC, move to California where she had a few friends, or “try some place completely different.”

“Completely different won,” she said.

She arrived in Jackson Hole knowing just one person. After 10 years in the professional world, she spent a winter selling tickets at the Village and skiing, and a “glorious summer waitressing and slinging cappuccinos.”

Just last fall, she started her own business, Wonderland Marketing, and is now fully living on her own terms.

“I’m taking the opportunity of working for myself to pursue more creative projects and do more writing, which is what I thought I would do back in high school and college,” said Herron, who has a BA in journalism. She has her own program on KHOL called “Opera for Everyone.” She tells her stories at local story slams. Now, she’ll tell her story on the Center stage.

Herron’s is one of the evening’s heavier talks, alongside Laurie Works. Like Herron, Works will explore “emerging

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or about two minutes on August 21, Jackson Hole will enter darkness in the middle of the day.

Then, for an hour and a half, it will come back into the light as the sun emerges from behind the moon.

The day after, 11 speakers and performers will take the stage at Center for the Arts to share what it means to live in darkness and in light. The theme of this year’s TEDx Jackson Hole is inspired by this “big, celestial opportunity” that is the eclipse, Lisa Samford, JH Wild director, said.

The theme is always intentionally vague, Samford said. This year is no different. Darkness and light mean different things to different people. Some of this year’s speakers will employ a literal understanding, like Dr. Laura Peticolas, who will share stories from her “massive citizen project” on the eclipse: a 90-minute crowd-sourced film that gives a “real-time pathway of totality,” Samford said.

Peticolas, an astronomer at UC Berkley, has asked photographers and filmmakers along the path of totality to submit their documentation so she can clock the moment of totality along the whole path.

Others speakers, like local entrepreneur Keely Herron, understand darkness and light as dual states of being.

Herron’s father committed suicide in 1999 when Herron was 25 and her brothers were still in high school. His death, and their silent suffering afterward, was shrouded in darkness.

“The stigma around suicide and mental illness piled onto the trauma because it was really hard to talk openly about it,” Herron said. “Stigma is a powerful toxic force that forces people to put on a happy face, even when they’re really suffering.”

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“Ocean’s 11” (1979) Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Adam Driver PG-13

relationship between a NASCAR driver (Sebastian Stan) and his cocky sponsor (Seth MacFarlane, radiating entitled doucheiness), or build a diversion at the prison around the inmates’ seeming inability to process how TV’s Game of Thrones has moved past George R.R. Martin’s books.

But mostly there’s the clicking engine of the heist itself, which delivers all the near misses, ingenious planning and backtracking twists that you could hope for. It’s a delight watching Craig’s drawling Joe Bang try to diagram the chemistry behind his improvised explosive, or feeling the pieces fall into place when a seemingly random bit of background business reveals itself to be part of the scheme. Like in Ocean’s Eleven, the plan here is a series of small smiles all building to the goofy grin as Soderbergh’s crisp editing pulls everything together.

It feels like a structural miscalculation that Logan Lucky spends a lot of post-robbery time on the FBI investigation—led by an agent played by Hilary Swank— including a coda that serves as an unexpected downer. Fortunately, there’s plenty of good will built up by the previous 100 minutes, showcasing the work of a filmmaker who understands how to please an audience—and is willing to come out of “retirement” to do it. PJH

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the Charlotte Motor Speedway. When his ex-wife (Katie Holmes) says she and her new husband are planning to move away, taking Jimmy’s daughter Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie) with them, Jimmy realizes he needs money either to fight in court or relocate. So with the help of his brother, Clyde (Adam Driver) and his sister, Mellie (Riley Keough)—and possibly explosives expert Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), if they can break him out of prison—Jimmy hatches a plan to rob the speedway of its cash deposits.

Efficiently doesn’t necessarily equal effectively, and if there’s anything missing from Logan Lucky, it’s a strong enough anchor in Jimmy’s relationship with Sadie. While that connection serves as an analog from a plot-driving standpoint to the Danny/Tess relationship in Ocean’s Eleven, it feels more perfunctory, even building up to a big moment when Jimmy tries to make it to Sadie’s performance at a youth pageant. The frequently-repeated idea that the Logan family is cursed— including Clyde having lost a hand while serving in the military—should make the family connections even deeper; instead, there’s rarely a sense that the movie is as interested in rich characters as it is in superficial pleasures.

Those pleasures, however, are plentiful. Soderbergh bathes Logan Lucky in its West Virginia and North Carolina settings, from community gatherings like an Easter fair to the feeling of defeat that clings to a one-time big fish in the small pond like Jimmy who didn’t live up to his potential. He’s confident enough to take a detour to focus on the strained

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teven Soderbergh never went anywhere; let’s get that out of the way right off the bat. Though in 2013 he famously announced that his thriller Side Effects would be his last theatrical feature, Soderbergh was working harder during his four-year “retirement” than many filmmakers do in an entire career. He directed 20 episodes of his Cinemax series The Knick; he served as cinematographer and editor on 2015’s Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to his own celebration of washboard abs; he executive produced three other TV series, including the adaptation of his feature The Girlfriend Experience.

Whatever gripes Soderbergh might have had—and might still have—with the state of mainstream theatrical filmmaking, he wasn’t exactly getting rusty.

His return to the big screen finds him slipping into a comfortable genre—the same kind of frisky heist caper where he had his greatest commercial success with the Ocean’s trilogy—but that doesn’t mean Logan Lucky is a case of Soderbergh on autopilot. Whatever dust he needed to shake off before delivering a barrel of fun with loads of tiny, delightful details, he left on the ground somewhere long before he got to the set.

The set-up for the centerpiece crime is dispatched efficiently in the script credited to newcomer Rebecca Blunt. Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is a one-time pro football prospect who blew out his knee and now survives picking up odd jobs like working on a construction project at

Adam Driver, Daniel Craig and Channing Tatum in Logan Lucky.

6:00pm, Town Square, Free n Festival Orchestra: Big Bang 6:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00 - $55.00, 307-733-3050 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 $68.90, 307-733-6994 n Pre-Eclipse Stargazing Party 7:00pm, Snow King Summit, $375.00, 844-9967827 n Quenby and The West of Wayland Band 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 DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion® 8:00pm, Center Theater, $27.00 - $57.00, 307733-6398 n Jack Nelson 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307733-2207 n Eclipse Talk 9:00pm, Colter Bay Visitor Center Amphitheater, Free, 307-739-3399 n Close, but no Seger 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, $10.00 - $15.00, 307-733-1500 n Live Music in The Rose 10pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500

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n Eclipse Party 9am, Roadhouse Pub & Eatery, $25 - $125, 307-413-2135 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Dornans Eclipse Viewing Patry 10am, Dornans, $50 - $100, 307-733-2415 x 300 n Great American Eclipse Viewing and Brunch 10:30am, Dreamcatcher Bed and Breakfast n After the Eclipse: Allan Morton 12pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Docent Led Tours 2:30pm, Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 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 Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307-733-2415 n Jackson Hole Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30pm, The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 $68.90, 307-733-6994 n Isaac Hayden 7:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Jack Nelson 9pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5, 307-733-2207 n Pinky and the Floyd with Special Guest WYO 9:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $17.00 - $20.00, 307-733-1500 n David Gans: Dead Eclipse 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, $5., 307-733-3886

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Barbecue & Beaujolais Don’t overlook this light red wine for your backyard bash.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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56 to 60 degrees. Dunking them in a bucket of ice for 10 to 15 minutes should do the trick.

Another reason for buying Beaujolais for barbecues is the price. Standing around the hot grill—where you might juggle a Corona in one hand and a margarita in the other—is probably not the time or place to showcase the best wines from your cellar. Save those for indoor special occasions. Beaujolais wines are relatively cheap, with even Cru Beaujolais priced at around $20, so it won’t break your barbecue budget.

All Beaujolais wines— from the Beaujolais region just south of Burgundy in France—are made using the unique Gamay grape. It’s a juicy, fruity varietal, probably akin to purple grape juice in flavor. If Nouveau Beaujolais is the young, frivolous wine of the region, Beaujolais is its workhorse. It’s a versatile wine that pairs well with grilled meat

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

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

and barbecue sauces.

Beaujolais-Villages wines are cherrycolored and taste of black currants, raspberries and strawberries. They’re good with a variety of foods; I’d suggest drinking these wines with barbecued turkey or chicken, or cold meats and pâté appetizers. Beaujolais-Villages gets its name from the 39 select villages in which it is made.

Good examples are Beaujolais-Villages from the Beaujolais standard-bearer, Georges Duboeuf, and also the consistent and light-bodied Beaujolais-Villages from Louis Jadot.

The Cru Beaujolais section of the wine store can be bewildering. That’s because each bottle of Cru Beaujolais carries the name of its Cru appellation, of which there are 10. Of these varieties of Cru Beaujolais, Brouilly is the most plentiful, but the harder-tofind Chénas is well worth tracking down.

It’s got nice structure and a woody bouquet, and is bold enough to accompany game on the grill.

So, the next time you’re buying beer, white Zinfandel and Chardonnay for your cookout, don’t forget to wander over to the Beaujolais section of the store. PJH

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ith the Labor Day holiday in view, a lot of us will soon be tending to the barbecue. I’ve noticed that whether grilling wieners, beer-can chickens, burgers, steaks or ahi tuna, people generally serve white or pink wine or beer with barbecued foods.

While beer or light wine in the backyard is a good choice, there is a flexible red wine that too often gets shunned in backyards, on patios and on the porch. It’s Beaujolais: an easy-drinking and versatile wine that’s typically an ideal match for grilled meats, poultry, veggies, fish and even game.

Beaujolais is most commonly

associated with Nouveau Beaujolais, the easy-drinking, short-lasting wine that is released around Thanksgiving and has all but disappeared from the shelves by spring. If you’re lucky enough to track down Nouveau Beaujolais by summer, its light, fruity style is a slam-dunk for sipping around the Weber.

However, Nouveau Beaujolais is just one of the Gamay grape-based Beaujolais wines, lingering at the lowest tier in terms of both quality and price. In ascending order, there is also Beaujolais, Beaujolais-Villages and Cru Beaujolais. Any or all of these would be welcome additions to the backyard bar.

One thing to remember when serving red wines outdoors in warm weather is that temperature control is essential. Hot red wine tastes unfocused and alcoholic. On the other hand, icecold red wine tastes dull. So, ideally, you want to serve summer reds like Beaujolais at around

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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.

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

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

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

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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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.

160 N. Millward

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

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.

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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.

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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.

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

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

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

Reservations are highly recommended.

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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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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.

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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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WATCH YOUR TUBE

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.

Attention Floaters •

Per Town of Jackson municipal code:

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No trespassing on private lands.

Open alcohol containers are strictly prohibited on Flat Creek.

Dogs are prohibited in public parks.

No dogs at large.

Public urination is prohibited.

Please respect private property at all times. Utilize designated public access locations when accessing Flat Creek.

Be considerate of neighbors and environment by limiting noise and disturbance to riparian habitat.

Respect wildlife.

Glass containers are prohibited. Please dispose of garbage in designated receptacles.

Float at your own risk – no safety personnel present. Dangerous and swift flowing cold water, low clearance bridges shallow Respect our community! water occur in some locations.

For additional information and maps of public access points the Town of Jackson or the Parks and Recreation Department: www.townofjackson.com or www.tetonparksandrec.org

L.A.TIMES “MUSIC EXCHANGE” By ADAM T. COBB

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017

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Spiced rice Idle in sketches Popular tablet Potential replacement sites Mexican marinade Former Cubs slugger “__ cloud in the sky, Got the sun in my eyes ... ”: Carpenters lyric 21 ’50s pol Stevenson 23 Starting blocks user 24 Rejects 26 Wikipedia policy 27 Chinese tea 28 Author Harte 30 Janus-inspired stringed instrument?

32 Tiny colony defender 34 Safari sight 35 School interlude 36 Pkg. payment methods 37 Used a dugout 39 Top note in a common triad 40 Airer of old MGM films 43 Task for roadies?

46 Cross 47 Text ender?

48 SEC Network owner 49 Employs 51 The Willis in Chicago, for one 52 Contempt 54 Discontinue 57 Spirit of Saint-Louis?

58 Join 59 Deprived (of) 61 One of the U.S.’s 435 63 Radii, e.g.

65 Bit of criticism from Ravi Shankar?

70 Have faith in 73 Require treatment, perhaps 74 Britain’s Penny Black and Two Penny Blue 78 Legislate

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Voting coalition Quarter of a bushel Red, yellow or white veggie Like certain gases Envisioned being Transient with a bindle PC dial-up upgrade Skin product enhancement Percussionist’s answer to “When do you practice?”?

97 __ gibbon: zoo animal 98 A.L. East squad 101 Delivery on deliverance 102 “Now I get it!”

103 Cold-weather wear 106 Appearance 107 Tariffed goods 110 Hi-hat for high society?

113 She, in Capri 114 “Science Guy” Bill 115 “The King and I” group 116 They have ideas 118 “Cheese!” consequence 120 Not bottled 121 Dark genre 122 Biblical brother 123 In shape 124 Places to get in shape 125 Polish, in a way 126 Gambit 127 Some MIT grads

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Glyceride, for one Force into ignominious retreat Mideast nation: Abbr.

Baja bar World’s largest island country

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12 Clashing 13 End zone celebrations 14 “Water Music” composer 15 Hollywood faves 16 Goes for the gold 17 __ City, Iraq 22 Expert’s conclusion?

25 “Just Do It” logo 29 Breaks 31 Novelist Umberto 33 Classic O’Brien 121-Across film 34 Black or yellow pet 37 Red coin?

38 Laura of “Jurassic Park” 41 Labyrinth site of myth 42 Parisian parents 43 Tatting fabric 44 PC options 45 Genesis and Dreamcast 46 Arizona desert 47 Thumb drive port 50 Pak of the LPGA 51 What Tubby brushes with?

53 Get more out of 55 Ball 56 Little, in Lille 60 Finest 62 Harper Valley org.

64 Cascade components: Abbr.

66 Blubbers 67 Zhou __ 68 Bit from a bottle 69 Flamenco shout 70 Concerning kidneys 71 __ Gay: WWII bomber 72 Group once led by Meir and Rabin 75 When some late risers get started 76 Model act 77 NBC skit show

80 Admits, with “up” 81 Creamy French cheese 83 Actor/stuntman Jackie 84 “MASH” milieu: Abbr.

88 Damascus denizen 90 Rays 94 Ore refinery 95 __ compos mentis 96 Bar opening?

98 Outdoes 99 Approves 100 Wisconsin city on Lake Michigan 104 Mr. T’s troop 105 Layer in ecclesiastical governance 107 Give out 108 Tenth American president 109 Planted pips 110 “I’m Dying Up Here” airer, for short 111 Sharpness 112 XIX x LIII 113 Ballpark figs.

117 The Beavers of the Pac-12 119 Calendar abbr.

Spectacle with a Higher Purpose From a metaphysical perspective, solar eclipses compel us to reassess the quality of our internal and external lives, to clear out what no longer serves us, and to make room for what’s new on the cosmic horizon. By interrupting the normal rhythms of life on earth, eclipses catalyze a celestial push for us to let go of what’s no longer supporting the greatest good of all. Letting go creates the opening for more evolved possibilities to present themselves. This applies to individuals, groups, and nations and to the earth herself.

Changes are afoot

Rebooting the psyche

Upgrading the mind is knowing that our beliefs inform the universe what to bring into our experience. Limiting beliefs equal limited possibilities. The ability to let go of outdated beliefs about yourself, about life, about others, equate to an open mind. Always ask yourself: “Is it true?” Your body and your heart will tell you. The mind can make up a reason for anything.

Waking up spiritually is the process of reconnecting with the higher intelligence, love and wisdom of the soul, and relearning how to communicate with and be guided by that vast, brilliant truth of who we are, while continuing to live in this more limited physical world. It is our challenging task in this earthly experiment to integrate body, mind and spirit to become truly conscious beings, plugged into the source and guided by the soul. Cultivating an open heart is the connection to the soul. A compassionate, loving, accepting and forgiving heart is the ticket. We are all capable of this shift from fear to love, no matter what has gone down.

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America’s higher destiny The Great American Solar Eclipse is also offering our country the choice to align to the next step of its higher destiny. Doing our individual “homework” contributes directly to this larger opportunity. The United States is meant to be a beacon for the world upholding universal truths which support the highest fulfillment for all the world’s peoples.

Right now the evolutionary leap facing this country (and all of humanity) requires replacing competition with collaboration and separation with inclusion, allowing everyone to contribute and thrive. The power of a loving collective consciousness creates the platform on which the full blossoming of this country, the planet and all her inhabitants can manifest. This is what is meant by co-creating heaven on earth, or the ascension, or the new paradigm.

A positive big picture

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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Consider that this eclipse passing over us and our country, and all the rock ‘n’ roll in the world, is part of a benevolent higher plan assisting the global realignment to a higher purpose. We are here now with the invitation to consciously participate in this unprecedented evolutionary process.

May you welcome the opportunity of this new moon solar eclipse by allowing the gentle release of whatever is holding back your evolution. Together, and with the help of higher beings of light, we will embody our highest human potential and co-create a new world. PJH

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Clearing the psyche includes making peace with the past. This is about forgiveness, letting go of the hurts, grudges, disappointments which we store in our physical bodies and continue to carry with us. Harboring upsets is like condo-sharing with the perpetrators; the energy continues to undermine our physical and emotional health and seriously limits higher possibilities for our lives. Clearing the psyche also means putting the ego in the passenger seat of our lives. The ego is what gets offended; the soul is fine.

To start releasing things you’ve been harboring, you might experiment with the proven power of the following four simple phrases from the Hawaiian forgiveness practice called Ho’oponopono The phrases are: “I am sorry; please forgive me; thank you; I love you.” You can say these to

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These celestial events are not random. They are intelligently designed predictable occurrences whose powerful energies deliver a clear cosmic message to upgrade. This is why some cultures feared eclipses; they knew eclipses meant big changes are near. Now we have a heads up and can willingly prepare by doing our inner “homework,” so that big changes can unfold with relative ease. Every person is exposed to these potent celestial energies and everyone’s choice to calibrate to a higher purpose matters. Our inner “closets” do not need to be perfectly cleared… but enough to allow the upgrade.

The push to reboot is most potent in the part of the world where the total eclipse is visible. If you are here in Jackson, that means us. You’ll then take the energy wherever you are. It’s notable that from a metaphysical perspective, the Greater Yellowstone Region is considered the heart center of the energy grids assisting the evolution of the planet.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “If you love someone, set them free,” New Age author Richard Bach said. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies.

Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves might motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In 1892, workers began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) How many countries has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Congratulations! I expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls “the light of focused insight” and “the playful, blissful, all-embracing experience of joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The coming days would an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher.

I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I might channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your education might take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease.

And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Here’s a definition of “fantasizing” as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’—imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows? That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits,” philosopher Gaston Bachelard said.

This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you’ll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion—never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul’s lust for deeper, wilder life.

Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thoughtout, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You know about the 10 Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that’s central to Christianity and Judaism.

You might not be familiar with my 10 Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.” Then there are the 10 Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You temporarily have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity, because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings.

But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In accordance with the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them—with gifts and heart-felt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In 43 cartoon stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly-complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.

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