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12 COVER STORY JUNK FOOD NEWS Framing and Avatars in the Post Truth Age

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Indian Summer weather usually comes along at some point during October, usually following a stretch of cooler, wetter, more wintery-type weather. We are barely halfway into the month now, and I would think we must be due for at least a few sunnier and warmer than normal days before Halloween arrives.

Especially since the first 10 days of October were far from anything close to what we could call Indian Summer weather.

The low temperature this past Monday morning in Jackson was 16-degrees. That was not a record low, the record on that date is 7-degrees set back in 1968. However, that was our first foray down into the teens, so far, this fall. It was also well below the average low temperature for this week, which is 25-degrees. Our record low this week is also seven degrees, that was set back on October 11th, 1987. A good dose of Indian Summertype weather would be a welcome.

The high temperature in Jackson this past Sunday was only 41-degrees. That is not what you would call “hot” for early October. That is more like what the average highs would be here in mid-November. “Normal” high temperatures for this time of year are a full 20 degrees warmer than that. The record high this week, or what would actually be considered “hot” for this time of year, is 80-degrees, set back on October 11th, 1996.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.17 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 5 inches (2016) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 1.5 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 18 inches

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A few days ago, I was walking my dog up to Ski Lake. A quarter-mile into our walk, three unleashed dogs come bounding down the trail toward us, followed at a distance by two couples (one of which with a small baby).

One of the three dogs starts to hump mine, while the other two start growling - playfully at first, then more aggressively - and nipping at my dog, who all-the-while is on his leash. I yell up the trail for these people to “come get your dogs” and one of the women starts running toward us, telling me that I need to “keep walking” and that her dogs won’t bother mine if I just kept walking. (As if knowing how her dogs behave is my responsibility.)

I angrily ask her, “Why aren’t your dogs on a leash?!” And she screams back, “because they don’t have to be!”

“If they behave like this, they do,” I respond.

“Fuck you,” she screams.

I was dumbfounded.

Here’s the deal. I work at an animal shelter. My dog is a pitbull. I know how these situations can play out, and while their dogs ran up unleashed and started messing with mine, if something were to happen and one of the dogs was hurt in a fight, I would be blamed simply because my dog is a pit. I’m irritated by the callous disregard for other people and animals using shared trails and spaces. The entitlement of so many Jackson pet-owners—and parents—that allow the living creatures in their care to run amok, assuming

SINGLE-TRACK MIND

Well, this is it, the final installment of the Singletrack Report for 2017. The weather looks pretty good for the next week so I hope everyone gets out and enjoys some short sections of trails before they’re covered in snow.

But, once they are covered, don’t despair. Try a snow bike. Seriously. They’re fun. And they complement skiing almost perfectly. When the weather is high and dry and the skiing is subpar, that’s the perfect time to go ride. Most of the shops in town demo bikes, and our trail network keeps improving every year with grooming and more people using the trails. Pick a day when conditions are good -- less than 4” of new snow with consistently cold temps -- and take a bike for a spin. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how similar it is to mountain biking on really good dirt.

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Just like every other winter aerobic sport, dress in layers, and don’t be shy about donning and doffing them as needed. Wear a helmet. The trees, both standing and fallen, are just as hard in the winter as in the summer.

Stay hydrated and fed. This can be hard, as water tends to freeze, so keep a bottle or Camelbak under your layers to keep it warm. Look ahead while riding to stay in the narrow track, use your core to stabilize and maintain a smooth pedal stroke keeping weight on your rear wheel for climbing traction. Thanks for reading!

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that everyone else is to be responsible for choices that they themselves have made, is exhausting. It reflects poorly on the community.

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22 - 360 Crucial Matters Underneath the beauty, horrendous matters exist in Jackson

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our community, and unfortunately, for years these groups opposed to commercial development have been successful to thwart innovations. The result is a disproportionate distribution of wealth that we face today.

Until we seriously consider that tourism as well as construction cannot be the main resources of income in Teton County, and if we do not plan for other sources of revenues, the wealth disparities will not budge. We need a middle class, which would add significant diversity to the valley enterprises and consequently provide higher levels of revenue. Until this happens, seasonal and low wageworkers will remain predominant.

Perhaps we should promote ourselves as an innovative business area. Several communities in the Mountain West have done it with great success. In Jackson, though, we have never had an economic development road map, and we move along with our good fortunes, relying on the fact that Yellowstone is a wonder of the world, that Rockefeller and Albright created Teton National Park and that a Californian named Paul Mc Callister had the brilliant vision to create a unique ski resort. Since those days, though, then the well of innovation has dried up.

Another thought comes to my mind that some may see as preposterous: We should include in our county and town budgets the promotion of Jackson Hole has a non-environmental impactful business destination. It is a pipe dream at the moment because the housing market makes it an impossibility to provide adequate lodgings even for people moving in with a $200,000 dollar salary. In Jackson Hole, convictions are many and exchanges of viewpoints are often confrontational.

I recently attended a private gathering of well-meaning citizens who advocated that civil communications in this county are a must if we want to move forward on primordial issues. It is a noble endeavor, but we need some mass education on that practice. I only have to watch town

necessity to have civil dialogues and altruistic behavior toward our Latino population: All those points are vital if we sincerely want to be a more equitable place to live. PJH Yves Desgouttes was born in France, became a US Citizen in 1990 and a permanent JH resident in 1995. He served a stint in the French Mountain Commandos before studying at Southampton and Oxford. He is a former Alpine ski racer with a career that has spanned several fields and countries: a geologist in Canada, a trader and financier in London and New York.

He has owned and operated two lodging properties in Jackson and now owns office buildings in the area. He is married with four grown up children, four grandchildren and two cats.

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s I am looking out of my window to the distant mountains that are already speckled with snow, I cannot help but to feel blessed that I live here all year round and that I can experience the changes of the four seasons. It brings to my mind one of the horrendous realities existing in Jackson Hole.

Anywhere from 35 to 40 percent of the habitations in our county are occupied less than a month out of the year, a fact that must upset people commuting every day from Lincoln County and Idaho.

In Whistler, British Columbia, regulations impose a tax on homeowners who leave their house empty more than ten months a year. The owners pay proportionally to their period of absence. I believe that we should consider something similar. The proceeds could finance affordable housing. It would be very unpopular with the homeowners who would be taxed, but it could prompt some of them to offer their empty houses to local people who seeking accommodations, which would not only ensure the property is looked after, but also help to solve the lodging problem.

Since we are in Wyoming, most of the taxes we want to levy in Teton County have to be approved by big brother in Cheyenne. It could be circumvented if the Land Development Regulations of the county were modified to include the taxation. Just a thought.

As I write these words it does go through my mind that I am bound to generate some negative and positive reactions, but I’ll risk the kickback to be true to my beliefs as a garden-variety person who gets troubled when the deck of cards is skewed, and injustice becomes too flagrant toward regular people.

I also want to bring to the fore two words that affect the quality of life in our county: Commercial and business.

These two words are prejudicially, in my opinion, viewed as anathema in this valley. Any mention of commercial development provokes a knee jerk reaction of disapproval from certain groups in

and county public hearings to witness that feelings are mostly expressed in non-conciliatory manners, and one can feel the smoldering aggressiveness underneath the exchanges. We need to respect other viewpoints but agreeing to disagree cannot be a solution. We have to reconcile our differences. The existence of our community is at stake.

On a separate issue, I have always been concerned about our isolation from the rest of the country. Does our geographic position makes us cut off from the rest of the nation? Our working folks were certainly not spared from the 2007 worldwide economic upheaval. We can observe through the media’s national and world coverage, but we are insulated from most upheavals.

Nevertheless, events do catch up with us. Our Latino population has to live in fear of being arrested and deported by ICE with the devastating consequence of destroying their families. A simple act the rest of us take for granted, such as filling out any kind of form or legal document, can become an act sealing their fate. A simple visit to the Emergency Room at the hospital could be the start of proceedings for deportations. Those people are our brothers and sisters and make this valley function and we have to protect them because we respect and appreciate them. If there were no demands for them, they would not have come here in the first place.

The hypocrisy that we show has to stop. A recent poll organized by a local paper asked: “What should congress do about the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,” or DACA?” It showed that 51 percent of the local people were in favor of, and I quote, “Let the program expire and the country’s undocumented youth CAN FADE INTO THE SHADOWS OR BE DEPORTED.” I found this response by our community absolutely nauseating for a county that prides itself to be one of most charitable in the nation.

Still, all is not lost: We have several non-profit organizations that take care of the many needs of our Latino population, and they show that decency has not completely disappeared from our valley.

Long term empty real estate properties, need for new economic stimuli,

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DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS Coincidence and Quantum Politics in the Age of Trump What “War and Peace,” umbrellas, and antifascists tell us about the way we understand the world

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few moments before Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner, Chair and Co-Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, respectively, came out to present an update on their investigation into Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 election, a man walked out carrying a large cardboard sign—not a protest sign, but the clip-arty press-conference explainers that are always terrible but expensive looking.

The board laid out the extent of the committee’s investigation—they interviewed more than 100 people for more than 250 hours in 11 open hearings.

Then, with a clip-art picture of a book, it says “100K PAGES of Documents Read,” and below that, with no real explanation of the link: “80+ COPIES of War and Peace.”

As it turns out, that was the most interesting part of the presentation, which was, essentially, like a news report that brags about how much reporting was done, without actually telling the story. There was no new information.

I kept wondering if there was some hidden meaning in the poster. It was, after all, an example they were using in their hearing on Russian hacking. Given the paranoia surrounding Russian meddling, the “War and Peace” reference makes it seem as if even Tolstoy

Sen. Mark Warner at Press Briefing on Russian Meddling

was in on the scheme, or the committee spent a lot of time looking into the Napoleonic War of 1812.

Maybe some staffer made an inside joke, or more likely, it was just because “War and Peace” is a big book. Warner’s office thought it was a good question, but had no answers, saying that the chair’s office created it. I wrote and called Burr’s office numerous times and got no response.

But as I stood in the back of the crowded briefing room listening to the senators take credit for the work their staffers were doing, I couldn’t help but stare at the clip-art book beside “War and Peace” and ponder how, when you look at something too long, it splinters into millions of micro-realities.

I found myself thinking of “The Umbrella Man,” Errol Morris’ mini-documentary about a man who was seen in the footage of the crowds along the motorcade route in Dallas on the day that Kennedy was assassinated .

The film starts with a man in a black suit, holding an umbrella, walking. It cuts to Josiah Thompson, who made ‘Six Seconds in Dallas,” a film examining the assassination in great detail, explaining the Umbrella Man. “And then I noticed in all of Dallas there appears to be exactly one person standing under an open black umbrella and that person is standing where the shots begin to rain into the limousine,” he says. “Can anyone come up with a non-sinister explanation for this?”

Every sort of conspiracy sprung up.

In a Talk of The Town piece in Dec. 1967, John Updike offered a philosophical rumination on the Umbrella Man and Thompson’s micro-examination of the photographs and films of Dallas that day.

“It’s as if there’s the macro level of historical research where things sort of obey natural laws and usual things happen and unusual things don’t happen and then there’s this other level where everything is really weird,” Thompson says in the film, paraphrasing Updike.

In Updike’s piece, he ends the passage Thompson cites by declaring that the search for the truth about the few seconds when Kennedy was killed “seems to demonstrate how perilously empiricism verges on magic.”

It seems like everyone is lost in some form of magical thinking at the moment, digging deep into their favored minutiae and ignoring everything else.

When Thompson found the man with the umbrella, he came to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

“He explained then why he had opened the umbrella and was standing there that day,” Thompson said. “The open umbrella was a kind of protest. A visual protest. It wasn’t a protest of any of John Kennedy’s policies of president.

It was a protest of the appeasement policies of Joseph P. Kennedy, John Kennedy’s father.”

The Umbrella Man was an anti-fascist activist.

And that’s another of these strange coincidences, because the 200 protesters—many of whom are also anti-fascist activists— being charged with conspiracy to riot use an umbrella as the emblem of their Defend J20 campaign.

Like the Umbrella Man, man of them wore black. Like the Umbrella Man, they carried umbrellas. But unlike the Umbrella Man, they are being criminally charged for their umbrellas.

“Participants in the ‘black bloc’ often bring items that can serve a dual purpose (i.e., a sign that can double as a

shield, a large banner that can be used to project a message and block the passage of police trying to carry out an arrest, or an umbrella that can also be used to deflect pepper spray),” the government’s recently filed notice that they would call an expert in the trials of the defendants, which begin Nov. 20.

On Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, it was not raining. In Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day, it was. If someone is spraying you with pepper spray and you have an umbrella and you don’t use it, you are insane.

The world saw the same kind of storm-trooper police violence that was used against the Inauguration protesters during the Catalonian referendum a couple weeks ago. People there are deeply anti-fascist. I was there reporting on the cannabis clubs just before the Inauguration and many people I talked to linked the clubs, which they consider associations, to the anarchist collectives before the long fascist regime of Franco.

For them, a government that tells you that you can’t associate or do what you will with your own body, is fascist.

Anna Obredors, a consultant I talked to, was convicted this week for drug trafficking for working in one of the clubs. It was, she says, devastating. But the larger political situation is just as frightening.

“It’s scary,” she wrote me. “Spanish state is about to send the army here if the independence is declared on the coming days... and it doesn’t seem Europe will be helping... after a century we feel somehow like our grandpas did on 1936... weird and scary.” PJH Baynard Woods is a reporter for the nonprofit Real News Network. Contact b a y n ard@d e m o c ra c y in c r i si s .c om , Twitter @baynardwoods

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What Is Wild?

Let us hope JH tourism board succeeds in its ad campaign

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“Stay Wild,” she says, is merely the start of a campaign that the tourism board hopes will result in connecting visitors to conservation groups working to protect Greater Yellowstone.

The Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board already knows that summer tourism needs no more promotion. That’s why it has focused its marketing spends on bolstering the shoulder seasons of fall and spring.

In fact, the outdoor recreation confab known as SHIFT was originally hatched by the tourism board to bring more people here in autumn. Today, SHIFT bills itself as a springboard for social discussions on the intersection of outdoor recreation and conservation.

More and more people, however, are questioning whether SHIFT organizers understand how industrial strength recreation and more people inundating the frontcountry and backcountry are affecting Greater Yellowstone’s wildlife and the character of its wild landscapes.

“Stay Wild” is certain to attract more people to Greater Yellowstone. It may also accomplish something else equally as important, however, fueling a better conversation about the value of real wildness.

If “Stay Wild” really does result in visitors becoming more committed to protecting Greater Yellowstone, it could be game changing, because at the moment most tourism marketers in the region treat conservation of wild country only as an afterthought. PJH

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he says, is lack of reflection. The piece promotes the pursuit of wild human behavior, with wildness of place treated only as window dressing.

It’s a complaint that’s also been leveled at many outdoor gear manufacturers and retailers.

“I’m concerned with how our culture increasingly equates the wild as only about human needs and adventure.

Wildness is just as much about having the humility to restrain ourselves, including prioritizing other species needs over our own desires,” he said.

Wildlife (the very basis of Greater Yellowstone’s uniqueness and foundation of its nature-tourism economy) has limits of tolerance, thresholds for the amount of disruption species can handle from humans.

“Whether the Muries, the Craigheads, or many others, Jackson Hole has played a nationally significant role over many decades with wilderness thought and action,” Aengst said. “So, while I’m not in the marketing business, I’d like to think that the town would want to encourage visitors to come and ‘stay wild’ in more than just an adrenalin thrills context.”

Kate Sollitt, who serves as executive director of the tourism board, and I had an excellent conversation. The goal of “Stay Wild” is to differentiate Jackson Hole from Aspen and Vail by emphasizing its wild grittier edge.

She’s well aware of the low rumble building out there, growing steadily toward a roar, with people saying Greater Yellowstone doesn’t need a greater volume of visitors; it needs to have more conscientious souls drawn to wildness becoming more aware of the ecosystem’s specialness and fragility.

Sollitt doesn’t disagree.

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A screenshot featuring wild Jackson, complete with buffalo, from the new “Stay Wild” campaign by the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board.

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t’s a tough thing being an official tourism promoter in a town that, for several months each year, bursts at the seams with outsiders. Jackson at certain times during the year attracts a tsunami of visitors who, besides making cash registers sing, invade the solace of community; jam roads; fill public spaces; and cause locals to dive for cover.

I’m talking here not only about local people, but local wildlife with whom we share the woods.

No matter what one does, in fulfilling one’s duty, which is telling the world that the place you are pitching is an astounding one to be, a tourism promoter can’t fully win.

By now, you may have heard about the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board’s new advertising campaign. It’s called “Stay Wild” and as a creative execution

by Minneapolis-based Colle McVoy, it’s brilliant.

In some ways, it’s also controversial. In other says, “Stay Wild” is a bold gamble that, if it works, could paradoxically appease the growing number of local people worried about the future of wildness in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

“Stay Wild” is reminiscent of Apple’s famous “1984” spot for its MacIntosh computer that aired during a Super Bowl.

It touted the virtue of tearing down the barriers of old thinking.

The 90-second “Stay Wild” spot features words lifted from Charlie Chaplin’s monologue in “The Great Dictator.” It proclaims the uplifting wholesomeness of escaping into wild nature and finding the freedom to do basically whatever one wants, shedding the limiting shackles of urban existence.

The ad flashes a heart-pumping gamut of outdoor recreation pursuits, intermixed with images of wildlife, including grizzlies, intended to symbolize how wild our region is.

Peter Aengst, northern Rockies director of The Wilderness Society, is among many who were left nonplused.

Inherent in the message of “Stay Wild”,

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Puerto Rico National Guard members are assisting communities as Puerto Ricans try to get to their homes in the flooded area after the path of Hurricane Maria.

Two Islands A Jackson resident and Puerto Rican native works to help one of her islands rebuild.

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hey say that living in Jackson is like living on an island.

If that’s true, then Lina Collado has lived on two islands, one of which was just devastated by the most powerful hurricane to hit its shores in 30 years.

Hurricane Maria has left all of Puerto Rico without electricity. It tore the walls off of Collado’s sister’s apartment, and the roof off her brother’s house.

“The destruction is something out of a war zone,” Collado said.

The Puerto Rican native is safe in her land-locked island home in Jackson, but as soon as the hurricane hit, she knew she had to do something. Then as she watched the federal government do nothing, in her eyes, the urgency grew.

“FEMA is not reaching communities,” she said. “The money the government keep saying it’s sending, is not seen. It’s extremely frustrating. “ So Collado organized her own drive to make even a small dent in relief efforts. It’s up to Puerto Ricans living in the states, she said, to do the work the U.S. government has not.

Collado collected donation items last Monday through Wednesday at the Teton Literacy Center before finding another Puerto Rican living in Jackson (there are a lot, she’s learning), Andy, with the same idea.

They combined forces, and sent the first box to Aguadilla on a private plane provided by an NGO helping with relief.

The the second shipment began its journey last night, stocked with 600 bottled waters, nine boxes of diapers, canned food, baby formula, mosquito repellant, hygienic goods… the list goes on.

“Being so far from home, I didn’t know what else to do,” Collado said.

And watching the news isn’t providing any relief. The Trump administration has been under scrutiny for not doing enough, quickly enough, in the wake of such a devastating storm.

Trump has requested an additional $12.8 billion for Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster fund, and $16 billion for debt relief for the federal flood insurance program.

But Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló requested another $4.6 billion last week “to meet the immediate emergency needs of Puerto Rico,” he wrote in a letter made public last week.

Meanwhile, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yunlín Cruz has repeatedly criticized the president for turning the disaster into a publicity stunt. In a visit to Puerto Rico last week, Trump joked that Puerto Rico had “thrown our budget a little out of whack,” and said compared to Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Maria was hardly a disaster.

“You can be proud,” Trump said, that only 16 people had been confirmed dead, compared to the “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of people that died in Katrina and its wake.

Trump was also broadcast while throwing rolls of paper towel out to a Puerto Rican, much like a concert hype-man throwing out band t-shirts.

He tweeted that Puerto Ricans “want everything done for them.”

In fact, Collado said, Puerto Ricans have done everything. They have no choice. “[Trump] said Puerto Ricans are sitting and waiting,” Collado said. “That’s the farthest thing from the truth. They’re going out, helping their families, their neighbors. They’re not sleeping.”

The Trump administration did lift the Jones Act for 10 days. The nearly 100 year old act, written in response to World War I German U-Boats, mandates that foreign ships carrying goods and passengers into Puerto Rico must either pay tariffs and taxes, the burden of which falls on Puerto Rican taxpayers, or dock in Jacksonville, Florida and transfer all of the goods onto an American-made ship with an American crew. The cost, in both cases, falls on Puerto Rican residents.

According to the New York Times, the cost of goods shipped to Puerto Rico from the U.S. is at least double that for neighboring islands.

But the 10-day suspension expired Sunday night, which means that Puerto Ricans will once again have to pay higher shipping costs to import relief

goods. Arizona Senator John McCain drafted a bill to permanently do away with the Jones Act, and told HuffPost it is “more important than ever” to make the bill a law.

Collado sees McCain’s bill as one of the “only things that can help us.”

“The island is already broke,” she said. “Now its devastated.”

Collado’s friends and family back home are safe, for now. She plans to travel home as soon as she can to provide hands-on, boots on the ground relief.

“I can’t wait to go home,” she said, though she admits she doesn’t know how to fully prepare herself to see her home in ruins.

“It’s a very shocking reality,” Collado said. She can hear the devastation in her family’s voices when she reaches them on the phone.

“You want to start crying,” she said.

“But you can’t. You have to get up and do something.”

Her family’s strength is transferrable—it gives her strength, too. The burden of relief has fallen on Puerto Ricans, but they can handle it, she says.

“We have to keep fighting, keep working our butts off,” Collado said. “I think it’s up to us.” PJH The goods drive is over, but Collado suggests making relief donations to the Maria Fund MariaFund.org.

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These two horses look thinner than usual, Bobbi and Ken Eva think.

The couple has alleged abuse against Heart 6 Ranch.

Horse Cruelty Deja-Vu Allegations of animal cruelty made against a local ranch

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eton County Sheriff’s Department has been alerted to yet another case of suspected animal cruelty against two horses on Heart 6 Guest Ranch.

It’s the second case in almost as many months, but the laws haven’t changed since August, which means there’s likely not a lot law enforcement can do.

Bobbi and Ken Eva photographed the horses, who they believe to be starving, and reported them to the sheriff’s office Monday morning. They thought the horses looked emaciated.

“It’s obvious they’re not getting fed,” Bobbi said.

The couple drives past the horses regularly. One of them, a 13-year old pony, the couple is personally familiar with. Ken is an equine dentist, and worked on the ranch’s horses under its previous owners.

They bought the pony in 2008, he recalls, and in fact was overweight most of its life.

“That pony is something that is hard to keep the weight off of,” Ken said.

“They didn’t have any problem keeping that pony fat,” Bobbi echoed.

The pony is 13 years old—far too young to be so thin. “That’s the prime of his life,” Bobbi said. And metabolisms on ponies are different. Slower. “He had to have missed a lot of meals to get in that condition.”

But, like with Forest Stearns’ case, the sheriff’s department now has to prove

malicious intent to harm the animal.

Stearns, whose horse died after an incident that looked to many like abuse, is awaiting a January trial, but maintains custody of his animals.

In this case, even less evidence exists against Heart 6 Ranch “They cared for at least the minimum standard,” deputy Kurt Drumheller (otherwise known as Deputy Dab) said.

The horses had food, water, and shelter from the elements when officers went to investigate. The absence of any one of those things might have qualified as neglect under state statue—but the presence of all of them makes for a pretty weak case. Still, Drumheller says the sheriff’s department will investigate as thoroughly as they can.

But Bobbi says you don’t need to know the law to see that the horses are starving.

“It doesn’t take a lot to see that they’re not fine,” she said. “I can’t imagine that anybody, horse people or not, could look at that animal and go, oh, isn’t he cute, and not notice the bones protruding.”

And with winter quickly closing in, Bobbi worries about the horses’ futures.

“Horses can’t maintain body temperature without calories,” she said. “They need calories just to maintain life, otherwise they’ll just keep getting more and more emaciated.”

The case has been passed on to animal cruelty officer Doug Raffleson.

There are still things Raffleson can investigate, like medical history and other living conditions.

Animal cruelty is a misdemeanor in Wyoming, punishable by a maximum six months in jail and $750 fine. But the Eva’s are less concerned with the legal repercussions than the horses themselves.

“Law enforcement, they’ve got their hands tied,” Bobbi said. “Horses are our thing. Someone has to stick up for the horses.” PJH

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Ebony Woody, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, was nothing if not thorough on the morning of Sept. 18 when, following an argument with her daughter, she purposely drove her car onto the sidewalk and struck the 17-year-old, who was walking to school, according to Columbus police. After knocking the girl down and running over her leg, Woody stopped and backed up, driving over the leg a second time. QFM96 reported Woody generously gave the girl a ride to her father’s house, where she dropped her off without reporting the incident.

Woody later turned herself in at police headquarters and faces charges of felonious assault, aggravated vehicular assault and endangering children. The daughter was treated for two fractures to her left leg.

Animals on the Lam

n Just north of Benton, Kansas, a rancher posted signs promising a reward to anyone who could help him find his missing longhorn cow, Mercedes. The Wichita Eagle reported the 3-year-old black-and-white bovine went missing on Sept. 11 during Cross Trails, a weekly cowboy church service at Greg Johnson’s Prairie Rose Ranch. Friends, neighbors and family have searched high and low for Mercedes, recognizable by her 5-foot-wide horns, but the only sighting of her has been near the El Dorado, Kansas, Walmart, about 10 miles away. Johnson says this isn’t the first time she’s run off: “She is more of a loner.”

Questionable Judgment

Cable television viewers in Orange County, California, were stunned on the morning of Sept. 21 when an ominous message accompanied by an “Emergency Alert” banner flashed on the screen. At increased volume, a man’s voice boomed: “Realize this, extremely violent times will come,” said viewer Stacy Laflamme of Lake Forest, who was watching HGTV on the Cox Communications cable system. Spectrum customers also received the alert. The warning seemed especially timely given that doomsday writer David Meade had predicted the end of the world “as we know it” to occur two days later. Laflamme told the Orange County Register the message “sounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television.” Dennis Johnson, a spokesman for Spectrum, said: “We have confirmed that we were fed an incorrect audio file,” but neither company could determine where the audio had come from.

Bright Ideas

Kevin Michael Cook, 24, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, was too drunk to drive on Sept. 3, so he enlisted the help of an 8-year-old girl. WPXI News reports the girl told Darlington Township police that Cook, a family friend, ordered her into a car at her grandmother’s house and forced her to drive him toward East Palestine, Ohio. The car stopped after nearly wrecking twice, as bystanders called 911.

Police tried to give Cook a sobriety test, but he was too impaired to finish it. He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, driving under the influence and driving without a license. n Prosecutors in Geneva, Switzerland, are looking for the culprits who flushed about $100,000 in 500-euro notes down four toilets in the city in May—one in the vault area of the UBS Bank, and the other three in nearby bistros.

While neither throwing money away nor blocking a toilet is a crime, Vincent Derouand of the Geneva Prosecutor’s Office told the Tribune de Geneve, “we want to be sure of the origin of the money.” The cash was confiscated during the investigation, but Derouand said there was no immediate reason to think it was dirty money.

Government in Action

Texas state Rep. Dawnna Dukes’ corruption trial is scheduled for Oct. 16, when she will face charges of giving a taxpayer-funded raise to a legislative aide as compensation for ferrying Dukes’ daughter between school and home. The Austin American-Statesman reports that prosecutors in Travis County also plan to present evidence of 19 additional “extraneous acts,” including accusations that Dukes spent $51,000 in taxpayer money on an online psychic, was absent for roll call 65 percent of the time, and appeared impaired at a House committee meeting when she showed up late, explaining: “I know I’m talking a lot. I’m full of morphine and will be headed out of here soon.”

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A family in Coventry, England, are “quite mortified” after calling the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in September to rescue a lizard peeking from underneath a bed in their home. But when officer Vic Hurr arrived at the home, she discovered the “lizard” was not a “lizard at all, it was a pink stripy sock.” The dirty imposter sock, about 7 inches long and 2 inches wide, wasn’t moving, Hurr noted. “I think the family eventually saw the funny side,” an RSPCA spokeswoman told the Independent. “The sock had obviously been there quite a while. It was a typical teenager’s bedroom, I suppose.”

The Weird Apocalypse

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Coolidge, Arizona, resident Victor Pratt boasts that he’s played with snakes his whole life. So when a rattlesnake slithered by during a family party at a nearby lake on Sept.

7, Pratt grabbed the viper and showed the kids “how to catch it and I was playing with it like little kids do. I wasn’t thinking. I was showing off,” he admitted to FOX 10 News.

The rattler apparently didn’t want to play along and bit Pratt on his face and neck. Pratt’s sons quickly drove him to a nearby emergency room, and he was later airlifted to Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, where Dr. Steven Curry treated him. “There is a 100 percent chance he would have died if he’d not made it to the hospital within minutes,” Curry noted. Pratt remained unconscious for several days. He told reporters he had learned his lesson and would not play with rattlesnakes again.

n The Caving Club at Indiana University explored Sullivan Cave in southern Indiana on Sept. 17, but when they headed back to campus, they forgot one thing: a 19-year-old freshman physics major who had become separated from the group and was trapped behind a locked gate. When the club president realized two days later that a caver had been left behind, members rushed back to save him. “You could tell they were pretty shaken up,” the caver told the Indiana Daily Student. “They did near kill me.” The student reported he licked moisture off the cave walls during the ordeal and wrote goodbye letters to his family on his iPhone until the battery died. (BONUS: The rescued caver’s name is Lukas Cavar.)

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Auburn, Massachusetts, police received a number of calls over the weekend of Sept. 15-17 about a wayward goat, but it wasn’t until the wee hours of Monday, Sept. 18, that No. 448 was finally corralled at the La Quinta Inn in Auburn, reported CBS Boston. The “mischievous runaway farm animal” was seen on surveillance video entering the lobby of the hotel and wandering the halls, “presumably to rest a bit,” said police. Peter Blash, No. 448’s owner, said the goat jumped a 5-foot-high fence and “took off like a criminal.” However, Blash said, “I had one that made it all the way to Sturbridge.”

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JUNK FOOD NEWS 

Framing and Avatars in the Post Truth Age

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor of Random Lengths News

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

doubling the strength of the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative, a clean air and healthy climate program.

Huff and Higdon noted that, “a gathering of this size to enact policies to prevent further climate change is certainly worthy of major attention.

But instead, the American public was treated to endless punditry on who was responsible for the year’s best picture blunder.”

NEWS ABUSE Huff and Higdon recounts how Huff and former Project Censored director Peter Phillips argued in 2010 that the US.. was facing a Truth Emergency. They assert that “in the United States today, the rift between reality and reporting has reached its end. There is no longer a mere credibility gap, but rather a literal Truth Emergency... This is a culmination of the failures of the fourth estate to act as a truly free press.”

In 2017, Huff and Higdon conclude that little has changed. In current edition of Project Censored, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons on his own people is a primary example. This attack was used to justify Trump’s order to fire of 59 Tomahawk missiles on a country torn by civil war.

Project Censored pushes back against the notion that critiquing the corporate press pushing the Bashar al-Assad chemical weapon attack as tantamount to being pro-al-Assad. Indeed, Project Censored adds nuance that should be applied to the Trump administration and the role of the Russians in the 2016 presidential elections.

Huff and Higdon wrote: This is a complicated matter, to be sure, one that even sparks vivid disagreements among the anti-imperialist and the pacifist Left in the U.S. To question official narratives should not mean people are automatically pro-Assad — or pro-Putin, for that matter. More importantly, what does it mean to be pro-truth in a post-truth world, when the truth can be elusive, especially in an environment addled by propaganda coming from many sides?

Huff and Higdon note that the corporate press’ engagement in news abuse regarding Syria is an attempt to build public support for US invasion, much like the second war in Iraq a decade earlier. This, Project Censored wrote, “This makes

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elites. Project Censored described the White House Correspondents dinner as a means to ingratiate themselves to power rather than speak truth to power. This unhealthy diet of junk news displaced news about the widespread famine in Yemen, a region raked by a two year old war led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the U.S. which left more than 10,000 dead and 40,000 wounded in the region. A U.N. report estimated that more than 90 percent of Yemen’s citizens are experiencing famine and malnutrition.

Huff and Higdon described the Olympic Summer games of 2016 as a media spectacle, particularly after the corporate media latched onto the story of the four U.S. Olympic swimmers who lied about being robbed at gunpoint after vandalizing a gas station bathroom and being stopped by an armed security guard. Project Censored contrasted the slap on the wrist these swimmers received, who happened to be white, with the treatment of gold medalist Gabby Douglas when it appeared that she didn’t put her hand over her heart during the medal ceremony.

This news displaced coverage of “flooding on a historic scale” in Louisiana. Project Censored noted that, “while the damage caused was less than that of Hurricane Katrina, 20,000 residents had to be rescued, 10,000 were placed in shelters, and several people lost their lives.”

Huff and Higdon also highlighted the Academy Awards unscandalous scandal in which La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture. It took only two minutes until the film Moonlight was announced as the real winner, but Huff and Higdon noted that this non-scandal scandal obscured major news in that nearly 550 community leaders, elected officials, business moguls, health officials and politicians called for

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Huff and Higdon continue by referencing Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death to frame the chapter on Junk Food News. Postman says a particular medium can only sustain a certain level of ideas. Since the advent of television Americans receive a great deal of their information through television news, sitcoms and dramas. But this form can’t articulate complex ideas the way print typography can. shortcomings of television dilute politics and religion. And “news of the day” becomes a packaged commodity. Postman argues that television de-emphasizes the quality of information to satisfy the far-reaching needs of entertainment.

The result is that quality information becomes secondary to entertainment value.

Postman’s analysis originated from a talk he gave in 1985 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where he participated on a panel focused on George Orwell’s Ni ne t e en-E i g ht yfour and the contemporary world. During this talk, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected

by Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement than by Orwell’s book whose people are oppressed by state control.

New York Times writer Michiko Kakutani said Morris Berman’s, The Dark Ages of America: The Final Phase of Empire, gives the Left a bad name.

It is against this backdrop that Project Censored itemizes examples of Junk Food News distracting Americans, ranging from Trump’s refusal to attend the the White House Correspondents Dinner to the breathless reporting on Trump’s every tweet.

Huff and Higdon characterize this coverage as a backlash in response to Trump not allowing corporate media to hobnob with the power

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year ago, Random Lengths News and the rest of America’s alternative press celebrated the 40th anniversary of Project Censored, the ongoing journalistic mission of its editors, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon, to expose the important news of each year that has routinely gone underreported or sometimes effectively censored.

But in 2017, Project Censored’s 41st, Huff and Higdon have definitely reached a milestone – the year in which an episode of The Simpsons played out in real life. Foreshadowed in a TV cartoon, the black comedy of events that obscured and propelled Donald Trump’s rise to President of the United States is now chronicled in the Project Censored chapter devoted to Junk Food News – the so-called “fake news” that squeezed into the places that should have been filled with legitimate, essential information.

In 2016, Project Censored legions of student interns, writers and editors spent a considerable amount of ink on the emerging youth movement which produced formidable activists in their own right and undergirded the passion that spurred Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign during the presidential primaries and made the movement to abolish the use of super delegates in the days after the election about more than just sour grapes.

But the occasion of the 40th anniversary and its emphasis on youth seemed to infuse Huff and Higdon with hopefulness in Project Censored and the good hands doing its work.

But this past election cycle did something. The Project Censored opened this year’s Junk Food News Chapter: Post-Truth Dystopia--Fake news Alternative Facts and the Ongoing War on Reality, with a quote from H.L. Mencken, a culture writer, thinker and satirist who is not known as defender of democracy and democratic principles, but he offered a particular insight into a particular failing of a civilization without a citizenry that is engaged, informed and armed with the ability to think critically: Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

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accurate reporting and publishing of diverse perspectives all the more crucial.”

Huff and Higdon argues that the countermeasure to news abuse and propaganda is an informed citizenry with strong critical thinking skills.

Project Censored actually goes a little further than that by saying that the level of critical thinking required now goes beyond the critical thinking that simply evaluates information based on conformity with existing knowledge. Huff and Higdon argue that the critical thinking required now is one that can embrace perspectives at odds with “prevailing wisdom or personal views” based on evaluation of real facts.

Huff and Higdon identified a few different and daunting examples of why this form of education is necessary. One of those examples was the aim of right-wing personality Glenn Beck and pseudo-historian David Barton to offer training camps to teach graduating high school students their revisionist history. They used the words of regular writer of Salon Amanda Marcotte to describe their historical narrative, saying that it is “one that valorizes straight white men as humanity’s natural leaders and grants Christian fundamentalism a centrality to American history that it does not, in reality, have.”

Marcotte also noted that, “in Barton’s history, the founding father idea of government was rooted in fundamentalist Christianity, instead of enlightenment philosophy, and the contributions of people of color are minimized in service of centering Christian white men as the righteous shepherds guiding everyone else.”

Huff and Higdon also argue that schools should teach media literacy as core curriculum to help fight against news abuse and fake news.

Project Censored noted that the U.S. education system has drifted to the same for-profit model of information dissemination as the mass media, yielding many of the same results.

Huff and Higdon cites critical theory scholar Henry Giroux, who notes that the for-profit model of education emphasizes individual responsibility for problems created by systemic failures.

“The market-driven discourse in higher education, including the corporatization of education that privileges administrators over faculty (who became low-paid workers while students are seen as customers), has

outlawed or marginalized those faculty who do talk about critiquing the system rather than teach students to accept it and work with it.”

Giroux concludes that a “democracy cannot exist without informed citizens and public spheres and educational apparatuses that uphold standards of truth, honesty, evidence, facts and justice. Under Trump, disinformation masquerading as news ... has become a weapon for legitimating ignorance and civic illiteracy.”

To combat this, Giroux is quoted: Artists, educators, young people, journalists and others need to make the virtue of truth-telling visible again.

We need to connect democracy with a notion of truth-telling and consciousness that is on the side of economic and political justice, and democracy itself. If we are going to fight for and with the most marginalized people, there must be a broader understanding of their needs. We need to create narratives and platforms in which those who have been deemed disposable can identify themselves and the conditions through which power and oppression bear down on their lives.

Huff and Higdon recounted the brief history of the term “fake news,” since Trump was “electored” president. The authors noted that during one week in January 2017, the trend of people researching the term “fake news” on Google jumped 100 fold above pre-election levels.

Trump and his supporters denounced any critiques of the new administration, such as CNN for questioning the validity of his statements as fake news.

But Project Censored noted that Trump and his underlings were not alone in labeling inconvenient truths with fake news. The Democratic National Committee was also guilty, as it sought to explain how Clinton

lost to a Cheeto. Project Censored noted that the partisan practice of labeling inconvenient truths as fake news undermined credible journalism while distracting the public from the barrage of actual fake news flooding our global society.

This was reminiscent of a Ron Suskind story in the New York Times magazine more than a decade ago in which the phrase “reality based community” was used by an aide in the George W. Bush administration. The term was a phrase used to denigrate a critic of the administration’s policies who are basing the judgments on facts.

In it, Suskind wrote: The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality based community, which he defined as people who believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’[...] “that’s not the way the world really works anymore’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.

And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

The source was later revealed to be political operative and Bush administration advisor, Karl Rove, but he has denied it.

Huff and Higdon noted that the Internet’s promise of delivering endless information to circumvent a post-truth world has not succeeded in producing a well-informed populace. Instead, the inflation of spurious information coupled with an education system that does not teach critical media literacy to students and does not show them how to navigate and participate in the digital world has resulted in a dystopia of

“Democracy cannot exist without informed citizens and public spheres and educational apparatuses that uphold standards of truth, honesty, evidence, facts and justice.

Under Trump, disinformation masquerading as news ... has become a weapon for legitimating ignorance and civic illiteracy.”

falsehoods that are now referred to as “alternative facts.”

This post-truth environment, they argue, gave rise to a term defined as an outright lie that is introduced and then used as evidence to support a desired conclusion.

Among the examples Project Censored used: n Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s claiming three times that a terror attack occurred in Atlanta, Georgia. nU.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson claiming that African American slaves were immigrants who worked hard and found success in America, without socio-economic relevancy or historical context. nThe Trump administration claim that the resistance to their repeal and replace Obamacare were paid protesters.

Huff and Higdon argue that the ability to embrace dissonant facts is a skill set needed now more than ever, when inconvenient truths are labeled fake news. They argue that this state of affairs has resulted in a post-truth world.

After laying this groundwork, Project Censored, shifts to the Democratic National Convention and alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

From the start, Project Censored makes the argument that the Russian hacking narrative, propagated by the corporate media invested in Clinton’s bid for the White House, is an example of an alternative fact designed to deflect attention away from Clinton’s deficiencies as a candidate.

Huff and Higdon cites the Washington Post and the website ProporNot that were purported to have uncovered the media outlets that served as dupes of Russian hackers with a series of algorithms designed to analyze the web content of media outlets. The Post reprinted a list created by ProporNot. Project Censored noted that under threat of lawsuits, they published a partial retraction. Project Censored, using a quote by Rolling Stones writer Matt Taibibi, argues that the Russian story was a distraction from the pre-existing problems within the Democratic Party. Taibibi, and by extension, Project Censored is correct.

For Huff and Higdon, the question was whether Russian interference had a direct, demonstrable impact on Clinton losing the election.

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson claiming that African American slaves were immigrants who worked hard and found success in America, without socio-economic relevancy or historical context.

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The answer has been a resounding ‘no,’ regardless of the steady drip of leaks regarding the alleged collusion of Trump’s campaign with the Russian government. The fact remains, Clinton with help from the Democratic National Committee, lost to a Cheeto who should not have had any chance of winning.

Huff’s and Higdon’s choice to frame this chapter with the words of H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman and Morris Berman signals a dark place we’re entering. Though they offer prescriptions to heal American democracy and strengthen its citizenry, there’s an underlying pessimism in this chapter. At the conclusion of the Junk Food News chapter, Huff and Higdon ask, “Who will check the fact checker and what criteria will be used?”

Huff and Higdon note that fact-checking would not be enough to counter fake news. But fake news is not the only threat. Blacklists like the one used by sites like PropOrNot that include legitimate journalistic outlets as fake news, or the passage of legislation that literally bans the media from lying. Huff and Higdon notes that the corporate press has assisted in creating some of these new threats such as the weaponizing of fake news. The pair acknowledge the daunting task of making these times and nation more hospitable to a more free and democratic place, they write: ...the failures of the corporate media and education system have already contributed to the current post-truth environment by creating nothing short of an epistemological crisis. This has proven to be detrimental to our democratic process and an affront to the First Amendment rights of the American people.

Creating the better world we envision will not depend on rewriting recent history to suit our purposes or flatter our illusions, but rather will depend on creating an ever more democratic, diverse, and critical free press.

We have three years and three months with Trump at the helm, barring impeachment or another catastrophe befalling this country. Without some sort of progress on building critical media literacy and if there’s a hell below, like Curtis Mayfield said, “We all going to go.”

PJH

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CULTURE KLASH

Slightly Obsessed Artist Travis Walker gets lost in the moment–and his art

BY KELSEY DAYTON @kelseydayton

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ravis Walker tends to get a “little obsessed” when he loves a movie.

He has, after all, seen Forrest Gump about 50 times. Sometimes Walker’s obsession isn’t about the whole movie, though. Rather, it can be as simple as a line or a scene that Walker will watch and re-watch.

“There are certain moments I can get so lost in,” the Jackson artist said. “I can live in them.”

Those moments, from Thelma and Louise, Napoleon Dynamite, Forrest Gump and other favorite films, heavily influenced Walker’s latest body of work, which is hanging in Altamira Fine Art in Jackson.

The new show, aptly titled “So Many Roads,” is a two-person show featuring Walker and New Mexico-based artist Thom Ross. The show opened earlier this month.

Ross’ latest work features historical figures and Western mythology.

“As an artist, I look deeply into myths,” he said in an artist’s statement.

“Why does Custer’s Last Stand matter?

Why are they still making movies about the Alamo and Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp? We project our emotions through these figures, and there’s something really wonderful about that.

Ross works to portray iconic American figures and events in new ways that challenge the viewer to re-examine history, his artist biography said.

He might render a scene where Native Americans play croquet, or show Custer riding away with a table balanced on his head. Ross’ work features a variety of media including mosaics, or pieces with sculptural elements.

“He updates history with bright colors, abstract forms and a contemporary style,” the gallery’s website said.

“Ross believes that as we re-examine and question the historical forces that shaped the lives of the subjects he paints, their meaning as icons shifts and deepens.”

Walker will show about 12 new paintings in the exhibition. Many pieces in his new body of work are influenced by his love of movies, which has taken his work in a new direction.

One of Walker’s featured paintings was inspired by the film Thelma and Louise and shows a car suspended in the air over the Grand Canyon.

“I’ve always loved that scene,” Walker said. “There’s a lot going on in that scene, but the real power is that you don’t know what happened right after it.”

They could have lived, landing safely on a ledge. That frozen moment and the unknown that follows is exactly what Walker loves about painting.

“It does something very unique, capturing the suspension of a moment,” he said.

Walker also borrowed from old western movies, as well as contemporary films where the western landscape is a main feature, such as the scene in Forrest Gump when he runs to Monument Valley. The landscapes are beautiful, but it’s the scenery coupled with important theatrical moments that help create the inspiration for Walker’s art, and his iconic paintings.

“I’m trying to expand my western palette subject matter wise,” Walker said. “I feel like a lot of the movies I’m referencing have stoked the fires of the Western legend.”

The entire show isn’t about movies, but his paintings from real life share some of the same qualities with the cinematic scenes he renders.

One painting is of an Amish family in front of Old Faithful. He painted it from a photograph he took in Yellowstone, which Walker said reminded him of a movie.

‘Derby Night,’ Oil on Canvas, 28 x 56 inches

“I wanted to know what the rest of the story was,” he said. “There was a whole movie around that moment (in my head). That made the painting more powerful to me as a subject, even though I took the photo myself.”

Walker hopes that people look at his images and want to know more, just the way he felt when he took the photograph of the Amish at Old Faithful. That ability to freeze a moment, and intrigue a viewer to wonder what’s next, or challenge them to imagine it, is the power of a painting, he said.

And while Walker explored new subject matter and muses, the western landscape still plays a prominent role in his work. The West has always been his greatest source of inspiration and remains the center of his paintings.

He still finds those empty places, void of RVs and tourists to recharge himself, though. It is where he finds hope. And when he thinks of his favorite movie moments, like Thelma and Louise driving into the abyss, he thinks of the grandeur of the massive canyon where their fate awaits and their story, at least in the movie, ends.

But in Walker’s mind, and his painting, the moment is frozen forever. PJH Travis Walker and Thom Ross, “So Many Roads,” show hangs through Oct. 21, reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 19, Altamira

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Rituals Resurrected Local playwright’s first play comes back to question humans’ inclination toward tradition.

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ocal playwright Bob Berky’s first ever (and also award-winning) play is back and more relevant than ever.

Cooking the World is about ritual, Berky says. And it seems to him like “we’re in a time where even the rituals we thought gave us meaning are being eroded and sand-blasted.”

More specifically, the play is about the last two people on Earth, both chefs, living in a world with no more food. So they live “only on ritual,” Berky said.

The chefs, played by Berky and Frankie McCarthy, go through the motions of cooking, but there’s nothing to cook. And they’re hungry.

“What makes them hungry is memory,” Berky said.

The memory of food makes their stomachs growl.

“We use that term anyway, memory always creates hunger,” Berky said.

Usually, the saying is a metaphor. In this case it’s literal.

The two come to a point where they have to decide whether their ritual is enough to live on.

“Should they move on, or go to some other pane of existence, which we call death,” he said.

Berky (right) and Frankie McCarthy play a pair of chefs in a food-less world.

Sounds morbid. But it’s a comedy, Berky says. It has “some very funny parts, and some not-so-funny parts.” Such is life.

Berky is known for his physicality. He has taught clowning and physical theater courses to graduate students, choreographed shows for Dancers Workshop, and directed movement and clowning for New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Twelfth Night.”

Much of his humor exists not in the lines (though those are funny, too), but in the way actors’ bodies move on stage.

Cooking the World is no exception. How do you choreograph a show about cooking with no food? Dramatically.

But back to ritual. Cooking, and eating are the rituals in question here. But humans’ relationship with rituals at large is what Berky is really interested in.

“Ritual has always been a fascinating part of human existence,” Berky said.

Berky grew up in a military family, where rituals were abundant and rigid.

“There’s nothing more interesting than the rituals that are cobbled together over centuries to create justification for authority, rank, all the other things that we do,” he said.

The rebellious, theatrical person he is eventually began to question the traditions he grew up in.

“I looked at it and said, ‘what is the reason for this? Is it still useful? I’ve watched myself and others sometimes hold onto rituals that don’t have any meaning.”

That’s not to say rituals are bad, Berky says. On the contrary, certain beliefs guide people through life, and “ease some of the suffering that can happen.”

The danger, Berky said, is imposing rituals onto people with different ones.

Berky said that rituals are more than just the physical acts. They are the belief systems that provoke them. Religion, philosophy, morality—those are all rituals, and they manifest physical rituals.

“The performative rituals we do, they stem from the very deep feeling and belief,” Berky said. “The symbols that we have, they’re more than shape. They’re more than rhythm. They come from a much deeper place.”

And Berky sees many of America’s rituals butting heads today. Some are being pushed to the sidelines, but others are finding new strength. White supremacy, for example, is a ritual, Berky said.

“It’s a ritual of fear by those who are white,” he said. And that fear has recently emboldened more physical practices, like marching with tiki torches, bearing confederate and Nazi flags, and violence.

“The humor of that is, if you check their DNA, they’re probably not as white as they think they are,” Berky said. “The serpent comes around to bite its own tail.”

Cooking the World won the Kennedy Center’s “New American Play Award” in 1991. It’s short—don’t count on an intermission; there isn’t one—but poignant. The kind of show Berky would have brought his son to as an older kid to discuss afterwards. And now, 27 years after the show’s debut, there’s still a lot to discuss.

“It’s actually rather timely, considering what’s going on,” Berky said. PJH

There are two chances to see “Cooking the World”: One at 7:30 p.m. Friday, another at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Both performances are in the Black Box Theater at the Center For the Arts. Tickets are $15, and are available at OffSquare.org.

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OneBeat for All An amalgam of culture, art and world music makes a stop in Jackson this week

BY ANGELICA LEICHT @Writer_Anna

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t looks like Jackson drew the lucky music straw this week. We’re one of only four stops on the OneBeat tour, a public-private cultural diplomacy initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation.

If you’re unsure of what that “cultural diplomacy initiative” means, we’ll break it down for you. Think of it like this: OneBeat isn’t your traditional concert with a band and an opener. Rather, it’s a global music celebration with artists

from all over the world who are collaborating together to create unique, unforgettable music for the masses in Jackson.

Every fall the OneBeat program brings musicians from around the world together to write, produce and perform music together, which they couple with arts-based social engagement to get the crowd involved.

According to the OneBeat website, the program’s philosophy is this: OneBeat is designed with the belief that the creation of high-quality original music is an ideal vehicle for crossing cultural and political divides. This creative process exemplifies how people from dramatically different musical backgrounds, with diverse training, conceptions of music, and aesthetics, can negotiate differences and find an interplay of cultures that maintains the integrity of each tradition. At OneBeat we encourage musicians to listen deeply to each others’ musical voices, and to create work that values the complexity and idiosyncrasies of each tradition, creating risky, wholly unique musical works.

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It’s super cool, really, the idea of collaborating with musicians and artists from around the globe. Traditions, musical techniques and individual cultures collide to create a sound and a show like no other, and it’s even cooler that Jackson is on the list of places the show will visit during this year’s tour.

This is the 6th year for OneBeat, a program that has pioneered the idea of enmeshing cultural music, art and technology as a form of cultural diplomacy.

But while the program has been going on for a number of years, this is OneBeat’s first and only stop in Jackson, so you really should head out to catch the show.

The only other stops for OneBeat are in Oregon, Idaho and Colorado, and Jackson is a whole lot more convenient than a trip to Ft. Collins. PJH OneBeat will be held on Friday, Oct. 13 at the Center for the Arts, 265 S Cache St., Jackson. The show starts at 5:30.

Tickets are $10 for students and $18 for general admission; children under 5 are free.

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This type of egalitarian, cross-cultural interaction continues in our discussions of social issues, as we find ways to use music to catalyze positive change in our communities and internationally.

This year’s show will feature 25 musicians from 17 countries, including South African vocalist Nonku Phiri; Aisaana Omorova, a komuz (traditional threestringed strummed instrument) player from Kyrgyzstan; Chicago-based producer Elijah Jamal; and Belorussian producer and singer Natalia Kuznetskaya.

These artists, among others, are set to take the stage for an “evening of ensemble performances, interactive sound art and a celebration of global community through music in our first (and only) appearance in Jackson Hole,” according to the Center for the Arts website.

The show will feature organic mashups of traditional song from Kyrgyzstan, edgy pop from South Africa, politically charged electronic music from Jordan, and Chicago hip hop, in a celebration of how music can invigorate our local and global communities, according to the OneBeat website.

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Subtle Tease The beautiful Columbus melds architecture with deep humanity.

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was going for something subtle,” says 20-year-old Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) to her mother (Michelle Forbes) early in the quietly masterful drama Columbus. She’s talking about a recipe she’s made for dinner, but it’s hard not to smile a little at whether writer/director Kogonada—a critic and video essayist—is taking a little poke at likely reactions to his debut feature.

Because Columbus is the kind of movie that will never inspire a must-watch reaction in somebody who asks “what’s it about?” You could tell them that it’s about an unlikely friendship between two very different people, and maybe you’d get a flicker of interest. Then you’d say it’s also about the improbable wealth of modernist architecture in the small Indiana town of Columbus, and just wait for their face to go blank.

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Columbus is nominally about those things, but the “what”—as is the case in any great work of art—is infinitely less important than the “how.” It’s a masterwork of cinematic composition that’s also a profoundly human narrative. Like the study of architecture itself, it’s not just about cold structures, but about the way those structures tell a story, and provide a shape to the people who move within them.

At the center are Casey and Jin (John Cho), who meet under unexpected circumstances. Casey, a year removed from graduating high school in Columbus, works in the local I.M. Pei-designed public library, putting off her own life and her fascination with studying architecture to keep an eye on her mother, a recovering meth addict. Jin has arrived to attend to his comatose father, a renowned Korean scholar of architecture who collapsed on the eve of a lecture there.

On a superficial level, it seems that Casey and Jin might bond over their respective parent issues, and indeed both of them are—consciously or unconsciously—looking for someone to talk to about their frustrations. But Kogonada repeatedly complicates their interactions, whether through Jin’s curt manner or simply through the manner in which he films them together—often separated by fences, or placed on opposite sides of

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the picture. Forming connections aren’t easy for these two people, and Columbus repeatedly finds the placement of characters in the frame accentuating their isolation, especially when Kogonada shoots Jin reflected in mirrors for entire scenes.

If that all sounds chilly and remote, nothing could be further from the truth.

Kogonada anchors Columbus in the two central performances, and while Cho is good as Jin—particularly in awkward scenes with his father’s colleague, Eleanor (Parker Posey), for whom he has long carried a torch—Richardson is a revelation.

She radiates an intelligence that’s also edgy and insecure, reacting defensively when her co-worker Gabriel (Rory Culkin) comments about her lack of college education. Whether she’s speaking or simply contemplating a favorite building, there are layers built into every look.

Kogonada captures this quality in her work most beautifully in one of the most breathtaking pieces of directing you’ll see all year. As Casey and Jin talk about one Columbus landmark, he catches her lapsing into docent-speak, and pushes her to speak from her heart about why the place moves her. Kogonada cuts to inside the building, looking outward through the glass at Casey; we’re unable to hear

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her speak, only watching her face as she begins to explain something about which she feels passionately. Richardson’s performance is stunning, in part thanks to a director who knows how to capture her in repose, and just as well when she dances, furiously and drunkenly, in front of a car’s headlights.

There’s another self-aware moment in Columbus, as Gabriel explains to Casey something he had read about attention span, and how an inability to pay attention to something—whether it’s a book, a video game or a movie—is more about interest in that thing than about an inherent character flaw in the observer. Maybe it’s a nod by a filmmaker to the reality that a movie about two people sharing a brief connection in a city of magnificent buildings isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea.

It’s a tale of personal uncertainty set in a world of monuments to solidity. There’s an ocean of beautiful humanity there, if you’re comfortable with a movie that’s going for something subtle. PJH

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Love, American Style Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America unites; Loudermilk, not so much.

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dramedy about how tough it is to be a comedian? When it stars ex-Saturday Night Live-er Jay Pharoah and is helmed

by Tim Kapinos (Lucifer, Californication) and Jamie Foxx (everything else), maybe.

White Famous (series debut Sunday, Oct. 15, Showtime) is essentially Foxx’s story, centered on a black comic (Pharoah) on the rise who’s straddling the line between street cred and mainstream (read: white) appeal. While White Famous offers few insights into Foxx’s real coming-up career (even when he shows up as himself in the first episode), it does make it abundantly clear that SNL blew it with the talented Pharoah. As a “prestige” series, this is more Dice than Louie.

Speaking of wasting perfectly good comedic talent, seen 9JKL (new series, Mondays, CBS)? That filler half-hour between The Big Bang Theory and Kevin Can Wait? Oh, yeah, no one watches “live” TV anymore—it’s all on-demand with your Hulus and your Rokus and your Flibberzoos. Safe to say, no one is “demanding” 9JKL, not even to justify the $9.99 they blew on CBS All Access for Star Trek: Discovery. Mark Feuerstein, David Walton, Elliott Gould, Linda Lavin and Liza Lapira, funny people all, star in the most forgettable family sitcom since … well, damn, I’ve forgotten. Chances are, by the time this column finally reaches print (‘member that?) or Interwebs, 9JKL will be canceled. Never mind.

Much in the same way that White Famous seems like a stylistic throwback, Loudermilk (series debut Tuesday, Oct. 17, Audience/DirecTV) could be a lost early-2000s comedy from the trope dawn of AA (Asshole Antihero). While it’s a misuse of a young actor like Pharoah, it’s perfectly OK in the case of Loudermilk, because the titular Sam Loudermilk is played by beenthere comedy vet Ron Livingston (sorry, Ron—loved ya in Office Space). Sam is a former alcoholic and, even worse, former rock critic, who hates pretty much everything and everyone. Sounds familiar, but as scripted by one Farrelly brother and a Colbert Report writer and delivered by Livingston, Loudermilk really works. PJH

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n her new weekly series I Love You, America (series debut Thursday, Oct. 12, Hulu), comedian Sarah Silverman is “looking to connect with people who may not agree with her personal opinions through honesty, humor, genuine interest in others, and not taking herself too seriously … Silverman feels it’s crucial, now more than ever, to connect with un-like-minded people.” If you’re skeptical of Liberal Elite Hollywood’s motives for hanging out with Red State rednecks while promising to not to shit on them, join the club. But, it’s a promising chat show/ travelogue setup, and Silverman is more capable of pulling it off sincerely than, say, Chelsea Handler … she still does that thing on Netflix … doesn’t she?

With a cool title like Mindhunter (series debut Friday, Oct. 13, Netflix), you’d expect sci-fi series loaded with psychic warfare and exploding heads, or is that just me? Sadly, this Mindhunter is another cop show, starring Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany as FBI agents who interview imprisoned serial killers to analyze their motives to help solve current cases … zzz. So far, so Criminal Minds, but Mindhunter—singular? There’s two of ‘em!—is produced by David Fincher, who delivered at least a couple of good House of Cards seasons, and co-stars Aussie treasure Anna Torv, absent from ‘Merican TV since the 2013 demise of Fringe, so there’s that. Maybe one exploding head, just for me?

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On Monday night I did the walk of shame. The sloshie walk of shame.

As a Jackson newbie, I spend a lot of my time trying to figure out just how this little mountain town runs. What I’ve come to realize is that Jackson is mostly fueled by sloshies, those alcohol-laden slushies available in every flavor under the sun at nearly every quick stop or market in town.

Given that I’m a Texas (and flatland) native, I’d never heard of sloshies until I stepped foot in Teton County, and the mix of alcohol, gas station slushie and magic had me intrigued. The idea of slurping down booze-fueled ice and sugar was a double-dog liquor dare.

I finally gave into that sloshie curiosity this week with the help of a Planet staffer who knows quite a bit about this frozen madness. She directed me to the mecca of sloshies: Jackson Hole Marketplace.

JH Marketplace, if you’re not familiar, is a little market, liquor store and grocer right off of South Highway 89 as you head toward Hoback. It’s easy to pass if you don’t know where it is, and pass it I did.

A quick U-turn and a quick lap around the aisles and I came upon it: A row of frozen booze, lined up in a rainbow of regret and early morning headaches. Being the moderate drinker that I am, I chose four: Moscow Mule, Greyhound, watermelon

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My sloshies – pina colada, Moscow Mule, Greyhound and watermelon -- sunbathing in the freezing temperatures of “They sent you in to get Driggs, Idaho prior to their entrance into my belly sloshies, huh,” said the dude in camo pants behind me.

“Yes,” I said, throwing my invisible hill. Wrong. They were a mix of frozen ice, friends under the bus. “I also took all the boozy liquid and cup sweat by the time I got to Driggs, and B.) I probably should lids.”

The walk of sloshie shame to the count- have eaten something – anything – before er was an exercise in humility, what with I took on this exercise in sloshie madness.

I’d initially intended to rank the sloshie my towering stack of sloshies threatening flavors, giving my totally unbiased opinto jump ship at any moment. ion for other sloshie newbies. I will still do “Do you need a box?” asked the chick that, but I want you to know I’m probably behind the counter while totally not judglying.

I don’t actually remember much ing me. from about two sips of the Moscow Mule I nodded, afraid to make eye contact. flavored sloshie onward.

With my newly-purchased sloshies I think the issue here is two-ply: I stacked in their temporary cardboard meant to eat – I really did – and even home, I made my way to the car to head stopped at to grab some frozen stuff on back to Driggs, that lovely Idaho town my way to the apartment, risking my where I rented the only apartment that sloshie integrity (and their frozen conwas available in the greater, uh, Teton tents) altogether. But when I got home area.

A couple of first impressions about and went to preheat the oven to christen these evil frozen concoctions: A.) It’s frig- my belly with frozen pizza and sloshies, I ging cold outside, so you’d think these bad was met with a horrible, horrible noise: boys would survive a quick jaunt over the The incessant beeping of the oven.

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The sloshie experiment began with a cardboard box, Turns out my oven in the a 45 minute commute and $26 worth of boozy regrets. apartment I’ve been renting for six days is broken. No food was My final sloshie to conquer was the being warmed in that thing.

I pulled the plug out of the wall and did Watermelon, which seemed when I what any smart alt-weekly editor would poured it into its clear plastic container to be the least risky of the four. A nice pink do: I drank my dinner. color, super frosty and supposedly waterWell, most of it.

The first sloshie I tried was the Moscow melon flavored. What could be wrong Mule, and I’m sure glad I started with that with that?

Everything. Everything could be one. It’s by far the best flavor of the four I tried, with a slight hint of ginger under- wrong with that. By the time I got to neath a hefty layer of alcohol. From first that pink cup, my brain was screaming sip it became clear to me why sloshies are at me to stop, but I knew in the name of a thing: They’re delicious and they do the journalism and this bar column that I had to go on. trick.

I took one sip of that concoction and It all went downhill from there, though. Next flavor to make a move into stuck it in what I’m pretty sure is a broken my now-tipsy belly was pina colada, a mini-fridge to forget it ever existed. My solid second choice. I don’t mind heavy apartment – and the watermelon flavored pours in my regular ol’ pina coladas, and sloshie – both suck. Or at least they did this one was precisely that, only in sloshie last night, sans food and while half-drunk form. The mixture masking what had to on other sloshies. I’ll have to try waterbe a 20-second pour was just sweet and melon again without the Moscow Mule heavy enough to feel like the real thing, and pina colada appetizer. Perhaps I’m being too harsh. and I dug it. The next two? Not so much.

Y’all are some liver punishers, Jackson.

Perhaps my taste buds were tainted by the deliciousness of the first two, or per- I’m not sure how you drink these things haps I was just drunk, but I really, really and survive, but I can tell you that my hated the Greyhound flavor. I don’t know Texan liver hates me this morning. It also what I expected by the name, but it wasn’t hates grapefruit. Like renting an apartto take a mouthful of rank grapefruit and ment in Driggs off Craigslist sight unseen, booze. Why…why would y’all do that to that grapefruit flavored nightmare is something I will never, ever try again. yourselves?

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

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine.

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

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.

Lunch 11:30am Monday-Saturday Dinner 5:30pm Nightly

THAI ME UP

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

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

CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF

HAPPY HOUR Daily 4-6:00pm

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

for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am.

Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm.

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

THE BLUE LION

A Jackson Hole favorite for 39 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home.

Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Live acoustic guitar music most nights.

Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Closed Tuesdays.

Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30 & 6 p.m. Must mention ad. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

PICNIC

Our mission is simple: offer good food, made fresh, all day, every day. We know everyone’s busy, so we cater to on-the-go lifestyles with quick, tasty options for breakfast and lunch, including pastries and treats from our sister restaurant Persephone. Also offering coffee and espresso drinks plus wine and cocktails.

Open Mon-Fri 7am-5pm, Wknds 7am-3pm 1110 Maple Way in West Jackson 307-2642956www.picnicjh.com

ELEANOR’S

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

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

LOCAL

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

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

LOTUS ORGANIC RESTAURANT

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

140 N. Cache, (307) 734-0882, theorganiclotus. com.

MANGY MOOSE

MOE’S BBQ

Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival through its awardwinning 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 family-friendly, a full premium bar offers a lively scene with

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

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

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

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

ITALIAN CALICO

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

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA

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

PINKY G’S

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

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

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

PIZZERIA CALDERA

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

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

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

HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery is also available.

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SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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ACROSS

1 Octopus octet 5 Pro-__: fundraisers 8 Looks over quickly 13 “Hey, you!”

17 Backyard raft 20 Russian wolfhound 21 Jazz home 22 “Just kidding” 23 On deck 24 Pasta sauce brand 25 Pandora genre 26 Annoyed 28 The Heart of Dixie: Abbr.

29 They have strings attached 30 Comparable to a beet 32 Gave the once-over 33 Driver’s reservation?

35 Run the country 37 CDs and LPs 40 Like two peas in __ 41 Supplied in a comedy skit, as straight lines 44 The Pac-12’s Golden Bears 45 LAX abbr.

47 Pitch indicator 49 Supply with fluid 51 Safari runners?

52 The puck stops here 54 Reasons for missing school 56 Article in Der Spiegel 57 Pink Floyd label 58 Iridescent shell lining 59 Biceps, for one 60 Soho stroller 61 Perfect __ 63 “The Piano” actor 65 Like a locked bathroom 67 “Mmm, delish!”

69 Japan is in it 71 Fire starters 75 Team up 77 Brand for cold sores 79 Carry __: sing on pitch 80 Was visibly moved

83 85 87 88 89 90 91 92 94 96 97 98 99 101 103 105 108 110 113 115 116 118 119 120 122 124 125 126 127 128 129 130

Begin successor Harry’s love Negative link “Dies __” Tell the teacher Where the Indus flows Org. for the Sky, the Stars and the Sun Went wild Sign of approval Chum, in Cherbourg __ Majesty Pueblo pronoun -ish, after a number Old theaters Firing offense?

Big Sky Brewing Company home PC key used in combinations Zoo keepers Lasting marks Bench for a flock “Casablanca” setting Kaplan Test Prep focus: Abbr.

“Funny joke!”

Loud insect Flat across the pond?

44-Down shape Classic game consoles “This looks bad for us!”

Shelter adoptees Heat-resistant glass Drops at dawn “Symphony in Black” artist

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1 Temporary lack of inspiration?

2 Shangri-La offerings 3 Track activity, to Brits 4 35mm camera type 5 Wings, in zoology 6 Lava 7 Like miso, typically 8 Cry out loud 9 Many a University of Zagreb

student Augusta National shrub “Lucky Guy” was her last play PBS “Science Kid” Holiday in the month of Adar Minnesota’s annual one is held in Falcon Heights 15 Guru 16 As a result 18 Luxury handbag 19 President between Harrison and Polk 20 Spoiled 27 Adam’s garden 29 Captain of the Adventure Galley 31 Sushi fish 34 Former FAO Schwarz parent 36 Lady of pop 38 Time-out at work 39 Outstanding 42 Sicilian hot spot 43 View as 44 Engraved jewelry item 46 Perfect game, e.g.

48 Adam’s love 50 Run over 51 Team covered at amazinavenue.com 53 Princess with a twin brother 55 Permit to leave 58 Night light 62 Sotomayor replaced him 64 Mobile home 66 Fix, as a pet 68 Twist 70 Genesis creator 72 Boston Marathon Expo display 73 Drawer openers 74 Toxin fighters 76 “Tsk tsk” 78 Pet shelter’s 10 11 12 13 14

concern Finish line Mound stats Topper made from the jipijapa palm 84 K2 and Hood: Abbr.

86 Wax Ready-Strips maker 91 “Easy there!”

93 Charged bits 95 Bonkers 100 Garage capacity 102 Juice bar freebie 104 “Dilbert” creator Adams 106 Doctoral hurdles 107 In the know 109 Drew (in) 111 Max of Dadaism 112 Sicilian seven 113 Hit the mall 114 Way into the mountain 116 More, to Miguel 117 Backstage staff 120 Limit 121 Fort in New Jersey 123 Toon bartender Szyslak 80 81 82

TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR INNER PEACE “Do not let the actions of others destroy your inner peace.” - Dalai Lama THE TIME IS NOW

THE ONLY PREREQUISITE You can be the hero/heroine of your stress story by applying any of these proven, cost-free and simple strategies. The only pre-requisite is to choose one you will actually do, and to do that one as consistently as possible.

JUST BREATHE

Forest bathing is part of a national public health program in Japan. Scientific studies have confirmed the physical and psychological benefits of walking mindfully among trees in a forest. This is proven to lower heart rate and blood pressure, reduce stress hormone production, boost the immune system, and improve overall feelings of wellbeing. It turns out that forest air doesn’t just feel fresher and better…thanks to the phytochemicals from trees and plants…inhaling forest air for just a half hour contributes significantly to our wellbeing.

The how to, is to just be with trees and meander among them. You can even sit on the ground in a forest and enjoy the same benefits. You can be barefoot or wearing shoes.

No hiking, no destination, no chatting…just relaxing and noticing what you see, hear, smell and sense. Enjoy this natural calm for body, mind and spirit.

IMAGINATION WORKS, TOO If you cannot go outdoors, your imagination can stimulate inner peace. Simply take the time to be still for a few minutes, close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and with vivid detail bring to mind a time in your life when you were truly happy. Allow the loving feelings from this memory to permeate every cell of your body. This will quickly move you away from stress and positively rebalance your biochemistry.

THINGS YOU ALREADY KNOW Exercising for pure pleasure, practicing yoga, meditation, singing, dancing, listening to soothing music, walking your dog or walking by yourself. All lower stress and uplift your spirits. You also already know the key is to just do it. And do it often.

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Taking charge of creating more inner peace in your life has the extra benefit of opening you to more of your true nature. Part of this is the capacity to care more deeply about others. The importance of this is reflected in another quote from the Dali Lama. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries; without them humanity cannot survive.” PJH

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There is a teaching in yoga that says, “When you can master your breath, no one can steal your peace.” This adage refers to the now proven evidence that how we breathe directly influences our physical, mental and emotional states. Simply stated, shallow breathing accompanies and amplifies stressful states of being, seriously compromising wellbeing.

Conversely, slow, deep, balanced breathing creates wellbeing in the body, calm in the emotions, and clarity in the mind. The good news is that controlling the breath is a built-in way to feel better, no matter what’s going on.

Here’s a simple yoga breathing technique proven to create calming and restorative benefits, which you can try. This relies on an exhale that is double the length of the previous inhale. Find a comfortable, quiet place to sit and gently close your eyes. Silently count the length of your inhale as you take in a breath. As you exhale, make your full exhale double the count of your inhale. For example, if you inhale deeply for the count of four, exhale slowly for the count of eight, etc. Repeat this…at your pace, never gasping

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Given the givens of our world, this is a perfect time to focus on how to sustain your inner peace and still care deeply about what’s going on in the world. Neither ignoring all the trauma and drama in the world, nor stressing over it are constructive options. This article will share some of the many simple and cost-free ways to rebalance, lower stress and keep an open heart.

for breath…for least 5 rounds and for as much as 5 minutes.

As you go along, you may even be able to expand the count of your inhales and still double the length of the exhales.

When you are complete, gently open your eyes and savor the calm. Repeat as often as needed.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “I am more interested in human beings than in writing,” said author Anais Nin, “more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing.

More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.” I invite you to adopt that perspective as your own for the next twelve months, Libra. During this upcoming chapter of your story, you can generate long-lasting upgrades if you regard your life as a gorgeous masterpiece worthy of your highest craftsmanship.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Scorpio actress Tara Reid told the magazine Us Weekly about how her cosmetic surgeries had made her look worse than she had been in her natural state. “I’ll never be perfect again,” she mourned. I bring this up in the hope that it will inspire you. In my astrological opinion, you’re at a tuning point when it’s crucial to appreciate and foster everything about yourself that’s natural and innate and soulfully authentic. Don’t fall sway to artificial notions about how you could be more perfect than you already are.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) A snail climbed to the top of a big turtle’s shell as it was sleeping under a bush. When the turtle awoke and began to lumber away in search of food, the snail was at first alarmed but eventually thrilled by how fast they were going and how far they were able to travel. “Wheeee!”, the snail thought to itself. I suspect, Capricorn, that this little tale is a useful metaphor for what you can look forward to in the coming weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “If these years have taught me anything, it is this,” wrote novelist Junot Díaz. “You can never run away. Not ever.

The only way out is in.” That’s your plucky wisdom for the coming weeks, Aquarius. You have arrived at a pivotal phase in your life cycle when you can’t achieve liberation by fleeing, avoiding, or ignoring. To commune with the only kind of freedom that matters, you must head directly into the heart of the commotion. You’ve got to feel all the feelings stirred up by the truths that rile you up.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Statistical evidence suggests that Fridays falling on the 13th of the month are safer than other Fridays. The numbers of fires and traffic accidents are lower then, for example. I find this interesting in light of your current situation.

According to my analysis, this October’s Friday the 13th marks a turning point in your ongoing efforts to cultivate stability and security. On this day, as well as the seven days before and seven days after, you should receive especially helpful clues about the future work you can do to feel even safer and more protected than you already do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Too much propaganda and not enough real information are circulating through your personal sphere. You’re tempted to traffic in stories that are rooted more in fear than insight. Gossip and hype and delusion are crowding out useful facts. No wonder it’s a challenge for you to sort out the truths from the half-truths! But I predict that you will thrive anyway. You’ll discover helpful clues lodged in the barrage of bunkum. You’ll pluck pithy revelations from amidst the distracting ramblings. Somehow you will manage to be both extra sensitive and super-discriminating.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A journalist named Jenkin Lloyd Jones coined the term “Afghanistanism,” which he defined as “concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.” I want to urge you Virgos to avoid engaging in a personal version of Afghanistanism.

In other words, focus on issues that are close at hand, even if they seem sticky or prickly. Don’t you dare let your attention get consumed by the dreamy distractions of faraway places and times. For the foreseeable future, the best use of your energy is HERE and NOW.

Go to RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes. Audio horoscopes also available by phone at 877-873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) In his book The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner discusses the visionaries who built the Aswan Dam in Egypt. Their efforts brought an abundance of cheap electricity to millions of people. But the planners didn’t take into account

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,” Dean Young tells a new lover in his poem “Changing Genres.” But Young goes on to say that he’s no longer content with that terse genre. “Now I want a Russian novel,” he proclaims, “a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring out a window.” He yearns for a story line about “a fallen nest, speckled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled outracing the wolves on the steppes, the huge glittering ball where all that matters is a kiss at the end of a dark hall.” I bring Young’s meditations to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that you, too, are primed to move into a more expansive genre with a more sumptuous plot.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) J. Allan Hobson is a scientist of sleep who does research at Harvard. He says we dream all the time, not just at night. Our subconscious minds never stop churning out streams of images. During the waking hours, though, our conscious minds operate at such intensity that the lower-level flow mostly stays subliminal. At least that’s the normal state of affairs. But I suspect your dream-generator is running so hot right now that its stories may leak into your waking awareness. This could be disconcerting.

Without the tips I’m giving you here, you might worry you were going daft. Now that you know, I hope you’ll tap into the undercurrent to glean some useful intuitions. A word to the wise: The information that pops up won’t be logical or rational. It will be lyrical and symbolic, like dreams.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Are you primed to seek out new colleagues and strengthen your existing alliances? Are you curious about what it would take to infuse your best partnerships with maximum emotional intelligence? From an astrological perspective, the next nine weeks will be a favorable time to do these things. You will have opportunities to deepen your engagement with collaborators who cultivate integrity and communicate effectively. It’s possible you may feel shy about pursuing at least one of the potential new connections. But I urge you to press ahead anyway.

Though you may be less ripe than they are, their influence will have a catalytic effect on you, sparking you to develop at an accelerated rate.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I didn’t go to work today. I woke up late, lingered over a leisurely breakfast, and enjoyed a long walk in the autumn woods. When I found a spot that filled me with a wild sense of peace, I asked my gut wisdom what I should advise you Sagittarians to attend to. And my gut wisdom told me that you should temporarily escape at least one of your duties for at least three days. (Escaping two duties for four days would be even better.) My gut wisdom also suggested that you get extra sleep, enjoy leisurely meals and go on long walks to spots that fill you with a wild sense of peace. There you should consult your gut wisdom about your top dilemmas.

some of the important effects of their innovation. For example, the Nile River below the dam no longer flooded its banks or fertilized the surrounding land every year. As a result, farmers had to resort to chemical fertilizers at great expense. Water pollution increased. Marine life suffered because of the river’s diminished nutrients. I hope this thought will motivate you to carefully think through the possible consequences of decisions you’re contemplating. I guarantee that you can avoid the logic of failure and instead implement the logic of success. But to do so, you’ll have to temporarily resist the momentum that has been carrying you along. You’ll have to override the impatient longing for resolution.

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F a l l R e s i d e n t i a l Ya rd Wa s t e C o l l e c t i o n 2 DAYS ONLY

FRI, NOV 3RD & SAT, NOV 4TH AT THE RODEO GROUNDS nDrop-off event only – NO CURBSIDE PICKUP Bring your leaves, grass and branches either loose (pickup truck) or in compostable paper bags to the Rodeo Grounds Parking Lot from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. nPlease NO trash. NO dog poo! nFree compostable yard waste bags available at Town Hall and the Recycling Center beginning Monday, October 16th. nCounty Residents – the Trash Transfer Station will accept residential yard waste at no charge during regular business hours the week of Monday, October 30th – Saturday, November 4th. nYard waste will be composted locally by Terra Firma Organics rather than trucked 100 miles to the landfill.

G re a t P u m p k i n Round-Up!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH AT THE RODEO GROUNDS PARKING LOT FROM 9A.M. TO 4 P.M.

nDrop-off pumpkins beginning at 9 a.m. nRefreshment tent provided by Hole Food Rescue. Fire prevention nFire Engine Ladder Pumpkin Drop at info booth provided by Teton Area High Noon, and on the hour until 4 p.m. Wildfire Protection Coalition. nPumpkins will be composted locally and kept out of the landfill.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 733-7678 OR VISIT TETONWYO.ORG/RECYCLE