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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK TO THE VOTERS OF TETON COUNTY, WYOMING: IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 22-2-109 STATUTES, STATE OF WYOMING ELECTIONS LAWS, IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED THAT A PRIMARY ELECTION WILL BE HELD THROUGH THE 18 ELECTION DISTRICTS AND PRECINCTS OF SAID TETON COUNTY ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018. THE NAMES OF ALL OFFICES TO BE FILLED AT SAID ELECTION AND THE NUMBER OF PERSONS REQUIRED BY LAW TO FILL SUCH OFFICES ARE AS FOLLOWS: OFFICES TO BE ELECTED AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION NO. 44 62

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OPENING ART PORTALS How a push toward diverse programming is shifting Jackson’s cultural landscape and empowering audiences

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BY METEOROLOGIST JIM WOODMENCEY

The first half of May this year was a bit of a roller-coaster ride, temperature-wise. Within the first week, we had a high of 48-degrees and then we shot up to a high of 74-degrees several days later. Low temperatures ranged from 22-degrees the first week, to a low of only 44-degrees during the second week. Last week, temps stayed closer to seasonal normal and the rain we had, is also more typical of the weather we get here in May.

This week marks the first week of the year when the average low temperature is above the freezing mark, at 33-degrees. We can still get down below freezing, as the record low temp this week indicates. It got down to 13-degrees on May 23rd, 1986. Another more recent record cold temp during this week includes, a high temperature of only 43-degrees on May 28th, 2011. That is the coolest high temp we have ever had during the last week of May, in Jackson.

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This week’s average high temperature is 66-degrees, which is pretty much a “shorts and tee-shirt” appropriate temperature. The record high temperature this week is 90-degrees, which occurred on May 29th, 2003. That reading is somewhat of an anomaly. It is the earliest in the year we have ever reached 90-degrees in Jackson, as well as, the only day in the month of May, or the first half of June that has reached 90-degrees.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.80 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 6.02 inches (1980) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 1 inch RECORD SNOWFALL: 14.5 inches (1942)

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nterior Secretary In a story that Ryan Zinke did appeared in E & E something recentNews about Zinke’s ly he should have done recent meeting with the first week he took about two dozen conser vation/enviover the helm of the ronmental leaders, Interior Department it said Zinke is now and began flying considering making his own flag. He met “a grand pivot” back with a diverse array to conservation. of American conserThis, only after vation leaders whose he has come under groups, in turn, repunprecedented resent tens of millions fire from modof people who care erate Roosevelt about environmental Republicans who say protection. his actions are far One person who more radical than was in the room those advanced by told me: “It was just Interior Secretary a meeting, nothing James Watt during the more. The Secretary Reagan years. doing a lot of smooth “The secretalking. Anyone who tary is very much believes he’s a borncrowd-sourcing ideas again conservationist for the reorganization,” is a fool.” Swift told E & E. “It was The person comSecretary Zinke claims to now be a born-again a reorg-focused meetpared it to when Zinke, ing, from the conservaa former Congressman conservationist tion angle.” from Montana, went BY TODD WILKINSON | @BigArtNature Note to Swift: through confirmation “ideas” for how to hearings to become To date, Zinke has, for the most part, Interior Secretary, claiming he would only courted press opportunities with protect America’s wildlife, air, land and emulate Theodore Roosevelt. “Instead,” reporters whom he knows will not subject water for future generations do not need my source said, “the decisions he’s made him to probing inquires. I know many to be “crowd-sourced.” They should be have caused even some hook and bul- reporters nationwide who are also frus- rather obvious. Anyone who claims to be channeling his inner Theodore Roosevelt let organizations to distance themselves trated by Swift’s evasive behavior. from him.” She has aggressively tried to deflect knows that you don’t, as one of your first I’ve had an ongoing request to do a reporters eager to ask Zinke about his public actions, eviscerate one of TR’s comprehensive interview with Zinke policies favoring, for example, the ener- greatest contributions to America’s congoing back a year now. His press sec- gy industry over the protection of finite servation heritage—creating national retary, Heather Swift, who possesses no things such as clean water and air, wildlife monuments. You don’t, by fiat, move to weaken the real acumen for Western issues, said she habitat and the fact that morale of federal “didn’t think it would be in the best inter- land management agencies has gone into Migratory Bird Treaty Act or open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling ests of the Secretary to sit down for an steep decline under Zinke’s command. in-depth interview.” It’s extraordinary, on the face of it, that on behalf of oil and gas interests. You don’t A couple of things: when I told a few Zinke, who boasts of his service to coun- lay the groundwork for new Jonah Gas former Interior press secretaries I know try as a Navy Seal, does not apparently Fields to sprout in the middle of importwho have served under both Republican have the guts to field tough questions ant wildlife migration corridors. You don’t pretend climate change doesn’t exist or and Democrat Interior Secretaries of from the press. Swift’s attempts to control the press, they Until only recently, he also snubbed break promises you made to vigorously replied that Zinke and Swift are mistaken meetings with the largest U.S. conser- defend the Land and Water Conservation if they believe interviews are only given to vation groups, except a few that claim Fund. Let us hope some of the hook and buladvance Zinke’s personal best interests. to represent hunters. Yet those organizaHe is obligated to answer tough questions have not said a discouraging word let organizations that vouched for Zinke tions about his stewardship of the people’s about the Trump Administration’s attacks the first time around are not so gullible as landscape—hundreds of millions of acres on wildlife habitat protection, gutting of to get duped again. Zinke has done a lot of public land under his authority—and national monuments and environmen- of damage that first needs to get undone. As for Swift, you are a politically-apwhich belong to all citizens. Further, U.S. tal laws, overturning bans on toxic lead taxpayers fund the salaries of Zinke and ammunition and proposals to allow oil pointed civil servant who works for the American people. You need to have a Swift, not a political party nor special drilling in sensitive coastal areas. better role model than Sarah Huckabee interests who hold sway in the swamp. Sanders. PJH

Seeing Through the Bureaucracy

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Down with Discrimination BY MEG DALY |

Councilor Jim Stanford said. The town passed a non-discrimination resolution in 2015 but it was widely acknowledged to lack teeth, as there is no method of enforcement. “With something like this, it takes a while to work out the kinks on our side,” Councilor Hailey Morton-Levinson said. “But we have a better ordinance for it.” While Frank believes “this is a community that does not conspicuously discriminate,” he was concerned the 2015 resolution was “not strong enough.” Lenz, meanwhile, reversed his position: “It’s all been said. Let’s go ahead.”

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Mark Houser, Jackson PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) coordinator, has been instrumental in advancing the NDO over the past several years. Ahead of Monday’s meeting, Houser submitted a letter to town councilors addressing concerns over staff impacts and costs. He conducted his own research to learn about the impacts on other regional municipalities that have passed NDOs. He heard back from 19 of 29 cities and towns. Most reported no impact whatsoever. “Based on this input, very few municipalities have had any complaints filed and very few unintended consequences have happened,” Houser said in his letter. Houser does not envision that an NDO would bring forward a great number of complaints. Instead, “it will send a clear message to members of our LGBTQ communities that the town recognizes their

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ackson Town Council’s message to the LGBTQ community on Monday was clear: We will protect you. During a May 21 workshop, Town Council voted unanimously to move forward with an ordinance that prohibits discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity or expression in housing, workplace and public accommodations. Prior to that workshop, Councilor Bob Lenz had voiced opposition to such an ordinance. In March, he pointed to the costs of administration and enforcement. That initial vote passed 3-1 with Councilor Don Frank absent. “I don’t see where you can afford it, no matter how much you want it,” Lenz said at the time. But his argument did not pan out in a report town staff presented Monday. It estimated the administrative cost of the ordinance would be just $250 to $700. When it comes to enforcement, Lenz’s other concern, the ordinance would indeed require more from town staff. The staff report acknowledged that the impact on staff would be “significant.” When complaints are filed, various town departments could be called upon. Complaints could warrant investigation, processing, prosecution and adjudication. For councilors on Monday, it was a small price to pay. “Everybody in our community will be put on notice that not only is this the right thing to do, but also if you do discriminate you will face criminal prosecution,”

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presence and worth in our community, and will allow individuals to feel safer and embraced,” he said. Legislation protecting and respecting LGBTQ communities has been shown to help reduce teen suicide attempts, as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2017. “I would hope an NDO in Jackson would have a similar effect,” he said. The draft ordinance takes youth into special consideration. It notes that antiLGBTQ discrimination “has an especially harmful impact to young residents.” In addition to being a means to embrace all members of Jackson’s community, an NDO provides a mechanism by which discrimination can be recorded, Houser said. The fact that regional municipalities have not experienced an excess of complaints is not a reason to avoid an ordinance. “I have heard many stories from teens and adults in our community as to the harassment and discrimination experienced due to their actual or perceived sexual orientation and/or gender identity,” he said. “Without an NDO in place, these events will continue to be noted only anecdotally.” The ordinance outlines economic benefits. Prohibiting discrimination will be attractive to new residents and businesses and is necessary for economic growth, the ordinance states. Houser garnered support for the NDO from several local businesses including Snake River Brewing, Habits, Dwelling, Aspens and Pearl Street markets, Sudachi, Westside Wine and Spirits, Grace Home Design, MADE, Mountain Dandy, Animal Care Clinic, Jackson Hole Contracting and this newspaper.

State Lacks Protections

The national LGBTQ organization Human Rights Campaign has its eye on Wyoming. Xavier Persad, HRC legislative counsel, pointed out there is a national hate crime law spurred by the murder of Matthew Shepard, killed in a homophobic hate crime in 1998 when he was 21 years old. No such hate crime law exists in Wyoming. Wyoming does issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. However, it’s perfectly legal to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals otherwise. The state does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment, or public accommodations—thus the need for ordinances in local municipalities. The state does not have a law that addresses harassment and/or bullying of students based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It is legal in Wyoming to exclude transgender healthcare from insurance coverage, and transgender state employees do not receive transgender-inclusive health care. In Human Rights Campaign’s “Municipal Equality Index,” Jackson, often considered the “blue dot in a red sea,” received a score of 18 last year—out of 100. The national average is 59. Only Laramie—where Shepard was killed—has passed a non-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBTQ residents. A few others, like Jackson, have non-binding non-discrimination resolutions. In Jackson, several advocates for the NDO showed visible surprise and relief at the unanimous vote. Outside the meeting, LGBTQ advocate Matt Stech said, “We were shooting for four to one, but obviously this was much better.” Stech noted that an NDO would protect people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, including heterosexuals. “Technically, right now in Jackson you could be fired for being straight,” he said. No protections for sexual orientation mean nobody is free from discrimination, he noted. He said the message to Jackson’s LGBTQ community is the key outcome of the day. “An ordinance will send a more embracing message to LGBTQ people than mere tolerance.” The Town Council will hold a first reading of the non-discrimination ordinance June 4. PJH

“An ordinance will send a more embracing message to LGBTQ people than mere tolerance.”

Wyoming is woefully behind in protecting citizens based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Some parts of the state are intent on going backward rather than forward, as was the case with a recent decision by Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington. WyoFile reported that the college’s board of trustees abandoned proposed policies protecting transgender employees and student athletes from discrimination after protests from Wyoming GOP chairman Frank Eathorne and other Republican lawmakers.

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Council Moves Forward with Plastic Bag Ban Councilors, community members showed widespread support at Monday workshop BY ROBYN VINCENT |

“We have become unfortunately a convenience and consumption society.”

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that have enacted bans. He looked at options implemented by similar resort towns like Aspen, Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado. “Aspen has a really strong sustainability department. They are incredibly thorough and we can use this information,” Ziem told Planet Jackson Hole. To address how low-income families would access reusable bags—one of Barron’s key concerns in 2011—Ziem suggested using the fee from paper bags to purchase and donate reusable bags to community members. The money could also fund education, outreach and programs at Integrated Solid Waste and Recycling. During Monday’s workshop, about a dozen people addressed the Town Council. Each voiced their overwhelming support. “In 2011, I supported this,” Miles told the council. “It was time to

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a “fair amount” of plastic bags, only about 20 percent are recycled. “When you go to the landfill or our trash transfer station, most of the litter you will see is plastic,” Overholser said. “It is a huge source of wind-blown litter even when it’s put into the trash.” Plastics also make their way into local bodies of water like Flat Creek. “We might be far from oceans but our waterways lead there,” she said. A ban would fall in line with the county’s zero waste plan, Overholser said. Its initial goal is to divert 60 percent of waste from the landfill by the year 2030. Implentation should be “fairly easy,” Stanford said, given town staff has twice completed extensive research. For example, the 2011 staff report showed that grocers were largely in support of a ban and that sentiment has not shifted, said Johnny Ziem, wastewater manager for the Town of Jackson. In his latest research, Ziem said he studied the increasing number of towns, cities and states across the nation

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get it done in 2011; it is time to get it done now.” Beyond the environmental impacts, one reason to act now is because the plastic industry has been “vicious” in its opposition to such bans, Paul Hansen told the council. The industry has swayed state lawmakers to prohibit local bans in nine states including neighboring Idaho. Jackson “cannot let the state take this into its own hands.” Councilors needed little convincing. Mayor Pete Muldoon called it “a no-brainer.” Meanwhile, Councilman Don Frank quipped that Jackson will become a BYOB (bring your own bag) community. He mirrored the emphatic public tone in his closing comments: “We have become unfortunately a convenience and consumption society and we innocently do what is put in front of us … it is an innocent attraction that is not innocent in its results.” That the Town Council was broadly receptive to the ban could have something to do with a group of citizens who have been advocating for a plastic bag ban for the last year. In 2017, Andrée Dean and Wyoming House candidate Michael Yin launched a grassroots effort to place a plastic bag ban in front of Jackson Town Council. “I felt like this was such an easy initiative that could be done with great impacts,” Dean told Planet Jackson Hole ahead of the workshop. Since Dean and Yin first met about a ban, about 20 people have joined them—community organizers like Skye Schell of the Conservation Alliance, conservationists like Hansen, business owner Ashley Watson, who owns a grocery delivery service, and elected officials like Teton County Commissioner Greg Epstein. “For a community whose number one priority is conservation, it only makes sense that we reduce our consumption of single-use plastic,” Epstein told Planet Jackson Hole. A countywide ban, though, is probably not in the cards, he said. That would require a statewide statute. “I don’t see that happening anytime soon, but we should continue to push for it.” PJH

even years and millions of plastic bags later, the second attempt to ban plastic bags in Jackson is moving forward. Town Council unanimously voted Monday to draft an ordinance to ban plastic bags and impose a 10-cent fee on paper bags. The council’s unequivocal support was in stark contrast to a workshop in 2011 when former Councilor Greg Miles proposed a ban. That effort did not have the council’s blessing, particularly from then-Mayor Mark Barron. “In 2011, there were school children who expressed their support for a ban,” Councilor Jim Stanford said. “These kids are getting ready to have kids of their own now and it is about time we follow through for them.” Still, Stanford called Monday’s decision the result of “an evolution and a process.” The 2011 proposal spurred education and outreach efforts about reducing plastic bag waste and “this is simply the next step,” he said. Details on the ban will emerge in the coming months after town staff presents an ordinance. Council members discussed the option to phase out bags or enact an immediate ban. They also considered precisely which businesses would be affected. Local grocers are the largest purveyors of plastic bags; grocers estimate Jackson’s shoppers go through five million per year. But the ban could include all retailers. Planet Jackson Hole reported in its May 16 issue some of the environmental and economic impacts of plastic bags. Researchers say the bags never fully decompose. Instead they break down into smaller pieces of plastic and enter every step of the food chain. Plastics have been found in bottled water and in the stomachs of marine life. According to a 2016 report by the World Economic Forum, oceans will contain more plastic than fish by the year 2050. The cost of recycling plastic bags in Teton County, which launched a zero waste initiative in 2014, is now an issue too. Prices in the recycling market swung when the Chinese government enacted an embargo on U.S. recyclables. “We were making $15 a ton on plastic bags, and now we are paying $40 a ton,” said Heather Overholser, head of Teton County’s Integrated Solid Waste and Recycling Division. She said even though ISWR collects

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t has been a tumultuous time for family planning clinics. Since the election of President Trump, clinics have been told all their programs will be cut, they have lost employees and money due to the defunding of the Affordable Care Act Navigator Program, and most recently, they’ve been faced with a potential reinstatement of the “domestic gag rule.” The rule, first created under Ronald Reagan, makes it illegal for clinics receiving federal funds to provide abortions, or to even talk about them. While there are no federally funded abortion providers in Wyoming, the proposal would limit the quality of care clinics could provide. For now, medical providers live with the constant threat that their doors could close at any time.

Back and Forth In July 2017, Trump announced a plan to cut all Title X programs, which fund clinics that provide contraception, STD and HIV testing, and cervical and breast cancer screenings. Wyoming’s clinics would have to end services by March 31, 2018. Then, just a month before that deadline, they received word that they could apply for funding. On May 18, more bad news arrived. The Trump administration proposed a new policy that would cut funding to any clinics who provide abortions, or who even talk about abortion. Wyoming’s Title X clinics do not provide abortions. But the gag rule would prohibit providers from even mentioning abortion to their patients. The Wyoming Health Council has been the Wyoming recipient of the Title X grant since 1990. It uses that funding to support 19 clinics across the state, including Teton County Public Health. These clinics serve uninsured and underinsured women. Patients receive not only family planning information and cancer screenings, but diabetes testing, domestic violence screenings, and drug and alcohol addiction referral. No Title X recipient has ever or will ever use those funds for abortions. Clinics that do provide abortions, like Planned Parenthood, receive money from elsewhere to do so. When Susie Markus, the executive director at Wyoming Health Council, learned all Title X funding would be pulled, she thought it was over. “I was starting to sell things, to close things down,” she said. “I told my office landlord we couldn’t guarantee another year.” The board prepared to dissolve.

Title X Quandaries Vulnerable women at risk with ‘gag rule,’ Trump’s gaze on family planning providers BY SARAH ROSS

It had already been a challenging time for the council. Earlier in 2017, their federal funding was cut for another program: the Affordable Care Act Navigator Program. The staff of six was whittled to one: Markus. It was difficult for Markus to imagine Wyoming without the council and the other Title X grantees. Low income women would be left with few options to receive both reproductive and primary healthcare. In 2016, clinics across the state served 7,458 different patients. Teton County Public Health served 650 people through Title X. “Without us, people without insurance or money might be living with life-threatening conditions,” Markus said. The people who visit Wyoming Health Council and Teton County Public Health may be uninsured, undocumented, afraid to talk to their family or primary care physician, or on Medicaid. In many cases, the 13 percent of Wyomingites on Medicaid cannot find family planning services other than Title X providers. About 90 percent of those served in Wyoming had incomes below 250 percent of the federal poverty line. The preventative care provided by clinics not only improves the health of individuals, but saves taxpayers. In 2010, for example, 2,100 unintended pregnancies were prevented by Title X services in Wyoming. “People think we provide abortions, but we prevent them,” Markus said. “We prevent unintended pregnancies that cost the state a lot of money, that are really expensive for taxpayers.” Because of Title X, providers can provide patients with cheap contraception options—birth control pills are just a few dollars a month and IUDs are $50 or less, depending on a person’s income. For uninsured women, the cost of an IUD without a Title X clinic could be anywhere from $500 to $800.

Wyoming providers had just begun grappling with ending their services when they got word they would be eligible for more Title X funding. The grant is due this week. This means their services will likely not change much. According to Markus, the Trump administration’s version of the grant requires providers to focus more on abstinence education, natural family planning methods, increased family participation in young women’s decisions about contraception, and “voluntary participation,” meaning that women cannot be coerced into going to a clinic. Wyoming’s clinics already emphasize abstinence, family involvement, and fertility planning, Markus said, and they never coerce women into treatment. “They also wanted to make sure that none of the funds could be used for abortion,” Markus said. “But we never have and we can’t. That’s in the law.”

Uncertain Times But for family planning clinics that do provide abortion and receive Title X funding, the future is less certain. Trump has proposed to defund Planned Parenthood, and most of the Title X grantees in other parts of the country are Planned Parenthood clinics. Without Planned Parenthood, close to three million patients nat ionw ide will lose their biggest hea lt hca re prov ider. “We can’t distance ourselves from Planned Parenthood,” Markus said. “That’s like saying you’re not my sister anymore.” Providers in Wyoming would be impacted if they could no longer discuss abortion with patients or even answer questions about it. That includes local providers. Jodie Pond, director of health at Teton County Public Health, said that if the gag

us, people “Without without insurance or money might be living with life-threatening conditions.

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rule were to go into effect, “it would limit our ability to provide options, counseling and referral. It limits our ability to give unbiased medical information.” Many proposals never come to fruition, Pond said, so for now, “nothing is changing in our program. We just have to be patient and wait. Once final guidance comes of course we will comply to be a Title X recipient.” The threat of funding being pulled at any moment has left medical providers in a state of anxiety. Esther Gilman-Kehrer is a family nurse practitioner at the Laramie Reproductive Health Clinic which serves some of the poorest people in the state. Trump’s proposal would impact the quality of care she could provide, she said. “For me personally, I think it would be really hard. I would have a hard time gagging myself, because it limits women’s options entirely and it’s not appropriate. It also treats women like children, as if they don’t know the options. They do know the options, and they come to us for help.” The gag rule would limit GilmanKehrer’s ability to do her job, as would the obligation to provide abstinence-only education. Under Title X, providers already talk to teenagers about how abstinence is the only sure way to prevent STDs and pregnancy. “But we’re also realistic, and if teens want a method of birth control, we provide it,” she said. “It’s honestly difficult to keep your doors open in a safety net organization when it’s a hot button issue,” she said. There is another clinic in Laramie that provides healthcare to uninsured people, but it doesn’t provide reproductive care. For that reason alone, it receives more funding than the Reproductive Health Clinic. These are uncertain times, but GilmanKehrer is a firm believer in the merits of her work. “This is a college town,” she said, “and being able to provide reproductive services for college women to be able to achieve the goals they’ve set for themselves, to give them control over their reproductive health, and to help them maximise their potential is what it is all about.” Pond echoed her sentiments. Without Teton County Public Health, people, especially women, would suffer. For a brief period of time several years ago, there was not a Title X provider. “We heard, through anecdotal evidence that unintended pregnancies rose during that time,” she said. PJH

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How a push toward diverse programming is shifting Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural landscape and empowering audiences

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asmin Nava Moreno was waiting in town to meet her mother when a white man accosted her. “Go back to your country,” he said. Moreno fell silent. The Jackson Hole High School student didn’t have the courage to defend herself, to say this is her country, too, and she is proud of her cultural identity. That was two years ago. Now, she said, she would have a different response. She gives credit for her new confidence to African pop singer Angélique Kidjo, who recently performed at Center for the Arts. “She was so empowering,” Moreno said. “She is proud of all of who she is, and she gave me the confidence to be all of who I am—Latina and American.” Moreno was part of a group of 40 high school and middle school girls who attended Kidjo’s May 10 concert as part of a special effort by local nonprofits who support girls’ empowerment. After the concert, the girls met Kidjo, sang with her, and asked her questions. Many of the girls, like Moreno, were buzzing about the experience for days afterward. Kidjo is one in a line-up of influential performers, writers and artists of color to visit Jackson Hole. It is a roster that reflects the valley’s changing demographics. Legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones has been an artist-in-residence several years running. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera spoke here in 2017. MacArthur fellow and award-winning poet Claudia Rankine visited in 2015. Musicians Judith Hill, Trombone Shorty, Victor Wooten and Robert Randolph all played at Center for the Arts in the past two years. Comedian W. Kamau Bell made an appearance in 2016. In the visual arts, the Art Association hosted a major exhibit in 2017 with contemporary Mexican artists. That same year Off Square Theatre produced Water by the Spoonful, which has only one white character. Off Square’s Thin Air Shakespeare summer productions, meanwhile, feature actors of color, and engage in nontraditional gender-bending casting. Jackson is often referred to as a “mostly white, homogenous place”—a misnomer in an area where a third of the population is Latino. Could increasingly diverse arts programming help shift local power dynamics and the valley’s lack of non-white representation?

Local girls met with pop star and activist Angélique Kidjo May 10. A Sense of Belonging America Martinez Carrillo, 15, also attended the Kidjo concert. Like Moreno, Carrillo grew up in Jackson, the child of Mexican immigrants. Both girls are part of the Latina Leadership club at Jackson Hole High School. She said Kidjo’s stories about her life left a lasting impression. “She told us not to be afraid to be who we are,” Carrillo said. “She said we are human first. It was so nice to hear that from somebody who had the same treatment that we have had, being told we don’t belong.” In 1983, Kidjo fled Benin’s political turmoil and censorship and resettled in France. In addition to her acclaimed career as an international pop star, she has become an activist for young women. A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Kidjo has traveled through much of Africa, advocating for girls’ education and empowerment. Hearing that Kidjo had to flee her homeland, Moreno thought, “I don’t ever want to be in that situation.” But she realized she feels a similar insecurity. The United States is her home and her country of citizenship. Yet she lives in fear that some of her family members could be deported,

even though they have lived in Jackson for many years. “It’s scary when ICE comes to town and I have to text my parents to warn them to stay indoors,” Moreno said. “I don’t want anything to happen to them.” Hearing how an artist has dealt with adversity can give audience members like Moreno and Carrillo courage in their own struggles. “My experience is not the same as one of my white peers,” Carrillo said. The more diverse the artists who speak and perform in Jackson, the more lives are touched with stories that either reflect audiences’ experiences or open windows into other realities. Internationally and nationally celebrated artists don’t arrive here by magic, however. Arts and cultural venues like the Center for the Arts, which brought Kidjo, serve as gatekeepers. They decide who appears on local stages, in galleries and behind podiums. Increasingly, these gatekeepers say they have a responsibility to reflect Jackson’s changing demographics in their programming. “At the Center, we want to be inclusive of the entire community to the best of our ability,” said Shannon

McCormick, Center for the Arts’ programming director. As a white man who has done music programming throughout the valley for decades, he said he thinks outside the box of his own gender and race. “I try really hard, and have for many years, to be as diverse as possible,” he said. “Jackson’s audiences are diverse, from workers on up to the second homeowners. I’d like to see them all get in the door.” McCormick noted that not everyone can afford to travel to big music festivals like SXSW where they could see a multitude of diverse artists in different genres. He said he feels, “a sense of responsibility to bring that diversity to our home.” Some might argue that, at $60 to $100 a pop, tickets to CFA events are cost-prohibitive for many. But there are occasions when the Center partners with other organizations and offers free tickets to community members. This was the case for the group of girls that attended Kidjo’s performance. Once the Center secured funding from its community partners, it contacted Jess Yeomans of Girls Actively Participating, a local nonprofit that works to empower young women

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for people who have different beliefs, and a lack of compassion for those in need,” Case said. “Artists like Bill T. Jones create work that generates dialogue about difficult issues,” she said. “His voice is rooted in humanity, and all that humanness involves.” This is the integral role artists play in society, she said. “It is important for those of us who live in Jackson to hear from artists who live elsewhere in the world. Especially for the youth. We need to better understand what life beyond here can be and what others face.” For Natalia Macker, artistic director at Off-Square Theatre, presenting diversity on stage is one of the best ways to grow empathy and understanding between individuals and for an entire community. “So much fear of ‘the other’ really stems from the unknown,” she said. “Arts, and especially theater, are a way to present experiences and points of view that can build bridges and illuminate our shared humanity.” Macker said “color-conscious casting, equity, and inclusion” are foundational and critical for her as artistic director. “Theater is meant to tell the

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What would structural and institutional change in the arts look like? New York City is trying to tackle this question head-on. In 2017, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gave New York’s museums and arts groups an ultimatum, The New York Times reported. He told them to diversify their leadership and staff or risk losing city funding. A survey by New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs found that only 26 percent of senior staff at cultural organizations identify as people of color in

a city where 67 percent of residents are non-white. Though Teton County is more than 30 percent Hispanic, leadership in cultural organizations does not reflect these demographics (Teton County Library being the exception, where several women of color hold key staff positions). Institutional change, then, may be longer in coming to Jackson Hole than in big cities. But well-meaning programming directors like McCormick take racial diversity seriously at least in terms of programming. Dancers’ Workshop artistic director Babs Case also feels a responsibility as a programmer. From the New York City Ballet and Savion Glover to Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Dancers’ Workshop presents acclaimed dancers and companies from around the world. For several years running, Case has brought choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company to town as artists-in-residence. Jones’ work delves into issues of race and ethnicity as well as memory, forgiveness and the intersections of history and current events. Case said Jones speaks to the issues of our time. “We are seeing racial hatred, random violence, intolerance

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through various activities, Michelle Rooks of Jackson Hole Middle School who brought students from dual immersion, and Piper Worthington with the Latina Leadership club. Nearly half the girls who attended were Latina. During the girls’ visit with the singer, Carrillo asked Kidjo to sing one of her songs in Spanish. Kidjo proceeded to sing in perfect Spanish. “I was blown away by the students’ response,” Rooks said. “Girls were gasping and crying. It was so powerful to them to hear someone who is making a difference in the world speaking their language.”

Allie Pratt and Kendall Johnson perform in ‘The Tempest’ in 2017.

stories of all human beings, and those are stories that only many voices can tell,” she said. By sparking dialogue around current issues, Macker believes theater can bring diverse groups together and help communities—local, national and global—move forward together. While diverse voices can open windows onto what it means to be part of humanity at large, those voices can also speak to specific issues in Jackson. Last year, the Art Association presented an exhibition focused on Jackson’s Latino community. “Art in Translation” featured work by three contemporary Mexican artists who worked with Latinos in Teton County to tell their stories. The show explored themes of home, language and identity. For the exhibit, artist and writer Verónica Gerber Bicecci created a radio program in English and Spanish that combined visual and performance pieces to highlight the experience of similar stories being told in both languages. Multimedia artist Sandra Calvo utilized her social, collaborative and site-specific artistic practice to create an installation about housing, shelter and territory issues in Jackson. And filmmaker Edgardo Aragón made a video showcasing the parallel landscapes shared by Jackson and Tlaxcala, Mexico. The exhibit was deemed a worthy effort. The Art Association received a prestigious $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the project. Art is a powerful conduit for conversation between cultures, said Mark Nowlin, head of the Art Association. “Art is a language in itself. You don’t have to speak the same language as the artist in order to understand it.” Incorporating Latino stories into the larger story of Jackson Hole is important: “They are us,” he said. “We have to include them because, at some point, they will be comfortable enough in this community to start running it,” he added. Nowlin’s programming also reflects a desire to present a variety of aesthetics. He wants to expand viewers’ notion of what constitutes “good” art. “Having this other cultural aesthetic here opens us up to a more diverse landscape of art in the community,” he said. Teton County Library’s Adult Program Coordinator Leah Shlachter agreed. She said the library doesn’t

Poetic Power The library happens to be another venue that places a high value on diversity. It is responding to demographic shifts happening in the U.S. at large. “We’re committed to keeping an eye towards having our library programming and services reflective of generational, ethnic and cultural changes happening nationally and locally,” Isabel Zumel, assistant director, said. Some of the most vocal commitment to diversity is happening in the realm of young adult literature: “Young adults’ reality is increased diversity,” Zumel said. “Being able to see oneself, as well as others with very different experiences, in the literature we read, the programs we attend, and in popular culture is a powerful portal for being recognized as a part of something bigger than ourselves.” Shlachter said the library brings writers of color not to replace white writers but to give equal voice to writers of color. “Diversity in programming is one attempt to uproot racial inequality not just in the literary world, but in the political, social, and economic spheres as well,” she said. Still, there is still a long way to go to in diversifying the arts, Shlachter said. Who is presented on stage or in a gallery is one thing. Who is behind the scenes making decisions is another. A 2015 census showed that at the institutional level, small and rural arts organizations in America lack diversity. The census, conducted by Americans for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, focused on local arts agencies throughout the country. The results showed that 34 percent of local arts agency boards and 51 percent of their staffs are entirely white. “Diversity alone does not mean racial equality, and should not be mistaken for structural and institutional change,” Shlachter said. A discussion of impactful visiting artists of color would not be complete without noting the library’s upcoming guest. On Friday, it hosts U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the Center for the Arts. Smith, who is African-American, will read from her work and discuss

the power of metaphor as well as poetry’s ability to help readers envision lives and worlds beyond their own. Smith’s work could not be more emblematic of the exemplary art the library means to highlight. She has been amassing awards for her work for more than 15 years. Recently, her critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and her collection of poems Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. When an artist, writer or performer of Smith’s U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith visits the stature visits a small town, the impact reverberthemes in her poems,” he said. “She ates throughout the community. This takes on historical, cultural, mythologkind of elevated position allows an art- ical, even cosmic subjects, while at the ist to play an important role in soci- same time revealing a familiar vastness ety, Wyoming Poet Laureate Eugene to the interior experience of a single Gagliano said. person.” “The poet laureate helps us to see In her recent poem “Unrest in Baton our world in a different light,” he said. Rouge,” Smith responds to a now iconic “They help us to empathize and give photograph by Jonathan Bachman in perspective through different eyes.” which a lone protestor stands peacefulGagliano said that poetry offers a ly in the face of a line of police officers unique way to look at humanity and in riot gear in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. at history. “Poetry helps make us more Smith’s poem contemplates the puraware of our behaviors and how they pose of police armor. affect the needs, wants and concerns of our neighbors,” he said. Even the men in black armor, the A retired elementary school teacher ones from Buffalo, Gagliano is the eighth Poet Laureate in state history. He is the Jangling handcuffs and keys, what author of several books for children, else as well as poetry that celebrates life in Wyoming and the West. He received Are they so buffered against, if not the Wyoming State Literacy Award in love’s blade 2004. Local poet Matt Daly (brother to this Sizing up the heart’s familiar meat? author) said that Smith’s poems convey a universality of experience. Even It’s jolting to imagine love as a blade though Smith might write specifical- ready to slice a heart. By using this ly about race or David Bowie or sci- metaphor, Smith strips away the outer ence fiction in an individual poem, the layers between the humans in the meaning can be applied more broadly. photo. She presents readers with the “I am moved by the ways Tracy K. rawness of beating hearts facing one Smith addresses vast subjects and another. Smith asks in the poem, “Is it

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simply look at skin color or identity when making programming decisions. “We want to show people good art,” she said. “We have our ear to the ground and we hear about who is good, who is up-and-coming.”

valley this week.

strange to say love is a language/Few practice, but all, or near all speak?” Daly says this is Smith’s brilliance, using her art to at once embrace the specific and the universal. “Smith’s work reminds me that poems can reach far,” Daly said. “Sometimes the farthest reaching is directed inward.” When a poem or a song or a work of art reaches inward and touches a reader or audience member—as in the case of Moreno and Carrillo—the effect can be life-changing. “Our community is recognizing that there is more than one kind of life story,” Carrillo said. “When you bring in a new era of amazing stories, it is really motivational and empowering.”

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Teton County Library presents an evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith 7 p.m. Friday at the Center for the Arts. A book signing in the lobby will follow. Tickets are free and available at the library. Smith will teach a writing workshop “Nothing Like Itself: A Workshop on the Uses of Metaphor” 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Teton County Library’s Ordway Auditorium. The workshop is free and no registration required. Bring your writing tool of choice.

LOCAL SYNDROME

THIS WEEK: May 23-30

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

n Hummingbird Yoga 6 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga, n Toddler Gym 10 a.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Read to Rover 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n VITA 2018 Free Tax Prep 3 p.m. Teton County Library, n Fun with Library Staff: Miss Beth - Youth Auditorium 3:30 p.m. Teton County Library, n 2018 Wyoming Bike Walk Trails Summit 4 p.m. Snow King Resort, n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Writers of the Valley: Book talk series 6:30 p.m. Alta Branch Library,

THURSDAY, MAY 24

Parental Stressors

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“illegal,” Hernandez said. Obtaining certain immigration status is complicated. “If it were easy [to get citizenship] everyone would do it. They would pay any money to do it,” Hernandez said. “I was speaking with a client yesterday and she said she has already paid around $20,000 just to get legal documents.” Having grown up here, Hernandez, now a U.S. citizen, has certainly seen things change for the better in some ways. But she wants to see more advocacy and support from people outside of the Latino community. Until then, she will keep speaking out for struggling Latino families. She will speak for the people who are undocumented and afraid to speak out for themselves. “I have dreams of becoming a teacher,” she said. “Maybe go into politics. I don’t know. I do what is necessary, what I believe to be good for Hispanics.” For now, Hernandez will keep helping to shift cultural dynamics right where she is at One 22, starting with the youth. Summer camps, she said, are a good way for all children to get involved in the community at large, to express themselves. Encouraging more diversity in camp participants can go a long way to bridging the gap between Jackson’s white and Hispanic communities. “We need to have allies,” she said. PJH

FRIDAY, MAY 25

n Hummingbird Yoga 6 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga, n Friday Yoga Levels 1 & 2 at The Wellness Center 9 a.m. Huntsman Springs, n Toddler Gym 10 a.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Tots-n-Blocks 10 a.m. n Alta Storytime 10 a.m. Alta Branch Library, n Free Food Friday 10:30 a.m. Jackson Cupboard, Free, 3076992163 n All Ages Story Time - Driggs 11:15 a.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Game Night 4 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library,

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opportunity for working parents to have their children looked after during the work week. But such opportunities have introduced a new layer of anxiety for parents. Today, parents in the Latino community drop their kids off at camp and walk away worrying about ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). They worry because immigration officers are apprehending undocumented people with greater frequency than in recent years. One would think that the convenience of a summer camp would be a stress reliever for many parents, but for some, it has become the opposite. “We do see that right now in the process of scholarships,” Hernandez said, “that a lot of them are afraid because of the situation of ICE, that they’re not safe.” She said parents worry they may get arrested while their children are in camp or that their children will become targets. Unlike public and private schools, which ICE considers “sensitive locations” where, according to its website, “Enforcement actions … will generally be avoided,” summer camps often take place in public areas. That means they could be an exception. Hernandez estimated that about 70 percent of the Hispanic community in Jackson is undocumented. But “undocumented” is not synonymous with

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very summer, hundreds of local kids attend various summer camps around the valley. From Teton Science School to the Art Association and the Rec Center, the options for summer distractions are numerous. And while most camps are pay-to-play, some offer scholarships and discounts to low-income and Latino families. Annel Hernandez, client advocate at One22, grew up in Jackson and wished these opportunities were available when she was a child. “Back then, we didn’t have the resources the community now offers,” she said. “Besides what was provided through school, we didn’t know anything else about outdoor activities. Our parents never got that information.” Hernandez said she and her siblings were always home alone during the summer months while her parents worked long hours. Today, she helps children to avoid a similar scenario. She works with parents to find the right camp for their kids. While some lean more towards academically-focused programs, many young parents are encouraging their kids to get involved in art and outdoor exploration, to become more dynamic. Hernandez, also a mother, is in that boat too: “We are telling our kids to pursue more than just working.” Local summer camps are a great

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School’s (almost) out and the looming shadow of ICE weighs heavy on some families

n Hummingbird Yoga 6 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga, n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Baby Time 12 p.m. Alta Branch Library, n Theater Thursday, Victor 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Make stuff with Rachel Attias - Youth Auditorium 3:30 p.m. Teton County Library, n Toast to the Cowboy: The Grand ReOpening Featuring Jo Dee Messina 5 p.m. Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $25.00, 307733-2207 n Open Build 5:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n StoryCorps WPR: What Makes a Good News Story with Bob Beck 6 p.m. Teton County Library, n Pilates + MELT® 6 p.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $25.00, 307-7336398 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n App Time - Computer Lab 7 p.m. Teton County Library, n Bob Greenspan Down in the Roots 7:30 p.m. Wort Hotel, n FTR Adopt-a-Highway Clean-up Event

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Art, Language, Music and Life Mix’d Media, Spanish Story Slam and Y La Bamba happen this week and next Mixing it Up Every year elk, deer and pronghorn journey across Greater Yellowstone. They ford rivers, climb mountain passes and navigate fences and roads. The newest exhibit at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, “Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone’s Great Animal Migrations,” showcases these journeys. And the museum’s Mix’d Media Event celebrates the exhibit. The event is the first of the summer season and coincides with the “blockbuster and most exciting summer exhibit,” said Amy Goicoechea, director of program and events at the museum. The exhibit features images created by National Geographic photographer Joe Riis, a film by Jenny Nichols and paintings by James Prosek in an exhibit created originally by the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody. The Mix’d Media event happens the day before the exhibit officially opens giving attendees a chance to view the show, before the public, which can see the exhibit June 1. Mix’d Media is meant to give locals a chance to see the museum’s latest exhibits for free, after hours. “It offers a chance for a dynamic, participatory experience that celebrates an exhibit,” Goicoechea said. “It’s very content-rich and robust in engagement opportunities.” Mix’d Media begins at 6 p.m. Wyatt Lowe & the Mayhem Kings will provide music. Palate will sell food and drinks.

Museum members receive one free drink at the event. Prosek will talk about his work in the exhibit near the beginning of Mix’d Media. His talk will last about 30 minutes. People will have a chance to watercolor paint and Prosek will answer questions about his work and offer painting tips. The museum will also host a Sneak Peek event at 11:30 a.m. May 31 where people can take a behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibit. – Kelsey Dayton

Mix’d Media is 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 31 at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

Story Slam en Español

Karma was an intrinsic part of Patti Rocha’s childhood. Growing up in Colombia, her mother would always say things like “you are going to pay for that,” Rocha said. So for the first Spanish story slam, Rocha, who is the Latino outreach program coordinator at Teton County Library, naturally thought of karma for the theme. The event mirrors the library’s Cabin Fever Story Slams. The rules are mostly the same: stories must be memorized and can’t be read, they should fit the theme, they must be a personal experience and there is a five-minute time limit for telling the story. The one exception is they must be told in fluent Spanish. The library’s other story slams are of course open to anyone, but telling a personal story in a second language is

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Beyond its diverse musicality and multilingual songs, frontwoman Luiz Elena Mendoza’s stunning voice sets the band apart. On the album Ojos Del Sol her voice is “enmeshed in the instrumental arrangements, which gives her bicultural storytelling an almost otherworldly feel,” noted Felix Contreras of NPR. Anyone who donated $35 or more during KHOL’s winter membership drive will have a spot on the guest list, those who donated $60 or more receive a plusone. – Robyn Vincent The membership drive thank you party and a sweet raffle happen 8 p.m. Saturday at Pink Garter Theatre. If you have not yet donated, visit 891khol.org/donate.

n Hummingbird Yoga 6 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga, n Poet Laureate: Writing Workshop 9:30 a.m. Teton County Library, n Writing workshop with Tracy K. Smith 10:30 a.m. Teton County Library, n App Time - Computer Lab 11 a.m. Teton County Library, n TETON ROCK GYMWEEKEND OPEN GYM 1 p.m. n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Mike Hurwitz and the Aimless Drifters 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Mike Hurwitz & the Aimless Drifters 7:30 p.m. Wort Hotel, n KHOL Presents: Y La Bamba 9 p.m. Pink Garter Theatre, $15.00,

SUNDAY, MAY 27

n Hummingbird Yoga 6 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga,

n A Life Celebration of Dean Stayner 11 a.m. Jackson Hole Book Trader, Free, (307) 734-6001 n TETON ROCK GYMWEEKEND OPEN GYM 1 p.m. n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 4 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Jazz Foundation of Jackson Hole 7 p.m. Wort Hotel, n Jazz Foundation of Jackson Hole 7 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

MONDAY, MAY 28

n Monday Pilates Class at The Wellness Center 8:30 a.m. Huntsman Springs, (847) 354-7722 n Hummingbird Yoga 8:45 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga, n Toddler Gym 10 a.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Maker 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Movie Monday-Driggs 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Mindful Mondays 6:45 p.m. Medicine Wheel Wellness,

TUESDAY, MAY 29

n Hummingbird Yoga 6 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga, n Tuesday Yoga Level 1 at The Wellness Center 9 a.m. Huntsman Springs, n Intermediate Tai Chi classes 10 a.m. n Open Gym - Adult

Basketball 12 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Teton Valley Food Pantry drop-off 12 p.m. n Tech Time 1 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Read to Rover, Driggs 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n App Time - Computer Lab 3 p.m. Teton County Library, n Tuesday Couples Nine and Dine 4:30 p.m. Huntsman Springs, n Cultured AF Trivia Night 6 p.m. Pink Garter Theatre, Free, n Special Town Council Meeting: D3-6 Zoning/ Parking 1st Reading 6 p.m. n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Wednesday Workout All Day at The Wellness Center Huntsman Springs,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30

n Hummingbird Yoga 6 a.m. Hummingbird Yoga, n Wednesday LADIES DAY 9 a.m. Huntsman Springs, n Toddler Gym 10 a.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Read to Rover 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n VITA 2018 Free Tax Prep 3 p.m. Teton County Library, n Fun with Library Staff: Miss Beth - Youth Auditorium 3:30 p.m. Teton County Library, n WPR’s Melodie Edwards: Trials of Wildlife Reporting 6 p.m. Teton County Library,

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KHOL wouldn’t exist without its supporters. The small but mighty community radio station and its staff are keenly aware of this truth and that’s why they’re bringing Y La Bamba for their membership drive thank you party. Y La Bamba plays indie rock steeped in Latin rhythms. Traditional folk tunes and hard rock are in their arsenal too, Zach Zimmerman, KHOL station manager, said. The band has amassed buzz among KHOL’s roster of more than 50 volunteer DJs. When that many music aficionados agree on the merit of an act, it usually means the community at large will dig them too, Zimmerman said.

The Spanish story slam is 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 29 at El Abuelito.

n Crochet at Your Library Youth Wing 5:30 p.m. Teton County Library, n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith - Center for the Arts 7 p.m. Center for the Arts, n Mike Hurwitz and the Aimless Drifters 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Mike Hurwitz & the Aimless Drifters 7:30 p.m. Wort Hotel, n FREE Friday Night Public Stargazing 9 p.m. Center for the Arts,

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participate, she already has two people who said they are interested. Rocha hopes by hosting it at El Abuelito they might attract more people to listen to the stories. The event is free and people don’t have to purchase anything to participate. For those wanting to tell a story, the best advice she can offer is to practice and make sure it has an ending. – Kelsey Dayton

difficult, Rocha said. Being able to speak in Spanish changes things. “You don’t have to struggle with the vocabulary,” she said. “You don’t have to struggle with cultural translations, you can share your culture. Mainly it gives you freedom.” Storytelling and oral history is an important part of Rocha’s culture, but those traditions vary depending on where people are from. Many of the native Spanish speakers in Jackson are from Mexico and Rocha said she wasn’t sure of the role of storytelling in the culture. While she isn’t sure how many people will

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CREATIVE PEAKS This Week at The Wort THURSDAY, MAY 24 BOB GREENSPAN DOWN IN THE ROOTS BAND FRI & SAT, MAY 25 & 26 MIKE HURWITZ & THE AIMLESS DRIFTERS SUNDAY, MAY 27 JAZZ FOUNDATION OF JH TUESDAY, MAY 29 ONE TON PIG Full music schedule at worthotel.com 50 N. Glenwood St. • 307-732-3939

Works by Adam Wolpert (left) and Katy Ann Fox debut at Center for the Arts Thursday and Friday.

Flavors of Place Two artists hang works that capture subtle moments in time and place BY KELSEY DAYTON |

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hen Katy Ann Fox bought a Polaroid-like camera, she noticed the simplicity of colors the camera captured was akin to the colors in her work. She began to use it to photograph the landscapes she wanted to paint. “I like painting from poor photo references,” Fox said. “It demands more of my brain and my paint.” Fox’s latest show “Hit Pause” features work inspired by the images she’s taken with her camera and its instant photo prints. The exhibit is a continued exploration of the pace of life. Fox isn’t drawn to the big vistas many landscape artists gravitate toward. She often photographs fleeting moments, those in which she wants to spend more time. Fox plein air paints, as well as works from photographs she takes herself. The simple snapshots from the camera inform Fox’s design, color choice and paint texture. Working from photographs makes her work “pure and honest,” she said. “I get to design them more and pay attention to brush stroke and texture. All the information isn’t there but I was there. My expression is my filter with my paint.” Her work tends to feel peaceful, she said. Her art is a way to share something positive. Her latest exhibit, which

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features work in her primary medium of oil paints, is a tribute to what’s important to her. She hopes people can relate to it as they walk through the gallery. Fox grew up in Idaho and was equally a natural at math as she was with art. She went on to earn a master’s degree in fine art from the Academy of Art University. “Katy is one of the most interesting and exciting artists we have working in the valley right now,” said Carrie Richer, creative initiatives coordinator at the Center for the Arts. “There is a really amazing sense of humor that comes through all of her work and I’m struck by the maturity and restraint in her work. She captures one quick moment and you kind of get sucked into the painting and it becomes so powerful with the weight and way she paints it.” While Fox’s work hangs in the Theater Gallery, a series of paintings by California artist Adam Wolpert hang in the Center for the Arts’ conference room. Wolpert’s “Pond Series” features 70 paintings of the same scene painted throughout a year. “It’s so easy for artists to get carried away with subject matter and looking at something and wanting to change the view, and this is a good example of how you can look at one location and every day it’s different and you notice those

subtle differences,” Richer said. Wolpert’s work complements Fox’s, Richer said. Each painting is beautiful on its own, but the series has a greater impact when viewed all together, Richer said. Its new for Center for the Arts to show work in the conference room. “The series really looked like it belonged in that room,” Richer said. “I’m excited about environments and how art changes environments. This is the perfect opportunity to take this meditative, beautiful series and use those calming effects in the conference room where there are always meetings and such happening.” Together, the two artists capture the nuances of landscape, Richer said. “These shows are almost like a launch of plein air season.” PJH

Fox’s show hangs in the Theater Gallery in the Center for the Arts through June 26. She will discuss her work at an artist talk noon on Thursday. A reception for the show is at 5:30 p.m. Friday. Wolpert’s show hangs Thursday through August 20. He gives an artist talk at noon on Friday. Later that day there will be an opening reception at 5:30 p.m. in the conference room at the Center for the Arts.

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On any given day, when you walk into the dark, wood-lined bar, a mélange of families, happy hour drinkers, and Teton Pass skiers or bikers fill the place with local charm. During an Around the World dinner, the bar is still filled with this same crowd, but the dining room is transformed with nice linens and thoughtful place settings. Since Streetfood launched these dinners, diners have traveled to locales like Spain, Korea and Italy, and now to a place very familiar to co-owner Hernandez. Hailing from Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, Hernandez decided to serve up a month-long ode to his homeland, covering three regions of Mexico, starting with his home town, then moving to Veracruz and finishing with Oaxaca. Today we were in Veracruz. Hatchard educated diners before the meal: “Stretching the shoreline along the Gulf of Mexico, there’s a lot of seafood in Veracruz cuisine. Which is why we’ll be serving you crab in the first course and snapper in the second.”

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unny how the best food in Jackson is in a bar,” exclaimed my neighboring diner. No one disagreed. Despite my overwhelming fullness, I was depressed our 50 dollar four-course meal had come to an end. Streetfood at the Stagecoach has been a local favorite since opening its counter in summer 2015. With backgrounds steeped in culinary institutions like the Four Seasons, chef-owners Marcos Hernandez and Amelia Hatchard wanted to bring their love of authentic global cuisine to Jackson in an affordable, fuss-free manner. Positioned in the corner of the valley’s most fuss-free watering hole, the Stagecoach Bar, Streetfood found an apt home to do just that. When Hernandez and Hatchard began their “Around the World” dinners in 2016, they filled a void, offering both a dining experience and flavors that can’t be found anywhere else in town.

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Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square. Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, drinks or dinner.

Seared red snapper with potatoes, olives and capers.

A desert tamale drizzled with vanilla and dulce de leche.

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

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The region’s food is also heavily influenced by Spanish and Afro-Cuban flavors, Hernandez explained. “Your main course: seared red snapper with potatoes, olives and capers, will remind you more of Spanish food than what you may traditionally think of as Mexican.” With these influences came vanilla and coffee as well, Hatchard said, “which you’ll see in your desert.” As I dug into the salsa macha we shared with other patrons, I was surprised by its unexpected flavors: chipotle, olive oil and garlic (thanks to Spanish conquistadors), and peanuts. Ground into a wonderfully nutty paste, this salsa reminded me of a coarser spicy Thai peanut sauce with a twist. We asked for seconds. The second course, fried zucchini flowers stuffed with garlic rice and crabs and served over a smooth salsa pippin, had a light batter, giving crunch to its softer filling while allowing the flavors inside to be the focus. The salsa, creamy and smooth, clung to the shell

lending just a touch of heat to each bite. When the third course arrived, I was taken by the presentation including the vessel. Served in beautiful clay bowls, the seared red snapper sat atop potatoes, tomatoes, olives and capers. It was almost too pretty too eat. Almost. I wasted little time devouring it in a frenzy of fresh, flavorful bites. Now I was ready to roll my full belly home to bask in a post-gluttonous haze. Not so fast. It was time for desert. To be clear—desert tamales, coffee-flavored and drizzled with vanilla sauce and dulce de leche. I left nothing but husk—torn apart, wilted and empty. Now, I await the next dinner 7 p.m. on May 30, when Streetfood delivers its diners to Oaxaca, the region that is home to seven different mole sauces. Each course will feature a different mole. PJH To reserve a spot at the final Mexican dinner, call 307-200-6633.

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Featuring dining destinations from breweries to bakeries, and continental fare to foreign flavor, this is a sampling of our dining critic’s local favorites.

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LOTUS ORGANIC RESTAURANT

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. Located at 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

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

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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. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. Open daily for dinner at 5 p.m. Located downtown at 75 East Pearl Street, (307) 733-0005, melvinbrewing.com.

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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. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

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VIRGINIAN SALOON

Come down to the historic Virginian Saloon and check out our grill menu! Everything from 1/2 pound burgers to wings at a great price! The grill is open in the Saloon from 4 p.m.-10p.m. daily. Located at 750 West Broadway, (307) 739-9891.

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. Located at 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

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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. Located at 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

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DOMINO’S PIZZA

Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Hand-tossed, 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. - 2 a.m. Located at 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

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

Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival through its award-winning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp MoeBoy 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 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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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 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Coffee & pastry 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Lunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Aprés 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Dinner 6 p.m.-9 p.m. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call (307) 733-3242.

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

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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 runs from 4 - 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Loacted at 265 S. Millward. (307) 7392337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

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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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Read digitally Songs in Bollywood soundtracks 10 Stopped stalling 15 Nincompoop 19 __ Bell: fast-food chain 20 Donovan of “Clueless” 21 45 player 22 Alternative to de Gaulle 23 Back up on a job? 24 On the take 25 No-fuss course 27 “Spin” that really doesn’t affect the ball 30 Motive 31 Berkshire jackets 32 Cardiology concern 34 Help dishonestly 38 Floods 41 Katz of “Hocus Pocus” 42 Rural expanse 43 Rarity for a duffer 44 Invitation enclosure 49 Inc. relative 50 Governing gp. 52 Property attachment 53 Signs often numbered 54 Entreaty 55 “You wouldn’t dare!” response 56 Wood-shaping tool 57 Apothecary’s measures 58 Like some early hieroglyphics 59 Trickle 60 They may rest on sills: Abbr. 61 Wine label first name 62 Gift 63 “Affliction” actor 65 Key next to F 66 Cheney’s successor 67 Document often framed 69 Landlord’s sign 70 Surfer’s shade? 71 Eligibility factors 74 Skips past

75 Cope 76 Part of LGBTQ 77 Texas tourist spot 78 Gimlet options 79 Language group that includes Swahili 80 Lengthy lunch? 81 “Night Moves” singer 82 L, at times: Abbr. 83 “Curious though it may seem ... ” 86 Sinus dr. 87 By and by, to a bard 89 Needing a nap 90 Feuding (with) 92 He pardoned Richard 93 Syrian leader 95 “Li’l Abner” critter 97 Miss the beginning 99 Fairy tale feature 104 Frank account, e.g. 108 Sarcophagus holder 109 Bonkers 110 Parcel measure 111 Bring together 112 One in training, perhaps 113 City near Vance Air Force Base 114 Test release 115 Mixed nuts tidbit 116 Dubai dignitaries 117 Attitude

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Shot in the dark Baja resort Completed with a stroke “Have patience” Common cold sign Square up Some Little Leaguers Wine city near Turin Ends a prayer Make fun of Plan, as a course Where sailors go

“A Day Without Rain” New Ager 14 Exercises in a pool 15 Invasive spam spreader 16 Hockey immortal 17 Shout after un pase 18 Playoff pass 26 __ pollution 28 Perpetual, poetically 29 Road warning 33 Semiaquatic rodent 35 Focusing completely 36 “The Orchid Thief” author Susan 37 Go back on one’s word 38 Words with friends? 39 Base adviser 40 Military construction expert 41 Courtroom cry 42 Piles of chips 45 __ mat 46 Starbucks stack 47 Glorify 48 Long ride? 51 Corona and Tsingtao 54 Light beer? 57 Mayor before Emanuel 58 Boiling 60 Worked on a course? 61 Spiral-shaped light sources, briefly 62 Old star makeup 64 Guitarist Paul 65 ’80s-’90s crime boss 66 Louisiana wetland 67 Fairway challenge 68 Asylum seeker 69 Home to Dollywood: Abbr. 70 Islands staple 72 Fix text 73 Puts in order 75 Our __

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Refined chap He plays Steve in “Jobs” 79 “It’s cold out there” 80 Big pain 83 Scott of “Scandal” 84 Fist-pump cry 85 Reproductive cells 88 Attraction in L.A.’s Hancock Park 91 Tons 93 Web site 94 Perfect Sleeper, e.g. 95 “Heidi” author 96 Excited to the max 98 Celebrity chef Burrell 100 Proper partner 101 Macbeth’s burial isle 102 CBS military drama 103 Jupiter and Mars 104 Small application 105 Word with pack or pick 106 Creative works 107 Urge hidden in this puzzle’s eight longest answers

COSMIC CAFE Alien Intelligence and Interactions Imagining, staying open to what’s out there and what comes next

Slime Molds

Terrific Tentacles Octopuses might as well be aliens to us. These marine dwellers are highly intelligent and are totally unlike us in where they live, how they look and how they function. Naturalist Sy Montgomery has written a prize-winning book, The Soul of an Octopus, documenting her research and “consciousness to consciousness” interactions with the intelligence of octopuses. Octopuses have no vertebrae; they breathe water, their mouths are in their armpits, and they have three hearts. An octopus can change color and shape depending on what it is experiencing and what it wants to convey. Their cognition is distributed over eight

independently operated arms which can touch, smell and taste via their skin. Octopuses can escape their aquarium tanks and find their way back to the ocean. If they need protection, they can build stone defenses, and they make tools out of coconuts and shells. They can also recognize people, remember them and know who among them are their friends. Montgomery befriended a handful of octopuses in her research. Her first ever meeting with a giant Pacific octopus named Athena was at the New England Aquarium. “Holding to the corner of her 560-gallon tank with two arms, the octopus unfurls the other six, her whole body red with excitement… her twisting gelatinous arms reach for mine and both my hands and forearms are engulfed by dozens of soft, questing suckers,” she wrote. “Her suction is gentle, though insistent. Her melon-sized head pops to the surface and her dominant left eye swivels in its socket to look directly at me and deeply into me. All I could say afterwards as she gently ended our connection was, “Wow.” Montgomery’s relationships with the

octopuses deepened over time. Here is her profound take-away: “I can’t know exactly what I mean to them. But I know what they have meant to me. They have changed my life forever. I loved them and always will. They have given me a great gift, a deeper understanding of what it means to think, to feel and to know.”

Open Minds We can prepare ourselves to interact as galactic citizens by developing a practice of interspecies communication right here and right now. That includes practicing curiosity, discernment, wonder and respect. As we further improve our respectful interface with all life forms on Earth, I suspect that knowing how to interact with and discern who’s who in the ET world will likely come naturally, without unwarranted fear. Instead, it will come with possibilities for advancement beyond our wildest imagination. PJH

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

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Heather Barnett has a wonderful TED talk on slime mold, which includes taking them home to interact with them. This yellow single-cell organism has no brain and no central nervous system. It can grow to several square meters in size and lives in dark, cool and moist areas of temperate forests, where it spreads out to search its environment like an amoeba, extending slimy tendrils along the forest floor in search of its food.

This yellow blob is remarkably intelligent. Scientists have been studying this mold’s amazing problem-solving abilities. In recent experiments, physarum quickly solved labyrinth mazes, made complicated trade-offs, anticipated periodic events, remembered where they had been, constructed transport networks that have similar efficiency to those designed by human engineers and even recognized themselves.

hat would it be like to interact with beings whose form of intelligence and physical appearance are actually alien to us? Indigenous peoples living close to nature have long been consciously interacting with the intelligences of animals, plants and planetary creatures. Scientists have researched the interface between human consciousness and vastly different forms of earthly intelligence. Here are some outstanding recent examples of explorations into the wonder of consciousness and the inherent intelligence present in all living things.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Now is a favorable time to worship at the shrine of your own intuition. It’s a ripe moment to boost your faith in your intuition’s wild and holy powers. To an extraordinary degree, you can harness this alternate mode of intelligence to gather insights that are beyond the power of your rational mind to access by itself. So be bold about calling on your gut wisdom, Gemini. Use it to track down the tricky, elusive truths that have previously been unavailable to you. CANCER (June 21-July 22) “A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned,” wrote poet W. H. Auden, paraphrasing poet Paul Valéry. I think the same can be said about many other kinds of work. We may wish we could continue tinkering and refining forever so as to bring a beloved project to a state of absolute perfection. But what’s more likely is that it will always fall at least a bit short of that ideal. It will never be totally polished and complete to our satisfaction. And we’ve got to accept that. I suggest you meditate on these ideas in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Paradoxically, they may help you be content with how you finish up the current phase of your beloved project.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Contemporaries of the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras told colorful stories about the man. Some believed he was the son of a god and that one of his thighs was made of gold. When he crossed the Casas River, numerous witnesses testified that the river called out his name and welcomed him. Once a snake bit him, but he suffered no injury, and killed the snake by biting it in return. On another occasion, Pythagoras supposedly coaxed a dangerous bear to stop committing violent acts. These are the kinds of legends I expect you to spread about yourself in the coming days, Virgo. It’s time to boost your reputation to a higher level.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) French novelist Honoré Balzac periodically endured intense outbreaks of creativity. “Sometimes it seems that my brain is on fire,” he testified after a 26-day spell when he never left his writing room. I’m not predicting anything quite as manic as that for you, Scorpio. But I do suspect you will soon be blessed (and maybe a tiny bit cursed) by a prolonged bout of fervent inspiration. To ensure that you make the best use of this challenging gift, get clear about how you want it to work for you. Don’t let it boss you. Be its boss.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle,” said author Franz Kafka. I suspect this idea will be especially relevant to you in the coming weeks, Aquarius. And more than that: In addition to books, other influences may also serve as keys to unfamiliar rooms in your inner castle. Certain people, for instance, may do and say things that give you access to secrets you’ve been keeping from yourself. A new song or natural wonderland may open doors to understandings that will transform your relationship with yourself. To prep you for these epiphanies, I’ll ask you to imagine having a dream at night in which you’re wandering through a house you know very well. But this time, you discover there’s a whole new wing of the place that you never knew existed. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Just for now, let’s say it’s fine to fuel yourself with comfort food and sweet diversions. Let’s proceed on the hypothesis that the guardians of your future want you to treat yourself like a beloved animal who needs extra love and attention. So go right ahead and spend a whole day (or two) in bed reading and ruminating and listening to soul-beguiling music. Take a tour through your favorite memories. Move extra slowly. Do whatever makes you feel most stable and secure. Imagine you’re like a battery in the process of getting recharged. ARIES (March 21-April 19) The Aries poet Anna Kamieńska described the process of writing as akin to “the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as in a coal mine; in total darkness, beneath the earth.” Whether or not you’re a writer, I’m guessing that your life might have felt like that recently. Your progress has been slow and the mood has been dense and the light has been dim. That’s the tough news. The good news is that I suspect you will soon be blessed with flashes of illumination and a semi-divine intervention or two. After that, your work will proceed with more ease. The mood will be softer and brighter.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Do you know what you are worth? Have you compiled a realistic assessment of your talents, powers, and capacities? Not what your friends and enemies think you’re worth, nor the authority figures you deal with, nor the bad listeners who act like they’ve figured out the game of life. When I ask you if you have an objective understanding of your real value, Taurus, I’m not referring to what your illusions or fears or wishes might tell you. I’m talking about SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Ancient civilizations waged war constantly. From an honest, accurate appraisal of the gifts you have to offer Mesopotamia to China to Africa, groups of people rarely the world. If you do indeed possess this insight, hallelujah went very long without fighting other groups of people. and congratulations! If you don’t, the coming weeks will There was one exception: the Harappan culture that be an excellent time to work on getting it. 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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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) My counsel may seem extreme, but I really think you should avoid mildness and meekness and modesty. For the immediate future, you have a mandate to roar and cavort and exult. It’s your sacred duty to be daring and experimental and exploratory. The cosmos and I want to enjoy the show as you act like you have the right to express your soul’s code with brazen confidence and unabashed freedom. The cosmos and I want to squeal with joy as you reveal raw truths in the most emotionally intelligent ways possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Every human being I’ve ever known, me included, has to wage a continuous struggle between these pairs of opposites: 1. bad habits that waste their vitality and good habits that harness their vitality; 2. demoralizing addictions that keep them enslaved to the past and invigorating addictions that inspire them to create their best possible future. How’s your own struggle going? I suspect you’re in the midst of a turning point. Here’s a tip that could prove useful: Feeding the good habits and invigorating addictions may cause the bad habits and demoralizing addictions to lose some of their power over you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I highly recommend that you spend the next three weeks hanging out on a beach every day, dividing your time between playing games with friends, sipping cool drinks, reading books you’ve always wanted to read, and floating dreamily in warm water. To indulge in this relaxing extravaganza would be in maximum alignment with the current cosmic rhythms. If you can’t manage such a luxurious break from routine, please at least give yourself the gift of some other form of recreation that will renew and refresh you all the way down to the core of your destiny.

thrived for about 2,000 years in the Indus River Valley, which in the present day stretches through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Archaeologists have found little evidence of warfare there. Signs of mass destruction and heavy armaments are non-existent. Art from that era and area does not depict military conflict. One conclusion we might be tempted to draw from this data is that human beings are not inherently combative and violent. In any case, I want to use the Harappan civilization’s extended time of peace as a metaphor for your life in the next eight weeks. I believe (and hope!) you’re entering into a phase of very low conflict.

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