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January 23 - 29, 2008 l Vol. 6 Issue 7
Seismic activity
County News
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TMR open house
Opinion
9
Grey heads think growth
Props and Flops 15
Agro-pros, burritos
Digital age
17
Analog bites the dust
AR T/MUSIC
Galaxy
19
Debauchery and dogs
Food News
27
Indian palate
ArtBeat
29
Quick draw, platinum
Living Well
31
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It Was The Buzz
SAM PETRI
Jackson’s grey line
SAM PETRI
THE COOLEST COULOIR ISN’T SO COOL TO SKI.
A group of four skied the line known as “Taco Bell Couloir” last week.
The name, the questionable legality of skiing it, the view of town you get from the top,
and the view town has of your tracks all make
Taco Bell Couloir a coveted and controversial
line for Jackson skiers and snowboarders.
In the past seven days, two different parties carved down the gully located in town
just behind Taco Bell on Saddle Butte. The
first, a lone snowboarder, bootpacked up
the line on Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. and skied
down around 9 p.m., causing an avalanche
that flowed all the way to Flat Creek.
The second party, a group of three
snowboarders and one skier, rode the line
on Jan. 21, also around 9 p.m. This party
chose to be shuttled to the top of the line
by driving up Saddle Butte Drive.
The private road “pretty much takes you
right to it,” one of the snowboarders told
The Planet. “We traversed over to the
couloir and it was like, ‘awwww yeah!’ It’s
a wide-open pow field. It was so good.”
The snowboarder said they skied 4-6
inches of fresh powder and made 40 or so
turns down the slope. They were able to
cross a snow bridge over Flat Creek that
had formed because of the triggered slide
earlier that week. He also said that there
was a “ton of deer up there.”
Skiing this line must be thrilling, but is it
legal and are you disturbing wildlife? It is
commonly thought that the land is part of
a winter closure area to protect mule deer.
“It’s not the ski tracks, it’s the people,” said
Louise Lasley, Public Lands Director for the
Jackson Hole Conservation alliance. “The
deer might not go into or cross that area for a
while. … It has a lasting impact.” She went on
to say that the presence of humans in that
area causes anxiety for the animals and
changes their grazing and sleep behavior.
But according to Game and Fish, the state
of Wyoming owns two separate parcels of
land on the butte. Taco Bell Couloir is located on one of the two parcels of state and neither one has a winter closure restriction. Bill
Long, a North Jackson Game Warden said
that “there is no winter range closure on
those two state land sections unless so
defined by State Lands in Cheyenne. To my
knowledge there is no restriction.”
However, that doesn’t make skiing the
line completely legal. Private land exists at
both the top and the bottom of Taco Bell
Couloir, according to the Sheriff’s
Department. Skiers and snowboarders are
trespassing by entering at either the top or
the bottom. If you can find a legal way to
access the land with out trespassing on
private property, the law is on your side.
But before you drop in, study a map and
your ethics, closely.
EDITORIAL CARTOON
by Nathan Bennett
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Chairlift chatter from
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Don’t get
blinded by
the sun
After getting pummeled with
seemingly endless powder, it looks
like we are in for a little break this
week. It will be nice to enjoy some
bluebird with our powder but we
can only hope it is only a short
break. After seeing the avalanche
danger rise to high recently, we can
expect to see things settle down
over this week in our snow pack.
While the general avalanche hazard will be lower, it is important to
remember that some slopes will
retain a higher potential for activity.
The most obvious of these are upper
elevations, steeper slopes, and starting zones that have seen a lot of wind
loading by the last storm cycles.
Simply because the forecasters
decree general danger to be lower, it
does not necessarily apply to all the
fun lines we find ourselves eyeing.
All in all, though, it should be beautiful weather to get out and enjoy the
ski touring and boot packing slogs to
powdery ecstasy. It is true, though,
that many of us tend to become bolder in our backcountry line choices
once the sun comes back out. It doesn’t take too much effort to remember
that all slopes and lines carry their
own hazard levels.
-- Brigid Mander
A young German couple on a 10-day snowboard vacation described
their first few nights in
Jackson Hole: “All the
shops close at 7, so
every night we don’t
know what to do. We’ve
been going to Wendy’s or
Taco Bell to get food,
then we go back to our
room at the 49’er Inn.”
We advised them to go
to the Playas Ball.
LETTERS
When Targhee wins, Alta
loses
It has been thought that Targhee seems
to have some kind of entitlement to be a
resort - this has been extrapolated to
mean a real estate development. If that is
true, then doesn’t Alta have an entitlement to be a community? Alta was in
existence long before Targhee, with a rich
and varied history.
Can our commissioners in good conscience totally disregard the guiding principles of the comprehensive plan of our
county? Perhaps the platforms they ran
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upon didn’t include upholding these
important documents but rather included
supporting developers to the detriment of
the communities within the county. Their
mission statement reads: “…support the
community’s goals as expressed in the
Teton County Comprehensive Plan.”
Then, “…protect… community amenities
for permanent residents amid high-end
resort development pressures.” It also
puts “communities first and a resort second” and asks for “a balanced community
not dominated by lodging and resorts.” It
would seem that this commission is more
EDITOR
Grace Hammond
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ASSISTANT EDITOR
Henry Sweets
ART DIRECTOR
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Drew Cosby
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Eric Balog
Steven Glass
Jen Tillotson
ILLUSTRATOR
Nathan Bennett
COPY EDITOR
William Fogarty
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CONTRIBUTORS
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concerned with politics and money rather
than doing the ‘right’ thing for the community. Their actions and seeming indifference to the concerns of permanent residents speaks of where their true allegiance lies.
Risk is involved in any investment. It is
not the responsibility of the county commissioners to make a development viable.
Their responsibility is to the citizens of
this county and to uphold the comprehensive plan.
Alta gets nothing out of this development except more traffic speeding
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Viva la revolution
I’d love to hear Joe Schloss’ excuse for
failing to mention Ron Paul in his
Republican review last week. He mentioned EVERYONE else, including
Duncan Hunter, and this after Ron Paul
had garnered over 30,000 more votes than
either Giuliani or Thompson in the first
three races.
What is it about Ron Paul you don’t
like, Joe? Is it his allegiance to the
Constitution? Is it his fiscal conservatism
and belief in limited government? Is it his
firm stance against illegal immigration? Is
it his belief in freedom and ending violations of our civil liberties? Or, is it his
r
non-interventionist foreign policy, and his
opposition to the rabid warmongering of
the Republican establishment?
Or Joe, are you simply falling into line
with most of the mainstream media in
attempting to marginalize Ron Paul?
sMaybe if his name isn’t mentioned, people
-will just forget all about him. I’m sorry to
.tell you this, but Ron Paul just placed secf
g
ond in the Nevada primary, and he’s here
to stay. Long live the revolution of Hope,
Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity.
- Bob Stuart
Jackson, Wyo.
Sink or swim?
<This letter was edited for length. -Eds>
I have become a cultural test pilot of
sorts. My subject of study, for decades,
has been my biological family. I feel that
the malfunctions occurring in my family
are very common and reflect mainstream
America. The source, I believe, of all our
cultural, political and environmental
problems lies in an increasingly obvious
disorder that has reached epidemic proportions.
This infection occurs in the mind and
manifests itself as a lack of self-love.
The struggles we face as a nation will
not be solved by politicians, but by
individuals who are awakening to the
madness that has been programmed
into their minds by a neo-fascist
machine, often shielded by organized
religion. “Love your neighbor as you
love yourself” is a reoccurring theme.
The problem that I see, particularly
with my parents, is that they do not
love themselves, so how is it possible
that they can tr uly love others?
It is as if the baby boomers are going
bust. They fail to realize that their ship is
sinking. What we collectively need to
start asking is when will we swim to shore
and begin a new political system based on
love
- Joshua Doolittle
Schenectady, NY
IN MEMORY OF
50 million babies who died
by abortion
since Roe vs. Wade
January 22, 1973 - January 22, 2008
Right to Life of Teton County • P.O. Box 8313, Jackson, WY 83002 • 733-5564 • Elaine Kuhr
BEST OF THE BLOG
On “Dems reward
Trauner...”:
■ ... is a rather ambiguous word. Go
to any town in America and you'll see
lots of homeless, hungry people asking
for "change." Not one of the top three
Dems is likely to house and feed these
people. Nor are we likely to see anything resembling universal healthcare
on the watch of the Dems ... just business as usual...more years of the
Washington consensus, free-market
capitalism that does nothing but enrich
the rich and leave the poor behind. I've
spent most of my life criticizing the
Republicans, but it's becoming ever
more obvious that the Dems are just as
bad a choice ... Dennis Kucinich being
an obvious exception to the rulers. I'll
no longer hold my nose and vote
Democratic ... Go Green.
From Brigid Mander’s
Ski Blog “Cheap,
effective accident
insurance...”:
■ I was recently told about a nonprofit insurance company called
Adventure
Advocates,
which supplies accident
insurance for a very
affordable
monthly
charge. I looked it up at
www.adventureadvocates.com, but still filled
with suspicion I called
them up and spoke with
one of the founders,
Ryan Hill. After a grilling
session, I was completely satisfied and sold on
the product. I signed up
right then. ...
BRIGID MANDER
LETTERS
through our school zone and our community, more impacts upon our school and
other community amenities. In addition
the county gets no open space to offset
the pressures of development, no mitigation for school impacts. All we get is a
“high-end resort” at the end of our road. I
ask all citizens of Teton County to encourage our commissioners to deny the current application until the community
impacts can be studied further and appropriate mitigation put in place.
- Meredith Wilson
Alta, Wyo.
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Editorial Opinion
BEN CANNON
At the Planet, some seismic activity
There is real change underfoot here at the Planet HQ.
It might be a bit soon to know where exactly these
changes will go, but it’s as evident as the cold January
night.
For starters, you may have already noticed on the
Planet masthead that Henry Sweets is the newest addition to the paper. He came on a few weeks ago as assistant to our acting editor, Grace Hammond. (Rich
Anderson, the Planet’s founding editor, left in
December for a great job at the Center for the Arts.)
Apparently the task of corralling Sam Petri and
myself can be rather burdensome business. Henry is
assimilating well, and with four full-time editorial staff,
we’re all looking to do some good work; work to be
proud of.
You’ll notice that this is the first issue with our mugs
attached to some column spaces. That is part a movement within this paper to imbue it with more, shall we
say, personality . As the valley’s alt weekly, the Planet is
looking to partially revamp itself, lending more analysis, more quirky insight and, where appropriate, more
snark and bite.
Totally rethinking the section that readers saw on the
first non-advertisement pages of this paper, the “Planet
Briefs,” which at its most uninteresting could be chock
full of regurgitated press releases (e.g.,‘National Park
announces PB&J Day’), Sam will have rein to recap the
week in whatever fashion he sees fit.
The “Stars and Moons” feature will now become
largely Henry’s domain, under its tentative new name
“Props and Flops.” Call it rebranding. Let’s see what
Hank – an insightful chap with his finger on many pulses – can do with it.
As for me, I’ll continue to keep up with the food news.
Perhaps someday I’ll be inspired to make light of the
social and metaphysical perils of having food caught in
one’s moustache, all in an effort to entertain you, dear
reader. And the county beat, which includes development
issues and spills into Teton Valley, Idaho, will henceforth
be covered in a more regular, tighter column format.
But, of course, this being a small newspaper, we’ll all
continue to pitch in all over the place.
There will be a handful of new extras here and there,
like a light feature that aims to recapture what some
Planet staffer overheard at the Village or around town.
At its best, it should help to contextualize Jackson Hole
from the perspective of the ‘outsider,’ the visitor or
stranger in this fantasyland the majority of us at one
time were. Think of it as having a fish-out-of-water distant cousin come visit.
More changes are likely to come, but don’t fret: we’ll
continue to publish the interesting, if not always
groundbreaking, letters of “Cosmic” Josh Doolittle.
Some things are best left the way they are.
Wild Lives
BROOKE WILLIAMS
Two books hold crucial lessons for contemporary global issues
BOTH IMPLY THAT THE ANSWERS TO THE MOST PRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS LIE WITHIN US.
Two books, 50 years apart in publication, hold crucial lessons for contemporary global issues.
J.G. Ballard is known as one of the world’s most imaginative writers. This Brit’s 1962
science fiction novel, “The Drowning World,” takes place in a future that has been devastated by the effects of climate change. London in the 21st century is a steaming
swamp. The main protagonist lives on the fifth floor of the Ritz Hotel as the lower
floors have been overwhelmed by the rising ocean. Based on the increasing size of
plants, reptiles, and insects, it is obvious that increasing temperatures are returning the
earth to conditions reminiscent of the Triassic Age. The plot line, familiar to us now,
was developed decades before global warming was in the public vernacular.
James Gustave Speth’s “The Bridge at the End of the World” may be the most concise
analysis of the current state of the natural world and what might be done about it. It is
scheduled for publication later this spring. Speth, the dean of Yale University’s School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has helped launch environmental organizations
such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and has been involved in legal
battles for the protection of environmental laws. Speth served as The White House environmental advisor during the Carter administration. He maintains that the environment
has continued to deteriorate despite the efforts of an environmental movement that has
increased in both size and sophistication. He feels hopeful, however, because of the
increased public awareness of all issues related to climate change.
I came by these two books by accident - and to my delight. “A Drowning World” discusses moving “toward a new psychology.” Just as psychoanalysis frees the mind to
release repressed memories, Ballard believes, the heated climate exposes our human evolutionary past by “uncovering the ancient taboos and drives that have been dormant for
epochs.” He continues: “The brief span of an individual life is misleading. Each one of
us is as old as the entire biological kingdom, and our bloodstreams are tributaries of the
great sea of its total memory.”
The solutions-oriented section of “The Bridge at the End of the World” details “a new
consciousness,” in which Speth draws from some of society’s best thinkers to make a case
for “new understanding,” “new models of behavior,” “new way of living,” a “new suite of
values,” and “the new man.” He refers to Thomas Berry, author of “The Dream of the
Earth,” who believes that the root cause of the devastation we’re experiencing on the planet is the result of our disconnection from “other modes of being,” and that “consistently
we have difficulty in accepting the human as an integral part of the Earth community.”
I believe that Berry and Speth are referring to the fact that, regardless of our technology and sophistication, modern humans are still part of the web of life. Further, as
Ballard suggested, we’re each as “old as the entire biological kingdom, and our bloodstreams are tributaries of the great sea of its total memory.” If so, perhaps the elements
of a new consciousness are really based on ancient models of behavior, ways of living
and suites of values.
Could it be that solving our current and most serious problems - climate change in
particular - doesn’t require adopting or learning or inventing anything new, but discovering that in our cells we already have the same seeds of survival that have existed since
the beginning of life? In that case, we already have everything we need.
Brooke Williams is a local environmental writer and is working on a book showing the relationship between wildness and sustainability.
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Planet Jackson Hole’s Weekly Weather
JANUARY 23, 2008
Cool week
What is it normally like in
Jackson this week?
January is usually the coldest month of the year in
Jackson on average, and this week is no exception to that
rule. Cold air moved over us on Monday, at all elevations.
This time the air is cold even up in the mountains, without
much of a temperature inversion developing.
An “inversion” occurs when temperatures at lower elevations are much colder than temperatures at higher elevations.
The “normal” condition is for temperatures to cool as you
ascend in elevation. But, in the winter, under high pressure
and clearing skies, cold air will pool up and remain trapped
in the Jackson Hole valley, while the air above will stay
warmer.
Go up to warm up is the mantra of skiers. Under a strong
inversion, the difference in temperature between the valley
floor and 10,000-feet can be as much as 30 degrees.
Fog forming in the valley is a good indication that a temperature inversion exists. Better yet,
check the current temps at the JH
Airport and the top of the tram at JHMR
to see what the difference is.
County News
AVERAGE
HIGH
AVERAGE
LOW
29°F
6°F
Normal January
Precipitation:
Normal January
Snowfall:
1.48 inches
20 inch
What it can be like in
Jackson this week:
RECORD
HIGH
RECORD
LOW
49°F
-44°F
Jan. 27, 1987
Jan. 25, 1949
Wettest January ever:
4.91 inches (1969)
Snowiest December ever:
56 inches (1969)
Information provided by meteorologist Jim Woodmencey
www.mountainweather.com at the base of the Tetons
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TMR to hold open house;
neighbor renders his take
Writer’s note: This is the first week for the
county news to run in a more column-like format. Previously, county/development reporting was filed in a more rigid, article-style way,
but is now a little more flexible, allowing for
more than one issue to be covered in a single
column. It’s less formal, but it also opens up
more ground. Objectivity, however, is still
highly prized around here so, with few exceptions, this space is not intended to be interpreted as an endorsement of one idea, or the
condemnation of another. It is simply another way to report the news.
The Teton Meadows Ranch application is
set to enter the public hearing process when
it goes before the county planning commission in February. With that in mind, the
developer will hold an open house from 6-8
p.m. on Tuesday at the Community Bible
Church, 1450 South Park Loop Road.
The development team and its cadre of
public relations people, analysts and partners
invite the public to hear for themselves the
proposal to build to 500 units on 288 acres
on the Seherr-Thoss property in South Park.
TMR spokesperson Kari Cooper said
the open house is consistent with the
“community outreach that’s taken place
with different organizations and neighborhoods” since before the application was
submitted with the county last fall.
Developer James Reinert last month
changed gears on the plan, proposing 275
units - or 55 percent - of the application as
“gap” housing selling between $440,000
and $740,000. That was a change from the
“Homestead Ownership” program criticized by some for, among other reasons,
the obliquely outlined ways it aimed to
create a sub-market housing niche for fulltime valley workers.
The plan has a 20 percent free-market
component to help offset the costs of
building 400 sub-market homes. The
remaining 125 units would be divided into
the 15 percent traditional affordable housing designation, with another 10 percent
set aside for hybrid affordable to be designated for particular groups.
Representatives from the Jackson Hole
Community Housing Trust, which recently
became a partner of the project (the trust
The quest for Shangri-La: Fred
Whissel offers his take on Teton
Meadows Ranch.
will oversee the gap housing) will be on
hand to answer questions after a presentation from the development team, Cooper
said. So will a traffic analyst and someone
who can speak on behalf of the partnership
between TMR and the Yellowstone Business
Partnership. TMR is going for a ‘green’ designation as a pilot member of the group’s
Framework for Sustainable Development.
Cooper said the outreach efforts have
overall been a success – they led to reshaping the proposal, after all – but that there
is still a visceral contingent.
“Some have acted emotionally rather than
factually,” she said, adding, “There’s so much
passion. … I don’t want to give the sense we
discount the emotional response as well.”
In related news, last week the Planet
received an editorial cartoon from Fred
Whissel, a local illustrator and author
whose Rafter J home abuts the SeherrThoss property to the north.
“I don’t think [TMR’s] definition of
affordable housing agrees with the county’s,” Whissel said, calling the TMR proposal “too dense.”
Jackson Hole U.S.A.
BILL SNIFFIN
Winter White Sale
Wrangling the boom
WYOMINGITES GATHER TO DISCUSS IMMINENT DEVELOPMENT
AND RESPONSIBLE GROWTH.
For a long time, PLAN and ZONE have
been two of Wyoming’s most unpopular
four-letter words.
A conference last week in Casper,
“Building the Wyoming we want,” was
attended by 520 people. Its findings went
a long way toward blasting people’s
notions about these two words to
smithereens.
The notion that Wyoming is just like a
small city, but with extremely long streets,
came to the fore. People from all parts of
the state greeted each other knowingly as
they worked together to learn ways to gain
control over the unprecedented growth that
has been gripping our state for five years.
Perhaps the real theme was, “What kind
of place do we want to leave to our grandchildren?” This was echoed by Gov. Dave
Freudenthal in his opening and closing
remarks, and perhaps by the sea of gray
heads in the audience.
Noticeably absent from the room were
the ranchers and farmers who really hold
the keys to what happens to all this land
that is currently open space. Also absent
were developers, realtors, members of the
mineral industry and young people.
The current boom sort of sneaked up
on a whole state of disbelieving citizens
as the stars aligned themselves perfectly
to cause our current growth. Five years
ago there was just one writer talking
about it and he called it Wyoming’s
Golden Age.
It is impossible to condense all the
important stuff that came out of the conference in one 750-word column. Future
columns will have details on some of the
more pertinent information, though.
Here are some important ideas that
emerged from the conference:
■ Utah example. An outfit called Envision
Utah shared some incredibly good examples of how you can get people together
from diverse backgrounds to work out
their differences for the ultimate good of
all. These Utahans are planning as hard
as they predict 5 million people will be
living in the Wasatch Valley by 2050.
■ Sonoran institute. Luther Propst’s outfit
from Tucson shared many good examples
of how to have growth on your own terms.
Many Wyoming communities have used
his services before and he recently
opened a Cheyenne office.
■ Local taxation. The conference included many city and county folks who felt
the Legislature has taken away too many
local taxing options, which restricts local
control and options to control their own
destiny.
■ Wildlife Trust. Bob Budd’s outfit offers a
lot when it comes to developing open space
and protecting Wyoming’s way of life.
■ Bad guys? A developer called B.B.
Brooks was cited as an example of the bad
guy as reckless realtor. These Arizona
folks have purchased some huge Wyoming
ranches and are selling 40-acre
ranchettes.
Mr. Budd called them
“weedettes. … Too small to plow and too
big to mow.”
■ How to do it? The governor was in rare
form as he urged people to make this
process a bottom up rather than top down
effort.
■ New language. Buzzwords like cluster
housing, satellite development, hubs and
discussion of innovative land models,
like that of the Sand Creek ranch preservation anti-sprawl project near Buffalo,
were voiced.
Another Buffalo resident told me rural
folks in Johnson County are finally now
talking about zoning as they try to get a
grip on development in that conservative
part of the state.
My biggest worry is that 80 percent of
the people there were either government
employees or on government boards.
Nothing will be done concerning this
problem until the landowners, realtors,
developers, mineral companies, and entrepreneurs are brought to the table.
Let’s not let this effort fade into our
memories as just another nice-to-go-to
government conference.
This was just a first step, and it was a
big one.
Bill Sniffin is a long-time Wyoming journalist from Lander. His books, High Altitudes, Low Multitudes and
The Best Part of America, are sold in find Wyoming bookstores. His email is [email protected].
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It was with no small sign of relief that ditions at Red, she got it together and bested
skiers greeted last week’s news that snow- her second place finish from last year.
fall passed the 300 inch mark. Last sea- “Winning my first comp…I’ve been so close
son, this didn’t happen until April. In real- so many times, I finally did it. It’s a very
ity, though, last season - and its endlessly happy moment in life,” she said, with a big
Other locals included Tamara
dry bluebird days - have been long forgot- smile.
ten with one powder day after the next Guttman and Jess Spangler, who plan on
bringing murmurings of “oh seven, oh competing more this season. With one of
great” (as in “ninety-six, ninety-heaven, Jackson’s strongest male competitors, Conor
Horrigan, sidelined from Red
and oh five, oh sick”). It may
with an injury, there were no
be too early to tell for sure how
In addition to
local boys representing the hill.
this season will go down in hisdelicious
In non-skier news, JHMR’s
tory, but no one can dispute its
powder, the
COO Tom Spangler recently
greatness so far.
announced his resignation
In addition to delicious powhill has been
from the ski corp. He will be
der, the hill has been wonderfulwonderfully
moving to Mt. Hood Meadows
ly vacant. During the week it
on Feb. 14th. Tim Mason, curhas been nothing but empty lift vacant. During
rently mountain operations
lines and more powder. Even by the week it has
director, will fill in as the interthe afternoon on the weekends,
been nothing
im COO.
“We’re sad to
things are cleared out. Maybe
but empty lift
lose his knowledge and expertit’s due to locals out hiking or
lines and more
ise, but we are happy for him,”
tourist exhaustion, who knows?
powder.
said Olsen. JHMR will be conBut as long as it still seems
sidering replacement candiempty, we don’t really care.
dates from both in-house and
Resort management may
care, of course, but they seem to be happy out, she said - including Mason. Luckily, this
with their skier numbers so far this season. won’t affect the tram project, one of the
According to resort spokeswoman Anna things Spangler was taking care of, and
Olsen, all goals for skier numbers were met which, we are happy to report, is coming
or exceeded over the holiday period. along right on schedule.
Some things, however, are harder to
Further, while January tourism is traditionally slow, they are still seeing skier days say good-bye to, as another piece of
numbering between 2000 and 3000, Jackson ski bum history is about to bite
although it doesn’t seem that way out there. the dust. The last vestiges of the real
In more exciting skier news: The 2008 big skier scene in Teton Village are teetering
mountain freeride tour kicked off last week at on the brink of destruction, with Hostel
Red Mountain in Rossland, BC. One of the X currently under contract. The owners
most festive but fiercely competitive events of of the venerable institution are moving
the season, Red saw a fairly large group repre- on, so get ready to say good-bye.
senting Jackson Hole on the women’s side, Decidedly, wonderfully, un-deluxe, the
with five Jackson skiers in the field. In a tight historic site, former home of many famed
showdown for podium position, hometown skiers and the last completely unprentennative Crystal Wright took charge and defeat- tious place to stay in the base area, is
ed Sweden’s Carolina Ekman and Canada’s slated to become…oh, do guess.
Did you guess condos? Well, there isn’t
Crystal Rose Lee to take first place after
actually information on plans for the site,
three days of competition.
As the newest addition to the competitive but it surely won’t remain a charming hosteam sponsored by JHMR, fast, fluid and tel for long. Next winter, say goodbye to
aggressive skiing got the season off to the the VC/TGR/Wilderness building, also
right start for Wright. Although there was awaiting destruction. Where will the
less snow than last year and more gnarly con- riffraff go?
John
Millin
Sings
the Blues:
Breaking it down
with Wyoming’s
Democratic Chair
by Sam Petri
DR. JOHN MILLIN THINKS A PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINATION FOR HILLARY CLINTON WOULD
IMPEDE THE WYOMING DEMOCRATIC PARTY
FROM GAINING TRACTION THROUGHOUT OUR
RED STATE.
The controversially early Wyoming Republican caucuses of Jan. 5th
received no more national media attention than a few quips from talking heads regarding Wyoming Republicans and their backing of Mitt
Romney. Recently, the Wyoming Democratic Party Chair, John Millin,
an ophthalmologist who lives in Cheyenne, made waves - or perhaps
ripples - of his own when he sent a letter to The Denver Post stating
that a Clinton presidential nomination would be detrimental to the
Wyoming Democratic Party - but that an Obama nomination would
serve the state party’s interest. The letter read:
“For reasons I don’t agree with and don’t completely understand,
most voters in Wyoming seem to hate Hillary Clinton. This is in part
due to the perception of her as being someone who supports big government, most notably through a federal government takeover of the
health care system. She is also paying a heavy price for the sins of
her husband.”
The letter went on to state that “If Hillary Clinton is our party’s nominee, every democratic candidate in Wyoming will be painted with that
same liberal, big government brush. … Our opposition to Hillary
Clinton is not based on her being a woman, it is based on the fact that
her nomination will kill the chances of many democratic candidates
around the state.”
see MILLIN page 12
from MILLIN page 11
This past week we caught up with Dr. Millin to learn
about his plans to make Wyoming, a state that pumps
Red blood, beat Blue.
Planet Jackson Hole: Could you explain how will
Hillary Clinton, if she does indeed become the
Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, kill the
chances for Wyoming Democratic candidates?
John Millin: It’s an obvious tactic that the
Republicans have used over and over again in
Wyoming by linking our candidates with the National
Democratic Party. For whatever reason, the National
Party seems to be unpopular in Wyoming. And she’s
a much more visible, identifiable member of the
National Party, obviously for being the first lady for
eight years.
entation ready to rip her apart. They all came back and
said that what she had to say was perfectly reasonable,
and they agreed with it, and said it was something the
country should pursue. It’s not the plan so much, but
the way it was sort of spun.
I think people in the health care field recognized
and appreciated the work she put into it and understood the point she was making, and basically agreed
with her in terms of that plan. Again, this was back in
1993. So it’s not anything I feel about her necessarily. It’s just that she is much more identifiable as a
national Democratic figure. A lot of people have criticized me for picking sides in the presidential race. I
mean quite frankly, I don’t think that Wyoming is
going to play a significant role in choosing a presi-
“A lot of people have criticized me for picking sides in the presidential race. I mean
quite frankly, I don’t think that Wyoming is
going to play a significant role in choosing a
president, either in a candidate selection
process or in the general election.”
My concerns were along those lines - that the
Republicans do this over and over again. Clearly they
did that in ’06 with Gary Trauner and Nancy Pelosi
[and] in ’04 with Ted Ladd and John Kerry and Ted
Kennedy. They actually did that in 2002, linking Dave
Freudenthal with Bill Clinton. Freudenthal was, of
course, appointed by Bill Clinton to be the US attorney. …
What I’ve been told is that it goes all the way back
to ’94 when Mike Sullivan ran against Craig Thomas.
When Sen. Thomas ran for the US senate for the first
time he ran against outgoing Governor Mike Sullivan.
That was part of the strategy. I’ve been told by some
of the people on the Republican side that that’s one
of the things they tried to do in that campaign - to portray Mike Sullivan as an “FOB,” a “Friend of Bill
Clinton.”
PJH: Do you think Wyomingites link Hillary with big
government? Do you think people in Wyoming interpret her ideas for socialized medicine as “big government?”
JM: I’m a physician and I was working at Johns
Hopkins at the time when Senator Clinton unveiled her
health care plan. I can tell you some of my colleagues,
who were very staunch Republicans, went to this pres-
dent either in a candidate selection process or in the
general election.
Wyoming hasn’t voted for a democrat since 1964.
I’m not saying it’s out of the question that Wyoming
might, theoretically, vote for a Democrat. But if
Wyoming does, pretty much every other state will, too.
So again, we’re not going to have a significant impact.
PJH: If the Republicans are going to use this linking tactic no matter what, then why is it safer for you
to endorse Obama? Why not John Edwards?
JM: To me that letter was not an endorsement. It was
really an assessment of how I [thought] the two most
likely individuals might affect Wyoming campaigns.
PJH: How come the media has focused so much on
Hillary and Obama and not on John Edwards?
JM: Clearly, the earliest form of voting is how much
money the different campaigns bring in. Before anyone voted in Iowa or anywhere else, people voted with
their pocketbooks. Those two campaigns brought in
way more money than [those of] any of the other
Democratic candidates and even more money than
the Republican candidates, so I think that was part of
it. You’re building up an arsenal to help your campaign. The fact that those two campaigns were so far
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to most people that they were the two most likely people to win the nomination.
PJH: Our governor is a Democrat, and Gary Trauner
is running again, but will the Democratic Party ever
have a larger presence in the State, or will Wyoming
always be “red”?
JM: It’s not going to turn blue in this election cycle,
unfortunately. I guess I wouldn’t guarantee it, but I
wouldn’t bet money on us becoming a Democratic
state overnight, by any means. Even if you look at
Colorado and other Rocky Mountain States that aren’t
quite as far along like Montana or Arizona, it takes
several election cycles for there to be significant
progress in the Democratic Party. My main goal in this
election cycle is looking at legislative candidates and
county commission candidates.
PJH: Now Democrats hold five of the eight governorships in the West. Would you say that is a sign of the
Democratic Party growing in the Rocky Mountain West?
JM: I think so, and that’s part of it. Colorado is
probably, of the eight Rocky Mountain States, the furthest along that path. Montana, New Mexico, Arizona,
Wyoming, are kind of lagging somewhat but probably
still ahead of Idaho and Utah. To varying degrees, I
think we’re moving in the direction of the Democrats
in these eight Rocky Mountain States. One of the
ways [Rocky Mountain] states have been successful
in flipping [to the Democratic Party] is to identify the
Democratic Party as something different. Not necessarily something different from what the national party
is, but what people in this area’s perception of the
national party is. Western Democrats are different
than DC democrats. We are more likely to own guns,
we hunt, we respect the land. We’re different than DC
Democrats, East Coast Democrats, or California
Democrats. And I think to the extent that Western
Democrats have been able to define themselves, they
have been successful.
PJH: Which democratic presidential hopefuls have
had the largest presence in Wyoming?
JM: I don’t see any of them having a significant
presence at this point. To my knowledge the only candidate who came through was Bill Richardson. This
summer he did a fundraiser in Jackson.
I’m hoping that once the super duper Tuesday is
over, and our party’s nominee has been decided, that
that individual will run a more national campaign. We
certainly hope to see the presidential nominee in
Wyoming. I think because of the nature of the process
we won’t see anyone from now until when we know
who our nominee is. Hopefully late spring or during
the summer, we’ll see a presidential candidate here.
PJH: What impact, if any, did the Wyoming
Republican Party moving their caucuses up to Jan. 5
have on the Wyoming Democratic Party?
They had approached the Wyoming Democratic
Party a year ago and had asked us, as a group, whether or not we’d be willing
to go with them. I know that in the two “rogue states,” Michigan and Florida, both
the Republican and Democratic parties in those states moved together ahead of
their party’s deadline. It’s something we were asked by the Republican Party to
do. We never even really had a serious discussion about it because we knew at
that time that our national party was having their national party in Denver, 100
miles from where I’m sitting right now. And we knew that the state party would be
punished in terms of the number of delegates allowed to go to that convention
and at the time. We just felt, as a group, that it wasn’t a time to reasonably consider doing that with our national convention so close to Wyoming.
As it turns out, the two parties sort of punished their rogue states to varying
degrees. For the Democrats, it would have been a disaster for us, simply because
Michigan and Florida, they had all of their delegates taken away by the
Democratic National Party. The Republicans cut them in half. The Democrats,
some of the states threatened to blackball any candidate that campaigned in the
states that broke the rules. Michigan and Florida don’t have any of the candidates
campaigning there. So, it would have hurt us a lot.
The [Wyoming] Republicans sort of got half punishment, because they lost half
of their candidates. They had some attention from some of the presidential campaigns. Mitt Romney was here, he’s clearly a first-tier candidate. Fred Thompson
came to Wyoming, at this point probably a second-tier candidate. Some of the
other folks did too. But I don’t think it gave them quite the attention they had
hoped for.
I went to college in New Hampshire and I was there in 1980, and I can tell you
that it’s ridiculous the amount of attention that a state like New Hampshire - and
now Iowa - gets from the presidential campaigns. I remember being a college student you could hardly walk across campus with out bumping into a candidate, or
their brother, or their nephew or some Hollywood celebrity [who was] there supporting a candidate.
PJH: Do you like to see the caucuses held by both parties on the same day?
And what’s the state of it this year, now that in Wyoming the caucuses are being
held by the two parties on two different days?
JM: It’s probably the one consensus opinion you could get from people around
the country in both parties - that the system, the way it exists now, is just a mess.
Clearly, there needs to be some major reorganization in how we do our presidential selections. I don’t think anyone outside of Iowa or New Hampshire is really
satisfied with the current system. I have no idea what the system will be in 2012.
I assume it will be much more fair and reasonable and representative of the
country as a whole.
Personally - this is not the National Dem Party opinion, but my personal feeling
- I wouldn’t want to do a national primary day where every state votes on the
same day. I do kind of like the concept of a rolling primary process, but maybe
grouping 10 states at a time on five consecutive Tuesdays would make sense.
But what the national parties wind up doing, who knows. It’s up to them, I suppose, to develop a national plan that’s fair and reasonable.
PJH: Does the Wyoming Democratic Party have aspirations to gain more
national attention in the way the Republicans do?
JM: Certainly I would like to see more attention focused on Wyoming on both
sides. I listen to POTUS ’08 on XM radio and this morning they were talking about
the Republican Presidential campaign and someone mentioned, “Well, Mitt
Romney won Wyoming, too,” and the group of talking heads on this show just
started laughing about Wyoming. It’s insulting to Wyoming, they weren’t laughing
at the Wyoming Republican Party, they were just laughing about Wyoming and
how insignificant we are. It’s an insult to the state, quite frankly, how little attention was paid [to it] by the national media. The few times I did hear even a mention of the Republican caucus in Wyoming it was always done in a joking way like somehow it was meaningless because Wyoming is a meaningless state. I
don’t know what we could do about it but I certainly find that offensive.
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Will Ritter went split-boarding for the
first time four years ago, and his
thoughts would eventually revolutionize
the sport forever. “I was like, this setup
needs a split-board specific binding. …
The interface seemed tall, flexy and
heavy,” Ritter said. He kept that “in the
back of [his] mind” for the next couple
of years. With a Master’s degree in
mechanical engineering from Montana
State, Ritter was the right guy to be
brainstorming better split-board gear.
After two years and six generations of
prototypes, Ritter now has his first production model binding for sale, called
the Ignition.
Mainstream split-board set-ups utilize
an aluminum track attached to the bottom of a snowboard binding. This setup
leaves the snowboarder about an inch
and a half off his/her board, with extra
weight underfoot. In addition, the binding base-plate is left flexing in the air,
losing valuable rider input into the
board. The new base-plates from Spark
R&D incorporate the track into the baseplate, making full, flush contact with the
board. In tour mode, the lower height
combined with a wider pivot point in the
toe make for a much more efficient
setup, with better side-hilling ability.
I caught up with local gear junkie and
avid split-boarder Chris Towles who
received his Ignition base-plates a few
days ago. “This is my third year of splitboarding, and the last three days of riding with the sparks have been the best
my split setup has ever felt,” said
Towles. “You have so much more purchase on your edges skinning, and it
makes the ride more like a normal
snowboard.”
Ritter estimates that 80 pairs of the
Ignitions have been manufactured to
date and that 100 people are on the
waiting list. At present, base-plates
alone cost $215. It costs $340 for a
complete setup, which uses Bent Metal
bindings for the high-backs and straps,
and includes the Bent Metal baseplates as well.
Higher production is inevitable, but
Ritter wants to preserve the hometown,
American-made aspect of his company.
Other companies, he points out, are in
such high volume production that they
send their plans to a company in China
months before the product hits the
stores, and then they have to wait a
whole year to modify them. Ritter likes
being in Bozeman, Mont., employing his
friends, and manufacturing his own
base-plates. “Every time I order more
sheet metal I do little tweaks and
stuff…that makes it really easy for the
product to evolve.”
www.PlanetJH.com updated daily l Planet Jackson Hole l January 23 - 30, 2008
Them On Us
PROPS
& FLOPS
JAKE NICHOLS
Inside ‘Steep’; the inequality state; mountain gentry
Local urologist Dr. Lisa
Finkelstein had
to wince when
she received
her 15 minutes
of fame from
the “ Tonight
Show .”
The
good doctor
has made a Leno made fun of local
habit of mak- doc. As if we don’t.
ing light of pee problems during a clever
two-year newspaper ad campaign, but host
Jay Leno took the opportunity to lambaste
Finkelstein in his “Headlines” segment
where he lampoons newspaper ads from
across the country. “If you sprinkle when
you tinkle ... see Dr. Finkel,” was the ad
Leno chose to sharpen his claws on.
■
Better late
than never.
The Toronto
w
Sun finally
got around to
reviewing
t
“Steep,” the
documentary
on daredevil
t
Doug Coombs expand- d ow n h i l l i n g
ed skiing boundaries.
featuring the
e
t
late Doug Coombs and extreme sport pioneer Bill Briggs. Worth the wait was inside
info on Briggs’ first-ever descent of the
Grand Teton in 1971.
“The next day, Briggs proved his feat by
getting a plane up to photograph the
marks his skis had made in the snow,” the
Sun reported. They also called the movie
“pretty wild.”
■
Even as Wyoming celebrated “Equality
Day” in conjunction with Martin Luther
King Day on Monday, news out of the
Casper Star-Tribune showed the gender gap
widening when it comes to equal pay.
Wyoming Women Status Report, compiled by the bipartisan, governor-appointed
Wyoming Council for Women’s Issues,
showed that as of 2004, Wyoming has the
largest disparity between men’s and women’s
wages in the nation. The gap widened to an
average of more than $17,000 in 2006.
“It does seem to me that young women
are less inclined to be hard-nosed about the
negotiations of a new job,” Gov. Dave
Freudenthal said during a press conference.
He later added, “I’m not convinced that the
issues surrounding this are some bunch of
males holding the women [back].”
■
Hot on the heels of several Planet stories
centering on the gentrification of Jackson,
comes a Page One piece in the Wall Street
Journal last weekend. “The New American
Gentry: Wealthy folks are colonizing rural
areas, bringing cash, culture – and controversy,” so spews the headline to a story
written by Conor Dougherty.
Excerpt: “One indicator of rural gentrification: An increase in residents’ total dividend,
interest and rent income. That measurement,
tracked by the Commerce Department, is a
sign that new residents – usually retirees –
are living off their investments rather than
salaries. In Teton County, Wyo., home of
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, total dividend, interest and rent income has risen
177% between 1996 and 2005, one of the
largest increases in rural America.”
■
They’re already gearing up for trout season in England where a story out of the
Financial Times in London hypes their version of the “One Fly” called River Test. The
event mimics Jackson’s famous event attracting 160 anglers from around the world
every September. Anglers are may choose
only one fly to fish with for the entire weekend.
Simon Cooper is organizing the UK
event. He has participated in JH’s daddyof-’em-all. The season’s first “one fly”
competition takes place in Marlborough,
New Zealand in March.
We heart haters
A “fast-lane” boot-pack appeared
on Glory with a cheesy sign that
looked to have been scribbled by an
elementary school student. A certain
pro skier - one who has yanked one
Planet staffer out of the Glory bootpack by their skis - is said to be at
the center of this controversy. Let’s
shower this agro-pro with Teton Pass
love. Jason Tattersall we love you!
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Lip-burn
Burt’s Bees is now owned by Clorox.
Burt, a nut-job who lives in a chicken
coop, does not really care because his
former lover already screwed him out
of his fair share of the company.
Analysts say this acquisition may turn
Clorox “green.” Holistic moms and
crunchy ski-bums alike - keep your
eyes peeled for edible bleach.
– FLOP
Get low
Yes, the bash to celebrate
Jackson
Hole
Snowboarder
Magazine was a resounding success. Mag founder Jesse Brown said
attendance was upwards of 1100
revelers, many of who eschewed
tired, predictable costumes in favor
of just straight flossin’. By the night’s
end, it seemed hundreds had overrun the exclusive “VIP” lounge, making for a chaotically blissful scene
(known as ‘partying’).
- PROPS
Tough call
Last week’s euthanization of a
partly blind, injured and habituated
moose that was tranquilized in the KMart parking lot caused public outcry. This Planet staffer saw it go
down - literally - and hesitates to cast
judgment on what one letter-writer
called “mercy” and another called
“homicide.” One thing is for sure:
wildlife management is not a job to
be envied.
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The D.O.G. now offers a breakfast
burrito that features rice and beans.
Nice. This burrito also includes in its
depths a sweet-ass portion of guacamole. It is more light and uplifting
than their potato-laden classic, but
still heavy enough to cure a hangover.
“Yeah, that’s how I roll.”
– PROPS
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Crapo wants less gun restrictions in national parks
IDAHO SENATOR MIKE CRAPO, BACKED BY THE NRA AND 47 SENATORS, ANGLES TO REMOVE FEDERAL GUN REGULATIONS IN
PUBLIC LANDS, POTENTIALLY ALLOWING LOADED WEAPONS IN SOME NATIONAL PARKS.
By Henry Sweets
Republican Senator Mike Crapo recently wrote a letter
to Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne asking him
to lift gun restrictions in public lands, in a move that
could lead to gun-wielding citizens roaming freely
through Yellowstone, Teton, and Glacier National Parks.
The National Park Service and the department of Fish
and Wildlife follow federal guidelines for gun use on public
lands, while BLM and Forest Service Lands usually follow
the rules of the state. Since these lands oftentimes abut
each other in the wilderness, sportsmen wielding loaded
weapons seem to have some trouble understanding which
rules apply to them in any given point in the wilderness.
Senator Crapo called the restrictions “confusing, bur-
densome, and unnecessary” in his letter, signed by 39
Republicans and nine Democrats.
On their website, the NRA reported that they “initiated
and worked closely with Senator Crapo on this letter.”
Montana and Wyoming have no law preventing licensed
gun owners from carrying loaded weapons on public
lands. If Yellowstone, Teton, and Glacier National Parks
were to revert to state law as Crapo’s letter suggests, then
licensed gun owners could potentially transport loaded
firearms anywhere in the park.
Crapo’s spokespeople deny that this was a motivation
for their letter, stating instead that it is aimed at reducing
confusion for responsible gun owners trying to navigate
wilderness through a “patchwork” of different lands with
different rules.
“What we’re looking for is consistency with regard to
those agencies that are also under interior control,” said
Susan Wheeler, Sen. Crapo’s communications director.
Yellowstone Park spokesman Al Nash said that, at present, sportsmen can travel through Yellowstone National
Park with unloaded weapons, as long as the ammunition
is in a separate compartment of the car.
“The law abiding citizen will find that our staff is going
to tell them what the rules are and how to comply by the
rules,” said Nash. These rules “ensure that [park visitors]
will not be in a position for anyone to believe they are
here with the intent to poach animals,” Nash continued.
“[And] if one were to be found carrying a loaded firearm
in a park where hunting is not allowed, the question
becomes, why would one be carrying a loaded firearm?”
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Digital world says goodbye to analog airwaves
A MYRIAD OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES WILL OCCUR IN THE NEXT YEAR, HITTING RURAL AREAS HARDER THAN OTHERS.
By Henry Sweets
The nation’s airwaves are in transition. Beginning on
Feb. 18th, analog cellular phone service will be shut off
across most of the country. Broadcast television will follow suit one year later.
In recent years, digital technology emerged as the most
efficient means for cellular communications and broadcast television as it makes better use of bandwidth than its
analog counterpart. In 2002, Congress moved to preserve
analog networks so that handset owners, home and car
alarm companies and emergency services that were still
dependent on analog technology - often in rural areas would have several years to switch to digital services.
Congress decreed that all networks must maintain their
analog cell towers until Feb. 18th, 2008.
Mike Keegan from Watchguard
Security Systems, a local alarm
Thousands of
company that is a part of the
analog TVs
National Burglar and Fire Alarm
Association, said that the group
lurk in the
has been lobbying to extend the
valley and
‘sunset deadline’ for analog cell
their owners
towers from 2008 to 2010. The
will have to
FCC declined their proposals
puchase
and for the last eight months the
group’s members have been conconverters
verting alarm systems from anain order to
log to digital cell service – at the
receive
any
cost of their customers.
signal
Carol Chesney, manager of
Jackson’s Verizon Wireless store,
said the switch “shouldn’t really
affect the majority of our customers because those [analog
and tri-mode] phones have been weeded out for years.”
However, more than a million analog-only handset owners
remain nationwide.
Edge Wireless does not have any analog cell phone towers, so Edge users will remain unaffected. Union Wireless,
a regional provider, serves oil companies who still use analog data transmitters, and many of their rural customers
still rely on analog towers as their only option for service.
Union remains one of a few regional providers nationwide
who will voluntarily maintain its analog cell-phone
towers, while most other
providers have been maintaining their analog network out of obligation to
FCC guidelines, and welcome to chance to go exclusively digital.
Rapidly approaching is a
similar
switch
for
Broadcast Television, to
occur Feb. 17, 2009. Most
viewers in the valley who
tune in to broadcast TV
currently own sets that
receive analog signals.
John Graner, Manager of
the Sears Store in Jackson,
said “in the last year we
have been cutting back
more aggressively on the
sales of analog TV sets”
and that now the store carIf you don’t pay attention, it might snow inside your television, too.
ries only high definition
models. Thousands of rabbit-eared analog TV sets
lurk in the valley and over the next year, their owners will vide tips to ease the transition.
KJWY producer John Cook said there is an upside to
have to purchase converters or new high definition sets in
the new digital signal. It will “provide a better quality
order to receive any broadcast signal.
Crystal Rahme from KJWY estimated that 7,688 house- product for the viewer.”
The 700 MHz spectrum to be vacated by broadcast TV
holds in the valley currently tune in to their broadcast signal. Her station is trying to find the most efficient means can penetrate thick walls and other barriers. It is ideal for
to convert but she said it “is a cost to every single station emergency services, and also for personal handheld comacross the country” and “right now there are no plans” for munications devices. So while the FCC has set aside $1.5
billion to wean Americans from the 700 MHz spectrum
Jackson’s only broadcast station.
The cost for the consumer will be between $50 and $70 and help them go digital, tomorrow they are looking to
for a converter, and the FCC will provide up to two $40 make 10 times that figure auctioning 700 MHz bandwidth
vouchers per household to offset their cost. All of this off to potential bidders AT&T, Verizon, Google, and
information, and an application for the vouchers, are other communications companies. A prospective new netavailable on the FCC’s website devoted to the change: work of mobile devices with streaming television, one on
www.dtv2009.gov/. Over the next year public service one mobile video conferencing and innumerable other
announcements will alert viewers to the switch and pro- functions will likely pervade even our own valley.
“Life is too short
to pick flowers anywhere else.”
- Jerry
Pick of the week:
Char-Ral Floral
180 N. Center St.
Downtown 733-2500
Iris
$1 per stem
As the snow is falling in Jackson Hole and your dogs
winter coat is growing, let me tell you about something called “LOFT.” On full coated dogs the loft is
the trapping of air between the hair. If your dog’s
coat is kept brushed and free of mats and debris it
will enable them to more effectively cool themselves
in the summer and heat themselves in the winter.
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Green goes mainstream
The Home Builders Association of
Northern California (HBANC) last
week asked 101 cities and nine
counties to adopt mandatory standards for green building. This is
most likely the first time that a trade
association of builders and contractors has fully embraced the idea of
imposing mandatory requirements
on themselves that will produce better quality homes and save homeowners money.
The Home Builders Association is
assisted by Build It Green, a Berkeleybased non-profit that has developed a
GreenPoint Rated program that can
be adapted to serve the communities
of Northern California with their
mandatory regulations.
Production homebuilding is a
large part of California new construction, and builders are finding
that homeowners will pay up to $2
per square foot in additional costs
for what they consider to be a wellinsulated and energy efficient home.
With oil at $100 per barrel, energy
savings are a boon to a homeowner’s budget.
It is quite significant that this
announcement was made during a
time when the housing industry is
facing a huge downturn. Rather than
build more cheaply in order to maximize profits, builders see the wisdom of building green to attract
future homeowners.
President of HBANC Joseph Perkins
said, “HBANC believes that making sustainable green building standards
mandatory is not only good for the environment and our planet, but is good for
business, good for consumers, good for
our growing clean tech economy and is
the right thing to do.”
If you would like to learn more about
green building, I will be offering a sixweek course that covers everything
from indoor air quality to green skyscrapers. We meet from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
on Wednesday evenings beginning
Jan. 30th. The course is $120 and
runs through March 5th. See www.nancyhtaylor.com for more information.
GOING TO RECYCLE?
TIP
WEEK
Community Recycling Sites
OF THE
In the Town of Jackson:
All aluminum cans recycled at
Jackson Community Recycling are sent
to an Anheuser-Busch bottling plant
in Kentucky where they are recycled into
new aluminum cans. Last year, JCR
recycled 1.7 million aluminum cans!
Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our
entire commercial fleet of airplanes every three months.
-Environmental Defense Fund
Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy
to operate a television for three hours.
-Eco-Cycle, Boulder, Colorado
Call 733-SORT or visit
tetonwyo.org/recycling
1) Rodeo Grounds on the corner of Snow King
and Flat Creek Drive (7 days a week)
2) Corner of Willow and Deloney
Winter – Public parking lot (Tues. – Thurs.)
Summer – Jackson Elementary on Willow
(Tues. – Thurs.)
In Teton County
(available Tues. – Thurs. unless noted otherwise):
1) In Wilson, at the Exxon on Hwy. 22
(7 days a week)
2) At the Aspens in front of the Westside Store
North of Town on Spring Gulch Road on
the north side of the Gros Ventre River Bridge
3) In Teton Village in the upper parking lot
4) Hoback Junction across from the Hoback
Market (Sat. – Sun.)
5) On High School Road at the JH High School
6) At Jackson Community Recycling (7 days a week)
3270 S. Adams Canyon Dr., South Hwy 89 • Drop Off Center open 24 hours a day
A weekly video hosted by Planet reporters and the Hole Production
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GALAXY
Jason Aldean
Arts, Events and Entertainment
Page 28
Your week
starts here
Wednesday23
Music
■ Jackson Hole Jazz Foundation 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the
Center for the Arts. 690-8526.
■ Reggae Night with Victor Ragamuffin 9:30 p.m. at the
Author visit, sled dogs and the art of ‘debauchery’
Stagecoach Bar in Wilson. 733-4407. No cover.
■ Chanman Roots Band 10 p.m. at 43 North. 733-0043.
■ Screen Door Porch 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the
ALL IN A WEEK’S WORK FOR CULTURAL JACKSONITES.
Mangy Moose Saloon. 733-9779. No Cover.
■ Carpenter Gibson 9 p.m. at the Million Dollar Cowboy
The ongoing events of a lively winter
season roll ahead at full bore this week
with a visit from a bestselling
author/humanitarian, another Art
Association workshop gathering, and the
return of some beloved little yappy workhorses.
For starters, this week marks the
beginning of the 2008 International
Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race.
“This is the NASCAR of sled dog racing,” said race founder and director
Frank Teasley, an eight-time veteran of
Alaska’s Iditarod.
The stage stop race, now in its 13th
year, will see about 20 teams of more
than 400 scrappy Alaskan Huskies
(which don’t, by the way, look much like
those handsome lazy malamutes that
pull sleds in Disney films) compete in a
seven-stage race, running a fast course
from Jackson to Park City via a serpentine route around the Wind River Range.
Teams will stop through Lander,
Pinedale and Big Piney, then onto
Alpine Wednesday.
Festivities begin at 5 p.m. Friday on
the Town Square with music by Review.
Dinner plates of slow-cooked pig
with all the trimmings will be sold and a
slide show will begin at 6 p.m., with the
first musher leaving the starting gate at
6:30 for a ceremoniously short leg to
Snow King. Though he
doesn’t race in the event
himself, Teasley continues
to breed pups at his
Hoback Canyon home and
expects two teams from his
kennel are among the
strongest. Also, look out
for the women: Teasley
said any of five female
mushers - among them his
wife Stacey - have a good
shot at winning. Go to
W yomingStageStop.com
for schedules and more.
The upcoming visit to
Jackson Hole by Bozeman
resident Greg Mortenson
on Monday has generated
Kirk Barnum in last year’s stage stop race.
a lot of buzz. Mortenson
co-wrote “Three Cups of
Tea,” a memoir about his experiences “Three Cups of Tea.” Seating is limited;
and ongoing efforts to build schools in first come first serve. Call 733-2164 ext.
impoverished
areas
of
remote 135 for more info.
On this, the last Friday of the month,
Afghanistan and Pakistan. The book,
published in 2006, remains on the New the Art Association is reconvening its
York Times bestselling list. Though the regular “Debauchery and Art” evening.
free evening (7 p.m. @ Snow King) is Creative types from pros to artistic diletsold-out, organizers encourage people tantes meet to share and discuss work
without tickets to queue up for seats prepared since the last get-together,
when the group developed a common
likely to open up.
On Friday, Bozeman journalist Karin theme or approach, coalescing the
Ronnow, who followed Mortenson eclectic results. Newcomers are welabroad and wrote about his efforts, will come. BYOB. Call 733-6379 or email
be on hand at the library to discuss [email protected].
NEAL HENDERSON
By Ben Cannon
Bar. 733-2207.
■ Matt Flinner Trio and Brother Mule 7:30 p.m. at
Dornan’s in Moose. Two acoustic string trios. 7332415. $20. Tickets at Valley Bookstore and Dornan’s.
■ Boondocks 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Mangy Moose
Saloon. 733-9779. No Cover.
■ Judd Grossman 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge
of the Four Seasons Resort. 732-5000. No Cover.
Art
■ Life Drawing Open Studio 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at
Borshell Drawing Studio at the Center for the Arts, 265 S.
Glenwood St. Art Association membership required.
733-6379. $15 drop-in.
■ Artist Julie Chapman 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Nation
Museum of Wildlife Art. 732-5435. Free.
Dance
■ Dancers’ Workshop at the Center for the Arts. Pilates
Mat Class, all levels, 8:30-9:30am; Beg. Ballet, 121:30pm; Beg. Jazz, 7-8pm; Belly Dance, 6:30-7:45pm.
733-6398. $16 drop-in.
Film
■ “Border Lines” Film Discussion 6 p.m. at the Jackson
campus of the Teton Science school. “Lone Star” (R,
1996). Tex-Mex snacks and drink. Led by local
humanitarian, Gina Valencia. 733-9605 or [email protected]. Free.
Kids & Families
■ Toddler Club 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Recreation
Center every weekday. 739-9025.
Sports & Recreation
■ Comp. Broomball League 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the
Jackson Rodeo Arena. 739-9025.
Outdoors
■ “Winter Scavengers” at the Visitor Center, 532 N.
Cache St. 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. 733-9212, ext. 227.
Free.
■ “Winter Wildlife Caravan” 1 p.m. at the Visitor Center,
see Galaxy Calendar page 20
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GALAXYCALENDAR continues
CENTER THEATER
Off Square Theatre Company Presents
THROUGH FEBRUARY 2
Evenings - 7:00pm
Matinees - January 26 & 27
2:00pm / 3:00pm
Tickets $25 / $20 / $15
adults / students & seniors / children
Deathtrap
One of the longest-running plays in Broadway history, Ira Levin’s classic mystery
is two-thirds thriller and one-third devilishly clever comedy.
The Jackson Hole Film Institute & Center for the Arts Present
MONDAY
JANUARY
Y 28
TICKETS $5 all seats
7:00pm
Pizza & Beer on sale at 6:00pm
“The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey”
A vivid document of the guitar god’s legendary concert
at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix on the big screen!
EVENT DATE
EVENT
February 13
The Banana Slug String Band
Center for the Arts
3-D Laser Spectacular featuring Pink Floyd
Center for the Arts
February 15/16
tickets
TICKET SALES BEGIN
on sale
on sale
Center Box Office 265 S. Cache Street
By phone 307.733.4900
Online www.jhcenterforthearts.org
VISUAL ARTS
Deadline for entries: February 1
The Labor of Love is open to artists who
work other jobs in order to live in Teton
County yet still find time to create. Any
medium, any size welcome.
Outdoors
■ “Beyond a Winter Wonderland” at the Visitor Center, 532 N.
Arts, Rm. 305. Drop-ins welcome. 733-7425. Free.
Mondays also.
■ Sign up begins for “MySpace for Parents.” This popular
workshop will be held from noon-2 p.m., Feb. 6. 7332164 ext. 106.
■ Creativity and Right Livelihood Seminar 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
in the Ordway Auditorium at the Library. Instructed by Gifford
Pinchot III. 733-9225 or [email protected]. Free.
Cache St. 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. 733-9212, ext. 227. Free.
Mind, Body & Spirit
■ Pre-natal yoga 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. at the Teton Yoga
Shala in the Aspens. 690-4201. Drop-in $15.
■ Yang Style Tai Chi for beginners 7:30 p.m. at the Teton
Yoga Shala. 413-1130. $15 per class.
Community
■ Bingo 7 p.m. at the Elks Lodge every Wednesday.
733-1713.
■ Habitat for Humanity welcomes volunteers at the build
site. 734-0828 or [email protected]. Thursday and
Saturday also.
■ Pathways Grooming 9 a.m. at Cache Creek/Melody Ranch.
Weather permitting. 739-9025.
■ Public Meeting on Wolf Regulations 7 p.m. at the Antler
Inn. Governing wolves as trophy game animals and trophy game animal damage claims. 733-4557.
Thursday24
Alpine. (877) 498-7993. No cover.
■ Open mic night 10 p.m. at the Knotty Pine in Victor. (208)
787-2866.
■ Four4 Productions hosts Disco Night 9:30 p.m. at the
Stagecoach Bar. 733-4407. No cover.
■ Phil Round 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the double-fireplace lobby
of the Amangani Hotel. 734-7333.
■ Carpenter Gibson 9 p.m. at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.
733-2207.
■ Chanman plays Ski Bum Music 4 p.m. in the Trap Bar at
Grand Targhee Resort. grandtarghee.com or 800TARGHEE. No Cover.
■ Isaac Hayden 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Four Season’s Lobby
Lounge. 732-5000. No Cover.
■ Jason Aldean 10 p.m. at the Mangy Moose in Teton Village.
733-9779. $35 in advance or $37 day of show.
■ Jackson 6 plays Dixieland music 10 p.m. at 43 North.
733-0043.
Art
ART ASSOCIATION
info: 733.6379 / www.artassociation.org
Labor of Love
Recreation Center gym. 739-9025.
Classes & Lectures
■ ABE/GED Classes 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Center for the
Music
■ Larry McKenzie 9 p.m. at the Bull Moose Saloon in
Monday Movies at the Center
Upcoming Events
532 N. Cache St. 733-9212, ext. 227. Free.
Upcoming 2008 Workshops
William Mebane / Feb 9-10
Shawna Moore / Feb 29 - March 2
Jeremy Morgan / March 10 - 14
Jay Dusard & Jon Stuart / May 16 - 19
Theater
■ Off Square presents “Deathtrap” 7 p.m. at the Center for
the Arts. Show runs until Feb 3. 733-3021. $15 children,
$20 students, $25 adults.
Dance
■ Dancers’ Workshop at the Center for the Arts. Ballet Workout,
9:30-10:30am; Hip Hop, 6:15-7:30pm; Tae Kwon Do, Open
family class (discounts available for families), 6:157:30pm; Power Yoga, 6:15-7:30pm. 733-6398. $16 drop-in.
■ Toddler Swim 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Recreation
Center. 739-9025. Fridays also.
MUSIC
DANCE
JH Chorale Mon 7pm/734.8470
JH Symphony Orchestra Tue 7pm/413.0458
Jazz Foundation of JH Wed 7pm/699.0102
JH Community Band Thur 7pm/734.0295
info: 733.6398 / www.dwjh.org
Sports & Recreation
■ Skate Skiing for Novice/Interm noon to 1 p.m. at the JH
Adult and youth classes include Pilates,
Tae Kwon Do, Power Yoga, Ballet
Workout, Ballet, Modern Jazz, Hip Hop,
Flamenco, Belly Dance and Ballroom.
High School Athletic Complex. 739-9025.
■ Co-Ed Broomball League 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Jackson
Rodeo Arena. 739-9025.
■ Co-Ed Indoor Soccer League 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the
GROUP REHEARSALS
Music Center, Group Rehearsal Room
Use NE entrance on Cache
DANCERS’ WORKSHOP
Classes & Lectures
■ English as a Second Language (ESL) class 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. at the Center for the Arts, Rm. 305. Drop-ins welcome. 733-7425. Students are given lessons according
to their individual needs. Free. Tuesdays also.
■ “What’s News?” noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Ordway
Auditorium at the Library. Peruse print and online news
with local editors. 733-2164 ext. 135. Free.
■ “Planning for Wildlife” 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Jackson
Hole Conservation Alliance Conference Room, 685 S. Cache.
Find out about the new natural resource maps the JHCA
has been compiling. 733-9417 or www.jhalliance.org.
■ Transcendental Meditation Lecture 7 p.m. at the Teton
County Library. 413-3108. Free.
Community
■ Citizen rally against the Iraq War 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on
the Town Square. [email protected].
■ Jackson Hole Community Band rehearses 7 p.m. at the
Center for the Arts. 413-1560.
■ Pathways
Grooming
9
a.m.
at
Garaman/School/Emily/TetCan. Weather permitting. 7399025.
■ Weight Management Support Group noon in the Teton
Valley Hospital conference room. 354-6317 x140. $3-5 suggested donation.
■ Winter Carnival Kick Off & Quick Draw 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Enjoy a “Quick
Draw” featuring JH area artists. Also a “Gourmet Chilly”
bar. 733-5771. $10 for members, $15 non-members.
Outlying
■ African dance and drumming by the Teton Arts Council.
(208) 354-4278
■ Life Drawing Sessions 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Sulli
Studios in Driggs. Drop-ins welcome. 208-354-4278. $10
per session.
■ Special Olympics Area Games at Big Horn Mountain Resort, Ten
Sleep and White Pines Ski Area, Pinedale. 1-800-735-8345.
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Music
■ Larry McKenzie 9 p.m. at the Bull Moose Saloon in Alpine.
(877) 498-7993. No cover.
■ Orville’s Christian Coffeehouse 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 285
W. Pearl St. 733-3165.
■ Friday Night Jazz 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Warbirds Cafe
in Driggs. 208-354-2550.
■ Latino Night with DJ 10 p.m. at Cutty’s.
■ Phil Round 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the double-fireplace lobby
■ Papa Chan and Johnny C Note 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at
Teton Pines. 733-1005. No Cover.
■ Jazz Night 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in The Granary at Spring Creek
Ranch atop East Gros Ventre Butte. 733-8833. No cover.
■ 10 ft. Tall and 80 Proof 10 p.m. at 43 North. 733-0043.
■ Carpenter Gibson 9 p.m. at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.
733-2207.
■ Isaac Hayden 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Alpenhof Bistro.
No cover.
■Derrik Hufsmith 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge at
the Four Seasons Resort. 732-5000. No cover.
■ Willie Waldman Band 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Trap Bar
at Grand Targhee Resort. grandtarghee.com or 800TARGHEE. No Cover.
■ Global Review 5 p.m. on Town Square during the
International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race. No Cover.
■ Midnite Cowboys 9 p.m. at the Virginian Saloon. 7399891. No cover.
Art
■ Big Phatty 10 p.m. at 43 North. 733-0043. $3 at the door.
Art
Mangy
Moose
Concerts
■ “Debauchery and Art” 6 p.m. in the Painting Studio, of the
.Center for the Arts. Artists and non-artists discuss and display
.their work. 733-6379 or [email protected]. Free.
Theater
■ Off Square presents “Deathtrap” 7 p.m. at the Center for
the Arts. Show runs until Feb 3. 733-3021. $15 children,
$20 students, $25 adults.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24
Theater
o■ Off Square presents “Deathtrap” 7 p.m. at the Center for
Sports & Recreation
■ Moose Chase Cross Country Ski Race at the Jackson Hole
Jason Aldean
-the Arts. Show runs until Feb 3. 733-3021. $15 children,
g$20 students, $25 adults.
Dance
y
■ Dancers’ Workshop at the Center for the Arts. Pilates Mat
s
Class, all levels, 8:30-9:30am. 733-6398. $16 drop-in.
Literature
n
■ “Three Cups of Tea” discussion 7 p.m. at the Library. A
.
discussion led by Karin Ronnow who completed an in-depth
A
report of Greg Mortenson’s work. 733-2164 ext. 135.
nSports & Recreation
■ The Debra Doom Cup at the Snow King Arena. Jan. 25-27.
Free admissions; pizza and beer available. www.jacksonholemoose.com.
n
■ Men’s Indoor Soccer League 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the
Recreation Center gym. Sunday 7-10 p.m. 739-9025.
e
Outdoors
■ “Winter Wildlife Caravan” 1 p.m. at the Visitor Center,
t
532 N. Cache St. 733-9212, ext. 227. Free.
■ Snowshoe Photo Outing 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Grand Teton
National Park. 739-9025.
n
-Mind, Body & Spirit
■ Silent Meditation 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. at Zendler
.Chiropractic, 215 Scott Lane. [email protected].
Outdoors
■ “Winter Scavengers” at the Visitor Center, 532 N. Cache
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26
St. 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. 733-9212, ext. 227. Free.
■ Sierra Club Outing to Brooks Lake Lodge. 8.8 mile crosspace.
690-7161
BLVD featuring Souleye
or
BLVD is a three-piece
band that fuses live
instruments with electronic samples to create a truly unique
sound. Combining elements
of
house,
breakbeat, and rock,
their high-energy sound is perfect for the dance floor.
Souleye, member of the infamous Glitch Mob, is a one
of a kind MC, always freestyle, adding flavor and depth
to every track.
No cover.
Community
■ Pathways Grooming 9 a.m. at Teton Canyon. Weather permitting. 739-9025. Sunday also.
Outlying
■ Special Olympics Area Games at Hogadon Ski Area, Casper.
1-800-735-8345.
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Music
■ The Legendary Stage Coach Band 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the
kCommunity
”■ Jackson Hole Breakfast Rotary Club 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on
the Jackson Town Square. Hot chocolate, treats and Sled
Dog Race merchandise available. 732-7452.
■ Stage Stop Sled Dog Race 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown
.
Jackson. Wort Hotel Pre Race Headquarters Reception 4 p.m.
- 7 p.m.; Town Square Pig Roast 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. The first
i
stage of the race begins 7pm on the Town Square and
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finishes at Snow King. 734-1163.
■ Jackson Astronomy Club Meeting 7 p.m. at the Teton
n
County Library. Info about the February night sky, and
what’s ahead in astronomy in 2008. Refreshments provided. 739-9420.
■ Torchlight Parade, Party and Fireworks 7:30 p.m. to 10
p.m. at Snow King Resort. 733-5200.
.
Stagecoach Bar. 733-4407. No cover.
■ Two Dollar Bill 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Alpenhof Bistro.
732-3242.
■ Open Mic Night is 8:30 p.m. at 43 North. Sign-up at 8
p.m. 733-0043.
■ Papa Chan plays jazz 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the lobby at
Snake River Lodge and Spa. No cover.
■ Isaac Hayden 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge of the
Four Seasons Resort. 732-5000. No cover.
5Music
■ Front St. Productions 10 p.m. at Eleanor’s Cuvee. 733e7901. No cover.
■ Chanman Roots Band 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Alpenhof
Bistro. 732-3242. No cover.
y■ Phil Round 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the double-fireplace lobby
t■ Pam Phillips 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in The Granary. 7338833. No cover.
k■ Carpenter Gibson 9 p.m. at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.
733-2207.
.■ Willie Waldman Band 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Trap Bar
.at Grand Targhee Resort. grandtarghee.com or 800TARGHEE. No Cover.
.■ Midnite Cowboys 9 p.m. at the Virginian Saloon. 7399891. No cover.
t■ Isaac Hayden 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge of the
Four Seasons Resort. 732-5000. No cover.
r■ Jet Black Ninja Funkgrass Unit 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. in
-the Silver Dollar Bar. 733-2190. No Cover.
■ BLVD featuring Souleye performs at 10 p.m. at the
eMangy Moose. Three piece band fusing house, breakbeat
r.and rock. mangymoose.net or 733-9779. No Cover.
Monday28
Saturday26
One of the biggest
names in country
music making a special visit to Jackson
Hole. Platinum recording artist playing such
high profile events
such as the Country
Music Awards, this is a special treat for Teton Village.
$35 in advance / $37 Day of show.
Nordic Center. 307-739-2629.
■ Rosie’s Ridge Cross-Country Ski at Rosie’s Ridge. Bring
your own skis. 733-9417 or [email protected]. $5 suggested donation.
■ “Telemadness” 1 p.m. at the JH Mountain Resort. JH
Nordic Center 739-2629 [email protected]. $30 per session $100 for all four sessions.
country ski; Medium
[email protected].
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A NON-SMOKING ESTAB-
Film
■ Sunday Film Series 2 p.m. at the National Museum for
Wildlife Art. 733-5771. Free for members or with
admission.
Outdoors
■ “Home on the Refuge” at the Visitor Center, 532 N. Cache
St. 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. 733 9212, ext. 227. Free.
Music
■ Jackson Hole Hootenanny 6:30 p.m. at Dornan’s in Moose.
733-2415 ext. 200. Free.
■ Greg Creamer 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Trap Bar at
Grand Targhee Resort grandtarghee.com. No cover.
■ Margo Valiante 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge of
Dance
■ Dancers’ Workshop at the Center for the Arts. Pilates Mat
Class, all levels, 8:30-9:30am; Beg./Int. Ballet, 6:157:30pm. 733-6398. $16 drop-in.
Film
■ “Monday Movies” at the Center for the Arts. “The Jimi
Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey.” Concessions open
beforehand. 734-8956. $5
Literature
■ Greg Mortenson speaks 7 p.m. in the Snow King Resort
Grand Room. The climber and author describes his mission to promote peace in the mountains of Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Seating is limited; tickets required. Tickets
available at Valley Bookstore (limit 2 per person). 733see Galaxy Calendar page 22
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Jackson’s
TOWN
HILL
Hourly Ticket Specials
2 hours / $17 adult $12 Jr-Sr
3 hours /$20 adult $15 Jr-Sr
Ski Area Hours: Tues-Sat 10am-8pm
Sun-Mon 10am-4pm
Ski Area Tickets: 734-3136
NIGHT SKIING: TUES-SAT 4-8PM
Kinetix
Denver's five-piece rock
connoisseurs, playing
music that blends
strong melodies with
soaring guitar work and
funk-filled rhythm. The
buzz surrounding the
band is being heard
like jambase.com’s rave “Kinetix”s halloween performance is an indication, they will headline the Fillmore.”
Another great early season freebie. No cover.
Wed., Feb 6
Grace Potter
and the Nocturnals
Thu., Feb 7
Sweethogs &
Swinehearts Ball
Tue., Feb 12
Galactic featuring
Chali 2na (of
Jurassic 5) with
special guest
Ohmega Watts
$15 Adults / $10 Jr-Sr
SCENIC RIDES TO THE TOP OF
SNOW KING 10AM-3PM DAILY
$9 Adults / $7 Jr-Sr
Hot food and drinks at the Cougar Den Grill - Open daily
KING
TUBES
EXPERIENCE THE THRILL
OF GRAVITY ON SNOW!
Ticket Prices
1 hour /$14 adult
$9 junior or senior
2 hrs / $20 adult
$15 junior or senior
TICKETS AVAILABLE
AT THE MANGY MOOSE,
MOUNTUNES, TOBACCO ROW,
MOOSE CELLARS & MAIN EVENT.
ONLINE AT WWW.MANGYMOOSE.NET
Shows start at 9:30 unless noted.
Must be 21 and over to attend.
$2.00 OFF ANY 2 HOUR TICKET
(not valid with any other discounts)
HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 4-8pm, Sat.-Sun. Noon-8pm
Minimum Height: 42 inches tall
Children under 18 must have parent or
guardian sign liability release
WWW.SNOWKING.COM
THE WORLD FAMOUS
TETON VILLAGE, WYOMING
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SATURDAY,,
Y 26
JANUARY
GALAXYCALENDAR
2164 ext. 135. Free.
Classes & Lectures
■ “Informed Conservation” Public Talk 7 p.m. in the Ordway
DORNAN’S
Pizza & Pasta Co.
PIZZA • CALZONES • PASTA • SALADS
Open Monday-Friday 11:30am-3:00pm
Saturday & Sunday 11:30am-5:00pm
Wine Shoppe & Spur Bar
Auditorium at the Library. The Conservation Research
Center of Teton Science Schools will discuss how ongoing development affects ecological systems. 733.4707.
Free.
Hartford Court
Wine Dinner
• 6:30pm
• $95 per person inclusive
• 5 Course Dinner paired with
select Hartford Court wines
• Please call 733-2415 ext 200
to make your reservations
Boondocks...Unplugged!
Tuesday, February 5 at 8pm
Trading Post Grocery
• $10 tickets
• Dinner served until 7pm
• Tickets available at
Dornans & Valley Bookstore
www.boondocksband.com
Open Daily 8am-6pm
Hootenanny Returns!
Gift Shop
Every monday for FREE
6:30pm • Dinner Available
OVER 1,600 VARIETIES OF WINE AVAILABLE
Open Daily 10:00am-6:00pm
Bar 10:00am-6pm
Open Daily 11am-5pm
Spur Cabins
LOCATED ON THE BANKS OF THE SNAKE RIVER
WITH TETON VIEWS 733-2522
VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
WWW.DORNANS.COM
FOR UPCOMING EVENTS
733-2415 • Moose, WY
(12 mi north of Jackson)
album review
Iron & Wine: The Shepherd’s Dog
Bandleader Sam Beam’s previously
released material has been mainly
for the broken hearted and anyone
who suffers ear pain from noises
above 5 decibels. The Shepherd’s
Dog will still please the former but
sees Beam and producer Brian Deck
adding substance beyond whispers
and acoustic guitar (that’s right,
drums and bass make an appearance). Jams like “Boy With A Coin”
and “House By The Sea” are gems
that stay true I & W’s roots and
flesh out the melodies with different musical themes and styles. The
seeming overly serious, pre
Victorian, themes are still prevalent
and are enhanced by Beam’s
hushed delivery. While the album
is still for the easy listener, The
Shepherd’s Dog packs more punch
than usual, making it more appealing to a larger audience, and that
includes you.
– Jack Murray
Your Mountain of Music!
(307) 733-KMTN
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10:30am; Beg. Modern, 9:30-11am; Beg./Int. Modern, 6:157:30pm; Flamenco, 7:30-8:30pm. 733-6398. $16 drop-in.
Kids & Families
■ “Teen Gaming @ Your Library” 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the
Ordway Auditorium at the Library. Teens in grades 6 to 12
are invited to explore the library’s collection of console
games. 733-2164 ext. 103. Free.
Community
■ Drinking water tests 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call for location or
Community
■ Jackson Symphony Orchestra Rehearses 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
pick-up. Teton County Environmental Health and Water Lab
tests drinking water for bacteria every Monday and
Tuesday. 732-8490. $12.
■ Duplicate Bridge Club 5:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at the meeting room of the Rec Center. Bring a partner. 733-6773. $3.
at the Center of the Arts. 413-0458.
■ Tapas Tuesday Nights 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the National
Museum of Wildlife Art. All menu items under $15.
Reservations recommended. 732-5434. Discounted
Museum admission.
■ Special Olympics Volunteer Meeting 5:30 p.m. at the Wort
Hotel. For anyone interested in assisting with the upcoming Winter Games. 732-8932.
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Music
■ One Ton Pig 7:30 p.m. at the Silver Dollar Bar. 733-2190.
No cover.
■ Thumpin’ Tuesdays with DJ Thunder 10 p.m. at 43 North.
733-0043. No cover.
■ Judd Grossman 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge of
Theater
■ Actors’ Workshop 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Dance Studio 4 at
the Center for the Arts. Every Tuesday. 203-9067. $5 dropin or $15 for four classes.
Dance
■ Dancers’ Workshop at the Center for the Arts. Tae Kwon Do,
Open family class (discounts available for families), 6:157:30pm; Power Yoga, 6:15-7:30pm; Ballet Workout, 9:30-
Health & Fitness
■ Teton Free Clinic open 5:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. in Dr.
Sugden’s office in St. John’s complex. New patients must
provide photo ID, copy of rent or utility bill and copy of
last pay stub to be eligible. Must live or work in Teton
County, be uninsured and meet income requirements.
739-7492.
--compiled by
Aaron Davis and David Fanelli
Galaxy calendar entries must be submitted to
[email protected] before noon each Sunday in order
to appear in the print edition. We regret that we cannot
accommodate entries made after that time.
UPCOMINGCALENDAR
COURTESY PHOTO
Association. An open invitation to all artists who work
other jobs to live in Teton County but still make time to
create and practice their art. Any medium and any size
welcome. The show will hang Feb. 15-Mar. 20 in the
ArtSpace Gallery. Pick up an application at the Art
Association.
Call
733-6379
or
visit
www.ArtAssociation.org.
Film
■ “Border Lines” Film Discussion 6 p.m. on Feb. 6 at the
Jackson campus of the Teton Science school. The film
series presents “North Country” (Rated “R”). Come for
snacks and drink, a free showing of the movie, and a
lively discussion about the film’s message and about the
borders in our own lives. 733-9605 or [email protected]. Free.
Kids & Families
■ “Teen Tubing” 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 31 at King
Tubes at the Snow King Resort. Teens celebrate the
achievements of young writers entered in the Winter
Short Story Contest while relishing Jackson Hole’s
winter wonders with tubing and hot chocolate. Teens
must be in grades 6 to 12 and have a
parent/guardian complete a King Tube’s release
form (available at the library’s Youth Services Desk
or King Tubes at Snow King Resort). 733-2164 ext.
247. Free.
Become the most popular social
networker in the neighborhood.
COURTESY PHOTO
Art
■ “Labor of Love” entry deadline on Feb. 1 at the Art
UW Ag Dean leads discussion at
Sheridan County Public Library.
Classes & Lectures
■ “MySpace for Parents” noon to 2 p.m. on Feb. 6 in the
Outlying
■ UW Ag Dean gathers input for plan 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Ordway Auditorium at the Library. Learn the positives and
perils of MySpace and other social networking websites
in this popular, hands-on workshop. The course also covers online safety tips and how to start your own
MySpace profile. Registration required; lunch provided.
733-2164 ext. 106. Free.
■ HeartSaver CPR 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Feb. 6 in the
EMS Building, located on the east side of Hwy 33, north of
town. Designed to teach CPR and relief of foreign body
airway obstruction to all lay rescuers, particularly those
who are expected to respond to emergencies in the
workplace. 354-6317 ext. 181 or 212. $35.
on Jan. 31 in the Inner Circle of the Sheridan County Fulmer
Public Library, 335 W. Alger St. UW Ag Dean, Frank
Galey, will lead a discussion about “Educating
Tomorrow’s Workforce.” The third in a series of
statewide meetings over the next few months to gather
information to help develop the college’s next academic
plan. The next is Friday, Feb. 8, during the Wyoming
Crop Improvement Association meeting in Powell. 7666342 or [email protected].
■ Johnny Cash’s Legendary Tennessee Three 8 p.m. on Feb.
2 at the Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium. Opening act
“Scarlett.” 208-522-0471. $38 and $29.
Murder. Mystery.
Comedy. Thriller.
Redneck
BULL MOOSE SALOON
LIVE MUSIC
7:30 - 11:00pm
Friday, January 25
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BLUEGRASS BANDITS
Saturday, January 26
FUNKGRASS UNIT
JANUARY 29
Bluegrass Tuesday
ONE TON PIG
Broadway at Glenwood • 733.2190
www.worthotel.com
“I asked Planet Jackson Hole to
design an ad that would be catchy
and fun, yet express the importance
of the mundane topic of winter
parking regulations for the Town of
Jackson. They came up with “Dude,
Where’s my car?” and people,
including TOJ staff have really
taken notice. I appreciate their
graphic design creativity and their
willingness to be open to this type
of project. This ad is working!”
- Shelley Simonton
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26:
Live Music with Jack Downs
7:30 - 10:30pm
Late Nite at the Bull Moose with
BARE NECESSITIES
Exotic Dancers - 10:30pm
Tickets the door $10 - Girls FREE!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3:
Superbowl Party
Lots of food, drink & raffle specials!
COMING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3:
Motley Crue Tribute Band,
WILDSIDE
1-877-498-7993
ALPINE, WYOMING
NIGHTLY SHOWS
January 17 - February 3
Thursday - Saturday 7pm
MATINEES
Saturday, January 26; 2pm
Sunday, January 27; 3pm
Don’t be left at home watching
reruns during the writer’s
strike … Call today and sign
up for a class in singing,
improvisation or writing. We
only have a few spots left so
don’t delay. 733-3021
TAKE YOUR TICKET STUB TO
JACKSON WHOLE GROCER TO GET
10% OFF YOUR WINE PURCHASE
Call Center
for the Arts
Box Office
307.733.4900
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freshest beer in the valley, right from
the source. Don’t forget to check out some
of our tasty new menu items.
D I N I N G G U I D E
American
$7 LUNCH • HAPPY HOUR 4-6pm
Open 7 days a week
11:30am until midnight. Families welcome.
265 S. Millward
739-2337
Open nightly at 5:00 p.m.
HAPPY HOUR
2 for 1 drinks
at the bar
5:00-6:00 p.m.
and
8:00-9:00 p.m.
307.739.0700
-Reservations-
PETE’S GRAND BAR AND GRILL
Come for the Food and Brew,
stay for the view. Featuring
fresh and tasty Grand American
Cuisine, including our Grand
Steaks, handmade House
Burgers, Grilled Chicken,
Grand Salmon and Trout, fresh
veggies, sweet potato fries,
Grand Chicken Fingers, Salads,
Desserts, and other Grand
Goodies. Relax on our DECK
overlooking the Valley and the
Mountains. Lunch and Dinner
Daily. 3 miles south of town on
Hwy 89., 733-4398.
Asian & Sushi
BON APPE THAI Lunch served
from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Dinner
starting at 5 p.m. Closed for lunch
on Sundays. Take-Out and
Delivery Available. Walk-ins welcome. Reservations recommended. Across from the old post
office. 245 Pearl, 734-0245.
KOSHU WINE BAR
Koshu
serves an ever-changing menu of
contemporary pan-Asian cuisine,
delicious cocktails and a variety
of wines by the glass. The
Jackson Hole Wine Company is
just outside our door with hundreds of great wines from which
to choose. Open nightly at 6 p.m.
733-5283.
SHOGUN SUSHI Serving lunch
and dinner 7 days a week. Mon Fri 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. or later. Sat
- Sun 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. or later.
Take out or Delivery. 265 W.
Broadway, 733-9168.
NIKAI Jackson Hole’s favorite
sushi bar offers the finest delicacies from both land and sea.
Featuring innovative sushi &
sashimi as well as a creative
asian inspired grill menu. Full
service bar specializes in tropical cocktails & offers unique fine
sake & wine lists. 225 N. Cache.
Reservations
recommended,
734-6490.
Home of the
“BIG PIG MARG”
Since 1969
(307) 733-2966
North of the Town Square
in Downtown Jackson
Continental
43 NORTH Serving dinner seven
nights a week at the base of
Snow King. Happy hour specials begin at 5 p.m. Cozy pub
atmosphere and great selection
of whiskies. Live music four
nights a week. 645 S. Cache,
733-0043.
BURKE’S Sample our superior
steaks, chops, and innovative
fish, game and fowl dishes in this
historic renovated building.
Reservations
recommended;
smoke-free atmosphere. Open
nightly from 6-10 p.m.
Glenwood. 733-8575.
DORNAN’S PIZZA & PASTA CO.
Gourmet pizzas, homemade
soups, pasta, sandwiches and
salads. Enjoy a relaxing lunch
while sitting along the Snake
River enjoying the fabulous view
of the Tetons. 12 miles north of
Jackson in Grand Teton
National Park at Moose,
Wyoming, 733-2415.
Long lines are gone and the
SOUP’S ON!
TRY our Soup & 1/2 Sandwich Special
Serving up the finest
imported and domestic meats and cheeses
this side of the Continental Divide!
50 WEST DELONEY • TOWN SQUARE • JACKSON
307-734-9420 • (F) 307-734-9430 • BackcountryProvisions.com
733-0557
On the Town Square
in Jackson
E AT I TS, G O O D !
IT’
Closed Sundays
Lunch : 11:30am-2:30pm M-F
Dinner: 5:30pm-close - M-S
Closed: Sundays
We Deliver!
Thai-style private room
for parties of up to 8.
Open nightly 6-10 p.m.
(reservations recommended)
Chef Michael Burke, Proprietor
72 S. Glenwood • 733-8575
We love you long time…
72 S.
THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole
favorite. Offering the finest in
creative cuisine. Join us in the
charming atmosphere of a refurbished older home. Ask a local
about our rack of lamb. Also
serving fresh fish, elk, poultry,
steaks and vegetarian entreés.
Open nightly at 6:00 p.m. Join us
for our early bird special: 20%
off your entire bill while dining
between 6 - 6:30 with coupon
(see page 32) Reservations recommended. 160 N. Millward,
733-3912.
DINNER NIGHTLY AT 6:00 PM
32oz of pleasure
• Authentic Mexican dishes made from scratch
• Hot chips made fresh all day long
• Choose from 10 homemade salsas & sauces
• Voted “BEST SALSA” Splash Magazine
THAI ME UP Authentic Thai dishes including coconut chicken
lemongrass soup, drunken noodle and coconut milk curries. Full
bar and children’s menu. 75 E.
Pearl, parking behind restaurant.
Serving Lunch, Mon. - Fri. 11:30
a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; Dinner, 5:30
p.m. - close, Mon. - Sat. Closed
Sundays. Take-out available,
733-0005.
75 E. Pearl • 307.733.0005
THE GRANARY Overlooking the
magnificent Teton Range, offers a
casual yet elegant atmosphere.
Specialties include elk, Rocky
Mountain trout and fresh seafood
flown in from Hawaii. Award-winning wine list. Nightly happy hour
specials from 4-7 p.m. Jazz Night
is on Fridays from 7-10 p.m. and
Pam Drews Phillips plays on
Saturdays from 6:30-9:30 p.m. An
unforgettable dining experience
equaled only by the view. Serving
Breakfast, lunch & dinner 7 days
a week. Reservations suggested.
Spring Creek Ranch, 732-8112.
HORSE
CREEK
STATION
Wyoming’s finest smokehouse
BBQ. Nightly specials: Tuesdays
- Taco nite; Wednesdays Spaghetti nite; and Thursdays full rack of ribs at half-rack
price. Dinner starting at 5:30
p.m.. Closed Monday. Smoke
free environment. Located at
Hoback Junction. 733-0810.
Q ROADHOUSE BARBEQUE
From the people that brought you
Rendezvous Bistro, “Q”, on Teton
Village Road, serves up a variety
of Roadhouse fare. Menu items
include; Blackened Catfish,
Shrimp Jambalaya, a variety of
fresh salads, Turkey Meatloaf,
Organic
“Chicken
Fried”
Chicken, Steaks, BBQ Ribs,
Pulled Pork & Beef Brisket.
Extensive wine list and full bar
available. Open Nightly 5:00pm.
Happy Hours at the bar only are
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 - 9:00
p.m. Closed Tuesdays. Call for
reservations. 739-0700.
RENDEZVOUS BISTRO
The
Bistro offers something for everyone including salads, sandwiches & daily plate specials. Our
Raw Bar features oysters on the
half shell, tuna tartare and oyster
shooters. Appetizers include
mussels, gnocchi, grilled octopus, steak tartare and more. The
entree selection ranges from traditional bistro Fish & Chips,
Meatloaf, Veal Marsala & Coq au
Vin to many other selections
including
fresh
seasonal
seafood, pasta & steaks. Open
Tues. - Sat. at 5:30 p.m.
Reservations are recommended.
Located at 380 S. Hwy 89 /
Broadway
right
next
to
Albertson’s, 739-1100.
McRib® is Back!
ROUTE 89 SMOKEHOUSE
DINER Delicious breakfasts from
homemade French Toast to
Chicken Fried Steak or Corned
Beef Hash and Eggs! Our extensive lunch and dinner menus offer
a variety of BBQ and in-house
smoked meats. Juicy burgers
and lunch specials. Locals, don't
forget your discount! Open 7
days a week from 6 a.m. to 10
p.m. 455 N. Cache, across from
the visitors center. Kids’ menu
and full bar available, 733-2492.
SNAKE RIVER BREWERY &
RESTAURANT America’s most
award-winning microbrewery is
serving lunch and dinner. Enjoy
the atmosphere while dining on
delicious wood-fired pizzas, pastas, sandwiches, soups, salads
and desserts. Happy Hour from
4-6 with $1 giant soft pretzels,
$2.50 pints and $3 nachos. So
stop by the Brew Pub to get the
freshest beer in the valley, right
from the source. Free WiFi. Open
11:30 a.m. - midnight. 265 S.
Millward. 739-2337.
SNAKE RIVER GRILL We are
approaching our 15th anniver-
sary! A local’s favorite. Whether
you stop by for a pizza and beer,
or enjoy our celebrated menu of
American and International fare
and our huge wine list, you will be
pleased by Jackson’s most beautiful restaurant and as stated in
The Wine Spectator, the “best!” in
town! Open nightly at 5:30 p.m.
On the Town Square, 733-0557.
STIEGLER’S AUSTRIAN RESTAURANT & COPPER BAR Peter and
his team look forward to welcoming you for dinner as we celebrate
our twenty-fourth year of service.
Whether it’s one of Peter’s
authentic Austrian specialties, or
a burger in the Copper Bar, you’ll
enjoy great food, attentive service
and the ambiance of a cozy
Austrian home. Stiegler’s serves
dinner Tuesday through Sunday
from 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.; the bar
menu is available at 5:00 p.m.
Please call 733-1071 for reservations. Located at The Aspens on
Teton Village Road.
SWEETWATER
RESTAURANT
Satisfying locals for lunch and
dinner for nearly 30 years with
deliciously affordable comfort
25
Old Time Family Dining
Serving Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
6am to 10pm
AWESOME LUNCH SPECIALS
Locals Receive a 10% Discount
733.2492
455 N. Cache Across from the Visitors Center on Hwy 89
Austrian Restaurant & Copper Bar
Since 1983, host Peter Stiegler has offered
guests classically prepared Austrian and
Continental favorites served in the cozy
ambiance of an alpine home.
Serving dinner Tues-Sun, 5:00-9:30pm
At the Aspens on Teton Village Road, 733-1071
Tuesday
OYSTER
NIGHT
$1 Oysters All Night
•one dozen minimum
•Includes Bud Draft
Wednesday
see DINING GUIDE page 26
MOJITO
NIGHT
Best Mojito’s in town
$3/ea. All night
*For a limited time only
Come by McDonald’s® for our delicious pork sandwich,
smothered in barbeque sauce and garnished with pickles
and fresh onions. Add medium fries and a medium soft drink
for $4.69 + tax and you’ve got a hot, tasty deal!
We will be playing
Latino music, so
come ready to dance
ONLY
$
Thursday
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4
SOUTHERN
CUISINE
+tax
Serving the best
In Southern
Cuisine
385 W. Broadway, Jackson
Authentic Mexican Cuisine
(307) 733-1207
Friday
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 11am to 10pm
LADIES NIGHT OUT!
Ladies receive 2 for 1 Drinks, all night
LUNCHEON COMBINATION
Monday-Friday 11am-3pm
Saturday
LIVE MUSIC
FULL BAR
HOME OF THE ORIGINAL
JUMBO MARGARITA
LARGE SELECTION OF
MEXICAN BEERS
Tom Turiano &
Valerie Seaberg
perform every other
Saturday
Happy Hour Tues.-Sat. 5-7pm
$1 Oysters • 2 for 1 Drinks
DINNER SPECIALS
1110 W. Broadway
Get It Before it’s Gone!
Abuelito’s Special
Jumbo prawns cooked with mushrooms,
sautéed in a tasty sour cream sauce
Sopa Sieta Mares
Open daily 5:00am to midnight • Free Wi-Fi with purchase.
Delicious soup made with fresh fish, shrimp,
octopus, crab legs, clams and scallops
Open Tues. - Sat at 5pm
155 W. Broadway 733-1888
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A Specialty Grocer & Delicatessen
945 W. Broadway • Jackson, WY 83001• (307) 732-CHEF
EARLY
BIRD
SPECIAL
20% OFF ENTIRE BILL
733-3912
Good when dining between 6-6:30pm.
Dinner starts at 6:00pm NIGHTLY
160 N. Millward
Please present coupon to server when ordering.
• Reservations Recommended •
18% gratuity may be added to your bill prior to discount.
CHECK OUT OUR
COMPREHENSIVE
GUIDE TO DINING
IN AND AROUND
JACKSON HOLE
WWW.PLANETJH.COM
from DINING GUIDE page 25
food. Award winning wine list.
Lunch 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Dinner 5:30-9:30 p.m. Corner of
King & Pearl, 733-3553.
TRIO An American Bistro started
by three chefs with innovative
flair! Seasonal and weekly specials. One block off the town
square. Dinner nightly at 5:30
p.m. 45 S. Glenwood, 734-8038.
www.bistrotrio.com.
Coffee House/Internet Cafe
HARD DRIVE CAFE Internet
Access: our computers or yours.
Organic espressos. Soup, salad,
panini, wraps, philly cheesesteak. Open Mon - Sat 5:45 am 10 pm, Sun 5:45 am - 2 pm.
1110 Maple Way, across from
the new post office, 733-5282.
www.hardrivecafe.biz.
JACKSON HOLE ROASTERS
prides itself on procuring,
roasting and serving the
finest coffee in the world,
including organic, fair trade,
bird-friendly, and so on!
Located just off the historic
town square in Jackson,
Wyoming, we roast on the
premises and ship worldwide.
When you come to our shop
be sure to try a cup made
from The Clover, our new onecup brewing system designed
to give you the freshest, best
tasting coffee possible. Open
M-F 7:00a.m. to 6:00p.m.
Saturdays 9:00a.m. to whenever we feel like closing. 165
E. Broadway, 690-8065.
PEARL STREET BAGELS Open
daily 6:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Two locations to serve you. In Jackson
145 W. Pearl, 739-1218. In
Wilson on Ida Lane, 739-1261.
Mexican
EL ABUELITO
Authentic
Mexican Cuisine. Home of the
original
Jumbo
Margarita.
Featuring a full bar with a large
selection of Mexican beers. Open
7 days a week from 11 a.m. to 10
p.m. 385 W. Broadway, 733-1207.
THE MERRY PIGLETS Voted Best
Salsa in Jackson! Jackson’s oldest and most rockin’ Mexican
restaurant. Choose from over 10
salsas and sauces, Tex-Mex
plates, including enchiladas, rellenos, mesquite-grilled fajitas, salads, wraps and fire-roasted
chicken. Huge margs in 10 flavors. Complimentary chips and
salsa. One block north of the
square. 160 N. Cache, 733-2966.
PICA’S
Fresh and colorful
Mexican cuisine made to order.
Great homemade chips and salsas and dangerous margs. Ask
about our party platters and
catering. Visit our Wilson location
at the Stagecoach Bar, 734-4457.
Take-out
BACKCOUNTRY PROVISIONS
Jackson’s newest deli! Serving
up the finest imported and
domestic meats and cheeses. 50
W. Deloney Street, 734-9420.
Q ROADHOUSE BARBEQUE
From the people that brought you
Rendezvous Bistro, “Q”, on Teton
Village Road, serves up a variety
of Roadhouse fare. Menu items
include; Blackened Catfish,
Shrimp Jambalaya, a variety of
fresh salads, Turkey Meatloaf,
Organic
“Chicken
Fried”
Chicken, Steaks, BBQ Ribs,
Pulled Pork & Beef Brisket.
Extensive wine list and full bar
available. Open Nightly 5:30pm.
Call for reservations. 739-0700.
PICA’S
Fresh and colorful
Mexican cuisine made to order.
Great homemade chips and salsas and dangerous margs. Ask
about our party platters and
catering. Visit our Wilson location
at the Stagecoach Bar, 734-4457.
THAI ME UP Authentic Thai dishes including coconut chicken
lemongrass soup, drunken noodle and coconut milk curries. Full
bar and children’s menu. 75 E.
Pearl, parking behind restaurant.
Serving Lunch, Mon. - Fri. 11:30
a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; Dinner, 5:30
p.m. - close, Mon. - Sat. Closed
Sundays. Take-out available,
733-0005.
TO BE INCLUDED IN
THE DINING GUIDE,
PLEASE CALL THE
PLANET AT 732.0299.
THIS LIST IS ONLINE AT
WWW.PLANETJH.COM.
Lunch ~ Daily at 11:30am
Dinner ~ Nightly at 5:30pm
Billy’s open daily at 11:30am
Happy Hour 5-7pm nightly: 2 for 1 Drinks
(In the bar)
On the
Town Square
733-3279
CERTIFIED
ORGANIC
COFFEE
ROASTERS
Offering the
Clover Single-cup brew,
the best and freshest cup
of coffee you will ever have!
Owned and operated by three local
chefs with a passion for good food. Trio
features a variety of cuisines in a relaxed
atmosphere. We are known for our
wood-oven pizzas and entrees, daily fish
and game specials and a variety of
specialty drinks. Enjoy a cocktail at the
Bar under the barrel-vaulted ceilings in
front of the open kitchen.
Open for Dinner nightly at 5:30pm
Located off the town square at 45 S. Glenwood
(307)690-8065
165 E. Broadway • Jackson, WY 83001
Available for private events & catering
For reservations 734-8038
SHOGUN
S . U . S . H . I
New Winter Hours:
Mon-Fri 11:00am-10:00pm
Sat-Sun 5:00-10:00pm
DINE IN
TAKE OUT
733-9168
265 W. BROADWAY (next to Mountunes)
Try our Thai Lunch Express
from 11:00am - 2:30pm
Authentic THAI Dinner Daily
Doors Open at 5:00pm
Take-Out Available
Reservations Recommended
Walk-ins Welcome
245 W. Pearl Ave.
(across from the old Post Office)
734-0245
CRUMBS in my ’STACHE
INTERNATIONAL CUISINE, COFFEE & TEA HOUSE
Ben Cannon
A new taste of the East
Organic Cafe & Bakery
PLANET PALATE SERVES INDIAN FOOD BY NIGHT
GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION PARTY - JANUARY 26
BLESSING
BY KATHY CHANDLER
AT 9:30
DANCING WITH MUSIC
BY DJ ESSENCE
STARTING AT 10PM - TIL’
GOOD FOOD • FRIENDS COMMUNITY • DANCING
INDIAN DINNER FROM 6 - 9PM • RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
A DISCOUNTED DEAL FOR SATURDAY NIGHT'S DINNER:
ANDREW WYATT
$199 VEGETARIANN SAMPLER:
Chicken tikka masala served with brown basmati rice and a cucumber
raita sauce.
Planet Palate (145 N. Glenwood), a
multi-use coffee shop and bakery that
transforms over the course of a day into a
bistro, now turns by night into the only
valley restaurant offering a full menu of
Indian food.
The restaurant, opened in early fall by
owner Amy Young, began evening servings of Indian food in December. Her travels in Nepal and to the Himalayan plateau
inspired the cuisine idea.
“I loved the food and the hospitality
there is amazing,” she said. “People
would house you and give you a meal – a
big meal – and if you wanted to be
involved in the cooking you could.”
Young set out on a mission to learn as
much as she could about Indian cuisine,
recruiting a friend living in India to send
her volumes of cookbooks in English.
“You can learn anything from a book,”
she said, and one gets a sense the avid
outdoorswoman, who has had to put skiing and kayaking on hold for awhile, has
taught herself a thing or two before.
Hours of study and experimenting led
to dishes like kela kofta ($17), a rich and
earthy banana dumpling served in spiced
tomato curry; and vegetable korma
($15), a medley of cauliflower, carrots,
peas, potatoes and cashews in a heady
blend of oriental spices.
For starters, try an order of samosas
($10), spicy fried dumplings filled with
potatoes and peas, a dish promising to
become a local favorite.
Planet Palate got off to a lackluster
opening, and the off-season months
before winter were a struggle for Young.
Part of the slow beginning could be
attributed to what Young said is a degree
of misconception about her business:
that it caters only to vegetarian and vegan
diets. That is due in part to the fact that
Planet Palate uses only all organic ingredients bought through fair trade distributors, or that everything is gluten-free.
Until very recently, Young was contractually bound to keep her dinner menu allvegan. With the help of Blu Kitchen, which
shares a wall with Planet Palate, she was
able to get the restaurant into a lease and
agreed to keep meat and dairy off of the
dinner menu to mitigate a competitive
risk. With both restaurants now nurturing
growing trade catering to different tastes,
Young will now feature some entrees featuring chicken, marinated lamb and
paneer, an un-aged Indian white cheese.
Planet Palate will first offer chicken
tikka masala ($ TBA) marinated in yogurt
and spices and served in a Masala tomato sauce, expected for this week, before
she will begin serving lamb biryani and
house-made roasted palak paneer in a
spinach sauce.
A focus on consistency and portion
control should bode well for a restaurant
that could readily carve its niche, serving
the only Indian food in a valley that boasts
three Thai restaurants.
As Mike Mullen, a wiry, smiling Planet
Palate server added optimistically, “We’re
legitimate now.”
$222 MEATT & VEGETABLEE SAMPLER:
Samosa with Apricot-Tamarind Chutney
Chicken Tikka Masala
Naan
Vegetable Korma
Vegetable Korma
Arhar with Palak
Kela Kofta
Basmati Rice
Arhar with Palak
Cucumber Raita
Rice
145 N.Basmati
Glenwood
St • 307-734-0882
Apple-Date Chutney
Cucumber Raita
Apple-Date Chutney
145 N. GLENWOOD ST • 307-734-0882
This week’s special:
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Try this great recipe:
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307.733.0450
with green market potatoes and vegetables
covered in green garlic lovage sauce
FOR THE FISH:
1 lb fresh sea trout, filleted with the skin on
Olive oil & Creole seasoning
FOR THE LOVAGE AND GREEN
GARLIC SAUCE:
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
FOR THE POTATOES AND VEGETABLES:
Salt & Pepper
6 tablespoons butter, sale & pepper
1/2 cup lovage, chopped
2 pounds first of the season red potatoes
1/4 cup green garlic, chopped
1 pound sugar snap peas, cleaned & blanched
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
2 large bundles asparagus, blanched
Preparation: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Season the trout with olive oil and Creole seasoning. Place
on a parchment lined baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake for 10 minutes, or until fish is cooked through.
For the potatoes and vegetables: Heat a large saute pan. Add 3 tablespoons of the butter and the new potatoes. Saute for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. In another saute pan, saute the snap peas in 2 tablespoons of butter for 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. In another saute pan, saute the asparagus in the
remaining tablespoon of butter. Season with salt and pepper. Turn all of the vegetables out onto a large platter and keep warm. For the sauce: Heat the olive oil in a large saute pan. Season with salt and pepper. When
the oil is hot, add the lovage, green garlic and crushed red pepper and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the
heat. To serve: Place the fish on top of the vegetables and potatoes. Pour the sauce over the fish. Garnish.
Wild and All Natural Seafood Sustainably Harvested in the U.S.A.
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28
THEGOODS
MUSICBOX
Aaron Davis
Aldean at Mangy; Waldman/Wisdom take Trap Bar
BLVD members at a recent
concert.
Through heavy layering of
synths, samples and looping patterns, drum-bass-guitar trio BLVD
leans toward the elements of
house and breakbeat grooves.
Their
new
release,
“Digital
Disaster” hit the streets just last
week, so they’ll be sure to offer
some new grooves at 10 p.m. on
Saturday at the Mangy Moose in
Teton Village. Colorado-based MC
Souleye will join them for this
tour. There’s no cover charge for
the show. Check out www.blvdsource.com for sounds and information.
■
The Summit Players from the
University of Wyoming Faculty violinist Naomi K. Gjevre , violinist
Javier
Pinell ,
violist
Jim
Przygocki , and cellist Barbara
Thiem - are making a trip from
Laramie to perform at 7 p.m. on
Monday in the Jackson Hole High
School Auditorium . The show is
free and open to the public. For
more information, call 413-0458.
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If you’ve never taken advantage
of hearing local pianist Pam
Phillips and her trio on Jazz Night
at the Granary, you’ll appreciate
the casual atmosphere and notable
musicianship. Bassist Mike Rossi
and drummer Ed Domer will join
Phillips 7 to 10 p.m. this Friday at
the intimate bar, located atop East
Gros Ventre Butte at Spring Creek
Ranch . The drinks are a bit pricey
but the atmosphere and free music
more than make up for the effort to
get there. Call 733-8833 for more
information.
Nashville’s country
music star Jason Aldean
may be unfamiliar to
those not keen to the
pop-country avenues of
Country Music Television
or carefully packaged
country radio, but he’s
currently a big name in
the genre. His undeniable commercial success
as a recording artist has
been a long time coming
and his momentum continues to build.
His self-titled debut,
released in 2005, went
gold only 12 weeks after
Rising country star Jason Aldean
its release and soon
Moose Thursday.
reached platinum status.
Aldean’s first single off
that disc, “Hicktown,” taps into rural, blue-collar life “propelled by a spanking beat and a girls-gone-hillbilly-wild
video,” according to his website. The song was recently
selected by Wal-Mart for their Soundcheck DVD series,
which also features Maroon 5, Rihanna and Fall Out Boy.
In 2006, Aldean was named the Academy of Country
Music’s Top Male New Vocalist of the year.
The road to success came through years of writing, recording and shopping around and, most importantly, persistence.
“We were playing lots of shows in Nashville, taking songs
to labels and got turned down a couple of times,” Aldean
said, from a tour stop in Kansas. “But we ended up signing
with a smaller label and said, ‘this has got to work.’ I cut
the songs I wanted to record and it just goes to show you
that you don’t have to be with the biggest label in town to
make things happen.”
Aldean’s 2007 release “Relentless,” contains a few tunes
penned by John Rich of Big and Rich and others written by
songwriters Brett James, Jim Collins and Tom Shapiro.
“Laughed Until We Cried,” a nostalgic tune that begins with
lyrics about his senior high school trip to Panama City, was
made into a video. There’s also a duet, “Grown Woman,” with
rising star Miranda Lambert. Though the album has that
Nashville sound, the edgy rock side comes through, too.
“I was writing songs for a publishing company with John
Rich for 10 years,” Aldean said, speaking of the songs that
made it onto the new album. “We had those songs for a couple of years, then Big and Rich hit, and then I hit.”
Aldean was invited to perform with his band at the 41st Annual
Country Music Awards back in October. There, he was nominated for the Horizon Award. The backing band that’s traveling with
him has a “southern rock setup,” he said, with two guitarists,
drums, bass, and then Aldean on acoustic guitar.
“We’ve put a whole new show together for this tour,”
will play at the Mangy
Aldean said. “Our first show
was last night, so we’re still
working through some of
the new songs. I hated
going to shows when I was
a kid and they would
change the song that I
wanted to hear. So we try to
play the songs as they are
on the record.”
Aldean and his band will
perform at 10 p.m. on
Thursday at the Mangy
Moose in Teton Village.
Tickets are $35 in advance
or $37 day of show. For tickets, visit mangymoose.net or
call 733-9779. For those of
you in Idaho Falls, he’ll perform
at
Idaho
Falls
Auditorium tonight. Call 208-
542-6796 for those tickets.
“I don’t know why we’re playing the coldest places in the
country during the middle of winter, but we’re looking forward
to it,” Aldean said.
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Constantly probing the
free jazz spectrum with
his lightning rod trumpeting, Willie Waldman IS
improvisation. Co-led with
stage painter Norton
W i s d o m ,
t h e
Waldman/Wisdom
Project has a new lineup
for their upcoming Trap
Bar shows. The current
funk crew foundation is
represented by guitarist
Cameron Morgan, drumWillie Waldman:
mer Maxwell Vision, and
improvisation god.
Jackson’s own bassist
Andy Calder, who also
holds down the groove for
Soul Impressions, One Ton Pig and Fat Albert.
You wouldn’t think that a free-form jazz kat like Waldman
would be a big player in the rap world, but Waldman has
recorded with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Snoop Dogg, Tupac
Shakur, Nate Dogg, Perry Ferrell, and Banyan (his band with
Jane’s Addiction drummer, Stephen Perkins).
Catch the Waldman/Wisdom Project at 4 p.m. this Friday
and Saturday in the Trap Bar at Grand Targhee Resort.
There is no cover for these shows. Check out Waldman’s
sound at williewaldman.com.
In addition to keeping his finger on the local music pulse, Aaron Davis is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, trout hunter and snow rider
originally from the rolling hills of Kentucky. www.aarondavismusic.com.
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ARTBEAT
Kate Balog
Jackson photographer’s prints attract collectors
nationwide; NMWA kicks off JH Winter Carnival
Since 2001, David Brookover ’s expanding
gallery just off the town square has displayed his
crystal-clear landscapes of Utah, Wyoming, Japan,
and New Mexico. It has also attracted a loyal client
base. The latest additions are black and white platinum and palladium prints of unprecedented size.
Platinum is unmatched in terms of its permanence
and depth and produces incredible detail and
warm midtones in photography, mimicking pencil or
charcoal drawings. Platinum printing dates back to
the 1870s, but Brookover collaborated with two
labs to invent an expensive and laborious process
to build the negative, develop it, and print it on a
contemporary, enormous scale. Traditional platinum palladium prints are 5x7, but his are 20x25.
The combination of Japanese fine art paper and
the printing process produces prints with an
archival range of 1500-2000 years. Brookover
selected only seven prints for this process and
each has only seven editions, making each one
very rare and coveted by the collectors who travel
across the country to purchase them.
Unfortunately, the collectors and his wealthiest
clients are the only ones who can afford these limited editions, as the Italian custom-framed platinum
prints go for $8000. Still, Brookover sold three in
the two days after Christmas. The first edition of
“64 Years Later” was sold to a Pennsylvania collector straight from the proofs.
Brookover’s color landscapes are his more
affordable option. In order to achieve such detail
on such a large scale, Brookover usually uses a 35
lb., large format Linhof view camera to produce
see ArtBeat page 30
art
GALLERIES
Artspace Gallery/Art
Association
240 S. Glenwood
733-6379
A Horse of a
Different Color
60 E. Broadway
734-9603
A Touch of Class
10 W. Broadway
733-3168
Astoria Fine Art
35 E. Deloney
733-4016
Buffalo Trail Gallery
98 Center Street
734-6904
Brookover Gallery
125 N. Cache Street
732-3988
Caswell Gallery &
Sculpture Garden
145 E. Broadway
734-2660
Cayuse Western
Americana
255 N. Glenwood
739-1940
Center Street Gallery
30 Center Street
733-1115
Ciao Gallery
145 N. Main St., Victor
208-787-4841
Craft Gallery
50 King Street
734-2747
Davies Reid
On the Town Square
“64 Years Later,” by David Brookover.
739-1009
DiTomasso Galleries
172 Center Street
734-9677
Fay Gallery
Teton Village Road
739-1006
Fighting Bear Antiques
375 S. Cache
733-2669
Galleries West Fine Art
70 S. Glenwood
733-4412
260 N. Cache
733-4525
Gros Ventre Gallery
Heriz Rug Co.
120 W. Pearl
733-3388
Haworth Gallery
140 S. Main St., Victor
307-413-6237
Horizon Fine Art
165 N. Center
739-1540
Images of Nature
170 N. Cache
733-9752
Images West
98 E. Little Ave., Driggs
208-354-3545
Jack Dennis
Wyoming Gallery
Town Square
733-7548
Jeff Grainger
Workshop
335 N. Glenwood
734-0029
Legacy Gallery
Town Square
733-2353
Lyndsay McCandless
Contemporary
130 S. Jackson Street
734-0649
Meyer Milagros
Gallery
155 Center Street
733-0905
Mountain Trails Gallery
150 Center Street
734-8150
Muse Gallery
Art of Framing
745 W. Broadway
733-0555
National Museum of
Wildlife Art
3 miles north of Jackson
733-5771
Oswald Gallery
165 N. Center Street
734-8100
Robert Dean
Collection
172 Center Street
733-9290
Rivertime Designs
98 E. Little Ave., Driggs
208-351-2045
Schmidt’s Custom
Framing
890 S. Highway 89
733-2306
Shadow Mountain
Gallery
10 W. Broadway
733-3162
Trailside Galleries
Town Square
733-3186
Trio Fine Art
545 N. Cache
734-4444
West Lives On
74 Glenwood
734-2888
Wilcox Gallery
North of town on Cache
733-6450
Wild by Nature
Photography
95 W. Deloney
733-8877
Wild Exposures
Gallery
Photography
60 E. Broadway
739-1777
Wild Hands
Art for Living
70 S. Glenwood
265 W. Pearl
733-4619
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from ArtBeat page 29
8x10 negatives. Occasionally, he has
to take three different shots, like he
did for “Future Pull,” and then stitch
the three negatives together. The
transparencies are then scanned to
extremely high resolutions (each file is
around 1.8 gigabytes) and printed
using a state-of-the-art laser printer.
Brookover’s artistic process is
methodical. He often waits for days and sometimes years - for the right
shot. The lighting, clouds and weather
have to be perfect.
Brookover discovered photography
after he moved to Japan in 1986 to
pursue a career in acupuncture therapy. He couldn’t transfer his license,
but fell in love with Japan’s culture and
beauty and decided to stay anyway. He
taught himself photography by attending art shows and studying photography books, mostly written in Japanese.
After years of selling stock photography and building a portfolio, he landed
a job with Fuji film as a film consultant,
and then started his own gallery in
Jackson in 2001.
Brookover promises something new
and exciting this fall and we’ll keep
you posted as it develops. In the
meantime, regard his current work at
Brookover Gallery at 125 N Cache.
Call 732-3988.
■
To kick off the Jackson Hole Winter
Carnival, the National Museum of
Wildlife will host their 3rd annual
Winter Quick Draw. Artists have an
hour from 6 to 7 pm complete their artwork. Afterwards, each piece will be
auctioned off to benefit the education
programs of the Museum. Artists Tom
Bradshaw, Julie Chapman, Tammy
Collins,
Fred
Kingwill,
Matt
Montagne,
Dee
Parker,
Bill
Sawczuk, Kathy Turner and Kathy
Wipfler will compete in the Quick
Draw, along with Jackson Hole High
School students Jesse Cole, Nikki
Kaliebe, Lea Kindt , and Gracey
Lewis. The doors open at 5:30 pm
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Elizabeth Kingwill,
Teresa Griswold
Conquer fear by
breaking the ice
She has been coaching for five years,
and she is a focused, attentive, and
One might think balancing on thin motivational teacher. Grabowska told
blades while gliding swiftly on a slip- the beginning students about her first
pery, rock-hard surface would be more day on the ice more than 16 years ago.
harmful than it would be healthful, but She fell and broke her glasses. Though
ice-skating is like a serving of health on she was disappointed and clearly not
the rocks, offering many benefits for having fun, she did not give up. This
story offered needed encouragement at
both body and mind.
It’s a great way to strengthen mus- the juncture when learning to ice skate
cles, get a cardiovascular workout and was harder than the pleasure of it.
She started each of us with a
have fun. Ice-skating increases flexibility, endurance, balance, stamina and sequence tailored to our level. I first
coordination. It also builds confidence learned how to balance and march
around on the ice, followed by swizzling,
and improves body conwhich is putting your feet
trol, mental concentration
together with the heels
and self-esteem.
touching and the toes
Doctors
recommend
angled out like a “V” and
children and adults to
slowly moving both feet
skate in order to enhance
forward, first outward,
muscle development and
then inward. Next, I
sensory integration, to
learned how to fall to
build lung capacity, and
avoid injury, keeping my
as therapy for toe walkers.
head away from the ice
Two well-known figure
and delicately bending
skaters are testaments to
with hands outstretched.
the health benefits of
With eight more classes
skating. Olympic medalahead of me, there is a lot
ists Scott Hamilton and Grand Teton Skating
more to learn and perKristi
Y a m a g u c h i Academy Director Akop
haps a few more fears to
achieved what seemed Manoukian performs a
overcome - like that of
like impossible dreams. Blues Brothers routine
skating backwards. The
Hamilton
mysteriously on the ice.
challenge of it is what
stopped growing when he
was 2, but when he took to the ice as a brings the fulfillment.
The Grand Teton Skating Academy’s
child, his spirit soared past the adversity and he began to grow again. director is Akop Manoukian, a champion
Yamaguchi wore casts to correct her skater who performs professionally and
deformed feet when she was a little girl. co-coached Olympic gold medalist
As an adult, she proved to be a champi- Sarah Hughes. He has over 20 years of
coaching experience and will be teachon skater.
This winter, I wanted to learn some- ing the adult sessions beginning
thing new and have some fun. So I February 10. Most recently, he was cast
enrolled in nine weeks of ice skating as the stunt double for Will Ferrell in the
lessons with the Grand Teton Skating box office hit, Blades of Glory.
The Grand Teton Skating Academy is
Academy. The first session was last
Wednesday, and the hardest part for me a sub-entity of Skate Jackson Hole, a
was overcoming my fear of it. “It is so non-profit entity dedicated to creating,
important in life not to let fear win,” promoting and maintaining a year round
Andria Monoukian, the academy’s ice arena for amateur athletes of all
administrator told me when I called to ages in Teton County, Wyo. and instilling
inquire. She was right. I enjoyed my time a solid foundation for participants in the
on the ice. It was invigorating to over- sport of skating.
The adult classes are held Wednesdays
come my fear and glide confidently on
from 12:00 to 12:45 p.m. through midice skates.
My teacher is Adriana Grabowska, who March at the Snow King Ice Arena. Cost is
last year represented her home country $135 for the nine session series plus a
as one of the top three senior lady figure $20 membership fee and does not include
skaters on the Polish National Team. Her the ice fee or skate rental. All levels are
competitive career includes champi- welcome. Mid-session registrations are
onship medals, and she now performs accepted. Contact Andria Manoukian at
733-0066 or [email protected] to register.
professionally across the globe.
Teresa Griswold is a healthy living activist who is passionate about making
a positve difference in the lives of others.
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EAGLE PROSPECT & NOBLE BASIN
MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR
OIL AND GAS
Monday, January 28
Tuesday, January 29
Jackson
Pinedale
The Forest Service will hold two open house public meetings on a master development plan
proposed by Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) to conduct exploratory
drilling and potential development for oil and gas resources on National Forest System
lands located about seven miles southeast of Bondurant. Forest Service and PXP representatives will be available at the meetings to explain the changes to the proposed project and
answer questions. Open houses will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Monday,
January 28, 2008, in Jackson at the Virginian Lodge located at 750 West
Broadway, and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 in
Pinedale at the Public Library located at 155 S. Tyler Ave.
FESTIVALREVIEW
Sam Petri
The peaks and valleys of the
Alpinist Film Festival
THE 4TH ANNUAL ALPINIST FILM FESTIVAL SUCCEEDED IN CELEBRATING ‘SNOW, SURF AND STONE.’ IT JUST NEEDED FLOW.
The Forest Service is asking for additional public comment by February 7, 2008 on the
potential field development scenario described in the proposed master development plan.
Send written comments to Greg Clark, District Ranger, Big Piney Ranger District; P.O. Box
218; Big Piney, Wyoming 83113. For more information, please contact Greg Clark at the
Forest Service office in Big Piney, at 307-276-3375.
DAVID SWIFT
MEETINGS
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Jackson Hole Olympians get standing O during Thursday's ski night.
by Sam Petri
This year the Alpinist Film Festival
returned to Walk festival Hall in Teton
Village for three primary nights of skiing, surfing and climbing films. It was a
return that was welcomed by all, as The
Village is void of the distractions of
town, allowing attendees the opportunity to get into and focus on the films with
ease.
But wait, wait, wait - before you were
able to watch the films, you first had to
sit through various speeches from film
presenters and MC’s. It’s not that the
speeches made were irrelevant - some
did strike a chord - there were just too
many of them. This meant sitting in one
place for a longer time than expected,
and for outdoor enthusiasts - the people
who attended each night - this proved to
be difficult.
What needs to be retooled is the timing and flow of the event. Pizza was the
only option for nourishment and with the
event starting at 6 p.m. many missed out
and didn’t get to eat. Then after the films
let out there were little, if any, food
options available in Teton Village. Losing
a beer buzz, feeling hungry, and not
wanting to, but having to get up and pee,
distracted many from experiencing the
films in their entirety.
The intention and the idea of the AFF
is fantastic and fitting for the Jackson
community. All in all, the film festival succeeded in celebrating three pursuits that
many Jacksonites participate in and/or
can relate to. After all, this year, just like
the previous years, the festival sold out
and the consensus was that it was a
good time. The two after parties at the
Mangy Moose, with musical by Liquid
Soul, were full of energy and libations.
The standout films that won the people’s choice awards were “Let it Ride:
The Craig Kelly Story,” “Sliding Liberia,”
and “Diamonds are Forever.” However, a
few other films deserve attention:
“Solochairliftquist,” a short shown on
Snow Night, was well received and had
the audience in hysterics. “Joyride,”
another short shown on surf night,
focused on the often scoffed-at sport of
body boarding and the people who participate in it. It was a surprising choice
to kick off the evening with, and again,
provided some much needed humor and
light heartedness. If you missed the film
“Resorting to Madness,” about real
estate development in mountain towns,
shown last Sunday at the Mountain
Town Matinee, do you whatever you can
to get your hands on a copy, as it is a
film that touches on issues that directly
relate to Jackson.
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9 Share, as a favorite story
15 Surf feature
20 Imperiled
21 Loss of the ability to read
22 Now, in Nogales
23 68-Across’s preferred pursuit?
25 It’s under krypton on the periodic
table
26 Wickerwork material
27 68-Across’s music genre?
29 “Where or When” soloist, 1959’60
31 Prom dancer
32 Brandy letters
33 “Monk” network
36 Beautician, at times
37 Univ. helpers
39 Irritating aerosol
43 Gilroy who pursued Dobie Gillis
45 Pointed tool
48 Retirement option for the selfemployed
50 Where Anna taught
51 What 68-Across often pays?
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57 M.’s partner
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59 Store teaser
61 Puritanical Aussie
63 Husband of Ruth
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things as they are, not as they
ought to be”: Bierce
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79 A secretary might take it
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Latin lesson word
Pindaric works
68-Across’s conversation input?
Brush sites
Hustler
68-Across’s favorite attire?
“Chestnuts roasting ...” co-writer
Didn’t act well
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City at the foot of the Wasatch
Mountains
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11 “If I Were a Rich Man” singer
12 Banish
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14 Ascribes, as blame
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16 Promising youngsters
17 Noodle __: old product name
18 Cal’s brother in “East of Eden”
19 Oh’s role in “Grey’s Anatomy”
24 20th, e.g.: Abbr.
28 A.C. Nielsen concern
30 Thesis defenses
33 Commando weapons
34 In the mail
35 A, in communications
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Longtime Mets announcer
Online kids’ mecca
Ancient kingdom near Edom
Down Under soldier
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Intl. commerce group
Review
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Biblical witch’s home
“A __ of Their Own”
Hook or hitch
Gene’s “Brigadoon” partner
Ewing, once
Type sizes
“Judith” composer
Wise lawgiver
Call
Razor-billed bird
Lao-tzu’s philosophy
“That wasn’t exactly how it happened”
Equinox mo.
Trawling, e.g.
“It’s my best effort”
Dallas NBAer
Prov. on James Bay
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“Too much information!”
Take on again
Tiny menace
Get up
Dieter’s breakfast
Vintage violin
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Hopper
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last names
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Fix up
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Dear Gabacho: Let your letter be the
last time any gabacho expresses amazement that Mexicans can enjoy music that
doesn’t feature a tuba, accordion or
funny hats. Yes, America: many Mexicans
love the Doors, and other rock groups
that enjoy substantial Mexican followings
include Morrissey, the Cure, Depeche
Mode, Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Metallica,
Beck, the Beatles…see where this list is
going? Nowhere, man. Good music, like
a good Mexican, doesn’t recognize borders. A more inexplicable musical mystery is why gabachos usually recoil at the
sound of Mexican tunes - and I’m not
even talking about the bandas sinaloenses, conjuntos norteños and mariachis
that’ll remind them too much of
Lawrence Welk. Seriously, gabachos:
where is the love? We sell out arenas in
Mexico for many American acts - why
can’t ustedes bother to iTune some Café
Tacuba or El Gran Silencio? The Mexican
theorizes laziness is behind this soft bigotry, but I’m more than open to other theories. By the way, Güero: if you want a
more serious analysis of why Mexicans
love Morrissey, you’ll have to buy my
book. Don’t have it yet, everyone else?
Buy it already, cabrones! Its Amazon.com
ranking is
sinking
faster than
the prospect
of
amnesty
this year!
Dear Wab: Excuse me as I write this
to Tony:
Dear Antonio Ramiro Romo: Pinche
puto pendejo baboso. You perpetuated some of the worst Mexican male
stereotypes with your Cabo San Lucas
sojourn - siesta taker, gabacha
fetishist, capable of vacationing only in
Mexico - yet could’ve shut up the
haters with one simple fourth-quarter
comeback against the lowly Giants.
Instead, interception. Thanks for
pulling the biggest Mexican choking
act since Over Her Dead Body.
Got a spicy question about Mexicans? Ask the Mexican at [email protected]. Those of you who do submit questions: they will be edited
for clarity, cabrones. And include a hilarious pseudonym, por favor, or we’ll make one up for you!
ADVICEGODDESS
Dawn of the dud
I’m a 31-year-old guy who’s just
about given up on dating. My last
girlfriend was desperately needy.
She’d make me go to the store with
her, and when I went to work, she’d
hang out in my office all day. (She
wanted to sit on my lap and talk to
me while I worked.) It drove me
nuts, so we split a couple months
ago. The girlfriend before her
couldn’t stop going on and on
about the details of her sex life with
her former boyfriend. I can’t seem
to pick a winner. I think it’s due to
one of three things: 1) I’m attracted
to girls with serious issues. 2) All
girls are like that. 3) My standards
are way too high. I’d love to have a
girlfriend who doesn’t have big
issues, and who has friends, hobbies and goals beyond the relationship. Is that the impossibility it
seems to be?
- Flailing Around in the Dating Pool
So, the last girl in your life not only
went to the office with you but sat on
your lap while you worked? Wait, you
were dating a Chihuahua? Let’s just
hope she was woman enough to do her
business in the ladies room instead of
on Wee-Wee Pads under the conference table.
This girlfriend was the replacement
for Lady Overshare, sexual historian:
“We interrupt this relationship to bring
you the nude stylings of Lincoln and
His Log.” And interrupt, and interrupt,
and interrupt. Nothing like a woman
who gets a guy all fired up to dash past
the sexy underwear store to the pet
store to buy her a muzzle.
Dating can be challenging for a man
with standards. The thing about standards is that you can’t just leave them
on the fake fireplace with your frat boy
beer stein collection. You actually
have to take them with you and hold
them up to women you meet. Sure, you
can say you want a girlfriend with
goals, hobbies, and a self, but you
seem to go for any woman who doesn’t have gills. Then, instead of taking
responsibility for what you let into your
life, you reach for ego shelters like
“Maybe I’m just hot for the nutty ones,”
“All girls are like that,” or “I’m just too
good for this world.” In the words of
my late pal Al (therapist Albert Ellis),
“The best years of your life are the
ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame
Amy Alkon
t h e m
on your
mot her,
the ecology, or the president. You realize
that you control your own destiny.”
Mistakes do happen. If you make one,
admit it, don’t take it to the movies
every Saturday night. To catch your
mistakes, pay attention to what a
woman says and does, and what she
seems to want from you. Take the girl
who couldn’t stop clucking about what
a blast she had in the past. You
should’ve asked yourself, “Hey, Self,
doesn’t she seem less interested in me
as a boyfriend than as a big, warm
ear?” You ask questions like this not
only when you first meet somebody, but
as the relationship goes on: Is she up
to your standards? Is she still up to
your standards? And while you’re at it,
are your standards up to your standards, or are they in need of an
upgrade, too? Yes, you actually can
have a goal-oriented girlfriend with a
job, hobbies, and friends - just stop settling for the girl whose goal is never
leaving your side (although she might
make an exception when you have to
use the urinal).
Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail [email protected] or visit her Web site at
www.advicegoddess.com. © 2008 AMY ALKON DIST. BY CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
ROB BREZSNEY’S
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© 2008 Rob Brezney
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year,” said essayist Ralph
Waldo Emerson. That’s my first suggestion for you this
week, Aries. Now, while you’re at the energetic peak of
your astrological cycle, is a good time to cultivate a knack
for identifying the specific gift that each day has to offer
you. You will also resonate well with the cosmic rhythms
if you make use of another Emersonian gem: “Every great
and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the
triumph of some enthusiasm.” Where does your purest
enthusiasm lie? And how will you use it to fuel your ascent
to a series of great and commanding moments?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “In the human heart new
passions are forever being born,” said French writer
Francois de La Rochefoucauld. “The overthrow of one
almost always means the rise of another.” I suppose
that’s true. We all have longings that come and go as we
evolve. But I’d also like to propose an equally valid and
contradictory truth: In every human heart there are a few
passions that last a lifetime. They’re with us from the
moment we’re born, and nothing can dilute their intensity. Our destiny revolves around them. These are the passions I hope you will define with precision and nurture
with alacrity during the next eight weeks.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you have trouble resisting
the urge to stay current with news about famous actresses, you may have a mental illness. A team of psychologists
has certified “Celebrity Worship Syndrome” as an actual
psychiatric condition. Now please listen to me closely: It is
imperative that you stifle this malady during the next 25
days, even if you have a mild case of it. Your fantasy life
needs to soar into unknown frontiers where more of the
details of your own personal talents will be revealed, and
you can’t afford to be weighed down with fantasies about
freewill astrology
rich and charismatic people you don’t know.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Brother Rob: We
wanted you to know that our exceedingly sweet, holy,
and pious dog, Magdalene, told us tonight that she feels
you are a direct descendant of Melchior, one of those
famous Bethlehem astrologers/magi mentioned as
bringing gifts to the baby Jesus way back when! That’s
so cool! Raucous peace to you! -Gabriel and Deana.”
Dear Gabriel and Deana: I’m honored! Give my thanks to
Magdalene. Does she have any messages for my
Cancerian readers? I’ve been having visions that they will
soon be getting gifts from the past and revelations about
their heritage and updates concerning their birthrights.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all tend to project onto other
people the unattractive aspects of ourselves that we
refuse to acknowledge. We’re also drawn to anyone who
expresses the fully activated versions of our own sleeping
potentials. Everywhere we go, then, our vision is clouded
by the disowned psychic material that is floating around
our unconscious minds. That’s the bad news, Leo. The
good news is that in the next eight weeks you will have an
enhanced ability to get access to the liabilities and powers
that are buried beneath the surface of your awareness. As
a result, your ability to see the objective truth about the
world around you should grow dramatically.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The ermine is so fastidious
that he will allow himself to be caught by hunters before he
will take refuge in a muddy spot,” wrote Leonardo da Vinci
in his Bestiary. The legendary behavior of this small mammal has a resemblance to certain Virgos. Let’s hope you’re
not one of them. To avoid getting trapped in the coming
days, you will have to be willing, even eager, to get dirty.
Here’s your motto: The miracle is in the mess.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A friend recently said to me,
“You really try hard to avoid conflict, don’t you?” That
surprised me. In my own perception of myself, I’m pretty
combative, at least in the privacy of my own imagination.
The injustice and suffering I see in the world make me
mad, and I’m constantly plotting to overthrow the ignorant forces that are at the root of that bad stuff. It’s true
that I almost never express naked hostility or engage in
outright combat with anyone. But that’s because I think
that the best way for me to fight the ugliness is to whip
up lavish doses of beauty and truth and love. Sorry to be
talking about myself so much, Libra, but it’s in a good
cause: I urge you to be like me in the coming week.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I don’t usually recommend
that you text-message a cohort who’s sitting a few feet away
from you in a meeting, or use your cell phone to call the cell
phone of the person you’re lying next to in bed. But this would
be a good week to do things like that. It’s an excellent time,
you see, to experiment with how you communicate, to try
alternate methods of conversing, to awaken unfamiliar
responses as you engage with familiar people. You might
want to write a letter in longhand to a comrade you see all the
time, or sit down at a table together and exchange messages
by drawing pictures rather than talking.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my astrological opinion, you should adopt a miscellaneous and
serendipitous receptivity in the coming week; you should
be extra responsive to the primal flux as its odd luck
whisks you through in-between zones and fascinating
grey areas. And yet I also think you should be profoundly
picky about which of the thousand and one stimuli you
allow to grab your full attention. In other words, make your
mind wide open and allow it to wander freely, but give
your favors to only the most piquant twists and tasty bits.
WEEK OF
JANUARY 23
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To advertise its
upgraded features, the search engine Ask3D.com rolled
out a marketing campaign with a seductive catchphrase:
“Instant Getification,” as in immediately acquiring your
desired results. I’m borrowing that mantra, or at least half
of it, for your horoscope. Your getification levels will be way
up in the coming weeks. That doesn’t mean you will instantaneously and automatically obtain everything you crave
without any effort. Rather, it suggests that you will have an
enhanced power to summon the will and ingenuity and
resourcefulness that will help you get what you want.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re entering an
astrological phase when it makes sense to expand and
dramatize your ego. In light of the poetic license that
affords you, I’d like to introduce you to the concept of
enlightened bragging. It will allow you to tout your own
brilliance at the same time that you disarm anyone who
might be tempted to sneer at you for doing so. The playfully self-mocking tone of your enlightened bragging will
give you an opportunity to demonstrate your high opinion
of yourself without feeling guilty or defensive. Here’s all
you need to do to get started: Make yourself a t-shirt or
bumper sticker that reads, “I am a Jenius.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every now and then
when the garbage I generate in a week’s time exceeds
what one trashcan is able to hold, I have to make a special phone call to the office of the refuse and recycling
service to request that they pick up an extra can. If I’m
reading your astrological omens correctly, this is one of
those times for you, at least from a metaphorical perspective: You need to get rid of more than your usual
amount of useless junk and residual wastes — much
more, probably, including a backlog of stuff you may not
have even realized was garbage until now.
Homework: For three days, act as if you have far more resources and help than you ever thought possible. Report results by going to RealAstrology.com and clicking on “Email Rob.”
Here I stand
broken hearted,
came to pee and
nothing started.
LISA FINKELSTEIN
DO, FACOS
BOARD CERTIFIED UROLOGIST
SUBURBAN UROLOGY NETWORK
557 E. BROADWAY • 307-734-1525
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HELP WANTED
Burkes Chop House is now taking applications for the Winter
Season - Host or Hostess. Fax
resumes to 733-8576 or drop
off application at 72 S.
Glenwood.
Delivery Driver Needed: Deliver
Planet Jackson Hole; must
have reliable vehicle, good
driving record, and valid driver’s license. GREAT PAY, plus
mileage. Call Mary 732-0299.
Love theatre and want to help
it be successful, volunteer one
night this season or once a
TETON OUTPATIENT SERVICES
Operating Room. RN/Surgical Tech. Come join our
outstanding team! We are seeking a full time RN with
scrub experience, or Surgical Tech to staff our busy
OR. No weekends! No Holidays! No call! Ideal
applicants will have orthopedic experience, enthusiasm
and strong organizational skills.
We are also looking for per diem nurses for day shift in
Pre-op/PACU areas and night shift Extended Recovery
area. Apply at Teton Outpatient Services, 150 Buffalo
Way / P.O. Box 12530, Jackson, WY 83002 or
call (307) 733-8677. ~ EOE ~
month, we’re very flexible. For
more information call the Off
Square Theatre Company at
(307) 733-3021.
Backcountry Provisions is
looking for reliable, part-time,
full-time, seasonal and yearround employees. Room for
advancement. Pay D.O.E. Call
734-9420 or stop by.
EDITOR FOR WEEKLY: Editor
Wanted for Alternative Weekly
in Jackson Hole: Although that
title doesn’t quite do the position justice, qualified applicants should have: superior
leadership skills and experience leading a newsroom,
deep interest and knowledge
Administrative Assistant
Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center is seeking
a person for a M-F full-time position with benefits.
Duties include insurance billing, State statistical
recordkeeping and other administrative tasks. Prior office
experience with insurance billing and Excel preferred.
Bi-lingual skills helpful. Please send resume to JHCCC Attention: Nancy, P.O. Box 1868, Jackson, WY 83001 or
[email protected]. JHCCC is an equal-opportunity employer.
in community journalism
(experience editing alternative
weekly an HUGE plus), an
alchemist’s ability to turn base
material into precious metal,
the patience and wisdom to
mentor new and aspiring
reporters, and a healthy dose
of creativity and attitude to
nudge this small alternative
news weekly into a new, higher
orbit. Real newspaper experience an absolute must; please,
no “I always wanted to try my
hand at writing” cover letters.
Experience with Jackson Hole
and/or Western Wyoming a big
plus. Video Skype interviews a
possibility. Send cover letter,
resume and writing samples to
Planet Jackson Hole, c/o Mary
Grossman, P.O. Box 3249,
Jackson, WY 83001 or email
samples and resume to [email protected].
monthly
rentals
only;
$2900/month prime season,
less for multi-month rentals;
[email protected]
Approximately 1600 sq ft
OFFICE SPACE conveniently
located on West Broadway
(south). Attractive and light
upper level, with powder
room and separate offices.
Call 307-733-2736 for more
information.
Florida Condo For Rent:
Sarasota, Florida; newly decorated 2 bd, 2 bth unit, year
round lanai, overlooking golf
course; 15 minutes to ocean;
Small office space to rent
needed. In home or commercial space. Minimal use. Call
413-7100.
HOUSE EXCHANGE
Attractive three bedroom
Berkeley house available for
house swap approx. July 1928. We are 20 minutes from
San Francisco, one hour from
Napa wine contry, beautiful
Phone (307) 733-3029 • Fax (307) 733-8313
P.O. Box 4309, 7255 S. Hwy 89, Jackson, WY 83001
Evans Construction is now accepting applications for
Aggregate Dispatcher
Apply in person at Evans Construction Company
8 miles south of Jackson on Hwy 89.
FOR RENT
Black Tie Ski Rentals is
looking for qualified
entrepreneurs to start their
own branch in Jackson Hole
for the 2008-09 season. Please
email [email protected]
or visit www.BlackTieSkis.com
for more information.
WANTED
Evans Construction Company is an Equal Opportunity
Employer committed to a drug free workplace.
M/F/V/D
Fact: Teton Motors is jackson’s ONLY
Full Service Dealership!
www.planetjh.com
“FAMILY OWNED & OPERATED SINCE 1972”
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
IN INVENTORY
AVAILABLE EVERY DAY
SPECIAL INTERNET PRICING
OUR ENTIRE INVENTORY
AVAILABLE ONLINE
w w w. t e t o n m o t o r s . c o m
1020 W. Broadway and 405 Powderhorn Lane
(307) 733-6600 • (800) 537-6609
SALES • SERVICE • PARTS • COLLISION CENTER
California coast. Need
condo or small house in
close
vicinity
of
Yellowstone. Email: [email protected]
AUTOS
2002 Gold Ford Taurus.
148,000 miles. Great
Condition. $6,000. Call
513-292-5918. 1/23/08
SERVICES
Prugh Real Estate LLC
specializes in commercial and residential sales
and
service.
Visit
prughrealestate.com to
search listings, rentals
and MLS. For more information, please call
307.733.9888
service center for your
pet! Self-service pet
wash, full-service grooming, toys and accessories,
Natural Life pet food,
Doggie Day Care, and pet
obedience
classes.
Located in the Kmart
Plaza. (307) 733-7704.
MUSIC & BANDS
Judd Grossman Music is a
full service music agency
providing all styles of
music for all occasions solos, duos, trios, dance
bands, country, rock, folk,
jazz, and classical. Live
musicians and DJs available. (307) 690-4935.
Want It. Seven bands and
artists represented. All
Genres.
Professional.
Experienced. Inquire at
413-2513 or 699-0102.
CROSSWORD CRYPTOQUOTE
& SUDUKO PUZZLE ANSWERS
PERSONALS
THINK YOU’RE PREGNANT? 24-hour confidential hotline 1-800-395HELP. Crisis Pregnancy
Center (307) 733-5162.
LOOKING for someone.
Check here to see if
someone has spotted you
or advertise here if you
spot someone you want to
meet.
PARENTS & FRIENDS OF
EX-GAYS & GAYS
www.pfox.org
DUDe
Rally’s Pet Garage – The
Solution to 1/28/08
ALL OCCASIONS MUSIC:
Live Music, The Way You
WHere’s
my Car?
The Town of Jackson’s overnight
parking ban has gone into effect.
So, if you want to avoid all kinds
of hassles, listen up!
PARKING RESTRICTIONS
From November 1st through April 15th,
between 3am & 7am, it is illegal to park
overnight on Jackson streets, including public parking lots, regardless of weather (rain
or shine, snow or bikini.) Crews begin plowing
at 3am. Parked cars on town streets make the
job of keeping roads clear of snow more difficult.
Consequently, cars left on town streets between
3am & 7am will be ticketed and towed by Jackson
police. If you’re looking for your wheels in the morning, contact the JPD at 733-1430, during normal working hours, or contact dispatch at
733-2331 after 5 pm.
OFTEN IT SEEMS A
PITY THAT NOAH
AND HIS PARTY DIDN’T MISS THE BOAT.
— MARK TWAIN
SHOVELING
REQUIREMENTS
ADDITIONALLY, WE WOULD LIKE TO
REMIND PEOPLE: Town residents
are responsible for
keeping sidewalks shoveled.
• The TOJ assists with
snow removal in the
downtown core and
along Broadway.
• Residents should not
put their garbage cans
out the night before,
but rather after 7am
on garbage days.
• Please keep trash
cans, cars, and other
obstacles out of
streets and off of
curbs. This saves your
property and makes the
streets more clear of
drifts and snow.
• Residents are also
encouraged to help
keep fire
hydrants
clear of snow.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE
FRIENDLY FOLKS AT THE
TOWN OF JACKSON
WORMHOLE
Samurai and sidecut:
Thornhill private eye edition
FLIPSIDE
She walks into my office. “I’m looking
for Thornhill, private eye.”
“I’m Thornhill,” I tell her.
“My name is Linda,” she says. “My
partner was to testify before the grand
jury tomorrow but he’s vanished. I
found this outside my door.” She
unfolds a Patagonia Capilene pullover.
Inside is sushi served with hamachi and
wasabi. “What does it mean?” she asks.
I give it to her straight. “It’s an old
Westbank message. It means your
friend sleeps with the fishes.”
“We’re
investigating
Wilson
Backcountry Sports,” She tells me.
“Andy and his crew are deliberately
adding illegal width and side cut to their
skis to make them more addictive.”
A tear rolls down her cheek. “They’re
devastating the local community. Men
are abandoning their jobs and families
to ski; women are selling their bodies
for the latest lightweight Dynafit bindings. And now my partner…gone.”
“Can’t the feds protect you?” I ask.
“They sent two FBI agents last
week. Andy bought them off with a couple pair of K2 Anti Piste. They’ve been
skiing the Pass ever since.”
“You lay low, kitten,” I say. “I’ll have
a talk with Andy and Kichan.”
She leaves and I hear the squeal
of car tires. I run outside as two
masked goons shove her in the back of
a new Range Rover with a ski rack, a
bike rack, and Need Less bumper
sticker. I grab my 45 and blast the rear
window out of a Subaru to take out a
real-estate salesman. I need to spend
more time at the shooting range. I feel
bad about the window.
A Redneck
Perspective
by Clyde Thornhill
I make it out to Wilson Backcountry
late in the afternoon. “A friend of mine
was kidnapped this morning,” I tell
Andy. “I don’t suppose you know anything about it?”
Kichan, Andy’s enforcer, moves into
position behind me. A skier had once
taken her line on Shivers. She’d used a
samurai sword on him; it was not a pret-
ty sight.
We’re alike, she and I, but somewhere
along the way she sold her soul for deep
powder, steep lines and free heels.
I pull back my coat so she can see
my 45. “I hear you are pretty good kitten. But what you need to ask yourself
is, ‘do I feel lucky today.’”
“No need for that,” Andy says. “You
want to talk to Linda, she’s right next
door in the Bagel Shop.”
Linda sits in the corner with a latté
and sesame-seed bagel. She looks
relaxed and casual.
“What happened?” I ask.
“They drove me to the top of the
pass, strapped a pair of Black
Diamond’s Zealots on my feet and
pushed me down Telemark bowl. Those
skis are soooo sweet! You should have
seen me! I was getting face shots, and
then I caught some air, it was like whoa,
and then I went through some trees;
and then I pointed them down and
ripped, and then I…”
“What about the Grand Jury tomorrow?” I interrupt her.
“Can’t. Going to a friend’s to chill,
then to a protest about the war, or
Africa or tolerance, I’m not sure but it’s
important to be involved. Then we’re
going to the Moose and listen to
Chanman. Tomorrow we’re skiing the
Park. Maybe 25 Short.”
They had gotten to her. Kichan had a
smile on her face. “We’ll meet again kitten,” I tell her as I get up to leave.
Man overdoses on drugs, auras at AFF
A man suffered a butane overdose last Thursday
night during the opening speeches of Alpinist Film
Festival. Local wino Kenneth Rannion said the overdose
was an accident. “The speeches,” said Rannion, from a
hospital bed at St. John’s Medical Center, “they were
so long and I was losing my beer buzz. I had to do
something to stay entertained, so I reached into my
pocket and huffed my butane lighter.”
Rannion said the last time he huffed butane was at
age 16, shortly before his parents grounded him. His
close friend, Stan Detry was the first to respond to
Rannion’s condition. However, by the time Detry
noticed Rannion was in need of help, it was too late.
“I was in awe by the illumination of Raysee’s deep
purple aura, glowing bright with crimson dapples and
subtle hues of jade,” said Detry of the festival speaker.
“I had no idea what Ken was doing until it was too late.”
When Detry did notice his friend was in trouble,
another conflict arose. Detry had just gotten up to pee
and was worried that carrying his overdosed friend
down the aisle to safety would anger the popular, super
local ski bums just a few seats down.
“I had a choice to make,” said Detry. “I could help
my true friend or pander to the cool kids. Even though
I had just crop-dusted the aisle, I decided the health
and safety of my friend was more important than looking cool.”
Detry threw Rannion over his shoulder and told people in the aisle to “bounce out the way” and that he was
“coming through with my homie.” Then Detry spotted
Frank Bitters, their friend who drove them to the festival. “Bitters!” he called. “Throw me the keys, man,
Rannion O’Ded again.” Bitters was too transfixed by
Rasyee’s aura to respond.
Art Hazen
Real Estate LLC
“We are Wyoming”
Locally Owned
SCOREBOARD
TETON VALLEY
WEEK OF 01.13.08 TO 01.19.08
Total # of Sales:
Week’s top sale:
Bluebell Lots LL231/LL232 LL239/LL240 LL242/LL243
Spectacular Grand Teton views from these six lots located just minutes from Jackson Hole Mtn. Resort, Teton
Village, and two fabulous golf courses. Acreage range from 2.6 acres to 3.78. Contact Penny Gaitan
Lot 4
3.257 Acres
Listing Price $ 1,995,800
Listing Number: LL239
Lot 5
3.783 Acres
Listing Price $2,271,690
Lot 6
3.290 Acres
Lot 7
2.691 Acres
Lot 8
3
Acres
Lot 9
2.996 Acres
SF429
Beautiful 7.28 acre parcel just south of Alpine with
great views and lots of possibility. Already divided,
with an existing ridge-top home on one lot, there
are several options for expansion. Another house
and two guest houses are possible. Design and
build as you like!
$919,000 Contact: Mary Pat Walker
Residential
Building Site
Multi-Family
Farm & Ranch
Commercial
4
$420,000
Total #
of Sales
Average
Sold Price
2
2
0
0
0
$414,250
$246,250
$0
$0
$0
Last 12 Months (1.19.07-1.18.08)
Number of Sales
Days on Market
List Price Volume Sold
Median List Price Sold
Average List Price Sold
662
208
$185,377,696
$230,000
$280,026
12 Months - A Year Ago (1.19.06-1.18.07)
LL249
Own a ranchette snuggled under the east mountains.
Close to Star Valley Ranch. Amenities – elevated
value views. Beautiful Location!
$274,900 Contact: Dena Luthi
SF422
Melody Ranch home bordering open space features a
guest apartment, .5 acre landscaped lot, open floor
plan, entertainment center, granite countertops,
stainless steel appliances, knotty alder custom
cabinets, wetbar, 2 story iron mountain ledgestone
fireplace, surround sound, oversized guest bedrooms,
large deck and more! $1,399,000 Contact: Kristin Vito
CC97
B & B Inn with 10 guest rooms provide private baths
and roomy owner’s quarters. Turnkey property
included rustic décor, central vacuum, library, dining
area & many amenities.
$790,000 Contact: Zoe Hughes
Art Hazen
REALTOR OF THE WEEK
Dena Luthi is a 5th generation native of Star Valley.
She’s a wife, mother of 5, former Lincoln County
Fair Board member and Substitute teacher. Her
greatest reward is seeing the pleasure in the faces
of those she helps when they successfully purchase
that perfect property for themselves.
733.4339 or 800.227.3334 Fax 307.739.0766
874
167
$240,643,160
$205,500
$275,335
Current Inventory
Active Listings
Listing Inventory Dollars
Average List Price
Average Days on Market
1,151
$513,725,445
$446,329
204
See outside back cover
for Jackson Hole Scoreboard
Dena Luthi
TC175
This townhouse has Flat Creek frontage, 3 bedrooms,
2.5 baths, bike path and hiking access to National
Forest. Great and convenient location near town and
a two-car garage.
$685,000 Contact: Penny Gaitan
Number of Sales
Days on Market
Lis Price Volume Sold
www.jhrealestate.com
*In the event the week’s Top Sale is
erroneously reported it’s listed price is used.
** Some information above is derived from the
Teton County MLS system and represents
information as submitted by all Teton County
MLS Members for Teton County, Wyoming and
is deemed to be accurate but not guaranteed.
Art Hazen Real Estate LLC advertising and
promotional ads, products, and information
are the sole property of Art Hazen Real Estate
LLC and may NOT be reproduced, copied,
and/or used in whole or part without the
prior expressed written consent of Art Hazen
Real Estate LLC.
[email protected]
Art Hazen
Real Estate LLC
“We are Wyoming”
Locally Owned
SCOREBOARD
JACKSON HOLE
WEEK OF 01.13.08 TO 01.19.08
Total # of Sales:
Week’s top sale:
SF443
Located in an open area, this appealing home has 360
degree views. Inside includes knotty alder cabinets &
granite countertops, large master bedroom, propane
fireplace, and a framed unfinished basement. It’s a great
deal!
SF441
Surrounded by trees, this new construction is located
across the street from Aspen golf course. Home
includes: hardi-plank siding-wainscoat rock, tile,
hardwood, and carpet floors, granite countertops and
stainless steel appliances. Completion of Spring 2008.
SF440
Great Cottonwood Park Location! Great family home!
Located close to schools and bike path. Updated
appliances, River Rock fireplace, hardwood floors in the
kitchen, oversized 2-car garage, partially fenced,
spacious living - dining - kitchen and a mature raspberry
patch and garden in back.
$795,000 Contact: Courtney Campbell
Residential
Building Site
Multi-Family
Farm & Ranch
Commercial
1
$342,000
Total #
of Sales
Average
Sold Price
1
0
0
0
0
$342,500
$0
$0
$0
$0
Last 12 Months (1.19.07-1.18.08)
Open House’s in Victor Sunday, January 27
Don’t miss your opportunity to own this
perfect house in Brookside Hollow.
Large entertaining spaces and an extra
guest room make this a perfect place for
friends and family to visit. There is
plenty of storage space and a three car
garage for your toys.
$410,000
Contact: Zach Smith
LL241
Easy year around access with feeling of seclusion. Near
forest access. Treed lot.
$103,000 Contact: Chuck Johnston
Number of Sales
Days on Market
600
144
$881,368,445
$865,000
$1,468,947
12 Months - Year Ago (1.19.06-1.18.07)
Number of Sales
Days on Market
708
143
$816,721,486
$745,000
$1,153,561
Current Inventory
Active Listings
427
Listing Inventory Dollars $1,478,762,489
Average List Price
$3,463,144
Average Days on Market
195
SF444
Beautiful custom home in coveted
Mountain Shadows subdivision includes
open floorplan, custom cabinets, jetted
tub in master bath, tiled bathrooms and
laundry, walk-in pantry, wood floors,
oversized insulated and heated garage,
extensive landscaping and irrigation, two
decks, cable/high speed internet, and
city services. This immaculate home is
just minutes from Teton Pass, and
walking distance to Victor and hiking
trails.
$367,000
Contact: Sarah Kerr
LL248
A beautifully, treed lot with amazing valley views. Water
hook-up is already on property.
SF439
733.4339 or 800.227.3334 Fax 307.739.0766
www.jhrealestate.com
See inside back cover
for Teton Valley Scoreboard
*In the event the week’s Top Sale is
erroneously reported it’s listed price is used.
** Some information above is derived from the
Teton County MLS system and represents
information as submitted by all Teton County
MLS Members for Teton County, Wyoming and
is deemed to be accurate but not guaranteed.
Art Hazen Real Estate LLC advertising and
promotional ads, products, and information
are the sole property of Art Hazen Real Estate
LLC and may NOT be reproduced, copied,
and/or used in whole or part without the
prior expressed written consent of Art Hazen
Real Estate LLC.
[email protected]

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