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Volume 9, Issue 7
Life is a Cabaret
Madame X Society raises dough for theatre in night of showtunes
By Matthew Irwin, page 10
WyoFile Report: THE DIVINE INTERVENTION OF FOSTER FRIESS page 8
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Main Event cues credits
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News & Opinion
Snow Report: Bitter cold good for snow
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Letters
Public Editor: Vegans, and more strippers
Best of Blog
Main Event cues the credits
Props & Disses
Claims of hospital corruption
Them On Us
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Music Box: Double dose o’ folk
CD Reviews
High Art: Lance Letscher
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Freewill Astrology
L.A. Times Crossword
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LETTERS
Compensation for artist
[JH Weekly received a copy of the following letter to Jackson Hole Airport
director Ray Bishop and the airport’s board of directors. – eds.]
As a resident of Teton County for twenty years, I am pleased with the
expansion of our airport and the decision to display artwork of our area
and wildlife in the terminal.
But when I read in last week’s JH Weekly an article titled “Lost Art of
the Airport” [Jan. 19], I felt appalled at the way the airport board is handling the issue of the loss or theft of Greg McHuron’s submission of artwork for the new terminal. It is negligent and irresponsible that his
original and valuable sketches cannot be returned to him.
The paper quoted Greg as saying that “the finished work would have a
value of over $300,000.” The sketches as well as the scenes and moments of time his plein-air sketches represent were carelessly dealt with
while in the possession of the Board of Directors. Mr. McHuron should
be compensated for his work or the work returned to him. I think our
community should be up in arms. This is not the way the airport Board of
Directors should treat our artists.
– Susan and John Drew
Uphold the law
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Matthew Irwin
OuterLocal a gamble to watch
The coincidence is profound:
climber/editor Christian Beckwith launched a “beta version”
of his New Media platform the
very week that journalists across
the Cowboy State converged at
that pantheon of print, the annual Wyoming Press Association
conference.
The new website is everything
print publications fear. It’s a hyperlocal, reader-generated, partphilanthropic social network for a
niche audience. Even more dangerous: it’s free to readers and attracts corporate sponsorship
dollars. Outerlocal.com went live
for the general public on Tuesday.
“It’s super exciting,” Beckwith
told me, “and nobody knows if
it’s going to work.”
Back in 2008, Beckwith found
himself without a job. The Alpinist – a high-end, Jackson-based
climbing mag he cofounded –
closed and eventually sold.
Though the new owners asked
him back as an editor, he said,
Beckwith saw change a-coming.
He spent the next two years
and an untold amount of money
(less than six figures, he said) developing a website with a programming team in India, which
was more affordable than other
options, he said, but took an aver-
age of two weeks for each change.
His goal was to make a “simple,
elegant” online iteration of his
very first media venture, called
Mountain Yodel. It would feature
reader-generated reviews, advice,
condition reports and more,
pluse a philanthropic component, which he christened “adventropy.” He created a function
by which readers can donate directly to local causes.
The formula is centered on
“risk-based sports” and the likeminded individuals who make up
the community of adventurers, or
as OuterLocal’s tagline reads,
“Sports that can kill you (and the
people who love them).” Jackson
Hole, he said, is “the best town in
America for these type of things.”
Mountain Yodel contributors
worked for free, and Beckwith
says that finding a way to regularly and adequately compensate
OuterLocal contributors for content will be his biggest challenge.
Other than sponsors such as
Outdoor Research, Patagonia and
Black Diamond who pay to attach
their names to content blocks,
OuterLocal doesn’t have advertisers to support a payroll. Instead,
he asks readers to “Buy [contributors] a coffee ($.99)” or “Buy ‘em a
beer ($1.99).”
Nobody gets paid to post on
Facebook – the closet thing to
OuterLocal I can think of – but
Facebook doesn’t generate much
unique content, either. It’s simply
a place to connect.
If Beckwith desires more from
OuterLocal, then he needs an active strategy to pay – adventure
ain’t cheep, after all.
Still, maybe the adventure
community doesn’t want 3,000word features on sponsored
climbers in exotic places anymore; maybe they want to know
where the guy in the bagelshop
climbs and what kind of gear
he’s using. But maybe they don’t
want to do Beckwith’s content
for him; maybe they don’t want
an interactive experience. And
maybe they’re too small a group
to matter. For these reasons, I’ll
be watching OuterLocal.
“Is print media really dead?” I
asked Beckwith.
“Anything time-oriented, news,
yes,” he said. The Internet can
produce news faster and for free.
As for “pretty, coffee table” journals that people can cherish, such
as … oh, I don’t know … The
Alpinist, Beckwith believes an audience will remain for quite some
time. “The web is useful,” he said,
“but hard to make beautiful.”
[This letter has been edited for length. On Monday, a U.S. District judge in
Florida declared the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. – eds.]
I’m writing to draw the community’s attention to the Health Care Choice
and Protection Act (HB35), which is currently pending before the Wyoming
Legislature. This bill would make it a crime to implement the affordable care
act in Wyoming. It has recently passed the first reading in the House with 35
members voting in favor, including our Representative, Keith Gingery.
This bill is clearly unconstitutional, without any question. It violates Article VI, Clause 2 of the Constitution. HB 35 is a nullification action, when
States take action to nullify Federal law, such as the actions Southern States
took when they opposed school desegregation. A State cannot choose
which laws to follow and which to disregard.
I’m particular sensitive to this because I work in Kyrgyzstan, where the rule
of law is weak and the government is struggling to establish a democracy. I
know how precious our rule of law legacy is here in the U.S., how extremely
difficult it is to achieve around the world and how important it is to protect it
every time. It frightens me when our elected officials feel above the law.
– Candra Day, Jackson
Too special to drill
[This letter has been edited for length. – eds.]
As many of you have heard, Plains Exploration & Production Company has
proposed a 136-well drilling project in the Greater Yellowstone Area’s Upper
Hoback Basin, just south of Bondurant. We can’t stand by and let this happen.
As Forest Supervisor for more than a decade, I heard over and over the
resounding public sentiment that new oil and gas development on the
Bridger-Teton is not acceptable. This is not because people are opposed to
oil and gas development but that other natural resource values are more important. Many of the most vocal supporters of the Wyoming Range Legacy
Act were labor union members from Rock Springs and Green River who
have hunted and fished and camped for generations in the southern part of
the forest. Even oil and gas field workers spoke up for the Legacy Act.
As we’ve learned repeatedly from other oil and gas projects in Wyoming,
even with the best technology and most innovative practices, there is no way
to avoid changing the character of the landscape. I do not believe the impacts
from gas development, especially the full-field development PXP is proposing, can ever be mitigated well enough to maintain the extraordinary wildlife,
scenic and recreational values that we currently have on the Bridger-Teton.
Drilling in the Hoback is simply not compatible with the wild, backcountry
niche of the Bridger-Teton. Because PXP has valid leases—leases that were
issued in the early to mid-1990s—the best way to protect the Hoback is to
convince the company to agree to donate or sell these leases. I am advocating that if the company does not donate the leases outright, that interested
organizations and individuals pool their money to buy the leases from PXP.
My experience with representatives of PXP is that they have been good to
deal with and I am hopeful they will be open to a fair price.
– Kniffy Hamilton, former Forest Supervisor
of the Bridger-Teton National Forest, 1999-2010.
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Bitter cold good for snow
Last week’s warm temperatures and high winds caused more than 24 inches of snow to settle. During
the storm cycle, Rendezvous Bowl temporarily achieved a 100-inch base but it is now in the upper 80s.
Strong winds packed snow onto steep slopes creating the smooth surface of Mother Nature’s groomer.
North facing slopes exposed to wind hold firm, chalky, carvable snow and in protected areas, like in
the trees, the snow is light, loose powder. Unfortunately, last weekend’s warm temperatures and sun
changed the texture of south facing slopes. While the temperatures were warm, the sun-softened snow
skied great, but now, as temperatures drop, the soft snow has turned to a hard, grabby crust. Below these
surfaces, the snowpack is mostly stable, although before the last storm cycle, a thick rime crust covered
the mountains which was then topped with graupel (large, rounded snow crystals). This potential weak
layer is one-to two-feet deep, but has not been reacting to large cornices dropping naturally.
Arctic temperatures have caused the snowpack to seize-up, locking the snow in place and making it
unlikely anything will move. Even though the hazard is low, proper travel techniques should always be
used when moving through the mountains. For now, let’s just hope Mother Nature hits the refresh button and gives us a clean, sliding surface.
– Lisa Van Sciver
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PUBLIC EDITOR
Vegans, politicos
and more strippers
I love the quote in the News&Guide by Teton planning director Jeff
Daugherty: “If you set up a business having parties … and have an
exotic dancer, we definitely would be interested in that.” I’m interested too. The Wort has hosted male reviews and female mud
wrestling. Many of us have been to a strip bar or a topless Las Vegas
review. While I’m not opposed to a onetime show, I am a hypocrite on
the subject, like someone driving an SUV with a “Support our
Troops” bumper sticker. While I generally agree that pretty girls with
no clothes are a good thing, I like them in other towns, in cities with
dirty streets and smoky all-night bars that have saxophone players
and overweight deep throated singers moaning out jazz and blues. It
is what makes the city different and exciting, and what makes us different and exciting are things no other city on Earth can offer.
As far as girls with no clothes, there’s always Alpine, life drawing
class, and if you don’t mind unshaven underarms, Huckleberry Hot
Springs.
Great guest opinion by R.T. Cox in JH Weekly. Wyoming has high
unemployment, a huge meth problem, energy development and environmental concerns, education issues to deal with and our illustrious politicians are worried about concealed carry and the “legal
crisis” regarding the status of married gay couples. (How many married couples are there in Wyoming? Seven?)
In reading Jake Nichols’s article on the Wyoming Legislature, I was
struck by the socialistic nature of some of the bills promoted by Republicans. File 41, giving money to filmmakers for doing business in
Wyoming, and a tax exemption for Verizon if it builds a data center in
Laramie to name two. Laramie could use the data center and when
Wyoming-themed movies like Brokeback Mountain and An Unfinished Life are filmed in Canada, it is plain Wyoming needs to aggressively pursue movie money. So, socialism is cool if proposed by
Republicans, but evil, anti-Christian and un-American if proposed by
Democrats? I’ll never understand politics.
I read the vegan letters to the editor in the News&Guide; it’s a bit
of a stretch to say eating meat causes people to kill each other.
Gandhi, Buddha and César Chávez did not eat meat, nor did Hitler,
Pol Pot and most of the Japanese army that pillaged China and the
Pacific in the 1930s. Jesus and Martin Luther King and even the
Dalai Lama are famous nonviolent meat-eaters. A vegan diet has
much to be borrowed from, but how many microorganisms and
worms are killed on each acre planted with vegan food? And how
many vegans turn rigid, intolerant and self-righteous? Like the Tshirt says, “If God wanted man to be vegetarian, he would have
made broccoli more fun to hunt.”
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On “Shooting near JH High School”
■ I am here in The Jackson Hole Community School and we are “studying” in
the library and everyone is ok. The police have locked us down and are not
allowing us to leave the school. Cop cars are circling the schools keeping
everyone away from cottonwood park.
■ Studying in the library would have been a joy. However, I was stuck with
the teacher and the Drama 2 students in the men’s bathroom of the auditorium. Very exhilarating. On the bright side we had a toilet to use! Thankfully
we’re out, happy, confused. Now I’m eating brownies at home.
■ All sound safe. Good to do a lockdown. Schoool’s out and cops will find
their man.
■ WRONG-the parents were not sent an alert!!! “An alert sent to the parents
of TCSD students advises students not to pick up their children from school.
Nobody is being permitted near school buildings. “All students are fine and
studying in the library,” the alert says.”
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WILLIE WISE
Mead naïve about healthcare reform debate
Owners of Main Event trust customers will return DVDs on time despite the store closing.
Main Event cues the credits
After 18 years, Jackson’s only remaining movie rental shop closes.
With zero fanfare and little
public notice, Jackson’s last remaining brick-and-mortar video
rental store closed up shop last
Thursday, leaving locals no
choice but to rent videos from
kiosks and web services.
Main Event rented videos and
sold sundry media and gifts during its 18 years in business at the
Powder Horn Mall.
“We just want to say thank you
to Jackson Hole,” said Jamie and
Thana Saycocie, Main Event’s coowners. They stood forlornly between two tall aisles of DVDs. “We
had two kids grow up here with
this store. We’re going to miss
everybody who comes in here.”
The Saycocies were obviously
devastated by their store’s imminent closure, and they were reticent to talk specifically about
why they’re going out of business. Jamie Saycocies did explain
that when RedBox video rental
kiosks came to town, renting
DVDs for a dollar a day, Main
Event had to drop its prices to remain competitive.
“But a dollar a rental? That
doesn’t cut it with our overhead,”
he said.
Like many other businesses
and individuals, bank loans have
also hampered Main Event. The
Saycocies alluded to difficulties
renegotiating terms of a loan
they took from a “supposedly
community bank.” They were
unwilling to elaborate.
Six employees lost their jobs
with Main Event’s closure.
Going, going, gone
Linda Rizzotti, a Main Event
customer, said she checked out
videos at the store twice a week
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for the past several years. She’s
sad to see the store close. “It’s a
bummer. This has been a nice
asset to our community.”
“I’d hate to see it go. It’s a service to the community,” said
Nancy Ninnemann as she slid a
pair of DVDs into the mouth of
the cherry-red drop box. She said
she’d heard there was an effort to
keep the store open.
Customers say Main Event
held a sale on all unopened
DVDs in the store the weekend of
Jan. 22. C.J. Bust heard about the
store’s closure through the
grapevine, but she missed the
sale. “It took me an hour to find
something I sorta wanted. I
ended up with three cookbooks,
and I don’t cook,” she said with
good-humored exasperation.
Last Thursday afternoon, the
only items on sale were leftover
Halloween costumes and related
holiday items in a fenced-in corner of the store. Asked why they
weren’t holding a blowout sale to
liquidate their inventory, the Saycocies would say only that “the
bank” was taking everything.
By Monday afternoon, the
storefront windows were obscured with butcher paper and
DVDs piled up below the dropbox. A message on printer paper
was tacked onto the store’s
doors advertizing a sale in the
coming week.
Mishmash mall
The Saycocies opened Main
Event 18 years ago in the building now occupied by Jackson
Whole Grocer. After five years,
the store moved to its current
space on the south side of the
mall. The Saycocies were proud
of the their extensive and impressive video collection they’d
assembled over the years. It
ranged from film classics to children’s movies, documentaries,
TV series and, behind a pair of
black saloon doors, a small adult
video selection including a porn
adaptation of the first act of
Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Other department stores in the
area might boast a more utilitarian array of items, but none was
more eclectic than Main Event.
The rows of DVDs stood among a
mishmash of items and gifts:
costumes, books, jigsaw puzzles,
books on CD, children’s toys,
stuffed animals, CDs, greeting
cards, board games. It was a mall
within a mall, a kind of familyowned-and–operated, catch-all
gift shop that, with the rise of big
box stores, RedBox and Netflix,
has gone the way of its corporate
nemesis, Blockbuster Video.
Several hours before the store
closed on Thursday, a dozen or
more customers dropped off
video rentals and a few people,
including Sandy Brown, even
checked out movies. Jamie Saycocie said she trusted people to
return their videos on time.
Brown said she’d bring her DVDs
back by Sunday.
Meanwhile, a handful of customers milled through the aisles.
A woman picked out a Valentine’s
Day card from a rack on the customer service counter. A middleaged man leafed through a
selection of posters. And a potbellied man in a flannel-paneled
long-sleeved shirt perused the
wall of DVDs. He checked out a
couple movies at the customer
service counter, ignoring a pile of
spiky, spongy goo balls in a box,
the John Deere replica tractors
and the 2011 kitten calendar he
passed on his way out the door.
By now, it’s old news that a Republican appointed
judge in Florida ruled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional on Monday. He’s the second Republican judge to hand down such a ruling. I know
this diss won’t go over well with the overwhelming majority of
Wyomingites convinced by clever rhetoric and fear mongering to
advocate against their better interests, but Gov. Matt Mead’s continued denunciation and vilification of the PPACA does not serve the
needs of his constituents. His support for U.S. District Judge
Thomas Vinson’s ruling is particularly galling. Vinson’s ruling against
the act went beyond the previous anti-PPACA ruling of a federal
judge in Virginia, vitiating the law entirely and with it popular provisions already benefiting Americans, including stuff like Medicaid discounts for seniors with high prescription drug costs, a prohibition
denying insurers the ability to drop policy holders when they get
sick, a provision that expands Medicare coverage to small, rural hospitals and facilities (of which there are plenty and sundry in
Wyoming), and a change that lets dependents stay on their parent’s
insurance plans until they turn 26. You set the odds, and I’ll wager
somebody you know and love is benefiting from “ObamaCare.”
Mead said in a statement on Monday – one echoed by Sen. John
Barrasso the same day – that states can do a better job of reforming
healthcare. He also supports the naïve declaration that the fight
over PPACA is a non-partisan issue. Perhaps he has overlooked the
previous rulings by two Democratic appointed judges upholding
PPACA and those by Republican appointed ones striking it down. “I
think you ought to be concerned because this is such a big change in
the way our country would operate,” Mead states in his press release. But wait, aren’t the Republicans and their tea-bagger buddies
the ones calling so vociferously and aggressively for wholesale
changes to how our country operates? Oh yeah, they are. But only
for wealthier, old, white men (check out the statistics on who selfidentifies as tea partiers – tinyurl.com/y3htwdw), not for Joe and
Jane Average-Wyomingite.
Wyo. reps condone discrimination
Wyoming House representatives voted on Monday
to condone discrimination in the work place and in applicable Wyoming state statutes. Rep. House Bill 142,
sponsored by Cathy Connelly (D-Laramie), would have prohibited
discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and
amended more than a dozen state statutes to ensure genuine equality for LGBT individuals. It was voted down 25-33. Local Reps. Keith
Gingery, Ruth Ann Petroff and Jim Roscoe deserve props for their
support of Connelly’s anti-discrimination bill. The bill would have
added language to a statute giving a gay person the same right to
enjoy the services of public agencies and the enjoyment of public
places. Currently, gay residents or tourists have no right to have
their photo taken beneath the Town Square elk arches. Connelly’s
bill would also have entitled LGBT individuals to the same “right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness or the necessities of life enjoyed by people of all race, color, sex, creed or national origin.”
Sounds like a pretty reasonable and humane assurance to give any
American, especially in the “Equality State.” Oh, and one more: The
bill would have expressly allowed children of any sexual orientation
or gender identity the right to attend public schools. As it stands, if
you’re an LGBT student at a public school in Wyoming, you have no
right to that education and could be stripped of it by a vindictive homophobe. Or maybe by any one of the 33 Wyoming state representatives who voted to kill Connelly’s bill. Here’s a thought: Maybe
Wyoming should just scrap the whole “Equality State” BS and officially adopt its unofficial nickname, “The Cowboy State,” to avoid
any further confusion.
Believe it! Wolves killing less livestock
Wyoming’s wolf population continued to grow in
2010, but contrary to popular and uninformed opinion
across the state, wolf depredations on livestock were
actually down last year. An unofficial, advance review of a
report on gray wolf management by the U.S. Fish and Wild Life
Service shows that while the state’s wolf population increased 9
percent last year from 2009 numbers, the animals were responsible
for only 64 predations on livestock and pets in 2010. That’s the lowest number since 2003, and a substantial decrease from the 222
livestock depredations across the state in 2009. Forty wolves were
“controlled” – a whitewash term for “eliminated” – last year.
Wolves were not responsible for a single cow or sheep death in
Teton County last year.
Widower claims wrongful death
“… I honestly think of your advertisement each
Idaho man alleges medical error, racketeering in wife’s death.
It is difficult because I am reminded of the
The widower of a Driggs woman who died while
hospitalized at Teton Valley Hospital in Driggs,
Idaho, has filed suit against the hospital and numerous other parties, including St. John’s Medical
Center, Dr. A. Franci Tryka of Western Wyoming
Pathology, the pathology group itself and a doctor
formerly employed by the group.
In a document submitted as evidence in the
suit, John Bach claims his deceased wife, Cindy
Lee Bach, was the victim of “multiple medical errors and acts of medical omissions” as well as
criminal indifference while under the care of
nurses and doctors in Teton County, Idaho.
In addition, the suit, Bach v. Idaho State Board
of Medicine et al., seeks to try the defendants
under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act. It alleges the defendants constitute a racketeer influenced and corrupt
organization, or R.I.C.O. enterprise, and that they
embezzled money, obstructed justice and manufactured and destroyed false, deceitful and inaccurate hospital records. Such acts, the suit says,
“Created a corrupt hospital which resulted in the
abandonment, wrongful death and homicide of
Cindy Lee Bach.”
According to the suit, Cindy Bach’s body was
transported to Jackson to be autopsied by Dr.
Alice Neuman, who at the time was employed by
Western Wyoming Pathology. In the suit, Neuman
is accused of failing to “take any photographs or
video recordings of the autopsy.” It alleges she
“failed to properly preserve” Cindy Bach’s “lungs
and other organs,” and that she “breached her
duty to Cindy Bach and John Bach with her involvement in the intentional production of a false
and misleading Certificate of Death.”
Neuman is named in the suit as a “hospital
agent and employee” of St. John’s and Western
Wyoming Pathology. A representative of Western
Wyoming Pathology said Neuman is no longer
employed by the group. Tryka owns the pathology
group.
Bach’s suit holds responsible St. John’s, Western
Wyoming Pathology and Tryka “for the tortuous,
deliberate indifferent actions of Dr. Neuman as
well as the policies, practices, procedures and lack
of supervision, which contributed to the damage
done to Cindy and John Bach.”
According to Bach, the suit, filed in federal district court in Idaho, seeks “in excess of $35 million” in damages.
Western Wyoming Pathology declined to comment on the suit and St. John’s refused requests
for additional information or comment.
day before I open the Jackson Hole paper.
abortion I had over 40 years ago.
I think your readers should know that
abortion is not a one day event.
Once you have an abortion it is with you
almost every day for the rest of your life.
The guilt, the remorse, the loss never leaves …
Please keep up your wonderful attempts
to protect the innocent.”
– Anonymous letter to Right to Life of Teton County
Right to Life of Teton County
P.O. Box 8313, Jackson, WY 83002
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ThemOnUs
By Jake Nichols
Latin music sensation Ricky Martin was
one of the only names we didn’t hear
dropped over the holidays when it seemed
the ‘celebrity ski extravaganza’ was in full
effect in Jackson Hole. Reading the Leila
Cobo interview of the gay father of twin
boys in Billboard, we learned Martin hit
the slopes here not long ago.
“You look relaxed,” Cobo exlaimed,
opening the interview.
“I just got back from Jackson Hole in
Wyoming,” Martin said. “We were skiing.
Unfortunately, the kids can’t ski yet.”
Cobo delved deeper than fave ski resorts, asking the question that was on the
mind of many fans regarding Martin’s
webshot that he was indeed gay. Martin’s
response was candid.
Cobo: “When you sent that now famous
message over the Internet, did your finger
hover over the keyboard as you thought,
‘Am I making a huge mistake?’”
PR
‘Bear bait’ fugitive wanted grizzly end
What is it about Yellowstone National
Park that makes it so attractive to fugitives? Nationwide manhunts always seem
to end up in our nation’s first national
park. Maybe it’s the solitude the park’s 2.2
million acres offers or the lack of decent
plumbing that reminds them of ‘the joint.’
But so far, we have never seen anyone
on the lam beeline for Yellowstone for the
bears … until Tracy Province. Province
was one-third of the gang that busted out
of the private prison in Arizona last summer.
After his
capture,
Province told
Arizona authorities his
plan was to
go to Yellowstone, go up
on a mountain, shoot
up a gram of Tracy Province
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heroin and “be bear food.” He ended up
not going through with it, visiting relatives
in Indiana instead, and was eventually
caught August 9 in what Associated Press
reporter Felicia Fonseca called “the sleepy
town of Meeteetse, Wyo.”
Our favorite part of the story was the
dogged follow-up from Fonseca, who actually made the effort to find YNP
spokesperson Al Nash to see if a bear really would eat a felon.
Nash told her it was certainly possible
that Province’s plan would have worked,
but it struck him as improbable. “We have
a fair number of bears in the ecosystem,”
Nash said. “They eat about anything. A
bear would rather get an easy meal than a
difficult meal, but human-bear encounters are very infrequent.”
Akron man carries badge in GTNP
Grand Teton National Park’s top cop is
Michael Nash, and he is the pride of
Akron, Ohio. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
featured the hometown-boy-turnedranger Monday. Nash has been steadily
moving his way up the National Park system since 1992, enjoying stops at Cuyahoga Valley (Ohio), Acadia (Maine), Great
Smoky Mountains and Grand Canyon national parks, until he hit the jackpot at
GTNP. Nash oversees 21 full-time law enforcement rangers at his current gig in
Moose.
The 41-year-old credits his dad, Tom,
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
Ricky Martin
Martin: “I spent many months figuring
out the best way to do it. I thought it could
be a song, or an interview, or in the book.
But I couldn’t wait eight more months. I
needed to do this, now. I spent [an] entire
weekend drafting that letter. And when I
sent it, I felt such a relief, such peace and
joy. I thought, ‘My God, had I known, I
would have done this 10 years ago.’”
NAZ STOBE KIRST
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Livin’ la Vida Loca... in Jackson Hole
Michael Nash
with turning him on to the great outdoors
when he was a kid.
Press release roundup
Two press releases hit our desks this
week that we think should be making
news splashes sometime soon.
Subaru of America announced its partnership with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, through which Subaru will host three
events in 2011 including the Subaru
Freeskiing World Tour Qualifier and two
Subaru Master the Mountain events. The
relationship has been ongoing but it’s
good to know the car that gets you to the
mountain is still behind the Mountain.
And toss out the shredder, copier and
file cabinet at the Grand Teton Lodge
Company. GTLC announced they are
going paperless in 2011 with the help of
Intelex, a global pioneer in environment
management solutions.
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The Divine Intervention
of Foster Friess
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By Ben Gose
Jackson-based philanthropist Foster Friess has recently made most of his charitable donations through the National Christian Foundation.
Foster Friess and his wife, Lynn, celebrated their 70th birthdays last July with four days of dinners, receptions and
activities for 200 friends. All expenses were covered by the Friesses, and the weekend culminated with a dinner
party at the Four Seasons Hotel in Teton Village, where the men
dressed up in tuxedo jackets, bolo ties and cowboy boots.
Any bash organized by Friess, one of Wyoming’s richest residents
and most idiosyncratic philanthropists, has to feature a surprise, and
this was one was a doozy.
In the invitations to the party, Friess, a born-again Christian, had
asked the guests to identify their favorite charity that reflected the values of his favorite quote from Galatians: “Carry each other’s burdens,
and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
He vowed to give $70,000 to the most worthy nominee.
As the Four Seasons wait staff distributed envelopes on silver platters, Friess asked the lucky winner to stand up and shout, and for the
other guests to remain seated. Then he sat back and waited for the
mayhem.
Within seconds of ripping into the envelopes, people exploded up
from every table, shouting “I won! I won!” The Friesses had surprised
their guests by writing $70,000 checks to every one of the nominated
charities — a show of generosity that cost the hosts $7.7 million. (In
most cases, each couple at the party designated a single charity.)
“It was chaotic, and so emotional,” said Joan Clark, a nurse from
Maryland who is related to the Friesses by marriage. “In typical Foster
form, he dragged it out as long as he could.”
Jackson nonprofit organizations were among the biggest winners
on the night. Eight local charities took home a total of $630,000.
The giveaway may have stunned the attendees — and the many
nonprofit groups that received gifts from a total stranger. But it had all
Foster Friess and wife, Lynn, have four
the hallmarks of Friess, who is known for his creative approaches to
grown children and own homes in Jackphilanthropy, and for leveraging his grant-making by involving others.
son, Cody and Arizona.
Water Missions International, a Christian charity based in South
Carolina that helps provide safe drinking water in developing countries, took home more than $200,000 from the dinner.
“Someone turned to me and said, ‘The Lord really knew what he was doing when he gave Foster and Lynn all the
money, because they really love to give it away,’” said Molly F. Greene III, a co-founder of Water Missions.
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It was one of those Jackson Hole parties that you sometimes hear
about, the kind that make Wyomingites who live outside the valley
groan at the excess — or green with envy.
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Rich beyond his dreams
In addition to their home in Jackson, the Friesses
own a 300-acre ranch on the South Fork of the
Shoshone River, near Cody, and a home in Scottsdale,
Ariz. Friess grew up in Rice Lake, Wis., a town that he
says is, in many ways, similar to Cody. He was among
the first generation in his family to go to college. His
father sold cattle and horses for a living, and his
mother had dropped out of school in eighth grade to
pick cotton and help save the family farm in Texas.
Friess excelled at the University of Wisconsin,
where he met Lynn. After cutting his teeth in the investment business, he founded Friess Associates at
age 34. His flagship Brandywine Fund outperformed
market averages during the bull market of the 1980s
and 1990s, and assets in the business swelled to a
peak of $15.7 billion. As Friess puts it, in a Yogi Berralike quip that captures the remarkable growth: “The
firm grew beyond any expectations we could have
ever imagined.”
He moved his family and the company’s headquarters to Jackson in 1992. Friess Associates occupies a
prominent building just down the street from the
Snow King Resort.
Friess says he was attracted to Jackson, in part, because the wealthy people he met there seemed downto-earth and weren’t full of themselves.
“That always strikes us whenever we go to Nora’s
and see multi-millionaires seated next to guys that
run the ski lifts or hang drywall,” Friess said.
The couple quickly embraced the Western spirit.
On his website, Friess is in a yellow rain slicker,
astride a horse, in the Wind River Mountains. Last
year, Lynn published her second children’s book,
“Western Lullaby,” a story about a little cowgirl at
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Foster Friess joins children from Haiti during a trip to the country following its 2010 earthquake.
bedtime.
Two of the couple’s four grown children also live in
Jackson. Steve Friess helps oversee giving by the Lynn
and Foster Friess Family Foundation, and works with
Washington think tanks to advance policies of limited
government. Carrie recently finished a stint as chair
of the board of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.
When Foster Friess is not traveling in his private jet
— an avid hunter, he’s recently gone after grizzlies in
Alaska and cape buffalo in Tanzania — he likes to
cross-country ski or hike up the butte behind his
Jackson-area home with his dog, Ella. In Cody, Friess
hones his shooting skills at the trap range on his
ranch and enjoys floating down the South Fork on a
catamaran-like raft.
He says his appreciation for the state is part of the
reason he gave $1 million to the University of
Wyoming in 2004.
“This is now our new home. We need to make an
investment in the institutions of Wyoming, and the
university is a logical place to do that,” he said.
A pretty tax haven
A year ago, he made a $3 million for-profit investment in the Daily Caller to help get that news site, led
by political pundit Tucker Carlson, off the ground. In
typical Friess fashion, he offered the funding to Carlson and partner Neil Patel, who owns a home in Jackson, during a meeting over lunch before the aspiring
media moguls had even finished their salads.
Carlson and Patel (who was an aide to former Vice
President Dick Cheney) are “two great human beings
who love America and have an entrepreneurial
spirit,” Friess said.
One of Friess’s primary grant-making areas is supporting Muslim organizations that champion a pluralistic, violence-free version of Islam. Friess and
Lynn made a significant grant in 2007 to the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, which combats
radical Islam and advocates for a greater separation
of mosque and state. The Phoenix-based charity,
which had been getting by on a budget of just $15,000
per year prior to the Friess’s gift, now has a staff of
four, according to its president, M. Zuhdi Jasser.
The LibforAll Foundation, co-founded by a former
president of Indonesia and C. Holland Taylor, an
American entrepreneur, has received $375,000 from
the Friesses since 2008. The group uses a variety of
strategies to combat religious extremism in Southeast
Asia and the Middle East, including working with a
pop singer in Indonesia on a hit song that discredits
radicalism.
“Foster is a Christian who is engaged with Christi-
But Friess is also candid about his primary reason
for moving to Jackson Hole: it was the prettiest U.Sbased tax haven he could find.
“We decided to move to Jackson to avoid the increasingly onerous taxes we were paying in Pennsylvania and Delaware,” he said.
For most people, taxes are a drag because they reduce income. But Friess, a generous supporter of Republican political candidates, had another
motivation: He detests government involvement in
just about everything.
“If you look at the solutions that government
comes up with, they’re almost always an unmitigated
disaster,” Friess said at a recent speech to a Rotary
Club in Minnesota.
In 1997, Friess offered the Grand Teton Musical
Festival $40,000 if it would decline nearly $11,000 in
government support. The ensuing controversy
— could the symphony be bought by an opponent to
the National Endowment for the Arts? — was featured
in The New York Times. The symphony ultimately
took his money.
Friess gives to conservative think tanks like the
American Enterprise Institute, and to education
groups that advocate for school voucher programs,
including the Alliance for School Choice. In the near
future, Friess expects to make grants to advocate for
the FairTax — which would replace the current fedFoster Friess invested $3 million last year
in the Daily Caller web site.
eral system of taxation with a tax on retail sales.
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Friess moved his investment business to Jackson
nearly two decades ago, and in 2001 sold a majority
stake in the company for $251 million. He owes his
fortune to astute stock-picking while leading the
Brandywine Mutual Funds, and he retains a keen
sense for knowing when to put money to work.
When disaster strikes, he is often among the first
philanthropists to respond. He and Lynn gave a total
of $5 million to relief efforts immediately after the
Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti
earthquake. In February 2010, just a month after the
catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti, he flew to the
country so that he could report to donors who had
contributed to his $2 million matching fund about
how the money was being used.
Friess became a born-again Christian in 1978, at a
time when he was bored with his six-figure income
and his marriage was in trouble. He now calls God
“the chairman of the board of my life.”
“I believe that we are merely stewards, not owners,
of what God has given to us,” Friess said via email. “I
tell friends who accuse me of being generous that it’s
the Lord’s money, and if it were mine, they wouldn’t
be getting a dead red cent.”
In 2004, Friess used a version of that line in announcing a $1 million gift to the University of
Wyoming at a Jackson-area reception. Pete Jorgensen,
a recently retired state representative (D-Jackson), attended the reception and remembered thinking the
comment was strange.
“As long as you know that the gifts are conditioned
by the Lord, if nothing else, he is a generous person,”
Jorgensen said of Friess.
It’s not surprising that Friess can raise some hackles. He’s very rich, very conservative and very Christian — and he very much likes to share his views. On
his blog, he has criticized healthcare reform, blasted
the liberal bias of the media and questioned the science behind global warming.
Yet friends say he tempers what could be perceived
as preachiness with a vibrant personality and a sense
of humor. In recent speeches to Rotary clubs around
the country, he uses this line after the customary
fawning introduction:
“Everybody realizes I’m intelligent, handsome, rich
and successful,” he deadpans. “What really annoys
me is nobody ever brings up my humility.”
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Responding to disasters
anity in his heart, and not just in his head,” said
Taylor, who has twice gone pheasant hunting
with Friess in South Dakota. “There’s a spiritual
power behind what he does.”
Giving locally
The Jackson area has also been a big beneficiary of the Friess’s giving. After Friess sold
control of his business in 2001, he and Lynn
set up a donor-advised fund worth $26 million
at the Community Foundation of Jackson
Hole. A donor-advised fund allows someone
to take a tax deduction in the year of the gift,
and then pay out grants from the fund over
multiple years.
For several years, the Friesses were major
donors to Old Bill’s Fun Run, the signature Jackson Hole fundraising event that annually raises
millions of dollars for local charities.
“Foster was an early enthusiast of this idea,”
said Katharine Conover, the Community Foundation’s president. “He had the vision, the foresight, and the heart to see how important this
could be for the community.”
Although the couple no longer supports the
event, Conover said she still calls Friess when
she learns of a project that she thinks would
pique his interest. In 2008, a local scoutmaster
was diagnosed with incurable cancer and
asked the community foundation for help in
carrying out his dream of buying a snowcat.
The scout leader wanted to take kids who
couldn’t ski well high into the mountains so
they could enjoy the experience of backcountry
winter camping. Conover called Friess, who
helped purchase the snowcat.
“Foster likes micro-impacts with macro consequences,” Conover said. “A whole group of
boys now appreciate the wilderness in ways
that they wouldn’t have without his gift.”
Friess put Nancy Schneider, his friend and
neighbor, in charge of a program that provides
a four- or five-day, all-expenses-paid vacation,
usually to a West Coast city, to any married
residents of Jackson with disabled children.
The idea is that parents of disabled children
need an occasional break just to focus on their
own relationship.
Friess’s son, Michael, is deaf.
“Foster knows their stress,” Schneider said.
“He wants to give them a chance to stay out late,
sleep in and remember why they got married.”
Schneider said Friess isn’t just a pocket-book
philanthropist. Last winter, he walked into the
Good Samaritan Mission, a shelter in Jackson,
and met Jason, a resident of the mission. He
took Jason to lunch at a country club, to stores
at the base of Jackson’s ski resort to buy warm
clothes, and to the National Museum of Wildlife
Art to see paintings and sculpture. On the way
back to the shelter, they drove past Friess’s
church, the Presbyterian Church of Jackson
Hole.“There are a lot of good people here,”
Friess told the homeless man. “You might want
to see if this is a place you’d like to be.”
Lynn Friess is a champion of the National
Museum of Wildlife Art, on the outskirts of Jackson. She ended a term on the board in September and helped start a $4.5 million campaign in
2004 to eliminate the museum’s debt.
“I called Lynn the ‘energy chairman’ when
she was the chair of the board,” said Jim McNutt, the museum’s president. “She really puts
herself into projects.”
Foster Friess says he and Lynn aren’t as active
philanthropically in the Cody area, since they
tend to cocoon at the ranch, 32 miles from
town. “Our interaction with the Cody social
scene is somewhat limited,” he said.
Future giving
The future of the Friess’s giving in Wyoming
is unclear. The fund at the Community Founda-
tion of Jackson Hole has essentially been exhausted, and Friess says he has no plans to
make another large gift. Lately, he’s been routing his giving through the Atlanta-based National Christian Foundation, one of the nation’s
largest providers of donor-advised funds.
Tax returns show that from 2007 to 2009,
more than 99 percent of the $20.1 million in
grant dollars awarded by the Friess Family
Foundation went to the National Christian
Foundation.
Friess says the National Christian Foundation provides valuable research on charities,
and handles bookkeeping functions that
would otherwise require a larger staff at the
family foundation.
“In the case of our death, we feel very confident that the Christian values that Lynn and I
feel are so important to our nation will be honored,” Friess said.
But it’s a structure that concerns some philanthropy watchdogs, including Aaron Dorfman, executive director of the National
Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. He
notes that it’s impossible to know exactly what
Friess is supporting through the National Christian Foundation, since the foundation reports
its grants without linking them to specific
donor-advised funds, including the fund established by Foster and Lynn Friess.
Dorfman also says the grant-making process
at the Friess Foundation, which listed assets of
$113 million in 2009, could theoretically be a
way around federal rules that require private
foundations to pay out more than 5 percent of
their assets each year. The funds from the Friess
Foundation could be transferred to the donoradvised fund at the National Christian Foundation and simply sit there.
“It’s certainly possible that they aren’t actually getting the money into groups doing good
work in communities,” Dorfman said.
Both Friess and David Wills, president of the
National Christian Foundation, say the
Friess’s fund at the National Christian Foundation is being spent down aggressively. Friess
hasn’t calculated exactly how grants distributed from the fund at the National Christian
Foundation correspond to the valuation of the
Friess Foundation.
“My guess is it’s probably well over the 5 percent number,” he said.
He seems baffled by all the fuss.
“Who really cares what we give money to in
the first place?” he said. “Why is that of any interest to anyone?”
It’s a curious question for him to ask, since
friends say Friess himself is eternally curious
about what others are doing to improve their
own communities. Friess tends to set the tone
at dinner parties he hosts, quashing small talk
in favor of a table-wide conversation about
meatier issues.
“You’ll be at a dinner party,” Schneider said,
“and he’ll say, ‘Let’s go around the room and
talk about what we’re doing to make the world a
better place. We’ll start with you.’”
Schneider concedes that the highly structured discussions chafe some people, but
added: “It’s always interesting. You never go
home thinking, ‘Boy that was a bore.’”
The extravagant $7.7 million payout to charities at the July bash was partly a way for Friess
to do something nice for his friends, but those
who know him well say there was surely a little
calculation behind the idea as well.
Wills points out that some of the guests at the
Friess event might try the same concept at their
own parties. The wily former mutual-fund manager may have been looking for a way to compound the returns on his philanthropy.
“In the Christian vernacular, you would call
Foster a giving evangelist,” Wills said. “He just
can’t help but encourage other people to give.”
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“A lot of old shows, classics
that people toss to the side,
have a deep political message
if they’re done right.”
ZAC ROSSER
– Ben Medina
Ben Medina (left), Cord Reynolds and Paul Greg Wilson rehearse for Madame X Gala.
Life is a Cabaret
By Matthew Irwin
If Ben Medina could have his choice of characters, he’d play Leo Frank in Parade or the
Emcee in Cabaret. Both roles, he said, would
make demands of him that he desires as an
actor and both hold essential roles in the kind of
shows that move him.
“I enjoy shows with a relevant message,” Medina said. “A lot of old shows, classics that people
toss to the side, have a deep political message if
they’re done right, and I want to do that.”
For now, Medina will split his dream role with
Cord Reynolds for the Madame X Gala performance to benefit Off Square Theatre Company.
“Le Cabaret Artistique” opens with Cabaret’s
“Wilkommen,” Medina and Reynolds sharing
the role as Emcee. The two will remain hosts for
the evening, a revue of classic, favorite and contemporary Broadway showtunes.
Arts supporters will recognize much of the
local talent on stage – as well as actor/vocalist
Nicole Madison, up from Salt Lake for the gala –
but the event producer Caryn Flanagan, also the
artistic director of Off Square, wanted to flaunt
the company’s Junior Players, as well as
Dancers’ Workshop’s Junior Repertoire Company, both which make up the core of their respective organizations.
Off Square used to be the only year-round
professional theatre company in Wyoming, but
with the decline in the economy, the company
reinvigorated its youth programs and and asked
how to make the most of its fundraising efforts.
Flanagan asked Off Square’s women’s auxiliary,
The Madame X Society, to transform its exclusive $300-a-plate annual fundraiser into a larger
community program that shows Jackson residents what they can expect from Off Square.
With a smaller staff and lower production costs,
Flanagan said, the company is easy for the community to get behind.
The cast of “Le Cabaret Artistique” will reach
deep into the well of musical theatre history,
from Guys and Dolls to Wicked, including the
still resonant show, Rent. Medina will eschew his
emcee responsibilities to sing “Fugue for Tinhorns” (from Guys and Dolls) with Red Brown
and the show’s director, Paul Greg Nelson.
For a musical theatre major from Arizona
State such as Medina, the gala presents the potential of local theatre in the seasoned and up-
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and-coming performers.
Medina left college early to perform in a national tour of Miss Saigon, and made Jackson
Hole his permanent residence in 2008, after first
appearing in Jackson Hole Playhouse’s 1998
production of The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Local theatregoers may recognize him as the
character-actor-that-binds in shows such as
Man of La Mancha.
Though the professional theatre scene in
Jackson isn’t as competitive as he’d like, Medina said, “I’m not going anywhere.” He’ll appear as Robert in Jackson Hole Community
Theater’s production of Company, and he’s
pulling together the collective talent, expertise
and fundraising ability of the valley’s theatre
companies for a production near and dear to
his heart. “All signs are pointing to a full production of Cabaret in the fall at Jackson Hole
Playhouse,” he said.
No word yet on whether he’ll play the
Emcee.
The Madame X Gala featuring “Le Cabaret
Artistique” is 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, at the Center
for the Arts. $100. www.offsquare.org.
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CALENDAR
★ THIS WEEKS
by Kayla Diane Sanders
Dark and light
Wednesday 2.2
WENDELL FIELD
Although he’s not much of a talker, Wendell Locke Field is an exceptional
artist. His work is peaceful and easy on the eyes, and after reading some of his
journal entries, I noticed that he also has a knack for descriptive language.
Field lives in Kelly, and he attended the University of Wyoming, so he is local
talent, and his work is proof that he has spent a lot of time studying the shapes
of mountains and how to portray the contrast of light and dark on a scene. According to his site, Field believes that “Life, as art, is made of dark and light.”
In a brief conversation with Field, he explained that he mainly uses oils, but
he also enjoys using watercolors and drawing. As for his process, he said he
usually begins with drawing. Since his work is centered on scenery, he said he
often draws a draft outside and finishes the painting in the studio. He also said
he doesn’t paint from photos, because he feels like something is lost in the
translation, and I would have to agree. Field’s work allows for the artist’s perception of what he sees to come through instead of just a duplicate of a photo.
He adds texture to create the edges, dips, points and shadows that make up the
mountains we all know. Field’s work is not edgy, or jarring, like so much art
these days, but it does provide a look into an artist’s life. His work, as he puts it,
are the translations of his life, “a giving back from all that I have been given.”
Wendell Field’s art opening begins at, 6 p.m., Friday, Factory Studios. Exhibit will be up until Feb. 24. Free. www.factorystudios.org.
Wendell Field’s work takes pleasure in simple things.
FASHION
GTMF
DJ Vert-One drops a beat.
Shameless comedy a la Bill Murray.
For the sake of music
The other day I heard that art, music and
recreation are being cut from schools in my
home county to save money. With these
kinds of ignorant changes happening all
over the country, it has become clear that
only the community outside of the school
system can expose children to music and
art. Organizations like the Grand Teton
Music Festival provide that opportunity.
Since it began in 1962, GTMF has been
working hard to bring exceptional orchestral performances to Jackson in hopes of
keeping the artistic community vibrant. According to it’s website, the programs reach
more than 12,000 students, musicians and
adults every year. In honor of its 50th anniversary, GTMF and its young patrons
group, Bravo!, are coming together for a
party that will celebrate the organizations
that have helped shape our community.
Mad to Mod, 9 p.m., Friday, Ignight. Mod
attire. $10; $5 members. www.gtmf.org.
KATELYN JAMES
FILM
MOVIOE STILL
COMMUNTIY
James & Co. fashions hit the stage Friday.
Groundhog Day
Making it to the runway
Bill Murray is one of those actors who
you just can’t help but love. From his start
on Saturday Night Live to Caddyshack and
even Space Jam, he’s always put up a solid
performance. But, of all his films, Groundhog Day is my favorite. Not only is it funny,
but it also makes one wonder what she
would do if she were to live the same day
over and over again.
For those of you who haven’t seen it,
Groundhog Day is a 1993 film about a selfish meteorologist, played by Murray, stuck
living the same day over and over again.
He begins to fall for Rita, the new producer, but he has to figure out how to
break the cycle by becoming a more caring
human being.
Groundhog Day shows 7:30 p.m.,
tonight, Center Theater. $10. www.jhcenterforthearts.org.
Since starting James & Co., Katelyn James
has been working hard to bring fashionable,
affordable women’s clothes to Jackson. Although her clothes can be bought from her
website, she doesn’t have an actual store, so
seeing the inventory in person isn’t always
easy. With that in mind, James decided it
was time for a fashion show, complete with a
runway, new inventory and of course models. But instead of having unrealistically thin
ladies strutting down the runway, James has
handpicked a group of local girls to represent her clothes. James explained that each
girl is physically unique, which will allow for
viewers to see the versatile collection of
clothes that James & Co. carries. Unlike
other James & Co. events, there will not be
an opportunity to buy anything, but they
will be raffling off pea coats. Once the show
is over, a dance party will ensue.
James & Co. Fashion Show begins at 8
p.m., Friday, Mangy Moose Saloon.
www.jamesandcompanyjh.com.
Forecast for Jackson Hole
Week of 2/2
WEDNESDAY
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Sunshine mixing
with some clouds
Snow showers
possible
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with snow possible
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possible; colder
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not as cold
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7:33 a.m.
5:42 p.m.
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10:40 p.m.
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Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
7:32 a.m.
5:43 p.m.
9:30 a.m.
11:41 p.m.
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HI/LO/W HI/LO/W
Bozeman, MT
21/2/s
30/20/s
Casper, WY
18/8/s
33/16/s
Driggs, ID
25/-3/s
28/9/s
Grand Teton N.P. 22/-4/s
27/7/s
Idaho Falls, ID
10/-10/s
22/9/s
Missoula, MT
21/12/s
31/27/s
Pinedale, WY
16/-14/s
28/3/s
Riverton, WY
16/3/s
34/13/s
Rock Springs, WY 12/-1/s
25/13/s
Salt Lake City, UT 22/11/s
35/21/s
Yellowstone N.P.
23/-5/s
28/10/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice
Ride the FREE Town Shuttle or the $3 routes
between Jackson and Teton village
Schedule & fare information can be found at www.startbus.com, at each stop, at hotel front desks and on the buses. Questions? 733-4521
MUSIC
■ Jackson Hole Jazz Foundation,
7 to 9 p.m., rehearsal at the Center
for the Arts. Free. 699-0102.
■ Screen Door Porch, 4 to 6:15
p.m., at the Mangy Moose in Teton
Village. Folk-blues, Americana. Free.
Mangymoose.net.
■ Shoehorn Willie, 9 p.m., at the
Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Country.
733-2207. Cover TBD.
■ Judd Grossman, 4 to 8 p.m., in
the Four Seasons Lobby Lounge.
Folk, rock. Free. 732-5000.
■ Open Jam hosted by Mark
Tuttle, 7 to 9 p.m., at Q Roadhouse.
Free. 739-0700.
FILM
★ “Groundhog Day” in HD, 7:30
p.m., Center for the Arts. $10.
www.jhcenterforthearts.org.
LITERATURE
■ From The Backs of The
Stacks, 3 p.m., KHOL 89.1 FM.
Hear a discussion of the independent publishing industry, as we talk
about their books and their future
with local bibliophile/author Andrew
Munz. 733-2164.
CLASSES & LECTURES
■ Excel Spreadsheets: 1, 10 a.m.
to noon, Teton County Library. Free.
733-2164.
■ Blogging with Wordpress, 6:30
p.m., Jackson Hole High School.
733-7425. $50. [email protected].
COMMUNITY
■ Fellowship Dinners, 6:15 to 7
p.m., Contemporary Worship, 7:15
to 8:30 p.m., The Presbyterian
Church of Jackson Hole.
■ Free Tax Preparation, 5:30 to 8
p.m., Teton County Library. Free.
www.TCLib.org/tax (English) and
www.TCLib.org/impuesto (Spanish).
Thursday 2.3
MUSIC
■ DJ Vert One, 10 p.m., at Town
Square Tavern. Free. 733-3886.
■ Outlaw Picnic, 7 to 10 p.m., at
Q Roadhouse on Moose-Wilson
Road. Folk, blues. Free. 739-0700.
■ Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., at Jackson’s Hole Bar & Grill. 733-8888.
Cover TBD. 733-2207.
■ Pianist Keith Phillips, 6 to 9
p.m., at Teton Pines Country Club.
Free. Jazz. 733-1005.
■ Mike Haring, 4 to 8 p.m., in the
Four Seasons Lobby Lounge. Folk,
rock. Free. 732-5000.
■ Jason Fritts Ensemble, 6 to 9
p.m., at the Silver Dollar Bar. Jazz.
Free. 733-2190.
■ Phil Round, 6 to 9 p.m., in the
lobby of Amangani Resort. Free.
734-7333.
■ King Street Ramblers, 7 to 9
p.m., at Alpine Wines in Driggs.
Folk, bluegrass, Americana. Free.
Enjoyalpinewines.com.
■ Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., at the
Knotty Pine. Free. 208-787-2866.
ART
■ Guinevere Jones- Mixed-Media
Art Show, 5:30 p.m., Snake River
Brewing. Many small paintings in the
$10 to $30 range for Valentine’s Day
gifts. 970-309-5117.
OUTDOORS
■ Jackson Hole Wildlife Trip,
Grand Teton National Park. Join the
Greater Yellowstone Coalition and
expert guides on a winter excursion
in. [email protected].
CLASSES & LECTURES
■ Teton Toastmasters, noon to 1
p.m., County Commissioners
Chambers. Learn public speaking
See CALENDAR page 16
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skills. Light lunch provided. Walk-ins,
new members welcome. teton.freetoasthost.org.
■ Web Design 1, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.,
Teton County Library. In this first of
four web design classes, get an introduction to creating a free website.
Free. 733-2164.
■ 92Y, Live from NYC: Michael
Lewis in Conversation, 6 to 7:30
p.m., Teton County Library. Michael
Lewis discusses his bestselling book,
“The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” about what happened
during the global financial crisis and
what is being done to prevent a future collapse. 733-2164.
COMMUNITY
■ Voices of the Valley, 7 to 8:30
p.m., New history museum, 225 N.
Cache. Ted Major and Georgie Morgan. $5; Free for members. 733-9605.
MusicBox
COURTESY SEAN MCCASKILL
CALENDAR
Friday 2.4
MUSIC
★ Bravo! Fundraiser: From Mad
to Mod, 9 p.m., Ignight. Celebrate
the 60s in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Grand Teton Music
Festival. DJ Vert-One. Wear your
best Mod attire. $10 ($5 Bravo!
members). 732-996.
■ DJ, 10 p.m., at Jackson’s Hole Bar
and Grill. Free. 733-8888.
■ Steam Powered Airplane, 8
p.m., at Jackson’s Hole Bar & Grill.
Bluegrass. Free. 733-8888.
■ Papa Chan and Johnny C Note,
6 to 9 p.m., at Teton Pines Country
Club. Old-time jazz. Guitar, vocals,
upright bass. Free. 733-1733.
■ Jazz Night, 7 to 10 p.m., in The
Granary at Spring Creek Ranch atop
East Gros Ventre Butte. Pianist Pam
Drews Phillips with bass and drums.
Free. 733-8833.
lobby of Amangani Resort. Solo
acoustic guitar and vocals. Free. 7347333.
■ Judd Grossman, 5 to 9 p.m., in
the Four Seasons Lobby Lounge.
Folk, rock. Free. 732-5000.
■ Friday Night Jazz, 6:30 to 9:30
p.m., at Warbirds Cafe in Driggs.
■ Pianist Keith Phillips and
friends. Free. 208-354-2550
■ Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m., at
Cafe Boheme. Free. 733-5282.
■ Bob Stevens, 9 p.m., at the Virginian Saloon. From Snoop Dogg to
George Strait. Free. 739-9891.
★ Elephant Revival with Head
for the Hills, 10 p.m., at Town
Square Tavern. Folk, bluegrass,
roots. 733-3886. $15. WhatsGoodHereProductions.com or door.
ART
■ Après-Ski & Art, 5 to 9 p.m.,
Diehl Gallery. Free. www.diehlgallery.com.
★ Artist Reception: Lance
Letscher, 5 to 8 p.m., Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Free. 733-0555.
★ Art Reception, 6 to 9 p.m., Factory Studios Wendell Field and Mark
Dunstan. Free. www.factorystudios.org.
THEATER
■ Laff Staff Improv Groove, 8
FILM
■ Winter Film Series: Division
Street, 2 p.m., National Museum of
Wildlife Art. Cost of admission.
WildlifeArt.org.
■ Float and Flick Movie, 5:30
p.m., Teton County/Jackson Recreation Center. Teen movie, ages 1317. $5. 739-9025.
COMMUNITY
■ Teen Library Friday Nights,
5:30 to 8 p.m., Teton County LiSee CALENDAR page 17
16 February 2 - 8, 2011
Double-bill of acoustic bluegrass and roots music, Friday at Town Square Tavern.
Double infusion of Colorado folk-grass
By Aaron Davis
Colorado has been a hotbed for progressive acoustic music since the ‘80s
when Hot Rize and Leftover Salmon
were leading the charge, and later with
The String Cheese Incident. The last
three to four years has introduced a new
era fusing bluegrass and folk with varied
song structures. The upcoming doublebill at Town Square Tavern—Elephant
Revival and Head for the Hills—pairs
two of the Sunshine State’s hottest upand-coming acts.
Elephant Revival’s male-female blend
is as interesting as its instrumentation.
Washboard, djembe, saw, stomp-box,
guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and upright bass are all showcased in an earthy,
spacious and understated collaborative
composed of five songwriters.
In one show, the Nederland-based
quintet has been known to delve into
Scottish/Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional
ballads, psychedelic country, indie rock,
and jazz standards. Since the days of
jamming informally in festival parking
lots, the group has gained a lot of traction by hand-feeding modern acoustic
music over thousands of road miles.
“Thinking about the tribal nature of
elephants and how they are compassionate towards one another, we feel that our
touring extends our own tribe to all of
humanity when we meet people who
share like minds,” fiddler Bridget Law
said. “This idea is frequently embedded
in the songwriting.”
The worldly nature of Elephant Revival’s sound comes from an ongoing
search for melodies and rhythms that
can be added to the band’s scope. Vocalist and percussionist Bonnie Paine just
returned from Ghana where she journeyed with members of Hot Buttered
Rum String Band, Izabella and Poor
Man’s Whiskey to teach workshops,
record an album and make a film. It will
be interesting to see the progression.
As for Head for the Hills, Westword
readers recently voted the quartet Best
Bluegrass Band in Colorado, and earned
the No. 29 spot on Colorado Radio’s Best
50 Albums of 2010 for its self-titled sophomore release. Drew Emmitt produced
the recording at Billy Nershi’s Sleeping
Giant studio, both of which are performing this weekend in Teton Village.
It’s no wonder the band has been selling out venues like Planet Bluegrass’s
Wildflower Pavilion and Belly Up in
Aspen. And having appeared on Boulderbased, NPR-syndicated show E-Town
with David Grisman Quintet, the band
has received its recent share of national
attention.
Closer in form to traditional bluegrass
than Elephant Revival, Head for the Hills
would appeal to fans of jamgrass pickers
Yonder Mountain String Band, with comparable harmonies and approach to improvisation.
This progressive, acoustic roots show
will be presented by What’s Good Here?
Productions, which just announced another handful of shows worth planning
for, including T. Bird & The Breaks, Charlie Parr and Melvin Seals with Jerry Garcia Band. The production company is
offering a five-show punch card for $50.
Check out the full schedule at WhatsGoodHereProductions.com.
Elephant Revival and Head for the
Hills play, 10 p.m., Friday at Town
Square Tavern. $15. 733-3886. WhatsGoodHereProductions.com.
LIVE MUSIC 7:30 - 11:00pm
February 3
JASON FRITTS JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Jazz Night
February 4 & 5
DIRTY SHAME
Country/Rock
February 8
JACKSON HOLE
HIGH SCHOOL
RADIO
Bluegrass Tuesday
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THE GOODS
Leftover String Cheese
Emmitt-Nershi Band is beginning
to rival Jerry Joseph for shortest time
frame between tour stops in Teton
County. New bassist Johnny Grubb,
who played bass with Railroad Earth
for seven years, will replace Tyler
Grant— a ripping flatpicker who will
be focusing on his own project, The
Grant Farm. If it’s bluegrass that
sooths your soul, here it is in pure
Colorado form.
Emmitt-Nershi Band, 9:30 p.m.,
Saturday at the Mangy Moose.
$12. MangyMoose.net.
Plethora of open stages
I hear a lot of inquiries about
where to find a solid open mic night.
Countless bands have been started
during these laidback sessions, and
it’s a great way to get stage experience or listen to friends. Open Mic
Nights, 9:30 p.m., Thursdays at
Knotty Pine; 8 p.m., Thursdays at
Jackson’s Hole Bar and Grill; Jackson
Hole Hootenanny, 6 p.m. Mondays
at Dornan’s; 3:30 p.m., Tuesdays at
the Trap Bar and 7:30 p.m. this Friday only at Cafe Boheme. Free.
brary. Grades 6 to 12. Bring your
mad skillz for Call of Duty II. In Spanish & English. 733-2164.
Private Pilot Ground School
Saturday 2.5
TETON AVIATION GROUND SCHOOL
WEDNESDAYS 6:00 P.M.
FEBRUARY 16 to MARCH 9
Boise band making a name
I caught Equal Eyes last summer at
Targhee Fest when it was asked to fill
the slot for reggae band Katchafire.
This catapulted Equal Eyes from the
Trap Bar to the festival’s main stage,
and the crowd responded with a
great deal of gratitude. The post-jamband sound is rooted in rock, with
plenty of pop hooks and compression-laced funk jams.
Equal Eyes, 8:30 p.m., Friday
and Saturday in the Trap Bar. Free.
GrandTarghee.com.
CALENDAR
Winter 2011
by Aaron Davis
Making aviation
accessible to everyone.
The course is perfect for spouses looking
to become more comfortable in the cockpit,
the novice st u d ent pilot trying to pass the private pilot written exam, and
experienced pilots looking to brush up on their knowledge and comfort level.
Acquire the skills needed to navigate through the aviation environment.
Madame X Gala
“Le Cabaret Artistique”
The course cost is $250 for four lessons. This does not include books and
materials. A complete list will be provided upon signing up. (Est. $60)
Course size is limited. Sign up today!
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Featuring:
Over 40 local performers and highlights
from 70 years of Broadway Musicals
Recording artist Nicole Madison
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THIS SATURDAY NIGHT
February 5, 6-9 p.m.
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MUSIC
■ Pianist Pam Drews Phillips,
6:30 to 9:30 p.m., in the Granary at
Spring Creek Ranch atop East Gros
Ventre Butte. Jazz. Free. 733-8833.
■ Tram Jam, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at
the base of Bridger Gondola at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Ski bum
music. Free. JacksonHole.com.
★ Equal Eyes, 8:30 p.m., in the Trap
Bar at Grand Targhee Resort. Rock.
Free. Grandtarghee.com.
■ Bob Stevens, 9 p.m., at the Virginian Saloon. From Snoop Dogg to
George Strait. Free. 739-9891.
■ King St. Ramblers, 9:30 a.m. to
noon, at Shades Cafe. Bluegrass,
swing, folk. Free. 733-2015.
Four Seasons Lobby Lounge. Free.
732-5000.
■ Emmitt-Nershi Band, 9:30 p.m.,
at the Mangy Moose in Teton Village.
Bluegrass. $12. Mangymoose.net.
■ DJ Spartan, 10 p.m., at Town
Square Tavern. Cover TBD. 7333886.
ART
■ Camille Dave and Mark Dunstan, 5 to 9 p.m., Lines Gallery
THEATER
■ Laff Staff Improv Groove, 8
★ MadameX “Le Cabaret Artistique,” 6 to 9 p.m., Center for the
Arts, Tickets include dinner, wine
and dessert plus performances by
more than 40 local entertainers and
special guest appearance by Nicole
Madison. $100. 733-3021.
DANCE
■ Zumba Mechanics w/ Liz Martinez, 5 to 7 p.m., Dancers’ Workshop. Learn how to effectively
engage your muscles as well as execute intricate moves, like the BellyDance hips, the Bachata, and Samba.
This will not be a full cardio class like
a regular Zumba class. This workshop will include discussion and
breaking down the steps. Limited
space. [email protected] $20
LITERATURE
■ Multi-Cultural Storytime, 4 to
4:30 p.m., Teton County Library.
Children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers. 733-2164.
SPORTS & RECREATION
■ Moms and Daughters Cross
Country Ski Lesson, 1 to 3 p.m.,
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Register at the recreation center by 12
pm Feb. 4. $42. 739-9025.
COMMUNITY
★ Benefit for Kristen Woolwine,
5:30 p.m., at The Elk’s Lodge.
Spaghetti dinner and music with Revolver and friends. Donation at the
door. [email protected].
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■ Stage Coach Band, 6 to 10 p.m.,
at the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson.
Old-time country, folk, Western.
Free. 733-4407.
■ DJ Chilin, 10 p.m., at Jackson’s
Hole Bar & Grill. Reggae, dub, and
house. 733-8888. Free.
[email protected].
ART
■ First Sundays Celebration:
Harvest on the Hill, 1 to 3 p.m.,
National Museum of Wildlife Art. Explore Australian art and meet Aboriginal tribal member Bill Harney and
honorary tribal member Paul “Walking Stick” Taylor for stories, songs,
See CALENDAR page 18
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CALENDAR
CD REVIEWS
and music. 732-5417.
FILM
■ “Barbie: A Fairy Secret” in HD,
3 p.m., Center for the Arts. $5.
Monday 2.7
MUSIC
■ Jackson Hole Hootenanny, 6
p.m., at Dornan’s in Moose. Visiting
and local musicians are invited to perform a two-song, 10-minute acoustic
set. Sign up begins around 5 p.m.,
Free. 733-2415.
■ Random Canyon Growlers, 7 to
10 p.m., at Q Roadhouse. Bluegrass.
Free. 739-0700.
■ Justin Haigh, 9 p.m., at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Country.
ART
■ Glassblowing with Charlotte
Potter, 6 p.m., Factory Studios. First
day of three-day workshop, ending
Feb. 9; Second workshop, Feb. 11 to
13. $300 ($275 ArtLab members.)
699-0836. [email protected].
■ Young at Art, 10:30 a.m. to
11:15 a.m. National Museum of
Wildlife Art. 732–543..
LITERATURE
■ Author Ben Mikaelson, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., Jackson Hole Middle
School. Grades 6-8. Bestselling,
young adult author visits JHMS all
day. 733-2164.
■ A Revolutionary Book Club:
The Farming of Bones, 7 p.m., Lotus
Café. [email protected].
CLASSES & LECTURES
■ Foreign Policy Discussion: Horn
of Africa, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Teton
County Library. 733-2164.
COMMUNITY
■ Table Tennis, 6 p.m., The Wildwood Room. Open play and tournament. 208 787-2667.
Kiss Each Other Clean
Break In The Clouds
The King is Dead
IRON & WINE
ELEPHANT REVIVAL
THE DECEMBERISTS
Break in the Clouds is not an album you
want to listen to for the first time late at
night, the darkness sharp at the edges of a
reading lamp, the tequila sharp against
your wits: You just might begin to believe
in the possibility of things. Based on this
album, Elephant Revival is an earnest folk
band from Nederland, Colo., spiritually
tethered to the great Emerald Isle from
which much of what we call American folk
music was chipped. I’ll go see the quartet
play at the Tavern on Friday; I only hope
the soloists don’t fall into the trap of so
many neo-hippie, mountain string players
– or jazz and soul musicians, for that matter – when they get to Jackson: They often
get all loose and quick for the kids with
heads full of drugs. Sure, that was me once,
too, but the music’s gotten so much better,
since then and the drugs less necessary to
“get” it. I offer Elephant Revival and Break
in the Clouds as evidence.
– Matthew Irwin
Only a bunch of music geeks would call
The Decemberists “literary.” Sure, Colin
Meloy writes Middle Ages-inspired lyrics, but
so do the warlords of Darkon (dude, google
it). If the prog-folk-rock quintet’s albums
were books, they’d be found in the checkout
line bound with role-playing gaming manuals by a chubby, sweaty hand. I also refute the
contention that The King is Dead is a departure from The Decemberists penchant for
concept albums. Meloy moved to the outskirts of Portland and riled up a country
music envoy composed of Gillian Welch vocals and Neal Young-inspired harmonica
wails. Country is the concept. These points
might not seem worth arguing, but they need
to be squashed because that’s where critics
and fans focus. The King is Dead is a badass
country album, learned the hard way by Appalachian and Northwestern mountain
tunes. The Decemberists did what many
mythology-fantasy obsessed (geek) musicians before them – including Spinal Tap –
couldn’t. It successfully conjured the Druids,
by grounding itself in reality.
– Matthew Irwin
Before Iron and Wine, Sam Beam was a
sculpture major at VCU and had a studio
next to my girlfriend for a semester. I
would see him in the halls and talked to
him a few times at parties. He always
seemed quiet and tortured, though so did
most kids back in art school. Beam left
Richmond for Florida and was soon known
throughout indie circles for his minimal
and melancholy recordings. Iron and
Wine’s music always takes me back to the
dark depression that seems to embody
many of my Richmond memories. Since
2007’s The Shepherd’s Dog, Beam’s music
has moved away from its typical minimalism to a more flushed out sound. On Kiss
Each Other Clean, Beam continues to develop as an artist and move beyond his
early work while retaining the depth of
feeling that typifies his music. Only two of
the songs on the new record grabbed me
immediately, this record requires patient
listening to appreciate its subtleties, but I
think it’s worth it.
– Aaron Wallis
Tuesday 2.8
MUSIC
■ Steam Powered Airplane, 10
p.m., at Town Square Tavern. Bluegrass. Free. 733-3886.
■ One Ton Pig, 7:30 to 11 p.m., at
the Silver Dollar Bar. Folk-rock variety show. Free. 733-2190.
■ Open Mic, 3:30 p.m., in the Trap
Bar at Grand Targhee Resort. Free.
Grandtarghee.com.
■ Justin Haigh, 9 p.m., at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Country.
ART
■ Introduction to Screenprinting
1, 6 to 9 p.m., Art Association. Begins today. $155 ($140 members)
733- 6379, carlsoncollective.com.
■ Art After Hours: Sounds of the
Night, 7:30 p.m., National Museum
of Wildlife Art. 732-5438.
CLASSES & LECTURES
■ Business Seminar: Social Media
Savvy, 9 a.m. to noon, The Wort
Hotel. $20. 733-3316.
■ “Optimal Performance: Mind &
Body,” 6 p.m., Center Theater.
menoclinic.com.
■ Crochet Circle, 6:30 to 8 p.m.,
Teton County Library. Crochet across
cultures and learn basic stitches. Bring
your own yarn and hooks. 733-2164.
COMMUNITY
■ Young Adult Board, 6 to 7 p.m.,
Teton County Library. Grades 6-12.
Teens meet to discuss books, library
programs, food, games and more.
733-2164.
JUDD
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BAND
DORNAN’S
Hootenanny
6-9pm • FREE
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FEBRUARY 15
Ben Winship Growling Old Men
Pizza & Pasta Co.
PIZZA • CALZONES • PASTA • SALADS
8pm • $15
Tickets available at Valley Books
and Dornans
Mon 11:30am-3pm & 5-7:30pm, Tues-Fri 11:30am-3pm
Sat & Sun 11:30am-5pm
WINE SHOPPE
Spur Bar
Over 1,600 varieties of wine available
Open daily 10am-6pm
Open daily 10am-6pm
Hootenanny • Mondays open until 9pm • FREE
Trading Post Grocery
Open daily 9am-5pm • Deli 10am-4pm
Gift Shop
Open by appointment
307-690-4935
juddgrossman.com
Download Judd Grossman
songs from iTunes.
307-733-2415
Moose, WY
Spur Cabins
(12 miles north of Jackson)
Located on the banks of the Snake River with Teton Views
WWW.DORNANS.COM
CALENDAR ENDS
18 February 2 - 8, 2011, 2010
Hootenanny
6-9pm • FREE
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FEBRUARY 14
– Compiled by Kristin King
and Aaron Davis
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FEBRUARY 7
HighArt
Painstaking
process with paper
ART
GALLERIES
The Eye, collage on board 18 x 15 3/4 inches by Lance Letscher.
the digitally based Photoshop collage prints.
They look and feel cheap. But Letscher’s
work is neither. It appears to be the product
of a painstaking process.
Along with Letscher, the gallery will show
work by Lisa Kokin, who uses paper pulp
from pulp novels to create sculptures. She
also chops up the covers and stitches them
into flowers that spread across the wall. The
work obviously references the text and interaction of printed words in a visual arts context. Both colorful and pleasing to the eyes,
Letscher’s and Kokin’s works go together like
peanut butter and jelly.
OPTIMAL
PERFORMANCE:
MIND & BODY
MARTIN SEXTON
RICHTER UZUR
DUO
FEBRUARY 8
FEBRUARY 10
FEBRUARY 13
Tuesday
Reception at 6:00pm
Presentation at 7:00pm
Center Theater
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, 7:30pm
Vooti Productions
Center Theater
$26 Reserved Tickets
Sunday, 7:00pm
Presented by:
Center for the Arts
Center Theater
$20 Reserved Tickets
An evening of sharing secrets to achieving
Optimal Performance in Athletics,
Cognitive/Learning, Physical/Strength,
Hormonal/Longevity with a team of experts.
You will leave with the tools to be more
successful in all aspects of your personal
growth, your children’s future and your
performance goals.
PRESENTERS: Dr. Jack Stark, Dr. David
Dornfeld, Dr. Mark Menolascino
TICKETS
His continual success through his diversity infiltrates many musical worlds ranging everywhere from Jam Cruise to
Denver's Mile High Fest to Mayercraft Carrier to Carnegie Hall. His songs are featured in film and television including
recent placement on NBC's Scrubs and
Showtime's hit series Brotherhood. He is
said to be ripe with raw, expansive talent.
His repertoire is a unique blend of Americana ranging from soul, rock, blues to
gospel.
Cellist Viktor Uzur and guitarist Brad
Richter are classical musicians of the
highest caliber, with successful international
solo careers and intensive training from
two of the world’s most lauded musical
institutions: The Moscow Conservatory
and The Royal College of Music respectively.
Their musical interests and abilities, however,
run the gamut from Albeniz to Led Zeppelin.
Supported in part by a grant from the
Wyoming Arts Council, through funding
from the Wyoming State Legislature and
the National Endowment for the Arts
By Phone: 307.733.4900
Online: www.jhcenterforthearts.org
Center Box Office 265 S. Cache St.
Open noon-5PM
Monday-Friday and two hours
before any ticketed performance
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The opening reception for Lance Letscher
is 5 to 8 p.m., Friday, at Tayloe Piggott
Gallery. Free. 733-0555.
733-KMTN
to construct his work.
Thumbing through a few of Letscher’s catalogs, I was impressed by the variety of his
collage technique. There are several distinct
phases to his work from the circular patterns, to abstract landscapes, to kind of narrative diagram looking pieces, layering of
patterns to create screens and the current
work that seems to be more about rectangular repetition.
Letscher said most work generally falls in
one of three categories – decorative, expressionist and conceptual. I would consider
these collages to be decorative, though I
would avoid the pejorative connotations that
often accompany referring to a work of art as
decorative. I see a few artists trying to make
work similar to Letscher’s often using digital
media to create collages. I am kind of against
REQUEST LINE
I recently spoke to Austin, Texas artist
Lance Letscher about his upcoming exhibition at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. The gallery
press release described Letscher’s work as
“drawing comparisons to James Castle, Josef
Albers and Piet Mondrian.” That’s a tall order
to fill. Though the artist was himself quite
modest, polite and almost embarrassed by
the comparison.
Letscher’s work consists of multi-layered,
almost sculptural, collages assembled from a
wide array of paper sources, then glued to
masonite. I don’t really see any similarity to
James Castle, known for using spit and charcoal. Albers not so much either – there are
squares in the works of both, but Albers focuses on subtle variations in color perception. Mondrian paints squares too, but his are
flat and in only primary colors. The first comparison that springs to my mind is No. 5 by
Charles Demuth. Though that comparison is
really only applicable to Letscher’s work involving intricate circular pie patterns repeated in varying colors.
Letscher says he does not look for direct inspiration from other artists, but rather tries to
let process and method dictate the evolution
of a piece. His early work as a sculptor, while
still in grad school, still seems to influence his
2D work. American folk art quilts could also
be cited as a distinct influence. The pieces are
wonderfully complex with layers of collaged
paper from a wide range of secondhand
sources. Letscher told me he “aggressively
collects paper” including, books, magazines,
album covers, typography, promotional materials, advertising and newspapers that he uses
COURTESY TAYLOR PIGGOTT GALLERY
By Aaron Wallis
Altamira Fine Art Gallery
172 Center St. 739-4700
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
Ciao Gallery
766 S. Glenwood., 733-7833
Circus Gallery
170 N. Main Street, Victor, 208-7871ART
Diehl Gallery
155 W. Broadway, 733-0905
Fay Gallery
Teton Village Road, 739-1006
Fighting Bear Antiques
375 S. Cache, 733-2669
Full Circle Gallery
335 N. Glenwood, 733-0070
Galleries West Fine Art
70 S. Glenwood, 733-4412
Heather James Fine Art
Heriz Rug Co.
120 W. Pearl, 733-3388
Horizon Fine Art Gallery
30 King Street, Suite 202, 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
Lines Gallery
245 West Pearl
Mountain Trails Gallery
National Museum of Wildlife Art
3 miles north of Jackson, 733-5771
Oswald Gallery
165 N. Center Street, 734-8100
RARE Fine Art Gallery
485 W. Broadway, 733-8726
Richter Fine Art Photography
30 King St, 733-8880
Robert Dean Collection
180 W. Broadway, 733-9290
Rivertime Designs
98 E. Little Ave., Drigg, 208-351-2045
Schmidt’s Custom Framing
890 S. Highway 89, 733-2306
Shadow Mountain Gallery
10 W. Broadway, 733-3162
Tayloe Piggott Gallery
62 S. Glenwood, 733-0555
Trailside Galleries
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
60 E. Broadway, 739-1777
Wild Hands 70 S. Glenwood,
265 W. Pearl, 733-4619
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BLU KITCHEN
Contemporary japanese bistro.
Our winter menu features an organic cheeseburger with porkbelly,wagyu beef strip loin, luxury
shrimp,pork dumplings with
bacon creme and as always the
freshest fish from our sashimi bar.
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NORA’S FISH CREEK INN
Where the locals meet and eat.
Breakfast notables: huevos
rancheros, breakfast burritos, homemade biscuits and sausage gravy.
Daily lunch specials. And for dinner: trout, elk, bbq ribs and prime
rib every night. Full bar and wine list.
Downtown Wilson. (307) 733-8288.
SUDACHI
New Japanese cuisine. Sudachi sushi
serves the freshest fish from around
the world. Seasonal menu features
tuna carpaccio, citrus pepper
salmon, shiitake salad, broiled black
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Enjoy specialty rolls such as our bruho, kichigai, and the famous monster
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sakes. Dinner nightly at 6:00 p.m.
3465 North Pines Way, in the Aspens. Reservations (307) 734-7832
or sudachijh.com.
TETON THAI
Serving the world’s most exciting
cuisine. Thai food offers a splendid
array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour,
salt and bitter. All balanced and
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most discriminating palate. New location: 7432 Granite Loop Rd in
Teton Village, 307.733.0022
Continental
43 NORTH
A newly remodeled dining room
with open air kitchen seating. Serving classic and new world cuisine for
lunch and dinner daily. Classic
French onion soup, dijon rack of
lamb with apple fries, hand cut
steaks and fresh seafood. Delightful
salads, yummy desserts and an ever
expanding Wine Spectator award
wine list. At the base of Snow King
Mountain. 733-0043
BACKCOUNTRY PROVISIONS
Your sandwich specialists for all your
adventures. A specialty sandwich
shop and deli serving up high-quality,
great tasting food to fuel all lifestyles
including the most demanding adventure seekers in Jackson. A favorite place of locals and quickly
becoming a favorite of tourists alike.
Conveniently located at 50 West
Deloney, Town Square. 734-9420,
www.backcountryprovisions.com.
THE BLUE LION
A Jackson Hole favorite. Offering the
finest in creative cuisine. Join us in v
the charming atmosphere of a refur- J
bished 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. Early bird special 20% off
when you dine between 6 and 6:30
p.m. Good through the winter.
Reservations rec. 160 N. Millward, j
733-3912. bluelionrestaurant.com.
BURKE’S CHOP HOUSE
Sample our superior steaks, chops,
and innovative fish, game and fowl
dishes in this historic renovated
t
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Open nightly from 6-10 p.m. 72 S.
Glenwood. 733-8575.
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Full bar and eclectic wine list available. Brunch served daily 9 a.m. -3
p.m. Happy Hour Tuesday -Sunday 3
- 5:30 p.m. Half price cocktails, discounted menu. Dinner served Tuesday - Sunday 5:30 p.m. Located 1/2
a block East of the Town Square.
135 E. Broadway. (307) 732-1910.
DORNAN’S PIZZA &
PASTA COMPANY
Gourmet pizzas, homemade soups, A
pasta, sandwiches and salads. Enjoy a
relaxing lunch while sitting along the
Snake River enjoying the fabulous
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view of the Tetons. 12 miles north of
Jackson in Grand Teton National
Park at Moose. (307) 733-2415.
Q ROADHOUSE
The Q Roadhouse on Teton Village
Road, serves up a variety of American comfort food. Menu items include; blackened catfish, shrimp
jambalaya, turkey meatloaf, steaks,
bbq ribs, pulled pork & beef brisket.
Extensive wine list and full bar available. Open nightly 5 p.m. Happy
Hours at the bar 5 - 6 p.m. and 8 - 9
p.m. with 2 for 1 Drinks. Reservations 739-0700.
RENDEZVOUS BISTRO
The Bistro offers something for
everyone including salads, sandwiches and 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 and
chips, meatloaf, veal marsala and coq
au Vin to many other selections including fresh seasonal seafood, pasta
and steaks. Nightly at 5:30 p.m.
Reservations recommended. 380 S.
Hwy. 89/Broadway. (307) 739-1100.
SNAKE RIVER BREWERY
& RESTAURANT
America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and
dinner. Enjoy the atmosphere while
enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas,
burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads
and desserts. $7 lunch menu from
11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Happy Hour 4 6 p.m. include our tasty hot wings.
The freshest beer in the valley, right
from the source! Free WIFI. Open
1:30 a.m. - midnight. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337.
SNAKE RIVER GRILL
Whether you stop by for 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! Nightly
at 6:00 p.m. Town Square, 733-0557.
SWEETWATER RESTAURANT
Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner
for nearly 30 years with deliciously
affordable comfort 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.
SUBWAY
The #1 subshop. Breakfast starting
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a $25 gift card and get a free 6 inch
sub and drink. Don’t forget your
party subs and platters. Two great
locations: K-mart Plaza, Jackson, and
at Alpine Junction.
TRIO
Voted one of Jackson Hole’s hottest
restaurants, Food and Wine Feb.
Buy one sandwich
Get 2nd
sandwich
for
2009. Owned and operated by local
chefs with a passion for good food.
Our menu features contemporary
American dishes inspired by classic
bistro cuisine. Daily specials feature
wild game, fish and meats. Enjoy a
glass of wine in front of the woodburning oven and watch the chefs in
the open kitchen. Dinner nightly at
5:30 p.m. Open for lunch Monday Friday 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. 45 S.
Glenwood. Reservations 734-8038.
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CAFE BOHEME
A locals favorite for morning brew.
Fresh and wholesome food! A great
breakfast and lunch place offering a
great selection of food at very reasonable prices. Fresh baked goods,
breakfast burritos, crepes and
french toast, soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, panini, locally
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1110 Maple Way, 733-JAVA (5282).
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Monday - Friday 4 - 7 p.m.
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GIOVANNI’S
Locally owned and family friendly.
Nightly specials with entrees under
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alfredo, cioppino and eggplant parmigiana. Private dining rooms and separate lounge with flat screen TVs.
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and imported beers! Serving lunch at
Enoteca Monday - Friday from 11 a.m.
242 N. Glenwood. (307) 733-3888
OSTERIA
Dine in the beautiful rustic dining
room or make it a more casual affair at
the wine or salumi bar. The menu features contemporary Italian cuisine including fresh salads, housemade
pastas, wood-oven fired pizzas, and
panini’s. Favorites such as the sausage
stuffed olives, fresh fish and veal chop
won’t disappoint. Dinner nightly 5:30 10 p.m. Located inside Hotel Terra at
Teton Village. Walk-ins/reservations
recommended. (307) 739-4100.
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, (307) 733-1207.
THE MERRY PIGLETS
Voted Best Salsa in Jackson! Jackson’s oldest and most rockin’
Mexican restaurant. Authentic
Mexican dishes made from
scratch. Choose from over 10
salsas and sauces, Tex-Mex
plates, including enchiladas,
mesquite-grilled fajitas, salads,
burrito’s, wraps and fire-roasted
chicken. Huge margs in 10 flavors plus our “Big Pig Marg,” a
32 oz original. One block north
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WILLIE WISE
The place to hang out in Wilson 307-733-8288
Lavender-crusted venison with venison sausage.
Time machine to old Bavaria
By E. Tyler Alford
After more than two years in
the valley, I’m finally starting to
visit the classic and historic
restaurants that have long been a
part of Jackson Hole’s character
and charm.
Sure, contemporary and
avant-garde dining will always
be my thing, but getting back to
basics in the kitchen is always
rewarding. Thus this week, we
visit the Alpenhof Lodge and the
Alpenrose Restaurant for Bavarian cuisine.
While my worldly and German-speaking predecessor in
the ways of local food writing has
a greater wealth of knowledge in
this field (and quite a few more
Bavarian beers to stain his mustache), it doesn’t take a Viennese
to appreciate the food served at
the Alpenrose.
I did require a little coaching
when I ordered the raclette as a
starter. Our server very kindly
asked if I had ever had the dish
before, and though I had not
ever, I said, “Sure, but I could use
a refresher.” She explained that
some people like to melt the
cheese over the flat candleheated personal griddle and
transfer it to the pearl onions,
cornichons and boiled potatoes
(most traditional way to enjoy
the dish), while others will place
the small bites on the griddle
and melt the cheese over the top.
I tried it both ways, and it’s delicious and fun, but leaves you
wishing that you had ordered the
fondue after playing with the
wooden spatula melted cheese
and hot griddle.
The tangy cornichons and the
salty raclette cheese made for a
welcomingly warm and pleasant
starter, which brought out the
sweet orange and wheaty flavors
of my Paulaner hefeweizen.
(Paulaner has long-been my favorite beer and the fact that the
Alpenrose serves it on tap will
steer me toward its bar much
more often now.)
Having conquered the griddle,
I was excited and ready for yet
another Bavarian-inspired dish,
and decided on filet und wurst
vom wild, or lavender-crusted
venison with venison sausage.
While I was expecting more
lavender, the venison tasted
fresh, with just a bit of warmth to
the red center and a nice sear to
the exterior. Both the loin and
the sausage had a distinct game
flavor, but were very different
from each other. Accompanied
with a warm potato salad and
huntsman’s sauce, the dish was
filling and simple while still
being out of the ordinary.
My dining companion ordered
the wiener schnitzel, which The
Alpenrose intelligently offers,
along with its jagerschnitzel, in a
“lighter portion” size. I was
happy for this, because it meant
I didn’t have to try to find room
in my refrigerator for yet another
takeout box.
As we sat in the Bavarianthemed and possibly outdated
dining room, we watched the
servers make their rounds to the
tables wearing traditional Alpine
garb with high socks and dresses
called dirndls. While there weren’t
any foreign accents to be heard,
most of the setting was complete
to convince that we were somewhere other than Wyoming.
We skipped dessert feeling full
enough from cheese, salad and
entrees but I was impressed to
see 1997 Chateau d’Yquem offered by the bottle. A sweet
French wine would have been
perfect with an apfestrudel of
apple, almond and creme
anglaise. Outside, the air was
chill, and I tried to yodel my way
back to the car, but really only
was able to put-off some tourists.
They got the point though.
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2010
BookReviews
In Search of Powder:
A Story of America’s
Disappearing Ski Bums
Lord of Misrule
JAIMY GORDON
JEREMY EVANS
Jaded by the incessant banter of blizzards and mountains
swirling around me, I begrudgingly agreed to review In
Search of Powder when my editor suggested I give it a read.
Now don’t get me wrong – 6 a.m. on powder days, my
choice routine is to pry open one eye, dial the snow report
and excitedly press Adina’s voice to my ear as she whispers
me sweet measurements. But sometimes, no matter how
good the snow, I find it disheartening that while the rest of the world tackles oppression,
poverty, hunger and war, Jackson Hole seems only to have snow on the brain.
Well, around the country, tough realities are inching their way into these idyllic little ski
towns, and Jeremy Evans manages to intelligently explain how these places, and the people
who comprise them, are dramatically shifting.
In Search of Powder reads like a fascinating exposé on ski towns, as Evans weaves the words
of young and old characters from Crested Butte, Lake Tahoe, Jackson Hole, Telluride, Park City
and Mammoth together into a history of these quintessentially Western places.
He reveals that second homeowners and corporate-owned ski resorts drive property prices
up, transforming ski towns into high-end resort areas unwelcome to the average ski bum. He
details the reasons for a shift in the workforce from young college and high school grads to
immigrants; how aging baby boomers affect the industry and the subhuman pressures placed
on professional skiers and snowboarders by corporate sponsors that muddle the meaning of
the sport. Evans’s section on Jackson Hole and JHMR, one of the last family-owned American
ski resorts, contains honest observations as he interviews TGR and former TGR employee Jon
Klaczkiewicz (Swift, Silent, Deep); the candid musings of Jackson Hole Air Force’s Howie “Hollywood” Henderson: “Fuck ski patrol. That’s how a lot of us air force guys felt”; “When you
saw Dougie [Coombs] ski, it stopped the clock.” Evans also offers a history lesson that might
explain JHMR’s aggressive marketing strategy: “Jackson Hole had a problem no amount of infrastructure could solve,” Evans writes, “nobody was good enough to ski it.”
“Living in a ski town you’re surrounded by people who are passionate about something,”
explains Keith from Lake Tahoe. “It’s cool to be around people that are stoked about life.”
Evans allows us to extract meaning from people like Keith while threading a commentary on
the potential extinction of a subculture and what it says about our sometimes … ahem …
jaded society. – Robyn Vincent
ROB BREZNEY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now and then,
members of other astrological signs complain
that I seem to favor you Aries above them. If
that’s true, I’m certainly not aware of it. As far
as I know, I love all the signs equally. I will say
this, however: Due to the idiosyncrasies of my
own personal horoscope, I have been working
for years to get more skilled at expressing
qualities that your tribe tends to excel at:
being direct, acting fearless, knowing exactly
what you want, cultivating a willingness to
change, and leading by example. All these assets are especially needed by the people in
your life right now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ve found that
even when people are successful in dealing with
a long-term, intractable problem, they rarely
zap it out of existence in one epic swoop. Generally they chip away at it, dismantling it little by
little; they gradually break its hold with incremental bursts of unspectacular heroism. Judging
from the astrological omens, though, I’d say
that you Tauruses are ripe for a large surge of
dismantling. An obstacle you’ve been hammering away at for months or even years may be
primed to crumble dramatically.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My brother Tom
and I used to be on a softball team in Santa
Cruz. I played third base and he was the
pitcher. For one game he showed up with a
new glove that still had the price tag dangling. I
asked him if he was going to snip it off. “Nope,”
he said. “It‘ll subtly distract the batters and give
me an advantage.” That day he pitched one of
his best games ever. His pitches seemed to have
extra mojo that kept the hitters off-balance.
Were they even aware they were being messed
with? I don’t think so. In fact, my theory is that
because Tom’s trick was so innocuous, no one
on the opposing team registered the fact that it
was affecting their concentration. I suggest you
try a similar strategy, Gemini
CANCER (June 21-July 22): A famous atheist
Two years ago, Mine That Bird won the Kentucky Derby at 50-to-1 odds. As longshots go, the
3-year-old bay gelding was almost invisible in the
race. If you watch the 2009 derby replay online,
Mine That Bird trails the pack by two lengths on
the backstretch and can’t really be seen until he
skims the rail with tremendous speed and breaks
away in the final furlong. Like Mine That Bird, Jaimy Gordon’s 2010 book, Lord of
Misrule, flew under the radar until it claimed a significant prize.
The book’s initial print run by McPherson & Company, a small, independent
press, was just 2,000 copies, upped, as The New York Times reported, to 8,000
after it was nominated for the National Book Award. Against great odds, it
claimed the award last November, a distinction it well deserves. It also deserves
more readers. In exuberant, playful and inventive prose, Gordon tells the tragicomic tale of Indian Mound Downs, a fictional racetrack in West Virginia populated by “the shades of so many large animals, stirrings of so many throwaway
lives.” On a day in the 1970s, Maggie, a wayward, “frizzly hair” 20-something,
and Tommy Hansel, her misogynistic boyfriend, show up at the track. Medicine
Ed, an aging horse trainer and conjurer, knows the pair’s arrival can’t lead to no
good, as Ed himself would say.
Maggie and Tommy mix up with the denizens of the shedrows – two-bit crooks,
past-their-prime horses, good-for-nothing jockeys, no-count horse trainers – and
prep for the four thrilling horse races that structure the novel. Gordon melds her
style to the characters through whom she tells individual chapters. Medicine Ed
doesn’t narrate his sections, but they are told in a charming and colorful colloquial voice. “I tell you a secret, horse racing is not no science,” Medicine Ed tells
Maggie. “Some of ‘em tries to make it a science, with the drugs and the chemicals
and that, but ma’fact it’s more like a religion. It’s a clouded thing.”
Hansel’s sections are related in the second person, implicating the reader in
his madness and aggression. The sections concerning Two-Tie, a kindly, old
gangster, and Elizabeth, his arthritic German Shepherd, stand out as the novel’s
most affecting. – Benjamin R. Bombard
FREEWILL ASTROLOGY
named Edwin Kagin has incorporated performance art into his crusade against religious believers. Wielding a hairdryer, he “de-baptizes”
ex-church-goers who want to reverse the effects of the baptism they experienced as children. The stream of hot air that Kagin blows
against their foreheads is meant to exorcise the
holy water daubed there way back when.
Could you benefit from a similar ritual, Cancerian? If you have any inclinations to free yourself
from early imprints, religious or otherwise,
you’re in a favorable phase to do so.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In an old Star Trek
episode, a woman visits the starship’s medical
facility seeking chemicals she needs to start a
hydroponic garden. The chief doctor, who has a
high sense of self-worth and a gruff bedside
manner, scowls at her. Why is she bothering
him with such a trivial request? “Now I know
how Hippocrates felt,” he complains, “when
the King needed him to trim a hangnail.” (Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is referred
to as the “Father of Medicine” because of his
seminal influence on the healing professions.) I
suspect that sometime soon, Leo, you will be in
a position similar to the ship’s doctor. Unlike
him, however, you should carry out the assignment with consummate grace. It’ll pay off for
you in the long run — probably in ways you
can’t imagine right now.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In Leonard Cohen’s
song “Anthem,” he sings “There is a crack in
everything / That’s how the light gets in.” From
what I can tell, Virgo, the week ahead will be
one of the best times all year for welcoming the
light that comes through the cracks. In fact, I
urge you to consider widening the cracks a little
— maybe even splitting open a few new cracks
— so that the wildly healing light can pour
down on you in profusion.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When was the last
time you created a masterpiece, Libra? I’m not
necessarily talking about a work of art; it might
have been an exquisite dinner you prepared for
people you love . . . or a temporary alliance you
forged that allowed you to accomplish the impossible . . . or a scary-fun adventure you risked
that turned you into a riper human being with a
more authoritative standing. Whether your last
tour de force happened seven weeks ago or
seven months ago, my sense is that you’re due
for another one. The cosmic rhythms are conspiring to make you act like an artful genius.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Why is everything so eerily quiescent right now? Should you
be worried? Has the momentum been sucked
out of your life? Have you lost your way? Personally, I think you’re doing better than you realize. The dormancy is a temporary illusion. To
help give you the perspective you need, I offer
you this haiku-like poem by Imma von Bodmershof, translated by Petra Engelbert: “The great
river is silent / only sometimes it sounds quietly
/ deep under the ice.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I saw exPoet Laureate Robert Hass read and discuss his
poem “Etymology.” He said that while many of
the fluids of the human body are named with
English words, at least one isn’t: the moisture of
a woman who is sexually aroused. The AngloSaxons did have a word for it, he noted: silm,
which also referred to the look of moonlight on
the water. “Poor language,” Hass concluded,
bemoaning a vocabulary that ignores such an
important part of human experience. Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to correct for any problems caused by poor language in your own
sphere. If you’ve been lazy about articulating
your meaning or needs, then please activate
your deeper intelligence. If there’s a situation in
your life that’s suffering from a sloppy use of
words, reframe its contours with crisper
speech. You could even coin some new words
or borrow good ones from foreign tongues.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stand-up comedian Arj Barker says that when he writes
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each of his jokes, he’s thinking that all he needs
to do is make it funny enough to get at least
three people in the audience to laugh at it.
More than three is gravy, and he hopes he does
get more. But if he can just get those three, he
believes, he will always get a lot of work in his
chosen profession. In accordance with the astrological rhythms, Capricorn, I urge you to
adopt a similar approach. To be successful in the
coming days, you don’t need an approval rating
of 80 percent.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The renegade
spiritual sect known as the Church of the Subgenius values one treasure above all others: not
salvation, not enlightenment, not holiness, but
rather Slack. And what is Slack? It is a state of
being in which everything flows smoothly — a
frame of mind so unfettered and at ease that
the entire universe just naturally cooperates
with you. When you’ve got abundant reserves
of Slack, you don’t strain and struggle to make
desired events unfold, and you don’t crave
things you don’t really need. You’re surrendered to the greater intelligence that guides
your life, and it provides you with a knack for
attracting only what’s truly satisfying. Happy
Slack Week, Aquarius! I suspect you will have
loads of that good stuff, which means your freedom to be your authentic self will be at a peak.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Everybody gets
so much information all day long that they lose
their common sense,” said writer Gertrude
Stein many decades ago. Isn’t that about a thousand times truer in 2011? It takes rigorous concentration not to be inundated with data. But
that’s exactly your assignment, Pisces. It’s absolutely crucial for you to be a beacon of common sense in the coming days. To meet your
dates with destiny, you will have to be earthy,
uncluttered, well-grounded, and in close touch
with your body’s intuition. If that requires you
to cut back dramatically on the volume of information you take in, so be it.
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FOR SALE
TRUE 750EA Elliptical Trainer: 4
Pre-programs, 1 Heart Rate Control
with Cruise Control and 1 Manual.
Display features include Message
Center - Start-Up Information,
Time, Distance, RPM, Heart Rate
Work Level, Watts, Mets and Calories. Interactive arms feature thumb
controls and contact heart rate grips.
Excellent condition. Will deliver
LOS ANGELES TIMES
SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
“Subtraction” by Mike Peluso • Sunday, February 6, 2011
Across
1 Hale
7 Powerful Chevys, for
short
13 Fall bloomers
19 Newtonian concern
21 Unrestricted
22 1939 retiree who said
“Today I consider myself
the luckiest man on the
face of the earth”
BLACK TIE SKI RENTAL DELIVERY is
looking for qualified applicants to
open their own branch of Black Tie
to service Jackson Hole! Please email
[email protected] or visit
www.BlackTieSkis.com for more info.
23 “Most Difficult
Woman” pageant winner’s
title?
25 Establish a new
foothold
26 Weasel cousin
27 Nashville-to-Louisville
dir.
28 Laced
29 Stacks like Tupperware
26 February 2 - 8, 2011
30 Alberta native
32 Playground retort
34 Middle x or o
35 What Nadia Comaneci gave her Olympic
opponents?
41 Paparazzi, briefly
45 Too violent, maybe
46 Baby in blue
47 Final Four org.
49 Eliza’s mentor, to
Eliza
50 Urged (on)
51 Nite times
53 Compete
54 Soup legume
56 Former Cub slugger
57 Batch of itch reliever?
60 Sales __
61 Angry with
64 Sm., med. or lge.
65 T-man or G-man
66 __Kosh B’Gosh
67 3 Musketeers relative
70 Old photo tone
72 Anglican church officials
74 Zeta follower
75 Likely
76 In bed, maybe
77 Parson’s house
78 Thrice due
79 Native American
Washington baseballer?
83 Hall of Famer Sandberg
87 Luther contemporary
89 Hall & Oates, e.g.
90 Fail to take the heat?
91 Smudge
92 “... __ forgive those
who trespass ...”
93 Large-screen format
95 Part of una semana
96 Egotist’s array
97 Like buffalo, red
meatwise
99 Timeless witticism?
102 Golf hole meas.
103 Verbally insistent
106 Royal display
107 Speed, for a running
back
109 Actress Petty
110 White wine apéritif
111 “The Thorn Birds”
and others
116 Conspicuous terrain
features
118 Deal between thugs?
121 Thrilled
122 2,000 pounds
123 1962 World’s Fair
124 Kobe mat
125 Walk in the park
126 A player might be cut
51 French card game
52 Wine holder
Down
53 Middle of a boast
1 Tire holders
55 James and Jones
2 Taking care of busi58 Syrup source
ness
59 Molson competitor
3 Cancún kiss
62 Eastern counters
4 Bear up there
63 Chloe’s love
5 Sutured
67 Maguey plant liquor
6 “Tool Man” Taylor of 68 Order to relax
TV
69 Number in an Amtrak
7 Ming artifact
report?
8 Aliens, for short
70 Iowa’s __ City
9 Acting like one has
71 NE Nevada county or
something to hide
its seat
10 Shinbones
73 Skin-related
11 2010 panelist with
77 Adjusted opening?
Kara, Randy and Simon
80 Old vitamin bottle
12 Luges, e.g.
abbr.
13 Cabinet dept.
81 Islamic leader
14 Handled
82 Semimonthly tide
15 What black clouds do 84 Polite backwoods re16 Restrictions on Cupid? sponse
17 Funny one
85 Alliance formed under
18 PD ranks
HST
20 Sleep ailment
86 Once, once
24 Linear, briefly
88 Subject of a “Rigo31 Claret, e.g.
33 German grandpa
35 “__ bien!”
36 Sum preceder?
37 Bothers
38 Cooks, in a way
39 Genesis victim
40 __ Nostra
42 Chlorine or iodine
43 Starting Miami quarterback in three straight
’70s Super Bowls
44 Graceful women
47 One of a reptilian
comics quartet
48 2.0 GPA component,
probably
after one
letto” duet
91 Afternoon TV idol
94 “Jersey Shore” airer
95 Flagrante __: in the
act of committing the offense
96 Rear in Liverpool
98 Look up to
99 Grammar student, at
times
100 DeMille specialty
101 Pamplona runners
104 “Stand and Deliver”
star
105 Mean something
107 Create a distraction
during, maybe
108 Toni Morrison novel
110 __ Ration: dog food
112 Culturally affected
113 Castilian cat
114 Anti-Patriot Act org.
115 Ignore a Time
change?
117 Reagan era prog.
119 AOL guffaw
120 It’s less than gross
Test Drive today with the
JACKSON HOLE
ALPHA DEALER
2002 BMW 330 XI
$11900
2007 AUDI A4
$22600
2002 AUDI A6
$10900
1996 JEEP WRANGLER
$3995
2006 JEEP WRANGLER 2DR
$23900
2005 JEEP WRANGLER
$19995
2006 VOLVO XC90
$22500
1998 VOLVO V70 WAGON
$3250
2006 SUBARU B9 TRIBECA
$21500
$240/mo Oac
2009 SUBARU LEGACY
2005 BENZ E500
$26900
2007 GMC YUKON XL
$32900
2003 GMC YUKON XL
$10900
2006 GMC SIERRA 2500HD
$16900
1996 OLDS BRAVADA
$3300
2005 FORD MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE
$10995
1999 FORD EXPEDITION
$6995
2003 FORD KING RANCH
$13900
2008 FORD TAURUS
$15900
1996 FPRD F250 7.3 DIESEL!!
$9900
2006 BUICK RENDEVOUS$17900
Call for details
1992 CHEV SILVERADO 4X4
$3995
1998 CHEV S-10 BLAZER 4X4 LT
$6900
1996 CHEV 4X4 2500 WITH PLOW
$9995
2003 CHEV EXT CAB SILVERADO
$10900
2009 CHEV IMPALA LT
$13500
3 VERY CLEAN TAHOES IN STOCK!!
Call for details
2005 CHRYSLER 300C AWD HEMI
Call for details
2007 CHRYSLER PACIFICA 20K MILES
$19900
1995 RAM 1500 V8
$4900
1997 RAM 2500
$6900
2002 RAM 2500 5.9 CUMMINS
$16000
2005 RAM 3500 5.9 CUMMINS
$19500
2006 RAM 1500 QUAD HEMI SLT
$20500
2008 RAM 3500 SRW CREW LONG
$32500
2008RAM 2500 QUAD CAB LONG LARAMIE
$36500
2009 RAM 2500 REGULAR CAB 6.7 CUMMINS
$29500
2003 FORD F150 XLT 4X4
$15900
2002 FORD WINDSTAR VAN
$3995
2 JEEP COMMANDERS IN STOCK!!
Call for details
2006 LEXUS GX470 NEED WE SAY MORE?
$26900
2003 MITZ OUTLANDER NICE AND CLEAN
$6900
2007 VW EOS AWESOME!
$22900
1998 VOLVO V70
$3250
2006 VOLVO XC90 LOW MILES
$22500
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Real Estate LLC
“We are Wyoming”
Locally Owned
Go to www.realestatescoreboard.com to sign up & receive the Real Estate Scoreboard© by e-mail.
The Real Estate Scoreboard
provides statistics for Star Valley
and Victor/Driggs, Idaho in
addition to Jackson Hole.
SF546 Wilson, WY
Large 1.48 acre landscaped lot with dramatic mountain views and private & large backyard surrounding
this recently remodeled six bedroom, five bath home ideally designed for your family or a corporate
retreat. Four thousand, five hundred square feet with spacious master suite at one end with family
room and bedrooms at the other. A true “HOME.” Contact: Timothy Mayo $2,295,000
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REAL ESTATE
SCOREBOARD©
JACKSON HOLE
WEEK OF 1.23.11 TO 1.29.11
Total # of sales
Week’s top sale
7
$3,950,000
*List price
Properties Currently Pending
Properties Pending Last Week
Residential
Building Site
Multi-Family
Farm & Ranch
Commercial
61
63
Total #
of Sales
Average
Sold Price
7
0
0
0
0
$1,356,191
$0
$0
$0
$0
Last 12 Months (1.29.10-1.28.11)
SF406 Victor, ID
Price Reduced to $450,000! Located in Teton
Springs, this 3 bedroom plus loft, log cabin is
walking distance to all the amenities of the resort.
Top of the line finishes throughout the home and
great short term rental potential.
Contact: Penny Gaitan
SF507 Jackson, WY
4 bedroom home has open living area, Elko
Heatilator in fireplace, kitchen designed by a chef,
roomy master suite with a spa tub, extra space
for office or exercise room, plenty of storage, and
2.78 acres which allows horses. $999,000
Contact Penny Gaitan
SF544 Hoback Junction, WY
This cabin styled home is nestled in the trees near
the Hoback River. This property has no CCR’S, two
bedrooms, an office, a wetbar, woodstove, 2 car
garage, and a storage shed on a ½ acre. $415,000
Contact: Jennifer Reichert
Number of Sales
Days on Market
List Price Volume Sold
Median List Price Sold
Average List Price Sold
279
292
$485,066,649
$835,000
$1,738,590
12 Months - Year Ago (1.29.09-1.28.10)
Number of Sales
Days on Market
List Price Volume Sold
Median List Price Sold
Average List Price Sold
204
215
$270,777,005
$750,000
$1,327,338
Current Inventory
TC200 Teton Village, WY
Enjoy the finest of Jackson Hole living at the base
of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in a fully
furnished, one-bedroom condominium located
in a truly special location for both winter and
summer activities. $325,000
Contact: Penny Gaitan
CC98 Afton, WY
This all metal insulated hangar is located on Lot
#44. No ramp fees. Low fuel prices at FBA, FAA
Identifier: AFO; 6,201 Elev./ 75’ x 7,023’ asphalt
/porous friction runway, weight capacity single
wheel 30,000 lbs., Class B-2, Common traffic advisory
frequency 122-800. $149,900 Contact: Dena Luthi
LL251 Tetonia, ID
Nature Lovers do not miss this opportunity. Build
a house on this one acre parcel and walk, ski or
ride into the National Forest. You have to see this
parcel to truly appreciate the great location.
$57,000 Contact: Zach Smith
GROUSE CREEK RANCH
LL240 Wilson, WY
Nestled among aspens, pines and cottonwoods,
this 3 acre home sites enjoys breathtaking views
of the Teton Mountain range and Jackson Hole
Mountain Resort. Located only a few minutes
from Teton Village, you'll find this location accessible
yet private. Perfect location for both summer and
winter activities boasting two nearby golf courses,
a ski resort and easy access to the Snake River!
$890,000 Contact: Penny Gaitan
Active Listings
769
Listing Inventory Dollars $1,741,565,898
Average List Price
$2,264,715
Average Days on Market
380
*In the event the week’s Top Sale is erroneously
reported it’s listed price is used.
**The Real Estate Scoreboard© was created by
Timothy C. Mayo. Some information for the
The Real Estate Scoreboard© is derived from
the Teton County MLS system and represents
information as submitted by all Teton County
MLS Members for Teton County, Wyoming,
Teton County, Idaho and Lincoln County,
Wyoming and is deemed to be accurate but
not guaranteed. The Real Estate Scoreboard©
is the sole property of Timothy C. Mayo and
may NOT be reproduced, copied, and/or used
in whole or part without the prior expressed
written consent of Timothy C. Mayo.
733.4339
or 800.227.3334
Fax 307.739.0766
Bordering forest on two sides this Amazing subdivision offers fishing, hiking, snowmobiling, horseback
riding, and frequent wildlife sittings. The views are striking, with an amazing view of Tin Cup and
Caribou Mountains. Lots are priced from $189,000 to $429,000 with acreages ranging from 5–22
acres. Contact: Dena Luthi or Will Garson.
www.jhrealestate.com
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