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Editorial: School lunch money 4 

Singletrack: Winter biking 4 

Reader Comments 4 

Public Editor: Bill Clinton is a monk 5 

Tea Party meets Republicans 6 

Props & Disses 6 

Nuclear accident 7 

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Talking a Big Game 8 

This Week 

Culture Matters: Kirtan sacred chanting 10 

This Week Arts & Entertainment 11 

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Music: Random Canyon Growlers 12 

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of works on animal brutality, 

focusing on predator and prey relationships. 

Smith said she is self-taught and draws inspiration 

from the beauty of nature and the bold colors and themes 

found in graffiti. Originally from Louisiana, Smith made her 

way to Jackson, at age 19, looking to become an artist. She has 

lived here for nine years and snowboards and rock climbs as 

much as possible. She is proud of her in-home studio space in 

what used to be the 3 Piece Eagle Bar at the historic Simpson 

House in downtown Jackson. She has shown work most recently 

at the Board Room Art Market, as well as several live 

works events (similar to the quick draw) at Full Circle Frameworks 

and Ciao Gallery. She has a solo show coming up at Elevated 

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more of her work or to get in touch, visit Smith’s website at erinashlee.com 

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK 

Richard Abowitz 

Laughable excuses for policy 

Should upperclassman be allowed 

to keep going off campus 

for lunch? The Teton County 

Board of Trustees recently held a 

workshop where the authorities 

seemed to be in favor of ending 

students’s off campus privileges 

at Jackson Hole High School for 

lunch. What seems obvious is 

that the school has a financial 

incentive to create a monopoly 

for its food sales at the expense 

of local businesses that currently 

sell to students during lunch. 

This should be rejected as a 

power and money grab at the expense 

of teens. It’s clearly meant 

to siphon money from community 

businesses to the school district. 

Not that this level of 

integrity is being used to present 

the issue. 

What’s shameful is, rather 

than admitting to having a selfserving 

financial motive, the 

Trustees are hiding behind politically 

correct gibberish, saying 

such a ban helps with a “green 

campus initiative.” Ridiculous! 

In fact, students are far more 

likely to carpool for lunch when 

they are all gathered and must 

return to the same campus. 

Another argument is that discipline 

problems increase. But 

that is merely a way of saying 

the few bad students must ruin 

other students’s privileges because 

school authorities are too 

lazy or incompetent to make 

such distinctions between 

those who behave and those 

who don’t. 

Obviously, the lunch 

that the school currently 

offers makes students 

want to eat elsewhere. 

Upperclassman will soon be 

graduates, or at least departed 

from high school, and free to 

roam the world at will. Part of 

the job of any school is to prepare 

students to be free in this 

culture, successfully. If a school 

is not capable of being secure 

that seniors can leave campus 

for an hour, what will these 

young adults be like among us 

come spring? I doubt we have 

much to fear from the lunchtime 

marauders from Jackson Hole 

High School. Certainly, the open 

campus for lunch is not so disorderly 

the school needs to suspend 

it at once. The debate the 

Send your comments to editor@jhweekly.com 

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workshop meant to address was 

merely if a change should take 

place next year. That undermines 

any claim that some disciplinary 

urgency needs to be 

addressed by closing campus. 

Obviously, the lunch and environment 

that the school currently 

offers for students makes 

them want to eat elsewhere. 

Maybe the school should do a 

better job of appealing to students? 

Local businesses near the 

school, like Smith’s and Quiznos, 

manage to offer choices that students 

prefer. Remember, while 

these are teens, they are not children. 

They have driver’s licenses 

and some are old enough to 

serve in the military. 

If the school wishes to use its 

power to restrict student freedom 

and to force the purchase 

of school lunches, just admit 

that’s the goal. But to pretend 

this change in policy is in response 

to vague disciplinary issues 

or, more laughably, assists 

in protecting the environment 

will only teach students a lesson 

in the hypocrisy, duplicity and 

doublespeak that can disguise 

the true motives of authorities. I 

guess, that is an important lesson 

to learn, too. 

Don’t put away the bike just yet 


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On Editorial: “Firing based on fear, ignorance” 

■ Mavies would lose business if people knew this fella had H.I.V.. They 

should not be forced to employ someone who threatens the health of 

their business or their customers even if that threat is rare or customers 

are misguided. You employ people who help your business. You remove 

people who don’t. H.I.V has been transmitted to caregivers and one never 

knows what may happen in the workplace to expose customers. While I 

don’t like the idea of denying jobs to H.I.V positive people simply because 

of their status, I do think that the negative economic impact of having an 

H.I.V. employee is a reasonable reason to deny employment if it can be 

shown that the impact on the business’ bottom line is real. 

■ Richard: yours is the attitude and mind set of someone who has 

never owned and operated a business. Right or wrong “ “Play with fire” 

(above comment) is spot on. The eating public will NOT patronize Mavs 

with an HIV employee handles their food. Medical facts, if accurate, will 

not trump the innate fear people have of contracting HIV or AIDS. If you 

should ever venture into the ranks of the self employed your attitude will 

change. You will have more empathy for the job creators and you will 

cease being a liberal detractor. 

On Props and Disses: Roundabouts won’t work 

■ It’s sad to see that Jake Nichols believes that the local motorist are 

not smart enough to navigate a modern roundabout. “First off” he didn’t 

do his homework before writing this piece or he would know the difference 

between an outdated traffic circle and a modern roundabout, and 

could therefore identify why the roundabout is a safer intersection choice 

over stop signs or traffic signals. Maybe we will see a correction to this article 

at a later date with more facts and less ‘scare the public’ comments. 

■ The roundabout lack of knowledge is similar to what some Vail, CO 

residents expressed in 1993 when roundabouts were first proposed. After 

great success, nearly every interchange along I-70 (which carries lots of 

trucks) is being converted to roundabouts, about 10 so, far more to come. 

Cheyenne has two at the Vandehei interchange, and another will be built 

to the south, on I-25, which has trucks. Roundabouts are now the unofficial 

standard for reconstructed rural interchanges in Colorado. Over 2,500 

roundabouts have been constructed in the US since the mid-1990s, and 

the pace is accelerating. The writer of this article is clearly un-informed 

about the state-of-the-art in infrastructure design and obviously ignored 

the wealth of positive information about modern roundabouts. 

■ Nearly every statement Mr. Nichol makes about roundabouts is incorrect 

and can be refuted with a little research. Start with the Insurance 

Institute for Highway Safety’s study on modern roundabouts IN THE U.S. 

and see the outstanding safety statistics that prove that they do work, 

even in this country. If he was trying to be funny, he failed. Shame on you 

for printing such drivel. 

■ Roundabouts do have a learning “curve”. We will all get used to then 

in time. However there is one in Utah in particular that is 2 lanes wide that 

I always put my flashers on when I enter, to the dismay of my wife. 

■ As a bicycle rider, I look forward to doing laps around the inside loop 

and would like to welcome other racers on inauguration day. The greatest 

thing about roundabouts are that they make it easy to catch impaired drivers. 

We need more. 

■ If it’s a round intersection, it’s a roundabout. I don’t much care what 

the officials say to the contrary. They’re a sick twist on the old highway on 

ramps that preceded the off ramps by 100 feet. I can’t wait for this one to 

ice up. 

On Cover Story: “Homebrew Crew” 

■ Patrick Dolan for president. 

Over the weekend, our perfect fall singletrack and crowdless roads were taken over by the first visit 

of our friend La Niña. Time to wax the boards and head for the hills, but why abandon the bike completely? 

With the advent of fat-tired snowbikes you can keep on pedaling all year long. Try a 4” balloon 

tire that floats you along in the snow and you’ll be amazed! These bikes are not intended to ride 

through open fields of pow, but anywhere there is a supportable base is good to go. Of course you 

know that we have the best skiing in the country, but we also have the best snowbiking. Our dry 

snow, abundant sunshine, and huge grooming networks make it primo. Right now you can head up 

Cache Creek, Game Creek, and much of the nearby singletrack. Once the snow piles up more, the 

grooming programs on Cache, Game, and the Snake River dike make for great riding. Hagen trail is 

walked enough all winter long to give you a singletrack fix every month. Head up to Togwotee Pass for 

hundreds of miles of Continental Divide grooming and a single- (or multi-) day epic. Teton Valley, 

Idaho’s back roads and groomed trails are fantastic too. Keep on skiing, but consider checking out 

the bliss of snowbiking to mix it up this winter! 

– Scott Fitzgerald, Owner, Fitzgerald’s Bicycles

According to the Aug. 11 JH 

Daily, T.R. Pierce, chairman of the 

Teton County GOP said they share 

the same value of fiscal responsibility 

as the Jackson Hole Tea 

Party. Pierce has been a principled 

and respectful leader of the GOP, 

but fiscal responsibility? Give me 

a break. The Reagan, Bush and 

Bush administrations increased 

federal debt, both as a percentage 

of GNP and in actual dollars, 

more than the Democratic administrations 

of Kennedy/Johnson, 

Carter or Clinton. 

In their continued efforts at “fiscal 

responsibility,” Republicans, 

under pressure from defense contractor 

lobbyists, are leading the 

charge to undo the automatic 

across-the-board cuts agreed to by 

both parties should Obama’s bipartisan 

Congressional committee 

fail to agree on a deficit-reduction 

plan. According to “conservative” 

Texas Senator John Cornyn, the 

cuts are bad because they would 

require military spending to be 

“based on how much money is 

available.” Duh! (Coincidently, 

Texas is a major recipient of defense 

spending.) 

A Lockheed Martin spokesman 

PUBLIC EDITOR 

Mike Bressler 

Bill Clinton is a monk 

said that “further cuts … put critical 

national security capabilities at 

risk.” If Lockheed Martin executives 

cared so much about defense, 

why do they take millions of dollars 

from defense budgets in 

“bonuses”? 

If a Democrat said, “We can’t 

base social spending on the 

money available but on what the 

director says we need,” he would 

be called a traitor, a socialist, and 

get run out of town. 

According to Secretary of Defense 

Robert Gates, while a strong 

military is imperative, “it is also 

important to keep some perspective 

… [Our] battle fleet is still 

larger than the next 13 navies 

combined—and 11 of those 13 

navies are U.S. allies or partners.” 

Republicans don’t want to provide 

oversight for defense spending 

for the same reason Democrats 

don’t want to reform entitlements: 

it will piss off their base, and they 

love their jobs more than America. 

Saying that the GOP supports fiscal 

responsibility is like Bill Clinton 

not only claiming “I never had 

sex with that woman” but “I never 

had sex with anyone, ever.” 

In the same piece, David NeVille 

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to the public editor, publiceditor@planetjh.com. 

of the J.H. Tea Party says limited 

government is one of their values. 

Everyone wants limited government; 

I want limited governmental 

regulation in elk hunting (for me, 

not everybody). I wish the Tea 

Party would be more specific. Can I 

dump my raw sewage into the river 

or into the aquifer? Can I have a 

welding shop, gunpowder and gas 

storage, match manufacturing, and 

a daycare in the same building? 

Can I sell unhygienic milk that 

spreads diseases like typhoid and 

tuberculosis, as was done before 

milk regulation, because I am 

American and it is my right? 

On Oct. 8, 1871, Mrs. O’Leary’s 

cow kicked over a gas lamp. Two 

days later about four square miles 

of Chicago had burned to the 

ground. Hundreds were dead and 

90,000—almost a third of 

Chicago’s population—was 

homeless. On September 11, 2001, 

religious fundamentalists ran two 

jet liners into the World Trade 

Center. Did building codes have 

anything to do with New York not 

burning down despite 20,000 gallons 

of jet fuel being ignited in a 

high-rise? Nah, that would be unconstitutional. 


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By Patrick Dolan 

Hort Spitzer (left), a member of the Jackson Hole Tea Party, with T.R. Pierce, chairman 

of the Teton County Republican Party, at a potluck on Nov. 8. 

Tea Party hosts potluck dinner 

Attendees mingle, discuss organization, sign petitions. 

While there were no Ben 

Franklin impersonators or people 

dressed as Uncle Sam, the Jackson 

Hole Tea Party (JHTP) met last 

week for a potluck dinner and invited 

the Teton County GOP to talk 

politics and discuss common 

ground. There were political pamphlets, 

a cash bar, an attractive 

young woman handing out political 

pamphlets, and a table with 

roasted chicken, potato salad and 

cookies. 

“The mainstream media has 

done a fantastic job of painting the 

Tea Party as a bunch of subhuman, 

knuckle-dragging, assholes,” 

said Bill Smith, an active 

member in the JHTP community. 

While he does not approve of the 

press coverage for Tea Party 

groups, he hopes this can change 

with education and more informal 

potlucks. 

Of the crowd of about 60 at The 

Virginian Lodge Convention Center, 

most appeared to be over 50years 

old. They were cordial, but 

according to the bartender, “not 

very big drinkers.” Party aside, 

JHTP invited Teton County Republicans 

to talk about issues and 

strategize for the coming election. 

Nancy Clancy, a friendly member 

of JHTP, said they hope to get 

the country back to the vision of 

the founding fathers and hope to 

influence the election next year. 

Unwilling to name any names, 

Clancy said there are “those in the 

legislature from Jackson who are 

not holding to our core values. To 

be a Republican means you vote 

on Republican values.” 

T.R. Pierce, chairman of the 

Teton County Republican Party, 

was on hand sampling potluck 

treats and mingling with the 

crowd. Most men came dressed in 

western formal: dark, pressed blue 

jeans, a button-up shirt, cowboy 

boots and a cowboy hat. The 

women dressed close to the same, 

but with accents of turquoise and 

silver jewelry, gaudy belt buckles, 

and an occasional denim skirt. 

Pierce said that in Teton County, 

the Republicans share the same 

core values with JHTP and it 

makes sense for the two groups to 

meet. 

“I have people in my party that 

steer clear of the Tea Party and I 

have some people that were here 

tonight,” Pierce said. “Here in 

Teton County, I want us to be a 

party that is inclusive and not exclusive.” 

Pierce believes JHTP 

would like to appeal to all political 

“Regardless of the party, 

we want honest, open 

and transparent 

government.” 

- Hort Spitzer 

appetites, Democrats, independents 

and Republicans alike. “I 

think it’s more them shying away 

from us than the Republican Party 

shying away from them,” Pierce 

said. 

Several Republican elected officials 

attended, including Paul Vogelheim, 

of the Board of County 

Commissioners, and State Representative 

Keith Gingery, of Jackson. 

There was not a large showing of 

Democrats, but Hort Spitzer, a 

member of JHTP’s executive committee, 

said they are always welcome. 

“This is not a Republican organization. 

This is a change-government 

movement,” Spitzer said. He 

said he also understands that 

“there’s probably some reluctance 

for people to step outside the twoparty 

system.” 

Spitzer said that JHTP is looking 

forward to next year’s elections to 

see what will come of the Tea Party 

campaigns on a national level. He 

said, “We are on the kick finish 

now to get across that line to 

change what’s happening in 

Washington. Regardless of party, 

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we want honest, open and transparent 

government. And we’ll follow 

them after they are elected.” 

JHTP claims three core values, 

leaving social issues aside. According 

to pamphlets, they value 

a Constitutionally limited government, 

fiscal responsibility, and 

free markets. Right now, with a 

national debt of 15 trillion dollars, 

keeping government costs down, 

according to attendees, is important 

for Tea Partiers nationwide. 

Spitzer pointed out that most 

people in JHTP are older and living 

a financially comfortable life. 

“I feel lucky, with all this grey hair 

I won’t be around when [the 

young] have to pay,” Spitzer said, 

referencing upcoming generations 

needing to take on government 

debts. 

Since JHTP formed in May, 

Spitzer said four individual committees 

meet weekly and the mailing 

list has grown to more than 450 

e-mail addresses. (I signed-in at 

the potluck and am now counted 

in their numbers.) 

“We’ve gone through some 

learning curves, in terms of organization,” 

Spitzer said. For instance, 

how does JHTP organize the people 

who sign-up for its mailing list? 

The organization of petitions is 

being examined too. At an information 

table, signatures were solicited 

for three separate petitions 

intended to be sent to Congressmen 

from Wyoming. Each petition, 

on subjects ranging from gun 

control to illegal immigration to 

solar energy, had separate signature 

sheets but were ultimately 

piled together, possibly confusing 

which signatures belong to which 

petition. 

Richard Lewis, co-chair of 

JHTP’s executive committee, said 

that while most people signed all 

petitions, JHTP is looking into any 

possible mix-up of signatures. He 

said the petitions “will not go out 

to any senators or representatives 

unless we can connect all names 

to the correct petition.” 


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Education reform begins with year-round school 

“Summer learning loss” is the buzz phrase of the month. First 

Lady Michelle Obama has been championing the idea and her 

husband got an earful from Steve Jobs, before he passed, on 

how crummy the American education system is. Numerous 

studies show again and again that kids get dumber over the 

summer. 

A new report released by the RAND Corporation, one of many over 

the past few decades, indicates that summer learning loss is real and its 

cumulative effect over 12 years of schooling puts American students behind 

their counterparts. According to a study conducted by Harvard’s 

Program on Education Policy and Governance, the U.S. graduating high 

school class of 2011 students ranked behind 31 countries in math proficiency 

and behind 16 countries in reading proficiency. 

The evidence is irrefutable. No matter how effective other school reforms 

may be, the traditional 175-day school calendar creates an inefficient 

system of learning. How can any educator or parent say they 

support a robust education system and then walk away from that investment 

every summer? 

Pardon, parents, but TCSD#1 is not your daycare. Too bad, teachers, 

but it’s time to get a real job that doesn’t offer 175 days off each year. 

Sorry, students, but your contribution to the seasonal workforce is not 

significant enough to fret losing. Ivy League grads need your summer 

cashier’s job, anyway. 

Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation goes wireless 

Pat Dave Coon on the back the next time you see him. Tell Gail Jensen, 

“Thanks for caring about the valley’s wildlife.” Coon and Jensen 

took notice of and pity on migrating elk that struggled to navigate 

a stretch of useless barbed wire along Highway 22 

near Bar Y Estates. 

The Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation 

(www.JHWildlife.org) came quickly to the rescue with fencing 

pliers and work gloves. The valley non-profit has been intricately involved 

with promoting ways the community can live compatibly with wildlife. 

The Foundation’s “Give Wildlife a Brake” campaign maps high roadkill 

areas and is responsible for the portable signage warning motorists of 

wildlife crossings. 

JHWF also removes obsolete fencing throughout the valley. This past 

summer, the organization celebrated 150 miles of total fence pulled since 

1996. A new nature mapping campaign was also launched recently. 

Trained volunteers will observe 

and record wildlife 

with the hope that JHWF will 

then be able to create a database 

useful for guiding future 

land management decisions. 

JHWF will host an open 

house on Thursday, Nov. 17 

Hanging elk. 

at Wild By Nature Gallery 

from 3 to 6 p.m. It’s a chance 

to meet JHWF’s new executive 

director Leigh Work. 

The former Teton Science School grad holds a Master’s degree in Environmental 

Management from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental 

Studies in 2004. 

The Town of Jackson is anti-free speech 

Town attorney Audrey Cohen-Davis appeared before 

Wyoming Supreme Court on Nov. 10, to explain why it was 

proper for the Town of Jackson to secure a restraining order 

against pro-life demonstrators from Operation Save America 

(OSA). 

Pastor Mark Holick, of Spirit One Christian Ministry in Wichita, led a 

group of 40 or 50 pro-life demonstrators in Jackson, last May. The group’s 

tactics, which included graphic images of aborted fetuses and labeling Dr. 

Brent Blue as a murderer, did not sit well with our community. 

Locals derided Holick’s band, shouting obscenities from their vehicles 

and, on at least one occasion, physically assaulting the church group. Jackson 

locals might not have cared for the message, but their volatile and infantile 

pushback was equally appalling. 

To keep matters from boiling over, a restraining order was granted barring 

OSA from marching on the town square during Elk Fest. The Town 

of Jackson has managed to delay the flash pot, it hopes to avoid. When 

prosecuting attorney Steve Weichman later dropped all charges, OSA saw 

that as an admission of guilt. 

“To not rule on this would create a blueprint for the squelching of protected 

speech in the future,” Jack Edwards, attorney for OSA, told Justice 

E. James Burke. 

Burke relied, “The U.S. Supreme Court has said there’s no place in the 

law for issuing restraining orders without notice that deprive people of 

their basic freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.” 

The right to free speech is bestowed upon American citizens who might 

choose to exercise it in your town, in your streets, and in your face. 

JH WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

Separate incidents at Idaho nuke facility 

wake-up calls for downwind Wyoming 


It was a rough week at Idaho 

National Laboratory (INL) last 

week. The 890-square-mile nuclear 

energy facility located between 

Arco, and Idaho Falls, 

Idaho, experienced two unrelated 

emergencies three days 

apart. 

On November 8, 16 employees 

at the Zero Power Physics Reactor 

(ZPPR), a fast reactor core 

decommissioned in 1992, were 

exposed to radioactive material 

when a shipping container of 

nuclear fuel accidentally 

opened. Seven of those employees 

showed external skin contamination 

and were 

immediately decontaminated; 

six of them had positive nasal 

swipes. A lung scan performed 

on at least two employees 

showed traces of Americium- 

241, an isotope that indicates 

the employees may have inhaled 

plutonium. 

Four of the 16 workers received 

treatment for internal radiation 

exposure. INL officials 

said ongoing tests and monitoring 

of exposed workers will 

likely continue for several 

weeks. Officials at the lab also 

said all radioactive material was 

Nuclear fuel container similar 

to the one that opened accidentally 

at INL. 

contained within the facility and 

there was never any threat to the 

public. 

On November 11, emergency 

personnel were again scrambled 

at the lab when a fire was reported 

some time before 10 a.m. 

on Friday. INL spokesman Erik 

Simpson reported that 11 Idaho 

Cleanup Project (ICP) employees 

were evacuated for medical 

attention. One worker was 

transported to the Eastern Idaho 

Regional Medical Center for 

burns. 

Crews were able to reenter the 

building at 2 p.m. that day and 

confirmed the fire was caused 

by a sodium reaction. Sodium 

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until the early 1990s. When the 

reactor was shut down, the 

sodium coolant was drained; 

however, ICP employees are currently 

tasked with removing 

residual sodium from the 

Sodium Boiler Building before 

demolishing the facility. 

According to Dan Walker, program 

director of the nuclear 

watchdog organization called 

Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free, 

the process of removing sodium 

residue can be tricky. It requires 

the intentional introduction of 

moisture to the molten sodium, 

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Talking a 

big game 

It’s not up 

for debate. 

The high 

school 

forensics 

team is highly 

argumentative. 

BY JAKE NICHOLS 

The 2011-12 Jackson Hole Speech and Debate team is one of the strongest ever and team captain Jessica Moore is a big reason why. 

Socrates or soccer? 

Many people think of Speech and Debate as a forum 

for constructive arguing—and indeed it’s that. It also offers 

beginning students an opportunity to master their 

fear of speaking in public and to hone their oratory skills 

of interpretation, persuasion, and expostulation. But the 

life lessons learned and social skills acquired through 

participation in forensics competitions are the ultimate 

pedagogic goal of Jackson Hole Speech and Debate 

(JHSD) instructors Mark Houser and Londe Gagnon. 

Forensics is a sport. It’s speech tennis with a clock. 

JHSD students will log 20,000 miles on buses, nearly the 

circumference of the earth, and spend 50 nights in hotel 

rooms, all for the sake of competition. At Jackson Hole 

High School, Houser and Gagnon are confident that their 

students get the bigger picture: forensics is forever. 

Moore claims her decision to sign up for JHSD last year 

changed her life, though she still can’t say what possessed 

her to do it. 

“I didn’t really even know what it was. I thought you 

just sat around and talked,” Moore admitted. “I was not a 

very good public speaker. I got really nervous. I have no 

idea why I would want to even try this.” 

Moore said she could not forget the mock debate 

about capital punishment she watched in eighth grade 

when National Speech and Debate Tournament qualifier 

Jordan Schreiber debated the pros and cons of capital 

punishment with another student. The demonstration 

appealed to her love of logic, if only she could gain the 

confidence to present in front of an audience. 

Now, as a senior in her second year with Speech and 

Debate, Moore is one of the best jaw-jackers in the state. 

Her specialty event is the Lincoln Douglas Debate—a 

head-to-head battle of wits over a pre-designated moral 

issue. Contestants must be prepared to argue either pro 

or con, determined by a coin flip prior to the debate. 

Opponents of Moore should know one thing before 

they tangle with her at the podium: it’s never personal. 

“Initially I thought I had to believe passionately in the 

resolution I was presenting,” Moore said. “But I’ve 

learned not to let my own personal feelings get in the way 

because I now see both sides. In fact, I don’t think I ever 


Jessica Moore is a member of the NFL. Her competitive fire has already 

earned the Jackson Hole High School senior standout several victories 

on the playing field. This team captain has leadership abilities as well. 

Her teammates look to her whenever they need a piece of advice or a 

shot of confidence. Moore is going places. That’s evident and no one 

should argue it. And no one in his right mind would want to. 

The National Forensics League is a non-partisan, educational honor 

society established to inspire American 

high school students to 

participate in the forensic arts: 

debate, public speaking and 

interpretation. Since 1925, 

NFL has enrolled over 1.3 

million students in 

fulfillment of its motto: 

“training youth for 

leadership.” 

really have personal feelings on anything I debate. For instance, 

when I state something I don’t say ‘I believe.’ I 

state it as fact and present it as the only truth.” 

At her best, Moore can hoodwink an adversary into admitting 

the world is flat—or at least convince a judge she 

has presented a better case for it than the contrary. While 

her peers outside the world of forensics have trouble articulating 

themselves beyond monosyllabic grunts, the 

17-year-old dialectically dices her opponent’s arguments 

with surgical skill, often reducing them to a state of aporia. 

Moore was one of the top debaters in the state last year 

and the standout at the National Tournament held in 

Dallas last June. She’s led JHHS’s 42-member team to 

back-to-back first place finishes to start the 2011-12 season. 

Still, the JHSD team captain knows awards are nice 

but ego strengthening is the real payoff. 

“Jessica is a preeminently coachable student,” Houser 

said. He recently turned over the reins to Gagnon after 

coaching the team since 1995. “She can see clearly the diversity 

of opinion that exists in the world and where she 

WILLIE WISE

Coach Mark Houser preps team members for Star Valley Tournament. Jake 

Ethington, Asa Moore, Bryan Checker, Billy Frank, and Natalie Palmquist. 

stands in it. We all love winning, sure, but I am most interested 

in seeing Jessica learn how she should approach 

Speech and Debate and, more importantly, how she will 

approach her life.” 

Winning isn’t everything. Houser and Gagnon say the 

real goal at any meet is a winning attitude. 

“The judges are people and they have differing opinions,” 

Gagnon said. “You are never going to have the 

exact outcome every time, and that in itself is a lesson to 

learn. There can be the tendency to say, ‘That [judge] 

doesn’t know what they are talking about.’ Our students 

learn to live with results they don’t always agree with.” 

Houser concurs. “We coaches really stress civility,” he 

said. “Teenagers love to get in these heated discussions. It 

can get emotional. One of the things the students learn is 

we need our intrinsic ego strength. To work really hard 

and get a poor ranking because someone didn’t like your 

interpretation or opinion is tough to handle. But we 

never let them speak critically of the judges.” 

Practice, practice, practice 

Last Thursday’s after-school practice was the last 

chance for debaters Bryan Checker and Billy Frank to 

bone up before the Star Valley tournament. The topic: 

“Direct popular vote should replace electoral vote in 

Presidential elections.” Sophomores Checker and Frank 

compete in Public Forum debate, a tag team-style discourse 

sometimes known as “Crossfire” for its similarity 

to the cable TV show. 

Since the topic changes monthly, it’s the same topic 

fellow teammates Natalie Palmquist and her partner 

Sarah Wolverton argued successfully the previous week 

in Evanston. Houser gets Checker and Frank up to speed 

by looking over last weekend’s judges’ comments. 

“Natalie, did you get into voters being affected by bias 

from the media at all?” Houser asked. 

“We thought of that argument but we did not have it 

articulated well enough to feel confident about it not 

blowing up in our face,” Palmquist said. 

“What arguments were you seeing?” Houser wondered. 

“They suggested not changing the current system because 

‘better the devil you know than the one you don’t’ 

kind of thing,” Palmquist said. 

“That stifles innovation,” piped in fellow team member 

Jake Ethington. 

“Yes. If you hear that again, just turn it on them,” 

Houser suggested. “Innovative change from our Founding 

Fathers’s original intent has created benefits for our 

country. Look at slavery.” 

Houser asked Palmquist if Checker and Frank could 

use her ‘con’ case since she would not be competing that 

weekend. Houser says an enormous amount of research 

and statistical gathering is required pre-tourny since 

nearly every contention or remonstration must be 

backed up by cited evidence. 

Checker and Frank make a strong team for their disparate 

strengths and weaknesses. 

“Bryan is knowledgeable about a lot of things in general, 

which is helpful in the research phase,” Frank said. 

“And Billy is very good at every contention and homing 

in on what our opponents say and finding ways to attack 

those contentions,” Checker countered. 

But the team’s best asset may be its competitive fire. 

“Billy and I don’t like to lose at all,” Checker said. “We 

also don’t like to go into a debate not knowing something, 

everything. Adding the atmosphere of a real competition 

really gets us going. We both work better under 

pressure.” 

Houser talks to his students at length about their questioning 

tactics. He references things like “analysis behind 

the question” and warns against “flawed logic.” 

Moore has learned there is no such thing as an openended 

question postulated during an event. Every statement, 

every question is leading and designed to lure 

one’s opponent into a paradoxical snare. 

“When you are asking questions you are pretty sure 

how they going to answer and how you will use that 

against them,” Moore said. 

Checker agrees. “You always have to be one step 

ahead,” he said. “You need to know every single possible 

outcome beforehand. If not, we will get caught off-guard 

and stumble and ruin our chances.” 

Like a “Rick Perry moment”? 

“I don’t think either of us has ever messed up as bad as 

Rick Perry did,” Frank said. 

Blunders happen to the best of them, though, even to 

Moore. 

“It was my very first debate in Evanston,” Moore said. 

“I was debating a guy who was, like, seven-foot-five and a 

few hundred pounds. I started speaking Spanish. I have 

no idea what came over me.” 

As prepared as debaters are before a meet, much depends 

on their ability to think on their feet. Note-taking 

is essential and rebuttals are often conjured on the spot. 

Familiarity with opponents is sometimes helpful. Moore 

says there are some orators she knows will give her trouble. 

“You definitely get to know the other debaters and 

their style,” Moore said. “You get to know the opponents 

that you need to be scared of. There are some that when I 

see I am up against them I think, ‘Oh God, I have to debate 

so-and-so.’” 

The better debaters also switch-up their tactics frequently, 

knowing that opponents may have “game film” 

on them. 

“Very serious debaters will purposely change their case 

from the previous weekend anticipating someone prepping 

for what they have said in the past,” Houser said. 

“They love to debate and they are so competitive.” 

The art of speech 

Forensics also includes non-debate events where 

speakers are required to read a piece of literature, poem, 

or play. In these “interpretive events” readers are judged 

on their ability to convey the tone of a written work— 

whether humorous or dramatic. Gagnon presided over 

Wednesday’s practice. Her mother started the JHSD team 

in the early 1980s and coached right up until Houser took 

over. 

Gino Bellinghiere and Aidan Deiter, competing in the 

JAKE NICHOLS 

JHSD Head Coach Londe Gagnon. 

duet event, worked out a passage from Joseph Heller’s 

Catch 22. The black humor of Heller’s signature novel 

makes it a challenging choice for the two senior orators. 

The witty banter works best when delivered in a dry, crisp 

manner; something the duo struggled with before they 

had the work committed to memory. 

“I try to give them the freedom to pick what they 

want,” Gagnon said. “They usually have a good sense of 

what will work and what is appropriate.” 

Gagnon listened intently to each speaker and offered 

advice. 

“Don’t be afraid to go big,” she told Bian McSorley 

about her dark piece, an excerpt from “The Love of My 

Life,” a short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle. 

Gagnon suggested Hanna Collins work on building 

crescendos into her poetry piece and warned Halle 

Wright to be aware of her hands so she isn’t tugging on 

her sleeves. 

Dorks, dweebs and nerds…it’s all good 

In some other school, in some other time, it might not 

be cool to admit to being on the Speech and Debate 

team. But times have changed, stigmas are melting away, 

and JHHS has done an exceptional job fostering an environment 

of tolerance. 

“We create this sanctuary in high school where cliques 

are not accepted,” Houser said. 

“And today, kids are blurring the lines more,” Gagnon 

noted. “It’s cool to be on S and D.” 

Frank says Speech and Debate has given him confidence 

and pride in how he presents himself. A majority 

of the JHSD students remarked that they have become 

more articulate and more pensive when communicating. 

By preparing both a pro and con case, debaters learn to 

consider both sides of any issue. 

“S and D has showed me you have to understand a circumstance 

before you attack it or face it or judge it,” 

Checker said. “You also have to believe in what you say.” 

His peers sometimes resort to inane flaming sessions 

when using social media, but don’t expect Frank to lower 

himself to such rabble. 

“There is a difference between debate and bloggers,” 

Frank said. “Debaters learn you cannot just bring out 

your opinions. Facts are supposed to be concise and 

statements are accurate. You must be reserved. It is not a 

shouting match.” 

Speech and Debate has changed Moore’s life as well. 

She says she is better at expressing her opinion in a 

“more dignified and mature manner.” The high school 

senior is also the president of Global Connections, vice 

president of the Alliance Against Climate Change club, 

and a member of the Key Club, Student Council, and 

Honor Society. 

“It’s weird. I think about what my life would be if I 

never joined S and D. I would be less confident and less 

educated about current events,” Moore said. “I came into 

my freshman year dead set on being a biology major. 

Now I’ve come about 180 degrees and I want to be a polisci 

major.” 

Who’s to argue with that? 

www.JHweekly.com updated daily l JH Weekly l November 16 - 22, 2011 9 

JAKE NICHOLS

CultureMatters 

Kirtan’s ‘about what happens in the heart.’ 

By Julia Hysell 

Shantala, a duo of musicians inspired by Indian 

classical music, folk music and yogic practices, 

performs in Jackson on Friday night at 

Inversion Yoga on N. Millward Street. Shantala 

has a newly released CD called Jaya!, which, according 

to Benjy Wertheimer, means “loving upliftment” 

in Sanskrit. Wertheimer and his 

partner Heather Wertheimer will lead kirtan, or 

sacred chanting, with audience members, before 

traveling on to Hailey, and Boise, Idaho, 

during the final week of its nine-week “Unity in 

the Community” tour. The duo travels from its 

Portland, Ore., home eight months of each year, 

sharing what has been for them the perfect 

merger of vocational and spiritual callings. 

Kirtan translates from Sanskrit to English as 

“to repeat.” The practice of kirtan involves “call 

and response” singing, a feature of communal, 

devotional traditions across a range of faiths. In 

a phone interview, Heather conceded that many 

may be shy about singing in the presence of 

others, but she hopes to assuage those fears by 

characterizing Shantala’s performances as 

being “very friendly kind of event(s)” that are 

“warm and lovely … and open to a variety of religious 

beliefs.” Audience members are “part 

co-creators of the event” and sharing the experience 

of kirtan, according to Heather, can be a 

“beautiful way to connect and build a sweet 

sense of community.” Benjy added that they 

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sing “love songs to god, whatever you perceive 

that to be … it’s not about singing but about 

what happens in the heart.” 

For those who might not have heard one of 

Shantala’s previous albums or attended one of 

their previous kirtan events in Jackson Hole 

(Shantala’s been here twice in the past nine 

years or so), the music has a distinctly Indian 

flavor, conjured by a sitar-like instrument called 

an esraj, tabla drums and voices singing 

“Govinda” and other Sanskrit words of love and 

divinity. The sound is both hauntingly timeless 

(like Gregorian or Tibetan monks chanting) and 

energetically contemporary (like music George 

Harrison might’ve hoped would be made in the 

21st century). Some might suspect that chanting 

mantras, even if accompanied by drums and 

strings, would be a somber affair, but track four, 

also called “Jaya!,” might be my new favorite 

song on my “Get Your Run On” mix. It’s certainly 

worthy of an impromtu dance session. 

More than a decade ago, Heather had been 

teaching and practicing yoga, as well as working 

as a folk singer. When she started dating Benjy, 

he was deep in his study of Indian classical 

music. Benjy began to join Heather, playing 

music during the closing meditational minutes 

of her yoga classes. Soon, their local yoga community 

invited them to lead chanting sessions. 

Gladly accepting the invitation, they “fell so in 

love with it” and have spent the past eleven 

years their kirtan practice as Shantala. 

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Akasha Yoga and Inversion Yoga present Friday 

night’s event with support from Teton Yoga 

Shala, an unprecedented union of the valley’s 

yoga studios. I asked Louise Sanseau, owner of 

Inversion Yoga, to explain the connection between 

yoga and chanting. She explained, “The 

Sanskrit word ‘yoga’ literally translates to ‘yoke.’ 

Yoga is to join, attach, unite.” She continued, 

“In the West we often only see yoga as asana, or 

posture. However, asana is only one of the many 

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quiet the mind, and in order to learn and pass 

down the teachings of yoga.” 

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practice. Kirtan, he notes, involves two of numerous 

yogic practices: naada yoga, or the practice 

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bhakti yoga, or the practice of “complete surrender 

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buy you pow 

Forecast for Jackson Hole 

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY 

Week of 11/16 

TUESDAY 

Intervals of clouds 

and sunshine 

27° 24° 

Sunrise 7:17 a.m. 

Sunset 4:57 p.m. 

Moonrise 10:16 p.m. 

Moonset 11:55 a.m. 

SATURDAY 

Satyagraha with Richard Croft as Gandhi. 

GTMF presents Satyagraha 

There’s an opera about Gandhi’s formative 

years in South Africa? Yes! The second in 

Philip Glass’s so-called “Portrait Trilogy,” 

Satyagraha has a score sung in Sanskrit, and 

borrows text from the Bhagavad Gita. (Supertitles 

are provided, so you can follow in English.) 

The Met brings this work to life more 

than twenty years after its original commission 

by the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 

1980. Phelim McDermott has masterminded 

the Met’s current production to include 

large-scale puppetry and acrobatics, creating 

“hypnotic visual and musical magic” according 

to Wall Street Journal. There’s only one 

other venue (in Lander) showing this series 

in the state. Geez, I’m already looking forward 

to Gounou’s Faust next month. 

The Met: Live in HD Presents Satyagraha, 

Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Walk Festival 

Hall, Teton Village. Adult $18, student $5. 

733-1128 and gtmf.org. 

Snow, 1-3”; 

breezy; snow at 

night 

40° 28° 



Moonrise 11:24 p.m. 

Moonset 12:26 p.m. 

Snow or fl urries 

possible 

35° 19° 



Moonrise none 


A snow shower 

possible; colder 

22° -2° 



Moonrise 12:34 a.m. 


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Arts&Entertainment 

KEN HOWARD/MET OPERA 

FRIDAY 

Local ski bum Ryan 

Halverson mans the helm 

of Full Room Productions, 

a small budget ski movie 

company, getting crucial 

help with filming and 

production from friends 

like Josh Mandel and 

Derek DePiero. For those 

eager to see the highest 

quality production Celebrating a killer ski season in Jackson. 

around, Poor Man’s Riches might not satiate your appetite. As Halverson 

puts it, “We don’t really spend much time waiting for light or for 

the filmer to set up his cine-slider or what-not ‘cause if we did we’d 

get beat to all the fresh tracks.” Far less interested in logistics than in 

having a good time skiing, this movie celebrates a killer ski season in 

Jackson Hole with sweet footage of Travis McAlpine, Jake Szarzec, 

Adam Osgood and others. Equal kudos go to those who make it look 

easy and those who somersault and double-eject. These guys glorify 

the intangible value of being nipple deep in powder. Hey, money 

can’t buy you a stomped landing. Doors open at 8 p.m. 

Poor Man’s Riches movie premiere, Friday, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Town 

Square Tavern. $5. fullroomproductions.com. 

PAINTING BY ERIN ASHLEY SMITH 

SATURDAY 

Partly sunny and 

chilly 

19° -3° 





Kafka on divine 

guilt, innocence 

Raising money for life safety equipment. 

Annual fundraiser ball Ski fest offers flurry of fun 

Give ‘em credit. They’ve got an unforgettable 

slogan: “You come to our ball, we’ll 

come to your fire.” A landmark event to start 

off every Jackson winter, Firemen’s Ball is the 

most important fundraising event of the year 

for Volunteer Fire Rescue Association of Jackson. 

These funds benefit our local fallen firefighter 

fund, sponsor the purchase of crucial 

life safety equipment, like structural firefighting 

gloves for volunteers, and pay for training 

opportunities, like a vehicle rescue class 

hosted in Riverton. If you need another reason 

to support the cause: it’s a darn good 

time. Live music will be provided by Montana 

bands Ten Foot Pole and 80 Proof. 

There’ll be a silent auction and every ticket 

purchased gets entered into a grand prize 

raffle to win a 1976 Porsche Speedster kit car. 

71st Annual Firemen’s Ball, Saturday, 7 

p.m., Heritage Arena, Fairgrounds. $20 each, 

$30 per couple. jhfireassociation.com. 

Sunny and not 

as cold 

26° -1° 





Regional Forecast 

WED. THU. 

CITY HI/LO/W HI/LO/W 

Bozeman, MT 27/22/pc 41/22/pc 

Casper, WY 26/22/pc 48/27/s 

Driggs, ID 30/17/c 37/29/sn 

Grand Teton N.P. 28/15/pc 35/27/sn 

Idaho Falls, ID 34/28/pc 49/31/c 

Missoula, MT 28/25/c 40/21/sn 

Pinedale, WY 31/11/pc 37/23/pc 

Riverton, WY 33/20/pc 49/31/s 

Rock Springs, WY 35/26/pc 43/31/pc 

Salt Lake City, UT 45/34/pc 54/37/pc 

Yellowstone N.P. 28/15/pc 34/22/sn 

Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, 

c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, 

sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice 

CALENDAR 

Wednesday 11.16 

MUSIC 

■ Jackson Hole Jazz Foundation 

rehearsal, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Center 

for the Arts. Big Band. Free. 

699-0102. 

■ Karaoke, 9 p.m. at the Virginian 

Saloon. Free. 739-9891. 

CLASSES & LECTURES 

■ Caring for our children, taught 

in Spanish. Includes topics such as 

discipline, hygiene, nutrition, interactive 

learning, first aid/CPR certification. 

Call for details. 734.033. 

■ Knitting Class - One Night 

Hat Class, 6 p.m. at Knit on Pearl. 

This class teaches you how to knit 

on circular and doublepointed needles. 

Level 1-2. Basic skills required: 

cast-on and knit. $30 per person, 

includes pattern. 733-5648, knitonpearl@gmail.com. 

■ Teton Valley Sustainability Series, 

6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Driggs 

Senior Center. Join Matthew 

Copeland, Public Lands Director of 

the Wyoming Chapter of the National 

Wildlife Federation and Valley 

Advocates for Responsible Development 

for a public forum. 

■ Lunch on Managing the Jackson 

Elk Herd, noon at the Jackson 

Hole Conservation Alliance. Join 

Doug Brimeyer from the Wyoming 

Game and Fish Department, as he 

presents information on the Jackson 

elk herd. 733-9417. 

HEALTH & FITNESS 

■ Ski & Snowboard Fitness, 5:30 

to 6:30 p.m. at the Teton County 

Recreation Center. This fun and 

challenging class is designed to help 

improve skiing and snowboarding 

by providing a method for increasing 

fitness levels, as well as prevent 

injuries. $75 for all weeks or $7 for 

drop-in. 739-9025. 

Thursday 11.17 

MUSIC 

■ Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. at Jackson’s 

Hole Bar & Grill. Free. 733- 

8888. 

■ Outlaw Picnic, 7 to 10 p.m. at 

Q Roadhouse on Moose-Wilson 

Road. Folk, blues. Free. 739-0700. 

ART 

Art opening for Bronwyn 

Minton, 4 to 7 p.m at Isabel Jewelry 

& Gallery in Pinedale, 

Wyoming. Special foods, wine and 

sweets. Newest ink drawings and 

small porcelain sculpture will be on 

display. www.bronwynminton.com. 

GOOD EATS 

■ Thanksgiving Tasting Fair, 11 

a.m. at Jackson Whole Grocer. 

Storewide free sampling. Get inspired 

with twists on all your favorite 

dishes and discover new 

favorites. 

THEATER 

■ On Golden Pond, 7:30 p.m. at 

the Jackson Hole High School Auditorium. 

Riot Act presents On 

Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson, 

directed by Nicki Davis. Tickets 

$15 adults, $12 students/seniorswww.riotactinc.org. 

DANCE 

■ Learning Science through 

Movement, 5:30 p.m. at Dancers’ 

Workshop in the Center for the 

Arts. Students from Journeys 

School will demonstrate a new approach 

to teaching science standards 

that gets kids moving and 

learning! 

FILM 

■ Migrations Film Screening 

and Discussion, 6:30 p.m. at the 

Visitor Center Auditorium Grand 

Teton National Park. Join the Jack- 

Schedule & fare information can be found at www.startbus.com, at each stop, at hotel front desks and on the buses. Questions? 733-4521 

See CALENDAR page 12 


30° 

Sunny 

14° 



Moonrise 4:16 a.m. 


Hop on the Ride the FREE Town Shuttle or the $3 routes 

between Jackson and Teton village 

JH FIRE ASSOCIATION 

TUESDAY 

By Julia 

Hysell 

FRIDAY 

I’ll be the first to admit my 

range of knowledge on both 

Franz Kafka and Kabbalah is limited 

to a novel about a man turning 

into a monstrous cockroach 

and Madonna wearing a red 

string bracelet, respectively. Perhaps, 

I am not alone. For those 

interested in learning more important 

and thought-provoking 

notions concerning these topics, 

Jackson Hole Jewish Community 

hosts “Kafka and the Kabbalists,” Franz Kafta, author of The Trial. 

a presentation given by Idaho 

State University’s Carl Levenson, Professor of Philosophy, this Saturday 

evening. Kafka’s short story “The Judgment” and selections from 

this novel The Trial will be among the texts that Professor Levenson 

will be discussing. He intends to explore a central question in Kafka’s 

work: are humans guilty and God innocent, or is it the other way 

around? Take advantage of a rare opportunity for college-level discourse 

on Jewish mysticism and a great writer of the 20th century. 

“Kafka and the Kabbalists,” Saturday, 7 p.m., Jackson Hole Roasters. 

$5, free for students. info@jhjewishcommunity.org. 

Celebrating the first snow of the season. 

The folks at Rendezvous Ski Trails encourage 

locals to celebrate the first snow of the 

season! With trails feverishly prepped and 

groomed, Yellowstone Ski Festival, an annual 

event for more than 30 years, kicks off a fiveday 

events calendar packed with good stuff. 

Highlights include presentations by Gallatin 

National Forest Avalanche Center at 6 p.m. 

on Tuesday and by keynote speaker Conrad 

Anker at 7 p.m. on Friday. Six different races, 

including SuperTour and Biathlon, are 

scheduled too. If you’re not feeling competitive, 

stop by to check out the Indoor Expo 

with vendor stations, like Rossignol, Fischer, 

Toko and Swix.Clinics, yoga, Pilates, raffles, 

corduroy snow… the list of enticing opportunities 

goes on and on. 

Yellowstone Ski Festival, Tuesday through 

Saturday, Rendezvous Ski Trails, West Yellowstone, 

Mont. $10 adult day pass, $5 children 

13 and under. yellowstoneskifestival.com. 

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son Hole Conservation Alliance and 

producer Geoff O’Gara for a 

screening and discussion of the PBS 

documentary “Migrations.” 733- 

9417. 

■ Backcountry Film Festival 

World Tour, 5 to 9 p.m. in the 

Grand Room at Snow King Resort. 

All proceeds benefit the Teton Pass 

Ambassador Program and the Jackson 

Hole Ski & Snowboard Club’s 

Nordic Program. $10. info@winterwildlands.org. 

LITERATURE 

■ Alta Library Book Club: One 

World, Many, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the 

Alta Branch Library, 50 Alta School 

Road, Alta. 307-353-2505, gnotzold@tclib.org. 


■ Caring for our children, taught 

in Spanish. Includes topics such as 

discipline, hygiene, nutrition, interactive 

learning, first aid/CPR certification. 

Call for details. 734.033. 

COMMUNITY 

■ Knit on Pearl - Sit n’ Knit, 6 

p.m. at Knit on Pearl. Bring a project 

and sit and knit with other local knitters. 

No instruction provided, just 

good company! Free! 733-5648, 

knitonpearl@gmail.com. 


■ Walk & Talk, noon at St. John’s 

Medical Center covered front entrance. 

Join health care professionals 

from St. John’s wellness team for a 

half hour walk. Walks will be at an 

easy to moderate pace. 739-7244. 

■ Empower, 7 p.m at Snow King 

Resort Timberline I Conference 

Room. Learn how to empower you 

and your family to feel, look, and 

live better a safe and natural way. 

413-7471, lish02@gmail.com. 

Friday 11.18 

MUSIC 

■ Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. at 

Cafe Boheme. All ages. Free. 733- 

5282 or cathy@cafebohemejh.com. 

■ DJ Vert-One, 10 p.m. at Jackson’s 

Hole Bar and Grill. Free. 733- 

8888. 

■ Jazz Night, 7 to 10 p.m. in The 

Granary at Spring Creek Ranch atop 

East Gros Ventre Butte. With Pam 

Drews Phillips on piano, vocals, Bill 

Plummer on bass, and Mike Calabrese 

on drums. Free. 733-8833. 

■ Fulsom Prison Boys, 7:30 to 11 

p.m. at the Silver Dollar Bar. Johnny 

Cash Tribute. Free. 733-2190. 

■ Kenny Bradberry, 9 p.m. at the 

Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Country. 

Cover TBD. 733-2190. 

■ Jeremy Jess, 9 p.m. at the Virginian 

Saloon. Country, rock. Free. 

739-9891. 

ART 

■ Tibetan butter sculpture, 2 to 

5 p.m. at St John’s Episcopal Church 

on 170 N. Cache. The Tibetan Children’s 

Educational Foundation is 

pleased to bring Lama Paljor from 

Sikkim, India, to Jackson. He will be 

entertaining us with a traditional Tibetan 

butter sculpture demonstration. 

■ Out of the Woods Silent Art 

Auction, 6 to 9 p.m. at the Center 

for the Arts Theater Lobby. A 

Fundraising Benefit for the Art Association 

of Jackson Hole. This is an 

all-out, noisy silent auction! www.artassociation.org. 

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directed by Nicki Davis. Tickets $15 

adults, $12 students/seniorswww.riotactinc.org. 


MusicBox 

By Evan Huggins 


Random Canyon Growlers bring old school bluegrass to Q Roadhouse every Monday night. 

The four-bearded-man ensemble 

known as the Random Canyon Growlers 

build hard-driving, traditional bluegrass 

from exquisite banjo picking and three 

part harmonies. The group now known for 

filling the Q with energy every Monday 

night embarked on its musical journey at 

the traditional breeding ground of Jackson 

bands, Dornan’s Hootenanny. 

Original members Jamie Drysdale and 

David McMeekin grew up in Randolph, Vt. 

where they played in punk and hardcore 

bands and sang in the school chorus. In 

college they discovered bluegrass and 

made the unlikely transition from amplified 

noise to acoustic old-time music. 

“One of us got into bluegrass,” Drysdale 

remembers, “and it seemed like a good fit 

because it had a similar energy level [to 

punk] and you didn’t have to lug amplifiers 

and crap around.” After moving out 

to the Tetons to ski, the duo met upright 

bassist Matt Donovan and the Growlers 

were born. Listening to them now, it’s 

hard to believe they weren’t reared on the 

fiddle. 

It’s the nature of forming a band in 

Jackson that people will come and go. The 

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Growlin’ at the moon 

Growlers are no exception and they have 

seen a steady stream of musicians trickle 

in and out of the band, including 

McMeekin who returned to the northeast 

in 2010. In the current incarnation, Donavan 

and Drysdale, who play bass and gui- 

“To us, bluegrass is more 

towards fiddle music and, you 

know, an old-time sound.” 

-Jamie Drysdale 

tar, respectively, are joined by Brock 

Benjamin on banjo and Jon Degroot on 

mandolin. This group of four has formed 

solid cohesion with Degroot, Drysdale 

and Benjamin weaving intricate harmonies 

together like brothers in an old 

family band. “The more you play together 

as a foursome you just start knowing exactly 

where the other person is going,” 

said Drysdale. “Solos get really smooth. 

You start being able to play off each other. 

From a singing point of view, the harmonies 

have gotten noticeably dialed over 

a year. Once the voices start to feel where 

they need to go with each other it’s pretty 

amazing.” 

This summer the Growlers took a fastpaced 

tour through California, Oregon, 

and Idaho, where they pleased crowds 

while managing to live through 14 shows 

in 17 days. The band has also gotten a reputation 

for epic street jams at the Boise 

Saturday Market and, as always, have a 

loyal following in Jackson, Victor, and 

Driggs. 

Whatever side of the pass the Growlers 

are playing, the band’s guaranteed to 

bring crowds to a far removed time and 

place. In an era when popular music is derivative 

of an almost overwhelming 

plethora of influences, it’s nice to see a 

local band committed to a distinctly traditional 

sound. “We try to take it back to the 

roots. Almost everywhere in the West 

bluegrass has kind of a tweaked meaning,” 

says Drysdale. “I guess it means 

what collective consciousness wants it to, 

but to us it is more towards fiddle music 

and you know, an old–time sound.” 

Random Canyon Growlers, Mondays, 

7:00 p.m. at Q Roadhouse. 739-0700 and 

facebook.com/randomcanyongrowlers. 

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FILM 

■ Poor Man’s Riches World Premiere, 

9 p.m. at the Town Square 

Tavern. A local ski/snowboard 

movie. Doors at 8 p.m., movie at 9 

p.m. Gear raffle, DJ after party, free 

swag, drink specials. $5 at the door. 

FullRoomProductions@yahoo.com 

aka_jam_5@hotmail.com. 

SPORTS & RECREATION 

■ Think Snow Party, 6 to 10 p.m. 

at Yostmark in Driggs, Idaho. Join 

the Yostmark crew in sending good 

vibes to the snow gods for another 

epic snow year. Come and cheer a 

great 11-12 ski season with food 

from Forage, drinks, music and 

great friends. www.yostmark.com. 


■ Presentation: Medical Mission 

Trip, 4 p.m. at Central Wyoming 

College Jackson Interactive Classroom 

in the Center for the Arts. A 

second year Central Wyoming College 

nursing student from Jackson 

details a 10-day medical mission trip 

to Ethiopia. 

COMMUNITY 

■ Thanksgiving Shabbat Dinner 

with Carl Levenson and Judd 

Grossman. 6 p.m. at the Journeys 

School. Celebrate this holiday marking 

gratitude and friendship by 

bringing a friend to this inclusive and 

warm dinner. JHJC will provide 

roast turkey and relishes. If your 

name ends with A-M bring a traditional 

Thanksgiving side dish like 

mashed potatoes, yams, veggie 

casserole and more. If your name 

ends in N-Z bring a yummy Thanksgiving 

dessert. Please bring an unwrapped 

toy for the Community 

Resource Center’s holiday gift program. 

Info@jhjewishcommunity.org. 

■ Indo-Tibetan Dinner, 6 p.m. at 

St John’s Episcopal Church. A delicious 

fund raising Indo-Tibetan Dinner 

with silent auction, Tibetan 

bazaar and visual presentation will 

be held. Tickets $30, children free. 

(208) 354-0869. 

Saturday 11.19 

MUSIC 

■ Kenny Bradberry, 9 p.m. at the 

Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Country. 

Cover TBD. 733-2190. 

■ Jeremy Jess, 9 p.m at the Virginian 

Saloon. Country, rock. Free. 

739-9891. 

■ Grand Teton Music Festival 

presents The Met Live in HD, 11 

a.m. at Walk Festival Hall in Teton 

Village. Satyagraha by Phillip Glass. 

Approximately 3 hours and 45 minutes, 

including two intermissions . 

$18/adults, $5/students. 

www.GTMF.org. 

■ Pianist Pam Drews Phillips, 7 

to 10:00 p.m. in the Granary at 

Spring Creek Ranch atop East Gros 

Ventre Butte. Jazz. 733-8833. Free. 

■ 71st Annual Fireman’s Ball, 7 

p.m. at The Heritage Arena. Country-rock 

band Ten Foot Tall & 80 

Proof. Silent and live auction. Tickets 

$20, or 2 for $30. www.JHfireassociation.com. 

GOOD EATS 

■ Thanksgiving Tasting Fair, 11 

a.m. at Jackson Whole Grocer. 

Storewide free sampling. Get inspired 

with twists on all your favorite 

dishes and discover new 

favorites. 

ART 

■ Art Opening: National Museum 

of Wildlife Art. Capturing 

singular moments in the lives of animals, 

artist George McLean uses 

careful fieldwork to inform his powerful 

vision of wildlife, often portrayed 

in motion, and its 



CALENDAR 

environment. Free for members 

or with Museum admission. 

www.wildlifeart.org. 


■ “Kafka and the Kabbalists” 

informal talk and discussion with 

Carl Levenson, 7 p.m. at Jackson 

Hole Roasters. Sponsored by the 

Jackson Hole Jewish Community.Wine, 

coffee and refreshments 

available. $5 at the door, 

free to students. 

info@jhjewishcommunity.org. 

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directed by Nicki Davis. 

Tickets $15 adults, $12 

students/seniors. www.riotactinc.org. 

COMMUNITY 

■ Gaper Build with Habitat 

DIGS, 9 a.m to 4:30 p.m. at 525 

Hall Avenue in East Jackson. Wear 

your best gaper gear and join us at 

Thai Me Up after for free snacks 

and drink specials! No experience 

necessary! 734-0828 or 

amanda@tetonhabitat.org. 

■ National Survivors of Suicide 

Day, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 

1215 West Angus Drive, in Rafter 

J. Anyone who has lost a loved 

one to suicide and all interested 

community members are encouraged 

to attend. It is a day of healing 

for those who have lost 

someone to suicide. 733-8349 or 

at safeschools@wyoming.com. 

Sunday 11.20 

MUSIC 

■ Stage Coach Band, 6 to 10 

p.m. at the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson. 

Old-time country, folk, Western. 

Free. 733-4407. 

FILM 

■ Thomas & Friends: Day of 

the Diesels 3 p.m. at the Center 

Theater Presented by Center 

Digital Programming. $5. www.jhcenterforthearts.org 

Monday 11.21 

ART 

■ Young at Art, 10:30 to 11:15 

a.m. at the National Museum of 

Wildlife Art. Children learn about 

art and animals while enjoying fun 

and hands-on activities! Free for 

members or with Museum admission. 

732–5435. 

Tuesday 11.22 

MUSIC 

■ Reggae Night DJ, 9 p.m. at 

Jackson’s Hole Bar & Grill. Free. 

733-8888. 

■ One Ton Pig, 7:30 to 11 p.m. 

at the Silver Dollar Bar. Bluegrass 

Tuesdays. Chicken-fried prison 

music. Free. 733-2190. 


■ Walk & Talk, noon at St. 

John’s Medical Center covered 

front entrance. Join health care 

professionals from St. John’s wellness 

team for a half hour walk. 

Walks will be at an easy to moderate 

pace. 739-7244. 

– Compiled by Aaron Davis 

& Kristin King 

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CALENDAR ENDS 

Quadrophenia 

THE WHO 

★★★★★ 

Among the major albums by the Who, 

Quadrophenia has always been the most 

underrated, particularly, for an American 

audience not versed in England’s Mod 

scene. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of 

the album’s original release, a variety of Director’s 

Cut deluxe editions have been put 

together. Most fans will be satisfied with the 

double disc version offering the remastered 

version of the songs from 1996, along with 

11 demos, which are far more than curiosities. 

Quadrophenia is the story of the loneliness, 

fantasy and imaginative excitement of 

Pete Townshend’s youth. With Roger Daltry’s 

soaring vocals, the songs become 

mammoth memorials to a lost youth culture 

in England. But the demos don’t feature the 

Who, only songwriter Townshend, playing 

all instruments and singing. And, Townshend’s 

aching voice and lo-fi production 

allow the vulnerable, human elements of 

these incredible songs to be a new focus of 

admiration. Quadrophenia remains the 

most musically rewarding of the Who’s ambitious 

rock operas. – Richard Abowitz 

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CD REVIEWS 

Father, Son, Holy Ghost 

GIRLS 

★★★★★ 

Sometimes it seams that we live in an age of 

obsessive impersonation. The first ten years of 

the second millennium were, by many accounts, 

more infatuated with referencing the past than 

any previous decade. If this is the case, no one is 

ripping off the last 50 years of pop music with 

more tenacity than Girls. On its newest LP Father, 

Son, Holy Ghost the band references the 

Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, the Beach Boys, and 

the Cranberries within the first 30 seconds of the 

first track. 

This type of serial masquerade could easily go 

awry, but the San Francisco-based band amalgamates 

its influences with such unforgiving 

cleanliness that the end product is hard to dismiss. 

Over the course of the album’s 11 tracks, 

the chameleon sound morphs from orchestral 

to bossa nova guitar to poppy “twist and shout” 

riffs. Though meticulously produced, the album 

can feel intensely disparate and at times contrived 

with lyrics that may have worked 40 years 

ago, but come across as trite in 2011. This is a 

valiant cataloguing of our hyper-referential culture 

that, like the thing itself, can feel perfectly 

constructed yet empty. – Evan Huggins 

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High Flying Birds 

NOEL GALLAGHER 

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I put off writing a review of Noel Gallagher’s 

record because I feared coming out 

of the closet as an Oasis fan would destroy 

my credibility as a music critic. Sure, everybody 

knew exactly what this record was 

going to sound like. But music does not 

need to be lyrically complex or acoustically 

abstract to be good. Gallagher succeeded 

since he managed to top sibling rival Liam 

Gallagher’s project Beady Eye. High Flying 

Birds is a surprisingly good, though admittedly 

simple, record. Gallagher characteristically 

tries to create music of an epic 

nature, writing great hooks and catchy 

melodic verses that only a total music snob 

could hate. Even when Noel falls short, the 

result is still pleasantly listenable. Oasis was 

famously compared to the Beatles and not 

every Beatles record was a classic. Some of 

John Lennon’s and Paul McCartney’s solo 

work makes you wonder what the hell they 

where thinking. Gallagher managed to 

avoid making a crappy pretentious rock 

suppository and actually came up with a 

great record in the process. – Aaron Wallis 

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KAFKA AND THE KABBALISTS 

Informal talk and discussion 

by Carl Levenson 

Professor of Philosophy, 

Idaho State University 

Saturday, November 19, 7 pm 

at Jackson Hole Roasters 

$5 or free to any student 

Refreshments available. 

All are welcome. 

Presented by the Jackson Hole Jewish Community 

For details: info@jhjewishcommunity.org

You can’t 

afford this 

By Aaron Wallis 

The one percent are taking a 

lot of heat lately thanks to the 

OWS protests. When everything 

blows over, they will still have a 

shitload of money. The 99 percent 

are too divided to cause 

real change in society, and they 

don’t buy art either. Like many 

artists, I would characterize myself 

as having radical political 

beliefs. But I also know which 

side my bread is buttered on. 

And poor people unfortunately 

don’t buy art. 

The emerging art market took 

a major hit in the current depression. 

(Can we start calling it 

a depression?) Many educated 

but middle class people don’t 

have money to blow on paintings 

anymore. The high-end 

market, however, is still doing 

fine. In last week’s auction, 

Christie’s sold 82 of 91 postwar 

works offered, totalling $247.59 

million. The New York Times 

said, “The low 10 percent failure 

rate was remarkable by any 

standard.” 

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein set 

a new record for his work with a 

price tag of $43.2 million. Louise 

Bourgeois and Paul McCarthy 

also set records for the sale of 

their respective artworks. Most 

of the 99 percent probably don’t 

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know that Louise Bourgeois was 

married to that Cristo dude who 

wrapped stuff. Paul McCarthy 

did not play in the Beatles. But 

he did make the kind of Pop art 

that many people would give 

one look and ask, “Is that art?” 

“Tomato Head Green” may not 

be “art,” according to many people, 

but it sold for $4.56 million. 

I love artists who take ridiculous 

pictures of stuffed animals. 

Mike Kelley’s work “Ahh ... 

Youth” from 1991 fetched almost 

a million dollars. It’s a 

photo strip from an old-style 

photo booth of handmade 

stuffed animals with supersaturated 

colors. Not a ton of money 

but if you bought a Mike Kelley 

15 years ago when only art stu- 

HighArt 

Mike Kelley’s “Ahh ...Youth” sold for almost a million dollars at Christie’s auction last week. 

dents knew who he was, then 

you made a killing. 

I hate to break the news to all 

of you with collections of moose 

and Indians painted by white 

men but that art’s never going to 

be worth more than the $5,000 

to $35,000 you paid for it. But, if 

you’re looking for entry-level art 

in Jackson, there are some investment 

opportunities: 

Abbie Miller: If Mike Kelley 

can build a career taking photo 

booth pictures of stuffed animals, 

there’s no reason Abbie 

Millers’s room-filling sculptures 

assembled from zippers won’t 

be worth big money one day. 

Get rid of that third snowmobile 

and use the garage space to 

store one of Miller’s sculptures. 

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Mike Tierney: If you don’t 

know Mike Tierney, let me tell 

you he’s a really talented 

painter. The problem is, Mike 

paints things that make sense, 

like the Tetons. One of these 

days Mike’s going to bump his 

head going off the side of the 

Grand, and then, watch out. 

Giant tomatoes or something 

equally ridiculous will start 

showing up in his work. Then 

it’s only a matter of time before 

Tierney gets the recognition he 

deserves. 

Suzanne Morlock: Another 

good bet. Recent art trends indicated 

that knitting anything 

large and oversized is a great 

way to gain recognition in the 

art world. 

HAPPY HOUR 

daily 4-7pm 

Monday 

Monday Night Football 

$.50 wings 

$2 domestic drafts 

Tuesday 

Whiskey Morning: 

8pm-close 

Happy Hour 10pm-Midnight 

Thursday 

Open Mic Night: 

$25 gift certificate 

for 1st place winner 

Saturday 

College Football Package 

$.50 wings 

$2 domestic drafts 

Sunday 

NFL Football 

Breakfast Buffet 

Bloody Mary Bar 

$.50 wings 

Discombobulator on draft 

Open daily at 11:30am 

serving lunch & dinner 

(307) 733.7901 

or (307) 733.8888 

In Grand Teton Plaza 

inside Plaza Liquors 

ART 

GALLERIES 

Altamira Fine Art Gallery 

172 Center St. 739-4700 

Art Association/Center 

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 Trails 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 

70 S. Glenwood., 733-7833 

Circus Gallery 

170 N. Main Street, Victor 

208-787-1ART 

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 

Grand Teton Gallery 

130 W. Broadway, 201-1172 

Heather James Fine Art 


Hennes Studio & Gallery 

5850 Larkspur Drive, 733-2593 

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 

Town Square, 733-2353 

Lines Gallery 

245 West Pearl 

Mountain Trails Gallery 


National Museum of Wildlife Art 

2820 Rungius Road, 733-5771 

Raindance Gallery 

165 N. Center Street, #4, 732-2222 

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., Driggs 

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 

130 E. Broadway, 733-3186 

Trio Fine Art Gallery 


Turpin Gallery 

545 N. Cache, 734-4444 

Two Grey Hills 

110 E. Broadway, 733-2677 

Vertical Peaks Gallery 

165 Center Street, #1, 733-7744 

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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Happy Hour 

Monday - Friday 4 - 7 p.m. 

$2.50 draft beers $4 glasses of wine 

Fireside Dining 

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307-733-0043 

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Available for private 

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Drink Specials & 1/2 OFF appetizers 

5-6:30 pm Nightly 

72 S. Glenwood Jackson, WY 

(307) 733-8575 Reservations Recommended 

Genevieve 

Café Inspired Home Cooking 

BRUNCH Weekdays 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. 

BRUNCH Weekends 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. 

HAPPY HOUR Mon.- Sat 3 - 5:30 p.m. 

DINNER Mon.- Sat. 5:30 p.m. 

Bottomless Mimosas weekdays! 

$5 Bloodies weekends 

2 for 1 Italian Dinners 

Throughout the off-season 

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 

WE WILL BE CLOSED NOV. 21 - DEC. 3 

Located 1/2 block East of the Town Square 

135 E. Broadway 732-1910 www.GenevieveJH.com 

Bakery Breakfast 

Lunch Dinner 

145 N. Glenwood St. 

307.734.0882 

www.tetonlotuscafe.com 

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90 E. Broadway Jackson, WY 

SE Corner of the Town Square 

307-739-1880 

Locally owned & operated since 1993 

Coupon applicable with cash purchase only 

Asian & Chinese 

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 

blended perfectly. They satisfy the 

most discriminating palate. 7432 

Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, 

(307) 733-0022 and in downtown 

Driggs, (208) 787-8424. 

CHINATOWN 

Authentic atmosphere for your 

dining pleaseure. The local’s favorite 

features over 100 entrees, 

including Peking, Hunan, Szechuan 

and Canton cuisines. Lunch specials 

and dinners daily. Full service 

bar. Open 7 days a week. 85 W. 

Broadway, Grand Teton Plaza. 

(307) 733-8856 

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, fresh seafood. Delightful 

salads, yummy desserts and an 

ever expanding Wine Spectator 

award wine list. At the base of 

Snow King. (307) 733-0043 

BACKCOUNTRY 

PROVISIONS 

A specialty sandwich shop and 

Authentic Mexican dishes 

made from scratch 

Hot chips made fresh all day long 

Ten homemade salsas and sauces 

Our margaritas will make you happy, 

but our service will make 

you smile! 

Home of the 

“BIG PIG MARG” 

32oz of pleasure 

North of the Town Square 

in Downtown Jackson 

(307) 733-2966 

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VOTED “Best Salsa” 

in BEST OF 

JACKSON HOLE 

2010 

CD REVIEWS DineOut 

deli serving up high-quality, great 

tasting food to fuel all lifestyles 

including the most demanding adventure 

seekers in Jackson. A locals 

favorite and quickly 

becoming a favorite of tourists. 

50 W. Deloney, Town Square. 

(307) 734-9420, www.backcountryprovisions.com. 

THE BLUE LION 

A Jackson Hole favorite for 33 

years. Join us in the charming atmosphere 

of a refurbished older 

home or outdoors on our deck. 

Ask a local about our rack of 

lamb. Also serving fresh fish, elk, 

poultry, steaks, and vegetarian 

entreés. Off season special, 20% 

off entire bill all night long. Open 

nightly at 6:00 p.m. Closed Tuesdays. 

Reservations recommended. 

160 N. Millward, (307) 

733-3912. www.bluelionrestaurant.com 

CAFE GENEVIEVE 

Serving inspired home cooked 

classics in a historic log cabin. 

Brunch served 10:30 a.m. -3 p.m. 

weekdays, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. weekends. 

Bottomless mimosas weekdays, 

$5 Bloodies weekends. 

Happy Hour Mon - Sat 3 p.m. - 

5:30 p.m. Dinner Mon - Sat 5:30 

p.m. 2 for 1 Italian Dinners thru 

the off-season Full bar and eclectic 

wine list available. We will be 

closed Nov. 21- Dec. 3. 135 E. 

Broadway (1/2 a block east of the 

Town Square). (307) 732-1910 

www.genevievejh.com. 

Serving fresh, 

award-winning 

beer & tasty new 

menu items. 

$7 lunch 

Happy Hour 4-6pm 

Open daily 

11:30am - Midnight 

265 S. Millward 

307-739-2337 

www.snakeriverbrewing.com 

DORNAN’S PIZZA & 

PASTA COMPANY 

Gourmet pizzas, homemade 

soups, pasta, sandwiches and salads. 

Enjoy a relaxing lunch while 

sitting along the Snake River enjoying 

the fabulous view of the 

Tetons. Twelve miles north of Jackson 

in Grand Teton National Park 

at Moose. (307) 733-2415. 

THE GARAGE 

Located in a historic building, this 

modern version offers a casual 

dining experience for a night out, 

a quick bite, or to watch the 

game at the bar. Featuring an 

eclectic menu of home style flavors: 

burgers, pastas, seafood, 

salads, pizzas and steaks, something 

for everyone’s taste. Giant 

martinis, local beers and refreshing 

cocktails quench your thirst. 

Extensive wine list with many offerings 

under $30. Open at 5 p.m. 

Children’s menu. Walk-ins welcome. 

Reservations (307) 733- 

8575. 72 S. Glenwood. 

IGNIGHT 

Late night service industry food 

special: 2 for 1 Sushi every night 

10:00 p.m. - midnight. Specializing 

in sushi, flatbreads, salads, locally 

raised beef for our burgers, steaks 

and sandwiches; specialty drinks 

by a professional mixologist using 

fresh fruits and locally brewed 

beer. Choose a bottle of wine 

from our wine shop with no corkage 

fee. Open Mon. - Sat. 5 p.m. 

till late. On West Broadway below 

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Dinner 

Date Tip 

“Make sure you 

make eye contact 

with your date 

while eating and 

be sure to chew 

your food.” 

~ Aaron Wallis 

SLIM’S PICKINS 

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JACKSON HOLE ROASTERS 

COFFEE HOUSE 

FRESH ROASTED ORGANIC COFFEE by the cup or by the pound 

PASTRIES SANDWICHES WIRELESS ACCESS 

145 E. Broadway 307.200.6099

Sidewinders. Live music Friday and 

Saturday nights, 9:30 p.m. (307) 

734-1997. 

THE KITCHEN 

Buy 1 Entrée, get the 2nd for $2. 

The Kitchen serves Modern American 

cuisine embracing various culinary 

techniques and the freshest 

ingredients including all natural 

meats, seasonal vegetables, as well 

as sustainable and fresh fish. Enjoy 

fresh oysters on the half shell, tuna 

crudo, an amazing burger on our 

deck, creative cocktails and an extensive 

wine list. Nightly 5:30 p.m. 

www.thekitchenjacksonhole.com. 

(307) 734-1633 

LOTUS CAFE 

Vibrant and fresh flavors from 

around the world including American, 

Asian, Indian, Thai, and 

Latin. Organic meats, vegetarian, 

vegan and raw choices. Appetizers, 

entrees, sandwiches, pizza, 

salads and soups. Endless glutenfree 

choices. Full bar, great wine, 

and fresh botanical cocktails. Bakery, 

smoothies, juice bar, 

espresso, and premium teas. 

Open daily 8 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. 

Breakfast served until 2:30 p.m., 

lunch and dinner. 145 N. Glenwood 

St. (307) 734-0882. 

Q ROADHOUSE 


The Q Roadhouse on Teton Village 

Road, serves up a variety of 

American comfort food. Menu 

items include; fresh salads, black- 


ened catfish, sweet tea brined 

chicken, grilled steelhead trout, 

bbq ribs, local mead ranch beef 

burgers and sandwiches. 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 

(307) 739-0700. 

RENDEZVOUS BISTRO 

Something for everyone! Our 

Raw Bar features oysters on the 

half shell, tuna tartare and oyster 

shooters. Appetizers include mussels, 

gnocchi, grilled octopus, 

steak tartare and more. Entree 

selection ranges from 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 South 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 from 4 - 6 p.m. 

includes our tasty hot wings. The 

freshest beer in the valley, right 

from the source! Free WIFI. Open 

11:30 a.m. - midnight. 265 S. Millward. 

(307) 739-2337. 

ww.snakeriverbrewing.com 

SNAKE RIVER GRILL 

Offering the finest dining in a rustic-elegant 

setting for 18 years. A 

Modern American menu features 

organic produce, prime steaks, 

game chops and jet-fresh seafood. 

Select from over 300 wines and a 

full cocktail & beer list. Executive 

Chef Jeff Drew was nominated 

“Best Chef: Northwest” at the 

2010 James Beard Awards. Bar 

opens at 5:30 p.m. and Dinner is 

served nightly starting at 6:00 p.m. 

Reservations at (307) 733-0557. 

Town Square. 

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. features 

stuffed avocado salad, blackened 

salmon salad, elk melt, buffalo sliders, 

reubens and more. Dinner 

5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Entrees include 

chicken napoleon, bbq flank steak 

and pecan trout. Corner of King 

and Pearl, (307) 733-3553. 

SUBWAY 

The #1 subshop. Breakfast starting 

at just $2.50! Daily 6 inch special 

only $2.99! Lots of $5 

footlongs! Come in for breakfast, 

grab lunch to to. Don’t forget to 

order your party subs and platters. 

Locally owned and operated. Located 

in the K-mart Plaza, Jackson 

and 46 Iron Horse Dr. at the 

Alpine Junction in Alpine. 

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Soft Drink for only $4.99 plus tax during the month of November. 

Fast, Affordable and On Your Way! 

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1110 W. Broadway Open daily 5:00am to midnight Free Wi-Fi 

Take it on the mountain 

or let us cater your gathering. 

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International Café Restaurant 

Delicious food 

Great wine and beers 

Lively background music 

Casual atmosphere 

Free WiFi 

Mon-Fri 6:30am-3:00pm 

Sat & Sun 7:00am-2:00pm 

1110 Maple Way 733-JAVA 

www.cafebohemejh.com 

LARGE SELECTION 

OF MEXICAN BEERS 

LUNCHEON COMBINATION 

Monday-Friday 11am-3pm 

NIGHTLY DINNER SPECIALS 

50 West Deloney Town Square Easy off-season parking 

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385 W. Broadway, Jackson 

Authentic Mexican Cuisine 

(307) 733-1207 

OPEN 7 DAYS 11am-10pm 

OFF SEASON SPECIAL 

20% OFF 

ENTIRE BILL 

Good ALL night. 

Open nightly at 6:00pm 

Closed tuesdays. 

733-3912 

160 N. Millward 

Must present coupon to server when ordering. 

Reservations Recommended 

Reserve online at bluelionrestaurant.com 

18% gratuity may be added to your bill 

prior to discount. 

Kmart Plaza, Jackson / 46 Iron Horse Dr. at the Alpine Jct 

Limited time only. Additional charges for extras. Plus applicable taxes. 

Locals Off Season 

Special 20% off 

Entire Bill 

Housemade Italian Dishes & Desserts 

Free Salad with purchase of entree 

Artisan Bread 

Daily Food & Wine Specials 

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Pure Health and Spa 

One 90 minute massage for $62.50 

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Sweet Spirits Childcare 

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Global Treasures 

$20 vouchers for $10 

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3 lbs of coffee for $18 (value $36) 

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$20 voucher for $10 

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TRIO 

Voted one of Jackson Hole’s 

hottest restaurants, Food and Wine 

Feb. 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 wood-burning 

oven and watch the chefs in the 

open kitchen. Dinner nightly at 

5:30 p.m. 45 S. Glenwood. Reservations 

(307) 734-8038. 

Coffee house 

CAFE BOHEME 

Known for their coffee, breakfast 

burritos, pastries, ice-cream shakes 

and smoothies, Cafe Boheme is 

getting a reputation for crepes and 

french toasts, soups, salads, sandwiches, 

wraps and Panini. Gluten- 

Free options! Serving a great 

selection of wine and beers ... Free 

WiFi! Open daily 6:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. 

Sat. and Sun. 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. 1110 

Maple Way. (307) 733- 5282. Open 

Mic until Nov. 4! 

JACKSON HOLE ROASTERS 

Procuring, roasting and serving the 

finest coffee in the world, including 

REQUEST LINE 733-KMTN 



organic, fair trade, bird-friendly, 

etc! We roast on the premises and 

ship worldwide. Open Monday to 

Friday 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Saturday 

9:00 a.m. to close. 165 E. 

Broadway, 690-8065. 

Desserts 

HAAGEN DAZS 

All natural ice cream, yogurts and 

non-dairy sorbets. Gluten free icecream 

flavors available as well as 

espresso, smoothies, ice cream 

cakes, sundaes and shakes. 90 E. 

Broadway, SE corner of the Town 

Square. (307) 739-1880. 

Italian 

GIOVANNI’S 

Nightly specials. House made Italian 

dishes with choice of garden or 

Caesar salad. Private dining room 

with fireplace and separate lounge 

with complete bar selections and 

flat screen TVs. Open daily at 5 

p.m. 690 S. Hwy 89. (307) 734- 

1970, www.jhgiovannis.com 

OSTERIA 


Dine in the beautiful rustic dining 

room or make it a more casual affair 

at the wine or salumi bar. The 

TO BE INCLUDED IN OUR DINING GUIDE 

IN PRINT AND ONLINE 

CALL JH WEEKLY (307) 732-0299. 

JACKSONHOLERADIO.COM 

menu features contemporary Italian 

cuisine including 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. Inside Hotel Terra at Teton 

Village. 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. Luncheon 

combinations served 

weekdays 11 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Nightly dinner specials. Open 7 

days from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 

W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207. 

THE MERRY PIGLETS 

Voted Best Salsa! Jackson’s oldest 

and most rockin’ Authentic Mexican 

restaurant. Choose from over 

10 salsas and sauces, Tex-Mex 

plates, including mesquite-grilled 

fajitas, wraps and fire-roasted 

chicken. Huge margs in 10 flavors 

plus our “Big Pig Marg,” a 32 oz 

original. One block north of the 

square,160 N. Cache, 733-2966. 

OPEN EVERY DAY 

Across from the Elk Refuge 

307-733-2232

FeedMe! 

Kevin Cohane and his wife Ali (not pictured) own Persephone Bakery. 

Best thing since you know what 

By Dina Mishev 

Since great minds think alike, 

of course, English poet Robert 

Browning and I have some beliefs 

in common. Well, we’ve got 

one belief in common that I’ve 

discovered so far. 

Browning once wrote, “If thou 

tastest a crust of bread, thou 

tastest all the stars and all the 

heavens.” 

Back in 1995, while backpacking 

through Europe, I wrote in 

my journal: “Had the best lunch 

ever today: bread, butter, and 

Nutella. Butter and Nutella are 

always good, but this bread 

made them sing: the crust 

crunched when you bit into it, 

yet the inside was airy and moist. 

It was the complete opposite of 

that parched, crap-ass stuff that 

passes for bread in Britain.” 

Slightly different words, but 

Browning and I express the same 

idea. 

The loaves turned out by the 

new(ish) Persephone Bakery – 

ciabatta, sesame semolina, 

whole wheat, multi-grain, and 

pain au levain, among others – 

don’t need butter or Nutella to 

be among the best things I’ve 

ever eaten. 

Formerly of Blue Lion and Atelier 

Ortega, Cordon Bleu (the 

real Paris one)-trained baker 

Kevin Cohane is now turning out 

artisan breads on his own. He 

and wife Ali Scheier opened 

Persephone Bakery in April. FYI: 

it’s pronounced “per-sef-o-nee” 

and not “purse-a-phone.” Perse- 

phone was the daughter of the 

Greek goddess of grain, Demeter. 

It’s been since Persephone’s 

opening that I’ve learned to eat 

bread for its own sake: no butter 

or Nutella needed. 

My first bite of Persephone 

bread elicited the same reaction 

as my first share of Cosmic Apple 

greens and my first heirloom 

tomato: “Holy shit, this can have 

a taste of its own!” Prior to Cosmic 

Apple, greens had never 

been anything to me but vehicles 

for salad dressing and tomatoes 

vehicles for salt. 

No one else in the 

valley has a bread 

that can stand up to 

Persephone’s. 

Cohane makes bread the way 

it was made in Browning’s day, 

with organic flours and natural 

yeasts left to rise for hours before 

being hand-formed and, finally, 

slowly baked over a hot hearth. 

Almost no one else in the valley 

is doing this. (To be fair, 460 

Bread in Driggs is.) 

For those not up on their 

yeast, a quick yeast lesson: yeasts 

are single-celled fungi. There are 

over 600 different species of 

them and they’re all over the 

place – in animals, humans, soil, 

and air. Every area has its own 

unique combination of yeasts 

and different yeasts have subtly 

different flavors. Bread baked 

MARY GROSSMAN 

from natural yeasts in Jackson 

will taste different than naturalyeast 

breads from San Francisco. 

All breads made from natural 

starters will taste distinctively 

different from those made with 

ordinary baker’s yeast. Naturallystarted 

breads are tangier and 

denser. 

Combine these complex flavors 

courtesy of Jackson’s hardworking 

yeasts with the 

high-quality, minimallyprocessed 

flours – unbleached, 

unbromated, and, when possible, 

from Logan’s Central 

Milling, Utah’s oldest continuously 

operated mill – that Cohane 

seeks out, and you’ve got 

bread that can be talked about 

like wine. 

If you’ve seen Persephone 

breads at Aspens Market, Whole 

Grocer, or Pearl Street Market 

and wondered at their price tags 

($5.25 and up), now you know 

why. Each loaf is made with care, 

consideration, and the finest ingredients. 

Loaves are made fresh 

every morning. 

My favorite is the multi-grain, 

because it tastes a bit like 

caramel and coffee, and the 

uber-crunchy crust protects a 

dense, moist middle. Bite into it 

hastily and you could scratch 

your gums. Cohane says the 

(slightly softer) currant walnut is 

popular too. 

Persephone Bakery, open 6 

a.m. to 2 p.m., seven days a week, 

650 Elk Avenue, Unit 2. 734-1700 

or www.persephonebakery.com. 

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on the 

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By Patrick Dolan 

It was almost 10 a.m. in Las Vegas and 

we weren’t the only people waiting in line 

for the Apple Store, one of the few remaining 

businesses at an over-priced 

shopping complex, to open. A team of 

employees wearing blue polo shirts and 

earpiece radios were milling around inside, 

preparing for another day of selling 

gadgets to a steady stream of customers. 

“It’s ten-oh-one!” shouted a man, impatient 

from waiting. Carrying a cumbersome 

broken desktop for Richard, my 

editor and wingman, I was impatient too. 

The computer still had three weeks left on 

its warranty, and it needed some attention 

from a specialist. Not long after visiting 

some other shops and finding 

ourselves with little to do, we realized that 

getting the computer fixed may have been 

the most productive highlight of the trip – 

that and bringing home some cat food 

and poetry books. 

Richard is from Las Vegas, and he invited 

me to check out his old haunts on a 

quick trip up and down Interstate 15, covering 

around 1,500 miles in four days. I 

was up for a road trip and looking forward 

to an insider’s tour of Sin City. “What’s beyond 

the row of casinos, and where do all 

the strippers live?” I wondered. On 

Wednesday, we drove 12 hours through 

the afternoon and evening and arrived 

around midnight at a gated condo com- 

A lonely-looking strip mall waits for customers in Las Vegas 

plex south of the strip. The bright lights of 

hotels and casinos on the strip were visible 

everywhere. Before sleep, I gazed toward 

the lights and dreamed of three-foot 

tall margaritas and penny slot machines. 

The following night, after some outlet 

mall shopping, we hit the strip to see 

“Peepshow” which is a tame version of a 

burlesque act, full of singing, dancing and 

Holly Madison, the reality TV star and former 

Playboy playmate. I was there as a reporter 

and took notes, watching for any 

hints of plot or story structure. From what 

I could decipher, the show was loosely 

based on fairy tales and finding true love. 

There were immodestly dressed dancers, 

both men and women, one of whom, was 

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Peep. The lack of plot didn’t seem to 

bother most people, myself included. 

Feeling satisfied with the casino scene, 

we left the strip for a house party in the 

suburbs. We drove to a house that looked 

identical on the outside to all the neighbor 

houses for 10 blocks. Once inside, 

however, we were in a bass bumping, 

black light and neon dance party. There 

was a DJ, glow sticks, and people doing 

more dancing than drinking beer. I cannot 

remember a time when I was in the 

same room with so many professional gogo 

dancers (except for the show we had 

just left). 

In the light of day, I realized that Las 

Vegas is a big valley, about 110 square 

miles, and outside the strip it seems just 

like any other suburban area. There are 

strip malls and miles of parking lots. 

While skin still has a strong appeal to the 

millions that slip away to Las Vegas for 

long weekends, chain stores and fast food 

are as just as popular. There was a casino 

within walking distance of Richard’s 

house. If laws were changed to outlaw 

gambling, which I hope never happens, 

this casino could easily pass as a shopping 

mall. There was a food court, a 

movie theatre, and old people sitting. The 

only differential is that they were all 

smoking cigarettes and playing slot machines. 

We visited the casino regularly, not to 

gamble, but to buy cheese steak sandwiches 

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COME CHEER US ON! 

Friday & Saturday 

November 18 & 19 

JACKSON HOLE MOOSE 

vs 

MCCALL MOUNTAINEERS 

ALL HOME GAMES ARE PLAYED AT THE 

SNOW KING ICE CENTER @ 7:30 P.M. 

ADULTS $8 @ THE DOOR KIDS 8 & UNDER $3 

FOR MORE INFO CALL 733-5200 

Across 

1 Gut feeling 

6 Vegging out 

10 Bratz product 

14 “Ain’t happening” 

19 Receive useful information 

about 

21 “East of Eden” director 

Kazan 

22 French story 

23 Ring from Chuck 

Berry? 

25 Bizarre 

26 “Off the Court” author 

27 Willingly 

28 Lummox 

29 Small batteries 

31 Frat party purchase 

32 Tiny decathlon entrant? 

37 Writer who 

worked on Friday? 

40 Monopolize 

41 Bank features 

42 Nueve menos ocho 

43 Off! ingredient 

47 Duck, say 

50 Cybermemos 

54 Contest for a free 

night at the inn? 

58 Respite 

59 “Flash of Genius” 

actor Alan 

60 Entrance 

61 See eye to eye 

FOR RENT 

Looking to vacation in Mexico? We 

are unable to use our timeshare in 

Mexico in 2011. Choose from four 5 

star resorts in Acapulco, Nuevo Vallarta, 

Los Cabos or Riviera Maya. 

Check them out at www.thegrandmayan.com. 

Available for 1 or 2 

weeks. $1100 per week or $2000 

for 2 consecutive weeks, OBO. Locally 

owned by Jackson residents. 

Email jjsvacation@gmail.com. 

Florida Condo For Rent: Sarasota, 

Florida; newly decorated 2 bd, 2 bth 

unit, year round lanai, overlooking 

golf course; 15 minutes to ocean; 

monthly rentals only; $2900/month 

prime season, less for multi-month 

rentals; bauerhome@ameritech.net 

FOR SALE 

Goya Guitar – Nice sounding guitar 

for a beginner or second guitar for a 

more accomplished player - $200. 

roxannemcgrath@bresnan.net or 

(307) 733-4503. 


CLASSIFIEDS 

Classified Line Ads: $16 per week for 25 words or less. 

$.25 for each additional word. 

Classified Box Ads: $16 per column inch per week (logos/photos $5 each. 

JH WEEKLY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM MADE BY A CLASSIFIED AD IN THIS PAPER. 

70 Acres with a 5,300 sq. ft. 

newer custom home, 

$878,000; for brochure: 

www.wyomingloghome.info 

or call agent, Jane Clark, ERA 

Carroll Realty, Inc. 

307-751-5576 

62 Lofty home 

63 Tex-Mex snacks 

65 World leader who 

said “Every little thing 

counts in a crisis” 

68 __-en-Provence, 

France 

70 Homer’s neighbor 

71 Trait of a gentleman 

in training? 

76 “That’s it!” 

78 Downed 

79 Passé 

80 Party catchphrase 

83 Like frat parties 

85 Timbuktu’s land 

88 [Oh my God!] 

90 “Star Trek: T.N.G.” 

counselor 

91 Potent start? 

92 Show that makes 

teens cringe? 

96 Lipton rival 

98 “Bummer” 

99 Small monkey 

100 Summer overseas 

101 Perp’s cover 

103 “Uh-uh” 

105 Grannies 

107 Fixture that refunds 

money for unused time? 

115 Affair twosome? 

116 General on a menu 

117 Dull finish? 

118 Worm, often 

119 Egg cell 

123 Perp’s cover 

125 Mess hall handout? 

129 9 to 5, e.g. 

130 “The Neverending 

Story” author 

131 Some bed makers 

132 Offspring 

133 “Agreed!” 

134 Spanish cordial 

135 Letter-shaped 

opening 

Down 

1 Tourist city SE of 

New Delhi 

2 Metros and Prizms, 

at first 

3 Longing 

4 Grow fond of 

5 __ carte 

6 Hindi is a subgroup of 

it 

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 within Jackson. 

$1000 OBO. Contact 

jjtillot@aol.com 

MUSIC & BANDS 

Judd Grossman Music is a full service 

music agency providing all styles 

of music for all occasions - solos, 

FOR 

duos, trios, dance bands, country, 

rock, folk, jazz, and classical. Live 

musicians and DJs available. (307) 

690-4935. 

GUITAR LESSONS: Now accepting 

new students. Acoustic & electric. 

Beginner to Intermediate. All ages 

and styles, except classical. For 

more information, contact Aaron 

Davis (info@aarondavismusic.com 

or 307-413-2513). 

PERSONALS 

PARENTS & FRIENDS OF 

EX-GAYS & GAYS. 

www.pfox.org 

www.facebook.com/JacksonHoleRealEstate 

RE/MAX Obsidian Real Estate 

2 bdrm. apartment, 1 bdrm. and studios. 

Wonderful location. 

Yes, we allow pets. Call 413-3058. 

RENT JACKSON TIMBERS APARTMENTS 

LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD 

7 12-time All-Star Jeter 

8 Bath sponge 

9 Photographer’s order: 

Abbr. 

10 Morning brew 

order 

11 Norwegian king, 

995-1000 

12 Rap name adjective 

13 “Deck the Halls” 

sequence 

14 Some anchors 

15 Suffix with Capri 

16 Verse often about 

nature 

17 Fairy tale baddies 

18 Divisive element 

20 Attending a 

Dodgers home game, 

say 

24 Tenant 

30 Google revenue 

source 

33 Prynne’s stigma 

34 “I Feel Bad About 

My Neck” author 

Ephron 

35 Abbr. on a shingle 

36 Neapolitan song 

title opening 

37 Boxer who held titles 

at four different 

weights 

38 __ Gay 

39 What-eats-what orders 

44 Wraps up by 

45 Tokyo, before 1868 

46 Govt. security 

48 Fine-tune 

49 Special effects technique, 

briefly 

51 Gets jealous 

52 “Night” author 

Wiesel 

53 Vehicle on a Christmas 

card, perhaps 

55 Half a fish 

56 Central Utah city 

57 Average 

62 Rink maneuver 

64 Our Gang assent 

66 Covering up 

67 Golfer Gary 

Player’s homeland: 

Abbr. 

69 Place to be 

72 Pixar fish 

73 “Let __!” 

74 One way to cope 

75 Drilling gp. 

76 Like Mr. X 

77 Main website page 

81 Main artery 

82 Evenings, in ads 

84 George Harrison 

learned it in the ’60s 

86 Rack up 

87 Bar code? 

89 __-fi 

92 Big pipes 

93 “Gracias” reply 

94 High-fiber fruit 

95 “Ladies dancing” 

carol contingent 

97 Joy 

102 Was gaga over 

104 Got a grip 

106 Kitchen drawers? 

107 Dreads 

108 Big name in supplemental 

insurance 

109 Last Supper question 

110 Brief interview? 

111 “Family Matters” 

nerd 

112 Civilian garb 

113 Ohio natives 

114 Divulge 

120 Concealing garb 

121 Erase 

122 Has to 

124 Short life story? 

126 “Wheel of Fortune” 

buy 

127 FDR home loan 

org. 

128 ER staff member

JEEP BRAND SOARS IN LATEST CONSUMER REPORTS RELIABILITY SCORES 

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Locally Owned 

Art Hazen 

Real Estate LLC 

“We are Wyoming” 

Go to www.therealestatescoreboard.com to sign up & receive the Real Estate Scoreboard© by e-mail. 

LL292 Victor, ID 

With great mountain views, steps away from 

Teton Springs Golf resort, and at the base of Teton 

Pass, this .46 acre property is great for everyone. 

All utilities to the lot line and paved roads are 

some of the amenities. Best priced lot in Golf 

Vista Estates. $48,000 Contact: Penny Gaitan 

SF523 Etna, WY 

Recently remodeled home in Nordic Ranches has 

a custom kitchen with hickory cabinets, granite 

countertops, and hardwood floors. Master suite 

has jetted tub and tiled shower. Great views from 

every direction. Front and back porches. Perfect 

land for horses. 3 car garage. $333,000 

Contact: Penny Gaitan or Dena Luthi 

LL282 Etna, WY 

Located next to the new school, this five acres is 

in a prime area for investment. No CC&R’s and 

within 40 miles of Jackson Hole. 

$45,000 Contact: Dena Luthi 

SF552 Jackson, WY 

This sunny 4 bedroom, 3 bath home has so much 

to offer. Views of the mountains out every window, 

river rock fireplace in the great room, master 

suite with jetted tub on main level, a bonus room 

with sleeping area, recreational room with soda 

fountain and extra storage, southwest facing 

deck, and quiet cul-de-sac location are just some 

of the reasons to come take a look. $749,000 

Contact: Penny Gaitan 

SF513 Jackson, WY 

Price Reduction! Horse property with Taste! 3.16 

fenced acres in Singl’ Tree Ranches. Beautifully 

remodeled home with Grand Teton views, 4 

bedrooms, 4 baths, antique ceiling beams, 

hardwood floors, chef’s kitchen, oversized 3 car 

garage, private office, southwest facing deck for 

entertaining, a well designed horse barn with 

plenty of storage for your toys and RV. 

$1,695,000 Contact: Timothy C. Mayo 

LL291 Driggs, ID 

OWNER FINANCING & Gorgeous Grand Teton 

views from this 3.5 acre lot in Teewinot. Enjoy a 

quiet neighborhood close to Ski Hill Road and just 

5 minutes from downtown Driggs. $159,000 

Contact: Jennifer Reichert 

SF550 Tetonia, WY 

Fabulous home on 9.376 acres with head on 

Grand Teton views out living room and master 

suite. Oversized barn and hayshed. Propane, 

radiant floor heat. $850,000 

Contact: Penny Gaitan 

SF570 Moran, WY 

Stunning Grand Teton Mountain Views from this 

Buffalo Valley home. This 3.5 acre horse property 

provides terrific national forest trail access and lies 

just 18 miles south of Yellowstone, 10 miles to Grand 

Teton Natl Park. A builder's own home, highlights 

include: cathedral ceilings, a two-sided gas fireplace, 

pine ceilings, in floor radiant heat, outdoor decks, 

hot tub, large picture windows, detailed woodwork. 

This home was carefully designed & engineered 

resulting in an extremely energy efficient home. 

$765,000 Contact: Jennifer Reichert 

The Real Estate Scoreboard 

provides statistics for Star Valley 

and Victor/Driggs, Idaho in 

addition to Jackson Hole. 

Please visit us at 

www.realestatescoreboard.com 

SF530 Etna, WY 

High end, new, cedar home on 2.86 elevated 

acres. Spacious rooms plus covered decks to add 

outdoor space. A casita for mother-in-law room, 

guest room, or game room. Loft overlooking living 

room, kitchen with ample cabinet space. Four 

car garages and impeccable views. Partially finished 

basement. $599,000 Contact: Dena Luthi 

LL321 Thayne, WY 

Located on the West hills of Thayne, this 8.54 

acre lot provides an amazing valley view. Trees 

and mature bushes give it a forest feel. $177,500 

Contact: Dena Luthi 

CC96 Afton, WY 

Whether restaurant or retail, this is the perfect 

building for a new and upcoming business. 

Located just steps away from the famous Elkhorn 

Arch and right on Main Street! Great Value in 

Afton! $145,000 Contact: Dena Luthi 

REAL ESTATE 

SCOREBOARD 

JACKSON HOLE 

WEEK OF 11.07.11 TO 11.13.11 

Lowest Priced 

Single Family Home $328,500 

Townhome or Condo $103,000 

Building Lot $194,500 

Week’s top sale 

Residential $215,000 

Total # of Sales 1 

Residential 1 

Building Site 0 

Multi-Family 0 

Farm & Ranch 0 

Commercial 0 

YTD Sales (11.14.10-11.13.11) 


Sales Under $1,000,000 246 

Median Price Sold $650,000 

Sale Price to List Price 90.04% 

Average Days on Market 315 

YTD (Year Ago) Sales (11.14.09-11.13.10) 


Sales Under $1,000,000 177 

Median List Price Sold $785,000 

Sale Price to List Price 89.60% 


Current Inventory 

Active Listings 773 


Median List Price $995,000 

*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 

www.jhrealestate.com 

homes@jhrealestate .com 

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