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Volume 9, Issue 21

Teton County See The Goods, page 15

News & Opinion

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On Rock: Bastille Crack The Sage Grouse Letters Online Comments Jackson smoking ban Props & Disses More sides to Superstructure split Them On Us

This Week Calendar Culture Matters: Women Who Steal CD Reviews Music: Center’s 12 months of music High Art: Wallis goes Western Dine Out Slim’s Pickins: Way of the wings

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LETTERS A blurred focus

THE SAGE GROUSE R.T. Cox, Wyofile.com

Of birds and blades Joelle Gehring, Ph.D., is senior conservation scientist at the University of Michigan, collaborating with scientists, industry representatives, regulators and others on reducing bird deaths caused by collision with communication and wind towers. She published a summary of recent research quantifying such deaths and recommending solutions — subjects of great interest in Wyoming. Some of her conclusions, based upon many site studies, are presented below. Taller towers (more than 1,000 feet) kill about four times more migrating birds than shorter ones (380 to 480 feet). Most wind turbines in Wyoming are about 300 feet at the tip of the blade. Towers anchored with guy wires kill about 16 times more birds than self-standing towers of comparable height. Replacement of steady-burning red lights, used to warn aircraft, with flashing lights such as white strobe lights reduced fatalities by more than 50 percent. Estimates of the number of migratory songbirds killed by communication towers range from four million to 50 million birds per year. Meanwhile, cell phone towers and public safety communication towers are springing up like weeds. Gehring estimates that as of early 2010, there were about 31,000 utility-scale wind turbines operating in the United States. New turbines range from 350 feet to 420 feet tall. Warblers, vireos, kinglets and larks are frequent victims, with quail,

hawks, shorebirds and waterfowl also among the dead. Night migration, common among many avian species, contributes substantially to the deaths. However, Gehring concludes that deaths due to wind turbines are much lower per tower than at communication towers. (Editor’s note: Paul Kerlinger, a co-author with Gehring of Understanding Bird Collisions at Communications Towers and Wind Turbines: Status of Impacts and Research, has worked as a paid consultant for the wind industry. Their research was partially funded by the wind industry.) Since many communication towers are erected by public agencies, often for public safety purposes, the public should push such agencies to implement strategies to build self-standing towers instead of guyed structures, and to install flashing lights that do not attract birds. Private companies should be encouraged to do the same. Gehring recommends that the height of the top of the rotating blades of wind turbines be limited to no more than 500 feet and areas with populations of rare and endangered species be avoided. Adapted with permission from Understanding Bird Collisions at Communications Towers and Wind Turbines: Status of Impacts and Research, Paul Kerlinger, Joelle Gehring and Richard Curry, Birding magazine, January, 2011. Any errors in interpretation are laid at the feet of The Sage Grouse.

Allow me to rail a bit on a subject that to me is an absolute disgrace to this nation. I beg for your patience as I quote from a recent piece that I have perused on the Internet regarding U.S. Aid. “The United States is in partnership to improve Pakistani lives. Since 2002, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided over $5.1 billion in support of Pakistani education, health, energy, economic growth, flood relief and recovery.” If I am not mistaken, each and every one of these targets of aid hauntingly appear to be, coincidentally, the very needs of the United States. Just this month, ironically despite recent events, congress has approved a bill increasing such said aid to $7.5 million dollars annually for the next five years to Pakistan. Sadly, such moves do not merit cable news coverage to an already unsettled public. They merely dwell on the temptation of airing unseen photographs. As the bellows of blow hards blather, bicker and bawl over an escalating trillion dollar deficit, they continue to urinate away exorbitant amounts of money to an unstable and untrustworthy nation who can afford an extensive nuclear program but cannot feed or provide the needs for their own citizens. The focus on values and priorities within our federal government has apparently become extremely blurred. Would one not think that it is due time for them to straighten up and fly right and take care of their own? I am not against helping others, for it is in the nature of man . Yet, one cannot help another if one cannot help himself. – Patrik Troiani, Jackson

You don’t know Portlandia I think this article [“Rotation ceases, Pokorny explains,” Music Box, April 27] is a very untrue portrayal of the situation. I also grew up in Jackson, but I have lived in Portland for the last 8 years and it has tons to offer in the art and music scenes, but it is competitive, and full of very talented people. You have to expect to put yourself out there and try really hard. Jobs and careers do not just appear magically in front of you, if you think they will you are setting yourself up for failure. An extreme lack of ambition and motivation on behalf of some of the band members seems to be the true reason for their demise. I think success was on the horizon for them and it is disappointing that they gave up so soon. Good luck to Shawn and Kyle for sticking it out in Portland! I think it was a very bad decision to run this article in the newspaper without the comments and consideration from the entire band. It is a very negative and disappointing viewpoint of something that was great while it lasted, and could have been great. – Leah Cox, Portland.

CORRECTION: The photo appearing on page 8 of the April 27-May 3 issue was incorrectly attributed to Timothy Farris. Credit should have been given to Kasey Stewart.

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Basking on Bastille Crack While down in the Boulder/Denver area recently, I climbed the super classic Bastille Crack (I, 5.8, five-pitch) on the north side of The Bastille in Eldorado Canyon State Park. Drive to the town of Eldorado Springs, and at the end of the dirt road is the park entrance. Unless you have an annual pass, the daily car fee is $8. After a short hike uphill, The Bastille is the first buttress/tower on the left. As expected, there were climbers on the route, and climbers waiting. We got in line, and sorted gear. The first pitch meanders up to the “Guitar Flake,” then the awkward step across into a greasy crack, and up to a chain anchor. Since we were behind climbers, we decided to go at their speed, and did the short pitch options. The next three pitches were a mix of crack, chimney and face climbing, with fairly good options for pro, and a scattering of old fixed pins. This is a sustained climb, so one needs to be comfortable with 5.8 trad climbing. The last pitch has three options (5.4-5.8), and we opted for the crux pitch to the right. Descent: south to a steep, grungy-marked dirt trail that goes north down to the base. For gear: full rack up to No. 4 Camelot (lots of small gear for pitch one), extra long slings, helmets, 50-meter rope (a 60- to 70-meter rope can combine pitches), water and first aid kit. For beta: Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder. Rock On! –Kevin J. Pusey Jr

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On “Letters 5/4/11: No Skyline Trail” ■ Sorry Franz I don’t buy it. There are deer that spend half the year living in town. There are animals who spend year round next to the road. The further I venture into the wilderness the less wildlife I see. Wildlife aren’t bothered by humans unless we shoot them or run them over with our cars. How about you speak up for the animals pummeled by our vehicles…”

On “The Buzz: Runners lace up” ■ JHW: “[Batchen] said he looked at things like how LOTOJA—the Logan to Jackson bike race—has made changes to better accommodate vehicle traffic.” The SO’s office simply doesn’t know how to manage bke traffic crossing the highway while mixing with car traffic near the south end of S. Park Loop during that race. I can only hope they have nothing to do with safety during the foot race.

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By Benjamin R. Bombard

Could Wyoming become the 28th state to ban smoking indoors?

Smokefree someday? Board of Health officials researching Jackson smoking ban. with the authority to adopt smoking bans. It died in committee.

By Benjamin R. Bombard Two months after a court ruling invalidated the Teton District Board of Health’s controversial smoking ban, the board is investigating its options for instituting a regulation inside town limits. At the board’s April 26 meeting, attorneys Keith Gingery and Nicole Krieger advised board members of a couple potential options for pursuing an ordinance similar to the 2009 Smokefree Air Rule. It’s too late for the board to appeal Ninth District Judge Timothy Day’s ruling that the rule exceeds the board’s rulemaking authority and violated the state constitution. Gingery and Krieger presented the board with two alternatives: They could lobby Jackson’s Town Council to adopt a smoking ban within town limits, or they could encourage the state legislature to pass a statewide ban. Gingery and Krieger represented the Board of Health in its legal battle to defend the 2009 Smokefree Air Rule, which was challenged by the company that owns the Virginian Lodge and Saloon. The Virginian is the only establishment that allows smoking in Teton County. Every other bar, restaurant and resort has voluntarily barred patrons from smoking. Twenty-seven state legislatures have passed statewide bans on smoking in all enclosed public places, including bars and restaurants. Wyoming is one of only seven states with no indoor smoking restrictions. The Center for Disease Control predicts in a new study that all 50 states will have bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and the workplace by 2020. Cheyenne, Laramie, Rock Springs and Evanston all have their own smoking bans. A bill was introduced to the Wyoming Legislature this spring that would have granted county commissioners the ability to delegate county health departments

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Most attractive option The minutes of the April 26 board meeting have not been made publically available, but Gingery said the Board of Health showed particular interest in advocating for a smoking ban at the town level. He said board members discussed “toning down” the original ban it unanimously passed at a public meeting on March 24, 2009. “[Board members] talked about how under the rule people couldn’t smoke in the company car, say in a truck belonging to Bresnan,” Gingery said, referring to the telecommunications company. “A lot of people complained about that, and one suggestion was to take that part out. They said, ‘Here’s a place where we could tone it down a bit.’” Based on comments from Mayor Mark Barron, there appears to be little hope of passing a smoking ban in Jackson. “I don’t think there is any support [for a smoking ban] at the council level,” Barron stated unequivocally. “I’m happy the market place has taken care of this issue. If you want to smoke, the only place you can go is the Virginian. What more would a rule on the Town books accomplish that the market hasn’t already?” David Schlim, the board’s chair, said he and his five colleagues will not try to pass another rule on their own. He said the board was hesitant to pass its smoking ban in 2009 out of concern that it exceeded its authority as a non-elected political body. Schlim denied that the board’s attempt at regulating indoor smoking was a targeted attempt to deny the Virginian’s patrons the right to smoke tobacco. He admits that a smoking ban might not have a profound affect on Jackson, but he contends that such bans have been shown to reduce underage smoking, and that instituting a smoking ban would give establishments a

firmer tool for enforcing their own anti-smoking rules. Despite his skepticism, Barron said he would support hearing from the Board of Health at a future Town Council meeting, which likely won’t occur until sometime in June.

Greater scrutiny Although the suit brought by the Virginian and other organizations was intended to address the Smokefree Air Rule, Day’s broad ruling casts doubt as to the efficacy of the state’s few district boards of health. In his written opinion, Day states that a district board of health is “limited to rulemaking in those broad areas the State Department of Health has chosen to regulate.” In other words, if the Wyoming Department of Health hasn’t enacted a regulation, district boards are unable to do so. A little known regulation on body art passed by the Board of Health could be another casualty of Day’s ruling. Passed by the board in 2007, the rules require tattoo parlors to obtain permits from the Health Department, tattoo artists to complete “training and testing programs,” and stipulates acceptable procedures. It also made unlawful such body arts as “piercing of the genitals and piercing of the tongue, branding, lacing, and scarification.” When he addressed the Board of Health on April 26, Gingery mentioned that Day’s ruling appears to invalidate the Teton Body Art Rule, which remains on the County’s books. “Just because this one party [i.e. the Virginian] was interested in one small issue, we have to deal with unintended consequences that affect what we can do to protect public health in the county,” Schlim said. The Board of Health is scheduled to meet later this month to decide how to proceed with its anti-smoking efforts.

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Filmmaker Carrie Noel Richer begins a nine-month fellowship this May with the Center for Wonder highlighting the creative processes of artists throughout the valley. As Jackson’s “Digital Media Ambassador,” Richer will produce, shoot and edit videos for an online gallery on the Center’s website. Her responsibilities will also include empowering students and members of the community to make their own videos highlighting Jackson’s collaborative arts community. A press release announcing Richer’s fellowships says the Digi Media Ambassador project is intended to “highlight two unique characteristics of Jackson – [sic] our incredible natural surroundings and our vibrant arts community.” An online video gallery showcasing Jackson’s surprisingly vivacious arts scene and its nexus with this place’s natural grandeur should help local artists gain wider recognition. The Center is also hoping that spreading the word on the interwebs might inspire tourists to come to Jackson for both the arts and nature. “I think we’re unique in that equally small mountain towns don’t have as much art as we do,” Richer said. “We’re uniquely able in this small community, to have both the outdoors and a vibrant arts community that’s willing to take risks.” Richer, an employee at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, holds a bachelor’s degree in dance and a master’s in film. She hopes to showcase “true collaboration” between artists engaged in projects that are interactive and interdisciplinary. The online web gallery will be launched in June, but Richer wants to take the project “beyond the URL.” She plans to bridge the digital and the so-called real world by using Quick Response or QR codes, those splotchy black and white stamps you can scan with your smartphone to open a website. “Imagine,” the press release says, “that as you walk along the bike path – [sic] you come upon a QR code [sic] which directs you to a video identifying the very spot as inspiration for a local artist’s composition, dance or painting. The art will gain more meaning to the community by providing a window into how or why it was created.” Maybe Richer could convince JH Weekly’s public editor, Mike Bressler, and that firebrand Aaron Wallis to put their feud on the back burner for a bit and join Carrie Noel Richer hands to collaborate on a project that combines the visual and written arts. Now that would be a feat of organizational wonder. Artists who think they have ideas relevant to Richer’s project can contact her at digitalambassador@gmail.com KATE JISGAREK

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PXP takes a leak Plains Exploration & Production, aka PXP ‘round these parts, was responsible for 40 gallons of crude oil and 400 gallons of brine water that leaked from a pipeline into a storm drain in a Los Angeles suburb in April, the Los Angeles Times reported. The contaminants leaked from a PXP well near the town of Montebello. The leak was reported on April 19. It took the California Emergency Management team a week to clean up PXP’s mess. Times reporter Louis Sahagun noted that “[d]rinking water supplies were not affected, according to the agency’s preliminary spill report.” PXP plans to drill 136 wells extending from 17 well pads in Sublette County’s pristine Hoback Basin. A PXP spokeshole told the Times, “Normal field operations have resumed, and no significant environmental damage resulted from the event due to PXP’s immediate response efforts.” But Sahagun reported that gooey remnants of the spill could still be found when he paid a visit to a tributary of the Rio Hondo River in Montebello. “[S]mall fish including perch could be seen flopping on their sides in a pond edged by a patch of oil and two absorbent booms. A variety of migrating songbirds flitted through the limbs of a cottonwood towering over the pond, which smelled like petroleum.” California Department of Fish & Game is in the middle of a “full investigation” into the spill. David Madison, a representative for the Wilderness Society, says PXP has a pattern of running into trouble with regulators. He notes that the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOE) slapped the energy company with a $900,000 fine for not complying with requests to submit monthly oil and gas operations reports for its subsidiary company, Pogo Producing Co., which PXP acquired in 2007. BOE issued a noncompliance notice to PXP after the merger and a civil penalty, and then additional penalties. The leak in Montebello and PXP’s disregard for regulations designed to ensure safety should serve as yet another red flag as the company gets set w to drill in the Hoback Basin. PXP already took a leak in California’s water; will Wyoming’s be next? W

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In breakups, there are two sides to the story, sometimes more. As a follow up to JH Weekly’s Q&A with singerguitarist Victor Pokorny concerning the recent breakup of Rotating Superstructure [May 27: “Rotation ceases, Pokorny explains”], I spoke on the phone with founding bandmates Kyle and Shawn Fleming, guitarist and drummer respectively, from their base in Portland, Ore. The brothers had a different view of how the band’s four-year stint came to an end. “It really came out of the blue for Shawn and I,” Kyle began. “At our last show, which was Mountain Fest, the other guys [Victor and Bridger] were telling people that it was our last show and we had no idea. It was just embarrassing for us to have people come up after the show and say that it was a bummer that we were splitting up. We are waiting for an apology for the way it all went down.” Shawn and Kyle said they were unaware of any inter-band problems and were baffled by the reasons that Pokorny gave for the breakup: the lack of music the band played, financial insecurity, and lack of employment. “Before we moved out [to Portland], we were very clear to them that this was not going to be easy, that it was going to take a lot of work, and take time,” Kyle said. “We were the ones waiting for them to get out of high school and tried to communicate to them that if they weren’t into it then we would move on.” Kyle continued to deny Victor’s statement that the band did not have shows booked or jobs. “I’ve had a full time job since we’ve been here, and we also had to cancel six shows. [The breakup] was a big bummer because the ball was really starting to roll here and we had to shut it all down. They bailed on their lease and it was all thrown in our face.” Shawn added, “There was no effort to work out personnel things or what’s not working within the band. They just said, ‘That’s it. We’re done.’ They

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Shawn and Kyle Fleming in Portland. really did break some bridges with us. It was behind-the-back and mean.” Rather than crafting new songs for the fresh audiences they would be playing for, the Fleming boys, they said, shifted their energy to production. “There’s a whole science to making songs sound really good in a live setting, and that’s what we’ve really been getting into. It’s been fun for us and we want to start recording other bands, too,” Kyle said. “Since we’ve been in Portland, we feel that we’ve progressed a ton. We also turned down other projects to focus on what we thought was a long term band that was evolving.” Having grown up in Jackson, Kyle and Shawn have a lot of respect for the local arts and the people that supported the band’s endeavors, but they admit that Portland has a lot more to offer in terms of free community events and is an “equivalent city match to Jackson.” “You really don’t need a lot of money to live here,” Kyle said. “There’s tons of free music and people hanging out everywhere. We love to miss Jackson too, but we thought they were ready to move on and try it in a new place. I guess we were wrong.” Kyle and Shawn said they have the beginnings for a new band project, for which they will write new tunes and book gigs.

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Nice place to visit … wouldn’t want to die there Them On Us caught the premiere episode of Dual Survival’s second season on the Discovery Channel. As usual, the scenario pits Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury against all that Mother Nature can throw at them as the two use their survival skills in an attempt to extract themselves off a Wyoming mountain after a mock avalanche. Daytime highs in the single digits and overnight lows well below zero prompted Canterbury to say the experience had a “suck factor of ten-plus” as his mate, Lundin, drank his own sock juice to hydrate. Outfitted with only a pair of snowshoes, one ski pole, some parachute cord and two matches, the duo built snow caves and fashioned their own snowshoes as they made their way downslope to rescue. We didn’t know Lundin was a Wyoming native. The eccentric

hippie makes it a habit to go shoeless in shorts in every episode and, sure enough, Lundin did so at 11,000 feet during a Wyoming winter. “The cold here is vicious,” Lundin said to the camera. “You can be dead in a matter of hours. Whatever cards you’re dealing out, you better have a stacked deck when you come to Wyoming in the wintertime.” Time and again the narrative reminded viewers that a Wyoming winter was as deadly as using a toaster in the bathtub. “Brutal landscape … one of North America’s most unforgiving winter environments … killer cold,” were just some of the phrases used to describe the Cowboy State under the grips of winter. This episode does for Wyoming what 127 Hours did for Utah.

Too close for comfort Some 30 ‘tourons’ were caught

getting a bird’s-eye view of Old Faithful as she blew recently. Video provided by southern Utah’s KCSG-TV, where we saw the story, showed some onlookers peering straight down into the blowhole of the geyser and then scampering off to a safe distance once it began percolating to life. The group might never have been caught if not for some really bored webcam viewer in Wisconsin who happened to be watching in real time and notified authorities at Yellowstone. The whistleblower remains anonymous. “One would never want to be close to a geyser like that or, frankly, look down into the column as apparently some of these visitors did,” park spokesman Al Nash told an AP reporter. Several members of the group, including the tour group leader, were handed $125 tickets by park rangers.

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The Business of

BOOZE By Jake Nichols

Wyoming and Jackson Hole have a long history of turning liquor into gold.

Wyoming has always loved its liquor. From the bawdy, pre-statehood days of the late-19th Century through Prohibition and into present-day Jackson Hole, the great state of Wyoming has banked on the unquenchable thirst of her people. More than a century later not much has changed. In 2007, Wyoming brought in $2,776,000 in state excise taxes on sales of wine and spirits alone. Liquor licenses in Teton County are known to sell for six-figures on the open market. When the Town of Jackson announces they have one to issue, the response is nothing short of bedlam, because local municipalities have long depended on turning booze into bucks through excise and retail taxes. As of now, nine liquor licenses are available in Jackson Hole.

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The way it was Frontier newspapers reported there were 65 saloons in operation in Cheyenne (population 1,450) in 1876. The first legislative session in 1869 made it illegal to sell booze on Sundays. By 1871, it was repealed. Wyoming entered the prohibition era kicking and screaming; it was the last state in the region to ban booze in 1919, and the last state in the nation to raise the drinking age to 21, procrastinating until 1988. In 2009, Wyoming ranked eighth in alcohol consumption per capita, with the average person guzzling 265 beers, nine bottles of wine, and nearly three gallons of the hard stuff. The importance of hooch to the early settlers of Wyoming is summarily displayed in Kaycee, Wyo., where the first structure built was a saloon in 1897. When legislation passed in 1906 making a saloon illegal unless it was in a town, Kaycee incorporated. To incorporate the minimum number of people to constitute a town in the state of Wyoming at the time (150), they extended the town limits 20 miles in every direction from the bar. During Prohibition, Wyomingites, like much of the nation, still found ways to wet their whistles. T-Men made the biggest bust of moonshiners west of the Mississippi when they raided an underground operation in Rock Springs in 1921, making 62 arrests. In 1929, the entire local government of Thermopolis pled guilty to accepting bribes and aiding a bootleg ring, according to noted Wyoming historian, Phil Roberts. During the 1920s, tiny Kemmerer, Wyo., was one of the nation’s biggest suppliers of illegal alcohol. Its “Kemmerer Moon” was the premium bootleg busthead in speakeasies across the country. A raid of its operation in 1931 netted 24,000 gallons of liquor. Prohibition ended in Wyoming at the stroke of midnight 1933 on May 19. Reports say partiers from Utah came north by the truckload to drink 3.2 beer that night in Evanston. Stronger beer and liquor were legalized two years later. But not in Utah. State lawmakers in 1935 established the State Liquor Commission (now known as the State Liquor Association), which controlled the wholesaling of all wine and spirits in Wyoming. Republicans opposed the socialist aspects of the new commission; Democrats liked the revenue stream. A two-cents per gallon excise tax on alcohol was established, which remains in place today. Only Nevada booze tax is lower. In its inaugural year, the agency raked in $137,800 in profits. “Wyoming is an alcohol control state. Alcohol is a controlled substance, you know?” explained Tom Montoya, chief of enforcement at the Wyoming Liquor Division. “They had witnessed a lot of crime during Prohibition. Things like ‘bathtub gin’ and people getting blinded and sick on bootlegged liquor. Wyoming is one of 18 ‘control states’ that chooses to manage the wholesale aspect of liquor and wines.” Montoya says this is one way the state can guarantee tax collection on alcohol. The state maintains some 2,200 products in its stocked warehouse for bars and restaurants to order from. The agencies’ take is 17.6 percent on every bottle sold – a markup set by state statute in 1935. “Let’s say the Million Dollar Cowboy bar wants to order something that is not on that list,” Montoya said. “They could order from our Special Order catalogue of 26,000 products. If it is imported or manufactured in the U.S., we can get it.”

Liquor licenses come in many flavors Retail license (18 issued in town, two available; 18 issued in county, four available) The most coveted of drinking permits, this license allows an establishment to sell beer, wine, or hard liquor both inside the business and to be taken off-premise. Shots on the bar and six-packs to go are kosher with a retail liquor license. Retail liquor licenses are limited by a population formula. Two retail licenses can be issued for the first 500 residents, one retail license for each additional 500 people up to 9,500, after which one retail license is issued for every 3,000 people more than 9,500. Most importantly, retail liquor licenses are the only license that is easily transferrable. Local authorities must OK a transfer but retail license holders can sell their liquor license to anyone, anywhere, for any amount.

Restaurant license (35 issued in town, 19 issued in county) Restaurant liquor licenses began in the 1970s as customers increasingly demanded to have a glass of beer or wine with their foie gras and chicken-fried steak. Restaurant licenses are the most restrictive out there. Establishments must maintain a minimum 60/40 split of the food and alcohol sales. And they must cut off alcohol sales when the kitchen closes. Restaurant liquor licensees cannot pour a drink in front of a customer. Separate dispensing rooms are required where drinks are prepared and then must be served to the customer. Restaurants cannot compete in any way with retail liquor license holders, meaning they cannot advertise themselves as a saloon or bar. They also may not hold dances or receptions. Restaurants are clearly defined in Wyoming statutes, as well. Establishments must have a printed menu offering a “full course meal.” Venues serving only “victuals,” or fried finger foods, would not qualify for a restaurant liquor license.

Bar and Grill license (Two issued in town, one available; one issued in county, two available) The so-called “Applebee’s” license is a relatively new concept. State lawmakers were faced with loosening the restrictions of the restaurant liquor license or losing the business of national chains like Applebee’s and Olive Garden. A compromise was made and the Bar and Grill license is essentially a modification of the restaurant license, allowing customers to purchase and consume drinks in the dispensing area. The Rendezvous Bistro is an example of a local B&G license holder. This license is also available by a population formula.

Resort license (Two issued in town, 12 issued in county) This license allows for the sale and consumption of liquor anywhere within the boundaries of a legitimate resort, defined as a lodging facility having at least 100 rooms, a restaurant, and building valuation of at least $1 million. Snow King Resort and The Lodge at Jackson Hole hold the town’s only resort licenses.

Limited (Club) license (One issued in town, one issued in county) Fraternal organizations like the Elks Lodge in Jackson fall under the Club license category. They are also frequently issued to golf courses. Clubs must provide a petition signed by at least 51 percent of their members saying they want alcohol available. Members and guests of members are permitted to drink on-premises. The Club license is the only permit allowing for the selling of alcohol 24/7. Bars and restaurants cannot serve after 2 a.m. or before 6 a.m.

County Retail Malt Beverage permit (18 issued in county) Issued in the county only, mostly for C-stores and other quick shopping outlets. Only beer may be sold, no wine or spirits.

Microbrewery permit (Two issued in town) The Snake River Brewery and Thai Me Up both have microbrewery permits. This restrictive option allows the holder to brew and sell only beer made at the facility. Off-premise sales are limited to 2,000 ounces, max – about one standard keg. A brewery may sell other beers with special authorization.

Winery permit (One issued in the town, one issued in the county) This permit allows for the fermenting of juices into wines and the onsite sale of such. Off-premise sales are limited to two ounces per sale. Vom Foss is currently utilizing a winery permit.

Catering permit Allows any retail license holder to sell beer and alcohol for on-premise consumption at a location other than his bar. Up to 12 may be issued in any one location. Most often used at outdoor wedding receptions and at concerts held at the Center for the Arts.

Special and 24-hour malt beverage permit Fairs, rodeos, and holiday gatherings often utilize 24-hour permits to serve beer only. Summer concerts at the Snow King Amphitheatre and the World Championship Hill Climb are just two of the events that would secure a Special or 24-hour malt beverage permit. Statewide, a total of 1,360 liquor licenses were being used in Wyoming in 2009 – 738 Retail, 276 Restaurant, 23 Bar and Grill, 121 Limited (Club), 73 County Malt Beverage, 31 Malt Beverage Wholesalers, and 12 Microbreweries.

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Drinks = Dollars Each liquor license brings in $1,500 to $3,000 to the town, annually. Watering holes also create jobs and generate retail sales tax for communities like Jackson. The Town of Jackson has issued a total of 59 liquor licenses. Teton County has doled out 70 liquor licenses. Most of the licenses issued by both the town and the county are held by restaurants. The 2010 Census marked Jackson’s population at 9,577 – with the county at 21,294. That translates into 20 potential retail liquor licenses available from the Town of Jackson. The last license was issued to the Pink Garter Theatre, and the town has two more to deal out. Town clerk Roxanne Robinson says she expects numerous applicants and another lively public hearing. “Liquor licensing gets complicated,” Robinson said. “There is a great demand for retail liquor licenses especially. Retail licenses have sold for six figures. I remember one was $250,000, and another one sold for $400,000. There are rumors of one retail license selling for $600,000.” Liquor license hearings get nasty. Heated debates stretch meetings into the late hours of the night. Robinson said the Councilors sometimes play favorites, trying to please their constituents and, occasionally, when it looks like a license may be headed to a business they don’t want to vote for, they often decide to hold on to the license rather than see it go to an applicant they didn’t have in mind. On Dec. 6, 2006, Rendezvous Bistro and Merry Piglets beat out Club Lespri at the White Buffalo and the Jackson Hole Playhouse for the first two bar and grill licenses ever issued in Jackson. When Spirits of the West went under in 2002, it sold its retail liquor license to Smith’s Food and Drug without first seeking Council approval of the transfer. The Council denied the transfer on a 3-2 vote and Smith’s threatened to pull out of Jackson. Councilman Chris Kirk later changed his vote and Smith’s eventually got its license. Mayor Mark Barron opened the latest round of liquor license applications that is sure to result in the usual circus. During the Council meeting on April 18, Barron cited “economic recovery” as the main reason he wanted to talk about doling out the town’s two retail licenses and one bar and grill license. Applications are now being accepted through June 1. A special public hearing on the matter is scheduled for July 25.

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Liquor and the law Many antiquated state laws and local ordinances concerning alcohol are the result of the lawmakers reaching a compromise between “drys” and “wets,” as they were known. The temperance movement exercised influence before, during and well beyond Prohibition. As recently as 1995, many women were habitually breaking the law. Ordinance 90 on the Town of Jackson’s books stated: “No female shall be employed as a bartender in a room holding a retail liquor license.” State statute held that a woman couldn’t even be within five feet of a bar. Town Clerk Roxanne Robinson said no one in Jackson ever really paid attention to either of those laws. Both were repealed in 1995. Women can still pull their husbands off the barstool even today. Article 5-502 of the State statutes allows the spouse of a “habitual drunkard” who neglects supporting his family by blowing his paycheck at the bar to insist the bartender cut him off or face punitive damages. Another ordinance, passed in 1926 and amended in 1982, practically made the modern day Cowboy Bar unlawful. “Any person keeping a dance house within the limits of the Town where lewd or disorderly persons assemble together for the purpose of dancing, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum.” Prostitution and gambling still don’t mix well with alcohol. But Jackson Hole’s rich tradition with the latter has always pushed the envelope. Wyoming Liquor Division’s chief of enforcement officer Tom Montoya explained Shake-a-Days – the popular Yahtzee-style dice game – constitutes a legal form of gambling in Wyoming along with any pool board events like the Super Bowl or “Chicken Shit Bingo.” Poker games came under scrutiny in the mid-2000s, prompting lawmakers to tweak the state constitution to allow for “friendly” games of cards. Venues hosting weekly poker tournaments and such still can’t advertise the events because, according to Montoya, that would destroy the “bona fide social relationship of the players” necessary to be compliant. Bar owners can now indirectly profit from these poker games by selling burgers and beers to the players. Before 2006, the law was fuzzy on this issue, Montoya said.

ThisWeek Jackson Hole Arts&Culture

CALENDAR ★ THIS WEEK’S

By Meg Daly

PICKS

OPERA

All in the family

Wednesday 5.11

MICAELA ROSSATO/METROPOLITAN OPERA

If you think the term “epic” was invented for powder, you haven’t heard Wagner. At an epic five and a half hours, The Metropolitan Opera’s Die Walküre finds Norse gods still meddling in the lives of mortals. In the second in Wagner’s Ring series, Siegmund tries to recover a powerful ring for his king-of-the-gods dad, Wotan. But, oops, Sieg falls in love with his sister! Marriage goddess Fricka won’t have it and tells Wotan to kill Siegmund. That’s where die walküre, or valkyrie, Brunhilde comes in. Valkyries decides who dies in battle, and Brun wants to save Sieg’s behind. Die Walküre, 10 a.m., Saturday, Walk Festival Hall. $18 adults/$5 students. 7333050.

Deborah Voigt in Die Walküre.

COMMUNITY

LITERATURE

A moment suspended.

Feed some hungry minds.

Beyond Swan Lake Every spring, the Dancers’ Workshop Junior Rep Company adds to its rigorous training schedule and choreographs a performance. The result is always stunning. Find out for yourself this Friday when New Dances/New Choreographers take center stage. Entirely produced, marketed, choreographed, and danced by Jackson students, the evening is titled “A Moment Suspended” and will explore movement as a means to contract or expand various emotions. According to Junior Repertory coordinator Erin Roy, “As choreographers, we can communicate life’s moments of joy and sorrow through movement.” New Dances/New Choreographers, 7:30 p.m., Friday, Center Theater. $12 adults/$7 students. 733-6398.

JULIET VAN OTTEREN

HANNAH RIVERS

TETON LITERACY CENTER

DANCE

Robert Pinsky.

Pizza for literacy

The Poetry Boss

The Rotary Club is sponsoring its annual Domino’s pizza benefit lunch for Teton Literacy Center. A local franchise is almost as good as a local business when it comes to supporting a local nonprofit, right? The important thing is the cause. With a goal of creating a 100-percent literate community, the Literacy Center has increased its hours of instruction by 40 percent in four years while reducing its budget by 14 percent. All the while kids and adults, native English and native Spanish speakers, have benefited. Get tickets at Teton Literacy Center, Valley Bookstore, JH Book Traders and MADE. Luncheon for Literacy, noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Snow King Resort Grand Room. $15. 733-9242.

I like to think of Robert Pinsky as the Bruce Springsteen of poetry. Pinsky has a lot in common with The Boss. Born in the industrious 1940s, both men hail from working class families in New Jersey. They share a gritty, populist appeal while simultaneously being masters of their chosen crafts. Each possesses rugged good looks and appreciates the jazz saxophone. And both serve as voices of the larger American story, turning a small story universal with their respective lyrical arts. Pinsky reads as part of the Teton County Library Foundation’s Page to the Podium series, Saturday at the Center for the Arts. Robert Pinsky, 7 p.m., Saturday, Center Theater. Free. 733-2164.

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WED. THU. HI/LO/W HI/LO/W 66/35/s 72/38/s 58/33/pc 63/33/s 57/33/sh 63/35/sh 56/29/sh 61/30/sh 65/36/pc 70/38/s 75/39/s 79/42/sh 53/29/sh 61/34/s 58/39/pc 67/42/s 53/35/sh 63/39/s 61/45/pc 71/49/s 58/30/sh 61/28/sh

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MUSIC ■ Jackson Hole Jazz Foundation, 7 to 9 p.m., rehearsal at the Center for the Arts. Big Band. Free. 699-0102. DANCE ■ West Coast Swing Workshop and Practice, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Cafe Boheme. Beginners, nondancers and spectators welcome. cathy@cafebohemejh.com. COMMUNITY ■ Teton County Women’s RoundTable Program, 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., First Interstate Bank. Wyoming Women’s Business Center Teton County Roundtable Program Co-facilitators: Rose Caiazzo of Rose Consulting and Linore Wallace of Jackson Hole Insurance Services Featured presentation: “5 Minutes of Fame!” RoseCLLC@gmail.com ■ Public Meeting: Town of Jackson Design Review Committee, 5 to 7 p.m., Town Hall, Council Chambers, 150 E. Pearl. In the first of three open, public meetings to review the library’s addition and renovation plans, The Town of Jackson Design Review Committee will review the library’s request for approval of its addition and renovation plans. www.tclib.org.

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MUSIC ■ Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., at Jackson’s Hole Bar & Grill. Free.733-8888. ■ Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., at the Knotty Pine. Free.208-787-2866. ■ DJ Vert-One, 10 p.m., at Town Square Tavern. Free. 7333886. ■ Outlaw Picnic, 7 to 10 p.m., at Q Roadhouse on Moose-Wilson Road. Folk-blues. Free.7390700. THEATER ■ “Women Who Steal,” 7:30 p.m., Center Theater. Presented by Off Square Theatre. Recommended for mature audiences due to adult content. $20; $15 students/seniors. offsquare.org. KIDS & FAMILIES ■ Kipling’s “Just-So Stories,” 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Teton County Library Renaissance man and professional storyteller Chris Davis will perform his one-hour show, based on classic, funny, and outrageous British author Rudyard Kipling’s “Just-So Stories.” 7332164. tetonkids@tclib.org. CLASSES & LECTURES ■ Kid’s Clay with Patty Reed, 3:30 to 5 p.m., Driggs-’Mudseason’. $65. tetonartscouncil.com. MIND, BODY & SPIRIT ■ Teton Reiki Circle, 5:30 p.m., 430 S. Jackson St., upstairs. All welcome; no experience required for healing energy exchange. Group healing focus: Detoxification and Positive Change. 6905308. attunedhealing@gmail.com. COMMUNITY ■ Business Including Lunch, noon to 1:30 p.m., Wort Hotel. May’s session will focus on the opportunities that sustainable tourism brings to Jackson Hole. $28; $20 members. 733-3316. See CALENDAR page 13

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CultureMatters Women Who Steal reads like a cross between Absolutely Fabulous and

WILLIE WISE

Thelma and Louise.

Nicole Madison and Kathleen Godines run lines for Women Who Steal.

Meat Loaf is best served cold By Matthew Irwin A particular kind of woman finds Meat Loaf, the Grammy-award winning crooner, sexy, with his romance-novel, flowing long hair and his musical theater lyrics – you know, not as much poetic as explicative. I remember the set for the video of his 1993 hit “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t Do That,” having a sultry, Southern Victorian feel to it, mixed with a little medieval chivalry and iron. The woman who loves Meat Loaf is sexy, but not beautiful. She’s devoted, and swoons for a devoted man. She loves her kids, and she’ll put up with anything to protect them. Cheat on her, and she’ll take aim like Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. This woman’s name is Peggy, and she’s played by Kathleen Godines in Off Square Theatre’s production of Women Who Steal. Artistic director Caryn Flanagan is directing the 2001 Carter Lewis play as part of the company’s regular season, focusing on “fast and funny” works for the Black Box Theater. Off Square’s production of The 39 Steps kicked off the season with a nearly sold-out run. Originally commissioned by Geva Theatre

Center in Rochester, New York, Women Who Steal takes place in AnyTown, USA. I picture the suburbs just on the edge of the country, lots of trees, neon-lit strip malls with nail salons and restaurant-bars that have Guns ’n‘ Roses on the jukebox. Lewis isn’t specific: the settings include “a restaurant,” “a car,” “a bar,” “a truck,” “a lake,” “a frontyard” and “a bedroom.” Peggy is bar hopping with Karen (Nicole Madison), a woman she suspects has slept with her husband a few dozen times. She doesn’t waste anytime asking, and Karen admits that she had slept with Jack (Paul Gregory Nelson). But it was only once and Karen doesn’t care about Jack, though he’s had some kind of crush on her for something like 30 years. No, Karen’s more concerned that she’s turning 40, and a man she’s worked with for 12 years, Stanley (Paul Gregory Nelson), recently told her “We work well together, but I enjoy you beyond that.” And all of a sudden, this woman who believes that “Hope is the Moby Dick of red herrings,” believes in love again, even if, as Karen says, Stanley needs a little “assistance in his understanding of his true feelings.” The women bond over plights and go on a shooting spree with a BB gun that sounds like a

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much higher caliber weapon. “They make it that way,” Peggy says. “It’s a KM198ZT Special Issue. It’s louder than it should be. That way it sounds like a real gun. Kids like that.” First, Peggy shoots her husband in bed, then they kidnap Stanley at gunpoint. Jack ends up in the hospital (shot in the eye), Stanley ends up in the trunk. Full of lines about aging and sex, Women Who Steal reads like a cross between Absolutely Fabulous (“You’re 40 now, there’s never any reason to be sober again.”) and Thelma and Louise, which even the characters seem to recognize. The script leaves some room for the production staff to design the music, and Flanagan says that James Booth has really set the tone of the show with his selections. “James has made an amazing soundtrack for this, ” Flanagan said. “The show is fueled by 1970s power ballads.” Of course, there’s no getting out of this show without listening to Meat Loaf, that sexy-ugly devil. Women Who Steal, 7:30 p.m., Thursday to Saturday, May 19 to 21. $20; $15 students/seniors. 733-4900. www.offsquare.org.

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SPRINGSCAPES 2011: Convulsive Beauty “Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” - André Breton

We like to think of spring as being full of life and color, but as the snow first melts, it begins to reveal all the dirt, grime and poo it’s been gathering all winter. Nonetheless, there’s beauty to be had. We challenge you to find the beauty in the ugliness for JH Weekly’s annual photo contest, this year fashioned after the surrealist notion of “convulsive beauty.” (HINT: IT SHOULD ACTUALLY BE BEAUTIFUL, AND WE'D LIKE TO AVOID LOOKING AT PHOTOS OF DOG POOP.)

Deadline for submission May 13, 2011 Send digital submission to art@jhweekly.com with springscapes as the subject. One submission per person. • All files must be 8 x 10 at 300 dpi. You need to have made less than $600 in photography last year to qualify as an amateur.

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CD REVIEWS

CALENDAR Friday 5.13

Golden Era

City Of Refuge

Life Fantastic

DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN

ABIGAIL WASHBURN

MAN MAN

During the 2010 Americana Conference and Festival last fall, I witnessed the debut live versions of the beautiful compositions that would encompass City of Refuge. My immediate reaction was, “Wow. This is a new genre, and I like it.” I had seen Washburn with Uncle Earl and The Sparrow Quartet previously, and found her musicianship and stage presence to be top-notch. A frailing banjoist, her delicate voice dramatizes this collection of avantgarde folk. Arrangements swell and recede with simplicity. Classical, pop and Chinese folk movements replace the roots sound, with the banjo remaining prominent along with piano. Studio guests include The Decemberists’s Chris Funk, guitarist Bill Frisell, My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel, and Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor and Morgan Jahnig. The songs were co-written with multi-instrumentalist Kai Welch. It would be a shame if this album doesn’t get a Grammy nod. It’s that interesting and progressive. – Aaron Davis

Honus Honus, the lead singer for Philadelphia-based indie troupe Man Man, is one of the most intriguing lyricists out there. Parsing his lyrics, and their deeper meaning, from the playful and eclectic music that surrounds them is as satisfying as picking the marshmallows from a bowl of Lucky Charms. There’s no shortage of syllables on Man Man’s newest release, Life Fantastic, and yet, something’s missing. As usual, the band juxtaposes boisterous, carnivalesque tracks bursting with wonky instrumentation (“Piranhas Club, “Dark Arts”) with more subdued, singer-songwriterly stuff (“Steak Knives,” “Oh, La Brea”). Honus Honus fills out his lyrical gallimaufry with his most depressing tales of heartbreak and entertaining, often grotesque, woe, the latter of which “Haute Tropique” is a paragon. Life Fantastic is a good album, but it falls short of the band’s first three efforts on three counts: 1. The mix sounds dull and muffled, 2. Pow Pow’s typically innovative percussion is reduced to conventionalism, and 3. Honus Honus’s lyrics often don’t fit the music’s shape, or vice versa. – Benjamin R. Bombard

I remember hearing “Mistadobalina” on Power 106 in Los Angeles more than 20 years ago. Today, thanks to his participation in super group The Gorillaz, Del tha Funkee Homosapien is better known than ever. His new record Golden Era is a true to form lyrical firestorm from one of the most gifted rappers in the game. I recently saw Del play a free show with a live band at Shattuck Down Low in Berkley, Calif. Del explained that his lyrical superiority results from the fact that he is old school, but also from the future, making his flow light years ahead of other rappers. Golden Era is hot from beginning to end. Del calls out fools who are all mouth in a non-stop barrage of metaphor, simile and rhyme. Standout tracks include “Calculate,” “Make No Sense” and “Fallout.” Del’s newest effort is free of guest MCs and superstar producers, but who needs ‘em on a record that is a flawless manifestation of third-eye vision. – Aaron Wallis

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MUSIC ■ DJ, 10 p.m., at Jackson’s Hole Bar and Grill. Free.733-8888. ■ Steam Powered Airplane, 8 p.m., at Jackson’s Hole Bar & Grill. Bluegrass. Free.733-8888. ■ Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m., at Cafe Boheme. Every Friday. All ages. 733-5282. Free. cathy@cafebohemejh.com. ■ 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, Bill Plummer on bass, and Mike Calabrese on drums. 733-8833. Free. ■ Bootleg Flyer, 7:30 to 11 p.m., at the Silver Dollar Bar. Country, rock, folk. Free. 733-2190. ■ EZ, 9 p.m., at the Virginian Saloon. Rock. Free. 739-9891. Theater ★ Women Who Steal, 7:30 p.m., Center Theater Off Square Theatre presents “Women Who Steal” by Carter W. Lewis. Recommended for mature audiences due to adult content. $20; $15 students/seniors. www.offsquare.org. DANCE ★ New Dances / New Choreographers, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Center Theater. Completely produced, marketed, choreographed, and danced by Jackson students. $12; $7 students. 733-4900. CLASSES & LECTURES ★ America’s Favorite Poem Project with Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, 8:10 to 9:10 a.m., Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole Three-time American leads students from middle and high schools in two public poetry readings, inspired by his national Favorite Poem Project. 733-2164. swhisenand@tclib.org. COMMUNITY ■ Chamber of Commerce 46th Annual Awards Celebration, 5 to 10 p.m., Mangy Moose Restaurant & Saloon. Chamber of Celebrate the community and the beginning of anohter season with the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. $55 to $1,000 (Sponsor Table). 733-3316.

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MUSIC ■ Pianist Pam Drews Phillips, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Granary at Spring Creek Ranch atop East Gros Ventre Butte. Jazz. Free. 733-8833. ■ Bootleg Flyer, 7:30 to 11 p.m., at the Silver Dollar Bar. Country, rock, folk. Free.733-2190. ■ EZ, 9 p.m., at the Virginian Saloon. Rock. Free.739-9891. ★ The Met Opera: Live in HD Die Walkure, 10 a.m. Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village. Expected Running time: 5 hours, 30 minutes. $18; $5 Students. www.gtmf.org. ■ Bras for a Cause: Forever Breast, 6 p.m., at Town Square Tavern. Benefit for Breast Cancer research. Live auction runway, silent auction and music by DJ Vert-One. Funds go to St. John’s Women’s Health Fund and the Wyoming Chapter of Susan G. Komen. $30; $25 advance. 7333886. ART ■ Yellowstone to Yukon: The See CALENDAR page 14

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Journey of Wildlife and Art, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., National Museum of Wildlife Art. Exhibit about the importance of the Yellowstone to Yukon migratory corridor for sustaining populations of wildlife. Free for members or admission. wildlifeart.org. THEATER ★ Women Who Steal, 7:30 p.m., Center Theater. Presented by Off Square Theatre. Recommended for mature audiences due to adult content. $20; $15 students/seniors. www.offsquare.org. LITERATURE ■ Page to Podium: Robert Pinsky, 7 to 9 p.m., Center Theater Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic and translator. Free. www.tclib.org. CLASSES & LECTURES ■ “How to Save the West,” noon to 3 p.m., GTNP Auditorium. Picnic, speakers, kids activities. Free. www.muriecenter.org. COMMUNITY ■ Community Spring Clean-Up with the Chamber, 8 a.m. to noon, Chamber Administrative Offices. Community Spring CleanUp with the Chamber The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce will be participating in the 43rd Annual Spring Clean-Up Day as a group! 733-3316.

Sunday 5.15

MUSIC ■ Stage Coach Band, 6 to 10 p.m., at the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson. Old-time country, folk, Western. Free.733-4407. ■ Cathedral Voices Chamber Concert, 3 p.m., Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village. Music highlights will include classic American spirituals, Broadway showtunes, and Andean melodies from South America. music@cathedralvoices.org. Free. huckin@silverstar.com. FILM ■ Olivia and the Great Outdoors, 3 to 4 p.m., Center Theater. Olivia and her friends enjoy the great outdoors. Enjoy the antics of a hyper-active piglet who tests everyone’s patience by singing, dancing and just acting like a kid. $5. www.jhcenterforthearts.org. ■ My Perestroika, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Center Theater. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation. $10. www.jhcenterforthearts.org.

Monday 5.16

MUSIC ■ Random Canyon Growlers, 7 to 10 p.m., at Q Roadhouse. Bluegrass. Free.739-0700. ■ Jackson Hole Hootenanny, 6 p.m., at Dornan’s in Moose. Visiting and local musicians. Sign up begins around 5 p.m. Free. 733-2415. ★ Center for the Arts Premiere Party, 5:30 to 7 p.m., at Center Theater. Get a preview of the 2011-2012 event schedule and honor volunteers. Free. 733-4900. JHCenterForTheArts.org. ■ Cathedral Voices Chamber Concert, 3 p.m., Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village. Highlights include classic American spirituals, Broadway showtunes, and Andean melodies from South America. Free. huckin@silverstar.com. ■ Young at Art, 10:30 to 11:15 See CALENDAR page 15

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Lyle Lovett will perform an acoustic duo show with John Hiatt on June 15.

Center announces 12-month roster By Aaron Davis The much-anticipated performance schedule at Jackson Hole’s Center for the Arts’s Center Theater was released last week. There are some tremendous acts on deck, largely concentrated during the busy summer months and concluding at the end of January 2012. What stands out about this season’s lineup is the amount of acousticoriented concerts on tap. While we see the return of some area favorites—Lyle Lovett, Jonny Lang, JJ Grey and Mofro, Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile, Maceo Parker, and great local features in the JH Showcase and JH Hootenanny—there’s some fresh blood for the ultra-active concertgoer as well. John Hiatt, Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, Amos Lee, The Klezmatics, Rockapella and the acrobatics of Cirque Mechanics are all new names to the region. “We began collecting suggestions from the community back in November and we got a lot of responses,” said Don Kushner, talent buyer and production manager at Center for the Arts. “We looked over last year’s programming to figure out what genres to cover. We had done a lot of jazz, but not as much country-Western and bluegrass.” The season kicks-off with perhaps the biggest show of all in terms of demand—an Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John

Hiatt. Lovett headlined the 2006 and 2008 Targhee Fests with his 18-piece Large Band. The pairing of two of the most respected and influential contemporary singer-songwriters is not to be missed, especially this strippeddown and intimate. Reserved seats for this show are $45 to $65, and on sale now. For those not up-to-speed with comedian/actor Steve Martin’s music career, he’s a ripping banjo player (YouTube the triple banjo number with Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka from the David Letterman Show in 2007). Martin’s 2009 album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo, won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Since then, he has largely toured the country with established North Carolina band, Steep Canyon Rangers, playing festivals as large as Bonnaroo. “We were able to ‘block book’ with some other venues, which is an efficient way to operate,” Kushner said. “In several cases, that is reflected in the artist’s fee and the ticket cost.” Also new for this year is the first Season Premiere Party—an event not only to learn about this season’s performers, but also to honor the volunteers that work these events, like the ushers. The Center hosts its Season Premiere Party at 5:30 p.m., Monday, at the Center Theater. Free. 733-4900. JHCenterForTheArts.org.

Center for the Arts 2011-2012 season May 26 – Chuck Leavell June 15 - An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt July 18 - Jackson Hole Hootenanny July 24 - Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers) August 9 - Amos Lee August 16 - Jonny Lang JJ Grey & Mofro August 31 - Punch Brothers (featuring Chris Thile) October 1 - Cirque Mechanics Boomtown November 13 - Center Open House December 11 - The Klezmatics January 7 - Maceo Parker January 20 - Jackson Hole Showcase January 27 - Rockapella

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a.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art. This program offers art classes for toddlers ages five and under, accompanied by their caregiver, focusing on the simple concepts of color, shape, texture, and line. Free for members or with Museum admission. 732-5435. LITERATURE ■ A Revolutionary Book Club: Strength in What Remains, 7 to 9 p.m., Lotus Café. Tracy Kidder’s book recounts the story of Deo, a Burundian medical student turned American émigré after fleeing a violent civil war that goes unnoticed by international media even as neighboring Rwanda’s genocide garners headlines. 733-2164. avansickle@tclib.org. COMMUNITY ■ Library Surplus Equipment Sale, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Teton Count Library. Come bid in the silent auction on an extensive number of items, including smart phones, laptops, computers and peripherals, printers, video cameras, routers, a server, software and office equipment. tclib.org.

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The sixth annual Grand Targhee Bluegrass Camp, set for August 9 to 12 and preceding the annual Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival, has announced Grammy-winning artists Rodney Crowell (songwriting) and Peter Rowan (singing, songwriting) as instructors. Crowell and Rowan join an already all-star line up of teachers, including members of the Infamous Stringdusters, Tyler Grant, Eric Thorin and camp director Thomas Sneed. Crowell is a household name for those familiar with the Nashville music scene. Crowell played guitar and Targhee Bluegrass Camp notches up instructor list for 2011. sang for three years in Emmylou Harris’s “hot band,” and wrote country hits for other artists—Waylon Jennings, Oak Ridge Boys, Johnny Grass at the Tavern Cash, Emmylou Harris, Bob Seger, Jerry Led by multi-instrumentalist Tucker Smith, Reed and his now ex-wife, Rosanne Cash, bluegrass quartet Steam Powered Airplane continamong others. Crowell’s 2008 album, Sex ues its Tuesday residency at Town Square Tavern, and Gasoline, was nominated for a which has remained constant for the last couple of Grammy in the category of Best Contemyears. Smith founded the band over a decade ago porary Folk/Americana Album. with former member, singer-songwriter Jalan From his early years playing under the Crossland. Over the years, the band earned third tutelage of bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe, place at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band and following his stint in Old and In the Competition, and Smith is a former Wyoming State Way with Jerry Garcia and subsequent Champion on banjo, guitar and mandolin. The breakout as both a solo performer and band has a massive repertoire, covering mostly bandleader, Rowan is a Grammy winner traditional ground in the bluegrass genre and ocand six-time Grammy nominee. casionally into the pop and folk-rock world. Registration for the camp is currently Catch Steam Powered Airplane at 10 p.m., Tuesunderway. Camp tuition begins at $435. days, at Town Square Tavern. Free. 733-3886. TargheeBluegrassCamp.com.

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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. Countryblues, rock, Americana. Free.7332190. ART ■ School Art Spectacular & Celebration of Young Artists, 5 to 6:30 p.m., National Museum of Wildlife Art. Come celebrate the arts with Teton County School District #1’s K-12 art classes’ Artistic Journeys exhibit and local students grades K-12 whose art is represented in the 2011 Wyoming Winners: Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest and the Young Illustrators’ exhibitions. 732-5435. LITERATURE ■ Luncheon for Literacy!, noon to 1 p.m., Grand Room at Snow King. Rotary Club of Jackson Hole hosts with proceeds to benefit Teton Literacy Center. $15. 7339242. ■ Geologists of Jackson Hole: “The Wave that Shook the World,” 6 to 7 p.m., Teton County Library. Geologists of Jackson Hole: “The Wave Showing the tsunami and devastation that followed this film explains how tsunamis originate, how they can be detected, how warnings can be sent to vulnerable areas, and where other tsunamis might someday occur. 733-2164. odoherty@tclib.org. CLASSES & LECTURES ■ Organic Gardening at High Altitude, 5:30 p.m., Jackson Hole Community Gardens. Learn basics of organic gardening at high altitude by a master gardener and founding member of Jackson Hole Community Garden. $45. 7337425. doug@cwc.edu.

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Over the last few months, several readers have written angry letters accusing me of being narrow-minded in my view of nature and Western art. Perhaps I am. So like Lot searching Sodom for 10 righteous men, I set out to find the best naturalistic art in Jackson. Thomas Mangleson’s Images of Nature Gallery was my first stop. After searching all three levels, I did find a piece I would hang in my bedroom. “Northern Dance” depicts the hallucinogenic green swirl of the Northern Lights over the sky in Manitoba, Canada. Though drinking a bottle of Absinth would produce the same effect for less cash. My next stop was the Legacy Gallery. “Cheer Up Amigo” by John Solie is quite an impressive narrative oil painting. The painting depicts a Western bar scene with a velocipede riding mustached dandy flirting with whores. At the poker table, one cowpoke is handing a daisy to the only Mexican in the painting. Maybe the Amigo is sad because he’s stuck in a bar with a bunch of drunken rednecks. Solie’s painting is humorous, engaging, well painted and perhaps worth the $35,000 price tag. Around the corner is West Lives On Gallery. The bronze “Sensual Breeze” caught my eye. But, well, a woman unbuttoning her shirt always does. I turned around to see a charming drawing of a naked man being chased by Indians. Turns out it’s John Colter. The gallery staff regaled me with the engaging tale of Colter’s exploits. He was a part of the Lewis and Clark

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Wallis outside of RARE Fine Art. Expedition, and the first White man to reach Yellowstone. Captured by the Blackfoot Indians, Colter was stripped naked and chased by braves intent on his death. Colter killed one brave and then hid under a beaver dam to avoid capture. I’m surprised Hollywood has not picked up this script yet. It’s only a matter of time before Hugh Jackman is running naked through the park and skinny-dipping in the Snake. Last time I visited Rare Gallery it was closed. When I wrote this observation in my column, it prompted an angry letter from the

gallery owner to JH Weekly. I have returned two more times and Rare Gallery was closed both times. Keeping gallery hours by appointment may work for Larry Gagosian, but what’s the point of having a gallery that is hardly open? Living in Jackson has taught me a lot about rich people. I have learned they stay rich by having lots of clever ways to avoid paying taxes. I can’t blame them; the money would just be wasted teaching poor kids to read. At any rate, I’m glad I gave nature and Western art a try.

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July 24 Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers August 9 Amos Lee August 16 Jonny Lang and JJ Grey & Mofro August 31 Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile October 1 Cirque Mechanics/Boom Town November 13 Open House @ the Center December 11 Klezmatics January 7 Maceo Parker January 20 JH Showcase January 27 Rockapella

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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 Your sandwich specialists for all your adventures. A specialty sandwich shop and deli serving up high-quality, great tasting food to fuel all lifestyles including the most demanding adventure seekers in Jackson. A locals favorite and quickly becoming a favorite of tourists alike. 50 W. Deloney, Town Square. (307) 734-9420, www.backcountryprovisions.com. THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite. Offering the finest in creative cuisine. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a refurbished older home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Also serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entreés. Open nightly at 6:00 p.m. Closed tuesdays thru the off season. Off season special: 20% off entire bill. Good all night thru May 26. Reservations rec. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912. bluelionrestaurant.com. BURKE’S CHOP HOUSE Sample our superior steaks, chops, and innovative fish, game and fowl dishes in this historic renovated building. Reservations, smoke-free. Open nightly from 6-10 p.m. 72 S. Glenwood. (307) 733-8575.

LOCAL’S SPECIAL CAFE GENEVIEVE Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. From eggs benedict and huevos con chile verde to fried chicken and meatloaf there is something for the whole family. Full bar and eclectic wine list available. Brunch served daily 9 a.m. -3 p.m. Happy Hour Tuesday -Sunday 3 - 5:30 p.m. Half price cocktails, discounted menu. Dinner served Tuesday - Sunday 5:30 p.m. Located 1/2 a block East of the Town Square. 135 E. Broadway. (307) 732-1910.

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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. 12 miles north of Jackson in Grand Teton National Park at Moose. (307) 733-2415. Q ROADHOUSE The Q Roadhouse on Teton Village Road, serves up a variety of American comfort food. Menu items include; blackened catfish, shrimp jambalaya, turkey meatloaf, steaks, bbq ribs, pulled pork & beef brisket. Extensive wine list and full bar available. Open nightly 5 p.m. Happy Hours at the bar 5 - 6 p.m. and 8 - 9 p.m.

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“...Voted one of Jackson Hole’s hottest restaurants” Food and Wine February 2008. Trio is located right off the town square in downtown Jackson, and is 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 at the bar in front of the wood-burning oven and watch the chefs perform in the open kitchen.

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RENDEZVOUS BISTRO The Bistro offers something for everyone including salads, sandwiches and daily plate specials. Our Raw Bar features oysters on the half shell, tuna tartare and oyster shooters. Appetizers include mussels, gnocchi, grilled octopus, steak tartare and more. The entree selection ranges from traditional bistro fish and chips, meatloaf, veal marsala and coq au Vin to many other selections including fresh seasonal seafood, pasta and steaks. Nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended. 380 S. Hwy. 89/Broadway. (307) 739-1100. SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Enjoy the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $7 lunch menu from 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Happy Hour 4 - 6 p.m. include our tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WIFI. Open 1:30 a.m. midnight. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337.

SNAKE RIVER GRILL 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. Dinner nightly from 6:00 p.m. Reservations at 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. Dinner 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Corner of King & Pearl, 733-3553. SUBWAY The #1 subshop. Breakfast starting at just $2.50! Daily 6 inch special only $2.99! Lots of $5 footlongs! Don’t forget to order your party subs and platters. Locally owned and operated: Kmart Plaza, Jackson, and Alpine Junction. 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 woodburning oven and watch the chefs in the open kitchen. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. 45 S. Glenwood. Reservations 734-8038.

Coffee house / Bagels CAFE BOHEME Organic Coffee and a lot more! Already known for their coffee, breakfast burritos and pastries, Cafe Boheme is now getting quite a reputation with their crepes and french toast, soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, panini but especially for their Open Mic night every Friday starting at 7:30 p.m. as well as their Swing and Salsa / Latino Dance Nights (call for calendar). This coffee shop also serves a great selection of wine and beers... Free WiFi! Bring your office to us!. Open daily 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. 1110 Maple Way. (307) 733JAVA (5282). JACKSON HOLE ROASTERS

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Italian GIOVANNI’S Locally owned and family friendly. Nightly specials with entrees under $14, with all-you-can-eat salad and garlic rolls. Menu items include fettuccine alfredo, cioppino and eggplant parmigiana. Private dining rooms and separate lounge with flat screen TVs. Din-

ner nightly at 5 pm. 690 S. Hwy 89. (307) 734-1970 OSTERIA Dine in the beautiful rustic dining room or make it a more casual affair at the wine or salumi bar. The menu features contemporary Italian cuisine including fresh salads, housemade pastas, woodoven fired pizzas, and panini’s. Favorites such as the sausage stuffed olives, fresh fish and veal chop won’t disappoint. Dinner nightly 5:30 - 10 p.m. Located inside Hotel Terra at Teton Village. Rreservations rec. 739-4100.

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Authentic Mexican Cuisine. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of Mexican beers. Open 7 days a week from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, 733-1207. THE MERRY PIGLETS Voted Best Salsa! Jackson’s oldest and most rockin’ Authentic Mexican restaurant.Choose from over 10 salsas and sauces, TexMex plates, including enchiladas, 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.

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Wings are bar-food favs, but they’re different at every dive.

Baby, it’s a wing thing By E. Tyler Alford The 2010 National Buffalo Wing Festival served 33 tons of drumettes and flats tossed and coated with some form of pepper sauce to more than 71,000 people in Buffalo, New York. That’s 500,000 wings over the course of two days. With the 2011 festival less than 120 days away, I decided to do some research around Jackson to find the dos and don’ts of this popular bar food. Armed with a healthy ration of Prevacid and pockets full of Tums Ultra, I made four stops this week tasting, sampling and finger-licking my way to the following conclusions:

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Sidewinder’s Tavern - 945 W. Broadway - $8.99/full order Sidewinder’s sauce was definitely the most acidic of the four wing-stops. If simple and spicy is what you’re looking for, then Sidewinder’s is the answer. The menu offers two selections: spicy and BBQ. In the spirit of the actual buffalo wing, I opted for spicy, though I wouldn’t be against trying the BBQ flavor as well. Pros: A large order for a lesser price that comes with cuts of celery and carrot and a choice of ranch or blue cheese on the side. Sidewinder’s also has an impressive tap-beer selection to help squelch the flames. I suggest

something lower on alcohol and higher on wheat content. Cons: Not a lot of care put into dem wings; and there’s less meat. Silver Dollar Bar and Grill - 50 N. Glenwood - $11/full order; $6.50/half order The Silver Dollar Bar claims its “famous house recipe” wing sauce to be the best in town. Still very spicy and acidic, (Louisiana Hot Sauce, maybe?) a half order will satisfy most cravings. My order was deep-fried, and while the crispy skin was enjoyable, it dried the meat on the interior. Pros: The atmosphere at the Silver Dollar Bar is one of a kind and with happy hour specials that include a dollar off domestic beers, you’ve got a decent pairing. Cons: You can smell the sauce from the Gros Ventre. Thai Me Up Restaurant and Brewery - 75 E. Pearl $6.00/full order Boom. I mean, BOOM! These are some serious wings. Good luck trying to sleep after you ingest all of this delicious spice. Thai Me Up’s wings are a contemporary spin on flavor with Thai influences. Sesame-seed coated, richly spiced and full of perfectly cooked meat. Served with a super-spicy Thai chili dipping-sauce, be aware of the power in the middle of the

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plate; you’re whole head will be sweating if you are not careful. Pros: At about a buck a wing, the assortment includes drumettes and flats served over mixed greens and shaved carrot. Thai Me Up has also recently ratcheted up its beer production with plans to have only more carefully crafted artisan beers in the future. Cons: These wings are only available on the bar menu and only during happy hours. Snake River Brew Pub - 265 S. Millward - $10/full order I cannot get enough of these wings. Without a doubt, Chef Ryan Brogan’s house-made sauce and perfectly cooked, coated and served buffalo wings are the best in Jackson. The color is deep red and the flavor full, rich and intriguing with different layers of spice. The chicken wing meat is always moist and properly deepfried to be crispy, but not dry. These are also the largest wings I have seen with about 12 per order. On Sundays, they are available all day long with Jackson’s most popular local beers on tap, as well. Pros: These are just some damn good wings. Cons: Other than Sunday, SRB wings are only available at Happy Hour from 4 to 6 p.m., so ditch work early or they may be gone.

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The Real Estate Scoreboard provides statistics for Star Valley and Victor/Driggs, Idaho in addition to Jackson Hole. SF501 Thayne, WY Country elegant home with open great room and custom kitchen. Large master bedroom suite with Jacuzzi tub brings heaven into the home. Spacious decks allow for early morning or evening reflection. $439,000 Contact: Dena Luthi

SF517 Jackson, WY Nice 3 bedroom / 2 bath home on a great 3 acre lot with fantastic Snake River frontage. Property also has a two stall carport & workshop/storage shed. $750,000 Contact: Will Garson

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REAL ESTATE

WEEK OF 5.01.11 TO 5.07.11 Total # of sales Week’s top sale

4 $515,000

Properties Currently Pending Properties Pending Last Week

Residential Building Site Multi-Family Farm & Ranch Commercial

50 51

Total # of Sales

Average Sold Price

4 0 0 0 0

$316,750 $0 $0 $0 $0

Last 12 Months (5.07.10-5.06.11)

SF533 Wilson, WY Enjoy the privacy of this 3-bedroom, 2-bath home located in Wilson, WY along Fish Creek Road. With spectacular views of the Teton mountain range, you'll enjoy indoor and outdoor living year round. Take advantage of the 1-bedroom guest cabin with private fenced patio. You'll find this home to be comfortable and cozy in the winter! $799,000 Contact: Penny Gaitan

SF538 Jackson, WY Enjoy this quiet property at end of Kelly Avenue in East Jackson. This beautiful location has tons of mature landscaping, filtered Teton Views and is adjacent to a new 10 acre park. $525,000 Contact: Zach Smith

SF542 Fairview, WY This newly remodeled home on 1.5 acres, has a gourmet kitchen, theatre room, bonus room, 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths on a quiet country road. Plenty of outbuildings for storage, workshop and animals. Mature trees allow for privacy. $299,000 Contact: Dena Luthi

Number of Sales Days on Market List Price Volume Sold Median List Price Sold Average List Price Sold

296 295 $494,941,199 $798,000 $1,672,098

12 Months - Year Ago (5.07.09-5.06.10)

Number of Sales Days on Market List Price Volume Sold Median List Price Sold Average List Price Sold

245 235 $320,827,905 $759,000 $1,309,501

Current Inventory

Active Listings 727 Listing Inventory Dollars $1,604,418,248 Average List Price $2,206,902 Average Days on Market 398

SF544 Hoback Junction, WY This cabin styled home is nestled in the trees near the Hoback River. This property has no CCR’S, two bedrooms, an office, a wetbar, woodstove, 2 car garage, and a storage shed on a ½ acre. $415,000 Contact: Jennifer Reichert

SF547 Victor, ID Four bedroom, 2 bath home sits on five acres. Not located in a subdivision, this property has great views in all directions. Sunny, bright and spacious at 1900 square feet, this home is in great condition! $165,000 Contact: Penny Gaitan

LL296 Thayne, WY Come build your dream home on this spectacular horse property with 360 degree views that will take your breath away. Outdoor living to it’s fullest. $65,000 Contact: Dena Luthi

LL376 Tetonia, ID Beautiful Grand Teton views, 10.6 acres off county road 4000 N. NOT in a subdivision, great pasture for your horses. 360 degree view. $155,000 Contact: Penny Gaitain

SF550 Tetonia, ID 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 Gaitain

LL377 Fairview, WY This 11.09 acre lot has 3 phase power to the property. It is totally fenced with a great approach in it and new gates at the opening. Great views, quiet area and priced to sell! $99,000 Contact: Dena Luthi

*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.

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