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Rae pleads not guilty
Posted: March 12th, 2010
A Jackson man pleaded not guilty Thursday to allegations he beat Wilson resident Brent Owen so badly in November that Owen suffered multiple facial fractures and bleeding on the brain...
Yellowstone's visitation steady; Teton's drops
Posted: March 12th, 2010
Yellowstone National Park visitation is holding mostly steady so far this year even in a winter marked by marginal snowfall...
START trims request for special tax funding
Posted: March 12th, 2010
START officials have significantly cut their request for money from the specific purpose excise tax in an attempt to make it more palatable to elected officials...
NewWest.net - Jackson Hole, WY
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Temple Grandin's Life Story Hits the Small Screen
Posted: February 10th, 2010
The movie "Temple Grandin," about the life of Temple Grandin, the Colorado writer, animal expert, and advocate for people with autism, premiered on HBO this weekend. The movie stars Claire Danes, a casting choice that Grandin told Erin O'Toole of KUNC she was "absolutely delighted" with. Grandin spoke with O'Toole as she was in the midst of traveling around the country to promote the film.
Grandin said of Danes, "She put this wig on and dressed up in my clothes and became me." Grandin is pleased with the movie. "I love the way the movie shows how my mind works," she said. (I reviewed Grandin's most recent book, Animals Make Us Human, last year.)
• One of my favorite writers, Edward P. Jones, is the "eminent writer in residence" at the University of Wyoming in Laramie this semester. I saw on the Wyoming Arts Blog that Jones will read and sign his books Thursday, Feb. 18, at 5 p.m. in the University Wyoming Union ballroom. If you haven't checked out Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World or his two masterful story collections, do yourself a favor and get reading!
Also in the Roundup: Edward P. Jones and Alyson Hagy read in Laramie, the Patagonia Public Library throws its annual Writers' Round-up, Dave Cullen is in the running for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, New Mexico honors its writers, and Denver teens pick their favorite book of the year.
Where Have All the Ski Bums Gone?
Posted: February 8th, 2010
They're not on the ski slopes. They're not in the bars. Have all the ski bums left Big Sky?
"A lot of guys are skiing backcountry now because it's free," said John the physical therapist. "Also, a lot of them worked construction to support their skiing habits. Those jobs don't exist any more."
A footnote to the current recession is its effect on Big Sky's ski bum culture--girls and guys who live to ski and will work for ski passes or at part-time jobs that permit time off on powder days.
Things That Go Bump in Wyoming: Alyson Hagy's "Ghosts of Wyoming"
Posted: February 1st, 2010
Ghosts of Wyoming
By Alyson Hagy
Graywolf Press, 192 pages, $15
Some places feel more haunted than others. As Alyson Hagy explores in her new collection of short stories, Ghosts of Wyoming, Wyoming is one of those places where the past seems to overlap with the present, where the rough frontier that she writes of in "The Sin Eaters," set in 1889, seems to have plenty in common with the oil rig-riddled Wyoming of today, in which Hagy sets the story "Oil & Gas." Throughout many of the stories, details about the Arapaho and other tribes that settled the area first set a somber tone underneath the main narrative. Some of these stories touch on issues that are also raised in the work of Annie Proulx, Alexandra Fuller, and other contemporary Wyoming writers, but as with all good fiction, Hagy isn't trying to convey a message. She's just telling some first-rate ghost stories.
Only one of the eight stories, "Superstitions of the Indians," is a ghost story in the classic sense, but they all have ghosts in them in the form of people who have died or characters haunted by the past. One of the best stories is the lead-off, "Border," which conceals its ghost until the very end in an effective twist that works as such endings should, not as a "gotcha!" moment but as a revelation that makes sense of and lends gravity to all the prior events. In "Border," a young man hitchhiking his way out of Wyoming, aiming for Denver or beyond, pauses in his journey to steal a collie pup in Meeker, Colo.
Casper Star-Tribune - Wyoming News
Wyoming's online news source.
Enduring love in Wyo
Posted: March 12th, 2010
POWELL -- Curt and Barb Jasper began dating when he was 15 and
she was just 14. One of their California high school counselors
disapproved of the relationship, "and chewed me out for holding
hands with (Barb)," recalls Curt.
Wyo G&F targets aquatic invasive species
Posted: March 12th, 2010
GREEN RIVER -- Aquatic invasive species such as zebra and quagga
mussels are no bigger than the palm of your hand.
Wyo soldiers record music video in Iraq
Posted: March 12th, 2010
LARAMIE -- Wyoming National Guardsmen Dustin Scott, Nathan
Harvey and Jeremiah Eaton were about nine months into a yearlong
deployment in December when they heard about GI Jams, a new Web
site that allows soldiers to upload songs, and lets listeners
download them.
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