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cache Magazine TEEN TUESDAYS

Crafty youngsters focus on fun at the Logan Library

THE HERALD JOURNAL

JANUARY 8-14, 2016

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January 6-12, 2017

COVER 6 Local teenagers gather together every Tuesday at the Logan Library

THE ARTS 4 Brigham Museum shares a ‘Journey Through Time’ art exhibit through Jan. 21

4 Roomful of Teeth set to sing at Performance Hall 5 Utah FIRST Lego League

event coming up Saturday

5 Summerfest Arts Faire

now accepting applications

MOVIES 3 Filmmaker George Lucas seeking a location for a massive new museum 8 Denzel Washington

carefully built the world featured in new ‘Fences’

9 Three and a half stars:

‘A Monster Calls’ features a ‘brave performance’

COLUMN 5 Columnist Hinkamp

shares some media-based thoughts on the media

CALENDAR 11 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley

Taraji P. Henson, background left, Octavia Spencer, center, and Janelle Monae, background right, share a scene from “Hidden Figures.”

Based on a true story about African-American women working at NASA at the time of John Glenn’s orbit of the earth in 1962, the film also stars Kevin Costner and is set for wide release nationwide today. On the cover: Kjrstine Landaverde works on a craft project during the Teen Tuesday event at the Logan Library earlier this week.

FROM THE EDITOR After all the losses of 2016, I was saddened to hear of the passing of Ted Kindred on the third day of 2017.

Although it certainly wasn’t a shock — Ted was 98 — it was definitely a big loss.

Practically a legend in the Hyrum area and among local historians, I first met Ted in 2004 while working on a story about Logan Canyon for the inaugural issue of Cache Valley Magazine.

While he was well-known as a historian and expert on all things Cache Valley, Ted

also served as the caretaker of St. Anne’s Retreat (“The Nunnery”) in the 1960s and early ’70s. He provided some unique insight to the infamous property recently featured on Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures.” As a Catholic himself, Ted was very protective of St. Anne’s and hated the “ghost” stories involving nuns and dead babies, etc. ... which actually makes me hope he didn’t see that program before he passed.

Ted said that such stories made him “furious,” and he always tried to debunk those urban legends, just as he also was careful to correct people who said inaccurate things about the LDS faith. Although he wasn’t Mormon, Kindred received several awards from the LDS Church for his

historical pieces and helped write several histories of wards in Hyrum.

And if you are a lover of books like I am, it was always an adventure visiting Ted’s huge, historical home in Hyrum.

There were piles and piles of books in every room, and despite the apparent clutter, it never took long for him to find the book he was looking for as he shared another great story idea.

Kind, patient and just dang smart, TedKindred was a defender of two faiths, and while he’ll be missed, during his long lifetime he certainly did more than his share to add to Cache Valley’s historical record.

And for that he’ll never be forgotten.

— Jeff Hunter

‘Stars Wars’ director seeks location for his new museum SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — George Lucas is no stranger to epic struggles on the big screen, but he didn’t expect one off-camera when it came to his art collection.

For nearly a decade, the filmmaker has tried to build a museum to house an extensive personal collection that includes 40,000 paintings, illustrations and film-related items. But legal entanglements and other complications have thwarted his efforts.

After several false starts, Lucas and his art team say they will decide later this month whether to put the museum in San Francisco or Los Angeles, a strategy that has stirred a California rivalry.

The prize is big, and both cities want it badly.

“This is the largest civic gift in American history,” LA Mayor Eric Garcetti told The Associated Press. “I think Los Angeles is the natural home for it” — a notion that San Francisco officials enthusiastically contest.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, as it will be called, promises hundreds of jobs and a high-profile attraction — and it’s essentially free.

The “Star Wars” creator is financing the project himself. He plans to spend more than $1 billion to build the museum, endow it and provide a trove of initial

– Cache Magazine movie critic Aaron Peck on ‘A Monster Calls’ (Page 9)

PET OF THE WEEK Available for adoption

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Top, this concept design provided by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art shows a rendering of their proposed museum on Treasure Island in San Francisco. Above, the concept design for Los Angeles. Left, legendary filmmaker George Lucas.

artworks valued at over $400 million. Together with Chinese architect Ma Yansong, Lucas has proposed a sleek, futuristic design looks like a cross between the Guggenheim and a galactic starfighter.

The museum’s bold design and concept make clear that the 72-year-old filmmaker sees it as part of his legacy, and he is increasingly impatient to break

ground.

“It’s not just an enormous philanthropic gift to a city and to the world, but it is a unique museum in the way it is envisioned,” said Don Bacigalupi, an art historian and respected museum director Lucas hired as its founding president. “Certainly, we’ll be looking forward to the day we can move the art into a museum.”

The museum will not, as many assume, be a repository for “Star Wars” memorabilia.

It will, however, show how Lucas spent some of his filmmaking fortune and that his interest in art extends beyond movies.

An avid collector for more than 40 years, Lucas is giving the museum some See LUCAS on Page 11

Pet: Rowdy From: Cache Humane Society Why he’s so lovable: Rowdy is a sweet boy with so much character. He loves meeting new people and dogs, and just gets so excited when there’s a new friend to make. He responds to his name and knows basic commands. He was previously housetrained, but may need a refresher on that as he has been kept outside for part of his life. Contact the Cache Humane Society at 792-3920.

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Lucas looking for a home

“Considering that at any moment the movie’s subject could turn overemotional, it’s a minor miracle that Bayona dials it back just enough to make it genuine. ”

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all mixed up Roomful of Teeth to perform at Utah State Roomful of Teeth will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Caine Performance Hall on the campus of Utah State University.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and youth, $5 for USU faculty and staff and free for USU students. For more information, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

Roomful of Teeth is a Grammy-winning vocal project dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice. Through study with masters from singing traditions the world over, the eight-voice ensemble continually expands its vocabulary of singing techniques and, through an ongoing commissioning process, forges a new repertoire without borders.

Founded in 2009 by Brad Wells, the group gathers annually at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts, where they’ve studied Tuvan throat singing, yodeling, belting, Inuit throat singing, Korean P’ansori, Georgian singing, Sardinian cantu a tenore, Hindustani music and Persian classical singing with some of the world’s top performers and teachers.

Roomful of Teeth will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University.

‘Journey through Time’ in B.C. The Brigham City Museum of Art and History exists to acquire and to treasure important works of art. The museum’s current exhibit “An Art Journey through Time” features masterworks from its extensive, permanent collection on show Nov. 12 through Jan. 21.

The museum is located at 24 N. 300 West in Brigham City. Admission is free.

Hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. For further information, please phone (435) 226-1439 or brighamcitymuseum.org.

J. T. Harwood, Lee K. Parkinson, Minerva Teichert, E. J. Bird, Theodore M. Wassmer and other premier artists have created “1,000word stories” that will enable viewers to experience joy or grief or courage as they vicariously travel as far away as Saint-Tropez, France, and as near as North Ogden, Utah.

The imagination of many of the painters and draftsmen encircles Utah with such themes as old Frisco mine; thorn-apple tree east of Murray; desert sentinel; Mill-

This untitled painting by E.J. Bird and many other paintings are part of “An Art Journey through Time” exhibit currently on display at the Brigham City Museum.

creek autumn; City Creek, Salt Lake; and home of the brave (Native American scene).

Placed throughout the exhibit is some of the artwork from the Hinckley Collection owned by the Box

Elder County School District and stored at the museum.

“Art’s sweet relationship with the brain and the body will make a trip to the museum worthwhile,” museum director Kaia Landon says.

“Particularly engaging are

the portraits ‘Dance Family,’ ‘Helen,’ ‘Fleur de Blu,’ ‘At the Market’ and ‘Contemplation,’ all by Wassmer,” The media in the exhibit include watercolors, drawings, etchings, paintings and photographs.

Lego League event slated for Saturday Logan is hosting a regional qualifier for Utah FIRST Lego League this weekend.

A youth robotics and innovation program for kids aged 9-14, the Utah FIRST Lego League event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 7, at Edith Bowen Laboratory School, 979 E. 700 North on the Utah State University campus.

Thousands of middle school students across the state of Utah are competing during January.

Students participate in the program by building robots and inventing new ideas to explore this year’s theme — “Trash Trek: The fascinating world of what you throw away.”

Teams have worked throughout the fall to prepare LEGO robots and project presentations for this competition.

Three teams will advance to the state championship held at Utah Valley University at the end of the month.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Job Cyril at 760-0200.

The terms “the media” is being thrown around like the name of an evil overload, but just about everything you claim to

know comes form the media. I and the other 99 percent don’t know anything about Syria other than what we see, hear and read in the media.

I never met, talked to or had dinner with any of the presidential candidates, but I was able to form a pretty solid opinion, as were most of Americans who cared enough to vote.

When interviewed by the media, most people admit that they get nearly all their information from the media in the form of print or web versions of print; radio

or Internet streaming of radio and television or whatever that term even means now. A minuscule nano particle of our knowledge comes from divine inspiration, substance-abuse hallucinations and alien-mind melds.

So, how can we, the face-slapped and tweetassaulted losers handle the media better in 2017? Here’s how to get out of your silo: • Listen to country western music at least a little; if you had, you would have seen this coming. Sure there

are billionaire country western singers, but the music came up from the rural working class.

• Listen to Rush Limbaugh at least a little; it will make you scream, but that’s not a bad thing.

As long as you don’t go on a house-wrecking rampage, it is OK to get angry at people you disagree with. You can’t debate him if you don’t listen to him.

• Read Breitbart at least a little; you have to dig really deep to find the crazy white supremacist stuff. Most it just reads like the dark mir-

ror image of “The Daily Show.”

• Listen to BBC, CBB and Al Jazeera news regularly. It’s just a slight, but different perspective.

Through the miracle of the Internet we can get news from anywhere in the world at any time.

You’d be surprised, or not, that media in other countries report about events in the United States differently than media in the United States. Some of them don’t even care about the NFL playoffs or Britney See MEDIA on Page 10

Time to think Summerfest COMING UP

Applications being taken for vendors and featured artist

Logan’s Summerfest Arts Faire is now accepting applications from visual artists, performers and food vendors for its 2017 festival, which will take place June 15-17. The deadline for applications is Feb. 18.

Performers and food vendors wishing to participate can apply at logansummerfest.com. Visual artists and craftspeople may apply through Zapplication, an online arts application service at zapplication.org. All links are on the Summerfest website.

“We strongly encourage all artists to apply online,” said Summerfest executive director Elaine Thatcher. “If someone needs help with doing an online application, they can call and make an appointment to come in, and we’ll help them.

Online applications are much easier for us to manage than paper ones.

“One thing we’re changing for performance applications this year is that in addition to being able to upload photos and audio samples on the application, performers may also put the samples on a CD or flash drive and mail them or drop them off at our office.”

In addition, applications are now being accepted from artists interested in being Summerfest’s featured artist this year.

Each year, one artist is selected to be the fair’s featured artist. That artist’s work appears on the festival’s posters and other publicity, and the selected artist receives a free booth at Summerfest See TIME on Page 10

Festival Chorus audition

The American Festival Chorus will be holding an open audition for all voice parts on Tuesday, Jan. 10. If you are interested in auditioning, please contact Elaine C. Olson at elaine.olson@usu.edu to schedule an appointment. For additional information, please visit americanfestivalchorus.org and review the choir handbook, the audition application and the rehearsal and performance calendar.

Logan Dance Factory

The Logan Dance Factory will meet from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, at the Whittier Community Center, 300 N. 400 East.

Dance lesson will begin at 7:30 p.m. Singles and married couples welcome. Donation of $7 requested at the door; snack donations also appreciated. Music throughout the evening from the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Snack table donations are appreciated.

Monthly contra dance

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk Music Society will host their monthly “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East.

This month live music will be provided by Leaping Lulu; Brenda Goodwin from Salt Lake City, will be calling.

A $7 donation is suggested at the door; $4 for children under 12. Beginners and families are welcome, and all dances are taught. For more informaThis year’s Summerfest Arts Faire will be held June 15-17 at tion about contra dancing, call 753-2480 or 7535987 or visit www.bridgerfolk.org.

Tabernacle Square in downtown Logan.

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Slightly Off Center DENNIS HINKAMP

There has been a lot of media about the media in the media lately. It is sort of like thinking about your brain: it’s an endless loop of logical labyrinth poop. If you can’t believe the media, what exactly can you believe?

More importantly how do you know what you know?

It is probably a liberal made-up media word, but “epistemology” is the term for the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. You the media consumer have to decide what is real.

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Clockwise from above: Amanda Yu works on an Avengers logo during the Teen Tuesday event earlier this week at the Logan Library. Laura Nelson, the young adult librarian at the Logan Library, works on a creation of her own. Kathryn Budge puts together her “So Crafty!� project.

Kjrstine Landaverde works on her creation. A completed Deadpool-themed creation from Teen Tuesday at the Logan Library.

SO CRAFTY! A

manda Yu carefully squeezes the trigger of a hot-glue gun, spreading glue onto wax paper in the pattern of a flower.

Yu, a 12-year-old from Phoenix, is visiting family in Cache Valley for the holidays.

Though she visits the library often, this is her first time taking advantage of Logan Library’s Teen Tuesdays.

“There’s sometimes movies in here,” Yu says. “So, I just checked if there’s a movie in here, and here I am.”

The first week on Teen Tuesdays’ monthly schedule is “So Crafty!” and Yu, who likes to do crafts like origami, had no problem jumping in.

She’s making a flower of a design that she first saw in a dream. She’s been using it in art projects and contests since.

The flower is a reminder of her creative potential, she says.

“Basically, it’s just a reminder that I can accomplish anything,” Yu says. “If that’s there, then anything’s there.”

Teen Tuesdays is designed to encourage kids 11 and up to step in and get involved, using a planned activity as a springboard into their own thing, according to Young Adult Librarian Laura Nelson.

“It’s an open-house feel,” Nelson says. “Kids can come in and do whatever they want to. We just provide an idea for the activity, and then the venue. But they kind of take control of it after that.”

This week’s activity is something Nelson is calling “hot-glue magic,” where you put wax paper over a pattern, fill out the pattern with hot glue, wait until it cools and make it into a pin or other decoration.

Kjrstine Landeverde, 12, is making a pin of the

symbol of the Marvel superhero Deadpool. She likes DC Comics better, though, so she plans on giving the Deadpool pin to her brother.

Landeverde likes attending Teen Tuesdays at the library, but her church’s Young Women’s and her 4-H groups often meet on Tuesdays, as well, so it’s tricky.

“Tuesdays are usually the busiest days,” Landeverde says. “Then the other days, it’s just boring.”

She made it to last month’s So Crafty! Teen Tuesday, when the planned project was Christmas ornaments. Her ornament evolved through trialand-error, she says.

“I was trying to make a reindeer face, and then it turned into like a pony, and then it turned into a dog,” she says. “Now it’s a dog, I guess.”

JuliAnn Leoncini, 14, is playing Super Smash Bros. on the Wii U set up on one side of the room, but a few minutes ago she was making — or attempting to make — a phone case out of

Library hosting Teen Tuesdays hot glue. While the craft days aren’t her favorite sort of Teen Tuesday, she appreciates that the event is flexible enough for teens to decide what they’d like to do most.

“They have activities planned, but sometimes we just come and sit in corners and draw,” Leoncini says. “It’s a safe place to come and get away from life.”

That’s exactly the atmosphere the library aims to create, Nelson says. The program, which has evolved in its six or seven years, is meant to appeal to a variety of teens.

Second Tuesdays are “So Bored,” with an assortment of board games like Ticket To Ride and card games like Dominion available. On third Tuesdays, “Game On” appeals to gamers, with the Wii U and other consoles available for the entire hour and a half.

Fourth Tuesdays are “Lights, Camera, Anime,” where the library screens G, PG or PG-13 anime films. Fifth Tuesdays are anything-goes.

For one memorable fifth Tuesday, Nelson says, the teens decided to build a blanket fort. So she brought as many blankets from home as she could, and they built a fort in the Bridger Room.

“It was so much fun because everyone was working together,” Nelson says. “They made this great structure, and they all helped clean up and put it away afterward.”

In addition to giving teens something to do, the event’s mission is to help them feel like the library is theirs, Nelson says.

“It’s not just for adults, it’s not for their little siblings,” Nelson says. “It’s for them to come to grow and learn about using the library, that it’s not just books anymore. It’s a place for people to connect, to build as a community.”

Story by STEVE KENT • Photographs by JOHN ZSIRAY

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‘Rogue One’ takes top spot for third week NEW YORK (AP) — The new year at the box office is starting where 2016 left off: with Disney on top.

The “Star Wars” spinoff “Rogue One” led the box office for the third straight week, taking in an estimated $64.3 million over the four-day New Year’s weekend, according to studio estimates Monday.

The success of Gareth Edwards’ “Rogue One” has only further cemented a record year for the Walt Disney Co., which ran up $2.7 billion in domestic ticket sales in 2016 and

accounted for more than 25 percent of the market.

“Rogue One,” which has now grossed about $440 million in North America and nearly $800 million globally, currently slots in as the year’s No. 2 movie, following “Finding Dory” (also from Disney). The studio notched four of the five top films and has, in a year marked by franchise struggles, made a routine of churning out well-reviewed, hugely profitable blockbusters.

The weekend pushed the indus-

try to $11.4 billion in ticket sales in 2016, topping the $11.1 billion record set in 2015. The record revenue, propelled primarily by the Disney juggernaut, masks undeniable challenges in the business. Attendance was largely flat. Streaming and television continue to grow as competitors. Some glaring failures (“Suicide Squad”) and flops (“Independence Day: Resurgence”) showed considerable franchise fatigue with audiences.

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“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” brought in another $64.3 million last weekend.

Denzel treaded carefully Bringing ‘Fences’ to the big screen took over 30 years NEW YORK (AP) — When August Wilson’s widow first toured the set for the new movie based on his play “Fences,” she carefully examined the modest two-story brick house, the small yard and the tree where a ball hung from a rope — and she wept.

Constanza Romero, who lost her playwright husband in 2005, has visited many theatrical sets for Wilson’s most popular and perhaps most personal play, but the one used for its first film adaptation reconnected her with him.

“It was like, ‘Oh, my gosh. I’m inside August Wilson’s world.

This is August Wilson’s world complete,’” Romero recalled.

“It was just such a feeling that August’s words had become threedimensional.”

Romero found herself in tears, trying to catch her breath, when she glanced at Denzel Washington, the film’s director and star. “Oh, I understand,” he told her. “I understand those tears.”

The tears were as much out of relief as gratitude. Adapting Wilson’s masterpiece has taken more than 30 years and it’s easy to see why: It’s a two-hour, dialogueheavy story rooted in a front yard in Pittsburgh’s Hill District.

Washington, who won a Tony for his performance in the Broad-

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Denzel Washington, left, and Viola Davis share a scene in “Fences.” Adapting August Wilson’s masterpiece has taken more than 30 years. Washington directed the film and starred in the Broadway revival seven years ago.

way revival of “Fences” seven years ago, made some key decisions when he was first tapped to translate the play onto 35 mm film.

First, he reunited five of the main actors from the Broadway revival — himself, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby and Mykelti Williamson. Then he added up-andcomers Jovan Adepo and Saniyya Sidney.

Then he put them in an actual front yard in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. There would be no Hollywood sound stages this time. Just

a worn, small home with plasticcovered furniture in the neighborhood where Wilson grew up.

“Once it was clear we were all getting that same band back together, with a couple of new hot players and a little different arrangement — and doing it in Pittsburgh — then I knew that there was no way it wasn’t destined to at least be respectful,” said Henderson, who’s performed a number of Wilson’s plays.

It seems to have worked. Since opening wide on Christmas, the See DENZEL on Page 10

Football carried NBC, ESPN to big ratings last week NEW YORK (AP) — Football drove TV viewership last week, carrying NBC and ESPN to hefty wins, Nielsen said Wednesday.

NBC enjoyed its sixth straight weekly win, which matched its longest in-season winning streak in 21 years. Meanwhile, ESPN beat its closest cable rival by nearly 7 million viewers.

Among broadcast networks in prime time, NBC averaged 6.21 million viewers for the week, with CBS in second place with 5.75 million.

ABC had 4.14 million viewers last week for third place, while Fox had 3.20 million, Univision had 1.73 million, ION television had 1.41 million, Telemundo had 1.35 million and the CW had 840,000 viewers.

In non-sports news, ABC’s 10 p.m. hour of its “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” rang in nearly 12 million viewers to place 11th for the week. CBS’ “Kennedy Center Honors” placed 18th with 8.62 million viewers.

Making its bow, the Fox comedy “The Mick” placed 19th with 8.58 million. Among cable networks, ESPN averaged 8.38 million viewers in prime time.

For the week of Dec. 31-Jan. 1, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: Green Bay vs. Detroit, NBC, 23.82 million; CFP Semifinal Pregame: Washington vs. Alabama, ESPN, 18.92 million; NFL Football: Detroit vs. Dallas, ESPN, 18.61 million; CFP Semifinal: Washington vs. Alabama, ESPN, 18.397 million; CFP Semifinal: Ohio State vs.

Clemson, ESPN, 18.396 million; “Sunday Night NFL Pre-kick,” NBC, 15.96 million; “College Football Bowl Studio” (Saturday, 6:56 p.m. EST), ESPN, 15.67 million; “College Football Bowl Studio” (Saturday, 6:38 p.m. EST), ESPN, 15.09 million; “Football Night in America,” NBC, 11.724 million; “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.719 million.

Top Continued from Page 8 And several studios (Paramount, Sony) endured much leaner years.

But Hollywood’s 2017 is starting out with brisk business. In its second week of release, the animated “Sing” again came in second with $56.4 million.

The poorly reviewed science-fiction romance “Passengers,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and

monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) that looks like AP Photo an Ent from “Lord of the This image released by Focus Features, Lewis MacDougall appears with The Monster, Rings,” visits Conor for three nights telling him voiced and performed by Liam Neeson, in a scene from “A Monster Calls.” three separate stories that am a father. It’s almost are supposed to help him impossible not to put your come to grips with what’s own kids in that situation happening. and feel as if they were The stories are wonderexperiencing this trauma. fully animated. Each of Director // J.A. Bayona Director J.A. Bayona them are animated slightly Starring // Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, makes Conor’s pain (for different giving each story Liam Neeson, Lewis MacDougall, Toby Kebbell better or worse) unbeara fresh new visual feel.

Rated // PG-13 for thematic content and some able at times. He captures Considering that at any scary images how trapped Conor must moment the movie’s subworld heaps upon him. feel in this lose-lose situa- ject could turn overemonatural. He can’t handle tional, it’s a minor miracle He’s bullied at school, tion. this situation, his mom his dad lives with a new What makes this movie that Bayona dials it back throwing up, unable to wife in America and he’s hug him, dying. It’s tough different from other “deal- just enough to make it been sent to live with his ing with a terminal illness” genuine. Whenever it feels to watch. a little manipulative in grandma.

As so many other mov- movies is that Conor has its tactics the screenplay Many of us would, like- ies with young children, quite the imagination. is quick to rectify the wise, crack under the pres- “A Monster Calls” strongly Once things with his shortcomings and provide sure. Conor does. It’s only affected me because I too mother get really bad, a

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Chris Pratt, came in third with $20.7 million over the four-day weekend.

It’s made $61.4 million thus far, a somewhat disappointing total for a film that cost north of $100 million to make.

Another Disney title, “Moana,” came in fourth with $14.3 million in its sixth weekend.

A pair of Oscar contenders is also packing theaters. Despite playing in more limited release, Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land” grossed $12.3 million over the four-

day weekend. The lead Golden Globe nominee has grossed $37 million and yet is playing in only 750 theaters.

Denzel Washington’s acclaimed August Wilson adaption, “Fences,” also took in $12.7 million over the holiday weekend.

Since opening wide on Christmas, the Paramount release has made $32.4 million.

Debuting in a handful of theaters was Mike Mills’ family drama “20th Century Women,” starring Annette Bening, and Jim Jarmusch’s poet-

ic “Paterson,” with Adam Driver. They joined a large contingent of films in limited release making awards-qualifying bows before expanding in January. Among them: Martin Scorsese’s Christian epic “Silence,” the grief-filled fantasy “A Monster Calls,” Peter Berg’s Boston Marathon drama “Patriot’s Day,” Ben Affleck’s crime thriller “Live By Night,” and the 1960s NASA tale “Hidden Figures” (which earned $1.1 million over the weekend in 25 theaters).

worthwhile, emotional scenes that are worth investing yourself in.

This movie also runs the risk of having its emotional core undercut by what is essentially a largescale special effects picture. Somehow those two things don’t seem like they should mesh, but they do.

The computer animation is tastefully done, and not overly hokey.

It looks great and doesn’t distract from the story’s message.

For whatever shortcomings it may have, “A Monster Calls” makes up for in MacDougall’s brave performance and a screenplay that deftly navigates a sea of tropes and clichés to come out the other side as authentic as possible. There are so many times where this story could’ve slipped into phony saccharine sentimentality, yet it doesn’t. It’s quite the admirable balancing act going on here. One that will surely bring a tear or two to some and flood for others.

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The Reel Place AARON PECK

There’s no one word that truly describes the horror of watching someone you love battle terminal cancer.

You want to believe there’s hope, however slim. But deep down you know you’re only trying to mentally put off the inevitable. Because of that, “A Monster Calls” may hit too close to home for some, or, on the flip side, may provide some cinematic solace.

Based on the book by Patrick Ness, “A Monster Calls” offers a slightly different twist on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” story. I don’t know if that was intended, but that’s what it felt like.

Conor (Lewis MacDougall) is watching his mother die. Sure, there’s the next big treatment, and the tiny chance that this time it’ll take, but Conor knows his mother (Felicity Jones) is going to die no matter how much he pleads with the universe.

For a boy so young, Conor has, understandably, a tough time dealing with his mother’s sickness and the seemingly endless torment this

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Applications are being accepted from interested artists who live anywhere in Utah and selected counties in surrounding states. The art pieces submitted for consideration must depict some aspect of Cache Valley or Summerfest. The application deadline is Jan. 16.

“We accept applications from

Denzel Continued from Page 8 Paramount release has made $32.4 million, making it one of the more lucrative stageto-screen adaptations in recent years.

“Fences,” set in 1957,

tells the story of Troy Maxson, a larger-thanlife garbage man whose dashed dream of baseball glory in a white world of pro ball has given him a rigid, embittered sense of responsibility that has a profound effect on his wife, Rose, and his sons.

Washington, who

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Henderson said he welcomed the shift from stage to screen, saying he was liberated from the need to project his voice to the last seats in a theater: “You’re freed to live the text rather than perform it.”

“Fences” is only the second time one of Wilson’s works has been adapted for the screen.

The other time was an

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edited version of “The Piano Lesson” that aired in 2002 on the Hallmark channel. This version of “Fences” took no scalpel to the text.

“It is in the right hands,” Henderson said.

On why the play took so long to be adapted, he was philosophical: “If it had been done earlier, it might not have been done properly.”

More adaptations are

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regional artists who work in twodimensional media like painting and photography,” Thatcher said.

We will accept either actual paintings/photos, or for those artists who live farther away, high-quality photos of the work.”

Each year on Father’s Day weekend, Summerfest Arts Faire brings together 150 visual artists and about 30 performers on Tabernacle Square. Interested artists and vendors can contact Thatcher at (435) 213-3858 or elaine@logansummerfest.com.

on their way. Washington will produce an additional nine Wilson’s plays for HBO. Henderson, a so-called “Wilsonian soldier,” hopes he might snag a role in a few. “I’d serve if called upon,” he said, laughing. “I’d definitely serve.” (In addition, a live “Jitney” is opening on Broadway on Jan. 19.)

The irony is that Wilson himself wasn’t really a huge movie fan. “He was a language man,” said Romero. “I made him watch a lot of things with me and he enjoyed a lot of films. But if I wasn’t with him, I think that he would not — out of his own choice — go see a film.”

With “Fences,” though, Romero is convinced Wilson would approve. There may even have been a supernatural clue toward the end of the “Fences” shoot that the actors believe shows the master playwright was on board.

In a powerful scene in which the characters look toward heaven and the Pearly Gates, a gate door behind the performers mysteriously closed.

“That was not cinematically rigged in any way.

Just at the moment that he was trying to open the gates, the gate opened,” said Henderson.

The consensus was Wilson wanted to make an appearance.

“That’s exactly where we put that,” Henderson said.

The Logan Dance Factory will meet from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, at the Whittier Community Center, 300 N. 400 East.

Dance lesson will begin at 7:30 p.m. Donation of $7 requested at the door. Music throughout the evening from the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

innovation program for kids aged 9-14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, at Edith Bowen Laboratory School, 979 E. 700 North on the Utah State University campus. Thousands of middle school students across the state of Utah are competing during January.

The event is free and open to the public. Questions? Call Job Cyril at 760-0200.

Registration is now open for The Cache Valley Folk Dancthe first annual “Write @ the ers and Bridger Folk Music Logan Library” writer’s conferSociety will host their monthly ence. The conference will feature “first Saturday” contra dance at authors, Sarah Eden, Heather 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, at Frost, Gregg Luke, Lisa Mangum the Whittier Community Center, and Brock Dethier, and will cover 290 N. 400 East. This month live subjects from generating ideas, music will be provided by Leapto catching the eye of potential ing Lulu; Brenda Goodwin from publishers. The event will be held Salt Lake City, will be calling. A Saturday, Jan. 28, but registra$7 donation is suggested at the tion is strongly encouraged and is door; $4 for children under 12. available now at library.loganutah. For more information about conorg/write. tra dancing, call 753-2480 or 7535987 or visit bridgerfolk.org.

SATURDAY

Logan is hosting a regional qualifier for Utah FIRST Lego League, a youth robotics and

Lucas Continued from Page 3 10,000 paintings and illustrations that include dozens of Norman Rockwells and works from French impressionist Edgar Degas to American contemporary artist Keith Haring.

There are illustrations for classic children’s books by Beatrix Potter of “Peter Rabbit” fame and Jean de Brunhoff, who created “Babar.”

The museum gets its pick from some 30,000 film-related pieces including storyboards and costumes from “The Wizard of Oz,” ‘’Casablanca,” and, naturally, “Star Wars.”

There’s art from comic books, graphic novels and other popular works that Lucas hopes will attract people who don’t typically visit museums.

In 2010, Lucas first pitched his project to San Francisco

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will meet at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, at the Bluebird Restaurant. We will have dinner music by Mike Hatch. Amberlee Shepherd of Social Services will speak to us.

All retired school employees in the valley are invited to attend. If you plan on attending please call DeLoy Johnson at 750-0184.

The Hyrum Senior Center is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday through Friday at 675 E. Main St. in Hyrum. All seniors are welcome. Lunch is at noon and we ask that you call by 10 a.m. at 245-3570. We are always looking for programs, if you know of any please call us. We are also trying to find used Levis and baskets for our craft fair projects.

The Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 9, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “Suicide Squad,” which is rated PG-13.

Popcorn and admission is free.

TUESDAY

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and considered a site in the Presidio, but the trust that oversaw the park ultimately rebuffed him. He then took his project to Chicago, his wife’s hometown, but preservationists sued to keep it off the lakefront.

Lengthy delays prompted Lucas to abandon that bid in June and change strategy.

In October, Lucas unveiled similar but competing designs for Los Angeles and San Francisco sites, turning the project into a public competition. It seems to have worked.

Government leaders in both cities have unanimously approved it. And officials are quick to stress that this time there is no apparent opposition, and construction could begin quickly ahead of a projected 2020 finish date.

Later this month, Lucas is convening the museum’s board to decide between two distinct locations.

In San Francisco, his project would virtually have an island unto itself.

The city offered Lucas a 4-acre waterfront plot on Treasure Island, a man-made creation in the middle of the bay with cinematic views of the city skyline.

The island was built for the 1939 World’s Fair, then used as a World War II naval base.

These days it’s populated mainly by seagulls, boardedup barracks, some art studios and old warehouses, but officials hope the museum triggers its transformation. A massive $6 billion redevelopment project includes apartments, hotels and a ferry terminal.

“It’s a risk they would be taking, but it’s a bet on the future,” said Adam Van De Water, project manager for the museum at San Francisco City Hall. “We think his heart is here in the Bay Area.”

Lucas has spent most of his

the Utah Watercolor Society will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 10, in the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library. Clarkston-resident Lester Lee will present a demonstration on reflected light. Call Nancy at 753-4286 for more information.

The American Festival Chorus will be holding an open audition for all voice parts on Tuesday, Jan. 10. If you are interested in auditioning, please contact Elaine C. Olson at elaine.olson@usu.edu to schedule an appointment. For additional information, please visit americanfestivalchorus.org and review the choir handbook, the audition application and the rehearsal and performance calendar.

WEDNESDAY The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Cache Valley will sponsor a public information meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, in the Bonneville Room at the Logan Library. If you or someone you love is dealing with a mental health condition, come to the meeting to find out what free services are available for you and your family. It could be one of the best decisions you can make for the New Year.

The Logan Library will host Teen Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s theme is “Game On!” Visit library. loganutah.org for more information.

Lynne S. McNeill, assistant professor of the folklore program at Utah State University, will speak on “Folklore and Cache Valley” at the next Cache Valley Historical Society meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, at the Historic Cache County Court House, 200 North and Main Street.

McNeill is the author of “Folklore Rules” and has appeared on Animal Planet, the Food Network and PRI’s RadioWest.

life in the San Francisco area, and Lucasfilm was based in the city before he sold it in 2012 to Disney Co. “Put yourself in his shoes.

You could be on Treasure Island, where you’re visible throughout downtown San Francisco,” said Van De Water, pausing to take a swipe at Los Angeles. “Or you could be a museum in a park with other museums.”

Los Angeles has offered Lucas a 7-acre spot in Exposition Park, a sprawling cultural compound that holds three other museums and the Coliseum, home to the LA Rams.

It has its own light rail station and is near the main campus of the University of Southern California, where Lucas went to film school.

“A museum should not be cloistered away from the people,” LA Mayor Garcetti said.

“We don’t live life on islands.”

Exposition Park also is

near eight public high schools and could help expose young people to Lucas’ collection, Garcetti says.

If Lucas has a favorite, Bacigalupi won’t say.

But Bacigalupi calls Treasure Island “sort of magical.”

Not only does it offer stunning views, but the island would give the museum an iconic location on the water’s edge, which he compares to the Sydney Opera House. And, he says, Lucas is deeply devoted to the Bay Area.

Los Angeles is exciting for different reasons, he said.

Its proximity to schools and being part of a community of museums “is certainly attractive,” he said. And, like San Francisco, Los Angeles is part of Lucas’ history.

“These are two spectacular places. Two great cities,” Bacigalupi says. “It’s a tough decision. But for all the right reasons.”

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33. Emcee’s opening remarks 35. Came to know 36. Agra wrap 38. Overlapping fugue motifs 40. Female farm fowl 42. Chair or car 43. Go out for a while?

44. ____ina, wind instrument 45. Burn midnight oil 46. Clive Cussler novel “___ Gold” 47. Lift at Aspen 49. Word in a “lost” ad 50. Vessel with a spout 51. Fiddle-playing emperor 52. Mo. for many TV premieres 54. Pertaining to citizenship 55. Loafer part 56. Fed. pamphlet producer 57. List ending, abbr.

64. Musical direction 67. “The Shock Doctrine” author Naomi 70. Try 72. Fit for tilling 73. Narc follower?

74. Nickname of designer Gabrielle Chanel 75. Unit of weight in the Far East 77. Give the business to 78. Flat need 79. Regional organisms 80. Acid’s opposite 81. Buds 82. Hear 84. “Role Models” actor Paul 85. Impulsive feeling 86. Drained liquid from 90. Cheery refrain 93. Atty. assn.

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Cache Magazine calendar items are due Tuesday by 5 p.m. They will also run for free in The Herald Journal one to two days prior to the event. Calendar items can be submitted by email at hjhappen@hjnews.com. Any press releases or photos for events listed in the first half of Cache Magazine can be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com. Poems and photos can also be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com and run on a space-available basis if selected.

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