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COYOTE CREEK SADDLERY THE HERALD JOURNAL

The talented hands of Marvin Graham

JANUARY 20-26, 2017

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January 20-26, 2017

COVER 6 Marvin Graham still working his leather magic at Coyote Creek Saddlery

THE ARTS 3 So Percussion coming

to the Caine Performance Hall at USU on Jan. 31

4 BYU’s Vocal Point set to perform in Dayton, Idaho

4 Ned LeDoux to headine

Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous in Hyrum

4 Youth Shakespeare

troupe to present ‘Caesar’

5 New quilt exhibit to open at Brigham City Museum

MOVIES 8 Sundance Film Festival

features reunions between actors and directors

9 Cache Magazine movie critic Aaron Peck shares Sundance films to look for

COLUMN 5 Dennis Hinkamp drones on about pizza deliveries

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

This image released by The Weinstein Company shows Michael Keaton, center, in a scene from, “The Founder.” The story of McDonald’s tycoon Ray Kroc, the new movie will be released nationwide today. (AP Photo) On the cover: Leather working tools are seen resting on a bench inside the Franklin County shop of Marvin Graham. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR Did you know that when Jackie Evancho was a mere 9 years old, she sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to the start of a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game?

And now look at her.

Depending on when you read this, the now 16-year-old Evancho will either sing the National Anthem at Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration later today, or will have recently sang the “Star-Spangled

Banner” on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

Sure, Evancho’s appearance on “America’s Got Talent” probably helped her find success in the music business, as well.

But clearly, singing the National Anthem before a baseball game is what got her where she is today.

Which means, if you have a great voice and would like to follow a similar career trajectory, your best bet is probably going to be singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a Salt Lake Bees game this summer.

And that means Saturday, March 4, is your day, as open auditions will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Smith’s Ballpark

in Salt Lake City.

The audition will be first-come, firstserved and is open to the public, individuals and/or small groups (eight people or fewer). If you can’t make it on March 4, performers who cannot attend the live audition may submit a digital audition and e-mail it to brady.brown@slbees.com by March 8, but attendance at the live audition is strongly encouraged by the Bees.

And if you should make the cut, be sure to let me know. I’m always looking for a good excuse to attend a baseball game.

— Jeff Hunter

– Cache humor columnist Dennis Hinkamp (Page 5)

PET OF THE WEEK Available for adoption Photo courtesy of So Percussion

So Percussion will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University.

An adventurous quartet So Percussion ready to perform at Utah State on Jan. 31 As long as our hearts beat, we are drawn to rhythm and percussion. The contemporary percussion group So Percussion exploits our fascination to the full.

With innovative multi-genre original productions, sensational interpretations of modern classics and an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam,” (The New Yorker), So Percussion has redefined the scope and role of the modern percussion ensemble.

So Percussion will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Caine Performance Hall.

Tickets are $24; $10 for students.

Tickets are available online at arts.usu. edu, by calling 797-8022 and at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center and at the door the night of the performance.

Further information is available at cmslogan.org.

A partial list of the instruments So Percussion are using in its upcoming Logan concert only include: fiveoctave marimba, vibraphone, bongos, congas, lions roars, glockenspiel, crotales, tin cans, ceramic pots and more.

For the last piece of the concert, the group will be playing specially made double-course dulcimer-like instruments.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, the 18-year-old ensemble is Eric ChaBeach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting, a founding member. Sliwinski notes that EuropeanAmerican musical traditions use percussion as an accent, but in other traditions, for instance, West Africa, percussion is at the forefront.

The group began by playing a hand-

ful of pieces by modern composers.

Believing that many of the greatest pieces were still to be written, they have commissioned new works since then, many of them by American composers. Since 2006, the group has been composing music for theatrical performance, including Imaginary City, Where (we) Live, and A Gun Show. In Logan, So Percussion will perform compositions by Paul Lansky, Caroline Shaw, Jason Treuting, John Cage and Bryce Dessner. Of a previous concert, The Washington Post says, “This group plays with an irresistible vitality.”

The group considers music an essential facet of human life, a social bond, and an effective tool in creating agency and citizenship. So Percussion pursues See QUARTET on Page 10

Pet: Sunny From: Four Paws Rescue Why he’s so lovable: Handsome little Sunny is about 4 to 5 months old. He was found hanging out in a feral colony hoping for food and shelter. The colony care taker realized he is friendly and likes people so he joined a Four Paws foster home.

This little guy would love a new forever home and would be eternally devoted to his new person (indoors only). If you are interested in adopting this cat, please call Sheri at 787-1751 or send an email to scfourpaws@hotmail. com. The adoption fee is $75, which includes the spay/neuter surgery and vaccinations.

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ALL MIXED UP

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all mixed up BYU’s Vocal Point set to perform in Dayton BYU’s Vocal Point will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Dahle Performing Arts Center in Dayton, Idaho.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and children; they are available at wssd.k12.id.us/ index.php/district/arts.

Vocal Point creates complex music and rhythms with only nine voices. They have percussion without drums. They have a rhythm section without a bass.

The only instruments on stage

belong to the nine voices of the nationally renowned a cappella group Vocal Point. Winners of the International Championship of Collegiate A Capella in 2006 and from Brigham Young University, Vocal Point captures faithful audiences throughout the world with their stunning, highenergy performances and their elaborate, cinematographic music videos.

Vocal Point was also one of the top five finalists on NBC’s nation-

ally televised competition “The Sing-Off” in 2011. With a wide range of vocal possibilities — and seeming impossibilities — these crowd-pleasers have it all: rock, pop, country, jazz, and R&B that makes their family-friendly concerts a showstopper. This nineman group takes the songs you are familiar with, retools them and delivers a new rendition, complete with all the complex instrumentation done entirely with BYU’s Vocal Point will take the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Dahle Performing Arts Center in Dayton. their mouths.

LeDoux headlines Rendezvous Annual Cache Valley event scheduled for March 3-5 in Hyrum

The Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous is pleased to announce its lineup for the seventh annual event slated to he held March 3-5 at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum.

Headlining this year’s event will be Ned LeDoux, Don Edwards, Waddie Mitchell and Michael Martin Murphey.

Also returning and aiding in the CVCR Educational Outreach program will be Trinity Seely, Ernie Sites, Gary Allegretto, Ed Peekeekoot, Clive Romney and Sam DeLeeuw.

Saturday night’s concert at the Cowboy Rendezvous will feature Ned Ledoux. In country music, a last name like LeDoux casts a big, storied and bittersweet shadow, but it’s one Ned LeDoux doesn’t mind standing in one bit. Having been a drummer in his father Chris LeDoux’s band Western Underground since 1998, Ned knew from an early age that he had “No Plan B” but to play music, “Once I got the taste of the road, and being in front of a crowd and just the sound of it, it was ... freedom,” he says.

The timing couldn’t be more right for Ned to pick up a guitar and belt out “Western Skies;” it has been over 10 years since Chris LeDoux passed and he

Photo courtesy of Ned LeDoux

The son of Western music legend Chris LeDoux, Ned LeDoux will headline this year’s Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous March 3-5 at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum.

believes people want to hear something new. Ned has boxes of song ideas his dad never finished and is digging through those for inspiration, “I will kind of stick with what dad used to do but bring my own stuff to the table.”

In July 2015, Ned traveled to Nashville

with some of those unfinished songs and met up with Mac McAnally to put that inspiration to work. Mac produced Chris’ last two studio records and wrote his hit “Horsepower,” so the collaboration with See LEDOUX on Page 10

‘Caesar’ coming to the stage What should you do when the popularity of one charismatic leader threatens to destroy your beloved republic and your way of life?

The award-winning actors of Logan Youth Shakespeare enthusiastically present “Julius Caesar” — the intriguing story of the people who killed one of the greatest military and political leaders of all time, the people who avenged his death, and the personal and public toll of their actions.

Performances of “Julius Caesar” will begin at 7 p.m. on January 20-21, 23 and 26-27, and 2 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main Street.

Tickets are available online at cachearts.org or at the door; no children under 5 admitted.

Tickets for “Julius Caesar” are $6 for adults and $3 for those ages 5 to 18 years old.

digital laugh in the form of talking robotic voiced assistants. Alexa, Seri and the rest of the electronic coven of microprocessor

witchcraft are our assistants for now. Soon we will be their assistants and slaves as they suck all the productive tasks out of our lives. “Hey Alexa, what is my purpose in life?”

The LED revolution: It was huge blow to my humanity the first time I bought an LED light bulb that had a predicted lifespan longer than I. What’s worse, all the jokes that start with “How many (fill in the blank) does it take to change a light bulb” will have no meaning to our grandchildren as they

ask “why would you need to change a light bulb?”

Drones and pizza: Other than as a publicity stunt, I don’t think drones are going to be delivering pizza or Amazon packages. For one, your neighbors might try to shoot them down.

And for two, how are they going to get around all the trees and dogs?

What is going to appear is a fleet of small nonflying driverless delivery vehicles putting UPS, USPS and all manner of food delivery drivers out of jobs. Do you need to

tip robots?

Two-way ratings: This is the least discussed aspect of the rise of the ride and home sharing businesses.

Time was when you could be rude and filthy in a cab or motel room because you felt it was one of your rights; not so anymore. The Uber drivers and AirBnB owners can now give you enough bad rating to ensure you never ride or sleep in this town again. This is good tech; it should bring more civility to travel.

The new 360 reali-

ties: No longer are you limited to what the camera is pointed at because the camera is pointed everywhere.

This is mind-boggling for people like me who are used to being behind cameras. Now viewers can decide what they want to look at, including you, the camera operator. I will need a new wardrobe or find better ways to hide.

Smart everything: I think the first time I ever heard “smart” used as a prefix was related to

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Quilt exhibit opening soon COMING UP

‘Journey’ to Brigham City

Brigham City show on display starting Jan. 28 at museum

A kaleidoscope in fabric, minus the mirrors and bits of glass, awaits visitors to the Brigham City Museum during the Utah Quilt Guild’s Ruby Jubilee Exhibition, which will be on display Jan. 28 through March 25. Admission to the exhibit is free.

More than 40 chapters in the guild, which is celebrating its 40th birthday, are represented in the exhibition. Barbara Walsh of Woodland Hills coordinated the event. Walsh, a past president of the guild, says, “Our organization is the first state quilting guild organized in America.”

The quilts in the exhibition are an optical, design phenomenon with their different shapes, textures, lines, depths, tones and space. Even though the quilts are all red and white, the reds differ in hue, saturation and brilliance.

Workmanship on a quilt varies from one person to round-robin participation. In one instance, a competition was held in one of the chapters, and the viewers’ choice was submitted for the exhibit. . Marathon sessions at sewing

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.

Summerfest applications

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Slightly Off Center DENNIS HINKAMP

I know there is some big news thing going on in Washington, D.C. today, but I will leave the puns to other pundits for now. I’m sure I will have gigatons of rant fodder to fall back on in the coming years.

Rather, I will look wistfully at the future of technology, innovation and consequences that may be a pox or balm upon us: Artificial intelligence (AI): Fifteen years ago we joked that AI was for people who didn’t have the real thing. Well AI is having the last

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How to write a column without using AI

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.

Utah Symphony concert

“Galileo” by Helen Butler

machines and long hours of handsewing produced quilts titled “Squiggles and Squares,” “English Ivy” and “Red Yo-yo Mania.”

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

are Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, please call (435) 2261439 or visit brighamcitymuseum. org.

The Utah Symphony will perform under the direction of Thierry Fischer at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University.

Tickets are $15 for adults; $13 for seniors and youth; $10 for USU faculty and staff; free for USU students. Call the Caine College of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022 or visit cca.usu.edu for tickets and more information.

STILL IN THE SADDLE Franklin County’s Marvin Graham keeps on working his magic

Located southwest of Preston, Coyote Creek Saddlery features the creative mind and experienced hands of Marvin Graham.

M

arvin Graham’s home sits on a 50-acre parcel of land southwest of Preston on a bluff overlooking the Bear River. Inside, a fire crackles in the wood stove, but ice crystals still formed on the window, framing the view of the river bottoms below.

This is where Graham spends his time transforming smooth sheets of leather into any number of products, from custom bridles or gun holsters to belts and ladies’ purses. Or sometimes he adds a magic touch to stiff old leather, bringing new life to a saddle.

“I didn’t consider it art for a long time, until a lot of people started telling me — that’s artwork. I started thinking, I guess it really is,” he said. “Not everybody has the knack to do it. It’s something you can pick up if you do enough of it, but there’s a difference between being good at it and doing a lot of it, and just puttering with it.”

Graham was born in Idaho, but when he was 3, his family moved to California. Ironically, a church mission took him right back to Pocatello, where he met his wife,

Helen.

Uncle Sam had another mission in mind for him, though. Graham signed up for the U.S. Navy after receiving his draft notice and spent three years building sonar equipment during the Vietnam War. It was during some of those long days out to sea that Graham first met another sailor who did some leather work. He thought of Helen, an accomplished horse trainer, and thought she would like a handmade belt, so he asked the other man to make one for her.

The finished product wasn’t what he had in mind, though and he thought even as a beginner, he could do it better himself. So, he ordered a kit, he made that belt, and then he just kept creating.

Hand-tooling leather requires an eye for design, steady hand and more than a little patience.

Graham said when the leather is wet it becomes pliant, allowing him to transform a blank piece of leather into one with texture and design created with a carefully selected stainless steel stamp and a mallet.

While there are some tools that are a design unto itself, many

designs are created free-hand. A pattern is pressed or cut into the leather, then little by little, Graham stamps in a curve or adds a shape.

A beveled tool applied here and there adds depth while other tools add texture, all coming together to form larger leaves, floral designs and more.

After the war, Graham worked for Tandy Leather before he and Helen opened their own custom leather shop in Pocatello. Graham said they worked there together for several years making all kinds of leather goods, including chaps and sheepskin coats. During this time, he started building custom saddles as well.

The Grahams closed their shop after the very premature birth of one of their children. Graham took a job with UPS and they moved the business into their basement and and he did leatherwork on the side.

He made a career out of the change, staying with the company until he retired, but his leather work is still very much in demand, and all by word of mouth.

“I stay just as busy as I want to be,” he said.

Story by Amy Macavinta • Photographs by John Zsiray

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‘Figures’ keeps orbit; Affleck, Scorsese flop NEW YORK (AP) — Labors of love, one from Martin Scorsese, the other from Ben Affleck, proved costly at a casualty strewn weekend box office where the uplifting NASA drama “Hidden Figures” stayed on top for the second straight week.

“Hidden Figures,” about AfricanAmerican mathematicians in the 1960s space race, sold a leading $20.5 million in tickets in North American theaters over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, according to estimates Sunday. Fox anticipates the

film, starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, will make $25.3 million when Monday is included, bringing its cumulative total to about $60 million.

The weekend was more remarkable for what didn’t work than what did.

Both Affleck’s period gangster thriller “Live by Night” and Scorsese’s Christian epic “Silence” bombed in their wide-release debuts. Warner Bros.’

“Live by Night,” adapted from Dennis Lehane’s novel, earned a mere $5.4 million in 2,471 theaters. Paramount’s

“Silence,” from Susaku Endo’s novel of 17th century Jesuit priests in Japan, took in $1.9 million in 747 theaters.

Both were high-profile projects that each filmmaker used their considerable sway to get made.

“Live by Night” was Affleck’s directorial follow-up to the best-picture winning “Argo.” Written, directed and starring Affleck, it cost $90 million to make, though rebates and tax incentives lowered its budget to $65 million.

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“Hidden Figures” topped the box office last week with a total of $20.5 million.

Reuniting at Sundance Directors, actors find reteaming a winning formula LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whether muse or friend or both, actors and directors choosing to work together again is a tale as old as cinema.

It’s no different this year at the Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off in Park City, Utah on Thursday and sees the reteaming of some must-see collaborators, from “I’ll See You In My Dreams’” Brett Haley and Sam Elliott to the “Obvious Child” team of Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate.

Here’s a look at a few at this year’s festival: THE HERO (Director: Brett Haley, Actor: Sam Elliott) Writer-director Haley became friends with Elliott while making the underseen gem “I’ll See You In My Dreams,” where Elliott’s character charms a fellow retiree in Blythe Danner. He and his co-writer Marc Basch knew they wanted to follow it up with a film written for Elliott. Initially, they thought they’d draw on his cinematic legacy and make a Western. But they quickly realized everyone makes a Western with Elliott, so they decided to play on that idea. “He’s a Western icon of sorts and a guy who now makes his living doing voiceovers,” Haley said. “We basically took

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Sam Claflin, left, and Gemma Arterton share a scene from “Their Finest,” an official selection of the Spotlight program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The film reunites filmmaker Lone Scherfig with Claflin, who worked together previously in “Riot Club.”

what we loved about Sam, the legacy that he has, and we made him less famous, less successful and more of a screw up.”

LANDLINE (Director: Gillian Robespierre, Actor: Jenny Slate) While casting for the “Obvious Child” short, Robespierre remembers stumbling upon Slate, an SNL cast member for a single season in 2009-2010, and knew she’d found her muse. “She felt like a friend and she had a whole audience in laughter but also

there were quiet moments where they were engaged,” Robespierre recalled. “She’s so present and beautiful and not traditionally what Hollywood considers a movie star. She’s got a beautiful, ethnically Jewish looking face and curves and this non-perfect blonde hair, blue-eyed presence.

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Harrelson going live from London LONDON (AP) — Woody Harrelson is trying to do something that’s never been done before, although he’s starting to realize why his feat would be a first.

The American actor plans to spend the early hours of Friday shooting a full-length film, called “Lost In London LIVE,” which will be broadcast as it happens in over 550 U.S. theaters.

“Someone was asking me earlier, ‘Do you think that people will start doing this now? Filming a movie and live-streaming it at the same time?’ And I said, ‘Well, not if they speak to me first.’ This is some harrowing stuff,” he laughs.

Based on a relentlessly awful night out he really had in the British capital, Harrelson wrote and is directing the film that combines comedy and drama.

Talking on the movie’s set in the streets of London’s theatre district, where rehearsals are happening during the day and at night, Harrelson says he could do with three more weeks of preparation before the action unfolds in real time.

Harrelson, 55, was arrested in London after a night out in 2002. He declined to say whether “Lost in London” is based on events from that night, but the set includes a recreation of the club he visited before his arrest.

“Lost In London LIVE” is an attempt to merge his two loves, film and theater. And even though audiences will be watching on the other side of the pond when it’s Thursday evening, Harrelson is convinced the event’s live-streamed nature will add an electrifying element.

“Will it mess up the performance? That’s the question. Will the fear be too high to eke out a performance? I don’t know,” he said.

Harrelson’s co-stars are musician Willie Nelson and actor Owen Wilson, a close friend who also helped refine the script.

“Owen Wilson is my best buddy. Now, that doesn’t mean I’m his best buddy, but he’s my best buddy and he is a tremendous asset because not only is he just so great on screen, and he’s great as an actor and he’s great to work with,” he said.

makers. “Icarus” appears to be one of these types of documentaries. Filmmaker Bryan Fogel set out to make a documentary about doping in sports, but a chance meeting with Thunder Road Pictures a Russian scientist leads Jeremy Renner stars with Elizabeth Olsen in Taylor Sheridan’s “Wind River.” him down one of the biggest rabbit holes of all. that can be visibly seen comedy. The screenplay is a ghost and the house he “Wilson” (Premieres) and experienced. Coral also written by him and is haunts.” That’s it. That — Woody Harrelson plays reefs around the world are an adaption of his real-life all the film guide gives the volleyball from “Cast disappearing at an aston- cross-cultural experience you. It’s from the director Away” in this audacious ishing rate, and “Chasing dating American student of last year’s delightful tale. Only kidding, but Coral” sets out to docuEmily V. Gordon.

“Pete’s Dragon,” so there’s I kind of wish I wasn’t. ment it. I already know “A Ghost Story” a lot to look forward to Anyway, I’ll watch just this one will make me cry. (NEXT) — Sundance here. about anything with Har “The Big Sick” (Premovies are known for “Icarus” (U.S. Docurelson in it. The synopsis mieres) — Pakistani actor vague synopses, but I mentary Competition) — describes his father-figure Kumail Nanjiani is hilari- think “A Ghost Story” The best documentaries character as “neurotic,” a ous in HBO’s “Silicon starring Casey Affleck are the ones that unfold “misanthrope” and “hilariValley,” and I can’t wait and Rooney Mara has into something else ously honest.” That’s all I to see what he’s able to the best vague synopsis entirely. It’s a right place, need to know. I’m seeing this one. do as the lead actor in a ever: “This is the story of right time for the film-

Orbit Continued from Page 8 But critics said “Live by Night” was a step backward for Affleck, who spent much of his publicity campaign fending off questions about his plans to direct a standalone Batman film for Warner Bros.

The studio, which declined to comment Sunday, estimates “Live by Night” will make $6.7 million over the four-day weekend.

The epitome of a passion project, “Silence,” which Scorsese contemplated for nearly three decades, represents a culmination of the director’s investigations into the nature

of faith. While the film, starring Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson, earned considerable respect from some critics, it failed to catch on in Hollywood’s awards season.

“It’s gotten great reviews and it’s Marty’s passion project, so we’re proud to be a part of it, and we’re going to keep putting it out there in front of audiences,” said Kyle Davies, Paramount’s domestic distribution chief.

“Silence,” never conceived as a particularly commercial release, cost about $50 million to make. The studio expects it to earn $2.3 million over the four-day weekend.

The most costly flop may have been Paramount’s family film “Monster Trucks.” It earned $10.5 million

over the three-day weekend. Viacom took a $115 million write-down late last year on the movie, which cost $125 million to make. It was a rare admission, well before its release, that “Monster Trucks” would bomb.

It was an especially crowded weekend. “La La Land,” the Oscar favorite, danced into second place with $14.5 million. The surprise success was the supernatural thriller “The Bye Bye Man,” from STX Entertainment. With some help from Friday the 13th on the calendar, the low-budget horror flick made $13.4 million.

Peter Berg’s Boston Marathon bombing docudrama, “Patriots Day,” took in a so-so $12 million in its first week of nationwide wide release.

“Wind River” (Premieres) — Writer Taylor Sheridan, who penned scripts to “Sicario” and the masterful “Hell or High Water,” gets his directorial debut here. “Wind River” stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen who play FBI agents investigating a murder on a Native American reservation in Wyoming. Sheridan’s scripts are intense and tend to put a singular focus on its subject.

I’m very interested to see what he does when he’s also directing his written ideas.

There are plenty more films to see, but I’m told there isn’t room to list them all in the paper. No matter. Discovering new films, you haven’t heard anything about is the best thing about Sundance.

(Note: It seems that the festival has done away with the Ogden venue this year. Cache Valley residents wanting to experience Sundance films, Salt Lake City is the closest.)

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The Reel Place Aaron Peck

Sundance always comes at the right time.

It’s the first major festival of the year providing us with new films and new voices, right at the time when it feels like we’ve been talking about the same award contenders for months.

Granted, some of those films are ones we’ve been talking about since last year’s festival — “Manchester by the Sea” and “Sing Street” — but it’s always nice to start anew during the height of Oscar buzz.

Little is known about the films that will be showing at Sundance starting this week, but this is a list of ones I’m personally excited for.

“Chasing Coral” (U.S Documentary Competition) — Sundance is no stranger to activist documentaries. This year most of the buzz will likely go to Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel.” That one is also going to, no doubt, garner the most politicized views because of Gore’s presence.

While Gore’s climate change propositions may be split down party lines, there’s one epidemic

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Lady Antebellum to return with new music NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The short hiatus country vocal trio Lady Antebellum announced in 2015 kept them apart for longer than they had been in a decade. Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley went in different directions on their solo albums, while Dave Haywood honed his skills as a producer.

So when they did reunite in the studio last year, they spent

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as much time together as possible.

“We lived together for two months pretty much, half of it in Florida and half of the other time we wrote and recorded in Los Angeles,” Scott, 30, said.

“Dave cooked for us,” Kelley, 35, said.

“And all kinds of craft cocktails,” Haywood, 34, added.

“It was like adult summer camp,” Kelley said.

mostats, etc. that promise increased efficiency and even less brainpower on our part as humans.

Screen time all the time: Most of the child development specialists have given up on screentime limits because screens are the new

On Thursday, the Grammywinning vocal group released a new single, “You Look Good,” from their forthcoming album “Heart Break,” coming out June 9, which is their first new album since their 2014 album, “747.” The single mixes a dazzling horn section with a swaggering bass riff that reflects the band’s sunfilled days in the Hollywood Hills and white sand beaches

books, TVs, canvases and studios. Everything can be used for good or evil; just like the Electoral College.

——— Dennis Hinkamp is welcoming the new Tweet presidency; he can be found on Twitter @DennisHinkamp.

of Florida.

“I think we wrote half the record, the majority of half the record, in three or four days when we were down in Florida,” Kelley said.

“Nine songs in four days,” Scott said.

The time apart, however brief, was just the reset the band needed after a decade of grinding through five studio albums and numerous arena

LeDoux Continued from Page 4 Ned was a natural fit and lead to the first new Chris LeDoux co-write in nearly two decades.

On tour, you’re guaranteed to hear “This Cowboy’s Hat” — the song most requested by his fans and a request Ned is honored to oblige. His personal favorite song to sing though is one called “You Can’t Tell Me We Ain’t Got It All.” It’s the first original song Ned cowrote with his dad and seems to pick up right where Chris left off. And thankfully there is more to come as there is a new voice to carry on the LeDoux sound.

Michael Martin Murphey will be headlining Friday night’s Cowboy Family Dance, while the Friday night Cowboy Opry will feature some of the school performers, including Gary Allegretto, Ernie Sites, Ed Peekeekoot and poet Marleen Bussma.

The Saturday matinee will feature

Quartet Continued from Page 3 a growing range of social and community outreach. In Logan, So Percussion’s master class will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the Caine Performance Hall. It is free and open to the public.

So Percussion is the Edward T. Cone Ensemble-in-Residence at Princeton University, where they offer educational work and present an annual series of concerts. They are also co-directors of the percussion department at the Bard College-Conservatory of Music, and run the annual So Percussion Summer Institute, providing college-age com-

tours. Following major success early on with their multi-platinum hit crossover song and album “Need You Now,” the trio that formed in their 20s became accustomed to writing songs together on the road and quickly recording during breaks at home in Nashville.

“Writing while you’re touring, which we’ve done a lot, after a while can become a little tiresome,” Haywood said.

Grammy-ominated songster Don Edwards and Waddie Mitchell, “The Bard & the Balladeer.”

Grammy-nominated Edwards continues to build a legacy that enriches our vision of the American West. In tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who lived it, his ballads paint a sweeping landscape of both mind and heart, bringing to life the sights, sounds and feelings of this American contribution to culture and art.

The quality of this cowboy balladeer’s music stems from the fact that he is so much more than a singer A historian, author and musicologist, unusually well-versed in cowboy lore and musical traditions, Edwards brings a rare complement of knowing and loving his craft.

Concert ticket prices are $10 to $50; dance tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and $5 for children. Cowboy Opry tickets are $1 for children and $10 for adults. Tickets are on sale now.

For more information and tickets, visit cachevalleycowboyrendezvous.com. posers and percussionists an immersive exposure to collaboration and project development.

“The So in So Percussion comes from the second character in the compound Japanese word ensou, to perform music,” notes Jenise Treuting, an English-Japanese translator. “By itself, so means ‘to play an instrument.’ But it can also mean ‘to be successful,’ ‘to determine a direction and move forward,’ and ‘to present to the gods or ruler.’ Scholars have suggested that the latter comes from the character’s etymology, which includes the element ‘to offer with both hands.’”

The percussionists of So Percussion offer their art with both hands, and, at the Jan. 31 Logan concert, we have the chance to accept it.

Comedy Night at WhySound will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5. Visit whysound.com for more information.

Nordic United will host a fundraising event from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 20, at the Logan River Golf Course clubhouse.

Cost is $15 for members; $20 for non-members. The Atlas Grove will provide the entertainment, Iron Gate Grill Catering the food and and craft beer from local brewers. Visit nordicunited.org for more information.

The North Logan Library will host Teen Movie Night from 7 p.m. to midnight Friday, Jan. 20, at 475 E. 2500 North. This week’s free teen activity is a Harry Potter movie night. Come enjoy games and puzzles that have to do with the seven horcruxes, and then enjoy watching “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Pizza, drinks and snacks will all be provided. Visit northloganlibrary.org/teens for more information.

The Utah Symphony will perform under the direction of Thi-

erry Fischer at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University. Call the Caine College of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022 or visit cca.usu.edu for tickets and more information.

SATURDAY The Logan Library will host librarian Joseph Anderson and his family as they present “An English Pilgrimage,” the experiences of a family of seven who fulfilled a 20-year dream with a nine-day journey around England’s historical sites by car. The presentation will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University is continuing its Family Art Days program with upcoming events in the MerrillCazier Library while the museum is closed for construction. The next Family Art Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Merrill-Cazier Library Art Book Room (Room 042). The upcoming event is a zine workshop. Anyone can be a self-published author and artist with a do-it-yourself zine.

Sundance Continued from Page 8 woman.’” It was a no-brainer that they’d re-team for “Landline,” a ‘90sset comedy about two sisters (Slate and newcomer Abby Quinn) investigating their father’s suspected affair and trying to keep it from their mother (Edie Falco).

A GHOST STORY (Director: David Lowery, Actors: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara) In the lyrical “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” which played at Sundance in 2013, Mara and Affleck were outlaw lovers, but director Lowery’s latest (after going big with Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon”) is “about as art house as art house can get” with Affleck playing a ghost and Mara as his grief-stricken love. Because it was so small and self-

The workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to view the Merrill-Cazier Library’s fantastic collection of little magazines (zines) and art books. Afterward, NEHMA and Merrill-Cazier Library staff members will assist aspiring authors and artists of all ages in writing, designing and arranging zines and pamphlets.

Visit artmuseum.usu.edu for more information.

SUNDAY A walk to celebrate Sanctity of Human Life Week will begin at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Logan Library, 255 N. Main St. Participants will walk from the library to the Cache County Historic Courthouse. Everyone is invited. Dress warmly.

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

Monday, Jan. 23, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “The Secret Life of Pets,” which is rated PG. Popcorn and admission is free.

The USU Study Abroad Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 23, in the Inter-

financed, Lowery knew he wanted to work with only friends. “I’m lucky enough that at this point my sphere of friends include both of them. I was able to call them both up and say, ‘Hey I’m making this weird thing, do you want to come to Dallas for two weeks?’ They both said yes. I did not expect either of them to say yes. It’s a risk. It’s definitely not a normal movie and they both were excited about it and to work together again. I lucked out.”

GOLDEN EXITS (Director: Alex Ross Perry, Actor: Jason Schwartzman) Schwartzman brought his acerbic wit to director Perry’s “Listen Up Philip,” a 2014 Sundance movie, and the two have become close friends since. For Perry, calling on Schwartzman to co-star in his new film “Golden Exits,” about an outsider who upsets the dynamic of two families in Brooklyn, was a very practical matter too.

“Increasingly in the way film continues

national Sunburst Lounge on the second floor of the Taggart Student Center. Speak with USU faculty about their study abroad programs, talk with representatives from direct programs, find out about financial aid, scholarships and more.

Wednesday, Jan. 25, in the Bonneville Room at the Logan Library.

The North Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23. This week’s movie is “Pete’s Dragon” which is rated PG. Popcorn and admission is free.

Mountain Crest High School will host the MCHS Career Fair from 8:15 to 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, and Thursday, Jan. 26, in the MCHS cafeteria in Hyrum. Come talk to businesses around Cache Valley and enter to win a raffle drawing. Come learn from more than 20 people in the career and find out what interests you.

TUESDAY

THURSDAY

The Logan Library will host Teen Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s theme is “Lights, Camera, Anime!” Visit library.loganutah. org for more information.

Telepathiq will perform along with PINE and DJ Visson at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. Visit whysound.com for more information.

WEDNESDAY The Cache Valley Astronomy Society invites the public to its fifth annual Show and Tell. Come to this free 60-minute meeting to look at and learn about basic stargazing equipment used by local amateurs to explore the night sky. All ages are welcome.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

to flounder and struggle, having personal, direct access to actors you want to work with is very valuable and it’s something I’ve been very lucky to have been given the support to build up,” Perry said. “The next person I talk to, whether I know them or not, I can say, ‘Jason’s in this’ and they’ll say, ‘OK, this is already on its way.’”

NEWNESS (Director: Drake Doremus, Actor: Nicholas Hoult) Doremus, who won the 2011 Grand Jury prize for “Like Crazy,” returns this year with his “Equals” star Hoult in “Newness,” about 20-somethings in the online dating game who are addicted to the new, never giving relationships an actual chance before moving on to the next option. Hoult lived with Doremus for three months during the shoot, which became a camp-like experience. “We can say anything to each other. There’s nothing that’s off-limits. Everything gets done right

Helicon West Open Mic Night will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, in the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library. An open-mic reading/featured readers series for local poets and writers, Sunni Wilkinson and Bethany Shultz Hurst will present this week. Readings are free, open to the public and uncensored. Visit heliconwest.wordpress.com for more information.

because we make sure to push it as much as we can,” Doremus said. “And, as far as actors go in their mid-to-late20s, to me, he’s the best around.”

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Veteran filmmaker Lone Scherfig (“An Education”) is working again with her “Riot Club” star Sam Claflin in “Their Finest,” about an arrogant WWII-era screenwriter. She was excited to see him play something more “witty and romantic,” which she’d seen in him since the start, while writerdirector Marianna Palka director teamed up with longtime stars Jason Ritter and Martin Starr for “Bitch.” Similarly, Jeff Baena (“Life After Beth”) called upon an entire roster of his regulars for “The Little Hours,” including girlfriend Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon and Adam Pally, which would require a trip to Tuscany in the spring to shoot the unconventional comedy set in the middle ages.

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57. Go a-courting 58. Kind of artist 59. Versatile truck, informally 61. Encroachment 65. Big game track 66. Name of 14 popes 68. Lopsided 69. Finger food 72. Skull cap 74. Some June babies 75. “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” writer 79. It’s hard to miss 81. “The ___ Commandments” 82. Chief Hindu deity 83. Address book abbr.

84. Chinese dynasty 85. Stubborn 87. Lash out at

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94. White bird 95. Discouraging words 96. Grape seeds, e.g.

98. Court matter 100. Gush forth 102. Stored, as public records 105. Have it and eat it too ...

107. Speak 112. Feline constellation 113. Kan. neighbor 114. Forgets 116. Nucleus dweller 117. Doctrine 118. Cheeses 121. Second in order 123. Tipped off 124. Swe. neighbor 125. Emit coherent radiation 126. Any thing 127. Anthony of the Supreme Court 128. Animal with curved horns 129. Muslim VIP Down 1. Untangles, in a way 2. Sweet, salty, sour, bitter and ___ 3. Embroidery stitch 4. Barrel part 5. Woodwind 6. Transport 7. Diva’s solo 8. Doohickey 9. Thin membranes 10. O.K.’s 11. German river 12. Miff 13. Tied up 14. Hamburger seeds 15. “Fields __ Gold” Sting 16. Mission in Texas 17. River craft 18. Writer Stieg Larsson, e.g.

24. PC processor

25. Path of a fly ball 26. Curve, as animal horns 34. W.W. I soldier 35. It’s stranded, for short 37. Nabisco favorite 38. Charged up atom 39. Bright spot on a planet in astronomy 42. Go ballistic 43. Division word 44. Historic U.S. river 46. Sock-stain remover 48. Rhythm instruments 50. Double 51. Jeer 52. Longer than centuries 53. ___ too much 54. Mexican beer 56. Bottoms 60. Arab leader 61. Pitch black 62. Tire meas.

63. Greek lyrical meter 64. Hornswoggles 66. Prague native 67. Horror film franchise street 70. Ugly spot 71. Muscle connectors 72. Tournament passes 73. Seals’ meals 76. Amscray!

77. Responsibility 78. Sign of infection 79. Approximate arrival time 80. Certain orthodox Jew 82. Windmill part 86. Drop off 88. Ooh partner 89. Sweet spread 90. Georgia’s state tree 92. Curved like a bow 93. Longed 97. Small cloud 99. Like wet roads

101. Garden crawler 102. CSI defense 103. Roll back to zero, e.g.

104. Nobleman 106. Former European economic grp.

108. Variety of oak 109. Elite military unit 110. Body trunks 111. Register 114. Owl’s hangout 115. Warbled 116. Big copper exporter 119. Home room 120. Back-to-work time: Abbr.

122. FM alternative

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