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The Joy of a Snow Day The Herald Journal

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Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2017

COVER 6 Cache Valley students enjoy a third snow day in the month of January

THE ARTS 3 Pianist Jason Hardink

coming for concert at USU

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 presents ‘Caesar’

5 So Percussion coming

to the Caine Performance Hall at USU on Jan. 31

5 New quilt exhibit to open at Brigham City Museum

MOVIES 8 Academy Awards unveils a much more diverse list of nominees for 2017 Oscars

8 ‘Split’ takes the top spot at the box office during inauguration weekend

9 Cache movie critic Aaron Peck shares his fave films at Sundance in Park City

CALENDAR 12 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley

Carter Christie goes off a jump at Utah State University’s Old Main Hill on Monday. On the cover: Logan Day takes on Old Main Hill Monday afternoon while sitting in a plastic tote attached to a snowboard. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR So, we had another ... yawn ... snow day last Monday.

If it weren’t for the back-breaking shoveling it required — as well as the feeling that we’re all trapped inside of an ever-shrinking freezer in desperate need of a defrosting — it’s possible that no one would have noticed.

Coming on the heels of Christmas, New Year’s and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it was kind of starting to feel like every weekend was a three-day weekend,

anyway.

And where weather-related school cancellations were once rare, they’ve become commonplace this winter. Consider that after not having a snow day since 2002, Cache County and Logan school districts have now had three of them in less than three weeks.

But we are close to surviving one of the snowiest Cache Valley months on record, which is something to be proud of — even though going an hour without satellite TV because of a blizzard isn’t exactly the same as breaking the ice off the river and hauling five gallons of water back to your farmhouse, like our pioneer forefathers did.

But now that things are at least tempo-

rarily calming down as far as the weather goes, it is definitely time to enjoy the opportunities presented in our “Marshmallow World.” While hitting the slopes at Beaver Mountain or Cherry Peak are obvious ways to enjoy the snow, might I also suggest the Bear Lake Monster Winterfest on Saturday?

Held primarily in the vicinity of Garden City, this annual event includes the famous Cisco Disco out on the ice of Bear Lake, as well as the Monster Polar Plunge through the ice. For more information on the Bear Lake Monster Winterfest, visit bearlake.org.

— Jeff Hunter

Free concert slated for Saturday at Caine Hall

Pianist Jason Hardink, artistic director of the NOVA Chamber Music Series and principal keyboard of the Utah Symphony, will perform at Utah State University at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Caine Performance Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

“Like the best pianists in the world, Hardink is able to draw out sounds from the piano that completely belie the fact that the piano is a percussion instrument,” Cindy Dewey, head of the Department of Music in the Caine College of the Arts, said. “When he plays, it is like listening to a wonderful singer or violinist. There is a sense of line to his playing that transcends what the instrument should be capable of.”

Hardink performs a wide-ranging repertoire of music by living composers and works of the historical canon. His leadership of the NOVA Chamber Music Series has created a dynamic environment through which audience and performers experience music both new and old.

“The degree of nuance and the number of colors he is able to create with hammers hitting strings is astonishing,” Dewey said. “To hear him play Lizst’s Transcendental Etudes is an opportunity not to be missed, as these pieces are the perfect musical vehicle to showcase his technical skill and artistic nuance.”

For more information and tickets, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit cca.usu.edu.

Utah State students to present Mozart’s ‘La finta giardiniera’

Pianist Jason Hardink will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at Utah State University’s Caine Performance Hall.

Dinner, magic at Old Rock Church The historic Old Rock Church at 10 S. Main Street in Providence will be transformed into a dinner theater for Valentine’s Day. The evening will feature fine dining by Iron Gate Catering followed by a magic show by deceptionist Richard Hatch of the Hatch Academy of Magic & Music.

Beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, Hatch will perform pre-dinner, close-up magic to stimulate the

appetite. Once the diners have made their Tuscan chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, strawberry almond salad, fresh fruit and New York cheesecake disappear, he will re-appear to give a formal platform performance to engage the senses and aid the digestion.

Seating is limited, so advance reservations are required. Tickets for the semi-formal event are $37 each.

For tickets and additional infor-

mation, call the Old Rock Church at 752-3432 or visit oldrockchurch. com.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Old Rock Church was completed in 1873 and is the oldest structure of its stature in Cache Valley.

Until 1922 it was also home to the Providence Opera House and today is a bed and breakfast and event center.

Utah State University Opera Theatre is producing Mozart’s opera “La finta giardiniera” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2-4 in the Morgan Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday, Feb. 4.

“La finta giardiniera” tells the story of a wronged countess who disguises herself as a gardener in order to navigate the intricacies of courtly love, revenge and the usual temporary operatic insanity. Both comedic and dramatic, the piece will be performed in Italian and English with English subtitles

by USU vocal performance students. It is accompanied by the USU Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Sergio Bernal. The production is guest directed by Daniel Helfgot.

“I wanted to produce Mozart for the student’s benefit,” Dallas Heaton, director of the opera theatre program in the Caine College of the Arts, said. “La finta giardiniera is the perfect fit for the talent we have this semester and allows each cast member an intensive chance to work in a semi-professional setting. We’ve brought in a professional and highly successful director and collaborated with the USU Symphony Orchestra to present this piece in an authentic manner.”

While this is not the first time the opera theatre program has collaborated with the orchestra or the first show they’ve produced in Italian, it will be the first time they’ve done the two together, Heaton said.

“The cast, orchestra, production team and everyone else involved have put in many hours of preparation,” Heaton said. “I suspect this show will be another crowning achievement for the ensemble and a unique source of cultural enrichment for the university and community. This is truly an event you won’t want to miss.”

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

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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 Dyer Highway. 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.

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: five-octave 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 Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting, a founding member. Sliwinski notes

that European-American 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 handful 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,

Pickleville auditions

Pickleville Playhouse is casting all roles for both of its 2017 summer productions.

“Shrek: The Musical” and “A Matter of Love & Death Starring Juanito Bandito” will be performed from June 9 to Sept. 9, at the Pickleville Playhouse in Garden City.

Pickleville is seeking male and female actors, ages 8 to 12 and 18 years old and older. All cast and crew are paid positions.

Auditions will be held in Logan on Monday, Feb. 6, at 1280 E. 3100 North in North Logan. Auditions by appointment are 4 to 6 p.m., with callbacks beginning at 7 p.m.

Call (435) 668-3364 to schedule an audition time.

Special AFCO concert

Celebrating its ninth season, the American FestiSee USU on Page 11 val Chorus & Orchestra has become a leading artistic voice in Northern Utah and has sought to enrich the lives it touches through performance, education and appreciation of choral art.

This year, the American Festival Chorus & Orchestra has decided to add a Valentine benefit concert for Cache Valley for Hope entitled “The Power of Love.” AFCO will also be joined by special guests, pianist Brandon Lee and vocalist McKenzie Lee. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Ticket prices are $50 single/$90 couple; rear orchestra and balcony, $25 single/$40 couples. VIP reception and concert tickets are $80 single/$150 couple; reception will begin at 6 p.m.

For ticket information, visit americanfestivalchorus.org or call 752-0026.

Cache Valley for Hope Cancer Foundation is a community organization that provides assistance to families and individuals suffering with cancer.

Founded in 2011, hundreds of people have been helped and touched by the foundation, thanks to the generosity of the community, its partners and their donations. Aid is provided to families and individuals in need paying their everyday living expenses like mortgages, rent insurance utilities, etc., so they can focus their energies and attention on fighting and recovering.

Visit cachevalleyforhope.org for more information.

Quilt exhibit ready to open Brigham City show on display starting Saturday afternoon 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

Summerfest applications

“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.

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 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.

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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 7978022 and at the Caine College of

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The Best Way to Enjoy a Snow Day

After going nearly 15 years between snow days, young students in Cache Valley were presented with their third off-day in less than a month on Monday, Jan. 23, when yet another snowstorm hit the region. But this time, they were also joined at Old Main Hill and other locations by students from Utah State University.

Photos by ELI LUCERO

Top, a snow tuber takes a break while walking up Old Main Hill on Monday. Top right, sledders haul air mattresses up Old Main Hill at Utah State University. Above, an ambitious sledder hits the hill as onlookers watch. Left, Skyler Howell makes a snow troll on the roof of a home in Logan on Monday. Far left, Jake Meyer freestyle skis off a tree on Old Main Hill as Oliver Hulme, left, and Benjamin Hansen watch on Monday.

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‘Split’ rules the weekend with $40.2 million NEW YORK (AP) — M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller “Split” blew away box-office expectations, earning $40.2 million in ticket sales over inauguration weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Though many were focused on Friday’s presidential inauguration and Saturday’s nationwide women’s marches, “Split” doubled forecasts to easily lead all films. The Universal Pictures release again brings together Shyamalan, director of “The Sixth Sense,” with the low-budget horror

experts of Blumhouse Productions.

The PG-13-rated “Split,” starring James McAvoy as a man with split personalities, cost less than $10 million to make.

“This is an unusual weekend in our society and a lot of things have been going on that would otherwise divert our attention,” said Nick Carpou, head of distribution for Universal. “A film like this based on the elements that it brings and the audience that it attracts, I think can take some advantage of that either as a relief to current

events or perhaps as an adjunct to them.”

It’s the second collaboration between producer Jason Blum and Shyamalan, whose fluctuating career has recently found a lucrative home at Blumhouse. They previously combined for 2015’s breakout horror hit “The Visit.”

The Vin Diesel action sequel “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” opened in second place, with $20 million.

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James McAvoy stars in “Split,” the top-grossing film in the country last weekend.

Oscars alter their tune with diverse field

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History was made across Tuesday’s 89th annual Academy Awards nominations, where the

retro musical “La La Land” reaped a recordtying 14 nominations and a wave of AfricanAmerican films, led by the luminous comingof-age portrait “Moon-

light,” resoundingly toppled two straight years of “so white” Oscars.

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nated for directing and adapted screenplay, said the eight nominations for “Moonlight” and those for other films showed that people were eager to put themselves in the shoes of others. “Moonlight,” ‘’Fences” and “Hidden Figures” were each nominated for best picture.

“I love the American film industry and to see it this year, I feel, really reflect the world that we all live and work in, it gives me hope,” JenAP Photo kins said by phone from Alex Hibbert stars in a scene from “Moonlight.”

Amsterdam. “It heartens me. There’s a lot of work black actors nominated, a broad group of diverse being done to make this including “Fences” stars films that also included year not be an anomaly.”

Denzel Washington’s fiery Washington and Viola Nine films out of a August Wilson adaptation Davis, Mahershala Ali possible ten were nomi“Fences” and the uplifting and Naomie Harris of nated for best picture. The “Moonlight,” Ruth Negga others were: Denis VilAfrican-American mathof “Loving” and Octavia ematician tale “Hidden leneuve’s cerebral alien Figures” — dominated the Spencer of “Hidden Figthriller “Arrival,” Kenneth ures.” Dev Patel, the Brit- Lonergan’s New England nominations . ish-Indian star of “Lion,” family drama “ManThe 14 nods for “La was also nominated, mak- chester by the Sea,” the La Land,” including best ing it seven actors of color West Texas heist thriller picture, best actress for nominated out of 20.

Emma Stone, best actor “Hell or High Water,” It made for a stark for Ryan Gosling and the “Lion,” and Mel Gibbest director for Chazelle, contrast to the last two son’s World War II drama years of all-white acting matched the record hauls “Hacksaw Ridge.” nominees, a disparity that of 1997’s “Titanic” and Redemption was everyprompted widespread out- where: for a previously 1950’s “All About Eve.” rage throughout the film A disoriented Chazelle, diversity-deficient Oscars, industry and led academy for the old-fashioned speaking by phone from president Cheryl Boone Beijing, said, “All that I musical and even for the have in my head is ‘thank Isaacs to revamp the acad- long-shunned Gibson. you’ a million times over.” emy’s membership.

Jenkins, who was nomiSee FIELD on Page 10 Also a record: the six

Split Continued from Page 5 It’s the third film in the trilogy and first installment in 12 years. Though a modest start for a film designed to recharge a dormant franchise, it is faring better overseas.

It took in $50.5 million internationally over the weekend.

Last weekend’s top film, the stirring mathematician drama “Hidden Figures,” held on well, sliding to third place with

an estimated $16.3 million.

Despite the weekend’s political events, the North American box office was up 29.2 percent from the same weekend last year, according to comScore.

“You would think that those events would suck the air out of the room, but that didn’t happen,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. “The movie theater experience with the right content is irresistible no matter what is going on in the outside world, and in fact may

even benefit from so much going on in the outside world. To have your wits scared out you is one of the greatest escapes.”

A pair of other new releases had more difficulty rounding up audiences. The Weinstein Co.’s “The Founder,” a biopic about Ray Kroc of McDonald’s starring Michael Keaton, launched in 1,100 theaters but gathered only $3.8 million. It will be hoping for an Oscar nomination on Tuesday to help it stand out of the adult-skewing releases.

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story is anything but.

Sheridan is so great at spotlighting the details that make a story interesting. He purposefully gets lost in minutia, and it works. We see life on the reservation, we understand the intricacies of Renner’s hunter character, we witness the frigid wilderness of remote Wyoming, etc. There’s so much going on here it’s High Water,” which hard to fathom how are two suspenseful, Sheridan packed so spell-binding movies much into it. that shine a light on These are just a dark, unspoken corners few of the many of humanity. Somehow, Sundance films you Sheridan is able to blend can look forward to action-movie thriller seeing in the coming tropes in with headier months. There are AP Photo concepts of community, still many more to Heavy snow falls while pedestrians and traffic make their way along Main Street in front of society and economy. see too. The festival the Egyptian Theatre during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Monday in Park City.

In “Wind River,” which goes through Jan. 29. stars Jeremey Renner Unfortunately, the The film poses some Seoul, Korea. Believe me, movie with a fascinatand Elizabeth Olsen, Ogden venue is no interesting questions that Sheridan gets his first ing premise and great it only gets weirder from longer in service, so would be raised if such a chance at directing. He build-up, which is let there. While “Colossal” if you want to catch scenario presented itself, takes us to a Native doesn’t really have all the down by its last 10 minany movies head on utes. In “The Discovery,” however, its final act is a American reservation necessary parts to make down to Salt Lake (which stars Jason Segel, supreme miscalculation it a cohesive whole, the in Wyoming as a rookie City — as long as Rooney Mara and Robert that undermines the smart FBI agent (Olsen) and last 10 minutes make the weather permits. It’s whole bizarre trip worth it. Redford) the afterlife has science fiction that came a BLM hunter (Renner) usually pretty easy to try and hunt down some- get into SLC screenbeen scientifically proven before.

“The Discovery” — one who killed a young and this has set off a sui- “Wind River” — Now this one is almost ings during the secgirl. What seems like a ond weekend of the cide epidemic of people the complete opposite Taylor Sheridan wrote straightforward detective festival. just wanting to get there. “Sicario” and “Hell or of “Colossal.” Here’s a

The Reel Place Aaron Peck

Sundance Film Festival theaters are still flickering with new images from previously unseen movies, but this seemed like as good a time as any to talk about a few of the films I’ve seen this year.

Every year Sundance has a wide variety of films, and this year is no exception. I’ve seen everything from a monster sci-fi movie to a modern Western set in the deep snow of the Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains.

Here are a few movies you can look forward to seeing sometime in the next year or so: “Chasing Coral” — I put “Chasing Coral” in my first column about Sundance because I was greatly anticipating it.

This documentary about the catastrophic disappearance of coral reefs around the world is thought-provoking, lifealtering and infuriating.

The filmmakers offer up proven, peer-reviewed science in order to discuss exactly why coral reefs across the globe are bleaching and then dying.

A staggering and sobering thought, our kids’ generation has the real possibility of growing up in a world where coral (all 300-plus species) has been completely eradicated from ocean habitats.

“Colossal” — Well, this is just one weird movie. Kudos must be paid to writer/director Nacho Vigalondo for fully embracing such out-there subject matter. The movie doesn’t really stick the landing, but it’s fun watching it try. Here Anne Hathaway plays a drunk who finds out she’s mysteriously connected to a citydestroying monster in

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Soaking up the Sundance Film Festival

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

Field Continued from Page 4 Days after the birth of his ninth child, the “Hacksaw Ridge” director was also unexpectedly nominated for best director over the likes of Martin Scorsese (“Silence”) and Clint Eastwood (“Sully”). The nods seemed to restore his stature in Hollywood since an anti-Semitic tirade while being arrested for drunk driving in 2006 and a 2011 conviction for domestic violence.

“I think finally people are remembering who Mel actually is, not what the tabloids (said),” said Andrew Garfield, who was nominated for his lead performance in the film. “I’m so, so proud of him.

“Arrival” tied “Moonlight” for the second most nominees with eight nods. Yet its five-time nominated star, Amy Adams, was left out of the competitive best actress category.

Instead, Meryl Streep, whom President Donald Trump recently derided as “overrated,” landed

left off. And thankfully there is more to come as there is a new voice to carry on the LeDoux sound.

Dyer Highway will be headlining Friday night’s Cowboy Family Dance, while the Friday night Cowboy Opry will feature some of the school performers, including Gary

her 20th nomination. Her performance in “Florence Foster Jenkins” was among the best actress nominees that included Stone, Natalie Portman (“Jackie”), Ruth Negga (“Loving”) and Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”). Also left out was Annette Bening for “20th Century Women.”

Best-actor favorite Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”) was joined by Washington, Gosling, Garfield and Viggo Mortensen (“Captain Fantastic”). Along with Ali and Patel, the best supporting actor

Allegretto, Ernie Sites, Ed Peekeekoot and poet Marleen Bussma.

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

All concert ticket prices are $10 to $50; dance tickets

nominees were Lucas Hedges (“Manchester by the Sea”), Michael Shannon (“Nocturnal Animals”) and Jeff Bridges (“Hell or High Water”).

Viola Davis, the supporting-actress front-runner for her performance in “Fences,” notched her third Oscar nod. Also nominated were Harris, Spencer, Nicole Kidman (“Lion”) and Michelle Williams (“Manchester by the Sea”).

Whether fairly or not, the nominations were taken as a test for the overhauled film academy.

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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

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though, wasn’t driven by any kind of response to the last two Oscars; most of the nominated films have been in development for years. And the awards still left many unrepresented.

No female filmmakers were nominated for best director and outside of the EGOT-approaching LinManuel Miranda (up for his song to “Moana”), Latinos were nearly absent .

Still, change was seen all through the Oscar categories, nowhere more so than in best documentary.

Four black directors led nominees: Ava DuVernay (“The 13th”), Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), Ezra Edelman (the sevenplus hours “O.J.: Made in America”) and Roger Ross Williams (“Life, Animated”). (The other nominee was the European migrant documentary “Fire at Sea.”) “Now more than ever it is important to educate ourselves, explore our shared history and elevate our awareness about matters of human dignity,” DuVernay, whose film is about historical connections between slavery and mass incarceration, said in a statement.

Joi McMillon, who edited “Moonlight” with Nat Sanders, became the first African-American woman nominated for best editing. Bradford Young of “Arrival” was just the second black cinematographer nominated. Kimberly Steward, who financed “Manchester by the Sea,” became the second African-American producer to land a best-picture nomina-

tion after Oprah Winfrey.

Though “La La Land,” ‘’Arrival” and “Hidden Figures” are knocking on the door of $100 million at the North American box office, none of the best-picture nominees have yet crossed that threshold, making this year’s best picture nominees one of the lowest grossing bunch ever.

“Deadpool,” this season’s underdog, and the year’s no. 2 box-office hit, “Finding Dory,” were shut out. Only one major studio — Paramount, which distributed “Arrival” and “Fences” scored a best-picture nomination.

Amazon, however, landed its first best-picture nod for “Manchester by the Sea,” which the streaming retailer partnered with Roadside Attractions to distribute. Propelled by “La La Land,” Lionsgate led all studios with 26 nominations.

The dearth of blockbusters will pose a test for Jimmy Kimmel, host of the Feb. 26 ceremony.

Last year’s broadcast, which host Chris Rock introduced as “the White People’s Choice Awards,” drew 34.4 million viewers, an eight-year-low.

Viggo Mortensen is among those who expecting a strong political undercurrent.

“The Trump White House,” Mortensen said Tuesday, “is about, to some degree, shutting people up you don’t like or who don’t agree with you, and I think the Oscars will probably be the opposite of that.”

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.

All ages are invited to USU’s Science Unwrapped at 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 27, in the Eccles Science Learning Center Auditorium.

USU paleontologist Ben Burger presents “The Art and Science of Monster Creation.” Admission is free and learning activities and refreshments follow the talk.

Guests are invited to bring their “mystery rocks” for identification

by USU geologists. For more information, call 797-3517 or visit usu.edu/science/unwrapped.

The Tom Call Sextet will perform at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $7.

Visit whysound.com for more information.

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 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 are $6 for adults and $3 for those ages 5 to 18 years old.

the Monster Cisco Disco and Monster Cisco Tournament, the Monster Chili Cook-off and Monster Outdoor Expo from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For a full schedule, visit bearlakemonsterwinterfest.com.

Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 30, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “The Legend of Tarzan,” which is rated PG-13. Popcorn and admission is free.

Hardware Ranch WMA offers a unique opportunity to get up close to wild Rocky Mountain elk on a horse-drawn sleigh beginning Dec. 9, and running through Feb. 27, 2017. Hardware Ranch is open Mondays and Fridays from noon to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tickets are sold in the visitors center. Tickets are $5 for ages 9 and up; $3 children ages 4-8 and children 3 and under are free. Visit wildlife. utah.gov/hardwareranch for more information.

My Friends and The Chops bands will perform at 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Logan Eagles Lodge, 894 N. 200 West. Admission is $5 and open to the public as guests. Classic rock from the ’60s forward.

Due to last week’s snowstorm, Mountain Crest High School will now host parentteacher conferences on Monday, Jan. 30. The schedule will be: counselors’ presentation in the MCHS Auditorium, 3 to 3:30 p.m.; parent-teacher conferences in the cafeteria, 3:30 to 6 p.m.; counselors’ presentation in the auditorium, 6 to 6:30 p.m.; and parent-teacher conferences in teachers’ classrooms, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

My Friends and the Blue Blazers bands will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Logan Eagles Lodge, 894 N. 200 West. Admission is $5 and open to the public as guests. Come on out to see the best of Cache Valley’s home grown bands performing classic country rock and blues favorites.

SATURDAY Danger 5 will perform along with Blackford Blues and VERA at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $7. Visit whysound. com for more information.

The annual Bear Lake Monster Winterfest will be held on Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Garden City area. Events include the Monster Plunge at the Bear Lake State Park Marina at 1 p.m.,

USU Continued from Page 5 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

SUNDAY The Post-Mormon Community is a non-sectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormonism. The Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing at a local restaurant at 6:30 p.m. every Sunday evening. Newcomers welcome.

For more information call Jeff at 770-4263 or visit our website at postmormon.org/logan.

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

This week’s movie is “Star Trek Beyond” which is rated PG-13.

Popcorn and admission is free.

Due to last week’s snowstorm, North Cache 8-9 Center will now host parent-teacher conferences from 3 to 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23. Teachers will have a 30-minute break according to their last name. A-M will break from 5:30 to 6 p.m., and N-Z will break from 6 to 6:30 p.m. School will be in session as usual.

The Logan Library Monday

agency and citizenship. So Percussion pursues 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-

TUESDAY 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.

The Logan Library will host Teen Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s theme is “5th Tuesday.” This is the fifth Tuesday of the month where anything goes. Want to play video games? Board games? Make a craft? Or how about something completely different? Visit library.loganutah.org for more information.

directors of the percussion department at the Bard College-Conservatory of Music, and run the annual So Percussion Summer Institute, providing college-age composers 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,

Cancelled last week due to snow, the USU Study Abroad Fair has been rescheduled. The annual event will now be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the International 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. For more information, visit studyabroad.usu.edu.

WEDNESDAY Do you enjoy chess? Would you like to improve your skills?

The Logan Library is sponsoring an evening of chess at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 1. The library makes chess boards available every first and third Wednesday in the Jim Bridger Room. All skill levels are welcome. Light refreshments are served. Games are open for anyone age 8 to 108. For more information, call or email Joseph Anderson at 716-9137 or joseph.anderson@ loganutah.org.

THURSDAY The USU Opera Theatre will presents “La Finta Giardiniera”

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4, in the Morgan Theatre at Utah State University’s Chase Fine Arts Center. A matinee will also begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. Tickets are $10 for adults; $8 seniors and youth. Call 797-8022 or visit cca.usu.edu for tickets and more information.

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.

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Sing 4. Club 8. Stirring state 15. Four-poster, e.g.

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50. Capably 51. Airplane flap 53. Is obliged 54. Fjord country, briefly 55. Oscar-winning Hitchcock film 57. Germ free 59. Asian hostess 62. Hubbub 63. Muslim pilgrimage 65. Bias 66. Endless times 68. Not stingy 72. Type of truck 73. English duo 78. Before Homeland Security 79. Hit the spot 80. Farm building 81. People person 83. Southern soldier 84. Byron’s over 87. The way we word 91. Surveyor’s instrument 93. ____ riche 96. Street of Nightmares 97. Potential heir 98. More brashly pre-

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109. Tee off 110. Twilled cloth 112. Pushed forward 113. Jewel 116. Country lodging 118. Indian dish made with stewed legumes 122. Power serve, perhaps 123. French duo 133. Service station offering 134. Widow of a Tsar 135. Courteous chap 136. USNA grad.

137. Completely round 138. Scapegoat 139. University conferral Down 1. Hick 2. Detail-oriented, to say the least 3. Shortened preposition 4. Return envelope, abbr.

5. Web browser entry 6. Words of accord 7. Storage unit 8. Memory-challenged one 9. “Cool!”

10. Tolkien beast 11. Olympics chant 12. Blue 13. Woodcutter Baba 14. Slothful person 15. Hunk 16. Merit 17. Liquid sediment 19. Reputation 20. Civil aviation controllers 24. Past 29. It’s a wrap in Japan 31. Springs area

32. Singers 33. It’s just for openers 34. Singer ___ Moore 36. Opera song 37. Rodeo female 38. Compass heading 39. Group of poems 40. Twinge 41. Orchestral instrument 42. Indian silk dress 43. Like Easter eggs 46. Jot into record 47. Rope factory employee 48. Schismatic group 52. Eastern potentates 56. Winter ailments 58. Igneous rock beneath the earth’s surface 60. Had a hunch 61. Coal carrier 63. Chicken creator 64. Geometry line 67. Trapper 69. UN currency agcy.

70. Marshy stream 71. Times to play or relax 73. Hide 74. Surfing?

75. Took the cake?

76. Quill point 77. Canny 81. Assign roles 82. Causes to go broke 85. No good deed 86. Kidney secretion 88. Pop quiz 89. Aweather’s opposite 90. Dec. holiday 92. Writing surface 93. Within view 94. One of a kind 95. Car 99. Donde __?

100. Bump off 102. Poetic preposition 105. Duran Duran song 108. Throw off 111. Objective

113. To soak leather 114. Desktop folder, e.g.

115. Feast of Lights observers 117. Peck at 119. Sailcloth fiber 120. Far East nurse 121. Make a loan 124. It was sacred to Isis 125. “Well done!”

126. Fury 127. Elton John, for one 128. Literary olio 129. Kan. neighbor 130. African antelope 131. Baseball’s Master Melvin 132. The greatest! (abbr.)

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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