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Cache Valley artist creates giant backdrops for major Utah Festival Opera production

The Herald Journal

Feb. 5-11, 2010

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Artist Anne Benson’s assistants use paintbrushes to color a section of a backdrop for the Utah Festival Opera on Tuesday. UFO contracted with Benson to create the backdrops after she helped work on a production last year. Read about the process and see some of Benson’s work on Page 8. Photo by Alan Murray/Herald Journal

From the editor

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FIND IT INTERESTING that six of the 10 advice books on this week’s New York Times Bestseller list are “diet” books. They include: “The Mayo Clinic Diet,” “The Full Plate Diet,” “Master Your Metabolism,” “Food Rules,” “The Belly Fat Cure” and “Cook This, Not That!”

After taking classes in nutrition and physiology, I find it interesting that people still don’t understand that all it takes to live a healthy life (or to lose weight, if that’s what you’re looking for) is to eat right and exercise. There are no magic cures — it’s all about adopting a new lifestyle.

My husband and I got interested in the “Food Lovers for Life” diet system and, after receiving all the books and recipes and pamphlets, we realized the entire thing is just about portion control. Well, duh. I could have told you we’re eating

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way too much. In fact, we were comparing some of their portion recommendations with the wraps we ordered at a local restaurant the other night and realized these places are serving about five times as much food as you need. Not want, but need! That’s crazy!

All I’ve done in the last week is cut out the crap — M&Ms, cookies, donuts, etc. — add fruit and vegetables, limit my portions and drink more water. It’s amazing how much better I feel! I have more energy, I’m less grouchy — I feel like an all-around new person.

I sure get sick of hearing about all the new “fad” diets out there, and I’m tired of people telling me I’ll lose 50 pounds in four days on the new split-pea soup diet, or that I’ll drop three sizes in six hours if I drink a certain potent strawberry-blueberry-arsenic smoothie. I’ll stick to what I know, thanks.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

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Pet: Scotty From: Cache Humane Society Why he’s so lovable: “Scotty is a calm, wonderful dog who loves to sit quietly on the couch and snuggle. He needs a lot of water to stay hydrated, so he does need to be let out quite often but he makes it through the night OK. ... he wants to snuggle so he likes to sleep with his owners. He has a hard time jumping up on the bed or in the truck. He growls when he’s picked up but doesn’t nip or bite. He rides in the car very good and is polite. Scotty would be perfect for a quiet, calm, retired-type home where he can get lots of love and his owners can watch his food intake closely (he is diabetic and requires daily medication).” To learn more about adopting Scotty, call the shelter at 7923920. Scotty’s ID number is 2009-7424.

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Internationally famed pianist to open 2010 Wassermann Festival TEPHEN HOUGH, S a pianist acclaimed worldwide, will open the 2010 Was-

Cory Keate and Michele Ringer in Pickleville’s “The Hanging of El Bandito.”

El Bandito is back!

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FTER THREE months of sold-out performances last summer at the theater at Bear Lake, Pickleville Playhouse will present its hit show, “The Hanging of El Bandito,” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 and 15 in the Eccles Conference Center at USU. A matinee will show at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13.

Also available is an optional Valentine’s Day buffet catered

by The Copper Mill at 6 p.m. before the show. For tickets, call 755-0968 or visit www. picklevilleplayhouse.com for

more details.

The infamous Juanito Bandito is at it again in this brand new, high-energy, shoot-’emup musical adventure. See the unbelievable string of events that occur as Bandito, the self-proclaimed “most guapo villain in the world,” seeks revenge after nearly meeting his end at the hand of a heroically handsome sheriff.

With a cast full of outrageous, side-splitting western characters, brand new music and Pickleville’s singular brand of musical melodrama comedy,

“The Hanging of El Bandito” is guaranteed to be the highlight of your weekend.

The show was written by T.J. Davis and is directed by Andrea Davis and choreographed by Marli Larsen and Sharli King. Cast members include T.J. Davis, Cory Keate, Michele Ringer, Whitney Davis, Megan Bagley, Michael Francis, Taylor Miles and Milinda Weeks.

The show also features a live musical combo with Ralph Degn, Laura Grimany, Tristan Wardle and Ryan Heidt.

sermann Festival at Utah State University with a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at USU’s Performance Hall. Tickets are $20 for the general public and $8 for students, available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in FAC 139-B at USU, at http://csaboxoffice.usu.edu or by calling 797-8022.

The Wassermann Festival is presented by the Department of Music in the Caine School of the Arts and directed by faculty member Dennis Hirst. Concerts and master classes form the festival, with offerings presented through February and March.

This is Hough’s second appearance with the Wassermann Festival, a rare occurrence. He first appeared in 2008 and the festival’s director brought him back both as an audience favorite and for his broad range of artistic expression.

“Stephen Hough is a musician, a composer, a writer for newspapers, magazines and books,” Hirst said. “He blogs, he is a painter and has won awards as a poet.

He’s a modern renaissance man.”

In recognition of his many achievements, Hough was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, joining promi-

World-famous organist returning to USU J AMES WELCH, university organist of Santa Clara University in the San Francisco Bay area, will present a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University.

“I performed at the dedicatory concert of the Kent Concert Hall in 1974 and look forward to performing on the Holtkamp

organ, which, with its 3,027 pipes, is the largest pipe organ in Northern Utah,” Welch said.

Welch has concertized worldwide, with recitals throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia and the United States.

Some of the featured works include selections from Bach, music from the Germanic Romantic period and pieces by contemporary Mexican and

Brazilian composers. Snatches of “West Side Story” will be heard, as well as a featured piece written last year by Utah composer Rulon Christiansen.

Concluding the program will be the final movement from Louis Vierne’s monumental “Symphony No. 1.”

Welch received his doctorate in organ performance from Stanford University. He also

studied at BYU with Parley Belnap, with Alexander Schreiner and in France and Austria.

Following the recital, a reception honoring Welch will be held at the Tippetts Gallery and Balcony, adjacent to the Kent Concert Hall.

For more information, contact Tyler Anderson at tyler@johan nus-lds.com or 881-6235.

nent scientists, writers and others who have made unique contributions to contemporary life.

In Logan, Hough is planning a program that includes selections by J.S. Bach, Gabriel Faure, Cesar Frank and Frederic Chopin.

Program notes for the evening include a description by Hough himself.

Hirst also noted that the entire second half of the program will feature works of Frederic Chopin — a tribute to the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth.

For more information on the 2010 Wassermann Festival, visit www.usu.edu/wassermann or contact Hirst at 797-3257.

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Rhythms

CSML to present cellist Zuill Bailey

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demand, cellist Zuill Bailey will perform Feb. 16 the USU Performance Hall with USU’s Fry Street Quartet as part of the Chamber Music Society of Logan’s 2009-10 concert series.

Bailey last performed in Logan in 2008 with the Perlman, Schmidt, Bailey Piano Trio. He is widely considered to be a pre-eminent cellist of his generation and has been simultaneously described as “stacking right up there with Rostropovich” and “a blast to experience.” and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.

Bailey will perform Suites Bailey is a graduate of The 2 and 6 of the widely popular Juilliard School of Music. He and instantly recognizable currently serves as artistic director of El Paso Pro Musica Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. The suites were not and professor of cello at the University of Texas at El Paso. widely known before the 1900s, and for a long As a contime it was certo soloist, believed the Bailey has pieces were performed on intended to be his 1693 Matetudes. At the teo Gofriller ★ Who: Zuill Bailey and age of 13, the Cello with the Fry Street Quartet great cellist symphony ★ When: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 Pablo Casals orchestras ★ Where: Manon Caine Rusdiscovered a around the sell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Grutzmacher world, collabPerformance Hall at USU edition of orating with ★ Tickets: $24 single, $10 the suites in such conducstudent with ID; available at a thrift shop tors as Itzhak the CSA Box Office, at csabox in Barcelona, Perlman, office.usu.edu or at the door Spain, and Alan Gilbert, the night of the concert begun studyAndrew Lit★ More information: www. ing them. He ton, Grant cmslogan.org or 752-5867 performed Llewellyn

“A blast to experience”

Grammy winner Bogguss coming to town UZY BOGGUSS S will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, at

the Ellen Eccles Theatre in downtown Logan. Tickets are $22 to $30 in advance or $27 to $35 at the door.

For more information, visit www.CenterForTheArts.us.

“Multi” might be the best adjective to describe singer/songwriter Bogguss — multi-award-winning,

multi-platinum and, as her new CD, “Sweet Danger,” so expertly proves, multi-faceted. Bogguss coproduced the album with famed jazz/pop keyboardist and producer Jason Miles, who’s worked with Miles Davis, Luther Vandross and Sting. The two brought together Nashville and New York musicians, culling the best of both worlds to

create an instantly engaging, groove-oriented record infused with jazz rhythms and Bogguss’ signature vocals.

Songs like “Aces,” “Drive South,” “Someday Soon,” “Outbound Plane” and “Letting Go” took Bogguss to the top of the country music charts. Along the way she won the Country Music Association’s

“Horizon Award” in 1992 and “Album of the Year” Award in 1994; ASCAP country and pop awards for her songwriting; and in 2005 she won a Grammy for her contribution to the Best Folk Album, “Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster.”

For more information about Bogguss, visit www. suzybogguss.com.

them in 1925, at age 48. Their popularity soared soon after, and Casal’s original recording is still widely available today.

After intermission, Bailey will join the Fry Street Quartet in playing Franz Schubert’s “String Quintet C Major, D 956.” The string quintet was written in 1828, two months before Schubert’s death. The work holds the distinction of being the only full-fledged string quintet in Schubert’s vast oeuvre. The piece stands out for its unconventional instrumentation employing two cellos instead of the customary two violas.

This performance will mark the first CMSL concert for new Fry Street Quartet violist Bradley Ottesen from Iowa City, Iowa. Prior to arriving in Logan he held the position of principal violist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.

A vaudeville valentine variety show

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HE AMERICAN West Heritage Center will host its annual Victorian Valentine’s Vaudeville Show, a dinner theater set in the past, at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 12 and 13.

Guests are encouraged to arrive early for a wagon ride to the Opera House, where the evening will be set. Tickets for the dinner and show are $29.50 for adults and $24.50 for children; showonly tickets are $14 for adults and $9 for children. Dinner will be provided by Elements Restaurant. Reservations should be made by 3 p.m. Feb. 10 by calling 245-6050. For more information, visit www.awhc.org.

Vaudeville was a type of variety show prevalent in the United States and Canada from the early 1860s until the early 1930s. Developing from many sources, including concert saloons, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums and literary burlesque, vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America.

Each evening’s bill of perfor-

Jenny Lind

Christine Hall

Maude Adams

Rebecca Gee

mance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts. Many famous 20th century performers originated on the vaudeville circuit, including such celebrities as W. C. Fields, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, the Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Kate Smith, Bob Hope and Judy Garland, to name but a few. Al Jolson, still considered by many to be the “world’s greatest entertainer,” ruled the

vaudeville stage through most of the early 20th century.

This year the Heritage Center has two special guests performing at the show — Jenny Lind (played by Richmond vocalist Christine Hall) was the most famous singer of her day. In 1860, tickets for her concerts sold at nearly $600 apiece. Her fame was such that a melon was named after her that can still be found in heirloom gardens.

Also, Maude Adams (played

by Logan actress Rebecca Gee) of Brigham City was the first actress from Utah to star on Broadway and was the first to play the role of Peter Pan on Broadway. A well-known actress of her day, she played in many other roles both on and off Broadway and was most renowned as a comedienne.

Rumor has it she’ll be playing an exciting scene from Peter Pan

with her return trip to her home state. To our understanding, however, no fruit or vegetable has ever been named for Maude Adams, despite her fame.

Other performers include pipers, folk singers, dancers, gunfighters, an organ grinder — complete with plush monkey — and more. Since the dinner and show take place during the valentine season, the show will have a romantic flair.

‘Seven Brides, Seven Brothers’ EVEN BRIDES “S for Seven Brothers” will play at 7:30 p.m. every Friday, Saturday and Monday, Feb. 19 through April 3, at the Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden. Tickets are $12 and $10 for adults and $9 and $7 for children; seniors and students receive a $1 discount. For reservations or more information, call 801-393-0070 or visit www.terraceplayhouse.com.

“Goin’ courting” has never been as much fun as in this rip-roaring show — Millie is a young bride living in the 1850s Oregon wilderness whose plan to civilize and marry off her six rowdy brothers-in-law to ensure the success of her own marriage backfires when the brothers, in their enthusiasm, kidnap six women from a neighboring town

Back row: Kristy Foo, Sam Lilly, Sarah Knowles, Jason Baldwin, Mason Imada, Kat Newman, Brian Saunders, Katherine Freeman Front row: Aaron Ross, ShaNae Simmons, Monica Connors, Chase Warburton

to be their brides. This show stars Jeremy Hall of Ogden as

Adam and Amberle Stoffers of North Ogden as Millie.

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Banff Film Festival is coming to Logan Centre, and features award-winning OT ON THE HEELS films and audience favorites from H of the largest, and one of approximately 300 films entered in the most prestigious, mountain festivals in the world, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour has hit the road, with stops planned in about 285 communities and 30 countries across the globe.

This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking action, environmental and adventure mountain films. Traveling from remote landscapes and cultures to up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2009-10 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is produced by Mountain Culture at The Banff

the annual festival in Banff.

Join Utah State University’s Outdoor Recreation Center when the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to Cache Valley, at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 and 19 at the Kent Concert Hall on campus.

For tickets and information, visit www.usu.edu/orc.

For local information such as the films shown in a local program, name of a local venue, time of show, etc., call 797-3264 or e-mail usuorc@aggiemail.usu. edu. For details about the Banff Mountain Film Festival and tour or The Banff Centre, visit www. banffmountainfestivals.ca.

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Film Still playing “When in Rome” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 A vehicle to turn Kristen Bell into the latest romantic comedy star, “When in Rome” is a poor coming-out party. Bell proved her wit and smarts in the shortlived TV series “Veronica Mars,” and was introduced to many in the Judd Apatow-produced “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”

Though she clearly has many on her side (Will Arnett, Danny DeVito, Jon Heder and her reallife squeeze Dax Shepard all play stalkers under a spell in the film), her charisma is stifled by the cliche when-will-I-everget-married story. She plays a Guggenheim Museum curator who is cursed when she steals five coins tossed into a fountain in Rome. While she is harassed

by Arnett et al., a real suitor (Josh Duhamel) pursues her.

Dashing and klutzy, Duhamel generally comes off as better than the material. The finest moments of the film are his welltimed pratfalls. It’s that slapstick that suggests where “When in Rome” might have gone: more screwball and less rom-com.

PG-13 for some suggestive content. 117 min.

“Edge of Darkness” Rated R ★★1⁄2 It’s been seven years since his last film, but Mel Gibson is still playing martyr. After righteously battling injustice in “Lethal Weapon,” “The Patriot,” “Payback” and others, Gibson plays Thomas Craven, a humble Boston police detective and single father to a 24-year-old daughter, Emma (Bojana Novakovic). When Emma is killed, Craven sets out to find the killer, a journey that leads him into a complex web of corporate and political cover-up. Hellbent in a beige raincoat, he attacks with little self-regard. Now 54, Gibson is grayer and grimmer.

The wildness and fire that once exploded unpredictably from Gibson is dimmed after several hard years for the actor. But he fits well in “Darkness.” Some might reasonably swear off films with Gibson, but there aren’t a lot of actors making movies that try to bring contemporary

New this week!

“Dear John” Rated PG-13 ★★ The movie is called “Dear John,” and, yes, there’s a character named John and, yes, he’s a soldier who, sure enough, receives dozens of letters from his sweetheart back home, including one emotionally wrought missive that begins “Dear John” and ends with him vowing to permanently switch to e-mail. And because this earnest romance comes from a Nicholas Sparks novel, death and disappointment hover over the events, ready to strike — and strike often. For Sparks, grief is good. Maybe greed, too, given the number of times he has recycled the same themes.

“Dear John” opens with its soldier being wounded in the line of fire. Then the way-back machine takes us to a happier rage to the multiplexes. Perhaps, though, crusades needn’t always be a bloodbath. With Ray Winstone as a weary, philosophical government operative and Danny Huston as a slick CEO. R for strong bloody vio-

time when John (Channing Tatum) met Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) in the spring of 2001. John is on leave from his Special Forces unit, visiting his father in South Carolina.

Savannah is home on spring break, helping a family rebuild its hurricane-damaged house.

He’s broody and shirtless.

She’s bubbly and pure. He has a dark past. She doesn’t drink or smoke, though she does curse “in her mind.” Sure, it sounds corny. But director Lasse Hallstrom (“Chocolat”) and screenwriter Jamie Linden give the whirlwind romance an appealing, straightforward decency, and Tatum and Seyfried click rather effortlessly.

They’re not Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams from “The Notebook,” but they’ll do. PG13 for some sensuality and violence. 102 min. lence and language. 117 min.

“Tooth Fairy” Rated PG ★★ Following the big-screen exploits of elves and bedroom monsters, tooth fairies were

inevitably ready for their closeup. “Tooth Fairy” steals liberally from “Monsters Inc.” and “Elf,” among many others. It’s very much what you’d expect: a tale of optimism overcoming disbelief; family fare with comical casting (Julie Andrews as a Fairy Godmother); The Rock in a tutu. But despite its predictability and pat Hollywood cliche, “Tooth Fairy” is mostly charming, thanks largely to the toothy grins of Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) and Stephen Merchant, the British comedian and Ricky Gervais

sidekick. Johnson plays a minor league hockey player who’s summoned to Tooth Fairy duty (Merchant plays his guide) to penalize his dream-dashing ways. Obvious puns (some from Billy Crystal in a cameo as a veteran fairy) and fully expected redemption follow. Johnson, a human Buzz Lightyear, and the spindly Merchant make the obvious material surprisingly winning. PG for mild language, some rude humor and sports action. 101 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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N THE SPACE OF just a few weeks, we have movies starring Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and John Travolta. It’s like the early ’90s all over again.

Nostalgia is on Travolta’s mind, too. In “From Paris with Love” he plays a violent but chatty CIA agent who, while bullets fly, likes to engage in dialogue that recalls “Pulp Fiction” as if written by action film hacks.

It’s a kind of return to Paris for Travolta, who memorably gave his travelogue of the French capital in “Pulp Fiction.” “From Paris with Love” references that, too, with a wink-wink meal of a Royale with cheese.

The Tarantino comparison (not to mention the title’s James Bond allusion) only serves to make “From Paris with Love” appear all the more slight.

The film is directed by Pierre Morel, who helmed another spy thriller, the surprising 2008 hit “Taken.” Both were written (this one by Robert Mark Kamen) from a story idea by the French action filmmaker Luc Besson.

Like that film, which starred Liam Neeson, “Paris” turns drama stars into stealth, deadly spies. Alongside Travolta (Charlie Wax), Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays James Reese, an aide to the U.S. ambassador of France (Richard Durden).

But Reese is also a lowlevel secret agent for the CIA. He aspires to higher levels of intrigue and gets his shot when he’s teamed with the veteran Wax. The two embark on a manic rampage

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★ “From Paris With Love” Rated R

The Associated Press

of destruction, racking up double-digit bodies within minutes, in a desperate race to prevent terrorists from blowing up ungrateful politicians.

The not-so-subtle suggestion is that those who underestimate the terrorist threat or worry too much about protocol risk big trouble.

The ceiling for a movie like this is, at best, Guy Ritchie or John Woo territory — which is to say, quite low indeed. But the biggest thing standing in the way of “From Paris with Love” achieving even that standard is the laughable casting.

The Irish actor Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors,” “Match

Point”) likely has some fans somewhere, but his pasty, hollow-cheeked look has always seemed more model than actor.

But even his defenders would acknowledge he’s not quite action movie material.

That needn’t be an impediment; the fish-out-of-water is a standby of many a thriller. But in “From Paris With Love,” his character, though inexperienced, quickly adapts to the

carnage. (He does blink for one pseudo-poetic moment of reflection in front of a mirror.)

Reese, it turns out, is a tough, too. Contrary to his manicured appearance, he boasts that he’s from a hard New York neighborhood. One foresees South Bronx crowds cackling in the theaters.

Having more fun is Travolta.

With a shaved head, a thick goatee, an earring and a leather coat with an upturned collar draped by a scarf, he resembles a biker from Soho.

He throws himself fully into the film, but it never feels like anything more than action movie dress-up.

“From Paris with Love,” a Lionsgate release, is rated R for bloody violence throughout, drug content, pervasive language and brief sexuality. Running time: 95 minutes. One star out of four.

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little bit of New York City has taken up residence in the old River Heights elementary school.

Since last summer, scenes from the Big Apple’s Times Square, other streetscapes and even the sewer have one by one been created on the floor of the old school’s gym. This July, the giant paintings will hang from the stage of the Ellen Eccles Theatre for the “Guys and Dolls” performance.

For artist Anne Benson, it’ll be a chance for friends, family and strangers to see what she’s been working on eight hours a day.

The Utah Festival Opera Company contracted with Benson to create the backdrops after she helped work on a production last year.

“The opera decided they wanted to cut back on costs,” she said, adding that creating these types of backdrops — which can be folded up and stored in a small space — makes it easier for UFO to later rent them out to other theaters throughout the nation.

4-foot sections — and mark the lines.

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Cache Valley artist cre for major Utah Festi Anne Benson paints a section of a backdrop at the old River Heights elementary school Tuesday. Benson is working on backdrops for the Utah Festival Opera. Below: Some of Benson’s completed pieces.

It’s a complicated process to re-create a small, poster-sized print onto a 26-by-52foot muslin canvas.

First, Benson receives the backdrop design from the designer. After the director approves it, Benson uses a drafting program to plot out squares. Typically, every half-inch space on the poster is equal to 1 foot on the canvas.

The details from the designer’s print are very important, Benson says, because the painting ends up as a giant replica of the smaller version.

“The paint just makes the drawing sing,” she said.

To prepare the muslin for paint, Benson must grid out sections — usually

thing,” she said.

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After she graduated from Utah State University in art and painting, she went on an LDS mission and worked for several years in food-processing positions or at Walmart.

She decided to go back to school in the early 2000s after realizing she would rather work professionally in art than “just package cheese for the rest of my life.”

In 2008 she graduated from USU with a master’s in scenic design and has been pleased to find miscellaneous work in her field since then.

“It’s been kind of surprising I’ve been able to find the work, especially here in the valley,” she said.

Prior to graduating, Benson did an internship in New York City with Tony Award-winner Derek McLane, a set designer who has worked on major famous productions.

In addition to this job for the UFO, Benson has done stints for other small theaters in Cache Valley and even traveled to Hawaii last year for a two-week job. As this contract comes to an end,

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Benson has been sending off resumés to various universities and colleges throughout the U.S. in hopes of getting a job as a professor.

Right now, though, Benson is focused on getting the last two backdrops finished.

Throughout this project she’s been able to use several techniques she learned as a student and working with the UFO last year, but has also picked up a few new talents, including learning how to show diagonal depth lines throughout the backdrops.

These backdrops are the largest pieces of work she’s done.

“They’re so big,” she said. “But it’s an opportunity for anybody who is artistic to think outside the box.”

Story by Emilie H. Wheeler *** Photos by Alan Murray

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Welcoming the world to iWorld 6.0

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SALINGER dies and the iPad is born on the same day. Coincidence? The famous reclusive writer and the famous exclusive Apple product confluence heralds in something; I’m just not sure what. Salinger was famous for not wanting to publish anything for 45 years since “Catcher in the Rye” and now fewer people will be able to publish anything not designed for some sort of eReader.

How will this all play out? It’s hard to say, but things are changing so rapidly that I’m starting to feel nostalgic about things that were invented and disappeared barely two years ago. You know something is about to die when the mainstream starts hawking seminars on social media and Web 2.0 webinars. I can imagine my grandparents getting a ground-mail invitation for a seminar on “How to Understand Rock and Roll and Use it in Your Business.”

Social media is expanding so rapidly it is no longer cool.

Viral videos really aren’t viral if there are a bunch of people in a room trying to think up a viral video. YouTube is becoming the Internet version of “World’s Funniest Home Videos” featuring children, pets and inebriated adults doing dangerous things.

In response, I’m going skip the Web 2.0 nonsense and jump straight to iWorld 6.0 for no particular reason other than to out-vision the visionaries.

Do you want to really expand your network beyond the global economy? How about Spacebook? It will allow you to share ideas, jokes and funny videos with real or imagined aliens. Of course, even at the speed of light it will take six years to get a reply to some of your messages, which is still a quicker response than the federal government.

Apple, listen to me. You can only make so much money selling to gadget-loving pro-

Slightly Off Center

By Dennis Hinkamp

peller heads. You are going to have to expand your line of products to the other 90 percent of the population. Start with a line of iGuy gadgets, such as

a camouflage iPad that has a bottle opener and makes grilled cheese sandwiches at tailgate parties. If you really want to expand your market, your iThings need to open. Right now you can’t even change the battery on any of your phones, computers or music players.

Trust me — guys like to look under the hood.

Cloners and bioengineers, I have some work for you that will help feed the world without the fear of extreme genetic modification. All you need to do is develop uglier, meaner domesticated meat animals.

There is plenty of meat protein in the world; it’s just that much of it is too cute. Even most of the people who get backyard chickens can’t eat them when their egg-laying days are over because they are too cute.

We already have enough cute things and you are just adding to the problem by making ultra cute dogs like labradoodles

and Cocker-poos.

Animal geneticists need to develop rabbits, chickens, goats, cows, sheep and pigs that are ugly and snarl at you.

You don’t want them to actually bite people, mind you, because that would make them too difficult to raise on the ranch. We just need animals so unpleasant even vegetarians would be glad to see them ground into sausage.

Don’t forget to sign up for my free iWorld 6.0 Webinars, hog my blog and eat my Tweets.

Turn on, log in and drop out.

Dennis Hinkamp admits that President Obama may not be able to make all these improvements in his first term. He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices. He is not an employee of the newspaper. Feedback at dhinkamp@ msn.com.

Coming up: Infamous Stringdusters bearers, this group is actually a pany Maestro-Scherer for her HE BRIDGER FOLK broad melting pot of American performance in Logan. MaestroT Music Society will present the Scherer is from Ithaca, N.Y., with a Infamous Stringdusters at 7:30 p.m. music. Backgrounds range from Friday, Feb. 19, in the Eccles Conference Center auditorium at Utah State University. Amanda MaestroScherer will open. Tickets are $16 in advance or $18 at the door and can be purchased at the USU Spectrum ticket office, Sunrise Cyclery (138 N. 100 East) and KSM Guitars (50 W. 400 North). For more information, visit www.thestringdusters. com or www.bridgerfolk.org.

When the Infamous Stringdusters first emerged in 2007 there were immediate accolades, including International Bluegrass Music Association awards and a chart-topping debut record. The group — Andy Hall (dobro), Andy Falco (guitar), Chris Pandolfi (banjo), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle), Jesse Cobb (mandolin) and Travis Book (upright bass) — was viewed as a collection of Nashville’s most sought-after young guns getting together for a super jam.

While critics have loved to declare the band newgrass torch-

training in classical and jazz to hard rock to stints backing country legends. Now, after spending nearly 200 days on the road together for the past three years, the Infamous Stringdusters have become a “band” in the truest sense of the word. It has taken hard work and determination on a range of stages from Telluride and the Ryman to city clubs and European cafes, but the group has turned a corner. This is no longer just an outlet to showcase individual instrumental wizardry. Instead, the six members have become a single musical entity focused on original material and a collective spontaneity that makes each live performance completely unique.

Amanda Maestro-Scherer is a young guitar-playing alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she met Ed Dillon, an electric guitar player with a strong background in ear training and theory looking to focus on composition. Dillon will accom-

background in classical music. She began to play the violin at age 8 and to write her own songs in high school. Maestro-Scherer majored in music therapy at Berklee, working in various facilities around Boston and at orphanages in East Africa. Currently she is working as a music therapist with children with special needs at the Kauri Sue Hamilton School in Riverton.

Dillon was born in New Mexico on the Pecos River. He began composing music for electric guitar in high school, and since then has taken more of an ambient turn.

He focused his studies at Berklee in music synthesis, where he took courses on acoustics and sound design and composed electroacoustic music. He is now teaching at Paul Green’s School of Rock Music in Sandy and composing scores for computer games.

For more information, visit www.thestringdusters.com or www.bridgerfolk.org.

Utah Symphony Opera celebrates love

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HE LOGAN Concert and Lecture series will present the eighth annual Valentine’s Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle. This year’s program will feature the Utah Symphony and Opera of Salt Lake City with selections from musical theater, contemporary and classical song with a romantic theme. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

• Soprano Chanel Wood is returning to Utah Opera for her second season as an ensemble artist. She was most recently heard in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, conducted by Keith Lockhart. Other appearances with the company include Barbarina in last season’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” and Gretel in scenes from “Hansel and Gretel” for a Lollipops concert.

Wood has presented at least one solo recital every year since 2004, the most recent of which was a program of spiritual songs given in her hometown of Keller, Texas.

• A native of Chicago, mezzosoprano Melissa Treinkman received her master of music degree from DePaul University

Clockwise from center front: Brent Turner, Aaron Blake, Melissa Treinkman, Willem van Schalkwyk and Chanel Wood.

and her bachelor of music from Northwestern University. Most recently she performed the role of Melousine in the American premiere of Lehar’s operetta “Cloclo” with the Chicago

Folks Operetta. Earlier in 2009, Treinkman was an apprentice artist with the Sarasota Opera.

She has also been a Young Artist with Chicago Opera Theater, Opera North and Cedar Rapids

Opera. Treinkman was a 2006 Vocal Arts Scholarship winner from the Society of Singers and a 2008 Bravo Award winner from the Bel Canto Foundation.

• Tenor Aaron Blake, a native of Palos Verdes, Calif., received his bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School and his master’s degree from the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston, Texas. He won First Prize in The Florida Grand Opera Competition 2005, as well as the Concerto Competition of the Aspen Music Festival 2005, and was the 2009 recipient of the Brena Hazzard Scholarship in Voice from Muphi Epsilon. In 2009 he made his concert debut with soprano Renée Fleming under the baton of Larry Rachleff. This season he makes his Utah Symphony/Utah Opera debuts with the Holiday Pops Concert and as El Remendado in “Carmen.”

• Brent Turner, baritone, was born in Singapore and earned a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance from Stetson University in Deland, Fla., and a master of music degree in voice from

the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Turner’s professional opera career began at the age of 19, singing the role of King Melchior in Orlando Opera’s presentation of “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” He was recently seen performing the Imperial Commissioner in Utah Opera’s production of “Madame Butterfly” and as a soloist in Utah Symphony’s performance of Bernstein’s Mass.

• Namibian pianist Willem van Schalkwyk has been a gold medalist and prize winner at several international piano competitions. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Namibia and South Africa, in addition to extensive solo and collaborative recitals in these countries.

Schalkwyk’s activities as coach and/or repetiteur have taken him to the Opera in the Ozarks and the AIMS program in Graz, Austria, and he was also coach and rehearsal pianist for the University of North Texas during the 2008-09 season. Schalkwyk graduated last fall with a doctorate degree in music from the University of North Texas.

New youth group pays homage to Shakespeare HAT DO W snarling Scotsmen, innocent lovers, murderous

royals, sniping couples and a teasing jester have in common? They are all part of “Two’s Company,” a selection of two- and three-person scenes from a dozen Shakespeare plays to be performed this weekend by Logan Youth Shakespeare, a new theater program offered by the Alliance for the Varied Arts.

Almost 30 actors between the ages of 8 and 18 will perform scenes from “Hamlet,” “Macbeth,” “As You Like It,”

“Julius Caesar,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “The Tempest” and “Henry IV,” among others.

“Two’s Company” will present two public shows, with one cast performing at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, and a different cast at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15. Both performances will be in the Dansante building at 59 S. 100 West in Logan. A donation of $2 is suggested for admission; please, no children younger than 5.

The LYS program provides a new opportunity for Cache Valley youth to learn

and perform Shakespeare plays. By studying Shakespeare’s language, inhabiting his characters and speaking his words, kids find themselves and their friends in these 400-year-old plays.

The introductory meeting for LYS’s spring offering, a full-length production of “Twelfth Night,” will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, in the Unicorn Theater room at the Bullen Center.

For more information, contact Mary Jackson-Smith at 760-1061 or maryinlogan@ comcast.net.

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By Stefan Naylor

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Pop artists celebrate Valentine’s Day

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OLO POP ARTISTS

Jordan Frogley and Daniel Beck will heat up the Kent Concert Hall stage with the American Festival Chorus at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, in their Valentine’s Day concert, “Choral Music Is for Lovers.” Tickets are $12, $16 and $18 and available at the CSA Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, 139-B; at the Eccles Theatre Ticket Office, 43 S. Main; by calling 797-8022; or online at www.americanfestivalchorus.org.

Tickets are $12, $16 and $18 and available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center

139-B; at the Eccles Theatre Ticket Office, 43 S. Main; by calling 797-8022; or online at americanfestivalchorus.org.

“This is going to be a celebration of love in all its various facets,” said music director Craig Jessop. “Romantic love, love of family, love of God, love of country, love of fellow man. It’s not just the romantic aspect.”

The concert will feature romantic favorites, traditional tunes to celebrate Valentine’s Day and a President’s Day tribute as well, Jessop said.

Frogley has recorded on more than 100 albums, sung as a soloist with the Mormon Taber-

the selection of Mary Osborne as the logo artist. Her logo will be used for publicity, programs, and T-shirts for the contest this year. Sherrie Jensen and Darian June are the second- and thirdplace logo winners.

All three will receive a trophy with first- and second-

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nacle Choir and in Radio City Music Hall, and is recognized for her “sugar and spice” voice and inspirational music. She and her five-piece band will

headline the concert with Beck.

Beck has performed in many musicals, released his own album and been featured in three “Liken the Scriptures” episodes.

New writing, drawing classes at AVA EBRUARY IS THE F month of love and what better way to express that love than

Young artists kick off season with logo winner HE YOUNG ARTIST T Cup Committee has kicked off the YAC season with

Frogley

The concert promises to celebrate “love and everything it encompasses,” Jessop said.

“There should be something there for everyone.”

Hotel packages for two — including a candlelight dinner in the Tippets Gallery before the performance, tickets to the show, a night at the University Inn, a hot, catered breakfast and Aggie ice cream — are available for $165 plus tax. For more information, visit www.ameri canfestivalchorus.org or call 797-0017.

The American Festival Chorus includes 250 singers who live within a 50-mile radius of Logan.

place winners also receiving a $100 and $25 cash prize respectively. Their awards will be given Friday, April 2, during the piano and string competition of the Young Artist Cup. The vocal and instrumental competition will be Thursday, April 1. The competition will start at 7 each evening in the Mountain Crest auditorium.

by drawing your loved one’s portrait or writing a short story about them?

The Alliance for the Varied Arts has announced new classes starting in February. Writing classes will be taught by Christine Allen-Yazzie, MFA and award-winning author. AllenYazzie lives in Utah with her husband and two daughters. Her collection of short fiction has been recognized with a Utah Arts Council grant and by the Drue Heinz Competition with an honorable mention. Her stories have been published in a number of literary journals. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Utah. These classes are open to ages 13 and older. All creative writing classes will be held at the AVA in the Thatcher Young Mansion, 35 W. 100 South, Logan.

Teens will meet from 6 to

Allen-Yazzie

Grussendorf

7:15 p.m. every Thursday, Feb. 16 through April 8. Cost is $96.

Each week, students will write a new piece and a revision from the previous class. Some light reading will be required.

Beginning adults will meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. every Thursday, Feb. 9 through April 15. Cost is $120. Following an introduction class, participants will bring copies of work responding to light reading and writing prompts to workshop with others.

Advanced adults will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday, Feb. 9 through April 15. Cost

is $120. Participants will create and workshop new work individually and might work on a collaborate project.

Children’s drawing classes will be taught by award-winning artist Kristi Grussendorf, who graduated with a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Utah. This class is open to ages 7 through 14 and will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday, Feb. 10 through March 17. Cost is $60 for the class and $15 for materials. Students will concentrate on basic drawing fundamentals by exploring line (continuous contour, sketch, expressive), shape (geometric, free-form, positive/ negative, etc.) and value, and will learn about perspective, proportion and composition. They will also draw from imagination, other drawings, photographs and real life.

For more information about any of these classes or about the current art exhibit, Art-O-Rama, call 753-2970 or visit avaarts.org.

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Learning Month 80. Life sentences?

82. Nancy, in Nancy 83. Refuse 86. Secret affair?

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Micheala L.

• Birthday: May 1999 • Grade in school: 4th • Heritage: Latino

• Birthday: Aug. 1994 • Grade in school: 10th • Heritage: Caucasian

• David Beckham, Michael Jordan and Tom Brady better keep an eye on Elijah!

Whether it’s soccer, basketball or football, this guy loves them all. Eli is quite the well-rounded athlete and has talent to spare. He enjoys using his skills in many different ways, including biking, skateboarding, building and drawing. Eli is a creative kid who likes to learn and try new things.

He’s got a sweet and thoughtful personality and has good relationships with his siblings. He benefits from an individualized education plan and will need to continue with counseling after placement.

• This intelligent young woman with the sweet personality loves to read and can often be caught with a book in her hands. Micheala is an outgoing and likable teen who makes friends easily. She has great relationships with her peers. She also enjoys dancing and acting. Her dreams include someday becoming a successful actress and being adopted by a loving family. A sophomore this year, Micheala is on grade level. She will soon be benefiting from an individualized education plan and will do well with parents who will support her academically.

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122. Brace

Answers from last week

Ongoing events The Cache County American Red Cross has changed its business hours and will no longer be open on Mondays. New hours will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. For more information, visit cachecounty. redcross.org.

The Psychology Department at Utah State University is seeking individuals ages 12 to 17 who struggle with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Common symptoms include intrusive fearful thoughts accompanied by repetitive behaviors such as washing and cleaning, counting, and/or checking. These symptoms become problematic when they cause distress and/or impairment in your life and efforts to control them have been unsuccessful. This study will assess the effectiveness of a psychological treatment and will involve 16 hours of each participant’s time over six to nine months. There will be no compensation for participation, but you will receive free psychological treatment. If you are interested or want more information, contact Andrew Armstrong at 797-8303 or andrew. armstrong@aggiemail.usu.edu.

Friday Bryce and Austin Wood will perform live music at 6 p.m. and Clay Summers will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South, Logan. For more information, visit pier 49logan.com.

Cache Valley’s semi-pro ice hockey team will host the McCall (Idaho) Moutaineers at 8 p.m. Friday at the Eccles Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students.

Stokes Nature Center will host Parent Tot Nature Hour from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday for kids ages 2 and 3. Toddlers will explore animals, plants and nature through music, crafts and games. All toddlers must have a parent pal present. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members).

To register, call 755-3239.

The Sunhouse Healers will perform with Katie Jo (rock/acoustic) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace. com/whysound.

A series of films exploring the changing nature of American society and the experiences of those who cross real and perceived boundaries will kick off with “Spellbound” (rated G) at 7 p.m. Friday in Old Main Room 121. All films are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For more information, contact Scott Foster at 797-7373.

The Dry Lake Band will perform at 7 p.m.

Friday at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 753-4777.

Candi and Stacy from USU Food C will teach you how to enjoy healthy, great-tast-

ing meals the entire family will love at a free cooking and community class from noon to 1 p.m. Friday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Come hungry! Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

Saturday Rob Watson will perform live music at 6 p.m. and Becky Kimball will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza.

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform from 6 p.m. to closing Saturday at the Cracker Barrel Cafe in Paradise. Everyone is invited.

Utah State University’s Youth Conservatory will present its annual Monster Concert at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus. Tickets are $3 per person or $10 per family and are available through the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Fine Arts Center, FAC 139-B; online at csaboxoffice.usu.edu; or by calling 797-8022. For more information, call 797-3018.

USU’s Museum of Anthropology will host “Neanderthals: A New Perspective” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Activities will include a PowerPoint presentation regarding Neanderthal DNA and their way of life, body painting and food. For more information, call 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum.usu.edu.

The 23rd annual Valentine Chocolate Festival will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main, Logan. Tickets are $5 per person and will be available at the door. Proceeds will go to Planned Parenthood.

A silent auction of all entries begins at 6:30 p.m.; a live auction of the winning desserts and other valuable items donated by local merchants will start at 8 p.m.

The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge will host “Outdoors at the Refuge” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the Wildlife Education Center. Come learn about all the ways to play at the Bear River Refuge. There will also be a “Leave No Trace” outdoor skills workshop.

Program is free, open to all ages and familyfriendly. To register, call 435-734-6425.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk Music Society will host their “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. at the Whittier Community Center. Beginners and families are welcome; all dances are taught.

This month’s live music will be provided by the Crickets. For more information, visit www. bridgerfolk.org or call 753-2480.

Why Sound will host a singer/songwriter competition: part one at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Performing artists include Paul Christiansen, Clay Summers, Katie Jo, Timmy Pearce, Mikey Graves and Brett Reynolds. Admission is $5.

Sunday The Nordic United Fun Race series continues Sunday with a cross-country ski race at the Beaver Bottoms ski trail in Logan Canyon.

The race has a 5K and 10K option. Registration is $5 for Nordic United members and $8 for non-members and will take place between 9 and 9:45 a.m. at the race. For more information, visit www.nordicunited.org.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will lead a snowshoeing activity to Squirrel Hollow at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Cost is $5.

For more information, visit www.cgadventures. org or call 713-0288.

The Post-Mormon Community Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at a local restaurant. Newcomers welcome. For more information, visit www.PostMormon.org/logan.

The Cache Valley affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness will host an open meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the NAMI office, 90 E. 200 North. This month’s presentation will be provided by Stacy Abbott of the Family Life Center Housing and Financial Counseling organization. For more information, call 787-4165.

Live brunch music will be performed at noon Sunday at Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli.

Monday Come join Mom, Dad and Me from 10 to 11:30 a.m. every Monday and Wednesday at the Eccles Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. Pre-school children skate free with a paying adult; both can enjoy a free hot chocolate. For more information, call 787-2288.

Richmond city will host an H1N1 vaccination clinic from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday at the city offices, 6 W. Main. This clinic is open to all residents of Cache County regardless of age or other health factors. Bear River Health Department will be administering the vaccine. Pick up a consent form at the city offices or download it from www.richmond-utah.com and bring it with you to the clinic. For more information, call 435258-2092 or visit www.brhd.org.

Tuesday The Utah Festival Opera will host “Behind the Curtain” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West, Logan.

Program will include tours of the historic Dansante, UFO costume shop and vault, set design shop, and wigs and props. Refreshments will follow. There is no charge, but those interested in attending are asked to make a reservation by calling 750-0300 ext.

106 or contacting Jackie Robinette at 7500300 ext. 121. This is not a fundraising event.

A free 10-week “Bodyworks” workshop for parents of 9- to 13-year-old adolescents will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Hyrum and at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Logan at the Cache Valley Community Health Centers. To sign up, call 770-5604.

Megan Stettler, Macey’s cake decorator and owner of Mimi’s Cakes, will show you how to make beautiful cakes and cookies just in time for Valentine’s Day at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater.

Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

Wednesday Utah State University will present the sixth annual Jazz Night at the Sky Club on Feb. 12 and 13 at USU’s Skyroom Restaurant.

Tickets are available through Wednesday for $44 at the USU ticket office in the Spectrum. All proceeds will support the Larry Smith Jazz Scholarship. For more information, contact Ann Marie at 770-4963.

The John Birch Society meeting will host a discussion on current events and legislation at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Book Table (upstairs). Everyone is invited. For more information, call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

SCORE will host two-evening workshop for people interested in starting a business, from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the Cache Business Resource Center at BATC’s west campus. Cost is $30. RSVP by calling 213-8713.

Dandy Lies & Daffy Dealings (poetry reading) will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Why Sound. Admission is $5.

Registration for beginning Spanish classes will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Spanish Learning Center, 172 N. 300 West, Logan. Class is limited to eight students. For more information, e-mail spanish _4you@hotmail.com.

The Cache Valley Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the northeast corner of the Logan Library building. This month will feature Michael Ballam and his discussion on “The History of Music in Cache Valley.” Lecture is free and everyone is invited.

Thursday JD Carter will perform with Bridger Hall and Mike Graves (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Thursday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5.

Shauna Flammer will show off her favorite Valentine’s Day party foods and treats at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

A Master Gardener training series will start Thursday and run approximately 12 weeks.

This course offers in-depth information both in the classroom and in hands-on situations about landscaping, gardening, fruit trees, soils, weed control, insect control and more. Cost is $95 per person. For more information, call 752-6263.

Upcoming event Providence city will hold baseball and softball registration Feb. 16 through March 25.

No late registrations will be taken. Ages 5 to 14 are invited to participate. For more information, visit www.providencecity.com.

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