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JANE EYRE Jay Richards delivers a new musical adaptation of the classic novel

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February 15-21, 2013

COVER 8 Jay Richards does it

all in local production of ‘Jane Eyre: A New Musical’

MUSIC 3 Falk sisters hope to share

musical message on ‘Ellen’

4 Chanticleer coming for

two shows in Cache Valley

5 La Catrina Quartet set to perform at Utah State

ARTS 11 Summerfest Faire

names art contest winner

BOOKS 12 ‘Autopsy’ takes a grim

look at the city of Detroit

MOVIES 7 Aaron Peck feels the

new ‘Die Hard’ sequel should die a quick death

COLUMN 10 Lael Gilbert is excited

about the tasty possibilities with ‘Soup for Home’

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Sierra Kline plays the role of Jane Eyre in “Jane Eyre: A New Musical” at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Cover photo: Local theater veteran Jay Richards is serving as director, conductor, writer and composer of the new Music Theatre West production.

FROM THE EDITOR What’s up with this Thursday?

Am I missing something? It is Feb. 21, which is a week after Valentine’s Day and not quite George Washington’s birthday.

And it’s, you know, a Thursday. Not a Friday or a Saturday or the end of a three-day weekend.

So, why are there so many things going on in Cache Valley this Thursday? It seems a little unusual.

It’s true that NASCAR was founded on Feb. 21, 1948, Malcolm X was assas-

sinated in New York City on Feb. 21, 1965 and Dolly Parton hit No. 1 with “9 to 5” on Feb. 21, 1981, but what does that have to do with Feb. 21, 2013?

And while actor Kelsey Grammer will turn 57 on this Feb. 21, and Ellen Page of “Juno” fame will turn 25 on the same day, that really doesn’t explain why there are so many entertainment options in Logan this Thursday, does it?

And yet, there are two major music events taking place at the same time.

Billed as “the world’s reigning male chorus,” Chanticleer will take the stage at the Ellen Eccles Theatre at 7:30 p.m., the exact same time that the La Catrina Quartet is scheduled to begin its concert at

the USU Performance Hall. Also at 7:30 p.m. —and again at 9 — local guitar virtuoso Corey Christiansen will play at Why Sound, while joined by drummer Steve Lyman and bassist Matt Larson.

There’s also a free cooking class at Macey’s at 7 p.m. entitled Rockin’ Ramen, and a community night hosted by the USU Department of Engineering at 6 p.m. The Logan Library will also host a special showing of the film “Lloyd Alexander” at 7 p.m.

Whatever the reason, there’s just a lot of fun options this Thursday, perhaps making it a good weekday to get out of the house and get an early start on your weekend.

— Jeff Hunter

Falk takes aim at ‘Ellen’

Local sisters hope to take message to national TV

– Lael Gilbert upon finding out there would be no more soup for her (Page 10)

By Jeff Hunter Cache Magazine editor

After serving as ambassadors for the National Eating Disorder Association for close to a year, Alexa and Natalee Falk are now trying to take their message to a national television audience.

The two singersongwriters from Logan recently launched a campaign to try and garner an invitation to appear on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” ideally during February, which is National Eating Disorder Awareness Month. Known professionally as Falk, the talented sister duo hopes to perform “Deadly Beauty,” a song written

by Alexa when she was 16 and battling her own eating disorder.

“We want to be on ‘The Ellen Show’ because of everything she stands for and the greater message each of shows sends to her audience,” Alexa says. “She an inspiration and being on the show would give us a great platform to create change and self-acceptance, which is what ‘Deadly Beauty’ is all about for us.”

The Falks, who have performed at more than a dozen NEDA events around the country, are also mov-

“Then I began to cry.

Not pretty little tears running down my face crying, but big, ugly, nose-running, uncontrolled gasping and sobbing.”

PET OF THE WEEK Available for adoption

Photo courtesy of Falk

Alexa and Natalee Falk are ambassadors for the National Easting Disorder Association.

ing to Nashville in a couple of weeks. Alexa, 23, graduated from Utah State University in December, while Natalee, 21, is finishing up her degree online, making it possible for Falk to go into the studio and finish up work on their new album.

“We’re taking the leap,” Natalee declares. “We juggled a lot in 2012, trying to finish school and get our

music out there, and now we’re trying to take things to the next level. After traveling back and forth between here and a studio in Alpine, we’ll be around music producers, record labels and musicians every day in Nashville.”

Falk has already released a half-dozen songs on iTunes, including “Deadly Beauty,” which will be

included on the duo’s stilluntitled CD. “We’re just about ready to choose the first single, and we’re trying to figure out a title,” Natalee says. “We’ll probably have it figured out in a couple of months.”

To learn more about the Falks’ NEDA and “Ellen” campaign, visit the sisters’ Facebook page or falkmusic.com.

Pet: Halloween From: Four Paws Rescue Why she’s so lovable: Halloween is a super cute cat that was found in Hyrum on Halloween night. She was scared and ran into someone’s house.

She has now had all of her shots, and she has been spayed.

Halloween is now ready for a permanent home where she will keep her indoors and safe. If you would like to meet Halloween or learn more about her, please call Sheri at 787-1751. The adoption fee for this Four Paws cat is $75, which includes her spay surgery and up-to-date shots.

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Chanticleer ready to come calling Well-known a cappella group here for two performances Chanticleer, the internationally renowned, 12-member ensemble described by The New Yorker as “the world’s reigning male chorus” comes to the Ellen Eccles Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb. 22.

Named the “Ensemble of the Year” by Musical America in 2008, the Grammy Awardwinning a cappella group will entertain Northern Utah with its newest program, “The Siren’s Call,” as part of their 35th anniversary season celebration.

Tickets range from $24 to $35 and are available at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts ticket office located at 43 S. Main St., online at www. ellenecclestheatre.org or by calling 752-0026.

“Based in San Francisco, Calif., this famous a capella group has performed all over the world with their interpretations of Renaissance, jazz and gospel,” said Wally Bloss, executive director for the CVCA. “There are not enough opportunities to enjoy the simple and clear sounds this all-male ensemble group has to offer. Comprised of two basses, one baritone, three tenors, and six countertenors

WHAT: Chanticleer WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb. 22 WHERE: Ellen Eccles Theatre COST: $24 to $35

— their sound is truly orchestral and not to be missed.”

Chanticleer’s celebratory season opened in September and has continued all over the world, performing over 100 concerts in 29 of the United States, Europe, and Asia/ Pacific region. The seductive and irresistible songs of the sirens — sometimes fateful, sometimes fatal — fill Chanticleer’s 35th anniversary program.

Since Chanticleer began releasing recordings in 1981, the group has sold well over a million copies and garnered three Grammy Awards, has commissioned more than 90 new works from 70 composers (and counting), lights up the faces of more than 5,000 students each year through outreach programs and has performed with Frederica von Stade, Al Jarreau and Garrison Keillor.

Chanticleer’s Louis A. Botto (LAB) Choir, an after-

Chanticleer will perform Thursday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb. 22, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

school honors program for students 14-20, is into its third season. The group is often seen performing at schools, community centers, among other venues. With the help of individual con-

tributions and foundation and corporate support, the ensemble involves over 5,000 young people annually in its extensive education program.

During their Logan residency and in connection with the

Caine College of the Arts, Chanticleer will be providing a choral master class with the USU Chamber Singers. For more information, contact Andrea DeHaan at 753-6518 ext. 110.

Top of Utah Entertainment to present ‘Murder Room’ You won’t want to miss tie meets Monty Python Top of Utah Entertainment’s meets Abbot and Costello.” upcoming production of the This comedic play by Jack British comedy “Murder Sharkey features a hilarious Room” at the Caine Lyric cast of characters, an alleged Theatre in downtown Logan. “murder,” an expired feline “Murder Room” has been and the one place that might described as “Agatha Chrisput it all together — the mur-

der room. Under the direction of Gwendolyn Dattage, the play will feature local talent from around Cache Valley.

The cast includes Brad Noble, Teresa Jones, Jared Rounds, Brooks Lindburg, Karalee Murray and Chris Kidd.

“Murder Room” is a family-friendly show that will keep you laughing the entire night.

Show times are at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28, March 1-2 and 4-5, with a 2 p.m. matinee on March 2. For ticket reserva-

tions or for more information, please call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students.

Can you solve the mystery of “Murder Room” before you die laughing? Come find out.

COMING UP

concert at USU Annual rendezvous set to begin March 1 in Hyrum Winter The Utah State University Department of Music Time’s fast approaching to circle the wagons and set up for the Third Annual Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous to be held March 1 to 3, at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum.

Join us as we celebrate Utah cowboys with Brenn Hill, Mary Kaye, Bob Christensen, Many Strings, Saddle Strings, Sam DeLeeuw, Robin Arnold, CR Wood, Dave Anderson, The Buckaroo Balladeers, and a whole herd of outstanding cowboy poets and musicians from the great state of Utah — and a few special guests from outside the state as well.

Some of the “Don’t miss” events include a Friday night

concert with Brenn Hill and Mary Kaye, a Saturday afternoon “Pioneer Poets” round-robin featuring pioneer cowboy poet Bob Christensen and others who helped popularize this genre, followed by a “Songwriter’s Circle” with Hill and others.

As if that’s not enough, three stages will offer continuous entertainment with one dedicated as an open-mic stage. Local and regional craftsmen and artists will also be on hand to display and sell their works and wares.

Cowboy vittles will be available along with a slew of locally produced ag products. Budding poets can try their hand at reciting their

favorite poem at the Youth Poetry Contest and can demonstrate their cowboy skills at the Kids Corral.

Western band Saddle Strings will top off Saturday’s celebration with a family dance, and we’ll all return home Sunday morning after Cowboy Church, held in the livery stable at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville.

Ticket prices are $15 for Friday night admittance and the Brenn Hill concert, and $20 for a two-day pass. Ticket are available online at www.cachevalley cowboyrendezvous.com, as well as at Macey’s in Providence, Ridley’s in Hyrum and IFA in Hyde Park.

La Catrina coming to USU Chamber music with a Latin-American flavor is coming to Logan.

La Catrina Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 21, at the USU Performance Hall.

This unique concert will highlight Mexican composers as well as traditional classical chamber music.

Regular tickets are $24, $10 for students and may be purchased at the door prior to the concert or through the Caine College of the Arts Box Office at the Chase Fine Arts Center, room 139-B, online at arts.usu.edu or by phone at 797-8022 Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as wonderful ambassadors for music, the La Catrina Quartet is one of the most sought after ensembles on tour today. “Young, talented and passionate, Mexico’s renowned La Catrina Quartet is rapidly earning a reputation as a world-class ensemble,” says Columbus Arts.com.

Wind Orchestra and Symphonic Band combine for a performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center.

“The theme of this concert is dramatic, featuring music from around the world,” said Thomas Rohrer, director of bands and associate professor in the Caine College of the Arts.

The Wind Orchestra will perform the American premiere of “Sinfonia No. 1 ‘Marea Negra,’” an original work composed by Anton Alcalde. The title means “Black Tide” or “Oil Slick” and describes the Prestige oil tanker disaster in 2002 off the coast of Galicia, Spain.

The Symphonic Band, conducted by professor Greg Wheeler, will perform a program of allJapanese music, including “By the Train March” by Masaki Kawamura, “Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song” by Samuel Hazo, “Dancing in the Wind” by Josuke Fukuda and more.

To end the concert, the bands will combine for two numbers, with 120 students playing together.

The performance is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit arts.usu.edu.

‘Millie’ still at Sky View

Hold your breath because here comes “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in a magical, mythical musical set in the Roaring Twenties when bobbing your hair and rolling your stockings was considered daring. Millie even colors her lips!

Come out and support this year’s musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie” presented by Sky View High School’s very own Sky High Players. The show will continue at 7 p.m. Feb. 15-16.

Tickets are only $7 online at skyviewtix.org or $8 at the door the night of the shows. Group rates are available by calling 757-9591.

MCHS presents ‘Honey’

The Mountain Crest High School Drama Department presents the Hall original “Honey I’m Dying” at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 to 23, at the MCHS auditorium.

Written and directed by Sarah Hall and original music Leon Hall and Andy Checketts, tickets for “Honey I’m Dying” is $7 for general admission, $5 La Catrina Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Utah State for students and senior citizens, $3 MCHS students with ID and $25 for a family (up to six people).

University Performance Hall.

Founded in 2001, the quartert takes its name from a popular Mexican folk icon. Daniel VegaAlbela, Jorge Martínez and César Bourguet are originally from Mexico, and their newest member, Roberta Arruda, is

Brazilian.

The quartet’s unique blend of Latin-American and standard repertoire has proved enormously entertaining for its diverse audiences, catering to the more traditional concertgoers while also attracting

the next generation of listeners. Their infectious personalities infuse their playing, creating truly compelling performances. Every note the La Catrina Quartet plays is performed with energy, purpose and meaning.

Festival slated for March

The Logan Downtown Alliance and Logan City will host the Logan Film Festival from Thursday, March 21 through Saturday, March 23, with three days of independent film screenings, community events and educational workshops. Film lineup and ticketing will be available online beginning Friday, Feb. 15 at loganfilmfestival.com.

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Round up some cowboys

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Still playing It seems ironic that the title is “Identity Thief” when its co-stars have such a firm grasp on their well-established screen personae.

Melissa McCarthy is the brash wild card with an off-kilter sense of humor and an underlying, slightly dangerous streak. Jason Bateman is the initially bemused but increasingly frustrated straight man whose deadpan quips seem to be the only things that keep him sane. These two opposites are stuck on a cross-country road trip together but no one’s really going anywhere. Optimally, with a better script, that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Instead, “Identity Thief” strands these two ordinarily enjoyable comics in the middle of nowhere with no help for miles.

“Midnight Run,” it is not. It’s actually not even “Due Date,” which felt similarly strained. It’s not just that director Seth Gordon (“Horrible Bosses”) and screenwriter Craig Mazin (the reheated “Hangover Part II”) confuse meanness for hilarity. There’s that, including a

★ ‘Identity Thief’ Director // Seth Gordon Starring // Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Eric Stonestreet, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau, T.I., Genesis Rodriguez, John Cho Rated // R for language and sexual content

weirdly uncomfortable thread of homophobia and/or emasculation.

More fundamentally, though, the premise is just flawed. Bateman’s mild-mannered accounts processor, Sandy Patterson, discovers that a con artist (McCarthy) has stolen his identity and racked up thousands of dollars in charges.

They all come from the same place — Winter Park, Fla. — and they started weeks ago. But Sandy lives in Denver. Isn’t this suspicious?

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Both focus on the intertwined lives of four central figures, including a scene in which one of the men interviews one of the women on video, hoping to unearth a hidden truth. Both movies are about danger, secrets and manipulation, filled with characters who aren’t what they initially seem, all of which Soderbergh depicts with his typically cool detachment. Twists and double crosses occur and schemes are revealed as layer upon layer of Scott Z. Burns’ clever script gets peeled away. Yet Soderbergh

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approaches such dramatic events with the same chilly tone that has marked so much of his work, even as the developments grow more than a little implausible. Rooney Mara is chilling as a troubled Manhattan woman who starts taking a new drug at the urging of her psychiatrist (Jude Law). Bad things happen. Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones co-star.

106 minutes.

— Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

The Reel Place Aaron Peck

“A Good Day to Die Hard” subscribes to the theory of Chaos Cinema: Blind and bewilder the audience with mindnumbing action scenes, haphazard editing and ear-piercing sound, hoping that they don’t catch onto the fact that this is a really terrible movie.

It doesn’t matter how many explosions and machine-gun fire director John Moore throws at the camera, there’s never a chance that the fifth installment in the “Die Hard” franchise will ever measure up to the first two. It’s like he’s completely forgotten what made the original films so good. There’s never a moment to breathe. It’s all climax, all the time.

We never even have the chance to understand what the bad guys are doing and why they are doing them. It’s like Moore was greeted with half of a script and said, “Screw it. Fill in the rest with explosions.”

Remember in the first movie where John McClane had a heart-toheart conversation with Sgt. Al Powell? The two of them connected with

movie feels like you’re looking through mud trying to get a glimpse of what’s going on.

Dan Zimmerman’s attention-deficit editing AP Photo/20th Century Fox only serves to provide This film image shows Bruce Willis as John McClane, left, Jai Courtney as his son Jack, a movie experience that center, and Sebastian Koch as Komarov in a scene from “A Good Day to Die Hard.” should be preceded with a warning that this movie ments, so he just repeats, may cause seizures. This “I’m on vacation!” over See DAY on Page 11 is the kind of movie and over like it’s supposed to get funnier every time he says it.

Director // John Moore Adding insult to injury Starring // Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian is the troubling fact that Koch, Cole Hauser, Yulia Snigir “A Good Day to Die Hard” Rated // R for violence and language might be one of the worst acter has been neutered. each other. There was a photographed movies He’s no longer human. human element in those I’ve seen in a long time.

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‘A Good Day’ to watch something else

JAY RICHARDS — MA

Above, Jay Richards walks through the Ellen Eccles Theatre before Tuesday night’s rehearsal. Right, members of the “Jane Eyre: A New Musical” cast rehearse on stage.

Far right, Richards talks to members of the orchestra before rehearsal.

STORY BY RACHEL KENLEY FRY PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELI LUCERO

AN OF MANY TALENTS

Cache Valley theater legend serves as writer, composer, conductor and director of ‘Jane Eyre: A New Musical’

For the past few months, Jay Richards’ life has revolved around “Jane Eyre.” He and his family have watched all 19 film adaptations of Charlotte Bronte’s famous novel.

And as producer and director of the musical adaptation which opened Valentine’s Day at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, Richards has been busy casting, running rehearsals and promoting the new show. And until last week, Richards still had the looming task of writing the last song to attend to.

“I have to be the producer for part of the day and worry about advertising and grant writing and publicity, and then I have to go home and be composer-guy while the phone isn’t ringing,” he says.

This weekend is a big one for the River Heights composer inasmuch as “Jane Eyre: A New Musical” premieres in Logan and his musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” opens for the first time in Europe. “Little Women” originally premiered here at the Ellen Eccles Theatre in 2006.

An early version of Richards’ “Jane Eyre” has also been performed in Logan, but that was back in 1998, and Richards describes it as “very much a workshop, amateur kind of thing.” It was well received at the time, Richards says, but he wasn’t pleased with it.

In 2012, he pulled the yellowed pages of the old script out of his desk again.

“I thought, I was really hard on myself back then, but this isn’t bad. This really isn’t too bad.”

Richards then spent months studying the story of “Jane Eyre” with his wife, Carri, refining the script and deciding which scenes had enough emotional impact to warrant a musical number.

Richards estimated that about an hour of the two-and-a-half hour long show will be taken up

Front, then offer the musical up for others to perform, as he did with “Little Women.” Richards says while he’s never heard the soundtrack to the Broadway version of “Little Women,” he doesn’t mind the competition.

“If people go online and just do a Google search for ‘Little Women musical,’ chances are they’re going to come up with mine. So, the website comes up and they’re listening to the music and they’re watching the pictures, and hopefully by the time they’ve realized it’s not the Broadway version they were looking for, I’ve hooked them,” he says. “People say ‘Well aren’t you worried that there’s already one out there?’ and I say ‘No, that’s the only reason I exist.’”

Richards plans to offer “Jane Eyre” to his previously satisfied customers.

In addition to “Jane Eyre” and “Little Women,” Richards is working on writing adaptations of “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen and “The Little Princess” by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Richards talks with the cast members of “Jane Eyre: Some say he writes “chick flicks,” but Richards A New Musical” before the start of rehearsal Tuesday. says he just works with sources that inspire him.

“It really just starts, I guess, with the need to give a character in a book that touches me a voice, by musical numbers. Richards says he writes and in the language that I speak, which is music,” the script first, then writes songs that will later he says. “To find a musical style or musical voice replace much of the dialogue. that takes what they’re saying in the book and “The music has to move the story forward, or pushes it over the edge, theatrically … is a great you’re just wasting time,” he says.

Richards says he works chronologically “almost challenge and a great thrill.”

The biggest challenge staging “Jane Eyre,” obsessively,” going through the script from beginRichards says, is that it’s a totally new show and ning to end and composing from the overture to people don’t know what to expect. It’s reputathe finale. The production has evolved a lot since tion as a romance might make some men turn up it was first cast, as Richards refines as he goes their nose, but Richards says, “There’s plenty of and takes suggestions from his seasoned cast. felonies to keep the guys interested: attempted Scene change music is difficult to compose, and murder, arson, all kinds of stuff.”

Richards says it takes a few tries to get it right.

——— “(The pit orchestra) laughs at me because some“Jane Eyre: A New Musical” will be performed at times I’m handing out new music closing night, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 16, 18 and 19, with a 1:30 p.m. and I say, ‘Well, I’m always trying to get better, matinee on Feb. 16. Tickets are available for $14 trying to improve and make this work.’” to $19 at www.cachearts.org or by calling the box After “Jane Eyre” opens in Logan, Richards hopes to take the cast on tour along the Wasatch office at 752-0026.

When I was expecting my first child, I had a complicated relationship with food. Week after endless week, I went through my day incredibly hungry, and yet at the same time, every food smelled something akin to putrid yogurt.

Late every morning, after that slightly-offmy-chow feeling finally subsided, I would suddenly experience fierce, gnawing hunger which ate away at the center of my being (you may think I’m exaggerating here, but I would have bit the head off a live chicken had it seemed remotely appetizing).

At that point in the day, I’d head with a determined pace from my office over the icy sidewalks to The Carousel restaurant on campus at Utah State University. I’d cut two thick slices of whole wheat bread and scoop myself a cup of the steaming aromatic soup from the warmed pot on the counter.

Some days it was cheerful, creamy corn chowder. Other days it was a piping-hot, veggie-packed minestrone.

Sometimes the soup had big chunks of tender chicken in a spicy Southwestern broth. In the almost-empty dining room I’d relish the warm bits of protein and soft vegetables and rip hunks of bread to soak up the last of the broth. It was the one moment in my day I’d feel at ease. I’d lean back in my chair, hands resting on my protruding belly, and relish the feeling of unimpinged fullness, sending telepathic gratitude to the chef.

heartbreaking he would just up and join the army without a second thought in my direction. But all I could get out from under the tears was a deep bellywrenching, “Oooooh, noooooo!” The cashier handed over my change and backed away as much as her little kiosk would allow.

There is just something about a really good bowl of soup. Which is why I was pretty excited to buy One day, as I paid for a share of the new “Soup my meal, I mentioned my for Home” CSA in Logan. delight in the restaurant’s CSA, you may know, daily soup. stands for Community “Funny you should say Supported Agriculture, that,” the cashier replied. and it is a model in which “Our soup guy just joined people pay a chunk of the army. Today is his last money at the beginday.” ning of the year to buy Keep in mind, at this a “share” of a local farm. point in the story, that I Over the next growing was pregnant. And also season the farmer divthat I feel strongly about vies out produce to each soup. of the participants in the The news slapped me CSA. The farmers gets a across the face like a wet guaranteed income to run fish. I was speechless. her farm. The participants Then I began to cry. Not get a measured share of pretty little tears running the local bounty, invest in down my face crying, but a local farm and share in big, ugly, nose-running, the risk with the farmer. uncontrolled gasping and In the case of this soup sobbing. I tried to explain CSA, participants pay a to the cashier that this chunk of money to the soup was the one respite chefs, who are dietetics of an otherwise miserable students at USU, headed 40 weeks, that it was the up by Tamara Steinitz, highlight of my day, every from the Department of day, and that I depended Nutrition in cooperaon this soup man for my tion with Sheryl Aguilar, Research Dietitian and happiness. I wanted to the kitchens at USTAR. voice that the fact it was

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The joy of anticipating ‘Soup for Home’ Each week these people come together to produce soup from a mouthwatering combination of local produce (which they harvested and froze last summer), as well as other seasonal ingredients.

They divvy up the bounty and send it home to the participants quart by quart with a loaf of the finest from local Crumb Brothers Bakery.

You get a quart of highquality soup and bread every week. The students get the experience of testing the recipes, preparing the soup, doing nutrient analysis, marketing the program and providing some nutrition education to participants. It’s winwin.

“Soup is such a good way to get lots of nutrition in one bowl,” said

Steinitz. “It is nutrient dense, but not calorie dense.” It is a really good food to learn how to eat healthy, she said. It is warm and comforting for these dark days of winter, and it smells good. It contains all the foods we are trying to eat more of … the ones that are missing from many of our diets.”

And soup is the ideal venue for quality takeaway cooking. “Soup is tasty, convenient, healthy, fast, portable, and it reheats really well,” Steinitz said. It is also a good way to introduce new foods to kids. “We’ll be incorporating as many whole foods as we can, making our own stock for the most part, and furnishing participants with the recipes,” so they can rep-

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“The focus is on whole grains, healthy oils, and grains you may not have tried before. It will be filling and satisfying, and won’t add calories that don’t matter.”

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Celebrating its 30th year, the Summerfest Arts Faire will once again gather artists from around the U.S. to show their work June 13 to 15, at the Logan Tabernacle Square.

As part of the anniversary season festivities, the Summerfest Arts Faire Board wanted to celebrate by highlighting a featured artist on the 30th anniversary poster.

The winners of the 2013 Summerfest Arts Faire Featured Artist Competition winners were announced Feb. 8, during the Cache Valley Center of the Arts’ first Gallery Walk of the year.

Artwork was submitted a week prior to the walk by artists throughout Cache Valley, and submitted artwork covered all mediums ranging from photography to oil paintings. Artwork was judged by the Summerfest Board of Directors who had the daunting task of narrowing down the entries to the final piece for the 2013 poster art and selecting three honorable mentions.

This year’s Featured Artist award went to Kay Homan for her piece

Day Continued from Page 7 almost as if Moore is trying to confuse the audience instead of actually showing them what’s happening.

The reason for this confusion is because the script, penned by Skip Woods (“A-Team”) is a bleak piece of junk. It’s almost like he was using a Mad-Libs pad and every time a blank noun line appeared, he quickly wrote in “explosion.”

Artist Competition.

Homan is known for her western portrayals of life on the farm and cattle ranch. As a toddler, Kay’s crayon drawings of cows and horses were startlingly lifelike. Homan has made her career as an artist for 35 years.

These days, watercolors are her main medium.

Kay’s watercolors are very detailed, hearty in color and utilize a lot of “layering” of the transparent paint. Homan was been featured in Arts of the West, Southwest Art, Western Horseman, International Cowboy, Old West Traveler and Indian Country. In addition, she has received many awards.

For more information about Homan’s work, visit www.kayhoman.com.

Three honorable mention winners were also selected: Cindy Stettler, “Logan Canyon — God’s Kay Homan won the Summerfest Arts Faire Featured Garden”; Trent GudmundArtist contest with her painting “Sunny in Any Light.” sen, “Farmers’ Market”; “Sunny in Any Light.”

Gallery Walk. and Nancy Calderwood, Homan will receive a free The following is a list “Whispering of Home.” corner booth space and of the first-place winHonorable mention be featured on Summerners for the Featured winners will receive $100 fest’s advertising. Join Artist Competition, toward their 2013 booth us in a celebration of her along with the three hon- fee and signage designating them as honorable work Friday, April 12, orable mentions for the mention winners. during the CVCA Spring Summerfest Featured To call it a screenplay does a disservice to actual screenplays. It’s a series of one-liners and exposition peppered amongst tedious action sequences.

So, what’s the movie about? I don’t think the movie knows that.

The gimmick is that McClane has to travel to Russia because his son has been arrested. He finds out his son is a spy.

What follows after that is lost in a murky cyan haze of machine gunfire.

To think that the “Die Hard” franchise has

fallen this far is depressing. McClane has been reduced to little more than a dead-souled action dude. He’s merely idiotic now. There’s nothing dis-

tinguishing him from any other two-bit action hero out there. What a shame.

John Moore owes everyone who sits through this an apology.

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Books ‘Autopsy’ takes look at Detroit

By Jerry Harkavy Associated Press

Detroit has long been the poster child for urban blight, a city that gives rise to images of crack houses, senseless killings, burnt-out buildings, civic corruption, high unemployment and flirtations with municipal bankruptcy.

Charlie LeDuff, who grew up in Detroit and made his mark as a Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times, later returned home to immerse himself in his city’s despair.

His book, based in part on his reporting for The Detroit News, captures the sights, sounds and smells of a crumbling, once-proud metropolis that he views as the template for other American cities in decline.

Readers might feel akin to rubbernecking motorists approaching a 50-car pileup as they accompany LeDuff through neighborhoods whose landscapes seem like the creation of a contemporary Dante. The author rubs shoulders with the city’s best and worst elements, arsonists who burn buildings for entertainment and firefighters struggling to protect innocent lives.

Fire is cheaper than a movie, one firefighter explains, noting that “a can of gas is three-fifty and a movie is eight bucks, and there aren’t

the body.

There are scathing portraits of corrupt politicians, including Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, who meets with LeDuff for a surreal interview in a foul-smelling jazz club.

Woven into these episodes is a family memoir that traces LeDuff’s background and recounts how the pathologies that are destroying Detroit have also taken a personany movie theaters left al toll. The author and his in Detroit.” To LeDuff, family are not immune the Detroit firefighter “is from the broken homes, the man holding Nero’s drug abuse, alcoholism, fiddle.” prostitution and violence Tragedy strikes when a so commonplace in the firefighter who befriends city. the author is killed when We follow LeDuff as the roof collapses on an he lands in jail followabandoned bungalow ing a drunken scuffle while he battles an arson with his wife. And we fire. The scene shifts from tag along when he traces fire to ice as the reporter his roots that go back to pursues a tip that leads Detroit’s early French him to the elevator shaft settlers and his discovof an abandoned buildery that his grandfather ing and the discovery of on his father’s side was a body encased in ice, its black. Weaving his own legs protruding like Pop- story into that of the city sicle sticks. Calls to homi- he loves imparts texture cide detectives and 911 to the book. are ignored, and it takes In a city where hope is two days and five phone in short supply, the author calls before authorities takes solace in small vicfinally arrive and recover tories. “It felt righteous,”

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While it provides no road map toward redemption, “Detroit” is a grim portrayal of the plight of one American city and sounds an alarm bell for others. It’s fast-paced, filled with unforgettable characters and laced with dark comedy. And it is enhanced in the final pages by a mesmerizing package of photographs

by Danny Wilcox Frazier that is a perfect coda to the text.

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The fifth annual “Evening in Brazil” is moving across town this year. After four sold-out shows in the Utah State University Performance Hall, the band will present an expanded event March 1, at the Riverwoods Conference Center.

In addition to the wonderful bossa novas and sambas that audiences have come to expect from this group, Riverwoods is offering an optional Brazilian buffet before the show, and the Spring Hill Marriott next door is offering a special “Evening in Brazil” room rate of $89. Also new this year will be a dance floor and a cash bar.

“Evening in Brazil” got its start several years ago when Christopher Neale, an engineering professor at USU and professional guitarist, got together with USU guitar professor Mike Christiansen to explore the music of Neale’s native Brazil.

The group soon expanded to include Brazilian vocalist Linda Ferreira Linford, a voice student at USU, and saxophonist Eric Nelson, Christiansen’s colleague in the Lightwood Duo. For the annual shows, the group is also joined by bassist Lars Yorgason, drummer Jason Nicholson and percussionist Don Keipp.

The music begins at 7:30

p.m. March 1. Admission to the show is $15 for the general public and $10 for students. Tickets will be available at the door the evening of the show, or can purchased in advance through Riverwoods Conference Center at 750-5151.

The cost for the buffet is $40, which includes admission to the show and must be purchased by Feb. 25 at Riverwoods. The buffet will begin at 6 p.m. Those wishing to stay the night at the Marriott should call 7505180 to book a room and mention “Evening in Brazil” to get the special rate.

For more information, call Eric Nelson at 258-5403.

Eric Nelson, left, Christopher Neale, Linda Ferreira Linford and Mike Christiansen will perform “An Evening in Brazil” March 1.

Your Stuff “Friends”

By Iris Nielsen Our lives are entwined like ivy on a brick facade Intertwined in and out of each other lives; good times and bad Ups and downs, tangled courses and merging out alone Always connected by the foundation of our bond Clinging tightly but allowing each to respire and develop Nurtured by a union of adoration and respect

Forever supporting the growing the entity of each other Darkest secrete shared, as well as out loud laughing Understanding the winks and nods; the needs and cares Hugs in sickness, loss, happiness, and accomplishments Sisters in heart, friends in minds, entwined like ivy

“My Little Boy”

By Norma Niederhausern My little boy has just turned five, And everything about him is Extremely alive.

With muddy little hands and feet, And with a friend or three, yells “Mom have you got a treat.”

That tiny tot I once rocked to sleep, Has now gone out searching for bugs To keep.

Today, I knew would be different Somehow, as I waved to our Carpool. Yes, today indeed was Different for me, for today was his First day of school!!

There he stands at my kitchen door

Latino Voices to be heard at the next Kiger Hour should be included in Utah State UniverNorthern Utah Speaks, a sity’s acclaimed Latino collection of oral histoVoices Project will start ries designed to capture including stories from the stories of all the local youth. The project region’s citizens. aims to capture what it “We have a strong and means to be Hispanic in growing Latino populanorthern Utah through tion in Cache Valley,” personal narratives she said. “The holdings housed in the Merrillhere didn’t reflect that.”

Cazier Library Special A buffet with appetizCollections and Archives. ers, desserts and soft Three Utah State Unidrinks, iced tea or cofversity scholars will fee is available at Cafe discuss the collection at Sabor. Cost is $6.95 per Kiger Hour from 5:15 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. person (plus tax and 21, at Café Sabor, 600 W. gratuity) and billed on an individual basis. Guests Center St. Hispanics are the larg- will also be able to order off the regular menu if est minority group in Cache County. The Lati- desired. A cash bar is available. no Voices Project was For planning purposes, established in 2007 by please RSVP to Natalie folklore curator Randy Williams after she found Archibald Smoot in the college at 797-2796 or they were underreprenatalie.archibald@usu. sented in the archives at edu.

USU. Williams felt they

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Enjoy an ‘Evening in Brazil’ at Riverwoods

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Introductions 7. All-inclusive 11. Lowe 14. Undisguised 19. Winner’s cry 20. A deadly sin 21. Give it ___ 22. Ego ender 23. 1961 Disney movie 27. Son of Rebekah 28. Carryall 29. Huge hit 32. One and one and one 36. Statue material 41. “___ Eye is on the Sparrow” (Lauryn Hill song) 42. ___ control 43. Michigan city 46. After-lunch sandwich 47. 1975 Disney movie 52. Namely 53. North African cooking paste 54. “Wheel of Fortune” buy 55. Lithium-___ battery 58. Enjoined 59. Ghillies and slingbacks 64. Addis Ababa’s land: Abbr.

67. Thingamabob 70. Fertility goddess 72. 1985 Disney movie 78. Rings of color 79. More bathetic 80. Stripling 81. Moose ___ 82. Ebullition 86. Bobble 87. “Better Than I Thought ___ Be”: Trace Atkins song 90. Involving reproductive organs 93. Evaluated 98. 1996 Disney movie 104. Mideast’s Gulf of ___

105. Profligate 106. Smoothing stone 107. Thai language branch 108. French verse form 110. In a moist manner 111. Cat-like sound 113. Right of first ___ 117. Sink alternative 119. 2001 Disney movie 129. Ring-tailed critter 130. Shepherd’s locale 131. Fine fabric 132. Rarely 133. Home of the brave 134. “Catch-22” pilot 135. Christian Science founder 136. Fittings Down 1. Myanmar monetary unit 2. Sticking point?

3. Saturn’s wife 4. Fencing swords 5. Nice person 6. ___ record 7. Chinese dynasty 8. Auberge 9. Netflix rental 10. Cuspids 11. Deeply engrossed 12. Brute 13. Simpleton 14. Last letter 15. ___ deferens 16. Lt.’s inferior, in the Navy 17. Copacabana site 18. Pitching choice 24. Change, as a cell 25. URL part 26. “Almost ___”: 2000 Kate Hudson vehicle 29. Cows and sows 30. Catchall category: Abbr.

31. Fungal spore sacs 33. Joy, for one 34. Wet behind the ears 35. Special effects

maker (abbr.)

37. Nonsense 38. Means of support?

39. Wreath 40. Many, many moons 42. Epithelial tissue 43. Battle of ___ (World War I) 44. In the thick of 45. Promising 48. According to 49. ___ cushion 50. Train compartment 51. Foul 56. Gray piece 57. Thumbs down 60. Witchy woman 61. Like the Sabin vaccine 62. Peak near Taormina 63. “You ___ Me” 64. Abbr. at the end of a list 65. “Comin’ ___ the Rye” 66. Consideration 68. Mint family member 69. ___ days of summer 71. Streaked 73. Nudge 74. Spreads 75. Adversary 76. Negative joiner 77. Postal service 83. Pakistani tongue 84. Webmaster’s creation 85. “Fat chance!”

88. Kitchen meas.

89. Scheduled to arrive 91. Rogue 92. Certain Asian 94. Enclose in a sac 95. Pro follower 96. Come back 97. Lateen-rigged sailing vessel 98. Shake 99. Botheration 100. Door word 101. Denouement 102. Doublemint, e.g.

103. Sitter’s handful 109. “Sesame Street” regular 110. Code word 111. Marcel Marceau, e.g.

112. Suggest 114. Thin pastry 115. ___-friendly 116. Standout 118. Left on a map 119. Operate 120. Nail holder 121. Victory ___ 122. Swallowed 123. Restraint 124. Timeworn 125. Blue hue 126. Promising words 127. Wood of the Rolling Stones 128. Fat letters

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Friday Twirl back to the 1950s for our FreeStyle Vintage Valentine Event Friday, Feb. 15, at the Bullen Center. Sway with your special someone as we celebrate the era of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Don your vintage cocktail attire and give Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart a run for their money. The doors open at 9 p.m. with a Foxtrot and Cha Cha lesson. General dancing will commence at 9:30 p.m. Prices are $15 per couple/$10 per single.

Be sure to purchase your tickets early for these discounted rates.

Tickets will be $20 per couple at the door; 18 and older, please.

Tickets can be purchased online at freestyledancecompany.com.

Sarah Olsen will perform with Allie Harris at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

Utah State University’s Skyroom Restaurant will be transformed into a 1930s jazz nightclub at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, and Saturday, Feb. 16, for the ninth annual “Jazz Night at the Sky Club.” The evening begins with a reception followed by a gourmet dinner, live jazz music and dancing. All proceeds support the Larry Smith Jazz Scholarship.

Free swing dance lessons will be available in the TSC International Lounge nightly one hour before the event. Tickets for “Jazz Night at the Sky Club” are $48 and are available at the USU Ticket Office in the Smith Spectrum (900 E. 900 North) through Tuesday, Feb. 12. For more information, contact Ann Marie Wallace Thompson at (801) 971-0859.

The annual Hyrum Library book sale will be held Friday, Feb. 15, and Saturday, Feb. 16, at 50 W. Main St. in Hyrum.

Library hours Friday are noon to 7 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 245-6411 for more information.

The 2013 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is making its annual stop at Utah

State University at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, and Friday, Feb. 15, in the TSC Ballroom. An assortment of films will be shown focused around mountain and local-outdoor culture. Expect to see films about skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing and unique-mountain characters.

Don’t miss out on this two-night event open to USU students, faculty, staff and the public. Tickets are available at the TSC Card Office now. Student ticket prices: one night, $5.50; both nights, $7.50. Public ticket prices: one night, $10; both nights, $15.

Otter Creek will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West in Brigham City.

Sam Thornbrue is the opening act. Admission is $10 at the door or online at www.bcfineartscenter. org; $5 for students. Call (435) 723-0740 for reservations.

Utah State University’s Art Department faculty will showcase their work in “depARTment of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition” from Feb. 15 through March 8, in the Tippetts Exhibit Hall at the Chase Fine Arts Center on the USU campus.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. The Chase Fine Arts Center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

A mid-singles dance will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday, Feb. 15, at 340 W. 700 South in Logan. Wear appropriate church attire.

Bill Jensen, author of “Adder in the Path” a historical novel on the Mormon war in Missouri, will be signing books from 4 to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 16, at Hastings in Logan.

Battle of the Bands Part 2 will start at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. RacecaR RacecaR, Bronze Museum, Via Versa, The Wide Awakes, September Say Goodbye, Cotton Ponies will perform.

Admission is $5.

Getting ready for Valentine’s Day? Remember to give some love to the homeless animals in the valley also. Please donate $1 to the Cache Humane Society this season for our Links of Love campaign. If everyone worked together and donated just $1, we could have over $100,000.

Get a bracelet that says “Cache Humane Society” for your donation and then on Feb. 16, we will connect them all together to see how far around the shelter the chain can get. Thank you for your continued support. The Date with Your Dog event will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. at the shelter where you can bring your dog, have some treats, meet other dog lovers (hopefully get a phone number), and get a psychic pet reading by professional pet psychic Patty Raymon from Salt Lake City.

SATURDAY

Treat your Valentine to a unique and delightful winter outing in Logan Canyon with the Stokes Nature Center. The Sweetheart Snowshoe will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16. Explore the backcountry together on snowshoes, then relax and warm up with hot cocoa and treats. Meet at the USFS District Office. a $5 donation is suggested. Adults only; all skill levels welcome. Registration required. Call 755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

The Small Potatoes concert scheduled for Saturday, Feb 16, at Crumb Brothers Bakery has been canceled due to a performer injury.

Auditions for the “The Lightning Bug” will be held at 9 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. U.S. Hwy. 89 in Perry. Come prepared with a

Margie Johnson, Irv Nelson and Scott Olsen will perform romantic music from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 15, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Come enjoy a day-late Valentine’s Day concert (and free skookie desserts). There is no cover charge.

completed audition form, 16 bars of a song and a 30-second monologue. Because this is a new production, auditions are being held early to accommodate four music rehearsals in March and begin a regular rehearsal schedule in mid April. Visit www.heritagetheatreutah.com or contact director Kamron Kligaard at (801) 668-2836 for more information.

p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the North Logan Library.

Sheriff Lynn Nelson will be speaking at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Altius Gymnastics Academy conference room, at 917 W. 600 North, Ste. 110. The public is invited and welcome.

THURSDAY

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology will investigate the impact that science fiction has on culture during its next “Saturdays at the Museum” activity from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16. During activities that day, the museum will host Daryl Frazetti, professor of biology and anthropology at Western Nevada College. His presentation on the role of science fiction in higher education begins at 11 a.m. A second presentation on the anthropology of “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” begins at 1 p.m. The USU Museum of Anthropology can be found on the USU campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, Room 252. Admission is free. For Saturday activities, free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building. For more information about museum events, call museum staff at 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum.usu.edu.

The Corey Christiansen Trio featuring Steve Lyman on drums and Matt Larson on bass will be performing a pair of shows at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Why Sound. The group will be performing a mixture of jazz standards and original music.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at www.24tix.com or at the door the night of the show.

Why Sound is located at 30 Federal Ave. between 100 North and 200 North. Please call (435) 3634700 with any questions.

Racecar racecaR will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

The Logan Library will be holding a movie night special feature “Lloyd Alexander” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Jim Bridger Room. Film producer Jared Crossley will be in attendance and introduce the film.

Guitarist/singer Kris Krompel will perform from 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 16, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Don’t miss this chance to hear one of the most versatile and talented performers in the valley. Everyone is welcome.

SUNDAY Allie Harris will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

TUESDAY Story Time will be at 10:10 and 11 a.m. and Sleepy Time at 6:30

The USU College of Engineering Community Night will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the ENGR building on campus. The college has been working hard on nationalprize-winning concrete canoes, rockets and steel bridges and wants to show them off. USU Engineering T-shirs and other prizes will be raffled off.

Macey’s in Providence will host Rockin’ Ramen at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Little Theatre.

This class was moved from last month. Everyone who went to college knows what ramen is, but did you know that there are recipes that include more than just the flavor packet? We will be showing you a few recipes that will help you realize just how great these noodles can be if you know how to use them. Please reserve a seat today at the service desk or visit us on Facebook or at www. maceys.com.

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Teriyaki Chicken Wrap (with soda)

Only $4.99 Fish & Chips Dinner

(with salad, fries & garlic toast)

Only $5.99

Pastrami Cheeseburger (with fries & soda)

Only $5.99 Chicken Souvlaki

(with salad, fries & pita)

Only $5.99

Offer Expires 2/22/13 • Must Present Coupon • Limit 4

1085 North Main, Suite 130, Logan • 435-752-1215 • Mon-Sat 10:30-7:00pm

Buy One Dinner Entree Get The Second Dinner Entree

1/2 Off

M-T 11–10 • F-S 11-11 • Sun 12-10 1079 N. Main • Logan • 753-4084

One Coupon Per Table Coupons May Not Be Combined With Any Other Offer Valid M-Thurs Only

Effective until 2/22/13

2.00 OFF

$

Any MeAl

Coupon may not be combined with any other offer. Must present the coupon at time of purchase. Excludes kids meals. Offer expires: 2/22/2013

690 North Main, Logan • 752-9252

Open Sun- Thurs 6am - 10pm • Fri & Sat 6am - 11pm

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792-7263

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