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FEBRUARY 22-28, 2013

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February 22-28, 2013

COVER 8 The 85th Oscars take

center stage Sunday night

MUSIC 3 Songstress Pat Benatar will rock the Cache Valley Cruise-In this summer

4 Plan a brief getaway

for an ‘Evening in Brazil’

5 Utah singer Brenn Hill

to headline annual Cache Cowboy Rendezvous

MOVIES 7 New film ‘Snitch’ is about as good as it gets at the movies in February

BOOKS 12 ‘The Searchers’ tells story behind famous film

13 Anti-hero Keller is

back in new book ‘Hit Me’

COLUMN 10 Dennis Hinkamp

shares some advice about life as an only child

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

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People walk out to Hollywood Boulevard as preparations are made for the 85th Academy Awards Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday night.

FROM THE EDITOR I think I’m going to pull it off.

With just a day or so to spare, I think I’m actually going to see one of the 10 films up for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars.

While I’m hardly a huge Academy Award fan — there’s certainly no red carpet in my home, and definitely no Super Bowl-like party — I have to admit that the annual awards show does sort of interest me (mostly because, thanks to the advent of the DVR, I can now end up watching the whole broadcast in about half an hour by fast-forwarding through

commercials, songs, categories that bore me and Oscar winners I wish had lost).

But I’ve pointed out previously, having a baby in your home seems to bring a couple’s ability to go see movies in the theater to a virtual standstill.

So, of this year’s Best Picture nominees, I was definitely going to find a way to see “Lincoln” — even if I had to go by myself at midnight — but I never pulled it off, possibly because I spent too much time reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book instead. My wife went to see “Les Miserables” with some female friends, so that was out. And while I considered “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” I never got very close to actually going.

And like “Lincoln,” Ben Affleck’s

“Argo” was a must-see that went unseen.

However, unlike “Lincoln,” that movie came out on DVD on Tuesday, just in time for the Oscars.

But, I also wanted to read the book by CIA operative Tony Mendez, which just came out on paperback. So, for the past few days, I’ve been tearing through the print version of “Argo” and have 60 pages left as of Thursday afternoon. That should leave me just enough time to finish the book and rent the movie either Friday or Saturday night.

Which means by the time the Oscars come on Sunday night, I will at least be able to have the satisfaction of having seen the Best Picture of the year. Barely.

— Jeff Hunter

Time to get ‘All Fired Up’ Pat Benatar to perform at Cache Valley Cruise-In

By Jeff Hunter Cache Magazine editor

After a year hiatus, the Cache Valley Cruise-In is once again bringing in a classic rock act to put on a concert during the annual summer event.

Pat Benatar, regarded as one of the top female rock vocalists of all-time, will perform Friday, July 5, at the Cache County Fairgrounds, the Cache Valley Cruising Association announced this morning.

“We’ve always wanted to get her here; she’s always been on our list,” Cruise-In concert director Mary Zilles said of Benatar. “It just so happened that she was free this year, and our concert promoter in L.A. was able to help up with her tour manager and work out the scheduling.”

Joining Benatar on stage will be her husband, Neil Giraldo, who has been an integral part of her success as her lead guitarist and principle songwriting partner since her mercurial debut in 1979. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Benatar has sold over 30 million albums and garnered 14 Top 40 hits, including such classics as “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “Shadows of the Night” and “Love is a Battlefield.”

“Pat Benatar’s classic rock and we’re a classic car show, so she fits just perfectly,” Zilles declared.

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Grammy-Award winner Pat Benatar and husband/guitarist Neil Giraldo have been collaborating on stage and in the studio since 1979. The duo will perform July 5 at the Cache County Fairgrounds.

played at the fairgrounds. tar & Neil Giraldo will go Visits by Styx, American, on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Three Dog Night and the March 1, and can be purBeach Boys followed before chased at Macey’s in Provithe annual show was susdence or online at www. pended in 2012. ezticketlive.com. Ticket prices start at just $29.50 “We didn’t do it last year, for general-admission seats, and we got a big response $39.50 for VIP floor seats, to bring it back,” Zilles said. $59.50 for second-row “We feel like Cache Valley reserved seats and $74.50 needs some entertainment in for front-row reserved seats. the summer and we’re already The Cache Valley Cruisdoing that with the Cruise-In ing Association first hosted and want to do it even more a concert in 2007 when with a concert. We heard Southern rockers .38 Special from a lot of people that they

missed it and wanted it back, so we’re very excited to have it back this year.

“We want to do this every year, and if we get the support from the valley and surrounding areas, then we can keep putting it on,” Zilles added.

This year’s Cache Valley Cruise-In will run from Thursday, July 4, to Saturday, July 6. For more information about the concert and other events at the Cruise-In, visit www.cachevalleycruisein.net.

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Enjoy a little taste of Brazil 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

Male chorus to sing Friday

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. Friday, Feb. 22.

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

Eric Nelson, left, Christopher Neale, Linda Ferreira Linford and Mike Christiansen will perform “An Evening in Brazil” Tickets range from $24 Friday, March 1, at The Riverwoods. to $35 and are available at the Cache Valley Center vocalist Linda Ferreira Jason Nicholson and per- can purchased in advance p.m. Those wishing to stay for the Arts ticket office Linford, a voice student cussionist Don Keipp. through Riverwoods the night at the Marriott located at 43 S. Main St., at USU, and saxophonist The music begins at Conference Center at 750- should call 750-5180 to online at www.elleneccl Eric Nelson, Christian7:30 p.m. March 1. Admis- 5151. The cost for the buf- book a room and mention estheatre.org or by calling sen’s colleague in the sion to the show is $15 for fet is $40, which includes “Evening in Brazil” to get 752-0026.

Lightwood Duo. For the the special rate. the general public and $10 admission to the show “Based in San Francisco, annual shows, the group for students. Tickets will and must be purchased For more information, Calif., this famous is also joined by bassist be available at the door

by Feb. 25 at Riverwoods. call Eric Nelson at 258Lars Yorgason, drummer See SING on Page 13 the evening of the show, or The buffet will begin at 6 5403.

USU Symphony joinging forces with U of U Utah State University’s Music Department is hosting the Utah Philharmonia in a joint performance with the USU Symphony Orchestra of Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in a special concert event at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in the Kent Concert Hall in the Chase Fine Arts Center.

“We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ by performing it with the Utah Philharmonia,” said Sergio Bernal, associate professor and director of orchestra in the Caine College of the Arts.

“This performance features 130 student musicians from both Utah State and the Uni-

versity of Utah.”

Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” was composed in 1913 and has grown into one of the 20th century’s most influential pieces of music. The story centers on pagan Russian rituals celebrating the coming of spring. After the initial celebrations are over, a young maiden is chosen by fate as a

sacrifice and dances herself to death. The music emphasizes raw power through a strong irregular beat while maintaining a refined dissonance, said Bernal.

Utah Philharmonia is the University of Utah’s premiere 85-student orchestra directed

by Robert Baldwin.

Tickets for “Rite of Spring”

are $10 adults, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students. For more information and tickets, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139B in the Chase Fine Arts Center or call 435-797-8022. Information is also available at arts. usu.edu.

Calling all filmmakers, whether rookie or expert, for the Fringe Film Festival, presented by Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts.

A competition open to anyone who wants to make a film, the Fringe Film Festival has a unique set of rules and specific theme.

All films must be created to fol-

low the theme, different each year, and must be made in less than 30 days. The grand-prize winner receives $2,000.

“The Fringe Film Festival is a chance for filmmakers and first timers to hit it big time,” said Madison Pope, organizer of the Fringe. “It’s a quick, challenging and fun competition that puts

everyone on equal ground with the same theme, deadline and stipulations.”

The competition is open to everyone age 16 or older who would like to submit a film.

Entries cannot be more than four minutes long, including credits,

Winter concert at USU The Utah State University Department of Music

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 Wind Orchestra will perform the American premiere of “Sinfonia No. 1 ‘Marea Negra,’” an original work composed by Anton Alcalde. The title See FRINGE on Page 11 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.

Joys of the cowboy life Brenn Hill to headline the Cache Rendezvous

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 concert at 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, with Brenn Hill and Mary Kaye, and a Saturday afternoon “Pioneer Poets” roundrobin 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

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 are available online at loganfilmfestival.com.

USU art teachers exhibit

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

“USU art and design students know the faculty primarily through their work with them in the classroom, so the show gives our students a chance to see the great creative work that their professors do,” said Laura Gelfand, head of the Department of Art and Design. “We are fortunate to have incredible artA native of Ogden now living in Hooper, singer/songwriter Brenn Hill celebrates the ists on the faculty.” cowboy life throught his music. Hill will perform Friday, March 1, in Hyrum.

The exhibit features a variety of two- and threedimensional artwork, including paintings, photographs, sculpture, prints and ceramics. Participating and adults will compete continuous entertainment onstrate their cowboy faculty members and their emphasis areas include: for $500 in Smith and skills at the Kids Corral. with one dedicated as an John Neely, ceramics; Dennise Gackstetter, art eduEdward’s gift certificates.

Western band Saddle open-mic stage. Local cation; Jane Catlin, painting and drawing; Kathy This event is open to Strings will top off Satand regional craftsmen anyone interested in pre- Puzey, printmaking; Woody Shepherd, painting; and artists will also be on urday’s celebration with a family dance, and we’ll senting a patriotic poem Christopher Terry, painting and drawing; Todd hand to display and sell before a panel of judges. Hayes, ceramics; Ryoichi Suzuki, sculpture; David all return home Sunday their works and wares.

Wall, art history; Jerome Murphy, ceramics; DeboThere will be two divimorning after Cowboy Cowboy vittles will be rah Banerjee, interim deputy director of the Nora Church, held in the livery sions: youth and adult. available along with a Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; Carsten Meier, Poets will be judged on stable at the American slew of locally produced photography; Robert Winward, graphic design; and the quality of their preWest Heritage Center in ag products. Budding Chris Gauthier, photography. sentation and patriotic Wellsville. poets can try their hand “depARTment of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition” quality of their poem.

In addition, there will at reciting their favorite can be seen from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through poem at the Youth Poetry be a new patriotic poetry Friday in the Tippetts Exhibit Hall.

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‘Ultima’ an earnest coming-of-age tale

By Christy Lemire AP Movie Critic

“Bless Me, Ultima,” the book, is a widely read and critically acclaimed piece of Chicano literature that also has been quite divisive since its publication in 1972. Some critics and parents have decried Rudolfo Anaya’s novel as anti-Catholic or too profane and pushed to have it banned from school districts across the country.

“Bless Me, Ultima,” the movie, is a mostly gentle and tastefully photographed depiction of a young boy’s coming of age in rural 1940s New Mexico.

His maturation includes a questioning of the Catholic faith of his parents and a curiosity about the Native American mysticism of his elders. But such musings feel more like an inherent part of the progression into adolescence, a fine-tuning of identity, rather than an intentionally subversive force.

Besides, Luke Ganalon, who plays the boy at the center of the story, couldn’t be a more adorably precocious and optimistic little scamp. What sort of damage could he possibly do?

spirituality. In case that dialogue alone didn’t sufficiently spell out the film’s themes, pervasive voiceover from Alfred Molina as the adult Antonio — beginning with the rhetorical question, “Why is there evil in this world?”

— often hammers us over the head. The inclusion of such prose is a nod to the film’s literary origins but probably worked better on the page.

Other moments are

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This film image shows Castulo Guerra, center, Miriam Colon, and Luke Ganalon, right, in a scene from “Bless Me, Ultima.”

★★ ‘Bless Me, Ultima’ Director // Carl Franklin Starring // Luke Ganalon, Miriam Colon, Benito Martinez, Dolores Heredia, Castulo Guerra Rated // PG-13 for some violence and sexual references

Writer-director Carl Franklin presents the journey of Ganalon’s character, the wide-eyed Antonio Marez, in ways that are restrained and sometimes even stiff, despite the magic and violence that co-exist alongside each other. Some of the smalltown “types” come off as a bit cartoonish: the eyepatch-wearing villain, the slurring and staggering drunk, But there is an

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At the film’s start, an elderly curandera, or folk healer, has come to live out her final days with Antonio’s family in their modest home. Ultima (the formidable Miriam Colon) emerges from a car gingerly but her inner strength is clear, as is her connection with Antonio; as a midwife, she brought

him into the world. His former vaquero father (Benito Martinez from “The Shield”) and devout mother (Dolores Heredia) are duly respectful of her wisdom and power, while Antonio and his older sisters are a bit awed. (The three elder sons are off fighting in World War II.) Whispers in town that Ultima is a bruja, or witch, add to her mystery, as does the way she seeks revenge for a curse that’s placed on a family member. But her inner kindness becomes more obvious to Antonio as she walks the land with him, teaches him about the usefulness of various plants and offers advice on the importance of

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more subtle, though, as in the wordless ostracizing Antonio experiences on his first day of school as a poor and illiterate but eager farm kid. One of the first friends he makes is already a young atheist who speaks matter-offactly about the tragedies that made him doubt his faith at such an early age; he does, however, attend catechism classes each week — if only to hang out with his buddies.

‘Good Day to Die Hard’ tops the box-office list LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Willis remains a die-hard at the box office.

Willis’ action sequel “A Good Day to Die Hard” debuted as the weekend’s top draw with a $25 million debut from Friday to Sunday. The 20th Century Fox release raised its domestic total to $33.2 million since opening Thursday for Valentine’s Day to get a jump on the long President’s Day weekend.

The movie comes 25 years after the original “Die Hard” and six years after “Live Free or Die Hard,” the hit that resurrected the franchise centered on Willis’ relentless New York City cop John McClane.

The previous weekend’s No. 1 movie, Universal’s comedy “Identity Thief” starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, was a close second with $23.4 million to lift its haul to $70.7 million.

Debuting at No. 3 with $21.4 million was Relativity Media’s romance “Safe Haven,” starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel.

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★★ ‘Snitch’ Director // Ric Roman Waugh Starring // Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Barry Pepper, Jon Bernthal, Rafi Gavron Rated // PG-13 for drug content and scenes of violence

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She does everything short of saying, “You know what John? We could really use more civilian vigilantes such as yourself.”

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Even though the trailers boldly exclaim: “Inspired by true events,” what happens in “Snitch” is, at best, highly improbable.

It’s one of those movies where you’ll have to roll your eyes a few times as the story flaunts reality like it doesn’t exist. February isn’t really known for producing quality movies and this February hasn’t been any different. “Snitch” is about as good as it gets this month (save “Side Effects”), but that certainly isn’t saying much.

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AT THE OSCARS? Does Oscar crown await Affleck’s ‘Argo?’

picture without a directing nomination.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nominations current best-picture contender “Les MisThe last time it happened — and the only morning last month revealed major sur- erables.” time other than in the earliest years of the prises for the Academy Awards, promising Oscar organizers are trying to inject Oscars — was for 1989’s “Driving Miss one of the most wide-open campaigns more verve into a show whose awards Daisy.” ever for Hollywood’s highest honors. generally play out by the numbers. While The other best-picture contenders that Six weeks later, things have shaken out drama may be lacking in the outcome Suninto the same old predictable Oscars. day night, there was plenty of it early on in also had directing nominations — Michael Haneke’s old-age love story “Amour,” Like almost every awards season, earthe Oscar race. lier honors have established clear favorWhen nominations came out and Affleck Ang Lee’s shipwreck saga “Life of Pi,” David O. Russell’s oddball romance “Silites for the top prizes at Sunday’s Oscars, was omitted of the best-director lineup, it where Ben Affleck’s CIA thriller “Argo” seemed to doom the best-picture prospects ver Linings Playbook” and Benh Zeitlin’s low-budget bayou drama “Beasts of the is expected to take home the best-picture Southern Wild” — were acclaimed films trophy. that all seemed like best-picture longshots.

“Argo” has dominated the awards picBut the crowd-pleasing “Argo,” ture with wins at the Golden Globes and Affleck’s liberally Hollywood-ized chroniceremonies held by the Directors Guild cle of the real-life rescue of six Americans of America, the Screen Actors Guild and during the Iranian hostage crisis, defied the Producers Guild of America. The film expectations by sweeping other awards now is poised to do what only four movdespite the Oscar directing snub — or peries have managed before at the Oscars: haps partly because of it. win best picture without a nomination for “There’s this groundswell of support for its director.

‘Argo’ that took a lot of people by surprise, With the top trophy and other key prizes and it’s making me think that the omission expected to go to obvious front-runners, Best Picture nominees at the 85th Academy of Ben Affleck in the best-director categothe Oscars will live or die on the show Awards include: “Argo” (upper right), “Life of ry was the best thing that ever happened itself, which has a hipper flair with “FamPi” (top right), “Les Miserables” (far right) and to that movie,” said Dave Karger, chief ily Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane as host “Lincoln” (right). correspondent for movie-ticket website and a cool lineup of current and vintage Fandango.com. “All of the ‘Argo’ fans are stars. Among performers, presenters and for “Argo.” Likewise, the best-picture going to rally behind it in that best-picture other special guests are Barbra Streisand, chances looked slim for Kathryn Bigcategory.”

Norah Jones, “Harry Potter” star Daniel elow’s Osama bin Laden thriller “Zero Affleck has taken a page out of fellow Radcliffe, key players from “The AvengDark Thirty” and Tom Hooper’s musical “Argo” producer and smooth operator ers,” and Mark Wahlberg and his cuddly “Les Miserables,” since they also were George Clooney’s playbook, handling stuffed-bear sidekick from “Ted,” voiced snubbed for directing nominations. the Oscar attention and his directing snub by its writer-director, MacFarlane.

Leading the field with 12 nominations, with grace, humility and self-deprecating Adele will perform her nominated title including one for director Steven Spielhumor. It’s a reverse of Affleck’s quarreltune from the James Bond adventure some demeanor earlier in his career, when “Skyfall,” and the show features a salute to berg, the Civil War epic “Lincoln” suddenly looked like the best-picture favorite, he bristled and barked over publicity centhe 007 franchise, an appearance by Bond almost by default. It seemed the only tering on his relationship with Jennifer theme song singer Shirley Bassey, and a realistic choice among the nine nominees, tribute to the resurgence of movie musigiven how rare it is for a film to win best See OSCARS on Page 10 cals over the last decade, which includes

AP writers deliver Academy Awards predictions LOS ANGELES (AP) — Surprises and snubs on nominations day held the promise of an unpredictable Academy Awards night. But things have settled into the usual predictability, with clear favorites emerging in key categories.

Associated Press movie writers Christy Lemire and David Germain prefer to disagree, but they’re in harmony on the top prizes for Sunday’s show. Here are their picks, with Lemire sounding off on best picture, actor and supporting actress and Germain offering their take on director, actress and supporting actor.

BEST PICTURE Nominees: “Amour,” “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook.”

LEMIRE: The road to the top prize at the Academy Awards is a long haul full of ups and downs, front-runners and underdogs, and it’s been especially eventful this year. Back in November,

anyway. Plus “Argo” is a sure thing Steven Spielberg’s stately “Lincoln” because it seamlessly blends Hollywood looked like the safe bet. Then the gripsatire with thrilling action, and this ping “Zero Dark Thirty” figured into industry loves to honor itself for teasing the mix. Then when Oscar nominaitself. tions were announced, and the quirky BEST DIRECTOR romance “Silver Linings Playbook” Nominees: Michael Haneke, received seven including one for best picture, it looked like a contender. Accu- “Amour”; Benh Zeitlin, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; Ang Lee, “Life of Pi”; sations of inaccuracy plagued some of Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”; David O. these films and eventually were shot Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook.” down, adding further drama.

GERMAIN: We’ll never know what Which brings us to “Argo,” whose might have happened if not for the surmakers have acknowledged since that prise directing snubs that included Ben they tweaked some details in depictAffleck for “Argo” and Kathryn Bigelow ing the daring rescue of six American for “Zero Dark Thirty.” embassy workers during the 1979 IraWithout them — and particularly nian hostage crisis. Ben Affleck’s film steadily and deservedly has been racking Affleck — in the picture, best-director becomes a third coronation for Steven up key prizes leading to the big night Spielberg, who won previously for and has unstoppable momentum. That Affleck weirdly didn’t receive a director “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan.” Another win would put Spielberg nomination for the film, which I (and in rare company, tying him with Frank many other critics) named the year’s best, won’t matter; as a producer, he’ll See WRITERS on PAGE 10 walk away with a trophy Sunday night

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Rarely lauded for his performing chops, Affleck joked at the Golden Globes that no one felt he was snubbed for an acting nomination on “Argo,” in which he gives one of his finest performances as a CIA agent orchestrating a scheme to disguise the Americans as a Hollywood film crew scouting locations in Iran.

Earning acclaim for all three of the films he has directed, Affleck talks like a modest newcomer, saying after his Directors Guild win that he considers filmmakers such as William Wyler, Martin Scorsese and Spielberg to be the “grown-ups I think of as directors. I think of myself as a work in progress.”

And despite the directing

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Workers roll out the red carpet for the 85th Academy Awards Wednesday in Los Angeles.

snub, Affleck has expressed nothing but gratitude to the academy for his film’s seven nominations — repeatedly making note that he is up for an Oscar. As producers of “Argo,” Affleck, Clooney and

Writers Continued from Page 9 Capra and William Wyler, who each won three directing Oscars, and putting him just behind record-holder John Ford, who won four.

Despite a monumental performance

by Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president, “Lincoln” is more academically than emotionally engaging. Yet the film still is an epic period saga, with Spielberg masterfully marshaling his own filmmaking army to recreate the capital in the last days of the Civil War. Lincoln was the man needed to preserve the union. Spielberg was the man needed to make this film. His third directing trophy will be an awfully nice consolation prize for missing out on best picture.

BEST ACTOR Nominees: Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”; Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”; Hugh Jackman, “Les Miserables”; Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”; Denzel Washington, “Flight.”

LEMIRE: From the first moment you see Daniel Day-Lewis on screen as the revered 16th president of the United States, it’s clear he’s destined to win the best-actor Oscar. He totally immerses himself in portraying this storied figure — no shocker there from

Grant Heslov would share the best-picture honor if the film wins.

Assuming it does, there still will be plenty of love to spread around among other films, particularly “Lincoln.”

Spielberg’s consolation prize, should “Lincoln” miss out on best picture, is a probable third directing Oscar. He would be only the fourth filmmaker to achieve that, along with Frank Capra and William Wyler, who also won three times, and John Ford, who won four.

“Lincoln” star Daniel DayLewis is expected to earn his third Oscar in the title role, making him only the sixth performer to win three or more Oscars and the first to win three times in the best-actor category.

Other acting favorites: Jennifer Lawrence, best actress for “Silver Linings Playbook”; Anne Hathaway, supporting actress for “Les Miserables”; and Tommy Lee Jones, supporting actor for “Lincoln.”

So where’s the surprise of Oscar night? Maybe in the hands of versatile show host MacFarlane, whose talents include animation, comedy

writing, singing and songwriting (he’s an Oscar nominee himself for a tune from “Ted”).

His skills also include crude humor, setting the stage for something livelier, more irreverent and less predictable than the usual ho-hum broadcast.

Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron “have mixed it up quite a lot compared to Oscar ceremonies I’ve seen in the past,” MacFarlane said. “Without it being a long ceremony — their goal is to keep it shorter than it’s been — but they’ve managed to pack more surprises and more cool stuff into the ceremony than I think I’ve ever seen in any one Oscars. ...

“They have a real sense of command of what they’re doing, but at the same time they’ve allowed me to play to my own strengths, or weaknesses, depending on how you look at it, and structure my own segments as I see fit.”

one of the greatest actors of our time desires and doubts. Chastain is extraor- “Django Unchained,” but it’s just not as good a role.

— from his appearance and voice to his dinary in extraordinary circumstances; Jones, however, is as good as ever carriage and gait. And in playing Abra- Lawrence is extraordinary in ordinary ham Lincoln as he charms, lobbies and circumstances. The latter is harder, and as grouchy, uncompromising crusader Stevens. He’s mastered the art of playcajoles his way to the historic passage Lawrence not only manages that, but ing noble curmudgeons and should join of the 13th Amendment, abolishing also outshines a remarkable cast that De Niro as a two-time Oscar winner slavery, Day-Lewis will make some includes Bradley Cooper, Robert De for the effort. history of his own by becoming the Niro and Jacki Weaver.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS first person ever to win the Academy Dominating your scenes when Nominees: Amy Adams, “The Award for best actor three times. As you’re alongside De Niro? Lawrence Master”; Sally Field, “Lincoln”; Anne good and as deeply committed as the goes home with an Oscar.

Hathaway, “Les Miserables”; Helen other nominees in this category are, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Hunt, “The Sessions”; Jacki Weaver, none of them stands a chance.

Nominees: Alan Arkin, “Argo”; BEST ACTRESS Robert De Niro, “Silver Linings Play- “Silver Linings Playbook.”

LEMIRE: It sounds so cynical to Nominees: Jessica Chastain, “Zero book”; Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Dark Thirty”; Jennifer Lawrence, “Sil- Master”; Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln”; suggest that if you cut all your hair ver Linings Playbook”; Emmanuelle Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained.” off, lose a bunch of weight AND play Riva, “Amour”; Quvenzhane Wallis, GERMAIN: The big Oscar certainty: a prostitute, you’re guaranteed to win an Academy Award. But Anne Hatha“Beasts of the Southern Wild”; Naomi supporting actor goes to a previous way does indeed do all of this — and Watts, “The Impossible.”

Oscar winner. All five nominees have she sings! Live, on camera! As the GERMAIN: This is such a close won before, and Robert De Niro has doomed Fantine in the musical favorcall between Jessica Chastain, who’s won twice. ite “Les Miserables,” Hathaway isn’t almost demonic as a CIA operative The prize probably comes down to on screen very long before she dies obsessively tracking Osama bin Laden, the two guys in Civil War-era times, a hacking, wrenching death amid the and Jennifer Lawrence, who’s one of Tommy Lee Jones as abolitionist firethe most endearing damaged souls to brand Thaddeus Stevens and Christoph squalor and tumult of 19th-century France. (Not that screen time matters hit the big-screen in ages.

Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter. in this situation: Judi Dench famously Chastain’s a lone-wolf through much Waltz has a disadvantage in that won the supporting-actress Oscar for of “Zero Dark Thirty,” interacting with his supporting-actor win for 2009’s appearing in only seven minutes of scores of minor characters but never “Inglourious Basterds” is fresh in “Shakespeare in Love.”) But she has really connecting with anyone as she people’s minds, so in a way, he’s up one powerful scene in which she sings sinks into a cold, calculating, compulagainst himself along with the other the remorseful “I Dreamed a Dream” sive and lonely world of her own. current nominees. It was clear from all in one tear-choked take. It’s not Because of that, Chastain connects the premiere of “Basterds” that no subtle, but it’s effective, and it’s the less with the audience than Lawrence, one could top Waltz’s turn as a gleereason she’ll win. who’s an open book of tics, anxieties, fully evil Nazi. He’s a delight again in

Being an only child is a unique experience

Life Continued from Page 5 The contest will be held immediately following the youth

choice.

Though I was raised before the internet and most forms of entertainment that require electricity, I have had a lifetime to look back at being raised an only child. You should be aware that there is a looming population wave of people like me and you should be prepared. The percentage of women who have one child has more than doubled in the past

20 years, up from 10 to 13 percent. Currently there are 20 million only-child households in the U.S. Care and feeding of an only child: 1. Only children will be precocious, but only for a while. I used to hang out at the library at age seven and skim science textbooks. In retrospect, this was probably like surfing the internet without the porn. I don’t think I ever read an entire book while there, but I came back with enough trivia to wow adults at my parents’ dinner parties. I probably had off-the-charts reading levels in my first few years of school but eventually everyone else from the non-only-child world caught up. So don’t automatically think your wonder kid can start college at age 10.

2. Don’t dress only

cowboy poetry contest Saturday.

Ticket prices for the Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous are $15 for Friday night admittance and the Brenn Hill concert, and $20 for a

two-day pass. Tickets are available online at www.cachevalleycow boyrendezvous.com, as well as at Macey’s in Providence, Ridley’s in Hyrum and IFA in Hyde Park.

Slightly Off Center DENNIS HINKAMP

Being an only child here in 2013 Mormlandia probably isn’t that much different than it was for me growing up in Cathlicstan 57 years ago — it’s unusual in the statistical sense of the word.

The perks of being an only are many: your own bed in your own bedroom, the whole back seat to yourself and, of course, the rivers of cash and toys available to your only, spoiled, lonely self.

At least that is the perception. Only children exist for a variety of reasons: death, divorce, infertility, infidelity, economics, adoption, parenthood shock and, of course, the all-encompassing, etc. Yes, I’m aware of the horrors of the failed state-enforced, one-childper-couple laws in China.

Even though I believe in population control, I believe it should by

Fringe Continued from Page 5 and must be submitted by noon Monday, March 11, to the Chase Fine Arts Center Manager’s office, located inside the Tippetts Exhibit Hall. More information, rules and entry forms are available online at arts.usu.edu/fringe.

“This year’s theme, ‘An Eastern Western,’ comes with its own conflict of interest,” said Pope. “Filmmakers must find a way to bring together two opposites through their own interpretation, resulting in a challenging and exciting competition.”

New this year, the Fringe Film Festival is joining with the Logan Film

Festival to present one film festival, held March 21 to 23, at the Caine Lyric Theatre. An all access ticket to both the Fringe and the Logan Film Festival is available to adults for $15 and USU students with ID for $12.75.

The Fringe will kick off the Logan Film Festival, with an opening reception at 5 p.m. and the Fringe at 6 p.m.

For more information on the Logan Film Festival, visit loganfilmfestival. com.

The Fringe Film Festival will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21, the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center St. For more information and tickets, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office located in room 139-B in the Chase Fine Arts Center, call797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu/ fringe.

children like miniature adults even if they act like adults. Though many people will think it is cute, it will confuse the only child. In nearly all my childhood photos I can be seen wearing bow ties, fedoras or trench coats; I just wanted a Batman T-shirt but since I talked like a pre-law student my parents thought it was appropriate.

3. Even though they may sound smart, don’t let them make big decisions. I am at peace with how my parents raised me, but I can clearly remember them asking me at age seven if I wanted to be baptized into the Catholic Church as if I had mental capacity to weigh choices of theology. I didn’t then

and I don’t now, but I admire anyone who is truly sure.

4. Make sure they play with other kids their age or younger. Only children can be a little creepy especially in the early years. They have spent most of their lives talking only to adults, so they appear to be overly articulate. Even 50 years later I can remember adults coming up and asking me — in a baby voice — “What do you want to be when you grow up? A fireman or a baseball player?”

And I would reply that I wanted to be a psychologist because I read somewhere that they made $50 an hour (a lot in 1962 dollars).

5. Teach them combative conversation

skills. One of my biggest frustrations in adulthood has been that in most situations people don’t take turns talking; they interrupt, talk over and shout down. This is probably a normal dynamic for those coming from a family of seven, but only children are used to rapt attention to their every word from their admiring parents.

You should be quick to note that I have no childrearing experience of my own, but at 57 I thought it might be a good idea to start downloading some of these life lessons that nobody asked for or necessarily wants.

——— Dennis Hinkamp would like to point out that nonechild families are just fine, too.

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wasn’t through with Cynthia Ann. Inspired to some degree by her saga, writer Alan LeMay A modest hit in thefocused his novel “The aters in 1956, “The Searchers” not on the Searchers” has grown captive and her capin stature to become, tors but on an uncle and for many, the greatest adopted brother who Western ever filmed try to find her. When and one of the most LeMay sold the film influential movies. Yet rights, another mythit’s always been more, maker — director John thematically and culFord — went to work turally, than just a John changing the story to fit Wayne movie about his own vision as well finding a white girl as the needs of a director abducted by Comanche Indians. rience were twisted and looking for a hit.

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A century later, she was when others wanted In 1836, Comanche cast as a proto-feminist, Gary Cooper — and Indians kidnapped the original tough Texas Ford never let Wayne 9-year-old Cynthia woman. forget it.

Ann Parker during a “The truth was less Wayne took as much deadly raid on a white triumphalist and more abuse as anyone from settlement in Texas. poignant,” Frankel the bullying Ford. While An uncle searched writes.

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time and energy attending stamp shows, bidding at stamp auctions and When we last left negotiating the sale of a Keller, Lawrence seductive widow’s extenBlock’s killer-for-hire sive collection. In the last anti-hero, he was on the third of the book, his prorun after being framed fession seems almost an for a political assassinaafterthought. tion in the 2008 thriller, In the hands of a lesser “Hit and Run.” writer, the philately pasNow, five years later, sages would be insufferwe find living him livable, but Block makes ing in New Orleans them interesting in their with a new identity, own right as well a winNicholas Edwards. He’s dow into the soul of a hit got a charming new man who can dispatch wife named Julia, who houses. innocent bystanders withknows about his past, But the economy out remorse but won’t and daughter Jenny cheat on his wife and makes three. Instead of being what it is, there’s not much of a market insists on being scrupupoisoning, strangling, lously honest in the buyfor houses these days, or shooting people, ing and selling of collect- Continued from Page 4 so Keller is spending he’s making a living a capella group has rehabbing and flipping ible stamps. a lot of time hanging 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

By Aubrey Pirtle ensemble group has to offer. Comprised Mountains beyond mountains. to move, trust God. of two basses, one Your heart feels as if it will never end, He is strong enough to move it for you. baritone, three tenors, There are so many things that you must tend.

So when you reach the top and see more and six countertenors When you’ve accomplished so much, and mountains beyond mountains, think: — their sound is truly reached the top, Push and shove….they won’t budge, orchestral and not to be missed.”

But as you look across the horizon, Just relax and trust and they will crumble to Chanticleer’s celebrayou see more and more mountains....it never dust. tory season opened stops God’s gotcha covered. in September and has If we have faith enough to tell each mountain continued all over the world, performing over 100 concerts in 29 of the United States, Europe, and Asia/PacifBy Sarah Houghton ic region. The seductive and irresistible songs of When at the noontime, home I come, What tells my senses what they are the sirens — sometimes What morsel can my hunger sate?

But yummy tuna on my plate? fateful, sometimes fatal What’s fit to lie ‘twixt crust and crumb — fill Chanticleer’s 35th anniversary proBut yummy tuna on my plate?

And if I saw a sacred cow gram.

I wouldn’t think it half as great; Since Chanticleer What calls to me from table far Ambrosia tastes like nothing now began releasing recordAnd draws me nearer, as by fate?

But yummy tuna on my plate. ings in 1981, the group has sold well over a milout with the family and working on his stamp collection. So when his old murder broker, Dot, gets in touch about a job, he’s ready to get back into the game.

What Keller likes about the work is the meticulous planning that goes into each hit, so in the early chapters, that is what Block dwells on.

The kills themselves are anticlimactic, each carried out with swift efficiency and without remorse.

But as Block gets deeper into the story, the planning, too, takes a back seat to the killer’s obsession with his hobby.

Keller spends most of his

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Keller returns in ‘Hit Me’ Movie

mental anguish instead of all action all the time. This is something we didn’t see from Continued from Page 7 “A Good Day to Die and charisma even if the Hard.” “Snitch” actually has a human element, movie is subpar. That’s although it’s pretty what he does here. His superficial. The drahulking mass is sufmatic content feels like ficient to command the a decent made-for-TV screen. His emotional movie, instead of somerange is surprisingly fluid. Stick John Cena in thing made for the big screen. Still, “Snitch” this role and the entire ends up eclipsing just audience would be asleep inside 15 minutes. about everything else that came out this “Snitch” is unexpectmonth. That’s not to say edly slow. Its 112-minit’s good, just that it’s ute runtime feels even the best of a bad situalonger as the movie tion. tends to focus on the

lion 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-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 contributions 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.

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CrossworD

By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Hodgepodge 7. Widens, in a way 14. Predicament 20. “Ain’t That ___” 21. Place to skate 22. Persian Gulf peninsula 23. “Noisy” words from “The Star-Spangled Banner” 26. Solution concentration 27. Physicist Georg 28. Triumphant cry 29. Buttermilk morsel?

30. Red army member 31. Clavell’s “___-Pan” 33. Innumerable 35. Gourmand 40. Element #10 42. “The Nutcracker” lead 45. “___ say!”

46. Loser of 1588 47. Grass part 49. Medicos 51. Kit and caboodle 53. They can take a yoke 54. “Noisy” song title from “Les Miserables” (with “Do”) 60. They’re succulent 61. Sprang back 62. Demands 64. Bando of baseball 65. Barbary sheep 70. Series finale 71. Filmmaker David 74. Peter, Paul and not Mary 77. Adopted son of Claudius 78. Extreme cruelty 80. “What a relief!”

82. More overly diluted 84. Tryst 89. Delectable 90. “Noisy” line from 1969 Harry Nilsson hit 95. Round building 96. “A Chorus Line” number

97. Gannon University city 98. Treat shabbily 99. Czech plastic explosive 101. Pretense 104. Control ___ 106. Cheerless 110. Big Bertha’s birthplace 111. Eats noisily 113. Mont Blanc, e.g.

115. Tide competitor 116. Before now 118. Scorecard number 119. Misremember, maybe 121. English race place 123. “Noisy” line from Isley Brothers song (with “Shake”) 130. Slavery 131. Cause for complaint 132. Transfer by will 133. Recipient 134. Old Spanish money 135. Drove (around) Down 1. Wicker material 2. Take ___ to (fancy) 3. “In the ___”: Elvis number 4. 1995 movie about a pig 5. Lifeless, old-style 6. Nonpareil 7. ___ antenna 8. SALT subject 9. Romanian monetary unit 10. Marshal 11. Jewish calendar month 12. Call for 13. Make tracks?

14. Roman-fleuve 15. More banal 16. Wasn’t colorfast 17. Lawyers’ org.

18. Richard ___ 19. Pitching choice 24. Recipe direction 25. Wynken and Blynk-

en’s sailing buddy 32. Stridex target 33. Hardly wimpy 34. Ration out 36. Old Testament prophet 37. Prepare to fly 38. Shangri-la 39. “You ___?”

41. Nuclear submarines 43. Roman emperor 44. Drilling grp.

46. Minimally 48. Caprice 50. Jiffs 52. Be decisive 54. W.W. II conference site 55. Group of eight 56. Affectedly creative 57. Excellent, in 80s slang 58. Fish caught in pots 59. Old name for Tokyo 60. Prompts 63. Collection container 66. Like some movies 67. Theological rationalism 68. Ridgeline 69. Small boat 72. Sly 73. Geiger of Geiger counter fame 75. Up and about 76. Sari-clad royal 79. Enunciate 81. “Unimaginable as ___ in Heav’n”: Milton 83. Seventh letters of the Greek alphabet 85. Ham, to Noah 86. Something to shoot for 87. Infield protectors 88. Hip bones 90. Latin infinitive 91. Tries for 92. Slippery and red ones 93. Way to memorize 94. Partner of void 100. Empower 102. Elimination game,

in the UK 103. Dragnets 105. Have coming 107. Gun action 108. Pique 109. Got a turn, in baseball 111. ___ sister 112. ___ minister 114. Leisurely walk 117. Battering wind 119. European erupter 120. Refuse visitors 122. Jerk 123. “___ true!”

124. Café alternative 125. Ashes holder 126. Steno ___ 127. Pound sound 128. Band performance 129. Toxic insecticide

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Friday Carsten Meier will host a reception for a solo photograpy exhibition at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at gallery 102 in the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University. The exhibit will run from Feb. 11 to March 1. Visit www.art.usu.edu for more information.

Colby Bair will perform with Spirit Goat, JoJo and the Missionaries at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

Sherid Peterson will perform at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22. Sherid’s music is always a crowd favorite.

Everyone is welcome, there is no cover charge.

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 for students and senior citizens, $3 MCHS students with ID and $25 for a family (up to six people).

SATURDAY A rabies vaccination clinic is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Richmond Fire Station. City staff are available to license pets as well. Rabies fees are $15 per pet.Visit www.cachevalleyvets. org or www.cdc.gov/rabies/pre vention/animals.html for more information.

Nordic United, a Cache County, not-for-profit that promotes non-motorized, winter outdoor recreation, is holding the CROWBAR backcountry ski race Feb. 23, at the Sink Hollow Trailhead (near Beaver Mountain). The event is open to Rando/AT, telemark, and split-

boarders and looks to continue as North America’s only timed winter overland backcountry travel event held entirely outside of established ski area boundaries. Visit www.nordicunited.org/ crowbar.htm for all information related to the event including directions to the start, the course, registration, required equipment and carpooling.

The Child & Family Support Center will host a Super Hero Party from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 23, at Wilson Elementary School, 89 S. 500 East. It will be a day of games, treats, activitites, capes, pictures, raffles, face painting, masks and more. Tickets are $15 online; $20 at the door.

Price includes a mask, superhero certificate, treats and other activities. Register online at www.childandfamilysupportcen ter.org; call 752-8880 for more information.

From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, enjoy a winter hike up the Logan River Trail to discover the wonders of snow, take a close-up look at flakes and do some snow-related crafts during this drop-in exploration time for kids of all ages at Stokes Nature Center. No registration necessary. For more information, call 755-3239 or email nature@logannature.org.

Darin Johnson will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Single adults age 35 and up can come out and enjoy a night of food, fun and games from 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Willow Park church (340 W. 700 North). Sloppy Joes, chips and drinks will be provided.

Please bring a salad or dessert.

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology invites guests to experience an ancient marketplace in activities at its next “Saturdays at the Museum” activity. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23,

guests can complete a number of activities to “earn” beans, organizers said. They can grind corn, make feather fans or fashion clay pots. After earning their beans, guests can exchange them for prizes. For more information about museum events, call 797-7545 or visit anthromu seum.usu.edu.

The Clash MMA 5 will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Eccles Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East in North Logan.

They’ll be more extreme fights, two title-best bouts. Doors open at 6 p.m.; tickets are $15 to $50.

Visit theclashmma.com for more information.

The CAPS monthly match is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Cache Public Shooting Range located three miles west of Logan on the Valley View Highway. Spectators are welcome. Eye and ear protection are required. For additional information visit www. utahshooters.org or call Rich Meacham at 770-9399.

Local magician and author Richard Hatch will be signing copies of his illustrated, bilingual children’s book “Taro-san the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Hastings, 50 E. 400 North.

Kris Krompel will be performing from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at KSM Music to coincide with KSM Musics Teton Guitar Weekend.

They will also have the Teton Guitar representative who has been in the music industry for 46 years available for any questions.

Guitarist/vocalist Christina Johnson will perform at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. Christina is a student with an amazing voice who sings with the top vocal groups at USU. Don’t miss this. There will be no cover charge, but tips are appreciated.

SUNDAY Iver Anchor will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. The Post-Mormon Community is a non-sectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormonism. The Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing at a local restaurant at 6:30 p.m. every Sunday evening. Newcomers welcome. For more information call Jeff at 770-4263 or visit our website at www.postmormon. org/logan.

RonNell Andersen Jones, an associate law professor at BYU, will address single adults age 35 and up during a fireside at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Willow Park church (340 W. 700 North). Join us for an hour for her lecture, and then refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY Story Time will be at 10:10 and 11 a.m. and Sleepy Time at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the North Logan Library.

A fundraiser for Bridgerland Literacy will be held Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Texas Roadhouse.

Come into the restaurant and present the flier you can print off our website at www.bridg erlandliteracy.org. Ten percent of the cost of your meal will be donated to Bridgerland Literacy to help us improve our community.

WEDNESDAY The Human Library at the Merrill-Cazier Library on the campus of Utah State University offers “living books” to be checked out for a conversation.

This particular Human Library to be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 27, will be focused on religion and spiritual pathways. Each human book is unique and has something to share regarding his or her experiences, perspectives, values, or

beliefs. Readers are invited to select books that offer new experiences and viewpoints so that both the book and the reader can learn something new and foster understanding through a shared conversation. Conversations can be up to 30 minutes long.

Utah State University’s Department of Art and Design is hosting guest artists Kristen Martincic and Joseph Pintz for an artist talk at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in room FAV 150 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s Logan campus. Martincic is a professor of art at the University of Missouri, teaching ceramics and printmaking, and Pintz is an assistant professor of art and ceramics at the University of Missouri. While at USU, the public will also have the rare opportunity to watch Martincic and Pintz at work in the ceramic and printmaking studios from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Feb. 26 to 28, from 9 a.m.to 4 p.m. in rooms FAV 104 and FAV 121 in the Chase Fine Arts Center. For more information on the artist talk or studio work times, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B in the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit arts. usu.edu.

THURSDAY You won’t want to miss Top of Utah Entertainment’s upcoming production of the British comedy “Murder Room” at the Caine Lyric Theatre in downtown Logan. This comedic play by Jack Sharkey features a hilarious cast of characters, an alleged “murder,” an expired feline and the one place that might put it all together — the murder room.

“Murder Room” is a familyfriendly 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 reservations or for more information, please call 7978022 or visit arts.usu.edu. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students.

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