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The Herald Journal

March 4-10, 2011

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar

On the cover:

From the editor Dennis Hinkamp, Cache Magazine’s long-time humorist. Hinkamp writes of his experience living in Cache Valley for over three decades, saying that he’s loved “56 seconds out of every minute” of his time here and describing the “conversational fodder” generated by his long tenure in this corner of the world.

After editing Hinkamp’s piece, I went home and started packing for my upcoming move out of town, picking through my accumulated possessions to decide what to leave and what to take.

That’s right, this Utah girl is leaving the Beehive State to start a new life deep in the heart of San Antonio, Texas.

My fiancé commented that I’ll be saying “good-bye to Cache Valley, the Herald Journal, childhood and every-

Slow Wave

Reminiscing on 30 years in Cache Valley

Magazine

Larry Wilder, right, performs with his son, Nolan Bronson, for students on the USU campus Wednesday morning. Eli Lucero/Herald Journal

HELP BUT FEEL IreadCOUDLN’T a strange sense of coincidence as I this week’s excellent column from

What’s inside this week

kburgess@hjnews.com

thing I’ve known.” That pretty much sums it up.

People have been asking what it’s like to be pulling up stakes, and I’d quantify the emotions as 92 percent excited, 5 percent nervous and 3 percent nostalgic. I’ve always wanted to experience a different part of the country, and now I’m really doing it; plus, I’m getting a great guy in the bargain.

My rough plan is to enter graduate school in the fall, get married in the winter and live happily ever after in the long term. Sounds easy enough.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t have some pangs of saddness about my imminent departure. During the past few weeks I’ve been going on a farewell tour of my favorite local spots, from Bear Lake to the Indian Oven.

Logan will always have a big place in my heart, as will all of you who have read this column, sent in poems and generally supported Cache Magazine.

Thanks for the great memories.

— Kim Burgess Outgoing Cache Magazine editor

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‘Rango’ a fun film for all ages

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Cute

pet photo of the week

This cat is available for adoption!

Pet: Paddington From: Four Paws Why he’s so lovable: Paddington was picked up in Logan as a stray. He is very nice and polite. Paddington is shy at first, but an awesome cat once he feels secure. He is good with everyone! Paddington is looking for an indoor-only forever home. If you would like to meet him or learn more, please call Sheri at 787-1751.

The adoption fee for most Four Paws cats is $75, which includes neuter and shots.

Adopt Paddington with his friend Molly Mae for $100. Paddington is residing at the Logan PetSmart, 1050 N. Main St.

Slow Wave is created from real people’s dreams as drawn by Jesse Reklaw. Ask Jesse to draw your dream! Visit www.slowwave.com to find out how.

BYU Men’s Chorus makes first trip to Logan

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RIGHAM YOUNG University’s Men’s Chorus will perform at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 4, at the Logan Tabernacle.

Free admission.

At 190 voices strong with regular extended tours, the BYU Men’s Chorus is the largest and one of the most popular men’s choirs in the United States. Conducting this critically-acclaimed choir is Rosalind Hall, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music who has earned a host of accolades.

As a native of Wales in Great Britain, Hall comes from a land with one of the strongest choral traditions in the world. She came to the

U.S. to continue her studies at BYU, earning a master’s degree. Prior to directing the Men’s Chorus, she was director of choral activities and music department chair at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah.

Men’s Chorus is known for concerts full of every kind of music, including Gregorian Chants, classical pieces, hymns, spirituals and traditional arrangements.

The group has traveled to California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and throughout Utah performing as the feature choir and in popular venues like the American Choral Directors Association and the Celebrity Concert Series.

In 2009, Deseret Book rereleased the popular Men’s Chorus albums “Awake My Soul” and “Shout with Glory,” two of the group’s eight album releases. In the fall of 2005, Men’s Chorus released its latest commerical album, a long-awaited disc titled “Praise Him.” Produced by Tantara Records, BYU’s own recording label, the CD features 19 songs that demonstrate the power and versatility of the group through a combination of anthems, folk songs and hymns. The CD includes familiar favorites like “Danny Boy,” “Shanandoah” and “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”

Film buffs invited to enter USU contest WO THOUSAND DOLLARS T is up for grabs at the 2011 Fringe Film Festival, presented by Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts and the Logan Arthouse and Cinema.

Entries must fit the 2011 Fringe theme “Twitterpated: a Spring Love Comedy” and be turned into the Chase Fine Arts Center Manager’s office (inside the Tippetts Exhibit Hall) with the official entry fee and form by April 1.

“The short-film festival, which is scheduled to take place April 15 at the Logan Arthouse, will have a different vibe than in past years,” said Denise Albiston, marketing director for the Caine College of the Arts. “This is a

chance to offer greater exposure to Cache Valley film makers and display their talent in this community.”

Rules, regulations, information and the entry form are available at the Fringe Film Festival website (arts. usu.edu/fringe).

“Our goal is to make this film festival a little more like Sundance, except with a four-minute limit,” said Jonathan Ribera, co-owner of the Logan Arthouse. “We’re working with the Caine College of the Arts to up the prize money from last year’s $1,000 and add a few new communityengaging twists.”

New aspects to this year’s film festival include requiring all films to follow the same theme, removing

the use of required elements in films, increased prize money and greater interaction with the winning entrants as directors explain the creativity behind their films at the festival, said Albiston.

The $2,000 cash prize will be awarded to the entry that receives the Critics’ Choice Award, selected by a panel of professional judges. Other awards, based on the results of online voting at arts.usu.edu/fringe, may also be announced at the film festival.

There is a $50 fee per entry and entrants must be 16 years of age or older to be eligible.

For more information, call 7979203 or visit arts.usu.edu/fringe.

CVCA Art Camp registration underway T’S REGISTRATION I Three time for CVCA Art Camp! camps for children ages 5

to 11 are available, with classes held Monday through Thursday.

Morning sessions start at 9 a.m. and end at noon; afternoon session starts at 1 p.m. and ends at 4 p.m. Cost is $90 per child. Camp 1 will be held June 6 to 16. Camp 2 runs July 11 to 21 and Camp 3 from Aug. 1 to 11.

This summer schedule provides children ages 5 to 11 with the opportunity to explore their creativity through visual art, ceramics, music, drama, cooking, drumming and dance. Each camp is slightly different so stop by the Cache Valley Center for the Arts for details and registration info. The themes for 2011 are “Exploring the Past” in the June camp, “Our Planet Earth” in July and “The Fantastic Future!” in August.

Ceramic skills are a part of the creative environment of CVCA Art Camp but they are also offered year-round. Ceramics at the Center provides classes for all ages and skills. Visit the Cache Valley Center for the Arts online at www.

CenterForTheArts.us for details.

Children and Pre-Teen/Teen classes are $56 plus $15 for materials (clay and firing costs) for 5 weeks. Space is limited in the adult classes. Call 752-0026 for details and pricing.

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All mixed up

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All mixed up

‘Unobtrusive yet powerful’

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HE BRIDGER FOLK MUSIC

Society invites you to an intimate evening of brilliant piano and accordion playing with Radoslav Lorkovic at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 4. Songstress Libbie Linton will be opening the show, which will take place in a private home. Call 757-3468 for tickets and directions.

Drawing from a multitude of influences ranging from classical and jazz to the rawest blues and soul emanating from Chicago, New Orleans and Kansas, Lorkovic has taken on an unusually broad musical spectrum and refined it into his distinctive piano style. Following his impressive tenure on the R&B and folk circuits, he accumulated a substantial number of recording credits that include projects by Greg Brown, Dave Moore and Bo Ramsey. Lorkovic stepped out with several releases, including “Clear and Cold,” “High and Dry” and “The Line,” which is dedicated to the people of Croatia. His work with Greg Brown on “One Big Town” earned a three and a half star rating from “Rolling Stone.”

Rad’s disarming, whispered voice has been compared to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. Music critic Brett Ratner writes, “Like Floyd’s music, Lorkovic’s unobtrusive yet powerful piano lines are laden with blues influences...In keeping with his similarity to Waters, the lyrics convey the deep emotions and convic-

respond by showering him with coins yelling, “pivaj Radoslav, pivaj!” Classical music was also played constantly in his home due to the influence of his paternal grandmother, Melita Lorkovic, an internationally known classical pianist. Called the “Grand Dame of Yugoslav Piano, “ she toured worldwide from the ‘40s to the ‘70s.

After several years and hours of expounding on this spark, Lorkovic began touring at age 20 with Bo Ramsey and the Sliders. Lorkovic entered the band having mastered the styles of boogie‑woogie greats such as Albert Ammons and Freddie Slack. Ramsey’s influence drove Lorkovic deeper tion of someone who has, at times, into blues. The music of Howlin’ deviated from the shiny happy life Wolf, Muddy Waters and Little of mainstream society. In true blues fashion, the music as a whole seems Walter shifted Lorkovic’s focus to the basics as he began to draw to ‘speak the truth.’” Speaking for Folk Roots, Tony May says Lorkov- from the styles of Otis Spann and Pinetop Perkins. Several years ic’s music is “graceful yet gut-grablater Lorkovic and Ramsey joined bing, demanding but friendly. An forces with Greg Brown adding elegant repertoire from an innovamusical authenticity to his deep tive artist with wide vision.”

Born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1958, Iowa Roots. At this time Lorkovic was brushing up on his classical Lorkovic’s initial exposure to heritage and looking south to the music can be attributed to his two polyrhythmic sounds of Profesgrandmothers. Antonia Bujas, his sor Longhair and James Booker. maternal grandmother, sang CroaHe had picked up Tex‑Mex and tian, Slovenian and Czech folk Zydeco accordion as well. In 1990 songs to him from birth. At age he made his solo recording debut. one he was reported to be singing back on pitch. By age three he was Five CDs later, Lorkovic currently tours the world regularly appearputting on shows for his grandfaing at prestigious events. ther and his friends, who would

Children’s Choir offers music camp

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NRICH YOUR CHILD’S summer with music.

Register now for Cache Children’s Choir Summer Music Camp, held July 11 to 15 at Utah State University’s Chase Fine Arts Center.

For kids who are 5 to 11 years old, the 2011 Summer Music Camp offers a fun, creative musical experience through vocal instruction, instruments (xylophones, glockenspiels, drums, etc.), dance, art, drama and games. Music Camp

teachers have training in children’s music education and have many years of experience. Specialists in

art, dance, drama and vocal instruction add their expertise. Light, healthy snacks are provided.

Each session of CCC Summer Music Camp is divided into three age groups: 5 to 6 years old, 7 to 8 years old and 9 to 11 years old.

Cost is $60 per child.

Sessions run from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. daily, July 11 to 15.

Space is limited. For more information, call Lori Roberts at 5630618 or visit www.cachechildrenschoir.org and click on “camps.”

Historian’s lecture opens Utah State Founder’s Day

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WARD-WINNING historian Jared Farmer will kick off Founder’s Day events at Utah State University with his talk “Possessed by the Past,” held at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, March 4, at the David B. Haight Alumni House. A light lunch will be provided.

Farmer is the featured guest for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series.

“My education at Utah State University changed my life and shaped my career as a history professor,” Farmer said. “I will share my thoughts on the value of a history education for everyone, not just historians.”

Farmer, a native of Provo, graduated from USU in 1996 and earned his doctorate at Stanford University. He now serves on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, specializing in environmental history and the history of the American West. He has published two books, including “On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape,” which received the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize from the the Society of American Historians — an honor awarded to the best book in American history each year. His third book, “Trees in Paradise: A California History” is forth-

coming from W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. “Jared’s intellectual work revolves around places and the different meanings people give those places over time,” said USU history professor David Rich Lewis. “As a native Utahan, he embraces this place and people, telling our collective history in the most complex yet personal way.

He’s one of the most analytical people I’ve ever known, but also one of the most engaging storytellers.

I expect his presentation to contain good doses of both.”

Farmer made a good impression early on with the faculty of the USU history department. As an undergraduate he interned with the “Western Historical Quarterly” and began writing his first book.

“I think he knew, and I found out before he graduated, that he was going to be a historian of the West and environment and Utah,” Rich Lewis said. “I think we all sensed greatness in this most unusual individual.”

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes prominent alumni back to campus to discuss their career trajectories and emerging issues in their fields. Talks are open to all.

For information on the Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, contact Natalie Smoot in the college office at 797-2796.

ERITAGE THEATRE H presents “The Secret Garden” at 7:30 p.m. March 4 to 26

Repertory Dance Theatre to perform at Ellen Eccles Center for the Arts presT ents Repertory Dance Theatre HE CACHE VALLEY

at 7:30 p.m. on March 15 and 16, in the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Let yourself be moved by one of Utah’s top touring modern dance companies.

Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) will perform “Elements,” a dance concert designed to remind audiences of the beauty and fragility of our planet. This concert will feature the works of Ze’eva Cohen, Ford Evans, Eric Handman, Mary Frances Lloyd and Zvi Gotheiner.

“RDT has been recognized worldwide for their long-standing commitment to dance preservation and creation,” said Wally Bloss, executive director for the Cache Valley Center for the Arts. “This concert showcases RDT’s dedication to the sustainability of our world and the arts.”

Since humankind’s earliest years, alchemists have seen our planet’s fundamental essences as “earth,

air, fire, and water.” Our existence depends on understanding and solving problems relating to these essences. This repertoire defines the four essential elements to motivate our desire for clean energy, clean air, clean water and a clean and healthy earth.

Highlights from the program include Zvi Gotheiner’s “Glacier,” a contemporary water ritual that imagines a future civilization coping with shrinking resources. Other works include “Watermark” by Ford Evans and lastly Mary Frances Lloyd’s “The Lady of the Lake,” the magical and mysterious supernatural Celtic goddess of water who will leave you breathless.

Since 1966, RDT has inspired tens of thousands of students and teachers each year and has acquired over 330 pieces of choreography.

Based at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City, RDT contributes to the cultural, social and economic vitality

of the community and state.

For more information, visit www.rdtutah.org.

Tickets for RDT’s shows at Ellen Eccles Theatre are $16 to $22 with a wide variety of discounts including 25 percent off for USU students, half off for kids ages 5 to 18 and 15 percent off for groups of 15 or more. No discounts will be available on daysof-show. Tickets for can be purchased online without additional fees at www.EllenEcclesTheatre.org or at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office in the Bullen Center at 43 S. Main St. For details call 752-0026 or visit the website www.CacheArts.org.

This northern Utah tour is made possible through the performing arts season at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts and the support of this show’s sponsors, including Conservice utility management & billing; Cache Valley Radio Group – KOOL 103.90; Caffe Ibis – A Gallery, deli, café; ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. and Watkins Printing.

on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. on March 12 and 19.

The play will be performed at Heritage Theatre, 2505 So. Hwy 89, Perry.

Tickets for adults are $9; seniors and children $8. Call 723-8392 for reservations from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday or Wednesday through Saturday.

A young girl, Mary Lennox, is the sole survivor of a Cholera epidemic in India in 1904. Her parents and the other British officers dead, Mary is sent to the home of her uncle, Archibald Craven. He is her only surviving relative, his wife, Lily, having died in childbirth 10 years earlier. Archibald is a hunchback, grown bitter after the tragic death of his wife. He has closed off her beloved garden and his heart, not even seeing his own son.

When Mary comes to his home,

the ghosts of her father and Lily seem to haunt her and her uncle.

She turns to her maid, the gardener and a strange young man in the woods for companionship and guidance.

These friends, along with the spirits of those who have passed before, lead her and her newfound cousin Colin to the Secret Garden and to, perhaps, one of the greatest secrets of life.

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‘The Secret Garden’ comes to Perry stage

A royal farce at Old Barn

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HE OLD BARN COMMUNITY Theatre presents “Once Upon a Mattress,” the zany musical adaptation of the beloved fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.” The show tells the story of Princess Winnifred (Amber Kacherian) who must pass a secret test devised by her future mother-in-law, the queen, (Cece Craner) before she can marry her prince (Brett Kirby). Other cast members include the King (Jay Greene), The Minstrel

(David Hull), Lady Larken (AnnMarie Murdock) and Sir Harry (Matt Jeppesen). The production is directed by Laura Lee and Marvin Hull.

The show will be presented at 7:30 p.m. every Monday, Friday and Saturday from March 4 to 26. Matinees will be performed on March 12 and 19 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at www.oldbarn. org or reserved by calling 435-458BARN.

Still playing “I Am Number Four” Rated PG-13 ★★ Great, another Chosen One. Director D.J. Caruso’s action tale “I Am Number Four” is mostly familiar stuff, presenting the latest teen outsider coming into possession of his latent superpowers just in time to battle evil forces intent on world chaos. While the filmmakers manage some entertaining fight sequences, they offer a standard-issue gang of heroes backed by a vague, unoriginal mythology about human-looking aliens finding refuge on Earth after their planet is destroyed. Alex Pettyfer has the title role, one of nine youths being hunted down by the destroyers of their own world before the kids develop genetically inherited abilities that could help them defeat the bad guys, who now aim to invade Earth. One character notes that his upbringing was like an endless episode of “The X-Files,” but even weak installments of that show had more creepy chills and clever twists than this. 109 minutes.

“Unknown” Rated PG-13 ★★1⁄2 A couple of years ago, Liam Neeson starred as a former CIA agent in “Taken,” searching for his kidnapped daughter and kicking as much butt as necessary to find her. Now, he’s continuing this fascinating late-career path, remaining in action-star mode as he creeps ever closer to 60. It’s a chilly little thriller about amnesia, mistrust and lost identity, with the kinds of chases and explosions you’ve seen countless times before. Interchangeable Euro baddies lurk in the shadows, seemingly omniscient

“Gnomeo & Juliet” Rated G ★★ This animated riff on “Romeo and Juliet,” with yard gnomes standing in for our star-crossed lovers, doesn’t have a single original idea in its pointy, ceramic head.

Spirited and brisk as this family film can be, its energy cannot disguise the fact that it’s an awkward mash-up of Shakespeare puns, hackneyed pop culture references and familiar Elton John songs. The concept is clever enough — I mean, come on, who doesn’t like yard gnomes? — but that’s pretty much all this film from director Kelly Asbury (”Shrek 2”) is.

Like “Snakes on a Plane,” the title is the gag, and and omnipresent, waiting to strike. Nothing and no one is what it seems, which makes the unpredictability somewhat more predictable. Still, Neeson’s always-intelligent screen presence, his nuance and gravitas, help elevate “Unknown” beyond its preposterous elements. He gets help from a classy supporting cast, including Frank Langella and Sebastian Koch. And, to be fair, the film from Spanish director Jaume ColletSerra has its suspenseful moments, including

it tells you all you need to know. And of course, “Gnomeo & Juliet” is in 3-D. While adding a third dimension can provide an inspired sense of perspective and makes some of the details pop in a tactile way — the chips in the gnomes’ paint, the smudges of dirt on their faces — it is, as always, unnecessary. “Gnomeo & Juliet” does feature a strong voice cast, though, led by James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine and Maggie Smith.

Some of the one-liners and visual bits hit their targets, but for the most part, reheated gags and sequences that recall earlier, better animated films are the norm. 84 minutes. the startling, precisely staged taxicab accident that sends Neeson’s character, Dr. Martin Harris, on his dangerous journey. Martin had traveled to Berlin for a scientific conference, but the crash places him in a four-day coma. When he awakens, his wife (January Jones) insists she doesn’t know him and another man (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. Martin seeks help from the cab driver (Diane Kruger) to piece together what happened.

106 minutes.

“Hall Pass” Rated R ★1⁄2 The Farrelly brothers continue to strain desperately for their grossout glory days with their latest “comedy” — and, yes, that word is in quotes for a reason.

Think about it. What was the last truly, deeply, funny movie they made ... “There’s Something About Mary”?

And that was back in 1998. With “Stuck on You” (2003), they came close to achieving that desired mix of humor and heart, and they had a great cast in Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear. But their version of “Fever Pitch” (2005) never worked up any real heat — and that criticism comes from a Boston Red Sox fan. So here are brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly once again, as writers and directors, trying to mine suburbia for its latent horniness and untapped bodily fluids with singularly uninspired results.

Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis co-star as longtime friends Rick and Fred, who are trapped in stereotypically stagnant marriages. Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate play their wives, Maggie and Grace, who are such cliched, spiteful nags, they pretend to be asleep in order to withhold sex from their husbands as a means of gaining control.

Are you laughing yet?

Then Maggie and Grace get some advice to give their husbands a “hall pass”: a week off from marriage to pursue all the hotties they’ve been surreptitiously ogling.

Naturally, these guys have no idea what to do — because the Farrellys have no idea what to do with them. 105 minutes.

All reviews by The Associated Press

Disney characters and artwork © Disney, Disney/Pixar characters © Disney/Pixar.

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Rango is a chameleon with aspirations of being an actor. The movie opens on him opining with random inanimate objects like the naked torso of a Barbie. “Are those real?� he quips.

He hones his acting craft, but none of the other objects seem to be that interested in what he’s doing. Still Rango, voiced by Johnny Depp, is oddly charismatic from his slightly cricked neck to his subtle Western accent.

Without any backstory given about Rango, we’re immediately thrust into his life. Many kids may be lost during this beginning. There’s no story to set up or char-

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‘Rango’ charms, ‘Bureau’ flops

A celebration

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Additional Addi Rendezvous

heritage

Performers

Cache Valley Cowboy Rendevzous showcases Western life with hearty food, pithy poetry and toe-tapping tunes.

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arry Wilder strums the banjo and belts out an enthusiastic yodel that travels up the musical scale.

It’s a sound his young audience probably hasn’t heard too often, but they’re clearly enthralled. The roughly 300 Utah State University freshman who attended Wilder’s Wednesday performance applauded enthusiastically for classic songs like “I Am My Own Grandpa,” and “Freight Train Boogie,” which date back to the 1940s and 1950s.

A handful even stick around for a mini yodeling workshop that Wilder led with his son, Nolan Bronson.

“There is something about these Americana tunes that digs deep with people.... I don’t’ think that’ll ever go

away,” said Wilder, a former national yodeling champion who took the stage at USU’s Kent Concert Hall.

A celebration of Americana and Western life was exactly what Avon resident Dale Major had in mind when he invited the Portland-based yodeler and dozens of other performers to lend their talents to the first annual Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous, which is scheduled for March 4, 5 and 6. The festival features musicians, poets and raconteurs on three stages at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum, with Jackson Hole’s popular Bar J. Wranglers serving as headliners.

Other featured acts include Eli Barsi, a Canadian recording artist with two Canadian Country Music Awards

Andy Nelson

The Bar J. Wranglers

Above and Below Left: Larry Wilder, left, performs with his son, Nolan Bronson, for students on the Utah State University’s Kent Concert Hall on Wednesday morning. Eli Lucero/Herald Journal

nominations; Andy Nelson, a second-generation farrier from Oakley, Idaho, who is known for his sense of humor; Sam DeLeeuw, who draws on her experience as a rancher’s wife to craft compelling tales and Steve Porter, a recent first place winner in the The National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo’s “Reciter Serious” category.

“There are a lot of great performers (coming) who have won awards in their genres,” Major said. “They’ll probably make a lot of new fans.”

At 9 a.m. on Sunday, a chaplain with Utah’s Cowboy Poetry Association will lead a non-denominational church service at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville.

Also on the schedule is a children’s poetry contest that includes categories in recitation and original writing.

Sharing the joy of country music and poetry with

“Spurs and Chaps are optional” Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous ** What: March 4, 5 and 6 ** When: Where: Friday and Satruday events at Mountain Crest ** High School, 255 S. 800 East, Hyrum. Sunday’s Cowboy Church service will be held at 9 a.m. at the American West Heritage Center, 4025 S Highway 89/91.

Cost: General admission is $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, $20 for a family of up to eight. Bar J. Wrangler concert tickets (two shows included) are $25 for VIP seating, $20 for general. A catered lunch is available for $7.50. Dinner is $12.50 For more information: Go to the event’s website at www.cachevalleycowboyrendezvous.com

** **

the next generation was a central goal for Major, who started putting the Rendezvous together several months ago during time off from his consturction job. Major also arranged for Wilder’s Wednesday appearnace at the USU class in “creative arts,” as well as several performances at local elemenatary

schools by Ernie Sites, a cowboy musican who has a strong following on the East Coast.

“Kids now don’t know the old songs like ‘Home On the Range,’ which are part of our heritage,” said Major, who is a father of six himself and sometimes performs country songs at open mic nights with a son and daughter. “When

you listen to those songs it’s hard not to like them.”

Several Aggies echoed that sentiment Wednesday.

“I don’t own any country CDs, but this was good — I would definitely be interested in going to the Rendezvous,” said Erin Marsh, a freshman majoring in special education who mostly listens to classical and LDS music.

Major stressed that other country music and poetry newbies shouldn’t be afraid to attend the event, which has the slogan “Spurs and chaps are optional.”

“This (music and poetry) is wholesome and historic,” he added. “It’s good family entertainment.”

Kenny Hall

Eli Barsi

Jo Lynne Kirkwood

Sam DeLeeuw

Mary Kaye Knaphus

Steve Porter

*To see a video of Wilder and Bronson’s Utah State performance, go online to www. hjnews.com.

— Kim Burgess

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heritage

Performers

Cache Valley Cowboy Rendevzous showcases Western life with hearty food, pithy poetry and toe-tapping tunes.

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arry Wilder strums the banjo and belts out an enthusiastic yodel that travels up the musical scale.

It’s a sound his young audience probably hasn’t heard too often, but they’re clearly enthralled. The roughly 300 Utah State University freshman who attended Wilder’s Wednesday performance applauded enthusiastically for classic songs like “I Am My Own Grandpa,” and “Freight Train Boogie,” which date back to the 1940s and 1950s.

A handful even stick around for a mini yodeling workshop that Wilder led with his son, Nolan Bronson.

“There is something about these Americana tunes that digs deep with people.... I don’t’ think that’ll ever go

away,” said Wilder, a former national yodeling champion who took the stage at USU’s Kent Concert Hall.

A celebration of Americana and Western life was exactly what Avon resident Dale Major had in mind when he invited the Portland-based yodeler and dozens of other performers to lend their talents to the first annual Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous, which is scheduled for March 4, 5 and 6. The festival features musicians, poets and raconteurs on three stages at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum, with Jackson Hole’s popular Bar J. Wranglers serving as headliners.

Other featured acts include Eli Barsi, a Canadian recording artist with two Canadian Country Music Awards

Andy Nelson

The Bar J. Wranglers

Above and Below Left: Larry Wilder, left, performs with his son, Nolan Bronson, for students on the Utah State University’s Kent Concert Hall on Wednesday morning. Eli Lucero/Herald Journal

nominations; Andy Nelson, a second-generation farrier from Oakley, Idaho, who is known for his sense of humor; Sam DeLeeuw, who draws on her experience as a rancher’s wife to craft compelling tales and Steve Porter, a recent first place winner in the The National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo’s “Reciter Serious” category.

“There are a lot of great performers (coming) who have won awards in their genres,” Major said. “They’ll probably make a lot of new fans.”

At 9 a.m. on Sunday, a chaplain with Utah’s Cowboy Poetry Association will lead a non-denominational church service at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville.

Also on the schedule is a children’s poetry contest that includes categories in recitation and original writing.

Sharing the joy of country music and poetry with

“Spurs and Chaps are optional” Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous ** What: March 4, 5 and 6 ** When: Where: Friday and Satruday events at Mountain Crest ** High School, 255 S. 800 East, Hyrum. Sunday’s Cowboy Church service will be held at 9 a.m. at the American West Heritage Center, 4025 S Highway 89/91.

Cost: General admission is $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, $20 for a family of up to eight. Bar J. Wrangler concert tickets (two shows included) are $25 for VIP seating, $20 for general. A catered lunch is available for $7.50. Dinner is $12.50 For more information: Go to the event’s website at www.cachevalleycowboyrendezvous.com

** **

the next generation was a central goal for Major, who started putting the Rendezvous together several months ago during time off from his consturction job. Major also arranged for Wilder’s Wednesday appearnace at the USU class in “creative arts,” as well as several performances at local elemenatary

schools by Ernie Sites, a cowboy musican who has a strong following on the East Coast.

“Kids now don’t know the old songs like ‘Home On the Range,’ which are part of our heritage,” said Major, who is a father of six himself and sometimes performs country songs at open mic nights with a son and daughter. “When

you listen to those songs it’s hard not to like them.”

Several Aggies echoed that sentiment Wednesday.

“I don’t own any country CDs, but this was good — I would definitely be interested in going to the Rendezvous,” said Erin Marsh, a freshman majoring in special education who mostly listens to classical and LDS music.

Major stressed that other country music and poetry newbies shouldn’t be afraid to attend the event, which has the slogan “Spurs and chaps are optional.”

“This (music and poetry) is wholesome and historic,” he added. “It’s good family entertainment.”

Kenny Hall

Eli Barsi

Jo Lynne Kirkwood

Sam DeLeeuw

Mary Kaye Knaphus

Steve Porter

*To see a video of Wilder and Bronson’s Utah State performance, go online to www. hjnews.com.

— Kim Burgess

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Been Here, Done That

ABOUT SIX MONTHS

ago I let my 30th anniversary of living in Logan pass without much fan or fair. I have loved probably 56 seconds out of every minute I’ve lived here, but I sure didn’t plan to stay this long when I arrived in September of 1980. I still enjoy holidays and moderate birthday celebrations, but longevity recognition is oddly painful to both watch and experience.

I mean, really, if you want to give me a free parking space, a remaining-lifetime supply of pizza, a raise or plane tickets to Hawaii in January, then I might change my mind. But just announcing to the world that you possess a monumental amount of inertia isn’t something I want recorded. And I already have mirrors, so I don’t need a plaque on the wall to remind me how

Reel

Continued from p. 7 The writing certainly isn’t geared toward children either.

Many of the jokes and oneliners will fly right over their

heads while landing squarely on their parents. May I suggest that “Rango” is more of an animated cartoon for adults than kids? It’s a lot darker than many animated films — for example, characters do die. It’s much smarter than the average CG animated kid movie especially during Rango’s numerous speeches, which are both funny and witty but are delivered with such perfect voracity that much of what is said will be almost entirely missed by the younger folks in the audience.

It is about time that someone other than Pixar decided to put out an intelligent, smartly written animated feature film that was geared more toward adults than their kids.

Slightly Off Center

By Dennis Hinkamp

long I’ve been here.

I certainly don’t want a gold watch. An ongoing joke with my late father was over his retirement joy of finally being able to own a Rolex. “You paid $2,000

“The Adjustment Bureau” The entire time I was watching “The Adjustment Bureau” I couldn’t help but think I’m sure they meant to call it “The Exposition Bureau.” Information is regurgitated at a nauseating rate during this movie just so you know what’s going on. Nothing is left to your imagination.

Nothing is left for the viewer to figure out. It’s all spouted out by superfluous characters in order to drive the story forward like a blunt object swinging toward your head.

“The Adjustment Bureau” is based on a short story by the late sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick. It tells of an up and coming young, energetic senator-to-be named David Norris (Matt Damon). Norris isn’t your typical politician, but he tries to be. He tries to schmooze with the crowd and work the room with speeches full of hot button words, but that’s not really him.

The real him is the person who got into a drunken bar fight the night of an election. He’s

for that and it doesn’t even have a stopwatch or an alarm?” I would kid him as I showed off my $60 watch that measured altitude, temperature and could do just about anything short of frying bacon. And what a lousy metaphor it is to give people a timepiece to commemorate all the time behind you and the significantly less time ahead.

It’s hard to say; maybe it is a lack of imagination, ambition or sense of adventure that kept me here. I’ve always thought it was easier to leave than stay. Finding new friends is always easier than trying to make peace with old enemies. Maybe you just found the right place the first time.

Maybe there is no right place and you would waste a lot of time moving around just to learn that.

It’s mostly fruitless to revisit those thousands of tiny circum-

stances and decisions that led you to where and who you are at this moment in time.

There is no particular value in staying in one place for 30 years. Sure, it gives you lots of conversational fodder when people get into discussions about the worst winter ever, how many times it has snowed in June and remembering when the air was clear and tasty all year round. On the rare occasion, and I mean Big Foot rare, people think longevity makes you wise.

Mostly, people ask about all the changes you’ve seen. The thing is, you really don’t notice them when they happen in slow motion around you. The university and city have probably tripled in size since my first days here, but this would only be shocking if you had been away

for 20 years and came back. To me the whole world has gotten more crowded and Logan has just remained the same size in proportion. Sure, you remember the first McDonalds’ and WalMart; Borders Books coming and going and all the iterations of Main Street businesses. But really this is just the changing wallpaper after a while. People still ask you if it was snowing in the canyon no matter what month of year it is. People still remember Aggie Ice Cream.

Outside the Valley people still refer to Logan as a “town.”

After 30 years it’s mostly comforting and only a little annoying.

passionate and reckless and unbeknownst to him his life is being planned out and orchestrated by a secret fedora wearing organization.

By design, Norris runs into a striking young lady in the men’s bathroom at a hotel where he’s giving a speech.

Elise (Emily Blunt) is just as passionate and spontaneous as David. They instantly feel fireworks. Love at first sight right?

Well, it doesn’t matter because that’s not in the cards for David.

A higher power is directing his life in ways he couldn’t ever imagine.

When he meets Elise a second time by happenstance the fedora brigade jumps in and informs David that he was never supposed to meet her again. Without leaving any sort of mystery about themselves they begin to espouse exactly who they are and what they do in such matter-of-fact terms that it makes the existence of a world wide organization that controls people’s lives seem utterly mundane. Think about that for a moment. Here’s an organization that plans and exe-

cutes, sometimes by affecting low for Elise, we still never the smallest details, people’s feel any sort of dramatic pull. lives and their very existence, The movie is seriously lacking yet seems boring and rather in anything remotely coming tedious. Shouldn’t these guys close to real, genuine human be full of mystery and intrigue? emotion. The movie is so Shouldn’t they exude creepifocused on showing exactly ness as the ultimate Big Brother how these mysterious men watching over the human race? do everything they do (magic Nope they’re just there doing doors!) that they forget about what they do, and may I add the real story staring them not doing it all that well. You’d right in the face. think that an organization that’s To make matters infinitely been around since apparently worse the ending viciously the dawn of time would have negates the 100 or so minutes this job down to a science, but that you just sat through. After sadly they do not. They act all that running, explaining, more like a bungling group of chasing and explaining, all rookie government agents than of it amounts to an ending they do an all-knowing and allthat feels like a major cop-out seeing divine task force.

— an ending that almost shrugs its shoulders at the audience David and Elise think that they are meant to be together, and says, “Well that’s the best but The Plan says otherwise, we could come up with. Sorry.” and the fedora guys are here The ending has no guts. It’s far to make sure that everything too afraid to follow David and goes according to The Plan.

Elise down a path that may not The movie devolves into a sit well with movie masses. It cat and mouse game where takes a little bow and wraps David eludes capture from the everything up perfectly. Nice fedora guys and finds Elise, and neat, so we don’t have to only to lose her again. One of think or feel. What this movie the biggest problems is even could have used is a Plan of as David searches high and its own from a higher power.

Dennis Hinkamp would like to say “I’m not dead yet; I’m just reminiscing.” Feedback at dhinkamp@msn.com.

h was said at you preach,” so long It’s jus ago.

I though t as true today, t you sh ould kno w.

“Actions speak lo than wo uder, So prea rds” it is true. ch each by the th n ings tha ew day, t you do .

Set a go od exam for othe ple, And you r folks to live. for the g will be blesse d ood dee ds you g , ive.

Be kind in every to others, thin Then yo g you do. that this u will find, poem is true.

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“SNOWFALL”

by Molly Hysell A white robe unfastens slides down, cloaking fences and streets Satined silence

Brenda Schoenfeld

My heart is full of joy for I am going home.

It is in Heaven that I am going no more to roam.

God called me from this place of sadness and sorrow.

There will be joy when I see my loved ones tomorrow.

I heard someone call my name.

I looked around, nothing was the same.

Nothing was as I had been told.

Nothing here that anyone had sold, I looked for the streets of gold.

This was the first thing I had been told.

From there I went to see the houses, built for us.

These were the ones we had to take on trust.

I looked with wonder on my face.

I had finally finished my race.

Home to God is where I went.

It was from here his son was sent.

No tears here no sorrow.

No worry about what comes tomorrow.

“Be a G ood Ex ample”

by Willi am Hum phrey “Practic ew

Both by

“Joy”

by Glenda Grindeland

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Culture

Ruling give Internet TV potential

By The Associated Press

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EW INTERNET video services from companies such as Netflix and Apple are offering a glimpse of a home entertainment future that doesn’t include a pricey monthly cable bill.

To challenge the cable TV industry’s dominance in the living room, though, online video services need popular movies and TV shows to lure viewers, and access to high-speed Internet networks to reach them.

Yet they have had no rights to either — until now.

To win government approval to take over NBC Universal last month, cable giant Comcast Corp. agreed to let online rivals license NBC programming, including hit shows such as “30 Rock” and “The Office.” Comcast also agreed not to block its 17 million broadband subscribers from watching video online through Netflix, Apple’s iTunes and other rivals yet to come.

Those requirements aim to ensure that the nation’s largest cable TV company, with nearly

23 million video subscribers in 39 states, cannot stifle the growth of the nascent Internet video business. Although they apply only to Comcast and NBC, these conditions could serve as a model for other big entertainment companies in dealing with new online competitors. They also send a powerful message that the government believes these promising young rivals deserve an opportunity to take on established media companies.

“These conditions are not just window dressing,” said Paul Gallant, an analyst for MF Global, a financial brokerage. “They come across as a pretty comprehensive effort to give Internet TV a real shot at taking off.”

The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department spent more than a year reviewing Comcast’s plan to buy a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal from General Electric.

The deal gives Comcast control over the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, cable channels such as CNBC and Bravo, the Universal Pictures movie studio and a stake in Hulu.com, which distributes NBC and other broadcast programming online.

Government officials wanted to ensure that Comcast could not crush competition through its control over both a major media empire and the pipes that deliver cable and Internet services to millions of American homes.

But figuring out how to protect online video was tricky because the market is still taking shape.

Netflix offers subscription plans with unlimited online viewing for $8 a month. Apple and Amazon.com let customers rent or buy individual movies and TV shows for as little as a few dollars apiece — providing an alternative for people who don’t want big bundles of cable channels they may never watch. Apple and Google make set-top boxes and software that transfer online video to television sets, freeing it from computer screens. TV makers are also building in Internet capabilities.

All these options could make it easier to cut the cable cord — and the cable bill. In 2010, Comcast’s cable customers paid an average of $70 per month for video services.

But with control of NBC Universal, Comcast could handicap Web rivals by overcharging for — or simply withholding — all sorts of marquee content. A “Top Chef” fan, for instance, might not drop cable if the show weren’t available online. Comcast could

also block or slow online video traffic on its massive broadband network. ITunes can’t compete with cable if programs stutter online.

None of the major online video companies would comment about Comcast. The cable company insists that it doesn’t consider Internet video a threat. Indeed, the Internet lets Comcast expand beyond its existing cable service territory and distribute NBC content more widely, through a broad range of websites and devices.

Still, in approving the deal, federal officials attached dozens of conditions, including several big ones to protect Internet video: — Comcast must sell its content to online video services. That gives them access to marquee NBC Universal programming.

— Comcast can’t interfere with Internet video traffic flowing over its broadband network.

That means that it cannot prevent its subscribers from accessing Netflix and other Web video services, or slow down traffic from these services to make them jerky, unreliable and hard to watch.

‘Last Airbender’ sweeps Razzie awards

By The Associated Press

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HE ACTION FANTASY “The Last Airbender” — about people who can command fire, air, water and earth — now controls something else: the Razzie awards for Hollywood’s worst film achievements of 2010.

“The Last Airbender” led Saturday’s Razzies with five awards, among them worst picture, worst director and worst screenplay for M. Night Shyamalan.

The movie also received Razzies for worst supporting actor (Jackson Rathbone, who was cited for both “The Last Airbender” and “The Twilight

Saga: Eclipse”) and for a special award, worst eye-gouging misuse of 3-D. A spoof of the Academy Awards, the Razzies were announced the night before the Oscars, Hollywood’s biggest party.

“Sex and the City 2” took three Razzies, including worst actress, a prize shared by costars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, worst screen couple or ensemble for its entire cast, and worst prequel, remake, ripoff or sequel.

Ashton Kutcher was picked as worst actor for “Killers” and “Valentine’s Day,” while Jessica

Alba took the Razzie as worst supporting actress for four 2010 releases, “The Killer Inside Me,” ‘’Little Fockers,” ‘’Machete” and “Valentine’s Day.” Shyamalan has been on a

downward spiral since 1999 Oscar best-picture contender “The Sixth Sense,” which earned him directing and writing nominations at Hollywood’s highest honors. He won Razzies as worst

director and worst supporting actor for his 2006 fantasy flop “Lady in the Water.”

Despite terrible reviews, “The Last Airbender” managed to find a decent audience, pulling in $300 million worldwide at the box office. Shyamalan adapted the movie from the animated TV series “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”

“He managed to take a cartoon property and make it even less lifelike by making it with real actors,” said Razzies founder John Wilson. “Most people who like the show, and this would include my 14-year-old son, hated the movie. It made no sense whatsoever.”

Chef writes of tough cancer battle

By The Associated Press

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RANT ACHATZ had already won acclaim as one of the nation’s top chefs when he was diagnosed, at age 33, with advanced cancer of the tongue. The recommended treatment was devastating: A surgeon would remove his tongue, lymph nodes and a portion of his jaw. There would be chemo-

therapy and radiation, and still his chance of survival would only be 50 percent.

Achatz decided to reject treatment. Even if he survived, he wouldn’t have a life he wanted.

He couldn’t be a chef without a tongue; he couldn’t cook if he couldn’t taste.

It many ways, it was his business partner who saved him. Nick Kokonas researched treatments

and pushed Achatz to see specialnowhere Michigan. His parents ist after specialist. Then he turned owned a restaurant and Achatz, to the media. An article in the an only child, grew up cooking.

Chicago Tribune got Achatz into By high school, when his best a pioneering program at the Unifriend was dreaming of flying versity of Chicago, where doctors fighter jets, Achatz had only used chemotherapy and radiation one goal — to own a great resto shrink the tumor before surtaurant. gery, making it possible to save Achatz had the requisite the chef’s tongue and his life. work ethic and self-confidence Achatz and Kokonas recount bordering on arrogance. He his battle with cancer in “Life, on graduated from the Culinary the Line,” which is nearly certain Institute of America, where he to be one of this year’s top-selling found the other students lacking food memoirs. Achatz already in dedication. Then he spent a has a strong following among few months being berated in the foodies. Gourmet magazine kitchen of the legendary Charlie named his Chicago restaurant Trotter.

Alinea the best in the nation in Achatz found his mentor in is an autobiography that rises 2006, and Achatz received the Thomas Keller of Napa Valley’s above both those genres. AchJames Beard Foundation’s award atz’s story is a compelling tale The French Laundry, went on to for outstanding chef in 2008. His overhaul Trio in suburban Chiof artistic genius that will make up for New Year’s Eve, only to story also is sure to win a follow- you cry and, if you are in the cago and then created Alinea as find the romantic evening he had ing among cancer survivors and part of a wave of chefs interChicago area, perhaps shell out hoped for has become very com- those battling the disease. ested in molecular gastronomy $200 a person to eat his food. plicated.

But don’t let that keep you — the application of scientific “Life” starts, as Achatz’s did, Again, reluctantly, Vail is from reading the book. This techniques to cooking. with his childhood in a town in drawn into working for the FBI, this time looking for a Russian intelligence officer known as Calculus, who says he can supply the agency with HARDCOVER FICTION a list of people giv1. “Tick Tock” by James Patterson and M. Ledwidge ing information to the 2. “A Discovery Of Witches” by Deborah Harkness Russians, including a 3. “The Girl...The Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson high-level member of 4. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett one of the intelligence 5. “Dead Or Alive” by Tom Clancy with G. Blackwood agencies.

The plot is intricate, PAPERBACK (TRADE) FICTION loaded with puzzles that 1. “Water For Elephants” by Sara Gruen Vail and Bannon must 2. “Cutting For Stone” by Abraham Verghese solve and rife with dan3. “The Girl..The Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson ger they must survive. It 4. “The Girl...Played With Fire” by Stieg Larsson 5. “The Postmistress” by Sarah Blake is anything but predictKeep your reading list updated able. Boyd is masterful at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/ HARDCOVER NONFICTION at throwing devious twists and 1. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand turns, and Vail is adept at figur2. “Known and Unknown” by Donald Rumsfeld ing out where they lead.

3. “I Beat The Odds” by Michael Oher with Don Yaeger Adding to the fun is the 4. “Decision Points” by George W. Bush attempt by Vail and Bannon to 5. “Cleopatra” by Stacy Schiff figure out their personal relationship. They are attracted to one PAPERBACK NONFICTION another, but there is an under1. “Heaven Is For Real” by Todd Burpo with L. Vincent standing of each other’s inability 2. “Inside Of A Dog” by Alexandra Horowitz to trust.

3. “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis The dialogue is both witty and 4. “Committed” by Elizabeth Gilbert 5. “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls believable.

Boyd returns with another gripping espionage novel

By The Associated Press

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HEN THEY PERFECT cloning, author Noah Boyd should be the first one done.

Turning out Steve Vail adventures every year or so isn’t going to be enough for his fans.

Boyd introduced Vail in “The Bricklayer.” Vail, a disgruntled former FBI agent who preferred the building trade to the bureau’s red tape, agreed to help his old employer if he answered only to the director and had no interference.

The arrangement didn’t make a lot of the FBI brass happy, the same ones who love proper procedures, but it got results.

In “Agent X,” Vail, who has happily returned to his new profession, refuses to accept that he’s been dumped by the FBI’s Kate Bannon, who has decided there are too many obstacles to a romantic relationship, despite the attraction and their ability to work together. So Vail shows

* This week’s New York Times Best-seller List *

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Books

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Answers from last week

Calendar Friday The Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous will be held Friday through Sunday at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum.

Events include a concert from the Bar J. Wranglers, cowboy poetry and music and an appearance by Larry Wilder, national yodeling champion. To see a full event line up, go to www.cachevalleycowboyrendezvous.com.

Paul Hildebrandt from Zometool Inc. will direct a free hands-on workshop for science, math, and art teachers in northern Utah who are interested in learning the multiple uses of Zometool Systems. The workshop will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday in the lobby of the USU Performance Hall. Registration is required. Classroom kits for teacher’s use can be checked out through the art museum. For more information, go to www.artmuseum.usu.edu. Ann Preston,

the artist who created the sculpture “Passacaglia,” installed in the lobby of USU’s Performance Hall, used Zometool Systems to build miniature models.

program fee is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members). For more info, call 755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

Historian Jared Farmer will kick off Founder’s Day events at Utah State Uni The Bridger Folk Music Society versity with his talk “Possessed by the presents an intimate evening of piano Past,” held at 12:30 p.m. on Friday at the and accordion playing with Radoslav David B. Haight Alumni House. A light Lorkovic at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Song- lunch will be provided. Farmer serves on stress Libbie Linton will be opening the faculty of the State University of New the show, which will take place in a York at Stony Brook, specializing in enviprivate home. Call 757-3468 or e-mail ronmental history and the history of the blairlarsen@msn.com for tickets and American West. directions.

The Old Barn Community Theatre Stokes Nature Center invites curi- presents “Once Upon a Mattress” at 7:30 ous toddlers, ages 2-3, to join them p.m. every Monday, Friday and Saturday for Parent Tot from 10 to 11 a.m. on from March 4 to 26. Matinees at 2:30 Friday. Explore animals, plants, and p.m. on March 12 and 19. Tickets can be nature through music, crafts, and purchased online at www.oldbarn.org or games. This program is parent inter- reserved by calling 435-458-BARN. The active, and all toddlers must have show is a retelling of the well-known fairy a parent present to participate. The tale “The Princess and the Pea.”

Crossword

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Interest 7. More sober 14. Stove, in Leeds 20. Can ___ 21. River to the Atlantic 22. Creamsicle color 23. Make a bad situation

better?

26. Sine qua non 27. Nonchalance 28. ___ rig 29. Notes after dos 30. Disobeyed a zoo sign?

31. Automaker Citroën 33. Fretted instrument 35. Vets’ concerns 36. Neural structure 39. Conveyance 42. Carnivorous scavanger 44. Written promise 45. Mahayana movement 46. Greenish yellow 49. Seize 53. Following the right

course?

58. Neighbor of Turkmenistan 59. Pulpits 60. Binding anew 61. Took up 65. Stage ___ 66. Notice 67. Trigonometry abbr.

68. Moisture preventers 71. Struck out 74. “Poison Arrow” band 77. New Zealand parrot 78. Ruined city in Turkey 80. Disbelieving ones 84. Stomach upsets 86. Artful design 89. ___ chamber

90. Avoids confronting a

problem head-on?

95. Varnish resin 96. Creamy soup 97. Casting requirement?

98. Satellite ___ 99. Start of a college

course 102. “Mad ___” 103. Consumer 105. Intimates 108. Early ___ 111. Asparagus unit 112. Play title word 113. Family girl 114. Kindergarten break 116. Luxury home features 117. Hearty party 121. Do damage control after a secret slips out?

126. Star in Aquila 127. ___ alphabet 128. Sheath 129. Walks heavily 130. Daughter of King Minos 131. Prefix with day or year Down 1. Kind of loser 2. Old blade 3. Organic pigment 4. Of a positively

charged electrode 5. O.T. book 6. Some, after the Civil

War 7. Pickle 8. Certain surgeon’s

“patient” 9. Plague 10. Directory assistance,

fo r short 11. Roberts of “Everybody

Loves Raymond” 12. Potential water con-

taminator 13. Neighbor of Bulg.

14. Stick together 15. Bonanza finds 16. Clodhopper 17. See 2-Down 18. Cousin of a bittern 19. Orchestra section 24. Getting along 25. Commerical craft feature 32. Fascist 34. Pad ___ (noodle dish) 35. Hardly ruddy 36. Skeleton part 37. Stockpile 38. Atmospheres 39. Guitar accessory 40. Gospels follower 41. Thai money 43. Oak, for one 47. Hungarian village 48. Choleric 50. ___ acid 51. Clinton Cabinet member 52. Coatrack parts 54. Gut feeling?

55. Language of Lahore 56. Receive 57. Former prime minister 62. Amasses 63. Complain 64. Digital moolah 69. Latin dance 70. Muzzle 72. Delicate 73. Intake

74. ___ meridiem 75. Jezebel’s idol 76. Salad veggie 79. Its literal meaning is

“submission” 81. A lot 82. Biblical possessive 83. Kind of energy 85. Round after the quarters 87. Pond organism 88. Wild goat 91. Body of verse

92. Boring tool 93. In truth 94. Icelandic epic 100. Judges 101. Microprocessor type 104. Encouraging ones 105. Half of a 60’s quartet 106. Not for minors 107. Numbers game 109. Keypad key 110. Browning’s Ben Ezra, e.g.

111. Zip 113. Send 115. Normal prefix 116. ___ deep 118. Somewhat 119. Spike 120. Biology lab supply 122. Skye cap 123. Recognition response 124. Blackguard 125. Clod chopper

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform at the Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous at Mountain Crest High School at 6:10 p.m. on Friday on the “Elkhorn Ranch Stage,” and at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday on the “Chuckwagon Stage.” For more information, go to www.cachevalleycowboyrendezvous.com. ...

Saturday

The Miss Cache Valley Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Ellen Eccles Theatre 43 South Main St. The pagaent is a prelimanary for the Miss America Pageant.

The local band Accidentally Involved will perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Logan Arthouse & Cinema. Tickets are $5.

Alll ages welcome.

Unicorn Children’s Pillow Theatre presents “Magic Camp” by D.M. Bocaz-Larson.

Shows at 2 p.m. on March 5, 12, 19 and 26 in the Bullen Center, 43 South Main St. All ages are welcome. Tickets are $3 at the door for ages 3 and up.

Monday The Cache Valley Retired School Employees Association will meet at 1 p.m. on Monday at the Copper Mill Restaurant.

A book review will be given by local author Ruth Harris Swaner on her book “Words Born of Silence, Unexpected Gifts of Autism.” All retired school employees in the valley are invited to attend. Reservations are necessary.

If you plan on attending, please call Diane Esplin at 563-6412.

Booklore Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. on Monday at Lou Ryan’s home, 332 E. 500 North.

Wednesday “To Preserve the Nation,” a Constitution class led by Scott Bradley will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Booktable (upstairs). No charge. For more information, call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

Get Set, Learn, Canyon Elementary School’s kindergarten readiness parent training (for parents of children who will enter kindergarten this fall) will hold sessions at 7 p.m. on March 9 and March 23, in the school media center. To register call 792-7684 or pick up a form at the school. This training is for parents only. Child care will be provided at the school at no cost. Training is presented by Canyon Elementary kindergarten teachers and will cover a variety of topics, with specific teaching ideas and materials to help parents prepare their children for a successful school experience. Free to parents living within the school’s

boundaries. If you are interested in this training but live outside school boundaries, or need more information, call 792-7799 ex. 2509.

Mountain Crest High School’s Drama Department presents “Mr. Right’s Brother,” a romantic comedy by Sarah Hall, at 7 p.m. from March 9 to 12, in the MCHS Auditorium.

Tickets are $5 for adults; $3 for students and senior citizens; kids under 5 free.

Thursday The USU Extension Office in Cache County will present a nutrition workshop/ cooking demonstration at 11 a.m. on Thursday in the Multipurpose Room of the Cache County Administration Building, 179 N. Main St. The topic will be “Last Minute Meals - Or Just Tell Me What to Cook!” We have 15+ dinner-meal ideas that you can cook at the last minute. The cost is $3 per person or $2 per person if you pay 24 hour prior to class. A light lunch will be served. For reservations, call 752-6263.

Community Bingo will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Cache Valley Assisted Living, 233 N. Main St. Providence. Free. Great Prizes and great fun. For more information, call 7924770.

The Cache Far South Company will hold their election meeting Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Hyrum Civic Center. Two daughters will be honored. All members are invited.

The Smithfield Lions Spaghetti Dinner from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Smithfield Lions Building, 380 E. 80 North, Smithfield.

Tickets are available at the door or from any Smithfield Lion member at the cost of $6 for adults, $4 for children 10 and under, and children under 3 free. Half of the proceeds will be used for the visually handicapped in Cache Valley and the other to assist the Logan Lions Club in their educational “Pterygium Awareness and Prevention” program in Trujillo, Peru. Come out and enjoy an all you can eat meal of spaghetti with meat sauce, bread sticks and cookies.

Coming Up Cache Valley Gluten Intolerance Group will share gluten-free soup and breadstick recipes from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, at the Macey’s in Providence.

SHRM will hold its first Speed Networking event at noon on Thursday, March 17, at Hamilton’s Steak and Seafood. Come prepared for good food, great company and lots of fun. Bring business cards and giveaways that will be used as door prizes.

HYPE, a hip hop workshop, will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March. 19, at Mountain Crest High School. Cost is $55 before March 12 or $75 after that date. The event is a fundraiser for the MC Caprielle Drill Team.

Ken Graves will teach a class on Latin cooking from 7 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, at the Macey’s in Providence.

Ongoing “Earn it. Keep it. $ave it.” is Utah’s statewide coalition for improving family financial stability through the utilization of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), free tax preparation (VITA), and asset building programs. The VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program was initiated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to offer free tax preparation for low-tomoderate income households who cannot prepare their own taxes or afford to pay a preparer. For eligibility information or to schedule an appointment, dial 2-1-1.

Pintech Computers offers free computer classes at 6 p.m. each Tuesday night at 270 N. 400 West Suite C, Hyrum. Call 245-8324 for more information.

Neighborhood Nonprofit is offering a free forclosure prevention/assistance workshops.

They will be taught by HUD-approved and certified housing specialists and cover the following topics: understanding modifications, short-sales and re-payments; determining your best option; negotiating with lenders and servicers; avoiding scams; and knowing the forclosure process and timeline. The workshops will be held March 3, March 31 and May 5 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and March 19, April 16 and May 21 from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

Register by calling 753-1112. Neighborhood Nonprofit is located at 195 W. Golf Course Road, Suite 1 in Logan.

Providence City baseball and softball registration are now being held from Feb. 14 to March 24. Please register during business hours at the city office, 15 S. Main, Providence. Boys and girls ages 5-14 are invited to participate. No late registrations will be taken after March 24. For more information, go to www.providencecity.com or call 435-752-9441 ext. 22.

Nordic United and its partners have begun grooming Green Canyon for cross country skiing. Please check the website www.nordicunited.org for a grooming schedule.

Tickets are now on sale for the Eccles Ice Center’s “Spice on Ice” chef cook-off and auction annual fundraiser, which will take place on March 31 at the Eccles Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. For more information, call 787-2288.

The Towne Singers have begun their spring rehearsals and are excited to invite new members to join. They are especially looking for tenors, baritones and basses.

This valley choir has been in existance for over 40 years and performs a Christmas and spring concert each year, as well as singing at Valley rest homes. Practices are held each Wednesday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Dansante building, 75 S. 100 West. For more information, contact Karen Hoffman at 563-5177.

Join us at Chick-fil-A for a fun time!

We provide a craft, story time, singing and playdough time. Free. From 10 a.m. to noon every Monday at 1323 N. Main St. The Bel Canto Women’s Chorus is beginning its Spring Rehearsals on Tuesday evenings at the Logan Fourth/Yorkshire Ward Building, 294 N. 100 East. Women interested in joining the chorus should contact Laurel Maughan, 245-3204, for audition information. Singers are needed for all sections (S,SS,A).

The Logan Family History Center offers free classes on topics like ancestry. com, Legacy, Danish research, Hispanic research, and others. Class sizes are limited. To assure a seat, register in advance by calling 755-5594. To see a list of classes and obtain a class handout go to www.rootsweb.com/~utcfhc.

Take a historical journey through an exhibition of Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art’s permanent collection highlighting different themes of art from Post Surrealism to Postmodernism, at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, 650 N. 1100 East. For information, go to www.artmuseum.usu.edu.

Dog training classes will be held every Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Cache Humane Society shelter, located at 2370 W. 200 North. This class is mandatory for dog volunteers that joined Cache Humane before December. We will discuss how to train shelter dogs basic obedience skills like sit, Volunteer singers and orchestra musi- down, stay — all without punishment or cians are being recruited to expand an pushing. We will also learn the “wrap” techexisting group for performance of a new nique for dogs that drag you, loose leash Easter cantata at 6 p.m. on Sunday, April walking, how to read dog body language, 17, in the Logan Tabernacle. The cantata, etc. There will be many new techniques at “The Passion and Glory of the Risen Christ,” the shelter to learn for the dog volunteers. is written by Jack Schrader, and was perRegistration required, space is limited. Conformed in 2010 at Logan’s First Presbyterian tact Marcia Robinson at marciacachehuChurch with a choir and a small orchestra. mane@gmail.com and confirm the month Supplemental musicians are needed for and day you are interested in. this year’s encore presentation of the cantata. Rehearsals for the choir will be in the The Eccles Ice Center offers Family Night Tabernacle at 5 p.m. on Sundays, March from 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. on Mondays at 13 to April 10. Orchestra members will the center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. rehearse at 4 p.m. April 16. To volunteer, Up to eight people can skate for $30, includcontact director Elisabeth Evans by e-mail at ing skates. Call 752-1170 for an updated, daily fpchoir@gmail.com. schedule as times are subject to change.

“Breakfast With Your Legislators” Town Hall Meetings with all Cache Valley state legislators will be held at 7:30 a.m. on Saturdays through March 5, at the Cache County Offices, 179 N. Main St. All are welcome.

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Heritage Theatre presents “The Secret Garden” at 7:30 p.m. March 4 to 26 on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. on March 12 and 19. The play will be performed at Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Hwy 89, Perry. Tickets for adults are $9; seniors and children $8. Call 723-8392 for reservations.

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