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Cache Magazine GUITAR HEAVEN Flatpicking champion shares his expertise at Cache Rendezvous

The Herald Journal

MARCH 6-12, 2015

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March 6-12, 2015

COVER 8 National Flatpick Guitar champ Gary Cook shares techniques at rendezvous

MUSIC 4 Sky View students take

the stage for ‘Encore Live’

5 Eagles’ tribute band set

to perform in Cache Valley

THE ARTS 4 Celtic Night coming to the Ellen Eccles Theatre

5 The Old Barn Theatre presents ‘Mary Poppins’

11 ‘Journey Stories’ on

display in Brigham City

MOVIES 3 Vince Vaughn’s new

‘Unfinished Business’ delivers far too few laughs

7 ‘Chappie’ gets a little

bogged down in the slums and squalor of South Africa

COLUMN 10 Be aware: Car-driving robots are coming soon

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Tony Messerly, right, plays with Chris Mortensen during a guitar workshop at Mountain Crest High School last week during the Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous. On the cover: Ernie Sites plays his guitar during the workshop in Hyrum. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been serving as the editor of Cache Magazine for about two and a half years now.

Early on during my tenure, there was so much going on one week that in order to accommodate all the of the local events, I elected to leave out the section of the magazine historically devoted to reviews of news books.

No big deal.

However, the next week there was also little space available due to an abundance of ads and local stories, and I ended up cutting out the new books’ section once again.

Much to my surprise, that was a very big deal.

I received several emails and telephone calls from readers who were extremely displeased not to have the review of at least one new book to read.

Lesson learned.

Although I’ve been forced to drop the book reviews on a couple of occasions since then, it was always when I had absolutely no other option. I certainly never made the mistake again of going two straight weeks without including the books section.

Until this week, that is.

You may or may not have noticed that last week’s issue didn’t have a new book review or a list of New York Times Best Sellers. And if you’re reading this, you’ll definitely know that it’s reluctantly missing once again this week.

The explanation is not because of a temporary lack of a space, but rather an

abrupt and apparently permament change in the type of material that The Herald Journal is now receiving from the Associated Press.

Due to a change in our editorial package, I’m afraid I will no longer have access to national book reviews or movie reviews. Of course, we’re fortunate to have Utah-based Aaron Peck to normally provide one or two film reviews each week, but the future of new book reviews in Cache Magazine seems rather bleak.

I’ll certainly miss them. However, look at the bright side, maybe now I’ll be able to read the books I already have — I’m probably a decade behind in my reading, at this point — rather than be tempted to buy new books due to reading favorable Associated Press reviews.

— Jeff Hunter

Laughs few in Vaughn’s latest film

– Cache columnist Dennis Hinkamp on a future with robot drivers (Page 10)

By Aaron Peck Cache movie critic

This is one of the strangest, would-be comedies you’ll ever see (this isn’t a compliment, let’s get that out of the way, up front).

Cribbing the awkward, not-quite-standard-formula pacing of “Tammy,” Ken Scott’s “Unfinished Business” starts out lackadaisical, and then just gets lazy. Imagine going on an uneventful business trip where maybe a handful of notable things happen.

This isn’t even that.

Right away, the movie reminds us that Vince Vaughn is incapable of closing his mouth. The first thing we see is Vaughn’s character — career business road warrior salesman Dan Trunkman — arguing with a female co-worker.

Only he’s not really going full-Vaughn. His verbal diatribes here feel at best half as enthusiastic as they’ve been in the past.

Kind of a great simile for the movie itself. Like Vaughn’s various speeches, the entire movie feels unfinished and unkempt.

As a veteran of the sales force of some conglomerate, something-or-other company, Dan feels like he’s being undervalued. In a move of brash bravado Dan quits. He’s going to go into business for himself selling whatever it is

PET OF THE WEEK Available for adoption

Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Vince Vaughn, center, heads up the cast of “Unfinished Business.”

‘Unfinished Business’ Director // Ken Scott Starring // Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller, Tom Wilkinson, James Marsden, Nick Frost, June Diane Raphael, Christopher Eaton Rated // R for some strong risque sexual content/ graphic nudity, and for language and drug use

he’s selling. At one point it’s explained, but it doesn’t matter.

Flanked by an interviewee who didn’t get the job (Dave Franco), and a forced retiree who’s now out of job (Tom Wilkinson), Dan now has a team to go at it himself.

First order of business, take down the company he left by stealing their business.

At first “Unfinished Busi-

ness” feels a tad refreshing.

The movie is setting up a strained family dramedy, where Dan tries to parent his kids from thousands of miles away through FaceTime. His son is overweight and is getting bullied relentlessly at school. Of course, Vaughn’s character talks too much, so he’s never actually taking the time to listen. At one point he actually has the

gall to sarcastically chide his daughter for talking too much. Now, that’s rich.

The bullying thing could’ve been a great little subplot to inject some much needed humanism. Instead it’s a thread left dangling as the movie meanders along in a fog. It’s so helplessly lost.

Utterly inept at making any sort of point, or setting up any worthwhile comedic or dramatic payoffs.

There’s some-such plot about the guys going up against Dan’s nemesis from his old job. They jet around to different cities, and finally to Hamburg, Germany, in hopes of landing the deal with the ever-important “handshake.”

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Not taking care of ‘Business’

“If you have to drive the entire width of Nevada, wouldn’t you rather do it while having a couple drinks and a nap?”

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Sky View High School delivers ‘Encore Live’ Show will hit the stage March 12-14 and 16-17 As Sky View High School celebrates its 50th anniversary, its premier singing and performing group Encore will showcase decades of music and dancing at its spring show.

“Encore Live” will begin at 7 p.m. March 12-14 and 16-17 at the Sky View High School Auditorium in Smithfield. General admission tickets are $7 online and at the door. Student tickets are

$5 at the door with Student ID. Visit encoreshow.org for a link to purchase tickets online.

This family-friendly show will please audiences of all ages. From the perennial 1930s jazz ballad, “Moonglow,” to the 1950s doo-wop song “Rockin’ Robin” (complete with poodle skirts), to Bon Jovi’s ’80s rock classic “Livin’ on a Prayer, to the

more current “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield.

Some of the numbers have been choreographed and arranged by Encore students.

The more than two dozen numbers also include “Live in Living Color,” from the 2011 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Catch Me if You Can,” the 1970 Jackson 5 hit “ABC,” and what surely will be a crowd favorite: “Spider-Man.”

“Encore Live” will be presented March 12-14 and 16-17 at the Sky View High School Auditorium.

Celtic Night coming soon Irish dance to be featured at Eccles Theatre

The Bridger Folk Music Society will present Celtic Night 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

A benefit concert for the Cache Humane Society and Four Paws Rescue, this 11th annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration will feature Inishfre Irish Dance, An Tús Nua Irish Dance Academy and Leaping Lulu collaborating in an engaging mix of Celtic songs, reels, jigs and impeccable Irish dancing.

Tickets for Celtic Night 2015 are available in person at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Box Office at 43 S. Main St, by telephone at 752-0026 or online at cachearts.org. Reserved seating tickets are $13 to $22.

let and piano and became fascinated with Irish step dancing after experiencing “Riverdance.” Zufelt’s

The Westside Performing Arts Committee presents Henrik Bothe at 7 p.m.

Friday, March 6, at the Dahle Performing Arts Center in Dayton.

Come prepared to enjoy a fun, family-oriented show of juggling, balancing, NeonMan and tons of laughter.

All tickets are priced at $5 and can be purchased Henrik Bothe at the door, online at wssd.k12.id.us/index.php/arts or by calling (208) 747-3502.

So what does Bothe do? He brings audiences to their feet while sharing with them the most powerful of gifts — laughter. How does he do it?

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Photo courtesy of Inishfre Irish Dance

Members of the Inishfre Irish Dance and An Tús Nua Irish Dance Academy will perform during Celtic Night 2015 on Friday, March 13, and Saturday, March 14, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Additional support for Celtic Night 2015 is provided by Utah Public Radio, Import Auto and the Cache County RAPZ fund. Visit bridgerfolk.org

and/or leapinglulu.com for more information.

Inishfre Irish Dance was founded in 2005 by Julie Zufelt, who came from a background in bal-

Henrik Bothe to perform at Dahle Center

Poppins arrives to nanny the Banks children, and with some help from the chimney sweep, Bert, ends up turning the family’s world upside down.

The production stars Devery Jeppesen as Mary Poppins, Matt Jeppesen as Bert, MarleeAnn Hull as Jane Banks and Kendon Hull as Michael Banks.

For tickets, please visit oldbarn.org or call (435) 4582276.

Quintet concert in SLC

The Logan Canyon Winds, Utah State University’s faculty woodwind quintet from the Department of Music, will be featured in a Salt Lake City concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square.

The quintet will perform “From Old to New,” a program that includes modern treatments of old dances from Latvia and France as well as more recent works for woodwind quintet.

“We will be giving the Utah premiere of a new piece The Old Barn will bring “Mary Poppins” to by Daniel Baldwin called ‘Dreams of the White Tiger,’” said Bonnie Schroeder, Logan Canyon Winds’ oboist. the stage from Feb. 27 to March 21.

“We commissioned the piece along with a consortium of quintets.”

The Caine Woodwind Quintet, composed of USU music students, joins the Logan Canyon Winds for “French Dances Revisited,” a new twist on standard Baroque dances.

The members of Logan Canyon Winds have performed across the United States and at the 1998 and 2000 national conferences of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.

The Logan Canyon Winds performance at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square is free and open to the public.

Cache Historical Society

Photo courtesy of Hotel California

Hotel California: The Original Tribute to the Eagles will take Ellen Eccles Theatre stage tonight.

A tribute to the Eagles

Hotel California to play classics tonight at Eccles Theatre The Cache Valley Center for the Arts will welcome Hotel California: The Original Tribute to the Eagles at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

The sweet harmonies of the Eagles have been heard all around the world through recognized songs like “Hotel California,” “Take it Easy” and “Desperado.”

Hotel California: The Original Tribute to the Eagles offers performances so entrancing “one could close their eyes and be certain

The Eagles were performing live!” says Kevin Bunting of Toronto, Ontario.

Tickets are available at online at cachearts.org, by calling 752-0026 or in person at at 43 S. Main St..

The Eagles’ album “Hotel California” was released in 1976 and has sold over 16 million copies in the U.S. and 32 million copies worldwide. It is fair to say that music from the Eagles captivated a generation making the band one of the most recognized musical acts worldwide. Hotel California:

The Cache Valley Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at the Historic Cache County Courthouse. Darrin Smith will be the speaker.

His topic is “The Original Construction and Operation of the Logan Temple.”

The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend.

Smith is a local historian who has written two books, “Logan Reflections: Photographs Then, Now and In Between” and “How Beautiful: A Pictorial History of the Logan LDS Temple.” He has also written numerous articles about topics such as the Logan LDS Temple, Logan theaters, Brigham Young College, early Logan photographers and Samuel Roskelley.

Logan Dance Club event

The Logan Dance Club will host a pirate-themed dance at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 7. Music will be proThe Original Tribute to the Eagles vided by Heywire. performs memorable top hits with The Logan Dance Club was established in 1937 by a group of friends who gathered to enjoy a cocktail and a a great sound. live dance band. The tradition continues. We host four The original tribute to the costumed/themed dances per year.

Eagles, Hotel California prides The cost is $260 a year per couple or $130 per peritself on creating the illusion that son and includes four dances, a catered meal, a lovely you are listening to the actual venue with full cash bar and live country/classic rock Eagles. The group has shared band. the stage with the Doobie Broth We have a few openings available for new members. ers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, REO Couples and singles are welcome (over 21 only). It’s Speedwagon, Gretchen Wilson not traditional/formal dancing; just fun. No dancing and many more international artskills required. Costumes are also optional, but always a ists while performing in Dubai, Japan, India, Bermuda and all over lot of fun.

For more information, contact John at 770-6743.

North America.

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The Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston will present Disney’s “Mary Poppins” from Feb. 27 to March 21.

Directed by Laura Lee Hull, the story of “Mary Poppins” will come to life on the Old Barn stage in Collinston at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. There will also be a 2:30 p.m. matinee on March 7 and 14.

The practically perfect Mary

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‘Focus’ tops box office with $19.1 million NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith’s con-man caper “Focus” disrobed “Fifty Shades of Grey” at the box office, but the film’s modest $19.1 million opening still left questions about the drawing power of the once unstoppable star.

According to studio estimates Sunday, Warner Bros.’ “Focus” easily topped all competitors on a weekend with little competition at North American multiplexes. In second place was the Colin Firth spy thriller “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” which made $11.8 million in its third week of release.

After two weeks atop

the box office, “Fifty Shades of Grey” continued its steep slide, landing in fourth with an estimated $10.9 million for Universal Pictures. “Fifty Shades,” which has made $486.2 million globally, fell just behind Paramount’s “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water,” which earned $11.2 million in its fourth week.

The weekend’s only other new wide release, Relativity’s horror film “The Lazarus Effect,” opened in fifth place with $10.6 million.

But the weekend was largely seen, fairly or not, as a referendum on Smith’s star power.

“Focus,” written and directed by the “Crazy,

Stupid, Love” duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, is Smith’s first film since 2013’s “After Earth,” the sci-fi flop in which he co-starred with his son, Jaden.

Smith has been frank about the sting of that film’s box-office performance. “I can’t allow the box-office success, or lack thereof, to determine my self-image,” he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

But “Focus,” made for about $50 million and co-starring Margot Robbie of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” was never intended to be a summer-sized blockbuster. It had been predicted to make around $21 million.

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“There’s no question we got hammered because of inclement weather in the South and the Midwest.”

The R-rated “Focus,” overwhelmingly

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And “Focus” should

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nal? Sure, you have to have a specific USB key, but is that USB key kept under close supervision? Nope. The security at Tetra Vaal is laughable.

Blomkamp’s direction is — whew! — not for the faint of heart.

“Chappie” isn’t overly violent, but it is disorienting. Its action scenes aren’t as chaotic as “District 9,” but they’re quite discombobulating.

The editing is tough to follow. The same goes for the techno-grunge soundtrack which pulverizes your eardrums during action scenes and Chappie’s learning montages. So much of the auditory and visual stimulation is meant to obscure and confuse.

There are some nicely done, tender moments.

But the elephant in the room is the ridiculousness of Tetra Vaal’s security which makes everything possible.

The software company I work for would be harder to infiltrate than this one, and we don’t make lethal, weaponized robots meant for policing cities.

called “Black Sheep” to read, but there you go.

The connection he makes with his “mother” is, in my opinion, the most affecting part of the movie. Too bad those scenes are so spread out Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures that they’re diluted by the other not-so-great aspects The new Hugh Jackman film “Chappie” opens today in theaters nationwide. of “Chappie.”

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The Reel Place Aaron Peck

Neill Blomkamp, working in his favorite cinematic medium — slum and squalor — paints a violent but wacky crime movie, which also happens to be about artificial intelligence, god complexes, family dynamics, inter-office politics and just-because-we-canshould-we? questions.

At times “Chappie” can be touching and funny.

Other times it’s so ridiculously ignorant of itself it makes one wonder if the moments that work are undercut by the moments that certainly do not.

A new robot police force has been deployed in South Africa. Blomkamp’s South Africa mirrors what it looked like in “District 9.” The criminals are not of this world. They look as if they’ve been ripped straight out of a “Mad Max” movie and stuck here. Most of the movie’s visuals are taken up by slums, rundown buildings and endless amounts of rubble.

Except there’s evidence that the city is turning around with their new robot army.

Invented by Deon Wilson (Dev Patel), the new robots, called Scouts, are the flagship product for a military industry company called Tetra Vaal. Deon is the company’s golden boy. The Scouts are human-sized drones that can engage and fight criminals with minimal loss to human life. They’re superstrong, super-fast and deadly accurate. Deon has a nemesis though.

Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman) is an ex-soldier turned engineer who has also invented a robot

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‘Chappie’ sticks with ‘slum and squalor’

CACHE VALLEY COWBOY RENDEZVOUS

Pickin’ and Grinnin’ Flatpick champ Gary Cook hosts workshop in Hyrum Live music performances are always a good source of entertainment, but the music is never better than when a group of musicians gather around the campfire with their guitars for a cowboy jam session.

Unless, of course, it is in the auditorium at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum, where the Cache County Cowboy Rendezvous was held last weekend.

It was a cold, windy day on Saturday, so there was no fire, but a number of people signed up for the rare opportunity to attend a workshop by an award-winning musician.

Gary Cook of Durango, Colorado, is part of the Bar D Wranglers, one of this year’s featured entertainers at the fifth annual rendezvous. The Wranglers perform a chuckwagon dinner show in Durango throughout the summer, featuring familiar old cowboy music, often with a comedic twist.

Cook, who plays both guitar and mandolin, has twice won the National Flatpick Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.

“I just love to be able to play with people,” Cook said.

The Bar D Wranglers performed in Hyrum on Friday, but Cook stayed an extra day and shared some of his skill on a more

personal level Saturday morning.

The workshop was attended by other workshops, by amateur guitar players and a music teacher.

They learned new tricks with finer positions and chords, and he gave

Clockwise from above: Gary Cook demonstrates flatpick playing during a workshop at Mountain Crest High School last Saturday.

Tony Messerly teaches guitar techniques.

Local musician Chris Mortensen plays his guitar during the workshop. Solana Banham, left, watches as Cook performs. Ernie Sites helps 8-year-old Ethan Madsen with finger placement on the frets of his guitar.

them tips about strengthening their hands and fingers with a tennis ball.

“It’s all about getting that hand to work like you want,” he said.

With a flatpick tucked between

two fingers in his right hand, he plays the full length of the guitar neck in his right, sharing some new technique with the other guitar player, without ever missing a note.

Periodically, he played a familiar tune that the others spontaneously joined in on, making it a true jam session.

Jan Rawlinson lives in Thatcher, a small town west of Tremonton, where she teaches music basics in folk music. She comes from a musical family, where she learned to play piano and just hated it, she said.

She spent some time playing the ukulele, but when she picked up the guitar, she found her own little niche.

Rawlinson attended the workshop Saturday, but she laughed after the fact because she was unable to say what she learned.

“Gary has some really good tips, like keeping your hands really close to the strings, the warmup techniques, using small (picking) movements rather than large (strumming) motions,” she said.

“Playing the melody with chord, that was really hard; I think June Cash started that.”

Rawlinson also described the workshop as a having a campfire feel.

“I’ve never really done it, but there’s some beauty in that,” she said.

STORY BY AMY MACAVINTA — PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN ZSIRAY

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The robots have been sneaking up on us for years. They are silently taking jobs away from people who taking away jobs that Americans don’t want to do anyway: vacuuming floors, washing cars and cleaning pools.

They beep when the toast is ready, or when you leave the refrigerator door open. They can run your thermostat and start your car and an increasing number of other things that make us even more lazy and sedentary.

I’m not sure most of the early uses of robots are for things that humans couldn’t do, they are just things that we didn’t want to do. The next evolution of the robot revolution is going to be driving.

This is something that humans only think they can do better. The question isn’t “Can robots drive better than humans?” But rather “Could they drive worse?”

Will there still be accidents and traffic fatalities? Of course there will be. The question you have to ask is “will computer failure be a worse reason to die than being hit by someone who is drunk, sleepy, talking on their cellphone, too

Box Continued from Page 6 and not aimed at the young crowd.”

Some of last Sunday’s Oscar winners saw slight

mirror paraphernalia sold therein. One can also imagine the squeals of joy from school bus drivers.

Freed from this hellish job, they could take up something more peaceful and rewarding, like interrogating terrorists.

I think this is going to be a serious contribution to the safety of humankind, but let me get the obvious jokes out of the way: When the new Apple iCar comes out you, will young, too old, too stupid be able to control everyor brushing their teeth thing with one button but while driving?” the car will only come in On the plus side, none a choice of two colors and of the aforementioned will two sizes. The car’s voice prevent you from driving will be Siri, but available anywhere. If you have in a choice of any of your to drive the entire width favorite race car drivers of Nevada, wouldn’t you or indecipherable city taxi rather do it while having a driver dialects. couple drinks and a nap?

The Microsoft car will The real losers in the be half the price of the coming robot takeover are iCar, but will shut down going to be truck drivers. every three hours to Robots can drive all day update its software. Howand night without needever, it will still have a CD ing coffee, amphetamines player, and unlike the iCar, or truck-stop food. They you will be able to look could drive slower and under the hood. safer because, if you never I predict this is going have to stop except for happen state by state with fuel, you can take your about the same level of time getting there. There acceptance as sanctioned could even be a dedicated gay marriage and legalized truck lane so we wouldn’t recreational marijuana, but have to fool with all that it will happen. passing and slowing down ——— on steep grades.

Dennis Hinkamp is ready Of course, this deprives to throw the keys to a robot the rest of us the abuncar as soon as it comes dance of yummy truckin a convertible sports car option. stop food and rear-view

Slightly Off Center DENNIS HINKAMP

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bumps at the box office.

Best-picture winner “Birdman (Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” added some 800 screens to bring in $2 million over the weekend, pushing its total past $40 million.

“American Sniper,” far and away the biggest box-office hit of the best-picture nominees, was also easily the top draw. It added another $7.7 million, to bring its cumulative domestic gross to $331.1 million.

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The photograph entitled “Oregon or Bust” from 1936 is included in the “Journey Stories” exhibit opening Saturday in Brigham City.

‘Journey Stories’ on display in Brigham

By Mary Alice Hobbs Brigham City Museum

The human migration into and within the United States since colonial times is explored in the Brigham City Museum’s new exhibit, “Journey Stories” from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street.

“Journey Stories” opened Jan. 17 and will continue through March 28.

Admission is free.

The museum is located at 24 N. 300 West in Brigham City. The entrance is on the west side. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. For further information, please call (435) 2261439 or visit brighamcitymuseum.org.

“Journey Stories” looks at the experience of leaving behind everything — whether voluntarily or involuntarily — to reach a new life in a new place.

Willliam Withuhn, Smithsonian curator emeritus, says, “Some people came to America dreaming of something better, while others came in chains.”

Adventurers, soldiers, farmers and tradesmen came to the new continent and built towns with distinctive social,

religious, political and economic styles.

Diversity became an American characteristic as there were the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden and the English Quakers of Pennsylvania, to name a few.

In addition to the Colonial Period, the exhibit concentrates on the mobility that occurred during the mid-19th Century, the start of the 20th Century and post-1965.

During the 17th Century, approximately 400,000 English people migrated to Colonial America. Over half of all European immigrants to Colonial America during the 17th and 18th centuries arrived as indentured servants.

The mid-19th Century saw mainly an influx from northern Europe; the early 20th Century, mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe; post-1965, mostly from Latin America and Asia.

The stories of this complex relocation phenomenon, specifically the harrowing journeys of Africans and Native Americans, are presented in interactive panels, artifacts, story boards and audio recordings.

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Continued from Page 4 Mix the gentle humor of Victor Borge, the physical agility of Kramer from “Seinfeld” and the crossgenerational appeal of Bill Irwin, and you have some idea of what Bothe brings to the stage. He walks on ladders, spins ropes, juggles without using hands, manipulates fancy hats and rides a unicycle higher than your greatest expectations. He walks with four legs, escapes from a straitjacket and blows your audience’s collective mind as NeonMan — a glowing alien that floats and flies and mesmerizes.

A native of Denmark, Bothe began entertaining at the early age of 3

Today, Bothe performs physical comedy as a professional entertainer for corporate, local and national events. When Henrik isn’t performing solo he either tours theaters in the U.S. with Woody Keppel in “Foolz,” a duo show for all ages, or performs with

Steve G as “The Bellini Twins,” an act with a “late night” feel.

Bothe currently resides in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and family, where he performs locally, leads team-building workshops and teaches a circus arts program in metro-area schools.

Henrik Bothe

acts on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” This led to breaking his mom’s plates and throwing his dad’s knives in the wood shop until he ultimately attended Aahus Theater Academy to focus on the performing arts.

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Continued from Page 4 original choreography is set to music that combines traditional folk tunes with driving rhythms and traditional and new-age instrumentation that culminate in extraordinary high-energy entertainment.

In 2014, Inishfre joined forces with An Tús Nua Irish Dance Academy to provide Cache Valley with both performance-style and competition-based Irish dance instruction.

An Tús Nua Irish Dance Academy was founded in 2011 by Terena Lund to specialize in Irish step dance competition training. Lund initially danced with Inishfre, but her search to become certified in Irish dance lead her to dance with the Crawford School of Irish Dance in Salt Lake City, and then to An Daire Academy of Irish Dance in Portland, Oregon. Lund became CLRG (An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha) certified to teach competitive Irish Dancing in 2010, and An Tús Nua students have consistently qualified for regional and national Irish dance competitions.

Leaping Lulu is a neo-traditional Celtic folk band based in Logan, featuring Sara Gunnell on fiddle, Liz Fallis on flute and piccolo, Don Anderson on guitar and cittern and Kate Skinner on vocals and piano.

Leaping Lulu adopted its name from a jig composed

by Greg Boardman.

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when he drove the family’s Volkswagen bug into the sea. With fortune on his side, he made a quick escape and was soon mesmerized by plate-spinning

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In addition to their solo concerts and Celtic Night collaborations, Leaping Lulu is highly regarded for their contra dance music. Leaping Lulu has recorded five albums: “The Walk Home,” “High Road Low Road,” “The Moving Cloud,” “Into The West” and “Celtic Night Live.”

Highlights from past engagements include performances at the Salt Lake Arts Festival, Park Silly Sunday Market, Sundance Film Festival, Celtic Stew Irish Music Festival, Thanksgiving Point Highland Games, Malad Welsh Festival, Logan’s Summerfest Arts Faire, Utah Irish Music Festival and broadcasts on KRCL-FM, KUSU and NPR’s “The Folk Sampler.”

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Live cut-ins will feature a celebrity phone bank staffed by stars such as Uzo Aduba, Fred Armisen, Andy Cohen, Tony Danza, Larry David, Willie Geist, Susan Sarandon, Martin Short and Larry Wilmore.

Since 2006, these biennial telethons have raised more than $18 million.

Taped at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre last Saturday, the evening began with host Jon Stewart reminding everyone that the purpose is not to raise money for an autism cure: “It’s about helping people who live with autism right now.

The only clinically proven treatment for autism is appropriate, intensive education.

“It’s a great show,” he added. “I know, because Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly told me.”

Seriously, folks, it’s full of laughs.

Steve Carell lays bare the contents of the swag bags he says all the stars

Stories Continued from Page 11 Images associated with the drive for independence and freedom include “Mayflower Approaching Land,” “Daniel Boone Leads Settlers through the Cumberland Gap,” “Emigrants with Horses and Cow Travel by Flatboat,” “Settlers Crossing Appalachian Mountains,” “Nearly 70,000 Mormons Began Moving West to Escape Conflicts,” “Native Americans’ Trail of Tears” and “African American Couple Tries to Elude Slave Catchers.”

One of the stories in the exhibit is about an African American woman who shipped herself safely to Philadelphia in a wooden chest fastened with ropes to escape a cruel slave owner in Baltimore. She was on the ship 18 hours.

A central element of the exhibition is the artifacts, notably cowrie shells that were often used as money in West Africa,

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Jon Bon Jovi, left, and Will Forte perform at Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars.”

got. Their goodies include the keys to a self-driving Google car, a fresh rhinoceros horn, loose diamonds and “a strain of flu vaccine that actually works.”

Jon Bon Jovi performs a rousing rendition of “Wanted Dead or Alive” with vocal assistance from Will Forte, who, between his chime-ins, stays glued to his smartphone, texting.

Jim Gaffigan addresses the region’s miserable weather that seems to always catch sufferers offguard: “We’re ANNOYED that it’s freezing in Febru-

ary! We want to BLAME somebody: ‘It’s freezing.

Obama!’”

Actor Paul Rudd submits to indignities at the hands of audience participants who spin a wheel to decide how each of them should deal with him. Options include slapping him in the face as hard as possible, shot-gunning beers with him, and the fate labeled “Baby Bird,” which calls for chewing up food and feeding it to Rudd, mouthto-mouth, like a mother bird feeding her chick. Not pretty. But funny.

tobacco twists, tea bricks, a hurricane lantern, roadmaps, slave posters and driver’s goggles.

Museum director Kaia Landon says, “While hanging the exhibit, we could almost hear such commands as ‘whoahaw’ and the crack of ox-goads to prod oxen pulling wagons to their destination.

Ox wagons were just one of many modes of transportation for people relocating in search of fortune, their own homestead or employment.”

The museum’s companion exhibition probes the motivation of people who journeyed to, through and away from Northern Utah during the past two centuries.

Local stories and artifacts highlight their motives.

“Journey Stories” is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Utah Humanities Council which provides leadership to empower individuals and groups to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities.

A highlight is the return of young Jodi DiPiazza, who wowed the crowd at the “Night of Too Many Stars” bash in 2012 when she played the piano and sang in a duet with Katy Perry. This time, Jodi, now 13, performs alongside another of her favorite entertainers, Weird Al Yankovic, in a rendition of his “Lola” sendup, “Yoda” (“I know Darth Vader’s really got you annoyed/ But remember, if you kill him, then you’ll be unemployed”).

Besides being a comfortable fit among the night’s stars, Jodi, diagnosed with autism at age 2, is a shining example of the benefits of proper education and therapy.

“Night of Too Many Stars” arose from the difficulty Robert Smigel and his wife Michelle had in finding the right educational resources for their autistic son, Daniel, who now is 17.

To fill the gap, they

Not Continued from Page 3 Instead of your standard, comedic beats leading up to an everybody’s-happy ending, “Unfinished Business” takes a far different route. Usually, this would be a good thing. Walking the unpaved path is a breeding ground for adventurous creativity. Curiously, here it’s quite the opposite.

The pacing here is just flat-out odd. There seem to be dozens of jokes set up without payoff. As bad as it was, “Dumb and Dumber To” at least knew how to carry through on the lame jokes they set up. “Unfinished Business” doesn’t even know what to do with the jokes it has, so they hope gratuitous nudity will distract you.

The cast here is mind-boggling-

joined with other parents to establish their own school in New York. But the venture required fundraising, as did similar educational programs nationwide they wanted to support.

Smigel is an actor and writer best known for his wisecracking puppet, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (currently headlining with Jack McBrayer on Adult Swim’s “The Jack and Triumph Show”), and he’s held in esteem by many members of the comic mafia.

“When we started this event,” Smigel told the audience this time, “we called autism a disease.

Then we changed it to a disorder. Now we call it a condition.

“Everybody in this room understands,” he said, surely also meaning everyone who sees the broadcast. “But there’s so much left for the rest of the world to learn about what these kids are capable of.”

ly underused. Vaughn does his thing … kind of. Franco is oddly unlikable as a doltish unconfident dropout. And Wilkinson, geez, it’s just too off-putting to see him thrust into a role as a stupidly morose, sex-starved old wimp.

At least the movie has employed the help of comedic stalwarts like James Marsden and Nick Frost, right? Well, no. They’re there, but they might as well be anybody, since they aren’t asked to do anything they’re actually good at doing. You know, like being funny.

The next time you go on a business trip and find yourself spending your downtime people watching in the hotel lobby as you drink your coffee and eat a stale continental breakfast bagel, just know that you’re having more fun than if you went and saw “Unfinished Business.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — You’re a bit late to bid on the chance to join John Oliver in robbing a wine store.

You’re also too late to bid on taking a bow onstage with the cast of the Broadway hit “It’s Only a Play” while Louis C.K. presents you with flowers in front of the bemused theater patrons.

Never mind. You can catch such fundraising hijinks and lots more during Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars” telethon (airing Sunday from 8 to 10 p.m.

EDT), which gathers Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, Steve Buscemi, Gilbert Gottfried, Chris Rock and others to raise money for autism educational programs.

Of course, you can also pledge your own contribution online or by phone. And if the special number should slip your mind, Maya Rudolph will jog your memory in a rollicking routine that even translates it into Roman

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30. Indian rhythmic pattern 31. Maintains 32. Face with stone 33. Ethnic group in western India 34. Obscure 35. Mob boss 36. Outmoded 39. Evelyne ___, 2006 Gold Olympian in aerial skiing 40. Right angle extension 41. Natural ___ 43. Meat holder 44. One who shapes metal 47. Tantalizes 48. Cause to roar 50. Go along (with) 51. New farm presence 52. Stir up 54. Salt bush 55. Capone foe 56. Bushed 62. Chemical warfare weapon 63. Levy 65. Sigh of contentment 66. Optometrist’s concern 68. Street-smart 69. Subject of Fowler’s handbook 70. Argentinian leader 71. Editor’s notations 74. Ollie’s partner in old comedy 78. Became erect 83. Giant of note 84. It may be trimmed in a haircut 86. Hinder the growth of 88. Sea-slime 89. Tablets 90. Under way, as a game 92. Smelter input 93. Elevator man 94. Vase 95. A lot 96. Call to a calf 97. Flock members 103. Inundates 105. Low budget small

studio film 107. Malicious 108. Warm and comfortable 109. Jagged, as a leaf’s edge 111. Expel 112. Relatives 113. Little squirt 115. Cartridge filler, often 116. Karen Carpenter or Shania Twain 118. The “B” of N.B. 119. Blows away 120. Endure 122. “___ rang?”

123. Informal greeting 124. ___ Butterworth’s 125. Store posting (abbr.)

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The Merrill-Cazier Library’s Annual Spring Book Sale will be held March 4-6 in the atrium. The sale starts at 9 a.m.

Wednesday and continues during library open hours until 3 p.m. Friday. From beach reading to scholarly texts, there’s something for everyone. All books are 25 cents. Visit library.usu.edu for more information.

The Logan Dance Club will host a pirate-themed dance at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 7. Music will be provided by Heywire.

The Logan Dance Club was established in 1937 by a group of friends who gathered to enjoy a cocktail and a live dance band. The tradition continues.

We host four costumed/themed dances per year. The cost is $260 a year per couple or $130 per person and includes four dances, a catered meal, a lovely venue with full cash bar and live country/classic rock band. We have a few openings for new members. Couples and singles are welcome (over 21 only). It’s not traditional/formal dancing; just fun. No dancing skills required. Costumes are also optional, but always a lot of fun. For more info contact John at 770-6743.

Global Village Gifts and the Utah State University Center for Women and Gender will be hosting International Women’s Night Out from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, March 6, to celebrate International Women’s Day. Join us at 69 E. 100 North for food, henna tattooing and to hear from local groups that empower women worldwide. We will be having drawings every hour.

Visit globalvillagegifts.org for more information.

Back To Dodge will perform with Salduro and Carrie Myers at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

The Cache Valley Center for the Arts will welcome Hotel California: The Original Tribute to The Eagles at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are available at online at cachearts.org, by calling 752-0026 or in person at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Box Office at 43 S. Main St. The Antics Comedy Improv will begin at 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West. Admission is $5.

Storytime at Willow Park Zoo will begin at 11:30 a.m. Friday, March 6. Bring your preschooler and older children to the Wildlife Learning Center to hear a story, do a craft or activity and to see an animal up close. Children 3 and up are welcome with an adult. Cost is 50 cents each.

Call (435) 890-0356 for more information.

The Logan Library presents “Learning @ the Library” — classes showing how to get the most from your e-reader device or computer using the free resources available at the library.

“Facebook Basics” will be taught at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Logan Library. You can use the library’s devices or bring your own. Sign up in person at the information desk or call 7169120.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk Music Society are hosting their monthly “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East. This month live music will be provided by Leaping Lulu; Kay Forsyth will be calling. A $7 donation is suggested at the door, $4 for children under 12. Beginners and families are welcome, all dances are taught. For more information about contra dancing call 753-2480 or 753-5987, or visit bridgerfolk.org.

Attention backyard fruit growers and small orchard owners: USU Extension’s Lori Spears,

coordinator of the Cooperative Agriculture Pest Survey is providing a free workshop on identification and management of tree fruit and small fruit pests entitled: “Invasive Pests in Backyard Fruit Trees and Berries: Spotted Wing Drosophila and Brown Marmorated Stink Bug” The workshop will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Cache County Administration Building multipurpose room, 179 North Main Street.

Sammy Pond will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Common Ground Outdoor Adventures is holding a ski day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Beaver Mountain Ski Area. Cost is $35 for half day and $55 for a full day. Price includes transportation, lift ticket, ski rental and lunch. To attend this activity or request additional information, call 713-0288.

A Meditation Retreat will be held Friday, March 6, through Sunday, March 8, at Bear River Charter School, 75 W. 400 West.

Cost is $30 to $70; sliding scale plus donation. Please come and join us in learning how to nourish and cultivate true peace in ourselves. When we live mindfully, take care of ourselves well and touch true peace in ourselves, we create joy for people around us: family, friends and in society. If we choose to engage in public arena action for peace in the world, and we embody true peace in ourselves, there is benefit for all. If you want to do some reading before the retreat, some basic books that the teachers recommend are: “Peace is Every Step,” “Present Moment,” “Wonderful Moment” or “How to Eat, How to Sit, How to Love.” Visit sites.google.com/ site/cachevalleysangha for more information.

SUNDAY The Post-Mormon Community is a non-sectarian organiza-

tion 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.

Wood & Wire will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

MONDAY The Parkinson Support Group will meet at 10 a.m.

Monday, March 9, at the Logan Steak House. Attorney Aaron Jensen will be our presenter.

The Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, March 9, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s film is “Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast” a G-rated film. Admission and popcorn are free.

TUESDAY Teen Tuesday at the Logan Library will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 10.

This week’s event is entitled “So Bored!” We’re pulling out some of the best board games ever invented in the Jim Bridger Room.

The Estate Planning Council of Northern Utah is meeting for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the Riverwoods Conference Center. The speaker will be Quinn Mckay, and the topic will be “So You Think You’re Ethical.” Attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, insurance agents and the general public are invited.

The cost is $25. You must RSVP to Kris Lund at 752-6496.

The Logan Library would like to invite the public to join library staff and board members in discussing the library’s future. The Logan Library Board meeting is held at 5:30 p.m. on the secnd Tuesday of each month. Visit library.loganutah.org/information/board.cfm or call 716-9123

for more information.

WEDNESDAY The Cache Valley Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11, at the Historic Cache County Courthouse. Darrin Smith will be the speaker. His topic is “The Original Construction and Operation of the Logan Temple.” The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, a nonprofit that services individuals with disabilities, is having a rec night at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. Cost will be $5. To attend this activity or request additional information call 713-0288.

THURSDAY AARP is offering their research-based Smart Driver class from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the Cache County Senior Center. The class is four hours long and meets the requirements for discounts in vehicle insurance for those 55 years old and older. The cost is $15 for AARP members; $20 for non-members. For reservations, call Susie Jackson at 753-2866.

The Native Plant Propagation Workshop will host “Go Native and Save Water” from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 12, or from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 14, at the USU Teaching Greenhouse, 1390 N. 800 East. Start native plants for your garden from seeds and cuttings at this hands-on workshop. All materials will be supplied, potentially 60 seedlings. Cost is $25.

Registration required; please call 752-6263.

A free Lunch & Learn seminar regarding the basics of prudent, long-term investing will begin at noon Thursday, March 12, in the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library. Those wishing to attend must register at peakinvestmentcoaching.com or call (435) 414-1742. A light lunch will be provided.

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