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What’s inside this week Charlene Hirschi reviews the latest by the author of “The Christmas Box”

Get a taste of Spice On Ice

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“It is a fictional, historical site of stone markers and on these markers are mounted drawings. ... I’m using specific lighting for each one of these things so you get a sense you are at a historical site, rather than walking into a gallery and seeing pieces hanging on the wall.”

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From the editor

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T MIGHT BE A BIT melodramatic to call the past three weeks a “wild ride,” but after spending a while at the helm of Cache Magazine, that’s kind of how I feel. Taking on a new job can be tough, and I’ve gained a new appreciation for what Jamie does every week.

In the meantime, I’ve missed my duties as a reporter covering Cache Valley’s schools. It may seem that something isn’t newsworthy unless it directly impacts a great number of people. By that philosophy, stories I’ve written about spelling bees or fifth-graders sending letters by pigeon or a school custodian becoming a new U.S. citizen probably wouldn’t have ever made it into the paper.

But indirectly, I think such events

Slow Wave

Public Radio host Fred Child is coming to Logan

dfelix@hjnews.com

might have great impact. Children’s futures are shaped, for better or worse, by the experiences they have, and most kids get at least 30 hours’ worth of experience a week at school.

A spelling bee victory might set a child on a course toward becoming a famous writer. A trip to Salt Lake City to watch an immigrant friend become officially American might inspire a kid to enter politics and eventually make changes affecting everyone. On the other hand, a failure by schools to meet the needs of students could lead kids to lives of poverty or even prison.

Either way, it’s something the public should know about and I look forward to again bringing you the news about what goes on in schools. If there’s something going on in schools you’d like to see written about (good or bad), I invite you to let me know. I now return the magazine to Jamie’s able hands.

— Devin Felix, Stand-in Cache editor

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Cute

pet photo of the week

This cat is available for adoption!

Pet: Polly From: A foster home About Polly: “Pretty little Polly is something special. She is a polydactyl cat (she has 6 toes on her front paws). She is also special because of her loving personality. She came from a sad situation (dumped in the country along with her kittens), and although a little shy at first, is an affectionate, playful girl once she feels at home.”

If you would like to meet or adopt Polly, please call her foster mother Cindy at 7648911.

There are plenty of other cats and dogs up for adoption in the valley. Find them at www. cachehumane.org or www.4paws.petfinder.com.

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.

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MERICAN PIANIST Kevin Kenner will be featured in a solo recital at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 24 as part of Utah State University’s Wassermann Festival. The performance will take place in the USU Performance Hall, located at approximately 1090 E. 675 North in Logan.

Tickets for all Wassermann Festival recitals are available through the Caine School of the Arts Box Office by calling 797-8022 or online at http://csaboxoffice.usu.edu. Reserved seating is $15 and student tickets are $7.50.

Kenner has earned laurels for his interpretation of Chopin. At age 17 he participated in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland and was awarded the 10th prize and a special prize from the jury for promising talent. Ten years later he returned to the Chopin Competition, this time to win the top prize, the People’s Prize and the Polonaise Prize.

That same year, Kenner won the Bronze Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, together with a special prize for his interpretation of Russian music.

Other awards include the International

Terence Judd Award and awards at the Van Cliburn and Gina Bachauer International Piano competitions.

“We are delighted that Mr. Kenner will join us in Logan for the Wassermann Festival,” festival director Dennis Hirst said. “His program is substantial.”

The recital program will open with Beethoven’s “Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110,” followed by a selection by Liszt, “Annees de Pelerinage,” from “Premiere Annee: Suisse.”

Following intermission, Kenner will present Chopin’s “Ballade No. 4,” a selection of Preludes and Mazurkas, and “Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante.”

Kenner has recorded the Chopin Scherzos and Preludes, the latter highly recommended by BBC Music Magazine. His CD recordings include piano works by Maurice Ravel and Robert Schumann and the Chopin Piano Concertos with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland under the direction of Antoni Wit. The Wassermann Festival at USU is named in honor of Irving Wassermann, former music department head and pianist who established Music West, a

Arlo Guthrie to play at Ellen Eccles Theatre OLK LEGEND ARLO F Guthrie will perform live at the Cache Valley Center for the

Arts at 7:30 p.m. March 27 and 28 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre as part of his Lost World Tour.

Tickets for the performance range from $22 to $36 and can be purchased at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office at 43 South Main, online at www.

CenterForTheArts.us or by calling 752-0026. Guthrie’s Lost World Tour began in October, coinciding with his first release of new songs in 12 years.

Guthrie will play new songs and a few classics, accompanied by his son Abe Guthrie, The Burns Sisters, Terry A La Berry, and Bobby Sweet.

His career exploded in 1967 with the release of mega-hit “Alice’s Restaurant.” Other popular hits include “Coming Into Los Angeles,” and his distinctive rendition of Steve Goodman’s

Pianist Kevin Kenner will perform March 24 as part of USU’s Wasserman Festival.

program that eventually grew to become the Wasserman Festival.

“Mr. Kenner’s specialty in Chopin — a national hero in Poland — and his appearance in Logan provides a unique connection and tribute to Irving Wassermann, who is a native of Poland,”

Hirst said.

The concluding Wassermann Festival recital will feature Stephen Beus Tuesday, April 7.

For information on the festival, contact Hirst at 797-3257.

A musical Broadway showcase

USIC THEATRE M West will put on a Broadway Musical Revue at

“City of New Orleans.”

If you’ve been to an Arlo Guthrie concert in the past 20 years it’s likely you’ve seen Abe Guthrie’s great smile, heard his adept and tasteful keyboard accompaniment and his powerful supporting vocals. Abe started performing professionally with his father in the early 80s.

The CVCA Ticket Office is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and an hour prior to curtain.

7:30 p.m. March 20 and 21, in the Morgan Theatre on the Utah State University campus. Tickets cost $12 and are available online at www.boxoffice.usu.edu or by calling 797-8022.

The show features more than 60 Cache Valley singers and dancers performing songs from “Hairspray,” “Annie,” “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown,” “Oliver,” “Cinderella,” “Guys and Dolls,” “Wicked,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and others.

Music Theatre West executive director Jay Richards and music director Debbie

Ditton have worked for weeks with the show’s cast, which will be accompanied by group of live musicians.

“It’s a lovely showcase of talent from the valley,” says choreographer Stephanie White, who worked on the big production numbers.

Music Theatre West is the region’s newest musical theatre production company, offering training and performance opportunities for performers of all ages.

The company’s recent productions include “The King and I” and “Little Women.”

Registration will start soon for the company’s performance workshops for children and teens held in the summer.

Music Theatre West Kids and Valley Carolers perform throughout the Christmas season. Music Theatre West’s next fully staged musical is planned for February 2010.

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Chopin specialist next up for Wasserman

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All mixed up

Museum to feature seven art department alumni

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TAH STATE UNIVERSITY’S Department of Art Distinguished Alumni Exhibit opens March 23 and continues through April 25 at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. An opening reception will be held Monday, March 23, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The exhibit, which will feature work by seven distinguished USU alumni, is the final event in a year-long celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of the university’s Department of Art. The featured artists represent continuity from one century to another and span 30 years of education in studio and scholarly disciplines, said department head Carolyn Cardenas.

“Everyone included in the exhibition has parlayed his or her student experiences into a successful professional career,” Cardenas said.

“These extraordinary individuals have in common a solid foundation in the arts that was perpetrated through the art department at USU.” The artists included in the exhibition were chosen by current faculty in the Department of Art. They include Heather Ferrell (art history and photography, BFA ‘94), Brad Schwieger

“Cul du Sac,” by photographer Steve Smith.

(ceramics, MFA ‘84), Scott Rockwood (graphic design, BFA ‘75), Jon Rappleye (painting, BFA ‘92), Steve Smith (photography, BFA ‘86), Abigail Knowlton Israelsen (printmaking, BFA ‘00) and Shelia Nadimi (sculpture, MFA ‘95).

The show is also co-curated by Ferrell.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is located on the Utah State University campus, at about 1100 E. 675 North, Logan.

Stoneware split vase by ceramicist Brad Schwieger.

SIXTH ANNUAL SPICE ON ICE HE GEORGE S. ECCLES T Ice Center in North Logan will host its 6th annual Spice on Ice fundrais-

Participants in last year’s Spice on Ice fundraiser. The event benefits the Eccles Ice Arena and features chefs from restaurants from throughout Cache Valley.

er Thursday, March 26 at 5:30 p.m.

The event consists of a cook-off featuring some of the most talented chefs in Cache Valley, a live auction with fabulous prizes, and on-ice entertainment.

All proceeds from Spice on Ice benefit the programs and operations of the nonprofit George S. Eccles Ice Center.

Last year, the fundraiser generated more than $26,000 for the Ice Center, which is the only Olympic-size, nonprofit ice arena in the Intermountain West.

This year, chefs from the Indian Oven, Firehouse Pizza, USU Catering, Cache Valley BBQ, and Tandoori Oven will prepare some of their best dishes for judges and guests. They will compete for three titles: the Judge’s Choice, People’s Choice, and Chef of the Year awards.

Last year’s big winner was Scott Northridge of Blackstone, who swept the competition and took home all three awards.

Rink-side entertainment will be provided by Ice Center patrons and a live auction will be held to help raise money for the ice arena’s educational programs and facilities.

Tickets are on sale now at the Eccles Ice Center. The cost is $50 per person, which includes appetizers from a variety of restaurants, an entrée from each competing chef, and dessert. Sponsorship tables, which seat eight people, are also available for the event and start at $600.

Those hoping to participate in the live auction may do so without purchasing a ticket. The live auction will begin after the dinner and is free to the public.

For more information call the Ice Center at 787-2288 and ask for either Tommy or Julie.

Radio show host and string quartet to visit

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OSTON’S Jupiter Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 1 at the USU Performance Hall as part of the Chamber Music Society of Logan’s 27th season.

Fred Child, the host of American Public Media’s Performance Today and commentator for PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center, will deliver a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m.

The lecture will be free to all concert ticket-holders.

Tickets cost $20 for adults and $8 for students.

Affectionally known as the talk virtuoso of classical music, Child is currently heard by more than 1.2 million weekly listeners, including listeners of KUSU. He will be in Logan as part of KUSU’s annual spring fund drive.

Child will discuss the evening’s musical selections and the state of classical music in the nation today and will introduce the Jupiter Quartet as guests artists for the evening.

Immediately following the pre-concert lecture, the Jupiter Quartet will take the stage.

The Jupiter Quartet features sisters Meg and Liz Freivogel on violin and viola and Nelson

Lee and Daniel McDonough on violin and cello. The quartet selected the name Jupiter as Jupiter was the most prominent planet in the night sky at the time of the group’s 2001 formation.

The Boston-based group is currently serving a threeyear residency with Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, a program that creates performance opportunities for outstanding young artists. In 2007 the Jupiter won the Cleveland Quartet Award from Chamber Music America, a prize that honors and promotes young string quartets whose artistry demonstrates the process of establishing a major career.

The quartet has performed in major music halls and festivals around the world. While in Logan, the quartet will play for and coach student ensembles at Utah State University, Logan High School and Mount Logan Middle School. Quartet members have chosen three major musical pieces for their Logan performance. Their first selection is Hayden’s Quartet in F Major, Op 77, No. 2. The four-movement piece was Hayden’s last masterpiece

Photo by Lee Talner for string quartet, completed after musical encounters with Mozart and Beethoven Before intermission the quartet will play Shostakovich’s “Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 83.” The four-movement piece was composed under the shadow of the infamous 1948 Zdanov Resolution, which was intended to silence dissent in

literature, music and theater.

In the piece, Shostakovich follows his own muse in celebrating the folk music of Russian Jews.

The final performance of the evening will be Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartet No.2 in A Minor, Op. 13. Mendelssohn wrote the quartet in 1827 when he was 18 years

old. Mendelssohn wrote the composition during a period of great personal loss culminating in the death of his mentor, Beethoven. Mendelssohn adapted some of Beethoven’s techniques, including integrated movements, fugal textures, new tonal effects and adventuresome harmonies in the quartet.

The Lightwood Duo in concert HE BRIGHAM T City Fine Arts Center Concert Series will

present the Lightwood Duo at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20 at the Fine Arts Center, 58 South 100 West in Brigham City. Tickets cost $7 and are available at the door or by calling 723-0740. Admission price includes $1 off for dessert at Beehive Pizza after the show. Visit www.bcfineartscenter.org for more info.

The Lightwood Duo is a pairing of guitar and clarinet with master musi-

cians Eric Nelson and Mike Christiansen. Their musical selections include jazz, rock, Latin, Celtic, and film music.

The duo has issued five CDs, which have re-

ceived frequent airtime on radio in the United States and on the program DiscDrive on the CBC in Canada.

Christiansen heads the guitar program at Utah State University and is an author for Mel Bay Publications. Nelson is the band director at Spring Creek Middle School and is an artist and endorser for Yamaha clarinets. They have worked together as members of the four-piece jazz and rock band Mirage since 1985 and as the Lightwood Duo since 1992.

The duo’s recent performances have taken them to California, New York, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Montana and Hawaii. They have been included in the Utah

Arts Councils Performing Arts Tours. Visit www.lightwoodduo. com for more information.

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Rhythms

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Film New this week “Revolutionary Road” Rated R ★★ Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet tear each other apart more thoroughly than an iceberg ever could in this brutal — and brutally tedious — depiction of marital malaise. Director Sam Mendes covered this territory before with more verve and imagination in his 1999 debut “American Beauty,” and similar to that film, “Revolutionary Road” carries with it the unmistakable, unwarranted aura of importance, of having Something to Say about the way we live. If only we understood DiCaprio and Winslet’s characters, Frank and April Wheeler, and felt they were fleshed out as complex human beings, we might have experienced the intended emotional impact. DiCaprio and Winslet (Mendes’ real-life wife) are longtime off-screen friends reteaming for the first time since the 1997 uberblockbuster “Titanic.” They give it their all with energetic, powerful performances. Nevertheless, Frank and April come off as cogs in service of facile platitudes about the “hopeless emptiness” of a supposedly idyllic suburban existence, their bitter arguments playing like a screechy rip-off of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The source material for “Revolutionary Road” is actually the novel of the same name by Richard Yates about a young couple moving to genteel Connecticut with their two kids in the mid-1950s. Frank takes the train each day to the

city, where he sits in his cubicle doing a routine job at the same company where his father worked.

April, meanwhile, has long since discarded her dreams of becoming an actress in favor of folding laundry and making small talk with the nosy neighbors. 119 min.

Still playing “Last House on the Left” Rated R (0) It could be interpreted as the most vile, misogynistic “Just Say No” ad ever. Then again, you’d have to assume that this remake of the 1972 Wes Craven classic has a point, other than pure shock value. Craven’s debut was by no means great art (even though it was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning “The Virgin Spring”), but at least it had suspense, and in retrospect it’s easy to see how its low-budget brutality influenced decades of horror filmmakers to come. Director Dennis Iliadis’ take retains the same basic story — a couple of teenage girls on the hunt for pot get abducted and savagely attacked by psychopaths — but there’s nothing particularly special about it artistically.

It’s slick and quick and loud, filled with the typical amped-up thumps that accompany every body blow.

Working from a script by Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth (“Disturbia”), Iliadis puts his vaguely unique spin on the proceedings by prolonging the most grotesque, violent elements and making them more graphic. The result is never scary but instead feels deplorably gratuitous — especially a rape

scene in the woods, which goes on forever and seems intended for titillation. Sara Paxton and Martha MacIssac play the girls in trouble, Garret Dillahunt leads the crazed killers and a miscast Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter play the parents who ultimately get their bloody revenge. R for sadistic brutal violence including a rape and disturbing images, language, nudity and some drug use. 109 min.

“He’s Just Not That Into You” Rated PG-13 ★★ This isn’t exactly a romantic comedy — at least, not in the most traditional sense. Yes, the characters work themselves into the same sorts of tizzies over falling in and out of love — or even finding love in the first place — but frequently mixed in with the fizziness is an unexpected seriousness, an attempt at injecting honesty, realism and even failure. All those A-list stars in the ensemble cast (Jennifer Aniston! Scarlett Johansson!) are smiling in the movie’s posters, but don’t let that fool you.

Some heavy stuff falls upon their pretty heads. But while it’s admirable that director Ken Kwapis’ film tries to shake up a typically frivolous formula, too many other elements undermine his intentions. Based on the best-selling relationship advice book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, the script from Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (“Never Been Kissed”) follows nine intertwined characters struggling to make sense of their love lives. The women, especially Ginnifer Goodwin’s hopeless romantic Gigi, tend to be

needy and demanding; the men, like Bradley Cooper’s cheating Ben, are caddish and evasive. And their stories are broken up with title cards taken from the source material’s chapters (”... if he’s not calling you,” for example) that make “He’s Just Not That Into You” feel an awful lot like episodic television.

Maybe that’s fitting, since the title comes from a line uttered on “Sex and the City,” for which Behrendt and Tuccillo were writers. PG-13 for sexual content and brief strong language. 124 min.

— Associated Press reviews “Race to Witch Mountain” Rated PG ★★★ The “magic” in Magic Kingdom must actually be some cinematic voodoo, because I cannot figure out how Disney can cram a genetically engineered plot and actors into a saw-it-coming-amile-away predictable 90 minute movie and still have me walk away pleased. The film (a remake of Disney’s 1975 film “Escape to Witch Mountain”) is built around Dwayne Johnson, the actor formerly known as “The Rock.” The movie takes place in Las Vegas, and Johnson plays Jack Bruno, a cab driver with a spotty past trying to turn his life around and distance himself from his days jacking cars for a local mobster. His cab driving isn’t paying the bills, so when two

teenagers appear in the back of his cab with a fat wad of one hundred dollar bills, Bruno is inclined to ferry them where they please.

The duo (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) not only possess paranormal powers, but they are from outer space, on the lam from the Men in Black after crashlanding on Earth. They’ve come on purpose to save their planet and ours. Apparently, their home world has run out of atmosphere and the residents are divided between those who want to stay and solve the problem and those who want to invade Earth. An inevitable plug to save the environment is crammed in, but it doesn’t really knock the movie from its tracks. Nor do the jokes about absolute government authority and the Patriot Act get in the way of a good time. Bruno vows to make certain they escape safe and sound. Along the way, they are constantly fleeing from the bad guys, and the movie maintains a breakneck speed from start to finish. Andy Fickman, who directed Johnson in “The Game Plan” does a good job of keeping the audience’s attention through the entire picture. I poke fun at its plot and inherent goofiness, but I liked it. It is often acutely predictable, but it’s worth seeing, especially with the family.

— HJ critic Andy Morgan

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E’RE MIDWAY through March and this weekend’s films seem to coincide nicely with the warmer weather we’ve had lately. After viciously cursing Old Man Winter for nearly four months, when the temperatures climb above 55 degrees, I break out the shorts and flip flops. Sure, my legs might be florescent white, but the sun is shining and I don’t have to try and get giddy over “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” and “Pink Panther 2” anymore. No, instead I get to bask in Hollywood giving me a little tease of what’s to come this summer.

“I Love You, Man” is a movie built for the metrosexual generation and follows the Judd Apatow (“40 Year Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up”) school of humor which mixes in-your-face R-rated comedy with enough sprinkles of heart and romance to satisfy the soft spot in both male and female psyches.

Paul Rudd (“Knocked Up”) plays Los Angeles realtor Peter Klaven, and when the movie opens he’s just proposed to his girlfriend of eight months, Zooey (Rashida Jones). Zooey’s friends, Hailey (Sarah Burns) and Denise (Jamie Pressly), are ecstatic and think Zooey’s hit the husband lottery. By all accounts, from what we see of Peter, she really has. I mean, let’s face it, I snuggle and watch TV with my wife about as often as I scrapbook with her, which is to say never. Peter, on the other hand, takes the label sensitive to another level. He likes to snuggle up with Zooey on Sunday nights

Screening Room

By Andy Morgan

★★★ “I Love You Man” Rated R

★★ “Knowing”

Rated PG-13

and watch HBO, and he marks the time they watched “Chocolat,” ate summer salad and drank wine as one of his most favorite dates with Zooey. At any rate, dudes think Peter is gay and the guys who know Peter isn’t gay think he’s a wuss. That might be stereotyping at its finest, but the honesty is what makes it funny.

Trust me, many a guy I know thinks and talks this way.

As Peter and Zooey plan their Santa Barbara beachside wedding, they both realize Peter doesn’t really have a male friend that he considers his “best” friend. Zooey seems to be okay with this and doesn’t find it strange, but Peter feels awkward and starts searching for his best man. He could turn to a sleazy, porn-surfing co-worker

at the real estate office where he works, or he could link up with his brother (Andy Samberg) or mother’s (Jane Curtin) male matchmaking attempts. His brother’s friend is a semi-violent soccer fan/gym rat with a highpitched voice (Joe Lo Truglio), and his mother’s man date ends up being a gay man (Thomas Lennon) who gives Peter a sloppy wet tobacco kiss at the end of their dinner. Just when Peter is about to give up, he meets Sidney Fife (Jason Segel).

If Peter is a metrosexual, then Sidney is a hobosexual. His bland business card says he does investments, but his lifestyle of beachcombing with his dog Anwar Sadat (yes, after the former Egyptian president) and his penchant for retiring to his “man cave” to jam to Rush would lend us to believe otherwise. Still, Sidney is a breath of fresh air for Peter and they start to hang

out all the time, so much so that Zooey becomes jealous and Peter is forced to choose between his newfound manfriend or his soon-to-be-wife. The great thing about “I Love You, Man” is just when you expect the predictable ending, it turns a corner and leaves you slightly, if awkwardly, touched. Mix that with some laugh-out-loud moments and a fantastic, eclectic cast and it might be the ray of cinematic sunshine you’re looking for this weekend.

On the other hand, if news about AIG bonuses, war, famine, pestilence, more war, more famine and more pestilence don’t have you angry and depressed enough, you could catch the new Nicholas Cage movie “Knowing” this weekend. This movie made me grouchy. I was ready, despite its stinky acting, to give it three stars on terror alone, but then it took a 360 degree turn and belched out one of the worst movie endings I have seen in my entire life. Seriously. Atrocious and infuriating.

“Knowing” tells the story of John Koestler (Cage) and his son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury). John is an astrophysicist at MIT and a recent widower. It seems John’s wife died in a hotel fire nearly a year ago and both he and Caleb are still adjusting to the loss. Things get even harder when the folks at Caleb’s school decide to dig up a time capsule and hand out all the drawings the 1959 students did of the future. All the other kids get pictures of rockets and little green outer space men, but Caleb gets a paper full of numbers that a little girl scribbled fifty years before. It might look innocent to most, but if Caleb and John saw the kid who penned that document, they’d have picked up and moved immediately. Lucinda Embry was the author and she looked like a cross between Wednesday Addams and Damien from “The Omen.”

At any rate, Caleb takes the paper home and starts hearing

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‘Love’ and ‘Knowing’ bring sunshine, gloom

to a history that never was With Styrofoam, drawings and lighting, Tyler Vance has created art to take viewers away from the gallery and into a different time and place

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Tyler Vance and his assistant, Amber Quesenberry, sculpt Styrofoam on campus last Friday.

T FIRST GLANCE IT seems like an odd mix.

Exquisite drawings with great details attached to rock-like sculptures cause you to ponder what is going on as you walk around in a circle.

However, the more you study them, the more they tend to grow on you. Your imagination takes over, and trying to figure out what the artist is portraying fills your mind.

When that happens, it’s mission accomplished for artist Tyler Vance. He wants people to think and study each of his pieces now on display in an exhibit at Utah State University.

“I like people to come up with their own interpretation,” Vance said of his thesis project called Monument. “There is no right answer. I know what it means to me, but each piece can mean something different to whoever is looking at it.”

Monument consists of 11 pieces with special lighting. Each rock sculpture has a drawing mounted on it. The drawings consist of one portrait and 10 still-lifes.

“Monument, that’s pretty much what it is,” Vance said. “It is a fictional, historical site of stone markers, and on these markers are mounted drawings. ...

I wanted to establish an environment.

I’m isolating the space, blocking it off from the rest of the gallery. I’m using specific lighting for each one of these things so you get a sense you are at a historical site, rather than walking into a gallery and seeing pieces hanging on the wall.”

The lighting is an important part of the presentation as well. Vance is using black wrap around canisters, which causes a spotlight affect.

“Although it is kind of an ambient light, you will be able to see all parts of the stone,” Vance said. “The main part that will be lit are the images, because those are the focus of it.”

How did he come up with this mix of sculpture and drawing?

“My degree is painting and drawing, but I started experimenting with how my pieces would be presented, and that became an integral part of what I do now,” Vance answered. “So yeah, it is kind of a mix between, well, a merge of sculpture and drawing in that sense.”

He prefers to use graphite when drawing, saying he works best in that medium. It reminds him of when he used his writing pencil in grade school to draw dragons and robots.

“I really enjoy using graphite,” Vance said. “I’m fairly good at it and it’s fun, which is just as important as anything

Tyler Vance works to sculpt a block of Styrofoam in a studio at Utah State University last Friday.

else. ... It’s kind of a return to what I used to do.”

And his sculptures aren’t really stones.

They are made of Styrofoam, which he gets from Fisher Home Furnishings. He said Fisher has the shapes and sizes he needs, making it easier to put together the 8-foot-tall sculptures.

The 30-year-old grew up in Midvale and graduated from the University of Utah in 2006 with a degree in painting and drawing. Being familiar with USU’s art department, he moved to Logan to pursue a master’s degree, which he will complete this spring. Vance originally began his college career studying history, but switched to art after a few semesters.

“Yeah, I was a history major, then switched to art, which is an even more useless degree than history,” Vance said. “Throughout my academic career, I’ve never felt like an artist. It’s made me question what art really is, what it can do.”

Which led him to his thesis. Vance said it “may seem hokey or over the top,” but he enjoys creating a fun world that is enjoyable to experience.

“If you try to force it, it never goes right,” Vance said. “You have got to let things naturally happen. This is what I kind of arrived at.

“I used to do drawings and mount them on a slab or old, rotten piece of wood to show these were artifacts from history. That just continued until I reached this amalgamation sculpture and drawing. It doesn’t matter to me that I’m in painting and drawing. I just do what I do.”

While his emphasis in school is focused on art, he has continued to be fascinated with history and science fiction.

Those interests show up in his drawings and especially in the sculptures for Monument.

“I use reference from stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, which is on the northern coast of France; I’ve looked at a lot of those,” said Vance, who calls himself a historical enthusiast.

“These are obviously different in the way I mount drawings on them so I have to accommodate for that. I have some images up in my studio for reference, but don’t copy them exactly.”

The father of an 8-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son, Vance has always had an interest in art. At the moment he is frustrated with painting, but expects he will return to it in the future. However, drawing continues to be fulfilling for him.

When asked if any of his pieces were for sale, he chuckled.

A drawing appears on a section of sculpted Styrofoam in a studio on campus last week.

“I don’t see why anybody would want to buy one of these things,” Vance said.

“Certainly if somebody came up and offered me some money for it, we could talk about that. Let’s face it, they are 8-foot hunks of Styrofoam. I don’t see how anyone would want to put one of those in their living room.”

He is working on some projects and may publish a book. Vance would also like to teach in some capacity.

Today will be the final day of the exhibit at the Tippets Gallery in the Chase Fine Arts Center on the USU campus.

There will also be a closing reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Story by Shawn harrison photos by Alan Murray

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Time to rethink our fruitful multiplication

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’M GETTING TO BE like one of those Far Side dog cartoons: All I hear is blah, blah, blah, solar panels, blah, blah, blah conserve, blah, blah, blah, plug-in hybrid, blah, blah, blah — every time I hear someone talk about our carbon footprints and our future here on Terra Madre. My ears might prick up a little if, amidst all the blah, blah, blah, someone mentions the idea of fewer footprints.

I know “population control” is offputting so maybe just call it a pregnant pause, a cessation of gestation or “do your part, stay apart.” This campaign just needs the right spin.

The terrible truth is that we don’t have a shortage of resources; we have a surplus of resource users.

That’s right, free-range people are the problem. The world has been going downhill ever since we left the garden and started wandering about the world grazing indiscriminately on the environment. We should all be put in feed lots, which would roughly resemble any Chinese food buffet in town. We need to be contained before it is too late.

No, I’m not picking on Utah’s propensity to populate; it’s a worldwide web of wanton womb expansion that’s gotten us to this point. Our little state can hardly take the blame for all of it.

Scriptures of nearly all religions contain passages that say something to the effect “be fruitful and multiply.” The only problem is that these were written when there were only 10 million people on the planet and the average life expectancy was about 32.

The world population doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 6 billion in 1999 and is expected to grow by another 3 billion by 2042. Maybe this is why modern day cult religions focus on growth through recruitment rather than incubation.

“The Population Bomb,” written in 1968, predicted that there would be mass starvation in the 1980s. The author, Paul Ehrlich, may have been wrong, depending on your definition of “mass.” He based his predictions mainly on predictions that our population would increase at a faster rate than food production. He also predicted an increase in life expectancy would contribute to world famine. It’s a weirdly scary irony that, in fact, the

Slightly Off Center

By Dennis Hinkamp

life expectancy is now dropping in most developed countries because of over-consumption of food.

So Erlich’s predictions were a little off. As I recall in the mid-70s people were also predicting that the world would have run out of oil by now. In another scarily weird irony, OPEC now has so much excess oil that they soon will be selling it on e-Bay and at garage sales.

Immediately people will say that China’s one-child experiment was a failed experiment at population control. Perhaps so, but there have been many failed experiments that we didn’t give up on. The market economy, the Electoral College and drug testing in sports come immediately to mind. Sure the Population Bomb didn’t play out as predicted, but the world is still producing more users of finite resources.

Maybe it won’t be a big Population Bomb, but just a series of roadside IEDs (improvised explosive devices) that do us in.

Dennis Hinkamp is not pessimistic; he believes the future lies somewhere between The Jetsons and Mad Max. He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices. Feedback at dhinkamp@ msn.com.

Feb. 19, 2009 Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area

“Lookout” by Von Taylor

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Sky View High School’s Encore swing choir will present a night of singing, dancing and dinner with two USO shows Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21. The shows will feature music and dance from yesteryear.

Dinner will begin at 7 p.m. and will be catered by Iron Gate Grill. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. The show will be held at the Old Smithfield Tabernacle at 65 N. 50 West behind the library.

Tickets cost $18 per person if ordered online at www.skyviewtix.org or $20 at the Sky View office or at the door. Contact Sky View High with questions at 563-6273.

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All mixed up Pickleville Playhouse calls for auditions for summer shows

HE PICKLEVILLE T Playhouse will hold auditions for its 2009 summer

season on Friday, March 27 from 3 to 10 p.m. at 1280 E. 3100 North, North Logan.

There will also be a callback and dance audition on Saturday, March 28 from 10 to 4 p.m. Audition packets are available online.

Please bring a current headshot and resume listing your musical theater-related experience. Come prepared with one minute of any Broadway-style song. An accompanist will be provided or you can bring your own. CDs are also acceptable. This year’s productions include the Broadway hit “Annie Get Your Gun” and a new western musical melodrama “The Hanging of El Bandito.”

All actors and musicians are paid per performance. Pickleville will also hold an audition at BYU in Provo March 26 from 3 to 7 p.m. in room D341 of the HFAC building.

If you are unable to make it to one of the scheduled audition times, please call to make other arrangements. Shows will

be directed by Andrea and T.J. Davis and choreographed by Sharli King.

Visit www.picklevilleplayhouse.com/auditions for audition packets, readings, and summer housing options.

Call Andrea at 755-0968 to schedule an audition time.

Young musicians to compete The Young Artist Cup Committee, in association with the Performing Arts Department at Mountain Crest High School, will present its 10th Annual Music Competition at 7 p.m.

April 1 and 2 in the Mountain Crest High School auditorium.

The vocal and instrumental competition will be held

Wednesday, and the piano and strings competition will be held Thursday. The public is invited free of charge.

Students compete for cash prizes and trophies in six areas: graphic arts design, female vocalists, male vocalists, strings, brass/winds/percussion and piano.

The Cache Magazine Bulletin Board Neon Trees to play Fast Forward concert The Salt Lake City band Neon Trees will play Friday at the Whittier Center in Logan as part of a concert being put on as an award to students at Fast Forward High School who won a statewide anti-smoking competition.

The show bill begin at 6:30 p.m. and will also feature local band Griswold and several student bands from Fast Forward. Tickets cost $5 and Fast Forward students are free. Funds raised by the show will benefit the school’s art, video and music programs. The Whittier Center is located at 290 N. 400 East.

A series of short anti-smoking commercials created by a group of Fast Forward students won first place in the Real Noise competition.

Neon Trees has opened for the nationally touring band The Killers. They were voted as City Weekly’s 2008 Band of the Year.

GET YOUR STUFF PUBLISHED! The Cache Magazine Bulletin Board is a place for our local community to share, well ... anything! Short Stories, poems, drawins, whatever! Cache Magazine wants your stuff!

Send it all to jbaer@hjnews. com, or mail it to Cache Magazine, 75 W. 300 North, Logan, UT 84321. We’ll be waiting!

Drawings by Trae Rechsteiner Age 10 Hyrum

‘Grace’ deals with harsh reality sensitively Regional Reads

By Charlene Hirschi

“Grace” by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster, 2008) ANY YEARS ago, just after “The Christmas Box” was published by Simon & Schuster, I met Richard Paul Evans at a League of Utah Writers’ conference. I was totally smitten with this handsome, gentle, young man and couldn’t wait to read the book everyone was raving about. As it turns out, I’m probably the only person on the planet that didn’t fall head over heels in love with that book.

Not that it wasn’t a good story — of course it was — but the writing was not up to par. One of those cases where the movie was better than the book. So for years, I’ve not read any of Evans’ work — until now, and if there is one thing this book has taught me it is to never give up on an author. In the intervening years this author has learned a lot about writing — tension and passion to name two. “Grace” has an edge to it that “The Christmas Box” lacked. It still has the empathy and storytelling, but now the writing has a professionalism which the first book did not.

“Grace” is about, surprise, a 16-year-old girl named Grace.

She has been physically abused

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by her step-father and has run away from home to remove herself from the abusive environment and because she is pregnant with his child. By chance, one of her classmates, Eric, finds her dumpster-diving at his place of work. Grace writes in her diary that night, “A boy found me tonight as I was looking for food in a Dumpster.

He acted like he didn’t know why I was there, which makes me think he’s either dumb or good.” Eric takes pity on her and offers her the clubhouse he and his brother have built in a secluded area of their back yard. It is October and snow is already on the ground in Utah, but, having no other options, she agrees to spend the night there — sans heat and plumbing.

The only functional parts of the clubhouse, in the dead of winter, are a naked light bulb hanging from the ceiling, a “water spigot . . . one of the old orange handlever types” and an outdoor privy a few yards away.

The single night soon becomes three months of hiding in the shack, with 15-year-old Eric sneaking her food, blankets and falling deeply in love with her.

Eventually he buys her a small space heater with his earnings from his part-time job at the McBurger Queen. Determined to protect Grace at all costs, he eventually finds himself more and more deeply involved and completely overwhelmed by the circumstances — until one night in December he comes home to find a patrol car in his driveway.

Richard Paul Evans The book is carefully crafted with Grace’s short journal entries dividing the chapters.

Grace is poignant and wise beyond her 16 years, and the journal gives us entry into her mind and feelings. For instance: “I feel so much happier now that we’ve decorated the clubhouse for Christmas. There is something healing about the season ... Is it better to be lonely or afraid? I should know by now but I don’t ... Eric has given me the greatest Christmas of my

life and the greatest gift. I gave him truth, and he still loved me. . . . The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.” Like Eric, the reader falls in love with her and wants this book to have a happy ending — for her sake and Eric’s. It is impossible not to relate to this story and recognize that these are circumstances that many young men and women are facing at this very minute.

Abuse is real. Fear and desperation are being faced by those who don’t have the maturity to extricate themselves from the daily torture they must endure — always at the threat of “don’t tell or I’ll ... “ In a letter from the author, Evans writes: “While the story you’ve just read is fiction, at this moment there are thousands of stories like Grace’s happening in real life ... With the release of this book we have launched an exciting new and massive project called The Christmas Box Initiative. Our goal is to help every youth in America who is aging out of foster care. Right

now these youths face serious challenges including crime, drug addiction, teen pregnancy, poverty and suicide. With no one to help them, many of them return to abusive home situations or end up homeless and on the streets.” Known for his philanthropic work, Evans gives readers information on how to join in this fight for abused kids.

This book deals with a harsh reality in a responsible way, and I strongly recommend it for all age groups older than 15. The message is one that all will benefit from and perhaps someone who is struggling with these issues will recognize themselves and talk to a responsible adult to get the help they needs. If just one adult or teenager recognizes the signs of abuse and reaches out, the price of the book will more than pay for itself.

Charlene Hirschi is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal. Authors, readers and editors can e-mail charlenehirschi@yahoo.com.

* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List * HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Handle With Care” by Jodi Picoult 2. “The Associate” by John Grisham 3. “Promises in Death” by J. D. Robb 4. “Run for Your Life” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 5. “One Day at a Time” by Danielle Steel HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell 2. “The Yankee Years” by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci 3. “Out of Captivity” by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, Tom Howes and Gary Brozek 4. “The Lost City of Oz” by David Grann 5. “Dewey” by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter HARDCOVER ADVICE 1. “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner 2. “The Power of Soul” by Zhi Gang Sha 3. “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow 4. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne 5. “Flat Belly Diet!” by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1. “The House in the Night” by Susan Marie Swanson 2. “Listen to the Wind” by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth 3. “The Composer is Dead” by Lemony Snicket 4. “Cat” by Matthew Van Fleet and Brian Stanton 5. “Big Words for Little People” by Jamie Lee Curtis

Keep your reading list updated at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

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“GET YOUR DOCS IN A ROW” by Myles Mellor Across 1. Info 5. Kind of rule 8. Parrot 11. “So that’s your game!”

14. Echolocation 15. Hound’s trail 17. Pupil’s place 19. CAT, for one 20. List of docs 24. Once, once 25. Kind of Ranger 26. It gets dropped from a noble 27. Gardener’s soil 28. Disconnected 30. Ancient cross 31. A celebrity may have one 32. Chicago street (abbr.)

35. 8-faced figures 38. Go over again 42. Fraternity letter 43. ESPN sportscaster 44. Bananas 45. A trickster god 47. Hindu title 48. Irish writer 50. Telekinesis, e.g.

51. Wonder’s “years of bad luck” 52. Fish, with Arctic 53. List of docs, continued 58. Skinny 59. Bebopper 60. Paltry 61. J-LO, Eva Longoria and Katie Holmes, for example 63. Break down 64. Coating 67. Greater omentum 68. Isaac Newton prefix

69. Antiseptic 70. Key work 78. Natural emollient 79. Chicken 80. Brave opponent 81. Winter Palace residents 82. “Hollywoodland” star, first name 83. “Bye!” 84. Romanian coin 85. Switzerland canton 87. Sarah or Arnold, e.g.

88. Presumptuous 91. Dr. Desaguliers was one 94. Death on the Nile cause, perhaps 95. Eye part 96. Back 97. Sticky 99. Yellowish 101. Em, to Dorothy 103. Charge 104. Distinctive flair 108. Welcome for a doc 112. “___ Lang Syne” 113. Afternoon socials 114. Roman place-spirits 115. Excellence 116. Court matter 117. Blow it 118. Provided nourishment for 119. Conniver 1.

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woven design 8. Place for a firing 9. Foe of the Iroquois 10. Back 11. Edible tubers 12. “Airplane!” actor Robert 13. Bed-in enthusiast 14. Cow or sow 15. Get ___; 1995 Travolta film 16. 1492 ship 18. Honoring 19. Attack ad, maybe 21. Come in second 22. Scowl 23. Nostalgic time 29. Brad Walker excels in it 30. Halfhearted 31. American Idol runner-up 32. Bawdy 33. Brouhaha 34. Chip’s partner 36. Lacks, briefly 37. Like Argus 39. Beached 40. Go places 41. Cork’s place 46. Casan follower 49. Get rid of bugs 50. Hail Mary, e.g.

51. Attempt 52. “The Rocket” 54. T.G.I.F. part 55. General in gray 56. Disdain 57. Issuing 61. Drag 62. Poetic syllable arrangements 63. Capital of ancient China

MOVIES Continued from p.7 whispering voices and seeing albino dudes outside his window. One even gives him a black rock. Turns out the numbers represent a date, a number of people and a location. That’s all fine and dandy until John ties them back to every single terrible disaster from the last 50 years. Yes, earthquakes, plane wrecks, mass suicides, the works.

They are all there and John, who has been questioning

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his faith (to the point of not talking to his pastor father anymore), doesn’t like the path of “knowing” this leads him down.

John finds himself in the midst of two of the predestined disasters on the paper but is still struggling with what, where and when the final disaster on the paper encompasses. He ends up stalking Lucinda’s daughter (Rose Byrne) who takes him to her mother’s deserted trailer in the middle of the woods where they discover the meaning of the last set of numbers.

75. Filipino city 76. Asteroid 77. Invitation letters 84. Omitted 85. Seizes 86. Jolly flag?

89. Morbidly swollen 90. Spring in Hebrew 92. Bluster 93. At full speed 98. Approvals 99. “How ___!”

Even though they have just stumbled upon the answer, we’ve known for awhile now because of the news reports playing in the background, so it’s no big surprise. The big surprise comes at the end when you shake your fists at the screen and lament a creepy movie gone completely bananas. And maybe that’s just it, “Knowing” is a bit schizophrenic. It’s not sure if it’s a thriller, disaster movie or a sci-fi flick. It tries to be all three and fails at the end.

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on the PG and more on the 13 on this one. The disaster scenes looked incredibly real and I think the 11-year-old girl next to me thought so too, as she had both her eyes and ears covered. Buyer beware on this one.

Andy Morgan is a lifelong Cache Valley resident and a member of the Utah Film Critics Association. He is among a number of freelance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal. Send comments or questions to andrewamorgan@gmail.com.

Friday The Cache Valley Trappers hockey team will play the Utah Dawgs at 7 p.m. Friday at the Eccles Ice Center.

The Providence Stake of the LDS Church will present its production of “Cinderella” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Providence Stake Center, 800 S. 600 East, River Heights.

Admission is free and everyone is invited.

Preston High School will present “Oliver” at 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Preston High auditorium. Tickets are $4 for students and $6 for everyone else and can be purchased at the door.

An Adult Singles Dance for ages 30 and older will take place Friday in the Weber State Ballroom, Shepherd Student Union Building.

Admission is $7 and includes a dating workshop by radio talk show host Ron McKean from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.; dance lessons from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.; and dance and food from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. For more information, call 801-773-7464.

Shaun Smith will play live music at 7 p.m. and Krista Mitton will perform at 8 p.m. on Friday at Pier 49 Pizza, 115 E. 1200 South, Logan. For more information, call 713-4949 or email irv@pier49.com.

USU’s English department will host the third annual “Beat Night” on Friday in the TSC Stevenson Ballroom. This event will feature noted Slam poet Anis Mojgani; open-mic begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door, and are available at the USU Writing Center, the TSC Caffé Ibis Kart, the University Inn, ASUSU and the True Aggie Café. For more information, call 797-3853.

Lightwood Duo will perform as part of the “Music in the City” series at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West. Admission is $7 at the door and includes $1 off dessert at Beehive Pizza. To guarantee seating, advance phone reservations can be made by calling 435-723-0740.

Ben Johnson will perform with Michael Gross and The Statuettes, Belly of the Whale and Ben Wilson (indie rock) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www. myspace.com/whysound.

The Hyrum Senior Center will serve lunch at noon and play Bingo at 12:30 p.m. Friday.

Caffe Ibis will host an opening reception for “Bead Woven Wearable Art” by Maggie Riebeek from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. There will be live music and light refreshments.

Cache Valley Peace Works will hold several events throughout the day Friday at USU to mark the six-year anniversary of the Iraq War. Events include: Speakers and movies in the TSC auditorium; exhibits at the TSC fountains; a walk starting at 4:15 p.m.; and a downtown peace vigil from 5 to 6 p.m. Guest speaker Stephen McNeil will give two talks in the TSC auditorium. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.loganpeace.org.

Saturday An Awareness Festival will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Clock Tower Plaza.

There will be essential oils, handmade flutes and jewelry, healthy chocolate, healings, readings and

more. For more information, call 435-363-7173.

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform from 6 p.m. to closing Saturday at LD’s Cafe in Richmond. Everyone is invited.

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology continues its “Saturdays at the Museum.” Those attending can learn about the ways different cultures celebrate the coming of spring and will view a presentation that details the progression of celebrations and rituals in both present and past folklore. For more information, visit www.usu.edu/anthro/museum/.

Bring your questions about the economy, Cache Valley, Utah or the nation to the Bear River chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday in Room 1 at the Logan Regional Hospital. Sen. Lyle Hillyard will be available to review topics from the just completed Senate session.

Everyone is invited. For more information, contact Regent Marilynne Wright at 752-2076.

The Cosmic Nudge will host a free “Spring into LIFE” workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. This workshop is for people who lack motivation, keep making excuses and feel they should be doing more. For more information, call 363-7173.

Jan Summerhays will play live music at 7 p.m. and Jake Lott will perform at 8 p.m.

Saturday at Pier 49 Pizza.

The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Brigham City will celebrate Women in History with “A Sense of Wonder” from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. This event will honor Rachel Carson and her work, writings and teachings about the natural world. For more information, call 435-734-6438.

The Beginning at Last will perform with Flatline Tragedy and Split Lid (hip hop/metal) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

Yeshara, an LDS society for returned sister missionaries, will host its quarterly meeting at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Crockett Ward Building, 325 Lauralin Dr., Logan. All returned sister missionaries are welcome.

USU Extension in Cache County will continue its annual Plant Propagation Workshop from 9 a.m. to noon or 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday or from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at USU’s Crop Physiology Laboratory, 1410 N. 800 East, Logan. Seeds and planting trays will be provided. Cost is $15 for Master Gardeners and Utah Native Plant Society members or $20 for everyone else. For more information or to register, call 752-6263.

Bring your kids (ages 3 to 13) to the Providence Macey’s Little Theater anytime between 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday. Let them have fun making a craft, having a treat and enjoying a movie while you do your shopping in peace. For more information, call 753-3301.

Monday The Big Fix Discount Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinic will be at the Logan PetSmart (1050 N. Main) on Monday and in the Brigham City Smith’s parking lot (156 S. Main) on Tuesday.

Walk-up microchipping and vaccinations will be available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Arrive early; intake starts at 8 a.m. until full. For more specific information and costs, call 1-866-PETS FIX or visit www.utahpets.org.

The Sego Lily DUP Camp will meet at 1 p.m.

Monday at the Hyrum Civic Center. Lesson will be given by Geneva Crookston.

Lake will perform with e.Stohl Chipman and Julia Mecham at 8 p.m. Monday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

Tuesday The public is invited to Logan city’s Woodruff Neighborhood meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Woodruff School. Agenda items include emergency planning, 10th West update and other local issues. For more information, contact Alan at 750-9516 or 757-6609.

The English Language Center of Cache Valley will host a volunteer orientation at 7 p.m. Tuesday and at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the ELC, 106 E. 1120 North, Ste. A, Logan. Anyone interested in helping adults learn to read, write and speak English are invited. For more information, call 750-6534.

An Autism Spectrum Disorders Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the OPTIONS Box Elder Satellite Office, 1080 N. Main, Suite 105-A, Brigham City. For more information, contact Deanna at 435-723-2171.

Brave Citizens will perform with Day @ Bay and American Attic (indie rock) at 8 p.m.

Tuesday at Why Sound. Charge is $5.

USU Extension in Cache County offers free gardening and landscaping classes from 6 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday in March in the new Cache County Administration Building Multipurpose Room, at 179 N. Main, Ste. 109, Logan. For more information, call 752-6263.

Candi of USU Food Sense will share some menu planning and quick meal ideas for families at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. To reserve a spot, call 753-3301.

Wednesday Millville Elementary will hold kindergarten registration for the 2009-10 school year from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Bring your child for an assessment and come prepared to provide immunization records and a copy of your child’s birth certificate along with a donation of $24 for snacks and field trips. For more information, call 752-7162.

The Reentry Student Center will host a workshop on “Dealing With Depression and Stress as a Student” from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the TSC Colony Room at USU. Dessert and drinks will be provided. For more information, call 797-1702.

Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology will offer a Boy Scout Archaeology Badge Workshop on two Saturdays, March 28 and April 4. Early registration is requested. Cost is $5 per Scout; a troop leader must be present.

Two sessions are available, from 9 a.m. to noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. Scouts must participate both days to meet all requirements. Because of limited space, participants must RSVP by Wednesday.

For more information, call 797-7545 or visit www. usu.edu/anthro/museum/.

The Cache Interagency Council will meet at noon Wednesday at The Bluebird Restaurant. All service and non-profit organizations are invited to attend. For more information, call 753-9008.

Free “Love and Logic” parenting classes will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. March 25 and April 1 at the Cache Valley Family Center, 50 S. 400 East, Logan. Class size is limited so call or drop by to sign up. For more information, contact Claudia at 755-5171.

Ye Olde Tyme Quilters will meet at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main, Logan. Also, a Brain Injury Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. For more information, to schedule transportation or to sign up, call 753-5353.

Darrell Mangum will speak on “Service” at the Logan Kiwanis Club meeting at noon Wednesday at The Copper Mill. For more information, contact Curtis at 563-0618.

The Cache Valley Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol meets from 6:30 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday at the Military Science building at USU. For more information, visit www.

CacheValleySquadron.org or call 770-4862.

Thursday An AARP driving class will take place from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Senior Citizens Center, 240 N. 100 East, Logan. Cost is $12 for AARP members and $14 for non-members. Everyone is invited. To register, contact Gayle at 764-0834.

A free class on “Emotion Coaching: How to Help Your Child Understand Feelings” will take place from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m. Thursday at the Family Information and Resource Center, 50 S. 400 East, Logan. For more information, call 755-5171.

Author, teacher and photographer Stephen Trimble will help celebrate the centennial of Utah author Wallace Stegner’s birth at 7 p.m.

Thursday at Crumb Brothers Artisan Bread, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Admission is free. For more information, call 755-3239.

Housing and Financial Counseling Services at the Utah State University Family Life Center will present “Financial First Aid” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. This workshop is designed to teach community and religious leaders financial management ideas they can share with clients who are dealing with a financial crisis. To preregister, call 797-7224.

USU anthropology professor and author David Lancy will present “Pick When Ripe: Native Theories of Children’s Development” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101. The lecture is free and everyone is invited. Winners of the 2008 Leonard J. Arrington Student Writing Awards will be announced before Lancy’s presentation.

Enjoy a movie at Cinefour Theatres with OPTIONS for Independence at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday. For more information, to schedule transportation or to sign up, call 753-5353.

The Eccles Ice Center will host its sixth annual Spice on Ice fundraiser at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday. The event consists of a cook-off featuring some of the most talented chefs in Cache Valley, a live auction and on-ice entertainment.

Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at the Ice Center, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan.

The Spanish Learning Center hosts Spanish classes for beginners at noon and 5:30 p.m. every Thursday. Other classes are also available.

For more information, contact Isabel Domingues at 787-4580.

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