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March 27 - April 2, 2009

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What’s inside this week Andy can’t say enough good about ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’

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Roberto Plano warms up shortly before his performance during the Wassermann Festival at Utah State University.

The 2010 festival is at risk of being canceled thanks to the university’s budget crisis — find out what’s being done to save it, and learn more about the festival itself, on Page 8. Photo by Alan Murray/Herald Journal

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From the editor

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FTER THREE WEEKS away from Cache Magazine, I must say it’s good to be back!

Although I always miss putting together this publication, it’s kind of nice to take a break — and I was lucky enough to get a vacation and a work break doing something else.

So if you want to see what’s kept me preoccupied throughout the month of March, be sure to check out the Sunday edition of The Herald Journal, where you’ll find tucked inside our annual Bridgerland magazine.

This year’s theme is “Going Green,” and I think you’ll get a kick out of reading about what our fellow citizens are doing to help preserve the planet.

While that was a lot of fun to put together — and I had a great vacation visiting my big sister and niece in Oregon — there’s something that’s comfortably familiar about

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Cache Magazine. After cleaning up a little after Devin Felix (who I’m sure you noticed did a great job, by the way), everything just fell right back into place and it was like I never left.

I was surprised, though, to see how much is going on right now! There are so many fun events, concerts, plays, musicals and much, much more that I had a hard time fitting it all in. So get out your day planner and carefully flip through this week’s magazine — I can almost guarantee you’ll find something to do every day for the next week or two.

Thanks, everyone, for being so patient while we switched places and did each other’s jobs. I know some things fell through the cracks, but overall I think it went pretty smooth and everyone stayed fairly happy.

Now that I’m back, please feel free to drop me an e-mail or give me a call, especially if you have a fun event you want included in Cache Magazine.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

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Science Unwrapped series to explore worldwide epidemics

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It’s official: Three Dog Night is coming to the 2009 Cruise-In

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(Page 11) The Humane Society shelter needs volunteers

pet photo of the week

This cat is available for adoption!

Pet: Maya From: Cache Humane Society Why she’s so lovable: “Maya is a young adult female cat that has been at the shelter since last summer. She is a beautiful black tabby. Maya doesn’t come running up to you when you come into the cat room like some of the cats. She patiently waits for her turn to be petted. She keeps her kennel neat and uses the litter box. She likes children but she’s not too sure about dogs. She also gets along well with other cats. Maya needs a home and your love.

Please adopt Maya or foster her.” Her adoption fee is only $30, which includes spaying and shots. For more information, call 792-3920.

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.

Jupiter Quartet to close out CMSL season

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HE BOSTONbased Jupiter Quartet will perform Wednesday, April 1, as part of the Chamber Music Society of Logan’s 27th season. Fred Child, 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. Admission to the lecture is free for all concert ticket-holders.

Affectionately known Child 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 String Quartet as guest artists for the evening.

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 it was the most prominent planet

Arlo Guthrie

March 27 & 28 Ellen Eccles Theatre

Jupiters: “A very fine vintage indeed” • Who: Jupiter String Quartet • When: 7:30 p.m. April 1 • Where: USU’s Manon Caine Russell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall • Also: Fred Child will present a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 • Tickets: $20 for adults, $8 for students with ID, available at the door at 6 p.m. for those who want to attend the lecture and concert and at 7 p.m. for those who want to attend the concert only • For more info: 753-5867

in the night sky at the time of the group’s 2001 formation.

The group is currently serving a three-year residency with Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, a program that creates performance opportunities for outstanding young artists. In 2007 the quartet 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

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Rhythms

Photo by Lee Talner

High School and Mount Logan Middle School. Quartet members have chosen three major musical pieces for their Logan performance. First will be Hayden’s “Quartet in F Major, Op 77, No. 2.” This four-movement piece was Hayden’s last masterpiece for string quartet, completed after musical encounters with Mozart and Beethoven.

Before intermission the quar-

tet 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 and during a period of great personal loss culminating in the death of his mentor, Beethoven. Mendelssohn adapted some of Beethoven’s techniques, including movements, textures, tonal effects and harmonies, in this piece.

Folk legend Arlo Guthrie playing this weekend OLK LEGEND ARLO F Guthrie will perform live at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 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 S. Main, online at www.CenterForTheArts.us or by calling 752-0026.

Guthrie will play new songs along with a few classics, accompanied by his son Abe

Guthrie, The Burns Sisters, Terry “A La Berry” Hall and Bobby Sweet.

Over the last four decades Guthrie has toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, winning a broad and dedicated following. In addition to being an accomplished musician — playing the piano, six- and 12-string guitar, harmonica and a dozen other instruments — Guthrie is a natural-born storyteller whose tales and timeless anecdotes are woven seamlessly

into his performances.

If you’ve been to an Arlo Guthrie concert in the past 20 years it’s likely you’ve seen Abe Guthrie’s smile and heard his tasteful keyboard accompaniment and powerful supporting vocals. Abe Guthrie started performing professionally with his father in the early 1980s.

The three Burns sisters have been singing together all their lives, with other siblings occasionally joining in. They met Arlo Guthrie in 2004 at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

in Woody’s hometown of Okemah, Okla.

Terry “A La Berry” Hall has been performing professionally since age 13. He appears on 10 of Arlo Guthrie’s CDs and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the White House, and on the “Today” show.

A Berkshire native and sixthgeneration musician, Bobby Sweet began performing at age 7 in his father’s band and has written songs that have aired on many hit TV series.

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All mixed up

Pickleville to host ’09 auditions!

Ceramic artist coming to USU ASSACHUSETTS CERAMIC M artist Chris Gustin will be on the Utah State University campus April 1-3 as

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ICKLEVILLE PLAYHOUSE will host auditions for its 2009 summer season from 3 to 10 p.m. Friday, March 27, at 1280 E. 3100 North, North Logan. There will also be a callback and dance audition from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 28. Audition packets are available online at www.picklevilleplayhouse.com.

Auditioners should bring a current headshot and resumé listing your musical theater-related experience. Come prepared with 1 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.” 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. To schedule an audition time or for more information, contact Andrea at 755-0968.

Cory Keate in Pickleville’s 2008 production of “Wild West Showdown.”

Science Unwrapped series to explore ‘Epidemics from History to Hollywood’ HEMIST JEANNE C Rudzki Small of the University of Washington will present “Epidem-

ics from History to Hollywood” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the Emert Auditorium of the Eccles Science Learning Center at USU as part of the university’s Science Unwrapped series.

“We’ll explore deadly epidemics throughout history and how they’ve changed science and the world,” said Small, who recently served a two-year rotation with the Small National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education. “We’ll also discuss the scientists who struggled against poli-

tics, popular opinion, superstition and panic to find solutions.”

Educational displays about germ theory, infectious diseases and study in USU’s College of Science will follow the presentation. Light refreshments will be served.

The presentation is the second in Science Unwrapped’s “Mind and Body” series, which continues through

May. USU biologist Andy Anderson will present “From the Inside Out: Our Amazing Bodies” on April 24. In June, Science Unwrapped will continue with the “Windows to the Cosmos” series in celebration of the World Year of Astronomy. Presentations are held the last Friday of each month.

“We’re offering this family-friendly program to the community to share the excitement of science in a relaxed, entertaining format,” said Mary Hubbard, College of Science dean. “We want to ‘de-mystify’ science and introduce the fun — along with the often unexpected results — of the scientific journey.”

For more information, call 7973517, visit www.usu.edu/science/ unwrapped or view the Science Unwrapped at USU group on Facebook.

part of the Department of Art Visiting Artist Program. He will present a public lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in the Eccles Conference Center (Room 216) on campus, where he will show images and speak about his artwork.

He will also present a twoday workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 2 and 3 in the ceramics area of the art department (FAV 121). Here, participants will be able to observe the artist at work.

Gustin will also meet with advanced ceramics students to discuss their artwork. All events are free and open to the public.

Gustin is a studio artist and emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1975 and his master’s degree from Alfred University in 1977. Using the traditions of the vessel as a means of abstraction, Gustin uses scale and gesture to explore the dynamic of the human form.

Gustin’s work is published extensively and is represented in numerous public and private collections around the world. With more than 40 solo exhibitions, Gustin has exhibited, lectured and taught workshops in the United States, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East and Asia. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships and two Massachusetts Crafts Fellowships, the most recent in 2005.

USU’s Visiting Artist Program presents visits by nationally known artists, art critics/ writers and art historians. Lectures, workshops, group discussions and exhibitions by the artists are free and open to the public.

The guests are selected for their national and international reputations, the ways in which their art reflects diversity with respect to the media used and their varied backgrounds.

For more information about the program, contact Marilyn Krannich at 797-7373.

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HE YOUNG ARTIST CUP Committee, in association with the Performing Arts Department at Mountain Crest High School, will present its 10th annual Young Artist Cup Competition at 7 p.m. April 1 and 2 in the Mountain Crest auditorium.

The vocal and instrumental competition will be Wednesday and the piano and strings competition will be Thursday. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

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

This annual event showcases the musical talents of Mountain Crest students.

Contestants will vie for cash and trophy prizes awarded to first-, second- and third-place winners in each category.

As in years past, the logo for this year’s Young Artist Cup was selected from submissions by Mountain Crest students in a competition that was held earlier this year. The design of 11th-grader William Cox was chosen to represent the 2009 Young Artist Cup. Cox will receive a trophy and cash prize for his work.

Past participants have gone on to excel in music and the performing arts. Sharee Hatch Thompson, first-place piano winner in 2000, earned her master’s degree in organ performance from the University of Kansas and is a guest organist

on Temple Square. Jessica Roderer, first-place piano winner in 2004, won her division in the International Liszt Competition held in Los Angeles. Rhiannon Hansen, second-place vocal winner

in 2006, is touring with the Broadway national tour of “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” Other past contestants have gone on to tour with national and international performing groups.

Help raise awareness during Child Abuse Prevention Month Child Abuse Prevention Month activities include:

Last chance to catch J‘ oseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ OSEPH AND THE AMAZING “J Technicolor Dreamcoat” will wrap up this weekend at 7:30 p.m.

March 27 and 28 at the Old Barn Community Theatre. Tickets are $7 for adults and $6 for children and seniors. For reservations or more information, call 435-458-BARN. This humorous, light-hearted show

retells the story of Joseph from the Bible with excitement, energy and a musical score that includes calypso, country and Elvis. A long-running musical created by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, this classic has charmed audiences around the world with hits such as “Close Every Door” and “Any Dream Will Do.”

• Entire month of April — Flamingo Flockings, flamingo disk sales at Albertson’s, Macey’s and Lee’s Marketplace. To reserve a flock, call 752-8880.

• Monday, April 6 — Dine Out Against Child Abuse, 5 to 10 p.m., Cafe Sabor and Firehouse Pizzeria in Smithfield and Logan • Wednesday, April 15 — Dine Out Against Child Abuse, 5 to 10 p.m., Angie’s Restaurant • Friday, April 24 — Fourth annual Blue Ribbon Benefit Dinner and Auction, 6 to 9 p.m., The Copper Mill Restaurant.

Theme for the evening is “Pirates of the Caribbean”; costumes are encouraged but not required.

• Saturday, April 25 — Third annual Race Against Child Abuse, 9:30 to 11 a.m., Wellsville City Center.

The race features a 1-mile, 5K and 10K course. For more information, call 752-8880.

PRIL IS NATIONALLY A recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Child & Family

Support Center will be hosting an entire month of activities aimed at raising awareness that child abuse happens even here in Cache Valley.

The Support Center is a private, non-profit agency dedicated to strengthening families and protecting children. The CFSC offers support and educational opportunities for all parents in the community to be successful in raising their children. Last year the organization served 3,011 children who visited the 24-hour crisis/respite nursery; 3,664 calls were answered on the crisis hotline; 3,216 children and adults learned how to prevent childhood sexual abuse; 236 parents attended parenting classes; and 97 days of shelter care were provided.

For more information, visit www. cachecfsc.org.

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The race is on for this year’s Young Artist Cup

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Film New this week “12 Rounds” Rated PG-13 (N/A) A review for “12 Rounds” was not available from The Associated Press. In lieu, please accept this synopsis from www.

RottenTomatoes.com: “WWE champion John Cena is New Orleans Police Detective Danny Baxter. When Baxter stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief’s girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting the cop with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks …12 rounds …that Baxter must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancée.”

PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action. 108 min.

Still playing “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

“Haunting in Connecticut” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 The dead are angry, which manifests itself in the usual ways in “The Haunting in Connecticut.” Creaking floorboards, slamming doors, flickering lights — you’ve seen it all before, and it’s all here again. In theory, you’d think they’d have time to come up with inventive ways to frighten us, being dead as they are.

The first feature from director Peter Cornwell offers more in the way of atmosphere than genuine scares, even as it plays up its supposedly basedon-a-true-story origins, “Amityville Horror”-style. Virginia Madsen, the star of such films as “Candyman” and returning to terror following her Oscarnominated work in “Sideways,” stars as Sara Campbell, who moves with her family to a rickety old Connecticut Victorian.

The goal was to be closer to the hospital where her teenage son, Matt (Kyle Gallner), has been receiving cancer treatments. Turns out the place used to be a funeral home, where all kinds of graphic, 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.

R for language and some sexual content/nudity. 119 min.

“Knowing” Rated PG-13 ★ An early contender for worst movie of the year, if only because it takes itself so seriously and its ambitions are so high. Pity, too, because “Knowing” begins with an intriguing premise. Nicolas Cage stars as MIT astrophysics professor John Koestler, the widower father of 10-year-old Caleb (Chandler Canterbury). When Caleb and his classmates examine the contents of a time capsule that students at his elementary school buried 50 years earlier, the boy discovers a sealed letter containing row after row of jumbled numbers. Being a scientist, Dad wonders whether there’s a pattern to them, and in a whiskey-infused stupor realizes the message accurately predicts the date, coordinates and number of dead in every

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grody stuff was done to the corpses. (No wonder the rent was so cheap, Sara muses for an uncomfortable laugh.) And in no time, Matt starts seeing things: blood on the floor, oldtimey people holding seances in sepia tones, bodies that have been elaborately mutilated. Working from a script by Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe, Cornwell telegraphs his scares, too many of which are cheap; you know when you see a mirror, for example, that some dark apparition will show up major disaster since 1959. That’s sufficiently creepy alone — until John looks closer and finds there are still a few events to come. He tracks down Diana (Rose Byrne), the grown-up daughter of the little girl who originally scribbled those numbers who’s now the mother of a girl about Caleb’s age (Lara Robinson), hoping to prevent the ultimate catastrophe that lies ahead. Cage underplays it for about the first half, until he suddenly rejects his stoic visage in favor of eye-bulging screaming and flailing. Similarly, director Alex Proyas (“The Crow,” “I, Robot”) goes from an eerie, atmospheric mood to an insufferable onslaught, with obviously fake CGI effects and a deafening, bombastic score. As the threat of the apocalypse draws closer, the level of ridiculousness gets pumped up to hilarious levels. PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language. 121 min.

“Duplicity” Rated PG-13 ★★★ Tony Gilroy penetrated the world of corporate corruption with smarts, suspense and sear-

in its reflection, accompanied by a loud, shrieking jolt. And the others are so repetitive, it’s impossible not to see them coming. There’s nothing subtle or original here. “The Haunting in Connecticut” is one of those frustrating horror movies in which people stay in the house way longer than they should.

The average person would be out of there upon discovering the metal box full of severed eyelids. PG-13 for some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images. 92 min. ing insight in his 2007 directing debut, “Michael Clayton.” Here, he revisits that territory, only he does it with plenty of sexual tension to go along with his usual crackling dialogue and complex plotting. The storytelling here is more dense, but the tone has a sly, sexy playfulness about it that significantly lightens things up.

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen may not immediately seem like the likeliest screen pair for a romantic comedy, especially following the devastating moments they shared in “Closer.” But here they enjoy a delightful chemistry as former spies and on-again, offagain lovers who scheme to steal tens of millions of dollars from the dueling corporate behemoths that employ them. Writer-director Gilroy jumps all over in time and location — the globe-trotting and high-tech tactics reminiscent of the “Bourne” movies he scripted — as he follows the constantly evolving relationship between Roberts’ ex-CIA officer Claire Stenwick and Owen’s former MI6 agent Ray Koval. They’ve figured out a way to rob the rival pharmaceutical companies for whom they

serve as undercover operatives.

But because Claire and Ray are so paranoid themselves, as their careers have required them to be, they never know whether they can trust each other, something Gilroy shows us in flashbacks over the past five years in locales including Dubai, Rome and Miami. The threat of a double-cross keeps them both on their toes and infuses their affair with a buzzing and frequently hilarious tension. PG13 for language and some sexual content. 118 min.

“I Love You, Man” Rated R ★★★ The newly minted “bromance” genre, with its now-familiar mix of the sweet, awkward and raunchy, has become a part of the cultural consciousness through movies like “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express” and “Role Models.” But it reaches its zenith with this comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel as two completely different guys who form an unlikely friendship.

Rudd’s Peter Klaven, a sensitive real estate agent who’s about to get married, realizes he has no male pals when he’s forced to ponder his choice for best man.

Segel’s Sydney Fife enters his life as the most charming force of nature. The formula is pretty predictable in this latest film from director John Hamburg (“Along Came Polly”), which he co-wrote with Larry Levin. But the beauty of it lies both in the details of their relationship and the larger chemistry Rudd and Segel share. It’s actually a rather bold concept to explore in a movie that’s so clearly intended for the mainstream, and for teen and 20-something men in particular. “I Love You, Man” dares to get to the heart of intimate male friendships — or even, as the title suggests, love — the kind of thing most guys don’t exactly feel comfortable discussing. We’re onto something true and honest here, which is why it’s so disappointing to see the film repeatedly cater to the lowest common denominator with vomit and flatulence jokes. (It also makes the mistake of squandering the comic talents of veterans Jane Curtin and J.K. Simmons in barely-there supporting parts as Rudd’s parents.) R for pervasive language, including crude and sexual references. 105 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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HEN IT COMES to animated movies, Pixar (and likewise Disney) has set the gold standard with pretty much anything they spit out. Whether it’s “Toy Story” (1995) or “WallE” (2008), the CGI animation studio in Emeryville, Calif., is a lock for critical acclaim and box office success. They could make a movie about a pair of talking underpants and people would stream to the cinema to soak it up.

Even with all glory, laud and honor going to the studio whose logo is a squeaky lamp, you have to give DreamWorks Animation a tip of the hat. Not only are they behind the “Shrek” series, which has collectively grossed more than $2 billion ($2,198,809,199 to be exact), but they’ve also turned out two successful “Madagascar” movies and last summer’s charming “Kung Fu Panda.” And there’s more to come: 2010 will boast “Shrek Goes Fourth” and 2011 will showcase “Kung Fu Panda 2.”

Maybe someone should call DreamWorks CEO Stacey Snider and see if they can loan the government some money to help with all the bailouts coming down the pike now and in the future. Everybody wants a loan nowadays. Of course, I’m kidding, but I’m not joking when I say DreamWorks is creeping up in Pixar’s rearview mirror. And after “Monsters vs. Aliens” hits theaters this weekend, they’ll be fogging up Lightning McQueen’s windows.

I wasn’t expecting much from “Monsters vs. Aliens.” Yeah, I saw the 3-D Super Bowl spots,

Screening Room

By Andy Morgan

★★★★ “Monsters vs. aliens” Rated PG

but they were yawn-inducing, so I dismissed the movie and waited for more always-funny beer commercials. However, despite my ambivalence, I decided to take my 5-year-old son to the press screening.

We risked life and limb driving through a blinding Sardine Canyon snowstorm, but it was worth it. I got to bond with my little guy and was positively surprised and enchanted with “Monsters vs. Aliens.”

The title pretty much gives away the storyline from the getgo and I like that. It means the story is simple and the reliance is placed on the novelty of the characters and the strength of the voice talent. One of the first characters we meet is Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon).

She lives in Modesto, Calif.,

and is just a breath away from getting married to her weatherman boyfriend (Paul Rudd) when she is hit by a “quantonium”-filled meteor. This causes Susan to grow to nearly 50 feet tall and gives her immeasurable strength. It also causes her to be captured by the government and sent to a top-secret military prison for “monsters.”

After her internment by the government, Susan is told by the warden/general (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland) that her new name is Ginormica, and she’s introduced to four other monsters: The Missing Link (Will Arnett), Dr. Cockroach (Hugh Laurie), B.O.B. (Seth Rogan) and Insectosaurus. These characters are all parodies of the campy monster movies of the late 1950s

and early 1960s, and combined this group meshes well to produce a hilarious camaraderie.

One thing I loved about this group was there was no fighting or discord. They are friends throughout the movie, look out for one another and show intense loyalty. This comes in handy because the “aliens” they battle is actually one egocentric, clonehappy alien named Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) who wants the

quantonium back and wants to destroy and take over Earth in the process.

And really, that’s about it as far as the story goes. It’s simple, clean and effective. The beauty of this animated movie is the voice talent and the fantastic computer animation delivered

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DreamWorks wins again with ‘Monsters’

Photo by Eli Lucero

Kevin Kenner critiques Lauren Belliston as she plays for him at USU’s Manon Caine Russell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall.

Photo by Alan Murray

Roberto Plano warms up shortly before his performance at USU.

Photo by Eli Lucero

Kevin Kenner speaks to music students at the USU performance hall Monday.

fter a standing ovation and performing three encores, Spencer Myer, the opening pianist for Utah State University’s 2009 Wassermann Festival, took his final bows and exited the stage of USU’s Manon Caine Russell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall nearly two hours after the performance began.

Myer, winner of the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition, will also compete in the 2009 Van Cliburn competition in Fort Worth, Texas — a competition that has been hailed as one of the most prestigious in the world and comparable to Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition, thus making Myer one of the best young pianists in the world today.

Two more world-renowned pianists, Roberto Plano and Kevin Kenner, also performed in USU’s Wassermann Festival on March 19 and 24. Italian pianist Plano not only competed, but became a finalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn and has performed in such places as New York’s Lincoln Center and Milan’s Sala Verdi.

Kenner took the top prize at the 1990 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the 1990 Bronze Medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition.

He, too, competed at Van Cliburn in 1989 and currently teaches at the Royal College of Music in London.

Stephen Beus’ performance will conclude the 2009 Wassermann Festival on April 7. Winner of the 2006 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (a prestigious competition held in Utah) and winner of the 2006 Vendome Prize International Competition in Lisbon, Beus will also compete in the 2009 Van Cliburn competition. Beus currently studies at Julliard and is one of two $75,000 fellowship recipient winners from the American Piano Association — Spencer Myer being the other.

“To have these kinds of caliber of experiences happening right here in Logan is amazing,” said Dennis Hirst, associate professor of music at USU and director of the Wassermann Festival. He compares the performances at the Wassermann to performances seen in the grand concert halls of Boston, Chicago and Cleveland.

Hirst says the aims of the festival are to expose USU students and community members to guests who excel in the areas

of teaching, performing, conducting, history, writing and instrument collaboration, with piano being the focus.

While audience members enjoyed the amazing talents of these performers, they never knew that each one quietly donated the proceeds of their 2009 concerts to help save the 2010 Wassermann Festival, which is at risk of being canceled thanks to the university’s budget crisis. Absolutely no mention of the donations was made in introductions, on the programs or in any advertisements.

“Keeping such events as this Wassermann Festival is critical to the music department’s and USU’s identity,” said Hirst. “Just like having Craig Jessop here as our department head, the Wassermann Festival lends a lot of credibility and has a reputation that is known throughout the world. They (the performers) don’t want to see it end.”

With 2010 contracts already in place with such artists as the future Gold Medalist of the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, jazz pianist Bill Mays and British pianist Stephen Hough, Hirst had serious concerns about his ability to retain these contracts if university funding isn’t available.

When Hirst became the Wassermann Festival director in 1997, he started recruiting financial support above and beyond university funding. Though he has received additional funding from the Marie Eccles Caine and Comstock-Clayton foundations and businesses such as Daynes Music and The Book Table, it is not enough to run the festival.

“Right now, this (university funding) is the most critical portion of our funding. Removing it would make it difficult to continue,” he said.

In September 2008, Hirst approached Craig Jessop and Yolanda Flores Niemann, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, to raise his concerns.

“Dr. Jessop and Dean Niemann communicated strong support for the festival, but did not know where those funds will come from,” said Hirst.

“I very much appreciated the fact that I had their support, but it still left open the possibility of their having to make a tough choice (and cancel the Festival). So I decided I needed to be as proactive as possible. I felt it would be irresponsible to not be proactive because everyone on campus is in the same boat. We have been told that we are going to have to work harder and longer, teach bigger classes and will have reduced funds. ... The prob-

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volunteered to help, but every person that I asked willingly agreed to help and donate their fees.”

Hirst estimates the value of their performances to be more than $20,000.

Others in the community also made donations to the 2009 concert series, including advertisement, graphics, designs and Web pages; Russell Sorensen, who tuned and prepared concert pianos ($4,000 estimated cost); the University Inn, which donated accommodations; and Utah Public Radio provided advertising.

With the artists’ support secured, Hirst needed only to supply their travel.

Since the 2008 season was so success-

ful, Hirst had received a bit of funding from the Caine-Eccles Foundation in hopes of moving it to an annual basis.

Hirst decided it would be wiser to use this money to cover travel expenses for 2009 in hopes of saving the festival altogether.

The 2008 festival was “the best season we had ever had,” he said. It included guests such as classical music period expert Charles Rosin; Randall Faber, writer of method books for young children; Jane Magrath, writer of “The Pianist’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature,” a piano teacher’s staple; and well-known conductor Leon Fleisher, who received the

2007 Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award along with Diana Ross, Steve Martin, Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese.

“The Wassermann Festival is one of the most outstanding music festivals in the United States,” said Hirst, who has also accepted no director’s pay for this 2009 season. “It is my honor. I cannot tell you how much it means to me what these people have done.”

As of now, the future of the festival is still undecided. For more information, visit www.usu.edu/wassermann.

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Don’t miss the award-winning ‘Bye Bye Birdie’

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EFORE “HIGH SCHOOL Musical” and before “Grease,” there was “Bye Bye Birdie.”

Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, “Birdie” will play at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, and Friday, April 10, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre as part of the Cache Valley Center for the Arts’ 2009 season. Tickets are $20, $26, $27 and $32 and can be purchased at the CVCA Ticket Office, 43 S. Main; online at www.CenterForTheArts.us; or by calling 752-0026.

Lots of laughs and great songs have made this favorite hit Broadway show one of the most memorable musicals of all time. “Bye Bye Birdie” is a musical comedy loosely based on the life of Elvis Presley.

It tells the story of a rock ‘n’ roll superstar, Conrad Birdie, who, to the dismay of his adoring fans, is about to be drafted into the Army.

Featuring a book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, comic complications ensue when, as part of one last publicity stunt, Conrad

promises to give a goodbye kiss to one lucky girl from Sweet Apple, Ohio, on the “Ed Sullivan Show.”

This energetic story takes audiences through the everyday life and perspective of all misunderstood teenagers. Full of nostalgic charm, wit and humor, the upbeat score features “One Last Kiss,” “The Telephone Hour,” “A Lot of Livin’ to Do,” “Put on a Happy Face” and “Spanish Rose.”

Originally produced by Edward Padula and directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, the Broadway production opened in 1960.

The original cast included Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, Dick Gautier, Susan Watson, Paul Lynde, Kay Medford and Charles Nelson Reilly.

Kim McAfee turns out to be the lucky teenager and Conrad’s whole entourage moves into her quiet Midwestern home — much to the dismay of her ever-irritable father and her jealous boyfriend. The results are not quite what the publicist envisioned as mayhem, romantic complications and laughter take over.

The 2009 National Tour debut of “Bye Bye Birdie” stars Regina Gatti as Rosie Alvarez and Eli Budwill stars as Conrad Birdie. This production is produced by Paul Bartz and directed

by Paula Hammons Sloan. Musical direction is handled by Lee Harris.

Photo by Carol Rosegg, 2008

Coming up next: ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’

Photo by Joan Marcus, 2008: Elizabeth Pawlowski in the national tour of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

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HE DROWSY Chaperone” will play as part of the Cache Valley Center for the Arts’ 2009 season at 7:30 p.m. April 22 and 23 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $22, $29, $31 and $36 and can be purchased at the CVCA Ticket Office, 43 S. Main; online at www.CenterForTheArts.us; or by calling 752-0026.

Get ready to be transported to a world where the critics are in awe, the audiences are in heaven and the neighborhood is buzzing with excitement. Welcome

to “The Drowsy Chaperone,” the new musical comedy that is swooping into town with tons of laughs and the most 2006 Tony Awards of any musical on Broadway. It all begins when a diehard musical fan plays his favorite cast album, a 1928 smash hit called “The Drowsy Chaperone,” and the show magically bursts to life. We are instantly immersed in the glamorous, hilarious tale of a celebrity bride and her uproarious wedding day, complete with thrills and surprises that take both the cast (literally) and the audience (metaphorically) soaring into the rafters. For more information about the show, visit www.drowsychaperoneontour.com.

Photo by Peter Coombs Photography, 2009: John West in the national tour of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

needed for upcoming activities at the Cache Humane Society Shelter, including the Reading Time With Cats program, the PetSmart booth on Saturdays, the Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market and to make a scrapbook of the pets that need adopting.

These volunteers need to be dependable and willing to work hard and work independently under the direction of shelter personnel.

There is no monetary compensation but the rewards are great: satisfaction, appreciation and lots of kitty and doggie love.

Reading Time With Cats (formally called Reading to Cats) is looking for volunteers who love cats and love to read. The program is expanding this spring and summer and volunteers are needed to come to the shelter and supervise a reading session. Reading days will be Monday through Saturday; times will be determined later. We also need volunteers to assist taking the cats into the community to nursing homes, libraries, schools and other places.

PetSmart in Logan allows the shelter to set up a table and bring in animals to show for adoption; volunteers are needed to do this on Saturdays. The volun-

teer will need to pick up animals at the shelter, take them to PetSmart, stay at the table answering questions and completing adoptions, then bring the animals back to the shelter if not adopted.

The shelter also wants to have a booth at the Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market.

There will not be any animals at this venue; this will be an informational booth that will teach market patrons about services and activities at the shelter. The market is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May through October. You do not have to commit to every Saturday.

Calling all scrap bookers! The shelter needs two scrapbooks with one page for each animal that needs adopting. The books will be taken into the community to places like PetSmart and the Gardeners’ Market. The shelter will provide pictures, information and a book with pages. You will need to create the pages. This is an ongoing project; if anyone has scrapbooking materials they would like to donate, please bring them to the shelter. This is a good activity for Scouts, civic or community groups to do as a service project.

If you would like to volunteer or for more information, contact Lynda Esplin at lynda.cachehumane@hotmail.com or 435-471-237.

Animal shelter looking for volunteers

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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ — Cache Valley Civic Ballet style HE CACHE VALLEY CIVIC T Ballet will present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 7:30 p.m. April 3 and

Oldies band Three Dog Night to stop in at 2009 Cruise-In!

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hree Dog Night, one of the most popular rock and pop bands of all time, will be the featured act for the concert event in conjunction with the Cache Valley Cruise-In on Thursday, July 2, at the Cache County Fairgrounds in Logan. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 28, at www.smithstix.com and Macey’s in Logan. VIP seating is $39 and general admission is $25. Three Dog Night has sold more than 50 million records, had a string of 12 straight gold albums and performed 21 consecutive Top 40 singles, including the smash hits “Joy to the World,” “Never Been to Spain,” “Black & White” and “Mama Told Me Not to Come.”

Coming up: Celtic harpist Patrick Ball HE BRIDGER T Folk Music Society will present Celtic harpist

and storyteller Patrick Ball in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in the Eccles Conference Center auditorium at USU. Tickets will be available at the door for $18 ($16 for students).

Advance tickets for $16 can be purchased at Sunrise Cyclery, KSM Guitars and the USU Spectrum ticket office.

Patrick Ball is one of the premier Celtic harp players in the world and a captivating spoken-word Ball artist. He has recorded seven instrumental and three spokenword albums, which have sold more than 500,000 copies internationally and

won national awards in both the music and spoken-word categories.

Along with “Celtic Harp and Story,” his beguiling blend of music and spoken-word concerts, Ball has written and currently performs two acclaimed solo musical theater pieces: “O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music” and “The Fine Beauty of the Island.”

For more information, visit www.patrickball.com.

at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. April 4 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $8-$12 with student discounts available, and can be purchased online at www.CenterForTheArts.us or at the Ellen Eccles Ticket Office.

Shakespeare’s comedy of misguided people weaves the stories of searching for true love, fame and fortune with the magic and mysteries of a forest filled with fairies and a well-meaning but bumbling Puck. With Puck’s erroneous spells cast, mayhem rules the forest for an evening ... or ... was it only a dream?

The CVCB’s story, for one night, intertwines the lives of two human couples and a simple playwright with the mischievous games played by the King of Fairies and his servant, Puck, who live deep within the forest. One couple, Hermia and Lysander, are running away to be married while the other couple, Helena and Demetrius, are pursuing them to stop the wedding. The preoccupied playwright is looking for inspirations for his new play. Meanwhile, the King of Fairies is upset with the Queen of Fairies and wants to play a joke on her. Unfortunately, the innocent humans get caught in the middle.

This production is set to selections and excerpts of music from Mendelssohn’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Symphony No. 3,” “Symphony No. 4” and “Symphony No. 5.” Cast includes CVCB company members, community players and young community dancers.

Sarah Sample is coming to Crumb Brothers HE BRIDGER FOLK MUSIC T Society will present a concert with Utah’s own singer/songwriter Sarah

Sample at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door or by calling 757-3468.

Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended.

After all her success, the last thing Sample wanted to make was just another folkie-girl-with-acoustic-guitar album. Sure, the songs were born as just an acoustic guitar and a voice. And, in the folk tradition she loves and respects so much, would likely be taken across America that way. But she didn’t want to document them that way. At least not this time.

Enter Scott Wiley and a new sonic palette. With plenty of reverence for the songs, they set out to take Sample’s music into new territory. The album “Never Close Enough” is to Sample as “Flam-

ing Red” is to Patty Griffin: a marked departure from a promising, acoustic debut but never too far away from her soulful folk roots.

For more information, visit www. bridgerfolk.org or www.sarahsample. com.

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* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Handle With Care” by Jodi Picoult 2. “Corsair” by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul 3. “The Associate” by John Grisham 4. “The Host” by Stephenie Meyer 5. “Run for Your Life” by James Patterson PAPERBACK (MASS-MARKET) FICTION 1. “The Whole Truth” by David Baldacci 2. “Hold Tight” by Harlan Coben 3. “Bones” by Jonathan Kellerman 4. “The Grand Finale” by Janet Evanovich 5. “Plague Ship” by Clive Cussler w/Jack Du Brul CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1. “The House in the Night” by Susan Marie Swanson 2. “The Composer Is Dead” by Lemony Snicket 3. “Blueberry Girl” by Neil Gaiman 4. “Listen to the Wind” by Greg Mortensen 5. “Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy” by D. Soman

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

’M DRAWN TO failure,” Joyce Carol Oates once famously told an interviewer. “I feel that I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.”

The latter statement might strike some as disingenuous given Oates’ status as one of the great contemporary American novelists. But she expertly uses failure — of relationships, mainly — as a common thread through most of the short stories collected in “Dear Husband.”

Although nearly all 14 stories have been published elsewhere, they merit a book of their own. Admirers of Oates’ literary fiction will find this collection a transcendent read. “Dear Husband” is likely to win Oates new fans as well.

Oates’ characters are masterfully rendered, but she is particularly gifted at creating a certain type: The appallingly egocentric, sometimes to the point of (usually) unwitting hostility. This character appears often in the stories of “Dear Husband,” from the preoccupied parents of “Special” to the vindictive former housekeeper in “A Princeton Idyll.”

Perhaps the most striking example is “Cutty Sark,” in which Quincy Smartt, an exhibitionist socialite — flush with notoriety from authoring an explicit memoir — celebrates her adolescent son’s birthday by sharing a secret of great distress but questionable value.

“Kit’s birthday but she hadn’t asked him where he’d have liked to go for lunch knowing it wouldn’t have been L’Auberge on Chambers Street where clearly Quincy Smartt was known and admired and drew the eyes of strangers.

Eager to show off her handsome son she’d said. ... Kit squirmed in embarrassment on the verge of saying ‘For Christ’s sake, Mom, lay off,’ but it had been a long time since he’d called his mother ‘Mom,’ still longer since he’d called her ‘Mommy.’ He wasn’t comfortable calling her ‘Quincy’ as she’d requested and so most of the time he

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called her nothing at all.”

Sometimes the egocentricity of Oates’ characters ferments into self-loathing and spills over violently. Infanticide plays a role in two of the stories in this collection, including “Dear Husband.”

The collection’s namesake story takes its inspiration from Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who was convicted in 2002 for drowning her five young children in the bathtub. (Oates reimagines another real-life tragedy in another one of the collection’s stories, “Landfill.”)

Sometimes Oates’ evocative prose plays at least as much of a role as any characters. “Panic” and the whimsically named “Suicide by Fitness Center” are both worthy mood pieces. Especially haunting is “Magda Maria,” in which Oates describes the blighted denizens of a hard-luck town and their desire for a mysterious woman in their midst.

Oates’ characters are all self-absorbed to some extent. They all regard themselves as more real than their bystanders, with needs that sometimes conflict and consume but always take precedence. They appear to exist for their own benefit, certainly not the reader’s.

While it may seem obvious that any worthwhile fiction will feature such characters, some authors are more skilled at delivering them than others.

In this regard, Oates is one of the best.

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• Photographer: Keith Grant-Davie • Date: February 2009 • Location: Between Steam Mill Peak & Franklin Basin

Book review Oates proves mastery again in story collection

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It’s a fun show and definitely worth the full-price ticket this weekend.

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 as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices. Send comments or questions to andrewamor gan@gmail.com.

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Ongoing events Registration for Music Theatre West’s summer workshop is now under way.

Registration forms can be downloaded at www.musictheatrewest.org; online registration is also available. Space is limited. This year’s workshop will include music, enthusiastic instructors and a performance for family and friends in the Morgan Theatre at USU. For more information, visit MTW’s Web site.

The Multicultural Center of Cache Valley is looking for food vendors to participate in its Cache Valley Cinco de Mayo Festival on Saturday, May 2, from noon to 10 p.m. at Willow Park. Anyone interested should contact Peg Chanson at p.chanson@comcast. net or Evelyn Sardinas at 764-7504 or evelyn. sardinas@aggiemail.usu.edu.

The 10th annual performance of the Easter Cantata, “Love’s Greatest Gift,” will take place at 7 p.m. April 11 and 12 at the historic Logan LDS Tabernacle. Practices start at 7 p.m. every Sunday at the Mount Logan Stake Center, 600 E. Center, Logan.

Choir and orchestra participants are needed.

Orchestra members need to be high school age or older. Children’s Choir rehearsals will begin March 29. For more information, visit www.lovesgreatestgift.com.

Carole Warburton is teaching spring pottery lessons in Avon, focusing on handbuilding. Cost is $25 for a 90-minute session.

Classes are taught Mondays from 9:30 to 11 a.m. and Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Price includes materials; group and family rates are available. For more information, call 760-2592.

Friday Scott Olsen will perform live music at 7 p.m. and J&L Jazz (Linden Olson and John Wyllie) will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 115 E. 1200 South, Logan. For more information, call 713-4949 or e-mail irv@pier49.com.

The Hyrum Library will host its annual Book and Bake Sale from noon to 7 p.m.

Friday and from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday. There will be lots of books and goodies. For more information or to donate items, call 245-6411.

Attorney Eric Hone will present “From the Quad to the Octagon — Utah State’s Ultimate Training” at 12:30 p.m. Friday in the David B. Haight Alumni Center at USU as part of the Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series. His lecture is free and everyone is invited. For more information, call 797-4072.

Hillfolk Noir will perform with Warbonne and Paul Christiansen (indie/folk/acoustic) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/why sound or e-mail info@whysound.com.

The Brigham City Fine Arts Center will host its second annual themed art show, “What Bugs Me,” on Friday and Saturday. This will be a judged show with paintings, drawings, sculpture, fiber art, quilting and photos all accepted in competition for cash prizes.

There will also be a storytelling event at the

Fine Arts Center the same weekend. There is an entry fee of $5 per submission; for specification and additional details, visit www. bcfineartscenter.org or call 435-723-0740.

All are invited to participate in a Peace Vigil every Friday between 5 and 6 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North in Logan. For more information, e-mail info@loganpeace.org.

Saturday Community Reading Time With Cats takes place at 1 p.m. every Saturday at the Cache Humane Society Shelter, 2370 W. 200 North, Logan. This program is designed to get children excited about reading. For more information, contact Lynda Esplin at lynda. cachehumane@hotmail.com.

Brady Hoggard will perform live music at 7 p.m. and Bruce Moulton will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza.

Stokes Nature Center will host a Go Green Challenge from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday. Using a GPS unit, scramble through Green Canyon with your family completing a variety of challenges, learning not only about “green” nature but also about “green” living. Successfully complete the challenges and you could win a “green” prize. Cost is $7.50 ($5 for SNC members) or $20 for a group of five. To register, call 755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

Monday Mountainside Elementary School will hold kindergarten registration from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Bring your child, your child’s birth certificate, immunization records and a suggested $20 donation for snacks.

Keym’s Kits will offer a community emergency preparedness open house from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Cache County Fair Grounds, 450 S. 500 West, Logan. The public is invited to come make a 72-hour emergency kit. For information including costs, visit www.kmkits.com.

Tuesday A Wilson neighborhood meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Wilson school. Agenda items include: First East reconstruction update, sidewalks and park strips, Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programs and the pros and cons of licensing rentals.

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. Topics covered include vegetable gardening, home fruit production and general landscaping. For more information, call 752-6263.

Aggie physicists will host a stargazing event at 8 p.m. Saturday on the USU Quad.

Come learn about spring constellations in Cache Valley’s night sky. Admission is free, telescopes will be provided and everyone is invited. For more information, e-mail sps@ aggiemail.usu.edu.

Chalene and Natalie are back to share Camp Chef cooking ideas and the great food their pans can create at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, March 31, in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; to reserve a spot, call 753-3301.

The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra will join forces with the USU Chamber Singers, the USU Ballroom Dancers and the Cache Children’s Choir in a performance of “Carmina Burana” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Kent Concert Hall.

Conductor Craig Jessop will present a preconcert lecture for ticket holders at 6:45 p.m.

General admission is $10; middle school and high school student tickets with ID are $5; and USU students with ID get in free. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit box office.usu.edu or call 797-8022.

Wednesday

Shark Speed will perform with The Up Collars and The Castanettes (progressive rock) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound.

Cover charge is $5.

The Cache Humane Society has pets available for adoption every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at PetSmart, 1050 N. Main, Logan. Adoption fees are $50 per cat and $90 per dog, and include all vaccinations and spay/neuter.

Sunday The Post-Mormon Community is a nonsectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormonism. The Cache Valley chapter meets every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 770-4263.

Mount Logan Middle School is now accepting nominations for Employee of the Year for the 2008-09 school year. The school will recognize two Teachers of the Year, two Classified Employees of the Year and one Volunteer of the Year. Anyone with connections to the school is encouraged to make a nomination, including parents, students and employees. Nomination forms can be downloaded by accessing the link to Logan City School District, Employee of the Year, found on the MLMS Homepage, www.MLMS.logan. k12.ut.us. Forms are also available at the MLMS Main Office. Completed forms must be returned by Wednesday.

Fall of Enosis will perform with A Flatline Tragedy and Xavier (progressive/ metal) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Why Sound.

Cover charge is $5.

Frank Warren, the creator behind the PostSecret phenomenon who is considered “the most trusted stranger in America,” will talk about his work collecting people’s secrets via anonymous handmade postcards from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at USU’s Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom. During the event, Warren will share videos about the PostSecret project, secrets censored from the books and student confessions. He will also

sign books. Tickets are free for USU students or $5 for non-students, and available now at the USU Ticket Office.

The Organization for Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Education and Research (OFFER) will present Dr. Cory Kingston of the Northern Utah Spinal Rehabilitation Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Salt Lake County Complex (north building), 2001 S. State St. Dr. Kingston will talk about effective management of fibromyalgia using the Pettibon Rehabilitation System. Admission is free and everyone to invited but seating is limited; to reserve a spot, call 760-7210.

Scott N. Bradley will lead a Constitution class, “To Preserve the Nation,” at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at The Book Table (upstairs). For more information, call 753-8844.

BRAG and the Alzheimer’s Association of Utah will present a free “Maintain Your Brain” workshop from 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at the Logan Rec Center. This event is for anyone interested in learning about simple lifestyle changes that can better your failing memory or help retain the brain function you have now. For more information, contact Allison Richman at 752-7242.

A representative from Intermountain Health Care will speak at the Logan Kiwanis Club meeting at noon Wednesday at The Copper Mill Restaurant. For more information, contact Curtis Roberts at 563-0618.

Thursday A kick-off of the GW MasterMind Financial Self-Defense Training series will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, Logan. The event will be authored by GW Smith and will also feature guest singer Jeremy Threlfall.

Discussion topics will include common-sense ideas on getting out of debt; saving taxes; forming your own business; and marketing and sales.

Cavalier will perform with Welcome Home, Pocket Rocket and All Things Guitar (indie rock) at 8 p.m. Thursday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

The Heritage Foundation School will host a dinner and silent auction with special presentation by guest artist Michael Ballam from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at The Garland Armory, 72 N. Main, Garland. Tickets are $20 for the dinner and presentation or $10 for dinner only. To purchase tickets or contribute to the silent auction, call 257-7707.

Poet Alicia Ostriker will participate in a panel discussion at noon Thursday in the Merrill-Cazier Library Room 101 at USU. Then, at 7 p.m., she will read from her work in the Haight Alumni Center. Both events are free and everyone is invited. For more information, contact Marina Hall at 797-3858 or marina.hall@usu.edu.

Don Sproul, IFA garden department manager, will help get your yards/gardens/trees ready for the spring season at a free community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. There will be refreshments and giveaways. Seating is limited; to reserve a spot, call 753-3301.

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