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March 28-April 3, 2014

COVER 8 USU’s Latino Student

Union hosts annual Fiesta Americas celebration

MUSIC 4 American Festival Chorus to perform Brahms tonight 5 Stephen Hough will play

the piano at finale of the 2014 Wassermann Festival

THEATER 4 ‘Addams Family’ hits the Ellen Eccles Theatre stage

MOVIES 3 Four stars: ‘Noah’ blows it out of the water 7 One and a half stars: ‘Sabotage’ is ‘soulless’

BOOKS 12 ‘Five Came Back’ tells the story of World War II veterans in Hollywood

COLUMN 10 Four Seasons’ troupe

presents a ‘charming’ version of ‘Sound of Music’

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Ana Gutierrez, left, Diana Caldera, Grecia Jimenez and Laura Rosales wear outfits from various Latin American countries during a fashion show last week at the Fiesta Americas. On the cover: Diana Caldera wears an Aztec outfit at the annual celebration hosted by Utah State University’s Latino Student Union. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR Since there’s a review of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest movie on page 7 of this issue of Cache Magazine, I now wish that I had declared, “I’ll be back” in my last column on March 7.

But nonetheless ... I am back.

In order to oversee the production of The Herald Journal’s annual Bridgerland edition, I stepped away from Cache Valley’s arts and entertainment scene for a couple of weeks. During that time, at

least one person noticed that my portrait to the left had been replaced by a much more attractive photograph of Arie Kirk.

The old friend was even nice enough to express some concern over my whereabouts, which was certainly a nice expression of ... dare I say, love?

While it would have certainly been more fun to take a two-week vacation to Hawaii or watch a couple dozen NCAA Tournament games, during my hiatus I worked on putting together a compilation of stories by Herald Journal writers entitled “Love.”

Subtitled “Cache Valley perspectives on humanity’s most divine quality,” this year’s Bridgerland tells many traditional

love stories, as well as touching on people’s passions beyond the love they have for their spouses and friends and relatives.

With an eye towards a little cross promotion, The Herald Journal’s Bridgerland edition is scheduled to be inserted in this Sunday’s paper. Hopefully by then you’ll have had an opportunity to finish reading this issue of Cache Magazine, and can then jump right into “Love.”

And should you do that, you’ll certainly notice that while Arnold is indeed back, Cache movie critic Aaron Peck definitely did not love his new movie.

— Jeff Hunter

‘Noah’ epic is ‘stunning’ Controversy aside, new movie has a ‘grand vision’

By Aaron Peck Cache movie critic

Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” is a wondrous melding of stunning visuals and intricate humanism.

His interpretation of the Biblical tale of Noah is something that people the world over are going to struggle with, even though it makes absolutely no claims of truth. The story of Noah and his family is simply used as a skeleton.

The meat is layered on by a masterful storyteller.

“Noah” is one of the most audacious films I’ve seen in a long time. An ambitious undertaking of big-budget visuals, but with a decidedly art-house feel. A strange film that has more in common with “Lord of the Rings” or AP Photo/Paramount Pictures “Game of Thrones” than Russell Crowe stars in the title role in the new film “Noah.” it does with the known Bible. It’s a story of an old budget blockbuster with a world, full of magic and heartbeat that resembles Terwickedness. A time where rence Malick’s “Tree of Life.”

The Creator spoke to men The entire film is the result on the Earth, but has, for of Aronofsky’s intriguing Director // Darren Aronofsky whatever reason, grown vision. It’s a wholly engrossStarring // Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma silent. It’s a story about the ing experience.

Watson, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Nick Nolte human struggle to underRated // PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and Russell Crowe plays a stand that which they can’t brief suggestive content great tortured loner with fathom. A story of family, a mission, and that’s what bravery and faith.

“Noah” is both grandiose and some beautiful time-lapse he does here with Noah. A Aronofsky is a brilliant understated. He uses CGI sequences that are astoundstoic man of faith, but somedirector, using computerjudiciously. Always blending to watch. It’s in these one who’s also racked with generated images as a ing it with more traditional moments that you realize means to tell the story, not See NOAH on Page 13 just as an end. The vision of filming methods. There are Aronofsky has released a big-

★★★★ ‘Noah’

“The tough talk can’t hide how wimpy the script really is.”

– Cache movie critic Aaron Peck on the new Arnold Schwarzenegger film “Sabotage” (Page 7)

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all mixed up ‘Addams Family’ hits the stage National touring company set to perform Saturday

The 2013/2014 National Tour of the new musical “The Addams Family,” based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its Logan premiere Saturday, March 29, at The Ellen Eccles Theatre.

“The Addams Family” will be performed at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets are available now at CacheArts.org, or the Ellen Eccles Theatre Box Office, 43 S. Main St. or call 752-0026.

“The Addams Family,” which began performances in March 2010 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and ran through December 2011, immediately became one of Broadway’s biggest hits.

“The Addams Family” features a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. The production is directed by Jerry Zaks with choreography by Sergio Trujillo. Production design (sets and costumes) by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch with set adaptations by James Kronzer. The production fea-

Heritage Center to host animals

The American West Heritage Center in Wellsville will host its 19th annual Baby Animal Days event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 3-5.

The event, which heralds the coming of spring and its accompanying newborns, will feature baby bears from Yellowstone Bear World, as well as baby lambs, goats, ducks, chicks, piglets, calves, foals, rabbits, turtles and more. There will be sheep shearing demonstrations, pony and Photo courtesy of the “The Addams Family” touring company train rides, trout fishing, mechanical bull rides, as “The Addams Family” will deliver two performances Saturday at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. well as the opportunity to learn about search and tures lighting design by Natasha darkness, has grown up and fall- Addams must do something rescue dogs. he’s never done before — keep Baby Animal Days is en in love with a sweet, smart Katz, sound design by Craig a secret from his beloved wife, young man from a respectable Cassidy and puppetry by Basil the largest event of its Morticia. Everything will family. A man her parents have Twist. kind in Utah. More than change for the whole family on 20,000 people attended “The Addams Family” features never met. And if that weren’t the fateful night they host a din- the event in 2013. upsetting enough, she confides an original story and it’s every ner for Wednesday’s “normal” in her father and begs him not father’s nightmare. Wednesday boyfriend and his parents.

Addams, the ultimate princess of to tell her mother. Now, Gomez See HOST on Page 13

Local chorus performing tonight

By Eric Warren USU Media Relations

Cache Valley will play host to one of the most celebrated and recognizable pieces of music to come from Germany when the 300 members that make up the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra perform Johannes Brahms’ Ein The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra will per- deutsches Requiem at 7:30 p.m. form at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Friday, March 28, at the Ellen

Eccles Theatre.

“We are delighted to be able to perform this beautiful and very moving piece in Cache Valley,” said Craig Jessop, director and conductor of the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra. “Brahms’ Requiem presents us with a unique opportunity to bring together musical talents from all over the valley, and beyond, to one stage and perform a magnificent piece of musi-

cal history.”

Jessop said that Brahms’ Requiem reflects a time of tragedy in Brahms’ life and shows how he chose to commemorate loss. Rather than use remorseful Latin prose, he created a celebration of life; a musical tapestry filled with elegant melodies, infused with the rich vocal textures of Germanic prose, See CHORUS on Page 13

“Tarzan, the Musical” presented

by Utah State University’s Department of Theatre Arts in the Caine College of the Arts opens Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. on the Chase Fine Arts Center’s Morgan Theatre stage. The musical runs nightly at 7:30 p.m. through March 29 with an additional matinee March 29 at 2 p.m. Based on the popular Disney animated film and the book “Tarzan of the Apes” by Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan, the Musical” is the story of a young man raised by apes from infancy who comes to understand what

it means to be a man. As in Burrough’s book, the character in the musical adaptation is driven by his own curiosity about who he is and where he belongs.

“The production focuses on the way we define family,” said Kenneth Risch, theater department head in the Caine College of the Arts and the show’s director. “It asks if family is based on who gave you birth, or who loves and nurtures you.”

Risch hopes audience members will walk away from the performance with their own answers to this question.

“When Tarzan is finally confronted with humanity, he is quickly exposed to both positive and negative behavior and bases his final decisions on his need and desire to hold onto the best of both worlds,” said Risch.

Tickets for “Tarzan, the Musical” are $18 adults, $15 seniors and youth, $10 USU faculty and staff and $5 for USU students with ID. For more information or tickets, contact the CCA Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s campus, call 435797-8022, or visit arts.usu.edu.

Hough wraps up festival The 2014 Wassermann Festival and Concert Series at Utah State University is about to wrap up a season that has brought world-class pianists to Logan for what has been among the series’ best, and the final concert brings back an audience favorite, Stephen Hough.

Hough first presents a master class at the festival Wednesday, April 2.

The evening session, held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at USU’s Performance Hall, offers an opportunity for the public to observe a master pianist and teacher in action. During the session Hough will work with USU pianists and the public is invited to observe. Tickets are required and are available at the door.

The following evening, Thursday, April 3, Hough is featured in the festival’s concluding recital at 7:30 p.m., also at the USU Performance Hall.

“Stephen Hough is one of the finest musicians and pianists performing today,” says Dennis Hirst, Wassermann Festival director. “He is acclaimed not only for his music — both in

native and display an ease that makes the virtuosity seem effortless,” Hirst says. “Mr. Hough appears for the third time at the Wassermann Festival — a first for any artist at the festival.”

The evening’s program is diverse and opens with “Six Little Pieces, Op. 19”

by Arnold Schonberg, followed by works from Strauss, Wagner, Bruckner and Brahms. The first half of the program includes a collection of smaller works by composers who are better known for their large-scale works, especially Strauss, Wagner and Bruckner. Thus, it will provide a unique opportunity to sample the styles of many composers while not devoting an entire evening to one style, Hirst said.

The first half of the program concludes with Brahms’ “Seven Fantasies, Op. 116.”

“Brahms referred to these as ‘lullabies of my Renowned pianist Stephen Hough will be featured at the sorrow,’” Hirst says. “They Wassermann Festival and Concert Series April 2-3. are beautiful, intricate works that display the full performance and his com- to receive a MacArthur expressive elements of positions — but also for Foundation Fellowship — Romanticism in relatively his writing, painting and commonly referred to as a small forms.” intellectual acumen.” “genius grant.”

The second half of the Hough is noted as the “His performances are first classical musician consistently fresh, imagiSee HOUGH on Page 13

Caine Chamber concert

The Music Department at Utah State University presents the annual spring Caine Chamber Ensembles performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in the USU Performance Hall.

“This concert is a clear indicator of the high level of musicianship amongst music students here at USU,” says Max Matzen, assistant professor in the Caine College of the Arts. “In chamber music there is a heightened degree of performing accountability, as the ensembles are smaller and every voice matters.”

The Caine Chamber Ensembles include the USU Trombone Choir, USU Horn Quartet, Caine Woodwind Quintet, Caine Brass Quintet, Caine Percussion Ensemble and the Caine Saxophone Quartet.

Each group is auditioned and students in the groups are awarded scholarships provided by the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation—Russell Family.

Each ensemble will perform individually, featuring a variety of works. The USU Horn Quartet will perform “Sonata for Four French Horns” by Paul Hindemith. The Caine Brass Quintet is performing Victor Ewald’s “Quintet No. 3” and the Caine Percussion Ensemble will play “Threads” by Paul Lansky, to name a few of the program selections.

The Caine Chamber Ensembles performance is free and open to the public. For more information, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

‘Cinderella’ in Brigham City Dream Pointe Ballet Company of Brigham City proudly presents “Cinderella” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at Box Elder High School. Tickets are $9 per person; $8 for five or more. Tickets may be purchased online at www.starstruckarts.com, in person at 2895 S. U.S. 89 in Perry, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, or by calling (435) 239-8338.

High school art contest

The Brigham City Museum of Art and History is sponsoring a statewide, all-media art competition titled “Young Masters, 2014.” The competition is open to regular and home-schooled students in grades nine through 12. Artwork should be delivered to the museum March 22 through April 4. Only school teachers can submit works. For more information, visit brighamcitymuseum.org, email klandon@brighamcitymuseum.org or call (435) 226-1439.

‘Into the Woods’ in Perry

The Heritage Theatre in Perry will present “Into the Woods” from March 7 to 29. Based on the musical

by Stephen Sondheim, “Into the Woods” will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Matinees will also be performed at 2 p.m. March 15 and 22. Tickets are $10 for adults; $9 for seniors and children. For reservations, call the box office at (435) 723-8392 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily except for Tuesdays and Sundays. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.heritagetheatreutah.com.

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‘Tarzan’ swings into Utah State COMING UP

The Young Artist Cup Committee, in association with the Mountain Crest High School Performing Arts Department, will present the 15th annual Young Artist Cup Competition at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, and Friday, April 11, in the school auditorium.

The piano and instrumental performances will be Thursday night and the vocal and string performances will be Friday evening. Admission is free and everyone is invited. This annual event showcases the musical talents of Mountain Crest students.

Contestants will vie for

cash prizes and trophies in five areas: piano, brass/winds/percussion, female vocalist, male vocalist and strings.

Awards will be given 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 students in a competition held earlier in the year. The design of Spencer Rasmuson of River Heights was chosen to represent the 2014 Young Artist Cup. Rasmuson will receive a trophy and cash prize for his work.

Dergarabedian. “You’re chasing franchise for the company.” A probably the most fickle audience sequel is already in the works.

“The key to the success of these in the world. They can change franchises is finding the difference their minds on what’s cool in the and marketing it,” said Fay. “It’s blink of an eye.”

Disney’s Muppets sequel “Mupnot easy. And I think we’re doing it pets Most Wanted,” fared poorly, better than anyone else right now, earning just $16.5 million over the frankly.”

In the rush to adapt popular weekend. “The Muppets,” opened young-adult fiction, Lionsgate has notably better with $29.2 million in 2011, benefiting from the reboot starsucceeded where many others ring and co-written by Jason Segal. have floundered. “Divergent,” made Dave Hollis, head of distribuwith a budget of $85 million from tion for Disney, acknowledged the Veronica Roth’s best-sellers, folresult was disappointing and somelows less stellar results from youthfocused films like “The Mortal Instru- what “head-scratching” considering advance tracking had suggested ments: City of Bones,” ‘’Vampire Academy” and “Beautiful Creatures.” “Muppets Most Wanted” would draw Paul Dergarabedian, media bigger crowds. analyst for box-office tracker Ren“There certainly was something in trak, calls the “Divergent” debut a the last Muppets — not having any“three-peat” for Lionsgate in a chalthing available for fans for a while lenging genre that defies “cookie— that satisfied pent up demand cutter, assembly line” development. that we didn’t have the benefit of “They make it look easy,” says this time around,” Hollis said.

NEW YORK (AP) — To go with “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games,” Lionsgate now has a trio of youngadult franchises with the box-office leading “Divergent.”

The teen science-fiction thriller starring Shailene Woodley debuted with $56 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The opening, while less than some anticipated, launches Lionsgate’s third franchise built on young-adult best-sellers.

With an audience 59 percent female and half under the age of 25, “Divergent” lured young moviegoers with dystopian drama and an upcoming star. “Divergent,” though, fell well short of its forerunners: “Twilight” opened with $69.6 million in 2008, and “The Hunger Games” began with $152.5 million in 2012.

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Rarely are films so cold-hearted and soulless. “Sabotage” is a mean-spirited police procedural without an ounce of heart. But make no mistake, there’s plenty of blood. So much in fact that you’ll wonder if you somehow stumbled into some over-the-top horror gore-fest. Nope, all those gallons of blood and guts add up to a star-studded stinker of a movie.

With its floating head poster featuring recognizable faces from the acting world, you might be preparing yourself for something akin to “The Expendables.” While violent, “Sabotage” is anything but “Expendable”like.

Director David Ayer, who also helmed the visceral buddy cop drama “End of Watch,” makes a few missteps here. He mistakes recognizable faces with audience interest. Like we’ll immediately be invested in the characters these actors are playing simply because we’ve seen these people in a myriad of other projects. Instead of building character and giving us any sort of reason to care about the people on screen, we’re treated to a never-ending stream of phony machismo that wears real thin, real fast.

Breacher (Arnold Schwarzenegger) runs a team of foul-mouthed DEA agents who, like all teams of special forces in movies, are the best at what they do. Watching them interact with each other is almost unbearable at times; a grunting, sneering bunch of unremarkable tough guys.

Mireille Enos, who plays unstable drug-addicted special agent Lizzy, is unable to pull off the

She’s dependent on him.

Caroline is the only real worthwhile character on screen, but she’s spends most her time cowering in Schwarzenegger’s huge AP Photo shadow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger poses with fans at the L.A. premiere of “Sabotage.”

The entirety of the movie, and the oozing her character is written as bloodbath that ensues, all one of the most off-putting female characters in quite stems back to the opening sequence. The team takes some time. Since all the down a drug house. Ten other females in the movie Director // David Ayer million bucks goes missare either strippers or subStarring // Arnold Schwarzenegger, Josh Holloing from the enormous jects of torture, it’s as if way, Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello, Terrence the script thought that one stash of drug money. The Howard, Max Martini, Mireille Enos, Olivia Williams DEA thinks Breacher’s of them had to be tough.

Rated // R for strong bloody violence, pervasive team stole it during the Speaking of female language, some sexuality/nudity and drug use raid. The team remains characters getting the steadfast during intershort end of the stick, same crazy-but-great per- plex characters, as she’s police detective Caroline rogations. Then members formance that Eva Green shown in “The Killing.”

(Olivia Williams) can’t do of the crew start dying displayed in “300: Rise of Here, however, she’s a grizzly deaths. Murders anything without being an Empire.” She’s capable bucket of glowering absur- backed up by hulking, so gruesome that it could of playing layered, comdity. It doesn’t help that wise-cracking Breacher. only be the work of

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Whether the varied plot shifts and twists make sense is completely up to you to decide. They’re ludicrous at best. A string of deadly situations that maybe make sense when strung together, who knows? Though, all the tough talk can’t hide how wimpy the script really is. With all the conversating going on you’d think the movie assumes we care about what happens to these people. Believe it or not, the incomprehensibly filmed and edited action scenes are completely secondary to all the hollow talky-talky going on.

Lacking any type of mood or engaging atmospherics, “Sabotage” plods through the motions of a procedural, curiously leaving out the meaty action scenes people might be expecting as they enter the theater. As if to say this movie is smarter than that, even though it certainly isn’t. So, to cover it all up, they bathe the movie in rivers of blood, hoping you don’t notice what clearly isn’t there.

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Latino students say, ‘Sí, se puede’ For many of the attendees, Fiesta Americas was an emotional event. Organized by Utah State University’s Latino Student Union, the presentations at the March 21 event represented a broad array of countries as well as a variety of tributes.

More than 250 people filled the Taggart Student Center Ballroom as LSU and community members celebrated their cultures through song, dance, poetry and a fashion show of different countries’ traditional clothing.

For Pablo Garcia and Mathew Baggoo, the MCs of this year’s Fiesta Americas, the most powerful moment of the evening was a tribute to their classmate. The room grew silent as onstage, Baggoo explained that Felipe Benitez, a member of the Psi Sigma Phi Multicultural Fraternity, died of lymphoma on March 10.

The day Benitez found out he had cancer, he called Baggoo to tell him, but Baggoo said he blew him off. Baggoo was angry at him for missing a meeting that day, and he didn’t want to listen to Benitez’s excuse. When Baggoo found out Benitez was in the hospital, he felt horrible and visited him later in the day.

“I always meant to say sorry,” Baggoo said. “I still feel like it’s kind of late, but it needs to happen. So in front of you guys,

said during the presentation.

“Chavez has become a symbol for all those Davids who conquer their Goliaths and embrace the slogan, ‘Sí, se puede.’”

The LSU presented two $500 scholarships to local high school students.

Felipe, I let you down. I miss Applicants for the scholaryou. I love you. I’m sorry.”

Continuing the tribute, Garcia ship each wrote an essay on what “Sí, se puede” means recited a poem he composed in to them. Kendall Peterson, a Benitez’s honor. senior from Mountain Crest, At the event, Psi Sigma Phi and Eneida Rosas, a senior collected donations to help the at Logan High, recited their Benitez family with funeral essays at the event and were expenses and medical bills. awarded the scholarships.

The fraternity will also raise “‘Sí, se puede,’ to me, is a money for the family through its annual step show, scheduled phrase so strong that it can for April 11, also in the Taggart control your whole life,” Rosas said on stage. “Use this phrase Student Center Ballroom. correctly, and the possibilities The evening also included are endless.” a tribute to Cesar Chavez, a In her essay Rosas describes Mexican-American civil rights activist and labor leader. Latino overcoming bullying, low selfStudent Union members recited esteem and anxiety in high events from Chavez’s life, from school. To her, “Sí, se puede” represents the empowerment his birth on March 31, 1927, and will to change from within to the formation of the United necessary to overcome life’s Farm Workers union in 1966.

LSU President Sandra Martinez challenges, she said.

The celebration also represaid Chavez inspired workers sented Latino culture through with the slogan, “Sí, se puede,” which roughly means “Yes, you food, as Fiesta Americas guests dined on rice and beans, cilancan,” or “Yes, it is possible.” tro lime chicken and pico de “With three special words, gallo, with flan and arroz con Cesar Chavez taught us that leche for dessert. USU Catering it is possible, and that we are prepared the menu. never strong enough that we don’t need help. He has taught See LATIN on Page 12 us to take a stand,” Martinez

Story by Steve Kent • Photographs by Eli Lucero

Top, Laura Pazmino sings the song “No Quererte” during the Fiesta Americas at the USU Taggart Student Center Auditorium.

Above, Rivera pauses while dancing the Bachata.

Four Seasons Theatre Company proudly presents the world’s most beloved musical, “The Sound of Music.”

Maria (Sarah Huff), a prospective nun, proves too high-spirited for the religious life and is dispatched by Mother Abbess (Brittany Dunn Perkins) to serve as governess for the seven children of widowed Captain von Trapp (Daniel Huff). The family’s famous narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theater.

The production also includes the talents of Afton Lovell as Elsa Schräder and Rod Lewis as Max Dettweiler as well as two fantastic groups of Von Trapp Children and nuns that will raise the roof with their powerful singing.

“The Sound of Music” features songs such as “Edelweiss,” “Climb Every Mountain,” “DoRe-Mi” and the title song “The Sound of Music” and two songs which were cut from the 1965 movie. This production is co-directed by Jon and Kody Rash and music directed by Jennifer Bohman.

“The Sound of Music” runs March 27-29, 31 and April 3-5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sky View Auditorium, with a matinee Saturday, March 29, at 1:30 p.m.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door and can be purchased online or by calling 435752-4835. Visit fourseasonstheatre.org for tickets and additional show information.

Huff ‘marvelous’ in ‘Music’

A charming production of “The Sound of Music” by the local Four Seasons Theatre Company debuted at Sky View High School in Smithfield Thursday night.

As the final collaboration between legendary composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II more than 50 years ago, “The Sound of Music” is decidedly dated. But co-directors Kody and Jon Rash are lucky enough to have gifted female performers standing in a deep line to bring this well-known story to life.

At the head of that queue of talent is Sarah Huff, who is absolutely marvelous as the misplaced postulant nun Maria. Her utterly convincing portrayal captures all the innocence and naive enthusiasm of that character. Ms. Huff’s crystal-clear soprano voice also lends a joyful sense of spontaneity to familiar musical numbers like “My

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Favorite Things,” “DoRe-Mi” and “The Lonely Goatherd.”

Ms. Huff is so much the heart and soul of this production that other cast members — including Daniel Huff as Capt.

Von Trapp and the seven

youngsters portraying his children — seem lost in those rare scenes she doesn’t share with them.

That hardly matters, since audience members feel the same sense of loss without Ms. Huff’s magnetic presence on the stage.

Brittany Perkins, Cheryl Benson, Jamie Younker and AnAlyse Chidester delivered standout performances as the quartet of nuns who guide Maria’s gradual transition to the unexpected roles of wife and mother. Ms. Perkins’ rendition of “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” is breathtaking.

Rod Lewis as the opportunistic impresario Max Detweiler and Afton Lovell as the pragmatic Nazi collaborator Baron-

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Additional evening performances of “The Sound of Music” are slated for 7:30 p.m. March 28, 29 and 31, as well as April 3-5. A matinee performance will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29.

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Editor’s Note: Charlie Schill is a former city editor of The Herald Journal. He has directed and performed with theater groups in the United States, South Korea and Germany. Schill also served as theater critic for the Temple Daily Telegram in Temple, Texas and Pacific Stars & Stripes and Japan Times, both daily newspapers in Tokyo.

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Hollywood was never the same after taking up the fight to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan — just like the rest of the world. Many of the film industry’s greatest talents put aside their careers to join the military and turn the movies into a weapon for victory.

Films were developed to boost public morale, educate millions of troops and stoke anti-German and anti-Japanese sentiment. The studios cooperated with the government to ensure that dramas and comedies — entertainment polished with propaganda — carried the right message. Besides churning out training films, filmmakers in uniform also sought to tell inspiring stories through documentaries,

some of them mostly real and some of them mostly made up.

In his engaging book “Five Came Back,” author Mark Harris follows the wartime experiences of a handful of movie directors to explore this unique intersection of entertainment and war.

His compelling narrative is first-rate in all respects, a war story for film fans and a miniseries-like treatment of American history for those inter-

ested in World War II. Director Frank Capra (“It Happened One Night” and “It’s a Wonderful Life”) joined up shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. His major contribution was the “Why We Fight” series, lessons in history and politics designed to explain to recruits why they were being asked to go to war. As Harris points out, Capra and his colleagues were challenged to come up with persuasive arguments aimed at black recruits given segregation. Their depictions of the Japanese were so racist that even the U.S. government balked at approving such a film, knowing it would complicate the lives of Japanese Americans and postwar relations with Japan.

Director John Ford (“The Searchers” and “The Quiet Man”) was under fire at the battle of Midway Island, getting a memorable documentary out of his color

footage, and again at Omaha Beach when the Allies invaded Europe on D-Day. An old habit of going on an obliterating bender between movie assignments could have ended Ford’s military career. In one sorry instance, a few weeks after the Normandy landings, the filmmaker spent three days drunk while bunking at a house along the French coast, leaving his bed only to buy or steal more booze and pick a fight or two.

Ford and director John Huston (“The African Queen” and “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”) shared a penchant for embellishing their personal war stories.

Huston went well beyond the accepted practices of the documentarian when he passed off re-enactments for “The Battle of San Pietro” as actual battle footage. He was on more stable ground

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Musicians seeking songs Bear River photos Cannon, Eller canvasing Northern Utah, Southern Idaho In late March and early April, noted musicians/musicologists Hal Cannon and Gary Eller will search Eastern Idaho and Northern Utah for songs written before the radio era (prior to 1923) about the early people, places and events of this region.

Such songs provide unique glimpses of the early culture of the region. During the day, Cannon and Eller will scour museums, libraries and private collections for songs directly related to early Eastern Idaho/Northern Utah — everything from handed down oral tradition to handwritten lyrics to formal sheet music.

In the evenings, they will share regional music they have found through musical programs at six different venues. Cannon and Eller will be seeking individuals who wish to share early regional songs they know. The search for early songs is supported by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and the

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cooperation of individuals and organizations interested in the preservation of the early music of the region.

Performances in Northern Utah will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 11, at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center in Brigham City, 59 S. 100 West, and Saturday, April 12, at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East in Logan.

Tickets for the Brigham City concert are available at (435) 723-0740 or at www. bcfineartscenter.org. Ticket prices for the Brigham City venue are $10 for adults and $6 for students. Tickets for the Logan concert are $10 for adults and $5 for students, and are available by calling 757-5420 or at www.bridgerfolk.org.

Eller is an Idaho-based songwriter, musician, author and musicologist. He leads the Idaho Songs Project, whose mission is to find, interpret and preserve songs written about Idaho’s early

bomber’s four engines. Wyler (“The Best Years of Our Lives” and “Ben-Hur”) lost much of his hearing while trying to film aboard a B-25 flight.

Continued from Page 11 George Stevens (“Giant” and with his piece on shell-shocked troops and their treatments, “Let “Shane”) was less interested in making documentaries than There Be Light,” which proved in filming events as they hapunsettling enough that the govpened to create a record of the ernment kept it under wraps for war. For example, he was in decades.

William Wyler learned that he Normandy for D-Day and in Paris during the celebration of had received an Oscar for the its liberation. Most significant, wartime drama “Mrs. Miniver” Stevens and his cameras passed while serving overseas. He and his film crew flew on B-17 mis- through the gates of the consions over Europe for one of the centration camp at Dachau two war’s best-received documenta- days after its liberation. Stevens spent weeks there filming life ries, “The Memphis Belle.” Its and death among the tens of fakery was forgivable: Wyler thousands still at the camp, used footage from multiple footage he later used in assembombing runs and assembled bling two documentaries that the plane’s crew in Hollywood to record dialogue for the movie served as evidence during the Nuremberg trials. because their words couldn’t In Harris’ telling, these direcbe heard over the roar of the

people places and events. As a member of the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau, Gary travels the length and breadth of Idaho presenting musical programs and searching for early Idaho songs.

His collection of early Idaho songs now exceeds 200.

Information about the Idaho Songs Project can be found bonafidaho.com and Eller can be contacted at pgaryeller@ aol.com or (208) 442-8844.

Cannon is a Utah-based songwriter, musician, author, radio producer and folklorist.

He has been playing music most of his life and has gathered together many original songs and traditional folk tunes and songs. Best known musically for his band, the Deseret String Band, the group made a specialty of researching and performing 19th-century music from the West.

For more information on Cannon, visit halcannon.com.

He can be reached at halcannon@mac.com. tors faced their wartime fears with little more than cameras and courage. Their frustrations were due mostly to a kind of friendly fire. Time and again the indifference of government bureaucracy, including in the military itself, made it exceedingly difficult for them to obtain the equipment and supplies required for them to do their jobs.

Of the five, only Capra failed to recover his footing when he returned to Hollywood, a professional stumble as much about age and changing tastes and times as ability. His colleagues, however, achieved their greatest work after the war. Their movies turned more realistic, more serious and more profound.

Like Hollywood and a world once at war, they too were never the same.

wanted for exhibit The Bear River Watershed Council has issued a call for entries for its upcoming “Radiant or Ravaged” photo exhibit on the Bear River watershed.

“We are asking photographers to search through their work and get out and take images that portray the radiant beauty or ravaged impacts of the watershed and submit them for an exhibit in April,” says Dan Miller, chairman of the BWRC board. “We hope to engage amateur and professional photographers, as well as scientists, to take a close look at our local watershed — a place that sustains life — with a different eye. Not only to see the beauty, but also to look the other direction toward the impacts from human activities that may not be beneficial to the environment, the watershed or human health.”

For this exhibit, BRWC has partnered with photography students in Utah State University’s Department of Art and Design.

“We want to get the word out to the public and specifically scientists and photographers,” says USU photography student Beth Hansen. “We want to get everyone thinking about issues and how they can be portrayed in a meaningful and hopefully artful way.

“We have a Facebook group page that photographers can post images, have discussions and have their images critiqued,” Hansen adds.

The exhibit will be hung from April 11 through April 22, at the Thatcher-Young Mansion in downtown Logan. There will be both an opening and closing reception. Prints will be accepted April 4 and will be juried by Utah State University assistant professor of photography Carsten Meier and professional fine art and nature photographer Howie Garber.

For more information, visit www.brwcouncil.org

Latin Continued from Page 9 Martinez, a sophomore sociology major, said Fiesta Americas is important to the LSU because it’s a chance for members to share themselves and their traditions.

“It gives us a chance to show the university the Latino culture, and just kind of show them what we’re all about — That we’re here at this university, we care about our education, and we want to show people what our culture is.”

The union has been an important part of her experience at USU, Martinez said. She moved

here from Idaho, where she interacted daily with a large community of other Mexican-Americans. Her first day in Logan, she didn’t see anyone who looked Latino, and the transition came with a bit of culture shock.

“So, when I found the LSU, I found people who I could relate to, people who could understand me,” Martinez said. “We could do our homework together, we could go to a dance together, we could go out and eat together.

I mean, not that I don’t have other friends like that, but it’s that whole ‘home’ kind of feeling. I think LSU naturally just becomes like a family. We all kind of look out for each other.”

The basic story of Noah is there.

The Creator asks him to build an ark, so he does. The rest of the story is completely open to various interpretations. Aronofsky’s vision is an intimate spectacle, a beautiful meshing of big-budget constructs and art-house ideals. It’s brave and unapologetic; a film of great ambition and excitement.

Yes, “Noah” is sure to catch endless ire from those who think it’s somehow perverting the Biblical account. That’s their prerogative. Though this story doesn’t purport to be the truth.

Instead it’s one man’s vision, an artistic impression of a beloved story. And, oh what a grand vision it is.

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visitors can earn $1 off with the donation of any non-perishable food item at the American West Heritage Center ticket booth.

For those looking to avoid the potential long lines at the event, tickets are being sold in advance at the Walmart at the south end of Logan, the Utah State University Card Office and online at awhc.org.

Continued from Page 4 “Baby Animal Days is a wonderful family event for people of all ages; it is a true Cache Valley tradition,” says Mic Bowen, Associate Director of American West Heritage Center.

“There will be something there

Chorus Continued from Page 4 and coupled with the beautiful sonance of a full orchestra.

According to Utah State University assistant professor of musicology Christopher M. Scheer, Brahms’ Requiem is arguably one of the most important pieces of choral music written in the 19th century.

“The inspiration for its composition may have been the passing of Brahms’ beloved mother, though many scholars have noted that some musical material used in the Requiem dates from 1856, around the time of the death of his close friend, the composer Robert Schumann,” Scheer said.

Though modeled on the Roman Catholic mass for the dead, Brahms drew his texts from Martin Luther’s German Bible, which is why the

for everyone. We have the baby bears coming back, which we are really excited about. We’ll have live music, food vendors, fun activities for kids and other baby animals for people to see and experience.”

Admission is $9 for adults and $7 for military members, seniors and children ages 3-11.

Students can earn $1 off with any current student ID, and all work is in German and not in the customary Latin. Scheer commented that Brahms takes many liberties with the traditional requiem texts, playing down and expunging references to Christian dogmas, while emphasizing the human experiences of suffering and bereavement. The work reflects Brahms’ personal view of the spiritual, and he is even said to have remarked that the work should be called a human requiem.

“Everything about Brahms’ masterpiece is elegant and exquisite,” said Jessop. “My hope is that our audience will fully experience the music as it fills the hall and reverberates with the grace it was composed for.”

To help accomplish that, Jessop has enlisted renowned vocalists Cindy Dewey and Steve Meredith.

Dewey, an associate professor at Utah State’s Caine Col-

lege of the Arts, has appeared as soprano soloist with orchestras across the United States and Canada. She has performed numerous works with American Festival Chorus and Orchestra, including Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, as well as in works by Mozart and Bach. Dewey’s students have gone on to perform at opera houses in the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Meredith is an oft soughtafter baritone and was a favorite of Grammy Award-winning conductor Robert Shaw.

Meredith sang Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony under his direction with orchestras throughout the United States. Meredith also has appeared regularly with other notable conductors, including Margaret Hillis, Hermann Michael, Stewart Robertson and Robert Page.

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to not only the concert but the 2014 Wassermann season.

“This is our first festival Continued from Page 5 without Irving Wasserprogram is devoted to all mann,” Hirst says. “I am four of the Chopin “Balparticularly grateful that lades,” an entirely new we conclude with these musical form developed works. They are some of

by Chopin, although it is the finest works of Chopin, derived from the narrative a composer who emigrated ballad, Hirst says. from his native Poland to “They retain certain avoid war, much as Irving narrative features — the Wassermann did a century themes are often strophic later.” and the progression of Tickets for the Stephen musical events often seems Hough solo recital are to follow the literary model available at the Caine Colof an epic poem; but there lege of the Arts Box Office is no clear evidence that located in the Chase Fine any of the ‘Ballades’ are Arts Center, Room 139based on specific narrative,” B. Reserved seat tickets Hirst says.

They are, Hirst continues, are $24 for adults, $20 for USU faculty and staff and some of the most popular $12 for students ages 8 and of Chopin’s piano works, older. Call the box office at no doubt due to the com797-8022 or purchase tickplexity of emotion comets online at arts.usu.edu. municated and the skilled Detailed information compositional developabout the Wassermann ment of materials which Festival and Concert Series fully reveal Chopin’s crecan be found on the festiative genius. val’s website at usu.edu/ The Chopin “Ballades” are also a fitting conclusion wassermann.

He is the music department chair and director of choral activities at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.

Dewey concurred that it is generally believed Brahms wrote his German Requiem in honor of his mother, and said that it takes on special significance for her when she can perform it in honor of her own mother.

“Because of my close relationship with my mother, it is special to perform a piece that is about the mother-child relationship,” Dewey said. “In the fifth movement where I sing the soprano solo, the choir’s text translates as ‘I shall comfort you, as one whom his mother comforts,’ and in that moment, I am truly comforted.”

Opening the program is Utah composer Jeff Detton’s Tritone: A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, which was inspired by the 10th anni-

versary of 9/11, and is based around a tritone, the most dissonant musical interval. This performance marks the debut of Detton’s first major work for piano and orchestra.

Born in 1986, Jeff Detton showed exceptional musical talent from an early age. Selftaught in his earliest years, Detton began composing at age 8, and has been writing symphonic music since age 10.

Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem will conclude the sixth concert season for the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra. “I can think of no greater season finale than this performance to enable us to continue our goal of providing a culture of musical excellence that edifies, entertains and educates performers and audiences,” Jessop said.

Ticket prices are $12, $16 and $20. For more information visit americanfestivalchorus. org, or call (435) 752-0026.

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Noah

(Emma Watson) is an orphan girl the family picks up along their journey. Her town was destroyed by marauders. She becomes Continued from Page 3 Shem’s wife.

Noah isn’t without his enethe torment of how wicked the mies, though. Not counting his Earth has become. He doesn’t family, Noah’s enemies include see himself as a prophet per se. the entirety of humanity, and Instead he sees himself as a man specifically, a wicked, rotting who will unquestioningly carry bunch led by Tubal-cain (Ray out The Creator’s work to the Winstone), a descendent of bitter end.

Naameh (Jennifer Connelly) is Cain. Tubal-cain is a wonderhis wife who stands by him, even fully complex villain, something when their tasks seem impossible which is sorely lacking in many movies nowadays. to bear. Shem (Douglas Booth) I don’t want to give too much is the eldest son, always ready away about certain things that to help his father with whatever take place. I truly believe that needs to be done. Ham (Logan “Noah” is a movie that you Lerman) is the middle son, who should go into with as little feels as if he has nothing. He knowledge about it as possible. resents his father’s vision. Ila

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Friday “Tarzan: The Musical” will hit the stage at USU’s Morgan Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center from March 25-29. Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for youth and seniors, $10 for USU staff and faculty and $5 for USU students.

Visit arts.usu.edu for tickets and additional information.

Four Seasons Theatre Company will present “The Sound of Music” at 7:30 p.m. March 27-29, 31 and April 3-5, in the Sky View High School Auditorium. There will also be a matinee at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door and can be purchased online or by calling 752-4835. Visit fourseasonstheatre.org for tickets and additional show information.

The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra will perform Johannes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Ticket prices are $12, $16 and $20. For more information visit americanfestivalchorus. org, or call (435) 752-0026.

Of Ivy and Ashes will perform with The Rompstompers, Home Team and Chin Up Rocky at 8 p.m. Friday, March 28, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

SATURDAY Willow Park Zoo will host Easter Eggstravaganza from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 29. Admission is $4 for adults, children are $2 and children under 3 and members are free.

Enjoy bunny games, take a photo with the Easter Bunny and hunt for eggs in an egg scramble.

Plus check out the new kinkajou.

Egg scrambles will begin at 11 a.m. (2 and under), noon (3 to 5 years old) and 1 p.m. (6 to 10 years old).

The 860th Cadet Wing at Utah State University will be holding the fourth annual Braveheart Charity 5K and 10K race at 9

a.m. Saturday, March 29. Every year the 860th Cadet Wing helps out a local family with the Braveheart race. This family typically has a child struggling with medical problems, and is in need of support from the local community.

This year’s recipient is a 5-yearold boy named Rustin, who suffers from a conditions known as cortical dysplasia. Runners can register online at braveheartrun.regtix.com, or in person at the Military Science Building, room 107. Same day in-person registration will also be available before the race. Contact Bridger Freeman at (801) 696-5898 for more information.

The Northern Utah Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will hold its 2014 dinner and auction at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 29, at the Riverwoods Conference Center in Logan. Attendees will have a chance to win a South Cache limited entry tag, a Cache antlerless tag and an African safari. For ticket information call Michele at 435-563-5292, or Joddy at 435752-4172.

Mark Abernathy of the Sabre Rattlers will perform live at 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 29, at the North Logan Library. A show you really don’t want to miss, Abernathy rocks out with amazing vocals to a variety of American folk hymns in a limited seating performance.

Abernathy is a New York Citybased instrumentalist and songwriter. Born in San Francisco, raised in Hong Kong and educated in Boston, Abernathy’s forthcoming release “What Fair One Is This” is a unique and fresh approach to old gospel hymns tinged with influences from every stop along the way.

All are invited to public night at the USU Observatory from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, March 28. Hosted by USU’s Physics Department, guests are invited to view the spring sky through the observatory’s 20-inch telescope on the roof of the Science Engineering Research Building.

Admission is free. Before arrival, please visit www.physics.usu.

edu/observatory as the event will be cancelled in the event of cloudy or inclement weather. The website also offers directions and parking information.

The Cache Family to Family Network will be hosting a presentation by Canine Companions for Independence at 7 p.m.

Friday, March 28, at Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, 335 N. 100 East. Come learn how a service animal can lead to more independence and freedom for people with a disability. For more information, contact Lora at 7600741 or lmeerdo@comcast.net.

The 2013-14 National Tour of the new musical “The Addams Family” will make its Logan premiere Saturday, March 29, at The Ellen Eccles Theatre. “The Addams Family” will be performed at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets are available now at CacheArts. org, the Ellen Eccles Theatre Box Office, 43 S. Main St., or by calling 752-0026.

Matt Lanier will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Immodest Socks will perform with Allie Harris at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

Lace ‘N Levis Square Dance Club will be dancing on Saturday, March 29, at 1650 E. 2600 North in North Logan. Round dancing class starts at 6 p.m., main stream class at 7 p.m., and plus and main stream will begin at 8 p.m. For more info contact lace nlevis@hotmail.com.

SUNDAY Twin Flames will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Kris Krompel will blow you away with his talent accompanied by his wife, Elise, on bass

MONDAY Does your family have spring breaks that don’t line up? Or just looking for something special for

your child this spring? Feel confident that your nature explorer has a fabulous week of fun and discovery at Stokes Nature Center’s Spring Break Camp from March 31 to April 4. We’ve planned five days of fun and educational activities and field trips, ideal for ages 8 to 12. Your SNC explorer will stay busy from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, with pick up and drop off conveniently located at First Dam. Cost is $170; $155 for SNC members. Registration is limited, so reserve your space today. For more information or to register, email nature@logannat ure.org or call 755-3239.

The Logan Library will host a showing of the movie “Frozen” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 31, in the Jim Bridger Room. Seating is limited. Admission and popcorn are free.

TUESDAY Wanna learn to whittle like your grandpa did? Or maybe to carve fine art like the old world masters? Either way come join the Cache Carvers and let us help you get started. Or if you are an experienced carver, come share your talents with us. This month the club will be taking a field trip to the American Western Heritage Center at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, to tour the woodwright’s shop and to do some carving. Call Chris at 881-2227 or email at lilpiggybbq@gmail. com for more information.

The Music Department at Utah State University presents the annual spring Caine Chamber Ensembles performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the USU Performance Hall. The Caine Chamber Ensembles include the USU Trombone Choir, USU Horn Quartet, Caine Woodwind Quintet, Caine Brass Quintet, Caine Percussion Ensemble and the Caine Saxophone Quartet. The performance is free and open to the public.

The Logan Library presents “Learning @ the Library” — classes showing how to get the most from your e-reader device

or computer using the free resources available at the library. “eAudiobooks & the Library” will be taught at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the Logan Library. You can use the library’s devices or bring your own. Sign up in person at the information desk or call 716-9120.

WEDNESDAY The USU Political Science Department will host Dr. Omar Kader, the CEO of Pal-Tech in Washington, D.C., at 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, April 2, at Old Main, room 115, on the USU campus.

Kader’s talk is entitled “Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign.” Call 7971306 for more information.

THURSDAY “Sensible Food Choices” is the title of the cooking class at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 3, at Macey’s Little Theatre in Providence. Let’s face it, when it comes to fixing a meal last minute there are two options most families turn to: pizza and fast-food. Here come the Food Sense Girls to our rescue. These amazing girls from the USU extension will dazzle you with cheap, quick and easy recipes they will whip up in this class.

You must reserve a seat at the service desk, and please be on time. Classes are for ages 10 and up. Check us out on Facebook or visit littletheatrerecipes.blogspot. com for more information.

Baby Animal Days will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

April 3-5, at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. The event, which heralds the coming of spring and its accompanying newborns, will feature baby bears from Yellowstone Bear World, as well as baby lambs, goats, ducks, chicks, piglets, calves, foals, rabbits, turtles and more. There will be sheep shearing demonstrations, pony and train rides, trout fishing and mechanical bull rides, as well as the opportunity to learn about search and rescue dogs.

Admission is $9 for adults and $7 for military members, seniors and children ages 3 to 11. For more information, visit awhc.org.

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