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Now on display at USU’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, “The Distinguished Alumni Exhibition: The Next Century” features work by seven USU alumni and is the final event in a year-long celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of the department of art

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April 3-9, 2009

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“Ute” by Abbigail Knowlton-Israelsen — Now on display at USU’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, “The Distinguished Alumni Exhibition: The Next Century” features work by seven USU alumni and is the final event in a year-long celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of the university’s department of art. Read all about it on Page 8.

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From the editor

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AVE YOU EVER BEEN so desperate for spring that you decide to just pretend it’s here, even when it’s still 20 degrees outside?

I’ll admit I find myself doing that every year — for example, wearing flip-flops and trying to pretend my toes aren’t freezing together.

Awhile back (yes, we get impatient way before spring is even in the foreseeable future), my husband and I grilled some steaks in a full-blown blizzard.

We were up staying at Bear Lake for a much-needed weekend getaway when we decided that 1. we were sick of winter; and 2. we wanted some grilled meat. So later that evening we found ourselves in our big winter coats and hats, huddled around the grill trying to see the meat

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jbaer@hjnews.com It must be spring

through the intense wind/snowstorm swirling around us and nearly blowing us over.

And when I say it was a snowstorm, I’m not exaggerating — it snowed all evening and all night, and when we woke up the next morning there was about 6 feet of snow piled outside the sliding glass door. But I will tell you one thing: The freezing was worth it — my husband can grill a heck of a steak no matter what the weather.

I hear it’s going to be somewhat “warm” and “spring-like” next week, but I’m not getting my hopes up. I’m going to keep my flip-flops in the closet, refrain from buying that cute USU tank-top at the campus bookstore and keep my heavy blanket well within reach at night. You can’t fool me, Mr. Winter!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

... because Baby Animal Days are at the AWHC!

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pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption!

Pet: Baxter From: Four Paws Rescue Why she’s so lovable: “Baxter is looking for a forever family to call her own. She is a real sweetheart, is very responsive to training and loves people and other dogs. She also likes cats (maybe a little too much). Her last home said she liked to herd the cats and constantly annoy them. So it might be best if she went into a home without cats. Baxter needs to go to a home where she can live in the house with her people and has a fenced yard for her to play in.” Baxter’s adoption fee is $125, which includes her spay surgery and vaccinations. If you think Baxter would make a great addition to your family, e-mail scfourpaws@ hotmail.com or leave a message at 752-3534.

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.

Interactive artist to close out series at USU

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By Golan Levin

NTERACTIVE ARTIST GOLAN Levin will travel to Logan on Wednesday, April 8, as part of Utah State University’s Department of Art Visiting Artist Program. His public lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Eccles Conference Center, Room 216. A question/discussion session will follow the lecture.

Admission is free and everyone is invited. Levin will also present workshop with advanced graphic design students.

Levin is an artist/engineer interested in the exploration of new modes of reactive expression.

His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound as part of a more general inquiry into formal languages of interactivity and nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts and virtual environments, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity.

“My work represents a personal inquiry into abstract communications protocols,” Levin writes in an artist statement. “In my process, I create new communications systems to explore such protocols and then employ these systems in artworks which strive to be both demonstrative yet sublime.”

Levin received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory where he studied in the aesthetics and computation group.

By Golan Levin Between degrees he worked for four years as an interaction designer and research scientist at Interval Research Corporation. Now, Levin is associate professor of electronic time-based art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the School of Computer Science and the School of Design. His work is represented by the Bitforms Gallery, New York City.

The 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, call 797-7373.

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Don’t miss the award-winning ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ EFORE “HIGH B School Musical” and before “Grease,” there was “Bye Bye Bird-

ie.” 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.

Photo by Carol Rosegg, 2008

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All mixed up ‘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

he Unicorn Children’s Theatre will present its next pillow show production, “Half a King Is Better than None,” at 2 p.m. every Saturday in April at the Bullen Center. Admission is $2 and the show runs around 20 minutes. The play is a funny tale of a storybook kingdom far, far away. The depressed king learns, through the help of his faithful, happy queen and court, how to be as happy as a child.

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 your poetry fix at the 9th annual Poetry at Three reading OETRY AT THREE, A P long-standing Cache Valley writers’ group, will present its ninth annual reading at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 9, at True Aggie Café, 117 N. Main, Logan. The reading will be held in conjunction with Helicon West, a popular open-reading/featured-readers series. All creative writers are invited to share up to 7 minutes of original work at the open microphone session following the featured reading.

Audiences of Poetry at Three can expect eclectic mixes of narrative theme: “Little Red Riding Hood” from the wolf’s perspective, variations on skiing the Beav, parents disconnecting grown children from cell-phone dependency, humorous tributes

to aging pets and more.

According to spokesperson Star Coulbrooke, the group started in the mid-1990s when students who studied with the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah, began to meet outside of class to critique each other’s writing. Their public readings began as a way to honor Poetry Month and to showcase new work.

Current group members include Coulbrooke, Shanan Ballam, Brock Dethier, Carrie Farmer, Cynthia Nordgren, Susan Nyikos, Phil Parisi, Julie Robertson and Anne Shifrer. Their poems are published in chapbooks and anthologies by various presses and in journals such as Indiana Review and Poetry Now.

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.

2009 Van Cliburn competitor wraps up Wassermann Festival HOSE ATTENDING T the final offering at Utah State University’s Was-

A collection of poems, “Poetry at Three: Volume 7,” will be available for purchase at the reading. For more information, e-mail star.coulbrooke@usu.edu.

sermann Festival will get a preview of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition via the recital talents of Stephen Beus.

The final performer at the 2009 Wassermann Festival, Beus will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in USU’s Manon Caine Russell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall. Tickets are available through the Caine School of the Arts Box Office, 797-8022, or online, http://csaboxoffice.usu.edu.

Reserved seating is $15 and student tickets are $7.50.

Beus is one of 30 competitors selected for the Van CliBeus burn Competition, an event among the most respected competitions in the world. His Wassermann program reflects the repertoire he will perform at the Van Cliburn in Texas this summer.

For information, contact Dennis Hirst at 797-3257.

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HE MADWOMAN of Chaillot,” directed by Lee Daily, will play April 9-11 and 15-18 at the Morgan Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University. Tickets are $13 for the public and free to USU students, and are available by calling the Caine School of the Arts Box Office (797-8022), visiting the box office online (http://boxoffice.usu.edu) or at the door.

The play opens with a financial meeting between the corrupt president of a new corporation, the ignorant figurehead who has lent his prestige to the corporation and the president’s financier who has generated massive profits for them by manipulating the corporation’s stock price through false press releases.

Enter Aurelia, the Madwoman of Chaillot. Her outrageous dress instantly marks her as someone out of step with society, and her behavior completes the picture.

She lives in a dream world where people are good and charitable and she assumes everyone else lives there, too. Aurelia has many followers, mostly among the outcast poor — because they prefer the illusion of her world to the reality of theirs. It is up to the Madwoman and the common masses to overthrow these evil forces.

The play presents the question of whether Aurelia is mad for not recognizing the reality around her or whether it is the world itself that has gone mad, said Daily.

“Although this play was written in the aftermath of World War II in Paris, it still resonates with our situation in America today and is told through the eyes of exaggerated characters with absurd yet poignant dialogue,” he said. “It will be an intellectual and visual treat.”

For information about the pro- From left: Aubrey Campbell as Madame Gabrielle, Felicia Stehmeier as Countess Aurelia and Leslie Aldridge as Madame Constance. duction, call 797-3046.

Concert at USU marks last for faculty member, director HE UTAH STATE T University Percussion Ensembles and the Caine Percussion

Ensemble will perform for the last time under the direction of Dennis Griffin, percussion faculty in USU’s department of music and the Caine School of the Arts, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 6, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $5 or free to USU students with ID and are available at the CSA Box Office by calling 797-8022, online at http://boxoffice.usu.edu or at the door.

Griffin, a longtime faculty member in the music department and percussion specialist, will retire in June following 36 years of service at USU. The Caine Percussion Ensemble, an auditioned scholarship group, will open the concert with Thomas Gauger’s “Gainsborough” and Mark Ford’s “Stubernic.” The latter features three players on a single marimba.

The USU Percussion Ensemble, which includes 15 auditioned students, will play four concertos with a wide range of instruments, promising a full musical experience while being melodic and harmonic,

Griffin said. One of the concertos is composed by student Ty Whitesides who, with fellow student Robin Peterson, was invited to play in the “Salute to Youth” concert with the Utah Symphony Orchestra. Whitesides and Peterson will also be featured in this concert.

“The most rewarding aspect of my tenure at USU has been my association with so many really terrific students,” Griffin said. “Our concert will showcase the talents of several current students who typify Griffin the best that the percussion studio has produced. I am personally very proud of these students and how their accomplishments reflect back on what so many other percussionists have achieved at USU.” In addition to his duties as director, Griffin will also perform on the concert program. He will be featured on timpani in a three-movement piece composed by Whitesides especially for the final concert.

Help raise awareness during Child Abuse Prevention Month Child Abuse Prevention Month activities include: • 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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Beware: There’s a madwoman coming to town

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Film New this week “Fast & Furious” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 Noise, noise, noise.

Crunched metal and shattered glass. More noise. Revving engines. Vin Diesel’s giant head.

Hot chicks in tight miniskirts.

Even more noise. The end.

That’s pretty all much there is to “Fast & Furious,” essentially a remake of the 2001 hit “The Fast and the Furious” with the same cast, except it seems to exist in some parallel universe where the word “the” no longer exists. It also seems to function outside of logic, cohesive plot structure and the laws of gravity, but hey — this being the fourth film in the street racing series, such niceties have long since been tossed out the widow and run over repeatedly.

Justin Lin, who also directed part three, 2006’s “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” piles on the mind-bogglingly elaborate chase scenes and set pieces.

But you’ve seen a lot of these sorts of stunts in the previous movies — and heard the same kind of cheesy dialogue — so it’s strange to witness how seriously “Fast & Furious” takes itself, like it’s reinventing the wheel or something. Snarling bad guys, women who pout beautifully and, of course, a wide array of brightly hued, wildly souped-up cars — but not an ounce of creativity or grace. Diesel’s fugitive excon Dom Toretto is back in Los Angeles and out for revenge. He reluctantly re-teams with former undercover cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) to take down a drug dealer who’s behind a murder. Their strategy leads them to a series of ridiculously illegal races, which make the streets of Los Angeles more dangerous to drive on than usual. PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual content, language and drug references. 107 min.

Still playing “The Haunting in Connecticut” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 The dead are angry, which manifests itself in the usual ways. Creaking floorboards, slamming doors, flickering lights

“Two Lovers” Rated R ★★1⁄2 If this truly is Joaquin Phoenix’s last film — if he really plans to walk away from an acclaimed, eclectic acting career that’s included two Oscar nominations to become a rapper — he’s ending it all with a whimper rather than a bang. The romantic drama from director and co-writer James Gray, who previously directed Phoenix in “The Yards” and “We Own the Night,” seems intentionally devoid of any sort of driving arc, of any bursts of life or great emotional epiphanies. It’s more like a somber, subtly observed series of moments which conclude with a resigned shrug. There seems to be a slightly percolating tension throughout that eventually gives way to ... not much of anything. Having said that, Gray draws intense, believable performances from Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow as he shifts away from the crime dramas on which he’s made his name. Phoenix stars as Leon— 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 based-on-atrue-story origins, “Amityville Horror”-style. Virginia Madsen, returning to trashy terror following her Oscar-nominated 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 (Robert Pattinson look-alike Kyle Gallner), has been receiving cancer treatments. Turns out the place used to be a funeral home, where all kinds of graphic, grody stuff was done to the corpses.

(No wonder the rent was so cheap, Sara muses for an uncomfortable laugh.) Working from a script by Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe, Cornwell telegraphs too many of his scares — you know when you see a

New this week at the Art Cinema! ard Kraditor, a bipolar thirtysomething who’s back at home with his supportive Jewish parents (Moni Monoshov and Isabella Rossellini) in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn after a failed engagement inspired him to attempt suicide. He works part time at his father’s dry cleaners but has halfhearted aspirations to becoming a photographer. Around this time, two women come into his life: mirror that some apparition will show up — and the others are so repetitive, it’s impossible not to see them coming. Elias Koteas brings some understated substance, though, in the obligatory role of the priest who tries to rid the house of its pent-up spirits. PG-13 for some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images. 92 min.

Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the daughter of the family that’s buying his father’s business, and Michelle (Paltrow), who recently moved into an apartment upstairs. Sandra is sweet and reliable, and she wants to take care of him; Michelle is a sexy and dangerous shiksa goddess who shares his appetite for self-destruction. R for language, some sexuality and brief drug use. 108 min.

“Monsters vs. Aliens” Rated PG ★★1⁄2 Classic creatures from the 1950s get a high-tech makeover, with a healthy amount of attitude, in this 3-D animated adventure. The Blob, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Fly — they’re are all here, led by The 50-Foot Woman, who’s now 49 feet, 11 inches as

voiced by the diminutive Reese Witherspoon. (Animation, by the way, is a great fit for her, and for both the crispness and sweetness in her voice.) Far from being menacing, they’re optimistic misfits who just want to be loved and understood.

Rather than destroying each other, they’re loyal friends who’ve been trapped together as government test subjects, only to be unleashed on the world when an alien invasion requires their unique powers. It’s an enormously clever concept — no pun intended — with a choice voice cast. Who else but Seth Rogen could play a lovable blue blob named B.O.B., who always has a smile on his gelatinous face?

Will Arnett essentially revives his hilariously cocky-but-clueless “Arrested Development” character, Gob Bluth II, as the half-fish, half-ape Missing Link, and Hugh Laurie lends his rich voice to the British mad scientist Dr. Cockroach. Directors Rob Letterman (“Shark Tale”) and Conrad Vernon (“Shrek 2”), working from a script from about a half-dozen people, maintain a high energy throughout, although the explosive climax feels bombastic and repetitive. While bright and colorful, the three-dimensional effects in these situations never really inspire a sense of awe. Rather, they provide a tangible sense of depth but fall short of completely immersing you. PG for sci-fi action, some crude humor and mild language. 94 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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N THE SURFACE, “Adventureland,” director Greg Mottola’s follow-up to his hit “Superbad,” looks like another good-time, raunchy romp. And it certainly has healthy amounts of partying and pranks to go along with its gross-out gags.

The 1987 amusement-park setting also allows Mottola to revel in dead-on period kitsch, from acid-washed jeans and teased-up bangs to the absurdly annoying strains of Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus,” which repeatedly blares over the loud speakers. (He wrote the script based on his own experiences working at a Long Island theme park while at Columbia University in the late ’80s; two decades later, he’s clearly still traumatized, and understandably so.)

But “Adventureland” has more on its mind — and its heart — than that, as its collegeage characters struggle to figure out who they are and what they want in a time of flux.

Mottola seems to be aiming for that John Hughes style of comedy: the kind that starts out with light laughs but ends up in analytical angst. He doesn’t always find the right tone in trying to cover such varied terrain, but you have to admire him for trying to inject some substance into what can be a predictably mindless genre.

Standing in as the Mottola figure is Jesse Eisenberg as recent college graduate James Brennan, who had been planning on a summer in Europe before heading to grad school.

Instead, he ends up moving back home to Pittsburgh to live with his parents and working at the thoroughly mediocre Adventureland theme park.

His job in the games department (he would have preferred operating the rides) requires him

Aisle Seat

By The Associated Press

★★ 1/2

“Adventureland” Rated R taste in music, is a mystery. But one of the realistic touches in Mottola’s film is the importance of poignant tunes in its characters’ lives, with a soundtrack that features The Replacements, Husker Du and Lou Reed.

Ryan Reynolds refreshingly co-stars as a bad guy, for once: a married musician who has trysts with his girlfriends in the

to act enthusiastic about peddling schlocky prizes, although he learns pretty quickly that screwing with the clientele is a favorite activity of the park’s veteran employees. This is also a chief source of laughs in the early going, and it gives the film a buoyant energy until it turns heavier and darker. (Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig are underused as the overzealous married couple who run the place.)

Eisenberg plays the same awkward but quick-witted underdog we’ve seen in previous films like “The Squid and the Whale,” but at least that guy is brainy and likable. He shares amusing intellectual banter with Martin Starr as Joel, the pipe-smoking Russian literature expert, as well as a ridiculous romance with Lisa P. (Margarita Levieva), the hottest girl at the park.

Kristen Stewart, meanwhile, merely has her typical sullen expression and low-key delivery as Em, the well-off NYU student who’s only working at

Adventureland to get away from her family. What James sees in her, besides her impeccable

basement of his mother’s house.

But Mottola seems more comfortable with the comedy than he does with the sort of drama that Reynolds’ character introduces; such moments weigh down the film rather than provide it with gravitas.

It’s like he’s chosen the right song, but it just isn’t always in tune.

“Adventureland,” a Miramax Films release, is rated R for language, drug use and sexual references. Running time: 107 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

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‘Adventureland’ has its ups and downs

Now on display at USU’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, “The Distinguished Alumni Exhibition: The Next Century” features work by seven USU alumni and is the final event in a year-long celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of the university’s department of art

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Photos by Eli Lucero

Above: Artist Abbigail Knowlton-Israelsen holds her daughter, Freya, while looking at an acrylic drawing by Jon Rappleye during the opening of an alumni art exhibit at USU. Below: Photographer Steve Smith looks at other pieces of work during the reception.

alleries from Germany to Japan have shown the work of Utah State University’s alumni in the arts. Customers from Disney to Micron have hired the ingenuity.

Now it’s USU’s turn to show off a few of its protégés — through a special show called “The Distinguished Alumni Exhibition: The Next Century.”

The show, which runs through April 23 at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, was assembled by another “distinguished alumna,” Heather Ferrell, now executive director of the Salt Lake Art Center, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Utah State University’s art department.

For the current show, USU faculty in various disciplines chose seven graduates of the university they considered most distinguished, said Carolyn Cardenas, head of the art department. All the former students allowed the university to show their work.

Ferrell, who started her career as an intern at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum before she

graduated in 1994, said the months she spent putting the show together helped her get a larger sense of the program.

“All of these artists, basically, are scattered all over the country, except for the one who is from here in Utah,” she said, “but if you look at their resumés all have had national exposure in some degree or another ... Some are emerging, like Abbigail (Knowlton-Israelsen), and some are very established, like Steven Smith.”

Steven B. Smith, who currently teaches photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, said he’s interested in how people try and live next to nature. His photography shows workers sandblasting rocks and large machinery cutting roads into the landscape.

“I’m a little embarrassed to be chosen, but it’s a great excuse to come back,” said the graduate of 1986 at the opening reception.

Smith, who said he has nothing but happy memories of his time in Logan, afterwards attended Yale and then moved to California where he continued developing his photography.

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noisseurs of creative work who attended the opening reception were Logan residents Geraldine Niederhauser and Judy Christiansen. Both have known some of the artists over the years through their sons who took arts classes at USU. In addition, Niederhauser is Ferrell’s former mother-in-law and said Ferrell’s still a good friend.

“You know what’s interesting?” asked Niederhauser. “We’ve seen where these students have come from. We’ve seen Jon Rappleye’s work when he was here as a student and now this is a whole new (evolution of his ideas).”

The alumni show is hung in a new project space devoted to the work of faculty and students at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. On April 23, the last day of the exhibit, the art department will kick off a new Web site and graphic design and animation students will show a documentary they’ve worked on for the last year depicting the last hundred years and looking forward to the next.

The department has planned

many other changes. It’s raised nearly $100,000 toward a new museum called Studio 102, where students and faculty can display experimental work, curate shows and bring in first-class exhibitions. On the corner of 700 North and 1200 East, the gallery is expected to have windows that allow passers-by to see inside at night.

In addition, September will mark the beginning of the Crossing Boundaries program, which will involve collaborative creative efforts between USU departments.

The first will focus on stories of growing up in captivity, including those who lived during South African apartheid and in Japanese internment camps.

“I think this past year was really a wonderful investigation (of our history) from 1908 forward, from the days it was the agricultural state college until these folks who started the program handed it off, basically from generation to generation,” said Cardenas. “At one point there was a new building, at another an extraordinary travelabroad program.”

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Story by Karen Lambert Photos: (1) By Jon Rappleye: “Tree of Life” — 2008 — acrylic on paper; (2) By Abbigail Knowlton-Israelsen: “Ute” — 2008 — graphite, pen, ink and watercolor pencils; (3) By Scott Rockwood: “Just Because You Were Born” — Jackson Hole Resort — 1998 — singlepage magazine ad; (4) By Brad Schwieger: “Split Vase” — 2008 — soda-fired stoneware, wheel-thrown and altered, press molded, nichrome wire, multiple slips and glazes; (5) By Abbigail KnowltonIsraelsen: “Sea Serpents” — 2008 — ink and graphite pen

Slightly Off Center

By Dennis Hinkamp

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IGH ON THE LIST of things we should probably stop saying is “every life is sacred.” Similar to “clean coal” and “easy weight loss,” it is something that has no address on Reality Street.

If we really believed every life was sacred, the national speed limit would be 25 and cars would not just contain airbags, they would become an airbag upon collision and just gently bounce around in traffic. We would completely ban cigarettes, obese people would go into lockdown until they reached a healthy weight-to-height ratio and all bullets would be made out of marshmallow.

I’m sure right now you’re saying, “Dennis, you’re crazy; you can’t make people drive slow, eat well and arm themselves

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with soft, tasty bullets.” Well, I may or may not be personally crazy but almost everything sounds crazy on the margins.

It works like this: If I suggest a 25-mph highway speed limit, that sounds crazy because we have become accustomed to 60 to 80 mph and a cheating 5 to 10 mph on top of that. If I were to say the national highway speed limit should be 150 mph, you’d also say, “Dennis you’re crazy.”

Likewise, you’d label me the village idiot if I said we should let people start smoking cigarettes at age 5 and hand them out for Halloween; we should give tax incentives to supersize yourself; and legalize assault weapon target practice in your backyard.

The point is that everything sounds crazy on the lower and upper margins. If I proposed

a national speed limit of 50 mph or 90 mph, fewer people would think I was crazy and many would even support those numbers. Because of this phenomenon, we have learned to live with, even legislate, an acceptable amount of death and mayhem.

We don’t ban cigarettes but we make it expensive and inconvenient. We hate obesity in advertisements but we promote it in the drive-through food troughs.

It’s also OK to have a concealed weapon as long as you’ve taken a course on how to properly use it when you un-conceal it. So, is every life really sacred? Probably not. Our own personal life clocks are ticking and we need to get places and we would be embarrassed to drive cars that looked like carnival bumper

cars. Inhaling smoke from burning objects, eating deep-fried bacon rolled in cheese and arming the local militia are all part of our lifestyle.

Sure, personal freedoms play into these decisions. I’m not sure where, but probably in that pursuit of happiness that seems to always win in the rock, paper, scissors game with life and liberty.

Dennis Hinkamp is not a communist, socialist or on any other list of “ists.” 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. He is not an employee of the newspaper. Feedback at dhinkamp@ msn.com.

By Kim Robinson

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Everything is crazy on the margins

“Killer Bees: Facts, Not Fear” by Ron Jacques

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by Gre g Lam In Mem b or

A few years ago I had my first encounter with killer bees while traveling in Belize. I had read about them but I y of Gr was not prepared for an up-close-and-personal encounter with them.

Sept. 2 eg Lam 5, 1979 Africanized bees were introduced in Brazil in 1957. They spread from Brazil through South and Central b – A F reedom America until reaching the U.S. by the 1990s. Africanized bees defend their hives more aggressively with largug. 12 , th , e 2 W blood, 008 hat our er numbers and over a greater distance from their hive than domestic bees. Their venom is no more potent the an than a normal honeybee.

The wo cestors foug tears, the de ligh ht rld Keep it A small group of tourists had just finished visiting an out-of-the-way archeological sight. We had wanall in m they’ve give for, day and n t n to me y thoug ig dered around the buildings and walked around the obligatory ball court. We even managed to discover an ht; it’s th I know ht Take impromptu marketplace. As I was examining the outdoor museum I noticed a few children standing around Would life, minus a e best way to show y ll the displays. I was immediately drawn to their gentle, pouty, brown eyes. As I was trying to slowly bridge If not fo ou stand, giv our rights e r a th ll , e Ta a fu the non-verbal cultural gap with one sweet Mayan girl I was distracted by a stranger from another tour Freedo ke life a day ture, do it fo nd fight? m to m r the pa at a tim group. He was waving his arms, running around the artifacts and shouting for help. The children remained e e st is the , it is Take th motionless. I started to make a hasty retreat. As I made a beeline to our bread loaf-shaped mini-bus I felt at awa lakes and m gone so fast y, there ountain a burning sting on my forehead, just below the hairline. I had been bitten by two insects — KILLER BEES! Ma They ju ny don’t reali is no Freedo s I love to see African bees are attracted to noises and vibrations. They are attracted to dark clothing and floral or m ze wha st see t they’v for me!

Remem what is ther citrus perfumes and aftershaves. They usually target the head. They range up to a quarter mile from their e got e b , but er a The Fr hive and stay disturbed for up to 24 hours. They usually attack relentlessly and in large numbers. eedom lways, that’s not what is n a ot you ha I was soon joined inside the mini-bus by my fellow travelers. Our guide was laughing at my injuries. ve, eve ll I can say * Every ry sing day we He told us we had done the right thing by climbing inside the bus as quickly as we did. He told us we le day. foundin need to were attracting too much attention during our escape. He continued chiding us for our improper conduct. thank G freedom g fathers wh o d fo o . r gave u We h He pointed out how the children were almost frozen in place. Since they had no place to escape they the p bless a ave been ble s the gifts of atriots and were trying to become invisible. We sarcastically thanked him for teaching us after the fact rather than ssed w liberty ll of yo it a u who when it would have been more helpful. We only seemed to make his life happier. However, his attitude believe h the Constitu nd in Free tion; changed completely when I told him that, as a child, I had experienced allergic reactions to a bee sting. dom.

Experts recommend that when Africanized bees are detected to leave the area and seek shelter immediately.

You might notice a few bees at first but others will soon follow. Don’t swat at the bees but run in a zig-zag pattern.

Stay out of water; they will only wait for you. There are expensive sprays available but there are better strategies for avoiding contact with the bees. Don’t experiment with the effectiveness of these other remedies. Seek shelter immediately and without a lot of fanfare.

We were four hours from any medical assistance. If still allergic I had less than an hour to say good-bye to my wife and our newfound friends. I quickly washed down some Benadryl, hoping it would provide some relief. I told my wife that a side effect of the medicine was drowsiness and the dosage would certainly put me to sleep.

My head gently bounced on her shoulder as the van careened down the dirt road to an unnecessary destination. If I needed medical help it was too far away and help would be too late. If I didn’t need assistance we were headed in the wrong direction. We wouldn’t need any medical help. But no one was complaining.

Africanized bees’ venom is no more potent than normal honeybees. Allergic reactions are the same from any Mayan Village in Belize bee. It is best to remove the stinger by scraping it, not pinching or squeezing it. If stung, place ice or a cold wet cloth on the area. Treat it as you would any bee sting. Antihistamines like Benadryl or Chlor-trimeton can be effective for those with minor reactions to the bee venom. Hydrocortisone or calamine lotion can be helpful for itching or localized irritation.

This story has a happy ending — I AM writing this story! After a few anxious minutes my wife awakened me from my pretended sleep by nervously asking me how I was feeling. I imitated some choking, gagging and heavy breathing sounds as I collapsed into her lap. I then turned toward her frightened face with a big smile and a playful wink.

The entire van erupted in disbelief. They were ready to toss me toward the closest killer beehive and leave me by the side of the road. How could I tease them in such a cruel way? My wife calmed them by amusing everyone with stories about me and other tricks I had pulled over the years. I then promised to buy them all a treat when we reached civilization. I then surrendered myself to the quiet protection and comfort of the Benadryl for the rest of our trip.

Anyone with allergies of any kind should discuss with a doctor the possibility of adding an EpiPen (a small, easy-to-use injection of epinephrine) to their first-aid travel kit.

“Time” by Norma Niederhauser Time passes very quickly As though it was on wings It has a way of storing up The happiness it brings.

Time also stores the memories Of sorrows long ago.

It heals the wounds of sadness So they shall never show.

Time has a way of keeping things Forever in your heart.

These things are countless treasures So from you they never part.

Time is found in wrinkles In a person bent with age.

It gently closes tired eyes At the end of one’s last days.

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Books

Future is bright for new author Becca Wilhite “Bright Blue Miracle” by Becca Wilhite (Shadow Mountain, 2008, $12.95)

Regional Reads

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T IS ALWAYS exciting when a new author comes to my attention, especially when the future looks as bright as it does for Utah writer Becca Wilhite.

If “Bright Blue Miracle” is an accurate barometer, we will be seeing a lot of her work — hopefully soon. This book will appeal to tween and teen girls and even their mothers and grandmothers.

A good storyline and a heroine whose feet are solidly planted on terra firma (at least most of the time) makes for a book I’m happy to pass along to nieces and granddaughters.

Leigh Mason is 17, the oldest in her family, and not quite ready to accept the man — or any man for that matter — her mother has just announced she will soon be marrying. When Mom calls a family council to announce her news, Leigh, never shy about expressing herself, decides, “I could not keep it in any longer.

If I didn’t speak now, I would

By Charlene Hirschi

definitely regret it. Or throw up. Or both. ‘But isn’t loving someone — or lots of someones — also a good reason to avoid some things? Like wrecking our lives? Like throwing their happiness in the toilet? Like setting them up for rejection and adding totally needless complication to their families?’”

As if that weren’t bad enough, he comes with the added baggage of a step-sister for Leigh, and guess who will not only have to share her mother with this new rival, but also her bedroom? The girls get off to a rocky start and it doesn’t help that Leigh can’t really find any

fault with Betsy — except the fact that she exists at all.

But the final straw for Leigh is when her best friend, who has been her buddy since grade school — and just happens to be a boy — is smitten with Betsy. Realizing she is treading on thin ice and wanting to bond with Leigh, Betsy seeks her approval. Like even! This

development just adds insult to injury as Leigh continues her pity party with a vengeance.

As Leigh stood by her bedroom window she heard noises coming from the front porch.

There was “a man silhouetted in the porch light. ... But the voice I heard wasn’t his. It was much too high and light, with too much sighing, and possibly a giggle. Conspicuously girlie — so the guy on the porch wasn’t alone. I had that uncomfortable foreboding you get in nightmares when you know someone is going to get hurt, and the distinct impression that it was going to be me.”

Still struggling to avoid a relationship with Betsy but promising her mother she would try, the two are invited to spend time with “Grammy” in Oklahoma. “She adored me.

She liked the twins, of course, everyone liked the twins. But she had a special place in her enormous heart carved out just for me.” So now she has to share Grammy with Betsy too?

What more can happen?

Of course it is Grammy and

softened hearts that create the miracle referred to in the title.

Blue toenails and what else awaits Leigh in Oklahoma? The author confesses that “‘Bright Blue Miracle’ doesn’t retell my family’s story. That story would be far too strange for fiction.

But my friendship with my sister provides the basis for the relationships in the book.”

I’m not going to spoil the ending, but trust me, you will like it.

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What else I’m reading: Just finished Luanne Rice’s “Dream Country.” It’s been out a while, but it is a real winner. More on this book and author are coming soon to my Web site, www. charlenehirschi.com.

Book critic Charlene Hirschi holds her master’s in English from Utah State University. She 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.

Authors, readers and editors are invited to visit www.charlene hirschi.com.

‘How Lincoln Learned to Read’: Daniel Wolff examines the lives of 12 Americans and the educations that made them

By The Christian Science Monitor

OULDN’T IT BE W great if we could realize — early in life — what we

needed to know in order to be successful? Or, more important, to make a positive difference in human affairs?

Since that’s impossible, maybe the more relevant question is: How do we make the best use of our upbringing and education?

Extraordinary Americans, history shows, have been “educated” in many different ways.

And here, we’re not talking just (or even mainly) about

book-learning. For much of our history, formal education as we think of it today has been available to relatively few.

In “How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education that Made Them,” Daniel Wolff looks at a dozen people ranging chronologically from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley, examining each one’s early life. His working premise is the one posed in “The Education of Henry Adams” a century ago: “What part of education has … turned out to be useful and what not.”

This is a terrific book.

It’s compact (25 pages or so

per individual) but rich and thought-provoking.

It draws heavily on each character’s own writing, mainly letters and diaries. It gave me new insights into great Americans I thought I knew pretty well, and it taught me much about those I’d barely heard of before.

Broad in scope, peppered with detail, insightful, it could be the basis for a classroom or book club review of American history from our founding as a nation through the 20th century.

Between Ben Franklin and Elvis, Wolff also examines Abigail Adams, Andrew Jackson, Sojourner Truth, Sarah

Winnemucca, Henry Ford, W.E.B. DuBois, Helen Keller, Rachel Carson and John F. Kennedy.

“Whatever the particular circumstances, an American education is going to bear the marks of rebellion,” Wolff writes, provocatively. With these 12 leading the way (and at a time when the early-life lessons of a new barrier-breaking U.S. president have been examined in detail) that’s very worth considering. And it left me wondering what Wolff could have done with Oprah or Bill Gates or Yo-Yo Ma. How about a sequel?

“How Lincoln Learned to Read” By Daniel Wolff Bloomsbury (352 pp., $26)

It must be spring ...

Sarah Sample coming to Crumb Brothers

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Because Baby Animal Days are at the AWHC!

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NE OF NORTHERN Utah’s most beloved and popular events, Baby Animal Days, will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 9, 10 and 11 at the American West Heritage Center. Members of the AWHC will have access to the Jensen Historical Farm starting at 9:30 a.m. and two “Animals Only” days will be provided for animal interaction without the festival activities (and for a reduced cost), from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 18 and 25.

This annual festival highlights the coming of spring and all the baby animals that come with it. It is not unusual at the event to witness children both small and tall, young and old, snuggling with one of the largest collections of baby animals in the West.

Baby Animal Days also serves as a major fundraiser for the American West Heritage Center, a non-profit organization devoted to preserving and celebrating the heritage of the region. Funds derived from the event go to supporting school programs, exhibits and other vital educational activities.

This year Baby Animal Days will feature special guest Mark

Walton, a Disney animator and the voice of Rhino the Hamster in the recent movie “Bolt.” Walton will be signing posters and autographs, chatting with fans and giving workshops on drawing and animating animals.

Many favorite activities will be returning to the festival this year, including pony rides, the Easter Bunny, wagon rides, living history demonstrations, animal demonstrations and shows, Turtle Town and more. While most animals at Baby Animal Days are cute and cuddly (and traditional) farm animals, some are a bit more unusual, such as giant scorpions and millipedes and reptiles from around the world.

Also operating will be the Heritage Center’s main historic venues: the 1917 Jensen Historical Farm, Pioneer Settlement, Mountain Man and Shoshone encampments and Patch’s Woodwright Shoppe.

The Li’l Buckaroo Rodeo will also be returning with stick pony barrel racing, mutton bustin’ and a greased pole with money for the taking — if you can climb to the top. Parents can sign up their children ages 6-10 at the Heritage Center’s Rodeo Grounds for the

barrel racing and mutton bustin’ events. Prizes will be given to the winners in various categories.

Visiting presenters will also be featured each day of the event with animal shows and other spring-related subjects and entertainment. Sheep and rescue dog demonstrations, as well as presentations by Willow Park Zoo and performers, will take place on or near the event’s festival stage. This year, Susan Neidert, Utah’s own diva of puppetry, will present shows throughout the day.

Returning to the festival this year is the Heritage Center’s popular Treasure Hunt — a scavenger hunt for kids through history for candy and prizes. The theme for this year’s hunt is all about railroads in celebration of the quarter-sized train that will appear at the Heritage Center this June.

A variety of food vendors will be available at the event and vendors of hand-crafted and heritage items will also be on site. There will be a plethora of crafts available for kids and adults as well.

For more information about Baby Animal Days or any of the other upcoming events at the Heritage Center, visit www.awhc.org.

HE BRIDGER Folk Music 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 7573468. Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended.

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

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All mixed up

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USU students design prototypes for Skull Candy

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RAPHIC DESIGN STUDENTS at Utah State University recently created a product line for Skull Candy Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Park City that specializes in headphones, and pitched the designs to a panel of executives.

The design opportunity presented itself when Jeremiah Murray, a senior designer at Skull Candy and USU alum, approached a class of 20 USU students about developing prototypes for the company, said Robert Winward, the students’ graphic design professor at USU. Each student designed a prototype of the new TI headphones then carried through the design onto a wallet, belt and hat. After creating the prototypes, all the

students were able to present their designs to the company’s president, creative director and senior designers in hopes they’d be chosen for the 2010-11 product line.

“Working with a high-profile corporation is an amazing resumé entry,” Winward said. “It tells a future employer that a student has solved an ambitious and rigorous ‘real’ problem — not to mention

the ‘cool’ factor of working with a designfocused company like Skull Candy.”

Kellyn Bailey, a student involved in the project, said more often than not, her classes revolve around fictional clients and twodimensional products. However, the Skull Candy project allowed her the opportunity to design a product for a real client then pitch the idea to the company’s big-wigs, an experience she said most graphic design students cannot say they’ve had.

“This project will be something different in my portfolio that other people don’t have,” Bailey said. “The hands-on experience makes me more versatile and gives me an edge when I graduate and begin applying for jobs.”

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Answers from last week

Friday Stokes Nature Center will host Parent Tot Nature Hour from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday. All kids must have a parent pal present. Cost is $3 ($2.50 for SNC members). To register, call 755-3239.

An India Bangalore and New Delhi Missionary Reunion for missionaries who served in India will take place at 6:30 p.m.

Friday at 6364 S. 3200 West in West Jordan.

Spouses and children are welcome. To ensure plenty of food, please RSVP to JobCyril@ hotmail.com or call 760-0200. For more information, visit www.indiabma.com.

The Hyrum Senior Center (675 E. Main) will serve lunch at noon and play bingo at 12:30 on Friday. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call before 10 a.m. to reserve your spot for lunch.

Alex Tarbet will play live music from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave., Logan. For more information, call 752-4777.

Cubworld will perform with TEKI, Kimo Watanabe and Reed (acoustic) at 8 p.m.

Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave., Logan. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

Rob Watson will perform live music at 7 p.m. and Robert Hamlin 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.

The Logan Institute and Cache Special Needs Mutual will host a spring dance from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Friday at the Willow Valley Church, 825 N. 200 West, Logan.

Saturday Melody will perform with Tyler Forsberg and The Champion Theory at 8 p.m.

Saturday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

The premier “Doggy Dash” 5K walk/run to benefit Four Paws Rescue will start at 10 a.m. Saturday on the southeast side of the HPER building. Registration will be open from 9 to 9:45 a.m.; entry fee is $5. Leashed dogs are welcome to race with their owners in a separate category. There will be prizes. For more information, call 307-689-0985.

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

All ages are invited to join Stokes Nature Center naturalists from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday for a hiking/driving tour of Cache Valley’s wetlands. Cost is $6 ($5 for SNC members). To register, call 755-3239.

Author D. Darlene Sonntag will be signing copies of her fiction book, “Dastardly Deceptions,” from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Hastings, 50 E. 400 North, Logan. For more information, contact Traci at 888-361-9473.

A youth soccer clinic will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the USA Sports Arena, 3985 N. 75 West, Hyde Park. This

clinic is for kids ages 5-12. Limited number of participants; reserve your spot by e-mailing beaner@xmission.com or calling/texting 8908052. Cost is $10 per child ($8 if registered

by April 3).

The World of Puppetry Museum will be open from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West. Free activities include puppet history tours and demonstrations, puppet making and puppet play, a “Punch & Judy” show at 3 p.m. and puppet storytime at 4 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are accepted.

Logan Firefighters Local 2148 and 1-800BOARDUP will present the premier “Fill the Boot” trap shoot Saturday at the Cache Valley Public Shooting Range, 2851 W. Valley View Highway. Games for adult and youth divisions will begin at 9 a.m. Cost is $5 per round with a 50 percent payback. All proceeds will be donated to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Lunch and drinks will be available for purchase. For more information, contact Earl at 753-4600 or Rod at 757-1706.

Colleen Darley will perform live music at 7 p.m. and Katie Jo Nelson will perform at 8 p.m. for Ladies’ Night Out on Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza.

Classes begin Saturday at the Cache Guitar Institute under the direction of Corey and Mike Christiansen. Private lessons and group classes for all ages and abilities are available. For more information, call 797-3063.

The Spanish Learning Center (172 N. 300 West, Logan) sponsors “Conversations in Spanish” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. the first Saturday of every month. Everyone is welcome and participation is free of charge. For more information, call 787-4508.

Community Reading Time With Cats takes place at 1 p.m. every Saturday at the Cache Humane Society Shelter, 2370 W. 200 North, Logan. For more information, contact Lynda at lynda.cachehumane@hotmail.com.

wonders of nature with your family. There is no fee to participate. For more information, call 755-3239.

Bandolier will perform with Josh Dunford, Mike Barlow and The Orcas Fair Whale (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Monday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

Booklore Club’s Guest Day will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Cobblestone Club House, 445 N. Pine Grove Lane, Providence. There will be a luncheon and special program.

The Cache Valley Retired School Employees Association will meet at 1 p.m.

Monday at The Copper Mill Restaurant. Guest will be Jaime Gutierrez, who will be sharing a “taste of opera.” All retired school employees in the valley are invited. Reservations are necessary; contact Barbara at 753-1070.

Tuesday Why Sound will host USU Jazz Night with Jon Gudmundson featuring Byron Stripling at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Admission is $3.

A Macular Degeneration Support Group will meet at 10 a.m. and a Low Vision Support Group will meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main, Logan. For more information or to schedule transportation, contact Aimee at 753-5353.

The Cache Carvers Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Logan Senior Citizens Center, 236 N. 100 East. Neil Butterfield will instruct members and visitors on chip carving; materials will be provided. For more information, contact Butterfield at 752-8789.

Stephanie Skewes will show kids ages 414 how to make a great Easter sugar cookie at a free cooking and community class from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Kids will also learn about kitchen hygiene proper utensils to use and will roll out, bake and decorate their own cookie. Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and the Bridger Folk Music Society will host their “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, Logan. Beginners and families are welcome. A $5 donation is requested at the door.

The Bear River Tai Chi Chuan Society will be taking registration for spring quarter on Tuesday at the Whittier Community Center.

Beginning classes are held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, call 563-8272.

Sunday

Wednesday

The members of the Northern Chapter of ABATE (American Bikers Aiming Towards Education) will host their monthly meeting at noon Sunday at Ruby Tuesday’s. All motorcyclists ages 18 and older are invited.

A discussion on current events and legislation will take place at the John Birch Meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Book Table. For more information, call 753-8844.

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

Monday Stokes Nature Center will host Family Night from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday. Come enjoy free, family-oriented activities and explore the

The Shuttles will perform with Maine and The Orcas Fair Whale (indie/folk/pop) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

OPTIONS for Independence will go shopping at the Pepperidge Farm outlet then go for ice cream at Casper’s Malt Shop in Lewiston at 11 a.m. Wednesday. For more information, to sign up or to schedule transportation, contact Mandie at 753-5353.

The Fibromyalgia Support Group will present “Fibro-Friendly Exercises to Smile

About” from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. next Saturday in the Logan Regional Hospital Education Center, Room 1 or 5. Dress comfortably and bring a non-skid mat and drinking water. For more information, call 753-4148.

Lisa Clawson of Great Harvest will share recipes, ideas and stories at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301.

Austin Weyand will host a six-week guitar course for beginners ages 16 and older starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West. To register, call 435-452-2352; cost is $75 for all six classes. For more information, visit www. austinweyand.com.

The Logan Kiwanis Club will host an Easter program at its meeting at noon Wednesday at The Copper Mill Restaurant.

For more information, contact Curtis Roberts at 563-0618.

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

Utah State University Opera Theatre will present “La Rondine” at 7:30 p.m. April 8, 9, 10 and 11 at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center, Logan. Tickets are $13 general admission, $8 for seniors and free for all students with ID. To purchase tickets, visit the CSA Box Office on campus, online (http://boxoffice.usu. edu) or one hour before the performance.

Thursday Actress/writer Amy Marschak will present her one-person play, “An Angel Cried a Tear Last Night,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the TSC auditorium at USU. Students with current ID will be admitted free; all others must pay a $5 minimum donation to support the Women’s Resource Center Scholarship Fund.

Auditions for “Snoopy!” will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Saturday at the Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry.

This will be a group audition so please be on time. For more information, visit www.heritage theatreutah.com.

Folklorist Polly Stewart will present the 28th annual Fife Folklore Honor Lecture, “Urban Pioneers: The Folk-Music Revival in Utah, 1959-1966,” at noon Thursday in the USU Haight Alumni Center. The event is free and everyone is invited. For more information, contact Marina Hall at 797-3858.

Utah State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning will host the 2009 Sustainability Conference, “Sustainability: Inside & Out,” from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Eccles Conference Center at USU. For more information, call 797-0500.

The Utah Music Teacher’s Association’s Bridgerland Chapter will host Lynda Broadbent and “Tricks of the Trade” on Thursday. For more info, call 208-852-3390.

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