040717

Cache Magazine

SLIPPERY WHEN WET The Herald Journal

Beaver skiers and snowboarders wrap up the season with popular Pond Skim APRIL 7-13, 2017

contents

April 6-13, 2017

COVER 6 Brave boards and skiers take on the annual Pond Skim at Beaver Mountain

THE ARTS 3 Concerts set to return

to Cache Valley Cruise-In with Night Ranger June 30

4 AFCO to perform with

Morten Lauridsen April 15

4 Baby Animal Days set

for next week at AWHC

4 The HillBender to deliver bluegrass twist on ‘Tommy’

5 Alex Sharpe to sing at

the Tabernacle on April 15

5 Artists to be featured at the CVCA Gallery Walk 10 Folk singer Newcomer coming to Cache Valley

10 USU Dance Company hosting Spring Showcase

MOVIES 8 ‘Boss Baby’ ends reign of ‘Beauty and the Beast’

9 Freeman, Caine and

Arkin are ‘Going in Style’

CALENDAR 11 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley

Matt Logan of Nibley displays his Southern California surfing skills last Saturday afternoon during the annual Pond Skim event at Beaver Mountain Ski Area. On the cover: A daring ski-bike rider briefly attempts the Pond Skim. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR Depending on your age and/or musical tastes, the announcement last week that Night Ranger will be performing at this year’s Cache Valley Cruise-In was either regarded as big news or shrugged off with a “whatever.”

Being of a certain age — specifically one who can still recall slow dancing to “Sister Christian” at a stake dance (and, no, her name was not Christian) — I’m ready to welcome the boys from the Bay Area with open arms (and, yes, I realize that pronouncement would be more appropriate if we were talking about Journey).

But beyond that, I’m just thrilled to have a concert back at the Cruise-In, as

well as “name” musical group back in Cache Valley. Ever since I moved here in 1992, I’ve heard about concerts in the mid-’70s and ’80s that featured charttopping acts like Chicago, Van Halen, Alabama, the Dookie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, the Beach Boys and Neil Diamond.

But since I’ve been around, those types of events have been pretty much nonexistent in Logan, so it’s been really nice that the Cruise-In has brought in groups like Styx, REO Speedwagon and the Beach Boys (again), even if those bands are often on their last legs and no longer creating new music.

That said, Night Ranger has continued to record new albums long after most lost track and/or interest following their string of power ballad hits like “Sister Christian,” “When You Close Your Eyes,” “Sentimental Street” and “Goodbye.”

In fact, after I purchased Night Rang-

er’s latest CD “Don’t Let Up” on March 24, I couldn’t help but notice that the cover featured a Plymouth Barracuda, a Chevy Camaro and a Ford Mustang.

I thought, That could easily be used as a poster for the Cache Valley Cruise-In. And then I remembered suggesting to a Cruise-In higher-up at the REO Speedwagon show that Night Ranger would be a “perfect fit” for a future concert.

While it will end up taking three years from that time to get Night Ranger to Cache Valley, somehow it took only three days from the release of “Don’t Let Up” and that muscle car cover for the CruiseIn to make the announcement that Night Ranger will be here in June 30.

I just hope that the response will be good enough to continue to the Cruise-In concert tradition in the future.

— Jeff Hunter

Bay Area band coming to rock the Cruise-In

By Jeff Hunter staff writer

You can still rock in this part of America.

The Cache Valley Cruising Association announced on Thursday that after a two-summer hiatus, the annual Cache Valley Cruise-In will once again include a concert by a major musical act.

Night Ranger will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, June 30, at the Cache County Fairgrounds, marking the first time since a performance by REO Speedwagon in 2014 that the Cache Valley Cruise-In has hosted a concert.

“The reason we felt a need to bring back the concert was because people wanted it,” explained Brandon Douglas, a member of the Cache Valley Cruising Association committee.

“They asked for it. We started a tradition, and I think we should probably keep it around as long as people are willing to come out and support it.”

Tickets for the Night Ranger concert are on sale now at Lee’s Marketplace locations, as well as online at cachevalleycruisein.com and nightranger.com.

Ticket prices are $65 (floor front), $45 (floor middle) and $25 (floor back and bleachers). Special VIP packages are also available for $300 and $150.

Best known for the 1984 power ballad, “Sister Chris-

Photo courtesy of Night Ranger

Night Ranger will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, June 30, at the Cache Valley Cruise-In.

tian,” Night Ranger is celebrating their 35th anniversary this year and released their 12th studio album, “Don’t Let Up,” last week. Ironically enough, the cover of “Don’t Let Up” features several vintage muscle cars, not unlike the vehicles annually on dis-

play at the Cruise-In. “Another big reason I felt we needed them to come this year is because both the Cache Valley Cruise-In and Night Ranger are celebrating their 35th year anniversary.

So, we may as well celebrate it together,” Douglas said. “I

saw Night Ranger in Ogden back in 2002, and it was by far the best concert I have ever been to. People who come out to the show are going to have a great, great night.”

Founded in the Bay Area in 1982, Night Ranger currently

includes original members Jack Blades (lead vocals, bass), Kelly Keagy (lead vocals, drums) and Brad Gillis (lead and rhythm guitars), as well as relative newcomers Eric Levy (keyboards) and Keri Kelli (lead and rhythm guitars).

In addition to “Sister Christian,” which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Top 40 chart, Night Ranger’s hit songs include “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me,” “(You Can Still) Rock in America,” “When You Close Your Eyes,” “Sentimental Street,” “Goodbye” and “The Secret of My Success” from the 1987 Michael J. Fox movie of the same name.

Overall, Night Ranger has sold more than 17 million albums and performed more than 3,000 shows.

REO Speedwagon was the last band to perform at the Cruise-In in 2014, following a variety of other musical acts including Styx, Pat Benatar, .38 Special, America, Three Dog Night and the Beach Boys.

The 2017 Cache Valley Cruise-In will be held June 29-30 and July 1 at the Cache County Fairgrounds. For more information, visit cachevalleycruisein.net.

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

Night Ranger to play Cache Valley

Page 3 -

ALL MIXED UP

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

Page 4 -

all mixed up AFCO hosting Morten Lauridsen For its final concert of the 2016-17 season, the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra will present “Lux Aeterna: The Choral Music of Morten Lauridsen” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 15, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets are $13 to $22; children ages 8 and older are welcome. For ticket information, call 752-0026 or visit

americanfestivalchorus.org.

Directed by Dr. Craig Jessop, AFCO will be joined by the USU Chamber Singers and their acclaimed conductor, Dr. Cory Evans, for this not-tobe-missed concert, which will showcase many of Lauridsen’s inspiring works.

The American Festival Chrous is excited to announce that Lauridsen will also be

joining them on stage for the performance.

“Morten Lauridsen is considered by many to be the musical mystic of our age,” Jessop said. “A quintessentially American composer of the 21st Century, he brings a fresh voice of spirituality and mysticism to everything he writes.

We are very fortunate to have him personally appear with

us on stage and to be a part of our concert honoring him and his great legacy of music.”

In addition to performing on Saturday night, Lauridsen will spend time on Friday giving master classes and working with choral and composition students from the USU Music Department.

See AFCO on Page 10

HillBenders to deliver ‘Tommy’ Band puts new twist on classic from The Who The HillBenders will present “Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets are $30; children 5-18 years old are 50 percent off and USU students are 25 percent off. Visit cachearts. org for tickets and additional information.

Based in Springfield, Missouri, The HillBenders are currently touring in support of their latest project, “Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry.” This release transforms The Who’s iconic album “Tommy” into a fully realized, full length bluegrass tribute, and it’s unlike anything you’ve heard before.

Comprised of Mark Cassidy (banjo), Gary Rea (bass), Jim Rea (guitar), Nolan Lawrence (mandolin) and Chad “Gravy Boat” Grave (dobro), The HillBenders have been winning over audiences with their highoctane shows, tight harmonies and stunning instrumental prowess since their formation in 2008.

The HillBenders recognize

Photo courtesy of The Hillbenders

The HillBenders will present “Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

their ability to bridge the gap between common music consumer and the bluegrass genre, selecting material that defies

any hillbilly stigmas.

“With our widely varied influences, we’re all trying to bring in songs that unify,”

Lawrence says. “We wanted to pair bluegrass with the other American music we grew up with — with rock and roll!”

Morten Lauridsen

AWHC to host baby animals The American West Heritage Center will host its annual Baby Animal Days event from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 5-8 at 4025 S. U.S. Hwy. 89 in Wellsville.

The festival has become so popular that dates have been extended for an additional day to allow more opportunities for visitors to see baby bears from Yellowstone’s Bear World and cuddle lots of baby farm animals.

Visitors can pet baby lambs, goats, ducks, chicks, piglets, calves, bunnies, turtles and more.

Admission is $9 for adults, $7 for children ages 3-11 and $8 for military and seniors. USU students will receive $1 off with current ID, and all visitors can receive $1 off with the donation of any nonperishable food item at the American West Heritage Center ticket booth. Tickets are being sold in advance online at awhc.org.

For more information, call 245-6050 or visit awhc.org.

working as a freelance illustrator, Edwards evolved as a fine art oil and watercolor painter.

Commonly portraying figurative imageries, her painterly, realistic paintings have received numerous awards (listed below) as they have been exhibited in international, national, regional and state juried, invitational, group and two-person exhibits.

The Oil Painters of America Board of Directors in 2011 awarded Signature Status to Barbara for her “remarkable talent.” The Utah Arts Council as part of the State of Utah’s Permanent Collection

purchased two of her paintings, and one of those, “Gotcha!” hangs in the Governor’s Mansion in Salt Lake City.

A native of Logan, Needham recently released a new book entitled “An Artistic Narrative of the House of Israel in Paintings and Sculpture Based in the Bible and the Scriptures of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” which is an exploration and a culmination of his research and studies of ancient and modern-day prophets.

For more information, visit loganfineartgallery.com or cachearts.org/gallerywalk.

Sharpe returning to Logan Vocalist to perform at Tabernacle on April 15 Irish singer Alexandria (Alex) Sharpe, internationally acclaimed vocalist and former lead singer for the group Celtic Woman, will perform in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 15, in the Logan Tabernacle.

Sharpe will be appearing with television personality Glenn Rawson and pianist Jason Tonioli in a concert produced by Bob Cosgrove.

Sharpe has appeared a number of times in Utah, including three previous concerts in Logan. In 2012, she appeared as a guest soloist with Craig Jessop in the Christmas program of the American Festival Chorus. In 2015, she was the featured performer in the concert “One Heart, One Voice.” That same year she appeared as a guest soloist on the broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, then in November 2016 she performed at USU in the “Christmas Spectacular,” along with Jenny Oaks Baker and Jason Lyle Black.

The April 15 concert will include Easter music, as well as some Celtic music and songs from her time with the group Celtic Woman.

Sharpe began her career as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Since then she has had many professional roles in a variety of theaters in Ireland, England and other venues in Europe and the U.S. She has performed in concerts and on television with award-winning symphonies and orchestras. She sang live See SHARPE on Page 10

Logan City Limits

Aggie Radio 92.3 FM will present Logan City Limits — a festival of music, film and art — April 6-8 throughout downtown Logan.

More than 20 live acts will be featured, including The National Parks on Thursday.

On Friday, live music at local businesses will begin at 4 p.m. Later, enjoy live music and food truck vendors on Federal Avenue and stroll the CVCA Gallery Walk (from 6-9 p.m.) or see at film at the Utah Theatre.

Live music and food truck vendors will also begin at 4 p.m. Saturday, along with music, a performance by the USU Dance Company at the Ellen Eccles Theatre and more films at the Utah Theatre.

For more information, visit logancitylimits.com, aggieradio.com or logandowntown.org.

Annual Young Artist Cup

The Young Artist Cup Committee, in association with Mountain Crest and Ridgeline high schools’ performing arts departments, will present the 18th annual Young Artist Cup Competition at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 13, and Friday, April 14, in the MCHS Auditorium in the Hyrum.

Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend.

The vocal and string competition will be held Thursday evening and the piano and instrumental competition will be Friday night.

Gallery Walk on Friday

The next Cache Valley Center for the Arts Gallery Walk will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 7, at locations throughout downtown Logan.

Each CVCA Gallery Walk features fantastic art from budding young talent to world-class artists. The store fronts and historic buildings of Logan’s downtown make one large art gallery for the many fascinating art pieces that are displayed.

Visit cachearts.org/gallerywalk for more information.

WhySound adds ‘merch’

The WhySound Venue and WhySound Recording Studio have been near the center of the local music scene since 2008, and this weekend will be the grand opening of a third venture in the same building — the Why Sound Merch Shop, a music store specializing in local music and vinyl records.

The Merch Shop is set up on the stage and in the venue, and has a weekend “pop-up shop” aesthetic with changing layout and inventory that hides away during the busy live concerts or studio sessions — something the inside crowd attending the “soft openings” this winter noticed.

The official opening at 30 Federal Ave. will be Acclaimed vocalist Alex Sharpe will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, April held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with regular hours 15, at the Logan Tabernacle. from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

During the next CVCA Gallery Walk on Friday, April 7, the paintings of Barbara Summer Edwards will be featured at S.E. Needhams Jewelers while the artwork of S. Eugene Needham will be featured at the Logan Fine Art Gallery.

Hours at both locations are 6 to 9 p.m. S.E. Needham Jewelers is located at 141 S. Main St., and the Logan Fine Art Gallery sits at 60 W. 100 North.

Born and raised in Southeastern Idaho, Edwards is a fourth generation native of the American West. After graduating from Utah State University in illustration and

Page 5 -

Artists featured at Gallery Walk COMING UP

POND SKIM Courageous/crazy skiers and snowboarders say goodbye to the snow at Beaver Mountain with popular annual event Above, Wally MacFarlane competes in the pond skim at Beaver Mountain Ski Area last Saturday. Pond skimming is an annual tradition at The Beav and many other ski areas to celebrate the end of the season. Left, a skier fails to make it across the water in the man-made pond at Beaver Mountain.

Clockwise from left: Kim Wright successfully celebrates after making it across the pond skim at Beaver Mountain Ski Area last Saturday. A snowboarder fails to make it across the water. A well-dressed David Robinson hits the pond. Ski Patroller Alex Hansen keeps a watchful eye on competitors. A shirtless Stockton Dunkley takes on the pond on skis. A skier disappears into the cold water during an unsuccessful skim attempt at Beaver Mountain last Saturday.

Photos by ELI LUCERO

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

Page 8 -

‘Baby’ dethrones ‘Beauty and the Beast’ NEW YORK (AP) — The taskmaster toddler of “The Boss Baby” dethroned Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” at the box office with a $49 million debut, handing its star Alec Baldwin what President Donald Trump might call a “huge” no. 1 opening.

Paramount Pictures suffered another flop with its controversy-plagued “Ghost in the Shell.”

The DreamWorks Animation release from 20th Century Fox, starring Baldwin as a suit-clad baby,

narrowly edged out the previous two-week leader, according to studio estimates Sunday. The live-action “Beauty and the Beast” took in $48 million in its third weekend. Final North American ticket sales will be released Monday.

“We expected a decent opening.

We didn’t expect to be number one,” said Chris Aronson, Fox distribution chief.

Despite the popularity of “Beauty and the Beast” (nearly $400 million domestically in 17 days, and $876.3

million globally), “Boss Baby” was able to attract its own family audience.

Aronson credited that partly to the appeal of Baldwin, whose impression of Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” has lately been ubiquitous.

“Boss Baby” also evokes Baldwin’s old “Glengarry Glen Ross” character with quips like “Cookies are for closers.”

“Alec Baldwin’s voice is recognizable, in general. But he’s so

AP Photo

See BABY on Page 9

“The Boss Baby” pulled in box office-best $49 million during its opening weekend.

Series tells Hefner’s story Playboy founder the focus of new show on Amazon NEW YORK (AP) — Most Americans would hate living in a world untouched by Hugh Hefner.

That’s a message from “American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story,” which premieres Friday on Amazon Prime.

It will come as no surprise that this docuseries treats its subject, the founder of the Playboy-magazine-and-beyond empire, with tender, loving care. Co-produced

by Playboy Enterprises, its 10 episodes unfold as a hagiography of Hefner, who, back in a dark age of sexual repression, put the “he” in hedonism for countless red-blooded males.

Hefner, who turns 91 on Sunday, played no on-camera role in the series. But he is seen and heard aplenty. Not only are there vast Playboy archives to draw from, but the saga is told mainly through dramatic reenactments, with young lookalike Matt Whelan portraying Hef on-screen and voicing him for the narration.

“My magazine wasn’t just about naked women,” says Hefner/Whelan at the series’ start. “It was about breaking down barriers, starting a cultural conversation about sexuality, and standing up for social justice.”

Mission accomplished. As “American Playboy” is eager

AP Photo

Matt Whelan stars as a young Hugh Hefner in “American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story,” which debuts on Friday on Amazon Prime.

to remind its audience, Hefner pushed back against the uptight 1950s with a magazine proclaiming that sex is fun, that it’s OK for guys to like photos of nude women, and that masculinity didn’t correspond directly with hunting and fishing (which men’s magazines of that day dwelled on).

In his new magazine, Hefner meant to champion a lifestyle of masculine creature comforts, a full menu of everything the would-be with-it male would want to feast upon — including the main course of beautiful, seemingly compliant

women.

Creating Playboy in his own vision — the vision of whom he yearned to be as a man and manly archetype — Hefner masterminded an intoxicating mix of rebellion, aspiration and pleasure. With his inspired formula, a few thousand borrowed dollars and, as his first Playboy centerfold, a nude calendar photo of pre-celebrity Marilyn Monroe, Hefner launched Playboy in 1953.

It was a smash, and so was he, See STORY on Page 11

Colbert’s ‘Late’ surge continues NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert hit another milestone in his stunning late-night turnaround against Jimmy Fallon of NBC’s “Tonight” show.

Colbert won in the Nielsen company’s ratings for the ninth consecutive time last week, his margin of 400,000 viewers the widest lead since the CBS star overtook Fallon with a sharp concentration on politics. Fallon aired a rerun Friday; otherwise the shows were all fresh last week.

More ominously for NBC, Colbert tied Fallon among viewers aged 25-to-54 for the first time, encroaching on younger viewers who are more valuable to advertisers.

Fallon had been the unquestioned late-night king until the advent of the Trump administration, and he’s been struggling to regain his footing.

Boosted by the NCAA tournament, CBS dominated last week with an average of 9.7 million viewers in prime time. NBC had 5.3 million, ABC had 4.4 million, Fox had 2.7 million, Univision had 1.5 million, the CW had 1.39 million, Telemundo had 1.35 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.

Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.27 million viewers in prime time. MSNBC had 1.69 million, ESPN had 1.61 million, USA had 1.55 million and HGTV had 1.48 million.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8 million viewers.

NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.8 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.8 million.

For the week of March 27-April 2, the top 10 primetime shows, their networks and viewerships: NCAA Men’s Basketball: Oregon vs. North Carolina, CBS, 18.83 million; “NCAA Studio Show,” CBS, 16.03 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 14.35 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 12.78 million; “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 11.31 million; “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 11.12 million; “ACM Awards,” CBS, 10.91 million; “Bull,” CBS, 10.9 million; “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.56 million; “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.22 million.

computer. Zach Braff (yes, that Zach Braff) directs this, but you wouldn’t be able to tell. Usually he’s at the helm of absurdist hipster dramedies. Here AP Photo he finds himself sleepwalking through a movie Alan Arkin, left, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine act in “Going in Style.” that could’ve been directed by anyone including line would’ve played so the aforementioned commuch better as a drama. puter.

Like “Hell or High Water,” but with a striking There are rich narrative avenues to explore here. I generational gap thrown Director // Zach Braff mean, it’s got the actors in for added dramatic Starring // Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, measure. Instead “Going to pull off just about any Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret, Joey King, Matt Dillon, genre. Sadly, “Going in in Style” is played as Christopher Lloyd, Peter Serafinowicz, John Ortiz Style” takes the road most weak comedy, providing Rated // PG-13 for drug content, language and travelled. It treats its trio nothing but fluff and a some suggestive material paycheck for its recogniz- of accomplished actors facturing company they ing the pension fund. To as set dressing. Faces able stars. dedicated the best years get even, they concoct a to put on posters. Has This movie feels preof their lives to is moving brilliant plan: let’s rob a made, cookie-cutter, like writer Theodore Melfi production overseas, and, bank. the entire thing was creat- seen these guys act? I ed by a cliché-generating think that’s a fair question in the process, is dissolv- This exact same story-

★

‘Going in Style’

Baby Continued from Page 8 topical now because of some of the other things he’s doing right now,” Aronson said. “It’s a very distinctive voice, and if you put it on a baby, it’s funny.”

“Ghost in the Shell,” a remake of a classic 1995 Japanese anime film, couldn’t compete with either family-friendly release. The dystopian science-fiction thriller, starring Scarlett Johans-

son, opened with just $19 million, a poor showing for a film that cost about $110 million to make.

Many took issue with the casting of Johansson as the cyborg protagonist who was Japanese in the original, calling it another example of Hollywood “whitewashing.”

“We had hopes for better results domestically.

I think the conversation regarding casting impacted the reviews,” said Kyle Davies, domestic distribution chief for Paramount.

“You’ve got a movie that is very important to the

fanboys since it’s based on a Japanese anime movie. So you’re always trying to thread that needle between honoring the source material and make a movie for a mass audience. That’s challenging, but clearly the reviews didn’t help.”

Audiences appeared to agree with critics, giving the film a mediocre B CinemaScore.

In limited release, Focus Features’ “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” starring Jessica Chastain, opened well with $3.3 million at 541 locations.

given that the script seems to go out of its way to not provide any worthwhile material for them.

We even get a montage of three retirees learning the ins-andouts of bank robbing in a few days. Some peppy music and a few scenes of them casing the bank are thrown together, and, poof, these guys are ready to rob a bank.

This is the kind of movie you see on TBS in the early afternoon and think to yourself, “I could sit here and stare at this for the next couple hours while ceasing brain function, or I could do literally anything else.”

It’s unfortunate that this movie is such a slog through barely mediocre. It’s got too much talent involved to be so — for lack of a better word — boring.

And so, we find ourselves back at the beginning. Christopher Lloyd tossing cooked corn in the air.

There’s only one outcome: a corny mess.

Action!

2297 N. Main MOVIE HOTLINE

753-6444

FOr sHOw TIMEs aNd HOurs, pLEasE VIsIT Our wEbsITE: www.waLKErCINEMas.NET

1510288

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

The Reel Place Aaron Peck

There’s a nonsensical cutaway scene in “Going in Style” — a movie about septuagenarians robbing a bank in this crazy modern world — that completely encapsulates its quality as a comedy. Christopher Lloyd, who plays a senile side character, is serving cooked corn at the local senior center. Apropos of nothing, the camera cuts to him with a spoonful of mushy corn. He stares at it, throws it in the air and it falls and splatters everywhere. Lloyd’s confused look is priceless.

As the corn flies into the air, the promise of a good outcome is slim to none. Much in the same way the movie starts.

Michael Caine walks into a bank, is handed a buzzer and then is told to wait in the guest lounge, which consists of two modern-style, low-slung chairs. The moment he sits down his buzzer buzzes and he must extricate himself from the chair. It’s a painful process for someone with creaky old bones.

It’s here where the movie could’ve continued along this comedic vein. Senior citizens coming to grips with the modern world is inherently funny. The material is endless. However, this comedic device is abandoned for a generic bank heist movie. And like that splattering corn, the rest of the movie follows suit.

Caine, Alan Arkin and Morgan Freeman (they have character names, but like most of the movie, it isn’t important that you remember them) play a trio of aging friends. They’ve come to the twilight of their lives and have little to nothing to show for it. The manu-

Page 9 -

New ‘Going in Style’ is a ‘corny mess’

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

Page 10 -

USU Dance Company to present Showcase The Utah State University Dance Company presents its year-end Spring Showcase — the final concert of the academic year — at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

“Illuminate” will feature the company’s 21 student members in 15 numbers in a variety of styles including contemporary, hip hop and jazz.

The performance will include a tribute dance in memory of Annie Schmidt, the daughter of “The Piano Guys” member Jon Schmidt and a friend of several of company’s dancers. Annie’s body was found last November, several weeks after she disappeared while hiking in Oregon.

The tribute dance was choreographed by Tristin Hampshire.

Sharpe Continued from Page 5 on “Dancing with the Stars,” “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America” and for the National Christmas Tree Lighting in 2009.

She has also performed on Japanese and Chinese television, as well as on the

AFCO Continued from Page 4 Lauridsen was named an “American Choral Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006.

In 2007 he received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama in a White House ceremony “for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide.”

Lauridsen has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music for more than 40 years; he chaired

Another dance was choreographed by Logan resident Fiona Katrine, a Juilliard graduate in modern dance.

All other dances have been choreographed by members of the company.

The April 8 performance will reflect the growth of the company, now in its 10th year.

The USU Dance Company is a student-run performing group organized in 2008 by thendirector Krissy Fry, to provide a creative outlet for several talented dancers on campus, after the school eliminated dance as an academic program.

It has evolved from the Full Circle and Vilociti groups into its current form and is supported by USU’s Caine College of the Arts.

soundtrack of the movie “Evita.”

Sharpe toured and recorded as a soloist with Celtic Woman from 2008 to ’10, and for their summer 2015 tour.

She also performed on Jenny’s Christmas album “Noel.” Alex was guest soloist for the 25th Anniversary of “A Kurt Bestor Christmas.” the composition department from 1990–2002 and founded USC’s advanced studies program in film scoring.

A recipient of numerous grants, prizes, and commissions, in 2016 he was awarded the ASCAP Foundation Life in Music Award. His works have been recorded on more than 200 CDs, five of which have received Grammy Award nominations.

AFCO’s concert will feature many of Lauridsen’s most inspiring works: “Midwinter Songs,” “O Magnum Mysterium,” “Sure On This Shining Night,” “Dirait-On,” and will also showcase his masterpiece “Lux Aeterna,” conducted by Evans.

The company performs at campus events and conducts fundraisers during the school year, the largest of which is this yearend concert. They also serve on the staff at the annual Utah Dance Fest.

Ginger Hislop is the company director. Officers include president Kiera Griffis, vice president Amanda Berrett, treasurer Amelia Hollberg, communications director Daidree Davis and attendance officer Rosemary Grow.

Tickets are $7 for USU students, children 3-12 and seniors over 65 and $12 for everyone else.

Tickets are available at the Eccles Theatre Box Office or at cachearts.org. Those attending are encouraged to purchase tickets early as all seats are reserved.

The USU Dance Company will present its Spring Showcase at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Newcomer to play Logan Folk musician set to perform Sunday, April 9 Bridger Folk Music Society welcomes multi-talented contemporary folk music mainstay Carrie Newcomer at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 9, at First Presbyterian Church of Logan, 178 W. Center Street.

Tickets for the performance are $15 in advance via PayPal at bridgerfolk.org or by calling 757-3468. Tickets at the door will be $20 cash. Advance purchase is recommended.

Newcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, performer and educator. She has been described as a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe, “asks all the right questions” by Rolling Stone, “a voice as rich as Godiva chocolate” by The Austin Statesman and as “the kind of artist whose music makes you stop, think and then say, ‘that is so true’” by The Dallas Morning News.

Recent appearances on PBS “Religion and Ethics” and national award-winning Krista Tippett’s “On Being” have

Carrie Newcomer will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 9, at the First Presbyterian Church in Logan.

focused on her use of creative art-form as a spiritual/mindfulness practice, her work in social/ environmental justice, interfaith dialogue, progressive spirituality and as a champion for a new political conversation. She has toured with Alison Krauss Europe, and Nickel Creek recorded Newcomer’s song “I Should’ve Known Better” on

their Grammy-winning album This Side.

Newcomer was listed as one of “The 50 most influential folk musicians of the past 50 years” by Chicago’s WFMT. In September 2016 Available Light Records released “The Beautiful Not Yet.” For more information, visit carrienewcomer.com.

Dance Logan Dance will meet from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday, April 7, at the Whittier Community Center, 300 N. 400 East. Dance lesson will begin at 7:30 p.m.; Bruce Howe will DJ. Singles and married couples welcome. Donation of $7 requested at the door; snack donations also appreciated. Music mix will feature tuns from ’40s swing, cha cha, country and oldies but goodies.

The Logan Library will host a Spring Break Movie Series from April 3-7, in the Jim Bridger Room. Admission and popcorn are free. Visit library.logan.utah. org for more information. “The Great Mouse Detctive” will begin at 1 p.m. Friday, April 7, followed by “Inspector Gadget” at 3:30 p.m.

The American West Heritage Center will host its annual Baby Animal Days event from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 5-8 at 4025 S. U.S. Hwy. 89 in Wellsville. Admission is $9 for adults, $7 for children ages 3-11 and $8 for military and seniors. USU students will receive $1 off with current ID, and all visitors can receive $1 off with the donation of any nonperishable food item at the American West Heritage Center ticket booth. Tickets are being sold in advance online at awhc.org. For

Story Continued from Page 8 “the guy who has it all: lavish mansion, legendary parties, and, of course, the women,” says Hefner/Whelan, kicking off the tale (“at least, as I remember it,” he hedges coyly) of how he redefined manhood.

Judging from the three episodes previewed, “American Playboy” airbrushes Hefner’s image as much as Playboy airbrushes its centerfolds.

But this doesn’t mitigate Hefner’s role as a game-changer.

“American Playboy” shows

more information, call 245-6050 or visit awhc.org.

Logan City Limits will be held April 6-8 at multiple venues in downtown Logan. The National Parks, Brumby and The Young North are scheduled to perform on Thursday, April 6, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $5; concert is free with high school/college ID. Visit logancitylimits.usu.edu/music for more information.

The USU Pipe and Drum Corps will present “Show Me A Scotsman” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 7, at the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University. Tickets are $5 to $10. Visit cca.usu.edu for more information.

SATURDAY Everyone is welcome to attend the Hyrum City Museum’s Diversity Night from 5 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 8, at 50 W. Main St. in Hyrum (enter on the north side of building). J.C. Vazquez, diversity coordinator at USU, will present on the history of Latino workers in Cache Valley in both English and Spanish. Delicious food, music, children’s activities and Spanish tours of the traveling Smithsonian Exhibition “The Way We Worked” will follow. For more

how his magazine and his example advanced a new Age of Enlightenment — the notion that virility could encompass civil rights and free speech, progressive politics and deep thoughts, as well as sporty cars, the right Scotch and the fine art of seduction. Hefner led a revolution with his pipe, his Pepsis and his legendary rotating bed.

But after a couple of decades, Hef’s revolution was beginning to sputter. A victim of its own spectacular success, Playboy didn’t seem so cutting-edge to youngsters in the late ‘60s who claimed free love and doing your own thing as their birthright.

information, visit hyrumcitymuseum.org.

SUNDAY St. John’s Episcopal Church to Palm Sunday services with palms and a trumpet procession from 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday, April 9, at 85 E. 100 North. For more information, please call 752-0331.

MONDAY

The Cache County Suicide Prevention Coalition will host an Emotional Health & Healing Town Hall at 7 p.m. Monday, April 10, in the auditorium at Spring Creek Middle School, 350 W. 100 North, Providence. Professional health-care providers will talk about why suicide is a serious threat in Cache Valley and discuss available resources.

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

Monday, April 10, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “Moana,” which is rated PG. Popcorn and admission is free.

TUESDAY The HillBenders will present “Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $30; children 5-18 years

They also claimed women’s rights. The rise of feminism exposed Playboy, for all its advancements, as embarrassingly backward in upholding male privilege. Playboy had always celebrated women.

But their designated purpose remained stuck in the past: to please men.

Just consider the Playboy Clubs, which flourished from coast to coast in the 1960s, and not least because of its service staff: the corset-costumed Playboy Bunnies, complete with their rabbit ears and cotton tails. The real stretch for Playboy wasn’t in these skintight outfits. It was how to reconcile Playboy-style panache

old are 50 percent off and USU students are 25 percent off. Visit cachearts.org for tickets and additional information.

The Caine Chamber Ensembles featuring the Brass Quintet, Woodwind Quintet, Saxophone Quartet, Caine String Quartet and Percussion Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University. The event is free and open to the public.

The Cache Valley Chapter of the Utah Watercolor Society will meet on Tuesday, April 11, in the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library. Critique will begin at 6:30 p.m.; meeting at 7 p.m. Presenter is Jennifer Love; theme is “Social Media for the Artists.”

The Logan Library would like to invite the public to join library staff and board members in discussing the library’s future at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in the Logan History Room.

WEDNESDAY Cruz Night will begin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, at McDonald’s (810 N. Main St.) and continue every Wednesday night through October. For more information, call 799-7149.

with the new craze of sit-ins and peace marches.

The Playmate anointed for December 1969 seemed a desperate bid to shed its “Mad Men” brand of hipness and reassert its relevance. To that end, the comely Northwestern University political science major declared on her centerfold questionnaire that “my friends know I’m young, sexy, somewhat intellectual, hate parties, love teachers, enjoy money, clothes, cars” — but also, in a power-to-the-power decree, she made clear that she loved “demonstrations, riots and anything for the revolution.”

The Playboy revolution

The April meeting of the Cache Valley Historical Society will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, at the Hyrum City Council Chambers, 60 W. Main St. in Hyrum.

As part of the Smithsonian exhibit at the Hyrum Museum, “The Way We Worked,” former Logan Hotshot superintendent Scott Bushman, and retired Logan District Ranger Dave Baumgartner will present “Fighting Forest Fires in Northern Utah and the West — A History.” The presentation will include a personal reminiscence of the Cramer Fire in Idaho. The museum will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. for those wanting to see the traveling exhibit before or after the meeting.

THURSDAY The Young Artist Cup Committee, in association with Mountain Crest and Ridgeline High School’s performing arts departments, will present the 18th annual Young Artist Cup Competition at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13, and Friday, April 14, in the MCHS Auditorium in the Hyrum.

Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend.

Sky View High School’s show choir Sky View Encore will perform at 7 p.m. April 13-15 and 17-18, at the SVHS Auditorium in Smithfield. Admission is $7.

may have died with that pronouncement. Even so, Playboy presses on to this day. But where it once defied a puritan ideal that kept sex under wraps and condemned nudity as pornographic, now it struggles against a state of oversaturation, where nudity (and almost anything else) runs riot, free of charge, from any video screen.

No wonder little of the Playboy empire remains, at least when judged by the standards it once set. As “American Playboy” shows with cinematic flair, Hefner helped blast the world into a new permissiveness — a world that long ago left him behind.

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

FRIDAY

Page 11 -

calendar

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 7, 2017

Page 12 -

CrossworD

By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Smelter input 4. Restrain 10. Make uneasy 15. Austrian peak 18. Officiating Mosque priest 19. Replenish 20. River through Bavaria 21. Stop working 22. New York range 25. Setting for TV’s “Newhart” 26. Wee hour 27. Roman monthly middle 28. Broadway segment 29. Adolescent 30. None 31. Cyberspace 32. Expression of disgust 35. Unhurried ease 38. Feel the ___ 39. Molars 40. NYC attraction 50. Remove debris 51. Class with models 52. No gentleman 54. Bluer than blue 55. Andean land 57. Well 60. Cubicle table 61. Off yonder 63. It has yellow and white flowers 65. It shows shows in NYC 69. Insurance figures 73. Grey flannel 74. Spoon measurement, abbr.

78. Large, sometimes ornate letter at the beginning of a chapter 79. Net-surfer’s stop 81. Kind of dog or schooner 84. Ballparks 85. Starchy tuber 86. Builder’s guide 88. NY cities 94. Burns wildly 95. Sanction 96. Like some novels

Deadlines

99. Title holder 101. Crowd disapproval 104. Jazz dance 107. Mitch Miller’s instrument 108. Wish undone 109. Territory 110. Prior, poetically 111. Saccharine sentiment 112. Go to a NY attraction 119. Seat holders 120. Wedding proposer 121. Appetite 122. Run amok 123. Yes, to a captain 124. Photographer’s request 125. Siouan language or tribe 126. Griffey of baseball Down 1. Sultanate denizen 2. Honey badger 3. Ambulance workers 4. One given away 5. Find a new tenant for 6. Physical difficulties 7. Funnyman DeLuise 8. Tai language 9. Part of some e-mail addresses 10. Common aspiration 11. Calf’s cry 12. Great boxer 13. D.C. legislator 14. Eddy Murphy’s “48 __” 15. Ta-ta 16. Eye make-up 17. Italian tubes 18. Byzantine holy picture 23. Relatives 24. Harridan 29. Slogan carriers 32. Rococo 33. Med. island ending 34. No longer working, or short 35. Island chain?

36. Wriggler 37. “___ be a pleasure!”

38. It carried “Monk” 39. Egyptian Pharaoh

40. European river 41. Clutter 42. Aggregation 43. Provoke 44. Contended 45. Ram’s mate 46. Comes up at threshing time 47. Southeast Asian country 48. Negatives 49. Maven 50. Massachusetts’ Cape ___ 53. Some dashes 55. Close one 56. Surrealist painter Max 57. Computer monitor 58. Seal, e.g. the deal (slang) 59. Galahad’s title 61. National hardware store 62. Bone hollows 64. ’80s band, with Adam 65. ____ Champlain 66. Savings alternative 67. Puppy’s bite 68. Nod, maybe 69. Write extra 70. Cut 71. W. African coastal country 72. Jump 74. Novice 75. Upper edge 76. Trig ratio 77. Dear 80. Evil spirit 81. Play on words 82. Russet 83. After Mar. 85. “O.K.” 86. Stock market pessimist 87. Frito-___ 89. Side arm 90. Supplement for higher energy 91. Door opener 92. Father’s pride 93. Five-star W.W. II hero, informally 96. Religious sayings

97. Dark black 98. Slipknot 99. Unconventional 100. Cyst of a kind 101. European trading area 102. Give a speech 103. ____ with her head!

104. Disprove 105. Synthetic sock fiber 106. Kid brother, e.g.

108. Metis leader Louis 109. Lip-puckering 112. Anatomical duct 113. Doctrine 114. Slalom 115. Pronoun 116. “Caught you redhanded!”

117. Kind of mill 118. Flood vessel

Cache Magazine calendar items are due Tuesday by 5 p.m. They will also run for free in The Herald Journal one to two days prior to the event. Calendar items can be submitted by email at hjhappen@hjnews.com. Any press releases or photos for events listed in the first half of Cache Magazine can be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com. Poems and photos can also be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com and run on a space-available basis if selected.

answers from last week

www.ThemeCrosswords.com