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April 9-15, 2010

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The Tetons by local photographer David Sidwell. David and his wife, Marianne, both take photos — David specializes in landscape and nature, while Marianne likes taking images of people, especially children. “My favorite thing about being a photographer is capturing an emotion,” Marianne says. “I like photos that make me suffer — crawling on rocks and freezing to death,” says David. Read about the Sidwells and their hobby on Page 8.

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HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED just how photographers do it.

There’s a lot of beauty out there in the world — you can see some of it as captured

by Dave and Marianne Sidwell on Page 8 — but I can never seem to capture it like professional photographers.

While up the canyon camping or sightseeing or even in my backyard, I’ll try to take a photo of the magnificent scenery, only to find it’s kind of boring and colorless and rather uninteresting when I download the images to my computer.

Of course I don’t have the equipment some photographers do, but still — why aren’t my photos as stunning as I thought they would be?

This lack of skill doesn’t deter me, though.

I have thousands of pictures dating all the way back to elementary school when I got my first camera. I love being able to look through them every once in awhile; every single

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image brings to mind a dozen memories. I can re-live elementary and middle school and high school and college without actually having to go back. I can flip through the photos and see how I have changed, and how much my friends have changed, and how fat my cat has become (really, how did that happen?!).

I especially love going through photos from my mom and dad’s albums and seeing them at their wedding, or when they were my age; it never gets old to see pictures of my brother and sister and me growing up and getting to remember all the fun times we had.

Sometimes these photos can be bittersweet — some people have passed away and while it’s exciting to see and remember them how they were, I can’t help but hurt and sometimes cry over the unexplainable loss.

In the end, though, I’m glad I have them.

They are definitely my most prized possession, worth more than anything else I own.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

— Jamie Baer Nielson Cache Magazine editor

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Baby animals mark first days of spring

pet photo of the week This cat is available for adoption!

Pet: Callie From: Four Paws Rescue Why she’s so lovable: “Callie is a loving, cute, small calico cat. She is friendly and affectionate. She is good in the house, but needs to be watched or she will try to get outside. She is a cutie who deserves a good, indoor-only home.” If you would like to meet Callie or learn more about her, contact Sheri at 787-1751.The adoption fee for most Four Paws cats is $75, which includes spay/neuter and shots. Callie is up-to-date with routine shots, house trained and spayed/neutered.

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.

Stargazers to focus on ‘radio astronomy’

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HE CACHE Valley Stargazers will host their monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 9, in Room 244 of the ScienceEngineering-Research building at USU. Dale Hooper will talk about “Tuning into the Cosmos: Radio Astronomy from Your Backyard.” Everyone is invited. For more information, visit www. cachestargazers.org or email cache.stargazers@ gmail.com.

The Cache Valley Stargazers are a local astronomy club that provides

a venue for people interested in astronomy and the night sky to connect with other people with similar interests. Members meet the second Friday of every month to talk and learn about astronomy, and to observe together when the weather permits.

Anyone with an interest in astronomy or a desire to learn more about the constellations and night sky is welcome to join.

The group’s goal is to provide a quality astronomical experience for everyone, regardless of age or astronomical expertise.

Everyone from absolute beginners to seasoned deep-sky observers is encouraged to join. Monthly club meetings feature regularly scheduled events ranging from talks covering the latest news in astrophysics, to telescope clinics that diagnose troubles you’re having with that scope in your closet, to discussions about the best way to find and see the greatest splendors of the sky from your own backyard.

For more information, visit www.cachestargazers. org or e-mail cache.star gazers@gmail.com.

Author/photographer/naturalist speaking at audubon banquet gates the wheeling-and-dealing T of the Bridgerland Auduof powerful developer Earl bon Society will feature famed Holding, extols the community HE ANNUAL BANQUET

naturalist, photographer and author Stephen Trimble at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15, at The Copper Mill Restaurant in downtown Logan. Tickets are $25 and available at Fuhriman’s Framing and Fine Arts, Maya’s Corner, Caffe Ibis, at the door or by e-mailing birdnerdut@gmail.com or bridgerlandaudubon@gmail. com. Cost includes a full dinner and live music.

Trimble will present a provocative and inspiring program from his recent book, “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America.” This book explores the tension between community and development in what Trimble terms “the MiddleAged West.” Trimble looks for common ground as open space shrinks in 21st century America. At the Audubon banquet

he will tell provocative stories, show slides and read excerpts from the text — all aimed at creating conversation, our only hope for the future.

The book has been called “a compelling read” by American Scientist and Earth Island Journal says it “often reads like a novel.” In it, Trimble investi-

activists of Utah and reflects on his own life as he builds a second home near Torrey.

Praised by Rick Bass in the Boston Globe, the book also ends with a powerful credo for westerners of all stripes.

The BAS banquet will also feature the chapter’s presentation of its Carl Johnson Education Award to Holly Strand, director of the Stokes Nature Center, and its Allan Stokes Conservation Award to Jim Goodwin, director of the Western Rural Development Center.

Banquet-goers will also get an important update on BAS’s recent conservation activities, which are helping to bring together valley residents to protect important riparian and wetlands habitat.

For more information, contact Chris Cokinos at 245-7769 or chris.cokinos@usu.edu.

Katie Jones as Little Red Riding Hood and Casey Stratton as Jack.

‘Into the Woods’ is coming to Plaza Terrace Playhouse NTO THE WOODS” WILL information, visit www.terr aceplayhouse.com.

“I play at 7:30 p.m. every An ambivalent Cinderella?

Friday, Saturday and Monday, April 16 through May 29, at Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden. Tickets are $10 and $12 for adults and $7 and $9 for children and can be purchased by calling 801-393-0070. For more

A blood-thirsty Little Red Ridinghood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A witch who raps? They’re all among the cockeyed characters in the fractured fairy tale “Into the Woods.”

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A night of one-acts from USU opera

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best, the “committee scene” TAH STATE from Britten’s opera, “Albert University Opera Herring.” Complimenting the Theatre will present first half of the program will the popular Puccini one-act be the romantic aria “Depuis, comic opera, “Gianni Schicle jour” from Charpentier’s chi,” with scenes from operas “Louise,” including the seamby Nicolai, Britten and Charstress’ scene. pentier, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Completing the evening April 9, and Saturday, April is Puccini’s gem, “Gianni 10, at the Caine Lyric TheSchicchi,” providing non-stop atre, 28 W. Center St., Logan.

Tickets can be purchased from comedy in a 50-minute one-act opera. Contrasting music for the Caine School of the Arts Box Office (797-8022), online voracious relatives worried by pending inheritance is the wellat boxoffice.usu.edu or at the known soprano aria, “O mio Caine Lyric Theatre one hour babbino caro.” Gianni Schicbefore curtain at the two evechi, the clever rogue and leadning performances.

Thirty-five Utah State opera ing character, secures a way in the end for his beloved daughsingers and community memter, Lauretta, to marry Rinucbers will join for performanccio, “the son of a Donati!” es of comedy and romance as Dr. Lynn Jemison-Keisker, a perfect introduction to opera director of the USU Opera

by Italian, French, German Theatre program, will be and British composers. piano-conductor with Merillee Opening the program will Broadbent, duo-pianist, joined be the “letter scene” based by guest guitarist Devon on Shakespeare’s tale, “The Smith for the Merry Wives Charpentier of WindIf you go scene. Guest sor,” as set stage director

by German • Who: USU Opera Theatre for the Britcomposer • What: Variety of opera scenes ten scene and Otto Nicolai.

• When: 7:30 p.m. April 9 & 10 Puccini oneFollowing • Where: Caine Lyric Theatre, act opera is the Nicolai 28 W. Center St., Logan Idaho native is a 20th • Tickets: Available by calling Kimberly century Brit797-8022, online at boxoffice.

Mumford, ish setting usu.edu or at the box office one and guest of satirical hour before curtain stage director comedy at its

Photos by Richard A. Keisker

Top: Featuring Anthony Eversole as Gianni Schicchi (in bed) with members of the Donati family and the lawyer from Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi.”

Right: Miriam Costa-Jackson as Louise, left, and Stacey Bodtcher as the Errand Girl from “Charpentier’s Louise.”

for the Nicolai and Charpentier scenes is USU alumna Karlee Heaps. Adrianne Moore, USU theater arts faculty, lends support as the British dialect coach for the Britten scene.

Concert highlights effort to create new campus dance department

I N THE LATE-1980s Krissy Smith was 4 years old, a huge fan of Aggie basketball (her father was USU’s head coach at the time) and an aspiring young dancer.

That was when USU eliminated dance as an academic program.

Fast forward to 2007, the year she mounted a campaign to reinstate dance. She now hopes

to bring it back as part of USU’s new Caine College of the Arts.

She is now Krissy Smith-Fry, a soon-to-be USU graduate and director of the student-run USU Dance Company, a group she formed in the fall of 2007.

To culminate this season and to raise money for her ongoing campaign, the company will present “Scapes” at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 10, at USU’s

Kent Concert Hall. Tickets purchased in advance are $5 for USU students, $7 for youth and $10 for adults and available at csaboxoffice.usu.edu. Cost is slightly more if purchased at the door.

The troupe of 28 dancers performs in two groups — Full Circle (contemporary) and Vilociti (hip hop and break dance) — and will be joined by

Sacramento’s Core Dance Collective, a professional contemporary dance company.

Smith-Fry said she is working with Dr. Craig Jessop, head of USU’s department of music and theater arts, and that a portion of the concert proceeds will be applied to returning dance to the USU campus as an academic department, allowing for either dance majors or minors.

As part of her outreach effort she has organized visits to local elementary schools and has involved the company in other events, including a performance at half-time of an Aggie basketball game, to promote awareness of dance.

The dance company has been sponsored this year by the theater department and Smith-Fry has met regularly with Jessop.

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USU’s faculty woodwind quintet, Logan Canyon Winds.

Logan Canyon Winds in concert on campus

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OGAN CANYON Winds, Utah State University’s faculty wind quintet, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 12, at the USU Performance Hall.

Tickets are $8 for general admission and available at the Caine School of the Arts box office (caineschool.usu.edu) or at the door. USU and public school students will be admitted without charge.

In addition to regular ensemble members — Leslie Timmons (flute), Bonnie Schroeder (oboe), Nicholas Morrison (clarinet), Steve Park (horn) and Carolyn Bodily (bassoon) — the quintet will be joined by faculty guest artists Jon Gudmundson (saxophone), Jason Nicholson (percussion) and student members of the Caine Woodwind Quintet: Whitney Ecker (flute), Emily Sorensen

(oboe), Sherstin Hamblin (clarinet), Brad Henrie (horn) and Troy Olson (bassoon).

Monday’s program will feature works by the Hungarian Ferenc Farkas, Americans Bernhard Heiden and Richard Willis and Frenchman Jean Françaix.

Farkas’ “Early Hungarian Dances” is scored for woodwind quintet and features several popular folk dances from Hungary. The dances, quite simple in structure, call upon the quintet to blend expressive playing with a strong rhythmic pulse that mirrors the syllabic stress of the Hungarian language.

The second work on the program, “Intrada” by Bernhard Heiden, will feature Gudmundson, director of jazz studies and associate professor of saxophone at USU.

In “Intrada,” the composer treats the saxophone more as added color for the quintet than as a separate soloist, increasing the tonal variety and dynamic range.

Following the Heiden, Nicholson, assistant professor of percussion, will join the quintet for Richard Willis’ “Colloquy for Woodwind Quintet and Percussion.”

Logan Canyon Winds will close the performance with the “Seven Dances” of Jean Françaix. Written as a ballet, the seven dances depict a puppet show in which the puppets enter, play house, fall in love, have a snack and end with a playful dance. The pieces take the audience through a gamut of emotion and requires the utmost of expression and technique from the members of the musical ensemble.

ABY ANIMAL DAYS returns with farm animals, bears and other critters One of Northern Utah’s most beloved and popular events, Baby Animal Days, continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 9 and 10 at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. Members of the Heritage Center will also have early access to the Jensen Historical Farm at 9:30 a.m.

Four additional days, “Farm Animals Only Days,” will be provided for animal interaction without the large festival events (and for a reduced cost) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 17 and 24. The festival highlights the coming of spring and the baby animals of all kinds that come with it.

This year baby bears will make their appearance April 9 and 10 only courtesy the USU Charter Credit Union. The bears are coming from Yellowstone Bear World near Rexburg, Idaho, and their presence adds an additional wild flair to the event as they romp and play under the Pavilion.

To avoid ticket lines at the event, you can purchase tickets at Macey’s in Providence or online at www.awhc.org.

Baby Animal Days serves as a major fundraiser for the 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.

Many favorite activities will be returning to the festival this year such as pony rides, wagon rides, living history demonstrations,

animal demonstrations and shows, and Turtle Town, among others.

This year, the Heritage Center’s new 1/8-scale train will make its debut appearance. Also operating will be the Heritage Center’s other traditional venues: the 1917 Jensen Historical Farm, Pioneer Settlement, Mountain Man and Shoshone encampments, Patch’s Woodwright Shop and a millinery shop. Another new attraction is Camp Rendezvous, the Heritage Center’s new large-group campsite with many old-fashioned activities for young and old.

Another popular feature returning this year is the Heritage Center’s Treasure Hunt, a kids’ scavenger hunt through history for candy and prizes.

A variety of food vendors for lunch and snacks will be available, plus vendors of handcrafted and heritage items and a plethora of crafts for children and adults. For more information, visit www.awhc.org.

Donate at Baby Animal Days The American West Heritage Center encourages all visitors to Baby Animal Days to bring donations for the Cache County Food Bank. Though it’s not Christmas, canned food and especially common personal hygiene products and diapers are still needed at this time of year for many in the community. There will be a large donation area upon entering the event.

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Film New this week “Date Night” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 Steve Carell and Tina Fey’s night out is not so much a bad date as a sad date. These are two of the funniest people ever on television, yet this big-screen comedy is a dreary, uninspired waste of their talents — and those of the top-name cast inexplicably appearing in throwaway roles, including Mark Wahlberg, Mark Ruffalo and James Franco. The movie manages the barest glimmers of the droll humor of Carell’s “The Office” and the snappy wit of Fey’s “30 Rock.” Carell and Fey have an easy, affectionate rapport as run-down parents whose big evening out leads to mistaken identity and sets them on the run from crooks. The actors try hard to make it work, but the lowbrow sensibilities of director Shawn Levy (the “Night at the Museum” movies) leave them tottering through painful verbal exchanges, lame stunts and other dreadfully unfunny hijinks.

PG-13 for sexual and crude content throughout, language, some violence and a drug reference. 88 min.

Still playing “The Last Song” Rated PG ★★ Have you heard the one about the two photogenic kids who meet cute in a Southern beach town, overcome differences in class and temperament and fall madly in love only to find that, in this cruel, cruel world, tragedy finds a way of trumping hormones? Dear God, it’s “Dear John,” right? Yes. But it’s also “The Last Song,” the second Nicholas Sparks movie to hit theaters in the past two months, a development only moonstruck teen girls and the facial tissue industry will welcome. Sparks wrote “The Last Song” at the behest of Miley Cyrus, the Disney Channel star who will soon end her run on the “Hannah Montana” TV series and wants to expand her brand into movies. Her young female fan base will likely be OK with her first try.

Others might be tiring of Sparks’ use of death as a plot device.

With Greg Kinnear and Liam Hemsworth. PG for thematic material, some violence, sensuality and mild language. 101 min.

“Clash of the Titans” Rated PG-13 ★★ Who wants to be a god, anyway? That’s the principle twist inserted into the remake of the sometimes fondly recalled, technologically dated 1981 film about the fury of the gods of Mount Olympus and the rise of the young, earthly demigod Perseus. This time, Perseus (Sam Worthington) bears a distaste for his godlike nature. He fights a serpentine Medusa, the sea monster Kraken and other mythical beasts for mankind, not for the deities. Liam Neeson plays the angry god Zeus, while Ralph Fiennes, in a cloud of black smog, plays Hades. Directed

by Louis Leterrier (2008’s “The Incredible Hulk”), “Titans” will lure moviegoers chiefly by its digital effects (which are good but forgettable) and its promise of 3-D spectacle (which, having been converted from 2-D to 3-D in post, disappoints altogether).

Worthington, the Australian star of “Avatar,” doesn’t supply the charisma the movie needs and the whole thing feels like a joyless slog. PG-13 for fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief sensuality.

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“How to Train Your Dragon” Rated PG ★★★ DreamWorks Animation has been at the head of the pack for adorable, fast-talking critters with movies such as “Over the Hedge,” ‘’Kung Fu Panda” and the “Madagascar” series. With DreamWorks’ latest, writer-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois tone down the glib factor and tell a pretty good action yarn, a boy-and-his-dragon story filled with fiery Viking battles, swordplay and dazzling aerial imagery. For small children, the movie may not rate as high on the laugh and sight-gag meter as some of those earlier, more slapstick-y DreamWorks tales.

After a slow, rather droning start, though, the film takes off on an exhilarating ride through the ancient Norse world, the hardscrabble landscape also a pleasant change from the softer

New this week!

“The Young Victoria” Rated PG ★★★ The first Queen Elizabeth has been the It Girl of the British monarchy for years in Hollywood. Queen Victoria now gets royal treatment with this fresh film biography starring Emily Blunt as the empire’s longest-reigning ruler in her early years. It’s good, old-fashioned period drama — not terribly lively, not terribly insightful, but rich in pageantry and fine moments of drama, with a beguiling performance from Blunt. The scene-stealer of “The Devil Wears Prada” proves just as engaging as queen bee of realms of other cartoons. Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and Gerard Butler lead the voice cast in the story of a misfit Viking teen who befriends a wounded dragon and discovers the beasts make better allies than enemies.

PG for sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language. 98 min.

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” Rated PG ★★1⁄2 The film adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s wildly successful cartoon novel series manages to put flesh and bone on the books’ stick figures without altering the series’ mildly subversive comic tone. That fidelity plays mostly for the good, though the books’ moron-plagued, middle-school protagonist — sixth-grader Greg (Zachary Gordon), who, let’s be honest, comes off as kind of self-absorbed, lazy and petty —

the corset crowd, bringing endearing zest, impetuousness and imprudence to this woman who eventually would grow into a symbol of sober, imperious widowhood for much of her time on the throne. With a supporting cast that includes Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson and Paul Bettany, director Jean-Marc Vallee presents a charming picture of affection and devotion between Victoria and the love of her life, Prince Albert (Rupert Friend). PG for some mild sensuality, a scene of violence, and brief incidental language and smoking.

104 min. loses some of his appeal when viewed under the harsh light of the camera. What’s funny on the page is less sympathetic on the screen, meaning the wimpy kid who’s going to win the hearts and minds of most moviegoers is not the title character, but his best buddy, supernerd Rowley (Robert Capron). While Greg tries various “rackets” to win popularity, Rowley remains true to his own passions. He’s the hero, while Greg is kind of a wet blanket. PG for some rude humor and language. 91 min.

“Bounty Hunter” Rated PG-13 ★1⁄2 In this rarely humorous, action-laden romantic-comedy by director Andy Tennant (“Hitch”), Gerard Butler, the buff, smirking Scottish star of “300” and “The Ugly Truth,” plays Milo Boyd, a former cop turned bounty hunter

who gets the job of his life: the opportunity to drag his ex-wife (Jennifer Aniston) to jail. Aniston, somewhat incredibly, is a hard-nosed crime reporter for the New York Daily News. While tenaciously pursuing a lead on a suspicious murder, Hurley misses a court appearance for a car accident, and the judge issues a warrant for her arrest. But neither actor is playing a character as much as they’re playing movie stars. You’re always fully aware that you’re watching Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler‚ and perhaps that’s the idea. For better and worse, “The Bounty Hunter” is merely an opportunity to sit in the dark with these two likable, attractive stars, rather than piece together distorted glimpses of them in the tabloids. PG-13 for sexual content including suggestive comments, language and some violence. 110 min.

“Hot Tub Time Machine” Rated R ★★ John Cusack heads back to the 1980s with this time-travel adventure that’s occasionally amusing but mostly is as lazy, self-involved and garish as that chintzy decade itself. Casting Cusack, one of the most enduring stars to rise out of the ’80s, adds some promise. If this guy signed on (he’s also a producer on the movie), it cannot be as dumb as it sounds, right? It pretty much is as dumb as it sounds, though, landing closer to the moronic monotony of “Dude, Where’s My Car?” than the inspired idiocy of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” Cusack and co-star Craig Robinson are fine as half of a foursome whose drunken night in a magic hot tub hurls them back to 1986, where they have a chance to fix their loser lives. But much of director Steve Pink’s comedy hinges on character actors Rob Corddry and Clark Duke, who overdo everything with a shrillness that makes the movie’s crass jokes and gags all the more obnoxious — and a lot less funny than they might have been. R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language. 99 min.

— All reviews by The Associated Press

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TEVE CARELL and Tina Fey’s night out is not so much a bad date as a sad date.

These are two of the funniest people ever on television, yet their big-screen “Date Night” is a dreary, uninspired waste of their talents — and those of the topname cast inexplicably appearing in small throwaway roles.

The movie manages the barest glimmers of the droll humor of Carell’s “The Office” and the snappy wit of Fey’s “30 Rock,” and those few moments underscore how barren “Date Night” is the rest of the time.

Carell and Fey have an easy, affectionate rapport as rundown parents looking to renew some romantic sparks with a night out in Manhattan to break their boring routine.

The actors try hard to make it work, but the lowbrow sensibilities of director Shawn Levy (the “Night at the Museum” movies, “Cheaper by the Dozen”) leave them tottering through painful verbal exchanges, lame stunts and other dreadfully unfunny hijinks (their pole dance at a strip club is just embarrassing, and like so many of the movie’s gags, it drags on

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a long time).

The sketchy premise in screenwriter Josh Klausner’s script casts Carell and Fey as Phil and Claire Foster, tired, ordinary but reasonably content with their cozy New Jersey life with their two kids. Once a week, Phil and Claire have a “date night” — dinner and the same old table talk at the same

old local restaurant.

After two of their friends (Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Wiig) announce they’re splitting up, the Fosters decide they need a marital booster and head to the city. Swiping a no-show couple’s dinner reservation at a trendy Manhattan restaurant, the Fosters are mistaken for blackmailers who stole a

★ 1/2

“Date Night” Rated PG-13 flash-drive with incriminating information about some very dangerous criminal types.

Date night turns into a night on the run for Phil and Claire, who cross paths with a mobster (Ray Liotta), a security expert (Mark Wahlberg), a devoted cop (Taraji P. Henson), a drug dealer and his stripper girlfriend (James Franco and Mila Kunis) and two relentless thugs (Common and Jimmi Simpson).

The filmmakers give these extra hands nothing remotely interesting or amusing to do (ongoing gags about Wahlberg’s shirtlessness are so repetitive they become exasperating).

Ruffalo’s character says his marriage has become so humdrum that he and his soon-

to-be-ex are nothing more than “excellent roommates.” That kind of sums up the dynamic between Fey and Carell, a couple of troupers who do try to deliver their drowsy lines as if they were saying funny stuff.

But like Phil and Claire, they are going through the motions, pretending they’re in a good comedy in hopes of keeping it from falling apart.

It falls apart, anyway. Clearly, things have gone wrong when the outtakes pasted over the end credits cannot even provoke a chuckle.

Skip this “Date Night.” Put the money toward your own night out at a fancy restaurant.

Call ahead for a reservation first.

“Date Night,” a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 for sexual and crude content throughout, language, some violence and a drug reference.

Running time: 88 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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Capturing the world’s beauty

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here is at least one person in Cache Valley who likes the inversion.

David Sidwell of River Heights said that although the dirty, smog-like air that fills the valley in the winter looks ugly, it can also make for the best pictures.

One of his favorite photos is a black and white shot of bare trees against smoky mountains in the background.

Gray mist floats among shrubs and the sky is filled with dark, murky fog.

That photo, along with hundreds of others, can be viewed and purchased at a Web site he shares with his wife, Marianne. Both Sidwells take photos; David specializes in landscape and nature, while Marianne likes taking images of people, especially children.

“My favorite thing about being a photographer is capturing an emotion,” Marianne said, adding she likes candid shots that tell stories.

David said he’s been taking pictures since he was a teenager and after he and Marianne were married, she started learning photography, too. They now shoot weddings together and David says they make a good combination because while he’s concerned about lighting and

composition, Marianne is making sure the bride looks good.

Their photography business is a side job and hobby for both of them. They also work full-time, Marianne as the director of Summerfest and David as the program director of the American West Heritage Center. David is also an adjunct professor at USU in the theater department, teaching storytelling and the history of theater. He says they don’t plan to make a living on photography, even though it would be fun.

Both the Sidwells have been published a few times in books and brochures and David and Marianne have both won several awards for their photography.

David’s pictures were even displayed in an exhibit in Italy in 2006.

David said his favorite place to take photos is Southern Utah, where he can capture images of the red rock. On his site he has pictures of Arches National Park and said he can’t get enough of the area. He also has a lot of pictures of the Great Salt Lake and Yellowstone. He said he and Marianne take their cameras everywhere, the best pictures often coming while having an adventure.

“I’ve also done a lot of Zion’s,” he said. “I’ve been crawling, swimming and

climbing all over there.”

David said his most memorable pictures, and often his favorites, have not been taken in comfortable circumstances. He says the light is always best in the morning, which means at times taking pictures in freezing temperatures.

“I like photos that make me suffer — crawling on rocks and freezing to death,” David said. “The best shots I have are taken at like negative 20 degrees outside.”

Marianne laughed as she told the story of a photo David took of their son buried in cold dirt, his face poking out of the ground. David said his son would get in the dirt without his shirt on and when he was too cold, he would wrap up in a towel for a few minutes and try again.

“So he likes to make other people suffer, too,” Marianne jokes.

Mostly, though, Marianne and David like to photograph the world as they see it, with all the color, beauty and laughter they can find.

“The world’s a mysterious place,” David said. “I like to capture the mystery.”

After the Sidwells have taken their photos they bring them into Photoshop to touch them up and improve their col-

Photos by Marianne Sidwell

ors. David said cameras like to average out colors and by using the computer he can increase saturation, make colors more vivid, add blur or make them black and white with high contrast.

“Some photographers don’t want to change anything, but I don’t mind showing the ideal of a situation,” David said.

“I’m trying to find the best light anyway.

I’m trying to find the best point of view.”

David pointed out one picture of a forest with a misty background and bright greens that he enhanced using Photoshop. He said when he was in that place, there was a sort of magical feeling there and with Photoshop he was able to create more of that emotion in the photo. Marianne said about any photo can benefit a little by using Photoshop and David added that almost everything he does using the computer can be done in chemical processing, but Photoshop is faster. What the Sidwells are mostly trying to do while taking photos and editing them is to be different.

“If you go to an art show sometimes there are 12 photographers and so I’m trying to set myself apart,” David said.

To view and purchase the Sidwells’ photos, visit their Web site at david sidwell.smugmug.com.

To view and purchase the Sidwells’ photos, visit their Web site at david sidwell.smugmug.com.

Story by Manette Newbold Portrait by Braden Wolfe

David Sidwell

Photos by David Sidwell

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All you need to know about liquor sales

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LTHOUGH SALES of alcoholic beverages increased 4 percent from 2008 to 2009, the Utah Legislature cut the operating budget for the Department of Alcoholic Beverages. For the consumer this will mean shorter operating hours for most stores and fewer part-time employees.

The Logan Liquor Store has five full-time employees who, I am told, will not be affected by these changes.

There are 41 state liquor stores, but only 15 of these are allowed to sell premium products labeled as limited. Logan is rated as 13th among these stores in selection of limited items.

Strangely, Logan has higher sales than several of the stores with better wine selections — their 2009 sales were $6.33 million, an increase of 4 percent. Total sales for the state were $265.6 million for fiscal year 2009.

Where does the money go that is generated from alcoholic beverage sales? Ten percent of gross sales go to the School Lunch fund; 5 percent goes to sales tax; about 22 percent makes it into the General Fund for the state of Utah; and another 22 percent is the federal

excise tax. That leaves around 40 percent for the cost of buying, storing and selling the product. In summary, the state receives a net of about $98 million from the DABC. I wrote about rosé wines last month. My favorite was one I purchased in Park City, and this wine is now in the Logan store.

The 2008 Domaine Massamier Rosé at $8.99 from Provence is made primarily from cinsault grapes. This rosé wine was fruity, dry and refreshing. Last weekend I paired the wine with a spanakopita made from feta cheese, fresh spinach and fillo sheets.

Other wines I recommended are the 2008 Crios de Susana Balbo Rosé at $12 from Argentina that is made from the malbec grape; the second is the 2009 Mulderbosch Rosé at $12.99 from South Africa that is made from pure cabernet sauvignon.

There are several wines I have consumed several times and continue to find them delicious in various food pairings.

The 2007 Burgans Albarino at $12.99 from western Spain is a gold-colored wine that is delicate with floral and mineral character. Two dry rieslings I have enjoyed are the 2008

Recommended

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By William Moore

Jacob’s Creek Riesling Reserve at $12.99 and the 2007 Trimbach Riesling at $17.88 from Alsace. I find the contrast between the Australian riesling with the citrus undertones and the more structured classic Alsatian riesling quite enjoyable under different settings. I like the rieslings paired with fish and seafood.

The last time I was in the

mier Rosé at $8.99 F 2008 Crios de Susana Balbo Rosé at $12 F 2009 Mulderbosch Rosé at $12.99 F 2007 Burgans Albarino at $12.99 F 2008 Jacob’s Creek Riesling Reserve at $12.99 F 2007 Trimbach Riesling at $17.88 F 2005 Castano Hécula Monastrell at $9.99 F 2007 Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Estates at $13.99

local store there was still the 2005 Castano Hécula Monastrell at $9.99 from Spain. I really like the bold berry flavor of this wine. I have also tasted the 2007 vintage, but prefer the older 2005. Buy it while the supply lasts. Although I am not a great fan of cabernet sauvignon wines, I did like the 2007 Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Estates at $13.99 from Washington. This is good

value in a wine that can be quite expensive.

There is continuing concern about sulfites in wine.

Why is it present, and does it causes headaches and other distress? Sulfites are added to preserve the quality of wine since, unlike beer, it cannot be pasteurized. Sulfur dioxide is also used to kill all natural yeast in grapes before adding the desired yeast. The European standards for sulfites are 160 ppm for red wine, 210 ppm for white wine and 400 ppm for sweet wine. Most countries, including the U.S., have standards similar to the EU. You can test your sensitivity to sulfites by eating about 2 ounces of dried apricots, as they have much more sulfite than wine.

William Moore is retired from the Utah State University chemistry and biochemistry department and currently lives in Smithfield.

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 wmoore3136@msn.com.

Songstress Sarah Sample up next at Crumb Brothers HE BRIDGER FOLK T Music Society will present a concert with songstress Sarah Sample at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 10, at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West, Logan. Tickets are $13 and available by calling 757-3468, or you can take your chances at the door. Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is strongly recommended.

Sample might reside in Seattle but her heart and taste for life’s little pleasures belong to Utah. The sweet folk goddess has spent the past several years refining her craft in several states, soaking up all the lessons and experience that make her latest release, “Born to Fly,” her best effort to date. Sample’s

raw, graceful voice is stronger and more self-assured, enhancing lyrical content that cuts to the bone.

The album is further strengthened by producer Scott Wiley (who also worked on the new Fictionist LP) and contributors including Paul Jacobsen, Ryan Tanner and Pat Campbell, among other all-star locals, many of whom might make an appearance at one of her Utah shows.

Two albums, an EP, and lots of touring into her career, Sample is quickly shedding any traces of upand-comer. With a potent mix of hard work, conviction, an uncanny and tireless ability to connect with audiences, relentless enthusiasm, a stunning voice and an enviable

catalog of great songs, it’s easy to see why.

With lyrics that “cut to the bone” (Salt Lake City Weekly) and “just a great, great voice” (Peter Mayer), Sample’s songs are getting noticed.

They won her a slot on 2010’s Cayamo Cruise and the mainstage at Folks Fest 2008 and she was a finalist at Telluride, Kerrville, Mountain New Song, Sisters and more. She’s also shared stages with Darrell Scott, Melissa Ferrick, Willy Porter, Peter Himmelman, Mark Stuart/Stacey Earle, Edie Carey and more, winning new and devoted listeners each time.

For more information, go to www.bridgerfolk.org or www.sarah sample.com.

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around the corner. The show will open with a gallery walk Friday, April 16, and run through May 14 at the AVA, 35 W. 100 South, Logan.

High School students’ original and current artwork can be submitted between 1 and 6 p.m.

April 13 and 14 for display in

the show. For more information, e-mail ava_gallery@ yahoo.com or call 753-2970.

Submission rules and requirements include: • There is no specific theme.

• All artwork must be clearly labeled with the artist’s first and last name, title of the piece, school and age.

• A completed submission form must be included; these

can be downloaded at www. avaarts.org.

• Artists do not have to sell their work but if they choose to they will receive 70 percent of the selling price. The AVA keeps 30 percent to cover administrative costs of selling the piece.

• Two-dimensional art must be securely framed.

• All entries must have a wire securely fastened to the

The Studio

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100 North

Winborg Art Gallery

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Center Street

Utah Public Radio Fuhriman’s Framing AVA Gallery

100 South sans by providing tools and supplies to rebuild workshops.

• Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli (52 Federal Ave.) will feature “Wallpaper: A Ceramic Installation” by Aurora Hughes Villa.

• Mountain Place Gallery will display the first phase of the

AVA looking for high school artists HE ALLIANCE FOR T the Varied Arts’ annual High School Art Show is just

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werda’s “Finding ExtraorHE ANNUAL dinary in the Ordinary.” spring Gallery Walk Whitney is a local artist who will be held from 6 uses traditional photographic to 9 p.m. Friday, April 16, and oil painting techniques and will feature many talentas well as a unique digital ed artists at various galleries painting method in proand businesses in downtown ducing her pieces. She Logan. The walk is free and also incorporates different open to the public. For more materials such as metal and information, call 753-2970 stained wood to offer style or e-mail ava_gallery@ and original flavor to each yahoo.com. Some participatwork of art. In her pieces ing locations include: she works to illustrate open• The Alliance for the Varended messages with both ied Arts (35 W. 100 South)

By Kristy Jordan visceral and aesthetic appeal. will feature the artwork of • The Cache County Cache Valley high school

By Richard Justis Courthouse (199 N. Main) students. This annual high will feature the permanent school art show will run exhibit of Cache Valley art from through May 14 and and photography. Enjoy has a wide variety of styles, turn-of-the-century photos mediums and creativity. of Shoshone Indians living • Fuhrimans Framing and in Cache Valley as well as Fine Art (75 S. Main) will contemporary and historic be featuring new coyote art by regional artists such cartoons by Jerry Fuhriman. as Minerva Teichert, Kent These beloved pieces are Wallis, Jerry Fuhriman, Ev fun to look at and instantly Thorpe and Lynda Burrus. recognizable.

• Global Village Gifts • Utah Public Radio (43 (146 N. 100 East) will feaS. Main) will present part ture two types of Haitian of the Utah State University artwork during the gallery family — five emerging phoWalk. Using simple tools, tographers will present a col- By Whitney Ferwerda metal sculptures are created lection of works that reveal from recycled oil drums hidden truths in concealed These are local photographers that clutter the shores in Haiti. identities, chosen characters of all skill levels with varied These sculptures vary from simand veiled personalities. It’s a subject interest; their work ple designs to complex, threemasquerade of sorts, celebrating will vary from portraiture to dimensional pieces. River stone liberty of expression and modes landscapes to flowers to fighter carvings are the other feature of identity without the conseplanes. All are welcome to join — stones are carved and polquences of owning the persona. the group and bring submis• The Studio (106 N. Church sions. Some work will be avail- ished to make textured sculpSt.) will feature work from tures. A portion of the evening’s able for purchase. members of the Cache Valley sales will be donated to Haitian • The Sportsman (129 N. Photographers Meetup Group.

Earthquake relief to assist artiMain) will present Whitney Fer-

frame and strung across the back of the work (side to side) so it can hang from an ‘S’ hook and chain system. Taped yarn or string is not acceptable. The frame does not have to have glass in it.

• Three-dimensional art must be securely fastened so the piece does not fall apart or break when being moved into place.

former Logan Hotel renewal project at 123 N. Main, featuring art by Russ Fjeldsted. A variety of art will be on display including oils, watercolors and pastels depicting Cache Valley and the Bear Lake area along with western memorabilia.

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Gear up for the spring gallery walk!

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Winners celebrate 2010 Young Artist Cup

E. Israelsen

K. Israelsen

Fronk

Erekson

Ditton

Hopkins

Curtis

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Mark

Scholle

Artist Cup Committee, in association with the Performing Arts Department at Mountain Crest High School, presented its 11th annual Young Artist Cup competition April 1 and 2. Students competed for cash prizes and trophies in six areas: graphic arts design for the annual logo; female vocalists; male vocalists; strings; brass/winds/percussion; and piano. And this year’s winners are: • First place (French horn): Emily Israelsen, grade 10 (parents: David & Michelle Israelsen of Providence) • Second place (flute): Crystal Erekson, grade 12 (parents: Richard & Dorlena Erekson of Nibley) • Third place (trumpet): Katie Israelsen, grade 12 (parents: David & Michelle Israelsen of Providence)

• First place: Joseph Ditton, grade 12 (parents: Happy & Debbie Ditton of Providence) • Second place: Cole Fronk, grade 11 (parents: Thomas & Monica Fronk of Providence) • Third place: Josh Hop-

kins, grade 11 (parents: Leigh & Sharon Hopkins of Nibley) • Honorable mention: Aidan Curtis, grade 11 (parent: Honi Jo Curtis of Nibley)

• First place: Elizabeth Pack, grade 12 (parents: Janet & William Pack of Hyrum) • Second place: Emma Mark, grade 10 (parents: Randy & Letha Mark of Wellsville) • Third place: Jesseca Scholle, grade 11 (parents: Chris & Glynn Scholle of Mendon) • Honorable mention: Natalie Fronk, grade 12 (parents: Thomas & Monica Fronk of Providence) • Honorable mention: Meagan Williams, grade 10 (parents: Mark & Kerri Williams of Millville)

• First place: Josh Hopkins, grade 11 (parents: Leigh & Sharon Hopkins of Nibley) • Second place: Rebekah Wakefield, grade 10 (parents: James & Sherri Wakefield)

Morgan

Smedley

• Third place: Richie Albrechtsen, grade 12 (parents: Doug & Connie Albrechtsen of Providence) • Honorable mention: Amanda Nalder, grade 12 (parents: Eric & Angie Nalder of Nibley) • Honorable mention: LaeKin Burgess, grade 11 (parents: Matt & Rachel Burgess of Wellsville)

• First place: Mary Osborne, grade 11 (parents: Kent & Teresa Osborne of Providence) • Second place: Sherrie Jensen, grade 11 (parents: Richard & Shelly Jensen of Young Ward) • Third place: Darian June, grade 10 (parents: Ron & Pam June of Millville)

• First place (cello): Taylor Clark, grade 12 (parents: Jed & Sharma Clark of Wellsville) • Second place (guitar): Joseph Ditton, grade 12 (parents: Happy & Debbie Ditton of Providence) • Third place (violin): Nicole Morgan, grade 11 (parents: Michael & Laura Morgan of Mendon) • Honorable mention (violin): Sara Smedley, grade 11 (parents: Wes & Jeannie Smedley of Nibley)

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June

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‘If a kid is scared, he’s not bored’ ‘Fablehaven’: ‘The best-selling series you’ve never heard of’

By The Associated Press

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S HE TOILED away in the basement of his home, Brandon Mull quickly ditched the mundane for a world teeming with zombies, trolls, imps and centaurs.

The result has been the popular “Fablehaven” series, or what the author describes as “Jurassic Park meets Harry Potter.” The fifth and final installment, “Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison,” arrived in stores last month.

Beginning with book one in 2006, each has been a New York Times best seller; the series has sold more than 650,000 copies, according to Nielsen Bookscan, and Mull says a movie is now in the works.

Still, the series does not have the national profile that it could and certainly has not risen to the enormous success of other fantasy series, such as “Harry Potter” or “Twilight,” Mull says.

“My agent likes to call it the best-selling series you’ve never heard of,” he says.

But “Fablehaven” fans are ready for the next adventure in Mull’s enchanted sanctuary, where magic and magical beasts exist hidden from the outside world.

“People are pretty excited when his books come out,” says John Clukey, events and outreach coordinator at Sam Weller’s Bookstore, an independent shop in downtown Salt Lake City. “He has national distribution, which we always think is pretty awesome for people in Utah.”

The 35-year-old Mull worked for years in marketing and advertising, relegating his fiction writing to a secret, off-hours pursuit.

That changed, though, after the Salt Lake City-based Shadow Mountain published his first

“Fablehaven” book. Simon & Schuster picked up the paperback rights, which has given the books an added boost in sales.

Fellow Shadow Mountain author Obert Skye, author of the “Leven Thumps” series, says Mull’s world is creepy in some respects but also inviting.

“You have creatures you recognize. It’s not totally geeked out.

It’s its own thing, not so heavy,” Skye notes.

As he writes from his home in Highland, about 30 miles from Salt Lake, Mull takes his imagining one step further, picturing his books’ being read to a rapt fifthgrade audience, children about 10 years old.

“One of my theories is, if a kid is scared, he’s not bored,” the author says.

A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a graduate of Brigham Young University, Mull began his career with Shadow Mountain for a reason: The publisher is the more mainstream imprint of Mormon church-owned Deseret Book Co. Still, Mull is just the latest example of an LDS fantasy writer making it big. Stephenie Meyers, author of the ubiquitous vampire romance series “Twilight,” is Mormon. So is the successful Orson Scott Card.

“Fablehaven” veers away from the hidden lessons or cautionary tales contained in “Twilight.”

Mull’s stories, which offer plenty of fantasy-filled adventures, are not pushing an overt religious allegory or an underlying Mormon message.

In some ways he does tiptoe around his observant audience.

Black magic is a good example.

Mull says that witchcraft practiced by the characters in some fantasy books alienate religious readers.

“I mean Utah itself is a superconservative place. I didn’t want my neighbors mad at me,” he says.

Mull’s first “Fablehaven” book starts with brother and sister Seth and Kendra stumbling on a

magical park while visiting their grandfather, who oversees one of the mystical enclaves. They learn that natural reserves nurturing mythical creatures have existed for centuries.

In the ensuing books, Seth and Kendra get a little older and survive their share of close calls.

A powerful plague threatens the heroes in book three. By book four, they have to dodge dragons in a sanctuary and lift a sacred artifact from right under the noses of vigilant centaurs.

Breaking the rules of reality has been a longtime activity for Mull. As a child, he was a habitual daydreamer and storyteller who invented games to play with his siblings. He spent his high school years living in Connecticut, in a house surrounded by trees. As the day grew darker,

the young Mull would stare deep into the woods and try to picture supernatural creatures rustling through the forest and emerging into his backyard.

He never thought of a meaningful way to channel his escapist imagination. For one, he did not like reading as a kid. All that changed when he stumbled through the wardrobe of someone else’s famous fantasy world: C.S. Lewis’ Narnia. Something magical happened.

“It pushed my buttons and kind of broke my brain,” Mull says.

“That’s the one that made me go, ‘Oh wait a minute. Books aren’t just about kids whose dogs died.

There are other things out there.’”

He wrote his first short stories in high school. After graduating from college in 2000 he sweated out a novel, but nothing happened with that first try. Shadow Mountain, where he submitted the first book, liked the attempt and told him to give it another shot. That shot was “Fablehaven.”

The science-fiction approach of anything goes is anathema to Mull. He has strict guidelines for writing fantasy. Rules of reality should be broken, not shattered beyond recognition. Even fantasy worlds need to make sense and have a governing system. So why would a world with magical creatures in forests exist? The familiar, down-to-earth idea of wildlife parks tied it all together, giving “Fablehaven” its reason for being.

In the final book, Mull promises big betrayals. There will be revelations and payoffs for attentive readers who have been invested since the beginning.

There will also be exotic travel.

At last count, the characters had roamed as far as Australia, Finland and Turkey.

Book five sends Seth and Kendra on a mission to thwart the designs of the nefarious Sphinx, leader of the Society of the Evening Star. The Sphinx is after artifacts that can open a notorious demon prison, Zzyzx. If this happens, evil forces will take control of the world.

No pressure.

“It’s the biggest roller coaster of a book I’ve written so far,” Mull says.

The one downside of the whole ride is that Mull will have to say goodbye to Kendra and Seth, who feel like old friends.

The break is more than sentimental. He is leaving Shadow Mountain for his next series, a three-part major release put out

by Simon & Schuster.

“The Beyonders” is about a world where an evil emperor is breaking the spirits of heroes.

The world has rules but is Mull’s first attempt at creating it all from scratch.

“It’s my most epic thing I’ve tried to put together,” he says.

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On the Net: • http://www.brandonmull.com • http://www.fablehaven.com

* This week’s New York Times Bestseller List * HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Caught” by Harlan Coben 2. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett 3. “House Rules” by Jodi Picoult 4. “The Silent Sea” by Clive Cussler 5. “Bite Me” by Christopher Moore PAPERBACK (TRADE) FICTION 1. “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis 2. “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” by Chelsea Handler 3. “The Pacific” by Hugh Ambrose 4. “Change Your Brain ...” by Daniel G. Amen 5. “Courage and Consequence” by Karl Rove

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Books

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A matinee will start at 2 p.m. April 24. Tickets are $9 for adults and $8 for seniors and children. For reservations, call 435-723-8392.

“The Curious Savage” is a warmhearted tale of Mrs. Ethel Savage, a slightly eccentric, extremely wealthy widow. Being the recipient of her deceased husband’s estate, she wants to make the best use of it despite her greedy stepchildren’s selfish attempts to get their hands on it. Mrs. Savage, however, has put her wealth

into negotiable bonds in the hopes of establishing a fund to help others realize their hopes and dreams, much to the siblings’ chagrin. They then commit her to a “sanitarium” in hopes of shocking her to her senses.

There she meets a variety of social misfits, all needing exactly the kind of help Mrs. Savage can provide and who eventually appear more sane than those outside the walls of the institution. These individuals immediately endear themselves to Mrs. Savage and, with the help of her newfound friends, Mrs. Savage leads her stepchildren on a merry chase.

For more information, visit www. heritagetheatreutah.com.

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Answers from last week

Friday Everyone is invited to join a weekly peace vigil from 5:30 to 6 p.m. every Friday on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North in Logan. For more information, call 755-5137.

The Humane Society is offering low-cost spay and neuter clinics open to the general public every Friday in April. Feline neuter $35, feline spay $40, canine neuter $50 and canine spay is $60. Walk-ins welcome from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or call 792-3920 to reserve a spot.

Robert Hamlin will perform live music from 6 to 7 p.m. and Deja Vu will perform from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South, Logan. Everyone is invited.

Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli will have live music Friday. Everyone is invited.

Why Sound will host its Singer Songwriter Competition: Finals at 7 p.m. Friday. Admission is $5. For more information, visit www. myspace.com/whysound.

OPTIONS for Independence will visit Baby Animal Days from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Friday. For more information or to schedule transportation, call 753-5353 ext. 108.

An overnight scrapbook retreat will be held Friday and Saturday at the Crystal Inn in Logan. Cost is $50 per person and includes room, gift, dinner and breakfast, drawings, contests and prizes. For more information, contact Lori Hurd at 435-730-1797.

Saturday The Utah Fibromyalgia Association will host an education meeting from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday in Room 5 at Logan Regional Hospital. This month’s program will be watching a DVD lecture called “Opening Up the Healer Within: How to Deal With Difficult Emotions.” Everyone is invited.

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform from 6 p.m. to closing Saturday at the Cracker Barrel Cafe in Paradise. Everyone is invited.

Unicorn Pillow Theatre’s April show, “Run to the Roadhouse, Nellie (He Can’t Corner You There!),” will play at 2 p.m. April 10, 17 and 24 at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main, Logan. Tickets are $3 for ages 2 and older and will be sold at the door.

Spencer Jensen will perform live music from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Everyone is invited.

Aggies for Common Ground and the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will host the annual Race for Ability on Saturday at USU. There will be a 5K and 10K; all proceeds will benefit Common Ground. To register, visit www.cg adventures.org or call 713-0288.

Hills of Home choir will perform at 3 p.m.

Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. Everyone is invited.

Hyrum city’s sesquicentennial celebration will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Mountain Crest School auditorium. Program will feature speaker Hyrum Smith, the Hyrum Community Choir Children’s Chorus and a sesquicentennial quilt drawing.

USU’s Museum of Anthropology will host its second annual Prehistoric Artifact Road Show from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Guests are invited to bring items to the museum for a panel of USU archaeologists to evaluate and answer questions (monetary estimates will not be provided). There will also be various children’s activities. For more information, call 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum.usu.edu.

Matt Ben Jackson will perform with Four in the Morning, The Shuttles and Chevalier (rock/alternative) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5.

Sunday Caffe Ibis Gallery Deli will have live music Sunday. Everyone is invited.

Members of the Northern Chapter of the American Bikers Aiming Towards Education (A.B.A.T.E) will hold their monthly meeting at noon Sunday at Ruby Tuesday’s, 43 E. 1400 North, Logan. All interested motorcyclists 18 and older are invited to attend.

The Post-Mormon Community Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at a local restaurant. Newcomers welcome. For more information, visit www.PostMormon.org/logan.

Monday The Logan Chapter of NARFE will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Heritage Glass Factory, 130 W. 700 South, Smithfield. There will be a short presentation and a tour of the factory. If anyone needs a ride or other information, contact Wallace Taylor at 752-7058. All retired and active federal employees and their spouses are invited to attend.

Suzanne Carbotte will present “Focusing in on Mid-Ocean Ridge Segmentation” at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Room 105 of USU’s geology building. This lecture is targeted to university students and faculty and professional scientists involved in geological research and study. For more information, call 797-1273.

Detective Denny Bird will present rules and suggestions to help keep your children safe with Internet precautions as part of the Lunch and Learn Series at noon Tuesday in Logan Regional Hospital Classroom 8 (adults only). To register, call 716-5310.

Tuesday A new session of Learn-to-Skate classes will start Tuesday, at the Eccles Ice Center,

2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. Classes are for all ages and abilities. Also, Hockey 101 classes start Saturday, April 17. For more information, including specific times and prices, call 787-2288 or visit www.ecclesice.com.

Suzanne Carbotte will present “Peering Beneath an Erupting Volcano on the Bottom of the Ocean” as part of the USU geology department’s Ridge 2000 Distinguished Lecture Series at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the TSC auditorium. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

For more information, call 797-1273.

The Cache Valley Watercolor Society will host its monthly meeting Tuesday in the northeast classroom of the Logan Library, 255 N. Main. A critique will begin at 6:30 p.m.; at 7 p.m. artist Edward Mendenhall will demonstrate how to make “color explosion portraits.”

For more information, contact Edward at 2585269 or toffeemd@hotmail.com.

OPTIONS for Independence will attend the Brass Happenings concert at USU and dinner from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. The concert is free and dinner prices will vary. For more information or to schedule transportation, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

Shauna Flammer will demonstrate how to maker her mouth-watering rolls and some different salads at a free cooking and community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

Health Awareness Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at Alpine Home Care and Hospice in Providence. There will be fun, education and refreshments. For more information, call 753-7001.

Wednesday “Jazz and Cocktails” — featuring the Jon Gudmundson Quartet — are served up from 8 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday at Le Nonne, 129 N. 100 East, Logan. For more information, call 752-9577.

The Cache Valley Home Builders Association will meet at noon Wednesday at the new Iron Gate Grill, 155 Church St., Logan. Gene Valle from Questar will talk about the Thermwise program. Cost is $10. RSVP to DeAnna at 792-4441.

The John Birch Society meeting will feature a discussion on current events and legislation at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Book Table. For more information, call 753-2930.

The Cache Valley Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the northeast corner of the Logan Library building. Stuart W. Howell will discuss “The History of Baseball in Cache Valley.” The lecture is free and everyone is invited.

Love and Logic Parenting classes will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. April 14, 21 and 28 at the Logan Family Center, 50 S. 400 East, Logan.

Class is free but space is limited; for more information or to sign up, call 755-5171.

University of Utah poet and nonfiction writer Paisley Rekdal will read from her works at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at USU’s Haight Alumni Center. Admission is free and everyone is invited. Free refreshments and books for purchase and autographing will be available. For more information, contact Chris at chris.cokinos@usu.edu or 245-7769.

Dandy Lies & Daffy Dealings (poetry/hip hop) will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

Quilters will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main, Logan, to make quilts to donate to various charities within the community. The group will eat lunch afterwards. For more information, contact Aimee at 753-5353 ext 105.

Thursday The Worm Creek Opera House in Preston, Idaho, will hold auditions for the musical “Annie Jr.” at 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

Come prepared with a one-minute monologue and a Broadway song. Male and female roles available for ages 6 through 16 only. For information, visit www.wormcreek.blogspot.com.

Erin Lofley will present “Emotion Coaching: Helping Children Deal With Strong Emotions” (based on the work of John Gottman) at 11:15 a.m. Thursday at the Logan Family Center, 50 S. 400 East, Logan. A copy of Gottman’s book will be given away as a door prize. There is no cost and everyone is invited.

Water and Walls will perform with Futsetta, Poor Ophelia and Sheii Preece (indie/jazz/blues) at 8 p.m. Thursday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

Dr. Fisher from the Advanced Spine & Health Center will talk about how to live a 100-year lifestyle at a free community class from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. Participants can also enter to win a massage or pillow. Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

The Knotty Knitters meet from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan. Everyone is invited to work on their crochet, knitting, needlework, crossstitch projects and more. For more information, contact Cathy at 752-3923.

Upcoming events The Stratford Loosle Smithfield Health Days Young Musicians Competition will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 16, in the Sky View High School auditorium. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

CAPSA is looking for volunteers to help victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Victim advocate training starts May 11; bilingual speakers are encouraged to volunteer. For more information, contact Ruth at 753-2500.

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