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Provo-based band plays to a sold-out crowd at Logan City Limits concert APRIL 14-20, 2017

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April 14-20, 2017

COVER 6 The National Parks head lineup for this year’s Logan City Limits event

THE ARTS 3 ‘Broadway’s H!t Musical’ coming to the Ellen Eccles Theatre on Wednesday

4 AFCO to perform with

Morten Lauridsen April 15

4 Night Ranger coming

to Cache Valley Cruise-In

4 ‘The Jolt’ jump rope

event coming up April 28

5 Alex Sharpe to sing at

the Tabernacle on April 15

5 Smithsonian exhibit still open at Hyrum Museum

MOVIES 8 ‘Boss Baby’ roughs up

new ‘Smurfs’ at box office

9 Two and a half stars:

‘The Fate of the Furious’ takes franchise up a notch

COLUMNS 8 Dennis Hinkamp gets on board with robot revolution

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

Brumby drummer Dylan Self lets loose during the Las Vegas-based band’s performance on April 6 at Logan City Limits in the Ellen Eccles Theatre. On the cover: Brady Parks of The National Parks performs at Logan City Limits. (Jeff Hunter/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR Can it really be that Easter weekend is already upon us? It’s funny how just a couple of weeks ago, I was worried that winter would never end. But now it already seems like we’re steaming too quickly through spring and onto summer.

But on the plus side, there’s a lot of great events going on this weekend in Cache Valley, with a number of Easter egg hunts going on in places like North Logan, Nibley and downtown Logan. While Sunday is primarily dedicated to the real reason behind Easter at

many of our local churches.

Along those lines, I wanted to you this space to share a poem that Terri Barnes recently sent in. Unfortunately, space is tight in Cache Magazine these days, so I’m rarely able to run poems anymore.

But I felt this one was very appropriate:

They watched as you walked in pain, with the cross upon you back. throwing stones and mocking you, it was an unforgiving act.

They drove nails through your hands and feet, the pain was so intense.

But no one even bothered, to come to your defense.

A crown of thorns upon your head, as the blood ran down your face.

Father knew there was no one pure enough, to ever take your place.

You died for us that we might live, that our sins could be forgiven.

I pray that we will remember this, to rejoice with him in heaven.

Terri Barnes Thanks, Terri. And have a fun and safe weekend, and a very Happy Easter everyone.

— Jeff Hunter

Talented improv troupe from NYC to perform in Logan April 19 The red carpet is coming to Logan! On April 19, CacheARTS brings the hysterical master improvisers of “Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” from New York City for a completely unscripted, made-up-on-thespot theatrical awards show (think the Tonys).

With triple-threat talent, these comedians create a spontaneous evening of music, humor, and laughter all from audience suggestions. This musical comedy is perfect for the whole family.

“Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets are available at cacheARTS.org, at the CacheARTS ticket office at 43 S. Main St., or by calling 752-0026.

“Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” will come to the Ellen Eccles Theatre in downtown Logan at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19.

Like the hit television series “Whose Line Is It Anyway”, the talented comedians of “Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” make

up all of their material on the spot using audience ideas. The audience arrives on the red carpet to a fast-paced awards

show leading to a full musical production, all based on viewer suggestions. Every lyric, every dance move, every piano hook

is new every night and based off of the musical title ideas the audience puts into a fishbowl as they enter the theater.

Once the show is underway, each of the four main improv actors draw made-up titles from the fishbowl and perform a song based off of the suggestion as if it were a part of a musical nominated for a “Phony” award.

After the four songs, the ceremony’s emcee asks the audience to vote on a favorite, which the actors then develop into a fully-staged minimusical with an improvised plot, improvised costumes … improvised everything.

“Broadway’s Next H!t Musical” turns audience ideas into absolute hilarity that will have you holding your sides and falling in love with the memorable characters, witty dialogue and plot twists. It has been hailed as “brilliant” by TheatreWeek and “remarkable” by The New York Post, and will have you on the edge of your seat.

Tickets on sale now for UFOMT season Single tickets for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre’s silver anniversary season are on sale now.

Thanks to increased popularity and by using the newly restored Utah Theatre, the Festival’s season has been extended additional weeks and will run from June 23-Aug. 9.

“This season is a celebration of iconic genius,” said Michael Ballam, founding general director. “All the works are the supreme offerings in each form of storytelling through music.”

The Festival kicks off its 25th

season with “Seussical,” a musical featuring favorite Whoville characters including the Cat in the Hat and Horton the Elephant, June 23-Aug. 7, at the Utah Theatre.

Productions at the Ellen Eccles Theatre include “Rex” (July 6-Aug. 7); “Madame Butterfly” (July 7-Aug. 8); “The Music Man” (July 7-Aug. 9); “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (July 8-Aug. 8); and “The Pirates of Penzance” (July 8-Aug. 9).

Special events this season include a lifetime opportunity to spend an evening with 93-year-old Oscar-, Tony-

and Pulitzer Prize-winning genius in “A Tribute to Sheldon Harnick” July 19. Harnick wrote “Fiddler on the Roof” and dozens of other musicals.

He is scheduled to personally narrate the evening through his music and memories of his career.

Other concerts include The Pianists, the International Opera Semifinals and Finals, and Giuseppe Verdi’s crowning achievement, “The Verdi Requiem.” The work will join forces of the American Festival Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Craig Jessop, with the Festival’s world-class

orchestra and soloists.

The productions will be presented in repertory with full orchestra, and the season bursts with concerts, breakfast with the stars, Academy lectures and interactive classes, backstage tours and more.

Performance tickets are available online at utahfestival.org, by calling 750-0300 ext. 3 or in person at the box office located in the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West. Ticket prices vary by performance and start at $13. Discounts are available for season ticket purchases and groups.

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all mixed up Night Ranger to rock Cruise-In 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 Christian,” Night Ranger is celebrating their 35th anniversary this year and released their 12th studio album, “Don’t Let Up,” last week.

AFCO hosting Lauridsen Final concert of the ’16-’17 season set for Saturday night 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-to-bemissed 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.”

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Night Ranger will perform on Friday, June

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The American Festival Chorus will present “Lux Aeterna: The Choral Music of Morten Lauridsen” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

‘Jolt’ jump rope show coming to the Rec Center Just Jumpin’ presents “The Jolt” at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 28, at the Logan Recreation Center, 195 S. 100 West.

Admission is $5 per person for ages 3 and older, $3 for USU students with ID or $20 for a family (immediate household).

A raffle and silent auction will be held from 6 to 7 p.m.

This year, “The Jolt” will feature four of the nation’s most talented jumpers, all of which are national and world champions. They have performed and taught jump rope throughout the world, including the 2012 London Olympics.

The guest jumpers have also performed on television on “America’s Got Talent” and “The Tonight Show.”

Funds raised by “The Jolt” will go towards helping the Just Jumpin’ jump rope team compete at the USA Jump Rope National Championship this summer in Orlando, Florida.

Just Jumpin’ will also host a jump rope workshop for children, youth and adults from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 22, in the gymnasium at River Heights Elementary School, 780 E. 600 South in River Heights.

Cost is $25 per person and includes a free jump rope and two tickets to “The Jolt” show on April 28.

Just Jumpin’ is the original competitive jump rope team in the state of Utah and consists of 16 advanced jumpers from Cache Valley. Just Jumpin’ placed seventh in freestyle events and the 2016 USA Jump Rope National Championship.

Visit justjumpin.org for more information.

To accompany and complement the exhibit, the museum will also be curating two companion exhibits: “Tradition and Innovation: Working Together in Hyrum,” as well as “Work Worth Doing.” The first of these exhibits illustrates many components of traditional and innovative work in Hyrum throughout the area’s history, particularly the effect the growth of the E.A. Miller Company has had on the community.

The second focuses on the work of present-day community members and asks how we value that work.

“Every day we depend on the work of countless people to ensure

that we eat, can move around, are comfortable, and are safe,” museum director Jami J. Van Huss said. “Whether performed yesterday or decades ago, we rely on the work of innumerable people without really even thinking about it, from farmers and road crews to linemen and law enforcement officers. Work is crucial to our community and we are thrilled to host this exhibit, which demonstrates that the work we all do — whether paid, volunteer, out in the world, or in our own home — is important.”

For more information, visit hyrum citymuseum.org or call 245-0208.

Sharpe returning to Logan Vocalist to perform at Tabernacle Saturday 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” 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 on “Dancing with the Stars,” “The Today Show,” “Good Morning AmerAcclaimed vocalist Alex Sharpe will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, April ica” and for the National Christmas Tree 15, at the Logan Tabernacle.

Lighting in 2009.

Vocal Performance Camp

The 20th annual Vocal Performance Camp for Teens will be held July 31 through Aug. 4 in the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University.

Entitled “How the West Was Sung,” the USU Department of Music-sponsored camp will run from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, and offers vocal instruction, choir and musical theater training for teens 12 to 18 years old. The week will culminate with performances in all areas.

Michelle Broadbent returns to this year as the guest artist. A former VPC participant, Broadbent holds vocal degrees from USU, BYU and a pending doctorate from Arizona State University. Her many accomplishments include BYU Singer of the Year, Outstanding Opera Performance Award and concerto winner at USU, BYU and ASU. Registration is $125 and is open to all singers regardless of experience. Classes are limited by age enrollment and accepted on a first-come basis. For more information and registration forms, visit vocalperformancecamp@usu.edu or call Bonnie Slade at 435-760-7361.

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.

Ban wins piano contest

David Ban was named the first-place winner of the third annual Cache Symphony Orchestra Piano Concerto Competition held Jan. 21 in the Fine Arts Center on the USU campus. Ban, 15, is the son of Lihong Teng of Logan and a student of professor Gary Amano.

Kayla Fuller was awarded second place, Megan Allred took third place and Camellia Yuan received Honorable Mention honors. Winners received a cash prize of $150, $100, $75 and $50, respectively. The annual competition was open to students up to age 18 from Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties.

The Cache Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Mark Emile, offers two concerts each season. Ban will perform the “Hungarian Fantasy” by Franz Liszt on the Cache Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert on April 29. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at Utah State University in the Morgan Theatre. Tickets are available at cca.usu. edu or at the door.

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A Smithsonian Exhibition entitled “The Way We Worked” is now on display at the Hyrum City Museum, 50 W. Main St. in Hyrum.

“The Way We Worked” exhibit, which will be open through May 13, examines the strength and spirit of American workers through archival images, compelling videos and fascinating interviews. As the tour makes its year-long trip through Utah, we’re reminded that “we aren’t the Beehive state for nothing,” and will better understand how work is a key component of Utah’s own identity.

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Provo-based band The National Parks felt ‘very comfortable’ performing for a sold-out college crowd during a Logan City Limits concert at the Ellen Eccles Theatre WORDS AND PHOTOS: JEFF HUNTER

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oundcheck is complete, and The National Parks now have Macfarlane were joined by John Hancock on electric guitar, Cam nearly six hours to relax before they’re scheduled to return Brannelly on drums and Megan Taylor on violins. to the stage at the Ellen Eccles Theatre as the centerpiece Well, Taylor actually goes by Parks these days. of this year’s Logan City Limits music and art event.

“We’ve had so many violinists that now is the time to make That means it wasn’t too difficult to convince the band’s only one stay,” Parks says with a laugh, displaying the wedding ring remaining original members — vocalist/guitarist Brady Parks he’s been wearing since last November. and keyboardist/vocalist Sydney Macfarlane — into a brief “When Bae (Sorenson) left on her (LDS) mission, we needed interview in the group’s tiny, backstage dressing room. a replacement violinist for her, and through our tour manager, “We like playing Logan,” Macfarlane insists as she sits down we were able to meet Megan,” he explains. “She came to one in a corner. practice, and we were like, ‘She’s in.’ She was amazing. She was “Yeah,” Parks seconds, “it’s always just a perfect fit.” fun.”

“And then kind of since then, I was Founded in Provo in 2013, The trying to … ummm … date her. I was National Parks originally started out as in love with her, but she was dating a six-piece band comprised of primarsomeone. And it was a huge mess. But ily BYU students. But just before the somehow we’re married now, and that’s group released it’s first album, “Young,” great.” in September 2013, half of its members Parks, who also wears much longer “moved onto to other projects” before hair now than he did three years ago, has they could embark on the band’s first also been hard at work on The National tour.

Parks’ third album. Tentatively titled, “We were like, ‘Oh man,’” Parks “Places,” the group hopes to release it recalls. “But we figured out how to do it in late summer or early fall, and then with just three of us.” embark on another national tour.

By the time The National Parks “I don’t know how I do it, I just do it played a concert at a park in Nibley in — it’s kind of a whirlwind,” Macfarlane July 2014, the group’s original violinsays when asked how she manages to ist had also been replaced and Macfarjuggle her home life with her life as a lane was — in Parks’ words — “super musician. pregnant” and unable to perform at that “But it’s crazy. I’m just a mom at show. home … it’s like two worlds, for real,” “Oh yeah,” Macfarlane says. “And she continues. “Like, I’m at home maknow my son, Will, is almost three years ing dinner and changing diapers, and old. That’s crazy.” then the next week I’m playing a show In addition to Macfarlane and her husin New York to a sold-out crowd. It’s band Mike’s new addition, the past three like it’s just crazy.” years have brought on even more chang“Crazy” would certainly describe the es for The National Parks. During one atmosphere at the Ellen Eccles Theatre period, the band more than doubled in that evening. Playing in a venue primarsize as TNP released its second album, ily reserved for ballets, operas and musi“Until I Live,” in August 2015.

The National Parks band founder and front- cals, The National Parks played in front “While we were writing the second man Brady Parks (top) married violinist Megan of a sold-out theater, taking the stage album, we thought, We need a big following The Young North and Brumby Taylor (above) last November in Provo. band,” Parks says. on the first day of the Logan City Limits “And that’s when we had like 12 Music, Art and Film Festival. Sponsored people,” Macfarlane says with a chuckle before adding, “Just

by Aggie Radio, the event moved into downtown Logan this kidding.” year after spending the previous seven years up on the campus “We did have seven,” Parks clarifies. “But seven people in a of Utah State University. band is just kind of insane, so we’ve made it work with five us.

And judging by the reaction of the primarily student crowd, We figured out how to do it and make the big sound, and it’s it was clearly a good decision to set up The National Parks in worked out great.”

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The National Parks pose for a photo on stage at the Ellen Eccles Theatre prior to playing their final song at their Logan City Limits concert on April 6.

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We love robots.

Robots love us. We are they and they are we, and we will all live together in a “Yellow Submarine.” There was the snarky malevolent HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the lovable squeaky trash can R2-D2 from the “Star Wars” quadrillogy pre-postquel, the bad robot turned good robot from the future who tuned into the Governator of California in the present.

The Tin Man in the “Wizard of Oz” was a heartless robot, I guess. I grew up with the “Danger Will Robinson” robot in my head from the TV

Slightly Off Center DENNIS HINKAMP

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We need to adapt to ‘Boss Baby’ roughs up the Robot Revolution ‘Smurfs: Lost Village’

show “Lost in Space.”

Robby the robot in “Forbidden Planet” is still one of my favorite lumbering piles of processors.

At some point things started getting weird.

Robots started becoming more human. There were

good androids in “Star Trek,” bad ones in “Blade Runner” and ambiguous ones in “Westworld.”

There were robots who wanted to be human, and humans who wanted to be robotic. The next generations included “The Billion Dollar Man” (adjusted for inflation), “Robocop” and “The Matrix” series where humans had XLR plugs in the back of their necks so they could move like real unreal people in some Xbox game gone rogue.

The most recent set of robots are blurring real and artificial lines. Depictions such as “The Ghost in the Shell” and the British series “Humans” put See ROBOT on Page 11

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Smurfs are feeling a little blue this weekend.

The third installment in Sony’s animated series, “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” made its box-office debut in third place, with $14 million — far behind family-friendly holdovers “The Boss Baby” and “Beauty and the Beast,” according to studio estimates Sunday.

Featuring the voices of Demi Lovato and Joe Manganiello, “Smurfs,” which reportedly cost $60 million to make, has not charmed critics either. Its earnings were worse than the 2013 opening of “Smurfs 2,” which went on to gross $347.5 million worldwide despite a $17.5 million debut and a heftier $105 million price tag.

But the fate of the third “Smurfs” is not necessarily sealed, says ComScore’s senior media analyst, Paul Dergarabedian.

“There are other revenue streams for films like this,” Dergarabedian said, noting international profits and home video potential that could recoup production costs.

In first place, “The Boss Baby” added $26.3 million in its second weekend in theaters, bringing its North American total to $89.4 million. Sufficient buzz and the benefit of voice star Alec Baldwin’s popular portrayal of President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” likely helped the film succeed, Dergarabedian said.

Meanwhile, “Beauty and the Beast” earned $25 million to take second place at the box office. In four weeks, Disney’s live-action fairy tale has brought in $432.3 million domestically.

While the family films dominated, moviegoers had other options on a See BABY on Page 9

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Baby Continued from Page 8 relatively quiet weekend. The tepidly reviewed buddy comedy “Going in Style,” starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin, opened in fourth place, with $12.5 million.

The faith-based drama “The Case for Christ” also launched with $3.9 million from 1,174 theaters.

In limited release, the Chris Evans drama “Gifted” took in $476,000 from 56 theaters, while the World War II drama “Their Finest” grossed $77,000 from four screens in New York and Los Angeles.

The relative quiet at the box office is ending soon. “The Fate of the Furious,” the eighth installment in “The Fast and the Furious” franchise, speeds into theaters next weekend, followed by “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” a few weeks later.

“There are a lot of box-office heavyweights looming on the horizon,” Dergarabedian said.

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on superhero.

They’ve essentially imbued Dom and — especially — Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) with superpowers. Hobbs throws full-grown men as far as Captain America can throw someone.

Johnson is a big dude, but he’s seen here ripping a cement bench from its footings in a jail cell just so he can use it for a few curls.

Again, why not, right? the same reason Roman Do we even have brought a Lamborghini to a frozen lake. Because, to mention the plot, which involves a comwhy not? puter program called Cipher is out to get The God’s Eye (which Dom (Vin Diesel) and I’m sure I should’ve his crew of street-racing miscreants-turned-super- remembered from AP Photo an earlier movie), spies while she tries to The eighth installment of “The Fast and Furious” franchise —”The Fate of the Furious” — EMPs, nukes, Russian take over the world with hits theaters nationwide this weekend. separatists, homicidal her sweet hacking skills. self-driving cars, an The evolution of the sound effects as hackers “Fast and Furious” movies abandoned Russian navigate hilariously over- is something to behold. submarine (serithe-top user-interfaces. I ously!), a mile-long The first movie seems so guess it wouldn’t be the race that is the longest quaint now compared to same watching Charlize director // F. Gary Gray mile ever raced, a what these movies have Theron writing malware Starring // Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason become. “The Fate of the slew of characters Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris in a basement. Hackers in Furious” has one-upped where you find yourBridges, Helen Mirren, Scott Eastwood, Charlize movies are something else its predecessors yet again. self thinking, “Am I Theron, Kurt Russell, Nathalie Emmanuel entirely. supposed to rememJust when you thought rated // PG-13 for prolonged sequences of vioRemember “Live these movies would settle ber this person?” and lence and destruction, suggestive content, and one of the best Jason into increasingly more Free or Die Hard” with language Statham fight scenes convoluted espionage Timothy Olyphant as a super-hacker who traveled action stories, it goes full- ever conceived. of cars can be hacked by plots are far-fetched and around in an 18-wheeler a single keystroke? Yep! that its action scenes are wreaking havoc on the Makes for some hilarious computer code of Washeven more so. But, this franchise just doesn’t care. car carnage. ington D.C.? Cipher Drive a Lamborghini on a Speaking of hacking, (Theron) is the next frozen lake during a save- this is one of those movies iteration. She can hack the-world mission? Sure, where images on computer anything, and does so why not! Or thousands screens have whooshing from a flying fortress for

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First off, why isn’t this movie titled “The F8 of the Furious”? That seems like the obvious play here, right? Instead the title has been advertised as “The Fate of the Furious,” as if the filmmakers are saying, this movie franchise, which is the antithesis of subtle, isn’t falling for the obvious.

It’s a ruse!

At some point in this unrelenting two-hour car chase, our family of heroes find themselves in the frozen wastelands of northern Russia (because, at this point the “Fast and Furious” franchise is the “Bond” franchise on steroids). Roman (Tyrese Gibson), in his infinite wisdom, has seen fit to take a million-dollar Lamborghini show car on the mission. At no point do they equip it with snow tires, or any sort of traction whatsoever.

It looks cool and that’s that. The movie makes a point to make fun of Roman as he slips and slides around the ice like an idiot. As Russian missiles explode the fragile ice of the frozen bay they’re precariously driving on, Roman’s friend Tej Parker (Ludacris) quips, “Forgot to put on the snow tires, huh?” as he chuckles.

And that, right there, is the “Fast and Furious” franchise in a capsule.

It knows it’s ridiculous.

It understands that its

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Rock Continued from Page 3 Ironically enough, the cover of “Don’t Let Up” features several vintage muscle cars, not unlike the vehicles annually on display 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.

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

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.

Home Continued from Page 6 a larger venue as the majority of the energetics fans sang along with everyone of the 13 songs the band would perform.

“I feel like our crowds are super energetic, especially in Utah,” Parks notes. “They’re all amazing singers, and when they sing along with our songs, it’s like a choir.”

In addition to the new song, “Places,” The National Parks presented songs from their first album like “Wind and Anchor” and “Ghost,” as well as many songs from “Until I Live,” such as “Monster of the North,” “Ba Ba Ra” and “You Are Gold.”

Above left, keyboardist and vocalist Sydney Macfarlane was an original members of The National Parks. Above right, Parks wore a Utah State baseball cap during the concert.

The group then concluded their performance with “As We Ran,” a single released in January 2014 that served as a highly successful fundraiser for the National Parks Conservation Association.

“It’s cool to come back,” Macfarlane says.

“I’m always like blown away at every show. Holy cow, it’s always exciting,

and it never gets old.”

Although he’s a graduate of BYU, Parks ends up sporting an Aggie ballcap during the Logan City Limits performance, helping to endear himself to the crowd even more.

“It’s been really fun to see it all grow and to be playing shows like we are here in Logan,” Parks declares. “It’s a sold-out

place, and it’s just like so much fun that we’re at this point. It’s like a sweet spot where I feel like there’s so much further to go, and so many more exciting things on the horizon.

“In some ways, I feel like it’s the calm before the storm for us, right now. So, it’s kind of cool.”

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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.

The Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession from First Presbyterian to St. John’s Episcopal Church will begin at noon, Friday, April 14. The Good Friday evening service will start at 7 p.m. as a joint service with First Presbyterian Church and Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. For more information, please call 752-0331.

The Rocky Mountain States HillClimb Association will host the annual Beaver Mountain hillclimb on Friday, April 14, and Saturday, April 15, at Beaver Mountain Ski Area. Admission is $5; free for children 12 and under. Visit rmsha.net for more information.

SATURDAY St. John’s Episcopal Church will host its Easter Vigil service at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at 85 E. 100 North. For more information, please call 752-0331.

The Cache Valley Eagles

AFCO Continued from Page 3 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.

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

along with Dwell Realty will be sponsoring an Easter Egg Hunt for children zero to 12 years old at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 15, at 170 W. 900 North. Plan on having lunch with us. Hot dogs and drinks will be available for 50 cents each. The Ladies Auxiliary will also be holding a bake sale for all of your Easter treats.

Everyone is welcome.

It’s time for another charity dinner and bingo night with the Cache Valley Eagles at 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 15, at 170 W. 900 North. We will be shining a light on a Syndrome called Koolen DeVries. Children with this syndrome are called KOOL KIDS, and donations will be going to research and helping families.

Dinner is $10; everyone 21 and over is welcome.

Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at KSM Music beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 15, at 50 W. 400 North. Sponsored by D’Addario, musicians can bring any old instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings. Old strings collected during the event will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s free, national

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.

A recipient of numerous grants, prizes, and commissions, in 2016 Lauridsen 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.

recycling program.

The Downtown Easter Walk will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 15, at businesses between 200 North and 100 South, along Center Street, 100 North and Federal Ave. For more information, visit logandowntown. org.

The DUP Summit Camp will be meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 17, for a tour of the DUP museum at 160 N. Main St. in Logan. We need to carpool because parking is limited near the museum, so please meet at 1 p.m. at the Smithfield Senior Citizen Center at 375 Canyon Road to coordinate rides. Visitors are welcome.

An Easter egg hunt will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 15, at Elk Ridge Park, 1060 E. 2500 North in North Logan. The candy egg hunt is for children up to 8 years old, and will include a visit from the Easter Bunny.

The Elizabeth Mathews DUP Camp will meet at 1 p.m. Monday, April 18, at Chuck-A-Rama, 138 S. Main St.

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WEDNESDAY

St. John’s Episcopal Church will host Easter Sunday services at 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday, April 16, at 85 E. 100 North. USU Choral Scholars will be featured at the 11 a.m. service. For more information, please call 752-0331.

The Cache Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum, 160 N. Main St., Logan will hold an open house entitled “Pioneer Trades and Tales” from 4-7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19. It will include pioneer demonstrations, a musical performance by Chris Mortensen, and “Old Ephraim and Missing Gold.” The gift shop will feature handmade items.

Admission is free.

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

Monday, April 17, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “A Canterbury Take,” which is not rated. Popcorn and admission is free.

Robot Continued from Page 8 human brains into more durable bodies. I know alleged humans right now who have two fake hips, dentures and two fake knees. Are they fully human? Is anyone fully human?

On any given day, I feel like I walk amongst the dead living. I used to call them zombies (living dead) glued to their phones, but I now think they are probably robots attracted to their fellow robot things. Those tentacles that run from their devices to the brain holes on each side of theirs heads are obviously used for some sort of charging

TUESDAY

Cruz Night will begin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, at Wendy’s (895 S. Main St.) and continue every Wednesday night through October. For more infor-

or firmware updates. They walk in front of moving cars and trucks because they know they are indestructible. They wear shorts and T-shirts in 32-degree weather because they are impervious to the elements.

We need to adapt to the robot revolution. Like all cultural changes there are winners and losers. All these androidoriented movies and TV series are giving much-needed jobs to actors with the emotional range of a Roomba. They can now turn their limitations into assets by playing future shock robots.

I’m embracing the new normal while simultaneously embracing the new administration when I say, “it all comes down to jobs.”

mation, call 799-7149.

THURSDAY BATC Fashion Merchandising students will present their annual Spring Fashion Show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20, and Friday, April 21, at Bridgerland Applied Technology College, 1301 N. 600 West. “On the Boardwalk” is the theme for this year’s show. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door.

Refreshments will be served.

Join Logan City Poet Laureate Star Coulbrooke for a poetry walkabout at 5:20 p.m. Thursday, April 20, at Adams Park. Everyone is welcome. Please bring writing supplies.

Please join the Logan Library for “Parenting with Love and Logic. Classes will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 13, 20, 27 and May 4 in the Logan History Room of the Logan Library.

Learn more and register for this free class at healthyrelationshipsutah.org.

“Caregiver R and Rx: Caring for the Caregiver” will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 20, at the Cache County building, 179 N. Main St. The event is free and open to all.

There is a great website put together by NPR’s Marketplace that helps you determine how robot-proof your job is. Not surprisingly, food service comes in at 87 percent automatable, but surprisingly phlebotomists (the humans who draw your blood) come in at 89 percent automatable. Really, have robots become good at finding veins, or do they just not care? Conversely, massage therapists are rated as almost un-automatable.

It seems like a big blobby robot named Rex could do this adequately and would not gossip about the sorry state of your body to his/it’s co-worker bots.

——— “Alexa, did Dennis Hinkamp really write this?”

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 14, 2017

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Lose one’s nerve 6. Spring flowers 11. Ring org.

14. Afire 16. Like some rebates 17. Consume entirely 19. Pay-Pal currency?

20. Amy Poehler’s exhusband Will 21. The Lone Ranger’s companion 22. Van Morrison’s lady 25. Roadside stops 27. Some ‘60s hipsters 28. Prefix with thermal 30. Kind of child 31. Filling material 37. Winners 40. Light gas 41. Domestic 44. As well 45. Guarantee 46. “ER” extras 47. PC port 49. Make a goof 52. Employer’s fear 53. 1951 Baseball hallof-famer 55. Long bones 57. Remain half-asleep 61. R and B and rap star 64. Dry 65. Start of a Dawn song lyric 69. Pound sounds 70. Demolish 71. French licoriceflavored liquor 72. Ubiquitous soft drink 73. Strange 74. Pitcher-turnedsportscaster Hershiser 76. Leaky balloon sound 77. Getaway keyboard key 79. Global positioning datum, abbr.

82. Make more diverse

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88. Bygone money 90. Kind of agreement 91. Dr. Foreman’s portrayer on “House” 95. Vexes 96. Conical shaped tents 97. 1962 Roy Orbison hit 98. Compass point, abbr.

99. Infantry group 102. Plunder 104. Ornate segments of a novel 114. Beatles’ drummer 115. Superdome team 116. Submit 117. Wood strips 118. Property 119. Attacked 120. Withdrawn 121. Attempt again 122. Standing Down 1. Mineral tar city 2. Sweetie 3. Aircraft designer Sikorsky 4. Tijuana kid 5. Had down cold 6. Minded 7. Bacon features 8. Jackie O couturier Cassini 9. Global bank 10. Like some verbs, abbr.

11. Continued 12. C4H8 13. Olympian god 15. Branch of med.

16. Waldorf salad ingredient 17. Greatest degrees 18. Locks between Huron and Superior 23. A Boston and Cambridge college 24. VIP transport 26. Dict. listing 29. Old Faithful, e.g.

31. Expression of sur-

prise 32. Calendar pages, abbr.

33. Vienna’s land, for short 34. Sch. in Baton Rouge 35. EU language, abbr.

36. Builds, as a fortune 37. Lincoln or Rockefeller, abbr.

38. Darlin’ 39. Take in 42. Difficult weather condition 43. “___ Rosenkavalier” 48. Aaron and Raymond 49. Despair 50. Ruins a parade 51. In-basket stamp, abbr.

54. Keyboard key 56. Valued collection 57. Feasts 58. Harvests 59. Paddles 60. Poet/novelist Elinor 61. 100 lbs.

62. Roth or traditional 63. Hurt 64. Queued up 65. Dosage amts.

66. Company abbreviation in Europe 67. Lots 68. The Mikado, e.g.

73. Continental divide?

74. Lacto-___-vegetarian 75. Blame 78. Men’s swim suits 80. Words before profit or premium 81. Use a shuttle 83. Shoe designation 84. Econ. figure 85. “Lemon” or “lime” ender 86. Swing site 87. “WSJ” employees

89. Dance bit 91. Shade maker 92. Jewels from oysters 93. Outcast 94. Ice fishing abode 99. Bone related 100. Meshed 101. ___ dixit 103. Yuck!

105. Habitue 106. Demolish 107. Big East Conference team, for short 108. Pouch 109. “Off with you!”

110. Cartoon company 111. Will of “The Waltons” 112. Dutch cheese 113. Congeals

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.

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