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April 19-25, 2013

COVER 8 Three local rappers join forces as Black Lion and head out on national tour

MUSIC 4 Celebrated trumpeter

Byron Stripling coming to play at Performance Hall

ARTS 3 USU celebrates the life

and poetry of May Swenson

4 Cache Valley artists unite

for Little Bloomsbury Show

4 Downtown Logan plays host to Earth Day events

BOOKS 13 David Freed delivers suspenseful ‘Fangs Out’

MOVIES 7 Film critic Aaron Peck

likes the look of ‘Oblivion’

COLUMN 6 Dennis Hinkamp takes

on his bleeping appliances

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

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Olga Kurylenko, left, and Tom Cruise star in the new motion picture “Oblivion.” On the cover: Mo “Black Socks” Eastmond is one-third of the local hip-hop group known as Black Lion. (Photo by Eli Lucero/Herald Journal).

FROM THE EDITOR School is winding down at Utah State University, which also means a lot of things are happening at Utah State University. So many, in fact, that as this week has progressed, I’ve had one heck of a time keeping up with all the upcoming events and/ or finding space for them in this week’s Cache Magazine.

One of the most noteworthy happenings is the May Swenson Centennial Celebration. While I was familiar with the name May Swenson, I have to admit I didn’t know a whole lot about the celebrated poet until read-

ing the story by Kristen Munson passed along to me by USU Media Relations.

Unfortunately, because of space limitations, I had to trim much of Munson’s story in order to fit it in this issue. But because I enjoyed the story so much, I am planning to put it on our website at hjnews.com in its entirety.

As part of Swenson’s 100th birthday celebration, the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State is also hosting a May Swenson exhibit in its atrium area. On that display —scheduled to be up through June 16 — is a copy of Swenson’s “Analysis of Baseball,” and as a lifelong baseball fan, I felt inspired to look the entire poem up online.

The final stanza is wonderful: It’s about the ball,

the bat, the mitt, the bases and the fans.

It’s done on a diamond, and for fun.

It’s about home, and it’s about run.

Just making that little connection with Swenson — a Cache Valley native who appreciates baseball — has surely opened a door for me, and now I plan to investigate more of Swenson’s work and hope to attend the grand finale of her centennial celebration April 25 at the Morgan Theater.

— Jeff Hunter

USU celebrates Swenson

Keillor coming to Logan for April 25 event

By Kristen Munson USU Media Relations

May Swenson is one the most prolific writers to graduate from Utah State University. Joyce Carol Oates called her “a poet of dazzling gifts … quite simply, one of the most inventive, imaginative, intelligent and provocative poets of the era.”

Swenson’s centennial birthday will be commemorated with readings by fans, including Garrison Keillor — the voice and creator of public radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion” — and former Utah poet laureate Katharine Coles at the culminating event of the May Swenson Centennial Celebration at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in USU’s Morgan Theater.

Coles says it wasn’t until studying poetry at the University of Washington that she discovered the work of May Swenson. While standing in a bookstore, Coles plucked a volume off the shelf and began reading in the aisle.

“I was transported,” she says. “I read the whole book.”

Coles later realized that Swenson, like herself, was a Utah girl. And she brought a different perspective to contemporary American poetry. Coles describes feeling a sense of “kinship” with Swenson upon learn-

when she wants to distract her students from themselves, she says. Swenson doesn’t dwell on her misfortunes; she doesn’t often write about the biological details of her life. Because Swenson really imagines what it is like to be something or someone else she helps readers consider the life of another being. That empathy is something readers can apply to everyday life, Coles says. “(Swenson) is a really great model of another way of being in the world,” Coles explains.

Over the course of her life May Swenson was honored with the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship — also known as the ‘Genius Grant’ — and elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She would have celebrated her 100th birthday this spring. To commemorate the occasion, USU scholars organized several events in Swenson’s honor, including a series of poetry readings and master classes.

While Coles is on a book Poet May Swenson was born in Logan in 1913. tour of her fifth collection of poetry, “The Earth Is eyes. She sees everything,” ing of her background, addNot Flat,” she will come ing “I was so used to reading Coles says. “She really is to Logan to participate in a poet’s poet. She’s a poet these urban New York poets the final event at the Morwho is very rigorous. I don’t gan Theater. The event is emphasizing those kinds of think she’s difficult. But landscapes.” free, but requires a seating you have to be paying atten- voucher available through Swenson came of age with her writing while living tion all the time. If you’re the Caine College of the not willing to pay attention in Greenwich Village, yet Arts Ticket Office (Chase to the details then you won’t Fine Arts Center, room she never entirely stopped be able to enter into the writing about the West. Her 139-B). poem.” keen eye and ability to Anna Thilda May Swen Coles, an English profesmake the reader see from son did not have an easy sor at the University of Utah, pathway into publishing. her perspective won her occasionally incorporates respect by both readers and Born near the base of Old Swenson’s work into her critics. classrooms — particularly “It’s like she lives in her See USU on Page 13

“If I don’t come out dripping sweat by the time my set is done, I have not done a good job.”

– Local rapper Eddie De Leon, aka Eddie Lion (Page 8)

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Little Bloomsbury Art Show coming up

By Jeff Hunter Cache Magazine editor

As a preview for next week’s Little Bloomsbury Art Festival, Tuesday afternoon Brenda C. Sun gathered together many of the artists and performers who will be featured during this year’s show at the foundation’s home directly west of the Logan LDS Temple.

While the collection of talent was impressive, there’s no doubt that the star of the show was the hairiest individual in the room.

A high-content wolfdog who’s older siblings were featured in Disney’s “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Damu received the bulk of the attention as he

roamed about the living room, even taking a seat on the couch from time to time.

Damu and veteran wildlife handler Kimmi Kraus will be hosting one of the Little Bloomsbury Art Festival’s master classes next week in an effort to “dispel fears of misconceptions about wolves and wolfdogs.”

“What we’re doing with Damu this year is teaching people about the importance of nature and how not only do we have to learn from books and from lectures, but when you go out into nature, you not only come back with an experience but you come back with a new-found mentality and ability to see things as you haven’t seen them before,” Kraus explained.

More than 30 artists of all ages

and backgrounds will also on display during this year’s festival, which is themed “Partakers of the Divine Nature.”

Featured artists include painters Shad Anderson, Wallace Brazzeal, Lester Lee, Eric Watterson and Santiago Trujillo, 3-D artists Talan Bird, Nate Balmain and Jakkie Robinson, watercolorist Beverly Byinton and photographer Breanna Hopkins.

A longtime high school art teacher in Davis County who moved to Clarkston a couple of years ago after he retired, Lee said of Cache Valley: “This is just a beautiful place. My heart’s really here.

“Even though I was actually raised in

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Eric Watterson displays his blade painting technique Tuesday.

Stripling set to perform

Famous trumpet player coming to USU on April 24 The Department of Music at Utah State University hosts trumpeter Byron Stripling in concert with the Jazz Big Bands at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in the USU Performance Hall.

“Byron Stripling is an entertainer,” said Jon Gudmundson, director of jazz studies and associate professor in the Caine College of the Arts at USU. “He has a magnificent sound on the trumpet, and is the whole package — he is excellent at teaching and performing.”

Stripling is the artistic director of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra in Ohio, leads his own quartet and plays with groups around the world. He started playing the trumpet when he was about 10 years old and also sang for his father, a classical singer and choir director. Stripling played Louis

Byron Stripling will play the USU Performance Hall on April 24.

Armstrong in the musical “Satchmo: America’s Musical Legend.”

He has performed with more than 50 symphonies and orchestras throughout his career.

Tickets for the Byron Stripling concert are $10 adults, $8 seniors

and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 7978022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

Earth Day Downtown scheduled for Saturday In partnership with Logan City and Stokes Nature Center, the Cache Valley Center for the Arts will present the third annual Earth Day Downtown Street Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, April 20, on 100 South (between Main Street and 100 West).

The Earth Day Downtown Street Festival schedule includes: entertainment, music, art activities, food vendors, a variety of guest speakers, hands-on environmental activities and booths for local environment and sustainability groups, Logan City, USU clubs, local Gardeners’ Market vendors, Buy Local businesses and more.

“The Earth Day Downtown Street Festival has quickly become a great community-based tradi-

tion” said Wally Bloss, Executive Director of the Cache Valley Center for the Arts. “Even though we are celebrating one day out of the year, it’s an important time of year to reflect on what we’ve done right and how we can improve not only our own behavior but that of our community.”

Visit www.cachearts. org/earthdaydown town2013.html for a full schedule of events.

During Earth Day, CVCA, Logan City and Stokes Nature Center will be accepting submissions for their artwork contest called “How I Love the Earth.” The winner of this contest will receive a pass to the Aquatic Center, half off a CVCA Art Camp registration ($45 value) and receive a family pass to Stokes Nature Center.

The first annual Spring Creek Festival will be held Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20.

“April represents the beginning of the summer fun,” stated Kathleen Alder, president of the Providence Pioneer Heritage, Inc. “Bring your family and friends and join us to celebrate the Spring Creek Festival, (Providence was once named Spring Creek) this area’s premier festival for all things fun.”

The Friday night program at Providence Elementary School will kick things off by honoring Providence heroes and the winners of the Providence Heroes Essay Contest written by students

from the local schools. Clive Romney will sing his song about Providence and get us all laughing and singing. The evening will be capped with square dancing for young and old alike.

On Saturday, everyone is invited to the free festival at the Old Rock Church to see homegrown art and quilts, watch baseball, play some old-fashioned pioneer games, tour historic homes, grab a Providence Hero sandwich, and visit the vendors for a chance to win a grand prize (winners must be present).

Enter your award-winning pie in the pie-tasting competition, or be adventurous and enter the one-

and-only Sauerkraut Competition (make your best and most unique sauerkraut recipe).

The Spring Creek Festival will also host the first-ever Cabbage Head 10K Trail Run at noon Saturday. Runners will be vying for the coveted Cabbage Head Trophy to display proudly in their trophy case. Participants can register at Runners North; the fee is $30.

There will also be an arm-wrestling tournament from 3 to 5 p.m.

Saturday. Registration is from 1 to 3 p.m.

Follow us and like us on Facebook at “Spring Creek Festival” for more information.

‘Broadway’ at Tabernacle

Utah State University’s Department of Music presents “Broadway Bound,” a night of show tunes, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, in the Logan Tabernacle.

“This concert is our way of announcing that the University Chorale has been invited to perform in Carnegie Hall in June 2014,” said Michael Huff, director of special programs in the Caine College of the Arts. “This is an unprecedented opportunity for USU’s students to showcase their talents on what is arguably one of the world’s greatest stages in one of the world’s great musical cities.”

“Broadway Bound” is free and open to the public.

For more information on the performance, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office located in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

LHS presents ‘Our Town’ Celebrate spring on ice Logan High School presents Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” at 7:30 p.m. April 25-27 and 29 in the Logan High School Auditorium.

Tickets for “Our Town” are $5 for adults and $3 for students and children.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1938, “Our Town” has been described as Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece. The New York Times called it “One of the sagest, warmest, and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre…a spiritual experience.”

When “Our Town” was first presented, it caused quite a sensa-

Members of the Cache Valley Figure Skating Club are getting ready to celebrate their talents in a spring ice show entitled “Celebrate: An Occasion to Skate” with guest skater and national competitor Hina Ueno. “Celebrate” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27, at the Eccles Ice Center. Tickets are $8 for reserved seating, $5 for general seating and children under 3 are free Join us as we celebrate your favorite holidays all in one night. There will be something for everyone from young to old as we all love to create special memories for special occasions.

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Tyler Homer, left, and Jessica Gunn perform in Logan High’s “Our Town.”

tion because of the lack of scenery and the use of very few props. It required the audience to

use their imaginations and pay greater attention to the ideas that the play hoped to offer. Logan

High has chosen to follow Wilder’s suggestion to present the play as it was originally produced.

Enjoy dinner theater at Sky View The Sky View Players’ final productions for the school year will be held April 19 to 30. The group will continue to host four different, audienceinteractive, murdermystery dinner theaters written by Weber State University professor Jim

out. Tickets can be purChristian.

All productions will chased at ezticketlive. also be served with a com or skyviewtix. dinner that is designed org. Tickets are $17 if especially for that show. purchased more than 48 All menus are catered hours in advance; $25

by Iron Gate Grill. The after that time.

Productions include shows only run two “Death on the Deck” performances each, so (April 19 and 20); be sure not to miss

“Slaughter on the Strip” (April 22 and 23); “Terrorfest” (April 26 and 27); and “Til Death Do Us Part” (April 29 and 30). All shows will be held in the Little Theater at Sky View High School, so seating is limited.

Utah State University’s Department of Music presents the annual Guitar Ensembles concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in the Taggart Student Center auditorium. This is the last concert with director of guitar studies Mike Christiansen conducting, as he is retiring this year.

“Mike Christiansen leaves a legacy of not only great players that have gone on to every corner of the world, but also a legacy of great teachers,” said Corey Christiansen, Mike’s son and temporary instructor in the Caine College of the Arts. “Without him, there never would have been a guitar program at Utah State University.”

The concert will feature both acoustic and electric guitar ensembles, with Mike Christiansen directing the acoustic ensembles and Corey Christiansen directing the electric ensembles. The students will perform a large number of musical selections, including the music of Pink Floyd, the Eagles and Led Zeppelin.

Tickets for Guitar Ensembles are $10 adults, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For tickets, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or arts.usu.edu.

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Spring Creek Festival starting up COMING UP

I have a lot of bleeping appliances, and I don’t mean “bleeping” as a substitute for stronger language. They just bleep, beep and bleat for no apparent reason; sometimes sounding like a choir of baby alien robots whining for the warmth of their mother ship. It drives me bleeping crazy.

My microwave oven, gas oven, dishwasher, refrigerator, meat thermometer, watch, coffee pot, washing machine, dryer, garage door and the reverse gear on my car all beep for

the difference between a helpful beep and an angry beep. Computer beeps lack inflection and have little sarcasm or irony.

I would rather they just talk clearly and directly to me; I know we have the technology. Just look how that voice-to-text thing works on your phone.

OK, bad example. Look how well the voice direction works on driver navigation systems. various reasons. Sometimes they beep to signal Most people blindly to me that they are done trust this computer voice. Why not? Other with their task; other than a few instances times it’s to chide me for not attending to them of people making right turns into rivers or brick properly. The trouble is that I can’t distinguish walls because the maps

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If only my bleeping appliances could talk had not been updated, its use. I can imagine certain of their safe hardly anything goes my fridge saying “Sorry, canning procedures, so wrong when we take we are cutting you off I wouldn’t wait much orders from machines. tonight.” longer.”

Microwave Oven: Increased use of smart Garage door: “You machines could only know, you really could “Seriously? You spent $250 on me and all I get further enhance our lives. have combined those to do is make popcorn This is what my applithree trips and saved and reheat coffee? I feel ances would say if only 1.23 gallons of gas. so under-appreciated they could.

And no you cannot not compared to that rice drive up to Idaho for Refrigerator: Surely cooker/steamer thing you lottery tickets, beer we could get them to just bought.” refuse to open if you try and corn dogs again!

I’m not lifting the door, to go for a second piece Oven: “Hey, I’m of pie or a fifth beer in a you’ll have to ride your dying over here; how bike.” single evening. All you about some fresh bread would need is a comToaster: “Might I sug- once in a while? See bination breathalyzer, gest using the homemade that self-clean button? scale and percent body Do not push it. All it peach preserves you got fat interface with refrig- from the neighbors at does is heat me up to erator-door locks. Again, Christmas? My friend equivalent to the surface the technology is availFridge says it’s in the of the sun to burn able; we just need the back left on the middle political will to enforce shelf. We’re not really See TALK on Page 10

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Kosinski uses this to his advantage, creating a three-dimensional, spaceship dogfight that has an engulfing sensation.

Speaking of the soundtrack, it’s a character in its own right.

Like the Daft Punk soundtrack of “Tron: Legacy” the musical score here beats and thumps with electronic rock. It sets the mood for the movie, driving it into a darker sci-fi setting. It has more control over the movie than you think it might. It makes the action scenes thrive with intensity and makes the overwrought romantic scenes more palatable.

The summer movie season seems to start earlier and earlier each year, and I think it’s safe to say that “Oblivion” marks the first real “blockbuster” of the season. It’s an insanely fun ride that may lack some common sense, and may give in to one too many plot-created conveniences, but in the end it’s hard to care about those things. I thought it was a great time at the movies, and sometimes that’s all that matters.

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Tom Cruise’s stern narration sets the scene.

Earth has been utterly destroyed by marauders from space called Scavengers — nicknamed Scavs. There was a war between humans and the Scavs. The Scavs destroyed the moon, sending Earth’s natural world into chaos.

Humans used nukes. As Cruise says, “We won the war, but Earth was lost.”

The majority of survivors have traveled to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Back on Earth a skeleton crew of humans looks after futuristic machinery that supposedly helps the colonists on Titan. Large whirring structures suck up ocean water, turn it into fusion energy, and send it on.

Cruise plays Jack Harper.

Jack is a repair and security man. He’s been tasked with machinery upkeep and securing the surroundings from whatever surviving Scavs may be around.

Director/writer Joseph Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy”) paints a bleak landscape of a war-torn Earth.

The moon can be seen on the horizon, shattered, its pieces drifting around Earth in orbit. It’s certainly a different world.

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BLACK LION ON THE LOCAL TRIO OF HIP-HOP ARTISTS HEAD OUT ON FIRST NATIONAL TOUR WITH BASSMINT PROS STORY BY CASEY ROCK PHOTOS BY ELI LUCERO Black Lion is comprised of Cache Valley-based rappers Mo “Black Socks” Eastmond (in hat), Eddie “Eddie Lion” De Leon (BassMint Pros shirt), Justin “Weird Sense” Peterson (gray T-shirt), and, occasionally, Eastmond’s dog, Daidai.

To help support Black Lion on tour or learn more about the group, check out their website at www.blacklionhiphop. com, like them on Facebook at www. facebook.com/blacklion435, or follow them on Twitter, @blacklionhiphop.

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Big things are happening for Mo Eastmond, Eddie De Leon and Justin Peterson, and that means big things are happening for Cache Valley.

The hip-hop artists, who recently formed the group Black Lion and go by the stage names Black Socks, Eddie Lion and Weird Sense, respectively, have been invited by Ogden’s BassMint Pros to perform on their new tour, the Natural Disaster Tour. This means that, for the first time ever, Cache Valley hip-hop will have a nationwide audience.

“This tour is huge,” Eastmond says.

“We’re just super blessed to be on this tour.

It’s no-holds barred. We’re going on a big bus, we roll in, we’re doing radio and magazines — we even have a couple TV shows we’re going to be on. So this is a big deal.

And us being not from Salt Lake, because (the BassMint Pros) could’ve picked anybody they wanted, and we’re representing Utah as a state on this national tour, it’s huge.”

The tour, which has been a few years in the making, will stretch from Utah to Tennessee and kicks off May 1. Black Lion will be out of state at least 17 days, though it could be longer. The group and other Utah acts will play alongside popular local acts in each area they stop at, which will serve to expose people all across the country to the hip-hop talent the state has to offer.

“This is what you would call an ensemble tour: So many big names from their respective areas are just going to be one collective,” De Leon says. “(We’ll be) getting mad love in every city we go because we’re hanging out with all the people that are actually from the city that we’re going to — that are actually big in that city,” Eastmond says.

The group has gone all out to prepare for the tour, pouring a lot of time and resources into it, networking with artists near and far and increasing their presence on music and social media sites like Facebook and Reverbnation. They’ve made appearances in rap battles both in and out of state, and they put their money where their mouth is.

“With our tax returns and stuff we’ve really put a lot of money into trying to get stickers, trying to get T-shirts, trying to get stuff that we can really give the fans to give them something so that they’ll remember us when we come

back,” Peterson says. “We’ve been working on a lot of performances together.

We’ve been trying to get ourselves hyped in other avenues. ... Just trying to get our names out there and really stand behind our music. ... Each show we do, we treat it as a tour show.”

“We perform. As performers this is what we do. ... If I don’t come out dripping

E ROAD sweat by the time my set is done, I have not done a good job,” De Leon says.

Along with the prep work, the group has released its debut CD to coincide with the start of the tour — which will be sold at a special discount price until they go on tour May 1.

“We kind of planned it as a drop because we’re headed out on a full national tour, and what better way to kick it off than with some brand new music? Something so fresh that people have to love it,” Eastmond says.

All three hope that this is the start of a new phase in their hip-hop careers and that this will be the first of many national tours to come.

“Hopefully we can make it a yearly tradition,” De Leon says. “What we want to do is make sure we stamp ourselves into these areas we’re going so that we can visit them again.”

“Once you’ve kind of roughed it out through the first tour or two, you have all those contacts, you have all those people who have heard of you, and it just becomes easier and easier,” Peterson says.

“So we’re hoping that it’s not going to be another two or three years for another tour.”

The group isn’t just touring for their own exposure either, if all goes well, they hope the tour will put Logan on the map and open doors for bigger hip-hop acts to come here.

“I cannot stress enough how big this is for Logan,” Eastmond says. “We wanna show mad love and support to our fans and to the city of Logan. We’re from Logan and we’re doing it for Logan and we’re doing it for the hip-hop scene. ... Hopefully this sparks somebody’s interest in Logan city (and they) bring out some hip-hop acts to Logan.”

“It’s important to show people that great talent usually stems from tiny pockets you wouldn’t think that it comes from,” Peterson says. “You have Minneapolis, which way back you wouldn’t think, that has a huge group, you have Providence, R.I., right now that has a huge group. We want to make Logan, Utah, one of those. ... On See LION on Page 11

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USU Observatory open to the public tonight All are invited to view spring’s evening sky as the Utah State University Observatory opens its doors to the public from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. Admission is free.

“We invite the Cache Valley community to enjoy views of the night sky from our state-of-the-art facility,” says James Coburn, Physics Department teaching laboratory supervisor and USUO coordinator. “We’ll be looking for Comet Pan-STARRS, the Orion Nebula, the Moon and Jupiter.”

Located on the roof of USU’s Science Engineering Research (SER) building, the observatory houses a 20-inch reflecting telescope on a computerized mount that yields clear, crisp images of faraway planets and deep space objects. The observatory’s unique, half-circle building — designed and constructed by USU

Talk Continued from Page 6 everything. It’s not clean — it’s burnt.”

Coffee pot: “I know you can’t wake up until I wake up, but could you sleep in once in a while or try instant coffee? I’ll talk to the garage door; you can drive to Starbucks Saturday. This Utah hard water is strangling me … please … descale …

I’m dying.”

Dishwasher: “Would it kill you people to scrape off your plates first so I don’t have to do all the work? And no more of those plastic take-out containers; I swear I will melt them all to mush.”

——— Dennis Hinkamp does sometimes talk to (yell at) his appliances, but they as yet have not talked back.

Facilities — features a circular staircase that leads to the telescope gallery topped with a metal dome measuring 16.5 feet in diameter.

All attendees are encouraged to visit the USUO website at www.physics. usu.edu/observatory before arriving on public night, as the gathering will be canceled in the event of cloudy or inclement weather.

The observatory’s telescope is accessible by stairs only from the SER building’s roof.

Parking for the event is available in surface lots near the USU Performance Hall at 1090 E. 675 North on the USU campus. The SER building is southwest of the Performance Hall. To access the observatory, visitors should take the freight elevator located at the northwest corner of the first floor of the SER building to the roof.

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Continued from Page 9 campus a lot of people have been discussing the fact that we’re a college town, and there’s colleges out there that are not too far away that are on our level or below our level that are bringing these bigger acts out.

We really feel it’s our responsibility to push for that and try and get Utah State University and Logan in general to have these people come out here.”

Fan support is essential to such success, though.

“We’re gonna have a donation thing where if you donate five dollars, we have stickers, if you donate a certain amount of money you get a T-shirt. ... That way it kind of helps because it’s a donation, but also we’re trying to give something (as a thank you),” Peterson says. “(It helps) support us, to get us food, to make sure if anything happens to the cars, the vans, the trucks.

We put it back into our music.”

“This wouldn’t be possible without the help from our fans,” Eastmond says.

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‘Fangs Out’ is a very suspenseful tale

By Bruce DeSilva Associated Press

tor, $10,000 to discredit Munz’s claim and restore his friend’s reputation.

Logan, introduced last After 10 years on year in David Freed’s California’s death row, debut novel, “Flat Spin,” Dorian Munz is finally needs the money. He also about to be executed for welcomes the chance to murdering the daughter fly his personal plane to of a Vietnam war hero San Diego, where several named Hub Walker. principals in the case live, Does Munz have any last because he is hoping to words? reconcile there with his “Funny you should beautiful ex-wife, Savanask,” he says, and then swears the young woman nah. Logan figures woowas actually killed by ing Savannah back will be her employer, a military the hard part. The investidoesn’t believe a word of gation, he thinks, will be a contractor named Greg Castle, to keep her from it because Castle is one of slam-dunk. As it turns out, exposing what she knew his best friends. he’s right about Savannah, Hub offers Cordell about him defrauding the but dead wrong about the Logan, a former military U.S. government. case. black ops assassin now The California press Before long, Logan scraping out a living has a field day with the stumbles over the body of accusation, but Hub as a civil flight instruca woman who had been

USU Continued from Page 3 Main Hill in 1913, she studied English at Utah State Agricultural College, now Utah State University. Some of her earliest published writings can be found in editions of “The Scribble,” a now defunct literary magazine at the school.

After graduating she moved to New York City and supported her craft by working as a secretary, ghostwriter, newspaper reporter, editor and for the Federal Writers’ Project during the Great Depression. She did not come from the Ivy League establishment and it took her awhile to be recognized for her work, says Michael Spooner, director of Utah

a witness in the long-ago murder, is briefly suspected of killing her, is seduced by Hub’s trophy wife, gets assaulted by people who want him to mind his own business, and is nearly killed when someone tampers with his private plane. Eventually, he manages to sort it all out and help bring some bad people to justice.

Freed, an experienced pilot, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a military affairs expert with an active security clearance, spins his suspenseful plot with the same muscular prose, hard-boiled attitude and flashes of wry humor that made the first Logan Cordell novel a critical success.

never really wanted to be. In State University Press, which has published five many ways, one could argue books by and about SwenSwenson is the quintessenson. tial Western poet, Spooner “She came from Logan, says.

Utah, which was a very “She was self-reliant; small, dusty Western town she was independent. She in those days,” he says. “It was true to her own voice,” was a much more difficult Spooner says. “She wasn’t road to travel. She struggled interested in joining a group a long time trying to get with a particular axe to grind. published in literary maga… She remained true to her zines.” sensibilities. She was not However, Swenson evenimpressed by the trappings tually did get her poetry of privilege.” published in magazines that

Swenson was known for included “The New Yorker.” her keen observations of She went on to publish 11 the world and her ability to volumes of poetry and held appeal to the reader’s senses. positions as a writer in resiShe experimented with form dence and lecturer at several and her writing was prolific. universities and writing colonies. She won numerous Swenson published about awards, including a Guggen- 600 poems over the course of her life. heim fellowship and Ford “She was curious about Foundation grant and the everything,” Spooner says.

Bollingen Prize for Poetry.

“That’s part of the genius that But Swenson was never affiliated with one genre and created her work.”

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A graduate of the London School of Economics, Sun named the Little Bloomsbury Foundation after London’s famous Bloomsbury Group, which included renowned writers Virginia and Leonard Woolf, painters Roger Fry and Duncan Grant, psychologist Adrian Stephen and wellknown economist John Maynard Keynes.

The foundation’s mission is to “Promote peach and hope in an uncertain world by addressing social-economic issues as a community through art, music, storytelling, magic, culture exploration and teen leadership training.”

“This is our seventh year of

the festival, and this year we are very excited that we’re actually having a concert every day,” Sun noted.

The annual “festival of art, music and storytelling” will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Thursday, April 25, through Saturday, April 27, at 181 N. 200 East.

Special events will be held each night at 6:30 p.m. On Thursday, magician Richard Cannon and the Utah Storytelling Guild will host a “Miracles” concert; Friday, the Imperial Glee Club will perform its “PreCentennial Concert”; and Saturday, the Idlewild Flute Gallery will deliver “Soul Searching Around the World.”

All Little Bloomsbury Art Festival events are free and open to the public.

For more information, call 787-1303 or visit www.little bloomsbury.org.

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70. Miffed, with “off” 71. A drop (architecture) 72. Singing cowboy ___ Rogers 73. Orsk’s river 75. Gush 77. Outlaws 78. Break one’s word?

80. Time period 81. Jail 82. Point of no return?

84. Threat ender 85. Mendelssohn and Vivaldi wrote them 92. Strike 93. Lively 94. Come together 98. Head coverings 101. 100 lbs.

102. Abrogates 103. Go against 104. Mover and shaker 107. Male hawk 109. Accustom 110. Sioux, Crow, and Pawnee 114. Seating sections 115. For each one 116. Expose, such as a false claim 117. Pint-sized 118. Ushers 119. Call for help 120. Easily squashed 121. Speed read Down 1. Birthed a sheep 2. One way to take medication 3. Egad!

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Friday Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, a non-profit that services individuals with disabilities, is hosting a magician party at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. To attend this activity or request additional information call 7130288.

Corey Christiansen will perform along with Denson Angulo and Steve Lyman at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $15.

The 5th annual CAPSA 5K & 1-Mile Walk will begin at 6 p.m.

Friday, April 19, at the Logan Aquatic Center parking lot, 400 S. 500 West. For more information visit www.capsa.org or www. facebook.com/CAPSAservices.

Utah State University’s Department of Art and Design will showcase the design work of graduating seniors at the BFA Exhibition from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 19, at Herm’s Inn, 1435 E. Canyon Road.

The Legendary Porch Pounders will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West in Brigham City.

Opening act is Hilary Murray.

Admission is $10 at the door ($5 for students) or online at www. bcfineartscenter.org. You can also call (435) 723-0740 for reservations.

Sherid Peterson will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 19, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South.

Utah State University’s Department of Music opera theater program presents “Die Fledermaus,” an operetta by Johann Strauss II, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, at the Caine Lyric Theatre. This comedic show is a tale of disguises and mistaken identities that is sure to entertain. Visit arts.usu.edu for more information.

The Heritage Theatre in Perry

will present “Death by Chocolate” at 7:30 p.m. from April 19 to May 11 on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. A matinee will also be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27. For reservations call (435) 723-8392.

SATURDAY The 10th annual Second Chance 5K Run/Walk to support organ donation awareness will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 20, on the east side of the HPER building on the USU campus.

Pre-registration before April 10 is $15; registration after April 10 is $20; and kids under 12 are free if pre-registered. Register or donate online at www.logansec ondchance5k.org.

The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra and our sponsors invite you to experience an unforgettable evening of sacred music by Utah composer and organist Robert Cundick at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Featured on the program are Cundick’s acclaimed oratorio “The Redeemer” and his cantata “The Song of Nephi.” Tickets are $12 to $20.

Visit americanfestivalchorus.org.

Tanner McDowell will perform along with Riley Traveller and Paul Christiansen at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

The annual Smithfield City Health Days Scholarship Program will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the LDS church building at 451 S. 250 East in Smithfield. Lilium will be the entertainment for the evening and a representative from The Lions Club will be awarding Smithfield’s Citizen of the Year.

Ché Zuro will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. A recent Ogden Valley transplant, Ché Zuro mixes Beatles pop with the acoustic grit of Led Zeppelin.

Come to the Cache Humane Society’s Spring Fling: Day in the Park, a family-oriented event

hosted in its Dog Park and parking lot to kick off the new season from noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 20. Food, entertainment, live music, and much more will be available for everyone who wants to stop by. Dogs are invited too. If you would like to volunteer for the event, email fundraising@cachehumane.org.

Come vote for your favorite cookie at the tasting event of the year. Cache Valley Cookie Company has eight heavenly varieties and we need your help to decide which one is best. Free tasting will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at Bridgerland Applied Techniology west campus, room 1901, at 1410 N. 100 West. Visit www.cachevalleycookie.com for more information.

Willard-based author Gabriel Rincon will be promoting his book “They Dared to Find Freedom” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Book Table, 29 S. Main St. Visit loganbook table.wordpress.com for more information.

“Run to Rescue” 5K Trail Run/ Walk for Four Paws Rescue will be held Saturday, April 20, at King Nature Park, 1900 E. Green Canyon Road in North Logan. This fun run is a benefit run for Four Paws Rescue, one of Northern Utah’s largest non-profit animal rescue organizations. On-site registration begins at 9:30 a.m.; race starts at 10 a.m. Cost is $10 per participant (dogs are free). Leashed friendly dogs are welcomed; all dogs get a prize. Refreshments will be provided. Visit www.4paws.petfinder. org for a parking map and more information.

21, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Cache Symphony Orchestra announces its spring concert. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21, in the Chase Fine Arts Center in USU’s Kent Concert Hall. Admission is free. The concert will feature four soloists from the local high schools — two of which were the winners of the ASTA music festival this year — and a new conductor, Dr. James McWhorter.

MONDAY The Towne Singers, Logan’s longest-running, mixed-voice choir will present its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 22, in the Dansante Building auditorium. The choir is directed by Gary Poore and accompanied at the piano

by Terri Duncombe and on the violin by David Kim. The choir numbers will be interspersed with duet performances by Gary and Sherrill Joy and also by Amy and Kyle Cropper. In addition, there will be a celebration of the contributions made to the choice by several longtime members. Carol Dee Petersen, Margaret Downs, Gary and Sherrill Joy, Terri Duncombe will be honored for their dedication and outstanding service to the choir over the years. Everyone is invited to join us for this unique evening of music and celebration.

A free screening of the film “Thin Ice” will begin at 6:15 p.m.

Monday, April 22, at Utah State’s HPER building, room 114. “Thin Ice” is an opportunity see the science, rather than the politics, of climate change. Geologist Simon Lamb followed scientists from a Acoustic oldies group Relic range of disciplines on four conwill perform live from 6 to 8 p.m. tinents for over three years for a Saturday, April 20, at Pier 49 portrait of the global community San Francisco Style Sourdough racing to understand climate Pizza. Scott Olsen, Steve Roberts and Irv Nelson provide excel- change. Visit thiniceclimate.org for more information. lent music and fun; preview them at relicacousticband.com.

SUNDAY Izaak Alexander will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, April

TUESDAY

The Utah State University Department of Music’s Symphony Orchestra, together with guest

cellist Walter Haman from the Utah Symphony, are performing “New World Symphony” and cello solos by Antonín Dvorák at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in the Kent Concert Hall in the Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information or tickets, visit the CCA Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

The USU Theatre Department will present plays directed and acted by students from April 23 to 26, in the Black Box Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center. These plays are free and open to the public. Call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu for more information.

WEDNESDAY Auditions for Music Theatre West’s performance of “Broadway Showcase” in September will be held from 6 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, or from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at the Wilson Elementary School stage. Callbacks are scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25.

MTW is seeking talented adult men, women and youth. Please prepare a one-minute song that shows your abilities. An accompanist will be provided. You may also bring an accompanist or recorded accompaniment on CD. You should also come prepared to move. Please visit www.music theatrewest.org and download and complete an audition form to bring with you.

THURSDAY Stephen Cleobury, director of music at King’s College in Cambridge, England, is coming to Cache Valley to perform with the Caine College of the Arts choir students at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church at 725 S. 250 East in Hyde Park. This concert is free and open to the public.

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