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April 22-28, 2011

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar On the cover: “Imagine,” a Beatles

tribute band, will be performing Monday, April 25, at The Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan.

From the editor appy Earth Day everyone! H When Cache Valley started flooding Monday, all the talk on the

news was about how Mother Nature was in control. There were certain things city employees and residents were able to control such as building the muscle wall along the Blacksmith Fork river, and putting sandbags between the rising water and homes, but for the rest of us, we just had to watch and wait. Mother Nature definitely has a way of getting attention when she wants to. She can bring in the rain, the snow, the thunder. She can make life hard, or beautiful. It all just depends on how she’s feeling, I suppose. While Mother Nature doesn’t always provide us with ideal conditions, and

What’s inside this week Local author publishes novel

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some days she just makes us mad, she’s like any other mother. You love her anyway for the good days. Soon enough (although I wish it were sooner) there’s going to be a crowd outside Great Harvest Bread Company ever day at lunch and we’re going to be able to venture into the canyon for picnics and hiking. Barbecues are going to be an everyday occurrence someplace in the valley, and the Logan Aquatic Center will be bursting with swimmers. Already folks are having campfires at second dam and sleeping under the stars on the nights they’re sure it won’t rain. Soon the trees will be budding, right? And flowers will be brave enough to bloom without the fear of being frozen to death? I’m really hoping. Please Mother Nature, bring on the sunny spring we’ve all been waiting for. — Manette Newbold Cache Magazine editor

‘Water for Elephants’ slow and boring

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pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption! Pet: Brownie From: Cache Humane Society Why he’s so lovable: Brownie is one gem of a gal. She gets along with other friendly dogs, cats and kids. Brownie loves to play fetch. She is 3 years old and way past her puppy stage, so is just right for a lucky family. She will need some basic obedience and potty training skills, but with consistency and timing, she would do great. If left outside, she barks and barks because she’s bored so Brownie needs to be an inside dog.

Slow Wave 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.

The Earth Day sculpnew sculpture ture features three such gracing the lawn bottles in bright green and outside Logan’s blue hues, which Adams Thatcher-Young Mansion said are wine and whiswill be unveiled to the public Friday at 3:30 p.m. key bottles he retrieved as part of the Logan’s first from a dumpster in Park City. Other parts include Earth Day celebration. a snow tire chain, railroad The sculpture made of spikes and a lock-ring entirely recycled materifrom a semi-tractor tire, als is situated facing 100 as well as part of an old South between Main fire extinguisher fashStreet and 100 West, ioned into one of Adams’ where the street will be signature bells. Designs blocked off for the street including a sun, a tree festival. and geometric shapes Sculptor Doug Adams, are welded onto the sides who lived in Logan for of the piece, which are 23 years, made the piece for Logan city specifically arranged in a woven pattern. with Earth Day in mind. When the sculpture was “Everything’s recycled, commissioned, Adams 100 percent,” said Adans, said he started thinking who now resides in Deweyville. “We’re such a dis- about Logan and said the pattern represents the posable society, it’s kind tight-knit community and of fun when you can take something that was going “how we’re all woven together.” to be thrown away or disAdams said it took carded and make some art about 40 hours to create out of it.” the sculpture, over the Adams’ work often features stone, steel and other course of about a week. “It’s cool, I’m glad scrap metal, according to that I could do this for his website, and he has Logan city because I love recently begun incorpoLogan,” he said. “It’s a rating fused glass from great community and I’ve recycled bottles. Adams’ got a lot of good memowife Dianne melts down ries here.” the bottles in a glass kiln to make unique elements — Chelsey Gensel for each piece.

he Cache Valley Center for the Arts presents the first Earth Day Downtown on Friday, April 22, from 2:30 to 7 p.m. on 100 South (Between Main Street and the ThatcherYoung Mansion). The Earth Day Downtown Street Festival will include CVCA’s first public sculpture unveiling, entertainment, arts activities, food vendors, and booths for local environment and sustainability groups, Logan City, USU clubs, businesses, and more. In partnership with this event the Logan Downtown Alliance is celebrating Earth Day by staying open late. Enjoy Downtown “Alive after Five” (5-9 p.m.).

2:30 to 5 p.m. – Sidewalk chalk/art activities. Play with recycled clay from CVCA ceramics, and/or participate in an art activity with Stokes Nature Center. 2:30 to 7 p.m. – Information booths and recycled material vendors. 3 to 7 p.m. – Buy local. Food vending and more. 3 p.m. Magic act with Richard Hatch. 3:30 p.m. – Public art dedication and unveiling of sculpture by Doug Adams. 4 p.m. – USU humanities recycled dress fashion show. 4:15 p.m. – Performance by Dry Lake Band 4:30 p.m. – Demonstrations

Help Green Canyon during Scoop-a-Poop Day s spring approaches A and we’re looking for reasons to spend time outside, Earth Day

may give us all an extra incentive to go outside and volunteer. In the valley, we’re fortunate enough to have Green Canyon, a gem of a resource just minutes outside of town. With its plethora of recreational opportunities, it’s a popular recreation destination all year round. There’s a problem piling up in the canyon, however. A seemingly small problem that is often over looked, and quickly for-

gotten, if you’re fortunate enough to overstep it, but it can have some serious consequences if left alone to pile up. Dog poop. Not only can dog waste pass on diseases such as heart, whip, hook, round and tapeworms to wildlife, but it can add extra nutrients to the soil, an incentive for non-native plants to move in. Additional nutrients can be washed downstream into connecting watersheds where they enable algae blooms and possible lake eutrophication to occur,

events that can be devastating to aquatic ecosystems. There are simple preventative actions that can be taken to stop all that from happening, and Scoop-aPoop Day is one of them. On Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to noon, there will be a Green Canyon cleanup day. Bring your pooper-scoopers, plastic bags and friends and enjoy a day of service in Green Canyon this Saturday. For more information on the event and directions to Green Canyon please contact; GreenCanyonCleanup@gmail.com

4:30 p.m. – Blip Pot workshop with Jeff Keller (Sunrise Cyclery). Take your garden on the road! Supplies: Four or more bike tires and a hog ring stapler. 5 p.m. – Logan High School Percussion Ensemble Trash Performance 5:30 p.m. – The Gypsies Junk Band (Fast Forward Charter High School and friends) 6 p.m. – Valley Dance Ensemble, “Dancing the Green Map.” Selections learned during Repertory Dance Theatre’s residency in March. 6:30 p.m. – Community Junk Jam. Bring your own junk instruments to play in the street.

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From scraps to sculpture Celebrating Deweyville artist creates Earth Day piece for Logan City Earth Day? A

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All mixed up

Sky View High hosting mystery dinners S ky High Players’ final productions for the school year will continue through next week. For the first time this year the group will be hosting four different audience-interactive murder mystery dinner theaters written by Professor Jim Christian, from Weber State University. They will all be catered by Iron Gate Grill and the menu for each production is designed especially for that show. The shows only run two nights each, so don’t miss out. Tickets can be purchased at ezticketlive.com or skyviewtix.org today. Prices are lowest if tickets are purchased at least 72 hours in advance. Nan Wharton, the director, says, “this is an opportunity for the audience to do their own sleuthing, to be ‘Sherlock Holmes’, and to win prizes if they are good at it!” A little about each show and menu is listed below: “Showdown at Gambler’s Gulch” Friday, April 22, and Saturday, April 23 Mayor Biddle is about to start the 187th weekly town meeting and community supper and you certainly don’t want to miss it. Zedekiah

Cosgrave, the undertaker, has slipped away from his duties for few minutes to attend, as has Miss Mercy Trust, the school teacher, Old Scrappy, Tombstone “Jacqueline,” Wilimina Shakespeare, and the local saloon owner Miss Lulabelle Free. When a stranger arrives, Swampwater Samantha LaRue, and someone meets their untimely death, it will be your job to figure out who came for more than a bite to eat. Menu: Dutch oven beans, Dutch oven potatoes, Dutch oven BBQ chicken, rolls and butter, peach punch and water, hot peach cobbler. “Til Death Do Us Part” Monday, April 25, and Tuesday, April 26

Come join the wedding party of the Bordoni’s and the Cabrini’s, as Nina and Dominick have decided to tie the knot. Yes, the two Italian mob families that have been feuding for – who knows how long – have children marrying each other, and you are invited to the wedding. This is one celebration you should not miss. Menu: mixed garden salad topped with red onion, tomato,

olives, croutons and Parmesan cheese, lasagna, Italian herb baby carrots, breadsticks, peach punch and water, lemon bars. “An Heir of Mystery” Thursday, April 28, and Friday, April 29 The late Hamilton Winslow

has finally died and the entire clan is about to gather for the reading of his will. Nobody liked him; he didn’t like any of them, but when money is involved, everyone shows up. So should you. You never know if your name will be read ... or who will end up dead. Menu: Spinach poppy seed salad, tenderloin beef medal-

lions, chef’s rice, rolls and butter, peach punch and water, lemon raspberry torte. All shows will be held in the little theater at Sky View High School, so seating is limited. Get your reservations today. If you do not have Internet access call 435-7579591.

USU Ballroom team takes stage

ome join the USU Ballroom Dance Team as they perform Ballroom Dance: Then and Now; The Classic and Contemporary, at the Ellen Eccles Theater, April 22-23. The team will take audiences through a historical journey of ballroom dance – to the ancient royal courts of Austria where ballroom dance first began, to the classic dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger

Rodgers as they graced the silver screen, all the way to the vivacious contemporary Latin dances of today. Ballroom Dance: Then and Now, features beautiful costumes and a variety of ballroom dances such as the Latin Samba of Brazil, the majestic slow Waltz of Vienna, the electric American Swing and many more. 2011 marks the 15-year anniversary of the USU Ballroom Dance Team.

Over that span the team has performed for thousands of people. The current ballroom team has been busy performing across the United States. The hard work and attention to detail has garnered the team many awards at competitive events. Tickets for the April 22-23 show start at $12 with discounts for students. We ask patrons to be in their seats at 7:30 p.m.

he Bridger Folk Music Society presents a concert with acoustic singer/songwriter, blues guitar slinger, and rock and roll raconteur, Dana Hubbard, on Saturday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Crumb Brothers Bakery, 291 S. 300 West in Logan. Tickets are $13 and are available at the door or by calling (435) 757-3468. Seating is very limited, so advance purchase is recommended. The concert is sponsored by Import Auto and Utah Public Radio. Both a singer/songwriter and an acoustic blues artist, Dana Hubbard deftly combines the two genres with a warm and engaging personality on stage, singing, telling stories, and playing both guitar and harmonica at an impressive level! In guitar, he busked the 2009 he was selected as a finalist in four national streets of Berkeley and San Francisco. He evensongwriter showcase tually put together his competitions and two own band, The Delta national acoustic blues Twisters which he led competitions in which for over a decade in the he garnered two first burgeoning Blues scene place wins. He perplaying clubs, jukeformed as a song comjoints, biker-bars. petition finalist at WildBy the time Dana flower Festival in Texas, moved on to bigger Mountain Music Festivenues and theatres, val in Utah and Tucson Folk Festival in Arizona, the guitar in hand had become electric and he and was a finalist select began sharing the stage at the West Virginia with legends like Albert Appalachian Blues ComKing, James Cotton and petition. His CD, “The Etta James and openGrounds Keepers,” was ing shows for artists included in the Best of 2008 new releases list on like Greg Allman, Chris 90FM WWSP's Acoustic Isaak and Robert Cray. All this performance Revival show. Born and raised on the experience culminated in his first CD release, Central Coast of Cali"Tummy Lust" which fornia, he attended UC showcases his impresSanta Cruz only long enough to finish an elec- sive guitar skills as well as his songwriting abiltive course on country ity. blues before he hit the Dana returned to the road and never looked acoustic guitar as his back. With his acoustic

instrument of choice with the release of his second CD "Livin' Live." What Dana does with

the guitar, using only his hands is amazing to watch and a joy to listen to. You hear the bass and

the back beat rhythm along with the melody and chords. If you look around for his backup

guitar, you won't find one. This is Dana, performing solo. On his latest CD "The Grounds Keepers" each track is a single guitar performance with no overdubs, no re-makes. What you hear is a singer/songwriter front and center, addressing issues of environmentalism and social injustice in a voice that sometimes growls, sometimes lilts or laughs, but always with a little twinkle in his eye. He has a social activist soul with a bluesman's grin. Called “...a cross between Bruce Cockburn and Jorma Kaukonen” and noted for being a “terrific live performer,” Dana is “worth hearing just for the guitar playing, and his vocals are a bonus.” For more information, go to www.bridgerfolk. org or www.danahubbard.com

Annual choir concert to be held next week The Towne Singers, one of Cache Valley’s mixed voice community choir’s, will be presenting their annual spring concert Monday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. and will be held at the Dansante building located at 59 S. 100 West, Logan. A variety of music including patriotic, Broadway/movie musicals, cowboy, folk and celtic songs will be performed by the Towne Singers as well as this year’s featured guest artists, Willow Valley Players String Band. The event is free and the community is invited.

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Film New this week “African Cats” Rated G ★★The first two documentaries from Disney’s Disneynature label — 2009’s “Earth” and last year’s “Oceans” — were a stunning combination of vast, sprawling images and intimate, detailed moments. They provided high tension but also tugged at your heart and offered some laughs in between. The latest in the series, “African Cats,” which is opening on Earth Day like its predecessors, has all the impressive visuals but far less story. Shot over more than two years in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya by directors Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill, the film bills itself as a real-life version of “The Lion King.” No one bursts into song here but Samuel L. Jackson, as the narrator, does talk. A lot. And that’s the movie’s major weakness. The images — and the animals’ dramatic interactions — should speak for themselves. Jackson’s narration is constant and overwhelming. It spells out instincts that should be obvious and assigns human characteristics in a way that’s obnoxious. The film follows two families living on either side of a river. “African Cats” can also be super violent, despite its G-rating, as it depicts the ins and outs of hunting rituals. But there’s also an extremely high cute factor. On the other side of the river from the lions is a cheetah — named Sita — with her five impossibly adorable and cuddly newborn cubs. The filmmakers provide such beautifully personal moments between the mother and her babies, they’ll make you wonder how they got so close. 89 minutes.

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Redeemer statue, and the depth of field that results is sort of awesome. The whole film has a tremendous energy about it, not just in the way it moves but in the snappy banter and screwball antics between Jesse Eisenberg, who voices the character of Blu, and Anne Hathaway, who voices the free-spirited bird, Jewel. Eisenberg works his patented halting, neurotic delivery to ideal comic effect, while Hathaway is confident, bold and impatient as the female of the species who is his destiny. Leslie Mann, George Lopez and will.i.am are among the voice cast. 96 minutes.

“Rio” Rated G ★★★ A lot of passion and personal feeling clearly went into this 3-D animated adventure from director Carlos Saldanha, who devised it as a love letter to his Brazilian hometown. It’s strikingly gorgeous, bursting with big images and vibrant colors. And the use of 3-D, which so often feels so needless and like such an afterthought, is surprisingly effective in the hands of Saldanha (director or co-director of the “Ice Age” movies) and his team. Stuff doesn’t come flinging at you in cheeky, knowing fashion, but in the flying “Scream 4” sequences, especially Rated R the chase scenes, the ★★1⁄2 Ghostface’s 11-year 3-D provides an extra layoff hasn’t made the thrill, an added layer of “Scream” franchise feel immersive oomph. Blu, a any fresher. But with cerulean macaw who’s a decent beginning, a the film’s reluctant hero, mushy midsection and hang-glides around the a killer ending, the latmountaintop Christ the

est installment at least doesn’t feel any staler. Honestly, it’s not an unwelcome thing to watch the return of Neve Campbell as the slasher victim who wouldn’t die, Courtney Cox as the tabloid hack in bloodlust for a story and David Arquette as the bumbling Barney Fife of fright-flick cops. Director Wes Craven has added an attractive young harvest of fresh meat on the victim and psycho front, led by Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere and Rory Culkin, along with amusing cameos from Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell and others. “Scream 4” opens with the franchise’s usual prologue, this one modestly clever, heavier on laughs than suspense. But it gets the action rolling and the blood flowing for the main event: Campbell’s celebrity victim Sidney Prescott returns to her hometown on a book tour for her memoir about surviving

her encounters with the various Ghostface slashers. Her arrival coincides with the anniversary of the original slayings, when the town’s teenage Sidney idolaters already are in a frenzy for the annual “Stabathon” party built around the Hollywood franchise inspired by her experiences. Of course, bodies pile up as a new Ghostface goes on a rampage. 111 minutes. “Your Highness” Rated R ★★The knights-errant — strong emphasize on the errant — behind this adventure comedy spend more time wallowing in medieval filth than weaving clever laughs and engaging action. Reuniting key players from “Pineapple Express” — James Franco, Danny McBride, director David Gordon Green — the

movie plays like a Middle Ages role-playing fantasy dreamed up by the giggly stoners of that earlier comedy. Co-writer McBride and his collaborators apparently set out on a quest to ram as much coarse language and as many adolescent sexual gags into a movie as possible, maybe to cover the fact that the movie doesn’t contain much else. He and Franco play sibling princes who team with a mysterious warrior (Natalie Portman) to rescue a damsel (Zooey Deschanel) from an evil wizard. Crassness overwhelms the movie, the vulgar language losing all force by incessant repetition, deadening the lingo so that even the occasional witty wisecracks aren’t funny. 102 minutes. — All reviews by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

here are times T you should just keep on ignoring the elephant

in the room. For instance, Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson’s “Water for Elephants.” The adaptation of Sara Gruen’s best-selling novel about romance and intrigue in a Depression-era circus plods along at a pachyderm’s pace. Witherspoon and Pattinson are a three-ring snooze-fest together, bringing little passion to a love story supposedly so fiery, it blows the roof off the big top. The movie’s lone star attraction is Christoph Waltz, who won an Academy Award as a gleefully psychotic Nazi in “Inglourious Basterds” and here delivers another wicked performance as Witherspoon’s hubby, the cruel, jealous circus ringleader. As sadists go, this guy’s an amateur next to Waltz’s “Basterds” bad boy, but the actor is so talented, he commands every moment that he’s on screen, further highlighting how dull fellow Oscar winner Witherspoon and “Twilight” heartthrob Pattinson are. Director Francis Lawrence (“Constantine,” “I Am Legend”) throttles down from action flicks and sputters through this treacly love triangle (or love quadrangle, if you throw in the elephant). Like the book, the movie begins with its hero, Jacob, reflecting back on his life from old age, except the situation’s been changed from natural ruminations in a nursing home to a clumsy, “Titanic”-style framing story.

Old Jacob (Hal Holbrook) spins the tale to an eager young circus proprietor (Paul Schneider), the script by Richard LaGravenese burdened with far too much narration, much of it stating the obvious. There’s a Depression on; we don’t need voice-overs telling us that times are tough. As the action shifts back to 1931, young Jacob (Pattinson) is sent wandering after tragedy wrecks his life and dashes his plans to follow his dad into the veterinary profession. Penniless, Jacob hops a train that happens to carry the Benzini Bros. Circus, whose star is horseback rider Marlena (Witherspoon), wife of the troupe’s autocratic owner, August (Waltz). Demonstrating his knowledge of animals, Jacob quickly is hired as the circus veterinarian and becomes trainer for Rosie, an elephant that August acquires as his wife’s new four-legged co-star. Half snake charmer, half brute, August alternately mentors and terrorizes Jacob, whom he inexplicably throws into

★★ “Water for Elephants” Rated PG-13 Marlena’s company again and again. Could he really expect Marlena and Jacob to do anything but fall in love? The romance is utterly predictable and uninvolving, with barely a spark igniting between Witherspoon and Pattinson. Waltz thankfully takes the two-dimensional villain crafted by the filmmakers and elevates

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the filmmakers shift details from the book around trying to make them more cinematic. Rather than heightening the drama, they create a story of implausible convenience, this event following that circumstance following that revelation, just when the characters need them. Period details, costumes and production design all are impressive, but “Water for Elephants” shortchanges the circus atmosphere. The movie is a long, long way from the greatest show on Earth; at best, it might be the greatest show in your local theater, assuming it’s the only film playing there. The more you ignore it, the sooner it will pull up stakes and lumber away to the elephant graveyard.

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‘Water for Elephants’ is a three-ring bore

hen The Beatles were a global icon during the 1960s, they touched the hearts of millions of people by singing about peace, love and the world living as one. Therefore, it’s probably fitting a renowned Beatles cover band, “Imagine: Remembering the Fab Four,” does four or five concerts a year that serve as fundraisers for charitable organizations. Imagine will be performing in Logan this upcoming Monday night at Ellen Eccles Theatre, and all proceeds will go to the Primary Children’s Medical Center. The event is sponsored by Smith’s Marketplace (750 N. Main St.) and is scheduled to begin at 7:30. “It’s kind of like putting the hand into the glove because the Beatles’ music was all about peace and love and joy of life and that kind of thing,” said lead guitarist Brad Armstrong, who plays the role of George Harrison. “And we’re talking about an organization with Primary Children’s that is trying to facilitate that in a much more dramatic and physical way to people.” It’s a fundraiser that means a great deal to Armstrong, inasmuch as he in one of two band members who live in the Salt Lake City area, so “I’ve got some personal knowledge of what (Primary Children’s) does here in Salt Lake.” Tom Coburn, one of Imagine’s founding members, is no stranger to Cache Valley. The band has performed here on many occasions, including the Fourth of July show at Utah State University, the Pioneer Days Celebration event at Willow Park and the car show in conjunction with the Cache Valley CruiseIn. Imagine annually helps out causes such as Habitat for Humanity, and Coburn is looking forward to lending a hand to Primary Children’s. “We do make a living at it, but let’s face it, we’re the luckiest people when it comes to getting to do what we do,” said Coburn, who plays the role of John Lennon. “So, we’re

happy to help out where we can.” Coburn and fellow band mate Dan Burt, a.k.a. drummer Ringo Starr, founded the band in 1993, and Imagine has performed in more than 900 shows since then. Coburn, who currently resides in the Lake Tahoe area, likes to tell people Imagine’s taken the stage from Washington, D.C., to Shanghai, China, “and all places in between.” Imagine, which is headquartered in Salt Lake City, has shared the stage with some famous bands/artists, including The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, The Temptations, Glen Campbell and Carrie Underwood, among others. In 2005, Imagine was fortunate enough to perform 21 shows at the Shanghai Music Festival, and the group has also graced the stage in front of 70,000 people during the halftime show of the Nokia Sugar Bowl in New Orleans (Louisiana Superdome). There have been times members of the band have performed on a full-time basis. Beatlemania is indeed alive, and Coburn is ecstatic to be a part of it. “Seriously, if we would have kind of written a script about what we wanted to do, we would have shorted ourselves so bad it would have been unbelievable,” Coburn said. “I mean, it’s been incredible and not only the shows we’ve gotten to do, but the places we’ve gotten to see and the people we’ve gotten to meet. It’s just been an incredibly wild ride. Unreal.” See BEATLES on PAGE 10

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ogan High School will present Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to L Know I Learned in Kindergarten” on April 28, 29, 30 and May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Logan High School Auditorium. This play with music is based on several of Robert Fulghum’s best-selling books. “Kindergarten” is a funny, insightful and a heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. It is an evening of

storytelling, with allegories all of us can relate to. The stories celebrate our very existence, from the whimsy of childhood to the wisdom of old age. Please join us for a delightful evening of laughter and tears as we take you back to the truths you learned in kindergarten. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students and children and are available at the door.

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usic Theatre West is holding auditions M for their September production of Annie on April 27 (for the role of Annie and the orphans) and

April 28 (for all other roles). Please prepare a oneminute Broadway piece and come dressed to dance. An accompanist will be provided. Please download and complete an audition form to bring with you. Auditions begin at 6 p.m. both evenings. For more info visit musictheatrewest.org.

Band mates have changed over the years, with Coburn and Burt being the two constants. Armstrong, who has been in bands “my whole life,” joined in 2004, while Richard Fazzi came on board a few years ago. Fazzi, who performs as bass guitarist Paul McCartney, lives in Johnstown, Colo. The band also features three other touring members and they are: Dan’s son, Madison Burt; Richard’s wife, Vonda Fulff; and sound engineer Eric Robinette. Fulff is Imagine’s merchandising manager, while Madison Burt serves as the road technician/ stage manager. “Certainly, it’s the best lineup we’ve ever had,” Coburn said. “I mean, they were hand-picked ... from lots of people who auditioned for the part.” Coburn, Fazzi, Armstrong and Burt — who all sing, just like the original Beatles — all

dress the part of the Beatles they impersonate, and the band re-creates the ambiance of the original band as best it can. And while authenticity is important to Armstrong, it’s not his end game. “The Beatles were a very fun band and it was a very fun time,” Armstrong said. “We try to bring that sort of an environment to our shows. As far as what you think of how well we re-create their music and their look and everything, what we’re really after is to re-create a good vibe. “... So if anybody comes to this show, that’s what they should expect, and we hope not to disappoint them.” More information on Imagine can be found at www.imaginefabfour.com. Tickets for the concert can be purchased at Smith’s Marketplace or the Center For The Arts website (www.centerforthearts. us). All seats are $15 and are reserved. Monday’s concert is part of the annual fundraising efforts Smith’s Marketplace does for Primary Children’s. This particu-

lar store has headed up fundraisers for the hospital every year since 2004, according to store director Don Blair. The store will continue raising money for the hospital through the end of May, with past and current fundraising efforts such as luncheons for employees and the public, silent auctions and carnivals in the parking lot, to name a few. This year, Smith’s Marketplace will be hosting the first annual Poker Run (Motorcycle ride) for Primary Children’s on May 21. More information on this event can be found on the motorcyclemonster.com website. Last year, the Logan store raised nearly $19,000 for Primary Children’s, and this year, Blair hopes to break the $20,000 barrier. “It’s indescribable, really,” said Blair, who expressed his gratitude for Coburn for making this concert a reality. “I mean, we all take such an ownership and sense of pride on how much money we can generate for the cause, because we know this is a very worthy cause.”

Calling all opera buffs

Guild chair seeking more volunteers

bout 15 years ago Kurt Smith bought his first ticket to the opera and has been hooked every since. In his 40s at the time, Smith saw "Magic Flute" at the Utah Festival Opera Company, and it captured him enough to make opera his hobby. Smith has now traveled to New York to see other shows, and most recently started the Utah Festival Opera Guild in Logan. "Most opera companies, if they are extremely lucky, end up with opera guilds," he said, adding that the first priority as a member is to be supportive of the opera. "”Normally they are made up of opera buffs.” Smith, the chair of the guild, said people in the audience of any given opera only see a portion of the show. Yes, they see the singers, the scenery and hear the orchestra, but they don't see everything that goes behind the scenes. There's certainly business people, he said, and those who build sets, do makeup and control the lighting. And then there's the volunteers that help out where they can, and that's where the guild comes in. "It's a volunteer thing, and a fundraising thing," Smith said. Money earned by the guild pays for any activities they may do, and some will be donated to Utah Festival Opera Company. The guild’s most recent fundraiser was held April 16 at the Dansante and included dinner, dancing and musical entertainment, all with the South Pacific theme.

Currently there are about 20 members of the guild, a dozen of them actively participating. Smith said he would like to increase that number to at least 50, with opera education being a main focus of the group. Smith said those interested in seeing opera, or have questions, could approach those of the guild to get more information. "It's fun to talk to some people who have been," he said. "Opera used to be this uppity thing that people would go see. You didn't really know what was going on unless you could speak German or Italian, or in some cases, French." Because of the addition of subtitles at the opera, Smith says anyone can attend a show. "All the sudden someone like me, who doesn't speak any other languages, could go and understand what was going on," he said. Several movie theaters around the country have also made opera more accessible to the public. Instead of flying to New York or San Francisco to see some of the big Metropolitan shows, some theaters offer filmed versions of operas. According to Smith, in some ways the films are as good as being at the real shows because of the close and various camera angles. And tickets are much cheaper, too. In the future Smith would like to organize some groups to view some opera in Salt Lake City. He said those interested in becoming guild members should come to the meetings which are held at 7:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month at the Dansante, 59 S. 100 West, Logan. — Manette Newbold

Graphic design students create self portaits for upcoming exhibit

SU graphic design students U and the Logan City Downtown Alliance are pleased to announce the 2011

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) exhibition for graduating seniors on Friday, April 29, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main in Logan. The USU graphic design program and the Logan City Downtown Alliance have partnered for the first time to make this annual yearend art show bigger than ever. Down-

town merchants are providing food and other support. “I AM,” the show’s identity and theme, individualizes each graphic designer. Each participant in the exhibition has personally designed a headshot of themselves for the promotion that demonstrates who they are and displays what sets them apart from the other designers in the program. Each designer will be showcasing their portfolios.

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The Cache Magazine Bulletin Board llad” “The Invasion of the Voles - A Ba by Paul H. Skabelund ut a year go, The local Herald Journal, abo in Southern Idaho. s vole of ue Reported on a plag damage that’s occurred. the They didn’t speak of Utah and e. Here, it’s terribly absurd. But it can’t be any worse up ther ing. that their hunts are getting bor Our cats have killed so many or go exploring. p slee they then ch, por our They’ll eat one, place some on many they have killed. Nobody really knows, just how . that their instincts are fulfilled All anybody really knows, is, es. e. A few persons call them mol Some people call them field mic actually they’re voles. But Some even call them gophers. few feet underground. a els, tunn of e maz a d buil They thousands could be found. r, yea t pas this And on our place,

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God granted me with sight to see the morning sun. God gave me the strength to get my work done. God granted me free will to make a choice of right or wrong. God gave me the strength to stay strong. God granted me a sense of things done right. God gave me a guiding light. God granted me the knowledge that my race was run. God gave me sight to see the setting of the sun. God granted me the wisdom to tell of his son’s birth. God gave me loved ones here on earth. God granted me a place to pray. He gave me blessings along the way. With all that God has granted me. Is there any wonder of what the world does see?

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Local author releases action adventure novel

he best kind of fiction mixes in a lot of fact, something Wellsville writer John Nelson has tried to capture in his recently published book, “Against Nature.” The book, which was released April 5 on Amazon, tells the story of a mysterious global pandemic centered in the United States. According to a press release for the book, the disease kills victims within two weeks of exposure and all attempts to treat those affected have failed. Scientist Serena Salus discovers the organism is an extraterrestrial dust mite brought to earth by a shuttle astronaut, while the government contends it’s a genetically-engineered organism created on earth by enemies of freedom. Salus uncovers a vile plan for distributing her experimental vaccine and finds herself in a deadly confrontation with powerful forces that will stop at nothing to control the distribution of her vaccine. Nelson said the idea for his book came after watching years of government mistakes in

wake of tragedies such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. While his novel combines science fiction with global issues, the bare bones of his book are more about things the U.S. government has already mistakeingly done. “There were enough things happening that, if you pieced them all together, were big issues,” Nelson said. “Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. I thought, ‘What if we added all these things in and magnified it to a greater crisis?

‘Leaving van Gogh’ a portrait of doubt

lthough he merely A dabbled with paint and brush, French physician Paul

marvels at the artistic talent of his 37-year-old patient. He treats van Gogh’s mental illness with modern methods, at least for the Gachet occupies a significant late 19th century. His chief tool place in art history. The intriguing novel “Leaving is a sense of compassion for the tortured soul. van Gogh” imagines what the Many readers will come to good doctor might say in looking back on the two months in 1890 “Leaving van Gogh” with their own knowledge of the painter’s during which he tried — and life. In sublime prose, Wallace failed — to rescue the painter Vincent van Gogh from madness. subtly refers to van Gogh’s artworks, and his signature style, as Author Carol Wallace’s symshe allows Gachet the opportupathetic portrait of van Gogh nity to lift the burden of regret is secondary to that of Gachet from his mind. himself, a man of science who

What would it look like?’ It’s one part fact, one part imagination. And ... you think, could that ever happen?’” Nelson said the title, “Against Nature,” comes from a couple of different aspects of his book. Since the disease comes from space, it initially goes against nature to scientists who don’t understand it. Also, the book deals with the concept of government planners trying to decide what the demographic of the country will look like if the U.S. loses 10, 15 or 20 percent of the population. Perhaps if a similar situation happened today, the government would cut certain people off from medical care or social security. “Those ideas are based off the Darwinist theory of survivor of the richest, or survival of the fittest. It’s like saying ‘If

they’re going to die anyway, we shouldn’t be giving people medicare or social security. To save them goes against nature,’” Nelson said, adding there are people high in the government that feel like that right now. “(Some people believe) If someone is sick and dying in the gutter, they are supposed to die in the gutter. This kind of thinking exists and it exists in the government.” “Against Nature” is Nelson’s first published book, and took about four years to write after he initially came up with the idea. It’s his second written novel, and he hopes to get his other book published soon. He figures he’ll have it ready by the end of the summer. To get “Against Nature” published, Nelson said he had to have “thick skin,” and could

probably “wallpaper my house with rejection letters.” “Against Nature” was published as an e-book by Wild Child Publishing. Currently the book is only available electronically, and Amazon has several different formats for Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. If the book sells well enough, Wild Child may print the book for customers. Nelson talked about how getting books published is changing, and how the digital age allows for more authors to get books published through smaller companies. He hopes to get his next novel, “Grey Suits,” through to a bigger publisher. For more information check out www.wildchildpublishing. com or www.amazon.com. – Manette Newbold

* This week’s New York Times Best-seller List * E-Book Fiction 1. “The Fifth Witness” by Michael Connelly 2. “The Lincoln Lawyer” by Michael Connelly 3. “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen 4. “I’ll Walk Alone” by Mary Higgins Clark 5. “44 Charles Street” by Danielle Steel E-Book Nonfiction 1. “Bossypants” by Tina Fey 2. “Heaven is For Real” by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent 3. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand 4. “All ... Bitter and Sweet” by Ashley Judd with Maryanne Vollers 5. “The Immortal ... Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot

Keep your reading list updated at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

Children’s Picture Books 1.”Silverlicious” written and illustrated by Victoria Kann 2. “The Easter Egg” written and illustrated by Jan Brett 3. “A Sick Day For Amos McGee” by Philip C. Stead; illustrated by Erin E. Stead 4. “Lego Star Wars” by Simon Beecroft 5. “Dream Big, Little Pig!” by Kristi Yamaguchi; illustrated by Tim Bowers HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Bossypants” by Tina Fey 2. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand 3. “Malcolm X” by Manning Marable 4. “63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read” by Jesse Ventura with Dick

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Answers from last week

Calendar Friday For one day only on Friday, April 22, S.E. Needham Jewelers is holding a recycling event for Earth Day. S.E. Needham Jewelers will buy old gold at top dollar. They will also offer free jewelry cleaning and inpections, free verbal appraisals, and free consulation with one of their jewelry designers. If you wish to make something new usuing your worn out jewelry, come stop by. An author signing will be held at Mount Logan Middle School on Friday,

April 22. The authors will speak from 6-7 p.m., and the book signing will start at 7 p.m. The authors are Ally Condie, Shannon Hale, James Dashner, Brandon Mull and Jessica Day George. On Friday, April 22, come learn to prepare (and sample) delicious Mexican cuisine that will be sure to add some spice to your usual cooking routine. Cost is $25. Register online at www.luvtocook.com or by calling 7529220. Proceeds from this event, plus 20 percent of all sales that evening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. will benefit the Child & Family Support Center.

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USU Women’s Choir presents “About a Girl: It’s Complicated” on Friday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students. The program features songs about girls and women, and various aspects of girl-life. The music is varied, from traditional choral music to more contemporary sounds like pop, musical theatre, and disco. “Out of the Blue,” A Caine College of the Arts choir will be on tour, performing standard classics, jazz and Broadway music on Friday, April 22,

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76. Charade 77. Canonical hours 79. Big citrus fruit 81. Home for 115-Across 82. Four in a deck 85. Advanced degree 87. Gather on the surface, chemically 88. Bloodshot 89. Buckets 90. Diner cuppa 92. Indian tourist site 95. Wood sorrels 99. Feather partner 100. Curly cabbage 101. Compel by force 104. Carry on 105. Love to hate, e.g. 107. Advance 108. Fizzy drink 110. Zinger 111. The four ___ 115. Bird of prey 116. “Animal Farm” is one 117. Seam related 118. Mulgas, e.g. 119. Unemotional 120. Wine and dine Down 1. Hip hop’s Souljah 2. Give in 3. Red leader first name 4. Dictionary abbr. 5. Big cheese 6. Rapid data-processing system 7. Faux ___ 8. Kind of football 9. Road worker 10. Steel girder 11. Fluff

12. Nonclerical 13. Feeble 14. Transport, in a way 15. Constellation animal 16. Underwater vegetation 17. Show 18. Walks through mud 20. Schnozz 24. Fraction of a newton 25. “___ Too Proud to Beg” (1966 hit) 31. Indian drum 33. Relating to the heavens 34. Bombs 38. Quirk 39. Pitcher Martinez 41. “My ___ Private Idaho” (1991 flick) 43. Kimono tie 44. ___ du jour 45. “Rabbit food” 46. Warms up 47. You can count on them 48. Kind of hose 49. What dispensaries dispense 50. Water nymphs 51. Circus sight 52. French philosopher Henri 53. Wall climbers 58. Time on the job 60. Drawstring tote 62. Bake, as eggs 63. Shrinking 64. Old weapons 66. See 80-Down 67. Northern Scandinavians 69. New York’s Carnegie

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input 86. ___ wart 90. U.S. jurist John and kin 91. Pale tan 93. “Holy cow!” 94. Underground network 96. ___ obscura 97. Relating to great pain 98. Agree out of court

100. Jabs, in a way 101. Gift recipient 102. Come from behind 103. Like a feeble old woman 106. Look like a wolf 107. Duty 109. Pay to play 112. Part of FWIW 113. Wander aimlessly 114. Puss

Mountain Crest drama department presents “A Night in the Theatre,” a one-act and variety show on April 21 and 22, at 7 p.m. in the Mountain Crest High School auditorium. Free admission, but donations encouraged. StankBot & Till We Have Faces will perform at Why Sound on Friday, April 22, at 8 p.m. Cost is $5. On Friday, April 22, celebrate Earth Day with Global Village Gifts, 146 N. 100 East in Logan. Regular hours are noon to 6 p.m., plus, “Alive After Five” from 5 to 9 p.m. Discounts on all merchandise made from recycled, repurposed and renewable resources. Young solo artist Keiyana Osmond will perform at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza in Logan on Friday, April 22, at 6 p.m. She will be followed by the duet “Aurora” featuring Cherish Ross and Jesilyn Gurney at 7 p.m. Pier 49 is located on 1200 South, north of Maceys.

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Acoustic rock performing artists “RacecaR RacecaR” will perform live on Saturday, April 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Check them out at www. myspace.com/racecar1racecar. There will be no cover charge, although tips are encouraged. Pier 49 is located on 1200 South, across the street north of Maceys.

The Western Singing Duo Tumbleweeds will perform at the Cracker Barrel Cafe in Paradise this Saturday, April 23, from 6 p.m. to closing. Accessible Easter egg hunt for children of all abilities will be held Saturday, April 23, at 11 a.m. at Angel’s Landing-Willow Park. The event is sponsored by Logan Family to Family network. For more info contact Lora Meer-

do at 760-0741 or lmeerdo@ comcast.net. The Hyrum Lions annual Easter egg hunt will be Saturday, April 23, at 9 a.m. on the city square in Hyrum. Come for eggs, races, prizes and to visit with the Easter Bunny. A free Easter egg hunt will be held Saturday, April 23, 11 a.m. to 4p.m. for children under the age of 8, at Stork Landing, 99 W. Center Street, in Downtown Logan. Visit www.shopstorklanding.com or www.stork-landing. blogspot.com for more details. Bring your kids of all ages to Macey’s for free Easter activities and cookie decorating on Saturday, April 23, from 1 to 3 p.m. Come enjoy a BBQ hosted by Sam’s Club at their club from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 23. Epic Shred will be on site to provide professional document disposal free of charge, with a donation of office supplies or a cash donation made to the Child & Family Support Center. For additional information visit our website at www.cachecfsc. org or call 752-8880. Join us for a fun run at the American West Heritage Center on Saturday, April 23, at 9 a.m. There will be a one-mile run, and a 5K run. All proceeds will go to helping under-served children attend summer camps at the Heritage Center. The kids at camp will not only be having fun, they will be working on their history and literacy skills to help them when they return to school. A team of four will send one child to camp. Runners recieve free Heritage Center admission that day, and can see baby animals! Register online at www.youthdiscovery.org, or call Val, at 406600-3868. Dating coach Alisa Goodwin Snell will speak to LDS singles ages 31 and older from 4-5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 23. Snell is from Timeless Solutions for Today’s Complex Courtship in Farmington. A potato bar will be served from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Bring a topping to share. The activity will be at the Willow

Park Chruch, 340 W. 700 South, Logan. To RSVP or for a ride call/text/email Joel Stewart at 801-953-7999, or Joel@ztron. com. The activity is sponsored by the LDS Cache Regional Singles. The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra will perform Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” on April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall on the campus of Utah State University. Tickets are $12, $16 and $18 and are available at the Caine College of the Arts Box Offices located inside the Fine Arts Center and at 1150 E. 700 North, or by calling 435-7978022, or online at www.americanfestivalchorus.org. Andrew Reed Morrill, a romantic concert pianist, will be performing classical and romantic favorites on the piano for the public and residents of the Pioneer Valley Lodge on Saturday, April 23, at 3 p.m. at 2351 N. 400 East in North Logan. All are welcome to join us for this free event. Street Def presents Logan Hip Hop Series #7 on Saturday, April 23, at 8 p.m. at Why Sound. Artists to be announced. Cost is $5. Stokes Nature Center invites all ages to “Insect Roundup,” a free program held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 23. Students and professors from USU’s Entomology and Bee Keeping Club will lead participants in catching, identifying and learning about insects of Logan Canyon. For more information, call 435-755-3239 or visit www. logannature.org.

Monday The Logan Chapter of NARFE will meet on Monday, April 25, at 1:30 p.m. at the Cache Senior Citizens Center. Linda Huffaker from the Bear River Agency on Aging will present the program about LongTerm Health Care. All retired and active federal employees and their spouses are invited and urged to attend. The Child & Family Support

Center night at Texas Roadhouse will be held on Monday, April 25. From 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Texas Roadhouse will donate 10 percent of all proceeds for those customers mentioning they are dining in support of the Child & Family Support Center.

held at 270 N. 400 West Suite C, Hyrum. Call Don Pinkerton at 435-245-8324 for more information.

Wednesday Logan Arthouse will be hosting a free screening of a documentary “Carbon Nation” by Peter Byck (who will be present at the screening) on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m.

A benefit fundraiser and pep rally will be held for Tanner Smith on April 25, at the Logan Recreation Center. Tanner is fighting AML leukemia less than Local easy listening group three years after receiving treat“City Heat,” featuring Bill ments for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Gabriel on guitar, performs each another form of cancer. A dinner Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Pier and silent auction will be held 49 San Francisco Style Sourfrom 5:30 to 7 that evening, with dough Pizza, located on 1200 a pep rally and drawing from 7 to South across the street north of 7:30 p.m. Cost is $10 for adults, Maceys. Everyone is welcome. $6 for children 10 and under, or $50 for a family of six. The meal Symphony Orchestra Conwill be catered by Coppermill certo Evening will be held Restaurant. A limited number Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 of tickets will be available at p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall. the door. Purchase tickets in Tickets are $8, or free for USU advance at Lee’s Marketplace, Coppermill Restaurant, Elements students. Restaurant, Al’s Trophies and Frames, or at the River Heights City Office. For more information visit facebook.com/rallyfortanner, The High School Choir Festior call Cathie Thunell at 752val will be held at the Tabernacle 8912, Peggy Smith at 752-9486, or Dianne Kartchner at 752-5092. Thursday, April 28 at 7 p.m. The five Cache Valley high schools — Mountain Crest, Logan, Sky “The Towne Singers” along View, Preston and West Side will with guest artists “Willow Valley be involved. The choirs will each String Band,” will be performsing individually, then gather ing a variety of music including together under the leadership of musicals, patriotic, cowboy, folk USU’s Cory Evans for the final and celtic songs. This fun, free numbers. This program is free of event will be held Monday, April charge. Everyone is invited. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Dansante building located at 59 S. 100 The Smithfield Public Library West, Logan. This event is open will host a Food Sense Class to everyone and we welcome all on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. to come for an evening of enjoyCandy Merritt from USU Extenment. sion Services will share her expertise on creating quick, tasty The United States Army Field and inexpensive meals for your Band & Soldiers’ Chorus will family. For more information perform a free concert Monday, please call 563-3555. April 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Kent Concert Hall on USU campus. Come learn new recipes you Tickets are limited to four per can use for Mother’s Day at person. For more information a free cooking and community call 435-797-8022. class at Macey’s on Thursday, April 28, from 7 to 8 p.m.

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Pintech Computers will be offering free computer classes each Tuesday night at 6 p.m. On April 26, the subject is: “Computer Maintenance.” Classes are

Fire in The Skies w/Parley, A Dream Divided and Swamp Donkey will perform metal music Thursday, April 28, at 8 p.m. at Why Sound. Cost is $7.

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