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April 29-May 5, 2016

COVER 6 Utah State University celebrates a century of the ‘A’ kissing tradition

THE ARTS 3 Annual Little Bloomsbury Art Festival shares ‘The Passion Within’ this week

4 Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre selling tickets for 2016 season

4 ‘Fear Not Beasts of the

Sand’ comes to the Black Box Theatre at Utah State

5 Jaspar Lepak to perform Logan concert on May 14 5 Logan High School

presenting ‘Kindergarten’

MOVIES 3 Renowned filmmaker

Francis Ford Coppola to be honored in Hollywood

9 One star: ‘Mother’s Day’ tries to take on too much

COLUMN 8 Hinkamp shares some

of his Uberexcellent ideas

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley

The Great Big Idaho Potato Truck sits in front of the Idaho state capitol building in March 2012. (AP Photo) On the cover: Tony Rawlings proposes to Shay Petterson on the block ‘A’ during True Aggie Night last week at Utah State University. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR While I have little doubt that a nice piece of Kobe beef would be superbly complimented by a huge Russet potato, I was a little surprised to discover earlier this week that there is now a direct link between potatoes from the state of Idaho and recently retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant.

According to an article in the Capital Press, Bryant was apparently aware that ESPN sideline reporter Heather Cox, who lives in Boise, is also the spokesperson for the Idaho Potato Commission. That group sponsors the Great Big Idaho Potato Truck, a semi-truck which has been haul-

ing a 6-ton replica of a Russet Burbank around the country the past few years.

Refrencing a commercial that features Cox and an Idaho farmer looking for the “missing” potato truck, Bryant asked Cox during a recent interview: “How long have you been working with Idaho potatoes? Have they found that truck yet?”

What the longtime Laker great didn’t know is that Idaho Potato Commission was thinking about retiring the Great Big Idaho Potato Truck after it completed its current fifth national tour.

But thanks to Kobe, Frank Muir, the president and CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission, and his organization is now leaning towards keeping the Great Big Idaho Potato Truck out on the road.

“The feedback we’re getting from

growers is, ‘Why would you take it off the road?’” Muir said. “We continue to have more requests for (truck appearances) than we can fulfill.”

As an Idaho native, this is definitely good news. I had an opportunity to write a story about the GBIPT when it passed through Cache Valley in August 2012.

And the truck — and sometimes Heather Cox — has also been on hand during Utah State’s appearances in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise.

So, I say “Keep on truckin’” ... and if you need a driver to man the wheel of the 28-foot-long behemoth, I am aware of a former shooting guard from L.A. who will probably be looking for new challenge to take on this fall.

— Jeff Hunter

Filmmaker set to be honored in L.A. today NEW YORK (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola will press his hands and feet into the cement outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Friday, but his imprint on Hollywood, the movies and American culture has long been set in stone, even if the chameleonic writer-director remains perpetually in flux.

The ceremony will be part of the TCM Classic Movie Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday in Los Angeles and runs through Sunday. The festival, put on by that great cable outpost of commercial-less cinema, Turner Classic Movies, will fill four days with screenings of classic films, including Coppola’s own “The Conversation.”

Such honors are self-evident for Coppola, the director of “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now.” But the 77-year-old Coppola doesn’t often pause for tributes; he’s too busy working.

After a long break from the director’s chair, he’s made

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In this 2015 file photo, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola acknowledges applause after receiving the Princess of Asturias Arts award in Spain. Coppola will be honored today at the TCM Classic Film Festival.

three idiosyncratic and exploratory films in the last decade (“Youth Without Youth,” ‘’Tetro,” ‘’Twixt”), none which are the kind of films expected of filmmakers in their later years.

He’s also for several years been working on an even

more experimental and ambitious film, “Distant Vision,” a multi-generation saga about an Italian American family. Ring a bell? But Coppola, more interested in the future than the past, wants to make it in what he calls “live cinema.”

That was one of things

Coppola discussed in a recent interview where the director assessed the current state of movies, his penchant for recutting his films (including a new version of “The Cotton Club” he’s just finished) and, above all, his robust life in cinema as an eternal student.

“For me now, I have no motive other than to enjoy the thrill of learning about the cinema,” he says, “and being able to participate in it.”

AP: When you reflect on your career, one of such chapters, what do you see?

COPPOLA: I always thought of myself, or charged myself, to be searching and to be somewhat experimental.

I didn’t just make one style of movie and then just stick with that. Every film I made I approached differently according its theme. Whereas the “Godfather” films that I’m probably best known for had a certain classic, Shakespearean style, “Apocalypse Now” was totally different. Almost a different person made it.

“One From the Heart” was yet another experiment and “Rumble Fish” was another.

I always was trying to learn about cinema by approaching it experimentally and trying to uncover what it was that really connected with me. And I’m still doing it at age 77. I’m still trying to look at it from the standpoint of: What can I learn?

AP: You’ve frequently gone back and tweaked your films, See CAREER on Page 11

Little Bloomsbury Art Festival now underway The Little Bloomsbury Art Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary this spring.

Founded by Brenda C. Sun, this year’s festival is entitled “The Passion Within,” and will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. April 28-30 at 181 N. 200 East.

Admission is free, and refreshments will be served.

Concerts will begin each night at 6 p.m.

Thursday’s entertainment will feature a magic show and storytelling concert

by Lean Checketts and the Utah Storytelling Guild with Columbian magician Ming Fu. Friday will be an Oriental concert and variety show featuring Beijing opera

(Ning Liu), Chinese harp/guzheng (Scott Kim), Taichi sword dance (Ayako Darley), erhu (Wei Zhang) and original music by Justin Van Noy and Tirza Earl.

Saturday’s show will be a bluegrass, country and rockabilly concert with Juniper Junction.

Featured artists include: Bill Forman, Holly Conger, Jonathan Hatch, Kather-

ine Brazzeal, Michael Olsen and Nevaloni Pulotu. Other award-winning artists include: Brock Simmons, Greg Frehner, James Merrill, Moriah Wilson, Stewart Hopkins and Joel, Natalia and Robin Elliott.

For more information, visit littlebloomsbury.wordpress.com, or call or text (435) 994-9904.

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Coppola reflects on legendary career

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ALL MIXED UP

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all mixed up ‘Fear Not Beasts’ continues at Utah State “Fear Not Beasts of Sand,” written by playwright Shawn Fisher, associate professor in the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University, opens at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at the Black Box Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center. The production continues through April 30.

The play follows a 19-yearold girl named Nell, who,

along with her new boyfriend, Brooks, returns to her family’s lakeside vacation home in upstate New York after escaping from a stint in rehab.

“We’ll see Nell’s attempts to integrate back into the family and its traditions,” Fisher said. “You find that there is a lot more complexity and dysfunction in the family

than just one black sheep.”

Nell’s brother is a successful medical student, her mother is a famous television psychologist and head of the family and her father is the nurturing, creative type.

Fisher said each family member is dealing with their own personal crises.

The students will perform their 10-minute, short plays

as a series of informal stage readings at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in the Black Box Theatre. The readings are free and open to the public.

“No Mustard,” a short play written by CCA student Mitch Shira, will be performed before each showing of “Fear Not Beasts of Sand.”

“Fear Not Beasts of Sand” shows at 7:30 p.m. April

26-29, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

April 30, at the Black Box Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $13 adults, $10 seniors/youth, $8 USU faculty/staff and free for USU students with ID. The show contains mature themes and strong language.

For more information or tickets, call 797-8022, or visit cca.usu.edu.

Festival Opera tickets now on sale ‘Porgy and Bess,’ ‘Showboat’ to be featured in 2016 season Single tickets for the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre’s 24th season will go on sale at 9:30 a.m. Monday, April 25.

The Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre has assembled its largest group of musicians, performers and crew members in its history for this upcoming season. They will come from renowned stages across the nation, including Broadway and the Met, to the historic Ellen Eccles Theatre and the Utah Theatre to present 13 major productions and concerts and 139 events from July 6 to Aug. 6.

The 2016 season includes five Mainstage Productions in repertory: “Showboat,” the 1927 classic that defined the “new” form of the American musical; “Porgy and Bess,” the greatest of American operas; the Tony Award-winning “Ragtime”; and Puccini’s final completed work “Il Trittico” in its Utah premiere, all

Photo courtesy of Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre

Above, “Showboat” will be among the Mainstage Productions presented this summer by the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre. Top right, “Porgy and Bess” will also come to the Ellen Eccles Theatre stage.

held in the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

“Peter Pan” will soar across the stage of the newly renovated Utah Theatre, scheduled to open in June. “Peter Pan” will open June 24.

The productions will be presented in repertory with

full orchestra, and the season bursts with 139 concerts, lectures, interactive classes, backstage tours and more.

Concerts include The Pianists, the International Opera Semifinals and Finals, Tribute to Cole Porter, a Chamber Music series, Pioneers and

Patriots featuring the return of John Philip Sousa and J.S. Bach’s monumental “Mass in B Minor” conducted by Dr. Craig Jessop and featuring the American Festival Chorus, special soloists and the Utah Festival Orchestra.

Tickets will also be on sale

for backstage tours, breakfast with the stars, literary seminars and Academy classes where interactive courses will be taught by industry experts.

The affordable classes range from topics like Houdini to painting with Kent Wallis, to backstage magic, history and more.

Performance tickets will be available online at utahfestival.org, by calling 750-0300 or in person at the box office located in the Dansante Building at 59 S. 100 West.

Academy tickets are not available online. Ticket prices vary by performance, and discounts are available for season ticket purchases and groups.

Students of all ages receive a 25 percent discount with ID.

best-selling books, “Kindergarten” takes a funny, insightful and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life.

Everyone will find something relatable in the play from memories of kindergarten, to everyday hopes and dreams, love, marriage, faith, work, aging gracefully, and what it means to die after living a

The Jolt’ set for tonight

full, rich and satisfying life. These stories are about all of us and cel- ‘ ebrate our very existence, from the Just Jumpin’ presents “The Jolt” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Logan Recreation Center, 195 S. whimsy of childhood to the wis100 West. dom of old age.

Admission is $5 per person for ages 3 and older, Tickets for “All I Really Need $3 for USU students with ID or $20 for a family. to Know I Learned in KindergarSilent auction begins at 6 p.m. ten” are $5 for adults and $3 for This year, “The Jolt” will feature Cache Valley’s students and children and may be 21-member Just Jumpin’ jump rope team, along purchased at the door. with renowned Team USA performers, L.J. LaVecchia, Nick Woodard, Kaylee Couvillion and Mike Cook. Visit justjumpin.org for more information.

Lepak coming to Logan Folk singer to perform on May 14 Bridger Folk Music Society will welcome Seattle-based folk/ Americana artist Jaspar Lepak in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at the First Presbyterian Church, 178 W. Center St. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at the door or online through PayPal at bridgerfolk. org. For more information see the website or contact Mark at (435) 213-0312.

Lepak is a singer and songwriter whose remarkable gift for melody is only surpassed by her poetry. A child of the Sonoran Desert, her songs are deeply influenced by the many places she has called home: Tucson, Minneapolis, Durban, South Africa, and now Seattle. Sweeping across landscapes with an emotional depth that is extraordinary, her lyrics expose a brave vulnerability while her clear, pure voice touches the heart.

Tom May, host of the long-running public radio show “River City Folk,” described her artistry this way: “Jaspar Lepak’s

Ice skating spring show

The Cache Valley Figure Skating Club will present its annual spring show, “Elements on Ice” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30, at the Eccles Ice Center in North Logan. Come watch local skaters in the club along with a special guest skater, Hina Ueno, of the Salt Lake Figure Skating Club. The USU Figure Skating class also will also perform. Show admission is $8 for reserved seats, $5 for general admission and children under 3 are free. Tickets are available at the Eccles Ice Center at 2825 N. 200 East in North Logan. For more information, visit cvfsc.com or call 787-2288.

‘Wild Spaces’ on display

Photo courtesy of Jaspar Lepak

Seattle-based folk/American artist Jaspar Lepak will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at the First Presbyterian Church, 178 W. Center St.

crystalline voice and lyrical phrasing is a wonder, a beacon of true musicality.

Jaspar Lepak is a special talent whose presentation transcends age, styles, and fads.”

Lepak started writing songs in 2002 while living in Minneapolis. After

recording five albums between 2004 and 2009, she moved with her husband Kale in fall 2009 to Durban, South Africa, where her music found an enthusiastic audience.

Rolling Stone South Africa hailed her 2011 release “Forgiving Wind”

as an album full of “beauty and original charm.”

Lepak became a Seattle resident in 2012 and released her seventh CD “Wide World” in April 2014. She tours frequently between her former homes and her new home in the Pacific Northwest.

“Wild Spaces,” a collection of oil paintings and watercolors by Joan Justis, will be featured at an exhibit at Fuhriman’s Framing and Fine Art at 75 S. Main St. through May 26.

Justis’s landscapes feature intimate views catching wildlife off guard, or spectacular moments filled with color and contrast. You will recognize the high meadows of Tony Grove, Bear Lake in different seasons, and the morning life in Logan Canyon.

“I grew up on the plains of the Midwest and vacationed on the forested lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota, but I always drew my childhood pictures with mountains in them,” Justis says. “With a move to the Snowy Range in Wyoming, and now the beautiful canyons of Cache Valley, I am able to print the mountainous ‘Wild Spaces’ around me.”

For more information, visit joanjustis.com or facebook.com/joanjustisfineart.

Summerfest volunteers

Summerfest Arts Faire is seeking volunteers for this year’s event, scheduled for June 16-18. Come and play with us in the sun and enjoy the art, music and food. We are looking for individuals and groups to help us set up, run and take down the fair. If you need service hours, are looking for an Eagle Scout or Girl Scout project, or just want to come and enjoy the ambiance, we would love to have your help. Visit logansummerfest.com or call 213-3858 for more information.

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Logan High School will present Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” at 7:30 p.m. April 28-30 and May 2. Because of construction on the LHS Auditorium, this production will be presented in the Mount Logan Middle School Auditorium.

Based on Robert Fulghum’s

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‘Kindergarten’ hits the stage COMING UP

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or Sharon and Bill Larkin of Fruit Heights, the block “A” on Utah State University’s campus represents making a commitment that is 41 years strong.

In the fall of 1974, Bill proposed to Sharon on the “A.” They were married the following April and recently celebrated their 41st anniversary with a trip to Logan, renewing their True Aggie status at a special alumni event last Friday night.

“I’m glad that after 41 years I got steps to walk up to it. I don’t have to climb up to it again,” Bill said.

Making sure they were prepared, the Larkins brought along a copy of the photo they took in 1974, using a tripod and timer, of her sitting atop the block “A” and him kneeling in proposal.

At the time, the “A” was on the other side of Old Main Building; the block was moved several years ago to the northeast side of the university’s iconic building and remains there today.

Sharon had advice for those who would converge on the Quad later that night to become True Aggies: “The things is, come back and renew your True Aggie vows as often as possible.

Stick together and see if you can make it to 41 years.”

It’s impossible to count just how many people have stood atop the block “A” under the full moon and kissed — cardinal rules for becoming a True Aggie — since the concrete structure was placed on campus 100 years ago.

But the True Aggie tradition, touted as the oldest of its kind in Utah, is stronger than ever.

At Friday’s event, organized around celebrating the block “A” centennial, dozens of alumni and spouses lined up to take their turn atop the “A.” People who graduated as recently as last year to those who attended six decades ago came by to pay their respects. Rodney Coster and his wife Pauline, and Marlin Shields and his wife Claudia,

HUNDRED YEARS OF SMOOCHING

who were friends at school, went on to become business partners and are neighbors today, reminisced about their time at USU. Rodney, of the classes of 1953 and 1955, remembered marching across the Quad with the ROTC. Marlin, class of 1956, reflected on playing basketball in the Nelson Fieldhouse.

The four said they became True Aggies during their time in Logan.

“It’s a great tradition,” Marlin said.

“Once an Aggie, always an Aggie.”

The alumni event was held earlier in the evening, before traditional True Aggie Night, which attracted hundreds of students, standing in a bulging line stretching across the Quad amid gusts of wind and speckles of rain that failed to put any damper on the merriment.

About 30 minutes before midnight, USU juniors Shaylee Crowton and her boyfriend, Kalin Reynolds, were sitting quietly beneath an arch in Old Main’s east doorway. Neither of the two was a True Aggie, though they both heard about it before coming to USU. “I knew I would do it one day,”

Shaylee said.

She expected it would feel like a normal kiss, but cooler, due to the large crowd that would be watching and cheering them on.

Kalin added, “We haven’t kissed all day today in preparation so that it would feel that much better.”

Friday’s True Aggie Night included a festive atmosphere, with a band playing, lights strung up in the trees, special temporary steps for the block, commemorative T-shirts and ChapStick given to the first 250 True Aggies, and Aggie Ice Cream served on the Quad. For some people, it was their first kiss. A few men kissed several women in succession. At least one marriage proposal happened (she said “yes”).

Though held every month under the full moon with a much quieter setting, there are two True Aggie nights out of the year where hundreds of couples line up to do the deed and a large crowd gathers, spectator-sport-like, to cheer them on: Homecoming in the

fall and “A” Day in the spring, which coincided this year with the centennial celebration.

During these two nights, the somewhat strict rules of becoming a True Aggie are relaxed; rather than having to kiss someone who is already a True Aggie, two non-card-holding True Aggies can participate in the tradition together.

“Card-holding” is a literal thing, at least in modern times. Newly minted True Aggies get a card certifying their status as soon as they hop off the block “A.” The rules and regulations of becoming a True Aggie have changed over the years, explained Maegan Kasteler, the traditions vice president with the USU Student Alumni Association. For example, it wasn’t always held at midnight, and, as previously stated, the “A” has moved locations over the years.

When first erected as a “headstone” to the Beno Club, it was placed west of the Mechanic Arts Building, according to a history on USU’s website. It was moved in the 1930s to the front of the library east of the Quad. The Block was put in storage when construction on the Merrill Library began in the early 1960s, and in 1967, alumni and faculty campaigned to have it moved back to the Quad. It was placed at the top of Old Main Hill on the northwest side of the Old Main Building.

And, although the school is celebrating the 100th birthday of the block “A,” no one can actually pinpoint when the True Aggie tradition began, Kasteler explained.

The university has proof of the block being a century old because of an old plaque on its side indicating it was erected by the “Beno Club” in 1916.

Different stories surround the club’s founding, but no record confirms when the smooching tradition began.

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Clockwise from top left: Craig Whyte kisses his wife Katie’s belly on the block ‘A’ last Friday. Bill Magnetti and Dawn Holzer participate in last week’s alumni event at USU. Sharon and Bill Larkin pose with a photo of their 1974 proposal on the block ‘A.’ Care Brittian becomes a True Aggie with a kiss from USU mascot Big Blue.

STORY BY Lis Stewart PHOTOS BY John Zsiray

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 29, 2016

Are Uber and Airbnb a responsible use of unused resources or “The Game of Thrones” of the economic system?

It’s hard to tell since I think we are still in the first season of this new business model. Based on the popularity of these two services, though, I can predict there are more to come.

These are my predictions and your investment opportunities: MyDayBed and NapApp: Most of us sleep at night and are then out of the house for eight hours or more per day; what a waste.

Since there are a lot of insomniacs and shift workers out there, why not rent out your house not only during the days you are not using it, but by the hour for those in need of a nap? You can charge extra for showers and give discounts for dog walking.

SortaDr: There are a lot of smart people out there who never finished pre- or med school. There are also many people who don’t have the time, money or insurance to see a certified physician. SortaDr brings these two demographics together with the click of a smartphone app. Prices would be on a sliding scale based on your preference to see an offduty veterinarian, med school dropout, spouse of a real doctor or someone who has watched at least 90 hours of approved daytime medicalthemed television.

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UberPark: This is for the times when you want to drive your own car, but you’d rather have someone else parallel park it.

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Roberts is the only one asked to reach down and pull out some genuine tears. The rest of the characters are treated as trivially as the editing.

What begins as a light-hearted, let-itsimply-wash-overyou experience turns into a brain dead they-should-reallyknow-better-shameon-everyone-involved experience. This movie lacks any reason for an audience to connect with it on an emotional level, and ends up in a zone of intellectual offensiveness. Its hope is for everyone to give it a pass because it’s about “Mother’s Day.” But, as Marshall proved with “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Day,” there’s little hope for this holiday series to turn out anything other than a watered-down, gooey product oozing with barely-there comedy.

Mother’s Day. Strange how all these friends and acquaintances find themselves facing lifeaffirming and life-altering happenstances right AP Photo before Mother’s Day. Can you believe it?

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The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, April 29, 2016

The Reel Place Aaron Peck

If a movie’s phoniness is equally proportional to how well the filmmakers portray Skype working, then “Mother’s Day” is one of the phoniest movies ever created. As if completely disconnected from reality, video conferencing in this movie, via Skype, is a crystalclear experience. No buffering, no blocking, nothing but clear images and instantaneous voices, even when one of the people involved in the conversation is flying down the freeway in a motorhome using a laptop. Whatever reality this movie exists in it isn’t even close to the one we inhabit.

And so it goes with the movie. We’re presented with a heap of mother-related stories from every corner of motherdom: new moms, divorced moms, dead moms, very young moms, overbearing racist moms, etc. It’s a veritable cornucopia of mother stories. To recap them here would likely take more words than my allotted review amount. This movie is bursting at the seams, cutting from one story to another without much narrative connective tissue at all. “Oh, yeah that story still exists in this movie,” is likely a thought you’ll have as the screenplay bounces around to its disparate narrative parts.

Director Garry Marshall, who has spent his last few directorial efforts on these vapid holidaycentric ensemble pieces, never finds a way to make sense of the madness. He gives the proceedings a light, airy feel.

The result is a superficial romp around well-to-do

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Years Continued from Page 6 The earliest True Aggie that Kasteler knows of was the late Mormon apostle and Logan native, L. Tom Perry, who became one before graduating in 1949 from what was then known at Utah State

Ideas Continued from Page 8 donut and caffeine gatherings. The Donutarian app would create flash mobs directed to likeminded people in available church facilities.

Wed4Less: This service would have an app

Agricultural College.

Perry reportedly confirmed that fact to LDS Institute students while speaking at a devotional.

Regardless of how long the True Aggie tradition has lived on the block “A,” the two are now inseparably connected, and the block, repainted year after year and prop in countless photo shoots and True

Aggie Nights, is an icon of USU pride.

“The block ‘A’ has come to represent a lot of things to campus,” Kasteler said. “The traditional picture you see of the university includes the block ‘A’ and Old Main Tower. It has become an emblem of everything that we represent as a university.”

that would allow you to stack your wedding and reception immediately before or after other weddings in your area. Sort of like last-minute flight deals, you will be able to instantly find an existing wedding where either the bride or groom got left at the altar or a significant number of the guests who spaced out.

By being willing to put your wedding together at the last minute, you can save money and the failed receptions can recoup some of their loses. Guest and relatives sharing could be made available at a small additional cost.

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Hypnotist Blake Powers will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, April 29, in Room 130 of the Eccles Science Learning Center at USU. Powers’ show will help a volunteer club raise money to go to the Dominican Republic this summer for a humanitarian trip. Pre-purchased tickets are $7; $9 at the door. Contact Kyle Hoopes at usu. vawdental@yahoo.com or (801) 458-7182 for more information.

The Hyrum Senior Center will host its Spring Boutique from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, April 29, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at 675 E. Main St. in Hyrum. Admission is free; everyone is invited. Many new and fun vendors will be on hand. Shop for Mother’s Day and graduation gifts, spring decor and much more. Call 245-3570 for more information.

All are invited to public night at the USU Observatory from 9 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, April 29. Hosted by USU’s Physics Department, guests are invited to view the spring sky through the observatory’s 20-inch telescope on the roof of the Science Engineering Research building.

Admission is free. Before arrival, please visit physics.usu.edu/ observatory, as the event will be cancelled in the event of cloudy or inclement weather. Website also offers directions and parking information.

Career Continued from Page 3 like “One From the Heart” and “The Outsiders.”

COPPOLA: I recently did that with “The Cotton Club.” ‘’The Cotton Club” was sort of made on the battlefield between the various people who put up the money and the producer (Robert Evans). At the time, they looked at it and said, “Oh, there’s too many

Just Jumpin’ presents “The Jolt” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Logan Recreation Center, 195 S. 100 West. Admission is $5 per person for ages 3 and older, $3 for USU students with ID or $20 for a family (immediate household). Visit justjumpin.org for more information.

Salduro will perform with Indiscriminate, The Times and Dirty Rotten Bastards at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 29, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6.

The Utah State University Museum of Anthropology is holding a fundraiser in the form of a World Carnival from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 29, on the Quad at Utah State University. The event is open to college students and community members of all ages, and it will include games from around the world, a Mancala championship, sumo suits, henna artists, a food truck and much more. A punch card of five is $5, 10 punches are $8 and 15 punches are $12. Free parking is available after 5 p.m. on campus and at the bottom of Old Main Hill on 700 East. Visit facebook.com/ USUMOA for more information.

are free. Tickets are available at the Eccles Ice Center at 2825 N. 200 East in North Logan. For more information, visit cvfsc.com or call 787-2288.

SATURDAY Ian Bankz & Chad will perform with The Pilot (FF4L) and Vinny Steez at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $10.

Raven Spirit will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

Valley Chicken Rendezvous on Facebook or cachevalleychickenrendezvous.weebly.com for more information.

Ian Bankz & Chad the Pilot (FF4L) will perform with Vinny Steez at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $10.

Raven Spirit will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Nibley City will host a Spring Festival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, April 30, at 50 W. 2600 South. A free event featuring free trees, there will also be gardening tops, nature and bird watching expeditions, zoo animals, bikes and backpacking and camping trails. Visit facebook. com/nibley or nibleycity.com for more information.

Join the English Language Center of Cache Valley from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at 1544 N. 200 West, for a free family event with international games and dance lessons. This party will launch ELC’s online crowd funding campaign. Funds from the Facebook campaign will be used to teach English and Basic Life Skills classes to 600 adult refugees and other immigrants this year. If you can’t make it, please visit the Facebook page for the ELC to see how you can donate and share this message.

MONDAY

The Cache Valley Figure Skating Club will present its annual spring show, “Elements on Ice” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30, at the Eccles Ice Center in North Logan. Show admission is $8 for reserved seats, $5 for general admission and children under 3

The inaugural Cache Valley Chicken Rendezvous will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, April 30, at the Cache County Fairgrounds. Chickens, supplies, local breeders and vendors, informational briefings on backyard chicken raising, showing and 4H. Chicken sales will begin at 1 p.m. Visit Cache

The Cache Valley Retired School Employees Association will meet at 1 p.m. Monday, May 2, at the Bluebird Restaurant. We will hear about the story of silk, and will also be entertained by piano reminiscing of days gone by. All retired school employees are invited to attend. If you plan on attending,

black people in it. Can we cut out some of the tap dancing and put the emphasis less on the black people in the story?”

I happened to have a Betamax very rough copy of what the movie had been before all that happened. I realized the movie had been 35 minutes longer.

Much of the film had been lost, but through hook and crook, I was able to put it back together.

AP: Are you finding any more freedom today?

COPPOLA: It’s a tough

time for more elderly film directors who don’t necessarily want to just do an HBO film on some historical subject and certainly they’re not going to do a Marvel Comics film. So I’m thrilled that I’m in a position to search for what the possibilities are.

I do feel it’s a pity that the concept of performance has been lost. That basically since the invention of the phonograph and the cinema that all our art forms are canned.

By live cinema, I don’t mean

like in the form of a television version of a play. I mean cinema, still, with the rules and language of cinema but performed live. That could be very thrilling.

AP: Do you consider television and film separate mediums?

COPPOLA: Cinema is cinema. It can be a minute or less, or it can be 90 hours or more like “The Sopranos.” It can be shown in theaters and at the same time you can see it in your living room. It’s true you

SUNDAY Andy & Company will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

call Rodell Johnson at 750-0184.

The Booklore Club will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 2, at the home of Lois Dewey.

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

Monday, May 2, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which is rated PG-13. Popcorn and admission is free.

The North Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 2, at 475 E. 2500 North. This week’s movie is “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which is rated PG-13. Popcorn and admission is free.

TUESDAY The Logan Library will host Teen Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s theme is “So Crafty!” Visit library.loganutah. org for more information.

WEDNESDAY Cruz Night will begin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, at Rumbi Island Grill (970 S. Main St.). For more information, call 799-7149.

THURSDAY The Junebugs will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 4, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6.

could see it on your iPhone.

I’m not sure you would want to, but you could.

AP: You famously risked just about everything you had on “Apocalypse Now.” Do you lament today’s riskadverse Hollywood?

COPPOLA: You can neither make beautiful, great movies without risk as you can make babies without sex.

Risk is part of the artistic process. That’s why I like performance, because performance is walking a high wire.

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