Cache Magazine ‘Zion Must Increase in Beauty and in Holiness’
New Society of Mormon Artists group featured at Logan Fine Art Gallery exhibition The Herald Journal
MAY 19-25, 2017
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May 19-25, 2017
COVER 6 New group of LDS
artists share artwork at Logan Fine Art Gallery
THE ARTS 3 Ringling Bros. Circus to
present final performances this weekend in New York
4 Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre tickets on sale now for ’17 season 4 Night Ranger coming
to perform at the Cache Valley Cruise-In in July
4 Brigham City Museum
hosting new school exhibit
5 Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston to present ‘The Mousetrap’ 5 Local troupe to present ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
TV 8 Seth MacFarlane to head to space in new Fox show
MOVIES 9 Three stars: Space horror returns in ‘Alien: Covenant’
CALENDAR 11 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley
Levi Hopkins (in red) of Ridgeline High School performs at the Utah High School Musical Theatre Awards on May 13 at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City. Hopkins was named Best Actor for his performance of Gomez Addams in “The Addams Family.” On the cover: “In the Family” by Dennis Smith is featured in the Society of Mormon Artists exhibit on display at the Logan Fine Art Gallery.
FROM THE EDITOR Ridgeline High School’s Levi Hopkins is on his way to New York City. The young actor from the first-year school in Millville was named the Best Actor at the 2017 Utah High School Musical Theatre Awards, held May 13 at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City. Hopkins, who won for his portrayal of Gomez Addams in Ridgeline’s production of “The Addams Family,” will be joined in the Big Apple by Best Actress winner Jessica Lewis of the DaVinci Academy in Ogden. The two students will represent Utah at
the National High School Musical Theatre Awards in June where they will experience 10 days of private coaching, master classes and rehearsals with theater professionals. Lewis and Hopkins’ week will wrap at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre where they will perform and compete for the Jimmy Award, which includes scholarships and other awards. “It was an incomparable evening of talent in our state,” Vanessa Ballam, education director for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, said of the awards show in Salt Lake City. “The response from the audience was palpable and almost deafening. Holding the awards at the beautiful Eccles Theater was the perfect way to celebrate these incredible student artists.” Other local finalists at the Utah High
School Musical Theater Awards this year included a slew of nomations for Logan High School’s production of “Crazy for You,” including Best Musical, Best Actor (Alex Lambert), Best Actress (Nalani Matthias), Best Supporting Actor (Dallin Clark), Best Director, Best Choreography (Faculty), Best Set Design (Faculty) and Best Lighting Design (Faculty). Ridgeline High School also picked up additional nominations from “The Addams Family” for Best Supporting Actress (Alice Beineke) and Best Orchestra. “I am blown away by the abilities of these high school students,” Ballam added. “Utah Festival is honored to be a part of their artistic journey.” — Jeff Hunter
Traveling circus shows coming to an end this weekend in N.Y. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An elephant stretches its trunk through a window to soothe a sick child. A woman gives birth and three months later is back performing on the high wire. A handler of big cats weeps as the beasts lope out of the ring for the last time. These stories could come only from circus performers, and in particular one famous circus, the one immortalized as “The Greatest Show on Earth”: the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is hanging its hat for the last time this weekend. While the show goes on in other circuses around the world, Ringling is special. The size, the spectacle and the history — stretching back to P.T. Barnum and his traveling museum in the 1800s — set it apart. One of Ringling’s two traveling circuses is scheduled to perform its final show Sunday in New York. The other closed this month, in Providence, Rhode Island, and with it, the end to a way of life few others have experienced. The Associated Press was allowed to observe it extensively. Ringling is the last circus anywhere to travel by train, and while living on a train can be tough, the accommodations are considered a benefit that other circuses don’t offer. Perks include the “Pie Car,” the mile-long train’s dining
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Above, ringmaster Kristen Michelle Wilson, right, hugs a member of the crew after the red unit’s final performance on May 7. Left, Ringling Bros. tiger trainer Taba Maluenda reacts after finishing his last performance with the red unit on May 4 in Providence, R.I.
operation, as well as a circus nursery and school for the many children whose parents make the circus what it is.
Some observations from the home the performers leave behind, from the unit’s last circus baptism, their final
times goofing around on “Clown Alley,” and other moments the world will never see again: THE BOSS CLOWN One of Sandor Eke’s earliest memories is of an elephant comforting him, stretching its trunk through his trailer window, while he lay recovering from illness.
Eke’s Hungarian parents were performing at a circus in Sweden, and Eke was just a toddler. A few years later, he’d be a circus performer himself, and aspiring to come to America to join Ringling. He got his wish 20 years ago, as an acrobat. Five years later, his colleagues told him he was funny and would make a good clown. Now, at age 41, he’s the Boss Clown, leader of the clowns on the unit. He’s also dad to 2-year-old Michael, and they are enjoying the waning days here together. “You have your own zoo. You can pet an elephant; you can play with the baby tigers,” Eke says. “You have your own clowns. Everybody loves you. A circus is a very big family.” Someday, he plans to teach his son juggling and other circus skills. Even so, Eke knows Michael may never join the circus. Eke’s wife, a former circus aerialist, has already established their new home in Las Vegas. When the circus closes, Eke hopes to get a job as a “flair” bartender there, doing tricks like juggling bottles. He wonders how life will change. “My normal life is this. My normal life is going on the train, going every week to a different city,” Eke says. “It’s crazy how much I love circus.” Knowing it’s coming to an end has been difficult for his fellow performers and crew, and Eke been spending his time trying to make his circus family laugh. “I don’t stop until they See SHOW on Page 10
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all mixed up Night Ranger coming to Logan After a two-summer hiatus, the annual Cache Valley Cruise-In will once again include a concert by a major musical act. Night Ranger will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, June 30, at the Cache County Fairgrounds, marking the first time since a performance by REO Speedwagon in 2014 that the Cache
Valley Cruise-In has hosted a concert. “The reason we felt a need to bring back the concert was because people wanted it,” explained Brandon Douglas, a member of the Cache Valley Cruising Association committee. “They asked for it. We started a tradition, and I think we should probably
keep it around as long as people are willing to come out and support it.” Tickets for the Night Ranger concert are on sale now at Lee’s Marketplace locations, as well as online at cachevalleycruisein.com and nightranger.com. Ticket prices are $65 (floor front), $45 (floor middle) and $25 (floor back
and bleachers). Special VIP packages are also available for $300 and $150. Best known for the 1984 power ballad, “Sister Christian,” Night Ranger is celebrating their 35th anniversary this year and released their 12th studio album, “Don’t Let Up,”on March 24.
Schools featured in exhibit
Brigham City Museum hosts ‘From A to Z’ Just as school bells have evolved over time from a brass bell rung by hand to a computerized tone from a speaker system, education from pioneer days to the present has progressed dramatically. A historical exhibition featuring photographs and artifacts titled “From A to Z – Schools in Box Elder County, Past and Present” will be on show at the Brigham City Museum April 1 through June 10. The museum is located at 24 N. 300 West in Brigham City. Admission is free. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. For further information, please call (435) 226-1439 or brighamcitymuseum.org. In March 1851, William Davis, his family and a few friends settled in Shoshone Indian country near Box Elder Creek. Parents were the first educators
Students at Box Elder High School are photographed for a play circa 1912.
in the area, and the Bible was their textbook. Two years later, Henry Evans, who was the first school teacher in Box Elder, walked from house to house teaching children their ABCs. In 1853, a log cabin schoolhouse was built next to the Box Elder Fort at 300 North and 200 West. Parents paid their children’s tuition
directly to the teacher in cash or produce from their farms. A pioneer named Nels Madsen wrote, “(The teacher) received cash or carrots.” In 1861, religious leader Brigham Young asked William Watkins to teach all ages in the courthouse. Young divided Box Elder, later named Brigham City, into four
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wards in August 1877 using Forest and Main streets as a focal point. Each ward was responsible for building a school and employing a teacher. Joseph Moroni Jenson was one of the teachers. The schools were named Webster, Whittier, Emerson and Columbia. A photo of each is in the exhibition.
UFOMT tickets available now Single tickets for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre’s silver anniversary season are on sale now. Thanks to increased popularity and by using the newly restored Utah Theatre, the Festival’s season has been extended additional weeks and will run from June 23-Aug. 9. “This season is a celebration of iconic genius,” said Michael Ballam, founding general director. “All the works are the supreme offerings in each form of storytelling through music.” The Festival kicks off its 25th season with “Seussical,” a musical featuring favorite Whoville characters including the Cat in the Hat and Horton the Elephant, June 23-Aug. 7, at the Utah Theatre. Productions at the Ellen Eccles Theatre include “Rex” (July 6-Aug. 7); “Madame Butterfly” (July 7-Aug. 8); “The Music Man” (July 7-Aug. 9); “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (July 8-Aug. 8); and “The Pirates of Penzance” (July 8-Aug. 9). Special events this season include a lifetime opportunity to spend an evening with 93-yearold Oscar-, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning genius in “A Tribute to Sheldon Harnick” July 19. Harnick wrote “Fiddler on the Roof” and dozens of other musicals. Performance tickets are available online at utahfestival.org, by calling 750-0300 ext. 3 or in person at the box office located in the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West. Ticket prices vary by performance and start at $13. Discounts are available for season ticket purchases and groups. Students of all ages receive a 25 percent discount with ID.
‘Fiddler’ audition dates
5 admitted. In “Much Ado About Nothing,” young lovers Hero and Claudio have to wait a whole week to get married. To pass the time, they get their peeps in Messina to conspire with them to trap two arrogant, argumentative bachelors, Benedick and Beatrice, to fall for each other. The evil Don John has his own plans to disrupt things, but will he stay ahead of constable Dogberry and his crack team of Watchmen?
Step into ‘The Mousetrap’ Don’t miss the Old Barn Community Theatre’s production of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery “The Mousetrap.” A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, a spinster with a curious background, an architect better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange man who claims his car has overturned in a snow drift and a magistrate who makes life miserable for everyone. This play is based on Agatha Christie’s story “Three Blind Mice,” “The Mousetrap” includes one of Chrisite’s switch finishes. Performances of the
Music Theatre West will hold auditions for “Fiddler on the Roof” from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday, May 22, and from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, at Providence Elementary School, 91 E. Center St. in Providence. “Fiddler on the Roof” will be performed in the Ellen Eccles Theatre Oct. 12-18 with a live orchestra. Rehearsals will begin Aug. 22. Auditions are for ages 16 and up, including mature men and women. Girls ages 10-16 may audition if they have been in a previous production with Music Theatre West or have participated in one of their summer camps. Please prepare a oneminute song in the style of the show. Everyone will also be asked to participate in a short dance/movement audition. Video auditions will also be accepted. Callbacks are from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, May 24. Please visit musictheatrewest.org for more information and to sign up for vocal and dance audition times. Call Debbie Ditton at 232-3054 with questions.
Vocal Performance Camp
The Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston will present “The Mousetrap” on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays April 28 to May 20.
“The Mousetrap” will be presented every Monday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. from April 28 to May 20 at the Old Barn Community Theatre
in Collinston. In addition, matinees will begin at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, and Saturday, May 13. Tickets can be pur-
chased online at oldbarn. org, or by phone reservation at (435) 458-2276. Tickets are $9 for adults; $8 for children and seniors.
SLC band to play at Canyon Jams Candy’s River House and Hilary Murray will perform at the next Canyon Jams Concert from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 21, at the Stokes Nature Center in Logan Canyon. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $8 for students and seniors; kids 12 and under are free. Candy’s River House is a classic
melding of every hard rock band leading the way 40 years ago, with pieces of Nazareth, Skynyrd, Cream and Deep Purple coursing through its veins. This Salt Lake City-based band is one part Jordan Young on lead vocals and guitar, one part Dave McIntire on bass guitar and vocals and one part Eric Stoye on
drums and percussion. The Canyon Jams Concert Series is a great way to enjoy live music and the great outdoors while supporting an important cause. Bring a picnic, lounge by the river and enjoy the show. Visit logannature.org for more information.
The 20th annual Vocal Performance Camp for Teens will be held July 31 through Aug. 4 in the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University. Entitled “How the West Was Sung,” the USU Department of Music-sponsored camp will run from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, and offers vocal instruction, choir and musical theater training for teens 12 to 18 years old. The week will culminate with performances in all areas. Michelle Broadbent returns to this year as the guest artist. A former VPC participant, Broadbent holds vocal degrees from Utah State University, Brigham Young University and a pending doctorate from Arizona State University. Her many accomplishments include BYU Singer of the Year, Outstanding Opera Performance Award and concerto winner at USU, BYU and ASU. Registration for the Vocal Performance Camp for Teens is $125 and is open to all singers regardless of experience. Classes are limited by age enrollment and accepted on a first-come basis. For more information and registration forms, visit vocalperformancecamp@usu.edu or call Bonnie Slade at 435-760-7361.
Hyrum Museum event
Registration is currently underway for the Hyrum City Museum’s fifth annual car show fundraiser Hot Wheels and Hot Dogs, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 3. You may either visit the museum or hyrumcitymuseum.org to register your vehicle. It’s shaping up to be another year of spectacular vehicles, delicious food, antique tractors, local vendors and awesome prize drawings, and we are adding five new awards.
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Logan Youth Shakespeare will present “Much Ado About Nothing” May 22-26 at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts, 43 S. Main St. Three different casts will perform this classic comedy each night at 7 p.m., with a matinee at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 27. Tickets are $6 adults and $3 children from 5 to 18 years old. Tickets are available at the door or at cachearts.org. No children under
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Beauty and Holiness A
Story by Amy Macavinta
rt is everywhere, just waiting be discovered — whether it’s in a boyhood field of dandelions, deep in the soul of a would-be prima donna or on display in a Logan art gallery. The Society of Mormon Artists is holding its first-ever exhibition this summer at the Logan Fine Art Gallery, with each piece representing a highly personal journey toward selfdiscovery. SOMA was founded in April by LDS art specialist Cynthia Dye, who grew up in Providence. “Logan is the perfect place for our first show,” she said. “Our artists are enthusiastic about the opportunity to bring their art to areas outside the metropolitan Salt Lake area where these kinds of exhibits are usually featured. Instead of having to make a trip to the Church History Museum or the BYU Art Museum to view a religious art show, the Society of Mormon Artists is bringing the art to the front door of Logan residents.” Angela Johnson of Highland is one of the sculptors featured in the show. She is the creator of the “I Am the Light of the World” sculpture garden at Thanksgiving Point. Johnson’s passion for art and creation is itself a thing of beauty, bringing an exuberant energy into the stillness of the art gallery. She describes art as an awakening. “To me, art is not a passive thing, it is an invitation to awake to your inner gifts and everyone has them,” she said.
“It doesn’t mean that you have to do what Angela Johnson does — if you just want to garden, then garden, but love it. If you want to study insects, then study them, but do it because you love it.” Johnson, who claims she was withdrawn as a child, poured all of her being into music for a significant portion of her life. “When I was 13, I had a goal to become the prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera,” Johnson said. “I really bought into the whole ‘you can accomplish anything that you put your mind to.’ That’s the world’s philosophy of self-empowerment, right? The thing that I loved about it was that it made me feel autonomous and almost on a mission because by the power of my mind, if I focused intently enough, I could accomplish it.” After 23 years of study and performance, the mother of four who is now in her late 30s, sat down at her piano for several hours of vocal study when she was suddenly overcome with a very clear message that crushed her lifelong dreams in an instant. She knew then, in no uncertain terms, that she would not ever be the prima donna. “I was devastated. All the years of scaffolding just started to fall and crush inside of me, and I didn’t have the strength to prop it back up,” she said. “I knew it was true and I was devastated.” Johnson said it was as if she was overtaken in the hour or so that followed, when she firmly closed the lid to her piano, went to the art store and purchased a block of clay and a sculpting tool. Four hours later, she said
there was a portrait bust of a little girl on her kitchen table. “The weird thing about music and singing is you put all of this work into it but you can’t touch it. It goes somewhere out in the universe, but you can’t touch it. It is gone. It is created from inside your body, but then it is gone — I needed something tactile,” she said. “And what really came to me, it was like the finger of God, just like in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel depiction, it felt like He touched my heart and said it is now time you develop the talent you didn’t know you had and then I just started sculpting one thing after another. I was absolutely taken.” Local artist Larry Winborg said it more succinctly. “You discovered your true gift, you really did,” he said. “That’s all it is. we’ve been given gifts.” Winborg, who lives in Hyde Park, is a painter who sees brushstrokes in when he closes his eyes at night and isn’t afraid to throw turpentine at the canvas when the art isn’t coming along as he thinks it should. “You know, Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden, and we are also on the earth to fulfill the major of our creation,” he said. “We have been given gifts, and I think we were probably doing these things in the pre-existence and I hope we will be able to work on them when we leave here.” Winborg’s gift was first recognized by his first-grade teacher more than 50 years ago with the completion of the simplest of assignments. “She took a big piece of
LDS artists share talents at inaugural SOMA exhibition at the Logan Fine Art Gallery butcher paper and crayons, and said ‘I want you all to draw a picture of a little boy and a little girl in a field of dandelions’ so all the kids were drawing .... they drew their dandelions in straight rows, and I thought, Man, that’s not right,” Winborg said. “So, I put them all over the place and she held it up and said this is good. And she pointed out why. She actually came to my home and took the drawing to my mother and said, this kid has got talent ... I decided then I was going to be an artist.” If Johnson and Winborg were the most jubilant in their passion for their God and the talents bestowed on them, local artists Michael Malm and Joshua Clare each share a quiet tranquility. Malm has been painting for more than 23 years but says he is still learning and perfecting his art. “It wasn’t something I just naturally had” he said. “It took a while to work with it and I still feel like I am learning, looking for ways to improve my ability.” He started out doing portraits, with a love for the ability to communicate so much with just simple gesture or the tilt of the head. Over years he said he has evolved from evolved from gallery painting and now religious pieces that testify of Christ and point people to God. “In the last several years I have been able to take kind of a different course in my art and have had the opportunity to create New Testament scenes which I really love,” he said. “It has pushed me to learn how to do not just the single figure, beautiful person in the woods kind of thing — I have moved from a one-figure
painting to a multi-figure painting which involves a lot more work.” All of the individual scenes in this type of painting has to fit into a cohesive whole and that is the challenge, figuring out how to design it and make it all work. “I’m still figuring that out, and I’ve got a lot to learn,” he said. In a group interview that started out with rudimentary questions about their artistic backgrounds and morphed into a deeply spiritual conversation among artists who share a Godcentered desire to create, Clare described his own prayerful journey. If the catalyst for Winborg was dandelions in first grade, Clare said his was a fifth-grade teacher and the drawing of a tennis shoe. The artist in him was planted in that moment with a teacher’s praise, but not fully developed until he went to college. Clare studied art in college and struggled to find the path to use art as the means of providing for a family. He tried graphic design, which he enjoyed, but the joy was soon lost on him with a simple request to change the color in one of his designs. “I almost died; I just couldn’t handle it,” he said. “I just had to be in control.” During his junior year, Clare faced his moment of truth when he got married. It was important to him to be provider and he knew he had to figure out if art was the means, so he took a break from studio art for a semester. During that time of prayer and reflection, he read “The Arts
and the Spirit of the Lord,” a talk by Elder Boyd K. Packer that moved him deeply. In essence, it said God is most pleased not by the most talented or most skilled, but by the most consecrated and the most meek. He read that over and over again, and knew he had his answer. “I just had this absolute, calm peaceful assurance that I would be a fine artist and things would just be great and I would paint pictures for God,” he said. Clare was fascinated with Johnson’s story, and found a connection with his own journey into art. He noted that Johnson was once consumed with her own desires to be a prima donna and he said God wants to fulfill our desires, but it reminded him of a talk by Elder Packer that talks about climbing the ladder only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall. “You wanted to sing beautifully but it wasn’t to glory God like your sculpture glorifies God,” he said. “It was an interesting almost Alma the Younger experience where she just turns completely and humbles herself and does something else.” That, he said, it a powerful message to share with people who attend the show. “They all have something inside them that they love — we’re all born with the desire to create, we’re all children of the Creator and it’s part of who we were, who we are and who we are destined to be. Creation is a really integral part of us as people, as sons and daughters of God.”
The artwork of these artists and many more can be seen until Aug. 31 at the Logan Fine Art Gallery, 60 W. 100 North. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, visit societyofmormonartists.org.
Now in its 34th year, the annual Summerfest Arts Faire depends heavily on volunteers. Each year, more than 300 people help make the festival happen. This year, Summerfest is searching for volunteers in several categories: Eagle Scout and youth projects; business and organizations who will take on a particular aspect of the festival; and gen-
eral volunteers. Members of the Summerfest board of directors work as volunteers, each taking an area of responsibility such as food, hospitality, music, plein air contest, coordination of volunteers and more. “We are very grateful for all the folks who volunteer their help for Summerfest,” says Summerfest executive director Elaine Thatcher. “We couldn’t
do it without them.” Summerfest has several projects that can help Boy Scouts earn their Eagle rank. The projects require scouts to organize their own teams of volunteers and to take charge of specific areas of festival operation. These can include helping with setup or teardown, assisting artists, keeping the grounds clean and so forth.
Other volunteer opportunities exist for individuals and organizations. “We always need booth sitters who can be available to sit in artists’ booths for a few minutes so the artists can take a break,” Thatcher says. “And a couple of years ago, we had someone work off some community service hours with us. He was extremely helpful, because he knew how to fix
electrical and other situations.” Anyone interested in volunteering can contact Thatcher at 213-3858 or elaine@logansummerfest.com. The 2017 Summerfest Arts Faire will take place June 15-17 and feature 138 visual artists, 38 performing groups and 20 food vendors on Tabernacle Square in downtown Logan.
Fox TV looking to sci-fi, fantasy this fall NEW YORK (AP) — The Fox network is calling on superpowers and Seth MacFarlane to boost ratings this fall. “The Orville,” a new space adventure starring and produced by MacFarlane, is set 400 years in the future and follows the adventures of an
exploratory spaceship. “This is Seth’s passion project,” Dana Walden, Fox Television Group chairman and CEO, said Monday in a teleconference detailing the 201718 schedule for the network that’s No. 4 among total viewers. The multitalented
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guessed, it’s sheer bad luck that this crew of would-be colonists land on a planet infected with Xenomorph eggs. Once the team arrives and they start getting killed one by one, the action never feels like it culminates into something memorable. Michael Fassbender reprises his role (sort of) as a new android named Walter. finds himself as the actFassbender is great ing captain of the ship. There’s mention that he’s here. Like his role in “X-Men: Apocalypse,” a “man of faith” among he out-acts the movie a group of scientists, but he’s in. His parts are AP Photo this dichotomy isn’t fascinating and scarier explored nearly as much Katherine Waterston stars as Daniels in a scene from “Alien: Covenant.” than the actual Xenoas one might expect. morph attacks. “They won’t listen to me The story revolves I’m not a stickler because I’m a man of around a deep-space faith,” Oram laments. Yet, for “Alien” mytholcolonization mission ogy or how it’s prethere’s never much conthat veers off course to sented in a screenplay. flict on that front when an unintended habitable Director // Ridley Scott Instead, I’m looking push comes to shove. planet after a solar storm Starring // Michael Fassbender, Danny McBride, to relive some of the Daniels (Kathrine damages their spaceKatherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Carmen Ejogo, intense horror I felt Waterson) is the Ripship. There is a hilarious Demian Bichir, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez watching the first two ley character here. She moment, which must be Rated // R for sci-fi violence, bloody images, lan“Alien” movies. even looks like a young acknowledged, where a guage and some sexuality/nudity “Alien: Covenant” Sigourny Weaver. She’s big-name actor is killed doesn’t deliver on that strong and fearless. A movie “Alien: Covenant,” Not as unmemorable before he even gets to doesn’t come close to as “Life,” but quite rigid utter a line. Surprising to good stand-in for the Rip- front. It’s sleek, stylish and looks amazing. ley who will come along matching the terror of in the way it dispenses say the least. However, the action “Alien” or “Aliens.” It action, gore, and scares. After the startling open- in a few years according leaves something to to this timeline. plays more like a straight- In short it lacks an impact- ing moments of the film be desired. forward monster movie. ing “wow” moment. As you may have Oram (Billy Crudup)
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Show Continued from Page 3 smile,” he says. “And I do everything. I don’t care if I have to dive into a trash can. That’s how I want to be remembered. And that’s how I want to remember myself. I’m going to go and cry. But I’m going to be happy.” SEND OUT THE CLOWNS Ivan Vargas likes to say his parents fell in love with the air. He is sixth-generation circus. His mother performed on the high wire when they met, his father on the trapeze. Vargas was born between two Ringling Bros. shows in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1990. His father managed to perform in the early show, then made it across the street to the hospital — in costume — for his son’s birth. Vargas is part of Clown Alley. It’s not just a place. In one sense, it’s the private area backstage where clowns get ready to perform. But it’s also how the clowns refer to themselves, a mini-fraternity within the circus, and a microcosm of it. There’s Brian Wright, a circus superfan, of sorts. He was 4 years old when he saw his first Ringling show, and he knew that’s what he wanted to do. The Brooklyn, New York, native auditioned three times before finally landing a job as a clown. Now he keeps a book he likes to call the “Clown Bible,” which, after four years at Ringling, is now filled with memories, thoughts and jokes he collects when he meets a former clown. And there are Nick Lambert and Stephen Craig, neither of whom gave a thought to joining the circus until they were out of college. They ended up here because of their love of acting. Lambert has a plan for his last hours on the circus train, before he heads back to his hometown of Albion, Illinois. The morning after the last performance, he’ll sit in his compartment on the train and open up a cabinet. There, clowns from years past have written their names, shows and years they performed with Ringling. “I’ll get to add my name to the door,” he says. “I’m the last one in this room before it is all gone.” RESTRICTED BY THE LIFE Quarters on the circus train can be tight. Some cabins are so small, you can touch opposite walls with outstretched arms. Many travelers are stuck in their rooms while the train is moving because the only exit is to the outside. Take Jeannie Hamilton. She has been
with the circus 12 years, most recently as manager of concessions. While people talk about running away with the circus as a way to break free, Hamilton said she sometimes felt constrained — either stuck at the arena or stuck on the train. The train moves much slower than an Amtrak, or even a Honda. Its final run traveled a circuitous route from Hartford, Connecticut, through Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island. The trip took half a day. By car, the 65-mile distance could be covered in less than two hours. The train cars are, for the most part, being sold, and many have already been auctioned. So, Hamilton decided to spend that last trip soaking it all in. “Anytime the train was moving, I was on the vestibule,” she said, referring to the small standing area between train cars. “Now that it’s coming to an end, I was trying to enjoy every minute of it.” Hamilton would smile, wave and take pictures as she passed by people who had come out to say their final goodbyes to the Ringling train, yell “thank you” and applaud. “Got a lump in my throat,” Hamilton says, “every time I saw them.” BIRTH ON A WIRE (OR CLOSE TO IT) Being a circus performer takes commitment, discipline and athleticism, qualities Anna Lebedeva exhibits when she balances on the high wire with her husband, Mustafa Danguir. She executes her tricks so effortlessly, it’s hard to believe she had a baby three months ago. It was important to her to perform in Ringling Bros.’ last shows, she says, and she pushed herself to get back in condition after their son, Amir, was born. “I’m really happy to have a chance to finish this. It’s been seven years for us,” she says. “This is just history, you know?” Danguir is the first in his family to perform in the circus. He was discovered doing acrobatic tricks as a child in Morocco and invited to circus school. Lebedeva, originally from Moscow, is sixth-generation circus.They married last year, 30 feet up on the high wire. Now, they’ll move back to Europe. Danguir will appear as a finalist Saturday on the TV show “Arabs Got Talent.” The couple dreams of starting their own show, or maybe opening a circus school in Morocco to teach future generations. They’re optimistic something good will come along. “We are artists,” Danguir says. “We are survivors.”
The Logan Family Center will present “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 19, at 50 S. 400 East. Cost is $3, which includes candy, popcorn, water and a free movie. “Rogue One” will be shown on a big screen with surround sound. The money raised in this event will The Logan Family Center continue to provide free resources to families in Cache Valley. Please sign up at Facebook.com/ loganfirc as seating is limited. Black and White Days continues in Richmond on Friday, May 19. Events include holstein cattle dairy show (9:30 a.m.); hamburger stand (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.); and Movie in the Park: “Moana” (dusk). Visit richmond-utah.com for more information.
SATURDAY The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market will be held from, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at the Historic Cache COunty Courthouse on the corner of 200 North and Main Street. Music for the market will be provided by Hilary Murray. Black and White Days continues in Richmond on Saturday, May 20. Events include chuckwagon breakfast for $4 per person (7 to 10 a.m.); Cow-A-Bunga
Race (8 a.m.); horse show (8 a.m.); dairy food show (9 to 11 a.m.); Highland Games (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.); family activities in the park, Relic Hall tours and booths and food vendors (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.); hamburger stand (11 a.m. to 9 p.m.), parade (5 p.m.) and horse pulls for $5 for adults, $3 for children 3 to 11 years old (7 p.m.). Visit richmond-utah.com for more information. Bear River Watershed Cleanup Day will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 20, at First Dam/ Canyon Entrance Park. Bring your families and clubs to enjoy the spring greenery while helping to clean up our beautiful trail network. Teams of volunteers will be outfitted with trash bags and protective gloves and sent up the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Logan River Trail and the Highline Trail to pick up trash and dog poop. Trash on these trails often end up in the First Dam or Logan River. For motivation, snacks will be provided. For more information, call 797-2580 or email waterquality@usu.edu.
SUNDAY The Post-Mormon Community is a non-sectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormonism. The Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing at a local restau-
Fox Continued from Page 8 MORE NEWCOMERS Freshman series set for Fox’s midseason: — “9-1-1,” described as a “fastpaced exploration” of the lives and careers of first responders including police, paramedics and firefighters. Angela Bassett stars in the drama from prolific producer Ryan Murphy (“Feud”). — “The Resident, a drama starring Matt Czuchry (“The Good Wife”) and Emily VanCamp (“Revenge”), will focus on three doctors and a nurse as it reveals “what really happens, both
rant at 6:30 p.m. every Sunday evening. Call Jeff at 770-4263 or visit our website at postmormon. org/logan.
MONDAY Each year, the public, residents and staff are invited to gather together to honor the memory of loved ones from the Cache Valley community. This year, the annual Spring Memorial Event at Sunshine Terrace will begin at 5 p.m. Monday, May 22. The night will be highlighted by music, reflection the reading of loved ones names and refreshments. Remembering and empowering families and friends to respectfully move forward is an essential part of the grieving process. For more information, call Sunshine Terrace at 7160411 or visit sunshineterrace.net. The Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 22, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “The Space Between Us,” which is rated PG-13. Popcorn and admission is free. Music Theatre West will hold auditions for “Fiddler on the Roof” from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday, May 22, and from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, at Providence Elementary School, 91 E. Center St. in Providence.
good and bad,” at American hospitals. — “LA to Vegas” from executive producers including Will Ferrell and Steve Levitan (“Modern Family”). Fox describes it as a workplace comedy about an airline crew and the “eccentric passengers” who fly to Las Vegas weekly in the hope of becoming winners. Dylan McDermott stars. MAYBE, MAYBE NOT Fox was happy with “24: Legacy,” the follow-up to its successful “24,” the executives said. With star Corey Hawkins on Broadway in “Six Degrees of Separation,” its return couldn’t be considered for fall but its future remains under discussion. “Prison Break: Resurrection” was intended as a special, one-season
“Fiddler on the Roof” will be performed in the Ellen Eccles Theatre Oct. 12-18 with a live orchestra. Rehearsals will begin Aug. 22. Please visit musictheatrewest.org for more information and to sign up for vocal and dance audition times. Call Debbie Ditton at 2323054 with questions.
Archives invites you to an oral history project entitled “Voices from Drug Court” will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, in the Bonneville Room at the Logan Library. The event is free and open to the public.
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Dinner Date Night with Scot Allgood will be held from 6:30 The Logan Library will host to 8:15 p.m. Thursday, May 25, Teen Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 in the Skyroom at USU. Entitled p.m. Tuesday, May 23, in the “Love and Intimacy in Marriage,” Jim Bridger Room. This week’s the cost is $20 per person or $35 theme is “Lights, Camera, Anime!” per couple. To register, visit ddnVisit library.loganutah.org for scot-allgood.eventbrite.com. A more information. vital part of marital harmony and happiness is a healthy view and “Changing the World for Our practice of intimacy. Allgood will Children: A Global Approach share his advice and expertise with Individual Reach” is the from 30 years as a family therapist, theme of three classes being researcher and university professponsored by mental health sor. In spite of the potentially joycounselor, Cristine Price. Class ful aspects of intimacy, it can be themes include “Developmental source of frustration and unhappiJourneys for Children, Adults ness for some couples. Learn how and Couples” (Tuesday, May to make intimacy a deeply satisfy23); “How to Know if Your Child ing aspect of your marriage. is Grieving (and What to Do)” (Thursday, May 25); and “QuanJoin Jette Youngblood and tum Solutions for Wellness Age Sammie MacFarlane for a wine 0-100” (Tuesday, May 30). For and cheese fundraiser to benefit more information, call (435) 915Common Ground Outdoor 6915 or visit cristineprice.com. Adventures at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 31, at Crumb Brothers, 291 S. 300 West. They’ll be live music and great food from Chef The Utah State University Barney. Tickets are $75. Call Library Special Collections & 713-0288 to purchase.
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return and no more episodes are in the works, Walden said. But Fox “loved” what aired earlier this year and would consider it for another limited run if the producers are so inclined, she added. KELLY’S RETURN Megyn Kelly made her NBC debut Monday onstage at Radio City Music Hall, telling a crowd of advertisers at the network’s schedule presentation that she’ll debut her Sunday newsmagazine in June and start in the 9 a.m. hour of “Today” in September. There were no details from the former Fox News Channel star but, she said, “I’m psyched.” IS THIS US? NBC showed advertisers a tearjerker video of “This is Us” cast members
surprising fans who testified on camera about how much the show meant to them. NBC was happy to boast about the success of its freshman season. In a standup routine, Seth Meyers noted the show hit a ratings milestone that NBC hadn’t seen in more than a decade. “So maybe it should be ‘This is Unlike Us,’” Meyers joked. ODD ONE OUT As a veteran in the TV business, Matthew Perry knows how to read the tea leaves. On April 10, the actor noted on Twitter that his face on the stage door to CBS’ “The Odd Couple” had been painted over with green paint. “I think it’s safe to assume we have been cancelled,” he tweeted. On Monday, his premonition came true.
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