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Cache Magazine ‘A CALM, PEACEFUL SENTIMENT’

THE ARTWORK OF USU GRADUATE JEFFORY BUIST The Herald Journal

OCTOBER 7-13, 2016

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October 7-13, 2016

COVER 6 Jeffory Buist keeps his art ‘calm and peaceful’

THE ARTS 4 MOMIX dance troupe

set to perform on Tuesday

4 ‘Can’t Take It With You’ comes to the Old Barn Community Theatre 4 Annual Moondog Ball

fundraiser set for Oct. 15

5 Olate Dogs coming to

perform at the Ellen Eccles Theatre on Oct. 17

MOVIES 3 Two stars: Real-life rape allegations taint Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’

8 ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home

for Peculiar Children’ takes the top spot at box office

9 Three stars: Emily Blunt

takes ‘The Girl on the Train’ for a very intense ride

TV 8 Sarah Jessica Parker

returns to TV with ‘Divorce’

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

Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully gestures to fans during the seventh inning stretch of a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Dodgers in San Francisco last Saturday. (AP Photo) On the cover: Local artist Jeffory Buist’s “Green River at Labryinth Canyon” was part of a recent exhibit at Caffe Ibis. (Photo courtesy of Jeffory Buist)

FROM THE EDITOR As we head into the final month before the 2016 Presidential Election, we’re constantly being reminded that we’re a divided nation, and that the election of either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is extremely unlikely to change any of that.

Oh, if only Vin Scully wasn’t going to turn 89 at the end of November.

I can’t seriously can’t think of anyone who has done more to bring people together than the legendary voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers has

over the past few months leading up to his retirement after 67 years in broadcasting.

Personally, I despise the Dodgers. I have ever since I was growing up and L.A. was in the same division as my Cincinnati Reds. But at the same time that I was hating the likes of Steve Garvey, Ron Cey and Don Sutton, etc., I was also developing my love for Major League Baseball thanks, in a large part, to Scully calling NBC’s Game of the Week on Saturday afternoons, along with serving as the network’s lead broadcaster during many playoff games and World Series in the ’80s.

Ever since then, whenever I had a chance to hear Scully call a game, I viewed it as a wonderful treat and relished

the opportunity, regardless of who the Dodgers were playing.

And clearly I wasn’t alone. During L.A.’s final series of the regular season in San Francisco, Scully received numerous ovations from Giants’ fans, and the Dodgers’ biggest rivals even honored him with a plaque placed in the broadcast booth.

Scully was clearly one of a kind and touched, literally, generation after generation of baseball fans during his 67 years on the air. He will certainly be missed, and if he were only about 15-20 years younger, Scully might just have been the perfect presidential candidate this fall.

— Jeff Hunter

Real events taint ‘Birth of a Nation’ Not often do real-life events collide with movies to create an entirely different experience. When I first saw Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” at the Sundance Film Festival, I was moved by it.

It’s the story of Nat Turner and the bloody slave revolt he instigated during August 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. Now, after light of recent events involving Parker, it’s hard to hold the film in the same esteem.

I admit to being ignorant at the time I saw it at Sundance.

I didn’t know of Parker’s rape allegations (he was acquitted, but his close friend Jean McGianni Celestin, who also co-wrote this script, was found guilty, but his conviction was later overturned), or that the woman who accused him of rape later committed suicide.

At any rate this isn’t, in itself, a reason to reverse course on a film. I’ll get to that.

First, the story. Nat Turner’s rebellion was a violent one.

Even more vicious than the film lets on. Turner and his band of spurned slaves killed men, women and children as they exacted vengeance on people responsible for their plight.

Turner, who is played by Parker, is a humble man. A man of God. There’s a scene at the beginning where a shaman notices special marks on Turner’s body, which supposedly indicate that he’s a chosen vessel. He grows up in the home of his white masters, learning to read and write,

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Parker’s rape allegations hit close to home

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ALL MIXED UP

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In this image released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, from left, Armie Hammer portrays Samuel Turner, Nate Parker portrays Nat Turner and Jayson Warner Smith portrays Earl Fowler in a scene from “The Birth of a Nation,” opening Friday.

★★ ‘Birth of a Nation’ Director // Nate Parker Starring // Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union, Aunjanue Ellis, Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, Roger Guenveur Smith, Esther Scott, Colman Domingo Rated // R for disturbing violent content, and some brief nudity

and befriending the son of the plantation owner. Once the owner dies, the family is surprised to learn that the owner’s wish was to send Nat back to the cotton fields.

Turner grows. He’s a man now. We’re presented with familiar slavery imagery.

Flowing white fields of cotton. Dilapidated cabins where slaves live with a large white home looming over them as a not-so-subtle metaphor for

their lives.

Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) was Nat’s friend in childhood, and now that he’s taken control of the plantation he brings Nat under his wing.

Though the two don’t see eye to eye all the time, Samuel is still an understanding master.

There’s a lot to unpack in this biopic, but let’s skip to the troubling aspect. In the middle of the film, Nat’s wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King) is bru-

tally raped by a local patrol of thugs who hunt down runaway slaves. This rape serves as the catalyst for Nat’s revolution. It instills a righteous fire inside of him. He must avenge the honor of his wife. Enough is enough and all that.

The problem with this part of the film is that it’s fiction, inserted into the story by Parker and his co-writer, as if the idea of slavery and all of its abuses weren’t enough to drive Turner’s rebellion. The film grossly underestimates its female characters, who seem only to exist in order to give Turner purpose.

The sister of the woman who committed suicide after alleging that Parker raped her wrote an op-ed for Variety in which she said: “I find it creepy and perverse that

Parker and Celestin would put a fictional rape at the center of their film, and that Parker would portray himself as a hero avenging that rape.” It’s a fair statement.

Nat Turner’s story, his motivations, don’t need embellishing. Perhaps there’s a better movie waiting to be made about his life. Maybe even one that questions his morality, because his rebellion certainly was horrific in many aspects.

It isn’t often that real-life events sway my opinion about a film, but these are too strong to ignore. Parker does a disservice to the story by placing in unnecessary justification when Turner never needed it in the first place. Slavery was atrocious. That’s justification enough.

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all mixed up ‘Can’t Take It’ comes to the Old Barn The Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston is proud to present it’s upcoming production, “You Can’t Take It With You.” The play will take to the stage every Monday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. from Oct. 7 to 22. Matinees will also be presented at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 8, 15 and 22.

For tickets and more information, visit oldbarn.org or call (435) 4582276.

In “You Can’t Take It With You,” the Sycamores seem mad, at first, but it is not long before we realize that if they

are mad, the rest of the world is madder.

In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question.

The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own

people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress.

No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa’s interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn’t believe in the income tax.

MOMIX set to perform Opus Cactus hits stage on Tuesday

CacheARTS welcomes MOMIX: Opus Cactus at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets for MOMIX performance are available at cachearts. org, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Box Office at 43 S. Main St, or by calling 752-0026.

Coming to Cache Valley for the first time, these dancer illusionists dreamily combine physical strength and grace, whimsical costumes, acrobatic props, modern dance, aerial arts, and fire dancing to whisk audiences of all ages away on a magical journey through desert landscapes not unlike Utah’s own southern red rock.

MOMIX is internationally renowned for their inventive, beautiful pieces combining surrealism and body movement, and is performing in only a select few venues in the United States before embarking on a European tour through Spain, Italy, and Holland.

Opus Cactus returns reinvigorated by MOMIX artistic director Moses Pendleton after a 10-year hiatus. Originally created as a

Photo courtesy of MOMIX

MOMIX: Opus Cactus will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

20-minute piece in 2001 for Ballet Arizona, Pendleton has brought the landscape of the American Southwest to life with his signature illusionistic style creating dynamic images of cactuses, slithering lizards and fire dancers.

This multimedia spectacular has something for all ages: children

will love the fantastical costumes and magical props, adults can savor the subtle and beautiful imagery, and young couples can bask in the romance of simple duets.

The sheer physical virtuosity See MOMIX on Page 10

Photo courtesy of Old Barn Community Theatre

Dave Farnsworth, left, and John Smith share a scene in “You Can’t Take It With You.”

Four Paws ready to host annual Moondog Ball There is no moon like an autumn moon, and no better way to celebrate it than a Moondog Ball.

A-RO-OO-OO! This happy howl from Four Paws Rescue is your invitation to join them for the 16th annual Moondog Ball on Saturday, Oct. 15.

Continuing their longstanding tradition, the rescue’s festive fundraiser will take place at the Logan Golf & Country Club, 710 N. 155 East.

Hors d’oeuvres will be served at 7 p.m. followed by a silent auction. This year, Four Paws Rescue will feature a special performance by Olate Dogs at 8:30 p.m., with dancing beginning at 9 p.m.

Attire, as usual, is fashionably “dress to impress,” an unofficial cross between very formal and not so formal.

The evening’s festivities will feature the Joe McQueen Quartet, led by 97-year-old jazz legend Joe McQueen, who has played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie and more; followed Allie Harris & Friends, a performance by Shimmering Sands Belly Dance and dance music from the local band, The Raindogs.

This year’s hors d’oeuvres will be catered by Justin Hamilton of Off Premise Catering.

Tickets for the Moondog Ball are $60 and are available at Caffé Ibis, The Italian Place, and The Island Market, as well as online at moondog.eventbrite.com, a secure ticket purchasing site.

For further ticket information or information about the rescue itself, visitFour Paws Rescue online at 4paws.petfinder.com or call 770-7844.

are Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. For further information, please phone (435) 226-1439 or visit brighamcitymuseum.org.

G. Russell Case of Brigham City was the juror for the competition.

Since his graduation from Utah State University, he has dedicated himself to painting full-time. He is represented in galleries in Jackson, Wyoming; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Scottsdale,

Arizona; and Culver City, California, to name a few.

In the painting category, John Poon of Liberty won first place for “Grey Day in Perry”; Dennis Millard of Salt Lake City, second place, “Brigham City Tabernacle”; and Trent Gudmundsen of Preston, Idaho, third place, “Old Home Against the Hills.”

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Olate Dogs and new tricks Talented rescue pups won NBC’s ‘Talent’ show

Olate Dogs’ Rescue Tour is coming for one night only to the Ellen Eccles Theatre. The second performance in the CacheARTS Presents 2016-17 National Touring Season, these winners of “America’s Got Talent” will be wagging up a storm at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17.

Millions of viewers witnessed Olate Dogs’ high-energy canine performance steal the show during Season 7 of “America’s Got Talent,” winning the $1 million prize and headlining the Palazzo in Las Vegas.

Now Olate Dogs is touring around the nation and bringing their fastpaced canine tricks right to Cache Valley to charm audiences of all ages.

More than just Frisbee chasing and sitting on command, the Olate Dog act thrills and excites with hilarious and adorable costumes and innovative stunts like backflips and driving cars, not to mention human acrobatics and music.

Tickets for Olate Dogs’ performance are available at cachearts.org, at the CacheARTS ticket office at 43 S. Main Street, or by calling 7520026.

Olate Dogs got their start in Chile where the patriarch of the Olate family, Richard Olate, grew up. As a boy of 10, Richard rescued his first street dog and discovered he had a gift for animal training. By the age of 12, he was supporting his entire family

CVCA Gallery Walk A free family activity, a classy date or just a bit

of arts enrichment, October’s CVCA Gallery Walk will be presented in partnership with The Block Film & Art Festival from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7.

Thirteen local businesses will be featuring a new range of artwork from talented Cache Valley artists for your enjoyment. Best of all, it costs nothing to attend. For gallery and artist information, and a printable map, visit cachearts.org/gallerywalk.

Downtown Ghost Tours

Haunted structures, nighttime spirits and eerie stories await your arrival this Halloween season in Historic Downtown Logan.

Learn about downtown’s most infamous ghosts, poltergeists, and spirits doomed to the realm of mortals. The Historic Downtown Logan Ghost Tour is technically a family-friendly tour, however, it is not recommended for small children or for people who don’t like to be scared.

Your private guided walking tour will take you into the heart of Logan’s haunted history as you visit sites with the Bridgerland Storytelling Guild, Cache Theatre Company and Music West Theatre.

Each guided tour lasts approximately two hours and walking distance is less than a half mile. Tours run nightly between 7 and 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays on October 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28-29.

Tour reservations required online at logandowntown.org.

Bridgerland Band show

Photo courtesy of Olate Dogs

The Olate Dogs’ Rescue Tour will come to the Ellen Eccles Theatre in downtown Logan at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17.

by performing with his dog troupe in schools and small circuses. He eventually developed a canine act that brought him to perform in the United States at age 33.

There he met his wife, Rebecca, whose parents were members of a circus and whose father had been a professor at Utah State University, while performing in the same show

together shortly after Richard came to U.S. Eventually the Olate Dogs act became a family performance when his son Nicholas joined his father in training and performing with the dogs at the age of 6. This feel-good family show is filled with beautiful routines built on positive See DOGS on Page 10

The Mountain Crest and Ridgeline High School marching bands will host the Bridgerland Band Invitational — one of the biggest and best marching band competitions in Utah — on Saturday, Oct. 8, at Utah State University’s Maverik Stadium.

The show begins at 10:55 a.m. with the National Anthem, which will be played by Cache Bones, Cache Valley’s own trombone choir. Over 25 bands, in various sizes — the smallest band being 30 members and the largest bands over 200 members strong — will then perform. Ridgeline takes the field at 11 a.m., Mountain Crest at 12:30 p.m. and Sky View High School will perform at 7 p.m.

Block Film Festival The Block Film & Art Festival will be held Friday, Oct. 7, and Saturday, Oct. 8, at four different theaters in downtown Logan. Dozens of interactive film screenings, a music stage, local business hosted galleries & bands, outdoor art installations, vast-topic educational sessions, and exceptional food offerings will be featured during the event.

A two-day pass is $45, with tickets for individual events available at the venue the day of. Visit theblockfestival.org for more information.

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Artists that stretched their imagination in the Brigham City Museum’s third annual Utah Plein Air Competition won a variety of awards for painting and photographing landscapes in Utah. The competition was open to all ages. Works submitted for the competition will be on view in the museum through Nov. 5. Admission is free.

The museum is located at 24 N. 300 West in Brigham City. Hours

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Brigham art winners named COMING UP

Although he’s traveled extensively around the globe, many of the subjects of Jeffory Buist’s artwork come from around the Cache Valley area, including Hyrum Reservoir, Bear Lake, Cherry Peak and the Spiral Jetty at the Great Salt Lake.

STORY BY JEFF HUNTER • PORTRAIT BY ELI LUCERO

Expanding Visual Language Cache Valley artist Jeffory Buist aims to portray ‘a calm, peaceful sentiment’

Jeffory Buist loves to

art teachers to sketch and paint.

He continued to dabble in art travel. And after spending while attending USU, and curtwo and a half years in Parrently sketches figures once aguay serving as a member a week at the Logan Fine Art of Peace Corps, he went on Gallery, while also painting landscapes in between trips to to visit a dozen other counvarious corners of the world. tries, including many in Buist, who currently lives in Europe and South America. the Logan home built by his “I always make an effort to grandfather, says he has deep visit the national museums and family roots in Cache Valley galleries in countries I visit,” — “My family helped settle the Buist says. “And I’ve made it a Wellsville-Mendon area,” he thing to go in and scan the walls notes — but loves to travel as really quickly, and just imagine much as possible, often working which paintings I would want to for four or five months in order have hanging on my wall. That to help finance another monthallows me to quickly reduce a Jeffory Buist’s recent exhibit at Caffe Ibis featured his watercolor paintings, but he long trip to South America. room of 20 paintings down to also works in oils, including this painting of Naturalist Basin in the Uinta Mountains. But wherever Buist goes two or three, and then I can just — whether it’s a hike up to sit and stare at them.

Although he says he switches of the pieces were of local and Cherry Peak or a journey into “Over the years, I’ve kind of back and forth between working the Andes — he says he tries to regional scenes, such as Bear been able to hone in on a certain Lake, Hyrum Reservoir and the in oil and watercolors, Buist’s bring along at least a sketchbook style and idea of how I would paintings at the Caffe Ibis exhib- in his backpack.

Spiral Jetty at the Great Salt like to express myself. It’s been it all featured a watercolor and Lake. One notable departure is “For whatever reason, my art a long time coming, honing in ink medium. They were also of a painting depicting the interior tends to have kind of a calm, on a style and a visual language.” of the Salt Lake City Public a similar, natural color scheme peaceful sentiment,” he says.

Until this week, Buist, who that primarily used shades of Library, but for the most part, “And that’s the really the sensagraduated from Utah State green, beige and blue.

Buist creates most of the painttion I think I aim for is kind of University in 1998 with a Bach- ings while actually out enjoying “I work with the same palcalming and peaceful. elor of Liberal Arts and Social ette,” Buist explains. “I stick nature.

“That’s what I’m doing out Sciences with an emphasis in “That’s kind of my studio,” he with the same colors and don’t there is sitting still and enjoying esthetics and philosophy, had says with a small smile. “About mix it up very much. I like to the surroundings, and I hope that 16 examples of his watercolortry and get the shadows and the 80 percent of what I had up at comes through in my paintings.” painting style hanging on the the Ibis were done outdoors, and values; that’s important to me.”

——— walls of Caffe Ibis on Federal A native of Salt Lake City, I usually get about 70-80 per To view and/or purchase Avenue. cent done while I’m outside and Buist graduated from Alta High examples of Jeffory Buist’s art Although there were a few then do some touchups back in a School where he says he was work, visit jefforybuist.com or encouraged by some very good studio.” paintings from elsewhere, most facebook.com/artxjeff.

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‘Peregrine’ bests ‘Deepwater’ at box office NEW YORK (AP) — In a boxoffice rarity, three acclaimed, original films from studios opened in theaters over the weekend.

Only one caught on.

Tim Burton’s latest fantastical oddity, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” debuted with $28.5 million, leading North America ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Peter Berg’s well-reviewed disaster movie “Deepwater Horizon,” about the 2010 oil rig explosion, however,

failed to tap North American moviegoers, opening with an estimated $20.6 million. And Disney’s uplifting chess prodigy tale “Queen of Katwe,” starring David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o, brought in a dismal $2.6 million in its national expansion.

Originality, that often lamented missing ingredient in studio products, can lead to box office success, just as it can disappointment. For 20th Century Fox, the draw of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”

was predicated on the idiosyncrasy of Burton funneled into an accessible tale, adapted from Ransom Rigg’s popular young-adult novel.

“It validates the whole notion of why we made this film, which is something that’s very original and creative,” said Chris Aronson, president of domestic distribution at Fox. “At least I feel that that’s what audiences are looking for. There’s some fatigue with the same old, same old.

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Parker returns to HBO New ‘Divorce’ set to premiere Sunday night

NEW YORK (AP) — In August 2000, a Time magazine cover story touting singles life displayed Sarah Jessica Parker and her three “Sex and the City” co-stars with the headline: “Who Needs a Husband?”

That question could apply, in spades, to Parker’s new HBO comedy, a piercingly honest yet droll exploration of a marriage on the rocks titled, brazenly, “Divorce.”

Premiering Sunday at 10 p.m.

EDT, “Divorce” returns Parker to series TV in a role that will inevitably be judged against her “Sex and the City” portrayal as selfdescribed “sexual anthropologist” Carrie Bradshaw.

But, odds are, only fleetingly.

“Divorce” reintroduces the actress as Frances, a suburban wife and mother gazing into the bathroom mirror in the series’ first scene as if to wish away encroaching signs of age, whereupon husband Robert (co-star Thomas Haden Church) interrupts to beef about how Frances hogs the bathroom.

Then, his back turned to exit, Frances, fuming, flips him a bird. With that fed-up move, Parker leaves Carrie Bradshaw far behind.

“I just improvised that,” says

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Thomas Haden Church, left, and Sarah Jessica Parker share a scene in“Divorce,” which will premiere Sunday night on HBO.

Parker, looking pleased. “I’m so glad they used it!”

But make no mistake, very little about “Divorce” wasn’t carefully thought out, if you believe Parker.

She says she and producing partner Alison Benson spent four years crafting the show’s concept while recruiting other off-screen talent that includes series creator Sharon Horgan (already winning acclaim as a star and creator of the

dark romantic comedy “Catastrophe,” available on Amazon Prime) and showrunner Paul Simms (whose credits include “The Larry Sanders Show,” “Flight of the Conchords” and “Girls”).

Then they mobilized a supporting cast including Molly Shannon, Talia Balsam and Tracy Letts.

It all adds up to a project Parker See HBO on Page 10

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“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” brought in $28.5 million on its opening weekend.

Lady Gaga plays new songs for Nashville crowd NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lady Gaga showed that she could rock a club just as hard as arenas as she showcased songs from her new album.

The Grammy winner played a short set at the 5 Spot bar in Nashville on Wednesday night to a small crowd of fans and guests and included three new songs from her forthcoming album, “Joanne.”

She introduced herself as Lady Gaga from New York City, but asked her fans “tonight if you could just call me Joanne,” which is the name of her aunt, who died at 19 and is also her middle name. The album is set for release Oct. 21. The performance was streamed live on tour partner Bud Light’s Facebook page, as will upcoming bar shows on Oct. 20 and Oct. 27.

Lady Gaga greeted crowds lined up behind police barricades before walking into the club wearing an embroidered jacket and large brimmed hat that covered her eyes and carrying a guitar case. She started with “Sinner’s Prayer,” followed with “A-Yo,” and then brought in top country songwriter Hillary Lindsey as backup vocals on “Million Reasons,” which Lindsey co-wrote.

Lindsey is one of a trio of songwriters in Nashville who wrote the country hit “Girl Crush,” performed by Little Big Town.

Lady Gaga returned after a short break with her current single, “Perfect Illusion,” and jumped into the crowd to sing and dance along with her fans.

After signing autographs, she played a second set for fans who had waited hours outside and sang the album’s title song as well.

She told the crowd of just over 100 people that she couldn’t “give away too much tonight,” and left them wanting more as they chanted “Joanne.”

Gaga will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in February in Houston.

its characters when it’s inherently more of a thirdperson undertaking. That’s where Blunt’s performance comes in. Through AP Photo it we’re able to grasp just how miserable a life Emily Blunt appears in a scene from “The Girl on the Train.”

Rachel leads. It’s crucial Then Megan goes missing. to the story that Rachel is There’s a certain inside- this much of a has-been.

Director Tate Taylor the-mind aspect that’s plays it more straightformissing from the movie. ward with the filmmaking.

Hawkins’ novel uses its Director // Tate Taylor first-person prose to really That’s not a dig, just an Starring // Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Haley observation. The source probe the depths of these Bennett, Allison Janey, Lisa Kudrow, Laura Prepon material lends itself more women’s insecurities.

Rated // R for violence, sexual content, language to the directorial eye Rachel is a mess. Ever and nudity since her husband left her of someone like David Only Rachel doesn’t know she can’t hold down a job. Fincher. Think “Gone back home. She drinks, Girl,” but the lite version.

The only thing she can and drinks and drinks. Her them. She’s made up an The biggest problem elaborate story about their hold down is her booze, only solace is found durwith not taking many but her liver must be ing a few moments when love for each other. It’s chances with the direction screaming. a love she missed out on. she passes by the back is that there are moments Then one day Rachel sees The film can only get of a house where Megan filled with rage and emoMegan with another man. so deep into the mind of lives with her husband.

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‘The Girl on the Train’

Box Continued from Page 8 And if there’s anything this movie isn’t, it’s that.”

The film cost $110 million to make, meaning it will need a strong performance overseas to be profitable. It started out with $36.5 million in 59 markets.

Regardless, it’s a comeback of sorts for Burton at the box office. It’s his best opening since 2012’s lackluster “Dark Shadows.”

Lionsgate’s “Deepwater Horizon,” starring Mark Wahlberg,

also cost at least $110 million to make, yet it only managed $20.6 million in its debut. The film, which first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, brought all the big-budget flare of an action movie (including a nearly life-size replica of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig) to the April 2010 explosion, which killed 11 men and for weeks spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Audiences have had a surprising amount of adult-driven options at the multiplex of late, including another true tale, Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” (up to $105.4 million in four weeks),

and the Denzel Washington-led Western remake, “The Magnificent Seven,” which slid to third place with $15.7 million in its second week.

“Queen of Katwe,” directed

by Mira Nair, tried to lure family audiences to the inspiring true story of a chess player from the Ugandan slums. But the Disney release took in just $2.6 million on 1,242 screens after first debuting it on 52 screens last week.

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore, pointed to budget as the significant factor among the trio of originals, particularly in the case of the pricey “Deepwater

Horizon.”

“All three of those original movies were expected to do better,” Dergarabedian. “I give the studios credit because they were good movies. They were not sequels or reboots, and yet you’re coming across audiences who are disinterested or distracted.”

Originally slated for release in summer 2015, the Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig heist comedy “Masterminds” sat on the shelf for a year while its distributor, Relativity Media, went through chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It opened with a mediocre $6.6 million.

tion that come across as a little cheesy, some even spawning unintentional laughter.

Take for example the scene in “Gone Girl” where Amy slashes Desi’s throat. It’s so over the top and grotesque that it could’ve easily been laughingly absurd. Yet, under Fincher’s atmospheric directorial hand, that scene is earned. A similar scene exists in “The Girl on the Train,” but it doesn’t achieve the desired effect.

There’s a lot of buildup in the novel.

It becomes unbearable at times. The movie gets to the point quite a bit faster, casting aside details that make its three protagonists who they are. No matter, we get the gist of it, even if it is the Cliff Notes version.

The novel’s mystery was a page-tuner and the movie encapsulates it the best it can, though it’s Blunt’s performance that drives this ship of suburban horrors. She’s the one that makes it all worth it.

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The Reel Place Aaron Peck

Emily Blunt’s devestating performance as Rachel powers a spirited adaption of Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel. She brings to life the constant pull of the book. A broken woman unable to cope with her present, always living in the past. Only her past is clouded by tremendous amounts of alcohol and rage. Boy, Blunt is fantastic here.

The central mystery of the story relies, essentially, on a whodunit. The novel, and the movie to a lesser degree, follow three different female viewpoints. Rachel’s is the most prominent.

She’s an alcoholic who drinks whole bottles of vodka, midday, from a water bottle while on the train. Megan (Haley Bennett) is married to a good-looking, possessive freak. Megan has the most secrets. She’s the one that goes missing. Finally, there’s Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), who is married to Rachel’s ex-husband. We get bits of the story from each of them.

Rachel’s sad life consists of traveling a train into Manhattan and then

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Dogs Continued from Page 5 relationships with each of the dogs, and both Richard and Nicholas showcase the amazing things that can be done with a strong human-animal connection.

Over 80 percent of the dogs in the Olate Dog family are rescues, and CacheARTS is proud to support our local Cache Valley animal rescues with this performance. The Cache Humane Society and Four Paws Rescue will each receive $1 of each ticket sold to Olate Dogs. And don’t forget your VIP ticket to meet the dogs nose-to-muzzle after the show.

In addition, at 12:15 p.m. Thursday,

HBO Continued from Page 8 was, well, married to — and not as an acting showcase for herself; at first, she had no plans to appear in it.

Oct. 13, you can meet the talented dogs and trainers of Olate Dogs in person at Utah State University. Utah Public Radio and CacheARTS are partnering to bring this free meet-and-greet to the Cache Valley community at the lawn space between the USU University Inn and Utah State University Library, east of the Taggart Student Center. Nicholas and Richard Olate will bring four or five of their dogs to answer questions and talk with visitors.

Rescue pets are the driving force behind the Olate Family, and visitors will learn a bit about each dog, the story behind them, and see some of the tricks that will be in the show on Monday, Oct. 17, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

What made it so important to her?

“A lot of people I knew were at a very interesting point in their relationship,” she explains. “It’s a reckoning of where we are, versus where we thought we would be,

with people contemplating affairs, having affairs, surviving affairs or with marriages destroyed. I knew women who came out of divorces feeling triumphant, and others who felt it wasn’t at all like they thought the libera-

Art Continued from Page 5 Winners in the photography category were Dickson Smith of Brigham City, first place, “Milky Way”; Barry Parsons of Wellsville, second place, “Deep Canyon Grove”; and Samuel Parsons of Wellsville, third place, “Sleep Reflections.”

Merit awards were given to Allen Brockbank of Centerville for “Harvest Time” and Geri Jensen of West Haven for “Brigham Station.”

Purchase awards went to Poon; Smith; Barry Parsons; Brockbank; Kwani Winder of North Ogden,

tion would be.”

True, Parker, 51, has famously been wed for two decades to actor Matthew Broderick.

“But even if you’re not experiencing it, divorce is swirling around us all,” she says. “I felt strongly that this story should be told because it’s so many people’s story.”

Frances and Robert are a middle-aged, middleclass couple with two children living in New York’s Westchester County. Their marriage is sputtering yet stuck in place. Then a seismic event thrusts divorce into the picture.

Fortunately for the audience, if not for this couple, there’s no easy or quick resolution in sight, despite the series’ seemingly self-limiting, blunt title. Divorce for Frances and Robert, as for others in their social circle, can inflict itself as a protracted condition.

This would be a good time to mention that “Divorce,” while weighty, isn’t Bergmanesque, nor is it “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” With sufficient frequency, the prism of “Divorce” refracts its raw, all-too-familiar truths into well-earned

“Before the Storm”: and Alicia Finlaysen of Herriman, “Harvest at Days End.” Some of the scenery that attracted artists included a harvest moon at Parker Mountain, Buffalo River panorama, rabbit brush at Promontory, Plymouth Peak, the Harper Highway, and moonrise over a Wellsville pond.

An awards reception will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.

Artists who would like to receive a call for entries for the museum’s 2017 competition should email their address to maryalice@boxeldermuseum.org or call (435) 226-1439.

laughs. (“I am divorcing you,” Frances tells Robert in desperation. “I just got to get the kids to school first.”)

“I watch S.J.,” says her co-star Church (“Sideways,” “Spiderman 3”), “and she’s so brilliant in her nuance and navigation of the dramatic and the comedic.”

That goes for Church, too. (“I would never try and blow your head off,” Robert volunteers in a funny-and-not-funny moment, to which Frances can only respond in kind, “Are you sure?

Are you really SURE you would never try and blow my head off?”)

“Comedy and drama, I don’t prepare for them any different,” says Church. “I just want to make it as believable as possible, with always a sense of unknowing for the character: ‘What the (heck) is going to happen next?’ Just trying to keep it all honest. But hidden.”

Parker describes this marriage as one of “bitterness and resentment wrapped up in their very being. Frances brings divorce up by saying, ‘I want to save my life while I still care about it.’ That’s it! That’s the reason the show exists.”

Clearly, this is not the fraught yet frothy world of a single girl a-loose in pre-9/11 New York City.

Francis, with 20 years of marriage under her belt, is older, sadder, wiser.

Was Parker’s decision to claim as her own the Frances role a way to purge herself of her Carrie Bradshaw past?

“I don’t WANT to be done with that association,” she says. “I loved it! But I’m an actor, I always was, and now my job is to share who Frances is with the audience.”

Through six HBO seasons and two feature films, Carrie, with her goofy couture and saucy lexicon (“frenemies,” “toxic bachelor”), helped give life to a then-new phase of women’s liberation and made “Sex and the City” a cultural marker.

“Divorce,” no less reflective of the era in which it arrives, could have a similar impact.

(Who needs a marriage?)

“With this show, I think we’re initially asking more of our audience: We’re asking them to be part of combat,” says Parker. “But I think its relevance is equal to ‘Sex and the City.’ It’s just different.”

The Logan Dance Factory will meet from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 7, at the Whittier Community Center, 300 N. 400 East. The dance is for ages 31 and older; singles and married couples welcome. Donation of $5 requested at the door. Music throughout the evening from the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

Snack table donations are appreciated.

A free family activity, a classy date or just a bit of arts enrichment, October’s CVCA Gallery Walk will be presented in partnership with The Block Film & Art Festival from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. Thirteen local businesses will be featuring a new range of artwork from talented Cache Valley artists for your enjoyment.

Best of all, it costs nothing to attend. The Gallery Walk is the perfect free activity for all ages to experience and support local artists and businesses while having a great time. For gallery and artist information and a printable map, visit cachearts.org/gallerywalk.

All are invited to public night at the USU Observatory from 8-10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. Hosted

by USU’s Physics Department, guests are invited to view the autumn 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 event will be cancelled in the event of cloudy or inclement weather. Website also offers directions and parking information.

The Distinguished Young Women of Cache County

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In “Dream Catcher,” a large,

Scholarship Program will be starting on Nov. 9, 2017. All junior girls in high school are eligible to participate and we are opening up registration the month of October and the deadline will be Friday, Nov. 4. They can find more information at their respective high schools in the counseling departments or they can visit distinguisedyw.com to register for our 2017 program.

The Hyrum Senior Center will host its Fall Craft Fair from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at 675 E. Main St. in Hyrum. Vendors will be selling fall decor, clothing, treats and gifts.

Admission is free.

SATURDAY Logan’s first annual Pride Interfaith Service: Gathering Together in Peace, Love, Unity, and Joy! will be held on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the First Presbyterian Church, 178 W. Center St. Morning snacks and drinks will be held from 9 to 9:25 a.m., followed by the Interfaith Worship Service from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Please bring any of the following items for the Cache Youth Resource Center (serving youth ages 14 to 23): deodorant, disposable razors, storage tubs with lids, canned food, manual can openers, art and craft supplies/kits, new socks, new underwear and hair gel and styling products.

The Mountain Crest and Ridgeline High School marching bands will host the Bridgerland Band Invitational — one of the biggest and best marching band competitions in Utah — on Saturday, Oct. 8, at Utah State University’s Maverik Stadium. The show

spherical acrobatic prop is rolled across the stage by dancers moving around, within and atop it.

“It’s based on that Native American idea, you know, the dream catcher you hang over your bed to catch all the great dreams,” says Pendleton, “It’s

begins at 10:55 a.m. with the National Anthem, which will be played by Cache Bones, Cache Valley’s own trombone choir.

Over 25 bands, in various sizes — the smallest band being 30 members and the largest bands over 200 members strong — will then perform.

The Red Ribbon Run is a family friendly 5K or 1-mile walk/ run event scheduled for 9 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 8, at Cedar Ridge Middle School at 65 N. 200 West in Hyde Park. Registration for a race and a T-shirt is $10 and just $5 for race only. Registration can be completed online at brhd.org or by stopping by the Bear River Health Department. Following the race there will be an awards ceremony and prize drawing for race participants.

B Dolan will perform with Wheelchair Sports Camp at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $8.

The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, on the grounds of the Historic Cache County Courthouse at 199 N. Main St. In addition to craft, food and produce vendors, it will be Children’s Day and Allie Harris will perform. Visit gardenersmarket.org for more information.

SUNDAY

October 10 at the school. Teachers will have a 30-minute break according to their last names. A-L names will break 5:30-6 p.m. and M-Z names will break 6-6:30 p.m.

School will be in session as usual that day. Parents and students are encouraged to attend the conferences.

Mountain Crest High School will be hold parentteacher conferences on Monday, Oct. 10. Schedule is as follows: General meeting in MCHS Auditorium, counselors will be presenting on Plan for College and Career Readiness, 3-3:30 p.m.; teachers available for conferencing with parents, 3:30-6 p.m.; General meeting in MCHS Auditorium, counselors will be presenting on PCCR, 6-6:30 p.m.; and teachers available for conferencing with parents, 6:308 p.m.

TUESDAY The Cache Chamber of Commerce and Utah State University present the annual Women in Business Scholarship Luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 11 at Logan Steakhouse, 2427 N. Main St., North Logan. There are three ways to participate: raffle, silent auction and live auction. Proceeds will go to support hard-working women trying to receive a college education. To donate items, contact Kylie Downs, Women in Business Scholarship chair, at 435-797-0035 or kylie.downs@ usu.edu.

the meeting at 7 p.m. The presented will be Jerry Fuhriman.

CacheARTS welcomes MOMIX: Opus Cactus at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets for MOMIX performance are available at cachearts.org, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Box Office at 43 S. Main St, or by calling 7520026.

WhySlam will begin at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 11, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. WhySlam is Logan’s all ages, free-speech, competitive poetry slam. All members of the community are welcome to come perform, judge or just enjoy.

WEDNESDAY Mike Stauffer, retired deputy sheriff and current chairman of the Hyrum Historical Committee, will speak on “The History of Law Enforcement in Cache County” at the Cache Valley Historical Society meeting slated to begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Historic Cache County Courthouse, 199 N. Main St. The public is invited.

THURSDAY Nopes will perform at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 13, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. Visit whysound.com for more information.

North Cache 8-9 Center parent-teacher conferences will be held 3-9 p.m. Monday,

The Cache Valley Chapter of the Utah Watercolor Society will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 11, in the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library. The critique will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by

The Reach for the Stars Benefit Gala will begin at 6 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Riverwoods Conference Center, 595 S. 80 East. The annual dinner and auction benefits Common Ground Outdoor Adventures. For tickets and more information, visit cgadventures.org or call 7130288.

a beautiful kinetic piece and they do that wonderfully.”

“Gila Monster” transforms several dancers into a charming and humorous rendition of the desert reptile that at once delights and thrills.

For those looking for an immersive experience,

CacheARTS is partnering with Stokes Nature Center and Valley Dance Ensemble to provide a very special VIP experience for MOMIX: Opus Cactus with the Wild Motion: Experiencing Dance in Nature Workshop. This adult workshop is perfect for all skill

levels and includes two dance classes taught by Valley Dance Ensemble in the beautiful setting of Stokes Nature Center in Logan Canyon, and a ticket to see MOMIX. Visit cachearts.org or logannature.org for more information.

Che Zuro will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

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