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Collage is this artist’s way of expressing herself

The Herald Journal

DECEMBER 2-8, 2011

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December 2-8, 2011

theater

3 Pickleville Playhouse

opens original holiday play

3 ‘White Christmas’ plays at Old Barn this season

12 ‘A Christmas Carol’ is

being performed by a new theater company

MUSIC

4 See who’s playing at the tabernacle this week

10 USU flute and women’s choirs perform in concert next week

10 Tri-State Band Sympo-

sium is this weekend

11 Anonymous 4 coming to Logan

12 USU Symphony Or-

chestra performs Thursday

Left: Artwork titled “The Cue to Cure” by Logan artist Michelle Larsen. Right: A collage piece by Larsen. On the cover: Larsen in her home studio. She sits in front of her mixed media piece titled “Feeding on Flowers and Fireworks.” (Jennifer Meyers/Herald Journal)

PROFILE

FROM THE EDITOR

MISC.

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5 Meet Kelin Gibbons 5 ‘Saturdays at the

Museum’ continues

BOOKS

12 See reviews and best sellers

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

fell in love with Mod Podge in high school. I don’t remember when I was first introduced to the white, gluey substance, but at some point I starting filling afternoons with the product touted as the number one, all-in-one glue, sealer and finish.

I think this may have began with jigsaw puzzles. There was a time in my life where I would set them out for weeks and work on them while watching TV and movies. The puzzles were too much work to take apart, so out came the Mod Podge.

I’d glop, smear and paint all over the finished pictures, then show them off on my bedroom walls.

Around that time I also started clipping words and pictures out of magazines and covering shoeboxes with dozens of cut-outs. Once again, Mod Podge was slopped everywhere and ordinary boxes were transformed into simple forms of art used for storing pictures, letters, concert and plane tickets and little trinkets people gave me that had nowhere else to go.

In other words, the boxes were made to house memories.

The last box I covered in clippings and Mod Podge has traveled around with me the last eight years and is filled with all

sorts of stuff from college and beyond.

There’s a Domino’s napkin with writing on it from a night with friends, an old driver’s license, a plastic Easter egg from a date, photos from a mall photo booths and so much more.

I was reminded of this box after I read about local artist Michelle Larsen’s collage pieces (page 8). Her work is unique and it’s amazing what she can do with paint, scissors and an artistic vision. She says her work is an expression of herself, although she’s not necessarily sure what each finished product means. To see her work, visit the Logan Arthouse during the Gallery Walk tonight.

— Manette Newbold

This holiday season Pickleville Playhouse is performing a brand-new production, “12.25: A Merry Musical Comedy,” through Dec. 23 in the Eccles Conference Center in Logan. The play features the song/script/score writing talents of Cache Valley native T.J. Davis, and due to frequent off-the-cuff improv moments, every audience will experience a slightly different rendition of the show.

The play tells the story of Brandon Baxter who is in need of a miracle. With Christmas only a few hours away, Brandon struggles to explain to his young sons that Mr. Claus is lacking the means necessary to make his annual Christmas delivery.

“It’s OK, Dad,” 7-year-old Jack explains, “Santa doesn’t need money to buy toys. The elves make ‘em.” After a tender heart-to-heart about the true meaning of Christmas, Brandon and the boys fall fast asleep. Suddenly Brandon awakens to find his reality transformed into a magical new world where holiday spirit abounds and Christmas dreams really can come true.

The show offers several original Christmas songs

– Artist Michelle Larsen, page 8

PET OF THE WEEK

Photo courtesy Bodie Brower

Available for adoption

Megan Bagley performs in “12.25: A Merry Musical Comedy,” a play by local T.J. Davis.

along with plenty traditional holiday favorites. Santa and his elves will also be available before and after each performance for children to visit with. A holiday buffet catered by The Copper Mill is also available each night at 6.

This year’s talented cast includes Jordan Brown,

Sharli King, Whitney Davis, Megan Bagley and T.J. Davis.

The show is directed by Andrea Davis with choreography by Sharli King.

Purchase your tickets today at www.picklevilleplayhouse. com or by calling 435-7550968. Performances are at the Eccles Conference Center on campus at Utah State Univer-

sity in Logan. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. with doors opening at 7. Show-only ticket prices are $16 for adults and $12 for children 11 and younger. Dinner and show prices are $32 and $21 respectively. Discounted pricing is available for company/office groups and parties of 25 people or more.

‘White Christmas’ opens tonight The Old Barn Community Theatre will present Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” every Friday, Saturday and Monday from Dec. 2 to 17 at 7:30 p.m. with matinees at 2:30 p.m.

Dec. 10 and 17.

In “White Christmas” Bob Wallace and Phil Davis are nightclub entertainers whose plans are altered when they meet singing-sister act Betty and Judy.

The men follow the sisters to Vermont, only to discover the nearly-

bankrupt lodge they were to perform at is owned by their former commanding general.

After discovering the general is in dire financial straits, the four entertainers secretly make plans to bail him out with a big musical show.

This heartwarming story, along with classic musical numbers such as “White Christmas,” is a perfect way to get into the holiday spirit.

For tickets visit www.oldbarn.org or call 435-458-BARN.

Pet: Bryton From: Cache Humane Society Why he’s so lovable: Bryton

is the perfect lap dog. Pick him up and he gets a cute smile on his face.

He is great with kids who treat him with respect, he likes to play with small dogs and ignores cats in the home. Bryton may be small but he is an absolute doll with a huge heart. He also loves to snuggle under the covers.

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Pickleville Playhouse opens holiday show

“As an artist, you have to be open to what it’s going to look like in the end, because it’s rarely what you were thinking ... I know when it’s done when I get a feeling of resolution”

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up

Christmas at Logan tabernacle All concerts are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted FRIDAY, DEC. 2

Community Carol Sing-Along

Everyone is invited to a community carol sing-along with Provo organist Sherwin Koyle.

Sherwin Koyle has been accompanying singers in church since he was 14 years old. To add variety to the hymns, Koyle would make changes in the accompaniment initially using pen and manuscript. With the advent of computer music writing programs over the years, he has been able to expand his arrangements to include organ solos, choir/organ arrangements and choir/congregation/organ arrangements which are in publication.

Christmas is his favorite time of year. The warmth and goodwill expressed during that holiday gives people hope throughout the year. Koyle has devoted a majority of his time to the gathering and arranging of Christmas carols, both familiar and unfamiliar. For 30 years he performed and recorded at the beloved Provo Tabernacle. The annual Christmas caroling programs became part of Provo’s Community Winterfest.

communities in Cache Valley and throughout the state.

They are celebrating their 25th season of educating singers and audiences as well as presenting concerts of excellence.

The choirs have been honored to perform with the American Festival Chorus, the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, the Logan Tabernacle Concert Series and many other Cache Valley events. Cantate Choir, the touring choir, has also performed throughout Utah and at special festivals and competitions in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York City, as well as in England and Canada.

TUESDAY, DEC. 6

Bel Canto Women’s Chorus

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7 Cache Symphony

The Cache Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Robert Frost, will entertain with an evening of Christmas favorites including: “It’s Christmastime,” a medley of favorite holiday music; “The Christmas Song” by Mel Torme; variations on “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” arranged by Jerry Brubaker; “Holiday on Ice” by James Christensen; “March of the Nutcracker” and “ Trepak” from the Nutcracker Ballet

by Tchaikovsky and more. Audience members will be invited to participate in a sing-along with the orchestra of favorite Christmas songs. Jim Kemp will give a holiday reading. Special guest artist Brianna Krause will sing “O Holy Night,” accompanied by the orchestra.

THURSDAY, DEC. 8 The Towne Singers

SATURDAY, DEC. 3

Cache Children’s Choir

Cache Children’s Choir will be featured Dec. 3 at noon. Under the direction of Artistic Director Dr. Sylvia Munsen, the Cadet Choir, Concert Choir and Cantate Choir will share songs of the season. Chilali Hugo will accompany the choirs on harp.

The Cache Children’s Choir is a group of remarkable children who are contributing to the cultural life of

The Bel Canto Women’s Chorus has provided musical programs throughout northern Utah since its beginnings in the 1930s.

Their concert for the Christmas season will include lighter winter and Christmas songs such as “Wintergreen,” “Snow, Snow, Beautiful Snow,” “Silver Bells” and “Mr. Santa” as well as the Christmas favorites “Toyland,” “Gesu bambino,” “Angel’s Carol” and “Candlelight Carol.”

The will be joined by local soprano soloist and voice teacher, Glori Naylor, who will sing several numbers as part of the concert. She will be accompanied by Delpha Hall.

The chorus is conducted by Laurel Maughan and accompanied by Deanne Vanderford.

The Towne Singers, under the direction of Gary Poore and accompanied by Terri Duncombe, will perform their annual Christmas concert, “Celebrating Christmas in Song.” Many fun and traditional Christmas songs will be performed along with special musical numbers by guest artists. David Mann, a classical guitarist, will perform “O Holy Night” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Guest artists Robert and Beth Heaton will perform a piano duet, “Sleigh Ride,” and “Christmas Medley” on the tuba and piano.

The Towne Singers are in their 47th year and are a mixed chorus with members from all over the valley.

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sk Kelin Gibbons how many instruments he plays and he’ll laugh and reply, “Do you want the condensed list?”

His main instruments, in order of when he learned them, include the viola, guitar, banjo, bass and mandolin. Ask him how many bands he’s in and he’ll rattle off 10 names.

Music is Gibbons’ life. A junior majoring in guitar at Utah State University, Gibbons says he doesn’t make time for much else other than occasional racquetball or cribbage games. He usually performs about twice a week and went on a short tour through Idaho this summer with Dry Lake Band which entertains with bluegrass.

Gibbons, of Logan, is currently looking into a career building guitar amps and plans to keep performing and teaching others to play.

• Gibbons grew up in a musical family that once had their own bluegrass band. His dad plays bass, both brothers play guitar and one brother plays drums. His sister plays bass clarinet and she and his mom both play flute.

• Gibbons is a member of Fa Koshka, the Dry Lake Band, Red Scare, Swamp Donkey, Internal Affairs, The Pretty Darns and a jazz/guitar duo called Kelin and Clovis. He also plays with three groups at USU including a guitar ensemble, a big jazz band and a small jazz group.

• He says he is inspired by banjo player Earl Scruggs and his middle school orchestra teacher Jim Schaub.

• Concerning Schaub: “I always looked up to him. He was the first person to show me guitar stuff.”

• Gibbons plays on two Dry Lake Band albums and is currently working on albums with Swamp Donkey and Fa Koshka.

• He says most of the bands only practice once a week so he’s able to keep up with them, although he once had three performances in one day.

Text by Manette Newbold Photo by Jennifer Meyers

• “The performances are my favorite. I like improvising solos a lot and just making people dance and having a good time.”

A serious subject — the occurrence of genocide-rape in Rwanda — is the foundation for the next presentation at Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology and its “Saturdays at the Museum” activity Saturday, Dec. 3.

The featured guest in two presentations is USU faculty member Maggie Zraly. She will speak at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

While events in Rwanda had devastating effects, there were survivors, Zraly said.

A faculty member in the anthropology program at USU, Zraly has studied survivors and will share their stories, documenting the emotions and trauma that occurred in Rwanda.

In addition to Zraly’s presentations, documentaries about Rwanda will be shown at the museum throughout the day.

“I want to present on this subject to connect with more people with what I’m passionate about,” Zraly said. “By educating ourselves and moving forward we can make our world into a place we all want to live.”

Event organizers invite everyone to learn about the fight

against violence.

Museum guests are invited to learn more about Rwanda and add their ideas of peace to the museum’s Rwanda Peace Basket.

Community members, as well as Utah State students, can visit the museum during its operating hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Funding for the Saturday event is provided by a grant from the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services. More information about the IMLS is available online (www.imls.gov).

The USU Museum of Anthropology is on the USU campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, Room 252.

Admission is free. For Saturday activities, free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building.

For more information about this event, call museum staff at 435-797-7545 or visit the museum website (anthromuseum.usu. edu).

The Museum of Anthropology is part of the anthropology program at USU in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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FOR ABUSE

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Ceramics sale in time for Christmas The Utah State University Ceramics Guild will hold its annual holiday sale in the ceramic studio, located in Room 123 of the Fine Arts Visual building on USU campus from Dec. 8 to 10.

“The holiday sale is an excellent opportunity to see the best work being produced by undergraduate, graduate and community education ceramics students,” said Scott McClellan, a USU ceramics student. “It is a wonderful chance to meet the artists in person and find out how they create their work.”

Patrons will have the opportunity to browse a wide range of functional and decorative pottery and purchase affordable art. Items at the sale will include everything from practical domestic wares such as mugs, plates, bowls and teapots, to sculptural vases, wall hangings and more.

Proceeds raised from the holiday sale are used to promote education of the ceramic arts through the financial support of the USU Potter’s Guild. Money raised in previous USU guild initiatives has been used to purchase a clay mixer as well as help send students to the National Ceramics Conference.

“Avoid chaos at the mall this holiday season by supporting local independent artists and designers,” McClellan said. “Shop for one-ofa-kind items for everyone on your gift-giving list and don’t forget to include something uniquely handmade for yourself.”

The sale runs from

Logan’s annual gift market starts tonight A Cache Valley tradition for nine years, the Winter Gift Market at the Bullen Center will be open Friday, Dec. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Buy local, buy original, support our artisan community and give original art and artisan products this holiday season. This is a festival of unique gifts and music from more than 30 talented local artisans. Pottery, woodwork, glass art, beadwork, jewelry, soaps, lotions, photography, handmade, hand-spun fabric arts, nature art and more will be available. Live music will be played by locals. Admission is free. No strollers, please.

The Bullen Center is located at 43 S. Main, Logan.

Visit Winter Gift Market on Facebook or email joy_b@comcast.net for more information.

5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 8 and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Dec. 9 and 10. Cash and checks will be accepted.

An opening reception will be held by USU Ceramics Guild members Dec. 8 at 5 p.m.

The reception is free and open to the public.

The Art Department in the Caine College of the Arts at USU serves as a regional center providing cultural experiences and the opportunity to develop

visual arts competency for its students and the surrounding communities.

Presents an Old Fashioned Dickens Christmas Dinner

With a concert by the Westminster Bell Choir on Monday, December 19th at 6:30 pm.

Cost is $25 Questions and rsvp to jan@hamiltonssteakhouse.com or 435-770-0079 by Wednesday, December 14.

The dancing, singing penguins are as adorable as ever. Yet a couple of shrimplike krill almost steal the show in this animated sequel that sticks to the formula of the original while adding enough variety to give it a life of its own. It helps to have Brad Pitt and Matt Damon voicing the krill with great companionability as they join a vocal cast that includes returning stars Elijah Wood and Robin Williams. Wood’s tapdancing penguin now is a dad dealing with a misfit, runaway son embarrassed over his own lack of rhythm. Director and cowriter George Miller, who handled the same chores on the 2006 Academy Award-winning first film, keeps the focus on penguins in peril while adding an interesting nature-inperspective angle with the side journey of those tiny krill trying to find their place in a world of big-

★ ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1’

Director // Bill Condon Starring // Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner Rated // PG-13 for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements book in Stephenie Meyer’s series (with part two coming next year), this serves as a placeholder for the ultimate finale but is jam-packed with developments in its own right.

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire beau, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), marry in a lavish, romantic outdoor ceremony. Bella’s childhood best friend and the other man in the equation, werewolf Jacob Black

(Taylor Lautner), stops by as a gesture of goodwill.

Finally, Bella and Edward can have sex, the thing she has wanted all along but he has been reluctant to do for fear that deflowering her will, you know, kill her. And he may have been right. He impregnates her on the honeymoon and the resulting hybrid spawn threatens to destroy her from inside.

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This pleasant holiday treat from Aardman, the British animation outfit behind “Chicken Run” and the “Wallace and Gromit” cartoons, has the old-fashioned spirit of Christmas at heart, spinning a snowflakelight tale with warmth, energy and goofy humor.

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“Laughable” probably isn’t the word the filmmakers were aiming for, but there it is, laughter at all the wrong places.

The fourth movie in the freakishly popular girlvamp-wolf love triangle series is so self-serious, it’s hard not to cackle at it. The dialogue is, of course, ridiculous and the acting ranges from stiff to mopey. But moments that should be pulsating with tension are usually hilarious because the special effects are still just so distractingly cheesy. This latest installment has yet another new director: Bill Condon, a man capable of both panache (“Dreamgirls”) and serious artistry (“Gods and Monsters”), little of which you’ll see here. The first of two films adapted from the final

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Mixed media Collage is this artist’s way of expressing herself

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ichelle Larsen used to fight with her art.

She would conjure up an idea for how a finished product was going to look and gather the various elements for one of her collage works — starting with one of her portraits, along with cut-out photos of birds or butterflies or something else to create depth and motion, with maybe some text to put in the background — and try to make the various items fit her preconceived notion. It would frustrate her if the pieces didn’t perfectly match that vision.

Eventually she learned to let each piece work itself out, and once she ceded control, she says, her battles were over and her artwork improved.

“As an artist, you have to be open to what it’s going to look like in the end, because it’s rarely what you were thinking,” Larsen says.

Larsen, a recent graduate of Utah State University, will make what she considers her “debut” at tonight’s Cache Valley Center for the Arts Gallery Walk in downtown Logan. Most of the pieces she will show at Logan Arthouse and Cinema are of women, and although it wasn’t at the front of her mind when she created them, she now believes the works were about “expressing myself.”

“When you’re learning about yourself or being put in new, uncomfortable positions, that’s when you learn the most,” she says.

Although the pieces she will show “have elements in common,” each is unique. As for the message each carries, Larsen would rather not say — because she’s not sure herself.

“That’s a mystery,” she says with a smile, “often as much to the artist as to the viewer.”

In one of her pieces, “Emission,” a woman lifts a corner of the fabric that drapes her to allow a flock of random birds — ducks, magpies, swallows, geese — to take flight. One could view it as a reflection of a young artist’s career taking off. If so, that young artist is understandably nervous about leaving the nest.

“It’s always intimidating for a young, (recently) graduated artist to try to sell things,” she says.

Her goal is to apply to galleries and to enter as many shows as possible in the coming year, “and hopefully something comes of that.” In the meantime Larsen teaches at the E.A. Art School in Logan and at Millville Elementary School as her husband, Kevin, finishes graduate

school at USU in creative writing.

Larsen began creating collage art long before she began to officially study it. Growing up in Orem, she would make Christmas ornaments and cobble together scrapbook pages from pictures clipped from magazines.

At one point she hoarded toilet paper rolls for some long-forgotten project.

“I liked to collect things and make things out of them,” she recalls.

Turns out that was all training for what would become her vocation.

“Collage is so versatile because you have whatever image you’re using, and then how you’re cutting it out and using it,” says Larsen, who used text from a dissertation that she found in a free book box in one piece, and a sewing pattern as background for another.

“Usually when I pick a collage element, I pick it for the movement it creates,” she says.

Larsen honed her skills in USU’s art department, where she first studied figure painting before deciding that “it wasn’t filling all my artistic needs.” That’s when she began to focus on collage, a genre professor Chris Terry says has served Larsen well.

“She has an innovative approach to problem solving, and her (drawing) skills allow her to put those other skills to work,” says Terry, the associate dean for the Caine College of Arts. “She has done very inventive things with collage.”

The walls of the Larsens’ townhouse are practically a collage unto themselves, blanketed with artworks, many done by her. Most of Larsen’s current projects start with her photographing, then painting — with oil or acrylic — a person, and then adding other aspects as they occur to her. She intends her works to be “an object, or an artifact, not just something you hang on the wall,” and they feature “highly modeled surfaces” that give each piece a 3D feel.

Unlike a painting, Larsen says the elements in a collage can be rearranged with relative ease until the piece is complete. She acknowledges that knowing when a piece is complete can be difficult, and that’s when her hard-earned patience comes into play again.

“Sometimes a piece sits there for awhile before I decide it’s done,” Larsen says. “I know when it’s done when I get a feeling of resolution — you’ve done everything you can do on it.”

By Lance Frazier

Jennifer Meyers/Herald Journal Logan artist Michelle Larsen puts a frame on a piece of artwork.

Gallery Walk The Cache Valley Center for the Arts Gallery Walk in downtown Logan will be tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. More than 15 locations will participate in this seasonal winter walk. Attendees can enjoy everything from culinary gingerbread masterpieces to artwork by some of Cache Valley’s finest. Just look for the yellow banner at various participating locations or stop in and pick up a map.

During the walk, many of the locations will be collecting food for the Cache Community Food Pantry. People can help the community get “Hungry for the Arts!” by bringing a non-perishable food item to any location on the walk, the Winter Gift Market on Dec. 2 and 3, during the Parade of Gingerbread Homes throughout the month of December, or at any other arts event in the community. The Cache Valley Arts Summit needs help this holiday season because no one should go hungry in the valley.

Food bins will be available at most locations and many art venues around the valley, including the Logan Arthouse & Cinema, Cache Valley Center for the Arts, Ellen Eccles Theatre, Unicorn Theater, Anderson Seed & Garden and the Caine College of the Arts art and interior design program located in USU’s Fine Art Visual Building, Room 122.

Check out www.cachearts.org for maps, details and special hours of operation or call the Cache Valley Center for the Arts at 435752-0026 or email events@centerforthearts.us.

Mixed media Collage is this artist’s way of expressing herself

M

ichelle Larsen used to fight with her art.

She would conjure up an idea for how a finished product was going to look and gather the various elements for one of her collage works — starting with one of her portraits, along with cut-out photos of birds or butterflies or something else to create depth and motion, with maybe some text to put in the background — and try to make the various items fit her preconceived notion. It would frustrate her if the pieces didn’t perfectly match that vision.

Eventually she learned to let each piece work itself out, and once she ceded control, she says, her battles were over and her artwork improved.

“As an artist, you have to be open to what it’s going to look like in the end, because it’s rarely what you were thinking,” Larsen says.

Larsen, a recent graduate of Utah State University, will make what she considers her “debut” at tonight’s Cache Valley Center for the Arts Gallery Walk in downtown Logan. Most of the pieces she will show at Logan Arthouse and Cinema are of women, and although it wasn’t at the front of her mind when she created them, she now believes the works were about “expressing myself.”

“When you’re learning about yourself or being put in new, uncomfortable positions, that’s when you learn the most,” she says.

Although the pieces she will show “have elements in common,” each is unique. As for the message each carries, Larsen would rather not say — because she’s not sure herself.

“That’s a mystery,” she says with a smile, “often as much to the artist as to the viewer.”

In one of her pieces, “Emission,” a woman lifts a corner of the fabric that drapes her to allow a flock of random birds — ducks, magpies, swallows, geese — to take flight. One could view it as a reflection of a young artist’s career taking off. If so, that young artist is understandably nervous about leaving the nest.

“It’s always intimidating for a young, (recently) graduated artist to try to sell things,” she says.

Her goal is to apply to galleries and to enter as many shows as possible in the coming year, “and hopefully something comes of that.” In the meantime Larsen teaches at the E.A. Art School in Logan and at Millville Elementary School as her husband, Kevin, finishes graduate

school at USU in creative writing.

Larsen began creating collage art long before she began to officially study it. Growing up in Orem, she would make Christmas ornaments and cobble together scrapbook pages from pictures clipped from magazines.

At one point she hoarded toilet paper rolls for some long-forgotten project.

“I liked to collect things and make things out of them,” she recalls.

Turns out that was all training for what would become her vocation.

“Collage is so versatile because you have whatever image you’re using, and then how you’re cutting it out and using it,” says Larsen, who used text from a dissertation that she found in a free book box in one piece, and a sewing pattern as background for another.

“Usually when I pick a collage element, I pick it for the movement it creates,” she says.

Larsen honed her skills in USU’s art department, where she first studied figure painting before deciding that “it wasn’t filling all my artistic needs.” That’s when she began to focus on collage, a genre professor Chris Terry says has served Larsen well.

“She has an innovative approach to problem solving, and her (drawing) skills allow her to put those other skills to work,” says Terry, the associate dean for the Caine College of Arts. “She has done very inventive things with collage.”

The walls of the Larsens’ townhouse are practically a collage unto themselves, blanketed with artworks, many done by her. Most of Larsen’s current projects start with her photographing, then painting — with oil or acrylic — a person, and then adding other aspects as they occur to her. She intends her works to be “an object, or an artifact, not just something you hang on the wall,” and they feature “highly modeled surfaces” that give each piece a 3D feel.

Unlike a painting, Larsen says the elements in a collage can be rearranged with relative ease until the piece is complete. She acknowledges that knowing when a piece is complete can be difficult, and that’s when her hard-earned patience comes into play again.

“Sometimes a piece sits there for awhile before I decide it’s done,” Larsen says. “I know when it’s done when I get a feeling of resolution — you’ve done everything you can do on it.”

By Lance Frazier

Jennifer Meyers/Herald Journal Logan artist Michelle Larsen puts a frame on a piece of artwork.

Gallery Walk The Cache Valley Center for the Arts Gallery Walk in downtown Logan will be tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. More than 15 locations will participate in this seasonal winter walk. Attendees can enjoy everything from culinary gingerbread masterpieces to artwork by some of Cache Valley’s finest. Just look for the yellow banner at various participating locations or stop in and pick up a map.

During the walk, many of the locations will be collecting food for the Cache Community Food Pantry. People can help the community get “Hungry for the Arts!” by bringing a non-perishable food item to any location on the walk, the Winter Gift Market on Dec. 2 and 3, during the Parade of Gingerbread Homes throughout the month of December, or at any other arts event in the community. The Cache Valley Arts Summit needs help this holiday season because no one should go hungry in the valley.

Food bins will be available at most locations and many art venues around the valley, including the Logan Arthouse & Cinema, Cache Valley Center for the Arts, Ellen Eccles Theatre, Unicorn Theater, Anderson Seed & Garden and the Caine College of the Arts art and interior design program located in USU’s Fine Art Visual Building, Room 122.

Check out www.cachearts.org for maps, details and special hours of operation or call the Cache Valley Center for the Arts at 435752-0026 or email events@centerforthearts.us.

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Tri-State Band Symposium is this weekend

USU choirs combine in concert Monday

The Utah State University Women’s Choir and Flute Choir will present Utah State Univer“Flutes and Voices” at sity’s bands present the 7:30 p.m. in the USU Persixth annual Tri-State formance Hall on Dec. 5.

Band Symposium The combined flute featuring two public choirs will begin the concerts in the Kent program with Mozart’s Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center “Magic Flute Overture” on USU’s campus Dec. arranged by Nancy Nourse to feature piccolo, 2-3.

C flute, alto flute, bass “This annual event is flute and contrabass flute. a showcase of the Utah The Studio Flute Choir State University bands will perform “Miniaand is lauded as a highture Overture, “Chinese ly entertaining event for Dance” and “Dance the whole family,” said of the Mirlitons” from Thomas Rohrer, direcTchaikovsky’s “Nutcracktor of bands at USU. er Suite.”

The conductor for “The USU Flute Choir this year’s event is will also play a beautiful Randol Alan Bass, an arrangement of the Spaninternationally-recogish Carol ‘A La Nanita nized composer and Nana’ with harpist Carly conductor.

Ewell,” said Leslie TimAs an included highmons, USU flute choir light, the Utah State University wind and percussion students will present a sampler concert Friday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. This unique concert will include the wind and jazz orchestras along with selected chamber ensembles from the wind and percussion areas in USU’s Department of Music.

The honor band’s finale concert is Saturday, Dec. 3, at 3 p.m.

Both concerts are free and open to the public.

The Tri-State Band Symposium is an honor band experience for the region’s finest wind and percussion players and their directors.

This year, the group represents 23 schools, with students selected through director nomination. Held on the USU campus, the event features rehearsals and performances with some of the finest conductors in the country.

director. “Other seasonal favorites will be heard in the foyer of the Performance Hall as the audience is arriving.”

“The USU Women’s

Choir adds a vocal touch to this program with

music by American composers Z. Randall

Stroope, John Leavitt, Eric Whitacre and Utah’s own Bernell Hales and Mack Wilberg,” said Michael Huff, director of the USU Women’s Choir.

“Also on the program is the hauntingly beautiful ‘Ave Maria’ by English composer Gustav Holst.”

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and youth, $5 for USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCA Box Office located in Room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, online through the Caine College of the Arts’ website (arts.usu.edu) or by calling 435-797-8022.

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Their Dec. 6 concert will be a holiday version of Anthology 25, which performance intuition as they celebrates a quarter cencreate programs by intertury together. The concert weaving music with poetry program features ancient, and narrative. medieval chants, traditional In addition to their medifolk and gospel music, baleval repertoire, Anonymous 4 lads and modern works from has often reached out into the each of their prize-winning, realm of contemporary music, chart-topping Harmonia and has premiered works by Mundi CDs. The program Peter Maxwell Davies, John also includes a new work Tavener, Steve Reich and for Anonymous 4 by PulitRichard Einhorn. The group zer Prize-winning composer most recently expanded its David Lang. repertoire to include tradiCraig Jessop, dean of the tional music of the British Caine College of the Arts Isles and America. at Utah State University The ensemble has persaid, “The superb group is formed in major venues and an ensemble of the highest festivals throughout North caliber, equal to the King’s America, Europe and the Far Singers.”

East, and has appeared on Known for their vocal numerous radio and televiblend and ensemble singing, sion programs, including the four women of AnonyGarrison Keillor’s “A Prairie mous 4 combine musical, Home Companion,” “CBS literary and historical scholSunday Morning,” A&E’s arship with contemporary “Breakfast With the Arts” and

Community outreach The Chamber Music Society will be holding community outreach and master classes with Anonymous 4 on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the USU Performance Hall. Anonymous 4 will help students hone their musical skills and build their appreciation for a cappella quartets. As a community outreach, these master classes are free and open to the public, middle school, high school and university students.

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Using one, two, three and four voices, their work ranges from 11th century plainchant, richly harmonic English conductus and spicy French motets of the 13th century, exotic 15th-century Hungarian polyphony, 19th century shape note hymns and contemporary works.

Ruth Cunningham received a degree in performance of early music from the New England Conservatory of Music and is certified as a cross-cultural music and healing practitioner. She specializes in improvisational sacred music from varied

spiritual traditions in both liturgical and concert settings.

Marsha Genensky earned a bachelor’s in music and folklore from Scripps College.

She traveled east to pursue a master’s in folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to New York and helping to found Anonymous 4.

While Susan Hellauer was earning a bachelor’s in music as a trumpet player from Queens College (City University of New York), an increasing fascination with medieval and Renaissance vocal music led her to con-

vert to singing, and to pursue advanced degrees in musicology from Queens College and Columbia University.

Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek comes from Northern Ireland.

After getting a joint honors degree in music and English from Queens University Belfast, she moved to London and became a professional singer known for her willingness to sing all types of music, from baroque and classical opera and oratorio to the extremes of new music.

For more information about the Chamber Music Society of Logan go to www. cmslogan.org. Future concerts are Feb. 16 and Mar. 29.

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Dickens’ classic takes stage This holiday season the classic Dickens novel comes to life as Four Seasons Theatre Company presents the musical “A Christmas Carol.”

The performances continue Dec. 2, 3, 5, and 8-10 on the Sky View High School stage.

This version of “A Christmas Carol” was originally performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Music was written by Alan Menken, Academy Award winning composer of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Aladdin.” Not surprisingly, the music in “A Christmas Carol” has a very Disney-esque feel that will delight audiences and inspire them with the spirit of Christmas.

The talented cast of local performers is excited to be part of Four Seasons Theatre Company’s maiden production. “A Christmas Carol” stars Scott Hunsaker as the legendary humbug himself, Ebenezer Scrooge. Hunsaker has performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and locally in “Beauty and the Beast” and “Annie.” Sarah Huff is featured as the haunting and beautiful Ghost of Christmas Past. Other local cast members include Teresa Jones (Christmas Future), Kody Rash (Christmas Present), Jon Rash (Bob Cratchet) and 6-year-old Caden Stuart (Tiny Tim).

Four Seasons Theatre Company is

Cache Valley’s newest theater company created by local performer and designer Kody Rash, his wife Kim, and brother Jon Rash. Four Seasons promises to offer an affordable, family-friendly production each of the four seasons of the year starting next summer. Cache Valley performers are invited to audition for all productions.

Audition dates will be announced in advance.

Tickets to “A Christmas Carol” are available now at skyviewtix.org or call 435-563-6273. Cost is $10 to $12.

USU Symphony Orchestra presents ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ next week The Utah State University Symthe Utah Symphony, Barbara Scowphony Orchestra presents “Symcroft, music director of the Utah phonie Fantastique” at 7:30 p.m. in Youth Symphony and USU Departthe Kent Concert Hall located in the ment of Theatre Arts faculty member Chase Fine Art Center on USU’s Adrianne Moore are the featured campus Dec. 8. guests. “‘Symphonie Fantastique,’ comCamille Saint-Saëns’ two works, posed by Hector Berlioz, is one “Danse Bacchanale” and “Introducof the most representative early tion and Rondo Capriccioso,” add to Romantic works,” said Sergio Berthe special program of French music. nal, USU Symphony Orchestra musiTickets are $10 for general admiscal director. sion, $8 for seniors and youth, $5 for According to Berlioz, the sympho- USU faculty and staff and free for ny tells the story of an artist gifted USU students with ID. Tickets can with a lively imagination who has be purchased online at the CCA Box poisoned himself with opium in the Office located in Room 139-B of depths of despair because of hopethe Chase Fine Arts Center, online less love. through the college’s website (arts.

Ralph Matson, concertmaster of usu.edu) or by calling 435-797-8022.

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“Micro” is a new, posthumous story from the late Michael Crichton, who died in 2008, and finished by Richard Preston, author of the non-fiction best-seller “The Hot Zone.” It’s a thriller about a biotech company in Hawaii and a group of students who end up stranded and endangered in a rain forest.

Nanigen MicroTechnologies is recruiting graduate students for its top-secret research. Peter Jansen receives an offer from the company. He’s not surprised because his brother, Eric, works in management at Nanigen. Peter’s colleagues are thrilled to be invited as well.

The day before Peter is scheduled to arrive, he

receives a mysterious text message from Eric saying not to come. He goes to Hawaii anyway and learns that his brother has been murdered. A confrontation with the man responsible for Eric’s death puts Peter and his friends in jeopardy. They are reduced in size to less than an inch tall.

Peter leads his friends through a terrifying new hostile landscape. Can they survive long enough to find a way to regain their size and stop a madman?

Like a typical Crichton novel, the cardboard-thin characters in “Micro” exist only to convey the science, yet somehow the novel works.

Rain forests are a new frontier for pharmaceutical possibilities, and the concept of shrinking man down to the size of a pea has been

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION 1. “Kill Alex Cross,” by James Patterson 2. “V is for Vengeance,” by Sue Grafton 3. “11/22/63,” by Stephen King 4. “The Litigators,” by John Grisham 5. “Devil’s Gate,” by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION 1. “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson 2. “Killing Lincoln,” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 3. “Imperfect Justice,” by Jeff Ashton with Lisa Pulitzer 4. “Heaven is for Real,” by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent 5. “Gabby,” by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly with Jeffrey Zaslow

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Crime fiction fans will enjoy ‘The Drop’

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Harry Bosch tackles two tough cases in “The Drop,” another stellar effort from author Michael Connelly.

Bosch works in the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit. One case he’s working on involves the murder of a young woman in 1989. A blood drop at the scene comes back with a DNA match to a predator with a long history of violence. What seems like a slam-dunk quickly becomes a head scratcher when Bosch does the math and realizes the suspect would have been 8 years old at the time of the murder. Was the evidence contaminated?

Bosch’s second case — which he doesn’t want — involves the son of a city councilman. It appears he

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The two cases are compelling. Bosch is one of the best detectives in crime fiction, and Connelly continues to amaze with his latest effort.

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14. Went ballistic 19. Prefix for scoliosis 20. Beer glass 21. Concept embodying yin and yang 22. “Tommy,” e.g.

23. Meals next to interstates?

26. Kind of whale 27. Lampoons 28. Time of exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters 30. Grain disease 31. While lead-in 35. Stone of rock 36. Kitchen gadgets 37. “___ Choice Awards” 38. One-celled organisms 40. Elizabeth or Bob 41. Dilapidated individual?

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53. Quickness of action 56. Good looking girl 58. Strict eater of fruits and nuts and grains 60. Tallow source 61. ___-stop shopping 62. Takes off 64. Eight furlongs 65. Voters wearing bright colors?

70. Rushes 71. Plowland 72. Like L.B.J. 73. Some nods 75. Actor Peter 77. Drink garnish 78. It equals 3.531 cubic feet

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107. Goof-off 109. Extension 110. Discussion re: lowering the temperature of a swimming pool?

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17. Trial’s partner 18. Curses 24. Well-___

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33. Cogitation 34. Dwelling: var.

38. Sentence enders 39. Catch sight of 40. Helping 41. Gardener’s plot 42. Die down 43. Artless young women 44. ___ Party 45. “Silent Night” adjective 46. Part of H.R.H. 47. Flightless flock 48. Purple gemstone 49. ___ therapy 54. “Wheel of Fortune” request 55. French coin 56. Hometown of Chaucer’s “wife” 57. It’s measured in degrees 58. Namely 59. Goes for 62. Yard sign 63. “___ of Africa” 64. Imitation 66. Hillary Clinton ___ Rodham 67. Snare 68. Private eye 69. Sun-cracked 74. Pin down 75. Some degs.

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Hyrum Senior Center’s holiday craft fair will be Friday, Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 675 E. Main in Hyrum.

Come see all new items, gifts and quilts, and purchase something at our baked sale.

There will also be a fish pond for kids. Lunch is available for $2.50. Everyone welcome.

co Style Sourdough Pizza on Saturday, Dec. 3. Many people in the valley have heard The Fender Benders classic rock band. Relic is the unplugged version of that band. Preview them at relicacousticband.com.

No cover charge, everyone is welcome.

Music for the Small and Tall will host a holiday event, “Playing with Bells,” on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 178 W. Center Several new authors from Street, Logan. Cost is $6. This Cache Valley will sign books at The Book Table from 8 p.m. event is for children ages 3 to 10 and their parents. There to midnight Friday, Dec. 2. will be musical fun for everyone including musical stories, Come find great gifts and games, a craft and instruments support Cache Humane for the whole family to play.

Society at the same time. We Discounts are available for will sell alternative gifts along families with multiple children. with a fun holiday card. Select For more information call Ewa from a number of services you Wilczynski at 755-0853. can purchase to help support the shelter, including feeding Please join us for a Christa cat or dog for a week, sponmas boutique held at the soring an animal’s stay at the Child & Family Support Center shelter while it awaits adoption, providing a spay or neuter on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Holiday decorafor an animal to make it more tions, jewelry, treats, clothing, adoptable, or even sponsortoys, hand-crafted home decor ing an adoption for a needy and more will be available. The animal. We will be at the UPR Child & Family Support Cenoffice in the Bullen Center (43 ter is located at 380 W. 1400 S. Main St., Logan) on Friday, North in Logan. All event proDec. 2, during the Gallery Walk, and again Saturday, Dec. ceeds will benefit the 24-hour crisis/respite nursery at the 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Child & Family Support Center.

Popular acoustic duo The Smithfield Craft Fair “Wood,” featuring Bryce will be held Saturday, Dec. 3, Wood and Eli Wilson, will from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the old perform at Pier 49 San FranMovie Gallery next to Lee’s cisco Style Sourdough Pizza from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2. Marketplace. Jewelry, watches, cards, food and crafts will be Bryce and Eli will record video available. For more informafor broadcast on BBC throughtion call 435-563-6412. out the UK later this month.

This is a great chance to hear The Bridgerland Storytellthem. Opening for them will ing Guild will be holding its be valley favorite Isael Torres, monthly meeting Saturday, who will play from 6 to 7 p.m.

Dec. 3, at 9 a.m. at the Summerfest Office, 69 E. 100 North in Logan. The Guild is a chapter of the Utah Storytelling Acoustic oldies group Guild. The meeting will include “Relic,” featuring Irv Nelson, storytelling training, discusScott Olsen, and Steve Robsion of upcoming events that erts, will perform live from 6 to the Guild is managing, and 8 p.m. at Pier 49 San Francis-

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optional story sharing from its members for critique or experience. All are invited, including youth. For more information contact David Sidwell at dr.davidsidwell@gmail.com.

Mountain Ridge Helicopters will begin tours of Logan City Christmas lights from the air Saturday, Dec. 3. Tours run every Saturday throughout the month. The helicopters will land at Hamilton’s restaurant where couples can get dinner after the tour. To make reservations visit call 435-752-3828 or visit http://mountainridgeheli. com.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk Music Society are hosting their monthly first Saturday contra dance Dec. 3. The dance will be held at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East in Logan and begins at 7:30 p.m. A $6 donation for adults and a $3 donation for children younger than 12 is suggested at the door. Beginners and families are welcome and all dances will be taught.

For more information about contra dancing call 753-2480 or 753-5987 or visit www.bridgerfolk.org.

Lillium will sing Saturday, Dec. 3, at 3 p.m. at the Pioneer Valley Lodge for residents and the public. Our address is 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. We would love to have you join us for this free event.

For more information call 435792-0353.

Falk will perform with Horse Bones and Megan Simper on Saturday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. at Why Sound. Cost is $5.

Abracadan will perform a holiday hypnosis show Saturday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. at Logan Arthouse, 795 N. Main, Logan. Tickets are $4 for students with ID, $5 in advance and $6 the day of the show.

The Logan Downtown Alli-

ance is offering horse drawn carriage rides Saturday, Dec. 3, starting at 2 p.m. Carriage rides will begin and end at the Logan Tabernacle and will loop around near the Logan Temple.

The ride takes about 14 minutes. Cost is $4 for children and students, $7 for adults or $25 for families of four. Tickets can be reserved in advance by calling 435-554-8696.

SUNDAY The Cache Humane Society Annual Fundraiser Brunch will be Sunday, Dec. 4, at Hamilton’s Steak and Seafood, featuring Hamilton’s Grand Buffet. Social hour is at 11 a.m. Brunch is at noon.

Cost is $75 per person. Call 787-8450 for reservations or Nancy at 787-1629 for tickets. Seating is limited and proceeds benefit the Cache Humane Society.

Todd Milovich, Alex Tarbet and Dan Fields will play blues music Sunday, Dec. 4, from noon to 2 p.m. at Caffe Ibis.

MONDAY

Booklore Club will be held Monday, Dec. 5, at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Bernice McCowin.

A benefit dinner for Bob Page of Smithfield will be held Monday, Dec. 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Summit Elementary School, 80 W. Center St., Smithfield. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for children younger than 8 and $35 per family.

There will also be a raffle drawing. Bob Page was in a tragic accident Nov. 19 and has extensive brain damage with a long recovery ahead.

TUESDAY

Logan TaVaci School of Performing Arts, a children’s singing and performing group, is presenting their annual Christmas Concert, “Coming Up

Christmas Time,” on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at USU’s Kent Concert Hall beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Admission is free.

WEDNESDAY

Becoming Everest will perform rock/hardcore music with Danny the Skeleton Horse, Our City Skyline and Madison Lights on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. at Why Sound. Cost is $5.

OPTIONS for Independence quilting groups will meet Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 10 a.m. at 1095 N. Main, Logan. Quilts made throughout the year will be donated to non-profit agencies and then we’ll go to lunch. Both the Spanish and English groups are meeting on this day. Contact Royella at 435-753-5353 for more information.

THURSDAY

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will hold a rock climbing activity Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. at the Rock Haus. Cost is $8.

Charleigh Petersen will perform acoustic music with Riley Traveller and Thomas Kock on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 8 p.m. at Why Sound. Cost is $5.

Mountain Crest High School’s band and orchestra will present “Christmas Fantasy” on Thursday, Dec. 8, and Friday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. in the MCHS auditorium. “Christmas Fantasy” is a band/orchestra performance of Christmas music set to an imaginative story for children. It’s a great first-time introduction of instrumental music which will delight all children, young and old. This year’s production highlights several different instruments in ensemble as the children attempt to change an angry toy lion’s attitude about Christmas.

Tickets are $3 for adults, $2 for children and $12 for families.

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M-T 11–10 • F-S 11-11 • Sun 12-10 1079 N. Main • Logan • 753-4084

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18 East Center St. Logan • 227-0321 Mon-Thur 7am - 9pm Fri & Sat 7am - 10pm

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Breads • Great Sandwiches • Soups 78 East 400 North, Logan 753-6463

981 South Main St., Logan 755-0262

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Coupon may not be combined with any other offer. Must present the coupon at time of purchase. Offer expires: 12/9/2011

690 North Main, Logan • 752-9252

Open Sun- Thurs 6am - 10pm • Fri & Sat 6am - 11pm

633 S. Main • Logan • 750-6555 Mon-Sat 11:30am - 9:30pm www.mygauchogrill.com

20% OFF 10% OFF Menu Full Rodizio AnyItem Must present coupon at time of service. Not valid with any other offer. EXP. 12/31/11 Holidays excluded.

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Open at 7 am

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One Coupon Per Table Coupons May Not Be Combined With Any Other Offer Valid M-Thurs Only

Buy One Get One Free Breakfast Skillets

2271 N MAIN NORTH LOGAN 435-787-AGGY

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600 West Center Logan • 435.752.8088

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Let Us Help You With Your Holiday Dinner

Orders are being taken at 435-787-8450 or hamiltonssteakhouse.com allow 48 hours for ordering and pickup Bread $5 a loaf Cranberry, Sourdough baguette, Jalapeño cheddar A Large order of Mashed and Sweet Potatoes can feed 25 while the smaller orders would feed a dozen.

Garlic Mashed Potatoes Large container-$36 Small Container-$18 Whipped Sweet Potatoes Large container-$40 Small container-$20 Re-heating instructions: place pan in 350 oven for 25-30 minutes.