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Downtown for the holidays A look at seasonal activities in downtown Logan The Herald Journal

DECEMBER 20-26, 2013

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December 20-26, 2013

COVER 8 A look at activities in downtown Logan

MUSIC 4 Beyond 5 performing Saturday at USU

5 Bar J Wranglers coming to Logan

5 Voice Male takes the stage at Ellen Eccles

6 Hyrum native presents fundraiser concert

6 Christmas Instrumental Serenade tonight at the Logan Tabernacle

MOVIES 3 ‘Anchorman 2’ earns three stars

7 ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ earns half a star

THEATER 5 Old Barn Community

Theatre presents ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Hannah Kinder places her origami creations on a table at Joyride Bikes during the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Gallery Walk on Friday, Dec. 13. On the cover: The historic Cache County Courthouse in downtown Logan. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR It is Dec. 20. How did that happen?

The holiday season caught me unprepared, so within the last week or two, I’ve made an effort to do things that remind me it is December and the holidays are here.

I’ve reveled in the cold by drinking plenty of hot chocolate and bundling up in my favorite hats, scarves and mittens.

Most of the gifts for my family and friends are purchased. I

made a garland of paper mittens. Last Friday night, I walked around downtown Logan — visiting some of the sites of the Gallery Walk and the Parade of Gingerbread Homes, and then wrapping up the evening with the Westminster Bell Choir performance at the Logan Tabernacle.

Walking past holiday decorations and lights on a chilly night helped put me in a festive mood. It was fun to see what people used to make their gingerbread creations. The artwork on display as part of the Gallery Walk was impressive and the music shared by the Westminster Bell Choir was awesome.

To read more about the Gallery Walk, the 14th annual Parade of Gingerbread Homes, performances at the Logan Tabernacle and other activities in downtown Logan, check out Page 8.

There are a host of events going on this weekend — “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” is being performed at the Old Barn Community Theatre, the Sub for Santa Ballroom Dance Show is tonight at Logan High School and Beyond 5 is performing Saturday at USU. Read about these events and more in this week’s Cache Magazine.

— Arie Kirk

‘Anchorman 2’ worth seeing

By Aaron Peck Cache movie critic

“Anchorman 2” is a potluck comedy, exactly like its predecessor; an endless stream of jokes, connected by an ever-thin plot. Adam McKay and Will Ferrell have crafted the exact movie fans of the first “Anchorman” have been asking for, a conglomeration of Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) skits that are pieced together into some semblance of a “story.”

The second “Anchorman” loosely follows a plot about the beginning of the ridiculous 24-hour news cycle, and its byproducts — showing live car chases on television, for example.

After being fired from yet AP photo/Paramount Pictures another job, Burgundy From left, Paul Rudd is Brian Fantana, Will Ferrell is Ron Burgundy, David Koechner is Champ watches as his now wife Kind and Steve Carell is Brick Tamland in a scene from “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.”

Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) is drawn out to maximum promoted as the first nightuncomfortableness. They ly national female news keep going, and going, anchor spot. As you might and going. Director Adam imagine he doesn’t take McKay doesn’t seem like too kindly to this. However, he wants to edit much out Burgundy is approached of the movie, which keeps soon by a fledgling news Director // Adam McKay “Anchorman 2” at a notchannel whose gimmick Starring // Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd so-brisk running time of is round-the-clock news.

Rated // PG-13 for crude and sexual content, drug use, nearly two hours. It’s like No stopping. “You’re a language and comic violence they thought everything stupid, stupid man,” Ron was far too funny, and they replies when he hears the just couldn’t bear to part plan. No matter, he needs follows is a stream of you hated the first movie with any of it. a job, so he assembles his semi-consciousness as chances are this one will The second half of the news team and takes it.

Ron Burgundy — along get on your nerves pretty movie drags a little. The Somewhere deep down in with Champ Kind (David quick. jokes wash up and become “Anchorman 2” is actually a Koechner), Brian Fantana Every scene feels more somewhat stale. The movie smart scathing comment on (Paul Rudd), and Brick like an “SNL” skit. An is forced to abandon the the state of today’s news Tamland (Steve Carell) improvisational sketch environment. Only it’s — finds himself in one where the actors are simply a-la-carte skit style and try to piece together the thin cloudy at best. The movie ridiculous situation after out to one-up each other. story they had set out to is about jokes. As many another. The first 45 minMost of the movie feels tell in the first place. jokes as possible. utes of the movie are genu- like it’s ad-libbed. A bigThat’s about it for the inely hilarious; if you’re an budget “Whose Line is it See LEGEND on Page 15 movie’s storyline. What “Anchorman” fan that is. If Anyway.” The jokes are

“You can make it a night with the family.”

– Gary Saxton, Logan Downtown Alliance manager, on visiting downtown Logan during the holiday season (Page 9)

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Brigham City museum hosts photo exhibit

By Mary Alice Hobbs

1880s and the 1960s in the exhibition, which is titled “Down Memory Lane: PhoTime has not stolen tographs from the Compton Brigham City’s past, Collection.” Alison Fox, a because there were three generations of photographers former intern from Utah State University, and Kaia in one family that visually Landon, museum director, documented street scenes curated the exhibit. and the spirited people that The museum is located at settled on the western edge 24 N. 300 West in Brigham of the Rocky Mountains.

City. The entrance is on the Photographers Alma west side. Hours are from W. Compton Sr., Alma W. Compton Jr., Mathew Comp- 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 1 ton and Glenn Compton to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admisfound a harmony of subject sion is free. For further and art in images that will information, please phone hang in the Brigham City 435-226-1439 or visit www.

Museum of Art and Hisbrighamcitymuseum.org. tory from Dec. 13 to Jan. The Comptons’ cameras 22. There are 50 black-andwere witness to Lorenzo white, sepia and hand-tinted Snow’s funeral procession photos taken between the

in 1901, the Whittier School basketball champions and their coach in 1911, adults and children visiting an ice cave in 1912, workmen with a horse-drawn wagon oiling Main Street in 1915 and an airplane ready for takeoff in the 1930s.

The photographers’ pride in their community is apparent in pictures of Knudson Bros. Fruit and Produce; Willard Winery; Box Elder County Courthouse; City Hall; Box Elder High School, east location; Compton Art Gallery; the Fishburn store; and Peach Days’ window displays.

Celebrated in early photos See EXHIBIT on Page 10

Photo courtesy of the Compton family

Oiling Brigham City’s Main Street, 1915.

Beyond 5 performing CD release concert

Beyond 5, a boy band rivaling One Direction, will be performing a CD release concert Saturday, Dec. 21, at Utah State University’s Taggart Student Center Ballroom.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m.

Pre-purchased tickets are $10 and are available at beyond5official.com or eventbrite.com. Tickets at the door are $12.

An appearance at Sky View High School on Tuesday was just the beginning for Beyond 5.

The band has made special in-school appearances in other Cache Valley schools such as Mountain Crest High School, South Cache 8-9 Center, Logan High School and Mt. Logan Middle School to promote the upcoming

has already played to a sold-out Provo crowd on Nov. 9.

Songwriter and producer Tyler Castleton, along with co-writer and business partner Russ Dixon, created the band through an audition process where nearly 500 hopeful boys were whittled down to five powerhouse (and good-looking) performon sharing a positive ing artists.

The members message through their of Beyond 5 include: TJ music and energetic Ryan (Salt Lake City); performances. The band Zac Love (San Antonio, just finished a four-week Texas); Ammon Tuimautour of Asia playing 27 aluga (Corona, Calif.); shows in eight different Tanner Myler (Eagle, countries, reaching a Idaho); and Patch Crowe total of 25,000 people.

(Gold Coast, Australia).

“They were a huge “This is a group of sensation in Asia” says extremely talented young musical director Mckay men,” Castleton says.

Crockett. “The response “We are so excited to was overwhelming.” release this first album Now the team is set to and to have them perform launch its first album and in Logan.”

WHAT: Beyond 5 WHEN: 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 21 WHERE: Utah State University’s Taggart Student Center Ballroom COST: Pre-purchased tickets are $10. Tickets at the door are $12.

Photo courtesy of Beyond 5

Beyond 5 will perform Saturday, Dec. 21, at Utah State University.

concert. The group’s in-school appearances include school assemblies and lunch-hour

performances. At Mt. Logan, the group will be featured as the halftime entertainment during the

middle school’s annual faculty/student basketball game today.

The group focuses

The Bar J Wranglers, well known Western signers based in Jackson Hole, Wyo., will take the stage for a pair of Christmas concerts at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets are $16 to $22 and are available at www.centerforthearts. us.

Well known in Cache County and beyond, the cowpokes hailing from Jackson Hole present a show that is two parts music, two parts stand-up comedy and allout entertainment with a holiday twist. Some folks call it a Western music show; some call it a stand-up comedy show with masterful cowboy music; others call it the best musical experience in the West. As soon as the Bar J Wranglers take the stage, listeners leave behind their busy life and settle into a time long ago — the time of the singing cowboy.

The group was formed in Jackson Hole, Wyo. in 1983 by Babe Humphrey and has been passed down to his sons Scott and Bryan.

The Bar J Wranglers continue to perform seven nights per week during the summer months at the acclaimed Bar J Chuckwagon, entertaining 800 nightly.

During their offseason, the Wranglers perform all over the world, bringing their legendary cowboy style to the masses. They have performed nationwide with outstanding entertainers such as Roy Rogers, Randy Travis, Sons of the Pioneers and others. The band

‘Christmas Pageant’

Come see a hilariously heartwarming tale about “the worst kids in town” when they decide to invade the annual Christmas play and turn tradition on its ear. If you want to experience a beautiful story about Christmas and the birth of Jesus and have some laughs along the way, you will want to come and see “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” Dec. 6 to 21 at the Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston. For tickets, visit oldbarn.org or call 435-458-2276.

Nativity scene tours

Anne Neville has collected more than 500 crèche and nativity scenes and would like to offer tours of her home decorated with them to women groups, church groups and chaperoned youth groups. Neville has spent many hours and much effort researching and purchasing nativity sets that represent countries around the globe. She has learned so much as she has compiled and collected these scenes of Jesus Christ’s birth and feels nothing brings the Christmas spirit like the nativity scene. Call Neville at 787-1359 for more information.

Chorus auditions Photo courtesy of the Bar J Wranglers

The Bar J Wranglers will be at the Ellen Eccles Theatre for Christmas concerts at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21. The group is based in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

produces an amazing four-part harmony that will stop you in your tracks. In addition to entertaining audiences at the local, regional and national level, the Bar J Wran-

glers have been featured on TNN, Discovery Channel and the Travel Network.

Visit barjchuckwagon.com for more information.

Voice Male takes the stage A six-man a cappella group that was founded in Cache Valley, Voice Male will perform at 7 tonight at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets range from $10 to $15 and are available at www. centerforthearts.us.

Originally formed 19 years ago at Utah State University, Voice Male has since performed all over the Western United States for hundreds

award-winning Christmas albums, “Jingles” and “Jingles 2.”

Last holiday season, Voice Male released the “Jingles 3” album, which features their hallmark mix of lighthearted and warmof thousands of fans. hearted arrangements Voice Male’s music is of Christmas standards widely recognized, with such as “Rudolph the more than a quarter of Red-nosed Reindeer,” a million albums sold.

“Frosty the Snowman,” These include the HIMS “Deck the Halls,” “O albums, as well as the Holy Night,” “O Come WHAT: Voice Male WHEN: 7 p.m. today WHERE: Ellen Eccles Theatre COST: Tickets range from $10 to $15

All Ye Faithful” and many others.

Formed in 1994 as a nine-man group, the current version of Voice Male includes John Huff (tenor), Mike Bearden (second tenor), John Luthy (bass/percussion), Mike Willson (bass), Rick Murdock (baritone) and Richard McCallister (high tenor).

Visit voicemalemusic. com for information.

Auditions for the American Festival Chorus will be Tuesday, Jan. 7, in the Utah State University Fine Arts Center, room FA101, by scheduled appointment for men only. Auditions will consist of singing a hymn, folk song or a song that showcases your voice and a short sight reading. If interested, email Elaine Olson at elaine.olson@usu.edu or visit the choir website at www.americanfestival chorus.org for detailed audition information.

Ballroom dance show

Local dance company Enlight Ballroom will present Sub for Santa Ballroom Dance Show at 5:30 p.m. today at Logan High School. Patrons attending the performance are requested to make a $2 per person donation to Sub for Santa; kids 5 and under require no donation. Sub for Santa will use the funds to help financially distressed families in Cache Valley have a Christmas experience. Every Christmas, Enlight Ballroom hosts a Christmas dance show but this year they wanted their talents to help the community.

The Sub for Santa Ballroom Dance Show will provide a great variety of ballroom dance entertainment. From cha-cha-cha to quickstep, several styles will be on display throughout the hour and a half ballroom dance program. More than 100 performers will take the stage with ages ranging from adults to 5-year-olds.

The Sub for Santa Ballroom Dance Show will also include a professional showcase from current professional Latin competitors Adam and JeanneLouise Shelton. The Sheltons toured with the BYU Ballroom Dance Company and founded Enlight Ballroom.

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Bar J Wranglers in concert Coming up

Cache Valley native Daniel Edwards will present a fundraiser concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, at the Hyrum Civic Center. Edwards will perform a variety of works on both the marimba and the steel pan.

Admission is free. All donations will be used to purchase equipment to start a private teaching studio. Light refreshments will be served.

Edwards is a performer, an educator and an advocate for world music.

Originally from Hyrum, he received his bachelor’s degree in music from Brigham Young University-Hawaii, and he is currently studying to receive a master’s degree in percussion performance from the University of Missouri.

Along with orchestral percussion, Edwards performs on the steel pan, the marimba and a variety of world instruments. He has toured and performed in regions of the United States, Europe, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and Australia.

Besides performing, Edwards has taught beginning music skills to children in Kosovo,

and he currently teaches percussion at the University of Missouri. He also spent two years serving as a full-time volunteer in Guatemala, where he taught life skills to families and helped in many service projects.

Edwards’ experiences with world travel and working with people of other cultures have inspired him to base his life and career around promoting a greater sense of unity and cultural diversity wherever he may be. He believes that world music is just as valuable as Western classical music, and that the two should be taught side by side in educational systems.

Edwards primarily performs on the marimba and the steel pan (boilerplate).

At first glance, the marimba looks like an oversized xylophone. Evolving from its ancestor instruments in Africa and Latin America, it is made with rosewood bars that produce a very warm, full sound when struck. Performers can use its natural sound to create beautiful melodies that are both haunting and inspiring. It can be played using between

two and four mallets, and has sometimes been played with up to six mallets. Listeners can expect to be inspired by both the music produced on the instrument as well as by the skill it takes for the performer to play it.

The steel pan originated in Trinidad at the beginning of the 20th century when people experimented with empty oil barrels and found that by shaping them a certain way with a hammer, they could make them play different notes. The first steel pans were crude and simple, but they evolved over time to become the sophisticated instruments they are today.

Steel pan ensembles are growing at a rapid rate throughout the United States and throughout the world. Their nature allows them to be played at incredible speeds, yet they can also produce slow, beautiful melodies. Although most people associate the steel pan with upbeat music from the Caribbean, performers have also been known to play classical works on them. Its sound is loved all over the world and is being used more every day.

Concert series ends tonight The Logan Tabernacle Christmas Concert Series presents “Tidings of Comfort & Joy” this holiday season.

This year’s series will conclude at 7 p.m. tonight with Christmas Instrumental Serenade at the Logan Tabernacle, 50 N. Main St. The concert is free and open to the public.

Enjoy instrumental Christmas music — everything from Bach to New Age Celtic arrangements. The instruments include viola, flute,

piano, trumpet and violin. The performers are Mike Whiteley, Jenni McEntire Whiteley, Anson and Miho Everitt, Jo Hays, Sara Jane Thompson and Scott Thompson. They represent many professions and trades, and they all have a great love for Cache Valley and a passion for music.

For more information, visit logantabernacle.blogspot.com or facebook.com/logantabernacle.

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On its surface Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks” is a harmless, happy-go-lucky story of a stubborn artist and the kind-hearted man who finds a way to soften her heart. It purports to be the story of how Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) finally convinced author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to let him adapt her novel for the big screen.

Walt, always sporting a smile, with arms outstretched like he’s permanently ready to hug everyone he meets, tells Ms. Travers that he wants to adapt “Mary Poppins” because of a promise he made to his girls years ago. It all seems so innocent, so charming. A disarming little tale about creative differences that morph into mutual agreement. So, if I told you that “Saving Mr. Banks” is possibly one of the worst movies 2013 has to offer, would you be surprised?

Disney’s schmaltzy saccharine tale doesn’t just take creative license with the facts. There’s an outright deceptive agenda going on here. “Saving Mr. Banks” is expertly crafted to make the audience believe something that’s fairly far from the

control when it comes to the movie business. Walt wants to throw in songs, dance numbers, and animation. Travers is against those gaudy additions.

AP photo/Disney Walt insists. She pushes Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, left, and Emma Thompson as author P.L. Travers in a scene back. Finally, Walt gets his way. from “Saving Mr. Banks.”

‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Director // John Lee Hancock Starring // Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley Rated // PG-13 for thematic elements including some unsettling images

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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ is a sugar-coated tale

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DOWNTOWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS Logan’s downtown plays host to seasonal activities including concerts, art classes and more

ince the end of November, downtown Logan has been playing host to numerous holiday activities.

At Ellen Eccles Theatre, Cache Valley Civic Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” opened Thanksgiving weekend, the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra performed Christmas concerts in early December and “Christmas with Juanito Bandito” was showing last week.

This year’s Logan Tabernacle Christmas Concert Series, “Tidings of Comfort & Joy,” began Sunday, Nov. 24, with the 11th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service. Since then, the downtown Logan landmark has been the venue for many concerts, including performances by Four Seasons Theatre Company, Westminster Bell Choir and Cinnamon Creek Singers.

And these are just some of the activities.

In addition to some holidaythemed events, downtown Logan also features festive window displays and trees adorned with lights that add to the atmosphere.

Gary Saxton, Logan Downtown Alliance manager, said everything was geared to begin Thanksgiving weekend. He

hopes people will visit downtown Logan and enjoy the atmosphere.

“You can make it a night with the family,” he said, later adding, “It’s just fun, I think, with the Christmas lights and the events that are going on.”

Jim Kreutzberg, executive director of Cache Valley Center for the Arts, said having a “vibrant and viable downtown” makes a community strong. Cache Valley Center for the Arts, or CVCA, has a number of activities that draw people downtown. In addition to performances on stage, there are art classes and displays.

Friday, Dec. 13, was CVCA’s Gallery Walk, which takes place the second Friday of every even month. The December walk included 16 locations in downtown Logan where artists’ work was on display. Kreutzberg said that for a community this size, 16 locations is “really as good as you’d find anywhere, even a big city.” Featured artwork included sketches, watercolors, carvings and more.

CVCA has offered holiday ceramics classes at the Bullen Center. For information about upcoming CVCA winter art classes, visit www.cachearts. org.

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Article by Arie Kirk • Photo by John Zsiray Left: Streams of light from passing cars illuminate downtown Logan on Friday, Dec. 13.

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DOWNTOWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS Logan’s downtown plays host to seasonal activities including concerts, art classes and more

ince the end of November, downtown Logan has been playing host to numerous holiday activities.

At Ellen Eccles Theatre, Cache Valley Civic Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” opened Thanksgiving weekend, the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra performed Christmas concerts in early December and “Christmas with Juanito Bandito” was showing last week.

This year’s Logan Tabernacle Christmas Concert Series, “Tidings of Comfort & Joy,” began Sunday, Nov. 24, with the 11th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service. Since then, the downtown Logan landmark has been the venue for many concerts, including performances by Four Seasons Theatre Company, Westminster Bell Choir and Cinnamon Creek Singers.

And these are just some of the activities.

In addition to some holidaythemed events, downtown Logan also features festive window displays and trees adorned with lights that add to the atmosphere.

Gary Saxton, Logan Downtown Alliance manager, said everything was geared to begin Thanksgiving weekend. He

hopes people will visit downtown Logan and enjoy the atmosphere.

“You can make it a night with the family,” he said, later adding, “It’s just fun, I think, with the Christmas lights and the events that are going on.”

Jim Kreutzberg, executive director of Cache Valley Center for the Arts, said having a “vibrant and viable downtown” makes a community strong. Cache Valley Center for the Arts, or CVCA, has a number of activities that draw people downtown. In addition to performances on stage, there are art classes and displays.

Friday, Dec. 13, was CVCA’s Gallery Walk, which takes place the second Friday of every even month. The December walk included 16 locations in downtown Logan where artists’ work was on display. Kreutzberg said that for a community this size, 16 locations is “really as good as you’d find anywhere, even a big city.” Featured artwork included sketches, watercolors, carvings and more.

CVCA has offered holiday ceramics classes at the Bullen Center. For information about upcoming CVCA winter art classes, visit www.cachearts. org.

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Article by Arie Kirk • Photo by John Zsiray Left: Streams of light from passing cars illuminate downtown Logan on Friday, Dec. 13.

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Photo courtesy of the Compton family

The Brigham City Museum of Art and History is hosting an exhibit titled “Down Memory Lane: Photographs from the Compton Collection.” There are 50 black-and-white, sepia and hand-tinted photos taken between the 1880s and the 1960s in the exhibition. Pictured above is the Box Elder High School Band.

Exhibit Continued from Page 4 are surgeons at work in the local hospital, policemen, firemen, druggists and the Box Elder High School Band.

Glenn Compton donated a lot of the photographs in the exhibit, which is complemented by such artifacts as the 19th-century camera owned

by Alma Compton Sr. and a contact printer.

Visitors are encouraged to bring their cameras and have their pictures taken while they pose in period costumes in front of vintage props, both provided by the museum.

Alma Compton Sr. was born in England in 1856. He moved to Ogden in 1868 with his siblings. They were joined by their parents a year later.

Compton worked in a broom factory before becoming an apprentice to photographer J.W. Christensen.

In 1883, Compton rented some photography equipment and traveled through Brigham City, Cache Valley and around Malad, Idaho, taking photographs. He decided to settle in Brigham City and rented the studio of Jens C. Gasberg, the city’s first photographer. Compton’s visual sense and hard work enabled him to build

WHAT: “Down Memory Lane: Photographs from the Compton Collection” WHEN: Dec. 13 through Jan. 22 WHERE: Brigham City Museum of Art and History COST: Admission is free

his own studio in 1884 and a larger one in 1901, which became known as Compton’s Art & Music Company.

He died in 1931, but his sons carried on the business.

Alma Compton Jr., was born in 1889 and worked in the studio from an early age until he died of pneumonia at age 30. His brother Mathew was born in 1892 and served in the military during World War I. He ran the studio after the death of his father.

Mathew’s son, Glenn, was born in 1923. He attended a photography school in California and served in the military during World War II. Glenn managed the studio from 1967 until he retired in 1994 when it was officially closed. In 1998, the Compton building was demolished.

There are photographs in the exhibit of Alma Compton Sr., Mathew Compton, the Compton Art Studio and the Compton family home under construction. The home is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Jonathan Winters’ A Christmas Carol 8 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Handel’s Messiah from UPR 9 p.m. – 11:59 p.m.

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Department of Music releases two albums Utah State University’s Department of Music has released two new albums for all to enjoy: “Aggie Songs,” which is full of USU spirit, and “Devotion,” a collection of sacred choral music.

“These albums show the energy and creativity of students and faculty here at USU,” says Cory Evans, director of the choral program in the Caine College of the Arts and associate professor.

“I encourage all to purbrought together various some time,” says Evans. chase these and help us people across campus for “When I received a phone keep recording the music “Aggie Songs,” an album call from facilities statthat needs to be heard.” featuring the famous ing they had found the The department songs and chants of USU original Old Main carilrecorded the two ranging from the Old lon tubular bells and albums in April at the Main tower bell to “The offered to hang them so St. Thomas Aquinas Scotsman.” we could record their Catholic Church in “I have wanted to do sound, I had to do it right Hyde Park. The project an album like this for then.”

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The original bells hung in Old Main tower from 1915 until 1978. When facilities finished the scaffolding to hold them, the pipes stood almost 20 feet tall and were 7-by-7 feet square.

“I got the chills when I heard them played,”

Evans says. “They are a tangible connection with the past.”

“Devotion” features the USU Chamber Singers, an ensemble composed of 30 students who perform a wide range of choral styles and periods in appearances locally, regionally and nationally. The group has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico, and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Russia. The ensemble’s first CD, “Show Me Thy Ways: Choral Music of Daniel E. Gawthrop,” was released in 2010 and was nominated for a Grammy Award in three categories.

An album of sacred

choral music, “Devotion” features works arranged

by Mack Wilberg, current music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, including “My Shepherd Will Supply My Need,” “Wayfarin’ Stranger” and “All Creatures of Our God and King.”

“Devotion” is available for purchase at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office, located in the Chase Fine Arts Center room 139-B, or through iTunes and Amazon. “Aggie Songs,” is available for purchase, as well as on iTunes and Amazon. For more information, contact the CCA Box Office at 797-8022 or Evans at cory.evans@ usu.edu.

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Logan Continued from Page 9 Kreutzberg said there is something happening at Ellen Eccles Theatre nearly every day this time of year.

“It’s a busy place,” he said.

Tonight at Ellen Eccles, Voice Male, an a cappella group, is performing at 7. The Bar J Wranglers will also be at Ellen Eccles this weekend, performing in shows at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21.

Also this weekend is the final concert in the 2013 Logan Tabernacle Christmas Concert Series. Christmas Instrumental Serenade is at 7 tonight at the Logan Tabernacle.

Another downtown event is the Parade of Gingerbread Homes.

Gingerbread creations are on display in businesses in downtown Logan as part of this annual activity. Saxton said that with 15 displays, this year’s parade is the largest.

“We try to get some really fabulous creations,” he said.

Saxton said there is a committee that awards “best of show” to three entries. Entries are also eligible for “people’s choice.” Ballots to vote for your favorite are available at the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau

Photos by John Zsiray/Herald Journal

and Cache Chamber of Commerce. Ballots are also available at the following businesses, where the gingerbread homes are on display.

The parade began Dec. 7 and will continue through Dec. 31.

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In her beautiful new account of the lives of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin spins a tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue.

“The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism” takes readers from cradle to grave of these men who led the nation during a pivotal time. Poignant details of their childhoods and courtships combine with painstaking explanations of the legislative battles they fought that helped shape the future of the country.

The former presidents are thoroughly humanized with accounts like these: Taft won over his future wife in part by offering to cut the meat for her younger sister at a picnic.

Roosevelt’s earliest memories involve having asthma attacks and being unable to sleep except in the arms of his father, who would carry “the gasping child from room to room.”

Kearns Goodwin’s behindthe-scenes accounts put on full display life’s unexpected twists. Roosevelt’s mother and first wife died within the same day, a mere two days after his

Banks Continued from Page 7 Banks” is its complete disregard for the intellect of its audience. Does Disney expect that everyone will take the movie and its retelling of the story at face value? Because its conclusion is completely erroneous. Anyone with access to a Google search can find out exactly how Travers

daughter was born; in his grief, Roosevelt escaped to the wilderness and considered a fulltime career in ranching. Later in his tumultuous career, after party bosses nominated him as vice president in an attempt to muzzle him, Roosevelt was frustrated in the do-nothing role and made plans to begin law school. Soon after, President William McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became the nation’s youngest president.

Taft’s life dream was to be a Supreme Court justice and he often expressed dislike for politics. It’s ironic, then, that he felt compelled by prior commitments to decline Roosevelt’s numerous offers to appoint him felt about the adaption of her work.

What “Saving Mr. Banks” represents is the power of corporations to take whatever they want, whenever they want. The fact that it’s framed as some sort of favor to Ms. Travers is unbelievably cruel. During the movie we’re treated to flashbacks of Travers’ dear drunk pa (Colin Farrell). A feeble attempt to tug at the heartstrings, which will no doubt work on some.

to the bench, and ultimately became president himself.

Perhaps most striking is the role journalists played in exposing corruption, galvanizing public opinion and compelling Congress to act against the interest of their corporate backers. Roosevelt’s collaborative and extremely friendly relationship with journalists is unimaginable today. Time and again, Roosevelt would hit a wall in his effort to push reform, only to have the tide change after the publication of an investigative series chronicling abuses by the railroads or oil monopolies, causing a public outcry and the needed momentum for change.

A novel by a young Upton Sinclair, based on his observations of gruesome practices at a Chicago stockyard — “scraps of meat that were later sold to the public were swept from floors infested with rats and covered in human spit” — led Roosevelt to invite the author to the White House and to dispatch investigators to evaluate the book’s charges. The ensuing report confirmed the filthy conditions and prompted a bill creating a federal inspection program of the meatpacking industry.

The pushback to such government interventions seems almost absurd in retrospect.

Legislation that would require It’s a story that’s carried throughout the movie, which “pays off” in the end in an extremely despicable manner.

The ending is dishonest, and disingenuous. “Saving Mr. Banks” is a steaming pile of sugar-coated rubbish arriving just in time for the holiday season.

——— Follow Aaron Peck on Twitter @AaronPeck for musings on movies and completely biased tweets about Aggie sports.

proper labels on food and drugs works include the best-seller was derided by conservatives, “Team of Rivals: The Political who lampooned a crusader Genius of Abraham Lincoln” in the effort as “chief janitor and “No Ordinary Time: Frankand policeman of the people’s lin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The insides.”

Home Front in World War II,” For a book 750 pages long, which won a Pulitzer Prize in the author does an impressive history. job keeping a reader’s attention “The Bully Pulpit” is a dense and interest, even if occasional read but an absorbing one, with sections are convoluted or history offering not only lesrepetitive. sons to be learned, but fascinatKearns Goodwin’s previous ing tales, too.

new york times best-sellers HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Command Authority” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney 2. “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham 3. “The Gods of Guilt” by Michael Connelly 4. “Doctor Sleep” by Stephen King 5. “Cross My Heart” by James Patterson HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Things That Matter” by Charles Krauthammer 2. “Killing Jesus” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 3. “George Washington’s Secret Six” by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger 4. “David and Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell 5. “Miracles and Massacres” by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe and Hannah Beck E-BOOK FICTION 1. “The Gods of Guilt” by Michael Connelly 2. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt 3. “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham 4. “Command Authority” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney 5. “Takedown Twenty” by Janet Evanovich E-BOOK NONFICTION 1. “Killing Jesus” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 2. “David and Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell 3. “Twelve Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup 4. “Long Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela 5. “Things That Matter” by Charles Krauthammer Update your reading list at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Hangs low 5. Sharp put-down 9. Takes chances 14. Boldness in battle, e.g.

19. Horse’s hoof sound 20. Improve, as an edge 21. Show jubilation 22. Dress shape or style 23. Do-gooders 25. Staying power 26. Horses’ gaits 27. Conference keynote often 30. Tool for bending cold metal 31. Sonora’s sun 32. Covetousness cousin 33. Always to poets 36. Natives of Hokkaido 40. Arctic seabirds 43. Pertinent 45. Retort to a boaster 48. Vacuum tubes containing three elements 49. Hold, as an opinion 51. Major show 52. Meat-and-potatoes concoction 54. Excessive fluid accumulation 55. Walking --- (elated) 57. Thesaurus offering 60. Inexperienced, as recruits 61. City or province of Spain 64. Waterman product 65. North Yorkshire river 69. Stone of rock 70. People gossiped 74. WWII General __ Arnold 77. Nickname for talk show host O’Brien 78. Stare at 79. Insecure bettors 81. Not square 84. Tidy savings 88. They’re usually covered in white 89. Runs for no purpose 92. Below alpha

93. Touch 96. Heart and soul 97. Mesa relative 99. Pontificate in a park perhaps 103. Old time guilty confession 104. Political doctrines 105. Delude 106. Mt. Bachelor’s home 107. Some arias 109. Open-house org.

111. Thin bark 116. Marc Antony and Marcus Cicero 123. 1993 Janet Jackson song 125. Grammarian’s concern 126. Sequences of sovereigns 127. Inferior 128. Jewish festival 129. Limerick’s land 130. Towards shelter 131. Filled a hold 132. Medicinal plant 133. Badger’s tunnel 134. Litters littlest Down 1. Frauds 2. Let happen 3. “Something’s ___ Give” 4. Bit of mistletoe or holly 5. LaBeouf of “Eagle Eye” 6. Hit ABC drama about plane crash survivors 7. One fighting something 8. Coins across the border 9. Reduce the worth of 10. Plant angle 11. Floor items 12. Get hitched on the run 13. Muscularity 14. Cruise movie 15. Ingredient in some lotions 16. One who can see what you mean 17. “A Chorus Line” hit

18. Hi- --- monitor 24. Of an eye part 28. He gathered two by two 29. Openly declare 34. Colonic treatment 35. Cut smaller boards 37. Mike and ___ (candy brand) 38. Disapprove 39. Priority mail grp.

41. Longtime sportswriter Roger 42. Fix, in a way 44. Like some ’60s fashion 45. Like some goodbyes 46. Betwixt and between 47. SA aquatic rodent 49. Holliday and a dwarf 50. Carbon compound 53. It may be thick in L.A. 56. Gp. of cadets 58. Original name before marriage 59. Word go 62. Ghost’s cry 63. Post-apartheid org.

66. “That’s disgusting” 67. Catch sight of 68. Kayaker’s obstacle 71. Word heard at Christie’s 72. Sometime vowel 73. Athena’s shield 74. Coil 75. Vessels in the film “2012” 76. “Hey . . . over here!”

80. Nightclub dancing 81. Congo River beast 82. Time waster 83. Where to see a guest’s name 85. Ornamental bag 86. Answer defiantly 87. Through the uprights 90. “Greatest Hits, ___”: Simon album 91. Veteran 92. Accumulations 94. Fraternity ‘T’ 95. Google Play purchase 98. Testify

100. Pleural cavity fluid 101. __ spumante wine 102. Product prototypes 108. Topic of debate 110. Range over 4,000 miles long 112. Certain perfume 113. French soldier 114. Clean one’s feathers 115. Money market fund, e.g.

117. ___ and shine!

118. Notify of potential danger 119. Not ‘fer’ 120. ‘Did -- and gimble ...’

121. “Get ___!”

122. Go off on a tirade 123. Shoemaker’s tool 124. Region of India

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Friday A six-man a cappella group that was founded in Cache Valley, Voice Male will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets range from $10 to $15 and are available at centerforthearts.us.

Visit voicemalemusic.com for more information.

Local dance company Enlight Ballroom will present Sub for Santa Ballroom Dance Show at 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 20, at Logan High School. Patrons attending the performance are requested to make a $2 per person donation to Sub for Santa; kids 5 and under require no donation. Sub for Santa will use the funds to help financially distressed families in Cache Valley have a Christmas experience. Every Christmas Enlight Ballroom hosts a Christmas dance show, but this year they wanted their talents to help the community.

Erika and Owen will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South. This talented performing duo has a great sound. Everyone is welcome.

The Logan Tabernacle Christmas Concert Series presents “Tidings of Comfort & Joy” this holiday season. This year’s series will conclude at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, with Christmas Instrumental Serenade at the Logan Tabernacle, 50 N. Main St. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit logantabernacle.blogspot. com or facebook.com/logan tabernacle.

Come see a hilariously heartwarming tale about “the worst kids in town” when they decide to invade the annual Christmas play and turn tradition on its ear. If you want to experience a beautiful story about Christmas and the birth of Jesus and have some laughs along the way, you will

want to come and see “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” Dec. 6 to 21 at the Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston. For tickets, visit oldbarn.org or call 435-4582276.

Hardware Ranch WMA offers a unique opportunity to get up close to wild Rocky Mountain elk on a horse-drawn sleigh from Dec. 13 to March 4, 2014. Hardware Ranch is open noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets are sold in the visitors center: $5 ages 9 and up, $3 ages 4-8, children 3 and under are free. Visit wildlife.utah.gov/ hardwareranch for more information.

Greenleaf Gifts & Greenhouse will be hosting its annual Sip-N-Shop from Dec. 13 to 23, at 48 W. Center St. in Providence. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Come and sip hot wassail in a cozy, festive greenhouse while you shop for local handmade gifts. Visit greenleafgifts.com for more information.

SATURDAY The Bar J Wranglers, well known Western signers based in Jackson Hole, Wyo., will take the stage at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $16 to $22 and are available at www.centerforthearts. us. Visit barjchuckwagon.com for more information.

Beyond 5, a boy band rivaling One Direction, will be performing a CD release concert Saturday, Dec. 21, at Utah State University’s Taggart Student Center Ballroom.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m. Prepurchased tickets are $10 and are available at beyond5official. com or eventbrite.com. Tickets at the door are $12.

Guitarist/singer Kris Krompel will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. Don’t miss this chance to hear one of the most versatile and talented performers in the valley. Everyone is welcome.

The Loaves and Fishes Community Meal will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at the First Presbyterian Church, 12 S. 200 West. Everyone is welcome to attend this free community sponsored meal.

Join us for food, friendship and connections. This event is supported by a variety of Cache Valley agencies and organizations, including St. Thomas, St. John’s, Prince of Peace, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Cache Community Food Pantry, Volunteer Center, PAWS and others. All are welcome. The meal is not sponsored by or promoting a specific church or belief. Call 797-8801 for more information.

Sarah Olsen will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Bring your camera and come to Willow Park Zoo’s first annual Reindeer Trek to meet Santa and our new reindeer, Nanook and Zima. There are also games for the kids, a nativity with live animals, lights and more from noon to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 21. Admission for adults and children 12 and older is $4; children are $2 and under 3 years old are free.

Admission for Willow Park Zoo Society members is half price.

SUNDAY The Post-Mormon Community is a non-sectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormonism. The Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing at a local restaurant at 6:30 p.m. every Sunday. Newcomers welcome. For more infor-

mation call Jeff at 770-4263 or visit www.postmormon.org/ logan.

The North Logan Stake and orchestra will present selections from Handel’s “Messiah” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle.

The public is welcome.

Zac Bettinger will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. An LDS Singles +31 fireside with Dean Kaelin will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at Willow Park church building at 340 W. 700 South. Kaelin is the president of International Voice Teachers of Mix and a certified master teacher. He has taught voice for more than 30 years. His students include Star Search winners, American Idol finalists and Broadway performers. He has a degree in jazz composition from the University of Utah and a master’s degree from Brigham Young University. He was an associate professor of music at Westminster College in Salt Lake City for seven years. Kaelin has been married to Susan for 24 years and together they have five children who all sing several octaves with no breaks.

Legend Continued from Page 3 Fans of the first “Anchorman” movie will no doubt adore this one too. Will it be as quotable? Only time will tell. I’m sure that people will see it multiple times, and by the time it hits home video people will be quoting it just as much.

There were moments during “Anchorman 2” where I laughed so hard tears started forming in my eyes. There were other moments that felt like they could’ve been cut out completely. It’s a little

We hope you will all join us for this fireside. Please bring your single friends. Refreshments will be served.

MONDAY The Monday movie at the Logan Library will be “Planes.”

It will be shown at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 23, in the Jim Bridger Room. Popcorn will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

TUESDAY The Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will have a Christmas Eve candlelight service at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24, at 581 N. 700 East.

New Life Fellowship is having a Christmas Eve service Dec. 24 starting at 6 p.m. at 2045 N. 800 East in North Logan. There will be live music and the story of Christ’s birth.

For more information check out newlifelogan.com or call 435753-5312.

WEDNESDAY The Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will have a Christmas Day worship service at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Dec. 25, at 581 N. 700 East.

too long for its own good.

Even though it doesn’t look like much was left on the cutting room floor, I’m positive there’s a 5-hour cut of the movie somewhere.

The strength of the movie lies within its seasoned comedic actors’ ability to riff off of one another. They sit down in a scene, with a prop or two and proceed to try to out-do each other with the most outlandish, off-the-wall jokes and references they can think up. Some old jokes are reused here, but they’ve been changed up enough to feel fresh. It’s certainly worth seeing, but one wonders if it really needed to be this long.

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