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Dec. 27-Jan. 2, 2014

COVER 8 Bluebird Candy gearing up for 100th anniversary

MUSIC 4 Daniel Edwards set to

perform at local fundraiser

ARTS 5 New exhibit showcases

photography of B.C. family

BOOKS 4 Local author pens book

about dangerous obit writer

11 What happened in the

publishing industry in 2013

MOVIES 3 Three stars: Stiller stellar

in ‘Secret Life of Walter Mitty’

6 New boxing film ‘Grudge Match’ is no knockout

7 DiCaprio comes up big

in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

COLUMN 10 Dennis Hinkamp takes a quick look back at 2013

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

A Bluebird Candy Co. employee hand dips chocolates at a work station last week. On the cover: Bluebird chocolates sit on a tray before being packaged. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR It’s that time again when members of the media look back at the year that’s rapidly coming to an end and contemplate the best and worst moments of the previous 365 days. Cache Magazine is no exception.

On page 10 of this issue, Dennis Hinkamp ponders some of the highs and lows of his 2013. And on page 11, there’s a story about all the goings on in books and the publishing industry.

In addition, next week’s cover story will feature the best photography from ’13 as captured by the photo staff of The Herald Journal, as well as a movie roundup by Cache critic Aaron Peck.

As for me, when I look back at the past

year as the editor of Cache Magazine, two moments stand out as the most memorable: meeting and interviewing Swamp Cabbage frontman Walter Parks in June, and blues legend Taj Mahal in October.

Why I can’t say I had heard of Swamp Cabbage prior to seeing them listed on Why Sound’s upcoming concert schedule, thanks to the Internet, it’s really easy to catch up these days. I quickly fell in love with the group’s “swamp blues” sound and downloaded a few Swamp Cabbage songs.

Then on a beautiful summer night in Cache Valley, I had to the opportunity to talk to Parks for nearly an hour outside at Caffe Ibis. Although I wrote a story, I was limited by time and space, and was unable to use a great deal of information gleaned from that engaging and educational visit.

Even better, though, was Swamp Cabbage’s performance that night at Why

Sound, with my personal favorite, “Jesus Tone,” leading off the set.

While my visit with the great Taj Mahal was far more brief — I caught him in between the Ellen Eccles Theatre and his tour bus while his handlers were insisting they were late for a late breakfast — just having him shake my hand three times was unforgettable. I mean, the man’s “She Caught the Katy” is the opening song from “The Blues Brothers,” and about four months before coming through Cache Valley, Mahal was on stage performing with the Rolling Stones and had recently recorded with the likes of Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Sammy Hagar.

Who knows what I’ll find memorable a year from now. But that’s the fun of heading into a new year, right?

— Jeff Hunter

Stiller takes on ‘Walter Mitty’

New movie is a ‘warm’ offering for the holidays

– Dennis Hinkamp looks back at 2013 (Page 10)

By Aaron Peck Cache movie critic

Walter Mitty is a dreamer. Specifically a daydreamer. Well, he’s more than just a daydreamer.

Some might liken Mitty’s “episodes” to schizophrenic fits of grandeur. His lowly life warrants his zoning out. Since nothing he does is that exciting, Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) usually finds himself standing completely still in roomfuls of people, imagining great and wondrous things.

While these imaginary situations are truly amazing, Walter typically ends up as the butt of jokes since he’s just standing there. Not moving. Imagining what could be.

Walter works for Life magazine. He has a job that suits him fine. He works in the basement of the building, taking care of the negatives that come in from the magazine’s photographers. Sean O’Connell (Sean Penn) is the world’s most famous photographer.

He’s just sent in a roll of negatives which contains the most important shot in Life magazine history — the shot that will be used for the last cover on the last printed issue of the magazine. Only, the negative doesn’t seem to be in the roll. Walter can’t find

“My happy pill for businesses is my money. If I keep coming back and giving money to you, that means I like you.”

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★★★ ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Director // Ben Stiller Starring // Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Patton Oswalt, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Sean Penn, Terence Bernie Hines Rated // PG for some crude comments, language and action violence

it anywhere. Sean lives life as a disconnected recluse.

Traveling the world without means of communication trying to get the best shots possible. Now Walter is missing the negative and has no way of getting a hold of

Sean to find out where it is.

I don’t know. Call me sappy, but I found “The Life of Walter Mitty” to be somewhat endearing in a perfectly cheesy way. Stiller finally sheds the stink of all those “Focker” movies and

returns with an acceptable performance as Walter Mitty — daydreamer turned spontaneous adventurer.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” tries to combine a love story, an adventure story and fantasy into one movie. It doesn’t always work. For instance, the whole daydreaming aspect of the movie sort of disappears after 30 minutes and never returns. The entire marketing of the movie suddenly ceases, and it feels odd. It also happens to be one of the most blatant product placement-riddled See MITTY on Page 10

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up ‘On the Death Beat’

Hyde Park author creates Logan-based thriller

By Jeff Hunter Cache Magazine editor

During his 32 years of service in the U.S. Air Force, JS Bateman was assigned to 18 different locations around the country and also served wartime deployments in Korea, Guam, England, Italy, Oman, Bahrain, Panama and Cuba.

But when it came time to decide on a setting for his first novel, the Seattle native says Cache Valley was an easy choice.

“You know, I’ve lived a lot of places, so it really could have been anywhere,” Bateman admits.

The head of the AFROTC detachment at Utah State University from 2002 to ’05, Bateman and his wife, Marcie, found it difficult to sell their home in Hyde Park after they left the area. So, when Bateman retired as a colonel in 2010, the couple decided, “We loved it there, so why not go back?”

The only problem was, after retiring from the USAF, Bateman wanted to put the master’s degree in history he

completed at USU to use for a couple of years. He first worked at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, then transferred to the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

“I didn’t really enjoy being a public historian; I felt like I was more of a scribe than a historian,” Bateman says. “I was writing on the Air Force’s programs like research on lasers and testing various aircraft, and it was a

very regimented way of writing. Every paragraph is footnoted, and every paragraph has a security classification.

“It’s something that needs to be done, but it wasn’t very satisfying creatively.”

That’s when Bateman started writing, “On the Death Beat.”

For close to a year, Marcie and the couple’s daughter, Meghan, were living in Hyde Park, while Bateman was working at Edwards on the edge of the Mojave Desert.

That left him a lot of quiet weekends to spend writing on his laptop.

“I’m pretty homesick, and I can’t wait to get back home after a year in California — so that’s why I used Logan,” Bateman recalls. “I hadn’t actually been here in seven years when I wrote the book, so much of if it was just from memory.

“Although when Marcie would drive around I would say things like, ‘Go past Caffe Ibis because I’m using it and trying to describe the inside of it, and I don’t know

Photo by Meghan Self

See AUTHOR on Page 12

A career U.S. Air Force officer, first-time author JS Bateman is now retired and living in Hyde Park with his wife, Marcie.

Edwards to perform at fundraiser

Daniel Edwards

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 for Edwards 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 See EDWARDS on Page 12

Festival Chrous auditions

Auditions for the American Festival Chorus will be held on 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.americanfestivalchorus.org for detailed audition information.

Practices start for ‘Messiah’

Photo courtesy of the Compton family

The Brigham City Fire Department poses for a photograph in the early 1900s.

A glimpse of the past Brigham City museum hosts new photo exhibit

By Mary Alice Hobbs

Time has not stolen Brigham City’s past, because there were three generations of photographers in one family that visually documented street scenes and the spirited people that settled on the western edge of the Rocky Mountains.

Photographers Alma W. Compton Sr., Alma W. Compton Jr., Mathew Compton and Glenn Compton found a harmony of subject and art in images that will hang in the Brigham City Museum of Art and History from Dec. 13 to Jan. 22. There are 50 black-and-white, sepia and handtinted photos taken between the 1880s and the 1960s in the exhibition, which is titled “Down Memory Lane: Photographs from the Compton Collection.” Alison Fox, a former intern from Utah State University, and Kaia Landon, museum director, curated the exhibit.

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

Photo courtesy of the Compton family

The wedding portrait of Jane and Alma Compton, Sr.

The entrance is on the west side. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Admission is free. For further information, please phone 435226-1439 or visit www.brighamcitymuseum.org.

The Comptons’ cameras were witness to Lorenzo Snow’s funeral procession 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 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, See PAST on Page 12

Choral rehearsals for Handel’s “Messiah” will be held every Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. beginning Jan. 5 at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West. Experiences singers are invited to join with six choral ensembles from the valley. Handel’s “Messiah” will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Logan Tabernacle. For further information, please contact John Ribera at (435) 512-0898 or drravioli@ digis.net.

USU albums available now

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 purchase these and help us keep recording the music that needs to be heard.”

The department recorded the two albums in April at the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Hyde Park.

The project brought together various people across campus for “Aggie Songs,” an album featuring the famous songs and chants of USU ranging from the Old Main tower bell to “The Scotsman.”

“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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COMING UP

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Stallone, De Niro no knockout in ‘Match’ LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sylvester Stallone returns to the well of fan fiction by teaming with his onetime iconiconscreen-pugilist rival, Robert De Niro, in “Grudge Match.”

Essentially recasting “Grumpy Old Men” with the senescent specters of Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta, the result is sporadically amusing, with some chuckles, sight gags and crowd-pleasing supporting turns from Alan Arkin and Kevin Hart. Yet it’s all so overcooked that it defeats its own purpose.

Hollywood frequently rummaging through its creative dumpster for never-ending sequels and remakes, but the latter-day careers of Stallone and De Niro are special cases indeed,

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with the two stars — 67 and 70, respectively — essaying a series of roles that are not only informed by, but practically senseless without, knowledge of their filmographies.

This tendency toward

lazily coasting on familiarity hits a pinnacle for both in “Grudge Match,” where the stunt casting is far funnier in theory than in execution.

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‘Hobbit’ manages to hold off ‘Anchorman 2’ with $31.5M NEW YORK (AP) — On a busy pre-Christmas weekend at the box office, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” held off a very different sequel, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.”

Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” sequel took in $31.5 million in its second weekend of release for Warner Bros., according to studio estimates Sunday. Though the film isn’t matching the pace of the first “Hobbit” movie, “An Unexpected Journey,” ‘’The Desolation of Smaug” is doing well abroad. It’s now made more than $400 million worldwide, including $96 million internationally over the weekend.

The “Hobbit” topped Will Ferrell’s “Anchorman” sequel, which nevertheless opened strongly in second place.

The Paramount Pictures comedy made $26.8 million over the three-day week-

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The much-marketed “Anchorman 2” actually outperformed “The Hobbit” on Friday, but failed to best it over Saturday and Sunday.

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This year’s holiday frame will be particularly competitive. The crowded field of movie openings Wednesday includes Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” the Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone comedy “Grudge Match,” the Justin Bieber documentary “Justin Bieber’s Believe” and Keanu Reeves’ “47 Ronin.”

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“The Wolf of Wall Street” careens down a path of self-destruction as Belfort and his buddies become more and more brazen. They disregard the rules of Wall Street. They destroy hotel rooms with insane parties. They try to hide millions in cash in Switzerland. Their antics make the world’s most depraved frat house look like a day care.

DiCaprio is the most amazing part. He gives one of the best performances of his career as a AP Photo/Paramount Pictures permanently strung-out Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” junkie who happens to be insanely wealthy. At flow as freely as the one point, Belfort is cash. As Stratton Oakfloored by one of the mont builds, so does strongest Ludes he’s Belfort’s lust to gain as ever taken. What tranmuch as he can possibly spires puts DiCaprio Director // Martin Scorsese obtain. He’s obsessed right up there with Jim Starring // Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot with flaunting his wealth. Carrey as one of the Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler But, even more, he’s masters of pure physiRated // R for sequences of strong sexual obsessed with drugs. content, graphic nudity, drug use and language cal comedy. Watching Coke, speed, pot, anythroughout, and for some violence DiCaprio try to crawl thing. Although the guys across a country club become the focus of an are partial to these little and attempt to get into intense FBI investiga(now illegal) pills called his Lamborghini while tion.

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Jordan Belfort was a conniving, greedy, nogood stockbroker who pilfered people out of their hard-earned cash by pushing worthless penny stocks on them.

He made millions while the people who were his “customers” wallowed in bad investments. “The Wolf of Wall Street” tells the autobiographical story of Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), and the stock brokerage he founded – Stratton Oakmont – which he ran like the world’s most degenerate frat house.

Directed by the venerable Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street” has this kinetic motion to it. It’s crazy, zany, and never stops moving. It’s a story of excessive excess and the destructive rot it brings along.

Belfort started out as a lowly broker on Wall Street. Willing to work his way up, he started at a firm that paid 1-percent commissions on blue-chip stocks. This is where he learns some important life lessons from Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey).

Hanna clues Belfort in on the fact that customers are simply piles of money with eyeballs. He also introduces Belfort to the world of drugs, a world that Belfort would never, ever be able to escape.

After his first brokerage goes belly up, Belfort is back at square one. He finds a job at a penny-stock dive, and he has one important talent — he can sell.

Belfort pushes penny stocks like no one ever has, earning hefty commissions in the process.

Thinking that it was too small time, he sets off with best buddy Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill) to begin their own firm.

The genesis of Stratton Oakmont, a stock-trading firm that would soon

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Where “The Wolf on Wall Street” falters is the idea that watching 180 minutes of excess for excess’ sake is entertaining all the way through.

While slickly and expertly directed by Scorsese, the excess begins to wear out its welcome. We get it; these were depraved individuals. They were not nice people. Misogynistic misanthropes who would swindle their own mothers given the chance. But, DiCaprio absolutely nails it, and Scorsese is always worth the price of admission.

Wait, no that scene I talked about earlier with DiCaprio, the drugs, and the Lamborghini — that’s worth the price of admission.

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Local company closes in on a century’s worth of renowned candy creation

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Cache Valley institution is about to turn 100 years old very soon.

The Bluebird Candy Co., founded in 1914 by O. Guy Cardon, Mark N. Neuberger and Julius Bergsjo, has produced hand-dipped chocolates that have satisfied customers for nearly a century, and they’re not showing any signs of slowing down as they head into their next century.

The business started out as a candy, ice cream and soda fountain shop located in Logan at the northwest corner of the Hotel Eccles and Thatcher Bank Building that replaced the Thatcher Opera House after it burned to the ground in 1912. The Bluebird Candy Co. enjoyed rapid success, so much so that in 1921, Cardon and Neuberger opened up a new location at 19 N. Main St., the current site of The Bluebird restaurant. The candy company is now located around the block at 75 W. Center St. Cardon and Neuberger, and eventually Guy N. Cardon, owned and operated both the candy company and the restaurant until 1989, when Dick Motta and Elmer Larsen purchased the Bluebird Candy Co. Ansheng Xu purchased The Bluebird restaurant in 1994.

The candies at the Bluebird Candy Co. are still handmade, much the same way as they were in 1914, and the process is still a source of pride for the owners and staff of the company.

“We love carrying on the quality tradition of made-from-scratch candy without preservatives,” says Teresa Varner, a current employee at the Bluebird Candy Co. Alice Cardon Crockett, now a resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is the granddaughter of O. Guy Cardon, and she recently shared memories of

America and Brazil, great sacks of sugar, and bottles of flavorings. Large and small boxes of chocolates towered above us, stacked and ready for the Christmas season. Then we’d file into Bill’s large candy kitchen. He would be stirring sweet concoctions in huge copper kettles. The kettles rested on kettle lifters, and the candy cooked and bubbled over a gas-fed candy furnace until Bill, the keeper of secret recipes, pronounced it done.

Just as we were starting to heat up in Bill’s kitchen, my father would lead us to the cool of the dipping room.

The dipping table had shallow pans of melted chocolate, marble mixing slabs, and the dipping ladies who “seeded” the chocolate to just the right temperature. They deftly swirled the center Above, dark chocolate cherry cordials balls in the chocolate, placing them are placed on a tray to harden after being singly on waxed paper imprinted with hand dipped at the Bluebird Candy Co. “Bluebird,” then created, with a thread Right, Ann Burger adds water to thicken of chocolate, a signature indicating chocolate before starting the hand-dipthe kind of chocolate it was. After the ping process. Facing page, milk chocochocolate shell cooled, the ladies gave late cherry cordials harden on a tray. us each a chocolate right off the dipping board. They were as glossy and rich-colored as if they’d been popped into our mouths straight from the dipping ladies’ fingers.

As we trailed through the sweet cool to the outside cool and our bus, my father gave each of us a small box growing up in “the sweet glow of the with three chocolates in it — a gift Bluebird Candy Company and the of “Bluebirds” for us to take home to Restaurant back in the ’50s and ’60s”: our families. I don’t think any of those chocolates ever made it home.

When I was in grade school, one On March 31, when I was in sixthof the best field trips my class would grade, my father arrived home for dintake was to my father’s ice cream ner. He was carrying a cardboard box. and candy factory. Our bus driver Company. My father would be waiting Setting it down, he retrieved some resGeorge would park the school bus in taurant leftovers and a chocolate box. to greet us. We kept our coats on as the parking lot next to the alley, and “This is a special box of ‘bluebirds,’ we trailed through the sweet-smelling we would walk two by two through Al,” he chuckled. “They’re for you to labyrinth of high shelves heavy with the brick building lined alley to the take to school tomorrow.” paper-wrapped slabs of Guittard big wooden garage doors announcMy mother looked suspicious. He ing The Bluebird Ice Cream & Candy chocolate, tins of nutmeats from South

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then lifted a small plate of chocolates out of the box. “For us, after dinner,” he chuckled.

The next morning I could hardly wait to get to school. Once inside our classroom, I slipped the chocolate box into my desk and prepared to endure a day full of “What’s that spotted thing crawling on your neck?”; “Your zipper’s undone”; sugar in the salt shaker and salt in the sugar bowl tales; and shouts of

“April Fool!” from everyone. By afternoon recess, we were all pretty tired of April Fool’s Day. We played Red Rover, and no one cracked even one April Fool’s joke.

We returned to the classroom, and I took the box of chocolates out of my desk. I asked our teacher, Mrs. Humphries, if I could share them with the class. All my friends perked up. As I walked down the rows, each delicious hand-dipped chocolate was

carefully chosen. Mrs. Humphries chose hers last — a cherry chocolate, her favorite. Then the moment I’d been waiting for came. I closed my eyes to listen as each mouth opened, as each tooth broke the chocolate shell, as each tongue savored the center. Gasps and laughs and groans. I opened my eyes to see that mints were carrot slices, caramel brazils were celery ribs, butter brittle chips were cardboard squares, butter creams

were radishes, and cherry chocolates were pearl onions. “Happy April Fool’s Day,” I shouted!

My father has retired, but the candy company and restaurant are alive and well under separate ownership.

I’m still able to read the language of chocolates (my second language when growing up) and know what’s inside each candy without having to poke my thumb in the bottom ... unless it’s April Fool’s Day.

Hi. This is the world asking you for a few minutes of your time.

Did the most recent Christmas: A. Disappoint you? B. Meet your expectations? Or, C. Exceed your expectations?

And if you wouldn’t mind taking this brief survey regarding your satisfaction with the opening paragraph: On a scale of 1 to 6 — with 1 being “heck yeah!” and 6 being “it was like slow death” — did you find it: A. A flavorful, yet not-too-filling collage of words. Or, B. Eight seconds of my life that I wish I could get back.

Slightly Off Center DENNIS HINKAMP

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Time to pause and look back at ’13

Thank you for your time, upon completion of this survey your name will be entered into a drawing for a free 30 minutes of fichus tree pruning.

I will remember this

as the year customer service turned into a puppy under the table begging for a biscuit or a pat on the head. The puppy also had severe separation anxiety and a need for constant reassurance. If we did this on a personal level our spouses, children and friends would force prescriptions of happy pills on us.

My happy pill for businesses is my money. If I keep coming back and giving money to you, that means I like you. That is the extent of our relationship and all the reassurance you need.

I’m only somewhat ashamed to say that I am

not monogamous when it comes to buying stuff.

I follow whatever new pretty face comes along.

Don’t take it too hard; you will learn to love again.

I do like the trend towards more civility and better customer service, but it seem like it has gone too far in the other direction.

I have started avoiding people even more than usual because I’m getting tired of saying “Fine, thank you,” 43 times a day without sounding too sarcastic or world weary.

I really want to say, “I’m about the same degree of fine in aisle 9

as I was several seconds ago in aisle 7. Could you possibly give me a button, bar code or GPS tag that indicates that I have already been asked the requisite corporate questions?”

Rant over. That’s the least happy trend for 2013.

My most happy trend for 2013 is that for the first time asking the question “Is the pope Catholic?” is not akin to asking if a bear poops in the woods.

I speak with some authority after 13 years of Catholic school and a subsequent 35 years of recovery and denial.

This pope makes way

too much sense to be an authority figure of any kind much less the pope and magistrate of his very own city/country.

It’s enough to make me consider rejoining the Catholic Church.

In other year-end observations and questions: We have more trails and a Dunkin’ Donuts on the way, but the air still sucks. We have a new mayor, I have less hair and what the heck are street tacos anyway?

——— Dennis Hinkamp wished you a Merry Christmas and wishes you a happy 2014.

Mitty Continued from Page 3 movies since “The Man of Steel” was crashing through IHOPs. Life magazine, Cinnabon and eHarmony all get some hefty screen time. At times the product placement is handled nicely; other times it feels extremely awkward, like we’re pausing to wait for a word from the movie’s sponsors.

That said, this is the holidays. Many people aren’t looking to spend Christmas with a cokedout stockbroker for 180 minutes in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” It’s a time where movies are meant to be easygoing. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is certainly that.

It’s as easygoing as they come. It may not do everything right, but watching Walter grow from a dreamer to a doer is satisfying in its

AP Photo/20th Century Fox

Ben Stiller, left, and Kristen Wiig star in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” which opened Christmas Day.

own way.

I enjoyed the story of Walter Mitty. It’s nice, fluffy, and warm. A holiday movie through and through. A movie to take the family to. A movie that is perfectly acceptable for the kids as well as the adults.

“The Secret Life of Wal-

ter Mitty” isn’t the best film in theaters over the Christmas break, but you could certainly do a lot worse.

———

Follow me on Twitter @ AaronPeck. So we can talk movies and Utah State sports. We can also daydream together if that’s your thing.

O N LY Y O U C A N P R E V E N T F O R E S T F I R E S. www.smokeybear.com

Books Lawsuits, mergers, and, yes, books, in 2013 NEW YORK (AP) — In 2013, everything and nothing happened in the publishing industry.

It was a blockbuster year for the legal profession. A federal judge ruled that Apple had conspired with five publishers to fix e-book prices, while another federal judge allowed Google to continue scanning books — without the permission of authors or publishers — for a digital library.

The market used to be defined by six major New York publishers.

But government lawyers cleared the merger of Random House Inc. and Penguin Group (USA), creating the world’s largest producer of books, and according to industry consultant Mike Shatzkin, a “new top tier.”

“No longer do the ‘Big Six’ define scale,” Shatzkin says. “Now there is the Big One and the Following Four.”

But with e-book sales leveling off, and independent stores relatively stable after a long era of decline, little changed for the vast majority of people who buy or borrow books, beyond, of course, the books themselves.

No mega-sellers cane out in 2013, nothing that compared with E L James’ “Fifty Shades of Gray” or Stieg Larsson’s crime novels. Adult readers turned to dependable favorites such as Dan Brown and Khaled Hosseini, while teens and grade-schoolers stuck with Rick Riordan, Jeff Kinney and Veronica Roth, whose “Divergent”

new york times best-sellers HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham 2. “First Phone Call from Heaven” by Mitch Albom 3. “Command Authority” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greany 4. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt 5. “Doctor Sleep” by Stephen King

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Things that Matter” by Charles Krauthammer 2. “Killing Jesus” by Bill O’Reilly and M. Dugard 3. “George Washington’s Secret Six” by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger 4. “David and Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell 5. “The Bully Pulpit” by Doris Kearns Goodwin

AP Photo

Veronica Roth poses for a portrait in Chicago. Roth is the author of the best-selling dystopian teen trilogy that includes “Divergent,” “Insurgent” and the third and final book, “Allegiant.” No mega-sellers came out in 2013, nothing that compared with E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Gray” or Stieg Larsson’s crime novels.

series is set to debut on the big screen in 2014.

Several books managed to get people not just reading, but talking.

The title of Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” became a catchphrase and the Facebook executive’s manifesto for working women inspired thousands of discussion groups worldwide. Robert Galbraith’s “The Cuckoo’s Calling” was just another debut thriller until Galbraith was unmasked as J.K. Rowling, a delight for readers and booksellers and a puzzler for critics who wondered why they didn’t catch on. Baz Luhrmann’s booming adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel a top seller and intensified a decades-long discussion about his Jazz Age classic of status and reinvention.

Two gossipy political best sellers, Mark Leibovich’s “This Town” and Mark Halperin’s and John Heilemann’s “Double Down,” showed that disapproval of Washington has much in common with scorn for Hollywood or the rich folks of Fitzgerald’s fiction: Readers like to know how the misbehavers misbehave, the

closer to home the better.

“People inside the beltway are always interested in what’s going with people inside the beltway,” says Mark LaFramboise, a buyer for the Washington-based Politics & Prose Bookstore.

Some books are so wished for that just the idea of them starts conversations. A biography and

Manhattan, a reissue of film about J.D. Salinger included the most specif- Simone de Beauvoir’s ic details yet for rumored “The Woman Destroyed” was purchased by hunposthumous releases dreds of people at the by the secretive author McNally Jackson Books, of “The Catcher of the Rye.” At least five books a choice “based on its excellent new package,” are planned, according according to store owner to Shane Salerno and David Shields, with new Sarah McNally.

One of the year’s bigworks possibly coming gest “word of mouth” as soon as 2015. hits has been Jo Jo Neither Salinger’s literary estate nor his long- Moyes’ novel “Me Before You,” which has time publisher, Little sold more than 100,000 Brown and Company, copies just for its e-book have commented on the news. They also haven’t edition, according to Penguin. Hochschild denied it. said local reading groups “People would be love Moyes’ story of fascinated by anything a quadriplegic and his from Salinger,” says caregiver. Another hit at Stephanie Hochschild, owner of The Book Stall the Book Stall has been “The Boys In the Boat,” in Winnetka, Ill. Daniel James Brown’s In 2013, customers biography of the Ameriat the Changing Hands can rowing team at the Bookstore in Tempe, 1936 Olympics in Nazi Ariz. sought out a hisGermany. tory of the only Native American to defeat the “We can’t keep it on U.S. military, “The Heart the shelf,” Hochschild of Everything That Is: says. “It’s a book about The Untold Story of Red history and a book about Cloud, An American human drama. It has Legend,” by Bob Drury something for everyand Tom Clavin. In body.”

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Author Continued from Page 4 if they’ve renovated it and it looks different.’ It doesn’t look different; it looks exactly the same as it did 10 years ago or whatever. But that was kind of fun.”

What Bateman ended up with after about seven months’ worth of weekends is a 223page thriller about a young journalist named Jason Blair.

Based at the fictitious Logan Daily News, Blair’s primary role is writing obituaries that are “thoughtful, touching, romantic, and funny stories of local lives well-lived.”

“Jason loves his work but aspires to more — membership in the Great International Obituary Writers’ Hall of Fame! Problem is, Jason is a little impatient to let nature

takes its course …,” states a aries that I really like are ones press release about “On the about ordinary people that are Death Beat.” written in sort of that rich way, Bateman says he’s always and that’s what I tried to do.” enjoyed reading obituaries, Bateman says he borrowed particularly those written by the name of his primary charprofessionals. acter from that of New York Times’ disgraced journalist, “Another reason I picked Jayson Blair. Originally from Logan is because the obituarMichigan, Blair is a sociopath ies in the Logan Herald Journal are not professionally writ- who takes over the identity of ten,” Bateman says. “You guys a fellow student at journalism don’t have a an obituary writer, school and then secures what’s viewed as a plum position at a and many of them are just not small-town newspaper. very good. … Well, they’re not bad. They tell a good story, “I used Jayson Blair’s name but there’s no color to them; because he looks at writing there’s no humor. obituaries as art,” Bateman explains. “He’s not super con “If you read obituaries that cerned with the facts being are professionally written say 100 percent accurate. … He is in the Seattle Times or especially in New York or London, committed to writing a good obituary, but the accuracy thing the ones of public figures are isn’t real important to him.” hilarious because they had interesting lives and you could Bateman says one of the most difficult parts of writing say things about them you “On the Death Beat” was actuwouldn’t say about a private person. But some of the obitu- ally coming up with names.

Because of that, he borrows the names of several people from Cache Valley, but he doesn’t use their character traits.

“I didn’t use their lives, but I used the names of friends of mine, people like that because I just couldn’t think of names,” Bateman says. “The dialogue I found pretty easy. I didn’t think I would because I had never written any dialogue before, but I didn’t find that bad at all. It was the names that were killer for me.”

Bateman says he ended up sending his completed manuscript to about a dozen agents and publishers but only got a couple of small nibbles of interest. That led to him eventually using CreateSpace, amazon.com’s self-publishing program, to publish “On the Death Beat.”

“It was awful. It was an awful experience. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone,” Bate-

man says of trying to have someone else publish his first book. “But CreateSpace worked fantastic. It’s really a pretty good deal.”

Hard copies of “On the Death Beat” are currently available for $10.79 at amazon.com, while the Kindle version is $2.99. Bateman’s novel is also available online at barnesandnoble.com, and he hopes to have a local book signing soon at Hastings.

Bateman, who spent most of his career in the U.S. Air Force in law enforcement and anti-terrorism positions, says he plans to start work soon on a second novel. He says the setting of that one might well be California City, Calif., and the unique collection of individuals he encountered at the condominium complex he lived at while working at Edwards Air Force Base while writing “On the Death Beat.”

Past

Edwards

Continued from Page 5 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 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

Continued from Page 4 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.

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.

Photo courtesy of the Compton family

The Compton family photographed the funeral procession of Lorenzo Snow when the president of the LDS Church was buried in Brigham City in 1901.

World War II. Glenn managed the carried on the business.

Alma Compton, Jr., was born studio from 1967 until he retired in 1889 and worked in the studio in 1994 when it was officially from an early age until he died closed. In 1998, the Compton of pneumonia at age 30. His building was demolished. brother Mathew was born in There are photographs in the 1892 and served in the military exhibit of Alma Compton, Sr., during World War I. He ran the Mathew Compton, the Compton studio after the death of his father.

Art Studio and the Compton famMathew’s son, Glenn, was born ily home under construction. The in 1923. He attended a photoghome is on the National Register raphy school in California and served in the military during of Historic Places.

“Barricades, Cones, and Detour Signs”

“Christmas Without Christ”

By Lovelle Mortenson

By Marci Larsen

I headed into town one day — One sunny afternoon, A few small errand to complete That I thought I could finish soon.

My destination was in plain sights, But a big truck block my way; So I followed another detour sign, Increasing my long delay.

The clear blue sky and puffy clouds Brought gladness to my heart, Enjoy it while you can, I thought For soon the snow will start.

And so it went as I zigged and I zagged Through places I never had seen.

How could this construction have muddled the day That started out so serene.

All went well for a few short blocks; I basked in the glorious day, ‘Til I spied a sight at the bottom of the hill That took all my joy away.

A barricade stood tall and strong Surrounded by signs and cones That sent me through a maze of streets Which, to me, were quite unknown.

I followed the arrows and all the signs Through a map of twists and bends.

Just when I thought I had figured it out I was met by another dead end.

Landmarks that I had known so well Were all in the wrong locations.

How could I get from here to there.

I was nearing the point of frustration.

I thought of the barriers and all of the signs, And the big orange cones replete.

Where in the world would they store this stuff When repairs were all complete?

I finally discovered a remarkable place Where no signs nor barricades stood.

As familiar surroundings began to unfold Main Street never looked quite so good.

Perhaps such a dilemma could be resolved If a bright, innovative mind Could invent a special GPS That would follow the detour signs.

“The World’s Tragedies — and Me”

By Davy McClay It was just a normal day, Doing some chores, doing some play, Like most days it was really rather plain.

Then I got home, had some dinner, Yes — great food — rejecting “Thinner!”

I had soda, and yes, water there to drink!

Played on lovely Old Main Hill, Engaged in other things at will, I had little cause to complain.

I’m thankful for what I’m eating, But their eyes are so entreating!

My stomach’s full, but my emptiness won’t shrink!

But I see them watching me, Longing for such normalcy!

Seems I just cannot escape their plaintive stare.

“How can I help?” screams my brain, “To take away your pain?

This whole scenario is so totally unfair!”

I hate this predicament!

I’m full of worriment, What can I do to really help my brothers?

Though I’m physically far away, I can still follow Jesus’ way, Truly GIVING, daily DOING to help others.

Christmas without Christ is like ornaments without a tree; a frame without a picture to look at longingly.

A snowman without snow is sad as it could be.

A card without a message makes no sense to me.

A family without people is not what life’s about.

A meal without the food would make my children shout!

The creation without earth would be a terrible place to live.

A present without a gift is an awful thing to give.

Without the Christ in Christmas none of us would ever be, His life and example are our gifts eternally.

“Respect Your Elders”

By William Humphrey To respect your elders, Is a righteous thing.

Let’s respect our elders, For the happiness it will bring.

They’ve learned so much, That we need to know.

Let us respect our elders, It’s the best way to grow.

Soon you’ll be old, And want respect for you.

So respect the elderly, It’s the thing to do.

Those who are elderly, Our battles had to fight.

To make us happy, And hope we’d turn out right.

“Happy Holidays”

By Heather Sparks You know the feeling when you’re so cold and you really have to pee but you’re afraid it may not come out because it turned into a popsicle?

No? Well this is awkward.

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Your Stuff

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Major musical composition 5. PC’s core 8. Perry Como’s “___ Impossible” 11. Brewery grain 15. Musical rattle 18. Rose’s protector 20. __ in the bud 21. Seaweed extract 22. Yuletide offering 23. Dry riverbeds 24. Afternoon brew 25. Reliable kind of guy 26. Dates after sunset?

30. Frequent “further” follower 31. Plumeria garland 32. Marshy 33. Collection of anecdotes, e.g.

35. Dessert tray pick 39. Cross for one 40. Sound from a mouse 45. “Pronto” 48. Course requirement 49. North Pole peon 52. Case for a sewer 53. Dropped in for a latte, say 61. Avid reader’s complaint 62. Barkeep’s supply 63. He wrote “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” 64. “___ So Fine’’ (The Chiffons) 65. Retailer Strauss 66. It came up from Down Under 67. Rotten little kid 68. Turf mate 70. Pines 72. Lathe spindle 75. Dragnet 79. Santa --, Calif.

82. Debt security 83. Suitable to the occasion 86. Double-disc cookie 87. Mesozoic, e.g.

90. “Who touches a hair of __ gray head ...”: Whittier

91. Missions, to spies 92. Alleviating 94. Be about to race at the Derby 98. Sicilian gusher 99. Sargasso or Aral 100. Zero at the World Cup 101. Interjection from Beaver Cleaver 102. Spot for sweaters 104. Break for a toddler and parent 107. Short, peaceful poem 109. Donna Summer “___ All the Lights” 112. Holds protectively 116. It might react negatively 119. Has-been horse 121. Key title 129. Dilapidated car 130. Word with “little” or “late” 131. Ex____ation 132. Cactus flower eater 133. Major animal?

134. Global financial org.

135. Form of lyric poem 136. Dish-shaped gong 137. Tofu beans 138. Dance floor doofus 139. ___ World (Columbus’ discovery) 140. Hotel-room pair Down 1. The last of any series 2. Chinese tower 3. Cheer for 4. __ serif 5. Common sonata finale 6. Bender of rays 7. Use a plunger 8. Web with limited access 9. Ranks 10. Sterilizes, in a way 11. Nativity scene figures 12. With eyes-a-poppin’ 13. Narrow wood strip 14. Gait faster than a walk 16. Laid back 17. Shivering spell 18. Couple 19. Chewie’s pal 27. Chickadee’s cousin 28. Exist

29. Bloomberg’s bailiwick 34. More nervous 36. Heart chamber 37. Arabian strap 38. Noted Downing Street address number 41. Romanian monetary unit 42. Restlessness 43. A vegetable, for short 44. Warm greeting 46. Mel of baseball 47. Got threadbare 50. Escapes, slangily 51. Fritz’s missus 53. Lash mark 54. Onlooker 55. Campbell of ‘’Scream’’ 56. It can hold its water 57. Like Miss Congeniality 58. Oak’s offspring 59. Org. featured in Carl Sagan’s “Contact” 60. Low-grade diamond 67. Saucy ones 69. Leap ____ 71. Protein source 73. Easy-to-grow houseplant 74. Summing-up word 76. Opera house highlight 77. Proceeded 78. Theater box 80. Hooch hounds 81. Be up front with it to get a hand 84. “___ Love You” (Beatles tune) 85. Kind of waterproofing oil 87. They often get fleeced 88. Pro -- (proportionately) 89. Indigenous Japanese people 92. Bone-dry 93. Six, say, for a firstgrader 95. Color of a camel 96. Sharp warning 97. Acoustic performer DiFranco 103. What a star is paid to do 105. Swiss sight

106. Her mate is “proud” 108. Pupil’s protector 110. From nature, not nurture 111. Wild woman 113. Math class calculation 114. Starbucks allure 115. Criticize sneakily 117. News column: abbr.

118. Philippine city 120. Nutrition units 121. Ergo 122. Medal earner 123. “Five ___ Pieces” (1970 film) 124. Spots for rubs and scrubs 125. Candle light 126. Man in the making 127. Before, to Shelley 128. Unfeeling

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Friday Liz Woolley will perform with The 3 Suns at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

Hillary Murray will perform from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27, at Jack’s Wood Fired Oven, 256 N. Main St. Michael Faraday began a tradition of giving a lecture for children on Christmas Eve in 1827. He would show the children various experiments that he had been working on during the year at a time when education for young people was scarce. Many of his basic discoveries make today’s technology possible.

Come to the annual Faraday’s Holiday Event with keynote speaker Todd Moon, USU professor of electrical and computer engineering, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27, at the Whittier Center, 290 N. 400 East. He will be speaking on “Tools for Spies in the 21st Century.” There will also be exciting, hands-on science activities for kids of all ages. Admission is $4 for adults, $2 for under 15 years of age and

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$12 per family. Call 764-6658 or visit www.facebook.com/ events/1441669819394451 for mor information.

Acoustic guitarist and singer Keiyana Osmond returns to Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27. Winner of the first ever Cache County Idol contest, Osmond’s amazing singing voice makes her one of our customers’ favorite performers. Osmond is currently residing outside the area, so don’t miss this chance to hear her at this one performance.

SATURDAY Rorry Forbush will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza, 99 E. 1200 South. There is no cover charge; everyone is welcome.

James Shepard will perform with Ferocious As They Come and Thomas Koch at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

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/hardware ranch for more information.

Red Light Commandos will perform from noon to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 28, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Sustain, timbre, vibrato; these are just a few terms that describe this vocalist’s chops. Sammy Pond and Co. strip down to do an acoustic set.

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 evening. Newcomers welcome.

For more information call Jeff at 770-4263 or visit our website at www.postmormon.org/logan.

of money to keep his aging trainer (Arkin) in a nursing home, Sharp agrees to throw some punches in a motion-capture suit for a videogame, Continued from Page 6 leading to a confrontation with the As a Jim Lampley-narrated minisimilarly green-suited McDonnen in documentary informs us at the outset, the studio. A ludicrous brawl breaks Henry “Razor” Sharp (Stallone) and out between the two, and cameraBilly “the Kid” McDonnen (De Niro) phone footage of the punch-up goes were once the fiercest rivals in boxviral. ing, with McDonnen beating Sharp in Sensing an opportunity, fast-talking a classic bout, and Sharp taking the aspiring fight promoter Dante Slate spoils against an out-of-shape McDon- Jr. (Hart) convinces the two paunchy nen in the rematch. A third, scorepunchers to finally reschedule their settling grudge match was scheduled “Grudgement Day” bout, a televised to take place 30 years ago, but Sharp spectacle that falls somewhere abruptly retired from boxing shortly between “Celebrity Boxing” and Ali before the opening bell. vs. Inoki on the dignity scale.

Since then, the soft-spoken Sharp Ostentatious callbacks to “Rocky” has retreated into life as a foundryand “Raging Bull” take the form of Stallone quaffing raw eggs and strollfloor factotum in the scrappier ing through a meat locker, while De outskirts of Pittsburgh, while the Niro performs a chintzy nightclub peacocking McDonnen has parlayed comedy act. As it turns out, Sharp’s his waning fame into a chain of steakabrupt retirement was sparked by houses and car dealerships. In need

Faye Dancing Cloud will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Faye’s sound is inspired

by Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez, and she’s been compared to Ani DiFranco in her lyrical style.

MONDAY The Monday Movie at the Logan Library will be the newly released “Despicable Me 2.”

The movie will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30, in the Jim Bridger Room of the Logan Library. Popcorn will be served.

The event is free and open to the public. For an ongoing list of Monday Night Movies at the Logan Library visit library.logan utah.org/movienight.

TUESDAY The Royal New Year’s Eve Ball for ages 31+ will begin at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 31, at the Willow Park LDS Church building, 340 W. 700 South. Dress like royalty if you can; LDS standards apply. We will spend the evening dancing and eating like royalty, then at the stroke of midnight we’ll celebrate together as we

McDonnen’s dalliances with his then-girlfriend (Kim Basinger), who abruptly reappears on the scene three decades later precisely as McDonnen’s estranged son, B.J. (Jon Bernthal), emerges to connect with his old man, quickly becoming his trainer.

The rest of the film (directed by Peter Segal from a script by Tim Kelleher and Rodney Rothman) ambles forward with a series of training montages interrupted by old-manfalls-down slapstick interrupted by sappy drama, with hit-and-miss set pieces occasionally compensating for the pic’s dreary lack of narrative propulsion. Considering how much of “Rocky V” and “Rocky Balboa” focused on the inherent sadness of an aged fighter enduring yet more punishment, “Grudge Match” is quite glib about the potentially fatal fight at its center, while it rarely passes up an opportunity to slather on pathos elsewhere via a cherubic little kid

bring in the New Year. Bring your single friends. A $5 donation is suggested.

THURSDAY 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.

OPTIONS for Independence will be hosting an Autism Spectrum Disorders Support Group from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, at 106 E. 1120 North. Jacqueline Guymon for USU’s CPD Clinical Services will be coming to speak. This group is for people with autism, family members and friends. Anyone desiring to attend for research or other purposes are asked not to attend due to confidentiality and the nature of the meetings. For more information contact Jennie at 753-5353 ext. 104.

(Camden Gray) and images of laid-off industrial workers.

Compared with De Niro’s shticky role in this year’s “The Family” — in which his Jersey mobster character actually attends a screening of “Goodfellas” — the actor has a few moments of spark playing the more unsavory of the two leads, while Stallone mostly muddles through. (Both men, it must be said, are in quite impressive shape by the film’s final reel.) Arkin and Hart strike the same ornery-oldcuss / loudmouthed-little-man notes they’ve hit a dozen times before, though they’re good enough for quick laughs, and Hart’s end-credits attempt to stage yet another retirement-age grudge match proves the funniest moment in the whole endeavor.

——— “Grudge Match,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sports action violence, sexual content and language.” Running time: 113 minutes.

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