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Like father like son Jeff Wallis follows his dad into an art career The Herald Journal

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Sounds of the holiday season

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Artist Jeff Wallis at work in his studio. Go to page 8 for a story on Wallis, who is the son of well-known painter Kent Wallis. Photo by Alan Murray/Herald Journal.

From the editor kburgess@hjnews.com ern belly dance.

ITH THE CHRISTMAS But as much as I enjoyed the show, W season officially underway, I must say that the scene afterward local arts groups are busy staging holiday-themed classics.

On Monday evening, I took in the Cache Valley Civic Ballet’s final performance of “The Nutcracker,” which I hadn’t seen in probably 10 years. It was as enchanting as I remembered. There is something about the famous score by Tchaikovsky that perfectly evokes the holiday season. And then there are beautiful sets, costumes and fetes of grace. What little girl hasn’t wanted to be the Sugar Plum Fairy decked out in a swirling white tutu?

My part favorite had to be the series of ethnic dances that come near the end of the story. Each one was wonderful, from the lively Russian jig to the sensual Middle East-

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was nearly as fun. Once the stage had cleared in the Ellen Eccles Theatre, a smaller room at the adjacent Bullen Center filled with excited dancers and their proud parents.

Everyone was talking, laughing, taking photos and giving or accepting congratulations on a successful performance. It was particularly fun to see the littest kids getting their first taste of the limelight.

One young ballerina I chatted with (who happens to be the daughter of a Herald Journal staffer) hopes to eventually become a professional dancer, and judging by her performance on Monday, I would say she has a good shot at a career on the stage. Maybe years from now she’ll look back at the Cache Valley Civic Ballet as the place where it all began.

— Kim Burgess Cache Magazine editor

‘Out On The Town’ visits ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet

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Vamping it up at USU’s Museum of Anthropology

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Goodwill ‘Ambassadors’

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pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption!

Pet: Raya From: Cache Humane Why she’s so lovable: Raya is a white poodle, only 12 pounds. She is such a good girl, already trimmed and looking for that special someone to take her home.

Raya is a stray so her history is unknown, but she is very affectionate, walks well on leash and would love that special home to adopt her today. The adoption fee for most dogs at Cache Humane is $100 plus spay/ neuter and shots if needed. If you would like to meet Raya, call Cache Humane at 792-3920.

Slow Wave is created from real people’s dreams as drawn by Jesse Reklaw. Ask Jesse to draw your dream! Visit www.slowwave.com to find out how.

Pair of beloved Christmas plays in Box Elder Co.

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‘A Christmas Carol’

he Old Barn Community Theatre presents “A Christmas Carol” playing Dec. 8, through Dec. 18, at 7:30 p.m. every Monday, Friday and Saturday. Matinees at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 11 and Dec. 18.

Tickets are $8 for adults and $7 for children and seniors. Family ticket packages are now available for performances on Dec. 3, 4 and 6. Family packages are $25 for up to 6 family members. The Old Barn Community Theatre is located at 3605 Bigler Road, Collinston, in Box Elder County. For more information, go to www.oldbarn.org.

The classic story by Charles Dickens features miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the poor, crippled but happy Tiny Tim whose sentiment “God bless us every one” rings out as the final message of the story. Other characters include Fred, Scrooge’s happy-go-lucky nephew; Marley’s ghost and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, who show Scrooge where his life choices are taking him.

Set in 19th century England, “A Christmas Carol” has been a favorite since Dickens wrote it in 1843. The tale provides a taste of Christmases of yore.

‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!’

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eritage Theatre will stage “The the Herdmans, the worst kids in the Best Christmas Pageant Ever!” history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear and hit little from Dec. 3 through Dec. 18, at kids. So no one is prepared when 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Fridays and this outlaw family invades church Saturdays. Matinees at 2 p.m. on one Sunday and decides to take Dec. 11 and Dec. 18. The Heritage over the annual Christmas pageant.

Theatre is located at 2505 S. HighNone of the Herdmans has ever way 89 in Perry. Tickets are $9 for heard the Christmas story before. adults; $8 for seniors and children.

Their interpretation of the tale Call 723-8392 for Reservations — the Wise Men are dirty spies and Mondays or Wednesdays through Herod needs a good beating — has Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. a lot of people up in arms. But it “The Best Christmas Pageant will make this year’s pageant the Ever!” follows a couple struggling most unusual anyone has seen and, to put on a church Christmas pagjust possibly, the best one ever. eant. They are faced with casting

Winter Gallery Walk features annual gift market, live music

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HE EIGHTH ANNUAL Winter Gift Market will be part of the Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main St. A festival of unique gifts and music from over 30 talented local artisans, the market features oneof-a-kind gifts including pottery, woodwork, jewelry, lotions, pho-

tography, handmade, handspun fabric arts and more. Live music throughout both days. Admission is free. No strollers please.

For more information, visit Winter Gift Market on Facebook or contact Joy Brisighella at joy_b@comcast.net.

Live Music Schedule Friday, Dec. 3 • 6 p.m.: The What (wood

wind quintet), Emily Sorensen • 7:30 p.m.: Sarah Olsen (folk) Saturday, Dec. 4 • 10 a.m.: Hot Flashes Band • 12 p.m.: District Pipe Band (bagpipes, drums), Tyler Johnson • 2 p.m.: HiFalutin’ Flute Choir • 4 p.m.: Cool Fusion & Friends (Funk, Samba, world music) Linden Olsen on guitar, Rich Hansen on base, Gil Hernandez on congas, harmonica, vocals.

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Christmas spirit lands at the tabernacle

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he 2010 Tabernacle Christmas Concert Series continues this week. All concerts are free to the public and begin at 7 p.m. Be sure to check Cache Magazine every week for profiles on upcoming performers. And as always, don’t forget to visit the gingerbread house displays in downtown Logan!

Cache Children’s Choir (Saturday, Dec. 4)

he Cache Children’s Choir offers sequential music instruction where children experience the joy of singing in four choirs and a preschool class.

Although students can join at any level, each choir builds on skills taught in previous choirs. For this concert, The Young Choral Artists, a new ensemble within the Salt Lake Choral Artists organization, will join the Cantate and Concert Choirs from Cache Children’s Choir. The Cantate Choir, an auditioned choir for singers ages 10 to 15, is directed by Jill DeVilbiss, with Merrilee Broadbent as accompanist. Melody Francis directs the Concert Choir, a non-auditioned choir for singers ages 9 to 15. Leslie Moon is accompanist. For more information, go to www.cachechildrenschoir.org.

Mark Gibbons and Crimson Quartet

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rimson Quartet members Daun Kwag (violin), Donna Lee (violin), Gavon Peck (viola), and Rebecca Ransom (cello) are juniors at Logan High School and are in the school’s chamber orchestra. They have played together for several years. In November, Kwag, Lee, and Ransom were winners of Logan High’s concerto competition.

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aul T. Barte has been a member of the music faculty at the Ohio University School of Music since 1997.

At OU he teaches organ and harpsichord, as well as keyboard literature and music history classes. He was the 2005 recipient of the School of Music’s Distinguished Teaching Award. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he also serves as university organist.

From 1990 to 1997, Barte was on the music faculty of Idaho State University in Pocatello. He is a Minnesota native and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, completing a master’s degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music.

He has performed extensively in the U.S. and at the Taborkirche in Leipzig, Germany. Recent performances include recitals on the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle organ. Barte has presented recitals and workshops at regional and

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ark is a singer/songwriter/dairyman known for his unique talent and dairy adaptations of country songs. He has performed and entertained all over the Western U.S. including Washington, Oregon and California. Mark is president of the Governors Agriculture Advisory Board and president of the Dairy Producers of Utah. He loves to sing and can often be heard serenading the cows.

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national conventions of The American Guild of Organists and the Music Teacher’s National Association.

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(Thursday, Dec. 9)

he Cache Symphony Orchestra (formerly Cache Chamber Orchestra) presents its annual Christmas Concert as part of the Tabernacle series. Robert Frost will conduct the orchestra in a variety of popular and sacred holiday music, featuring vocal soloist Randy Smith (pictured at right) singing “O Holy Night.” There will also be a reading by James Kemp of “The Christmas Story,” a musical rendition of “Twas the night before Christmas” with Larry Slade, and a Christmas carol sing-along with the orchestra.

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A concert with a cause Songwriter Peter Breinholt returns to Logan

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ONGWRITER Peter Breinholt will present “A Peter Breinholt Christmas” at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, at Utah State University’s Performance Hall.

Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 for USU students with ID. To pur-

chase, go to http://arts.usu. edu, the Taggart Student Center, Caine/Eccles Fine Arts Center Box Office or at the door. This is a charity event, and all proceeds go to Bear River Mental Health.

For more than a decade, Breinholt has been selling out every major concert

hall in his home state of Utah many times over, including Kingsbury Hall and The Sundance Amphitheater among others. His credits also include six albums, a concert DVD, guitar songbooks, film scores, awards and concerts with several symphony orchestras.

RIGHAM YOUNG University’s Young Ambassadors will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, at Sky View High School, 520 S. 250 East, Smithfield. Tickets are $15 and are available at www. skyviewtix.org.

The Young Ambassadors are holding the concert to help Sky View’s student performing group earn funds for costumes, transportation, music supplies, tours and workshops.

Founded in 1970, the Young Ambassadors are featuring their new show, “Harmony: The Music of Life.” This polished, rousing musical production blends the best of Broadway with favorite radio hits for every generation.

A must-see compilation of some of America’s best-loved musical scores, “Harmony” depicts scenes from life’s most significant moments, highlighting each experience through

popular music from Michael Bublé, Stephen Schwartz, Benny Goodman and more. The show sports a host of costumes that brighten the stage and transport audiences through every stage of life,

from childhood fairytales to growing old together.

Harmony is so full of action, color, energy, and spirit that audiences might forget to blink in this 90minute, family-friendly performance.

Festival Chorus adds performance T HE AMERICAN Festival Chorus and Orchestra has added a performance to their previously sold-out Christmas concerts at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. The additional performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, with the original performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4.

Tickets are $12, $16 and $18 — $5 for those 65 and older at the 2 p.m. matinee on Dec. 4. Tickets are available at the Eccles

Theatre Ticket Office, 43 S. Main St., by calling 752-0026 or visiting www. americanfestivalchorus. org.

“Of all the seasons of the year, the Christmas season seems to unite family and friends and community in a magical way,” said Craig Jessop, music director. “We’re honored to reach out into the entire community to celebrate this season of peace on earth and goodwill toward all men.”

This multifaceted celebration will include the First Presbyterian Church’s interfaith Westminster Bell Choir; the women’s chorus from Mountain Crest High School; the Full Circle Dance Company, under the auspices of Utah State University; and special guest Jennifer Welch Babidge. “(Babidge) is a worldclass soprano,” Jessop said of the singer, who has appeared with the Met-

ropolitan Opera in New York City and returns to the Ellen Eccles Theatre after a triumphant leading performance in Utah Festival Opera’s production of “La Traviata” and Verdi’s “Requiem.”

The program features traditional favorites such as “Joy to the World,” “Oh Come, All Ye Faithful,” “Angels We Have Heard on High,” “What Child Is This?” and selections from Handel’s “Messiah” as well as others.

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Film Still playing “Love and Other Drugs” Rated R ★★ “Love & Other Drugs” — Despite its dramatic pretenses and far racier sex scenes than the typical studio romance, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway’s latest is as predictable and sappy as any other run-of-the-mill Hollywood love story. Gyllenhaal and Hathaway, who co-starred as an unhappily married couple in “Brokeback Mountain,” this time play the bumpy romance between a hotshot pharmaceutical salesman and a woman with early onset Parkinson’s disease. Co-written by director Edward Zwick, the screenplay shoves the two together awkwardly — and keeps them coming back together even more awkwardly — undermining the genuine sense of affection and passion the stars manage. But awkwardness seems to have been there from the start in adapting Jamie Reidy’s book “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman,” which was not a romance at all.

While Gyllenhaal’s character is inspired by Reidy, Hathaway’s is a complete fabrication — a love interest dreamed up so the filmmakers could have a love interest. R for strong sexual content, nudity, pervasive language and some drug content. 112 minutes.

“Faster” Rated R ★ Recent films of revvedup adrenaline are like movies on steroids, and cause some of the same side effects: nausea, stunted growth and probably some liver damage.

George Tillman Jr.’s film begins with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s character literally sprinting out of jail, released in a seething rage from a 10-year prison

sentence. The movie is in such a hurry that it doesn’t bother to slow down for proper names, instead referring to its main characters as archetypes: Johnson is “Driver,” Billy Bob Thornton is “Cop” and newcomer Oliver Jackson-Cohen is “Killer.”

Driver has a list of people to kill in revenge of an ambush that put him in jail and ended the life of his brother. After dabbling in comedy and kids films, Johnson has returned to macho action, like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s prodigal son. Johnson has the muscle for muscle-head movies but — a gifted mugger — he’s better dressed up as the Tooth Fairy or hosting “Saturday Night Live.” His inner goofball should win out.

R for violence, some drug use and language. 98 minutes.

“Megamind” Rated PG ★★ 1⁄2 A dastardly supervillain who turned evil because of a bad upbringing finds himself seduced to the good side to defeat an even badder guy.

Didn’t we just see this last summer in “Despicable Me”? This latest action comedy from DreamWorks Animation features dazzling computer-animated design and action.

Yet despite a clever hook — what’s a villain to do when he manages to defeat his superhero nemesis? — it’s a thin story that feels familiar and unfolds with no surprises.

The movie offers an amiably goofy voice cast led

by Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Tina Fey, whose wisecracks are cute if not terribly memorable. Ferrell’s the title character, an alien villain struggling to fill the void in his life after one of his plans to get rid of superhero Metro Man (Pitt) actually succeeds.

The most impressive thing about the movie is the set-

ting, a detailed skyline of steely skyscrapers. The dizzying heights are so authentic in digital 3-D projection that some of the mid-air action sequences bring on a faint sense of vertigo. PG for action and some language. 96 minutes.

“Due Date” Rated R ★★ Robert Downey Jr. is miserable, stuck on a cross-country drive with a creepy Zach Galifianakis.

And it’s easy to imagine how he feels: It’s often torturous just sitting through the movie, and we’re not the ones trapped in Texas with the guy. From the commercials alone, though, it’s clear we’re probably going to be in trouble here: They cut away early and often to a French bulldog in all his adorableness. When you need to go to the dog for laughs, there’s something wrong with your script — and this is coming from a dog person. That script comes from director Todd Phillips, hot off the success of “The Hangover,” and three other writers. But “Due Date” lacks the consistent hilarity and originality of that last-summer hit; it’s got some laughs here and there but lacks sufficient story or character to hold together. Downey plays Peter Highman, a stylish, uptight architect whose wife (Michelle Monaghan) is about to give birth to their first child. Galifianakis plays Ethan Tremblay, a clueless aspiring actor Peter bumps into at the airport. Through a series of massive contrivances, they’re forced to share a rental car all the way back to Los Angeles. R for language, drug use and sexual content. 95 minutes.

“The Next Three Days” Rated PG-13 ★★ The main dynamic you have to accept — the

one that the entire story, all the drama, all the risk hinge upon — is that Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks actually belong together. Always strong individually, they make no sense as a couple.

Chalk it up to miscasting, a lack of chemistry, whatever: It’s simply too hard to buy them as husband and wife. And that’s a problem, since it undermines our ability to become immersed in the danger in which they find themselves.

As a result, Paul Haggis’ thriller, based on the 2008 French film “Anything for Her,” ends up feeling even more implausible than it might have. A couple of exciting chase sequences and intense moments, as well as one great scene involving Liam Neeson, unfortunately can’t salvage the endeavor. The latest movie from the Oscar-winning “Crash” director finds Banks’ Lara Brennan being charged and convicted of killing her boss in a Pittsburgh parking garage. Once all of Lara’s appeals have run out and she’s on the verge of being transferred to a state penitentiary, her husband, John, hatches a scheme to break her out of the joint. John, mind you, is a mild-mannered community college English professor who already has his hands full caring for the couple’s 6-year-old son, Luke (Ty Simpkins), alone. PG-13 for violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements. 122 minutes.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” Rated PG-13 ★★★ Doom and gloom permeate nearly every minute of the beginning of the end of the behemoth boy-wizard series. This seventh film in the franchise, directed once again

by David Yates (who previ-

ously helmed parts five and six, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince”), begins with nearly suffocating tension, as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) finds himself face-to-face with his destiny: being the target of the evil Lord Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) deadly wrath.

Friends and allies will have to band together to protect him; some of them won’t make it out alive. Finally, the weight of Harry’s past and the frightening unknown of his future, as detailed so vividly in J.K. Rowling’s beloved books, are about to collide. Yates’ film is gorgeously bleak, with sprawling, end-of-theEarth shots of foreboding mountains and lonely beaches from Oscar-nominated cinematographer Eduardo Serra (“Girl With a Pearl Earring”) that reflect the characters’ moods. The

films have grown darker in tone and theme, and given this heightened emotional challenge, the three young stars (Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint) once again rise to it. Having spent half their lives in these characters, their interactions with one another seem more believable than ever. But because “Part 1” sets up the final showdown in “Part 2” — which Yates also directed — there’s lots of exposition in Steve Kloves’ script, lots of characters and plot lines reintroduced from films past. While it’s thrilling off the top, it repeatedly sags in the middle before picking up at the cliffhanger climax.

PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images.

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All reviews by The Associated Press

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A small-town girl with big dreams and a big voice packs up everything she owns in a suitcase, makes her way to Hollywood and wows the world with her talent. But not everyone has her best interest at heart, so she’ll have to cling tight to her values to figure out whom she should trust. And she’ll do it ... in song!

Yes, they should provide a cliche checklist at the door of “Burlesque,� just to make it interactive and help pass the time.

Sure, this song-anddance extravaganza is sufficiently shiny and sparkly, an explosion of sequins and feathers and sass. Writer-director Steven Antin is the brother of Pussycat Dolls creator Robin Antin, so there’s a certain familiarity to the bump-and-grind numbers the dancers perform. The mere presence of Cher guarantees a high camp factor; at a recent screening, the first sight of her on stage in all her sailorhatted, Plasticine glory drew laughs and applause from the audience.

Although “Burlesque� is never the juicy diva smackdown of “Showgirls,� to which comparisons are inevitable, it’s good enough as a guilty pleasure, simply because it’s all splash and no substance. It’s also a shameless vehicle for Christina Aguilera, trying to position herself as an actress in her film debut, even though she’s essentially playing a version of herself. She can really sing, of course — one character aptly describes her as hav-

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ing “mutant lungs� — and she looks great on camera, but the performance is all one note otherwise, if you’ll pardon the pun.

And while we’re comparing “Burlesque� to trash of the past, it isn’t the abject failure that Mariah Carey’s similar “Glitter� was, but that’s mainly because it has better production values.

Aguilera’s romantically named Ali Rose is bathed in warm, golden light wherever she goes.

This includes the opening sequence in which she leaves the dingy Iowa diner where she works as a waitress (but not without belting out a bluesy tune first), gathers her meager belongings, traipses through the trailer park

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she’s called home, then crosses a railroad bridge and steps through a hole in a chain-link fence en route to the bus station.

Once in Los Angeles, she literally stands on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, holding a list of want ads for backup singers and dancers. Then she stumbles upon The Burlesque Lounge on Sun-

set Boulevard, an aging theater where the ageless Cher rules as the proprietress and headliner, Tess.

Ali’s hooked the second she walks in the door, and insinuates herself from cocktail waitress to backup dancer to star in the blink of an eye. (Alan Cumming is depressingly underused as the lounge’s host, in a halfhearted nod to “Cabaret.�)

From there, the rest of “Burlesque� plays like an extended version of the “Lady Marmalade� video, with a few contrivances

to provide vague conflict.

There’s never a doubt that the plucky Ali will win over Tess and her best gay pal, stage manager Sean (Stanley Tucci, who has an effortless rapport with Cher). When jealous bad-girl Nikki (Kristen Bell) threatens to stand in the way of her fame, we know Ali will triumph.

When Tess is on the verge of eviction, we know she won’t have to sell the place to a predatory real estate entrepreneur (Eric Dane).

And when Ali meets eyelinered bartender Jack (“Twilight’s� Cam Gigandet), who’s really a sensitive, aspiring musician, it’s only a matter of time before they fall for each other — in chaste, tastefully lighted love scenes, of course.

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Like father like son Jeff Wallis follows his dad into an art career or Jeff Wallis, art has always been a part of his life, but it was not until recently that it became his life.

Wallis, a valley native, grew up in the shadow of a great painter, his father Kent Wallis. As a child he spent lots of time with his father in his studio. That helped him develop a love for the art of painting.

F Above: Jeff Wallis works on a painting in his studio in Nibley last Monday. Below center: Two paintings by Wallis.

Above: Jeff Wallis mixes some paint for a project at his studio in Nibley last Monday.

Above: Paint brushes sit on a work table in the studio of Jeff Wallis in Nibley. At right: Four paintings by Wallis.

“All my life really, with my dad being an artist it kind of just came natural,” Wallis said.

But earlier, art had always been just a hobby, nothing that he seriously considered for a career, despite the fact that his father has made a name for himself as a painter.

“I didn’t really take it too seriously until about five years ago I started selling my stuff and working hard at it,” Wallis said.

After high school, Wallis served an LDS mission to Argentina. When he came home he attended Utah State University and received his degree in anthropology, a far cry from art. But the same year he graduated USU (2006), Wallis decided he wanted to enter a few of his paintings into Summerfest to make some money to buy art supplies. He got a little more than he bargained for.

“I always loved doing it and I just kind of did it as a hobby with my dad for a long time,” Wallis said. “I just decided one day I would try to do Summerfest and see if I

could sell some of them to buy more art supplies, and I sold quite a few of them.

I thought, hey, that’s not a bad part-time job. I kept at it and decided that there wasn’t much more that I would want to do.”

After his successful outing at Summerfest, Wallis decided that he would make the jump to a full-time painter, which is similar to how his father got started.

Kent Wallis graduated from USU with a master’s degree in business administration and worked in marketing and finance for six years before he decided to give that up to pursue his creative desires to be an artist. Nearly 30 years later, his son would follow suit.

Currently, Wallis is attending Bridgerland Applied Technology College in a nursing program, something he feels can be a good backup for him as he continues to paint.

Jeff and his father are not the only Wallises to get into the art world. Jeff has two brothers, Eric and Sean, who also paint, as well as an uncle. He and his brothers also run a frame shop, which comes in handy when it’s time to frame their own works.

Apart from Summerfest, which he participates in every year now, Wallis has recently had his art displayed at Gia’s Italian Restaurant as part of a gallery walk. He is hoping that as his skills improve he can enter his pieces into more and more galleries.

“I feel like my stuff is pretty good but not quite where I want it to be as far as attacking some of the galleries,” Wallis said.

Wallis paints in a similar style to his father, labeling himself as an American Impressionist. Many of Wallis’ paintings are landscapes from local areas. One of his favorite destinations is the Tetons.

He particularly likes rural landscapes cluttered with junk. As the saying goes, one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.

A point of emphasis that Wallis makes with his art is that he paints on-site. He feels painting at the scene gives his art more life, plus he likes the challenge of painting in the wilderness where weather can sometimes be a factor.

“I prefer to just be out in the open air. It’s a little more challenging but you learn how to paint better in the outside,” Wallis said. “If you do them from a photograph they tend to look like a photograph, dead and not a lot of life in them.”

Because of the long winters in Cache Valley, Wallis makes the most of warm weather by starting 30 to 50 paintings during the summer.

He will block out the painting and fill in as much detail as possible on the spot, then in the winter months he goes back over the paintings and puts the finishing touches on them to get them ready to be sold.

But what has always been just a hobby has now become a livelihood, and Wallis, like his father, appears to be on the way to making a serious name for himself in the art world.

And perhaps, as he took after his father, one of his three boys (Calvin, Ben and Thomas) will follow in his footsteps. They already like to come to the studio that Wallis shares with his father and play in the paint, which might drive his wife, Jennifer, crazy.

Wallis’ art can be purchased at Summerfest and any other galleries where his art is displayed. Art can also be purchased at his website: jefferymwallisfineart.blogspot.com.

Story by Wesley Meacham Photos by Alan Murray

Like father like son Jeff Wallis follows his dad into an art career or Jeff Wallis, art has always been a part of his life, but it was not until recently that it became his life.

Wallis, a valley native, grew up in the shadow of a great painter, his father Kent Wallis. As a child he spent lots of time with his father in his studio. That helped him develop a love for the art of painting.

F Above: Jeff Wallis works on a painting in his studio in Nibley last Monday. Below center: Two paintings by Wallis.

Above: Jeff Wallis mixes some paint for a project at his studio in Nibley last Monday.

Above: Paint brushes sit on a work table in the studio of Jeff Wallis in Nibley. At right: Four paintings by Wallis.

“All my life really, with my dad being an artist it kind of just came natural,” Wallis said.

But earlier, art had always been just a hobby, nothing that he seriously considered for a career, despite the fact that his father has made a name for himself as a painter.

“I didn’t really take it too seriously until about five years ago I started selling my stuff and working hard at it,” Wallis said.

After high school, Wallis served an LDS mission to Argentina. When he came home he attended Utah State University and received his degree in anthropology, a far cry from art. But the same year he graduated USU (2006), Wallis decided he wanted to enter a few of his paintings into Summerfest to make some money to buy art supplies. He got a little more than he bargained for.

“I always loved doing it and I just kind of did it as a hobby with my dad for a long time,” Wallis said. “I just decided one day I would try to do Summerfest and see if I

could sell some of them to buy more art supplies, and I sold quite a few of them.

I thought, hey, that’s not a bad part-time job. I kept at it and decided that there wasn’t much more that I would want to do.”

After his successful outing at Summerfest, Wallis decided that he would make the jump to a full-time painter, which is similar to how his father got started.

Kent Wallis graduated from USU with a master’s degree in business administration and worked in marketing and finance for six years before he decided to give that up to pursue his creative desires to be an artist. Nearly 30 years later, his son would follow suit.

Currently, Wallis is attending Bridgerland Applied Technology College in a nursing program, something he feels can be a good backup for him as he continues to paint.

Jeff and his father are not the only Wallises to get into the art world. Jeff has two brothers, Eric and Sean, who also paint, as well as an uncle. He and his brothers also run a frame shop, which comes in handy when it’s time to frame their own works.

Apart from Summerfest, which he participates in every year now, Wallis has recently had his art displayed at Gia’s Italian Restaurant as part of a gallery walk. He is hoping that as his skills improve he can enter his pieces into more and more galleries.

“I feel like my stuff is pretty good but not quite where I want it to be as far as attacking some of the galleries,” Wallis said.

Wallis paints in a similar style to his father, labeling himself as an American Impressionist. Many of Wallis’ paintings are landscapes from local areas. One of his favorite destinations is the Tetons.

He particularly likes rural landscapes cluttered with junk. As the saying goes, one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.

A point of emphasis that Wallis makes with his art is that he paints on-site. He feels painting at the scene gives his art more life, plus he likes the challenge of painting in the wilderness where weather can sometimes be a factor.

“I prefer to just be out in the open air. It’s a little more challenging but you learn how to paint better in the outside,” Wallis said. “If you do them from a photograph they tend to look like a photograph, dead and not a lot of life in them.”

Because of the long winters in Cache Valley, Wallis makes the most of warm weather by starting 30 to 50 paintings during the summer.

He will block out the painting and fill in as much detail as possible on the spot, then in the winter months he goes back over the paintings and puts the finishing touches on them to get them ready to be sold.

But what has always been just a hobby has now become a livelihood, and Wallis, like his father, appears to be on the way to making a serious name for himself in the art world.

And perhaps, as he took after his father, one of his three boys (Calvin, Ben and Thomas) will follow in his footsteps. They already like to come to the studio that Wallis shares with his father and play in the paint, which might drive his wife, Jennifer, crazy.

Wallis’ art can be purchased at Summerfest and any other galleries where his art is displayed. Art can also be purchased at his website: jefferymwallisfineart.blogspot.com.

Story by Wesley Meacham Photos by Alan Murray

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Out On The Town Were you out on the town this week?

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Below from left: Natalie Johnson, Madison McAllister, Samantha Harrison and Kelly White after the Cache Valley Civic Ballet’s Nov. 29 performance of “The Nutcracker” Left: Kristen Call (age 6) and Sara Call Photos by Kim Burgess.

Above from left: Jami Weeks, Lance Weeks, Jace Gordon, Dalton Gordon, Reichen Jones, Shane Gordon, Lesli Weeks, Christy Johnson and Larissa Gordon at a showing of “Harry Potter” at University Six theater.

Photo submitted by Lesli Weeks.

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A sweet taste of ‘Midsummer’ nights

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HE THEATER season at Utah State University continues with William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with accompanying music by Felix Mendelssohn.

The play runs at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 8, through Saturday, Dec. 11. A matinee is offered at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11. Tickets are $13 for reserved seating, $11 for USU faculty and staff, $9 for all non-USU students and free for USU students with student ID. Tickets may be purchased at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 139B, or at the Caine College of the Arts Dean’s Office Box Office. Both box office locations are open weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and one hour prior to curtain time at the door. Tickets can also be purchased online (arts.usu.edu) or by phone at 797-8022.

New play from Pickleville

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USU’s performance of Shakespeare’s text is special because it includes Felix Mendelssohn’s music, creating a rich audio-visual experience.

“Not only do we have a wonderful cast of 28 talented students, but we are harmonizing a 66-piece orchestra

with the USU Women’s Choir,” said Richie Call, the play’s director. “This production is meant to be an experience enjoyed and treasured.”

This performance also boasts student-driven choreography that embellishes the fairy characters through movement, Call said.

NEW CHRISTMAS MUSICAL FROM Pickleville Playhouse will be performed through Thursday, Dec. 23, at Utah State University’s Eccles Conference Center.

Performances of “Santa’s Elves: A North Pole Musical” begin at 7:30 p.m. Show dates are Dec. 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 23; matinee at 3 p.m. on Dec. 23. A holiday buffet catered by The Copper Mill is available before each performance.

Show-only tickets are $16 for adults and $10 for children 11 years old and under. Dinner and show prices are $32 and $19. Discounts available for company/ office groups and groups of 25 or more. Purchase by calling 755-0968. See www.picklevilleplayhouse.com for more details.

This year’s production was written by T.J. Davis, creator of the “Bandito” musicals, and follows Buster the elf, who joins Santa’s elite “Advisory Council” only to discover a secret that could ruin Christmas.

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All mixed up

Vampire history and folklore at USU musuem N EVENT LOOKING A at the history and folklore of vampires is on slate at Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology Saturday at the Museum Series from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4.

The museum will explore the history, anthropology and myths surrounding vampires and will answer questions about why society is so fascinated by the idea of vampires.

The event will showcase examples of vampires from antiquity up to the present day through a variety of educational displays. Visitors may

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participate in several different activities throughout the day including a make-your-own vampire sucker craft. A vampire costume contest for adults and children will be held at 1

p.m., with prizes to the winners donated by local businesses.

“The vampire world is larger than we can imagine,” said assistant Saturdays coordina-

tor Melissa Allen. “It holds so many meanings, from romance to horror, in the everyday lives of its believers and we are excited to present this information to museum patrons.”

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

In addition to its Saturday program hours, the Museum of Anthropology is open six days a week, with regular hours Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is

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

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

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

The Museum of Anthropology is part of the anthropology program at USU.

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Culture

Bullock, Palin among ‘fascinating’

By The Associated Press

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HAT DO FILM Sandra Bullock and hoops star LeBron James have in common?

Both are among this year’s crop of “The 10 Most Fascinating People,” as harvested by Barbara Walters from the fields of entertainment, sports and world affairs.

Also on the list: GOP superstar Sarah Palin, incoming “American Idol” judge Jennifer Lopez, royal fiancee Kate Middleton and the entire cast of MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” Two more Most Fascinating People are yet to be disclosed, and, as usual, the 10th name will be kept under wraps until the ABC News special airs Dec. 9 at 10 p.m. EST. This is the 18th year Walters has presented her roundup of the biggest and most buzzworthy. But this year, there’s more.

She’s got a companion special the same night.

An hour earlier — at 9 p.m.

EST — Walters is hosting “Oprah, The Next Chapter.” It’s an in-depth visit with Winfrey

AP photo

In this image released by ABC, Barbara Walters, right, poses with former Alaska Gov. and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin during an interview for “Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2010.”

as she readies OWN, her new cable network launching Jan. 1, and roars down the home stretch of her daytime talk show’s final season.

“I interviewed her in 1988, when she was first becoming very popular,” Walters said not long ago. “She and I consider this latest interview our coming full circle.”

On the program, Winfrey will discuss her new network, the reason she’s doing it and concerns she has for its success — “it’s a huge leap of faith,” Walters said.

Winfrey also talks about her relationships with best friend Gayle King and longtime partner Stedman Graham.

“This is an interview about

Oprah’s life at this turning point,” Walters said.

On “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2010,” the conversation is personal, too, when Walters sits down with White.

At 88, White has enjoyed a year of much-deserved attention as an actress-comedian who is full of life, but during her interview, “she talks about how she feels about death,” said Walters, adding, “She still wants to have sex.”

Palin — the former governor and vice presidential candidate — is one of Walters’ most fascinating people for a record third consecutive year. Walters said she came away from their recent meeting convinced that “this is a woman who is going to be a candidate (for president) — or, at least, wants to be a candidate.”

Despite acknowledging that “Jersey Shore” is not a series she has watched very much, Walters saw fit to interview Snooki, The Situation and the rest of the crew.

“They were all on very good behavior and very well

dressed, and they’ve all got big plans for the future,” said Walters. “And they taught me their language” — terms like smoosh and grenade — “none of which I need to know.”

Walters learned something from Bieber, too — a new dance.

“This is a kid who is smart as can be and very talented at 16,” Walters said. And despite his huge success (he emerged as the biggest winner at this year’s American Music Awards), he hasn’t lost his grounding as a 16-year-old: “His mother still takes away his computer when he doesn’t behave.”

As Walters looked back at the year that served up her latest “Fascinating People,” she remarked on what the year has meant to her: In May, she underwent open-heart surgery to replace a faulty valve.

“It was last year at this time that there began to be this shadow in my life,” she said, “because that’s when I heard that I might possibly have to have this surgery. Now that shadow is gone.”

Short Broadway runs for several stars

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.R. KNIGHT, BRENDAN Fraser, Patrick Stewart, David Hyde Pierce and Mark Rylance are among the high-profile actors whose Broadway season has ended rather abruptly.

Those are the early casualties after poor box-office results, weak reviews or a combination of both shortened the runs of the plays “Elling,” “La Bete”

AP photo and “A Life in the Theatre.”

In this Nov. 12, 2010 photo, actor Brendan The fastest failure was “Elling,” Fraser poses at the Ethel Barrymore a play about two recently released Theatre in New York. mental patients in Norway that marked Fraser’s Broadway debut. It views and nine regular performances. opened last Sunday and had hoped Co-starring Tony Award-winner to run until March, but will now will Denis O’Hare, who was largely praised close on Sunday after just 22 prefor his performance, “Elling” was

widely considered to be too intimate a play for a big Broadway theater. It made only about $145,000 during eight performances last week, well short of its $882,000 potential.

“What a world what a world,” O’Hare tweeted after the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York. “Got to be on CBS for the parade and oh, they are shutting down the play. One door shut, another window opens.”

The revival of “La Bete,” starring Rylance, Joanna Lumley and Pierce, as well as David Mamet’s “A Life in the Theatre,” with Stewart and Knight, have also not done well financially this season on Broadway.

“Life” will close Sunday, well short

of its original Jan. 2 intended end. The Neil Pepe-directed play, which focuses on the relationship between two thespians over the course of several dozen small scenes, was considered well acted but light and insubstantial.

And “La Bete” will close Jan. 9 after struggling through about 100 regular performances, despite critical acclaim for Tony winner Rylance and his astonishing 20-minute soliloquy in Act 1.

The revival will have lasted only a little longer than the 25 performances it played on Broadway when it first debuted in 1991.

The theaters for “La Bete” and “Life” were both less than half-filled last week.

Bellow letters reveal a complex man

By The Associate Press

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IKE THE FIRST line of a novel, the idea for a letter could occur to Saul Bellow at any time. The words might have come on a daily walk or during a drive to the grocery store.

“That was thrilling for me to be around, because you witnessed something being born in the moment, the need for something to be done,” Janis Bellow, the late Nobel laureate’s fifth and final wife, said in a recent telephone interview.

Bellow, who died in 2005 at age 89, wrote thousands of letters — some in longhand, some typed and single-spaced, and some dictated to his wife and others. “Saul Bellow: Letters” has just been released, roughly 40 percent of a correspondence covering more than 70 years, with friends and opponents on the receiving end including

boyhood pals, wives and exwives, and writers from Bernard Malamud and John Cheever to Martin Amis and Philip Roth.

In a 1981 letter to Cheever, Bellow praises his fellow artist for showing on the page how he had changed through the act of writing, adding that “nothing counts higher” than “this transforming action of the soul.”

Bellow himself was a study in progress in his letters, from an impulsive teenager to struggling young writer, hurried middleaged man and elderly sage, skeptic and literary father figure to Roth and Amis among others.

Bellow’s letters were clearly from the creator of “Herzog,” ‘’The Adventures of Augie March” and other novels: critical and self-critical, cerebral and emotional, with a redeeming sense of humor (“to return to sanity in the form of laughter”), an impatience for nonsense and a resigned, poetic

eye on mortality. Insisting he was no good at letters, then demonstrating the opposite, he revealed a mind in debate with itself.

The earliest entry is from 1932, when Bellow was 17 and

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AP photo

In this April 17, 1997, file photo, author Saul Bellow shown during an interview at Boston University, where he teaches literature.

Keep your reading list updated at www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

splitting up with a girlfriend. He can hardly bring himself to get to the point. The letter is half prelude, a teenager so self-conscious he practically stammers on the page, commenting on his work as it goes along. He announces he has been “seething and boiling,” but despairs he is a “self-confessed coward” who hates melodrama.

“The only thing that I hate more intensely than melodrama and spinach is myself,” he writes. “You think perhaps I am insane? I am. But I have my pen; I am in my element and I defy you.”

Through much of the 1940s, he is like any young novelist trying to catch on, soliciting friends and acquaintances for Guggenheim grants, worrying about reviews and sales, chastising himself for not writing “freely, with all the stops out from beginning to end.” His fate, and the future of American letters, changed with his liberating third novel, “Augie March,” released in 1953 and a breakthrough apparent to Bellow while working on it.

“As for ‘Augie March,’” he wrote a friend in 1950, “I’m having such an enthusiastic

labor with it that it hadn’t occurred to me — in my daily stump bombings — how a reader might feel about risking limbs in the clearing. No, I don’t believe it has dropped or changed its pace in the fifty thousand words of it I’ve done so far.”

A celebrated fusion of streetlevel energy and high-level intellect, “Augie March” won the National Book Award for Bellow and over the next decade he would write “Seize the Day,” ‘’Henderson the Rain King” and “Herzog,” the novels that confirmed his reputation and led to his winning the Nobel. But he was never too fixed on truth and beauty to ignore life’s fine print.

When Anthony West panned “Augie March” in The New Yorker, Bellow sent an enraged response to the magazine’s fiction editor, Katharine White, that cited West’s “turbulence, thoughtlessness and pedantry.”

In 1969, he commiserated with Roth about “the so-called fabricators” ready to “grind everything to rubble,” unendowed with the “ingenuous, possibly childish love of literature” that Bellow and Roth shared.

As Janis Bellow observes, her husband did not live like an idle scholar. He traveled, argued, loved, learned, fooled around.

Bellow also blazes his own trails of chaos, as in the mid-1960s when he has an extramarital affair.

“I didn’t believe it was possible,” he writes to his lover, Margaret Staats. “Possibly I thought I had been damaged, or self-damaged, too badly for this.

Whatever the reasons, I didn’t expect that my whole soul would go out like this to anyone.”

Failed marriages lead to tension with former spouses and the children he had with them. He complains that one son, Adam, is given to “misrepresent and exaggerate.”

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Books

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Answers from last week

Calendar Friday

Monday or Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 723-8392.

The USU Flute Choir and USU Women’s Choir present a concert of Treble Clef Holiday music at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the USU Performance Hall.

Tickets are $8; free for USU students.

Special guests the Cantate Cache Children’s Choir will also perform.

The Old Barn Community Theatre presents “A Christmas Carol” at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, Dec. 3 through Dec. 18.

Matinees at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 11 and Dec. 18. The theater is located at 3605 Bigler Road, Collinston. Tickets are $8 Doc Christensen will give a presenta- for adults; $7 for children and seniors.

Family ticket packages are now availtion on drawing and painting portraits at 6 p.m. on Friday at the Art Center (25 W. able for performances on Dec. 3, 4 and 100 North) in conjunction with the Gallery 6. Family packages are $25 for up to 6 family members. For more information, Walk. For more information, call 890go to www.oldbarn.org.

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Heritage Theatre presents “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!” at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, Dec. 3 through Dec. 18 at 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry. Matinees at 2 p.m. on Dec. 11 and 18. Tickets are $9 for adults; $8 for children. Call for reservations on

The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra has added a performance to their previously sold-out Ellen Eccles Theatre concerts. The additional performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday with original performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the

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Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $12, $16 and $18. Tickets for those 65 and older are $5 for the 2 p.m. show on Saturday, Dec. 4. Tickets are available at the Eccles Theatre Ticket Office, 43 S. Main St., by calling 752-0026 or visiting www. americanfestivalchorus.org.

Santa’s Smithfield Workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday at the Lions Lodge, 102 N. 380 East, Smithfield. Included are crafts, gifts and food.

Also drop off food, toys and clothing for donation to the Cache Food Pantry and Sub For Santa.

Stokes Nature Center invites toddlers ages 2 to 3 to join them for Parent Tot from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday at the center, located in Logan Canyon. Explore animals, plants and nature through music, crafts and games. This program is parent interactive, and all toddlers must have a parent present. Cost is $3; $2.50

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The third annual Live Nativity benefit will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Monday at the Morgan Farm, 2800 S. 800 West, Nibley. Suggested donation is $1 per person or $10 per family and one canned food item per person. Proceeds benefit area food banks. Includes Moses the Camel, a hay ride and other farm animals. For information, call Richard Eversull at 213-0033.

The American West Heritage Center invites everyone to a Country Christmas Feast and Barn Dance from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Tickets for the dinner and dance are $29.50 for adult; $24.50 for children. Tickets for just the Barn Dance, which will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m., are $7.50 per person. For more information, visit www. awhc.org.

Cache Valley’s Winter Gift Market will be part of the Logan Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main St. Free admission. The festival includes unique gifts and music from over 30 talented local artisans. One of a kind gifts including pottery, woodwork, art glass, beadwork, jewelry, soaps, lotions, photography, handspun fabric arts and more. Also included are alternative gift cards that allow you to sponsor a service at the Cache Humane Society. Examples include: $5 feed a cat/kitten for a week; $7.50 feed a dog/puppy for a week; $15 provide a vaccination for a dog or cat. Visit Winter Gift Market on Facebook or e-mail joy_b@comcast.net for more information.

Saturday The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform from 6 p.m. to closing on Saturday at the Cracker Barrel Cafe in Paradise.

An event on vampire history and folklore will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at USU’s Museum of Anthropology located in Old Main Room 252. A vampire costume contest for adults and kids will be held at 1 p.m., with prizes to the winners donated by local businesses.

A Christmas Boutique will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 725 S. 250 East, Hyde Park.

Enjoy shopping for handmade items including figurines, holiday decor, children’s gifts and photographs. Antique and collectible items will also be available.

Cache Children’s Choir’s Cantate and Concert choirs with special guest, Salt Lake Young Choral Artists Society will perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Logan LDS Tabernacle. Free and open to the public.

The Brigham Young University Young Ambassadors will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Sky View High School, 520 S. 250

East, Smithfield. Tickets are $15 and are available at www.skyviewtix.org. The event is a fundraiser for Encore, a Sky View performing group. Features Broadway tunes, international hits and dancing from all eras.

Songwriter Peter Breinholt brings “A Peter Breinholt Christmas” at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at USU’s Performance Hall. Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 for USU students with ID. To purchase, go to http://arts.usu.edu, the Taggart Student Center, Caine/Eccles Fine Arts Center Box Office or at the door. This is a charity event, and all proceeds go to Bear River Mental Health.

Logan Curves is sponsoring a Holiday Boutique from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at 120 W. Cache Valley Blvd. The public is invited. Vendors are welcome to register for a space. At 10:30 a.m., a class on healthy desserts and a sampling table will be offered. For more information, call 755-9293.

A Very Unique Christmas Boutique will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Child & Family Support Center, 380 W. 1400 North. All proceeds from this fundraising event will benefit the 24-Hour Crisis/ Respite Nursery. This event is being hosted by the Circle of Friends Supporting Children organization. For more information, call 7528880.

Stokes Nature Center invites all ages to join them for “Holiday Crafts: Papermaking” from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the center, located in Logan Canyon. Drop in anytime and learn how to make paper with natural materials in festive holiday colors. Cost is $5 or $4 for SNC members. For more information, call 755-3239 or visit www.logannature. org.

The Utah Safety Council is offering a four-hour defensive driving course from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday at the Sheriff’s Complex, second floor. Cost is $40 per person, $10 for those 55 and older who are seeking a reduction in their insurance rate.

For more information or to register, contact the Utah Safety Council at 800-933-5943 or visit www.utahsafetycouncil.org.

Utah State University’s bands will host the fifth-annual Tri-State Band Symposium at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Kent Concert Hall. Free. This event is an honor band experience for the region’s wind and percussion players and their directors. The event consists of rehearsals with the finest wind and percussion clinicians in the Mountain West.

The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and The Bridger Folk Music Society are hosting their monthly “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East. Music will be provided by “The FourPotatoes Three” with calling by local callers. A $5 donation is suggested at the door. Beginners and families welcome, all dances are taught. For more information, call 753-2480 or 753-5987 or visit www.bridgerfolk.org.

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tion Program which encourages people with disabilities to take part in activities. To sign up, schedule transportation or for more information, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

The Northern Chapter of American Bikes Aiming Towards Education (A.B.A.T.E) will hold its monthly meeting at noon on Sunday at Ruby Tuesday’s, 43 E. 1400 North. All interested motorcyclists over 18 years old are welcome Relda Sandgran will share recipes for a to attend.

Hawaiian Holiday from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday at Macey’s in Providence. Learn to make A holiday concert featuring the Utah State Kalaua pork, coconut rice bowls and teriyaki University Wind Orchestra and Symphonic chicken.

Band will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at USU’s Kent Concert Hall. Cost is $8; free for The John Birch Society (JBS) will meet at USU students, USU faculty and all school 7 p.m. on Wednesday in the BookTable. Dismusic students. cussion on current events and legislation. No

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Zima D.H. Young Camp will have a Christmas luncheon at 1 p.m. on Monday at the Copper Mill Restaurant, 55 N. Main St. No host.

Habitat for Humanity Cache Valley is having a fundraiser from 4 to 10 p.m. on Monday at Texas Roadhouse, 42 E. 1400 North. Order dinner and mention that you are there for the Habitat fundraiser and the organization will get 10 percent of your dinner purchase. For more information, call Habitat at 752-8419.

MedSource is offering free assistive technology maintenance training and assessments from 1 to 4 p.m. on Monday at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main St. For more information or to schedule a home visit, contact Janice at OPTIONS for Independence, 753-5353 ext. 102.

The Cache Valley Retired School Employees Association will meet at 1 p.m. on Monday at the Copper Mill Restaurant. The program will be a Christmas musical presentation by Tayler Jensen and friends. Retired school employees are invited to attend. Reservations are necessary. If you plan on attending, please call Diane Esplin at 563-6412.

Tuesday Auditions for Heritage Theater’s production of “The Secret Garden” will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday. Performance dates are March 4 through March 26 at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays with Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. on March 12 and 19. For more information, call 801814-8707.

A Low Vision Clinic is being offered by specialists from the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday at OPTIONS for Independence at 1095 N. Main St. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact Royella at 753-5353 ext. 105.

OPTIONS for Independence will hold a movie night and gift exchange at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at OPTIONS, 1095 N. Main St. Bring a wrapped $1 gift to exchange and $2 for food.

This activity is part of the Community Integra-

charge. All are welcome. For more information, call 753-2930 or 753-8844.

Ye Olde Tyme Quilters will meet at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N. Main St. Afterward, you can join the group for lunch (prices will vary). For more information or to schedule free transportation, contact Royella at 753-5353 ext. 105.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be staged daily at 7:30 p.m. from Wednesday, Dec. 8, through Saturday, Dec. 11, with a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday at Utah State University’s Morgan Theater. Tickets are $13, $11 for USU faculty and staff, $9 for all non-USU students and free for USU students with ID.

Thursday The semi-annual graduation ceremony for Bridgerland Applied Technology College students will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at BATC’s main campus, 1301 N. 600 West, in rooms 171 A-E. Global Village Gifts and the Multicultural Center of Cache Valley invite you to a “Shop for a Cause” evening from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday at the store, 146 N. 100 East. Your purchase will help fund programs locally. The evening will also include refreshments and door prizes.

Ongoing The Post-Mormon Community’s Cache Valley chapter meets every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. The group is a non-sectarian organization of people who have left Mormonism. Newcomers welcome For more information call Jeff at 770-4263, or go to www.postmormon. org/logan.

New online ‘Happenings’ calendar at hjnews.com Keep up with area events and submit your own using the new calendar feature at hjnews.com.

It’s easy to find.

Just look for it at the top of the homepage.

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