The Herald Journal July 16-22, 2010

On the BIG screenArthouse co-owner Jonathan Ribera

hopes to unify communitywith giant theater mural

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IAM SO EXCITED THE LOGANArthouse and Cinema is once again alive and kicking.

What was once the Redwood, then the Logan Art Cinema, is now the Logan Arthouse and Cinema, owned by Logan brothers Jona-than, James and Joe Ribera. If you’re a fan of indepen-dent movies, you, too, were probably happy to hear the place was once again open-ing its doors. After many threatened closures of the original Art Cinema, and a couple actual closures, it’s so nice to have an “alterna-tive” entertainment place back in business.

But this time it’s even better. The Ribera brothers aren’t just showing movies anymore — there will also be concerts, parties, meet-ings, tournaments ... You name, they’re prob-ably already planning to do it or would love to put it on the schedule.

I remember going to the Art Cinema with my mom to see all those movies we’d read

about that would never otherwise come to Logan. We’d go inside, avoid the bathroom at all costs, pick up some lukewarm popcorn and head into the meat locker, er, theater for our movie. And you know what? We’d still enjoy every single minute of the experience.

Now that the place has been extensively remodeled and the Ribera brothers have put some tender loving care into it, there is a lot of buzz around town that the place might actually make it this time.

Jonathan Ribera told The Herald Journal last April that he’s confident his Arthouse will fare better because it’s locally owned and run, and has the benefit of passionate owners.

The artist also has a million other ideas running through his head — if you turn to Page 8, you can read about the outside wall mural he’s planning to create with the help of the community. Then check out their schedule at www.loganarthouse.com and drop in to say hi. Maybe I’ll see you there!

Have a great weekend, everyone!— Jamie Baer Nielson

Cache Magazine editor

From the editor jbaer@hjnews.com

Jonathan Ribera stands next to a wall at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema that he hopes to paint a mural on — Ribera’s idea

is to turn the building’s north-facing wall into a giant mural of a stadium-seating theater, depicting the diverse populace of Cache Valley watching a movie. Not representative figures — real people. For $50 a head, individuals or whole families can essentially commission their own portrait. Read more on Page 8. Photo by Eli Lucero

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Cute pet photo of the week

This dog is available for adoption!Pet: Hannah From: Cache Humane SocietyWhy she’s so lovable: “Han-nah is new at the shelter. She gets along good with friendly dogs and kids. Very loving and sweet — just look into her eyes. Hannah is full of love and requires a home that can give her extra attention, teach her doggie manners and allow her to become part of the family.” Hannah’s ID number is 2010-8840. To meet her or any other animals up for adoption, call 792-3920 or drop by the shelter at 2370 W. 200 North in Logan.

Check out this week’s ‘Photos By You’ feature!

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What’s inside this week

Aaron: ‘Inception,’ ‘Sorcerer’

both worth seeing

(Page 7) Tabernacle series ......p.4Books .......................p.11

Authentic pioneer fun for the whole

family at the AWHC

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(Page 12-13)Check out what’s going on with

the Festival Opera’s 2010 season

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THE OLD LYRIC Repertory Company will pres-ent the original play “Into the

Daylight” at 2 and 7:30 p.m. July 19 and 2 p.m. July 20 in the Black Box Theatre, Room 224 in the Chase Fine Arts Center on the USU campus. Tick-ets are $5 and can be purchased online at arts.usu.edu or by calling the Caine College of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022.

“Into the Daylight” is created and performed by high school students who have joined the company in a competitive OLRC Apprenticeship Program, a hands-on learning experi-ence for talented high school students

interested in the world of theater.Richie Call is this year’s Apprentice

Program director. He recently com-pleted his master’s degree at Rutgers University and appears onstage for the OLRC this season. He worked with the apprentices to create the original play for this year’s showcase

“The show comes from them,” Call said. “It’s not biographical, but it’s about a group of young adults going through the same experiences and dealing with the same issues that they are.”

The students created the show together in a format Call referred to as a “performance ensemble experience.”

The 2010 OLRC apprentices worked together to create the apprentice show “Into the Daylight.” The 12 apprentices were selected from a large pool of applicants and come from high schools in Utah and Idaho.

OLRC apprentices create original play

“THE ODDCouple” by Neil

Simon will play at 7:30 p.m. every Monday, Friday and Saturday through Aug. 7 at the Heritage Theatre in Perry, 2505 S. Highway 89. A matinee will show at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 31. Tick-ets are $9 for adults and $8 for children and seniors; for reservations, call 435-723-8392 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays

and Saturdays. For more information, visit www.heri tagetheatreutah.com.

Can two divorced men live together — peacefully and serenely — in a small New York City apartment? When the two men are Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, the answer is a resounding no!

Oscar is a hard-living, hard-drinking, divorced sportswrit-er, and a carefree slob with a messy apartment, a broken

refrigerator and wall-to-wall debris. Felix is unfailingly neat, financially frugal and something of a hypochon-driac. Their close friendship is put to the ultimate stress-test when Felix moves in with Oscar and their personalities immediately clash. It’s one zany event after another that comes to an ultimate hilari-ous, exploding conclusion when the men double date with the Pigeon sisters.

Felix (played by Kurt Kidman of Ogden) tells Oscar (played by Tony Ritchie of south Weber), “Watch your ashes, I just vacuumed!”

Neil Simon’s ‘Odd Couple’ opens at Heritage Theatre in Perry

THE SUICIDE DENIAL will perform with Awk-

ward Situations (rock/electron-ic) at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

Electronica rock band The Suicide Denial allows fans and onlookers into the deep-est parts of their twisted lives as they grapple and fight their way through a corrupt music industry in order to spread the message of revolution.

At one point and time in the world of independent music there was an award-winning indie band named Korben. There was a guy, a girl and a newly acquired drummer nobody got to know because shortly after, the band broke up. The brain behind Korben was lead guitarist Chad Ger-ber, who wasn’t about to stop creating music on behalf of the minor setback of no band. Having experience work-ing with members of Guns N Roses, Aloe Blacc and ill

Harmonics, and writing and producing for major and inde-pendent record labels, count-less performances and tours through the U.S., on live radio, television and “A Prairie Home Companion,” Gerber knew exactly who he needed in order to begin a musical revolution.

He contacted fellow Korben alumni and Montana State University music major Chad McKinsey, aka “2012,” about a project he was working on. The project would come to be known as The Suicide Denial. A

cross mix of experimental rock, electronica and classical music met with live performance intensity only Gerber could bring as frontman of the group.

Their once-secret revolu-tion is now out and the people are ready. Anywhere industry corruption cannot survive, their album is free. Soon their revolution will be free in stores across the country, then the world.

For more information about the band, visit www.thesuicide denial.com.

Join the Suicide Denial revolution

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S addle Serenade is a duo of experienced country

music performers, Mary Jo Hansen and Chris Mortensen. They play traditional, contem-porary and original country music. They are well-known locally for their tight vocal harmonies and vast repertoire of tunes. Mary Jo’s daughters, Lindsey and Megan Gray, will join Saddle Serenade for its noon music concert.

The ninth annual Noon Music at the Tabernacle series is in full swing. All concerts are free to the public and begin at noon. Be sure to check Cache Magazine every week for profiles on upcoming performers. (The schedule is always subject to change!) For more information, visit www.cachecommunityconnections.com.

Noon Music at the Tabernacle under way

Chris Mortensen &Mary Jo Hansen (July 21)

The Simmons Brothers (July 17)

M ark, Scott and Darrell Simmons make up the vocal group “The Simmons Brothers. They grew up in River Heights

and are the sons of Gretta and Dale Simmons. All three have been involved in music since a very young age. Singing together and making people smile and tap their toes with their brotherly blend and harmonies has been their goal for more than 20 years. The brothers have been entertaining crowds all over Northern Utah and Southern Idaho and have also been the opening act for some headline entertainers that have visited Logan. They have also had the opportunity to record four CDs: three of the easy-listening country-style music and one Christmas CD.

Cinnamon Creek Singers (July 16)

T he Cinnamon Creek Folk Singers are a group of 12 women from Northern Utah who for

18 years have arranged, performed and shared their love for traditional Western pioneer, railroad and American folk songs. The group was created to preserve and promote the national and regional folk music heritage. Traditional instruments used during their programs include the moun-tain and hammered dulcimers, fiddle, bodhran drum, guitar, concertina, tin whistle, banjo, folk

bass, harmonica and washboard. Railroad songs, religious hymns, western migration songs, and traditional folk music are performed by women who wear traditional costumes representative of the American West in the late 1800s. Group members include Ronda Shaffer, director; Janet Hunt, business manager; and Annette Barber, Pam Bench, Angela Daugherty, Diane Erickson, Kaye Jacobsen, Tere Moore, Nancy Olsen, Janice Toyn, Merrilee Wells and Becky Whittier.

Banjoman & Company (July 20)

B anjoman & Co. returns to the tabernacle for the fifth time with lively, foot-tapping,

happy music. The group performs a variety of tunes: some bluegrass standards, a waltz or two, familiar songs like “You Are My Sunshine,” instrumentals with banjo, fiddle, mandolin and autoharp, and several original songs written by group leader Dave Taylor, aka Banjoman. This concert will include the premiere performance of “A Brand New Day,” one of Dave’s newest

songs featured on his latest, double album CD, “Many Moods,” containing 21 original songs as performed with the full band and individual members of the Company. Banjoman’s Company includes Dave’s wife, Kathy, on bass; Brian Judy on guitar; and Dave Hunt, who plays mainly fid-dle and mandolin but is also featured on guitar. A two-time Utah state champion on guitar and on mandolin and second place on fiddle, this will be Hunt’s last show with the group.

Sue Baker (July 22)

S oprano Susan Baker will be joined by four talented musicians in a musical

program of Broadway tunes, sacred favor-ites and entertaining operatic melodies. There is much love and laughter included in the preparation of this program.

Susan — Susan performed for many years in southern California in musical theater and opera. She has sung opera internationally and now enjoys concert per-forming. She is a graduate of California State University Northridge where she studied French and vocal performance. Her favor-ite performing opportunity was singing the national anthem for the L.A. Dodgers over many years. She recently became an Aggie, graduating from USU with a degree in history. She is the mom of two red-haired sons.

Sylvia — Sylvia Kirkland, accompanist, is a graduate of USU, hav-ing studied under Betty Beecher and Irving Wassermann. She studied organ with James Drake. She teaches piano and organ in Logan. Sylvia is a native of Cache Valley, growing up in Smithfield.

She and her husband, Kerry, have a won-derful daughter, AnnaLynne.

Lisa — Lisa Budge, alto, sings with the American Festival Chorus. She enjoyed many years of membership in

the Northern Utah Choral Society and was a charter member of the group Sisters in Song. She is the mother of six children.

Diane — Diane Jensen, accom-panist, is also a graduate of USU with a

degree in elementary education with a piano performance minor. She studied under Irving Wassermann. She has taught piano in Hyde Park for 45 years. She is the mother of six children, including Jen-nifer, who sings with the group. She and her husband, John, have 11 grandchildren.

Jennifer — Jennifer Bohman, soprano, is a graduate of USU, where she majored in vocal performance. She cur-rently teaches piano and voice in Hyde Park and is a musical director for Sky View High School’s theater productions. She is the proud mom of three boys and a baby girl, Alyssa.

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THE ANNUALSpirit of ’47 Pioneer Jubilee will take place

from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 24 at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. This event features authentic pioneer activities for the whole fam-ily, including the largest Pio-neer Water Party in the West, Gatling Gun demonstration, the annual Wild West Marbles Tournament, pioneer games, Bridgerland Games and more.

Though the event is free, there is a $4 charge for pony and train rides. Lunch vendors will also be present. The popu-lar Pioneer Handcart Progres-sive Dinner is that evening, where guests push and pull handcarts to the various parts of their meal and for pioneer-style activities at each stop (reserva-tions are required for the din-ner; call 245-6050).

Among the special guests at the event will be Ray Howser, an antique-weapons aficio-nado and collector who will be

bringing a few of the canons in his collection to shoot off.

One of the most popular Jubi-lee events is the Pioneer Water Party. One crowd favorite from 2009 was Bucket Roulette, where if you said the wrong thing (which was ironically the “right” thing), you got a bucket of water in the face. The old water wagons from the past pro-vided an effective backdrop.

The Bridgerland Games is a type of pioneer Olympics with feats of skills for all ages and genders. Events include pan-ning for gold, log sawing with an old-fashioned buck saw, knot tying and lashing, buffalo chip tossing and other pioneer games. It is team competition for mostly families, though in the days of the Festival of the American West, cities and towns sent representatives to compete. Last year the Loy Moser family of Logan won.

Of course there will also be living history activities at several sites, including a 1917

farm, a pioneer settlement (where much of the action happens for this event), a mountain man camp, a Sho-shone encampment and trade shops such as an old-fashioned woodwright and a milliner (hat maker). They will have vari-ous shows and performances throughout the day as well, including the cast of Wild West Shakespeare and members of the gunfighter club.

The annual Pioneer Handcart Progressive Dinner closes the day beginning at 6 p.m. Dinner guests push and pull handcarts to various destinations to pro-cure the various parts of their meal. Along the way are pio-neer activities that give visitors a feel for the fun times the pio-neers had along their journey. Cost is $12 for adults, $8 for kids or $36.50 for a family of up to six.

For more information about the Pioneer Jubilee, contact the Heritage Center at 245-6050 or visit www.awhc.org.

Volunteer Paul Wheeler drives the train for visitors at the American West Heritage Center.

Authentic pioneer funfor the whole family

UTAH STATEUniversity President Stan

L. Albrecht received a copy of “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Differ-ence” by Warren St. John — this year’s selection for the Connec-tions program’s Common Litera-ture Experience.

The Common Literature Experi-ence encourages the entire campus community, the local community and USU’s newest students to read the book and attend an August convocation lecture featuring the coach of the legendary refugee soccer team, Luma Mufleh.

St. John, a New York Times reporter, brought Clarkston, Ga., to national attention in 2007

with a series of articles about the changes in a small Southern town brought about by an influx of refu-gees from all over the world. This book comes out of those articles. It gives more detail about the town and, most particularly, the three soccer teams composed of refu-gee boys (the Fugees) who were coached by Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman.

The book is a sports story, a sociological study, a tale of glob-al and local politics and the story of a determined woman who became involved in the lives of her young charges. Keeping the boys in school and out of gangs, finding a place for them to practice and helping their fami-lies survive in a new world all

became part of her daily life.

“‘Outcasts United’ can promote discussion about the intricacies of

today’s global environment and the challenges of understanding diverse perspectives,” said Noelle Call, director of Retention and Student Success and the Connec-tions program director. “Other themes in the book include immi-gration issues, refugee resettle-ment, local and global politics, cultural conflict and change, iden-tity and intergenerational issues, biculturalism, the value of team sports and community building.”

The literature experience culmi-nates with a convocation lecture by Mufleh, who will speak at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus. Admission is free. For more infor-mation, call 797-1194.

USU encourages community to read ‘Outcasts United’

“Predators”Rated R★

1⁄2 This, the third “Predator” film (there have also been two “Predator vs. Alien” spinoffs), opens with Adrien Brody in free-fall. His parachute barely opens in time, and he crashes hard onto the floor of a jungle. Other mercenaries follow from the sky like Wile E. Coyotes. Bugs Bunny cartoons, though, have more complex narratives than this fran-chise reboot, directed by Nimrod Antal (“Armored”) and originally written by Robert Rodriguez. Our gang of warriors (predators them-selves) eventually deduce that they’ve been dropped on another planet as little more than game for the lurking predators, those dreadlocked monsters who bleed glow-stick green. The “most dangerous game” thrill is so much the center of the “Predator” series that there’s almost nothing else to it. Why bother with silly things like plausibility when your trademark climax is your star covering himself in mud? With Topher Grace and Walton Gog-gins enlivening things, and Lau-rence Fishburne in a Col. Kurtz-like cameo. R for strong creature violence and gore, and pervasive language. 107 min.

“Despicable Me”Rated PG★★

1⁄2 Despite some clever moments and colorful charac-ters, this could have been called “Forgettable Me” instead. It has a pleasingly off-kilter look about it — the work of a French animation house — a strong voice cast led by Steve Carell as the bumbling bad guy Gru and a delightfully cruel sense of humor. It’s actually darker and odder than most family-friendly animated fare, and that’s a good thing — until it goes predict-ably soft and gooey at the end, that is. But what’s mainly miss-ing from this first animated 3-D offering from Universal is story. There’s just nothing to “Despi-cable Me,” and that becomes glaringly obvious when you compare it to this summer’s “Toy Story 3” in particular and Pixar movies in general, where story is paramount. Here, the look of the film is what makes it stand

out amid the glut of summer car-toons. The characters are cute in their weirdness, down to Gru’s shaggy, growling dog. Even the trio of spunky orphans crucial to Gru’s diabolical plan to steal the moon are adorable in an unusual way. The scene-stealers, though, are the Minions: tiny, yellow, pill-shaped creatures with one eye and sometimes two who carry out Gru’s evil deeds. At least, they try. Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews are among the supporting cast. PG for rude humor and mild action. In 2-D and 3-D. 95 min.

“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”Rated PG-13★★ With Stephenie Meyer’s franchise under new manage-ment again, this time director David Slade (best known for the hard-core vampire horror flick “30 Days of Night”), and a stronger story than the first two movies, “Eclipse” manages to do what its two dreadfully dumb predeces-sors could not. It almost makes believers out of those of us who don’t much care whether Kristen Stewart’s moon-eyed teen Bella Swan chooses vampire stud Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) or werewolf hunk Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Almost. The trouble is, while “Eclipse” may not be dreadfully dumb, it’s still pretty dumb. Slade uses that to his advantage here and there, light-ening up on the relentless gloom of the earlier movies by making

fun of some of the franchise’s sil-liness. Still, the movie mostly wal-lows in what fans love most, that whiny romantic triangle among a schoolgirl and her two beastie boys. Not as if it’s news to Mey-er’s millions of readers, but this time out, vamps and wolves team up to stop an army of extra-nasty newborn bloodsuckers. PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensual-ity. 121 min.

“The Last Airbender”Rated PG★ A joyless, soulless, muddled mess, but the worst part of all doesn’t come until the very end. That’s when it makes the clear suggestion that two more such movies are in store for us. Hope-fully, that won’t happen. Based on the Nickelodeon animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbend-er,” this live-action fantasy adven-ture has epic scope and soaring ambitions, exotic locations and a cast of thousands, but man-ages to get everything wrong on every level. It is yet another misstep for writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, whose career has been steadily on the decline since the marvel of “The Sixth Sense.” A 2-D movie converted to 3-D, “The Last Airbender” often has a smudged and blurry look about it, as if there’s some kind of schmutz on your clunky plastic glasses. This is especially true during moments of darkness or scenes that take place at night

— and that’s a problem, since a lot of pivotal stuff takes place at night. At least, one can surmise as much. The script is so incom-prehensible, it’s often difficult to follow, despite several instances of characters stopping whatever they’re doing to explain what’s going on. Noah Ringer stars as Aang, the prophesied Avatar who will unite the tribal nations of Air, Water, Earth and Fire — people who can manipulate or “bend” those elements, and have been torn apart by war. Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis, Nicola Peltz and Jackson Rathbone co-star. PG for fantasy action violence. In 2-D and 3-D. 103 min.

“Grown Ups”Rated PG-13★ Shockingly inept even by the standards we’ve come to expect from a Happy Madison produc-tion, this feels as if it were made without considering whether an audience would ever actu-ally see it. It assaults us with an awkward mix of humor (which is rarely funny) and heart (which is never touching), but even more amateurishly, it features copious cutaways to characters laughing at each others’ jokes. For long stretches of time, Adam Sandler and Co. sit around a New Eng-land lake house goofing on each other, telling stories and reminisc-ing about old times. Given that these other characters are played by Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider,

you would hope that some of the lines would work (from James and Rock, at least). One gets the distinct impression that these guys, four out of five of whom are “Saturday Night Live” alumni, improvised most of their insults and one-liners, and there just happened to be a camera or two rolling. The plot, which is essen-tially “The Big Chill” with jokes about flatulence and bunions, finds these five childhood friends reuniting for the funeral of the basketball coach who led them to a championship in 1978. PG-13 for crude material including sug-gestive references, language and some male rear nudity. 98 min.

“Knight and Day”Rated PG-13★★

1⁄2 Introducing an exciting new talent: Tom Cruise. Sure, we know Tom Cruise after his three decades in the business. We know way too much about Tom Cruise, actually, thanks to his well-documented off-screen antics the past few years. “Knight and Day” is a refreshing reminder, though, of why he is a superstar: He has that undeniable cha-risma about him and he really can act, something for which he doesn’t always get the credit he deserves. Here, he plays a Vin-tage Tom Cruise Role: He gets to be charming but also toy with the idea that he might be a little nuts. As secret agent Roy Miller, he has that twinkle in his eye and that sexy little smile but he’s also strangely calm in the middle of elaborate car chases and shootouts — relaxed, articulate and abidingly courteous when most mortals would be freaking out. That’s part of the fun of the character and the movie as a whole, that contradiction. Cruise’s presence also helps keep James Mangold’s film light, breezy and watchable when the action — and the story itself — spin ridiculously out of control. Cruise and Camer-on Diaz make an oddly appealing pair as a (possibly) rogue spy and the innocent woman he must now protect. But the romance between them feels forced and is one of the movie’s chief weaknesses. PG-13 for sequences of action violence throughout, and brief strong language. 109 min.

— All reviews byThe Associated Press

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FilmStill playing “Toy Story 3”

Rated G★★★ This is what happens when you’re good at your job: Everyone expects excellence from you, and anything even slightly short of that feels like a letdown. “Toy Story 3” is a gorgeous film — funny, sweet and clever in the tradition of the best Pixar movies — but because it comes from that studio’s nearly flawless tradition, including two “Toy Story” pre-decessors, the expectations naturally are inflated. The sto-rytelling in no way is in question; it never is at Pixar, which is the fundamental reason their films are so strong. Neither is the voice cast, led once again by Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack, with

formidable newcomers like Ned Beatty thrown into the mix. The details are as vibrant and tactile as ever: the textures and expressions, the use of light, angles and perspective. And the core con-cept — that toys have a rich, complex interior life when people aren’t around — still resonates all

these years later. If “Toy Story” hadn’t come out in 1995 and “Toy Story 2” hadn’t followed it in 1999, “Toy Story 3” would stand on its own

as a breakthrough. Trouble is, those earlier movies do exist. And by comparison, this third installment — in which Andy heads

off to college and the toys end up in day care — doesn’t feel quite so

fresh. Then, of course, there is the 3-D — the unfortunate

trend of the summer. It’s not intrusive, but it’s also completely unnecessary. G. In 3-D and IMAX 3-D. 98 min.

“Inception”

E scapism — that’s the reason we go to movies, to escape the world we

live in, if only for an hour or two. What better way to escape reality than through a dream?

That’s what Christopher Nolan wants you to do in his new movie, “Inception.” Let me just come right out and say it: “Inception” is the best movie of 2010 so far, and has the possibility of being the best of the entire year. It’s been a long time since I’ve experi-enced that complete feeling of being engulfed by a movie, but Nolan’s “Inception” engrosses your senses and takes you on a ride you will not soon forget.

The plot is complicated, which is something that defies most summer blockbusters. In the world of “Inception,” people are able to tap into people’s dreams in order to extract ideas from them. This comes in use-ful in the world of corporate espionage where companies are continuously trying to steal each other’s ideas to get ahead. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a professional extractor, and he and his partner, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), are in the busi-ness of robbing people of their dreams and ideas.

I hesitate to divulge much more information about the plot — it’s increasingly convoluted, but Nolan has masterfully edit-ed it into 148 minutes of heart-pounding excitement. He’s able to take this grandiose plot and make it as compelling as any-thing you’ve ever watched on the big screen. Nolan has firmly cemented himself as one of the premiere storytellers of our time. His ideas in “Inception” are so simple, yet so original. The aspect of planting an idea in someone’s head is brought up — sure, ideas are a very simple subject right? We all know what an idea means, but what about giving someone an idea and making them truly think that idea came from their own inspi-ration? Now it’s complicated.

Nolan does this so well. He’s a truly original filmmaker.

In a world run amok with out-of-control CG effects, Nolan creates a world with so many real-life special effects (like a freight train barreling down the middle of a city street) that it’s hard to tell when CG is being used. And when it is used, it doesn’t look fake or hokey: It’s masterfully done.

One of the greatest filming achievements of the movie is a sequence that requires Gor-don-Levitt to flip end over end through a hotel hallway as grav-ity in the dream world shifts. He runs up walls attacking would-be assailants and flies from the ceiling to the floor in such fluid movements that the entire scene is awe-inspiring. A simple hand-to-hand fist fight has been turned into one of the most inventively filmed scenes you’ll ever see.

I know I haven’t written much about what “Inception” is about or the characters that populate it, but I have a feeling going into this movie with the freshest mind possible is the way to go. Even though the movie is packed full of as much action as you could have hoped for, its plot is even more astounding. When the year 2020 rolls around and we’re dis-cussing the best movies to come

out of this decade, “Inception” is sure to be on that list. Yes, it’s just that good.

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

M aybe it’s because of the onslaught of subpar kiddie flicks

without brains or heart (like “Percy Jackson” and “The Last Airbender”), but when it came time to see Disney’s new film, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” starring Nic Cage, I had very

low expectations.From the trailers it’s remi-

niscent of another movie involving magic where actors wave their arms around and CG takes over from there. So it was surprising to find out “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is more than just a CG festival of spe-cial effects. This film does so many things right.

Let’s talk about the plot first. Dave (Jay Baruchel) is just a poor science nerd. One day as a kid he meets Balthazar (Nicolas Cage). It isn’t long before we’re let into the wizarding world

and get heaps of backstory involving Balthazar and his mortal enemy, Horvath (Alfred Molina). After Balthazar places a special ring on Dave and it fits, it’s clear Dave is the person who has been prophesied about by Merlin himself as the sor-cerer that will come along and rid the world of the evil sorcerer Morgana. (Yes, it’s all very confusing when I try and type it down in sequential order, but watching it on the screen makes it much easier to follow.)

See REEL on p.10

The Reel Place

By Aaron Peck

★★★★“Inception”Rated PG-13

★★★“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

Rated PG

‘Inception,’ ‘Sorcerer’ both worth seeing

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Many times a year, you walk into a room and sit down with dozens of people with at least one common interest. Then you ignore them for a few hours, retreat into your head and soak up the show before you. To be part of an audience is to intimately share an experience with com-plete strangers.

In one lasting brush stroke, Logan Arthouse and Cinema co-owner Jonathan Ribera wants to take some of the anonymity out of the big screen and paint it as the force it is: a unifier of the community.

“You’d be surprised who all likes the same film,” says Ribera, 35, who pur-chased the old arthouse this year with his brothers James and Joe.

Ribera’s idea is to turn the building’s north-facing wall into a giant mural of a stadium-seating theater, depicting the diverse populace of Cache Valley watching a movie. Not representative figures — real people. For $50 a head, individuals or whole families can essen-tially commission their own portrait, writ large, on the building that stands at 795 N. Main St. in Logan.

“We’re thinking of, just depending on how many people respond to this, paint-ing stadium seating where (the viewer is) looking from the screen, and you’re looking into the stadium and seeing peo-ple talking, kids sneaking popcorn, or scared to death, all the different things that go on.”

Ribera hopes the project will attract a diverse crowd that reflects the diversity of the valley, and customize the experi-ence around them.

“What we’ll do is try to create whatever

they want to do,” he said. “Maybe your whole fam-ily’s going to be scared. You’re seeing King Kong coming at you in 3-D.”

In keeping with the tone of com-

munity ownership and control, the new

owners are expanding the lineup. The one-

screen theater now has a stage up front for concerts, comedy shows and other bookings to suit the community’s needs and requests. So far, the Logan Arthouse has been host to a youth Shakespeare group and a screening of the World Cup soccer games, among other events. Independent and foreign films will still be shown every week starting this fall — but the goal is for there to be something for everybody.

“We really want the community to feel like this is their theater arthouse, and a lot of people don’t even know we exist yet,” Ribera said.

That is changing. The Logan Arthouse has a growing Facebook presence, and Ribera is seeing ideas for future shows roll in from the community.

He said he hopes the mural project will serve a dual purpose by making the theater stand out as an interesting landmark and, at the same time, send a signal that it belongs to the community it serves.

“We were always taught by our dad to improve wherever you’re at,” Ribera said, “and we’re all musically inclined or artistically inclined. So we said this is a way we could give back to a com-munity that we love. ... This way the community can feel like, ‘Hey, it’s not

On the BIG screenRibera’s portfolio

of mural

Arthouse co-owner Jonathan Ribera hopes to unify

community withgiant theater mural

Photo by Eli Lucero

Jonathan Ribera stands next to a wall on which he hopes to paint a mural at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema.

just their theater where we go and pay them; it’s our theater that we can be a part of.’”

People or families interested in com-missioning a piece of the mural can visit the theater’s website, www.loganart house.com, or contact Ribera at eagall ery@yahoo.com.

Since the painting has to happen in the summer months, Ribera said he hopes to get a response from the community as soon as possible and to get started on the bigger picture, filling in people’s faces as they step up.

“If we have a hundred people, great,” he said. “If we have five, then I have a completely different idea.”

- By William Hampton

“The Logan Arthouse will provide a unique, comfortable and clean venue for many different types of art originating in and around Cache Valley. We will also provide independent films not shown in other venues locally. Our goal is to cater not only to the eclectic tastes of artists and art lovers, but also to a broader population as a whole. We seek to provide opportunities for local musicians, artists and filmmakers to showcase their work. Our slogan is ‘The Lo-gan Arthouse: The best movies, music and art you’ve never heard of!’”

Mission statement ...

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Many times a year, you walk into a room and sit down with dozens of people with at least one common interest. Then you ignore them for a few hours, retreat into your head and soak up the show before you. To be part of an audience is to intimately share an experience with com-plete strangers.

In one lasting brush stroke, Logan Arthouse and Cinema co-owner Jonathan Ribera wants to take some of the anonymity out of the big screen and paint it as the force it is: a unifier of the community.

“You’d be surprised who all likes the same film,” says Ribera, 35, who pur-chased the old arthouse this year with his brothers James and Joe.

Ribera’s idea is to turn the building’s north-facing wall into a giant mural of a stadium-seating theater, depicting the diverse populace of Cache Valley watching a movie. Not representative figures — real people. For $50 a head, individuals or whole families can essen-tially commission their own portrait, writ large, on the building that stands at 795 N. Main St. in Logan.

“We’re thinking of, just depending on how many people respond to this, paint-ing stadium seating where (the viewer is) looking from the screen, and you’re looking into the stadium and seeing peo-ple talking, kids sneaking popcorn, or scared to death, all the different things that go on.”

Ribera hopes the project will attract a diverse crowd that reflects the diversity of the valley, and customize the experi-ence around them.

“What we’ll do is try to create whatever

they want to do,” he said. “Maybe your whole fam-ily’s going to be scared. You’re seeing King Kong coming at you in 3-D.”

In keeping with the tone of com-

munity ownership and control, the new

owners are expanding the lineup. The one-

screen theater now has a stage up front for concerts, comedy shows and other bookings to suit the community’s needs and requests. So far, the Logan Arthouse has been host to a youth Shakespeare group and a screening of the World Cup soccer games, among other events. Independent and foreign films will still be shown every week starting this fall — but the goal is for there to be something for everybody.

“We really want the community to feel like this is their theater arthouse, and a lot of people don’t even know we exist yet,” Ribera said.

That is changing. The Logan Arthouse has a growing Facebook presence, and Ribera is seeing ideas for future shows roll in from the community.

He said he hopes the mural project will serve a dual purpose by making the theater stand out as an interesting landmark and, at the same time, send a signal that it belongs to the community it serves.

“We were always taught by our dad to improve wherever you’re at,” Ribera said, “and we’re all musically inclined or artistically inclined. So we said this is a way we could give back to a com-munity that we love. ... This way the community can feel like, ‘Hey, it’s not

On the BIG screenRibera’s portfolio

of mural

Arthouse co-owner Jonathan Ribera hopes to unify

community withgiant theater mural

Photo by Eli Lucero

Jonathan Ribera stands next to a wall on which he hopes to paint a mural at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema.

just their theater where we go and pay them; it’s our theater that we can be a part of.’”

People or families interested in com-missioning a piece of the mural can visit the theater’s website, www.loganart house.com, or contact Ribera at eagall ery@yahoo.com.

Since the painting has to happen in the summer months, Ribera said he hopes to get a response from the community as soon as possible and to get started on the bigger picture, filling in people’s faces as they step up.

“If we have a hundred people, great,” he said. “If we have five, then I have a completely different idea.”

- By William Hampton

“The Logan Arthouse will provide a unique, comfortable and clean venue for many different types of art originating in and around Cache Valley. We will also provide independent films not shown in other venues locally. Our goal is to cater not only to the eclectic tastes of artists and art lovers, but also to a broader population as a whole. We seek to provide opportunities for local musicians, artists and filmmakers to showcase their work. Our slogan is ‘The Lo-gan Arthouse: The best movies, music and art you’ve never heard of!’”

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Baruchel dawns his signature geek-like stammer; Cage dives head-first into another role that couldn’t be played by anybody but him. No matter what Cage picks to be in, you’ve got to hand it to him — he goes all out. It never feels like he’s mail-ing in a performance, and here he makes the world of sorcerers believable and fun.

What makes “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” such a ride is that it doesn’t just rely on its special effects to squeak by. The team of writers that worked on this film saw it fit to piece together a movie full of clever lines and interactions with characters. This isn’t like “Prince of Per-sia” jumping from one incoher-ent action scene to another. The clever writing gives the movie a real brain where it could have so easily lacked, and there’s a joke in here for the older gen-eration. I dare not reveal what

it is, but you will know when it happens. One of the funniest gags from a film this year.

Another clever aspect to the story is the way magic is explained. This isn’t just magic for magic’s sake. Balthazar explains that magic is like sci-ence in that you have to control the molecules of any given object and use them at your whim. What’s fun about this is that we have a world with magic, but the magic has rules. It is a learned trade, and isn’t something that just comes to

someone: It involves studying and knowledge of the world around you.

OK, back to the story — Dave is faced with a plethora of problems. He’s a weakling, and harnessing the world’s magic isn’t really at the top of his to-do list. He’d much rather spend time with his childhood sweet-heart, Becky, but saving the world must come first. In the end, “The Sorcerer’s Appren-tice” is a fine respite from the deluge of brainless kids’ movies that have gone through theaters

in the last few months. It’s something parents can take their kids to and be just as involved with the story and characters. These kinds of films are rare nowadays, so don’t miss it.

Film critic Aaron Peck has a bachelor’s degree in English from USU. He also writes for BlogCritics.org and HighDef-Digest.com, and is starting up a new movie website called TheReelPlace.com. He is not an employee of the newspaper. Feedback at aaronpeck46@gmail.com.

The “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” cast includes Scott Henderson as Adam; Paul Dattage as Benjamin; Richard Cox as Caleb; Chris Kidd as Daniel; Mason Imada as Ephraim; Landon Weeks as Frank; Jason Baldwin as Gideon; Kassie Kidd as Milly; Gwendolyn Petunia Dattage as Dorcas; Sylvia Newman as Ruth; Katherine Freeman as Liza; Katherine Newman as Martha; Devery Greene as Sarah; and Hailey Weeks as Alice.

“SEVENBrides for Seven

Brothers” will play at 7:30 p.m. every Mon-day, Friday and Satur-day, July 23 through Aug. 14, at the Old Barn Community Theatre, 3605 Bigler Road, Col-linston. Matinees will show at 2:30 p.m. July 31 and Aug. 7. Tickets are $8 for adults and $7 for children and seniors, and can be purchased at www.oldbarn.org or by calling 435-458-BARN.

A Barn Burner will be

held at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 22. This is a fund-raiser dinner for the the-ater. A Dutch-oven dinner will be served followed by a performance of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” Tickets are $30 per couple or $16 for individual admission.

“Goin’ courting” has never been as much fun as in this rip-roaring stage version of the pop-ular MGM movie, adapt-ed by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay. Milly is a young bride living in the 1850s Oregon

wilderness whose plan to civilize and marry off her six rowdy broth-ers-in-law to ensure the success of her own mar-riage backfires when the brothers, in their enthusi-asm, kidnap six women from a neighboring town to be their brides.

Bursting with the rambunctious energy of the original film, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” is all boister-ous fun and romance that harkens back to the glory days of the movie musical.

New play opens at Old Barn Theatre

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mail submis-sions to jbaer

@hjnews.com or call

792-7229 for more infor-

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The Christian Science Monitor

This review from the archives originally ran Sept. 15, 2008

“OURS WAS A clash of civiliza-tions, writ small,”

writes Ariel Sabar of his rela-tionship with his father. “He was ancient Kurdistan. I was 1980s L.A.”

Sabar, who until recently cov-ered the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign for The Christian Science Monitor, is the son of an Iraqi Jew from Kurdistan, a gentle scholar forced from his homeland by politics, a man who grew up in a corner of the world so isolated that he was raised speaking the ancient Ara-maic of Jesus.

If this sounds exotic or thrill-ing to the rest of us, it was noth-ing but mortifying to the youth-ful Sabar who was raised in Los Angeles.

“Mostly ... I kept my dis-tance,” he writes of his father. “He lived in his world, I in mine.... (A)t some point, as a teenager, I even stopped call-ing him Abba or Dad. He was just ‘Yona’ ... the odd-looking, funny-talking man with strange grooming habits who lived with us and who may or may not have been my father, depending on who was asking.”

“My Father’s Paradise” is Sabar’s quest to reconcile an ancient past with his own life today — and to knit his father’s story to his own. It was when Sabar began his own career as a journalist and then became a father himself that the formi-dable challenges his father had faced began to earn his respect.

Using his journalistic skills, Sabar began to delve deeper into his father’s past. As he did, the value of his father’s unique-ness became clearer to him.

Eventually, in full pursuit of family knowledge, Sabar proposes to his father that they travel together to Zakho,

in Iraqi Kurdistan, to see his father’s native village.

Not too surprisingly, Yona resists. “The height of the Iraqi insurgency against the American occupation wasn’t necessarily the ideal time for a sentimental journey by two American Jews,” he points out to his son.

Yet Yona finally relents and in 2005, the two visit Zakho, now a booming metropolis of new housing developments, factories, and Internet cafes. The trip overwhelms Yona with nostalgia and paternal pride.

But Sabar begins his story in the remote Zakho of his father’s past, where a large, Jewish, Aramaic-speaking enclave had lived in isolation and relative harmony for centuries.

This tightly knit community seemed the entire universe to Yona, who was born in 1938. But world events soon changed everything. The creation of the state of Israel in 1948, coupled with Arab hostility to its found-ing, forced Yona out of his para-dise for good.

After Iraq and its Arab allies lost a war to Israel, virulent anti-Semitism spread all over the region. “Muslim Iraqis started eyeing their Jewish neighbors and friends with sus-picion,” writes Sabar, “(and) the Iraqi parliament made Zionism

a crime.” Prominent Iraqi Jews were rounded up, imprisoned, and sometimes executed. Faced with increasing persecution, Zakho’s ancient Jewish commu-nity fled Iraq for Israel.

The exile from his homeland served to focus Yona’s academ-ic intensity: He proved to be a brilliant Aramaic scholar first at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University and later at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

But cultural isolation as an Iraqi Jew shadowed his every step. The bright promise of 1960s America also triggered an “existential depression,” brought on by Yona’s encoun-ters with “spiritual shallowness” and endless small talk.

“America is a country of 200 million lonely people,” he wrote to his sister in Jerusalem.

Yet Yona would make his mark, becoming a leading scholar of the Aramaic lan-guage. He met and married a young Jewish woman from New Haven and began an

American family life as best he could.

“Behind him were home, family, roots,” writes Sabar of his father. “Ahead, America, where, free of history, you could fly. ... How could a man abandon his past and hold on to it at the same time?”

But to Ariel, as a sulking, rebellious California kid, these sorts of identity questions only meant his father was an eccen-tric academic (Yona taught at UCLA), a penny-pinching embarrassment.

“In a city of $300 coiffures,” writes Sabar, “my father cut his own hair,” drove a beat-up Chevette and possessed zero fashion sense.

“I mocked (him) and I pulled away,” he recalls. “I tried to morph into the ultimate L.A. boy, some hybrid of actor, surf-er and rock ’n’ roller.”

Sabar admits his work sits somewhere between history and biography. Personal stories are unconfirmed, family mysteries

remain unsolved.And yet his own struggles to

trace his family’s path draws him ever closer to the impetus that drives his father: “I saw now that his work (as an Ara-maic scholar) was ... the out-ward expression of an intensely personal struggle to reconcile past and present.”

This must be why Sabar has resolved — with this labor of love — to educate his own young son and daughter about Zakho and to teach them the dying Aramaic language, searching “for signals about what part of our past might sur-vive into the future.”

A reader is left with no doubt that Sabar’s children are being offered a legacy of surpassing value.

“My Father’s Paradise” is an engaging account of a won-derful, enlightening journey, a voyage with the power to move readers deeply even as it stretches across differences of culture, family and memory.

‘Paradise’ engaging, enlightening, moving

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Private” by James Patterson2. “Sizzling Sixteen” by Janet Evanovich3. “... Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson4. “The Overton Window” by Glenn Beck5. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

HARDCOVER NONFICTION1. “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern2. “Medium Raw” by Anthony Bourdain3. “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis4. “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” by Chelsea Handler5. “Spoken from the Heart” by Laura Bush

PAPERBACK ADVICE1. “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” by Mark Cotta Vaz2. “... When You’re Expecting” by Heidi Murkoff3. “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman4. “The Belly Fat Cure” by Jorge Cruise5. “The Love Dare” by Stephen & Alex Kendrick

PAPERBACK (MASS-MARKET) FICTION1. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson2. “Austin” by Linda Lael Miller3. “Love in the Afternoon” by Lisa Kleypas4. “The Girl Who Played With Fire” by Stieg Larsson5. “Finger Lickin’ Fifteen” by Janet Evanovich

* This week’s New York Times Best-seller List *

Keep your reading list updatedat www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

Utah Festival Opera 2010

Extra Operatunities“George M!”

When: 1 p.m. July 21 and 29

Starring: Michael Ballam as George M. Cohan

“Musica Magnifica”What: Featuring special guest star Marni Nixon

When: 7:30 p.m. July 24

“Carnevale Operafesta”What: Featuring UFO’s principal artists & the Operatic Competition winner.

When: 7:30 p.m. July 28

“A Tribute to Lerner & Loewe”When: 7:30 p.m. July 20

International Operatic CompetitionSemi-finals: 11 a.m. July 20 Finals: 7:30 p.m. July 27

“The Verdi Requiem”When: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 3 & 4

Backstage ToursWhen: 9:30 a.m. July 17, 22, 31 and Aug. 7

Backstage tours commence in the Ellen Eccles Theatre

Cost: $5 per person

Breakfast w/the StarsWhen: 8:30 a.m. July 17, 24, 31 and Aug. 7

Cost: Charge is $10 per person for the complete breakfast.

Reservations are required; visit the box office at 59 S. 100 West.

InformancesWhen: One hour before every performance

Informal pre-performance discussions take place before the

productions in the Ellen Eccles Theatre or the Utah Festival Theatre.

These free informances are typically 30 minutes in length.

So how do I get tickets?1. By phone: Call 435-750-0300 ext. 106 or 1-800-262-0074.

2. In person: Visit the Dansante Building at 59 S. 100 West in Logan.

3. By mail: Send your complete order form and payment

to UFO Box Office, 59 S. 100 West, Logan, UT 84321.

4. Online: Visit www.ufoc.org.

O nce upon a time in a land not so far away … Treat yourself to an enchanting

tradition this summer with the Utah Festival Opera and indulge in the grandeur and charm of each first-class per-formance.

The UFO opened its first season in the summer of 1992. The company opened in the newly renovated Ellen Eccles Theatre; the com-pany offices were located on the

third floor of the Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Logan. Of-fices and most rehearsal space are now in the Dansante Build-ing, a 45,00-square-foot facility that also houses prop, scene and costume shops and the box office.

Michael Ballam is the founder and general director of UFO. He has

performed opera for more than 20

years, including command per-formances at the Vatican and the White House.

Conductor: Barbara Day Turner Director: Daniel HelfgotStarring: Kyle Pfortmiller, Millinee Bannister,

Jordan Bluth, Stephanos Tsirakoglou & Kevin Nakatani

It’s one close shave after another when the resourceful barber Figaro concocts an uproarious scheme to free the vivacious young Rosina from her jealous guardian. Full of disguises and surprises, intercepted notes and hilarious tricks. Make Rossini’s comedy a part of your summer!

“The Barber of Seville”

For more detailed information, visit www.ufoc.org

Conductor: Karen Keltner Director: Daniel HelfgotStarring: Jennifer Welch Babidge, Eric Margiore & Charles Taylor

Alfredo has found his perfect flower in Violetta, a beautiful French cour-tesan. Can romance blossom when conflicting worlds threaten to tear the lovers apart? Considered one of the world’s most passionate operas, Verdi brings us the soaring drama of one woman’s last chance at true love.

“La Traviata”

Conductor: Karen Keltner Director: Vaerie RachelleStarring: Mark Womack, Vanessa Ballam, Kyle Pfortmiller,

Carianne Wrona, Michael Ballam & Lee Daily

Considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy, “Guys & Dolls” has one Broadway hit after another, intro-ducing us to a cast of vivid characters: Sarah Brown, played by Vanessa Ballam, the upright but uptight reformer; Sky Masterson, the slick, high-rolling gambler; Adelaide, the chronically ill nightclub performer; and Nathan Detroit, Ade-laide’s devoted fiancé engaged to her for the past 14 years.

“Guys & Dolls”

Conductor: Barbara Day TurnerDirector: Jack Shouse

Starring: Vanessa Ballam,Mark Womack & Lee Daily

The hills are alive in beautiful Cache Valley with the sound of the world’s most beloved musical. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” stars Vanessa Ballam as Maria, the high-spirited nun-turned-govern-ess who captures the heart of the stern Cap-tain von Trapp and his seven young children.

“The Sound of Music”

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Crossword www.ThemeCrosswords.com

Across1. Rio Grande city7. Go down10. Sent16. Past19. Shrewdness20. Shooting marble21. Loosen, in a way22. One side in checkers23. Act carelessly27. Furnace output28. Kind of penguin29. Chemical compounds30. Keys32. Electro-acoustic transducers35. Round number?36. Picket line crossers38. Buddhist who has attained Nirvana41. Headed42. Conceit45. Mozart’s “L’___ del Cairo”46. Middle Eastern natives50. Poodle’s cry52. Do everything possible59. Penetrating60. Tempter61. Before now62. Hindu loincloth63. Gumshoe64. Sparing no expense67. Vandalizes, in a way68. Spanish titles71. Unit of electrical conductance73. Kind of analysis76. Insect stage78. Cheer starter79. Web site?83. Like fans

85. Hungers (for)87. Typos88. Feel out of place92. Winner’s take93. Son of Daedalus94. Like one in a series95. North Sea feeder96. Radios99. African antelope101. They have flat tops103. Kind of tradition105. Arranged anew110. Like some cycles114. Eat at a restaurant117. Some teas119. Gallop120. Become friends quickly124. “___ Time transfig- ured me”: Yeats125. Invisible126. Elhi org.127. Out of sorts128. Deli loaf129. Lecherous goat-men130. Electric ___131. Underline

Down1. Indian martial art2. Suffers3. Bucolic4. Expresses theatrically5. Kind of line6. In the past7. Dome-shaped shrines8. Fast finisher?9. Contemptible person: Var.10. The writer Saki’s real name

11. Tiny toiler12. United Nations agcy.13. In arrears14. Parrot15. Legal paper16. More dry17. Family subdivisions18. ___ favorite24. Pseudopods move them25. Crowd sound26. Virtuoso31. Short dog, for short33. Newbie34. Once, once upon a time37. Massage target39. Nocturnal lemur40. Level42. “Goodness gracious!”43. See 42-Down44. “Beetle Bailey” pooch46. Vehicle with caterpillar treads47. Bother48. ___-friendly49. Day of “Pillow Talk”51. Athletic field in ancient Greece53. Surpass54. They hold water55. Directs56. Fix, in a way57. Young sheep58. “48___”63. Island nation east of Fiji65. Evergreen shrub66. Job69. XC70. Latin dance72. Arctic whale

73. Ancient Hebrew unit of measure74. Poetic paean75. Peruvian coin77. Rhine tributary80. British poet laureate Nahum81. Particular82. Sonatas, e.g.84. Religious image: Var.86. Tiny amount87. Small amphibians

89. Carpentry tool90. U.N. agency acronym91. Eager96. Eccentric man97. Like a prickly plant98. Sioux branch100. Whistler, e.g.101. Used at the table102. Web browser104. Denebola’s constellation106. Some horses

107. Quote from Homer108. Skip off109. Itinerary111. Green112. Wise enders113. Swamp plants115. Heavy load116. It parallels the radius118. Bribes121. Door opener122. Occupational suffix123. Profit

By Myles Mellor and Sally York

Answers from last week Calendar

Ways of Wood Week for Daily Adventures continues Friday at the American West Heritage Center with five sites open for hands-on living his-tory activities. There will be a focus on woodworking and wooden items this week. A children’s Victorian tea party will be held at 2 p.m. (reservations required). Pony rides and train rides take place all day. Most activities are included with admission.

j.wride will perform with Clay Sum-mers, Matt Bashaw and The Hope (rock/hip hop) at 8 p.m. Friday at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/whysound.

The Wild West Shakespeare produc-tion “A Whole Lotta Fussin’ Over Noth-

Friday in’” plays at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the AWHC. Wild West activities start at 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults and $8 for children, seniors and military person-nel. A chuckwagon dinner provided by Elements restaurant is available for $10. Reservations are required; call 245-6050.

The Antics will perform improv comedy at 10:30 p.m. Friday at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema, 795 N. Main St. Admission is $5. For more infor-mation, visit www.loganarthouse.com.

Nashville recording artist Steven Halliday will perform at 6 p.m. and guitarist/vocalist Robert Hamlin will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. There is no cover charge. OPTIONS for Independence will play a round of miniature golf and eat lunch at noon Friday at Willow Park.

Violet Hill Boutique will host its grand opening from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the store, 755 N. Main, Logan. For more information, contact Courtney at 801-915-4662.

Daily Adventures continues Sat-urday at the Heritage Center. A tepee party will be presented at 2 p.m. with Shoshone games and activities. Art Every Day is at 3 p.m. Pony rides and train rides take place all day.

Cache Valley’s annual Alterniscapes Tour will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. Sat-

Saturday

Bring a sandwich; chips and drinks will be provided. Cost for golf is $2.50. To sign up, schedule transportation or for more information, contact Mandie at 753-5353 ext. 108.

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urday. Tickets are $5 per person and can be purchased at the Cache County Extension Office and/or the day of the tour at Greenville Research Farm, 1800 N. 800 East, North Logan. Maps will also be available at the farm.

Stokes Nature Center is seeking volun-teers to help with its Hummingbird & But-terfly Garden planting event from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. All are invited to help weed and add some new plants to the garden, which features plants native to Logan Canyon that attract pollinators and wildlife. Please bring your own shovel. For more information, call 755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.

Robert C. Steensma will present “Thoughts in a Dry Land: Wallace Stegner and the Waters of the West” as part of the USU Museum of Anthropology’s “Saturdays at the Museum Series.” There will also be posters showing photographic comparisons of Utah through the ages and books and coloring pages for children. For more information, call 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum.usu.edu.

The Wellsville Horse Parade & Cowboy Celebration will be held Saturday. Parade starts at 10:30 a.m. along Center and Main streets. The celebration continues into the evening at City Square with Western music, open mic, food and vendors. This is a fund-raiser for the Historical Wellsville LDS Taber-nacle. Bring a lawn chair. For more informa-tion, contact Kacy at 760-1499 or Craig at 245-4794.

Abi Robins will perform with Sean Renner, Jake Thomas, ThExpo and Greene (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Saturday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

The education center at Logan Regional Hospital will host baby-sitting classes for ages 9-14 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday in Classroom 4. Participants will learn about infant care, safety, first aid and fun activities. A homework packet must be picked up at the time of registration and completed before class begins. Cost is $30 and includes a light lunch and bag. Call 716-5310 to register.

Beaver Mountain will host its annual music festival from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday on the lawn at the mountain. Admission is $25 for adults and free for children 12 and younger. The Beaver Mountain cafe will be open. There will be balloon art, face painting, henna tat-toos, cotton candy, snow cones and popcorn for sale. For more information, visit www.skithebeav.com.

Singer/songwriter Sarah Olsen will per-form at 6 p.m. and USU guitar performance major Colleen Darley will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sour-dough Pizza. Everyone is invited.

A “Dodge This!” Dodgeball Tournament will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Logan Rec Center. Only 16 teams will be accepted; to sign up, contact Deputy Misty Garn at mgarn@cachesheriff.com. Entry fee is $100

and includes a jersey, sweatband, food, music and more. All proceeds go to Special Olym-pics Utah.

Bring your kids (ages 4-12) to the Providence Macey’s Little Theater any time between 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday while you do your shopping in peace. Kids will make a craft, watch a video and have a treat. For more information, call 753-3301.

Hershey Kisses will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pioneer Valley Lodge, 2351 N. 400 East, North Logan. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 792-0353.

The South Cache High School Class of 1955 will celebrate its 55-year class reunion Saturday at The Copper Mill Restaurant, 55 N. Main, Logan. For more information and reser-vations, contact Maureen at 435-752-1604.

The Cache Hikers will hike to Mount Naomi on Saturday. This is a moderate hike, about an eight-mile loop and 2,000-foot elevation gain. Will probably return via the Coldwater Spring trail. Bring water, lunch and appropriate clothing. Meet at 8 a.m. in the southwest corner of the Smith’s Marketplace parking lot. For more information, contact Reinhard at 760-5049.

The Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday at Merlin Olsen Park. Come enjoy locally grown produce, handmade crafts, artisan foods, live music and more. Now accepting SNAP, credit and debit cards. For more information, visit www.gardenersmarket.org or call 755-3950.

The Summer Citizen Group’s Sunday Afternoon Series continues with the Sidwell Family at 1 p.m. on the great lawn adjacent to Old Main on campus. Bring your own chairs. In case of rain, meet in the Old Main building. For more information, contact Norm at 787-1406.

Utah State University’s Alumni Band will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday on the Utah State University Quad. Admission is free and every-one is invited. This concert will feature three soloists: Cindy Dewey and Cory Evans of the USU department of music and Dan Rich, prin-cipal trumpeter with the band. Guest conductor will be Gregory J. Wheeler and the intermission feature will highlight the alumni/student flute ensemble under direction of Leslie Timmons.

The Post-Mormon Community Cache Val-ley chapter meets for dinner and socializing every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at a local restau-rant. Newcomers welcome. For more informa-tion, visit www.PostMormon.org/logan.

Sunday

The American Red Cross will host a Lay Responder First Aid and CPR/AED Instruc-tor Course from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Cost is $155 per person or $55 with volunteer scholarship. Participants must be 17 or older and attend every session of the

Monday

Tuesday marks A Stitch in Time: Fiber Arts Week for Daily Adventures at the American West Heritage Center. A children’s Victorian tea party will be held at 2 p.m. (reservations required). Pony rides and train rides take place all day. Most activities are included with admission.

Amy Nguyen will perform with Alex Moon and Julyie Perry (acoustic) at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

A four-week “basics” American Sign Lan-guage class starts Tuesday. Choose one class per week: 11 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesdays or 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thurs-days. Space is limited. To register, contact Angie at 797-0104 or angie.olsen@usu.edu.

The Cache Valley Gluten Intolerance Group will host Chris Davis, author of the cookbook “Irresistibly Gluten Free,” from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Providence Macey’s Little Theater. There is no charge. Seating is limited; call 753-3301 to reserve your spot.

Tuesday

Scott Bradley will lead a “To Preserve The Nation” Constitution class at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Book Table. There is no charge. For more information, call 753-2930.

A Stitch in Time: Fiber Arts Week at Daily Adventures continues Wednesday at the American West Heritage Center. A mountain man party will be held at 2 p.m. Also: pony rides, train rides, and living history activities for all ages. Art Every Day is at 3 p.m. Most activities are included with admission.

The Suicide Denial will perform with Awkward Situations (rock/electronic) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Why Sound. Cover charge is $5.

He Is We will perform with Andrew Bell at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema. Admission is $5.

Paradise hosts its Farm and Garden Mar-ket from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Wednesday in

Wednesday

course. For more information, call 752-1125 or visit cachecounty.redcross.org.

Family Night at the American West Heri-tage Center takes place Monday. Old-fash-ioned fun and games, animal petting, treats and more. Cost is $5. Call 245-6050 for reser-vations.

Providence city’s Summer Concert in the Park series continues with Impact at 7 p.m. Monday at Zollinger Park (small pavilion), 61 N. 200 West. Admission is free. Bring your blanket, chairs picnic, friends and family.

A free meditation/self-awareness class is held from 7 to 9 p.m. every Monday at the Cos-mic Nudge, 843 S. 100 West, #309, Logan. For more information, call 435-363-7173.

Daily Adventures continues Thursday at the American West Heritage Center. A pioneer party will be held at 2 p.m. with classic games and activities. Most activities are free with admission. Bread & Jam takes place at 4 p.m.; bring an instrument, a voice or just your ears.

A special day-long workshop, “Making a Log Cabin Quilt,” will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at the American West Heri-tage Center. Cost is $25. For more information or to sign up, call 245-6050.

Registration is under way for Providence city’s kickball (ages 3 and 4) and 4-vs.-4 soccer (ages 5-11) programs. Sign up between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday through July 22 at the city office building. No late registrations will be accepted. For more information, call 752-9441.

The Knotty Knitters meet from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Senior Citizen Center in Logan. Everyone is invited to work on their crochet, knitting, needlework, cross-stitch projects and more. For more informa-tion, contact Cathy at 752-3923.

Thursday

The Sky View High School Class of 1985 will host its reunion Friday, July 23. There will be a family picnic at noon at Merlin Olsen Park (bring your own lunch) and dinner at 6 p.m. at Riverwoods. For more information, contact Anita Mumford Oldham at 787-2798.

The Logan Rotary Club will host a Pioneer Day Pancake Breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. July 24 at Zollinger Park, 61 N. 200 West, Providence. Menu will feature pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, juice, milk and Caffe Ibis coffee. Price is $5 for 3-to-10-year-olds, $8 for ages 11 and older, and $25 for a family deal. All proceeds will be used for high school scholarships.

North Logan city’s 24th of July breakfast will be held from 7 to 9 a.m. at Elk Ridge Park, 1070 E. 2500 North. There will be buttermilk pancakes, french toast, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, sausage, eggs, grits, juice, cof-fee and milk. This is a fundraiser for the library.

Out of the Blue will perform improv com-edy (admission: $5) at 6 p.m. and Cache Val-ley Clean Comedy will present Mike Pace (admission: $10-$15) at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 24, at the Logan Arthouse and Cinema, 795 N. Main St. For more information, visit www.loganarthouse.com.

The next session of Learn to Skate begins July 27 and 29 at the Eccles Ice Cen-ter, 2825 N. 200 East, North Logan. New for this session is speed skating. These are four-week sessions held Tuesday or Thursday. Cost is $35, with a family discount available. Classes are for all ages and abilities. For more information, e-mail info@ecclesice.com.

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the Town Square. Featured are local produce, crafts, music and activities for all ages.

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