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The herald Journal deC. 28, 2012-Jan. 3, 2013

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WHAT WE SAW IN 2012Herald Journal photographers select their most compelling images of the year

As a longtime photographer myself, I’m always interested in finding out the stories that are behind the images, particularly where photojournalists are involved.

That’s why I asked the photo staff at The Herald Journal if they’d be interested in sharing some of their favorite photos of the year and tell us a little bit about the process. Most people don’t real-ize the effort, patience, talent, expertise and luck that go into mak-ing a great image.

I was reminded of that recently at the Utah State football team’s final home game against Idaho. Since I hadn’t made it to a game all year, I felt I better make an effort to see at least one con-test from the greatest Aggie season ever. So, despite being quite sick — I hadn’t been

off the couch in nearly three days — I made my way up to Romney Stadium.

But I wasn’t myself. My anticipation was off. My focus slow. And I was rarely in the right place at the right time, particu-larly early in the third quarter.

Although the Aggies were headed towards the south end zone after halftime, I was near the north end zone, apparently just happy to be there.

But before I knew it, the Vandals were driving my way ... and then suddenly right at me. The quarterback lofted a pass up along the western sideline, and as I’ve always done, I hung in there as long as I could trying to get the best shot possible.

But where I normally have an escape route in the back of my head or would simply side-step to my left or right at the last second, I had no options as the Idaho receiver headed right towards me. He didn’t buy any of my takes and just kept on coming since the pass ended up a couple of inches too high.

I honestly don’t remember much of what happened then, but fortunately I DVR’ed the game so I got the instant replay a couple of hours later — much to the amusement of my wife and daughter.

Turns out, the Vandal did his best to soften the blow, and even tried to hold me up after the collision. I managed to protect my camera and popped right back without any injuries and found that few people who weren’t poised along the sideline had even noticed.

Afterwards, I remember being annoyed that I didn’t fire off even one frame before I was hit — the ball wasn’t caught, but it might have been the last photo I ever took.

But it wasn’t until I watched the replay that I found out the overly friendly receiv-er’s name: Jahrie Level.

Please feel free to insert your own obvi-ous joke here.

— Jeff Hunter

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8 Herald Journal staff shares the stories behind their favorite images of ’12

5 Cache Valley Center for the Arts classes starting up

3 Chamber Music Society welcomes talented trio

7 Movie critic Aaron Peck gives new remake of ‘Les Miserables’ 3 1/2 stars

6 Tarantino delivers more blood in ‘Django Unchained’

4 Feel the riveting rhythms of DRUMLine in January

12 ‘Two Graves’ is an exceptional thriller

6 ‘Parental Guidance’ is ‘tolerable, if uninspired’

15 See what’s happening this week

4 Dennis Hinkcamp revels his experiences with guns

Dec. 28, 2012-Jan. 4, 2013

Jeff Hunter/Herald JournalOne of my favorite photography opportunities of the year came during the championship game of the WAC women’s soccer tournament Sunday, Nov. 4. Normally my life doens’t work this way (see below), but on this day, I attended the first hour of church and still man-aged to get to the final five minutes of USU’s 1-0 win over Denver. And even though I was technically at the wrong end of the field, all the best action came my way in the final seconds. On the cover: Some of The Herald Journal photographers’ favorite images of 2012.

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“I don’t think any-one would berate you for stealing from the Nazis.”

– Dennis Hinkamp(Page 4)

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Pet: Big MommaFrom: Cache Humane SocietyWhy she’s so lovable: My name is Big Momma, and I am way prettier than my name. I love giving affection and receiv-ing plenty of it back. Being an unclaimed stray means they do not know much about me, but I have been sure to show them how darling of a girl I am. My bad habits consist of pulling on a leash, and ... well, just pulling on the leash. It would be smart, upon adopting me to get me on a schedule, and to start obedi-ence classes. I would love to learn to be an even better dog. Meeting new people doesn’t scare me, and I could always use more friends. So come say hi. You’ll for sure fall in love with me.

Vaunted trio coming to Logan

The Chamber Music Society of Logan is delighted to bring the Mar-tinez-Urioste-Brey Trio to Logan for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, at the Utah State University Per-formance Hall.

While the name of this trio sounds a bit unusual, the extraordinary talents of these three musicians provide a world-class performance. The Ravinia Preview Magazine claims they demonstrate “… pas-sionate commitment creat-ing a special magic … a seamless celebration of chamber music.”

Every member of the Martinez-Urioste-Brey Trio is a virtuoso in his or her own right. The trio, formed in the summer of 2011, consists of three highly skilled chamber musicians who also enjoy thriving careers on the orchestral stage. Their commitment to education is clearly evident in their community outreach and teaching.

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez, a prizewinner in the Anton G. Rubinstein and Van Cliburn international piano competitions, has performed in well over 50 concert halls and festival venues in the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America, and as a soloist with

numerous orchestras includ-ing the Chicago and San Francisco symphonies.

Violinist Elena Urioste is a veteran of many presti-

gious music festivals. She has performed with many of the leading U.S. orchestras as well as in Europe, and in chamber-music collabora-tions with accomplished pia-nists, cellists and violinists.

Cellist Carter Brey first gained attention in 1981 as a prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition; subse-quent awards include the Gregor Piatigorsky Memo-

rial Prize, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award. Since 1996, Brey has held the principal cello chair at the New York Phil-harmonic, where he has appeared numerous times as a soloist and in chamber-music collaborations with his Philharmonic colleagues. For its Logan concert, the Martinez-Urioste-Brey Trio will perform the Piano Trio in D major (“Ghost”), Op. 70, quintessentially romantic, with its eerie second move-ment. One feels a chill all the way through the com-position, with its ominous quality. Next, “Cafe Music” for piano trio by Schoenfield has been noted by New York Arts a masterful blend of tra-ditional classical forms with harmonically scintillating and rhythmically gripping ragtime idiom.

Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor will close the program. This is a work that lives as much by suggestion and nuance as it does by classical structure. It presents a great interpretative opportunity as it builds a sonic cathedral from a simple reiterating har-monic base line.

The Martinez-Urioste-Brey Trio concert promises to bring a new, dynamic and compelling chamber ensemble, performing with refinement, clarity and some spectacular moments.

Tickets may be purchased at the door prior to concert or through the Caine College of the Arts Box Office, (Chase Fine Arts Center, room 139-B, USU Campus), arts.usu.edu or by calling 797-8022. For more information, visit www.cmslogan.org.

Chamber Music Society brings in accomplished musicians for Jan. 8 concert

The Martinez-Urioste-Brey Trio is comprised of violinist Elena Urioste, left, pianist Gabriela Martinez and cellist Carter Brey.

WhaT: Martinez-Urioste-Brey TrioWhen: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8Where: USU Performance HallCoST: $10 to $40

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I was born in 1956 and have had guns around every minute of my life. Most boys of my generation had pop guns, cap guns, pea-shooter guns and army guns before age five. When we played cowboys and Indians, we shot the Indians. When we played with our plastic army men we not only shot them,

sometimes we set them on fire with the aid of airplane glue. If none of these toys were avail-able, we held sticks to our shoulders to stand in for rifles or used our index finger and thumb to simulate a hand gun.

None of us were taken in for psychological eval-uation or counseling.

I started target shoot-ing with live ammunition

at about age nine some place in southern Mis-souri where everyone went to shoot at stuff.

In fact, I don’t think a beer, soda or bean can was ever thrown away because they were so valuable as targets. Shooting glass bottles filled with water was only for special occa-sions. Back home, just like the kid in “A Christ-mas Story,” I got a pump-action BB gun at a young age and patrolled the little patch of woods near the neighborhood trying to shoot birds and squirrels.

Every Thanksgiving we went to a strange thing called a “Turkey

Shoot” lovingly spon-sored by the Catholic Church. I say “strange” because you were not really shooting at turkeys, you were shooting for turkeys. Right there in suburban neighborhoods, families got together and shot live ammunition at paper targets with only a few hay bales separat-ing live people from live ammo. Memory fades, but I am almost certain that the church also sold beer to shooters to raise money for the poor or some other good Catholic cause.

Dad and grandpa had bird dogs that they regu-larly trained with guns. From the time they were puppies the dogs had to be exposed to the sound of gunshots so they would not flinch or run away when it came time to hunt.

This meant further gun fire in the suburbs. I can’t remember anyone calling the police any more than they would on New Year’s Eve when shotguns were often fired in the air in lieu of fireworks at mid-night.

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My life with firearms: Growing up with BB guns and World War II rifles

DRUMLine Live to perform two shows

Difficult to see an easy solution to the gun issue

DRUMLine Live, a show-stopping attrac-tion inspired by 20th Century Fox’s hit movie

“Drumline,” brings show-style marching bands to the theatrical stage. With riveting rhythms, bold beats and ear-grabbing energy, the staged show will be a synchronized musical showcase of the His-torically Black College and University (HBCU) marching band experi-ence.

Incorporating original compositions and soul-infused interpretations of top 40 hits, group performances will range from colorful, choreo-graphed routines to heavy doses of drum riffs and cadences.

DRUMLine Live will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, and Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Tickets range from $30 to $44 and are on sale now at the CVCA ticket office, 43 S. Main St., online at www.ellenec-clestheatre.org or by calling 752-0026.

If you enjoyed the performances we pre-sented of ‘Blast!’ you’ll absolutely want to catch this show,” says Wally Bloss, Executive Director for the Cache Valley Center for the Arts. “This touring pro-duction is a truly one of the most impressive halftime-like shows you will ever see set on stage.”

DRUMLine Live kicks off its fourth U.S. tour in the 2012-13 season following its extremely success-ful tours in 2008-09, 2010-11 and 2011-12. DRUMLine Live’s

See LIVE on Page 13 Based on the film “Drumline,” DRUMLine Live will perform at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Jan. 15-16.

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My life with firearms: Growing up with BB guns and World War II riflesI probably forgot to

mention that dad was a cop, so we had big, on-duty guns in the house, and small, off-duty guns in the car. Mom had a tiny lady gun that she kept in the night stand. I got my first .22 rifle at age 13 and was entrusted with the fam-ily heirloom Browning pump-action .22 at age 23. Right before dad retired from the police force, he made sure to buy several extra police-issue .357 magnums

— roughly the same weapon used by Dirty

Harry — as investments. He gave me one when I was 25.

Grandpa Vic was actu-ally too old to enlist in World War II, so he lied about his age and went anyway. His favorite war story was how he

“liberated” a rare Ger-man over-and-under rifle. “Liberate” was colloquial for stealing at that time, though, I don’t think anyone would berate you for stealing from the Nazis.

The interesting part of the story is that the gun was so valuable that he

didn’t trust postal work-ers to not steal it, so he cleverly broke it down into several parts and shipped them separately to grandma.

After my father died and my mother subse-quently a year later, I cleaned out the house which included about 12 guns and 2,000 rounds of ammunition. I sold most of the guns to envious relatives and neighbors and took the ammunition to the near-est police station.

I still have the liber-ated German over-and-

under and the pump action .22, but I have no bullets. I have not fired a gun since I was 19.

What’s the point? There is no point. I just want people think about the gun issue. If you think there is an easy solution, you haven’t thought about it long enough.—————————Dennis would also like

to thank you all for your years of readership in the off chance that the Mayans were right and last week was the end of our existence.

CoMInG uPNew Year’s at Ice Center

The George S. Eccles Ice Center will host a family New Year’s Eve celebration from 7 p.m. until midnight Monday, Dec. 31. There will be three bands playing

’60s, ’70s and ’80s music all night, along with dancing, ice skating and entertainment for the kids. The cost is $10 per person. There will also be dinner available by Café Sabor for an additional $10 (advance notice need-ed). Please visit www.ecclesice.com for more details.

Contra dance night The Cache Valley Folk Dancers and Bridger Folk

Music Society is hosting its “first Saturday” contra dance at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 5, at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East. A $6 donation is suggested at the door; $3 for children under 12. For more information call 753-2480 or 753-5987.

CVCA winter classes starting up soonIt’s time for winter class

registration at the Cache Val-ley Center for the Arts. Regis-tration is available online, in person or by calling the CVCA Ticket Office. Classes will begin the weeks of Jan. 7 and 14, depending on each indi-vidual program.

A class is the perfect gift because it’s more than just a nicely packaged gift. For details, visit the Center at 43 S. Main St., online at www.cachearts.org or call 752-0026. During the holiday break (Dec. 22 through Jan. 1), register online.

Classes at the Center for the Arts include photography, music notation, digital film-making, sound recording with broadcast arts & media; mod-ern dance technique with Val-ley Dance Ensemble; ceramic classes for all ages and skill levels; creative drama classes and production classes with the Unicorn Theatre, mixed-level yoga with Dennise, and full-length fall production class of “Much Ado About Nothing” with Logan Youth Shakespeare.

Classes are held in the Bul-len Center, 43 S. Main St., or in the Thatcher-Young Man-sion, 35 W. 100 South. Make

all checks payable to CVCA.

BROADCAST ARTS & MEDIA

CVCA will offer Broad-cast Arts & Media classes for youth and adults. The session will include Intro to Video Editing & Filmmaking, MUSC Computer Apps 4930 (USU credit available), and

Beginning Digital Photogra-phy. The goal of these courses is to give all participants a creative voice through digi-tal expression. Whether it’s through film, radio, music, photography, or audio engi-neering, it’s all about finding your voice. In partnership with Utah Public Radio, the BAM! Studio is located in

UPR’s downtown studio found in the Bullen Center at 43 S. Main St. The studio pro-vides an atmosphere with pro-fessional equipment and a live broadcast studio. The classes are taught by industry profes-sionals that not only work in the field they teach, but who also care about your vision and how you want to voice it.

In class, you will be surround-ed by other students who love the same things and are look-ing for the same opportunities to share their ideas, engage their minds, and imagine all the possibilities. The creative process and hands on learning will create lifelong mentors and friendships.

BEGINNING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Learn how to take control of that incredible camera you own so that it makes the pic-ture you have in mind every time. No more getting lucky: we make our own luck. This course will be best for people who have a DSLR (with lenses that can be changed). Micro four-thirds is OK, too (you know who you are). Point-and-shoot users will learn a lot, but will be awfully frustrated by what their cameras can’t do. If you are thinking about buying a new camera, feel free to contact Levi for recommendations. The Beginning Digital Pho-tography class will meet at the Thatcher-Young Mansion with Instructor Levi Sim.

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‘Parental Guidance’ tolerable if uninspiredMichael RechtshaffenAssociated Press

The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an Imax screen, but still there’s some-thing touching about how hard Billy Crys-tal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes “Parental Guid-ance” a perfectly tol-erable, if uninspired, moviegoing experience.

As “the other grand-parents” who are given a golden opportunity to bond with their sel-dom-seen grandchil-dren, Billy and Bette work double-time, well aware that it’s not just

the juvenile characters they have to entertain, but also the paying audiences who could count on both of them for a good laugh back in the day.

That they manage to

pull their weight even when the achingly for-mulaic plotting threatens to drag them under is a testament to their “let’s-put-on-a-show” spirit. The end result should appeal

to audiences, including bonding grandparents and grandkids, looking for a little undemanding holi-day cheer.

Crystal is Artie Decker, who has just lost his long-time gig as “De Voice of the Fresno Grizzlies” when the minor-league baseball team decided to upgrade the outfit with the sort of talent that knows its way around a Facebook page or a Twit-ter account.

Already despondent, he’s not exactly jumping up and down over the news that he and his wife Diane (Midler) have been recruited to babysit their daughter Alice’s (Marisa Tomei) three kids when

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Longtime friends Billy Crystal and Bette Midler team up as grandparents in new comedy

AP Photo/Twentieth Century FoxMarisa Tomei, left, stars in “Parental Guidance” with Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Kyle Harrison Breitkopf.

‘Django’ delivers more blood David GermainAP Movie Writer

For his latest blood fest, “Django Unchained,” Quen-tin Tarantino largely replays all of his other blood fests, specifically his last flick, “Inglouri-ous Basterds.”

In that 2009 tale of wickedly savage retri-bution, Allied Jewish soldiers get to rewrite World War II history by going on a killing spree of Nazis. In Tarantino’s new tale of wickedly

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of those stories that has been adapted so many times that it’s hard to keep them all straight. The classic novel by Victor Hugo was most recently adapted in 1998. That was a straight-forward adaption of the source material. The “Les Miserables” in theaters now is an adaption based on an adaption. This time we’re getting a movie musical based on the stage musical.

Directed by Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”) this newest adaption of Jean Valjean’s harrowing journey from convict to revolutionary, has been one of the most anticipated movies of the year. The musical is wildly popular, so it was only a matter of time until someone put that music on screen in a big budget, Hollywood extravaganza.

We all know the story. Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is sentenced to 19 years of hard labor after steal-ing some bread because he was starving. He gets a new chance at creating a better life after an old priest shows compassion on him. Valjean becomes the mayor of a small

AP Photo/Universal PicturesHugh Jackman as Jean Valjean holds Isabelle Allen as young Cosette in a scene from the new film “Les Miserables.”

French town, but his idyl-lic life is soon threatened when Javert (Russell Crowe) enters the picture. Javert knew Valjean back in his days as a prisoner. Valjean jumped bail and assumed a new identity.

Javert has been chasing him ever since.

The story is something we’ve heard over and over. It covers a vast swath of time as Valjean reinvents himself and takes in an orphaned girl.

It’s a beautiful story. It’s a story that has stood the test of time and can hon-estly be called a classic piece of literature.

What fans of the musi-cal want to know is, how does it measures up on the big screen? How do the musical’s indelible lyrics and tunes sound?

Hooper has done some-thing here that is rarely done with cinematic musicals. He recorded the vocals on set instead of doing them after in post-production. Even though

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Jackman, with his stage background, is right at home singing in the title role. Hooper has the good sense to put us right up in

the actor’s faces as they sing, something that you can’t experience when seeing a stage musical. This allows you to take in every subtle facial expression. It’s a very powerful way to take in a musical on this scale.

The nearly three-hour movie feels extremely front-loaded, though. That’s probably because Anne Hathaway’s per-formance as Fantine is Oscar-worthy. Watch-ing Hathaway sing “I Dreamed a Dream” is one of the cinematic highlights of 2012. It’s definitely one of the most heart-breaking moments of film I’ve seen in the past decade. Once Fantine is out of

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2012 IN PHOTOS

JENNIFER MEYERS • SEPTEMBER 3 Photographing a bride and groom racing in the Man vs. Mud race on their wedding day was one of my favorite assignments this year. At the finish line of the race the bride, Kathi Peterson, found a snake sliding through the mud and picked it up to move it from harm’s way. As soon as she saw the snake I knew this would be a perfect ending photograph to show their unique and adventurous personalities.

JENNIFER MEYERS • MARCH 30 I’m sure that Utah State football player Michael Smith was feel-ing the pressure as NFL scouts timed him sprinting during Aggie Pro Day last spring. This photograph is a behind-the-scenes look in the journey to become a professional athlete. Smith ended up being drafted to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

ELI LUCERO • SEPTEMBER 20I always knew that the ball compressed as a player headed it. I had no idea that it flattened out this much though. It was just luck that I got the frame at that exact time.

The year’s best images and the stories behind them as selected by The Herald Journal’s photographers

JOHN ZSIRAY OCTOBER 11 As an avid bird hunter, being able to take part in the release of 75 pheasants for a youth hunt was a neat experience. Being up close and personal with the stealthy ringnecks lends itself to an interesting perspective of how the birds move.

ELI LUCEROSEPTEMBER 7I love to shoot sports because of the emotion involved. Too many times you show up to events that are created for you to take pictures. You just can’t fake the emotion that McKade Brady is feeling after beating Utah. Shoot-ing celebrations like this are fun but it is always a crap shoot as to what you will get. When fans rush the field you only can see a few feet around you so you are always moving through the crowd hoping to find something.

JENNIFER MEYERS • MAY 15 I had a lot of fun hunting insects to photograph for a Horizons page last spring. We run a photo page every week and I had been wanting to photograph bugs for quite some time. With a rented macro lens I was able to get a peek into the tiny lives of different insects around the valley. This image sticks out for me mostly because I remember how dif-ficult it was to point a lens at a fly and have it remain in one place long enough to capture the image.

JOHN ZSIRAY • SEPTEMBER 20 Just listening to horse trainer Gary Johnson talk about horses makes a per-son want to be a cowboy. The instruction he provides and life lessons he teaches to those willing to listen make him a pretty special individual.

ELI LUCERO • FEBRUARY 24 We all remember Brady Jardine — how he was a great player, how he was a great person and how his bas-ketball career got cut way to short. On Senior Night, Jardine got to wear his uniform one last time as he was honored on the court by USU head coach Stew Morrill.

ELI LUCERO • JUNE 20 A lot of time as a photographer at the newspaper is spent just driving around Cache Valley looking for something to take a picture of. One day as I was leaving my house to go to the office I saw these two kids playing out front of their home in Wellsville.

JOHN ZSIRAY • AUGUST 15Despite the fact that it was only 9:30 in the morning, the only thing the children who attended the community safety event in Wellsville wanted to do was play in the water. The young man in the photo was like a race-car driver making laps. Everytime he went through, he would get closer to the red bucket and try to dump the water onto me. By the time I left, my legs and shoes were soaked.

JOHN ZSIRAY • NOVEMBER 2I can remember working during the sum-mers at a scout camp near Preston and stacking the empty milk crates in unique patterns and towers, but the plastic boxes took on a new meaning for me during this event. Students equipped for rock climbing, fashioned towers nearly to the ceiling of the Nelson Fieldhouse during a competition to reach the highest height with a single-stack of crates.

JENNIFER MEYERS MAY 16A moose wandering into town in the spring may be a common occurance for native Utahns, but to a former New Yorker it was quite a sight. I spent three hours following around law enforcement officers as they diverted the animal away from Main Street. After the moose was sedated I was able to get an up close shot of the young bull before they relocated him back into the mountains.

ELI LUCERO • JULY 27At the start of the rodeo, girls ride around in the arena. As the sun was setting the arena floor was in shadow but sunlight was still hitting the flags on top of the stands. I knew if I could get into the right position I could silhouette a rider with the flag. The hardest part was that I had to get at a low angle so the stand wouldn’t show. I was constantly afraid that I would get run over by a horse as I was lying on the ground.

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CVCAContinued from Page 5

MUSC COMPUTER APPS 4930

This all-inclusive 15-week course will cover a variety of computer applications in music. This is a Utah State University concurrent course that is also open to the public. USU students seeking course credit should enroll through the university. The instructor is John Carter.

MUSC COMPUTER APPS 4930

This class will focus on video editing and introduce filmmaking concepts as they relate to the process of editing. Class will start by learning how to use Final Cut Pro. Stu-dents need to be familiar with computers and basic copy and pasting techniques. After learning how to use the inter-face, students will focus on telling a story and exploring conceptual editing.

LOGAN YOUTH SHAKESPEARE

Logan Youth Shakespeare provides Cache Valley youth (ages 9 to 19) to learn and perform Shakespeare through performance of his plays, uncut. Young actors experi-ence the beauty of Shake-speare’s language and the relevance of his characters by acting in his plays. A series of detailed line-by-line expla-nation CDs created by the instructor help actors under-stand the language and master their parts. In this col-laborative non-competitive environment, all actors also work behind the scenes and help direct their counter-parts. When they inhabit Shakespeare’s characters and speak his words, kids find themselves and their friends in these 400-year old plays. No auditions. Everyone per-forms. Register at the CVCA Ticket Office or download registration form at www.cachearts.org.

VALLEY DANCE ENSEMBLE

COMMUNITY CLASSESValley Dance Ensemble

classes will begin Tuesday, Jan. 8. VDE class informa-tion and registration can be found at www.cachearts.org. Classes are on-going, new students are always welcome. If you’re not sure about it, come try one class for free. The 3- to 4-year Creative Movement classes fill up quickly so don’t wait. All children’s dance classes are capped at eight or 12 stu-dents per class and are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Children’s classes are $80 for 15 weeks. Adults can purchase a 10-week punch pass for $60. Additional punch cards may be pur-chased as needed and expire one year from the purchase date. Drop-ins are welcome for any of the adult classes at $8 per class (when space allows). Call 752-0026 to check availability or for reg-istration info.

CERAMICS AT THE CENTER

Ceramic classes at the CVCA will begin Mon-day, Jan. 7; check schedule for class breaks and details. Classes are geared for all ages and all skills. Students ages 4 to 11 will learn about clay and create their own ceramic work using a variety of hand-building techniques. All students may try the pot-ter’s wheel. Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult. Students ages 10 to 19 will learn about clay construc-tion techniques and choose what they most wish to create with a strong focus on wheel throwing. All class sections run for 10-week sessions. Stu-dents in the adult class will choose what they most wish to create. Lab times available. Minimum enrollment is six.

UNICORN THEATRE DRAMA & ACTING

This creative drama course introduces children to age-appropriate theatre and drama skills in a safe and creative

environment. Students will explore improvisation, move-ment and the creation of dramatic worlds and sce-narios. No drama or theatre experience is required or nec-essary; all are welcome.

UNICORN THEATREPLAY PRODUCTION

For youth ages 5 to 18 years. This class will consist of actor training and rehearsal for the winter Pillow Theatre pro-duction, which will perform four shows on Saturdays in March. Some acting or drama experience is helpful but not required. Early in the class, students will audition for spe-cific roles in the show; roles are not guaranteed. Unicorn Theatre pillow show audi-tions are open to the public, though enrolled students will be given a slight advantage over non-students. Students must be available for all per-formances and should plan to attend all rehearsals, though some limited class absences may be possible if conflicts are disclosed at registration.

Jeff AyersAssociated Press

The names Preston & Child on the cover of a book prom-ise a unique reading experi-ence unlike any other, and

“Two Graves” delivers the high thrills one expects from the two masters.

A good thriller forces the reader to finish the book in one sitting. An exceptional thriller does that plus forces the reader to slow down to savor every word. With “Two Graves,” authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have delivered another excep-tional book.

The novel is the conclu-sion of a trilogy that started with “Fever Dream” and last year’s “Cold Vengeance,” though one could easily pick up this book and not feel lost. The protagonist, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, has none of the usual quali-

ties that make a hero. He’s addicted to drugs, socially inept and has the appearance of a living ghost. But he has the most brilliant mind imag-inable, and his keen insight and ability to think outside the box are desperately need-

ed to solve a bizarre string of murders occurring in New York City hotels. He’s just learned that his wife, long presumed dead, is alive. The hunt for answers to the mur-ders and what happened to his wife take Pendergast to the edge of his sanity — and career.

The gothic atmosphere that oozes from the pages of

“Two Graves” will envelop the reader in a totally unique experience. Pendergast is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, quirks and all, who would live more comfortably in the past but must suffer through the inconveniences that liv-ing in the 21st century brings. The mystery tantalizes, and the shocks throughout the narrative are like bolts of lightning.

Fans will love the con-clusion to the trilogy, and newcomers will seek out the authors’ earlier titles.

Preston & Child’s ‘Two Graves’ is a standout thriller

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “The Racketeer” by John Grisham2. “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn3. “Threat Vector” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greany4. “Notorious Nineteen” by Janet Evanovich5. “The Forgotten” by David Baldacci

HARDCOVER NONFICTION1. “Killing Kennedy” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard2. “Thomas Jefferson” by Jon Meacham3. “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard4. “America Again” by Stephen Colbert, etc. 5. “No Easy Day” by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer

PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION1. “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James2. “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel3. “Fifty Shades Darker” by E. L. James4. “Fifty Shades Freed” by E. L. James5. “The Paris Wife” by Paula McLain

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FilmContinued from Page 7 the picture, the movie is held up under Jackman’s broad shoulders. He lifts its bloated mass much like Valjean hoisting up a man-crushing cart.

The biggest problem is that after Hathaway departs, we’re left with the Valjean/Javert dynamic. That wouldn’t be so bad if Russell Crowe wasn’t so badly miscast. It’s obvious that he is laboring under the weight of what a musical entails. While everyone around him has some musical train-ing, Crowe appears lost and many of his num-bers end up being flat and uninspired.

Yes, Crowe drags down the proceedings, but it isn’t enough to overshadow the mag-nificence provided by Hathaway and Jackman. Especially, Hathaway. I could watch her 15 min-utes of screen time over and over and it wouldn’t get old. She’s worth the price of admission alone.

It’s a common night time topic, in the mountains after dark. About the time you’ve settled in, and the campfire throws no

sparks.Is there such a thing as Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, as they’re

known? Even those who think it’s possible, won’t admit it on their own.There hasn’t been an answer yet, to whether they exist. But here’s my take, you might agree; this point is often missed.To those who sleep in camp trailers, the thought is just absurd. They scoff and say it’s ludicrous, won’t hear another word.But if they’re camping in a tent, they’ll keep an open mind. At least admit it’s possible for science yet to find.But those who sleep under the stars will seldom voice resis-

tance to such ideas; in fact, they might just swear to it’s existence.Some claim they’ve seen the hairy beast, but won’t divulge their

names, not wanting all the ridicule, the laughter, and the shame.But what about the plaster casts of giant five toed feet, found twenty miles back in the woods, anatomically complete?Some tracks show minute detail, dermal ridges on the soles, and sweat pores showing on the cast, as tiny little holes.Would a hoaxer go in twenty miles to leave such detailed

tracks; just to fool some hardy soul, so far in the outback?And so, I tried these arguments, one night on White Pine creek. Jim listened, sometimes nodded; but Bill had yet to speak.With horses on a highline in a grassy alpine park, we built a roaring fire, to make coals for after dark.We tended the dutch ovens, as they slowly simmered, then, checked the horses one more time, before we ate our din-

ner.I kept the Sasquatch talk a goin’, then Bill blurted out, “You can’t fool me, I know what this is really all about.”

“You guys are nuts, you really think I’ll buy that bunch of crap!” We let him rant and rave a while, before we sprang the trap.Well, Jim would put his size to use, when we had gone to bed, and Bill was snuggled in his blankets, cozy and well fed.Jim was six foot six, three hundred pounds, his hair was long

and shaggy. A few years back, he’d started at left tackle for the Aggies.We ate our meal, rolled bedrolls out, the fire slowly fading; then came a splash, from in the creek, like somebody was wad-

ing.“What’s that!”, yelled Bill, now bolt upright, his eyes the darkness

searching. He saw a shape behind a tree, a swaying and a lurching.Well, Jim and I had used some caution in our wicked fun. We made sure Bill was unarmed, ‘cause real soon he’d want

a gun.“Okay,” Bill said, “Where’s Jim; are you guys trying to scare me?” “I saw something, or someone, go and hide behind that tree.”Bill had no clue, but that was Dick, dressed in a black ape suit. He was even bigger than Jim was, and quite muscular, to boot.

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About this time, Jim ran in from the woods the other way, from where Bill had been pointing, his face was ashen gray.

“Did you see that?”, Jim whispered; now Bill was really scared. He had to ask Jim something, but he hardly even dared.

“Where have you been? I thought that what I saw was really you!” Jim said, “Well, Mother Nature called,and then, I saw it too!”

“So you weren’t over there, just now, wading in the creek?” “Hell, no,” said Jim, “I saw a squatch, it really made me freak!” I acted like I just woke up, said “Hey, what’s going on?” Bill’s eyes were fixed upon the tree, his mouth was tight and

drawn.“Did you see that?”, he said, wide eyed, with terror on his face. “See what?”, I said, “A UFO, and visitors from space?”

“Behind the tree!” hissed Bill in fright, “I think he just peeked out!” If Bill was skeptical before, we’d now erased all doubt.Dick played his role with expertise, made me and Jim both

proud. Just swaying there behind the tree, moon hidden by a cloud.The darkness did the rest, a man became a frightened boy. Not knowing Dick was Sasquatch, and that Jim was a decoy.Bill ran back to the highway, in the dark for seven miles, and flagged down the first car he saw, hysterical all the while.We tried real hard to catch him, it was to no avail I’m not sure how we missed him, but his tracks weren’t on the

trail.Now, looking back, I guess we maybe went a bit too far Bill left a big brown racing stripe on the front seat of that carThe driver of the car, and Bill, enrolled in therapy. For post-traumatic stress syndrome; from a beast they didn’t

see!So, if you ever wonder if Sasquatch is for real You’ll find a true believer, if you ever talk to Bill.Bill never went back to the woods, he never was the same. And Jim, and Dick, myself, the dark, and Sasquatch are to

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cooked meal32. Rubbish35. Light line36. Honey bunch?41. J.F.K. watchdog43. Knocking sound45. Family subdivi-

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Wade Evans will perform at 4:45 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. A multi-instrumentalist, Evans graces the Ibis.

Tr3ason will perform along with Smoke Hollow at 8 p.m. Fri-day, Dec. 28, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cost is $6.

Wretched Bones will perform along with Mountain Woman and St. Peter at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec.

29, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Cost is $5.

New Folk Revival will per-form at noon Sunday, Dec. 30, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. With a nice variety of great songs both new and old, New Folk Revival is a soothing mixture of rich vocal harmony, a dash of humor and tasteful instrumenta-tion.

The Post-Mormon Commu-nity is a non-sectarian organiza-tion of individuals and families

who have left Mormonism. The Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing at a local restaurant at 6:30 p.m. every Sunday evening. Newcomers welcome. For more information call Jeff at 770-4263 or visit our website at www.postmormon.org/logan.

The George S. Eccles Ice Center will host a family New Year’s Eve celebration from 7 p.m. until midnight Monday, Dec. 31. There will be three live bands playing ’60s, ’70s and ’80s music

all night, along with dancing, ice skating and entertainment for the children. The cost is only $10 per person. There will also be dinner available by Café Sabor for an additional $10 (advance notice needed). Please visit www.eccles ice.com for more details. Bring your date, bring the neighbors and the kids and come help cel-ebrate the new year at the Eccles Ice Center.

Photography student Sayre Harvell will be holding an open-ing for his body of work entitle

“Surreal-Estate” from 7 to 9 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31, at the Thatch-

er-Young Mansion. The show will be hanging throughout the month of January.

OPTIONS for Independence will be holding its Autism Spectrum Disorders Support Group from 7 to 9 p.m., Thurs-day, Jan. 3, at 1095 N. Main St. Benefits specialist Shirley Christensen will be presenting. This group is for people with autism, family members and friends. For more information contact Jennie at 753-5353 ext. 104.

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PGContinued from Page 6she and her tech-geek husband Phil (Tom Everett Scott) get a last-minute opportunity to have some out-of-town alone time.

As expected, uptight Alice’s no-sugar-allowed helicopter parenting clashes mightily with Artie and Diane’s old-school approach to child-rearing, not to mention the fact that Phil has programmed his smart home to be intui-tive within an inch of its inhabitants’ lives.

Also as expected are the resulting gags built around technologically challenged Artie. Fortunately, old pro Crystal comes armed with an arsenal of rim-shot-ready rejoinders that hit the mark more than they miss.

While his character has been given more of an emotional arc than Midler’s (unsurpris-ing, since the genesis of “Parental Guidance” came from a newly minted grandparenting experience in producer Crystal’s life), it’s still nice to see Midler strutting her stuff in her first onscreen comedy role in years.

And Tomei is always a welcome presence, even when she’s saddled with what’s essen-tially a one-note character for most of the film.

It would have been nice if director Andy Fickman (“Race to Witch Mountain”) and husband-and-wife screenwriters Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse (“Surf’s Up”) could have mined some fresher stuff from this frequently played ballgame, but at least when you’ve got Crystal calling the shots, you can still count on the occasional change-up.

———“Parental Guidance,” a 20th Century Fox

release, is rated PG for some rude humor. Run-ning time: 104 minutes.

BloodContinued from Page 6savage retribution, a black man (Jamie Foxx) gets to rewrite Deep South history by going on a killing spree of white slave owners and overseers just before the Civil War.

Granted, there’s something glee-fully satisfying in watching evil peo-ple get what they have coming. But

“Django Unchained” is Tarantino at his most puerile and least inventive, the premise offering little more than cold, nasty revenge and barrels of squishing, squirting blood.

The usual Tarantino genre mishmash — a dab of blaxploitation here, a dol-lop of Spaghetti Western there — is so familiar now that it’s tiresome, more so because the filmmaker continues to linger with chortling delight over every scene, letting conversations run on interminably and gunfights carry on to grotesque excess. Bodies bursting blood like exploding water balloons? Perversely fun the first five or six times, pretty dreary the 20th or 30th.

Tarantino always gets good actors who deliver, though, and it’s the performances by Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Sam-uel L. Jackson that make “Django Unchained” intermittently entertain-ing amid moments when the charac-ters are either talking one another to death or just plain killing each other.

Foxx’s Django starts literally in chains, part of a line of slaves on

their way to the auction block. Gen-teel bounty hunter King Schultz (Waltz, an Academy Award winner for “Inglourious Basterds”) turns up searching for Django because the slave can identify three elusive overseers with a price on their heads. Next thing you know, Django’s apprenticing as a bounty hunter,

forming a partnership with King that takes them deeper south in hopes of freeing Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington).

The trail leads them to a plantation owned by Calvin Candie (DiCaprio), a dandy who trains slaves for barba-rous Mandingo fighting.

There are morbidly funny moments as Django and King infil-trate the plantation posing as buyers, the two sharing twisted exchanges with the flamboyantly creepy Candie and his chief house slave and Uncle Tom gone psycho, Stephen (Jackson,

Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” co-star).Tarantino mostly lets them prattle

on to such lengths that whatever ten-sion was building is defused. A scene in which a posse of Klan forerun-ners (led by Don Johnson) debates the difficulties of seeing out of their white hoods is hilarious for a few moments. But then they talk the gag into the ground, and keep on talking.

The humor co-exists uneasily and often clumsily alongside a story so charged with racial enmity. Taran-tino’s solution to everything is to put guns and dynamite into people’s hands, and while that might be good escapism in a gangster story, it feels flimsy and childish here.

In the wake of the school shootings at Sandy Hook in Connecticut, Foxx talked about the need for Hollywood to accept the fact that movie violence can influence audiences. Tarantino countered that blame should fall to those who actually carry out a crime.

They’re both right, and it’s absurd to think that the cartoon bloodshed of “Django Unchained” might put viewers over the top and send them out on a shooting rampage.

Yet it is reasonable to ask why we find a Tarantino-style body count so entertaining that he can keep doing the same thing over and over, and we keep paying to see it.

———“Django Unchained,” a Weinstein Co.

release, is rated R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, lan-guage and some nudity. Running time: 165 minutes. Two stars out of four.

AP Photo/The Weinstein CompanyChristoph Waltz, left, and Jamie Foxx star in “Django Unchained.”

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