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Show Friday, April 8 2011 Page 5 A&EDilf• Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com Act your age at Logan's Magical Moon Toys I'm grateful is around." Since Shelton bought Magical Moon Toys nine years ago, the inventory, which houses everything from hand-made marbles to a rare collection of Steve Shelton's office may be a child's dream. Playmobil sets, has soared from 2,000 to 20,000. The small space is crammed with rubber ducks Shelton said he's expanded the store to include and squirt guns. Boxes of unopened knickknacks more than 1,000 games, a division of sweets and reach from floor to ceiling. As if the toys aren't an activity center for kids. enough, a box of gourmet chocoAfter Easter, the store will late sits on the floor. relocate from it's current position "Should I go taste-test this behind Walmart to the Piano "The big payoff chocolate or should I test this Gallery on Main Street. The new comes when a water gun? Should I fly this location will nearly double the kid comes in ... helicopter or play this game so size of the store. The new store we can give it a review?" Shelton taking out penwill offer a mini-ice cream parlor, said. "It's a tough job." a Build-A-Bear wing, and a millnies and nickels In reality, Shelton, a USU and quarters and ers' town where kids can pan for alumnus and owner of Magical pyrite in a sluice. wadded up dollar Moon Toys, has a job that never "I can go though a laundry list ends. Being a small business bills to get this of toys that have had meaningful owner in a small town is a seven- item they want, impacts in my life," Shelton said. days-a-week job, one that makes "Knowing what toys do for kids, and they're for many sleepless nights, he said. what they did for me, that's some"When you eat drink and sleep beaming from thing I always wanted to be a part your business for so long ... I can't ear to ear. That's of." imagine life without it. I figure I'll what 1 do it for." For those not in the market for do my sleeping when I'm dead," toys, Magical Moon is also in the he said. business of sweets. Shelton, who — Steve Shelton calls himself a "closet chocolatier," As customer Adesa Cox eyed the shelves of Magical Moon, she Owner owns the equipment to make points to a make your own gum anything from dipped Cinnamon kit. Bears to chocolate covered "How cool is that?" she said. Cheetos and Potato Chips, two of his best-selling Cox, a preschool teacher at Bear River Head items. The candy business has taken off so much Start, makes the 30-minute drive from Brigham that Shelton opened a separate candy business, City to visit the store a few times a year. When PeeWee's Sweets, located on Main Street, last looking for specialty items like circuit boards and June. numeral dice, no one has selection quite as wide, Shelton traces his love for toys to his roots she said. in California, where as a 7-year-old, he saw Star "There are lots of interesting little things, Wars for the first time. odds and ends I can't find anywhere else," Cox "Seeing that on a big screen, in a drive-in said. "Really for the science stuff, there's really nowhere else to get it. It gives that little extra that I See TOYS, page 7 By ALEXANDRIA EVENSEN staff writer MAGICAL MOON TOYS OWNER Steve Shelton left a better-paying job working with clients like REI and Nordstrom because of his passion for toys. Today, his store carries tens of thousands of toys and games. Shelton has also branched off as a candy maker and chocolatier with his new store PeeWee's Sweets on Main Street. KYLE PETT photo Rewind fashion show returns with recycled ready-wear Mozart and a magical flute By KATE MARSHALL staff writer WINNERS WEARING FASHIONS FROM THE LAST from the last 10 decades stand with their prizes as Elizabeth Horne accepts the prize for the winning Rewind Fashion Show team. Made with pages from old Vogue magazines and black mesh, Home's dress was inspired by a popular style of photo red carpet couture. BENJAMIN WOOD photo 1•• 4111111111% :11111111111.111111111 • For the first time in four years, Sergio Bernal, conductor of the USU Symphony Orchestra and Lynn Keisker, associate professor and director of the USU Opera Theater, have combined forces for the major production of Mozart's "Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)" They are also working with a guest stage manager Kim Mumford, who will be doubling as the Queen of the Night. The project involves more than 100 students, and guest artists from the Utah Festival Opera Company putting in hundreds of hours of rehearsal in hopes of putting on four dazzling performances in the Kent Concert Hall. "It's quite a collaborative, big deal for all the undergraduates," Keisker said. "They will only have one opportunity to do a full opera production once in their four years here, and this is it. It's very special and unique." Keisker also said the choice of "The Magic Flute" is interesting for the students and the community because of it's messages of redemption and struggle in life. Written in 1971, this was Mozart's last opera, written to save a friend's theater from closing. The story begins with El See OPERA, page 6 o ou ave Something To Say? The microphone & Camera erbatim Will be on at the Library, Friday, April 8, at noon. You'll have 1 minute to speak your piece and have posted for all the world to see at www.utahstatesman.com. 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