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Hip-hop superstars Nappy Roots hit Huntington Ale House

By MARK WILLIAMSTHE PARTHENON

Nappy Roots, one of the biggest names in hip-hop and rap music for the last decade, will perform 10 p.m. Friday at the Huntington Ale House.

The group, originally from Bowling Green, Ky., hit it big in the early 2000s with its smash debut album “Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz.” The al-bum featured chart-topping singles “Awnaw,” “Po’ Folks” and “Headz Up.” It would go on to be cer-tified multi-platinum, making Nappy Roots the highest selling hip-hop artist of 2002.

The group’s follow up album in 2003, “Wooden Leather,” was critically acclaimed and featured production by some of the biggest names in hip-hop music, including Kanye West, Lil Jon and David Banner. The early success of Nappy Roots lead to nominations for multiple American Music Awards, a Soul Train Award, and even a Grammy nomina-tion for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for the song “Po’ Folks.” The group’s popularity landed several of its songs on soundtracks for movies like “Dare-devil” and “The Ladykillers,” and even the popular video game “Madden 2004.”

The group formed its own independent label in 2007, the Nappy Roots Entertainment Group,

and has continued to release critically acclaimed albums and mixtapes regularly. In 2012, the group teamed with AllHipHop, one of the most popular hip-hop websites in the world, to release its latest album, “Nappy Roots Presents Sh!ts Beautiful.”

The show is being handled and promoted by local production agency, What’s Next Entertain-ment. Owner, Justin Brumfield, was optimistic for the show and future hip-hop productions in Huntington.

“Working with artists like this is exciting,” Brum-field said. “I would love to see something like this show in Huntington a few times a month or every weekend. I expect a big turnout. The more people that come out and show support for this, the more shows we will be able to bring to the Huntington area.”

Rising local and regional hip-hop acts Dinosaur Burps, Couch Life, J Goddess and Da Council will also perform. Brumfield was equally optimistic about the regions budding hip-hop scene.

“The Huntington hip-hop scene is growing with a lot of young talent,” Brumfield said. “You’ll be impressed.”

Mark Williams can be contacted at wil-liams788@marshall.edu.

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By MARK WILLIAMSTHE PARTHENON

Doom metal pioneer Scott “Wino” Weinrich will bring one of his heaviest projects, Spirit Caravan, 10 p.m. Saturday at the V Club.

The legendary metal vocalist and guitarist first appeared in the band St. Vitus in the early ‘80s. Along side bands like Pentagram and Witchfinder General, St. Vitus is credited as being forefathers of the early doom and stoner metal movements. After nearly 30 years of performing, recording and touring in multiple bands, Weinrich has re-vived one of his most respected bands for a full U.S. tour.

The tour is co-headlined by one of America’s fastest rising metal bands, Pilgrim. The Rhode Island trio is currently bringing doom metal to a new generation, receiving acclaimed reviews from such widely respected music publications like Pitchfork and Powerline Magazine. Known for relentless riffing, dark atmospherics and a near inhumane volume level, Pilgrim has been carving out a unique spot within the American metal circuit for the last three years.

Joining Spirit Caravan and Pilgrim will be Motherplant, a psychedelic metal band from Somerset, Ky. The band has quickly made a name for itself in the region, playing festivals like Boomslang Fest in Lexington, Ky., and open-ing shows for national acts like Dopethrone and Cavern. Motherplant’s riff heavy stoner metal harkens the sound of bands like Melvins and Black Sabbath, but its willingness to explore psy-chedelic improvisations sets it apart from the increasingly large genre.

Rounding out the show will be Huntington’s own purveyors of stoner metal, Sangoma. The local quintet has amassed an impressive re-sume in a short time, opening for heavy metal heavyweights Black Tusk and Torche. The band self-released a well received new full-length album, “Diviner,” late last year. While firmly rooted in the stoner metal sound, Sangoma’s dual guitar attack and wide-ranging vocals conjure ‘80s metal icons Iron Maiden and Megadeth.

Mark Williams can be contacted at wil-liams788@marshall.edu.

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By VERNE GAYNEWSDAY (MCT)

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: With Robb Stark, his mother and their various associates (includ-ing a dire wolf) dispatched at the Red Wedding, House Lannister has full control of King’s Land-ing, and presumably the seven kingdoms of Westeros.

The War of the Five Kings would appear to be over. The various threats from within and without (would appear) vanquished. So now, time for a “happy,” or at least politically expedient, occasion: The marriage of Lord Tywin Lannister’s (Charles Dance) rotten-to-the core grandson, King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson), to scheming Lady Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), which will unite two “Great Houses” of the Seven Kingdoms, House Tyrell and House Lannister.

The task of greeting wedding guests falls to Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage). One of those, a Dornishman named Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pas-cal), has more ominous reasons for attending than to kiss the bride’s hand.

Meanwhile, far to the north, the Night’s Watch debriefs Jon Snow (Kit Harington), who informs them of what he (and you) learned last season: That Mance Rayder (Ciarán Hinds), the King Be-yond the Wall, has mustered a huge army that is

about to overrun the Wall ... and Westeros. Looks like the war isn’t over after all.

A quick note on other key protagonists: The dragons of Daenerys Targaryen (Emelia Clarke) have grown in the off-season, and like all teens, they are somewhat unruly. She herself has mus-tered a considerable force as well.

MY SAY: Sunday marks the beginning of the halfway mark for “Game of Thrones” — if we’re to take showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss at their word, and no reason not to. In interviews, they’ve said the creator of this sprawling TV and literary kingdom, George R.R. Martin, has told them how “A Song of Ice and Fire” — the series upon which “Game of Thrones” is based — will wrap. By their estimation, about 80 hours — or eight seasons — should do his vision justice.

But if Sunday’s episode, “Two Swords,” is the beginning of the end, then what are we to make of “Game’s” eventual endgame?

Pretty much the same as what came before, only worse. This remains a world built on the best-laid plans of mice and men who haven’t got the slight-est idea of what lies just beyond the horizon — or over the Wall. Winter is coming, and with it not merely the ice — that would be tolerable — but

As another season begins, ‘Thrones’ still very much in the game

By JESSICA STARKEYTHE PARTHENON

Students and faculty from the Marshall Univer-sity W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Com-munications took home several awards from the Na-tional Broadcasting Society National Convention, which took place March 11-16 in Los Angeles.

The winners included Will Vance, James Collier and Joshua Rose for their Audio Sports Play-by-Play Program-ming. Adam Rogers received first place for his Audio Sports Package “New Hen-derson Center Floor.” Laura Hatfield took first place in the Professional Audio News category for her black history month panel and professor Dan Hollis, for the eighth year in a row and the 10th time in the past 11 years, won the first-place award in the video news category in the Professional Production competition for his story, “Birthday Vase.”

Hollis produced, reported, shot, wrote and edited his behind-the-scenes story on Blenko Glass’ creation of a vase commemorating West Virginia’s 150th birthday. He said he uses these sto-ries as a teaching tool for his students.

“The reason that I do these videos is to try and teach

students things from them,” Hollis said. “I want to talk to students about these ideas. One of the things I try and tell my students is great sto-ries are built on great ideas. A lot of this is just thinking and planning ahead.”

Hollis said he saw a news story three or four years ago on Blenko glass creat-ing a commemorative piece every year to celebrate West Virginia.

“I thought obviously Blenko is going to do a ma-jor project for 150 years,” he said. “I had been sitting on this idea for a couple of years just waiting on the 150th anniversary.”

He said every one of his stories has a specific mes-sage he can teach. This story showed the importance of waiting and preparing in ad-vance for a great story.

Senior training coordi-nator at WMUL-FM Adam Rogers said he was proud to take work from Mar-shall’s station across the country.

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Rogers said. “It was really surprising. It was great for the university to go all the way to California and com-pete with other students across the country at a really high level.”

News director at WMUL-FM and graduate student

Laura Hatfield said it was an honor to travel to Cali-fornia and to win first place for her panel on black his-tory month.

“I was out of my element all the way in California and it was definitely intimidat-ing to be in a room full of professionals that get paid to do this for a living,” Hat-field said. “We are in news contests with professionals, and it is really eye opening when we win these awards because you look at yourself as a student. People don’t realize that the work we produce here is on a profes-sional level.”

WMUL-FM is known for its success in radio nationally. Hatfield said she is proud to be a part of an organization that produces such quality work.

“When we go on these trips we can see how lucky we are to have the radio station that we do,” Hatfield said. “I’m very proud of WMUL and it says a lot about our station that our work is being recog-nized on a national level.”

Overall, WMUL-FM re-ceived three grand prize awards and thirteen honor-able mentions during the National Broadcasting Soci-ety National Convention.

Jessica Starkey can be contacted at starkey33@marshall.edu.

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ABOVE: Students after the National Broadcasting Society National Convention awards ceremony March 15 in Burbank, Calif. The WMUL-FM student broadcasters from left to right are Laura Hatfield, Adam Rogers, Bennet Siffrin and Nick McKendree.LEFT: Marshall University professor Dan Hollis won first-place award in the video news category in the Professional Production competition, for the 10th time in the past 11 years, for his story “Birthday Vase” March 15 at the National Broadcasting Society National Convention in Burbank, Calif.

never won before in his seven full PGA Tour seasons. Lately, while he has played good golf, he has not played great golf . . . and he has never played great golf on the biggest stages.

In fact, Walker has only played in six major champi-onships, with only four starts in majors since 2002. He has made one cut.

And he has never played in the Masters.

No Masters rookie has won the tournament since Fuzzy Zoeller won in 1979; which, really, was the only time it happened, since the other two rookies played in the first two tournaments. There is too much to learn at Augusta for a first-timer to stand a real chance.

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Leadership continues to evolve for Herd

By WILL VANCE SPORTS EDITOR

The saying goes that leaders are born, not made. For the Marshall University football team that has not been the case. Head coach Doc Holliday said the team’s recent success can partly be attributed to the rise of lead-ership on the team.

“Your good football teams are when the players take ownership of that team and that happened a year ago,” Holliday said. “It’s continued through the spring and it’s important that it keeps happening to get us where we need to go.”

Established leaders on the team include quarterback Rakeem Cato, center Chris Jas-perse and wide receiver Tommy Shuler, all seniors. Holliday said though its common, age

does not always contribute to leadership. “I’ve said all along you don’t have to be a

senior or a junior to be a leader,” Holliday said. “[rising redshirt sophomore corner-back] Corey Tindal was a captain a year ago and he’s a young guy.”

Holliday said his pre-Marshall experience taught him the best leaders show it from the time they step onto campus.

“Two of the better leaders I’ve ever been around were Tim Tebow and Philip Rivers and both those guys were tremendous lead-ers as freshmen.”

Last season Holliday implemented a weekly captain’s system where the coaches chose who would be captains based on their performance in practice. Holliday said the system helped foster leadership.

“I think the way we did the captains a year ago helped us because it put a lot of guys in leadership positions they hadn’t been in before, with the opportunity to talk to the team on Friday nights and things like that,” he said.

The 19 members of the 2014 senior class are the largest Holliday has had in his time at Marshall. Holliday said those that act as coaches are crucial to the team.

“That’s something I think we did a great job of a year ago,” Holliday said. “You have a better football team when the older kids are becoming coaches on the field and we have a lot of that going on right now and that’s a good thing. “

Will Vance can be contacted at vance162@marshall.edu.

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Redshirt junior wide receiver DeAndre Reeves (green jersey) and redshirt sophomore safety A.J. Leggett work on a blocking drill with wide receivers coach Mike Furrey (left) and head coach Doc Holliday (center background) looking on.

By MARCUS HAYESPHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS (MCT)

The Tradition Unlike Any Other this year might earn its motto in a most undesired manner.

Unlike any other year in re-cent memory the giants of the game could be absent, with no field of worthies to fill their shoes.

Tiger Woods, 38, underwent back surgery on Monday and will miss the Masters for the first time in 20 years.

Phil Mickelson, 43, an-nounced on Tuesday that he has recovered from a muscle strain in his right side and will play in this week’s Houston Open, after withdrawing from last week’s Texas Open.

Woods, with a violent swing and a litany of leg injuries in his recent past, has been brought to his knees this season.

Mickelson has been in grief most of this year because of back issues.

Tiger and Phil are the Jack and Arnie of their generation, and what might happen this year might match what hap-pened in 1969. That was the only Masters in which neither Nicklaus nor Palmer contended from 1958-1979.

Even when age finally ran down the Bear and the King, there were obvious, popular successors with personalities as big as their games: Faldo, Norman, Langer, Ballesteros.

A week from the first tee shot, there is no similar cast of successors, save one:

Adam Scott.He won last year. He is play-

ing well. He is telegenic. And, so, Scott is fated to be the focus of the show.

This is no one’s fault. Tiger is a fitness maniac, and Phil’s attention to his body has in-creased as his age advanced.

It is coincidence that the most hallowed of American tournaments this year falls at a time when the most recogniz-able faces are blemished.

Rory McIlroy, 24, is the most intriguing young player in the world, but he hasn’t played since March 9, when he posted a final-round score of 74 for the second consecutive tourna-ment, continuing a pattern of flagging finishes.

Since the end of 2012, when he won his second major, became an international su-perstar (and changed all of his equipment!), McIlroy has been less predictable than Irish weather. He will start in the Shell Houston Open this week, but he has not finished better than 15th in his five Masters starts.

McIlroy might be the golf world’s third biggest name, but his play has not equaled his fame in more than a year.

For that matter, Scott isn’t the most accomplished golfer this season. That is journey-man Jimmy Walker, and Walker isn’t going to draw TV viewers, but not for lack of a heart-warming backstory.

He won three times by early February, but, at 35, he had

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Rory McIlroy hits to the 9th green during the first round of the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Feb. 27.

By GABI WARWICKTHE PARTHENON

One of the members of the Marshall University wom-en’s soccer team that made it to the Conference USA quarterfinals is the junior forward, Myka DeMarco.

DeMarco is an exercise science major from Dal-las, Texas. Coming from a big town, DeMarco said the small town atmosphere at Marshall is what sold her on coming here.

“I’d never even heard of Marshall other than the movie,” she said. “Until I was playing at a tournament in Florida and Kevin [Long] saw me there. He contacted me and I was in Huntington by February and signed by March.”

DeMarco said she is very proud of the advancements the team has made while she has been playing for Marshall.

“I guess it goes back to a mentality change,” DeMarco said. “You get sick of being knocked around when you know that you can be at the top.”

In her three years, De-Marco has played in a total of 56 games, while starting in 21, with 15 of those starts coming in this past season. She said that the reason for this is that she expected more from herself.

“I was really upset with injuring myself in the fall,” DeMarco said. “I had to stop taking playing for granted. I decided that I wasn’t going to sit on the sidelines and watch.”

2014 will be the final sea-son in which DeMarco is

eligible to play for Marshall, and she said that it is a big deal for her and the other seniors.

“This is our time to start stepping up and being lead-ers,” DeMarco said. “Even though people are stepping up in every class, we are the leaders now. It’s nice to have people looking up to you and knowing that you are leading them.”

She also said the goal for the team this year is to beat expectations like it did last year.

“This team has always had a lot of talent,” DeMarco said. “People don’t really expect much from us. Last year, we were underestimated, but it’s going to change this year. This upcoming season will be eye opening for everyone else.”

Even though her goals are higher, DeMarco said that her favorite memory in her time at Marshall was the time she spent on the field in the last fall.

“I really enjoyed last fall because I was finally really starting to show what I was here for,” she said. “Seeing in myself the change in my mentality and confidence level, as well as a physi-cal change, made all of this worth it.”

DeMarco will be back in action with the women’s soccer team 12:30 p.m. Saturday, when it faces off against Morehead State and Lincoln Memorial at the Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex.

Gabi Warwick can be contacted at warwick@marshall.edu.

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For six decades, the Hunting-ton Museum of Art has been defined by a vision of bringing the world of art to the people of West Virginia and the tri-state region.

The museum offers many different events throughout the year of all sizes and for all ages. The majority of the events are free and open for the public to take advantage of, with the exception of the Hill-top: Books Only Festival and The Museum Ball because they are fundraisers.

Tess Moore, 29, of Hunting-ton, is the development officer at the Huntington Museum of Art and creative mind behind all of the events that are at the museum.

Growing up, Moore always had a passion and love for art. Event planning was also an interest she had, not just par-ties, but meaningful events

or fundraisers that would help the community or an organization.

“I graduated from Marshall University in the summer of 2011,” Moore said. “I had my resume, letters of recommen-dation and portfolio full of work in my hands and I thought I was going to just walk out the doors of Smith Hall and land my first dream job.”

After a year of job hunting, the development office posi-tion opened at the museum and after three interviews Moore was offered the job.

“This was exactly what I was looking for, working in the fine arts and raising money to help keep an amazing organization open that is crucial to the tri-state community,” Moore said. “I knew I had to get the job be-cause it was meant for me and that was why I hadn’t already found one.”

Every fourth Tuesday of the month from 7-9 p.m., the

museum hosts a guided inter-active themed tour of one of the current exhibits with a re-ception to follow and they are free to the public. A few of the popular Fourth Tuesday Tours are Tasting of the Conserva-tory Tour, The Harry Potter and the Permanent Collection Tour, The Nature Trail Tour, and the new Clue themed tour.

“I would say Fourth Tues-day Tours is one of my favorite events, because I get to work with different staff members and volunteers on something fun and creative, like making witches brooms and wands

out of pretzels and candy for the Harry Potter themed tour,” Moore said. “I also like see-ing the people that come each month and meeting the new ones. I highly recommend that if you haven’t been to a Fourth Tuesday Tour yet, to come check it out one month.” The largest fundraiser event that the museum hosts, is the annual ball. The ball is a black tie event that takes six months of planning to pull off. The ball raises a lot of money and wows 300 people each and every year. There are also fundrais-ers within this fundraiser, for

example this year one of the silent auction packages was two tickets to the Oscar De La Renta Fashion Week Runway Show this September with a meet and greet and a pair of his shoes.

The other fundraiser that Moore coordinates in the annual Hilltop: Books Only Festival. This year the Hilltop is August 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and August 17 from noon to 5 p.m. For two weeks a com-mittee of volunteers unpacks and sorts over 15,000 books, CDs, DVDs and tapes. Then for two days they help run the book sale with people pouring in by the hundreds. All books and miscellaneous items range from $1 to $3, and all of the money raised from Hilltop goes towards general operat-ing expenses which helps keep the museum doors open.

“Hilltop is such a feel good event, it’s heartwarming to see the community come together

and buy books to support the museum,” Moore said.

Moore is also responsible for the Open Door Membership Campaign, which is a 12 month campaign trying to achieve a goal of $325,000. The money raised through the Open Door Membership Campaign sup-ports the general operating expenses, such as paying for supplies, electricity and salaries.

“The museum depends on community support to stay open and it has for 60 years now and I just hope the support con-tinues to grow,” Moore said.

Membership starts at $25 and for that price they get free ad-mission, 10 percent discount on the gift shop merchandise, invi-tations to exhibition openings, free subscription to the mem-bers magazine, subscription to all museum e-communication and a discount on class tuition for a year.

“This was exactly what I was looking for, working in the fine arts and raising money to help keep an amazing organization open that

is crucial to the tri-state community.”

-Tess Moore

Marshall alum finding purpose at Huntington Museum of Art

By MEGAN JARRETTTHE PARTHENON

Few professors have a You-Tube channel full of music videos but Spanish profes-sor Benjamin Garcia has just that. Garcia writes pop songs and makes music vid-eos in his spare time. His YouTube channel features Garcia’s voice accompanied by acoustic guitar. He shares his channel with all of his classes.

Garcia came from a musical background in Spain. Origi-nally from Murcia, Spain, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Murcia in 2008. He then participated in a foreign exchange pro-gram, which led him to West Virginia University. There he received his master’s degree in Spanish literature in 2010. He has been teaching Spanish at Marshall for almost four years.

Garcia said Huntington is different from Murcia. Murcia is the seventh big-gest city in Spain. It is larger

than Huntington. He said the weather is very nice in Murcia.

“In the winter, it’s never cold,” Garcia said. “It doesn’t snow there.”

He has an English bulldog named Bella. Garcia said she’ is his only family in the U.S.

“I feel like she’s my rock,” Garcia said. “Animals make things easier.”

Garcia grew up a balcony hop away from his cousin.

“Our balconies are con-nected, so we would just jump from one balcony to the other,” Garcia said. “It’s a little dangerous, but we got used to it.”

Garcia said his musical fam-ily is the reason for his love of music.

“I grew up close to my cous-ins. They’re also musicians. They all play instruments,” Garcia said. “That’s why I like music so much.”

Garcia has always been on the move. He said he can’t stay in the same place for too long.

“I feel like I’m a very inde-pendent person,” Garcia said. “I don’t like to stay at home and be in the same place. I like to travel. When I was 18, I left home, and I went to live with a family in London for two years.”

Garcia is no stranger to singing on camera. He says there are home movies of him when he was young singing in English before he even knew the language. He’s been mak-ing music for most of his life.

“My brother would play gui-tar. I would write lyrics, and I would sing with my broken English,” he said. “I started writing songs very young and singing. I’ve only been playing the guitar for three years be-cause all my family in Spain, my cousins and my brother, they all play instruments. So I was just a singer.”

Garcia started teaching at Marshall in 2010. He teaches Spanish 101, 102, 203 and 112.

There are usually several overloads for his classes. He

said his teaching style is the reason for this.

“I like to have fun in my classes,” he said. “I want my students to learn, but I want them also to have fun and enjoy coming to class. I like to be fun and joke and all that.”

Erika Johnk, junior public relations major, said Garcia made class enjoyable and fun.

“I really enjoyed Ben Garcia because he made learning enjoyable,” Johnk said. “He was always in a happy mood which added to the atmosphere of the classroom.”

Johnk said Garcia receives overloads for his classes because of past student recommendations.

“There is always a waiting list for his class because his past students recommend him to the underclassmen because he is an outstanding teacher,” Johnk said.

Marshall Spanish professor living a musical life

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2 x 8.038 on Saturday, but it will be the first time since he was anointed Best Golfer in the World after his hot finish in 2013. He recently admitted that the physical and mental strain of his run to No. 3 in the world taxed him through the calendar’s turn. He will play in Houston this week, where he hopes to sharpen his game, but even Stenson has said that he should not be seen as a favorite in Georgia. With good reason: He has never finished better than 17th and he missed the cut in three of his eight starts at Au-gusta National.

Justin Rose, the English prodigy who finally is fulfilling his promise, never missed a cut in his eight Masters starts.

However, the reigning U.S. Open champion has sputtered since he foiled Phil at Merion, in part because of shoulder tendinitis that forced him to withdraw from the Honda Classic in late February.

He bogeyed five times in a fourth-round fade at the Val-spar Championship on March 16; only one player in the top 24 collapsed worse. He missed the cut the next week at the Ar-nold Palmer Invitational, where his 79 in the second round included six bogeys and two doubles.

That’s the last competitive golf Rose will have played be-fore the Masters. He visited Augusta last week to practice but he played in neither of the Texas tournaments that pre-cede the Masters. Tendinitis

is, as he pointed out, an injury that worsens with repetitive use. A golf swing is, of course, a motion that improves with re-petitive use.

There appears to be an impasse.

Certainly, the game would be well-served if a colorful player such as Rickie Fowler or Ian Poulter was to win his first ma-jor this April.

Perhaps it would be as well if a fading great — Ernie Els, Fred Couples, even litigious Vijay Singh — was to pull a Nicklaus and win the Masters as the cur-tain falls on his career.

In all likelihood, though, it will be Scott on whom the spot-light shines.

Maybe it would be best.There is a measure of Phil

Phatigue. Tiger now is despised

as much as he is revered.The game could do much

worse than to see Scott ascend as its newest king. The National could be his Versailles.

Scott has not finished outside of the top eight in his last three Masters starts and he has been in the top 20 in his last four Masters.

He is the James Bond of the golf world: achingly handsome, obscenely fit, maddeningly elegant, unfailingly polite, beautifully spoken, impeccably dressed.

He finished in the top 12 in six of his seven starts this season.

Yes, Scott is in fine form; his best form, probably, since he won the Masters last year.

The game, and its most re-vered stateside venue, at least should be grateful for that.

By RANDALL ROBERTSLOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)

Many who saw social media posts Tuesday about Frankie Knuckles may have been baffled, wondering whether perhaps an old-time pugilist had passed. In a sense this was true, but instead of his fists, the Chicago dance music producer Knuckles, who died Monday at age 59, used steady, relentless rhythms to send his message.

In the process, he helped set a course for house music in the 1980s and for electronic dance music in the decades to come.

House music was born in Chicago when Knuckles, Mar-shall Jefferson, Jesse Saunders and other young DJs brought the ideas and energy of the late 1970s New York City loft scene to the Midwest

and started messing with its sounds. Knuckles, born Francis Nicholls, was among the most transformative of those artists.

In fact, the DJ and producer is one of the key connectors of American electronic beat music, bridging the New York scene through his work with famed DJ Larry Levan and planting the seeds of Detroit techno through Knuckles’ early relationship with important producer Derrick May.

The sound Knuckles made was hard, mesmerizing and repetitive, focusing on Ro-land 808 drum machines and bass-line generators, strange synthetic washes that were as trippy as they were alien. One of his key works from this pe-riod, “Baby Wants to Ride,” sounds as fresh today as it did

when released in 1987.House spread from a regional

to an international sound as Knuckles, Saunders and Jefferson started DJing in Eu-rope, where they jumpstarted the British rave scene. From there the steady thump that Knuckles helped codify spread and morphed, becoming a catch-all genre beneath which subgenres including progres-sive house, microhouse, happy house, tech house and dozens of others have proliferated.

Pop music royalty under-stood this. A list of Frankie Knuckles remixes reads like a history of dance pop: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Janet Jack-son, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Whitney Houston and others commissioned him to rework their recordings.

My favorite of them is Knuck-les’ remix of Hercules and Love Affair’s “Blind,” a glorious 2008 post-disco New York jam that in the Chicago godfather’s hands becomes something ma-jestic. An eight-minute slow build that adds layers every 16 bars until this beast of a groove rises, the song features vocalist Antony Hegarty in perfect form. Knuckles understood this, and like much of his work, crafted his music as a pedestal for his singer, giving space to shine by surrounding voice with groove.

Even more, the sounds Knuckles created were pedes-tals for dancers, each crafted to levitate sweaty late-night revelers to a place a few levels above the ground. Some people call that the astral plane. For Knuckles, it was called house.

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Frankie Knuckles performs at the Lovebox Weekender, Victoria Park, London July 21, 2013. Knuckles, house music "godfather,"

died March 31 at age 59.

DERREN NUGENT | UPPA | ZUMA PRESS | MCTKnuckles turned his relentless rhythms into a global sound

a sentient, apparently inde-structible force of “white walkers” and “wights” (essentially zom-bies, only more dexterous and better smelling).

Who will ultimately prevail? Anyone? And to secure something as frivolous as a mere “kingdom”?

What’s the point of that?Martin clearly has big ideas at

play in a yarn that’s so richly pop-ulated with people along with the venal, stupid, duplicitous things they do that it’s easy to lose sight of those.

But step back, take a deep breath and pay close attention: The end of his gloriously realized world is imminent in every scene,

every word. The foreshadowing is ominous. The quaint idea that evil will be vanquished feels foolish, increasingly so — or to quote that Oscar Wilde character, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhap-pily. That is what ‘Fiction’ means.”

Meanwhile, keep an eye — a close one — on priestess Melisan-dre (Carice van Houten), who holds another would-be king,

Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dil-lane), in her thrall, along with his shrewd young daughter, Shireen (Kerry Ingram). Melisandre sees something in those flames she worships.

“There is only one hell,” she ex-plains. “The one we live in now.”

BOTTOM LINE: Still TV’s best — dive in while the water’s warm. Winter is coming, after all.

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“One of the best parts of my job is working with ad-mirable people who give hours of their time to help make the campaigns suc-cessful,” Moore said. “The people involved at the mu-seum and my coworkers are great people who all support the same mission. I have learned so much and

met so many great people working there.”

Thanks to Macyʼs spon-sorship, admission is free Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

“I promise you won’t be disappointed and then you can help me spread the word about all the great things happening on the hill,” Moore said.

Lara Sedlock can be con-tacted at sedlock2@live.marshall.edu.

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Alyssa Wilson, a sophomore secondary education major, said Garcia’s teaching methods made for a good learning experience.

Garcia also has a toy collection that he started at an early age. He started collecting PVC figures when he was a child. Garcia said that was his reward for being well behaved.

His collection is featured in

some of his music videos. These toys range from the Smurfs to Power Rangers. He has a new music video in the works that will feature a collection of Care Bears.

He tries to return to Spain every summer. While there, he records music in his friend’s re-cording studio.

Along with his friends and family, Garcia said he misses the food in Spain the most.

Megan Jarrett can be contacted at jarrett52@marshall.edu.

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