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Gallery showcases 2/3-D art

UAA loses WCHA semifinals

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UAA senior defenseman Quinn Sproule shoots against Ferris State University at the WHCA semifinals March 21 in Grand Rapids, Mich.

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“Nightmare Fuel” by Ellen Davis is one of the 2-D pieces in the invitational.

By Kelly Ireland

arts@thenorthernlight.org The Student Union gallery opened the “2/3-D Invitational” on March 20. The show features works from upper-division art students selected by UAA art faculty. The pieces are made from a variety of mediums, both two-dimensional and threedimensional.

Students’ works come from the following classes a variety of upper division printmaking, photography, sculpture, painting and drawing classes.

Gillian Brinnand-Nannestad, a Bachelor of Fine Arts major focusing on sculpture, has a piece from his advanced sculpture class in the show. It is a

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By Travis Dowling

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The University of Alaska Anchorage traveled to Grand Rapids, Mich., to play Ferris State University in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association semifinals. For the fourth time in UAA history the Seawolves advanced to the WCHA semifinals.

They were on the losing end against the Bulldogs.

FSU took an early two-goal lead with two unanswered goals in the first period.

The Seawolves scored a goal at 8:54 of the first period, when junior forward Brett Cameron found the back of the net for a goal. The first period ended with UAA trailing FSU by a score of 2-1.

In the second period the Seawolves scored three unanswered goals, with the first goal of the second period scored by junior defenseman Austin Coldwell at 7:16. This goal tied the game at two goals per team. Freshman forward Zack Rassell gave the Seawolves the lead with a goal scored at 8:56 of the second period, putting UAA in the lead with a score of 3-2.

Seawolf freshman forward Hudson Friesen scored a goal 11:22 of the second period, giving UAA a 4-2 lead. The Bulldogs scored a goal at 11:52 of the second period. This brought the score to UAA 4 FSU 3. FSU tied the game at 15:29 of the second period, which ended with UAA and FSU

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Sky bridge underway for 2015

Serious Fun: Gathering for educational gaming

By Valerie Hudson

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A new sky bridge will connect the Health Sciences Building to the Engineering and Industry Building.

By Suhaila Brunelle

news@thenorthernlight.org Plans are underway to construct a new pedestrian bridge at UAA. The bridge will connect the second floor of the Health Sciences Building on the south side of Providence Drive to the third floor of the Engineering and Industry Building on the north side of Providence Drive. The bridge will act as a gateway within the University-Medical District and will ensure safety for students, staff, faculty and visitors to cross Providence Drive.

“The sky bridge will be a very prominent structure when you come down Providence Drive,” said UAA Lead Project Manager John Hanson. “It’s going to be a gateway to the university. It’s going to be a useful structure as well, because there are some plans to grow the southern parts of campus from across Providence Drive.”

“The design of the bridge is formed by a pair of steel arches that span the entire roadway,” said Scott Veerman, lead architect for the project with Livingston Sloan. “There is no center support structure at all in the roadway or the median or otherwise. The bridge will be suspended from the facebook.com/northernlightuaa

arches.”

The exterior finish of the bridge will be glazed, insulated metal panels. The bridge will also include a data and communications pathway between the north and south side of campus.

Veerman said, “There were several other design ideas for the structure that included purely functional bold architectural design, and the design that was chosen is a happy medium between the extremes.”

The sky bridge will help enhance academic collaboration, connect neighboring community partners and develop and promote a pedestrianfriendly campus, which is currently one of the goals in the 2013 UAA Master Plan.

The total estimated cost for the sky bridge is $4.4 million, and it is scheduled to be completed in the late summer of 2015.

There are also plans underway to develop the south side of UAA’s campus that include two new buildings and a 500-space parking structure near the Health Sciences Building.

Construction will begin this summer on a parking structure near the new Engineering and Industry Building that will add around 480 parking spaces. twitter.com/tnl_updates

Education and fun are not two words that typically go together.

But two instructional designers over at Academic Innovations & eLearning aim to prove why these two words can be the key to student success.

From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 11 in the Student Union, Academic Innovations & eLearning presents “Serious Fun: An Educational Games Gathering.”

Serious Fun aims to promote and discuss game-based learning in secondary and post-secondary education. Pre-registration is advised and can be done online at http://games.commons. uaa.alaska.edu. The cost is $30 for faculty and staff, and is $10 for students. It includes lunch and a continental breakfast. Those who do not register beforehand are still welcome but are not promised there will be enough meals.

During the conference participants can expect to hear from keynote speaker Alex St. John, who is the founder of WildTangent, Inc., and co-creator of Microsoft DirectX technology platform. They can also attend informational sessions and game creation workshops. There will also be a game arcade with hands-on play booths.

In addition to the event, a showcase will be open for all UAA students to enter games they have created. If a student’s thenorthernlight.org

game is accepted, the registration fee for that individual will be waived.

Event co-creator and instructional designer Jeanette Renaudineau said she witnessed the impact games have on learning when she was a high school mathematics teacher.

“While teaching high school math I noticed that my students would learn the material just to get through the exams but would forget the information soon after. However when I switched my teaching technique to become more game based I noticed that when I switched to game based learning they students seemed to retain the information easier and for longer,” Renaudineau said. “So I decided that I would try to put the material into a game and found that the students were not only more receptive to the material but also appeared to retain the information for longer.”

During the conference there will be some events that everyone participates in together and others that participants can pick and choose to attend. Topics of interest include game mechanics, live classroom games, video games, massively multiplayer online role-playing games, and augmented reality games.

“This event has a little something for everyone. Whether you’re a student or faculty, adding a little fun can improve learning for everyone,” said instructional designer and cocreator Melissa Banker. youtube.com/tnlnews

02 NEWS NEWS BRIEF UA paychecks no longer mailed

On April 4, the University of Alaska will stop mailing paper paychecks to employees’ individual addresses. Instead, individual institutions will receive a bulk mailing of paper paychecks and will distribute them to employees onsite. Paper copies of direct deposit forms will also be discontinued.

By eliminating paper checks and paper direct deposit confirmations, the university will save about $26,000 per year. Human Resources encourages all university employees to apply for direct deposit. It currently costs around $6 per employee to have checks printed and only $0.30 per employee for direct deposit.

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WEEKLY BUZZ Student sues fraternity over pledge week sexual assault

Cabri Chamberlin was allegedly raped during a pledge week strip show at her college’s chapter of Psi Upsilon. Chamberlin, who was a freshman at the time of the assault, said she was uncomfortable at the party, where there was much underage drinking. Chamberlin attempted to leave, but she was picked up from behind and raped by a male student while others watched.

Chamberlin sued the fraternity and is no longer attending school due to the assault.

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Former model, fashion designer L’Wren Scott found dead Last week, L’Wren Scott was found dead hanging in her New York apartment building. Scott, who had been Jagger’s girlfriend for more than a decade, was a well-known clothing designer, whose designs have been worn by celebrities such as Michelle Obama, Madonna and Christina Hendricks. No suicide note was left at the scene.

Smart tags tell when food goes bad

Scientists in China have created tags that stick to food containers and change color when the food inside goes bad. The tags are the size of a corn kernel and are made with nanorods that turn color once the food has rotted.

The “smart tags” will cost consumers less than a penny each.

United States colon cancer rates down

Last week, the American Cancer Society stated the rate of colon cancer diagnosis has dropped by 30 percent over the past decade. In the United States, colon cancer is one of the top three most common cancers. The study suggests about 70,000 men and 65,000 women will be diagnosed with the disease in 2014. This is a 3.4 percent per year decline in colon cancer cases from the years between 2001-2010.

Alaska’s STD rates are some of the highest in the country.

Scientists find evidence of rapid growth after big bang

Use a condom and get tested regularly.

Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of Minnesota, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have found further evidence suggesting that rapid expansion of the earth occurred shortly after the big bang. For three years, the scientists scanned close to 2 percent of the sky with a telescope at the South Pole, looking for a pattern of light waves left over from the big bang. This specific light wave pattern was caused by gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time that cover the universe.

Condoms are available at the UAA Student Health and Counseling Center.

Those eligible for Student Health benefits can also get STI testing at the center (www.uaa.alaska.edu/studenthealth).

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The turducken incident II: Turducken harder

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By Evan Dodd Contributor

Remember when you were a child and your mom guilttripped you into eating bad food because “there are starving children in Africa”? That gambit always seemed to work despite the inherent logistical challenges behind shipping the limp broccoli from your plate to needy children on the other side of the globe. The monstrosity that we created, however, would have turned even the hungriest of stomachs.

I’m referring, of course, to the turducken.

If cooking this beast were a scene in an award-winning movie, the moment we opened the oven would have been the perfect time for someone to fearfully blurt out, “We were wrong — we were so wrong!” as the scene ominously fades to black.

There were only three of us on the day it happened: me and two friends I’ve known long enough to con into embarking on this horrible journey with me.

Kitty supplied the oven. Hunter supplied the drinks. I brought the bird as a sign of camaraderie and horrible financial decisions that I would later regret.

We’ve speculated that perhaps our first mistake was buying our frozen turducken from a brand with the words “big” and “easy” in the title. (Clearly this assumption ignores the fact that trying to cook any sort of frozen “bird-ception” was probably a

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flawed plan from the start.)

In all fairness, this was the “economy” version of a turducken, consisting of ground duck, chicken and seasoned sausage all shoved into something resembling a turkey. The “real” version of the frozen tri-bird medley would have taken three people to lift, an industrial sized oven to cook, and would have required financial backing from Mitt Romney to afford.

Our final mistake was that we seriously miscalculated how long it would take to cook three frozen birds. We all showed up around 7 p.m., ravenously hungry and ready to try a grocery store delicacy, unaware of the three-hour cook time clearly labeled in size zero font on the bottom left corner of the box.

Being the patient, creative and woefully poor college students that we are, we tried to defrost the beast in a centuriesold microwave before giving up and throwing it in the oven for an eternity. It should have been a red flag that we were instructed not to remove the plastic covering, probably to allow the cancer to cook directly into the food.

Giving into insatiable hunger, we made the unanimous decision to leave the bubbling mess of meat in the oven and go to the store to buy food and, more importantly, beer — which was vital if we expected to be able to pretend to enjoy the final product.

Upon returning we were first struck by the smell. Something between a chronically unwashed kitchen and a decomposing carcass would probably be an accurate description, though it’s less scarring to avoid specifics.

Needless to say we proceeded to open all the windows and our beer in an attempt to ignore the evil that was growing in the kitchen. After another hour of occasionally checking the oven and watching “American Horror

Story” — which, by the way, is possibly one of the worst things to watch in the dark — we finally heard an ominous ding as the oven frantically tried to eject the disgusting mess.

The result, after the demonic-looking steam cleared, was a leathery football-esque mass of meat. Cutting through the exterior took the sharpest knife available and was reminiscent of sawing lumber, if lumber smelled like death and turkey. In retrospect we may have cooked it too long, because the stuffing held the consistency of lumpy sand and any intended flavor seemed to have dried up long ago.

Kitty made the questionable decision to try the first bite, resulting in a face like someone who’s just witnessed a horrible atrocity. Hunter, seeing the grimace, chose to make egg rolls instead, leaving me to curiously suffer through my one and only bite.

On the plus side, I now know I would have been a great “Fear Factor” contestant — though on the other hand, I now regret spending my entire column paycheck on this abomination.

So in an attempt to own up to our cooking mistakes and take responsibility for the disgusting pile of “meat” currently residing in a baking pan, we came up with a reasonable solution to ensure that the turducken could never again threaten mankind.

Basically we hid it in the apartment across the hall, never to be seen again until it starts to smell and they discover our crime.

In the end, we had learned no valuable lessons from the experience, save for a better sense of caution regarding what we allow into our kitchens. We can only hope the turducken doesn’t choose to haunt the apartment next door as viciously as it continues to haunt our taste buds.

Fledgling Faygo business

Jane Thomas and Jon Fardig have a “Faygo fridge” at the Bargain Discount Store in Chugiak.

By Evan Erickson

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Whether one calls it soda or pop, there are myriad forms of the sickly sweet syrup, and in Alaska some of the most popular soft drinks never see the light of day.

Several months ago flyers started cropping up around campus reading, “Faygo sodas from Detroit get yours now from Flight Deck Pizza.”

But what is so special about Faygo, other than its close association with the Insane Clown Posse?

Faygo, short for Feigenson, the namesake of two Russian immigrant brothers, was formed as the Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works in Detroit, Mich., in 1907. More than 100 years later, Faygo is still bottled in Detroit, though in 1987 it was sold to the National Beverage Corporation, owners of Shasta.

In addition to collectibles, there appears to be a healthy online demand for small shipments of Faygo to parts of the country where it is not readily available, replaced with other “generic” brands.

In Anchorage, Flight Deck Pizza responded that Faygo is no longer being sold after a man named Chuck had been let go from the popular bar and restaurant.

It turns out Chuck is a long-time friend of several other Alaskans hoping to satisfy a niche demand for Faygo in Alaska, even with exorbitant shipping costs resulting in massive markups.

Jennifer Haynes, who runs the Ebony and Ivory Convenience Store in downtown Fairbanks, claims to have gained 30 new customers since she began selling Faygo cans and bottles last August, priced at $2.75 and $5.25 respectively.

“We heard about it from one of our customers in an apartment building across the street,” Haynes said.

Haynes thinks the customers willing to pay the steep prices have probably lived in the Midwest

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or somewhere where Faygo abounds, but also has noticed its popularity among Fairbanks cab drivers and as a mixer with vodka.

Faygo’s strawberry-like flagship flavor “Red Pop” is the most popular, but “Rock & Rye,” “Peach!” and “Cola!” have also sold well at Ebony and Ivory.

Her supplier, who didn’t care to be named, claims to have sold 9,500 Faygos in the state, with buyers as distant as Barrow and Kodiak. The supplier was able to find somebody to ship Faygo to Alaska by posting on Craigslist Detroit and claims to have 23 of 60 flavors readily available.

Closer to Anchorage, the Bargain Discount Store in Chugiak has begun offering a limited selection of Faygo cans at $2.99 each.

Jon Fardig, who has connections to the Fairbanks Faygo contingent, showed up at the store on a Thursday afternoon with a custom-made “Faygo fridge,” a mini fridge covered in Faygo boxes wrapped in clear tape.

Fardig got turned on to Faygo while attending Ozzfest in 2002 and has wanted to play a part in bringing Faygo to Alaska ever since.

Jane Thomas, who runs the Bargain Discount Store during the week, said that in the last week her supplier has found a way to receive Faygo in much larger quantities.

Fardig and Thomas both mentioned Faygo’s connection to hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, alleging that ICP refuses to play in Alaska due to the unavailability of Faygo, which it sprays over its audiences. Fans of the group, or Juggalos, have also been known to voluntarily shower themselves in the beverages.

On the track “Fearless,” ICP raps, “I’ll go to Alaska, b--- slap a polar bear and take its food.”

It is clear that for Faygo to become widespread in Alaska, larger distributors like the Odom Corporation will need to recognize a statewide demand, but for those seeking childhood nostalgia or Juggalo lifestyles, Faygo can be had for a price.

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Sunday brunch as easy as 1-2-3

ing some lemon juice. Overall, this recipe was easy, inexpensive and delicious.

Ingredients

By Suhaila Brunelle

news@thenorthernlight.org I’m usually a very creative cook and enjoy trying new techniques and recipes, but between school and work lately, cooking has taken a back seat. During spring break, my best friend came over to the apartment, so I decided to cook for her and decided on brunch. Brunch is something I’ve had before on holidays at restaurants, but I’ve never cooked brunch by myself.

The three recipes I chose were simple, delicious, easy and inexpensive.

Eggs benedict casserole

This was my main dish. The recipe calls for Canadian bacon, but I substituted it with all natural, uncured turkey bacon. Other ingredients include eight eggs, two cups of milk, green onions, onion powder, salt and paprika.

I added fresh ground pepper on top to taste. It was simple to make. However, I did not keep it in the fridge overnight before cooking as suggested, and would definitely recommend doing this as the flavors the next day were more intense. I also used a hollandaise sauce mix, but I recommend making your own hollandaise sauce. The mix was not as lemony as I prefer my hollandaise sauce to be, even after add-

• Cooking spray • 8 large eggs • 2 cups milk • 3 green onions, chopped • 1 teaspoon onion powder • 1 teaspoon salt • 3/4 pound Canadian bacon, cut into 1/2inch dice • 6 English muffins, cut into 1/2-inch dice • 1/2 teaspoon paprika • 1 package hollandaise sauce mix (0.9 oz) • 1 cup milk • 1/4 cup margarine

Directions

Spray 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

Whisk eggs, 2 cups milk, green onions, onion powder and salt together in a large bowl until well mixed.

Layer half the Canadian bacon in the prepared baking dish. Spread English muffins over meat and top with remaining Canadian bacon. Pour egg mixture over casserole. Cover baking dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Sprinkle casserole with paprika. Cover with aluminum foil.

Bake in preheated oven until eggs are nearly set, about 30 minutes, then remove foil. Continue baking until eggs are completely set, about 15 more minutes.

Whisk hollandaise sauce mix with one cup milk in a saucepan.

Why is cyberpunk interesting?

By Klax Zlubzecon

Translated by George Hyde

Over spring break (the incredibly boring and dull spring break, as outlined in last issue’s column), George indulged himself in two of his favorite games and one of his favorite movies: “Deus Ex,” “System Shock 2” and “Blade Runner,” respectively.

It took me a while to figure out what these three works have in common, but it led me to discover what George’s favorite genre of science fiction was: cyberpunk.

To explain cyberpunk, it’s essentially a speculative branch of science fiction that centers on the transformative aspects of science and computers.

So, transhumanism, right?

Technology that helps humanity overcome its problems?

That’s not sci-fi, that’s everyday life. George wears glasses every day. He brushes his teeth and shampoos his luscious hair.

That’s technological augmentation right there, to say nothing of the magnificent brain slug sitting right on his head. Actually, George tells me it’s a bit more dystopic than that. Cyberpunk tends to focus on how technology breaks down or radically changes society. From what I’ve seen, it borrows a lot from film noir and detective fiction.

I thought for a bit about what all this means, until I watched as George reached the end of “Deus Ex” and “System Shock 2” — again, 40-hour games he’s played before versus 10-hour games he still needs to get to.

The embodiment of a productive spring break sits before you.

Cyberpunk works always ask their audiences incredibly tough questions. The end of “System Shock 2” asks audiences if artificial intelligence is really worth the cost. “Deus Ex” makes us question all of our technical advancements and whether or not we’d be better off in a new dark age where no electronics exist. And of course, “Blade Runner” asks whether androids can be considered real humans.

There are also the social issues on display in cyberpunk. Often, these works contain some kind

of mega-corporation distributing augmentations that put the rich at a distinct physical and intellectual advantage over the poor. That’s an issue we continue to face today, and if the trend of steadily advancing tech continues the way it has been, then it’ll throw everyone into disarray, including the rich.

All of these elements make cyberpunk a very present genre, embodying the issues of today into something that the people of tomorrow will hopefully understand. They serve as cautionary, but also hopeful tales about the very near future and how civilization will be able to handle a new technological age.

That got me thinking. From a very young age (and I know this because I’m a slug and we read this stuff), George was able to use a computer. At age three, he was able to grasp the concept of a mouse and keyboard. This (and a lot of educational programs) put him way ahead some of the other kids back in the day.

When he was six, he was instantly able to grab a Nintendo 64 controller and know how to use it within minutes. And that was an N64 controller, one of the most confusing game controllers in existence.

Compare this to his dad, who can barely type, and who couldn’t use a simpler game controller if his life depended on it, and we have a significant cultural and generational gap.

Some say that gap will disappear as older generations start to die off, but I’m not so sure.

George still relies on a giant desktop tower for his computer needs, when everyone else has a tablet or phone. He knows the ins and outs of a computer, but he doesn’t really know the ins and outs of a smartphone.

Sooner or later, whether PC purists like it or not, desktops are going to die off. The same thing will happen to smartphones when they inevitably become out of date. It’ll be a never-ending cycle.

Maybe that’s what George finds so fascinating about cyberpunk: It gives us a glimpse into that world and allows us to learn from it before it overwhelms us.

Eh. Either way, I think the rest of the alien fleet is going to arrive before the next big technological leap, so don’t hold your breath.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. EMBRACE THE SEAWOLF SLUG.

Eggs benedict casserole is an easy bulk brunch food.

Add margarine and bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Reduce heat to medium-low, simmer and stir until thickened, about one minute. Drizzle sauce over casserole to serve.

Sausage balls

Before last weekend I had never heard of sausage balls, but the recipe seemed easy so I decided to give it a try. Most recipes involve pork sausage, but I used chicken sausage instead. It was probably one of the easiest things I’ve ever made, and these delectable little balls were amazing! Next time I make these I will be sure to serve them with some sort of savory sour cream dip.

Ingredients • 1 pound ground sausage • 1 package of shredded sharp cheddar (8 oz) • 2 cups Bisquick

Directions

Mix together sausage and cheese. Add two cups of Bisquick and mix until all ingredients are incorporated. Form mixture into one-inch balls, place on baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 30-45 minutes, or until sausage is fully cooked through.

Berry crescent rolls

Everyone has heard of Pillsbury crescent rolls. I had some of them on hand along with frozen berries and wanted to combine them into a crescent roll wreath. I added a mixture of cream cheese, granulated sugar and half-and-half. My wreath didn’t particularly work out, but the cream cheese and berry mixture tasted amazing. This was an easy and inexpensive recipe that I am sure to make in the future.

Directions

Mix cream cheese, half-andhalf and sugar. Spread on the inside of the crescent roll amd

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Ingredients • 1 can Pillsbury crescent rolls • 1 small tub of cream cheese • 2-3 tbsp granulated sugar • 2-3 tbsp half-and-half place thawed berries on top of the cheese mixture. Fold rolls into crescent shape over cheese and berries. Form into the shape of a wreath, place on cookie sheet. Follow baking directions from Pillsbury tin. Enjoy!

Everything I made for my best friend brunch was simple, inexpensive and fun to make.

Not only that, everything turned out deliciously. I highly recommend any of these dishes for the beginner chef who wants to expand his or her repertoire of recipes and impress their friends. I also served a fresh fruit tray filled with strawberries, oranges and cantaloupe.

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Capital Cities to play in summer concert series

By Kelly Ireland

arts@thenorthernlight.org On June 6 Humpy’s is bringing up indie pop band Capital Cities with guest Youngblood Hawke. The concert is the first of Humpy’s Big Spawn summer concert series to celebrate their 20th summer anniversary.

Capital Cities are known for their international multi-platinum hit “Safe and Sound.” The song hit No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Billboard’s U.S. alternative songs chart.

The music video for “Safe and Sound” was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video and won in the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Visual Effects. With images of people projected over the background of the restored Los Angeles Theater in old school film projector style in black and white and a 3-D movie without 3-D glasses, it’s hard to not see why the video won for Best Visual Effects.

Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian of Los Angeles met through Craigslist in 2008 and formed the group in 2010, according to their official website bio. After releasing their self-titled EP in 2011, which included the song “Safe and Sound,” they found that radios in Peru were playing their music so they set out to promote themselves in the United States. Soon after they were picked up by Capitol Records under their indie label, Lazy Hooks, and released the album “In a Tidal Wave of Mystery” in 2013. The band also now works with bassist Manny Quintero, trumpeter Spencer Ludwig, guitarist Nick Merwin and drummer Channing Holmes.

Their music has a lot of synth with upbeat rhythm and sound. It’s obviously pop music, but just weird enough to be considered indie pop, reminiscent of ‘80s new wave mixed with more electronic elements and a happy trumpet.

Most critics have given Capital Cities good reviews. Spin described the group’s sound as “breezy summer electro jams by guys who know what commercial means.”

Matt Collar’s review on All Music said, “The album brings to mind the early, innovative electronic music of artists who were earnestly taken with the explicitly computer-generated sounds of the modern wonder that was the synthesizer, like Level 42 and Giorgio Moroder. In that sense, ‘In a Tidal Wave of Mystery’ fits in nicely alongside the works of such similarly inclined indie pop contemporaries as AM & Shawn Lee, MGMT, Phoenix and the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas’ solo work.”

While Collar finds it very easy to define and relate the band to current and former groups, not

Capital Cities will play June 6 outside of Humpy’s on the corner of F Street and Seventh Avenue. Tickets for the event are $45 each and are available at http://www. brownpapertickets. com. The show is all ages, but valid ID is needed at the doors, which open at 6 p.m.

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all are able to so easily classify what Capital Cities are all about.

“I find them to be quite interesting. They have a very different sound than anything else. I wouldn’t know how to classify. I couldn’t possibly classify it as indie pop because it is neither indie nor pop, so it’s very difficult to classify a sound such as that. It’s very interesting, though. I do enjoy listening to their music,” said engineering major Diego Barros.

But not everyone is impressed with the group, especially with their so-called “commercial” sound.

“It just reminds me of watching TV,” said English major Rebekah Laggis, describing the song “Safe and Sound” as commercial.

On Sputnik music, contributor Nathan Flynn wrote a review on Capital Cities’ album “In A Tidal Wave of Mystery” stating, “Unsurprisingly, their music is just as vapid and immaterial as ‘Let’s Go to the Lobby’ but is made by men with an inflated sense of self-importance and delusions of grandeur, creating an awkward gray area of blurred intentions and mixed messages.”

ART: Invitational show con t i n ue d f r om c o v er

FOREIGN FILM FANATIC

‘Oldboy’ still fresh after a decade

By Jacob Holley-Kline arts2@thenorthernlight.org

painting by Danielle Larsen

“Dazed” by Danielle Larsen is an oil painting done in Kathryn Tomka’s Int. Painting.

found object sculpture titled “Knife Fork Spoon” made from plastic utensils shaped to look like a flower.

“I think so many everyday objects have an intrinsic beauty,” Brinnand-Nannestad said. “I had a box of clear plastic forks left over from a party, and when I opened the box I noticed how the light caught the curves of the prongs.”

Art major Ray Dummar has two pieces in the show from his experimental photography class and intermediate photography class.

His first piece, “Ice” from his experimental photography class, is a photo of an ice ball taken with his hand-built pinhole camera. He made the camera in three days using 197 different parts that shoot photos with 35 mm film. The image of the ice was transferred onto wood with xylene chemical solvent.

His other piece, “Dinner with a View,” is a photo of a table with plates, glasses and silverware set up in the snow near Sheep Creek.

“I had issues with the cranberry juice in the glasses freezing on me, so (I) had to keep changing it out to keep from getting ice crystals in it,” Dummar said.

Nic Sweet, who is working on his Masters of Art Education through UAF, has a piece from advanced printmaking. The work, titled “The Traveler,” is a monoprint. Artists create monoprints by putting ink on a smooth surface like glass and transferring it to paper or canvas, resulting in a single print.

Sweet’s first experiences of looking at art were in Time Life books, where he saw works from Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya and Rembrandt.

“At the time I was blown away by the nudes ... so many drawings of naked people! I still remember my mother explaining to me that nudity didn’t used to be something that people were so uptight about,” Sweet said.

On the darker side of art, Ellen Davis, majoring in fine arts, has captured what most would find in their nightmares in her photograph for the show, titled “Nightmare Fuel.”

“It depicts a headless man in a clown suit using one hand to grind up puppets in a meat grinder, and his other hand is inside another puppet, who is watching the carnage below. I used bright, cheerful colors and patterns that are generally associated with happier themes,” Davis said.

“2/3-D Invitational” will show in the Student Union Gallery through April 9.

Revenge films are a dime a dozen. “Oldboy” could have easily become a cliché, but with the direction of the wunderkind Park Chan-Wook and the talents of Choi Min-sik, it’s gone on to become a critical and commercial hit with an immense following. It was popular enough in America to lead to last year’s remake, directed by Spike Lee. This film teems with darkness and evokes everything from pity and desperation to humor and joy.

But this is not for the weak of heart — it’s an emotional and visceral thrill ride that never once lets up. And what a strange thrill ride it is.

“Oldboy” follows the drunkard Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik, “Happy End”) who gets arrested on his daughter’s birthday and locked in a hotel room where he stays for 15 years. When he gets out, all he wants is revenge, but when he falls for an attractive sushi chef (Kang Hye-jung, “Nabi”), the plot thickens.

Coming off the heels of Chan-Wook’s equally bleak “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,” “Oldboy” exchanges the bleak for the extravagant. It revels in a bombastic visual style that’s at once exciting and off-putting. Every ounce of darkness is weighed against a pound of aesthetic flair.

The infamous hammer hallway fight scene is particularly impressive. In one long and incredible take, Oh Dae-su works his way through a mob of faceless antagonists, hammer in hand and revenge in heart.

Choi Min-sik delivers a wildly deranged performance and, alongside him, Kang Hye-jung holds her own as the chef and lover. She’s a character in herself who can’t help but try and fix a

damaged man, even beyond the buckets of blood he spills around her.

And that’s where other revenge flicks get it wrong: violence. Movies like “The Punisher” showed violence for violence’s sake, but in “Oldboy,” every violent outburst has a purpose and a message. In the end, violence visited upon others is violence ultimately visited on one’s self, and the result is devastating.

It’s fantastically written and hard to watch. It’s sadistic and bloody, dark and violent, toilsome and sometimes hilarious. It’s nothing less than a brutally dark masterpiece, deserving of eyes all around the world — at least eyes that can handle the trauma.

Title: “Oldboy” Director: Park Chan-Wook Genre: Drama Release date: Nov. 21, 2003 Country: South Korea

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gchyde@thenorthernlight.org Augmented reality is an interesting game concept that hasn’t come into fruition. Basically, augmented reality games try to be integrated into real life.

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“Ingress” is a mobile, massively multiplayer online game that revolves around using reallife locations in its game play, and the result is a pretty cool motivator to get outside and get exploring.

The story goes like this: Earth has been seeded by an unknown energy known as Exotic Matter, or XM. XM, thought to have been planted on the planet by aliens of some kind, has been known to influence human behavior and thinking.

The game begins with the player choosing one of two factions. The Enlightened believes XM is meant to advance and evolve humanity, even hoping that it will help humans reach extraterrestrial society. The Resistance, on the other hand, believes XM is too easily abused and that it will lead to humanity’s destruction.

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But again, this inspires cooperation. And it’s truly the cooperation that makes this game special. “Ingress” communities have formed in several cities to help new players and coordinate attacks and defenses. It’s through this community aspect that “Ingress” feels alive.

If nothing else, the game is certainly a nice distraction during commutes. Because it’s free, it couldn’t hurt to take a chance and see what kind of impact one player can make in the world of XM. Game: “Ingress” Developer: Niantic Labs Platform: Android, iOS (coming soon) Genre: MMO

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As a musical adjective, “timeless” can mean two things. The popular usage denotes classicism. Timeless music fits in and is accepted everywhere. It can also be translated literally, meaning without time, without rhythm. Listeners get both meanings of the word on St. Vincent’s new self-titled record. They get all the timeless funk, and all the timeless funk. It fits in a lot of musical categories and circles of acceptance, even when Annie Clark is divulging into an a-rhythmic maelstrom of guitar wailings.

Somewhat famously described by Clark as “a party record you can play at a funeral,” St. Vincent’s new eponymous record is just as weird as that description.

It’s weird instrumentally, weird lyrically — weird on all levels.

But as pugs, Picasso and the artist formerly known as Prince can testify, weirdness has a way of working to one’s advantage. That’s precisely the case with St. Vincent’s new work.

Opening with a crunchy, farty, somewhat atonal line of blippy synths on “Rattlesnake,” the album establishes itself as one that laughs in the face of pop music convention. And then Clark starts to sing. Immediately it becomes evident that her time spent with David Byrne several years ago has had a profound affect on her music, which has been refurnished with Byrnish vocal melodies and idiosyncrasies, such as little hops and skips that are reminiscent of the Talking Heads’ frontman.

Not only is Clark now rocking the David Byrne style, but this album also contains what might be a homage to him as well: a song called “Psychopath,” which is not too far from the Talking Heads’ iconic “Psycho Killer,” both in title and lyrical scope.

Like most good art, St. Vincent’s music is duplicitous and multifaceted. On the surface, listeners get the funk, the punk, the quirks and the irreverence. They get Clark violently punching the neck joint of her guitar on stage and basking in waves of brain-freezing feedback. But below all that is a lyricist with a sharp pen.

The album’s first single, “Digital Witness,” seems to be a reaction to the digital takeover of people’s modern lives, and that there is no more privacy. It would not be too far a stretch to imagine Clark wearing a tin foil hat and doing NPR interviews about going off the grid.

Even when ambiguous, Clark’s lyrics are interesting, engaging and a real artistic tease. Listeners don’t get everything at face value with St. Vincent, which is precisely why the album succeeds in being the funeral-applicable party record. On top, it’s weird and melodically triumphant like life itself, but beneath the surface it’s contemplative and haunting, like death. Perhaps this particular juxtaposition between quirky and fun instrumentation and investigative lyricism is not Clark’s party-death intent, but it certainly rises to her own assessment of the record.

One of the great successes of St. Vincent’s new record is that it brings weird and cool together. Oftentimes experimental or “weird” music gets unfairly slotted under lo-fi because it lacks a certain wellproduced sound, but St. Vincent experiments and sounds professional and crisp.

This well-crafted experimentation is precisely what makes St. Vincent a popular artist without immediately being deemed a pop act. Her music is like a well-groomed honey badger (who, as the Internet meme scene knows, does not care about your opinion) wearing a tuxedo. And for this reason — timelessness, irreverence, innovation and real cool factor — hats off to St. Vincent.

Album: “St. Vincent” Artist: St. Vincent Genre: Indie Rock Label: Republic Records Release Date: Feb. 25, 2014

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By Travis Dowling

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The world of mixed martial arts is a world where two individuals step inside an octagonal cage and try to either knock out each other out, make one another submit, or have the referee stop the fight because the other fighter cannot safely defend him- or herself.

The octagon was designed to keep the competition on even ground.

Boxers fight in a square. Wrestlers battle on a mat with a circle. But the octagon takes away the advantage a boxer might have over a wrestler or vice versa.

This, along with other reasons, makes watching the Alaska Fighting Championship live at the Sullivan Arena exciting. The first reason that makes the AFC and mixed martial arts exciting is whether the fighters are friends or mortal enemies, once the bell rings and the fight has stopped there is a mutual respect among the fighters. The fighters shake hands and sometimes give each other a hug. In most cases, the winner tells the loser he or she did well, or that he or she is a great fighter and had an amazing match.

The second reason that makes mixed martial arts so fascinating to watch is the amount of training that each fighter undergoes for the battle in the cage. Some fighters will take on a fight with a few days’ notice. Others will spend months training and preparing for the fight.

The fight usually lasts anywhere from three rounds in a non-title fight to five rounds in a title fight. All rounds are three minutes long, and for those three-minute rounds, the fighters are trying to beat their opponents in a battle of skills and strength.

The Sullivan Arena recently hosted AFC 106. The card featured nine different fights with 18 fighters coming from all sorts of fighting backgrounds. From wrestlers to boxers to Brazilian jiujitsu fighters, individuals prepared to step into the octagon and battle.

In the opening bout of AFC 106, Alex Perue, 5 feet 8 inches and 155 pounds, took on Joshua “The Alpha” Bell. Perue made Bell submit at 2:08 of the first round with an arm bar.

The second fight of the evening did not make it past the first round because the referee stopped the fight at 1:32 of the first round. Colton “Captain Caveman” Gorake, 5 feet 7 inches and 170 pounds, was declared the winner over Daniel Silook, 6 feet and 169 pounds.

Maika “Red Mat” Graff, 5 feet 8 inches and 186 pounds, defeated Hector Juarez, 5 feet 5 inches and 169 pounds, less than 30 seconds into the first round with a knockout.

The fourth fight was announced as the “fight of the night” because it was a chess match between two very even opponents. The fight lasted all three rounds and came down to the judges’ decision. The judges awarded the fight to Mike “The Renegade” Forcellas, 5 feet 10 inches and 150 pounds, over Jason “Frog Hammer” Gillette, 5 feet 9 inches and 146 pounds.

Matt “The Spleen” Robards, 5 feet 7 inches and 155 pounds, submitted his opponent Jonathan “Jerry” Tobin, 5 feet 9 inches and 152 pounds, at 1:54 of the first round with a chokehold.

The next fight provided the submission of the night with the tap out at 1.9 seconds left in the first round, when Nick “The Natural” Novelli, 6 feet and 156 pounds, submitted his opponent Cody “Big C” Mabee, 6 feet 4 inches and 155 pounds.

The only female fight on the card showcased Michelle Young, 5 feet 5 inches and 148 pounds, fighting Jennifer Johnston, 5 feet 7 inches and 154 pounds. Young submitted Johnston with 1:28 left in the first round.

In the co-main event, Tommy “Pot Belly Assassin” Ide, 5 feet 6 inches and 206 pounds, defeated Nick “Outlaw” Taylor in the second round via referee stoppage. This fight was two years in the making and was billed as the “grudge match” because the two do not get along at all. From the opening bell till the ending bell, it was a battle where there was no love lost between the two fighters.

In the last fight 185-pound champion Chris “Cuffcake” Cuff, 5 feet 6 inches, submitted his opponent Dillin “Biggin” Wiggins, 6 feet 2 inches and 186 pounds, at 3:09 of round two and was crowned the new champion.

Colten “Captain Caveman” Gorake punches Daniel Silook while he is down at the AFC fights last Wednesday. photos by adam eberhardt

Chris “Cuffcake” Cuff holds the leg of Dillin “Biggin” Wiggins at AFC 106 in the Sullivan Arena on March 12.

Fighters will take the cage will take the cage next in AFC 107 on April 16, when Nic “Naptime” Herron-Webb takes on Alejandro “Alex” Garcia.

WCHA: Seawolves’ season comes to end in Grand Rapids c o n t i n ue d f r om c o v er

Seawolf freshman forward Zack Rassell rushes past a Ferris State University player to get ahold of the puck at the WCHA semifinals on March 21 in Grand Rapids, Mich. photos by adam eberhardt

tied at four goals apiece. The third period started and ended with both teams still tied at four goals.

At 2:38 into the overtime FSU scored the game-winning goal, giving FSU the victory 5-4 over UAA. Ferris State University moved onto the WCHA finals against Minnesota State.

“I couldn’t be any more proud of our team for the way we came out and competed against the No. 3 team in the nation and the No. 1 team in our conference (the WCHA),” UAA head hockey coach Matt Thomas said after the game. “I don’t want to take anything away from Ferris State, because they played a heck of a game too. I thought we played well enough to win the hockey game, but that’s what happens in overtime.”

Thomas went on to add, “The right time of year, we were a very good team. It’s just unfortunate that it ends for us here tonight. As much as it stings, moving forward time will heal, and we will be able to reflect on what was a very positive season and a well-played season.”

When asked if he had any comments for the fans back in Anchorage, senior forward Matt Bailey replied, “It was awesome. We really appreciate all the support we get, and it was a really tremendous season for our program. We have some very loyal fans that are very close in our hearts.

Speaking as a senior that has been here for four years, I am very grateful for a lot of the boosters and alumni that have treated me so well over my four years, and it’s something I will never forget.”

March 22

Junior defenseman Derek Docken races past players from Ferris State University at the WCHA championship semifinal game last Friday in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Minnesota State University defeated Ferris State University in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s Broadmoor Trophy Championship game in Grand Rapids, Mich. Minnesota State freshman Michael Huntebrinker scored the first goal of the game at 9:13 of the first period.

With Ferris State trailing 1-0, Minnesota State added another goal at 13:50 of the first period. Junior Brett Stern scored the goal and gave MSU the lead 2-0. This was also the game-winning goal.

In the second period Ferris State scored a goal at 19:42 of the period. Scored by freshman Gerald Mayhew, the goal pulled Ferris State within one goal of MSU. In the third period MSU scored two goals to secure the victory over Ferris State, scored by sophomores Brett Knowles and Teddy Blueger.

MSU freshman goaltender Cole Huggins was named WCHA Final Five Most Valuable Player. MSU will represent the WCHA in the NCAA Division 1 Tournament this weekend.

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