| Senior from South Korea identified as Virginia Tech shooter
BLACKSBURG, VA (WIS/AP) - Virginia Tech University says a senior from South Korea was behind the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history. The Virginia Tech Police Department has identified him as Cho Seung-Hui. The Virginia State Police say ballistics tests show one of the guns that was found after the shooting rampage was used in both shootings, at the dorm and at the classroom building. The incident ended with the gunman's suicide, bringing the death toll from the two separate shootings to 33. A police official says it's "reasonable" to assume that Cho was the shooter in both cases, but authorities haven't made the link for sure. A law enforcement official says Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock nine-millimeter pistol.
Want to play like Hendrix? Guitar World, DVD reveal a few secrets
Guitarists have been copying Jimi Hendrix for decades. Now they can learn some of the legendary rocker's work note for note. Guitar World magazine will release a special 16-page Hendrix tribute and an instructional DVD that shows how to play each memorable note and string-bending lick on his classic 1967 album, "Axis: Bold As Love." The DVD-magazine package hits newsstands Tuesday. "Not only are you going to learn some of Jimi Hendrix's greatest licks," the magazine's editor-in-chief, Brad Tolinski, says on the DVD's introduction, "but we also hope to provide you with a little bit of history on the making of `Axis: Bold As Love,' as well as some insight into his creative musical genius." The magazine tribute includes a complete biography of the guitarist and replicas of concert posters.
Influential Sol LeWitt on display in Oberlin
Artist Sol LeWitt, who helped establish conceptualism and minimalism as important art movements in the 1970s and 1980s, died Sunday at his home in Chester, Conn. He was 78. His deceptively simple geometric sculptures, drawings and wall paintings have been staples in blue chip contemporary art collections for decades. His works are represented in area museum collections, including the Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum, where an exhibit of his work, including two new wall drawings and several sculptures from LeWitt's personal collection, opened on March 9 and remains on view through June 17 in the Ellen Johnson Gallery. LeWitt believed that concept is the most important aspect of a work of art.
Telefutura and Jhonny Gonzalez: Spanish for “Refuge”
Included in every boxing fan's Top 100 goals are the following: See as many competitive fights as I can, and learn Spanish. Admittedly, the first goal is higher up the list than the second. Of course, there are also a few bilingual fans who are exceptions. But such exceptional fans are offset by many others who wasted high school elective classes on French and Latin and now need to catch up. Would you believe there's a single resource that can help with both goals and comes free in most basic cable packages? It's called Telefutura, and its invaluable "Solo Boxeo" program is on every Friday. Along with two well-matched weekly brawls, Telefutura also offers humorous, informal commentary and ringside appearances by world champs. But don't mistake this as a charitable plea to help some failing Spanish-language network.
Kids need a respite from TV
During the week of April 23, students from local school districts will join millions of children across America participating in National TV-Turnoff Week. Students, and hopefully their parents, will turn off their televisions and vacate their video game worlds for seven consecutive days. Instead, they will think, read, create, play and simply spend time together. Millions of families have taken part since this annual event began in 1995. So far as we know, all have survived to tell about it. "Television is chewing gum for the eyes," celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright said. Television can be educational and informative and even enjoyably and harmlessly entertaining, but increasingly, it is instead violent and oversexualized. It glamorizes such vices as tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
Masi Oka unlikely star of NBC‘s `Heroes‘
LOS ANGELES - Hes one of the breakout stars of this television season. But before his Golden Globe-nominated turn as Hiro Nakamura, the tech geek turned rudimental superhero on "Heroes," Masi Oka almost gave up acting. "I realized there werent characters being created for my type because Hollywood tends to have a narrow vision with regards to Asian Americans, or Asians in general," says the 32-year-old Tokyo-born actor. He finally decided the solution was to start shopping his own scripts. Then he got the pilot script for "Heroes." The fate of his bespectacled, cherub-faced time traveler will be revealed when the NBC freshman hit returns April 23 (10 p.m. EDT) for its final five episodes of the season. Fans will finally learn if Hiro can, to borrow from his now-popular catch phrase, "Save the cheerleader, save the world!" "Everythings going to be great, thats all I can say," Oka says, carefully slurping spaghetti noodles.
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