Perseverance Theatre offers modern Alaska classicLast winter, readers returning from trips to Juneau raved about a new play they had seen at Perseverance Theatre, "The Blue Bear." For the next couple of weekends, Anchorage theatergoers…
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Anchorage travel photographer to talk about his exotic shootsIt looked like a painting to me, but I am assured by the American Society of Media Photographers that this is a photograph by Wayde Carroll. Carroll is an editorial…
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First Friday RamblesFriday's snowstorm may have deterred rational folk from making the First Friday art openings, but several exhibits should be caught as the weather improves.
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Eroding islands, disappearing glaciers, greenhouse gasesThe latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011 featured hundreds of talks about Earth science, some of those relating to Alaska (and some of…
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Sweet pea starts can help take your mind off winterIt's been a tough winter, and I am getting lots of demands for something, anything, that can be started indoors now and will be usable in the garden this summer.
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Celebrate the Super Bowl with seafoodRumor has it there's a big football game coming up Sunday. For many, it will mean nachos and chili and hot wings. But we do things differently in Alaska.
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Ketchikan artist drawn to paint animal carcassesArtist Callie Bellon doesn't know what draws her to paint dead animals. "Everybody asks me for an explanation of what it means," she said. "It's just carcasses."
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Whale film 'Big Miracle' makes Alaska debutYoung Anchorage actor Ahmaogak Sweeney joined hundreds of Alaskans for a special preview screening of Universal Pictures "Big Miracle," the first modern major movie shot entirely in the state. What…
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Light and legend: Glass artist has Alaska rootsBorn in San Francisco in 1963, Preston Singletary has lived in Seattle almost ever since. But Alaska has a claim on him. His maternal grandmother was full-blood Tlingit from a…
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Cliburn award winner scheduled to perform at UAAThe announcement last week that Sa Chen, among the top winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will present a recital at the University of Alaska next month certainly…
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The giant waves of Lituya Bay in Southeast AlaskaOne of the prettiest places in Southeast Alaska has felt some of nature's most violent behavior.
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Genaux offers rare vocal 'Pyrotechnics'Sometimes Vivica Genaux loves to sing with the precision and breakneck speed of an athlete -- in "techno rhythm." Other times, the tunes are achingly slow but still bursting with…
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Catalogs with attitude improve winterSome gardening catalogs are just plain clever. This is always a reflection of their owners' sense of humor or dedication to the subject matter at hand. It means not only…
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'Big Miracle' premieres in Washington, D.C."Big Miracle," the first major production subsidized by a state film incentive program that's among the most generous in the nation, premiered in the nation's capital Wednesday as debate burns…
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Rempel's vegetables return to Center MarketEvery Wednesday, Mark Rempel drives from the Valley to Anchorage for the Center Market. That 90-mile round-trip will feel like a breeze today.
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Family advocate has key role in whale rescue filmBonnie Carroll is well-known in veterans' circles as the founder of a vast organization that provides grief counseling and help for thousands of families of fallen military members. But it…
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'Hugo,' 'The Artist' bring cinema nostalgia to Oscar nominationsThe two films receiving the most Oscar nominations today offer loving looks back to the infancy of moviemaking, when flicks really flickered and visual effects amounted to actors jumping out…
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Portugal. The Man singer tends his Alaska rootsMaybe you've never heard of Portugal. The Man. While they play alongside the big names at the big festivals there has been no blockbuster record, no hit single. But for…
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A symphonic guide to the solar systemOn clear nights earlier this month, Anchorage sky watchers marveled at the sight of Jupiter -- 300 times bigger than Earth and at least 300 million miles away, adorned by…
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Famed model to help judge 'Object Runway' this yearYou've perhaps seen Ingrid Sophie Schram in Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, the New York Times Magazine, campaigns for Abercrombie and Fitch, Chanel, Anthropologie and Banana Republic. You may have caught…
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Glaciers no obstacle for railroad along Copper RiverHome of the trans-Alaska pipeline, Alaska has been the setting for a few epic engineering battles rendered against nature. The Million Dollar Bridge, spanning the lower Copper River, is a…
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6 artists to be in residence at DenaliSix artists have been selected from more than 300 applicants to participate in this year's Artist-in-Residence program at Denali National Park and Preserve.
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Explore 'eCatalogs' during deep freezeA good place to start is with chickens. The whole urban chicken thing is being classified under gardening, at least in a lot of major bookstores. So it shouldn't come…
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Taste of Kodiak celebration on MondayLet the chefs at ORSO restaurant give you a taste of fresh Alaska seafood without a messy kitchen.
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For TV chef, diabetes leads to 'I told you so'For 10 years, wielding slabs of cream cheese and mounds of mayonnaise, Paula Deen has become television's self-crowned queen of Southern cuisine. On Tuesday, she suddenly revealed -- as has…
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Alaska's 'Tundra' reaches an international audienceThe man who is arguably the most widely read living Alaska author is also Alaska's most viewed artist. If you're like the majority of Daily News readers, you already checked…
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International self-portrait show includes some local artistsIn the fall of 2010, famed Argentine art photographer Alicia Candiani came to Anchorage to judge the "No Big Heads" portrait show at the University of Alaska Anchorage Campus Center…
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Gold opened Alaska, but what is it good for?While I was driving the Steese Highway recently, large piles of boulders lining the road -- the tailings of a gold dredge that had munched its way through the area…
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'Beauty' boasts excellent singers and glorious setsThe transformative power of love can overcome adversity, prejudice and even a midwinter snowstorm. Example: the packed Atwood Concert Hall on Thursday, opening night of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast."
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Syndicated sex columnist returns to UAA next monthSex columnist Dan Savage will present a talk at the University of Alaska Anchorage next month. His last presentation in Anchorage two years ago sold out.
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Online seed catalogs are sprouting upIn case you haven't been noticing the trend over the past five years, printed seed catalogs are going the way of the dodo. The first wave of seed catalogs in…
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New year means new season of fresh codWintry weather may have some down in the dumps, but a fresh dose of seafood may help some.
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Nicotine replacements don't help smokers quit, study showsThe nicotine gum and patches that millions of smokers use to help kick their habit have no lasting benefit and may backfire in some cases, according to the most rigorous,
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The brains behind 'Beauty and the Beast'The musical "Beauty and the Beast," which opens at Atwood Concert Hall on Thursday, has a distinguished pedigree. Brilliant composers, directors and writers have been drawn to the fable. The…
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Kake celebrates 100th anniversarySunday is the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the Southeast Alaska village of Kake as a first-class city. The Kake Day celebration has been going on since Friday, said…
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Right cup improves coffee and friendshipsMy first Internet date was with a guy named Mike. (I assume that got your attention.) I received an email from this stranger, asking how to build plastic sleds. I…
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The greatest story of man and permafrostIn 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer with a job working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world -- an 800-mile steel pipeline that…
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Tour world with gardening web-o-logsFor some reason this weekend, I dreamed about a type of dahlia I once saw in Australia and that got me to thinking about writing a column on them. Then…
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Exhibit of human bodies coming to Anchorage in SeptemberThe first exhibit in Alaska of human bodies preserved using "plastination" will be exhibited at the Anchorage Museum this year.
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Get a taste of summer in early JanuaryWinter eating is getting tasty in Alaska. Available now or in the near future are goat, tanner crab and even a true taste of summer ? fresh basil.
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Alaska chefs invited to compete in contestThe Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is calling for professional chefs from around the state to enter a seafood preparation contest.
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In memoriamRemembering notable contributors to Alaska's arts who passed away in 2011.
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The Alaska porcupine's winter in slow-motionWhile running through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in…
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'Alaska Overnighters' returns next weekend at APU's Grant HalllMark your calendars for next weekend and the latest incarnation of the "Alaska Overnighters," short plays written, rehearsed and produced within 24 hours.
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