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Fourth annual Skull Party features Playboy Spaceman
At this year’s fourth annual Skull Party, Playboy Spaceman will be joined by Juneau hip hop artist Manner,…
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Dance group applications now open for Celebration 2018
Starting Wednesday, dance groups looking forward to next year’s Celebration can apply to participate in the annual event.…
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Q&A with the author of ‘Spirits of Southeast Alaska’
When working as a reporter for the KHNS radio station, which serves Haines, Skagway, and Klukwan, James P.…
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New Haines exhibit takes a look at 1850-1900 in Jilkaat Aaní
When Daniel Henry was teaching Haines high school students in the 1980s and 1990s, he was surprised at…
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Re-discovering a shaman’s drum
In the basement of the Sealaska Heritage Institute is very old box drum belonging to the Mount Fairweather…
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Li Gongpu: Undercover cannery worker in 1928
It always felt like an epic childhood growing up in the post-apocalyptic ruins of the burned and abandoned…
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‘Dreaming Glacier Bay’: Homesteaders and Hollywood
How does a reclusive, gold-mining couple living in the Southeast Alaska wilderness become close friends with one of…
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Poem: “A Sonata for Pa,” by Miriam Wagoner
What life presented to us was unordinary, Fate was not generous with time, It did not let you,…
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Juneau Symphony welcomes new concertmaster for new season
The first concert of the Juneau Symphony’s season will also be its first with Jacqueline Brand, a violinist…
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Fabricating the Alaskan Frontier
“The Last Frontier,” emblazoned across every Alaska license plate, evidences a cultural narrative foundational to Alaskan identity. One…
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Two Southeast Alaskan poets win awards
Two Southeast Alaskans were the recipients of the 2017 Alaska Literary Awards and the 2017 Connie Boochever Fellowships…
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Canadian DJ group A Tribe Called Red comes to Juneau
A Tribe Called Red, a Canadian indigenous DJ group from Ottawa, Ontario, will be taking the stage of…
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SHI releases new books
Seven new books are appearing this fall through the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s early literacy, Library of Congress-recognized program,…
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Baby Raven Reads honored nationally
Sealaska Heritage Institute’s early literacy program, Baby Raven Reads, has been recognized by the Library of Congress for…
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Indigenous peoples of Southeast are focus of Sitka conference
On Oct. 18, Alaska Day, Sitka will celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Treaty of Cession, when the U.S.…
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Driftwood inspires artistic impulses
I’ve always been fascinated by driftwood. As a child, their sometimes amazing and twisted shapes called to my…
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Discussing an Alaskan apocalypse
Zombies, North Korea’s threats, a rogue virus: the end of the world may not be upon Juneau at…
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Skagway Burlesque twirls into Juneau
Five mudboot-clad, umbrella-twirling women danced their way onto the stage of the Red Dog Saloon as the opening…
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Wrestlemania: “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity” at Perseverance Theatre
I’ll say this for the 2017-18 Perseverance Theatre season: it certainly starts off with a bang. Actually, not…