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Tidal Echoes open to submissions

Tidal Echoes, the literary journal of Southeast Alaska, is accepting submissions for its 2017 issue. Tidal Echoes accepts…

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Writers’ Weir: Wounded Eagle’s Nest

WOUNDED EAGLE’S NEST BY MIRIAM WAGONER You are a bit hidden from the road; many seem oblivious or…

This crab shell is a lovely treasure.

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Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels…

How you stack your wood says something about what kind of a person you are - at least according to a Norwegian book.

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Woodshed Kings: Stacking firewood, with a guide to finding a good marriage

A few weeks ago my neighbor and I were talking firewood. Specifically, we were talking about whether to…

Art created by a Lemon Creek Correctional Center inmate in "Walls."

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LCCC prison art turns walls to mirrors

To a graffiti artist, a blank wall represents an opportunity for expression. For a prisoner, it’s the opposite…

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Arts Calendar: Film, music, events

Alaska House Fisheries Committee public hearing, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thomas B. Steward Legislative Office Building…

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Men Without Boats: A tragicomedy

Note from the author: In order to capitalize on the unprecedented success of the Harry Potter play “Harry…

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On Writing: On not being a writer

This past summer we lost the French poet and essayist, Yves Bonnefoy, some of whose lines have occasionally…

Kindergartener Wynter Schroth isn't so sure about the smell from the recently exposed moose brains.

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Moose butchering: Gustavus food project turns to game

“Most schools confiscate knives. … At our school we pass them out — even to the kindergarteners!” is…

Technicians Tamsen Peeples, left, and Eric Fagerstrom measure seaweed at test beds in July for a joint project between the Unversity of Alaska and Premium Oceanic.

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Seaweed farming begins in Southeast

A year ago, Trevor Sande wasn’t thinking much about seaweed. Early this November, however, he and the employees…

From left to right, Sealaska Heritage Institute president Rosita Worl; Juneau artist Crystal Worl; Sitka Tribe of Alaska Youth Coordinator Chuck Miller; Shangukeidí clan leader David Katzeek; carvers T.J. Young, Jerrod Galanin, Nick Galanin, and Tommy Joseph; Ed Malline, and Zak D. Wass stand in front of the canoe. Katzeek and Rosita Worl flew to the steaming from Juneau to perform a blessing ceremony.

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From cracked cedar to dugout canoe

In February of this year, the red cedar log Steve Brown and his apprentices were working with was…

Seven year old M. Miller used a Lumix point and shoot to take this photo of bear bread with rain on it.

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Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels…

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Writers’ Weir: Poem in Cedar Wood

I brushed away wood chips, brought your face From the soft yellow cedar wood. Solitary atop the totem,…

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State Museum announces solo artist exhibits

JUNEAU — The State Museum’s upcoming solo artist exhibitions will highlight eight artists across the state including two…

Lindarae Shearer of Metlakatla is one of Sealaska Heritage Institute's featured artists this First Friday in Juneau. Shearer, who is Tsimshian, makes abalone and silver jewelry, cedar bark baskets, and skin care products made with devil's club and other Southeast Alaskan ingredients.

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First Friday listings in Juneau

Featured Artist: jewelry designer Carol White The Bear’s Lair Senate Mall building (175 S. Franklin St.), first floor,…

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Writers’ Weir: Three poems on heroin

HEROIN   You thief of dreams steal with your tricks of illusion giving one dream at the price…

Liz Snyder and Alex Kotlarsz perform as the Wool Pullers at the 41st Annual Alaska Folk Festival at Centennial Hall in 2015. They've just released their first album.

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Review: The Wool Pullers’ debut album

The Wool Pullers’ unique spin on the songwriters’ genre is a far cry from the tourist-pandering folk music…

Chilkat weaver Anna Brown Ehlers and her apprentice Darrell J. Harmon add fringe to the diving whale blanket at the Alaska State Museum's conservation lab on Sept. 28.

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Bringing a century-old Chilkat robe back to life

The Alaska State Museum broke new ground this year — not on the new building, but inside it,…

Red mountain ash berries stand out against a blue shed.

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Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels…

Helen Alten and Tim Huber of Haines celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in 2014.

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Former Empire reporter rebuilds life, mobility, language after stroke

Five years ago this June, Tim Huber’s life changed in a big way. Huber, a former Juneau Empire…