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Second time around: Matisyahu returns to Alaska

The first time I caught Matisyahu — Christmas Eve, 2003 at a club in Brooklyn — he was…

Highbush cranberries, which aren't technically cranberries, have a distinctive cluster that makes them easy to pick.

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Gathering Alaska: Juice and jelly from highbush cranberries

To me, fall is a time of decay. Growing up in Wisconsin, it meant a time when the…

Blue sky and latillas on a late summer's day.

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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…

The Git Hayetsk dancers, founded by Mike and Mique'l Dangeli, perform at a fundraiser in March 2014.

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New professor embodies both the academic and active nature of Native art

Mique’l Dangeli has been a little busy. In between being an artist-in-residence at the Scotiabank Dance Center in…

Kids dye cloth using lichens and mushrooms during Karen Dillman's class at the Rainforest Festival in Petersburg.

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A forest of forageables at the Petersburg Rainforest Festival

Ten years ago, U.S. Forest Service ecologist Karen Dillman returned to Petersburg from the Cordova Fungus Festival and…

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Juneau’s Arts Complex receives JCF grant

The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council announced Sept. 8 that it received a grant from the Juneau Community…

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United Way awards eight Southeast Alaskan nonprofits

The United Way of Southeast Alaska has this year awarded $15,750 in Community Impact Grants to eight different…

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Talks held in Sitka, Juneau for Audobon’s new Southeast ecological study

Where can you find the highest number of bird species in Southeast Alaska? Where does the habitat of…

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Alaska Community Foundation announces scholarships

The Alaska Community Foundation has awarded academic scholarships to 52 students across the state, including ten in Southeast…

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Juneau cabaret to perform Sept. 18

An evening of cabaret music performed by some of Juneau’s best singers and accompanists is soon coming to…

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On Writing: Still harping on Strunk & White

Quite a few readers, my wife included, were visibly shaken by my suggestion that we burn our copies…

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Who’s Your Diva? Libby Bakalar

Editor’s note: The Capital City Weekly is featuring two divas a week leading up to Juneau Lyric Opera’s…

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Who’s Your Diva? Celia Montalto

Editor’s note: The Capital City Weekly is featuring two divas a week leading up to Juneau Lyric Opera’s…

A natural moss-covered moose head along a Taku River trail.

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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…

Visitors fill the beach to greet canoes arriving from Klawock, Kasaan, Ketchikan, and Juneau for the rededication of Náay í'Waans.

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Kasaan’s Whale House restored, rededicated

As the morning of Sept. 3 broke warm and clear over the village of Kasaan, a small southeast…

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Booths available at Petersburg Oktoberfest

PETERSBURG — Booth signs up are now available for the 40th annual Oktoberfest Art Share to be held…

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UAS Juneau campus to get shuttle service

JUNEAU — A new Juneau campus shuttle program has launched this semester, providing services between the Auke Lake…

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Third round of community sessions to be held for new Arts Complex

JUNEAU — The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council will host the third round of community sessions with architects…

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Writers’ Weir: Doorman

A beaded leather-gloved author, cannery worker, First Nation’s matriarch, and her fencer, philosopher husband, arm in arm, approach…

Graduates move their tassles from right to left during commencement for the University of Alaska Southeast the UAS Recreation Center in May 2015.

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UAS program encourages adults to get their college degrees

This summer the University of Alaska Southeast’s Finish College Alaska program launched, and with it, the plan to…