Arts and Culture

Sitka Summer Music Festival begins

The Sitka Summer Music Festival has begun. This festival is Alaska’s premiere classical music festival that presents music to the community. This four-week event brings… Continue reading

All gynecologic oncologist rock band ‘get their groove on’

On the night of Thursday, June 8, it’ll be a time for celebrating life, recovery and independent rock music. Six gynecologic oncologists are bringing their… Continue reading

Tribal members carry the Raven Totem Pole to its site flanking the Huna Tribal House. (Mary Beth Moss | For the Capital City Weekly)

Two totem poles raised in front of Huna Ancestors’ House

Once again, the shoreline of Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park welcomed hundreds of tribal members and other visitors – this time to celebrate… Continue reading

Tribal members carry the Raven Totem Pole to its site flanking the Huna Tribal House. (Mary Beth Moss | For the Capital City Weekly)
The Muskeg Connection: A Petersburg summer

The Muskeg Connection: A Petersburg summer

Petersburg is home. I grew up here, left for college, and have been back for almost five years. The way life shifts each season is… Continue reading

The Muskeg Connection: A Petersburg summer

June First Friday listings

Scott & Donna Johnson & Mandi Canady Barnaby Brewing Company 206-1 N. Franklin Street Reception: 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. Scott and Donna Johnson and their… Continue reading

Juneau Dance Theater Spring Showcase: ‘A magical world’

Juneau Dance Theater Spring Showcase: ‘A magical world’

Over the May 26-27 weekend, the stage of the Juneau-Douglas High School auditorium was transformed by an array of dancers into what some in the… Continue reading

Juneau Dance Theater Spring Showcase: ‘A magical world’

Juneau Symphony to perform John Williams tribute

Composer John Williams has made some iconic themes for movies from the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" trilogies to “E.T.” The Juneau Symphony, led by conductor… Continue reading

“Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich: Tlingit Civil Rights Activist, Lukaax.adi Clan member” by Mary Ellen Frank. JDCM 2017.28.001. Purchase of this artwork has been made possible through the generous support of the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Fund. (Courtesy photo)

2017 Rasmuson Art Acquisition Grant funds City Museum artwork

The Juneau-Douglas City Museum has been awarded funds from the Museums Alaska Art Acquisition Fund, supported by the Rasmuson Foundation, to purchase artworks from two… Continue reading

“Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich: Tlingit Civil Rights Activist, Lukaax.adi Clan member” by Mary Ellen Frank. JDCM 2017.28.001. Purchase of this artwork has been made possible through the generous support of the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Fund. (Courtesy photo)
Sea glass shards scattered on a table. (Photo by Tara Neilson)

Making sea glass candles from Alaska’s beaches

It may have slept at the bottom of the sea in a deteriorating hulk until rolled in a storm tide and set free to roam… Continue reading

Sea glass shards scattered on a table. (Photo by Tara Neilson)
Fishing with a celebrity

Fishing with a celebrity

I wonder what fishing with President Trump would be like. This isn’t a pseudo-political column meant to mock the President or degrade the office because… Continue reading

Fishing with a celebrity
Writers’ Weir: Winter at Kona Reef, Hawaii

Writers’ Weir: Winter at Kona Reef, Hawaii

Upon the edge of Kona town lies a reef of great renown. Waves well up out of the deep to crash upon this famous reef.… Continue reading

Writers’ Weir: Winter at Kona Reef, Hawaii
Celebrating Little Norway

Celebrating Little Norway

Petersburg transforms the third weekend of May. The downtown is closed to traffic, stores load up stock, and people start arriving in droves. The Little… Continue reading

Celebrating Little Norway
Woodworking in the Tongass National Forest

Woodworking in the Tongass National Forest

Public lands surround Southeast Alaskans. The 17 million acre Tongass National Forest is where residents go to hike, camp, fish, and gather food to nourish… Continue reading

Woodworking in the Tongass National Forest
Mia Nevarez stands in front of Crescent Harbor in Sitka wearing a salmon dress that Cynthia Gibson made from 20,000 salmon vertebrae. (Photo by Bethany Goodrich)

Sitka woman makes dress from 20,000 salmon bones

Delicately yet firmly pinching the tiny vertebrae of a Chinook salmon between her thumb and pointer finger, Cynthia Gibson pushed fearlessly toward a rusty grinder… Continue reading

Mia Nevarez stands in front of Crescent Harbor in Sitka wearing a salmon dress that Cynthia Gibson made from 20,000 salmon vertebrae. (Photo by Bethany Goodrich)
The Canada, a Klondike gold rush shipwreck in Nahku Bay

The Canada, a Klondike gold rush shipwreck in Nahku Bay

At first glance she’s merely a stain on the beach visible only at low tide at the head of Nahku Bay, also known as Long… Continue reading

The Canada, a Klondike gold rush shipwreck in Nahku Bay
Some of the books that have recently arrived on the Capital City Weekly’s bookshelf. Mary Catharine Martin | Capital City Weekly

Summer Reading, Alaska-style

Here at the Capital City Weekly, we get a lot of books for review. Sadly, we can’t write about them all. Instead, we try to… Continue reading

Some of the books that have recently arrived on the Capital City Weekly’s bookshelf. Mary Catharine Martin | Capital City Weekly
A sketch from one of Tara’s schoolmates about delivering pizza to bush dwellers with a craving. Photo by Tara Neilson.

Pizza delivery in the wilderness

If there is one luxury bush dwellers envy city dwellers for, it’s pizza delivery. When I was a kid, every teacher of the bush school… Continue reading

A sketch from one of Tara’s schoolmates about delivering pizza to bush dwellers with a craving. Photo by Tara Neilson.
Juneau singer-songwriter Marian Call is seen in August 2016. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

Two Juneau artists earn Rasmusson grants

More than 400 Alaskan artists applied for grants from the Rasmuson Foundation, and just 35 were chosen. Two of those artists are from Juneau, and… Continue reading

Juneau singer-songwriter Marian Call is seen in August 2016. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)
Stock image of an American robin.

Writers’ Weir: A spring poem by Jack Campbell

Kuskokwim Break-Up By Jack Campbell The river could visit new country tonight leaving the old river behind in a vast lake. Gone out in Napaimute.… Continue reading

Stock image of an American robin.
The members of Third Coast Percussion, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin and David Skidmore, perform a free “brown bag” lunch-time concert in the atrium of the State Office Building on Monday as part of the 30th Annual Juneau Jazz and Classics Music Festival in 2016. Michael Penn | Juneau Empire

Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival returns for 31st season

This May will be Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival’s 31st season, but artistic director William Ransom’s first festival on the job. The founder of JJ&C,… Continue reading

The members of Third Coast Percussion, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin and David Skidmore, perform a free “brown bag” lunch-time concert in the atrium of the State Office Building on Monday as part of the 30th Annual Juneau Jazz and Classics Music Festival in 2016. Michael Penn | Juneau Empire