Editor’s note: This is the last of Corinne Conlon’s foraging columns for the year. “Gathering Alaska” will return to the Capital City Weekly next spring.Sitting in… Continue reading
Do you know which bar is the oldest in Alaska?How about what the relationship was, in the 1940s, between Juneau police and prostitutes?Historians, museum employees,… Continue reading
JUNEAU — The Con Brio Chamber Series will perform “For the Love of Music,” a program of chamber music for voice, flute, strings, and piano… Continue reading
Violinist Linda Rosenthal, founder and artistic director of the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival, announced that after 30 years, she will shift her focus back… Continue reading
I want to clear up some confusion about that poor misunderstood verb “to be.” Strunk & White’s “Elements of Style” has some culpability in creating… Continue reading
Fifty-six years ago, the City of Douglas condemned, burned down and bulldozed Douglas Indian Village. The fire took 20 homes. It also took livelihoods.At the… Continue reading
Writing a poem is like love,it cannot be dragged in,it must want to be with you;Feel safe—be respected.After a poem is finishedit knows more about… Continue reading
Juneau has got its first peek at what its new Juneau Arts and Culture Center may look like. If everything goes according to plan, you… Continue reading
One of public radio’s flagship programs, “A Prairie Home Companion,” will be having a new host, beginning Saturday, Oct. 15. After over 40 years —… Continue reading
Surreal: having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic.We all felt it —a strange and pervasive sense of giddiness as we stood on… Continue reading
The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels of ability are invited to send in… Continue reading
To me, fall is a time of decay. Growing up in Wisconsin, it meant a time when the leaves changed into a layered palette of… Continue reading
Juneau-Douglas High School graduate and Homer writer McKibben Jackinsky’s first book, “Too Close to Home? Living with ‘drill baby’ on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula” tells the… Continue reading
For years, Judith B. Aftergut searched for her path. It was Glacier Bay and the stories of many who have lived there that helped her… Continue reading
JUNEAU — The public is invited to be part of a TV audience for the taping of “The Alaska Legacy of William Seward,” a program… Continue reading
If you’ve been downtown in the last few months, you might have noticed — amidst all the tourists — a new zine has hit the… Continue reading
JUNEAU — In the first concert of its 13th season, Gold Street Music will feature The Huckleberry Pickers: Karen, Heather, Ciara, Sally and Anissa; Dara… Continue reading
Some may call Alaska “The Last Frontier,” but evidence of Alaska Natives’ thousands of years here is etched right into the rocks. Hundreds — perhaps… Continue reading
‘A LANDMARK ADDITION’ TO ALASKAN WRITINGBY CHELSEA TREMBLAYFor the Capital City WeeklyI was sitting on a mossy overlook watching Shakes Glacier up the Stikine River.… Continue reading
The first time I caught Matisyahu — Christmas Eve, 2003 at a club in Brooklyn — he was like nothing I’d ever seen. And musically,… Continue reading
