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The first-timer’s guide to Folk Fest
There’s no music more real than the kind found at a real live folk festival. It’s the kind…
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Folk duo Pharis and Jason Romero put down roots as Alaska Folk Fest guest artists
Folk music is a wide umbrella covering an enormous amount of genres and subgenres, so it’s of no…
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Craig – Then and Now: The Age of Ellis Airlines
A few weeks ago I saw in the Prince of Wales Island Post that Island Air Express will…
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Planet Alaska: Spring is sneaking into Alaska
Spring, Taakw eetí, is sneaking into Alaska again. Fairbanks and Juneau are still covered in snow. In Sitka,…
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Southeast in Sepia: The Chilkoot Railroad & Transport Company
The Chilkoot Railroad &Transport Company (otherwise known as the CR&T Company) was the longest, most sophisticated and best…
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What’s Happening the week of April 4-10
Partners in Healing, April 5, 5:15 p.m., Gold Town Theater. This film discusses the partnership between western medicine…
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Making sustainable music
A pallet, planks from an old dock in Dillingham, and a used skateboard are all things that George…
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In focus: The Juneau Icefield Research Program
This summer, a group of about 30 students will step into the most unique classroom they will ever…
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Alaska calls Hope home
Among this year’s Alaska Folk Festival lineup of artists is Hope Griffin, a singer/songwriter based out of Asheville,…
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Alaska for Real: The secret life of logging dogs
If you stroll down Clay Street in Portland, Oregon’s Central Eastside District you’ll spy an odd looking, small…
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Going for grouse
Enthusiasm can enhance skill, but it can’t replace experience. In my effort to become a better Alaskan, I…
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What’s Happening the week of March 28-April 3
Raincounty Flyfishers meeting, Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m., Thunder Mountain High School Library. It will soon be time…
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Art exhibits, food samples and an app launch this First Friday
There’s some fascinating events happening this First Friday in downtown Juneau, from art exhibits, chances to sample products,…
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Young adult author launches teen thriller set in Alaska
As New York Times Bestselling author Ally Carter took a cruise through Southeast Alaska in 2014, she had…
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Planet Alaska: Skunk cabbage — A harbinger of spring
My dad and I load up his truck with binoculars, a rifle, and our lunch. We are heading…
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The thin line between Canada and Alaska
Marked by metal cones and a clear-cut swath 20 feet wide, Alaska’s border with Canada is one of…
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Country duo ‘Love and Theft’ performs in Juneau
Getting their start in Nashville, Tennessee, country band duo Love and Theft will be making its Juneau debut…
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Five stories from the Willoughby District
Curiosity prodded theater-makers Ping Chong, Ryan Conarro, and Frank Kaash Katasse to collect the different histories of the…
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Riverbend Elementary explores ‘Arctic Aesop’s Fables’ with One School One Book program
Some stories never get old. In fact, in their retelling, they can timelessly spark creativity, fun, and learning,…
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Nose Job: “Cyrano de Bergerac” at Perseverance Theatre
They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but lately I’ve had my doubts. Seriously, the sabre-rattlers…