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Creative Currents: Seeking inspiration with Natalie Rei

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
Palmer-based muralist, watercolor artist and printmaker Natalie Rei has a new artistic process.
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The Scrubber Loophole in Alaska’s Cruise Industry

Arts and Culture Rachel Levy -
Concerns over Juneau’s relationship to the cruise ship industry have been on the rise in recent months. Between the Ship-Free Saturday campaign and the proposed West Douglas cruise port, many Southeast Alaskans are wondering if we might be crossing...
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Current Cravings: A Cookie Jar breakfast

Arts and Culture Jenny Weis -
The Cookie Jar was repeatedly described to me as the diner Fairbanks goes to eat a big brunch after a race, a game or a big day outside.  It’s not that you need to do an all-day hike or ski...
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Creative Currents: Making ‘The Space We Breathe’

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
Following on the tails of a week-long residency earlier this summer, artists Danielle Stickman and Emily Sullivan are sharing pieces created while in Norway on Arnøya, Sápmi.
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Current Cravings: Crunchy’s Real Food brings a new kind of burger to Anchorage

Anchorage Jenny Weis -
When I’m craving a burger, no other dish will satisfy me.
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Full Contact is a martial arts story about reclaiming our histories – and ourselves

Arts and Culture The Alaska Current -
Ariel Estrada, author and one-man performer of Full Contact, says the set of his first play is more than a dojo. 
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Creative Currents: Exploring ‘the bittersweet in-betweens’ in ‘Saltwater Swans’

Creative Currents Sam Davenport -
Two Anchorage-based journalists have an exhibition opening at Akela Space this month exploring the first three decades of life: “girlhood, adolescence, and our 20s.”
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Creative Currents: Staying ‘surreal and free’ with Jessi Saiki

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
For multidisciplinary artist Jessi Saiki, reflecting on their art is a walk down memory lane.
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Lunch buffets in Anchorage: The good, the bad and the bland

Anchorage Jenny Weis -
The concept of a buffet was ruined for me by the now-bankrupt chain, Old Country Buffet, which my family would occasionally visit in the early ‘90s.
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Tongass at a crossroads, again

Arts and Culture Rachel Levy -
How rollbacks on the Tongass Roadless Rule could threaten the lifeblood of Southeast Alaska.
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