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In honor of Anchorage author Dana Stabenow's 17th book being released, Palmer is celebrating "Kate Shugak Day" on Tuesday.
REVIEW
'Onegin' is an operatic high point
Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" had never been performed in Alaska before Saturday night. It's a difficult piece in many ways, not least intellectually.
"Star Wars" comes to Anchorage Museum
Few images in cinema match the first on-screen appearance of Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" film. The faceless, insect-eyed mask, black body armor, commanding cape and flared helmet were reminiscent of a Nazi stormtrooper's gear. Everything screams, "This dude's dangerous!"
REVIEW
Musicians scramble in Rosenthal's absence
In the 40 years since his Alaska debut, I have never known Paul Rosenthal to miss a performance at which he was scheduled to play. But it finally happened. Friday night's opening program in this year's Alaska Airlines Winter Classics chamber music concerts in Anchorage found the series without its founder.
REVIEW
Play's take on death philosophical, hilarious
An outbreak of plays about death has hit Anchorage. Last month Anchorage Community Theatre staged "Heart." This month Cyrano's presents "Tuesdays with Morrie." And, in a frustratingly short run, after premiering in San Francisco, William Bivins' "The Afterlife of the Mind" is having its Alaska debut run at Out North.
REVIEW
Kilcher elegant, but Hawaiian costume drama plods
Fortunately Q'orianka Kilcher has the title role in "Barbarian Princess," the cinematic biography about Hawaii's Princess Ka'iulani, aka Victoria Cleghorn.
You get a feel for the energy, curiosity and talent of Alaska's young artists by looking over Laura Hedge's work at the Alaska Region of The Scholastic Art Awards show now on display at the MTS Gallery.
Next Saturday night, for the first time ever, Anchorage Opera will present a Russian language production -- Peter Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin."
ART BEAT
Willow woman in running for Grammy
Tonight's Grammy Awards will find Kirsten Gunlogson, born and raised in Willow, on the edge of her seat.
REVIEW
Dance program lacks the usual surprises
Alaska Dance Theatre's Winter Repertory Concert is usually the company's biggest performance, the one where they pull out all the creative stops. This year the Repertory Concert was more ADT-Lite than anything else. Friday's production at the Discovery Theatre was more conventional than audiences have seen in awhile.
ART BEAT
Folk Festival events fill the week to come
Guest bluegrass band Brother Mule had the crowd popping Friday night. They give one more show at 9:15 p.m. (more or less) tonight for the Anchorage Folk Festival.
Alaska film wins award of excellence in competition
"About Face: The Story of Gwendellin Bradshaw," produced by Affinityfilms, Inc., directed by Alaska filmmaker Mary Katzke, has won an award of excellence from The Accolade Competition. The award was given in the Feature Documentary category.
REVIEW
Yup'ik tune at the core of symphony premiere
"Ciuliamta cauyam" by Alaska singer James Afcan of St. Marys received its world premiere in symphonic form in Atwood Concert Hall on Saturday night -- and the composer didn't know it was happening.
ART BEAT
Dueling banjos are new at folk festival
The 21st Annual Anchorage Folk Festival kicks off Thursday. Through the end of the month, something like 500 local folks and national guest artists will celebrate traditional music, dance and storytelling for a combined audience that typically numbers about 10,000.
REVIEW
Clunky acting weakens tale of mystery writer in Alaska
Writers of historical drama since Shakespeare have faced the problem of whether to make their main thrust the history or the drama. The first explains a vanished society in terms that the current society might find relevant; the second explores how individuals past and present respond to and are changed by challenges.
Palmer grad is really into music on the marimba
A rapt audience nodded their heads and tapped their feet to the rhythm last week as Meggie Aube deftly gave Bach's "Chaconne in D Minor" rich new life on the marimba.
'Deadliest Chef' brings his Alaska cred to TV pilot
As a chef, John Stryjewski has cooked his way from one adventure to another, in institutional kitchens, in swanky private ones. Atop wood stoves and over campfires. On oil rigs, boats and trains.
You may not know the name Gregory Prechel, but if you catch episodes of "The Simpsons," "Futurama," "The Bold and the Beautiful" and so forth, you've probably heard his music.
Bartlett graduate returns to perform 'Carmen Fantasy,' a double bass showpiece
In addition to the premiere of Gregory Prechel's "Exposition on the Anchorage Museum, the Anchorage Symphony concert on Jan. 16 will feature a second piece calculated to rouse some extra-musical curiosity -- a concerto for double bass.
ART BEAT
Art awards program for young Alaskans reborn
Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, the Alaska Region of The Scholastic Art Awards was the state's premium showcase for the state's teenage artists.
REVIEW
Poignant comedy questions living and dying
Judd Lear Silverman's play "Heart" has received readings and workshops from New York to California, Florida to Valdez. On Friday night it finally had its premiere at Alaska Wild Berry Theatre.
EVENT
Bringing more than 20 years of pop culture motion picture icons to the Anchorage Museum, the display "Where Science Meets Imagination" will in town from Feb. 10 to April 25.
PHOTOS
Ketchikan artist Ray Troll and volunteer created a 12 foot by 30 foot mural in the new Imaginarium space in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
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PHOTOS
46 teams from around the state of Alaska competed in the FIRST LEGO League Robot Competition Jan. 16.
STORY
Roy and Marcia Zahrobsky met when he walked into her dad's grocery store in Hampton, Iowa, back in the '30s to get some lunch.
VIDEO
The Bayshore Elementary School Holiday Choir performs at the Ted Stevens International Airport.
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Transgender actor makes finals of reality dating show
Kotzebue-born rock musician takes it home
Quirky 'Under 30' monologues are more akin to lectures
Pianist Zlatkovsky marks 10 years of making music in Alaska
Revisiting the Anchorage film festival
Saradell Ard changed the way Alaska looks at painting
'SantaLand' star fights for justice, the arts
Student film on Santa letters to be broadcast
State arts chairman lands leading role
Choreographers elevate dance recital
Abbreviated 'Messiah' tilts toward tepid
Alaska Native mask maker receives $50,000 national grant
Russian musical a double winner at Alaska film fest
Animated offerings run the gamut
'Sea Change' documentary visually beautiful, but fragile
'Bark!' howls humorously, but the meat is in the music
Winter bike film part of 'Snowdance'
Fine acting propels saga of man who sets out to swim toward suicide
Kodiak artist is opening opportunities for others
Tourette's is the least of 'Sunshine's' dysfunctions
Sex workers talk shop, God in elegant 'Birthday'
Mat-Su thriller as jumbled as Knik River ice
Russian musical kicks off film fest
Music festival draws students from around state
Local talent a plus in animated 'Nutcracker'
One man's junk is another's 'light painting'
Christmas spoof shows bit of heart, avoids the snark
Artists present 50 visions on 50 years
Oregon ballet company puts on a new 'Nutcracker'
Record-setting applause (sort of) at recital