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Outdoor art featured at Botanical Garden gala
The Alaska Botanical Garden's Midsummer Gala will take place starting at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. There may be extra energy added to this event this year since the traditional Garden Fair has had to be cancelled due to several construction projects underway. But the gala features artwork that is usually...
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Hope Studios Gallery opens Wednesdy
Hope Studios Gallery, an art studio and gallery operated through Hope Community Resources, will hold a grand opening celebration from 6-8 p.m. on June 19. The gallery is located at 650 W. International Airport Road, a block or so from the main offices of Hope Community Resources.
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Arts scene: 'Carmen,' 'The Seventymile Kid,' and Ernestine Dillard
Local theaters host a rebroadcast of "Carmen" as performed by the Metropolitan Opera; author Tom Walker gives a talk about the first successful climb of Mount McKinley; Ernestine Dillard sings live at Anchorage Lutheran Church.
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Art Beat: Spenard Jazz Fest is in full swing
The Spenard Jazz Fest started last week and continues through late June. Here are some highlights for the week to come.
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Reading the North
For years, tour guide Daniel James Inulak Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark sandy beaches.
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Arts council displays the latest additions to Alaska's Art Bank
Twenty-two artworks by Alaskans -- and owned by everyone in Alaska -- went on display at the Alaska State Council on the Arts offices in Mountain View at a reception on May 30.
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Arts scene: Spenard Jazz Festival; Enzina Marrari; erotic fiction workshop
The Spenard Jazz Festival opens Friday, The International Gallery of Contemporary Art hosts a First Friday performance featuring the Momentum Dance Company and Scott Turner Schofield in support of Enzina Marrari's "Of Love," San Francisco-based author and writing coach Sinclair Smith's free workshop...
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Tony Bennett gives polished, entertaining show in Anchorage
Belles were in their strapless gowns. Young men sported ties. Women of a certain age looked like they'd just stepped out of the beauty salon. And, Tuesday night in Anchorage, Tony Bennett did what he does best: entertain.




