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ARTS AND CULTURE
Dozens of Alaska's artists awarded Rasmuson money
The Rasmuson Foundation has announced awards to 36 Alaska artists. Weaver Teri Rofkar of Sitka received the 2013 Distinguished Artist Award, which includes a grant of $40,000.
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'Mary Poppins' pops out with a bang in touring production
When Anthony Lyn watches the curtain call on the final weekend of the run of "Mary Poppins" in Atwood Concert Hall, it may be with a bitter-sweet pang. Anchorage is the last stop for the touring production that has played across America for the past four and a half years.
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Shorebirds galore at annual Homer festival
It's May and birds are on the move all over the planet. In Alaska, we are witness to some of Earth's longest avian migrations -- the Arctic terns nest in the Arctic after spending the winter in the Antarctic.
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Arts Scene: 'Seventymile Kid,' Concert Chorus recital, Reading Rendezvous, 'Beverly Hillbillies'
This week's picks: Author Tom Walker will talk about his book "The Seventymile Kid;" the Annual Reading Rendezvous takes place at the Loussac Library; winners from local music competitions will perform at UAA; and Valley Performing Arts presents "The Beverly Hillbillies."
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Voices of Alaskans: Winners of the 2013 UAA/ADN Creative Writing Contest
Winners in this year' s statewide Creative Writing Contest came from a wide range of Alaska towns, backgrounds and ages. Here they are.
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2013 Creative Writing Contest: List of Winners
Winners and honorable mention entries in the 2013 Creative Writing Contest, sponsored by the Anchorage Daily News, University of Alaska Anchorage and the Alaska Center for the Book.
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Editor's Choice and First Place, Poetry, Grade 10-12 : That Mountain Village
Mother -- long ago you awoke on the golden corn husk matete that you called your bed; curled on the dirt floor inside that callous stick house.
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Grand Prize and First Place, Nonfiction, Open to the Public : The Island (excerpt)
The Island was never mine -- leased but not possessed. The only proprietary interest that mattered belonged to the River. Cartographers gave it no note, this five-acre kidney of land tucked in close but not contiguous with, the shore land my wife and I purchased in 1973. We never were consulted ...




