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THEATER REVIEW
Perseverance Theatre faced several challenges in adapting "The Blue Bear" as a play. One was trying to convey the enormity of the Alaskan landscape and megafauna on a stage. Most formidable, the play had to turn a literary meditation into a drama with action.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Time for your floral preseason workout
Enough snow. There isn't anything else to say about it, except "enough." Not even a remark about all the nitrogen that it contains and how good the deluge will be for our lawns this spring. Who cares? Enough snow.
MARKET FRESH
Local treats available for Valentine's Day
From sweets to the sea, Valentine's Day in Alaska runs the gamut. Dannon Southall at 10th & M Seafoods says they are running a few holiday specials, including pre-orders for live lobsters.
Perseverance Theatre offers Alaska classic
Last winter, readers returning from trips to Juneau raved about a new play they had seen at Perseverance Theatre, "The Blue Bear." For the next couple of weekends, Anchorage theatergoers will be able to see the two-man play at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.
Friday's snowstorm may have deterred rational folk from making the First Friday art openings, but several exhibits should be caught as the weather improves.
ART BEAT
Anchorage travel photographer to talk about his exotic shoots
It looked like a painting to me, but I am assured by the American Society of Media Photographers that this is a photograph by Wayde Carroll. Carroll is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Anchorage and specializes in location assignments, lifestyle and travel stock photography.
NED ROZELL
Eroding islands, disappearing glaciers, greenhouse gases
The latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011 featured hundreds of talks about Earth science, some of those relating to Alaska (and some of those comprehensible to a non-scientist).
New books of interest to Alaskans
JEFF LOWENFELS
Sweet pea starts can help take your mind off winter
It's been a tough winter, and I am getting lots of demands for something, anything, that can be started indoors now and will be usable in the garden this summer. I fall back on sweet peas. You can start them now and get fabulous flowers very early in the outdoor season.
MARKET FRESH
Celebrate the Super Bowl with seafood
Rumor has it there's a big football game coming up Sunday. For many, it will mean nachos and chili and hot wings. But we do things differently in Alaska.
Ketchikan artist drawn to paint animal carcasses
Artist Callie Bellon doesn't know what draws her to paint dead animals. "Everybody asks me for an explanation of what it means," she said. "It's just carcasses."
Whale film 'Big Miracle' makes Alaska debut
Young Anchorage actor Ahmaogak Sweeney joined hundreds of Alaskans for a special preview screening of Universal Pictures "Big Miracle," the first modern major movie shot entirely in the state. What they saw was a harmless, polished romantic comedy aimed squarely at parents and their animal-loving kids.
Light and legend: Glass artist has Alaska roots
Born in San Francisco in 1963, Preston Singletary has lived in Seattle almost ever since. But Alaska has a claim on him. His maternal grandmother was full-blood Tlingit from a Sitka area family. Traditional Northwest Indian themes and forms are fused into the glass works that have made him an internationally known artist.
ART BEAT
Cliburn award winner scheduled to perform at UAA
The announcement last week that Sa Chen, among the top winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will present a recital at the University of Alaska next month certainly caught my attention.
NED ROZELL
The giant waves of Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska
One of the prettiest places in Southeast Alaska has felt some of nature's most violent behavior.
New books of interest to Alaskans
Genaux offers rare vocal 'Pyrotechnics'
Sometimes Vivica Genaux loves to sing with the precision and breakneck speed of an athlete -- in "techno rhythm." Other times, the tunes are achingly slow but still bursting with passion.
JEFF LOWENFELS
Catalogs with attitude improve winter
Some gardening catalogs are just plain clever. This is always a reflection of their owners' sense of humor or dedication to the subject matter at hand. It means not only great information but a good read is as well.
USDA's new planting zones reflect global warming, even in Alaska
'Big Miracle' premieres in Washington, D.C.
"Big Miracle," the first major production subsidized by a state film incentive program that's among the most generous in the nation, premiered in the nation's capital Wednesday as debate burns in Alaska over whether the program is worth the cost.
MARKET FRESH
Rempel's vegetables return to Center Market
Every Wednesday, Mark Rempel drives from the Valley to Anchorage for the Center Market. That 90-mile round-trip will feel like a breeze today.
Family advocate has key role in whale rescue film
Bonnie Carroll is well-known in veterans' circles as the founder of a vast organization that provides grief counseling and help for thousands of families of fallen military members. But it was her involvement nearly 25 years ago in a high-seas effort to rescue three gray whales stranded off Alaska that is now receiving Hollywood treatment.
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COMIC STRIP
Flip through daily issues of "Tundra," Alaska's famous locally-drawn strip from Chad Carpenter.
POST A PIC
Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in Febuary, 2012.
READER PICS
From more than 4,000 reader photos posted to adn.com in 2011, we picked 100 of our favorites.
PHOTOS
Alaska Railroad steam locomotive, Engine #557,arrived in Anchorage on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. The locomotive first came to Alaska in Dec. 1944 and was sold to a private museum in Moses Lake, Wash. in 1964. The Alaska Railroad hopes to restore it for excursions.
PHOTOS
The Reindeer Farm hosted a holiday celebration on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2011, in Butte.
PHOTOS
The Alaska Jewish Historical Museum & Cultural Center's annual Hanukkah celebration at the Egan Center on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. The event featured the "African Acrobats" in their performance of "The Macrobats" a play on words referencing the Maccabees, the historic heroes of Hanukkah.
PHOTOS
Local dancers rehearse the Nutcracker Ballet Tuesday November 22, 2011 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.
'Hugo,' 'The Artist' bring cinema nostalgia to Oscar nominations
Portugal. The Man singer tends his Alaska roots
A symphonic guide to the solar system
Famed model to help judge 'Object Runway' this year
Glaciers no obstacle for railroad along Copper River
6 artists to be in residence at Denali
Explore 'eCatalogs' during deep freeze
Taste of Kodiak celebration on Monday
For TV chef, diabetes leads to 'I told you so'
Alaska's 'Tundra' reaches an international audience
International self-portrait show includes some local artists
Gold opened Alaska, but what is it good for?
'Beauty' boasts excellent singers and glorious sets
Syndicated sex columnist returns to UAA next month
Online seed catalogs are sprouting up
New year means new season of fresh cod
Nicotine replacements don't help smokers quit, study shows
The brains behind 'Beauty and the Beast'
Kake celebrates 100th anniversary
Right cup improves coffee and friendships
The greatest story of man and permafrost
Tour world with gardening web-o-logs
Exhibit of human bodies coming to Anchorage in September
Get a taste of summer in early January
Alaska chefs invited to compete in contest
The Alaska porcupine's winter in slow-motion
'Alaska Overnighters' returns next weekend at APU's Grant Halll
The facts on animal waste in the garden
Ring in the new year with fresh seafood
Kilcher family gets own reality show; it debuts Thursday
Some upcoming local art gifts we would hope to find this morning
Alaska's link to the Tuskegee Airmen noted at screening of Lucas film
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