Peter Porco

I’ve long felt anger toward China for its callous disregard for wildlife — they’re not the only guilty nation, for sure.

A death toll in the thousands. An invasion of American soil that led to a bloody infantry battle in a punishing environment. As the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Attu approaches, here's a detailed look at what happened, and commemorative events this week in Anchorage.

The Iditarod needs to deal honestly with the issues the film raises and needs to show how their mushers' dogs are being treated, not just during the race but also, especially, in their kennels.

In “Anchorage Is…” the presentation is that of a large selfie, a giddy, what-a-party-we’re-having glance at the expected highlights of Anchorage history. As a historical documentary, the movie’s omissions are glaring.

At bottom, “Ice Breaker” is not about science. It is instead a love story for which all the rest is context.

One of the most-successful portions of Dashiell Hammett's life took place in the wet, windy, all-but-written-off Aleutian Islands, a place that Hammett, in contrast to the many thousands of troops who served there in WWII, actually loved. For them, he and his staff produced a lively newspaper.

In August 1944, with a year of hard fighting left until the end of World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt visited Alaska as part of a three-week journey to the Pacific, the only trip he ever made here.

Light Brigade aerialists who treat vertical walls like a gymnasium floor. The dancers that will prance across the museum’s façade received special training as aerialists in San Francisco earlier this year.

Howard Weaver was chief editor of the Anchorage Daily News for the last decade of the great Alaskan newspaper war. Anyone looking for a dispassionate account of post-pipeline Alaska history should look elsewhere.

Inside the Gross Anatomy Laboratory at the University of Alaska Anchorage, a room cooled to the mid-60s and smelling of ethanol and other preservatives, a half-dozen first-year students in the WWAMI biomedical program were quietly exploring three cadavers open to their gaze, and taking notes.

What part of the overall American defense budget is paying for the Persian Gulf oil that ends up in all of our vehicles?

Last year, two mothers joined almost 40 local experts in support of a new training program here aimed at care providers who have contact with families of children with FASD.

A movement is afoot to have the incoming Powers that Be in Washington create a new cabinet position, a Secretary of the Arts.

"The Wrecking Crew," screened at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center on Friday evening for the Anchorage International Film Festival, is a documentary about a group of Los Angeles musicians that happens to be a love story.

"Bart Got a Room," one of five competitors in the Anchorage International Film Festival feature category that was won by the risk-taking Australian film "Streetsweeper," is quite funny at times. Which is a good thing. The gags act like heavy makeup to hide a blowzy tale -- the gags, and the movie's Hallmark Card of a forced feel-good ending.