Book review: Several Alaskan writers contributed to “For Love of Orcas," an anthology sparked by the story of an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days around Puget Sound.
The duo has been a favorite at the annual Backyard Country BBQ and Northern Lights Country Series — they wrote their radio hit “Backyard Family Barbeque” in an Anchorage hotel room — and now Elvis Monroe is bringing a full band back.
Also, there will be a marching band, political analysis, PowerPoint, singing, dancing, voting and vodka at the Museum.
Writer-director Elizabeth Banks delivers mixed results in a nostalgia trip with modern touches.
Book review: George Harbeson Jr.'s roots in Alaska are deep, and the stories in this slightly uneven but mostly quite good collection often hark back to an Alaska that’s slipped away in the age of the internet.
If your taste runs to the classical, there’s a stellar pianist and violinist in concert, and a performance of Florence Beatrice Smith Price’s “Symphony No. 1," the first symphony by an African-American woman performed by a major American orchestra in 1933.
Book review: In “Surfacing,” Kathleen Jamie, a poet and nonfiction writer from Scotland, follows her fascination with archaeology and cultural histories to various sites around the world.
Dia de Muertos and performing arts take the stage after First Friday art openings.
Here are the new art exhibits opening at galleries and shops around Anchorage on Friday, Nov. 1.
Ranging from rock to rap and political response, there are also new recordings out from the Alaska Independent Musicians Initiative and Parker Longbough and a Mr. Whitekeys retrospective DVD.
Book review: With its flying machines, newfangled radios, grubby mechanics and Arctic backdrop, this would be a great steampunk novel — were it not an entirely factual account of journalist-celebrity Walter Wellman.
“Devilfish” and “Summerland” open in Anchorage. Plus there’s an “extracurricular” night at the museum and rock 'n' roll bingo.
From Halloween wrestling to trick or treating, scary stories and “Monster Mash," there’s an excuse for anyone to put on a costume.
“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” is a story that appeals to some of our deepest hopes and fears. This stage version is best enjoyed by older kids (and adults).
Bathsheba Demuth’s book is touted as the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the lands and waters in and around the Bering Strait in both Alaska and Russia.
There are both family-friendly and adult-oriented celebrations, so prepare to get some mileage out of your costume this year.
Here’s the real question, though: How do they swim?
Book review: “American Predator” isn’t easy reading. But by drawing from documents, court records, and interviews, Maureen Callahan produced a superb work of true crime writing.
Also, Anchorage Concert Chorus will perform Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” and Armin Abdihodzic will perform guitar music by Spanish composers.
A spooky tale that’s definitely not for young children, “Constance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams” is Gothic musical from Anchorage Community Theatre about two girls living on the edge of a cliff, grieving the loss of their mother and all but abandoned by their mad taxidermist father.
