Happy 2011 to all! Welcome to a new year of possibilities, promise and hope. If this one doesn’t work out well, don’t worry because there’s another one coming in 365 days. Stay safe wherever you are, especially if you are navigating the icy roads in Anchorage tonight. May your new year be filled with joy, [...]

Call me one of the two luckiest girls in Alaska today. The other one is Shannyn Moore. We got treated to a mini-concert by The Indigo Girls in the studio at KOAN today. I was excited for their performance in Anchorage tonight already, but I can tell you unreservedly, anyone going to tonight’s or tomorrow [...]

Thursdays in the Mud has been bumped from th usual time slot on The Shannyn Moore Show, and I couldn’t be happier! I’ll be on an hour early from noon to 1pm Alaska time because my usual 1-2:00 hour will feature The Indigo Girls! They’re playing at the Bear Tooth Thursday and Friday night, and sitting down [...]

Light trails on the floor of the Taproot Cafe. The Mudflats is taking a little breather this week. If you’re following the Alaska Senate Race and Joe Millers legal wranglings, there’s a new piece up by Brad Friedman over at The Brad Blog you’ll want to read —> CLICK!

Thanks for your indulgence everyone, while The Mudflats has gone in to low gear for the holidays. You can always depend on the daily open thread as a place to post links, and enjoy good conversation. But the blog may be a bit thin on content beyond that… just for a little while. We’ll be [...]

I took this picture from a parking lot bordering the Seward Highway. There were cars speeding by right out of the frame. I love the fact that beauty is everywhere if you stop and look.

~Filmmaker Dennis Zaki & the Mudflats Moose at the top of the world – Barrow, Alaska. next to the famous whale bone arch. Mudflatters may remember our friend and filmmaker Dennis Zaki.  We, and other progressive Alaskan blogs raised money to help send Dennis to the Yukon River village of Emmonak. Dennis flew to Emmonak [...]

Flyinureye at the Mudflats Art Department came up with this wonderful tribute to our dear friend Roger Ranch who passed away just a few days ago. I think he would have approved. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

Every year, I try to get a new ornament for the tree. This year, I was standing on line waiting to buy a special present and my eye fell on this one – the only one like it in a display of little gold balls. It spoke to me. Merry Christmas, Mudflatters. Count your blessings, [...]

Well, this is it Mudflatters… the last day. Our virtual choir has stood in the Square, breath turning to clouds, noses red.  It is five below zero tonight, and every twig is covered with impossibly thick frost, like some liberal Hollywood set designer went a little too crazy with the spray on snow. The blue [...]

Today, Anchorage lost a great soul. He wasn’t a political leader, he didn’t hold office, but he did what we all should do – he showed up. And he didn’t just show up for a pet cause, or a particular belief. He showed up for all of them. He showed up for labor, and women, [...]

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas my Ex-Gov gave to me: Eleven Hands a-Cheatin’ Ten Pipers Peeping Nine Campers Whining Eight Reindeer Fleeing Seven Polls a-Tanking Six turkeys draining Five Liiiiiving Props! Four Dancing Stars Three Lame Tweets Two Crappy Books And a Dead Fish on My TeeVee

On the Tenth Day of Christmas my Ex-Gov gave to me: Ten Pipers Peeping Nine Campers Whining Eight Reindeer Fleeing Seven Polls a-Tanking Six turkeys draining Five Liiiiiving Props! Four Dancing Stars Three Lame Tweets Two Crappy Books And a Dead Fish on My TeeVee

This blog post comes with musical accompaniment to enhance your reading pleasure. Yes, it’s true. One of our most favorite villains in the never ending Palin drama is leaving the Great Land. And I have to admit, as much as I’d like to tell him not to let the door hit him on the way [...]

On the Ninth Day of Christmas my Ex-Gov gave to me: Nine Campers Whining Eight Reindeer Fleeing Seven Polls a-Tanking Six turkeys draining Five Liiiiiving Props! Four Dancing Stars Three Lame Tweets Two Crappy Books And a Dead Fish on My TeeVee