By Mudflatter D All those props used in the “Everybody Loves Whales” film are on sale this week! While some were returned to LA, there is plenty left at the warehouse behind Spenard Builders Supply to entice practical-minded scavengers, like me. Remember, this movie loosely portrays an event in 1988, so don’t expect to find [...]

I wasn’t alive when John F. Kennedy was shot, so I don’t have an “I remember where I was” story as so many do. But I remember very vividly when John Lennon was shot. I was just a kid, reading under the covers with a flashlight and had my radio playing softly. I heard the [...]

By Pati Crofut This year the violin section in the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center Women’s String Orchestra was hit hard by attrition, good news for the inmates but bad news for the orchestra.  Cathleen was released and relocated to California.  Pam was released to a halfway house.  Angela is out.   Cassandra is at the Clitheroe [...]

I’m here at the Assembly Chambers as public testimony is being taken on the Anchorage municipal budget. (See previous post)  I’ll try to hit the highlights for those of you who couldn’t make it.  There is a long line of people waiting to testify and the room is packed to standing room only. Guy in [...]

There certainly is a lot of happy excitement around town during the shooting of the feature film Everybody Loves Whales starring Drew Barrymore and Ted Danson. Lots of Alaskans have landed parts in the movie, and there are “Whale Sightings” reported on a regular basis. I had jury duty last week while the film was [...]

This time of year, it seems that everyone’s thoughts turn to the war… No, not Afghanistan. No, not Iraq.  Not the War on Terror, or the War on Drugs. The War on Christmas. I’ve had to stay mum on the War on Christmas for professional reasons… until now.  I used to own a retail business, [...]

I took these pictures last winter when I visited the Museum of the North on the campus of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.  If anyone knows the name of the artist, please post it in the comments because I didn’t get a photo of the name of the piece, or the artist.  I did [...]

~Senator Johnny Ellis talks about the Alaska Film Incentives bill he sponsored in 2008 Fans of Shannyn Moore’s TV show Moore Up North will be thrilled to learn that the taping of the show has moved to a new location – Taproot! Join the crew tonight, Thursday, September 30 at 5:30pm, for the taping of [...]

From the Museum of the North, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Iron Eskimo, 2002 Spruce, copper leafing, acrylic enamel, metal, nails, tacks T. Mike Croskrey Purchased with funds provided by Larry and Margaret Bennett I took this on my trip to Fairbanks last spring.  I liked this piece as it stood there in an archway between [...]

Sarah Palin’s famous neighbor is gone, and Alaska is a little emptier than before.  But before Joe McGinniss took off into the waning light of the late Alaskan summer and back to the East coast, I had the opportunity to sit down with him and talk about his book.  No, not that one – the [...]

Tonight, come down to Bernie’s Bungalow on D Street and 7th Avenue in Anchorage for a special 5:30pm Wednesday taping of Moore Up North with Joe McGinniss. Joe is a NY Times best-selling author and journalist. He penned the newly re-released Alaska classic, Going to Extremes. Joe is in the state working on a new [...]

After I moved to Alaska in 1991, I was quite surprised when I realized that Alaska is not full of granola-crunchin’, bunny snugglin’, tree-huggin’, biodegradable cleaning supply usin’ environmental activists whose main focus is maintaining their pristine wilderness.  Who knew? It’s been a twenty year learning process to understand Alaskans and their relationship with wildness.  [...]

This beautiful work came across my radar today. Artist Zel Hunt created “Mudflats” from oil and mixed media in February of this year. You can enjoy the rest of her website HERE. Wonderful.

~Thick and fast they came at last and more, and more, and more! Here’s a round up of all the things that blipped on the radar this week that we would have written about if our request for a 72 hour day instead of the 24 hour one had been granted. Palin v. Common Sense [...]

From the incredibly talented Jamie Smith up north at Ink & Snow!