Programs

Amazing, no snow, the first week of April in New York City! The thermometer read mid-thirties, surprisingly colder than Anchorage as I subway’d around Manhattan in search of art. A former professor once told me “find me something I haven’t seen before.” It took some scrounging around as the downturned economy has reduced exhibitions. Good news: many shows are staying up longer and there appear to be bigger crowds in galleries and gift shops than last fall. Read more.

Pull up a chair and have a cup of coffee with of Anchorage's best known and least known movers, shakers, and characters on "1on1," KSKA and KAKM TV's new weekly interview show. Host Charles Wohlforth chats with artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, adventurers, musicians and trend setters at Kaladi Brothers coffee shops. The program debuts with Anchorage Daily News' columnist, Julia O'Malley. Read More... KAKM TV: Sun. 4/22 at 6:30 pm & Weds. 4/25 at 10:00 pm KSKA FM: Thurs. 4/26 at 1:00 pm

When I first met Tonei Glavinic in 2008 he was a senior at Stellar Secondary High School in Anchorage. Now, four years and four Pride Foundation scholarships later, he is about to graduate from American University with a double major in Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies with his senior capstone project poised to impact the lives of transgender students all over the country. Learn more.

Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood leaders made a unique boat trip through the waters of the inside passage this month. Their voyage harkened back to the days when local camp officials from towns and villages around the region would travel on fishing boats to attend Grand Camp conventions. The brotherhood was founded a century ago, followed a year later by the sisterhood. So this journey had special meaning for the cultural and civil rights organizations. KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein caught up with them when they stopped in Petersburg.

Every membership drive is a huge community effort as "Talk of the Nation" host Neal Conan pointed out on Friday (4/20), the second day of KSKA's Spring Membership drive. Monday marks the half way point during this 9-day Spring Drive and our goal of 1500 members is in sight with just under 1000 members to go. Neal Conan might not be here anymore, but volunteers continue to pour through the front door every morning beginning at 6:00 am to help with the drive. You hear their voices on-air and on the phone when they take your pledge. Whether you've helped out on-air, on the phone, or by making a pledge, Thank You.

In Homer, Alaska, there lives a goose who thinks he is a Sandhill Crane. He travels all over Homer with the cranes, eating, sleeping, and flying with them. He takes no guff from any of the cranes. It will be interesting to see if the goose makes it down to the wintering grounds in California with the cranes and back again this spring. Click for larger view.

Illustrations by Dimi Macheras. Courtesy of the Anchorage Museum. Our KSKA story includes an excerpt from Chickaloon storyteller Patricia Wade's narration of the story of how Denali came to be. Her story is part of a multimedia display in a Denali exhibit on display at the Anchorage Museum through October 21st. The exhibit called, “The High One: Reaching the Top” explores North America's largest peak from many perspectives. It includes historical climbing gear, photos and rare artifacts. It also looks at the mountain through Alaska Native Eyes. Listen to Patricia Wade tell the Athabaskan story of Denali here.

The historic nuclear accident at Chernobyl is now 25 years old. Filmmakers and scientists set out to document the lives of the packs of wolves and other wildlife thriving in the “dead zone” that still surrounds the remains of the reactor. KAKM: Wednesday, 4/25 at 7:00pm

Recently, I had the fabulous opportunity to leave the road system for the first time, for a visit to Newhalen, AK on the shores of the Newhalen River and Lake Iliamna. I was representing Covenant House Alaska at the April 2012 Academic/Athletic Meet hosted by the Lake and Peninsula School District. Read more.

Take an eye-opening look at some of the world’s most important case studies in energy policy. In Spain and Morocco, large-scale solar farms and individual photovoltaic panels atop tents in the Sahara are beginning to bring the vast potential of the sun down to Earth. In Brazil, abundant natural resources — sun, rain and sugar cane — are transformed into efficient, sustainable biofuel, making Brazil the only nation whose cars could run normally if gasoline were to vanish. In Samsø, Denmark, and in West Texas, citizens have taken sustainability — and economic realities — into their own hands by becoming stakeholders in wind turbines. KAKM: Thursday, 4/26 at 8:00pm

At a recent Open House at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, Earth Science Curator Pat Druckenmiller unpacked plaster jackets full of dinosaur fossils. A large plaster crate was full of hadrosaur fossils collected on Alaska's North Slope. More photos.

Phones were singing and bells ringing as volunteers from the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship helped us pass the half way hump toward our goal of $305,000 on Wednesday afternoon. We're over half way there with just two more days to go in the KSKA Spring Membership Drive. If you haven't done so yet, give us a call and make those bells ring.

On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, Host Ira Glass and friends will perform an episode of This American Life on stage in NYC, and send it live via satellite to more than 500 movie theaters across the country.

Click here to find out how to see it at Century 16 and Tikhatnu theaters in Anchorage.