Programs

Stories at the Cemetery, hosted by Bruce Kelly, Audrey Kelly and Linda Benson, is back by popular demand. In addition to the usual Solstice event on June 21, stories will be told at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery on Sunday, July 22 beginning at 6PM. Learn more.

Rosenblatt Stadium had been the home to the College World Series and a staple to the city of Omaha for over 60 years. The Stadium is closed and soon all that will be left will be the history and memories that live on in the hearts of baseball fans from all over. Rosenblatt: The Final Inning tells the stories from the people that knew Rosenblatt the best. KAKM: Thursday, 6/14 at 8:00pm

Frankie is dying. Refusing to do so in an impersonal hospital, he convinces Irene, an old flamewith lingering resentment, to spring him out and drive him across Oklahoma to see his daughterone last time. Their journey becomes about more than just going home as they meet strangersand old friends and confront their past. Barking Water examines the ties that bind peopletogether. It’s a tale of home . . . and what it takes to get there. KAKM: Friday, 6/15 at 9:30pm

The Alaska company Affinityfilms, Inc. has won a prestigious Award of Merit from The Accolade Competition. The award, in the instructional/educational category, is for Babies on Track, a 14-minute DVD produced for Best Beginnings. Learn more.

At Salmon Camp in Bristol Bay, young people from across the region gather for a fantastic summer experience. Here's a simple lesson in how to make a salmon print — with non-toxic ink — before you prepare your salmon for the table. Click for more.

In the final episode of the second season of Alaska Filmmakers, host Joshua Lowman sits down with Juneau-based filmmaker Patrick Race. Patrick is one of the founding members of the Juneau Underground Motion Picture Society (J.U.M.P) and the production group known as AK Robotics. Click for larger view.

The Grumman Goose seaplane has served the Aleutian region for the better half of a century, shuttling residents from remote islands to Dutch Harbor. But once the new Akutan airport is complete later this summer, water landings in the Bering Sea will be a thing of the past.

When he started his first international business, Tyler Arnold's business partners had no idea he was only in high school, answering their emails from his Blackberry in the back of their class. He’s not even 20 years old, but he is already making his mark on the international business scene. KAKM: Sunday, 5/27 at 6:30pm and Wednesday, 5/30 at 10:00pm KSKA: Thursday, May 31 at 1:00pm

Over a single generation, the web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect in ways that we’re only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (“Growing Up Online”) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (“The Persuaders,” “Merchants of Cool”), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. KAKM: Tuesday, 6/19 at 9:00pm

Not long after moving to Alaska, my mother almost called the cops on me. Such was my transgression that I have little doubt the Anchorage cops would have enlisted the Territorial Police and the U.S. Marshals in hunting me down. Read more.

It was approaching ten in the evening, the sun still high in a distant lightly clouded arctic sky, hanging over a late spring tundra. The ocean was frozen, but melted a little each day, just enough for us to leap the saltwater gaps to find fresh water in the middle of icebergs for cooking, washing, and quenching our thirst. Read more.

They slice through the water’s surface with explosive power — sail, spear and half a ton of muscle flashing in the sun. Their journeys through the open ocean are epic, their life cycle, bizarre. They are the billfish — marlin, sailfish, spearfish and swordfish — largest and most highly prized of all gamefish. Their astonishing story has never been fully told. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and biologist Rick Rosenthal brings a lifetime of experience with these astonishing sea creatures to the screen as he observes tiny billfish nurseries in the wild, dives deep into secret undersea canyons, films incredible color-changing behavior and embarks on a quest for an elusive thousand-pound “grander.” KAKM: Wednesday, 6/20 at 7:00pm

The Alaska SeaLife Center rescued a stranded male beluga whale calf from Bristol Bay on Monday, June 18. The solitary animal, estimated at two to three days old, was found near the Diamond O Cannery in Naknek. Learn more.

Long before the Lost Coast trip was even a seed planted in my brain, Dave and I had had several conversations about where we might go exploring with bikes and boats. Potential partners came in and out of the plan, and each time that happened the plan changed. It was not unlike herding cats. Click for more.