American Hipster: Anchorage
This video profiles Anchorage Food Mosaic's Wild Harvesting contributors Jennifer and Tikaan!
There will be five episodes from Anchorage highlighting local "movers and shakers" in our creative community.
Nomemade Cookbook Celebrates Local Ingredients
My sister Kim and I have been talking about the idea of publishing a cookbook together for years but it never seemed like it was really something we could actually do.
But now, we're happy to announce the release of Nomemade!
Click for a sample recipe. 
The Road to Москва
I am standing in Red Square. The pentagonal luminescent Ruby Stars glitter on top of five Kremlin towers, each an enormous jewel in the black night sky.
In front of me is St. Basil’s Cathedral. It takes my breath away and is by far the most vibrant and enchanting building I have ever seen.
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Glaciologists Help with Recovery of Human Remains
In June 2012, Army Air National Guard pilots flying over the glacier in a Blackhawk helicopter saw aircraft parts on the dirty, cracked-up ice.
It’s not often that glaciologists help with the recovery of long-lost human remains, but military officials recently enlisted Martin Truffer for that purpose
Read more. Soul to Soul: September 1, 2012
Here’s the music playlist from the September 1, 2012 edition of Soul to Soul with Marvel and Sherry Johnson. All tracks played are listed...
Alaska State Fair Vegetables Make the Trip to Portage
One of the highlights of the Alaska State Fair is seeing the giant vegetables. It's hard to believe with one's own eyes, how big produce can grow under vigilant care and endless daylight.
But after the hotdog stands are packed up, the carnival rides moved on, and the animals sent home, where do all the vegetables go?
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Kitchens of Alaska: McDonald Spit
McDonald Spit is a long narrow strip of sand and gravel projecting out into Kachemak Bay. It’s south of Homer on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula near Seldovia.
Local residents Eric Brudie and Meg Simonian are accomplished cooks, and regularly prepare elaborate meals at The Spit.
Tour their kitchen. Wind Storm Pummels Anchorage; and Matanuska River Continues to Swallow Houses
A massive wind storm hits Anchorage. The cost of health care in Alaska. The election is over but the vote counts continue. West Anchorage is getting a “mixed-use development,” complete with a bistro. The Matanuska River continues to swallow houses. The Anthony Rollins civil suits cost the Municipality of Anchorage over $5 million. After being at the center of 2008 convention coverage, Sarah Palin was invisible at the 2012 GOP convention.
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AK: Ghost Town
Until the late Nineties, Adak was a bustling military base. It had a bowling alley, a movie theatre, and housing for thousands. Now, with the Navy gone, the Aleutian town sits mostly empty. There’s a chance Arctic drilling could turn it into a boom town, but right now, the place feels like a collection of modern ruins. KUCB’s Alexandra Gutierrez traveled Adak to find out what it’s like to live among them.
A New Capacity Building Grant Program for Alaska Nonprofits
The Alaska Community Foundation is now accepting applications for the Capacity Building for Charitable Organizations (CBCO) grant program.
The program offers a unique opportunity for eligible nonprofit organizations to apply for grants to build capacity in the areas of leadership development, organizational development, program development, collaboration and community engagement, and effectiveness evaluation.
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Advocating to End Senior Hunger in Alaska
Hunger among seniors in Alaska is a hidden but increasing problem.
Often there is a misperception regarding who is food insecure, with an image of a homeless man or woman standing in line at the soup kitchen. The numbers paint a different image.
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How to Make Your Own Sauerkraut
Homemade sauerkraut is extremely easy to make. All that is required is cabbage, salt, and a container to store your fermenting sauerkraut in.
Here is a brief, step-by-step guide to making your first batch!
See the recipe.
AK: Geese
Thousands of black brants nest each spring on a piece of marshy tundra near Chevak, in Western Alaska. And for nearly three decades, the small geese have been the research focus of biologist Jim Sedinger. In 1984, the University of Nevada Reno professor decided the brants would be good subjects for a long term study on a bird population. This summer, he brought an audio recorder out into the field.
Video: Bean’s Cafe Makes a Difference
In this video, Bean's Café’s Head Monitor and former client, Grady LeBlanc, shares his perspective on how Bean’s Café has impacted his life, and how it serves Anchorage’s homeless and needy population with hot meals and a safe place to stay.
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Arctic Innovation Competition: Deadline Approaching
The University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management will award more than $19,000 in cash prizes through its annual Arctic Innovation Competition.
The competition, now in its fourth year, asks entrants to propose new, feasible and potentially profitable ideas.
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Call for Submissions: 2013 PBS Online Film Festival
The PBS Online Film Festival is back for its second year and Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (NAPT) wants you to be a part of it.
NAPT is searching for the best in Native short films from American Indian and Alaska Native filmmakers across the country. As an organization, they'd like to help curate your short film into the larger submission process.
Read more. Imagining Our Own Past and the World Beyond
All the way back to the Greeks and before, European culture is rooted in worship and theater. Now a budding field of archaeology brings us new evidence of elements of theater in ceremonial locations going back thousands of years in both Europe and the New World.
The stones of ancient outdoor plazas rang with strange sounds that scientists are beginning to be able to reproduce. We are beginning to learn what an oracle sounds like.
This year for the first time the American Association for the Advancement of Science had a session on a promising new science called archaeoacoustics, the study of the sounds of the past.
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Heavy Lifting in a Salmon Stream: Alaska’s Tongass Forest Restores Habitat
A Volvo 480 crawler excavator is a big yellow machine. Weighing in at well over 50 tons, it will move just about anything, such as a 17,000-pound log.
Massive logs like these are key ingredients in restoring salmon streams but only if they’re put in the right place.
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Mrs. President: An Anchorage World Premiere
The world premiere of "Mrs. President," an opera by composer Victoria Bond, will be in Anchorage, Alaska on October 5 & 7, 2012.
Recently, Anchorage Opera's Kevin Patterson sat down with composer Victoria Bond to discuss the upcoming show.
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In the Devil’s Domain: Cooking with Devil’s Club
A microscopic thorn pierces your fingertip, never to be retrieved. As the pain pulses, you carry on through the woods.
Devil’s Club is a plant that has the power to make most people cringe. It is a worst nightmare for off-the-beaten-path hikers who stumble upon it. It's also delicious.
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