Alaska News Nightly: February 17, 2012
Federal Government Approves Shell Oil’s Spill Response Plan, Crews Set to Begin Thawing Out Rig Over Blown Out Test Well, General Schwartz To Explain Planned Movement of Eielson F-16s, Coastal Management Bill Introduced in State House, ‘On the Ice’ Movie Set to Premiere, Iron Dog Starts Sunday, AK: Volcanoes, 300 Villages: Dot Lake
Cambridge Forum this week on KSKA
Cambridge Forum will air in place of Alaska Edition this Friday and Saturday on KSKA. Friday listen to "Reinventing Discovery" with scientist Michael Neilsen and on Saturday "The Screwtape Letters, Part 2." (You heard part 1 on Tuesday at 1:00 pm.) Alaska Edition returns next week on KSKA and KAKM TV.
Alaska News Nightly: February 16, 2012
Crews Continue to Respond to Exploratory Well Blow Out, Egan’s Retirement Choice Bill on the Move, New Attorney General Plans to ‘Fight the Good Fight’, ConocoPhillips: Current Taxes Cut Long-Term Plans, Anaktuvuk Pass Residents Lobby Against Road to Umiat, A-CAP Report Says Climate Change Predictions Proving True, Last-Place Musher Will Be Allowed to Finish Yukon Quest, Remaining Mushers Making Most of Quest Experience, National Guard Save Man in Red Devil
“Persepolis” and the Middle East Today
![Anchroage Library Persepolis Excerpt](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Anchroage-Library-Persepolis-Excerpt-300x219.png)
“Babies on Track” Stimulating Child Brain Development
More than 160 premiere events are set to raise the curtain on Best Beginnings’ Babies on Track, a 14-minute DVD for parents. More than 80 villages, towns, and cities across Alaska took up the call to roll out the red carpet from February 25 through March 4.
Best Beginnings produced Babies on Track to foster early learning and healthy brain development.
Learn more.
Tonight: KAKM’s Art Showcase & Auction
The Art Showcase auction will feature over 180 Alaskan works of art, interviews with several Alaskan artists, in studio dinners and bidding audiences, phone bidding, and color comments from gallery owners, managers, and artists.
All proceeds benefit public broadcasting right here in Alaska. Join us in our efforts to raise funds for quality programming that help informs, educates, inspires, & connect Alaskans of all ages.
The 2012 Art Showcase Auction
The KAKM Art Showcase is scheduled for three nights, Thursday through Saturday, February 16 through 18, and will be broadcast live on Channel 7 from 7-10:30pm. It will feature many beautiful collectable pieces of art from many well known and talented artists.
KAKM: Thursday, Feb. 16 - Saturday, Feb. 18 from 7:00p, - 10:30pm
Alaska News Nightly: February 15, 2012
State Responds to Well Blow Out, Legislators Identify Problems, Goals, Napakiak Man Indicted For Murder of Cab Driver, Usibelli Granted Coal Mine Permits Near Healy, Bill Would Expand Geoduck Farms to Gulf of Alaska, PenAir Plan Gets 10-Month Hawaiian Vacation, Yukon Quest Participants Reflect on 2012 Race, ‘The Dog Show’ Held In Bethel
Who Says Girls Don’t Like Science?
![Girl Scouts STEM 2](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Girl-Scouts-STEM-2-300x199.jpg)
NOVA: Extreme Cave Diving
This program follows the charismatic Dr. Kenny Broad as he dives into blue holes — underwater caves that formed during the last ice age when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. The holes are Earth’s least explored and perhaps most dangerous frontiers. With an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists, Broad investigates the hidden history of Earth’s climate as revealed by finds in this spectacularly beautiful “alternate universe.”
KAKM: Wednesday, Feb. 15 @ 8:00pm
APRN Speaker Series: T.R. Reid
The Alaska World Affairs Council and APTI are partnering to bring you the APRN Speakers Series featuring T.R. Reid, an author, lecturer,...
Alaska News Nightly: February 14, 2012
New Tax ‘Architecture’ Presented To Senate, Hugh Neff Wins Yukon Quest, APOC Blasts Bill Changing Campaign Disclosure Rules, ASEA Trying To Distance Self From Former Employee, Precipitation Database Helping Designers, Builders Plan For Extremes, Tanner Crab Enters Alaska Market, State, Forest Service Partner In Southeast Bat Study
Frontline: The Interrupters
During one weekend in Chicago in 2008, 37 people were shot, seven of them fatally. FRONTLINE follows a group of older former gang leaders trying to “interrupt” shootings and protect their communities from the violence they once committed. The film follows the inner workings of CeaseFire, an innovative program in Chicago designed to prevent shootings, including weekly meetings where the interrupters report on the simmering disputes and the senseless shootings in their neighborhoods. From director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie), "The Interrupters" is a compelling observational journey into the stubborn, persistent violence that plagues our American cities.
KAKM: Tuesday, Feb. 14 @ 8:00pm
Territorial Anchorage Memories: The Quonset Hut School
![Growing up Anchorage Quonset Hut Class](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Growing-up-Anchorage-Quonset-Hut-Class.jpg)
Alaska News Nightly: February 13, 2012
Lawmakers Look For Alternative To Governor’s Oil Tax Plan, Electronic Campaign Filing Bill Hits Snag, Hundreds Gather At Candlelight Vigil For Samantha Koenig, State Reviewing Proposed Animal Care Standards, Moore Still Leading Yukon Quest Field, State Takes Control Of Sheldon Jackson College Archives, Bird Enthusiasts Hoping To Make Haines A Center For Research
Something Different: February 12, 2012
Here’s the Sunday, February 12, 2012 edition of Something Different with Betsy. All tracks played are listed below in...
Soul to Soul: February 11, 2012
Here’s the music playlist from the February 11, 2012 edition of Soul to Soul...
Photo Gallery: APU Ice Climbing Excursion
![APU Ice Climbing Excerpt](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/APU-Ice-Climbing-Excerpt-.png)
Slavery By Another Name
A Sundance Film Festival selection for 2012, this new documentary based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon, explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century. Blackmon examines the concept of “neoslavery,” which sentenced African-Americans to forced labor for violating an array of laws that criminalized their everyday behavior. Actor Laurence Fishburne (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,”Thurgood) narrates.
KAKM: Monday, 2/13 @ 8:00pm
Night Music: February 11, 2012
Here’s the music playlist for Night Music with Connie G. All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
Song Title
Artist Name
Album Title
Label
Duration
Come Rain...
Algo Nuevo: February 12, 2012
Here’s the Sunday, February 12, 2012 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave...