Helen (of Troy) With a Twist
What is the price of beauty? Cyrano’s Theatre Company presents a modern adaptation of Homer’s classic tale of lust and longing in a new updated version.
KSKA: Friday 9/2 at 2:45 pm
Tracking Radio-tagged Kenai River King Salmon
If a spawning Kenai River king salmon kept a diary of its upstream migration it might look a little like the data collected in a recent Alaska Department of Fish and Game radio-tagging project.
Follow ADF&G biologist Adam Reimer in this audio story, as he tracks radio-tagged Kenai king salmon by boat and airplane, and listens for signals from live salmon—three beeps—and from salmon that have spawned and died—five beeps.
Listen to the story. Alaska News Nightly: September 1, 2011
Sheraton Hotel Workers Score Court Win. Injunction Plugs Water Utility Strike. Cook Inlet Energy Race Is On. State Lawmakers Eye Norway for Energy Ideas
With Cold Weather Coming, Anchorage Homeless Numbers Up. Anglers Can Saved Wasted Rockfish. Southeast Borough Plans Draw Ire. Denali Park Bridge Under Discussion
Algo Nuevo: August 28, 2011
Here's the Sunday, August 28, 2011 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments...
Something Different: August 28, 2011
What Is Time?
Elephant Revival (D. Rodriguez)
Break in the Clouds
Ruff Shod
2:50
Do You Love An Apple
Trapezoid (Trad.)
Now & Then
Flying Fish
4:11
Aloysius
Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies (J....
Alaska News Nightly: August 31, 2011
Pollock Fleet Asks, "Where Are The Fish?" Bethel Murder Trial Proceedings Off to a Rocky Start. Fire Claims Dot Lake Utility Building. Secretary Sebelius Visits the Alaska Native Health Center. Ester Residents Raise Money for a Library. Chum Run is Strong on the Yukon. Southeast's Pink Salmon Fleet Logs Record Year. Federal Government offers Help for Alaskan's Facing Foreclosure. NANA Opens New Hotel in Kotzebue
Photo Gallery: 1841 Kolmakovsky Blockhouse
Over the weekend a crew raised the new roof for our historical blockhouse, originally built on the banks of the Kuskokwim River in 1841.
See the photos.
Origins, Part One
When I was six years old, I fell into a coma.
I was out for about two weeks, but when I awoke I discovered several things:
1. A packet of letters and flowers from my kindergarten classmates wishing me to get well.
2. A room full of strange doctors.
3. My memories had disappeared.
4. My voice had disappeared.
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Night Music: August 27, 2011
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
Rhode Island
John...
Video: Stories at the Cemetery – Nate Benson as Dick Francis
On August 5, 2011 Stories at the Cemetery provided a self-guided walk through Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, featuring presentations by costumed actors at ten pre-selected grave sites.
Here's the third installment, featuring local actor Nate Benson as Dick Francis, unwitting victim in the Cache Creek murders.
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Alaska News Nightly: August 30, 2011
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Visits Alaska. Mystery Spill Fouls Kodiak Harbor. Fairbanks Based Soldier Killed in Afghanistan. Cleveland Volcano Eruption Ends. Rural Interior School Districts Fail to Make AYP. Anchorage Superintendent Addresses Chamber. Longshoremen Protest Cruise Ship in Juneau. Themed Cruises Gain Popularity. High School Athletes Begin a New Year.
Judi Betts Workshop Inside Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
Flash-back twenty-one years ago, May 1990, Judi Betts was juror at a Fairbanks Watercolor Society exhibition and workshop. My watercolor, “She the Prom” had been accepted into the show—the piece depicted the mutton chop prom dress I had sewn for daughter Jennifer. What a thrill for me, a soccer mom, this was my first outside-the-state acceptance.
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The Future of Telecommunications in Alaska
KSKA: Thursday, 9/1 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski joined Senator Begich in Dillingham last week for a ceremony celebrating a large project to bring high speed broadband internet to southwest Alaska.
Video: Northern Alaska Rock Art
While prehistoric rock art is common in some regions, such as the American Southwest, it is exceptionally rare in Interior and Northern Alaska. Archaeologists working in the 1960s and 70s found boulders adorned with petroglyphs at three different lakefront sites in what is now the Noatak National Preserve in Northwest Alaska.
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Alaska News Nightly: August 29, 2011
Journal Article Shows Grizzly Bears May Be Suffering Under Predator Control. Bethel Loses a Major Landmark. Petersburg Volunteers Free Whale from Fishing Gear. Delta Junction May Need a Hospital. FCC Chairman Visits Dillingham. Kodiak Honors Cannery Workers. The National Park Service Finalizes Plan for Off Road Vehicles in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Christopher Paul De Cure, Australian Consul General
Christopher Paul De Cure, Australian Consul-General of Los Angeles was recorded at the Alaska World Affairs Council on September 9, speaking on "Australia and Alaska: Is China’s demand for resources shifting the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region?"”
Alaska News Nightly: August 26, 2011
Legislators’ Norway Trip Focusing on Economic, Natural Resource Issues, State Appealing Federal Protection for Polar Bears, Officials Search for Cost of Endangered Species Act Listings, Northern Waters Task Force Meets in Unalaska, Former Anchorage Teachers Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison, New Bethel Dog Law Authorizes Volunteer Animal Force, Ilisagvik College Offers Opportunity on the North Slope, SEACAD Receives Federal Honors, AK: Letters - The Old Fashioned Kind, 300 Villages: The Barrow Whalers
Title 21: Anchorage’s Latest Hot Potato
KSKA: Wednesday 8/31 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
After a decade of citizen, consultant and city planning elbow grease, the rewrite of Anchorage’s land use code is nearing the finish line of one very long marathon. The last big hurdle comes when the plan re-emerges from the Mayor’s Office. Comment and implementation timetables are still fuzzy.
The Childfree Decision
Tuesday, August 30 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Not everyone has kids. Deciding not to become parents can be just as big of a decision as opting to start a family. On this episode of Kids These Days! we speak with two authors who are childfree about why they made the difficult choice to live life without littles and how it impacts their current lives. Plus, a Pew Research study linking higher rates of childlessness with more tolerant social attitudes, and growing old without children.
AK@100 Part Two
The International Geophysical Year changed the face of science for the world. Even though it was not yet a state, Alaska was a big part of that change. 50 years later it was time for the International Polar Year, and we’re just starting to learn its results.