Arts and Culture

Get $25 to pay for your whale pinger

Southeast Alaska Fishermen’s Alliance (SEAFA) would like to announce that the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation has awarded us a Hollings Grant to reduce whale entanglements… Continue reading

Spruce tips, a delicious and citrusy harbinger of spring, make wonderful jelly. Photo by Dick Callahan.

Woodshed Kings: This bud’s good for you

Spruce tips are out, and you can use them in jelly, spring tonics, gin and tonics, spruce salt, spruce sugar, spruce bud infused vinegar and… Continue reading

Spruce tips, a delicious and citrusy harbinger of spring, make wonderful jelly. Photo by Dick Callahan.

Writers’ Weir: Today I Cry

Today I cry! I cry for the worldI cry for myself, my family, my friends and those I do not know.Today I cry! I cry… Continue reading

Review: Stuart Archer Cohen's 'This is How it Really Sounds'

Review: Stuart Archer Cohen’s ‘This is How it Really Sounds’

From the very beginning of “This is How it Really Sounds,” you know you are entering a rare world – one created by an expert… Continue reading

Review: Stuart Archer Cohen's 'This is How it Really Sounds'

City museum offers walking tours

Want to know more about how the Gold Creek watershed region grew from a seasonal fish camp to become the capital city of the State… Continue reading

Alaska State Council on the Arts names new interim executive director

Shannon Daut, Executive Director of the Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA), has accepted and will soon begin a new position leading the Cultural… Continue reading

Poet Diane DeSloover and artist Margie Beedle paired up for the KTOO poetry broadsides event this First Friday.

May First Friday listings

LORI STENBERG & CANDY BEHRENDSJAHC GalleryJuneau Arts & Culture CenterReception: 4:30–7 p.m.Stenberg and Behrends will display their painting and silk painting. JUNEAU BROADSIDESKTOO360 Egan DriveReception: 4:30… Continue reading

Poet Diane DeSloover and artist Margie Beedle paired up for the KTOO poetry broadsides event this First Friday.
A rosemary lemon drop martini, inspired by the creativity of Tommy Patrick, the new bartender at the Twisted Fish. Courtesy of Kelly "Midgi" Moore.

Meals with Midgi: Rosemary Lemon Drops

There’s a new kid in town and Juneau is lucky to have him. His name is Tommy Patrick and he is the latest addition to… Continue reading

A rosemary lemon drop martini, inspired by the creativity of Tommy Patrick, the new bartender at the Twisted Fish. Courtesy of Kelly "Midgi" Moore.
A Skagway School fourth-grader tells visitors about a coffee grinder in the Jeff Smith's Parlor Museum on Saturday, April 30.

Soapy Smith’s parlor museum reopens with a bang

Skagway’s legendary outlaw, Jefferson Randolph Smith, gained his fame for cons like telling newly arrived Gold Rush stampeders that a family member had just telegraphed… Continue reading

A Skagway School fourth-grader tells visitors about a coffee grinder in the Jeff Smith's Parlor Museum on Saturday, April 30.
Mavis Staples performs.

Juneau Jazz & Classics teams with the trees

When you’re talking about Juneau Jazz & Classics it can be hard to know where to start, what with two weeks of music, 14 musical… Continue reading

Mavis Staples performs.

Meals with Migdi: The Great Windfall Odyssey (and pita chips with hummus)

Previously, I wrote about my endeavor to embrace the great outdoors with more than an air hug. Now that I’ve been out and about on… Continue reading

Student Harrison Voegeli takes measurements of young growth during forestry training on Prince of Wales. The data will be used to determine the health and productivity of young growth timber as a sustainable resource. Photo by Quinn Aboudara.

Local land, local work

April 4 began early for Prince of Wales resident Buck Grasser. A single father of two living in Craig, he was busy getting his children… Continue reading

Student Harrison Voegeli takes measurements of young growth during forestry training on Prince of Wales. The data will be used to determine the health and productivity of young growth timber as a sustainable resource. Photo by Quinn Aboudara.

Capital City Weekly columnists Hale, Callahan win first place awards

A huge congratulations to Capital City Weekly columnists Jim Hale and Dick Callahan, who each got first place in this year’s Alaska Press Club Awards,… Continue reading

Rebecca Himschoot of Sitka named to state education board

JUNEAU – Rebecca Himschoot, a teacher in Sitka, has joined the State Board of Education & Early Development. She holds the public seat for the… Continue reading

Juneau Co-Op Preschool Cinco de Mayo fundraiser

The Juneau Co-Op Preschool is raising mone with a “Cinco de Mayo Celebracion: Wine, Beer, and Tequila Tasting. DJ Manu will provide music; there will… Continue reading

Inaugural Sitka Arts & Science Festival Coming This July

SITKA — A new interdisciplinary festival in Sitka, Alaska on the historic Sheldon Jackson Campus will provide opportunity for tourists and locals to explore science… Continue reading

New fees to be collected beginning May 1 at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center

JUNEAU — Starting May 1, the U.S Forest Service will require people aged 16 and older to have passes to use certain areas outdoors near… Continue reading

Cedar bark harvesting course available in Ketchikan

KETCHIKAN — Sign up to learn how to harvest cedar bark for weaving with instructor Gloria Burns on three separate days, two of them field… Continue reading

Girls rock camp 2016 comes to Haines, Sitka

A Girls Rock summer camp is coming to Haines and Sitka, as well as Anchorage and Fairbanks, this summer. Kids can learn a new instrument,… Continue reading

Fundraising for bear mauling, house fire victims

April has been a tragic and trying month for many in Southeast Alaska, but friends and neighbors across the region are helping how they can,… Continue reading