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Writing in the Dark workshop set for Saturday
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FAIRBANKS - Writers, feeling a little stale? Fairbanks Arts Association is putting on its annual Writing in the Dark writers' retreat Saturday, Feb. 11. The workshop is designed to help writers ge...
Folk music fans can get their fill at winter fest
FAIRBANKS - This weekend, an only-in-Fairbanks collection of musicians will gather at Pioneer Park. Bands with names like the Head Bolt Heaters, E.T. Barnette String Band, Swing Dogs, Frosty Botto...
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Sam Harrel/News-Miner From left, Sambit Misra as Picasso, Valinda Taylor as Germaine and Nick Nappo as Albert Einstein in a scene from the Fairbanks Drama Association’s production of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.”
Witty ‘Picasso’ provides remedy for cabin fever
FAIRBANKS - Enduring an entire month of 30-below weather can drive Fairbanksans to do some wild and crazy things. But if cabin fever has you thinking of stripping down to your skivvies to take a ph...
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Sam Harrel/News-Miner The Fairbanks Drama Association’s production of “A Date with History” at the Riverfront Theatre. From left are Marley Horner as Luke, Stephanie Gottschalk as Jenny and J-K Bowne as Abe Lincoln.
Lincoln, Earhart and Socrates, oh my! Moran’s ‘Date with History’ infuses comedy into unlikely dinner date
FAIRBANKS - If you could choose any three people from history to dine with, would you pick Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart and Socrates? In Fairbanks Drama Association’s latest production, “A Date...
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The “Zombie Prom,” scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at the Princess Riverside Lodge, gives undead revelers a chance to party at a fundraiser for the Fairbanks Rollergirls. Pictured is Kylie Rickards as a bloody bride. Photos courtesy of Teal Rogers
Expect gore galore at annual ‘Zombie Prom’
FAIRBANKS - At a certain prom this Saturday, people can expect half the reason for the red carpet’s color to be pure gore. Of course, the goriness would be the result of the fake blood and wounds ...
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Jerry Evans and Glen Anderson clown around Wednesday at McCafferty s coffee house. The two comedians and radio personalities have been friends for 30 years. Julie Stricker/News-Miner
Jerry and Glenner look back on 30 years of friendship and careers based on laughter
FAIRBANKS - As the story goes, Jerry Evans was slam-dancing in an elevator in Skarland Hall one night back in 1981. Fellow University of Alaska Fairbanks student Glen Anderson stumbled onto the par...
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Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival to host winter Gospel choir
FAIRBANKS - Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival has begun registration for its Winter Gospel Choir, featuring visiting director Bobby Lewis and pianist Eustace Johnson. The workshop will be held 6 p.m....
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Relay for Life hosts kick-off party
FAIRBANKS - Relay for Life is hosting it’s Kick Off Party from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Pioneer Park Civic Center. The American Cancer Society event, offered to allow people touched by cancer to co...
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Opera Fairbanks plans 2012 auditions
FAIRBANKS - Opera Fairbanks will hold an open auditions date on Feb. 19 for its sixth season presentations of “La boheme” in July and “Help, Help, the Globolinks!” in November. Cast members of Puc...
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Fairbanks' Midnight Sun Festival launches logo contest
FAIRBANKS - The 2012 Midnight Sun Festival is looking for entries for its official festival logo, which will be printed on marketing materials and more than 1,000 T-shirts. The grand prize winner w...
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Historians to discuss Jujiro Wada's role in early Alaska/Yukon
FAIRBANKS - When E.T. Barnette’s boat ran aground on the Chena river in 1901, he wasn’t alone. Joining him was his Japanese cook, Jujiro Wada. Barnette, hoping to lure miners to his trading post,...
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New Music Festival an outlet for the avant-garde
FAIRBANKS - This weekend, the Charles Davis Concert Hall will awaken with some contemporary works of classical music as part of the New Music Festival. The festival gives artists a chance to showc...
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Comedian Chris Porter will perform Saturday at The Blue Loon. Courtesy Chris Porter
Teen comics, Chris Porter wind up annual Funny Fest
FAIRBANKS - Last week was the adults’ time to shine, now it’s time to turn the comedy spotlight onto the younger generation at Fairbanks’ annual Junior Funny Fest. Youth, whether they’re the class...
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Nicole Stellon O’Donnell said the story of Sarah Ellen Gibson interested her because it was the story of a person who came north and got lost in life. Photo courtesy of Nicole Stellon-O’Donnell
'Steam Laundry': Author's novel in poems tells story of pioneer Fairbanks woman's life, dreams
FAIRBANKS - When Nicole Stellon O’Donnell was poking through the archives of the Rasmuson Library in graduate school, she found many books and stories about people who helped found Fairbanks. Almos...
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Sam Harrel/News-Miner The Fairbanks Drama Association’s production of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” features, from left, Sambit Misra as Picasso, Scott McCrea as Freddy, Kathleen McHugh as Suzan and Nick Nappo as Albert Einstein.
History, fantasy collide in FDA's quirky ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’
FAIRBANKS - Imagine a conversation in a bar on a chilly Paris night in 1904 between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso. This would be a year before Einstein publishes his theory of relativity and th...
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What's Happening
What's Happening - Feb. 3-10
Friday - 3 books STEAM LAUNDRY, 7 p.m., new book by Nicole Stellon O’Donnell, UAF Wood Center Ballroom, part of the UAF Visiting Writer’s Series, www.nicolestellon.com dance CONTRADANCE, 8 p.m....
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