"I feel that the best artwork doesn’t have an idea ahead of time for what it’s going to be,” Maryanne Babij said. “I think there are things that want to manifest, and the artist can be a channel for those things.”
This mid-1950s photo taken on North Turner Street captures the International Hotel which still stands today as the Big International Hotel & Bar. The Alaska Railroad engine No. 1 is located at the Railroad Museum at Pioneer Park, where it has been restored. The building that housed the W…
Because of the continued uncertainty around how and when schools will open this fall and because I’m still working from home, like many parents, I’m making the choice to home-school. But with that choice comes many more decisions including what and how to teach at home.
A few nights ago, stretched in a tent on the blue-gray gravel of the Lowe River floodplain, I woke to a series of sharp jolts. It felt like the earth was a giant halibut, and I was the fishing pole.
Alison Hoagland, in her book “Buildings of Alaska,” calls the KENI radio transmitter building at 1777 Forest Park Drive in Anchorage an “Art Deco gem.”
Ben Jones recently returned to the tundra site of a plane crash that in May took the life of the pilot and left Jones bloodied and broken.
I stopped. Stared. Couldn’t believe my eyes.
We tend to forget about the war in the Arctic and about the Merchant Marines who sailed into waters heavily patrolled by Nazi U-boats that stalked them. World War II was such a sprawling conflict, and the sites of major determinative battles so numerous, that what transpired in a remote corn…
Readers rejoice: It’s the most wonderful time of the year for book lovers — pandemic notwithstanding.
I suspected an insect outbreak — maybe the orange dust was millions of little eggs laid on spruce branches — but insect expert Derek Sikes of the University of Alaska Museum of the North said bugs were not to blame.
Robin, Merlin and Subeto were the best tasting while Detroit Dark Red was rated lowest for taste and texture.
Dukelow, who has three pieces being auctioned as a fundraiser this month by the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, is presently working on a series of paintings offering a bird’s eye view of the world we live in.
The Red Dragon served as a social club six days a week, but on Sundays an altar was lowered from the rafters for services.
Erin Brockovich would be the first to acknowledge that her new book, “Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It” (Pantheon, $28.95), isn’t light reading. And not just because the chemistry involved goes well beyond H2O.
Smaller salmon could have big consequences.
Bad weather and a volcano make for an uneasy expedition.
"Oh no! No! No-no!”
Watching a new writer emerge and develop is one of the pleasures of being a reader. An author comes along with a debut book that captures your attention and makes you want to see what he or she comes up with next. And joining this person as they expand into new areas gives readers a chance t…
They called themselves the Denali Damsels, and their climb made history.
Themes of identity are engrained in the artist's works, and they're part of the focus of her upcoming online art show.
Konrad Steffen might not have worked in Alaska but he was certainly known here.
Chris Stern was a Swedish immigrant who, according to Wasilla historian Coleen Mielke, immigrated to the United States in 1886 and then moved to the Matanuska Valley in 1898. In 1913 Stern staked a homestead (patented in 1920) on the shore of Wasilla Lake, one of the first homesteads in the …
Just in time for the 2020 election, Michael Cohen and Bob Woodward have written books promising new insider information on President Trump.
Zombie fires, as they are sometimes called, have a long history in Alaska.
I commend David James’ thoughtful book review that appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner’s Aug. 2 edition on page D3.
A mutation in the white whale's DNA is enchanting but comes at a cost.
With more parents homeschooling in the pandemic, use your garden to teach your kids.
That eye-catching bush you planted could be the worst thing you grow all year.
The job of the historian, Thomas Alton tells us in his introduction to “Alaska in the Progressive Age,” is to offer fresh interpretations of the past drawn from the historical records and understand the present by reading the past on its own terms. To use an example detailed in this book, if…
A former Alaska resident's photos capture a time long gone.
As the Alaska State Parks system turns 50, an exhibit at Well Street Art Company is putting our parks on display.
