Like father, like son - A famous Native artist and his gifted son battle their personal demons
During a recent purification ceremony inside the traditional sweat lodge he helped build in the maximum-security prison yard at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, inmate 360-849, a.k.a. Jarvis Perez, experienced a revelation.
Most Commented On Stories
Most Read Stories
Like father, like son - A famous Native artist and his gifted son battle their personal demons (2)
Split personality (2)
Giving acai a try (2)
Barks and rec - Battle lines are drawn at a community council over a proposed neighborhood dog park (2)
Poetry on ice (2)
The new news (2)
Things they should've learned in kindergarten (1)
Savage Love (1)
Fill ‘er up (1)
Send us your opinion or news tip
Events Calendar
| Jump to: | |
| View events for:: |
|
 |
Events for Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:10 AM AKDT
- ONGOING
- Call to Artists
- Alaska Zoo Tours - Schedule a tour now with our Education Department!
- Alaska Zoo Field Trips - Schedule a field trip with our Education Department today!
- Alaska Zoo Outreach Programs - Schedule an animal visit or presentation with our Education Department today!
- FREE Self-Defense Classes
- One on One Photography Instruction
- Those Affected By Cancer Musician Call
- Music Movement Classes for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
- "Berry Fairy Delights"
Top Stories
-
The Moore Report: Primary discoloration
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:25 PM AKDTThere’s a difference between satisfaction and loyalty. In customer research, it’s been shown that what is important to a business isn’t so much how satisfied the customers are, but how loyal they are. What use is satisfaction when a customer will take off when someone else provides your service for five dollars less? Loyalty is key.
-
Campaign 2010 - Election Central, primary night
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:25 PM AKDT
Click on the slide show to see images from Election Central the evening of Tuesday, August 24. Photo essay by Alex Fox.
-
Who's watching the city's Chihuahua? What the recent audit of Begich-era finances really reveals.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:25 PM AKDTIn boardrooms, and the Anchorage Assembly is the city’s boardroom in addition to being its lawmaking body, board members have something called “fiduciary responsibility.” “Fiduciary responsibility” is a somewhat technocratic term that’s easy to understand. It means being in charge of someone else’s interests. Suppose a family agrees to mind a friend’s Chihuahua while the friend is on a commercial fishing trip. That dog won’t feed itself. It won’t clean up after itself. And if the Chihuahua is left unattended, an eagle could swoop down and carry it off. There are lots of ways to fall short in the realm of fiduciary responsibility. They range from letting the Chihuahua crap on a carpet—an unexpected expense—to losing the asset entirely because no one was watching.
-
Letters from the issue of 8.26.2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:25 PM AKDTDisgusted by the political game
-
Willie Hensley on Ted Stevens - Uncle Ted: Pugnacious political papa
Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:57 AM AKDT
Forty-eight years ago, in the month of August in 1962, I met Ted Stevens in my home village of Kotzebue. I had decided not to return to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks that fall and was working for B and R Tug and Barge, owned by Edith Bullock, a former Republican territorial legislator. I had absolutely no concept of politics. Just nine years earlier, our family was living in a sod house twelve miles up the coast at Ikkatuq. I was trying to decide what to do with my life and Stevens was trying to set his course in life by running for the United States Senate. Lowell Thomas, Jr. was making a bid for the U.S. Congress and they were making a bush swing together. In those days, Alaska was very Democratic and the Republican duo was trying to make inroads in difficult territory.
Classifieds
Reader’s Poll
Contact Us
Photo Galleries
Multimedia
VIDEO SECTION
Portugal. The Man's video for "The Sun"
Mark Horvath interviewing Mayor Dan Sullivan
Alaska Robotics' Faces of ACES parody
Bauer power?
The dust-up involving right-wing radio mouth Dave Stieren on one side and the Joe-Miller-for-senate-backing Bauer family of East Anchorage on the other illustrates two important lessons about politics: 1) The vast gray area between “I quit” and “You’re fired” is as likely as any place for a political dust-up to end, and 2) Political bullies sometimes threaten to exercise power they don’t have.
The Moore Report: The best race
There's really only one race on the primary ballot Tuesday in which the outcome is in any doubt. That's the race on the Republican ballot for lieutenant governor. Fairbanks Representative Jay Ramras, Mead Treadwell and Eddie Burke are fighting this one out, and all indications seem to suggest it's going to be close. I know all three candidates so I thought I'd be in a fairly unique position to give some perspective on the race.
No money left to follow
Flashlight found one good sign among the numerous and criss-crossed tracks left by the herd of politic junkies running in the Alaska’s statewide primary. The Alaska Public Offices Commission seems to be moving faster, as evidenced by the APOC’s notice of a penalty levied on Alaskans for Open Government on August 5, a full 19 days before voters decide if the ballot measure the group supports will become law. The commission has long had a reputation for being under-funded, moving slowly and issuing decisions regarding campaign funding after the fact—after the votes have been cast and the alleged malfeasance has already affected an election.
