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Anchorage Community Theatre concludes its 69th season with Wait Until Dark, the classic thriller by Frederick Knott that inspired the 1967 film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn.
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UAA Dance in Concert Retrospective 2023 performs from the atrium to other galleries located museum-wide for First Friday, April 7. This annual and final event produced by the UAA Dance Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, will present new choreographies and repertory work, one livestrea…
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It was a total jam session. Fingers flying across the strings. Left hand was dancing up and down the neck, forming chords and single notes in rapid fire progressions. The player was lost in it all, lost in a sonic world of notes, chords, grooves and riffs. It was a moment of pure musical joy…
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It should be said that Alaska has a very vibrant music and entertainment scene. It may not be as big as let’s say New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles or other cities in the lower 48. Yet despite our small population Alaska has put out to the world some real class acts. Artists like Jewel and…
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Alaska State Fair CEO Jerome Hertel is stepping down from his position. He’s set to depart from Alaska to work as the CEO of the Clay County Fair in Spencer Iowa.
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The String Cheese Incident is set to perform during the 2023 Alaska State Fair.
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Anchorage Community Theatre’s 69th season continues with "They Promised Her the Moon", based on a true story written and directed by visiting artist Laurel Ollstein.
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The Alaska State Fair has confirmed the first six acts in the 2023 AT&T Concert Series: Turnpike Troubadours, FOR KING + COUNTRY, Blues Traveler, Flogging Molly, MEGADETH, and Noah Cyrus. Concerts take place rain or shine at the ConocoPhillips Borealis Theatre on the fairgrounds in Palme…
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A favorite piece of music is like an old friend. Always there for you, brings you comfort, and lifts your spirits. On Saturday, February 25th, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra is rediscovering some old friends and making new ones at their classic concert, Hidden Treasures. Audiences will get…
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Anchorage Opera (AO) Board of Trustees has announced Ben Robinson as the company’s new General Director following Reed W. Smith’s retirement at the end of the 2022-23 Celebrating 60 Season.
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PALMER— Kat Moore performed at the Palmer Ale House upstairs lounge for the first time through her solo music project The Forest That Never Sleeps.
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Erinn Dearth and Dan Beckmann will be traveling the entire country performing one show in each of the United States as the singing and dancing sensation called Letters From Home.
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Anchorage Opera (AO) General Director Reed W. Smith has announced he plans to retire at the end of the 2022-23 Celebrating 60 Season. Hired by the AO Board of Trustees in 2014, Smith is the longest serving CEO in the history of the company. During his nine-year tenure, AO has experienced gro…
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Dec. 21 is Hobo Jim Day, an annual day of remembrance for the Alaskan icon.
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The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra combines the magic of cinema with the wonder of classical music in a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, Saturday, January 14th (7:30pm) in the Atwood Concert Hall.
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Audience members brave enough to sit in the front rows are often required to wear plastic ponchos to protect their clothes, but you’ll have to buy tickets to find out why.
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With over one thousand pieces composed, the frequently dubbed “cello-wielding maniacs” have been bringing their art to unusual places, from punk rock clubs to symphony halls to street parties, changing people’s perception of the cello along the way.
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As Gordon puts it so well at the outset of his second memoir, “In this rapidly changing sound bite world and our cancel culture, the disposable society we Alaskans need to cling tightly to our past—our uniqueness—those many small things that differentiate us from the rest of the world, and much of it a gift from one man. Alaska can ill afford to forget Ruben Gaines, dagnabit!”
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This week, ConocoPhillips and the Anchorage Concert Association are teaming up to spread some holiday cheer to those in the Anchorage community who need it most. On Wednesday, 1,000 social services clients received complimentary tickets to the final dress rehearsal for The Nutcracker at the …
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With Covid becoming a way of life, the aesthetic world is slowly reawakening. Museums took a hard hit as visitors, who couldn’t enjoy exiting from the gift shop, or dining in museum cafés, gave up annual memberships. Since ‘Black Lives Matter’ institutions have been questioned about their co…
The Anchorage Opera recently celebrated the start of their 60th season with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Cathy Rasmuson was AO’s guest of honor and did the honors of cutting the ribbon and the event featured a behind-the-scenes look at AO’s season opener The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert &…
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“I think I’d proven that I could write books that no one would buy,” Richard Chiappone said, with the self-effacing humor of a man who enjoys his work but doesn’t take himself seriously. This time, however, “I set out to write a commercial book. I wanted to get a few more readers. My short s…
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The term “comedy” originated in ancient Greece where the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. It appears not much has changed over the years, except perhaps the realization that comedy is a paradox. Often, the very things that make…
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Often, art imitates life and with the nation in the throes of election season, the timeliness of Anchorage Community Theatre’s production of "The Sensuous Senator" is spot on.
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The sorry tale of this callow, delusional twenty-seven-year-old’s crime was well-covered in the local press: He murdered a hapless Loomis guard while attempting to rob the Carr’s Aurora Village grocery store located in Spenard between Northern Lights and Benson Boulevards. What was not covered was that before Woodard’s fateful grocery store misadventure he had tried to rob Chilkoot Charlie’s.
From September 9 to 13, 2022, families can receive free admission for one family member at one of the most popular exhibitions in Anchorage -- Beyond Van Gogh! Just bring a bag of groceries containing canned goods, fresh fruit, granola bars, bottled water, eggs, or peanut butter and jelly. A…
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It’s cliché--women have been blamed, actually or metaphorically, since Eve in the Biblical garden. One doesn’t have to read Julia Kristeva (b.1941) to realize being female is a hard job. Add children or aging to a woman’s palette, and the discrimination scenario only worsens. I was in my lat…
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So, there I was, a newly minted 21-year-old about to imbibe her first legal drink in the iconic Birdhouse at Koot’s. The bartender had poured me the classic “Blowjob” shot – made with Kahlua, Bailey’s, and an excessive amount of whipped cream piled on top. I watched wide-eyed as the bartende…
