January-Issue-1 2012

If you’re like most of us, your probably haven’t — but you’ve likely already been thinking about getting online to get in line for your annual cut of the state’s massive oil wealth payout.

Janie Williams, the owner and director of the Stars Dance Studio, got up for the second time to shut the door as a gust of wind blew it open.

Surrounded by hostile forces in a faraway land, Army Command Sgt. Major Terry Gardner spent Christmas singing with his troops.

Athlete of the Week - January 5, 2012

Even the start of a new sports season can’t erase the way Chugiak High’s 2011 football campaign ended.

First-year head coach Fred Young doesn’t care that Eagle River High only won two games last year. He doesn’t care that 10 of his 12 players are new to the team.

Missing state last year coupled with the new rule that guarantees only two Cook Inlet Conference berths in the postseason this year...

Well we’ve made it through another New Year’s Eve; the spectacular fireworks...

Why do over 250 people come to spend one hour at a time in a small chapel at St. Andrew Church?

A select group of Reserve Airmen and Anchorage citizens were treated to an advanced screening of the new George Lucas film, Red Tails...

Hollywood has commandeered Sweden’s big literary export, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” without compromising the story’s Scandinavian roots or its top-of-the-world, Seasonal Affective Disorder sense of barrenness, even hopelessness.

Over time we have a tendency to forget some of the great ideas put forth by our Alaska luminaries and others.