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Onion Down a Dream

On a stormy Monday afternoon in Anchorage, the roads are obscured with a fresh coat of black ice and the remnants of the previous night’s...

Van's Dive Bar on the front lines against Berkowitz's EO-15

On Friday, July 31, Mayor Ethan Berkowitz dropped what many felt to be a bomb on Anchorage's service industry.

Catch 49 keeping Alaskan fishing local

In a market saturated with seafood products, there is a small social enterprise striving to do business differently. “There is a growing...

The End of The END: The day local music died

While most of Alaska coalesced against life in Marga-veto-ville, one of Anchorage’s only sources of local music on the radio quietly died...

For more than 7,000 Alaska healthcare professionals, attacks by patients are a daily concern

Imagine going to work every day knowing that there is a strong possibility that you will be assaulted—verbally, sexually or physically—and y

Setting Up Shop: KeyBank awards $75,000 to support entrepreneurship

As statewide budgets are being threatened with debilitating cuts, Alaskans are questioning what the economic future will look like. For most

A Revolving Door of Risk: Homelessness and Recidivism

“There’s a lot of research out there that shows that many of the problems with recidivism can be resolved by having permanent, stable housin

ACA’s Intrepid Trio

In a second story office suite located in a building so plain even Siri has difficulty locating it, Jason Hodges sits on a worn leather couc

ANSEP flourishes despite UAA accreditation woes

*Courtesy image With UAA’s January 14 announcement that the School of Education programs had lost accreditation, the university has not...

We can be heroes

“A few years ago, a few of us ladies walked into a porn store and decided to do something a little bit better for it. So, we tore it down, a

Yeti Dogs wins Best Food Truck

Named after an inside joke involving a giant yeti costume, scare tactics and her significant other Dominic Ahumada, Yeti Dogs has become and

Parachutes finds a soft landing

For years, the Parachutes Teen Club and Resource Center quietly and somewhat mysteriously occupied a back corner of the Dimond Center’s 2nd

Pitch.Click.Give competition continues to flourish

The catch is, each team is only given two hours to create their plan and an additional five minutes to pitch it. With eight teams competing

Tent City Press: Alaska’s printmakers have an affordable home for their craft at ACW

In August, a group of printmakers calling themselves “the collective,” formed Anchorage’s only community-based print studio. Situated on the

The mimes of Spenard: Revitalization of area chief aim of silent entertainers, who aim to set Guinne

The role of family friendly, emerging neighborhood is relatively new for Spenard which has been considered the place to party since Joe Arth