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Students work on their films for the "Waves of Change" project, on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (Nicole Klauss photo)

Kodiak museum course puts 1964 earthquake history on video
The Baranov Museum will host a special screening of original videos about the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and tsunami in Kodiak. The “Waves of Change” screening will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Kodiak Teen Center. Students from seventh t...

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Stacy Studebaker holds up her new children's book "Hey Bear Ho Bear," on April 23. (Photo courtesy of Stacy Studebaker)

Northern Exposure will host an artist for First Friday
The Kodiak Arts Council’s First Friday art walks are done for the summer, but Northern Exposure Gallery will carry on the tradition with an art show and book signing on Friday. Northern Exposure Gallery will feature the work of Kodiak artist and w...

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Every panel on Terri Springer's fence is different and made completely out of recycled materials. (Photo courtesy of Terri Springer)

Artist creates fence out of recycled materials
A 66-foot piece of artwork made out of recycled material is on display in Bells Flats. Retired artist Terri Springer recently put up a paneled fence, made of items found in her home, around her property. The fence features 61 panels with different...

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Barbara Ludwig holds book signing in Kodiak
Writer Barbara Ludwig will be the star attraction at a series of readings and book signings this week. Ludwig, a “professional nomad” is featured in “Female Nomad and Friends,” an anthology of travel stories and recipes published in 2010. Ludwig, ...

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Cindy Limchantha depicted three objects found onsite — a bead, pocket knife and model kayak. (Photo courtesy of Baranov Museum)

Baranov Museum opens new yearlong exhibit
On Friday, the Baranov Museum will open a new yearlong exhibit featuring objects found in the museum’s 200-year-old building. The exhibit “Found on Site: Objects from Within the Magazin” tells the story of the objects and shares history about the ...

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Stage and Screen: 'The Company You Keep' — Domestic terrorism circa 1970s
The Boston Marathon bombing ignited high anxiety about domestic terrorism. We have been largely preoccupied with foreign-planned and foreign-executed terrorism carried out by suicide bomber-types operating under orders from some terror-motivated c...

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Crowdsourcing funds will take Anchorage poet to remote Alaskan village
ANCHORAGE (AP) — An Anchorage poet gets to realize her dream to visit the ghost of a remote western Alaska village where her Inupiat Eskimo ancestors once lived, thanks to funds she raised through crowdsourcing. Joan Naviyuk Kane far surpassed her...

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Stage and Screen: All That Glitters Is Not Gold — 'The Great Gatsby' Comes Close
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book “The Great Gatsby” was a Roaring Twenties period piece. It reflected the new energy of American culture and affluence following World War I. Extreme, excessive and frequently bizarre social exhibition, fueled by high lev...

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Stage and Screen: 'The Sapphires' — A Gem
Feel-good movies are frequently sappy and transparent — even those “ripped from the headlines.” Fictional feel-good flicks can be trial by ordeal. “The Sapphires” (2012) is the real thing; a film which chronicles the success of four aboriginal fam...

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Stage and Screen: '42' — A Huge Story — A Small Film
Jackie Robinson was more than a baseball player. Jackie Robinson was the “lucky” black man selected to integrate Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball was the archetypical all-white American institution antithetical to the smugly held Ameri...

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Kodiak Middle School drama club students run through a final dress rehearsal of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium drama pod.
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Kodiak Middle School puts on 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
Kodiak residents are in for a sweet treat this weekend as the Kodiak Middle School drama club puts on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” The curtain for the show goes up at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday in the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium dra...

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This group of dancers will play hedgehogs in "The Jungle Book." (Photo courtesy of Hap Heiberg)

Little School of Dance hosts spring shows
The Little School of Dance is putting on its spring show this Saturday as it presents “The Jungle Book” at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium. The four-act show will have two performances — at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday — and will feature dancers as ...

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Pamyua visits Kodiak for concert and workshops
Six years after their Kodiak debut, the eclectic Native music group Pamyua returns to Kodiak to help public radio station KMXT-FM celebrate spring. Variously called “Yupik-soul” or “Eskimo doo-wop,” the Anchorage-based group’s music won’t just app...

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