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Photo courtesy of the Alaska Railroad Hundreds of Fairbanks area residents line up for free train rides, always a popular attraction among open house participants, at last year’s Alaska Railroad open house.
Photo courtesy of the Alaska Railroad Hundreds of Fairbanks area residents line up for free train rides, always a popular attraction among open house participants, at last year’s Alaska Railroad open house.
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Family fun at the Alaska Railroad open house
by Julie Stricker / jstricker@newsminer.com
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FAIRBANKS - Alllll aboard! The Alaska Railroad Corp. is holding its spring Railroad Days open house on Saturday at the Fairbanks Depot off the Johansen Expressway. Meet the people who run the trai...
Steve Bouta, coordinator of exhibitions and design for the Museum of the North, works on the display for photographer Adam Ottavi. Ottavi along with four other Interior artists are featured in videos demonstrating their art and the process behind making it. Sam Harrel/News-Miner
Making art: University of Alaska Museum exhibit focuses on the creative process
FAIRBANKS - Museums are known for being vessels full of art, beautiful places where stunning and thought-provoking works hang on walls or settle on shelves. Mareca Guthrie, fine arts curator at the...
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New partnerships highlight 2012 Summer Arts Festival
FAIRBANKS - The 2012 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival branches out to Interior Alaska this season, for its 33rd year, and still offers exciting opportunities in Fairbanks on July 15-29. Workshops are...
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FDA’s “Leading Ladies” a goofy, good time
FAIRBANKS - You would be hard-pressed to find a more enjoyable, sidesplitting evening of theater than that you will find with the Fairbanks Drama Association’s rollicking production of “Leading Lad...
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Red Green is coming back to Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS - The Canadian master of the handyman’s secret weapon (duct tape) is on the road with his Wit and Wisdom tour (we could make a jab here and say that it’s likely a very short show with tha...
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Surveyor tracks down an Alaska ghost town
FAIRBANKS - A century ago, two towns were battling it out to become the dominant settlement in Interior Alaska. One was Fairbanks. The other was Chena. In its heyday, in the first decade of the ...
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First Friday - May 4
FIRST FRIDAY, 5-8 p.m., May baskets, 2 Street Gallery, a gallery of fine arts, featuring painting, pottery, glass, jewelry, fiber, iron work, sculpture and more, 535 Second Ave, suite 102, 455-4070...
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Erik Rivera posted this Instagram photo as he landed in Fairbanks earlier this week.
Quick wit keeps audiences asking for comedian Erik Rivera
FAIRBANKS - After an epic 18-hour trip, complete with delayed flights, missed connections and long layovers, comedian Erik Rivera landed in Fairbanks on Tuesday, only to find a polar bear breathing...
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John Paul Kohler as Leo Clark, left and Michael Riggenbach, left, as Jack Gable during a scene from the Fairbanks Drama Association s "Leading Ladies" on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at the Riverfront Theatre. Sam Harrel/News-Miner
A little farce keeps the laughs going in
FAIRBANKS - When casting two men to play two men impersonating women, what’s a director to do? Monty Hughes didn’t try to find two men who would make convincing women, or two men that would look h...
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Lily Tomlin brings her one-woman stand up show to Fairbanks Tuesday as the Fairbanks Concert Association’s season closer.
There’s no stopping Lily Tomlin: Legendary comedienne brings her classic characters to Alaska
FAIRBANKS - “Hi, it’s Lily.” Despite a spotty long-distance phone connection, the warm voice on the other end of the line is instantly recognizable. Lily Tomlin is one of the most successful femal...
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Photo by Kade Mendelowitz A scene from “The Messenger,” a film produced by the UAF film program and theater department. Carrie Baker, left, plays talk show host Jessie, while Andrew Cassel plays Michael, the supposed messenger sent from God.
‘The Messenger’ isn’t perfect, but a step toward greater things
FAIRBANKS - If a messenger from God came to Earth, would you listen to them? That’s the question “The Messenger” asks. The film is a collaboration between the University of Alaska Fairbanks theate...
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Photo by Kade Mendelowitz Carrie Baker as Jessie, left, and Stephan Golux as Father Andrew in the scene “Seeking Guidance” from “The Messenger.”
Setbacks don’t keep ‘The Messenger’ from resurrecting
FAIRBANKS - In a true collaboration between the theater department and the film program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, “The Messenger” is finally descending. The production is a celebratio...
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Suzanna Caldwell/News-Miner A mask in Joel Isaak’s show “Changing Seasons.” The mask, made of cast bronze and salmon skin, is titled “T’uqa’,” the Dena’ina Athabascan word for salmon.
Seasons celebrated in Isaak’s ‘Changing Seasons’
FAIRBANKS - Despite cold temperatures, summer seems just around the corner for most Fairbanksans. Artist Joel Isaak is celebrating that change and the change of all seasons in his latest art show, ...
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FILE - In this May 3, 2009, file photo, Taj Mahal performs at a benefit concert celebrating Pete Seeger s 90th birthday at Madison Square Garden in New York. The artist known as Taj Mahal, who has played an average of 125 concerts a year since 1968, turns 70 somewhere on the road between Kansas and Colorado in May. But his next stop is Alaska, a place he first visited sometime in the 1970s and a place he has returned routinely since. Two things keep him coming back: the fish and the widespread appreciation for a musician who travels this far north and stops somewhere besides Anchorage. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
Taj Mahal returning to Alaska on tour, with fish on his mind
JUNEAU, Alaska — It takes a certain type of person to get on stage under a name taken from a building renowned as one of the most beautiful ever constructed, without being laughed out of the room. ...
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Photo courtesy of Lewi Longmire Portland, Ore.-based musician Lewi Longmire is finally taking advantage of the Portland-Alaska corridor and playing a series of Alaska shows.
Musician’s musician Longmire brings roots music to Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS - Lewi Longmire might be a name you haven’t heard before, but maybe that’s because you just didn’t notice him. The Portland, Ore.-based singer-songwriter has performed voraciously since b...
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What's Happening
What's Happening - May 11-18
Friday - 11 dance TANGO UNDERGROUND, 7-9 p.m., $5, Sipping Streams Tea Co., 3535 College Road, Suite B, 457-1660 film A DANGEROUS METHOD, 7-9:30 p.m., social and viewing of the film “A Dang...
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