Ya Tseen, a Sitka band fronted by contemporary artist Nicholas Galanin, signs with major label Sub Pop
The band’s debut album, “Indian Yard,” is set to release April 30.
Arts and Entertainment
A return to his boyhood home opens up far more than memory for the author of ‘Northern Light’
Book review: In Kazim Ali’s new work, Alaskan readers will find significant parallels to our history with Indigenous peoples and the generational traumas still present.
Annual showcase of Anchorage student art goes on — projected onto buildings
The slideshow of 500 pieces of Anchorage School District student art lasts about two hours and is accompanied by a radio broadcast of student choir, orchestra and band performances. It will be shown multiple times over the next few weeks.
Netflix’s ‘Mank’ leads Academy Award nominations in a year with a diverse slate of nominated actors
Eight films were nominated for best picture. “Mank” was joined by “Promising Young Woman,” “Nomadland,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Sound of Metal,” “Minari,” “The Father” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
Who runs the Grammys? Women. Beyoncé, Swift make history.
Four women won the top four prizes Sunday, including Swift, who became the first female performer to win album of the year three times. Beyoncé — with her 28th win — became the most decorated woman in Grammy history.
The true stories of 12 notorious Alaska murder cases makes for a chilling, but gripping read
Book review: Clearly “Alaska’s Deadly Dozen” could have easily expanded beyond a dozen cases. The ones author Tom Brennan does include border on incredulous but absolutely happened.
UK royals absorb shock of soul-baring revelations by Prince Harry and Meghan
The couple told Oprah Winfrey of painful palace discussions about the color of their son’s skin, losing royal protection and the intense pressures that led the Duchess of Sussex to contemplate suicide.
Audiences hold back, even as more movie theaters open
Approximately 80% of the domestic market is currently allowed to operate with limited capacity. Many areas in North America are not yet fully open, including Los Angeles, and most California counties, Washington D.C., and much of Canada.
Seward author’s debut novel sings of a year in a small seaside Alaska town
Identified as a novel, Sean Ulman’s book is both fiction and novel in the other meaning of the word — new, innovative, unexpected, outside of traditional literary forms.
Alaska Native group and Neiman Marcus settle lawsuit over robe with copyrighted ‘Ravenstail’ design
Sealaska Heritage Institute said Neiman Marcus violated the copyright of Clarissa Rizal, a master weaver who created the robe in 1996.
Publication of 6 Dr. Seuss books to be halted over racist images
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said.
Prince Harry: Split from royal life ‘unbelievably tough’
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry invoked the memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, who had to find her way alone after she and Prince Charles divorced.
Golden Globes come with faulty connections, mixed messages about diversity
Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and others work through tech problems to deliver strong words on inclusivity - reflected in some major wins.
Hans Hendrik’s 19th-century memoir offers an Inuit account of Arctic exploration
Hendrik accompanied four expeditions and emerged as the hero of the Polaris Expedition, when his and another Inuit man’s efforts prevented many deaths. After his journeys, he wrote this book.
Lady Gaga’s dog walker shot in L.A., and her French bulldogs were stolen
The singer was in Rome to film a movie.
Drunken driving charge against Bruce Springsteen dropped
The musician pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol in a closed area, the Gateway National Recreation Area.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at age 101
The acclaimed poet was the longtime proprietor of City Lights, the bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame.
Munch wrote sentence about ‘madman’ on ‘The Scream,’ according to Norway museum
Norway’s National Museum says a small, barely visible sentence — “can only have been painted by a madman” — was written on Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” by the painter himself.
2 well-known Alaska artists collaborate in new work pairing photos and paintings
Book review: “Double Vision Alaska,” a collaboration by painter Jon Van Zyle and photographer Jeff Schultz, situates complementary imagery organized around the four seasons.
Book review: The ‘wicked conspiracy’ that shaped Gold Rush-era Nome
“A Most Wicked Conspiracy” describes the last sputtering days of the American Frontier (still clinging to its last stand in Alaska) colliding with the twilight of the Gilded Age.