Your Favorite Sisters have, collectively, been to some 20 Alaska Folks Festivals, and they wrote us this guide:
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Listen to Playboy Spaceman’s George Kuhar cover Juneau filmmaker Lisle Hebert
Songwriter George Kuhar will perform Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. at the Alaska Folk Festival Tuesday
What does recidivism mean anyway?
When a person gets out of jail, the process is called re-entry — they’re re-entering society. It can be like starting a life in a foreign land where the people don’t want you there.
This reimagined Juneau McMansion’s entryway won an award for most innovative design
“Definitely, you can see the challenge of laying a wood floor in straight patterns there — that we’d lose the essence, the importance of the circle,” said Jeremy Bauer, one of the principal designers.
Veinglorious releases new song “Pray for Me”
Ryan Carrillo dedicates this mellow jam to the one thing we all have, yet can’t control: time.
Statewide Poetry Out Loud finals Tuesday
The annual competition’s 10 finalists compete Tuesday @360 in the KTOO building. Attendance is free. It will also be live streamed at 360north.org.
Video: Red Carpet Concert with Marian Call and Laura Zahasky
Marian Call and Laura Zahasky dropped into the arts room recently to record a Red Carpet Concert. Call has a new album out called “Standing Stones.”
Winners announced for Wearable Art ‘Renaissance’
Wearable Art entrants are known for innovation, creativity, repurposing materials and for social commentary. This year was no exception.
‘They Don’t Talk Back’ comes home to Southeast with Perseverance Theatre premiere
“They Don’t Talk Back” opens at Perseverance Theatre tonight (Friday, Jan. 27). Among other themes, it’s a play about family, identity, colonization and cultural preservation. It features three generations of Tlingit men in Southeast Alaska facing change.
Watch and listen to KTOO’s 2016 concerts
Check out this compilation of music produced by public media in Juneau in 2016.