Anchorage Daily News

Recycling into art

One woman's junk is another woman's treasure, but what happens when they join forces to transform everyone's junk into treasure while showing others how to do the same?

Mystery maven welcomes RV women

They call themselves RVing Women, and their passion is adventurous road trips in self-sufficient rigs. One tour lit out from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, on July 25 to cruise the long but limited highways in and out of and throughout Alaska.

Get into our annual arts guide

The Daily News' fall arts guide is being planned. You want to make sure your events get in.

Rain fails to halt Wilco's parade in parking lot

People showed up in rain boots and slickers to hear Wilco play the Moose's Tooth parking lot on Saturday night. They wore gum boots and Wellingtons, fleece and Gor-Tex, hats and gloves.

Stories without words

You can spot Nathalie Parenteau's art the instant you see it.

Painters gladly work the great outdoors

Weather? What weather? The Plein Air Painters of Alaska and guest artists are spending this weekend under open skies, painting on location, in a fundraiser for Clare House.

UAF professor's technically impressive works laced with impersonal imagery

We live in an increasingly impersonal world. When we need help, we get voice recordings. In war, we can pinpoint targets via orbiting satellites and obliterate people with long-range missiles. Our homes are photographed from the air and posted on Web sites. Bankers privately rate our credibility. Servers target us for "pop-ups" based upon how we use the Net. Doctored photographs distort reality.

Movie captures Alaska's light but not, alas, a tax credit

A crowd of local extras helped wind up the Alaska shooting segment of "Godspeed" on Thursday.

Get into the Arts Guide

Get into our annual arts guide

Class act

A roar begins at the entrance to Atwood Concert Hall and radiates throughout the building as kids giggle, juggle and walk on stilts over the infamous "yellow poppy" carpet of the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.

Masks are highlight in exhibit that lacks focus

Inupiaq Eskimo artist Aakatchaq Schaeffer uses only her first name in her artwork. Born and raised in Kotzebue, she began her career in art by painting portraits and has worked professionally since 1999. She started with acrylics but has moved on to animal skins, metal and wood.

Extras needed for movie shoot

You want to be in pictures? The independently produced psycho-thriller "Godspeed," which has been shooting in Alaska for the last couple of weeks, will wind up filming here with a crowd scene Thursday and they're looking for extras.

The Batman is dead -- and here's the proof

Drive by the Century 16 theaters late Thursday and you'll see a line of frenzied fans vying for tickets to see the midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight," the next installment in the Batman saga. In Anchorage as elsewhere, cinema crews are bracing for the movie, starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, to be this summer's biggest blockbuster.

Comedy rising

If you want to bellyache over laughter rather than tainted produce, rising gas prices and global tumult, then set your social calendar around the bounty of wit and whim in Anchorage this month.

Noted writers help UAA reach out to community

The metamorphosis of the University of Alaska Anchorage's graduate program in creative writing climaxes with an unfolding of wings this week.

Arts presenters: Annual special issue is upon us again

Just a heads-up to let close readers of the section know that we will soon be soliciting notice of art shows, plays, concerts etc. for the 2008-09 season to publish in our annual "Salute to the Arts."

Valley Performing Arts' new manager learned the broad way

Kevin O'Connor brings a wealth of experience to his new job as general manager for Valley Performing Arts, but none of it is in theater.

Sci-fi send-up sweetens summer stage scene with laughs

It's summer, and that means it's blockbuster season in Hollywood -- three months of outrageous escapes, over-the-top special effects and fantastic adventures. TBA Theatre is jumping on the blockbuster bandwagon too with "The Head That Wouldn't Die," a hilarious send-up of 1950s thrillers that opened this weekend at Cyrano's.

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Firing up a new kiln

Potter Peter Brondz spent a month in the summer building a new wood kiln. He filled it with pots and fires it up for the first time in October 2007.

Arts scene

REVIEW

Bow Wow and 'friends' too raunchy for li'l fans

Rapper Bow Wow performed Sunday night at Sullivan Arena under the theme "Back to School" -- capitalizing on his teen-idol status. The show itself came off like an awkward teenager, unsure of itself but yearning to be cool.

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Cha-ching

Museum $3 million from goal