City Kitchen:Coconut winter-squash truffles with Lindsay
Just in time for Valentines Day, a non-traditional, delicious winter squash-coconut DIY truffle recipe.
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City notebook: A postcard from Spenard
Here’s a digital postcard my students made on a sunny day in Spenard.
A peek into Peter Dunlap-Shohl’s gorgeous graphic novel
I asked Peter to send me some of his favorite frames, here’s what arrived.
Guest City Notebook: Free Anchorage NYE moments not to miss
Whattaya doin’ New Years? Gretchen has some suggestions.
Guest City Notebook: Fairview is full of stories, take a tour with my students
Take a tour of Fairview, one of Anchorage’s oldest, roughest, most diverse transitional neighborhoods.
Guest City Notebook: A monk in Barrow
He told me his story as we drove along the Arctic Ocean coast, past frozen buildings and bleached whale bones blanketed in drifting snow.
Guest City Notebook: Postcard from an Anchorage refugee Thanksgiving
This past weekend a small classroom was filled to celebrate Thanksgiving with refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Iran, and the DRC.
Guest City Notebook: Jack’s Lot
Three summers ago, his 12-year-old son was struck by a car while riding his bike along Patterson Street. Vinson still keeps a laminated copy of the Anchorage Daily News report about the crash: It barely made 100 words, but it changed their lives forever.
City Notebook: an iPhone love letter to Fairview’s abandoned couches
In Adan Hernandez’s Fairview, the sky is pink, the puddles are full of rainbows and even the abandoned couches are beautiful.
Guest city notebook: A boy from North Bliss
Growing up on N. Bliss, still in grade school, Hank played basketball in the driveway with the hoop his dad built, back before his dad went to prison.