Holiday popovers on KTUU (with other GF brunch ideas!)
KTUU’s Rebecca Palsha came to our house this week to make on of my favorite brunch treats, popovers!
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For the Guardian: A postcard from Mooselandia
What is it like when 1,500 moose roam free in your city?
For The Guardian: Meet Santa Claus, North Pole politician and marijuana advocate
This Santa Claus doesn’t really believe in presents. And he has cancer. But he makes a pretty endearing Santa Claus all the same.
For The Guardian: Alaskan opinions divided as Shell halts Arctic drilling
Here’s a quick-turn story I worked on for the Guardian yesterday, asking Alaskans about their reaction to the news that Shell would shut down Arctic drilling…
For Alaska Magazine: Donuts on the edge of the world
Everything in Adak used to be something else. City Hall used to be the high school. The store, which is only open two hours a day (because after that electricity costs eat all the profits), used to be a community center. The Navy-issue hutches holding beer and wine at the liquor store? They used to be in some- body’s living room. The Bluebird Café (one of two restaurants in town) is in a house on a suburban-feeling cul-de-sac. The only way you know it’s a restaurant is the “Open” sign out front. About half the neighboring houses are empty.
For The Guardian: “Alaska put politics aside for Obama visit”
“This is the president and this is exciting. Period.”
For Talking Points Memo: What the Lower 48 doesn’t get about Denali
In Alaska, nobody really cares if you went to Harvard, but if your grandmother was buried here, you should say so because it gives you cred. I think this is because there are only 700,000 people in this state and a whole lot of dangerous country, animals and weather. People from very different backgrounds tend to find themselves relying on each other, so we care most about stuff like whether you are the type to carry a tow strap in your truck and would be willing to pull us out of a ditch in a snowstorm. Politics come way second. Our loyalty to Denali over McKinley is driven by the same impulse.
For The Guardian: America’s biggest coffee snobs are not in Seattle, but wide-eyed and alert in Alaska
Alaska is among the most coffee-obsessed states in the nation. Some years, the coffee-shop-to-human ratio in Anchorage has been higher than Seattle, making it the most caffeinated place in the America.
For Al Jazeera America: Alaska’s Mountain View, America’s most diverse neighborhood
On a weekend morning you can hear the sound of Lao Buddhist monks chanting on one block and African-American spirituals pouring out a church door on another. Welcome to the future of America.
For Al Jazeera America: A whaling village preserves its past
The 900 people who live here hold on to a ritual that dates back 2,000 years: the spring hunt for the bowhead whale. This year, the village took three.